November 12, 2025 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about GM Nico Harrison getting fired by the Mavericks, whether or not Packers coach Matt LeFleur is on thin ice in Green Bay, Maller to the Third Degree, Password; Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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hour playing the hit small Man, whate our old bosses.
You sus says they're gonna start out in the NBA.
That's right, So the wings of change. You can almost
hear them blowing those winds of change in the NBA.
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They're actually howling. They're not just blowing their howling the
winds of change. And so I assume you've heard by now.
I don't bear the lead. I didn't bear the lead.
But my god, So if you didn't see this, maybe not.
The Dallas mav Res putting the wreck in mav Reck
have cranked up the old ray Charles hit hit the road,
Jack or in this case, hit the road Nico, and
they have said bye bye to Nico. Harrison nine months
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It's like they gave birth. Nine months after. He gave
a donation of luka doncik to the charity in Los Angeles,
the Purple and Gold Charity on skid Row there in LA.
So that move coming the day after, the day after
the Mavrec owner, someone named named the Patrick Dumont, who
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was in the right place at the right time. Family
money he I believe married into. Anyway, he attended the loss,
the mav Res loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, and in
that game, fans again doing the chanting fire hany go
fire ko, just like that, a familiar chant ever since
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Harrison did the thing that everyone shook their head at
and said, oh my god, what are we doing? He went,
he went rogue, renegade, renegade man. And of course that
is a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
the question. I think the most interesting part of this
is what does the Nico Harrison pink slip do for
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the mav Res fan base. So on this one, I've
got commercial airline pilot eBay and President Obama, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some text mechs, which is not as
good as the traditional American Mexican food. But it's final
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text mex is okay whatever, all right. So a my
word to answer the question what does the firing of
Nico Harrison do to the fan base? My word is
therapeutic obviously, right, healing wounds you have like a dog
will come up to you if you have a cut
on your leg and lick the wound. This is the
licking of the wound is what this is here. We're
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talking about months and months of bottled up range, bottled
up range, finally letting out that primal scream as the
news came down into the void, as Nico Harrison is done, decommissioned,
the fans doing the sports version of no justice, no peace.
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They gave it, got no justice, they gave no peace.
They were bloodthirsty, they were on the war path, and
sure enough, the day of reckoning has a arrived. And
make no mistake about this, Nico Harrison was a self
made man. He was self made man. He became because
of the moves he made a basketball anti Christ in Dallas.
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Congratulations Nico, way to go, buddy. Now he does have
some friends in the media. I've seen a bunch of
people trying to defend Nico Harrison's Oh, it's not all
on him, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah. See, the thing is, it's
not just the Luca tree. There's other stuff involved in this. Yeah,
the Luca trade was not all him, but there's other
layers to the cake. So there's other stuff going on here.
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But the rhythmic chanting fire Nico fire, Nico was louder
than the defensive chance. You know how you go to
an NBA game, if you ever been to one, and
there's always at some point and the rhythmic chant of defense,
you know, that kind of it was louder. He provided
Nico Harrison the voodoo bugaloo. He provided that front office
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malfeasans by Nico Harrison's hubris. That's the price, the right
word there. He took a team that, granted it was
a bit of a fluke run, but they had been
in the NBA Finals, Dallas against the Celtics, and he said,
you know what, I don't like that, eh, eh No,
I'm not gonna do that. And so they're in the
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NBA Finals, got smoked by the Celtics, and he's let's
turn this into the NBA's version of a staled economy. Okay, fine,
will vaporize anything good that ever happened while I was
the executive in Dallas. Check that box. And as the
saying goes as the saying goes there, you can be
a commercial airline pilot, one of the great pilots. You
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can have thousands of thousands of hours in the sky
and land every single plane, do a tremendous job on
time pilot. However, if you crash one of those planes,
they're not talking about all the planes that you landed,
you know what I'm saying. Okay, anyway, you're remembered for
something else. But Nico did the thing you can't do
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at the time. You can't do it. And everyone knows
that you're supposed to build on a championship team, build
up an empire. In that era. You don't go in
there and torch it. You don't do that and gutting
whatever was there there was not there there at that
particular point. And so the Luca things won part of it,
obviously the biggest part of it, but he also fired
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some popular people behind the scenes support staff with the Mavericks.
There was a story that has been well publicized about
a long time staffer for the Mavericks who was in
the training staff that got let go. Loyal people, loyal
foot soldiers for the Dallas Mavericks who got let go.
You can't treat people like that and expect that the
basketball gods are going to blame. So this was a
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bit of a karmic correction, as our astrology insider Andrea
would say. And I know there's a cosmic event going
on right now, but they sent Nico Harrison straight to
the hoops. Who's goal is what they did. They're finally
some peace in Dallas now. Page two. Continuing the theme here,
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continuing the theme. So the the other question that's on
the tip of my tongue here, how much blame for
the Luka Doncik trade does the Mavericks owner, this guy
Patrick Dumont, how much does he deserve backing Nico Harrison
in the Luca Boner, the blunder, the blooper, however you
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want to call it, whatever b word, blunder, blooper, boner,
all good words, all good descriptive words. They all work.
So on the Malard scale of blame, the Malar scale
of blame. The owner gets sixty percent, sixty percent, Harrison
gets forty percent. And here's why, all right, the owner
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always has final edit. It's like when you make a movie.
You hire the greatest people to make the movie you
can possibly make, but ultimately there's one person that has
the final edit, final cut, and that's the person that
decides what's actually in the movie and what's not in
the movie. And so they could have, as ownership should have,
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would have hit the kill switch on the Luca trade,
could have stopped it, but didn't. So this wasn't Again,
this was not just a rogue GM running around in
the dark. You can trade a lot of players without
ownership signing off of it. You cannot trade the face
of the franchise. You're not gonna be able to do that.
So Dumont, if you look at it, he either rubber
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stamped the trade and said, okay, Mazata I support this.
He encouraged it. But that's bad also, or he was
just asleep at the switch. What else is there? Is
there anything else? Is so Niko or Harrison? Yeah, he
might have lit the match. He might have lit the
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match there. But Patrick Dumont, the guy that's the owner
of the Mavericks there, he's the one that owned the warehouse.
So you know, I have no skin in the game.
I don't And you know we're on in Dallas and
we you know, I got a few people that are
contributed to I know a lot of people listening, but
they very rarely call in. And I wouldn't call in
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right now if as a Dallas sports fan either, because
of how pathetic things are. But that said, like the
vision I had for this, this trade insurance, fraud, insurance,
you know what I'm saying. No, you feel me on
that insuran? Let me explain. So you hear those insurance scams,
It's like the Mavericks just torched their own warehouse to
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collect an insurance payout. I'm like, eh, yeah, imagine in
the cartoon bubble, You've got the owner of the Mavericks
and Niko standing side by side with matching cans of
unleaded gasoline and pretending like they don't smell the smoke
that's billowing up from the fire. Oh no, how did
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this happen? Oh my hey, hey, dummy, you lit the match? Dummy? Yeah,
you're the one that did that. So this was not
a basketball decision. It was basketball arson, is what it was.
And they burned down the mansion that Luca was living
in for the insurance payout. And now they're sifting through
the rubble and the ashes, and it's like then they
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have the hoodspot to say the owners like, oh, you know,
we regret, we regret this. Oh really, well, isn't that
convenient you regret it? Okay, so you don't accidentally trade
a player like you just don't. You don't trade up
player of that ilk. That does not happen, and so
you don't trade them for a brittle bag of bones,
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which is what you did. Whose legs have the shelf
life of cottage cheese. You did that. You're the ones
that took that bounty back, and so listen. It's intentional negligence,
is what it is. And after months of the rhetoric
being from the maverage, will Nico, we trust in Nico,
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we trust the rhetoric, suddenly, oh you know that was
a mistake, but I really screwed that one up man.
Bad job by us. Yeah no kidding, no kidding, pal
My God. Now, visionist history for sure, considering what's been
going on. Not a full year, but close enough, close
enough has happened in February. Now we're in mid mid November. Now.
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The worst part, it keeps getting worse. It's like how
low can you go? The worst part is they didn't
even shop like that's the part. It's one thing as well,
you shouldn't trade them, Yeah, you shouldn't trade them if
you're gonna trade him, Okay, there's ways to do this right.
There are there are layers to this as well. There
are ways to do this. You didn't do it right.
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You didn't put him on the auctioning block and say, okay,
what can we what can we get for this I
they didn't test the market. They should have put Luca
on eBay and said, okay, we've got Luca right here.
You're gonna put him up for bid. Opening bid is
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seven first round draft picks and a young star player.
That's what we want. That's oh, that's the the opening bid.
The buy now bid is nine first round draft picks
and three young star players. That's the buy now bid.
And they didn't do it, and you conceivably would have
gotten a bidding war between teams like the Warriors. The Knicks,
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the Celtics teams like that. So this becomes high crimes
and misdemeanors for good old Nico There and Nico Harrison.
If this was like the military, he'd be court martialed
and basketball treason, basketball treason. Hand delivering Luka Doncik with
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the help of the owner. There a generational player, an
MVP caliber player, and you just handed him to the
Lakers for a guy literally nicknamed street clothes because he
doesn't like playing basketball. The only thing that would have
been as good as that trade would have been if
they traded for Kawhi Leonard, who also doesn't like playing basketball.
They somehow missed that one. I'm surprised they didn't get
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Kawhi Leonard in return in that trade as well. My god,
So this deal was so bad? How bad was it?
Thanks for asking? It was so bad that you've got
conspiracy theories saying that the Mavericks made this move. The
Mavericks made this move intentionally as an act like the
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movie Major League They Tank. They wanted to relocate the franchise,
and they did this on purpose. They want to move
the team to Sin City, Lost Wages, Nevada there and
it seems outrageous to something. It wouldn't shock me if
that was somewhere in the decision making process. It would
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not shock me. You follow the money. They're trying to
get some casino stuff in Texas, and there's some bureaucracy
involved in that, as I understand it. And so cash
is always the king, and those bright neon lights and
lost wages. Nevada. You've got this new toy, the billionaire's
toy here, and so the matters listen, they can fire
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Nico Harrison. They fired Nico Harrison. However, you can't wash
off the stain. You ever had an accident with oil
and you get oil on your clothes and you can't
get rid of the oil stain. Now, this is worse
than that, is Nico Harrison, and that was on his
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watch and the owner signed off on it. But man alive.
Way all right? Now, last word, we continue our in
depth team coverage on the fallout of the firing of
Nico Harrison as he was removed of his duties. So question,
should let's go like this, So should the Lakers send
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the Mavericks a thank you note for the lucidantic trade?
Now that Nico Harrison has been whacked, given the guillotine.
So I'm gonna go no way on a thank you note.
I don't believe the Lakers should send a thank you note.
I don't think that's that's the right way to handle this.
That would be amateur. I think they should hand deliver
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this to Nico because he's not working for the Mavericks.
So just hand delivered it to Nico Harrison and give
him a swag bag, give him some ugly purple and
gold polos, give him some of that crap, you know,
Laker sunglasses that are overpriced and crappy and all that stuff.
And lifetime pass. How about this, If he ever wants
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to travel with the Lakers on the road as a fanboy,
Nico can fly on the team plane for the rest
of his life. Who says no. Nico essentially gave a
franchise that was on death doorstep, gave them a stimulus package.
He did. He went President Obama bailing out the auto
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industry or the banking industry, right and government style bailout here.
You got boys, things are not goa. You have the Lakers.
And this is an underrated part of this this story.
The Lakers were circling the drain. Lebron's starting to show
that he was old. He certainly had. Has he played
and played this year he's old or there's other some
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conspiracy theories. I'm not going to get to that now
about Lebron. I do enjoy a good conspiracy. But he's
not playing. Whether whether there's something off the court or
whether that's a basketball injury, he's not playing. There's also
the possibilities just load management, and they don't want to
call it that, so they came up with a fugazy
injury and these whatever. That's fine, but Lebron's not playing.
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He's not available. Anthony Davis is made of paper mache,
as we've seen with the Mavericks. And then out of nowhere,
Luca parachutes in into the jungle like he's on a
rescue copter to save the day. And so they should
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forget a swag back. They should build a statue, a
Nico Harrison statue right next to Jerry West, the two
great executives in Laker history right there, skid Row Bronze
baby right there and skid Row. So all the homeless
can urinate right on that statue right there. For the
Maverick fans, they could do it, and hey, throw flowers
and chocolates in there if you want, you can do that,
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you know, flowers from the heart of course, and the
chocolates say we love you for saving the TV ratings
and saving the franchise and all that. So one sided,
the trade, so one sided. You think Vince McMahon, I
know he's fallen out of polite society, but you think, like,
Vince McMahon is back, and he's like running the NBA,
is like the shadow commissioner of the NBA, and que
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that entrance music and the dramatic entrance music, and Luca
walks in the rating spike. Everyone's back watching, which is
not necessarily true, but it's a WWE style move. It's
a ww style move. Dallas face plants, the Lakers rise
from the Ashes, and Nico Harrison, the unwitting, unwitting tag
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team partner who handed them the belt. There you go,
fade to black. They should retire his number, well, he
doesn't have a number. They should retire number one is
what they should do. They should retire number one because
that is a number one blender in the social media
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late Michael Ray Richardson who said the ship be sinking,
and then there's the cheese be Melton, which is what
they're saying now in Green Bay. That is our lead
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this hour. The fallout from the offensive stinkfest that took place,
said limbau Field, and a lot of noise. There's a
lot of chatter, have you heard it? No some chatter
bouncing around the pinball machine of NFL conversation. And if
you have not been paying attention, pires, there's a pack
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of wolves, not timberwolves, but wolves that are howling at
the moon, and that is not a good sign for
coach Matt LeFleur and his job status. Now, that's some
of the fallout from a Packer team that only scored once.
That's it against the Philadelphia Eagles. One score, missed a
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sixty plus yard field goal that would have tied the
game at the end, another clunky home loss. The Packers
have now lost back to back games in the soon
to be not quite yet soon to be frozen tundra.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question it is Packer coach Matt Leffleur skating
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on thin ice? Is he skating on thin ice? Or
are people overreacting to a random loss at the end
of week ten in the NFL. So my observations on this.
I've got gluten free costco, rotisserie chicken, and Gulfstream and
we will combine all of these things together and we
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are going to make some delicious movie theater popcorn with
extra butter, extra butter and salt right on top. There.
So number number, It is true. It is true that
Matt Lafleur has not done a good job this season.
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Let's establish that as our baseline. Every man, woman, and
child knows that the Packers had high expectations when they
got Micah Parsons that this was going to be a
championship team. It doesn't look like a championship team. It
doesn't play like a champion team. It doesn't appear that
they will ever get to that point. Based on what
we've seen. They're serving up undercooked brought worst. If you've
ever had an undercooked brought worst, it's not very appetizing,
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and you pay the price later you do. Regardless of
that being said, the arrow is pointing towards overreacting in
terms of I'm worried about today's moment in the show.
I have to the show here overnight, and is there
any kind of immediate danger, stranger danger that Matt Lafleur
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is going to end up getting whacked as coach. I
don't see it. And the reason I don't see it
two words, green Bay. That's it right. There's no Jerry
Jones figure doing seven radio shows a week breathing fire. No,
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that does not exist. There's no owner that. They don't
have an owner calling radio shows. They don't have an owner.
They're owned by a committee that never goes well, right,
A committee of foam loving cheeseheads. In fact, I know
one of the Green Bay Packer I don't know a
couple of packer owners here. One of them works here
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at Fox Sports Radio. Also, Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield,
who's a friend and he's a big shot. He brought
the show to Baker's Field because he owns the Green
Bay Packers. So Rod's got a lot of money and that.
But there's over five hundred thousand I say this in
air quotes owners of the Green Bay Packers. There's over
five hundred thousand shareholders of the packers. Not one of them,
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not Rod the Ambassador, the other people I know that
have purchased stock in the packers. None of them have
the power to say bye bye to the head coach.
Cannot do it, can actually fire the guy. You can't
do it. There's no pressure cooker. It's just a slow cooker.
That's all they have. There's a little slow cooker there
in Wisconsin and La flours record. It's one of these things.
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If you're a low information fan, the dumb fan, he said, ah,
what are you target? I said, A great record, that's
what you're doing overnights. You just trying, you're just trying
to get content. Yeah, that kind of But if you
look at the record, he's seventy two and thirty six
during the regular season, six sixty five winning percentage, I'm
told is good. I'm told that's pretty good. However, when
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it counts, there have been eight playoff games, and his
Green Bay Packers, Matt Lafuur's Green Bay Packers are three
and five. So if you use the malor math, that's
not cutting it right. Lafleur is basically a gluten free
version of the guy they got rid of, Mike McCarthy.
It's like he's he looks better on television than the
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chubby Mike McCarthy. The results are about the same. A
regular season contender and a playoff pretender that's the Green
Bay Packers, And so he's like a fit version of
Big Mac. You know, it's well, you know, I'm healthy.
I don't need any sauce. Now, I don't need this. Well, okay,
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but the sauce is part of it. But I don't
need the sauce. Well, I don't need you know, I
don't even need the bread. Well, even though the bread
that's the big Mac. You take the bread away. It's
just two patties and there's no piece of bread in
the middle. But I don't need that. It's all showed,
no sauce. That's the green Bay Packers under mister Lafleur.
That the bigger issue here, and this is what ultimately
will likely get him to leave the sidelines in green Bay.
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Here get excommunicated from the Church of lambeau Field. And
that would be the quarterback Jordan Love. He said, what
what kind of cheese is he is? He is he
a cheddar cheese? He's a mozzarella cheese. What kind of
Well at this point, he's cheese fondue is what he is.
Jordan Love was supposed to be a breakout year again.
They went out, got Michael Parsons, a good defense, blah
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blah blah blah blah. And what they've gotten from Jordan Love.
He's what I call a fifty to fifty raffle quarterback. Now,
what is a fifty fifth raffle? Well, how you're fifty
to fifty raff will you split the money down the middle? Well,
Jordan Love, you split the performances about half the time.
He's pretty good and about half the time he sucks.
That's it, right, Either win a National TV game or
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I guess they tied the Dallas Cowboys. He played well
in that game, relatively speaking. So you win a game,
or you get a ten percent off coupon for cheese
Kurds at Culver's. Congratulations on that. So Jordan Love is
a stat sheet warrior. He's a warrior, n Golden State Warrior,
a stat sheet warrior, top ten quarterback if you go
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by the Trusty quarterback rating in the NFL. And I
know you say a prayer every night or every morning
to the quarterback rating, but Jordan Love is technically a
top ten quarterback in the NFL. He's also looking up
at the tukis of the Chicago Bears and the tukis
of the Detroit Lions in the division. So so top
ten quarterback based on the numbers. And yet when you
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actually watch him play a lot of the time when
you're watching him, it's it's like the difference between reading
sheet music. You read sheet music and then hearing the song.
You'd much rather hear the song than read the music.
You much rather do that. And so that's that's the
Packers to a t that fits him to a t
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because he got pretty numbers, and yet music is kind
of flat, and you got some world class, world renowned musicians,
but they just got a little something missing. There's something
that's not quite right there. And again, he's got the
resume I'm talking about Matt Lafleur. He's got the resume
of a guy, not the guy, but a guy who
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will be remembered for one thing, winning a lot of
regular season games and then bombing out, bomb bomb baby
in the playoffs because that's the talent. So you've got
the beauty contest of the regular season and then in
the postseason you've got the talent show and there's just
apparently not enough talent there, all right, So well, again,
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he's not today, he's not on thin eyes. We can
revisit this at the end of the season and the
lake is starting to crack a little bit, starting to
crack a little bit. And remember, listen, the packers just
did something they don't normally do. That is not a
normal packer moved to trade for Micah Parsons and then
pay him a scene amount of money. You know, you
tade multiple picks away because you think you're going to
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have a championship team. No one looks all that great
in the NFL. They don't all right. Meanwhile, speaking of
not looking all that great, we head to the Big Apple,
the Garden State. Well, actually it's actually the Guarden State,
not the Big Apple, because Florham Park, New Jersey, is
where the Jets facility is in Jersey, Baby, not the
Jersey Shore. But that is where Jets coach Aaron Glenn.
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Things are not going particularly well. Aaron Glenn's trying to
swim against the current. He's being second guest. Hard to
believe football media would second guess the head coach of
a bad football team. But here we are, so he
became Aaron Glenn A turtle. What kind of turtle? A
snapping turtle, that's right, he snapped. Now. At his news
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conference in the last news cycle here, Aaron Glenn was
asked about a recent report that the Jets beat reporter
Rich Samini, longtime beat reporter for the Jets at various
outlets in New York, that he reported star wide receiver
Garrett Wilson would be out three to four weeks because
of a knee injury. So that was his report. Well, Glenn,
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I guess he didn't like that reporting. I don't know,
because it was right, he didn't like it. The Jets
played the Patriots in the Thursday night game and that
led to a very awkward exchange. This is Aaron Glenn,
who's the face of an NFL franchise worth What are
the Jets worths? Five billion, six billions? Something like that?
Believe it or not. Because they're in the right place, location, location, location.
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So here's Aaron Glenn and listen to the interaction. We
have the audio here. Here's Aaron Glenn with the the
media in New York. Take a list. I'm going to
to pass on talking about injuries since you're Rich, He's
not here has all the answers, so you can got
some get all the injuries from Rich. So I go
right into the hill game candid form I or is
(31:26):
that not something you want to ask Rich? Well, I'm
telling you that's Rich Well you better call him. No
disrespect to you or Rich. But like, we want to
hear from you.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
You know, you guys have been here.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You guys have been hearing from me. But now since
we're just reporting stuff you know that I haven't said,
then maybe you should ask you thanks everybody. See, all right,
there you go. So he repeatedly deferred all questions regarding
injuries to a beat reporter who wasn't even in the building.
(32:00):
Tell me the report was right without telling me the
report was right. Why would you be upset if it
wasn't right? All right? So, how are things going? Here's
the question? How are things going for Aaron Glenn and
his tenure with a j e tes suck sucks suck. Hey,
the Jets are on a burner. As the kids said,
they won a couple of games in a row. So
holy catfish Batman, this is Aaron Glenn pulled the ad
(32:23):
I do ask Ben on social media, we do it
on the radio show. He pulled the ask Rich card
from the bottom of the deck. Just ask Rich Samini.
He played it like he's like a high school kid
caught cheating on a test. But it's Rich's fault. I didn't.
I didn't cheat. It was Rich's fault. It was richest
idea blame ask Rich. That's so great, dude. You're the
(32:47):
head coach. Dude, what are you doing? You own the information. Hey,
it's great talk radio. I'm happy that you're bad at
your job. Interacting with the media. It's good for my business.
But seriously, take a couple of steps back. That is
literally one of the main pillars of your job is
to deal with the media, and that's how you do it.
(33:08):
Totally unhinged. Totally unhinged. Now I hear a lot of
I don't hear. I'm gonna check that. I don't hear
a lot. I've heard some defense of Aaron Glenn saying, well,
Bill Belichick did it for twenty years with the Patriots,
and look at all the rings that he won. So
Aaron Glenn's just copying Bill Belichick and all that stuff. Okay,
(33:29):
all right, that's fine. I believe I'm not mistaken. The
Jets have two regular season wins are the twenty ninth
team and the thirty two team NFL. And the thing
that people forget because time goes on, time marches on,
and people don't often look back. Why would you move on?
And you live your life. But there are some that
(33:50):
are too young. Bill belichick coaching team called the Brons.
They're bad. They're bad. But believe it or not, Belichick
was at one point somewhat rdil with the media. Now
give me you an example of that. There's a video
that pops up usually once a year, of Bill Belichick,
young lad coaching the Cleveland Browns back way way way
(34:13):
way back in the nineties. Oh my god, he's coaching
the Cleveland Browns and a local Cleveland comedian did a
comedy bit with Bill Belichick where they made his mom's
peanut butter and jelly sandwich and Belichick played alone. He
played along. That was Belichick being Lucy goosey with the media.
And it's still on YouTube. It pops up every year
(34:35):
or every other year or whatever. So as a rule
of thumb, you can hate the media, you can despise
the media, you can think the media is the worst
thing in the world. However, the media versus me, we've
seen that play out never ends well. That routine does
not end well. And you know it, and I know it.
(34:56):
It's a battle you cannot win. Cannot know it. Name
me one unproven first year coach who decided to pick
a fight with the local media and a real media town,
not only like La there's like nobody that it's all fanboys,
but in a real media town, all right, that would
have survived. I'll wait and I'll give out the number
(35:18):
eight seven seven ninety nine on five. I don't think
it's happened. I don't remember, so Aaron Glenn the I
guess he missed class the day when they went over
the fact that all right, so you're supposed to show
up the class and attention all students there, all the
students in the class. There. You can catch more flies
with honey than vinegar. Aaron Glenn's like, I don't need honey,
(35:42):
I don't want honey. I love vinegar. Give me the vinegar.
And so he just decided, I'm gonna turn every one
of these news conferences into a bubble bath. No water,
all vinegar, a vinegar bubble bath. Yep, that's right. Good times.
I should have used the old odorant line. I'd never
let never let him see a sweatmember that line of
(36:03):
old line there, never let him see a sweat, great
marketing term. And and there's there's Aaron Glenn is like
a Costco chicken, Uh, the the rotisserie chicken from Costco,
glistening with sweat and uh, full on Jersey car wreck
on the Jersey Turnpike. As Aaron Glenn, he's doing the limbo,
(36:24):
doing the limbo. How low. Can you go somewhat lower
than the Jets win total? Which is that's how low?
Pretty low? Pretty low? All right, final point to Jacksonville.
We go do all Coty the Jaguars rookie wide receiver
and defensive back. Rookie wide receiver defensive back Travis Hunter.
(36:48):
We found out I was gonna miss the rest of
the year. Nada la da da la da. Good bye
see lad, he's out. Snap crackle pop the injury. Knee surgery,
right knee, bye bye, bye bye baby. He's all right.
That sucks now. He suffered a non contact injury, which
(37:09):
means the leg just gave out. The leg just gave out.
Happened during practice on Halloween. Spooky. Now, Hunter's knee ligaments.
We didn't see them. We hear they look like that
kind of shredded, like pulled pork. His knee ligaments there,
and so this is his maiden voyage is now done.
They popped the bottle of champagne. He went out there
(37:31):
and played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and that was it there.
He ended up playing sixty seven percent of the offensive snaps.
Thirty six percent. That's less than forty my computer like
brain tells me of the defensive snaps, and then the
injury happened. So the question now that Travis Hunter is
(37:52):
dun Skies for his rookie season, it's all over in Jacksonville.
Did he live up to the hype? Did he live
up to the hype? And the answer is, in nec situation,
not even close, not even This was supposed to be
Prime Time two point zero, the reincarnation. Instead it was
(38:15):
the two ways to nothing is what it was here,
because in the end you had a whole lot of nothing,
a whole lot of it. Couple one hundred yards receiving
a couple of hundred yards receiving a handful of tackles
on defense, and one more touchdown than you and I scored.
That's it. One more Touchdown's a give you mind. The Jags.
(38:36):
Jags traded away not one, not two, not three, I
be four, four draft picks, including the Crown Jewel, their
first round draft pick in twenty twenty six, to move
on up a couple of spots to get that two
way unicorn unicord. They got a unicorn, that's what they said.
(38:57):
They told us that. Well, it turns out that they
did not get a unicorn. They got a Zebra. That's
what they got. Nice to look at. I don't really
do much. That's what they got. The Jags are like, well,
we're gonna we're gonna get a Gulf Stream and they
got a greyhound bus standard ticket, squeaky breaks, greyhound bus
(39:18):
people with body odor in every other seat. That's what
they got. And I get that. He played both ways
and that's kind of cool. It's cute and it's fun.
And you do have to produce. You have to at
least be great on one side and you can be
average on the other for this to work. If you're
not going to be great, either defensively or offensively, it's
(39:39):
a non starter. And the production. As a wide out,
he was listed as a mid tier wide out. As
a defensive back, he was average. He's an average cornerback.
So Pro Football Focus the nerds over there say solid starter,
not franchise game changer. It's about where I had him
on the math scorecard. It's about where I had him.
(40:00):
They traded a big truck full of Bengo cards for
a novelty act. That's really what he is until he
shows that he's actually good. We're one year in and
he's already done for the year. He's heard. And so
it's a bit of a science experiment for the Jaguars
to try to figure this out, because it's not normal
in modern football to play both ways on the field.
(40:21):
And it turns out this is a science experiment, and
like most science experiments, what happens. They blow up in
the lab, come boom, just like that in the lab,
and then that's it. And so in the end, at
this point, based on the report card we filled out today,
Travis Hunter is just another drag drafted by the perfect team.
(40:43):
Just a guy literally and figuratively, just a guy. No
razzle dazzle. Where's the razmataz? I need some razmataz? No
highlight reel. One touchdown? You gave one touchdown? No how
many pick sixes did he have? Where were all those plays?
I didn't see that? Be sure to catch it.
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He's played better than I thought. I'll give him that.
He's played better than I thought. And he's had some
heroic moments here lately, which is good and encouraging. No,
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Speaker 4 (41:50):
So Nico Harrison got fired, and yeah, with that firing
has a lot of people thinking that Anthony Davis could
be on the trade block. Yes, could you see Anthony
Davis getting moved this season? I think he's gonna be
traded to Cedars SINAI. I think that's where he's gonna
be traded. Cooper, come on, I mean the guy where
I was born? Why would you congratulations? A lot of
celebrities there as you know, so where like where's he
(42:10):
gonna go?
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Like? Why would you trade for a guy who's not
gonna play like seriously. It's like say, I'm gonna I'm
gonna date the hottest woman in the world. I'm actually
gonna physically be with her, but I'm gonna I'm gonna date.
I mean, what's the point? All right?
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Next?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (42:24):
The Detroit Pistons went from winning fourteen games two years
ago to uh winning a winning record.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Last year in the playoffs. Yeah, they had a playoff
series with the next one.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
So far this season they're leading the Eastern Conference. Then,
is this the year of the Pistons?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Well, cool, as you know, I have it. It's MEA's
background noise for me at this point, Cooper Loop. The
season starts in December twenty five. They're good. They're a
playoff team. I'm not there yet on the Pistons. How
do we know? Read passes.
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We're gonna play with Coop this time.
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Going to big Dog Ben Maler.
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JJ was at the Seattle Mallar meet and greet we
did back in twenty nineteen, and very noice. Let's play
the game. We have a list of words here. You
still make anchors, Jju.
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Man, okay, works in the We don't have time. Let's
play the game, all right. Mike in New Hampshire pick
a number one to ten please number seven. All right,
number seven, coop, all right, let's go with uh allry wattage.
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Westward wattage, wattag.
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Otage, wattage no electricity, what Mike?
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Say it again, Mike, electricity bro.
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J J what are you doing? What? What?
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What is you?
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Are you a Cleveland Guardian's picture? What are you doing?
Come on, dude, man, he didn't say the word. You
say a word, mark, Mike? Oh you know what is
the word?
Speaker 4 (45:26):
J J?
Speaker 1 (45:27):
What is the word? That's not the word. It's not
the word. All right? Oh my god, I thought he said,
did he say it before? I said no? No, he said,
he said electric. Let's let's try, Mike. Let's Mike, let's try.
Let's try power. What I'm not talking to you? JJ?
(45:47):
I love JJ is one of my favorite callers, Mike power.
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Energy.
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Yeah, all right, it's pick a number, JJ, pick a number, Okay,
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know how trast is.
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All right, that would be three, I know, all right,
number three. All right, let's go with no chance. How
about scouting scouting observing? No, I was trying the mallet maneuver,
the word was combine unfortunately. How about JJ helping out
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You sus says they're gonna start out in the NBA.
That's right, So the wings of change. You can almost
hear them blowing those winds of change in the NBA.
(02:16):
They're actually howling. They're not just blowing their howling the
winds of change. And so I assume you've heard by now.
I don't bear the lead. I didn't bear the lead.
But my god, So if you didn't see this, maybe not.
The Dallas mav Res putting the wreck in mav Reck
have cranked up the old ray Charles hit hit the road,
Jack or in this case, hit the road Nico, and
they have said bye bye to Nico. Harrison nine months
(02:40):
It's like they gave birth. Nine months after. He gave
a donation of luka doncik to the charity in Los Angeles,
the Purple and Gold Charity on skid Row there in LA.
So that move coming the day after, the day after
the Mavrec owner, someone named named the Patrick Dumont, who
(03:03):
was in the right place at the right time. Family
money he I believe married into. Anyway, he attended the loss,
the mav Res loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, and in
that game, fans again doing the chanting fire hany go
fire ko, just like that, a familiar chant ever since
(03:27):
Harrison did the thing that everyone shook their head at
and said, oh my god, what are we doing? He went,
he went rogue, renegade, renegade man. And of course that
is a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
the question. I think the most interesting part of this
is what does the Nico Harrison pink slip do for
(03:52):
the mav Res fan base. So on this one, I've
got commercial airline pilot eBay and President Obama, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some text mechs, which is not as
good as the traditional American Mexican food. But it's final
(04:14):
text mex is okay whatever, all right. So a my
word to answer the question what does the firing of
Nico Harrison do to the fan base? My word is
therapeutic obviously, right, healing wounds you have like a dog
will come up to you if you have a cut
on your leg and lick the wound. This is the
licking of the wound is what this is here. We're
(04:37):
talking about months and months of bottled up range, bottled
up range, finally letting out that primal scream as the
news came down into the void, as Nico Harrison is done, decommissioned,
the fans doing the sports version of no justice, no peace.
(04:59):
They gave it, got no justice, they gave no peace.
They were bloodthirsty, they were on the war path, and
sure enough, the day of reckoning has a arrived. And
make no mistake about this, Nico Harrison was a self
made man. He was self made man. He became because
of the moves he made a basketball anti Christ in Dallas.
(05:24):
Congratulations Nico, way to go, buddy. Now he does have
some friends in the media. I've seen a bunch of
people trying to defend Nico Harrison's Oh, it's not all
on him, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah. See, the thing is, it's
not just the Luca tree. There's other stuff involved in this. Yeah,
the Luca trade was not all him, but there's other
layers to the cake. So there's other stuff going on here.
(05:45):
But the rhythmic chanting fire Nico fire, Nico was louder
than the defensive chance. You know how you go to
an NBA game, if you ever been to one, and
there's always at some point and the rhythmic chant of defense,
you know, that kind of it was louder. He provided
Nico Harrison the voodoo bugaloo. He provided that front office
(06:11):
malfeasans by Nico Harrison's hubris. That's the price, the right
word there. He took a team that, granted it was
a bit of a fluke run, but they had been
in the NBA Finals, Dallas against the Celtics, and he said,
you know what, I don't like that, eh, eh No,
I'm not gonna do that. And so they're in the
(06:32):
NBA Finals, got smoked by the Celtics, and he's let's
turn this into the NBA's version of a staled economy. Okay, fine,
will vaporize anything good that ever happened while I was
the executive in Dallas. Check that box. And as the
saying goes as the saying goes there, you can be
a commercial airline pilot, one of the great pilots. You
(06:55):
can have thousands of thousands of hours in the sky
and land every single plane, do a tremendous job on
time pilot. However, if you crash one of those planes,
they're not talking about all the planes that you landed,
you know what I'm saying. Okay, anyway, you're remembered for
something else. But Nico did the thing you can't do
(07:16):
at the time. You can't do it. And everyone knows
that you're supposed to build on a championship team, build
up an empire. In that era. You don't go in
there and torch it. You don't do that and gutting
whatever was there there was not there there at that
particular point. And so the Luca things won part of it,
obviously the biggest part of it, but he also fired
(07:38):
some popular people behind the scenes support staff with the Mavericks.
There was a story that has been well publicized about
a long time staffer for the Mavericks who was in
the training staff that got let go. Loyal people, loyal
foot soldiers for the Dallas Mavericks who got let go.
You can't treat people like that and expect that the
basketball gods are going to blame. So this was a
(08:01):
bit of a karmic correction, as our astrology insider Andrea
would say. And I know there's a cosmic event going
on right now, but they sent Nico Harrison straight to
the hoops. Who's goal is what they did. They're finally
some peace in Dallas now. Page two. Continuing the theme here,
(08:23):
continuing the theme. So the the other question that's on
the tip of my tongue here, how much blame for
the Luka Doncik trade does the Mavericks owner, this guy
Patrick Dumont, how much does he deserve backing Nico Harrison
in the Luca Boner, the blunder, the blooper, however you
(08:47):
want to call it, whatever b word, blunder, blooper, boner,
all good words, all good descriptive words. They all work.
So on the Malard scale of blame, the Malar scale
of blame. The owner gets sixty percent, sixty percent, Harrison
gets forty percent. And here's why, all right, the owner
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always has final edit. It's like when you make a movie.
You hire the greatest people to make the movie you
can possibly make, but ultimately there's one person that has
the final edit, final cut, and that's the person that
decides what's actually in the movie and what's not in
the movie. And so they could have, as ownership should have,
(09:32):
would have hit the kill switch on the Luca trade,
could have stopped it, but didn't. So this wasn't Again,
this was not just a rogue GM running around in
the dark. You can trade a lot of players without
ownership signing off of it. You cannot trade the face
of the franchise. You're not gonna be able to do that.
So Dumont, if you look at it, he either rubber
(09:55):
stamped the trade and said, okay, Mazata I support this.
He encouraged it. But that's bad also, or he was
just asleep at the switch. What else is there? Is
there anything else? Is so Niko or Harrison? Yeah, he
might have lit the match. He might have lit the
(10:15):
match there. But Patrick Dumont, the guy that's the owner
of the Mavericks there, he's the one that owned the warehouse.
So you know, I have no skin in the game.
I don't And you know we're on in Dallas and
we you know, I got a few people that are
contributed to I know a lot of people listening, but
they very rarely call in. And I wouldn't call in
(10:35):
right now if as a Dallas sports fan either, because
of how pathetic things are. But that said, like the
vision I had for this, this trade insurance, fraud, insurance,
you know what I'm saying. No, you feel me on
that insuran? Let me explain. So you hear those insurance scams,
It's like the Mavericks just torched their own warehouse to
(10:58):
collect an insurance payout. I'm like, eh, yeah, imagine in
the cartoon bubble, You've got the owner of the Mavericks
and Niko standing side by side with matching cans of
unleaded gasoline and pretending like they don't smell the smoke
that's billowing up from the fire. Oh no, how did
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this happen? Oh my hey, hey, dummy, you lit the match? Dummy? Yeah,
you're the one that did that. So this was not
a basketball decision. It was basketball arson, is what it was.
And they burned down the mansion that Luca was living
in for the insurance payout. And now they're sifting through
the rubble and the ashes, and it's like then they
(11:44):
have the hoodspot to say the owners like, oh, you know,
we regret, we regret this. Oh really, well, isn't that
convenient you regret it? Okay, so you don't accidentally trade
a player like you just don't. You don't trade up
player of that ilk. That does not happen, and so
you don't trade them for a brittle bag of bones,
(12:07):
which is what you did. Whose legs have the shelf
life of cottage cheese. You did that. You're the ones
that took that bounty back, and so listen. It's intentional negligence,
is what it is. And after months of the rhetoric
being from the maverage, will Nico, we trust in Nico,
(12:29):
we trust the rhetoric, suddenly, oh you know that was
a mistake, but I really screwed that one up man.
Bad job by us. Yeah no kidding, no kidding, pal
My God. Now, visionist history for sure, considering what's been
going on. Not a full year, but close enough, close
enough has happened in February. Now we're in mid mid November. Now.
(12:52):
The worst part, it keeps getting worse. It's like how
low can you go? The worst part is they didn't
even shop like that's the part. It's one thing as well,
you shouldn't trade them, Yeah, you shouldn't trade them if
you're gonna trade him, Okay, there's ways to do this right.
There are there are layers to this as well. There
are ways to do this. You didn't do it right.
(13:13):
You didn't put him on the auctioning block and say, okay,
what can we what can we get for this I
they didn't test the market. They should have put Luca
on eBay and said, okay, we've got Luca right here.
You're gonna put him up for bid. Opening bid is
(13:34):
seven first round draft picks and a young star player.
That's what we want. That's oh, that's the the opening bid.
The buy now bid is nine first round draft picks
and three young star players. That's the buy now bid.
And they didn't do it, and you conceivably would have
gotten a bidding war between teams like the Warriors. The Knicks,
(13:55):
the Celtics teams like that. So this becomes high crimes
and misdemeanors for good old Nico There and Nico Harrison.
If this was like the military, he'd be court martialed
and basketball treason, basketball treason. Hand delivering Luka Doncik with
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the help of the owner. There a generational player, an
MVP caliber player, and you just handed him to the
Lakers for a guy literally nicknamed street clothes because he
doesn't like playing basketball. The only thing that would have
been as good as that trade would have been if
they traded for Kawhi Leonard, who also doesn't like playing basketball.
They somehow missed that one. I'm surprised they didn't get
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Kawhi Leonard in return in that trade as well. My god,
So this deal was so bad? How bad was it?
Thanks for asking? It was so bad that you've got
conspiracy theories saying that the Mavericks made this move. The
Mavericks made this move intentionally as an act like the
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movie Major League They Tank. They wanted to relocate the franchise,
and they did this on purpose. They want to move
the team to Sin City, Lost Wages, Nevada there and
it seems outrageous to something. It wouldn't shock me if
that was somewhere in the decision making process. It would
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not shock me. You follow the money. They're trying to
get some casino stuff in Texas, and there's some bureaucracy
involved in that, as I understand it. And so cash
is always the king, and those bright neon lights and
lost wages. Nevada. You've got this new toy, the billionaire's
toy here, and so the matters listen, they can fire
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Nico Harrison. They fired Nico Harrison. However, you can't wash
off the stain. You ever had an accident with oil
and you get oil on your clothes and you can't
get rid of the oil stain. Now, this is worse
than that, is Nico Harrison, and that was on his
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watch and the owner signed off on it. But man alive.
Way all right? Now, last word, we continue our in
depth team coverage on the fallout of the firing of
Nico Harrison as he was removed of his duties. So question,
should let's go like this, So should the Lakers send
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the Mavericks a thank you note for the lucidantic trade?
Now that Nico Harrison has been whacked, given the guillotine.
So I'm gonna go no way on a thank you note.
I don't believe the Lakers should send a thank you note.
I don't think that's that's the right way to handle this.
That would be amateur. I think they should hand deliver
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this to Nico because he's not working for the Mavericks.
So just hand delivered it to Nico Harrison and give
him a swag bag, give him some ugly purple and
gold polos, give him some of that crap, you know,
Laker sunglasses that are overpriced and crappy and all that stuff.
And lifetime pass. How about this, If he ever wants
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to travel with the Lakers on the road as a fanboy,
Nico can fly on the team plane for the rest
of his life. Who says no. Nico essentially gave a
franchise that was on death doorstep, gave them a stimulus package.
He did. He went President Obama bailing out the auto
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industry or the banking industry, right and government style bailout here.
You got boys, things are not goa. You have the Lakers.
And this is an underrated part of this this story.
The Lakers were circling the drain. Lebron's starting to show
that he was old. He certainly had. Has he played
and played this year he's old or there's other some
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conspiracy theories. I'm not going to get to that now
about Lebron. I do enjoy a good conspiracy. But he's
not playing. Whether whether there's something off the court or
whether that's a basketball injury, he's not playing. There's also
the possibilities just load management, and they don't want to
call it that, so they came up with a fugazy
injury and these whatever. That's fine, but Lebron's not playing.
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He's not available. Anthony Davis is made of paper mache,
as we've seen with the Mavericks. And then out of nowhere,
Luca parachutes in into the jungle like he's on a
rescue copter to save the day. And so they should
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forget a swag back. They should build a statue, a
Nico Harrison statue right next to Jerry West, the two
great executives in Laker history right there, skid Row Bronze
baby right there and skid Row. So all the homeless
can urinate right on that statue right there. For the
Maverick fans, they could do it, and hey, throw flowers
and chocolates in there if you want, you can do that,
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you know, flowers from the heart of course, and the
chocolates say we love you for saving the TV ratings
and saving the franchise and all that. So one sided,
the trade, so one sided. You think Vince McMahon, I
know he's fallen out of polite society, but you think, like,
Vince McMahon is back, and he's like running the NBA,
is like the shadow commissioner of the NBA, and que
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that entrance music and the dramatic entrance music, and Luca
walks in the rating spike. Everyone's back watching, which is
not necessarily true, but it's a WWE style move. It's
a ww style move. Dallas face plants, the Lakers rise
from the Ashes, and Nico Harrison, the unwitting, unwitting tag
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team partner who handed them the belt. There you go,
fade to black. They should retire his number, well, he
doesn't have a number. They should retire number one is
what they should do. They should retire number one because
that is a number one blender in the social media
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and subscribe. So we mentioned the famous line from the
late Michael Ray Richardson who said the ship be sinking,
and then there's the cheese be Melton, which is what
they're saying now in Green Bay. That is our lead
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this hour. The fallout from the offensive stinkfest that took place,
said limbau Field, and a lot of noise. There's a
lot of chatter, have you heard it? No some chatter
bouncing around the pinball machine of NFL conversation. And if
you have not been paying attention, pires, there's a pack
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of wolves, not timberwolves, but wolves that are howling at
the moon, and that is not a good sign for
coach Matt LeFleur and his job status. Now, that's some
of the fallout from a Packer team that only scored once.
That's it against the Philadelphia Eagles. One score, missed a
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sixty plus yard field goal that would have tied the
game at the end, another clunky home loss. The Packers
have now lost back to back games in the soon
to be not quite yet soon to be frozen tundra.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question it is Packer coach Matt Leffleur skating
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on thin ice? Is he skating on thin ice? Or
are people overreacting to a random loss at the end
of week ten in the NFL. So my observations on this.
I've got gluten free costco, rotisserie chicken, and Gulfstream and
we will combine all of these things together and we
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are going to make some delicious movie theater popcorn with
extra butter, extra butter and salt right on top. There.
So number number, It is true. It is true that
Matt Lafleur has not done a good job this season.
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Let's establish that as our baseline. Every man, woman, and
child knows that the Packers had high expectations when they
got Micah Parsons that this was going to be a
championship team. It doesn't look like a championship team. It
doesn't play like a champion team. It doesn't appear that
they will ever get to that point. Based on what
we've seen. They're serving up undercooked brought worst. If you've
ever had an undercooked brought worst, it's not very appetizing,
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and you pay the price later you do. Regardless of
that being said, the arrow is pointing towards overreacting in
terms of I'm worried about today's moment in the show.
I have to the show here overnight, and is there
any kind of immediate danger, stranger danger that Matt Lafleur
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is going to end up getting whacked as coach. I
don't see it. And the reason I don't see it
two words, green Bay. That's it right. There's no Jerry
Jones figure doing seven radio shows a week breathing fire. No,
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that does not exist. There's no owner that. They don't
have an owner calling radio shows. They don't have an owner.
They're owned by a committee that never goes well, right,
A committee of foam loving cheeseheads. In fact, I know
one of the Green Bay Packer I don't know a
couple of packer owners here. One of them works here
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at Fox Sports Radio. Also, Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield,
who's a friend and he's a big shot. He brought
the show to Baker's Field because he owns the Green
Bay Packers. So Rod's got a lot of money and that.
But there's over five hundred thousand I say this in
air quotes owners of the Green Bay Packers. There's over
five hundred thousand shareholders of the packers. Not one of them,
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not Rod the Ambassador, the other people I know that
have purchased stock in the packers. None of them have
the power to say bye bye to the head coach.
Cannot do it, can actually fire the guy. You can't
do it. There's no pressure cooker. It's just a slow cooker.
That's all they have. There's a little slow cooker there
in Wisconsin and La flours record. It's one of these things.
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If you're a low information fan, the dumb fan, he said, ah,
what are you target? I said, A great record, that's
what you're doing overnights. You just trying, you're just trying
to get content. Yeah, that kind of But if you
look at the record, he's seventy two and thirty six
during the regular season, six sixty five winning percentage, I'm
told is good. I'm told that's pretty good. However, when
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it counts, there have been eight playoff games, and his
Green Bay Packers, Matt Lafuur's Green Bay Packers are three
and five. So if you use the malor math, that's
not cutting it right. Lafleur is basically a gluten free
version of the guy they got rid of, Mike McCarthy.
It's like he's he looks better on television than the
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chubby Mike McCarthy. The results are about the same. A
regular season contender and a playoff pretender that's the Green
Bay Packers, And so he's like a fit version of
Big Mac. You know, it's well, you know, I'm healthy.
I don't need any sauce. Now, I don't need this. Well, okay,
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but the sauce is part of it. But I don't
need the sauce. Well, I don't need you know, I
don't even need the bread. Well, even though the bread
that's the big Mac. You take the bread away. It's
just two patties and there's no piece of bread in
the middle. But I don't need that. It's all showed,
no sauce. That's the green Bay Packers under mister Lafleur.
That the bigger issue here, and this is what ultimately
will likely get him to leave the sidelines in green Bay.
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Here get excommunicated from the Church of lambeau Field. And
that would be the quarterback Jordan Love. He said, what
what kind of cheese is he is? He is he
a cheddar cheese? He's a mozzarella cheese. What kind of
Well at this point, he's cheese fondue is what he is.
Jordan Love was supposed to be a breakout year again.
They went out, got Michael Parsons, a good defense, blah
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blah blah blah blah. And what they've gotten from Jordan Love.
He's what I call a fifty to fifty raffle quarterback. Now,
what is a fifty fifth raffle? Well, how you're fifty
to fifty raff will you split the money down the middle? Well,
Jordan Love, you split the performances about half the time.
He's pretty good and about half the time he sucks.
That's it, right, Either win a National TV game or
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I guess they tied the Dallas Cowboys. He played well
in that game, relatively speaking. So you win a game,
or you get a ten percent off coupon for cheese
Kurds at Culver's. Congratulations on that. So Jordan Love is
a stat sheet warrior. He's a warrior, n Golden State Warrior,
a stat sheet warrior, top ten quarterback if you go
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by the Trusty quarterback rating in the NFL. And I
know you say a prayer every night or every morning
to the quarterback rating, but Jordan Love is technically a
top ten quarterback in the NFL. He's also looking up
at the tukis of the Chicago Bears and the tukis
of the Detroit Lions in the division. So so top
ten quarterback based on the numbers. And yet when you
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actually watch him play a lot of the time when
you're watching him, it's it's like the difference between reading
sheet music. You read sheet music and then hearing the song.
You'd much rather hear the song than read the music.
You much rather do that. And so that's that's the
Packers to a t that fits him to a t
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because he got pretty numbers, and yet music is kind
of flat, and you got some world class, world renowned musicians,
but they just got a little something missing. There's something
that's not quite right there. And again, he's got the
resume I'm talking about Matt Lafleur. He's got the resume
of a guy, not the guy, but a guy who
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will be remembered for one thing, winning a lot of
regular season games and then bombing out, bomb bomb baby
in the playoffs because that's the talent. So you've got
the beauty contest of the regular season and then in
the postseason you've got the talent show and there's just
apparently not enough talent there, all right, So well, again,
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he's not today, he's not on thin eyes. We can
revisit this at the end of the season and the
lake is starting to crack a little bit, starting to
crack a little bit. And remember, listen, the packers just
did something they don't normally do. That is not a
normal packer moved to trade for Micah Parsons and then
pay him a scene amount of money. You know, you
tade multiple picks away because you think you're going to
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have a championship team. No one looks all that great
in the NFL. They don't all right. Meanwhile, speaking of
not looking all that great, we head to the Big Apple,
the Garden State. Well, actually it's actually the Guarden State,
not the Big Apple, because Florham Park, New Jersey, is
where the Jets facility is in Jersey, Baby, not the
Jersey Shore. But that is where Jets coach Aaron Glenn.
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Things are not going particularly well. Aaron Glenn's trying to
swim against the current. He's being second guest. Hard to
believe football media would second guess the head coach of
a bad football team. But here we are, so he
became Aaron Glenn A turtle. What kind of turtle? A
snapping turtle, that's right, he snapped. Now. At his news
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conference in the last news cycle here, Aaron Glenn was
asked about a recent report that the Jets beat reporter
Rich Samini, longtime beat reporter for the Jets at various
outlets in New York, that he reported star wide receiver
Garrett Wilson would be out three to four weeks because
of a knee injury. So that was his report. Well, Glenn,
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I guess he didn't like that reporting. I don't know,
because it was right, he didn't like it. The Jets
played the Patriots in the Thursday night game and that
led to a very awkward exchange. This is Aaron Glenn,
who's the face of an NFL franchise worth What are
the Jets worths? Five billion, six billions? Something like that?
Believe it or not. Because they're in the right place, location, location, location.
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So here's Aaron Glenn and listen to the interaction. We
have the audio here. Here's Aaron Glenn with the the
media in New York. Take a list. I'm going to
to pass on talking about injuries since you're Rich, He's
not here has all the answers, so you can got
some get all the injuries from Rich. So I go
right into the hill game candid form I or is
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that not something you want to ask Rich? Well, I'm
telling you that's Rich Well you better call him. No
disrespect to you or Rich. But like, we want to
hear from you.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
You know, you guys have been here.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You guys have been hearing from me. But now since
we're just reporting stuff you know that I haven't said,
then maybe you should ask you thanks everybody. See, all right,
there you go. So he repeatedly deferred all questions regarding
injuries to a beat reporter who wasn't even in the building.
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Tell me the report was right without telling me the
report was right. Why would you be upset if it
wasn't right? All right? So, how are things going? Here's
the question? How are things going for Aaron Glenn and
his tenure with a j e tes suck sucks suck. Hey,
the Jets are on a burner. As the kids said,
they won a couple of games in a row. So
holy catfish Batman, this is Aaron Glenn pulled the ad
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I do ask Ben on social media, we do it
on the radio show. He pulled the ask Rich card
from the bottom of the deck. Just ask Rich Samini.
He played it like he's like a high school kid
caught cheating on a test. But it's Rich's fault. I didn't.
I didn't cheat. It was Rich's fault. It was richest
idea blame ask Rich. That's so great, dude. You're the
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head coach. Dude, what are you doing? You own the information. Hey,
it's great talk radio. I'm happy that you're bad at
your job. Interacting with the media. It's good for my business.
But seriously, take a couple of steps back. That is
literally one of the main pillars of your job is
to deal with the media, and that's how you do it.
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Totally unhinged. Totally unhinged. Now I hear a lot of
I don't hear. I'm gonna check that. I don't hear
a lot. I've heard some defense of Aaron Glenn saying, well,
Bill Belichick did it for twenty years with the Patriots,
and look at all the rings that he won. So
Aaron Glenn's just copying Bill Belichick and all that stuff. Okay,
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all right, that's fine. I believe I'm not mistaken. The
Jets have two regular season wins are the twenty ninth
team and the thirty two team NFL. And the thing
that people forget because time goes on, time marches on,
and people don't often look back. Why would you move on?
And you live your life. But there are some that
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are too young. Bill belichick coaching team called the Brons.
They're bad. They're bad. But believe it or not, Belichick
was at one point somewhat rdil with the media. Now
give me you an example of that. There's a video
that pops up usually once a year, of Bill Belichick,
young lad coaching the Cleveland Browns back way way way
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way back in the nineties. Oh my god, he's coaching
the Cleveland Browns and a local Cleveland comedian did a
comedy bit with Bill Belichick where they made his mom's
peanut butter and jelly sandwich and Belichick played alone. He
played along. That was Belichick being Lucy goosey with the media.
And it's still on YouTube. It pops up every year
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or every other year or whatever. So as a rule
of thumb, you can hate the media, you can despise
the media, you can think the media is the worst
thing in the world. However, the media versus me, we've
seen that play out never ends well. That routine does
not end well. And you know it, and I know it.
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It's a battle you cannot win. Cannot know it. Name
me one unproven first year coach who decided to pick
a fight with the local media and a real media town,
not only like La there's like nobody that it's all fanboys,
but in a real media town, all right, that would
have survived. I'll wait and I'll give out the number
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eight seven seven ninety nine on five. I don't think
it's happened. I don't remember, so Aaron Glenn the I
guess he missed class the day when they went over
the fact that all right, so you're supposed to show
up the class and attention all students there, all the
students in the class. There. You can catch more flies
with honey than vinegar. Aaron Glenn's like, I don't need honey,
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I don't want honey. I love vinegar. Give me the vinegar.
And so he just decided, I'm gonna turn every one
of these news conferences into a bubble bath. No water,
all vinegar, a vinegar bubble bath. Yep, that's right. Good times.
I should have used the old odorant line. I'd never
let never let him see a sweatmember that line of
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old line there, never let him see a sweat, great
marketing term. And and there's there's Aaron Glenn is like
a Costco chicken, Uh, the the rotisserie chicken from Costco,
glistening with sweat and uh, full on Jersey car wreck
on the Jersey Turnpike. As Aaron Glenn, he's doing the limbo,
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doing the limbo. How low. Can you go somewhat lower
than the Jets win total? Which is that's how low?
Pretty low? Pretty low? All right, final point to Jacksonville.
We go do all Coty the Jaguars rookie wide receiver
and defensive back. Rookie wide receiver defensive back Travis Hunter.
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We found out I was gonna miss the rest of
the year. Nada la da da la da. Good bye
see lad, he's out. Snap crackle pop the injury. Knee surgery,
right knee, bye bye, bye bye baby. He's all right.
That sucks now. He suffered a non contact injury, which
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means the leg just gave out. The leg just gave out.
Happened during practice on Halloween. Spooky. Now, Hunter's knee ligaments.
We didn't see them. We hear they look like that
kind of shredded, like pulled pork. His knee ligaments there,
and so this is his maiden voyage is now done.
They popped the bottle of champagne. He went out there
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and played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and that was it there.
He ended up playing sixty seven percent of the offensive snaps.
Thirty six percent. That's less than forty my computer like
brain tells me of the defensive snaps, and then the
injury happened. So the question now that Travis Hunter is
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dun Skies for his rookie season, it's all over in Jacksonville.
Did he live up to the hype? Did he live
up to the hype? And the answer is, in nec situation,
not even close, not even This was supposed to be
Prime Time two point zero, the reincarnation. Instead it was
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the two ways to nothing is what it was here,
because in the end you had a whole lot of nothing,
a whole lot of it. Couple one hundred yards receiving
a couple of hundred yards receiving a handful of tackles
on defense, and one more touchdown than you and I scored.
That's it. One more Touchdown's a give you mind. The Jags.
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Jags traded away not one, not two, not three, I
be four, four draft picks, including the Crown Jewel, their
first round draft pick in twenty twenty six, to move
on up a couple of spots to get that two
way unicorn unicord. They got a unicorn, that's what they said.
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They told us that. Well, it turns out that they
did not get a unicorn. They got a Zebra. That's
what they got. Nice to look at. I don't really
do much. That's what they got. The Jags are like, well,
we're gonna we're gonna get a Gulf Stream and they
got a greyhound bus standard ticket, squeaky breaks, greyhound bus
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people with body odor in every other seat. That's what
they got. And I get that. He played both ways
and that's kind of cool. It's cute and it's fun.
And you do have to produce. You have to at
least be great on one side and you can be
average on the other for this to work. If you're
not going to be great, either defensively or offensively, it's
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a non starter. And the production. As a wide out,
he was listed as a mid tier wide out. As
a defensive back, he was average. He's an average cornerback.
So Pro Football Focus the nerds over there say solid starter,
not franchise game changer. It's about where I had him
on the math scorecard. It's about where I had him.
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They traded a big truck full of Bengo cards for
a novelty act. That's really what he is until he
shows that he's actually good. We're one year in and
he's already done for the year. He's heard. And so
it's a bit of a science experiment for the Jaguars
to try to figure this out, because it's not normal
in modern football to play both ways on the field.
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And it turns out this is a science experiment, and
like most science experiments, what happens. They blow up in
the lab, come boom, just like that in the lab,
and then that's it. And so in the end, at
this point, based on the report card we filled out today,
Travis Hunter is just another drag drafted by the perfect team.
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Just a guy literally and figuratively, just a guy. No
razzle dazzle. Where's the razmataz? I need some razmataz? No
highlight reel. One touchdown? You gave one touchdown? No how
many pick sixes did he have? Where were all those plays?
I didn't see that? Be sure to catch it.
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On Monday, Rex Ryan called Caleb Williams a generational talent yeah,
and said that he's gonna keep climbing. Ben, Is Caleb's
starting to change your opinion on his career outlook?
Speaker 1 (41:24):
No, No, I have not changed my opinion yet. It
it takes a long time for me to change my opinion.
He's played better than I thought. I'll give him that.
He's played better than I thought. And he's had some
heroic moments here lately, which is good and encouraging. No,
I'm not. I know he's got to worry about his
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Bears are. They're starting to make a little bit of
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So Nico Harrison got fired, and yeah, with that firing
has a lot of people thinking that Anthony Davis could
be on the trade block. Yes, could you see Anthony
Davis getting moved this season? I think he's gonna be
traded to Cedars SINAI. I think that's where he's gonna
be traded. Cooper, come on, I mean the guy where
I was born? Why would you congratulations? A lot of
celebrities there as you know, so where like where's he
(42:10):
gonna go?
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Like? Why would you trade for a guy who's not
gonna play like seriously. It's like say, I'm gonna I'm
gonna date the hottest woman in the world. I'm actually
gonna physically be with her, but I'm gonna I'm gonna date.
I mean, what's the point? All right?
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Next?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (42:24):
The Detroit Pistons went from winning fourteen games two years
ago to uh winning a winning record.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Last year in the playoffs. Yeah, they had a playoff
series with the next one.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
So far this season they're leading the Eastern Conference. Then,
is this the year of the Pistons?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Well, cool, as you know, I have it. It's MEA's
background noise for me at this point, Cooper Loop. The
season starts in December twenty five. They're good. They're a
playoff team. I'm not there yet on the Pistons. How
do we know? Read passes.
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my name to the Dynasty Sniper.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
I like it. Marcell will lose his mind. I think
he already did, but he'll lose his mind again. Okay,
all right, very good, Mike, who do you want to
partner up with? Quickly? Please?
Speaker 4 (43:50):
We're gonna play with Coop this time.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
All right, very nice? You and Coop will lose. And
JJ in Renton is going to play. Hello, JJ, oh man, they're.
Speaker 5 (44:01):
Going to big Dog Ben Maler.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Oh boy, here we go.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
All right.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
JJ was at the Seattle Mallar meet and greet we
did back in twenty nineteen, and very noice. Let's play
the game. We have a list of words here. You
still make anchors, Jju.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
No, man, I'm working in the freezers now.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Man, okay, works in the We don't have time. Let's
play the game, all right. Mike in New Hampshire pick
a number one to ten please number seven. All right,
number seven, coop, all right, let's go with uh allry wattage.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Westward wattage, wattag.
Speaker 5 (44:45):
Otage, wattage no electricity, what Mike?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Ok oh my goodness, this phone's crapping out.
Speaker 5 (44:59):
Say it again, Mike, electricity bro.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
J J what are you doing? What? What?
Speaker 2 (45:10):
What is you?
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Are you a Cleveland Guardian's picture? What are you doing?
Come on, dude, man, he didn't say the word. You
say a word, mark, Mike? Oh you know what is
the word?
Speaker 4 (45:26):
J J?
Speaker 1 (45:27):
What is the word? That's not the word. It's not
the word. All right? Oh my god, I thought he said,
did he say it before? I said no? No, he said,
he said electric. Let's let's try, Mike. Let's Mike, let's try.
Let's try power. What I'm not talking to you? JJ?
(45:47):
I love JJ is one of my favorite callers, Mike power.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Energy.
Speaker 5 (45:57):
Yeah, all right, it's pick a number, JJ, pick a number, Okay,
give me number, give me Russell Wilson's number, because you
know how trast is.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
All right, that would be three, I know, all right,
number three. All right, let's go with no chance. How
about scouting scouting observing? No, I was trying the mallet maneuver,
the word was combine unfortunately. How about JJ helping out
(46:29):
his opponent. They're very nice of and very generous of
Jay
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