August 19, 2025 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about the latest update from Sean McVay on the status of Matthew Stafford, the Browns naming Joe Flacco as their Week 1 starter, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Edward Norton Edition, and much more!
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lead this hour is from La La Land and update. Update.
After refusing very oddly to answer questions about the status
of Matthew Stafford over the weekend, which led some to
conclude it wasn't good. It wasn't good. The Rams broke
their radio silence. Hellllelujah, hellllelujah. So if you didn't see
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this or hear about it, maybe not. We've learned now
that Super Bowl champion quarterback Matthew Stafford was a full participant.
Oh my god, you saw that. No full participant. I know.
It's a shocking revelation. In the hour or so that
he did practice, he ran wait for it, twenty six
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plays oh my god. In team drills twenty six place
now Stafford his return of the field, this being celebrated
by Maddy. This is a great sign. It's a great mitchfoot.
Sean McVay, who did not comment over the weekend, McVeigh
said Stafford quote look good in his return to Ram workouts.
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This is the big injury storyline of the exhibition season.
McVeigh also, though, said that the Rams will continue to
take things a day at a time. Well, I always
try to take things three or four days at a time,
but McVeigh is only going to take it a day
at a time. And in regarding these status the back
injury of Matthew Stafford. So let us discuss the question,
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how would you describe Sean mcvay's update on the health
of Matthew Stafford with the Rams. So my thoughts on this,
I've got Midas, wedding invitations and sand castle and we'll
mix all of these things together and make some amazing sauce.
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Will it be barbecue sauce, Will it be honey mustard sauce,
to zeke sauce. We'll just make some good sauce. Now
A My first reaction to the update on Matthew Stafford
is what it is. The plot thickens. It's like the
old radio mystery theater that I'm so old. When I
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was a kid, they still played reruns of that and
my dad used to listen. They love that, that mystery
theater on the radio. They used to do that at night.
And Sean McVay is giving us a whole lot of
what that's right, a whole lot of nothing the old
day by day day by dayline now using the Mallar
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Rosetta stone. And if you do talk radio, you need
a Mallard Rosetta stone is what you need. So we
just go through coach speak. We dissect coach speak. And
what McVeigh said is the equivalent of when you visit Midas,
and the mechanics says, well, keep an eye on it.
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Regarding Sean mcvay's like the mechanics, I mean, we're gonna
keep an eye on that. It's like, no, pal, I
need the car to get me where I have to
go to work, and I have to run some errands
and stuff like that. Uh, not to the junkyard, Okay,
I don't want to have a tow truck. And McVeigh
says he doesn't, you know, he doesn't want to put
the cart before the horse. That was one of the
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quotes I saw from mcvey's media session on Monday. And
guess what. The cart is already wobbling, wobble, wobble, wobble.
It's already wobbling it is. The horse looks like it's
limping a little bit. It's got a bad leg. You
know what happens to the horses that have bad legs,
Elmer's glue. Yeah, that's right. And and mcvay's out there
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he's telling the fan base. He's like, hey, relax, relax, well,
see where this goes. Let's see where this goes. It's
like turning on your car in the morning. I just
have a car like this. My I inherited, well, my
grandfather was still about his old car and that was
like my first car, and I look really cool because
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it's your car. Your first car is big thing. Back
when I'm so old, I used to like driving. Like
I guess the kids today don't want to even drive.
They're like, I don't need to go anywhere. I get
them on my phone. I don't need to go in.
But I was like a big deal to drive. And
so I got my grandfather's car, and it looked cool,
and it seemed like it was perfect, and it didn't
always start, and sometimes you turn on and make that that,
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you know, kind of weird sound, and and you know,
trying to get the engine going and all that, and
I'm like, well, I don't live in a cold place.
I live in southern California. If I lived in like Appleton, Wisconsin,
where my brother lives right now, my younger brother, and
then I'd think, Okay, it's a little cold, get to
warm the car up, like I don't. And and so
some days it would start, and some days I did
make the call of shame over the Triple A and
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get them out there with the tow truck and all
that stuff. But that's Stafford right now. That is essentially
the life and times of Matthew Stafford. And remember a
couple weeks ago, the reason that this is so interesting,
in the mystery of it all, is that the company
line that was being fed to useful idiots in the media.
I remember Adam Schefter, for example, was parroting Ram officials saying,
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you know, nothing to worry about with Stafford, It's just
a maintenance issue. There's zero panic in the RAMS organization,
and now it looks like the RAMS are treating Matthew
Stafford like a piece of fine china, and you just
don't breathe on him too hard. He might crack, maybe
break or toe. And the weekend silence, which turned out
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to be a case where it wasn't Stafford had a
setback or anything like that, but it's still a bad sign.
It's still a bad sign. It's like he who must
not be discussed, Like are you paying him forty million
or something like that a year, Matthew Stafford, and you're
tiptoeing around like he's a sleeping toddler and you don't
want to wake him up. I mean, you don't want
to upset him. I was like, really, what is that about.
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We're nothing about a sore hamstring. Here is just sitting
and let it rest a little bit. You're talking about
the back, Oh my aching back, that's what you talking about.
And the back, as we have pointed out in previous
episodes of this radio show, the back, and I'm not
a doctor, but I can play one on the radio,
is the engine that everything is connected to. Everything is
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connected to the back. Right. And if you're back screwed up,
you're screwed right, You're screwed. It's the engine. You mess
with the back, everything shuts down everything. And the backup
plan at this moment is the fellow rotting carcass of
Jimmy Garoppolo and Stetson Bennett. Now I am confident whoever
plays quarterback for the Rams, they'll win at least ten games.
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The bar is ten. The defense is good enough, they'll
get good special teams. McVeigh knows what he's doing. They'll
win ten. The problem is, can you really catch lightning
in a bottle and be a legitimate contender. You have
to downgrade obviously, the Rams. You have to downgrade them
until proven otherwise. And then the NFCS, which pretty wide open. Oh,
Philadelphia's dynasty, now they're not. That was a nice year
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last year. Let's see what they got this year, the
Philadelphia Eagles. Anyway. So that's the dear with the Rams.
And so for those of you in the back of
the room, a little slow in the back of the
room there, when the Rams say day to day, When
McVeigh says day to day, that to me, that is
a dead give it dead. Give it. That is code
for we have no idea if he's going to be
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able to play or not, so we'll check back to
my It's like the weather in the Midwest, right, it's
going to change. Just wait a few minutes, it'll change.
I'll just wait a day, it'll change. Now, speaking of
the Midwest or the Atlantic States, well, I guess it
is the Midwest, but it's like the lowest kind of
the border of the South. I've been told, I've been
yelled at by my friends that live in Cincinnati that
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it is not the South. But yet when I visited
the airport in Cincinnati, it was in Kentuck, and I
think of Kentucky as the South. But I was told
that Cincinnati is not a Southern city. So that would
mean it's a Midwestern city, I would assume. Anyway, we've
learned the Bengals and pass rusher Trey Hendrickson have agreement.
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They have an agreement, well, not on an actual contract.
They have agreed though, on the length of the hypothetical contract.
They've got the outline on how long the contract will be.
They also know the average annual salary. Well, that'll get
you through the night. Now, speaking during an absolute dreadful
Monday night football exhibition game that had Fox refugees Joe
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Buck and Troy Aikman calling the game. Hendrickson on the
broadcast confirmed that those are dun skies. They have agreement.
They have agreement based on this update. I asked you
on the esteem panel, I ask you, is the glass
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is it half full or is it half empty for
Trey Hendrickson with the Bengals. So I am going to
go with half empty and cracked. That's what I wrote
on my scorecard. Why could you say that You can't
say that he's already got the agreement on the average
annual salary and the years, and that's a big thing. Okay,
mix may why I'm gonna I'm gonna hold your hand
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and I'm I'm explaining to you like you're five years old. Okay.
The Bengals and Hendrickson have not agreed on the issue
of guaranteed money, which last I checked, is the most
important part of the deal. It's kind of like they're
at the point now where they have picked the font
for the wedding invitations. Congratulations, you know what fonts you're
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going to use. Meanwhile, the bride and groom are fighting
over whether the filemon is on the menu or not,
or do they go chicken and fish and avoid the
filet mignon because that's more expensive. And then you've got
the mashed potato option and the green beans, but who
wants green beans? And you have those annoying napkins that
are decorated and folded in special ways. So they've got that,
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but the main course, no, no, no, that's guaranteed money, and
so that's still frozen. They're not sure what they're gonna
take out of the freezer. They don't know what they're
gonna do. And it's like agreeing to build a house
and then refusing, for no apparent reason, refusing to pour
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the foundation for the house. It's like, oh, yeah, we
got the blueprints, we got the blueprints ready to go.
We picked the paint color, and we went out and
we bought some throw pillows, so we've got that for
the house. We're ready to go. And we've got a
coffee book table, and so we don't have a coffee
table'll get that next. And the concrete though for the foundation,
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the thing that holds up the entire damn the house.
I don't know about that I'm not sure if we
want to do that or not. We don't know if
we want to have a foundation or not. And that
is the Bengal wait. That is what they do. The
Bengals have a stance. They do not provide secured guaranteed
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money after the first season of the contract. So that
has created a impass, and so they continue to be
an impass, which leads me to despite the average annual
salary being agreed to, and despite Hendrickson indicating the amount
of years has been agreed to, it doesn't mean the
most important thing is the guaranteed money. Everything else is fluff.
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That's its cotton candy, and that's it all right now,
last word. And then we get some calls and some nonsense.
Here we go to San Francisco, positive reports, boots on
the ground. This did not come from Ernesto the longtime
forty nine or apologist, but it did come from one
of our listeners that listens in the Bay area who said, hey,
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mister Rampant, he sent me a message that and I'm
paraphrasing here. I did not write it down, but Mike
is the guy's name him and it was somewhere in
the Bay area I forget where, and he was saying,
is that well, Matthew Stafford's hurt, but the Niners have
McCaffrey back, They have him back, positive reports The Athletic,
the Old Gray Lady behind a pay wall, telling us
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that if forty nine Ers star Christian mccafrey is not
back to his twenty twenty three form, he's pretty close.
Mike was very excited about this report, so he passed
it on to me. Again, if forty nine er star
Christian McCaffrey is not back to his twenty twenty three form,
which he was an MVP type player, he's pretty close
to it, believe it or not. So I'm gonna answer
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it this way. True, perhaps irrelevant, though true, perhaps irrelevant
though And here's why I have this in the basket
that I wrote, and I wrote on the basket, supter
fuge is what I wrote on the basket, like you're
selling the idea that McCaffrey is still the same guy
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right now starting the ear. Look, he's starting the year.
He's healthy, he's great, he's fine. And to that, I say,
whoop D damn do That's what I say, whoop D
damn dude. The whole issue with this guy has never
really been week one. It's week nine, it's week ten,
it's week thirteen. It's being a dependable, reliable workhorse. Outside
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of a brief stretch which was a magical run of
greatness like a video game cheat code, Christian McCaffrey has
been more like a sand castle, a professionally made sand castle.
And if you've ever seen one, they're majestic. You're like, Wow,
that was made out of sand. How did someone do that?
That is so artistic, It is so amazing, It is beautiful.
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You stare at it, you look at the ocean in
the background. You're like, this is the greatest thing. How
did they do this? I can't believe it. What a
great talent that is. And it looks really great. And
then what happens? The tide rises and where does that
sand castle go? Right back to the beach. All that
saying comes washing it's washed away, and that's it. And
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you look at the niners two and a hater. This
is a teetering on the brink situation because you got
you paid brock Purty. You had to pay them me,
Oh my god, you had to pay so you paid him. Fine, Okay, great,
it's a multi billion dollar business. You paid brock Purty
and so he got paid. Are you about to get
played here? He's a system guy. Even the biggest brock
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Purty suck ups will admit to you he's a system guy.
And that means he's going to lean on Christian McCaffrey
and George Kittle and got rid of some of their
other playmakers and other guys are hurt. So those are
the guys are going to lean on until they come
tumbling down, down, down, down down. In Kyle Shanahan's offense
with brock Purty, it is a training wheels offense, and
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it'll work fine until the playmakers end up in the
injury tent and they're roasting marshmallows and making s'mores around
the fire. Well, the games are going on, and then
brock Purty is exposed, and then all of a sudden's like, well,
wait a minute, I thought shanahan system was gonna be okay.
And then well, you paid them all this money and
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he's a turn Burger brock party, And then questions will
start about Kyle Shanahan, did they miss their opportunity? Yes
they did, and they didn't win the championship. They got
to the Super Bowl, they had a championship level team.
They failed, So therefore, what are we doing here? And
then those kind of storylines will start popping up.
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are back at it again and our lead this hour
is from the Factory of Sadness in Cleveland, Ohio. That's right.
We go where the news of the day takes us.
And we had three teams, three teams that had quarterback drama,
O rama, drama, O rama, and one of them has
announced their QB one and that would be the Cleveland
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football team. If you somehow missed this because pay attention
to the Browns, perhaps you missed it. The Browns have
named We've learned Joe Flaco. That's right, as old as
a dinosaur, Joe Flaco as the starting quarterback in week
number one, against the He goes now, much to the
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annoyance of the fanboys, the Cleveland officion NATO's, who are
very upset by this. I remember a couple of years ago,
Joe Flacco was the flavor of the month. It was anyone,
anyone other than Deshaun Watson. Well, Flacco now is old news.
But he has beaten out Kenny Pickett hard to believe,
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and rookies Shader Sanders and Dylan Gabriel. But Sanders look
so good in those little practice games. Now. Flacco, when
he played for the Browns back in twenty twenty three,
somehow led the team to a playoff appearance, and it
didn't have great individual statistics in five starts. He did
win the AP Comeback Player of the Year award, which
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upset many people. They wanted Damar Hamlin, who the guy
that almost croaked on the field for the Bills. They
wanted him to win Comeback Player of the Year, but
it was Joe Flacco. Now. Last season playing for the
Horseshoes with the Colts, Flaco again had pretty middling numbers.
You'll give you twelve touchdowns and seven interceptions and it'll
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play really well for one game or a half and
then disappear for the next half or the next couple
of games. So let us discuss the question why why
did the Browns coach Kevin Stefanski go with Joe Flaco
as QB one. So my observations, I've got tuxedo, Alan Wrench,
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and Best Buy and we'll combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some chow. That's right,
We're gonna make some chow. So number why My first answer,
and I'm the first answer is always the top answer.
The answer I'm going with, I want to see if
you agree or disagree? Is it starts with a d decorum? Right,
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football decorum. That's the ticket. You follow the protocol. When
in doubt, you go buy the book. When in you
go by the way. So in my head, Stefanski's looking
at the quarterback depth chart. He says, well, this guy sucks.
That guy blows, that guy's garbage and that guy's trash.
But I got to name a starter. So what do
you do? What do you do? You followed the protocol,
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Kevin Stefanski, it's the safe pick. If Flacco sucks, you say,
I was just going by the book. I was just
going by the book. That's it. You're not reinventing anything here.
You're just polishing the hupcap. You're not inventing the wheel.
The wheel has already been invented. You're just polishing the hubcap.
That's it. Now, Joe Flacco has more mileage at this
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point than a rusted out nineteen ninety four Taurus. A
lot of miles and a lot of rust. It's been
left outside, it hasn't been parked in the garage. There's
a lot going on here. Is the guy you start
when you want to give the illusion you're a competent franchise,
right that you're you're actually competent, and but you're not
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committing to the few you're worried about. Now. You're living
in the moment, and it's it's kind of like if
you put on a tuxedo to have a nice frozen dinner.
You're gonna have a nice microwave dinner, but you're getting
all dressed up here. Listen, I can go to a
five star restaurant where a tuxedo. I can sit here
and eat my one pound of fish sticks and the
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potato on the side there. I can do that. And
so that is what they're doing here. They're like, well listen,
we're gonna get all dressed up. This is a Super
Bowl champion quarterback, Joe Flacco. The single greatest postseason run
of my lifetime was Joe Flacco for the Baltimore Ravens.
It'll never be matched. Well, I'm around and Joe Flacco
did it. Uh, and he got paid a lot of
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money and then he stole that money and that was it.
But the TV dinner thing as well, it looks good, right,
you run, the tuxedo looks good, the food looks good,
and then you start eating in it. It's like, well
it's a little robbery. That's not very good and all
that stuff. So they're going with the VHS option. The
Browns are saying, we'll go via. I know everyone's doing streaming,
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but we like that old school that click, you know,
when you put the VHS tape. You're old enough to
remember VHS to you put that in. Thathing locks in
there and you're like, I'm in, I got a movie.
I got a movie and that's it. Now. The streaming,
of course, you dependent on the Wi Fi and all
that stuff. And Joe Flacco is he outdated? Absolutely? It
still occasionally works, much like a VCR. Occasionally it'll still work.
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And he's the analog quarterback and in a digital league.
And that's what Joe Flacco is. And you're going with
that the way I approached this. Now, I am not
a Cleveland brown fan. I was for one year. I
was forced. I switched teams every year, and you idiots
voted me a Cleveland Browns fan for one year. So
I do have some Browns merch at the Malor mansion.
Although I did. I lost the one piece of Browns
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merch I wish I had. I cannot find it. Somebody
sent me. They thought it was the ugliest Cleveland brown
hat and it had the Brown's Elf mascot on it,
and I thought it was so ugly. It was good. Look.
I actually wore that, and I wore it so much.
I never lose hats, and I can't. I cannot find
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the hat. I don't know what happened to it. It was
like his orange hat and it had these ugly brown
leprechaun the mascot. But I had, I had Brown's jersey.
I've had all this stuff. I had all this stuff. Anyway,
back to the story, So I look at this. I'll
be Benny bright Side. I am Benny bright Side. The
Browns are using these first couple games of the regular
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season as a showcase. That's what they're doing. And Flacco
is not the Browns quarterback. He is the available asset
for the Cleveland Browns. They'll trot him out there and
they'll let him sling the duke pass the football around
for the first three or four weeks of the season
and they're just gonna wait and there'll be some voodoo
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bugoaloo that'll pop up. And not that you want Mahomes
to twist an ankle or Josh Allen to get a
case to the yips, or Lamar Jackson to pull a
hammy and have it go whammy. You don't want any
of that. However, if any of that does happen, Boom
goes to dynamite. Boom goes to dynamite, and then you
look at I need a starter and this let me
get a classic. I want a vintage. I want a
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stratocaster at a pawn shop. That's Joe Flacco. I want
the stratocaster from the pod shop. Boom, Joe Flacco, done, undone, done,
all right now, Page two. So what is the text message,
if you will, What is the text for Brown's rookie
Shadur Sanders and Dylan Gabriel. What is the message the
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Browns are sending for them not getting the starting job
and being who knows third four string? So Kevin Stevanski
is sending the text message. The text message that he
is sending is that hey said, listen, Shadur Sanders, Dylan Gabriel.
We don't do on the job training, not right now.
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We're not into that. That's not what we're going for.
This is not a some kind of school. It's not
a Montassory school in the it's the AFC North and
we're not willing to give the keys to one of
you rookies. So you're sorry. That's it. We're not doing it.
So Sanders and Gabriel they're still in the IKEA phase
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of their careers. Now what does that mean? That means
some of you believe there is endless hope because you
think every young player is going to be great. You
do you tell me that when I rip prospects, you said,
oh my god, you were so wrong. The two things
that I get ripped apart most for are I would
trade every draft pick. I would be like, there's this
guy named Mike Ditka. You don't know who that is,
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but he used to coach the football team in Chicago,
and then he coached the team in New Orleans. He
traded all of his draft picks one year to get
this running back named Ricky Williams who loved weed more
than football, which was a problem. But you know they
went for and I had no problem with that. I
was like, trade all the picks. So I get ripped
for that, Well, you know, what are you doing? Prospect
is a suspect, that's my go to. And also I
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get ripped for pointing out there is no such thing
as momentum. People get very upset, very upset because they've
been raised on Uncle Moe. And I say, well, Uncle
Mo lives in New Jersey. He used to live in Brooklyn,
and Uncle Moe moved from Brooklyn to New Jersey. So
I know Uncle Ma. I've not met Uncle Moe. But
Uncle Mo is that's a person. That's not That's not
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a thing. Anyway. Get back to the point. So Sanders
and Gabriel, the rookies, they're in the IKEA phase of
their careers. What does that mean there's a lot of
hope and all that stuff, but you need an Alan wrench.
You need an Alan wrench, and you got to work
your way through the Swedish instructions because for some reason
they didn't include the English instructions. So you've got to
read the Swedish instructions to make it all work. And
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Stefanskyn saying, well, we're get a build for the future,
but were you want these guys to watch, We want
them to observe what is going on and all that stuff.
And right now we're going with not the Ikea sofa.
We're going with the sofa that we got from the
thrift store, the Joe Flacco sofa from the thrift store.
It's not about winning. It's more about optics and doing
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what you're supposed to do. As we mentioned the word protocol,
you're following the protocol. It's also about those I believe showcasing.
This is the mannequin in the window and you're putting
Joe Flacco out there, and you're like, all right, we'll
put him out there, and he's a relic and maybe
he'll be okay for a couple of games and all that,
(29:27):
and he's also been to more quarterback meetings Joe Flacco
than Shadura Sanders has college starts by a country mile.
And he's not flashy, he's not good, he's not fast. However,
he's familiar. It's kind of like that as you get older.
There's certain clothes that you keep. It's a pair of
shorts or some old shoes. It's just stuff that we
(29:50):
keep that fits right. It doesn't necessarily look right, but
it fits right. You kind of keep it around and
you keep that till you check out, and then somebody
else has to get rid of it. But you keep
that to the very end of the road, when you
reach the end of the line. There, you keep that stuff.
And we've got to get all these Browns monologues in.
Got to get them all in. And the reason we
(30:12):
have to get them all in is because once the
season starts, those will be poison. And we're trying to
get them all in right now, and then we'll meet
the quota that we have for our friends in Cleveland
and whatnot. And did get an email from God? What
did you stop doing the you who's listening to the
podcast thing? I don't know. We should do it everyone,
but maybe we'll do it later, all right. Final point
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to the high speed transaction wire, the sports wire. Couple
of veteran name brand, name brand defensive players on the move.
People you've heard of, people you've heard of, on the move.
Zaban Howard, a longtime Miami Dolphin defensive back. He goes
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to the Colts on a one year deal. Matthew Judan,
an ex pat of the last year he played with
the Falcons. He is off to Miami Miami, Miami Miami
on a one year deal. So toss up question, Zavin
Howard to the Colts, Matthew Judan to the Dolphins. Who
is more likely to make some noise in twenty twenty five?
(31:18):
So the answer to this is both of these guys
are dunskies. Okay, however, all right, despite the fact they've
got more cooties and miles than a Motel six bedspread,
if you know what I mean, there's a reason they
were both unemployed and they just agreed to contracts here
a couple weeks before the regular season is the Over
the Hill Gang. It's kind of like arguing and having
(31:41):
some kind of debate over whether or not you want
to go with the commodore sixty four or the Atari
twenty six hundred. If you're an old school computer historian,
you know what I'm talking about. But you I'm not
play fantasy. Should I do my fantasy on the Commodore
or the Atari? Neither one of them. Dude is connecting
(32:02):
you to the Internet in twenty twenty five. So you're
shopping at best Buy and you're in the scratch and
dent aisle at Best Buy. You're like, there's something good
in there? See what's in there? What is that? What
is that thing of a jake? What's the watch? MC call?
Now that said, if I got to pick knife to
the throat, gun to the head, god do it. I'm
(32:25):
going with Judon. I'm going with Matthew Judon. Now, I
think Miami is gonna fall off the cliff this year,
but I'm still taking Matthew Judon. He doesn't have to
be the star. They actually have some decent players on
that defense in Miami. Not that they are a great defense.
They are an average defense. You don't have to go
in there and be Batman. He'd be Alfred the Butler
in Miami. He's just another body in the dolphin rotation.
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And if he gets a couple of sacks now, and
again that's great for Judon, and he'll go down there
in Florida and to find Ponce de Leon and on Craigslist.
He'll meet with Poncetelli on the parking lot of a
waffle house and he'll have some water there and boom,
good to go, all right at Judon is actually older
(33:07):
than Xavion Howard. He's thirty three. He just had a birthday.
We don't do shout outs, so if you want a
shout out, go to Cameo. Judon's thirty three. His last
good year was in twenty twenty two, and this is
the one last spin around the track before the wheels
on the bus go off the bus. The wheels on
the bus go off the bus, and then you got Howard,
who's younger. However, I have spent minutes, long minutes of
(33:32):
my time debating this, and I've determined, after a brief deliberation,
that it is way harder, way harder to age as
a defensive back than it is as an edge rusher.
Meaning once you lose half a step as a defensive back,
forget about it, forget it, buy your toast and trying
(33:52):
to cover Justin Jefferson with a Walker it doesn't go well.
And Judon at least he moves the needle like there's
just age is better. It's one of those things that's
just your pass rusher, a situational pass rusher. It's like
von Miller, right, von Miller, who's not an every down player,
(34:13):
and he's with Washington now he's assuming he's somewhat healthy,
and you put him out there occasionally he'll get your
two sacks in a game. And like, I look at Judah,
who's not as good as von Miller, but he's the
situational edge rusher, and he can be that guy and
get a couple more years out of his career.
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Yeah, this is one big Ben gets Graill.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
So the Bills got beat up thirty eight nothing by
the Bears in a preseason matchup on Sunday, and no,
it means nothing. One of my closest friends, a Bills fan,
is convinced that the entire AFC East is going to
take a step forward while the Bills are going to
take a step backwards. He's a pessimist, Ben, you agree with.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Any of that. I would not base any decisions based
on an exhibition game and the I watched some of
that game. It was on national television for some reason,
and the Buffalo Bills had the chronic case of id GAF.
If you know what I mean, I don't give an
f and so I know, like, I think the Bills
will be good in the regular season, the Jets will
be mediocre, the Dolphins will get worse. I think the
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Patriots will be better. So I think that's how the
AFC East is going to go. And they're not going
to fall off the map there in Buffalo, although if
they have that attitude, if they come out flasted like that,
sure Next.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Speaking of that thirty eight and o win by the Bears,
I got a lot of people excited about the Ben Johnson,
Caleb Williams parent.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
You're Gene in Chicago so excited, right Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
After Williams had a few quote big time throws.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
G manas also fired up. Is this year? Is this
year gonna look better for the former Trojan Well.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I don't buy the Bears. I'm not on board with
the Bears. I'm not like he had good numbers other
than the sack thing last year. I think the Bears
will be a mediocre team. I think they'll be about
where they were when they had Mitch Trubisky, where you're
in that nine eight, nine, ten win area where you're
kind of a fringe contender for the playoffs, where you're
not really next.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
So the Bengals aren't the only ones listening to trade offers,
as it was reported that the Commanders are shopping. They're
starting running back Brian Robinson junior benjam Commander's fans start
to worry about the developments in DC.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
No, they should be I'm okay with this, Like the
running back thing is a replaceable position, coop. Brian Robinson's
in the last year, coming up on the last year
of his contract, so they want to get rid of
him now and they just keep it's evolving though he's
not a game changing running back. I get it. How
did we do? He passes say when I've got Oh
my god, I'm a Kirk dog.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
I won.
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Now Nailor's Mountain of Money.
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Hell, do you have what it takes to get to
the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
And let's welcome in David in Lost Wages, Nevada. Hello, David, welcome.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Well, I've been wanting to play this for a long
time because I'm playing at home. When you do it,
I do real well, and I just know it's one
of these deals.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
And now that I'm actually on the radio, I'm gonna
have stage right. No, no, you're not. No one's listening.
Look what time it is. Everyone's sleeping, no one's awake.
All right. And then David, you're gonna be at the
meet and read on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
We're gonna meet you absolutely right there.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
All right, who do you want to partner up with? David?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
Let's go with you.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Start at the top here, that's right. All time wins, king,
by the way, all time wins. All right, and hold on. Second,
we have Stephan who's in Denver. Hello Stephan, Welcome, Wait Dad, Oh,
this guy to your guy, Coop, this is your guy.
This is Stephane.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Bring it back.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yeah, all right, Well you know Denver fan. I assume
maybe not. I grew up here.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I'm a fan's horse.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Oh he's a Colts fan. Oh man, cool Denver. You're
not even from Denver, Coop and you're all right? All right?
Coop's always complains he thinks he's gonna win if somehow
he has more time.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Yeah, exact, hurry up, hurry up, all right, top drops,
I'm both on here, David. The category is are this
is the Edward Nordan addition, he turned fifty six on Monday?
Fight Club, moon Rise Kingdom, Birdman or Motherless Brooklyn? Which
category would you like?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
David? Let's Moonlight Kingo moon Like moon Rise Kingdom?
Speaker 6 (38:41):
Alright, right, and then Stephen, do you want fight Club,
Birdman or Motherless Brooklyn?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Let's go Birdman? All right? All right? Did you go?
Good luck on that? Okay, here we go, h David, David,
Here we go, and you picked moon Rise Kingdom. These
athletes were all boys. Are you ready? Okay? Forty five
seconds on the clock. We're on our way. We need
first and last name, the all time home run king
(39:09):
prior to Barry Bonds. That is that is correct? Now
quarterback for the forty nine ers after Joe Montana. He
was Montana's backup with the Niners. What do you say,
Eastern Stevie? Okay, all right, quarterback for the Washington Redskins.
He has legs snapped in half by Lawrence Taylor. All right,
(39:31):
we'll skip ahead here. How about running a tight loan linebacker?
Linebacker for Notre Dame. He had a fake girlfriend. He
played for the New Orleans Saints. That is, correct guard
for the New York Knicks. He played with the Lakers.
His last name is like Romance, like a Valentine type
last name. Now the fly in Hawaiian Philadelphia Phillies star
(39:55):
you missed Josh Hart and Shane Victorino went total, go ahead,
there you go ahead, one toy? Did you know who?
Did you know who the flying Hawaiian was? David? He did?
All right, a little slow on it, All right, Stephan,
we have birdman. Uh need the first and last name
of the athlete.
Speaker 6 (40:14):
These athletes all jump so high they seem to fly
h forty five seconds in the clock.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Let's begin. Current running back for the Eagles.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
Just rush for two thousand Yardsley, Yes, this guy was
the kid for the Mariners back in the day. Okay, Okay,
don't curse, don't this guy one? That's all right. This
guy is on the Memphis Grizzlies. He jumps out of
the he loves guns. He loves to shoot guns.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Even fake one.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Oh my goodness, I'm having such a right all right.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
How about the human highlight reel in the NBA?
Speaker 6 (40:48):
Yes, John Rant, that's correct, human highlight reel, gonyboard.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
All right?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
This guy?
Speaker 1 (40:57):
How about a really short guy he used to dunk
back in the day. His last name is this? The
thing of spider lives in. You gotta got better than that, Coop.
Maybe taking longer with the last sleeping call, then maybe
I should have done last last name. That's the spider
doesn't matter, Coop. Go ahead again, Go ahead again. What
(41:18):
do you want? Alright? Motherless Brooklyn or fight club? Yeah? No,
he got the thirty one two? Yeah? So for oh
yea yeah? Yeah, all right, Stephan, do you want motherless
Brooklyn or fight club? All right?
Speaker 6 (41:31):
These athletes have all been in notable fights. Forty five second,
let's begin. The best basketball player of all time? Yes,
this guy is a defensive end on the Browns. He
bashed Mason Rudolph with the helmet. Yes, This guy had
the one handed catch for the New York Giants back
(41:52):
in the day. Okay, what's what's that?
Speaker 1 (41:58):
I think it's no his sigh? Are you there, Stephan?
Oh cool? Oh god? All right, let's run it up here, David.
Let's show Matt's done here, David. Are you ready? David?
Where's David? Okay? Here we go. Motherless Brooklyn stuff. These
athletes weren't raised by their biological mothers, right. They were
(42:20):
adopted or raised by film Uh, a quarterback who started
a protest movement in the NFL with the forty nine ers.
Oh all right, the bambino for the New York Yankees. Yes,
point guard. He played for the Golden State Warriors and
(42:41):
the Clippers back in the early two thousands. It doesn't matter.
We wanted to have it, Baron Davis. We want the guys.
David the wind all time waits king, all time waits
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lead this hour is from La La Land and update. Update.
After refusing very oddly to answer questions about the status
of Matthew Stafford over the weekend, which led some to
conclude it wasn't good. It wasn't good. The Rams broke
their radio silence. Hellllelujah, hellllelujah. So if you didn't see
(02:27):
this or hear about it, maybe not. We've learned now
that Super Bowl champion quarterback Matthew Stafford was a full participant.
Oh my god, you saw that. No full participant. I know.
It's a shocking revelation. In the hour or so that
he did practice, he ran wait for it, twenty six
(02:52):
plays oh my god. In team drills twenty six place
now Stafford his return of the field, this being celebrated
by Maddy. This is a great sign. It's a great mitchfoot.
Sean McVay, who did not comment over the weekend, McVeigh
said Stafford quote look good in his return to Ram workouts.
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This is the big injury storyline of the exhibition season.
McVeigh also, though, said that the Rams will continue to
take things a day at a time. Well, I always
try to take things three or four days at a time,
but McVeigh is only going to take it a day
at a time. And in regarding these status the back
injury of Matthew Stafford. So let us discuss the question,
(03:37):
how would you describe Sean mcvay's update on the health
of Matthew Stafford with the Rams. So my thoughts on this,
I've got Midas, wedding invitations and sand castle and we'll
mix all of these things together and make some amazing sauce.
(03:58):
Will it be barbecue sauce, Will it be honey mustard sauce,
to zeke sauce. We'll just make some good sauce. Now
A My first reaction to the update on Matthew Stafford
is what it is. The plot thickens. It's like the
old radio mystery theater that I'm so old. When I
(04:19):
was a kid, they still played reruns of that and
my dad used to listen. They love that, that mystery
theater on the radio. They used to do that at night.
And Sean McVay is giving us a whole lot of
what that's right, a whole lot of nothing the old
day by day day by dayline now using the Mallar
(04:42):
Rosetta stone. And if you do talk radio, you need
a Mallard Rosetta stone is what you need. So we
just go through coach speak. We dissect coach speak. And
what McVeigh said is the equivalent of when you visit Midas,
and the mechanics says, well, keep an eye on it.
(05:03):
Regarding Sean mcvay's like the mechanics, I mean, we're gonna
keep an eye on that. It's like, no, pal, I
need the car to get me where I have to
go to work, and I have to run some errands
and stuff like that. Uh, not to the junkyard, Okay,
I don't want to have a tow truck. And McVeigh
says he doesn't, you know, he doesn't want to put
the cart before the horse. That was one of the
(05:23):
quotes I saw from mcvey's media session on Monday. And
guess what. The cart is already wobbling, wobble, wobble, wobble.
It's already wobbling it is. The horse looks like it's
limping a little bit. It's got a bad leg. You
know what happens to the horses that have bad legs,
Elmer's glue. Yeah, that's right. And and mcvay's out there
(05:46):
he's telling the fan base. He's like, hey, relax, relax, well,
see where this goes. Let's see where this goes. It's
like turning on your car in the morning. I just
have a car like this. My I inherited, well, my
grandfather was still about his old car and that was
like my first car, and I look really cool because
(06:07):
it's your car. Your first car is big thing. Back
when I'm so old, I used to like driving. Like
I guess the kids today don't want to even drive.
They're like, I don't need to go anywhere. I get
them on my phone. I don't need to go in.
But I was like a big deal to drive. And
so I got my grandfather's car, and it looked cool,
and it seemed like it was perfect, and it didn't
always start, and sometimes you turn on and make that that,
(06:31):
you know, kind of weird sound, and and you know,
trying to get the engine going and all that, and
I'm like, well, I don't live in a cold place.
I live in southern California. If I lived in like Appleton, Wisconsin,
where my brother lives right now, my younger brother, and
then I'd think, Okay, it's a little cold, get to
warm the car up, like I don't. And and so
some days it would start, and some days I did
make the call of shame over the Triple A and
(06:53):
get them out there with the tow truck and all
that stuff. But that's Stafford right now. That is essentially
the life and times of Matthew Stafford. And remember a
couple weeks ago, the reason that this is so interesting,
in the mystery of it all, is that the company
line that was being fed to useful idiots in the media.
I remember Adam Schefter, for example, was parroting Ram officials saying,
(07:15):
you know, nothing to worry about with Stafford, It's just
a maintenance issue. There's zero panic in the RAMS organization,
and now it looks like the RAMS are treating Matthew
Stafford like a piece of fine china, and you just
don't breathe on him too hard. He might crack, maybe
break or toe. And the weekend silence, which turned out
(07:38):
to be a case where it wasn't Stafford had a
setback or anything like that, but it's still a bad sign.
It's still a bad sign. It's like he who must
not be discussed, Like are you paying him forty million
or something like that a year, Matthew Stafford, and you're
tiptoeing around like he's a sleeping toddler and you don't
want to wake him up. I mean, you don't want
to upset him. I was like, really, what is that about.
(08:04):
We're nothing about a sore hamstring. Here is just sitting
and let it rest a little bit. You're talking about
the back, Oh my aching back, that's what you talking about.
And the back, as we have pointed out in previous
episodes of this radio show, the back, and I'm not
a doctor, but I can play one on the radio,
is the engine that everything is connected to. Everything is
(08:26):
connected to the back. Right. And if you're back screwed up,
you're screwed right, You're screwed. It's the engine. You mess
with the back, everything shuts down everything. And the backup
plan at this moment is the fellow rotting carcass of
Jimmy Garoppolo and Stetson Bennett. Now I am confident whoever
plays quarterback for the Rams, they'll win at least ten games.
(08:49):
The bar is ten. The defense is good enough, they'll
get good special teams. McVeigh knows what he's doing. They'll
win ten. The problem is, can you really catch lightning
in a bottle and be a legitimate contender. You have
to downgrade obviously, the Rams. You have to downgrade them
until proven otherwise. And then the NFCS, which pretty wide open. Oh,
Philadelphia's dynasty, now they're not. That was a nice year
(09:11):
last year. Let's see what they got this year, the
Philadelphia Eagles. Anyway. So that's the dear with the Rams.
And so for those of you in the back of
the room, a little slow in the back of the
room there, when the Rams say day to day, When
McVeigh says day to day, that to me, that is
a dead give it dead. Give it. That is code
for we have no idea if he's going to be
(09:35):
able to play or not, so we'll check back to
my It's like the weather in the Midwest, right, it's
going to change. Just wait a few minutes, it'll change.
I'll just wait a day, it'll change. Now, speaking of
the Midwest or the Atlantic States, well, I guess it
is the Midwest, but it's like the lowest kind of
the border of the South. I've been told, I've been
yelled at by my friends that live in Cincinnati that
(09:56):
it is not the South. But yet when I visited
the airport in Cincinnati, it was in Kentuck, and I
think of Kentucky as the South. But I was told
that Cincinnati is not a Southern city. So that would
mean it's a Midwestern city, I would assume. Anyway, we've
learned the Bengals and pass rusher Trey Hendrickson have agreement.
(10:16):
They have an agreement, well, not on an actual contract.
They have agreed though, on the length of the hypothetical contract.
They've got the outline on how long the contract will be.
They also know the average annual salary. Well, that'll get
you through the night. Now, speaking during an absolute dreadful
Monday night football exhibition game that had Fox refugees Joe
(10:37):
Buck and Troy Aikman calling the game. Hendrickson on the
broadcast confirmed that those are dun skies. They have agreement.
They have agreement based on this update. I asked you
on the esteem panel, I ask you, is the glass
(10:58):
is it half full or is it half empty for
Trey Hendrickson with the Bengals. So I am going to
go with half empty and cracked. That's what I wrote
on my scorecard. Why could you say that You can't
say that he's already got the agreement on the average
annual salary and the years, and that's a big thing. Okay,
mix may why I'm gonna I'm gonna hold your hand
(11:20):
and I'm I'm explaining to you like you're five years old. Okay.
The Bengals and Hendrickson have not agreed on the issue
of guaranteed money, which last I checked, is the most
important part of the deal. It's kind of like they're
at the point now where they have picked the font
for the wedding invitations. Congratulations, you know what fonts you're
(11:42):
going to use. Meanwhile, the bride and groom are fighting
over whether the filemon is on the menu or not,
or do they go chicken and fish and avoid the
filet mignon because that's more expensive. And then you've got
the mashed potato option and the green beans, but who
wants green beans? And you have those annoying napkins that
are decorated and folded in special ways. So they've got that,
(12:06):
but the main course, no, no, no, that's guaranteed money, and
so that's still frozen. They're not sure what they're gonna
take out of the freezer. They don't know what they're
gonna do. And it's like agreeing to build a house
and then refusing, for no apparent reason, refusing to pour
(12:26):
the foundation for the house. It's like, oh, yeah, we
got the blueprints, we got the blueprints ready to go.
We picked the paint color, and we went out and
we bought some throw pillows, so we've got that for
the house. We're ready to go. And we've got a
coffee book table, and so we don't have a coffee
table'll get that next. And the concrete though for the foundation,
(12:47):
the thing that holds up the entire damn the house.
I don't know about that I'm not sure if we
want to do that or not. We don't know if
we want to have a foundation or not. And that
is the Bengal wait. That is what they do. The
Bengals have a stance. They do not provide secured guaranteed
(13:08):
money after the first season of the contract. So that
has created a impass, and so they continue to be
an impass, which leads me to despite the average annual
salary being agreed to, and despite Hendrickson indicating the amount
of years has been agreed to, it doesn't mean the
most important thing is the guaranteed money. Everything else is fluff.
(13:31):
That's its cotton candy, and that's it all right now,
last word. And then we get some calls and some nonsense.
Here we go to San Francisco, positive reports, boots on
the ground. This did not come from Ernesto the longtime
forty nine or apologist, but it did come from one
of our listeners that listens in the Bay area who said, hey,
(13:52):
mister Rampant, he sent me a message that and I'm
paraphrasing here. I did not write it down, but Mike
is the guy's name him and it was somewhere in
the Bay area I forget where, and he was saying,
is that well, Matthew Stafford's hurt, but the Niners have
McCaffrey back, They have him back, positive reports The Athletic,
the Old Gray Lady behind a pay wall, telling us
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that if forty nine Ers star Christian mccafrey is not
back to his twenty twenty three form, he's pretty close.
Mike was very excited about this report, so he passed
it on to me. Again, if forty nine er star
Christian McCaffrey is not back to his twenty twenty three form,
which he was an MVP type player, he's pretty close
to it, believe it or not. So I'm gonna answer
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it this way. True, perhaps irrelevant, though true, perhaps irrelevant
though And here's why I have this in the basket
that I wrote, and I wrote on the basket, supter
fuge is what I wrote on the basket, like you're
selling the idea that McCaffrey is still the same guy
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right now starting the ear. Look, he's starting the year.
He's healthy, he's great, he's fine. And to that, I say,
whoop D damn do That's what I say, whoop D
damn dude. The whole issue with this guy has never
really been week one. It's week nine, it's week ten,
it's week thirteen. It's being a dependable, reliable workhorse. Outside
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of a brief stretch which was a magical run of
greatness like a video game cheat code, Christian McCaffrey has
been more like a sand castle, a professionally made sand castle.
And if you've ever seen one, they're majestic. You're like, Wow,
that was made out of sand. How did someone do that?
That is so artistic, It is so amazing, It is beautiful.
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You stare at it, you look at the ocean in
the background. You're like, this is the greatest thing. How
did they do this? I can't believe it. What a
great talent that is. And it looks really great. And
then what happens? The tide rises and where does that
sand castle go? Right back to the beach. All that
saying comes washing it's washed away, and that's it. And
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you look at the niners two and a hater. This
is a teetering on the brink situation because you got
you paid brock Purty. You had to pay them me,
Oh my god, you had to pay so you paid him. Fine, Okay, great,
it's a multi billion dollar business. You paid brock Purty
and so he got paid. Are you about to get
played here? He's a system guy. Even the biggest brock
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Purty suck ups will admit to you he's a system guy.
And that means he's going to lean on Christian McCaffrey
and George Kittle and got rid of some of their
other playmakers and other guys are hurt. So those are
the guys are going to lean on until they come
tumbling down, down, down, down down. In Kyle Shanahan's offense
with brock Purty, it is a training wheels offense, and
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it'll work fine until the playmakers end up in the
injury tent and they're roasting marshmallows and making s'mores around
the fire. Well, the games are going on, and then
brock Purty is exposed, and then all of a sudden's like, well,
wait a minute, I thought shanahan system was gonna be okay.
And then well, you paid them all this money and
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he's a turn Burger brock party, And then questions will
start about Kyle Shanahan, did they miss their opportunity? Yes
they did, and they didn't win the championship. They got
to the Super Bowl, they had a championship level team.
They failed, So therefore, what are we doing here? And
then those kind of storylines will start popping up.
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are back at it again and our lead this hour
is from the Factory of Sadness in Cleveland, Ohio. That's right.
We go where the news of the day takes us.
And we had three teams, three teams that had quarterback drama,
O rama, drama, O rama, and one of them has
announced their QB one and that would be the Cleveland
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football team. If you somehow missed this because pay attention
to the Browns, perhaps you missed it. The Browns have
named We've learned Joe Flaco. That's right, as old as
a dinosaur, Joe Flaco as the starting quarterback in week
number one, against the He goes now, much to the
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annoyance of the fanboys, the Cleveland officion NATO's, who are
very upset by this. I remember a couple of years ago,
Joe Flacco was the flavor of the month. It was anyone,
anyone other than Deshaun Watson. Well, Flacco now is old news.
But he has beaten out Kenny Pickett hard to believe,
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and rookies Shader Sanders and Dylan Gabriel. But Sanders look
so good in those little practice games. Now. Flacco, when
he played for the Browns back in twenty twenty three,
somehow led the team to a playoff appearance, and it
didn't have great individual statistics in five starts. He did
win the AP Comeback Player of the Year award, which
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upset many people. They wanted Damar Hamlin, who the guy
that almost croaked on the field for the Bills. They
wanted him to win Comeback Player of the Year, but
it was Joe Flacco. Now. Last season playing for the
Horseshoes with the Colts, Flaco again had pretty middling numbers.
You'll give you twelve touchdowns and seven interceptions and it'll
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play really well for one game or a half and
then disappear for the next half or the next couple
of games. So let us discuss the question why why
did the Browns coach Kevin Stefanski go with Joe Flaco
as QB one. So my observations, I've got tuxedo, Alan Wrench,
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and Best Buy and we'll combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some chow. That's right,
We're gonna make some chow. So number why My first answer,
and I'm the first answer is always the top answer.
The answer I'm going with, I want to see if
you agree or disagree? Is it starts with a d decorum? Right,
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football decorum. That's the ticket. You follow the protocol. When
in doubt, you go buy the book. When in you
go by the way. So in my head, Stefanski's looking
at the quarterback depth chart. He says, well, this guy sucks.
That guy blows, that guy's garbage and that guy's trash.
But I got to name a starter. So what do
you do? What do you do? You followed the protocol,
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Kevin Stefanski, it's the safe pick. If Flacco sucks, you say,
I was just going by the book. I was just
going by the book. That's it. You're not reinventing anything here.
You're just polishing the hupcap. You're not inventing the wheel.
The wheel has already been invented. You're just polishing the hubcap.
That's it. Now, Joe Flacco has more mileage at this
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point than a rusted out nineteen ninety four Taurus. A
lot of miles and a lot of rust. It's been
left outside, it hasn't been parked in the garage. There's
a lot going on here. Is the guy you start
when you want to give the illusion you're a competent franchise,
right that you're you're actually competent, and but you're not
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committing to the few you're worried about. Now. You're living
in the moment, and it's it's kind of like if
you put on a tuxedo to have a nice frozen dinner.
You're gonna have a nice microwave dinner, but you're getting
all dressed up here. Listen, I can go to a
five star restaurant where a tuxedo. I can sit here
and eat my one pound of fish sticks and the
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potato on the side there. I can do that. And
so that is what they're doing here. They're like, well listen,
we're gonna get all dressed up. This is a Super
Bowl champion quarterback, Joe Flacco. The single greatest postseason run
of my lifetime was Joe Flacco for the Baltimore Ravens.
It'll never be matched. Well, I'm around and Joe Flacco
did it. Uh, and he got paid a lot of
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money and then he stole that money and that was it.
But the TV dinner thing as well, it looks good, right,
you run, the tuxedo looks good, the food looks good,
and then you start eating in it. It's like, well
it's a little robbery. That's not very good and all
that stuff. So they're going with the VHS option. The
Browns are saying, we'll go via. I know everyone's doing streaming,
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but we like that old school that click, you know,
when you put the VHS tape. You're old enough to
remember VHS to you put that in. Thathing locks in
there and you're like, I'm in, I got a movie.
I got a movie and that's it. Now. The streaming,
of course, you dependent on the Wi Fi and all
that stuff. And Joe Flacco is he outdated? Absolutely? It
still occasionally works, much like a VCR. Occasionally it'll still work.
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And he's the analog quarterback and in a digital league.
And that's what Joe Flacco is. And you're going with
that the way I approached this. Now, I am not
a Cleveland brown fan. I was for one year. I
was forced. I switched teams every year, and you idiots
voted me a Cleveland Browns fan for one year. So
I do have some Browns merch at the Malor mansion.
Although I did. I lost the one piece of Browns
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merch I wish I had. I cannot find it. Somebody
sent me. They thought it was the ugliest Cleveland brown
hat and it had the Brown's Elf mascot on it,
and I thought it was so ugly. It was good. Look.
I actually wore that, and I wore it so much.
I never lose hats, and I can't. I cannot find
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the hat. I don't know what happened to it. It was
like his orange hat and it had these ugly brown
leprechaun the mascot. But I had, I had Brown's jersey.
I've had all this stuff. I had all this stuff. Anyway,
back to the story, So I look at this. I'll
be Benny bright Side. I am Benny bright Side. The
Browns are using these first couple games of the regular
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season as a showcase. That's what they're doing. And Flacco
is not the Browns quarterback. He is the available asset
for the Cleveland Browns. They'll trot him out there and
they'll let him sling the duke pass the football around
for the first three or four weeks of the season
and they're just gonna wait and there'll be some voodoo
(25:54):
bugoaloo that'll pop up. And not that you want Mahomes
to twist an ankle or Josh Allen to get a
case to the yips, or Lamar Jackson to pull a
hammy and have it go whammy. You don't want any
of that. However, if any of that does happen, Boom
goes to dynamite. Boom goes to dynamite, and then you
look at I need a starter and this let me
get a classic. I want a vintage. I want a
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stratocaster at a pawn shop. That's Joe Flacco. I want
the stratocaster from the pod shop. Boom, Joe Flacco, done, undone, done,
all right now, Page two. So what is the text message,
if you will, What is the text for Brown's rookie
Shadur Sanders and Dylan Gabriel. What is the message the
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Browns are sending for them not getting the starting job
and being who knows third four string? So Kevin Stevanski
is sending the text message. The text message that he
is sending is that hey said, listen, Shadur Sanders, Dylan Gabriel.
We don't do on the job training, not right now.
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We're not into that. That's not what we're going for.
This is not a some kind of school. It's not
a Montassory school in the it's the AFC North and
we're not willing to give the keys to one of
you rookies. So you're sorry. That's it. We're not doing it.
So Sanders and Gabriel they're still in the IKEA phase
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of their careers. Now what does that mean? That means
some of you believe there is endless hope because you
think every young player is going to be great. You
do you tell me that when I rip prospects, you said,
oh my god, you were so wrong. The two things
that I get ripped apart most for are I would
trade every draft pick. I would be like, there's this
guy named Mike Ditka. You don't know who that is,
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but he used to coach the football team in Chicago,
and then he coached the team in New Orleans. He
traded all of his draft picks one year to get
this running back named Ricky Williams who loved weed more
than football, which was a problem. But you know they
went for and I had no problem with that. I
was like, trade all the picks. So I get ripped
for that, Well, you know, what are you doing? Prospect
is a suspect, that's my go to. And also I
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get ripped for pointing out there is no such thing
as momentum. People get very upset, very upset because they've
been raised on Uncle Moe. And I say, well, Uncle
Mo lives in New Jersey. He used to live in Brooklyn,
and Uncle Moe moved from Brooklyn to New Jersey. So
I know Uncle Ma. I've not met Uncle Moe. But
Uncle Mo is that's a person. That's not That's not
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a thing. Anyway. Get back to the point. So Sanders
and Gabriel, the rookies, they're in the IKEA phase of
their careers. What does that mean there's a lot of
hope and all that stuff, but you need an Alan wrench.
You need an Alan wrench, and you got to work
your way through the Swedish instructions because for some reason
they didn't include the English instructions. So you've got to
read the Swedish instructions to make it all work. And
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Stefanskyn saying, well, we're get a build for the future,
but were you want these guys to watch, We want
them to observe what is going on and all that stuff.
And right now we're going with not the Ikea sofa.
We're going with the sofa that we got from the
thrift store, the Joe Flacco sofa from the thrift store.
It's not about winning. It's more about optics and doing
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what you're supposed to do. As we mentioned the word protocol,
you're following the protocol. It's also about those I believe showcasing.
This is the mannequin in the window and you're putting
Joe Flacco out there, and you're like, all right, we'll
put him out there, and he's a relic and maybe
he'll be okay for a couple of games and all that,
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and he's also been to more quarterback meetings Joe Flacco
than Shadura Sanders has college starts by a country mile.
And he's not flashy, he's not good, he's not fast. However,
he's familiar. It's kind of like that as you get older.
There's certain clothes that you keep. It's a pair of
shorts or some old shoes. It's just stuff that we
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keep that fits right. It doesn't necessarily look right, but
it fits right. You kind of keep it around and
you keep that till you check out, and then somebody
else has to get rid of it. But you keep
that to the very end of the road, when you
reach the end of the line. There, you keep that stuff.
And we've got to get all these Browns monologues in.
Got to get them all in. And the reason we
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have to get them all in is because once the
season starts, those will be poison. And we're trying to
get them all in right now, and then we'll meet
the quota that we have for our friends in Cleveland
and whatnot. And did get an email from God? What
did you stop doing the you who's listening to the
podcast thing? I don't know. We should do it everyone,
but maybe we'll do it later, all right. Final point
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to the high speed transaction wire, the sports wire. Couple
of veteran name brand, name brand defensive players on the move.
People you've heard of, people you've heard of, on the move.
Zaban Howard, a longtime Miami Dolphin defensive back. He goes
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to the Colts on a one year deal. Matthew Judan,
an ex pat of the last year he played with
the Falcons. He is off to Miami Miami, Miami Miami
on a one year deal. So toss up question, Zavin
Howard to the Colts, Matthew Judan to the Dolphins. Who
is more likely to make some noise in twenty twenty five?
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So the answer to this is both of these guys
are dunskies. Okay, however, all right, despite the fact they've
got more cooties and miles than a Motel six bedspread,
if you know what I mean, there's a reason they
were both unemployed and they just agreed to contracts here
a couple weeks before the regular season is the Over
the Hill Gang. It's kind of like arguing and having
(31:41):
some kind of debate over whether or not you want
to go with the commodore sixty four or the Atari
twenty six hundred. If you're an old school computer historian,
you know what I'm talking about. But you I'm not
play fantasy. Should I do my fantasy on the Commodore
or the Atari? Neither one of them. Dude is connecting
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you to the Internet in twenty twenty five. So you're
shopping at best Buy and you're in the scratch and
dent aisle at Best Buy. You're like, there's something good
in there? See what's in there? What is that? What
is that thing of a jake? What's the watch? MC call?
Now that said, if I got to pick knife to
the throat, gun to the head, god do it. I'm
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going with Judon. I'm going with Matthew Judon. Now, I
think Miami is gonna fall off the cliff this year,
but I'm still taking Matthew Judon. He doesn't have to
be the star. They actually have some decent players on
that defense in Miami. Not that they are a great defense.
They are an average defense. You don't have to go
in there and be Batman. He'd be Alfred the Butler
in Miami. He's just another body in the dolphin rotation.
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And if he gets a couple of sacks now, and
again that's great for Judon, and he'll go down there
in Florida and to find Ponce de Leon and on Craigslist.
He'll meet with Poncetelli on the parking lot of a
waffle house and he'll have some water there and boom,
good to go, all right at Judon is actually older
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than Xavion Howard. He's thirty three. He just had a birthday.
We don't do shout outs, so if you want a
shout out, go to Cameo. Judon's thirty three. His last
good year was in twenty twenty two, and this is
the one last spin around the track before the wheels
on the bus go off the bus. The wheels on
the bus go off the bus, and then you got Howard,
who's younger. However, I have spent minutes, long minutes of
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my time debating this, and I've determined, after a brief deliberation,
that it is way harder, way harder to age as
a defensive back than it is as an edge rusher.
Meaning once you lose half a step as a defensive back,
forget about it, forget it, buy your toast and trying
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to cover Justin Jefferson with a Walker it doesn't go well.
And Judon at least he moves the needle like there's
just age is better. It's one of those things that's
just your pass rusher, a situational pass rusher. It's like
von Miller, right, von Miller, who's not an every down player,
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and he's with Washington now he's assuming he's somewhat healthy,
and you put him out there occasionally he'll get your
two sacks in a game. And like, I look at Judah,
who's not as good as von Miller, but he's the
situational edge rusher, and he can be that guy and
get a couple more years out of his career.
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Yeah, this is one big Ben gets Graill.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
So the Bills got beat up thirty eight nothing by
the Bears in a preseason matchup on Sunday, and no,
it means nothing. One of my closest friends, a Bills fan,
is convinced that the entire AFC East is going to
take a step forward while the Bills are going to
take a step backwards. He's a pessimist, Ben, you agree with.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Any of that. I would not base any decisions based
on an exhibition game and the I watched some of
that game. It was on national television for some reason,
and the Buffalo Bills had the chronic case of id GAF.
If you know what I mean, I don't give an
f and so I know, like, I think the Bills
will be good in the regular season, the Jets will
be mediocre, the Dolphins will get worse. I think the
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Patriots will be better. So I think that's how the
AFC East is going to go. And they're not going
to fall off the map there in Buffalo, although if
they have that attitude, if they come out flasted like that,
sure Next.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Speaking of that thirty eight and o win by the Bears,
I got a lot of people excited about the Ben Johnson,
Caleb Williams parent.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
You're Gene in Chicago so excited, right Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
After Williams had a few quote big time throws.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
G manas also fired up. Is this year? Is this
year gonna look better for the former Trojan Well.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I don't buy the Bears. I'm not on board with
the Bears. I'm not like he had good numbers other
than the sack thing last year. I think the Bears
will be a mediocre team. I think they'll be about
where they were when they had Mitch Trubisky, where you're
in that nine eight, nine, ten win area where you're
kind of a fringe contender for the playoffs, where you're
not really next.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
So the Bengals aren't the only ones listening to trade offers,
as it was reported that the Commanders are shopping. They're
starting running back Brian Robinson junior benjam Commander's fans start
to worry about the developments in DC.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
No, they should be I'm okay with this, Like the
running back thing is a replaceable position, coop. Brian Robinson's
in the last year, coming up on the last year
of his contract, so they want to get rid of
him now and they just keep it's evolving though he's
not a game changing running back. I get it. How
did we do? He passes say when I've got Oh
my god, I'm a Kirk dog.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
I won.
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Hell, do you have what it takes to get to
the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
And let's welcome in David in Lost Wages, Nevada. Hello, David, welcome.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Well, I've been wanting to play this for a long
time because I'm playing at home. When you do it,
I do real well, and I just know it's one
of these deals.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
And now that I'm actually on the radio, I'm gonna
have stage right. No, no, you're not. No one's listening.
Look what time it is. Everyone's sleeping, no one's awake.
All right. And then David, you're gonna be at the
meet and read on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
We're gonna meet you absolutely right there.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
All right, who do you want to partner up with? David?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
Let's go with you.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Start at the top here, that's right. All time wins, king,
by the way, all time wins. All right, and hold on. Second,
we have Stephan who's in Denver. Hello Stephan, Welcome, Wait Dad, Oh,
this guy to your guy, Coop, this is your guy.
This is Stephane.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Bring it back.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yeah, all right, Well you know Denver fan. I assume
maybe not. I grew up here.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I'm a fan's horse.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Oh he's a Colts fan. Oh man, cool Denver. You're
not even from Denver, Coop and you're all right? All right?
Coop's always complains he thinks he's gonna win if somehow
he has more time.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Yeah, exact, hurry up, hurry up, all right, top drops,
I'm both on here, David. The category is are this
is the Edward Nordan addition, he turned fifty six on Monday?
Fight Club, moon Rise Kingdom, Birdman or Motherless Brooklyn? Which
category would you like?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
David? Let's Moonlight Kingo moon Like moon Rise Kingdom?
Speaker 6 (38:41):
Alright, right, and then Stephen, do you want fight Club,
Birdman or Motherless Brooklyn?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Let's go Birdman? All right? All right? Did you go?
Good luck on that? Okay, here we go, h David, David,
Here we go, and you picked moon Rise Kingdom. These
athletes were all boys. Are you ready? Okay? Forty five
seconds on the clock. We're on our way. We need
first and last name, the all time home run king
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prior to Barry Bonds. That is that is correct? Now
quarterback for the forty nine ers after Joe Montana. He
was Montana's backup with the Niners. What do you say,
Eastern Stevie? Okay, all right, quarterback for the Washington Redskins.
He has legs snapped in half by Lawrence Taylor. All right,
(39:31):
we'll skip ahead here. How about running a tight loan linebacker?
Linebacker for Notre Dame. He had a fake girlfriend. He
played for the New Orleans Saints. That is, correct guard
for the New York Knicks. He played with the Lakers.
His last name is like Romance, like a Valentine type
last name. Now the fly in Hawaiian Philadelphia Phillies star
(39:55):
you missed Josh Hart and Shane Victorino went total, go ahead,
there you go ahead, one toy? Did you know who?
Did you know who the flying Hawaiian was? David? He did?
All right, a little slow on it, All right, Stephan,
we have birdman. Uh need the first and last name
of the athlete.
Speaker 6 (40:14):
These athletes all jump so high they seem to fly
h forty five seconds in the clock.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Let's begin. Current running back for the Eagles.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
Just rush for two thousand Yardsley, Yes, this guy was
the kid for the Mariners back in the day. Okay, Okay,
don't curse, don't this guy one? That's all right. This
guy is on the Memphis Grizzlies. He jumps out of
the he loves guns. He loves to shoot guns.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Even fake one.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Oh my goodness, I'm having such a right all right.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
How about the human highlight reel in the NBA?
Speaker 6 (40:48):
Yes, John Rant, that's correct, human highlight reel, gonyboard.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
All right?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
This guy?
Speaker 1 (40:57):
How about a really short guy he used to dunk
back in the day. His last name is this? The
thing of spider lives in. You gotta got better than that, Coop.
Maybe taking longer with the last sleeping call, then maybe
I should have done last last name. That's the spider
doesn't matter, Coop. Go ahead again, Go ahead again. What
(41:18):
do you want? Alright? Motherless Brooklyn or fight club? Yeah? No,
he got the thirty one two? Yeah? So for oh
yea yeah? Yeah, all right, Stephan, do you want motherless
Brooklyn or fight club? All right?
Speaker 6 (41:31):
These athletes have all been in notable fights. Forty five second,
let's begin. The best basketball player of all time? Yes,
this guy is a defensive end on the Browns. He
bashed Mason Rudolph with the helmet. Yes, This guy had
the one handed catch for the New York Giants back
(41:52):
in the day. Okay, what's what's that?
Speaker 1 (41:58):
I think it's no his sigh? Are you there, Stephan?
Oh cool? Oh god? All right, let's run it up here, David.
Let's show Matt's done here, David. Are you ready? David?
Where's David? Okay? Here we go. Motherless Brooklyn stuff. These
athletes weren't raised by their biological mothers, right. They were
(42:20):
adopted or raised by film Uh, a quarterback who started
a protest movement in the NFL with the forty nine ers.
Oh all right, the bambino for the New York Yankees. Yes,
point guard. He played for the Golden State Warriors and
(42:41):
the Clippers back in the early two thousands. It doesn't matter.
We wanted to have it, Baron Davis. We want the guys.
David the wind all time waits king, all time waits
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