October 22, 2025 • 48 mins
Big Ben talks about Jets owner Woody Johnson saying Justin Fields has been bad, the Raiders saying they have no interest in trading Maxx Crosby, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, and more!
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So we're back at it here in our lead this
hour from New Jersey. We have some serious meat on
the bone on the bout when it comes to Gang Green.
I love this story. Now there are days you walk
into the radio station and you're like, I don't know
about that one. This is not one of those days.
This is great. This is a finger licking good is
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what it is. So the owner of the NFL team
in New York that somehow, being in New York still
can't win. This is so good. I help you. Maybe
you heard about maybe not so. Woody Johnson speaking at
some NFL like owners get together there, he showed support
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for the embattled head coach who's drowning every week. Aaron
Glenn doesn't appear to know what the hell he's doing
as coach in the NFL. The Jets are all in seven.
But there was a vote of confidence for Aaron Glenn
from Woody Johnson. However, however, in doing so, what do
you think happened? That's right, dan Na nay name Woody
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Johnson decided to throw his starting quarterback under the team
bus of the Jets. And it was magical. It was glorious,
and we've got the audio tape. Listen to Woody Johnson.
This is an owner of a multi billion dollar NFL
franchise unloading while defending his coach, unloading on his starting quarterback.
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Tagle is it looks like he's turning around parts of it.
You know, it's hard when you have a quarterback with
you know, with a rating that we've got, you know,
I mean, he has the ability, but something just is
not jiving. But if you any any head coach of
a quarterback like that, you're going to see similar results
if you will across the league. You have to play
consistently at that position, and that's what we're going to
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try to do. Hope we can just complete a pass.
It would look good. You got to complete some patty.
You got to convince him that you can do something. Oh,
it's so great. Something is not jiping. So great? All right,
Let us discuss where are the Justin Fields truthers out there?
Then he justin Fooh yeah, we talk about this guy
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a lot because he's a quarterback. We talked football, and
for years I would do monologues unloading on Justin Fields,
and I would have some Dingleberry who you just don't
know what you're talking about? Yeah, that whole thing. So
that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
question did Jets owner Woody Johnson cross the line? Did
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he cross over the rubicon with his criticism of quarterback
Justin Fields. So on this one, I've got Kowala, Lion King,
and cool Mint, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to have a pajama party,
is what we're going to have. So a Woody Johnson.
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I love the fact that he didn't pull any punches.
Of course, he happens to be the owner that signed
off on paying Justin Fields. Hello, you were a mirror
on the wall. Who's the dumbest of them all? Uh? Yeah?
So I love that in defending the coach who doesn't
appear to know what he's doing, he used Justin Fields
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as a punching bag. Buddy, blow, body blow, body blow,
if he can just complete a pass. One of the
great lines ever said in my time and talk radio
by an owner about his quarterback. Imagine it's we're heading
into week eight in the NFL and the owners like,
if our quarterback could just complete a pass? Where you
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at Justin Fields? Truthers, who are you gonna blame now?
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Right?
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You blame the Bears, bad coaching in Chicago, went to Pittsburgh,
good coaching didn't work out. Now you're in New York.
What are you gonna blame the coach again? What's the
move here? Let me go to the bag of excuses
for Justin Fields. That is so great. If that is
not a billboard from Woody Johnson saying I hate my quarterback.
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Quarterback blows. I don't know what is. I do not
know what else that is. It's shocking because it's so abnormal.
And I've complained about this in ninety nine percent of
the time. We come in here and we all see
something that's rather obvious and we get gas you know,
people gaslight us and they're like, oh, let me tell
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you something. You're you're wrong, what you're it's ridiculous, And
so it's unusual which stands out. It's man bites dog.
It's that kind of thing, and it's not wrong though,
it's not wrong at all. Justin Fields has been a
sixteen car pile up on the interstate. And when you
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watch the Jets play and not a Jets fan, I
know there's a guy in here earlier is a Jets fan, Jason.
You watch the Jets play and you're not a fan,
you're a rubbernecker. It's like and even like the we're
all lookie loser, like, well that's man, that's a really
bad accident. Oh my god, Oh my goodness. I mean,
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how many ambulances is gonna get a helicopter out here
and pick the people back to the hospital? How bad
is it? Justin Fields is the thirtieth ranked passer in
the NFL. There are thirty two teams that again I
didn't play in the NFL. I don't think that's particularly good.
Oh you're being too mean. What else? A tied for
second most sacks in the league. Because he moves. Here's
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the problem with Justin Fields, and we figured this out
right away with the Bears. He moves like a koala
bear who's clinging to a eucalyptus tree and just eating
a nice meal. And that's justin fields. Unfortunately, when you
watch the NFL game in particular, it's read and react.
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It's hot potato. It's get the ball, get rid of
the ball quickly, right you find the open player, get
rid of the ball. Boom. He's like, all right, I'm
gonna read the defense and then I'm gonna take a
nice nap. I'm gonna have a nice nap, is what
I'm going to do. He's got four passing touchdowns. We're
almost into week eight in the NFL. He's got four
passing touchdoes. That's not just bad, this is unwatchable. And
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I loved again, Woody Johnson, Woody Woodpecker loved his honesty there.
That's the naked truth. It just is. And most people
that are like, oh, every time the Jets get it. Course,
I was just talking to something in the hallway about
the way every time the Jets changed quarterbacks, it's like, oh,
this is the guy. Oh we got the guy, We
got the guy. Uh yeah. If you want a guy
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to be in the cockpit of the vomit comet, you've
got the guy. And if it looks like trash, smells
like trash, plays like trash, probably trash, probably trash. So
the Jets have been running a dumb down, caveman offense
to try to prop up Justin Fields, and it's still
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not working. So you run a rudimentary offense, it's still
not working. And so yeah, wood he basically said what
everyone who's watched Justin Fields play quarterback already know. He
did have like one good game against Pittsburgh. They still lost.
You've got the rookie head coach, Aaron Glenn who's winless.
You've got Woody praising him like he's Vince Lombardi. Lombardi
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would have lost, Bill Walsh, Belichick, all these guys would
have lost. And first Glenn. Again, Glenn hasn't been an
Aaron Glenn has not been any better than Justin Fields.
It's just that Woody Johnson likes him because Aaron Glenn
played so long ago that he actually was on some
Jets teams that were halfway decent. Now, as for the
future free agents that are gonna come to the Jets,
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this idea, Wow, no one's gonna want to play for
the Jets now because Woody Johnson threw his quarterback under
the team bus. Please please, it's come on. Are you
really that naive? Are you that gullible? Don't don't do that.
You offer the most money, you get the player. It's
not that hard. You offer the money, you get the player.
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And Woody Johnson got a little spicy at a presser.
Oh my god, Oh my god. Money always talks. And
the guys that do want to play in New York,
it's great. You don't have to worry about having to
work extra and going to the playoffs and all that.
You play for the Jets of the Giants, and you
don't just don't worry about it. You're good. You don't
have to play football after the season ends in January.
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You have to worry about playing football in the late
January and February. And that's it. And the Jets. I
figured it out when I was driving in here. I
figured out that the Jets might as well be part
of the Marvel cinematic universe. It's very simple. Like they
make these Marvel movies now, they don't even care about
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the quality. They all suck, right. It's the same storylines
we've all seen, just repackaged here. It's just different actors.
The Jets. It's the same suck. But it's just they
changed the players and that's it. And the costumes are
still the same. That they play the Yeah, the cosplay
on the field and all that's still the same. Different
actors now outside of Justin Fields. Turning the page though,
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another spicy hot comment from Woody Johnson. He was on
fight this guy, get a sports talk radio show at
the Fan in New York. Get Woody Johnson a job
there in here. So the Jets owner also was asked
whether or not he had any second thoughts the fact
that the Jets had Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers wanted to stay there,
was treated rather rudely by Aaron Glenn, who thought he
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was better than everyone else and handpicked Justin Fields as
his quarterback. And now Aaron Rodgers is a top ten
quarterback in Pittsburgh and the Steelers have a good record,
and so Woody Johnson was asked about that. He's had
to quote, I have no regrets, he said, he said,
I never look back. You have to look forward in football,
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and even when you cut players, they could be a
Hall of famer. You just never know, he said. But
Aaron's playing great now He's in a situation that's working
for him. Close quote. All right, So question on this one.
What does this say about Woody Johnson's ownership of the Jets.
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He's like, not even a little, like, maybe we should
have kept that guy. He's better than the guy we picked.
Maybe he should have kept him. So this is the
never admit you're wrong strategy by Woody Johnson, very popular,
and the never look back mantra is exactly why the
Jets continue continue to step on the same rake like
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a vaudevillian comedy. And they've been doing that every decade
of my life. It's fascinating. It's a complete encompetence. And
I would recommend that the Jets study the Lion King.
I learned as a as a young lad watching The
Lion King Rafiki taught me that the past can hurt,
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but you can either run from it or learn from it.
The Jets have chosen that they never want to look back,
and they have chosen to keep flying and go full
throttle the other direction right into the tornado, right into
the tornado, which they don't recommend, and thus is the problem.
So you're supposed to learn from your mistakes. I'm supposed
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to learn from your mistakes and not just powerwash over
them and just scrub a dub dub and use some
kind of word salad, some corporate word salad thing, and
it's just living in the Bermuda triangle. For quarterbacks. The
coaches change, the general managers change, the players change, and
the results are the same. It's where you go if
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your quarterback, you go to die here at the radio station.
There's a piece of metal that goes into the old
studio and that is the killing fields for the cockroaches.
That is where they choose to die. They go there
and they crawl, the little critters and they just die.
That's where they die. If you're a quarterback to the Jets,
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you go play quarterback for the Jets and you die
right there. Florham Park is the name of the facility there,
and that's it. Every quarterback they get, we've turned the corner.
Now this guy will be different. We know the talking
points because they happen every couple of years when the
Jets change quarterbacks and the same old fungus grows there.
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Of course, technically nothing grows at the Jets facility other
than mold, regret and a lot of losing a lot
of losing. By the way, just for the record, Aaron
Rodgers and Sam even Sam Darnold are technically top ten
quarterbacks in the NFL, So even when they get a
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guaranteed Hall of Famer, they suck with the Jets. It's
wo He's really operating a graveyard where you go there
and that's it. It's perfect for Halloween. It's a haunted
house with turf, and they share it with the Giants,
who also have their own misery, their own misery index
over there. And so you want to turn a star
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into dust, put a Jets logo on their helmet. All
of a sudden they turn to dust. All right, anyway,
the last word, speaking of Tony to dust, we go
to Houston. We go to Houston now where Texans coach
Demico Ryans being called out another pathetic performance by the
Houston football team. And wonder where all those people that
were kissing CJ. Stroud's ass are. They're in hiding typical cowards.
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So Demiko Ryans was asked whether or not there will
be any changes because they suck on offense. He said
he has no plans, no plans to change offensive coordinators
despite the horrific performance under Nick Kyley, the offensive coordinator
there in houstonquestion is how do you decode? How do
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you decode? Demiko Ryan's the head coach. They're standing by,
standing by the Texans offensive coordinator. So this is obviously
it's coach speak. One oh one from Demiko Rans you
can go to sports clichede dot com. Now what I
did is I used my cracker Jack Dakoder ring that
I got as a child, and it means from Dimico
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that we were stuck with the same crappy quarterback that
we've had. So please stop asking me about this. I
feel uncomfortable. It's the corporate corporate mission statement, the corporate
mission statement, which is not really an answer. It's an
answer non answer situation that you know, we're all in
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this together. We win as a team and we lose
as a team and all that stuff. And it's like
something that you would put on some kind of motivational
sign with an eagle, like a bald eagle, and you
hang it in the lobby of your building and say,
all right, this is our motivational message. Meanwhile, the offense
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is flatlining like it's an EKG machine. At this is
so bad. It is and let's talk about the hippopotamus
in the room. The hippopotamus in the room. The problem
is the quarterback. This is an Okham's razor situation. The
simplest answer is the proper answer. You don't have to
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dig that deep. They've already changed coordinators in Houston. They've
already done that. Last year, they did that, and they
can change again. They can make another change. They can
change the font that they use in the playbook. They
can burn sage. That'll make Andrea in Berkeley very happy.
They can burn sage in the locker room. And it's
not going to matter. It's not gonna matter if CJ.
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Stroud is going to play like this. I everyone was
sold on the sizzle, the razzle, dazzle from that rookie season.
Well we're pretty far removed now from the rookie season.
And c J. Stroud who was billed and they said, hey,
listen to this guy's the savior. He is a fire
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breathing dragon. We heard all that, and you know what
he's got right now. He is a dragon, but he's
a drag. He's got dragon breath is what he has,
and he needs that. He needs that cool mint listering
because he's got halatosis is what he's got here. And
Stroud has got the same quarterback rating as Justin Fields.
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Keep in mind the owner we just did. I did
ten minutes on the Jets owner, Woody Johnson ripping Justin
Fields for sucking c J. Stroud has the exact same
quarterback rating as Justin Fields. Hello, the Texans like, okay,
we can't bench this guy. We got to continue to
play him and all this stuff and fields of force
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was taken out of the last Jets game there and
has just been called out by his owner. That deserves
a gadzooks with a capital G. And last year, remember
Bobby Slowick slowk the offensive coordinator last year was tossed
under the team bus there he was running the show. Now,
last season, the Texans were bad offensive. They averaged twenty
one point nine points per game, three hundred and twenty
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yards per game. So they said that's not good enough.
We've got to get rid of the offensive coordinat they
canned his ass. So they brought in this guy, Nick Kaylee,
who's got a good reputation. I think he's had stops
with the Patriots. He's bounced around on the NFL a
little bit, and how did that go well this year?
What if I told you the Texans are worse in
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both points per game and yards per game. They're averaging
fewer points per game and they're averaging sixteen yards less
per game as the crow flies? So is that progress?
Out of what do I know? Just do an overnight show.
I don't think that's progress. But my god, that is
stagnation and and a side of regression. He's what that
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is there. So instead of taking ownership, said, we've got
a problem here, Mavie, sit this guy down, take a
couple steps back. C J Strad reset the old button here. No, no, no,
I canna give me a kumbay yah little kumbay yah quote.
We're all in this together. Yeah, We're all in this together.
And how'd that work out? On the Hindenburg.
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and we begin this hour our leads story from Lost Wages, Nevada.
As we start out with the auctioning block, we are
now less than two weeks away, less than two weeks
away from the swap meet ending in the NFL, the
trade deadline, which for most of my life has been
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nothing special, nothing special. Lately, it's gotten a little bit better.
At DeVante Adams traded last year. That was kind of cool.
Didn't work out for the Jets team making a move
with a name brand player. We've had some other name
brand players traded in recent years. So with that being said,
the news out of Lost Wages, Nevada, and that is
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where we will begin. If you have not heard yet,
there were rumors bubbling up, bubbling up about the Dallas
Cowboys being on the prowl and they wanted Max Crosby.
They wanted Max Crosby, and they were pursuing Max Crosby
in a trade. Well, now we have learned that the
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Raiders met with Max Crosby, star edge rusher, and they
let him know, we are not shopping you, Max, and
we are not going to trade you. This comes from
the prob the news service of the NFL state sponsored
NFL network. They report that the Raiders are not interested,
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we are not interested in moving Max Crosby. He's the
top player on the Raiders, and Crosby wants to stay
as a loser apparently likes losing, wants to stay with
the Raiders, enjoys not having to worry about playing in
the playoffs and things like that. So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Does
this Raiders seal of approval and it's the rubber stamped
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it the seal of approval? Does this mean that Max
Crosby is absolutely one thousand percent staying with the Raiders.
All right, So on this one, I've got Civil War
four seasons and gift basket, and we will combine all
of these things together and with the biscuit in the
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basket is what we're going to do. So number one
got it, gott he So this does not change anything
unless you're naive. Well, the Raiders said they weren't going
to trade him, and if they said they're not going
to trade him, they're not going to trade him, and
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all that's, oh my god, all the Raiders said, and
all the story was that they leaked. The story that
was leaked was we aren't shopping Max Crosby. It's not
that if somebody calls us up and is the Godfather offer,
make him an offer he can't refuse, then all of
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a sudden, Max Crosby is changing his laundry and going
somewhere else. So it's a nice little sentiment to send out.
The Raiders didn't say we're not trading Crosby. They're just
said we're not trading him unless somebody blows the doors
off the building and wants him traded. The price tags
pretty high. The price tag's pretty high, and that's just
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a sales pitch. It's like, well, we don't want to
trade this person at all. And so Max Crosby. If
you keep it real, that's all we do is keep
it really. The guy is the ethos of the Raiders.
He just is right. He's got the look, he's got
the attitude, he's got the tats, the black hole energy,
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all that stuff. When you think of the Raiders, the
old Raiders, back when they were good, you gotta be old.
And now think about that. You gotta be like an
old dude to know that the Raiders were good. How
pathetic is that? How much does that suck? That the
Raiders haven't been relevant in almost an entire generation. They
don't like the Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys are over a generation.
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The Raiders aren't far behind that rich cannon Raider team.
And then, of course we know what happened in the
Super Bowl there didn't go so well. But back to
Max Crosby. So Crosby's got the look, he's right out
of Central Casting, and he's got that whole attitude. However,
if you think about this objectively, if the goal is
to win it, keep in mind that we like to
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talk about everyone wants to win Super Bowls. It's an
ugly secret that not everyone really cares. They just want
to make a lot of money, and they want to
live in a city they like living in, and they
want to do their time, get in the pension plan
in the NFL, and just be done. So they're not
really that concerned about winning. But if let's just assume
Max Crosby is somebody that does want to win. I
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need a win. I want to win. By the time
the Raiders are even remotely relevant, Max Crosby is going
to be like a Civil War relic, if you know
what I mean. He's twenty eight, I believe right now, Crosby,
He's a defensive end, not exactly a long shelf life.
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It's just not This is not a canister of honey
that has an endless shelf life. There's no expiration date. Now,
this is bread. It's fresh bread, not slice bread. It's
fresh bread. And so that's it. And how many double
digit seasons will Max Crosby have four or five years
from now when the Raiders are actually possibly competitive. And
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Tom Brady, let's go back to Tom Brady. Tom Brady's
little silver and Black side hustle. How's that working out? Burn, Baby, Burn,
It's burning down right in front of our eyes. Thirty
one nothing lost the team quit on Pete Carroll. You
don't lose thirty one nothing if you're trying. And the
Chiefs called off the dogs earf they called them off.
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Could have been worse, could have been worse. So that
is a gutlass football team. They've quit on their coach.
And that's under Tom Brady. That's under Tom Brady. Everything
Tom Brady has touched since he got to Vegas has
turned to pooh. It just hands, not Pooh, Richardson, actual pooh.
From Pete Carroll the coach, the players quit on him,
Gino Smith, the quarterback who sucks. And they thought maybe
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Brady thought this was twenty nineteen or something like that
or twenty twenty two. I don't know, but it's not.
And so you look at the Raiders right now from
thirty thousand feet in this guy, and you examine what's
going on there, and Brady has pulled off a masterclass.
He doesn't own the majority of the Raiders. He's been
given the de facto GM title where he's shadow running
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the Raiders, which means if the Raiders are good, Brady
will get credit. If they're bad, he'll blame other people.
That spy tech guy, his buddy blame him, but the
Raiders are a great content machine, and Brady's been able
to light the franchise on fire, said Burn, Baby, Burn,
Like he's got a zippo and a can of gasoline
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and just going for it. And if I'm the Lions,
let me just workshop this. If I'm the Detroit Lions
and I'm Dan Campbell and I'm all about biting knee
caps off and all that stuff every game. You look
at Crosby, He's a Michigan guy. Didn't go to University
of Michigan in Michigan State. He went to Eastern Michigan,
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which is the ugly redheaded stepchild of the Michigan colleges.
Bring him back to Michigan. Who says, no, could you
imagine pu Max Crosby and Aiden Hutchinson together and the Lions.
This is the window of opportunity.
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This is it.
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This is the time for the Detroit Lions. So who
cares about first round draft picks? I trade a first
round draft pick and a conditional draft pick whatever to
get Max Crosby. Who wouldn't. My god, you put those
guys together and it's a championship or bust, And it's
that way Anyway, if you're a team like the Patriots
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and you're like, can we do a combo deal? Can
we trade for Max Crosby and get your Kobe Myers
and we'll trade you a couple of draft picks and
that'll be that. And you know, for sure, let's do it.
Let's make that happen. And so, by no means, just
because the Patriots said we are not shopping Max Crosby
doesn't mean he won't be traded. And if you don't
agree with me, you might want to go back a
few years ago. There was a player named Odell Beckham
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and the general manager of the Giants, guy named Dave Gettleman,
sounds like he should be doing commercials for air conditioning,
and he said, we're not trading Odell Beckham. And then
they traded Ode Beckham to the Cleveland Browns, and yeah,
that worked out well for everyone involved. Now, speaking of
Jacoby Myers, but turning the page, but we don't turn
it that far. We keep it close to what we
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were talking about. So Jacoby Myers was asked if he
still wants to be traded. You might remember before the season,
Myers let the world know he was not happy with
the Raiders. He didn't want to play with Gino Smith,
although he didn't say that, the implication was that he
doesn't like playing with Gino Smith, so he wanted out,
and he was asked to follow up the trade deadlines
less than two weeks away. All right, you make the call,
(31:32):
Jacoby Myers, do you still want to be traded? He said?
Two words for sure?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
For sure?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Two words? So question, how should the Raiders handle Jacoby
Myers and his disgust with playing in Vegas? So this
is not a ballplayer that you must have. Can we
establish that as like the opening state, Yeah, he's a
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nice player. Once a player goes public like that, very
rarely does it end nicely. Very rarely does it end nicely.
We all know that. And it sounds like a guy
that's just not engaged. You can't put the toothpaste back
in the tube, as we like to say in these parts.
You cannot do it. And so if the Raiders, I
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guess they can try to coddle him, I wouldn't recommend
that they can try that. And don't give me the
fake group, Hug. I do not need the fake group,
Hug I died. Don't you just ship him out. It's
that's it. It's the four seasons. Bye bye baby from
the four seasons. And Myers is not a cornerstone. He's not.
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He's a good player, he's a good receiver, he's a
solid NFL receiver. He's on a bad team. It's not needed.
You don't. It's like, you know, having no money and
eating rob and noodles all the time and spending a
couple grand on golf clubs. You really don't need that.
You really don't need that. You know what I'm saying,
You just don't. So you're at a fork in the road.
You're at a turning point. And if you're the Raiders,
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you know, it's like again if Jacobe Meyer's running drag
roots from from Geno Smith. Uh, just everything's toxic. You know,
a team like the Patriots would would give you something
which is not. I'm not the draft pick guy. I'm
the wrong talk show host. If you love draft picks
and you get your pants down because the draft picks,
I'm not that guy. I don't really care about Jeffies.
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But if the guy's not happy, it's like who cares.
You can suck with him, you can suck without him.
So it doesn't matter, all right, now final point? Quick right, quick, right,
all right, we go to the NBA. I am told
by sources close to the situation that the NBA season
is underway. The flag is up on the NBA season.
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And I did watch some of these games. I didn't
think either one of the games rose to the level
of a Mallard monologue. So we will tell you the
thunder squeezed by the rock it's your classic NBA game
where Houston played really well. Was in control, not in control.
They had the lead for the first like two and
a half quarters of the game, and the Rockets worked
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their way back. They went to overtime, and then they
went to another overtime and Shay Jogis Alexander scored twenty
four points in the fourth quarter and in overtime. We
are told that is the most points by any NBA
player in the fourth quarter and overtime in a season
opener this century. So it's been a minute, it's been
(34:34):
a minute. How did Kevin Durantu pretty quiet twenty three points?
He only scored nine points in the second half and
in the overtimes combined, that's it nine. So nine of
his twenty three points game in the second half and
overtime at fourteen and a half time finished with twenty
three points. I'm told that's not good. And the Golden
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State Warriors beating the bad guys. Good job by the
Warriors that beat the Lakers. Always love when the Lakers lose.
Good day for basketball fans there when the Lakers lose.
Lebron didn't play. He's probably read reading that Malcolm X
book or watching The Godfather, so he didn't play. Jimmy Butler?
Is there anything more entertaining the watching a man stoot
foul shots sixteen of sixteen from the charity stripe for
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Jimmy Butler and he got it done from the charity
strip Now Luca had forty three points the Lakers lose.
How did DeAndre Ayton do? Mid season form? For DeAndre?
Eighton your classic stat line for DeAndre eaton the guy
that's incompetent at basketball, ten point six rebounds, four turnovers,
no assis and a big LOL for DeAndre Ayton. How
(35:38):
do you know now? The story that did get my
attention If you're watching the NBA, it was on NBC
and also on Peacock the debut of the NBA agreement. Now,
we were told by the Wall Street Journal, that is
a very bougie business newspaper based in Manhattan. The Wall
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Street Journal tell us that some NBC executives are sounding
alarm bells, very dramatically, very concerned that the networks deal
with the NBA. They're just not even make money. They
give this huge card too incise check to the NBA
and they're not going to get good ROI return on investment.
So let us discuss the question. NBA executives said to
(36:23):
be unhappy. This was before they even started the games,
said to be unhappy with the NBA deal. Why is
this being reported as news? That's my question? Why is
this being reported as news? This is spam, is what
it is. It's obviously a huge overpay. Even if you
know nothing about finances, you can't balance your own personal finances.
(36:47):
We all know, every man, woman and child knows that
this is the way it works. I remember getting educated
a person that I was friends with in the you know,
many years ago. I won't I'll date myself if I say.
When he's an executive at ABC and they had just
won the bidding for this massive NFL contract, and I said,
(37:08):
it's going He said, well, we're going to lose money
on it. We know that, but we're going to get
people to watch our crappy sitcoms and that's what we're
doing it for. And okay, so you know going in
you're going to lose money. He says. It's called the
Lost Leader. I said, what's a lost Leader? I said, well,
you lose money on this, but you think you make
it on the other side. So NBC is paying twenty
seven billion with a capital B twenty seven billion for
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the privilege of losing up to one point four billion
in the early years for their new shiny toy, the NBA.
This is clearly why Benny versus the pending got canceled
by NBC. They had to pay for the NBA. I'm bitter,
How dare you? I'm bitter, Benny. Spoiler alert. These things
always work out this way where you lose money on
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it always and again, they're not buying basketball. It's being
sold as basketball. They're not buying basketball. They're buying subscriptions
to Peacock and it's a gift basket of hope. They know,
like all of these businesses, the key is a subscription
based business because a certain percentage of people will pay
(38:14):
for a service that is a monthly fee, and they're
so bad about their finances they will pay it until
they put them in the grave. They just forget about it.
And these businesses know a lot of the whole gym model.
For examples, you pay a monthly fee to go to
the gym, and many people don't go to the gym,
but they keep paying for the gym because they like
(38:36):
the idea of going to the gym, Like, well, I
don't want to cancel the gym because maybe I'll get
my fat ass to the gym, And so you keep
paying for the gym just on the off chance you're
gonna go work out when you never work out because
you're a fat pig and you don't want to work out.
And I get it. I'm the same way, but that's
how they get you. And so they know a certain
percentage of people are gonna sign up for Peacock and
(38:56):
they're not gonna ever watch it doesn't matter. They're gonna
get a monthly fee. Drip drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip,
money mine made. That's what they're gonna get, so I
do enjoy the very dramatic reporting. Considering these executives at NBC,
we the same ones that agreed to the giant deal
in the first place. It's kind of like Woody Johnson
(39:18):
we talked about last night. Woody Johnson is like ripping
Justin Fields, which is correct. Woody Johnson's absolutely right. Justin
Fhilds is incompetent, but he also agreed. He signed up
to say yeah, but okay with that ass My quarterback,
as I'll get by the NBC is like, we'll give
the nbal's money. Now they're like, well, I don't like
of course. The other argument is you can always find
people that don't like something. I'm sure you could if
you wanted to write this story, if you're the Wall
(39:38):
Street Journal, you could find a group of NBA executives
or NBC executives that love the NBA deal, think it's
it's great, it's a slam dunk, but that that's not
as good a story. It's better to find the people
that are upset, which likely are news people because they
cut the news budget. From what I read in one
of the trade papers, so they're likely upset about that.
So don't we pretend to be shocked. Oh I'm so shocked.
(40:00):
Oh my god. That is a sport, the NBA. And
we'll get into it when the playoffs come around. We'll
talk about if there's a good story. I'm not against that.
It's not my favorite thing. I'm not really excited about it.
But they've had sagging regular season television ratings for years.
That's been consistent, and so they're not gonna be able
to cover the tab on this. And NBC will pay
(40:21):
more for the NBA. This is amazing to me. They're
paying more for NBA games on a per game basis
than the NFL. And NBC's got the Sunday Night, the
most important game of the weekends on Sunday Night, and
they're paying more to broadcast Oklahoma City. It's like, okay, bonkers, bonkers, bonkers,
(40:44):
all right? Yeah, the NBA is where your stars rest
during the regular season. They're unengaged. They use load management
to rest during the regular season. The ratings do the
dipsy do, and the postseason stretches longer and longer and
longer and longer than a bad dinner. Part of your
wife took you to it. You didn't want to go
to and you hate the people you're with, that kind
of thing. Right in the end, In the end, the
(41:08):
league cashes the check no matter what, whether you watch
or not. NBC's got to deal with the headaches and
all that. But again, they're trying to get you to subscribe,
and they know a certain percentage of people are just
going to subscribe, set it and forget it and pay
that every month even though they don't use the service.
And I got to figure out how to get on
that hustle, Like, what can I do to get in
in that hustle? Will you just blindly cut money every month?
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That's the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
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To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets
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Speaker 4 (41:46):
It was imported on Monday that there will be no
change that no changes are expected quote at this time
for the Miami Dolphins. Now before the season, owner Stephen
Ross intended to give Mike McDaniel the full year before
deciding on the future.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Then do you think McDaniel will get that whole year?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (42:01):
And no changes, are expected to coop until they make changes.
They always say, well, no, it's like trades. No, we
don't expect to make a trade until you make a trade.
Trades are always unexpected. Firings are ut expected. The Dolphins
sucked to if the only reason McDaniel's there is to
make two a great Tuas had six interceptions the last
two games. If he throws three interceptions against Atlanta this weekend,
it's over. Next.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
It was revealed this week that Shoheo Tony is an
MVP trophy that NLCSNB. He's on display in the middle
of the Dodgers clubhouse with a team effort sign covering
up the most Valuable player in great That's cute, Yeah, Ben,
Do you think Otani should have been awarded that honor?
Speaker 2 (42:37):
No, but he's.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Important for baseball's marketing. He had one amazing game. I
would not have given him the MVP, but they felt
they had no choice.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
Next, Jimbo Fisher spoke Monday and said that he wants
to get back into coaching, but that he wants to
coach somewhere. Quote that's committed to winning, Ben, Where do
you see Jimbo ending up?
Speaker 1 (42:59):
I see him ending up in Key West or Oahu
or Kawhii. I mean, what do you doing? He's won
the lottery, Coop, what are you doing? He's still money
Texas A and M's paying enjoy life. How do we do? Coop?
Do you pass this? Sway? Ii wany dog i wani dog.
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Gear rye gear ride tonight gear right tonight, dear ride.
You heard the man. It's time for love here on
the Ben Mallards Show for just a few days away
from Halloween. I hope we have all of our costumes,
couple's costumes, cops or even if you're single, something that
might be a good conversation started.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Oh yes, okay, what are you dressing up for for Halloween? Lorene?
Speaker 5 (44:08):
Well, I'm doing the Oogie Boogie Bash at Disney.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
So I will be the Ugie Boogie Bash.
Speaker 5 (44:13):
What is that Disney's Halloween party? So they turned California Adventure.
They bring out all the villains and then you go
and you trick or treat around the park and you
get like five hundred pounds of candy. Interesting, I'm going
to be xenon.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
That must be an add on. They don't. It's not
included in your.
Speaker 5 (44:28):
Two hundred dollars two one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Yeah, go to Costco and buy a couple of bags
of candy and you get like five.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
Pounds at all the villages.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Anyway, all right, very exciting we have. So, oh, let's
go back to Toby. He was I kept Toby and
old Toby. Is your lady friend?
Speaker 2 (44:45):
There?
Speaker 1 (44:46):
Toby? Hello, Toby.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
I still can't go inside.
Speaker 5 (44:50):
She has an answer. I think she's sleeping. Oh did
she did she lock you out?
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
She did? Oh what's the weather like today in Minneapolis?
We're about thirty six degrees?
Speaker 4 (45:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (45:02):
No, what did you do? Can I ask what you did?
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Well? How do you know he did something? Maybe she
did something?
Speaker 5 (45:07):
Well, takes two to tango? What happened?
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Huh huh? I don't. I don't completely understand why she's angry,
but it is their time of the month.
Speaker 5 (45:22):
So no, he just did he just you know, I
keep the door locked leave him outside. Oh all right, well,
thank you, Toby, stay warm. Let's go to Alejandro in
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Who's next up with the Queen of fart?
Speaker 5 (45:40):
Hello Alejandro, Alejandro? Yes, Hello, hello, second time caller.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
I don't love if you all remember me? I do
remember you? Of course? Yes, you called up just last week.
Speaker 6 (45:49):
Right, Yes, sir, I have one question for you ben
aka b and one quick for I love questions.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
All right, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
So what do you think about the forty nine ers
for their season?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Bro right, We're not really doing that right now, but
not much. The forty nine ers are an average team.
Not What about Lorena?
Speaker 6 (46:08):
Lorena? I have a question for you. So, after getting
out of a long relationship, like sixteen year relationship, oh man,
two years single, are you a firm believer in let
love find you or search for it?
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (46:23):
That can be, you know, it depends on how you
like to hunt. People find you sometimes you find them.
Depends on what works for you. If you're more adventurous,
I would go outside, go see what you can find
out in these streets. Check out different areas like beaches
and museums and bars. Find out, you know, we're different people.
Hi at different types. You have time, right, Yeah, you
(46:44):
are with one person for sixteen years. You should go
and play the field a bit, go see what you like,
Taste the different flavors.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
You're like that answer Loren. He wanted to hear that
he actually wants to play a field. He wants them
lined up around the block. Yes, absolutely, all right, Well
good luck Ale Andandro. Yes, on the date, you'll find somebody.
Let's see what do we have here? A meani moneymore.
Annie in Linel Lakes, Minnesota says I was trying to
get romantic with my girlfriend the other night. We were
spooning for quite a while and I told her I'd
(47:12):
rather fork. She told me to get get away from
her basically.
Speaker 5 (47:17):
So, yeah, you know, we're not always in the mood,
and if you're not really doing anything to get us
in the mood, wow, help.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Either, I mean blaming the man be BP rights And
should I be looking for a soulmate or a playmate
that's from BP?
Speaker 5 (47:31):
Yeah, depends what you want.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
I think he wants.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
If you're a big kid, you just want some toys
to play with. If you know, maybe you want that
person who's going to hold you down when you know
that you're going to be soon, so it depends what
you need.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
All right. Mike writes in says, what's the most impressive
from the man for the man to impress his lady
on the first date? Taco Bell tortillas, Applebee's chicken or
outback steakhouse, stay and fries? Which one would impress you
the most? Laretus is from Mike the leprecaun.
Speaker 5 (48:06):
You know every woman likes her meat. I would always
go for the steakhouse first. But if you are on
a budget and you want to see if she actually
likes you, take her to Taco Bell first and you
can see if her digestive system can handle one of
your probably favorite foods, which is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Fergdock says, how much porn do women watch? I don't know,
a lot, a lot.
Speaker 5 (48:24):
Really, Oh my gosh, I'm shocked how much my female
friends watch porn. It is crazy.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Right, You go away, ask your when.
Speaker 5 (48:30):
You're on a date sometime, be like, hey, do you
watch it? And they'll be like, yeah, do you want
to watch it together? And you'd be shocked how many
people say yes?
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You learn something new?
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So we're back at it here in our lead this
hour from New Jersey. We have some serious meat on
the bone on the bout when it comes to Gang Green.
I love this story. Now there are days you walk
into the radio station and you're like, I don't know
about that one. This is not one of those days.
This is great. This is a finger licking good is
(02:15):
what it is. So the owner of the NFL team
in New York that somehow, being in New York still
can't win. This is so good. I help you. Maybe
you heard about maybe not so. Woody Johnson speaking at
some NFL like owners get together there, he showed support
(02:36):
for the embattled head coach who's drowning every week. Aaron
Glenn doesn't appear to know what the hell he's doing
as coach in the NFL. The Jets are all in seven.
But there was a vote of confidence for Aaron Glenn
from Woody Johnson. However, however, in doing so, what do
you think happened? That's right, dan Na nay name Woody
(02:58):
Johnson decided to throw his starting quarterback under the team
bus of the Jets. And it was magical. It was glorious,
and we've got the audio tape. Listen to Woody Johnson.
This is an owner of a multi billion dollar NFL
franchise unloading while defending his coach, unloading on his starting quarterback.
(03:21):
Tagle is it looks like he's turning around parts of it.
You know, it's hard when you have a quarterback with
you know, with a rating that we've got, you know,
I mean, he has the ability, but something just is
not jiving. But if you any any head coach of
a quarterback like that, you're going to see similar results
if you will across the league. You have to play
consistently at that position, and that's what we're going to
(03:44):
try to do. Hope we can just complete a pass.
It would look good. You got to complete some patty.
You got to convince him that you can do something. Oh,
it's so great. Something is not jiping. So great? All right,
Let us discuss where are the Justin Fields truthers out there?
Then he justin Fooh yeah, we talk about this guy
(04:06):
a lot because he's a quarterback. We talked football, and
for years I would do monologues unloading on Justin Fields,
and I would have some Dingleberry who you just don't
know what you're talking about? Yeah, that whole thing. So
that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
question did Jets owner Woody Johnson cross the line? Did
(04:28):
he cross over the rubicon with his criticism of quarterback
Justin Fields. So on this one, I've got Kowala, Lion King,
and cool Mint, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to have a pajama party,
is what we're going to have. So a Woody Johnson.
(04:50):
I love the fact that he didn't pull any punches.
Of course, he happens to be the owner that signed
off on paying Justin Fields. Hello, you were a mirror
on the wall. Who's the dumbest of them all? Uh? Yeah?
So I love that in defending the coach who doesn't
appear to know what he's doing, he used Justin Fields
(05:11):
as a punching bag. Buddy, blow, body blow, body blow,
if he can just complete a pass. One of the
great lines ever said in my time and talk radio
by an owner about his quarterback. Imagine it's we're heading
into week eight in the NFL and the owners like,
if our quarterback could just complete a pass? Where you
(05:35):
at Justin Fields? Truthers, who are you gonna blame now?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You blame the Bears, bad coaching in Chicago, went to Pittsburgh,
good coaching didn't work out. Now you're in New York.
What are you gonna blame the coach again? What's the
move here? Let me go to the bag of excuses
for Justin Fields. That is so great. If that is
not a billboard from Woody Johnson saying I hate my quarterback.
(06:00):
Quarterback blows. I don't know what is. I do not
know what else that is. It's shocking because it's so abnormal.
And I've complained about this in ninety nine percent of
the time. We come in here and we all see
something that's rather obvious and we get gas you know,
people gaslight us and they're like, oh, let me tell
(06:21):
you something. You're you're wrong, what you're it's ridiculous, And
so it's unusual which stands out. It's man bites dog.
It's that kind of thing, and it's not wrong though,
it's not wrong at all. Justin Fields has been a
sixteen car pile up on the interstate. And when you
(06:44):
watch the Jets play and not a Jets fan, I
know there's a guy in here earlier is a Jets fan, Jason.
You watch the Jets play and you're not a fan,
you're a rubbernecker. It's like and even like the we're
all lookie loser, like, well that's man, that's a really
bad accident. Oh my god, Oh my goodness. I mean,
(07:06):
how many ambulances is gonna get a helicopter out here
and pick the people back to the hospital? How bad
is it? Justin Fields is the thirtieth ranked passer in
the NFL. There are thirty two teams that again I
didn't play in the NFL. I don't think that's particularly good.
Oh you're being too mean. What else? A tied for
second most sacks in the league. Because he moves. Here's
(07:29):
the problem with Justin Fields, and we figured this out
right away with the Bears. He moves like a koala
bear who's clinging to a eucalyptus tree and just eating
a nice meal. And that's justin fields. Unfortunately, when you
watch the NFL game in particular, it's read and react.
(07:50):
It's hot potato. It's get the ball, get rid of
the ball quickly, right you find the open player, get
rid of the ball. Boom. He's like, all right, I'm
gonna read the defense and then I'm gonna take a
nice nap. I'm gonna have a nice nap, is what
I'm going to do. He's got four passing touchdowns. We're
almost into week eight in the NFL. He's got four
passing touchdoes. That's not just bad, this is unwatchable. And
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I loved again, Woody Johnson, Woody Woodpecker loved his honesty there.
That's the naked truth. It just is. And most people
that are like, oh, every time the Jets get it. Course,
I was just talking to something in the hallway about
the way every time the Jets changed quarterbacks, it's like, oh,
this is the guy. Oh we got the guy, We
got the guy. Uh yeah. If you want a guy
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to be in the cockpit of the vomit comet, you've
got the guy. And if it looks like trash, smells
like trash, plays like trash, probably trash, probably trash. So
the Jets have been running a dumb down, caveman offense
to try to prop up Justin Fields, and it's still
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not working. So you run a rudimentary offense, it's still
not working. And so yeah, wood he basically said what
everyone who's watched Justin Fields play quarterback already know. He
did have like one good game against Pittsburgh. They still lost.
You've got the rookie head coach, Aaron Glenn who's winless.
You've got Woody praising him like he's Vince Lombardi. Lombardi
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would have lost, Bill Walsh, Belichick, all these guys would
have lost. And first Glenn. Again, Glenn hasn't been an
Aaron Glenn has not been any better than Justin Fields.
It's just that Woody Johnson likes him because Aaron Glenn
played so long ago that he actually was on some
Jets teams that were halfway decent. Now, as for the
future free agents that are gonna come to the Jets,
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this idea, Wow, no one's gonna want to play for
the Jets now because Woody Johnson threw his quarterback under
the team bus. Please please, it's come on. Are you
really that naive? Are you that gullible? Don't don't do that.
You offer the most money, you get the player. It's
not that hard. You offer the money, you get the player.
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And Woody Johnson got a little spicy at a presser.
Oh my god, Oh my god. Money always talks. And
the guys that do want to play in New York,
it's great. You don't have to worry about having to
work extra and going to the playoffs and all that.
You play for the Jets of the Giants, and you
don't just don't worry about it. You're good. You don't
have to play football after the season ends in January.
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You have to worry about playing football in the late
January and February. And that's it. And the Jets. I
figured it out when I was driving in here. I
figured out that the Jets might as well be part
of the Marvel cinematic universe. It's very simple. Like they
make these Marvel movies now, they don't even care about
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the quality. They all suck, right. It's the same storylines
we've all seen, just repackaged here. It's just different actors.
The Jets. It's the same suck. But it's just they
changed the players and that's it. And the costumes are
still the same. That they play the Yeah, the cosplay
on the field and all that's still the same. Different
actors now outside of Justin Fields. Turning the page though,
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another spicy hot comment from Woody Johnson. He was on
fight this guy, get a sports talk radio show at
the Fan in New York. Get Woody Johnson a job
there in here. So the Jets owner also was asked
whether or not he had any second thoughts the fact
that the Jets had Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers wanted to stay there,
was treated rather rudely by Aaron Glenn, who thought he
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was better than everyone else and handpicked Justin Fields as
his quarterback. And now Aaron Rodgers is a top ten
quarterback in Pittsburgh and the Steelers have a good record,
and so Woody Johnson was asked about that. He's had
to quote, I have no regrets, he said, he said,
I never look back. You have to look forward in football,
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and even when you cut players, they could be a
Hall of famer. You just never know, he said. But
Aaron's playing great now He's in a situation that's working
for him. Close quote. All right, So question on this one.
What does this say about Woody Johnson's ownership of the Jets.
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He's like, not even a little, like, maybe we should
have kept that guy. He's better than the guy we picked.
Maybe he should have kept him. So this is the
never admit you're wrong strategy by Woody Johnson, very popular,
and the never look back mantra is exactly why the
Jets continue continue to step on the same rake like
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a vaudevillian comedy. And they've been doing that every decade
of my life. It's fascinating. It's a complete encompetence. And
I would recommend that the Jets study the Lion King.
I learned as a as a young lad watching The
Lion King Rafiki taught me that the past can hurt,
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but you can either run from it or learn from it.
The Jets have chosen that they never want to look back,
and they have chosen to keep flying and go full
throttle the other direction right into the tornado, right into
the tornado, which they don't recommend, and thus is the problem.
So you're supposed to learn from your mistakes. I'm supposed
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to learn from your mistakes and not just powerwash over
them and just scrub a dub dub and use some
kind of word salad, some corporate word salad thing, and
it's just living in the Bermuda triangle. For quarterbacks. The
coaches change, the general managers change, the players change, and
the results are the same. It's where you go if
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your quarterback, you go to die here at the radio station.
There's a piece of metal that goes into the old
studio and that is the killing fields for the cockroaches.
That is where they choose to die. They go there
and they crawl, the little critters and they just die.
That's where they die. If you're a quarterback to the Jets,
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you go play quarterback for the Jets and you die
right there. Florham Park is the name of the facility there,
and that's it. Every quarterback they get, we've turned the corner.
Now this guy will be different. We know the talking
points because they happen every couple of years when the
Jets change quarterbacks and the same old fungus grows there.
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Of course, technically nothing grows at the Jets facility other
than mold, regret and a lot of losing a lot
of losing. By the way, just for the record, Aaron
Rodgers and Sam even Sam Darnold are technically top ten
quarterbacks in the NFL, So even when they get a
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guaranteed Hall of Famer, they suck with the Jets. It's
wo He's really operating a graveyard where you go there
and that's it. It's perfect for Halloween. It's a haunted
house with turf, and they share it with the Giants,
who also have their own misery, their own misery index
over there. And so you want to turn a star
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into dust, put a Jets logo on their helmet. All
of a sudden they turn to dust. All right, anyway,
the last word, speaking of Tony to dust, we go
to Houston. We go to Houston now where Texans coach
Demico Ryans being called out another pathetic performance by the
Houston football team. And wonder where all those people that
were kissing CJ. Stroud's ass are. They're in hiding typical cowards.
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So Demiko Ryans was asked whether or not there will
be any changes because they suck on offense. He said
he has no plans, no plans to change offensive coordinators
despite the horrific performance under Nick Kyley, the offensive coordinator
there in houstonquestion is how do you decode? How do
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you decode? Demiko Ryan's the head coach. They're standing by,
standing by the Texans offensive coordinator. So this is obviously
it's coach speak. One oh one from Demiko Rans you
can go to sports clichede dot com. Now what I
did is I used my cracker Jack Dakoder ring that
I got as a child, and it means from Dimico
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that we were stuck with the same crappy quarterback that
we've had. So please stop asking me about this. I
feel uncomfortable. It's the corporate corporate mission statement, the corporate
mission statement, which is not really an answer. It's an
answer non answer situation that you know, we're all in
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this together. We win as a team and we lose
as a team and all that stuff. And it's like
something that you would put on some kind of motivational
sign with an eagle, like a bald eagle, and you
hang it in the lobby of your building and say,
all right, this is our motivational message. Meanwhile, the offense
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is flatlining like it's an EKG machine. At this is
so bad. It is and let's talk about the hippopotamus
in the room. The hippopotamus in the room. The problem
is the quarterback. This is an Okham's razor situation. The
simplest answer is the proper answer. You don't have to
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dig that deep. They've already changed coordinators in Houston. They've
already done that. Last year, they did that, and they
can change again. They can make another change. They can
change the font that they use in the playbook. They
can burn sage. That'll make Andrea in Berkeley very happy.
They can burn sage in the locker room. And it's
not going to matter. It's not gonna matter if CJ.
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Stroud is going to play like this. I everyone was
sold on the sizzle, the razzle, dazzle from that rookie season.
Well we're pretty far removed now from the rookie season.
And c J. Stroud who was billed and they said, hey,
listen to this guy's the savior. He is a fire
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breathing dragon. We heard all that, and you know what
he's got right now. He is a dragon, but he's
a drag. He's got dragon breath is what he has,
and he needs that. He needs that cool mint listering
because he's got halatosis is what he's got here. And
Stroud has got the same quarterback rating as Justin Fields.
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Keep in mind the owner we just did. I did
ten minutes on the Jets owner, Woody Johnson ripping Justin
Fields for sucking c J. Stroud has the exact same
quarterback rating as Justin Fields. Hello, the Texans like, okay,
we can't bench this guy. We got to continue to
play him and all this stuff and fields of force
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was taken out of the last Jets game there and
has just been called out by his owner. That deserves
a gadzooks with a capital G. And last year, remember
Bobby Slowick slowk the offensive coordinator last year was tossed
under the team bus there he was running the show. Now,
last season, the Texans were bad offensive. They averaged twenty
one point nine points per game, three hundred and twenty
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yards per game. So they said that's not good enough.
We've got to get rid of the offensive coordinat they
canned his ass. So they brought in this guy, Nick Kaylee,
who's got a good reputation. I think he's had stops
with the Patriots. He's bounced around on the NFL a
little bit, and how did that go well this year?
What if I told you the Texans are worse in
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both points per game and yards per game. They're averaging
fewer points per game and they're averaging sixteen yards less
per game as the crow flies? So is that progress?
Out of what do I know? Just do an overnight show.
I don't think that's progress. But my god, that is
stagnation and and a side of regression. He's what that
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is there. So instead of taking ownership, said, we've got
a problem here, Mavie, sit this guy down, take a
couple steps back. C J Strad reset the old button here. No, no, no,
I canna give me a kumbay yah little kumbay yah quote.
We're all in this together. Yeah, We're all in this together.
And how'd that work out? On the Hindenburg.
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and we begin this hour our leads story from Lost Wages, Nevada.
As we start out with the auctioning block, we are
now less than two weeks away, less than two weeks
away from the swap meet ending in the NFL, the
trade deadline, which for most of my life has been
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nothing special, nothing special. Lately, it's gotten a little bit better.
At DeVante Adams traded last year. That was kind of cool.
Didn't work out for the Jets team making a move
with a name brand player. We've had some other name
brand players traded in recent years. So with that being said,
the news out of Lost Wages, Nevada, and that is
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where we will begin. If you have not heard yet,
there were rumors bubbling up, bubbling up about the Dallas
Cowboys being on the prowl and they wanted Max Crosby.
They wanted Max Crosby, and they were pursuing Max Crosby
in a trade. Well, now we have learned that the
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Raiders met with Max Crosby, star edge rusher, and they
let him know, we are not shopping you, Max, and
we are not going to trade you. This comes from
the prob the news service of the NFL state sponsored
NFL network. They report that the Raiders are not interested,
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we are not interested in moving Max Crosby. He's the
top player on the Raiders, and Crosby wants to stay
as a loser apparently likes losing, wants to stay with
the Raiders, enjoys not having to worry about playing in
the playoffs and things like that. So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Does
this Raiders seal of approval and it's the rubber stamped
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it the seal of approval? Does this mean that Max
Crosby is absolutely one thousand percent staying with the Raiders.
All right, So on this one, I've got Civil War
four seasons and gift basket, and we will combine all
of these things together and with the biscuit in the
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basket is what we're going to do. So number one
got it, gott he So this does not change anything
unless you're naive. Well, the Raiders said they weren't going
to trade him, and if they said they're not going
to trade him, they're not going to trade him, and
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all that's, oh my god, all the Raiders said, and
all the story was that they leaked. The story that
was leaked was we aren't shopping Max Crosby. It's not
that if somebody calls us up and is the Godfather offer,
make him an offer he can't refuse, then all of
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a sudden, Max Crosby is changing his laundry and going
somewhere else. So it's a nice little sentiment to send out.
The Raiders didn't say we're not trading Crosby. They're just
said we're not trading him unless somebody blows the doors
off the building and wants him traded. The price tags
pretty high. The price tag's pretty high, and that's just
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a sales pitch. It's like, well, we don't want to
trade this person at all. And so Max Crosby. If
you keep it real, that's all we do is keep
it really. The guy is the ethos of the Raiders.
He just is right. He's got the look, he's got
the attitude, he's got the tats, the black hole energy,
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all that stuff. When you think of the Raiders, the
old Raiders, back when they were good, you gotta be old.
And now think about that. You gotta be like an
old dude to know that the Raiders were good. How
pathetic is that? How much does that suck? That the
Raiders haven't been relevant in almost an entire generation. They
don't like the Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys are over a generation.
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The Raiders aren't far behind that rich cannon Raider team.
And then, of course we know what happened in the
Super Bowl there didn't go so well. But back to
Max Crosby. So Crosby's got the look, he's right out
of Central Casting, and he's got that whole attitude. However,
if you think about this objectively, if the goal is
to win it, keep in mind that we like to
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talk about everyone wants to win Super Bowls. It's an
ugly secret that not everyone really cares. They just want
to make a lot of money, and they want to
live in a city they like living in, and they
want to do their time, get in the pension plan
in the NFL, and just be done. So they're not
really that concerned about winning. But if let's just assume
Max Crosby is somebody that does want to win. I
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need a win. I want to win. By the time
the Raiders are even remotely relevant, Max Crosby is going
to be like a Civil War relic, if you know
what I mean. He's twenty eight, I believe right now, Crosby,
He's a defensive end, not exactly a long shelf life.
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It's just not This is not a canister of honey
that has an endless shelf life. There's no expiration date. Now,
this is bread. It's fresh bread, not slice bread. It's
fresh bread. And so that's it. And how many double
digit seasons will Max Crosby have four or five years
from now when the Raiders are actually possibly competitive. And
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Tom Brady, let's go back to Tom Brady. Tom Brady's
little silver and Black side hustle. How's that working out? Burn, Baby, Burn,
It's burning down right in front of our eyes. Thirty
one nothing lost the team quit on Pete Carroll. You
don't lose thirty one nothing if you're trying. And the
Chiefs called off the dogs earf they called them off.
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Could have been worse, could have been worse. So that
is a gutlass football team. They've quit on their coach.
And that's under Tom Brady. That's under Tom Brady. Everything
Tom Brady has touched since he got to Vegas has
turned to pooh. It just hands, not Pooh, Richardson, actual pooh.
From Pete Carroll the coach, the players quit on him,
Gino Smith, the quarterback who sucks. And they thought maybe
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Brady thought this was twenty nineteen or something like that
or twenty twenty two. I don't know, but it's not.
And so you look at the Raiders right now from
thirty thousand feet in this guy, and you examine what's
going on there, and Brady has pulled off a masterclass.
He doesn't own the majority of the Raiders. He's been
given the de facto GM title where he's shadow running
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the Raiders, which means if the Raiders are good, Brady
will get credit. If they're bad, he'll blame other people.
That spy tech guy, his buddy blame him, but the
Raiders are a great content machine, and Brady's been able
to light the franchise on fire, said Burn, Baby, Burn,
Like he's got a zippo and a can of gasoline
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and just going for it. And if I'm the Lions,
let me just workshop this. If I'm the Detroit Lions
and I'm Dan Campbell and I'm all about biting knee
caps off and all that stuff every game. You look
at Crosby, He's a Michigan guy. Didn't go to University
of Michigan in Michigan State. He went to Eastern Michigan,
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which is the ugly redheaded stepchild of the Michigan colleges.
Bring him back to Michigan. Who says, no, could you
imagine pu Max Crosby and Aiden Hutchinson together and the Lions.
This is the window of opportunity.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
This is the time for the Detroit Lions. So who
cares about first round draft picks? I trade a first
round draft pick and a conditional draft pick whatever to
get Max Crosby. Who wouldn't. My god, you put those
guys together and it's a championship or bust, And it's
that way Anyway, if you're a team like the Patriots
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and you're like, can we do a combo deal? Can
we trade for Max Crosby and get your Kobe Myers
and we'll trade you a couple of draft picks and
that'll be that. And you know, for sure, let's do it.
Let's make that happen. And so, by no means, just
because the Patriots said we are not shopping Max Crosby
doesn't mean he won't be traded. And if you don't
agree with me, you might want to go back a
few years ago. There was a player named Odell Beckham
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and the general manager of the Giants, guy named Dave Gettleman,
sounds like he should be doing commercials for air conditioning,
and he said, we're not trading Odell Beckham. And then
they traded Ode Beckham to the Cleveland Browns, and yeah,
that worked out well for everyone involved. Now, speaking of
Jacoby Myers, but turning the page, but we don't turn
it that far. We keep it close to what we
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were talking about. So Jacoby Myers was asked if he
still wants to be traded. You might remember before the season,
Myers let the world know he was not happy with
the Raiders. He didn't want to play with Gino Smith,
although he didn't say that, the implication was that he
doesn't like playing with Gino Smith, so he wanted out,
and he was asked to follow up the trade deadlines
less than two weeks away. All right, you make the call,
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Jacoby Myers, do you still want to be traded? He said?
Two words for sure?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
For sure?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Two words? So question, how should the Raiders handle Jacoby
Myers and his disgust with playing in Vegas? So this
is not a ballplayer that you must have. Can we
establish that as like the opening state, Yeah, he's a
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nice player. Once a player goes public like that, very
rarely does it end nicely. Very rarely does it end nicely.
We all know that. And it sounds like a guy
that's just not engaged. You can't put the toothpaste back
in the tube, as we like to say in these parts.
You cannot do it. And so if the Raiders, I
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guess they can try to coddle him, I wouldn't recommend
that they can try that. And don't give me the
fake group, Hug. I do not need the fake group,
Hug I died. Don't you just ship him out. It's
that's it. It's the four seasons. Bye bye baby from
the four seasons. And Myers is not a cornerstone. He's not.
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He's a good player, he's a good receiver, he's a
solid NFL receiver. He's on a bad team. It's not needed.
You don't. It's like, you know, having no money and
eating rob and noodles all the time and spending a
couple grand on golf clubs. You really don't need that.
You really don't need that. You know what I'm saying,
You just don't. So you're at a fork in the road.
You're at a turning point. And if you're the Raiders,
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you know, it's like again if Jacobe Meyer's running drag
roots from from Geno Smith. Uh, just everything's toxic. You know,
a team like the Patriots would would give you something
which is not. I'm not the draft pick guy. I'm
the wrong talk show host. If you love draft picks
and you get your pants down because the draft picks,
I'm not that guy. I don't really care about Jeffies.
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But if the guy's not happy, it's like who cares.
You can suck with him, you can suck without him.
So it doesn't matter, all right, now final point? Quick right, quick, right,
all right, we go to the NBA. I am told
by sources close to the situation that the NBA season
is underway. The flag is up on the NBA season.
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And I did watch some of these games. I didn't
think either one of the games rose to the level
of a Mallard monologue. So we will tell you the
thunder squeezed by the rock it's your classic NBA game
where Houston played really well. Was in control, not in control.
They had the lead for the first like two and
a half quarters of the game, and the Rockets worked
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their way back. They went to overtime, and then they
went to another overtime and Shay Jogis Alexander scored twenty
four points in the fourth quarter and in overtime. We
are told that is the most points by any NBA
player in the fourth quarter and overtime in a season
opener this century. So it's been a minute, it's been
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a minute. How did Kevin Durantu pretty quiet twenty three points?
He only scored nine points in the second half and
in the overtimes combined, that's it nine. So nine of
his twenty three points game in the second half and
overtime at fourteen and a half time finished with twenty
three points. I'm told that's not good. And the Golden
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State Warriors beating the bad guys. Good job by the
Warriors that beat the Lakers. Always love when the Lakers lose.
Good day for basketball fans there when the Lakers lose.
Lebron didn't play. He's probably read reading that Malcolm X
book or watching The Godfather, so he didn't play. Jimmy Butler?
Is there anything more entertaining the watching a man stoot
foul shots sixteen of sixteen from the charity stripe for
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Jimmy Butler and he got it done from the charity
strip Now Luca had forty three points the Lakers lose.
How did DeAndre Ayton do? Mid season form? For DeAndre?
Eighton your classic stat line for DeAndre eaton the guy
that's incompetent at basketball, ten point six rebounds, four turnovers,
no assis and a big LOL for DeAndre Ayton. How
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do you know now? The story that did get my
attention If you're watching the NBA, it was on NBC
and also on Peacock the debut of the NBA agreement. Now,
we were told by the Wall Street Journal, that is
a very bougie business newspaper based in Manhattan. The Wall
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Street Journal tell us that some NBC executives are sounding
alarm bells, very dramatically, very concerned that the networks deal
with the NBA. They're just not even make money. They
give this huge card too incise check to the NBA
and they're not going to get good ROI return on investment.
So let us discuss the question. NBA executives said to
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be unhappy. This was before they even started the games,
said to be unhappy with the NBA deal. Why is
this being reported as news? That's my question? Why is
this being reported as news? This is spam, is what
it is. It's obviously a huge overpay. Even if you
know nothing about finances, you can't balance your own personal finances.
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We all know, every man, woman and child knows that
this is the way it works. I remember getting educated
a person that I was friends with in the you know,
many years ago. I won't I'll date myself if I say.
When he's an executive at ABC and they had just
won the bidding for this massive NFL contract, and I said,
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it's going He said, well, we're going to lose money
on it. We know that, but we're going to get
people to watch our crappy sitcoms and that's what we're
doing it for. And okay, so you know going in
you're going to lose money. He says. It's called the
Lost Leader. I said, what's a lost Leader? I said, well,
you lose money on this, but you think you make
it on the other side. So NBC is paying twenty
seven billion with a capital B twenty seven billion for
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the privilege of losing up to one point four billion
in the early years for their new shiny toy, the NBA.
This is clearly why Benny versus the pending got canceled
by NBC. They had to pay for the NBA. I'm bitter,
How dare you? I'm bitter, Benny. Spoiler alert. These things
always work out this way where you lose money on
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it always and again, they're not buying basketball. It's being
sold as basketball. They're not buying basketball. They're buying subscriptions
to Peacock and it's a gift basket of hope. They know,
like all of these businesses, the key is a subscription
based business because a certain percentage of people will pay
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for a service that is a monthly fee, and they're
so bad about their finances they will pay it until
they put them in the grave. They just forget about it.
And these businesses know a lot of the whole gym model.
For examples, you pay a monthly fee to go to
the gym, and many people don't go to the gym,
but they keep paying for the gym because they like
(38:36):
the idea of going to the gym, Like, well, I
don't want to cancel the gym because maybe I'll get
my fat ass to the gym, And so you keep
paying for the gym just on the off chance you're
gonna go work out when you never work out because
you're a fat pig and you don't want to work out.
And I get it. I'm the same way, but that's
how they get you. And so they know a certain
percentage of people are gonna sign up for Peacock and
(38:56):
they're not gonna ever watch it doesn't matter. They're gonna
get a monthly fee. Drip drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip,
money mine made. That's what they're gonna get, so I
do enjoy the very dramatic reporting. Considering these executives at NBC,
we the same ones that agreed to the giant deal
in the first place. It's kind of like Woody Johnson
(39:18):
we talked about last night. Woody Johnson is like ripping
Justin Fields, which is correct. Woody Johnson's absolutely right. Justin
Fhilds is incompetent, but he also agreed. He signed up
to say yeah, but okay with that ass My quarterback,
as I'll get by the NBC is like, we'll give
the nbal's money. Now they're like, well, I don't like
of course. The other argument is you can always find
people that don't like something. I'm sure you could if
you wanted to write this story, if you're the Wall
(39:38):
Street Journal, you could find a group of NBA executives
or NBC executives that love the NBA deal, think it's
it's great, it's a slam dunk, but that that's not
as good a story. It's better to find the people
that are upset, which likely are news people because they
cut the news budget. From what I read in one
of the trade papers, so they're likely upset about that.
So don't we pretend to be shocked. Oh I'm so shocked.
(40:00):
Oh my god. That is a sport, the NBA. And
we'll get into it when the playoffs come around. We'll
talk about if there's a good story. I'm not against that.
It's not my favorite thing. I'm not really excited about it.
But they've had sagging regular season television ratings for years.
That's been consistent, and so they're not gonna be able
to cover the tab on this. And NBC will pay
(40:21):
more for the NBA. This is amazing to me. They're
paying more for NBA games on a per game basis
than the NFL. And NBC's got the Sunday Night, the
most important game of the weekends on Sunday Night, and
they're paying more to broadcast Oklahoma City. It's like, okay, bonkers, bonkers, bonkers,
(40:44):
all right? Yeah, the NBA is where your stars rest
during the regular season. They're unengaged. They use load management
to rest during the regular season. The ratings do the
dipsy do, and the postseason stretches longer and longer and
longer and longer than a bad dinner. Part of your
wife took you to it. You didn't want to go
to and you hate the people you're with, that kind
of thing. Right in the end, In the end, the
(41:08):
league cashes the check no matter what, whether you watch
or not. NBC's got to deal with the headaches and
all that. But again, they're trying to get you to subscribe,
and they know a certain percentage of people are just
going to subscribe, set it and forget it and pay
that every month even though they don't use the service.
And I got to figure out how to get on
that hustle, Like, what can I do to get in
in that hustle? Will you just blindly cut money every month?
(41:30):
That's the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
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Speaker 1 (41:38):
It's maller. How about that?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets
quick cool.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
It was imported on Monday that there will be no
change that no changes are expected quote at this time
for the Miami Dolphins. Now before the season, owner Stephen
Ross intended to give Mike McDaniel the full year before
deciding on the future.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Then do you think McDaniel will get that whole year?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (42:01):
And no changes, are expected to coop until they make changes.
They always say, well, no, it's like trades. No, we
don't expect to make a trade until you make a trade.
Trades are always unexpected. Firings are ut expected. The Dolphins
sucked to if the only reason McDaniel's there is to
make two a great Tuas had six interceptions the last
two games. If he throws three interceptions against Atlanta this weekend,
it's over. Next.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
It was revealed this week that Shoheo Tony is an
MVP trophy that NLCSNB. He's on display in the middle
of the Dodgers clubhouse with a team effort sign covering
up the most Valuable player in great That's cute, Yeah, Ben,
Do you think Otani should have been awarded that honor?
Speaker 2 (42:37):
No, but he's.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Important for baseball's marketing. He had one amazing game. I
would not have given him the MVP, but they felt
they had no choice.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
Next, Jimbo Fisher spoke Monday and said that he wants
to get back into coaching, but that he wants to
coach somewhere. Quote that's committed to winning, Ben, Where do
you see Jimbo ending up?
Speaker 1 (42:59):
I see him ending up in Key West or Oahu
or Kawhii. I mean, what do you doing? He's won
the lottery, Coop, what are you doing? He's still money
Texas A and M's paying enjoy life. How do we do? Coop?
Do you pass this? Sway? Ii wany dog i wani dog.
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It's of it bus with Lorraine Atten nine.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
He's clean up, hearts, gonna help you.
Speaker 5 (43:41):
Gear rye gear ride tonight gear right tonight, dear ride.
You heard the man. It's time for love here on
the Ben Mallards Show for just a few days away
from Halloween. I hope we have all of our costumes,
couple's costumes, cops or even if you're single, something that
might be a good conversation started.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Oh yes, okay, what are you dressing up for for Halloween? Lorene?
Speaker 5 (44:08):
Well, I'm doing the Oogie Boogie Bash at Disney.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
So I will be the Ugie Boogie Bash.
Speaker 5 (44:13):
What is that Disney's Halloween party? So they turned California Adventure.
They bring out all the villains and then you go
and you trick or treat around the park and you
get like five hundred pounds of candy. Interesting, I'm going
to be xenon.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
That must be an add on. They don't. It's not
included in your.
Speaker 5 (44:28):
Two hundred dollars two one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Yeah, go to Costco and buy a couple of bags
of candy and you get like five.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
Pounds at all the villages.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Anyway, all right, very exciting we have. So, oh, let's
go back to Toby. He was I kept Toby and
old Toby. Is your lady friend?
Speaker 2 (44:45):
There?
Speaker 1 (44:46):
Toby? Hello, Toby.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
I still can't go inside.
Speaker 5 (44:50):
She has an answer. I think she's sleeping. Oh did
she did she lock you out?
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
She did? Oh what's the weather like today in Minneapolis?
We're about thirty six degrees?
Speaker 4 (45:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (45:02):
No, what did you do? Can I ask what you did?
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Well? How do you know he did something? Maybe she
did something?
Speaker 5 (45:07):
Well, takes two to tango? What happened?
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Huh huh? I don't. I don't completely understand why she's angry,
but it is their time of the month.
Speaker 5 (45:22):
So no, he just did he just you know, I
keep the door locked leave him outside. Oh all right, well,
thank you, Toby, stay warm. Let's go to Alejandro in
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Who's next up with the Queen of fart?
Speaker 5 (45:40):
Hello Alejandro, Alejandro? Yes, Hello, hello, second time caller.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
I don't love if you all remember me? I do
remember you? Of course? Yes, you called up just last week.
Speaker 6 (45:49):
Right, Yes, sir, I have one question for you ben
aka b and one quick for I love questions.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
All right, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
So what do you think about the forty nine ers
for their season?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Bro right, We're not really doing that right now, but
not much. The forty nine ers are an average team.
Not What about Lorena?
Speaker 6 (46:08):
Lorena? I have a question for you. So, after getting
out of a long relationship, like sixteen year relationship, oh man,
two years single, are you a firm believer in let
love find you or search for it?
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (46:23):
That can be, you know, it depends on how you
like to hunt. People find you sometimes you find them.
Depends on what works for you. If you're more adventurous,
I would go outside, go see what you can find
out in these streets. Check out different areas like beaches
and museums and bars. Find out, you know, we're different people.
Hi at different types. You have time, right, Yeah, you
(46:44):
are with one person for sixteen years. You should go
and play the field a bit, go see what you like,
Taste the different flavors.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
You're like that answer Loren. He wanted to hear that
he actually wants to play a field. He wants them
lined up around the block. Yes, absolutely, all right, Well
good luck Ale Andandro. Yes, on the date, you'll find somebody.
Let's see what do we have here? A meani moneymore.
Annie in Linel Lakes, Minnesota says I was trying to
get romantic with my girlfriend the other night. We were
spooning for quite a while and I told her I'd
(47:12):
rather fork. She told me to get get away from
her basically.
Speaker 5 (47:17):
So, yeah, you know, we're not always in the mood,
and if you're not really doing anything to get us
in the mood, wow, help.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Either, I mean blaming the man be BP rights And
should I be looking for a soulmate or a playmate
that's from BP?
Speaker 5 (47:31):
Yeah, depends what you want.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
I think he wants.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
If you're a big kid, you just want some toys
to play with. If you know, maybe you want that
person who's going to hold you down when you know
that you're going to be soon, so it depends what
you need.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
All right. Mike writes in says, what's the most impressive
from the man for the man to impress his lady
on the first date? Taco Bell tortillas, Applebee's chicken or
outback steakhouse, stay and fries? Which one would impress you
the most? Laretus is from Mike the leprecaun.
Speaker 5 (48:06):
You know every woman likes her meat. I would always
go for the steakhouse first. But if you are on
a budget and you want to see if she actually
likes you, take her to Taco Bell first and you
can see if her digestive system can handle one of
your probably favorite foods, which is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Fergdock says, how much porn do women watch? I don't know,
a lot, a lot.
Speaker 5 (48:24):
Really, Oh my gosh, I'm shocked how much my female
friends watch porn. It is crazy.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Right, You go away, ask your when.
Speaker 5 (48:30):
You're on a date sometime, be like, hey, do you
watch it? And they'll be like, yeah, do you want
to watch it together? And you'd be shocked how many
people say yes?
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (48:36):
You learn something new?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
All right?
Speaker 1 (48:38):
Well, those websites are the most popular, Yeah.
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