December 23, 2025 • 47 mins
Big Ben talks about Philip Rivers and the Colts losing to the 49ers and how his performance should be graded, Steelers WR DK Metcalf getting suspended for 2 games without pay, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Ralph Fiennes Edition, and more!
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don't bear the lead, my man. Well we won't and
our lead story from Indianapolis, the final game of the
NFL Weekend. There are two weeks to go on the
NFL schedule. The final game. They're Week sixteen. Christian McCaffery
leading the forty nine Ers Traveling Road Show, paying a
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visit to Old Man Rivers, Old Man Rivers and the Colts.
There you had the Fox refugees, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.
They had the call on AB right there. I don't
if you watched it not maybe not, Maybe you had
something else going on. I don't know what you have
going on. I watched it. I sat there, my fat
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ass watched this game the whole thing. So there was
brock Purty making Terry and England smile. Brock perty forty
nine a quarterback career high. Five touchdown passes, five of
them brock per he was back at Iowa State. The
sight closed, baby, five touchdown passes forty eight to twenty
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seven was your final score as the Niners get the win,
the three touchdown win. The Colts had the ball down
by two scores. There was enough time to come back
and Philip rivers through the interception there So Niners win
going away and San Francisco eleven and four. They have
won five straight. I didn't play in the NFL, but
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I'm told that's good. And so they are still alive,
stand alive, staying alive in the NFC West race with
the Seahawks and the Rams, of course, and Rams top
team in football, and the Niners and Seahawks have better records,
but the Rams obviously the better team. We know that,
and the conference's top seed also on the line, and
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so there you go. It also snapped. I saw this note.
It snapped a five game losing streak in the series
head to head, the last time, the last time that
the Niners were able to take down the Colts in
a similar situation was way back in November of twenty
oh one when Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association member the
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Great Jim Mora went on that playoffs, playoffs, when the
all time great rants. If you're old, you know what
I'm talking about there. That coach More worked here for
a number of years after that when he coached the Colts,
And of course I've told him this, I had him
on my podcast a while back. But Jim Mora, the
greatest rant was not the playoff rant. It was we
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couldn't do Diddley Pooh when he coached the Saints. That's
the better rant by Jim More. But still Indianapolis that
lost there, that loss also clinching a playoff spot for
here we go Buffalo. Jacksonville is in the playoffs. Jacksonville
is in the playoffs. Buy your lottery tickets. The Chargers
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are in. The Chargers are in in the AFC as well.
The better story those could to the Niners and the Colts,
the better story in the losing locker room. So that
is where we will begin here. As down goes Indy,
Down goes Indy. The Colts have now lost five straight,
and they did something that mathematically is almost impossible. The
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Colts got off to a seven and one start this season,
and while they're not eliminated yet, they're about to miss
the playoffs. Here's Philip Rivers breaking down the math on
the Colts. It's not looking good in Indy and.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I know this locker room is hurting again. I've been
a part of it for a short time, for two losses,
and I know that it's been a it's been a
long slide now for over a month, and I know
that's tough. I've been a part of those slides and
now I'm obviously a part of this right now. And
we just got to find a way to dig deep
and find a way to win a football game. And
we can't worry about all the scenarios and all the
things out there.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I know they're all out there. I know what they are.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But we got to find a way to win a
football game or none of the scenarios coming to play.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, that's not happening. Colts have lost six of seven
at this point, and with the playoffs all but over,
there is a belief that Rivers might not even play
again for the Colts that they took him out the
game was over last series, they put the Golden domer
in there. At the end, the question becomes will Rivers
even play again? And the Colts it ain't looking good.
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It is not looking good. And let's hear one more
from Philip Rivers before we advance in the monologue. Here
is Philip Rivers on what it's been like for him
being back in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I'm torn of how to express it because it's been
a blast.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's been a blast to prepare and to go steak
and get ready and go out there and warm up
and do.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
All that with these guys again. But again, the name
of the game is not, you know, go have a
good time. It's helped find.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Way to team no fun.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
And we've come up short here these first two.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But I've been a part of less percentage chances of
getting in and got in before. So you'll certainly won't
hear me losing hope here as we prepare next week.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You know that was he just took a shot at
Joe Burrow if I was running a tabloid. Philip Rivers
takes a shot at Joe Burrow by saying it's not
about having a good time. Now, Joe Burrow, I'm not
having fun. Boo hoo hoo. If it's not fun, why
are we here? I'm Joe Burrow. Well, Philip Rivers just said, listen,
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it's not about having a good time. It's not all right.
So the question if this is the end of this experiment,
and who knows, let's find out. The Colts will decide
whether they're gonna throw Rivers out there or not. The
math ain't real good. So if this is the end
of Philip rivers come backstory in Indie, how do you
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grade his performance? We're two games into this and this
might be all So we have to worry about the
talk show we do today, and so let's discuss I've
got porky pig, hydro power, and paper cuts, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we're gonna
make some kettle corn, is what we're gonna make. So
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a listen, the Colts dragged Philip Rivers out of the backwoods.
What a great movie this would be like all those
old movies. Is dragon and see what we can we
can find him? Well, I don't know where he's in
a small town in Alabama. How do you get to Alabama? Well,
it's in the south, and so okay, we'll go to
the south, and is it. No, it's not Georgia, it's
it's the next You've got to move over a little bit.
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And then you've got Mississippi on one side there, all right,
So we'll go to Alabama and then we go to
the backwoods out in the boondocks. And they went there
and they found rivers like they were finding an emergency
plumber at two in the morning because you're plumbing the
pipe broke and you've got a major flood. And it
was the ultimate Hail Mary by the Colts to go
down this road. So they went down this road, and
they didn't dial an agent. They called the athletic department
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at the high school in rural out Alabama and said, hey, Phil,
you still got shoulder pads? You want to play? And
Phil's say, well, I'm kind of fat right now, I
don't care. You want to play for the Colts. How
would you like to start for the Colts? Okay? Why not?
And guess what, he wasn't a disaster, which I don't
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know if that's a compliment or not. Is that like
a backhanded company He wasn't a disaster. He looked like
a cross between and played like a cross between porky
Pig and the Michelin Man. It appeared watching him play
that he was often wheezing, he was wobbling, but he
was oddly effective considering the very low expectations for Philip Rivers.
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In both games, Rivers gave the Indianapolis offense a puncher's
chance and that's all they wanted. That's all they expected
from Rivers. So he met the standard by doing that,
he met the standard. You look at it, and he said, well, okay,
let's look at that. They should have, could have, would
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have beaten Seattle. It came down to a Myers field goal.
That's another sign the Seahawks on all that good. They
the last two wins for the Seahawks. They needed a
late field goal to beat a forty four year old
Philip Rivers, and then they need the officials to give
them two points in that ram Seahawks game. So the
Seahawks are frauds. We'll get that out of the way.
But then on Monday night, it wasn't a game lost
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by Rivers. The Colts defense look like a mix of
traffic Cones and Mattadors o o O l ole as
they were doing nothing there and Rivers was actually moving
the ball. The Colts scored twenty seven points in this
game on Monday night. That is more than enough to win.
That is a de merit actually for the forty nine
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ers defense, and a puffy sticker for Grandpaul Philip Philip
Rivers Grandpaul Rivers. The mal report card on the two
games Philip Rivers is played, and again we don't know
if they'll start another game. So the two games Rivers
gets a B on the Malle report card. A B.
That's not a playoff invite, not officially eliminated. However, he
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didn't drown, he didn't He was respectable. How about that
respectable play by Philip Rivers. It's kind of like, you know,
then't get the invite. But he went to a wedding.
He wore jeans, maybe a Bolo tide. It's not the
greatest look, but you showed up, and you were supposed
to show up, and you showed up. And so so
there was that. And now Philip one of the nicknames,
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sure Indianapolis's naptown, and so now he can take a
nap and relax and the Cinderella of the rust Belt,
as it's been called there. The mission certainly did not
get completed by Philip Rivers. Nevertheless, though nevertheless, if you
look at the wide angle lens here, Rivers played well
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enough where this opens up the old geezer rollodecks, meaning
this is not going to discourage in twenty twenty six,
in twenty twenty seven, in the next couple of years. Here,
when you're starting quarterback, your franchise quarterback, or even your
reclamation project who plays over his head, over his head
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gets hurt mid season, then when that happens, all right,
you don't mind. You don't mind going out and getting
some guy off the scrap heap. The NFL's recycling program
is OPE. So if you got a pulse and you
used to be good, they'll give you a call. Now,
staying with Indy, there has been a dog pile, dog
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pile on top of the Colts here as everyone's being
a Monday morning quarterback, as the Colts traded multiple first
round draft picks to the Jets for Sauce Gardener. Now,
Gardner did not play in this game. He's been hurt
lately for the Colts. He missed the Monday night football game.
So the question, and this is a people, how could
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the Colts do this? This is Malfeasan's trading two first
round draft picks for sauce Gardener. That's what dumb teams do,
all the experts, So question, do the Colts deserve to
be barbecued for trading all those draft picks to get
a couple of games out of sauce Gardener. So I
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am shaking my head. No, I am shaking my head
no on this. This is what's known as revisionist history,
which is my favorite kind of history because you're never wrong.
But I like to trade at the time, the whole
fake outrage thing. It is like revisionist history served cold
with a side dish of a fake outverage. At the
time you made the trade, the Colts were seven and two,
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seven and two. They were riding high. They were going
around like a peacock. They had their feathers in the
air everywhere, you know, they think they had found something.
They were playing very very good football at the time,
and that's when the front office feeling, you know, smell themsells,
feel themselves a little bit, and they went for it.
They swung for the offences they did. And you don't
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clutch draffick these so many people have been brainwashed, they've
been indoctrinated into the draft picks. Oh my god, you
need the traffic. Shut up, you loser. You're a loser
with these draft picks. You treat them like they're the
family jewel. Stop. Draft picks are a renewable resource. You
know what draft picks are. Their hydro power is what
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they are, right. Draft picks are abundant. Every year you
get slotted a certain number of draft picks. They are abundant.
Draft picks are abuddy. As I said, they're hydro power.
And you look at the energy. It's like think of
the water. You think of the energy you can get
from rivers and dams and tides and waves and all that.
That's draft picks. That's it. And you can use them
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anyway you want. And you can't coach scared. You can't
run a front office scared. You can't do that. FM picks.
That's how you fade into the oat meal, all right,
you don't want to fade into the oatmeal. And I
love the fact the Colts were feeling their mojo. They
were looking pretty good and all that stuff. And we
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never thought Daniel Jones was legit, but they did, and
they bought into Daniel Jones at the time, the whole
Indiana Jones thing, cracking the whip, dodging snakes, like the
real Indiana Jones and the movie and all that stuff.
So the iron was hot. The iron was hot, and
so they took a hammer to it and they're like,
let's go. And that's called conviction. It's not malpractice. It's
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not Now it didn't work out, clearly, sauce Gardner didn't
do what they thought he was gonna do with the
offense fell apart, and it's a hot mess. It's a
hot mess. So but there's no give backs and you
just move on and you make your work and you
figure it out. You know, rain no rain checks or
anything like that like that in the NFL. So the
Colts are like, they're kind of like the Hinds Company
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at this point. They're in the sauce business for better
or worse, and there's no need for an apology tour
or anything like that. And when he plays Gardener's been
pretty good. We'll see if that continues when he comes
back from injury. But with this season melting into a
nice horseshoe puddle for the culture, it doesn't change that.
And next year they're gonna have to go back to
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market and become salvage dogs. And whether it's Mac Jones
or Zach Wilson or some other reject quarterback that they
will bring in off the scrap heap and they will
be the salvage dogs and they will be prowling the
quarterback junkyard to try to find another quarterback that they
can prop up and coach up to play well as
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well as Daniel Jones was playing at the time. And
so that's it. But again we don't rewrite history. We
like the sauce gardener trade at the time. We still
support the sauce gardner trade. We liked it then, we
like it now. That's the malormath on that all right,
last word to the winners side. So I checked my inbox,
which you should never do as a talk shows riding
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back to people. But occasionally I'll go in there, you know,
usually once a day, and I'll check my inbox and
see what's going on with that. And so I went
in there and it was a lot chuld you. So malor.
You're not gonna give the Niners props. You're a ram
suck up, you know all that crap. Is there anyone
more neutral than me? Seriously? My middle name is neutral? Anyway? Question,
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does this win count as a signature win for brock
Party and the Niners? Does this count primetime game Indianapolis
Monday Night football? Does this count as a signature win
for the forty nine ers? So I give this side,
and God I help, I hope not. If this is
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a signature win for the Niners, they're really not that good.
Let's just call like it. If you think this is
some kind of big, big notch in the belt, then
there's something wrong with you. How about that? All right,
that's not exactly here. Let's not go there. Let's not
turn what was a Delta Airlines snack box into a
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five course meal. It was not. Yeah, did brock Purty
look like a doctor from Grey's Anatomy back in the
day with surgical precision, like what was that guy's name,
doctor Shepherd? Yeah, just just slicing up the Indianapolis Colts. Yes,
and the Niners had four hundred and forty yards. They
had forty eight points. Seven of those coming from a
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turnover by Philip Rivers, but forty one points by land,
by air, by sea for the forty nine ers. And
yet context does matter, and that's that's the problem. The
Niners were touchdown favorites on the road against a flea
bitten Indianapolis defense. They were supposed to win this game
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by a lot. They won this game by a lot. Therefore,
you don't get credit for doing what you're supposed to do.
That's the cold reality of the situation. And let's not
forget also that brock Purty, well he did have five touchdowns.
He also had a fumble and an interception. And you
look at those things, and those are paper cuts in
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a regular season game, they're paper cuts against bad teams
and the culture bad team right now. Against good teams
in playoff games, those are amputations. So fright right now,
it's paper cut, big deal, who cares, put a band
aid on it, put some new skin on it. You're
good to go. But then in the playoffs it becomes problematic.
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That's playoffs, playoffs, trying to win a game. Of course,
the bigger concern for the Niners is defense. Do we
know they don't have their top two players and all that.
That defense though built like a sand castle at high tide,
it's not going very well for that forty nine or defense.
Robert Salo Does he not get more TV time than
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Jimmy Kimmel? Holy crap, they love showing him. Is it
possible at Robert Salad and Joe Buck are related and
we don't know it? Or possibly eightman? Do they get
paid each minute they show Robert Salah on the television? Anyway,
You're at the Niner defense and Grandpa Philip Rivers went
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out there and looked like, yeah, he looks like a
sumo wrestler, but he was matriculating the ball down the
field for Indianapolis in this game. And you let the
high school coaching forty four year old grandpa average pretty
much eight yards of pop. That's the Niners defense. They
get seven point nine yards per pass for Philip Rivers.
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Is that a championship defense? Methinks not so much. You
such a critic, Balor, But yeah, I got Niner fans
in my inbox. Well it's a signature win. But you okay,
seven point favorites on the road. I guess the forty
four year old grandpa and that's your signature. Win you
guys blow. They're in it. I said it.
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This hour, we move away from the Monday Night football
and we go to the shove or punch or attempted shove,
attempted punch Herd round the foot Ball World follow up
follow up to a previous edition of the show. In
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the previous episode, we talked about it. So we go
to Park Avenue now in Midtown Manhattan. The Justice League
of Football has ruled. If you have not heard yet,
the NFL has brought the hammer of Goodell down, down, down, down,
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down on Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf. DK not okay.
He has been suspended for not one, not one, but
two two games for his in game altercation with a
blue wig wearing, blue wig wearing Lions fan during the
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win in Detroit. Yeah, the league rule that Metcalf's actions
violated the league policy of not attempting to punch customers
who bought a ticket. What a us see that is?
Why don't they do that on Broadway? Right? You go
see a Broadway show and they kick in the face
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in the front row, and we'll do a lot. We'll
do We'll kick our legs up in there and see
the rock Cats at Radio City. We're gonna have the
rock Cats kick the people in the front row. Why not?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Anyway, that's a good jumping off point. So let us
discuss the question for the esteem panel is as follows.
Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf suspended for the two games
without pay for some kind of conduct detrimental to the NFL. Now,
when you first saw this or heard about it, what
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did you think? That's the question. Keep it simple. It's
not that deep. It's overnight talk radio. So when you
first saw the dk Metcalf suspension for two games, what
did you think?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
So?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I've got pep Boys, Butterfingers, and venture capital, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
gonna put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're
going to do. So Number I said number one. The
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lawyers have now entered the chat. The lawyers have now
entered the chat. So this is the NFL being extra
extra cautious is what this is. Bubble wrapped knee brace
cautious is what we're talking about here from the NFL. Now,
once both sides have lawyered up, that's where we are.
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Both sides have lawyered up. You've got the attorney for
the guy wearing the blue wig, the Blue Man group.
That guy. His attorney said the matter will now likely
be subject to formal legal proceedings. Well, the League of
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course saw that, and they heard about that, and then
DK's got his representation and so okay, the league, they're like, oh,
we got to do something about it. What are we
gonna do? I don't know. Roger Gell's like, I gotta
act like an insurance adjuster at that point. I gotta
limit liability. And so it's not NFL anymore. It's like
going down to Pep Boys and you pull into the
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bay there and you say, all right, can we install
the blame air bags. We'd like to blame air bags.
We want to rotate the tires there. Okay, we'll rotate
the tires. We want the full legal inspection on how
we can limit our liability. Okay, we got you on that.
No problem. Two games, no pay, Boom goes the dynamite.
Boom goes to the dynamite. That is preventative maintenance by
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the NFL. Preventive maintenance by the NFL. Now ambulance chasing lawyers,
and I don't know how it is in your time.
We do the show from Los Angeles and there are
more ambulance chasing billboards for these lawyers chasing chasing the
insurance companies. It is next level all right, Literally, I
count them on board. It's like some people count cheap.
I got a long drive home to the north Woods
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and I count. I count the billboards and it's it's wild.
They must make so much money. Think about how much
that's a small percentage they're spending on advertising. I love
the spending on advertising, but it's a small percentage. Imagine
how much money they're making. It's wild. It's absolutely wild.
So you got these ambulance chasing lawyers who love this
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kind of stuff. You got the slip and fall with
the Detroit Lions Steeler game, which was the big game
on CBS. You had Jim Nantz and Tony Romo. So
DK's got counseled both. Everyone's drawn a line in the
sand here. And once that happens, the NFL hits the button.
They press the button and they go to full shield defense,
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protect the shield, and they're trying to not get posterized.
They don't want some kind of discovery, trying to avoid discovery, emails, texts,
security logs at the stadium. Suddenly it becomes a Netflix
true crime documentary. And have we you've seen the guy
with the blue wig. Is he wearing a neck brace.
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Now is he going my neck, my back, my neck
in my back? Is he doing that? No, one of
the great lines in cinema of all time. He isn't
doing that? All right? Well, anyway, So the NFL chose
to be proactive here and suspend wide receiver DK Metcalf.
They will, they wave wolf, they wave the accountability flag quietly,
assuming that the appeal will knock down the suspension from
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two games to one game. Metcalf's already appealed, so they're like,
all right, we'll get that down to one game. He'll
miss one game and then he'll be back. He's got
no priors, he's got a clean resume. And so this
isn't so much discipline, if you will, it's DC, not
DC comics. It's damage control, is what. The NFL isn't angry,
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they're just nervous. They don't want to have to pay
out any money in some kind of settlement. The guy
will see because you don't just sue the stadium. You
don't just sue the Lions. If you're a good ambulance
chasing attorney, you sue the NFL. You go where the
money is and you say, this is a big problem.
The NFL did not have proper security at the stadium
and the fan was allowed to run amok and the
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video of DK Metcalf coming down. Now, I did see
DK throw a useful idiot in the media. I believe
that was Ocho. Sinko did use the race bomb. He
used the race card from the bottom of the deck.
I'm a little skeptical if that's true, based on the
fact that he didn't use it right away, and that
is the ultimate get out at jail free card. You
would think if that happened that DK Metcalf would have
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said that right away, or would have had Mike Tomlin
say that, or some pr hack for the Steelers would
have said, yeah, but yeah, DK might have taken a
shot at him, try to throw a little jab at him. Yeah,
but the guy said his mama was a big lard
ass or you know, he said this and then he
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used the N word or something like. He didn't say
that he snuck out the back door like Travis Kelcey
when the Chiefs lose, he snuck out the back door,
and so that leads me to leave. That's kind of like,
that's kind of bogus because you say that right away
and you're like, oh, everyone runs to your defense and say, okay,
well yeah, you attack the guy whatever. But we know
he deserved it, and so there you go. All right now,
Page two money, money, money, It's all about the money.
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It's all about the money. And so with this punishment,
DK Metcalf the two game suspension for violating the tenants
of the NFL rule book. It's gonna cost him five
hundred and fifty five thousand dollars if the appeal is
(29:35):
not overturned. So imagine every two weeks you get five
hundred and fifty five thousand dollars. You'd probably show up
to work a lot, so five hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in salary. However, but wait, there's more. But wait
there's more. We are also told that because of this violation,
DK Metcalf has now voided with a capital V, he
(29:56):
has voided forty million dollar in future guaranteed money. So
that's forty point five million if my malor math is correct.
That is an ouy gooey mess, is what that is? Wow?
All right, So question DK Metcalf Steeler wide receiver losing
forty million dollars in garanteed money is blank. Fill in
(30:22):
the blank. So my word is gad zukery with a
capital G. Gadzukery is my word here, DK Metcalf. The
forty point five million dollars in guaranteed money. That's it.
This is a This is not a parking ticket. This
is a I spent too long parking in the loading zone. No,
(30:42):
this is not that. No, no, no, this is much more.
This is a generational fumble territory for DK Metcalf if
this works out. Now, you didn't just drop the football,
all right, You punted your wallet into the harbor somewhere,
is what you did. I would like, what are we
doing here? And two games, five hundred and fifty five thousand,
(31:03):
as we said, and then wham the guaranteed money. The
language in the contract evaporates like beer foam at last
call for alcohol. This is butter fingers economics. Butter fingers economics.
The NFL contract is a bit of a mouse trap.
It's the standard verbiage in every NFL contract. You touch
(31:25):
the cheese and snappity snap, it goes. There goes the
golden goose. Now, the conduct violation by DK Metcalf, that
is the catch all guillotine. It's the garbage disposal of
the NFL High Crimes and misdemeanors. Territory is what it is,
(31:45):
and the hurt feelings all wrapped up there and all
that stuff, and so you go. You had all that
mixed together. Imagine losing forty million dollars. Possibly this is
the worst case scenario. It's kind of like when somebody
comes up kind of say, well, you're facing up to
up to fifteen years and jet well, no one really
gets the maximum sentence, so you're not really facing that,
(32:05):
but you're facing some time. You're facing some time. So
it's it's obviously financial malpractice if it comes down to that.
You don't read the fine prince one of these things.
You sign the DOCU, sign your initial here, and you
sign there, and then that's it and you face planted
into it is what it is here, And so in theory,
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you could choke the golden goose. Now, the good thing
for DK metcalf is he's really talented, and typically if
you're really talented, they kind of look the other way
and they're like, no, we're not gonna we're not gonna
do Even though he could have choked the golden goose.
He did not do that, and so because of that
the damage will be limited. We'll see what happens on
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the appeal. All right, now, final point to Jacksonville. We
go don't look now, but the Juguars are the talk
of the NFL. They're the it team. Despite leaning in
to the fank that nobody thought we could win and
we suck and we're small market Jacksonville and all that.
Despite that, the Jaguars are playing pretty well and that
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led to defensive end Travon Walker, big first round pick,
Travon Walker, who had a message for the band wag Nurs.
The band wag nurs who are flushing. They're running down
to the train station. They're trying to catch on the
on the bandwagon. They'll jump on there. True, true, that's
(33:32):
the Jags bandwagon. So his message is two words, stay away,
stay away, stay away. He said, quote everyone gonna try
to hop on this bandwagon. Travon Walker said, everyon's gonna
try to jump on the bandwagon. Now, we don't want nobody.
Stay where you're at. And then he went and then
(33:53):
he worked blue. He said, f everyone but us. But
then he apologies. He said, listen excuse my language. Well,
when you'd say the F word, you say, exchoose my language. Okay,
all things are forgiven. So he said, excuse my language, mom,
and dad and grandma. But then he said if everybody
but us, all right? Close quote. So he he said
(34:15):
excuse my language to his mama, daddy, and grandma and
then used bad, bad language again. All right. Question, how
does Travon Walker's rant about keeping the Bandwagon fans far
away from the Jaguars? How does that hit you?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
So?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Walker, I thought this is amusing. I was. I brought
it up on the show, so I thought it was interesting.
A Walker out there acting like he's the bouncer at
the NFL Fan nightclub and it's like kind of like
a dive bar, the NFL Fan Nightclub, and there's like
sticky floors. You don't know what that is. You hope
it's just spilled alcohol, not something else that could be sticky.
(34:57):
And then you've got the broken jukebox, got that going
on over there, and we don't want nobody. You just
stuck behind the velvet ropes. You're not coming in here.
And of course the response to that is hey, buddy,
bye bye to bat Hey buddy, this is not some
kind of underground punk show. It's the NFL, the world's
(35:18):
biggest strip mall, is what it is here. And so
winning means foot traffic, right, you want the foot traffic.
This means foot traffic. My word though, for this, for
the star defensive players Rovron Walker saying we don't want
any bandwagon fans, my word is it's an o word. Obtuse.
(35:40):
That is my word here. Obtuse is the word because
it is obtuse. It's silo thinking, is what it is.
It's for the those uneducated on how the economics of
all this work in the entertainment business. Now, last I checked,
the Jacksonville Jags are not let me say not Apple.
They are not Apple, they are not Microsoft. It's a
(36:02):
startup trying to pitch venture capital. Now they want some
venture capital with a PowerPoint that just says trust us Bro.
That's the Jaguars manstra trust us Bro is the mantra.
So winning games has always been universally accepted as a
marketing plan. It just is you don't dead bolt the door.
(36:26):
You don't dead bolt the door and not allow customers
in when they finally show up. And that's it. Every
fan base, you know, every single fan base was built
on the back of the bandwagon. The fumes of the
bandwagon created every fambush. When I was a kid, the
teams that were really good most years, the Cowboys, the Raiders,
(36:50):
and the Dolphins and those little kids. And it's still
this case, you know, nine to twelve years old, those
that still love sports as kids, you jump on to
a bandwagon between the ages of nine and twelve whatever
team's winning, because every kid wants to be a winner,
and you want to be a front runner and all
that stuff. So there you go, and then you find yourself.
You do that when you're like nine or ten, and
(37:11):
then you find yourself in your late forties and all
of a sudden, you're still emotionally damaged because you made
a decision when you were nine or ten years old,
and you're buying throwback jerseys and all that stuff. And
so I had The Niners have a lot of fans,
and many of those fans are cause forty years ago
in the in the nineteen eighties, they had a guy
named Joe Montana and it's spuilding in the nineties with
(37:33):
Steve Young and they won a lot and so those
people grew up and now they've got kids and it's
like a family thing and all that stuff. That's the deal.
So Travon Walker wants some kind of purity test to
be a Jacksonville fan, which is really cute, isn't that cute?
That's cute, man. But this is not a monastery. It's not.
(37:54):
It's a business, and so if you want growth in
that business, it would be like us, we only want now.
It sounds like the only seven people call the show
because for some reason everyone's intimidated unless we do a
newbie night to call the show. But we always want
new people to come to our store. Our stores open
all night. We want people you forgot something, come down
(38:14):
to the overnight audio shack and we're the radio shack
over here. We'll take care of it. But you want growth,
that's what you want in any business in the NFL.
You want the casuals. You need the casuals, you need
the low information fan, you want the tourists, you want
the front runners, you need all of them, all right.
You want people breaking ankles, jumping on the band wagon.
(38:37):
Is that's the goal. That's what you want. And this
rant hit me. It's like a guy standing in front
of the Walmarts and if you don't live within three
blocks of the Walmart, do not come in. Well, no,
it's a big box store. They need people from all over.
So congratulations, Jacksonville's won a few games. Here, they're feeling
(38:58):
good about themselves and you're sabotaging the storefront. I would
love to have been a fly on the wall in
the marketing department for the Jaguars. So one of your
top defensive players is telling people who don't really like
the team not to support the team. Okay, really, but
that's asset winning is a secret society. It's like the
(39:19):
Cross and the skulling Bones, and it's a secret society.
It's a billboard. It is a billboard, is what it is.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
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Weet Mallard to a third degree. Here we go hit that,
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How about that to the third degree. I know this
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Speaker 6 (39:44):
So the Broncos lost for the first time since September twenty.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
First they got your ass kick, Coop. They lost, They
got their ass kick.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
They lost, And after the game, bo Nix said that
the l could be a good reset for the team, saying,
you'd rather have it you now than in the first
round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah, Ben, does he have a point. Well, first of all,
it's a great point. The Raiders have had a lot
of recess, The New York Giants have a lot of recess.
The Jets have had a lot of recess. It really
works out well for those teams. Yes, no, it's not
good and there's no guarantee just because you've lost the
game with two weeks ago in the season, that you're
gonna win a bunch of games. That's you know, that's
fool logic, is what that is. It was the Broncos
(40:22):
looked bad. Their defense got sliced up by Trevor Lawrence,
and they couldn't do enough on offense to keep up
with Jacksonville. It was not a good day. It doesn't
mean that Broncos are not gonna win the Super Bowl.
But don't tell me because you had lost in Week
sixteen that's somehow something to brag about. It's not next.
Speaker 6 (40:40):
During Saturday's game between the Eagles and Commanders. Philly was
up seventeen points with about four minutes to go in
the game and went for a two point conversion that
led to a scuffle between the players.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
And after the game.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
Commanders coach Dan Quinn did not seem too thrilled by
the move, Ben, do you think it was disrespectful?
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Well? I think what was disrepectful is the way the
Commanders have played since Week six. They have one since
Week six, one win that was against the Giants. That's it.
That's all. They've lost every other game since week six,
So that's this. No, this stuff's kind of non play.
Better do better. Don't give me that crap. Come on,
(41:14):
it's not Pop Warner football. Stop your professionals.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
Next, the Saint Louis Cardinals are currently in a full
full tear Dome mode, and on Saturday, they traded all
star ketcher Wilson Contreras to the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Ben, how big of a get is this for Boston?
He's he's a good player. I don't know he's a
great player, But you're adding another good player if you're
depending on him to lead you. If you're the Red Sox,
you're gonna be disappointed. I think he's proven he's not
that guy. You're not that guy, pal, But Contreras in
a secondary role is pretty lethal actually, And he's a
(41:46):
guy that you don't expect him to lead the way.
But if he's just adding, it's like adding extra candy
that you don't really need the extra candy, but just
nice to have it. And it's it's not a bad
thing there. It is cool. Mallarly, third degree, how did
we do?
Speaker 6 (42:02):
You almost auto failed that, but but you did say
that it doesn't mean that they're not going to win
the super Bowl, So so you've passed this in there.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
It is I want again closing out the year in
the win column.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
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Speaker 6 (43:10):
Play, all right, gentlemen. This is the Ralph Findes edition
of Mallags Mount of the Money. He turned sixty three
years old on Monday. The categories are Shindler's List, Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire, No Time to Die
and twenty eight years Later? Rob, which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Twenty eight years later? All right?
Speaker 6 (43:26):
Twenty eight years later? And Josh, how about you?
Speaker 5 (43:29):
No time to die?
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Alright?
Speaker 6 (43:32):
So Rob, you and I are up first. Our category
is twenty eight years later. These athletes all wore number
twenty eight forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin,
all right. This guy was the best running back ever
for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Adrian Pacinson.
Speaker 6 (43:47):
Yes, this guy was the best running back for the
Saint Louis Rams Macha fault.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (43:53):
This guy is the greatest catcher of all time for
the San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
There's a there's a rule named after him. All right.
Speaker 6 (44:01):
This guy was a defensive back in the NFL. He
played like twenty years for the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
There we go.
Speaker 6 (44:09):
This guy, who was a shortstop, played a long time
for the Colorado Rockies, then he went over to the
Saint Louis Cardinals. Yes, this guy was an All Pro
defensive back for the Cowboys when they were winning championships.
All right, Darren Woodson was who he wanted sixty.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
It's not that good.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
Should have said, jail dude.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Wow, okay, Josh, are you ready, my man? Josh okay? Uh.
These athletes all almost died, but thankfully didn't. Are you ready?
Are you ready? Josh against rock? All right? Forty five
seconds on away go. Greatest golfer of all time almost
had in a car accident, Tiger Wood. That is correct.
(44:57):
He was a star for the Boston Celtics. Abed at
a nightclub in Boston. He played in the era with
the Well They won a championship together. Kevin Garnett and him. Yes,
greatest female tennis player of all time, damn Mark Martin,
African Americans, Oh, Venith Walliams, no somebody else? Yeah, all right,
(45:23):
quarterback for the forty nine ers. His leg was snapped
in half when he played for the Washington Redskins. No
another one play, no terrible clues, terrible clues. Job Ben
playing for the Commanders, was with Redskins, was leg snapped
in half? Sixty Yeah, yeah, all right, what is that sixty? Yeah?
(45:46):
You guys are back up, Josh.
Speaker 6 (45:48):
You want Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire or
Shindler's List.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
All right, that's right, uplifting. Okay, these athletes have all
committed a heroic act. Are you ready, Josh? Great career,
go ahead now, not on the big board. All right,
here we go forty five seconds. Here we go, running
back for the forty nine ers. Right now. The white
guy at Kritan McCaffery boxer, some consider with the greatest
(46:15):
heavyweight of all time, very quotable, sting like a be
that back. Yeah, Mexican American tight. And he's on Amazon
right now. I played for the Falcons and the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
No, that's the other.
Speaker 5 (46:32):
Tony what's the name?
Speaker 4 (46:33):
Say it?
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Say the name? How about this? A hero? White guy
he went to the military, was killed by friendly fire.
Played for the Cardinals in Arizona. Yes, white running back
for the Broncos and the Browns and whatnot in the
two thousands. What's what's the score?
Speaker 6 (46:54):
Ny on? That one's.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
That's not enough enough? I feel like it isn't I
feel like it is. I don't think you did. I
think that's some funny math by Lorraine. I don't know
you trusted. That's a one category win. That's what I
call dominant. I was not impressive, Rob, you didn't run
the board, not impressive at all. And my guy didn't
even know his tight ends. Bad job by you. Come on, Josh,
(47:18):
you gotta do better. Josh, come on, man,
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our lead story from Indianapolis, the final game of the
NFL Weekend. There are two weeks to go on the
NFL schedule. The final game. They're Week sixteen. Christian McCaffery
leading the forty nine Ers Traveling Road Show, paying a
(02:26):
visit to Old Man Rivers, Old Man Rivers and the Colts.
There you had the Fox refugees, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.
They had the call on AB right there. I don't
if you watched it not maybe not, Maybe you had
something else going on. I don't know what you have
going on. I watched it. I sat there, my fat
(02:48):
ass watched this game the whole thing. So there was
brock Purty making Terry and England smile. Brock perty forty
nine a quarterback career high. Five touchdown passes, five of
them brock per he was back at Iowa State. The
sight closed, baby, five touchdown passes forty eight to twenty
(03:08):
seven was your final score as the Niners get the win,
the three touchdown win. The Colts had the ball down
by two scores. There was enough time to come back
and Philip rivers through the interception there So Niners win
going away and San Francisco eleven and four. They have
won five straight. I didn't play in the NFL, but
(03:29):
I'm told that's good. And so they are still alive,
stand alive, staying alive in the NFC West race with
the Seahawks and the Rams, of course, and Rams top
team in football, and the Niners and Seahawks have better records,
but the Rams obviously the better team. We know that,
and the conference's top seed also on the line, and
(03:51):
so there you go. It also snapped. I saw this note.
It snapped a five game losing streak in the series
head to head, the last time, the last time that
the Niners were able to take down the Colts in
a similar situation was way back in November of twenty
oh one when Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association member the
(04:12):
Great Jim Mora went on that playoffs, playoffs, when the
all time great rants. If you're old, you know what
I'm talking about there. That coach More worked here for
a number of years after that when he coached the Colts,
And of course I've told him this, I had him
on my podcast a while back. But Jim Mora, the
greatest rant was not the playoff rant. It was we
(04:33):
couldn't do Diddley Pooh when he coached the Saints. That's
the better rant by Jim More. But still Indianapolis that
lost there, that loss also clinching a playoff spot for
here we go Buffalo. Jacksonville is in the playoffs. Jacksonville
is in the playoffs. Buy your lottery tickets. The Chargers
(04:54):
are in. The Chargers are in in the AFC as well.
The better story those could to the Niners and the Colts,
the better story in the losing locker room. So that
is where we will begin here. As down goes Indy,
Down goes Indy. The Colts have now lost five straight,
and they did something that mathematically is almost impossible. The
(05:18):
Colts got off to a seven and one start this season,
and while they're not eliminated yet, they're about to miss
the playoffs. Here's Philip Rivers breaking down the math on
the Colts. It's not looking good in Indy and.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I know this locker room is hurting again. I've been
a part of it for a short time, for two losses,
and I know that it's been a it's been a
long slide now for over a month, and I know
that's tough. I've been a part of those slides and
now I'm obviously a part of this right now. And
we just got to find a way to dig deep
and find a way to win a football game. And
we can't worry about all the scenarios and all the
things out there.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I know they're all out there. I know what they are.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But we got to find a way to win a
football game or none of the scenarios coming to play.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, that's not happening. Colts have lost six of seven
at this point, and with the playoffs all but over,
there is a belief that Rivers might not even play
again for the Colts that they took him out the
game was over last series, they put the Golden domer
in there. At the end, the question becomes will Rivers
even play again? And the Colts it ain't looking good.
(06:23):
It is not looking good. And let's hear one more
from Philip Rivers before we advance in the monologue. Here
is Philip Rivers on what it's been like for him
being back in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I'm torn of how to express it because it's been
a blast.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's been a blast to prepare and to go steak
and get ready and go out there and warm up
and do.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
All that with these guys again. But again, the name
of the game is not, you know, go have a
good time. It's helped find.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Way to team no fun.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
And we've come up short here these first two.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But I've been a part of less percentage chances of
getting in and got in before. So you'll certainly won't
hear me losing hope here as we prepare next week.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You know that was he just took a shot at
Joe Burrow if I was running a tabloid. Philip Rivers
takes a shot at Joe Burrow by saying it's not
about having a good time. Now, Joe Burrow, I'm not
having fun. Boo hoo hoo. If it's not fun, why
are we here? I'm Joe Burrow. Well, Philip Rivers just said, listen,
(07:27):
it's not about having a good time. It's not all right.
So the question if this is the end of this experiment,
and who knows, let's find out. The Colts will decide
whether they're gonna throw Rivers out there or not. The
math ain't real good. So if this is the end
of Philip rivers come backstory in Indie, how do you
(07:51):
grade his performance? We're two games into this and this
might be all So we have to worry about the
talk show we do today, and so let's discuss I've
got porky pig, hydro power, and paper cuts, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we're gonna
make some kettle corn, is what we're gonna make. So
(08:13):
a listen, the Colts dragged Philip Rivers out of the backwoods.
What a great movie this would be like all those
old movies. Is dragon and see what we can we
can find him? Well, I don't know where he's in
a small town in Alabama. How do you get to Alabama? Well,
it's in the south, and so okay, we'll go to
the south, and is it. No, it's not Georgia, it's
it's the next You've got to move over a little bit.
(08:34):
And then you've got Mississippi on one side there, all right,
So we'll go to Alabama and then we go to
the backwoods out in the boondocks. And they went there
and they found rivers like they were finding an emergency
plumber at two in the morning because you're plumbing the
pipe broke and you've got a major flood. And it
was the ultimate Hail Mary by the Colts to go
down this road. So they went down this road, and
they didn't dial an agent. They called the athletic department
(08:57):
at the high school in rural out Alabama and said, hey, Phil,
you still got shoulder pads? You want to play? And
Phil's say, well, I'm kind of fat right now, I
don't care. You want to play for the Colts. How
would you like to start for the Colts? Okay? Why not?
And guess what, he wasn't a disaster, which I don't
(09:19):
know if that's a compliment or not. Is that like
a backhanded company He wasn't a disaster. He looked like
a cross between and played like a cross between porky
Pig and the Michelin Man. It appeared watching him play
that he was often wheezing, he was wobbling, but he
was oddly effective considering the very low expectations for Philip Rivers.
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In both games, Rivers gave the Indianapolis offense a puncher's
chance and that's all they wanted. That's all they expected
from Rivers. So he met the standard by doing that,
he met the standard. You look at it, and he said, well, okay,
let's look at that. They should have, could have, would
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have beaten Seattle. It came down to a Myers field goal.
That's another sign the Seahawks on all that good. They
the last two wins for the Seahawks. They needed a
late field goal to beat a forty four year old
Philip Rivers, and then they need the officials to give
them two points in that ram Seahawks game. So the
Seahawks are frauds. We'll get that out of the way.
But then on Monday night, it wasn't a game lost
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by Rivers. The Colts defense look like a mix of
traffic Cones and Mattadors o o O l ole as
they were doing nothing there and Rivers was actually moving
the ball. The Colts scored twenty seven points in this
game on Monday night. That is more than enough to win.
That is a de merit actually for the forty nine
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ers defense, and a puffy sticker for Grandpaul Philip Philip
Rivers Grandpaul Rivers. The mal report card on the two
games Philip Rivers is played, and again we don't know
if they'll start another game. So the two games Rivers
gets a B on the Malle report card. A B.
That's not a playoff invite, not officially eliminated. However, he
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didn't drown, he didn't He was respectable. How about that
respectable play by Philip Rivers. It's kind of like, you know,
then't get the invite. But he went to a wedding.
He wore jeans, maybe a Bolo tide. It's not the
greatest look, but you showed up, and you were supposed
to show up, and you showed up. And so so
there was that. And now Philip one of the nicknames,
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sure Indianapolis's naptown, and so now he can take a
nap and relax and the Cinderella of the rust Belt,
as it's been called there. The mission certainly did not
get completed by Philip Rivers. Nevertheless, though nevertheless, if you
look at the wide angle lens here, Rivers played well
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enough where this opens up the old geezer rollodecks, meaning
this is not going to discourage in twenty twenty six,
in twenty twenty seven, in the next couple of years. Here,
when you're starting quarterback, your franchise quarterback, or even your
reclamation project who plays over his head, over his head
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gets hurt mid season, then when that happens, all right,
you don't mind. You don't mind going out and getting
some guy off the scrap heap. The NFL's recycling program
is OPE. So if you got a pulse and you
used to be good, they'll give you a call. Now,
staying with Indy, there has been a dog pile, dog
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pile on top of the Colts here as everyone's being
a Monday morning quarterback, as the Colts traded multiple first
round draft picks to the Jets for Sauce Gardener. Now,
Gardner did not play in this game. He's been hurt
lately for the Colts. He missed the Monday night football game.
So the question, and this is a people, how could
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the Colts do this? This is Malfeasan's trading two first
round draft picks for sauce Gardener. That's what dumb teams do,
all the experts, So question, do the Colts deserve to
be barbecued for trading all those draft picks to get
a couple of games out of sauce Gardener. So I
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am shaking my head. No, I am shaking my head
no on this. This is what's known as revisionist history,
which is my favorite kind of history because you're never wrong.
But I like to trade at the time, the whole
fake outrage thing. It is like revisionist history served cold
with a side dish of a fake outverage. At the
time you made the trade, the Colts were seven and two,
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seven and two. They were riding high. They were going
around like a peacock. They had their feathers in the
air everywhere, you know, they think they had found something.
They were playing very very good football at the time,
and that's when the front office feeling, you know, smell themsells,
feel themselves a little bit, and they went for it.
They swung for the offences they did. And you don't
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clutch draffick these so many people have been brainwashed, they've
been indoctrinated into the draft picks. Oh my god, you
need the traffic. Shut up, you loser. You're a loser
with these draft picks. You treat them like they're the
family jewel. Stop. Draft picks are a renewable resource. You
know what draft picks are. Their hydro power is what
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they are, right. Draft picks are abundant. Every year you
get slotted a certain number of draft picks. They are abundant.
Draft picks are abuddy. As I said, they're hydro power.
And you look at the energy. It's like think of
the water. You think of the energy you can get
from rivers and dams and tides and waves and all that.
That's draft picks. That's it. And you can use them
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anyway you want. And you can't coach scared. You can't
run a front office scared. You can't do that. FM picks.
That's how you fade into the oat meal, all right,
you don't want to fade into the oatmeal. And I
love the fact the Colts were feeling their mojo. They
were looking pretty good and all that stuff. And we
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never thought Daniel Jones was legit, but they did, and
they bought into Daniel Jones at the time, the whole
Indiana Jones thing, cracking the whip, dodging snakes, like the
real Indiana Jones and the movie and all that stuff.
So the iron was hot. The iron was hot, and
so they took a hammer to it and they're like,
let's go. And that's called conviction. It's not malpractice. It's
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not Now it didn't work out, clearly, sauce Gardner didn't
do what they thought he was gonna do with the
offense fell apart, and it's a hot mess. It's a
hot mess. So but there's no give backs and you
just move on and you make your work and you
figure it out. You know, rain no rain checks or
anything like that like that in the NFL. So the
Colts are like, they're kind of like the Hinds Company
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at this point. They're in the sauce business for better
or worse, and there's no need for an apology tour
or anything like that. And when he plays Gardener's been
pretty good. We'll see if that continues when he comes
back from injury. But with this season melting into a
nice horseshoe puddle for the culture, it doesn't change that.
And next year they're gonna have to go back to
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market and become salvage dogs. And whether it's Mac Jones
or Zach Wilson or some other reject quarterback that they
will bring in off the scrap heap and they will
be the salvage dogs and they will be prowling the
quarterback junkyard to try to find another quarterback that they
can prop up and coach up to play well as
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well as Daniel Jones was playing at the time. And
so that's it. But again we don't rewrite history. We
like the sauce gardener trade at the time. We still
support the sauce gardner trade. We liked it then, we
like it now. That's the malormath on that all right,
last word to the winners side. So I checked my inbox,
which you should never do as a talk shows riding
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back to people. But occasionally I'll go in there, you know,
usually once a day, and I'll check my inbox and
see what's going on with that. And so I went
in there and it was a lot chuld you. So malor.
You're not gonna give the Niners props. You're a ram
suck up, you know all that crap. Is there anyone
more neutral than me? Seriously? My middle name is neutral? Anyway? Question,
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does this win count as a signature win for brock
Party and the Niners? Does this count primetime game Indianapolis
Monday Night football? Does this count as a signature win
for the forty nine ers? So I give this side,
and God I help, I hope not. If this is
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a signature win for the Niners, they're really not that good.
Let's just call like it. If you think this is
some kind of big, big notch in the belt, then
there's something wrong with you. How about that? All right,
that's not exactly here. Let's not go there. Let's not
turn what was a Delta Airlines snack box into a
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five course meal. It was not. Yeah, did brock Purty
look like a doctor from Grey's Anatomy back in the
day with surgical precision, like what was that guy's name,
doctor Shepherd? Yeah, just just slicing up the Indianapolis Colts. Yes,
and the Niners had four hundred and forty yards. They
had forty eight points. Seven of those coming from a
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turnover by Philip Rivers, but forty one points by land,
by air, by sea for the forty nine ers. And
yet context does matter, and that's that's the problem. The
Niners were touchdown favorites on the road against a flea
bitten Indianapolis defense. They were supposed to win this game
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by a lot. They won this game by a lot. Therefore,
you don't get credit for doing what you're supposed to do.
That's the cold reality of the situation. And let's not
forget also that brock Purty, well he did have five touchdowns.
He also had a fumble and an interception. And you
look at those things, and those are paper cuts in
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a regular season game, they're paper cuts against bad teams
and the culture bad team right now. Against good teams
in playoff games, those are amputations. So fright right now,
it's paper cut, big deal, who cares, put a band
aid on it, put some new skin on it. You're
good to go. But then in the playoffs it becomes problematic.
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That's playoffs, playoffs, trying to win a game. Of course,
the bigger concern for the Niners is defense. Do we
know they don't have their top two players and all that.
That defense though built like a sand castle at high tide,
it's not going very well for that forty nine or defense.
Robert Salo Does he not get more TV time than
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Jimmy Kimmel? Holy crap, they love showing him. Is it
possible at Robert Salad and Joe Buck are related and
we don't know it? Or possibly eightman? Do they get
paid each minute they show Robert Salah on the television? Anyway,
You're at the Niner defense and Grandpa Philip Rivers went
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out there and looked like, yeah, he looks like a
sumo wrestler, but he was matriculating the ball down the
field for Indianapolis in this game. And you let the
high school coaching forty four year old grandpa average pretty
much eight yards of pop. That's the Niners defense. They
get seven point nine yards per pass for Philip Rivers.
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Is that a championship defense? Methinks not so much. You
such a critic, Balor, But yeah, I got Niner fans
in my inbox. Well it's a signature win. But you okay,
seven point favorites on the road. I guess the forty
four year old grandpa and that's your signature. Win you
guys blow. They're in it. I said it.
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Ye, So play the hits, mom man, play the hits hard.
This hour, we move away from the Monday Night football
and we go to the shove or punch or attempted shove,
attempted punch Herd round the foot Ball World follow up
follow up to a previous edition of the show. In
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the previous episode, we talked about it. So we go
to Park Avenue now in Midtown Manhattan. The Justice League
of Football has ruled. If you have not heard yet,
the NFL has brought the hammer of Goodell down, down, down, down,
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down on Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf. DK not okay.
He has been suspended for not one, not one, but
two two games for his in game altercation with a
blue wig wearing, blue wig wearing Lions fan during the
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win in Detroit. Yeah, the league rule that Metcalf's actions
violated the league policy of not attempting to punch customers
who bought a ticket. What a us see that is?
Why don't they do that on Broadway? Right? You go
see a Broadway show and they kick in the face
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in the front row, and we'll do a lot. We'll
do We'll kick our legs up in there and see
the rock Cats at Radio City. We're gonna have the
rock Cats kick the people in the front row. Why not?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Anyway, that's a good jumping off point. So let us
discuss the question for the esteem panel is as follows.
Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf suspended for the two games
without pay for some kind of conduct detrimental to the NFL. Now,
when you first saw this or heard about it, what
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did you think? That's the question. Keep it simple. It's
not that deep. It's overnight talk radio. So when you
first saw the dk Metcalf suspension for two games, what
did you think?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
So?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I've got pep Boys, Butterfingers, and venture capital, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
gonna put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're
going to do. So Number I said number one. The
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lawyers have now entered the chat. The lawyers have now
entered the chat. So this is the NFL being extra
extra cautious is what this is. Bubble wrapped knee brace
cautious is what we're talking about here from the NFL. Now,
once both sides have lawyered up, that's where we are.
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Both sides have lawyered up. You've got the attorney for
the guy wearing the blue wig, the Blue Man group.
That guy. His attorney said the matter will now likely
be subject to formal legal proceedings. Well, the League of
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course saw that, and they heard about that, and then
DK's got his representation and so okay, the league, they're like, oh,
we got to do something about it. What are we
gonna do? I don't know. Roger Gell's like, I gotta
act like an insurance adjuster at that point. I gotta
limit liability. And so it's not NFL anymore. It's like
going down to Pep Boys and you pull into the
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bay there and you say, all right, can we install
the blame air bags. We'd like to blame air bags.
We want to rotate the tires there. Okay, we'll rotate
the tires. We want the full legal inspection on how
we can limit our liability. Okay, we got you on that.
No problem. Two games, no pay, Boom goes the dynamite.
Boom goes to the dynamite. That is preventative maintenance by
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the NFL. Preventive maintenance by the NFL. Now ambulance chasing lawyers,
and I don't know how it is in your time.
We do the show from Los Angeles and there are
more ambulance chasing billboards for these lawyers chasing chasing the
insurance companies. It is next level all right, Literally, I
count them on board. It's like some people count cheap.
I got a long drive home to the north Woods
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and I count. I count the billboards and it's it's wild.
They must make so much money. Think about how much
that's a small percentage they're spending on advertising. I love
the spending on advertising, but it's a small percentage. Imagine
how much money they're making. It's wild. It's absolutely wild.
So you got these ambulance chasing lawyers who love this
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kind of stuff. You got the slip and fall with
the Detroit Lions Steeler game, which was the big game
on CBS. You had Jim Nantz and Tony Romo. So
DK's got counseled both. Everyone's drawn a line in the
sand here. And once that happens, the NFL hits the button.
They press the button and they go to full shield defense,
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protect the shield, and they're trying to not get posterized.
They don't want some kind of discovery, trying to avoid discovery, emails, texts,
security logs at the stadium. Suddenly it becomes a Netflix
true crime documentary. And have we you've seen the guy
with the blue wig. Is he wearing a neck brace.
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Now is he going my neck, my back, my neck
in my back? Is he doing that? No, one of
the great lines in cinema of all time. He isn't
doing that? All right? Well, anyway, So the NFL chose
to be proactive here and suspend wide receiver DK Metcalf.
They will, they wave wolf, they wave the accountability flag quietly,
assuming that the appeal will knock down the suspension from
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two games to one game. Metcalf's already appealed, so they're like,
all right, we'll get that down to one game. He'll
miss one game and then he'll be back. He's got
no priors, he's got a clean resume. And so this
isn't so much discipline, if you will, it's DC, not
DC comics. It's damage control, is what. The NFL isn't angry,
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they're just nervous. They don't want to have to pay
out any money in some kind of settlement. The guy
will see because you don't just sue the stadium. You
don't just sue the Lions. If you're a good ambulance
chasing attorney, you sue the NFL. You go where the
money is and you say, this is a big problem.
The NFL did not have proper security at the stadium
and the fan was allowed to run amok and the
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video of DK Metcalf coming down. Now, I did see
DK throw a useful idiot in the media. I believe
that was Ocho. Sinko did use the race bomb. He
used the race card from the bottom of the deck.
I'm a little skeptical if that's true, based on the
fact that he didn't use it right away, and that
is the ultimate get out at jail free card. You
would think if that happened that DK Metcalf would have
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said that right away, or would have had Mike Tomlin
say that, or some pr hack for the Steelers would
have said, yeah, but yeah, DK might have taken a
shot at him, try to throw a little jab at him. Yeah,
but the guy said his mama was a big lard
ass or you know, he said this and then he
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used the N word or something like. He didn't say
that he snuck out the back door like Travis Kelcey
when the Chiefs lose, he snuck out the back door,
and so that leads me to leave. That's kind of like,
that's kind of bogus because you say that right away
and you're like, oh, everyone runs to your defense and say, okay,
well yeah, you attack the guy whatever. But we know
he deserved it, and so there you go. All right now,
Page two money, money, money, It's all about the money.
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It's all about the money. And so with this punishment,
DK Metcalf the two game suspension for violating the tenants
of the NFL rule book. It's gonna cost him five
hundred and fifty five thousand dollars if the appeal is
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not overturned. So imagine every two weeks you get five
hundred and fifty five thousand dollars. You'd probably show up
to work a lot, so five hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in salary. However, but wait, there's more. But wait
there's more. We are also told that because of this violation,
DK Metcalf has now voided with a capital V, he
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has voided forty million dollar in future guaranteed money. So
that's forty point five million if my malor math is correct.
That is an ouy gooey mess, is what that is? Wow?
All right, So question DK Metcalf Steeler wide receiver losing
forty million dollars in garanteed money is blank. Fill in
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the blank. So my word is gad zukery with a
capital G. Gadzukery is my word here, DK Metcalf. The
forty point five million dollars in guaranteed money. That's it.
This is a This is not a parking ticket. This
is a I spent too long parking in the loading zone. No,
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this is not that. No, no, no, this is much more.
This is a generational fumble territory for DK Metcalf if
this works out. Now, you didn't just drop the football,
all right, You punted your wallet into the harbor somewhere,
is what you did. I would like, what are we
doing here? And two games, five hundred and fifty five thousand,
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as we said, and then wham the guaranteed money. The
language in the contract evaporates like beer foam at last
call for alcohol. This is butter fingers economics. Butter fingers economics.
The NFL contract is a bit of a mouse trap.
It's the standard verbiage in every NFL contract. You touch
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the cheese and snappity snap, it goes. There goes the
golden goose. Now, the conduct violation by DK Metcalf, that
is the catch all guillotine. It's the garbage disposal of
the NFL High Crimes and misdemeanors. Territory is what it is,
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and the hurt feelings all wrapped up there and all
that stuff, and so you go. You had all that
mixed together. Imagine losing forty million dollars. Possibly this is
the worst case scenario. It's kind of like when somebody
comes up kind of say, well, you're facing up to
up to fifteen years and jet well, no one really
gets the maximum sentence, so you're not really facing that,
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but you're facing some time. You're facing some time. So
it's it's obviously financial malpractice if it comes down to that.
You don't read the fine prince one of these things.
You sign the DOCU, sign your initial here, and you
sign there, and then that's it and you face planted
into it is what it is here, And so in theory,
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you could choke the golden goose. Now, the good thing
for DK metcalf is he's really talented, and typically if
you're really talented, they kind of look the other way
and they're like, no, we're not gonna we're not gonna
do Even though he could have choked the golden goose.
He did not do that, and so because of that
the damage will be limited. We'll see what happens on
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the appeal. All right, now, final point to Jacksonville. We
go don't look now, but the Juguars are the talk
of the NFL. They're the it team. Despite leaning in
to the fank that nobody thought we could win and
we suck and we're small market Jacksonville and all that.
Despite that, the Jaguars are playing pretty well and that
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led to defensive end Travon Walker, big first round pick,
Travon Walker, who had a message for the band wag Nurs.
The band wag nurs who are flushing. They're running down
to the train station. They're trying to catch on the
on the bandwagon. They'll jump on there. True, true, that's
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the Jags bandwagon. So his message is two words, stay away,
stay away, stay away. He said, quote everyone gonna try
to hop on this bandwagon. Travon Walker said, everyon's gonna
try to jump on the bandwagon. Now, we don't want nobody.
Stay where you're at. And then he went and then
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he worked blue. He said, f everyone but us. But
then he apologies. He said, listen excuse my language. Well,
when you'd say the F word, you say, exchoose my language. Okay,
all things are forgiven. So he said, excuse my language, mom,
and dad and grandma. But then he said if everybody
but us, all right? Close quote. So he he said
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excuse my language to his mama, daddy, and grandma and
then used bad, bad language again. All right. Question, how
does Travon Walker's rant about keeping the Bandwagon fans far
away from the Jaguars? How does that hit you?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
So?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Walker, I thought this is amusing. I was. I brought
it up on the show, so I thought it was interesting.
A Walker out there acting like he's the bouncer at
the NFL Fan nightclub and it's like kind of like
a dive bar, the NFL Fan Nightclub, and there's like
sticky floors. You don't know what that is. You hope
it's just spilled alcohol, not something else that could be sticky.
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And then you've got the broken jukebox, got that going
on over there, and we don't want nobody. You just
stuck behind the velvet ropes. You're not coming in here.
And of course the response to that is hey, buddy,
bye bye to bat Hey buddy, this is not some
kind of underground punk show. It's the NFL, the world's
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biggest strip mall, is what it is here. And so
winning means foot traffic, right, you want the foot traffic.
This means foot traffic. My word though, for this, for
the star defensive players Rovron Walker saying we don't want
any bandwagon fans, my word is it's an o word. Obtuse.
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That is my word here. Obtuse is the word because
it is obtuse. It's silo thinking, is what it is.
It's for the those uneducated on how the economics of
all this work in the entertainment business. Now, last I checked,
the Jacksonville Jags are not let me say not Apple.
They are not Apple, they are not Microsoft. It's a
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startup trying to pitch venture capital. Now they want some
venture capital with a PowerPoint that just says trust us Bro.
That's the Jaguars manstra trust us Bro is the mantra.
So winning games has always been universally accepted as a
marketing plan. It just is you don't dead bolt the door.
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You don't dead bolt the door and not allow customers
in when they finally show up. And that's it. Every
fan base, you know, every single fan base was built
on the back of the bandwagon. The fumes of the
bandwagon created every fambush. When I was a kid, the
teams that were really good most years, the Cowboys, the Raiders,
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and the Dolphins and those little kids. And it's still
this case, you know, nine to twelve years old, those
that still love sports as kids, you jump on to
a bandwagon between the ages of nine and twelve whatever
team's winning, because every kid wants to be a winner,
and you want to be a front runner and all
that stuff. So there you go, and then you find yourself.
You do that when you're like nine or ten, and
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then you find yourself in your late forties and all
of a sudden, you're still emotionally damaged because you made
a decision when you were nine or ten years old,
and you're buying throwback jerseys and all that stuff. And
so I had The Niners have a lot of fans,
and many of those fans are cause forty years ago
in the in the nineteen eighties, they had a guy
named Joe Montana and it's spuilding in the nineties with
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Steve Young and they won a lot and so those
people grew up and now they've got kids and it's
like a family thing and all that stuff. That's the deal.
So Travon Walker wants some kind of purity test to
be a Jacksonville fan, which is really cute, isn't that cute?
That's cute, man. But this is not a monastery. It's not.
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It's a business, and so if you want growth in
that business, it would be like us, we only want now.
It sounds like the only seven people call the show
because for some reason everyone's intimidated unless we do a
newbie night to call the show. But we always want
new people to come to our store. Our stores open
all night. We want people you forgot something, come down
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to the overnight audio shack and we're the radio shack
over here. We'll take care of it. But you want growth,
that's what you want in any business in the NFL.
You want the casuals. You need the casuals, you need
the low information fan, you want the tourists, you want
the front runners, you need all of them, all right.
You want people breaking ankles, jumping on the band wagon.
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Is that's the goal. That's what you want. And this
rant hit me. It's like a guy standing in front
of the Walmarts and if you don't live within three
blocks of the Walmart, do not come in. Well, no,
it's a big box store. They need people from all over.
So congratulations, Jacksonville's won a few games. Here, they're feeling
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good about themselves and you're sabotaging the storefront. I would
love to have been a fly on the wall in
the marketing department for the Jaguars. So one of your
top defensive players is telling people who don't really like
the team not to support the team. Okay, really, but
that's asset winning is a secret society. It's like the
(39:19):
Cross and the skulling Bones, and it's a secret society.
It's a billboard. It is a billboard, is what it is.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
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Speaker 1 (39:32):
Weet Mallard to a third degree. Here we go hit that,
but right now, mall oh my god, mallod gets Mallard.
How about that to the third degree. I know this
is one big event, gets grill kuvlu.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
So the Broncos lost for the first time since September twenty.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
First they got your ass kick, Coop. They lost, They
got their ass kick.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
They lost, And after the game, bo Nix said that
the l could be a good reset for the team, saying,
you'd rather have it you now than in the first
round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah, Ben, does he have a point. Well, first of all,
it's a great point. The Raiders have had a lot
of recess, The New York Giants have a lot of recess.
The Jets have had a lot of recess. It really
works out well for those teams. Yes, no, it's not
good and there's no guarantee just because you've lost the
game with two weeks ago in the season, that you're
gonna win a bunch of games. That's you know, that's
fool logic, is what that is. It was the Broncos
(40:22):
looked bad. Their defense got sliced up by Trevor Lawrence,
and they couldn't do enough on offense to keep up
with Jacksonville. It was not a good day. It doesn't
mean that Broncos are not gonna win the Super Bowl.
But don't tell me because you had lost in Week
sixteen that's somehow something to brag about. It's not next.
Speaker 6 (40:40):
During Saturday's game between the Eagles and Commanders. Philly was
up seventeen points with about four minutes to go in
the game and went for a two point conversion that
led to a scuffle between the players.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
And after the game.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
Commanders coach Dan Quinn did not seem too thrilled by
the move, Ben, do you think it was disrespectful?
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Well? I think what was disrepectful is the way the
Commanders have played since Week six. They have one since
Week six, one win that was against the Giants. That's it.
That's all. They've lost every other game since week six,
So that's this. No, this stuff's kind of non play.
Better do better. Don't give me that crap. Come on,
(41:14):
it's not Pop Warner football. Stop your professionals.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
Next, the Saint Louis Cardinals are currently in a full
full tear Dome mode, and on Saturday, they traded all
star ketcher Wilson Contreras to the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Ben, how big of a get is this for Boston?
He's he's a good player. I don't know he's a
great player, But you're adding another good player if you're
depending on him to lead you. If you're the Red Sox,
you're gonna be disappointed. I think he's proven he's not
that guy. You're not that guy, pal, But Contreras in
a secondary role is pretty lethal actually, And he's a
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guy that you don't expect him to lead the way.
But if he's just adding, it's like adding extra candy
that you don't really need the extra candy, but just
nice to have it. And it's it's not a bad
thing there. It is cool. Mallarly, third degree, how did
we do?
Speaker 6 (42:02):
You almost auto failed that, but but you did say
that it doesn't mean that they're not going to win
the super Bowl, So so you've passed this in there.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
It is I want again closing out the year in
the win column.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
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Robin Maine is going to play our game. Hello, Rob, Welcome, Hello,
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Then that's that's right, that's incorrect. Hold on a sec
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What do you got going on? Let's play the game.
We don't have a lot of time, so I would
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We got a game to.
Speaker 6 (43:10):
Play, all right, gentlemen. This is the Ralph Findes edition
of Mallags Mount of the Money. He turned sixty three
years old on Monday. The categories are Shindler's List, Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire, No Time to Die
and twenty eight years Later? Rob, which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Twenty eight years later? All right?
Speaker 6 (43:26):
Twenty eight years later? And Josh, how about you?
Speaker 5 (43:29):
No time to die?
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Alright?
Speaker 6 (43:32):
So Rob, you and I are up first. Our category
is twenty eight years later. These athletes all wore number
twenty eight forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin,
all right. This guy was the best running back ever
for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Adrian Pacinson.
Speaker 6 (43:47):
Yes, this guy was the best running back for the
Saint Louis Rams Macha fault.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (43:53):
This guy is the greatest catcher of all time for
the San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
There's a there's a rule named after him. All right.
Speaker 6 (44:01):
This guy was a defensive back in the NFL. He
played like twenty years for the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
There we go.
Speaker 6 (44:09):
This guy, who was a shortstop, played a long time
for the Colorado Rockies, then he went over to the
Saint Louis Cardinals. Yes, this guy was an All Pro
defensive back for the Cowboys when they were winning championships.
All right, Darren Woodson was who he wanted sixty.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
It's not that good.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
Should have said, jail dude.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Wow, okay, Josh, are you ready, my man? Josh okay? Uh.
These athletes all almost died, but thankfully didn't. Are you ready?
Are you ready? Josh against rock? All right? Forty five
seconds on away go. Greatest golfer of all time almost
had in a car accident, Tiger Wood. That is correct.
(44:57):
He was a star for the Boston Celtics. Abed at
a nightclub in Boston. He played in the era with
the Well They won a championship together. Kevin Garnett and him. Yes,
greatest female tennis player of all time, damn Mark Martin,
African Americans, Oh, Venith Walliams, no somebody else? Yeah, all right,
(45:23):
quarterback for the forty nine ers. His leg was snapped
in half when he played for the Washington Redskins. No
another one play, no terrible clues, terrible clues. Job Ben
playing for the Commanders, was with Redskins, was leg snapped
in half? Sixty Yeah, yeah, all right, what is that sixty? Yeah?
(45:46):
You guys are back up, Josh.
Speaker 6 (45:48):
You want Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire or
Shindler's List.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
All right, that's right, uplifting. Okay, these athletes have all
committed a heroic act. Are you ready, Josh? Great career,
go ahead now, not on the big board. All right,
here we go forty five seconds. Here we go, running
back for the forty nine ers. Right now. The white
guy at Kritan McCaffery boxer, some consider with the greatest
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heavyweight of all time, very quotable, sting like a be
that back. Yeah, Mexican American tight. And he's on Amazon
right now. I played for the Falcons and the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
No, that's the other.
Speaker 5 (46:32):
Tony what's the name?
Speaker 4 (46:33):
Say it?
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Say the name? How about this? A hero? White guy
he went to the military, was killed by friendly fire.
Played for the Cardinals in Arizona. Yes, white running back
for the Broncos and the Browns and whatnot in the
two thousands. What's what's the score?
Speaker 6 (46:54):
Ny on? That one's.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
That's not enough enough? I feel like it isn't I
feel like it is. I don't think you did. I
think that's some funny math by Lorraine. I don't know
you trusted. That's a one category win. That's what I
call dominant. I was not impressive, Rob, you didn't run
the board, not impressive at all. And my guy didn't
even know his tight ends. Bad job by you. Come on, Josh,
(47:18):
you gotta do better. Josh, come on, man,
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