September 2, 2025 • 44 mins
Big Ben talks about the takeaways from Bill Belichick's debut as head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, Eagles RB Saquon Barkley being named the top player in the NFL this season, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Barry Gibb Edition, and more!
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of the bosses around here over the years like to say,
you got to play the hits, mo Man, play the hit.
So our lead this hour is the hour of Belichick.
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The Hour of Belichick has upon us, Oh my god,
not worth about more than sixty seconds after what we witnessed.
But that's where we're going to start, and we'll see
where we go. But the Hour of Belichick. Our lead
is from North Carolina, where Bill Belichick made his much anticipated,
much talked about coaching debut at the college level. All
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those years in the NFL. Here's Bill Belichick on a
random Labor day in twenty twenty five, out there all
the buzz. North Carolina sold out all of their tickets,
all the season tickets, sold them out the power of hyperbolee.
So they sold them all out. They raised the prices
of the tickets and single game seeds for the season.
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Everything was up up and they sold them all. They
all had their Carolina blue on and ready to celebrate.
And don't if you watch the game or not, it
got a lot of attention. Perhaps you missed it. We
watched so you would not have to. We're happy to
report that you didn't miss anything. You did not miss
any of you did not watch. You did not miss
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a damn thing. Let me explain hauling smokers. Bill Belichick.
His first run as a college coach at North Carolina
started fast. Opening drive, sliced up TCU. They get a touchdown,
only to end up in an epic blowout. After scoring
on the first drive, North Carolina's football team, the tar Hills,
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watched the horn Frogs scored forty one answered unanswered points
in one stretch. Forty one unanswered points in one stretch,
forty eight to fourteen. It could have been worse than that.
It was a laugher. North Carolina on defense watching as
TCU was driving the ball down the field with a
few seconds to go in the game, and then they
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started taking knees there. Otherwise it would have been double nickels.
But forty eight to fourteen the final. By the end,
TCU had scored multiple defensive touchdowns, They had a special
team's touchdown in this game, and North Carolina Tarhill fans
acting like they were at Dodger Stadium as they left early.
They left in the third quarter, some leaving even before that.
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That stadium was mostly empty by the time we got
to the fourth quarter. How bad was it? It was
so bad Kirk Kerbstreet allowed his dog to broadcast the game.
Herbstreet allowed his dog to broadcast the game because the
game was for the dogs. It was covered in fleas
extended garbage time. But let us discuss the question with
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that as the backdrop. What are your takeaways from Bill
Belichick's maiden voyage his college football debut at North Carolina.
So I've got biblical, a bugs, life, and m behold,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to make some delicious deep fried cheese curds,
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is what we're gonna make, because that would have been better.
Just eating cheese curds would have been better than watching
this holy crap. At least they got paid for it, plausibly,
pay me to watch this crap so I can come
in here and tell you about the crap that I watched.
So hey, we'll start with this North Carolina. North Carolina
football pulled off what I call and they call this
in Hollywood too, they fake out opening. Now, back in
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the day, there used to be these things called movies.
People would actually pay money to go to a movie theater,
believe it or not, back in the Stone Age, and
they'd buy like popcorn and snacks and they'd go watch
the movies.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Ah, man, it was a big thing back in the
old days. Humanity has evolved since then. Nobody goes to
the movies anymore. But imagine, if you will, going to
the movies back in the old Stone Age when people
used back in the day, they had payphones and horse
and buggy. So you go down to the movie theater
and there's a lot of hype for the movie, and
the first five minutes you're hooked, right, you are in.
You're like, yes, it lived up to the hype, and
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your big card chase, huge explosion. Within the first five minute,
it's you're like, this is gonna be a good one. Right,
you're sitting there thinking, oh baby, buckle up man, Finally
Hollywood made a good movie. Right, this is gonna be awesome, awesome,
And then for the rest of the movie, you know,
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another hour and twenty five minutes or more. There's two
people just mumbling in some coffee shop about their feelings
for the next hour and twenty five minutes. Come on,
I want a car crash. Well we got a car crash.
But it was supposed to be excitement, huge explosions and
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all that stuff. Total bait and switch, total bait and
switch for North Carolina. And that's what Bill Belichick in
North Carolina pulled off that openly drive seven plays, eighty
three yards, touchdown, tarhels oh Man and the tar Heels.
They were fast and furious right there, slicing up the
opening credits. There was like Vin Diesel. The whole package, however,
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turned out to be a mirage. It was just an hallucination.
A desert oasis is what it turned out to be.
The real movie for North Carolina. That was a low budget,
I mean real low budget horror flick. And Bill Belichick,
he starred as the clueless babysitter that had no idea
as the horn Frogs appropriated. A guy who's Belichick, very horny,
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would lose to a team called the horn Frogs. Now
the first drive, the first drive, that was the trailer.
That was the trailer to the movie. The real product.
What followed was not so much football. It was biblical
in nature. It's a biblical flood, is what happened. Again,
we mentioned forty one point avalanche, a forty one point
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avalanche before the tar Hills would score again. And you
cut to Belichick and staring blankly with his cutoff sleeves
there on the hoodie. And that's the look there as
TCU hangs another touchdown, and another and another, and another
and another and another touchdown. We're talking about an emasculation
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situation to the highest order, a fifth ring of Hell
Dante's Inferno type stuff. For North Carolina. TCU rolled into town.
They were the uninvited HouseGuests, They were the interlopers. They
raided the fridge, they ripped the flat screen TV off
the wall, and they set the place on fire with arson,
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is what they did. So Texas Christian turned Bill Belichick
and his debut in collegiate football into a straight to
DVD production, and they don't even really make dvs anymore.
All right, now, page two, So how would you describe
the overall coaching job by Bill Belichick and his staff?
In the Belichick debut at North Carolina? He might know
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that he has his nepo baby as the defensive coordinator
for the Tarios, the Brownie James of defensive coordinators. There
Belichick's son. So there's really no sugarcoat this. I have
two words to describe, two words to describe Bill Belichick
and the job that his coaching staff did for North Carolina.
Coaching malpractice. Those are the two words. That was malfeasance,
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is what that was. If you want a third word,
pure and uncut. Pure and uncut. Forget the raw talent
and all that. Oh my god, forget about all that.
It's not about that. It's about the essential components of football,
the building blocks. So you know Bellichick, he said, well,
in the NFL all those years, he had teams that
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were not that talented, but he always had Tom Brady
for the Patriot run until the last couple of years.
And so you look at that. I said, well, that's
the great equalizer and all that. And in Cleveland he
did actually have some teams that overachieved when he was
coaching in the Cleveland rounds way back, you know, thirty
something years ago, back back in the day. But the
basics for North Carolina, which is, it doesn't matter how
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much talent you have, it's simple blocking and tackling. If
you block and tackle the fundamentals the bedrock football, you
don't get smashed the way North Carolina got smashed. And
the line which I believe in is you're either coaching it.
You're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen
if you're the Belichick coaching staff, and either way, it's
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on you. It's on Bill Belichick here and Belichick's boys
looked like lambs being led to the slaughter after that
opening drive there, and it was like watching as the
team was thirsty. North Carolina was thirsty. So they got
in front of the fire hydrant and the fire hydrant
was sprang at full blast and North Carolina's football players
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were trying to get a drink, but they had they
were trying to sip. They had a little one of
those little bendy straws, and they were trying to drink
from the bendy straw.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You cannot drink out of a fire hydrant with a
bendy straw. Just the math on that does not does
not work. Impossible. But this was it was a bugs life.
It was a bugs life for the coaching staff in
North Carolina because, as we know, sometimes you're the windshield
and sometimes you're the bug. Splat. Yeah, they were splattered.
They were splattered. And now it is a full on
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BELICHICKI and dog pile, dog pile, dogpile, dogpile. It is right.
He's being mocked, teased, humiliated, all of that. The hoodie
who once tortured, absolutely tortured rookie quarterbacks and when he
had extra time to prepare, you never wanted to bet
against ever ever Bill Belichick, and he punked out all
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of these quarterbacks and all these coaches for a generation.
And now he is being emotionally waterboarded on national TV,
on social media, the matrix, all that stuff they're just
unloading on Bill Belichick. I don't feel bad for Belichick,
per se. I don't know that it's completely justified for
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Bill Belichick because when I listened to Tom Brady talk,
I hear a lot of the crap that Belichick says,
like Belichick influenced what Tom Brady became. Now you could
argue that Brady did it better. Fine, I think that's
been proven since they went their separate ways. But it's
not like Tom Brady is not using BELICHICKI in lines
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when he discusses his outlook on football, those are things
he learned from Bill Belichick. And he's just repeating the
dogma of Bill Belichick. So I think that's important to
note here for all the people's oh see, it was
all Tom Brady. Okay, okay, fine, But he's using a
lot of the material he learned from Bill Belichick. And
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so the hoodie gets tortured there and waterboarded and all
that stuff. And the lesson is sometimes you're the maestro
and sometimes you're the kazoo player. And in this scene,
in this scene of the show, Bill Belichick is stuck
playing the kazoo while TC how do you do? The
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marching band blasts him off the field. Out of here, Belichick,
you're a bom. That guy's a bomm. Now it's not
all bad. So I determined I had an epiphany as
I was driving in making the long drive in from
the north Woods. Here to the mothership. I had an epiphany,
and the epiphany was that Bill Belichick will be getting
a call from Madison Avenue first thing in the morning.
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Here as the people on Madison Avenue say hey, Bill, Well,
I guess they'll call this little floozy girlfriend there, and
she's like the business person, so if she'll call, they'll
call him her and say, hey, we want Bill to
do a commercial. So what's a commercial for We it's
an airline. What airline is it? Delta is No, it's
not America, it's not Delta. What airline is it? Well,
it's Southwest. We want to do a new commercial. They
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want to get away? Fair because that was a want
to get away situation, and most North Carolina fans got away.
They got out of there. I'm not standing at the
end of his crap. No way, all right, last word,
we have some post game Bill Belichick. Belichick post game sound.
Always good to play Bill Belichick post game sound. Let's
get a little taste, won't react. Here's Belichick commenting about
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this scene, the aura, the vibrations there in Chapel Hill.
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Oh well it was a great, uh you know, great
atmosphere here for the game tonight. You know, fans were
tremendous injury energy walk and you know, we played competitively
but then just couldn't sustain. Obviously, we have a lot
of work to do. You know, we need to do
a better job all the way around. Coaching, playing all
three phases of the game. Just wasn't up to what
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it needs to be. And I know we're a lot
better than that. So we need to you know, need
to work on those things and show it on Saturday
and quick turnaround. But you know, get TCU credit that
came in did a good job, and they were clearly
the better team tonight. You know, they deserve to win,
and they did it decisively.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
All right. So those are some opening comments by Bill
Belichick there. I liked that how he had said, hey,
we just couldn't keep it up. That there was one
drive North Carolina looked good like one drug, one drive,
one drive, and that's it, all right. So what do
you make of Bill Belichick and the tone the postgame
comments of Bill Belichick? To me, the quote that stood
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out is I know we're a lot better than that.
To me, that's the money quote. So I felt like
all of this was watered down. I watched it. It
was about thirteen minutes or so. I saw the news.
Comings was it was watered down. It was, And behold,
numb little bug, a numb little bug by Bill Belichick.
Just numb, just felt numb, like he's a little tired
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of everything. Belichick. You know, he knew he had to
do it. He's done this a million times after losses.
And he's like he's kind of hanging by a thread there, Belichick,
and you got to survive it. And he did. And
and some of that sounded similarly to some of the
undertones he had when he was coaching the Patriots back
in the day. Some of the commentary there not quite
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as sharp. I thought, the I know we're a lot
better than that. That's a bit of a stepping star,
a bit of a stepping stone. I don't recall him
saying that very often coaching the Patriots. Of course he
didn't have to. They won most of the games. They
certainly won most of the big games with the Patriots,
So I don't recall him saying that. Bright side Bill
by Bella check standards, that's bright side Bill, and just
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the statistical domination. The Eyeball test said this was ridiculous.
The numbers back it up. North Carolina had ten first downs,
most of those in garbage time. They went a couple
hours without completing a forward pass, and TCU had twenty
nine first downs. They had nineteen more first downs TCU.
Rushing yards. TCU had two hundred and eight more rushing
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yards than North Carolina, two hundred and eight more rushing yards.
And but wait, there's more. Overall yardage. The TCU horned
frogs got real horny. They had five hundred and forty
two yards. The tar Hills had two hundred and twenty two.
My computer like brain tells me that is a minus
three hundred and twenty for North Carolina plus three twenty
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for TCUs. So it was bad. So the question also
is will it get any better? Is this going to
be how it goes all season for Bill Belichick? Is
this going to be a one and done situation? Will
he run out of coaching and that's it and see
you later, And that guy Mike Lombardi will go back
and do bad podcasts and these guys will run off
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as carpetbaggers and go somewhere else. You don't want to overreact.
It's one stinking game, right. And but the problem is
it's how you make that first impression. People are gonna
remember that first impression. And this is the first impression
for Bill Belichick as a college coach, and people are
not gonna be paying that close attention. They're gonna be
on TV a lot because of Belichick, but most of
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the games are not going to get the attention. This
was an island game on a holiday, there was no NFL.
It was his college debut, and they allowed his team
forty eight points, the most he's ever allowed as a
head coach. That is el Stinko.
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TC you and college football. We're gonna move away from
that story. We'll get back to it, but we'll move
on to something better. Well you'll be the judge of that.
But Dateline, the Prova news service of a pro football
state sponsored NFL media, announcing that the top spot, the
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very top spot on the NFL Networks Top one hundred list.
This is the kind of a thing that Terry in
England loves. He loves this. So they've been counting down
for a good amount of time now, counting down to
the very top spot, the top one hundred players in
the NFL. So if if you saw this, you know
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where I'm going. But maybe not. So this was voted on,
we're told by the players, and at the very top
of the mountain that would be Fly Egles, Fly on
the road to victory. Sequon Barkley at number one, right
there at the Numero uno, top of a heap, king
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of the hill, the crown jewel. Congratulations. All right, So
let us discuss the question the Eagles running back Sakwan
Barkley claiming the top spot on this year's NFL Top
one hundred ranking is this a big deal, a little
deal or no deal. So I've got Lizard, Elton, John
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and Raspberry and we will combine all of these ingredients
together and we're gonna make you a Babusha's favorite PB
and J. Because every Babushka knows a good PBNJ. Aren't
they delicious? My god? So good? All right? So number one,
number one? All right, this means and I want to
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be very clear for those who in the back of
the room, this means absolutely nothing. Put this in the
basket with bupkis on. It is what this is. It's
kind of like winning the Talent Show when you were
in high school. That's wonderful. Maybe you get a little trophy,
a little plastic trophy. Does not mean you're ready to
go to Broadway, just does not. Now, this is a
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perception not reality situation. It's a popularity contest, and look listen.
Sakwan Barkley was majestic last year. He absolutely cooked the
team that I like more than other teams, the La Rams.
It was embarrassing as they tried to stop him. He
had several huge runs, including in the playoff game in Philadelphia.
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The man painted a masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece worthy of
being hung at the louver, only with shoulder pads and
some grass stains. It was a symphony on turf, is
what it was. For the Eagles running back, he was
a ballet dancer with pads. I can go on and
on here. That won amazing play against Jacksonville when he
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spun around and leapt up in the air like he
was a Marvel comic character. It was great. However, that
is not what this is about. See, that is not
what this is about. This is about guys in the
locker room scribbling down names on a ballot in between
Fortnite matches. That's what this is about. I mean, so
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you got to like factor in who's actually voting. A
lot of the meathead fanboys, Oh, the players voted. This
has more meeting and not so much. I don't know
that I would go there. For most of the people
that play pro football, it's gonna blow you away. This
is an original take. Most of the people that play
pro football, it is their job. It's not their hobby,
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it's not their life's passion. It's their job. They're good
at it. They'll do it for a few years and
then they'll go do something else. It's just something they're
doing for work. It pays them a good amount of money.
They're not fans. You're a fan, they're not fans. And
the people that they're voting on are co work workers.
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Those are other people that work in their job. That's
what that is. And so they know the highlights, right,
They know the high they know the headlines, they know
a little bit about that. They know who embarrassed them
on the field on a given Sunday, and those are
likely the people that they vote for, whoever's on the headlines.
There they're filling out the thing of a jig in
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the locker room like they're like you would fill out
a March Madness bracket. After you've had a couple of Bruskies, right,
a couple of beers. You start filling that thing out,
all right, said, Darts on the board, darts on the board. Uh.
And the list and this is a list, right, this
list has all the staying power of cotton candy at
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a counovol. It does. It tastes good. Cotton candy tastes
good for about three seconds, about three seconds, uh, and
then you're just left sticky and annoyed and it gets
all over your hands. You gotta wash your hands, and
then it's like you can't get it off with it.
You need a lot of soap to get the stuff off.
You know what I'm talking about. Anyway, So today we
do the show today, and so today Sequon Barkley is
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the king of the mountain, NFL mountain. Congratulations, You're at
top of the NFL mountain tomorrow. Who knows, because the
NFL world life comes at you pretty pretty fast, pretty
just football world in general, but the NFL specifically. Know
what's my evidence? Ask the Cheetah, ask the chie Let's
go on the hot tough time machine. We were having
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this conversation last year, around this time last year, around
this time. Do you know who was number one? Last year?
Do you know who has voted the top player in
the NFL last year, according to the prop the news
service of the NFL, ding Ding, Ding, ding Ding, that
would be the Cheetah, tyreek Kill Tyreek Hill was voted
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the top player in the NFL. The bell of the ball,
the bell of the pigskin ball, tyreek Hill. Twelve months later,
he's hanging out down at number forty seven, from number
one all the way down to number forty seven. Forty seven, yes,
forty seven. We don't have a jingle for that to
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left down there like the dust from failed lottery tickets,
just down there at the bottom. And this is another
reason why I can't stand list now. I did a
rant about this on my podcast, the Fifth Hour Podcast,
a couple of weeks back. Maybe it's been a couple months.
I don't know. It's just one thing after another. But
the gist of it, and this is my position on
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this kind of thing, is the late great La Times
columnist guy I considered a friend, T J. Simers once
taught me lists are the ultimate, the ultimate brain fall
got their brain fag. They tap into the lizard part
of the human brain, and we're logic. Logic goes on
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a nice vacation, right that part of the brain. Lists
are nothing but opinions. They're nothing but opinions. They're dressed up,
though in a nice tuxedo. So you've got a nice
tuxedo pretending to be the gospel truth. And it is
like a bunch of people saying, well, here's what I think, right,
here's what I think, and pretending it's science because you
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put some numbers near it and all that it's the
illusion of authority. And my favorite thing is when people
take these lists and they take them seriously, and it's
a proven fact. I have talked to enough people over
year to work in the media. It's like, this is
a this is a little cheat code that you're dumb,
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and you will fall for this every time. You will
react to it, and that's why they do it, and
it's gold. It's the easiest thing to do. You have
to throw a couple of curveballs in there, right, a
couple of curveballs unusual. You'll move somebody down who should
be higher, and move someone higher who should be down.
So there's a lot of moving parts to it. There's
so many people that take this stuff seriously because the
lizard part of the brain. It's like, you know, stone
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tablet from the mountaintop and you know, it's like four
hundred or something football players that vote on this thing,
and they're like, you know, that guy's kind of good.
I guess we'll vote for him. I see him on
the highlights a lot. I see him on the click
you know, things I click on on Instagram or whatever,
So why not? And what what it does tell you
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is perception. It tells you perception. Like right now, players
because of the highlights and the attention, perceive Sakwon Barkley
as the top player in the NFL. And that lasts,
you know, how long does that last? We'll ask again.
We brought up the Cheetah Tyreek Hill lasts about as
long as one of those snapchat messages, you know, just
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kind of self destruction all that, but one injury, one
bad stretch for Barkley and he's falling down, down, down, down,
down down down the mountaintop, all the way down to
the bottom like an old school Tom and Jerry cartoon
back in the day. And you're yesterday's news. What have
you done for me? Late? You peaked? You're done now,
all that stuff. And that's that's the way this works.
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That's the way this particular thing works. At one year,
you're the Ribi steak. Everyone wants the Ribbi steak, butterfly
cut well done. That's the proper way to eat steak,
butterfly cut well done. And then the next year your spam.
Your can spam, that's what you are. And so you
know that's fine, good luck. State sponsored media can announce
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this thing and that thing, and all they want and congratulations.
So moving on from that, the the other part of this.
As we move on, how about to Los Angeles where
Chargers running back Nase Harris, somebody we've talked about a
decent amount, considering he's not that good. Nase Harris has
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been a toss up toss up to start the NFL season.
The backfield Charges open up in a few days here.
Suffered an eye injury playing with fireworks on the fourth
of July. Accident. Harris gave an update Naji Harris, saying
that his vision was not affected by the firework incident.
He again called it a superficial injury. Now, Harris also
(30:14):
said that he's working towards being on the field for
the charge of season opener against the Chiefs in Brazil.
That'll be on Friday. On Friday, So what is your
read here's the question, what is your read on running
back Naji Harris doubling down, doubling down that his eye
injury was just superficial. Okay, So my position on this,
(30:38):
my read on this is a lot of sugar, a
lot of sugarcoating. You know, you bake cookies and you
put them wrap them in the sugar there and they
taste really good, but it's a lot of sugarcoating. This
thing is not only got sugarcoating, it's it's got marshmallow
fluff in it. It really does. So we're supposed to
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believe Najee Harris missed pretty much all of Chargers training
camp other than walking laps around the field, right, other
than that, and we're supposed to believe that was a
superficial eye injury, that what he got great is by
a sparkler, and that's that's what happened. Was it a
rogue confetti cannon? That's some gender reveal gone wrong. No,
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it was a fourth of July. The math ain't mathing
on this. It's just not It doesn't add up. You
don't miss almost all of training camp because of a
superficial eye injury. You don't have to have a medical
degree to know that's not the way it works. That's
not not a hangnail, you know, it's not a paper cut.
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It's it's not a grain of sand in the eyeball.
It's not that. That is a Roman candle in the wind,
Elfton John style, a Roman candle in the wind, and
it blew up close enough to your eye to cause
you to miss almost all of training. So don't be
confused that this was some sweet Norman Rockwell Fourth of
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July apple pie mom lawn shares fireworks type of event.
This was Florida man meets fireworks caught boom is what
it was. And so you don't sideline yourself for months months.
This happened back in July. Here we are now in September,
unless something went really wrong right near your cornea, right
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near your cornea there, So Harris trying to shake off
the firework injury like he had a bad burrito from
a food truck. And now I do love the optimism,
you know, Benny Brightside, this is an optimistic person. He's
very optimistic. That's going to work out there. And we'll
just not pretend that he hasn't been lifting weights and
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all that stuff and working out with his teammates. He's
I guess he should have been better at dodging bottle
rockets on the fourth of July, but it was all
so superficial. If it was superficial, he would not have
been back in pads for a few days. He would
have been back in pads by day three. But I digress.
So we hope, we do hope that Najie Harris gets
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out there and plays. We really do. I'm not making
that up. I'm not just saying, oh you just saying
that at the end, No, I would like to see
him play, right, Just do not insult our intelligence that
it was a superficial thing. Now, a buddy of mine's, well,
he's got to say that because the Chargers if he
doesn't actually play, and this is no guarantees is going
to play this week, and if somebody else usurps him
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as the top back for the Chargers and then the
Chargers end up getting rid of him, they're going to
say it's with cause because of the injury. And then
he'll say, well, no, it's superficial. So he's got to
kind of say that. But it definitely was not a
speck of dust. We've all gotten that in the eye right,
You're like, oh, man, I gotta water wash my eye
out and all this stuff. It was a fourth of July.
It's like a PSA waiting to happen, is what it is,
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all right. Now, final point to Jersey. We go not
the Jersey Show, we go to Northern New Jersey. Just
across the way from Manhattan, and that is where coach
Brian Dayball, the formerly rot Ton coach, refusing refusing to
reveal whether or not rookie Jackson Dart or veteran famous
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Jameis Winston will serve as the giants backup quarterback the
season opener on Sunday against the team formerly known as
the Redskins. So question, what is your reaction? What is
your reaction to Giants coach Brian Daboles depth chart deception.
We'll call it the depth chart deception refusing the name
(34:39):
his backup quarterback between Jackson Dart and Jameis Winston. So
in this one, it is a raspberry, it is a
raspberry beret. It's the prince of paranoia, Brian day Ball,
the prince of paranoia here going with the psychological warfare. Dude,
your team blows doing seriously, like, can someone let Brian
(35:04):
Dable know that it's not amusing, it's rather stupid what
you're doing. Uh it is. It's like, well, I mean
we got to use deception here. I me know, spider
out Art, you're not guarding the nuclear codes. I don't
believe it's a backup quarterback on a dog food NFL team,
(35:25):
just say the name, say my name right. Uh. And
and by the way, if the commanders know the playbook
of the Giants, it wouldn't change the outcome. Like the
Giants could telegraph all the plays. It doesn't matter whether
the commanders know the players that don't know the plays,
it doesn't really change the outcome of the game. So
(35:46):
stop that, right, Like do the Giants think, do they
have this neurosis where they're like, well, if we tell
the we tell Washington or backup quarterback, then they're they're
gonna know, and they're gonna change their entire defense scheme.
Give me a break, Okay, just stop now. Russell Wilson
is thirty six. He is brittle, right, kind of like
(36:09):
a bread stick. He's like a breadstick from Olive Garden.
You can kind of rip him in half there and
all that. And little Marinera on the side, and and
you know, the Giants likely know that Russ is if
you were to bet on quarterbacks likely to get hurt
in Week one of the NFL, which is something I'm
(36:30):
not against doing. Injury bingo. We have done injury bingo
in the past. You'd put Aaron Rodgers in the one spot.
Russell Wilson would be pretty close behind Matthew Stafford. I
would have a number two, but you'd have Russell Wilson
somewhere in the mix. There the on the again, not
a list, but a big board of who's likely to
get hurt at the quarterback position early in the season,
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and so you're gonna need a backup. And Brian Dayball
is acting like it's a state secret here and you
just roll your eyes at this, like what's going on?
So this is either Brian Dayball the coach of the Giants,
coddling the Jackson Dart fanboys. He played so well against
guys who are now going to be joining our friend
Tree working for ups. He played so well, right, they
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don't want to hurt his feelings or their feelings the
Jackson Dart fanboys. Or he's covering for Jamis who might
have thrown maybe three picks in some kind of closed
door team building exercise and now he's persona non grata
and all that stuff. But it's Brian day Ball being
Brian day Ball. It's he learned under Belichick, so it's
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hoodie cosplay. You know, we didn't have the championships and
all that, and just just say who the backup is.
And you're not fooling anyone. It's not cute. It's rather dumb,
like if you're good, that's one thing, but you suck.
So if you suck, just say the names. Okay, it's
not going to change the fact you suck. It's just dumb.
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Here we go here, we got here, We go here,
we got here, we got here. We got about that
degree next two days.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
This is one big tent gets cried good vote.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
DJ Hawkinson was able to play ten games last season
after suffering a torn ACL and MCL the year before,
but he didn't make much of an impact had zero touchdowns.
Hawkinson said he's one of the best route running tight
ends in the league and this year he'll make a
clear impact. Bet are you up or down on Hotell?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I think we should play a place for the Minnesota
Vikings to play with the Lions for long time, been
in Minnesota a little bit. It's important for the Vikings.
And here's why. When things get tough in Minnesota and
who knows what JJ McCarthy's gonna do. They think he'll
be good, but normally the safety blanket is the tight end.
So in order for this to work in Minnesota, they
need him to be good. So I am optimistic. I'm
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Benny Brightside. Howkinson will be okay next.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Tom Brady said in an interview on Sunday that the
league has shifted towards emphasizing physical attributes in a quarterback
rather than mental ones.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Is he right?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Absolutely? It is all about they call him. I hate
this term measurables at the combine. It's all about the
raw and greed. It's same thing in baseball. Like baseball,
if you can pitch, they don't want you. If you
can throw ninety eight miles an hour and can't pitch,
they want you. In football, they want the biggest, strongest, fastest.
But if you're actually mentally sharp and know how to
play the game, you don't throw it that well, eh,
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or you're not as strong.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Next poll of NFL coaches and executives put Joe Burrow
as the leading candidate to win MVP this season. Meanwhile,
Lamar Jackson still has the best odds in Vegas. Who
do you think has the better shot.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yeah, so I like Burrow. The Bengals sucked last year.
They weren't a playoff team. The Ravens have been consistently good.
There's also voter fatigue for Lamar Jackson. Even though he
didn't win last year. He has won multiple MVP Awards,
so he would have to go above and beyond to
win another one. I like Burrow. I don't like the
fact that everyone else kind of likes Burrow too. That
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bothers me. That means that's probably not gonna happen. But
I would pick Burrow over Lamar. How did we do?
It's Mallard of the third degree.
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All right? Right to Aiden and Andrew Cooper categories quickly, quickly, the.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Very GiB edition he turns seventy nine on Monday. Category
is are first of May night fever staying alive and
you win again?
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Eight in which category do you like? I'll do the
first one, first of May?
Speaker 1 (41:37):
May?
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All right, Andrew, how about you staying alive? All right?
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Okay, very good. These athletes were all born on May first, Aiden,
May first, you ready Jesus was not born on May first.
All right, here we go. We'll put forty five seconds
on the clock. We need the first and last name.
We're on our way go. A center for Oklahoma City.
He looks like a skeleton for Oklahoma City in the NBA.
(42:04):
All right. Running back for the Patriots and the Jets
in the nineties and the two thousands. Hall of Fame.
Running back with a generic name. No idea, okay, A
wide receiver for the Patriots. A slot guy not Julian Edelman,
but prior to Edelman, Freddymond no slot receiver okay?
Speaker 5 (42:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Pitcher released by the Yankees a couple of weeks ago.
Played was an All Star with Toronto starting pitcher, right hander,
African American starting pitcher. You do you watch sports? Aydan?
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Or like birthdays? I got no idea?
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Who cares about that? All right?
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All right?
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Good job, Ben, good job, great clues.
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All right, Andrew, Andrew, our category is staying alive. These
athletes all had near death experiences. Andrew, are you ready?
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Category of America?
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All right, Andrew? Forty five seconds see begin. His nickname
was the Truth for the Celtics. Yes, this guy was
big Poppy for the Red Sox. That's right, let's go.
This guy almost died in a whorehouse. He was on
the Lakers. Yes, this guy was a Tennessee Titan. He
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ran for two thousand yards. Not Derrick Henry, but before him, George, no,
after him?
Speaker 3 (43:33):
All right.
Speaker 5 (43:34):
This guy almost died on the field a Buffalo bill's safety.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
I don't have that path. All right.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
This guy is a talking head right now. He was
a Pittsburgh Steeler. He had sickle cell.
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Was this two minutes here? What are we doing here?
Unlimited time? All right, my god, Laurada, I hurry up, Aiden,
what do you want? What do you want here? Night fever?
Or you win again?
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All right?
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Guard for the Rockets in the eighties, nickname Mad Blank.
Let's tell me way to android God, and you're everyone
in Boston screaming, what do you
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So our lead this hour is the hour of Belichick.
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The Hour of Belichick has upon us, Oh my god,
not worth about more than sixty seconds after what we witnessed.
But that's where we're going to start, and we'll see
where we go. But the Hour of Belichick. Our lead
is from North Carolina, where Bill Belichick made his much anticipated,
much talked about coaching debut at the college level. All
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those years in the NFL. Here's Bill Belichick on a
random Labor day in twenty twenty five, out there all
the buzz. North Carolina sold out all of their tickets,
all the season tickets, sold them out the power of hyperbolee.
So they sold them all out. They raised the prices
of the tickets and single game seeds for the season.
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Everything was up up and they sold them all. They
all had their Carolina blue on and ready to celebrate.
And don't if you watch the game or not, it
got a lot of attention. Perhaps you missed it. We
watched so you would not have to. We're happy to
report that you didn't miss anything. You did not miss
any of you did not watch. You did not miss
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a damn thing. Let me explain hauling smokers. Bill Belichick.
His first run as a college coach at North Carolina
started fast. Opening drive, sliced up TCU. They get a touchdown,
only to end up in an epic blowout. After scoring
on the first drive, North Carolina's football team, the tar Hills,
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watched the horn Frogs scored forty one answered unanswered points
in one stretch. Forty one unanswered points in one stretch,
forty eight to fourteen. It could have been worse than that.
It was a laugher. North Carolina on defense watching as
TCU was driving the ball down the field with a
few seconds to go in the game, and then they
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started taking knees there. Otherwise it would have been double nickels.
But forty eight to fourteen the final. By the end,
TCU had scored multiple defensive touchdowns, They had a special
team's touchdown in this game, and North Carolina Tarhill fans
acting like they were at Dodger Stadium as they left early.
They left in the third quarter, some leaving even before that.
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That stadium was mostly empty by the time we got
to the fourth quarter. How bad was it? It was
so bad Kirk Kerbstreet allowed his dog to broadcast the game.
Herbstreet allowed his dog to broadcast the game because the
game was for the dogs. It was covered in fleas
extended garbage time. But let us discuss the question with
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that as the backdrop. What are your takeaways from Bill
Belichick's maiden voyage his college football debut at North Carolina.
So I've got biblical, a bugs, life, and m behold,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to make some delicious deep fried cheese curds,
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is what we're gonna make, because that would have been better.
Just eating cheese curds would have been better than watching
this holy crap. At least they got paid for it, plausibly,
pay me to watch this crap so I can come
in here and tell you about the crap that I watched.
So hey, we'll start with this North Carolina. North Carolina
football pulled off what I call and they call this
in Hollywood too, they fake out opening. Now, back in
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the day, there used to be these things called movies.
People would actually pay money to go to a movie theater,
believe it or not, back in the Stone Age, and
they'd buy like popcorn and snacks and they'd go watch
the movies.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Ah, man, it was a big thing back in the
old days. Humanity has evolved since then. Nobody goes to
the movies anymore. But imagine, if you will, going to
the movies back in the old Stone Age when people
used back in the day, they had payphones and horse
and buggy. So you go down to the movie theater
and there's a lot of hype for the movie, and
the first five minutes you're hooked, right, you are in.
You're like, yes, it lived up to the hype, and
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your big card chase, huge explosion. Within the first five minute,
it's you're like, this is gonna be a good one. Right,
you're sitting there thinking, oh baby, buckle up man, Finally
Hollywood made a good movie. Right, this is gonna be awesome, awesome,
And then for the rest of the movie, you know,
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another hour and twenty five minutes or more. There's two
people just mumbling in some coffee shop about their feelings
for the next hour and twenty five minutes. Come on,
I want a car crash. Well we got a car crash.
But it was supposed to be excitement, huge explosions and
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all that stuff. Total bait and switch, total bait and
switch for North Carolina. And that's what Bill Belichick in
North Carolina pulled off that openly drive seven plays, eighty
three yards, touchdown, tarhels oh Man and the tar Heels.
They were fast and furious right there, slicing up the
opening credits. There was like Vin Diesel. The whole package, however,
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turned out to be a mirage. It was just an hallucination.
A desert oasis is what it turned out to be.
The real movie for North Carolina. That was a low budget,
I mean real low budget horror flick. And Bill Belichick,
he starred as the clueless babysitter that had no idea
as the horn Frogs appropriated. A guy who's Belichick, very horny,
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would lose to a team called the horn Frogs. Now
the first drive, the first drive, that was the trailer.
That was the trailer to the movie. The real product.
What followed was not so much football. It was biblical
in nature. It's a biblical flood, is what happened. Again,
we mentioned forty one point avalanche, a forty one point
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avalanche before the tar Hills would score again. And you
cut to Belichick and staring blankly with his cutoff sleeves
there on the hoodie. And that's the look there as
TCU hangs another touchdown, and another and another, and another
and another and another touchdown. We're talking about an emasculation
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situation to the highest order, a fifth ring of Hell
Dante's Inferno type stuff. For North Carolina. TCU rolled into town.
They were the uninvited HouseGuests, They were the interlopers. They
raided the fridge, they ripped the flat screen TV off
the wall, and they set the place on fire with arson,
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is what they did. So Texas Christian turned Bill Belichick
and his debut in collegiate football into a straight to
DVD production, and they don't even really make dvs anymore.
All right, now, page two, So how would you describe
the overall coaching job by Bill Belichick and his staff?
In the Belichick debut at North Carolina? He might know
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that he has his nepo baby as the defensive coordinator
for the Tarios, the Brownie James of defensive coordinators. There
Belichick's son. So there's really no sugarcoat this. I have
two words to describe, two words to describe Bill Belichick
and the job that his coaching staff did for North Carolina.
Coaching malpractice. Those are the two words. That was malfeasance,
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is what that was. If you want a third word,
pure and uncut. Pure and uncut. Forget the raw talent
and all that. Oh my god, forget about all that.
It's not about that. It's about the essential components of football,
the building blocks. So you know Bellichick, he said, well,
in the NFL all those years, he had teams that
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were not that talented, but he always had Tom Brady
for the Patriot run until the last couple of years.
And so you look at that. I said, well, that's
the great equalizer and all that. And in Cleveland he
did actually have some teams that overachieved when he was
coaching in the Cleveland rounds way back, you know, thirty
something years ago, back back in the day. But the
basics for North Carolina, which is, it doesn't matter how
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much talent you have, it's simple blocking and tackling. If
you block and tackle the fundamentals the bedrock football, you
don't get smashed the way North Carolina got smashed. And
the line which I believe in is you're either coaching it.
You're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen
if you're the Belichick coaching staff, and either way, it's
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on you. It's on Bill Belichick here and Belichick's boys
looked like lambs being led to the slaughter after that
opening drive there, and it was like watching as the
team was thirsty. North Carolina was thirsty. So they got
in front of the fire hydrant and the fire hydrant
was sprang at full blast and North Carolina's football players
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were trying to get a drink, but they had they
were trying to sip. They had a little one of
those little bendy straws, and they were trying to drink
from the bendy straw.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You cannot drink out of a fire hydrant with a
bendy straw. Just the math on that does not does
not work. Impossible. But this was it was a bugs life.
It was a bugs life for the coaching staff in
North Carolina because, as we know, sometimes you're the windshield
and sometimes you're the bug. Splat. Yeah, they were splattered.
They were splattered. And now it is a full on
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BELICHICKI and dog pile, dog pile, dogpile, dogpile. It is right.
He's being mocked, teased, humiliated, all of that. The hoodie
who once tortured, absolutely tortured rookie quarterbacks and when he
had extra time to prepare, you never wanted to bet
against ever ever Bill Belichick, and he punked out all
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of these quarterbacks and all these coaches for a generation.
And now he is being emotionally waterboarded on national TV,
on social media, the matrix, all that stuff they're just
unloading on Bill Belichick. I don't feel bad for Belichick,
per se. I don't know that it's completely justified for
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Bill Belichick because when I listened to Tom Brady talk,
I hear a lot of the crap that Belichick says,
like Belichick influenced what Tom Brady became. Now you could
argue that Brady did it better. Fine, I think that's
been proven since they went their separate ways. But it's
not like Tom Brady is not using BELICHICKI in lines
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when he discusses his outlook on football, those are things
he learned from Bill Belichick. And he's just repeating the
dogma of Bill Belichick. So I think that's important to
note here for all the people's oh see, it was
all Tom Brady. Okay, okay, fine, But he's using a
lot of the material he learned from Bill Belichick. And
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so the hoodie gets tortured there and waterboarded and all
that stuff. And the lesson is sometimes you're the maestro
and sometimes you're the kazoo player. And in this scene,
in this scene of the show, Bill Belichick is stuck
playing the kazoo while TC how do you do? The
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marching band blasts him off the field. Out of here, Belichick,
you're a bom. That guy's a bomm. Now it's not
all bad. So I determined I had an epiphany as
I was driving in making the long drive in from
the north Woods. Here to the mothership. I had an epiphany,
and the epiphany was that Bill Belichick will be getting
a call from Madison Avenue first thing in the morning.
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Here as the people on Madison Avenue say hey, Bill, Well,
I guess they'll call this little floozy girlfriend there, and
she's like the business person, so if she'll call, they'll
call him her and say, hey, we want Bill to
do a commercial. So what's a commercial for We it's
an airline. What airline is it? Delta is No, it's
not America, it's not Delta. What airline is it? Well,
it's Southwest. We want to do a new commercial. They
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want to get away? Fair because that was a want
to get away situation, and most North Carolina fans got away.
They got out of there. I'm not standing at the
end of his crap. No way, all right, last word,
we have some post game Bill Belichick. Belichick post game sound.
Always good to play Bill Belichick post game sound. Let's
get a little taste, won't react. Here's Belichick commenting about
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this scene, the aura, the vibrations there in Chapel Hill.
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Oh well it was a great, uh you know, great
atmosphere here for the game tonight. You know, fans were
tremendous injury energy walk and you know, we played competitively
but then just couldn't sustain. Obviously, we have a lot
of work to do. You know, we need to do
a better job all the way around. Coaching, playing all
three phases of the game. Just wasn't up to what
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it needs to be. And I know we're a lot
better than that. So we need to you know, need
to work on those things and show it on Saturday
and quick turnaround. But you know, get TCU credit that
came in did a good job, and they were clearly
the better team tonight. You know, they deserve to win,
and they did it decisively.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
All right. So those are some opening comments by Bill
Belichick there. I liked that how he had said, hey,
we just couldn't keep it up. That there was one
drive North Carolina looked good like one drug, one drive,
one drive, and that's it, all right. So what do
you make of Bill Belichick and the tone the postgame
comments of Bill Belichick? To me, the quote that stood
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out is I know we're a lot better than that.
To me, that's the money quote. So I felt like
all of this was watered down. I watched it. It
was about thirteen minutes or so. I saw the news.
Comings was it was watered down. It was, And behold,
numb little bug, a numb little bug by Bill Belichick.
Just numb, just felt numb, like he's a little tired
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of everything. Belichick. You know, he knew he had to
do it. He's done this a million times after losses.
And he's like he's kind of hanging by a thread there, Belichick,
and you got to survive it. And he did. And
and some of that sounded similarly to some of the
undertones he had when he was coaching the Patriots back
in the day. Some of the commentary there not quite
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as sharp. I thought, the I know we're a lot
better than that. That's a bit of a stepping star,
a bit of a stepping stone. I don't recall him
saying that very often coaching the Patriots. Of course he
didn't have to. They won most of the games. They
certainly won most of the big games with the Patriots,
So I don't recall him saying that. Bright side Bill
by Bella check standards, that's bright side Bill, and just
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the statistical domination. The Eyeball test said this was ridiculous.
The numbers back it up. North Carolina had ten first downs,
most of those in garbage time. They went a couple
hours without completing a forward pass, and TCU had twenty
nine first downs. They had nineteen more first downs TCU.
Rushing yards. TCU had two hundred and eight more rushing
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yards than North Carolina, two hundred and eight more rushing yards.
And but wait, there's more. Overall yardage. The TCU horned
frogs got real horny. They had five hundred and forty
two yards. The tar Hills had two hundred and twenty two.
My computer like brain tells me that is a minus
three hundred and twenty for North Carolina plus three twenty
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for TCUs. So it was bad. So the question also
is will it get any better? Is this going to
be how it goes all season for Bill Belichick? Is
this going to be a one and done situation? Will
he run out of coaching and that's it and see
you later, And that guy Mike Lombardi will go back
and do bad podcasts and these guys will run off
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as carpetbaggers and go somewhere else. You don't want to overreact.
It's one stinking game, right. And but the problem is
it's how you make that first impression. People are gonna
remember that first impression. And this is the first impression
for Bill Belichick as a college coach, and people are
not gonna be paying that close attention. They're gonna be
on TV a lot because of Belichick, but most of
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the games are not going to get the attention. This
was an island game on a holiday, there was no NFL.
It was his college debut, and they allowed his team
forty eight points, the most he's ever allowed as a
head coach. That is el Stinko.
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that story. We'll get back to it, but we'll move
on to something better. Well you'll be the judge of that.
But Dateline, the Prova news service of a pro football
state sponsored NFL media, announcing that the top spot, the
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very top spot on the NFL Networks Top one hundred list.
This is the kind of a thing that Terry in
England loves. He loves this. So they've been counting down
for a good amount of time now, counting down to
the very top spot, the top one hundred players in
the NFL. So if if you saw this, you know
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where I'm going. But maybe not. So this was voted on,
we're told by the players, and at the very top
of the mountain that would be Fly Egles, Fly on
the road to victory. Sequon Barkley at number one, right
there at the Numero uno, top of a heap, king
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of the hill, the crown jewel. Congratulations. All right, So
let us discuss the question the Eagles running back Sakwan
Barkley claiming the top spot on this year's NFL Top
one hundred ranking is this a big deal, a little
deal or no deal. So I've got Lizard, Elton, John
(21:29):
and Raspberry and we will combine all of these ingredients
together and we're gonna make you a Babusha's favorite PB
and J. Because every Babushka knows a good PBNJ. Aren't
they delicious? My god? So good? All right? So number one,
number one? All right, this means and I want to
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be very clear for those who in the back of
the room, this means absolutely nothing. Put this in the
basket with bupkis on. It is what this is. It's
kind of like winning the Talent Show when you were
in high school. That's wonderful. Maybe you get a little trophy,
a little plastic trophy. Does not mean you're ready to
go to Broadway, just does not. Now, this is a
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perception not reality situation. It's a popularity contest, and look listen.
Sakwan Barkley was majestic last year. He absolutely cooked the
team that I like more than other teams, the La Rams.
It was embarrassing as they tried to stop him. He
had several huge runs, including in the playoff game in Philadelphia.
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The man painted a masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece worthy of
being hung at the louver, only with shoulder pads and
some grass stains. It was a symphony on turf, is
what it was. For the Eagles running back, he was
a ballet dancer with pads. I can go on and
on here. That won amazing play against Jacksonville when he
(22:57):
spun around and leapt up in the air like he
was a Marvel comic character. It was great. However, that
is not what this is about. See, that is not
what this is about. This is about guys in the
locker room scribbling down names on a ballot in between
Fortnite matches. That's what this is about. I mean, so
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you got to like factor in who's actually voting. A
lot of the meathead fanboys, Oh, the players voted. This
has more meeting and not so much. I don't know
that I would go there. For most of the people
that play pro football, it's gonna blow you away. This
is an original take. Most of the people that play
pro football, it is their job. It's not their hobby,
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it's not their life's passion. It's their job. They're good
at it. They'll do it for a few years and
then they'll go do something else. It's just something they're
doing for work. It pays them a good amount of money.
They're not fans. You're a fan, they're not fans. And
the people that they're voting on are co work workers.
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Those are other people that work in their job. That's
what that is. And so they know the highlights, right,
They know the high they know the headlines, they know
a little bit about that. They know who embarrassed them
on the field on a given Sunday, and those are
likely the people that they vote for, whoever's on the headlines.
There they're filling out the thing of a jig in
(24:23):
the locker room like they're like you would fill out
a March Madness bracket. After you've had a couple of Bruskies, right,
a couple of beers. You start filling that thing out,
all right, said, Darts on the board, darts on the board. Uh.
And the list and this is a list, right, this
list has all the staying power of cotton candy at
(24:46):
a counovol. It does. It tastes good. Cotton candy tastes
good for about three seconds, about three seconds, uh, and
then you're just left sticky and annoyed and it gets
all over your hands. You gotta wash your hands, and
then it's like you can't get it off with it.
You need a lot of soap to get the stuff off.
You know what I'm talking about. Anyway, So today we
do the show today, and so today Sequon Barkley is
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the king of the mountain, NFL mountain. Congratulations, You're at
top of the NFL mountain tomorrow. Who knows, because the
NFL world life comes at you pretty pretty fast, pretty
just football world in general, but the NFL specifically. Know
what's my evidence? Ask the Cheetah, ask the chie Let's
go on the hot tough time machine. We were having
(25:30):
this conversation last year, around this time last year, around
this time. Do you know who was number one? Last year?
Do you know who has voted the top player in
the NFL last year, according to the prop the news
service of the NFL, ding Ding, Ding, ding Ding, that
would be the Cheetah, tyreek Kill Tyreek Hill was voted
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the top player in the NFL. The bell of the ball,
the bell of the pigskin ball, tyreek Hill. Twelve months later,
he's hanging out down at number forty seven, from number
one all the way down to number forty seven. Forty seven, yes,
forty seven. We don't have a jingle for that to
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left down there like the dust from failed lottery tickets,
just down there at the bottom. And this is another
reason why I can't stand list now. I did a
rant about this on my podcast, the Fifth Hour Podcast,
a couple of weeks back. Maybe it's been a couple months.
I don't know. It's just one thing after another. But
the gist of it, and this is my position on
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this kind of thing, is the late great La Times
columnist guy I considered a friend, T J. Simers once
taught me lists are the ultimate, the ultimate brain fall
got their brain fag. They tap into the lizard part
of the human brain, and we're logic. Logic goes on
(26:54):
a nice vacation, right that part of the brain. Lists
are nothing but opinions. They're nothing but opinions. They're dressed up,
though in a nice tuxedo. So you've got a nice
tuxedo pretending to be the gospel truth. And it is
like a bunch of people saying, well, here's what I think, right,
here's what I think, and pretending it's science because you
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put some numbers near it and all that it's the
illusion of authority. And my favorite thing is when people
take these lists and they take them seriously, and it's
a proven fact. I have talked to enough people over
year to work in the media. It's like, this is
a this is a little cheat code that you're dumb,
(27:38):
and you will fall for this every time. You will
react to it, and that's why they do it, and
it's gold. It's the easiest thing to do. You have
to throw a couple of curveballs in there, right, a
couple of curveballs unusual. You'll move somebody down who should
be higher, and move someone higher who should be down.
So there's a lot of moving parts to it. There's
so many people that take this stuff seriously because the
lizard part of the brain. It's like, you know, stone
(28:01):
tablet from the mountaintop and you know, it's like four
hundred or something football players that vote on this thing,
and they're like, you know, that guy's kind of good.
I guess we'll vote for him. I see him on
the highlights a lot. I see him on the click
you know, things I click on on Instagram or whatever,
So why not? And what what it does tell you
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is perception. It tells you perception. Like right now, players
because of the highlights and the attention, perceive Sakwon Barkley
as the top player in the NFL. And that lasts,
you know, how long does that last? We'll ask again.
We brought up the Cheetah Tyreek Hill lasts about as
long as one of those snapchat messages, you know, just
(28:43):
kind of self destruction all that, but one injury, one
bad stretch for Barkley and he's falling down, down, down, down,
down down down the mountaintop, all the way down to
the bottom like an old school Tom and Jerry cartoon
back in the day. And you're yesterday's news. What have
you done for me? Late? You peaked? You're done now,
all that stuff. And that's that's the way this works.
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That's the way this particular thing works. At one year,
you're the Ribi steak. Everyone wants the Ribbi steak, butterfly
cut well done. That's the proper way to eat steak,
butterfly cut well done. And then the next year your spam.
Your can spam, that's what you are. And so you
know that's fine, good luck. State sponsored media can announce
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this thing and that thing, and all they want and congratulations.
So moving on from that, the the other part of this.
As we move on, how about to Los Angeles where
Chargers running back Nase Harris, somebody we've talked about a
decent amount, considering he's not that good. Nase Harris has
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been a toss up toss up to start the NFL season.
The backfield Charges open up in a few days here.
Suffered an eye injury playing with fireworks on the fourth
of July. Accident. Harris gave an update Naji Harris, saying
that his vision was not affected by the firework incident.
He again called it a superficial injury. Now, Harris also
(30:14):
said that he's working towards being on the field for
the charge of season opener against the Chiefs in Brazil.
That'll be on Friday. On Friday, So what is your
read here's the question, what is your read on running
back Naji Harris doubling down, doubling down that his eye
injury was just superficial. Okay, So my position on this,
(30:38):
my read on this is a lot of sugar, a
lot of sugarcoating. You know, you bake cookies and you
put them wrap them in the sugar there and they
taste really good, but it's a lot of sugarcoating. This
thing is not only got sugarcoating, it's it's got marshmallow
fluff in it. It really does. So we're supposed to
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believe Najee Harris missed pretty much all of Chargers training
camp other than walking laps around the field, right, other
than that, and we're supposed to believe that was a
superficial eye injury, that what he got great is by
a sparkler, and that's that's what happened. Was it a
rogue confetti cannon? That's some gender reveal gone wrong. No,
(31:21):
it was a fourth of July. The math ain't mathing
on this. It's just not It doesn't add up. You
don't miss almost all of training camp because of a
superficial eye injury. You don't have to have a medical
degree to know that's not the way it works. That's
not not a hangnail, you know, it's not a paper cut.
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It's it's not a grain of sand in the eyeball.
It's not that. That is a Roman candle in the wind,
Elfton John style, a Roman candle in the wind, and
it blew up close enough to your eye to cause
you to miss almost all of training. So don't be
confused that this was some sweet Norman Rockwell Fourth of
(32:07):
July apple pie mom lawn shares fireworks type of event.
This was Florida man meets fireworks caught boom is what
it was. And so you don't sideline yourself for months months.
This happened back in July. Here we are now in September,
unless something went really wrong right near your cornea, right
(32:31):
near your cornea there, So Harris trying to shake off
the firework injury like he had a bad burrito from
a food truck. And now I do love the optimism,
you know, Benny Brightside, this is an optimistic person. He's
very optimistic. That's going to work out there. And we'll
just not pretend that he hasn't been lifting weights and
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all that stuff and working out with his teammates. He's
I guess he should have been better at dodging bottle
rockets on the fourth of July, but it was all
so superficial. If it was superficial, he would not have
been back in pads for a few days. He would
have been back in pads by day three. But I digress.
So we hope, we do hope that Najie Harris gets
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out there and plays. We really do. I'm not making
that up. I'm not just saying, oh you just saying
that at the end, No, I would like to see
him play, right, Just do not insult our intelligence that
it was a superficial thing. Now, a buddy of mine's, well,
he's got to say that because the Chargers if he
doesn't actually play, and this is no guarantees is going
to play this week, and if somebody else usurps him
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as the top back for the Chargers and then the
Chargers end up getting rid of him, they're going to
say it's with cause because of the injury. And then
he'll say, well, no, it's superficial. So he's got to
kind of say that. But it definitely was not a
speck of dust. We've all gotten that in the eye right,
You're like, oh, man, I gotta water wash my eye
out and all this stuff. It was a fourth of July.
It's like a PSA waiting to happen, is what it is,
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all right. Now, final point to Jersey. We go not
the Jersey Show, we go to Northern New Jersey. Just
across the way from Manhattan, and that is where coach
Brian Dayball, the formerly rot Ton coach, refusing refusing to
reveal whether or not rookie Jackson Dart or veteran famous
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Jameis Winston will serve as the giants backup quarterback the
season opener on Sunday against the team formerly known as
the Redskins. So question, what is your reaction? What is
your reaction to Giants coach Brian Daboles depth chart deception.
We'll call it the depth chart deception refusing the name
(34:39):
his backup quarterback between Jackson Dart and Jameis Winston. So
in this one, it is a raspberry, it is a
raspberry beret. It's the prince of paranoia, Brian day Ball,
the prince of paranoia here going with the psychological warfare. Dude,
your team blows doing seriously, like, can someone let Brian
(35:04):
Dable know that it's not amusing, it's rather stupid what
you're doing. Uh it is. It's like, well, I mean
we got to use deception here. I me know, spider
out Art, you're not guarding the nuclear codes. I don't
believe it's a backup quarterback on a dog food NFL team,
(35:25):
just say the name, say my name right. Uh. And
and by the way, if the commanders know the playbook
of the Giants, it wouldn't change the outcome. Like the
Giants could telegraph all the plays. It doesn't matter whether
the commanders know the players that don't know the plays,
it doesn't really change the outcome of the game. So
(35:46):
stop that, right, Like do the Giants think, do they
have this neurosis where they're like, well, if we tell
the we tell Washington or backup quarterback, then they're they're
gonna know, and they're gonna change their entire defense scheme.
Give me a break, Okay, just stop now. Russell Wilson
is thirty six. He is brittle, right, kind of like
(36:09):
a bread stick. He's like a breadstick from Olive Garden.
You can kind of rip him in half there and
all that. And little Marinera on the side, and and
you know, the Giants likely know that Russ is if
you were to bet on quarterbacks likely to get hurt
in Week one of the NFL, which is something I'm
(36:30):
not against doing. Injury bingo. We have done injury bingo
in the past. You'd put Aaron Rodgers in the one spot.
Russell Wilson would be pretty close behind Matthew Stafford. I
would have a number two, but you'd have Russell Wilson
somewhere in the mix. There the on the again, not
a list, but a big board of who's likely to
get hurt at the quarterback position early in the season,
(36:52):
and so you're gonna need a backup. And Brian Dayball
is acting like it's a state secret here and you
just roll your eyes at this, like what's going on?
So this is either Brian Dayball the coach of the Giants,
coddling the Jackson Dart fanboys. He played so well against
guys who are now going to be joining our friend
Tree working for ups. He played so well, right, they
(37:16):
don't want to hurt his feelings or their feelings the
Jackson Dart fanboys. Or he's covering for Jamis who might
have thrown maybe three picks in some kind of closed
door team building exercise and now he's persona non grata
and all that stuff. But it's Brian day Ball being
Brian day Ball. It's he learned under Belichick, so it's
(37:37):
hoodie cosplay. You know, we didn't have the championships and
all that, and just just say who the backup is.
And you're not fooling anyone. It's not cute. It's rather dumb,
like if you're good, that's one thing, but you suck.
So if you suck, just say the names. Okay, it's
not going to change the fact you suck. It's just dumb.
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Here we go here, we got here, We go here,
we got here, we got here. We got about that
degree next two days.
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This is one big tent gets cried good vote.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
DJ Hawkinson was able to play ten games last season
after suffering a torn ACL and MCL the year before,
but he didn't make much of an impact had zero touchdowns.
Hawkinson said he's one of the best route running tight
ends in the league and this year he'll make a
clear impact. Bet are you up or down on Hotell?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I think we should play a place for the Minnesota
Vikings to play with the Lions for long time, been
in Minnesota a little bit. It's important for the Vikings.
And here's why. When things get tough in Minnesota and
who knows what JJ McCarthy's gonna do. They think he'll
be good, but normally the safety blanket is the tight end.
So in order for this to work in Minnesota, they
need him to be good. So I am optimistic. I'm
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Benny Brightside. Howkinson will be okay next.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Tom Brady said in an interview on Sunday that the
league has shifted towards emphasizing physical attributes in a quarterback
rather than mental ones.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Is he right?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Absolutely? It is all about they call him. I hate
this term measurables at the combine. It's all about the
raw and greed. It's same thing in baseball. Like baseball,
if you can pitch, they don't want you. If you
can throw ninety eight miles an hour and can't pitch,
they want you. In football, they want the biggest, strongest, fastest.
But if you're actually mentally sharp and know how to
play the game, you don't throw it that well, eh,
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or you're not as strong.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Next poll of NFL coaches and executives put Joe Burrow
as the leading candidate to win MVP this season. Meanwhile,
Lamar Jackson still has the best odds in Vegas. Who
do you think has the better shot.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yeah, so I like Burrow. The Bengals sucked last year.
They weren't a playoff team. The Ravens have been consistently good.
There's also voter fatigue for Lamar Jackson. Even though he
didn't win last year. He has won multiple MVP Awards,
so he would have to go above and beyond to
win another one. I like Burrow. I don't like the
fact that everyone else kind of likes Burrow too. That
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bothers me. That means that's probably not gonna happen. But
I would pick Burrow over Lamar. How did we do?
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All right? Right to Aiden and Andrew Cooper categories quickly, quickly, the.
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Eight in which category do you like? I'll do the
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May?
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May first, you ready Jesus was not born on May first.
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He looks like a skeleton for Oklahoma City in the NBA.
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All right. Running back for the Patriots and the Jets
in the nineties and the two thousands. Hall of Fame.
Running back with a generic name. No idea, okay, A
wide receiver for the Patriots. A slot guy not Julian Edelman,
but prior to Edelman, Freddymond no slot receiver okay?
Speaker 5 (42:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Pitcher released by the Yankees a couple of weeks ago.
Played was an All Star with Toronto starting pitcher, right hander,
African American starting pitcher. You do you watch sports? Aydan?
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Or like birthdays? I got no idea?
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Who cares about that? All right?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
All right?
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Good job, Ben, good job, great clues.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
All right, Andrew, Andrew, our category is staying alive. These
athletes all had near death experiences. Andrew, are you ready?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Category of America?
Speaker 5 (43:01):
All right, Andrew? Forty five seconds see begin. His nickname
was the Truth for the Celtics. Yes, this guy was
big Poppy for the Red Sox. That's right, let's go.
This guy almost died in a whorehouse. He was on
the Lakers. Yes, this guy was a Tennessee Titan. He
(43:25):
ran for two thousand yards. Not Derrick Henry, but before him, George, no,
after him?
Speaker 3 (43:33):
All right.
Speaker 5 (43:34):
This guy almost died on the field a Buffalo bill's safety.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
I don't have that path. All right.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
This guy is a talking head right now. He was
a Pittsburgh Steeler. He had sickle cell.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Was this two minutes here? What are we doing here?
Unlimited time? All right, my god, Laurada, I hurry up, Aiden,
what do you want? What do you want here? Night fever?
Or you win again?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
All right?
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Guard for the Rockets in the eighties, nickname Mad Blank.
Let's tell me way to android God, and you're everyone
in Boston screaming, what do you
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