November 30, 2023 • 44 mins
Big Ben talks about the NY Jets opening up the practice window for Aaron Rodgers, the possibility of Joe Flacco starting for the Cleveland Browns, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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headline this hour from Jersey. Now. I get an email
every time we talk about the Jets. Why do you
talk about the Jets. You're not a Jets fan and
the Jets suck, and I really have no counter argument
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to that. I'm not a Jets fan. I don't give
a rats ass about the Jets, but they are good
at making headlines. So my rebuttals. We come in here
and plausibly. The job is to talk about what's going
on in sports in that window of time, and more
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often than not we talk about the same teams, and
the Jets are one of those teams, even though they
are terrible. There she blows, but they're doing it again.
So we have an injury update from mister Rogers neighborhood.
If you have not heard the latest, perhaps not. Aaron
Rodgers playing for a dog food Jets franchise has returned.
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Rogers is back, kind of Aaron Rodgers returning to the
practice field on Hump Day on a limited basis eleven
weeks exactly eleven weeks, because human beings love round numbers.
Eleven weeks, not eleven weeks in a day, not eleven
weeks in two days. Eleven weeks after snap crackle pop
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surgery on the Achilles, pop goes the Achilles and Rogers
back eleven weeks later, but he's not all the way
back now. Robert Sala, the motivational speaker who occasionally pretends
to be an NFL head coach. Sala said it is
too soon. It is too soon to say whether Rogers
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will play again this season, and the Jets have a
twenty one day grace period twenty one day period whether
or not they can decide what they want to do
with Rogers. So let us discuss the question where are
you at on Aaron Rogers playing again for the Jets
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here in twenty twenty three. So I am agnostic. I
am not a believer. I do not believe that Rogers
will play a regular season game this season. So I've
got physicians, note moscow and magic potion, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a migrain headache, which is what the New
York Jets fan base likely has thinking about all of
this nonsense. So a Rogers, we talked about this in
previous episode of the show. My position on Rogers has
not changed. That he has hell bent on going out
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and playing, And the main reason he's held bent on
going out and playing is it's personal. It's become a
personal thing, right. It's Rogers wants to get back, and
he wants to I'm gonna leave the door open a
bit that he's gonna play. I don't think he will
actually play. And there's reasons why that is. We'll get
to that in a second. But in terms of him
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wanting to come back, it makes a lot of sense
because he come back from the the Achilles. I don't
know if you know this. The Jets aren't winning the Lombardy.
Aaron Rodgers isn't going to add a Lombardy to his resume.
Another one not gonna happen. So Rogers can add the hippocratus, right,
the he can add a separate award here and the
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you know, the hippocratic oath and all that. But the
medical establishment, Aaron Rodgers can can push back, push it back, right,
you know the master plan. There are weak spots, there
are wing spots here because Rogers still needs to get
and he has not been able to procure to procure
a physician's note. And that's a problem. That's a fly
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in the ointment, that's a turd in the punch bowl.
Because the Jets, in order for him to play actually play.
He has to be cleared because the Jets don't want
that liability. They don't want the liability. Rogers goes out
there and once you injure your achilles and you rehab
the normal amount of time, not that I'm a doctor,
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to play one on the radio, you typically are more
prone to having future Achilles injuries an offense, not even
the same one. It's the other achilles that is more
likely to go. And so the Jets, you know, the
way this goes. It is like if Rogers doesn't get
a doctor's note, he goes out there and his leg
gets bitten off by a crocodile or an alley game
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or whatever. It bites his leg off. He's like one
of the guys that listens to the show here and
calls in Van the one legged Bama Man, and they
just like bite his leg off. And that's it. And
and that right where the achilles is that Rogers has
been cleared for functional football activity. If you know what
that means, let me know, I don't know what that means.
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No contact isn't contact. I know in the NFL today
it's like the worstification of the NFL. But isn't contact
kind of the deal. So he's like, yeah, he's clear
to return functional football activity, but just don't touch him.
Just don't lay a hand on him. The other problem,
and this is the big one, the Jets are actually
running a sewage treatment facility. They're running a sewage treatment facility,
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and Gang Green would would likely have to win the
next couple of games and then listen to this weekend
is winnable. They play the Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons stink,
They could win that game, but the problem is that
they've got the facacta Tim Boyle who can't play at quarterback.
He sucks, and so the Jets aren't making the playoffs,
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but at least to give the illusion that they're a
playoff contender, they'd have to win one of the next
couple of games otherwise they're not. And then so Rogers,
he still wants to play. Would that be allowed? At
this point, you think that the Jets just bowed down
to whatever Rogers wants, right, They're so they're so desperate
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to get a good team. They think this guy is
their lord and savior, and they could put Rogers out there.
Everything'll be great. Now we head the Pittsburgh the Yinsers
the Petsburg Steelers. Now what a story here, an absolute quitter,
a guy that just played gutlass football and he's still employed,
which tells you a lot. Deontay Johnson, he is a
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wide receiver for the Pittsburgh football team. Just don't ask
him to hustle. You likely saw this, or if you're blind,
you heard about it. Deontay Johnson is in the crosshairs
because he walked away from a live fumble by a
teammate in the game on Sunday in Cincinnati, Jalen Warren fumble.
And it's hilarious. It is so great that you see
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this veteran NFL receiver who could not have possibly cared
less that there's a live football that you know, fifty
to fifty proposition. Hey doesn't give a rats ass. I
don't care. I don't give a damn. So he was
asked about this and he said that he addressed the
situation with his teammates. Deontay Johnson. He told the Pittsburgh
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media that they know how I feel. It's all about feelings,
and I guess you didn't feel like hustling on that play,
But he said, I'll own up to it. I'm not perfect,
he said, And all I can do is move forward
and keep playing football. That's all I can worry about.
Except you weren't playing football when you had the chance
to play football. But I digress, all right, So did
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Steelers wide receiver Deontay Johnson. And essentially what he used
was the I'm human excuse for being lazy. Does that
work for you? The Deontay Johnson excuse? Basically, I'm human.
So on this side, and you can speak for yourself,
but on this side of the microphone, the answers no, no.
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That is the number one answer, the number one answer
on the apology Bengo card. You know, the apology Bengo card.
Everyone's got one of these.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
When a celebrity does something and they have to apologize,
there's certain talking points that they all put in there.
Mistakes happen, etc. Etc. The fact that Tomlin did not
demand that Deontay Johnson's released, I mean, what are you doing, Mike?
Have you lost a little bit there? Mike Tomlin? What's
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wrong with you? Right? This was not a mistake? No, no, no,
this is not a mistake. Is if you drop a
pa as not hustling is not a mistake that is
ingrained in you, right, and Deontay continuing to claim that
he didn't realize the playing question was was still going
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That's what he claimed, which would have worked if there
have not been seven different videos showing that it was
obvious the play was going on. And this actually makes
it worse for him that he's he's saying this and anyway,
Johnson on this one, Deontay Johnson, the steel is visiting Moscow.
He's he's hanging out in Russia at the ballet, the
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Bolshoy Ballet there in Russia, and he's doing a pirouette,
spinning around and all that. But the maximum effort, right,
the maximum efforts. You can't win every game, You're not
gonna make every great play, but as you as long
as you show effort right that that there's no athletic
ability required for them. Zero athletic ability is needed to
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put effort into anything, whether you're an athlete or just
your job at all. But it's not like this guy's
some kind of rookie. A lot of the media attaching, wow,
that's a rookie mistake. No, He's played over seventy games
in the NFL, and I'm pretty positive without watching every
single player that he's played. This is not the first time.
It's not the first time that he's done this. It's
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the most glaring for Deontay Johnson listens, but it's not
the first time that he's not hustled. Shall we say?
All right? Last word here? So we go now to
an angry Kelsey. That's our next headline. And Jason Kelsey
the number one center, the top center in all the NFL. There,
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Jason Kelce is fuming, very angry. He popped up on
a radio interview, a sports radio interview in Philly, and
he called out the Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Jordan Phillips
for a bull pucky bull pucky, as Jay Scoop would
say in the Ukraine. Play during the game between the
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Eagles and Bills this past weekend. So what is this about?
The play occurred in the first quarter of the game
and the Eagles were running the iconic Tushy pushy. They
were running the tush and it was a fourth and
one for the Philadelphia Eagles, and Jordan Phillips decided he
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wanted to get to that running back, get to that quarterback,
and he jumped through the line like he was the
kool aid man, just jumping through that line, encroaching the
territory and he ended up absolutely laying out Cam Jurgens,
the right guard for the Philadelphia football team. And it
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was like a big pile up right in the backfield
for Philadelphia, and he just jumped through the line and
it was obviously encroachment and all that. Now, Kelsey's upset
because there was a penalty call, but Kelsey thinks they
didn't go far enough. Jason Kelsey thinks there should have
been a worse penalty that he tried intentionally to hurt
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the Bills player, tried to hurt his teammate on the
offensive line, Cam Cam Jergens. Kelsey said, it should have
been a personal foul. Okay, So can you decode? Can
you decode the message here? Can you decode the message
that Jason Kelsey is sending to the NFL world? So
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I have thought about this because I have a lot
of free time and these are the kind of things
I think about. And my determination from the comments made
by Jason Kelsey about the Bills defensive player that the
tush push is the most unstoppable play in the NFL.
They they have the more PC term now on the
brotherly shot, but it's the tush push. And so with that,
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Jason Kelsey is sending a warning flair to the rest
of the NFL big shots there that you need to
protect the toush at all times. Protect the Toush push.
That's really what this is about. I'll tell you why.
Because teams are scrambling trying to find the magic potion.
There's gotta be a way to stop this play No
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one's been able to consistently figure it out. There's got
to be a way to level the playing field, and
so you're going to try different things, throw Fedichini Alfredo
against the wall to see what sticks. And it's only
going to get more extreme as this continues. And Kelsey
he's got to be concerned at battering Rams situation. He
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could be taken out the right guard, left guard gets
taken out, and then you're playing a bunch of backups
down the line in a playoff situation.
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Buying should be our headline headline this hour. It's technically
from Cleveland, but it's really not. It's from Westwood. It's
a throwback Mallard monologue. Why is this a throwback Mallard monologue?
Because we're talking about someone we last really broke down
maybe twelve years ago, maybe a little more than that,
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Joe Flockou. Now the Browns. That's a football team, not
a good one. The Cleveland Browns are doing the quarterback shuffle.
You gotta do the shuffle, you gotta do the shofvel.
So there the quarterback shuffle. And if you have not heard,
the news was announced the Browns spending their time in
La La Land. They played in Denver, lost to the Broncos,
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and so they just kept going on the heading to
the Western front and they headed to the west coast
and they're hanging out on the west side of LA
They've been practicing this week. The plan is there at
UCLA and then they'll play the La Rams this weekend.
But the Browns have elevated to a penthouse on the
Upper East Side. They've elevated Joe Flacco to the number
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two quarterback status behind injured starter Dorian Thompson Robinson, who
must be devastated because he's from UCLA and it's well
he hasn't been demoted yet, but the word on the
street is unlikely to play. So this sets up jump
ball Joe Flacco, legendary elite quarterback Joe Flacco. Just back
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in the day, that was the big story. So entering
the game on Sunday, likely gonna play, might not start,
but will likely play. Now Thompson Robinson, who had recently
been the starting quarterback for the Browns. He is in
the concussion protocol. You can't play if you don't clear
the protocol, and he did not practice on Wednesday, leading
to chatter that Joe Flacco will end up playing. So
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let us discuss Let's assume the position. Let's assume the
position that Joe Flacco is going to be QB one
for the Cleveland football team. So the question is should
Brown's backers feel encouraged or discouraged by the possibility of
Joe Flacco possibly becoming the starting quarterback. So to answer
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the question whether or not Browns fans should be encouraged
or discouraged, I think the answer is rather obviously he
or the arrow is pointing at Heartbreak Hotel. That's where
the arrow is pointing at. I've got three stooges, Mendoza
line and blank spots and blank spots, and we will
combine all of these things together and we're going to
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head to Wayne's World, which is a movie that I
was Sam and Cooper watching right now, and they have
a hat, a Wayne's World hat. So there you go,
all right. So the first thought I have on this
just when you thought things could not get any worse.
Tea yeah from the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson who everyone despises.
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And then you bring in XFL refugee PJ. Walker that
didn't go so well, and Dorian Thompson Robinson. Yeah, and
now Joe Flacco. The Browns are running a clearinghouse for
Vaudvillian's style quarterbacks. They really are. It's well, it's failure theater.
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Yet again. The factory of sadness has been activated for
the Cleveland football team. The three stooges, the Cleveland fans
with these quarterbacks are being kick kneed, elbowed and poked
in the eye, and you might want to turn off
the oven. Joe Flacco is done. His career is done. Now.
My evidence is a functioning brain. That is my evidence.
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Joe Flacco. Let's go back to twenty eighteen. Now, Joe
is actually he's played a fair amount of games, considering
he hasn't been any good and he's bounced around with
the Ravens, he had a brief time with the Broncos
and was with the Jets for a couple of seasons.
Joe Flacco with a passer rating below eighty five in
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the last five seasons. Okay, last five years. He's almost
thirty nine years old. Happy early Birthday's birthday. Joe Flacco
is in January, and in football parlance, he should be
hanging out with Phil the Drill in Maine and playing bingo,
going down like Friday nights, playing some bingo. Not starting
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for the end. Maybe he will not start, but the
Browns brought him in. They brought him in for a reason.
Right now. Secondly, headline, we go to Denver, where Kareem
Jackson is actually more from New York than Denver. Kareem
Jackson is going to have an audience with the commissioner
of the NFL. That's right, the Broncos safety who is
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the number one headhunter according to the NFL rules. Gestapo
very upset. He's already missed one game. Kareem Jackson here,
he's on under a four game suspension. He appealed, he
didn't win the appeal, and he has said in interviews
with the Denver media establishment there that the hits, the
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unnecessary roughness hits that have gone to the opponent's dome,
to their heads, that he feels like he should not
have been suspended that if you look at it, and
I actually agree with him, that's an unpopular opinion. Like
the NFL, the way they adjudicate these penalties, it's inhumane,
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you know, I said, I'm a high school I played
at Polk High School, High school, all American back in
the day. But it's like these people are like, well,
you're supposed to stop and you're an object in motion.
I don't believe in momentum, but I do believe in
momentum physical momentum. When you're launching to hit someone and
they move into your hit zone, what the f are
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you supposed to do? So anyway, he's gonna meet with
Roger Goodell. That's the story here. He set the meeting
up himself, Kareem Jackson. The meeting is gonna take place
later on today at ten am at the NFL headquarters,
which I walked by. It's just a nondescript skyscraper in Manhattan.
There's no NFL logo, there's nothing there's it's like our
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building here in LA. There's a security guard sitting at
a desk. There's a courtyard at the NFL headquarters, and
there's a few trees planted outside in a lot of
concrete because it's the Concrete Jungle. That's the NFL headquarters
on Park Avenue there in New York City. So the
question what are the odds, What are the odds that
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Kareem Jackson after he has this tee time with Roger
Goodell ends up getting his suspension reduced. So the Mather
Sportsbook odds on this plus four hundred in baseball terms,
that is the Mendoza line. That's a two hundred batting average,
which is not good. If it's the ninth inning of
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Game seven of the World Series and you're down by
a run, you have a runner on third, two out,
need base hit. You don't want a Mendoza line hitter up.
But that's where we are. I'm at I'm at two hundred.
That's a batting average like Roger gel. There is a
dimension where Roger Goodell steps in and says, well, I
can get some Brownie points or I guess, in this case,
Bronco points. I can get some Bronco points with other players.
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Be understanding, right, be the good cop, not the bad cop.
Good cop. Want to be the good cop, not the
bad cop, and I'll be the good cop. That could
be Roger Goodell, good cop. But the problem is Goodell
also has to massage the wussification of the sporting world
and the worry awards that believe the NFL will never
be safe enough that crowd. And so if you reduce
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the punishment again for Kareem Jackson, and the next time
he plays, he absolutely destroys the guy's helmet where it
falls off and the guy ends up needing some kind
of medical attention, then people pivot away from Kareem Jackson.
They say, well, it's not your fault, it's Roger Goodell's fault.
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So that's the that's the conundrum, right, that's the quagmire
that Roger Goodell finds himself in. Now, final thought, we
head to Philadelphia, We go back to Philadelphia. We can
tell you a lot about the Eagles and the forty
nine Ers as we go through the overnight, and it's
not so much about that game. DeShawn Jackson, Deshaun Jackson
is returning to the Delaware Valley. He's coming back to
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retire as an Eagle. Yes, right, He's gonna hang up
the old helmet there the cleats as an Eagle. He
will serve as an honorary captain this weekend. That'll push
the Birds over the top. Yeah. Now, this is obviously
a ceremonial, a purely ceremonial situation, which we have pointed
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out in the past. We find Hoki in corny, but
nobody listens to us. We're on the middle of the night.
So Jackson was the first player in NFL history to
earn Pro Bowl honors at two positions kick returner and
wide receiver, and that, combined with his explosive ability to
make big plays, has led immediately to some pundit saying
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that DeShawn Jackson is a Hall of Famer, that he
is going to make the Hall of Fame, that they're
pumping up this guy's resume to end up in Canton, Ohio.
So we asked the question former now former retired Eagles
wide receiver to Shawn Jackson ending up in the Pro
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Football Hall of Fame Thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs upper,
thumbs down on this. So we are going to go
after a thorough analysis, two thumbs down, not one, two
thumbs down on DeShawn Jackson ending up in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame. And while he is tied for
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the NFL record with eight touchdowns of fifty or more
yards in a single season. Congratulations on that. The overall
body of work, the wide angle lens. When you look
at it, the serengetti, and you look at all that
is there? Right, all that is there? Not enough? And
we have a basic criteria. His resume for the Hall
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of Fame has blank spots. Now our criteria, the Mallard
criteria for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Were you
a regular season MVP or defensive player? Here knobs you.
That wouldn't apply because he's a receiver. The receivers don't
win that award. But just bear with me. Were you
an All Pro? Even once? Not Pro Bowl? All Pro?
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Anybody can make the Pro Bowl? All Pro though, that's
the krem, Dona krem. Did you make an All Decade team?
Can the history of football during your era be written
without mentioning your name? And in order to get into
the Hall of Fame, you have to have two of
those accolades. So I look here, DeShawn never an MVP?
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Did he make an All Decade team? No? Was he
an All Pro? No? Can you tell the era of
the NFL that Deshaun Jackson played in without mentioning his name. Yeah,
and am I a bad talk show host for saying
that my snapshot memory of Deshaun Jackson in his NFL
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career was I think this was against the Dallas Cowboys.
Maybe not, but he was running in for a touchdown unabated,
and he was so excited to become a cheerleader that
before he crossed the threshold of the goal line, he
tossed the football behind him. He tossed it down and
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started celebrating and having a fine time. It was a
dance party, except it wasn't a touchdown because he didn't
cross the goal line, and then one of the great
bloopers in the NFL.
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This is one big vent gets.
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Speaker 4 (29:40):
It was announced on Tuesday that Jonathan Taylor will undergo
surgery on his thumb and will be out for the
next two to three weeks. Now, Ben, the Colts currently
sit in the seventh and final playoff spot in the AFC.
Are they still there when Taylor gets back?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah? So I think they will be there. If you
look at the upcoming schedule here, it is manageable. I
believe they We'll lose to the Titans this weekend, but
it's bunched up at the bottom of the AFC, and
Shane Steichen has been pretty good. I mean, this guy
came from Philadelphi. He's the creator of the tush Bush
and with Gardner Minshew, they've been competitive in most of
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their games, so I think they will still be there.
They've got a bunch of no names, generic brand players.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Next, so Joe Buck made a podcast appearance where he
looked back at his call of Randy Moss mooning the
Lambeau Faithful and admitted that he was a bit over
the top with his disgusting act. Outrage Ben, you were
on the air at the time.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That's right, Yes, did you do.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
A Mallard monologue on the Moss move.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Not only that, we did an entire month of Mallard
monologue dedicated to Joe Buck. We played that thing so
often that we burned it in the profit system here
and and by the way Joe Buck was, That's how
Joe Buck was back in the day. He was buttoned up.
It was only is a disgusting act by Randy Bud.
It was only after that that he loosened up the
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tie a little bit and became goofy Joe Buck. But yeah,
and we played that. We had the Joe Buck audio
game we used to play where we play that out
of context? How do we do? Is that it? Cooper?
We done? That's it?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
But I gotta fail you for your first answer. The
Broncos are going to be in that time. No cults
are gonna lose their playoffs. File take off, take off
the Orange vest.
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They're cool? Please all right.
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Speaker 4 (32:04):
All right, Sirias Sean would like to know how often
at all, Edie, do y'all go to the movie?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Ah. I have not been in the movies since I
think it's been two years at least, something like that, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
My movie going has dropped dramatically. I did have the
the past there where you could go whenever you want,
and I just wasn't working out, so I haven't gone
in a while.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I was thinking about going to see that Napoleon movie though, Yeah,
all right, I was, Sam, you're a big movie guy.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Uh, you know what.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
The last movie I saw in theaters was The Banshees
of Innis Sharon, very very.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Very serious movie.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I'd love to go to see like that Napoleon movie
and that Scorsese movie they came out, but I really
don't have to. I would go with lead, a lap
producer of two pros and a couple of you don't
have to drop names. Well, he sees these movies before
they even come out because he's like a Hollywood insider.
So I don't get to the theater as much as
i'd like, but I do like going to the movies.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Well, they used to send out because I'm in that
SAG thing, and they used to send out the movies,
but I think you have to go online to watch
them now, right? Right? It was no fun? Yeah? Coo,
you go to the movies every day?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
No?
Speaker 4 (33:20):
I mean, like Eddie, I have the unlimited pass and
the last like two months or so, I just paid
for it and didn't go see anything.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
That's what they do. It's like it's like the gym.
They want you to pay and then you forget about
it and they keep getting your money.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
It usually doesn't work that way for me. But I
did go earlier this week to a movie, and I
will be going back again to see Napoleon. So but
when I am going regularly, I usually go like to
two or three times a month. All right, very good,
it's pretty regular.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
That's a lot. Yeah, that's a lot. What's next? What
do we have? All right?
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Cowboy Killer wants to know what do you prefer? Mountains
or beaches?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
It depends on the season. Summer beach, wintertime mountains. It's
pretty simple, isn't that how most people operate?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
No getting which one you like better? What's your favorite?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Well, if I don't have to drive in it, the
mountains in the snow awesome, amazing, But if I have
a driving the beach. What about you, Eddie, beach every
day all day. I was born in Hawaii. I live,
you know, close to the beach. A lot of bragging
going on here. I'm all about the beach and the mountains.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
You can have the mountains, all right, there are There
are also mountains in Hawaii, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Not in Iowa.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
They get no mountains. Snow, we got mounds, mounds of stuff.
I like the mountains. I'm a mountain guy. I like
the beach to your mountain man, a mountain, mountain, mountain man.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
You like those Sequoia Mountains or the mountains up in
the Sequoia National Park?
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
I like Colorado too, big fan of Colorado.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
All right, cool mountains. No, Eddie's by himself. Good, just
me on the beach.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
It snows in Hawaii, have the highest elevation, Sara, I'm
not a huge fan of the beach.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Good.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Yeah, nice too.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I like going I got married on the beach. I
like the beach all that, but yeah, I got north
for the beaches to go Eata like go Eata. All right,
it's a national shows and nobody knows what you're talking about.
I go ahead there, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Uh emmittt Blind Emmett the Seahawks fan. He would like
to know for everybody, if you could open up your
own restaurant, what type of food would it be? And
we don't have time for the second part of your question, Emmitt.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
We repeat what was the what just I was?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
I was if you could open up your own restaurant,
what type of food would it be?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Listen? I would raising cane stole my idea. That was
my plan years ago, chicken fingers, only chicken fingers, so
it would be something those lines, but I moved on.
I'd do a pizza shop, Mallards pie. I could do that.
The cheese steak, you know, cheese steak pizza. What about
you ready? Half Mexican food, half American food. That's never
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been done before.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
I was in It would be a sandwich and wrap bar.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
That would do well.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
I've got some ideas, Okay, cool, I like wraps. I
would definitely open up either a brunch place, because brunch
is the best, or an Italian deli.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Now, I did have an idea. I spoke to the
family about this. How about this is we're kind of
far away from where we do the show from from Canada, poutine.
How about that, big self. People would love poutine. There's
not a lot of good poutine where we are.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yeah, but I mean that's guy. That'd be like a
like a mall at like kiosk kind of thing because
otherwise because.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Get a food truck a poutine food Yeah, that would work, right.
What's next? What do we have? All?
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Right, let's do uh like Rory Rory would actually no,
let's go screw.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
You, Rory. We hate your question. Go ahead, what's next?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
But uh, Ferg Dog wants to know. Ferg Dog wants
to know. Red apples green apples are no apples red
and delicious for the wind red? Uh not really an apple? Guy,
green apple. That's the wrong answer. That's the wrong answer. Tarticle.
He didn't really put the correct selection up there. It's
gotta be like those, uh, those pink lady apples. Those
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are the best ones. Those are kind kind of like
yellowishree cheese and tartan appreciate that. But between red and
green apples, green apples with some bree green apples are
for like an apple pie. But the red apples are
for an apple.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
No, they're not. Every time I've made it an apple pie,
it's been green apples. What's next?
Speaker 4 (37:40):
All right, alf the alien opiner wants to know, I
ow best flavor of doritos.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I actually like the taco flavor of doritos. That's an
unpopular opinion, but I do like the taco flavor, Eddie. Traditionalists,
just the regular original flavor, all right? Didn't they start
selling those at Disneyland? Right in that the legend of
the ritos? What about you? I was same nacho cheese,
That's that's what Eddie said. Yeah, he's a regal specify,
though it's not to cheese. I don't have to do
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any talk. What about my taco specialty? I love che cool?
What about it? Uh?
Speaker 4 (38:16):
If we're talking about the classics, the OG's cool ranch
the winner. But I also like the salsa verde.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
That's a terrible answer.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
You're bad at that cool SALSAVERI area, No, it's.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Not as good as the taco taco.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
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Speaker 1 (38:39):
It's hockey season somewhere, Eddie, So why don't we get
you caught up on hockey? What a great scandal we
had in hockey this week. Alright, let's go now to
the Man, the Mermaid. Right over there, Eddie Garcio, the
big Zamboni. It's all that hockey that is fit to broadcast. Yes,
it's another week of the puck. The world reports, and
we're about twenty games more or less into the NHL season.
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The New York Rangers currently leading the NHL with thirty
three points, and the defending Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden
Knights one point behind the Rangers for the most points
in the league.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
They are leading the Western Conference. Other teams off to
good starts include the Bruins, Canucks, Avalanche, Kings, Stars, and Panthers.
Some teams that are surprisingly having a rough time so far,
and these teams will all be out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
If the season and today, which it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
That would include the Devils, Penguins, Kraken, Oilers, and wild
All those teams minus Pittsburgh did make the playoffs last year.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
The Penguins just missed out. On the last day of
the season.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
You mentioned in Chicago Blackhawks terminating the contract a veteran
forward in former league MVP Corey Perry due to what
was called a workplace violation. There was social media rumors
about Perry having some sort of sexual relationship with the
mother of rookie Connor Bedard, the number one overall polk
and the lead and the rookie scorer in the league.
Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson addressed those rumors, saying that Perry's
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incident did not involve any player or their family members.
Of course, not would admit that because it's probably the truth.
Suggestion otherwise, he said, was inaccurate in discussing.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Now, your defense, Eddie is that since they got caught,
they wouldn't lie again, right, That's definitely part of it. Yes, okay,
but the Astros got caught cheating and they cheated again,
So wouldn't that kind of blow your No, No, it wouldn't.
It's the same thing. It's it's not you'd be perfect
like North Korea or Russia. You believe that they believe what.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
You're told, and you believe that everything's a lie, which
is not everything, but yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Much. I've lived a life and I've seen people lie
to my face, and people work in sports, but you
believe everything. Yeah, there, everyone in sports is a lie.
You're gonna get a job at the NHL, Eddie, would
you keep sucking up to the NHL? That would be
I actually would like that you knowing what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
ESPN reporting that Perry had an incident with a team employee,
not to the mother of a plus and the men
wants to believe anything that's elections.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
I don't know it was true or not, but I'm
I wouldn't believe the team. Okay.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
Three times Stanley Cup champion Patrick Kyne signs a one year,
two point seventy five million dollar contract with the Detroit
Red Wings. I spent his first sixteen years with the Blackhawks,
last year with the Rangers. He's coming off hip resurfacing surgery.
He's thirty five years old. Fourth among active players six
am in points six to month active players in goalscoring.
Minnesota Wild fired their head coach Dean Everison replaced him
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with John Hines, previously coached to the Predators and the Devils.
At the time of the firing, the Wild where five
ten and four, riding a seven game win a streak
and had only four regulation wins on the season, tied
for the second fewest in the NHL. Former Heart Trophy
winner Taylor Hall undergoing surgery on his right knee. He
will miss the rest of the season. For the Chicago Blackhawks,
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NHL All start weekend in Toronto. This February will feature
an expanded day, so they'll have the skills competition Friday,
the game on Saturday, also though on Thursday. I'll return
the All Star player draft after nearly a decade.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
They were the first league to do that. The NBA
and what Want copy them later.
Speaker 5 (42:03):
Four All Star captains and a celebrity captain who will
be part of the drafting of the.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Teams for let me Yes, Snoop Dog. It's certally possible. Yeah,
certainly possible. It's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
I finally, Wild goaltender Marc Andre Fleury wore a custom
designed mask for a Native American Heritage night the other
night against the Avalanche, which defied an NHL's rule on
players and teams doing wearing special things on their uniforms
and warm up. They got a member. They got away
with the jerseys because the pride. Some of the players
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didn't want to wear the private so the AHL said
that you can't wear anything.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
You know.
Speaker 5 (42:42):
That kind of brings attention to one of these twenties issues.
Flury said that the rule was stupid and that he
was wearing the mask on or his wife apparently is
a member of the Tribe tribe in Canada.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
I actually told that to a cop once yew I
pulled over speeding. I said, I said that lost super weller.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
I got a ticket earlier this year, the player for
Arizona War, the Pride tape, the Rainbow tape on the
state course.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
I keep track of all these. I mentioned it, and
the NHL didn't do anything.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
And uh, they are not doing anything to mark Andre
Fleury for for violating the rule. Uh so basically they're
they're not doing anything for players want to do what they.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Want, wear whatever you want. I don't think it's a
stupid rule. It's a good rule because it brought bad
attention to the NHL. People go for the hockey. They
don't go for your little agendas and what your whatever
your cause is. They're there for the hockey. If the
team is.
Speaker 5 (43:36):
Having a Native American knight and the guy's wife is
a Native American, him.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Wearing a mask is like some sort of crime. That's
not a crime. It's just bad for the bad for business.
I don't think anyone cares any wore that. Of course
you would take the NHL position. You know, are you
offended that he wore that mask? Are you offended and
you wore that mask? Very offended? Very bothered by of course.
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But the problem is, here's let me explain how this
works him. So if you let him do that, which
they did, and let's say, you know, somebody wants to
bring up something I don't know, the support uh terror Yes,
that's a great example. Okay, but you know how many
they have family. Maybe they have family, they're terrorists, they
support terrorists and they want to example. Okay, so it's
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never happened, but you protect Eddie. You don't allow that
to happen. That's that's not ridiculous extreme. The reason the
NHL put that in they had a problem. You don't
realize it because whatever the NHL, you think the Erstell's perfect.
You don't think they make it a mistake. That's I
don't think they did. I don't think now you're sucking
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to the NHL. I think they made the right thing.
And they're being soft like you, Eddie, and they're backing
down because they're cowards. It's a bad job. If you're
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every time we talk about the Jets. Why do you
talk about the Jets. You're not a Jets fan and
the Jets suck, and I really have no counter argument
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to that. I'm not a Jets fan. I don't give
a rats ass about the Jets, but they are good
at making headlines. So my rebuttals. We come in here
and plausibly. The job is to talk about what's going
on in sports in that window of time, and more
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often than not we talk about the same teams, and
the Jets are one of those teams, even though they
are terrible. There she blows, but they're doing it again.
So we have an injury update from mister Rogers neighborhood.
If you have not heard the latest, perhaps not. Aaron
Rodgers playing for a dog food Jets franchise has returned.
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Rogers is back, kind of Aaron Rodgers returning to the
practice field on Hump Day on a limited basis eleven
weeks exactly eleven weeks, because human beings love round numbers.
Eleven weeks, not eleven weeks in a day, not eleven
weeks in two days. Eleven weeks after snap crackle pop
(02:41):
surgery on the Achilles, pop goes the Achilles and Rogers
back eleven weeks later, but he's not all the way
back now. Robert Sala, the motivational speaker who occasionally pretends
to be an NFL head coach. Sala said it is
too soon. It is too soon to say whether Rogers
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will play again this season, and the Jets have a
twenty one day grace period twenty one day period whether
or not they can decide what they want to do
with Rogers. So let us discuss the question where are
you at on Aaron Rogers playing again for the Jets
(03:23):
here in twenty twenty three. So I am agnostic. I
am not a believer. I do not believe that Rogers
will play a regular season game this season. So I've
got physicians, note moscow and magic potion, and we will
(03:45):
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a migrain headache, which is what the New
York Jets fan base likely has thinking about all of
this nonsense. So a Rogers, we talked about this in
previous episode of the show. My position on Rogers has
not changed. That he has hell bent on going out
(04:06):
and playing, And the main reason he's held bent on
going out and playing is it's personal. It's become a
personal thing, right. It's Rogers wants to get back, and
he wants to I'm gonna leave the door open a
bit that he's gonna play. I don't think he will
actually play. And there's reasons why that is. We'll get
to that in a second. But in terms of him
(04:28):
wanting to come back, it makes a lot of sense
because he come back from the the Achilles. I don't
know if you know this. The Jets aren't winning the Lombardy.
Aaron Rodgers isn't going to add a Lombardy to his resume.
Another one not gonna happen. So Rogers can add the hippocratus, right,
the he can add a separate award here and the
(04:50):
you know, the hippocratic oath and all that. But the
medical establishment, Aaron Rodgers can can push back, push it back, right,
you know the master plan. There are weak spots, there
are wing spots here because Rogers still needs to get
and he has not been able to procure to procure
a physician's note. And that's a problem. That's a fly
(05:14):
in the ointment, that's a turd in the punch bowl.
Because the Jets, in order for him to play actually play.
He has to be cleared because the Jets don't want
that liability. They don't want the liability. Rogers goes out
there and once you injure your achilles and you rehab
the normal amount of time, not that I'm a doctor,
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to play one on the radio, you typically are more
prone to having future Achilles injuries an offense, not even
the same one. It's the other achilles that is more
likely to go. And so the Jets, you know, the
way this goes. It is like if Rogers doesn't get
a doctor's note, he goes out there and his leg
gets bitten off by a crocodile or an alley game
(06:00):
or whatever. It bites his leg off. He's like one
of the guys that listens to the show here and
calls in Van the one legged Bama Man, and they
just like bite his leg off. And that's it. And
and that right where the achilles is that Rogers has
been cleared for functional football activity. If you know what
that means, let me know, I don't know what that means.
(06:20):
No contact isn't contact. I know in the NFL today
it's like the worstification of the NFL. But isn't contact
kind of the deal. So he's like, yeah, he's clear
to return functional football activity, but just don't touch him.
Just don't lay a hand on him. The other problem,
and this is the big one, the Jets are actually
running a sewage treatment facility. They're running a sewage treatment facility,
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and Gang Green would would likely have to win the
next couple of games and then listen to this weekend
is winnable. They play the Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons stink,
They could win that game, but the problem is that
they've got the facacta Tim Boyle who can't play at quarterback.
He sucks, and so the Jets aren't making the playoffs,
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but at least to give the illusion that they're a
playoff contender, they'd have to win one of the next
couple of games otherwise they're not. And then so Rogers,
he still wants to play. Would that be allowed? At
this point, you think that the Jets just bowed down
to whatever Rogers wants, right, They're so they're so desperate
(07:26):
to get a good team. They think this guy is
their lord and savior, and they could put Rogers out there.
Everything'll be great. Now we head the Pittsburgh the Yinsers
the Petsburg Steelers. Now what a story here, an absolute quitter,
a guy that just played gutlass football and he's still employed,
which tells you a lot. Deontay Johnson, he is a
(07:50):
wide receiver for the Pittsburgh football team. Just don't ask
him to hustle. You likely saw this, or if you're blind,
you heard about it. Deontay Johnson is in the crosshairs
because he walked away from a live fumble by a
teammate in the game on Sunday in Cincinnati, Jalen Warren fumble.
And it's hilarious. It is so great that you see
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this veteran NFL receiver who could not have possibly cared
less that there's a live football that you know, fifty
to fifty proposition. Hey doesn't give a rats ass. I
don't care. I don't give a damn. So he was
asked about this and he said that he addressed the
situation with his teammates. Deontay Johnson. He told the Pittsburgh
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media that they know how I feel. It's all about feelings,
and I guess you didn't feel like hustling on that play,
But he said, I'll own up to it. I'm not perfect,
he said, And all I can do is move forward
and keep playing football. That's all I can worry about.
Except you weren't playing football when you had the chance
to play football. But I digress, all right, So did
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Steelers wide receiver Deontay Johnson. And essentially what he used
was the I'm human excuse for being lazy. Does that
work for you? The Deontay Johnson excuse? Basically, I'm human.
So on this side, and you can speak for yourself,
but on this side of the microphone, the answers no, no.
(09:22):
That is the number one answer, the number one answer
on the apology Bengo card. You know, the apology Bengo card.
Everyone's got one of these.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
When a celebrity does something and they have to apologize,
there's certain talking points that they all put in there.
Mistakes happen, etc. Etc. The fact that Tomlin did not
demand that Deontay Johnson's released, I mean, what are you doing, Mike?
Have you lost a little bit there? Mike Tomlin? What's
(09:53):
wrong with you? Right? This was not a mistake? No, no, no,
this is not a mistake. Is if you drop a
pa as not hustling is not a mistake that is
ingrained in you, right, and Deontay continuing to claim that
he didn't realize the playing question was was still going
(10:14):
That's what he claimed, which would have worked if there
have not been seven different videos showing that it was
obvious the play was going on. And this actually makes
it worse for him that he's he's saying this and anyway,
Johnson on this one, Deontay Johnson, the steel is visiting Moscow.
He's he's hanging out in Russia at the ballet, the
(10:36):
Bolshoy Ballet there in Russia, and he's doing a pirouette,
spinning around and all that. But the maximum effort, right,
the maximum efforts. You can't win every game, You're not
gonna make every great play, but as you as long
as you show effort right that that there's no athletic
ability required for them. Zero athletic ability is needed to
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put effort into anything, whether you're an athlete or just
your job at all. But it's not like this guy's
some kind of rookie. A lot of the media attaching, wow,
that's a rookie mistake. No, He's played over seventy games
in the NFL, and I'm pretty positive without watching every
single player that he's played. This is not the first time.
It's not the first time that he's done this. It's
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the most glaring for Deontay Johnson listens, but it's not
the first time that he's not hustled. Shall we say?
All right? Last word here? So we go now to
an angry Kelsey. That's our next headline. And Jason Kelsey
the number one center, the top center in all the NFL. There,
(11:41):
Jason Kelce is fuming, very angry. He popped up on
a radio interview, a sports radio interview in Philly, and
he called out the Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Jordan Phillips
for a bull pucky bull pucky, as Jay Scoop would
say in the Ukraine. Play during the game between the
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Eagles and Bills this past weekend. So what is this about?
The play occurred in the first quarter of the game
and the Eagles were running the iconic Tushy pushy. They
were running the tush and it was a fourth and
one for the Philadelphia Eagles, and Jordan Phillips decided he
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wanted to get to that running back, get to that quarterback,
and he jumped through the line like he was the
kool aid man, just jumping through that line, encroaching the
territory and he ended up absolutely laying out Cam Jurgens,
the right guard for the Philadelphia football team. And it
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was like a big pile up right in the backfield
for Philadelphia, and he just jumped through the line and
it was obviously encroachment and all that. Now, Kelsey's upset
because there was a penalty call, but Kelsey thinks they
didn't go far enough. Jason Kelsey thinks there should have
been a worse penalty that he tried intentionally to hurt
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the Bills player, tried to hurt his teammate on the
offensive line, Cam Cam Jergens. Kelsey said, it should have
been a personal foul. Okay, So can you decode? Can
you decode the message here? Can you decode the message
that Jason Kelsey is sending to the NFL world? So
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I have thought about this because I have a lot
of free time and these are the kind of things
I think about. And my determination from the comments made
by Jason Kelsey about the Bills defensive player that the
tush push is the most unstoppable play in the NFL.
They they have the more PC term now on the
brotherly shot, but it's the tush push. And so with that,
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Jason Kelsey is sending a warning flair to the rest
of the NFL big shots there that you need to
protect the toush at all times. Protect the Toush push.
That's really what this is about. I'll tell you why.
Because teams are scrambling trying to find the magic potion.
There's gotta be a way to stop this play No
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one's been able to consistently figure it out. There's got
to be a way to level the playing field, and
so you're going to try different things, throw Fedichini Alfredo
against the wall to see what sticks. And it's only
going to get more extreme as this continues. And Kelsey
he's got to be concerned at battering Rams situation. He
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could be taken out the right guard, left guard gets
taken out, and then you're playing a bunch of backups
down the line in a playoff situation.
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Buying should be our headline headline this hour. It's technically
from Cleveland, but it's really not. It's from Westwood. It's
a throwback Mallard monologue. Why is this a throwback Mallard monologue?
Because we're talking about someone we last really broke down
maybe twelve years ago, maybe a little more than that,
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Joe Flockou. Now the Browns. That's a football team, not
a good one. The Cleveland Browns are doing the quarterback shuffle.
You gotta do the shuffle, you gotta do the shofvel.
So there the quarterback shuffle. And if you have not heard,
the news was announced the Browns spending their time in
La La Land. They played in Denver, lost to the Broncos,
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and so they just kept going on the heading to
the Western front and they headed to the west coast
and they're hanging out on the west side of LA
They've been practicing this week. The plan is there at
UCLA and then they'll play the La Rams this weekend.
But the Browns have elevated to a penthouse on the
Upper East Side. They've elevated Joe Flacco to the number
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two quarterback status behind injured starter Dorian Thompson Robinson, who
must be devastated because he's from UCLA and it's well
he hasn't been demoted yet, but the word on the
street is unlikely to play. So this sets up jump
ball Joe Flacco, legendary elite quarterback Joe Flacco. Just back
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in the day, that was the big story. So entering
the game on Sunday, likely gonna play, might not start,
but will likely play. Now Thompson Robinson, who had recently
been the starting quarterback for the Browns. He is in
the concussion protocol. You can't play if you don't clear
the protocol, and he did not practice on Wednesday, leading
to chatter that Joe Flacco will end up playing. So
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let us discuss Let's assume the position. Let's assume the
position that Joe Flacco is going to be QB one
for the Cleveland football team. So the question is should
Brown's backers feel encouraged or discouraged by the possibility of
Joe Flacco possibly becoming the starting quarterback. So to answer
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the question whether or not Browns fans should be encouraged
or discouraged, I think the answer is rather obviously he
or the arrow is pointing at Heartbreak Hotel. That's where
the arrow is pointing at. I've got three stooges, Mendoza
line and blank spots and blank spots, and we will
combine all of these things together and we're going to
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head to Wayne's World, which is a movie that I
was Sam and Cooper watching right now, and they have
a hat, a Wayne's World hat. So there you go,
all right. So the first thought I have on this
just when you thought things could not get any worse.
Tea yeah from the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson who everyone despises.
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And then you bring in XFL refugee PJ. Walker that
didn't go so well, and Dorian Thompson Robinson. Yeah, and
now Joe Flacco. The Browns are running a clearinghouse for
Vaudvillian's style quarterbacks. They really are. It's well, it's failure theater.
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Yet again. The factory of sadness has been activated for
the Cleveland football team. The three stooges, the Cleveland fans
with these quarterbacks are being kick kneed, elbowed and poked
in the eye, and you might want to turn off
the oven. Joe Flacco is done. His career is done. Now.
My evidence is a functioning brain. That is my evidence.
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Joe Flacco. Let's go back to twenty eighteen. Now, Joe
is actually he's played a fair amount of games, considering
he hasn't been any good and he's bounced around with
the Ravens, he had a brief time with the Broncos
and was with the Jets for a couple of seasons.
Joe Flacco with a passer rating below eighty five in
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the last five seasons. Okay, last five years. He's almost
thirty nine years old. Happy early Birthday's birthday. Joe Flacco
is in January, and in football parlance, he should be
hanging out with Phil the Drill in Maine and playing bingo,
going down like Friday nights, playing some bingo. Not starting
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for the end. Maybe he will not start, but the
Browns brought him in. They brought him in for a reason.
Right now. Secondly, headline, we go to Denver, where Kareem
Jackson is actually more from New York than Denver. Kareem
Jackson is going to have an audience with the commissioner
of the NFL. That's right, the Broncos safety who is
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the number one headhunter according to the NFL rules. Gestapo
very upset. He's already missed one game. Kareem Jackson here,
he's on under a four game suspension. He appealed, he
didn't win the appeal, and he has said in interviews
with the Denver media establishment there that the hits, the
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unnecessary roughness hits that have gone to the opponent's dome,
to their heads, that he feels like he should not
have been suspended that if you look at it, and
I actually agree with him, that's an unpopular opinion. Like
the NFL, the way they adjudicate these penalties, it's inhumane,
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you know, I said, I'm a high school I played
at Polk High School, High school, all American back in
the day. But it's like these people are like, well,
you're supposed to stop and you're an object in motion.
I don't believe in momentum, but I do believe in
momentum physical momentum. When you're launching to hit someone and
they move into your hit zone, what the f are
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you supposed to do? So anyway, he's gonna meet with
Roger Goodell. That's the story here. He set the meeting
up himself, Kareem Jackson. The meeting is gonna take place
later on today at ten am at the NFL headquarters,
which I walked by. It's just a nondescript skyscraper in Manhattan.
There's no NFL logo, there's nothing there's it's like our
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building here in LA. There's a security guard sitting at
a desk. There's a courtyard at the NFL headquarters, and
there's a few trees planted outside in a lot of
concrete because it's the Concrete Jungle. That's the NFL headquarters
on Park Avenue there in New York City. So the
question what are the odds, What are the odds that
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Kareem Jackson after he has this tee time with Roger
Goodell ends up getting his suspension reduced. So the Mather
Sportsbook odds on this plus four hundred in baseball terms,
that is the Mendoza line. That's a two hundred batting average,
which is not good. If it's the ninth inning of
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Game seven of the World Series and you're down by
a run, you have a runner on third, two out,
need base hit. You don't want a Mendoza line hitter up.
But that's where we are. I'm at I'm at two hundred.
That's a batting average like Roger gel. There is a
dimension where Roger Goodell steps in and says, well, I
can get some Brownie points or I guess, in this case,
Bronco points. I can get some Bronco points with other players.
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Be understanding, right, be the good cop, not the bad cop.
Good cop. Want to be the good cop, not the
bad cop, and I'll be the good cop. That could
be Roger Goodell, good cop. But the problem is Goodell
also has to massage the wussification of the sporting world
and the worry awards that believe the NFL will never
be safe enough that crowd. And so if you reduce
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the punishment again for Kareem Jackson, and the next time
he plays, he absolutely destroys the guy's helmet where it
falls off and the guy ends up needing some kind
of medical attention, then people pivot away from Kareem Jackson.
They say, well, it's not your fault, it's Roger Goodell's fault.
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So that's the that's the conundrum, right, that's the quagmire
that Roger Goodell finds himself in. Now, final thought, we
head to Philadelphia, We go back to Philadelphia. We can
tell you a lot about the Eagles and the forty
nine Ers as we go through the overnight, and it's
not so much about that game. DeShawn Jackson, Deshaun Jackson
is returning to the Delaware Valley. He's coming back to
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retire as an Eagle. Yes, right, He's gonna hang up
the old helmet there the cleats as an Eagle. He
will serve as an honorary captain this weekend. That'll push
the Birds over the top. Yeah. Now, this is obviously
a ceremonial, a purely ceremonial situation, which we have pointed
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out in the past. We find Hoki in corny, but
nobody listens to us. We're on the middle of the night.
So Jackson was the first player in NFL history to
earn Pro Bowl honors at two positions kick returner and
wide receiver, and that, combined with his explosive ability to
make big plays, has led immediately to some pundit saying
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that DeShawn Jackson is a Hall of Famer, that he
is going to make the Hall of Fame, that they're
pumping up this guy's resume to end up in Canton, Ohio.
So we asked the question former now former retired Eagles
wide receiver to Shawn Jackson ending up in the Pro
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Football Hall of Fame Thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs upper,
thumbs down on this. So we are going to go
after a thorough analysis, two thumbs down, not one, two
thumbs down on DeShawn Jackson ending up in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame. And while he is tied for
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the NFL record with eight touchdowns of fifty or more
yards in a single season. Congratulations on that. The overall
body of work, the wide angle lens. When you look
at it, the serengetti, and you look at all that
is there? Right, all that is there? Not enough? And
we have a basic criteria. His resume for the Hall
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of Fame has blank spots. Now our criteria, the Mallard
criteria for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Were you
a regular season MVP or defensive player? Here knobs you.
That wouldn't apply because he's a receiver. The receivers don't
win that award. But just bear with me. Were you
an All Pro? Even once? Not Pro Bowl? All Pro?
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Anybody can make the Pro Bowl? All Pro though, that's
the krem, Dona krem. Did you make an All Decade team?
Can the history of football during your era be written
without mentioning your name? And in order to get into
the Hall of Fame, you have to have two of
those accolades. So I look here, DeShawn never an MVP?
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Did he make an All Decade team? No? Was he
an All Pro? No? Can you tell the era of
the NFL that Deshaun Jackson played in without mentioning his name. Yeah,
and am I a bad talk show host for saying
that my snapshot memory of Deshaun Jackson in his NFL
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career was I think this was against the Dallas Cowboys.
Maybe not, but he was running in for a touchdown unabated,
and he was so excited to become a cheerleader that
before he crossed the threshold of the goal line, he
tossed the football behind him. He tossed it down and
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started celebrating and having a fine time. It was a
dance party, except it wasn't a touchdown because he didn't
cross the goal line, and then one of the great
bloopers in the NFL.
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This is one big vent gets.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Grailed and they coop galop.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
It was announced on Tuesday that Jonathan Taylor will undergo
surgery on his thumb and will be out for the
next two to three weeks. Now, Ben, the Colts currently
sit in the seventh and final playoff spot in the AFC.
Are they still there when Taylor gets back?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah? So I think they will be there. If you
look at the upcoming schedule here, it is manageable. I
believe they We'll lose to the Titans this weekend, but
it's bunched up at the bottom of the AFC, and
Shane Steichen has been pretty good. I mean, this guy
came from Philadelphi. He's the creator of the tush Bush
and with Gardner Minshew, they've been competitive in most of
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their games, so I think they will still be there.
They've got a bunch of no names, generic brand players.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Next, so Joe Buck made a podcast appearance where he
looked back at his call of Randy Moss mooning the
Lambeau Faithful and admitted that he was a bit over
the top with his disgusting act. Outrage Ben, you were
on the air at the time.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That's right, Yes, did you do.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
A Mallard monologue on the Moss move.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Not only that, we did an entire month of Mallard
monologue dedicated to Joe Buck. We played that thing so
often that we burned it in the profit system here
and and by the way Joe Buck was, That's how
Joe Buck was back in the day. He was buttoned up.
It was only is a disgusting act by Randy Bud.
It was only after that that he loosened up the
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tie a little bit and became goofy Joe Buck. But yeah,
and we played that. We had the Joe Buck audio
game we used to play where we play that out
of context? How do we do? Is that it? Cooper?
We done? That's it?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
But I gotta fail you for your first answer. The
Broncos are going to be in that time. No cults
are gonna lose their playoffs. File take off, take off
the Orange vest.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
They're cool? Please all right.
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Speaker 4 (32:04):
All right, Sirias Sean would like to know how often
at all, Edie, do y'all go to the movie?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Ah. I have not been in the movies since I
think it's been two years at least, something like that, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
My movie going has dropped dramatically. I did have the
the past there where you could go whenever you want,
and I just wasn't working out, so I haven't gone
in a while.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I was thinking about going to see that Napoleon movie though, Yeah,
all right, I was, Sam, you're a big movie guy.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Uh, you know what.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
The last movie I saw in theaters was The Banshees
of Innis Sharon, very very.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Very serious movie.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I'd love to go to see like that Napoleon movie
and that Scorsese movie they came out, but I really
don't have to. I would go with lead, a lap
producer of two pros and a couple of you don't
have to drop names. Well, he sees these movies before
they even come out because he's like a Hollywood insider.
So I don't get to the theater as much as
i'd like, but I do like going to the movies.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Well, they used to send out because I'm in that
SAG thing, and they used to send out the movies,
but I think you have to go online to watch
them now, right? Right? It was no fun? Yeah? Coo,
you go to the movies every day?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
No?
Speaker 4 (33:20):
I mean, like Eddie, I have the unlimited pass and
the last like two months or so, I just paid
for it and didn't go see anything.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
That's what they do. It's like it's like the gym.
They want you to pay and then you forget about
it and they keep getting your money.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
It usually doesn't work that way for me. But I
did go earlier this week to a movie, and I
will be going back again to see Napoleon. So but
when I am going regularly, I usually go like to
two or three times a month. All right, very good,
it's pretty regular.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
That's a lot. Yeah, that's a lot. What's next? What
do we have? All right?
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Cowboy Killer wants to know what do you prefer? Mountains
or beaches?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
It depends on the season. Summer beach, wintertime mountains. It's
pretty simple, isn't that how most people operate?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
No getting which one you like better? What's your favorite?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Well, if I don't have to drive in it, the
mountains in the snow awesome, amazing, But if I have
a driving the beach. What about you, Eddie, beach every
day all day. I was born in Hawaii. I live,
you know, close to the beach. A lot of bragging
going on here. I'm all about the beach and the mountains.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
You can have the mountains, all right, there are There
are also mountains in Hawaii, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Not in Iowa.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
They get no mountains. Snow, we got mounds, mounds of stuff.
I like the mountains. I'm a mountain guy. I like
the beach to your mountain man, a mountain, mountain, mountain man.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
You like those Sequoia Mountains or the mountains up in
the Sequoia National Park?
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
I like Colorado too, big fan of Colorado.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
All right, cool mountains. No, Eddie's by himself. Good, just
me on the beach.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
It snows in Hawaii, have the highest elevation, Sara, I'm
not a huge fan of the beach.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Good.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Yeah, nice too.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I like going I got married on the beach. I
like the beach all that, but yeah, I got north
for the beaches to go Eata like go Eata. All right,
it's a national shows and nobody knows what you're talking about.
I go ahead there, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Uh emmittt Blind Emmett the Seahawks fan. He would like
to know for everybody, if you could open up your
own restaurant, what type of food would it be? And
we don't have time for the second part of your question, Emmitt.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
We repeat what was the what just I was?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
I was if you could open up your own restaurant,
what type of food would it be?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Listen? I would raising cane stole my idea. That was
my plan years ago, chicken fingers, only chicken fingers, so
it would be something those lines, but I moved on.
I'd do a pizza shop, Mallards pie. I could do that.
The cheese steak, you know, cheese steak pizza. What about
you ready? Half Mexican food, half American food. That's never
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been done before.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
I was in It would be a sandwich and wrap bar.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
That would do well.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
I've got some ideas, Okay, cool, I like wraps. I
would definitely open up either a brunch place, because brunch
is the best, or an Italian deli.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Now, I did have an idea. I spoke to the
family about this. How about this is we're kind of
far away from where we do the show from from Canada, poutine.
How about that, big self. People would love poutine. There's
not a lot of good poutine where we are.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yeah, but I mean that's guy. That'd be like a
like a mall at like kiosk kind of thing because
otherwise because.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Get a food truck a poutine food Yeah, that would work, right.
What's next? What do we have? All?
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Right, let's do uh like Rory Rory would actually no,
let's go screw.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
You, Rory. We hate your question. Go ahead, what's next?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
But uh, Ferg Dog wants to know. Ferg Dog wants
to know. Red apples green apples are no apples red
and delicious for the wind red? Uh not really an apple? Guy,
green apple. That's the wrong answer. That's the wrong answer. Tarticle.
He didn't really put the correct selection up there. It's
gotta be like those, uh, those pink lady apples. Those
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are the best ones. Those are kind kind of like
yellowishree cheese and tartan appreciate that. But between red and
green apples, green apples with some bree green apples are
for like an apple pie. But the red apples are
for an apple.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
No, they're not. Every time I've made it an apple pie,
it's been green apples. What's next?
Speaker 4 (37:40):
All right, alf the alien opiner wants to know, I
ow best flavor of doritos.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I actually like the taco flavor of doritos. That's an
unpopular opinion, but I do like the taco flavor, Eddie. Traditionalists,
just the regular original flavor, all right? Didn't they start
selling those at Disneyland? Right in that the legend of
the ritos? What about you? I was same nacho cheese,
That's that's what Eddie said. Yeah, he's a regal specify,
though it's not to cheese. I don't have to do
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any talk. What about my taco specialty? I love che cool?
What about it? Uh?
Speaker 4 (38:16):
If we're talking about the classics, the OG's cool ranch
the winner. But I also like the salsa verde.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
That's a terrible answer.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
You're bad at that cool SALSAVERI area, No, it's.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Not as good as the taco taco.
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Speaker 1 (38:39):
It's hockey season somewhere, Eddie, So why don't we get
you caught up on hockey? What a great scandal we
had in hockey this week. Alright, let's go now to
the Man, the Mermaid. Right over there, Eddie Garcio, the
big Zamboni. It's all that hockey that is fit to broadcast. Yes,
it's another week of the puck. The world reports, and
we're about twenty games more or less into the NHL season.
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The New York Rangers currently leading the NHL with thirty
three points, and the defending Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden
Knights one point behind the Rangers for the most points
in the league.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
They are leading the Western Conference. Other teams off to
good starts include the Bruins, Canucks, Avalanche, Kings, Stars, and Panthers.
Some teams that are surprisingly having a rough time so far,
and these teams will all be out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
If the season and today, which it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
That would include the Devils, Penguins, Kraken, Oilers, and wild
All those teams minus Pittsburgh did make the playoffs last year.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
The Penguins just missed out. On the last day of
the season.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
You mentioned in Chicago Blackhawks terminating the contract a veteran
forward in former league MVP Corey Perry due to what
was called a workplace violation. There was social media rumors
about Perry having some sort of sexual relationship with the
mother of rookie Connor Bedard, the number one overall polk
and the lead and the rookie scorer in the league.
Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson addressed those rumors, saying that Perry's
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incident did not involve any player or their family members.
Of course, not would admit that because it's probably the truth.
Suggestion otherwise, he said, was inaccurate in discussing.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Now, your defense, Eddie is that since they got caught,
they wouldn't lie again, right, That's definitely part of it. Yes, okay,
but the Astros got caught cheating and they cheated again,
So wouldn't that kind of blow your No, No, it wouldn't.
It's the same thing. It's it's not you'd be perfect
like North Korea or Russia. You believe that they believe what.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
You're told, and you believe that everything's a lie, which
is not everything, but yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Much. I've lived a life and I've seen people lie
to my face, and people work in sports, but you
believe everything. Yeah, there, everyone in sports is a lie.
You're gonna get a job at the NHL, Eddie, would
you keep sucking up to the NHL? That would be
I actually would like that you knowing what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
ESPN reporting that Perry had an incident with a team employee,
not to the mother of a plus and the men
wants to believe anything that's elections.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
I don't know it was true or not, but I'm
I wouldn't believe the team. Okay.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
Three times Stanley Cup champion Patrick Kyne signs a one year,
two point seventy five million dollar contract with the Detroit
Red Wings. I spent his first sixteen years with the Blackhawks,
last year with the Rangers. He's coming off hip resurfacing surgery.
He's thirty five years old. Fourth among active players six
am in points six to month active players in goalscoring.
Minnesota Wild fired their head coach Dean Everison replaced him
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with John Hines, previously coached to the Predators and the Devils.
At the time of the firing, the Wild where five
ten and four, riding a seven game win a streak
and had only four regulation wins on the season, tied
for the second fewest in the NHL. Former Heart Trophy
winner Taylor Hall undergoing surgery on his right knee. He
will miss the rest of the season. For the Chicago Blackhawks,
(41:44):
NHL All start weekend in Toronto. This February will feature
an expanded day, so they'll have the skills competition Friday,
the game on Saturday, also though on Thursday. I'll return
the All Star player draft after nearly a decade.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
They were the first league to do that. The NBA
and what Want copy them later.
Speaker 5 (42:03):
Four All Star captains and a celebrity captain who will
be part of the drafting of the.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Teams for let me Yes, Snoop Dog. It's certally possible. Yeah,
certainly possible. It's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
I finally, Wild goaltender Marc Andre Fleury wore a custom
designed mask for a Native American Heritage night the other
night against the Avalanche, which defied an NHL's rule on
players and teams doing wearing special things on their uniforms
and warm up. They got a member. They got away
with the jerseys because the pride. Some of the players
(42:37):
didn't want to wear the private so the AHL said
that you can't wear anything.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
You know.
Speaker 5 (42:42):
That kind of brings attention to one of these twenties issues.
Flury said that the rule was stupid and that he
was wearing the mask on or his wife apparently is
a member of the Tribe tribe in Canada.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
I actually told that to a cop once yew I
pulled over speeding. I said, I said that lost super weller.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
I got a ticket earlier this year, the player for
Arizona War, the Pride tape, the Rainbow tape on the
state course.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
I keep track of all these. I mentioned it, and
the NHL didn't do anything.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
And uh, they are not doing anything to mark Andre
Fleury for for violating the rule. Uh so basically they're
they're not doing anything for players want to do what they.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Want, wear whatever you want. I don't think it's a
stupid rule. It's a good rule because it brought bad
attention to the NHL. People go for the hockey. They
don't go for your little agendas and what your whatever
your cause is. They're there for the hockey. If the
team is.
Speaker 5 (43:36):
Having a Native American knight and the guy's wife is
a Native American, him.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Wearing a mask is like some sort of crime. That's
not a crime. It's just bad for the bad for business.
I don't think anyone cares any wore that. Of course
you would take the NHL position. You know, are you
offended that he wore that mask? Are you offended and
you wore that mask? Very offended? Very bothered by of course.
(44:02):
But the problem is, here's let me explain how this
works him. So if you let him do that, which
they did, and let's say, you know, somebody wants to
bring up something I don't know, the support uh terror Yes,
that's a great example. Okay, but you know how many
they have family. Maybe they have family, they're terrorists, they
support terrorists and they want to example. Okay, so it's
(44:25):
never happened, but you protect Eddie. You don't allow that
to happen. That's that's not ridiculous extreme. The reason the
NHL put that in they had a problem. You don't
realize it because whatever the NHL, you think the Erstell's perfect.
You don't think they make it a mistake. That's I
don't think they did. I don't think now you're sucking
(44:46):
to the NHL. I think they made the right thing.
And they're being soft like you, Eddie, and they're backing
down because they're cowards. It's a bad job. If you're
obsurd
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