December 5, 2025 • 45 mins
Big Ben talks about the Dallas Cowboys dying playoff hopes as they lose to the Detroit Lions on TNF, Jalen Hurts refusing to answer if he wanted to run the ball less this season, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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be and our lead to begin the night here we
start out in Motown. It was week fourteen of the
NFL season. Kicked off game ended not that long ago,
a couple hours ago. Game over there in Detroit, and
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it was billed as a pivotal game. Oh Man Dak Prescott,
the Cowboys traveling circus, leaving Jerry's world and heading to
Michigan for a playdate with Jared Goff and the Lions
of the Great Indoors. They had Al Michaels and Herbie.
They had the call on the amazon An Island game.
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Were you watching? You didn't watch? Okay, you missed it.
So Jamiir Gibbs, I hear, he's pretty good. He ran
for three touchdown. I had a thirteen yard run the
Lions against the Cowboys there late in the game, Dallas
needed their rework defense. I was told had arrived and
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looked like they had. That was false. That's a lie.
Cowboys defense complete frauds needed to make a play there
late and it was like a three or four play drive.
The Lions went right down the field, shoved it down
their throat, and a thirteen yard run by Jamier Gibbs
with two minutes and some change left on the clock,
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and that was all she wrote. The Lions get a
two touchdown win over the same old sorry ass Dallas
Cowboys forty four to thirty. The win. The Lions defense, well,
he had some fun with Dak Prescott. Dak sacked five
times as he decided to hold the ball for a
long time many times, and also had a couple of
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interceptions and also the Lions defense recovering a fumble. So
let's see five sacks, a couple of interceptions, fumble recovery.
Pretty good, Pretty good. Yeah. Lions get to eight and
five on the season, which isn't a playoff team. However,
they avoid losing consecutive games, so the first time in
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three years they are still on the outside. They're looking in.
They're behind the velvet ropes. They're not inside the velvet ropes,
they're behind de velopt ropes looking inside. There with four
games left, that's it, four games left, for the Lions,
and they did improve their odds. Dan Campbell was waxing
loquacious after Oh they didn't panic. He said, he played
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the best game of the year. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Of course, the best game means, as we know on
this show, it means as good as all the other games,
because the legal definition of the term best is as
good as all the rest in that category. So you
could say that every single game is the best and
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you wouldn't be wrong. You would not be wrong on
that at all. So Detroit's playoff probability is now fifty
four percent. Fifty four percent. The better story is in
the losing locker room, where the Dallas Cowboys head coach
Shoty Brian Schottenheimer is getting roasted for the decisions he
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made during the game. The Cowboys did not play a
clean game at all, and there were some decisions to
make on whether or not to go for it or
not go for it, and Schottenheimer decided most of the time,
you know, let's just kick a field goal here. And
now he did say the loss would not deflate his team,
he said, he said, so he's getting killed, and that's
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what happened. Cowboys played a bad game and everyone saw it.
They suck, and they sucked at a time you can't suck.
So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss question.
Does Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer deserve the bows and arrows
being directed at him for his coaching performance in this game?
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So I've got my thoughts on this. I've got Hallmark,
mister Rogers, and Seesaw and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a big,
giant tubba guts is what We're going to make, a
big tub of guts. We're going, all right, So a
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I say fire away, fire the cannons, because Shoddy and
his team are like toast. They're crispy, overdone, and served
on a plate the Cowboys did not want to wash.
There's a balance here, There's always this balance, and Schottenheimer
does not have it. He fell right into the classic trap.
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And remember having conversations on these microphones about his dad,
Marty Schottenheimer, who did many of the same things his
kid did. I guess the coaching apple doesn't fall far
from the tree, but it's it's one of those things
when you have an elite kicker like Brandon Aubrey, you
you end up in this situation where it's like field
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goals are tappings. It's like it's going down to the
windmill at the putt putt course, and you're like, well,
I'm at the putt putt course. I can't go wrong.
I mean, everyone makes the putts. It's it's a putt
putt course. And that's great. So it's a blessing and
a double edged sword, right. The blessing is automatica automatica points.
The curse is you start settling for field goals, and
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that is how you lose games on the road against
an opponent that is at least as good as you,
if not better than you. And you fall into that situation.
And that's the Cowboys. Now, even if they had gone
for it, it likely would have ended up in a
loss because of the way that they played overall. However,
all right, let's not kid ourselves here. This wasn't just
an offensive strategic problem. The Cowboys had a defensive implosion.
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Needed to make a play, make a play, make a play,
but no, can't make a play, can't do it, can't
do it, blocking intact and can't do it, so they're
known as Big D, although I saw a lot of
little D energy, if you know what I mean. Here,
the Cowboys looked bit draggled out of sorts. They played
last thank you know, Thursday Thanksgivings, so it's not like
they had a short week or anything like that. They
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were just a lot of mental mistakes, drop passes, blown coverages,
bad tackling, and really just the special teams. The Lions
have not had great special teams play, and it looked
like they had all pros all over the kick return team.
This was for the Cowboys, it was a hallmark and
for Shotneimer it was a hallmark movie. Or go all
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the hallmarks of a poorly coach team right there. Yeah,
and that's that's it, hey and the Lions, to their credit,
they cashed in. They got fourteen points off Cowboy turnovers
and about a being by the boom just like that,
after being snuffed out by the Lions. Now are the
Cowboys still a playoff contender? So on that one, the
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bunt cake is already baked and it tastes like sadness.
If you think they're gonna make the best Dallas's playoff
chances have plummeted to seven percent. But even if there
were seventy five percent, the way that they played that
is not a playoff football team knowing what was on
the line, realizing the stakes of that game and that performance.
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They literally had skid marks all over the field there,
all right, So forget about it. And the Lions did
not just beat the Cowboys. They dropkicked them into the
nearest drainage ditch that final drive when the Cowboys had
come back and closed the gap, and well, here's this defense.
We made a couple of trades at the deadline to
shore things up, and they came out there and were
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completely discombobulated on defense. And you can hear the ghost
of Dandy Don Meredith from behind the pearly gates crooning,
turn out the lost the parties over, Stick a fork
in them, Stick a fork in the Cowboys. Now, speaking
of sticking a fork in the Cowboys, the wide receiver room,
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Ceedee Lamb was having a monster game and then he
had a booboo. He got a concussion and he was
knocked out of the game. And so this is an
opportunity for George Pickens to step up, right, for George
Pickens to step up, and I guess George didn't want to,
you know, spend too much energy because it appeared he
was running at about half speed on some plays here,
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and he just just was like the Pittsburgh Steelers version
of George Pickens. He failed to deliver when the team
needed him. He was not available. He had checked out
of the hotel. I don't know why he had checked
out of the hotel, but he had checked out of
the hotel and just a pedestrian effort and lase fair
play from George Pickens. Here is let's hear from Brian Schottenheimer.
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You'll hear the question and the answer, as this was
a talking point on the broadcast, how George Pickens had decided.
I want to show everyone the George Pickens from Pittsburgh.
Take a listen. No, I don't think so. I want
to look at it. I mean, he was being doubled,
you know.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Minute CD went out, they just decided to play everything
two man over there and try to double him and
take him away.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
But I don't think so. I like that we left
the question in which we couldn't understand. I love that
it's good editing, solid, good good job boys, all right, Anyway,
here's how about Dak Prescott. Here's Dak Prescott. I'm sure
Dak will say George Pickens sucked and will kill him
and rip him right, Dak, Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
When you're the type of player that he is, I'll
be the first to say it's hard to do that
weekend and week out. I know George believes he can,
and I think he would just say that this game
wasn't up to a standard, and I'm sure he'll loan
it and I know he'll be better.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Okay, So we also learned prior to the game that
George Pickens has been disciplined multiple times by the Cowboys
since coming over from Pittsburgh in the trade, and that
he's missed the team buses, he's shown up late to meetings.
Kind of sounds like a New York Giants rookie the
way that he's handled that, and the Cowboys, though, have
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put up with it. You only had that one incident
in Vegas where he missed the first offensive. There is
George Pickens. So the question are you surprised that here
we are it's week fourteen. This was the feel good
story of the football season. George Pickens, all you cowboy
fans were pointing like Nelson from The Simpsons at Mike Tomlin, going, aha,
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you dubbies, you trained us Jerry Rice for a couple
of day, two or three picks you, Lizis. Well, now
here we are at week fourteen, and all of a sudden,
well look looky looking now the skeletons are starting to
come out of the closet and they're dancing. They're dancing,
they're dancing. Listen. Of course I'm shaking my head. No,
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not surprised that the red flags are popping up here.
If that's the question, are you surprised? I'm not. It's
not a shock, it's not a stunter. It's not even
really a plot twist. It's the football version of the
same movie, different theater. So did you really are you
that gullible where you really thought that George Pickens just
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because he changed laundry suddenly turned into mister Rogers with
shoulder pads on, come on? Are you that naive? Of
course not. They got in Dallas the same guy Pittsburgh
shipped out like an Amazon return. All the quirks, the tardiness,
the great athletic ability. The only difference appears to be
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now that for most of this year, this game aside,
most of this year, George Pickens has been catching passes
like heat seeking missiles locked into a Jerry Jones smoker
in Jerry's work, Like this is this is how the
NFL does business right. And it's one of those amazing
questions that has to be answered because you know, this
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was a really big game and George Pickens played it
like it was an exhibition game. The effort was like, oh,
why am I out here? Don't you know who I am? Well, George,
this is kind of a big game, but I'm George Pickens.
I can't be bothered to hustle. What's wrong with you? You schmuck? Yes,
that's the vibe he gave up, and so it again
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becomes and Pittsburgh didn't want to pay him. Pittsburgh was
fed up with him. Tomlin said, I somewhere Tomlin poured
one out to celebrate this performance, like, hey, your losers,
you rip me? How about that? Look at this dope?
How do you like him now? Dallas? How do you
like him now? But the Cowboys have had that look
the other way. That's the NFL, that's how they do
business right. They used to look the other way. Production
is the ultimate deodorant. And as long as Pickens is
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a top ten receiver and all these different categories, explosive
plays and all this, then you tolerate the guy missing
a bus or a team meeting or showing up late,
and you know they'll even warm up the engine for
him of the team bus. Is there a correlation between
the story coming out prior to the game that George
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Pickens is still the same old George by George, and
then him going out there and proving to everyone he's
still got that steeler George Pickens in him. Is there
some kind of core between those two things. Yeah, he's
gotten fined a couple of times and all that, but
fines are just the coin slot of the diva receiver arcade,
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the fund zone, the kind of all if you will,
and my positions. People don't fundamentally change. Whatever's baked in
stays baked in. That's just kind of the way it is.
You can't untoast it, you know, once it's there. And
Brian Schottenheimer did not fix George Pickens, obviously not. He
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went out there and had a vintage George Pickens game.
The Cowboys mantra has been Ah, let's just give him
a chance. You know, well, we'll do something a little different.
And when the juice tastes good, you know my little pulp.
Well you had a lot of pulp. If you're the
Cowboys in this game on Thursday night, and does Pickens
make a couple more plays, a couple more hustle plays,
you win the game. You could make that argument as
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a compelling argument to make. Now last word on the
winner's side. We have cranked up the the overreaction machine
and it's all about the Detroit Lions. And the Lions
are back. It's all downhill now in a tough stretch.
But watch out, the Lions have arrived. This was like
their bar mitzvah and a big deal. They're all men
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now they're men again, and it's great, wonderful. So the question,
are Dan Campbell's Lions back? Are they back to biting
knee caps? So I would advise you to hold your
horses right, I mean, what do you what are you doing? Yeah?
This wipes away some of the halatosis. It does. It's
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like a crest mouthwash thing of majig right for for
a fan base that has been recently breathing dragon fumes
for about a month and it feels pretty good. I'm
puzzled about aman Ross Saint Brown playing. I was told
he likely wouldn't play and went out there and did
his thing. But as far as the old were all
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big picture, yeah, it feels good for the moment. Did
they fix everything? No, Cowboys, even with George Pickens not
that interested in playing in Ceedee Lamb not available after
he had a big start. You know, the Cowboys still
put up a bunch of points in this game, but
this was a mode Joe Rental. I jotted down Mojo
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Rental on my scorecard. A little Mojo Rental there for
the Cowboys. They didn't purchase it. It's one night only.
There's still the NFL's human seesaw up and down, up
and down, no consistency, no reliability. You spin the wheel
every week and you hope it doesn't land on face plant.
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And yeah, you can bully teams and push him around.
And Jamiir Gibbs is dynamic, he's explosive, he's elite, he's premier,
all that stuff. That's the maddening part though about the Lions,
Like the ceiling is a is a pen house, and
they do have an underlying condition and there's really nothing
you can do about it. You were born with it.
Jared Goff sucks in big games. It's a problem, but
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if everything else is great. Hey, we've seen suck bag
quarterbacks win super Bowls. Nick Foles is a Super Bowl champion,
Joe Flackoll won a Super Bowl. Those guys blow, and
certainly Jared Goff's as good as those guys. Everything else
has to go right for you and Dan Campbell smashing
energy drinks and promising kneecap buffets for everyone, And we'll
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see how this goes here. But for this particular night,
it was lipstick on a lion, not a makeover. Not
a makeover. We'll see what the future holds here. For
the Lions are still not in the playoffs. They win
out and have some other teams stumble and bumble, and
then they'll they'll be back in what is a wide
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open appears to be a wide open NFL or right
about now.
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The crown is yours. So at an NFL game on
Thursday night, goes to the Detroit Lions. They get a
two touchdown win. The Dallas Cowboys look good for a
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couple of weeks. They beat the Eagles, they beat the Chiefs,
and now a ice bucket right to the face. Right
to the face for the Dallas Cowboys. But that is
not our lead story this hour. Instead, we go to
Philadelphia and there are multiple reports suggesting that one of
the issues that the philadel Fhi Eagles have had this
year is that quarterback Jalen Hurts has wanted to run
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the ball less this season and because of injuries he's
sustained while running the football in recent USI saw this
or not, maybe maybe you missed it. So, when asked
if these reports were true, Hurt said, quote, I've always
been focused on doing whatever it takes to win, and
I've always put my energy trying to bring the game
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plan and the strategy that week, he said to life,
So I'll continue to do that. Close quote that was
a whole lot of nothing. Okay. Then earlier this week,
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was also asked if Jalen hurts
rushing numbers have dipped because he wants to run the
ball less, and what do you think Sirianni did? Do
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you think Sirianni A said, that's absolutely correct. Jalen Hurts
does not want to injure himself. He's a wuss. B
no comment or C. That's preposterous. Well, Sirianni did not
answer the question either, so he deflected. He deflected, So
neither Jalen Hurts or Nick Sirianni would confirm or deny
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that Jalen Hurts want wants to run the ball. They
did the run around the rosie is what they did,
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question. Jalen Hurts based on reports out of Philly,
refusing to give a straight answer. That part's not a report.
A report was he doesn't want to run the ball
as much, and he's asked the Eagles to not have
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him run as much. So Jalen Hurts refusing to give
a straight answer when asked if he wanted to run
the ball less this season. So what do you read
into this? What do you read into this? So my
observations on this, I've got tiny house, living peekaboo, expired trimp.
Those are the things I have, and I will put
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them all together and we will unscramble. What that means,
we will unscramble. And those things have never been put together.
They've never been put together quite like that. You're not
gonna hear that anywhere else, anywhere else. So number on,
Jalen Hurts gets asked a simple question and suddenly he
he besides, he's at a Wetzel's pretzel and he does
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like a pretzel yoga type thing. It was like an
old school Gumby routine, is what it was. From Jalen Hurts,
the man twisted himself into shapes that we didn't know
existed in the human handbook, and that, to me says everything.
So we'd like to say, Dad, give what? Give what?
It's the classic non answer answer. Now, there was a
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guy that I became decent friends with near near the
end of his life, the great TJ. Seimers. TJ was
a columnist back when newspapers mattered, and it was a
talk show host and just a real flamethrower of a man.
And TJ explained to me, so, you know, as a columnist, Ben,
I'll go into the locker room and I will ask
the question. I will allow the athlete to answer the question,
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and if they don't answer the question, then I have
the freedom to give the answer because I've given them
the opportunity and they've chows him not to do it.
And that's really what Jalen Hurts and Nick Siriani did
on this one. They gave a non answer answer. In
the NFL that usually means the quiet part is actually
the loudest right that it hurts. Essentially told you without
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telling you, he told you that he doesn't want to
be a battering eagle anymore. He's saving mileage like he's
driving a lease car and you don't want to go
over the mileage limit and you don't want to be
on the highway, so you just want to drive around
the city and you just kind of want to work
that way. Now, what is my evidence. Let's go to
the numbers. So he got the numbers. Eighty four carries
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through twelve games or Jaalen hurts. That is what's known
as in his world. And he's different than other quarterbacks
because the running game is a big part of the
arrangement on how he's been good. So eighty four carries
through twelve games, that is tiny house living. Tiny house
living is what that is. And this is a guy
who used to run like someone litz took us on fire,
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and now he's he's still running, but it's not the same.
It's just something a little haywire. It's not quite right,
like it's he's not fully putting himself in bubble wrap,
much like part of him is. You know what I'm
saying you feel me on that. So he's gone from
dual threat to dual thought, constantly deciding whether that one
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hit is worth the headache and making what we call
business decisions. He's been to the rodeo a few times.
He's trying to make some business decisions as as the
line goes, as the line goes, and so because he's
hyper aware of the narratives. Though, here's the part of
it that's interesting, right, He's gone from the you know,
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the dual threat to the dual thought. But the hyper
aware part is interesting because he's probably this weekend. The
Eagles are in LA don't play until Monday, and he's
gonna hear all about this, and he's already read about it,
and he's got a long flight and all that stuff.
And I wouldn't be shocked if he goes out there
and he starts running around like a shopping cart with
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a busted wheel, just despite everyone the classic overreaction machine
or go NFL ego all right now, Page two to
the High Speed Sports Wire. A shake up after a
full Mallard myolog on a transaction that seemed like an
alley oop oop oop, well, the other shoe was dropped
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and we revisit this Darius Sleigh. Remember Darius Lay who
was claimed off the dumpster from the Buffalo Bills. He
was put on the pink slip papers by Pittsburgh. They said,
we don't want you, you suck. And well now we've
learned that Darius Lay is I don't know if I
want to play. Eh, you know, maybe not. I don't know.
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I don't know I want to play. He's unsure whether
he wants to continue playing. Do you see this? Yeah,
he's not going to be reporting to Buffalo. I'm sure
has nothing to do with not wanting to live in Buffalo. Now,
Slay's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, the bull crap artist, he attempted
to spend the story. Now, the question, did Darius Slay
do the Buffalo Bills dirty? Did he do him dirty
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with this particular move? So the only acceptable answer on this,
the only one is y es. So I'm nodding my head.
I'm nodding my head yes on this one. This wasn't
a curveball. This was a spitball. It was doctored up,
it was greased with pine tar and hurled right at
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the Buffalo forehead. Now, the good thing about that is
the Buffalo is so big it doesn't really notice. It's
so big, it doesn't really worry about that, and it
will go to the garbage heap of history when you
think about this now, the argument can be made that
the Bills should have checked in with Darius Lay and said, hey,
how would you like to play in Buffalo? We're thinking
about adding you. But the player ultimately is more at
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fault here. The adult thing, the professor thing to do
would have been, hey, guys, I know I'm thinking about
unplugging the jukebox here for a bit, maybe just don't
don't nobody claim me, And instead Darius Lay decide, you
know what, I'm gonna play peak Baboo with retirement Pikaboo,
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I see you, and left the Bills holding an empty
lunch pail. Now the ripple effect, to me, that's the
most interesting part. The guy didn't want to play, you know,
he's quit, fine, whatever, But that part is brutal because
Buffalo had major issues in the secondary. Do I think
that Darius Lay would have solved the issues? No, I don't.
I made that perfectly clear in a previous episode of
the show. That's my opinion. It's one man's opinion, But
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Buffalo claimed Darius Lay. They thought he would be an
upgrade value added even as we question the impact from
the bully pulpit, and then boom goes to dynamite. They
waived someone named JaMarcus Ingram. We don't know who that is,
but he was on the roster and he plays in
the secondary. The tech since of course, then said okay,
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they're like, it will be like a seagull here. The
Texans came in there and a seagull lunchtime, a picnic
there at the beach, and they came in and gobbled
up the player. And so the Bills ended up trading
a live body. They got rid of the live body,
JaMarcus Ingram. They picked up a poltergeist, a ghost spooky
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that is malpracticed by circumstances. What that is now there
have been some rumblings, there's some chatter that there's something
more nefarious going on. If you've heard the conspiracy that
Darius Slay assumed that he would only be picked up
by the Philadelphia Eagles, who did make a waiver claim
on him. He wanted to go back to Philly. He
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won a super Bowl in Philadelphia. The Eagle maniacs love
him and that the reason he doesn't want to go
to Buffalo Darius Lay is that they're trying to finagle
away to get the Philly with agent Drew Rosenhouse trying
to pull some strings as the puppet master behind the scenes.
We'll see if there's anything to that, but that's what's
bouncing around now. This is the NFL. I don't think
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it is a pajama party, and pretty much like any job,
I don't think it's much different. Whatever you do. If
you want to be good at your job and take
pride in your product, you have to be one hundred
percent committed. You have to show up on time, you
have to put the work in all that stuff, and
you have to want to be great at whatever that is.
Whether you're working in a factory or warehouse, you're cleaning toilets,
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making donuts, or a cop or a robber, whatever you
might be. You want to be at the very top
of your profession. And so you look at this, it's like, okay,
so when a guy starts pondering retirement and you're like,
I might play, I might take a nap, I had
a big lunch. You know, it's like you know, you
start pondering retirement. That's code for my duffel bag is
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already packed. And see a suckers, you know, see a
suckers and Slay. He didn't just check out mentally, he's
he's physically checked out as well. That's why the Steelers
got rid of him. And he handed the Bills a
malor approved screwjob, Darius Slay he did. This is a
drive through special screwjob by Darius Lay. No player, no production,
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no refund, All sales are final. It's oh v over,
stick a fork in it. That's it. It's all over,
all right, final point. We now go to Louisiana. That's
right there. Reports that the New Orleans Saints head coach
Kellen Moore's job would be safe. The Saints are a
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bad football team. They were supposed to be a bad
football team, and they've lived up the expectations this year
in New Orleans. Now, things though, have changed, despite some
reports saying nothing to see here Kellen Moore, He's not
in any kind of danger. He's putting the blood, sweat
and tears in and they're not going to make any
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kind of a change, no change at all. Well, now,
all of a sudden, the plot thickens. There's some buzz
out of a byo that Kellen Moore is not not
out of the woods. No, no, no, no, no, something's going
on there, some something's going on. So the question what
are the eyes and the ears tell you of what
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appears to be now a conflict of interest? What are
the eyes and ears tell you about Kellen Moore and
his status with the Saints? So the by you be boiling, boiling,
and Kellen Moore is standing there in the cartoon bubble
on the right side, not the left side, the right
side of my head, in the right side of my head.
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Kellen Moore is standing there like a chef who just
realized that he had grabbed the expired shrimp, but he
had already put the shrimp in and the food must
be served, like nothing is safe, it can't be safe.
Like why would you say, he's saying if the Saints
fans have started to put the brown paper bags back
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on their heads, that's not a fashion situation. That is
a cry for help. I'll give you an example. My guy,
cashless clay. And we don't do shout out, so I
can't wish cashless clay a happy birthday. I could do
a mention, but I've chose not to. I've chose not
to do a mention. I can't do a shout out.
I won't do a mention. But this guy Cashless Clay
is a big fan of the show, and his lady there, Carly,
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and the family dog Ginger. They all, from what I understand,
where brown bags. When they watch the Saints, they have
the family all has matching brown bags. Isn't that romantic?
Isn't that the family that brown bags? It is the
family that loves it. And that's the NFL's version though,
of I'm not mad, i am numb and I'm disappointed,
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and that is the real The numbness is the real
swamp monster. That's the real swamp monster. Because, as I
have pointed out for many many years here, the cheat
code in sports is not anger. People don't get up saying,
oh I don't like they're saying mean things about my dream.
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They don't get upset about that the real profession. There's
some amateur people that work in sports that are you know,
they have thin skin, their weasels, they get upset. Most
people don't. Anger means you're still engaged. It's the other
a word apathy. That's code three light sirens, paramedics sprinting
(35:32):
in with life saving equipment because the fan base just flatlined,
is what that is. And you know it's bad when
Gail Benson, who's older than dirt, breaks out the she
breaks out of the billionaire bunker she's living in somewhere
in the Louisiana there to talk to the local newspaper,
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because why not, that's what old people do, They talk
to newspapers. But billionaires generally don't grant inner unless something
smells just not right and you know, a toxic kind
of odor in the air, like that kind of thing.
So the mal report card of this is a big
old a and again it's for apathy. It's the kiss
(36:16):
of death. It is the kiss of death. And you
can't sell season tickets to zombies. They've tried. They don't pay.
Kellen Moore was supposed to be the boy Wonder of
offensive football. At one point, he was the coach and
waiting for the Dallas Cowboys. Imagine that the Dallas Cowboys
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at one point were like, we got to hire this guy.
We we think this guy is amazing. And then now
you look at where we are, and it's like he left,
he went to the Chargers, went to the Eagles, bounced
around the whole thing, all right though, the whole thing,
and now you're like, okay, so you're serving up right now,
(37:00):
you're serving up spoiled gumbo with maggots and a side
of cornbread with crunchy cockroaches. That's her offense twenty six
in the NFL. That's not an offense. That is like
a crime scene with that yellow tape wrapped around it
is what that is. And so the malar malfeasance meter
is redlining. The mallor malfeasance meter is redlining on this one.
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If More doesn't fix this, he is going to be
gumbo canned right out of the Big Easy. So I
do believe that that is legit. There's something to that
particular story.
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Coobler.
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Thravens signed tight end Mark Andrews to a three year
contract extension that makes him the sixth highest paid tight
end in the league, and this had a lot of
fans scratching their heads, as many think Andrews was on
the decline. Ben, was this a mistake by Baltimore?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Yeah, well, it seems like something that didn't have to happen.
And after he blew the playoff game when he dropped
a two point conversion, he imploded. I thought, there's no
way he's going to come back. He must be so
tight with Harball and the executives in Baltimore that that's
part of the deal. They gave him the extra you know,
he only got a couple of years left. They give
him the big money. He's been a great player for them.
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But it doesn't seem like it. It's not worthless, but
it doesn't seem like that's a smart move. Next.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Prior to Giannis and Tetakumpo getting injured in the Bucks
game on Wednesday, Doc Rivers denied reports that the team
has been talking with Giannis about a potential exit from
the franchise, saying Giannis has never asked to be traded. Ever,
I can't make that more clear. Do you believe him?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Yeah? Well, the only problem with Doc and I was
around Doc a lot with the Clippers. Is the reason
I don't believe him is because his lips were moving.
That's why no used to come on stalk ever been honest? Ever,
I mean, why would he be honest? Now? You know,
I don't believe that at all. If Jannis is gonna
get traded eventually, it's just a matter of when trade deadlines.
February fifth, next.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Ben The Oklahoma City Thunder off to it and a
historic start, winning just twenty one of their first twenty
two games and winning their games by an average of
fifteen points. Domination has led some to believe that they
could challenge the Warriors record of seventy three wins.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Are they that good? They already have twenty one wins
in twenty two game yesterday. They're they're not that good,
They're not that popular. But the answer is yes, they
can challenge the record. How do we know you pass
this edition? All Right, that's a win. I got another win.
That's a win for me. Gotta win. That's a win. Oh.
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be and our lead to begin the night here we
start out in Motown. It was week fourteen of the
NFL season. Kicked off game ended not that long ago,
a couple hours ago. Game over there in Detroit, and
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it was billed as a pivotal game. Oh Man Dak Prescott,
the Cowboys traveling circus, leaving Jerry's world and heading to
Michigan for a playdate with Jared Goff and the Lions
of the Great Indoors. They had Al Michaels and Herbie.
They had the call on the amazon An Island game.
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Were you watching? You didn't watch? Okay, you missed it.
So Jamiir Gibbs, I hear, he's pretty good. He ran
for three touchdown. I had a thirteen yard run the
Lions against the Cowboys there late in the game, Dallas
needed their rework defense. I was told had arrived and
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looked like they had. That was false. That's a lie.
Cowboys defense complete frauds needed to make a play there
late and it was like a three or four play drive.
The Lions went right down the field, shoved it down
their throat, and a thirteen yard run by Jamier Gibbs
with two minutes and some change left on the clock,
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and that was all she wrote. The Lions get a
two touchdown win over the same old sorry ass Dallas
Cowboys forty four to thirty. The win. The Lions defense, well,
he had some fun with Dak Prescott. Dak sacked five
times as he decided to hold the ball for a
long time many times, and also had a couple of
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interceptions and also the Lions defense recovering a fumble. So
let's see five sacks, a couple of interceptions, fumble recovery.
Pretty good, Pretty good. Yeah. Lions get to eight and
five on the season, which isn't a playoff team. However,
they avoid losing consecutive games, so the first time in
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three years they are still on the outside. They're looking in.
They're behind the velvet ropes. They're not inside the velvet ropes,
they're behind de velopt ropes looking inside. There with four
games left, that's it, four games left, for the Lions,
and they did improve their odds. Dan Campbell was waxing
loquacious after Oh they didn't panic. He said, he played
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the best game of the year. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Of course, the best game means, as we know on
this show, it means as good as all the other games,
because the legal definition of the term best is as
good as all the rest in that category. So you
could say that every single game is the best and
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you wouldn't be wrong. You would not be wrong on
that at all. So Detroit's playoff probability is now fifty
four percent. Fifty four percent. The better story is in
the losing locker room, where the Dallas Cowboys head coach
Shoty Brian Schottenheimer is getting roasted for the decisions he
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made during the game. The Cowboys did not play a
clean game at all, and there were some decisions to
make on whether or not to go for it or
not go for it, and Schottenheimer decided most of the time,
you know, let's just kick a field goal here. And
now he did say the loss would not deflate his team,
he said, he said, so he's getting killed, and that's
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what happened. Cowboys played a bad game and everyone saw it.
They suck, and they sucked at a time you can't suck.
So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss question.
Does Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer deserve the bows and arrows
being directed at him for his coaching performance in this game?
(05:41):
So I've got my thoughts on this. I've got Hallmark,
mister Rogers, and Seesaw and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a big,
giant tubba guts is what We're going to make, a
big tub of guts. We're going, all right, So a
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I say fire away, fire the cannons, because Shoddy and
his team are like toast. They're crispy, overdone, and served
on a plate the Cowboys did not want to wash.
There's a balance here, There's always this balance, and Schottenheimer
does not have it. He fell right into the classic trap.
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And remember having conversations on these microphones about his dad,
Marty Schottenheimer, who did many of the same things his
kid did. I guess the coaching apple doesn't fall far
from the tree, but it's it's one of those things
when you have an elite kicker like Brandon Aubrey, you
you end up in this situation where it's like field
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goals are tappings. It's like it's going down to the
windmill at the putt putt course, and you're like, well,
I'm at the putt putt course. I can't go wrong.
I mean, everyone makes the putts. It's it's a putt
putt course. And that's great. So it's a blessing and
a double edged sword, right. The blessing is automatica automatica points.
The curse is you start settling for field goals, and
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that is how you lose games on the road against
an opponent that is at least as good as you,
if not better than you. And you fall into that situation.
And that's the Cowboys. Now, even if they had gone
for it, it likely would have ended up in a
loss because of the way that they played overall. However,
all right, let's not kid ourselves here. This wasn't just
an offensive strategic problem. The Cowboys had a defensive implosion.
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Needed to make a play, make a play, make a play,
but no, can't make a play, can't do it, can't
do it, blocking intact and can't do it, so they're
known as Big D, although I saw a lot of
little D energy, if you know what I mean. Here,
the Cowboys looked bit draggled out of sorts. They played
last thank you know, Thursday Thanksgivings, so it's not like
they had a short week or anything like that. They
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were just a lot of mental mistakes, drop passes, blown coverages,
bad tackling, and really just the special teams. The Lions
have not had great special teams play, and it looked
like they had all pros all over the kick return team.
This was for the Cowboys, it was a hallmark and
for Shotneimer it was a hallmark movie. Or go all
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the hallmarks of a poorly coach team right there. Yeah,
and that's that's it, hey and the Lions, to their credit,
they cashed in. They got fourteen points off Cowboy turnovers
and about a being by the boom just like that,
after being snuffed out by the Lions. Now are the
Cowboys still a playoff contender? So on that one, the
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bunt cake is already baked and it tastes like sadness.
If you think they're gonna make the best Dallas's playoff
chances have plummeted to seven percent. But even if there
were seventy five percent, the way that they played that
is not a playoff football team knowing what was on
the line, realizing the stakes of that game and that performance.
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They literally had skid marks all over the field there,
all right, So forget about it. And the Lions did
not just beat the Cowboys. They dropkicked them into the
nearest drainage ditch that final drive when the Cowboys had
come back and closed the gap, and well, here's this defense.
We made a couple of trades at the deadline to
shore things up, and they came out there and were
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completely discombobulated on defense. And you can hear the ghost
of Dandy Don Meredith from behind the pearly gates crooning,
turn out the lost the parties over, Stick a fork
in them, Stick a fork in the Cowboys. Now, speaking
of sticking a fork in the Cowboys, the wide receiver room,
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Ceedee Lamb was having a monster game and then he
had a booboo. He got a concussion and he was
knocked out of the game. And so this is an
opportunity for George Pickens to step up, right, for George
Pickens to step up, and I guess George didn't want to,
you know, spend too much energy because it appeared he
was running at about half speed on some plays here,
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and he just just was like the Pittsburgh Steelers version
of George Pickens. He failed to deliver when the team
needed him. He was not available. He had checked out
of the hotel. I don't know why he had checked
out of the hotel, but he had checked out of
the hotel and just a pedestrian effort and lase fair
play from George Pickens. Here is let's hear from Brian Schottenheimer.
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You'll hear the question and the answer, as this was
a talking point on the broadcast, how George Pickens had decided.
I want to show everyone the George Pickens from Pittsburgh.
Take a listen. No, I don't think so. I want
to look at it. I mean, he was being doubled,
you know.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Minute CD went out, they just decided to play everything
two man over there and try to double him and
take him away.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
But I don't think so. I like that we left
the question in which we couldn't understand. I love that
it's good editing, solid, good good job boys, all right, Anyway,
here's how about Dak Prescott. Here's Dak Prescott. I'm sure
Dak will say George Pickens sucked and will kill him
and rip him right, Dak, Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
When you're the type of player that he is, I'll
be the first to say it's hard to do that
weekend and week out. I know George believes he can,
and I think he would just say that this game
wasn't up to a standard, and I'm sure he'll loan
it and I know he'll be better.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Okay, So we also learned prior to the game that
George Pickens has been disciplined multiple times by the Cowboys
since coming over from Pittsburgh in the trade, and that
he's missed the team buses, he's shown up late to meetings.
Kind of sounds like a New York Giants rookie the
way that he's handled that, and the Cowboys, though, have
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put up with it. You only had that one incident
in Vegas where he missed the first offensive. There is
George Pickens. So the question are you surprised that here
we are it's week fourteen. This was the feel good
story of the football season. George Pickens, all you cowboy
fans were pointing like Nelson from The Simpsons at Mike Tomlin, going, aha,
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you dubbies, you trained us Jerry Rice for a couple
of day, two or three picks you, Lizis. Well, now
here we are at week fourteen, and all of a sudden,
well look looky looking now the skeletons are starting to
come out of the closet and they're dancing. They're dancing,
they're dancing. Listen. Of course I'm shaking my head. No,
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not surprised that the red flags are popping up here.
If that's the question, are you surprised? I'm not. It's
not a shock, it's not a stunter. It's not even
really a plot twist. It's the football version of the
same movie, different theater. So did you really are you
that gullible where you really thought that George Pickens just
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because he changed laundry suddenly turned into mister Rogers with
shoulder pads on, come on? Are you that naive? Of
course not. They got in Dallas the same guy Pittsburgh
shipped out like an Amazon return. All the quirks, the tardiness,
the great athletic ability. The only difference appears to be
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now that for most of this year, this game aside,
most of this year, George Pickens has been catching passes
like heat seeking missiles locked into a Jerry Jones smoker
in Jerry's work, Like this is this is how the
NFL does business right. And it's one of those amazing
questions that has to be answered because you know, this
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was a really big game and George Pickens played it
like it was an exhibition game. The effort was like, oh,
why am I out here? Don't you know who I am? Well, George,
this is kind of a big game, but I'm George Pickens.
I can't be bothered to hustle. What's wrong with you? You schmuck? Yes,
that's the vibe he gave up, and so it again
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becomes and Pittsburgh didn't want to pay him. Pittsburgh was
fed up with him. Tomlin said, I somewhere Tomlin poured
one out to celebrate this performance, like, hey, your losers,
you rip me? How about that? Look at this dope?
How do you like him now? Dallas? How do you
like him now? But the Cowboys have had that look
the other way. That's the NFL, that's how they do
business right. They used to look the other way. Production
is the ultimate deodorant. And as long as Pickens is
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a top ten receiver and all these different categories, explosive
plays and all this, then you tolerate the guy missing
a bus or a team meeting or showing up late,
and you know they'll even warm up the engine for
him of the team bus. Is there a correlation between
the story coming out prior to the game that George
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Pickens is still the same old George by George, and
then him going out there and proving to everyone he's
still got that steeler George Pickens in him. Is there
some kind of core between those two things. Yeah, he's
gotten fined a couple of times and all that, but
fines are just the coin slot of the diva receiver arcade,
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the fund zone, the kind of all if you will,
and my positions. People don't fundamentally change. Whatever's baked in
stays baked in. That's just kind of the way it is.
You can't untoast it, you know, once it's there. And
Brian Schottenheimer did not fix George Pickens, obviously not. He
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went out there and had a vintage George Pickens game.
The Cowboys mantra has been Ah, let's just give him
a chance. You know, well, we'll do something a little different.
And when the juice tastes good, you know my little pulp.
Well you had a lot of pulp. If you're the
Cowboys in this game on Thursday night, and does Pickens
make a couple more plays, a couple more hustle plays,
you win the game. You could make that argument as
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a compelling argument to make. Now last word on the
winner's side. We have cranked up the the overreaction machine
and it's all about the Detroit Lions. And the Lions
are back. It's all downhill now in a tough stretch.
But watch out, the Lions have arrived. This was like
their bar mitzvah and a big deal. They're all men
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now they're men again, and it's great, wonderful. So the question,
are Dan Campbell's Lions back? Are they back to biting
knee caps? So I would advise you to hold your
horses right, I mean, what do you what are you doing? Yeah?
This wipes away some of the halatosis. It does. It's
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like a crest mouthwash thing of majig right for for
a fan base that has been recently breathing dragon fumes
for about a month and it feels pretty good. I'm
puzzled about aman Ross Saint Brown playing. I was told
he likely wouldn't play and went out there and did
his thing. But as far as the old were all
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big picture, yeah, it feels good for the moment. Did
they fix everything? No, Cowboys, even with George Pickens not
that interested in playing in Ceedee Lamb not available after
he had a big start. You know, the Cowboys still
put up a bunch of points in this game, but
this was a mode Joe Rental. I jotted down Mojo
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Rental on my scorecard. A little Mojo Rental there for
the Cowboys. They didn't purchase it. It's one night only.
There's still the NFL's human seesaw up and down, up
and down, no consistency, no reliability. You spin the wheel
every week and you hope it doesn't land on face plant.
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And yeah, you can bully teams and push him around.
And Jamiir Gibbs is dynamic, he's explosive, he's elite, he's premier,
all that stuff. That's the maddening part though about the Lions,
Like the ceiling is a is a pen house, and
they do have an underlying condition and there's really nothing
you can do about it. You were born with it.
Jared Goff sucks in big games. It's a problem, but
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if everything else is great. Hey, we've seen suck bag
quarterbacks win super Bowls. Nick Foles is a Super Bowl champion,
Joe Flackoll won a Super Bowl. Those guys blow, and
certainly Jared Goff's as good as those guys. Everything else
has to go right for you and Dan Campbell smashing
energy drinks and promising kneecap buffets for everyone, And we'll
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see how this goes here. But for this particular night,
it was lipstick on a lion, not a makeover. Not
a makeover. We'll see what the future holds here. For
the Lions are still not in the playoffs. They win
out and have some other teams stumble and bumble, and
then they'll they'll be back in what is a wide
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open appears to be a wide open NFL or right
about now.
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The crown is yours. So at an NFL game on
Thursday night, goes to the Detroit Lions. They get a
two touchdown win. The Dallas Cowboys look good for a
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couple of weeks. They beat the Eagles, they beat the Chiefs,
and now a ice bucket right to the face. Right
to the face for the Dallas Cowboys. But that is
not our lead story this hour. Instead, we go to
Philadelphia and there are multiple reports suggesting that one of
the issues that the philadel Fhi Eagles have had this
year is that quarterback Jalen Hurts has wanted to run
(21:51):
the ball less this season and because of injuries he's
sustained while running the football in recent USI saw this
or not, maybe maybe you missed it. So, when asked
if these reports were true, Hurt said, quote, I've always
been focused on doing whatever it takes to win, and
I've always put my energy trying to bring the game
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plan and the strategy that week, he said to life,
So I'll continue to do that. Close quote that was
a whole lot of nothing. Okay. Then earlier this week,
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was also asked if Jalen hurts
rushing numbers have dipped because he wants to run the
ball less, and what do you think Sirianni did? Do
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you think Sirianni A said, that's absolutely correct. Jalen Hurts
does not want to injure himself. He's a wuss. B
no comment or C. That's preposterous. Well, Sirianni did not
answer the question either, so he deflected. He deflected, So
neither Jalen Hurts or Nick Sirianni would confirm or deny
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that Jalen Hurts want wants to run the ball. They
did the run around the rosie is what they did,
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question. Jalen Hurts based on reports out of Philly,
refusing to give a straight answer. That part's not a report.
A report was he doesn't want to run the ball
as much, and he's asked the Eagles to not have
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him run as much. So Jalen Hurts refusing to give
a straight answer when asked if he wanted to run
the ball less this season. So what do you read
into this? What do you read into this? So my
observations on this, I've got tiny house, living peekaboo, expired trimp.
Those are the things I have, and I will put
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them all together and we will unscramble. What that means,
we will unscramble. And those things have never been put together.
They've never been put together quite like that. You're not
gonna hear that anywhere else, anywhere else. So number on,
Jalen Hurts gets asked a simple question and suddenly he
he besides, he's at a Wetzel's pretzel and he does
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like a pretzel yoga type thing. It was like an
old school Gumby routine, is what it was. From Jalen Hurts,
the man twisted himself into shapes that we didn't know
existed in the human handbook, and that, to me says everything.
So we'd like to say, Dad, give what? Give what?
It's the classic non answer answer. Now, there was a
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guy that I became decent friends with near near the
end of his life, the great TJ. Seimers. TJ was
a columnist back when newspapers mattered, and it was a
talk show host and just a real flamethrower of a man.
And TJ explained to me, so, you know, as a columnist, Ben,
I'll go into the locker room and I will ask
the question. I will allow the athlete to answer the question,
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and if they don't answer the question, then I have
the freedom to give the answer because I've given them
the opportunity and they've chows him not to do it.
And that's really what Jalen Hurts and Nick Siriani did
on this one. They gave a non answer answer. In
the NFL that usually means the quiet part is actually
the loudest right that it hurts. Essentially told you without
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telling you, he told you that he doesn't want to
be a battering eagle anymore. He's saving mileage like he's
driving a lease car and you don't want to go
over the mileage limit and you don't want to be
on the highway, so you just want to drive around
the city and you just kind of want to work
that way. Now, what is my evidence. Let's go to
the numbers. So he got the numbers. Eighty four carries
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through twelve games or Jaalen hurts. That is what's known
as in his world. And he's different than other quarterbacks
because the running game is a big part of the
arrangement on how he's been good. So eighty four carries
through twelve games, that is tiny house living. Tiny house
living is what that is. And this is a guy
who used to run like someone litz took us on fire,
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and now he's he's still running, but it's not the same.
It's just something a little haywire. It's not quite right,
like it's he's not fully putting himself in bubble wrap,
much like part of him is. You know what I'm
saying you feel me on that. So he's gone from
dual threat to dual thought, constantly deciding whether that one
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hit is worth the headache and making what we call
business decisions. He's been to the rodeo a few times.
He's trying to make some business decisions as as the
line goes, as the line goes, and so because he's
hyper aware of the narratives. Though, here's the part of
it that's interesting, right, He's gone from the you know,
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the dual threat to the dual thought. But the hyper
aware part is interesting because he's probably this weekend. The
Eagles are in LA don't play until Monday, and he's
gonna hear all about this, and he's already read about it,
and he's got a long flight and all that stuff.
And I wouldn't be shocked if he goes out there
and he starts running around like a shopping cart with
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a busted wheel, just despite everyone the classic overreaction machine
or go NFL ego all right now, Page two to
the High Speed Sports Wire. A shake up after a
full Mallard myolog on a transaction that seemed like an
alley oop oop oop, well, the other shoe was dropped
(27:29):
and we revisit this Darius Sleigh. Remember Darius Lay who
was claimed off the dumpster from the Buffalo Bills. He
was put on the pink slip papers by Pittsburgh. They said,
we don't want you, you suck. And well now we've
learned that Darius Lay is I don't know if I
want to play. Eh, you know, maybe not. I don't know.
(27:52):
I don't know I want to play. He's unsure whether
he wants to continue playing. Do you see this? Yeah,
he's not going to be reporting to Buffalo. I'm sure
has nothing to do with not wanting to live in Buffalo. Now,
Slay's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, the bull crap artist, he attempted
to spend the story. Now, the question, did Darius Slay
do the Buffalo Bills dirty? Did he do him dirty
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with this particular move? So the only acceptable answer on this,
the only one is y es. So I'm nodding my head.
I'm nodding my head yes on this one. This wasn't
a curveball. This was a spitball. It was doctored up,
it was greased with pine tar and hurled right at
(28:36):
the Buffalo forehead. Now, the good thing about that is
the Buffalo is so big it doesn't really notice. It's
so big, it doesn't really worry about that, and it
will go to the garbage heap of history when you
think about this now, the argument can be made that
the Bills should have checked in with Darius Lay and said, hey,
how would you like to play in Buffalo? We're thinking
about adding you. But the player ultimately is more at
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fault here. The adult thing, the professor thing to do
would have been, hey, guys, I know I'm thinking about
unplugging the jukebox here for a bit, maybe just don't
don't nobody claim me, And instead Darius Lay decide, you
know what, I'm gonna play peak Baboo with retirement Pikaboo,
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I see you, and left the Bills holding an empty
lunch pail. Now the ripple effect, to me, that's the
most interesting part. The guy didn't want to play, you know,
he's quit, fine, whatever, But that part is brutal because
Buffalo had major issues in the secondary. Do I think
that Darius Lay would have solved the issues? No, I don't.
I made that perfectly clear in a previous episode of
the show. That's my opinion. It's one man's opinion, But
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Buffalo claimed Darius Lay. They thought he would be an
upgrade value added even as we question the impact from
the bully pulpit, and then boom goes to dynamite. They
waived someone named JaMarcus Ingram. We don't know who that is,
but he was on the roster and he plays in
the secondary. The tech since of course, then said okay,
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they're like, it will be like a seagull here. The
Texans came in there and a seagull lunchtime, a picnic
there at the beach, and they came in and gobbled
up the player. And so the Bills ended up trading
a live body. They got rid of the live body,
JaMarcus Ingram. They picked up a poltergeist, a ghost spooky
(30:25):
that is malpracticed by circumstances. What that is now there
have been some rumblings, there's some chatter that there's something
more nefarious going on. If you've heard the conspiracy that
Darius Slay assumed that he would only be picked up
by the Philadelphia Eagles, who did make a waiver claim
on him. He wanted to go back to Philly. He
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won a super Bowl in Philadelphia. The Eagle maniacs love
him and that the reason he doesn't want to go
to Buffalo Darius Lay is that they're trying to finagle
away to get the Philly with agent Drew Rosenhouse trying
to pull some strings as the puppet master behind the scenes.
We'll see if there's anything to that, but that's what's
bouncing around now. This is the NFL. I don't think
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it is a pajama party, and pretty much like any job,
I don't think it's much different. Whatever you do. If
you want to be good at your job and take
pride in your product, you have to be one hundred
percent committed. You have to show up on time, you
have to put the work in all that stuff, and
you have to want to be great at whatever that is.
Whether you're working in a factory or warehouse, you're cleaning toilets,
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making donuts, or a cop or a robber, whatever you
might be. You want to be at the very top
of your profession. And so you look at this, it's like, okay,
so when a guy starts pondering retirement and you're like,
I might play, I might take a nap, I had
a big lunch. You know, it's like you know, you
start pondering retirement. That's code for my duffel bag is
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already packed. And see a suckers, you know, see a
suckers and Slay. He didn't just check out mentally, he's
he's physically checked out as well. That's why the Steelers
got rid of him. And he handed the Bills a
malor approved screwjob, Darius Slay he did. This is a
drive through special screwjob by Darius Lay. No player, no production,
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no refund, All sales are final. It's oh v over,
stick a fork in it. That's it. It's all over,
all right, final point. We now go to Louisiana. That's
right there. Reports that the New Orleans Saints head coach
Kellen Moore's job would be safe. The Saints are a
(32:38):
bad football team. They were supposed to be a bad
football team, and they've lived up the expectations this year
in New Orleans. Now, things though, have changed, despite some
reports saying nothing to see here Kellen Moore, He's not
in any kind of danger. He's putting the blood, sweat
and tears in and they're not going to make any
(32:58):
kind of a change, no change at all. Well, now,
all of a sudden, the plot thickens. There's some buzz
out of a byo that Kellen Moore is not not
out of the woods. No, no, no, no, no, something's going
on there, some something's going on. So the question what
are the eyes and the ears tell you of what
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appears to be now a conflict of interest? What are
the eyes and ears tell you about Kellen Moore and
his status with the Saints? So the by you be boiling, boiling,
and Kellen Moore is standing there in the cartoon bubble
on the right side, not the left side, the right
side of my head, in the right side of my head.
(33:43):
Kellen Moore is standing there like a chef who just
realized that he had grabbed the expired shrimp, but he
had already put the shrimp in and the food must
be served, like nothing is safe, it can't be safe.
Like why would you say, he's saying if the Saints
fans have started to put the brown paper bags back
(34:05):
on their heads, that's not a fashion situation. That is
a cry for help. I'll give you an example. My guy,
cashless clay. And we don't do shout out, so I
can't wish cashless clay a happy birthday. I could do
a mention, but I've chose not to. I've chose not
to do a mention. I can't do a shout out.
I won't do a mention. But this guy Cashless Clay
is a big fan of the show, and his lady there, Carly,
(34:29):
and the family dog Ginger. They all, from what I understand,
where brown bags. When they watch the Saints, they have
the family all has matching brown bags. Isn't that romantic?
Isn't that the family that brown bags? It is the
family that loves it. And that's the NFL's version though,
of I'm not mad, i am numb and I'm disappointed,
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and that is the real The numbness is the real
swamp monster. That's the real swamp monster. Because, as I
have pointed out for many many years here, the cheat
code in sports is not anger. People don't get up saying,
oh I don't like they're saying mean things about my dream.
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They don't get upset about that the real profession. There's
some amateur people that work in sports that are you know,
they have thin skin, their weasels, they get upset. Most
people don't. Anger means you're still engaged. It's the other
a word apathy. That's code three light sirens, paramedics sprinting
(35:32):
in with life saving equipment because the fan base just flatlined,
is what that is. And you know it's bad when
Gail Benson, who's older than dirt, breaks out the she
breaks out of the billionaire bunker she's living in somewhere
in the Louisiana there to talk to the local newspaper,
(35:53):
because why not, that's what old people do, They talk
to newspapers. But billionaires generally don't grant inner unless something
smells just not right and you know, a toxic kind
of odor in the air, like that kind of thing.
So the mal report card of this is a big
old a and again it's for apathy. It's the kiss
(36:16):
of death. It is the kiss of death. And you
can't sell season tickets to zombies. They've tried. They don't pay.
Kellen Moore was supposed to be the boy Wonder of
offensive football. At one point, he was the coach and
waiting for the Dallas Cowboys. Imagine that the Dallas Cowboys
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at one point were like, we got to hire this guy.
We we think this guy is amazing. And then now
you look at where we are, and it's like he left,
he went to the Chargers, went to the Eagles, bounced
around the whole thing, all right though, the whole thing,
and now you're like, okay, so you're serving up right now,
(37:00):
you're serving up spoiled gumbo with maggots and a side
of cornbread with crunchy cockroaches. That's her offense twenty six
in the NFL. That's not an offense. That is like
a crime scene with that yellow tape wrapped around it
is what that is. And so the malar malfeasance meter
is redlining. The mallor malfeasance meter is redlining on this one.
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If More doesn't fix this, he is going to be
gumbo canned right out of the Big Easy. So I
do believe that that is legit. There's something to that
particular story.
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Coobler.
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Thravens signed tight end Mark Andrews to a three year
contract extension that makes him the sixth highest paid tight
end in the league, and this had a lot of
fans scratching their heads, as many think Andrews was on
the decline. Ben, was this a mistake by Baltimore?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Yeah, well, it seems like something that didn't have to happen.
And after he blew the playoff game when he dropped
a two point conversion, he imploded. I thought, there's no
way he's going to come back. He must be so
tight with Harball and the executives in Baltimore that that's
part of the deal. They gave him the extra you know,
he only got a couple of years left. They give
him the big money. He's been a great player for them.
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But it doesn't seem like it. It's not worthless, but
it doesn't seem like that's a smart move. Next.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Prior to Giannis and Tetakumpo getting injured in the Bucks
game on Wednesday, Doc Rivers denied reports that the team
has been talking with Giannis about a potential exit from
the franchise, saying Giannis has never asked to be traded. Ever,
I can't make that more clear. Do you believe him?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Yeah? Well, the only problem with Doc and I was
around Doc a lot with the Clippers. Is the reason
I don't believe him is because his lips were moving.
That's why no used to come on stalk ever been honest? Ever,
I mean, why would he be honest? Now? You know,
I don't believe that at all. If Jannis is gonna
get traded eventually, it's just a matter of when trade deadlines.
February fifth, next.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Ben The Oklahoma City Thunder off to it and a
historic start, winning just twenty one of their first twenty
two games and winning their games by an average of
fifteen points. Domination has led some to believe that they
could challenge the Warriors record of seventy three wins.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Are they that good? They already have twenty one wins
in twenty two game yesterday. They're they're not that good,
They're not that popular. But the answer is yes, they
can challenge the record. How do we know you pass
this edition? All Right, that's a win. I got another win.
That's a win for me. Gotta win. That's a win. Oh.
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By the way we go, it's Big Ben's lame jokes
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it's Big Ben's lame Jokes the week. And we welcome
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This man is weed Man, hippie from Hollywood, Florida. Hello,
weed Man Man, Thank you so much with Monday nice.
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I loved it. Mondays with the weed Man Mondays into
Tuesdays kind of technically early as we swing the balance
over there to early on the on the Tuesday. All right,
are you ready to laugh? Weed Man? Are you ready?
All right? I hope you're happy that so many people
from coast to coast and around the world love busting
(40:45):
your balls weed Man. They just love it. They love
goofing on you. I love it, all right. Yeah, And
that's the great thing. You can laugh at yourself. And
that's a great gift if you can laugh at yourself.
Here we go, because he has long hair. What did
weed Man say when someone asked if he was bisexual?
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Ah?
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What he said, Nope, I've never paid for it ever
never Surfer Todd the comedian. Why is weed Man's belief
that he can change the world? What is what is
weed Man's belief that he can change the world based
on what high hopes? That's a chip in Maine. These
(41:29):
are actual jokes by actual listeners. If it's an overnight success,
if you would like to send jokes in care of
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Why was weed Man walking around Miami with a limp
in a cane? Why he was promoting lame jokes? That's
(41:51):
Joe in Virginia Beach. You sent that one in? Well,
this is interesting. I don't think we've gotten any jokes
from this guy before The hut Hut specialist rights and
he says, why did weed Man hippie? Why did his
toy store in New York clothes? Why? Well, apparently weed
Man had no concept that he was supposed to order
new toys once they were sold. That's at you saw
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that one. You sold that one cabbage patch doll in
nineteen eighty six, and you forgot to order more. Why
did we Man? Why did all right, we'll see what.
Why didn't weed Man? Why didn't weed man get any
turkey on Thanksgiving even though he only had two guests.
Oh no, why not? Well, apparently your guests were Bartolo
Cologne and Lizzo. That's from Brendan from busting lame jokes
(42:41):
over the years, we used to just bust Bartolo Colone's balls.
Then he retired, Then we moved to Lizzo. Now we've
moved to weed Man. How do you know when life
is tough? Oh, because you catch yourself being jealous of
weed Man having his own segment on the radio show.
That's a Noah in Austin. Then why why should weed
(43:03):
Man create an email? Why? Well, he'll never go hungry
with all the spam he's going to get. That's Noah
in Austin. Then they even have a folder a spamful er.
Why did weed Man leave New York City? Uh, there's
actually three reasons. Why how about that?
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Why?
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Well, the team sucked, the weather sucks, and there are
no hurricanes there either. That's Mike the Leprechaun. What what
kind of hippie is weed Man? What come he's a
dang dirty hippie. That's Drue in Minnesota. Why what is
the weed Man's favorite thing about the romantic novels. What
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besides all the pipe he really likes the hair owin Heroin? Right,
but Drew and I screwed up Drew in Minnesota? You
got the joke? What else do we have this here?
What is and Coop hoping to find at the end
of the rainbow? What a gold of pot is that
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they'd like to find there?
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Now?
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The most? It is interesting. The most popular girl's name
in twenty twenty five was Olivia. And what was the
most popular boy's name? What? Tyreek Hill Junior? That's uncle Uncle.
What's the saddest part of Scott's dating life? Unfortunately every
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single date it's a blind date. That's a Bobby in Florida.
How cold is it in Minnesota?
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Cold? It's so cold that hollering James claims that he's
an Eskimo. That's econ Roseville, Minnesota. What's Jed who Fled's
favorite place to spend Christmas? Yea, his favorite place Jed
who fled? The little town of meth Laham. That's Dan
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Are You A Charlotte?
In 1997, actress Kristin Davis’ life was forever changed when she took on the role of Charlotte York in Sex and the City. As we watched Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte navigate relationships in NYC, the show helped push once unacceptable conversation topics out of the shadows and altered the narrative around women and sex. We all saw ourselves in them as they searched for fulfillment in life, sex and friendships. Now, Kristin Davis wants to connect with you, the fans, and share untold stories and all the behind the scenes. Together, with Kristin and special guests, what will begin with Sex and the City will evolve into talks about themes that are still so relevant today. "Are you a Charlotte?" is much more than just rewatching this beloved show, it brings the past and the present together as we talk with heart, humor and of course some optimism.
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