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Big Ben talks about an exciting Sunday Night Football game with Josh Allen and the Bills coming back from down 15 in the 4Q to defeat the Baltimore Ravens, Aaron Rodgers beating the Jets in his Steelers debut, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!

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some point. But our lead to begin the festivities here
we start with the Sunday Night game and all what
a Sunday night game it was from Western New York.
I don't know if you were tuned in. Supposed to
be a big matchup made for TV. Couple of AFC

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heavyweights here, the Bills and the Race going at it,
scoring up the first Sunday night Island game. You know,
we love our island games, so let's they suck and
then we don't talk about it. But this was a
game worthy of conversation. So I don't know if you're
watching it or not. So the Bills are not as
fun to me. Early in the year, when the weather's
okay to watch a Bills game in Orchard Park, like

(02:20):
it's got to be nasty weather. When the weather's not
that bad. It's like, who cares, It's just not as compelling.
But the weather was fine, and the Bills taking on
the Ravens squaring up, and that was the matchup. And
if you did not watch it, you were burned out
on football. You missed a doozy. You missed a doozy.
So Josh Allen putting the team on his back. There

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he leads the Buffalo football team for three scores, not one,
not two, but three scores in the final four minutes,
and it was capped off by a thirty two yard
field goal by vagabond kicker Matt Prater, who they made
a big deal about the fact that he just joined
the team. That's what kickers do. They're not real players.
They just changed teams all the time. Anyway, Matt Prater

(03:03):
gifted a thirty two yard chip shot field goal as
time expired. Turn out the last the parties over see
you later, that's it, goodbye, And so the Bills rally
from fifteen points down, fifteen points down, and they clipped
the wings of the once proud Ravens say bye bye,

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see you later, alligator there as the Ravens go down
forty one to forty in the season opener, A thriller,
and somebody do a wellness check on Chris Colesworth. I
think he might have had an orgasm in the fourth quarter.
He was so excited. Oh my god, he was so
put your pants up, Chris. It's okay, It's all right, pal. Anyway,
so Buffalo somehow scores what turned out to be sixteen

(03:49):
points in the final three p. Fifty six of the
football game, and it was capped off, as we said,
by the kick by Matt Prater. There but May three
hundred and ninety four totally aurds for Josh Allen and
the Bills offense, click a lick and couple of touchdown throws,
a couple of touchdowns on the ground for Josh Allen

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as the past couple of MVPs in the NFL getting
together there and guys that are in the shadow. Let's
face it, these guys aren't as good as Patrick Mahomes,
but you know they're night fun to watch each other
play one on one. There only they could do something
against the Chiefs in the playoffs, it would be different. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room, we

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talk about losers. We love losers. We live for the losers.
That's where the story is. Especially the Rivens, like the
losers are just more compelling to talk about. They're just
better talk radio. Losers always more compelling than winners one
hundred percent of the time. There the tragedy is more
important than the triumph in a sporting context, and the

(04:58):
heartbreak the common denominator the heartbreak for a great story.
And there's a lot of finger pointing, a lot of
finger pointing going on on the Baltimore side of things,
as it's not very often that you are that incompetent,
it considered a good team, and you play like El

(05:19):
Poopo down the stretch of that game. So let us
discuss the question did the Bills win this game? Outright?
Did they take the game? Or was this in case
where the Ravens lost the game. And so I've got
vending Machine, President Biden, and Global Tour and we will

(05:39):
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make some Buffalo wings, which were invented in Buffalo.
The chicken wing. Yeah yeah, chickens didn't have wings before.
A restaurant in Buffalo, the Anchor Bar, that's right, The
chicken did not have wings until the anchor bar in
Buffalo started serving them. And that's true. I've been to

(06:02):
the anchor bar before that. Chickens did not have wings
all right. So let us discuss The first thought here
is that this was less It was less about Josh
Allen riding in on a white horse with a cape
on to save the day. Josh Allen is here to
save the day. No, this it's about Baltimore lighting their

(06:25):
own house on fire and getting a full, all inclusive
trip on the vomit commet They flat's absolutely right. They
did ride the vomit comment. This was such a bad performance.
When the game was over, the raven fiends were calling
billboard lawyers. You know those billboard lawyers who hurt you
and they will fight for you. Well, they were contacting

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those lawyers I know who hurt me. Number twenty two
in your program, but number zero in clutch time. That
would be the running back for the Ravens, Dereck Henry again,
number twenty in your program. Number zero when it matters
most there for the Ravens. At the end of this game,
Lord hen Lord Henry giveth and Lord Henry taketh away.

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In this game, here one hundred and sixty nine yards
and a couple of touchdowns, and then that monstrosity at
the end of the game there three ten or so
on the clock and bug on the rug, the bug
on the rug right, and that Sunday night game the

(07:30):
Grinch on Christmas Eve. That was Derrick Henry. It'll fumble
on the ground there. And so he wanted a snack.
Derrick Henry's like, hey, it's Sunday night. I want to
have a nice little snack. So he went to the
vending machine and he ended up finding the vending machine
of Doom, and he went up there. He put a
dollar into the vending machine of Doom, and he wanted

(07:52):
a snickers bar. He thought that would be a nice
snack at dice delicious Snickers bar, And so he punched
in the number on the vending machine of Doom, and
for some reason it spit out a butterfinger. And that's
what he did. He'd say, you know, I got a
butter finger, so I'm gonna give a butterfinger performance. There,
boom ball on the ground. That's it. It was a
three to zh six when the play stopped, three oh

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six to go on the clock in that game, bug
on the rug and Ravens recover. And that's the thing
you can't do at the moment. You can't do it
for the Ravens. And the Ravens, make no mistake, they
had this game in the bag. The game was in
the bag. And it bothers me because obviously we know
what happened to Bills won the game, and so what

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ends up happening now is like anytime a team is
down by a couple of scores, the cliche and broadcasting
at Sportscasters College is, well, let's keep talking about remember
that Bill's Ravens game. Yeah, this will not happen again
this season. This is it. This is the one, the
one off for the entire season that a team chokes
as badly and as pathetically as the Baltimore Ravens did

(09:00):
in this game. And then that is a flat out
choke job by the Ravens. There. Derrick Henry was the
if you look around here, all the Ravens had to do.
I mentioned games in the back. All the Ravens had
to do was stroll down the monopoly board and pass
go collect two hundred dollars and a nice victory and
call it a night. That's it. Go back to Baltimore

(09:21):
and hang out with sports with Coleman. But what do
they do there? No, Instead, they landed on go directly
to jail, Go right to jail, Do not pass, go,
do not collect squat you get nothing. And Derrick Henry,
the prison warden there handing, handing them the orange jumpsuit, saying,
here you go, boys. It's a nice, big juicy L

(09:43):
right there, nice big, delicious L. And so now there
will be Some's not his fault. He put up great numbers.
But okay, these are bad people. These are evil people.
The people that believe that they're fantasy nerve there losers
we need. It's like a disease. We need to cut
the disease out people that believe that because listen, forget

(10:05):
the snut sheet. I'm not playing fantasy football, all right,
forget the game plan, forget all that other stuff. Here.
This was about the E word execution, and they failed.
Most games are lost, not one. Most games are lost,
not one. This is a great example. This is a
humiliation situation, is what it was. I mean the Ravens fans,

(10:28):
they got served, and they got served some bad open
mic poetry is what they got, roses are red, violets
are blue, and I can hold on to a football
better than number twenty two. Yeah, wow, tell me I'm wrong. No,
that was pretty bad. Listen. This was not somehow Buffalo

(10:52):
going Rocky Balboa. I don't want to hear that. I'm
sure that's already been written somewhere, but that's not my
position on this. This was ball more face planting, like
the iconic George Costanza back in the day running out
of the kid's birthday party fire drill, just about having
a melt down there and the bills there. Essentially, this

(11:12):
win is like, hey, I found a twenty dollar bill.
I found a nice twenty dollar bill blowing down the street,
and yeah, you know you take it. Yeah, maybe you
go out and buy some food with it, and you haven't.
I don't think you can buy a full lunch with
that anymore twenty dollars. But you put the money down,
you buy a little food, and that's it. But you

(11:33):
didn't earn it. You know, you found it, you didn't
necessarily earn it, per se. And so the w does
go to Buffalo, congratulations on that, and the scar tissue
goes to the Baltimore football team and l butterfinger wrapper
to Derek Henry. Let's hear from the head coach of
the Ravens one, John Harbaugh. John, your team just rode

(11:56):
the vomit comet. What do you have to say for yourself,
Coach Haarbaugh?

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Or just pointing, We're just gonna have to regroup and
get ready to go play a long season. We've got
sixteen games in front of us. It's a good football team,
tough environment. Obviously, we did many good things, but we
didn't play well at the end. Two big situations. The
fourth down play, I mean, that's kind of a play
that you don't really expect to happen. I mean, it
was pretty pretty lucky play, but they made it between

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the scrambles. Josh Allen played a great game obviously, especially
at the end on the fourth quarter to make those plays.
Scrambled plays, extended extended completions, and then a couple of
big pass plays. So that's it. We're disappointed, but we'll
be fine.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Play like that, you might not have sixteen more games
to play. Holy crap, all right now, aside from Derrick
Henry and his putting the bug on the rug and
that that was a trend around the NFL. I think
there's a certain Houston Texans player we can thank for
that as well. Anyway, aside from Derrick Henry, who else

(12:59):
ends up? Who else ends up eating a piece of
the Baltimore Blame crabcakes. Henry's clearly got half the crabcake.
He's got like the majority of the crab cakes and
all that stuff. But you gotta hand Lamar Jackson a fork.
You gotta hand Lamar Jackson the fourth Lamar gets a
doggie bag as well. Oh he's a former MVP. What

(13:20):
are you talking about? You didn't watch the game? Ban
a shut up Lamar Jackson as guilty as anybody of
taking his foot off the gas as well. That's John
Harbaugh's strategy to just let up in the fourth quarter
of the game was over and all that. They let
up on the gas too soon. Though, they let up
on the gas too soon, that's the issue here. For
three quarters, the Ravens as a team were a well

(13:43):
filtered Instagram booty model. I mean, they had a lot
going on looking good, right, and then in the fourth
quarter that's when it all went to hell. Right. The
Henry fumble was brutal, but they roll around there and
Lamar Jackson, did he finish the game properly? Let's see here,
Let's go to the eyeball test and the stats. The
eyeball test said no. The stats say no as well.

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He put on cruise control like he was driving Miss
Daisy in the fourth quarter there, and turns out that
bit him. Fifteen yards passing in the fourth quarter for
Lamar Jackson and a fifty nine passer rating. It was
kind of like he was playing Madden but demo mode.
It was like the demo mode on Madden. He ever
done that? Yeah, it's not good, and he just kind

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of gave the controller back. Now. Meanwhile, Josh Allen in
the fourth quarter was doing the electric boogaloo. He was
doing the electric slide there for the Ravens right into
the end zone. And let's also not not forget here,
since we're playing the blame game, let's not forget the
Baltimore defense. Let's not take them off the hook here.
The Baltimore defense was ooey gooey and then went kabbouie.

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They just went kubed blue kab blue kablue. At the
end of that game, they gave up two hundred and
sixty four yards and twenty two points in the fourth quarter.
Tell me you saw defense without telling me the second events.
Didn't they spend a bunch of money on defensive players,
improving the secondary in Baltimore? Wasn't I told that? Where
was that? Oh? I guess they'll play well against the
Cleveland Browns, though they'll do very well against the Cleveland Brons.

(15:12):
That's good. Okay, So they'll play well against them. That's good,
all right. Against the Bills, not so much. That was
not defense that the team from Baltimore played. That was
an open borders policy, is what that was. And somewhere
former President Biden is very proud of the way the
Buffalo Bills approached that, and the Ravens defensively approached that
because it was like, come on, fellas, come on in here,

(15:35):
take the end zone, take yourselves, make yourselves at home,
settle right in. The Ravens opening the door here, no
resistance at all, borderless end zone for the Baltimore Ravens.
Tremendous here, and the secondary wide open. Kind of like
when you get to Costco if you get there early
before the rush on a Saturday and there's Costco samples

(15:57):
and if you get there early enough before the rush boom,
you're in as many samples as you wants. Way to go, man,
And we heard the salway from John Harball, the Ravens
head coach. Here he was just standing there. It appeared
based on my television I was watching the game, and
what I saw was John Harbaugh standing there. He had
his headset and a guy he was trying to return

(16:20):
something like a TV or something that was broken. He's
getting no answers from the desk. And that was it.
And so there you go. And there'll be people said, well,
you just don't you don't know ball, but Lamar Jackson
had a great stat line and all that, just like
Derrick Henry. And of course my response is always whoopie
damn doo. That's my response on that. And games generally

(16:42):
are decided in the fourth quarter. That game should not
have been decided in the fourth quarter. You have a
fifteen point lead, you should be very comfortable. They were
not very comfortable in that position. You should have been
very comfortable there in that position. So down the stretch
it was a game we call crazy eights or in
this case crazy eight as Derrick Henry, Yeah, Derek Henry

(17:02):
holding he was already holding the scarlet letter card. And
then Lamar he drew another eight, and the defense for
the Ravens they were playing and they struck with the draw.
Four game over is what they had there. So hand,
everyone at the table, everyone gets a crab cake and
they all stink. And we talk about absolutely setting the tone,

(17:25):
and they set the tone. They all blew it. Henry Lamar,
Henry the most Lamar, and that defense defense could have
picked up the slack that was, who's at your dinner
table right there eating crabcakes? The blame crabcakes now quick right,
all right? Last word here? So how encouraging? We'll go
to the winners locker room. How encouraging is this performance
and victory for Josh Allen and the Buffalo football team.

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A team that's been lurking around in contender status, but
a Fox contender. They find new and creative ways to
choke in big games. So this is not a big game.
It's a regular season game. And how big could it be?
It's I mean, we're sitting here talking in September. The
season will go all the way through end of December
and then January the playoffs in February, the Super Bowl

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and all that. So how encouraging. This is the daily double.
It is the daily double. Here you get the one
to oh record for the Bills. Check that box. So
you're one to zero and you have more importantly, the
game in hand, the head to head, assuming that the
Ravens don't completely fall off the map this year, you

(18:31):
have the hand in hand with the Ravens AFC bragging
rights if it comes down to Buffalo and Baltimore at
the end of the year. And Buffalo, to their credit,
played until the final whistle, unlike the Ravens who had
the lead and gave up. And that is a gutless
performance at the end of that game by the Baltimore evens,
the Bills, to their credit, did not play like that.
They went right until the end. But I would not

(18:53):
get too excited though, if I'm a Buffalo Bill fin
based on this win, because you were getting your ask
for the vast majority of that game and a fluky
thing does not change the fact that for the balance
of that game you could not match up with the
Baltimore Ravens offensively. The Ravens lost this game because of

(19:13):
more self inflicted wounds. It wasn't anything the Buffalo Bills did.
It was what the Ravens did to cost themselves this game.
Baltimore had been manhandling, absolutely manhandling the Bills dollar general defense.
In this game, Ravens scored on seven of the first
eight possessions, seven of them including not one, not two,
three to nine, four, but five touchdowns. So Buffalo's defense

(19:38):
ready to go on a global tour as a matador.
Holy holy yeah, bullfighting baby. In this case, they actually
won though Ravens averaged eight point six yards per play
and lost. How do you do that? They averaged nine
point two yards per pass, eight point two yards per
run and still lost the game. Now, in a positive note,

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the Bills have some time to work out their defensive frailties.
They have the hostess schedule coming up. They play the Jets,
that's pretty much a guaranteed win. They play the Dolphins,
and then they also play the Saints. Those last two
games at home, two of what figured to be the
worst teams in the NFL this year, the Dolphins and
the Saints. That's Cupcake City.

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That is where the traveling circus of the Pets, Steelers

(23:01):
the Yinsers made their way to the Garden State Board.
What a long trip unless it's not playdate with the
Jet Suck Suck suck, So they went at it out.
If you saw this game or not, if you were
watching this game, the Steelers quarterback Aaron Rogers had not one,
not two, not three, but four touchdown passes. I didn't

(23:24):
play in the NFL, so I know Ryan Clark probably
doesn't value my opinion, but I think that's actually pretty good.
I think that's pretty good. Four touchdown passes as he
beats his former team. Now, following the win, Aaron Rodgers now,
he said it was satisfying to beat the Jets. He
was asked specifically about the coach, Aaron Glenn, who apparently

(23:46):
treated him like a douche and rather lean me just
read the quote, why don't we go to Aaron Rodgers himself.
Here's Aaron Rodgers reacting on how sweet it is to
beat your former team mytory. All right, apparently we don't
have that. Well, Rogers said, I was happy to beat
everybody associated with the Jets. He did not specifically name Aaron.

(24:09):
Glenn In said SoundBite which I thought we had, but
we don't. So let us discuss the question can you decode?
Can you decode this message from Aaron Rodgers on beating
everybody associated with the Jets. He wouldn't just specifically name names.
He just said a wide with a wide rush, beating

(24:29):
everybody associated with Jets. My observations, I've got Hawkeye, Caprice, Sons,
and Ikea, and we will combine all of these things
together and we're gonna make you're Babushka's favorite falafel is
what we're going to make. So number one, so this
one is rather straightforward, rather straightforward. So Aaron Rodgers, he

(24:50):
decided to serve up a cuisine. It was a revenge
cuisine for the world to see you. Of course, whoever
had won this game, the story would have been, that's
the story. But Rogers did not just burn the bridge.
At his age, he ain't gonna be trying to get
a job from the Jets again. He wants nothing to

(25:11):
do with the only Jets he wants are the ones
at the airport. He wants nothing to do with the
football Jets. So Rogers is fine burning that bridge, burn
baby burn right, Nate bombed and paved it over and
built the raising canes on top of it. Is what
he did with the Jets and the jets itis and
all that stuff, the Jets and and so Rogers took

(25:32):
his old team, the team that wears green there, and
he took them down to Baskin Robbins and he handed
them thirty one flavors, thirty one flavors of humiliation. Unable
to stop a forty plus year old ayahuasca drinking Joe
Rogan podcast, Buddy Quarterback, What uh that is a payback attack,

(25:55):
is what that is? That's the flavor payback attack. So
the Jets ordered a scoop of pride. We want pride.
It's all about the pride and all that. And Aaron
Rodgers gave them instead of a little rocky road. He said,
you're gonna have a little rocky road. And you got
your just desserts is what you got. You got you
just deserts there. Now Rogers is forty one. But against

(26:19):
the Jets. This was a hot tub time machine game.
He went back and you know, maybe not hot top
time machine. Howbought back to the future Doc Brown. Maybe
Doc Brown was there somewhere, and he got right into
the DeLorean and went back to what twenty eight age
twenty eight Aaron Rodgers twenty nine, somewhere around there in
Green Bay. It was vintage Aaron Rodgers. Back in his

(26:41):
days at lambeau Field, MVP level quarterback play did not
have a gazillion passing yards. However, he was here's a
dated reference. Hawkeye Piers. There used to be show called
mash It's on reruns if there are such a thing.
But this guy, Hawkeye Piers a surgeon and he had
not a football. He had a scalp scalpel in his hands,

(27:03):
and he surgically sliced up the Jets in the red zone.
These Steelers were three for three, three trips inside. The
twenty three touchdowns for the team from Pittsburgh was clean.
It was precise, no wasted motion there. And Aaron Rodgers
treating Aaron Glenn. Treating Aaron Glenn. He's so called. Remember

(27:24):
he was the defensive coach. He was not the offensive coach.
He was the defensive coach of the Lions. So you
got a defensive guy, you figure, all right, we're gonna
be able to slow down Rogers a little bit. He's old,
he's washed up. Aaron Glenn wanted nothing to do with
Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Glenn determined, for better or worse, that
Aaron Rodgers had cooties, he had the ick factor. Wanted

(27:47):
nothing to do with and he took another suckbag quarterback instead.
But he's younger, so younger suck over older suck That's
the Jets mantra. We'd rather have younger suck bag than
old suck bag. They went younger suck back, and then
to watch that happen and Aaron Glenn and that Jets defense,
they it was like working at a sub shop somewhere

(28:10):
and it's closing time and you're out of bread and
people are coming in there. Well, I don't have any
bra I can't make you a sandwich. I don't have
any bread. There's no bread now, Pittsburgh. They didn't need
the gaudy stats because if you look at the overall
offensive stets, if you're just a stat humper, oh it
wasn't that impressed. So he's scoring a lot of points,
but they didn't have the stats. Okay, I can't help you.

(28:35):
I can't help you. The Jets thought they were done
with Aaron Rodgers obviously on this day on Sunday, they
were not done with Aaron Rodgers. There. They thought they
had moved on. Instead, they got reminded that you do
not you do not break up with Aaron Rodgers. Aaron
Rodgers breaks up with you, and that's over with. He
punked them. There's no other way to say it. And

(28:58):
he said, well, if this guy had cut that, yes,
it would have been different. Okay, I know, and we
can make the old joke about twigs and berries all
you want and all that stuff, but listen, he was
terrible when he played for the Jets. He no longer
plays with the Jets, and all of a sudden, Aaron
Rodgers is back back in the catbird seat yet again,
at least for a week now. Whether that continues or not,

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who knows. Rogers delivered the sweet taste of revenge, the
flavor of revenge there, and it was a double double
scoop Sunday with little sprinkles on top. There they had
the sprinkles and it was only green sprinkles. Though it's
very odd that he only put green sprinkles out there.
And that was it. Now the other part of this

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to the Jets and the Jets side of things. So
he had quarterback Justin Fields, and he went viral for
something he said after the game. Justin Fields stood up
there at the Dais the podium after the game, and
Field's had a good stat line. So if you played
fantasy football, you're probably pretty excited about that. You don't

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care about who wins and loses. You're a loser and
so you don't care about that. So anyway, Justin Fields
went out there and he stood up at the podium
after the game. He kind of pumped his chest out
a little bit, had good stats, just lost the game.
Talked about how his former team, the Steelers, had added
a couple of future Hall of famers to their roster

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on defense, and yet the Jets put up thirty two
points from Justin Fields. He said, did He was going
on and on about it. He was very proud of
the fact that they scored a lot of points. He
did the whole you didn't think we could do it,
which is both quarterbacks because Aaron Rodgers said something similar
Aaron Rodgers, Well, people thought I couldn't do this anymore. Well,
the same thing goes, the same thing goes for Justin Field.

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Justin Fields is like, hey, listen, you didn't think we
could do this. There is a bit of a difference
on this which is rather obvious. So does this performance
a statistically solid game passing the football. We've been very
behind these microphones about Justin Fields and his ineptitude at
throwing the football. We've been right. He was good in

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this game throwing the football. So does this count as
a breakthrough performance for Justin Fields? His first start as
a jet So I am shaking my head no on this.
I'm going no on this. Uh So, I would like
at some point, I know we're early on and we've
got a lot of football to go, but I would

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like to at some point when I become king of
the world, convince people, convince people that this means nothing,
because it does. But it's called an impressive loss, is
what it is, right, That's what it wassive. It was
an impressive loss, and it doesn't exist where you or

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you've turned things around statistically because you had good stats,
but you lost the game and they don't. And maybe
they'll change this. I think the way society is going,
eventually we'll get to that point where they just hand
out orange slices and you get a caprice son and
it's like eighth grade and everybody gets a trophy and
a little star, little puffy sticker near their name, and

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it's very exciting. Right now, they don't do that, maybe
they will be wonderful. They don't do that right now.
So they don't give you a medal or an atta
boy for trying. They don't, and you don't get a
pat on the head for putting up a lot of
points but your team lost. Okay, that's justin Fields. So
the NFL, generally speaking, is a zero sum game. One

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team is going to have a nice steak dinner and
the other team will be licking crumbs off the plate.
And that's kind of how that goes there. But Fields
has an amazing ability and I will give him credit
for this. So on a day where Justin Field's put
up statistically his finest performance as an NFL quarterback, and

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yet he goes out there he just oozes with confidence,
even though he is one of the more average to
below average quarterbacks in his time in the NFL. But
he does not realize that. He's apparently obtuse to the
fact that he is that. And so this was cringeworthy
is a word I will use here, Like the jumbo

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tron does not lie atop the stadium. There, the scoreboard,
the stats are for losers, all that mantra and all
that stuff. But when the other teams celebrating at the
end of the game and they're running into the tunnel
because they've won the game, and you're standing at the
podium and you're talking about essentially moral victories, That's what

(33:38):
it sounded like, based on what I heard. That is
the definition of a loser. DNA is what that is.
You are announcing to the world without announcing to the world,
you're a loser, is what you're doing. And so that's
what Justin Field chose to do. I didn't tell him
to do that. I don't think you told him to
do that. He chose to do that. I don't he
chose to take a victory lab But you guys didn't

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think we could do this or don't but you lost
the game. You literally went out there and Fields is
bragging like he ran a marathon, but he actually ubered
the last ten miles to get to the finish line.
Here it's at fumble Ruskie, Fumbo Ruski on the talkie
for for justin fields there. So you either win or

(34:22):
if you don't win, you're the other guy. That and
that's it. And so you're the other guy here on
state sponsored NFL network highlights. They lumped them all in
there and the highlight montage and you're you're somewhere in there,
and that's that's that. That's that all right. Now, final

(34:43):
part of this. We now go to Miami, Miami, Miami,
and it turns out reports of the demise and the
Miami Dolphins were not inaccurate. Holy crap, do they suck?
Did you see this? No? How low can you go?
Miami Dolphin foot they are garbage. They are Holy moly.

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Had all off season to get ready, right, they decided,
I don't want to get rid of Tyreek Hill. We want
to keep Tyreek Hill. We want to keep the band together.
So the Miami Dolphins went out there and they were
turned into sushi by the Indianapolis Colts. There's no other
way to say it. Here. It was a blowout, never
in the game, never competitive in the game. So how

(35:26):
are things looking? How are things looking for? Dolphins coach
Mike McDaniel. All right, at this point, Mike McDaniel, So
what we witness now? I was flipping. I had the rotation.
Since the Red Zone decided to add commercials, I'm done.
Not that I really watched it anyway. I was kind
of made my own red zone thing. Anyway, It's better
that way. It keeps you active. Your right hand gets

(35:49):
a workout when you're using the remote control, flipping from
game to game because you got to have I got
my laptop. Some people use their phones, but you got
to look at the scores. He was in the red zone?
Who's driving? And then you can flip from game to
game to game to game to game. But as far
as how are things looking for Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel,
what we witnessed was the Dolphin franchise, all of them.

(36:12):
They were stripped down to their skivvies and then they
for the whole football world, they were pants. Everyone saw
their under rus everyone saw it right there. And Indie
did not just beat Miami. And it's not like the
Colts are supposed to be a good team. But Inny
did not just beat Miami. They emasculated Miami in this game.
It was never in the game and it was essentially

(36:33):
the Dolphin team that showed up. It was like sending
a shitsu to fight a pit bull. Now we know
how that's gonna end up, and the shitsu's a nice
appetizer for the pit bull, a blood bath. And the
numbers back up what appeared to be going on here,
what appeared to be going on. The Colts racked up

(36:55):
four hundred and eighteen yards, four hundred and eighteen yards
of offense. They doubled, They just about doubled the Dolphins
in every way. Miami had two hundred and eleven yards
of offense, twenty seven first downs to twelve first downs,
And it read not like a box score. It was
like an obituary. For one game season, Miami has been

(37:19):
eliminated from playoff consideration. See you later, turn out the last.
The party's over for the Miami Dolphins. There Mike McDaniel,
who's already been sitting on a hot seat. Mike McDaniel, Right,
he's already been on a hot seat, McDaniel, And with
everything's been going on around him and whatnot, and so
he's got a lot of carry on baggage, a lot

(37:40):
of carry on baggage, kind of like a comedian bombing
on stage. And it's like the first two minutes, but
you got a fifteen minute set, you haven't even gotten
your first punch line. That's essentially Mike McDaniel with the
Miami Dolphins and now Miami. They went out and they
validated the Miami Dolphins. That was a valid situation. The

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Dolphins validated every doomsday, every doomsday prophecy, like they were
reading from the book of Nostradamus. And maybe they've met
the friend. You know, I'm a friend of No Stredenis.
Of course, maybe they've met No streudenas he lives in Seattle.
But this was an indie domination situation, plain and simple.
And that's it. Not that complex. The Dolphins effort, that's

(38:25):
the thing. That was a piece meal effort. That was
a team that looked like they thought they had something
else they wanted to do, but they had to work
and they didn't really want to work, and it was
like it was a Sunday and they didn't want to
work on Sunday. But your football player as supposed to
work on Sunday, but I don't want to work on
Sunday if something else I want to do. But your
job is to literally work on Sunday. But I don't
want to do that. And that's how they played, right,
That's how they played. And Tua Tua suckamalala wow coughed

(38:49):
up a hairball big enough, big enough to clog the
toilets at the Dolphins Stadium. That's how big the hairball
was that he coughed up in this game. Man, not
one but two picks. Now one was at the end
of the game there, but also a fumble gifting the
Colts seventeen points. Seventeen points directly off klutz plays by

(39:11):
Tua Tongue Bailoa. And the word is nutnick, What a
nut nick? And meanwhile, the defense, what defense supposed to
be a sturdy backbone for the Miami football team. They
allowed Danny Dimes. We'll talk more about him later, but
Danny Dimes to carve them up like a hibachi chef.

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Just chop chop chop, chop, chop, chop, chop chop chop.
Jumpt Man and Daniel Freakin Jones You've gotta be kidding me.
What is that? He doesn't even play with the lowest
level of Madden. He still blows on. And he went
out against the Miami Dolphins, plasably a real football team,
and shoved it down their dolphin beak, is what he did. Man,

(39:58):
looks like Andrew Luck out there. Maybe he'll quit like
Andrew Luck quit a couple of years back. But it's
a total malfunction by the Miami Dolphins defensively. And it
was kind of like you build something like you go
to Ikea and you buy a bookshelf from Ikea, and
you get the thing up, you put books on it,
and then after a few minutes you thing starts falling

(40:21):
apart because you skip a screw and the whole thing
comes tumbling down here. And by the fourth quarter of
the whole roof had collapsed on the Miami Dolphins, and
they were they were swimming with the dolphins, which is
generally not not what you're looking to do there, and
they were drowning. They were being anchored to the bottom there.
And Mike McDaniel, it's never too early, Mike. It's always

(40:43):
easier to find your next job while you have your
current job. So I may I recommend polishing up the
old resume, embellishing the resume you want might want to
leave this out of the resume and go down find
a hipster coffee shop. Could you see Mike McDaniel being
as like a barista at a coffe shop or working
a morning show at NPR, all snotty and the elitist

(41:05):
at an NPR morning show. I could totally see that, right,
and he'd likely be better. Give him some oat milk
and give himim a microphone and there you go.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
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Speaker 1 (41:19):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Get Smeller.
How about that?

Speaker 2 (41:22):
To the third degree, this is one big event.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Gets grilled all right? Coop Helloop coop a loop.

Speaker 5 (41:32):
So the Longhorns had a blowout win over San Jose
State on Saturday, Arch Many, had nearly three hundred passing
yards and four total touchdowns. Do you think Texas fans
can breathe a sigh of relief?

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yes, because there are rumors that the SEC is going
to add the Spartans of San Jose State to the Conference.
So There's really nothing to worry about because Texas will
play San Jose State every single year in the Southeastern Conference.
Nothing to worry about there. Now, of course that was
a money game. It the USC played Georgia Southern or
something like that. I don't even know where that. I

(42:04):
know it's in Georgia, but I've never heard last school.
This is the period of time teams play Tomato cans.
So we've determined that arch manning against a crappy opponent
is pretty good. Against a good opponent, He's pretty crappy.
Next until proven otherwise. That's the way it is. Next.

Speaker 5 (42:21):
It was announced over the weekend that Jalen Carter will
not be suspended for spitting on Dak Prescott.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Benny think that's the right decision. Well, it's disgusting to
spit a nice juicy loogie on another human being. You
should not do that. A fine is fine. Now if
he keeps doing it, like maybe that guy in the
Boston Bruins that was licking people's faces, he said, then
he start suspending something. But yeah, one time, I'm okay,
not him not getting suspended. Next.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
Cal Rawley is now at fifty three home rounds on
the season the Big Dumper, and it has people wondering
if Aaron judges Ale single season record of sixty two
is in jeopardy.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Oh, man, do you think he can get there? Ben?
Well can't? The math, Yes, he can get there. He'd
have to have an amazing ten days or so, because
there's only a few weeks in the baseball It's like
three weeks or whatever in the regular season. In baseball,
it's it's almost over. It's almost all gone. So he'd
really have to crank it up. So I'm gonna say, no,
the math, he can. I'm gonna bet against cal Raley. However,

(43:16):
even with that low batting average, he's right there neck
and neck for the MVB. How did we know he passes?
I won the game, hollering, James, I won.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
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Speaker 1 (43:42):
Who here was you talking to? Sons here some incident advice?
Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds, and if you don't like it and
away we go the incent advice on who needs our advice?
And I could give advice to the Baltimore Ravens who
gagged as sixteen point lead or fifteen point lead they're
late in the game to the Baltimore or Baltimore losing

(44:06):
to the Bills. But instead I'm gonna go with Miami Dolphins.
The Dolphins playing a mid level Indianapolis Colts team somehow
ended up falling behind thirty to nothing to the Indianapolis
Colts and Daniel Jones and the Colts ended up doubling
about the yardage total of the Miami Dolphins. A total

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no show by the Miami football team. So advice to
the Miami Dolphins. You're on the air when you hear
my voice. We'll start out with you on line one
at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Hello, line one, what's.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Worse getting swept by the Pirates? Are losing no hitter
in the ninth ending only to lose the game four
to three.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
I don't know, you'd have to talk to the Dodgers.
Let's go a line too. You're on the airline too. Hello, Fine,
all right, that's a move on from that caller. You're
on the air. Hello, caller, you're on the advice please
to the Miami Dolphins. Okay, change diaper's good advice. Hello
a line number four. Hello, line four, go in time, drive.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
On parkways and park on driveways.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
How you figure it makes no sense? I understand. That's
Rick and Maryland. Hello, call you on the air. It's
the instant advice line for the Miami Dolphins.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Hello, go okay, thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
That sounded like a dolphin.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
Line six, you're on the air. We're giving advice to
the Miami Dolphins. Hello line Hey.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Man, this is benbo Bruce do Dave Smith. I don't
think he shun.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
You'll get that reference if you listen to the Fifth
Hour podcast from from Friday. Line number one, Hello, line one,
to solve the problem. Yeah, that's right, Ull. That's Sean
the hood guy. Hey, listen to Aaron Rodgers. Didn't look
so bad. Hello, call you. You're on the air. Collar Hello,
go all right. I don't know what that was. Line three, Hello,

(45:53):
line three amount either boys room. Oh that sounds like
that didn't not go well for that, gentleman. Line four.
You're on the airline for Hello. David Vasse has watched
more gay porn than Hitler. All right, all right, lie. Lineup.
Line five. Hello, Line five. Hey, it's Pat Junior.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
I'm an Eagles fan.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
I'm trying to win my wife back. Okay, calm down.
Line six. Hello, line six, you're on the air Line six.
Go Do you think you could ever say Aaron Rodgers
without saying.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (46:27):
I can't one more? One more? Hurry up, peg pegge
Carlin for line four. You're on the air line four.
Go oh, Line four. You weren't fast enough. Line four.