November 14, 2025 • 50 mins
Big Ben talks about the Patriots winning their 8th game in a row after defeating the Jets on MNF, Justin Jefferson talking to the media and appearing to not be happy with J.J. McCarthy, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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this hour from Foxborough as that was the stage. The
curtain went up on Week eleven. We're in the week
eleven now. The NFL season was billed as an AFC
East mismatch. If you go by the gambling line, you
had Justin Fields, who's pretending to be an NFL quarterback
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flying the Jets with but the Jets it's not like
a jumbo jet. It's more like a prop plane where
you have to pedal for the thing to take off
and a hop skipping a jump to the Commonwealth there
for a date with Drake May and the Patriots. You
had the Venerable Al Michaels, good old Al and Herbie
on the call on the Amazon. I'm not sure if
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you were watching this game or not. It did not
seem like a game you had to watch. It was
a mismatch coming in we watched, had no choice. Rookie
Trayvon Henderson, he's a Buckeye from Ohio States with three
touchdowns so like he was playing Northwestern again, two on
the ground, one via catch, and Drake May and the
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Patriots get to win eight in a row. Is eight enough?
Twenty seven to fourteen over the lowly pathetic Jets in
the Thursday night game. So the Pats at nine and two,
they matched their longest winning streaks. And some guy named
Brady in his final season before he defected to Tampa.
I was in twenty nineteen. And they've now, as we said,
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they've won their first eight. That year they won their
first day Patriots three to zero in the division. There's
all kinds of numbers. I don't even really care about
any of that stuff. But the good jumping off point
is just the wide angle lens in honor of the
Jets from thirty thousand feet up in the airs that
normally we start with the losers. The Jets are so bad.
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How bad are they that Jet? They're so bad that
we're not going to start with them. That's so bad
they are. We'll start with New England. The debts aren't
even really compelling at this point. So let us discuss
the question. Give me your impressions of the Mike Vrabel
twenty twenty five Patriots as they played the Island game.
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Here where now eleven weeks into the NFL season. So
my thoughts on this. I've got sorcerer's workshop, giant inflatable
pizza slice, and aromatherapy, and we will combine all of
these things together, and we are going to start from scratch,
is what we're going to do. So a this one
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is simple. My impressions of the Patriots. I've seen him
play a few times, but just focused in on this game,
not flipping to any other game because there's nothing else on.
The NBA is unwatchable. So a work in progress is
the way I will describe it. And when I mean work,
like you know, assembly line. There might be some bolts
missing there, but you don't really know yet. You don't
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know yet. And the Patriots compared to years past, the
Gerrod Mayo year, not years. He was only there for
one year. The Patriots obviously have taken a quantum leap
year and Mike Rabol going into the sorcerer's workshop and
essentially recreating It's kind of like Tom Brady's dog. You
know tom Brady had his dog copied. Well, that's what
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Rabel's doing. He's like, all right, let's go in there,
and I want to recreate the secret recipe we had
in Tennessee. Not that they won, not that they won.
They didn't win in Nashville, but they had competitive teams
a year after year for the most part, solid well
coached football and all the hokey lines control the controller
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bowls and all that. Well, Mike Rabel has cloned his
old Titan teams. It would appear a disciplined, somewhat physical,
coachable button dof they all had two penalties in this game.
They had no turnovers. And that's the Mike Rabels starter
pack right there. No dumb penalties. The eight straight wins
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is kind of cool. But let's not get too carried
away here. I'm not gonna be Benny Bright's out in this.
He played the Jets a full blown three ring flying
clown plane the Jets, and the Jets unloaded the few
name brand defensive players they had and they rolled out
a defense that had I think there were some uber
drivers in the secondary. There were some cfl Rejets that
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were out there little flotsam and then Jets them flats
them on the right, jets them on the left. And
they had people that were likely one of you, like,
where's the locker room when they arrived at the stadium,
where do I go? I don't know where that is?
And they were still the Jets mathematically in the game
in the fourth quarter of New England did not even
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cover the line. The line was thirteen and a half.
I know some places it was twelve and a half
or thirteen. If it was thirteen, it was a push
and we got it at thirteen and a half on
benny versus the penny. So we lost that but at
home in an Island game short week all that against
the team that Let's be honest here, the way the
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Jets have gone, the joke that Aaron Glenn as a coach,
they probably should have been euthanized back in week four
the Jets, but they're still playing. The Jets roster looks
like they have decided to collect and a group of
spare parts from a garage sale and some free stuff
on offer up and Craigslist and there they are now. Meanwhile,
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we also heard that Mike Rabel was handing out blue
collar shirts to players before the game. If you saw
that or not, it was a cute, little adorable thing,
very pinterest coachable, subliminal message kind of thing. We're hard
working all that stuff, of course, just the whole bs stuff.
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Like the reality is, these guys wouldn't last five minutes
if they were with the factory boys listening in El
Paso or the heavy machinery guys there in Ohio would
kick them into Lake Eriie right away. They tap out.
And it's always amusing to me when it's more of
an NFL thing. We see it in basketball somewhil too.
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We don't see it in baseball. But when he hear's, oh,
we're going to be a blue collar team and all
that stuff, and I'm like, okay, that's that's cute. But like, no,
the average Patriots player is making three point two million
dollars this year. The actual blue collar guys that Mike
Rabel was trying to invoke twenty five dollars and ninety
cents an hour. They get twenty five dollars and ninety
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cents an hour. The annual salary for most who work
in the factory is about fifty four thousand dollars a year,
So very blue collar if you're making three point two
million versus fifty three, eight hundred and seventy two dollars,
but very very out there. Nothing screams working class like
a twenty five year old defensive back who was also
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making a million dollars in college and missus a tackle
while getting paid two point eight million dollars. Nevertheless, hey, listen,
Mike Rabel does have structure, the cupcakes and doughnuts schedules
working well. They're steamrolling through this thing as they should.
There's no real haunted houses out there for the Patriots
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down the line. They're doing what they're supposed to be doing,
and the real acid test will be down the line
in the playoffs. And meanwhile, page two, you've got Drake
May who was being serenaded with envy pete MV pete
rhythmic chanting of MVP New England obviously winning this game.
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Here's Mike Vrabel. Mike Rabel, the coach who was asked
about the expectations and the rhythmic chanting take a listen.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And we have high expectations for high expectations for himself.
Phil continue to improve. I know that he'll stay humble
through this all. And you know again, and as far
as the performance tonight, I thought it was you know again,
in first view, you know, pretty pretty good. He was
good enough to win. I mean he took care of
the football.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Okay, that's a ringing endorsement. Okay, So question does this
win help elevate Drake May the campaign of Drake May
for the MVP Award? Does it help him in the
MVP race? So I watched the entire game and I
wrote on my scorecard, No, I don't believe that would
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be acting. Know you this, you're a fanboy, Okay, congratulations,
but this was this is not a bad performance. It
was more about I consider it a lateral move. That's
what I thought it was. It was like treading water
and the kiddie pool. You're lying on a giant inflatable
pizza slice and you're sipping a cocktail with one of
those umbrellas in it, and that's kind of what this
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was a little chillier than that, but that's where we
are with Drake May on This game played one of
the NFL's you know not I don't say all time wars,
but they traded their top players. That's not not a
good defense with the names they have out there, the
Jets right now. And he didn't really go turbotastic. It
was a mixed bag. He completed a lot of passes
averaged eight yards, had a bunch of explosive plays, but
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only one touchdown pass And and if you want MVP votes,
these are the kind of games where your stat bandito
and you fatten up your stat sheet and you have
a bunch of fireworks and everything's great. And this was
more like it wasn't a dud, but it was more
like a couple of sparklers, And sparklers are cool, dude,
you love sparkles. Who doesn't like sparks, safe and sane,
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safe and sane, safe and san But it wasn't like fireworks.
Wasn't like illegal fireworks you got from Mexico or something
like that. Wasn't that? And uh, anyway, so can we
address also the fire breathing dragon of the room. If
my malor math is correct, Drake May somehow has played
now a year plus basically a year and a half
over year and a half now, and he still hasn't
thrown for three hundred yards in an NFL game. We're
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talking about the modern NFL here, where teams throw the ball.
If they're up, if they're down, if they're tied, if
they're hungry, if they're sleepy, whatever, they just they throw
the ball. The league practically forces you to get three
hundred yards by accident, and Drake May has two hundred
and eighty yard performances piling up like empty boxes from
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Amazon and not crossed over the rubicon, so that three
hundred hasn't gotten it. It's one of those bizarro quirky
things that's out there. But May failing to lead the
Patriots again to cover against the Jets. That's not great.
It's not great. A nice little quarterback developing. We'll see
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where this ends up when the real games begin. Down
the line. Patriot's playing a lot, a lot of week
of it's here and Drake May has not. He's not
yet found that higher, higher gear. It's like it's like
he's in second gear and' humming along and he's going
fifty five or sixty and he's in the right lane.
He's got the hazards flashing and you think MVP, right,
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that's Autobahn territory. That's one hundred and ten miles an
hour passing Ferraris and Porsches and things like that. So again,
this game, it keeps him where he already was. It's
not like he goes any lower and continues to be
a wide open race as it's too early. Not all
precincts are reporting in and Drake May still promising in
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the town.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Oh, you're such a hater Baler. That's what you're doing
the overnights. You're supposed to get the knee pads out
for Drake May. Okay, stop stop stop, stop, stops up
all right. Last word for the j e Ts suck, suck, suck.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Where quarterback Justin Fields yet again was held in check. Yeah, well,
he did go over one hundred yards passing for him,
that's a big accomplishment. Weillive him a puffy sticker congratulations.
Normally he's been around fifty yards passing, so he doubled that.
And the Jets did come out and matriculate the ball
down the field. They had a nice opening drive, most
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of it on the ground, and the rest of the game, Eh,
let's see here, Dan see Justin Fields he fumbled deep
in his own territory in a one score game in
the fourth quarter. Here's just we have just Here's Justin
Field's commenting on his performance for the Jets. Take a list.
Not good enough. You know, we lost the game, so
it wasn't good enough. Every time we lose, my performance
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isn't good enough. Okay, thank you. How about the coach
Aaron Glenn give the state of the Jets address? Can
you please help us out? Coach Aaron Glenn, let's hear
this again.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
We're all accountable for that, you know, as far as coaches.
Make sure we put our guys in the right position,
the receivers to make sure they catch the ball, and
then we can say Justin make sure he getting the
ball to some other guys. But to me, that was
really there were some players out there to be made.
I thought he had some really good throws. We got
to finish those things.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Okay, thought he had some really good throws. Later on
he said there are some really good things in general
for the quarterback. So the question quickly Jets coach Aaron
Glenn saying the quarterback Justin Fields did some really good things.
How do you process that. It processed that one. So
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my first thought on this is, I think this is
the highest level of football. This is not a kindergarten
parent teacher conference. We're not We're not doing that. You
don't need to coddle anyone. And Justin Fields was able
to wipe his own tushy. Congratulations, and he rode the
vomit comet and that's great and wonderful. And they had
that scripted opening drive where they ran the ball most
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of the time, and he ran a couple of QB
keepers and he had some success and the only attempted
two passes overall. Justin Fields is the same suck bag
quarterback he was with Chicago and with Pittsburgh. The guy blows.
That's just it. He averaged four point five yards per pass.
He threw a ball off alignman's helmet. If you saw that,
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there was that intentional grounding thing where he I think
killed the worm was out on the field. He killed that.
And then the masterpiece of this that should be hung
in an art museum. Fumbling the snap in a one
score game deep in your own territory, which, oh, by
the way, the Patriots should have scored a touchdown they
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would have covered the spread, not that I'm bitter about that,
but they did not. They got the ball the eleven
yard line of the Jets. So really good stuff, terrific.
Let's have a parade right through the Canyon of Heroes.
We're going to have a parade. And so what is
Aaron Glenn doing? Well again, he's gaslighting, is what he's
doing here. Aaron Glenn treating the seven Jets fans that
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are left like there are a bunch of dingle berries
who can't see what's happening with their own eyes. If
the Jets wanted a running back, I'm sure they could
have found one somewhere. They're not that expensive. They're everywhere,
they really are. It's like sand on the beach that
you don't really need to worry about it. There's gonna
be more sand. And if Aaron Glenn truly believes that
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there were some really good things out there with this quarterback,
justin Fields, if Glenn's going that direction, then someone needs
to call for a fifty one fifty a seventy two
hour cycle because that is deluge. You know, that is delugional,
is what that is. And Fields, like he was a
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CFL quarterback playing an NFL game, which I think is
insulting to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. So I guess he's
actually not that one of those minor league UFL Arena
League whatever they're calling those minor league outfits now. So yeah,
I don't think he could play for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
I don't or the Montreal Alouettes or the Argonauts or
the BC Lions. I don't think you play for them.
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I know. And the Jet fans, while some of them
are dumda dumb, dumb dumb, they're not all rubs. They're
not all rubs. And those that watched, and so I
would advise Aaron Glenn, do not blow smoke up the
backside of the Jet fan and tell them it's a
romatherapy because they know it's not. And Justin Fields didn't
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do really good things. He did Justin Field's things. And
that's exactly the problem with Justin Fields. Heaven knows he
does Justin Fields things, and that's exactly the problem. It's
every time he's playing, it's happy hour for the other team.
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It's happy hour for the other team. When he's out
there playing quarterback.
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We'll get back to the Thursday night game. Patriots win
a workmanlike effort. They did not cover the spread, at
least the big spread. It was up to thirteen and
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a half. But our lead is from Minnesota. Not all
is right on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. If you
did not see this, Perhaps not.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
The most decorated in terms of money receiver in the NFL.
Justin Jefferson is not exactly getting it done at a
high level so far this season, at least not with
his current quarterback and justin Jefferson's saying that he is
trying to work back, he said, trying to work back
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to the level that he reached a couple of years
back in twenty twenty two, which inspired him. That was
the spark to get paid the big money. Jefferson said
he wanted to return to when he called what he
called his savage mode. Well, I can just give you
the whole sound bite, but why don't we go to
the audio tape. Take a listen. Here's Jefferson who wants
to have a different mentality. Here's mister Jefferson.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Take a list personally, mentally, just wanting to get back
into to that mode into I like to say, savage mode.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Savage mo, I mean, it's just going.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Out there with that fit mentality and just going out
there and just killing it.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I want to thank him for saying ef it and
not the full F word. Normally we have to bleep that,
but he said ef it. We don't have to bleep effort.
He meant funn it. I think he meant fun it
right or fudget. He could have said fudget, but he
didn't say what you thought he said then. But wait,
there's more Justin. Jefferson, Viking receiver, was asked why things
haven't been the way they were before. Take a listen life.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
You know a lot of different things going on in
my life, and just wanting to get back to that
kid phase of loving I still love football, but overly
loving football and overly loving just being out there on
Sundays and making the big plays and just being a
part of this great organization.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So he claimed, Jefferson that he was inspired because of
clip I remember that famous catch he had. I say famous.
It was a regular season game against Buffalo, but he
had that leaping, one handed grab against the Bills. Remember
the catch. It was a pretty big deal whendn't happened.
And so the anniversary of that it was this week,
and a bunch of people who were engagement farming sent
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that out on social media and Jefferson saw it, and
so he brought that up as a point of reference.
Now we should point out that in his last game,
dud Jefferson against the Baltimore football team JJ McCarthy, who's
drowning at quarterback, two of his passes that were intended
for Jefferson were intercepted by the Ravens and on both occasions,
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not once, but twice, Jefferson did not seem all that
interested in making a play on the defender who had
intercepted the pass. On the interception return. Now, there are
many close observers with magnifying glasses out that have seen signs.
I see the sign They have seen signs that Jefferson
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is not on board. No, no, no, he's not on
the happy train Drew. No, no, he's not that interested
in developing the young quarterback. Now, he attempted to push
back on that. In fact, in that same interview session,
he called JJ McCarthy a quote great player and added
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he's a great quarterback and he's a great kid. The
word is great. Okay, So that is a good jumping
off point. Let's dive into this one, the question, what
are your impressions of Justin Jefferson not appearing to be
all that happy with the vikings and mainly with the
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quarterback JJ McCarthy. So my observations on this, I've got babysitting, Vermont,
maple syrup, and mad ants, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to be
in the lap of luxury, is what we're going to
be in the lap of luxury. So number one. So
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justin Jefferson can say all the right things, right, I
can say all the right things, But the man's body language. Remember,
most of communication is body language. The body language is
writing a completely different book. It's a much different novel
body language versus the words that are coming out of
his mouth. You don't need to watch the All twenty
two like JJ and Renton. You don't need some nerdy
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analytical dork on YouTube or buried behind a paywall on
a shady football website to break it down for you.
The lolli gagging, that's the word, lolli gagging. On the interceptions,
no hustle, no chase, just a kind of a shrug
emoji type effort. Day give it, Dack give it. That
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is a superstar saying I'm really not into this. I'm
not into it. Jefferson knows what it's like to have
a quarterback that can get him the ball on a
regular basis and provide him the opportunity to become an
elite wide receiver and all that stuff. He was elite,
and a couple of years there he was a walking
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cheat code for the Minnesota Vikes. Right now, when JJ
McCarthy is quarterbacking, he's giving that Wendell Ubinson level production,
giving the Michael Pittman Junior level production. Jefferson producing in
four starts with red shirt rookie JJ McCarthy an average
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of four point two catches per game for fifty two
yards per game. Now that's fine if you're Wanda Robinson.
Robins is a good player, not a great player. Michael
Pittman Junior, good player, not a great player. It's fine
for those guys. However, when you're the guy that got
the one hundred and forty million dollar contract, you're supposed
to be the greatest player on the planet, and it
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doesn't look that way right now. It's bad. It's real bad.
When McCarthy's out there, I say, it's a small sample size,
but we have a show to do today. And this
is the the vibe I got from Jefferson watching some
of those clips from the Baltimore game is I don't
like the new toy that I got. I don't like it.
I don't you know the energy like when a kid
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gets a toy on Christmas or honok or something. The
open up up and it's like the wrong gift. And
do we have the receipt. I gotta return this. I
don't want to now. The Vikings problem is that they
obviously drafted McCarthy in the first round. There was a
lot of moving parts to get McCarthy. Let some people
go to get him and all that stuff, and they
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need a booster rocket to help boost the quarterback at
this point, and instead Jefferson's giving the vibe of why
am I babysitting this guy again? Like I got paid,
this is the prime of my career. I'm never going
to be better than I am right now, and you're
cramping my style because this guy didn't know what he's doing,
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and so that's it. He's twenty six. He's giving off
the vibes like he's middle aged. Body language says I'm grumpy.
Body language says I'm annoyed. Body language says I'm not
hiding it. And then he comes out with the he's
a great quarterback, great kid line. Now the problem with
that is too many greats. He kept repeating the word great,
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So it looks to me, after a minute long deliberation
of the available evidence, like he was pulled aside by
the PR people. The PR war trying to win the
pr culture war. The spin doctor said, all right, listen,
let me give you some flashcards. Here's what you say
about the quarterback, and the media will be fine. You
just say this, and if you don't say this, you're
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gonna start a wildfire. And we don't want to start
a wildfire. So just just go through the point by point.
Use the word great. Just call him great, great, great,
great great. Okay, ill call him great, great, great, great great,
great player, great quarterback, great kid great. You know, makes
a mean omelet, really good omelet. Toast not so good.
He's working on the toast, but he's working. You know,
he's doing. He's doing as good as he can do.
Bacon needs a little work as well. The bacon needs
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a little work. But listen, here, here's the deal. The
tape does not lie Justin Jefferson when he's played with McCarthy.
There are plenty of eclips. You can find them yourself. Even
the blind listeners like Stevie Meatballs can see them. Justin
Jefferson is disconnect. Looks a little checked out there, and
so you really don't need to bring in some kind
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of special investigator to decode what's going on. It's not
much of a mystery. Jefferson is not happy doesn't mean
he's good. To demand a trade doesn't mean that. It
just means he's frustrated with JJ McCarthy. He's annoyed with
his lack of opportunity. And the more he says everything's fine,
the louder the body language gets that it's not fine.
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And he's even though financially living a high on the hog,
not so much the rest of the way. Now. Meanwhile,
to Seattle we go what kind of ess? Actually an
LA storyline? The Rams and Seahawks get together on Sunday
and a massively important NFC West slobber knocker. That matchup
not just a game, it's a slobber knocker. So the Rams,
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we have learned, are planning a full blown Hallmark movie
on the JumboTron as a tribute for the emotional return
of Cooper Cup. Yeap, oh, it's so sad he now
plays with the Seahawks, not much because he's often hurt.
And Cooper Cup was asked about the Rams showing a
tribute video and what did he say? What did Cooper
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Cup say? Hmmm, what do you think he said? Well,
he said, I don't know I didn't die. I'm here,
is what he said. It's a great quote. It's a
really good quote. I didn't die, he said, I don't know.
I didn't die. I'm still here, all right. Question, how
did you react to that clip? The money quote from
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wide receiver Cooper Cup letting the Rams know that his
heart is still ticking. What's good. We're happy that his
heart is still ticking. He does not need an ambulance.
There's no need for paramedics to come and help him out.
I didn't die. That is what a line. It's perfection.
He nailed it. He nailed it. That's exactly how these
tribute videos feel, if you've ever seen one, and how
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could you miss them? It's I've been to a lot
of funerals as I've gotten older, a lot of people
have dropped dead in my life, and I've seen a
lot of these videos and stuff, and it's like that.
It's like you're memorializing a player who's about to go
out there and play. It's like, so I say bravo
to Cooper Cup. The man spent eight years with the Rams.
He could ram it all day, could ram it all night.
(30:24):
He had that cheat code season back in twenty twenty one.
Offensive Player of the Year almost won an MVP. Was unstoppable,
a great ram great player. Not anymore. It's washed up.
But regardless of that, he's also a grown adult with
the pulse, as he pointed out, very much alive. And
he doesn't need confetti. Cannons doesn't need the party favors
(30:48):
and all that stuff, the big screen validation because I
used to work there, like I used to work the
league has learned as a business, the end NFL. They've
turned this into the Vermont maple syrup business with lots
of sap, lots of SAP. Now, I do give the
Cowboys credit because they didn't do that when Micah Parsons
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came back. But very rarely does this not happen? Very
rarely is this not happen. Every guy just about that
leaves town ends up getting a video package on the scoreboard,
roll the montage, roll them on. It's smaltzy. It's the
smaltzy inflation, is what it is. Everyone needs a cake
(31:32):
and balloons and a little social media video. And they
got to get Morgan Freeman to narrate their goodbye. Let's
pay Morgan Freeman. A couple of grand and we'll do
a very emotional read and enough already. Now wait, wait
till the guy retires. If you want to do something
like that, bring him back, you can cry and save
(31:54):
the nostalgia for the main the main event, which is
when the career is over and all stuff. It's sy
odd because I think Cooper Cup's gonna play with he
has been injured. But if he does play, ass I mean,
he was circling that game on the schedule. He's gonna
try to get one hundred yards and a touchdown and
all that stuff. And he had the proper response, simple, dry, perfect,
(32:16):
I'm not dead. Translation, you play the game to win
the game. Knocked off the drama, O rama. And he's right,
He's right, Hard is still ticking the rams. Don't need
to throw him a little ash scattering at sea ceremony
just because he happens to be playing for the Seahawks.
(32:39):
And let's put the pause on the jumbo tron sympathy parade.
We're good, all right now, final point, we go back
to the Twin Cities basketball story. Appearing on some fledgling
NBA podcast, The very rarely interesting coach of the basketball
team in Minnesota Chris Finch is his name. He's the
tim tim Wolves coach. So Chris Finch was discussing the
(33:07):
art of podcasting on a podcast and somebody took a
stray shot. Yeah, collateral damage, Yeah, downrange that person.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
J. J.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Reddick, Chris Finch said, quote on a podcast about podcasting.
He said, quote, I mean it'll qualify you to coach
the Lakers, Chris Finch said in a deadpan delivery. And
it's no secret that Reddick JJ Reddick the most pompous
(33:45):
man in the world. If you don't believe me, just
listen to him talk. With no prior coaching experience. JJ
Reddick was hired last before last season by the Lakers
ahead of the twenty four to twenty five campaign. And
he had spent the years since retirement primarily as a broadcaster,
but mostly as a podcaster, and he hosted a podcast
(34:08):
alongside Lebron James and they were podcast buddies. And then
he gets the job. So the question, give me your
reaction to a sitting NBA coach Chris Finch of the
Timberwolves taking a jab actually more than a job at
(34:28):
JJ Reddick's resume. So my reaction to this is how
sweet it is. How sweet it is, man, that's how
you do it. That is a professional assassination, is what
that is. You're talking about podcasting and then boom goes
to dynamite. You'll qualify it to coach the Lakers. You
(34:50):
do that, oh podcast, and that's not again, not even
a jab. That is a big jug of tru serum
and a body blow, body blow, body blow. The Lakers
turned the sport into a content house. Forget about paying
dues in Sioux Falls. Forget about those long nights with
the matt Ants on the Boss or the Vipers. No, no, no,
no no. All you have to do is have a
(35:12):
podcast with Lebron and you talk about the pick and
roll even if you're picking your nose. You talk about
the pick and roll angles for five or six episodes
of the podcast, and abracadabra, hocus pocus presto, here are
the keys to a franchise. It absolutely humiliated the coaching brotherhood.
(35:36):
It did you know a bunch of dudes that are
grinding it out in the G League in high school
sized gymnasiums, eating lukewarm chicken tenders out of a steam
tray at one in the morning in Fort Wayne with
America's favorite crossing guard in Fort Wayne while breaking down
film on a cracked iPad. And then you've got JJ Reddick,
(36:02):
who shows up because he brought Lebron some homemade chocolate
chip cookies before they recorded the podcast, and Lebron loves
chocolate chip cookies. Like, what are we doing? Seriously? Like
Finch said, what everyone else in the league was whispering?
What most knowledgeable people understand that JJ Reddick, him taking
(36:26):
over his job with the Lakers is embarrassing. Right, the
Lakers didn't care. They were like, Okay, we'll emasculate ourselves,
We'll emasculate the entire NBA. He in so many words, said,
experience is optional, friendship with the stars mandatory. And this
is anyone else that does a podcast with Lebron. Those
(36:48):
are the other candidates. Now, Sigmund Freud was right, every
joke carries some truth. Now I imagine that Chris Finch will say, hey,
I was just kidding the Timberwolves coach. But again, Sigmund Freud,
every joke carries truth in it. So Finch did not
accidentally say that that was a coded message. Dots and
dashes dots and dashes. The whole thing was a circus
(37:12):
clown show, and we know it. We know and listen.
Good for JJ Reddick getting to the playoffs or whatever
and then playing all of his starters the entire second half.
It doesn't change the optics. And by the way, I
have a path to salvation. Big news. Heero and announce
on the radio that I am planning on starting a
(37:32):
podcast with ant man Anthony Edwards, and I'll be doing
that and then I'll be coaching the Minnesota Timberwolves. I
make some really good cookies, so I'm gonna bring those
to the podcast, and then Anthony Edwards is gonna say,
I want that guy to coach me, and they'll hand
me a clipboard with the Timberwolves logo on it, and
there we go. What's that, Oh, you're saying that only
(37:53):
works for the Lakers. Okay, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
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(39:56):
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How many it takes ten one to hold the lighter
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Why?
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(41:13):
That's Noah in Austin. All right, here's a political sporty joke.
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(41:35):
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weed Man, hippie hollering James was recently held overnight when
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apparently the people who worked there thought he was a
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(42:05):
So Mike, Mike the Leprechaun, Well, some exciting news for
the Malin Militia. Marriage records in Florida show that Jed
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(42:30):
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Wow?
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Well, Aaron's jealous of blind Scott because for blind Scott
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and a tree falling in the forest have in common?
What nobody is listening to either one? Nobody. That's from
(42:58):
Fargold Pete, who also said this one in. What does
Lenny Clark and blind Scott? What do they have in common?
Comedian of Lenny Clark and blind Scott? What they both
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(43:18):
an online DNA test. You hear about that weed Man? Yeah,
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is Jed who Fled's favorite arcade game?
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What?
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Crack Man? Big fan crack Man? That's Jeopardy. Al we
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(43:57):
All right, one more? Why is Malo show caller Danny
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All right? Well, I mean the way you said that
sounded kind of dirty, but I had a good time,
so it was. It was a lot a fu. All right,
weed Man, here we go. Sounds like you need to
take him to dinner for next time.
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We Man.
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You gotta hi, weed Man. I don't know if there'll
be another date, weed Man. All right, here we go?
What is weed Man? These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
What is weed Man's favorite arcade game? What? Bong? Uh?
That's Jeffardy Al sent that one in Very funny man.
I'm glad Jeopardy Al's back sending jokes in every so
(45:22):
and every now and again. Georgia and Uvaldi Texas sent
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Wow?
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Well, I mean apparently she took it very hard. I
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an old joke. Eric Eric in Kansas sent this one in.
What's weed Man's favorite clothing company? What BAM equipment? Big fan,
Big fan, that's a good idea. Did you hear that
weed Man got a seasonal job as a handyman at
(45:55):
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that you're you're really high on maintenance? Is really what
you're doing there? That's Tom and Indiana. Good joke by
Tom and Indiana, Good job by you. Drew in Minnesota
sent these next couple jokes in. He said, Hey, weed Man, no,
why do you keep ignoring your doctor's phone calls? Why? Well,
(46:20):
anyway he calls, there's no cure for your pinballs? He said,
there you are all right? What is weed Man's definition
of the LBC? What litter, back alleys and cockroaches? That's
a Drew in Minnesota. It's Big Ben's lame jokes a week.
(46:40):
If you'd like to send jokes in, If you want
to send jokes into a future episode of the show,
send it care of at Ben Mahler Show or Ben
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set up an email account? I can't do it? How
many it takes ten one to hold the lighter while
(47:01):
the other nine dismantle the computer and sell it for parts. Wait,
all right, hold now, Chip and main checks, and Chip says,
why can't the Malard Militia send weed Man money? Why?
Because his email inbox is cardboard. That's a good joke.
(47:24):
How does weed Man teach how does we man teach
on skill share?
Speaker 6 (47:30):
Or what?
Speaker 1 (47:30):
What does weed Man teach on skill share? How to
beg and panhandles? What he teaches that? That's Noah in Austin.
All right, here's a political sporty joke. What's the difference
between the Venezuelan drug boats and Eagles receiver? AJ? Brown?
What the drug boats are being targeted? AJ? Brown? Is not?
(47:52):
That's a Gordon in Tacoma. We sent that one in?
All right? Did have Gordon back? Gordon's a longtime joke,
right right? Is often anymore? What is Ben Mahler's new
name after he becomes a vampire?
Speaker 6 (48:06):
What?
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Ben Pallor from Georgia and Uvalde, Texas? Well? Big news here?
Weed Man hippie hollering James was recently held overnight when
he visited the zoo There in Minnesota. Wow. Why, Well,
apparently the people who worked there thought he was a
wildebeast that had escaped its cage, and so you're concerned
(48:29):
some Mike, Mike A Leprechaun. Well, some exciting news for
the Malord Militia. Marriage records in Florida show that Jed
who fled our very own Jed who fled recently got
married weed man. How about that? Wow? How about that? Yeah,
he's changed his name. He's now known as Jed who wed.
So congratulations Jed. That's eight in Roseville, Minnesota. How is
(48:53):
blind Scott? How does blind Scott have a have one
up on Aaron Rodgers? Wow? Well, Aaron's jealous of blind
Scott because for blind Scott every day is a darkness retreat. Wow,
come on, Dan, that's not wrong. What does Blair's podcast,
Blair in Maine's podcast, and a tree falling in the
(49:13):
forest have in common? What nobody is listening to either one? Nobody.
That's from Fargold Pete, who also said this one in
What does Lenny Clark and Blind Scott? What do they
have in common? Comedy of Lenny Clark and blind Scott?
What they both like playing with the golden banana. That's
far gold pete. There there you go like Fargo Pete. Well,
(49:37):
interesting news out on Jed. According to Jeopardy Out, Jed
who fled, took an online DNA test. You hear about
that weed man? Yeah, he wanted to hear his heritage.
He found out that he's actually methaicon is what he is? There?
So there he he's methicon American meth. Yeah. What is
Jed who Fled's favorite arcade game? All right, crack man,
(50:02):
big fan, crack man, that's Jeopardy. Al we sent that
one in. Why was Michael leppercun confused when the rainer
wished him an informal goodbye? Why because no woman has
ever said so long to him before, ever, ever, ever ever?
All Right, one more, Why is Malo show called Danny
(50:24):
DeVito a better housekeeper than Poppy in San Diego? Why
because at least Danny DeVito knows when to take out
the trash. There's Jeopardy. Oh thanks, weaed man. There he
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this hour from Foxborough as that was the stage. The
curtain went up on Week eleven. We're in the week
eleven now. The NFL season was billed as an AFC
East mismatch. If you go by the gambling line, you
had Justin Fields, who's pretending to be an NFL quarterback
(02:32):
flying the Jets with but the Jets it's not like
a jumbo jet. It's more like a prop plane where
you have to pedal for the thing to take off
and a hop skipping a jump to the Commonwealth there
for a date with Drake May and the Patriots. You
had the Venerable Al Michaels, good old Al and Herbie
on the call on the Amazon. I'm not sure if
(02:53):
you were watching this game or not. It did not
seem like a game you had to watch. It was
a mismatch coming in we watched, had no choice. Rookie
Trayvon Henderson, he's a Buckeye from Ohio States with three
touchdowns so like he was playing Northwestern again, two on
the ground, one via catch, and Drake May and the
(03:15):
Patriots get to win eight in a row. Is eight enough?
Twenty seven to fourteen over the lowly pathetic Jets in
the Thursday night game. So the Pats at nine and two,
they matched their longest winning streaks. And some guy named
Brady in his final season before he defected to Tampa.
I was in twenty nineteen. And they've now, as we said,
(03:38):
they've won their first eight. That year they won their
first day Patriots three to zero in the division. There's
all kinds of numbers. I don't even really care about
any of that stuff. But the good jumping off point
is just the wide angle lens in honor of the
Jets from thirty thousand feet up in the airs that
normally we start with the losers. The Jets are so bad.
(04:00):
How bad are they that Jet? They're so bad that
we're not going to start with them. That's so bad
they are. We'll start with New England. The debts aren't
even really compelling at this point. So let us discuss
the question. Give me your impressions of the Mike Vrabel
twenty twenty five Patriots as they played the Island game.
(04:20):
Here where now eleven weeks into the NFL season. So
my thoughts on this. I've got sorcerer's workshop, giant inflatable
pizza slice, and aromatherapy, and we will combine all of
these things together, and we are going to start from scratch,
is what we're going to do. So a this one
(04:42):
is simple. My impressions of the Patriots. I've seen him
play a few times, but just focused in on this game,
not flipping to any other game because there's nothing else on.
The NBA is unwatchable. So a work in progress is
the way I will describe it. And when I mean work,
like you know, assembly line. There might be some bolts
missing there, but you don't really know yet. You don't
(05:03):
know yet. And the Patriots compared to years past, the
Gerrod Mayo year, not years. He was only there for
one year. The Patriots obviously have taken a quantum leap
year and Mike Rabol going into the sorcerer's workshop and
essentially recreating It's kind of like Tom Brady's dog. You
know tom Brady had his dog copied. Well, that's what
(05:26):
Rabel's doing. He's like, all right, let's go in there,
and I want to recreate the secret recipe we had
in Tennessee. Not that they won, not that they won.
They didn't win in Nashville, but they had competitive teams
a year after year for the most part, solid well
coached football and all the hokey lines control the controller
(05:47):
bowls and all that. Well, Mike Rabel has cloned his
old Titan teams. It would appear a disciplined, somewhat physical,
coachable button dof they all had two penalties in this game.
They had no turnovers. And that's the Mike Rabels starter
pack right there. No dumb penalties. The eight straight wins
(06:10):
is kind of cool. But let's not get too carried
away here. I'm not gonna be Benny Bright's out in this.
He played the Jets a full blown three ring flying
clown plane the Jets, and the Jets unloaded the few
name brand defensive players they had and they rolled out
a defense that had I think there were some uber
drivers in the secondary. There were some cfl Rejets that
(06:36):
were out there little flotsam and then Jets them flats
them on the right, jets them on the left. And
they had people that were likely one of you, like,
where's the locker room when they arrived at the stadium,
where do I go? I don't know where that is?
And they were still the Jets mathematically in the game
in the fourth quarter of New England did not even
(06:57):
cover the line. The line was thirteen and a half.
I know some places it was twelve and a half
or thirteen. If it was thirteen, it was a push
and we got it at thirteen and a half on
benny versus the penny. So we lost that but at
home in an Island game short week all that against
the team that Let's be honest here, the way the
(07:18):
Jets have gone, the joke that Aaron Glenn as a coach,
they probably should have been euthanized back in week four
the Jets, but they're still playing. The Jets roster looks
like they have decided to collect and a group of
spare parts from a garage sale and some free stuff
on offer up and Craigslist and there they are now. Meanwhile,
(07:41):
we also heard that Mike Rabel was handing out blue
collar shirts to players before the game. If you saw
that or not, it was a cute, little adorable thing,
very pinterest coachable, subliminal message kind of thing. We're hard
working all that stuff, of course, just the whole bs stuff.
(08:03):
Like the reality is, these guys wouldn't last five minutes
if they were with the factory boys listening in El
Paso or the heavy machinery guys there in Ohio would
kick them into Lake Eriie right away. They tap out.
And it's always amusing to me when it's more of
an NFL thing. We see it in basketball somewhil too.
(08:24):
We don't see it in baseball. But when he hear's, oh,
we're going to be a blue collar team and all
that stuff, and I'm like, okay, that's that's cute. But like, no,
the average Patriots player is making three point two million
dollars this year. The actual blue collar guys that Mike
Rabel was trying to invoke twenty five dollars and ninety
cents an hour. They get twenty five dollars and ninety
(08:46):
cents an hour. The annual salary for most who work
in the factory is about fifty four thousand dollars a year,
So very blue collar if you're making three point two
million versus fifty three, eight hundred and seventy two dollars,
but very very out there. Nothing screams working class like
a twenty five year old defensive back who was also
(09:08):
making a million dollars in college and missus a tackle
while getting paid two point eight million dollars. Nevertheless, hey, listen,
Mike Rabel does have structure, the cupcakes and doughnuts schedules
working well. They're steamrolling through this thing as they should.
There's no real haunted houses out there for the Patriots
(09:28):
down the line. They're doing what they're supposed to be doing,
and the real acid test will be down the line
in the playoffs. And meanwhile, page two, you've got Drake
May who was being serenaded with envy pete MV pete
rhythmic chanting of MVP New England obviously winning this game.
(09:48):
Here's Mike Vrabel. Mike Rabel, the coach who was asked
about the expectations and the rhythmic chanting take a listen.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And we have high expectations for high expectations for himself.
Phil continue to improve. I know that he'll stay humble
through this all. And you know again, and as far
as the performance tonight, I thought it was you know again,
in first view, you know, pretty pretty good. He was
good enough to win. I mean he took care of
the football.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Okay, that's a ringing endorsement. Okay, So question does this
win help elevate Drake May the campaign of Drake May
for the MVP Award? Does it help him in the
MVP race? So I watched the entire game and I
wrote on my scorecard, No, I don't believe that would
(10:40):
be acting. Know you this, you're a fanboy, Okay, congratulations,
but this was this is not a bad performance. It
was more about I consider it a lateral move. That's
what I thought it was. It was like treading water
and the kiddie pool. You're lying on a giant inflatable
pizza slice and you're sipping a cocktail with one of
those umbrellas in it, and that's kind of what this
(11:00):
was a little chillier than that, but that's where we
are with Drake May on This game played one of
the NFL's you know not I don't say all time wars,
but they traded their top players. That's not not a
good defense with the names they have out there, the
Jets right now. And he didn't really go turbotastic. It
was a mixed bag. He completed a lot of passes
averaged eight yards, had a bunch of explosive plays, but
(11:24):
only one touchdown pass And and if you want MVP votes,
these are the kind of games where your stat bandito
and you fatten up your stat sheet and you have
a bunch of fireworks and everything's great. And this was
more like it wasn't a dud, but it was more
like a couple of sparklers, And sparklers are cool, dude,
you love sparkles. Who doesn't like sparks, safe and sane,
(11:46):
safe and sane, safe and san But it wasn't like fireworks.
Wasn't like illegal fireworks you got from Mexico or something
like that. Wasn't that? And uh, anyway, so can we
address also the fire breathing dragon of the room. If
my malor math is correct, Drake May somehow has played
now a year plus basically a year and a half
over year and a half now, and he still hasn't
thrown for three hundred yards in an NFL game. We're
(12:09):
talking about the modern NFL here, where teams throw the ball.
If they're up, if they're down, if they're tied, if
they're hungry, if they're sleepy, whatever, they just they throw
the ball. The league practically forces you to get three
hundred yards by accident, and Drake May has two hundred
and eighty yard performances piling up like empty boxes from
(12:32):
Amazon and not crossed over the rubicon, so that three
hundred hasn't gotten it. It's one of those bizarro quirky
things that's out there. But May failing to lead the
Patriots again to cover against the Jets. That's not great.
It's not great. A nice little quarterback developing. We'll see
(12:53):
where this ends up when the real games begin. Down
the line. Patriot's playing a lot, a lot of week
of it's here and Drake May has not. He's not
yet found that higher, higher gear. It's like it's like
he's in second gear and' humming along and he's going
fifty five or sixty and he's in the right lane.
He's got the hazards flashing and you think MVP, right,
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that's Autobahn territory. That's one hundred and ten miles an
hour passing Ferraris and Porsches and things like that. So again,
this game, it keeps him where he already was. It's
not like he goes any lower and continues to be
a wide open race as it's too early. Not all
precincts are reporting in and Drake May still promising in
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the town.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Oh, you're such a hater Baler. That's what you're doing
the overnights. You're supposed to get the knee pads out
for Drake May. Okay, stop stop stop, stop, stops up
all right. Last word for the j e Ts suck, suck, suck.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Where quarterback Justin Fields yet again was held in check. Yeah, well,
he did go over one hundred yards passing for him,
that's a big accomplishment. Weillive him a puffy sticker congratulations.
Normally he's been around fifty yards passing, so he doubled that.
And the Jets did come out and matriculate the ball
down the field. They had a nice opening drive, most
(14:15):
of it on the ground, and the rest of the game, Eh,
let's see here, Dan see Justin Fields he fumbled deep
in his own territory in a one score game in
the fourth quarter. Here's just we have just Here's Justin
Field's commenting on his performance for the Jets. Take a list.
Not good enough. You know, we lost the game, so
it wasn't good enough. Every time we lose, my performance
(14:36):
isn't good enough. Okay, thank you. How about the coach
Aaron Glenn give the state of the Jets address? Can
you please help us out? Coach Aaron Glenn, let's hear
this again.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
We're all accountable for that, you know, as far as coaches.
Make sure we put our guys in the right position,
the receivers to make sure they catch the ball, and
then we can say Justin make sure he getting the
ball to some other guys. But to me, that was
really there were some players out there to be made.
I thought he had some really good throws. We got
to finish those things.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Okay, thought he had some really good throws. Later on
he said there are some really good things in general
for the quarterback. So the question quickly Jets coach Aaron
Glenn saying the quarterback Justin Fields did some really good things.
How do you process that. It processed that one. So
(15:27):
my first thought on this is, I think this is
the highest level of football. This is not a kindergarten
parent teacher conference. We're not We're not doing that. You
don't need to coddle anyone. And Justin Fields was able
to wipe his own tushy. Congratulations, and he rode the
vomit comet and that's great and wonderful. And they had
that scripted opening drive where they ran the ball most
(15:50):
of the time, and he ran a couple of QB
keepers and he had some success and the only attempted
two passes overall. Justin Fields is the same suck bag
quarterback he was with Chicago and with Pittsburgh. The guy blows.
That's just it. He averaged four point five yards per pass.
He threw a ball off alignman's helmet. If you saw that,
(16:12):
there was that intentional grounding thing where he I think
killed the worm was out on the field. He killed that.
And then the masterpiece of this that should be hung
in an art museum. Fumbling the snap in a one
score game deep in your own territory, which, oh, by
the way, the Patriots should have scored a touchdown they
(16:34):
would have covered the spread, not that I'm bitter about that,
but they did not. They got the ball the eleven
yard line of the Jets. So really good stuff, terrific.
Let's have a parade right through the Canyon of Heroes.
We're going to have a parade. And so what is
Aaron Glenn doing? Well again, he's gaslighting, is what he's
doing here. Aaron Glenn treating the seven Jets fans that
(16:55):
are left like there are a bunch of dingle berries
who can't see what's happening with their own eyes. If
the Jets wanted a running back, I'm sure they could
have found one somewhere. They're not that expensive. They're everywhere,
they really are. It's like sand on the beach that
you don't really need to worry about it. There's gonna
be more sand. And if Aaron Glenn truly believes that
(17:17):
there were some really good things out there with this quarterback,
justin Fields, if Glenn's going that direction, then someone needs
to call for a fifty one fifty a seventy two
hour cycle because that is deluge. You know, that is delugional,
is what that is. And Fields, like he was a
(17:38):
CFL quarterback playing an NFL game, which I think is
insulting to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. So I guess he's
actually not that one of those minor league UFL Arena
League whatever they're calling those minor league outfits now. So yeah,
I don't think he could play for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
I don't or the Montreal Alouettes or the Argonauts or
the BC Lions. I don't think you play for them.
(18:01):
I know. And the Jet fans, while some of them
are dumda dumb, dumb dumb, they're not all rubs. They're
not all rubs. And those that watched, and so I
would advise Aaron Glenn, do not blow smoke up the
backside of the Jet fan and tell them it's a
romatherapy because they know it's not. And Justin Fields didn't
(18:23):
do really good things. He did Justin Field's things. And
that's exactly the problem with Justin Fields. Heaven knows he
does Justin Fields things, and that's exactly the problem. It's
every time he's playing, it's happy hour for the other team.
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It's happy hour for the other team. When he's out
there playing quarterback.
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We'll get back to the Thursday night game. Patriots win
a workmanlike effort. They did not cover the spread, at
least the big spread. It was up to thirteen and
(19:37):
a half. But our lead is from Minnesota. Not all
is right on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. If you
did not see this, Perhaps not.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
The most decorated in terms of money receiver in the NFL.
Justin Jefferson is not exactly getting it done at a
high level so far this season, at least not with
his current quarterback and justin Jefferson's saying that he is
trying to work back, he said, trying to work back
(20:06):
to the level that he reached a couple of years
back in twenty twenty two, which inspired him. That was
the spark to get paid the big money. Jefferson said
he wanted to return to when he called what he
called his savage mode. Well, I can just give you
the whole sound bite, but why don't we go to
the audio tape. Take a listen. Here's Jefferson who wants
to have a different mentality. Here's mister Jefferson.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Take a list personally, mentally, just wanting to get back
into to that mode into I like to say, savage mode.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Savage mo, I mean, it's just going.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Out there with that fit mentality and just going out
there and just killing it.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I want to thank him for saying ef it and
not the full F word. Normally we have to bleep that,
but he said ef it. We don't have to bleep effort.
He meant funn it. I think he meant fun it
right or fudget. He could have said fudget, but he
didn't say what you thought he said then. But wait,
there's more Justin. Jefferson, Viking receiver, was asked why things
haven't been the way they were before. Take a listen life.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
You know a lot of different things going on in
my life, and just wanting to get back to that
kid phase of loving I still love football, but overly
loving football and overly loving just being out there on
Sundays and making the big plays and just being a
part of this great organization.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So he claimed, Jefferson that he was inspired because of
clip I remember that famous catch he had. I say famous.
It was a regular season game against Buffalo, but he
had that leaping, one handed grab against the Bills. Remember
the catch. It was a pretty big deal whendn't happened.
And so the anniversary of that it was this week,
and a bunch of people who were engagement farming sent
(21:49):
that out on social media and Jefferson saw it, and
so he brought that up as a point of reference.
Now we should point out that in his last game,
dud Jefferson against the Baltimore football team JJ McCarthy, who's
drowning at quarterback, two of his passes that were intended
for Jefferson were intercepted by the Ravens and on both occasions,
(22:14):
not once, but twice, Jefferson did not seem all that
interested in making a play on the defender who had
intercepted the pass. On the interception return. Now, there are
many close observers with magnifying glasses out that have seen signs.
I see the sign They have seen signs that Jefferson
(22:35):
is not on board. No, no, no, he's not on
the happy train Drew. No, no, he's not that interested
in developing the young quarterback. Now, he attempted to push
back on that. In fact, in that same interview session,
he called JJ McCarthy a quote great player and added
(22:57):
he's a great quarterback and he's a great kid. The
word is great. Okay, So that is a good jumping
off point. Let's dive into this one, the question, what
are your impressions of Justin Jefferson not appearing to be
all that happy with the vikings and mainly with the
(23:20):
quarterback JJ McCarthy. So my observations on this, I've got babysitting, Vermont,
maple syrup, and mad ants, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to be
in the lap of luxury, is what we're going to
be in the lap of luxury. So number one. So
(23:43):
justin Jefferson can say all the right things, right, I
can say all the right things, But the man's body language. Remember,
most of communication is body language. The body language is
writing a completely different book. It's a much different novel
body language versus the words that are coming out of
his mouth. You don't need to watch the All twenty
two like JJ and Renton. You don't need some nerdy
(24:06):
analytical dork on YouTube or buried behind a paywall on
a shady football website to break it down for you.
The lolli gagging, that's the word, lolli gagging. On the interceptions,
no hustle, no chase, just a kind of a shrug
emoji type effort. Day give it, Dack give it. That
(24:29):
is a superstar saying I'm really not into this. I'm
not into it. Jefferson knows what it's like to have
a quarterback that can get him the ball on a
regular basis and provide him the opportunity to become an
elite wide receiver and all that stuff. He was elite,
and a couple of years there he was a walking
(24:50):
cheat code for the Minnesota Vikes. Right now, when JJ
McCarthy is quarterbacking, he's giving that Wendell Ubinson level production,
giving the Michael Pittman Junior level production. Jefferson producing in
four starts with red shirt rookie JJ McCarthy an average
(25:13):
of four point two catches per game for fifty two
yards per game. Now that's fine if you're Wanda Robinson.
Robins is a good player, not a great player. Michael
Pittman Junior, good player, not a great player. It's fine
for those guys. However, when you're the guy that got
the one hundred and forty million dollar contract, you're supposed
to be the greatest player on the planet, and it
(25:35):
doesn't look that way right now. It's bad. It's real bad.
When McCarthy's out there, I say, it's a small sample size,
but we have a show to do today. And this
is the the vibe I got from Jefferson watching some
of those clips from the Baltimore game is I don't
like the new toy that I got. I don't like it.
I don't you know the energy like when a kid
(25:57):
gets a toy on Christmas or honok or something. The
open up up and it's like the wrong gift. And
do we have the receipt. I gotta return this. I
don't want to now. The Vikings problem is that they
obviously drafted McCarthy in the first round. There was a
lot of moving parts to get McCarthy. Let some people
go to get him and all that stuff, and they
(26:18):
need a booster rocket to help boost the quarterback at
this point, and instead Jefferson's giving the vibe of why
am I babysitting this guy again? Like I got paid,
this is the prime of my career. I'm never going
to be better than I am right now, and you're
cramping my style because this guy didn't know what he's doing,
(26:39):
and so that's it. He's twenty six. He's giving off
the vibes like he's middle aged. Body language says I'm grumpy.
Body language says I'm annoyed. Body language says I'm not
hiding it. And then he comes out with the he's
a great quarterback, great kid line. Now the problem with
that is too many greats. He kept repeating the word great,
(27:00):
So it looks to me, after a minute long deliberation
of the available evidence, like he was pulled aside by
the PR people. The PR war trying to win the
pr culture war. The spin doctor said, all right, listen,
let me give you some flashcards. Here's what you say
about the quarterback, and the media will be fine. You
just say this, and if you don't say this, you're
(27:22):
gonna start a wildfire. And we don't want to start
a wildfire. So just just go through the point by point.
Use the word great. Just call him great, great, great,
great great. Okay, ill call him great, great, great, great great,
great player, great quarterback, great kid great. You know, makes
a mean omelet, really good omelet. Toast not so good.
He's working on the toast, but he's working. You know,
he's doing. He's doing as good as he can do.
Bacon needs a little work as well. The bacon needs
(27:44):
a little work. But listen, here, here's the deal. The
tape does not lie Justin Jefferson when he's played with McCarthy.
There are plenty of eclips. You can find them yourself. Even
the blind listeners like Stevie Meatballs can see them. Justin
Jefferson is disconnect. Looks a little checked out there, and
so you really don't need to bring in some kind
(28:06):
of special investigator to decode what's going on. It's not
much of a mystery. Jefferson is not happy doesn't mean
he's good. To demand a trade doesn't mean that. It
just means he's frustrated with JJ McCarthy. He's annoyed with
his lack of opportunity. And the more he says everything's fine,
the louder the body language gets that it's not fine.
(28:29):
And he's even though financially living a high on the hog,
not so much the rest of the way. Now. Meanwhile,
to Seattle we go what kind of ess? Actually an
LA storyline? The Rams and Seahawks get together on Sunday
and a massively important NFC West slobber knocker. That matchup
not just a game, it's a slobber knocker. So the Rams,
(28:53):
we have learned, are planning a full blown Hallmark movie
on the JumboTron as a tribute for the emotional return
of Cooper Cup. Yeap, oh, it's so sad he now
plays with the Seahawks, not much because he's often hurt.
And Cooper Cup was asked about the Rams showing a
tribute video and what did he say? What did Cooper
(29:18):
Cup say? Hmmm, what do you think he said? Well,
he said, I don't know I didn't die. I'm here,
is what he said. It's a great quote. It's a
really good quote. I didn't die, he said, I don't know.
I didn't die. I'm still here, all right. Question, how
did you react to that clip? The money quote from
(29:41):
wide receiver Cooper Cup letting the Rams know that his
heart is still ticking. What's good. We're happy that his
heart is still ticking. He does not need an ambulance.
There's no need for paramedics to come and help him out.
I didn't die. That is what a line. It's perfection.
He nailed it. He nailed it. That's exactly how these
tribute videos feel, if you've ever seen one, and how
(30:03):
could you miss them? It's I've been to a lot
of funerals as I've gotten older, a lot of people
have dropped dead in my life, and I've seen a
lot of these videos and stuff, and it's like that.
It's like you're memorializing a player who's about to go
out there and play. It's like, so I say bravo
to Cooper Cup. The man spent eight years with the Rams.
He could ram it all day, could ram it all night.
(30:24):
He had that cheat code season back in twenty twenty one.
Offensive Player of the Year almost won an MVP. Was unstoppable,
a great ram great player. Not anymore. It's washed up.
But regardless of that, he's also a grown adult with
the pulse, as he pointed out, very much alive. And
he doesn't need confetti. Cannons doesn't need the party favors
(30:48):
and all that stuff, the big screen validation because I
used to work there, like I used to work the
league has learned as a business, the end NFL. They've
turned this into the Vermont maple syrup business with lots
of sap, lots of SAP. Now, I do give the
Cowboys credit because they didn't do that when Micah Parsons
(31:10):
came back. But very rarely does this not happen? Very
rarely is this not happen. Every guy just about that
leaves town ends up getting a video package on the scoreboard,
roll the montage, roll them on. It's smaltzy. It's the
smaltzy inflation, is what it is. Everyone needs a cake
(31:32):
and balloons and a little social media video. And they
got to get Morgan Freeman to narrate their goodbye. Let's
pay Morgan Freeman. A couple of grand and we'll do
a very emotional read and enough already. Now wait, wait
till the guy retires. If you want to do something
like that, bring him back, you can cry and save
(31:54):
the nostalgia for the main the main event, which is
when the career is over and all stuff. It's sy
odd because I think Cooper Cup's gonna play with he
has been injured. But if he does play, ass I mean,
he was circling that game on the schedule. He's gonna
try to get one hundred yards and a touchdown and
all that stuff. And he had the proper response, simple, dry, perfect,
(32:16):
I'm not dead. Translation, you play the game to win
the game. Knocked off the drama, O rama. And he's right,
He's right, Hard is still ticking the rams. Don't need
to throw him a little ash scattering at sea ceremony
just because he happens to be playing for the Seahawks.
(32:39):
And let's put the pause on the jumbo tron sympathy parade.
We're good, all right now, final point, we go back
to the Twin Cities basketball story. Appearing on some fledgling
NBA podcast, The very rarely interesting coach of the basketball
team in Minnesota Chris Finch is his name. He's the
tim tim Wolves coach. So Chris Finch was discussing the
(33:07):
art of podcasting on a podcast and somebody took a
stray shot. Yeah, collateral damage, Yeah, downrange that person.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
J. J.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Reddick, Chris Finch said, quote on a podcast about podcasting.
He said, quote, I mean it'll qualify you to coach
the Lakers, Chris Finch said in a deadpan delivery. And
it's no secret that Reddick JJ Reddick the most pompous
(33:45):
man in the world. If you don't believe me, just
listen to him talk. With no prior coaching experience. JJ
Reddick was hired last before last season by the Lakers
ahead of the twenty four to twenty five campaign. And
he had spent the years since retirement primarily as a broadcaster,
but mostly as a podcaster, and he hosted a podcast
(34:08):
alongside Lebron James and they were podcast buddies. And then
he gets the job. So the question, give me your
reaction to a sitting NBA coach Chris Finch of the
Timberwolves taking a jab actually more than a job at
(34:28):
JJ Reddick's resume. So my reaction to this is how
sweet it is. How sweet it is, man, that's how
you do it. That is a professional assassination, is what
that is. You're talking about podcasting and then boom goes
to dynamite. You'll qualify it to coach the Lakers. You
(34:50):
do that, oh podcast, and that's not again, not even
a jab. That is a big jug of tru serum
and a body blow, body blow, body blow. The Lakers
turned the sport into a content house. Forget about paying
dues in Sioux Falls. Forget about those long nights with
the matt Ants on the Boss or the Vipers. No, no, no,
no no. All you have to do is have a
(35:12):
podcast with Lebron and you talk about the pick and
roll even if you're picking your nose. You talk about
the pick and roll angles for five or six episodes
of the podcast, and abracadabra, hocus pocus presto, here are
the keys to a franchise. It absolutely humiliated the coaching brotherhood.
(35:36):
It did you know a bunch of dudes that are
grinding it out in the G League in high school
sized gymnasiums, eating lukewarm chicken tenders out of a steam
tray at one in the morning in Fort Wayne with
America's favorite crossing guard in Fort Wayne while breaking down
film on a cracked iPad. And then you've got JJ Reddick,
(36:02):
who shows up because he brought Lebron some homemade chocolate
chip cookies before they recorded the podcast, and Lebron loves
chocolate chip cookies. Like, what are we doing? Seriously? Like
Finch said, what everyone else in the league was whispering?
What most knowledgeable people understand that JJ Reddick, him taking
(36:26):
over his job with the Lakers is embarrassing. Right, the
Lakers didn't care. They were like, Okay, we'll emasculate ourselves,
We'll emasculate the entire NBA. He in so many words, said,
experience is optional, friendship with the stars mandatory. And this
is anyone else that does a podcast with Lebron. Those
(36:48):
are the other candidates. Now, Sigmund Freud was right, every
joke carries some truth. Now I imagine that Chris Finch will say, hey,
I was just kidding the Timberwolves coach. But again, Sigmund Freud,
every joke carries truth in it. So Finch did not
accidentally say that that was a coded message. Dots and
dashes dots and dashes. The whole thing was a circus
(37:12):
clown show, and we know it. We know and listen.
Good for JJ Reddick getting to the playoffs or whatever
and then playing all of his starters the entire second half.
It doesn't change the optics. And by the way, I
have a path to salvation. Big news. Heero and announce
on the radio that I am planning on starting a
(37:32):
podcast with ant man Anthony Edwards, and I'll be doing
that and then I'll be coaching the Minnesota Timberwolves. I
make some really good cookies, so I'm gonna bring those
to the podcast, and then Anthony Edwards is gonna say,
I want that guy to coach me, and they'll hand
me a clipboard with the Timberwolves logo on it, and
there we go. What's that, Oh, you're saying that only
(37:53):
works for the Lakers. Okay, all right, that's fine.
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while the other nine dismantle the computer and sell it
(40:40):
for parts. Wait ah. Wait, hold now, Chip in Maine
checks in, Chip says, why can't the Malard Militia send
weed Man money?
Speaker 7 (40:51):
Why?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Because his email inbox is cardboard. That's a joke. How
does weed Man teach how does we man teach on
skill share? Or what? What does weed Man teach on
skill share? How? How to beg and panhandles? What he teaches?
(41:13):
That's Noah in Austin. All right, here's a political sporty joke.
What's the difference between the Venezuelan drug boats and Eagles
receiver AJ Brown? What the drug boats are being targeted? AJ? Brown?
Is not? That's a Gordon in Tacoma when we sent
that one in a right good have Gordon back? Gordon's
(41:35):
a longtime joke. Writer's right as often anymore? What is
Ben Mahler's new name after he becomes a vampire?
Speaker 2 (41:42):
What?
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Ben Pallor from George and Uvalde, Texas? Well? Big news here,
weed Man, hippie hollering James was recently held overnight when
he visited the zoo there in Minnesota. Wow. Why, Well,
apparently the people who worked there thought he was a
wildebeast that had escaped its cage, and so very concerned.
(42:05):
So Mike, Mike the Leprechaun, Well, some exciting news for
the Malin Militia. Marriage records in Florida show that Jed
who fled our very own Jed who fled recently got
married Weed Man. How about that? Wow? How about that? Yeah,
he's changed his name. He's now known as Jed who wed.
So congratulations Jed. That's Eet in Roseville, Minnesota. How is
(42:30):
blind Scott? How does blind Scott have a have one
up on Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 6 (42:35):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Well, Aaron's jealous of blind Scott because for blind Scott
every day is a darkness retreat. Wow, come on, Dan,
that's not wrong. What does Blair's podcast, Blair in Man's podcast,
and a tree falling in the forest have in common?
What nobody is listening to either one? Nobody. That's from
(42:58):
Fargold Pete, who also said this one in. What does
Lenny Clark and blind Scott? What do they have in common?
Comedian of Lenny Clark and blind Scott? What they both
like playing with the golden banana? That's Fargo Pete. There,
there you go, Mike, Fargo Pete. Well, interesting news out
on Jed. According to Jeopardy out. Jed who Fled took
(43:18):
an online DNA test. You hear about that weed Man? Yeah,
he wanted to hear his heritage. Heritage. He found out
that he's actually methaicon is what he is there, So
there we go. He's a Methican American meth. Yeah. What
is Jed who Fled's favorite arcade game?
Speaker 6 (43:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Crack Man? Big fan crack Man? That's Jeopardy. Al we
sent that one in. Why was Michael Leprechawn confused when
the rainer wished him an informal goodbye? Why because no
woman has ever said so long to him before, ever, ever, ever, ever?
(43:57):
All right, one more? Why is Malo show caller Danny
DeVito a better housekeeper than Poppy in San Diego? Why
because at least Danny DeVito knows when to take out
the trash. There's Jeopardy, Oh fects weed Man? There he
goes Billy in Miami or Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live. Knock Knock, Who's there?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Blame weed? Blame Week? Wo It's Big Ben's lame joke
of the week. Man, we go to Miami. Our friend
Billy better known by his stage name weed Main Hippie
from my Billy Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
I love you, I love you, Thanks for Monday.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
All right? Well, I mean the way you said that
sounded kind of dirty, but I had a good time,
so it was. It was a lot a fu. All right,
weed Man, here we go. Sounds like you need to
take him to dinner for next time.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
We Man.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
You gotta hi, weed Man. I don't know if there'll
be another date, weed Man. All right, here we go?
What is weed Man? These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
What is weed Man's favorite arcade game? What? Bong? Uh?
That's Jeffardy Al sent that one in Very funny man.
I'm glad Jeopardy Al's back sending jokes in every so
(45:22):
and every now and again. Georgia and Uvaldi Texas sent
this one in. How did Lisa react when weed Man
Hippie told her that he was addicted to viagra?
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Well, I mean apparently she took it very hard. I
don't know why, but there you go. All right, that's
an old joke. Eric Eric in Kansas sent this one in.
What's weed Man's favorite clothing company? What BAM equipment? Big fan,
Big fan, that's a good idea. Did you hear that
weed Man got a seasonal job as a handyman at
(45:55):
his apartment complex? Wow? Cool? Yeah, apparently the boss says
that you're you're really high on maintenance? Is really what
you're doing there? That's Tom and Indiana. Good joke by
Tom and Indiana, Good job by you. Drew in Minnesota
sent these next couple jokes in. He said, Hey, weed Man, no,
why do you keep ignoring your doctor's phone calls? Why? Well,
(46:20):
anyway he calls, there's no cure for your pinballs? He said,
there you are all right? What is weed Man's definition
of the LBC? What litter, back alleys and cockroaches? That's
a Drew in Minnesota. It's Big Ben's lame jokes a week.
(46:40):
If you'd like to send jokes in, If you want
to send jokes into a future episode of the show,
send it care of at Ben Mahler Show or Ben
Maler Show at gmail dot com. BENMLA Show at gmail
dot com. How many weed Mans does it take to
set up an email account? I can't do it? How
many it takes ten one to hold the lighter while
(47:01):
the other nine dismantle the computer and sell it for parts. Wait,
all right, hold now, Chip and main checks, and Chip says,
why can't the Malard Militia send weed Man money? Why?
Because his email inbox is cardboard. That's a good joke.
(47:24):
How does weed Man teach how does we man teach
on skill share?
Speaker 6 (47:30):
Or what?
Speaker 1 (47:30):
What does weed Man teach on skill share? How to
beg and panhandles? What he teaches that? That's Noah in Austin.
All right, here's a political sporty joke. What's the difference
between the Venezuelan drug boats and Eagles receiver? AJ? Brown?
What the drug boats are being targeted? AJ? Brown? Is not?
(47:52):
That's a Gordon in Tacoma. We sent that one in?
All right? Did have Gordon back? Gordon's a longtime joke,
right right? Is often anymore? What is Ben Mahler's new
name after he becomes a vampire?
Speaker 6 (48:06):
What?
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Ben Pallor from Georgia and Uvalde, Texas? Well? Big news here?
Weed Man hippie hollering James was recently held overnight when
he visited the zoo There in Minnesota. Wow. Why, Well,
apparently the people who worked there thought he was a
wildebeast that had escaped its cage, and so you're concerned
(48:29):
some Mike, Mike A Leprechaun. Well, some exciting news for
the Malord Militia. Marriage records in Florida show that Jed
who fled our very own Jed who fled recently got
married weed man. How about that? Wow? How about that? Yeah,
he's changed his name. He's now known as Jed who wed.
So congratulations Jed. That's eight in Roseville, Minnesota. How is
(48:53):
blind Scott? How does blind Scott have a have one
up on Aaron Rodgers? Wow? Well, Aaron's jealous of blind
Scott because for blind Scott every day is a darkness retreat. Wow,
come on, Dan, that's not wrong. What does Blair's podcast,
Blair in Maine's podcast, and a tree falling in the
(49:13):
forest have in common? What nobody is listening to either one? Nobody.
That's from Fargold Pete, who also said this one in
What does Lenny Clark and Blind Scott? What do they
have in common? Comedy of Lenny Clark and blind Scott?
What they both like playing with the golden banana. That's
far gold pete. There there you go like Fargo Pete. Well,
(49:37):
interesting news out on Jed. According to Jeopardy Out, Jed
who fled, took an online DNA test. You hear about
that weed man? Yeah, he wanted to hear his heritage.
He found out that he's actually methaicon is what he is? There?
So there he he's methicon American meth. Yeah. What is
Jed who Fled's favorite arcade game? All right, crack man,
(50:02):
big fan, crack man, that's Jeopardy. Al we sent that
one in. Why was Michael leppercun confused when the rainer
wished him an informal goodbye? Why because no woman has
ever said so long to him before, ever, ever, ever ever?
All Right, one more, Why is Malo show called Danny
(50:24):
DeVito a better housekeeper than Poppy in San Diego? Why
because at least Danny DeVito knows when to take out
the trash. There's Jeopardy. Oh thanks, weaed man. There he
goes Billy in Miami or Hollywood
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