September 3, 2025 • 48 mins
Big Ben talks about Micah Parsons' agent claiming he did everything he could to stay with the Cowboys, Alabama fans panicking and calling for Jon Gruden to replace Kalen DeBoer, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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hour is from the frozen tundra. It's not that col
not now, it'll get cold, not yet, come on, it's
early September. So the fallout, though, continues from the trade
heard round the pig Skin Whirl. And you know I
love a good, juicy story, and this continues to be
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pretty good. Stories still got legs. It's been about a week.
The story still got legs. If you have not heard
the latest, perhaps not. Micah Parsons, according to his agent, Michaeh. Parsons,
wanted to be a cowboy and had he not been
traded to the Green Bay football team, according to the agent,
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Parsons would have played in the season opener, which is
on Thursday night in Philadelphia, and they would not have
sat out that game that According to the great David
mula Getta, the in your face agent for Micah Parsons
now Move aheta contender, that parsons first choice was always
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to remain in Dallas. How are you feeling in Green
Bay right now? I don't want to play for your team.
He wants to play for Cowboys. How does that make
you feel? A quote from a moveaged he said, quote,
I think the most important thing is Michaeh wanted to
be a cowboy. He grew up cheering for the Cowboys.
According to Mola Ghetto, he wore the blue and white
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at Penn State ward in the NFL with the Cowboys.
He wanted to be a cowboy, and we did everything
we could for him to remain a cowboy. Close quote
cowboy up. So let us discuss the question. How does
Micah Parson's agent saying he did everything he could do
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to remain a Cowboys sound? How does that sound? So
my thoughts on this, I've got a little doggie bag.
We've got immunity and and the melting pot, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make some delicious shredded chicken barbecue shredded chickens.
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We're gonna make outstanding. So let's begin with this. So
David moole getta all right. He comes out here like
a whirling dervish, acting like the world's smartest man while
playing the world's smallest violin. That's the vibe I got
as I saw these quotes bouncing around the echo chamber,
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just trumming away at the world's smallest violin. It's a
real sob story. Real sad, my client, he wanted to
be a cowboy. He grew up a cowboy as a
little child, and he got to live his dream. And
now he's been sent to Siberia in northern Wisconsin. So Sad,
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try to stay calm, right, try to stay calm. Of course,
we know, based on years of cynical talk radio that
this is all nonsense. It is pure d C, not
d C comics. It is damage control. This is known
as saving face. This is positioning Parsons as the what
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as the helpless defender in distress the victim, because we
I guess we're getting a little bit away from that.
But boy. For a few years there was a wallowing
in victimhood was way to go. But it's like Parsons,
the victim here is what it is, right, you know
Jerry Jones, you know Parsons, the helpless victim. And then
you got Jerry Jones over here, who's cast as the
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bad guy with the big black stats and hat like
every Western you know, Texan bad guy, get that big
black stats and hat. And it's all, of course for
what it's for. The court, not the kangaroo court, not
the real court, not the people's court. That would be
the kangaroo court. That is known as public opinion, so
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the public court. A Classic Agent playbook, move on page seventeen,
Section A of the playbook. It's not about football. It's
not about that. This is about the Q, not Cubert,
that's an old video game. It's about Q rating, Madison Avenue, endorsements,
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all of that. You can't be the guy who forced
your way out of Dallas because listen, you gotta sell
merch still in Texas and the you know, the Cowboys
are a bit of a religion. They're a bit of
a religion. So it's a Friday night lights on steroids
and the lights usually get turned out on the Cowboys midseason.
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But if you're the guy who turned your back and
said I don't want to play for the Dallas Cowboys.
If you're that guy, you are Judas. You are Judas.
If you do that, you're done in the Bible belt.
They will close the Bible and they will throw it
at you, is what they will do. So don't kid yourself. Now,
Parsons really wanted to stay in Dallas. If he really
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wanted to stay in Dallas, guess what, he could have
worked it out. There was a path to stay with
the Cowboys because the agent didn't want to talk about
that because the agent would have been out. But in
the real world, the agent represent I've had an agent,
not a good one. I'm doing overnight still, but I
had an agent, all right, And this guy was a
total douche the agent that I had back in the day.
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And if Parsons wanted to stay with the Cowboys, he
could have walked into Jerry Jones office or sent him.
I'd say a text, but I don't know that Jerry text.
But call him right either, call him go to Jerry's office.
Why did you show up to Jerry's office with a
nice doggie bag filled with barbecue brisket and a handshake.
Deal done, un done, done, that's it, You're good. But no, instead,
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we got this guy getta the agent. And I don't
know the guy personally, but my default position, based on
my experience with people who are agents, is the agent
is a pus filled sleeves bag until proven otherwise. That's
my default position on the agent. They're like those mosquitoes
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buzzing around a Texas cattle ranch, you know, just everywhere,
and they suck every last drop of blood out of you,
is what they do. So Parsons he goes from Jerry's world,
the billion dollar pig skin cathedral, the biggest scoreboard, the
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most beautiful cheerleaders were told, the flash, the giant corn dogs,
they got in text, all that stuff. And he goes
to Green Bay now juxtaposed Dallas and Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
And I have a brother who lives there. God only
knows when he moved there. He didn't grow up there,
he moved to the I mean, who does that my brother,
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my younger brother moved in the Green Bay area. But anyway,
having been there and visited my younger brother, the nicest
restaurant is Culver's Now. I love Culver's. I think it's
a great restaurant. I wish they would be an advertiser
here at Fox Sports Trade. I love cheese kirts. I
love the whole menu. It's like the in and out
of the Midwest. But that's the top location. Now. If
you want nightlife in Green Bay, you want to go
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out and party, get in some trouble there, there's a
couple spotted cows at the Veteran of Foreign Wars Hall,
you can there's some shows over there, so you can
go to that. And that's fitting, right, and it's fitting
And here's why, because in Dallas, Michael Parsons was a
star wearing a star on the side of his helmet
and all that. And Wisconsin he's like a farm here.
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You ride the bicycles with the kids, you're in training camp,
you're out there chopping wood. You got a chop wood.
There's a lot of trees in northern Wisconsin, right, I
got shovel snow off the driveway and all that stuff.
It's the land of the cheese curve, the brat and
not a lot of glamor not the private jets there
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might not be enough room there for the private jets
and all that stuff and the biggest show. You go
from the biggest show in NFL football to the frozen
tunder and listen, listen, it's Is it a good football town? Absolutely,
national fan base? Yes? Is it as big as the
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Cowboys know? And it's gonna be tough, though, if you
want to sell, like I don't know, some products you
just can't sell in Green Bay. Like I don't think
Hairjael sells. I don't think luxury cars sell in Green Bay.
You can really get a killer deal with Johnsonville brotz though.
So Micah Parsons can put on a get in front
of a grill and just get some Johnsonville Brotts and
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he'll be good to go. Now turning the page on that.
So the hour of the fallout, if you will. So
we own a Dallas Now we are told the boys.
The latest reporting is the Cowboys were not worried, They
were not concerned about the public perception when they made
the decision to trade Micah Parsons. The report said that
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the whispers that they were unconcerned. This is a quote
from the report. They were unconcerned about the public relations
fallout the team with face given how popular Micah Parsons
was with the fans, So are you surprised? Are you
surprised the Cowboys were not worried about the fallout from
trading a popular player. Absolutely not. I know we've been
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over this, but this is the latest story. So we
react to the news of the day. This is Jerry
Jones we're talking about, right, And this is not your
normal Bucker route. It's not. The buck doesn't just stop
with Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones is literally and figuratively the
Buck in Dallas, the oil bearon the Carnival Barker, the
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man of many Hats, the football overlord, all of that,
and Jerry believes, and it's hard to argue with him.
Jerry believes that the Cowboys are wrapped in teflon. There's
a layer of teflon for the Cowboys, their bulletproof. If
they were a superhero, they'd be kryptonite proof. And they
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have full immunity. The Cowboys have full immunity to the
torches and pitchforks of angry fans. In fact, they welcome it.
They welcome it. They've got some kind of force field
around there in the death star Jerry's world. They've got that,
and he doesn't care if people boo or scream or
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throw their cowboy hats right into the dirt. We used
to have this guy, Cowboy Dan. I don't know if
he's even still around. I hope he is, but he
used to call the show if the Cowboys won. I
would love Cowboy Dan to call up and say what
happened to this trip? But listen, here's the deal. Jerry's
been living in his own reality for roughly thirty years,
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and the situation is, no matter how mediocre, how low
can you go? And the Cowboys have gotten pretty low
at times. I no mater how many years they go
without hoisting up the Lombardi Trophy. They're still there with
a license to print money, money, money, right, money money,
and they haven't sniffed a Super Bowl in a generation
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and a half. So to put that in some context
for you, there are young adults going to college right now.
Some of them call the show. I don't know why,
but they do. But they go to college right now,
and they were not even born the last time the
Cowboys won a championship. They're in college. Okay, that's and
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some of them, have Garady graduated from college. It's been
that long, and yet they're still the most valuable franchise
in the NFL. It's not even really that close, because
Jerry's got the tent, he's got the big ten up there,
and he's got the popcorn machines going over to the
left and over to the right. The cheerleaders are dancing,
they're shaking their pom poms, and the people keep lining
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up to buy tickets. And the Cowboys. Again, we've been
through this a bunch, but for those that are new
to the show, welcome the Cowboys. Not really a football team,
they're the NFLS. I guess Disneyland would be a good
comp Cowboys Disneyland. Very similar. Overpriced, over hyped, always packed
to the rafters, very similar situation there. Disneyland and the Cowboys.
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Now Dallas could trade, I'm telling you, they could trade
Dak Prescot. The Ore traded Mike Martin. They could trade
Dak Prescott. They could bring back Quincy Carter and a
line of Coke at quarterback, and people would still tune in,
They would still watch. In fact, they might watch even
more to see what happens because the Cowboys are really
selling an idea, right, You're selling an idea is what
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you're selling. There, America's team, the star, the big stadium,
the big scoreboard. Jerry Jones is over the top personality,
all that stuff. Bad decisions, doesn't matter the brand. Your
ride for the brand and the coat of the West.
You ride for the brand. You do what has to
be done, and that's it. So the way Jerry sees it,
and a lot of people in sports, the ugly truth
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is is that we can trade anybody. We'll just spin
it and we'll still sell jerseys and we'll still own
the headlines. And as long as nobody has apathy, we're good.
Now on that note, final point, So the last part
of this, these things are all related. I mentioned the
Cowboys are going to spin it. Well, part of the
spin job is going on right now because there's more
stories bouncing around the echo chamber that say Michael Parson's
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behavior during training camp rubbed people in the Cowboy locker room,
in the Cowboy locker room the wrong way. So how
do you see this one? So you know what this
is what's known as low hanging fruit. And unfortunately I
know how you make the hot dogs. So once you
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learn how you make the hot dogs. It changes your
perspective on these tepis stories. Now you say, in the
locker room, does that mean players? Does that mean maybe
one of the ball boys doesn't like the fact that
Michael Parsons was not very polite to him, or a way.
But it's the reason this low hanging fruit is. If
you've got a star player and you know he's a
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little loud and big personality and all that stuff, and
now you've traded them, the players somewhat popular, Suddenly everyone's
brave enough after the trade whisper, Oh yeah, yeah, ye,
that guy was a douche. You know that guy was
a schmuck. Spoiler alert. This is what happens in every
locker room. It is a melting pot. It's cheese fondue.
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It is a melting pot. It's not one voice, it's
not one truth. And you've got guys who grew up
in the backwoods, in the South City, kids from the wrong,
you know, the wrong part of town. And maybe there's
some Ivy League guys in there, some dopes like me
that went to a junior college, some international players. It's
a stew it is a stew of you and not
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everyone amazingly, just like your office, just like where I work,
not everyone is going to line up and and be
on the same the same page, right, and not everyone's
gonna vibe with each other. And so listen, Bikah Parsons
is a spicy tuna role tossed into a meat and
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potatoes situation. Uh, you know, nothing is a universal truth
across the board. There is no you know, there's no Hey,
this is the way it is. Everyone agrees, there's never
ever total agreement. And it really just depends. And this
is how a lot of these stories in politics and
sports go. It really just depends on the uh, the
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way the reporter wants to attack the story. Right, If
you wanted to write a story that say, man, Cowboy
players loved MICHAEH. Parsons. He was a great teammate, They
loved the way that he played, they loved his smile,
they loved his personality, all of that. You could write
that story. There are people in the Cowboy locker room
that will tell you they love Michael Parsons, that they
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loved it. Right, And it just depends on the agenator
now saying, Hey, Parsons, I want to paint Parsons as
a problem child. And that's easy. Right, that's easy, and
you know, boom, that's your headline, and that's the thing
that works. Right, You're the whole media world is in
the click based world. You've got to get clicks on
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that and saying the headline Micah Parsons, Right, Michael Parsons
loved by some teammates. You're not clicking on that. I'm
not clicking on that. Who cares, I'm not clearing It
doesn't move the needle? Does it not move? The needle
doesn't sell. You're in the business of selling. Nobody's scrolling saying,
oh wow, that looks good to me. Let me click
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on that. Michael Parsons has friends video to eleven. You're
not gonna do that. Like the sexy headline is teammates
were rubbed the wrong way. Now that's got some sizzle.
That's got a little bit of sizzle to it. That'll work.
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conversation about Micah Parsons and all that. But are lead
this out from Tusca Looser we go, where the news
of the day takes US and coaches say the darnedest
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things department. Coaches say the darness things department update. So
the embattled in battled collegiate football coach Kaalin de Boor
is undersiege after the latest misstep. So if you didn't
hear about this, perhaps I think we have some audiore
gonna play. So kay Kaylin de Boor, who came to
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Alabama from Washington, he attempted to address the pathetic Crimson
Tide performance over the weekend you sought against the seminoles
of Florida State and was asked what the hell happened
because he had claimed a week prior he gave the
standard coaching cliche that they had a really good week
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of practice at Alabama, and that's generally a dead giveaway
that you're going to play well in the game. When
the coach says we had a really good week of practice,
that is usually an indication the coach believes the team
is prepared for the game and they're going to play well.
So a reporter dared bring that up, and Caitlin de Boor, well,
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he was surprised.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Tike A Lis, you mentioned the great week before the game.
Just how much do you self scout the preparation before games,
and are other times as a coach where maybe you
notice during the week that things might not be going
the way that you want them to.
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He said, what do you mean, great week?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
A great week? He said, A great week of preparation
for this week. You're saying sorry for going up to
without a Florida. Say before that game, I said that,
You said that.
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Yeah, oh yeah, okay, all right, that's like, oh boy,
that's that's a tough listen. All right. So and that
led gets even better. So that has led to now
they've moved on from Nick Saban already coming back to Alabama.
So now they positioned former NFL coach the greatness of
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the Raiders, John Gruden. Yeah, so let us discuss the
question Alabama fans panicking panic at the disco after a
disastrous back and forth there Kaylen de Boor, And that's
just a little sample. There are other weird moments there,
and there are factions of the Bama booster bass calling
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for John Gruden to replace Kailin de Boor on the
sidelines at that sec power. How much credence do you
give the possibility of any of that happening? So I
have carrot cake kettering, banj Society and burger king, and
we look could behind all of these things together, and
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Sports with Coleman so number. So the way I look
at this, the amount of credence I give this is
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gigabytes bandwidth. That's what I give this. Here Internet chatter,
chata chata chatter. So let's start with the body language
of Kailin de Boor. Now, I realize if you're like
blind Scott or blind em It or any of the
legion of the Blind Wing of the Maltham Militia, you
cannot see this Inka terror. Here's the deal, Kayland bor
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his body language on this. It looked like we were
watching a man who got caught shoplifting some peanuts from
a Pigley Wiggly. I said, did I do that? I don't,
I said that really okay? And so I love a
good meltdown. I love an entitled fan base that melts down.
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And Alabama's an entitled fan base. They've had years and
years of Nick Saban great success and all that, and
you got this Kalin, the boor guy who's from the Midwest,
but he's perceived as a West Coast guy because he
coached in Seattle at Washington and all that stuff. And
it's just great. And so now they want John Gruden
to ride in like a night in shining armor to
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save the day. Of course they do. John Gruden like
the shiny toy. It's been sitting on the Southeastern Conference
shelf for a decade, just waiting for an opportunity, right waiting.
Of course, he did have the Raider job, and then
that went away because of the email thing. It's like
football fried chicken. If you will, it's greasy, it's probably
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bad for you. And man, does it smell good? Boy?
Does that smell good? And you're desperate, you need something,
you go for it? Why not? And let's not forget though,
the math on this, so Calin Debor's buyout is north
of sixty million. We talked about this in a previous
episode of the show. So if you do the math
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on that, they not only got to pay him that money,
but it's one hundred and twenty million dollar pyramid because
you have to pay sixty plus million to debor, and
then whoever is the next coach is hopefully not going
to be a bore or a dbore, and you're gonna
have to pay that coach another sixty plus million. So
it's over one hundred and twenty million dollar pyramid. And
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Bama has a game show network problem, like they're trying
to get out of one show that's that's no one's watching,
and now they got to pay for the next show,
but they can't. It's like wheel of fortune and then
it meets deal or no deal is essentially what we've
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got here. So this is what Alabama fans don't get,
is that you can't just pass around the collection plate
on Sunday's service and say all right, everyone put a
couple of bucks in there and then we got one
hundred and twenty million. Boom done. That's it. You need again,
a high falutin nice southern gentleman an oil baron is
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what you need with really really deep Alabama roots, you know,
just goes back generations and deep pockets and all of that.
Because right now, and again I'm not there, I'm just
observing from thirty thousand feet, and from thirty thousand feet,
it's like, hey, this guy is Kaylin de Boor. He's
into that warm fuzzy stuff. We don't do warm fuzzy, right.
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He's got that Hacuona Matada. He's got that vibe right,
sunshine and lollipops and all that stuff. And don't worry,
we'll get him next week. And no, they want rage. Uh,
they want someone bench. They want someone to lose their scholarship,
more than one person. They want a table flip. They
want Nick Saban smashing a headset, throwing it down, very
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cantankerous Nick Saban. That's what they want. So they're not
buying what Kaitlin the Boor is selling at this point.
That made that clear. He's essentially shown up to the tailgate.
They're having a barbecue tailgate in Tuscaloosa, and he's the
guy that said, hey, I got some good carrot cake
at the tailgate barbecue. So if you want some carrot cake,
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I've got that. I'm serving that. And well, no, Kaitlin,
we don't want that. We want barbecue ribs. We'd like
some corn bread, maybe some mac and cheese, some sweet tea.
That's what we would like. We don't want the carrot cake.
We don't I'm sorry, we don't. But I make really
good carrot cake. We don't want that, and I just
I can't. I love the part of the people melting
down like a toddler at a grocery stores. I've already
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mentioned Pigley Wiggley. How about a wind Dixie? Had a
wind Dixie and then they're they're on the floor and
they're crying. I want my cereal, I want my cocup buffs.
Now you can't have your cocoa. Ba Well, I want
Captain Crutch. You can't have Captain Crutch. I need it now.
Gruden is a long shot, but not a no shot.
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John grud is a long shot, not a no shot.
If they really want him, Alabama could get him. They could.
Gruden's suing the NFL, and unless they work out some
kind of backroom deal and Cruden gets an NFL coaching
job and ends the lawsuit, that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
So if Alabama really really wants, they can get what
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their heart desires here. But there is again very tricky
math on this, and some serious boosters with massive egos
have to get involved to make this work. And until then,
the moaning and groaning will not stop. And that's Alabama
football right now. You better win and if you stub
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your toe again and lose again, crap. At least look angry,
give the illusion of anger. Make it seem like this
really bothers you. Because Klyn de Boor, he's got the
body language that will be fine. No no, no, no,
no no no no. All Right, Now we go to
the NFL to Minnesota, talk last hour about the Green
(30:19):
Bay Packers and Micah Parsons. Now we have equal time
in broadcasting. We going down of Minnesota where tight End TJ.
Hockinson continues to fill up the content machine as we
pull apart cannibalize a recent interview that Hockinson did. The
tight end recently compared Viking quarterback JJ McCarthy, Yes, the
(30:41):
guy that hasn't started a regular season NFL game, compared
JJ McCarthy to who He said, He's a lot like
Matthew Stafford and a little like Kirk Cousins. And those
are quarterbacks Hockinson has played with in his career with
the Lions and the Vikings. How does that sound to you?
(31:02):
How does that send you? So? I know that on
the internet, the Viking cheerleaders, and mister Irrigation's my advisor here.
He's a big fan of the Viking cheerleaders there. They've
gone viral for some very emasculating reasons recently, the Viking cheerleaders.
But it's nice that TJ. Hockinson is supporting the cheerleaders
because it sounds to me like he's got some purple
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pomp poms for JJ McCarthy, and it's that's my quarterback.
That's my quarterback, and that is what these guys do.
This is one of my issues with all these comps.
And you're doing old man radio. That me expaine. All right,
I'm gonna make my elevator pitch. I want to see
if you agree or disagree with me on this because
it's been a pet peeve of mine for years. This
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has been a pet peeve of mine. So these guys
live in the bubble of optimism. They do bubble of optimism.
It's the halo effect. And what I mean by that
is that the player, the young player spins throw in practice,
has one really good skill and suddenly it's if Joe
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Montana and Tom Brady had a love child. If the
science worked out like that, this would be the quarterback.
They never ever compare these guys to stiffs, Like, no
one's ever saying if Hawkins said had come out. I
think JJ McCarthy's kind of reminds me of Christian Ponder.
Why would you even ponder passing right? And they never say, Hey,
that guy reminds me of Tavaris Jackson, that you know,
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great Viking quarterback. Remember I remember I was doing this
job when he was there. Oh he sucked. And because
that would actually be honest, you don't do honest, you don't.
It's like every time there's a new band and he's, oh,
that's the next Beatles. They used to say that all
the time. Not so much anymore because Beatles are long
(32:48):
in the past, but they used to, Oh, that's the
next Beatles. And then you'd listen and you'd be like, well,
you know, that's more like smash Mouth. It's a cover
band for smash Mouth. And they're playing at the Kettering
Angelo's Society gig. They're warming up and opening up and
the only one in the crowd is justin in Cincinnati.
That's it. That's all. And so Stafford is a Super
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Bowl champ, whether you like it or not. He's a
Hall of Famer, and Kirk Cousins is the Scrooge McDuck
Hall of Famer, as he is swimming in piles and
piles of guaranteed money. He's finagled so much money out
of these NFL owners. And you've got McCarthy who has
not thrown a real pass in a real game in
the NFL yet, and so many people are so horny
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to find a franchise quarterback in Minnesota. They're treating McCarthy
like he's the second Coming, the Messiah, the Great Savior.
And for now I have this file as clear clear
optimism bias. I do again. You take one thing and
you say, well, that's pretty polished there, and then maybe
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he's got some leadership and suddenly Stafford or Cousins and
all that suff But in reality, in Realityville, and I
am the mayor of Realityville, he's far more likely to
end up the next Jake Locker, remember him. Yeah, it's
the it's kind of like the movie trailers where they're
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they get on the you're eating your popcorn if you
still go to the movies, and the movie trailer comes
on and they say, the best film since Shaw Shank Redemption. They're, oh, man,
that's that was a good movie. And uh and he's all,
that's all I gotta see that. And you know, darn tutin,
You know darn tutin that it's going to be a
straight to Netflix stinker is is what it's going to be,
(34:38):
starring Adam Sandler and all of his celebrity friends wearing wigs.
That's what it's going to be. Right And you wait,
wake me up and I'll be here. I mean, I'll
be sleeping during the day, but wake me up during
the day. Let me know when McCarthy actually does something
of note, as Eddie used to say in the NFL,
until then, the comps are Viking fan fiction. Will this
(35:02):
be the weekend? He goes out there as a great
opening act as the Viking quarterback in his first game
after a red shirt injury season. Now, final point to
the propaganda department of the NFL, we go quick, right now,
we'll go quick. We're gonna go quick. So the propagated
department of the NFL outrage outrage, fallout, outrage, fallout, Lucky
(35:24):
Tony not Happy and other Chicago Bear fans like Yaphomian
Tree in Chicago and phase. They're not happy because follow
up to the top one hundred list made by Terry
in England actually made by NFL players. So five teams
got blank nothing, the Colts, the Titans, the Panthers, the Saints,
(35:47):
and dumb Bears. Now Chicago being completely left off the
NFL's top one hundred player list. That is the big
talking point. How could they do that? The Bears? They
want the off season last year, I don't understand. Are
you surprised? Are you surprised the Bears did not end
up with one player on the top one hundred list.
(36:11):
So this thing is the annual fast food menu of
a football filler, because you're really just trying to fill
time and you come up with a list. I don't
need to go through my rants. Why people are because
the lizard brain are preconditioned to answer and respond to
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a list. But that aside the Bears, if you consider
this a fast food menu of football greatness. The Chicago
Bears pulled up to the drive through at Burger King
and they got a truth whopper that is two slices
of bread and you wish you had some meat on
your roster, which kind of like a wish sandwich. But
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they got an empty back. They got what's in the back.
They got nothing, right, not even a packet of ketchup
and a nap and some salt. They didn't even get that.
Zero for the Chicago Bears on the top one hundred
of the NFL. Now, we are not surprised. And the
reason we're not surprised is because we're very cynical and
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we know the naked truth. The naked truth is you
are what your record says you are. And the Chicago
Bears played seventeen games and lost twelve of them last season.
Where I come from in the old Country, that blows,
and that is a soggy French fry. Nobody I know
wants a saggy French fry. They don't want that. They
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want a fresh hot, a little crisp to the fry.
That's what they want. And this is all opinion based anyway,
And so that's the point. It's opinion based, and it's
based on last season and the production of last season,
not the preseason hype machine. And who would you even
put on for Chicago. I was thinking about that. I
was making my long drive in here from the north Woods.
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It's like Williams that was the number one overall pick,
and he put up mostly empty cat real football people
know he wasn't very good last year. Caleb Williams. The
stat sheet the equivalent of eating a whole bag of Dorito's,
and yet you're still hungry when you finish the bag
of Dorito's. You don't quite understand why because it looked
(38:16):
like a big bag of Dorito's, but you still you're hungry.
That's watching Cailer Williams. He was the twenty fourth ranked
quarterback in the NFL. And that's not very good. That's
not very good. And the harsh reality is the Chicago Bears.
They're not the Jags, but they kind of are. They
got a lot of just the guy type players on
that particular team. And the NFL has seven hundred and
(38:38):
forty or seven hundred and four the math, so it's
thirty two teams, eleven starters on offense and defense. So
the math works out to seven hundred and four starters
if you count every position, but don't count the special teams.
Don't count. Especially sure Chicago's got a lot of Italian
sausage filler. There's a lot of Italian sausage field and
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here's the thing. If you build it, he will come.
I love sausage. By the way, if you build it,
the accolades will start coming in. That's the way. This
work is not that complicated. It's not that hard. It's
just sport. You know that the Bears have the pen
in their hand, and they have the new coach, Ben Johnson.
Show me you're Johnson. They can rewrite the menu, right,
(39:23):
rewrite the menu and all that stuff. But until then,
the Bears get squad douche is what they get.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
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Speaker 1 (39:34):
Great ninety nine games four Here we go, agreed.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
This is one big fan gets grilled krubalou Ben.
Speaker 7 (39:44):
Last season, the NFC North was the best division in football,
with all four teams finishing the season with a plus
forty or better point differential, Ben, Do you think they
will be the best division again this season?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
No? I do not. I'm gonna go with the AFC North.
You've got Cincinnati's gonna be better here and unlike popular
Aaron Rodgers is going to be slightly better than what
they've had at quarterback. You still have the Ravens in
that division. Now the problem is you got the Browns.
So that's see, that's the ugly redheaded step child, the
Cleveland resident, in this case, the orange step child. But no,
(40:16):
because the Lions are gonna be a little worse, the
Vikings will be a little worse. So and the Bears,
I still I don't think they're that good.
Speaker 7 (40:22):
So next, An MLB insider said this week that quote
spending even one second arguing that Kyle Schwarber deserves MVP
over Otani is a massive waste of time.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Ben Is he right? No, it's not. And I like Otani,
He's likely gonna win the MVP. But Schwarber is much
better offensively than Otani this year, all right, So let's
be called like and Otani hasn't been that great as
a pitcher. So I mean, what are we doing next?
Speaker 7 (40:47):
Brooklyn net forward Michael Porter Junior said in a recent
live stream that he believes he is the second best
shooter in the NBA, behind Steph Curry, that no one
is clearly ahead of him.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
What do you think? Well, I actually believe I'm the
tooth fairy, And if I believe I'm the two, I'm
very coople oop and I'm the damn tooth fairy. So
that's what I believe. If you believe it, it must be true.
And I think I'm the tooth fairy. My cat, How
did we do? A win? Good job? More cookies coming,
more cookies are that's a win. I got it right.
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Speaker 9 (41:44):
Man, it is time now for some love and you
know what, Ben You know, we like to hit a
little segment before we start the questions. Yes, please please,
do not let your desperation seep out. Okay, if there's
a woman or a man that you're in rested in
and you hang out one time, if they leave a
sock or the back of an earring at your house,
(42:06):
do not say, Hey, do you want this back? Can
I come find you and give you back the back
of your earring?
Speaker 1 (42:11):
You're saying that's like a dog marking their territories. Are
you saying it looks desperate? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (42:15):
Okay, she will come and talk to you if she
wants to hang out again. Okay, throw away the back
of that airring. Keep that sock snippet for later. Don't
even tell her.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
You have it. Wow, okay. Salsa writes in says, I
don't drink. I'd rather not buy one for twenty dollars,
but maybe I will look cheap. How do I manage
this with women I meet?
Speaker 9 (42:37):
I have dated multiple men who do not drink, and
it is never a problem. Still offer her, would you
like a beverage? Make sure you don't shame her. I
went on a date once and the guy shamed me
for ordering Usangria. So you know, just just because you
don't want to it doesn't mean you're cheap. It means
you just don't drink, and that's fine.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Okay, just offer a water, you know. Douglass writes It's says,
I'm I'm coming up, Douglas and Mississippi Sis. I'm coming
up with my third wedding anniversary and I want to
get some jewelry. But I can't decide a ring on
a ring, necklace, bracelet or anklet.
Speaker 9 (43:11):
What do you suggest, Well, if you go to the
sex store, they have special rings there, I would get
one of those.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
He was talking about those. I said, Daddy say that.
Speaker 9 (43:19):
Well, there's all sorts of rings, and I want to
make sure he knows there's other options.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Other options out there. All right, great advice. That's why
we do the segment right there as example. That's it,
all right. Ferg Dog says, which theme park has more
attractive women? Disneyland or Not's Berry Farm? Very important?
Speaker 9 (43:36):
Not it's very farm. I would say probably has the
more scandalous women. But I've seen a lot of risque
outfits at Disney lately, is that right?
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (43:45):
Lots of span Dex straight up the butt, like.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Who says no to that? God? Like that. As long
as you put the Disney ears on, you're good. You're good.
Speaker 6 (43:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (43:56):
Out of parent Mouse ears, you're just cosplaying.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yeah, that's that's right. Josh says, I have a sugar
mama in another state. What are your tips you can
give to make a long distance relationship work? Says Josh.
Speaker 9 (44:09):
Oh for a sugar mama specific specifically, she probably just
wants your time and attention, So I would you know,
text her every morning. Maybe to go out of the way.
If you want to really get extra sugar from her,
maybe deliver something to her house. I mean it's long distance, right,
so yeah, send something like send some flowers or maybe
a pizza be like pizza pizza.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Yeah. Late Night Drug Tester says, can we let our
wives and girlfriends know that YouTube and win a thing
now with Benny versus the pen that's right, Bennie versus
the pennae. It's very important women know about that on.
Speaker 9 (44:44):
YouTube, right, Loraine, Yes, definitely, unless it's not for some
reason James.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
I can't. Right, if I go to James, he's gonna
come on, give him a chance. No, I can't because
he's going to destroy the clock. Oh yeah, he's going
to say something that it'll be a neutron bomb.
Speaker 9 (44:59):
And we know you love Tammy, we know, and.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
He loves you too, yes, a big fan of you.
Speaker 9 (45:04):
Well, you can manifest love. So just keep dreaming, keep dreaming, dreaming,
and dream there you go.
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and the password.
Speaker 6 (45:19):
Is password, you idiot. Password. The word game of the stars.
Here's Ben mel Let's get right song. Welcome in our contessians.
We have Tree from Chicago. Hello, Tree, Welcome, you.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Made it back. You're on the job right now, Tree,
Right you made it back?
Speaker 8 (45:40):
Yeah, yeah, we out.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
Well, Thank you, buddy, Thanks for all the you you
spoiled us with that Chicago gift package. Thank you, man.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (45:48):
I love my socks.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
I have my own cup socks now, I have cup
playing cards. I've got that popcorns wonderful, great popcorn town Chicago.
And uh and I have a hat, so a couple
of hats. So thank you. I appreciate a man be
all my family, no problem, I appreciate that. All right, Well,
you're gonna play the game. Who do you want to
partner up with? Tree? You got me Loraina or Coop.
(46:11):
I'm gonna roll with Coop. All right, that's a bad decision.
That's fine. And we have any Meeni, miney Mode. Daniel
in Fort Wayne, Hello, Daniel, America's favorite crossing guard.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Everyone but one parent would agree with you on that statement.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Well, there's always that one, all right. Who do you
want to partner up with? Who do you want to partner.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
With Dad, I gotta go with you man.
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(46:55):
You're up first, picking number please.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
Tree, I'm gonna go with, all.
Speaker 7 (47:01):
Right, number five? All right, Tree, let's go with Let's
go with receive?
Speaker 4 (47:11):
Uh uh, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Go with uh har No, let's go Daniel, how about snatch?
Speaker 5 (47:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Okay, I think he just said yes. I disagreed with
me and said yes, all right, go ahead. Cool.
Speaker 7 (47:40):
Let's let's go with uh oh, we'll go a little
bit of different direction. Tree.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Let's go with capture. What Yeah, you got it on
my crew? All right, go ahead there, Dani'll pick a
number one to ten, but not five, please, playing password
the award Game of the Star. Number three. All right, let's
this should be easy. Let's go with I'm gonna do
the mallord maneuver. Crude. I don't know he's he's asking
(48:13):
repeat crude c r U d E crude crude jil
uh tree. Let's go with lubricants. Get your mind out
of the gun.
Speaker 4 (48:33):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
Nothing, all right, Daniel. Let's go with petroleum.
Speaker 8 (48:43):
OI.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Yeah, that's a time. Count that as a win. I
count that next week, I count that as a
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hour is from the frozen tundra. It's not that col
not now, it'll get cold, not yet, come on, it's
early September. So the fallout, though, continues from the trade
heard round the pig Skin Whirl. And you know I
love a good, juicy story, and this continues to be
(02:18):
pretty good. Stories still got legs. It's been about a week.
The story still got legs. If you have not heard
the latest, perhaps not. Micah Parsons, according to his agent, Michaeh. Parsons,
wanted to be a cowboy and had he not been
traded to the Green Bay football team, according to the agent,
(02:41):
Parsons would have played in the season opener, which is
on Thursday night in Philadelphia, and they would not have
sat out that game that According to the great David
mula Getta, the in your face agent for Micah Parsons
now Move aheta contender, that parsons first choice was always
(03:04):
to remain in Dallas. How are you feeling in Green
Bay right now? I don't want to play for your team.
He wants to play for Cowboys. How does that make
you feel? A quote from a moveaged he said, quote,
I think the most important thing is Michaeh wanted to
be a cowboy. He grew up cheering for the Cowboys.
According to Mola Ghetto, he wore the blue and white
(03:26):
at Penn State ward in the NFL with the Cowboys.
He wanted to be a cowboy, and we did everything
we could for him to remain a cowboy. Close quote
cowboy up. So let us discuss the question. How does
Micah Parson's agent saying he did everything he could do
(03:49):
to remain a Cowboys sound? How does that sound? So
my thoughts on this, I've got a little doggie bag.
We've got immunity and and the melting pot, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make some delicious shredded chicken barbecue shredded chickens.
(04:12):
We're gonna make outstanding. So let's begin with this. So
David moole getta all right. He comes out here like
a whirling dervish, acting like the world's smartest man while
playing the world's smallest violin. That's the vibe I got
as I saw these quotes bouncing around the echo chamber,
(04:33):
just trumming away at the world's smallest violin. It's a
real sob story. Real sad, my client, he wanted to
be a cowboy. He grew up a cowboy as a
little child, and he got to live his dream. And
now he's been sent to Siberia in northern Wisconsin. So Sad,
(04:55):
try to stay calm, right, try to stay calm. Of course,
we know, based on years of cynical talk radio that
this is all nonsense. It is pure d C, not
d C comics. It is damage control. This is known
as saving face. This is positioning Parsons as the what
(05:18):
as the helpless defender in distress the victim, because we
I guess we're getting a little bit away from that.
But boy. For a few years there was a wallowing
in victimhood was way to go. But it's like Parsons,
the victim here is what it is, right, you know
Jerry Jones, you know Parsons, the helpless victim. And then
you got Jerry Jones over here, who's cast as the
(05:40):
bad guy with the big black stats and hat like
every Western you know, Texan bad guy, get that big
black stats and hat. And it's all, of course for
what it's for. The court, not the kangaroo court, not
the real court, not the people's court. That would be
the kangaroo court. That is known as public opinion, so
(06:01):
the public court. A Classic Agent playbook, move on page seventeen,
Section A of the playbook. It's not about football. It's
not about that. This is about the Q, not Cubert,
that's an old video game. It's about Q rating, Madison Avenue, endorsements,
(06:24):
all of that. You can't be the guy who forced
your way out of Dallas because listen, you gotta sell
merch still in Texas and the you know, the Cowboys
are a bit of a religion. They're a bit of
a religion. So it's a Friday night lights on steroids
and the lights usually get turned out on the Cowboys midseason.
(06:47):
But if you're the guy who turned your back and
said I don't want to play for the Dallas Cowboys.
If you're that guy, you are Judas. You are Judas.
If you do that, you're done in the Bible belt.
They will close the Bible and they will throw it
at you, is what they will do. So don't kid yourself. Now,
Parsons really wanted to stay in Dallas. If he really
(07:09):
wanted to stay in Dallas, guess what, he could have
worked it out. There was a path to stay with
the Cowboys because the agent didn't want to talk about
that because the agent would have been out. But in
the real world, the agent represent I've had an agent,
not a good one. I'm doing overnight still, but I
had an agent, all right, And this guy was a
total douche the agent that I had back in the day.
(07:33):
And if Parsons wanted to stay with the Cowboys, he
could have walked into Jerry Jones office or sent him.
I'd say a text, but I don't know that Jerry text.
But call him right either, call him go to Jerry's office.
Why did you show up to Jerry's office with a
nice doggie bag filled with barbecue brisket and a handshake.
Deal done, un done, done, that's it, You're good. But no, instead,
(07:58):
we got this guy getta the agent. And I don't
know the guy personally, but my default position, based on
my experience with people who are agents, is the agent
is a pus filled sleeves bag until proven otherwise. That's
my default position on the agent. They're like those mosquitoes
(08:20):
buzzing around a Texas cattle ranch, you know, just everywhere,
and they suck every last drop of blood out of you,
is what they do. So Parsons he goes from Jerry's world,
the billion dollar pig skin cathedral, the biggest scoreboard, the
(08:41):
most beautiful cheerleaders were told, the flash, the giant corn dogs,
they got in text, all that stuff. And he goes
to Green Bay now juxtaposed Dallas and Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
And I have a brother who lives there. God only
knows when he moved there. He didn't grow up there,
he moved to the I mean, who does that my brother,
(09:02):
my younger brother moved in the Green Bay area. But anyway,
having been there and visited my younger brother, the nicest
restaurant is Culver's Now. I love Culver's. I think it's
a great restaurant. I wish they would be an advertiser
here at Fox Sports Trade. I love cheese kirts. I
love the whole menu. It's like the in and out
of the Midwest. But that's the top location. Now. If
you want nightlife in Green Bay, you want to go
(09:23):
out and party, get in some trouble there, there's a
couple spotted cows at the Veteran of Foreign Wars Hall,
you can there's some shows over there, so you can
go to that. And that's fitting, right, and it's fitting
And here's why, because in Dallas, Michael Parsons was a
star wearing a star on the side of his helmet
and all that. And Wisconsin he's like a farm here.
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You ride the bicycles with the kids, you're in training camp,
you're out there chopping wood. You got a chop wood.
There's a lot of trees in northern Wisconsin, right, I
got shovel snow off the driveway and all that stuff.
It's the land of the cheese curve, the brat and
not a lot of glamor not the private jets there
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might not be enough room there for the private jets
and all that stuff and the biggest show. You go
from the biggest show in NFL football to the frozen
tunder and listen, listen, it's Is it a good football town? Absolutely,
national fan base? Yes? Is it as big as the
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Cowboys know? And it's gonna be tough, though, if you
want to sell, like I don't know, some products you
just can't sell in Green Bay. Like I don't think
Hairjael sells. I don't think luxury cars sell in Green Bay.
You can really get a killer deal with Johnsonville brotz though.
So Micah Parsons can put on a get in front
of a grill and just get some Johnsonville Brotts and
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he'll be good to go. Now turning the page on that.
So the hour of the fallout, if you will. So
we own a Dallas Now we are told the boys.
The latest reporting is the Cowboys were not worried, They
were not concerned about the public perception when they made
the decision to trade Micah Parsons. The report said that
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the whispers that they were unconcerned. This is a quote
from the report. They were unconcerned about the public relations
fallout the team with face given how popular Micah Parsons
was with the fans, So are you surprised? Are you
surprised the Cowboys were not worried about the fallout from
trading a popular player. Absolutely not. I know we've been
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over this, but this is the latest story. So we
react to the news of the day. This is Jerry
Jones we're talking about, right, And this is not your
normal Bucker route. It's not. The buck doesn't just stop
with Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones is literally and figuratively the
Buck in Dallas, the oil bearon the Carnival Barker, the
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man of many Hats, the football overlord, all of that,
and Jerry believes, and it's hard to argue with him.
Jerry believes that the Cowboys are wrapped in teflon. There's
a layer of teflon for the Cowboys, their bulletproof. If
they were a superhero, they'd be kryptonite proof. And they
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have full immunity. The Cowboys have full immunity to the
torches and pitchforks of angry fans. In fact, they welcome it.
They welcome it. They've got some kind of force field
around there in the death star Jerry's world. They've got that,
and he doesn't care if people boo or scream or
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throw their cowboy hats right into the dirt. We used
to have this guy, Cowboy Dan. I don't know if
he's even still around. I hope he is, but he
used to call the show if the Cowboys won. I
would love Cowboy Dan to call up and say what
happened to this trip? But listen, here's the deal. Jerry's
been living in his own reality for roughly thirty years,
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and the situation is, no matter how mediocre, how low
can you go? And the Cowboys have gotten pretty low
at times. I no mater how many years they go
without hoisting up the Lombardi Trophy. They're still there with
a license to print money, money, money, right, money money,
and they haven't sniffed a Super Bowl in a generation
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and a half. So to put that in some context
for you, there are young adults going to college right now.
Some of them call the show. I don't know why,
but they do. But they go to college right now,
and they were not even born the last time the
Cowboys won a championship. They're in college. Okay, that's and
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some of them, have Garady graduated from college. It's been
that long, and yet they're still the most valuable franchise
in the NFL. It's not even really that close, because
Jerry's got the tent, he's got the big ten up there,
and he's got the popcorn machines going over to the
left and over to the right. The cheerleaders are dancing,
they're shaking their pom poms, and the people keep lining
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up to buy tickets. And the Cowboys. Again, we've been
through this a bunch, but for those that are new
to the show, welcome the Cowboys. Not really a football team,
they're the NFLS. I guess Disneyland would be a good
comp Cowboys Disneyland. Very similar. Overpriced, over hyped, always packed
to the rafters, very similar situation there. Disneyland and the Cowboys.
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Now Dallas could trade, I'm telling you, they could trade
Dak Prescot. The Ore traded Mike Martin. They could trade
Dak Prescott. They could bring back Quincy Carter and a
line of Coke at quarterback, and people would still tune in,
They would still watch. In fact, they might watch even
more to see what happens because the Cowboys are really
selling an idea, right, You're selling an idea is what
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you're selling. There, America's team, the star, the big stadium,
the big scoreboard. Jerry Jones is over the top personality,
all that stuff. Bad decisions, doesn't matter the brand. Your
ride for the brand and the coat of the West.
You ride for the brand. You do what has to
be done, and that's it. So the way Jerry sees it,
and a lot of people in sports, the ugly truth
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is is that we can trade anybody. We'll just spin
it and we'll still sell jerseys and we'll still own
the headlines. And as long as nobody has apathy, we're good.
Now on that note, final point, So the last part
of this, these things are all related. I mentioned the
Cowboys are going to spin it. Well, part of the
spin job is going on right now because there's more
stories bouncing around the echo chamber that say Michael Parson's
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behavior during training camp rubbed people in the Cowboy locker room,
in the Cowboy locker room the wrong way. So how
do you see this one? So you know what this
is what's known as low hanging fruit. And unfortunately I
know how you make the hot dogs. So once you
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learn how you make the hot dogs. It changes your
perspective on these tepis stories. Now you say, in the
locker room, does that mean players? Does that mean maybe
one of the ball boys doesn't like the fact that
Michael Parsons was not very polite to him, or a way.
But it's the reason this low hanging fruit is. If
you've got a star player and you know he's a
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little loud and big personality and all that stuff, and
now you've traded them, the players somewhat popular, Suddenly everyone's
brave enough after the trade whisper, Oh yeah, yeah, ye,
that guy was a douche. You know that guy was
a schmuck. Spoiler alert. This is what happens in every
locker room. It is a melting pot. It's cheese fondue.
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It is a melting pot. It's not one voice, it's
not one truth. And you've got guys who grew up
in the backwoods, in the South City, kids from the wrong,
you know, the wrong part of town. And maybe there's
some Ivy League guys in there, some dopes like me
that went to a junior college, some international players. It's
a stew it is a stew of you and not
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everyone amazingly, just like your office, just like where I work,
not everyone is going to line up and and be
on the same the same page, right, and not everyone's
gonna vibe with each other. And so listen, Bikah Parsons
is a spicy tuna role tossed into a meat and
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potatoes situation. Uh, you know, nothing is a universal truth
across the board. There is no you know, there's no Hey,
this is the way it is. Everyone agrees, there's never
ever total agreement. And it really just depends. And this
is how a lot of these stories in politics and
sports go. It really just depends on the uh, the
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way the reporter wants to attack the story. Right, If
you wanted to write a story that say, man, Cowboy
players loved MICHAEH. Parsons. He was a great teammate, They
loved the way that he played, they loved his smile,
they loved his personality, all of that. You could write
that story. There are people in the Cowboy locker room
that will tell you they love Michael Parsons, that they
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loved it. Right, And it just depends on the agenator
now saying, Hey, Parsons, I want to paint Parsons as
a problem child. And that's easy. Right, that's easy, and
you know, boom, that's your headline, and that's the thing
that works. Right, You're the whole media world is in
the click based world. You've got to get clicks on
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that and saying the headline Micah Parsons, Right, Michael Parsons
loved by some teammates. You're not clicking on that. I'm
not clicking on that. Who cares, I'm not clearing It
doesn't move the needle? Does it not move? The needle
doesn't sell. You're in the business of selling. Nobody's scrolling saying,
oh wow, that looks good to me. Let me click
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on that. Michael Parsons has friends video to eleven. You're
not gonna do that. Like the sexy headline is teammates
were rubbed the wrong way. Now that's got some sizzle.
That's got a little bit of sizzle to it. That'll work.
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this out from Tusca Looser we go, where the news
of the day takes US and coaches say the darnedest
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things department. Coaches say the darness things department update. So
the embattled in battled collegiate football coach Kaalin de Boor
is undersiege after the latest misstep. So if you didn't
hear about this, perhaps I think we have some audiore
gonna play. So kay Kaylin de Boor, who came to
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Alabama from Washington, he attempted to address the pathetic Crimson
Tide performance over the weekend you sought against the seminoles
of Florida State and was asked what the hell happened
because he had claimed a week prior he gave the
standard coaching cliche that they had a really good week
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of practice at Alabama, and that's generally a dead giveaway
that you're going to play well in the game. When
the coach says we had a really good week of practice,
that is usually an indication the coach believes the team
is prepared for the game and they're going to play well.
So a reporter dared bring that up, and Caitlin de Boor, well,
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he was surprised.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Tike A Lis, you mentioned the great week before the game.
Just how much do you self scout the preparation before games,
and are other times as a coach where maybe you
notice during the week that things might not be going
the way that you want them to.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
He said, what do you mean, great week?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
A great week? He said, A great week of preparation
for this week. You're saying sorry for going up to
without a Florida. Say before that game, I said that,
You said that.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, oh yeah, okay, all right, that's like, oh boy,
that's that's a tough listen. All right. So and that
led gets even better. So that has led to now
they've moved on from Nick Saban already coming back to Alabama.
So now they positioned former NFL coach the greatness of
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the Raiders, John Gruden. Yeah, so let us discuss the
question Alabama fans panicking panic at the disco after a
disastrous back and forth there Kaylen de Boor, And that's
just a little sample. There are other weird moments there,
and there are factions of the Bama booster bass calling
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for John Gruden to replace Kailin de Boor on the
sidelines at that sec power. How much credence do you
give the possibility of any of that happening? So I
have carrot cake kettering, banj Society and burger king, and
we look could behind all of these things together, and
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we are going to make your Babushka's favorite twice baked potato,
not one time twice baked potato. Yeah, as approved by
Sports with Coleman so number. So the way I look
at this, the amount of credence I give this is
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gigabytes bandwidth. That's what I give this. Here Internet chatter,
chata chata chatter. So let's start with the body language
of Kailin de Boor. Now, I realize if you're like
blind Scott or blind em It or any of the
legion of the Blind Wing of the Maltham Militia, you
cannot see this Inka terror. Here's the deal, Kayland bor
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his body language on this. It looked like we were
watching a man who got caught shoplifting some peanuts from
a Pigley Wiggly. I said, did I do that? I don't,
I said that really okay? And so I love a
good meltdown. I love an entitled fan base that melts down.
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And Alabama's an entitled fan base. They've had years and
years of Nick Saban great success and all that, and
you got this Kalin, the boor guy who's from the Midwest,
but he's perceived as a West Coast guy because he
coached in Seattle at Washington and all that stuff. And
it's just great. And so now they want John Gruden
to ride in like a night in shining armor to
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save the day. Of course they do. John Gruden like
the shiny toy. It's been sitting on the Southeastern Conference
shelf for a decade, just waiting for an opportunity, right waiting.
Of course, he did have the Raider job, and then
that went away because of the email thing. It's like
football fried chicken. If you will, it's greasy, it's probably
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bad for you. And man, does it smell good? Boy?
Does that smell good? And you're desperate, you need something,
you go for it? Why not? And let's not forget though,
the math on this, so Calin Debor's buyout is north
of sixty million. We talked about this in a previous
episode of the show. So if you do the math
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on that, they not only got to pay him that money,
but it's one hundred and twenty million dollar pyramid because
you have to pay sixty plus million to debor, and
then whoever is the next coach is hopefully not going
to be a bore or a dbore, and you're gonna
have to pay that coach another sixty plus million. So
it's over one hundred and twenty million dollar pyramid. And
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Bama has a game show network problem, like they're trying
to get out of one show that's that's no one's watching,
and now they got to pay for the next show,
but they can't. It's like wheel of fortune and then
it meets deal or no deal is essentially what we've
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got here. So this is what Alabama fans don't get,
is that you can't just pass around the collection plate
on Sunday's service and say all right, everyone put a
couple of bucks in there and then we got one
hundred and twenty million. Boom done. That's it. You need again,
a high falutin nice southern gentleman an oil baron is
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what you need with really really deep Alabama roots, you know,
just goes back generations and deep pockets and all of that.
Because right now, and again I'm not there, I'm just
observing from thirty thousand feet, and from thirty thousand feet,
it's like, hey, this guy is Kaylin de Boor. He's
into that warm fuzzy stuff. We don't do warm fuzzy, right.
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He's got that Hacuona Matada. He's got that vibe right,
sunshine and lollipops and all that stuff. And don't worry,
we'll get him next week. And no, they want rage. Uh,
they want someone bench. They want someone to lose their scholarship,
more than one person. They want a table flip. They
want Nick Saban smashing a headset, throwing it down, very
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cantankerous Nick Saban. That's what they want. So they're not
buying what Kaitlin the Boor is selling at this point.
That made that clear. He's essentially shown up to the tailgate.
They're having a barbecue tailgate in Tuscaloosa, and he's the
guy that said, hey, I got some good carrot cake
at the tailgate barbecue. So if you want some carrot cake,
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I've got that. I'm serving that. And well, no, Kaitlin,
we don't want that. We want barbecue ribs. We'd like
some corn bread, maybe some mac and cheese, some sweet tea.
That's what we would like. We don't want the carrot cake.
We don't I'm sorry, we don't. But I make really
good carrot cake. We don't want that, and I just
I can't. I love the part of the people melting
down like a toddler at a grocery stores. I've already
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mentioned Pigley Wiggley. How about a wind Dixie? Had a
wind Dixie and then they're they're on the floor and
they're crying. I want my cereal, I want my cocup buffs.
Now you can't have your cocoa. Ba Well, I want
Captain Crutch. You can't have Captain Crutch. I need it now.
Gruden is a long shot, but not a no shot.
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John grud is a long shot, not a no shot.
If they really want him, Alabama could get him. They could.
Gruden's suing the NFL, and unless they work out some
kind of backroom deal and Cruden gets an NFL coaching
job and ends the lawsuit, that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
So if Alabama really really wants, they can get what
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their heart desires here. But there is again very tricky
math on this, and some serious boosters with massive egos
have to get involved to make this work. And until then,
the moaning and groaning will not stop. And that's Alabama
football right now. You better win and if you stub
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your toe again and lose again, crap. At least look angry,
give the illusion of anger. Make it seem like this
really bothers you. Because Klyn de Boor, he's got the
body language that will be fine. No no, no, no,
no no no no. All Right, Now we go to
the NFL to Minnesota, talk last hour about the Green
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Bay Packers and Micah Parsons. Now we have equal time
in broadcasting. We going down of Minnesota where tight End TJ.
Hockinson continues to fill up the content machine as we
pull apart cannibalize a recent interview that Hockinson did. The
tight end recently compared Viking quarterback JJ McCarthy, Yes, the
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guy that hasn't started a regular season NFL game, compared
JJ McCarthy to who He said, He's a lot like
Matthew Stafford and a little like Kirk Cousins. And those
are quarterbacks Hockinson has played with in his career with
the Lions and the Vikings. How does that sound to you?
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How does that send you? So? I know that on
the internet, the Viking cheerleaders, and mister Irrigation's my advisor here.
He's a big fan of the Viking cheerleaders there. They've
gone viral for some very emasculating reasons recently, the Viking cheerleaders.
But it's nice that TJ. Hockinson is supporting the cheerleaders
because it sounds to me like he's got some purple
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pomp poms for JJ McCarthy, and it's that's my quarterback.
That's my quarterback, and that is what these guys do.
This is one of my issues with all these comps.
And you're doing old man radio. That me expaine. All right,
I'm gonna make my elevator pitch. I want to see
if you agree or disagree with me on this because
it's been a pet peeve of mine for years. This
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has been a pet peeve of mine. So these guys
live in the bubble of optimism. They do bubble of optimism.
It's the halo effect. And what I mean by that
is that the player, the young player spins throw in practice,
has one really good skill and suddenly it's if Joe
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Montana and Tom Brady had a love child. If the
science worked out like that, this would be the quarterback.
They never ever compare these guys to stiffs, Like, no
one's ever saying if Hawkins said had come out. I
think JJ McCarthy's kind of reminds me of Christian Ponder.
Why would you even ponder passing right? And they never say, Hey,
that guy reminds me of Tavaris Jackson, that you know,
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great Viking quarterback. Remember I remember I was doing this
job when he was there. Oh he sucked. And because
that would actually be honest, you don't do honest, you don't.
It's like every time there's a new band and he's, oh,
that's the next Beatles. They used to say that all
the time. Not so much anymore because Beatles are long
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in the past, but they used to, Oh, that's the
next Beatles. And then you'd listen and you'd be like, well,
you know, that's more like smash Mouth. It's a cover
band for smash Mouth. And they're playing at the Kettering
Angelo's Society gig. They're warming up and opening up and
the only one in the crowd is justin in Cincinnati.
That's it. That's all. And so Stafford is a Super
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Bowl champ, whether you like it or not. He's a
Hall of Famer, and Kirk Cousins is the Scrooge McDuck
Hall of Famer, as he is swimming in piles and
piles of guaranteed money. He's finagled so much money out
of these NFL owners. And you've got McCarthy who has
not thrown a real pass in a real game in
the NFL yet, and so many people are so horny
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to find a franchise quarterback in Minnesota. They're treating McCarthy
like he's the second Coming, the Messiah, the Great Savior.
And for now I have this file as clear clear
optimism bias. I do again. You take one thing and
you say, well, that's pretty polished there, and then maybe
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he's got some leadership and suddenly Stafford or Cousins and
all that suff But in reality, in Realityville, and I
am the mayor of Realityville, he's far more likely to
end up the next Jake Locker, remember him. Yeah, it's
the it's kind of like the movie trailers where they're
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they get on the you're eating your popcorn if you
still go to the movies, and the movie trailer comes
on and they say, the best film since Shaw Shank Redemption. They're, oh, man,
that's that was a good movie. And uh and he's all,
that's all I gotta see that. And you know, darn tutin,
You know darn tutin that it's going to be a
straight to Netflix stinker is is what it's going to be,
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starring Adam Sandler and all of his celebrity friends wearing wigs.
That's what it's going to be. Right And you wait,
wake me up and I'll be here. I mean, I'll
be sleeping during the day, but wake me up during
the day. Let me know when McCarthy actually does something
of note, as Eddie used to say in the NFL,
until then, the comps are Viking fan fiction. Will this
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be the weekend? He goes out there as a great
opening act as the Viking quarterback in his first game
after a red shirt injury season. Now, final point to
the propaganda department of the NFL, we go quick, right now,
we'll go quick. We're gonna go quick. So the propagated
department of the NFL outrage outrage, fallout, outrage, fallout, Lucky
(35:24):
Tony not Happy and other Chicago Bear fans like Yaphomian
Tree in Chicago and phase. They're not happy because follow
up to the top one hundred list made by Terry
in England actually made by NFL players. So five teams
got blank nothing, the Colts, the Titans, the Panthers, the Saints,
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and dumb Bears. Now Chicago being completely left off the
NFL's top one hundred player list. That is the big
talking point. How could they do that? The Bears? They
want the off season last year, I don't understand. Are
you surprised? Are you surprised the Bears did not end
up with one player on the top one hundred list.
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So this thing is the annual fast food menu of
a football filler, because you're really just trying to fill
time and you come up with a list. I don't
need to go through my rants. Why people are because
the lizard brain are preconditioned to answer and respond to
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a list. But that aside the Bears, if you consider
this a fast food menu of football greatness. The Chicago
Bears pulled up to the drive through at Burger King
and they got a truth whopper that is two slices
of bread and you wish you had some meat on
your roster, which kind of like a wish sandwich. But
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they got an empty back. They got what's in the back.
They got nothing, right, not even a packet of ketchup
and a nap and some salt. They didn't even get that.
Zero for the Chicago Bears on the top one hundred
of the NFL. Now, we are not surprised. And the
reason we're not surprised is because we're very cynical and
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we know the naked truth. The naked truth is you
are what your record says you are. And the Chicago
Bears played seventeen games and lost twelve of them last season.
Where I come from in the old Country, that blows,
and that is a soggy French fry. Nobody I know
wants a saggy French fry. They don't want that. They
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want a fresh hot, a little crisp to the fry.
That's what they want. And this is all opinion based anyway,
And so that's the point. It's opinion based, and it's
based on last season and the production of last season,
not the preseason hype machine. And who would you even
put on for Chicago. I was thinking about that. I
was making my long drive in here from the north Woods.
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It's like Williams that was the number one overall pick,
and he put up mostly empty cat real football people
know he wasn't very good last year. Caleb Williams. The
stat sheet the equivalent of eating a whole bag of Dorito's,
and yet you're still hungry when you finish the bag
of Dorito's. You don't quite understand why because it looked
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like a big bag of Dorito's, but you still you're hungry.
That's watching Cailer Williams. He was the twenty fourth ranked
quarterback in the NFL. And that's not very good. That's
not very good. And the harsh reality is the Chicago Bears.
They're not the Jags, but they kind of are. They
got a lot of just the guy type players on
that particular team. And the NFL has seven hundred and
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forty or seven hundred and four the math, so it's
thirty two teams, eleven starters on offense and defense. So
the math works out to seven hundred and four starters
if you count every position, but don't count the special teams.
Don't count. Especially sure Chicago's got a lot of Italian
sausage filler. There's a lot of Italian sausage field and
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here's the thing. If you build it, he will come.
I love sausage. By the way, if you build it,
the accolades will start coming in. That's the way. This
work is not that complicated. It's not that hard. It's
just sport. You know that the Bears have the pen
in their hand, and they have the new coach, Ben Johnson.
Show me you're Johnson. They can rewrite the menu, right,
(39:23):
rewrite the menu and all that stuff. But until then,
the Bears get squad douche is what they get.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
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Speaker 1 (39:34):
Great ninety nine games four Here we go, agreed.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
This is one big fan gets grilled krubalou Ben.
Speaker 7 (39:44):
Last season, the NFC North was the best division in football,
with all four teams finishing the season with a plus
forty or better point differential, Ben, Do you think they
will be the best division again this season?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
No? I do not. I'm gonna go with the AFC North.
You've got Cincinnati's gonna be better here and unlike popular
Aaron Rodgers is going to be slightly better than what
they've had at quarterback. You still have the Ravens in
that division. Now the problem is you got the Browns.
So that's see, that's the ugly redheaded step child, the
Cleveland resident, in this case, the orange step child. But no,
(40:16):
because the Lions are gonna be a little worse, the
Vikings will be a little worse. So and the Bears,
I still I don't think they're that good.
Speaker 7 (40:22):
So next, An MLB insider said this week that quote
spending even one second arguing that Kyle Schwarber deserves MVP
over Otani is a massive waste of time.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Ben Is he right? No, it's not. And I like Otani,
He's likely gonna win the MVP. But Schwarber is much
better offensively than Otani this year, all right, So let's
be called like and Otani hasn't been that great as
a pitcher. So I mean, what are we doing next?
Speaker 7 (40:47):
Brooklyn net forward Michael Porter Junior said in a recent
live stream that he believes he is the second best
shooter in the NBA, behind Steph Curry, that no one
is clearly ahead of him.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
What do you think? Well, I actually believe I'm the
tooth fairy, And if I believe I'm the two, I'm
very coople oop and I'm the damn tooth fairy. So
that's what I believe. If you believe it, it must be true.
And I think I'm the tooth fairy. My cat, How
did we do? A win? Good job? More cookies coming,
more cookies are that's a win. I got it right.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
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Speaker 8 (41:28):
It's of it buys with Little Rain at ten nine,
clean Up, Hearts, Gonna help You gear rye, gear ride tonight,
gear right tonight, dear ride.
Speaker 9 (41:44):
Man, it is time now for some love and you
know what, Ben You know, we like to hit a
little segment before we start the questions. Yes, please please,
do not let your desperation seep out. Okay, if there's
a woman or a man that you're in rested in
and you hang out one time, if they leave a
sock or the back of an earring at your house,
(42:06):
do not say, Hey, do you want this back? Can
I come find you and give you back the back
of your earring?
Speaker 1 (42:11):
You're saying that's like a dog marking their territories. Are
you saying it looks desperate? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (42:15):
Okay, she will come and talk to you if she
wants to hang out again. Okay, throw away the back
of that airring. Keep that sock snippet for later. Don't
even tell her.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
You have it. Wow, okay. Salsa writes in says, I
don't drink. I'd rather not buy one for twenty dollars,
but maybe I will look cheap. How do I manage
this with women I meet?
Speaker 9 (42:37):
I have dated multiple men who do not drink, and
it is never a problem. Still offer her, would you
like a beverage? Make sure you don't shame her. I
went on a date once and the guy shamed me
for ordering Usangria. So you know, just just because you
don't want to it doesn't mean you're cheap. It means
you just don't drink, and that's fine.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Okay, just offer a water, you know. Douglass writes It's says,
I'm I'm coming up, Douglas and Mississippi Sis. I'm coming
up with my third wedding anniversary and I want to
get some jewelry. But I can't decide a ring on
a ring, necklace, bracelet or anklet.
Speaker 9 (43:11):
What do you suggest, Well, if you go to the
sex store, they have special rings there, I would get
one of those.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
He was talking about those. I said, Daddy say that.
Speaker 9 (43:19):
Well, there's all sorts of rings, and I want to
make sure he knows there's other options.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Other options out there. All right, great advice. That's why
we do the segment right there as example. That's it,
all right. Ferg Dog says, which theme park has more
attractive women? Disneyland or Not's Berry Farm? Very important?
Speaker 9 (43:36):
Not it's very farm. I would say probably has the
more scandalous women. But I've seen a lot of risque
outfits at Disney lately, is that right?
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (43:45):
Lots of span Dex straight up the butt, like.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Who says no to that? God? Like that. As long
as you put the Disney ears on, you're good. You're good.
Speaker 6 (43:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (43:56):
Out of parent Mouse ears, you're just cosplaying.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yeah, that's that's right. Josh says, I have a sugar
mama in another state. What are your tips you can
give to make a long distance relationship work? Says Josh.
Speaker 9 (44:09):
Oh for a sugar mama specific specifically, she probably just
wants your time and attention, So I would you know,
text her every morning. Maybe to go out of the way.
If you want to really get extra sugar from her,
maybe deliver something to her house. I mean it's long distance, right,
so yeah, send something like send some flowers or maybe
a pizza be like pizza pizza.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Yeah. Late Night Drug Tester says, can we let our
wives and girlfriends know that YouTube and win a thing
now with Benny versus the pen that's right, Bennie versus
the pennae. It's very important women know about that on.
Speaker 9 (44:44):
YouTube, right, Loraine, Yes, definitely, unless it's not for some
reason James.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
I can't. Right, if I go to James, he's gonna
come on, give him a chance. No, I can't because
he's going to destroy the clock. Oh yeah, he's going
to say something that it'll be a neutron bomb.
Speaker 9 (44:59):
And we know you love Tammy, we know, and.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
He loves you too, yes, a big fan of you.
Speaker 9 (45:04):
Well, you can manifest love. So just keep dreaming, keep dreaming, dreaming,
and dream there you go.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password.
Speaker 6 (45:19):
Is password, you idiot. Password. The word game of the stars.
Here's Ben mel Let's get right song. Welcome in our contessians.
We have Tree from Chicago. Hello, Tree, Welcome, you.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Made it back. You're on the job right now, Tree,
Right you made it back?
Speaker 8 (45:40):
Yeah, yeah, we out.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
Well, Thank you, buddy, Thanks for all the you you
spoiled us with that Chicago gift package. Thank you, man.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (45:48):
I love my socks.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
I have my own cup socks now, I have cup
playing cards. I've got that popcorns wonderful, great popcorn town Chicago.
And uh and I have a hat, so a couple
of hats. So thank you. I appreciate a man be
all my family, no problem, I appreciate that. All right, Well,
you're gonna play the game. Who do you want to
partner up with? Tree? You got me Loraina or Coop.
(46:11):
I'm gonna roll with Coop. All right, that's a bad decision.
That's fine. And we have any Meeni, miney Mode. Daniel
in Fort Wayne, Hello, Daniel, America's favorite crossing guard.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Everyone but one parent would agree with you on that statement.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Well, there's always that one, all right. Who do you
want to partner up with? Who do you want to partner.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
With Dad, I gotta go with you man.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
You're in it to win it. And this portion of
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(46:55):
You're up first, picking number please.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
Tree, I'm gonna go with, all.
Speaker 7 (47:01):
Right, number five? All right, Tree, let's go with Let's
go with receive?
Speaker 4 (47:11):
Uh uh, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Go with uh har No, let's go Daniel, how about snatch?
Speaker 5 (47:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Okay, I think he just said yes. I disagreed with
me and said yes, all right, go ahead. Cool.
Speaker 7 (47:40):
Let's let's go with uh oh, we'll go a little
bit of different direction. Tree.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Let's go with capture. What Yeah, you got it on
my crew? All right, go ahead there, Dani'll pick a
number one to ten, but not five, please, playing password
the award Game of the Star. Number three. All right, let's
this should be easy. Let's go with I'm gonna do
the mallord maneuver. Crude. I don't know he's he's asking
(48:13):
repeat crude c r U d E crude crude jil
uh tree. Let's go with lubricants. Get your mind out
of the gun.
Speaker 4 (48:33):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
Nothing, all right, Daniel. Let's go with petroleum.
Speaker 8 (48:43):
OI.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Yeah, that's a time. Count that as a win. I
count that next week, I count that as a
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