November 26, 2025 • 48 mins
Big Ben talks about 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan being stubborn about QB Brock Purdy, former Eagles star Donovan McNabb urging the Eagles to trade A.J. Brown, Maller to the Third Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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as this the Wednesday show, the NFL picking up tomorrow
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on Thursday. It's still a late Tuesday night in the West.
But our leads story from San Francisco follow up follow
up to a previous previous malle monologue. We talked about
the Niners after the Monday night game. A lot of chatter,
a lot of chatter, delayed reaction, like hey boy, that guy,
that guy brock Party blows. It's like, well he sucks, Yeah,
(02:25):
he does. He sucked before the Niners paid him. Now,
the tell for me was when the number one Brock
Party Toatsucker Terry in England, who's a big forty nine
er at Hank, when he did not run to defend
brock Party. That was a dead do what dead give what?
So Kyle Shanahan, who plausibly is the head coach of
the San Francisco football team, Kyle Shanahan attempting to shut
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down the noise. Oh, we're gonna stop the noise. Shanahan
asked a couple of times about possible quarterback change in
the Bay Area, saying bye bye to brock Purty, giving
him the clipboard, the tools of Victor Ritz, and having
him walk around the sidelines there in a swap for
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mac Daddy mac Jones as the forty nine Ers QB
number one. Well, turns out if you didn't see this,
maybe not. Shanahan dismissed, dismissed, repeatedly the idea that there
would be some kind of shake up among the quarterback
position there in brock Purty, even though he delivered absolute flatulence,
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complete and total flatulence in the first half of that
game and really throughout the entire game when you consider
the opponent. So despite that, mac Jones will not be
taking over people calling for him to take over there.
The forty nine Ers coach repeatedly standing by his quarterback
prock Purty and says he remains in command of the offense,
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all right, So that is a good jumping off point.
Let discuss the question, why why is the forty nine
Ers coach Kyle Shanahan so stubborn about brock Purty. All right,
So on this one, I've got home Depot, Wright, Brothers,
and Fork and we will combine all of these things together.
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Ding ding, and there you go. Well, we're gonna make
some chimmy chungosy is what We're gonna make, delicious chimmy
chogas a tradition on Thanksgiving is the chimmy chunga unless
it's not all right. So a as I've learned from
years behind the powerful microphones at Fox Sports Radio and
other broadcast channels, I have learned over the years that
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everyone is a psychologist. Everyone is. Even I am a psychologist,
so I would I'm not professional. I'm an amateur psychologist.
So I have my diagnosis on what's going on here
with the forty nine ers. Doctor Mahler is in and
here is my diagnosis. This is called classic stubborn Coaches syndrome.
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Class look it up. It's in the medical journals. I'm
not making it up. You think I'm making it up.
I'm not making it up. No, I'm not. It's classic
stubborn coach syndrome. That is what that is. They're diagnosed it.
The reason that Shanahan is so held man he said, well,
all coaches have to stand by their quarterback. Well they do,
but not to the degree that Shanahan is. My theory
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on this is Shanahan knows he's stepped in it. He
really did step in. And now what do we mean
by that? He rubbers stamped and endorsed Brock Purdy getting
a contract he did not deserve. The guy's not someone
that elevates the players around him. And we've seen this era.
There'll be a great docu series on frivolous pork barrel
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spending in the NFL. Suck bag quarterbacks that got paid.
Kyler Murray, the little fella I'll get arms Murray in Arizona.
Trevor Lawrens, that guy blows in Jacksonville. Right, you go
down the list here, these guys have got the big
money and they stink. And Brock Party is on that.
And Kyle Shannon, he's the guy that again endorsed Brock
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Party getting the contract. You hand out that kind of cash,
two hundred and sixty five million dollars for Rock Party
buys a lot of rope. You go down to Home Depot.
You get the whole aisle. The whole aisle will be
named after you. When you have that kind of cash,
you can it's not ropeile, it's brock perty. Rope aile
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is what it is when you get a lot of
rope enough rope there at Home Depot, where they'll name
the entire f and aisle at every store in North
America after you. And so he's got it. Defend it,
He's got a Shannon's got an defend it Now brock
Purty continues to ride the vomit comet the way he
has here. Guess whose seat? One guess? No cheating, no cheating, okay,
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I know you're old Jed who fled about the cheat.
Don't cheat, don't do it. So one guess. Okay. The
guess is whose seat gets hotter than a habanero in Asana?
Who is it? All right? That's right, d yes, that
is Kyle Shannan's Now did you hear the excuse? I
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love the excuses, lack of accountability. The excuse is so good,
it's just just just wonderful. Uh So the excuse after
the three atrocity interception half there in the first half
on the Monday night game, he uh reated. I thought
he was just kind of kid, and I thought this
was some ad lib comedy. Apparently not. He said, all
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three were good decisions by brock Purdy. Just a hair late,
is what Shanahan said about those interceptions the other night.
So a hair late for brock Purdy and all good decisions,
really good. So I went back. I looked because I thought, well,
maybe maybe my memory is going. I don't see a
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lot of football games. Maybe something was wrong. And I said, well, no,
brock Party was a full Greyhound bus late on those throws,
and Carolina's defensive backs it was a Vaudvillian comedy as
they were actually running better routes or roots than the
Niner receivers. And either that or brock Party was just
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trying to throw to the Carolina Panthers defensive backs there.
And so Shannan listened. The point is, Shannan's married to
the mistake. He's married to the mistake. You pay the
guy who's not the guy, but you paid the guy.
He's not the guy, but you paid the guy. So
you paid him, and congratulations, you picked the wrong guy,
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and now you're tied to that player for better or worse.
Kyle Shanahan, you got to ride the wave. It turns
out that the wave looks like it's a tsunami of turnovers.
But that's you made your bed. Congratulations, it's a bed
of nails. Hope you enjoy that. Good luck. Meanwhile, Mac
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Jones is not God's gift to the quarterback position. He
did keep the Niners afloat congratulations, and the Niners quarterback
Mac Jones the twelfth ranked quarterback in the NFL. And
that's ahead of Caleb Williams, the guy that likes to
paint his nails there in Chicago, and then also Patrick
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Mahomes who's now opening restaurants and things like that and
doing that whole thing. So regardless, Kyle Shannon will not
even entertain the conversation blasphemy, absolute blaspem, because it means
he would have to admit he misread the room. And
no one ever wants to admit they're wrong. You don't
want to. You want to clearly I messed that. No,
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you don't want to say that mess that up. No,
he's protecting his resume, is what he's doing. Yeah, Brock
pretty has played often like a low battery notification like
the batteries getting low charge it. We're gonna go to
low power mode. That's what we're doing here. And Shannan's
gonna keep defending it until the rope runs out. And again,
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two hund and sixty five million. A lot of rope,
A lot of rope. You can even do the rope
d dope is what you can do. You can do
the rope dy dope all right now, flipping the pache,
but not going far because another story that we have
not really gotten into, I haven't really bitten into a nice,
juicy story, and that involves the Niers. Everyone's got a
hot take. I saw some fiery comments from a former
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Seahawk and forty nine er Richard Sherman, the mouth of
the legion of voom back of the day, and now
someone that despised the media, now remember the media. It's
wonderful anyway. Richard Sherman perplexed, absolutely perplexed that Brandon iuc
the wide receiver. His antics said, if you've missed it
over the weekend, the last couple days, stories come out.
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The Niners gave him one hundred and twenty million dollars
contract and because of his malfeasans. They have already voided
almost twenty seven million of that in gairwal and tees.
They've said, we're going to chop that away guaranteed money.
So you had one hundred and twenty and now you've
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given back about twenty seven million of that one hundred
and twenty. Reports out of the Bay indicate that Brandon
and I, the wide receiver there, skipped not one, not two,
not three, but many many forty nine er team meetings
and activities. I guess you figured out I'm not playing.
Why am I going to bother going to these team meetings?
Didn't show up, there were team activities, he said, I'm good.
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I'm good, and that's no.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Like the other night, if you're watching the Monday night
game the Niners in Carolina, you had Fred Warner and
Nick Bosa eating nachos and buttered popcorn watching the game.
I'm sure both those guys were like, what do I
have to be there? I'm not playing. I am a here.
That you were there so they could put you on
TV for ten seconds, that's why you were there. Said
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we're paying these guys a lot of money, but they're
not here anyway. So Brandon Ike didn't want to play
the game. He didn't want to play the political game
with the forty nine ers, and so after a big
contract dispute, got a lot of airplay, talked about him
a lot last year when his contract was up, last
off season and back and forth. He ended up getting
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hurt acl mcl tear in October of twenty twenty four,
and he has yet to come back and play. So
let's discuss this one. The question, the question for the
esteemed panel here, why is forty nine or wide receiver
Brandon Ayuc not fighting? He's not trying to get to
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twenty seven million dollars, he's not hired a lawyer and
all that suff No, the Niners have said, we're avoiding
twenty seven million dollars of money that we were going
to give you, and he's like, okay, whatever you want,
go ahead, knock yourself out. I said, my first thought
on this one, this is the strangest, the strangest twenty
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seven million dollar ghosting that I can recall off the
top of my head. Now, I'm sure there have been
other situations that have been ridonculous and all that stuff,
but right now, in this moment, we worry about today's
show and this right now, I can't think, I cannot
think of another situation quite like this. Normally, if you
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void this kind of deal, this amount of money, then
there's a war that breaks out, there's an absolute ord
that's too dramatic. But no, you have parachuters jumping out
of planes, lawyers for the NFL Players Association jumping out
of lanes. You have a media onslaught where they show
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Brandon Ayuk and you know, some poor relative he's got
making a whole sob story about how he has to
pay bills and how's he supposed to pay bills and
all this stuff, that ole thing, and and then and
Brandon I said, no, no, I'm cool, I'm good, I'm good.
And that tells you everything that is the dead giveaway,
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dead give what it is that bye bye Bay, Bye
bye Bay area. Brandon wants out. He goes. He bought
the most expensive think about this, the most expensive one
way ticket since the Right Brothers built the plane that
became what became air travel. The Right Brothers there in
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North Carolina. So the forty nine ers paid him. Brandon Ayuk,
we're talking about. They shackled him with the golden handcuffs.
Oh my god, the golden handcuffs. And now well, now
he wants the Houdini escape backed. Although Houdini didn't pay
twenty seven million dollars to get the handcuffs off. He
didn't do that. So what he should do and see
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if the forty nine ers are cool with this? You
should drive down the California coast Brandon and I have
a big event for charity in air quotes for charity
and go down to like Pismo Beach and get right
on the beach there and have a bonfire and light
the twenty seven million dollars on fire. That would be majestic.
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It would be wonderful, be awesome to have a big
bonfire there right on the beach and have forty nine
er fans come out. It can be therapeutic and it
can be a cleansing of the soul. Cleansing of the
soul is what it could be there. And there you go,
because again it's this one's not business. This is personal.
This is a personal situation. You skip team meetings, you
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rehab away from the facility, all that stuff, and you
are very quiet night, silent night. When it comes to
avoiding money and all that. And that's the athlete body
language that tells you, Okay, I have already checked out,
Bye bye, I've checked out, just like that. And before
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staying with the Niners, there was some flirtation out on
the market. Brandon iok had a chance to go to
the Patriots. He turned down I think it was thirty
something million dollars a year because he felt like the
Patriots did not have a solid quarterback. They had Drake
May who had not established himself yet, and he was
betting against Drake May. That tells you that he's chasing
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the perfect situation, Brandon Ayuk, and not just to pay day.
He wants like the perfect situation. And this might be
the dumbest financial play since there was a running back
named Ricky Williams who signed with master P back in
the day. You don't even know who that is, but
it was very funny at the time, and we thought
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it was pretty good. And as the lessons from Doctor
Seuss that life is just a series of decisions that
we make on a daily basis, and Brandon IUC is
really not great at making decisions. It would appear, it
would appear his decision making is not good. It is
going to take him years. He will likely never get
the lost money, the twenty seven million back, and that's
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the price to get out of a forty nine or uniform. Meanwhile,
last word to Miami, Miami we Go, where Tyreek Kill's agent,
Drew Rosenhaus was asked about the status of the rather interesting,
shall we say wide receiver Tyreek Hills hurt out for
the year after ergoing season ending knee surgeon. Leg was
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all mutilated in that primetime game. So his future with
the Dolphins remains murky, very murky. That's what it remains.
Although the current contry technically does have Tyreek Hill part
of the Dolphins through the twenty twenty six season. The
Hills agent, Drew Rosenhouse won a local TV in Miami
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this week and gave a vague update. He said, quote
regarding Tyreek Hill's treacher that depends on the Dolphins. He said,
I haven't had any discussions so with the Miami brass
yet about Tyreek or his future with the team. We'll
have those discussions after the season. Close quote. All right, question,
how hard a decision is this for the Miami Dolphins
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regarding Tyreek Hill and his future how hard a decision
is this? All right, So this is the oldest trick
in the book of tricks for Drew Rosenhause, it just
is this is the non update update, non update update.
And he says, hey, well, we're gonna talk after the season,
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and that's great. Let me use my mather Rosetta stone
to translate. That means they have not called us, they
have not contacted us. We know what is coming, we
are aware what is coming, and you know what is
coming close quote. Now, that's what the Rosetta Stone told me.
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That's what it means. Pre Chopped veggies is what this is.
It's predetermined, It's predetermined. That's it. The Dolphins are swimming
towards a fork in the road. Why are they swimming
on the road. They just go with it. They're swimming
towards a fork in the road. And the fork is
shaped like a wrecking ball, shaped like a big wrecking ball.
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And unless someone from Disney steps in and there's a
magical plot twist, and the Dolphins have another winnable game
this week, I believe they play the Saints. The Saints
blow So unless there's some kind of magical plot twist here,
Miami is gutting that operation. They are to a tongue
of Ilawa. You might want to afford your mail right now,
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you're gone, Mike McDaniel. Time to get a different colored
polo and work on your podcast game because you're gone.
This is just bookkeeping. There's no motion. It's just bookkeeping
on this one. That's all it is. It's business school
wearing shoulder pads and that's it. Miami would say thirty
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three million. Now I'm a salary cap truther. I think
the kap is crap, capus crap, capus crap. That said,
when you want to get rid of someone suddenly, it's
very important. And a lot of dumb people call radio
shows and post things online. So all, what's so good?
We saved so much money? Book crap. Anyway, listen, the
reason you want to get rid of the player is
it's not even based on the money. It's not. It's
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the fact that Tyreek Hill, his entire body of work
is turbo speed. He's nicknamed the Cheetah. He's thirty one
coming off a mutilated leg injury. So if you don't
have the speed, what do you got? You end up
on the clearance rack. And that's it, And that's the
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the NFL's version of a It's like a sports car
that needs a new transmission. Well, you're not gonna pay
full price if you take the car and you say,
well it needs this and that, And the thing of
a jig's not working. The watching McCall it's kind of
messed up there. What are we gonna do with that?
Maybe somebody knows how to fix the watching mccull it,
But the thing of a jig. I don't know if
anyone gonna fix the thing of a jig. The watching
mc call it probably, but the thing of a jig
not so much. And then that's it. So it's not
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really that hard decision. And then we'll do the where's
Tyreek kill game? Where's he gonna end up? And all
that stuff, and uh so the Dolphins really have already
made the decision, like what's going to change between now
and then? They just haven't given the breaking news graphic
to because they are mister editor. So as mister editor,
they have not given that to schefter to put on
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social media and all that. It's the math. It's the
drama mixed together there, and the math and drama together
that is a home Run.
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So in our lead this hour from the ongoing Days
of Our Lives drama in the Delaware Valley, we go
to phil Delphia where the Eagles trying to get off
the schneide. They were twenty one point lead on the
road at Dallas. Bad job, bad job by them. Now
this cloud was an ominous cloud with wide receiver A. J.
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Brown throwing jabs at the quarterback. Frustrated with the Eagles offense.
There you had former Philadelphia Eagle Donovan McNabb, who has
entered the chat McNabb urging the Eagles to say bye
bye to AJ Brown. You see this, Yeah, I know,
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I know. Well he's like the trade him or whatever.
The trade deadline has already passed, so that's not gonna happen.
If you didn't see it, Donovan McNabb popped up on
Philly's sports radio, So put anyone on Philly Sports Radio,
So they put McNab up there. He called in earlier
this week, and he used as an example a point
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of reference. He used his former coach and now the
coach of the chiefs Andy Reid, as an example. Is
that Andy, and trying to explain why a toxic culture
can hurt the entire team, McNabb said, quote, among other things,
he said, it's when you start bringing pieces in that
the toxic talk starts to create a bad aura around
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the team when discussing AJ Brown. So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question, what
is your verdict on Donovan McNabb urging the Eagles to
unload AJ Brown because of the toxic culture brewing in Philadelphia.
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It must be in the water supply. So my observations
on this, I've got South Park X men and A
Windy's Frosty, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make the Gabba Ghoul
with a side of Baba Ganoosh is what we're going
to make. Yeah, all right, so number one, number one, Yes,
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So we agree that the relationship between A. J. Brown
and the Eagles is crack a lacing like the old
pavement there. If you've been to Philadelphia on the Vine
Street Expressway right there in downtown Philadelphia, it's it's not
looking good. It's not looking good. And we love it.
From a talk radio standpoint, we're not Eagle fans, so
we think it's just freaking great that AJ and the
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Birds are heading towards Splitsville. And how Howie Freeman, Howie Freeman,
Howie Roseman, the GM of the Eagles there who's loves
the camera and broadcasters love him. This was a misstep
by the Eagles front office. They had offers, standing offers
to trade AJ Brown, and they're hubris. They're like, oh no,
(25:47):
we don't need to do we can we can navigate this. Well, okay,
we'll see if you're correct or not. It doesn't look
like you're navigating it very well at this particular point.
You know, like I'm gonna keep this guy and so
oh they are heading towards Splitsville in Philadelphia, but the
trade deadline has passed. Now that said, you are not
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the guy, Donovan nab. You're not the guy to give
the state of the Bird's address when it comes to
the relationship between Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown. Here's why,
because you are the former quarterback who needed a birf
bag in the Super Bowl, a literal burf bag vomit
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in the air everywhere in Jacksonville against the Patriots. We
don't forget, we don't forget keeping it real. It's not
really analysis by Donovan McNabb, the former Eagles quarterback NNA.
This is unresolved trauma, is what this is. It is
t o Terrell Owens broke Donovan McNabb's spirit so much.
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He did it before social media, like social media was
not really a thing the way that it's become now.
It's the matrix, it's the full matrix. It was people
dabbling in that world, but it was nothing like it
is today. Right when that was going on. They were
able to go mono amano toe to toe, eye to eye,
belly to belly without social media. McNab on one side
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and Owen's on the other. And so it wasn't documented
in memes and gifts and all that stuff. It wasn't
There weren't bot farms in Maldova that were keeping track
of everything and weaponizing all that. So t O for
McNab was the horror movie villain for mister McNabb there,
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and he can hear the theme music in the back
of his head. It's just it's subtle, but it's there.
It's kind of like in the background. And so now
he sees aj Brown McNab he's not played in years.
He sees aj Brown and that triggers a flashback. Uh oh,
So it's not really commentary so much from McNab as
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it's a therapy session disguised as a call into a
sports radio show from from Donovan. Here he's going Cartman
from south Park and he's going Cartman from south Park.
What does that mean? Well, why don't you show me,
Donovan on the doll where t O hurt your confidence?
Can you show me where? Okay, right right there, Okay,
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where else? Okay there to Okay, we'll see that. Yeah.
Uh so a J.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
A J.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Brown has been chirping, because that's what birds do. They chirp.
Trip trip trip trip trip trip trip trip. And uh
he's also been chipping the paint off the the Eagles.
They just won the Super Bowl a year ago with
AJ Brown, but he has been in Jalen Hurts business
in his face literally and figuratively. Toxic guy, right, toxic guy.
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And from that standpoint, and normally, if your production is good,
you stick around. If your production is bad, you go away.
This is a career low in many areas for AJ
Brown this season. So the production is going down. And
McNabb referenced Tyreek Hill and he used Tyreek as an
example to make his case. He didn't bring up t
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Oh mind you. He brought up Tyreek Hill and Andy
Reid getting rid of Tyreek in Kansas City and the
Chiefs continuing to win Super Bowls after Tyreek went off
to Miami. So he was a fifty to fifty ball
kind of guy, right, fifty to fifty maintenance, fifty to
fifty ball, and AJ brown stats are starting to go
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down as mentioned just a little subtle thing at this point.
So there's that, and Brown is problematic. McNabb though, is
really projecting here. And it's my analysis on this that
Donovan McNabb is projecting and Philadelphia's culture, the crack of
lacking and all that stuff. It's like the it's like
if you go to any gas station, they they all
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like if you're in Philadelphia, they have like the little
Philadelphia souvenirs. Very proud of the fact that the history
of Philadelphia in America, so they have like little souvenirs.
At the gas station. You can get a little replica
Liberty bell that has like the fake crack in it
and all that stuff. That's kind of what that is.
The Liberty bell, like the cheap ripoff toy that you
get at some gas station in Philadelphia. That's where that
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is not. Paige sue. We now go to former NFL
coaches for a thousand. Please, can I get former Bucks
coach and Cardinals coach Bruce Arians online? Yes? All right,
So Bruce Arians unloaded unloaded on the Minnesota Vikings quarterback
JJ McCarthy arians ripping McCarthy demanding the former NFL coach
(30:39):
demanding that the Vikings quarterback ditch is very dramatic alter ego,
and we talked about in a previous episode of the show. Quote,
we don't need all this ball one two, one thousand ship.
We don't need it. We don't need the ball bucking
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the bull by night. We don't need it, don't want it.
Talking about the alter ego thing, Bruce Arians said, it
needs to be a p he washed up. Former coach
stated accurate passer was the way he described it. Bruce
Arians saying that, and they paid appearance on YouTuber Pat
(31:20):
McAfee show. He said, you don't need snot bubbles and tears.
The former NFL coach stated, you play quarterback, not linebacker.
He said, Okay, we don't need all this bull shoy,
the bullshoy ballet. Don't need it. I don't need it,
(31:41):
he said, So there you go. He said, you're just
an effing quarterback. Play quarterback. That's all you're supposed to do.
You're not a linebacker. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Right,
So let us discuss the question. Is Bruce arians criticism
is Bruce arians criticism of Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy and
his alter ego Go nine, that's his alter ego nine,
(32:04):
his imaginary friend nine. Is that fair or foul? Fair
or foul? That's the question. So Bruce Arians, now, we
went back and we watched the replay. We did an
expedited review, and Bruce Arians did not tiptoe into the take.
He didn't tiptoe into the take. He kicked the door
(32:26):
off the hinges is what he did. And he's right
based on a expedited review. Fair ball, fair ball, that's
what we call. Right there, you go. Nobody cares about
your inner spirit, animal, your imaginary pal. Nobody cares about that.
(32:47):
It's not stage play. We're not on Broadway or off Broadway.
We're not doing that McCarthy's whole nine routine, which is
his jersey number. It's kind of like him doing that
and playing the way he's playing is akin to sacking
the quarterback while your team is down fifty five to
(33:07):
nothing and then doing the river dance after you've sacked. Well,
you could do the river dance after you sacked the
quarterback down fifty five. It doesn't generally look that good,
you know, it's not a great look. And this does
not fire the guys up the whole alternative persona doesn't
fire anybody up. In fact, it makes a lot of
people roll their eyes like like, what a douche, what
(33:30):
an absolute JABBRONI this guy is. You talk about Schmendrick
and look it up. This is a Mama Luke if
there ever was a Mama Luke. And Justin Jefferson does
not need drama. He needs the ball to be placed
in a position where he can catch it. He needs
he needs completions, he needs yards and touchdowns and all
(33:51):
those things. He's not getting that, Justin Jefferson, he's not.
And so let me tell you a little bit from
what I've learned over my years here behind these microphones
on how they make the sausage stuffed pigskin. How do
they do it? How do they make the pigskin sausage?
So the alter ego stuff, while it's lame to the membrane,
(34:13):
lame to the membrane. It the way it works is,
it's fine if you're good and people are India, it
works if you win. You know, Aaron Rodgers is mysterious
and he's a deep thinker, and then when he doesn't win,
(34:34):
he's a whack a doodle. He's a jackwagon and a
cuckoo for cocoa Puff's guy is what he is. And
if you and so that's the word, it's the same name.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I say.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
If you lose your JaMarcus Russell, your Ryan Leaf doing
cosplay as those guys, that's just the way it is.
And so you become Bozo the clown. Congratulations, you are
Boso the Clown. And right now, JJ McCarthy, I'm going
up the ladder here looking down at the room. JJ McCarthy,
(35:09):
the Viking quarterback is a founding member of x Men.
Did you know that? You didn't know that? Okay, well,
have you learned something new when you listen to late
night radio. He's not nine. He's a founding member of
x Men. Actually, Iceman, that's it. He's Iceman, and he's
a mutant. Doesn't play like a mutant. He's a mutant
(35:30):
that was born with superhuman skills. Congratulations. McCarthy has the
ability to manipulate the ice and cold by freezing water.
He takes water vapor and freezes it and then in
the process has absolutely destroyed any kind of good mojo.
The Minnesota Vikings happen to have their drives with wobbly
(35:52):
throws and just so bad. The Vikings often don't even
bother throwing because they know it'll be an incompletion, So
why would they do that. You know that that whole thing,
we don't want any part of that went another new
with that, So so there you go and just horrible.
And Bruce Arian's giving him the playbook. He's like, well,
ditch the whole theater thing. Push that, pushed that off
(36:13):
to the side, get rid of the whole theater thing
like that, we don't need that, and that's it, and
just throw completions and it's wild. He didn't look at
Michigan when I watched McCarthy, but I hadn't said, well,
this guy's an NFL quarterback. I didn't look like it
at all. The marketing campaign that has taken place over
(36:33):
the last fifteen years or so with these guys before
the draft, and it goes back to a previous point
we talked about in a previous hour, how dumb many
people are working sports and they buy the marketing like
there's my theory is they're so lazy that they just
like they don't do their homework and they just kind
of look at the oh, this agent's really selling this guy.
He's got the whole work, the whole package. Like Kyler
(36:55):
Murray had no business being the number one pick. He
was the number one overall pick in the draft because
they sold Kyler Murray he can't play. The guy's a
good gamer, he's not a good quarterback. But they were
able to sell the Cardinals because there are a bunch
of idiots there the draft again. And now JJ McCarthy
was not the top pick of the draft, but the
same concept applies where he had no business being a
(37:17):
first round pick. You look at his resume, he said, well,
they hardly threw at Michigan. You know, this is a
guy that should have been drafted in the fifth or
the sixth round. And even there, you're like, well, probably
not that great. All right, final point, we shift over
to pro bouncy ball. Why well, Lebron James. There was
a report making the rounds here that Lebron James is
(37:38):
insisting through his posse that he doesn't no, does not
know if he will retire from the Lakers after this
current NBA season, a story that was conveniently leaked by
Camp Lebron, letting the world know that this could that's
(37:59):
a weasel word. Could be Lebron's last season. However, he's
undecided who me, yes, you undecided there, and he might
feel even more responsibility to play in every game because
he's God's gift to basketball every game. And if it
was like a retirement tour situation, So let us talk
(38:23):
about this one the question, what are the chances, what
are the chances that Lebron James skips out on a
retirement tour, that he just quietly retires at the end
of this season and says, I'm gone, I'm going fishing.
I know this a really good lake back back in
Ohio I love and I'm just gonna go to that
(38:44):
lake and that's just gonna be it. And that's all. Yeah.
So the malaradds the Ben Malor Show malarods from the
Malor Sports Book. These are non official odds. These are
Ben Malor Show odds Lebron James skipping a retirement to
quietly go away. Now, I'm gonna be fair. The odds
(39:05):
are gonna shock you. You don't know where they are. Even
Antony and Anaheim doesn't know what they are. The odds
are zero point zero point zero zero zero zero zero percent.
I'm talking buzz light Year to Infinity and beyond squad. Yeah,
(39:28):
the whole thing. Lebron James is not Tim Duncan. Tim
Duncan snuck out the fire escape at the Spurs facility
wearing dad jeans and holding a Windy's Frosty Lebron. Ain't
that that's not Lebron. No, no, no, no. This is
the quintessential prima Donna Lebron James. He's addicted to the spotlight.
(39:50):
He's made tons and tons of money doing it. He
hears a basketball bounce, bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy, and
the camera lens open up. It's who he is. He
is not built. Lebron is not built for an Irish goodbye.
I'm not Irish, but I love the Irish goodbye. You
just leave and don't tell anyone. No, Lebron's got the
(40:14):
Hollywood goodbye. He's all about the Hollywood long, cinematic, dramatic,
tears soaked monologue filled farewell from Lebron. He's got to
have a lighting crew to the left. He's got a
big production budget, the whole thing, and he'll do the
Hollywood goodbye mix with the Minnesota goodbye? Do you know
(40:37):
what the Minnesota good You know, our friends in Minnesota
are shaking their head, They're nodding their head. Yes, I
know what a Minnesota goodbye. Yes, a Minnesota goodbye is.
You have to go around the room multiple times, circle
the room multiple times. Well, I really should get going,
I really should get going. Then you talk for thirty
more minutes. I really need to go. I got something
(40:58):
to do, I got that, got to make a stew
But no, you stay. That's it. The man once held
at a boys and girls club in Connecticut with Jim Gray,
the great hang around Jim Gray put together a show
called The Decision for the Children. You realize you can
do anything you want in the world as long as
you say it's for the children. No one questions them. Yeah,
(41:20):
and so that's not the guy that's going to retire quietly.
Not that guypal that's hosting your own prom is what
that is from lebron It's hosting your own prom It's hey, listen, Madonna,
bring back the Vogue song Strike a pose. You just
got to strike a posed. There we're talking about mirror gazing,
(41:43):
belly button staring. Four k HD self worship with all
that stuff, like all of that like mix that in
together there and put that in there, your own your
own gulash, make your own gulash there. Lebron does not
walk away. He curates content for Lebron properties. He does.
(42:09):
He'll have merch, he'll have special emojis for the Lebron Goodbye,
can't wait. There'll be a Netflix camera crew there to
document everything, a docu series from Netflix. So again, Lebron's
not exiting through the escape the You know, our celebrities
will walk through the kitchen at rest at hotels or whatever,
(42:30):
like they'll try to sneak out the back. Lebron's not that.
He's not leaving through the service entrance or exit. He's
going out on a red carpet. He wants everyone to
lick his toes and yeah that's what I get get. Yeah,
that's it. I mean, that's the vibe you get right
under the toes, all that green gob of bacteria. Just
lick that right out and that's it, and he'll be carried.
(42:53):
It'd be like you know that that video of the funeral.
I think it's somewhere in Africa, I don't know where,
but they they carry the casket. They're they're pushing it
up in the area, They're doing the whole thing. Have
you seen that clip? Yeah, Justin and Cincinnati says, uh
sends that to me all the time. Louisiana. Yeah, I know.
I think there was one in It was like from
some country in Africa. But whatever, You've seen the clip online. Right,
(43:15):
that's how Lebron's gonna leave the NBA. Right, They're gonna
be pushing them up, you know, dancing the whole thing,
and the farewell tour is inevitable.
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Eagles all pro tackled Jordan Malita, my lot whatever. Push
back against the notion that Saquon Barkley is quote in
a funk and stress that the team struggles on offenses,
not on Saquon Man, How much blame do you think
can be put on the lack of production from saque.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
He had a career year extreme outcomes are followed by
more modern I was even say Quan's admitting he's not
playing that well, so I stopped covering for him. The
guy's not having a good year. It happens.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
Next, Art Briles landed his first college head coaching job
since he was fired from Baylor a decade ago. Was
announced Monday that he will be leading Division two Eastern
New Mexico. Ben, do you think he could work his
way back into a job at a mate program.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
The problem is his age. He would have to go
somewhere in the deep like South They where they would
overlook pretty much anything if you can win football games.
So outside of that, good luck. I think he's too old.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Next, it was a part of this week that part
of the reason Steph Curry decided to leave the Under
Armour brand is due to their failed attempt at signing
Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
You're buying that that sounds like an excuse to me. Coop.
If under if he was selling from when I've heard,
he's not, you know, people love him at all. He's
not selling enough merch and so the offer was lower
than he wanted. If he was selling merchandise, they were
worked out a deal. So I don't I think that's
that's an excuse. It's embarrassing for him. How do we
(44:57):
do you passed that? Ada went? I won the game,
mister wonderful, I won the game.
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Mister godfather? All right, Mojo? Who do you want to
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Good morning, brother, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
What's going on there? You go, Brandon, good to have
you back on the show. And who would you like
to partner up with on password? I'm gonna go with
the guy that only taken my phone calls. I'm gonna
go with Cooper Loop. All right. It's not because he
likes you, he's paid to do that. All right, let's go.
We have a list of words. Can see the list.
(46:29):
You're cheating, do not cheat? Please, and let me make
sure mojo's on. You're there, Brandon, And then I've got
Mojo over here on line five. All right, Mojo, pick
a number one to ten. Please, number one to ten.
Let's go with the holy number number seven. I see,
I thought the holy number was number one. All right,
(46:51):
let's well, that's appropriate that you want with this one.
Let's go with let's see number seven. Canceled, Mojo canceled, canceled, canceled,
(47:14):
Uh kind of lost?
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Okay, go ahead, all right, Brandon, let's try and prohibited.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Prohibited.
Speaker 4 (47:25):
Ye uh, take.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Your time, don't don't hurry up or anything like that.
Here's funny prohibited. Uh, oh my goodness. Okay, all right,
you don't have anything. Let's go with one more from me.
How about outlawed log what means you can't do it? So,
(47:59):
what's another? All right, Uh Brandon, let's try one more.
Uh barred b A R R E. D. Bard, Oh
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the game. It was after the buzzer. It was after
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as this the Wednesday show, the NFL picking up tomorrow
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on Thursday. It's still a late Tuesday night in the West.
But our leads story from San Francisco follow up follow
up to a previous previous malle monologue. We talked about
the Niners after the Monday night game. A lot of chatter,
a lot of chatter, delayed reaction, like hey boy, that guy,
that guy brock Party blows. It's like, well he sucks, Yeah,
(02:25):
he does. He sucked before the Niners paid him. Now,
the tell for me was when the number one Brock
Party Toatsucker Terry in England, who's a big forty nine
er at Hank, when he did not run to defend
brock Party. That was a dead do what dead give what?
So Kyle Shanahan, who plausibly is the head coach of
the San Francisco football team, Kyle Shanahan attempting to shut
(02:49):
down the noise. Oh, we're gonna stop the noise. Shanahan
asked a couple of times about possible quarterback change in
the Bay Area, saying bye bye to brock Purty, giving
him the clipboard, the tools of Victor Ritz, and having
him walk around the sidelines there in a swap for
(03:09):
mac Daddy mac Jones as the forty nine Ers QB
number one. Well, turns out if you didn't see this,
maybe not. Shanahan dismissed, dismissed, repeatedly the idea that there
would be some kind of shake up among the quarterback
position there in brock Purty, even though he delivered absolute flatulence,
(03:32):
complete and total flatulence in the first half of that
game and really throughout the entire game when you consider
the opponent. So despite that, mac Jones will not be
taking over people calling for him to take over there.
The forty nine Ers coach repeatedly standing by his quarterback
prock Purty and says he remains in command of the offense,
(03:57):
all right, So that is a good jumping off point.
Let discuss the question, why why is the forty nine
Ers coach Kyle Shanahan so stubborn about brock Purty. All right,
So on this one, I've got home Depot, Wright, Brothers,
and Fork and we will combine all of these things together.
(04:21):
Ding ding, and there you go. Well, we're gonna make
some chimmy chungosy is what We're gonna make, delicious chimmy
chogas a tradition on Thanksgiving is the chimmy chunga unless
it's not all right. So a as I've learned from
years behind the powerful microphones at Fox Sports Radio and
other broadcast channels, I have learned over the years that
(04:43):
everyone is a psychologist. Everyone is. Even I am a psychologist,
so I would I'm not professional. I'm an amateur psychologist.
So I have my diagnosis on what's going on here
with the forty nine ers. Doctor Mahler is in and
here is my diagnosis. This is called classic stubborn Coaches syndrome.
(05:04):
Class look it up. It's in the medical journals. I'm
not making it up. You think I'm making it up.
I'm not making it up. No, I'm not. It's classic
stubborn coach syndrome. That is what that is. They're diagnosed it.
The reason that Shanahan is so held man he said, well,
all coaches have to stand by their quarterback. Well they do,
but not to the degree that Shanahan is. My theory
(05:26):
on this is Shanahan knows he's stepped in it. He
really did step in. And now what do we mean
by that? He rubbers stamped and endorsed Brock Purdy getting
a contract he did not deserve. The guy's not someone
that elevates the players around him. And we've seen this era.
There'll be a great docu series on frivolous pork barrel
(05:48):
spending in the NFL. Suck bag quarterbacks that got paid.
Kyler Murray, the little fella I'll get arms Murray in Arizona.
Trevor Lawrens, that guy blows in Jacksonville. Right, you go
down the list here, these guys have got the big
money and they stink. And Brock Party is on that.
And Kyle Shannon, he's the guy that again endorsed Brock
(06:09):
Party getting the contract. You hand out that kind of cash,
two hundred and sixty five million dollars for Rock Party
buys a lot of rope. You go down to Home Depot.
You get the whole aisle. The whole aisle will be
named after you. When you have that kind of cash,
you can it's not ropeile, it's brock perty. Rope aile
(06:31):
is what it is when you get a lot of
rope enough rope there at Home Depot, where they'll name
the entire f and aisle at every store in North
America after you. And so he's got it. Defend it,
He's got a Shannon's got an defend it Now brock
Purty continues to ride the vomit comet the way he
has here. Guess whose seat? One guess? No cheating, no cheating, okay,
(06:58):
I know you're old Jed who fled about the cheat.
Don't cheat, don't do it. So one guess. Okay. The
guess is whose seat gets hotter than a habanero in Asana?
Who is it? All right? That's right, d yes, that
is Kyle Shannan's Now did you hear the excuse? I
(07:20):
love the excuses, lack of accountability. The excuse is so good,
it's just just just wonderful. Uh So the excuse after
the three atrocity interception half there in the first half
on the Monday night game, he uh reated. I thought
he was just kind of kid, and I thought this
was some ad lib comedy. Apparently not. He said, all
(07:44):
three were good decisions by brock Purdy. Just a hair late,
is what Shanahan said about those interceptions the other night.
So a hair late for brock Purdy and all good decisions,
really good. So I went back. I looked because I thought, well,
maybe maybe my memory is going. I don't see a
(08:06):
lot of football games. Maybe something was wrong. And I said, well, no,
brock Party was a full Greyhound bus late on those throws,
and Carolina's defensive backs it was a Vaudvillian comedy as
they were actually running better routes or roots than the
Niner receivers. And either that or brock Party was just
(08:28):
trying to throw to the Carolina Panthers defensive backs there.
And so Shannan listened. The point is, Shannan's married to
the mistake. He's married to the mistake. You pay the
guy who's not the guy, but you paid the guy.
He's not the guy, but you paid the guy. So
you paid him, and congratulations, you picked the wrong guy,
(08:50):
and now you're tied to that player for better or worse.
Kyle Shanahan, you got to ride the wave. It turns
out that the wave looks like it's a tsunami of turnovers.
But that's you made your bed. Congratulations, it's a bed
of nails. Hope you enjoy that. Good luck. Meanwhile, Mac
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Jones is not God's gift to the quarterback position. He
did keep the Niners afloat congratulations, and the Niners quarterback
Mac Jones the twelfth ranked quarterback in the NFL. And
that's ahead of Caleb Williams, the guy that likes to
paint his nails there in Chicago, and then also Patrick
(09:31):
Mahomes who's now opening restaurants and things like that and
doing that whole thing. So regardless, Kyle Shannon will not
even entertain the conversation blasphemy, absolute blaspem, because it means
he would have to admit he misread the room. And
no one ever wants to admit they're wrong. You don't
want to. You want to clearly I messed that. No,
(09:53):
you don't want to say that mess that up. No,
he's protecting his resume, is what he's doing. Yeah, Brock
pretty has played often like a low battery notification like
the batteries getting low charge it. We're gonna go to
low power mode. That's what we're doing here. And Shannan's
gonna keep defending it until the rope runs out. And again,
(10:16):
two hund and sixty five million. A lot of rope,
A lot of rope. You can even do the rope
d dope is what you can do. You can do
the rope dy dope all right now, flipping the pache,
but not going far because another story that we have
not really gotten into, I haven't really bitten into a nice,
juicy story, and that involves the Niers. Everyone's got a
hot take. I saw some fiery comments from a former
(10:39):
Seahawk and forty nine er Richard Sherman, the mouth of
the legion of voom back of the day, and now
someone that despised the media, now remember the media. It's
wonderful anyway. Richard Sherman perplexed, absolutely perplexed that Brandon iuc
the wide receiver. His antics said, if you've missed it
over the weekend, the last couple days, stories come out.
(11:02):
The Niners gave him one hundred and twenty million dollars
contract and because of his malfeasans. They have already voided
almost twenty seven million of that in gairwal and tees.
They've said, we're going to chop that away guaranteed money.
So you had one hundred and twenty and now you've
(11:24):
given back about twenty seven million of that one hundred
and twenty. Reports out of the Bay indicate that Brandon
and I, the wide receiver there, skipped not one, not two,
not three, but many many forty nine er team meetings
and activities. I guess you figured out I'm not playing.
Why am I going to bother going to these team meetings?
Didn't show up, there were team activities, he said, I'm good.
(11:48):
I'm good, and that's no.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Like the other night, if you're watching the Monday night
game the Niners in Carolina, you had Fred Warner and
Nick Bosa eating nachos and buttered popcorn watching the game.
I'm sure both those guys were like, what do I
have to be there? I'm not playing. I am a here.
That you were there so they could put you on
TV for ten seconds, that's why you were there. Said
(12:12):
we're paying these guys a lot of money, but they're
not here anyway. So Brandon Ike didn't want to play
the game. He didn't want to play the political game
with the forty nine ers, and so after a big
contract dispute, got a lot of airplay, talked about him
a lot last year when his contract was up, last
off season and back and forth. He ended up getting
(12:35):
hurt acl mcl tear in October of twenty twenty four,
and he has yet to come back and play. So
let's discuss this one. The question, the question for the
esteemed panel here, why is forty nine or wide receiver
Brandon Ayuc not fighting? He's not trying to get to
(12:58):
twenty seven million dollars, he's not hired a lawyer and
all that suff No, the Niners have said, we're avoiding
twenty seven million dollars of money that we were going
to give you, and he's like, okay, whatever you want,
go ahead, knock yourself out. I said, my first thought
on this one, this is the strangest, the strangest twenty
(13:20):
seven million dollar ghosting that I can recall off the
top of my head. Now, I'm sure there have been
other situations that have been ridonculous and all that stuff,
but right now, in this moment, we worry about today's
show and this right now, I can't think, I cannot
think of another situation quite like this. Normally, if you
(13:42):
void this kind of deal, this amount of money, then
there's a war that breaks out, there's an absolute ord
that's too dramatic. But no, you have parachuters jumping out
of planes, lawyers for the NFL Players Association jumping out
of lanes. You have a media onslaught where they show
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Brandon Ayuk and you know, some poor relative he's got
making a whole sob story about how he has to
pay bills and how's he supposed to pay bills and
all this stuff, that ole thing, and and then and
Brandon I said, no, no, I'm cool, I'm good, I'm good.
And that tells you everything that is the dead giveaway,
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dead give what it is that bye bye Bay, Bye
bye Bay area. Brandon wants out. He goes. He bought
the most expensive think about this, the most expensive one
way ticket since the Right Brothers built the plane that
became what became air travel. The Right Brothers there in
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North Carolina. So the forty nine ers paid him. Brandon Ayuk,
we're talking about. They shackled him with the golden handcuffs.
Oh my god, the golden handcuffs. And now well, now
he wants the Houdini escape backed. Although Houdini didn't pay
twenty seven million dollars to get the handcuffs off. He
didn't do that. So what he should do and see
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if the forty nine ers are cool with this? You
should drive down the California coast Brandon and I have
a big event for charity in air quotes for charity
and go down to like Pismo Beach and get right
on the beach there and have a bonfire and light
the twenty seven million dollars on fire. That would be majestic.
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It would be wonderful, be awesome to have a big
bonfire there right on the beach and have forty nine
er fans come out. It can be therapeutic and it
can be a cleansing of the soul. Cleansing of the
soul is what it could be there. And there you go,
because again it's this one's not business. This is personal.
This is a personal situation. You skip team meetings, you
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rehab away from the facility, all that stuff, and you
are very quiet night, silent night. When it comes to
avoiding money and all that. And that's the athlete body
language that tells you, Okay, I have already checked out,
Bye bye, I've checked out, just like that. And before
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staying with the Niners, there was some flirtation out on
the market. Brandon iok had a chance to go to
the Patriots. He turned down I think it was thirty
something million dollars a year because he felt like the
Patriots did not have a solid quarterback. They had Drake
May who had not established himself yet, and he was
betting against Drake May. That tells you that he's chasing
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the perfect situation, Brandon Ayuk, and not just to pay day.
He wants like the perfect situation. And this might be
the dumbest financial play since there was a running back
named Ricky Williams who signed with master P back in
the day. You don't even know who that is, but
it was very funny at the time, and we thought
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it was pretty good. And as the lessons from Doctor
Seuss that life is just a series of decisions that
we make on a daily basis, and Brandon IUC is
really not great at making decisions. It would appear, it
would appear his decision making is not good. It is
going to take him years. He will likely never get
the lost money, the twenty seven million back, and that's
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the price to get out of a forty nine or uniform. Meanwhile,
last word to Miami, Miami we Go, where Tyreek Kill's agent,
Drew Rosenhaus was asked about the status of the rather interesting,
shall we say wide receiver Tyreek Hills hurt out for
the year after ergoing season ending knee surgeon. Leg was
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all mutilated in that primetime game. So his future with
the Dolphins remains murky, very murky. That's what it remains.
Although the current contry technically does have Tyreek Hill part
of the Dolphins through the twenty twenty six season. The
Hills agent, Drew Rosenhouse won a local TV in Miami
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this week and gave a vague update. He said, quote
regarding Tyreek Hill's treacher that depends on the Dolphins. He said,
I haven't had any discussions so with the Miami brass
yet about Tyreek or his future with the team. We'll
have those discussions after the season. Close quote. All right, question,
how hard a decision is this for the Miami Dolphins
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regarding Tyreek Hill and his future how hard a decision
is this? All right, So this is the oldest trick
in the book of tricks for Drew Rosenhause, it just
is this is the non update update, non update update.
And he says, hey, well, we're gonna talk after the season,
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and that's great. Let me use my mather Rosetta stone
to translate. That means they have not called us, they
have not contacted us. We know what is coming, we
are aware what is coming, and you know what is
coming close quote. Now, that's what the Rosetta Stone told me.
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That's what it means. Pre Chopped veggies is what this is.
It's predetermined, It's predetermined. That's it. The Dolphins are swimming
towards a fork in the road. Why are they swimming
on the road. They just go with it. They're swimming
towards a fork in the road. And the fork is
shaped like a wrecking ball, shaped like a big wrecking ball.
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And unless someone from Disney steps in and there's a
magical plot twist, and the Dolphins have another winnable game
this week, I believe they play the Saints. The Saints
blow So unless there's some kind of magical plot twist here,
Miami is gutting that operation. They are to a tongue
of Ilawa. You might want to afford your mail right now,
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you're gone, Mike McDaniel. Time to get a different colored
polo and work on your podcast game because you're gone.
This is just bookkeeping. There's no motion. It's just bookkeeping
on this one. That's all it is. It's business school
wearing shoulder pads and that's it. Miami would say thirty
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three million. Now I'm a salary cap truther. I think
the kap is crap, capus crap, capus crap. That said,
when you want to get rid of someone suddenly, it's
very important. And a lot of dumb people call radio
shows and post things online. So all, what's so good?
We saved so much money? Book crap. Anyway, listen, the
reason you want to get rid of the player is
it's not even based on the money. It's not. It's
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the fact that Tyreek Hill, his entire body of work
is turbo speed. He's nicknamed the Cheetah. He's thirty one
coming off a mutilated leg injury. So if you don't
have the speed, what do you got? You end up
on the clearance rack. And that's it, And that's the
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the NFL's version of a It's like a sports car
that needs a new transmission. Well, you're not gonna pay
full price if you take the car and you say,
well it needs this and that, And the thing of
a jig's not working. The watching McCall it's kind of
messed up there. What are we gonna do with that?
Maybe somebody knows how to fix the watching mccull it,
But the thing of a jig. I don't know if
anyone gonna fix the thing of a jig. The watching
mc call it probably, but the thing of a jig
not so much. And then that's it. So it's not
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really that hard decision. And then we'll do the where's
Tyreek kill game? Where's he gonna end up? And all
that stuff, and uh so the Dolphins really have already
made the decision, like what's going to change between now
and then? They just haven't given the breaking news graphic
to because they are mister editor. So as mister editor,
they have not given that to schefter to put on
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social media and all that. It's the math. It's the
drama mixed together there, and the math and drama together
that is a home Run.
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So in our lead this hour from the ongoing Days
of Our Lives drama in the Delaware Valley, we go
to phil Delphia where the Eagles trying to get off
the schneide. They were twenty one point lead on the
road at Dallas. Bad job, bad job by them. Now
this cloud was an ominous cloud with wide receiver A. J.
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Brown throwing jabs at the quarterback. Frustrated with the Eagles offense.
There you had former Philadelphia Eagle Donovan McNabb, who has
entered the chat McNabb urging the Eagles to say bye
bye to AJ Brown. You see this, Yeah, I know,
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I know. Well he's like the trade him or whatever.
The trade deadline has already passed, so that's not gonna happen.
If you didn't see it, Donovan McNabb popped up on
Philly's sports radio, So put anyone on Philly Sports Radio,
So they put McNab up there. He called in earlier
this week, and he used as an example a point
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of reference. He used his former coach and now the
coach of the chiefs Andy Reid, as an example. Is
that Andy, and trying to explain why a toxic culture
can hurt the entire team, McNabb said, quote, among other things,
he said, it's when you start bringing pieces in that
the toxic talk starts to create a bad aura around
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the team when discussing AJ Brown. So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question, what
is your verdict on Donovan McNabb urging the Eagles to
unload AJ Brown because of the toxic culture brewing in Philadelphia.
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It must be in the water supply. So my observations
on this, I've got South Park X men and A
Windy's Frosty, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make the Gabba Ghoul
with a side of Baba Ganoosh is what we're going
to make. Yeah, all right, so number one, number one, Yes,
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So we agree that the relationship between A. J. Brown
and the Eagles is crack a lacing like the old
pavement there. If you've been to Philadelphia on the Vine
Street Expressway right there in downtown Philadelphia, it's it's not
looking good. It's not looking good. And we love it.
From a talk radio standpoint, we're not Eagle fans, so
we think it's just freaking great that AJ and the
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Birds are heading towards Splitsville. And how Howie Freeman, Howie Freeman,
Howie Roseman, the GM of the Eagles there who's loves
the camera and broadcasters love him. This was a misstep
by the Eagles front office. They had offers, standing offers
to trade AJ Brown, and they're hubris. They're like, oh no,
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we don't need to do we can we can navigate this. Well, okay,
we'll see if you're correct or not. It doesn't look
like you're navigating it very well at this particular point.
You know, like I'm gonna keep this guy and so
oh they are heading towards Splitsville in Philadelphia, but the
trade deadline has passed. Now that said, you are not
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the guy, Donovan nab. You're not the guy to give
the state of the Bird's address when it comes to
the relationship between Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown. Here's why,
because you are the former quarterback who needed a birf
bag in the Super Bowl, a literal burf bag vomit
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in the air everywhere in Jacksonville against the Patriots. We
don't forget, we don't forget keeping it real. It's not
really analysis by Donovan McNabb, the former Eagles quarterback NNA.
This is unresolved trauma, is what this is. It is
t o Terrell Owens broke Donovan McNabb's spirit so much.
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He did it before social media, like social media was
not really a thing the way that it's become now.
It's the matrix, it's the full matrix. It was people
dabbling in that world, but it was nothing like it
is today. Right when that was going on. They were
able to go mono amano toe to toe, eye to eye,
belly to belly without social media. McNab on one side
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and Owen's on the other. And so it wasn't documented
in memes and gifts and all that stuff. It wasn't
There weren't bot farms in Maldova that were keeping track
of everything and weaponizing all that. So t O for
McNab was the horror movie villain for mister McNabb there,
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and he can hear the theme music in the back
of his head. It's just it's subtle, but it's there.
It's kind of like in the background. And so now
he sees aj Brown McNab he's not played in years.
He sees aj Brown and that triggers a flashback. Uh oh,
So it's not really commentary so much from McNab as
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it's a therapy session disguised as a call into a
sports radio show from from Donovan. Here he's going Cartman
from south Park and he's going Cartman from south Park.
What does that mean? Well, why don't you show me,
Donovan on the doll where t O hurt your confidence?
Can you show me where? Okay, right right there, Okay,
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where else? Okay there to Okay, we'll see that. Yeah.
Uh so a J.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
A J.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Brown has been chirping, because that's what birds do. They chirp.
Trip trip trip trip trip trip trip trip. And uh
he's also been chipping the paint off the the Eagles.
They just won the Super Bowl a year ago with
AJ Brown, but he has been in Jalen Hurts business
in his face literally and figuratively. Toxic guy, right, toxic guy.
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And from that standpoint, and normally, if your production is good,
you stick around. If your production is bad, you go away.
This is a career low in many areas for AJ
Brown this season. So the production is going down. And
McNabb referenced Tyreek Hill and he used Tyreek as an
example to make his case. He didn't bring up t
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Oh mind you. He brought up Tyreek Hill and Andy
Reid getting rid of Tyreek in Kansas City and the
Chiefs continuing to win Super Bowls after Tyreek went off
to Miami. So he was a fifty to fifty ball
kind of guy, right, fifty to fifty maintenance, fifty to
fifty ball, and AJ brown stats are starting to go
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down as mentioned just a little subtle thing at this point.
So there's that, and Brown is problematic. McNabb though, is
really projecting here. And it's my analysis on this that
Donovan McNabb is projecting and Philadelphia's culture, the crack of
lacking and all that stuff. It's like the it's like
if you go to any gas station, they they all
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like if you're in Philadelphia, they have like the little
Philadelphia souvenirs. Very proud of the fact that the history
of Philadelphia in America, so they have like little souvenirs.
At the gas station. You can get a little replica
Liberty bell that has like the fake crack in it
and all that stuff. That's kind of what that is.
The Liberty bell, like the cheap ripoff toy that you
get at some gas station in Philadelphia. That's where that
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is not. Paige sue. We now go to former NFL
coaches for a thousand. Please, can I get former Bucks
coach and Cardinals coach Bruce Arians online? Yes? All right,
So Bruce Arians unloaded unloaded on the Minnesota Vikings quarterback
JJ McCarthy arians ripping McCarthy demanding the former NFL coach
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demanding that the Vikings quarterback ditch is very dramatic alter ego,
and we talked about in a previous episode of the show. Quote,
we don't need all this ball one two, one thousand ship.
We don't need it. We don't need the ball bucking
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the bull by night. We don't need it, don't want it.
Talking about the alter ego thing, Bruce Arians said, it
needs to be a p he washed up. Former coach
stated accurate passer was the way he described it. Bruce
Arians saying that, and they paid appearance on YouTuber Pat
(31:20):
McAfee show. He said, you don't need snot bubbles and tears.
The former NFL coach stated, you play quarterback, not linebacker.
He said, Okay, we don't need all this bull shoy,
the bullshoy ballet. Don't need it. I don't need it,
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he said, So there you go. He said, you're just
an effing quarterback. Play quarterback. That's all you're supposed to do.
You're not a linebacker. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Right,
So let us discuss the question. Is Bruce arians criticism
is Bruce arians criticism of Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy and
his alter ego Go nine, that's his alter ego nine,
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his imaginary friend nine. Is that fair or foul? Fair
or foul? That's the question. So Bruce Arians, now, we
went back and we watched the replay. We did an
expedited review, and Bruce Arians did not tiptoe into the take.
He didn't tiptoe into the take. He kicked the door
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off the hinges is what he did. And he's right
based on a expedited review. Fair ball, fair ball, that's
what we call. Right there, you go. Nobody cares about
your inner spirit, animal, your imaginary pal. Nobody cares about that.
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It's not stage play. We're not on Broadway or off Broadway.
We're not doing that McCarthy's whole nine routine, which is
his jersey number. It's kind of like him doing that
and playing the way he's playing is akin to sacking
the quarterback while your team is down fifty five to
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nothing and then doing the river dance after you've sacked. Well,
you could do the river dance after you sacked the
quarterback down fifty five. It doesn't generally look that good,
you know, it's not a great look. And this does
not fire the guys up the whole alternative persona doesn't
fire anybody up. In fact, it makes a lot of
people roll their eyes like like, what a douche, what
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an absolute JABBRONI this guy is. You talk about Schmendrick
and look it up. This is a Mama Luke if
there ever was a Mama Luke. And Justin Jefferson does
not need drama. He needs the ball to be placed
in a position where he can catch it. He needs
he needs completions, he needs yards and touchdowns and all
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those things. He's not getting that, Justin Jefferson, he's not.
And so let me tell you a little bit from
what I've learned over my years here behind these microphones
on how they make the sausage stuffed pigskin. How do
they do it? How do they make the pigskin sausage?
So the alter ego stuff, while it's lame to the membrane,
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lame to the membrane. It the way it works is,
it's fine if you're good and people are India, it
works if you win. You know, Aaron Rodgers is mysterious
and he's a deep thinker, and then when he doesn't win,
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he's a whack a doodle. He's a jackwagon and a
cuckoo for cocoa Puff's guy is what he is. And
if you and so that's the word, it's the same name.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I say.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
If you lose your JaMarcus Russell, your Ryan Leaf doing
cosplay as those guys, that's just the way it is.
And so you become Bozo the clown. Congratulations, you are
Boso the Clown. And right now, JJ McCarthy, I'm going
up the ladder here looking down at the room. JJ McCarthy,
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the Viking quarterback is a founding member of x Men.
Did you know that? You didn't know that? Okay, well,
have you learned something new when you listen to late
night radio. He's not nine. He's a founding member of
x Men. Actually, Iceman, that's it. He's Iceman, and he's
a mutant. Doesn't play like a mutant. He's a mutant
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that was born with superhuman skills. Congratulations. McCarthy has the
ability to manipulate the ice and cold by freezing water.
He takes water vapor and freezes it and then in
the process has absolutely destroyed any kind of good mojo.
The Minnesota Vikings happen to have their drives with wobbly
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throws and just so bad. The Vikings often don't even
bother throwing because they know it'll be an incompletion, So
why would they do that. You know that that whole thing,
we don't want any part of that went another new
with that, So so there you go and just horrible.
And Bruce Arian's giving him the playbook. He's like, well,
ditch the whole theater thing. Push that, pushed that off
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to the side, get rid of the whole theater thing
like that, we don't need that, and that's it, and
just throw completions and it's wild. He didn't look at
Michigan when I watched McCarthy, but I hadn't said, well,
this guy's an NFL quarterback. I didn't look like it
at all. The marketing campaign that has taken place over
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the last fifteen years or so with these guys before
the draft, and it goes back to a previous point
we talked about in a previous hour, how dumb many
people are working sports and they buy the marketing like
there's my theory is they're so lazy that they just
like they don't do their homework and they just kind
of look at the oh, this agent's really selling this guy.
He's got the whole work, the whole package. Like Kyler
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Murray had no business being the number one pick. He
was the number one overall pick in the draft because
they sold Kyler Murray he can't play. The guy's a
good gamer, he's not a good quarterback. But they were
able to sell the Cardinals because there are a bunch
of idiots there the draft again. And now JJ McCarthy
was not the top pick of the draft, but the
same concept applies where he had no business being a
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first round pick. You look at his resume, he said, well,
they hardly threw at Michigan. You know, this is a
guy that should have been drafted in the fifth or
the sixth round. And even there, you're like, well, probably
not that great. All right, final point, we shift over
to pro bouncy ball. Why well, Lebron James. There was
a report making the rounds here that Lebron James is
(37:38):
insisting through his posse that he doesn't no, does not
know if he will retire from the Lakers after this
current NBA season, a story that was conveniently leaked by
Camp Lebron, letting the world know that this could that's
(37:59):
a weasel word. Could be Lebron's last season. However, he's
undecided who me, yes, you undecided there, and he might
feel even more responsibility to play in every game because
he's God's gift to basketball every game. And if it
was like a retirement tour situation, So let us talk
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about this one the question, what are the chances, what
are the chances that Lebron James skips out on a
retirement tour, that he just quietly retires at the end
of this season and says, I'm gone, I'm going fishing.
I know this a really good lake back back in
Ohio I love and I'm just gonna go to that
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lake and that's just gonna be it. And that's all. Yeah.
So the malaradds the Ben Malor Show malarods from the
Malor Sports Book. These are non official odds. These are
Ben Malor Show odds Lebron James skipping a retirement to
quietly go away. Now, I'm gonna be fair. The odds
(39:05):
are gonna shock you. You don't know where they are. Even
Antony and Anaheim doesn't know what they are. The odds
are zero point zero point zero zero zero zero zero percent.
I'm talking buzz light Year to Infinity and beyond squad. Yeah,
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the whole thing. Lebron James is not Tim Duncan. Tim
Duncan snuck out the fire escape at the Spurs facility
wearing dad jeans and holding a Windy's Frosty Lebron. Ain't
that that's not Lebron. No, no, no, no. This is
the quintessential prima Donna Lebron James. He's addicted to the spotlight.
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He's made tons and tons of money doing it. He
hears a basketball bounce, bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy, and
the camera lens open up. It's who he is. He
is not built. Lebron is not built for an Irish goodbye.
I'm not Irish, but I love the Irish goodbye. You
just leave and don't tell anyone. No, Lebron's got the
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Hollywood goodbye. He's all about the Hollywood long, cinematic, dramatic,
tears soaked monologue filled farewell from Lebron. He's got to
have a lighting crew to the left. He's got a
big production budget, the whole thing, and he'll do the
Hollywood goodbye mix with the Minnesota goodbye? Do you know
(40:37):
what the Minnesota good You know, our friends in Minnesota
are shaking their head, They're nodding their head. Yes, I
know what a Minnesota goodbye. Yes, a Minnesota goodbye is.
You have to go around the room multiple times, circle
the room multiple times. Well, I really should get going,
I really should get going. Then you talk for thirty
more minutes. I really need to go. I got something
(40:58):
to do, I got that, got to make a stew
But no, you stay. That's it. The man once held
at a boys and girls club in Connecticut with Jim Gray,
the great hang around Jim Gray put together a show
called The Decision for the Children. You realize you can
do anything you want in the world as long as
you say it's for the children. No one questions them. Yeah,
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and so that's not the guy that's going to retire quietly.
Not that guypal that's hosting your own prom is what
that is from lebron It's hosting your own prom It's hey, listen, Madonna,
bring back the Vogue song Strike a pose. You just
got to strike a posed. There we're talking about mirror gazing,
(41:43):
belly button staring. Four k HD self worship with all
that stuff, like all of that like mix that in
together there and put that in there, your own your
own gulash, make your own gulash there. Lebron does not
walk away. He curates content for Lebron properties. He does.
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He'll have merch, he'll have special emojis for the Lebron Goodbye,
can't wait. There'll be a Netflix camera crew there to
document everything, a docu series from Netflix. So again, Lebron's
not exiting through the escape the You know, our celebrities
will walk through the kitchen at rest at hotels or whatever,
(42:30):
like they'll try to sneak out the back. Lebron's not that.
He's not leaving through the service entrance or exit. He's
going out on a red carpet. He wants everyone to
lick his toes and yeah that's what I get get. Yeah,
that's it. I mean, that's the vibe you get right
under the toes, all that green gob of bacteria. Just
lick that right out and that's it, and he'll be carried.
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It'd be like you know that that video of the funeral.
I think it's somewhere in Africa, I don't know where,
but they they carry the casket. They're they're pushing it
up in the area, They're doing the whole thing. Have
you seen that clip? Yeah, Justin and Cincinnati says, uh
sends that to me all the time. Louisiana. Yeah, I know.
I think there was one in It was like from
some country in Africa. But whatever, You've seen the clip online. Right,
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that's how Lebron's gonna leave the NBA. Right, They're gonna
be pushing them up, you know, dancing the whole thing,
and the farewell tour is inevitable.
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Here we Go, Here we go, Here we Go, thirty
to sixty fresh degree.
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This is one big.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Eagles all pro tackled Jordan Malita, my lot whatever. Push
back against the notion that Saquon Barkley is quote in
a funk and stress that the team struggles on offenses,
not on Saquon Man, How much blame do you think
can be put on the lack of production from saque.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
He had a career year extreme outcomes are followed by
more modern I was even say Quan's admitting he's not
playing that well, so I stopped covering for him. The
guy's not having a good year. It happens.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
Next, Art Briles landed his first college head coaching job
since he was fired from Baylor a decade ago. Was
announced Monday that he will be leading Division two Eastern
New Mexico. Ben, do you think he could work his
way back into a job at a mate program.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
The problem is his age. He would have to go
somewhere in the deep like South They where they would
overlook pretty much anything if you can win football games.
So outside of that, good luck. I think he's too old.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Next, it was a part of this week that part
of the reason Steph Curry decided to leave the Under
Armour brand is due to their failed attempt at signing
Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
You're buying that that sounds like an excuse to me. Coop.
If under if he was selling from when I've heard,
he's not, you know, people love him at all. He's
not selling enough merch and so the offer was lower
than he wanted. If he was selling merchandise, they were
worked out a deal. So I don't I think that's
that's an excuse. It's embarrassing for him. How do we
(44:57):
do you passed that? Ada went? I won the game,
mister wonderful, I won the game.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
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Speaker 1 (45:21):
Do you know what nimptive defense is?
Speaker 3 (45:22):
How about penetration? Do you know how to get good penetration?
Speaker 2 (45:26):
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Speaker 1 (45:31):
All right, let's do it. We'll welcome into our contestants.
We have Mojoe Rising from the Bay Area's gonna play
pass word? Hello, Mojo Rising?
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Mister godfather? All right, Mojo? Who do you want to
partner on with? You got me? Ben? You got Coop?
You got marks in here? If you want to play
with him, Man, I gotta play with you. Man. All right,
we're in Mojo. We're gonna I'm gonna put a W
right next to our name. Put the W right there.
I wrote it down. All right, hold a sec We
have branding in Cannes City. Hello, Brandon, Welcome Lenny and
(46:06):
the Jets.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Good morning, brother, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
What's going on there? You go, Brandon, good to have
you back on the show. And who would you like
to partner up with on password? I'm gonna go with
the guy that only taken my phone calls. I'm gonna
go with Cooper Loop. All right. It's not because he
likes you, he's paid to do that. All right, let's go.
We have a list of words. Can see the list.
(46:29):
You're cheating, do not cheat? Please, and let me make
sure mojo's on. You're there, Brandon, And then I've got
Mojo over here on line five. All right, Mojo, pick
a number one to ten. Please, number one to ten.
Let's go with the holy number number seven. I see,
I thought the holy number was number one. All right,
(46:51):
let's well, that's appropriate that you want with this one.
Let's go with let's see number seven. Canceled, Mojo canceled, canceled, canceled,
(47:14):
Uh kind of lost?
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Okay, go ahead, all right, Brandon, let's try and prohibited.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Prohibited.
Speaker 4 (47:25):
Ye uh, take.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Your time, don't don't hurry up or anything like that.
Here's funny prohibited. Uh, oh my goodness. Okay, all right,
you don't have anything. Let's go with one more from me.
How about outlawed log what means you can't do it? So,
(47:59):
what's another? All right, Uh Brandon, let's try one more.
Uh barred b A R R E. D. Bard, Oh
God talm On we went the game. Was not win
the game. It was after the buzzer. It was after
(48:20):
the buzzer. That was after the buzzer.
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