Hour 1 - Stumbling Down the Stretch

Brian Noe is in for Ben Maller and talks about the Los Angeles Rams getting upset by the Atlanta Falcons on MNF, what it means for the MVP race, and what it means for the Tampa Bay Bucs and the NFC South.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh what it's going on? Happy Tuesday morning to you. Well,
at least on everywhere but the West Coast. We're almost
in Tuesday morning territory on the West Coast here. Momentarily
we will be right there. I'll tell you what Monday
Night football on the brain, because we have playoff implications

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is what. We have lots going on over here. So
we get to the losers first. Losers go first. It's
always you know, winners outs, No, no, no, losers go first.
So that would be the Los Angeles Rams. How about that?
The Rams end up losing on Monday Night Football. They
lose twenty seven to twenty four. Matthew Stafford did not

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play well. Matthew Stafford channeled his inner Josh Allen, at
least on the final throw from Josh Allen. Josh Allen
still a fantastic quarterback. Matthew Stafford's still a fantastic quarterback.
He's been so fantastic this year. He was the front
runner to win MVP, But on Monday Night he played
like anything but an MVP candidate. He stunk up the

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joint something severe. He threw three interceptions, is what our guy,
Matthew Stafford did three picks against the Falcons. One was
a pick six and the theme of the who am
I game a little bit later this hour. But the Rams,
they erased a twenty one point deficit, they came roaring back,
They tied the game up. Falcons took the lead with

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a fifty one yard field goal with twenty one seconds left.
And so here we go, Matthew Stafford. Time right, You
got a chance with twenty one seconds left, no timeouts
to hit a couple of passes and maybe get your
team in field goal range, get the game into overtime,
and then all bets are off. Baby, and Matthew Stafford

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had a couple of opportunities. First down, play wide open
receiverer receiver Xavier Smith was just wide open, ran a
little corner round out. The Falcons just were like, ah,
Xavier Smith, it's not like he's a DeVante Adams or anything.
We don't need to guard him. They didn't pick him up.
Wide open, a quarterback's dream, and Matthew Stafford threw a

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ball not even close to Xavier Smith, not even remotely close.
That was the opportunity right there, because if Matthew Stafford
makes that throw, they're in field goal range already, they're
inside the thirty with about fifteen seconds to play. They're
gonna take one or two shots at the end zone.
They're gonna try to win this thing in regulation if
he can hit this throw, and he didn't. It was

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a horrible throw. It's a horrible performance by Matthew Stafford.
And so you get the second down. I'm not gonna
break down everything here, but it was really interesting. The
end of the game. Second down, Stafford throws a deep
ball do to two at Well. It was a nice throw,
little grabby grabby should have been pass interference. The arm

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of to two at Well was grabbed prematurely, the ball
wasn't there yet. That his past interference pass interference. I
forget the guy's name, York something, whoever's in the booths.
You always have to have a former official in the booth, right,
The former official in the ESPN booth was like, that's pi.
That is past interference if I've ever seen it, is

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what he said. But it was it was a little
bit hard to detect. I know, we want to look
at these officials and we slow it down in super
slow moan and we're like, how did you miss that?
In real time there's hand fighting. Maybe the player's back
has turned to you as he grabs the the hand,
the arm so slyly right there. He got away with it,
got away with it on second down, so we get

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the third down. No, this this was the play of
the game. So Stafford throws a great ball to Pooka
Nakua along the sideline. Pooka Nakua just grabs the ball
with his left hand, one hands it, beautiful catch, gets
his feet down going out of bounds. It's like they

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ruled it incomplete. We go to the replay. The first
couple of angles we see, oh, that's a catch. The
next thing, that's a catch. The last angle, ooh, not
a catch. He grabbed the ball with his left hand
and it just stuck right there, and uh, you know, uh,
and he's dry. He's falling down. And then aj Torell

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that savvy Falcons cornerback right there. He kept on grabbing
Pooka's arm. He was just grabbing the arm and he
forced the ball to come loose for a millisecond. He
just forced Puka to lose control just for a little
bit as he was falling out of bounds and his
feet were no longer in bounds anymore. And so with

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Pooka losing control of that, with Ajterrell pulling at his arm,
it turned it into an incomplete pass. So it's fourth
down there five seconds left. Stafford tried basically the same
throw the sideline incomplete game over crazy. It was that close,
and man, you go back to the first down play,
you gotta make that throw. Savior Smith is wide open.

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That's a throw Matthew Stafford makes in his sleep. But
Stafford was not on point at all on Monday Night.
Man three interceptions and the MVP odds, Oh baby, they
have taken a turn. If you look at the MVP
odds market, Matthew Stafford was a healthy favorite before the
game before Monday Night. Matthew Stafford's looking good. If you've

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got any of your Matthew Stafford MVP bets, you're like,
you're like, all right, let's go Stafford. Monday Night's time
to put the final nail in the coffin right here.
Good performance, win the game, gotta be MVP. And then
Stafford is like here, pick six, here another interception, Hey,
there was one more interception, and you're like, oh my gosh,
what is happening. So during the game, after Stafford threw

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that pick six earlier, the odds changed where it's almost
even money on both sides, whether it's Matthew Stafford or
Drake May the Patriots quarterback. It was, you know, like
minus one p fifteen and minus one ten, Like it's
very very even in terms of the betting lines, almost
even money. Let's just not confuse people. It's almost even

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money on either player if you were to bet on
them at that stage. And then we fast forward to
the end of the game. It's Stafford. You know, miss
is a wide open receiver. You know, throws a couple
more picks as the game goes on, ends up with
three total, and the MVP odds have shifted to now

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Matthew Stafford is a three to one long shot. He
is plus three hundred. If you bet on Stafford meeting
whatever you bet, you get three times that amount. If
you bet ten bucks, you would win thirty bucks. If
you bet one hundred bucks, you would win three hundred dollars.
So that's right, Lorena, you know you're roll in those
deep pockets. If you bet three thousand dollars, you would

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win nine thousand dollars. That's how thots would get deeper.
That's right, right, if you start off with deep pockets
to get deeper deep pockets, right, that's right. But really,
if you bet on Stafford now you probably just lose everything.
You bet on Stafford probably how it would work out.
I think he lost the MVP. I think he lost
the MVP on Monday night. Right now as we speak,

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Drake May, the Patriots quarterback, is minus four hundred, meaning
you have to bet. Let's say, if you bet forty
dollars on Drake May, you would earn a measly ten
dollars payout. That's how big of a favorite he is.
You would have to wager four hundred American dollars to

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win one hundred American dollars. That's the way it would work.
So Drake May is a healthy favorite right now to
win MVP when he was just maybe watching Monday at
football from the comfort of his own home, just kicking back,
you know, feet on the sofa, just like let's watch
some ball here, and then it's just Stafford pick pick pick.

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It's like, oh wow, I would imagine his phone was
blowing up. He's got to have one degenerate gambler friend, right,
he's got to have one guy. Hey eight dude, dude,
look at these. He's like, I'm a professional football player. Now,
I can't have you in my life, degenerate gambler, you
know that sort of thing. But yeah, Stafford, he blew it. Man.
He has lost the MVP. That's the way it's shaping up.

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And I don't think anything in Week eighteen is going
to change that now. Sean McVay did confirm after the
game that the Rams starters will play in Week eighteen,
and so that's that's a little bit interesting. The Rams
host the Arizona Cardinals. There's not much on the line
for the Rams. I think they they're a six seed
right now. I think they technically could move up to

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a five seed and you could face the winner of
that guy awful NFC South Division, right, So some people
would say that's a more favorable matchup. So maybe you
want the five seed instead of the sixth seed. Yeah,
I could see that, but I think it's more so.
I think that Sean McVay just wants the Rams playing

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sound football heading into the playoffs, right. The seeding thing matters.
Health matters, of course, but playing your best football at
the right time. Like we always talk about this getting
hot at the right time, and the Rams are the
opposite of a hot football team right now. It's amazing
how quickly things can change. If you just go back

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one week ago, you had the Rams. They were the
one seed in the NFC playoffs, heading into week what sixteen,
heading into weeks last week, heading into week sixteen. At
Seattle Thursday night game, Rams at the time were the
one seed. Rams in the fourth quarter, sixteen point lead,

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They're ahead thirty to fourteen. They had just intercepted Sam
Darnold twice. They're looking great. Things are looking fantastic, and
then somehow Someway punt return for a touchdown, two points. Okay,
one possession game, Seattle's down by eight. Seattle scores again,
Seattle goes for two. Somehow Someway, the football gods, they

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just twist things into Seattle gets the two point conversion,
bounces off a Rams player's helmet, Sharpernage just picks it
up in the end zone. They're like, that was a
backwards pass. That's actually two points. Tie. Game goes to overtime.
Rams lose. Rams lose. Unreal and now you fast forward
to what we saw on Monday night. Rams lose to
the Falcons and they are just slip slip slipping in

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the NFC playoff picture in terms of their seeding. They
have no chance to earn the one seed. Their odds
were long after they lost to Seattle, but their odds
are nonexistent now after they lost on Monday night. They
can not be the one seed. And right now they're
the sixth seed. They can only move up to the five.
That's it. That's the playoff picture for the La Rams.

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Now the interesting thing with Atlanta. With Atlanta winning, this
shifts the playoff picture even more so. This was a
good thing for Carolina, This was a bad thing for
Tampa that Atlanta won. So what happens now on Saturday
when Carolina goes to Tampa Bay. If Carolina wins that game,

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they win the NFC South. But if Tampa wins that game,
Tampa hasn't won anything just yet. Okay, Tampa, if they
win on Saturday, they would then need to cross their fingers,
hope and pray that the Falcons lose to the Saints
on Sunday. Tampa does not control their path to the playoffs.

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They don't control it. Even if they beat Carolina, they
are not in yet. They would have to have the
Falcons lose, because if the Falcons win, it would create
a three way tie, and it seems like that would
just be poetic justice. Wouldn't that be fitting for the
NFC South? How decrepit It's been all season, three teams
all finish eight to nine. All three teams at the

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top of the division have losing records. That seems to
be fitting of the NFC South this season, doesn't it.
I don't think it's gonna happen. I think Carolina's gonna
win that game. But if it were to happen and
you had a three way tie, if Tampa beats Carolina,
and if the Falcons beat the Saints certainly possible, right,
you would have a three way tie and Carolina would emerge.

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So even if Carolina loses on Saturday, they still have
a chance. They would have to hope and pray that
Atlanta wins, and if that happens, Carolina is in. So
that was a bad result for Tampa. Tampa wanted Atlanta
to lose on Monday night against the Rams and then

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Tampa would control its playoff path. If that were the case,
if Atlanta lost on Monday, Tampa would just have to
win on Saturday and they're in. But with Atlanta winning,
that is no longer the case. Now Tampa needs help.
That just shows you how far Tampa has sunk. Right,
that was a team that was six and two. They

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started off the season six and two, and now they
are seven and nine. They need to beat Carolina and
then they have to they have to get Atlanta to
lose that and then they can get in. They went
from six and two to need Atlanta to lose. That's
how That's how far Tampa has sunk. Man. I just

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I think they're a dead team walking. I think their
spirit is broken. I think the weight, you know, the
weight of losing cannot be undersold, like you put everything
into all right, we're gearing up, this is the week
we're gonna nope. Loss, nope, loss, nope loss. They've lost
seven of eight games. It's like putting like dumbbells on

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your shoulders, just walking around all day. They're just buckling. Man.
I don't think they get out from underneath this. I
think they lose at home. I think Carolina wins, and
I don't think we have to worry about Falcon Saints
and who wins and implications. I think Carolina is gonna
win the game outright, and Carolina is gonna win the
NFC South. That's what I think is gonna happen. I
did pull some Kevin Garnett vintage audio. It was fantastic

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where he was talking about losing and you can just
you can feel the weight of losing and he's like,
it's killing me, and it's just it's so apparent how
much this hurts to continuously lose. I think that's exactly
what Tampa is going through right now. You watch them,
just watch them play and you see goofy things. You'll

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see Baker like throw a ball in the wrong spot,
or maybe a player here is gambling, or they're trying
to do something extraordinary to trying to get out from
underneath this, or they just don't look like themselves, you know,
I do. I think it's the weight of losing repeatedly
and they're just not themselves. Man, they are a completely

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different team, and I don't think they turn it around.
I don't. I'm happy to bet against them. I've been
wrong before. Any Tampa fans that are out. There's not
a death sentence for your team. Could be dead wrong,
but I don't think I am. I think Carolina gets
it done all right. Eight seven to seven ninety nine
on Fox. That is your phone number, Malard Militia. Love
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That is at the No Show is where you can
find me. I do I do have to wax poetic
about one Bijon Robinson later this hour. What a performance
by him. He is my favorite player in the NFL.
That's who it is. It's Bjon Robinson. I'm a Dolphins
fan and you know I don't have a Dolphin. That's

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my favorite player. It is Bijon Robby. He is unbelievable.
That's right. We need we need to see the Dolphins
trade for Jon Robinson is what we need. No liked
Defan ah Chan is a very good player, but Vijon
Robinson is an absolute beast. That dude has everything. He's
got quickness, speed, toughness, burst, physicality. He's got good hands.

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It's a receiving threat, obviously a running threat. That guy
is unreal. He had a ninety three yard touchdown run.
The guy had one hundred and ninety five yards rushing.
He had five catches for thirty four yards two touchdowns.
He diced up the rams. He was unbelievable, man, and
he's been awesome all season long. It's unfortunate some of

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these players that are just wasting away with Suki supporting
casts and uh, I wouldn't go as far as to
say they have a sucky supporting cast, but it's not.
It's not upper echelon, I'll put it that way. And
with Michael Pennix Junior hurt again and Kirk Cousins in there,
and it's not the greatest supporting cast. And for a

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running back like Bijon Robinson to be on that team
to have no playoff success whatsoever, I hate to see
that because he's so special. He is a special talent,
awesome player. I want to get to something on Monday
Night that was absolutely hysterical. It never ceases to amaze me. Man,
some of the players, what they can do creatively. I

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don't know that we've seen this before. Out of all
of the razzle dazzle things that we've seen throughout the
years in football, I don't know that we've seen this before.
Though someone can correct me, but off the top of
my head, I don't believe so. So we will get
to that right around the corner. Feel free to check
in Militia. We'll roll out the red carpet for you if
you feel like getting interactive tonight. Very much looking forward

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to that, all that good stuff on the way. I'm
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I'm probably though in for big Ben Mallor and you
know what, you can correct me if I'm wrong. I
could certainly be wrong about this, but my guess is
I am really But I don't ever remember seeing out

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of all that, like the razzle dazzles celebrations, I haven't
seen what the Rams defensive end Jared Verse did during
Monday Night Football where Jared Verse so he blocked an
extra he blocked a field goal. There's a big moment
in the game, right the Falcons had a fourteen point
lead at the time. They're attempting a field goal. They're

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going to go up by three scores. They're gonna have
a seventeen point lead. And Jared Verse did his the
Kenba matumba no no no, and he ran through the
line of scrimmage and he just blocked the kick. The
ball bounced right up into his arms and he just
set sail down the sideline, returned it for a touchdown.
And as he was running by the Falcons bench, he

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threw up the deuces. He threw up a peace sign
as he's running right by. It was great. Now, now
correct me if I'm wrong. Have you seen this before,
because listen, we've seen I'm going through the Rolodex. In
my mind, we've seen Dion Sanders obviously comes to mind.
I think of him what the Niners, the Cowboys, even

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back to his Falcons days, high stepping down the sideline right,
putting the one arm on his helmet, you know, like
kind of doing like his elbow out in the open,
you know, as he's styling down the side, like I
know all those I don't know that I've seen that.
I don't know that I've seen the deuces as you
run by the opposing team's bench en root to the

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end zone. I don't remember seeing that. If you can
remember anything off the top of your head, I would
love to hear it, because I cannot recall seeing that
type of celebration. And we've seen a lot. We've seen
what DeShawn Jackson. Remember the punt return where he's running
alongside the goal line and then finally goes in for
a touchdown. Oh man, my Giants friends, you talk about

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being public enemy number one. My lord just mentioned to
a Giants fan. Just be like, hey, remember that Deshaun
Watson punt return touchdown? Want to chew your face off?
Oh my gosh, Like, oh, de Sean Jackson and that
that hot dog. Oh man. They do not like that.
They are not fans of that. But the point is

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we've seen Nesty plunges right you go right to the
goal line and stand there and then kind of Nesty
plunge like back you know, you fall down with your
back to the ground. You do that, like we've had
so many celebrations during plays in the end zone. After plays.
I don't recall seeing the deuces down the sideline. I

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really don't recall that. I could be wrong, but it doesn't.
It doesn't pop into my mind right there that I've
seen that before. But if you've had if you had
the the NFL nerd in me was curious to find
out if that has happened and if you can think
of a time that it did indeed happen. But man,
the deuce is in live action. That's a new one
for me. That is an absolute new one. You know what.

(21:58):
I know. Hey, I'm an NFL nerd. I admit it.
And I also admit that I love Peacan Sandy's. I
don't care who knows it. Everybody plain and dry, Brian. See,
So I grabbed some cookies for the show tonight. I
grabbed some cookies and high tailed it over here. Not
great as it turns out with with time, you know,
Like I had a ten minute drive to get to

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my little broadcasting location here and the show starts at
two am Eastern time, and it's like one, and I'm
just like, uh, I should probably get going, right, Like
I still had to pack stuff up. I still had
to grab all my chargers. I had to do stuff right.
I have no time, Like it's snowing out, like the

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roads are icy. What am I doing? I'm like walking
in here texting Loraina, like, hey, give me a minute,
I'll die you dial you right now for me out.
I'm crazy. But you know what I did do the
one thing I did right. I grabbed some pecan Sandy's
is what. I grabbed these little short bread cookies. Oh man,
such goodness. Right, I have what do you have? Reese's pieces?

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You know what is funny? Lorena? What you know what
Reese's pieces? Who they make me think of every single time?
Who you're sitting right next to him? One? Justin Cooper.
I'm dead serious. So we did this goes back way
long ago. Coop and I were working together. We were
doing weekend overnights, right, So we're working the same shift,

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and I said on the air, I go whatever we
were talking about? Who knows? But I go, oh, yeah,
Rece's pieces And Coop almost fell on the floor laughing
at me. And I'm like, what what was that?

Speaker 5 (23:41):
It?

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeahs PCs and I'm like what are you three? I'm like,
what's wrong with that? Coop? What?

Speaker 2 (23:47):
What?

Speaker 1 (23:48):
And he's like pieces, pieces and I'm like what, Yeah,
I don't what how do you say it? And he's
like pieces And I'm like, wow, you're right, Coop, that
it's totally that's totally how you say pieces. I don't
know why I've said that. It's that way my whole life. Yeah,

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he straights me out.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
Yeah, funny because I think of that all the time
now when I see them. But it's funny that you
brought it up because I walked in the studio and
I saw Lorena and I said, that's my favorite candy.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
You're gonna give me some right.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
This is the first box of candy in my whole
life that I've finished in one day.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
That's it. M h you haven't finished candy in one
day before.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
Now, Lorena doesn't finish anything like.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I've over indulged.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
So I looked at him and I was like, I
should share with you because I've eaten almost this whole
box and there's only three pieces left.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Now. Now this might be a stupid question, but but
humor me for a second. How do you eat them?
Do you just grab a handful and shove them in
and that's it for one at a time? You go
one at a time? Okay? And then now how do
you eat those one at a time? Right? Do you
have any special methods? Okay? I don't. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
I don't have a problem with that. I do enjoy.
I have a cute but not one at a time, though.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
I have a cute little hole made at the top,
So I just stick my finger in it and I
have it slide down and then I grab one.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
I'll put it in my mouth. You're just creating drops here, Lorena,
is what's going on? We've got like five drops out
of just that one sentence. You know, No, I will go.
I almost go sunflower seeds with Reese's pieces, you know, Like,
I don't know if you guys are big in the
sunflower game, but that's that's how I stay awake on

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long drives. You gave me that it works like a charm.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Lorena a fan at all?

Speaker 1 (25:47):
What of sunflower seeds?

Speaker 4 (25:49):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Really? Why?

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Because I don't want to have to like work to
eat my food.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Fair enough, But you don't. You don't choose sunflowers because
you're you're looking for a meal, you know what I mean,
there's seeds. You're just looking for an activity. You're looking
for something to pass the time with.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (26:07):
My dad was all about sunflower seeds, and I remember
like we would like drive to baseball games and you'd
have the sunflower seeds, and like I just could never
get the hang of it like he would. He'd be
able to like throw in his mouth and like chew
it and then spit out the seed and or spit
out like the shell and then eat the seed. And
I'm like, I don't, I don't understand how that's working.
I just I'm all I'm doing is I'm chewing and

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eating the shell and it's gross.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
And so you gotta go, like, I don't know if
you even care, but what you gotta do every time
is you got to put the seed. Let's let's just
say on the this this is my method, Coop you could,
you could differ from here. But I put the wad
of sunflower seeds on the left side of it. Okay,
it's a wat of sunflower seeds left side of the mouth.

(26:52):
And what I'll do is I'll use my the left
side of my teeth, and so you just kind of
work a sunflower seed over there to your teeth and
you crunch the seed. But you have to have the
seed sideways. That's the best method. You don't go up
and down. That's crazy. Only psychos do something like that.
It's not gonna work. You got to go sideways with

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the seed. You crack it open, and then you work
the seed out. Then you put the seed on the
right side of your mouth. You spit out the shell
either on the ground or in a cup if you're
driving and you're using this method to stay awake, which
does work like a charm, by the way. That's the
method right there. And then you keep the water sunflower
seeds in the left. You keep the actual sunflower seed

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that you have extracted out on the right. And then
when you spit all the shells out, then you eat
all of the seeds that you've saved on the right side.
It works like a charm and just that. I don't
know what it does. It just wakes your brain up
if you're driving a rounds. But I don't know if
truckers do this, I don't know. But if I were

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a truck driver, this is actually absolutely what I would do.
I'd be chewing sunflower seeds all day, or at least
when I got tired. That's right, man. It was such
a thrill whenever a trucker. Would you ever do that, like.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Do they put your arm out?

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and they I haven't done it in
probably three decades.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
On a trucker to reach out and let us know
if we can still do that, because I just feel
weird doing it.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh, I can't imagine. There's not an age limit, right,
if you just did that now, they're not like you're
not a little kid, No way. They probably do it
even more so if they if they saw you, Lorena,
you would get truckers to honk all day. Wow, you're right,
you're right. Right. Can you imagine a trucker that's like,
now she's hot, I'm not gonna do it. They'd be

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all about it. Give her a ride. Oh yeah, they'd
be all about that. All right, so we've gone, We've
got Reese's pieces. See how Coop, See how Coop in
a very you know, demeaning way set me on the
right track. You know, he shunned me, he shamed me,
and then I've never forgotten it. So I appreciate that
from Coop, you know, I actually I you know what

(29:10):
shame now I think about it, Lorena, I put Coop
on the right track as well. That's what happened today,
you know. So Coop has been looking into this trip
to Denver. He's gonna go out and see his precious
Broncos here pretty soon. And it was funny because he
was like, do I try to buy the tickets early
or do I wait at day before the game? And

(29:31):
I'm like, man, dude, Denver maya made. I wouldn't wait
before the game. Man, it's gonna be probably way more expensive.
I told him. Remember in the break last night, I'm like,
I've got a couple of friends who are diehard Bronco
fans and they go to games pretty consistently, so they'll
know I'll reach out to them. So I reached out
to one of my buddies and I'm like, hey, I
got this friend, you know, big Broncos fan. You know

(29:53):
he's under the false impression bo Nix is good. But
that's another story for another day. But anyway, he wants
to go see the Broncos and and he's thinking when
should he buy the ticket. Should he buy him early
or like a day before the game. He just writes,
buy them now, two exclamation points. You know, get on
it because it's gonna be Yeah, it's gonna be nasty
if you wait on that one.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
I can't imagine them getting any more expensive than they
already are.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Oh man, yeah, scene, Well I imagine dude, like that
fan base, you guys been dying to be in the
playoffs here you're gonna be a one seed. That's the
other news today on Monday. Jim Harbaugh doing you guys
as solid. He's really trying to do his team as solid,
and in turn, it does the Broncos a solid because

(30:40):
he's gonna be resting Justin Herbert, He's gonna be resting
the Chargers starters. Some of the other starters will not
be playing this Sunday against the Broncos. And so if
the Broncos win that game, they clinch the one seed,
and my guess is they'll probably be fine against Trey Lance,
who's gonna be the starting quarterback, a bunch of Chargers

(31:01):
backups players, So yeah, a bunch of backups in there.
I think the Broncos is gonna be fine and they're
gonna be a one seed. And so are we looking
at what like rage against the machine tickets like times
two or what's the price range here? Coop something nasty?

Speaker 6 (31:16):
It's it's minimum five hundred per ticket to get in
just yeah, just the worst possible seats. And then if
you want anything in the lower bowl, it's it's a
thousand plus. Yeah wow, which my wife's not too happy about.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
Oh no, what are average ticket prices well, like like
during the regular season?

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah, like I you know, I wouldn't say
it depends where you sit, right like it does depend
how low you are when you you know when you're
getting low.

Speaker 6 (31:49):
And it depends how your team's doing and when well,
who's who's on it? Like so when I I went
to the last time I went to Denver to see
a Broncos game, it was Peyton Manning was still the
quarterback and I sat in the lower bowl. It was
like towards the top of the lower Bowl, but it
was still lower Bowl and it was like maybe at

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the twenty yard line, and I think I paid like
three p fifty per.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
Wow, Okay, it's which not bad.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
You're down there, that's good.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
It's a little pricey, right, Like, there are a lot
of stadiums where you could get pretty decent seats, seats
and it's not going to break you, you know.

Speaker 6 (32:31):
But oh the Broncos game I went to earlier this
season at SOFI against the Chargers. Oh yeah, we got
lower Bowl in the corner, but still you know, lower
Bowl for it was under two hundred a ticket.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
That's not bad. Yeah, it's not bad. Yeah, man, like SOFI,
I don't know, man from I've been to every stadium
except Jacksonville, so one I have to like cross off
the list. And I get, yes, I've seen a Niners game,
but it was their old stadium. I haven't been to
the new Levi's everything else I've been to, so I

(33:08):
guess I technically have two to u two stadiums I
have to go see or see a game at. But dude,
I've been all over and I buy a ticket to
pretty much every place. There's been like maybe two exceptions
along the way, but man, most of the time, it's
not that much. Like the amount of times I've spent

(33:31):
over one hundred dollars, not many, not many times. And
they're you know, some might be a little bit higher up,
but they're they're still fine.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
There's the typically sit h end zone. Huh.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Well, I've seen a lot of games in the end zone,
which is okay. You don't want to be low in
the end zone, like that's the worst spot to be, Like,
you have no, you can't tell right right now, they're like,
all right, they're going to the opposite end zone. They're
on like the thirty and they just ran a sweep
and it's like, I can't tell if the guys I
picked up five yards or like twenty five yards. You

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just can't tell. It's hard if you're sitting in the
end zone. You have to sit higher up or you
just can't tell what's going on, right like you you're
just guessing a little bit.

Speaker 6 (34:11):
And those are probably the cheapest seats in the stadium,
right higher up in the end zone.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, yeah, typically they are. But higher up in the
end zone is it's fine. I actually like it. It's
almost like you ever see like the all twenty two
you know, they'll have like you know, like they'll just
have all twenty two players in the same camera shot
and it's like an end zone shot. That's what you're
seeing live. So if you don't mind that view, it's
pretty good about my advice. So you got to sit

(34:38):
a little bit higher up. I think it's better to
sit higher up in the end zone. The lower you are,
you're just like, I don't know what's going on, man,
I can't tell. It's hard. Yeah, but like I love
fifty yard line too. The best thing I did was
when I went to a Texans game. I went to
remember when the Texans beat the Bills. This is I
don't know, within the last month or two ish something

(34:59):
like that. The Texans beat the Bills, and I was
I went on the field for the flag. I don't
know if I told you this, but.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
Oh yeah, I mean I saw the pictures.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
You could just yeah, you could just buy tickets, like
like a regular seat, and it's like, hey, this is
a special ticket. You're gonna be on the field before
the game holding the flag during the anthem. And I'm like,
you can buy tickets for that. I had no idea
you could do that.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
I thought it was like a special to do because
of the radio or something.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
No, nothing, it was. It's just a RAM. I'm looking
at tickets and there I saw that one, and I'm like,
you can buy a ticket to do. I didn't know
who's who held the flag. I never thought for a
second who did that. I just thought, I don't know
what I thought. I never thought, who are these people.
I didn't think they were just fans at the game
and they just were like, oh, well, we're here, we

(35:51):
might just hold the flag before the game and then
go to our seats. That's that's what they did for
that game. I was stunned. I had no idea that.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
A volunteer basis, you know who wants to do this today,
or you put your name on a list and then
you finally get to do it.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, no, you just buy a ticket. At least that's
the way they did it for that one. I did
see now, I notice all this stuff. On the Monday
night game when the Falcons beat the Rams, it was
all military. They had it, like everybody holding the flag
was in a military uniform. So I was a little
bit different on Monday night in Atlanta. But the game
I was at in Houston, you just bought a ticket

(36:26):
like normal and went down to the field and held
the flag for the anthem. It was really cool. It
was cool. It was awesome. I would and then anyway.
It was like the top level, Coop, but it was
pretty good. It was like around the fifty yard line,
just really high up. I loved the seats. I thought
it was a great view for the game, maybe like
forty I can't remember what yard line it was, forty

(36:48):
thirty eight something like that. But good seats, very good seats.
It would be a lot more expensive at Denver though,
It'll be a lot more expensive over there. But if
you could somehow hold the flag before the game, do that, Coop.
Absolutely do that.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
Man.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
If you could be the guy that kind of like
parachutes in with the football, definitely do that. If you
could buy a ticket to be able to do that,
do that. Oh that'd be awesome. All right. Eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox is your number? All right?
A shout out to Ben here the who am I game?
So Matthew Stafford he joins in a list that is

(37:25):
uh not the list you want to be on. He
has tied the record for most pick sixes in his
NFL career. So he threw an interception that was returned
for a touchdown, right, a pick six? Right, So we're
all on the same page. So he tied the record.
He has thirty two for his NFL career. Now, if

(37:46):
you had the guess who did he tie, I think
most NFL fans would would guess Brett Farv right, and
that's exactly who he tied. So the subject to the
who am I game is who's next on the list? Who?
If Stafford and Brett farv are tied atop the list,
who would be basically in third place? Who's the next

(38:09):
guy up? Most pick six is in NFL history? Who
Am I? Your comments more than welcome on X At
the No Show, We'll read some of the funny tweets
and I'll give you the answer coming up. I'm Brian
no In for Big Ben Maller right here on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
It is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian no In for
Big Ben Mallor so we're looking for the pick six
mavens in NFL history over here, right, So Matthew Stafford,
he joined a list that is not the list you
want to be on. He threw his thirty second pick
six in his NFL career, so he is tied a

(38:54):
top the list with one Brett FARV. So you probably
could have guessed, like all rights thrown a lot of
pick sixes, who's thrown a lot of interceptions? Maybe Brett
farb Like I think you would have been able to
guess that. But who is next on the list is
what we're looking for here. So not a Burner checks in?
Who am I? Game? Shout out to Ben? He just

(39:16):
wrote Texans all time leading pastor. Matt Schaub went with that,
let's see far out. Dave went with Oscar Meyer Eloy
from Compton. He went with it's Coop's childhood hero Jake Plummer.
All good guesses about at all? Yeah, let's see I

(39:36):
think he might have had a new one over here.
Let me see real quick, let's go andy. He checks
in and says, who am I? Kirk Cousins? Do you like?
That is what he said? All right? Mallard prop got
a nice little I don't know how he does these
AI things. He's got sir scratch off here. He's good.

(39:57):
He had one of me today. I'm like, well that
is this was weird, man, This is really strange hearing
the voice is not my voice at all, but pretty
well done. Next on the pick six list, that would
be my guy, Dan Marino. How about that? So Stafford
he ties Brett fav the most interceptions returned for touchdowns.
They each had thirty two in their NFL career. Dan

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Marino next on the list with twenty nine. How about that?
All right? Next, I rant about something that's terrible.