November 1, 2024 • 50 mins
Big Ben talks about CJ Stroud & the Texans losing their magic in a rough Thursday Night Football loss to the New York Jets, Shohei Ohtani saying he wants to win 9 more World Series Titles & Dallas Teammates Micah Parsons & Trevon Diggs leaving Dak Prescott off the list of the 5 best QBs in the NFL right now
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So here in hour number one, Little Thursday Night Football
Week number nine, the Texans and the Jets. What happened
to the magic of CJ Strad with the Texans. We'll
talk about that. Also, what's the temperature looking like for
coach Tamiko Ryans in Houston? And does this victory move
the needle for Aaron Rogers and the Jets. We'll talk
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The show on. Much to my surprise, I did not
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Anyway, our lead this hour is from the Garden State
and that was the Amphitheater for the start of week
number nine.
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We don't have a number nine. Number nine in the NFL.
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CJ Stroud a darling of the NFL pundits in the offseason.
C J Stroud many people predicted would be to pick
to click in terms of the MVP race in the
NFL and the dinged up Texans that I had a
playdate with Aaron Rogers and the Jets in East Rutherford,
New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Beautiful East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
If you enjoy swamps, boy, that's your spot. So al
Michaels and Herbie had to call on Amazon. I don't
know if you were watching this or not, perhaps not,
but Aaron Rodgers after taking a siesta in the first half,
Rogers came out had not one, not two, but three
touchdown passes in the second half, including a play that
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will be talked about on the social media world platform
for years. One handed catch by Garrett Wilson like in
acrobat in the circus, and a thirty seven yard catch
and run DeVante Adams I've heard of him before. As
the Jets rally back and snap a five game losing
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they just lost to the Patriots on Sunday, they come
back and knock off the Texans twenty one to thirteen.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
A lot of people surprised.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I did an appearance on our affiliate in Kansas City
on Thursday morning, and Dusty, one of the hosts, was like, well,
I don't understand why the Jets are favored. They shouldn't
be favorite. The Texans are the better team. Well, there
you go. A lot of people bet on the Texans.
They thought it was easy money, and they lost. New
York improves to a lousy three and six. The Texans
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dropped to six and three. But for New York they
went for the first time in four games under their
interim head coach, the Hawaiian well at least in college
Jeff Ulbrich who took over there more in the Jets
in a minute. The better story is in the losing
locker room, and that is where we will begin to
break this down scientifically. Now, as we discussed the question
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what happened to the magic of C. J.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Stroud with the Texans, certainly he didn't see it in
this game.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So I've got co pilot, hot yoga and pomegranate, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
will stay in the dark, because that's all we do
is stay.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
In the dark. We're on while the dark is out there.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But my first thought this was a salweingan a miss.
This was a whiff performance obviously by C. J. Stroud
living the island life, and as bad as he was.
I was a little concerned at halftime because it was
seven to nothing Texans. I did have the Jets for
television gambling purposes, but seven other and a half time
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not really all that excited. The Jets had a touchdown
taking off the board because they one of their players
decided to do Fumbbault not take the ball across the
goal line like a donkey. But Stroud living the island life.
But it was a deserted island here. Stroud unable to
find the razzle dazzle that he had last season. When
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you peel back the onion, you got Nico Collins out.
He's supposed to come back soon. Sefon Diggs is done,
likely with the Texans, and Stroud was given the task.
His assignment was to elevate the secondary and third level players.
Elevate your teammates, right, great quarterbacks, I think we can
all agree on this, the truly great quarterbacks elevate players
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that are lesser players. Now there's only a couple of
those guys out there, but many people told us that CJ.
Stroud was one of those type of players, that he
was not that far away from Mahomes and Brady and
he was just a step behind and in that Josh
Allen territory or Lamar Jackson. But that is what the
greats are supposed to do. Opportunity was knocking. You had
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a big stage. Everyone was watching no baseball, nobody's watching
the NBA, and CJ. Stroud was not up to the task.
In fact, he got absolutely pants in this game, right,
he was exposed without his playmakers. How bad was it?
Cover your eyes, bat CJ. Stroud eleven of thirty. My
computer like brain tells me that's less than forty percent completion. Now,
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as far as I know, and I was watching the game,
it did not look like there were hurricane level wins
in Jersey. So he completed less than forty percent of
his passes thirty six point seven one hundred and ninety
one yards. Even that is misleading. No touchdowns, no interceptions.
Fifty of those yards came in the fourth quarter on
a pass play to Tank Dell, so a lot less.
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At one point he was averaging like three point two
yards per pass.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And that was like in the third quarter of the game.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And then the thing that is the cherry on top
of the poopy Sunday for CJ. Stroud, he was sacked
a breathtaking eight times. Now, a lot of low information
fans will tell you, well, that's the it's the fat
guy's fault, it's the offensive line, Blame the fat guys. Well,
I will push back on that. Those that know ball
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will tell you the real ones will tell you that
sacks are a quarterback statistic. That you have to know
when to hold it and know when to get rid
of it, and don't hold the ball too long.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Treat it like a hot potato. CJ.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Stroud in this game, it was he was a co
pilot on a Southwest Airlines want to get Away flight.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
He really went.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
He looked like Trent, not Trent Anthony richards Well, maybe
Trent Richardson two, the old running back, but Anthony Richardson,
the Colts quarterback.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I mean that was that was bad.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That was like rotting fish in the summer on a
hot day outside.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Just disgusting.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now page two, So how is the temperature looking for
coach Demico Ryans and the Texas The argument for Demko
Ryans is Houston was an underdog in this game. They
were shorthanded, it was a travel it was a road game,
short week. You make all kinds of excuses, But I
live in the real world. I don't live in FANTASYLANDA
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live in the real world. So in the critical eye
that I have for the regular guy, it's like hot yoga,
it's getting steamy in here, right. Houston is now six
and three on the year. Is the glass half full
or half empty? I would say it's it's half full,
but there's a crack and it's leaking right. One guy,
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Numero Row who know sold pizza chain in southern California.
One guy showed up for the tech and by the way,
they had really good garlic pluffs back in the day.
But Joe Mixon and he was balling right. Joe Mixon
looked like he was back in his salad days with
the Bengals. He had one hundred and six yards on
a touchdown. However, even that, even that, even Joe Mixon's
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big game, you downgrade it because he only did it
for a half. He had ninety one yards and a
touchdown in the first half of this game, and in
the second half he had seven carries for fifteen yards.
So that you talk about balance, well, there's no balance
and in Houston's defense absolutely vanished in the second half.
This has been a theme and I pointed this out
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on Benny Versus the Penny. We talked a little bit
about the Texas. I just wasn't impressed despite the wins here.
They don't get a lot of style points in Houston
playing down to the competition. A radic very choppy, very
choppy team. You just don't take them seriously because of
the way that they have played, even though they've won
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most of the games. All right, last word here, does
let's go to the other side, the winning locker room.
Does this victory move the needle for airon Rogers and
the Jets? So it is just what the witch doctor ordered?
Does it move the needle a little bit?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
A little bit?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's eating pomegranate. It increases the blood flow and the circulation. Right,
Certain foods increase the blood flow, the circulation. It keeps
hope alive, which sounds silly at three and sixts. But
Aaron Rodgers, he was actually staying in a suite in Jersey.
He was at the Suck Sweet in New Jersey at halftime,
just terrible thirty two yards passing at halftime. It looked
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like he should announce his retirement at halftime, the way
he was playing there, seven or fourteen in the second half.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Though.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
My theory is he found the spice racked. He got
that caiam pepper and that water and alkazam, just like that,
the fountain of youth. Rogers like he was back with
the Packers playing the Bears at lambeau Field, sliced up
the Texans in the second fifteen of eighteen. That's almost
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eighty five percent, nine point nine yards per pass in
the second I have three touchdowns, no interceptions, and a
partries in a pear tree. That's about as good as
it gets for Aaron Rodgers. So what does it all mean?
You got the good and you got the bad. In
the multiverse, the Jets have a path to redemption. They
do right, Fireman edd can be happy, right, Fireman d
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cam bet because if you look at the schedule, they've
got Alligator Arms Murray upcoming the Cardinals. They also play
the Colts. Those are winnable games. Those are toss up games,
and if you win both of them. In that world,
you get the five and six. You go into your
bye week one game under five hundred, and you only
have one game left with anyone who's considered a good team.
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That would be the Buffalo Bills. Now I'm a skeptic.
I'm a skeptic, but this this is a baby step.
It's a small step. Before you eat steak, you have
to eat baby food, right. You know, you don't give
a baby a steak. He'll give a baby like baby.
But I need to see more It's a very small
sample size, one half of football against a dinged up
Houston Texans team. I still have the Jets on my
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big board. I don't do list, but on my big
board I have the Jets in that punch drunk category.
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But our lead this hour is from baseball, and we
are not we're not previewing Game six of the World
Series because there is no Game six of the World Series.
The post mortem on the Dodgers slaying the Dragon, beating
the New York Yankees, basking in the afterglow the blank
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blaming the trophy. You got Dodger manager Dave Roberts, who
admitted that shohe O'tani should not have been on the
field to begin things in the World Series.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
There or not begin it, but by the end.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Of it because of his messed up shoulders. The Dodgers
trying to rationalize how they won with Otani getting only
two hits, and then you have the alleged postgame comment
from Otani that everyone's been picking apart.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I don't know if you heard about it or not.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Maybe you missed it, but in the celebratory moments after
the Dodgers had taken down New York, I've read this quote. Now,
Otani supposedly ran into a Dodger executive, the president of
Baseball Ops, Andrew Friedman, and he immediately made a promise.
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All right, So he finds the chief nerd of Baseball
Ops for the Dodgers, this Freedman guy, and said, all.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Right, nine more, nine more.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Now for those of you a little slow. The nine
he is referring to, it's the World Series titles. Otani
is contractually obligated to the Dodgers for nine years left
on his contract, so let us discuss the question show
Hailtani is being widely reported that he told the Dodger
executive after the World Series, all right, nine more, referencing
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those World Series trophies. How do you interpret this? So
I've got overdosing, double decker and A and E and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to play tittley winks is what we're going
to play.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So n no, sorry, what numbers are? No? So this
was the H word hyperbole. We know it's benign.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's a benign comment that has taken a life of
its own.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And I know why. I understand why. It is myth making.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Otani in that business is a mythical lumberjack.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
And he was happy. I don't doubt that he said
what he said.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He was overdosing on dopamine, enjoying the success the fruit
of his labor during the regular season.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So the other thing is like, what are you supposed
to say?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Like, can you imagine if Otani said, well, I don't
plan on trying to win every year, Like maybe some years.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
We're going to try to win, but other years we're
not going to try to win the World Series.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
This is a whimsical antidote to add I put it
in the Shaggy Dog story URF shaggy Dog right, because
Otani he's the big ragou in baseball. He's the cash
cow globally. Gotta keep the cow happy. I saw some
videos in southern California of people lined up what look
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like for a mile to buy World Series Championship merch
And that's not only going on all over LA, It's
going on in Japan.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Chi Ching Chi Ching cha chang. Now, we don't know
a lot about Otani. We know he likes to gamble,
maybe not wink wink.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
But after winning the title, we were told that not
only did Otani say, hey, I want to win nine more?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
We're told that Otani stonewalled a postgame interview request from
the great Fuji TV. When I'm in Japan, I always
watch Fuji TV. It's one of the TV networks that
has around the clock coverage, as Otani's covered like the
pope or a royalty in the UK. And so Otani
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refused to speak to Fuji TV. Why well, the Internet
investigators believe, is because otan He's home was shown. They
reported about Otani's new house on that TV channel Otani
bought Adam Corolla's old house in southern California.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I say old. It's it's really nice, really nice.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
So I will say this was I mean, are you surprised?
I guess the question is are you surprised? Though Tani
refused to do the interview with the outlet because they
gave information out about his house, I would say, it's unnecessary.
I don't know, I'm surprised. It's unnecessary. You are, if
I'm not mistaken. The seven hundred million dollar man Otani
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plays in the shadow of Hollywood. You're in Hollywood, and
so he's in a town field with Starline double decker
red buses and all these other little vans and trucks
hop on, half off, hop off, and and spoiler that.
By the way, I think he's kind of a big deal.
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And that's the kind of person who ends up on
those celebrity home tours and the you know the maps
they pass out go see the stars and Beverly Hills
and Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
That's the guy. So you take the good, you take
the bag.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You take them both. And that's a fact r It's
fact of life. And so my advice, you got a
lot of money. You can build really big fences and
you can hire really really nice security people with big guns.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
If you want, if you're into that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
All right, now, final point, We go to the losing side,
fresh off the humiliating, emasculating World Series loss.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I loved every second of.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It, and I'm not beyond saying that I was mocking
my friends who are Yankee fans. But people are buzzing
in the bronx who stays and who goes? Now it's
assumed that one Soto will go to whoever offers him
the most money.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
He is a free agent.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
About the man in the dugout after that blatant pinstrike panic,
Will the Yankees fire Aaron Boone?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Is he done? There is a.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Club option on Aaron Boone's contract for the twenty twenty
five season, the next baseball season, meaning the two are
not guaranteed to run it back Boone and the Yankees. Now,
Brian Cashman is also part of this. He's the third
one in the love triangle. So that the smart money
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says that Aaron Boone stays. And here's why. Okay, I'm
going by the A and E theory. Now, what is
the A and E theory. The ana E theory is simple.
Despite the flopper room, there is no indication, no indication
here in the overnight that Aaron Boone is about to
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be whacked. So that means that if Boone makes it
through today Friday, he will have survived the first forty
eight And if you don't fire the manager in the
first forty eight, you normally decide to keep the manager.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
It's like they have to solve a murder in the
first forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
And for the Yankees their season, it was a crime scene,
it was a murder, and there was a self inflicted
situation there the way they butchered the ball.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
But if you're gonna get rid of Aaron Boone, the knee.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Jerk reaction would be, all right, let's get out the ninja,
let's get out the sword, let's get out the sniper.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Take care of business.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And as you go further and further away from the
gutlass performance by the Yankees, the emotions will calm down,
the waters will will even out, and people will move
on to other things. Aaron Boone will get out of jail,
he will pass go and collect his three million dollars
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that's how much he's gonna get year to follow the
marching orders of the nerds in the front office there
for the New York Yankees and.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
A lot of nippicking baseball people pointing.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Fingers at Aaron Booz And why didn't he go out
to the mound in that fifth inning when everything was
falling apart, questioning the relief pitchers that came in, and
when he brought certain guys in, and why didn't pitch
other people?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
It's all being analyzed and second guest, as we continue.
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Putting a price on Bryce Welome in the beginning of
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As we begin this hour with football. Football has been very,
very good to me. But we're not going to start
in Indianapolis. Will work our way there later, but instead
we will discuss the always exciting trade deadline. Now, some
of you are more excited about the election, which is
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on Tuesday, but we're a sports show, so stay in
your lane. So instead it's the trade deadline, and we
discuss the big story, will he or will he not
be traded? We're talking about just outside Tobacco Road. My
friends listening in the Carolina's get upset when I say that.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
They don't like that. So we're not Tobacco Road. It's outdated.
But Carolina is a poop fest.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It's poopy time in Carolina, and they have provided us
with some decent sports talk radio.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
You've got Bryce Young, who was the number.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Overall pick a couple of years back, and he is
set to start this weekend against the lowly New Orleans Saints.
Oh my god, they stink, and somehow New Orleans is
favored by a touchdown. That's how bad the Carolina team
is now. Bryce is also the focus of a lot
of noise.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
It is not radio silence.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
There's a lot of noise on the radio, chitter chatter
whether or not he's going to be traded. So, if
you've not been following along, we've learned the Panthers are
still contemplating. They're calculating the trade market for Bryce Young.
Carolina is really supposedly trying to figure out what his
value is. There are teams around the league right now interested,
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we are told to see if they can be the
team reinvent Bryce Young, because that always goes well, right,
that always, it always goes well when you do that, right,
So let us discuss the question Carolina is said to
be estimating, estimating the value of Bryce Young on the trademarket.
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How much is he worth? How much is he worth?
So I've got candy bars, assembly line, and meat loaf,
and we will combine all of these things together and
be mused.
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Will be mused, is what we will be.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
So, first of all, Bryce Young is worth the Marcel
in Brooklyn, diet, Ramen noodles, Romen noodles, hot water, and
some chef boyard to be named later. That's what he's worth.
And the hot water is the key, because Bryce Young
at this point is lukewarm and yeah, room temperature. And
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when you look at the resume, it's filled with all kinds,
you know, a bad resume. They say it is bad spelling,
grammatical errors. That's the resume of Bryce Young, a lot
of spelling mistakes.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
And things like that.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Young last provided flashy plays and improved his teammates performance,
elevated his teammates in Tusco looser not in an NFL city,
And when you are the number one overall pick, you
are supposed to be the man. You can't be the
man if you can't play like the man, cannot do it.
(29:46):
So think of this like candy bars. Right, You want
a Snickers bar, and after you say trick or treat,
they give you the candy, and instead of getting what
you want, you get a fun size version of the candy.
You want a full size. That doesn't help your appetite.
(30:06):
Too small, right, much like Bryce Young is too small,
overmatched in the NFL. But in all seriousness, the comp
which is rather obvious here, is when the forty nine
ers traded Trey Lance, who had actually been drafted I
think it was number three overall, and they traded to
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the Cowboys and they got a fourth round pick as compensation.
So I would argue that the way Bryce Young has played,
he's not even worth a fourth round pick.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
But that's what Carolina is holding out for now. I
do have concern here.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I am worried that my rams, who have to replace
Matthew Stafford, are going to get into the business of
acquiring Trey Young. I'm a little concerned. I'm a little
concerned about there's a Bryso, not Trey Yo. But I'd
like them to get Trey Young, the basketball player, but
instead Bryce Young. And you look at the teams like Seattle,
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they don't have a quarterback. Gino Smith blows the Dolphins
to you can't rely on him.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
The Colts don't have a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Now, speaking of the Colts and a diminishing asset, boys,
this is diminishing asset. More chatter out of Indy. One
NFL executive, of course not putting their name on it,
told the Athletic, the old gray lady there that the
Colts did Anthony Richardson a disservice by starting him okay
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during his rookie season. They said he was always a
developmental player, he was always a project when they drafted him,
and they shouldn't have played him. And in the story
again painting the picture that it's not fair that Anthony
Richardson got a raw deal. So I asked the esteem panel,
did the Colts do a disservice to Anthony Richardson? Did
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they do a disservice by starting him as a rookie,
and of course not publicly benching him here in her
two and I'll go first here.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I'm shaking my head. No, I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
No.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
This entire story to me is bonkers.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
It's right out of the assembly line. It's the epitome
of a manufactured drama. The same reporters who are bashing
Anthony Richardson because he fundamentally blows at football, he sucks, right,
and so the same people that are writing things on
social media and writing these blogs saying how terrible he
(32:37):
is are now making this out to be some kind
of Greek tragedy that he was benched. Richardson sucked at
a time you cannot suck, Sunday afternoons. Right, the Colts
are going with a quarterback or better or worse, who
gives them a.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Chance to win.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I don't care how old he is, he make all
the jokes you want. Joe Flacco is better at this.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Point than Richardson, and it's stunning. Or even at this
point in.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
The conversation, how about more accountability for the player, How
about the player didn't do his job. Instead you're blaming
the coach and the team. And I don't doubt that
Jim Irsay got involved in this. But Richardson has been
completing less than forty five percent of his passes with
all of the rules designed for offense.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
You've got one of the great.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Supposed play callers in Shane Steiken as the coach, and
you're completing less than forty five percent of your passes?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Are you kidding? Now?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Shane Steiken had to bench this cat or else it
would have fractured harmony in the locker room because not
only would the players have been upset because this guy
quit Richardson took himself out of a game, but also
the owner, Jim Irsay, wasn't happy. So actions have consequences,
and so that's the way this works, all right. Final thought,
(33:59):
we had the Pacific Northwest Big NFC West Donnybrook. On Sunday,
the Seattle football team and the liri Ams will play
each other. Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith said he wants to
improve his body lane.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Which say what yeah uh?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
He apparently too hot headed, says he's gonna work on this,
wants to keep his cool. He drew a taunting flag
and was very open about his frustration on the sidelines,
grumbling with coaches and teammates. Gino said, everyone's watching me.
He said, so if I'm upset. If I'm upset, they
get a little antsy.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
So I just gotta have a better poker face and
just work on it. Big fan of Lady Gaga. So
that's the money quote.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Do you expect Geno Smith to all of a sudden
find his poker face with the Seattle football team? So
I am giving one side eye right as the arbitrator
of sports talk radio justice. The motion is denied. The
motion is denied. It's the old meat love song. What
(35:12):
you see is what you get. Gino is thirty four
years old. Now that is not old in the real world.
You're still very young at thirty I believe at thirty four,
but it doesn't matter right in sports year old and
you're getting along in the two He's played for eleven years,
although most.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Of those he didn't play because he's not very good.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Geno Smith is set in many ways. The body language
is saucy. He's got saucy body language. He's halfway decent,
somewhat useful, and often a ramshackle quarterback in Seattle and
not someone that will take you anywhere other to the
middle of the NFL draft. It is the Ben Malard show.
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Love today.
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And here is the malor riddle of the day.
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We go to Halloween where Bill Belichick and his much younger,
much younger girlfriend, a woman named Jordan Hudson, wore blank
couple's costumes for Halloween. Bill Belichick, who's closed in on
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eighty and his girlfriend Jordan Hudson wore blank couple's costumes
for Halloween. That is the malord read of the day.
The answer, we'll get to it, and we will do it.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Neck. It is the big old Board.
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Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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our lead this hour is from the NFL, and I
thought this story was interesting worthy of some malor monologue treatment. No,
it's not about the Jets upsetting the Texans, which actually
did happen. You talk about a spooky Halloween for the
Houston football team, But we have a new wrinkle. We'll
(38:55):
stay in Texas, but we'll go to Dallas. I don't
even saw this or not. The cow teammates Michael Parsons
and Travon Diggs. We're talking about the top quarterbacks. This
was on Parsons has a podcast, because everyone has a podcast,
even I have a podcast, the Fifth Hour Podcast, which
(39:16):
will be available later today. And they listed on a
big board the elite quarterbacks this season. Now, if you
didn't hear about this or not, maybe not the reason
I'm bringing this up now. Parsons and Trevon Diggs listed
Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Jalen Hurtz, Jared Goff,
(39:41):
and Matthew Stafford. They even mentioned Viking quarterbacks Sam Darnold
and Washington rookie Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
But they omitted. They omitted who ding Ding Ding Ding Ding?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yeah, their own quarterback, Dakota Prescott did not make the conversation.
So let us discuss the question for the esteemed panel,
and you're part of that panel. Dak Prescott left off
the top five quarterback big board by Cowboy teammates Michael
Parsons and Trevon Diggs. Is this an honest mistake or
(40:21):
something more nefarious? So I've got thumb Marie Antonette and Coddle,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to go Cowabunga. Dude, that's what we're
gonna do to surf turn all right, So to lead off,
(40:45):
after a minutes long deliberation, a malard deliberation on this,
I have determined that the scales of justice are leaning
heavily towards funny business nefarious. Michaeh Parsons and Travon Diggs
have been around the block a few times. This is
(41:06):
not their first rodeo, right, my favorite Michaeh Parsons story.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
So he agreed back when Skip Bayless had the show
on Fox with with Uncle Uncle Sharp Shannon Sharp. That show,
they agreed to a contract with Michaeh Parsons. He was
going to show up every week on FS one no
matter what. But if you remember, Dak Prescott got hurt
(41:35):
in it was like the early in the season and
the deal had just been agreed to, and guess who went.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
A wall ding ding ding ding, Yeah, Michael Parson.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
So I love that he's got a podcast and he's
more worried about that than playing in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
So it's but he's been around and the fact that
both these.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Guys failed to give Dak Prescott even a token mention.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Unmistakable undeniable. It is right.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
I mean, not that Dak has been good, but neither
is Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes leads the NFL in interceptions, right
you go back the last year, he's way ahead of everybody.
And Dak Prescott he's also bad. He's twenty fifth in
the NFL according to the quarterback ranking. But the default
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position has always been you at least.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Mention your quarterback. It is a must say.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
It's one of those little white lies, kind of like
when your wife says, hey, do I look fat in
this dress? You say, no, not at all, you look great.
What are you talking about. It's a white lie you're
supposed to say, and when you don't, it stands out
like a sore thumb and it causes more problems. And
so this is a violation of pigskin decorm. Now, I
(42:58):
love the honesty. I love the honesty. But they also
included Sam Darnold, who's fallen off the last couple of
weeks and all that. And Michael Parsons is living up
to the scouting report, he's a bit obtuse, so wee
bit upduse.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Now furthermore, we head now to the mistake by the.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Lake beautiful Cleveland, Ohio as the quarterback there preparing for
his second straight start to backup. Why why did Brown's
quarterback Jamis Winston Why did he feel the need to
defend is now viral pregame speeches. So he was asked
(43:46):
about it, but he chose to engage. And my theory
on this is it's rather simple that Jamis does not
believe in brevity.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
He's got the gift again. He's very loquacious, right, he's
he likes to talk.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
He's so it's a social media thing, and these speeches.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Have become over the top.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
They go viral every time on social media, and a
lot of people are jelly, right, people are up there
jelly of it, and so people a lot of people
rip him. People think it's fake, they think he's phony.
He said, I'm not. He said, that's real. Now, I
will tell you this stuff has a very short lifespan.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
It is cornball. And I would imagine since every.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Locker room, any any any business, there are clicks, right, There's.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
There's clicks at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
I'm sure there's clicks on the Cleveland Browns in their
locker room that there's there's that anytime you bring human
beings together. Right, That's that's the way that it works,
and so people get tired of it and all that.
But but Winston in this respect, and I do find
him be sincere. I don't think this is fake. He
is the Marie Antonette of NFL quarterbacks, right, and she's
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the one that's credited with popularizing a tune that our
friend Tony in the Bay Area famously sung on the show.
For He's a Dolly good fell out, for He's a
dollar good fellow. For He's a Dolly good fellow, which
nobody can deny. Right, Winston. Every time I see this guy,
it's always like he's got his all you can eat
(45:28):
crab legs. He's smiling, he's bubbly, he's very charismatic, he's
charming all that. He just is likable because a lot
of these guys, I hate to say it, are complete schmucks.
They're arrogant, soobs, these NFL players, a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
But not Winston.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
He seems like a good dude like kind of guy
you want to pull for. And for what he lacks
in talent at this point, he makes up for in likability.
That's been the way the last several years, Eat the
W Eat the W all right, now, last thing. Several
(46:08):
of you have asked me to comment on the underlying condition.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
You've sent me emails, and I will do that right now.
There's a handful of NFL players that have been sparring
with the media. Their complaint is the locker room interview.
And this is becoming a thing. We are heading up
to a fork in the road and this is a
tinderbox and we're closing in on what is going to
(46:36):
become a waterloo moment. So what does this tell us now?
To me, it tells us that the modern.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Athlete has verified that they are next level coddle next level.
Now things get easier, they don't get harder. One of
the few inconveniences you have as a modern NFL player
is a reporter asking you questions, right, And a lot
(47:03):
of these guys have pointed out because they're all freaking.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Out, they won't have jobs.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
What's the point of having a reporter cover the team
if the players are not available to be interviewed.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
You wouldn't need to spend money on.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
A beat reporter who cares the players don't talk anyway,
You can just have somebody record the zoom conversation with
the coach. But it just shows you how soft these
players are. They've got penthouse, locker rooms. They're spoiled beyond belief.
The NFL has given players almost every creature comfort you
(47:36):
possibly want, all the perks, all that, and so even
a mild nuisance is so looked down upon. You must
get rid of it, like these big, bad, tough football players.
But a reporter with a tape recorder, Oh my god,
that is a violation. And it's nothing new. The fact
(48:00):
that it's gaining traction is wacky to Bacci is what
it is. Right, people have complained for a long time,
and I've brought this up before. People can plain about
younger generations. This goes back literally thousands of years. They
look at the writings going back hundreds of years, and
it goes back further than that. People can plain about
(48:22):
younger generations. In fact, looking down on the generation that
comes after you is simply part of human nature.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
It just is. Now.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
That being said, while banning reporters seems like a good
idea for the.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
Players short term, long term, it's a problem.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
As I said, media companies are not going to waste
their money sending reporters out to cover NFL teams. If
the players are not made available, and they're not made
available every day, it would be a waste of money.
There's no point in doing it. And every media company
I've worked for, and everyone I know who works in
the media business all tell me the same thing. The
people they work for don't want to spend money. So therefore,
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mark my words, if the players are not accessible, they
ban reporters from the locker room, the media coverage will
go down. The players will complain because they're not getting
as many opportunities on these dopey podcasts and these other
crappy media things they're doing, and they'll they'll raise a hullabaloo.
(49:25):
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Speaker 3 (49:59):
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So here in hour number one, Little Thursday Night Football
Week number nine, the Texans and the Jets. What happened
to the magic of CJ Strad with the Texans. We'll
talk about that. Also, what's the temperature looking like for
coach Tamiko Ryans in Houston? And does this victory move
the needle for Aaron Rogers and the Jets. We'll talk
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The show on. Much to my surprise, I did not
even know heads are gonna roll? What's up with that man?
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Anyway, our lead this hour is from the Garden State
and that was the Amphitheater for the start of week
number nine.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
We don't have a number nine. Number nine in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
CJ Stroud a darling of the NFL pundits in the offseason.
C J Stroud many people predicted would be to pick
to click in terms of the MVP race in the
NFL and the dinged up Texans that I had a
playdate with Aaron Rogers and the Jets in East Rutherford,
New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Beautiful East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
If you enjoy swamps, boy, that's your spot. So al
Michaels and Herbie had to call on Amazon. I don't
know if you were watching this or not, perhaps not,
but Aaron Rodgers after taking a siesta in the first half,
Rogers came out had not one, not two, but three
touchdown passes in the second half, including a play that
(04:13):
will be talked about on the social media world platform
for years. One handed catch by Garrett Wilson like in
acrobat in the circus, and a thirty seven yard catch
and run DeVante Adams I've heard of him before. As
the Jets rally back and snap a five game losing
(04:37):
they just lost to the Patriots on Sunday, they come
back and knock off the Texans twenty one to thirteen.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
A lot of people surprised.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I did an appearance on our affiliate in Kansas City
on Thursday morning, and Dusty, one of the hosts, was like, well,
I don't understand why the Jets are favored. They shouldn't
be favorite. The Texans are the better team. Well, there
you go. A lot of people bet on the Texans.
They thought it was easy money, and they lost. New
York improves to a lousy three and six. The Texans
(05:07):
dropped to six and three. But for New York they
went for the first time in four games under their
interim head coach, the Hawaiian well at least in college
Jeff Ulbrich who took over there more in the Jets
in a minute. The better story is in the losing
locker room, and that is where we will begin to
break this down scientifically. Now, as we discussed the question
(05:31):
what happened to the magic of C. J.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Stroud with the Texans, certainly he didn't see it in
this game.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So I've got co pilot, hot yoga and pomegranate, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
will stay in the dark, because that's all we do
is stay.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
In the dark. We're on while the dark is out there.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But my first thought this was a salweingan a miss.
This was a whiff performance obviously by C. J. Stroud
living the island life, and as bad as he was.
I was a little concerned at halftime because it was
seven to nothing Texans. I did have the Jets for
television gambling purposes, but seven other and a half time
(06:17):
not really all that excited. The Jets had a touchdown
taking off the board because they one of their players
decided to do Fumbbault not take the ball across the
goal line like a donkey. But Stroud living the island life.
But it was a deserted island here. Stroud unable to
find the razzle dazzle that he had last season. When
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you peel back the onion, you got Nico Collins out.
He's supposed to come back soon. Sefon Diggs is done,
likely with the Texans, and Stroud was given the task.
His assignment was to elevate the secondary and third level players.
Elevate your teammates, right, great quarterbacks, I think we can
all agree on this, the truly great quarterbacks elevate players
(07:00):
that are lesser players. Now there's only a couple of
those guys out there, but many people told us that CJ.
Stroud was one of those type of players, that he
was not that far away from Mahomes and Brady and
he was just a step behind and in that Josh
Allen territory or Lamar Jackson. But that is what the
greats are supposed to do. Opportunity was knocking. You had
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a big stage. Everyone was watching no baseball, nobody's watching
the NBA, and CJ. Stroud was not up to the task.
In fact, he got absolutely pants in this game, right,
he was exposed without his playmakers. How bad was it?
Cover your eyes, bat CJ. Stroud eleven of thirty. My
computer like brain tells me that's less than forty percent completion. Now,
(07:47):
as far as I know, and I was watching the game,
it did not look like there were hurricane level wins
in Jersey. So he completed less than forty percent of
his passes thirty six point seven one hundred and ninety
one yards. Even that is misleading. No touchdowns, no interceptions.
Fifty of those yards came in the fourth quarter on
a pass play to Tank Dell, so a lot less.
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At one point he was averaging like three point two
yards per pass.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And that was like in the third quarter of the game.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And then the thing that is the cherry on top
of the poopy Sunday for CJ. Stroud, he was sacked
a breathtaking eight times. Now, a lot of low information
fans will tell you, well, that's the it's the fat
guy's fault, it's the offensive line, Blame the fat guys. Well,
I will push back on that. Those that know ball
(08:38):
will tell you the real ones will tell you that
sacks are a quarterback statistic. That you have to know
when to hold it and know when to get rid
of it, and don't hold the ball too long.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Treat it like a hot potato. CJ.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Stroud in this game, it was he was a co
pilot on a Southwest Airlines want to get Away flight.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
He really went.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
He looked like Trent, not Trent Anthony richards Well, maybe
Trent Richardson two, the old running back, but Anthony Richardson,
the Colts quarterback.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I mean that was that was bad.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That was like rotting fish in the summer on a
hot day outside.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Just disgusting.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now page two, So how is the temperature looking for
coach Demico Ryans and the Texas The argument for Demko
Ryans is Houston was an underdog in this game. They
were shorthanded, it was a travel it was a road game,
short week. You make all kinds of excuses, But I
live in the real world. I don't live in FANTASYLANDA
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live in the real world. So in the critical eye
that I have for the regular guy, it's like hot yoga,
it's getting steamy in here, right. Houston is now six
and three on the year. Is the glass half full
or half empty? I would say it's it's half full,
but there's a crack and it's leaking right. One guy,
(09:58):
Numero Row who know sold pizza chain in southern California.
One guy showed up for the tech and by the way,
they had really good garlic pluffs back in the day.
But Joe Mixon and he was balling right. Joe Mixon
looked like he was back in his salad days with
the Bengals. He had one hundred and six yards on
a touchdown. However, even that, even that, even Joe Mixon's
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big game, you downgrade it because he only did it
for a half. He had ninety one yards and a
touchdown in the first half of this game, and in
the second half he had seven carries for fifteen yards.
So that you talk about balance, well, there's no balance
and in Houston's defense absolutely vanished in the second half.
This has been a theme and I pointed this out
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on Benny Versus the Penny. We talked a little bit
about the Texas. I just wasn't impressed despite the wins here.
They don't get a lot of style points in Houston
playing down to the competition. A radic very choppy, very
choppy team. You just don't take them seriously because of
the way that they have played, even though they've won
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most of the games. All right, last word here, does
let's go to the other side, the winning locker room.
Does this victory move the needle for airon Rogers and
the Jets? So it is just what the witch doctor ordered?
Does it move the needle a little bit?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
A little bit?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's eating pomegranate. It increases the blood flow and the circulation. Right,
Certain foods increase the blood flow, the circulation. It keeps
hope alive, which sounds silly at three and sixts. But
Aaron Rodgers, he was actually staying in a suite in Jersey.
He was at the Suck Sweet in New Jersey at halftime,
just terrible thirty two yards passing at halftime. It looked
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like he should announce his retirement at halftime, the way
he was playing there, seven or fourteen in the second half.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Though.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
My theory is he found the spice racked. He got
that caiam pepper and that water and alkazam, just like that,
the fountain of youth. Rogers like he was back with
the Packers playing the Bears at lambeau Field, sliced up
the Texans in the second fifteen of eighteen. That's almost
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eighty five percent, nine point nine yards per pass in
the second I have three touchdowns, no interceptions, and a
partries in a pear tree. That's about as good as
it gets for Aaron Rodgers. So what does it all mean?
You got the good and you got the bad. In
the multiverse, the Jets have a path to redemption. They
do right, Fireman edd can be happy, right, Fireman d
(12:34):
cam bet because if you look at the schedule, they've
got Alligator Arms Murray upcoming the Cardinals. They also play
the Colts. Those are winnable games. Those are toss up games,
and if you win both of them. In that world,
you get the five and six. You go into your
bye week one game under five hundred, and you only
have one game left with anyone who's considered a good team.
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That would be the Buffalo Bills. Now I'm a skeptic.
I'm a skeptic, but this this is a baby step.
It's a small step. Before you eat steak, you have
to eat baby food, right. You know, you don't give
a baby a steak. He'll give a baby like baby.
But I need to see more It's a very small
sample size, one half of football against a dinged up
Houston Texans team. I still have the Jets on my
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big board. I don't do list, but on my big
board I have the Jets in that punch drunk category.
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and likely with his employer as well. We'll get to
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But our lead this hour is from baseball, and we
are not we're not previewing Game six of the World
Series because there is no Game six of the World Series.
The post mortem on the Dodgers slaying the Dragon, beating
the New York Yankees, basking in the afterglow the blank
(16:00):
blaming the trophy. You got Dodger manager Dave Roberts, who
admitted that shohe O'tani should not have been on the
field to begin things in the World Series.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
There or not begin it, but by the end.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Of it because of his messed up shoulders. The Dodgers
trying to rationalize how they won with Otani getting only
two hits, and then you have the alleged postgame comment
from Otani that everyone's been picking apart.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I don't know if you heard about it or not.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Maybe you missed it, but in the celebratory moments after
the Dodgers had taken down New York, I've read this quote. Now,
Otani supposedly ran into a Dodger executive, the president of
Baseball Ops, Andrew Friedman, and he immediately made a promise.
(16:51):
All right, So he finds the chief nerd of Baseball
Ops for the Dodgers, this Freedman guy, and said, all.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Right, nine more, nine more.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Now for those of you a little slow. The nine
he is referring to, it's the World Series titles. Otani
is contractually obligated to the Dodgers for nine years left
on his contract, so let us discuss the question show
Hailtani is being widely reported that he told the Dodger
executive after the World Series, all right, nine more, referencing
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those World Series trophies. How do you interpret this? So
I've got overdosing, double decker and A and E and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to play tittley winks is what we're going
to play.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So n no, sorry, what numbers are? No? So this
was the H word hyperbole. We know it's benign.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's a benign comment that has taken a life of
its own.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And I know why. I understand why. It is myth making.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Otani in that business is a mythical lumberjack.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
And he was happy. I don't doubt that he said
what he said.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He was overdosing on dopamine, enjoying the success the fruit
of his labor during the regular season.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So the other thing is like, what are you supposed
to say?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Like, can you imagine if Otani said, well, I don't
plan on trying to win every year, Like maybe some years.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
We're going to try to win, but other years we're
not going to try to win the World Series.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
This is a whimsical antidote to add I put it
in the Shaggy Dog story URF shaggy Dog right, because
Otani he's the big ragou in baseball. He's the cash
cow globally. Gotta keep the cow happy. I saw some
videos in southern California of people lined up what look
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like for a mile to buy World Series Championship merch
And that's not only going on all over LA, It's
going on in Japan.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Chi Ching Chi Ching cha chang. Now, we don't know
a lot about Otani. We know he likes to gamble,
maybe not wink wink.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
But after winning the title, we were told that not
only did Otani say, hey, I want to win nine more?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
We're told that Otani stonewalled a postgame interview request from
the great Fuji TV. When I'm in Japan, I always
watch Fuji TV. It's one of the TV networks that
has around the clock coverage, as Otani's covered like the
pope or a royalty in the UK. And so Otani
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refused to speak to Fuji TV. Why well, the Internet
investigators believe, is because otan He's home was shown. They
reported about Otani's new house on that TV channel Otani
bought Adam Corolla's old house in southern California.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I say old. It's it's really nice, really nice.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
So I will say this was I mean, are you surprised?
I guess the question is are you surprised? Though Tani
refused to do the interview with the outlet because they
gave information out about his house, I would say, it's unnecessary.
I don't know, I'm surprised. It's unnecessary. You are, if
I'm not mistaken. The seven hundred million dollar man Otani
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plays in the shadow of Hollywood. You're in Hollywood, and
so he's in a town field with Starline double decker
red buses and all these other little vans and trucks
hop on, half off, hop off, and and spoiler that.
By the way, I think he's kind of a big deal.
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And that's the kind of person who ends up on
those celebrity home tours and the you know the maps
they pass out go see the stars and Beverly Hills
and Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
That's the guy. So you take the good, you take
the bag.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You take them both. And that's a fact r It's
fact of life. And so my advice, you got a
lot of money. You can build really big fences and
you can hire really really nice security people with big guns.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
If you want, if you're into that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
All right, now, final point, We go to the losing side,
fresh off the humiliating, emasculating World Series loss.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I loved every second of.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It, and I'm not beyond saying that I was mocking
my friends who are Yankee fans. But people are buzzing
in the bronx who stays and who goes? Now it's
assumed that one Soto will go to whoever offers him
the most money.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
He is a free agent.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
About the man in the dugout after that blatant pinstrike panic,
Will the Yankees fire Aaron Boone?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Is he done? There is a.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Club option on Aaron Boone's contract for the twenty twenty
five season, the next baseball season, meaning the two are
not guaranteed to run it back Boone and the Yankees. Now,
Brian Cashman is also part of this. He's the third
one in the love triangle. So that the smart money
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says that Aaron Boone stays. And here's why. Okay, I'm
going by the A and E theory. Now, what is
the A and E theory. The ana E theory is simple.
Despite the flopper room, there is no indication, no indication
here in the overnight that Aaron Boone is about to
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be whacked. So that means that if Boone makes it
through today Friday, he will have survived the first forty
eight And if you don't fire the manager in the
first forty eight, you normally decide to keep the manager.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
It's like they have to solve a murder in the
first forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
And for the Yankees their season, it was a crime scene,
it was a murder, and there was a self inflicted
situation there the way they butchered the ball.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
But if you're gonna get rid of Aaron Boone, the knee.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Jerk reaction would be, all right, let's get out the ninja,
let's get out the sword, let's get out the sniper.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Take care of business.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And as you go further and further away from the
gutlass performance by the Yankees, the emotions will calm down,
the waters will will even out, and people will move
on to other things. Aaron Boone will get out of jail,
he will pass go and collect his three million dollars
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that's how much he's gonna get year to follow the
marching orders of the nerds in the front office there
for the New York Yankees and.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
A lot of nippicking baseball people pointing.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Fingers at Aaron Booz And why didn't he go out
to the mound in that fifth inning when everything was
falling apart, questioning the relief pitchers that came in, and
when he brought certain guys in, and why didn't pitch
other people?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
It's all being analyzed and second guest, as we continue.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
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of the World Series? Is that true? We'll get to that.
We will do it.
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Putting a price on Bryce Welome in the beginning of
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We'll get to that more later.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
As we begin this hour with football. Football has been very,
very good to me. But we're not going to start
in Indianapolis. Will work our way there later, but instead
we will discuss the always exciting trade deadline. Now, some
of you are more excited about the election, which is
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on Tuesday, but we're a sports show, so stay in
your lane. So instead it's the trade deadline, and we
discuss the big story, will he or will he not
be traded? We're talking about just outside Tobacco Road. My
friends listening in the Carolina's get upset when I say that.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
They don't like that. So we're not Tobacco Road. It's outdated.
But Carolina is a poop fest.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It's poopy time in Carolina, and they have provided us
with some decent sports talk radio.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
You've got Bryce Young, who was the number.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Overall pick a couple of years back, and he is
set to start this weekend against the lowly New Orleans Saints.
Oh my god, they stink, and somehow New Orleans is
favored by a touchdown. That's how bad the Carolina team
is now. Bryce is also the focus of a lot
of noise.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
It is not radio silence.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
There's a lot of noise on the radio, chitter chatter
whether or not he's going to be traded. So, if
you've not been following along, we've learned the Panthers are
still contemplating. They're calculating the trade market for Bryce Young.
Carolina is really supposedly trying to figure out what his
value is. There are teams around the league right now interested,
(28:05):
we are told to see if they can be the
team reinvent Bryce Young, because that always goes well, right,
that always, it always goes well when you do that, right,
So let us discuss the question Carolina is said to
be estimating, estimating the value of Bryce Young on the trademarket.
(28:25):
How much is he worth? How much is he worth?
So I've got candy bars, assembly line, and meat loaf,
and we will combine all of these things together and
be mused.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Will be mused, is what we will be.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
So, first of all, Bryce Young is worth the Marcel
in Brooklyn, diet, Ramen noodles, Romen noodles, hot water, and
some chef boyard to be named later. That's what he's worth.
And the hot water is the key, because Bryce Young
at this point is lukewarm and yeah, room temperature. And
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when you look at the resume, it's filled with all kinds,
you know, a bad resume. They say it is bad spelling,
grammatical errors. That's the resume of Bryce Young, a lot
of spelling mistakes.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
And things like that.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Young last provided flashy plays and improved his teammates performance,
elevated his teammates in Tusco looser not in an NFL city,
And when you are the number one overall pick, you
are supposed to be the man. You can't be the
man if you can't play like the man, cannot do it.
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So think of this like candy bars. Right, You want
a Snickers bar, and after you say trick or treat,
they give you the candy, and instead of getting what
you want, you get a fun size version of the candy.
You want a full size. That doesn't help your appetite.
(30:06):
Too small, right, much like Bryce Young is too small,
overmatched in the NFL. But in all seriousness, the comp
which is rather obvious here, is when the forty nine
ers traded Trey Lance, who had actually been drafted I
think it was number three overall, and they traded to
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the Cowboys and they got a fourth round pick as compensation.
So I would argue that the way Bryce Young has played,
he's not even worth a fourth round pick.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
But that's what Carolina is holding out for now. I
do have concern here.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I am worried that my rams, who have to replace
Matthew Stafford, are going to get into the business of
acquiring Trey Young. I'm a little concerned. I'm a little
concerned about there's a Bryso, not Trey Yo. But I'd
like them to get Trey Young, the basketball player, but
instead Bryce Young. And you look at the teams like Seattle,
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they don't have a quarterback. Gino Smith blows the Dolphins
to you can't rely on him.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
The Colts don't have a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Now, speaking of the Colts and a diminishing asset, boys,
this is diminishing asset. More chatter out of Indy. One
NFL executive, of course not putting their name on it,
told the Athletic, the old gray lady there that the
Colts did Anthony Richardson a disservice by starting him okay
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during his rookie season. They said he was always a
developmental player, he was always a project when they drafted him,
and they shouldn't have played him. And in the story
again painting the picture that it's not fair that Anthony
Richardson got a raw deal. So I asked the esteem panel,
did the Colts do a disservice to Anthony Richardson? Did
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they do a disservice by starting him as a rookie,
and of course not publicly benching him here in her
two and I'll go first here.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I'm shaking my head. No, I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
No.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
This entire story to me is bonkers.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
It's right out of the assembly line. It's the epitome
of a manufactured drama. The same reporters who are bashing
Anthony Richardson because he fundamentally blows at football, he sucks, right,
and so the same people that are writing things on
social media and writing these blogs saying how terrible he
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is are now making this out to be some kind
of Greek tragedy that he was benched. Richardson sucked at
a time you cannot suck, Sunday afternoons. Right, the Colts
are going with a quarterback or better or worse, who
gives them a.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Chance to win.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I don't care how old he is, he make all
the jokes you want. Joe Flacco is better at this.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Point than Richardson, and it's stunning. Or even at this
point in.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
The conversation, how about more accountability for the player, How
about the player didn't do his job. Instead you're blaming
the coach and the team. And I don't doubt that
Jim Irsay got involved in this. But Richardson has been
completing less than forty five percent of his passes with
all of the rules designed for offense.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
You've got one of the great.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Supposed play callers in Shane Steiken as the coach, and
you're completing less than forty five percent of your passes?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Are you kidding? Now?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Shane Steiken had to bench this cat or else it
would have fractured harmony in the locker room because not
only would the players have been upset because this guy
quit Richardson took himself out of a game, but also
the owner, Jim Irsay, wasn't happy. So actions have consequences,
and so that's the way this works, all right. Final thought,
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we had the Pacific Northwest Big NFC West Donnybrook. On Sunday,
the Seattle football team and the liri Ams will play
each other. Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith said he wants to
improve his body lane.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Which say what yeah uh?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
He apparently too hot headed, says he's gonna work on this,
wants to keep his cool. He drew a taunting flag
and was very open about his frustration on the sidelines,
grumbling with coaches and teammates. Gino said, everyone's watching me.
He said, so if I'm upset. If I'm upset, they
get a little antsy.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
So I just gotta have a better poker face and
just work on it. Big fan of Lady Gaga. So
that's the money quote.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Do you expect Geno Smith to all of a sudden
find his poker face with the Seattle football team? So
I am giving one side eye right as the arbitrator
of sports talk radio justice. The motion is denied. The
motion is denied. It's the old meat love song. What
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you see is what you get. Gino is thirty four
years old. Now that is not old in the real world.
You're still very young at thirty I believe at thirty four,
but it doesn't matter right in sports year old and
you're getting along in the two He's played for eleven years,
although most.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Of those he didn't play because he's not very good.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Geno Smith is set in many ways. The body language
is saucy. He's got saucy body language. He's halfway decent,
somewhat useful, and often a ramshackle quarterback in Seattle and
not someone that will take you anywhere other to the
middle of the NFL draft. It is the Ben Malard show.
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Love today.
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And here is the malor riddle of the day.
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We go to Halloween where Bill Belichick and his much younger,
much younger girlfriend, a woman named Jordan Hudson, wore blank
couple's costumes for Halloween. Bill Belichick, who's closed in on
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eighty and his girlfriend Jordan Hudson wore blank couple's costumes
for Halloween. That is the malord read of the day.
The answer, we'll get to it, and we will do it.
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our lead this hour is from the NFL, and I
thought this story was interesting worthy of some malor monologue treatment. No,
it's not about the Jets upsetting the Texans, which actually
did happen. You talk about a spooky Halloween for the
Houston football team, But we have a new wrinkle. We'll
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stay in Texas, but we'll go to Dallas. I don't
even saw this or not. The cow teammates Michael Parsons
and Travon Diggs. We're talking about the top quarterbacks. This
was on Parsons has a podcast, because everyone has a podcast,
even I have a podcast, the Fifth Hour Podcast, which
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will be available later today. And they listed on a
big board the elite quarterbacks this season. Now, if you
didn't hear about this or not, maybe not the reason
I'm bringing this up now. Parsons and Trevon Diggs listed
Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Jalen Hurtz, Jared Goff,
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and Matthew Stafford. They even mentioned Viking quarterbacks Sam Darnold
and Washington rookie Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
But they omitted. They omitted who ding Ding Ding Ding Ding?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yeah, their own quarterback, Dakota Prescott did not make the conversation.
So let us discuss the question for the esteemed panel,
and you're part of that panel. Dak Prescott left off
the top five quarterback big board by Cowboy teammates Michael
Parsons and Trevon Diggs. Is this an honest mistake or
(40:21):
something more nefarious? So I've got thumb Marie Antonette and Coddle,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to go Cowabunga. Dude, that's what we're
gonna do to surf turn all right, So to lead off,
(40:45):
after a minutes long deliberation, a malard deliberation on this,
I have determined that the scales of justice are leaning
heavily towards funny business nefarious. Michaeh Parsons and Travon Diggs
have been around the block a few times. This is
(41:06):
not their first rodeo, right, my favorite Michaeh Parsons story.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
So he agreed back when Skip Bayless had the show
on Fox with with Uncle Uncle Sharp Shannon Sharp. That show,
they agreed to a contract with Michaeh Parsons. He was
going to show up every week on FS one no
matter what. But if you remember, Dak Prescott got hurt
(41:35):
in it was like the early in the season and
the deal had just been agreed to, and guess who went.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
A wall ding ding ding ding, Yeah, Michael Parson.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
So I love that he's got a podcast and he's
more worried about that than playing in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
So it's but he's been around and the fact that
both these.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Guys failed to give Dak Prescott even a token mention.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Unmistakable undeniable. It is right.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
I mean, not that Dak has been good, but neither
is Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes leads the NFL in interceptions, right
you go back the last year, he's way ahead of everybody.
And Dak Prescott he's also bad. He's twenty fifth in
the NFL according to the quarterback ranking. But the default
(42:25):
position has always been you at least.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Mention your quarterback. It is a must say.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
It's one of those little white lies, kind of like
when your wife says, hey, do I look fat in
this dress? You say, no, not at all, you look great.
What are you talking about. It's a white lie you're
supposed to say, and when you don't, it stands out
like a sore thumb and it causes more problems. And
so this is a violation of pigskin decorm. Now, I
(42:58):
love the honesty. I love the honesty. But they also
included Sam Darnold, who's fallen off the last couple of
weeks and all that. And Michael Parsons is living up
to the scouting report, he's a bit obtuse, so wee
bit upduse.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Now furthermore, we head now to the mistake by the.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Lake beautiful Cleveland, Ohio as the quarterback there preparing for
his second straight start to backup. Why why did Brown's
quarterback Jamis Winston Why did he feel the need to
defend is now viral pregame speeches. So he was asked
(43:46):
about it, but he chose to engage. And my theory
on this is it's rather simple that Jamis does not
believe in brevity.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
He's got the gift again. He's very loquacious, right, he's
he likes to talk.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
He's so it's a social media thing, and these speeches.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Have become over the top.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
They go viral every time on social media, and a
lot of people are jelly, right, people are up there
jelly of it, and so people a lot of people
rip him. People think it's fake, they think he's phony.
He said, I'm not. He said, that's real. Now, I
will tell you this stuff has a very short lifespan.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
It is cornball. And I would imagine since every.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Locker room, any any any business, there are clicks, right, There's.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
There's clicks at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
I'm sure there's clicks on the Cleveland Browns in their
locker room that there's there's that anytime you bring human
beings together. Right, That's that's the way that it works,
and so people get tired of it and all that.
But but Winston in this respect, and I do find
him be sincere. I don't think this is fake. He
is the Marie Antonette of NFL quarterbacks, right, and she's
(45:08):
the one that's credited with popularizing a tune that our
friend Tony in the Bay Area famously sung on the show.
For He's a Dolly good fell out, for He's a
dollar good fellow. For He's a Dolly good fellow, which
nobody can deny. Right, Winston. Every time I see this guy,
it's always like he's got his all you can eat
(45:28):
crab legs. He's smiling, he's bubbly, he's very charismatic, he's
charming all that. He just is likable because a lot
of these guys, I hate to say it, are complete schmucks.
They're arrogant, soobs, these NFL players, a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
But not Winston.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
He seems like a good dude like kind of guy
you want to pull for. And for what he lacks
in talent at this point, he makes up for in likability.
That's been the way the last several years, Eat the
W Eat the W all right, now, last thing. Several
(46:08):
of you have asked me to comment on the underlying condition.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
You've sent me emails, and I will do that right now.
There's a handful of NFL players that have been sparring
with the media. Their complaint is the locker room interview.
And this is becoming a thing. We are heading up
to a fork in the road and this is a
tinderbox and we're closing in on what is going to
(46:36):
become a waterloo moment. So what does this tell us now?
To me, it tells us that the modern.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Athlete has verified that they are next level coddle next level.
Now things get easier, they don't get harder. One of
the few inconveniences you have as a modern NFL player
is a reporter asking you questions, right, And a lot
(47:03):
of these guys have pointed out because they're all freaking.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Out, they won't have jobs.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
What's the point of having a reporter cover the team
if the players are not available to be interviewed.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
You wouldn't need to spend money on.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
A beat reporter who cares the players don't talk anyway,
You can just have somebody record the zoom conversation with
the coach. But it just shows you how soft these
players are. They've got penthouse, locker rooms. They're spoiled beyond belief.
The NFL has given players almost every creature comfort you
(47:36):
possibly want, all the perks, all that, and so even
a mild nuisance is so looked down upon. You must
get rid of it, like these big, bad, tough football players.
But a reporter with a tape recorder, Oh my god,
that is a violation. And it's nothing new. The fact
(48:00):
that it's gaining traction is wacky to Bacci is what
it is. Right, people have complained for a long time,
and I've brought this up before. People can plain about
younger generations. This goes back literally thousands of years. They
look at the writings going back hundreds of years, and
it goes back further than that. People can plain about
(48:22):
younger generations. In fact, looking down on the generation that
comes after you is simply part of human nature.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
It just is. Now.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
That being said, while banning reporters seems like a good
idea for the.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
Players short term, long term, it's a problem.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
As I said, media companies are not going to waste
their money sending reporters out to cover NFL teams. If
the players are not made available, and they're not made
available every day, it would be a waste of money.
There's no point in doing it. And every media company
I've worked for, and everyone I know who works in
the media business all tell me the same thing. The
people they work for don't want to spend money. So therefore,
(49:04):
mark my words, if the players are not accessible, they
ban reporters from the locker room, the media coverage will
go down. The players will complain because they're not getting
as many opportunities on these dopey podcasts and these other
crappy media things they're doing, and they'll they'll raise a hullabaloo.
(49:25):
That's a fact. It is The Ben Mahlor Show also
a fact. And if you'd like to be part, call
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(49:45):
We also have Sports Jeopardy that's coming up a little
bit later in the hour, Sports Jeopardy and straight in Now.
Coop is not here. He was out trick or treating
last night, so he needed the night off. He's eating
all the candy.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
So Instea dead.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
We're gonna debut a new segment on the show. It's
called Breezy Cheesybrerie. That's right, Breezy Cheesybrie. It's brand new
segment and if it sucks, we'll never do it again.
If it's good, we'll only do it rare and appropriate,
(50:20):
rare inappropriate. We'll get to that and we will do
it
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