November 18, 2025 • 52 mins
Big Ben talks about the Raiders embarrassing effort against the Cowboys on MNF, Bengals WR Ja'Marr Chase getting suspended for spitting on Jalen Ramsey, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Martin Scorsese Edition, and more!
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we are back at it after the NFL card came
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to an end for the weekend on Monday Night Football,
and that is where we will start off. And this
Mallard monologue begins in southern Nevada. A vintage matchup. If
only you had a time machine and you could go
back thirty forty fifty years. Oh my god, what a matchup,
bucking my day, all the old people. I remember when
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the Cowboys and Raiders. Oh my god, that was amazing.
It was epic. Now, eh see, like, how did that
game end up on Monday Night Football? The Cowboys and Raiders.
They throwback to the vintage days there the days of
your of course, these days a couple of dogs with fleas,
but they were out there futzon around. You had Joe
Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox refugees there on a
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b C. Now they're gonna get huge ratings for this game.
Massive ratings for this game, certainly ratings that are not
not worthy of the two teams that were dissipating in
this game. I don't know if you were watching it
or not. I watched it kind of have to. I mean,
I really want to watch NBA, so there's really nothing
else to watch. It's pretty much that's it. So if
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you want to watch some sports, you're gonna have to
watch this. So I watched, and what did we see? Well,
Dak Prescott went out there against a bunch of tomato cans.
Dak passed for two hundred and sixty eight yards and
not one, not two, not three, but four a four
pack of touchdowns thirty three to sixteen, Dallas vaporizing the
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I can't even say once proud Las Vegas Raiders. They've
sucked ever since they got to Vegas, just like they
sucked when they were at Oakland. Anyway, the Cowboys first game,
if you watched any second of the Monday night game,
you realize it was the first game the Cowboys had
played since their defensive player marsh On Neeland's dath. He
committed suicide last to a Ted eleven days ago. Was
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eleven days ago. Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys, coach, the players.
All they wore, they wore stuff honoring There was the
coach shot and I were t shirt. They were honoring
Neil in there bowed their head. There was a moment
of silence before the game. Cowboys are four to five
and one on the season, and you could argue they
played better than they have played all season. Some trying
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to sell the fact that Cowboys are a playoff contender.
That is a lie. They are not. Dallas had lost
three of their last four games coming up against Now
they have Philadelphia, Kansas City in Detroit. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night for the Dallas Cowboys there. But the
better story is in the losing locker room. So that
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is where we are going to begin. And for some reason,
we see the Raiders in these primetime games way too often,
considering how much they stink. But here they were again
one more time, Gino Smith reminding everyone he can't play
quarterback at a high level, and the Raiders in general
played with a lack of edge. That was to me
the most telling thing about So that's a good jumping
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off point. Let us discuss the question for the room,
and you're part of the room as we discuss here.
The question is how would you describe Pete Carroll and
the Raiders' effort in this game? Not the result. The
result was they got their face smashed in, But the
effort by the Raiders, that's the question. So on this one,
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I've got rumba, hoover, dam, and boilerplate, and we will
combine all of these things together and we're going to
make a chopped chicken sandwich, is what we're going to make,
and we'll see how it turns out. Now, A we
were a little confused, a little confused watching this game.
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That why would we be confused, because we assume that
we tuned in to watch a football game. It looked
like some of the Raider defensive players are being held hostage.
My god, they did not want to be there. They
did not want to be there. Look at the way
they were playing. The effort was nonexistent, non existent. By
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and listen, the Raiders are a bad team. All that stuff.
The Raiders look like they look like gunner our guy
in Minnesota clocking in at the walmart is what they
look like. You know what I'm saying. They's just kind
of going through it. Not Monday night football. They're just
I gotta show up. I got my tuna fish sandwich
for the break room. I'm good. It was the marching band,
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but it was the marching band with the drum line
a little out of sync, just a little out of sink.
Half the horns pointed backwards. That doesn't seem real good.
I mean, I'm not in a band. It doesn't seem
real good. The baton twirlers asleep like they're a New
York Giants rookie player. Off to the side, and you
slow down the film, in this case the digital video,
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and what did we see? We saw on the Raider
defense Pete Carroll defensive guy. You saw a lot of
arm tackles, traffic cones, illusions of effort. There's a lot
of llusions of effort making it appear that you're actually
hustling when you're not actually hustling. Guys jogging towards the
ball la la la la la la la la la
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la la, kind of like they were late to a
brunch at the Belagio. They were just kind of jogging.
La la la la la la la la la, just
like that. That's what it actually sounded like when they
were jogging. It sounded like that. My god, it just
it is. It is brutal, absolutely brutal. And I guess
they don't have to try. The season's over, so they'll
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just kind of go through the motions and that's it.
But man, all, I have no attention to detail. I
don't know what the game plan was. I have no idea.
Did they even prepare? Did the coaching staff prepare? The
players didn't look like they wanted to be there. And
it's nights like this, this Monday night game here where
you separate the people that really love playing football and
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the people that are there because they make a lot
of money, insane amounts of money, money they could not
make in any other business, like insane money, but they
just happened to fall into it because they won the
genetic lottery or whatever. And they're great athletes, but they
don't really like football. And there's a lot of guys
on that, you know, the guys that are just kind
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of there for the team. Photo those guys floaters, coasters,
the bus Riders, that group the hawksin's that affect every
losing team, and you're two and eight now the Raiders.
You just put the whole league on notice. That record
is not misleading. You stank, you do, and not only
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do you stink, your entire team appears to be okay
with it. There's not a lot of fight. It's not
a lot of fighting. Now pivoting, let's talk about the
curious case of Geno Smith. Here's Pete Carroll. Let's see,
I've heard that Pete is not allowed to criticize Gino Smith.
Gino is so soft? How soft is he? He can't
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take any criticism. If you criticis size Geno Smith, you
will lose Geno Smith. So if there was ever a
day to criticize Geno Smith, this would have been the day.
Let's see what Pete Carroll had to say. Thirty one
dropbacks in that first half three runs? Is that? I mean,
I can't imagine that that's something that you like to
look at.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
It wasn't thirty one drop backs. It was a bunch
of play action passes. And really I really wanted to
see us do that and then and there's only one
person to look at me because I was influenced on
the game plan. I love the way we were chunking
them and we made big plays. But as as and
I didn't, I knew it was I knew what was happening,
you know, and Chip and I knew what was going on.
But we were trying to stay with it and to
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see if we could continue to get the big plays
which we were getting, and then we just stalled in
the red zone. And unfortunately, and I don't really care
about pleasing people with our run past mix, I'm trying
to move the football and when you come back to it,
we were supposed to be ahead with that approach, and
then we're supposed to come back and run the football
in the second half and then later in the second quarter,
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but our inability getting the and to stop them, it
didn't work out that way. So I'm totally responsible for
how that happened.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
The extended dance remix. There nothing short from Pete Carroll anyway. Listen,
he did say there, and that was kind of telling
I'm not here to please people, and the Raiders haven't
pleased anyone. So Pete was not wrong when he said
that I'm not here to please people with my run
pass breakdown. He's also not there to please people with
the product on the field, which if this was if
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this was a Vegas show, if you put this at
MGM or New York, New York, well, because it would
have already closed it literally, it would have canceled the show.
That's it. They're still going if they do. But Gino Smith,
is he not one of the great swindlers of the NFL. Seriously,
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I mean, it's fascinating to me that this has continued
as long as it has a man built to where
a headset and hold the clipboard and deliver packages for
Amazon somehow has now started for four seasons, four seasons
as a QB one. He has earned over one hundred
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million dollars and can't play as a starter. It's wild.
It is like he's slipped through the cracks. Ginosmith, it
really is one of the great I give him credit.
I'm not ripping him. I'm impressed. The guy that can't
do the job has risen. It's the Peter principle. He's
risen to his highest level of incompetence and he's staying,
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you're talking about a shortage of quarterbacks. Well, this would
indicate there is a shortage of quarterbacks there, my god,
holy crap. And if Joe six Pack with seventeen burner
accounts with different avatars on every one of them knows
that Geno ain't it. And yet now he's started for
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multiple NFL teams, billion dollar, multi billion dollar franchises. Can't
get the memo. Then you had Ashton Genty, the rookie
running back who didn't get a lot of work, and
when he did touch the ball, wow, did he stink.
He was bad too, against a bottom five run defense,
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the Dallas Cowboys, against one of the worst defenses in football.
And you didn't even try to run the ball. When
you did, you couldn't run the ball. That's not just bad.
That's an indictment of multiple people, is what that is.
It's the football version of an open book test. And
you screwed it up. You had the teacher's book you
had to copy with all the answers. You messed it up. Now,
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it's appropriate that if you've ever been to Vegas, the
Raiders Stadium looks like a giant rumba. When you drive by,
it looks like a big old rumba there on the
way into Vegas from la And seriously, they actually needed
the Raiders a robotic vacuum here because there's a lot
of mess, lot of debris that they got to clean.
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So get that giant rumba and crank it up there.
At some point you could almost hear the Star Trek
line from years ago, beat me up, Scottie, get me
out of here. I want to go, please. And that's
just the players, that's Pete Carroll, that's everyone involved here.
Get me far far away from this planet, take me
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somewhere else, please. The effort was anemic. It was alarming,
not surprising. This is the culture the Raiders have had
for years, different coaches. It's toxic. It's absolutely toxic. They
don't fight, they don't scratch and claw. There's a couple
types of bad teams. There's the bad teams that know
they're bad and don't give a crap, and then there's
the bad teams that know they're bad and try. The
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Raiders are not that team. They're the Ladder, the team
that knows they're bad and they don't really put a
lot of effort into it. And so that's it, and it's
been that way. It's unwatchable for a generation. Now the
Raiders all right, now going to thirty thousand feet in
the sky. Who's responsible? Who is responsible for this latest Raiders?
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I sore of a season? So this is easy. All
you have to do is look at the DNA trail.
There's a long DNA trail here. And if you peel
back the onion and you look at the DNA there
the layers of the onion. It kind of smells like
Tom Brady's aftershave. This is the Patriot Way gone wild,
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is what it is. Now. Tom Brady is the patron
saint of the NFL. Beyond criticism. The football media seems
to refuse to criticize Tom Brady. I don't understand why
Mark Davis basically handed Tom Brady the keys and said
I can't figure this out, you fix it. He gave
him the keys to the French. He's a big owner
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and the Raiders, and he's in on every major decision.
And like Mark Davis, I listen, you drive, buddy. I've
tried to drive this car, and all I've gotten his
orange chicken at PF Changs. That's all. I've got good
appetizers at Pfchase. But the team sucks come on, skinny pants,
tom Brady, fix it. And Tom Brady said, okay, Mark Davis,
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I'm gonna fix it. And he took the keys and
he drove the Raider Mobile right into the hoover Dam. Kurkflooey,
right into the hoover dam. The man that had the
miightest touch with the New England Patriots, the miightest touch.
Right now, he's got the Sadam touch. And if you
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do know where that is, looking up, everything he touches
turns to the dust at this particular point with the
Sadam touch. And forget the goat. Oh, he's the goat.
You can't rip Tom Brady. He's the goat. Oh you
want to bet? Yeah? How about Tom the team killer? Wow?
The Raiders actually are in a worse position now than
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when they had Antonio Pierce and a different front office
last year, which is impossible, but they are. They're in
a worse person edition now and nobody will talk about
it in the media is like a blackout on talking
about Tom Brady. What a terrible job he's done. He's
Michael Jordan, Charlotte Hornet's bad as an executive, legendary player, clueless,
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clueless at building a roster, hiring a coaching staff, the
whole thing. It's kind of like hiring Bob Ross because
you used to watch him on PBS. He's dead now,
But if you hired him to fix your plumbing, well
I probably don't want Bob Ross to fix your plumbing.
Maybe paint a mosaic or something like that, but that's it.
So remember Brady handpicked the coach and the quarterback. He
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wanted Matthew Stafford as his quarterback. He took him to
a retreat in Montana and tried to brainwash him into
the colt of Tom Brady. Stafford said, I'm good. He
then thought he was going to get Ben Johnson, who's
coaching the Bears. That didn't work out either, So what
did he end up with? He ended up with Tom
Brady ended up with a Kirkland brand version of the
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twenty thirteen well actually not even twenty thirty, twenty seventeen
eighteen Seahawks Pete Carroll Light, Pete Carroll Light, Gino Smith
without the spark, not that he ever had one. It's
kind of like ordering a Flamennon and you get the
plate and there's a Salisbury steak and you why didn't
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order the Salisbury stake? And why is it not on
a play? Why is it on a styrofoam? Well, that's
what it comes with. It's the Salisbury steak. But I
wanted the for let mignon, but I know, but we
ran out of that, so we just gave you the
Salisbury steak. And it's really good. It's delicious, but I
don't want the Salisbury but it just enjoyed, but I
don't want the STYROFIM just eat it. That's it. The
autumn wind is a raider. No, it's not. The autumn
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wind is a gas leak flatulence. That's the Raiders. That's
the Raiders right here. And Tom Brady's fingerprints are all
over the body, all over the body here. This is
a forensic disaster, is what this is.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Here.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The chalk outline goes right from the fifty yard line
to TB twelve's front door right there. Pick his house.
He's got a lot of houses. But let's be real here,
all right, Tom Brady believed he could just sprinkle on
some Patriot pixie dust with the Raiders and that would
be it. And unfortunately, you're a long way from Foxborough.
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It's football in the desert, a losing culture. The man's
out there planting roses. Tom Brady, he's a gardener and
wondering why they're dying. Why they're dying the roses. Yeah, okay,
So you can say as a quarterback he was Mozart
and then as an executive, as the front office puppet master,
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he's essentially playing the kazoo. Now, I don't mind the kazoo,
but you don't pay big money to watch the kazoo.
And so welcome to the Tom Brady era in Sin City.
With no winnings. No winnings, everyone's a loser. Everyone's a loser. Yea. Anyway,
last word, we go to the Dallas side of things,
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and the question is what did you think of the
media coverage and on the Monday night game coverage of
Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys dealing with tragedy and where we are
and on that the way it was handled and all
that stuff. So this was hallmark storytelling, is what it was.
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I was actually texting a couple of buddies of mine,
one of them former a sports writer. We were going
back and forth. But this game story was written before
the game was kicked off Cowboys and Raiders. It didn't
matter if the Cowboys won the game thirty three to sixteen,
which they did, if they won the game thirty three
to thirty two. Marshawn Neeland, the young man whofortunately lost
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his life at his own hands. According to the story,
he was the lead. That was the story. The media
already had it ready. It was boiler plate ready is
what it was. Insert score, copy paste, and quick publish
and that's that. Now. In the multiverse, I do believe
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in the multiverse, and the multiverse there is a dimension
where Dallas actually lost the game. Hard to believe the
way the game went out, but they lost the game.
And if the Cowboys had lost the game, the story
would have been the same. Headline would have been about
the young man that lost his life, but the story
would have been, you know, Cowboys lose this game by
four touchdowns because they were emotionally drained. It turned out
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they weren't emotionally drained. They won the game, so you
go away from that. And since they didn't lose, it's
inspired when playing for their fallen brother. All that stuff.
But let's be real, though, Let's be real about just
the State of the Cowboy. You don't get neon erasers.
The teacher does not give you a Neon green or
Neon pink eraser for beating the in a Monday night game.
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The Raiders are trash. You are garbage. When garbage beats trash,
garbage doesn't become gold. It doesn't. So yeah, congratulated. The
Cowboys are four or five and one. They are who
we thought they were. And if you want to crown them,
then crown them. And here comes the gauntlet. Here comes
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the gauntlet, the doomsday prophecy for the Cowboys. They've got
the Eagles, Chiefs at home, Lions on the road. You
think there's suddenly a contender with that out in front
this Cowboy team, mark my words. And I'm never wrong
about this. They're gonna win seven or eight games. That's it.
They've got four wins right now. They'll squeeze out another
three or four wins and they'll be perfectly mediocre, perfectly mediocre.
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And the questions will continue to linger about Dak Prescott
against good opponents. You look great against a bad opponent,
but in big games down the stretch, we'll see how
how he does there. And I hope they enjoyed this
mom here the cowboys there because the calm before the
waterboarding starts there. And let's stop pretending I've already seen
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some of the stories. Oh it's a turning point game, now,
I know it's not. This is not a turning point
game at all. It is just merely a calm. It's
like being in the eye of the storm and you
know that you've got the rest of the hurricane you're
gonna have to deal with. It's gonna be a bumpy run.
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We go to Cincinnati. We do not go back and
rehash the Monday night game, the Cowboys winning big over
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the Raiders. But our leaders from Cincinnati where the phlem flies.
The tall follows. When the phlem flies, the talk follows,
follow up, follow up to a previous Mallard monologue. We
now have the Court of the NFL ruling on what happened.
You might remember Bengals wide receiver Jalen Jamar rather Jamar Chase,
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the Bengal wide receiver Jamar Chase, got into it with
Jalen Ramsey, the journeyman defensive back. They went back and forth.
Ramsey was ejected and he said Posting said listen, that
guy spat on me. That guy's a spinner, and uh
oh ma, oh my god. Well, the NFL's ruled like
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because at the time Jamar Chase said, well, I didn't
do it. I didn't I didn't spit. No spit from
me didn't happen. Well, it turns out that Bengals wide
receiver Jamar Chase has been suspended for one game one
game for spitting on Jalen Ramsey. Chase can and appeal
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the NFL's ruling to suspend him. They say it's up
in the air. I've heard he has already started the
appeal process. The evidence is overwhelming, overwhelming evidence that he
did it, and barring some kind of eleventh hour plea deal,
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some kind of pardon from the NFL, Jamar Chase will
miss the week twelve game against the New England Patriots.
If the suspension is upheld, he'll be out. So that
is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
question did did Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase actions warrant
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the one game NFL suspension? So my observations this, I
have Planet Earth, Anthony Bourdain, and rotting barn in the woods,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some delicious kettle corn. Man,
if you get kettle corn with just the right salt
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and sugar, it's one of the great things. Not good
for your teeth, but it's really good, all right. So
number wa number to answer the question, did Jamar Chase action?
Did his actions warrant the suspensioned I'm gonna go a
hell to the yeah with a giant chunk of mucus,
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big gooey green gob of mucus. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
the tape don't lie, the tape, don't lie. We saw it.
It wasn't ai. You spin on a guy, you're out.
You spin on a guy, you're right now. In the
old days they would encourage spinning, but not right now,
not right now. There's really no gray area on this.
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Like I was saying about as I was driving in,
was there any really out on this that you can
you can go to. It's the single most disrespectful thing
that one can do on a football field outside of
kicking someone in the nuts, like kick him in the pills.
That's pretty bad, I would say, spitting a giant lugie
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right there in your face. Man, that's it. And it's
it's on four K video. It's not like who's a
I really okay, crystal clear pristine video. And it looks
like someone shot the video on a brand new iPhone
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like the you know how you watch those commercials like
the iPhone and they show like Yeah, they slow down
everything and they show you how good the camera is.
It was. It was that kind of thing. It was like,
oh man, that's really good. Look at that camera. Wow,
that's expensive, but that's a good camera. I can see
look at I can see that. I can see the
little flem, the pieces of phlam. I could see it
coming out of the mouth of the player. You can
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literally see the lugie, the launch angle. Baseball people love
launch angle. You could see the launch angle on the
lougie and as it approached you, Allen Ramsey and his
shoulder pads, you could see it the launch angle. We'll
have to check with the Elias Sports Bureau, but it
looked like one of those nature documentaries. I'm a big
documentary guy, so I watched even nature documentaries because that's
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exciting life that I live as a middle aged man.
So I watched these nature documentaries and it's like Planet Earth,
the migration of the saliva wad and you get some
big voiceover guy there with a deep voice, and you
do the voice over. There the giant blob just gliding
through the air on a thermal current right to the player. Boom.
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President has been set. We know that we talked about this.
This is the at least the second spinning monologue that
we've gotten. Remember the first game of the NFL season
Philadelphia in Dallas, there was the there was Originally it
was like Dak Prescott spit, but he you're allowed to
spit as long as the phlem does not touch another
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human being. You can spin on the which proves the
NFL does not respect Mother Earth because the NFL allows
you to spit giant wads of mucus onto mother Earth.
But if you spin on another human being, it becomes problematic.
So Jalen Carter got tossed before the game. That counted
as a He was like on the field, but he
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didn't play in a play, an actual snap, and so
that counted as a game suspension. So actions create consequences,
we all know that. And you do the crime and
you have to do the time. In this case, if
you spit crime, you spit time. You have to do that.
You have to do that. So and what would the
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defense be Let's try to workshop that. What do you
think the defense would be for Jamar Chase, the Bengal
wide receiver, Like, what would the defense be? Uh, sorry,
your honor, I'm sorry to have to go over this
with you. I missed the bullseye. The lugi actually drifted,
and since the lugi drifted, I should only be suspended
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for the first half. Well don't we don't do it.
We do full game, we don't do first time. But no, no, no,
I did not hit Ramsey in the face with the phlem.
I did not, like, what are we doing? It's you
don't get leniency because your spit had bad wind resistance,
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which is what happened to Jamar Chase here is he
hit the shoulder pad the jersey, but not it did
not appear. There might have been some shrapnel, mucus, little
bits of bacteria that hit Ramsey, but the main lugie
and I watched this about one hundred times, the main
lugi hit the jersey, shoulder pad area of Jalen Ramsey.
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You know, so just listen, just own it. You hawk
to it, and that's what you did. And you know
my bet.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
That night.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Now the good news I'll be Benny bright Side because
I'm not just a negative overnight gas bag. I will
be Benny bright Side here and as Benny Side, the
good news is Jamar Chase now has dinner reservations with
legends like Roberto Alamar and Carl Everett and who else
a Jalen Carter, Bill Romanowski, the greatest, Rojon Rondo. I
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remember when he spat on some of you had a
monologue about that. Reggie Miller a spinner. Do you know that? Yeah,
Reggie Miller, suppose you spat on a fan back in
the day with the Pacers. So now, how cool is
that Jamar Chase can pass the breadsticks around the table,
have some Fetecini Alfredo with Roberto Alamar and Carl Everett
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and Jalen Carter and Bill Romanowski and all those guys. Rondo,
that's a holy trinity of flem. It's great, all right.
Meanwhile to La we go another wide receiver in the headlines,
but for different reasons, that would be Pooka and Nakua.
It was a breakout star a little while back for
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the Rams and has continued to be a very efficient
player for the Rams. Now, he played some grab ass
with Pat McAfee, because that's all you can do is
play grab ass with Pat McAfee. But in this particular
interview on Zoom, Pat McAfee was they were playing grab
ass and Pooka Nicua said that stepping out of bounds
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with the ball is soft with a capital asset's soft,
and he's never going to do it. He's never gonna
do it. And this of course created some Oh my god,
Sean mcvain needs to talk to him. He's gonna get
himself killed. Oh my god. Yeah, people that panic over
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everything you lose. There is fake Papa. All right, question,
what's the message? Do you have a message to the
people concerned about rams wide receiver Pooka Nkoua and the
physical style of football which he appears to enjoy. So yes,
to those in the corner of the room, back right
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hand corner of the room, that's You's the back left
handed corner of the room. The out of an abundance
of caution crowd as I like to call them, clutching
their pearls in the fetal position. They've got pearls in
one hand. They're sucking their thumb. But they should be. No,
they shouldn't be doing that because the bad hygiene. Give
me a break, Okay, Please come on. I know that
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you've tried to change, and you have succeeded in changing.
This is not the game of football. I grew up
with the game of football. I'm watching now I realize that.
And if you want finesse, if that's what you're gunning for,
I would like finess. I recommend you go on the
YouTube and watch some pickleball highlights. Very exciting. Watched the pickleball.
The injuries, Eh, what about the longevity? Oh my god,
(34:47):
the wear and tear, the blankety blank blank blank blank blank.
Spare me, spare me now. This is this is Poogain
Nakuru's identity, this is his brand, this is how he plays,
it's who he is. Good for him, you know, he's
a bit of a throwback. I used to use those
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words gamer whatever you want to say. Not a gamer
like today, but one of the few guys in the
NFL that likely drives around with like a lionel Richie
Cassette stuck to the tape deck there. And he also,
much like myself and al Michaels, is anti vegetable, so
we have that in common. There's a kinship I have
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with pookin Nakua. He's taking a strong anti vegetable position
and that's working and this is working as well. He's
third in the league and catches thirteen yards. I'd believe
he's fourth in touchdowns, pookin the coua. And if that
is a reckless style of football, which you knuckleheads, some
of you, I'm talking to a very small percentage of
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the people listening, but you know who you are. You know, Hey,
that's reckless. Can I get a roster full of reckless players?
I would like to have that. I love the way
he plays. Good for him. And as the late great
Anthony Bourdaine, one of the all time wonderful TV chefs
in my life, Anthony Bourdaine said, your body is not
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a temple. It is an amusement park. It's an amusement
park ride and might as well enjoy it. And yeah,
he's doing it. And you get on the ride and
you buckle up and all that. You scream your lungs out,
and you hope the bolts don't fall off the ride
because the carnival, the guy the carnival, the carneie was
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doing meth in the back. You hope that doesn't have
But I listen, they're worried to be worried about Puka
Nikua not stepping out of bounds. Oh my god, he's
gotta step out of bounds. Yea half the league gets
hurt getting out of bed. The other half get hurt
on walkthroughs. So life in the NFL is short. Whether
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you're tiptoeing through the tulips and whether you're trucking a
safety a truck stick to a safety, it doesn't matter.
And as the great Huey Lewis one of the great
lines in musicret said, we're not here for a long time,
We're here for a good time. And Pooka is living
that out. Good for him. We don't need no catch,
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we need dolls, we need dog. We got He's a dog.
He's a dog. He wants he wants the smoke. Now
he better not run out of bounds this week or
everyone's well, you said you were gonna run out of
a buckle, You run out of bound. So I just
let the guy play his way. It's working. The Rams
are tied for the top record in the NFC, although
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they're behind the Eagles because of the tie breaker. And
plus this listen is Pooka's story. It's not your story,
it's his story, and he's clearly doesn't have an anxiety. Pooka
Nicole based on what has happened here and he's out
there stiff arming people and whatnot. You know, that's that's
just how he is. He's in a different zip code
than a lot of the guys that are playing today,
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like Justin Jefferson of the Vikings, who makes business decisions
and you all you kiss his ass. Oh, he made
a good a couple of interceptions that Ravens game, and
he didn't even bother to try to make a play.
Because that's him, that's that's in his DNA. Justin Jefferson,
He's not He's not a dog. No, no, no, he's
a kitty cat. Kitty cat. Get it cat here, kid,
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kitty kitty here, kitty kitty. Meanwhile, to college football, that's right.
Don't tell anyone the rare and appropriate mention of college football.
I bring this up because it's a good story, and
you know the mantra. Maybe you don't know the mantra.
We have a mantra. You know, I have no idea
one of the things. So how can you do a
talk reader. I've been doing this for a long time.
(38:42):
I hat to do this every day, so every day
it's different. If I was talking about the same stuff
every day, I would lose my freaking mind. In fact,
I don't even do what all the good talk shows.
You know, these big time guys like Cowhard and Dan Patrick,
they do like one topic for three hours. They don't
even do four hours. They'll do one topic. That's what
most of the shows do. Get bored out of my mind.
If I did one topic, Okay, I can't do one topic.
(39:05):
I gotta change it up every hour anyway. So college
football get to the point, please, so the big news out.
It's not done done. I don't believe the docu sign
has gone through. However, it appears James Franklin has found
a new job. The old Penn State coach has a
new gig. So question, James Franklin to Virginia Tech. Is
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this a good landing spot or not for James Franklin.
So after a minutes long deliberation of the available jobs
and looking at the resume of James Franklin, I have
determined yes with a capitol Y, Yes with a capitol Y.
Here's why. Because James Franklin is walking out of a
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big time job at Penn State, which he clearly failed
at against top opponents, and now he is going to
one of the ultimate fixer upper gigs in college football?
Can we all agree to anyone disagree with that? Does
anyone disagree that the Virginia Tech job is a great
fixer upper? The thing has been sitting on cinderblocks since
Frank Beemer retired. And the porch is collapsing a little bit,
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you know, drive by. It's it's really tough to look at.
The porch is collapsing, The roof leaks, there's raccoons living
in the in the attic. It's a real mess. And
it's like James Franklin comes in here. This should be
a reality TV show, one of those HGTV shows where
full gut rehab with James Franklin, quirky fun you know,
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go down to home Depot, go down to Low's, buy
a bunch of lumber, and Blacksburg, Virginia has not mattered
for years, for years, it hasn't better. The last ten
win season twenty sixteen, the last ACC title. It's been
almost a generation. It's twenty ten, so we're about fifteen years,
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twenty years as a generator, so another five years it
will have been a generation. And the program is essentially
it's a it's a time capsule. It's kind of like
I was having some conversations with someone who's a friend
of mine, and we were talking about how like you
tell somebody who's under the age of like twenty that
the Raiders and cowboys used to be a big deal.
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And they said, what are you talking about. Will you
tell someone under the age of like thirty, You say, well,
Virginia Tech used to matter, And they said, no, you're
out of your mind, you boomer. But they did. I
remember it was like a time capsule when Michael Vick
was there for a couple of years. You kind of
dust it off. You squint really hard, and you might
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see a highlight from nineteen ninety nine. My god, it's
been a while. But that's why this is a perfect
fit for James Franklin. The blessing of low expectations and
a guy who's still got a old juice. James Franklin
go out in the recruiting trail. Of course, get these days,
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you got to have a big booster to cut checks.
But he knows the region. That's the point. He knows
the region, the same pipelines that Penn State looked at
to get offensive lineman, defensive lineman and all that Virginia Tech.
They they do the hokey pokey and they're doing the
same thing. And the other thing is, Franklin does not
have to build a spaceship here. You're not trying to
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go to Mars. You just have to have the Hokies
look like a respectable program, something other than a rotting
barn out in the woods, which is what they look
like right now, a rotting barn out in the woods.
And it's a great bounce back job. It's the old trampoline.
Franklin doesn't have to win a national title. That's not happening.
He's win nine games, have a couple of nine win
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seasons at Virginia Tech. Sniff just the expanded playoff. Something
smells weird, but just sniff it and boom boom boom
boom boom boom. He's back, baby, he's back on the
coaching seesaw. You're down, you're up, you're down, you're up,
and he'll get floated for some big money jobs again.
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So well, Franklin, he went down to Virginia Tech, and
now he's ready to bounce back up to a big
ten or an SEC job. And there you go. The
minute some athletic director, panics and all that, and we
gotta hire this guy Franklin, and they'll forget. They'll have
amnesia about everything that happened at Penn State. And so
it's the classic real estate play. You buy the rundown property,
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you slap some pain on it, you fix the issues
with the foundation, you do enough there that you stop
the tilting, and then you flip it, and you flip
it real good, you flip it up in the air everywhere.
And Virginia Tech. It's a good marriage because they need relevance.
They've been off the grid at Virginia Tech for a while.
Franklin needs redemption. So it's a transactional relationship, is what
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it is for James Franklin. It's a bit cynical, it's
not a bad thing, and it's perfect because the Hokies again,
they're worn down. They're a time ravaged relic that was
good twenty five years ago. But if James Franklin, if
he can just get them from ramshackle to respectable ramshackle,
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the respectable, get them out of the Tenderloin district, then
he becomes a hot name again and a good gig
will find him with a great escape route, which is
out of Virginia Tech. Everyone will be happy until he leaves,
and then the people of Virginia Tech will be upset
and the best laid plans of mice and men. This
was supposed to be Michael Vick's job, remember, except Michael
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Vick done a terrible job in his coaching debut. But
the idea was that vic would go down coach at
the lower level for a couple of years, and they
end up at Virginia Tech. He could still end up
at Virginia Tech if he figures out how to coach
Michael Vick, because Jane Franklin, if he's any good, will
not be at Virginia Tech very long. And if he sucks,
he won't be at Virginia Tech very long because they'll
get rid of him.
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Speaker 1 (45:02):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go, Here we go down.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
To the third degree. This is one big Ben gets
grilled cool.
Speaker 6 (45:13):
Bryce Young has had an up and down career so far.
In an up and down season multiple times this year,
he seemed close to losing his job, but on Sunday
he beat Cam Newton Panthers single game passing record. Does
this game prove that the jury is still out on Young.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
No, because he'll have a three hundred or four hundred
yard passing game, then'll come back and throw for one
hundred and fifty yards and two interceptions or an interception
here and a fumble there, and he's I believe he's
been under two hundred yards in every game other than
two this year where he's had breakout games. That is
not something you can build a football team around. He's not.
(45:49):
Every time I watch him, he sucks. I didn't see
much of the game against Atlanta. He looked good. Fine
now that the jury is still out.
Speaker 6 (45:55):
Next, Miles Garrett is a generational talent on a really
bad team. He got four more sacks on Sunday against
the Ravens to get to fifteen on the season. Do
you think he breaks straight hand in TJ. Watts record?
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Well, the records really not straight hands because of what happened.
Now here's what I'd like to see happen. I want
to see history repeat itself. Coop the Brown's final game
of the season, is against the Cincinnati Bengals. I would
like to see Joe Flacco take a dive if he's
playing there and allow allow the record, But no, I'm
gonna I'm gonna go. No, Miles Garrett, there'll be some
kind of injury. He'll miss out next.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
Lebron James is close to returning to the Lakers, and
so far the team has been pretty good without him.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Do you think Lebron's return will help or hurt the team?
They'll inevitably lose a game they're supposed to win with Lebron.
Lebron won't play well and then it'll be killed Lebron.
That'll be here that goes so the Lebron get back? Yoh, Lebron,
he's so good without Lebron? What do oh? That's how
that's gonna go? There? It is Mallardy third degree? How
(46:56):
did we do? He passes that as they went played
on the buck up the game. That's right, good milkman
Mike in Colorado, I won the game. I want it
for him.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
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Speaker 1 (47:28):
Let's do it real quick. Let's welcome in our contestants.
We have Eenie meenie, miney moe. We've got Nick in
Washington's gonna play. Hello, Nick, Welcome. That's Dave puture right,
our Dave. You're gonna play Hello, Dave, Welcome, Dave, Hi, Ben, Hello, Dave.
Who do you want to partner up with? Dave?
Speaker 2 (47:47):
I like to defer to Nick?
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Okay, all right, fine? Uh Nick, who do you want
to partner up with? Quickly?
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Give me Ben?
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Give me Ben? All right, I'll give you Ben, fine,
very nice and far out, Dave. Yeah, you're with Coop?
Okayad four? All right, very good. Let's play the game
coop quickly? Please? All right?
Speaker 6 (48:05):
This is the Martin Scorsese. The addition, he turned eighty
three years old yesterday, same birthday as me. Category one,
Italian American, Category two, casino thank you, Category three, the
Wolf of Wall Street, and category four the fifty year argument. Uh, Nick,
you were on or I guess day was on?
Speaker 1 (48:22):
First?
Speaker 5 (48:23):
Dave?
Speaker 1 (48:23):
You want Italian American? All right? And Nick, which category
would led him to that? Catego, I feel like you
led him to that category. Nick, Yes, we are in
a hurry, Nick, which category would you like? Okay?
Speaker 6 (48:37):
Nick, which category you want? Casino, Wolf of Wall Street
or the fifty year argument?
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (48:44):
Yeah Wolf?
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Okay, okay, all right, we're gonna go. Are we going first?
I don't know what's going on. David and I are
gonna go for go. All right?
Speaker 6 (48:53):
We have Italian American Dave. These athletes all have Italian backgrounds.
We need the first and last name. Forty five seconds,
let's begin. He was the best quarterback ever before Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
I'm gonna give no. It's Dave is the anthem, David's
and it's end. He's for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 6 (49:11):
Don't answer, Nick, Yes, okay, now, the the one that
Nick just said.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
No, no, no, no, no, no, turn no, yes, it
doesn't count, all right. The Italian catcher for the Mets.
Shut up, that's bull crap. The Italian catcher for the Mets.
Speaker 6 (49:32):
No, he was, Oh my godness, he was. He was
on the Dodgers and they got traded to the Mets. Okay, yes, uh,
this guy is a backup quarterback for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
He dated a porn star.
Speaker 6 (49:46):
I think I should get fifteen more seconds because Ben.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
Shot. That is cheating. All right, you're done? All right, Well,
well go ahead. Well hold he put it this because
I know Dave's gonna to it. I don't want that.
All right? All right, Nick? Are you ready? Nick? All right?
These athletes are avid investors. All right, we need first
and last name, forty five seconds on the clock, and
here we go. A quarterback curly for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes,
(50:16):
the greatest cheating. Oh my god, you're cheating. You're cheating.
That's not cheating, the great cheating Yankee short stuff. But
Coop's losing his cheating. That's cheating. You're cheating. Envy p
finals for the Golden State Warriors. But a couple of
years back against Cleveland, had a big block shot, uh
(50:39):
six man, kind of backup guy for Golden State. All right, linebacker,
you have to Coop is now right? Coop has now
ruined the game ruined. You tried to cheat?
Speaker 7 (50:54):
You got I was playing by the rules. Cool was
the rules? Did you say? That was an illegal?
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Dud? It was against the bylaws if you read because
you was answering. Not an idiot. You cheated you. That
is a legal act. It's against the rules of malus.
Not the money. That's not the rule. The rules. What is?
What's the rule? What's the rule?
Speaker 3 (51:26):
The rule is you can't do what you did since
we're not allowed.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
All right, Dave, we're gonna win this right now. You're
not gonna win it right now. Yes we are. You're not.
Do you want casino or the fifty year argument? All right?
These athletes all have gambling issues. All right.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
He was the picture for the Indians who just got indicted.
All right, he is a white or so. Oh he
put him on hold?
Speaker 1 (51:51):
Wow? What he is the picture of what you're telling
He's a picture the Indians that just got indicted.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Put him on hold, don't all right?
Speaker 1 (52:01):
He's the wide receiver for the Lions. Oh sorry, Coop,
you don't get Oh yeah, yeah, real mature. There you go.
You ruined the game. He ruined the game.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
He ruined the game.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
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and that is where we will start off. And this
Mallard monologue begins in southern Nevada. A vintage matchup. If
only you had a time machine and you could go
back thirty forty fifty years. Oh my god, what a matchup,
bucking my day, all the old people. I remember when
(02:25):
the Cowboys and Raiders. Oh my god, that was amazing.
It was epic. Now, eh see, like, how did that
game end up on Monday Night Football? The Cowboys and Raiders.
They throwback to the vintage days there the days of
your of course, these days a couple of dogs with fleas,
but they were out there futzon around. You had Joe
Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox refugees there on a
(02:50):
b C. Now they're gonna get huge ratings for this game.
Massive ratings for this game, certainly ratings that are not
not worthy of the two teams that were dissipating in
this game. I don't know if you were watching it
or not. I watched it kind of have to. I mean,
I really want to watch NBA, so there's really nothing
else to watch. It's pretty much that's it. So if
(03:13):
you want to watch some sports, you're gonna have to
watch this. So I watched, and what did we see? Well,
Dak Prescott went out there against a bunch of tomato cans.
Dak passed for two hundred and sixty eight yards and
not one, not two, not three, but four a four
pack of touchdowns thirty three to sixteen, Dallas vaporizing the
(03:33):
I can't even say once proud Las Vegas Raiders. They've
sucked ever since they got to Vegas, just like they
sucked when they were at Oakland. Anyway, the Cowboys first game,
if you watched any second of the Monday night game,
you realize it was the first game the Cowboys had
played since their defensive player marsh On Neeland's dath. He
committed suicide last to a Ted eleven days ago. Was
(03:55):
eleven days ago. Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys, coach, the players.
All they wore, they wore stuff honoring There was the
coach shot and I were t shirt. They were honoring
Neil in there bowed their head. There was a moment
of silence before the game. Cowboys are four to five
and one on the season, and you could argue they
played better than they have played all season. Some trying
(04:19):
to sell the fact that Cowboys are a playoff contender.
That is a lie. They are not. Dallas had lost
three of their last four games coming up against Now
they have Philadelphia, Kansas City in Detroit. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night for the Dallas Cowboys there. But the
better story is in the losing locker room. So that
(04:40):
is where we are going to begin. And for some reason,
we see the Raiders in these primetime games way too often,
considering how much they stink. But here they were again
one more time, Gino Smith reminding everyone he can't play
quarterback at a high level, and the Raiders in general
played with a lack of edge. That was to me
the most telling thing about So that's a good jumping
(05:01):
off point. Let us discuss the question for the room,
and you're part of the room as we discuss here.
The question is how would you describe Pete Carroll and
the Raiders' effort in this game? Not the result. The
result was they got their face smashed in, But the
effort by the Raiders, that's the question. So on this one,
(05:23):
I've got rumba, hoover, dam, and boilerplate, and we will
combine all of these things together and we're going to
make a chopped chicken sandwich, is what we're going to make,
and we'll see how it turns out. Now, A we
were a little confused, a little confused watching this game.
(05:43):
That why would we be confused, because we assume that
we tuned in to watch a football game. It looked
like some of the Raider defensive players are being held hostage.
My god, they did not want to be there. They
did not want to be there. Look at the way
they were playing. The effort was nonexistent, non existent. By
(06:05):
and listen, the Raiders are a bad team. All that stuff.
The Raiders look like they look like gunner our guy
in Minnesota clocking in at the walmart is what they
look like. You know what I'm saying. They's just kind
of going through it. Not Monday night football. They're just
I gotta show up. I got my tuna fish sandwich
for the break room. I'm good. It was the marching band,
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but it was the marching band with the drum line
a little out of sync, just a little out of sink.
Half the horns pointed backwards. That doesn't seem real good.
I mean, I'm not in a band. It doesn't seem
real good. The baton twirlers asleep like they're a New
York Giants rookie player. Off to the side, and you
slow down the film, in this case the digital video,
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and what did we see? We saw on the Raider
defense Pete Carroll defensive guy. You saw a lot of
arm tackles, traffic cones, illusions of effort. There's a lot
of llusions of effort making it appear that you're actually
hustling when you're not actually hustling. Guys jogging towards the
ball la la la la la la la la la
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la la, kind of like they were late to a
brunch at the Belagio. They were just kind of jogging.
La la la la la la la la la, just
like that. That's what it actually sounded like when they
were jogging. It sounded like that. My god, it just
it is. It is brutal, absolutely brutal. And I guess
they don't have to try. The season's over, so they'll
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just kind of go through the motions and that's it.
But man, all, I have no attention to detail. I
don't know what the game plan was. I have no idea.
Did they even prepare? Did the coaching staff prepare? The
players didn't look like they wanted to be there. And
it's nights like this, this Monday night game here where
you separate the people that really love playing football and
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the people that are there because they make a lot
of money, insane amounts of money, money they could not
make in any other business, like insane money, but they
just happened to fall into it because they won the
genetic lottery or whatever. And they're great athletes, but they
don't really like football. And there's a lot of guys
on that, you know, the guys that are just kind
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of there for the team. Photo those guys floaters, coasters,
the bus Riders, that group the hawksin's that affect every
losing team, and you're two and eight now the Raiders.
You just put the whole league on notice. That record
is not misleading. You stank, you do, and not only
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do you stink, your entire team appears to be okay
with it. There's not a lot of fight. It's not
a lot of fighting. Now pivoting, let's talk about the
curious case of Geno Smith. Here's Pete Carroll. Let's see,
I've heard that Pete is not allowed to criticize Gino Smith.
Gino is so soft? How soft is he? He can't
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take any criticism. If you criticis size Geno Smith, you
will lose Geno Smith. So if there was ever a
day to criticize Geno Smith, this would have been the day.
Let's see what Pete Carroll had to say. Thirty one
dropbacks in that first half three runs? Is that? I mean,
I can't imagine that that's something that you like to
look at.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
It wasn't thirty one drop backs. It was a bunch
of play action passes. And really I really wanted to
see us do that and then and there's only one
person to look at me because I was influenced on
the game plan. I love the way we were chunking
them and we made big plays. But as as and
I didn't, I knew it was I knew what was happening,
you know, and Chip and I knew what was going on.
But we were trying to stay with it and to
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see if we could continue to get the big plays
which we were getting, and then we just stalled in
the red zone. And unfortunately, and I don't really care
about pleasing people with our run past mix, I'm trying
to move the football and when you come back to it,
we were supposed to be ahead with that approach, and
then we're supposed to come back and run the football
in the second half and then later in the second quarter,
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but our inability getting the and to stop them, it
didn't work out that way. So I'm totally responsible for
how that happened.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
The extended dance remix. There nothing short from Pete Carroll anyway. Listen,
he did say there, and that was kind of telling
I'm not here to please people, and the Raiders haven't
pleased anyone. So Pete was not wrong when he said
that I'm not here to please people with my run
pass breakdown. He's also not there to please people with
the product on the field, which if this was if
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this was a Vegas show, if you put this at
MGM or New York, New York, well, because it would
have already closed it literally, it would have canceled the show.
That's it. They're still going if they do. But Gino Smith,
is he not one of the great swindlers of the NFL. Seriously,
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I mean, it's fascinating to me that this has continued
as long as it has a man built to where
a headset and hold the clipboard and deliver packages for
Amazon somehow has now started for four seasons, four seasons
as a QB one. He has earned over one hundred
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million dollars and can't play as a starter. It's wild.
It is like he's slipped through the cracks. Ginosmith, it
really is one of the great I give him credit.
I'm not ripping him. I'm impressed. The guy that can't
do the job has risen. It's the Peter principle. He's
risen to his highest level of incompetence and he's staying,
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you're talking about a shortage of quarterbacks. Well, this would
indicate there is a shortage of quarterbacks there, my god,
holy crap. And if Joe six Pack with seventeen burner
accounts with different avatars on every one of them knows
that Geno ain't it. And yet now he's started for
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multiple NFL teams, billion dollar, multi billion dollar franchises. Can't
get the memo. Then you had Ashton Genty, the rookie
running back who didn't get a lot of work, and
when he did touch the ball, wow, did he stink.
He was bad too, against a bottom five run defense,
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the Dallas Cowboys, against one of the worst defenses in football.
And you didn't even try to run the ball. When
you did, you couldn't run the ball. That's not just bad.
That's an indictment of multiple people, is what that is.
It's the football version of an open book test. And
you screwed it up. You had the teacher's book you
had to copy with all the answers. You messed it up. Now,
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it's appropriate that if you've ever been to Vegas, the
Raiders Stadium looks like a giant rumba. When you drive by,
it looks like a big old rumba there on the
way into Vegas from la And seriously, they actually needed
the Raiders a robotic vacuum here because there's a lot
of mess, lot of debris that they got to clean.
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So get that giant rumba and crank it up there.
At some point you could almost hear the Star Trek
line from years ago, beat me up, Scottie, get me
out of here. I want to go, please. And that's
just the players, that's Pete Carroll, that's everyone involved here.
Get me far far away from this planet, take me
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somewhere else, please. The effort was anemic. It was alarming,
not surprising. This is the culture the Raiders have had
for years, different coaches. It's toxic. It's absolutely toxic. They
don't fight, they don't scratch and claw. There's a couple
types of bad teams. There's the bad teams that know
they're bad and don't give a crap, and then there's
the bad teams that know they're bad and try. The
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Raiders are not that team. They're the Ladder, the team
that knows they're bad and they don't really put a
lot of effort into it. And so that's it, and it's
been that way. It's unwatchable for a generation. Now the
Raiders all right, now going to thirty thousand feet in
the sky. Who's responsible? Who is responsible for this latest Raiders?
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I sore of a season? So this is easy. All
you have to do is look at the DNA trail.
There's a long DNA trail here. And if you peel
back the onion and you look at the DNA there
the layers of the onion. It kind of smells like
Tom Brady's aftershave. This is the Patriot Way gone wild,
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is what it is. Now. Tom Brady is the patron
saint of the NFL. Beyond criticism. The football media seems
to refuse to criticize Tom Brady. I don't understand why
Mark Davis basically handed Tom Brady the keys and said
I can't figure this out, you fix it. He gave
him the keys to the French. He's a big owner
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and the Raiders, and he's in on every major decision.
And like Mark Davis, I listen, you drive, buddy. I've
tried to drive this car, and all I've gotten his
orange chicken at PF Changs. That's all. I've got good
appetizers at Pfchase. But the team sucks come on, skinny pants,
tom Brady, fix it. And Tom Brady said, okay, Mark Davis,
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I'm gonna fix it. And he took the keys and
he drove the Raider Mobile right into the hoover Dam. Kurkflooey,
right into the hoover dam. The man that had the
miightest touch with the New England Patriots, the miightest touch.
Right now, he's got the Sadam touch. And if you
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do know where that is, looking up, everything he touches
turns to the dust at this particular point with the
Sadam touch. And forget the goat. Oh, he's the goat.
You can't rip Tom Brady. He's the goat. Oh you
want to bet? Yeah? How about Tom the team killer? Wow?
The Raiders actually are in a worse position now than
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when they had Antonio Pierce and a different front office
last year, which is impossible, but they are. They're in
a worse person edition now and nobody will talk about
it in the media is like a blackout on talking
about Tom Brady. What a terrible job he's done. He's
Michael Jordan, Charlotte Hornet's bad as an executive, legendary player, clueless,
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clueless at building a roster, hiring a coaching staff, the
whole thing. It's kind of like hiring Bob Ross because
you used to watch him on PBS. He's dead now,
But if you hired him to fix your plumbing, well
I probably don't want Bob Ross to fix your plumbing.
Maybe paint a mosaic or something like that, but that's it.
So remember Brady handpicked the coach and the quarterback. He
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wanted Matthew Stafford as his quarterback. He took him to
a retreat in Montana and tried to brainwash him into
the colt of Tom Brady. Stafford said, I'm good. He
then thought he was going to get Ben Johnson, who's
coaching the Bears. That didn't work out either, So what
did he end up with? He ended up with Tom
Brady ended up with a Kirkland brand version of the
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twenty thirteen well actually not even twenty thirty, twenty seventeen
eighteen Seahawks Pete Carroll Light, Pete Carroll Light, Gino Smith
without the spark, not that he ever had one. It's
kind of like ordering a Flamennon and you get the
plate and there's a Salisbury steak and you why didn't
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order the Salisbury stake? And why is it not on
a play? Why is it on a styrofoam? Well, that's
what it comes with. It's the Salisbury steak. But I
wanted the for let mignon, but I know, but we
ran out of that, so we just gave you the
Salisbury steak. And it's really good. It's delicious, but I
don't want the Salisbury but it just enjoyed, but I
don't want the STYROFIM just eat it. That's it. The
autumn wind is a raider. No, it's not. The autumn
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wind is a gas leak flatulence. That's the Raiders. That's
the Raiders right here. And Tom Brady's fingerprints are all
over the body, all over the body here. This is
a forensic disaster, is what this is.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Here.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The chalk outline goes right from the fifty yard line
to TB twelve's front door right there. Pick his house.
He's got a lot of houses. But let's be real here,
all right, Tom Brady believed he could just sprinkle on
some Patriot pixie dust with the Raiders and that would
be it. And unfortunately, you're a long way from Foxborough.
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It's football in the desert, a losing culture. The man's
out there planting roses. Tom Brady, he's a gardener and
wondering why they're dying. Why they're dying the roses. Yeah, okay,
So you can say as a quarterback he was Mozart
and then as an executive, as the front office puppet master,
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he's essentially playing the kazoo. Now, I don't mind the kazoo,
but you don't pay big money to watch the kazoo.
And so welcome to the Tom Brady era in Sin City.
With no winnings. No winnings, everyone's a loser. Everyone's a loser. Yea. Anyway,
last word, we go to the Dallas side of things,
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and the question is what did you think of the
media coverage and on the Monday night game coverage of
Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys dealing with tragedy and where we are
and on that the way it was handled and all
that stuff. So this was hallmark storytelling, is what it was.
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I was actually texting a couple of buddies of mine,
one of them former a sports writer. We were going
back and forth. But this game story was written before
the game was kicked off Cowboys and Raiders. It didn't
matter if the Cowboys won the game thirty three to sixteen,
which they did, if they won the game thirty three
to thirty two. Marshawn Neeland, the young man whofortunately lost
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his life at his own hands. According to the story,
he was the lead. That was the story. The media
already had it ready. It was boiler plate ready is
what it was. Insert score, copy paste, and quick publish
and that's that. Now. In the multiverse, I do believe
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in the multiverse, and the multiverse there is a dimension
where Dallas actually lost the game. Hard to believe the
way the game went out, but they lost the game.
And if the Cowboys had lost the game, the story
would have been the same. Headline would have been about
the young man that lost his life, but the story
would have been, you know, Cowboys lose this game by
four touchdowns because they were emotionally drained. It turned out
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they weren't emotionally drained. They won the game, so you
go away from that. And since they didn't lose, it's
inspired when playing for their fallen brother. All that stuff.
But let's be real, though, Let's be real about just
the State of the Cowboy. You don't get neon erasers.
The teacher does not give you a Neon green or
Neon pink eraser for beating the in a Monday night game.
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The Raiders are trash. You are garbage. When garbage beats trash,
garbage doesn't become gold. It doesn't. So yeah, congratulated. The
Cowboys are four or five and one. They are who
we thought they were. And if you want to crown them,
then crown them. And here comes the gauntlet. Here comes
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the gauntlet, the doomsday prophecy for the Cowboys. They've got
the Eagles, Chiefs at home, Lions on the road. You
think there's suddenly a contender with that out in front
this Cowboy team, mark my words. And I'm never wrong
about this. They're gonna win seven or eight games. That's it.
They've got four wins right now. They'll squeeze out another
three or four wins and they'll be perfectly mediocre, perfectly mediocre.
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And the questions will continue to linger about Dak Prescott
against good opponents. You look great against a bad opponent,
but in big games down the stretch, we'll see how
how he does there. And I hope they enjoyed this
mom here the cowboys there because the calm before the
waterboarding starts there. And let's stop pretending I've already seen
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some of the stories. Oh it's a turning point game, now,
I know it's not. This is not a turning point
game at all. It is just merely a calm. It's
like being in the eye of the storm and you
know that you've got the rest of the hurricane you're
gonna have to deal with. It's gonna be a bumpy run.
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We go to Cincinnati. We do not go back and
rehash the Monday night game, the Cowboys winning big over
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the Raiders. But our leaders from Cincinnati where the phlem flies.
The tall follows. When the phlem flies, the talk follows,
follow up, follow up to a previous Mallard monologue. We
now have the Court of the NFL ruling on what happened.
You might remember Bengals wide receiver Jalen Jamar rather Jamar Chase,
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the Bengal wide receiver Jamar Chase, got into it with
Jalen Ramsey, the journeyman defensive back. They went back and forth.
Ramsey was ejected and he said Posting said listen, that
guy spat on me. That guy's a spinner, and uh
oh ma, oh my god. Well, the NFL's ruled like
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because at the time Jamar Chase said, well, I didn't
do it. I didn't I didn't spit. No spit from
me didn't happen. Well, it turns out that Bengals wide
receiver Jamar Chase has been suspended for one game one
game for spitting on Jalen Ramsey. Chase can and appeal
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the NFL's ruling to suspend him. They say it's up
in the air. I've heard he has already started the
appeal process. The evidence is overwhelming, overwhelming evidence that he
did it, and barring some kind of eleventh hour plea deal,
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some kind of pardon from the NFL, Jamar Chase will
miss the week twelve game against the New England Patriots.
If the suspension is upheld, he'll be out. So that
is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
question did did Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase actions warrant
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the one game NFL suspension? So my observations this, I
have Planet Earth, Anthony Bourdain, and rotting barn in the woods,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some delicious kettle corn. Man,
if you get kettle corn with just the right salt
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and sugar, it's one of the great things. Not good
for your teeth, but it's really good, all right. So
number wa number to answer the question, did Jamar Chase action?
Did his actions warrant the suspensioned I'm gonna go a
hell to the yeah with a giant chunk of mucus,
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big gooey green gob of mucus. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
the tape don't lie, the tape, don't lie. We saw it.
It wasn't ai. You spin on a guy, you're out.
You spin on a guy, you're right now. In the
old days they would encourage spinning, but not right now,
not right now. There's really no gray area on this.
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Like I was saying about as I was driving in,
was there any really out on this that you can
you can go to. It's the single most disrespectful thing
that one can do on a football field outside of
kicking someone in the nuts, like kick him in the pills.
That's pretty bad, I would say, spitting a giant lugie
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right there in your face. Man, that's it. And it's
it's on four K video. It's not like who's a
I really okay, crystal clear pristine video. And it looks
like someone shot the video on a brand new iPhone
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like the you know how you watch those commercials like
the iPhone and they show like Yeah, they slow down
everything and they show you how good the camera is.
It was. It was that kind of thing. It was like,
oh man, that's really good. Look at that camera. Wow,
that's expensive, but that's a good camera. I can see
look at I can see that. I can see the
little flem, the pieces of phlam. I could see it
coming out of the mouth of the player. You can
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literally see the lugie, the launch angle. Baseball people love
launch angle. You could see the launch angle on the
lougie and as it approached you, Allen Ramsey and his
shoulder pads, you could see it the launch angle. We'll
have to check with the Elias Sports Bureau, but it
looked like one of those nature documentaries. I'm a big
documentary guy, so I watched even nature documentaries because that's
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exciting life that I live as a middle aged man.
So I watched these nature documentaries and it's like Planet Earth,
the migration of the saliva wad and you get some
big voiceover guy there with a deep voice, and you
do the voice over. There the giant blob just gliding
through the air on a thermal current right to the player. Boom.
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President has been set. We know that we talked about this.
This is the at least the second spinning monologue that
we've gotten. Remember the first game of the NFL season
Philadelphia in Dallas, there was the there was Originally it
was like Dak Prescott spit, but he you're allowed to
spit as long as the phlem does not touch another
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human being. You can spin on the which proves the
NFL does not respect Mother Earth because the NFL allows
you to spit giant wads of mucus onto mother Earth.
But if you spin on another human being, it becomes problematic.
So Jalen Carter got tossed before the game. That counted
as a He was like on the field, but he
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didn't play in a play, an actual snap, and so
that counted as a game suspension. So actions create consequences,
we all know that. And you do the crime and
you have to do the time. In this case, if
you spit crime, you spit time. You have to do that.
You have to do that. So and what would the
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defense be Let's try to workshop that. What do you
think the defense would be for Jamar Chase, the Bengal
wide receiver, Like, what would the defense be? Uh, sorry,
your honor, I'm sorry to have to go over this
with you. I missed the bullseye. The lugi actually drifted,
and since the lugi drifted, I should only be suspended
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for the first half. Well don't we don't do it.
We do full game, we don't do first time. But no, no, no,
I did not hit Ramsey in the face with the phlem.
I did not, like, what are we doing? It's you
don't get leniency because your spit had bad wind resistance,
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which is what happened to Jamar Chase here is he
hit the shoulder pad the jersey, but not it did
not appear. There might have been some shrapnel, mucus, little
bits of bacteria that hit Ramsey, but the main lugie
and I watched this about one hundred times, the main
lugi hit the jersey, shoulder pad area of Jalen Ramsey.
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You know, so just listen, just own it. You hawk
to it, and that's what you did. And you know
my bet.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
That night.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Now the good news I'll be Benny bright Side because
I'm not just a negative overnight gas bag. I will
be Benny bright Side here and as Benny Side, the
good news is Jamar Chase now has dinner reservations with
legends like Roberto Alamar and Carl Everett and who else
a Jalen Carter, Bill Romanowski, the greatest, Rojon Rondo. I
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remember when he spat on some of you had a
monologue about that. Reggie Miller a spinner. Do you know that? Yeah,
Reggie Miller, suppose you spat on a fan back in
the day with the Pacers. So now, how cool is
that Jamar Chase can pass the breadsticks around the table,
have some Fetecini Alfredo with Roberto Alamar and Carl Everett
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and Jalen Carter and Bill Romanowski and all those guys. Rondo,
that's a holy trinity of flem. It's great, all right.
Meanwhile to La we go another wide receiver in the headlines,
but for different reasons, that would be Pooka and Nakua.
It was a breakout star a little while back for
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the Rams and has continued to be a very efficient
player for the Rams. Now, he played some grab ass
with Pat McAfee, because that's all you can do is
play grab ass with Pat McAfee. But in this particular
interview on Zoom, Pat McAfee was they were playing grab
ass and Pooka Nicua said that stepping out of bounds
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with the ball is soft with a capital asset's soft,
and he's never going to do it. He's never gonna
do it. And this of course created some Oh my god,
Sean mcvain needs to talk to him. He's gonna get
himself killed. Oh my god. Yeah, people that panic over
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everything you lose. There is fake Papa. All right, question,
what's the message? Do you have a message to the
people concerned about rams wide receiver Pooka Nkoua and the
physical style of football which he appears to enjoy. So yes,
to those in the corner of the room, back right
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hand corner of the room, that's You's the back left
handed corner of the room. The out of an abundance
of caution crowd as I like to call them, clutching
their pearls in the fetal position. They've got pearls in
one hand. They're sucking their thumb. But they should be. No,
they shouldn't be doing that because the bad hygiene. Give
me a break, Okay, Please come on. I know that
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you've tried to change, and you have succeeded in changing.
This is not the game of football. I grew up
with the game of football. I'm watching now I realize that.
And if you want finesse, if that's what you're gunning for,
I would like finess. I recommend you go on the
YouTube and watch some pickleball highlights. Very exciting. Watched the pickleball.
The injuries, Eh, what about the longevity? Oh my god,
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the wear and tear, the blankety blank blank blank blank blank.
Spare me, spare me now. This is this is Poogain
Nakuru's identity, this is his brand, this is how he plays,
it's who he is. Good for him, you know, he's
a bit of a throwback. I used to use those
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words gamer whatever you want to say. Not a gamer
like today, but one of the few guys in the
NFL that likely drives around with like a lionel Richie
Cassette stuck to the tape deck there. And he also,
much like myself and al Michaels, is anti vegetable, so
we have that in common. There's a kinship I have
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with pookin Nakua. He's taking a strong anti vegetable position
and that's working and this is working as well. He's
third in the league and catches thirteen yards. I'd believe
he's fourth in touchdowns, pookin the coua. And if that
is a reckless style of football, which you knuckleheads, some
of you, I'm talking to a very small percentage of
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the people listening, but you know who you are. You know, Hey,
that's reckless. Can I get a roster full of reckless players?
I would like to have that. I love the way
he plays. Good for him. And as the late great
Anthony Bourdaine, one of the all time wonderful TV chefs
in my life, Anthony Bourdaine said, your body is not
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a temple. It is an amusement park. It's an amusement
park ride and might as well enjoy it. And yeah,
he's doing it. And you get on the ride and
you buckle up and all that. You scream your lungs out,
and you hope the bolts don't fall off the ride
because the carnival, the guy the carnival, the carneie was
(36:33):
doing meth in the back. You hope that doesn't have
But I listen, they're worried to be worried about Puka
Nikua not stepping out of bounds. Oh my god, he's
gotta step out of bounds. Yea half the league gets
hurt getting out of bed. The other half get hurt
on walkthroughs. So life in the NFL is short. Whether
(36:55):
you're tiptoeing through the tulips and whether you're trucking a
safety a truck stick to a safety, it doesn't matter.
And as the great Huey Lewis one of the great
lines in musicret said, we're not here for a long time,
We're here for a good time. And Pooka is living
that out. Good for him. We don't need no catch,
(37:17):
we need dolls, we need dog. We got He's a dog.
He's a dog. He wants he wants the smoke. Now
he better not run out of bounds this week or
everyone's well, you said you were gonna run out of
a buckle, You run out of bound. So I just
let the guy play his way. It's working. The Rams
are tied for the top record in the NFC, although
(37:39):
they're behind the Eagles because of the tie breaker. And
plus this listen is Pooka's story. It's not your story,
it's his story, and he's clearly doesn't have an anxiety. Pooka
Nicole based on what has happened here and he's out
there stiff arming people and whatnot. You know, that's that's
just how he is. He's in a different zip code
than a lot of the guys that are playing today,
(37:59):
like Justin Jefferson of the Vikings, who makes business decisions
and you all you kiss his ass. Oh, he made
a good a couple of interceptions that Ravens game, and
he didn't even bother to try to make a play.
Because that's him, that's that's in his DNA. Justin Jefferson,
He's not He's not a dog. No, no, no, he's
a kitty cat. Kitty cat. Get it cat here, kid,
(38:21):
kitty kitty here, kitty kitty. Meanwhile, to college football, that's right.
Don't tell anyone the rare and appropriate mention of college football.
I bring this up because it's a good story, and
you know the mantra. Maybe you don't know the mantra.
We have a mantra. You know, I have no idea
one of the things. So how can you do a
talk reader. I've been doing this for a long time.
(38:42):
I hat to do this every day, so every day
it's different. If I was talking about the same stuff
every day, I would lose my freaking mind. In fact,
I don't even do what all the good talk shows.
You know, these big time guys like Cowhard and Dan Patrick,
they do like one topic for three hours. They don't
even do four hours. They'll do one topic. That's what
most of the shows do. Get bored out of my mind.
If I did one topic, Okay, I can't do one topic.
(39:05):
I gotta change it up every hour anyway. So college
football get to the point, please, so the big news out.
It's not done done. I don't believe the docu sign
has gone through. However, it appears James Franklin has found
a new job. The old Penn State coach has a
new gig. So question, James Franklin to Virginia Tech. Is
(39:26):
this a good landing spot or not for James Franklin.
So after a minutes long deliberation of the available jobs
and looking at the resume of James Franklin, I have
determined yes with a capitol Y, Yes with a capitol Y.
Here's why. Because James Franklin is walking out of a
(39:50):
big time job at Penn State, which he clearly failed
at against top opponents, and now he is going to
one of the ultimate fixer upper gigs in college football?
Can we all agree to anyone disagree with that? Does
anyone disagree that the Virginia Tech job is a great
fixer upper? The thing has been sitting on cinderblocks since
Frank Beemer retired. And the porch is collapsing a little bit,
(40:15):
you know, drive by. It's it's really tough to look at.
The porch is collapsing, The roof leaks, there's raccoons living
in the in the attic. It's a real mess. And
it's like James Franklin comes in here. This should be
a reality TV show, one of those HGTV shows where
full gut rehab with James Franklin, quirky fun you know,
(40:37):
go down to home Depot, go down to Low's, buy
a bunch of lumber, and Blacksburg, Virginia has not mattered
for years, for years, it hasn't better. The last ten
win season twenty sixteen, the last ACC title. It's been
almost a generation. It's twenty ten, so we're about fifteen years,
(40:58):
twenty years as a generator, so another five years it
will have been a generation. And the program is essentially
it's a it's a time capsule. It's kind of like
I was having some conversations with someone who's a friend
of mine, and we were talking about how like you
tell somebody who's under the age of like twenty that
the Raiders and cowboys used to be a big deal.
(41:18):
And they said, what are you talking about. Will you
tell someone under the age of like thirty, You say, well,
Virginia Tech used to matter, And they said, no, you're
out of your mind, you boomer. But they did. I
remember it was like a time capsule when Michael Vick
was there for a couple of years. You kind of
dust it off. You squint really hard, and you might
(41:39):
see a highlight from nineteen ninety nine. My god, it's
been a while. But that's why this is a perfect
fit for James Franklin. The blessing of low expectations and
a guy who's still got a old juice. James Franklin
go out in the recruiting trail. Of course, get these days,
(42:00):
you got to have a big booster to cut checks.
But he knows the region. That's the point. He knows
the region, the same pipelines that Penn State looked at
to get offensive lineman, defensive lineman and all that Virginia Tech.
They they do the hokey pokey and they're doing the
same thing. And the other thing is, Franklin does not
have to build a spaceship here. You're not trying to
(42:22):
go to Mars. You just have to have the Hokies
look like a respectable program, something other than a rotting
barn out in the woods, which is what they look
like right now, a rotting barn out in the woods.
And it's a great bounce back job. It's the old trampoline.
Franklin doesn't have to win a national title. That's not happening.
He's win nine games, have a couple of nine win
(42:45):
seasons at Virginia Tech. Sniff just the expanded playoff. Something
smells weird, but just sniff it and boom boom boom
boom boom boom. He's back, baby, he's back on the
coaching seesaw. You're down, you're up, you're down, you're up,
and he'll get floated for some big money jobs again.
(43:07):
So well, Franklin, he went down to Virginia Tech, and
now he's ready to bounce back up to a big
ten or an SEC job. And there you go. The
minute some athletic director, panics and all that, and we
gotta hire this guy Franklin, and they'll forget. They'll have
amnesia about everything that happened at Penn State. And so
it's the classic real estate play. You buy the rundown property,
(43:32):
you slap some pain on it, you fix the issues
with the foundation, you do enough there that you stop
the tilting, and then you flip it, and you flip
it real good, you flip it up in the air everywhere.
And Virginia Tech. It's a good marriage because they need relevance.
They've been off the grid at Virginia Tech for a while.
Franklin needs redemption. So it's a transactional relationship, is what
(43:56):
it is for James Franklin. It's a bit cynical, it's
not a bad thing, and it's perfect because the Hokies again,
they're worn down. They're a time ravaged relic that was
good twenty five years ago. But if James Franklin, if
he can just get them from ramshackle to respectable ramshackle,
(44:18):
the respectable, get them out of the Tenderloin district, then
he becomes a hot name again and a good gig
will find him with a great escape route, which is
out of Virginia Tech. Everyone will be happy until he leaves,
and then the people of Virginia Tech will be upset
and the best laid plans of mice and men. This
was supposed to be Michael Vick's job, remember, except Michael
(44:39):
Vick done a terrible job in his coaching debut. But
the idea was that vic would go down coach at
the lower level for a couple of years, and they
end up at Virginia Tech. He could still end up
at Virginia Tech if he figures out how to coach
Michael Vick, because Jane Franklin, if he's any good, will
not be at Virginia Tech very long. And if he sucks,
he won't be at Virginia Tech very long because they'll
get rid of him.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
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Speaker 1 (45:02):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go, Here we go down.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
To the third degree. This is one big Ben gets
grilled cool.
Speaker 6 (45:13):
Bryce Young has had an up and down career so far.
In an up and down season multiple times this year,
he seemed close to losing his job, but on Sunday
he beat Cam Newton Panthers single game passing record. Does
this game prove that the jury is still out on Young.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
No, because he'll have a three hundred or four hundred
yard passing game, then'll come back and throw for one
hundred and fifty yards and two interceptions or an interception
here and a fumble there, and he's I believe he's
been under two hundred yards in every game other than
two this year where he's had breakout games. That is
not something you can build a football team around. He's not.
(45:49):
Every time I watch him, he sucks. I didn't see
much of the game against Atlanta. He looked good. Fine
now that the jury is still out.
Speaker 6 (45:55):
Next, Miles Garrett is a generational talent on a really
bad team. He got four more sacks on Sunday against
the Ravens to get to fifteen on the season. Do
you think he breaks straight hand in TJ. Watts record?
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Well, the records really not straight hands because of what happened.
Now here's what I'd like to see happen. I want
to see history repeat itself. Coop the Brown's final game
of the season, is against the Cincinnati Bengals. I would
like to see Joe Flacco take a dive if he's
playing there and allow allow the record, But no, I'm
gonna I'm gonna go. No, Miles Garrett, there'll be some
kind of injury. He'll miss out next.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
Lebron James is close to returning to the Lakers, and
so far the team has been pretty good without him.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Do you think Lebron's return will help or hurt the team?
They'll inevitably lose a game they're supposed to win with Lebron.
Lebron won't play well and then it'll be killed Lebron.
That'll be here that goes so the Lebron get back? Yoh, Lebron,
he's so good without Lebron? What do oh? That's how
that's gonna go? There? It is Mallardy third degree? How
(46:56):
did we do? He passes that as they went played
on the buck up the game. That's right, good milkman
Mike in Colorado, I won the game. I want it
for him.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
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Speaker 1 (47:28):
Let's do it real quick. Let's welcome in our contestants.
We have Eenie meenie, miney moe. We've got Nick in
Washington's gonna play. Hello, Nick, Welcome. That's Dave puture right,
our Dave. You're gonna play Hello, Dave, Welcome, Dave, Hi, Ben, Hello, Dave.
Who do you want to partner up with? Dave?
Speaker 2 (47:47):
I like to defer to Nick?
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Okay, all right, fine? Uh Nick, who do you want
to partner up with? Quickly?
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Give me Ben?
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Give me Ben? All right, I'll give you Ben, fine,
very nice and far out, Dave. Yeah, you're with Coop?
Okayad four? All right, very good. Let's play the game
coop quickly? Please? All right?
Speaker 6 (48:05):
This is the Martin Scorsese. The addition, he turned eighty
three years old yesterday, same birthday as me. Category one,
Italian American, Category two, casino thank you, Category three, the
Wolf of Wall Street, and category four the fifty year argument. Uh, Nick,
you were on or I guess day was on?
Speaker 1 (48:22):
First?
Speaker 5 (48:23):
Dave?
Speaker 1 (48:23):
You want Italian American? All right? And Nick, which category
would led him to that? Catego, I feel like you
led him to that category. Nick, Yes, we are in
a hurry, Nick, which category would you like? Okay?
Speaker 6 (48:37):
Nick, which category you want? Casino, Wolf of Wall Street
or the fifty year argument?
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (48:44):
Yeah Wolf?
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Okay, okay, all right, we're gonna go. Are we going first?
I don't know what's going on. David and I are
gonna go for go. All right?
Speaker 6 (48:53):
We have Italian American Dave. These athletes all have Italian backgrounds.
We need the first and last name. Forty five seconds,
let's begin. He was the best quarterback ever before Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
I'm gonna give no. It's Dave is the anthem, David's
and it's end. He's for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 6 (49:11):
Don't answer, Nick, Yes, okay, now, the the one that
Nick just said.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
No, no, no, no, no, no, turn no, yes, it
doesn't count, all right. The Italian catcher for the Mets.
Shut up, that's bull crap. The Italian catcher for the Mets.
Speaker 6 (49:32):
No, he was, Oh my godness, he was. He was
on the Dodgers and they got traded to the Mets. Okay, yes, uh,
this guy is a backup quarterback for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
He dated a porn star.
Speaker 6 (49:46):
I think I should get fifteen more seconds because Ben.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
Shot. That is cheating. All right, you're done? All right, Well,
well go ahead. Well hold he put it this because
I know Dave's gonna to it. I don't want that.
All right? All right, Nick? Are you ready? Nick? All right?
These athletes are avid investors. All right, we need first
and last name, forty five seconds on the clock, and
here we go. A quarterback curly for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes,
(50:16):
the greatest cheating. Oh my god, you're cheating. You're cheating.
That's not cheating, the great cheating Yankee short stuff. But
Coop's losing his cheating. That's cheating. You're cheating. Envy p
finals for the Golden State Warriors. But a couple of
years back against Cleveland, had a big block shot, uh
(50:39):
six man, kind of backup guy for Golden State. All right, linebacker,
you have to Coop is now right? Coop has now
ruined the game ruined. You tried to cheat?
Speaker 7 (50:54):
You got I was playing by the rules. Cool was
the rules? Did you say? That was an illegal?
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Dud? It was against the bylaws if you read because
you was answering. Not an idiot. You cheated you. That
is a legal act. It's against the rules of malus.
Not the money. That's not the rule. The rules. What is?
What's the rule? What's the rule?
Speaker 3 (51:26):
The rule is you can't do what you did since
we're not allowed.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
All right, Dave, we're gonna win this right now. You're
not gonna win it right now. Yes we are. You're not.
Do you want casino or the fifty year argument? All right?
These athletes all have gambling issues. All right.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
He was the picture for the Indians who just got indicted.
All right, he is a white or so. Oh he
put him on hold?
Speaker 1 (51:51):
Wow? What he is the picture of what you're telling
He's a picture the Indians that just got indicted.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Put him on hold, don't all right?
Speaker 1 (52:01):
He's the wide receiver for the Lions. Oh sorry, Coop,
you don't get Oh yeah, yeah, real mature. There you go.
You ruined the game. He ruined the game.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
He ruined the game.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
What
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