Hour 2 - Lyin' Lamar

Ben Maller talks about the latest chapter in the Lamar Jackson saga as the NFL sends a memo to all teams warning them not to negotiate with a business partner of Jackson's, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name bird two hour two
of our radio program, and oh what a tale it
is from the life and times of the NFL. How
do you explain the latest chapter in the Lamar Jackson story?
The NFL sending out a memo warning teams, warning them

(00:23):
of a rogue figure, a shadowy figure negotiating contracts, who
is not a real agent for Lamar Jackson. What is
this episode with the fake Lamar agent? Was it staged?
Was this episode stage? We'll take a look at that.
And also why did the NFL make this memo public

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on Lamar Jackson. We'll talk about all that. We'll also
take a call on the international line. Here an hour
number two, All of it coming your way. Buckle up,
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from the NFL. It sounds like a shot a Shaggy
Dog store. It sounds like a Shaggy Dog story. But
we have a real life cliffhanger involving the Baltimore Ravens
and the quarterback who may not be a Baltimore Raven

(02:08):
anymore at his time for our obligatory Mallard monologue on
mister Jackson, and we have a follow up to a
story that we discussed you and I in a previous
episode of the show. The Lamar Jackson free agency story
has gone to the Kingdom of the absurd? Did you hear?

(02:32):
Maybe not? We have had confirmation around the nation, NFL
officials confirming via a spirited memo warning from the Players
Association accordless internal memo, which went public was sent to
all the members of the Cartel of Football a courtesy

(02:53):
of the NFL Players Association via the NFL, A man
named Ken Francis has been illegally contacting various clubs trying
to persuade them to enter into deep negotiation with Lamar Jackson. Quote.

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Violation of this rule may result in disapproval of any
offer sheet or resulting player contract entered into by mister
Jackson and the new club Jackson, who was of course
signed to that non exclusive franchise tag by Baltimore. We've

(03:37):
talked about this quite often. But if you haven't been
paying attention because you've been sleeping, bad job by you.
But I think you know by now that Lamar is
doing it his own way, and he is his own agent,
his mom's helping him out with contract negotiations, and some
people from the union. But that's it. So the revelation

(03:58):
from the Football Nation that Lamar it has now been
confirmed as a non registered buddy and a mystery man involved,
that set off alarm bells around the NFL and in
our little world it's a big deal. In the real world,
not that big a deal, but we live in our world,
so it's a big deal. The question, as we discuss,

(04:21):
how do you explain this latest chapter in the Lamar
Jackson story. So I've got animaniacs, improv and finger biting,
finger biting. I will combine all of these things together,
and I Am going to make a nice home gym

(04:41):
is what I'm going to make. I'll explain why in
a minute now. First of all, Lamar Jackson, when I
saw this story and my phone blew up at about
the same time when this started going around, I did
not see it myself. People directed me towards the story
buddies of mine, and I said, oh man, I said,
this has got to be satire. This has got to
my old buddy sports Talk Barry or one of the

(05:04):
many parody sports guys on social media. I had to
be one of those dopes. And I like, I don't
know about that. I mean, I think it's legit. Lamar
Jackson digging deep into his bag of tricks working in
the room. I do not ever recall I've been doing
this a while now. I don't ever recall the NFL.

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Maybe you do, and you can correct me. I don't
ever recall the NFL sending out a memorandum to warn
members of the cartel that a franchise tag quarterback has
somebody illegally working as the right hand man. But here
we are, and it's wonderful. It's Bravo, bravo. Lamar Jackson

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is running an independent playhouse. It's kabuki theater, is what
it is. He's got his buddy, the international Man of
Mystery writing shotgun. Now that would be the Sphinx, like
Ken Francis, who this is crazy. The last twenty four
hours in the life of Lamar they have been like

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an episode of Animaniacs, the old cartoon the Pinky and
the Brain feature in Animaniacs, the classic from back in
the day. And in this cartoon bubble over my head
thinking of Pinky in the brain, Lamar plays the role
of the brain, and this guy Ken Francis is Pinky.

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And then Pinky says, gee, Brain, what are we gonna
do tonight? And then Lamar, playing the role of the brain, says,
the same thing we do every night, try to check
over the world. It's just great. Oh, it's so good.
I cannot wait to find out what the hell's really
going on now. Secondly, so let's get a little deeper

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into the weeds. Who is this cat who is working
with Lamar jacks So here's what I've learned from a
minute's long investigation. Because I have a lot of free time.
Ken Francis is his name, and businessman is his game.
He is based in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida area. We

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are told that he is the founder of an exercise company.
If you want to know where he went to school,
Daytona's State College, a fine institution of higher learning but
not quite up to the standard of Saddleback College. Now,
more importantly, he is also Lamar Jackson's new business partner,

(07:34):
at least relatively new. By way of illustration. Shortly after
the story was fed by state sponsored Pravda NFL news
service around the echo chamber. Shortly after the memo got
bounced all over the plays and this news came out
about this Ken Francis went viral. Lamar Jackson pounced at

(07:55):
the opportunity, confirming the existence of Ken Francis. Now, he
didn't night that the guy was negotiating for him, but
he confirmed the guy exists. It's not a satire, it's
not a parody account on social media or some TikTok guy.
It's a real person. The guy's legit. There's a real
guy named Ken Francis. And how do we know? Lamar
said it. He pounced at the opportunity to promote a

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product that he said would be available in the summer.
It's a portable gym sent out a video. In the video,
he can be seen using said portable exercise product. So
this has led to some people saying that that means
this entire thing, the fake agent story, was staged. It

(08:41):
was staged by Lamar Jackson. So let me ask the question,
Lamar Jackson teaming up with somebody named Ken Francis here
fake agent staging this whole thing. Thumbs up or thumbs
down on that? So I am going thumbs down thumbs

(09:02):
down on that. I do not believe that this was
a carefully crafted marketing plan. My spidy like senses tell
me that is chicken crap instead of choreography. This was
open mic night at the Improv Chuckles Comedy Club. And

(09:22):
we know Lamar Jackson from Washington play and appreciating what
he does on the football field, that he's nimble, but
he's not that nimble. He ad libbed that part of
the story when the poop hit the fan, When the
chicken poop hit the fan. Now what is my evidence?
I now present my evidence, your honor. The evidence is
the empty cart. You see, Lamar sent out an infomercial.

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I'm not gonna lie. It look like a Saturday Night
live bit they were doing from the old days for
this portable gym. So he had a link to a
Twitter account which then had a link to a website
for said portable gym. So I clicked on it. Why
not maybe I could get a gym. Who wouldn't want
a nice portable gym? So I clicked on this link,

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and then I clicked on the next link, and I
got to the website. It's a business partner of Lamar Jackson.
So when you click on the checkout cart to buy
said jim. When you click on that, you notice the
gym is not available for purchase. So just a recap,

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you get millions of free advertising dollars and your Lamar
Jackson promoting a product and you muffed it. The raven
quarterback muffed it. You talk about dropping the ball and whoop. See.
So you sent out a commercial and you announced the
product will not be available till summer today. Mike, who goofed?

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I've got to know all right, final fly. So let's
turn our attention into the NFL. Why did the NFL
make this memo? To Lamar Jackson public. So I would
like to play a game that we do from time
to time. It's called Connect the Dots. You might have
played when you were younger, maybe you still play today.
So let's play the Mallar Show. Connect the dots. The
first dot is that they had their arm twisted the

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NFL by the Players Association. So that's the first dot,
So connect that dot. The next dot is who is
being pestered the Players Association by certified agents that actually
are part of the cabal. So then you connect that dot,
and then you connect another dot because those agents are
biting their fingernails, squirming like a worm. It is a

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very touchy topic. These contract mavens are hypersensitive. Right now,
they've clemped with the motion. A little birdie tells me
that these are tumultuous times for the high profile reps.
Why because Lamar Jackson, while he seems rather harmless, he

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doesn't have an agent. He's doing things his own way.
He's promoting a gym that doesn't even exist yet. Lamar
Jackson is an ominous presence. This is a cautionary tale.
He is threatening, and how is he threatening? He's not personal.
It's just business survival of the fittest. If Lamar Jackson
is able to somehow finagle MEGAGAMEGAMEGAMEGA millions dollar contract without

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legal counsel, that's a problem because can you say copycat? Yeah,
there'll be other players, star players, big money place. The
NFL doesn't care when guys like Jacobe Brissette do it
without an agent, because who cares. They don't make anywhere
near the amount of money that Lamar Jackson's gonna get.
Lamar Jackson does it, and you talk about upsetting the

(12:59):
whole balance the access of sports. That's a food bar
situation according to the agents. So stay tuned. This is great.
This is just another layer to the cake. It's gonna
be like a twelve layer cake. It's awesome. It's I
want to know how this originally? Do you think Lamar
was talking to the guy and said, oh man, no

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one's offering me a contract. This sucks. And this guy
who's like, in my head, I don't know who this
guy's I've never seen a photo of him, but this
cat Ken Francis is like a slimy, kind of slippery
sales guy. We all know people like that, right, really slick.
He's very verbose and he's a bit of a charlatan
as a sales Guy's like, no problem, Lamar, you know what,

(13:41):
I'm gonna start calling teams. I'll get offers for you.
Don't worry about it. I'll be I'll be your guy.
You know, I'm not gonna negotiate, but I'll call him up.
I can't be in trouble for that. I'll just start calling.
I'll call the cold Sock all the Patriots. Maybe Belichick
will want you. I don't know. Whatever you need, Lamar,
whatever you need. It is the Ben at Mallers Show.

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Tirerack dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller
and it's one of our favorite stories this week, whether
it's completely true or not. But Lamar Jackson, who's saying
this guy Ken Francis, a business partner of his, is
not negotiating contracts. And the man himself, Ken Francis, the

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Man of mystery, has denied that he contacted teams on
behalf of Lamar Jackson. But the NFL sent out a
memo and that's the name that everyone is using, the
Ken Francis name. The guy was completely unknown and now
he's a legend. He's not quite up to if you're

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old enough to remember the legend of Ron Mexico, one
of the all time great NFL stories from back in
the day, or the Wizonator shout out to the Minnesota Vikings.
A lot of pe ones in the Mallem Militia getting
a lot of feedback from the revelation last Hour. Buddy
Chase Scoop, a platinum winning Benny Award winner, is heading

(16:56):
to the Ukraine in a couple of days. He checked
in and I want to let everyone know that he's
heading over there, and so we'll think some good thoughts
for him going to be part of the operation that
was going to help out as much as he can
as an American if veteran served four years in the military,
he's gonna be over there helping out for I don't

(17:19):
know how long he'll be there. Justin from the Enchanted
Forest writes, and he says, I can understand Jay Scoop
actually because if my ancestors in Zimbabwe ever rise up,
I would be there right there with I'm sure you would, Justin,
you'd be right out in front. Just Josh writes and says,
last time we saw Francis, he was stealing some perverts

(17:43):
bike because stepping up his game trying to secure a
nine figure contract. Get the f out of here. Shane
of Des Moines writes, and he's the guy that would
like us to ban Angry Bill from the show. He
would like us to kick him off the show. Shane
says solid monologue at the bottom of the fourth hour Yesterday, Coop,

(18:04):
he says La plus plus plus. He says for the
passion on the lake, Coop was completely wrong on everything
that he said. It's everyone knows that, but he was
talking as a fanboy. Shane says, I'm a Sonic fan,
So he says, I hate or the Lakers, Milkman, Mike
and Colorado. Right, since says, here is the rehearsal video

(18:27):
of Lamar Jackson and Ken Francis at the portable gym.
That seems about right that, That seems about right there.
There you go, Salvador writes in he says, hey, Ben,
I found you when you were filling in locally on
the radio in Denver, and I've been listening ever since. Wow,

(18:48):
that's a long time. Thank you, Salvador, very kind of
you to say. This is some nice words. I'm trying
to remember. I did do a few local shows in
random cities over the years, and Denver was one of them.
That's probably been ten years at least since I did that.
I was not invited back. I did Hot Nuggets Talk

(19:10):
and Broncos Talk, and they did not invite me back.
August writes and says Ken Francis a bot. Perhaps, Yeah,
And we'd like to alert all the affiliates that Roseo says,
it's now time to tune into the show. The retired
line cook the legendary retired line cook Roseo is now

(19:30):
locked into the show, so we'd like to alert all
the affiliates down the line that he is here. Nick
in Wisconsin writes and says, where is the content we need?
Dick in Dayton and Kathy and Madison song. I haven't
missed a night, but I have not heard it. That's
a fair point. And I would like to apologize to
Kathy and Madison and Dick and Dayton because I did

(19:52):
get a copy from Kathy and it was on my
to do list and I did not did not actually
play the tune. That's a bad job by me. And
when you hear the song, we are going to set
new ratings records when we debut. I'm gonna put that

(20:12):
on my list for next week. Kathy and Madison, Dick
and Dayton, the duet. It's gonna be amazing. And I
promise I'll get to that. Keith been sitting on that.
That is well, Eddie. I think when you hear it,
you'll understand why I'm sitting on it. But he'll you'll
hear it next week, Eddie, and maybe you'll ask for more.
I don't think you will, but you'll you'll hear it
next week. It's amazing. It's like hearing the Beatles with

(20:36):
the Beatles got together with the Monkeys, you know, back
in the old days, match and match them up or
uh yeah, Keith and Norkhl says, instead of the unknown
Lamar should just go with the great promoter, Don King
and really make a circus out of it. How's good?
Is don still with us? So though he's got to

(20:56):
be in his nineties, I think are close to it,
don King? He's he was really old when I interviewed
him years ago. Donkey's ninety one years old, ninety one,
A man behind the thriller in Manila and the Ruma
in the jungle. Still around. But that King, Yeah, where's
he living in Florida somewhere? I think he lives in

(21:17):
Florida's kind of hanging out, living the living the quiet
life there. How much money he got from Muhammad Ali,
Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, all the other boxes there were
the legend of Don King that he as I read
back in the back in the day, that he was
getting a lot of interesting money donations from those people.
Let's go to the phones, Let's go to the international line,

(21:39):
and we say hello to Terry in England. Hello Terry
on the international line. Morning in Ben, Hello, morning Ben.
I might think seven in the morning here. I just
wanted to ring up and say God's feed to j
jail scoop. There's so many foreign non Ukrainians with the

(22:00):
fighting and doing whatever they can, and lots of them
have been killed, including a couple of friends of mine. Anyway,
interesting that Justin and the enchanted forest Reckon did go
and fighting Zimbabwe get the wrong side, wouldn't he Well, yeah, yeah,

(22:20):
it's got previously getting the wrong people, asn't it didn't
be bodied back somebody completely wrong color and wrong name
and everything, and it'd be all over the place. Can
you imagine it'd be in the chrenches they're shooting his
own people. But in defense of Justin and you're fake
cheating scandal with Eddie. Justine didn't cheat. Eddie didn't cheat.

(22:44):
You're the cheat. You know it, I know it, everybody
knows it. Then, No, that's a lie. And I don't
care how you sound smarter because you've got a nice
accent and all those Americans think you're smarter. Terry, You're
completely wrong. You know you're wrong. How much did Justin
pay you to make his car from the enchanted forest?
How much did he venue the money? How did he

(23:05):
send you the money? Justin didn't pay me anything. He
doesn't need to because everybody else. And I'm not smarter
than you, definitely not, Ben, because you're smart enough to
keep twisting it and making it up as you go along,
and it's very funny and I get it completely well,
there's no making it up, Terry. And I would expect
you to deny paying Justin, because that's what I would

(23:26):
do if I was paying Justin, I would deny it.
And I completely I'm not surprised that you deny that.
I expected you to deny it. And you've just switched
that round. Ben. You you accused Justin and paying me.
Now you've just told me that I'm paying Justin. Come on,
which one is it? You know what? You know what
I meant, Terry? You know what I meant early in
the morning. Here we're doing morning drive, Terry. In England,

(23:46):
we're doing morning drive. It's half past seven in the
morning and at the moment you're our you're in daylight
savings time. I think we're not. We've got on a
couple of weeks here, so at the moment, I can
listen to two and a a half I was live on
the Tuesday Wednesday. When I'm at work, obvious Thursday Friday,
listen to the full four hours. But yeah, so it's okay.

(24:06):
It's it's a six o'clock start in the morning for me,
so I get to work for six and then I
can listen to you for two and half hours before
the before the kids starts arriving to me, I got
you all right, Well I gotta go, Terry, but thank
you man, all right, and I want to make a
bubba good boosh both Like a lot of that call

(24:27):
will be cut up yet again from Terry in England,
and there'll be some more drops that come out of that.
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(25:11):
hopefully returned for the final three or four games the
regular season. However, Lebron James has spoken he is not
in agreement with that news. He says, quote, there wasn't
an evaluation today and there hasn't been any target date
for my return. I'm just working around the clock every day,
three times a day, to give myself the best chance

(25:32):
of coming back at full strength. Whatever that is. God,
bless y'all sources. I speak for myself and Lebron James.
He's a samurai, Ey Lebron James, the man's a samurai.
I think he's working around the clock. I think he's
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that the Carolina Panthers brought those two things when they
had dinner on Thursday night with Will Levis. He's the
Kentucky quarterback. Later today is his day to shine. It's
pro day at Kentucky. The quarterback who was at Penn
State and then transferred to Kentucky will be throwing today.

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And he is famous for two things. He likes his
coffee with mayonnaise, and he eats bananas without taking the
skin off of the banana. Other than that, I couldn't
tell you another thing about Will Levis, but he is
projected to be one of the top quarterbacks in the
draft next month in Kansas City. Carolina's got the number
one pick, although the Carolina Panthers seemingly told that Ohio

(27:03):
State quarterbacks he j Stroud, that he was gonna be
the pick. But who knows. They're talking to Will Levis
and they're making their way around the NFL. Let's make
our way back to the phones and we'll say hello
to how Pal in htown. Who's next? Hello, how Poal?
Welcome half thousand in the house. Ben, what's up? You

(27:25):
know it's big. There's gonna be a ratings winner with
hal Pal on the air. Oh my god, it's gonna
be amazing. Al Pal is the air everywhere. Damn right,
they've been back in September. We made a little bit
about your Dodgers and about my Strows and uh, you

(27:45):
know who come out on top of that. That goldpennant
looks very good. In a minute may part Sure, I
got a memo and it says here that nobody won
the World Series last year? Is that true? Yes? Yes,
because it says and I read the fine print. I
don't know if you saw this out, maybe you need

(28:05):
your reading glasses, but it says that since no one
who played for the Astros and was still playing for
the Astros part of the cheating scandal was punished, therefore,
all future accomplishments and accolades are void for the rest
of their careers. So anyway Altove does or Bregman or
Julie Guriel who's now gone. That does not count. So

(28:29):
it was it was like nineteen ninety four all over again.
There was no world champion shocking well stocks. You know
that pennant still looks good. Well, it's a fake pennant.
You know, you can buy a fake Gucci bag, but
it's it's it looks good, but it's fake. Hey, been
a true story though. We made that bet and may proposal.

(28:51):
You as a badass fried shrimp and fresh onion, rings
and beers, and yours was a steak in bait. Sah,
that's right. And whenever you're ready, I'm down here in
eighth down, I'll be waiting. All right, we'll say, how
do my guy Biggsie, who's down there? So let's say,
how do you know who? Oh? Me and Bigsie. I've

(29:13):
known Jeff Biggs. I've known that man from Yeah, he's
in Houston. Now look at that. Hey, whatever y'all do,
y'all do a great job and make you make it
the great night. Keep that piece. Man. We love you
down here, Thank you, thank you. How pal, you're a
good man, aam with all the crap I give you. Yeah,
I know a bunch of people in Houston club my
got Cliff Saunders is there and Bigsie and know a

(29:34):
bunch of radio dudes in Houston. Despite my relationship with
the a holes, I get along with many of the
people in Houston. It's a shocking revelation. Time now for
the instad Trivia and here it is Eric Spoelstra. He's
a basketball coach for the Miami Heat. He became the
fourth coach in NBA history to reach seven hundred career

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wins with a single franchise. Eric Spoelstra joins Greg Popovich,
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it or not. I got an email from Joey the Bellman.
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It's your damn show. Take control, It's the Ben Maveristro.
I don't know what you're talking about, Joey. I have
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with a guy early on in radio. He had a
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had to press the pedal and then the caller would
go down and on it. I don't have that, so
you've never heard of that before? Yeah, yeah, it was awesome.
He would never lose an argument because anytime he would
start yelling with the caller, this guy would just press
the pedal like you're putting the gas on a car,
and it would lower the volume over whoever it was
on the air, it was awesome. Wow, I'd love to

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get that. How much would that cost? You think Eddie
to get something like that? The company would do it
for him. I would be big. Yeah here right, I
mean I'm big. I don't know that. I'm a funny.
I've got the big part. Who was it? By the way,
who was it? I will not say his name. If
you go to the storem by a hacksaw, you might

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be able to Oh, you might be able to figure
out who it is. Yeah, show la, yes, show me
your lighting bowl. Anyway, we'll pay off the Insta trivia
And here it is. Eric Spoelstra of the Miami Heat
became the fourth coach in NBA history to reach seven

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hundred career wins with a single franchise. Spoilster joins Greg
Popovitch with the Spurs, Red Arbak with the Celtics, and
Blank as the only other coaches to do it with
only one team. That is the question. What is the answer,
and let's see if anybody knows the answer? Cowboy Killer

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Terminator His answer wes unselled guest by Carl page Down,
page Down. Marshall Dillon from Gunsmoke guess by Shane in Desmalos,
Robin Vegas Friday, Torry Wilson's his answer. Pete Lecoq, the
great former Cub White Rob the first his selection. Nick

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in Wisconsin is going with a man who keeps making
money hand over fished Pat McAfee as his answer. Page
down That is Windy's franchise owner Dave Thomas, the late
late night drug tester. Over that Pat Robertson who turns
ninety three guests by one of his biggest fans, fur
Dog loves Pat Robertson. Been big pat Robertson supporters. There's

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a lot of money to Pat Robertson every year. Mister
nice guy's changed it up. He's now going nineteen seventies NFL.
Archie Manning is his answer. Eke Roseville, Minnesota says Cotton
Fitzsimmons is the way to go. That's a good name
from the Madhouse. Son McDowell with the Phoenix Suns back
in the day. Justin in the Enchanted Forest says the

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late night or the late Great Muffett McGraw rather is
the Ken what's that? I think Muffett is still with us? Oh?
Is that right? Okay? Yeah. He's in the Hall of
Fame up of course. Uh yeah, Matt. For some reason,
Matt got the answer right. Bad job by him. Eddie,
do you have an answer? Please? I need an answer.
It's very important, is it all? Utah Jazz coach, Jerry Sloan,

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Jerry Sloane, Eddie Garcia. That is right, Jerry Sloan, the
late Jerry Sloan all those years with Carl Malone. No
Jerry Sloan, Utah Jazz, A gruff man. Jerry Sloane interviewed
him a lot back in the day when I was

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doing NBA stuff, and he's pretty good coach. But they
never never got it done in the playoffs. It's some great,
two great players. We cannot get it done in the postseason.
We're gonna try to get it done right. We'll get
it done right now, and that means we strike up
the band and here we go the music plays. It's
a little it's how about that to the third degree?

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This is one big Ben gets quilled and we bring
in a league. Hoop daloop. It was reported on Wednesday
that the Arizona Cardinals are having are struggling to get
the return that they wanted a DeAndre Hopkins trade. The
struggle is real, Coop. Yes, the Cardinals were hoping to
get a second rounder, and it's being suggested that they
might have to settle for something only modestly better than

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the fifth and sixth rounder that the Cowboys gave up
for Brandon Cooks. Ben, what do you think the Cards
will end up getting for Hopkins? So the first thought
I have on DeAndre Hopkins is he's obviously a bigger
name than Brandon Cooks, but his contract is not attractive.
I'm a salary cap truther. I don't care about it.
Just move some decimal points around. He's also got a
lot of carry on baggage, which is a bigger problem

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for me. Looking into my crystal ball, we see DeAndre
Hopkins being traded for a fourth round pick and some
other conditional draft compensation. The biggest concern. The biggest concern
is the fact that he's thirty years old, and this
is normally a point of d mark where things start

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getting a little gummy for wide receivers. And the whispers
in the echo chamber that have been bouncing around and
have reached my radar. Keep an eye on the Buffalo
bills here we go Buffalo where the Buffalo Rome for
DeAndre Hopkins next. Miles Garrett said in an Instagram comment

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this week that he is working on getting Odell Beckham
Junior to return to the Browns. Do you think there's
any chance they'll be j would go back to Cleveland? Well,
I understand it. At least once a day o bj
does go back to the Browns Coopa loop So, but
I'm pump lame jokes are actually I think they're next time.
But Odell Beckham I think would rather go with Jay
Scoop to the Ukraine at this point than go back

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to Cleveland and play football there. He wants to go
to a high profile team that ain't Cleveland. I know
they got rid of Baker Mayfield. It's too perfect for
Beckham to go back to New York and play for
the other New York team, the Jets, and have Aaron
Rodgers there. It's a may for television soap op or
the NFL. It would be great for us, it would

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be good for business. So I do not see him
going back. Beckham to Cleveland next. The Pelicans announced Wednesday
that Zion Williamson has been cleared to return to Encourt
activities and that he will be reevaluated in two weeks.
I've been two weeks from now, there will only be
like a few days left in the regular season. Do
you think the Pelicans will still be within reach of
a playing spot by then? So I've determined that Zion

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Williamson back when I was dating, he's like the really
good looking girl at the bar that flirts with you
and then goes home. And he's been malingering in nors.
I am not buying that he's going to play. I
don't believe it. He's got a lot of dog in
him in the NBA, and no matter how many people
defend him, the guy's been a liability in New Orleans.

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I don't see that changing. How did we do? He
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