April 24, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller previews NFL Draft Day and talks about Cam Ward being compared to Patrick Mahomes, draft pundit Mel Kiper Jr. being on the ballot for the Hall of Fame, NFL teams downgrading players who don't "love football," Fact or Fiction, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dingo. Here it is. It's our number fall, our number four.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Try to stay calm the chills and the thrills of
the NFL Draft. It is today, so exciting, exhilarating, unless
it's not.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But it is here.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Cam Ward is projected to go with the top pick.
He's also been compared to Patrick Mahomes in general. What
is the word for these NFL draft comparisons which are
a staple of this time of the year. And also
you make the call NFL draft pundit mel kiper junior.
Let's say he's on the ballot for the Hall of Fame,
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does he pass or fail the Pro Football Hall of
Fame test? And thumbs up or thumbs down on NFL
teams downgrading players.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Who don't love football. We'll get to that as well.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Have a wonderful NFL draft day to day, Try not
to eat too much food.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And here it is our number four. The pick is
in the pic. Well not yet. You gotta wait, and
I still gotta go to bed.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
But when I wake up, like the pick will be
in and all that welme come. In the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Mather Show, we are in
the air everywhere squirming as we stay salty, my friends
coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the
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vast and monumentally powerful microphones of FSR, amminating live from
the bottle as we try to catch lightning in a bottle.
I know Tammy in Montana and Spiccoli in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They're trying to catch lightning in a bottle as.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We're hanging out at the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And great to have you hanging out with us.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It is a big day if you do sports gas
you've been looking forward to this day and we are
looking forward to it as well. By the way, this
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to tune in the Fox Sports Radios Draft Night Live,
which is tonight eight pm Eastern.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Throughout the first round of the Draft. You've got big.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Fox Sports NFL guru Jay Glazer and the rotund well
he's not that big Joe Douglas. We won't talk about
how he did with the Jets. The reason he's here
is because of how he did with the Jets. Also
a former Redskins star and Fox Sports Radio morning guy,
LeVar Arrington. Also we have Jenny Taft who's the lead
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college football reporter for Fox Sports as well, and they
will cover all the picks, all thirty two predictions, reaction,
all that, and it's coming up tonight eight pm Eastern
throughout the first round of the Draft, live right here
on Fox Sports Radio and live video simulcast on the
Fox Sports Radio YouTube page.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
You probably should.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Watch that because they spend a lot of money upgrading
the lights in the studio for the video cast. They
want to make sure Jay Glazer looks good on camera
and Joe Douglas and all those guys.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Brought to you by ship station. So check that out.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
But our lead this hour, our lead this hour is
from what else but the Draft. Now we are hours
away from the main event in the pig Skin Galaxy,
and the Tennessee Titans are on the clock as they
have the number one overall pick in Now, we've had
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the build up, we've had the anticipation, we've had all that.
We also have, most likely cam Ward who is expected
to be the very top pick.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I've been reading these draft guides in previews for the
last two months because I'm a loser, been watching the
draft coverage and consuming it looking for content on the show.
And I watched a bunch of clips of cam Ward.
I saw him play a little bit at Miami. I
didn't see him play that much, but I watched the
highlights of cam Ward.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
He played more at Washington State than he at Miami.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Another transfer portal quarterback, Nil Baby some of the compso
he has been compared in recent days to Caleb Williams,
who was drafted number one and looked incompetent with the
Bears last season in terms of sacks and all that,
and also been compared to Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And this is a pet peeve of mine.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And since I do not go to therapy, I go
to the microphone and the headphones and I spill my
guts out right here.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's a pet peeve of mine.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The NFL draft comparison game is a hustle, right, It's
a Obdul Carter has been compared to Michael Parsons, Ashton Gent,
the running back from Boise State.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They've said he's just like Alvin Kamara, et cetera. I
can go on. If you want, you want more, You're good. Okay,
you're good.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So let us discuss the question with cam Ward being
compared to Patrick Mahomes and just in general, just in general,
what is the word for these NFL draft comparisons. So
I've got catch of the day, forefather and farmers market,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make some bamboo is what we're
going to make. And then we're gonna make the bamboo,
and we're going to then have some gabbaghool is what
we're going to have. So to begin with to answer
the question in general, what is the word for these
NFL draft comparisons, my word is sports fishing, because that's
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what this has become.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Imagine, if you will, a.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
World where you are thirty miles off the coast in
international waters. You're deep sea fishing, you're sports fishing, and
the catch of the day is the puffer fish is
the catch of the day. The NFL draft player comparisons
are hyperbole by design.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
They're hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Now, fast wide receiver is not just compared to like
I'm trying to think of some recent wide receivers that
were pretty fast that sucked. There are a lot of them,
but you're always compared to Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Maybe not this.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Week because Tyreek's had bad a couple of weeks, but
all elite quarterbacks are the next Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson.
It is a cottage industry, and we know it. We
get it, we understand it. Every man, woman and child
knows it's a cottage industry designed to simplify the scouting,
to generate excitement, to generate buzz for the draft. And
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nobody's clicking on a story that says cam Ward is
the next guard Minshew. No one's clicking on that story.
No one's clicking on that right. Add some rasmatazz. If
you really want good laughs and you want to chuckle,
go back and read some old draft guides on comps
of players and look at the ones that didn't make it,
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and it's it's outstanding, But you got to add that razmataz,
the bizazz.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And all that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And the comps are crafted. We know what was going
on there. They're crafted to get clicks and to sell,
to sell the story. It's it's is it fiction or nonfiction.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
It's engagement. Farming is what it is.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And the vast majority and you're not supposed to say
this part out loud because it is the NFL Draft
and it's an important time. And are we going to
spend almost the entire show talking about what happened in
the first round of the draft. Yes, we will likely
do that, but the vast majority of those players that
will be picked never will taste greatness. You're looking at
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a draft where, if you're lucky, you're going to get
a garden variety player. Now, what is my supporting evidence
on Well, let's go to the numbers since twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Way back in twenty ten, I was.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
A little kid about what percentage of players who have
been called generational they've been compared to generational?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
That's the comp What.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Percentage have earned All Pro honors since twenty ten? You
gotta guess, all right, the answer twenty five percent. Twenty
five percent. That means you, in baseball you're a two
fifty hitter. That also means that you fail seventy five
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percent of the time. And those are the players that
have been called generational. So those are the top one percent.
The Kreme de la Krem and your generational and you're
failing seventy five percent of the time. But wait, there's more.
How about the quarterbacks. We love quarterbacks, We get horny
for quarterbacks. Since twenty fifteen, what percentage of first round
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quarterbacks with high profile comps Mahomes, Tom Brady, Peyton, Manning,
those those type things. What percentage have met expectations.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Within the first three years? The answer you got one? Okay,
lock it in, lock it, don't cheat.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
The answer fifteen percent. That's a one to fifty batting average,
one fifty in the last ten years with high profile
can't miss comps.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Gonna be great, gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Why is that, Well, it's obviously different. We know that
college football in the NFL. More importantly, NFL's success is
it is the the old line. Coaches back in the
old days long gone used to say, like Bill Walsh
from me his era, that it takes.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
A village, right.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You got to have the coaching, You got to have
the scheme a the player has to have the proper attitude,
the perseverance, the work ethic and all that. You got
to have decent teammates. And you can't predict that. You
can't properly predict it. But all of these players will
have a hunting moon period when they get drafted, which
is good for them.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Now. Furthermore, the grand Poobah of the NFL draft is
this guy, mel Kiper Jr. Mel Kiper Jr. Was like
the original nerd.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
He got in early before other nerds got in. Now
all nerds have taken over sports. But melt Kuiper was
like the early bird worm nerd, and the early bird
worm nerd got the got the job. Our colleague here
at Fox Sports Radio. Recently, Dan Patrick has been campaigning
to get melk Kuiper's.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Junior into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. So we
are going to play a little game called you make
the call. It's a fun game. I have now deputized you.
You are in a.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Smoke filled room in Canton, Ohio, and you are on
a panel to decide who gets in to the Hall
of Fame and who doesn't. You are now in charge
NFL draft pundit.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Mel Kiper or is on the ballot. You have a vote.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Your vote will be the deciding vote. Does he pass
or fail the test? Does mel Kuiper Junior get a
vote from you? The deciding vote to go to the
Hall of Fame. Now I'm gonna go first, and I
now have the deciding vote, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Going to give him a yellow jacket. I'm going to
give him a gold jacket.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I am going to say yes, I'll be Benny brightsiut
on this one.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The Pete Roselle Radio.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Television Award, which rightfully will go to Brent Mussburger this year.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You're looking live love love that.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Musburger was such a degenerate gambler back in the day
that he used that line to let people betting on
football know the weather conditions at NFL games.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So Musburger is going in the Hall of Fame this year,
and he should. He deserves to be in the Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
He is. If you're around my age, you grew.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Up with Musburger calling NFL doing studio shows for the NFL.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
So deserves it. But that war. The Pete Roselle Award
for Television.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Is given annually by the Hall of Fame for long
time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football,
and Milk Kuiper checks the box longevity and impact. Melt
Kiper as the early were the early bird worm, as
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we call him, melt Kiper Junior is the forefather of
the modern draft. You cannot tell the history of the
pro football draft becoming this monster during this year out
mentioning mel Kuiper's name. Now, that doesn't mean he's right.
He gets most of his predictions wrong. He has no
idea what he's doing. But when you think about in
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terms of actually analysis, but it's not about that, it's
about entertainment. And he started as the lead analyst in
nineteen eighty four. The rumor that I heard was nobody
else wanted the job. Like it was they were annoyed
they were doing the draft. A guy I used to
worry that this man told me this. I don't know,
he was pulling my cham It was like the draft
was seen as an unbecoming thing.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Was it was not very important.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And nobody really wanted to do it because there were
a lot of names and you didn't have a lot
of information before the Internet and all that stuff. So
they had this guy mel Kuiper, and they're like, oh,
let's just let mel do it. Nobody else wants to
do it, Melo do it. And in that time he
has turned this in partsally, not just him, but the
popularity of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It is a major event.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Before he got on the scene as the daddy, the forefather,
the draft with a was a niche situation. A lot
of younger, younger lads and gals do not understand it.
They used to hold this thing at like the Marriott
Marquee Hotel in Manhattan, just a random hotel in Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
There wasn't a lot of attention.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
But I think the first time they broadcast the draft,
the NFL's like, why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Who would want to watch that?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And now they have over fifty million viewers and.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
A lot of people.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I don't believe the attendance the NFL throws out for
the Draft. They're claiming hundreds of thousands of people and yeah,
that attend I don't know how much that is accurate,
but there's a lot of people that do go.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
There's a lot. Is it that many?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So mel Kiper never worked for an NFL team, that'll
be held against him. There's always been pushback. One of
the more famous moments. A lot of people are too
young to even know about this now, but in nineteen
ninety four, there was a a loggerhead situation with this
guy Bill Tobin, the GM of the Colts, who famously asked,
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who the hell is mel Kuiper, Who the hell is
mel Kiper?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Iconic? I put him in, I put him in, I'd
put him in. Why not?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
It's it is, and it's like the late in baseball.
I'm gonna do something that no one's ever done. I'm
gonna compare mel Kuiper to Fernando Valenzuela. So I used
to tell back when I was in good good standing
with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I'm not anymore. But back when I was and I had.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Friends out there, I'd tell this, the most important Dodger
was Fernando Valenzuela.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
There are generations in.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
The Mexican American community that love for the Dodgers because
of Fernando, and Fernando pitched forty years ago, over forty
years but still and the NFL draft, there are people
that look forward whether they like mel Kuiper or bash
mel Kuiper in the whole and all that, and in
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many ways.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
That's him, all right, last thing, quick way.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
So a number of NFL teams are reportedly evaluating prospects.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
By whether they quote love football or not.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Heading into tonight's draft, our homeboy Jay Glazer, who will
be on Fox Sports Radio tonight with the draft coverage,
tells us that most teams that he's talked to have
already taken some suspects slash prospects off their board because
they don't love the game. For the love of the game,
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the claim is that the name, image, likeness money, the
nil money that guys have already been paid.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
They've gotten the bag. And when you get the bag,
when you're.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
A trust fund baby, you don't necessarily want to get
that extra rep in in the gym.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You don't want to run a little more because you
got the bag.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
So thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs up, thumbs down on
NFL teams downgrading players who don't love football. So I'm
going two thumbs up on this. To me, this is
a trip to the farmer's market, and you gotta find
the passion fruit at the farmers' market.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And this is not exactly new.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
The nil stuff is new, but even in previous generations.
This is another one of those Bill Parcell's lines. He
wanted guys that would live, eat, breathe and sleep football,
And I used to I think he used the line
I want beavers because all they do is eat wood.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's all I want.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
But you do need enthusiasts, And I would argue in
any job, in any job, you want people that actually
want to do the job, that are into the job,
because if you get people that do not want to do,
not enjoy it, it just makes it that much hard.
Doesn't mean you can't do the job, but you're not
long for the job. And it's not a great it's
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We do two, three, four of these things a year,
and this is one of the rare onest.
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Normally, it's just me Ben going out and hanging out
because I happen to go somewhere to visit a relative
or to go on vacation somewhere, and I say I'll
meet some listeners or whatever. But this is a special trip.
It's about a month from now. We're gonna be in Vancouver.
What's the exact date. I have yet to write down
the exact date.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I don't even know.
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It's a Thursday night. We're gonna do a Thursday meet
and greet Vancouver.
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British Columbia. Ah, Come.
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Twenty ninth, Holy crap. May twenty ninth is the date?
And what is the venue?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Again?
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On that coop, It's gonna be in the nighttime hours.
We'll be in Vancouver. We're gonna be hanging out. We
will all be off the show that night to hang
out with people, So it's a special night.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Court Side on Maine.
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Court Side on Maine, my favorite restaurant in Vancouver, not
that I've ever been there, but I'm sure it's great.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I'm sure.
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I'm looking forward to being there. I'm looking forward to
going and hanging out and all that stuff.
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We're gonna a fine time.
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I've seen some listeners have said, I'm trying to get there,
you know, logistics and whatnot here in the States, but
we hope to have a great crop. We've been on
in Vancouver off and on a lot over the years,
so hopefully you'll be able to make it that night, and.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Then we'll also be at the white Caps game.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh that's right, we'll be the white Caps game on
that Saturday. Which is that May first? Is that May first?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Or is that let me look at my calendar again.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That is the thirty first, thirty first of May of May, Okay,
May thirty first, so we'll be there on that side.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
So there's two opportunities.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So if you can't make it for the Thursday thing,
you can see us on set. And I'm a virgin.
My first professional soccer game I've never been to one,
been doing that. And they're called the white Caps, right,
that's the name of the team, the white gam Yeah,
that's correct. All right, I'll go to my first white
Caps game.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I'll be there. Now.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
We have NBA Playoff action tonight. You got the Thunder
and the.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Grizzlies and.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Oklahoma City a nine point favorite on the road in
that game. Most of the sharp money in the public,
as you might imagine, betting on the Thunder. You got
the Knickerbockers and the Pistons. Some of my friends in
New York are upset. That's going to go against the
NFL Draft. A lot of that Nix and Pistons. That'll
be New York favored by one. Money's more even on that.
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Money's more even on that. And the Nuggets and the
Clippers and the Clips a five and a half point
favorite in that game. And if you believe the gambling
market favors one way or the other, that's not good
news for the Clips because the guys are on the
Denver side. It's not lopsided. The public is betting heavily
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on the Nuggets plus the five and a half in
that game. And I was also I was saying about
that matchup tonight and with you know, they got this
thing over at DraftKings. They got that tick six thing.
I don't know if you've messed around with that at all,
but they have the pick six, which is where you
just go like more or less, and I like the
futs around with that and see see how I do.
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And so I looked at the numbers, and for example,
Kawhi Leonard twenty five and a half more or less
points twenty five and a half. I will go more
on Kawhi Leonard. Of course you will, because he's playing
better than anyone.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
He's the MVP of the playoffs right now. Everyone knows that.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
So Kawhi Leonard over twenty five and a half. I
will also go Nikolea Jokic rebounds on DraftKings. They have
it at twelve and a half on the pick six.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I'm gonna go over because.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The Clippers are not a great rebounding team and Yo
gets just like a vacuum. He sucks up every rebound,
so he'll get around fifteen rebounds or so.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So I think that's a big number, twelve and a half.
But I'll take the over.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And then Russell Westbrook eleven and a half points more
or less. They have that on DraftKings right now, and
I'm gonna go less on that one.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
So that's, you know, whatever, you know, we take that
for what it's worth.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
But if I were playing on DraftKings pick six thore,
those are the.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Ways I would go. Let's get back to the call.
So that's the who do we have here? Eeny meenie,
miney moe.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Let's say hello to Mike the Leprecaun. Oh boy, hello,
Mike the Leprecaun. Very controversial caller, Mike the LEPrecon There
are people striking the show because I'm finishing.
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Your phone's breaking up.
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You're shredding your shredding documents?
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Yeah, documents.
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Why would you have classified documents?
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Well, you don't know me from home on the walls.
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Okay, And you brought it up. Why did you bring
it up.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
When you you never picked me up? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Your phone, your phone is am I the only one
hearing that, Like, doesn't it sound like his phone's cracking?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Am I?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
The only one definitely cracking.
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Your phone is cracking.
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You got to crack your phone's on, crack dude.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Okay, so okay, a little better, a little better. Al
Herford was the enforcer last night.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
He didn't put up with that bully.
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And KP average ol average ol.
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No, but he does a.
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Great job for the Celtics.
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He's an old man, basically.
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Does the Rayner like chocolates when I.
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Come to La.
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Lorenda, you want to answer that she's not talking.
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Apparently she's not talking to you, Leprea, and she's taking
a vout forest impression.
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So anyway, is like a box of chocolates. Yeah it.
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My mom always said blast was last of Marx chocolate.
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To Lring, I'll bring you a box of chocolates.
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Okay, okay, thank you, thank you, go away all right,
bye bye bye. Jeez, So I saw the sign. I
saw the sign. NFL draft tonight, big rumor. We did
a monologue earlier. If you missed it, podcasts will be
up after the show. You'll hear the full malet of monologue.
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A lot of chatter that George Pickens is going to
be traded today and George Pickens has unfollowed the Steelers.
Oh m gee, George Pickens has followed the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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The plot thickens. He's being traded George Pickens. He did it,
He unfollowed, he unfollowed, he unfollowed the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
That is the universal sign. Trade trade trade, trade, trade, trade, trade, trade,
trade trade. Let's go back to the phones, and who
do we have. Let's see who's next? Eenie meanie miney mo.
Pick a caller by their name, and who.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Do we Let's go over to the north end right now,
and let's say hello to Mark, who's in the north end?
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Mark, Welcome, Good morning, Ben Hawaiian. Hello. Hello.
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If I was any better, I'd be sleeping, but I'm not. Yes,
what is what is going on with you?
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Mark? What are you up to?
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I do have a selfish comment comment, But first I
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mal of militia today.
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do that.
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Uh? Is anyone going to be picking up the did
anyone pick up the blood?
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Will?
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Anyone was selling for Zingis' blood on the internet?
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You read in my mind after last night, Ben, I
think christats Forzingis is now definitely cemented as the fan
favorite in the the Boss himself.
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The odd The odd thing, though, Mark is he is
not a tough guy like that was a tough guy move.
Yes it was, but he's tough. He's not known as
the tough. He misses a lot of games. He's always hurt,
so it makes you odd.
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He splits his head open, he goes to the locker room,
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I love that.
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No, it was cool. I'm not going to disagree. It
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And it wasn't a ketchup pack like Chilling. Remember Chilling
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Of the that was. There's there's no fake in that.
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That was legit. That was real blood.
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Being a Yankees fan, I agree with you.
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The other The other thing, Mark, though, is you don't
want Porzingis in a fight if.
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He's on your team, because he's he's a bleeder, you.
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Know, yeah, the Christmas story. He is fragile.
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Yes, he's very fragile for sure. All Right, you ready
for the oath?
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Here?
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I'm ready?
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We have judges for factor fiction, the power couple, Leslie
and Jack, the Judge and Braydon and Florida. They are
back this week. Hello, Leslie, good morning. Hello, we got
the Jack, We got the Judge.
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And Leslie.
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The Dynamic duo are here and ready to dazzle the world,
is what they're ready to do?
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Yeah? All right, you guys doing okay.
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Yes we are, we are, man, what's doing well?
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Good?
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All right, enjoying the life of right leave there, living
the great life in Florida.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, yes, we are all right, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
It's almost getting to that watching the Pirates is not
that's not necessarily uplifting. Uh, you might want to actually
watch real pirates out in the ocean somewhere anyway, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Rage, but but follow the Pirates couch say train here?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Yeah, no, I got you, I got you. All right,
hold on you two kids.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
We have Daniel, America's favorite crossing guarden Fort Wayne.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Hello, Daniel, good morning, ban good to have you. You're
one of our our panelists. All right, hold on a sec.
There we have let's see who's next.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Blind Scott was by. You were already on the air.
Why are you calling back? You were already on the air.
Oh my, okay, you got your Fred Toucher mentioned in
Coach Russell is in Orlando.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Hello, Coach Russell.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Hey, Hey, good, good morning many. I still want to
see you some head gears, some march. You just it
brought me that.
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I'll get I apologize, all right. I'm up to my
eyeballs with commercials.
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All right, I'll get you. All right, I got you,
all right. Hold on, Coach Russell.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
We have Dave in Chicago who's gunning a brag about
the clubs. I guess, Hello, Dave, Yeah, Man, I get
way till Aaron Rodgers finds out he's gonna be He's
gonna be entering Jador Sanders.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
That's gonna be fantastic today.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Man, it's like freaking Christmas morning.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Dude, there you go. Well, we'll see about that. And
hollering James, is you awake? Er isy a sleep?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Hello, James, Man, I waited all night for this moment
to speak to you.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
It's like speaking to Heavy and my dadda.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Three stories, which are the three isn't true? Separating fiction
from fact?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Story Number one the Holy Ball Well put Francis passed
away life well lived.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Earlier this week at the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
You might think that there isn't much crossover with sports.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
He'd be wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Several years ago, Paupe Francis signed a rawlings Major League
Baseball scribbled Francisco in.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Black felt tip pen.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
The ball is now up for auction and it's expected
to fetch at least fifteen thousand dollars. Story number two,
Looking for Love the Bulldog Oral Hersheiser might have a
cy young and a World Series.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
MVP, but he doesn't have a life partner.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Earlier this week, the sixty six year old Hirshaw was
announced as the new Golden Bachelor for season two of
ABC show. Herschheiser said in a statement that he just
hasn't been able to find the one since his divorce
back in five. And story number three, he watched Inside
the NBA. This week, Shaquille O'Neal had a bathroom situation.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
He walked off the set.
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Because it was go time for the restroom. Well, now
he won't have to ever again do that. Nor Share Care,
known for their adult diapers, has offered to send Shack
Custom Shack Custom Shack Support Pack complete with Go Supreme.
They're extra large and heavy duty wipes. I think he
needs extra, extra, extra large, But what do I know?
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All right, those are the three stories? Which are the
three is not true?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Separating fiction for fact.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Let's start out back with Jack the Judge and Leslie
watching the Pirates play baseball on a regular basis, and
then the Rays And what's the answer here, you two kids.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
I'm gonna where can go with number three?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Number three? All right?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
The Shacks, the shaker roof, thank you, have a wonderful
day and a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Okay, thank you? All right, there they go, Daniel and
fort Wayne one tour or three? Daniel, I want to
take the lead, number three, number three, all right? And uh,
I think we hung off on blind Scott. Right he's gone.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I think, yeah, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Coach Russell in Orlando, Coach Russell one to or three,
Coach Russell. I really it was a number two, all right, David,
I thank you, Coach Russell.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Having great, great weekend, great end of the week. We'll
be here tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
David Hick Icago, Dave, what's the answer, David's that's.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Not David Chicago.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
You know who that is. That's Keg drinking, Steve.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, that's Keg drinking. Steve cleaned up his voice a
little bit, but he gave it away on that all right.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
And finally last but not lease, well some would say
definitely lease.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Our man, my lifelong friend.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Because we had a meal together in Minneapolis back in
the day, hollering James, how confident are you?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
James?
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Who?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay? And you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
The fake story this week is number two.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
So we did have a winner, but it's the Oral
Herscheiser story.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
He's not been named the Golden back full for season two.
There so the bulldog Oral Herscheizer. He does do some
really goofy car commercials in l a if you if
you see those, but
Speaker 1 (39:08):
That's that's the fake story number two.
Dingo. Here it is. It's our number fall, our number four.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Try to stay calm the chills and the thrills of
the NFL Draft. It is today, so exciting, exhilarating, unless
it's not.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But it is here.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Cam Ward is projected to go with the top pick.
He's also been compared to Patrick Mahomes in general. What
is the word for these NFL draft comparisons which are
a staple of this time of the year. And also
you make the call NFL draft pundit mel kiper junior.
Let's say he's on the ballot for the Hall of Fame,
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does he pass or fail the Pro Football Hall of
Fame test? And thumbs up or thumbs down on NFL
teams downgrading players.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Who don't love football. We'll get to that as well.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Have a wonderful NFL draft day to day, Try not
to eat too much food.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And here it is our number four. The pick is
in the pic. Well not yet. You gotta wait, and
I still gotta go to bed.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
But when I wake up, like the pick will be
in and all that welme come. In the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Mather Show, we are in
the air everywhere squirming as we stay salty, my friends
coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the
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vast and monumentally powerful microphones of FSR, amminating live from
the bottle as we try to catch lightning in a bottle.
I know Tammy in Montana and Spiccoli in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They're trying to catch lightning in a bottle as.
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We're hanging out at the Fox Sports Radio studios.
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And great to have you hanging out with us.
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It is a big day if you do sports gas
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Throughout the first round of the Draft. You've got big.
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Fox Sports NFL guru Jay Glazer and the rotund well
he's not that big Joe Douglas. We won't talk about
how he did with the Jets. The reason he's here
is because of how he did with the Jets. Also
a former Redskins star and Fox Sports Radio morning guy,
LeVar Arrington. Also we have Jenny Taft who's the lead
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college football reporter for Fox Sports as well, and they
will cover all the picks, all thirty two predictions, reaction,
all that, and it's coming up tonight eight pm Eastern
throughout the first round of the Draft, live right here
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You probably should.
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Watch that because they spend a lot of money upgrading
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But our lead this hour, our lead this hour is
from what else but the Draft. Now we are hours
away from the main event in the pig Skin Galaxy,
and the Tennessee Titans are on the clock as they
have the number one overall pick in Now, we've had
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the build up, we've had the anticipation, we've had all that.
We also have, most likely cam Ward who is expected
to be the very top pick.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I've been reading these draft guides in previews for the
last two months because I'm a loser, been watching the
draft coverage and consuming it looking for content on the show.
And I watched a bunch of clips of cam Ward.
I saw him play a little bit at Miami. I
didn't see him play that much, but I watched the
highlights of cam Ward.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
He played more at Washington State than he at Miami.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Another transfer portal quarterback, Nil Baby some of the compso
he has been compared in recent days to Caleb Williams,
who was drafted number one and looked incompetent with the
Bears last season in terms of sacks and all that,
and also been compared to Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And this is a pet peeve of mine.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And since I do not go to therapy, I go
to the microphone and the headphones and I spill my
guts out right here.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's a pet peeve of mine.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The NFL draft comparison game is a hustle, right, It's
a Obdul Carter has been compared to Michael Parsons, Ashton Gent,
the running back from Boise State.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They've said he's just like Alvin Kamara, et cetera. I
can go on. If you want, you want more, You're good. Okay,
you're good.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So let us discuss the question with cam Ward being
compared to Patrick Mahomes and just in general, just in general,
what is the word for these NFL draft comparisons. So
I've got catch of the day, forefather and farmers market,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make some bamboo is what we're
going to make. And then we're gonna make the bamboo,
and we're going to then have some gabbaghool is what
we're going to have. So to begin with to answer
the question in general, what is the word for these
NFL draft comparisons, my word is sports fishing, because that's
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what this has become.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Imagine, if you will, a.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
World where you are thirty miles off the coast in
international waters. You're deep sea fishing, you're sports fishing, and
the catch of the day is the puffer fish is
the catch of the day. The NFL draft player comparisons
are hyperbole by design.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
They're hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Now, fast wide receiver is not just compared to like
I'm trying to think of some recent wide receivers that
were pretty fast that sucked. There are a lot of them,
but you're always compared to Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Maybe not this.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Week because Tyreek's had bad a couple of weeks, but
all elite quarterbacks are the next Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson.
It is a cottage industry, and we know it. We
get it, we understand it. Every man, woman and child
knows it's a cottage industry designed to simplify the scouting,
to generate excitement, to generate buzz for the draft. And
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nobody's clicking on a story that says cam Ward is
the next guard Minshew. No one's clicking on that story.
No one's clicking on that right. Add some rasmatazz. If
you really want good laughs and you want to chuckle,
go back and read some old draft guides on comps
of players and look at the ones that didn't make it,
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and it's it's outstanding, But you got to add that razmataz,
the bizazz.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And all that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And the comps are crafted. We know what was going
on there. They're crafted to get clicks and to sell,
to sell the story. It's it's is it fiction or nonfiction.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
It's engagement. Farming is what it is.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And the vast majority and you're not supposed to say
this part out loud because it is the NFL Draft
and it's an important time. And are we going to
spend almost the entire show talking about what happened in
the first round of the draft. Yes, we will likely
do that, but the vast majority of those players that
will be picked never will taste greatness. You're looking at
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a draft where, if you're lucky, you're going to get
a garden variety player. Now, what is my supporting evidence
on Well, let's go to the numbers since twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Way back in twenty ten, I was.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
A little kid about what percentage of players who have
been called generational they've been compared to generational?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
That's the comp What.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Percentage have earned All Pro honors since twenty ten? You
gotta guess, all right, the answer twenty five percent. Twenty
five percent. That means you, in baseball you're a two
fifty hitter. That also means that you fail seventy five
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percent of the time. And those are the players that
have been called generational. So those are the top one percent.
The Kreme de la Krem and your generational and you're
failing seventy five percent of the time. But wait, there's more.
How about the quarterbacks. We love quarterbacks, We get horny
for quarterbacks. Since twenty fifteen, what percentage of first round
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quarterbacks with high profile comps Mahomes, Tom Brady, Peyton, Manning,
those those type things. What percentage have met expectations.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Within the first three years? The answer you got one? Okay,
lock it in, lock it, don't cheat.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
The answer fifteen percent. That's a one to fifty batting average,
one fifty in the last ten years with high profile
can't miss comps.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Gonna be great, gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Why is that, Well, it's obviously different. We know that
college football in the NFL. More importantly, NFL's success is
it is the the old line. Coaches back in the
old days long gone used to say, like Bill Walsh
from me his era, that it takes.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
A village, right.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You got to have the coaching, You got to have
the scheme a the player has to have the proper attitude,
the perseverance, the work ethic and all that. You got
to have decent teammates. And you can't predict that. You
can't properly predict it. But all of these players will
have a hunting moon period when they get drafted, which
is good for them.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Now. Furthermore, the grand Poobah of the NFL draft is
this guy, mel Kiper Jr. Mel Kiper Jr. Was like
the original nerd.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
He got in early before other nerds got in. Now
all nerds have taken over sports. But melt Kuiper was
like the early bird worm nerd, and the early bird
worm nerd got the got the job. Our colleague here
at Fox Sports Radio. Recently, Dan Patrick has been campaigning
to get melk Kuiper's.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Junior into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. So we
are going to play a little game called you make
the call. It's a fun game. I have now deputized you.
You are in a.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Smoke filled room in Canton, Ohio, and you are on
a panel to decide who gets in to the Hall
of Fame and who doesn't. You are now in charge
NFL draft pundit.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Mel Kiper or is on the ballot. You have a vote.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Your vote will be the deciding vote. Does he pass
or fail the test? Does mel Kuiper Junior get a
vote from you? The deciding vote to go to the
Hall of Fame. Now I'm gonna go first, and I
now have the deciding vote, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Going to give him a yellow jacket. I'm going to
give him a gold jacket.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I am going to say yes, I'll be Benny brightsiut
on this one.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The Pete Roselle Radio.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Television Award, which rightfully will go to Brent Mussburger this year.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You're looking live love love that.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Musburger was such a degenerate gambler back in the day
that he used that line to let people betting on
football know the weather conditions at NFL games.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So Musburger is going in the Hall of Fame this year,
and he should. He deserves to be in the Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
He is. If you're around my age, you grew.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Up with Musburger calling NFL doing studio shows for the NFL.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
So deserves it. But that war. The Pete Roselle Award
for Television.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Is given annually by the Hall of Fame for long
time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football,
and Milk Kuiper checks the box longevity and impact. Melt
Kiper as the early were the early bird worm, as
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we call him, melt Kiper Junior is the forefather of
the modern draft. You cannot tell the history of the
pro football draft becoming this monster during this year out
mentioning mel Kuiper's name. Now, that doesn't mean he's right.
He gets most of his predictions wrong. He has no
idea what he's doing. But when you think about in
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terms of actually analysis, but it's not about that, it's
about entertainment. And he started as the lead analyst in
nineteen eighty four. The rumor that I heard was nobody
else wanted the job. Like it was they were annoyed
they were doing the draft. A guy I used to
worry that this man told me this. I don't know,
he was pulling my cham It was like the draft
was seen as an unbecoming thing.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Was it was not very important.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And nobody really wanted to do it because there were
a lot of names and you didn't have a lot
of information before the Internet and all that stuff. So
they had this guy mel Kuiper, and they're like, oh,
let's just let mel do it. Nobody else wants to
do it, Melo do it. And in that time he
has turned this in partsally, not just him, but the
popularity of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It is a major event.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Before he got on the scene as the daddy, the forefather,
the draft with a was a niche situation. A lot
of younger, younger lads and gals do not understand it.
They used to hold this thing at like the Marriott
Marquee Hotel in Manhattan, just a random hotel in Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
There wasn't a lot of attention.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
But I think the first time they broadcast the draft,
the NFL's like, why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Who would want to watch that?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And now they have over fifty million viewers and.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
A lot of people.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I don't believe the attendance the NFL throws out for
the Draft. They're claiming hundreds of thousands of people and yeah,
that attend I don't know how much that is accurate,
but there's a lot of people that do go.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
There's a lot. Is it that many?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So mel Kiper never worked for an NFL team, that'll
be held against him. There's always been pushback. One of
the more famous moments. A lot of people are too
young to even know about this now, but in nineteen
ninety four, there was a a loggerhead situation with this
guy Bill Tobin, the GM of the Colts, who famously asked,
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who the hell is mel Kuiper, Who the hell is
mel Kiper?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Iconic? I put him in, I put him in, I'd
put him in. Why not?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
It's it is, and it's like the late in baseball.
I'm gonna do something that no one's ever done. I'm
gonna compare mel Kuiper to Fernando Valenzuela. So I used
to tell back when I was in good good standing
with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I'm not anymore. But back when I was and I had.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Friends out there, I'd tell this, the most important Dodger
was Fernando Valenzuela.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
There are generations in.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
The Mexican American community that love for the Dodgers because
of Fernando, and Fernando pitched forty years ago, over forty
years but still and the NFL draft, there are people
that look forward whether they like mel Kuiper or bash
mel Kuiper in the whole and all that, and in
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many ways.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
That's him, all right, last thing, quick way.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
So a number of NFL teams are reportedly evaluating prospects.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
By whether they quote love football or not.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Heading into tonight's draft, our homeboy Jay Glazer, who will
be on Fox Sports Radio tonight with the draft coverage,
tells us that most teams that he's talked to have
already taken some suspects slash prospects off their board because
they don't love the game. For the love of the game,
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the claim is that the name, image, likeness money, the
nil money that guys have already been paid.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
They've gotten the bag. And when you get the bag,
when you're.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
A trust fund baby, you don't necessarily want to get
that extra rep in in the gym.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You don't want to run a little more because you
got the bag.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
So thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs up, thumbs down on
NFL teams downgrading players who don't love football. So I'm
going two thumbs up on this. To me, this is
a trip to the farmer's market, and you gotta find
the passion fruit at the farmers' market.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And this is not exactly new.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
The nil stuff is new, but even in previous generations.
This is another one of those Bill Parcell's lines. He
wanted guys that would live, eat, breathe and sleep football,
And I used to I think he used the line
I want beavers because all they do is eat wood.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's all I want.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
But you do need enthusiasts, And I would argue in
any job, in any job, you want people that actually
want to do the job, that are into the job,
because if you get people that do not want to do,
not enjoy it, it just makes it that much hard.
Doesn't mean you can't do the job, but you're not
long for the job. And it's not a great it's
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We do two, three, four of these things a year,
and this is one of the rare onest.
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Normally, it's just me Ben going out and hanging out
because I happen to go somewhere to visit a relative
or to go on vacation somewhere, and I say I'll
meet some listeners or whatever. But this is a special trip.
It's about a month from now. We're gonna be in Vancouver.
What's the exact date. I have yet to write down
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I don't even know.
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It's a Thursday night. We're gonna do a Thursday meet
and greet Vancouver.
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British Columbia. Ah, Come.
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Twenty ninth, Holy crap. May twenty ninth is the date?
And what is the venue?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Again?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
On that coop, It's gonna be in the nighttime hours.
We'll be in Vancouver. We're gonna be hanging out. We
will all be off the show that night to hang
out with people, So it's a special night.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Court Side on Maine.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Court Side on Maine, my favorite restaurant in Vancouver, not
that I've ever been there, but I'm sure it's great.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I'm looking forward to being there. I'm looking forward to
going and hanging out and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
We're gonna a fine time.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I've seen some listeners have said, I'm trying to get there,
you know, logistics and whatnot here in the States, but
we hope to have a great crop. We've been on
in Vancouver off and on a lot over the years,
so hopefully you'll be able to make it that night, and.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Then we'll also be at the white Caps game.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh that's right, we'll be the white Caps game on
that Saturday. Which is that May first? Is that May first?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Or is that let me look at my calendar again.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That is the thirty first, thirty first of May of May, Okay,
May thirty first, so we'll be there on that side.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
So there's two opportunities.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So if you can't make it for the Thursday thing,
you can see us on set. And I'm a virgin.
My first professional soccer game I've never been to one,
been doing that. And they're called the white Caps, right,
that's the name of the team, the white gam Yeah,
that's correct. All right, I'll go to my first white
Caps game.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I'll be there. Now.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
We have NBA Playoff action tonight. You got the Thunder
and the.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Grizzlies and.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Oklahoma City a nine point favorite on the road in
that game. Most of the sharp money in the public,
as you might imagine, betting on the Thunder. You got
the Knickerbockers and the Pistons. Some of my friends in
New York are upset. That's going to go against the
NFL Draft. A lot of that Nix and Pistons. That'll
be New York favored by one. Money's more even on that.
(22:43):
Money's more even on that. And the Nuggets and the
Clippers and the Clips a five and a half point
favorite in that game. And if you believe the gambling
market favors one way or the other, that's not good
news for the Clips because the guys are on the
Denver side. It's not lopsided. The public is betting heavily
(23:06):
on the Nuggets plus the five and a half in
that game. And I was also I was saying about
that matchup tonight and with you know, they got this
thing over at DraftKings. They got that tick six thing.
I don't know if you've messed around with that at all,
but they have the pick six, which is where you
just go like more or less, and I like the
futs around with that and see see how I do.
(23:27):
And so I looked at the numbers, and for example,
Kawhi Leonard twenty five and a half more or less
points twenty five and a half. I will go more
on Kawhi Leonard. Of course you will, because he's playing
better than anyone.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
He's the MVP of the playoffs right now. Everyone knows that.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
So Kawhi Leonard over twenty five and a half. I
will also go Nikolea Jokic rebounds on DraftKings. They have
it at twelve and a half on the pick six.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I'm gonna go over because.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The Clippers are not a great rebounding team and Yo
gets just like a vacuum. He sucks up every rebound,
so he'll get around fifteen rebounds or so.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So I think that's a big number, twelve and a half.
But I'll take the over.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And then Russell Westbrook eleven and a half points more
or less. They have that on DraftKings right now, and
I'm gonna go less on that one.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
So that's, you know, whatever, you know, we take that
for what it's worth.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
But if I were playing on DraftKings pick six thore,
those are the.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Ways I would go. Let's get back to the call.
So that's the who do we have here? Eeny meenie,
miney moe.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Let's say hello to Mike the Leprecaun. Oh boy, hello,
Mike the Leprecaun. Very controversial caller, Mike the LEPrecon There
are people striking the show because I'm finishing.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Your phone's breaking up.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
What I'm tredding, I'm treading specified documents cheap.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You're shredding your shredding documents?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Yeah, documents.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Why would you have classified documents?
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Well, you don't know me from home on the walls.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Okay, And you brought it up. Why did you bring
it up.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
When you you never picked me up? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Your phone, your phone is am I the only one
hearing that, Like, doesn't it sound like his phone's cracking?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Am I?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
The only one definitely cracking.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Your phone is cracking.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You got to crack your phone's on, crack dude.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Okay, so okay, a little better, a little better. Al
Herford was the enforcer last night.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
He didn't put up with that bully.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And KP average ol average ol.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
No, but he does a.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Great job for the Celtics.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
He's an old man, basically.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Does the Rayner like chocolates when I.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Come to La.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Lorenda, you want to answer that she's not talking.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Apparently she's not talking to you, Leprea, and she's taking
a vout forest impression.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
So anyway, is like a box of chocolates. Yeah it.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
My mom always said blast was last of Marx chocolate.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
To Lring, I'll bring you a box of chocolates.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Okay, okay, thank you, thank you, go away all right,
bye bye bye. Jeez, So I saw the sign. I
saw the sign. NFL draft tonight, big rumor. We did
a monologue earlier. If you missed it, podcasts will be
up after the show. You'll hear the full malet of monologue.
(26:41):
A lot of chatter that George Pickens is going to
be traded today and George Pickens has unfollowed the Steelers.
Oh m gee, George Pickens has followed the Pittsburgh Steelers.
(27:03):
The plot thickens. He's being traded George Pickens. He did it,
He unfollowed, he unfollowed, he unfollowed the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
That is the universal sign. Trade trade trade, trade, trade, trade, trade, trade,
trade trade. Let's go back to the phones, and who
do we have. Let's see who's next? Eenie meanie miney mo.
Pick a caller by their name, and who.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Do we Let's go over to the north end right now,
and let's say hello to Mark, who's in the north end?
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Mark, Welcome, Good morning, Ben Hawaiian. Hello. Hello.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
If I was any better, I'd be sleeping, but I'm not. Yes,
what is what is going on with you?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Mark? What are you up to?
Speaker 5 (27:49):
I do have a selfish comment comment, But first I
would love to become a full fledged member of the
mal of militia today.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You want to take the oath? You want to take
the oath? All right, we'll do it. We'll do the
will do, but you a hot Celtic take before we
do that.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Uh? Is anyone going to be picking up the did
anyone pick up the blood?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Will?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Anyone was selling for Zingis' blood on the internet?
Speaker 5 (28:11):
You read in my mind after last night, Ben, I
think christats Forzingis is now definitely cemented as the fan
favorite in the the Boss himself.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
The odd The odd thing, though, Mark is he is
not a tough guy like that was a tough guy move.
Yes it was, but he's tough. He's not known as
the tough. He misses a lot of games. He's always hurt,
so it makes you odd.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
He splits his head open, he goes to the locker room,
throws a bandage on it, comes out, throws it get
you know, makes one or two free throws, then goes
back and against five stitches and then comes back out
and plays again. That's a beautiful thing.
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I love that.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
No, it was cool. I'm not going to disagree. It
was cool.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
And it wasn't a ketchup pack like Chilling. Remember Chilling
put a ketchup pack in his sock to enhance the
blood pack.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Of the that was. There's there's no fake in that.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Like Porzingis didn't put like a little blood packet on
his forehead.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
That was legit. That was real blood.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Being a Yankees fan, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
The other The other thing, Mark, though, is you don't
want Porzingis in a fight if.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
He's on your team, because he's he's a bleeder, you.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Know, yeah, the Christmas story. He is fragile.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yes, he's very fragile for sure. All Right, you ready
for the oath?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Here?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Mark, Here we go, it's off time. You ready.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
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Speaker 5 (29:36):
Your name, I stay in it, and I'm just kidding.
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Sports, cats, bags and blowoids. So help me God, So
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In honor of the late Great Skeeter in Montana, you
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I'll all right, buddy, thank you, Mark, all right, I
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Yeah, yes, we are all right, all right.
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It's almost getting to that watching the Pirates is not
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watch real pirates out in the ocean somewhere anyway, all right.
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Rage, but but follow the Pirates couch say train here?
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Yeah, no, I got you, I got you. All right,
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Hello, Daniel, good morning, ban good to have you. You're
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There we have let's see who's next.
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Blind Scott was by. You were already on the air.
Why are you calling back? You were already on the air.
Oh my, okay, you got your Fred Toucher mentioned in
Coach Russell is in Orlando.
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Hello, Coach Russell.
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Hey, Hey, good, good morning many. I still want to
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We have Dave in Chicago who's gunning a brag about
the clubs. I guess, Hello, Dave, Yeah, Man, I get
way till Aaron Rodgers finds out he's gonna be He's
gonna be entering Jador Sanders.
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That's gonna be fantastic today.
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Man, it's like freaking Christmas morning.
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Dude, there you go. Well, we'll see about that. And
hollering James, is you awake? Er isy a sleep?
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Hello, James, Man, I waited all night for this moment
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It's like speaking to Heavy and my dadda.
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Three stories, which are the three isn't true? Separating fiction
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Story Number one the Holy Ball Well put Francis passed
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Earlier this week at the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
You might think that there isn't much crossover with sports.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
He'd be wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Several years ago, Paupe Francis signed a rawlings Major League
Baseball scribbled Francisco in.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Black felt tip pen.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
The ball is now up for auction and it's expected
to fetch at least fifteen thousand dollars. Story number two,
Looking for Love the Bulldog Oral Hersheiser might have a
cy young and a World Series.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
MVP, but he doesn't have a life partner.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Earlier this week, the sixty six year old Hirshaw was
announced as the new Golden Bachelor for season two of
ABC show. Herschheiser said in a statement that he just
hasn't been able to find the one since his divorce
back in five. And story number three, he watched Inside
the NBA. This week, Shaquille O'Neal had a bathroom situation.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
He walked off the set.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Because it was go time for the restroom. Well, now
he won't have to ever again do that. Nor Share Care,
known for their adult diapers, has offered to send Shack
Custom Shack Custom Shack Support Pack complete with Go Supreme.
They're extra large and heavy duty wipes. I think he
needs extra, extra, extra large, But what do I know?
(37:11):
All right, those are the three stories? Which are the
three is not true?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Separating fiction for fact.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Let's start out back with Jack the Judge and Leslie
watching the Pirates play baseball on a regular basis, and
then the Rays And what's the answer here, you two kids.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
I'm gonna where can go with number three?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Number three? All right?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
The Shacks, the shaker roof, thank you, have a wonderful
day and a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Okay, thank you? All right, there they go, Daniel and
fort Wayne one tour or three? Daniel, I want to
take the lead, number three, number three, all right? And uh,
I think we hung off on blind Scott. Right he's gone.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I think, yeah, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Coach Russell in Orlando, Coach Russell one to or three,
Coach Russell. I really it was a number two, all right, David,
I thank you, Coach Russell.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Having great, great weekend, great end of the week. We'll
be here tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
David Hick Icago, Dave, what's the answer, David's that's.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Not David Chicago.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
You know who that is. That's Keg drinking, Steve.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, that's Keg drinking. Steve cleaned up his voice a
little bit, but he gave it away on that all right.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
And finally last but not lease, well some would say
definitely lease.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Our man, my lifelong friend.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Because we had a meal together in Minneapolis back in
the day, hollering James, how confident are you?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
James?
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Who?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay? And you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
The fake story this week is number two.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
So we did have a winner, but it's the Oral
Herscheiser story.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
He's not been named the Golden back full for season two.
There so the bulldog Oral Herscheizer. He does do some
really goofy car commercials in l a if you if
you see those, but
Speaker 1 (39:08):
That's that's the fake story number two.
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