January 11, 2025 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about Sam Darnold and the Vikings getting blown out by the Lions in a game for the NFC North crown, the Bears requesting an interview with Mike McCarthy, Maller's Mountain of Money: Eddie Redmayne Edition, and more!
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A purple toxic cloud in the NFC Big Game of
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of our bosses, likes to say. So we start out
in the game of the year, the greatest regular season
game in the history of pro football unless it wasn't
unless it was not that, but a lot of build up.
We were all excited about it, Like I got through
the crap during the day and then the main event.
There was nothing in the late television window on Sunday
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that was worthy of much attention. But good job by
Kansas City. Way to compete, boys, So I know you're
playing backups. Way to go boys, all right. So, but
we start out in Motown, the final game of the
twenty twenty four schedule, the curtain coming down on the
regular season. The Vikings had to travel six hundred and
eighty eight miles from downtown Minneapolis to downtown Detroit, so
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six hundred and eight miles. Of course, God forbid they drive,
so you know, fly over there. The announcing crew Mike
to Rika, who lives in that area so he didn't
have to get on a plane, Mike Erriko and Chris Collinsworth,
who did have to get on a plane they had
to call there for Peacock and the final game before
the playoffs. It was gonna be a humdigger humdinger. It
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was not a humdinger. It was not a hum dinger
of a game. But the two teams play in the
regular season with a combined first time ever twenty eight victories.
It's never happened before. And there they were, right there,
they were right there, a number one seed determined in
the regular season finale for the third time in three
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plus decades. Three plus decades. All right, So I don't
know if you saw this or not. I assume if
you're interested in football, you've probably heard about it, watched it, whatever,
but maybe not, maybe you had stuff going on. You
can watch it, so I don't worry. We watched it
so you would not have to now in a game
like this going in and said, wow, I don't need
you to watch this game. But it turned out to
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be a good mitzvah, because, oh man, what a stinker.
As running back Jamir Gibbs getting your done. He scored
three straight well not three s actually one point, you
think he did score three straight touchdown, but three of
a franchise record tying four touchdowns in the second half,
so three of four in the second half and the
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Lions they end up pulling away and by the time
it was late in the game, it was a mollywop
situation of the Vikings thirty one to nine. Good afternoon,
good evening, and good night turn out the last the
parties over for one. Sam Darnold, Oh boy, what a game.
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Oh what a game. So the Lions have won their
second straight a NFC North title, so they have the
number one in the NFC and that means they will
rest up, they get a bye, they will not lose
on wild Card weekend. The Lions at fifteen and two,
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fifteen to two, they get to buy. They could play
the Vikings, who head to La La Land to play
the Rams on wild Card weekend, Detroit getting the buye there.
The Rams and Vikings will play a week from Monday
on Wildcard Monday. But the better story, we had plenty
of time to talk about the Lions because they're not
losing on Wildcard weekend, so instead we like losers. So
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that is where we're going to start. The better story
in the losing locker room, and oh what a loss
it was. Oh what a loss it was. So let
us discuss the question. Let's focus in here on the
quarterback in Minnesota. So where is the malor worry O Meter?
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The malor worryometer for the Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold. Right,
So I've got commandeered bar, exam and hydrograd and peroxide,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice mini bar. Which
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if you were staying at a hotel in Detroit and
you're Viking fan, you're attacking the mini bar. Did you
actually thought the team was going to, you know, compete
for the whole game, have a chance to win in
the fourth quarter. But no, not the case. Here this
blowout city thirty one to nine the final. But to
answer the question, where is the maler worry O Meter
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for Viking quarterback Sam Donald? So my first thought was, well,
this this is your daddy's Sam Donald. That's the Sam Donald.
I know. I remember that Sam Donald. That is my guy.
He's back. The world is right that if some things
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get old haywire sometimes, but Sam Donald playing like an
absolute turn burger, that's the guy that I know. Everything's okay,
Everything is good here with that, and I knew five
minutes I don't if you're like me now, the game
was still close five minutes of the game. Five minutes
of the game, I was texting a buddy of mine
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watching the game, I said, this is the Vikings are cooked.
They are I'm on my bet it's over. There's no chance.
If you saw the TV show Benny Versus the Penny,
we picked Minnesota on the charge of me's going into
it was like, you know that Sam Donald at some
point's gonna gonna blow up, but he ain't gonna be
toil the playoffs. This is a regular season game, so
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he'll be fine, right. I did not expect Sam Donald
to malfunction to the especially going against the Detroit defense.
Detroit Lions defense did that that, Sam Donald? Are you
kidding me? I'm serious? This is the Lions defense blows
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and Sam Donald looked like he had never picked up
a football before the way he played against the Lions.
Against the Lions, so I'm sitting on my sofa and
I was like, oh, man, I knew right away. I
looked at it was my TV. I looked at the TV,
and I do you know what I saw? I looked
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at Donald there and I saw brain freeze is what
I saw. I call it Bambi mode, which I think
is a thing on like a pickup truck. But it
was like it was Bambi mode. It was deer in
the headlights. Stage was too big, all that stuff, all
those cliches about the brights, the bright lights and all
that and wowsers. So the Malor worry Ometer, the Malard
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Worriometer for the Vikings and Sam Donald here one to ten,
one to ten ten being highest. I'm gonna go, and
I don't want to be a shock jock. I'm gonna
go twenty seven on the Malard worry Ometer for the
Vikings quarterback Sam Donald, Man, that's like your worst nightmare
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and it just happened, and it's real. It's night not fake.
It happened. We all saw it. We also listen, Kevin O'Connell.
Everyone's been kissing. This guy's took us. Kevin O'Connell, the
coach there. He did such a great job of putting
lipstick and put an eyeliner on the pig that is
Sam Donald. And the Lions came out. There was soap.
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They had a nice bucket of water and they had
the soap, they had a sponge, and they had all that,
and they took the makeup and all that off. And
Sam Darnald in this game, was able to commandeer. He
commandeered the bridge of the Viking ship. All right, that's
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where they everyone in, all the logistics of the ship,
the Viking ship right there. Commandeered the bridge of the
Viking ship. And it was a non stop sailing expedition,
the vomit comet of the sea and Sam Darnald right there.
How bad was it? Darnald completed eighteen and forty one
passes forty three percent. My computer, like brain tells me
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he had an average of four yards per attempt. Obviously
no touchdowns, did not have an interception, but that's only
out of the generosity of the Alliance defense. By Mike
count there were two, possibly three interceptions that were dropped
would be interceptions by Detroit Lion defensive players. B I
like he said, four trips in the red zone thanks
to some mistakes by Jared Goff and the Lions, and
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they went over four. They had plenty of third down
attempts converted less than twenty five percent of these twenty
three percent. I think it was the number the most
amazing thing of all though you figured, well, Sam Donald,
cannot play like this with the talent around him. So
you have two unbelievable wide receivers. You have the greatest
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of them all, allegedly justin Jefferson on one side. You
have Jordan Addison on the other. Okay, how did they do?
So let's see against the Lions defense combined, they were
targeted fifteen times. They had four catches. That's four out
of eleven, four out of fifteen rounds, eleven incompletions, many
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of them passes that were zooming over wide receivers, So
four of fifteen for fifty four yards. Addison only had
one catch for zero yards. And then you had Jefferson,
who started nine times, he only had three catches. And
that's it. All of that against a Lions dems. I
cannot begin to tell you how terrible the Lions had
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been in the last month. They deserved all the criticism
they had gotten. And I understand the Lions have some
issues on the offensive line, but Sam Donald, holy crap,
the Lions in the bottom percentile, the bottom percentile of
just about every meaningful defensive statistic, and they just shoved
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it down the throat of Sam Donald. Let's here from
the man of the hour. Here is Sam, Sam, the
man who is not the man. He's Sam Donald. On
the issues in particularly, you know when the ball was
right near the goal line in the red zone. You know,
just going down in the red zone and kicking field goals.
You know that's not going to cut it against a
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good team like that. Just gotta be a lot better,
you know, myself personally, got to hit the throws and
tight coverage, and you know, I gotta gotta watch this
tape and learn from it and get better. Okay, good
luck on that. Let me hit every possible cliche I
can hit, all right now, page two. So what does
this puke bag performance by Sam Darnald? What does this
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performance by Donald mean for his Viking future entering into
the playoffs a week from today? It's a good question.
So looking at this objectively, because all we do in
sports radio is objectivity here, so looking at this objective objectively, right,
this cranks up the drama o rama for the wild
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card round. This is the NFL's version of a bar exam.
Let me explain, all right, So looking at this here,
all right, Sam Donald's performance or lack their all performance
Sam Donald's performance against the Lions, you stack that if
he goes out there and does a similar job against
the La Rams, who have a better defense than Lions.
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By the way, they have a better defense than the Lions.
So if the Rams live up to that what they
have done and play like that, if you look at
it Donald's performance, it's a bar exam meaning that will
determine Wild Card weekend, will determine whether or not he
is qualified enough to continue on as quarterback of the
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Vikings going forward. One game, if you play like you
did in the game on Sunday night, that's it. Nana,
na na, good bye. I see you later, I see
one game, earn the extension, and that's it. If he
goes out and poops the bed yet again, Sam darn,
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there is no way the Minnesota Vikings can bring him back.
He's done. You don't need to bring him back. You
already drafted the guy that's supposed to be the guy,
JJ McCarthy. So just let him play and let Sam
Donald run off to go break hearts with the Raiders
or whoever, and get him out of there. He's unreliable,
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can't bring him back. Can't do it? Can I do?
And but listen, Rams play the Vikings on Monday night,
a week from obviously today the playoffs begin. So the
question on that, how do the Vikings recover? How does
Kevin O'Connell and Minnesota recover from such a dreadful effort,
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such a pathetic effort in the playoffs against the Rams.
So Kevin o'conne's team is going to need a gargle
hydrogen peroxide because clearly at this moment, while we are
focusing in on Sam Donald, but team wide, the Minnesota
Vikings are suffering from halatosis. Man do they have bad
breath here? And not only did Darnald go hey? And
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man did he go haywire? And that sees the quarterbacks
who he guess mostly attention the Brian Flores defense, which
had been statistically top fifteen, top ten in several categories,
and blah blah blah blah blah. They were dashed allowed
in the red zone three trips, three touchdowns, so three
for three in that department's one hundred percent success right
for the Lions in the in the red zone and
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thirty one points. That sucks. That's bad, right, that's not good.
That's not good at all. And so now they go
against Puka Nokua and the high powered Rams offense and
Sean McVay, who knows Kevin o'connelly worked together and so
they know each other pretty well. But I would think
McVeigh knows O'Connell better than vice versa. And these teams
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played back in week eight, and oh yeah, the Rams
already beat the Vikings in la In so far in
the hood in Inglewood. Things are not looking great for
the Minnesota. Minnesota Vikings.
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So our lead this hour is from the coaching carousel
dateline Windy City, where the pizza is good, the football
is bad, the baseball's worse, and the basketball is nothing
to brag about. So you haven't heard, I assume you've
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been following along. It's an interesting time. Got the playoffs
coming up this week. In playoffs, got that going on
this weekend? You also have the drama orama of the
coaching carousel. We've learned that the Chicago Bears have officially
requested permission to speak with the rotund soon to be
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free agent coach of your Dallas Cowboys, and they are
now waiting response. The drama in Dallas as they wait
to hear whether or not Jerry Jones is going to
bless the Chicago Bears to speak with Mike McCarthy. Now,
technically you'll say, well, what does the Bears need permission? Well, technically,
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McCarthy's contract expires on Wednesday. He look at the calendar,
today's our Tuesday show, So expires on Wednesday. But there's
always a butt, and anything before the word butt you
throw out it's a lie. But the Cowboys hold the
exclusive negotiating rights. Sounds very impressive, doesn't it. Exclusive negotiating
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rights through January fourteenth. After that, though, McCarthy is free
to roam around the coaching countryside in free agency. Now,
McCarthy met with the Dallas football team. They had their
exit interviews on Monday. That should have been fun, right,
We saw I suck, you suck, We all suck. Yeah.
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So they talked about the season, scheduled time with the
training staff, all that stuff, went through all the nonsense
end of season checklist, and then they went their merry
way off into the wild blue yonder. And that's where
we are. So let us discuss the question. While it
hadn't been a rumor for a couple of months, now
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that it has actually happened that the next step in
the process has taking place. What is behind the Chicago
Bears interest in Mike McCarthy, Mike McCrady. So I have
classic bamboo, joker and perfume, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
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Terry hockey. Chicken is where we're going to. I had
some for dinner, not pay well, Terry homemate. Oh I
didn't actually grow the chicken and kill it, but Terry
I put it together all right. So ay, this is
a Transformer story. Now, you know, because you listen to
the show on a semi regular basis, a Transformer story
is more than meets the eye or in this case,
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the ear. Okay, because they have a conflict of interest
of sorts. Now, we have often pointed out behind these
microphones and the bully pulpit of Fox Sports Radio that
in professional sports, specifically in the NFL, everyone's in bed
with everyone else, right. They all hang out together. They
go in the same circles, they go to the scouting combines,
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they go to the pro days. They all hang out.
They frat andize everyone's buddies with everyone else. They pretend
like they don't like each other, but they really just
love each other. They just wear different laundry. They wear
different laundry. So for that is as the backdrop, I
say conflict of interest because it is a classic bamboo
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backscratcher type story, meaning the Chicago Bears GM Ryan Poles
is scratching the back of his agent, who is also
scratching the back of Mike McCarthy, who is then scratching
the back of the Bears GM. You see, Ryan Poles
is represented by the same agent we understand as Mike McCarthy.
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So what a wonderful power play. Power play for Mike McCarthy.
You put pressure on the Cowboys saying, hey, you better
act here, you better act and get this guy signed.
Or if you don't get the deal done, we've got leverage.
I can go the Bears. Common bond nepotism is alive
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and well in the NFL's working its magic right here now.
Mike McCarthy is one of a long, long, long list,
a wish list of people the Bears would like to
chitchat with. Tell you, the Bears have no idea what
they're doing because they want to talk to everyone. McCarthy
is just one of many, including how about the name
of David Shaw? Mediocre college football coach back at Stanford
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day A Jaw. His name is on that short list.
Actually it's a long list. Who else Ravens offensive pointer
Todd Munkin. I'm sure that's all Todd Munkin and not
Lamar Jackson and Derek Hennery the reason the Ravens had
a good offense. You've got Brian Flores who's suing the NFL.
His name is on that list. Several others as well,
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and it is an eclectic group, fair to say, eclectic
group the Bears are interested in. They will whittle that
down with a pocket knife, a boy scout approved. They
still have the boy scouts that get taken by the Wolkesters. Well,
when I was a boy scout, you have like the
pocket knife and you whittle the stuff down anyway. That's
old school, though. Who wants to get the chance to
coach the enigma that is Caleb Williams and what an
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enigma he is. More on him in a minute now.
Page two from the Dallas side of things, takes two
to tango mentioned the Chicago Bears and what's going on
with them, But the Bears requesting the interview right as
we've laid out for you if you're late to the party.
The Bears have requested the interview you with Cowboy lame
duck coach Mike McCarthy. So how will Jerry Jones handle this?
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We tell you what McCarthy's agent likely is behind this.
And it's like, well, I was going to force the
Cowboys to sign an extension pronto. This also has a
chance to backfire. I believe in the multiverse. So there
is a dimension in the multiverse where McCarthy's camp they
strategized that Chicago's going to force Jerry Jones' hand here
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and get a deal done quickly and all that stuff.
And Jerry says, not so fast, my friend. And he's
got a card up his sleeve and it's a joker card,
and he plays the joker and he has said, Jerry,
he used the classic sports cliche, and really not just
a sports cliche, it's every business in the world uses it.
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I don't want someone here who doesn't want to be here.
It's like Mike Tomlin likes to say, we don't want hostages,
we want we want people that want to be here
and some of the things. So for Jerry Jones, he
can easily decommission Mike McCarthy. It's not like you're losing
anything great. Mike McCarthy has been nothing wonderful in Dallas.
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It's been more of the same. Right, And as long
as the Cowboys have Dak Prescott, and you can bring
back Lombardi or Tom Landry or something like that and
not gonna win because Dak Prescott's a loser, So you
don't necessarily have to bring McCarthy back. However, right, However,
it's easier at this point, we suspect because of the
age thing. And I know as you get older in life,
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it's more difficult to have to start over, right you
want to start over. So Jerry at age eighty two,
it's more likely than not that he is not interested
in making another change, right, another change, So he's going
to keep the status quo and all that, and so
expect this to be on brand though for the Cowboys.
You say on brand for the Cowboys that means more
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drawn out, messy. We talk about us all the time, right,
somewhat unpredictable. There'll be a plot twist somewhere in there,
and it complicated and then it'll get worked out because
Jerry needs to milk everything. I get it. It works.
Most valuable sports franchise in the world, according to the nerds,
the bookkeeping nerds. All right, last word here, So we
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head now to the social media world. The NFL themselves,
the National Football League, the NFL social media team posted
a thirty five minute video of nothing but Caleb Williams
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highlights the Chicago quarterback Thirty five minutes of highlights for
Caleb Williams on the NFL propaganda website. What are your
thoughts on that? All right, so I got a few
thoughts on this. I have a few thoughts. So the Bears.
Maybe I'm wrong on this. I don't think I am.
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The Bears were not only a football team, they were tracked.
They went five and twelve this season. The Chicago Bears,
in fact, they were actually worse with Caleb Williams at
quarterback than they were the previous year. They won seven
games before Caleb Williams got to Chicago, so they were
tangibly worse. And this is more evidence that in the
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big picture, and this has been this way for some time.
And the first athlete I really noticed this with where
you don't necessarily have to win to get marketing, Danica Patrick.
We did a bit. I did the show with Looney
on the weekends. We would give updates on the NASCAR races,
and Danica was a big deal, right and we kept
going page down, page down. It didn't matter. She was
like on every commercial Danica Patrick. Didn't matter that she
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often we played a game on this show, but Bob
Garry got very upset with At one point we had
to cancel it because she was worried that she would
die in a wreck. But it was which we would
place bets on which lap Dani would wreckon during the race,
because it was inevitable. You knew at some point she
was going to get an accident. It happened almost every race.
She got into a wreck in almost every NASCAR race,
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And we did that for a while. But it didn't matter.
I mean, she was on every commercial and she had
tons of marketing money because winning didn't factor into the arithmetic.
And with Caleb Williams, it's all about Madison Avenue. It's
all about Madison Avenue marketing and advertising and the way
they do it. The amazing Houdini ability Abra kadabra hocus
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pocus pressed out just like that, the ability to bend
the truth, bend reality, the time space continuum. The results
are stunning. They are absolute stunning. It is the ability
to take a big pile of garbage and to spray
perfume all over the garbage. It's wonderful, and then sell
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the product and people eat the product and they love
the product. And Williams to be be kind a little
rough around the edges. There, little rough Caleb Williams. There
he has mastered though. In the pocket the slide. Listen,
do the electric slide. When you're doing you're trying to
find an open receiver, and then you check down and
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you throw a screen pass or a checkdown, and that's
your offense in Chicago, and hold the ball for too long,
and so you get sacked sixty eight times. There is
no other way to get sacked sixty eight times. These
are all professional offensive linemen. The only way you get
sixty sacked sixty eight times is if you're bad at
your job. That's how you get sacked sixty eight times.
The inability to process information rapidly and get rid of
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the football is a dead you what, it's a dead wit.
That's how that happens. So rubbish time stats. We pointed
this out during the season. We can do the final
tale if you want. Caleb Williams a stat bandita who
in the fourth quarter of games where the Bears we're
losing by a wide margin for ha winning by a
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wide margin, but either way, empty stats, etc. But regardless
of all that, the thirty five minute video on the
propaganda arm, the prop the news service of the NFL
is really a tool for the fool, the uneducated football fan,
the low information fan, which is the backbone of the NFL.
They love the dumb because the dumb do not want
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to deal with the reality of the situation. And the
low information fan they eat all that up right, they
yum yum yum to my tumb tom tum can't get
enough of it. And in fact that the Bears won
five games, and Cavi Williams, if you take away the backstory,
if you take away the draft status and you just
judge the man on his performance, you would question his
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long term viability as an NFL player. But you told
not to do that. See, you generally avoid doing that.
That's kind of how that goes. I will take your college.
You want to talk about any of this. Mike McCarthy,
hot name, come on the former Packer coach Soon Betsy Soon,
the former cowboy coach now being mentioned as a possibility
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for the Bears. It just happens his agent is the
same agent of the GM of the Bears. I'm sure
that's just a quinkie dink that's all.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That is.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Also the Jerry Jones angle of this, how he's gonna
react to it? And the amazing sizzle reel of glorious
highlights the Bears put out for Caleb Williams.
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We will have Malors Mountain of Money. Do we have Well? Okay, well,
I guess we'll have some show legends that are they're
gonna play. I gave out the number. They're the ones
that call Manuel in Guardina is gonna play Hello, Manuel, Welcome.
Who would you like to partner up with? Manuel? You're
a regular on the show, you're a legend. You all right, good,
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we're gonna we're gonna play together? And jedhu Fled I
assume you're with Cooper Loop or you want to play
with Lorena. I'm not real talk about okay, all right,
very good, hold on there and one of the categories
quickly quickly, don't know, don't play the imaging. What this is?
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Mallards amount of money the Eddy Red Main addition, he
turned forty three years old on Monday. The categories are
Powder Blue, Glorious thirty nine, the Miraculous Year, and Fantastic Beasts.
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Okay, I can hung up on me. Oh no, I
hung up man. Well, that's very it's gonna be very
difficult for him to pick the category. All right, will
hold on, hold on a secon right now, I'm no doubt. Well,
well we'll pick them on the other shright, we'll pick
them on other side. Manwell, call back, we will have
He's probably like you f and hung up on me.
You bleep, bleep bleep. All right, we will have.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I tried, I try to go quick, and that's I
was like Caleb Williams. There, I blew it. I tried
to go quick and I was like Caleb boys screwed up. Anyway,
we have mallards amount of money in it's entirety. We'll
get to that. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (32:16):
Let's do it. We are ready to go. Here. We
have our matchups at Manuel in Guardina. Hey man, privileged
to go up against the mal malicious tweaker makes a
lot of money. All right, respect is shown. Let's see
if Jed returns the respect he load. Jed, are you there, Jed?
I'm about to beat this ringer from Guardian. Okay, all right, gentlemen,
(32:39):
let's play the game. I'm told Manuel, you picked glorious
thirty nine? Is that correct? I need Gloria. Okay, these athletes,
these athletes are currently thirty nine years old. I need
the first and last name. Are you? Are you ready man? Well?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Sure? All right, here we go. Clock starts now, all right.
Quarterbacks for the Falcons when they blew the super to
the Patriots. Matt Ryan, Yes, greatest running back in Viking's history.
And he's yes guard for the lob City Clippers point guard. Yes. Uh.
He was a center for the Orlando Magic. Went to
(33:16):
the Lakers with Howard. Yes, uh that is correct, linebacker
of forty nine ers, All Star level player, retired young
though from the forty nine ers middle linebacker. Yes, you're
almost there, say it, say it all right? No, Patrick,
the third basement MVP for the Yankee, MVV for the
Blue Jays. He played for the A's blonde hair guy
(33:39):
play got in trouble with Tim Anderson the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
No man, he threw me off.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Who was Patrick?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
What Patrick willis? And Okay, well I don't know if
he's the son of the bitch, but Josh Donaldson is
the guy we were also looking for. Remember you don't
remember Josh Donaldson? All right? All right? I remember well
he called him jacket. All right. Hundred points, Jed, we
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have fantastic beasts. Uh. These were some of the biggest,
slash scariest to ever play. There's no chance he gets
on a hundred point question. If he gets a hundred
point question, you fed him the answer. There's no chance.
We'll see, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Forty five seconds on the closets begin the Big Diesel
Center for the Lakers. The tallest guy on the Yankees
home run guy Aaron Yes, Chinese guy in the NBA.
This guy was a defensive tackle for the Rams his
entire career. He retired recently. Yes, the big hurt for
the Chicago Yes, linebacker for the Steelers. He had an
(34:46):
interception one hundred yard interception returned the Super Bowl. Yes, okay,
this guy was like seven foot seven. He was in
a movie with Billy Crystal.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Looking at you, guy standing, come on, show me you
get it right, Get it right, Come on, get it right,
get right right. Yeah, I knew that was really good.
George Morrason, Yeah, good point out. I interviewed George Marrason.
(35:19):
He made me feel like I was about eight years old.
That's how you say that name, George Mirrason. Yes, he
is one of the biggest human beings. Him and Yao
Ming are unbelievably. I was covering the NBA and I
was very fat at the time, and I felt very
small around him.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
It was all right, well, we've got the we've got
the lead. So Manuel and Ben you were up again.
Would you like powder Blue or the Miraculous Year?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
This year?
Speaker 3 (35:50):
He's goods all right, man, weell you have the miraculous Yeah,
go ahead, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Well, here we go. These Hall of Famers won only
one championship. One championship. Are you ready? Manuel, Yes, all right,
here we go. He was Green Bay Packers quarterback before
Aaron Rodgers point guard for the Dallas Mavericks. He's currently
a coach kid. Yes, uh, Minnesota Timberwolves. He won his
championship with the Celtics though, big star. Yes. Uh, hammering
(36:22):
Atlanta Brave home run hero harring Yes. White running back
for the Washington Redskins. Yes. Linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
One dominant linebacker in the was on the I think
that the first Bucks team to win with Warren Surik. Yes,
Sad Sia Sayad, say the man's name, Dereck No, no,
(36:49):
Hall of Fame home. You were right there. You had
it on your damn tongue. Derek Brooks. Derek Brooks and
I didn't even get to the damn hunter boy question.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
All right, all right, Jed, Uh, we have need twenty
points to tie.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Don't choke, Jed, don't choke. Don't see a gator running
through the swamp there, don't try, Jed.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
These athletes were well known for wearing powder blue uniforms.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Forty five seconds. Let's begin. It's easy quarterback for the
Chargers back in the day. I got no before him before,
way before Philip.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Okay, how about the NBA player that likes to shoot guns? Oh, celeb,
you didn't say the first name, right, that's not How
about the Kansas City Royals guy that freaked out because
of the pine tar you all right?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Have you know? Have you noticed though I've not, I've
noticed like, no, No, it's not a good job by him.
It's a bad job. A bad job. Yeah, let me
expein what I'm because when Jack to the winners are
Wi No, No, when Jed, no, bad job by you.
But when Jed plays with me, he tanks the game.
Have you noticed that? No, he loses with me. The
last couple of times. He's back. He's back. Is he
(38:14):
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of our bosses, likes to say. So we start out
in the game of the year, the greatest regular season
game in the history of pro football unless it wasn't
unless it was not that, but a lot of build up.
We were all excited about it, Like I got through
the crap during the day and then the main event.
There was nothing in the late television window on Sunday
(02:05):
that was worthy of much attention. But good job by
Kansas City. Way to compete, boys, So I know you're
playing backups. Way to go boys, all right. So, but
we start out in Motown, the final game of the
twenty twenty four schedule, the curtain coming down on the
regular season. The Vikings had to travel six hundred and
eighty eight miles from downtown Minneapolis to downtown Detroit, so
(02:29):
six hundred and eight miles. Of course, God forbid they drive,
so you know, fly over there. The announcing crew Mike
to Rika, who lives in that area so he didn't
have to get on a plane, Mike Erriko and Chris Collinsworth,
who did have to get on a plane they had
to call there for Peacock and the final game before
the playoffs. It was gonna be a humdigger humdinger. It
(02:51):
was not a humdinger. It was not a hum dinger
of a game. But the two teams play in the
regular season with a combined first time ever twenty eight victories.
It's never happened before. And there they were, right there,
they were right there, a number one seed determined in
the regular season finale for the third time in three
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plus decades. Three plus decades. All right, So I don't
know if you saw this or not. I assume if
you're interested in football, you've probably heard about it, watched it, whatever,
but maybe not, maybe you had stuff going on. You
can watch it, so I don't worry. We watched it
so you would not have to now in a game
like this going in and said, wow, I don't need
you to watch this game. But it turned out to
(03:35):
be a good mitzvah, because, oh man, what a stinker.
As running back Jamir Gibbs getting your done. He scored
three straight well not three s actually one point, you
think he did score three straight touchdown, but three of
a franchise record tying four touchdowns in the second half,
so three of four in the second half and the
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Lions they end up pulling away and by the time
it was late in the game, it was a mollywop
situation of the Vikings thirty one to nine. Good afternoon,
good evening, and good night turn out the last the
parties over for one. Sam Darnold, Oh boy, what a game.
(04:19):
Oh what a game. So the Lions have won their
second straight a NFC North title, so they have the
number one in the NFC and that means they will
rest up, they get a bye, they will not lose
on wild Card weekend. The Lions at fifteen and two,
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fifteen to two, they get to buy. They could play
the Vikings, who head to La La Land to play
the Rams on wild Card weekend, Detroit getting the buye there.
The Rams and Vikings will play a week from Monday
on Wildcard Monday. But the better story, we had plenty
of time to talk about the Lions because they're not
losing on Wildcard weekend, so instead we like losers. So
(05:03):
that is where we're going to start. The better story
in the losing locker room, and oh what a loss
it was. Oh what a loss it was. So let
us discuss the question. Let's focus in here on the
quarterback in Minnesota. So where is the malor worry O Meter?
(05:23):
The malor worryometer for the Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold. Right,
So I've got commandeered bar, exam and hydrograd and peroxide,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice mini bar. Which
(05:47):
if you were staying at a hotel in Detroit and
you're Viking fan, you're attacking the mini bar. Did you
actually thought the team was going to, you know, compete
for the whole game, have a chance to win in
the fourth quarter. But no, not the case. Here this
blowout city thirty one to nine the final. But to
answer the question, where is the maler worry O Meter
(06:10):
for Viking quarterback Sam Donald? So my first thought was, well,
this this is your daddy's Sam Donald. That's the Sam Donald.
I know. I remember that Sam Donald. That is my guy.
He's back. The world is right that if some things
(06:31):
get old haywire sometimes, but Sam Donald playing like an
absolute turn burger, that's the guy that I know. Everything's okay,
Everything is good here with that, and I knew five
minutes I don't if you're like me now, the game
was still close five minutes of the game. Five minutes
of the game, I was texting a buddy of mine
(06:52):
watching the game, I said, this is the Vikings are cooked.
They are I'm on my bet it's over. There's no chance.
If you saw the TV show Benny Versus the Penny,
we picked Minnesota on the charge of me's going into
it was like, you know that Sam Donald at some
point's gonna gonna blow up, but he ain't gonna be
toil the playoffs. This is a regular season game, so
(07:13):
he'll be fine, right. I did not expect Sam Donald
to malfunction to the especially going against the Detroit defense.
Detroit Lions defense did that that, Sam Donald? Are you
kidding me? I'm serious? This is the Lions defense blows
(07:34):
and Sam Donald looked like he had never picked up
a football before the way he played against the Lions.
Against the Lions, so I'm sitting on my sofa and
I was like, oh, man, I knew right away. I
looked at it was my TV. I looked at the TV,
and I do you know what I saw? I looked
(07:55):
at Donald there and I saw brain freeze is what
I saw. I call it Bambi mode, which I think
is a thing on like a pickup truck. But it
was like it was Bambi mode. It was deer in
the headlights. Stage was too big, all that stuff, all
those cliches about the brights, the bright lights and all
that and wowsers. So the Malor worry Ometer, the Malard
(08:18):
Worriometer for the Vikings and Sam Donald here one to ten,
one to ten ten being highest. I'm gonna go, and
I don't want to be a shock jock. I'm gonna
go twenty seven on the Malard worry Ometer for the
Vikings quarterback Sam Donald, Man, that's like your worst nightmare
(08:40):
and it just happened, and it's real. It's night not fake.
It happened. We all saw it. We also listen, Kevin O'Connell.
Everyone's been kissing. This guy's took us. Kevin O'Connell, the
coach there. He did such a great job of putting
lipstick and put an eyeliner on the pig that is
Sam Donald. And the Lions came out. There was soap.
(09:01):
They had a nice bucket of water and they had
the soap, they had a sponge, and they had all that,
and they took the makeup and all that off. And
Sam Darnald in this game, was able to commandeer. He
commandeered the bridge of the Viking ship. All right, that's
(09:22):
where they everyone in, all the logistics of the ship,
the Viking ship right there. Commandeered the bridge of the
Viking ship. And it was a non stop sailing expedition,
the vomit comet of the sea and Sam Darnald right there.
How bad was it? Darnald completed eighteen and forty one
passes forty three percent. My computer, like brain tells me
(09:44):
he had an average of four yards per attempt. Obviously
no touchdowns, did not have an interception, but that's only
out of the generosity of the Alliance defense. By Mike
count there were two, possibly three interceptions that were dropped
would be interceptions by Detroit Lion defensive players. B I
like he said, four trips in the red zone thanks
to some mistakes by Jared Goff and the Lions, and
(10:05):
they went over four. They had plenty of third down
attempts converted less than twenty five percent of these twenty
three percent. I think it was the number the most
amazing thing of all though you figured, well, Sam Donald,
cannot play like this with the talent around him. So
you have two unbelievable wide receivers. You have the greatest
(10:28):
of them all, allegedly justin Jefferson on one side. You
have Jordan Addison on the other. Okay, how did they do?
So let's see against the Lions defense combined, they were
targeted fifteen times. They had four catches. That's four out
of eleven, four out of fifteen rounds, eleven incompletions, many
(10:51):
of them passes that were zooming over wide receivers, So
four of fifteen for fifty four yards. Addison only had
one catch for zero yards. And then you had Jefferson,
who started nine times, he only had three catches. And
that's it. All of that against a Lions dems. I
cannot begin to tell you how terrible the Lions had
(11:14):
been in the last month. They deserved all the criticism
they had gotten. And I understand the Lions have some
issues on the offensive line, but Sam Donald, holy crap,
the Lions in the bottom percentile, the bottom percentile of
just about every meaningful defensive statistic, and they just shoved
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it down the throat of Sam Donald. Let's here from
the man of the hour. Here is Sam, Sam, the
man who is not the man. He's Sam Donald. On
the issues in particularly, you know when the ball was
right near the goal line in the red zone. You know,
just going down in the red zone and kicking field goals.
You know that's not going to cut it against a
(11:59):
good team like that. Just gotta be a lot better,
you know, myself personally, got to hit the throws and
tight coverage, and you know, I gotta gotta watch this
tape and learn from it and get better. Okay, good
luck on that. Let me hit every possible cliche I
can hit, all right now, page two. So what does
this puke bag performance by Sam Darnald? What does this
(12:23):
performance by Donald mean for his Viking future entering into
the playoffs a week from today? It's a good question.
So looking at this objectively, because all we do in
sports radio is objectivity here, so looking at this objective objectively, right,
this cranks up the drama o rama for the wild
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card round. This is the NFL's version of a bar exam.
Let me explain, all right, So looking at this here,
all right, Sam Donald's performance or lack their all performance
Sam Donald's performance against the Lions, you stack that if
he goes out there and does a similar job against
the La Rams, who have a better defense than Lions.
(13:09):
By the way, they have a better defense than the Lions.
So if the Rams live up to that what they
have done and play like that, if you look at
it Donald's performance, it's a bar exam meaning that will
determine Wild Card weekend, will determine whether or not he
is qualified enough to continue on as quarterback of the
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Vikings going forward. One game, if you play like you
did in the game on Sunday night, that's it. Nana,
na na, good bye. I see you later, I see
one game, earn the extension, and that's it. If he
goes out and poops the bed yet again, Sam darn,
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there is no way the Minnesota Vikings can bring him back.
He's done. You don't need to bring him back. You
already drafted the guy that's supposed to be the guy,
JJ McCarthy. So just let him play and let Sam
Donald run off to go break hearts with the Raiders
or whoever, and get him out of there. He's unreliable,
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can't bring him back. Can't do it? Can I do?
And but listen, Rams play the Vikings on Monday night,
a week from obviously today the playoffs begin. So the
question on that, how do the Vikings recover? How does
Kevin O'Connell and Minnesota recover from such a dreadful effort,
(14:38):
such a pathetic effort in the playoffs against the Rams.
So Kevin o'conne's team is going to need a gargle
hydrogen peroxide because clearly at this moment, while we are
focusing in on Sam Donald, but team wide, the Minnesota
Vikings are suffering from halatosis. Man do they have bad
breath here? And not only did Darnald go hey? And
(15:01):
man did he go haywire? And that sees the quarterbacks
who he guess mostly attention the Brian Flores defense, which
had been statistically top fifteen, top ten in several categories,
and blah blah blah blah blah. They were dashed allowed
in the red zone three trips, three touchdowns, so three
for three in that department's one hundred percent success right
for the Lions in the in the red zone and
(15:23):
thirty one points. That sucks. That's bad, right, that's not good.
That's not good at all. And so now they go
against Puka Nokua and the high powered Rams offense and
Sean McVay, who knows Kevin o'connelly worked together and so
they know each other pretty well. But I would think
McVeigh knows O'Connell better than vice versa. And these teams
(15:46):
played back in week eight, and oh yeah, the Rams
already beat the Vikings in la In so far in
the hood in Inglewood. Things are not looking great for
the Minnesota. Minnesota Vikings.
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years back. He a big fan of that number ten thousand.
So our lead this hour is from the coaching carousel
dateline Windy City, where the pizza is good, the football
is bad, the baseball's worse, and the basketball is nothing
to brag about. So you haven't heard, I assume you've
(17:36):
been following along. It's an interesting time. Got the playoffs
coming up this week. In playoffs, got that going on
this weekend? You also have the drama orama of the
coaching carousel. We've learned that the Chicago Bears have officially
requested permission to speak with the rotund soon to be
(17:57):
free agent coach of your Dallas Cowboys, and they are
now waiting response. The drama in Dallas as they wait
to hear whether or not Jerry Jones is going to
bless the Chicago Bears to speak with Mike McCarthy. Now,
technically you'll say, well, what does the Bears need permission? Well, technically,
(18:19):
McCarthy's contract expires on Wednesday. He look at the calendar,
today's our Tuesday show, So expires on Wednesday. But there's
always a butt, and anything before the word butt you
throw out it's a lie. But the Cowboys hold the
exclusive negotiating rights. Sounds very impressive, doesn't it. Exclusive negotiating
(18:41):
rights through January fourteenth. After that, though, McCarthy is free
to roam around the coaching countryside in free agency. Now,
McCarthy met with the Dallas football team. They had their
exit interviews on Monday. That should have been fun, right,
We saw I suck, you suck, We all suck. Yeah.
(19:04):
So they talked about the season, scheduled time with the
training staff, all that stuff, went through all the nonsense
end of season checklist, and then they went their merry
way off into the wild blue yonder. And that's where
we are. So let us discuss the question. While it
hadn't been a rumor for a couple of months, now
(19:27):
that it has actually happened that the next step in
the process has taking place. What is behind the Chicago
Bears interest in Mike McCarthy, Mike McCrady. So I have
classic bamboo, joker and perfume, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
(19:50):
Terry hockey. Chicken is where we're going to. I had
some for dinner, not pay well, Terry homemate. Oh I
didn't actually grow the chicken and kill it, but Terry
I put it together all right. So ay, this is
a Transformer story. Now, you know, because you listen to
the show on a semi regular basis, a Transformer story
is more than meets the eye or in this case,
(20:11):
the ear. Okay, because they have a conflict of interest
of sorts. Now, we have often pointed out behind these
microphones and the bully pulpit of Fox Sports Radio that
in professional sports, specifically in the NFL, everyone's in bed
with everyone else, right. They all hang out together. They
go in the same circles, they go to the scouting combines,
(20:31):
they go to the pro days. They all hang out.
They frat andize everyone's buddies with everyone else. They pretend
like they don't like each other, but they really just
love each other. They just wear different laundry. They wear
different laundry. So for that is as the backdrop, I
say conflict of interest because it is a classic bamboo
(20:51):
backscratcher type story, meaning the Chicago Bears GM Ryan Poles
is scratching the back of his agent, who is also
scratching the back of Mike McCarthy, who is then scratching
the back of the Bears GM. You see, Ryan Poles
is represented by the same agent we understand as Mike McCarthy.
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So what a wonderful power play. Power play for Mike McCarthy.
You put pressure on the Cowboys saying, hey, you better
act here, you better act and get this guy signed.
Or if you don't get the deal done, we've got leverage.
I can go the Bears. Common bond nepotism is alive
(21:36):
and well in the NFL's working its magic right here now.
Mike McCarthy is one of a long, long, long list,
a wish list of people the Bears would like to
chitchat with. Tell you, the Bears have no idea what
they're doing because they want to talk to everyone. McCarthy
is just one of many, including how about the name
of David Shaw? Mediocre college football coach back at Stanford
(21:59):
day A Jaw. His name is on that short list.
Actually it's a long list. Who else Ravens offensive pointer
Todd Munkin. I'm sure that's all Todd Munkin and not
Lamar Jackson and Derek Hennery the reason the Ravens had
a good offense. You've got Brian Flores who's suing the NFL.
His name is on that list. Several others as well,
(22:21):
and it is an eclectic group, fair to say, eclectic
group the Bears are interested in. They will whittle that
down with a pocket knife, a boy scout approved. They
still have the boy scouts that get taken by the Wolkesters. Well,
when I was a boy scout, you have like the
pocket knife and you whittle the stuff down anyway. That's
old school, though. Who wants to get the chance to
coach the enigma that is Caleb Williams and what an
(22:44):
enigma he is. More on him in a minute now.
Page two from the Dallas side of things, takes two
to tango mentioned the Chicago Bears and what's going on
with them, But the Bears requesting the interview right as
we've laid out for you if you're late to the party.
The Bears have requested the interview you with Cowboy lame
duck coach Mike McCarthy. So how will Jerry Jones handle this?
(23:08):
We tell you what McCarthy's agent likely is behind this.
And it's like, well, I was going to force the
Cowboys to sign an extension pronto. This also has a
chance to backfire. I believe in the multiverse. So there
is a dimension in the multiverse where McCarthy's camp they
strategized that Chicago's going to force Jerry Jones' hand here
(23:28):
and get a deal done quickly and all that stuff.
And Jerry says, not so fast, my friend. And he's
got a card up his sleeve and it's a joker card,
and he plays the joker and he has said, Jerry,
he used the classic sports cliche, and really not just
a sports cliche, it's every business in the world uses it.
(23:49):
I don't want someone here who doesn't want to be here.
It's like Mike Tomlin likes to say, we don't want hostages,
we want we want people that want to be here
and some of the things. So for Jerry Jones, he
can easily decommission Mike McCarthy. It's not like you're losing
anything great. Mike McCarthy has been nothing wonderful in Dallas.
(24:09):
It's been more of the same. Right, And as long
as the Cowboys have Dak Prescott, and you can bring
back Lombardi or Tom Landry or something like that and
not gonna win because Dak Prescott's a loser, So you
don't necessarily have to bring McCarthy back. However, right, However,
it's easier at this point, we suspect because of the
age thing. And I know as you get older in life,
(24:30):
it's more difficult to have to start over, right you
want to start over. So Jerry at age eighty two,
it's more likely than not that he is not interested
in making another change, right, another change, So he's going
to keep the status quo and all that, and so
expect this to be on brand though for the Cowboys.
You say on brand for the Cowboys that means more
(24:52):
drawn out, messy. We talk about us all the time, right,
somewhat unpredictable. There'll be a plot twist somewhere in there,
and it complicated and then it'll get worked out because
Jerry needs to milk everything. I get it. It works.
Most valuable sports franchise in the world, according to the nerds,
the bookkeeping nerds. All right, last word here, So we
(25:16):
head now to the social media world. The NFL themselves,
the National Football League, the NFL social media team posted
a thirty five minute video of nothing but Caleb Williams
(25:37):
highlights the Chicago quarterback Thirty five minutes of highlights for
Caleb Williams on the NFL propaganda website. What are your
thoughts on that? All right, so I got a few
thoughts on this. I have a few thoughts. So the Bears.
Maybe I'm wrong on this. I don't think I am.
(25:57):
The Bears were not only a football team, they were tracked.
They went five and twelve this season. The Chicago Bears,
in fact, they were actually worse with Caleb Williams at
quarterback than they were the previous year. They won seven
games before Caleb Williams got to Chicago, so they were
tangibly worse. And this is more evidence that in the
(26:20):
big picture, and this has been this way for some time.
And the first athlete I really noticed this with where
you don't necessarily have to win to get marketing, Danica Patrick.
We did a bit. I did the show with Looney
on the weekends. We would give updates on the NASCAR races,
and Danica was a big deal, right and we kept
going page down, page down. It didn't matter. She was
like on every commercial Danica Patrick. Didn't matter that she
(26:43):
often we played a game on this show, but Bob
Garry got very upset with At one point we had
to cancel it because she was worried that she would
die in a wreck. But it was which we would
place bets on which lap Dani would wreckon during the race,
because it was inevitable. You knew at some point she
was going to get an accident. It happened almost every race.
She got into a wreck in almost every NASCAR race,
(27:04):
And we did that for a while. But it didn't matter.
I mean, she was on every commercial and she had
tons of marketing money because winning didn't factor into the arithmetic.
And with Caleb Williams, it's all about Madison Avenue. It's
all about Madison Avenue marketing and advertising and the way
they do it. The amazing Houdini ability Abra kadabra hocus
(27:29):
pocus pressed out just like that, the ability to bend
the truth, bend reality, the time space continuum. The results
are stunning. They are absolute stunning. It is the ability
to take a big pile of garbage and to spray
perfume all over the garbage. It's wonderful, and then sell
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the product and people eat the product and they love
the product. And Williams to be be kind a little
rough around the edges. There, little rough Caleb Williams. There
he has mastered though. In the pocket the slide. Listen,
do the electric slide. When you're doing you're trying to
find an open receiver, and then you check down and
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you throw a screen pass or a checkdown, and that's
your offense in Chicago, and hold the ball for too long,
and so you get sacked sixty eight times. There is
no other way to get sacked sixty eight times. These
are all professional offensive linemen. The only way you get
sixty sacked sixty eight times is if you're bad at
your job. That's how you get sacked sixty eight times.
The inability to process information rapidly and get rid of
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the football is a dead you what, it's a dead wit.
That's how that happens. So rubbish time stats. We pointed
this out during the season. We can do the final
tale if you want. Caleb Williams a stat bandita who
in the fourth quarter of games where the Bears we're
losing by a wide margin for ha winning by a
(28:58):
wide margin, but either way, empty stats, etc. But regardless
of all that, the thirty five minute video on the
propaganda arm, the prop the news service of the NFL
is really a tool for the fool, the uneducated football fan,
the low information fan, which is the backbone of the NFL.
They love the dumb because the dumb do not want
(29:21):
to deal with the reality of the situation. And the
low information fan they eat all that up right, they
yum yum yum to my tumb tom tum can't get
enough of it. And in fact that the Bears won
five games, and Cavi Williams, if you take away the backstory,
if you take away the draft status and you just
judge the man on his performance, you would question his
(29:43):
long term viability as an NFL player. But you told
not to do that. See, you generally avoid doing that.
That's kind of how that goes. I will take your college.
You want to talk about any of this. Mike McCarthy,
hot name, come on the former Packer coach Soon Betsy Soon,
the former cowboy coach now being mentioned as a possibility
(30:03):
for the Bears. It just happens his agent is the
same agent of the GM of the Bears. I'm sure
that's just a quinkie dink that's all.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That is.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Also the Jerry Jones angle of this, how he's gonna
react to it? And the amazing sizzle reel of glorious
highlights the Bears put out for Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
We will have Malors Mountain of Money. Do we have Well? Okay, well,
I guess we'll have some show legends that are they're
gonna play. I gave out the number. They're the ones
that call Manuel in Guardina is gonna play Hello, Manuel, Welcome.
Who would you like to partner up with? Manuel? You're
a regular on the show, you're a legend. You all right, good,
(30:50):
we're gonna we're gonna play together? And jedhu Fled I
assume you're with Cooper Loop or you want to play
with Lorena. I'm not real talk about okay, all right,
very good, hold on there and one of the categories
quickly quickly, don't know, don't play the imaging. What this is?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Mallards amount of money the Eddy Red Main addition, he
turned forty three years old on Monday. The categories are
Powder Blue, Glorious thirty nine, the Miraculous Year, and Fantastic Beasts.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay, I can hung up on me. Oh no, I
hung up man. Well, that's very it's gonna be very
difficult for him to pick the category. All right, will
hold on, hold on a secon right now, I'm no doubt. Well,
well we'll pick them on the other shright, we'll pick
them on other side. Manwell, call back, we will have
He's probably like you f and hung up on me.
You bleep, bleep bleep. All right, we will have.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I tried, I try to go quick, and that's I
was like Caleb Williams. There, I blew it. I tried
to go quick and I was like Caleb boys screwed up. Anyway,
we have mallards amount of money in it's entirety. We'll
get to that. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports
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to listen live. Now, Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you
have what it takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Let's do it. We are ready to go. Here. We
have our matchups at Manuel in Guardina. Hey man, privileged
to go up against the mal malicious tweaker makes a
lot of money. All right, respect is shown. Let's see
if Jed returns the respect he load. Jed, are you there, Jed?
I'm about to beat this ringer from Guardian. Okay, all right, gentlemen,
(32:39):
let's play the game. I'm told Manuel, you picked glorious
thirty nine? Is that correct? I need Gloria. Okay, these athletes,
these athletes are currently thirty nine years old. I need
the first and last name. Are you? Are you ready man? Well?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Sure? All right, here we go. Clock starts now, all right.
Quarterbacks for the Falcons when they blew the super to
the Patriots. Matt Ryan, Yes, greatest running back in Viking's history.
And he's yes guard for the lob City Clippers point guard. Yes. Uh.
He was a center for the Orlando Magic. Went to
(33:16):
the Lakers with Howard. Yes, uh that is correct, linebacker
of forty nine ers, All Star level player, retired young
though from the forty nine ers middle linebacker. Yes, you're
almost there, say it, say it all right? No, Patrick,
the third basement MVP for the Yankee, MVV for the
Blue Jays. He played for the A's blonde hair guy
(33:39):
play got in trouble with Tim Anderson the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
No man, he threw me off.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Who was Patrick?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
What Patrick willis? And Okay, well I don't know if
he's the son of the bitch, but Josh Donaldson is
the guy we were also looking for. Remember you don't
remember Josh Donaldson? All right? All right? I remember well
he called him jacket. All right. Hundred points, Jed, we
(34:09):
have fantastic beasts. Uh. These were some of the biggest,
slash scariest to ever play. There's no chance he gets
on a hundred point question. If he gets a hundred
point question, you fed him the answer. There's no chance.
We'll see, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Forty five seconds on the closets begin the Big Diesel
Center for the Lakers. The tallest guy on the Yankees
home run guy Aaron Yes, Chinese guy in the NBA.
This guy was a defensive tackle for the Rams his
entire career. He retired recently. Yes, the big hurt for
the Chicago Yes, linebacker for the Steelers. He had an
(34:46):
interception one hundred yard interception returned the Super Bowl. Yes, okay,
this guy was like seven foot seven. He was in
a movie with Billy Crystal.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Looking at you, guy standing, come on, show me you
get it right, Get it right, Come on, get it right,
get right right. Yeah, I knew that was really good.
George Morrason, Yeah, good point out. I interviewed George Marrason.
(35:19):
He made me feel like I was about eight years old.
That's how you say that name, George Mirrason. Yes, he
is one of the biggest human beings. Him and Yao
Ming are unbelievably. I was covering the NBA and I
was very fat at the time, and I felt very
small around him.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
It was all right, well, we've got the we've got
the lead. So Manuel and Ben you were up again.
Would you like powder Blue or the Miraculous Year?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
This year?
Speaker 3 (35:50):
He's goods all right, man, weell you have the miraculous Yeah,
go ahead, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Well, here we go. These Hall of Famers won only
one championship. One championship. Are you ready? Manuel, Yes, all right,
here we go. He was Green Bay Packers quarterback before
Aaron Rodgers point guard for the Dallas Mavericks. He's currently
a coach kid. Yes, uh, Minnesota Timberwolves. He won his
championship with the Celtics though, big star. Yes. Uh, hammering
(36:22):
Atlanta Brave home run hero harring Yes. White running back
for the Washington Redskins. Yes. Linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
One dominant linebacker in the was on the I think
that the first Bucks team to win with Warren Surik. Yes,
Sad Sia Sayad, say the man's name, Dereck No, no,
(36:49):
Hall of Fame home. You were right there. You had
it on your damn tongue. Derek Brooks. Derek Brooks and
I didn't even get to the damn hunter boy question.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
All right, all right, Jed, Uh, we have need twenty
points to tie.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Don't choke, Jed, don't choke. Don't see a gator running
through the swamp there, don't try, Jed.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
These athletes were well known for wearing powder blue uniforms.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Forty five seconds. Let's begin. It's easy quarterback for the
Chargers back in the day. I got no before him before,
way before Philip.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Okay, how about the NBA player that likes to shoot guns? Oh, celeb,
you didn't say the first name, right, that's not How
about the Kansas City Royals guy that freaked out because
of the pine tar you all right?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Have you know? Have you noticed though I've not, I've
noticed like, no, No, it's not a good job by him.
It's a bad job. A bad job. Yeah, let me
expein what I'm because when Jack to the winners are
Wi No, No, when Jed, no, bad job by you.
But when Jed plays with me, he tanks the game.
Have you noticed that? No, he loses with me. The
last couple of times. He's back. He's back. Is he
(38:14):
on an adderall
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