August 26, 2025 • 45 mins
Big Ben talks about the Commanders and WR Terry McLaurin finally coming to an extension agreement, the Raiders making a flurry of moves including signing Amari Cooper and trading for Kenny Pickett, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Melissa McCarthy Edition, and more!
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So our lead this hour is from just inside the Beltway,
but they play outside the Beltway and so there's a lot,
a lot of moving parts to this. It's a story
that we talked about. I squeezed out no less than
at least six Malard monologues, which I know made Rick
and Maryland very happy and the Ostrich aunt in DC
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very happy. And the storyline has now come to an end.
You can put the baby to bed now. I've been
following this all off seas. What is that I'll tell
you if you have not heard, perhaps not because you
actually have a life. You don't pay attention to this
stuff all day, every day, every minute. You don't obsessed
with it. You don't have a talk show to do.
So we learned that wide receiver Terry McLaurin, who remember
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the guy, he asked for a trade. I ain't playing
unless I get mine bro. He did the Blake snellfing
that punk from the Dodgers. So Terry McLaurin asked for
a trade, and the Washington Football Team has decided to
not trade him. Instead, they have agreed to a mega
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MEGAMEGA three year contract worth ninety six million. Of course,
we'll wait till the fine print comes out how much
of that is guaranteed. There's conflicting reports on that before
we give that side of it. The Commanders, though, keep
the player. McLaren essentially missed the entire offseason, lolly gagging
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around in the hold in, and he wanted that new contract.
He turns thirty, Oh my god, thirty next month. A
big three to zero and we'll be back on the field,
back on the field here with a new contract. He
gets a massive check, massive check from the Commanders. He
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will be able to play their Game one. The Washington
Football Team opens against the sad Sack New York Football
Giants to begin their season. I know Everyboddy Eddie in
Charlotte loves the giants, but they suck. McLaren's average salary
will now be I know you're very concerned about other
people's salary. Mclarin's average salary be thirty two million, which
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is the same as AJ Brown, but less than Jamar Chase,
less than Justin Jefferson, less than C. D. Lamb, the Cowboys,
DK Met Keevin, Garrett Wilson. So listen, that's that's fine.
That's about it. Seems about right, seems about right, and
so that's where we are. So let us discuss did
the commanders, though some are saying, what are you doing?
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Oh my god, you didn't want to pay him, he's
too old. You paid him. So did the commanders overpay
Terry McLaurin at thirty two million per year? Or is
this a fair market deal for a player of his caliber?
So I've got my thoughts on this about Netflix, spaghetti
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and launching pad and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to put the biscuit
in the basket. Is what We're going to do. The
biscuit in the basket. So a to answer the question,
was this and overpaid by the Washington Commanders. None. I
am going to be Benny Brightside. I am Benny bright
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Side on this one. I am McLaurin. The safety blanket
for Jaden Daniels, the prodigy. We'll see if he can
follow up that amazing Final four run for the Washington
football team and do it again this year. But he
was a prodigy, Jaden Daniels, all those last second wins, dramatic,
high flying, high falutin the synergery with Cliff Kingsbury, but
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a lot of that went in doubt. Throw the ball
tot Terry McLaurin. That alone on my scorecard, that alone
makes him worth the premium price tag, which is what
Washington did pay it. And this is very similar to
what we had advice, the advice, the unsolicited overnight radio
advice that we had given to the Washington football team.
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They're listening, they can't sleep, they're listening. What was the advice?
Short term contract, big money? Who cares? Short term contract?
Big money? Who cares? Three It's not really a three
year deal. Don't get fooled by the numbers. See people
get fooled by the numbers. And we'll find out how
much of that is guaranteed. But this is like Netflix
or any other television network announcing that they've renewed. We'll
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just focus on Netflix. They've renewed a show for three seasons. Okay,
they've renewed the show for three seasons. You're all excited. Okay,
that's great, But in reality, what they've actually done is
giving you an eight episode deal and they're gonna then
cancel the show the second nobody watches. That's it. But
they announce it's a three year deal, and then when
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no one's actually paying attention, they just get rid of
the show. That's it. And so this is really the
way I look at it. A one and a half
year deal. It's a one and a half year deal.
The commanders were worried about mclaurin's age, Oh my god,
because they got a bunch of dorks in there, and
they look, it's like insurance. Now, I so you life insurance.
They say, well, we're betting that you're gonna live this
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long and then eventually you're gonna die, but we're betting
that we're gonna make this much money off your ass
before you croak, and that way will be okay. But
if not, if you have some underlying condition you might
croak sooner. Well, then we don't want to do the deal.
You got to pay more. And they're like, wow, we
don't want to do the deal because you're gonna be
thirty and you look at the comps on this and
all that stuff. But Washington is thinking, we don't want
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to pay this guy till he's thirty three. Well, spoiler alert,
looks like until we see the fine print here, you're
gonna be paying him close to that. The contract in theory,
always in theory, locks up McLaurin through twenty twenty eight,
he would be thirty three. The new money thirty two
million annually. Now the owner Josh Harris, who's one of
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these slick business dudes who wants to be famous. You
don't buy a sports team unless you want you want
people talking about you. You just why would you bother?
So he owns the bunch of sports teams. With the
Washington football team, this is a bullet you got to
bite on. If you're Josh Harris, you got to bite
on it because it's a PR move. The way I
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look at this, it's a PR move. There's no need
for a go fundme. Harris is worth almost ten billion
dollars in the estimate there, so that they're trying to
sell stability and I would have kept a player too,
Betty Brightside. It's good for all involved. It's not a
massive commitment long term, and he's been very productive with
some absolute puke quarterbacks in Washington. Now they finally have
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what appears to be a pretty good quarterback. So we'll
see how this goes here. But it's really just a
year and a half and they're either gonna cut him
or restructure the contract, and that'll be that. Now to Dallas.
That's right, the obligatory Mallor monologue about America's team, the
Dallas Cowboys. So the latest developments on this the Cowboys
quarterback Dakota Press Scott. That's his name, Dakota. They call
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him dak but he's his real name is Dakota. So
Dakota Prescott has entered the chat on the big deal.
So a couple of contracts agreed to holdouts or hold ins,
ending Trey Hendrickson. We'll get to that later. We've got
a four hour talk show to do. But Trey Hendrickson
is going to stay with the Bengals for this season
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at least, and we mentioned the Terry mcclarn thing, but
in Dallas they have not had any kind of settlement yet.
So the Cowboys quarterback Dakota Prescott said that he is confident,
confident that the disgruntled edge rusher Micah Parsons will be
on the field a week from Thursday when the Cowboys
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open up with Doctor Phila Delphia Eagles. In a made
for Prime Time football extrava ganza, Dakota Prescott said, quote,
I've got confidence. I told you all just to prove
he's actually living in Texas. You had to say, y'all,
I told y'all that way back when Prescott yapped and
snapped at reporters, he said, I'm just going to be
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going off experience, honestly, no different than mine, referring to
the situation where his contract was also fed up until
the very end. So question, can you decipher? Can you
decipher what the Cowboys star dak Prescott in his vote
of confidence with Michael Parsons means? So I spent several
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seconds deliberating on this one, several seconds, and Dak's out
there yelling at the world. He's quoting Aaron Rodgers. Relax,
he's saying, relax, I've got confidence and all this stuff.
He's following the script. The Dallas Cowboys again for the
eighteen thousand dimes into these microphones. It is a spaghetti Western,
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the Dallas Cowboys. They are a spaghetti Western. You got
Jerry Jones twirling his mustache like a villain. Now, I
got a cartoon villain, Jerry Jones. Over there. You got
dak Prescott, who's playing the wise old sage cowboy. Dakota
Prescott sitting on his porch, sipping some sweet tea and
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telling everybody all calm down, now, you all calm down. Now,
Mike's gonna be fine, just like that. So Prescott following
the wisdom that we believe in. Obviously, this is not
his first rodeo. Dak Prescott, He's been through the contract
ringer Jerry's ringer for a while. A couple of times
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he's cashed in. He got two hundred and forty something million.
I believe. I think I'm right on that. So Jerry
has a PhD. And the PhD is in drama from
the University of Keeping the Cowboys Relevant. You might not
have heard about that university. It's a small University. It's
located in the death Star there in Jerry's world. And
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you think it's a coincidence that every off season there's
a contract standoff every off season. In the last this
is three years in Robley, three years in a row.
We've got more twists than a burial race at the
or one of those barrel races you know you see
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at the State Fair where they're racing the bar I mean,
there's a lot going on. And and first it was
Dak a couple of years back, then it was Ceedee Lamb,
and now it's now it's Michael Parsons. So I think
for three for three. Jerry's got his playbook. He does
things his way and it's thicker than a longhorned steak.
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Jerry Jones got that big playbook there. But he loves this.
This is his go to act in the spaghetti western.
And it's like, you know, sitting there in the owner's box,
he's up there atop the stadium. He's just sipping whiskey
and looking down at all the rubes and all the dopes,
and uh, let's let this the simmer for a little bit,
and we let the cameras roll at all the debate
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shows all the gas bags, blowhards know it, alls, chime
in on this, and you know what, it works. It
does work. It absolutely works. Like we're talking about the
Cowboys here, we are. There's other stuff going on, but
the Dallas Cowboys in late August late August continue to
move the needle, figuring things out while other teams are
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changing punters and releasing fat guys and all that. Now,
speaking of that, there was one move that caught my attention,
and that's the last where we go to Motown. Quarterback change.
Quarterback change. In Motown, the Lions have said bye bye.
They have gotten rid of former third round pick Hendon Hooker.
You can't get rid of a hooker. They put a
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hooker out on the street. What's up with that? So
Hendon Hooker let go. Kyle Allen has officially won the
Lions backup quarterback battle, whichans when Jared Goff gets hurt,
the Detroit Lions will have no chance to win unless
they pitch a shutout on defense because Kyle Allen blows.
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He's terrible. So what is the lesson? Though I think
there's a bigger lesson. This caught my attention, So what
is the lesson here from the Lions dumping former Tennessee
quarterback Hendon Hooker getting rid of him. So this is
a refresher course. It is a refresher course. The draft.
What do we always say, fools gold, It's fools gold.
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It's a suckers game. And every draft there is a
couple of quarterbacks drafted in the second, third, fourth round.
And I got a here, all the geniuses. Oh man,
this guy's going to be a steal of the draft.
Oh my god, this guy's got amazing ability. Blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah to my ears. Blee.
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So Dan Campbell and the Lions took Hendon Hooker. He
was raw, he was unpolished, He had a bat knee,
He was twenty five years old, which is older than
pretty much everyone in the draft, and they drafted him.
And he was said to be a project. But the
same people who've made the draft, the cottage industry, they
love to tell you, oh, this guy's gonna be great, wonderful.
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And what happened. It went exactly the way we thought
it was going to happen, the way we expected it
to happen. The project at quarterback hen and Hooker. The
lions blew up on the launching pad. C boom right
there on the launching peck kaboom, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom kaboom
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ka boom, just like that, and did not even get
off the ground. He's not a starter. They said, well,
maybe we'll be back up. He's nothing. At this point,
Hooker's going through the checkout line with the old thank
you come again sticker right on his forehead right there.
Ninety five percent of these so called projects, they fail,
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all right, this was a third rounder. A third round.
You might as well be lighting the pick on fire.
Just get some gasoline and a lighter or book of
matches and just like the thing on fire, or use
a blow torch. You just get blow torch out there
like you're roasting marshmallows and delicious marshmallows and just going
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for it. So he's not Hooker. Hooker's not a clipboard guy.
He's not a headset guy at this point, as he's
a lost in the shuffle guy. Does anyone eat marshmallows
without cooking them? I can't imagine eating marshmallows without cooking them.
They're rather disgusting. You have to eat them cooked, right,
There's no is there a market for people that just
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munch on marshmallows without them being roasted with chocolate and
Graham crackers? Like, is there a group that that's into that,
the people who do chubby Bunny competitions? The Chubby Bunny competition.
When I was a I remember Thanksgiving, my mom would
always make this big thing of yams. I think EAMs
are just, oh, they're so good, horrific, But my mom
would cover them with marshmallow, so I would just eat
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the marshmallows. My mom gets so upset. I did not
eat the ams. I said, I just want the marshmallows.
Oh need the ams. You can have the yams. You
gonna eat both? No, I don't have to eat both,
just the marshmallows. I'm just gonna eat the marshmallows. So
maybe just make me a plate of marshmallows and that'll
be the way to go. And never never really worked out.
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Get out your score cars, Get out your score cars
right now. So a lot of moving parts, a lot
of moving parts here. Let's start with the disgruntled playmaker.
Disgruntled playmaker. If you have not heard, possibly not, possibly not,
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we learned that wide receiver Jacoby and Myers also a
law firm in southern California. Jacoby Myers not happy. He
has requested a trade from Lost Wages, Nevada. He wants out. Upset.
I guess he's upset with Slug. He's like, I can't
be here anymore. Slug and Mark and David, all the
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guys there in Vegas just can't deal with it because
he could not agree to a contract extension. So he's
raising a hullabaloo, and the team says, na, Na, we're good,
we're good. We're gonna keep you. We're not trading. So
it's a class NFL standout Classic, and we have one
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of these every every season, at least one every season.
So let us discuss the question on this one. Will
Raiders came in to Jacoby Myers trade request or do
they write it out? Just write it out. He's under contract,
you don't have to trade him. So I've got Costco,
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Rusty Nail, and shadow boxing. Well, combine all these things together,
like legos, and the legos the Babushka steps on because
you put them on the when the Babushka tries to
clean them up and she's walking around at night, she
steps on, which is one of the worst pains a
human being can have, stepping out a lego. It's got
to be in the five worst pains a human being
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can have, so number one, number right, that's right. The
writers are essentially running the world's saddest flea market right now.
They just are right open for business. You got Tom
Brady GM by proxy, but he doesn't want any credit
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or blame because he's embarrassed by with these moves. So
the Raiders are open for business, and they're essentially telling
the neighbors listen, you can't have this lamp. This is
too valuable. And then the neighbors like, well, I mean
you're running a flea market and you the lamp is there,
and I'm not selling the lamp like buddy, it's it's
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a target lamp. It's not Tiffany's okay, what are you doing? Uh?
The Myers is not a bump. The guy's not a bum.
Joan Rode either, the guy's a bump. The guy's not
a bump. He's slightly above average. Jacoby Myers is the
costco version of a wide receiver number one. He just
did you know what you get? You're getting dependable. You're
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getting dependable. You're getting decent quality, not flashy, not flashy.
You're certainly not bragging to your buddies. You're not bragging
to your friends. Oh yeah, I bought that Kirkland brand
of Kolby Myers. You're not excited about that, You're not.
I mean, you look at the numbers and you're like,
all the numbers are fine. You know, fifty yards a game,
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fifty and a half in his career. Last year he
was up to sixty eight and a half, which is
not bad, not bad. It's not terrible. It's not not elite,
it's not all time great. And to answer the question,
I expect him to be traded. I my position is
always the player who's unhappy is going to be traded.
And here's why this is the classic. We want volunteers,
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not hostages. Got It's an old line Mike Tomlin had
back in the day. And if you're not happy, if
the dude wants out, if the dude's gonna raise a problem, fine,
don't hold the player hostage. It's not there's only certain
players you hold hostage. He's not one of those players, right,
You ship them on somewhere else and that's it. Now
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where you ask, well, we can spin the malor wheel
of speculation on where Jacoby Myers will in a good, quick,
quick finger push there by the rent. So I've got Patriots, Vikings,
and Steelers as the most likely destinations for Jacoby Myers.
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The Patriots he already played there. Josh McDaniels is back
as the offensive coordinator, so there's a connection to the Patriots,
and he is considered to be a dependable player. The
Patriots don't have a dependable wide receiver. They've got slop
at wide receivers. Myers was fine when he played there,
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and we assume that if he went back he would
be fine. They have Stefan Diggs who's coming off an injury,
and then they've got a bunch of other drek. They're
literally putting drek out there at wide receiver, and I
don't think that's going to go well. Now the Vikings, well,
what the Vikings there? They're loaded, they got jail, they're
loaded wide receiver. They go, oh, this guy, well, Jordan
Addison is suspended because he liked to do things in
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his car involving alcohol and whatnot. So uh, he's suspended
to start the year, and Myers slots in as a
at least a temporary number two, as a slot wide
receiver there as a babysitter until Jordan Addison's suspension is over,
because remember he's gonna he's gonna miss the first three games, Addison,
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And then you've also got the will he be ready
to play in the fourth game? Is there gonna be
a setback? Do you miss time, you're more likely to
get injured. The Steelers, I look at those wide receivers
and I know they got they got DK Metcalf. Okay,
that's good. The rest of those Jimoke's not so much.
And Mike Tomline, this seems like a Mike Tomlin guy
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Jakobe Myers, right, and also throw like Niners in there
if you want the Niners. Uh, they've got wide receivers
who think they're better than they are, and they've got
guys that are hurt. So they've got a hodgepodge there,
you know. And here's the other thing. Right, You look
around and you're like, all those teams, what's the price tag? Well,
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the price tag. If the Raiders were offered a fifth
round draft pick, that's about what he's worth. Now, if
somebody gets all excited, I want this guy, I'll give
you more than that. Okay, fine, but a fifth round pick.
It's like if you're the Steelers of the Vikings or
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the Patriots, you trade a fifth round pick. A fifth
is like giving away a Chili's gift card. You know
you'd like it, but you're not gonna miss it. You know.
It's like, if I have it, it's great, but I
guess somebody else can go to Chili's and enjoy the
gift card. I don't need it. It's that kind of thing. Now,
if the Raiders somehow get a fourth round pick, they
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should go out to Fremont Street, right near the iHeart
studios there and dance and have a great time. Right.
That's Ocean's eleven type high stuff if they get that.
But at the bottom line, Jacoby Myers is useful, he's
above average slightly. He's reliable. He's just not Elite's not
He's not happy. He's not happy. And the stories are
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connected because page two here mentioned it's a Raider heavy hour.
We'll get back to the calls in a little bit,
but the Raider heavy hour here. While Jacoby Myers is
having a conniption fit and would like to be traded,
he wants out, says, I would like to go somewhere else,
one way ticket out of Sin City. Well, we had
a reunion. The Raiders brought back a blast in the past.
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Ten years ago. The Raiders first round of the draft
picked Amari Cooper and Mary Cooper was really good at
dropping passes with the old Oakland Raiders. Man was he elite.
He was an elite pass dropper with the Raiders. And
he's back, baby, He's back, but now the Las Vegas Raiders. Cooper,
thirty one, he played for the Brownies and the Bills
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last season, was one of the big pickups before the
trade lined by the Buffalo football team was considered the
top available veteran pass catcher on the street at this point.
So Pete Carroll is selling and the Raiders are selling
that this is a veteran presence that he's been around
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the block. He just knows how to get the job done.
Maybe there's a little leadership in there. The Raiders have
a young wide receiver room and he will be someone
that can go in there and fill in one of
the question marks on the Jeopardy board. And that's that.
So question question to you, does this addition of wide
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receiver Amari Cooper actually moved the needle for the Raiders.
So the way I look at this, this is not
a needle move. There is no movement of the needle.
It is a rusty nail, is what it is, jammed
into the side of a sigate ship. Okay, do you understand. Listen,
the Raider wide receiver room is a dizzy disaster with
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the capital of the What is Tom Brady smoking over there?
Is he he's on the drinking the ayahuasca? What do
we got going on over there? That is a FEMA
zone the Raider wide receiver room. Now you have somebody
named Dante Thornton who's unprocessed, and Trey Tucker and they
are projected to be starters for the Raiders. You also
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have Jacoby Myers who wants out asap, and those are
the top three wide receivers at this point. They're hoping
that Amari Cooper can come in there and stabilize things. Unfortunately,
if you watched the NFL, or even if you're blind
and listen to the NFL on radio last year, you
know that Amari Cooper looked and sounded sounded like a
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player that was running in molasses. At the end of
last year. He was the big pick up by the
Buffalo football team to put them over the top. How
did that work out? Yeah, he showed showed Amari Cooper
that he had the separate skills of a refrigerator magnet
when he played for the Buffalo Bills there and it
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looked like he was in a Lake effect blizzard the
entire time. He was a decoy. They didn't trade for
him to be a decoy. But that's what Amari Cooper
was with the Buffalo Bills. And so you know what
this is. This is the the Raiders walking in to
the emergency room. And saying, you know, doctor, doctor, give
me the news. And the doctor says, well, I'm sorry
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to tell you you've got a broken femur. And the Raiders say, well,
that's I just don't have time for a broken femer.
Can you just put a band aid on it and
we're good to go. That's just the way to do it.
It's a panic move, like Pete Carroll is out here
trying to I guess he's trying to recreate the Legion
of Boom. I know the Legion of Boom was defense here,
but it's like the ghost of Christmas past, the ghosts
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of Raider past, and all that stuff. The Raiders are
admitting though this is a confessional by the Raiders. The
Raiders are admitting that the wide receiver room sucks rocks.
They're admitting that, and so instead of building a new
foundation and all that stuff, they're trying to duct tape
the lava lamp to the wall. And they're calling you
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a schandelier. They said, well, it's a chandler. No, no it's not,
it's a lava lamp. That are our friend Andrea the
insider the astrology and said she put up a lava
lamp and then it fell down. Then you picked it
up and you taped to the wall. You said, it's
a chandelier. It's a lava lamp. Bad job are you?
But you look there and the Raiders have brock Bowers,
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who's going for the Raiders to make the playoffs. Brock
Bowers is going to catch, by my math malor math,
two hundred passes for the Raiders to find a way
to make the playoffs. They are the definition of av
all Ridge acts. An average football team. That's a that's
a six seven, eight win, nine win team somewhere in there.
That's it. Faux contender at most, faux contender for the
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Raiders in a division that is stacked with the Chiefs,
the Chargers, and supposedly the Broncos. On the on to
come all right final point, the Raiders also made another
oh my god, it's all Raiders. The Raiders addressed the
backup quarterback position. You might remember any previous episode of
the show, there was speculations for the Raiders were interested
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in Ryan Tannehill. Well, they woke up and realized he blows.
So let's go out and get a younger quarterback who
just sucks. And so that's what the Raiders did. Vegas
acquired Kenny Picket. Yes that no, you know who that is,
Kenny Pickett from the Browns in exchange for a fifth
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round pick. So question, is Kenny Pickett's third trade now
of the Raiders in eighteen months a sign that he
is a bust? Or is he just a victim of
bad situations? Just bad situations. So for the kool aid drinkers,
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they'll say Kenny Pickett just wasn't given the proper runway
to take off off that if you look at his career,
he's started twenty five games, He's five games above five hundred.
Kenny pick is fifteen and ten as a starter. However,
any kind of due diligence on the career of Kenny Picktt,
any kind of objective analyzing what's going on here, the
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arrow is pointing to bust with a capital B. Bust
with a cavalry. He was the quarterback of the future.
The Steelers with Mike Tomlin, drafted this guy in the
first round, and Mike Tomlin had him for a couple
of seasons and it's like, this guy's not that good.
This the whole they had, the whole backstory. Ride Guy
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went to college at pitt goes over to the Steelers,
the whole thing and a couple of seasons in. After
being picked in the first round, Pittsburgh brought in Russell
Wilson to compete with Kenny Pickett. And what did Kenny
Pickett do when they brought Russell Wilson in to compete?
He had the ultimate hissy fit. I'm not doing it.
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I am Kenny Peggott, scraw you out. I want out.
He gave up, He gave up. He ran from the grind.
He just run. He run the other he ran the
other direction from the grind, and that's the thing you
can't do, and he did it. The guy's a quitter.
Kenny Pickett's a quitter. Rather than compete, you're telling me
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you can't beat out a rushed up, a rushed up
and washed up Russell Wilson. You can't beat out Russell Wilson.
If you're Kenny Pickett, come on. And rather than try,
he says, I want out. I want to trade. So
Pittsburgh traded him to Philadelphia and he had all stop over.
There was never going to play. That was quarterback rehab
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in Philadelphia, and then I think he was traded for
like a third round pick or something like that. So
I think they got something of value for Kenny Pickett,
they being the Philadelphia football team. But that quitting on
the Steelers is something that is shadow boxed Kenny Pickett.
And now he went to Cleveland. That's even more emasculating
than what happened in Pittsburgh. He just ran away from
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the Seer says, I don't want to compete with mister unlimited.
Mister unlimited. He goes to Cleveland and he could not
would not beat out a forty year old Joe Flacco
and a couple of neophyte rookie quarterbacks, including a fifth
round flyer that picket in a supposed open competition, a
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meritocracy where Joe Flacco ended up winning. He lost out
and he was so bad that they don't even think
he's a good backup in Cleveland, like we gotta trade him,
get rid of him. He can't even be in a backup.
That's a quarterback devoid franchise. It is a Permuta triangle
where quarterbacks go to die, and they're looking for anyone
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that's got a pulse. And they got rid of Kenny Pickett.
They got rid of him. So will Kenny Pickett ever
get a shot to start in Las Vegas or is
he destined to be a career backup. Well, the Raiders
Aidan O'Connell is hurt, He's going to come back at
some point, So there's no guarantee that Pickett even makes
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the roster the whole year with the Raiders, and Gino
Smith is best. He's with Pete Carroll as a Pete
Carroll picked Gino Smith. Tom Brady wanted a good quarterback.
The Raiders couldn't get a good quarterback. They wanted Matthew Stafford.
They tried to get some other players, and all the
good players ran away from the Raiders, So the Raiders
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then were forced to get some slop. And Pete Carroll says,
that's the slop. I like, that's the crap out of Seattle.
I want that Gino Smith. Sure, we'll get you, Gino Smith.
Why not? So Gino goes to the Raiders. He's a
fraud as a number one quarterback, we all know that.
But if he stays healthy, then he's going to play
the entire year, and Kenny Pickett will get hemorrhoids sitting
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on the bench and despite that glittering record which we mentioned,
five games over five hundred as a backup Kenny Pickett
because he played on good defensive teams in Pittsburgh and
they didn't really play much at all in Philadelphia. But
in his career thirty games, twenty five starts, Kenny Pickett
has the grand total of fifteen touchdowns and fourteen interceptions.
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Is that good? Because if that's good, I wish I
had you as a teacher.
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Big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Goo TMZ caught up with former USC running back Lendale
White over the weekend. He was the thunder to the
Lightning and Thunder duo there.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh okay, I remember he was a fat one.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Yes exactly yeah where Lendell White said that he thinks
that USC will make the college football Playoff for the
first time and that he has faith in Lincoln Riley.
Ben does Riley need a college football Playoff appearance to
keep his job?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Well, there's a lot of money tied up. I'm one
of a couple of people I know over there. They
are boosters at USC and they thought that was there.
They had won the lottery when they got Lincoln Riley,
and they suck. The problem Wingan Riley has Coop is
this teams are soft and they play in the Big Ten.
You're gonna play cold weather games late in the season,
and they're just not built for that. They're soft West
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Coast teams. And that's on Lincoln Riley. That's on his
coaching step. I don't see a way that they win,
you know, at the end. And I think he'll be
around for at least another year next.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Texans wide receiver Nico Collins raved about having CJ. Strouded
as his quarterback, saying that their connection is like bread
and butter. Oh nice, and that they plan on shocking
the world.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I like MC and cheese more. Ben.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
The Texans have kind of flown under the radar this offseason.
What's their ceiling?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Yeah, so their ceiling is there'll be a good regular
season team. They play in a division nobody cares about.
That's why you fly under the radar. The AFC South
is terrible. You've got the Texans, who are the top
team Jacksonville, Indianapolis. The Titans. It's a terrible division. They'll win,
They'll make the playoffs. Will be the first playoff game
on Saturday, because nobody wants to watch them play.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Next Major League Baseball announcement, We'll be returning to the
Field of Dreams in Iowa for a game in the
twenty twenty six regular season. Then, what are some other
special locations you think would be good for a game?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I'm on the Pacific. There's this this trash circle of trash.
Why don't they build a stadium in the middle of
the Pacific on that trash island out there? And wouldn't
that be cool? The floating trash and then clean it up?
Why not? What do you say, Cooplaw? Do we do?
I like it? You pass? There is That's a win
trash island baby.
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Speaker 1 (39:53):
And right to the game we go. Let's welcome in
our contestants. We have Who do we have here? We
have Uncle Mo, who's in Jersey now no longer in Brooklyn,
he's moved over to Jersey. What's going on, Uncle Mo?
Good morning, Ben?
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Looking forward to the football season, hoping to make bounds
fast as legal, Jets might go seventeen to no.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yes, if the other team only plays with ten players,
they might go seven seventeen And Uncle moh, who do
you want to partner with the great Uncle Mo?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
I hope, I'm not rusty, Ben.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
I'm gonna go with you. All right. It spin a while,
it's been a while. All right, you're gonna play. And
we have JJ in Renton. Hello, JJ, oh man, have
been a long time, big man. It has been too long. JJ.
You work the dreaded swing chip. But you're back. You're
gonna be with Cooper Loop all right, JJ, right, yes,
(40:44):
all right, I don't have time to do small talk. Alright.
It like the Broncos though. That's fine. All right, let's
let's play the game here. Lock everyone in? What the categories? Quickly? Cool?
All right?
Speaker 4 (40:56):
This is the Melissa McCarthy addition. She turns fifty five
years old today. Categories are the third Wheel, the Nines, bride'smaids,
and this is forty. Uncle, though you're on first, which
category would you like? Third wheel?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
The third wheel? Alright? And JJ how about you.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:15):
So what is the object? Do you want the nines
bride's maids? Or this is forty? This is forty? Okay,
all right, all right, there we go. Let's go forty.
What are forty five seconds o'clock? These athletes were typically
overshadowed by a duo of teammates. Uncle moll, are you ready? Yes,
all right, here we go. Known as the Beard. He
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plays with the Clippers. Now he was with the Rock Yes,
he was with the Miami Heat with Dwayne Wade. Yes,
voyt guard from France for the Spurs when they had Duncan. Yes,
wide receiver for the Patriots. He's on Fox now slot
wide receiver. Yes, running back for the forty nine ers.
(41:56):
Also the same name of the manager of the Giants
in the eighties, that San Francisco Giant. It's a running
back for the Knights with Joe Bartana all right? What no,
wide receiver for the Packers. Last name is like a
salad with Brett Farb and Aaron Rodgers last names like
a salad. The Scooter for the Yankees in the nineteen Yes,
all right, you got that one wide receiver for the
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Green Bay Packers. Last name like a famous.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Hen season again, man, because I could family here here, man,
he's done the robot.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Roger Craig was what you missed and Randall Ky, I
like that. JJ knows he's going to lose.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
All right, JJ, JJ, We've got this is forty. These
athletes are currently forty years old. Whether retired or active,
they're forty years old.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Right now? Are you ready? JJ?
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Joe?
Speaker 1 (42:42):
All right?
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Forty five seconds to begin quarterback for the Falcons. He
threw to Julio Jones. He's retired now. Matt Ryan, Yes,
this guy was one of the all time great running backs.
He was on the Vikings, ran for two thousand yards.
He hit his son with a stick. Yes, all right.
This guy was the point guard for the Lob City Clippers.
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He's still in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (43:07):
It's not Clay Thompson.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
It's uh, I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
He's on State farm commercials.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
All right, all right, all right, this guy, this guy
was Powe's brother, Powe from the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Kyle. No, all right, this.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Guy had the same name as pac Man in the NFL,
but he was named me an MLB player.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Terrible.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Cheating man.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
JJ just wants to say I'm cheating, all right, he
sucked at the game, Chris, Chris Paul is who you missed?
Speaker 4 (43:37):
A right?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
You want that? You want the nines or bridesmaids. You
want nines or bridesmaids.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
JJ, I'll go to nine.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
All right. Athletes all were number nine. Let's go. Current
quarterback for the Bengals. Uh.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Yes, this guy was the quarterback for the Saints. He's
gonna be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (43:59):
This guy was the kicker for the Ravens. He likes
the massage Parlors.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
This guy was the point guard for the Celtics championship
team with Kevin Garnett.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
It was uh uh.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
He later came to the Lakers hit the point guard.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Board.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
Jeez, guy hit for last guy to hit four hundred
in baseball, the last guy to hit four Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
We had a little time. You sucked. You sucked, jaed
you never never played this game again. I didn't she
you didn't get any right brides may here we go.
These athletes all made it to the championship game. But
number one. Uh, here we go quickly. We have a
full board. But let's go. Uh Uncle Mo play with
the Red Sox was a rookie year played with the
California Angels. Also hit the first Grand Slam in an
All Star game in the No White Guy, No Redland.
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Yeah you gotta ride, President. We want the game. We
want the game. Uncle
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So our lead this hour is from just inside the Beltway,
but they play outside the Beltway and so there's a lot,
a lot of moving parts to this. It's a story
that we talked about. I squeezed out no less than
at least six Malard monologues, which I know made Rick
and Maryland very happy and the Ostrich aunt in DC
(02:26):
very happy. And the storyline has now come to an end.
You can put the baby to bed now. I've been
following this all off seas. What is that I'll tell
you if you have not heard, perhaps not because you
actually have a life. You don't pay attention to this
stuff all day, every day, every minute. You don't obsessed
with it. You don't have a talk show to do.
So we learned that wide receiver Terry McLaurin, who remember
(02:49):
the guy, he asked for a trade. I ain't playing
unless I get mine bro. He did the Blake snellfing
that punk from the Dodgers. So Terry McLaurin asked for
a trade, and the Washington Football Team has decided to
not trade him. Instead, they have agreed to a mega
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MEGAMEGA three year contract worth ninety six million. Of course,
we'll wait till the fine print comes out how much
of that is guaranteed. There's conflicting reports on that before
we give that side of it. The Commanders, though, keep
the player. McLaren essentially missed the entire offseason, lolly gagging
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around in the hold in, and he wanted that new contract.
He turns thirty, Oh my god, thirty next month. A
big three to zero and we'll be back on the field,
back on the field here with a new contract. He
gets a massive check, massive check from the Commanders. He
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will be able to play their Game one. The Washington
Football Team opens against the sad Sack New York Football
Giants to begin their season. I know Everyboddy Eddie in
Charlotte loves the giants, but they suck. McLaren's average salary
will now be I know you're very concerned about other
people's salary. Mclarin's average salary be thirty two million, which
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is the same as AJ Brown, but less than Jamar Chase,
less than Justin Jefferson, less than C. D. Lamb, the Cowboys,
DK Met Keevin, Garrett Wilson. So listen, that's that's fine.
That's about it. Seems about right, seems about right, and
so that's where we are. So let us discuss did
the commanders, though some are saying, what are you doing?
(04:37):
Oh my god, you didn't want to pay him, he's
too old. You paid him. So did the commanders overpay
Terry McLaurin at thirty two million per year? Or is
this a fair market deal for a player of his caliber?
So I've got my thoughts on this about Netflix, spaghetti
(04:58):
and launching pad and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to put the biscuit
in the basket. Is what We're going to do. The
biscuit in the basket. So a to answer the question,
was this and overpaid by the Washington Commanders. None. I
am going to be Benny Brightside. I am Benny bright
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Side on this one. I am McLaurin. The safety blanket
for Jaden Daniels, the prodigy. We'll see if he can
follow up that amazing Final four run for the Washington
football team and do it again this year. But he
was a prodigy, Jaden Daniels, all those last second wins, dramatic,
high flying, high falutin the synergery with Cliff Kingsbury, but
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a lot of that went in doubt. Throw the ball
tot Terry McLaurin. That alone on my scorecard, that alone
makes him worth the premium price tag, which is what
Washington did pay it. And this is very similar to
what we had advice, the advice, the unsolicited overnight radio
advice that we had given to the Washington football team.
(06:02):
They're listening, they can't sleep, they're listening. What was the advice?
Short term contract, big money? Who cares? Short term contract?
Big money? Who cares? Three It's not really a three
year deal. Don't get fooled by the numbers. See people
get fooled by the numbers. And we'll find out how
much of that is guaranteed. But this is like Netflix
or any other television network announcing that they've renewed. We'll
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just focus on Netflix. They've renewed a show for three seasons. Okay,
they've renewed the show for three seasons. You're all excited. Okay,
that's great, But in reality, what they've actually done is
giving you an eight episode deal and they're gonna then
cancel the show the second nobody watches. That's it. But
they announce it's a three year deal, and then when
(06:45):
no one's actually paying attention, they just get rid of
the show. That's it. And so this is really the
way I look at it. A one and a half
year deal. It's a one and a half year deal.
The commanders were worried about mclaurin's age, Oh my god,
because they got a bunch of dorks in there, and
they look, it's like insurance. Now, I so you life insurance.
They say, well, we're betting that you're gonna live this
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long and then eventually you're gonna die, but we're betting
that we're gonna make this much money off your ass
before you croak, and that way will be okay. But
if not, if you have some underlying condition you might
croak sooner. Well, then we don't want to do the deal.
You got to pay more. And they're like, wow, we
don't want to do the deal because you're gonna be
thirty and you look at the comps on this and
all that stuff. But Washington is thinking, we don't want
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to pay this guy till he's thirty three. Well, spoiler alert,
looks like until we see the fine print here, you're
gonna be paying him close to that. The contract in theory,
always in theory, locks up McLaurin through twenty twenty eight,
he would be thirty three. The new money thirty two
million annually. Now the owner Josh Harris, who's one of
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these slick business dudes who wants to be famous. You
don't buy a sports team unless you want you want
people talking about you. You just why would you bother?
So he owns the bunch of sports teams. With the
Washington football team, this is a bullet you got to
bite on. If you're Josh Harris, you got to bite
on it because it's a PR move. The way I
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look at this, it's a PR move. There's no need
for a go fundme. Harris is worth almost ten billion
dollars in the estimate there, so that they're trying to
sell stability and I would have kept a player too,
Betty Brightside. It's good for all involved. It's not a
massive commitment long term, and he's been very productive with
some absolute puke quarterbacks in Washington. Now they finally have
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what appears to be a pretty good quarterback. So we'll
see how this goes here. But it's really just a
year and a half and they're either gonna cut him
or restructure the contract, and that'll be that. Now to Dallas.
That's right, the obligatory Mallor monologue about America's team, the
Dallas Cowboys. So the latest developments on this the Cowboys
quarterback Dakota Press Scott. That's his name, Dakota. They call
(09:02):
him dak but he's his real name is Dakota. So
Dakota Prescott has entered the chat on the big deal.
So a couple of contracts agreed to holdouts or hold ins,
ending Trey Hendrickson. We'll get to that later. We've got
a four hour talk show to do. But Trey Hendrickson
is going to stay with the Bengals for this season
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at least, and we mentioned the Terry mcclarn thing, but
in Dallas they have not had any kind of settlement yet.
So the Cowboys quarterback Dakota Prescott said that he is confident,
confident that the disgruntled edge rusher Micah Parsons will be
on the field a week from Thursday when the Cowboys
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open up with Doctor Phila Delphia Eagles. In a made
for Prime Time football extrava ganza, Dakota Prescott said, quote,
I've got confidence. I told you all just to prove
he's actually living in Texas. You had to say, y'all,
I told y'all that way back when Prescott yapped and
snapped at reporters, he said, I'm just going to be
(10:09):
going off experience, honestly, no different than mine, referring to
the situation where his contract was also fed up until
the very end. So question, can you decipher? Can you
decipher what the Cowboys star dak Prescott in his vote
of confidence with Michael Parsons means? So I spent several
(10:30):
seconds deliberating on this one, several seconds, and Dak's out
there yelling at the world. He's quoting Aaron Rodgers. Relax,
he's saying, relax, I've got confidence and all this stuff.
He's following the script. The Dallas Cowboys again for the
eighteen thousand dimes into these microphones. It is a spaghetti Western,
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the Dallas Cowboys. They are a spaghetti Western. You got
Jerry Jones twirling his mustache like a villain. Now, I
got a cartoon villain, Jerry Jones. Over there. You got
dak Prescott, who's playing the wise old sage cowboy. Dakota
Prescott sitting on his porch, sipping some sweet tea and
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telling everybody all calm down, now, you all calm down. Now,
Mike's gonna be fine, just like that. So Prescott following
the wisdom that we believe in. Obviously, this is not
his first rodeo. Dak Prescott, He's been through the contract
ringer Jerry's ringer for a while. A couple of times
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he's cashed in. He got two hundred and forty something million.
I believe. I think I'm right on that. So Jerry
has a PhD. And the PhD is in drama from
the University of Keeping the Cowboys Relevant. You might not
have heard about that university. It's a small University. It's
located in the death Star there in Jerry's world. And
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you think it's a coincidence that every off season there's
a contract standoff every off season. In the last this
is three years in Robley, three years in a row.
We've got more twists than a burial race at the
or one of those barrel races you know you see
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at the State Fair where they're racing the bar I mean,
there's a lot going on. And and first it was
Dak a couple of years back, then it was Ceedee Lamb,
and now it's now it's Michael Parsons. So I think
for three for three. Jerry's got his playbook. He does
things his way and it's thicker than a longhorned steak.
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Jerry Jones got that big playbook there. But he loves this.
This is his go to act in the spaghetti western.
And it's like, you know, sitting there in the owner's box,
he's up there atop the stadium. He's just sipping whiskey
and looking down at all the rubes and all the dopes,
and uh, let's let this the simmer for a little bit,
and we let the cameras roll at all the debate
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shows all the gas bags, blowhards know it, alls, chime
in on this, and you know what, it works. It
does work. It absolutely works. Like we're talking about the
Cowboys here, we are. There's other stuff going on, but
the Dallas Cowboys in late August late August continue to
move the needle, figuring things out while other teams are
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changing punters and releasing fat guys and all that. Now,
speaking of that, there was one move that caught my attention,
and that's the last where we go to Motown. Quarterback change.
Quarterback change. In Motown, the Lions have said bye bye.
They have gotten rid of former third round pick Hendon Hooker.
You can't get rid of a hooker. They put a
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hooker out on the street. What's up with that? So
Hendon Hooker let go. Kyle Allen has officially won the
Lions backup quarterback battle, whichans when Jared Goff gets hurt,
the Detroit Lions will have no chance to win unless
they pitch a shutout on defense because Kyle Allen blows.
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He's terrible. So what is the lesson? Though I think
there's a bigger lesson. This caught my attention, So what
is the lesson here from the Lions dumping former Tennessee
quarterback Hendon Hooker getting rid of him. So this is
a refresher course. It is a refresher course. The draft.
What do we always say, fools gold, It's fools gold.
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It's a suckers game. And every draft there is a
couple of quarterbacks drafted in the second, third, fourth round.
And I got a here, all the geniuses. Oh man,
this guy's going to be a steal of the draft.
Oh my god, this guy's got amazing ability. Blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah to my ears. Blee.
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So Dan Campbell and the Lions took Hendon Hooker. He
was raw, he was unpolished, He had a bat knee,
He was twenty five years old, which is older than
pretty much everyone in the draft, and they drafted him.
And he was said to be a project. But the
same people who've made the draft, the cottage industry, they
love to tell you, oh, this guy's gonna be great, wonderful.
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And what happened. It went exactly the way we thought
it was going to happen, the way we expected it
to happen. The project at quarterback hen and Hooker. The
lions blew up on the launching pad. C boom right
there on the launching peck kaboom, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom kaboom
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ka boom, just like that, and did not even get
off the ground. He's not a starter. They said, well,
maybe we'll be back up. He's nothing. At this point,
Hooker's going through the checkout line with the old thank
you come again sticker right on his forehead right there.
Ninety five percent of these so called projects, they fail,
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all right, this was a third rounder. A third round.
You might as well be lighting the pick on fire.
Just get some gasoline and a lighter or book of
matches and just like the thing on fire, or use
a blow torch. You just get blow torch out there
like you're roasting marshmallows and delicious marshmallows and just going
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for it. So he's not Hooker. Hooker's not a clipboard guy.
He's not a headset guy at this point, as he's
a lost in the shuffle guy. Does anyone eat marshmallows
without cooking them? I can't imagine eating marshmallows without cooking them.
They're rather disgusting. You have to eat them cooked, right,
There's no is there a market for people that just
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munch on marshmallows without them being roasted with chocolate and
Graham crackers? Like, is there a group that that's into that,
the people who do chubby Bunny competitions? The Chubby Bunny competition.
When I was a I remember Thanksgiving, my mom would
always make this big thing of yams. I think EAMs
are just, oh, they're so good, horrific, But my mom
would cover them with marshmallow, so I would just eat
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the marshmallows. My mom gets so upset. I did not
eat the ams. I said, I just want the marshmallows.
Oh need the ams. You can have the yams. You
gonna eat both? No, I don't have to eat both,
just the marshmallows. I'm just gonna eat the marshmallows. So
maybe just make me a plate of marshmallows and that'll
be the way to go. And never never really worked out.
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Get out your score cars, Get out your score cars
right now. So a lot of moving parts, a lot
of moving parts here. Let's start with the disgruntled playmaker.
Disgruntled playmaker. If you have not heard, possibly not, possibly not,
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we learned that wide receiver Jacoby and Myers also a
law firm in southern California. Jacoby Myers not happy. He
has requested a trade from Lost Wages, Nevada. He wants out. Upset.
I guess he's upset with Slug. He's like, I can't
be here anymore. Slug and Mark and David, all the
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guys there in Vegas just can't deal with it because
he could not agree to a contract extension. So he's
raising a hullabaloo, and the team says, na, Na, we're good,
we're good. We're gonna keep you. We're not trading. So
it's a class NFL standout Classic, and we have one
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of these every every season, at least one every season.
So let us discuss the question on this one. Will
Raiders came in to Jacoby Myers trade request or do
they write it out? Just write it out. He's under contract,
you don't have to trade him. So I've got Costco,
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Rusty Nail, and shadow boxing. Well, combine all these things together,
like legos, and the legos the Babushka steps on because
you put them on the when the Babushka tries to
clean them up and she's walking around at night, she
steps on, which is one of the worst pains a
human being can have, stepping out a lego. It's got
to be in the five worst pains a human being
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can have, so number one, number right, that's right. The
writers are essentially running the world's saddest flea market right now.
They just are right open for business. You got Tom
Brady GM by proxy, but he doesn't want any credit
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or blame because he's embarrassed by with these moves. So
the Raiders are open for business, and they're essentially telling
the neighbors listen, you can't have this lamp. This is
too valuable. And then the neighbors like, well, I mean
you're running a flea market and you the lamp is there,
and I'm not selling the lamp like buddy, it's it's
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a target lamp. It's not Tiffany's okay, what are you doing? Uh?
The Myers is not a bump. The guy's not a bum.
Joan Rode either, the guy's a bump. The guy's not
a bump. He's slightly above average. Jacoby Myers is the
costco version of a wide receiver number one. He just
did you know what you get? You're getting dependable. You're
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getting dependable. You're getting decent quality, not flashy, not flashy.
You're certainly not bragging to your buddies. You're not bragging
to your friends. Oh yeah, I bought that Kirkland brand
of Kolby Myers. You're not excited about that, You're not.
I mean, you look at the numbers and you're like,
all the numbers are fine. You know, fifty yards a game,
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fifty and a half in his career. Last year he
was up to sixty eight and a half, which is
not bad, not bad. It's not terrible. It's not not elite,
it's not all time great. And to answer the question,
I expect him to be traded. I my position is
always the player who's unhappy is going to be traded.
And here's why this is the classic. We want volunteers,
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not hostages. Got It's an old line Mike Tomlin had
back in the day. And if you're not happy, if
the dude wants out, if the dude's gonna raise a problem, fine,
don't hold the player hostage. It's not there's only certain
players you hold hostage. He's not one of those players, right,
You ship them on somewhere else and that's it. Now
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where you ask, well, we can spin the malor wheel
of speculation on where Jacoby Myers will in a good, quick,
quick finger push there by the rent. So I've got Patriots, Vikings,
and Steelers as the most likely destinations for Jacoby Myers.
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The Patriots he already played there. Josh McDaniels is back
as the offensive coordinator, so there's a connection to the Patriots,
and he is considered to be a dependable player. The
Patriots don't have a dependable wide receiver. They've got slop
at wide receivers. Myers was fine when he played there,
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and we assume that if he went back he would
be fine. They have Stefan Diggs who's coming off an injury,
and then they've got a bunch of other drek. They're
literally putting drek out there at wide receiver, and I
don't think that's going to go well. Now the Vikings, well,
what the Vikings there? They're loaded, they got jail, they're
loaded wide receiver. They go, oh, this guy, well, Jordan
Addison is suspended because he liked to do things in
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his car involving alcohol and whatnot. So uh, he's suspended
to start the year, and Myers slots in as a
at least a temporary number two, as a slot wide
receiver there as a babysitter until Jordan Addison's suspension is over,
because remember he's gonna he's gonna miss the first three games, Addison,
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And then you've also got the will he be ready
to play in the fourth game? Is there gonna be
a setback? Do you miss time, you're more likely to
get injured. The Steelers, I look at those wide receivers
and I know they got they got DK Metcalf. Okay,
that's good. The rest of those Jimoke's not so much.
And Mike Tomline, this seems like a Mike Tomlin guy
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Jakobe Myers, right, and also throw like Niners in there
if you want the Niners. Uh, they've got wide receivers
who think they're better than they are, and they've got
guys that are hurt. So they've got a hodgepodge there,
you know. And here's the other thing. Right, You look
around and you're like, all those teams, what's the price tag? Well,
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the price tag. If the Raiders were offered a fifth
round draft pick, that's about what he's worth. Now, if
somebody gets all excited, I want this guy, I'll give
you more than that. Okay, fine, but a fifth round pick.
It's like if you're the Steelers of the Vikings or
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the Patriots, you trade a fifth round pick. A fifth
is like giving away a Chili's gift card. You know
you'd like it, but you're not gonna miss it. You know.
It's like, if I have it, it's great, but I
guess somebody else can go to Chili's and enjoy the
gift card. I don't need it. It's that kind of thing. Now,
if the Raiders somehow get a fourth round pick, they
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should go out to Fremont Street, right near the iHeart
studios there and dance and have a great time. Right.
That's Ocean's eleven type high stuff if they get that.
But at the bottom line, Jacoby Myers is useful, he's
above average slightly. He's reliable. He's just not Elite's not
He's not happy. He's not happy. And the stories are
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connected because page two here mentioned it's a Raider heavy hour.
We'll get back to the calls in a little bit,
but the Raider heavy hour here. While Jacoby Myers is
having a conniption fit and would like to be traded,
he wants out, says, I would like to go somewhere else,
one way ticket out of Sin City. Well, we had
a reunion. The Raiders brought back a blast in the past.
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Ten years ago. The Raiders first round of the draft
picked Amari Cooper and Mary Cooper was really good at
dropping passes with the old Oakland Raiders. Man was he elite.
He was an elite pass dropper with the Raiders. And
he's back, baby, He's back, but now the Las Vegas Raiders. Cooper,
thirty one, he played for the Brownies and the Bills
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last season, was one of the big pickups before the
trade lined by the Buffalo football team was considered the
top available veteran pass catcher on the street at this point.
So Pete Carroll is selling and the Raiders are selling
that this is a veteran presence that he's been around
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the block. He just knows how to get the job done.
Maybe there's a little leadership in there. The Raiders have
a young wide receiver room and he will be someone
that can go in there and fill in one of
the question marks on the Jeopardy board. And that's that.
So question question to you, does this addition of wide
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receiver Amari Cooper actually moved the needle for the Raiders.
So the way I look at this, this is not
a needle move. There is no movement of the needle.
It is a rusty nail, is what it is, jammed
into the side of a sigate ship. Okay, do you understand. Listen,
the Raider wide receiver room is a dizzy disaster with
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the capital of the What is Tom Brady smoking over there?
Is he he's on the drinking the ayahuasca? What do
we got going on over there? That is a FEMA
zone the Raider wide receiver room. Now you have somebody
named Dante Thornton who's unprocessed, and Trey Tucker and they
are projected to be starters for the Raiders. You also
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have Jacoby Myers who wants out asap, and those are
the top three wide receivers at this point. They're hoping
that Amari Cooper can come in there and stabilize things. Unfortunately,
if you watched the NFL, or even if you're blind
and listen to the NFL on radio last year, you
know that Amari Cooper looked and sounded sounded like a
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player that was running in molasses. At the end of
last year. He was the big pick up by the
Buffalo football team to put them over the top. How
did that work out? Yeah, he showed showed Amari Cooper
that he had the separate skills of a refrigerator magnet
when he played for the Buffalo Bills there and it
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looked like he was in a Lake effect blizzard the
entire time. He was a decoy. They didn't trade for
him to be a decoy. But that's what Amari Cooper
was with the Buffalo Bills. And so you know what
this is. This is the the Raiders walking in to
the emergency room. And saying, you know, doctor, doctor, give
me the news. And the doctor says, well, I'm sorry
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to tell you you've got a broken femur. And the Raiders say, well,
that's I just don't have time for a broken femer.
Can you just put a band aid on it and
we're good to go. That's just the way to do it.
It's a panic move, like Pete Carroll is out here
trying to I guess he's trying to recreate the Legion
of Boom. I know the Legion of Boom was defense here,
but it's like the ghost of Christmas past, the ghosts
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of Raider past, and all that stuff. The Raiders are
admitting though this is a confessional by the Raiders. The
Raiders are admitting that the wide receiver room sucks rocks.
They're admitting that, and so instead of building a new
foundation and all that stuff, they're trying to duct tape
the lava lamp to the wall. And they're calling you
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a schandelier. They said, well, it's a chandler. No, no it's not,
it's a lava lamp. That are our friend Andrea the
insider the astrology and said she put up a lava
lamp and then it fell down. Then you picked it
up and you taped to the wall. You said, it's
a chandelier. It's a lava lamp. Bad job are you?
But you look there and the Raiders have brock Bowers,
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who's going for the Raiders to make the playoffs. Brock
Bowers is going to catch, by my math malor math,
two hundred passes for the Raiders to find a way
to make the playoffs. They are the definition of av
all Ridge acts. An average football team. That's a that's
a six seven, eight win, nine win team somewhere in there.
That's it. Faux contender at most, faux contender for the
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Raiders in a division that is stacked with the Chiefs,
the Chargers, and supposedly the Broncos. On the on to
come all right final point, the Raiders also made another
oh my god, it's all Raiders. The Raiders addressed the
backup quarterback position. You might remember any previous episode of
the show, there was speculations for the Raiders were interested
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in Ryan Tannehill. Well, they woke up and realized he blows.
So let's go out and get a younger quarterback who
just sucks. And so that's what the Raiders did. Vegas
acquired Kenny Picket. Yes that no, you know who that is,
Kenny Pickett from the Browns in exchange for a fifth
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round pick. So question, is Kenny Pickett's third trade now
of the Raiders in eighteen months a sign that he
is a bust? Or is he just a victim of
bad situations? Just bad situations. So for the kool aid drinkers,
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they'll say Kenny Pickett just wasn't given the proper runway
to take off off that if you look at his career,
he's started twenty five games, He's five games above five hundred.
Kenny pick is fifteen and ten as a starter. However,
any kind of due diligence on the career of Kenny Picktt,
any kind of objective analyzing what's going on here, the
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arrow is pointing to bust with a capital B. Bust
with a cavalry. He was the quarterback of the future.
The Steelers with Mike Tomlin, drafted this guy in the
first round, and Mike Tomlin had him for a couple
of seasons and it's like, this guy's not that good.
This the whole they had, the whole backstory. Ride Guy
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went to college at pitt goes over to the Steelers,
the whole thing and a couple of seasons in. After
being picked in the first round, Pittsburgh brought in Russell
Wilson to compete with Kenny Pickett. And what did Kenny
Pickett do when they brought Russell Wilson in to compete?
He had the ultimate hissy fit. I'm not doing it.
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I am Kenny Peggott, scraw you out. I want out.
He gave up, He gave up. He ran from the grind.
He just run. He run the other he ran the
other direction from the grind, and that's the thing you
can't do, and he did it. The guy's a quitter.
Kenny Pickett's a quitter. Rather than compete, you're telling me
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you can't beat out a rushed up, a rushed up
and washed up Russell Wilson. You can't beat out Russell Wilson.
If you're Kenny Pickett, come on. And rather than try,
he says, I want out. I want to trade. So
Pittsburgh traded him to Philadelphia and he had all stop over.
There was never going to play. That was quarterback rehab
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in Philadelphia, and then I think he was traded for
like a third round pick or something like that. So
I think they got something of value for Kenny Pickett,
they being the Philadelphia football team. But that quitting on
the Steelers is something that is shadow boxed Kenny Pickett.
And now he went to Cleveland. That's even more emasculating
than what happened in Pittsburgh. He just ran away from
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the Seer says, I don't want to compete with mister unlimited.
Mister unlimited. He goes to Cleveland and he could not
would not beat out a forty year old Joe Flacco
and a couple of neophyte rookie quarterbacks, including a fifth
round flyer that picket in a supposed open competition, a
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meritocracy where Joe Flacco ended up winning. He lost out
and he was so bad that they don't even think
he's a good backup in Cleveland, like we gotta trade him,
get rid of him. He can't even be in a backup.
That's a quarterback devoid franchise. It is a Permuta triangle
where quarterbacks go to die, and they're looking for anyone
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that's got a pulse. And they got rid of Kenny Pickett.
They got rid of him. So will Kenny Pickett ever
get a shot to start in Las Vegas or is
he destined to be a career backup. Well, the Raiders
Aidan O'Connell is hurt, He's going to come back at
some point, So there's no guarantee that Pickett even makes
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the roster the whole year with the Raiders, and Gino
Smith is best. He's with Pete Carroll as a Pete
Carroll picked Gino Smith. Tom Brady wanted a good quarterback.
The Raiders couldn't get a good quarterback. They wanted Matthew Stafford.
They tried to get some other players, and all the
good players ran away from the Raiders, So the Raiders
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then were forced to get some slop. And Pete Carroll says,
that's the slop. I like, that's the crap out of Seattle.
I want that Gino Smith. Sure, we'll get you, Gino Smith.
Why not? So Gino goes to the Raiders. He's a
fraud as a number one quarterback, we all know that.
But if he stays healthy, then he's going to play
the entire year, and Kenny Pickett will get hemorrhoids sitting
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on the bench and despite that glittering record which we mentioned,
five games over five hundred as a backup Kenny Pickett
because he played on good defensive teams in Pittsburgh and
they didn't really play much at all in Philadelphia. But
in his career thirty games, twenty five starts, Kenny Pickett
has the grand total of fifteen touchdowns and fourteen interceptions.
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Is that good? Because if that's good, I wish I
had you as a teacher.
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How about that to the third degree? This is one
Big Ben gets grilled.
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Goo TMZ caught up with former USC running back Lendale
White over the weekend. He was the thunder to the
Lightning and Thunder duo there.
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Oh okay, I remember he was a fat one.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Yes exactly yeah where Lendell White said that he thinks
that USC will make the college football Playoff for the
first time and that he has faith in Lincoln Riley.
Ben does Riley need a college football Playoff appearance to
keep his job?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Well, there's a lot of money tied up. I'm one
of a couple of people I know over there. They
are boosters at USC and they thought that was there.
They had won the lottery when they got Lincoln Riley,
and they suck. The problem Wingan Riley has Coop is
this teams are soft and they play in the Big Ten.
You're gonna play cold weather games late in the season,
and they're just not built for that. They're soft West
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Coast teams. And that's on Lincoln Riley. That's on his
coaching step. I don't see a way that they win,
you know, at the end. And I think he'll be
around for at least another year next.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Texans wide receiver Nico Collins raved about having CJ. Strouded
as his quarterback, saying that their connection is like bread
and butter. Oh nice, and that they plan on shocking
the world.
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I like MC and cheese more. Ben.
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The Texans have kind of flown under the radar this offseason.
What's their ceiling?
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Yeah, so their ceiling is there'll be a good regular
season team. They play in a division nobody cares about.
That's why you fly under the radar. The AFC South
is terrible. You've got the Texans, who are the top
team Jacksonville, Indianapolis. The Titans. It's a terrible division. They'll win,
They'll make the playoffs. Will be the first playoff game
on Saturday, because nobody wants to watch them play.
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Next Major League Baseball announcement, We'll be returning to the
Field of Dreams in Iowa for a game in the
twenty twenty six regular season. Then, what are some other
special locations you think would be good for a game?
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I'm on the Pacific. There's this this trash circle of trash.
Why don't they build a stadium in the middle of
the Pacific on that trash island out there? And wouldn't
that be cool? The floating trash and then clean it up?
Why not? What do you say, Cooplaw? Do we do?
I like it? You pass? There is That's a win
trash island baby.
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And right to the game we go. Let's welcome in
our contestants. We have Who do we have here? We
have Uncle Mo, who's in Jersey now no longer in Brooklyn,
he's moved over to Jersey. What's going on, Uncle Mo?
Good morning, Ben?
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Looking forward to the football season, hoping to make bounds
fast as legal, Jets might go seventeen to no.
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Yes, if the other team only plays with ten players,
they might go seven seventeen And Uncle moh, who do
you want to partner with the great Uncle Mo?
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I hope, I'm not rusty, Ben.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
I'm gonna go with you. All right. It spin a while,
it's been a while. All right, you're gonna play. And
we have JJ in Renton. Hello, JJ, oh man, have
been a long time, big man. It has been too long. JJ.
You work the dreaded swing chip. But you're back. You're
gonna be with Cooper Loop all right, JJ, right, yes,
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all right, I don't have time to do small talk. Alright.
It like the Broncos though. That's fine. All right, let's
let's play the game here. Lock everyone in? What the categories? Quickly? Cool?
All right?
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years old today. Categories are the third Wheel, the Nines, bride'smaids,
and this is forty. Uncle, though you're on first, which
category would you like? Third wheel?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
The third wheel? Alright? And JJ how about you.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:15):
So what is the object? Do you want the nines
bride's maids? Or this is forty? This is forty? Okay,
all right, all right, there we go. Let's go forty.
What are forty five seconds o'clock? These athletes were typically
overshadowed by a duo of teammates. Uncle moll, are you ready? Yes,
all right, here we go. Known as the Beard. He
(41:35):
plays with the Clippers. Now he was with the Rock Yes,
he was with the Miami Heat with Dwayne Wade. Yes,
voyt guard from France for the Spurs when they had Duncan. Yes,
wide receiver for the Patriots. He's on Fox now slot
wide receiver. Yes, running back for the forty nine ers.
(41:56):
Also the same name of the manager of the Giants
in the eighties, that San Francisco Giant. It's a running
back for the Knights with Joe Bartana all right? What no,
wide receiver for the Packers. Last name is like a
salad with Brett Farb and Aaron Rodgers last names like
a salad. The Scooter for the Yankees in the nineteen Yes,
all right, you got that one wide receiver for the
(42:17):
Green Bay Packers. Last name like a famous.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Hen season again, man, because I could family here here, man,
he's done the robot.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Roger Craig was what you missed and Randall Ky, I
like that. JJ knows he's going to lose.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
All right, JJ, JJ, We've got this is forty. These
athletes are currently forty years old. Whether retired or active,
they're forty years old.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Right now? Are you ready? JJ?
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Joe?
Speaker 1 (42:42):
All right?
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Forty five seconds to begin quarterback for the Falcons. He
threw to Julio Jones. He's retired now. Matt Ryan, Yes,
this guy was one of the all time great running backs.
He was on the Vikings, ran for two thousand yards.
He hit his son with a stick. Yes, all right.
This guy was the point guard for the Lob City Clippers.
(43:05):
He's still in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (43:07):
It's not Clay Thompson.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
It's uh, I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
He's on State farm commercials.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
All right, all right, all right, this guy, this guy
was Powe's brother, Powe from the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Kyle. No, all right, this.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Guy had the same name as pac Man in the NFL,
but he was named me an MLB player.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Terrible.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Cheating man.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
JJ just wants to say I'm cheating, all right, he
sucked at the game, Chris, Chris Paul is who you missed?
Speaker 4 (43:37):
A right?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
You want that? You want the nines or bridesmaids. You
want nines or bridesmaids.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
JJ, I'll go to nine.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
All right. Athletes all were number nine. Let's go. Current
quarterback for the Bengals. Uh.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Yes, this guy was the quarterback for the Saints. He's
gonna be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (43:59):
This guy was the kicker for the Ravens. He likes
the massage Parlors.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
This guy was the point guard for the Celtics championship
team with Kevin Garnett.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
It was uh uh.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
He later came to the Lakers hit the point guard.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Board.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
Jeez, guy hit for last guy to hit four hundred
in baseball, the last guy to hit four Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
We had a little time. You sucked. You sucked, jaed
you never never played this game again. I didn't she
you didn't get any right brides may here we go.
These athletes all made it to the championship game. But
number one. Uh, here we go quickly. We have a
full board. But let's go. Uh Uncle Mo play with
the Red Sox was a rookie year played with the
California Angels. Also hit the first Grand Slam in an
All Star game in the No White Guy, No Redland.
(45:05):
Yeah you gotta ride, President. We want the game. We
want the game. Uncle
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