November 7, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Broncos barely defeating the Raiders on TNF and if Bo Nix deserves the heat for his poor play with the Broncos, what's intriguing about the Broncos leading the NFL at 8-2, what the temperature is for Pete Carroll's Raiders, and more!
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It's not the Bow Show, It's the Bow No No Welcome,
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one of the original recipe Ben Maler Show Podcast. Thumbs
Up or Thumbs Down? Does bow Nix deserve the heat
for his play with the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
They did win the game.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It was one of the ugliest games we've seen, one
of the three ugliest games last twenty years in the NFL. Also,
what intrigues you the most about Sean Payton's Broncos. They
have the top record in terms of wins eight and
two in the NFL. Yet they don't look all that good.
And what is the temperature in the room for the
losers for Pete Carroll's Raiders, as the defense did their job,
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but the offense did not do theirs with that high
paid offensive coordinator, Chip Kelly.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We'll get to that and more right now here. It
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Good NFL games.
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All right, very good. We're back at it again.
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And our lead this hour don't bury the lead mo Man.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Our lead this hour is from what else? That's right?
The Thursday night game? Why? Why not? What the heck?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So we'll start with the Broncos coming in great record,
all right, Broncos great record win against the Eagles was nice.
Some of the other wins not that impressive. So you're like, okay,
what's going on here? Who are the real Denver Broncos?
The Raiders of Morbid franchise, the Raiders have not been relevant.
You think about the Raiders, they have not been relevant
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in a generation or two at this point, certainly a generation,
I guess a little over a generation now.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
The last time the Raiders had a competitive team on
the field.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So that was the set up Mile High City, the
Raiders taking their oxygen tanks to the five and eighty
feet in the sky rocky mountain air there in Denver.
It was Pete Carroll's Silver and Black versus Sean Payton's Broncos,
and it was set to be a slobberd knocker, a
true slabber knocker. Now Vegas seemingly had no chance in
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this game if you look at the gambling line, you
look at the way the Broncos defense is played.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He said, well, there's no actually, no.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Way, no way that this game will be close. If
you saw the game or not, maybe not, I've already
said it's a sninker. So but you didn't miss anything.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You did not miss anything.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
The Broncos now they do stay atop the AFC West.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Their defense played.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Very well, although I don't know how good they are
because Gino Smith sucks. They sacked Gino Smith, not once,
not twice, not three times, not four times, not five?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How about six times?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Gino Smith was sacked several of those because his incompetence
as a quarterback. Las Vegas had ten first downs.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's it. Of course, the Broncos were just as bad.
Bo Nicks did.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Connect with Troy Franklin for a Denver touchdown, and the
Raiders were led by Ashton Genti, the rookie from Boise State,
who did have a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That was the only highlight for the Raiders, who had
a chance to tie the game.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
This would have likely ended in a tie the way
both teams were playing on offense. But Daniel Carlson, whose
dad ran WKRP in Cincinnati, Daniel Carlson, they're missing a
game tying forty eight yard field goal with under four
and a half.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Minutes to go in the game, So Denver they get
to win.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They win their seventh straight game, seventh straight game, the
longest winning streak in a decade. That's how pathetic the
Broncos have been for a long time. And they extend
their home winning streak to ten. I know milkman Miken
call Dodo and his wife very excited about that, but
the chatter is not about it's not about the Raiders here.
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The Raiders, we'll get to them in a second. The
better story here is actually in the Broncos. It's very
bizarre that you have the record that the Broncos have
and yet you're in a situation they're in where they
just didn't look very good. I guess, one of the
worst franchises in Pro football and they needed a miskick
to avoid likely going to overtime. It's rather pathetic. So
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that's what everyone's happening about, and specifically bow Knicks.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What's going on with bow Nicks? What's up with this guy?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You look at what Drake May has been able to
do for the New Orland Patriots this year in the
same draft class, and I don't think JJ McCarthy's anything
to write home about. But the way that Broncos were
bragging about bow Nicks, you'd think these are the kind
of games you fill up your statu sheet, and instead
bow Knicks booed off the field boooooooooooo for bow Knicks
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as he was innated in the Rocky Mountains with the booze.
People very upset with the way that the Broncos were
matriculating the ball down the field.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Ball. Let's start with that.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And here is bon Nicks in his own words on
being booed by the hometown fans.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Take a listen, but you think about some of their
reaction to booze and that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Well, I've been booed before, and I'll be booed again,
so I'm not gonna be the last time. It's obviously unfortunate.
You don't want your your own fans booing you, but
you know it's part of it, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
So that is a good jumping off point.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs down.
Thumbs up or thumbs down, does bow Nicks deserve the
heat for his play with the Broncos now summer, Say,
it's only one game. The weather conditions were not great
because it was windy and all that stuff. So on
this one, I've got Checkmate, Iron Maiden and Masquerade Ball,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice fast because I'm
on one right now.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So I'm not eating anything, so I'm not gonna cook anything.
I'm not gonna bake anything. I'm just gonna fast, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So Hey, to answer the question, thumbs up or thumbs down.
Does bon Nicks deserve the heat for the way he's
playing or played in this game anyway with the Broncos.
So it big thumbs up, big fat thumbs up, big
fat thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You're the quarterback. You're in the big chair.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
As our old morning guy used to say back in
the day, you get the credit when it's good. Everyone
licks your toes when things are going well, and you.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Get to blame when it goes bad and it's really bad,
bad to the bone.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's how this works. That's how all of this works.
And I get so annoyed. As I'm not a Bronco fan, obviously,
I don't really spend too much time thinking about.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
The Broncos, but I see some of the stuff that's
out there.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It's like the excuse making already the body on the
game is not even cold, and already some of these
Bronco apologies, like wow, the wind conditions were not particularly good.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You're telling me that bow Knicks gets a mulligan because
of the weather conditions, Like you you played the Raiders,
you played the Las Vegas rat that's like a powder
puff football team. They suck, They suck. In altitude, they suck.
On sea level, they just suck, okay, And so so
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what's it?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So only bow can play well in perfect conditions?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
What?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
You don't play the dome. There's no dome, there's no
roof over the stadium. So what's he gonna do when
it's ten degrees and you're playing a playoff game at
home in January and it's snowing. How's that gonna go?
So this was not the bow show. This was the
bow No show is what it is. Here is Bownick
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pointing out that the offense, the point total a little unbecoming.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Take a listen, you gotta do better.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
At some point, ten points gonna be enough. We gotta
score more. We just have a tough, for resilient football team.
We five ways to win. Usually right now it's the
defense leaning the charge. They just continue against the ball back.
A bunch of sacks tonight, you know, a few that
were in fieldical range that knocked them out. And he'll
win a lot of games with the defense playing like that.
And then tonight we had a little spark with some
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special teams plays and then you know, we just at
some point we got to start moving the football at
scoring points.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
A couple of things.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
First of all, doesn't he sound like Dan Rolofsky, You
know that terrible commentator who was a horrible NFL quarterback,
dani ro Lobsky.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He sounds to me like dani Rolobsky, just.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Very robotic, lifeless bo Nicks like he's just memorized sports
cliche dot commas what it sounded like to me. But hey, dude,
you're in the cockpit and right now you're riding the
vomit comet, So congratulations on that. Broncos offense is riding
the vomit comet, a migraine inducing offense. Ten first downs
against the Raiders. The Raiders like, at least the Raiders
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have the excuse when they had no offense. They said, well,
we played the Broncos are supposedly good. You're the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You suck. What is that?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Five of fifteen? I believe I'm third down terrible and
bow Knicks. The numbers are bad, but they're merely misleading.
Bo Nicks had one hundred and fifty yards passing in
this game. Okay, one hundred fifty yards.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's not good. That's not good.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
He had forty three of them on one big pass play,
so that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Means I did the math on this. The other twenty.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Seven pass attempts for bow Knicks, he averaged less than
four yards per past three point nine yards per pass.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Now, in chess they say checkmate, right, you've heard that
in chess, checkmate bow Knicks. When he's playing quarterback with
the Broncos, he says, check down is what he says.
There Several times I lost count. He completed passes on
third down throws that were short of the sticks, Like,
why not just throw the ball into the upper deck?
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Why even bother throwing if you're gonna throw it, and
it's clearly in an area where the receiver's not going
to get yards after the catch. He has to go
back to catch the ball, allowing the defense to get
in a position to make a stop there. And he
did that multiple times in this particular game, which is
one of the most maddening things to do. If you
watch football and it's third down and the quarterback the
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numbers look good. He completed the pass. Now, his numbers
in this game were not good at all, but he
completed the pass. And it's just short line to gain.
You can't run an NFL offense that way and how bad?
How bad are things? Well, following this el Stinko performance,
the updated numbers, bo doesn't look very good at quarterback
of the Broncos. The updated numbers. His passer rating now
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is lower than Kyler Murray. Now, why do we bring
that name up? Kyler Murray was benched, he was demoted
by the Cardinals, and the Broncos quarterback is statistically worse.
And the eyeball test even are blind listeners who don't
have functioning eyeballs, even they would I tell you he sucks.
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And so Kyler got benched and bow he deserves the like. Again,
you're either part of the solution or you're part of
the problem. Right now, on that offense, he is the latter.
And if Russell Wilson, you know, Russell somewhere poured one
out to celebrate the fact that Broncos offense looks so
bad even though Denver won. He has a grudge against
Sean Payton. But if Russell Wilson were here to comment
(13:22):
about the Denver offense, he'd say, Bronco Country, let's sigh
because your side you sigh.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
When you watch the Broncos on offense.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You're like, Wow, that's not gonna do anything, all right. Now,
continuing the theme of the hour, So the question now
is what intrigues you the most from the wide angle
lens wide angle lens, what intrigues you the most about
Sean Payton's Broncos, who at this moment I just slayed
bo Nicks. They are the top team in the NFL.
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The Denver Broncos are in the catbird seat in the
entire NFL.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
They're eight and two. They're eight and two, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So this run by the Broncos ten games into the season,
it's like that Iron Maiden lyric living on a razor's edge.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That is the way the Broncos are doing it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You watch them play, iff, see them play a few times,
played against the Eagles, saw that a while back, and
the game against the Colts where their.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Special teams screwed it up.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
But the Broncos are bipolar, right, They're allergic to style points.
Denver had more penalties than first downs.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Just like the Raiders did.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
But it's when the Raiders do it, it's like, well
the Raiders, they they're bad.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That's what bad teams do with the Broncos are supposed
to be good.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
They had eleven flags, ten first downs, seven three and
outs on thirteen drives, more than half of the Broncos
drives three and out. It's just not it's not a
championship level football. But yet they have the record. So
it's it's mind boggling. And here in an island game
where everyone's watching the world's chicking you out, and the
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Broncos look like the most fraudulent eight and two team
we've seen in the NFL in years. They just don't
pass the test there. And you watch them and you go,
how the hell are they winning these games? Like I
get that they have a good defense, My god, And
so to use a horse racing analogy, that the Broncos
are winning these games even though they're not played in
terrible weather most of them, it's like they're in a swamp.
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And if you know anything about racing and horse racing,
the Broncos thing is kind of a false nickname.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
They're really the mutters.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
The Broncos are the mutters this year, a bunch of
race horses slogging through the slop of their terrible offense
and somehow finishing ahead of everyone else in the race.
So the Denver Mutters, not the Malors, the Mutters, old
school ugly football. Now, I'm not gonna say in a
trash obviously defense is legit. I don't even negative to
say about the defense. They're the real deal and all that.
(15:54):
The rest of the team, a lot of divine intervention
is needed, and it is uh with the capitol you ugly.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
In fact, you look at just the way.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
They're playing undisciplined football, and I crunch the numbers and
I say, the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
There's only two teams or the Mutters.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
There's Chicago Bears and Jacksonville to commit more penalties per
game than the Denver football team. So let's send a
text message over to Sean Payton, and right now we'll
let Sean know. Sean, you're either coaching the team this
way to be undisciplined or you're allowing it. Either way,
it's on you. You're the big money coach. You're the
highest pid coach in the NFL by most accounts. You're
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the guy that wanted this whole thing. You handpicked most
of the roster. And somehow the Broncos are winning a
knife fight and they have a butter knife, but they're
winning You shouldn't win a butter You shouldn't win.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
A knife fight with a butter knife. There's not a
lot of rhythm, not a lot of flow. They're not
very graceful.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
They're not like a gazelle running across the serengetti.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
There's none of that. And yet here we are, here
we are. Somehow they end up with another wins. Not sustainable.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Can't keep living on the razor's edge without getting cut.
So but the the Muters are eight and two, and
is that false advertising shirt because they don't.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
They don't have the vibe of an eight and two team.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
But they're laughing all the way to the very top
of NFL Mountain for now in the standings, O right,
last word to the losing locker.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Room the Raiders. Oh yeah, all right?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So question is this a step in the right direction
or a step in the wrong direction? As the Raiders
had a shot to tie the game in the fourth
quarter against what is the NFL's top team. So what's
the temperature? Here's the question, what's the temperature in the
room for.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Pete Carroll and the Raiders. The NFL's oldest coach.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
The NFL's oldest coast well here is before I answer
that question, here's Pete Carroll giving his state of the
Raider address.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
There's so many things we can get better at it.
But the fighters in this dog now, I ain't no
doubt about it, and so I really I couldn't wait
to tell them how proud I was of the way
they competed. And so we all know in this room
we don't do something, and so it's just a matter
of time.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Congratulations Raider fans.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
You get a nice little sticker there, participation ribbon as well.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Good job, good loss, good loss by the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
So the temperature for Pete Carroll is boiling hot, boiling hot.
The silver and black. If you look at the thermometer,
it just shattered. It just shattered here with zigzag lightning overhead.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
This was your shot, this was your chance.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Le Broncos offense wanted to give you the game, and
Gino Smith's I.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Don't want the game. I don't need the game.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I know Halloween, Gino's like, I know, Halloween was just
a few days ago. But you know what I'm proving
even after Halloween that on a weekly basis I visit
the Masquerade Ball and there was Gino at the Masquerade
Ball and back up being pro up as a starter.
He's got the mask on like he's a starter, and
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they should write a book about how Geno Smith, who
everyone knew sucked with the Jets when he first came
and couldn't play, and how this guy was able to
hornswoggle Seattle. I kind of understand the Seattle thing because
they needed somebody and they got rid of Russell Wilson
and he happened to be there, so like, we'll throw
this stiff out, and he proved to be a stiff
(19:24):
and so he I just laughed because I remember conversations
with like Nostradinis and some of the guys who are
Seattle Seahawk lapdogs.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
You're like, oh, no, Geno's good. Yeah no, he was
never good. Number one and number two, the.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Fact that Gino not only convinced Seattle to get him,
but now the Raiders and he's.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
The NFL's thirtieth ranked quarterback.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Now, remember the narrative was when the Raiders went out
and got Geno Smith.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
The narrative as well, okay, upgrade, upgrade.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
The numbers are like, okay, he's gonna be at least
average so he's the thirty of the rank quarterback in
the NFL.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
He's an upgrade unless he's not.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
So I went back and I looked Aidan O'Connell, who
played a lot at the end. It kind of took
over mid season or early part of the season and
played most of the year.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Aidan O'Connell last year was the.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Twenty sixth ranked quarterback in the NFL. So the Raiders
went out they signed it. As Pete Carroll said, you know,
they got some dogs in there, they got dogs with flees.
So they signed this guy who's a dog with fleas,
gave him a big contract, and are worse off than
they were if they just kept Aidan O'Connell around and
throwing him out there. And the way Gino plays that
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plotting style and they just running in sand the Raiders'
offense there. Other than that, they're fine. Okay, I just
want the record. They're fine other than that. And you
can practically hear the trickle down panic when Gino's playing
quarterback there, the receivers are barking the lineman or something.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Well, they traded Jacoby Myers. That's why the Raiders didn't score. Okay,
if you're gonna die on that mountain. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You look at the sideline, right, You look at the sideline,
and they got that that Marines thing embrace the suck.
But they're not embracing it, trying to fight through it.
It's like we suck coming of age, more like coming apart.
For Pete Carroll's team, they know who they are. It's
at the point now I get to mid season where
past mid season bad teams know they're bad.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
They know they're bad.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
They're that that toxicity, and the Silver and Black are
giving their fans the few hearty souls that are left
that love the Raiders like Scrooge in the Bay Area,
they're giving them mercury poisoning. Right, and Tom Brady's fingerprints
are all over this mess. We might have to call
slug in Vegas and get slugged to have an intervention.
(21:38):
The ownership group that the hires, the culture, all that,
and Tom Brady. No one wants to rip him in
the media because Tom Brady's a.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
God, but boy did he botch This man.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Hired the wrong coach, hired the wrong quarterback, just a
bad roster. It's like going to a It's like getting
a Brazilian. You know, butt in plan in a third
world country and you end up dying.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It's just bad. Now.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Meanwhile, Pete Carroll's probably on the sidelines. They're dreaming of
the Early Bird Special and playing some jin rummy like
what did I do? I didn't sign up for this.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
It's like you want to get away? Man? Is it depressing?
Not for me, I'm not a Raider fan. It is
the Ben Mahllard Show.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
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That'll be coming up an hour two of the show,
and then we'll have Sports Jeopardy and the Koops Scoop
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Speaker 2 (22:47):
I'll be coming up an hour number four as well.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Take your calls up until then and your comments and
all that as we celebrate. I saw Al Michael's there
mentioned the beaver moon on the broadcast I was hoping
he would mention Andrea the astrology insider, But there it was.
They showed the moon. The game was so bad. You
know what games bad When they do a shot of
a moon. That's a dead giveaway, dead giveaway.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Not a good game, not a good game at all.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Anyway, we'll take here called straight ahead as we just
get started.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We're just beginning the journey in the overnight hours. It's
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is a popper. We'll get to that and we will
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now back to it.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Back to it we go is the Denver Broncos would
have home field advantage in the playoffs if the season
ended today. It'd also be looking for a quarterback next
year the way Boone Nicks is playing right now.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
But I digress. So they win and at the end
of the year, you.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
You divvy it all up, and the Raiders at eight
and two will they be joined this weekend by the
Colts at eight and two. When you look at your
your standings in the in the NFL, you either your
conference standings of the New England Pageots also can get
to eight and two. And it's obviously NFC teams that
are had bye weeks that are a little bit behind that.
But the Broncos, Colts and Patriots the top teams in
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the AFC, and so Denver currently in the number one spot.
Not a very exciting game. In fact, we have a
fun fact we get to that in a minute about
how bad it was the burner account rights in the
number one.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Ben Dower.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Says, thanks for the shout out, benjam I don't do
shout outs. If you want a shout out, I'm on cameo,
and I'd be happy to do a shout out, but
I don't do shout outs. It was a mention, not
a shout out. So don't ever say I do a
shout out. That's a mention. There is a big difference
between a mention.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And a shout out. A shout out is big time
radio guy, big money. Mention is overnight guy.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So if I have to explain the difference between mention
and shout out again, I'm gonna be very upset.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I don't do shoutouts. I don't I do mentions. It's
a difference there anyway. Berner account says the pumpkin called
Geno Smith should be arrested for stealing the Raiders' money.
This long, I guess he finally wrote back low hanging fruit. Yes,
remember that great moment in recent NFL history.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Geno writing back.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
A gunner who works at a Walmart in northern Minnesota says,
I challenge you to some picks on the NFL. You
give me your picks, I'll give you mind. Bring it
on you, loser.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, Gunner.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
If they're looking for a face of obtuse, you would
be the face of I love you, Gunner, I do
you're you're a sweetheart. You've you've picked a very odd
group of teams to like Carolin.
Speaker 9 (27:46):
Not a shout out.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, it's again mentioned, not a shout out. So here's
the thing, though, Gunner, let me point out here. I
will give you all of my picks right now because
I like it.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Gunner.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So go over to YouTube at Benny Penny and the
newest episode, the full edition of week ten.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
You can check that out.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
All the big games right there, Week ten of Benny
versus the Penny. No Stradinas writes in from Seattle. He says, oh, no,
you have it wrong again, Ben, no Stradina says, with
his vegan wife, he says, it's Gino who in seahawks Land.
We're all in on Darnold because he is Samtastic. Okay,
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so I think it might have been a word missing there,
but so we're going with Samtastic.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Is that what we're doing here? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Okay, not a burner, right, Since, says Ben, the greed
over at Disney is getting out of control, can we
sneak Bill Miller into the corporate office to see to
be the enforcer that will end the conflict?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Well, that's very odd.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
The burner account has made an AI video of me
crawling through. I'm in good shape. I don't mind the video.
I'm in good shape and I'm wearing my hat from
the TV show from last year and I'm crawling. Well,
that's a little odd.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I don't know about how I feel about that. Who
else do we have to see? Page down? Can't can't
read that.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Ferg Dog says boat Nick should be booed. Boo boo
that man. The Broncos had one and done. They have
won and done written all over them. People are not
talking about the Mighty Ducks should be booed too. They
won five games in a row. What more do.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You want from them?
Speaker 9 (29:28):
All right?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I mean I don't know we talk about the Mighty Ducks.
I mean, come on, what are we doing?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
We're not going there?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I did, I did my hockey quota for the month.
I mentioned hockey yesterday. Rob the Goatman says the Broncos
are the fake id of the NFL. They have only
beaten one team with a winning record. Even blind Emmett
can see they aren't skating by on talent. That's from
from the man there. The goat man screwge. Only the
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Raiders could lose to a quarterback who is having the
worst game of his career. Great moments in Raider history. Well,
are you ready for a fun fact? I know you're
ready for a fun fact. Here we go, fun fact time.
Here we go, fun fact.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Fun fat matter, fun fact.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
So if you go back the last generation a little
over generation, to the year two thousand, to the year
two thousand, so that game on Thursday night only the
third game the last twenty five years to have fifteen
or more punts, twenty or more penalties, and less than
twenty points. It's only happened two other times. The two
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other times happened in twenty nineteen before the pandemic, Week
one Packers and Bears, Week one Packers and Bears, and
then it also happened in twenty oh five the Bears
again the common denominator for our friend Tree and Fayze
and Yapimi and all their guys in Chicago, the common
denominator is the Bears, but not on this night. So
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the Bears played the Ravens in Week seven of the
five season, and that also ended up being a a
stinker l stinko.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
If you will all, let's go to the calls.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I just I don't know what Cooper loop, go ahead, Coop, Yes,
go ahead, Coop A loop now will defend bo Nicks
and say he look great, the Broncos are wonderful.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
Yes, no, he didn't look great.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
But I just don't know what to think about this team, because, yeah,
the eyeball test tells you that the offense is terrible.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Uh, and it's that's not gonna go well.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
But I mean, but you look at the stats and
even before this game, you take take the ten points
that they scored away from this game, there's still only
seven teams in the NFL that had scored more points
than them up to this point. You look at bone
Knick's stats overall since since he came into the league,
and you know, they're they're comparable with with other quarterbacks
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that are considered good.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
But the eyeball test, it doesn't It just doesn't look good.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I don't know. I have a million of shoes like, oh,
you want to coach fire? Do you want to fire
the play caller? Who's the play caller is.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Payton?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
I don't want him fire, but I don't know. He
needs to give up play calling, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
So I have the updated numbers after the game on
Thursday night. The Broncos are currently fifteenth in yards per game,
fifteenth in total offense yards per game. They are now
slightly behind the Atlanta Falcons with another second year quarterback,
Michael Pennox junior in Atlanta. So it's it's not not
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great now. The counter argument, Now, you know, I'm not
Benny Bridside, Coop, you know that I don't believe in
being Benny Brightside. But the counter argument, I'm I'm a dinosaur.
I was on the radio when Tom Brady took over
with the Patriots, and Tom Brady did not have good
numbers when he started with the Patriots, and they were
winning games ugly, and they were like mutters the Patriots,
and they won and eventually Brady grew into the position
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and became the great eatest quarterback of all time. But
when he started the first year, he was not very good.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
It was the same thing with Elway.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Well that was back when everyone was like that, when
Elway was back in the day.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
But I mean bra in the modern ear though, Brady
was not good, and there were people even after this
the Super Bowl. They were like, well, we have to
go back to bled Cell because Brad. They won in
spite of Brady. It sounds crazy to say that, It
sounds absolutely insane to say that, but I'm telling you
that was the conversation that was having, that was happening
at the time around.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
That that period. So, hey, you got eight wins and you.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Almost guaranteed you really have to f this up not
to make the playoffs at this particular point.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
So you're gonna be in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Uh, let's go to the phones, though, and let's say hello, Yeni, meeni,
miney mo. Let's go to trucker Shane driving around the
highways and byeways in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Hello trucker Shane.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
So.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
Being a Raiders fan is like being married to a
woman that hates you and chicken in the nuts repeatedly
every Sunday.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Hey, Lee, now is the woman good looking? Or is
she not not good looking?
Speaker 7 (34:12):
She's a she's a real dog, and you're wow, I'm
just chicken in the nuts over and over and over
being a family, right, I don't know why I'm a fan.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Man, Well i'll tell I'll tell you, I'll tell you
why you're a fan because you made a decision as
a child and you're an adult and you're sticking with
the decision you made as a kid.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
You can beg my father for that move.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, now you're now you're blaming your father. Now you're
now you're blaming family. That's a family issue.
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Yeah, so I was born into but I know I
was thinking, the only thing we're good at is punting.
So uh, instead of trying to play offense, we should
just punt ball, be getting it every game and just
work on that.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
You know, that's a that's a that's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Just play the field because really lean into the fact
that you don't have a quarterback. How about you just
run the the like the Delaware wing t offense, that
old school offense, and just run just run the or
run the option, run the old Nebraska offense and just
run the option, the wishbone.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
The Oklahoma wishbone.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
Gino is a He was a bost win one wretch.
Ryan drafted him.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
It is one of the great stories. How this guy,
what a con that Gino Smith was able to pull off.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I give him credit. I mean, he's not very good.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
He sucks and he's convinced multiple NFL franchises is give
him a chance to start, and he's been terrible everywhere
he's played.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Yeah, well he's still out there doing it making money.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Hey, let the record show though, your guy, Tom Brady,
he chose he signed off on Geno Smith. I'm sure
Pete Carroll wanted Gino Smith, but Tom Brady signed off
on him.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
He said, that's the guy I want.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Hey, you now, on the head, this whole thing is
tom Brady everything. Where's tom Brady? Every decision? And it's
I give up?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
You know, you don't want to give up yet, you know,
it's you just have fun mocking them, and then you'll
have another top draft pick and then you can draft
somebody that's gonna be amazing, and then once you get him,
they'll suck.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
And you know that's the way it goes. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:15):
I get mocked enough on my own without mocking. I
don't in places in my head on like, oh, you're
a Raiders fans.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, well that's something that meant.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Man.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
That was a badge of honor when I was growing
up being a Raider fan. You were like the toughest
guy in the block. If you're a Raider fan man.
Speaker 7 (36:32):
Yeah not now I walk in Oh look at that.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yeah, I can't blame people. It could be it could
be worse. He could be a Titans fan. That would
you know?
Speaker 7 (36:44):
That would be badly thing worse. Yeah, that plue. I
couldn't wear that blue man. By the way, the reason
the Broncos barely beat them tonight because they thought they
were going to railroad the Raiders and they didn't take
him serious. And that's why they played it, you know,
half bucks to night.
Speaker 9 (36:59):
But well, even with.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
That, I mean, the crazy thing about it is the
Broncos had the ball up by three, they had it
in Raider territory, they score a touchdown, they were covered
the spread. As bad as they played, they still you know,
I say, if some butts were candy and nuts.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
And all that, they were covered every bet. But uh,
and I I lost.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
If you watched Benny versus the penny I had the
I took the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I laid the points, and I don't mind. That's I'm
fine with that.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I would not have wanted to put my money on
the Raiders with ginoskick, so I'm fine losing that bet.
The Broncos defense played the way I thought they would play.
They held the Raiders to one one score. I just
I can't believe how bad the Broncos offense. Would you
expect to be that bad?
Speaker 9 (37:42):
I'm assuming you watched the whole game.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I did.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I had nothing else to watch. There was nothing else
on TV, so I watched the entire game.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Yes, have you ever seen a worst sequence by a
punter in your entire life?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (37:54):
Oh my?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah? Did they practice that?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Cooper?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Is that just organic?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Is that like like after a while, you're like, this guy,
this guy's got the yeps you he cannot kick the ball.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Will there be a change this week? Though, that's the question.
They're going to just continue to ride this out.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
I almost blame myself because the like, before the game started,
I had I had a buddy over to watch the game,
and I or before the first punt, I was like,
this guy, if he just gets his accuracy down, you
know last week he was just booming monster punts.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
We're gonna have to put save the pause right there, Coop,
because if I don't, Lorend's gonna kick me in the
nuts here.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
So all right, here's the who am I game?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Broncos quarterback bow Knicks has six wins in games he's
had a passer rating of less than seventy six.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
I am the only other.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Quarterback with more wins and starts with a sub seventy passer.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Rating the last decade.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Again, bow Nick six wins, passer rating less than seventy
and I'm the only other quarterback that has more wins
in that situation the last decade.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Who am I the answer?
Speaker 4 (38:58):
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Back to it a right back to it, and time
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Speaker 4 (39:48):
Game?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
The Broncos quarterback Bo Nicks has six wins in games
that he's had a passer rating of less than seventy,
and I'm the only quarter back with more wins and
starts with a sub seventy passer rating in the last
ten seasons.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
That's a decade of football. So let's see does anyone
know the answer? Here?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
We go to the Malard Blissa of the Great Unwashed
to see if anybody has the answer.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
We go page down.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Here we see brock Osweiler, guests by Shane case Keenum
from Femi Kyler, Murray the Little Fella Alligator Arms Murray
from alf the Alien Opiner, Stephen Hawking from Rob the Goatman,
de Brickershaw, Ferguson from Robbie the Falcon Fan.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Who else do we have? Page Dan Let's see here
both of the district Attorney says, I love the punter talk. Yeah,
we should talk more. Punter.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Spock's weeds going with Gino Smith, Alexa Bliss from just
Josh you know It's Friday, Peter North from g Mans,
I know what he's watching. Terry in England says Mike
Glennon's neck.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
James Jet from Big Lou He's on number two. The
Reverend Tim Tebow from Elkman, Mike in Colorado, Jake Plummer
from Shawn the Valley of the Sun, Curly Neil from
Doc Dan.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Do you have an Antela?
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Ran quickly R two D two No, I believe it
or not, it's Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bill's the
only other quarterback
Speaker 2 (41:11):
That's one as many as quotinx with bad games.
It's not the Bow Show, It's the Bow No No Welcome,
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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before we tell you what's coming up on the podcast,
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for his play with the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
They did win the game.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It was one of the ugliest games we've seen, one
of the three ugliest games last twenty years in the NFL. Also,
what intrigues you the most about Sean Payton's Broncos. They
have the top record in terms of wins eight and
two in the NFL. Yet they don't look all that good.
And what is the temperature in the room for the
losers for Pete Carroll's Raiders, as the defense did their job,
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but the offense did not do theirs with that high
paid offensive coordinator, Chip Kelly.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We'll get to that and more right now here. It
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Benny Vspenny as well, Benny Vspenny. Here's our number one. Well,
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Speaker 1 (03:21):
And our lead this hour don't bury the lead mo Man.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Our lead this hour is from what else? That's right?
The Thursday night game? Why? Why not? What the heck?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So we'll start with the Broncos coming in great record,
all right, Broncos great record win against the Eagles was nice.
Some of the other wins not that impressive. So you're like, okay,
what's going on here? Who are the real Denver Broncos?
The Raiders of Morbid franchise, the Raiders have not been relevant.
You think about the Raiders, they have not been relevant
(03:56):
in a generation or two at this point, certainly a generation,
I guess a little over a generation now.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
The last time the Raiders had a competitive team on
the field.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So that was the set up Mile High City, the
Raiders taking their oxygen tanks to the five and eighty
feet in the sky rocky mountain air there in Denver.
It was Pete Carroll's Silver and Black versus Sean Payton's Broncos,
and it was set to be a slobberd knocker, a
true slabber knocker. Now Vegas seemingly had no chance in
(04:28):
this game if you look at the gambling line, you
look at the way the Broncos defense is played.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He said, well, there's no actually, no.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Way, no way that this game will be close. If
you saw the game or not, maybe not, I've already
said it's a sninker. So but you didn't miss anything.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You did not miss anything.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
The Broncos now they do stay atop the AFC West.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Their defense played.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Very well, although I don't know how good they are
because Gino Smith sucks. They sacked Gino Smith, not once,
not twice, not three times, not four times, not five?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How about six times?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Gino Smith was sacked several of those because his incompetence
as a quarterback. Las Vegas had ten first downs.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's it. Of course, the Broncos were just as bad.
Bo Nicks did.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Connect with Troy Franklin for a Denver touchdown, and the
Raiders were led by Ashton Genti, the rookie from Boise State,
who did have a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That was the only highlight for the Raiders, who had
a chance to tie the game.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
This would have likely ended in a tie the way
both teams were playing on offense. But Daniel Carlson, whose
dad ran WKRP in Cincinnati, Daniel Carlson, they're missing a
game tying forty eight yard field goal with under four
and a half.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Minutes to go in the game, So Denver they get
to win.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They win their seventh straight game, seventh straight game, the
longest winning streak in a decade. That's how pathetic the
Broncos have been for a long time. And they extend
their home winning streak to ten. I know milkman Miken
call Dodo and his wife very excited about that, but
the chatter is not about it's not about the Raiders here.
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The Raiders, we'll get to them in a second. The
better story here is actually in the Broncos. It's very
bizarre that you have the record that the Broncos have
and yet you're in a situation they're in where they
just didn't look very good. I guess, one of the
worst franchises in Pro football and they needed a miskick
to avoid likely going to overtime. It's rather pathetic. So
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that's what everyone's happening about, and specifically bow Knicks.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What's going on with bow Nicks? What's up with this guy?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You look at what Drake May has been able to
do for the New Orland Patriots this year in the
same draft class, and I don't think JJ McCarthy's anything
to write home about. But the way that Broncos were
bragging about bow Nicks, you'd think these are the kind
of games you fill up your statu sheet, and instead
bow Knicks booed off the field boooooooooooo for bow Knicks
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as he was innated in the Rocky Mountains with the booze.
People very upset with the way that the Broncos were
matriculating the ball down the field.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Ball. Let's start with that.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And here is bon Nicks in his own words on
being booed by the hometown fans.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Take a listen, but you think about some of their
reaction to booze and that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Well, I've been booed before, and I'll be booed again,
so I'm not gonna be the last time. It's obviously unfortunate.
You don't want your your own fans booing you, but
you know it's part of it, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
So that is a good jumping off point.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs down.
Thumbs up or thumbs down, does bow Nicks deserve the
heat for his play with the Broncos now summer, Say,
it's only one game. The weather conditions were not great
because it was windy and all that stuff. So on
this one, I've got Checkmate, Iron Maiden and Masquerade Ball,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice fast because I'm
on one right now.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So I'm not eating anything, so I'm not gonna cook anything.
I'm not gonna bake anything. I'm just gonna fast, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So Hey, to answer the question, thumbs up or thumbs down.
Does bon Nicks deserve the heat for the way he's
playing or played in this game anyway with the Broncos.
So it big thumbs up, big fat thumbs up, big
fat thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You're the quarterback. You're in the big chair.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
As our old morning guy used to say back in
the day, you get the credit when it's good. Everyone
licks your toes when things are going well, and you.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Get to blame when it goes bad and it's really bad,
bad to the bone.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's how this works. That's how all of this works.
And I get so annoyed. As I'm not a Bronco fan, obviously,
I don't really spend too much time thinking about.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
The Broncos, but I see some of the stuff that's
out there.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It's like the excuse making already the body on the
game is not even cold, and already some of these
Bronco apologies, like wow, the wind conditions were not particularly good.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You're telling me that bow Knicks gets a mulligan because
of the weather conditions, Like you you played the Raiders,
you played the Las Vegas rat that's like a powder
puff football team. They suck, They suck. In altitude, they suck.
On sea level, they just suck, okay, And so so
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what's it?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So only bow can play well in perfect conditions?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
What?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
You don't play the dome. There's no dome, there's no
roof over the stadium. So what's he gonna do when
it's ten degrees and you're playing a playoff game at
home in January and it's snowing. How's that gonna go?
So this was not the bow show. This was the
bow No show is what it is. Here is Bownick
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pointing out that the offense, the point total a little unbecoming.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Take a listen, you gotta do better.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
At some point, ten points gonna be enough. We gotta
score more. We just have a tough, for resilient football team.
We five ways to win. Usually right now it's the
defense leaning the charge. They just continue against the ball back.
A bunch of sacks tonight, you know, a few that
were in fieldical range that knocked them out. And he'll
win a lot of games with the defense playing like that.
And then tonight we had a little spark with some
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special teams plays and then you know, we just at
some point we got to start moving the football at
scoring points.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
A couple of things.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
First of all, doesn't he sound like Dan Rolofsky, You
know that terrible commentator who was a horrible NFL quarterback,
dani ro Lobsky.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He sounds to me like dani Rolobsky, just.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Very robotic, lifeless bo Nicks like he's just memorized sports
cliche dot commas what it sounded like to me. But hey, dude,
you're in the cockpit and right now you're riding the
vomit comet, So congratulations on that. Broncos offense is riding
the vomit comet, a migraine inducing offense. Ten first downs
against the Raiders. The Raiders like, at least the Raiders
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have the excuse when they had no offense. They said, well,
we played the Broncos are supposedly good. You're the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You suck. What is that?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Five of fifteen? I believe I'm third down terrible and
bow Knicks. The numbers are bad, but they're merely misleading.
Bo Nicks had one hundred and fifty yards passing in
this game. Okay, one hundred fifty yards.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's not good. That's not good.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
He had forty three of them on one big pass play,
so that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Means I did the math on this. The other twenty.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Seven pass attempts for bow Knicks, he averaged less than
four yards per past three point nine yards per pass.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Now, in chess they say checkmate, right, you've heard that
in chess, checkmate bow Knicks. When he's playing quarterback with
the Broncos, he says, check down is what he says.
There Several times I lost count. He completed passes on
third down throws that were short of the sticks, Like,
why not just throw the ball into the upper deck?
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Why even bother throwing if you're gonna throw it, and
it's clearly in an area where the receiver's not going
to get yards after the catch. He has to go
back to catch the ball, allowing the defense to get
in a position to make a stop there. And he
did that multiple times in this particular game, which is
one of the most maddening things to do. If you
watch football and it's third down and the quarterback the
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numbers look good. He completed the pass. Now, his numbers
in this game were not good at all, but he
completed the pass. And it's just short line to gain.
You can't run an NFL offense that way and how bad?
How bad are things? Well, following this el Stinko performance,
the updated numbers, bo doesn't look very good at quarterback
of the Broncos. The updated numbers. His passer rating now
(12:41):
is lower than Kyler Murray. Now, why do we bring
that name up? Kyler Murray was benched, he was demoted
by the Cardinals, and the Broncos quarterback is statistically worse.
And the eyeball test even are blind listeners who don't
have functioning eyeballs, even they would I tell you he sucks.
(13:02):
And so Kyler got benched and bow he deserves the like. Again,
you're either part of the solution or you're part of
the problem. Right now, on that offense, he is the latter.
And if Russell Wilson, you know, Russell somewhere poured one
out to celebrate the fact that Broncos offense looks so
bad even though Denver won. He has a grudge against
Sean Payton. But if Russell Wilson were here to comment
(13:22):
about the Denver offense, he'd say, Bronco Country, let's sigh
because your side you sigh.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
When you watch the Broncos on offense.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You're like, Wow, that's not gonna do anything, all right. Now,
continuing the theme of the hour, So the question now
is what intrigues you the most from the wide angle
lens wide angle lens, what intrigues you the most about
Sean Payton's Broncos, who at this moment I just slayed
bo Nicks. They are the top team in the NFL.
(13:53):
The Denver Broncos are in the catbird seat in the
entire NFL.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
They're eight and two. They're eight and two, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So this run by the Broncos ten games into the season,
it's like that Iron Maiden lyric living on a razor's edge.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That is the way the Broncos are doing it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You watch them play, iff, see them play a few times,
played against the Eagles, saw that a while back, and
the game against the Colts where their.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Special teams screwed it up.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
But the Broncos are bipolar, right, They're allergic to style points.
Denver had more penalties than first downs.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Just like the Raiders did.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
But it's when the Raiders do it, it's like, well
the Raiders, they they're bad.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That's what bad teams do with the Broncos are supposed
to be good.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
They had eleven flags, ten first downs, seven three and
outs on thirteen drives, more than half of the Broncos
drives three and out. It's just not it's not a
championship level football. But yet they have the record. So
it's it's mind boggling. And here in an island game
where everyone's watching the world's chicking you out, and the
(15:00):
Broncos look like the most fraudulent eight and two team
we've seen in the NFL in years. They just don't
pass the test there. And you watch them and you go,
how the hell are they winning these games? Like I
get that they have a good defense, My god, And
so to use a horse racing analogy, that the Broncos
are winning these games even though they're not played in
terrible weather most of them, it's like they're in a swamp.
(15:23):
And if you know anything about racing and horse racing,
the Broncos thing is kind of a false nickname.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
They're really the mutters.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
The Broncos are the mutters this year, a bunch of
race horses slogging through the slop of their terrible offense
and somehow finishing ahead of everyone else in the race.
So the Denver Mutters, not the Malors, the Mutters, old
school ugly football. Now, I'm not gonna say in a
trash obviously defense is legit. I don't even negative to
say about the defense. They're the real deal and all that.
(15:54):
The rest of the team, a lot of divine intervention
is needed, and it is uh with the capitol you ugly.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
In fact, you look at just the way.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
They're playing undisciplined football, and I crunch the numbers and
I say, the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
There's only two teams or the Mutters.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
There's Chicago Bears and Jacksonville to commit more penalties per
game than the Denver football team. So let's send a
text message over to Sean Payton, and right now we'll
let Sean know. Sean, you're either coaching the team this
way to be undisciplined or you're allowing it. Either way,
it's on you. You're the big money coach. You're the
highest pid coach in the NFL by most accounts. You're
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the guy that wanted this whole thing. You handpicked most
of the roster. And somehow the Broncos are winning a
knife fight and they have a butter knife, but they're
winning You shouldn't win a butter You shouldn't win.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
A knife fight with a butter knife. There's not a
lot of rhythm, not a lot of flow. They're not
very graceful.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
They're not like a gazelle running across the serengetti.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
There's none of that. And yet here we are, here
we are. Somehow they end up with another wins. Not sustainable.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Can't keep living on the razor's edge without getting cut.
So but the the Muters are eight and two, and
is that false advertising shirt because they don't.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
They don't have the vibe of an eight and two team.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
But they're laughing all the way to the very top
of NFL Mountain for now in the standings, O right,
last word to the losing locker.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Room the Raiders. Oh yeah, all right?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So question is this a step in the right direction
or a step in the wrong direction? As the Raiders
had a shot to tie the game in the fourth
quarter against what is the NFL's top team. So what's
the temperature? Here's the question, what's the temperature in the
room for.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Pete Carroll and the Raiders. The NFL's oldest coach.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
The NFL's oldest coast well here is before I answer
that question, here's Pete Carroll giving his state of the
Raider address.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
There's so many things we can get better at it.
But the fighters in this dog now, I ain't no
doubt about it, and so I really I couldn't wait
to tell them how proud I was of the way
they competed. And so we all know in this room
we don't do something, and so it's just a matter
of time.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Congratulations Raider fans.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
You get a nice little sticker there, participation ribbon as well.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Good job, good loss, good loss by the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
So the temperature for Pete Carroll is boiling hot, boiling hot.
The silver and black. If you look at the thermometer,
it just shattered. It just shattered here with zigzag lightning overhead.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
This was your shot, this was your chance.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Le Broncos offense wanted to give you the game, and
Gino Smith's I.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Don't want the game. I don't need the game.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I know Halloween, Gino's like, I know, Halloween was just
a few days ago. But you know what I'm proving
even after Halloween that on a weekly basis I visit
the Masquerade Ball and there was Gino at the Masquerade
Ball and back up being pro up as a starter.
He's got the mask on like he's a starter, and
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they should write a book about how Geno Smith, who
everyone knew sucked with the Jets when he first came
and couldn't play, and how this guy was able to
hornswoggle Seattle. I kind of understand the Seattle thing because
they needed somebody and they got rid of Russell Wilson
and he happened to be there, so like, we'll throw
this stiff out, and he proved to be a stiff
(19:24):
and so he I just laughed because I remember conversations
with like Nostradinis and some of the guys who are
Seattle Seahawk lapdogs.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
You're like, oh, no, Geno's good. Yeah no, he was
never good. Number one and number two, the.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Fact that Gino not only convinced Seattle to get him,
but now the Raiders and he's.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
The NFL's thirtieth ranked quarterback.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Now, remember the narrative was when the Raiders went out
and got Geno Smith.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
The narrative as well, okay, upgrade, upgrade.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
The numbers are like, okay, he's gonna be at least
average so he's the thirty of the rank quarterback in
the NFL.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
He's an upgrade unless he's not.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
So I went back and I looked Aidan O'Connell, who
played a lot at the end. It kind of took
over mid season or early part of the season and
played most of the year.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Aidan O'Connell last year was the.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Twenty sixth ranked quarterback in the NFL. So the Raiders
went out they signed it. As Pete Carroll said, you know,
they got some dogs in there, they got dogs with flees.
So they signed this guy who's a dog with fleas,
gave him a big contract, and are worse off than
they were if they just kept Aidan O'Connell around and
throwing him out there. And the way Gino plays that
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plotting style and they just running in sand the Raiders'
offense there. Other than that, they're fine. Okay, I just
want the record. They're fine other than that. And you
can practically hear the trickle down panic when Gino's playing
quarterback there, the receivers are barking the lineman or something.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Well, they traded Jacoby Myers. That's why the Raiders didn't score. Okay,
if you're gonna die on that mountain. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You look at the sideline, right, You look at the sideline,
and they got that that Marines thing embrace the suck.
But they're not embracing it, trying to fight through it.
It's like we suck coming of age, more like coming apart.
For Pete Carroll's team, they know who they are. It's
at the point now I get to mid season where
past mid season bad teams know they're bad.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
They know they're bad.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
They're that that toxicity, and the Silver and Black are
giving their fans the few hearty souls that are left
that love the Raiders like Scrooge in the Bay Area,
they're giving them mercury poisoning. Right, and Tom Brady's fingerprints
are all over this mess. We might have to call
slug in Vegas and get slugged to have an intervention.
(21:38):
The ownership group that the hires, the culture, all that,
and Tom Brady. No one wants to rip him in
the media because Tom Brady's a.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
God, but boy did he botch This man.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Hired the wrong coach, hired the wrong quarterback, just a
bad roster. It's like going to a It's like getting
a Brazilian. You know, butt in plan in a third
world country and you end up dying.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It's just bad. Now.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Meanwhile, Pete Carroll's probably on the sidelines. They're dreaming of
the Early Bird Special and playing some jin rummy like
what did I do? I didn't sign up for this.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
It's like you want to get away? Man? Is it depressing?
Not for me, I'm not a Raider fan. It is
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They showed the moon. The game was so bad. You
know what games bad When they do a shot of
a moon. That's a dead giveaway, dead giveaway.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Not a good game, not a good game at all.
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Speaker 1 (25:22):
Back to it we go is the Denver Broncos would
have home field advantage in the playoffs if the season
ended today. It'd also be looking for a quarterback next
year the way Boone Nicks is playing right now.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
But I digress. So they win and at the end
of the year, you.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
You divvy it all up, and the Raiders at eight
and two will they be joined this weekend by the
Colts at eight and two. When you look at your
your standings in the in the NFL, you either your
conference standings of the New England Pageots also can get
to eight and two. And it's obviously NFC teams that
are had bye weeks that are a little bit behind that.
But the Broncos, Colts and Patriots the top teams in
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the AFC, and so Denver currently in the number one spot.
Not a very exciting game. In fact, we have a
fun fact we get to that in a minute about
how bad it was the burner account rights in the
number one.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Ben Dower.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Says, thanks for the shout out, benjam I don't do
shout outs. If you want a shout out, I'm on cameo,
and I'd be happy to do a shout out, but
I don't do shout outs. It was a mention, not
a shout out. So don't ever say I do a
shout out. That's a mention. There is a big difference
between a mention.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And a shout out. A shout out is big time
radio guy, big money. Mention is overnight guy.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So if I have to explain the difference between mention
and shout out again, I'm gonna be very upset.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I don't do shoutouts. I don't I do mentions. It's
a difference there anyway. Berner account says the pumpkin called
Geno Smith should be arrested for stealing the Raiders' money.
This long, I guess he finally wrote back low hanging fruit. Yes,
remember that great moment in recent NFL history.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Geno writing back.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
A gunner who works at a Walmart in northern Minnesota says,
I challenge you to some picks on the NFL. You
give me your picks, I'll give you mind. Bring it
on you, loser.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, Gunner.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
If they're looking for a face of obtuse, you would
be the face of I love you, Gunner, I do
you're you're a sweetheart. You've you've picked a very odd
group of teams to like Carolin.
Speaker 9 (27:46):
Not a shout out.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, it's again mentioned, not a shout out. So here's
the thing, though, Gunner, let me point out here. I
will give you all of my picks right now because
I like it.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Gunner.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So go over to YouTube at Benny Penny and the
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Speaker 2 (28:04):
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Speaker 1 (28:05):
All the big games right there, Week ten of Benny
versus the Penny. No Stradinas writes in from Seattle. He says, oh, no,
you have it wrong again, Ben, no Stradina says, with
his vegan wife, he says, it's Gino who in seahawks Land.
We're all in on Darnold because he is Samtastic. Okay,
(28:28):
so I think it might have been a word missing there,
but so we're going with Samtastic.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Is that what we're doing here? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Okay, not a burner, right, Since, says Ben, the greed
over at Disney is getting out of control, can we
sneak Bill Miller into the corporate office to see to
be the enforcer that will end the conflict?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Well, that's very odd.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
The burner account has made an AI video of me
crawling through. I'm in good shape. I don't mind the video.
I'm in good shape and I'm wearing my hat from
the TV show from last year and I'm crawling. Well,
that's a little odd.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I don't know about how I feel about that. Who
else do we have to see? Page down? Can't can't
read that.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Ferg Dog says boat Nick should be booed. Boo boo
that man. The Broncos had one and done. They have
won and done written all over them. People are not
talking about the Mighty Ducks should be booed too. They
won five games in a row. What more do.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You want from them?
Speaker 9 (29:28):
All right?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I mean I don't know we talk about the Mighty Ducks.
I mean, come on, what are we doing?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
We're not going there?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I did, I did my hockey quota for the month.
I mentioned hockey yesterday. Rob the Goatman says the Broncos
are the fake id of the NFL. They have only
beaten one team with a winning record. Even blind Emmett
can see they aren't skating by on talent. That's from
from the man there. The goat man screwge. Only the
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Raiders could lose to a quarterback who is having the
worst game of his career. Great moments in Raider history. Well,
are you ready for a fun fact? I know you're
ready for a fun fact. Here we go, fun fact time.
Here we go, fun fact.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Fun fat matter, fun fact.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
So if you go back the last generation a little
over generation, to the year two thousand, to the year
two thousand, so that game on Thursday night only the
third game the last twenty five years to have fifteen
or more punts, twenty or more penalties, and less than
twenty points. It's only happened two other times. The two
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other times happened in twenty nineteen before the pandemic, Week
one Packers and Bears, Week one Packers and Bears, and
then it also happened in twenty oh five the Bears
again the common denominator for our friend Tree and Fayze
and Yapimi and all their guys in Chicago, the common
denominator is the Bears, but not on this night. So
(31:01):
the Bears played the Ravens in Week seven of the
five season, and that also ended up being a a
stinker l stinko.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
If you will all, let's go to the calls.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I just I don't know what Cooper loop, go ahead, Coop, Yes,
go ahead, Coop A loop now will defend bo Nicks
and say he look great, the Broncos are wonderful.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
Yes, no, he didn't look great.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
But I just don't know what to think about this team, because, yeah,
the eyeball test tells you that the offense is terrible.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Uh, and it's that's not gonna go well.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
But I mean, but you look at the stats and
even before this game, you take take the ten points
that they scored away from this game, there's still only
seven teams in the NFL that had scored more points
than them up to this point. You look at bone
Knick's stats overall since since he came into the league,
and you know, they're they're comparable with with other quarterbacks
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that are considered good.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
But the eyeball test, it doesn't It just doesn't look good.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I don't know. I have a million of shoes like, oh,
you want to coach fire? Do you want to fire
the play caller? Who's the play caller is.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Payton?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
I don't want him fire, but I don't know. He
needs to give up play calling, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
So I have the updated numbers after the game on
Thursday night. The Broncos are currently fifteenth in yards per game,
fifteenth in total offense yards per game. They are now
slightly behind the Atlanta Falcons with another second year quarterback,
Michael Pennox junior in Atlanta. So it's it's not not
(32:38):
great now. The counter argument, Now, you know, I'm not
Benny Bridside, Coop, you know that I don't believe in
being Benny Brightside. But the counter argument, I'm I'm a dinosaur.
I was on the radio when Tom Brady took over
with the Patriots, and Tom Brady did not have good
numbers when he started with the Patriots, and they were
winning games ugly, and they were like mutters the Patriots,
and they won and eventually Brady grew into the position
(32:58):
and became the great eatest quarterback of all time. But
when he started the first year, he was not very good.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
It was the same thing with Elway.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Well that was back when everyone was like that, when
Elway was back in the day.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
But I mean bra in the modern ear though, Brady
was not good, and there were people even after this
the Super Bowl. They were like, well, we have to
go back to bled Cell because Brad. They won in
spite of Brady. It sounds crazy to say that, It
sounds absolutely insane to say that, but I'm telling you
that was the conversation that was having, that was happening
at the time around.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
That that period. So, hey, you got eight wins and you.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Almost guaranteed you really have to f this up not
to make the playoffs at this particular point.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
So you're gonna be in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Uh, let's go to the phones, though, and let's say hello, Yeni, meeni,
miney mo. Let's go to trucker Shane driving around the
highways and byeways in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Hello trucker Shane.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
So.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
Being a Raiders fan is like being married to a
woman that hates you and chicken in the nuts repeatedly
every Sunday.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Hey, Lee, now is the woman good looking? Or is
she not not good looking?
Speaker 7 (34:12):
She's a she's a real dog, and you're wow, I'm
just chicken in the nuts over and over and over
being a family, right, I don't know why I'm a fan.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Man, Well i'll tell I'll tell you, I'll tell you
why you're a fan because you made a decision as
a child and you're an adult and you're sticking with
the decision you made as a kid.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
You can beg my father for that move.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, now you're now you're blaming your father. Now you're
now you're blaming family. That's a family issue.
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Yeah, so I was born into but I know I
was thinking, the only thing we're good at is punting.
So uh, instead of trying to play offense, we should
just punt ball, be getting it every game and just
work on that.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
You know, that's a that's a that's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Just play the field because really lean into the fact
that you don't have a quarterback. How about you just
run the the like the Delaware wing t offense, that
old school offense, and just run just run the or
run the option, run the old Nebraska offense and just
run the option, the wishbone.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
The Oklahoma wishbone.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
Gino is a He was a bost win one wretch.
Ryan drafted him.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
It is one of the great stories. How this guy,
what a con that Gino Smith was able to pull off.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I give him credit. I mean, he's not very good.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
He sucks and he's convinced multiple NFL franchises is give
him a chance to start, and he's been terrible everywhere
he's played.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Yeah, well he's still out there doing it making money.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Hey, let the record show though, your guy, Tom Brady,
he chose he signed off on Geno Smith. I'm sure
Pete Carroll wanted Gino Smith, but Tom Brady signed off
on him.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
He said, that's the guy I want.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Hey, you now, on the head, this whole thing is
tom Brady everything. Where's tom Brady? Every decision? And it's
I give up?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
You know, you don't want to give up yet, you know,
it's you just have fun mocking them, and then you'll
have another top draft pick and then you can draft
somebody that's gonna be amazing, and then once you get him,
they'll suck.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
And you know that's the way it goes. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:15):
I get mocked enough on my own without mocking. I
don't in places in my head on like, oh, you're
a Raiders fans.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, well that's something that meant.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Man.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
That was a badge of honor when I was growing
up being a Raider fan. You were like the toughest
guy in the block. If you're a Raider fan man.
Speaker 7 (36:32):
Yeah not now I walk in Oh look at that.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yeah, I can't blame people. It could be it could
be worse. He could be a Titans fan. That would
you know?
Speaker 7 (36:44):
That would be badly thing worse. Yeah, that plue. I
couldn't wear that blue man. By the way, the reason
the Broncos barely beat them tonight because they thought they
were going to railroad the Raiders and they didn't take
him serious. And that's why they played it, you know,
half bucks to night.
Speaker 9 (36:59):
But well, even with.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
That, I mean, the crazy thing about it is the
Broncos had the ball up by three, they had it
in Raider territory, they score a touchdown, they were covered
the spread. As bad as they played, they still you know,
I say, if some butts were candy and nuts.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
And all that, they were covered every bet. But uh,
and I I lost.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
If you watched Benny versus the penny I had the
I took the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I laid the points, and I don't mind. That's I'm
fine with that.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I would not have wanted to put my money on
the Raiders with ginoskick, so I'm fine losing that bet.
The Broncos defense played the way I thought they would play.
They held the Raiders to one one score. I just
I can't believe how bad the Broncos offense. Would you
expect to be that bad?
Speaker 9 (37:42):
I'm assuming you watched the whole game.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I did.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I had nothing else to watch. There was nothing else
on TV, so I watched the entire game.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Yes, have you ever seen a worst sequence by a
punter in your entire life?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (37:54):
Oh my?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah? Did they practice that?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Cooper?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Is that just organic?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Is that like like after a while, you're like, this guy,
this guy's got the yeps you he cannot kick the ball.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Will there be a change this week? Though, that's the question.
They're going to just continue to ride this out.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
I almost blame myself because the like, before the game started,
I had I had a buddy over to watch the game,
and I or before the first punt, I was like,
this guy, if he just gets his accuracy down, you
know last week he was just booming monster punts.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
We're gonna have to put save the pause right there, Coop,
because if I don't, Lorend's gonna kick me in the
nuts here.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
So all right, here's the who am I game?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Broncos quarterback bow Knicks has six wins in games he's
had a passer rating of less than seventy six.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
I am the only other.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Quarterback with more wins and starts with a sub seventy passer.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Rating the last decade.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Again, bow Nick six wins, passer rating less than seventy
and I'm the only other quarterback that has more wins
in that situation the last decade.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Who am I the answer?
Speaker 4 (38:58):
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Speaker 1 (39:43):
Back to it a right back to it, and time
now for the payoff on the who am I?
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Game?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
The Broncos quarterback Bo Nicks has six wins in games
that he's had a passer rating of less than seventy,
and I'm the only quarter back with more wins and
starts with a sub seventy passer rating in the last
ten seasons.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
That's a decade of football. So let's see does anyone
know the answer? Here?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
We go to the Malard Blissa of the Great Unwashed
to see if anybody has the answer.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
We go page down.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Here we see brock Osweiler, guests by Shane case Keenum
from Femi Kyler, Murray the Little Fella Alligator Arms Murray
from alf the Alien Opiner, Stephen Hawking from Rob the Goatman,
de Brickershaw, Ferguson from Robbie the Falcon Fan.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Who else do we have? Page Dan Let's see here
both of the district Attorney says, I love the punter talk. Yeah,
we should talk more. Punter.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Spock's weeds going with Gino Smith, Alexa Bliss from just
Josh you know It's Friday, Peter North from g Mans,
I know what he's watching. Terry in England says Mike
Glennon's neck.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
James Jet from Big Lou He's on number two. The
Reverend Tim Tebow from Elkman, Mike in Colorado, Jake Plummer
from Shawn the Valley of the Sun, Curly Neil from
Doc Dan.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Do you have an Antela?
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Ran quickly R two D two No, I believe it
or not, it's Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bill's the
only other quarterback
Speaker 2 (41:11):
That's one as many as quotinx with bad games.
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