August 5, 2025 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about Sean McVay downplaying Matthew Stafford's back issues yet again, Anthony Richardson saying the QB battle is more of a "me vs. me type of thing", Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Adam Yauch Edition, and more!
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We're gonna go to La That's what we're gonna start.
We start in Los Angeles and problems for a former
super Bowl hero, former super Bowl champion quarterback If you've
not heard yet, as things are not looking particularly good
for a quarterback that won the championship in la a
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couple years back there, and the coach is running interference.
So if you didn't follow this, Sean McVeigh, the head
coach of the Rams, knowing you can ram it all day,
ram it all night, and you can ram your quarterbacks
back into the ground where he's all messed up. So
Sewan m walking the proverbial tightrope without a safety net
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here protecting or attempting to protect Matthew Stafford, his starting
quarterback QB one. Remember the offseason when Tom Brady took
Matthew Stafford out in Montana and then a private enclave
there and they were trying to whine and dine him
and get him to go to the Raiders. And then
Tom Brady had to settle for Gino Smith, Holy crap,
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And there were other teams that were flirting with Matthew Stafford. Well,
he ended up going back to the Rams. And now
he's not able to play. Say what, yeah, not able
to play? We are about a month about a month
away from the start of the NFL regular season. Matthew
Stafford's health a lingering cloud of doom over the Rams?
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Is this the end of his career as a quarterback
in the NFL? Stafford has continued to be absent from
RAM training camp. And he has an issue on my
aching back. That's his issue. He's got back sore on this.
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Now.
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That prompted Sean McVay to describe the situationton as week
to week now. There was no official setback, there was
nothing stated. Might have been something, who knows, maybe he
bent over to get something in the kitchen and the
back snapped. But nonetheless, despite no official, no official setback,
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Matthew Stafford, thirty seven has already now visited the spine specialists,
a specialist on the back twice twice. Now, that certainly
signals that this is not just a minor a minor bump.
There's something else going on. So let us discuss the question.
Rams coach Sean McVay continuing to downplay to downplay Matthew
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Stafford's back issues with the Rams. What are your ears
tell you? What are your ears tell you? On this?
So I've we've got rocket fizz, piping hot and homecoming King,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make the Gabba ghul. We're gonna
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make the Gabba gool. So A, Now, what did the
years say? I'll tell you my years. Hey, listening between
the words, listening between the words here, it sounds like agony,
absolute agony. A week to week to me, sounds like
he's done, he's out. That's it, that's cod that's coach speak.
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I've been around too long. I've heard the coach speak for.
We are praying to the gods to make sure that
we get something to happen. We need to go into
the sorcerer's workshop here and cook up a spell for
Matthew Stafford. We have to find something magical because that
spine is toast and they know it. He's cooked. You
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do not visit a spine specialist multiple times unless there
is something big time going on with that back there,
and why not. You look at the supporting evidence for
Matthew Stafford. He's in your seventeen, he's got the Super
Bowl Championship there on his resume, he's got a lot
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of touchdowns, a lot of broken body parts, and just
clued together. At this point, we're going to assume his
podcast wife there probably wants him to retire. So then
you've got Sean McVay in this soap opera. You've got
Sean McVay who's candy coating everything like he's working at
Rocket Fizz and he's, Oh, everything's good, everything I covered
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in sugar, We're good. Everything's all right here. And he's
trying to feed the ram fan who's just trying to
ram it all day and Raymond all night, trying to
feed the ram fan jolly ranchers. And then they're like, well, no,
this is not a jolly rancher situation. There's a hot Tomali.
This is hot Tomali situation. Yeah, spicy, all right. So
you're trying to walk the thin line. You're trying to
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walk the line from being optimistic pep by Sean McVay
to wait a minute, this is a disaster, so I
got to do disaster control. But actions do always speak
louder than words. We've had that mantra for a long time.
It's kind of everyone's good should have that mantra. So
Matthew Stafford has in practiced, He hasn't thrown. He's essentially
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just walking around like he's just walking the aisles at
home depot, looking at stuff. And if I hear week
to week week to week one more time, I am
going to rip my headphones off my head and throw
them against the wall, is what I'm going to do.
Week to week, week two week. Oh my god, that
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is the phrase that you use as an NFL head
coach when you don't want to admit your pork. You
don't want to admit that. So yeah, week to week.
Eh yeah, week to week, my fat ass week to week.
So the Rams are one and I gotta make sure
I say this properly because this is the number one
phrase that is messed up on people that give updates
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on medical conditions involving the back. But the La Rams
are one bulging disc. I said it disc. They're one
bulging disc away from Jimmy Garoppolo under center. So you
talk about going from Frelemonreon to gas station beef jerky,
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That's what Jimmy Garoppolo is at this point. Now, can
the Rams slap together a good season during the regular Yes,
they can, of course they can. Do you expect them
to go on a burner and to the championship unlikely?
Can they beat crappy teams like Seattle and Arizona and
the forty nine ers. Sure those teams suck down the
line against the better opponents. That's the problem, right, you
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have to become a defense. The Rams better become a
top five team. He's even a garoppolo place, He's a
porcelain doll. We know that the guy slips on a
wet leaf somewhere and he's in the injury tent, camping
out and all that stuff. So the Rams have to
have a dominant defensive team. As Stafford, it's not looking
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so good at this point today. We do the show today,
and at this point today, based on the available information
we have, things are not looking good. Meanwhile, speaking of
not looking good, we go to Cleveland, where it never
looks good in terms of the football team, and update
a new update to the depth chart. I know nothing
more exciting, more compelling on talk radio than the Cleveland
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Browns depth chart. Boy, we know how to keep you
satisfied as a consumer of overnight talk radio. So the
former Colorado star Shirdur Sanders is right now, Berry, He's
buried on the Browns depth chart. He is currently listed
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as the fourth string quarterback. So how does that taste?
How does that one taste? So that tastes like piping
hot fresh out of the oven. Humble pie is what
that is. Humble pie right there. You get a slice,
You get a slice. You get a slice. So Schener
Sanders the next big thing in college, the prodigy, the
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amazing Prince of Prime and the spawn of Dion, all
that stuff. Four string on the worst team in the NFL,
the Cleveland Browns. You want to talk about an emasculation situation,
that would be that. And that's what happens when the
hype does not match the tape and you apparently do
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not get the red carpet rolled out for you because
your daddy was flashy and worn sunglasses. If only Shirdhur
Sanders had been an NBA player, then he'd be in
really good shape, right Like Brownie James sucks and he's
on the Lakers and all that. He can't play. Should Sanders,
though there's no guarantee, even makes the Cleveland Browns at
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this particular point. And man, it appears that despite the
social media clout Schauduur Sanders has, the coaches don't seem
to care, his teammates don't seem to care very much.
And it's billed as a meritocracy. Now we know that
it's not always a meritocracy, at least it should be,
but it's not. And Shoulder has flunked the eye test.
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So far, you get one shot. You get one shot
to make a first impression when you start a new job,
and it would appear, based on the outside looking in,
that he has tripped over his own shoelaces, Shudur Sanders
at this particular point. So, now I have watched some
of the practice clips. Now, usually they only send out
the good stuff, they don't send out the bad stuff
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and all that. But even from what they've sent out,
which you know is heavily edited, and things are left
on the cutting room floor that you probably should see.
So there's nothing special from what I've seen. So kind
of reads things slowly, doesn't have an amazing top flight
arm and didn't see any of that in the practice clips.
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And so much like we were talking about the Rams
sugar coating things with Matthew Stafford, we don't need to
sugarcoat things with sugar Sanders. You've got Joe Flacco, who
I just checked on his Pro Football reference page, just
turned four hundred years old, So happy birthday, Joe. Flacco.
You've got Kenny Pickett, who sucks, and then you've got
Dylan Gabriel who's left handed, which should mean that you're downgraded.
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You're left handed. And he barely got drafted, but yet
was drafted ahead of Sudar Sanders. So shdu has been
unable to leap frog any of them. He's barely ahead
of Deshaun Watson Ben Watson game in play this year,
So man, what a mess. If Shoulder it was the
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real deal in practice, not a game, we would assume
he'd be getting more opportunities, more chances, and would be
higher up on the depth chart. But what do we know.
We just do the overnight show. And so it turns
out that at this point, despite all the big things
on the socials, this is the NFL, not some kind
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of branding seminar. And you produce your fourth on the
depth chart and in danger of being gonzo see you later.
And he's not been the beacon of the Browns which
some were anticipating. There, he's at this point a footnote.
And right now that book is that book with the
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footnote there that's closing rapidly. All right now, last word
to the gambling market we go. You know, we love
the gambling market in these parts, and we can update
update the gambling odds. A very popular storyline this time
of the year. Who is going to win the most
Valuable Player of the year. You know, they have that
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ceremony before the Super Bowl where they have a red
carpet event and everyone gets all dulled up and they
hand out all these awards and pat each other on
the ass and say how great you are and all that. So,
according to our friends at DraftKings, a big sponsor of
this radio show, we're grateful for that. The people of
a DraftKings sportsbooks say, the public has spoken, and you
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know who's the betting favorite according to the public to
be the most valuable player? Do you know who this is? No,
I want to take a guess. Who do you think
it is? Now you're wrong? Now you're wrong. Yet, No,
you're wrong. The correct answer if you said, if you
said Josh Allen the Bills.
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You're wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, it's Bengals. It's Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. That's the answer.
There plus six fifty most popular pick by popular people
in the NFL game market, Twenty two percent of the
bets have come in for the Bengals quarterback Lamar Jackson,
a multi time platinum MVP winner himself, plus fifty five
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point fifty is behind Joe Burrow at twelve percent. Then
you've got Jayden Daniels of the Commanders, Patrick Mahomey. Patrick
mahomes is next, and then on the big board a
lot of dumb people in Philadelphia betting on Jalen Hurts
to be the MVP. Dumb d dumb, dumb dumb. Yeah,
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good luck on that. So Joe Burrow at the very top,
Lamar Jackson right behind Joe Burrow among the most popular
NFL MVP bets at this particular point in time. What
does that tell you? So I'll go first. It tells
me the same thing it's told me every year since
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we started talking about this. It is a PC situation.
Popularity contest is what it is. So you throw on
a pair of Gucci shades and you show up with
the cigar, got to have the stogy. You get the
cigar there and boom, you are the people's champ, right,
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you are the people's Now listen, Joe Burrow, he's got
the swag and all that. He's got the arm and
when he is able to stay upright in Cincinnati and
not get tackled by a bowl of Skyline chili thrown
by just Josh or Justin in Cincinnati, when he's able
to avoid that. Sure, things are pretty good. Things are.
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Things are pretty good. He's right there. And there's only
a few quarterbacks that are at that upper echelon in
the NFL, and he's one of them. But here's the
rub on this, here's the rub. The thing that bothers
me is I was asked the other day who I
like is the MVP, and I picked Joe Burrow. But
I don't want to be on the side of the public.
The public is always wrong. I don't want to be
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on the side of the public. You're betting on Joe
Burrow like he's already hoisting the trophy up in February,
and listen, I don't want to be on your side.
You've ruined that analysis for me that now he's gonna
be brittle Joe Burrow, and he's gonna get hurt and
it's your fault. And now I'm gonna have to jump
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away from Burrow. And as far as Lamar Jackson, listen,
Lamar's he's got the Hall of Fame regular season numbers,
not so much in the playoffs. But Lamar Jackson, two
time Platinum MVP, he's second in bets. But you look
at the AFC North, the quarterbacks in the AFC, nor
two of them here, that division turning into the Roman
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Colosseum with two of the top picks to win the
most valuable. And then you've got like washed up Aaron
Rodgers and then the slop the Cleveland Browns are thrown
out there. But man, those two. So the betting public,
the betting public loves a good story. They love a
good story, and they love the swagger, the electricity of
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Lamar Jackson and all that stuff. However, the MVP voting,
it is not the homecoming King situation. You do have
to stay relatively healthy for the balance of the seventeen
week regular season that you play in. And again, we
love Burrow. We went with Burrow when we were asked
a while back, and so we've been Benny bright Side
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on Joe Burrow for the MVP. The public writing this
one does bother it, bothers us bothers me a lot,
and you know it might be time to fade the
hype on that one. So MVP betting, MVP betting, the
Ultimate Instagram Contest. Right Instagram contest. You know, a little
football mixed in. They're just a little bit of football,
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just a teeny bit. And you're always not supposed to
bet with your heart. You're not supposed to bet with
your heart. And of course the casinos want you to
bet with your heart because you're a loser. When you
bet with your heart, you lose who's much more than
you win, So they want you to do that.
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Way Tire Buying SHOULB. So we begin this hour. We
go to the quarterback derby and oh what a derby
is Indianapolis, Indiana known for the Indy five hundred and
mediocre football and we have a quarterback competition we so,
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so it's time now for the obligatory mallor monologue on
the high drama in Colts Camp. So you have on
one side of the aisle you have Daniel Jones, the
stumble bum. On the other side you have Anthony Richardson,
built like a Dunnis and he plays like hollering James
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from Minnesota. So they are listed as co QB one.
So no, I didn't play in the NFL. However, if
you have co starting quarterbacks, wouldn't that be great? If
the Colts said we're gonna use both guys under center.
We're just gonna have both of them out there at
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the same time, and we'll see what we're gonna do
at that point. Maybe we'll have Anthony Richardson in the backfield,
then he'll run out to the slot receiver, we'll have
Daniel Jones, he'll go to the slop. But we're gonna
start the mote. So isn't that special? Now that's not
the story here. It did the lead to an absolute
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gem of a quote from Anthony Richardson. So if you
didn't hear this, and perhaps not, Richardson commenting about his
situation from top five draft pick to now having to
be in a dogfight with a literal dog in Daniel Jones,
who sucks? So Richardson said, quote, even if they meaning
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the Colts brought Tom Brady in here, he's the greatest,
but I just have to work and try to beat
him out. Richardson stated, he said, here's the key part
of the quote. It's a me versus me type thing.
It's a me versus me type thing. That is what
we call the money quote. That's a good jumping off point.
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So let us discuss the question Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson
calling the QB competition in Indianapolis with Daniel Jones. A
quote me versus me thing? How do you decode that quote?
So I've got hot blonde, Cia level and fat kid,
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three things that have never been thrown together, and we
will throw them together and say abra cadabra, hocus pocus.
Here we go. So number I said, number one umber
just like QB one. This one smells like delusion. Now
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what does delusion smell like? Similar to rotten eggs, similar
to sulfur, rotten eggs, that whole thing delusion. So you
are in a quarterback battle royale and you're brushing off
the guy who's right there with you, breathing down your neck.
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Is what you're doing for Anthony Richards in a year.
So Daniel Jones, and I'm certainly not going to sit
here and praise Daniel Jones. You know how I feel
about him. If you've heard the show over the years,
we've done many amoult of monologue about the many frailties
of Daniel Jones, how flawed he is, and we believe
he's covered in maggots. However, however, he's neck and neck
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for the starting job in Indianapolis. So what that tell you?
It's the old Bill Parcell's line about Anthony Richardson. That
potential potential means you haven't done anything yet. And as
we like to say, a prospect is a suspect and
to proven otherwise. And Anthony Richardson has been very suspect
when he's played. That's Richardson in a nutshell, is what
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it is. Richardson. I'll tell you what Richardson is, the
hot blonde at the bar that looks amazing and then
that kind of flirts with you, you know a lot
of contact, oh flirty and get you excited and then
ghost you. That's what Anthony Richardson is, right, that's Richardson
in a nutshell. That's what he is. All tease, no please,
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no results, nothing. And Richardson, who has a highlight reel,
if you want to call it, that of a little
bit of brilliance, a little bit of brilliance, heavily edited,
a lot of bonehead mistakes, a lot of those quitting,
taking himself out of the game. You don't you don't
outlive that, you don't short change that. And every time
Richardson rolls out in the pocket, and there's a lot
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of people that go ooh and ah and all like
he's the second coming, and then you look at the
actual results of that, and I guess accuracy does matter.
It does matter. He's a compass rose co North, south, east,
west and anywhere else in between. You want to turnover,
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he'll give you a turnover. You want zero, ability to
stay on the field, He'll give you that as well.
He's got that. Richardson is. I believe he's in year
three now if I'm not mistaken, although really based on
games played a lot less than that, and yet this
far into his career, the conversation about Anthony Richardson is
still well, let's talk about the traits that he has.
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Traits that's you know what that is. That's what dopey
sports radio hosts like me talk about. In the NFL
draft season in March and April, we talk about the
traits of quarterbacks, right, well, the combine in the NFL draft,
not in August of year three of your career. We're
not talking about your traits unless you blow Okay. So
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that's where we are. That's where we are, and I
hate to break it to Anthony Richardson, but it's not
me versus me. That's not a me versus me situation
based on a minutes long deliberation. It's you versus reality
is the situation. Right, You are in a dead heat.
You are in a dead heat. Anthony Richardson with a
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guy the Giants ran out of town and they had
nobody else other than Tommy Cutlet's they've ran your ass
out of town, right, And you're acting like you're baggling
the ghost of Peyton Manning or something like that at
quarterback in Indianapolis. It's amazing, like the clock is ticking
on both these guys. Now, listen, Daniel Jones. I know
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he has to stopover in Minnesota and he didn't play
or anything like that. But the Colts front office, okay,
Jim Hersay left this mortal coil. Jim had a hard life,
a lot of sex, drugs, rock and roll. He's gone out.
So now the daughter's running the team and so there's
a changing of the guard there. You ain't even sit around. Wait, well,
the upside upside, upside, upside upside, how about your upside down?
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And your took us is what you want? Bill Parcells.
Another quote you lose with potential. You lose with the Naville,
you win with performance. And that's that's the Colts in
a nutshell. You got Shane Steichen who's still hanging around there,
and does he really want to go six and eleven
or seven and ten again while waiting for something to change.
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Get that full Anthony Richardson experience there, and maybe he'll
finally show up and this will be the year. Yeah,
he's due, he's due. Right when you're the guy with
the most talent in the room, okay, you're the player
with the most talent in the room, gets a little
bit brighter on your ass.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's the way it works. So when you flame out,
and that's what Richardson's doing right now, it does burn
a little bit bigger. The fire is a little bit bigger,
and so the bar is higher for Richardson, as it
should be, as it should be. So instead of embracing
it and say I've sucked. You know, I'm terrible, and
I gotta be I gotta be better. And it seems
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just sounded like a deflection to me this quote, as
we parse the words, it sounds to me like a
deflection like, well, the pressure just doesn't apply and if
you would like to impress gas bags like this one me,
then then don't give don't give me the zen, don't
give me the zen quotes about me versus me and
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all that stuff that sounds like a bad morning radio show,
me versus me. Uh, get out there, take care of
the football, Take care of the football, maybe win some games.
Don't take yourself out of a game. Don't quit on
your team because you're a little gas because everyone's gassed
in second half of games, and all that stuff. Until
then you're just another failed draft pick clinging on getting
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opportunities still because of the scouting report and based on
things you haven't actually done, but things you're supposed to do,
and it hasn't translated into on field success. Now, speaking
of on field success, we go now to Denver. Another
interesting quote. This one comes from Sean Payton, the former
Fox broadcaster current head coach of the Denver football team.
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So Sean Payton thinks that Bronco quarterback Bownicks will be
a quote superstar soon. What is your verdict on this one?
From Sean Payton made this comment recently in Colorado that
Bownicks will be a superstar. So we need a verdict
on this one. So my weasel word detector started vibrating,
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just like that's what sounds. So he said superstar Sean
Payton soon, bow Knicks soon? Like, how soon? What are
we looking at? Like the end of this season? Superstar? Tomorrow? Tomorrow?
Tomorrow is another day? How about next year? Maybe next
year will be the year he's a superstar? So this
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is you know, I guess to be plays right, Oh,
you'll play, You'll be fine, He'll play. Soon is a hedge.
Soon is a hedge. It is c I a level
plausible deniability. I said soon. It's vague enough. It's vague
enough where if bow Knicks goes out there and plays
like flatulence, Sean Payton can say, well, I didn't mean
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this season. I said soon. Why did you expect me
to him to be great this year? I didn't say
it being superstar this year? I said. So. You know,
soon as a relative term. If you're a turtle, If
you're a turtle, you lived like two hundred years, right,
soon could be you know, fifty years soon for a
turtle that's not that long, live two hundred and fifty years.
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Whatever it is. If you're a tree, you lived two
thousand years on those big sequoia trees that live fifteen
hundred two thousand years and soon. That's a relative term.
So again, now on the flip side, if bow Knicks
does go out there and play well, and then Sean
Payton can say, hey, I told you, told you so.
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I told you guy. Nobody likes I told you guy.
He could be I told you guy. It's again, coach
speak is what it is. It's a good time of
the year for coach be it is and pumping the
tires Sean Payton, they're pumping the tires on his hand
picked quarterback they got rid of. They chased out Russell Wilson,
mister unlimited. It was stunk up the joint in Colorado,
(31:46):
and so they had to get somebody. This is the
guy they got. And you're the pr director of the Broncos.
But it's not really like analysis. It's not analysis, and
you don't take talent talent evaluations from a head coach
because the way I always look at these things, like
if bo Nicks is terrible, is Sean Payton gonna says terrible. No,
(32:06):
he's not gonna say that. Nobody ever says it. Now,
I would take these comments as the gospel. If I
got coaches to say, boy, we got a quarterback who
is a bag of suck and that's our guy right now,
But they never say that New Orleans Saints have suck
bag over there. They have got a dog a poo
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that's one of their quarterback options. And then they have
a bag of cockroaches that's the other option. Those are
the three options at quarterback there in norms. But you
don't hear that. He said, well, this guy's got a
lot of love sign blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Now,
how does one classify the superstar? What is a superstar
in the NFL? So you obviously have to dominate. It
(32:50):
goes without saying there's a domination situation. You have to
be a player that people go out of their way
to watch, meaning that if you have more multiple games on,
you know the red zone, which he has beens about
to kill, But if you had the red zone on,
you would tune out of the red zone to watch
the player because he's that good. He's a superstar. Okay,
(33:11):
so you fill the stadiums, people tune in big ratings
on television, and it's like the magic Johnson quot is
that you have to inspire the city a little much.
But he said it. You know, superstars changed the mood
of the whole building and all that, and so I did.
There's something to that. There's something to that that I
buy into. And at this point, based on today, bo
(33:34):
Nicks is not that guy. You're not that guy, Palt,
You're not that guy. He will give you lots of
bubble screens and system stats and all that stuff, and
you'll never be a superstar just being a system guy.
That will not be the case, just like Brock Purty's
never going to be the guy a superstar because he's
just a system quarterback in San Francisco. He got paid
(33:54):
a lot of money. Congratulations, but you're just a system guy.
Bo Nicks last year was the seventeenth ranked quarterback in
the NFL. So now I know I'm being just a
hard oh and a jackass and you're being too mean.
But that's not superstar, you know, it's not. Now you
know what that makes you? By the way, average that
is right in the same category with Geno Smith. Does
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anyone think Gino Smith is a superstar? No, Gino Smith
is a placeholder at the Academy Awards. When you go
to take a whiz, somebody has to fill your seat.
That's Geno Smith, That's what he is. Certainly not anywhere
near you talk about the upper echelon, which is Mahomes
and Joe Burrow and players like that. But man, so
(34:36):
you don't exactly become a superstar because your head coach
says you're you're going to be that at a news
conference in the month of August. So we'll see. By
dragging your team deep in the playoffs, that certainly changes
the narrative. And we'll see if BO knows, If BO
(34:57):
knows how to do that in Denver hasn't done it yet,
only one year, small sample size, but that's all we
have to go on now. Final point to La La
Land we go follow up to the follow up to
the follow up to the follow up Coach Jim Harbaugh.
Coach Jim Harbaugh said, Chargers running back Nasei Harris one
eyed nase that's too me. Naji Harris, who was playing
(35:21):
with fireworks and got the wrong end of the fireworks
on the fourth of July at Stravaganza in Northern California. Well,
some bad news here, Jim Harbaugh saying that Charger running
back Naji Harris, he said he's getting better, And then
in the same breath, he said, right now at Charger
training camp preparing for a National Football League season, Naji
Harris is currently walking laps as part of his rehab.
(35:46):
He still has no timetable, no timetable to return to
the field in uniform. So where are you at on
this one? Where are you at on this one? So
that is wild. So Jim Harbin's, Oh, he's making progress.
He's walking laps around the field. There's no timetable for
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him to put on pads and all that stuff. So
I keep going back to the calendar. We're now in
early August. We're doing this on August fifth, and the
Chargers have already played a preseason game. They have another
exhibition game coming up this weekend, so they've got another
exhibition game to look forward to. You here, and you've
got Jim Harbaugh out there. He's like, well, no, he's
(36:30):
getting better. He's uh, he's getting better. He's so how
exactly how does that work? Remember, the agent for Najie
Harris said, but he suffered a superficial eye injury playing
with fireworks, and here we are in training camp and
he's still walking laps. Yeah, yeah, there's a Does that
(36:50):
help your eye? By the way, I should have great eyes.
I walk a lot. I should have really good eyesight.
My eyes should be freaking great. Why am I wearing glasses?
I walk a lot. I should have really good eyesight.
So there is no timetable, no drills, no contact, just laps.
And that's what the fat kid at junior high school
has to do in Pe when they forget their sneakers.
(37:14):
You know, I know that I was the fat kid.
I was the fat kid that had to walk laps
in Pe. So I guess I could be an NFL
player because I can walk labs. I could play for
the Chargers. I could rehab for the Charge. The fat
kid walking laps, that's me. And that's Naje Harris, your
(37:34):
big free agent running back pick up. There. It's great.
It's not rehab. It's like a liability waiver. Well, you can't.
We can't put you in pats. You can't see out
of one of your eyes, unfortunately, and we can't give
you cleats and a helmet and all that stuff. If
Nasee could see I would assume he'd want to be
out there and be cutting and exploding and taking handoffs
and all that stuff, and he's you can't actually play
(37:57):
with one eye, that's the thing. And there was a
the reason we have the combine is there was a
guy drafted by the Jets that was blind, legally blind
in one of his eyes and got drafted in the
second round. Actually had a good career with the Jets,
but they were so upset they drafted a blind guy
that they started the combine to test people's vision and
(38:18):
to see whether or not they could see or not
things like that. But anyway, listen, so Naji, he's pacing
the sidelines and wandering around like he's waiting for a
delay in the terminal or Spirit Airlines to get their
act together and all that stuff. So not safe. Not saying,
but that's the chargers, baby, show me your lightning bolt
(38:43):
can take the Chargers out of San Diego. And they
left years ago. But that's the that's the charge. That's
the charge. I remember the old Chargers right. And if
something goes sideways, if something can go wrong for the Chargers,
they they will will figure out a way. If it
can't go wrong, they'll find a way for it to
go wrong. And so fourth of July completely goes off
(39:05):
the rails. And now this player's career hanging in the balance,
hanging in the balance here, and then you've got Harball
over here giving coach spik. Yeah, he's getting better, and
he's currently walking laps as part of his rehab. He's
walking laps as part of his rehab. Okay, is that
what they record? Like if you're an eye doctor, do
(39:25):
you recommend Okay, you've got a bad eye, just walk lapse,
that'll make it better. No. But he's getting ten thousand
steps a day, which I'm jealous of. So he's got
he's got his he's got his Apple watch. There he's
getting the ten thousand steps a day or whatever. So
there you go. So, based on just reading the t
(39:46):
leaves here, I think he's gonna be coming back. I
hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. I hope he
comes back and is able to play and all that stuff.
But he's a running back. This was kind of a
second chance. The Steelers dumped him. He's just a plo
odding running back. When he can see they got other
guys there It's not looking good for Nachie Harris at
this point if you look at the long range forecast.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
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Speaker 1 (40:14):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
This is one gets grilled.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
So another thing Sean Payton said over the weekend was
that the short term goal for the Broncos is winning
the division, but that he thinks this team is capable
of winning the Super Bowl. Ben, do you think the
Broncos are capable of either of those things this season?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
No? Well, not the super Bowl, And the only way
they'll win the division is a proper knee ligament tear
and twisted ankle at the right time. Like, the Broncos
will be a good team. There'll be a middleweight contender,
but not a heavyweight contender next.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
DK metcalf told reporters that the Steelers defense is the
best that he has ever seen. Last year, they were
eighth in the league in scoring defense. Do you expect
a big improvement from them this season?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
So it's nice of DK metcalfe to urinate all over
the Seattle defenses that he had there. It's nice of
him to say that, but but no, listen, Pittsburgh will
be around that area. They the big additions. They picked
up Darius Slay who was with Philadelphia, and Jalen Ramsey
from Miami. Those are the two big additions on defense,
So they're there. Are both players who have been around
a while, good players. I believe they will end off
(41:26):
right around that seven to ten range defensively, so they'll
be in that same department. But it's good that DK
metcalf is the hype man for the Pittsburgh defense. Has TJ.
Watt gotten paid yet? I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
Next, Chad Johnson recently told TMZ that Jamar Chase is
the best wide receiver ever to play for the Bengals
and actually the best player in the NFL right now, Ben,
do you agree with either of those statements?
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Well, he's better than Chad Johnson. I was a big
Chad Johnson fan. But Jamar Chase is better than Chad Johnson.
So Chad Johnson was considered the top receiver with apologies
to Chris Cowns in Bengals history. So yes, Jamar Chase
better than Chad Johnson. Uh No, he's not the greatest
receiver in the NFL, as a certain guy in Minnesota
right now who has that title as the top receiver
(42:11):
in the NFL. I do like the word best coop,
as you know, the best means as good as all
the rest. So he's really just as good as all
the rest. But there is Mallard to the third degree.
How did we do you failed this edition? What are
you heavy? West? Such a horseman? No, they're not. They're
middleweight contender, middleweight content. That's all they are, middleweight contender.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
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Speaker 1 (42:52):
Probably not, Fi soue. Here we go. It is the
always pop Malor's Mountain of Money, and we are about
to play that game right now. We'll get our contestants
lined up and let's see who do we have here?
Amy meany miney mo see. And we've got Jacob in
(43:17):
Delaware wants to play. He just called about Jacob. Are
you there? Jacob? All right? Jacob, and you're gonna play.
Who do you want to partner up? Have you got
me or Cooper? All right? Hold on a second, and
we have a sears c meany money more? I think
Scott wants to play. Let me punched the right line
(43:38):
up here? He blew me off on a holder. No, no,
that's not that Scott. Hello Scott in the are you
called earlier? Are you the same guy? Scott? Yes, you
called back? You had nothing else going on?
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:50):
No, Well I'm here play.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Loc all right, man? Can I play with I would
love for you to play with Lorena? You want to
give a sho Lorenda. That's a pure death card for you, sir?
You want to play? I think we should do it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Oh yeah yeah, Loreno, let's all.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Lorena. Well, you don't want to play with this guy,
Scott me. Scott's a big fan of yours. That's a
great guy.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
I can't even print out a sheet for Lorena because
the printer doesn't work here.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
What is wrong with the printer? Why is this just?
Speaker 4 (44:22):
It freezes anything that I try to print from Remlins.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
It happens.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
It happens.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Computers do one thing very fast.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
They they make you very frustrated.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
All right, Scott, this guy's an expert.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
You're gonna team up with Ben Scott.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Scott, that's not Scott. I don't want you to half
around Scott. I I am the all time wins king. Okay,
you're about to play with cy Young? Do you understand
that I am Cy Young?
Speaker 3 (44:51):
I am Albert?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Okay, that's enough, all right?
Speaker 4 (44:59):
This is Malar a mountain of money, Adam Yacht Condition
Yauk Condition from BC Boys. He would have been sixty
one years old today. He passed away several years ago. Jacob,
you were on the air first. The categories are Paul Revere,
no Sleep till Brooklyn, Fight for your Right or sure Shot?
Which category would you like? Like?
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Well, now it's you, But now you can pick one? Scott. Okay,
all right, I'm gonna okay, all right, I thinks that's
a hometown pick. Jacob.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
You and I are up first, so Scott don't answer
this time. It's me and Jacob. Right now, I need
the first and last name of the athlete in order
to get points. The categories fight for your Right? These
athletes are known to love to party. Are you ready, Jacob?
All right, let's begin this guy Timer. This guy, this guy,
(45:55):
This guy was shut up, Scot. This guy was the
quarterback for the Jets. He got drunk all the time. Yes,
this guy's nickname was the worm in the NBA. Yes,
this guy was the playmaker. He loved cocaine. Wide receiver
from the Cowboys. Yes, this guy's the nickname was money.
He was a quarterback in Texas, A and M. Yes,
(46:17):
this guy was a baseball player with the last name
of Fruit. He also loved cocaine. Yes, this guy was
a third basement for the Red Sox. He loved beer.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
All right.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
This guy was a tight end. He was on the Saints.
He had long blonde hair. Yes, all right. The other
guy I think he also went to the Tampa Bay
raised dobaas.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
I know you didn't get Wade bog Wade Boggs was
the one that we were missing. All right, here we go, Scott,
Well you picked the Paul Revere. These athletes are all
known to own horses. Are you ready there? Are you
ready there? Scott? Yes, Okay, forty five seconds on o'clock,
we're on our way. Go center for the Denver Nuggets.
Multi time MVP tight end for the Chiefs. He's sleeping
(47:05):
with the most famous woman in the world.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Oh, Kelsey, Kelly, kill kelthy, kealthy?
Speaker 1 (47:13):
What's this? What's his first name?
Speaker 4 (47:17):
All right, we'll get We'll give it to you twenty.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
This sounds like a leperon, doesn't it is?
Speaker 4 (47:24):
This?
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Are you the leper gun? Pan? You're the leper gun? Right?
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (47:28):
My gosh? Is that why he's buttering up to me? Oh?
We got punked, man. This guy's a fraud. This guy's
a fraud. You got a second phone? All right? Hanging
up on that guy? All right? That ends the game.
Games we win, Jacob, good job. You don't win anything
that was a fraudulent the game you win as much
as the a holes win. You get a golden tick, Jacob.
(47:53):
Do you want to run up the score? Do you
want to do another category?
Speaker 3 (47:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (47:55):
The game's all a little done with the game. All right,
let's go, thank you, Let's go to Uh do know Tony?
Is this Tony? Tell her? Tony? What's going on? Tony?
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (48:06):
Yes? Can I help you? Tony? Oh?
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Wasn't I earlier?
Speaker 1 (48:12):
Why did you call back?
Speaker 3 (48:14):
I was trying to talk to Koop?
Speaker 1 (48:15):
But what do you want to talk? You talk to him?
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Now on the air. Go ahead, What do you want
to talk to him about? Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (48:20):
So the other day I try to sing a song.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Hold on a second, Yeah, take your time.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
You don't mind you no, no, no. So I tried
to sing a song and you guys thought I cursed,
but it was Sam Cook. Lord, remember me. I was
trying to sing for the Bears because they blow for
the last freaking what forties, fifties, sixties.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
You love the Bears. You're not supposed to say they blow.
You're a big Bears goot your bear's backer. You love
the Bears.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
I'm not a homer man.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
But they don't.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
The way we look at it in our family in Chicago,
Tony is the Bears don't suck. They're just hibernating.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
That's a long hibernation, man.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Yeah, it has been a long time. It's been a
very long since. Like George Hallis and and all that,
what can we do to make Mallard's amount of money
good again? I feel like the game blows. We need
to get rid of it. Is it too hard a game?
Or people so stupid they don't know how to play
the games. We just banned the game. I don't know
Mad
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see big money, big money, No whemies stop, all right,
We're gonna go to La That's what we're gonna start.
We start in Los Angeles and problems for a former
super Bowl hero, former super Bowl champion quarterback If you've
not heard yet, as things are not looking particularly good
for a quarterback that won the championship in la a
(02:43):
couple years back there, and the coach is running interference.
So if you didn't follow this, Sean McVeigh, the head
coach of the Rams, knowing you can ram it all day,
ram it all night, and you can ram your quarterbacks
back into the ground where he's all messed up. So
Sewan m walking the proverbial tightrope without a safety net
(03:05):
here protecting or attempting to protect Matthew Stafford, his starting
quarterback QB one. Remember the offseason when Tom Brady took
Matthew Stafford out in Montana and then a private enclave
there and they were trying to whine and dine him
and get him to go to the Raiders. And then
Tom Brady had to settle for Gino Smith, Holy crap,
(03:28):
And there were other teams that were flirting with Matthew Stafford. Well,
he ended up going back to the Rams. And now
he's not able to play. Say what, yeah, not able
to play? We are about a month about a month
away from the start of the NFL regular season. Matthew
Stafford's health a lingering cloud of doom over the Rams?
(03:50):
Is this the end of his career as a quarterback
in the NFL? Stafford has continued to be absent from
RAM training camp. And he has an issue on my
aching back. That's his issue. He's got back sore on this.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That prompted Sean McVay to describe the situationton as week
to week now. There was no official setback, there was
nothing stated. Might have been something, who knows, maybe he
bent over to get something in the kitchen and the
back snapped. But nonetheless, despite no official, no official setback,
(04:29):
Matthew Stafford, thirty seven has already now visited the spine specialists,
a specialist on the back twice twice. Now, that certainly
signals that this is not just a minor a minor bump.
There's something else going on. So let us discuss the question.
Rams coach Sean McVay continuing to downplay to downplay Matthew
(04:53):
Stafford's back issues with the Rams. What are your ears
tell you? What are your ears tell you? On this?
So I've we've got rocket fizz, piping hot and homecoming King,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make the Gabba ghul. We're gonna
(05:13):
make the Gabba gool. So A, Now, what did the
years say? I'll tell you my years. Hey, listening between
the words, listening between the words here, it sounds like agony,
absolute agony. A week to week to me, sounds like
he's done, he's out. That's it, that's cod that's coach speak.
(05:38):
I've been around too long. I've heard the coach speak for.
We are praying to the gods to make sure that
we get something to happen. We need to go into
the sorcerer's workshop here and cook up a spell for
Matthew Stafford. We have to find something magical because that
spine is toast and they know it. He's cooked. You
(06:02):
do not visit a spine specialist multiple times unless there
is something big time going on with that back there,
and why not. You look at the supporting evidence for
Matthew Stafford. He's in your seventeen, he's got the Super
Bowl Championship there on his resume, he's got a lot
(06:27):
of touchdowns, a lot of broken body parts, and just
clued together. At this point, we're going to assume his
podcast wife there probably wants him to retire. So then
you've got Sean McVay in this soap opera. You've got
Sean McVay who's candy coating everything like he's working at
Rocket Fizz and he's, Oh, everything's good, everything I covered
(06:49):
in sugar, We're good. Everything's all right here. And he's
trying to feed the ram fan who's just trying to
ram it all day and Raymond all night, trying to
feed the ram fan jolly ranchers. And then they're like, well, no,
this is not a jolly rancher situation. There's a hot Tomali.
This is hot Tomali situation. Yeah, spicy, all right. So
you're trying to walk the thin line. You're trying to
(07:12):
walk the line from being optimistic pep by Sean McVay
to wait a minute, this is a disaster, so I
got to do disaster control. But actions do always speak
louder than words. We've had that mantra for a long time.
It's kind of everyone's good should have that mantra. So
Matthew Stafford has in practiced, He hasn't thrown. He's essentially
(07:32):
just walking around like he's just walking the aisles at
home depot, looking at stuff. And if I hear week
to week week to week one more time, I am
going to rip my headphones off my head and throw
them against the wall, is what I'm going to do.
Week to week, week two week. Oh my god, that
(07:52):
is the phrase that you use as an NFL head
coach when you don't want to admit your pork. You
don't want to admit that. So yeah, week to week.
Eh yeah, week to week, my fat ass week to week.
So the Rams are one and I gotta make sure
I say this properly because this is the number one
phrase that is messed up on people that give updates
(08:16):
on medical conditions involving the back. But the La Rams
are one bulging disc. I said it disc. They're one
bulging disc away from Jimmy Garoppolo under center. So you
talk about going from Frelemonreon to gas station beef jerky,
(08:36):
That's what Jimmy Garoppolo is at this point. Now, can
the Rams slap together a good season during the regular Yes,
they can, of course they can. Do you expect them
to go on a burner and to the championship unlikely?
Can they beat crappy teams like Seattle and Arizona and
the forty nine ers. Sure those teams suck down the
line against the better opponents. That's the problem, right, you
(08:59):
have to become a defense. The Rams better become a
top five team. He's even a garoppolo place, He's a
porcelain doll. We know that the guy slips on a
wet leaf somewhere and he's in the injury tent, camping
out and all that stuff. So the Rams have to
have a dominant defensive team. As Stafford, it's not looking
(09:20):
so good at this point today. We do the show today,
and at this point today, based on the available information
we have, things are not looking good. Meanwhile, speaking of
not looking good, we go to Cleveland, where it never
looks good in terms of the football team, and update
a new update to the depth chart. I know nothing
more exciting, more compelling on talk radio than the Cleveland
(09:44):
Browns depth chart. Boy, we know how to keep you
satisfied as a consumer of overnight talk radio. So the
former Colorado star Shirdur Sanders is right now, Berry, He's
buried on the Browns depth chart. He is currently listed
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as the fourth string quarterback. So how does that taste?
How does that one taste? So that tastes like piping
hot fresh out of the oven. Humble pie is what
that is. Humble pie right there. You get a slice,
You get a slice. You get a slice. So Schener
Sanders the next big thing in college, the prodigy, the
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amazing Prince of Prime and the spawn of Dion, all
that stuff. Four string on the worst team in the NFL,
the Cleveland Browns. You want to talk about an emasculation situation,
that would be that. And that's what happens when the
hype does not match the tape and you apparently do
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not get the red carpet rolled out for you because
your daddy was flashy and worn sunglasses. If only Shirdhur
Sanders had been an NBA player, then he'd be in
really good shape, right Like Brownie James sucks and he's
on the Lakers and all that. He can't play. Should Sanders,
though there's no guarantee, even makes the Cleveland Browns at
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this particular point. And man, it appears that despite the
social media clout Schauduur Sanders has, the coaches don't seem
to care, his teammates don't seem to care very much.
And it's billed as a meritocracy. Now we know that
it's not always a meritocracy, at least it should be,
but it's not. And Shoulder has flunked the eye test.
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So far, you get one shot. You get one shot
to make a first impression when you start a new job,
and it would appear, based on the outside looking in,
that he has tripped over his own shoelaces, Shudur Sanders
at this particular point. So, now I have watched some
of the practice clips. Now, usually they only send out
the good stuff, they don't send out the bad stuff
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and all that. But even from what they've sent out,
which you know is heavily edited, and things are left
on the cutting room floor that you probably should see.
So there's nothing special from what I've seen. So kind
of reads things slowly, doesn't have an amazing top flight
arm and didn't see any of that in the practice clips.
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And so much like we were talking about the Rams
sugar coating things with Matthew Stafford, we don't need to
sugarcoat things with sugar Sanders. You've got Joe Flacco, who
I just checked on his Pro Football reference page, just
turned four hundred years old, So happy birthday, Joe. Flacco.
You've got Kenny Pickett, who sucks, and then you've got
Dylan Gabriel who's left handed, which should mean that you're downgraded.
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You're left handed. And he barely got drafted, but yet
was drafted ahead of Sudar Sanders. So shdu has been
unable to leap frog any of them. He's barely ahead
of Deshaun Watson Ben Watson game in play this year,
So man, what a mess. If Shoulder it was the
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real deal in practice, not a game, we would assume
he'd be getting more opportunities, more chances, and would be
higher up on the depth chart. But what do we know.
We just do the overnight show. And so it turns
out that at this point, despite all the big things
on the socials, this is the NFL, not some kind
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of branding seminar. And you produce your fourth on the
depth chart and in danger of being gonzo see you later.
And he's not been the beacon of the Browns which
some were anticipating. There, he's at this point a footnote.
And right now that book is that book with the
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footnote there that's closing rapidly. All right now, last word
to the gambling market we go. You know, we love
the gambling market in these parts, and we can update
update the gambling odds. A very popular storyline this time
of the year. Who is going to win the most
Valuable Player of the year. You know, they have that
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ceremony before the Super Bowl where they have a red
carpet event and everyone gets all dulled up and they
hand out all these awards and pat each other on
the ass and say how great you are and all that. So,
according to our friends at DraftKings, a big sponsor of
this radio show, we're grateful for that. The people of
a DraftKings sportsbooks say, the public has spoken, and you
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know who's the betting favorite according to the public to
be the most valuable player? Do you know who this is? No,
I want to take a guess. Who do you think
it is? Now you're wrong? Now you're wrong. Yet, No,
you're wrong. The correct answer if you said, if you
said Josh Allen the Bills.
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You're wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, it's Bengals. It's Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. That's the answer.
There plus six fifty most popular pick by popular people
in the NFL game market, Twenty two percent of the
bets have come in for the Bengals quarterback Lamar Jackson,
a multi time platinum MVP winner himself, plus fifty five
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point fifty is behind Joe Burrow at twelve percent. Then
you've got Jayden Daniels of the Commanders, Patrick Mahomey. Patrick
mahomes is next, and then on the big board a
lot of dumb people in Philadelphia betting on Jalen Hurts
to be the MVP. Dumb d dumb, dumb dumb. Yeah,
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good luck on that. So Joe Burrow at the very top,
Lamar Jackson right behind Joe Burrow among the most popular
NFL MVP bets at this particular point in time. What
does that tell you? So I'll go first. It tells
me the same thing it's told me every year since
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we started talking about this. It is a PC situation.
Popularity contest is what it is. So you throw on
a pair of Gucci shades and you show up with
the cigar, got to have the stogy. You get the
cigar there and boom, you are the people's champ, right,
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you are the people's Now listen, Joe Burrow, he's got
the swag and all that. He's got the arm and
when he is able to stay upright in Cincinnati and
not get tackled by a bowl of Skyline chili thrown
by just Josh or Justin in Cincinnati, when he's able
to avoid that. Sure, things are pretty good. Things are.
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Things are pretty good. He's right there. And there's only
a few quarterbacks that are at that upper echelon in
the NFL, and he's one of them. But here's the
rub on this, here's the rub. The thing that bothers
me is I was asked the other day who I
like is the MVP, and I picked Joe Burrow. But
I don't want to be on the side of the public.
The public is always wrong. I don't want to be
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on the side of the public. You're betting on Joe
Burrow like he's already hoisting the trophy up in February,
and listen, I don't want to be on your side.
You've ruined that analysis for me that now he's gonna
be brittle Joe Burrow, and he's gonna get hurt and
it's your fault. And now I'm gonna have to jump
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away from Burrow. And as far as Lamar Jackson, listen,
Lamar's he's got the Hall of Fame regular season numbers,
not so much in the playoffs. But Lamar Jackson, two
time Platinum MVP, he's second in bets. But you look
at the AFC North, the quarterbacks in the AFC, nor
two of them here, that division turning into the Roman
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Colosseum with two of the top picks to win the
most valuable. And then you've got like washed up Aaron
Rodgers and then the slop the Cleveland Browns are thrown
out there. But man, those two. So the betting public,
the betting public loves a good story. They love a
good story, and they love the swagger, the electricity of
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Lamar Jackson and all that stuff. However, the MVP voting,
it is not the homecoming King situation. You do have
to stay relatively healthy for the balance of the seventeen
week regular season that you play in. And again, we
love Burrow. We went with Burrow when we were asked
a while back, and so we've been Benny bright Side
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on Joe Burrow for the MVP. The public writing this
one does bother it, bothers us bothers me a lot,
and you know it might be time to fade the
hype on that one. So MVP betting, MVP betting, the
Ultimate Instagram Contest. Right Instagram contest. You know, a little
football mixed in. They're just a little bit of football,
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just a teeny bit. And you're always not supposed to
bet with your heart. You're not supposed to bet with
your heart. And of course the casinos want you to
bet with your heart because you're a loser. When you
bet with your heart, you lose who's much more than
you win, So they want you to do that.
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go to the quarterback derby and oh what a derby
is Indianapolis, Indiana known for the Indy five hundred and
mediocre football and we have a quarterback competition we so,
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so it's time now for the obligatory mallor monologue on
the high drama in Colts Camp. So you have on
one side of the aisle you have Daniel Jones, the
stumble bum. On the other side you have Anthony Richardson,
built like a Dunnis and he plays like hollering James
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from Minnesota. So they are listed as co QB one.
So no, I didn't play in the NFL. However, if
you have co starting quarterbacks, wouldn't that be great? If
the Colts said we're gonna use both guys under center.
We're just gonna have both of them out there at
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the same time, and we'll see what we're gonna do
at that point. Maybe we'll have Anthony Richardson in the backfield,
then he'll run out to the slot receiver, we'll have
Daniel Jones, he'll go to the slop. But we're gonna
start the mote. So isn't that special? Now that's not
the story here. It did the lead to an absolute
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gem of a quote from Anthony Richardson. So if you
didn't hear this, and perhaps not, Richardson commenting about his
situation from top five draft pick to now having to
be in a dogfight with a literal dog in Daniel Jones,
who sucks? So Richardson said, quote, even if they meaning
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the Colts brought Tom Brady in here, he's the greatest,
but I just have to work and try to beat
him out. Richardson stated, he said, here's the key part
of the quote. It's a me versus me type thing.
It's a me versus me type thing. That is what
we call the money quote. That's a good jumping off point.
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So let us discuss the question Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson
calling the QB competition in Indianapolis with Daniel Jones. A
quote me versus me thing? How do you decode that quote?
So I've got hot blonde, Cia level and fat kid,
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three things that have never been thrown together, and we
will throw them together and say abra cadabra, hocus pocus.
Here we go. So number I said, number one umber
just like QB one. This one smells like delusion. Now
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what does delusion smell like? Similar to rotten eggs, similar
to sulfur, rotten eggs, that whole thing delusion. So you
are in a quarterback battle royale and you're brushing off
the guy who's right there with you, breathing down your neck.
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Is what you're doing for Anthony Richards in a year.
So Daniel Jones, and I'm certainly not going to sit
here and praise Daniel Jones. You know how I feel
about him. If you've heard the show over the years,
we've done many amoult of monologue about the many frailties
of Daniel Jones, how flawed he is, and we believe
he's covered in maggots. However, however, he's neck and neck
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for the starting job in Indianapolis. So what that tell you?
It's the old Bill Parcell's line about Anthony Richardson. That
potential potential means you haven't done anything yet. And as
we like to say, a prospect is a suspect and
to proven otherwise. And Anthony Richardson has been very suspect
when he's played. That's Richardson in a nutshell, is what
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it is. Richardson. I'll tell you what Richardson is, the
hot blonde at the bar that looks amazing and then
that kind of flirts with you, you know a lot
of contact, oh flirty and get you excited and then
ghost you. That's what Anthony Richardson is, right, that's Richardson
in a nutshell. That's what he is. All tease, no please,
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no results, nothing. And Richardson, who has a highlight reel,
if you want to call it, that of a little
bit of brilliance, a little bit of brilliance, heavily edited,
a lot of bonehead mistakes, a lot of those quitting,
taking himself out of the game. You don't you don't
outlive that, you don't short change that. And every time
Richardson rolls out in the pocket, and there's a lot
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of people that go ooh and ah and all like
he's the second coming, and then you look at the
actual results of that, and I guess accuracy does matter.
It does matter. He's a compass rose co North, south, east,
west and anywhere else in between. You want to turnover,
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he'll give you a turnover. You want zero, ability to
stay on the field, He'll give you that as well.
He's got that. Richardson is. I believe he's in year
three now if I'm not mistaken, although really based on
games played a lot less than that, and yet this
far into his career, the conversation about Anthony Richardson is
still well, let's talk about the traits that he has.
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Traits that's you know what that is. That's what dopey
sports radio hosts like me talk about. In the NFL
draft season in March and April, we talk about the
traits of quarterbacks, right, well, the combine in the NFL draft,
not in August of year three of your career. We're
not talking about your traits unless you blow Okay. So
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that's where we are. That's where we are, and I
hate to break it to Anthony Richardson, but it's not
me versus me. That's not a me versus me situation
based on a minutes long deliberation. It's you versus reality
is the situation. Right, You are in a dead heat.
You are in a dead heat. Anthony Richardson with a
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guy the Giants ran out of town and they had
nobody else other than Tommy Cutlet's they've ran your ass
out of town, right, And you're acting like you're baggling
the ghost of Peyton Manning or something like that at
quarterback in Indianapolis. It's amazing, like the clock is ticking
on both these guys. Now, listen, Daniel Jones. I know
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he has to stopover in Minnesota and he didn't play
or anything like that. But the Colts front office, okay,
Jim Hersay left this mortal coil. Jim had a hard life,
a lot of sex, drugs, rock and roll. He's gone out.
So now the daughter's running the team and so there's
a changing of the guard there. You ain't even sit around. Wait, well,
the upside upside, upside, upside upside, how about your upside down?
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And your took us is what you want? Bill Parcells.
Another quote you lose with potential. You lose with the Naville,
you win with performance. And that's that's the Colts in
a nutshell. You got Shane Steichen who's still hanging around there,
and does he really want to go six and eleven
or seven and ten again while waiting for something to change.
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Get that full Anthony Richardson experience there, and maybe he'll
finally show up and this will be the year. Yeah,
he's due, he's due. Right when you're the guy with
the most talent in the room, okay, you're the player
with the most talent in the room, gets a little
bit brighter on your ass.
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Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's the way it works. So when you flame out,
and that's what Richardson's doing right now, it does burn
a little bit bigger. The fire is a little bit bigger,
and so the bar is higher for Richardson, as it
should be, as it should be. So instead of embracing
it and say I've sucked. You know, I'm terrible, and
I gotta be I gotta be better. And it seems
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just sounded like a deflection to me this quote, as
we parse the words, it sounds to me like a
deflection like, well, the pressure just doesn't apply and if
you would like to impress gas bags like this one me,
then then don't give don't give me the zen, don't
give me the zen quotes about me versus me and
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all that stuff that sounds like a bad morning radio show,
me versus me. Uh, get out there, take care of
the football, Take care of the football, maybe win some games.
Don't take yourself out of a game. Don't quit on
your team because you're a little gas because everyone's gassed
in second half of games, and all that stuff. Until
then you're just another failed draft pick clinging on getting
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opportunities still because of the scouting report and based on
things you haven't actually done, but things you're supposed to do,
and it hasn't translated into on field success. Now, speaking
of on field success, we go now to Denver. Another
interesting quote. This one comes from Sean Payton, the former
Fox broadcaster current head coach of the Denver football team.
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So Sean Payton thinks that Bronco quarterback Bownicks will be
a quote superstar soon. What is your verdict on this one?
From Sean Payton made this comment recently in Colorado that
Bownicks will be a superstar. So we need a verdict
on this one. So my weasel word detector started vibrating,
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just like that's what sounds. So he said superstar Sean
Payton soon, bow Knicks soon? Like, how soon? What are
we looking at? Like the end of this season? Superstar? Tomorrow? Tomorrow?
Tomorrow is another day? How about next year? Maybe next
year will be the year he's a superstar? So this
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is you know, I guess to be plays right, Oh,
you'll play, You'll be fine, He'll play. Soon is a hedge.
Soon is a hedge. It is c I a level
plausible deniability. I said soon. It's vague enough. It's vague
enough where if bow Knicks goes out there and plays
like flatulence, Sean Payton can say, well, I didn't mean
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this season. I said soon. Why did you expect me
to him to be great this year? I didn't say
it being superstar this year? I said. So. You know,
soon as a relative term. If you're a turtle, If
you're a turtle, you lived like two hundred years, right,
soon could be you know, fifty years soon for a
turtle that's not that long, live two hundred and fifty years.
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Whatever it is. If you're a tree, you lived two
thousand years on those big sequoia trees that live fifteen
hundred two thousand years and soon. That's a relative term.
So again, now on the flip side, if bow Knicks
does go out there and play well, and then Sean
Payton can say, hey, I told you, told you so.
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I told you guy. Nobody likes I told you guy.
He could be I told you guy. It's again, coach
speak is what it is. It's a good time of
the year for coach be it is and pumping the
tires Sean Payton, they're pumping the tires on his hand
picked quarterback they got rid of. They chased out Russell Wilson,
mister unlimited. It was stunk up the joint in Colorado,
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and so they had to get somebody. This is the
guy they got. And you're the pr director of the Broncos.
But it's not really like analysis. It's not analysis, and
you don't take talent talent evaluations from a head coach
because the way I always look at these things, like
if bo Nicks is terrible, is Sean Payton gonna says terrible. No,
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he's not gonna say that. Nobody ever says it. Now,
I would take these comments as the gospel. If I
got coaches to say, boy, we got a quarterback who
is a bag of suck and that's our guy right now,
But they never say that New Orleans Saints have suck
bag over there. They have got a dog a poo
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that's one of their quarterback options. And then they have
a bag of cockroaches that's the other option. Those are
the three options at quarterback there in norms. But you
don't hear that. He said, well, this guy's got a
lot of love sign blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Now,
how does one classify the superstar? What is a superstar
in the NFL? So you obviously have to dominate. It
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goes without saying there's a domination situation. You have to
be a player that people go out of their way
to watch, meaning that if you have more multiple games on,
you know the red zone, which he has beens about
to kill, But if you had the red zone on,
you would tune out of the red zone to watch
the player because he's that good. He's a superstar. Okay,
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so you fill the stadiums, people tune in big ratings
on television, and it's like the magic Johnson quot is
that you have to inspire the city a little much.
But he said it. You know, superstars changed the mood
of the whole building and all that, and so I did.
There's something to that. There's something to that that I
buy into. And at this point, based on today, bo
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Nicks is not that guy. You're not that guy, Palt,
You're not that guy. He will give you lots of
bubble screens and system stats and all that stuff, and
you'll never be a superstar just being a system guy.
That will not be the case, just like Brock Purty's
never going to be the guy a superstar because he's
just a system quarterback in San Francisco. He got paid
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a lot of money. Congratulations, but you're just a system guy.
Bo Nicks last year was the seventeenth ranked quarterback in
the NFL. So now I know I'm being just a
hard oh and a jackass and you're being too mean.
But that's not superstar, you know, it's not. Now you
know what that makes you? By the way, average that
is right in the same category with Geno Smith. Does
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anyone think Gino Smith is a superstar? No, Gino Smith
is a placeholder at the Academy Awards. When you go
to take a whiz, somebody has to fill your seat.
That's Geno Smith, That's what he is. Certainly not anywhere
near you talk about the upper echelon, which is Mahomes
and Joe Burrow and players like that. But man, so
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you don't exactly become a superstar because your head coach
says you're you're going to be that at a news
conference in the month of August. So we'll see. By
dragging your team deep in the playoffs, that certainly changes
the narrative. And we'll see if BO knows, If BO
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knows how to do that in Denver hasn't done it yet,
only one year, small sample size, but that's all we
have to go on now. Final point to La La
Land we go follow up to the follow up to
the follow up to the follow up Coach Jim Harbaugh.
Coach Jim Harbaugh said, Chargers running back Nasei Harris one
eyed nase that's too me. Naji Harris, who was playing
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with fireworks and got the wrong end of the fireworks
on the fourth of July at Stravaganza in Northern California. Well,
some bad news here, Jim Harbaugh saying that Charger running
back Naji Harris, he said he's getting better, And then
in the same breath, he said, right now at Charger
training camp preparing for a National Football League season, Naji
Harris is currently walking laps as part of his rehab.
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He still has no timetable, no timetable to return to
the field in uniform. So where are you at on
this one? Where are you at on this one? So
that is wild. So Jim Harbin's, Oh, he's making progress.
He's walking laps around the field. There's no timetable for
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him to put on pads and all that stuff. So
I keep going back to the calendar. We're now in
early August. We're doing this on August fifth, and the
Chargers have already played a preseason game. They have another
exhibition game coming up this weekend, so they've got another
exhibition game to look forward to. You here, and you've
got Jim Harbaugh out there. He's like, well, no, he's
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getting better. He's uh, he's getting better. He's so how
exactly how does that work? Remember, the agent for Najie
Harris said, but he suffered a superficial eye injury playing
with fireworks, and here we are in training camp and
he's still walking laps. Yeah, yeah, there's a Does that
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help your eye? By the way, I should have great eyes.
I walk a lot. I should have really good eyesight.
My eyes should be freaking great. Why am I wearing glasses?
I walk a lot. I should have really good eyesight.
So there is no timetable, no drills, no contact, just laps.
And that's what the fat kid at junior high school
has to do in Pe when they forget their sneakers.
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You know, I know that I was the fat kid.
I was the fat kid that had to walk laps
in Pe. So I guess I could be an NFL
player because I can walk labs. I could play for
the Chargers. I could rehab for the Charge. The fat
kid walking laps, that's me. And that's Naje Harris, your
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big free agent running back pick up. There. It's great.
It's not rehab. It's like a liability waiver. Well, you can't.
We can't put you in pats. You can't see out
of one of your eyes, unfortunately, and we can't give
you cleats and a helmet and all that stuff. If
Nasee could see I would assume he'd want to be
out there and be cutting and exploding and taking handoffs
and all that stuff, and he's you can't actually play
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with one eye, that's the thing. And there was a
the reason we have the combine is there was a
guy drafted by the Jets that was blind, legally blind
in one of his eyes and got drafted in the
second round. Actually had a good career with the Jets,
but they were so upset they drafted a blind guy
that they started the combine to test people's vision and
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to see whether or not they could see or not
things like that. But anyway, listen, so Naji, he's pacing
the sidelines and wandering around like he's waiting for a
delay in the terminal or Spirit Airlines to get their
act together and all that stuff. So not safe. Not saying,
but that's the chargers, baby, show me your lightning bolt
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can take the Chargers out of San Diego. And they
left years ago. But that's the that's the charge. That's
the charge. I remember the old Chargers right. And if
something goes sideways, if something can go wrong for the Chargers,
they they will will figure out a way. If it
can't go wrong, they'll find a way for it to
go wrong. And so fourth of July completely goes off
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the rails. And now this player's career hanging in the balance,
hanging in the balance here, and then you've got Harball
over here giving coach spik. Yeah, he's getting better, and
he's currently walking laps as part of his rehab. He's
walking laps as part of his rehab. Okay, is that
what they record? Like if you're an eye doctor, do
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you recommend Okay, you've got a bad eye, just walk lapse,
that'll make it better. No. But he's getting ten thousand
steps a day, which I'm jealous of. So he's got
he's got his he's got his Apple watch. There he's
getting the ten thousand steps a day or whatever. So
there you go. So, based on just reading the t
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leaves here, I think he's gonna be coming back. I
hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. I hope he
comes back and is able to play and all that stuff.
But he's a running back. This was kind of a
second chance. The Steelers dumped him. He's just a plo
odding running back. When he can see they got other
guys there It's not looking good for Nachie Harris at
this point if you look at the long range forecast.
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This is one gets grilled.
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So another thing Sean Payton said over the weekend was
that the short term goal for the Broncos is winning
the division, but that he thinks this team is capable
of winning the Super Bowl. Ben, do you think the
Broncos are capable of either of those things this season?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
No? Well, not the super Bowl, And the only way
they'll win the division is a proper knee ligament tear
and twisted ankle at the right time. Like, the Broncos
will be a good team. There'll be a middleweight contender,
but not a heavyweight contender next.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
DK metcalf told reporters that the Steelers defense is the
best that he has ever seen. Last year, they were
eighth in the league in scoring defense. Do you expect
a big improvement from them this season?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
So it's nice of DK metcalfe to urinate all over
the Seattle defenses that he had there. It's nice of
him to say that, but but no, listen, Pittsburgh will
be around that area. They the big additions. They picked
up Darius Slay who was with Philadelphia, and Jalen Ramsey
from Miami. Those are the two big additions on defense,
So they're there. Are both players who have been around
a while, good players. I believe they will end off
(41:26):
right around that seven to ten range defensively, so they'll
be in that same department. But it's good that DK
metcalf is the hype man for the Pittsburgh defense. Has TJ.
Watt gotten paid yet? I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
Next, Chad Johnson recently told TMZ that Jamar Chase is
the best wide receiver ever to play for the Bengals
and actually the best player in the NFL right now, Ben,
do you agree with either of those statements?
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Well, he's better than Chad Johnson. I was a big
Chad Johnson fan. But Jamar Chase is better than Chad Johnson.
So Chad Johnson was considered the top receiver with apologies
to Chris Cowns in Bengals history. So yes, Jamar Chase
better than Chad Johnson. Uh No, he's not the greatest
receiver in the NFL, as a certain guy in Minnesota
right now who has that title as the top receiver
(42:11):
in the NFL. I do like the word best coop,
as you know, the best means as good as all
the rest. So he's really just as good as all
the rest. But there is Mallard to the third degree.
How did we do you failed this edition? What are
you heavy? West? Such a horseman? No, they're not. They're
middleweight contender, middleweight content. That's all they are, middleweight contender.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
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listen live now. Malor's Mountain of Money? He do you
have what it takes to get to the top?
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Probably not, Fi soue. Here we go. It is the
always pop Malor's Mountain of Money, and we are about
to play that game right now. We'll get our contestants
lined up and let's see who do we have here?
Amy meany miney mo see. And we've got Jacob in
(43:17):
Delaware wants to play. He just called about Jacob. Are
you there? Jacob? All right? Jacob, and you're gonna play.
Who do you want to partner up? Have you got
me or Cooper? All right? Hold on a second, and
we have a sears c meany money more? I think
Scott wants to play. Let me punched the right line
(43:38):
up here? He blew me off on a holder. No, no,
that's not that Scott. Hello Scott in the are you
called earlier? Are you the same guy? Scott? Yes, you
called back? You had nothing else going on?
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:50):
No, Well I'm here play.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Loc all right, man? Can I play with I would
love for you to play with Lorena? You want to
give a sho Lorenda. That's a pure death card for you, sir?
You want to play? I think we should do it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Oh yeah yeah, Loreno, let's all.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Lorena. Well, you don't want to play with this guy,
Scott me. Scott's a big fan of yours. That's a
great guy.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
I can't even print out a sheet for Lorena because
the printer doesn't work here.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
What is wrong with the printer? Why is this just?
Speaker 4 (44:22):
It freezes anything that I try to print from Remlins.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
It happens.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
It happens.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Computers do one thing very fast.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
They they make you very frustrated.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
All right, Scott, this guy's an expert.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
You're gonna team up with Ben Scott.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Scott, that's not Scott. I don't want you to half
around Scott. I I am the all time wins king. Okay,
you're about to play with cy Young? Do you understand
that I am Cy Young?
Speaker 3 (44:51):
I am Albert?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Okay, that's enough, all right?
Speaker 4 (44:59):
This is Malar a mountain of money, Adam Yacht Condition
Yauk Condition from BC Boys. He would have been sixty
one years old today. He passed away several years ago. Jacob,
you were on the air first. The categories are Paul Revere,
no Sleep till Brooklyn, Fight for your Right or sure Shot?
Which category would you like? Like?
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Well, now it's you, But now you can pick one? Scott. Okay,
all right, I'm gonna okay, all right, I thinks that's
a hometown pick. Jacob.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
You and I are up first, so Scott don't answer
this time. It's me and Jacob. Right now, I need
the first and last name of the athlete in order
to get points. The categories fight for your Right? These
athletes are known to love to party. Are you ready, Jacob?
All right, let's begin this guy Timer. This guy, this guy,
(45:55):
This guy was shut up, Scot. This guy was the
quarterback for the Jets. He got drunk all the time. Yes,
this guy's nickname was the worm in the NBA. Yes,
this guy was the playmaker. He loved cocaine. Wide receiver
from the Cowboys. Yes, this guy's the nickname was money.
He was a quarterback in Texas, A and M. Yes,
(46:17):
this guy was a baseball player with the last name
of Fruit. He also loved cocaine. Yes, this guy was
a third basement for the Red Sox. He loved beer.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
All right.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
This guy was a tight end. He was on the Saints.
He had long blonde hair. Yes, all right. The other
guy I think he also went to the Tampa Bay
raised dobaas.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
I know you didn't get Wade bog Wade Boggs was
the one that we were missing. All right, here we go, Scott,
Well you picked the Paul Revere. These athletes are all
known to own horses. Are you ready there? Are you
ready there? Scott? Yes, Okay, forty five seconds on o'clock,
we're on our way. Go center for the Denver Nuggets.
Multi time MVP tight end for the Chiefs. He's sleeping
(47:05):
with the most famous woman in the world.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Oh, Kelsey, Kelly, kill kelthy, kealthy?
Speaker 1 (47:13):
What's this? What's his first name?
Speaker 4 (47:17):
All right, we'll get We'll give it to you twenty.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
This sounds like a leperon, doesn't it is?
Speaker 4 (47:24):
This?
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Are you the leper gun? Pan? You're the leper gun? Right?
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (47:28):
My gosh? Is that why he's buttering up to me? Oh?
We got punked, man. This guy's a fraud. This guy's
a fraud. You got a second phone? All right? Hanging
up on that guy? All right? That ends the game.
Games we win, Jacob, good job. You don't win anything
that was a fraudulent the game you win as much
as the a holes win. You get a golden tick, Jacob.
(47:53):
Do you want to run up the score? Do you
want to do another category?
Speaker 3 (47:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (47:55):
The game's all a little done with the game. All right,
let's go, thank you, Let's go to Uh do know Tony?
Is this Tony? Tell her? Tony? What's going on? Tony?
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (48:06):
Yes? Can I help you? Tony? Oh?
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Wasn't I earlier?
Speaker 1 (48:12):
Why did you call back?
Speaker 3 (48:14):
I was trying to talk to Koop?
Speaker 1 (48:15):
But what do you want to talk? You talk to him?
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Now on the air. Go ahead, What do you want
to talk to him about? Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (48:20):
So the other day I try to sing a song.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Hold on a second, Yeah, take your time.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
You don't mind you no, no, no. So I tried
to sing a song and you guys thought I cursed,
but it was Sam Cook. Lord, remember me. I was
trying to sing for the Bears because they blow for
the last freaking what forties, fifties, sixties.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
You love the Bears. You're not supposed to say they blow.
You're a big Bears goot your bear's backer. You love
the Bears.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
I'm not a homer man.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
But they don't.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
The way we look at it in our family in Chicago,
Tony is the Bears don't suck. They're just hibernating.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
That's a long hibernation, man.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Yeah, it has been a long time. It's been a
very long since. Like George Hallis and and all that,
what can we do to make Mallard's amount of money
good again? I feel like the game blows. We need
to get rid of it. Is it too hard a game?
Or people so stupid they don't know how to play
the games. We just banned the game. I don't know
Mad
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