December 1, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Colts QB Daniel Jones' performance in a loss to the Texans, how Texans QB C.J. Stroud looked in his first game in almost a month, a review of Shedeur Sanders' first home start for the Browns, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka laka. It's our number two, our number two.
And what do you make of quarterback Daniel Jones' performance
for the Colts as he came up small late yet again? Also,
how did Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud look in his first
game in almost a month. We'll discuss that and give
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me a single word that described Shader Sanders' first home
start for the Browns, the forty nine ers getting it
done in rather easy fashion in Cleveland. All that and
more right now here, it is our number two. It's
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like betting on a horse. They get off to a
big start and then they can't finish the race. They
fall apart, they fade as the season or the race
goes on. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
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this hour from Indy. We start there big AFC South matchup,
and while we had a bunch of NFL games on Sunday,
there were only a few of them that really rose
to the level of interesting. There were some epic mismatches,
games that just had no juice, like Atlanta and the Jets,
(02:48):
who the hell cares just nothing there mismatches like Jacksonville
and Tennessee and whatnot. So we're gonna focus in on
a game that was he had the Texans defense was
now top three in the NFL just about every category.
Taking on Daniel Jones and the Indianapolis Colts. I don't
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if you saw this or not, maybe not. I had
this game circle and if you watched Benny versus the
Penny over the weekend, you know we told you about
the Texans. We liked the Texas in this game, and
it turned out to be the right side. Nico Collins
ran seven yards for the tie breaking score that was
early in the fourth quarter, and Nick chubblelub Lub added
(03:29):
another touchdown run. Houston's defense making some plays there late
in the game to wrap it up and the Texans
preserve a twenty to sixteen victory over the slumping Indianapolis Colts.
The better story is in the losing locker room as
the Colts go down. They dropped their second straight game.
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That does not sound good. And for the first time
this season, they have lost three of four and they
have fallen into a tie. They have fallen into a
tie with Jacksonville in the AFC South and they play
the Jaguars this coming Sunday. So that seems like kind
of a big deal. It seems like, hey, what's going
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on a lot of close games, a lot of non
performing late by the Indianapolis Colts. It seems to be
a theme here that they're in the games and then
they don't make plays late.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Here.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Shane Steichen, that's the head coach of the Indianapolis football team,
commenting on how the Colts keep screwing up these games?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Do you lose these tight games? Sometimes you win the
tight games, but when you lose tight games, it's frustrating
because you're like, shoot, we can have that, we could
add this, cauld add that. You look back, it's three
or four plays when you lose the tight ones. And
so we got to find a way to get those
three or four plays when it is a tight game
like that.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So Daniel Jones, again he didn't want to say this,
because you can't rip your quarterback. We lose as a team.
We wines. Our team not so much. So Daniel Jones
failed to deliver yet again. If you're a New York
Giants fan, you're and you're nodding your head. Yes, I
know that you don't need to remind me, So let
us discuss. That's a good jumping off point. So the
question what do you make of quarterback Daniel Jones and
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his performance here? For the colt soul, I've got e rythmics, airport,
parking garage, and foggy bathroom mirror, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going
to do. So number all right, enough, all right, So
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listen Daniel Jones, who for a couple of weeks there
was being hyped as Indiana Jones, the iconic Indiana Jones
we've seen as the season has gone on. Here, Daniel Jones,
he's Indiana Jones. But he doesn't have the whip late
in the game, doesn't have the right hat, doesn't have
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the right wardrobe, and certainly without the heroics that case.
And you want to know the truth, the word here,
the word is underwhelming with a capitol U. That's my
word for Daniel Jones. You're both the box score and
the eyeball test tell the same story here. Jones fourteen
of twenty seven so a little over fifty percent of
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his passes, just over two hundred yards passing, did have
a couple of touchdowns. It sounds all right, it sounds okay,
it sounds okay. You actually watched the game though, you're like, okay,
So he does okay early in the first half, and
then as the game progresses on, it gets harder and
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harder and harder. With this game was a litmus test.
Can we all agree on that? Everyone agrees? So it
was a litmus test for the Indianapolis Colts. You're playing
a top defensive team, you're at home, your favorite to
win the game, all right, So that's all important stuff.
So this was a test and against the Texans defense.
And how did Daniel Jones do? He failed the lab exam?
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He failed the lab exam unfortunately. And the quarterback apologists,
which drive me bonkers. You know who they are, the
fanboys in the media. Oh it's never the player's followed, never,
even though they're the ones that actually play the game.
So the quarterback apologists, the softies, the mister softies out there,
they're already rolling out the excuses, the red carpet of
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excuses here. You know, he had that the fibular injury.
He's not one hundred percent. Come on, give him a break,
give me back. No, he was medically clear Daniel Jones
to play in the game. And if you're medically cleared
to play, you're allowed to play. Not gonna let him
go out there and play if he's going to injure
himself more because that's a liability and the NFL has
been sued up the wazoo in the last twenty years
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by doing stuff like that. So Danie Jones was medically
clear to play. He's on the field. You are accountable
for your own actions. Period. End of story. Now, as
for the Colts, the soundtrack for the Cold it's starting
to change as the season has gone on. We've determined it,
say you rhythmics classic. Here comes that sink and feeling
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for Indianapolis, that sink and feeling bringing some Annie Lennox
here and get her singing there. You could have called
this one from the booth, all right, how you could
have called her from your sofa. You could have called
this one. Let's go to the fourth quarter. That's winning
time in the fourth quarter there and I got that
sink and feeling. Yeah, you got that sinking feeling here
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a big money quarterback. That's where you're earning your money. Right,
make place down the stretch. Down the stretch we come.
So in the fourth quarter, Daniel Jones had a passer
rating of forty nine point three, which I don't think
is good. You're being too mean, all right, how about
this last week in Kansas City, last game Colts play
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Kansas City. There he was even worse. Three of nine
that's in overtime and regulation, three of nine seventeen yards
last week, late game situations. So this is not some
kind of one off. In fact, if you look at it,
there's patternicity. There's a trend with Daniel Jones. And when
the moment gets big, big big, big, big, big, big big,
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this guy has a tendency to shrink. It's just the
way it is. So he's in the Indiana joneson for
answers right now. The pattern is developing. Whether you want
to admit it or not, the pattern is there, and
it's not pretty. And the Colts have put themselves into
a cord. Now, Sauce Gardner was hurting, this game's gonna
be out. Looks like for a couple of weeks. It's
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not a season aiding injury. The guy the Colts traded for.
And I got some people saying I told you, but
you know, I love the I told you guy. I can't.
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the I
told you guy, I told you. Guy emailed me and said, well,
I told you. They shouldn't have done that. Another sauce
guard resort. Did the Colts gave up all these draft picks?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I don't care. I would have done it. I like
the fact that Colts went for it. I like that.
That's good. I'm not gonna him for that hasn't worked
out yet. I don't have a problem. I thought that
this is opportunity and they're still in first place, although
they're tied now with Jacksonville on the other side. We
now go to the winning locker room question. The quarterback returned.
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So the question is how did Texans quarterback cee J.
Stroud look in his first game in almost a month?
His first game in almost a month, so how did
he look? Here? So watching this while flipping around other games,
Stroud stepped back onto the grid iron. He looked like
a guy that was walking out of a four week
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nap that he had literally been napping for four weeks,
which I don't think is good. And he was trying
to find his car at the airport parking garage and
he didn't remember where he parked, and he was taking
the shuttle from garage to garage to garage to garage.
He's like, hey, dude, where's my car. That was an
old dude, where's my car? First quarter? That was not
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a lot of polish in the first quarter. There that
was oxidation, oxidation, no touchdowns, just hiccups and homework that
you didn't do, homework that you didn't do. And then
you're like, Okay, what's going on here? And then look
all that great. There's some mental mistakes. For example, he
threw the football beyond the line of scrimmage. That's a
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no no. There was an overthrow if he saw the game,
got gift wrap for the Colts defense from CJ. Stroud.
Two turnovers on downs by the Texans offense. And so
it's like leaving the restaurant without paying the bill, dining
and ditching. That's what that had. That's what that was.
So a couple of those. Here is Demico Ryans, the
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head coach of the Houston Texans here and his comment
on his car. I'm sure he's gonna rip c J.
Stroud right say it was terrible. Let's see, let's.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Find out did a really nice job coming back, really
missing a lot of time. I know some throws he
would like to have back, but overall thought he managed
the drives really well.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
We drove down.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Of course we want to score on some of those.
We get down, had kick field goals. But overall, for
him coming back, not having played in a few weeks here,
I thought he did a really nice job. If this
is where he started, it's only up for him. So
I'm excited to see how he continues to progress.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You want to bet it's not only up for him,
because I'll bet I'll take that bet right now. You
want to bet he keeps getting better, I'll bet he
doesn't keep getting better. I'll take the other side on that. Now.
The one thing I will concede, I'm not a total schmuck.
I will concede that TJ. Strod did a very good
job the Texans offense. On third down, he was pretty good.
He was pretty good on third down. On third down,
he was Johnny Paycheck six of seven seventy nine yards
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passing a one hundred and thirteen point seven passer rating,
which is pretty good, which is pretty good. And when
the house lights were dimmed, dim dim dim dim dim.
Stroud was like piano man. He was third downs engineering
some things for Houston in the second half on that
touchdown they got, so it's kind of like they tilted
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the pinball machine a little bit as the game went
on for him on those third down plays. He was
not great overall. You have to judge him on the
full body of work. He was not great. So they
was They won the game, and he did get sacked
a couple times, but it wasn't as bad as it
has been when CJ. Stroud was in there before and
Davis Mills took over, and just all he did was
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get rid of the ball quickly and that was enough.
Because of the defense is so good in Houston, they
were able to win those games all right. Now, final point,
we go to Cleveland, Ohio and the forty Niners road
show in Northern Ohio and you talk about getting it
done on third down. The Niners converted sixty five percent
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of their third downs. I'm told that's good. They get
a twenty six to eight win without any real gaudy
offense from anybody. Brock Purdy, Christian McCaffrey, noe of those
guys had big days against the Brownies defense on a
very chilly Cleveland kind of a day. But don't bury
the lead, my man. We're not gonna bear lead. So
this was all about the spawn of Dion, the spawn
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of Dion. So question, give me a single word, Give
me a single word that describes Shaduur Sanders first home
start for the Browns. All right, So my word is dip.
That's my word, dip, dip as in declining impact performance dip.
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That's all I say. And it's exactly what Shadur Sanders
delivered in his first home start wearing those ugly Browns uniforms.
That was This was a chamber of commerce kind of
a day in northern high You don't need to talk
to strip Club John or Ohio Al or any other
legends in the Cleveland area. This was absolutely a chamber
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of commerce kind of day. Right on the shores of
Lake Erie. They're thirty five degrees, damp and breezy, the
type of weather that historically West Coast teams go into
Cleveland and they start hibernating because of the weather, and
so the forty nine ers they showed up and they
didn't do that. They didn't have Again, we say this
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all the time without their two headliners on defense, Nick
Bosa and Fred Warner not participating this season. They're out
with injuries. And Shader Sanders still look like he was
reading the playbook through a foggy bathroom mirror. It's like
looking through the foggy bathroom mirror trying to make out
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what was going on there. Now, Cleveland had nine offensive possessions.
That's it. They only had nine in the game. They
had four punts, three turnovers on downs, one fumble, and
one interception and a partridge in a pear tree. That's
what they had there. That's not a stat line, by
the way, that is a confession. Okay, outside of a
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single broken play miscoveraged by the forty nine Ers for
thirty four yards. On the other twenty four pass attempts
by Shreder Sanders, he averaged less than five yards per
pass attempt, and as the game went on he faded
away there. So not exactly the Mike Leech air raid
offense from back in the day. That's more like an
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air leak, is what that was? Flatulence. The Browns were
three of eleven on third down, which I'm told is
not good, zero for four on fourth down, which I
know is not good. I don't have to be told
it's not good. And that is not a conversion rate.
That is a clearance sale. And it is Cyber Monday,
so please buy our takes. They're on sale. And yet
he'll start again. The Browns already said, oh, he's gonna
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start against Tennessee because Cleveland has decided, well, they suck.
They're treating the regular season like it's a pilot episode.
They're just doing some testing, beta test thing. Here is
seeing what they got. And meanwhile, Dionz media buddies, we
know who they are. They're the ones licking the toes
of Shuder Sanders. They'll keep talking about Schaudur Canton Ohio,
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that Hall of Fame performance, all that stuff. We're two
weeks in as a starter, two weeks in and we
have an early verdict for Shudur Sanders. He doesn't just
doesn't look like the guy. Doesn't look like the guy.
Two weeks into this year, so again, do the dip
declining impact performance for Schudur Sanders, and these two starts
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he's made for the Browns are one in one overall.
Of course, the wind has an asterisk. It was against
the Raiders, the old Raiders, all right. Anyway, it is
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There you go, she's tuned in, locked in here, our friend.
Andrea Areek writes in from Minnesota's Great Monologue. As sad
as this sounds, I'd take Jones on the Vikings Men's
needs to watch his backside. Even though he signed an
extension before the season, this season has been a disaster
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and it's all on the GM there the quarterback whisper
also koc that is that was real disgusting there, and
to get blown out like that to not embarrassing and no.
Tradina says, today was my first perfect day of the
NFL season, basking in the glory of those Rams losing
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and watching my bets on San fran and the good
guy Seahawks cover No studious, Nobody cares about your bets
number one, number two, number two, No stradinas Okay, it's
very important here. I'm convinced now that you despise the
Rams more than you like Seattle. I think you're at
the age you're around my age, and I think you're
(20:52):
you're enjoying shotenfreude is what you're doing. Let's go to
the phones alt right now. We start out in northern
Minnesota and we say hello to the man, the myth
and a legend in his own head, Gunner, Hello, Gunner, welcome.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
Hello, I'm Bowie Carolina taking it on the Rams. It's
about time you eat your own words. You said they
had no chance and they beat them like I told you, Oh,
they have no chance. So I told you they were
not I told you, tell her I wasn't going to win.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You know what your name? Your name is? Your name is?
I told you guy, you're like. I told you guy,
that's what you do you're doing. I told you. I
told you. I told you. I told you. I told you.
I told you. I told you. I told you. Now,
did I assume you watched Benny Versus a Penny like
a real fan? Right? You watched Benny Versus the Penny?
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Okay? And who did I pick on the Carolina Ram game?
Who did I pick on that game?
Speaker 10 (21:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I told you didn't even watch it. You're fraud.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
You're fraud.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I took I took Carolina plus the points. I said
the line, it's too big, it's inflated ten and a
half points. I said, that's too big a line. Don't
do it. And you didn't watch, and you just got outed.
You just got outed. Bad job by you. You got
out it. No, no, no, it's still on YouTube. Go
back and watch. I didn't make it up. I picked
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Carolina plus the points on the youtue on Betty versus
the penny. But Gonn, you are you are? You are
so short? You are so sharp, Gunn, it's unbelievable, it's amazing.
You're a legend. You are a legend.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Gunner.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Are you at work right now.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
On lunch?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah? What's for lunch today? You want to play the
Gunner food game? What do you think a guy like
Gunner at a Walmart in I've been to the Louth.
But you're you're you're way past the Luther. How far
past the Luth?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Are you.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
An hour? Okay, that's not too bad? All right, so
very northern part he's at he's in the break room
at the Walmart. Try to guess what Gunner is eating?
And you did eat? Yes, Okay, I'm gonna say that
he had a tuna fish sandwich. I'm gonna say you
had uncooked top ramen, just smashed up in the bag
with seasoning on it. It's a great guess. That's a
(23:13):
good guess. Yeah, cool, I'm gonna say a hot pocket.
Hot pocket? All right, everyone locked your bets in right
now we're playing the what did Gunner eat on the
break room at the Walmart in Northern Minnesota? Reveal? Answers
what do you say? What'd you say? Gunn Are you
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on speakerphone?
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Like?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
What is happening?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I'm this is the worst game ever. We don't know
what he is some kind of sandwich? Was that a hummus?
You said? Hummus? Oh? Ham and cheese. I don't know
how you heard that ham and cheese? Did you get
that phone? Is that an Obama phone? Or is that
(23:59):
did you pay for that phone? It's a refurbished phone.
It doesn't sound like a refurbished phone at all. Sounds
like a wonderful phone. All right, well listen, uh I
continue talking, but we can't understand. Enjoy your win, the
greatest moment in Carolina Panther history. So congratulations Gunner. Okay,
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there he goes man, if many were quality amazing. Let's
go to a good story. Yes, the calls are as
good as they've ever been. Let's go to Van the
one legged Bama Man. Hello, Van the one Legged Bama Man.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Never heard of him? Hello?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
There he is the man myth had the rams and
my taser. So my boy cos.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Money, sorry about that day.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
I mean, man, you know he had interception in ten waits. Yeah,
so I ain't worried about the Rams.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Or definitely I'm worried about the Rams either.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Is my top feet fifteen to win the Super Bowl? Yeah,
that's the They've got it.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
But the bad bait was the Begham Denver game. I
had under fifty and if they never scored both teams
a touchdown and over town.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah no, no, I know I won that. I took
the points spread. I took Washington plus the points. But
I if if Denver had ended up winning by a touchdown,
would have lost the game. It was a six point line.
But since Washington scored the touchdown, I won even though
they have lost that game.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
So all right, Well you did good this week?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I did, all right? Yeah I did. I got it
for great. So I won all the Thursday and Friday games.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I was.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I got off to a four to oh start on
the weekend too. It was great. Yeah it was what
if I took all the underdogs? I was happy about that.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
And yeah I one Thursday Friday so good. I only
had two plays yesterday one more portly.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
How's your health? Everything okay? With you doing better?
Speaker 7 (25:56):
I turned sixty six yesterday.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Happy happy birthday. Don't we don't shout out to We're
not on the morning show, So I can't I can't
wish you happy to do that.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Oh I did basically sleep all day.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
So that's what sixty six is like. So you can
just sleep all day.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
You go to police.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
It's making the sixty six. You just sleep all day.
You're good. That's it.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Yeah, all right, buddy.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
All right, thank you. Van get somewhere all right, the
great Van, the one legged Bama Man.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Let's go now to a man who is wrapped himself
in black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow,
black and yellow, and his football team when they when
they play, they vomit black and yellow, black and yellow,
black and yellow showing the hook guy. Hello, Shawn the
hook guy.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
Man. I'm stuck here on this vomit comet.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Man.
Speaker 10 (26:41):
I don't know what is going on. I mean, I'm
still a fan and not understanding what's going on this.
Uh what's he called the coordinator? He needs to be gone.
People that the gang hollering Mike Common should be fired. Yeah,
that's a bad time. They were chanting people that the
game is boring. The song renegade. They don't want to
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hear that because there's nothing to be renegade.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
About Yeah, yeah, it's pretty tough when you're getting shut
out in the second half and you're getting your ass kicked.
It's like, couldn't somebody, somebody that controls the in stadium
entertainment realize maybe that's not a great idea.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
You know, that wasn't a great idea that that made
everybody seem like even matter man, And it's an embarrassment
because this is not still a football We had a chance,
so many chances to win this division, and we keep
falling behind, up and down. Like I told you before,
up and down, up and down. I to mess them
up my blood pressure. There's too many, too many roller
coaster riots with it. Man, it's not working well.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
It is just bad. I mean, it's just bad. That's what.
They're not a good team. They're just average. I guess
if you say they're they're not terrible. They not the
worst team. They're not like Tennessee or anything like that.
But they're just kind of in the middle. It's like
where they've been, this is where they've they've been with
the different players over the year. You know that they're
right around five hundred. They're exactly five hundred right now.
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Twelve games in the season, they're six and six. That's
that's where they are. That's that's a typical Pittsburgh Steeler team.
And you know, last last month has not been kind
to them.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Though.
Speaker 10 (28:13):
We haven't had a good season ever since Big Band
being gone. I'm just here to tell you we have
they have not found a quarterback to replace those shoes.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And well, good good news is you'll be back on
the market for a quarterback after the season, so we
get to do a lot of Steeler talk shown the
Hood Guy. Will they get the little fella Kyler Murray?
Is he gonna be there? Gino Smith, you can get you,
Geno Smith will be available if you want. Gino kirk Cousins.
I look at the stiffs that are gonna be available
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on the on the quarterback market after the season.
Speaker 10 (28:45):
Your trash truck back and then and trying to be quarterback.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's the sound of it. It's backing up just like that.
Speaker 10 (28:54):
That's that's gonna give you amusement for your entertainment. I
know you, so that's no.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
No, I'm already planning my off season shows. Sean the
Hood Guy, I'm already I'm getting ready for the day
that Kyler Murray ends up in Pittsburgh so I can
do all my material. I'm ready.
Speaker 10 (29:09):
Yeah, what's your favorite word? Alligator?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Alligator arms Murray. That's right, hey, listen. The good news though,
if you bring him to Pittsburgh, the video game guys
in Pittsburgh will love that because he's he's an epic gamer,
not a very good quarterback. He's really good at gaming
from what I understand, really good. Now he doesn't want
to watch film and he doesn't really want to learn
the playbook, but he's really good Kyler Murray. When if
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you need him to win a Call of Duty tournament
on a Friday night, he's going to kill it for you.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
I told you that that's your entertainment right there. Man,
you're gonna have a lot of entertainment.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But I like Tom and I love Tom. I don't
want Tom. He's a great SoundBite. I want him to stay.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
He talks a good talk. But man, come on, man,
enough is enough?
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Well he'll get a job too, I mean he's got
He'll end up on television or he'll end up coaching
somebody else. I mean that guy will Hey, Tennessee, Tomlin
to Tennessee. I can see that of the Steeler. He's
not gonna get fired, though he'd have to leave on
his own, right. He's not gonna they gonna fire him.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
Something gotta happen, man, because it's not working. And and Rogers,
he's on the end of his career.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I mean, you think you think you think you think
he's Dunsky's Rogers. Holy crap.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
Yeah, I mean, if he didn't play the last game
in Chicago, why would he play this game? And he's
out there looking like he just didn't want to throw
the ball, and it was embarrassment.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
Man.
Speaker 10 (30:23):
He should have been gone when Big Band was gone. Man.
So that right there, he hanging on till trying to
get a check, leave it alone, doing to sell up
into the sunset because it's not working for you no more.
Everybody else that they came in that class with you
and doing that year when you first came in. Everybody's gone.
So you should have been gone too.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Well.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I hope his I hope his wife cansole him after
the game.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Rogers.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
And she's a lovely lady. I'm sure I've never seen her,
but she's I'm sure a lovely woman. So I hope
his wife took good care of him, took pity on him,
and all that in the past.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
I thought Danica Patrick was still his girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Oh no, no, no, he got married.
Speaker 10 (30:55):
He got well, hey, that's hey, everybody got their own
business band.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Well you got. But nobody's seen the person, so we're
still waiting. But okay, all right, there you go Sean
the hood guy where he goes she's not real. You'd
think she's not. She's not. It's impossible. You can't hide
someone that long. Yeah you think that. The math on that,
like somebody would rack to TMZ and take a check
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for thirty thousand dollars are real? Okay, he could very
well see her when he gets home. Well, yeah, it's conceivable.
He also married some kind of AI like, oh yeah,
that out could be doing that. It's possible. There's a
lot of different scenarios there. Or it's all part of
a documentary, a Netflix documentary, Aaron Rodgers fake wife. You
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could do that. A Netflix series, they could do that.
Let's say hello to Tree. He's driving around Chicago. He's
got a big smile on his face right now, Tree,
Because if you look at your NFL standings, the Chicago
Bears Chego Bears at the very top of the NFL.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Goo man and man, we haven't hand me in these moments, man,
some of the I'm gonna have the gay right now.
Man looking good. We got a coach man because Caleb
is still trying to figure it out, but we got
a coach man. So well, football, I believe in coaching.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Man, you gotta you gotta coach. He's like a Chippendale's
dancer there Tree taking his shirt off in the in
the locker room after the game on Friday's going on?
Speaker 10 (32:25):
You relate to these young guys.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Didn't he don't you get like a free hot dog
or something? Wasn't that why he did it? I thought
that some places. Now, seriously, I saw I did a
rant on my podcast on Saturday about it. I think
there's a Chicago hot dog place giving away free hot dogs.
They said, if if your coach, the coach of the Bears,
takes his shirt off in the locker room, everyone gets
a free hot dog, you might want to take the
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kids over there and the wife and have a free
hot talk.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Man, we've been so bad as a sports TV as
far as winning, except for my cub then we're doing
anything to get the fans hype.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
Man so, and even the.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Even the Cubs has been about ten years right since
the Cubs, it's it's time goes fast because.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
It's going on ten years.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
But for most people, a lot of people dad in
between them last championships. Man, So I'm okay with ten years. Yeah,
right now?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Right now the Bears Tree. First round matchup for the
Bears is the bye week. Hopefully they don't lose to
the bye week in Round one, that would be their
match up.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Now, y'all said the best team, Man, I don't know
who y'all got next on the schedule. I was telling Goop,
I wanted to talk to you about the Rams. Y'all
stay the best team in the NFC. To me, I
don't know if y'all was looking forward to next week
or something.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
No, no, they definitely we're not looking for they played
the Cardinals next week. No one's looking forward to playing
the Cardinals. So they were definitely not looking ahead to
the Cardinals. They were not so, but it was it
was a letdown spot for the Rams because they'd won
a couple of big games, is the Seahawk Game and
then they played Tampa on that Sunday night, and they
won that game. And so nobody gets up for the
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Carolina Panthers other than Gunner. Gunner in Minnesota gets up.
But that's about it. So cool, cool, well, good man,
be safe, be safe, drive around Chicago. Man, all right,
the Great Tree, Thank you, buddy, the Great Tree, very hospital, hospitable,
so great when he came in, very nice man, very nice,
and would have come out and visited us again if
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the Cubs had played the Dodgers in the playoffs, but
they unfortunately did not, did not take care of the
Milwaukee Brewers, so it did not work.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Out so well.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Well, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
At least that's the mantra of Justin Jefferson, who was
completely invisible on the field for the Vikings in Seattle
on Sunday and then decided, like all great leaders of men,
when the going gets tough, let me leave the locker
room without answering any questions, because that's what real leadership is.
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For the Minnesota Vikings wide receiver who had him easily
four yards on two catches in the twenty six to
zero shutout loss to the Seattle football team, and then
postgame reporters were trying to get some reaction, and the
Vikings announced that Justin Jefferson had decided he didn't feel
like talking to the media because he wants to only
talk apparently when they win. So I guess he won't
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talk to him anytime soon. And that's the first time
that has happened since he arrived a few years. I
don't think he's done that since maybe ever or twenty
twenty two. Maybe. I mean it's it's been a few years.
He has not done that. So anyway, there you go.
Justin Jefferson, he always loved the show Ponies. The show
ponies are the ones when they win, Like Nick Siriana
(35:34):
is kind of like that. When the Eagles win, he's
out there with bells and whistles on. When they lose,
he goes into hiding and does that whole thing. Time
Now for the insta trivium, and here we go. Coach
Blank owns the best that means, the best winning win
loss record in divisional games in NFL history minimum fifteen games. Again,
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Coach Blank owns the best NFL win loss record in
divisional games in NFL history. That is the instant tribute,
the answer and Mallard of the third degree. We'll get
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loss record in divisional games in NFL history, minimum fifteen games.
That is the question. What is the answer? And let's
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Philben guessed by Stevie Meatballs, Mark the full name guy
from malor Prop Guy's see here? Who else? Overnee Rap
(37:47):
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as his answer. Ze Oh Kravitz, who is thirty seven?
And you know who that is?
Speaker 10 (38:03):
No?
Speaker 8 (38:04):
You know?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Is that the son of Lenny Kravitz. It looks like
a very attractive woman to me. I don't know. Uh, okay, okay,
King Roy's going with Doc Rivers as his answer. Marty
Schottenheimer from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Our friend Kathy and
Madison says it's Aaron Rodgers Ai wife and willis the
synthesizer dog. She just took a shot at. Willis the hoodie.
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Bill Belichick from Andy and Lionel Lakes Hayden Fox from
Don from Duluth, coach John McGuirk from Nate the Hammer. Now,
who else we have? J T the Wingman, says coach
Ernie from Cheers. Do you have an answer? I'm gonna
go with Peter Piper, who picked a peck of pickled peppers. Okay,
make sure you say that propably. No, it's Demico Ryans
of the Houston Texans thirteen and four divisional games and
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that's the top record in the NFL. It's Maller, Texans
coach to the third degree this, yeah, I'm sure Cooper
Loop go ahead there? Cool? Please?
Speaker 11 (39:06):
Well, Ben, you just talked to Tree in Chicago about
his Chicago Bears. Yes, how much credit does Ben Johnson
deserve for their success?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Well? A sizable amount of credit, Coop. The Bears have
been chronic underachievers for years. He's apparently simplified things here
and the Bears have surpassed where they normally have been.
And he's the difference is the coach. So you guys
say that this is actually helping out And it's not
like Cabb Williams is playing great, because he's not. He's
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not playing all that well, and the Bears are still
winning these games, so good job by him.
Speaker 11 (39:39):
Next, So the Chiefs are a five hundred team and
they might miss the playoffs playoffs. Over the weekend, Patrick
Mahomes said, our ceiling is playing in the super Bowl.
We can beat anybody, but we've shown that we can
lose to anybody. Ben you agree with all that.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
It sounds good, but you got to look at what
you are this year and what you are this year.
There's been a constant monsoon that has taken over the
Kansas City chief ves. I kept saying, well, this is
gonna be the week they turn things around, This is
gonna be the week. And no, they're just this is
who they are. They're not that good. They're just not
I don't see I don't see them turning things around.
Speaker 11 (40:09):
Next, there was a report over the weekend that three
teams are being linked to a trade for LaMelo Ball.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Do you think he's somebody that you want to go
for heild your team around. Oh, he's a good player.
You don't know with guys like that because he's on
a crappy team. And it's easy to put stats on
a crappy team. It's it's hard when you're winning. They
put up says, I'm skeptical. How do we doubt I
passed Bugatti Bugatti, I passed the truck of Bugatti.
Boom, shaka laka. It's our number two, our number two.
And what do you make of quarterback Daniel Jones' performance
for the Colts as he came up small late yet again? Also,
how did Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud look in his first
game in almost a month. We'll discuss that and give
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start for the Browns, the forty nine ers getting it
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this hour from Indy. We start there big AFC South matchup,
and while we had a bunch of NFL games on Sunday,
there were only a few of them that really rose
to the level of interesting. There were some epic mismatches,
games that just had no juice, like Atlanta and the Jets,
(02:48):
who the hell cares just nothing there mismatches like Jacksonville
and Tennessee and whatnot. So we're gonna focus in on
a game that was he had the Texans defense was
now top three in the NFL just about every category.
Taking on Daniel Jones and the Indianapolis Colts. I don't
(03:09):
if you saw this or not, maybe not. I had
this game circle and if you watched Benny versus the
Penny over the weekend, you know we told you about
the Texans. We liked the Texas in this game, and
it turned out to be the right side. Nico Collins
ran seven yards for the tie breaking score that was
early in the fourth quarter, and Nick chubblelub Lub added
(03:29):
another touchdown run. Houston's defense making some plays there late
in the game to wrap it up and the Texans
preserve a twenty to sixteen victory over the slumping Indianapolis Colts.
The better story is in the losing locker room as
the Colts go down. They dropped their second straight game.
(03:51):
That does not sound good. And for the first time
this season, they have lost three of four and they
have fallen into a tie. They have fallen into a
tie with Jacksonville in the AFC South and they play
the Jaguars this coming Sunday. So that seems like kind
of a big deal. It seems like, hey, what's going
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on a lot of close games, a lot of non
performing late by the Indianapolis Colts. It seems to be
a theme here that they're in the games and then
they don't make plays late.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Here.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Shane Steichen, that's the head coach of the Indianapolis football team,
commenting on how the Colts keep screwing up these games?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Do you lose these tight games? Sometimes you win the
tight games, but when you lose tight games, it's frustrating
because you're like, shoot, we can have that, we could
add this, cauld add that. You look back, it's three
or four plays when you lose the tight ones. And
so we got to find a way to get those
three or four plays when it is a tight game
like that.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So Daniel Jones, again he didn't want to say this,
because you can't rip your quarterback. We lose as a team.
We wines. Our team not so much. So Daniel Jones
failed to deliver yet again. If you're a New York
Giants fan, you're and you're nodding your head. Yes, I
know that you don't need to remind me, So let
us discuss. That's a good jumping off point. So the
question what do you make of quarterback Daniel Jones and
(05:12):
his performance here? For the colt soul, I've got e rythmics, airport,
parking garage, and foggy bathroom mirror, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going
to do. So number all right, enough, all right, So
(05:38):
listen Daniel Jones, who for a couple of weeks there
was being hyped as Indiana Jones, the iconic Indiana Jones
we've seen as the season has gone on. Here, Daniel Jones,
he's Indiana Jones. But he doesn't have the whip late
in the game, doesn't have the right hat, doesn't have
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the right wardrobe, and certainly without the heroics that case.
And you want to know the truth, the word here,
the word is underwhelming with a capitol U. That's my
word for Daniel Jones. You're both the box score and
the eyeball test tell the same story here. Jones fourteen
of twenty seven so a little over fifty percent of
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his passes, just over two hundred yards passing, did have
a couple of touchdowns. It sounds all right, it sounds okay,
it sounds okay. You actually watched the game though, you're like, okay,
So he does okay early in the first half, and
then as the game progresses on, it gets harder and
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harder and harder. With this game was a litmus test.
Can we all agree on that? Everyone agrees? So it
was a litmus test for the Indianapolis Colts. You're playing
a top defensive team, you're at home, your favorite to
win the game, all right, So that's all important stuff.
So this was a test and against the Texans defense.
And how did Daniel Jones do? He failed the lab exam?
(07:02):
He failed the lab exam unfortunately. And the quarterback apologists,
which drive me bonkers. You know who they are, the
fanboys in the media. Oh it's never the player's followed, never,
even though they're the ones that actually play the game.
So the quarterback apologists, the softies, the mister softies out there,
they're already rolling out the excuses, the red carpet of
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excuses here. You know, he had that the fibular injury.
He's not one hundred percent. Come on, give him a break,
give me back. No, he was medically clear Daniel Jones
to play in the game. And if you're medically cleared
to play, you're allowed to play. Not gonna let him
go out there and play if he's going to injure
himself more because that's a liability and the NFL has
been sued up the wazoo in the last twenty years
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by doing stuff like that. So Danie Jones was medically
clear to play. He's on the field. You are accountable
for your own actions. Period. End of story. Now, as
for the Colts, the soundtrack for the Cold it's starting
to change as the season has gone on. We've determined it,
say you rhythmics classic. Here comes that sink and feeling
(08:08):
for Indianapolis, that sink and feeling bringing some Annie Lennox
here and get her singing there. You could have called
this one from the booth, all right, how you could
have called her from your sofa. You could have called
this one. Let's go to the fourth quarter. That's winning
time in the fourth quarter there and I got that
sink and feeling. Yeah, you got that sinking feeling here
(08:31):
a big money quarterback. That's where you're earning your money. Right,
make place down the stretch. Down the stretch we come.
So in the fourth quarter, Daniel Jones had a passer
rating of forty nine point three, which I don't think
is good. You're being too mean, all right, how about
this last week in Kansas City, last game Colts play
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Kansas City. There he was even worse. Three of nine
that's in overtime and regulation, three of nine seventeen yards
last week, late game situations. So this is not some
kind of one off. In fact, if you look at it,
there's patternicity. There's a trend with Daniel Jones. And when
the moment gets big, big big, big, big, big, big big,
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this guy has a tendency to shrink. It's just the
way it is. So he's in the Indiana joneson for
answers right now. The pattern is developing. Whether you want
to admit it or not, the pattern is there, and
it's not pretty. And the Colts have put themselves into
a cord. Now, Sauce Gardner was hurting, this game's gonna
be out. Looks like for a couple of weeks. It's
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not a season aiding injury. The guy the Colts traded for.
And I got some people saying I told you, but
you know, I love the I told you guy. I can't.
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the I
told you guy, I told you. Guy emailed me and said, well,
I told you. They shouldn't have done that. Another sauce
guard resort. Did the Colts gave up all these draft picks?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I don't care. I would have done it. I like
the fact that Colts went for it. I like that.
That's good. I'm not gonna him for that hasn't worked
out yet. I don't have a problem. I thought that
this is opportunity and they're still in first place, although
they're tied now with Jacksonville on the other side. We
now go to the winning locker room question. The quarterback returned.
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So the question is how did Texans quarterback cee J.
Stroud look in his first game in almost a month?
His first game in almost a month, so how did
he look? Here? So watching this while flipping around other games,
Stroud stepped back onto the grid iron. He looked like
a guy that was walking out of a four week
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nap that he had literally been napping for four weeks,
which I don't think is good. And he was trying
to find his car at the airport parking garage and
he didn't remember where he parked, and he was taking
the shuttle from garage to garage to garage to garage.
He's like, hey, dude, where's my car. That was an
old dude, where's my car? First quarter? That was not
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a lot of polish in the first quarter. There that
was oxidation, oxidation, no touchdowns, just hiccups and homework that
you didn't do, homework that you didn't do. And then
you're like, Okay, what's going on here? And then look
all that great. There's some mental mistakes. For example, he
threw the football beyond the line of scrimmage. That's a
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no no. There was an overthrow if he saw the game,
got gift wrap for the Colts defense from CJ. Stroud.
Two turnovers on downs by the Texans offense. And so
it's like leaving the restaurant without paying the bill, dining
and ditching. That's what that had. That's what that was.
So a couple of those. Here is Demico Ryans, the
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head coach of the Houston Texans here and his comment
on his car. I'm sure he's gonna rip c J.
Stroud right say it was terrible. Let's see, let's.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Find out did a really nice job coming back, really
missing a lot of time. I know some throws he
would like to have back, but overall thought he managed
the drives really well.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
We drove down.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Of course we want to score on some of those.
We get down, had kick field goals. But overall, for
him coming back, not having played in a few weeks here,
I thought he did a really nice job. If this
is where he started, it's only up for him. So
I'm excited to see how he continues to progress.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You want to bet it's not only up for him,
because I'll bet I'll take that bet right now. You
want to bet he keeps getting better, I'll bet he
doesn't keep getting better. I'll take the other side on that. Now.
The one thing I will concede, I'm not a total schmuck.
I will concede that TJ. Strod did a very good
job the Texans offense. On third down, he was pretty good.
He was pretty good on third down. On third down,
he was Johnny Paycheck six of seven seventy nine yards
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passing a one hundred and thirteen point seven passer rating,
which is pretty good, which is pretty good. And when
the house lights were dimmed, dim dim dim dim dim.
Stroud was like piano man. He was third downs engineering
some things for Houston in the second half on that
touchdown they got, so it's kind of like they tilted
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the pinball machine a little bit as the game went
on for him on those third down plays. He was
not great overall. You have to judge him on the
full body of work. He was not great. So they
was They won the game, and he did get sacked
a couple times, but it wasn't as bad as it
has been when CJ. Stroud was in there before and
Davis Mills took over, and just all he did was
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get rid of the ball quickly and that was enough.
Because of the defense is so good in Houston, they
were able to win those games all right. Now, final point,
we go to Cleveland, Ohio and the forty Niners road
show in Northern Ohio and you talk about getting it
done on third down. The Niners converted sixty five percent
(13:55):
of their third downs. I'm told that's good. They get
a twenty six to eight win without any real gaudy
offense from anybody. Brock Purdy, Christian McCaffrey, noe of those
guys had big days against the Brownies defense on a
very chilly Cleveland kind of a day. But don't bury
the lead, my man. We're not gonna bear lead. So
this was all about the spawn of Dion, the spawn
(14:18):
of Dion. So question, give me a single word, Give
me a single word that describes Shaduur Sanders first home
start for the Browns. All right, So my word is dip.
That's my word, dip, dip as in declining impact performance dip.
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That's all I say. And it's exactly what Shadur Sanders
delivered in his first home start wearing those ugly Browns uniforms.
That was This was a chamber of commerce kind of
a day in northern high You don't need to talk
to strip Club John or Ohio Al or any other
legends in the Cleveland area. This was absolutely a chamber
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of commerce kind of day. Right on the shores of
Lake Erie. They're thirty five degrees, damp and breezy, the
type of weather that historically West Coast teams go into
Cleveland and they start hibernating because of the weather, and
so the forty nine ers they showed up and they
didn't do that. They didn't have Again, we say this
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all the time without their two headliners on defense, Nick
Bosa and Fred Warner not participating this season. They're out
with injuries. And Shader Sanders still look like he was
reading the playbook through a foggy bathroom mirror. It's like
looking through the foggy bathroom mirror trying to make out
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what was going on there. Now, Cleveland had nine offensive possessions.
That's it. They only had nine in the game. They
had four punts, three turnovers on downs, one fumble, and
one interception and a partridge in a pear tree. That's
what they had there. That's not a stat line, by
the way, that is a confession. Okay, outside of a
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single broken play miscoveraged by the forty nine Ers for
thirty four yards. On the other twenty four pass attempts
by Shreder Sanders, he averaged less than five yards per
pass attempt, and as the game went on he faded
away there. So not exactly the Mike Leech air raid
offense from back in the day. That's more like an
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air leak, is what that was? Flatulence. The Browns were
three of eleven on third down, which I'm told is
not good, zero for four on fourth down, which I
know is not good. I don't have to be told
it's not good. And that is not a conversion rate.
That is a clearance sale. And it is Cyber Monday,
so please buy our takes. They're on sale. And yet
he'll start again. The Browns already said, oh, he's gonna
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start against Tennessee because Cleveland has decided, well, they suck.
They're treating the regular season like it's a pilot episode.
They're just doing some testing, beta test thing. Here is
seeing what they got. And meanwhile, Dionz media buddies, we
know who they are. They're the ones licking the toes
of Shuder Sanders. They'll keep talking about Schaudur Canton Ohio,
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that Hall of Fame performance, all that stuff. We're two
weeks in as a starter, two weeks in and we
have an early verdict for Shudur Sanders. He doesn't just
doesn't look like the guy. Doesn't look like the guy.
Two weeks into this year, so again, do the dip
declining impact performance for Schudur Sanders, and these two starts
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he's made for the Browns are one in one overall.
Of course, the wind has an asterisk. It was against
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Andrea Areek writes in from Minnesota's Great Monologue. As sad
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needs to watch his backside. Even though he signed an
extension before the season, this season has been a disaster
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and it's all on the GM there the quarterback whisper
also koc that is that was real disgusting there, and
to get blown out like that to not embarrassing and no.
Tradina says, today was my first perfect day of the
NFL season, basking in the glory of those Rams losing
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and watching my bets on San fran and the good
guy Seahawks cover No studious, Nobody cares about your bets
number one, number two, number two, No stradinas Okay, it's
very important here. I'm convinced now that you despise the
Rams more than you like Seattle. I think you're at
the age you're around my age, and I think you're
(20:52):
you're enjoying shotenfreude is what you're doing. Let's go to
the phones alt right now. We start out in northern
Minnesota and we say hello to the man, the myth
and a legend in his own head, Gunner, Hello, Gunner, welcome.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
Hello, I'm Bowie Carolina taking it on the Rams. It's
about time you eat your own words. You said they
had no chance and they beat them like I told you, Oh,
they have no chance. So I told you they were
not I told you, tell her I wasn't going to win.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You know what your name? Your name is? Your name is?
I told you guy, you're like. I told you guy,
that's what you do you're doing. I told you. I
told you. I told you. I told you. I told you.
I told you. I told you. I told you. Now,
did I assume you watched Benny Versus a Penny like
a real fan? Right? You watched Benny Versus the Penny?
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Okay? And who did I pick on the Carolina Ram game?
Who did I pick on that game?
Speaker 10 (21:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I told you didn't even watch it. You're fraud.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
You're fraud.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I took I took Carolina plus the points. I said
the line, it's too big, it's inflated ten and a
half points. I said, that's too big a line. Don't
do it. And you didn't watch, and you just got outed.
You just got outed. Bad job by you. You got
out it. No, no, no, it's still on YouTube. Go
back and watch. I didn't make it up. I picked
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Carolina plus the points on the youtue on Betty versus
the penny. But Gonn, you are you are? You are
so short? You are so sharp, Gunn, it's unbelievable, it's amazing.
You're a legend. You are a legend.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Gunner.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Are you at work right now.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
On lunch?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah? What's for lunch today? You want to play the
Gunner food game? What do you think a guy like
Gunner at a Walmart in I've been to the Louth.
But you're you're you're way past the Luther. How far
past the Luth?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Are you.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
An hour? Okay, that's not too bad? All right, so
very northern part he's at he's in the break room
at the Walmart. Try to guess what Gunner is eating?
And you did eat? Yes, Okay, I'm gonna say that
he had a tuna fish sandwich. I'm gonna say you
had uncooked top ramen, just smashed up in the bag
with seasoning on it. It's a great guess. That's a
(23:13):
good guess. Yeah, cool, I'm gonna say a hot pocket.
Hot pocket? All right, everyone locked your bets in right
now we're playing the what did Gunner eat on the
break room at the Walmart in Northern Minnesota? Reveal? Answers
what do you say? What'd you say? Gunn Are you
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on speakerphone?
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Like?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
What is happening?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I'm this is the worst game ever. We don't know
what he is some kind of sandwich? Was that a hummus?
You said? Hummus? Oh? Ham and cheese. I don't know
how you heard that ham and cheese? Did you get
that phone? Is that an Obama phone? Or is that
(23:59):
did you pay for that phone? It's a refurbished phone.
It doesn't sound like a refurbished phone at all. Sounds
like a wonderful phone. All right, well listen, uh I
continue talking, but we can't understand. Enjoy your win, the
greatest moment in Carolina Panther history. So congratulations Gunner. Okay,
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there he goes man, if many were quality amazing. Let's
go to a good story. Yes, the calls are as
good as they've ever been. Let's go to Van the
one legged Bama Man. Hello, Van the one Legged Bama Man.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Never heard of him? Hello?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
There he is the man myth had the rams and
my taser. So my boy cos.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Money, sorry about that day.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
I mean, man, you know he had interception in ten waits. Yeah,
so I ain't worried about the Rams.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Or definitely I'm worried about the Rams either.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Is my top feet fifteen to win the Super Bowl? Yeah,
that's the They've got it.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
But the bad bait was the Begham Denver game. I
had under fifty and if they never scored both teams
a touchdown and over town.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah no, no, I know I won that. I took
the points spread. I took Washington plus the points. But
I if if Denver had ended up winning by a touchdown,
would have lost the game. It was a six point line.
But since Washington scored the touchdown, I won even though
they have lost that game.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
So all right, Well you did good this week?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I did, all right? Yeah I did. I got it
for great. So I won all the Thursday and Friday games.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I was.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I got off to a four to oh start on
the weekend too. It was great. Yeah it was what
if I took all the underdogs? I was happy about that.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
And yeah I one Thursday Friday so good. I only
had two plays yesterday one more portly.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
How's your health? Everything okay? With you doing better?
Speaker 7 (25:56):
I turned sixty six yesterday.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Happy happy birthday. Don't we don't shout out to We're
not on the morning show, So I can't I can't
wish you happy to do that.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Oh I did basically sleep all day.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
So that's what sixty six is like. So you can
just sleep all day.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
You go to police.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
It's making the sixty six. You just sleep all day.
You're good. That's it.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Yeah, all right, buddy.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
All right, thank you. Van get somewhere all right, the
great Van, the one legged Bama Man.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Let's go now to a man who is wrapped himself
in black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow,
black and yellow, and his football team when they when
they play, they vomit black and yellow, black and yellow,
black and yellow showing the hook guy. Hello, Shawn the
hook guy.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
Man. I'm stuck here on this vomit comet.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Man.
Speaker 10 (26:41):
I don't know what is going on. I mean, I'm
still a fan and not understanding what's going on this.
Uh what's he called the coordinator? He needs to be gone.
People that the gang hollering Mike Common should be fired. Yeah,
that's a bad time. They were chanting people that the
game is boring. The song renegade. They don't want to
(27:03):
hear that because there's nothing to be renegade.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
About Yeah, yeah, it's pretty tough when you're getting shut
out in the second half and you're getting your ass kicked.
It's like, couldn't somebody, somebody that controls the in stadium
entertainment realize maybe that's not a great idea.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
You know, that wasn't a great idea that that made
everybody seem like even matter man, And it's an embarrassment
because this is not still a football We had a chance,
so many chances to win this division, and we keep
falling behind, up and down. Like I told you before,
up and down, up and down. I to mess them
up my blood pressure. There's too many, too many roller
coaster riots with it. Man, it's not working well.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
It is just bad. I mean, it's just bad. That's what.
They're not a good team. They're just average. I guess
if you say they're they're not terrible. They not the
worst team. They're not like Tennessee or anything like that.
But they're just kind of in the middle. It's like
where they've been, this is where they've they've been with
the different players over the year. You know that they're
right around five hundred. They're exactly five hundred right now.
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Twelve games in the season, they're six and six. That's
that's where they are. That's that's a typical Pittsburgh Steeler team.
And you know, last last month has not been kind
to them.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Though.
Speaker 10 (28:13):
We haven't had a good season ever since Big Band
being gone. I'm just here to tell you we have
they have not found a quarterback to replace those shoes.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And well, good good news is you'll be back on
the market for a quarterback after the season, so we
get to do a lot of Steeler talk shown the
Hood Guy. Will they get the little fella Kyler Murray?
Is he gonna be there? Gino Smith, you can get you,
Geno Smith will be available if you want. Gino kirk Cousins.
I look at the stiffs that are gonna be available
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on the on the quarterback market after the season.
Speaker 10 (28:45):
Your trash truck back and then and trying to be quarterback.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's the sound of it. It's backing up just like that.
Speaker 10 (28:54):
That's that's gonna give you amusement for your entertainment. I
know you, so that's no.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
No, I'm already planning my off season shows. Sean the
Hood Guy, I'm already I'm getting ready for the day
that Kyler Murray ends up in Pittsburgh so I can
do all my material. I'm ready.
Speaker 10 (29:09):
Yeah, what's your favorite word? Alligator?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Alligator arms Murray. That's right, hey, listen. The good news though,
if you bring him to Pittsburgh, the video game guys
in Pittsburgh will love that because he's he's an epic gamer,
not a very good quarterback. He's really good at gaming
from what I understand, really good. Now he doesn't want
to watch film and he doesn't really want to learn
the playbook, but he's really good Kyler Murray. When if
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you need him to win a Call of Duty tournament
on a Friday night, he's going to kill it for you.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
I told you that that's your entertainment right there. Man,
you're gonna have a lot of entertainment.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But I like Tom and I love Tom. I don't
want Tom. He's a great SoundBite. I want him to stay.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
He talks a good talk. But man, come on, man,
enough is enough?
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Well he'll get a job too, I mean he's got
He'll end up on television or he'll end up coaching
somebody else. I mean that guy will Hey, Tennessee, Tomlin
to Tennessee. I can see that of the Steeler. He's
not gonna get fired, though he'd have to leave on
his own, right. He's not gonna they gonna fire him.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
Something gotta happen, man, because it's not working. And and Rogers,
he's on the end of his career.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I mean, you think you think you think you think
he's Dunsky's Rogers. Holy crap.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
Yeah, I mean, if he didn't play the last game
in Chicago, why would he play this game? And he's
out there looking like he just didn't want to throw
the ball, and it was embarrassment.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
Man.
Speaker 10 (30:23):
He should have been gone when Big Band was gone. Man.
So that right there, he hanging on till trying to
get a check, leave it alone, doing to sell up
into the sunset because it's not working for you no more.
Everybody else that they came in that class with you
and doing that year when you first came in. Everybody's gone.
So you should have been gone too.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Well.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I hope his I hope his wife cansole him after
the game.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Rogers.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
And she's a lovely lady. I'm sure I've never seen her,
but she's I'm sure a lovely woman. So I hope
his wife took good care of him, took pity on him,
and all that in the past.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
I thought Danica Patrick was still his girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Oh no, no, no, he got married.
Speaker 10 (30:55):
He got well, hey, that's hey, everybody got their own
business band.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Well you got. But nobody's seen the person, so we're
still waiting. But okay, all right, there you go Sean
the hood guy where he goes she's not real. You'd
think she's not. She's not. It's impossible. You can't hide
someone that long. Yeah you think that. The math on that,
like somebody would rack to TMZ and take a check
(31:23):
for thirty thousand dollars are real? Okay, he could very
well see her when he gets home. Well, yeah, it's conceivable.
He also married some kind of AI like, oh yeah,
that out could be doing that. It's possible. There's a
lot of different scenarios there. Or it's all part of
a documentary, a Netflix documentary, Aaron Rodgers fake wife. You
(31:44):
could do that. A Netflix series, they could do that.
Let's say hello to Tree. He's driving around Chicago. He's
got a big smile on his face right now, Tree,
Because if you look at your NFL standings, the Chicago
Bears Chego Bears at the very top of the NFL.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Goo man and man, we haven't hand me in these moments, man,
some of the I'm gonna have the gay right now.
Man looking good. We got a coach man because Caleb
is still trying to figure it out, but we got
a coach man. So well, football, I believe in coaching.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Man, you gotta you gotta coach. He's like a Chippendale's
dancer there Tree taking his shirt off in the in
the locker room after the game on Friday's going on?
Speaker 10 (32:25):
You relate to these young guys.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Didn't he don't you get like a free hot dog
or something? Wasn't that why he did it? I thought
that some places. Now, seriously, I saw I did a
rant on my podcast on Saturday about it. I think
there's a Chicago hot dog place giving away free hot dogs.
They said, if if your coach, the coach of the Bears,
takes his shirt off in the locker room, everyone gets
a free hot dog, you might want to take the
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kids over there and the wife and have a free
hot talk.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Man, we've been so bad as a sports TV as
far as winning, except for my cub then we're doing
anything to get the fans hype.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
Man so, and even the.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Even the Cubs has been about ten years right since
the Cubs, it's it's time goes fast because.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
It's going on ten years.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
But for most people, a lot of people dad in
between them last championships. Man, So I'm okay with ten years. Yeah,
right now?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Right now the Bears Tree. First round matchup for the
Bears is the bye week. Hopefully they don't lose to
the bye week in Round one, that would be their
match up.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Now, y'all said the best team, Man, I don't know
who y'all got next on the schedule. I was telling Goop,
I wanted to talk to you about the Rams. Y'all
stay the best team in the NFC. To me, I
don't know if y'all was looking forward to next week
or something.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
No, no, they definitely we're not looking for they played
the Cardinals next week. No one's looking forward to playing
the Cardinals. So they were definitely not looking ahead to
the Cardinals. They were not so, but it was it
was a letdown spot for the Rams because they'd won
a couple of big games, is the Seahawk Game and
then they played Tampa on that Sunday night, and they
won that game. And so nobody gets up for the
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Carolina Panthers other than Gunner. Gunner in Minnesota gets up.
But that's about it. So cool, cool, well, good man,
be safe, be safe, drive around Chicago. Man, all right,
the Great Tree, Thank you, buddy, the Great Tree, very hospital, hospitable,
so great when he came in, very nice man, very nice,
and would have come out and visited us again if
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the Cubs had played the Dodgers in the playoffs, but
they unfortunately did not, did not take care of the
Milwaukee Brewers, so it did not work.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Out so well.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Well, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
At least that's the mantra of Justin Jefferson, who was
completely invisible on the field for the Vikings in Seattle
on Sunday and then decided, like all great leaders of men,
when the going gets tough, let me leave the locker
room without answering any questions, because that's what real leadership is.
(34:51):
For the Minnesota Vikings wide receiver who had him easily
four yards on two catches in the twenty six to
zero shutout loss to the Seattle football team, and then
postgame reporters were trying to get some reaction, and the
Vikings announced that Justin Jefferson had decided he didn't feel
like talking to the media because he wants to only
talk apparently when they win. So I guess he won't
(35:12):
talk to him anytime soon. And that's the first time
that has happened since he arrived a few years. I
don't think he's done that since maybe ever or twenty
twenty two. Maybe. I mean it's it's been a few years.
He has not done that. So anyway, there you go.
Justin Jefferson, he always loved the show Ponies. The show
ponies are the ones when they win, Like Nick Siriana
(35:34):
is kind of like that. When the Eagles win, he's
out there with bells and whistles on. When they lose,
he goes into hiding and does that whole thing. Time
Now for the insta trivium, and here we go. Coach
Blank owns the best that means, the best winning win
loss record in divisional games in NFL history minimum fifteen games. Again,
(35:54):
Coach Blank owns the best NFL win loss record in
divisional games in NFL history. That is the instant tribute,
the answer and Mallard of the third degree. We'll get
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And here it is Coach Blank owns the best win
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loss record in divisional games in NFL history, minimum fifteen games.
That is the question. What is the answer? And let's
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Philben guessed by Stevie Meatballs, Mark the full name guy
from malor Prop Guy's see here? Who else? Overnee Rap
(37:47):
from Bobby in Florida, Robbie the Mariner fan from Rob
the Goldman. Robbie's looking good. Femi going with Adrian Monk
as his answer. Ze Oh Kravitz, who is thirty seven?
And you know who that is?
Speaker 10 (38:03):
No?
Speaker 8 (38:04):
You know?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Is that the son of Lenny Kravitz. It looks like
a very attractive woman to me. I don't know. Uh, okay, okay,
King Roy's going with Doc Rivers as his answer. Marty
Schottenheimer from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Our friend Kathy and
Madison says it's Aaron Rodgers Ai wife and willis the
synthesizer dog. She just took a shot at. Willis the hoodie.
(38:29):
Bill Belichick from Andy and Lionel Lakes Hayden Fox from
Don from Duluth, coach John McGuirk from Nate the Hammer. Now,
who else we have? J T the Wingman, says coach
Ernie from Cheers. Do you have an answer? I'm gonna
go with Peter Piper, who picked a peck of pickled peppers. Okay,
make sure you say that propably. No, it's Demico Ryans
of the Houston Texans thirteen and four divisional games and
(38:53):
that's the top record in the NFL. It's Maller, Texans
coach to the third degree this, yeah, I'm sure Cooper
Loop go ahead there? Cool? Please?
Speaker 11 (39:06):
Well, Ben, you just talked to Tree in Chicago about
his Chicago Bears. Yes, how much credit does Ben Johnson
deserve for their success?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Well? A sizable amount of credit, Coop. The Bears have
been chronic underachievers for years. He's apparently simplified things here
and the Bears have surpassed where they normally have been.
And he's the difference is the coach. So you guys
say that this is actually helping out And it's not
like Cabb Williams is playing great, because he's not. He's
(39:35):
not playing all that well, and the Bears are still
winning these games, so good job by him.
Speaker 11 (39:39):
Next, So the Chiefs are a five hundred team and
they might miss the playoffs playoffs. Over the weekend, Patrick
Mahomes said, our ceiling is playing in the super Bowl.
We can beat anybody, but we've shown that we can
lose to anybody. Ben you agree with all that.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
It sounds good, but you got to look at what
you are this year and what you are this year.
There's been a constant monsoon that has taken over the
Kansas City chief ves. I kept saying, well, this is
gonna be the week they turn things around, This is
gonna be the week. And no, they're just this is
who they are. They're not that good. They're just not
I don't see I don't see them turning things around.
Speaker 11 (40:09):
Next, there was a report over the weekend that three
teams are being linked to a trade for LaMelo Ball.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Do you think he's somebody that you want to go
for heild your team around. Oh, he's a good player.
You don't know with guys like that because he's on
a crappy team. And it's easy to put stats on
a crappy team. It's it's hard when you're winning. They
put up says, I'm skeptical. How do we doubt I
passed Bugatti Bugatti, I passed the truck of Bugatti.
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