January 20, 2026 • 50 mins
Big Ben talks about Indiana defeating Miami to win the College Football National Championship, Sean McDermott getting fired by the Bills, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Orlando Bloom Edition, and more!
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So I lead this hour, play the hit small man,
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you gotta play the hit small man. All right, we'll
play this. So our lead this hour is from South Florida,
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and that was where the Hippodrome was the stage for
the final act of the twenty twenty five season. Here
early in twenty twenty six, the champion was crowned. Woo
A hat and T shirt game. Oh man, a hat
and T shirt game. How exciting confetti. Every time I
see the confetti on the field, I think of a
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buddy of mine who has media friends who sell the
confetti on eBay and make a lot of money. There
are people I'm thinking this could be a big field
day here with the Indiana fans. More than that in
a minute. But Fernando Mendoza, the golden boy of college
football there leading the Indiana Hoosiers into the matchup against
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Carson Beck, the grizzled six year veteran. Oh my god. Anyway,
then they were the Miami Hurricanes in their own stadium,
although it didn't seem like their own stadium, taking on
the Indiana Hoosiers, the team from Indiana a seven and
a half point favorite on the Vegas line, as the
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wise guys on the Stardust line like the Hoosiers to
win by over a touchdown. You had Chris Fowler and
Herbie on the boob Tube. They had the call there.
So I don't know if you watch the game or not,
maybe you're like, I don't like college for body. Okay,
take the stick out of here. It took us anyway,
we watched so you would not have to. And it
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came down to the final seconds and it looked like
it would be a backbreaking touchdown drive by Carson Beck
leading the Hurricanes, matriculating the ball down the field in
the final seconds, needing a touchdown and an extra point to.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Win the game.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And then he did the thing you can't do at
the time.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, he threw a pass that was picked off by
Jamari Sharp, defensive back for Indiana, and he's a Miami
guy Sharp and he gets the big play they'd seal
it for the Hoosiers. Picks off Carson back final seconds.
That is it one knee?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I guess two.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Knees and then the game was over. So Indiana did
not cover the spread. But they do squeeze by Miami.
Life's not all about gambling. They squeezed by Miami twenty seven,
and they put the finishing touches on the rags to riches.
It'd be like if our friend Billy weed man hippie
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won the lottery and you had sixty million dollars or
something like that. Indiana, who was desolate, disheveled, beaten and broken.
And now they stand atop the mountain as they get
it done and they win the national title. As the
kids say the Natty. They won the Natty.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
So they win that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So now they did it on a night when Fernando
Mendoza was not the Heisman version of Fernando Mendoz. You
won't know that because you don't want to spoil the store.
He went that good. He was not that good Fernando Mendoz.
I'll say it, and no one else will say. I'll
say it. He sucked for most of that game. In fact,
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it looked like every other bad Indiana quarterback they've had
over the years. But it didn't matter. They won anyway.
He did have a touchdown run in the fourth quarter,
although finished with minus eight yards. Because of some decision
making issues there and coach Kurt Cignati getting it done,
he writes his name Signati into the record book.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
There.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Indiana finishes sixteen and oh sixteen and oh the record
and they had those extra games because of the playoffs.
So the twelve team playoff extends their perfect season, and
we are told now that is a tie. They have
matched the all time record from the eighteen hundreds. Holy
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crap on a cracker Batman, Yale in eighteen ninety four,
Yale in eighteen ninety four. They also had a sixteen
to zero season, So good jumping off point. That's the
story here, so let's get into it. The question for
the esteem panel, what are you going to remember about
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the Indiana Hoosiers, a basketball school, running a table, running
the table, and winning college football's national championship against Miami.
So my thoughts on this. I got food truck, three bees,
and puffy sticker, and we will combine all all of
these things together and we are going to make some
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delicious kettle corn is what we're gonna make. So a
the question is not that difficult. The answer is even easier.
What are we gonna remember? The answer is simple here,
what are we gonna remember? We're gonna remember the panic,
the sheer, unadulterated panic, unfiltered panic, from the establishment of
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college football. Okay, they knew that this was likely to happen,
Indiana's favorite But now that it's happened. Now, it's not.
It might happen, It could happen. It did happen. Welcome
to the twilight Zone. Do do Do Do Do do.
This is the boogeyman. This is the buggey man in
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college football.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
This is a come to Jesus moment for the establishment
in college football. As they look in the mirror when
they wake up later on Tuesday, they'll wake up and
they're not going to recognize their own face, Like, what
have we done? This was not supposed to happen. Why
did this happen? I don't understand. This is bizarro world,
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is what this is?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
This is cats walking dogs. This is spray cheese on
our charcuterie board, is what this is? Here Indiana holding
the national Championship trophy like they stole it from the
gift shop at the stadium. No, it's real, it's not.
I mean, you can test it. It's real. They have
the trophy here. And this is a great example of
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name image likeness, better known by its gangster name Nil
giving birth to Frankenstein. Make no mistake, the Indiana Hoosiers
are Frankenstein. The blue Bloods are furious their alumni is furious.
So we're talking about the usual suspects. Alabama, Ohio State, Noted, dom, SC, Michigan.
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These programs did not lose the title. They lost exclusive rights.
Right is it supposed to be only certain people are
allowed at that event? You are not allowed there. You
cannot go behind the velvet ropes. What are you doing?
And Kirk Signetty did not build the death star at
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in the end, this is not a death star situation.
He built a food truck. And that's really adding insult
to injury because the formula he laid it all out,
the blueprints laid out. Just have a couple of rich alumni.
Every school has a couple of rich alumni, right, every
university there's a couple of people that made it big
that went to that school. So all you have to
do is get them on board. And then you hire
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a coach that is pretty good at you shopping, and
you give the grocery list out. You get the right tomatoes,
you got to pick the onions when they're perfect. The
garlic you don't want the bad garlic. You get all that,
no caviar, and no five star truffles. You don't need
the five star truffles here. You don't just ball players
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who know the recipe. And that's the thing that's really
most mattering. Just say with the nil thing and all that. Okay, well,
the nil is one thing. However, if you look at
the Hoosiers, they were not bigger, stronger, and faster than
the teams they were beating in the College football Playoff.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
They weren't.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
They were sharper. You can say they outworked you in
some of these games, and they fought every inch and
that was enough to get it done. They're not gonna
win the measurables. They're not gonna win the measurables. The
Indiana Hoosiers they win the championship ere and the appearly
they don't mind. It doesn't seem like they mind their together.
They got a nice trophy and they got t shirts
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and hats and all that stuff, and the whole mind
and refusal the backup.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
You gotta think.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I don't know how old you are. I'm at the
age now. When I was a kid, I heard stories
about Indiana. I didn't see him on TV much because
in football basketball they were on TV all the time.
They got named Bobby Knight with a complete schmuck, but
a great coach and Indiana football. You'd see him every
once in a while and it was like a mistake,
like what are they? Why are they on TV? What
are they doing? You know? It was usually when they
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played a really good team, the Big Ten, and then
they'd just get smoked. How bad was Indiana football? This
sums up Indiana football. They had this guy named Lee Corso.
I don't know whatever happened to, but Lee Corso was
coaching at Indiana in the nineteen seventies. The program was
so horrific. How horrific was it? Thanks for asking? It
was so horrific that Lee Corso in the nineteen seventies,
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once had Indiana had a seven to six lead over
Woody Hayes and Ohio State, the legendary Ohio State coach
Witoty Hayes, and Lee Corso stopped the game so the
Indiana players could take a fundo of the scoreboard because
they had a seven to six lead. Not so fast,
my friends, though, al as Lee would later say, because
Indiana we end up losing that game by forty that day.
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But they actually stopped the game. I think it was
like the second quarter because they had a seven to
six lead and they end up losing the game by
forty How great is that? And that team now, that
team is now the champions. They are the kings of
college football. And the establishment doesn't like which is likely
going to lead to Congress getting involved. I mean, the
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Congress is already we're going down that road. There's gonna
be government intervention and they're gonna set up the rules
to help out the power schools and to screw over
Indiana and schools like that. So if you're gonna do
something like this, you might as well get it. Does
Rutgers have any big alumni? Can we get Rutgers? We
need some of these directional schools to win the championship.
That'll really also upset people right now. Meanwhile, at hard
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Rock Stamp, you watch the game. Obviously the stadium was packed.
Just that's the Miami Hurricanes area. That's their stadium national
championship game. However, it was a majority Indiana crowd. The
Hoosier fans Hoo's your daddy, The Indiana Hoosiers packed the stadium.
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So the question Indiana estimates had sixty sixty five percent
of the crowd in support of Indiana's football team at
the National Championship Game. Does that say more about Indiana's
fan base or the ability obviously to travel, or the
indifference by the Miami fans. So is this more about
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you know, it's in either or is it the Indiana
fans showing great resolve in traveling or is it more
about the indifference by Miami. So the arrow is pointing
directly at the you, at the you flashing neon, flashing neon.
Nobody I've been Miami or with nobody lives in Miami
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the three to zero five. Nobody lives there to go
to sporting events.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You don't. You live there to live.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Is what you do, right, It's the three Bees. When
you live in Miami, it's beaches, boats and bikinis. That's it,
the three Bee and that that's all you need. Obviously
it helps they don't have state income tax. It's reasonable
compared to like the People's Republic of California or something
like that. But you got sweat dripping when you live
in Miami in places that you didn't even know sweat
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could get into crevices and things like that. But the
Hurricanes football is obviously optional programming. The fact that that
many people. I don't think there's that many Indiana people
living in Miami. I'm sure there's a fair amount. But
to fill the stadium up, there were planes filled with
Hoosier fans making their way down there. And so and
the other thing is, if you the older you are,
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as a Miami fan, like you've already eaten the cake,
depending on how old you are, and you've had it.
The Hurricane football used to be good. They used to
play in big games and win championships and all that stuff,
and so back in the glory days many years ago.
And so they've been there and done that, and they
got the blank blank from back back in the day,
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and it's in the drawer. The replica rings are right
there next to the sunscreen.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
So you have that.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And it's not it's not like the obviously is no passion.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
It's apathy. That's the word. I mean, there's clearly some apathy,
even though Miami had been dormant for a long time
and now they're back to being one of the big
time players here. But this is a for Indiana. This
is a once in a generation. This is a glitch
in the matrix. This is a glitch in the sports
matrix for the Indiana Hoosiers to win the championship. You
don't miss that. You drop everything if you're living in
Indiana a thousand miles away, right, you cancel whatever you
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got in the weddings. I don't care whatever it might be.
And for Indiana, their coach there, Kurt Signetti, and the
Hoosiers crawling out of the gutter. That's really what this is, right,
Indiana was in the gutter and Signetti leading them out
and like the sewer monster holding the playbook Becoming of
Age movie.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
They don't make.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Movies like that anymore because it's not a superhero movie,
so they.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Can't make it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Back in the old days, they would have made a
movie like this. And first time I always hits trder.
You always remember your first right, That's what I heard.
So Miami fans they kind of shrug, so, yeah, that sucks.
And then I'm gonna go I'm gonna go lay on
the beach later today, I'll be okay. And Indiana fans
they emptied their wallet, gonna buy all the merch all
that stuff, and you know, put the tractor on the
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side there at the farm and go watch these celebration. Now,
last word here. So the other part of this is
the NFL draft angle. The Raiders are on the clock
in a very awkward scene. Mark Mark Davis just seem anywhere.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It's just very odd.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Seeing him in a college football game is bizarre. It's like, well,
who let him in? How'd he get it? He was
on the field the whole thing. So Raiders owner Mark Davis,
John Spytech, that's the sock puppet for Tom Brady, the boss.
By proxy. Brady was also there, and they were there,
all attendants in South Florida to watch Indiana quarterback and
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possible number one overall pick, Fernando Mendoza do his thing.
And there he was out there playing quarterback. Indiana wins
the championship. He had a touchdown run. And so the
question did Fernando Mendoza did Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner,
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did he lock himself in as the top pick in
the twenty twenty six college draft based on his performance
in the national title game? Did he lock himself in?
So I looked at it, I watched the game. I
was like, no way, Absolutely, Medoza look like he was
playing in a straight jacket for a good chunk of
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this game. Now, Miami did take some liberties. The officials
showing some bias towards Miami allowed them to just in
modern football that was played like old school football. It's
like I'll just take some shots at the quarterback. We'll
look the other way. We're gonna look the other way.
That's it, Mendoza. They'll finished with one hundred and eighty
six yards, zero touchdowns, and a passer rating of a
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little bit above eighty. That's it. That's not the stat
line of a number one overall pick.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And that's like a guy auditioning for a backup job
for the CFL team in Edmonton is what that is here.
And the other problem is he didn't pass the eyeball test.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Just sa.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
All the stats tell one thing, but the eyeball test.
And I'm never wrong with the eyeball test. It just
didn't didn't look. He failed the exam, didn't look, didn't
feel like a big time NFL quarterback prodigy right around
the mountain here, and he looks in this game, and
really the talent level was a fourth round pick. It's
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a developmental quarterback. Fernando MENDOZI draft him in the fourth round,
give him a couple of years, see if you can
figure some stuff out. And that's it. And we live
in the age now where you overdraft the quarterback because
in this case, Fernando Mendoza is the flavor of the week.
He's got that puffy sticker flavor of the week on
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the side of his helmet there, and so it's okay,
we gotta draft this guy because he's popular and flavor
of the week and all that stuff. He looked less
like a franchise savior against the you and more like
the col Golden Bear version. And that was originally headed
to a secret society at Yale. And that's he's playing chess.
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The NFL is playing with claudiators in college Miami had
some big time fellows up front there and Tom Brady
this the other problem, Like tom Brady's sitting there in
his skinny suit, tom Brady in the owner's box, drooling
over this guy. It's unbelievable. In fact, tom Brady likely believes,
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well what Mendoza. Listen, he was going to be part
of that Skull and Bones club at Yale if he
had not gone to and so he's.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Got all the intangibles and all this.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I mean, come on, everything Tom Brady has touched since
he got to the Raiders has turned to dust. Everything
he picked, Gino Smith, he picked Pete Carroll. Gino threw
more picks than a bowling alley. Pete got canned faster
than a bad date and all that. And so Tom Brady,
I'm telling you, the way he's run the Raiders, he
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could screw up a microwave TV dinner. He's that incompetent
as an NFL executive, Tom Brady, and it's so wild.
And Mark Davis, of course, he just wants to eat
the special at PF Changs. He doesn't really care. I'll
just have Tom Brady. I'll let him do what he
wants to do.
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our lead this hour from Western New York. And if
you thought the Grim Reaper, Grim Reaper of coaches was done,
that the Grim Reaper had gone back, you know, you know,
like Santa Claus works one day a year and then
and then that's it, just on Christmas. Well, the Grim
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Reaper of football coaches, they work a few days a year, normally.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
January.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
That's pretty much it. That's you're done. And yet here
we are past the midway point of January, and tada.
If you thought the Grim Reaper was done, you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
You're wrong. You're wrong.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
You're wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Another one bites the dust, and another one, and another one,
and another one and another one. If you did not hear,
perhaps not. Coach Sean McDermott has been poll axed, fired
by the team owner Terry Pagoula after a nine year
run in Western New York. The Bills have said bye
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bye to their head coach. The Buffalo football team a
perennial contender. However, they found new and creative ways to
choke in the playoffs. There they did not reach a
super Bowl under Sean McDermott. Despite having teams that were
at times favored to get to the Super Bowl. They
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found ways to screw it up so that the move
came two days two days after the game in Denver
where the Buffalo Bills did the thing you can't do
at the time. You can't do it there a couple
of times ended up losing. So a number of players
are beside themselves. They are bewildered, thunderstruck because of the
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move to get rid of Sean McDermott. Fans also outraged
over this decision by the ownership there in Buffalo. That
is a good jumping off points to let us discuss
the question for the steam panel. Did coach Sean McDermott.
Did coach Sean McDermott get a raw deal in Buffalo?
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Did he get a raw deal? So I've got flippers, hamburger, helper,
and cloverleaf intersection, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some chicken
Alfredo is what we're going to make. So, first of all,
to answer the question, was this a raw deal for
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Sean McDermott, The answer is no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no, with an explanation point. In fact, he was
given a sweetheart deal. In most places, McDermott would have
been fired three years ago. He got three extra years
to prove he shouldn't have been coaching the last three
years Sean McDermott. And so no, the opposite of that,
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this was a move that should have been made a
while ago. It had to be made now. It was inevitable.
Now that being said, I didn't think they would have
the balls to do it in Buffalo, so I'm surprised.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That they did.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And we did a Mallard monologue in a previous episode
of the show saying that, yeah, you should get rid
of this guy. Of course you should get rid of
Sean McDermot. The twenty twenty five season, it turned out,
was indeed the last dance. That was it, And the
folding tables snapped in half. Bill's Mafia jumped on it,
and the table snapped in half, and that's it. You
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can only jump through so many flaming tables. Okay, and
before you realize that you're stuck on like level thirteen,
but you want to get to level fifteen, but you're
stuck on level thirteen, Well, how do I get to
level fifteen? Now? We are skeptical. We are skeptical that
the Bills know what they're doing right, considering that they
gave this guy three extra years, three extra years Sean
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McDermott got. And the reason that we didn't think this
was gonna happen is because foc fear of change, right,
fear of change, fear of the unknown. And the Bills
we were comfortable, right, They'd been bad for twenty years,
and so they were comfortable. The ten plus wins, playoffs,
snow Globe games on National TV, Chicken Wings in the air, everywhere,
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Bill's Mafia, breaking furniture like it's a home improvement show
gone bad. All of that stuff. That's the Bills, that's
the essence of the Buffalo Bills and Sean McDermott coaching.
This team had built up a nice ranch house, a
nice ranch home Sean McDermott had built up, and it
was working. They were winning some games and all that stuff,
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and it was wonderful and they were all excited and
it was great and.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. However, what ended
up happening every January. Every January, the ending was the same.
It was four of the past five four of the
past five years. How has this thing ended for the
Buffalo Bills. Well, they've ended it in heartbreak fashion. And
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so when you keep crashing out, when you get to
that level thirteen, you can't get past it. You don't
yell at the controller, you change the strategy. And so
McDermott they gave him another chance, and another one and
another one, and it didn't work out. So they could
ban his head against the wall and all that stuff.
They couldn't find the right cheat code, couldn't figure out
warp zone.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
There was no warp zone for the Buffalo Bills. Here,
just more frostbite and oh my god, we suck again.
And at some point you stop mashing those buttons on
the remote control and you go to YouTube or the
dark web and you say, okay, we got to figure
something else out. And so that's what they're going to
do it now. The Bills job Prime rib the Bill's
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job is prime. Rib, you've got the lunatic fan base,
check small town insanity.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
You check that box.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You've got Josh Allen, who's got two more years of
athletic prime, so two more years of Josh Allen before
the slow decline. So you've got that. So that's all
good stuff, right. So you get those things and you're
looking around, you're like, okay, so you've got this kind
of set up, and where is this headed. So you've
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got the job that's team that's contender, just already a contender,
we know that.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
And so you go in there.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Whoever gets the Buffalo Bill's job. We'll talk about this
more as we go through this hour here, but whoever
gets that job, you're not rebuilding, right, and you should
never be rebaling. You're installing. Essentially, a booster seat is
what you're doing. You get a booster seat in there
and you floor it, pedal to the metal, and you
just go for it here. And we have seen that
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this can work. It doesn't work all the time, it
has worked. The most famous example, Tony Dungee built the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers into a really good team years ago
in Tampa and then couldn't get it done, and then
they brought in John Gruden who cashed the check that
was set up by Tony Dungee. So it's like HGTV
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the Pigskin House Flippers addition, and so you go in
there and McDermott he turned he did do some flipping.
He turned the house, the outhouse into not quite a penthouse,
but it's like a level below the penthouse. So he
did that and he ran out of money, or in
this case, he ran out of time. Time is money,
(28:41):
So he ran out of time McDermott. And so someone
else will go in there, and if the Bills don't
screw this up, they will be the ones to hang
up the Lombardi trophy on the shelf. They'll put that
up in the house that McDermott built. Now. Secondly, so
now Buffalo is back on the market, they need to
hire a new coach. We know that they need a
new sideline jockey. So the question with the Bills out
(29:05):
shopping for someone to guide them on the sidelines. Here
for the first time in almost a decade, the Bills
are in the market for a head coach. Who do
you recommend? You are now the headhunter? You are now
the advisor, who do you recommend for the Buffalo job?
So this one is a no brainer. It's not that
(29:27):
difficult here if the Bills are serious and if they
really want to go for it here, and that's a
big if with the Buffalo Bills, it's a big if.
But if that's the case, you do whatever you have
to do, including handing over the keys to Niagara Falls,
to get Mike Tomlin. Hold my god, what you're talking about.
(29:49):
Tomvin didn't win it, Bitsbury, He's been bad for ten years.
Shut up.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
You lose there.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That makes mine all right. The argument against Tomlin is
he didn't get it done for a while in Pittsburgh,
and all that I say for Geyzy, absolutely for Gezy.
The problem Tomlin had he had substandard rosters, inferior quarterbacks
and was able to make the playoffs most of the
time in Pittsburgh. If you give Mike Tomlin a legitimate
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thorough bred quarterback and that team is going to punch
their ticket to the Promised Land there, it'll be like
muscle memory for Mike tom I'm telling you it's gonna
be like muscle memory. The standard is the standard that
fits that bull crap fits in Western New York like
thermal underwear in January, just fits, you need it, And
(30:40):
so that job the Buffalo Bill's job. Now I recommend
Mike Tomlin. That's my unsolicited overnight device. But the Buffalo
Bill's job is a Hamburger helper job it is. It's
in terms of coaching, ready made contender right now, playoff team,
consistently big time quarterback. This is a just add water situation. Agree,
you're not in your head. Yes, it's a just add
(31:02):
water situation. Dinner is served, you've got the protein Josh Allen,
and you'd like to see him stop burning down the
kitchen with turnovers like he did against the Broncos and
all that. But the early chat chatter is not The
early chatter is not Mike Tomlin. The early chatter is
that the team from Buffalo is going to look to
(31:23):
pacify Josh Allen and hire Brian Dayball. He's the early favorite,
not Mike Tomlin, the human boomerang Brian day Ball there
who failed spectacularly with the Giants. But hey, for he's
a jolly goodfellow, which nobody can and why not buy
(31:45):
him a beer? Buy everyone beers? You pass the mashed potatoes, Grandma,
where you go the old boys club. That's the logic, right,
It's always the way you go. Default position. It's not
what you know. And this is not just football, this
is just life in general. It's not what you know,
it's who you know. And so not exactly great leadership,
(32:07):
it's not. It's more like, hey, I'm on LinkedIn, let
me see what they can find or I'm on Express
pros or whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Either way, outside of replacing Andy read which that job
is not open at this point in Kansas City, no
word that that job will be open. So we're going
to assume the position that that is not happy, that
that job will not open up. So outside of that job,
the Andy Reid chiefs job, this is the job. This
(32:38):
is the job. Don't overthink it. I would advise to
not hire a friend. Don't hire a friend. You're not
running a bake sale here in Buffalo, you're not. I
just go ahead and hire tom Everyone says Tomlin's not
going to coach, he wants to take a year off.
Unless there's something that we don't know about that hasn't
been disclosed, Tomlin will be coaching again. So if Tomlin
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planning on going back to coaching. By the time you
get back, this job is not gonna be open. So like,
come on, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Just do what it takes.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Everyone's got a price higher Tom all right now, final
thought as for the guy, As for the guy who
just got dumped, we know how this works in the
NFL too, with the recycling. The NFL ahead of their
time when it comes to recycling. So the question where
does former Bills coach Sean McDermott end up. Where does
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McDermott end up? Well, McDermott is not unemployed. When I
think unemployed, I think, well, I don't have any money coming.
He's still getting paid by the Bills. He had time
left on his contract. He wasn't a lame duck coach
from what I understand. So I think of this in
the context that Sean McDermott is at the intersection, the
blinker is on, the blinker is on the station wagon
(33:56):
is idling the McDermott station wagon. The kids are in
the back, Ask Dad, where are we there yet? Where
we going? Dad?
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Where we go?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Okay, calm down, shut up, kids, all right? So he
dropped a token. He dropped a token into the NFL
arcade and boom, the coaching mary go round, fired up,
rounded and round and round, the big wooden horse brass pole,
up and down, the same song every coaching cycle, every
coaching cycle, the same song. And mcdermi's resume it says
(34:26):
one thing. It doesn't say I'm gonna win you a championship.
It says I will make you respectable where a capital
r right. And if you look at these terrible franchises
like the Raiders and the Browns and the Cardinals, these
teams and there are others that have jobs open. Although
it appears the Tennessee Titans have decided on another terrible coach,
Robert Salah. What you wonder why certain teams always end
(34:49):
up in the same spot, Well.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Anyway, he would put you in the respectable category. And
so that's not a bad thing. In one man's track,
there's another man's treasure. It's it's always the way this
is in the NFL here and so it's the other
thing about mcdermoid is he's not he's not a TV guy.
(35:11):
He's got a really boring personality. He doesn't have much
of anything to offer other than coaching football. He's meeting potatoes.
There's no garnish. There, there's no razzle dazzle. He's not
gonna go off and do a Barstool Bros. Podcast and
play grab ass with the bros at Barstool.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
He's not doing that.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
That's not how he's wired. Okay, he's not gonna go
eat chicken wings and drink beer and do that while
doing some fugazi podcast. That's not gonna So he's just
one of these guys that rolls up his sleeves and
you got a sink that's leaking, he'll fix that. He'll
you get the thing over there that's not quite working
right on the on the door, he'll fix that as well.
(35:50):
And so the the option do you take a gap year?
Some people say, well, you take a gap year and
then you go back to the market and all that stuff,
and that would be a big mistake by Sean McDermott.
That's what the rich guys that can do TV do.
He's not that guy, as we said, he's not that
type of coach. He's not And so you don't do
(36:12):
the sabbatical. So he currently Sean mcdermomation. She's at the intersection.
This is a clover leaf intersection. He's at the clover
leaf intersection, Sean McDermott. So if you turn left, turn left.
If you turn left, you take a year off and
battery recharge. That's not what you should do. You should
not turn left. If you go straight, you grab one
(36:33):
of these flee infested jobs, like the Raiders, the Cardinals
or the Browns, and you go there.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
That's like the roach motel. You go to one of
those teams.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Now, the other option at the clover Leaf intersection is
to turn ride, turn ride. You head to Jerry's world
where Cowboys' defensive coordinator. That job open up right now,
those hasn't hired anyone unless they hired some of the
last hour, so that job is open. So the defensive
coordinator job is open for the Dallas Cowboys. You go there.
(37:05):
If you're Sean McDermott, that would be the fallback. It's
not a full sabbatical because you're still coaching, but you
go to the Cowboys. Jerry turns on the circus music,
the spotlight. Jerry's barking like a carnival barker. There. He's
got the clown makeup on the whole thing. He's a
carnival huckster, and he tries to hype up your value
and all that stuff. And you do that for a year,
You go to the Cowboys for a year, and suddenly
(37:25):
mcdermot's back in the front of the line and you
can get one of these top jobs that will pop open.
Every year, seven to ten jobs open up. And of course,
the great thing about the coaching carousel, as you know,
the ride does not stop.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
It does not.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
You just got to pick the right horse. That's the problem.
You got to pick the right horse.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
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Speaker 3 (37:49):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
How about that to the third degree?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Oh yeah, this is one big gets quick all right,
bo wait, there's more cool.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
So, after the Bears lost to the Rams, Ben Johnson
was asked if he thought about going for two at
the end of regulation instead of taking his chances in overtime.
He said he thought about it, but played a factor
was that their goal to goat situations hadn't been very clean. Now, Ben,
obviously hindsight is twenty twenty. But do you think taking
chances in overtime was the right decision.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Well in hindsight, they lost, so it was.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
But I would have done the same thing. You're at home.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Usually at home you go for overtime. If you're on
the road, you go for the win at the end
of regulation and all that stuff. But the way he's right,
the way the Bears were running those short yards plays,
they were not very successful. The Rams were more physical,
rather embarrassing, em masculating for Chicago Bears team. If the
Rams pushed them around, and wait till they pushed the
(38:47):
Seahawks around this weekend.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
But yeah, it's embarrassing. And next I would have done
the same thing he did.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Though.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Next, so, with bow Nick's going down, the Broncos have
Jared Stidham heading into the FC champion Champion I.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Heard about that.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, congratulations Coopie Ye.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
My joy was short lived.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
But anyway, So with that being said, a lot of
people are speculating, or maybe not speculating, but saying the
Broncos should maybe look at Bryan Tannehill.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Some people even throwing out Drew Breeze. Sure, why not?
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, Ben, do you think they should sign somebody like
that or just take their chances with Jared Stidham.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
No, here's what I would do if I was Sean Payton.
I would run the ball eighty times. I would throw
the ball maybe ten times tops, and try to play
hide the quarterback and hope that this and the Patriots
have not that they've been sloppy with the football too.
So if you just run the ball, don't turn the
ball over, don't commit a lot of penalties, there is
(39:45):
a path to winning without your starting quarterback. You're gonna
need some help from the defense, and Drake may turning
the ball over. So but I wouldn't sign those guys.
That's a recipe for disaster. Next, they might be getting JK.
Dobbins back too, so it's not a bad idea.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Okay, Next we have over Over the weekend, it was
reported that, you know, despite a lot of talk about
John Morant going to the Heat, it was reported that's
a little bit overblown and that league.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Wide interest in John Rant is a tepid ben Does
that surprise you.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
No, he's got a big contract, he's got a bad attitude,
he's a loser as a player, he's not a winner,
and so those are all things teams try to overlook. However,
he is box office, and there are teams that have
no stars, starless NBA teams, And if you're an owner
of a starless NBA team, you need a star player
to sell tickets in that business. John Morant does qualify
(40:39):
as a star player. It's exciting to watch, but he's
made a lot of interesting choices, so I think that's
bull crap.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
If if the Grizzlies want to trade him, he'll end.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Up getting traded and likely end up on the Miami Heat.
By what Valentine's Day?
Speaker 4 (40:54):
There?
Speaker 1 (40:54):
It is mallor to the third degree?
Speaker 3 (40:56):
How did we do? Went? I run the game? I
run the game all right.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
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what it takes to get to the top?
Speaker 5 (41:26):
Probably not?
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Okay, Scott is in the Commonwealth. He has called up.
He wants to be one of our contestants. Hello Scott, Welcome,
Hey Ben, how's it going? Guy?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Scott?
Speaker 1 (41:36):
If I was any better, I would be a Texan,
but not a Houston Texan because they froze when they
played the Patriots over the weekends.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Cool, all right, who do you want to partner with them?
Speaker 6 (41:47):
My?
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
You got me or cool?
Speaker 2 (41:49):
I won't pick Lorrena.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
What you get a golden ticket? Oh no, no, no
no no no no no no no, that's.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
Not all right.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
You're gonna play with Lorraino.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Hot's fine.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
You're in you and Lorena?
Speaker 1 (42:01):
All right, we'll have that as a team. All right,
you're you and Lorena. Okay, hold on Secondarina, your first
time playing the game. We have Jimmy in Saint Paul. Hello, Jimmy,
Hey going, that's going on?
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Jimmy? What's that?
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (42:18):
What are you doing outside?
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (42:21):
I'm doing my cargi outside and in Minnesota?
Speaker 1 (42:25):
How many? How many? How many layers you got on there?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Today?
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Three?
Speaker 3 (42:30):
And what's the what's the temperature in Saint Paul today?
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Negative eight?
Speaker 5 (42:35):
And it feels like give him twenty perfect weather. Perfect
jot to the jim and I jogged back home.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Yeah. Do you see anybody outside?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Do you see anybody like anybody outside?
Speaker 3 (42:47):
All right? Man, all right, who do you want to
partner up with their?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Jimmy?
Speaker 4 (42:52):
So we need another contestan because Scott's not serious. So
if somebody else wants calling to replace Scott, what's that? Okay,
all right, we're in nice hold on a sec. So
you're saying that Scott is not you don't think you serious.
You think he's a prankster.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
He picks Lorena as his partner. He's not serious, Scott?
Are you a are you a princes? Scott?
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Lorena?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Yeah, so it seems a reasonable bit.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Lorena hasn't heard of ninety five percent of the names
on this litter chance.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Coop. You know, no, we're not giving you just hate women.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yeah, Yes, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 5 (43:22):
Yeah, yeah, Lorena, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Yes, like I said, he's not serious.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Coop seems genuinely upset.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
All right, if somebody else wants to play, We'll let
Scott pick the category. How about that if somebody else
wants to play, because we had to move on, Coop. Yes, yeah,
that's all right, all right, what a categy.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
This is the Orlando Bloom edition.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
How about Scott and someone else team up?
Speaker 3 (43:41):
How about that is the Orlando Blum edition.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
The categories are Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean,
the Three Musketeers and Grand Turismo.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Which category would you like?
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Scott, I would say.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
Three Lorena, I would say three Musketeers.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
All right, quite the wordsman there, and we have my man,
Jimmy walking in the Arctic winter wonderland of Saint Paul
and Jimmy. Pick a category if you remember.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Them, I guess remember Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Pirates of the Caribbean. All right, very good everyone, thank
you for that. Hold on, Jimmy, do not hang up,
Do not hang up. So Scott likely will be replaced.
But we got Jimmy and me and Scott. I think,
who knows, we'll get to that. We're gonna have Mallard's
a mount of money in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
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Speaker 3 (44:38):
My back tore we go.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
It's Mallard's Mountain of Money. Let's welcome in our contestants.
We have see here we have Scott in the Commonwealth
and Jimmy in same.
Speaker 4 (44:49):
Py're getting rid of Scott in the Commonwealth. Oh we
are okay, well, I guess we're gonna who are we
going to do in Scott and Kentucky? Instead, we're getting
a new sounds very rude, Scott in CommonWell, well, Scott Wilson, idiot,
seems like a nice man. All right, Scott, so I
am your partner.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Look at that Cooper the rat kick to the cybel
Ray we did a test. Yeah, she couldn't even say
who Russell Wilson? Oh the crowd?
Speaker 4 (45:14):
Alright, so Scott, we have we have the three Musketeers.
We already can't do the ten point one because I
just blew that. But we're gonna win anyway. All Right,
this category, all these athletes ware or wore number three
forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Are you ready, Scott, I'm ready?
Speaker 4 (45:33):
All right, let's begin, all right, the answer from the
seventy six ers. Yes, this guy was the Bambino. Yes,
this guy was the point guard for the Clippers, the
Lob City Clippers. Yes, this guy was a Defensive Player
of the Year for the Pistons when they were winning championships.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Yes this guy was.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
He spent like his most of his twenty two career
with the Twins, won an MVP Big slugger, no.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Hammering. All right, all right, this guy was a long
time Detroit Tiger. He just recently got in the Hall
of Fame. Cowboy and Windsor was always campaigning for him
get into the Hall of fame.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
Alright, alright, a lot of heavy breath, Alan Trammel, you
got one family?
Speaker 3 (46:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Jimmy, are you there? Jimmy?
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Have you fled?
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Oh boy? What is going on here?
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Are you there? Jimmy?
Speaker 6 (46:37):
I'm right here.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Ben. All right, you haven't frozen or anything like that.
You're good to go. No, I'm not lifted now, okay,
all right, here we go. That's a man's man right there.
The man's lifting weight. That's right.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
That's not something win.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Alright, here we go. We'll put forty five seconds. You
picked Pirates of the Caribbean. Is that correct? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (46:57):
I guess so.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
You don't even remember.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
All right, these athletes all in they all enjoy sailing.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (47:06):
All right? Uh. He was Larry Bird's rival in the
NBA in the nineteen eighties. Yes, guard from France played
with the Spurs, won a bunch of championships. He's yes,
the other splash brother, not Steph Curry. The other guys
with the Mavericks now.
Speaker 5 (47:26):
Lay Thompkins.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Yes, a wide receiver. Was famous for the Houston Texans.
He played in Kansas City. Ba's been in Baltimore recently.
He's still playing in the NFL. Kind of older pitcher.
His name has become synonymous with a surgery, and baseball
ligament replacement surgery is called this guy's name.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 8 (47:49):
French basketball player played with the won a championship. All right,
that's all right, all right, So you guys are back
up again. Jimmy, do you want Lord of the Rings
or Grand Tarismo?
Speaker 5 (48:02):
Lord of the rings?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
All right, Lord of the wing the rings. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
These athletes all have a lot of championship rings. Will
put forty five seconds on the clock and we are
on our way and go. A Yankee hero in the
nineteen sixties won two Purple Hearts, played with the Yankees,
won seven World Series titles as a player, fought in
World War Two. How about that? Luke gret No, if
(48:25):
you don't know, if you don't know, you don't know it.
A linebacker for the Green Bay Packers back in the day.
I think he's in his seven he's still alive, nicknamed
the Mad.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Stork for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
Oh Man, all right, mister big shot for the Lakers,
played with the Spurs, the Rockets, NBA player game winning
shots back up on some great teams in the NBA,
tall guy African Americans shot a lot of three point shots. Nothing,
come on, oh Man.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Good strategy there, going for the tough ones first. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Yeah, well, by the way, you didn't get Ted h Well, Hank,
Hank Bauer was the guy we were looking for, a
Yankee legend and.
Speaker 3 (49:10):
Ted, Ted Hendricks and Robert Dorry.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Keep in mind that these categories I've been given much
more difficult than the ones.
Speaker 4 (49:19):
Coop, it's random, your totally totally random teammates category, Ted
Hendricks koop, Ted Hendrix, Okay, he won.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
Hendrick.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
I don't even know who that is.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Hank Bauer.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
I knew him as a broadcast Hank Bauer, Hey, what.
Speaker 5 (49:37):
Are you doing?
Speaker 3 (49:38):
He led the Ools to their first champion champ as
a manager.
Speaker 6 (49:42):
But seriously, like Boris d Ow back up, it was
one of the answers Boris d Ow, Alan Trammels is sabotage.
Alan Trammell is a household man. That's a it is Jimmy. No,
he's not Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
You know Allan's Trammel is right.
Speaker 3 (50:02):
Yes see that right.
Speaker 6 (50:04):
Prove we win, Scott, Scott, you chickened after you don't
get to win.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
No win for you.
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not switched to life changing wet extra large flushable dudewipes
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because wetter just cleans better. Available at Amazon and at
major retailers nationwide. Dudewipes best clean pants down baby. All right,
So I lead this hour, play the hit small man,
play the hits. One of our old bosses used to say,
you gotta play the hit small man. All right, we'll
play this. So our lead this hour is from South Florida,
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and that was where the Hippodrome was the stage for
the final act of the twenty twenty five season. Here
early in twenty twenty six, the champion was crowned. Woo
A hat and T shirt game. Oh man, a hat
and T shirt game. How exciting confetti. Every time I
see the confetti on the field, I think of a
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buddy of mine who has media friends who sell the
confetti on eBay and make a lot of money. There
are people I'm thinking this could be a big field
day here with the Indiana fans. More than that in
a minute. But Fernando Mendoza, the golden boy of college
football there leading the Indiana Hoosiers into the matchup against
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Carson Beck, the grizzled six year veteran. Oh my god. Anyway,
then they were the Miami Hurricanes in their own stadium,
although it didn't seem like their own stadium, taking on
the Indiana Hoosiers, the team from Indiana a seven and
a half point favorite on the Vegas line, as the
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wise guys on the Stardust line like the Hoosiers to
win by over a touchdown. You had Chris Fowler and
Herbie on the boob Tube. They had the call there.
So I don't know if you watch the game or not,
maybe you're like, I don't like college for body. Okay,
take the stick out of here. It took us anyway,
we watched so you would not have to. And it
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came down to the final seconds and it looked like
it would be a backbreaking touchdown drive by Carson Beck
leading the Hurricanes, matriculating the ball down the field in
the final seconds, needing a touchdown and an extra point to.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Win the game.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And then he did the thing you can't do at
the time.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, he threw a pass that was picked off by
Jamari Sharp, defensive back for Indiana, and he's a Miami
guy Sharp and he gets the big play they'd seal
it for the Hoosiers. Picks off Carson back final seconds.
That is it one knee?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I guess two.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Knees and then the game was over. So Indiana did
not cover the spread. But they do squeeze by Miami.
Life's not all about gambling. They squeezed by Miami twenty seven,
and they put the finishing touches on the rags to riches.
It'd be like if our friend Billy weed man hippie
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won the lottery and you had sixty million dollars or
something like that. Indiana, who was desolate, disheveled, beaten and broken.
And now they stand atop the mountain as they get
it done and they win the national title. As the
kids say the Natty. They won the Natty.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
So they win that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So now they did it on a night when Fernando
Mendoza was not the Heisman version of Fernando Mendoz. You
won't know that because you don't want to spoil the store.
He went that good. He was not that good Fernando Mendoz.
I'll say it, and no one else will say. I'll
say it. He sucked for most of that game. In fact,
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it looked like every other bad Indiana quarterback they've had
over the years. But it didn't matter. They won anyway.
He did have a touchdown run in the fourth quarter,
although finished with minus eight yards. Because of some decision
making issues there and coach Kurt Cignati getting it done,
he writes his name Signati into the record book.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
There.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Indiana finishes sixteen and oh sixteen and oh the record
and they had those extra games because of the playoffs.
So the twelve team playoff extends their perfect season, and
we are told now that is a tie. They have
matched the all time record from the eighteen hundreds. Holy
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crap on a cracker Batman, Yale in eighteen ninety four,
Yale in eighteen ninety four. They also had a sixteen
to zero season, So good jumping off point. That's the
story here, so let's get into it. The question for
the esteem panel, what are you going to remember about
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the Indiana Hoosiers, a basketball school, running a table, running
the table, and winning college football's national championship against Miami.
So my thoughts on this. I got food truck, three bees,
and puffy sticker, and we will combine all all of
these things together and we are going to make some
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delicious kettle corn is what we're gonna make. So a
the question is not that difficult. The answer is even easier.
What are we gonna remember? The answer is simple here,
what are we gonna remember? We're gonna remember the panic,
the sheer, unadulterated panic, unfiltered panic, from the establishment of
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college football. Okay, they knew that this was likely to happen,
Indiana's favorite But now that it's happened. Now, it's not.
It might happen, It could happen. It did happen. Welcome
to the twilight Zone. Do do Do Do Do do.
This is the boogeyman. This is the buggey man in
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college football.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
This is a come to Jesus moment for the establishment
in college football. As they look in the mirror when
they wake up later on Tuesday, they'll wake up and
they're not going to recognize their own face, Like, what
have we done? This was not supposed to happen. Why
did this happen? I don't understand. This is bizarro world,
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is what this is?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
This is cats walking dogs. This is spray cheese on
our charcuterie board, is what this is? Here Indiana holding
the national Championship trophy like they stole it from the
gift shop at the stadium. No, it's real, it's not.
I mean, you can test it. It's real. They have
the trophy here. And this is a great example of
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name image likeness, better known by its gangster name Nil
giving birth to Frankenstein. Make no mistake, the Indiana Hoosiers
are Frankenstein. The blue Bloods are furious their alumni is furious.
So we're talking about the usual suspects. Alabama, Ohio State, Noted, dom, SC, Michigan.
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These programs did not lose the title. They lost exclusive rights.
Right is it supposed to be only certain people are
allowed at that event? You are not allowed there. You
cannot go behind the velvet ropes. What are you doing?
And Kirk Signetty did not build the death star at
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in the end, this is not a death star situation.
He built a food truck. And that's really adding insult
to injury because the formula he laid it all out,
the blueprints laid out. Just have a couple of rich alumni.
Every school has a couple of rich alumni, right, every
university there's a couple of people that made it big
that went to that school. So all you have to
do is get them on board. And then you hire
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a coach that is pretty good at you shopping, and
you give the grocery list out. You get the right tomatoes,
you got to pick the onions when they're perfect. The
garlic you don't want the bad garlic. You get all that,
no caviar, and no five star truffles. You don't need
the five star truffles here. You don't just ball players
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who know the recipe. And that's the thing that's really
most mattering. Just say with the nil thing and all that. Okay, well,
the nil is one thing. However, if you look at
the Hoosiers, they were not bigger, stronger, and faster than
the teams they were beating in the College football Playoff.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
They weren't.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
They were sharper. You can say they outworked you in
some of these games, and they fought every inch and
that was enough to get it done. They're not gonna
win the measurables. They're not gonna win the measurables. The
Indiana Hoosiers they win the championship ere and the appearly
they don't mind. It doesn't seem like they mind their together.
They got a nice trophy and they got t shirts
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and hats and all that stuff, and the whole mind
and refusal the backup.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
You gotta think.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I don't know how old you are. I'm at the
age now. When I was a kid, I heard stories
about Indiana. I didn't see him on TV much because
in football basketball they were on TV all the time.
They got named Bobby Knight with a complete schmuck, but
a great coach and Indiana football. You'd see him every
once in a while and it was like a mistake,
like what are they? Why are they on TV? What
are they doing? You know? It was usually when they
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played a really good team, the Big Ten, and then
they'd just get smoked. How bad was Indiana football? This
sums up Indiana football. They had this guy named Lee Corso.
I don't know whatever happened to, but Lee Corso was
coaching at Indiana in the nineteen seventies. The program was
so horrific. How horrific was it? Thanks for asking? It
was so horrific that Lee Corso in the nineteen seventies,
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once had Indiana had a seven to six lead over
Woody Hayes and Ohio State, the legendary Ohio State coach
Witoty Hayes, and Lee Corso stopped the game so the
Indiana players could take a fundo of the scoreboard because
they had a seven to six lead. Not so fast,
my friends, though, al as Lee would later say, because
Indiana we end up losing that game by forty that day.
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But they actually stopped the game. I think it was
like the second quarter because they had a seven to
six lead and they end up losing the game by
forty How great is that? And that team now, that
team is now the champions. They are the kings of
college football. And the establishment doesn't like which is likely
going to lead to Congress getting involved. I mean, the
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Congress is already we're going down that road. There's gonna
be government intervention and they're gonna set up the rules
to help out the power schools and to screw over
Indiana and schools like that. So if you're gonna do
something like this, you might as well get it. Does
Rutgers have any big alumni? Can we get Rutgers? We
need some of these directional schools to win the championship.
That'll really also upset people right now. Meanwhile, at hard
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Rock Stamp, you watch the game. Obviously the stadium was packed.
Just that's the Miami Hurricanes area. That's their stadium national
championship game. However, it was a majority Indiana crowd. The
Hoosier fans Hoo's your daddy, The Indiana Hoosiers packed the stadium.
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So the question Indiana estimates had sixty sixty five percent
of the crowd in support of Indiana's football team at
the National Championship Game. Does that say more about Indiana's
fan base or the ability obviously to travel, or the
indifference by the Miami fans. So is this more about
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you know, it's in either or is it the Indiana
fans showing great resolve in traveling or is it more
about the indifference by Miami. So the arrow is pointing
directly at the you, at the you flashing neon, flashing neon.
Nobody I've been Miami or with nobody lives in Miami
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the three to zero five. Nobody lives there to go
to sporting events.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You don't. You live there to live.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Is what you do, right, It's the three Bees. When
you live in Miami, it's beaches, boats and bikinis. That's it,
the three Bee and that that's all you need. Obviously
it helps they don't have state income tax. It's reasonable
compared to like the People's Republic of California or something
like that. But you got sweat dripping when you live
in Miami in places that you didn't even know sweat
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could get into crevices and things like that. But the
Hurricanes football is obviously optional programming. The fact that that
many people. I don't think there's that many Indiana people
living in Miami. I'm sure there's a fair amount. But
to fill the stadium up, there were planes filled with
Hoosier fans making their way down there. And so and
the other thing is, if you the older you are,
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as a Miami fan, like you've already eaten the cake,
depending on how old you are, and you've had it.
The Hurricane football used to be good. They used to
play in big games and win championships and all that stuff,
and so back in the glory days many years ago.
And so they've been there and done that, and they
got the blank blank from back back in the day,
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and it's in the drawer. The replica rings are right
there next to the sunscreen.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
So you have that.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And it's not it's not like the obviously is no passion.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
It's apathy. That's the word. I mean, there's clearly some apathy,
even though Miami had been dormant for a long time
and now they're back to being one of the big
time players here. But this is a for Indiana. This
is a once in a generation. This is a glitch
in the matrix. This is a glitch in the sports
matrix for the Indiana Hoosiers to win the championship. You
don't miss that. You drop everything if you're living in
Indiana a thousand miles away, right, you cancel whatever you
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got in the weddings. I don't care whatever it might be.
And for Indiana, their coach there, Kurt Signetti, and the
Hoosiers crawling out of the gutter. That's really what this is, right,
Indiana was in the gutter and Signetti leading them out
and like the sewer monster holding the playbook Becoming of
Age movie.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
They don't make.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Movies like that anymore because it's not a superhero movie,
so they.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Can't make it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Back in the old days, they would have made a
movie like this. And first time I always hits trder.
You always remember your first right, That's what I heard.
So Miami fans they kind of shrug, so, yeah, that sucks.
And then I'm gonna go I'm gonna go lay on
the beach later today, I'll be okay. And Indiana fans
they emptied their wallet, gonna buy all the merch all
that stuff, and you know, put the tractor on the
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side there at the farm and go watch these celebration. Now,
last word here. So the other part of this is
the NFL draft angle. The Raiders are on the clock
in a very awkward scene. Mark Mark Davis just seem anywhere.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It's just very odd.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Seeing him in a college football game is bizarre. It's like, well,
who let him in? How'd he get it? He was
on the field the whole thing. So Raiders owner Mark Davis,
John Spytech, that's the sock puppet for Tom Brady, the boss.
By proxy. Brady was also there, and they were there,
all attendants in South Florida to watch Indiana quarterback and
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possible number one overall pick, Fernando Mendoza do his thing.
And there he was out there playing quarterback. Indiana wins
the championship. He had a touchdown run. And so the
question did Fernando Mendoza did Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner,
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did he lock himself in as the top pick in
the twenty twenty six college draft based on his performance
in the national title game? Did he lock himself in?
So I looked at it, I watched the game. I
was like, no way, Absolutely, Medoza look like he was
playing in a straight jacket for a good chunk of
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this game. Now, Miami did take some liberties. The officials
showing some bias towards Miami allowed them to just in
modern football that was played like old school football. It's
like I'll just take some shots at the quarterback. We'll
look the other way. We're gonna look the other way.
That's it, Mendoza. They'll finished with one hundred and eighty
six yards, zero touchdowns, and a passer rating of a
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little bit above eighty. That's it. That's not the stat
line of a number one overall pick.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And that's like a guy auditioning for a backup job
for the CFL team in Edmonton is what that is here.
And the other problem is he didn't pass the eyeball test.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Just sa.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
All the stats tell one thing, but the eyeball test.
And I'm never wrong with the eyeball test. It just
didn't didn't look. He failed the exam, didn't look, didn't
feel like a big time NFL quarterback prodigy right around
the mountain here, and he looks in this game, and
really the talent level was a fourth round pick. It's
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a developmental quarterback. Fernando MENDOZI draft him in the fourth round,
give him a couple of years, see if you can
figure some stuff out. And that's it. And we live
in the age now where you overdraft the quarterback because
in this case, Fernando Mendoza is the flavor of the week.
He's got that puffy sticker flavor of the week on
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the side of his helmet there, and so it's okay,
we gotta draft this guy because he's popular and flavor
of the week and all that stuff. He looked less
like a franchise savior against the you and more like
the col Golden Bear version. And that was originally headed
to a secret society at Yale. And that's he's playing chess.
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The NFL is playing with claudiators in college Miami had
some big time fellows up front there and Tom Brady
this the other problem, Like tom Brady's sitting there in
his skinny suit, tom Brady in the owner's box, drooling
over this guy. It's unbelievable. In fact, tom Brady likely believes,
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well what Mendoza. Listen, he was going to be part
of that Skull and Bones club at Yale if he
had not gone to and so he's.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Got all the intangibles and all this.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I mean, come on, everything Tom Brady has touched since
he got to the Raiders has turned to dust. Everything
he picked, Gino Smith, he picked Pete Carroll. Gino threw
more picks than a bowling alley. Pete got canned faster
than a bad date and all that. And so Tom Brady,
I'm telling you, the way he's run the Raiders, he
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could screw up a microwave TV dinner. He's that incompetent
as an NFL executive, Tom Brady, and it's so wild.
And Mark Davis, of course, he just wants to eat
the special at PF Changs. He doesn't really care. I'll
just have Tom Brady. I'll let him do what he
wants to do.
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our lead this hour from Western New York. And if
you thought the Grim Reaper, Grim Reaper of coaches was done,
that the Grim Reaper had gone back, you know, you know,
like Santa Claus works one day a year and then
and then that's it, just on Christmas. Well, the Grim
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Reaper of football coaches, they work a few days a year, normally.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
January.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
That's pretty much it. That's you're done. And yet here
we are past the midway point of January, and tada.
If you thought the Grim Reaper was done, you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
You're wrong. You're wrong.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
You're wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Another one bites the dust, and another one, and another one,
and another one and another one. If you did not hear,
perhaps not. Coach Sean McDermott has been poll axed, fired
by the team owner Terry Pagoula after a nine year
run in Western New York. The Bills have said bye
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bye to their head coach. The Buffalo football team a
perennial contender. However, they found new and creative ways to
choke in the playoffs. There they did not reach a
super Bowl under Sean McDermott. Despite having teams that were
at times favored to get to the Super Bowl. They
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found ways to screw it up so that the move
came two days two days after the game in Denver
where the Buffalo Bills did the thing you can't do
at the time. You can't do it there a couple
of times ended up losing. So a number of players
are beside themselves. They are bewildered, thunderstruck because of the
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move to get rid of Sean McDermott. Fans also outraged
over this decision by the ownership there in Buffalo. That
is a good jumping off points to let us discuss
the question for the steam panel. Did coach Sean McDermott.
Did coach Sean McDermott get a raw deal in Buffalo?
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Did he get a raw deal? So I've got flippers, hamburger, helper,
and cloverleaf intersection, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some chicken
Alfredo is what we're going to make. So, first of all,
to answer the question, was this a raw deal for
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Sean McDermott, The answer is no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no, with an explanation point. In fact, he was
given a sweetheart deal. In most places, McDermott would have
been fired three years ago. He got three extra years
to prove he shouldn't have been coaching the last three
years Sean McDermott. And so no, the opposite of that,
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this was a move that should have been made a
while ago. It had to be made now. It was inevitable.
Now that being said, I didn't think they would have
the balls to do it in Buffalo, so I'm surprised.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That they did.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And we did a Mallard monologue in a previous episode
of the show saying that, yeah, you should get rid
of this guy. Of course you should get rid of
Sean McDermot. The twenty twenty five season, it turned out,
was indeed the last dance. That was it, And the
folding tables snapped in half. Bill's Mafia jumped on it,
and the table snapped in half, and that's it. You
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can only jump through so many flaming tables. Okay, and
before you realize that you're stuck on like level thirteen,
but you want to get to level fifteen, but you're
stuck on level thirteen, Well, how do I get to
level fifteen? Now? We are skeptical. We are skeptical that
the Bills know what they're doing right, considering that they
gave this guy three extra years, three extra years Sean
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McDermott got. And the reason that we didn't think this
was gonna happen is because foc fear of change, right,
fear of change, fear of the unknown. And the Bills
we were comfortable, right, They'd been bad for twenty years,
and so they were comfortable. The ten plus wins, playoffs,
snow Globe games on National TV, Chicken Wings in the air, everywhere,
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Bill's Mafia, breaking furniture like it's a home improvement show
gone bad. All of that stuff. That's the Bills, that's
the essence of the Buffalo Bills and Sean McDermott coaching.
This team had built up a nice ranch house, a
nice ranch home Sean McDermott had built up, and it
was working. They were winning some games and all that stuff,
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and it was wonderful and they were all excited and
it was great and.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. However, what ended
up happening every January. Every January, the ending was the same.
It was four of the past five four of the
past five years. How has this thing ended for the
Buffalo Bills. Well, they've ended it in heartbreak fashion. And
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so when you keep crashing out, when you get to
that level thirteen, you can't get past it. You don't
yell at the controller, you change the strategy. And so
McDermott they gave him another chance, and another one and
another one, and it didn't work out. So they could
ban his head against the wall and all that stuff.
They couldn't find the right cheat code, couldn't figure out
warp zone.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
There was no warp zone for the Buffalo Bills. Here,
just more frostbite and oh my god, we suck again.
And at some point you stop mashing those buttons on
the remote control and you go to YouTube or the
dark web and you say, okay, we got to figure
something else out. And so that's what they're going to
do it now. The Bills job Prime rib the Bill's
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job is prime. Rib, you've got the lunatic fan base,
check small town insanity.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
You check that box.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You've got Josh Allen, who's got two more years of
athletic prime, so two more years of Josh Allen before
the slow decline. So you've got that. So that's all
good stuff, right. So you get those things and you're
looking around, you're like, okay, so you've got this kind
of set up, and where is this headed. So you've
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got the job that's team that's contender, just already a contender,
we know that.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
And so you go in there.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Whoever gets the Buffalo Bill's job. We'll talk about this
more as we go through this hour here, but whoever
gets that job, you're not rebuilding, right, and you should
never be rebaling. You're installing. Essentially, a booster seat is
what you're doing. You get a booster seat in there
and you floor it, pedal to the metal, and you
just go for it here. And we have seen that
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this can work. It doesn't work all the time, it
has worked. The most famous example, Tony Dungee built the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers into a really good team years ago
in Tampa and then couldn't get it done, and then
they brought in John Gruden who cashed the check that
was set up by Tony Dungee. So it's like HGTV
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the Pigskin House Flippers addition, and so you go in
there and McDermott he turned he did do some flipping.
He turned the house, the outhouse into not quite a penthouse,
but it's like a level below the penthouse. So he
did that and he ran out of money, or in
this case, he ran out of time. Time is money,
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So he ran out of time McDermott. And so someone
else will go in there, and if the Bills don't
screw this up, they will be the ones to hang
up the Lombardi trophy on the shelf. They'll put that
up in the house that McDermott built. Now. Secondly, so
now Buffalo is back on the market, they need to
hire a new coach. We know that they need a
new sideline jockey. So the question with the Bills out
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shopping for someone to guide them on the sidelines. Here
for the first time in almost a decade, the Bills
are in the market for a head coach. Who do
you recommend? You are now the headhunter? You are now
the advisor, who do you recommend for the Buffalo job?
So this one is a no brainer. It's not that
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difficult here if the Bills are serious and if they
really want to go for it here, and that's a
big if with the Buffalo Bills, it's a big if.
But if that's the case, you do whatever you have
to do, including handing over the keys to Niagara Falls,
to get Mike Tomlin. Hold my god, what you're talking about.
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Tomvin didn't win it, Bitsbury, He's been bad for ten years.
Shut up.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
You lose there.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That makes mine all right. The argument against Tomlin is
he didn't get it done for a while in Pittsburgh,
and all that I say for Geyzy, absolutely for Gezy.
The problem Tomlin had he had substandard rosters, inferior quarterbacks
and was able to make the playoffs most of the
time in Pittsburgh. If you give Mike Tomlin a legitimate
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thorough bred quarterback and that team is going to punch
their ticket to the Promised Land there, it'll be like
muscle memory for Mike tom I'm telling you it's gonna
be like muscle memory. The standard is the standard that
fits that bull crap fits in Western New York like
thermal underwear in January, just fits, you need it, And
(30:40):
so that job the Buffalo Bill's job. Now I recommend
Mike Tomlin. That's my unsolicited overnight device. But the Buffalo
Bill's job is a Hamburger helper job it is. It's
in terms of coaching, ready made contender right now, playoff team,
consistently big time quarterback. This is a just add water situation. Agree,
you're not in your head. Yes, it's a just add
(31:02):
water situation. Dinner is served, you've got the protein Josh Allen,
and you'd like to see him stop burning down the
kitchen with turnovers like he did against the Broncos and
all that. But the early chat chatter is not The
early chatter is not Mike Tomlin. The early chatter is
that the team from Buffalo is going to look to
(31:23):
pacify Josh Allen and hire Brian Dayball. He's the early favorite,
not Mike Tomlin, the human boomerang Brian day Ball there
who failed spectacularly with the Giants. But hey, for he's
a jolly goodfellow, which nobody can and why not buy
(31:45):
him a beer? Buy everyone beers? You pass the mashed potatoes, Grandma,
where you go the old boys club. That's the logic, right,
It's always the way you go. Default position. It's not
what you know. And this is not just football, this
is just life in general. It's not what you know,
it's who you know. And so not exactly great leadership,
(32:07):
it's not. It's more like, hey, I'm on LinkedIn, let
me see what they can find or I'm on Express
pros or whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Either way, outside of replacing Andy read which that job
is not open at this point in Kansas City, no
word that that job will be open. So we're going
to assume the position that that is not happy, that
that job will not open up. So outside of that job,
the Andy Reid chiefs job, this is the job. This
(32:38):
is the job. Don't overthink it. I would advise to
not hire a friend. Don't hire a friend. You're not
running a bake sale here in Buffalo, you're not. I
just go ahead and hire tom Everyone says Tomlin's not
going to coach, he wants to take a year off.
Unless there's something that we don't know about that hasn't
been disclosed, Tomlin will be coaching again. So if Tomlin
(33:00):
planning on going back to coaching. By the time you
get back, this job is not gonna be open. So like,
come on, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Just do what it takes.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Everyone's got a price higher Tom all right now, final
thought as for the guy, As for the guy who
just got dumped, we know how this works in the
NFL too, with the recycling. The NFL ahead of their
time when it comes to recycling. So the question where
does former Bills coach Sean McDermott end up. Where does
(33:32):
McDermott end up? Well, McDermott is not unemployed. When I
think unemployed, I think, well, I don't have any money coming.
He's still getting paid by the Bills. He had time
left on his contract. He wasn't a lame duck coach
from what I understand. So I think of this in
the context that Sean McDermott is at the intersection, the
blinker is on, the blinker is on the station wagon
(33:56):
is idling the McDermott station wagon. The kids are in
the back, Ask Dad, where are we there yet? Where
we going? Dad?
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Where we go?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Okay, calm down, shut up, kids, all right? So he
dropped a token. He dropped a token into the NFL
arcade and boom, the coaching mary go round, fired up,
rounded and round and round, the big wooden horse brass pole,
up and down, the same song every coaching cycle, every
coaching cycle, the same song. And mcdermi's resume it says
(34:26):
one thing. It doesn't say I'm gonna win you a championship.
It says I will make you respectable where a capital
r right. And if you look at these terrible franchises
like the Raiders and the Browns and the Cardinals, these
teams and there are others that have jobs open. Although
it appears the Tennessee Titans have decided on another terrible coach,
Robert Salah. What you wonder why certain teams always end
(34:49):
up in the same spot, Well.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Anyway, he would put you in the respectable category. And
so that's not a bad thing. In one man's track,
there's another man's treasure. It's it's always the way this
is in the NFL here and so it's the other
thing about mcdermoid is he's not he's not a TV guy.
(35:11):
He's got a really boring personality. He doesn't have much
of anything to offer other than coaching football. He's meeting potatoes.
There's no garnish. There, there's no razzle dazzle. He's not
gonna go off and do a Barstool Bros. Podcast and
play grab ass with the bros at Barstool.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
He's not doing that.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
That's not how he's wired. Okay, he's not gonna go
eat chicken wings and drink beer and do that while
doing some fugazi podcast. That's not gonna So he's just
one of these guys that rolls up his sleeves and
you got a sink that's leaking, he'll fix that. He'll
you get the thing over there that's not quite working
right on the on the door, he'll fix that as well.
(35:50):
And so the the option do you take a gap year?
Some people say, well, you take a gap year and
then you go back to the market and all that stuff,
and that would be a big mistake by Sean McDermott.
That's what the rich guys that can do TV do.
He's not that guy, as we said, he's not that
type of coach. He's not And so you don't do
(36:12):
the sabbatical. So he currently Sean mcdermomation. She's at the intersection.
This is a clover leaf intersection. He's at the clover
leaf intersection, Sean McDermott. So if you turn left, turn left.
If you turn left, you take a year off and
battery recharge. That's not what you should do. You should
not turn left. If you go straight, you grab one
(36:33):
of these flee infested jobs, like the Raiders, the Cardinals
or the Browns, and you go there.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
That's like the roach motel. You go to one of
those teams.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Now, the other option at the clover Leaf intersection is
to turn ride, turn ride. You head to Jerry's world
where Cowboys' defensive coordinator. That job open up right now,
those hasn't hired anyone unless they hired some of the
last hour, so that job is open. So the defensive
coordinator job is open for the Dallas Cowboys. You go there.
(37:05):
If you're Sean McDermott, that would be the fallback. It's
not a full sabbatical because you're still coaching, but you
go to the Cowboys. Jerry turns on the circus music,
the spotlight. Jerry's barking like a carnival barker. There. He's
got the clown makeup on the whole thing. He's a
carnival huckster, and he tries to hype up your value
and all that stuff. And you do that for a year,
You go to the Cowboys for a year, and suddenly
(37:25):
mcdermot's back in the front of the line and you
can get one of these top jobs that will pop open.
Every year, seven to ten jobs open up. And of course,
the great thing about the coaching carousel, as you know,
the ride does not stop.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
It does not.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
You just got to pick the right horse. That's the problem.
You got to pick the right horse.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 3 (37:49):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
How about that to the third degree?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Oh yeah, this is one big gets quick all right,
bo wait, there's more cool.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
So, after the Bears lost to the Rams, Ben Johnson
was asked if he thought about going for two at
the end of regulation instead of taking his chances in overtime.
He said he thought about it, but played a factor
was that their goal to goat situations hadn't been very clean. Now, Ben,
obviously hindsight is twenty twenty. But do you think taking
chances in overtime was the right decision.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Well in hindsight, they lost, so it was.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
But I would have done the same thing. You're at home.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Usually at home you go for overtime. If you're on
the road, you go for the win at the end
of regulation and all that stuff. But the way he's right,
the way the Bears were running those short yards plays,
they were not very successful. The Rams were more physical,
rather embarrassing, em masculating for Chicago Bears team. If the
Rams pushed them around, and wait till they pushed the
(38:47):
Seahawks around this weekend.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
But yeah, it's embarrassing. And next I would have done
the same thing he did.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Though.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Next, so, with bow Nick's going down, the Broncos have
Jared Stidham heading into the FC champion Champion I.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Heard about that.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, congratulations Coopie Ye.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
My joy was short lived.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
But anyway, So with that being said, a lot of
people are speculating, or maybe not speculating, but saying the
Broncos should maybe look at Bryan Tannehill.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Some people even throwing out Drew Breeze. Sure, why not?
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, Ben, do you think they should sign somebody like
that or just take their chances with Jared Stidham.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
No, here's what I would do if I was Sean Payton.
I would run the ball eighty times. I would throw
the ball maybe ten times tops, and try to play
hide the quarterback and hope that this and the Patriots
have not that they've been sloppy with the football too.
So if you just run the ball, don't turn the
ball over, don't commit a lot of penalties, there is
(39:45):
a path to winning without your starting quarterback. You're gonna
need some help from the defense, and Drake may turning
the ball over. So but I wouldn't sign those guys.
That's a recipe for disaster. Next, they might be getting JK.
Dobbins back too, so it's not a bad idea.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Okay, Next we have over Over the weekend, it was
reported that, you know, despite a lot of talk about
John Morant going to the Heat, it was reported that's
a little bit overblown and that league.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Wide interest in John Rant is a tepid ben Does
that surprise you.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
No, he's got a big contract, he's got a bad attitude,
he's a loser as a player, he's not a winner,
and so those are all things teams try to overlook. However,
he is box office, and there are teams that have
no stars, starless NBA teams, And if you're an owner
of a starless NBA team, you need a star player
to sell tickets in that business. John Morant does qualify
(40:39):
as a star player. It's exciting to watch, but he's
made a lot of interesting choices, so I think that's
bull crap.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
If if the Grizzlies want to trade him, he'll end.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Up getting traded and likely end up on the Miami Heat.
By what Valentine's Day?
Speaker 4 (40:54):
There?
Speaker 1 (40:54):
It is mallor to the third degree?
Speaker 3 (40:56):
How did we do? Went? I run the game? I
run the game all right.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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listen live. Oh Naylor's Mountain of Money? Do you have
what it takes to get to the top?
Speaker 5 (41:26):
Probably not?
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Okay, Scott is in the Commonwealth. He has called up.
He wants to be one of our contestants. Hello Scott, Welcome,
Hey Ben, how's it going? Guy?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Scott?
Speaker 1 (41:36):
If I was any better, I would be a Texan,
but not a Houston Texan because they froze when they
played the Patriots over the weekends.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Cool, all right, who do you want to partner with them?
Speaker 6 (41:47):
My?
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
You got me or cool?
Speaker 2 (41:49):
I won't pick Lorrena.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
What you get a golden ticket? Oh no, no, no
no no no no no no no, that's.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
Not all right.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
You're gonna play with Lorraino.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Hot's fine.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
You're in you and Lorena?
Speaker 1 (42:01):
All right, we'll have that as a team. All right,
you're you and Lorena. Okay, hold on Secondarina, your first
time playing the game. We have Jimmy in Saint Paul. Hello, Jimmy,
Hey going, that's going on?
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Jimmy? What's that?
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (42:18):
What are you doing outside?
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (42:21):
I'm doing my cargi outside and in Minnesota?
Speaker 1 (42:25):
How many? How many? How many layers you got on there?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Today?
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Three?
Speaker 3 (42:30):
And what's the what's the temperature in Saint Paul today?
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Negative eight?
Speaker 5 (42:35):
And it feels like give him twenty perfect weather. Perfect
jot to the jim and I jogged back home.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Yeah. Do you see anybody outside?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Do you see anybody like anybody outside?
Speaker 3 (42:47):
All right? Man, all right, who do you want to
partner up with their?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Jimmy?
Speaker 4 (42:52):
So we need another contestan because Scott's not serious. So
if somebody else wants calling to replace Scott, what's that? Okay,
all right, we're in nice hold on a sec. So
you're saying that Scott is not you don't think you serious.
You think he's a prankster.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
He picks Lorena as his partner. He's not serious, Scott?
Are you a are you a princes? Scott?
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Lorena?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Yeah, so it seems a reasonable bit.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Lorena hasn't heard of ninety five percent of the names
on this litter chance.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Coop. You know, no, we're not giving you just hate women.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yeah, Yes, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 5 (43:22):
Yeah, yeah, Lorena, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Yes, like I said, he's not serious.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Coop seems genuinely upset.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
All right, if somebody else wants to play, We'll let
Scott pick the category. How about that if somebody else
wants to play, because we had to move on, Coop. Yes, yeah,
that's all right, all right, what a categy.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
This is the Orlando Bloom edition.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
How about Scott and someone else team up?
Speaker 3 (43:41):
How about that is the Orlando Blum edition.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
The categories are Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean,
the Three Musketeers and Grand Turismo.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Which category would you like?
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Scott, I would say.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
Three Lorena, I would say three Musketeers.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
All right, quite the wordsman there, and we have my man,
Jimmy walking in the Arctic winter wonderland of Saint Paul
and Jimmy. Pick a category if you remember.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Them, I guess remember Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Pirates of the Caribbean. All right, very good everyone, thank
you for that. Hold on, Jimmy, do not hang up,
Do not hang up. So Scott likely will be replaced.
But we got Jimmy and me and Scott. I think,
who knows, we'll get to that. We're gonna have Mallard's
a mount of money in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
My back tore we go.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
It's Mallard's Mountain of Money. Let's welcome in our contestants.
We have see here we have Scott in the Commonwealth
and Jimmy in same.
Speaker 4 (44:49):
Py're getting rid of Scott in the Commonwealth. Oh we
are okay, well, I guess we're gonna who are we
going to do in Scott and Kentucky? Instead, we're getting
a new sounds very rude, Scott in CommonWell, well, Scott Wilson, idiot,
seems like a nice man. All right, Scott, so I
am your partner.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Look at that Cooper the rat kick to the cybel
Ray we did a test. Yeah, she couldn't even say
who Russell Wilson? Oh the crowd?
Speaker 4 (45:14):
Alright, so Scott, we have we have the three Musketeers.
We already can't do the ten point one because I
just blew that. But we're gonna win anyway. All Right,
this category, all these athletes ware or wore number three
forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Are you ready, Scott, I'm ready?
Speaker 4 (45:33):
All right, let's begin, all right, the answer from the
seventy six ers. Yes, this guy was the Bambino. Yes,
this guy was the point guard for the Clippers, the
Lob City Clippers. Yes, this guy was a Defensive Player
of the Year for the Pistons when they were winning championships.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Yes this guy was.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
He spent like his most of his twenty two career
with the Twins, won an MVP Big slugger, no.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Hammering. All right, all right, this guy was a long
time Detroit Tiger. He just recently got in the Hall
of Fame. Cowboy and Windsor was always campaigning for him
get into the Hall of fame.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
Alright, alright, a lot of heavy breath, Alan Trammel, you
got one family?
Speaker 3 (46:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Jimmy, are you there? Jimmy?
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Have you fled?
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Oh boy? What is going on here?
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Are you there? Jimmy?
Speaker 6 (46:37):
I'm right here.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Ben. All right, you haven't frozen or anything like that.
You're good to go. No, I'm not lifted now, okay,
all right, here we go. That's a man's man right there.
The man's lifting weight. That's right.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
That's not something win.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Alright, here we go. We'll put forty five seconds. You
picked Pirates of the Caribbean. Is that correct? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (46:57):
I guess so.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
You don't even remember.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
All right, these athletes all in they all enjoy sailing.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (47:06):
All right? Uh. He was Larry Bird's rival in the
NBA in the nineteen eighties. Yes, guard from France played
with the Spurs, won a bunch of championships. He's yes,
the other splash brother, not Steph Curry. The other guys
with the Mavericks now.
Speaker 5 (47:26):
Lay Thompkins.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Yes, a wide receiver. Was famous for the Houston Texans.
He played in Kansas City. Ba's been in Baltimore recently.
He's still playing in the NFL. Kind of older pitcher.
His name has become synonymous with a surgery, and baseball
ligament replacement surgery is called this guy's name.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 8 (47:49):
French basketball player played with the won a championship. All right,
that's all right, all right, So you guys are back
up again. Jimmy, do you want Lord of the Rings
or Grand Tarismo?
Speaker 5 (48:02):
Lord of the rings?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
All right, Lord of the wing the rings. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
These athletes all have a lot of championship rings. Will
put forty five seconds on the clock and we are
on our way and go. A Yankee hero in the
nineteen sixties won two Purple Hearts, played with the Yankees,
won seven World Series titles as a player, fought in
World War Two. How about that? Luke gret No, if
(48:25):
you don't know, if you don't know, you don't know it.
A linebacker for the Green Bay Packers back in the day.
I think he's in his seven he's still alive, nicknamed
the Mad.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Stork for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
Oh Man, all right, mister big shot for the Lakers,
played with the Spurs, the Rockets, NBA player game winning
shots back up on some great teams in the NBA,
tall guy African Americans shot a lot of three point shots. Nothing,
come on, oh Man.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Good strategy there, going for the tough ones first. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Yeah, well, by the way, you didn't get Ted h Well, Hank,
Hank Bauer was the guy we were looking for, a
Yankee legend and.
Speaker 3 (49:10):
Ted, Ted Hendricks and Robert Dorry.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Keep in mind that these categories I've been given much
more difficult than the ones.
Speaker 4 (49:19):
Coop, it's random, your totally totally random teammates category, Ted
Hendricks koop, Ted Hendrix, Okay, he won.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
Hendrick.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
I don't even know who that is.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Hank Bauer.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
I knew him as a broadcast Hank Bauer, Hey, what.
Speaker 5 (49:37):
Are you doing?
Speaker 3 (49:38):
He led the Ools to their first champion champ as
a manager.
Speaker 6 (49:42):
But seriously, like Boris d Ow back up, it was
one of the answers Boris d Ow, Alan Trammels is sabotage.
Alan Trammell is a household man. That's a it is Jimmy. No,
he's not Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
You know Allan's Trammel is right.
Speaker 3 (50:02):
Yes see that right.
Speaker 6 (50:04):
Prove we win, Scott, Scott, you chickened after you don't
get to win.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
No win for you.
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Ben Maller
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