January 15, 2025 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about Mike Tomlin meeting with the media and addressing rumors of a trade, Mike McCarthy planning to meet with the Bears first, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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lead this hour from the NFL play the Hits. We're
in the middle of the NFL playoffs, so we're going
to talk about a team that's not in the NFL
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playoffs anymore.
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That's the way that we do business here.
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And we start out in Western Pennsylvania, the land of
the insurers.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Following these Steelers.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Pathetic performance their fifth consecutive one and done trip to
the playoffs in Baltimore, Mike Tomlin had his end of
year eulogy, his end of season news conference. It's always
a good listen. It's always a good listen. So I
thought we'd enjoy some of this and break it all
down for you. If you didn't hear any of what
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Tomlin had to say, possibly not. Tomlin stood in front
of a packed crowd of the egr eager NFL media types.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
He was right there at the podium, and he let
it rip.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Among the topics discussed, Mike Tomlin mentioned that the situation
the Steelers any but.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You talked about football justice. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Certainly disappointing to be conducting this business today. But I
don't view it as misfortune, to be quite honest with you,
particularly at this level. In this business and game, there's
football justice. You get what you deserve, and so you
know we're here, and we're here for really tangible reasons.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Man.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
We didn't involved in the right ways. We didn't strike
the right chords at the right time, particularly down the stretch,
and so we've been eliminated from the single elimination tournament.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Okay, so football justice.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I always believed in truth, football justice in the American way.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Here's more from Mike Tomlins. Now I got a kick
out of this one.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So Tomlin was asked what fansh should be optimistic about
in Pittsburgh and let's just say he didn't take the
bait take a list.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
You know, I don't know that I'm ready to be
overly optimistic or sell optimism to you either. I'm just
acknowledging what transpired and what has to happen and what
is beginning to happen, and acknowledging the complexity and the
amount of work that's ahead of us.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Certainly feel capable, but you.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Know, definitely doesn't feel in the mood for optimism or
the selling of optimism. I don't know that that's appropriate.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
See, there you go, no optimism. It's just going to
keep going.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
On and on and on. Now there are.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Groups of angry Pittsburghers who are demanding that Mike Tomlin
get out of there.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Very angry.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Tomlin addressed the vitriol from the base take aism.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Certainly understand their frustrations, and probably more importantly than that,
I share it because that's how I'm wired.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
And so.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I'm not a big time comfort seeker, and particularly in
circumstances such as this, I don't view myself as a
comfort provider because there's you know, words, a hollow. To
be quite honest with you, it's about what we do
and less about what we say. And so I've learned
to say very little when things are going good, and
I've learned to say less when they are.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So Thomas says words are hollow.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I would argue that in my job, that's all we
have is words. All we have is words. They pay
the bills, they keep the lights on. They're very important,
the words. The bird is the word, and the word
is the bird, and the bird pays the bills. All right,
So now let's get to the money quote. All of
that leading into this, Jimmy Johnson started a firestorm on
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Fox the pregame festivities there over the weekend as he
tossed out the idea of Mike Tomlin trade. Of course,
that was to the Cowboys for Mike McCarthy, which is
impossible because Mike McCarthy is no longer employed in the NFL.
But here's Mike Tomlin. He was asked if he has
a message to teams that are thinking about trading for him,
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take a list.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I have no message. Save your time.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, all right, Mike, one more time. I'm gonna follow up. Mike,
can you play any message for the teams we want
to trade.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
For you, I have no message save your time?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Okay, all right. That's a great drop. That's a solid drop.
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So that last clip is what we call the money quote.
We're gonna play off that. So let us discuss the question,
does that save your time commentary by Mike Tomlin close
the door for Mike Tomlin trade conversation. So I've got
farmer boys, Harvard Yard, and cup of Joe. All right,
Farmer boys, Harvard Yard, cup of Joe. We'll combine all
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of these things together and we're gonna make some tofu.
Not that I like tofu, but we're gonna make tofu,
all right. So a to answer the question, absolutely not.
This has not close any kind of door. If anything,
it's a revolving door. Now Tomlin's not going anywhere. But
did you expect Mike Tomlin to say anything else? Okay,
he's in the stealer facility, he's on the payroll. You
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have to understand time and place. Time and place. Now,
there are parallel dimensions.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
In play here. You've got the public and the private.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
That said, even if Tomlin is absolutely thrilled, absolutely thrilled,
and really doesn't want to go anywhere else, which is
likely the case. But everyone's got a job to do.
If you're insider in quotes, an insigner, and your job
is to get people to click on things. You're eating
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many meals at Farmer Boys, you're doing engagement farming. And
there are few things that get more clickety clicks than
hypothetical wild trade speculation about Mike Tomlin going to this team,
that team, or the other team. So until every single
seat is filled in the game of musical chairs, there
is a chance, I'm saying, there's a chance, there's a
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possibility that Mike Tomlin ends up being repackaged. Now, page two,
the optics aside. Why why would Mike Tomlin dismiss fully
dismiss trade chatter? Well, the answer that's very elementary. He's
a made man. He's got the.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Greatest gig in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
No matter how black things go in Pittsburgh, win nine
or ten games every year and they'll make the playoffs,
and that's about it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Mike Tomlin at this point.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Is sitting at a little diner, a little diner just
outside Harvard Yard.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
He's a tenured faculty member at this point.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Now, people have said that diamonds are forever, So is
this gig coaching the Wheelers. Garantees you lifetime employment unless
you walk away like Bill Coward did. If Mike Tomlin
was traded to the Bears or whoever, right, what would happen.
He would get the standard three years and then he
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would have to show tangible results, and if he didn't
show those results, his ass was grass. If that doesn't happen,
if they don't improve any of those teams, he would
be a talking head on television somewhere. Gonzo, you don't
have to worry about that at all. When you're in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
They never get rid of you. Never going back fifty
six years.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You gotta go back to nineteen sixty nine and Woodstock
was in the air everywhere. Since then, they've had Chuck Noll,
Bill Kawer and Mike Tomlin. End of list period, hard stop,
that's all. And Tomlin just completed his eighteen eighth season
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at the Helm. Eighteen seasons at the Helm for Mike Tomlin. Now,
the argument for Tomlin is, well, he's never had a
losing record. The argument against Tomlin is they haven't won
a playoff game since Barack Obama was the president. All right,
last word here, So the Steelers wide receiver George Pickens,
causing some heartache for Mike Tomlin. Pickens was reportedly late,
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he went a little sideways. Prior to that Christmas game
against the Chiefs. Some new reporting out over the last
twenty four hours that George Pickens showed up late. He
had missed the two previous games because of a hamstring injury.
Somebody snitched on him. Tomlin requires players to get to
the game at least two hours before kickoff.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You gotta get there at least two hours before kickoff.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Pickens walk through the media entrance an hour and twenty
five minutes for kickoff, which means he probably wasn't even
in uniform until about maybe an hour forty five minutes
before kickoff, and that was after the inactive players had
already been announced. He wasn't even there and the act
inactive players were were announced by the time he showed up.
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So when asked about Pickens George Pickens' tardiness, Mike Tomlin claimed.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That he said, I can't answer that.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Definitely, he said, because it's been been a while since
the Christmas game.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's been been a few days or whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So so the coach essentially claimed he doesn't know whether
or not Pickens arrived at the game.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Lait.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Is it weird?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Here's the question, is it weird how Mike Tomlin is
treating what is a pretty obvious case of truancy by
George Pickens.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So the answer is.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
No, it's actually not that weird. People seem to be
outraged by this. I'm not surprised. Tomlin has a reputation
as what Mike Tomlin's reputation. Players coach, players coach, So
when in doubt, coddle the player, rock baby. Yeah, that's
that's the coaching technique. But it's not new, the idea
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that Tomlins somehow does things differently. He is determined on
his big board, Mike Tomlin's big boy, that George Pickens
is an essential player. And this has been going on
for fifty sixty, seventy eighty. I don't know if fight
since the NFL started. It's called Cup of Joe coaching.
Cup of Joe coaching. And I go back again to
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Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy Johnson famously told the story he was
coaching the Cowboys and a reporter asked if he would
treat his quarterback, Troy Aikman at the time, the same
way as some third string lineman if he caught both
of them dozing off in a team meeting. And Jimmy
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Johnson paused for a second contemplated the situation.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
He said, listen, if I found a.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Third string lineman sleeping in a team meeting, I would
cut him immediately. Jimmy Johnson state, Now, if I found
my quarterback Troy Aikman sleeping in a team meeting, I
would carefully and gently wake him up, and I would
ask him if I could bring him a cup of coffee.
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So that tells you that Tomlin thinks that Pickens is
an essential player.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
He hasn't played like that consistently.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
He has just been sporadic as he scoots down the field,
occasionally making big plays and often not. If you might
remember a game recently where he had not one, not two,
not three, about four drops if I remember correctly, an
elite late season loss for the Pittsburg Steelers. But if
you believe Tomlin, you're not going anywhere, and save your time.
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I'm not going anywhere. That's it, Okay, See keep an
eye on this story. I have a feeling it's not
the end of it, and I do I think Tomlin's
going somewhere. No, I do not unless he uses to
go somewhere, because again, that is in professional sports, the
job that you have until you don't want it anymore
and you decide to retire, or you decide to go
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do bad television like Bill Coward did.
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Round and round and round and round and round and
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Big money, big money is stop. Now.
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Things are moving lickety split. Were someone that doesn't normally
move that fast. That would be former former Cowboys coach
Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You've not been.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Following along, maybe not, you might have missed it. So
we've learned now that Mike McCarthy already has in interviews
set up with Bears for later today. Now, this is
not one of those half ass zoom interviews.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
No no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
No zoom here. No laptops, no smartphones are needed. You see,
the Chicago Bears are flying in Mike McCarthy for an
in person interview at Hallis Hall and that's only their
second in person meeting of the coaching interview process the
head hunting season for the Chicago football team. The Bears
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are going to take Mike McCarthy out to a nice
dinner after they have a private sit down at the
Bears facility they're gonna have a private meal at some
high falutin local restaurant in the back room. You know
those restaurants that have the VIP room that you've got
to save and you only like the really wealthy people
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get to go.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
In there and you get the specially. Yeah, that's where
they're gonna bring Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
After he meets at Hallas Hall with the Bear. So
let us discuss the question. Mike McCarthy is planning on
meeting with the Bears first.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
He's not met with anyone else. Say, he's gonna meet
with the Bears first. What does that tell us? What
does that tell us? So I have Doctor.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Love, Invention, Dimension and Star Trek and we will combine
all of these things together and try not to go bokers.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
We're gonna try not to go bonkers.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So no, so what does it tell all right, the
thing's broken? What does it tell us? Mike McCarthy planning
to meet with the Bears first? That tells us there
is a mutual admiration society. Okay, that's what that tells
McCarthy is sitting in the driver's seat and as long
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as he has good table manners here, he's in solid shape.
The Bears are rolling out the Red Carbon, a notoriously
frugal franchise. The Chicago Bears are planning to whine and
especially dine Mike McCarthy. So the soundtrack to this part
of the story is a disco tune Doctor Love from
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the Girl group First Choice because McCarthy, right, McCarthy, he
is at the very top. He his first choice is
the Bears, and it would it be, it would appear
to be the bears first choice? Is Mike McCarthy. Is
that outrageous? Am I being a shock jock? I don't
think I am a d It's rather self explanatory. You
don't have to have any inside knowledge that Mike McCarthy
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waited to get out of Dallas. The Bears did not
hire a coach ride away. Remember New England Patriots already
hired their coach. They knew they wanted Mike Rabel. They
hired Mike Rabel. The Chicago Bears, it sounds like they
want Mike McCarthy, but they had to wait. So they
played the little game and they pretended like they were
searching the web find a head coach. And now they've
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got their guy coming to town.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Later toy.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
There's major cronyism in play here, but major cronyism in
play as we have laid out in previous episodes of
this radio program that Mike McCarthy shares the same agent
with the Chicago Bears embattled general manager Ryan Pulls, So
there is some nepotism in play.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That's a big part of this.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
These talks have likely been going on behind the scenes
for some time, and it's just a matter of getting
together and making sure that the optics are good on this.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Chicago has a helping hand.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
They have a helping hand because, as I said, everyone's
in bed with everyone else in this story, which is
why why Mike McCarthy had leverage with Jerry Jones. Now,
there is a conspiracy theory that I came across here
recently that the intention all along was Jerry Jones did
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not want to bring back Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy did
not want to come back, but they wanted to play
this game, so both sides look good, meaning Jerry didn't
fire McCarthy to sully Mike McCarthy's reputation. McCarthy and Jones
pretended like they were negotiating. They never actually talked about
a contract. This is the conspiracy theory, and they just
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let the clock run out, and that way they say, well,
we just couldn't work out a deal, and we love
Mike and he'll go somewhere else, and Jerry doesn't look
bad for firing coach McCarthy doesn't look bad for getting fired.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
And you move on.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now, that's the grand conspiracy of it all. But you
wonder which steakhouse. There's some fine restaurants. That's a good
food town Chicago. Do they go steakhouse? Do they go
pizzeria that deep dish Chicago pizza? And now people in
Chicago say, the locals say, wow, we don't eat the
deep dish, that's for the tourists, but we eat the
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regular pizza in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But where does McCarthy go. And they'll be some.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Waiter or a couple of waiters who are going to
have the inside skinny.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
They are going to know loose.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Lips, sink ships, and feed insiders, and they will have
insider knowledge later today on whether or not this is
a done deal. Is this a celebratory meal where they
go out and have a nice, expensive dinner to celebrate
the start.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Of a new bond, a new friendship. All right, now,
pitched you with Mike McCarthy headed to Chicago for a
meet and greet.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I was reading that the New Orleans Saints are also
said to be bird dogging the portly coach who's available?
So question do you foreshadow? Do you foreshadow a bidding
war for Mike McCarthy? So I'd like I'd like two
letters on the wheel of fortune. I'd like an N
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and can.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I get a know? How about no? How about no?
This is a trip to the invention dimension, the invention dimension.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
People writing the coattails of Mike McCarthy. It's more probable
than not have been busy, very busy concocting a story,
inventing his story out of thin air. Here social media warfare,
which is a more potent tool, easier to manipulate the
minds of the unwashed. Back in the old days, you
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used to have to plant stories by paying off media people,
bribing journalists. But now you can just get a bunch
of bot accounts and the right algorithm on the social
media and you can plant the stories all over the place.
You don't have to pay a bunch of journalists. You
just spend a little bit of money on bot accounts
and those sock puppet accounts.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You're on your way.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So but you don't drive the price up for a
guy like Mike McCarthy's that fair to say he's not
the worst coach in the NFL. He's certainly not the best.
And in the Saints they have strooge like tendencies when
it comes to their finances. New Orleans is more of
like a starter job. It's a reclamation project job. That's
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those are the coaches they get. They get the rejects,
that's what they get. That's who coaches the Saints and
the Bears also typically get some nondescript defensive coordinator or
some reclamation project also, which Mike McCarthy would fall into
the reclamation project, having already failed at two coaching jobs.
But based on the clues I still maintain and it's
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rather obvious here that the Bears are in the catbirds
seat or Mike McCarthy and he haunted haunted the Chicago
Bears as a poultergeist while he was coaching at Lambeau
Field for the Green Bay Packers, and now he can
work as an enemy combatant inside the walls of hallis
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Hall and still haunt Chicago by doing a incompetent job.
All right, turning the page, final point, Eagles coach Nick
Sirianni on the war path.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
What is he upset about?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Does the Eagles get ready to play the Rams in
the divisional round this weekend?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Nick Sirianni blasting what he called quote lazy, lazy critics
and the criticism of disgruntled wide receiver A. J. Brown
AJ Brown who decided to multitask not only play in
an NFL playoff game, but read a nice book on
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the sidelines, and media pundits pointing out the issue that
the reason Brown did that was because he was not
happy and he was trying to get his emotions in check.
And so what he did was he grabbed the book
and made a spectacle of the situation. What is your
school of thought on? Nick Sirianni blasting what he calls
the lazy criticism of AJ Brown being disgruntled by reading
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a book. So on this one, Nick Sirianni has his
Star Trek deflector shields going, and he's guarding against all
of that space debris and those enemy attacks. AJ Brown
just watching that game against the Packers. AJ Brown, he
had the body language of a disgruntled person, and we
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know he's a guy that needs the SPOTLA walk a
tight rope with a guy like AJ Brown.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He was not getting the ball up to his standard.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
He was not on the same wavelength with his quarterback,
Jalen Hurts. So he pulled out a book, a book
to calm his anxiety, if you will, And it was
one of those self help type books where they give
you positivity and all that. But this is a uniquely
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Philadelphia experience and I might be missing it if I am.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Let me know.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I don't recall other teams allowing props on the sideline
like this, Like nobody else in the NFL is pulling
out a book to read on the sidelines, like it's
not happening. I don't recall it happening. There have been
guys that have eaten food on the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
But Nick Siriani. Nick Sirianni said he.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Supports his guys in Philly doing whatever they need to do,
whatever they need to do on the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
They put their mind in a place where they can compete.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So how far here's the question, how far are you
willing to push the envelope if Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Let's say Jalen Hurts wanted to warm up. It's kind
of cold in Philadelphia, and he.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Wanted to take some of that trash and start a bonfire.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
But he needs it because.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Let's be honest with you, this is how he has
to get his mind in the right place to compete.
He's like pyromaniac. Jalen Hurts. He needs fire, so he
wanted to start a bonfire, but it would only be
on the bench. It wouldn't be anywhere else. It would
be controlled burn on the bench. Would Sirianna be okay
with that? What if Sequon Barkley said, I I was
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in the band when I was in junior high school
and I like the tuba, so I would like to
play the tuba on the sidelines during the game. Is
the coach okay with that? If I can play the tuba?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
No. Now we know that Nick Sirianni very competitive.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Remember when he famously played Rock Paper Scissors with NFL
draft hopefuls. That's allowed, right, What if they just stop
the game? Said time out, Eagles, and we're going to
have a couple of our guys go out to the
fifty yard line and they'll do a quick game of
rock paper scissors.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah, all right. I'm just just.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Asking, like, where do you draw the line? Is there
a line to be drawn? But whether you have a
problem with what aj Browner did or not, I don't
kind of roll my eyes, like how can you really
have a big problem with it? But it is unique,
As I said, A, it's unique, and B it's obviously
something that was done to make everyone look at him.
He knows the cameras are always on in a playoff
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game and all the singing and all the dancing and
look at me and all that stuff because he was
not happy. If he was happy, he wouldn't have needed
to read the book. Kind of obvious, self explanatory, I
would say at this particular point, be.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
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Speaker 3 (28:22):
Wop a loop.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
Saints GM Mickey Loomis said on Monday that they haven't
made a decision on Derek Carr's future with the team. However,
he went on to say, I have a high level
of confidence in Derek. He's done some really good things here, Ben,
do you think the Saints keep him?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
No, because they're going to hire a new coach. Why
would the new coach want the trash that's left behind you.
When you buy a house from somebody, you don't take
all the crap that they leave in their house. You
get rid of it. You take it to a dump.
And yeah, he is Derek Carr. Would make no sense
to bring him back a he's not good. B you're
going to have a new coach, Just do what the
(28:58):
Broncos did, Draft some rookie corps back and play him
and wish for the best next quarterback.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Drew Aller announced that he will be returning to Penn
State for his senior season. Now, Ben, how much do
you think his poor performance at the Orange Bowl factored
into this decision?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Well, first of all, it absolutely harpooned. It harpooned for
this year. Otherwise he would have gone to the NFL Draft.
There are all these glorious stories about he was the
perfect prototypical quarterback that old school NFL people love, and
they were all excited about Drew Aller of Penn State
and this that and the other thing. And it all
went away when he rode the vomit comet on national television.
(29:35):
All that goodwill, all that positivity went away against Notre Dame.
And so yeah, that's why he's going back. If he
had played well, even if Penn State had lost, so
he played well, he would have gone to the NFL.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
There's more money in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You want to get to the NFL sooner if you're good,
get that second contract next.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
And prior to this season, no rookie had ever led
their team in a game with no punts and no
turnovers Jaye and Daniels has done it three times now.
The praise for Daniels this week has been effusive.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Uh running.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Former Redskins linebacker London Fletcher said that he can go
into Detroit and upset the Lions. Ben, are you on
the Daniels bandwagon?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Well, London Fletch, let you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I believe he is a broadcaster for the team formaonos
of the Redgins.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I listened. Jaydonnam's been great. I love him and the
Lions defense. Anything good, there's a shot, not a great shot,
but there is. I'm not fully on the bandwagon. I'm
halfway on how do we do cool? You passed? That's
a pass, Lorena. I got a pass, Lorena. Thank you, Lorena.
Have some more traded thoughts.
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So these are actual questions by actual listeners. This is
from Inca Terror Legend Hi Studio.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I gotta get Inca Terror back in studio one of
these days when he's back on the West Coast.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
He's in New York.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
He says, I just received an invitation for a wedding
in June in Italy. The invitation specifically says dancing required
but I am terrified of dancing.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
What is the quickest way to learn? Also, would you
like to be my plus one?
Speaker 10 (31:46):
That sounds like a super fun time. As long as
I get would you go?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You get to go to Italy? He'll take it to
Italy if.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
As long as I get to dress up? That sounds
like so much fun. Sounds like a good time.
Speaker 11 (31:55):
I already plan on going to Paris. Remember, so two
European trips sounds like a blast. I would suggest taking
dance classes. And you don't even have to do it
in person either. You have online options these days too.
But the problem is you don't want to step on
that person's toes that you're going to be dancing with,
so you.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Won't be able to see their toes.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But here's the thing, how about this Lorena as a guy,
it is no good male dancers, all right?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
It did not focus on the women.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
So you just get kind of wat your hips. No,
you gotta move, just.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Waddle a little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You kind of look like you know what you're doing.
Nobody pays attention. They look at the woman. They look
at the woman.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Are you a dancer? I'm a dancer. I go out
dancing just kind of like you pretend like you know
what you're doing.
Speaker 10 (32:40):
You do if you want to do it well. In
Italy though, think about that.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Who cares well, there's human beings in Italy. They're human
beings here like better in Italy. They're better dancers in Italy.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
Maybe maybe they move their hips better. It's the wine,
all right.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Og rt Puffin says he why is why is it
that I find it disgusting to to have a meal after?
I guess lady friend there, but I don't have a
problem with some tongue kissing.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Very odd. I cleaned that up for the radio.
Speaker 11 (33:15):
Yeah, I can tell so he doesn't he doesn't mind
eating after, but he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
He does have I think an issue with the He
says it's disgusting to eat after, but does not mind
after what you can kind of use your imagination Lorena
describing here. It's a very personal acts many people find enjoyable.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Many people wash.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
Take a minute, mouth washed, take a time out.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
Also, don't be don't be all weird.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
Like that if you're if you're doing intimate acts, just
you know you already broke that barrier's let it go, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Let it go. They dive in.
Speaker 10 (34:01):
Let's say it like that.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Wow, dive in, all right, chomp shop all right. Deacon
writes in says, what is the weirdest thing.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Lorena that you have heard a guy being into?
Speaker 11 (34:14):
Deacon blues, Oh yeah, it's called ABF.
Speaker 10 (34:21):
I'll let you google that.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Hold on, I say, let's see here.
Speaker 10 (34:26):
Coops like google. Yeah, it was on a dating site.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
It was on his thing.
Speaker 10 (34:30):
He was like, I need a woman who's in an
a BF And I was like, what is ABF?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
And he has American breakfast at a hotel.
Speaker 10 (34:39):
That's it for sure?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Hold on, okay, let me see you here.
Speaker 11 (34:46):
Apparently a lot of muscle builders, people who like to
work out, they also enjoy this, but they'll buy it online.
Speaker 10 (34:55):
But some people like it.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Straight Oh wow, oh wow?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
What was it?
Speaker 10 (34:59):
A Yeah, it's an abbreviation.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I just I just message, yeah, what it is? Okay.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
I don't know if I can say that on them.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
I mean, sure you can.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
You wanted me to say the other thing, and I
would want to say that you wanted me to say that, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that was that is pretty odd you You did a
guy approach you about that?
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (35:18):
And I was I thought about it for a second
you did. Yeah, And I thought about the whole business too.
Such good money.
Speaker 10 (35:25):
Could you imagine, could you imagine.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
You can say, hey, I'm a I'm a woman. Hear me,
roar make that money. A ferg dog right says, boy,
guys will pay for anything. Man, Yeah, fer dog says.
Do you think I should make take my money out
of tea bills and put it all into waffles?
Speaker 10 (35:46):
Like investing? What's a tea bill?
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Just google it?
Speaker 10 (35:52):
Just oh it's Oh, this is a financial question.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Yeah, do it buy and sell all right?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
King Roy writes and says, with Valentine's Day about a
month away, should I place a reservation at a so
called fancy restaurant or just wing it and make my
wife a fancy dinner.
Speaker 11 (36:09):
If you do a fancy restaurant, make sure it's one
that's not overly crowded, and that you're going to have
slow weight times and things like that. Make sure you
do really nice. I do like an at home cooked meal, though,
and then you can be more frisky. You don't have
to worry about driving intoxicated and enjoy your night without
it worries you.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Save a couple of right into bed.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh look, at that lorraina right there, cut out the
middle part, right to the bedroom.
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Speaker 3 (36:38):
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the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Mellor.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Let's do a password the word Game of the Stars.
And let's see we'll go the top two on the board.
We say hello to Uber Rob. Hello, Uber Rob, come.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
Thanks man, good to have you.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
You're in Are you in Colorado? Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Where are you at?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yes, sir, Castle Rock, Colorado? Very good? All right, you're
gonna play? Yes? All right? Are you gonna play the game?
And who do you want to partner with? You got
me Lorena Kooblo? Who do you want to partner over with? Rob?
Speaker 12 (37:23):
I'll do it with Lorena.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Okay, he's excited about that. Daniel is in Fort Wayne.
He's America's favorite crossing guard. Daniel. You're on. Who do
you want to partner up with?
Speaker 6 (37:33):
Daniel?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (37:35):
Bit, I gotta go with you, man?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Okay, Well, I hate to beat Lorena, but it's got
to happen. All right, very good?
Speaker 12 (37:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Rob is in Colorado and Daniel Rob you were on
the air first. We have a list of words one
to ten. Please pick a number. A word is associated
with each number.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Go ahead, Rob.
Speaker 12 (37:55):
Seven for John Elway.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Oh yeah, go Fan and Coople likes. This guy's gonna
rig the game for you. Now, go ahead, Lorena, that's easy.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Come on.
Speaker 10 (38:06):
Let's see plant.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh my god, god, wow, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 9 (38:15):
Say it again.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I said plant, She said plants.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Marijuana?
Speaker 10 (38:22):
Yeah, technically right.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
No, it is all right, Daniel and fort Wayne a
nice wholesome, bossing guard.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Let's go with how about blossom.
Speaker 10 (38:36):
Blossom, let's get it.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah, there you go, all right, that's how you do it, Loraina.
Nine nothing good. Guys have the lead, and we get
to go again. Pick a number one to ten, but
not seven, Daniel, I'm in the lead.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Not chicking seed, no.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Birthree, alright, let's go with the oh man, uh, how
about pungent?
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Pungent? Oh it's a big word, hobby. Now, Lorena, you're up.
You tie it right, okay?
Speaker 12 (39:22):
Tart tart start tart, yes, sour, yeah, tied up?
Speaker 6 (39:36):
All right?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Go ahead, Lorena, hurry up. Pick up Rob one, number one,
number one. That's easy, hurry up, don't help her out.
Speaker 10 (39:49):
Cool, I heard you a braid.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Oh my god, you're so bad at it all right,
go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Round, oh braid, hurry up, rope rope?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
No, how about a A main M A N E
A main? No, oh my god, no, we're out of time.
We're gonna end in a tie that we were looking
for the word hair, hair, hair, a mane of hair,
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mane of hair.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Oh yeah, a tie
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in the middle of the NFL playoffs, so we're going
to talk about a team that's not in the NFL
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playoffs anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That's the way that we do business here.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And we start out in Western Pennsylvania, the land of
the insurers.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Following these Steelers.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Pathetic performance their fifth consecutive one and done trip to
the playoffs in Baltimore, Mike Tomlin had his end of
year eulogy, his end of season news conference. It's always
a good listen. It's always a good listen. So I
thought we'd enjoy some of this and break it all
down for you. If you didn't hear any of what
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Tomlin had to say, possibly not. Tomlin stood in front
of a packed crowd of the egr eager NFL media types.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
He was right there at the podium, and he let
it rip.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Among the topics discussed, Mike Tomlin mentioned that the situation
the Steelers any but.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You talked about football justice. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Certainly disappointing to be conducting this business today. But I
don't view it as misfortune, to be quite honest with you,
particularly at this level. In this business and game, there's
football justice. You get what you deserve, and so you
know we're here, and we're here for really tangible reasons.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Man.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
We didn't involved in the right ways. We didn't strike
the right chords at the right time, particularly down the stretch,
and so we've been eliminated from the single elimination tournament.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Okay, so football justice.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I always believed in truth, football justice in the American way.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Here's more from Mike Tomlins. Now I got a kick
out of this one.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So Tomlin was asked what fansh should be optimistic about
in Pittsburgh and let's just say he didn't take the
bait take a list.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
You know, I don't know that I'm ready to be
overly optimistic or sell optimism to you either. I'm just
acknowledging what transpired and what has to happen and what
is beginning to happen, and acknowledging the complexity and the
amount of work that's ahead of us.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Certainly feel capable, but you.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Know, definitely doesn't feel in the mood for optimism or
the selling of optimism. I don't know that that's appropriate.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
See, there you go, no optimism. It's just going to
keep going.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
On and on and on. Now there are.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Groups of angry Pittsburghers who are demanding that Mike Tomlin
get out of there.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Very angry.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Tomlin addressed the vitriol from the base take aism.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Certainly understand their frustrations, and probably more importantly than that,
I share it because that's how I'm wired.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
And so.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I'm not a big time comfort seeker, and particularly in
circumstances such as this, I don't view myself as a
comfort provider because there's you know, words, a hollow. To
be quite honest with you, it's about what we do
and less about what we say. And so I've learned
to say very little when things are going good, and
I've learned to say less when they are.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So Thomas says words are hollow.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I would argue that in my job, that's all we
have is words. All we have is words. They pay
the bills, they keep the lights on. They're very important,
the words. The bird is the word, and the word
is the bird, and the bird pays the bills. All right,
So now let's get to the money quote. All of
that leading into this, Jimmy Johnson started a firestorm on
(05:50):
Fox the pregame festivities there over the weekend as he
tossed out the idea of Mike Tomlin trade. Of course,
that was to the Cowboys for Mike McCarthy, which is
impossible because Mike McCarthy is no longer employed in the NFL.
But here's Mike Tomlin. He was asked if he has
a message to teams that are thinking about trading for him,
(06:13):
take a list.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I have no message. Save your time.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, all right, Mike, one more time. I'm gonna follow up. Mike,
can you play any message for the teams we want
to trade.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
For you, I have no message save your time?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Okay, all right. That's a great drop. That's a solid drop.
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So that last clip is what we call the money quote.
We're gonna play off that. So let us discuss the question,
does that save your time commentary by Mike Tomlin close
the door for Mike Tomlin trade conversation. So I've got
farmer boys, Harvard Yard, and cup of Joe. All right,
Farmer boys, Harvard Yard, cup of Joe. We'll combine all
(06:52):
of these things together and we're gonna make some tofu.
Not that I like tofu, but we're gonna make tofu,
all right. So a to answer the question, absolutely not.
This has not close any kind of door. If anything,
it's a revolving door. Now Tomlin's not going anywhere. But
did you expect Mike Tomlin to say anything else? Okay,
he's in the stealer facility, he's on the payroll. You
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have to understand time and place. Time and place. Now,
there are parallel dimensions.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
In play here. You've got the public and the private.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
That said, even if Tomlin is absolutely thrilled, absolutely thrilled,
and really doesn't want to go anywhere else, which is
likely the case. But everyone's got a job to do.
If you're insider in quotes, an insigner, and your job
is to get people to click on things. You're eating
(07:46):
many meals at Farmer Boys, you're doing engagement farming. And
there are few things that get more clickety clicks than
hypothetical wild trade speculation about Mike Tomlin going to this team,
that team, or the other team. So until every single
seat is filled in the game of musical chairs, there
is a chance, I'm saying, there's a chance, there's a
(08:08):
possibility that Mike Tomlin ends up being repackaged. Now, page two,
the optics aside. Why why would Mike Tomlin dismiss fully
dismiss trade chatter? Well, the answer that's very elementary. He's
a made man. He's got the.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Greatest gig in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
No matter how black things go in Pittsburgh, win nine
or ten games every year and they'll make the playoffs,
and that's about it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Mike Tomlin at this point.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Is sitting at a little diner, a little diner just
outside Harvard Yard.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
He's a tenured faculty member at this point.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Now, people have said that diamonds are forever, So is
this gig coaching the Wheelers. Garantees you lifetime employment unless
you walk away like Bill Coward did. If Mike Tomlin
was traded to the Bears or whoever, right, what would happen.
He would get the standard three years and then he
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would have to show tangible results, and if he didn't
show those results, his ass was grass. If that doesn't happen,
if they don't improve any of those teams, he would
be a talking head on television somewhere. Gonzo, you don't
have to worry about that at all. When you're in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
They never get rid of you. Never going back fifty
six years.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You gotta go back to nineteen sixty nine and Woodstock
was in the air everywhere. Since then, they've had Chuck Noll,
Bill Kawer and Mike Tomlin. End of list period, hard stop,
that's all. And Tomlin just completed his eighteen eighth season
(10:02):
at the Helm. Eighteen seasons at the Helm for Mike Tomlin. Now,
the argument for Tomlin is, well, he's never had a
losing record. The argument against Tomlin is they haven't won
a playoff game since Barack Obama was the president. All right,
last word here, So the Steelers wide receiver George Pickens,
causing some heartache for Mike Tomlin. Pickens was reportedly late,
(10:24):
he went a little sideways. Prior to that Christmas game
against the Chiefs. Some new reporting out over the last
twenty four hours that George Pickens showed up late. He
had missed the two previous games because of a hamstring injury.
Somebody snitched on him. Tomlin requires players to get to
the game at least two hours before kickoff.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You gotta get there at least two hours before kickoff.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Pickens walk through the media entrance an hour and twenty
five minutes for kickoff, which means he probably wasn't even
in uniform until about maybe an hour forty five minutes
before kickoff, and that was after the inactive players had
already been announced. He wasn't even there and the act
inactive players were were announced by the time he showed up.
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So when asked about Pickens George Pickens' tardiness, Mike Tomlin claimed.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That he said, I can't answer that.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Definitely, he said, because it's been been a while since
the Christmas game.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's been been a few days or whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So so the coach essentially claimed he doesn't know whether
or not Pickens arrived at the game.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Lait.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Is it weird?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Here's the question, is it weird how Mike Tomlin is
treating what is a pretty obvious case of truancy by
George Pickens.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So the answer is.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
No, it's actually not that weird. People seem to be
outraged by this. I'm not surprised. Tomlin has a reputation
as what Mike Tomlin's reputation. Players coach, players coach, So
when in doubt, coddle the player, rock baby. Yeah, that's
that's the coaching technique. But it's not new, the idea
(12:04):
that Tomlins somehow does things differently. He is determined on
his big board, Mike Tomlin's big boy, that George Pickens
is an essential player. And this has been going on
for fifty sixty, seventy eighty. I don't know if fight
since the NFL started. It's called Cup of Joe coaching.
Cup of Joe coaching. And I go back again to
(12:27):
Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy Johnson famously told the story he was
coaching the Cowboys and a reporter asked if he would
treat his quarterback, Troy Aikman at the time, the same
way as some third string lineman if he caught both
of them dozing off in a team meeting. And Jimmy
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Johnson paused for a second contemplated the situation.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
He said, listen, if I found a.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Third string lineman sleeping in a team meeting, I would
cut him immediately. Jimmy Johnson state, Now, if I found
my quarterback Troy Aikman sleeping in a team meeting, I
would carefully and gently wake him up, and I would
ask him if I could bring him a cup of coffee.
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So that tells you that Tomlin thinks that Pickens is
an essential player.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
He hasn't played like that consistently.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
He has just been sporadic as he scoots down the field,
occasionally making big plays and often not. If you might
remember a game recently where he had not one, not two,
not three, about four drops if I remember correctly, an
elite late season loss for the Pittsburg Steelers. But if
you believe Tomlin, you're not going anywhere, and save your time.
(13:50):
I'm not going anywhere. That's it, Okay, See keep an
eye on this story. I have a feeling it's not
the end of it, and I do I think Tomlin's
going somewhere. No, I do not unless he uses to
go somewhere, because again, that is in professional sports, the
job that you have until you don't want it anymore
and you decide to retire, or you decide to go
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do bad television like Bill Coward did.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
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Speaker 3 (15:19):
Hour from the unemployment line.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That is where we continue our in depth team coverage
of the coaching carousel.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Round and round and round and round and round and
round and round and round.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It goes every year, round and round, faster and faster
and faster.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Big money, big money is stop. Now.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Things are moving lickety split. Were someone that doesn't normally
move that fast. That would be former former Cowboys coach
Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You've not been.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Following along, maybe not, you might have missed it. So
we've learned now that Mike McCarthy already has in interviews
set up with Bears for later today. Now, this is
not one of those half ass zoom interviews.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
No no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
No zoom here. No laptops, no smartphones are needed. You see,
the Chicago Bears are flying in Mike McCarthy for an
in person interview at Hallis Hall and that's only their
second in person meeting of the coaching interview process the
head hunting season for the Chicago football team. The Bears
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are going to take Mike McCarthy out to a nice
dinner after they have a private sit down at the
Bears facility they're gonna have a private meal at some
high falutin local restaurant in the back room. You know
those restaurants that have the VIP room that you've got
to save and you only like the really wealthy people
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get to go.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
In there and you get the specially. Yeah, that's where
they're gonna bring Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
After he meets at Hallas Hall with the Bear. So
let us discuss the question. Mike McCarthy is planning on
meeting with the Bears first.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
He's not met with anyone else. Say, he's gonna meet
with the Bears first. What does that tell us? What
does that tell us? So I have Doctor.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Love, Invention, Dimension and Star Trek and we will combine
all of these things together and try not to go bokers.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
We're gonna try not to go bonkers.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So no, so what does it tell all right, the
thing's broken? What does it tell us? Mike McCarthy planning
to meet with the Bears first? That tells us there
is a mutual admiration society. Okay, that's what that tells
McCarthy is sitting in the driver's seat and as long
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as he has good table manners here, he's in solid shape.
The Bears are rolling out the Red Carbon, a notoriously
frugal franchise. The Chicago Bears are planning to whine and
especially dine Mike McCarthy. So the soundtrack to this part
of the story is a disco tune Doctor Love from
(18:17):
the Girl group First Choice because McCarthy, right, McCarthy, he
is at the very top. He his first choice is
the Bears, and it would it be, it would appear
to be the bears first choice? Is Mike McCarthy. Is
that outrageous? Am I being a shock jock? I don't
think I am a d It's rather self explanatory. You
don't have to have any inside knowledge that Mike McCarthy
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waited to get out of Dallas. The Bears did not
hire a coach ride away. Remember New England Patriots already
hired their coach. They knew they wanted Mike Rabel. They
hired Mike Rabel. The Chicago Bears, it sounds like they
want Mike McCarthy, but they had to wait. So they
played the little game and they pretended like they were
searching the web find a head coach. And now they've
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got their guy coming to town.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Later toy.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
There's major cronyism in play here, but major cronyism in
play as we have laid out in previous episodes of
this radio program that Mike McCarthy shares the same agent
with the Chicago Bears embattled general manager Ryan Pulls, So
there is some nepotism in play.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That's a big part of this.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
These talks have likely been going on behind the scenes
for some time, and it's just a matter of getting
together and making sure that the optics are good on this.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Chicago has a helping hand.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
They have a helping hand because, as I said, everyone's
in bed with everyone else in this story, which is
why why Mike McCarthy had leverage with Jerry Jones. Now,
there is a conspiracy theory that I came across here
recently that the intention all along was Jerry Jones did
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not want to bring back Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy did
not want to come back, but they wanted to play
this game, so both sides look good, meaning Jerry didn't
fire McCarthy to sully Mike McCarthy's reputation. McCarthy and Jones
pretended like they were negotiating. They never actually talked about
a contract. This is the conspiracy theory, and they just
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let the clock run out, and that way they say, well,
we just couldn't work out a deal, and we love
Mike and he'll go somewhere else, and Jerry doesn't look
bad for firing coach McCarthy doesn't look bad for getting fired.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
And you move on.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now, that's the grand conspiracy of it all. But you
wonder which steakhouse. There's some fine restaurants. That's a good
food town Chicago. Do they go steakhouse? Do they go
pizzeria that deep dish Chicago pizza? And now people in
Chicago say, the locals say, wow, we don't eat the
deep dish, that's for the tourists, but we eat the
(20:56):
regular pizza in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But where does McCarthy go. And they'll be some.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Waiter or a couple of waiters who are going to
have the inside skinny.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
They are going to know loose.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Lips, sink ships, and feed insiders, and they will have
insider knowledge later today on whether or not this is
a done deal. Is this a celebratory meal where they
go out and have a nice, expensive dinner to celebrate
the start.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Of a new bond, a new friendship. All right, now,
pitched you with Mike McCarthy headed to Chicago for a
meet and greet.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I was reading that the New Orleans Saints are also
said to be bird dogging the portly coach who's available?
So question do you foreshadow? Do you foreshadow a bidding
war for Mike McCarthy? So I'd like I'd like two
letters on the wheel of fortune. I'd like an N
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and can.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I get a know? How about no? How about no?
This is a trip to the invention dimension, the invention dimension.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
People writing the coattails of Mike McCarthy. It's more probable
than not have been busy, very busy concocting a story,
inventing his story out of thin air. Here social media warfare,
which is a more potent tool, easier to manipulate the
minds of the unwashed. Back in the old days, you
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used to have to plant stories by paying off media people,
bribing journalists. But now you can just get a bunch
of bot accounts and the right algorithm on the social
media and you can plant the stories all over the place.
You don't have to pay a bunch of journalists. You
just spend a little bit of money on bot accounts
and those sock puppet accounts.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You're on your way.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So but you don't drive the price up for a
guy like Mike McCarthy's that fair to say he's not
the worst coach in the NFL. He's certainly not the best.
And in the Saints they have strooge like tendencies when
it comes to their finances. New Orleans is more of
like a starter job. It's a reclamation project job. That's
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those are the coaches they get. They get the rejects,
that's what they get. That's who coaches the Saints and
the Bears also typically get some nondescript defensive coordinator or
some reclamation project also, which Mike McCarthy would fall into
the reclamation project, having already failed at two coaching jobs.
But based on the clues I still maintain and it's
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rather obvious here that the Bears are in the catbirds
seat or Mike McCarthy and he haunted haunted the Chicago
Bears as a poultergeist while he was coaching at Lambeau
Field for the Green Bay Packers, and now he can
work as an enemy combatant inside the walls of hallis
(23:54):
Hall and still haunt Chicago by doing a incompetent job.
All right, turning the page, final point, Eagles coach Nick
Sirianni on the war path.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
What is he upset about?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Does the Eagles get ready to play the Rams in
the divisional round this weekend?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Nick Sirianni blasting what he called quote lazy, lazy critics
and the criticism of disgruntled wide receiver A. J. Brown
AJ Brown who decided to multitask not only play in
an NFL playoff game, but read a nice book on
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the sidelines, and media pundits pointing out the issue that
the reason Brown did that was because he was not
happy and he was trying to get his emotions in check.
And so what he did was he grabbed the book
and made a spectacle of the situation. What is your
school of thought on? Nick Sirianni blasting what he calls
the lazy criticism of AJ Brown being disgruntled by reading
(24:58):
a book. So on this one, Nick Sirianni has his
Star Trek deflector shields going, and he's guarding against all
of that space debris and those enemy attacks. AJ Brown
just watching that game against the Packers. AJ Brown, he
had the body language of a disgruntled person, and we
(25:21):
know he's a guy that needs the SPOTLA walk a
tight rope with a guy like AJ Brown.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He was not getting the ball up to his standard.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
He was not on the same wavelength with his quarterback,
Jalen Hurts. So he pulled out a book, a book
to calm his anxiety, if you will, And it was
one of those self help type books where they give
you positivity and all that. But this is a uniquely
(25:50):
Philadelphia experience and I might be missing it if I am.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Let me know.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I don't recall other teams allowing props on the sideline
like this, Like nobody else in the NFL is pulling
out a book to read on the sidelines, like it's
not happening. I don't recall it happening. There have been
guys that have eaten food on the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
But Nick Siriani. Nick Sirianni said he.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Supports his guys in Philly doing whatever they need to do,
whatever they need to do on the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
They put their mind in a place where they can compete.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So how far here's the question, how far are you
willing to push the envelope if Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Let's say Jalen Hurts wanted to warm up. It's kind
of cold in Philadelphia, and he.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Wanted to take some of that trash and start a bonfire.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
But he needs it because.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Let's be honest with you, this is how he has
to get his mind in the right place to compete.
He's like pyromaniac. Jalen Hurts. He needs fire, so he
wanted to start a bonfire, but it would only be
on the bench. It wouldn't be anywhere else. It would
be controlled burn on the bench. Would Sirianna be okay
with that? What if Sequon Barkley said, I I was
(27:00):
in the band when I was in junior high school
and I like the tuba, so I would like to
play the tuba on the sidelines during the game. Is
the coach okay with that? If I can play the tuba?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
No. Now we know that Nick Sirianni very competitive.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Remember when he famously played Rock Paper Scissors with NFL
draft hopefuls. That's allowed, right, What if they just stop
the game? Said time out, Eagles, and we're going to
have a couple of our guys go out to the
fifty yard line and they'll do a quick game of
rock paper scissors.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah, all right. I'm just just.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Asking, like, where do you draw the line? Is there
a line to be drawn? But whether you have a
problem with what aj Browner did or not, I don't
kind of roll my eyes, like how can you really
have a big problem with it? But it is unique,
As I said, A, it's unique, and B it's obviously
something that was done to make everyone look at him.
He knows the cameras are always on in a playoff
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game and all the singing and all the dancing and
look at me and all that stuff because he was
not happy. If he was happy, he wouldn't have needed
to read the book. Kind of obvious, self explanatory, I
would say at this particular point, be.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
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Speaker 3 (28:22):
Wop a loop.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
Saints GM Mickey Loomis said on Monday that they haven't
made a decision on Derek Carr's future with the team. However,
he went on to say, I have a high level
of confidence in Derek. He's done some really good things here, Ben,
do you think the Saints keep him?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
No, because they're going to hire a new coach. Why
would the new coach want the trash that's left behind you.
When you buy a house from somebody, you don't take
all the crap that they leave in their house. You
get rid of it. You take it to a dump.
And yeah, he is Derek Carr. Would make no sense
to bring him back a he's not good. B you're
going to have a new coach, Just do what the
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Broncos did, Draft some rookie corps back and play him
and wish for the best next quarterback.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Drew Aller announced that he will be returning to Penn
State for his senior season. Now, Ben, how much do
you think his poor performance at the Orange Bowl factored
into this decision?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Well, first of all, it absolutely harpooned. It harpooned for
this year. Otherwise he would have gone to the NFL Draft.
There are all these glorious stories about he was the
perfect prototypical quarterback that old school NFL people love, and
they were all excited about Drew Aller of Penn State
and this that and the other thing. And it all
went away when he rode the vomit comet on national television.
(29:35):
All that goodwill, all that positivity went away against Notre Dame.
And so yeah, that's why he's going back. If he
had played well, even if Penn State had lost, so
he played well, he would have gone to the NFL.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
There's more money in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You want to get to the NFL sooner if you're good,
get that second contract next.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
And prior to this season, no rookie had ever led
their team in a game with no punts and no
turnovers Jaye and Daniels has done it three times now.
The praise for Daniels this week has been effusive.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Uh running.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Former Redskins linebacker London Fletcher said that he can go
into Detroit and upset the Lions. Ben, are you on
the Daniels bandwagon?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Well, London Fletch, let you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I believe he is a broadcaster for the team formaonos
of the Redgins.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I listened. Jaydonnam's been great. I love him and the
Lions defense. Anything good, there's a shot, not a great shot,
but there is. I'm not fully on the bandwagon. I'm
halfway on how do we do cool? You passed? That's
a pass, Lorena. I got a pass, Lorena. Thank you, Lorena.
Have some more traded thoughts.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
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Speaker 10 (31:02):
You heard the man.
Speaker 11 (31:03):
It's Tom for Love here on the Bed Mallory Show.
And I just want to point out that is such
a catchy tune. Coop's over here is singing it. He
knows all the words. Pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Hum bet, I'm very impressed, very very impressed. Yes, I'm shocked.
So these are actual questions by actual listeners. This is
from Inca Terror Legend Hi Studio.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I gotta get Inca Terror back in studio one of
these days when he's back on the West Coast.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
He's in New York.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
He says, I just received an invitation for a wedding
in June in Italy. The invitation specifically says dancing required
but I am terrified of dancing.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
What is the quickest way to learn? Also, would you
like to be my plus one?
Speaker 10 (31:46):
That sounds like a super fun time. As long as
I get would you go?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You get to go to Italy? He'll take it to
Italy if.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
As long as I get to dress up? That sounds
like so much fun. Sounds like a good time.
Speaker 11 (31:55):
I already plan on going to Paris. Remember, so two
European trips sounds like a blast. I would suggest taking
dance classes. And you don't even have to do it
in person either. You have online options these days too.
But the problem is you don't want to step on
that person's toes that you're going to be dancing with,
so you.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Won't be able to see their toes.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But here's the thing, how about this Lorena as a guy,
it is no good male dancers, all right?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
It did not focus on the women.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
So you just get kind of wat your hips. No,
you gotta move, just.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Waddle a little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You kind of look like you know what you're doing.
Nobody pays attention. They look at the woman. They look
at the woman.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Are you a dancer? I'm a dancer. I go out
dancing just kind of like you pretend like you know
what you're doing.
Speaker 10 (32:40):
You do if you want to do it well. In
Italy though, think about that.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Who cares well, there's human beings in Italy. They're human
beings here like better in Italy. They're better dancers in Italy.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
Maybe maybe they move their hips better. It's the wine,
all right.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Og rt Puffin says he why is why is it
that I find it disgusting to to have a meal after?
I guess lady friend there, but I don't have a
problem with some tongue kissing.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Very odd. I cleaned that up for the radio.
Speaker 11 (33:15):
Yeah, I can tell so he doesn't he doesn't mind
eating after, but he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
He does have I think an issue with the He
says it's disgusting to eat after, but does not mind
after what you can kind of use your imagination Lorena
describing here. It's a very personal acts many people find enjoyable.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Many people wash.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
Take a minute, mouth washed, take a time out.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
Also, don't be don't be all weird.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
Like that if you're if you're doing intimate acts, just
you know you already broke that barrier's let it go, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Let it go. They dive in.
Speaker 10 (34:01):
Let's say it like that.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Wow, dive in, all right, chomp shop all right. Deacon
writes in says, what is the weirdest thing.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Lorena that you have heard a guy being into?
Speaker 11 (34:14):
Deacon blues, Oh yeah, it's called ABF.
Speaker 10 (34:21):
I'll let you google that.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Hold on, I say, let's see here.
Speaker 10 (34:26):
Coops like google. Yeah, it was on a dating site.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
It was on his thing.
Speaker 10 (34:30):
He was like, I need a woman who's in an
a BF And I was like, what is ABF?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
And he has American breakfast at a hotel.
Speaker 10 (34:39):
That's it for sure?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Hold on, okay, let me see you here.
Speaker 11 (34:46):
Apparently a lot of muscle builders, people who like to
work out, they also enjoy this, but they'll buy it online.
Speaker 10 (34:55):
But some people like it.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Straight Oh wow, oh wow?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
What was it?
Speaker 10 (34:59):
A Yeah, it's an abbreviation.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I just I just message, yeah, what it is? Okay.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
I don't know if I can say that on them.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
I mean, sure you can.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
You wanted me to say the other thing, and I
would want to say that you wanted me to say that, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that was that is pretty odd you You did a
guy approach you about that?
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (35:18):
And I was I thought about it for a second
you did. Yeah, And I thought about the whole business too.
Such good money.
Speaker 10 (35:25):
Could you imagine, could you imagine.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
You can say, hey, I'm a I'm a woman. Hear me,
roar make that money. A ferg dog right says, boy,
guys will pay for anything. Man, Yeah, fer dog says.
Do you think I should make take my money out
of tea bills and put it all into waffles?
Speaker 10 (35:46):
Like investing? What's a tea bill?
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Just google it?
Speaker 10 (35:52):
Just oh it's Oh, this is a financial question.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Yeah, do it buy and sell all right?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
King Roy writes and says, with Valentine's Day about a
month away, should I place a reservation at a so
called fancy restaurant or just wing it and make my
wife a fancy dinner.
Speaker 11 (36:09):
If you do a fancy restaurant, make sure it's one
that's not overly crowded, and that you're going to have
slow weight times and things like that. Make sure you
do really nice. I do like an at home cooked meal, though,
and then you can be more frisky. You don't have
to worry about driving intoxicated and enjoy your night without
it worries you.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Save a couple of right into bed.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh look, at that lorraina right there, cut out the
middle part, right to the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, password
the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Mellor.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Let's do a password the word Game of the Stars.
And let's see we'll go the top two on the board.
We say hello to Uber Rob. Hello, Uber Rob, come.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
Thanks man, good to have you.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
You're in Are you in Colorado? Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Where are you at?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yes, sir, Castle Rock, Colorado? Very good? All right, you're
gonna play? Yes? All right? Are you gonna play the game?
And who do you want to partner with? You got
me Lorena Kooblo? Who do you want to partner over with? Rob?
Speaker 12 (37:23):
I'll do it with Lorena.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Okay, he's excited about that. Daniel is in Fort Wayne.
He's America's favorite crossing guard. Daniel. You're on. Who do
you want to partner up with?
Speaker 6 (37:33):
Daniel?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (37:35):
Bit, I gotta go with you, man?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Okay, Well, I hate to beat Lorena, but it's got
to happen. All right, very good?
Speaker 12 (37:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Rob is in Colorado and Daniel Rob you were on
the air first. We have a list of words one
to ten. Please pick a number. A word is associated
with each number.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Go ahead, Rob.
Speaker 12 (37:55):
Seven for John Elway.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Oh yeah, go Fan and Coople likes. This guy's gonna
rig the game for you. Now, go ahead, Lorena, that's easy.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Come on.
Speaker 10 (38:06):
Let's see plant.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh my god, god, wow, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 9 (38:15):
Say it again.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I said plant, She said plants.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Marijuana?
Speaker 10 (38:22):
Yeah, technically right.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
No, it is all right, Daniel and fort Wayne a
nice wholesome, bossing guard.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Let's go with how about blossom.
Speaker 10 (38:36):
Blossom, let's get it.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah, there you go, all right, that's how you do it, Loraina.
Nine nothing good. Guys have the lead, and we get
to go again. Pick a number one to ten, but
not seven, Daniel, I'm in the lead.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Not chicking seed, no.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Birthree, alright, let's go with the oh man, uh, how
about pungent?
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Pungent? Oh it's a big word, hobby. Now, Lorena, you're up.
You tie it right, okay?
Speaker 12 (39:22):
Tart tart start tart, yes, sour, yeah, tied up?
Speaker 6 (39:36):
All right?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Go ahead, Lorena, hurry up. Pick up Rob one, number one,
number one. That's easy, hurry up, don't help her out.
Speaker 10 (39:49):
Cool, I heard you a braid.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Oh my god, you're so bad at it all right,
go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Round, oh braid, hurry up, rope rope?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
No, how about a A main M A N E
A main? No, oh my god, no, we're out of time.
We're gonna end in a tie that we were looking
for the word hair, hair, hair, a mane of hair,
(40:24):
mane of hair.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Oh yeah, a tie
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