Hour 4 - Seeing Purple

Ben Maller talks about Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell implying that Justin Jefferson is the victim of head hunting by opposing teams, Cite the Bite, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name. Ber four, hour four
of our radio program. We go to Minnesota the Vikings
fresh off the thirty three point come back against the
Indianapolis Colds. Thumbs up or thumbs down on the Vikings
justin Jefferson being targeted by opposing defenses? What exactly is

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head coach Kevin O'Connell hoping to accomplish by going public
with his complaints on hits to Jefferson? And are the
Vikings the real deal? We'll talk about that and more
right now in our number four Here it is seeing
Purple Well come in the beginning of another hour of

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buying should be so early this hour coming from the NFL.
It is not not about what happened in Monday Night football.
Not much to talk about there. Baker Mayfield, the second act,
pay you what stinks. That's the Baker Mayfield we all
know and love. That's the Baker Mayfield's played for multiple
teams this year as he was el Stinko. And not

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that the Packers played all that well. But green Bay
gets the win over the Rams, so they stay alive.
Rams eliminated. But we'll go to the Twin Cities now
and fresh off the greatest comeback in NFL. His star rate.
The Vikings are in the Sporting News. They're on our radar.
Yet again, they're head coach Kevin O'Connell, disciple of Sean McVeigh,

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was apoplectic about a situation involving his star player. Now,
if you didn't hear about this, and maybe not, Kevin O'Connell,
the aforementioned Viking coach, implying that his star receiver, Justin Jefferson,
is being targeted. He's the victim of head hunting by

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opposing team. Quote. I think it's about the fifth or
sixth week in a row. He meaning Jefferson took a
type of hit that drew a flag. The Viking coach
belly ate. He said, clearly, this is a quote. Clearly
there's an emphasis on the teams were playing that some

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of those hits they don't just seem to be by
accident at times, O'Connell opie. Now, in particular, the Minnesota
coaching staff was worked up into a lather because of
a play in the fourth quarter of that game against
Indianapolis over the weekend on Saturday, the referees penalize the

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Cult safety Rodney Thomas the second, not to be confused
with one of our callers, Black Steve the second from
North Carolina. This is Rodney Thomas the second, for unnecessary
roughness for a hit against Jefferson. On the very next
Viking offensive series, the star defensive backs to Fan Gilmore

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was flagged for unnecessary roughness also against Jefferson as well,
and so that led to a pandemonium situation among the
Vikings and the complaining from the head coach. So let
us discuss the question thumbs up thumbs down on Viking
receiver Justin Jefferson being targeted by opposing defenses. Is this

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something or nothing, So I'm going thumbs up on this.
I've got King Cobra highlighter and Breakfast Cereal Bowl, and
we will combine all of these things together and we're
gonna make a juicy Lucy, which I'm looking forward to having.
I've had him before, but the authentic local Minnesota fair,

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I'm looking forward to having that, all right. So to
lead off here, though, Justin Jefferson, the guy's a great player,
has been the top receiver in football this year in
many statistical categories. It's not exactly breaking news. Jefferson has
been the dynamic playmaker who has been imposing his will
on opposing defenses. And while the Vikings are lacking in

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certain areas despite their record, they are not lacking when
it comes to the ability of Justin Jefferson, who's been
an absolute beast, forced multiplier, whatever the term you want
to use. As a result, Hello, As a result, Justin
Jefferson has a giant bullseye on the back of his

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uniform and also the front. And what goes up must
come down, and that goes with the real estate. So
I agree, as I said with the Viking coaching staff here,
if you're playing Minnesota, just common sense, which is not common.
If you're a defensive coordinator, you make the call. Are
what kind of message are you trying to say when

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you play the Vike. Well, you're gonna have to slow
down Justin Jefferson, otherwise you got problems here. You're playing Minnesota.
Justin Jefferson is the king Cobra. He is the king Cobra.
You must take your machete out and swashbuckle and cut
the snake's head off, that king cobra. And that's where

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it has its fangs right there. Cut the head of
them and do that, and Jefferson cannot inject the venom
in to your defense. And this is also a case
of testing the intentional fortitude of the Viking star receiver.
Justin Jefferson coming out of LSU. I went back. I
looked at the scouting report when he was coming out

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of college. It wasn't that long ago, and it was
glowing with all these accolades about how amazing Jefferson was
going to be. The one weak spot, the one blind
spot is Scott in Boston would say blind Scott would
be that he's on the leaner side, so physicality is
an issue. Will he be able to handle physical defense.

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Can he be the energizer bunny that takes the abuse
of the defense and keeps going and going and going
and going and going. Now, Jefferson's been able to do
it despite teams putting a bull's eye on his back. Furthermore,
let's go back to the head coach in Minnesota, Kevin O'Connell.
What is he hoping to accomplish by going public with

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his complaints on hits to Justin Jefferson. So this is
also not brain surgery here. It's rather obvious if you're
a smart person, I assume you are. The Viking coach
is taking a page out of the NBA's playbook. You
see us a lot in basketball. My guys getting beaten
up and they're not calling penalties. It's wrong with you fouls,

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and so that's not typically what we hear in football.
It's more of a basketball thing. But it's rather clear
the Viking coaching staff has taken out a Neon highlighter
and they are making this a point of emphasis. And
O'Connell wants a cone of protection around Jefferson, and he's

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working as an advocate for his receiver. He knows that
the NFL hierarchy consume this media, They follow the Internet,
they listen to sports radio, They're monitoring all this crap.
And despite that, though, here's the rub on this, the
inside skinny. What if I told you that Kevin O'Connell's
complaints will fall on death ears, that nothing can be

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done proactively. It's also almost always reactive. If you're playing
defense against the Vikings, you're going to be tossing Jefferson
around like he's a rag doll. And then if you
get penalized a few times during the game, then that's
the price to pay. That's just how it's going to be,
all right, parting shot. So when you take a couple

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steps back, you look at the Vikings right now? Are
they the real deal? They got the record? Oh man,
do they have the record? The Minnesota Viking. They're not
as good as the Eagles. They're not as good as
the Eagles. But the Minnesota Vikings, who currently are sitting
at eleven and three, they are tied with Cansas City

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and Buffalo for the second highest winning percentage in the
NFL this season. And if the playoffs were to start today,
the NFL would lose a lot of money and the
Vikings would open up the playoffs against the Washington football
team as the number two seed. They played the lowest
scene in the playoffs, and that is the Washington football team,

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last team in. So that's an advantageous opportunity for the
Minnesota Vikings. But as I look at the big picture here,
they are not the alpha dogs. If they matched up
with Buffalo or Kansas City, which they won't be able
to do until the Super Bowl, you would take Buffalo
or Kansas City in that hypothetical matchup, and they're certainly

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not the alpha dogs in the NFC. Although the conference,
as we've talked about many times, what open. It's like
the highway in the middle of the night. It's what open.
The Eagles got. Good news for the Vikings, bad news
for the Eagles. Here Jalen Hurts dinged up. The Cowboys
look phony. They look like fool's gold, as they always do.
The forty nine ers are counting on mister Irrelevant in

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brock Purty. So you look at some of the other
top teams in the NFC and you're like, well, there
is a path there for the Vikings. Am I talking
out of both sides of my mouth? No? Because I'm
still not sold, even though the Vikings the big win
against Buffalo and that certainly got my attention, that popped up.
How could it not on my radar as that you

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had that circus catch by Justin Jefferson in that game,
and the Vikings right now sitting there and we know
they're in the playoffs, and we know that they're sitting
as the number two seed in the NFC for this moment.
But the resume. You know, why are we not sold
on the Vikings. It's the resume. Despite the eleven wins

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on the season, It's built in a breakfast Cereal bowl
as in lucky charms, a lot of lucky charms. The
game with the Colt's a great example. Are you a
bad team for falling behind thirty three nothing or a
good team for coming back went down thirty three to nothing?
The answer could be both of those things, right, you're

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good to come back. You didn't quit. Most NFL teams
would quit. The Vikings didn't give up on that. They
came back. They got a little help from the Colts
for being sloppy, and they took advantage of it. But
you look around here and the big wins for the Vikings.
They beat the Lions, a seven to seven Lions team
in one game early in the year, but the Lions

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actually have a better point differential than the Vikings. The
Lions are plus five at seven and seven, the Vikings
are plus two at eleven and three, and the Vikings
outscored by their opponents in all these games. As we said,
three hundred fifty one points to three hundred forty nine.
Minnesota's big wins Buffalo, the Dolphins, and the Lions. What

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you peel that back? The Lions win, Amon Ross, Saint
Brown and DeAndre Swift are two big guns on offense.
Got hurt in the fourth quarter of that game, and
the Lions were up by believe double digits, and they
blew that lead when their stars got hurt. The Dolphins
had Teddy Bridgewater and someone named Skylar Thompson I believe
as their quarterbacks. As Tuo was out. And the Buffalo

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Bills game, we saw that circus catch as mentioned and
the fumball, I mean, some really wacky things happening, as
that was one of the great games of the NFL season.
All right, it is the Bannet Maller Show. As we
press on and we'll take your calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. I see some big name
legends on the show that are on hold, so we'll

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take some of those calls later on. There's a story
that came across my radar that will definitely become a movie. Now. Everyone,
once in a while you see something that happens in
the little sporting world and you're like, well, that's gotta
be a movie. This would be a great movie. I'd
pay money to watch that in the movie. It'll also
be a hell of a documentary something that went on

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that I'm fascinated by. We'll get to that. Also, here's
the Maller Riddle of the day, The Mallar Riddle of
the day. Famous play by play broadcaster for Fox Sports,
Gus Johnson. You know it's exciting. Even if it's not exciting,
He'll pretend it's exciting when Gus Johnson's doing it again
because he'll scream and shout and jump up and down.
He makes it entertaining. He's a very similar Kevin Harland,

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that style broadcaster where you hoots and hollers and all that.
So Gus Johnson, the famous play by play announcer for
Fox was caught doing blank while working a college basketball game.
All right again, Gus Johnson, play by play announcer caught
doing blank while working a college basketball game recently. That
is the Mather riddle. The answer. We'll get to it

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and we will do it neck. Be sure to catch
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Radio Studios. It's Ben Mallory a piece of art from
our friend J School. Feel better, JA School is He's
in the hospital right now. We talked about that about
earlier in the show. Sent many songs in highly decorated
multiple talent show wins. Over the course of his contribution

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to the show. We'll pay off the Mallard riddle in
a moment and also a story in sports that is
guarantee to be a great documentary and a great movie,
both Big Panda write. Sin says, ten out of ten
of a Viking monologue, anytime you work my blood brother
black Steve the second into a Malard monologue with Justin Jefferson,

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it's a win. And the Vike Queens should just take
their ball and go home and play electric football if
they have problems with stars being targeted a Ric in Minnesota,
he writes in he's got that Mallard flag which he
sent me. Thank you, a Ric, good job by you.
I have a version of that. I think it's the

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same thing. He says. I'll give you a solid bee.
I knew you were going to rip them for being
paper tigers. He says of his vikings, we'll see in
the playoffs. I'm not going to be a homer. They
need to shore up that defense, a defensive side of things.
If the Deacon play like they did in the second half,
I feel they'll be just fighting. Well. Sure they can

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play the Colts who thought the game was over. It
should have been over up thirty three nothing and play
like gutless pukes in the second half. Then you'll be fine.
The Mallard Riddle Gus Johnson, famous Fox Sports played by
played Guy college football, college basketball, was caught doing blank
while working a recent college basketball game. That is the question,

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what is the internet? What is the answer on the internet?
The Sawman says he was playing Pokemon Go. Well, that
would be embarrassing, man, that would be embarrassing. What else
do we have? Page down? Page down? Big Panda says
he was caught listening to Eddie's podcast. That would also
be embarrassing, making the Baba ganoosh from Sean in Portland.

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He was watching videos of Aaron Andrews from Fergdog Wow.
Shots fired there. Who else do we have? Page down? Played,
page down? Fudgie says The mallar Riddle answer playing with
his disgusting Johnson, he said, I don't know what that means.
Lady Sideburns, you know it's big if Lady Sideburns is there,

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says Gus Johnson. Was was definitely caught rolling dice under
the table. Alf the Alien Opiner says he was channeling
Deshaun Watson, the baby yoga pose, goldfish petting from Dan
the Man. Who else do we have? Let's see page
down picking his nose, guests by Jonathan who is hanging

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on in Louisiana. Who else do we have? Page down?
Page down? He was caught doing the blaring main shock shakatone,
shakatone from Jay Dot in Utah, doing coke with Jed
who fled guests by the aforementioned riek in Minnesota. Eddie,
do you have an answer, Eddie? Oh? Yeah. He was

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caught watching the World Cup on his phone. Oh man,
that would be that would be something. He was supposed
to be the World Cup broadcast. Remember they tried to
have him do the soccer and I guess it wasn't
his thing so he didn't end up doing it. But
the correct answer, Eddie. Gus Johnson caught by a fan
in the crowd and a video him hitting a vape
while doing a college basketball broadcast. He had the vape

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right there, so yeah, when you're into the vaping, you
gotta do it. You can't hold back. I've heard that
Sean mcvagh enjoys. That is that right? Yeah? Okay, surprising, No,
that's according that's according to Fox Sports Radio Sean mcvape.
Jonas Knox, is he into the vaping? Jonas Knox? Is
he what? I don't know if maybe I don't know.

(18:27):
I don't think he is, but it would fit his look,
his whole go with that. I'm sure he's listening, but
he but he's he's very like you know, body is
temple type of Yeah. Yeah, And I don't think he
would because yeah, he's very clean. And I give him credit.

(18:48):
You know a lot of guys that bust their chops
when they clean everything up because of you know, the
COVID stuff, but he he was doing it before COVID.
He like, comes in here, he's got the perel out,
he's got the hand sanitizers, wipes everything down so I
don't have to clean up. It's great. I normally i'd
clean up, but Jonah, I know who'll come in here
and do it anyway, so I don't need to worry about.
Let's go to the phones that we'll say, Hello the

(19:09):
angry Bill. Who's next, Hello angry Bill, to take that
in your pooper and poppety the angriest man in Florida. Hello,
angry Bill. I was doing Gentlemen. Then I heard you
bring up Joe Beningo's name. I knew, probably knew you
knew of him, but I didn't know you knew him.
Now him, Well, I don't know that. I know I
spent one night talking to him in a Mets game,

(19:29):
so I don't know that. He probably don't even remember me,
but I didn't meet him. He was a good conversation,
A couple of radio guys talking craps, so it was good. Yeah,
real nice guy. He grew up in Jersey with me.
I listened to his overnight show and I want to
contest one time, and I was having dinner with the
crew and I brought him out to my house for
a dinner party, and one of the people was Samantha Ryan.

(19:51):
She comes out in a black miniskirt. Oh my god.
The whole night I was trying to figure out how
I'm going to hook my ex wife up with her,
but it was unbelievable. She was fantastic. He went into
my indoor batting cage, took some hits, played basketball my
indoor batting cage, and then I had a little zoom
to take him home. He was a fantastic guy. You're

(20:13):
being so positive here. It's like he was a true fan,
a true fan. Yeah. He started he was a caller,
and then they thought he'd be host, and he won
a contest and he went to radio school and yeah,
so he started at the bottom, worked his way up
a real nice guy. And uh he was you know,
he kept in touch and he just was so honest

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and and not. Yeah, I don't take that as an
insult then, other than that, I'm not a calling me
a b S. Is that what you're calling me? No, No,
you want to you want to step outside, I'll kick
your ass. You wouldn't have a chance. Then you wouldn't
have a chance. You did rob a bank and I've

(20:55):
never done that, so seventy one years old, you wouldn't
have a chance. Man, all right, are you sure about that?
I'll kick you in the shins and then I poke
you in the eye three studio style. That's what I
would do. Let me explain one little thing on that.
You want to talk about that. Back in the days,
they used to have the golden gloves for the teenagers
and stuff. I didn't finish first, I didn't finish second,

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but I finished third. Gun and my hands are just
as quick. Yeah, okay, I'll fight you right now today,
and I can't. It's a no win situation because I'll
kick your ass and they'll say, why are you beating
up a seventy one year old guy? Yeah, that I'll
be the bad guy, and then if I if I lose,
then I'll be like, why'd you lose to that guy?

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So that's a no win situation. Why do you think
I was so good in baseball? My hands were unbelievably fast. Yeah,
that's one of the big things about these baseball players.
Their hands are so super fast. It's unreal. People don't realize.
It's too bad your mind is not that fast. No,
that's true. That's okay, all right, all right, thank you.
There he goes angry Bill. Let's say hello to the

(22:00):
lovely Rachel and mona bellow in southern California. Hello Rachel
and down here the air Rachel. Please, great job by you, Ben,
And to Jay Scoop, Happy holidays, Healthy holidays. May the
mery bells keep ringing, mayor every wish come to a

(22:26):
very sweet there. You've got to get well fast. We
miss you, we love you, we do. Jay Scoop's listening
in a hospital tonight overnight here this morning and whoa
jilly Gilley, Jay Scoop about that you you better get better,
you get Rachel's all about that action boss. Come on, uh,

(22:48):
gotta take care. She'll be You'll nurse him back, right, Rachel,
you're absolutely Jay Scoopy, you're holding up the shell here exactly, exactly,
all right, Yeah, at least try to get better by
the talent show. Who get all right? Thanks, thank you, Rachel.
All right, there she goes. They lovely, Rachel. A nice
message to to our friend Jay Scoop. We we are

(23:09):
big fans. We hope he gets better soon. He's got
a long road ahead of him, but the next twenty
four hours very important with Tess and whatnot, so hopefully
those all go his way. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey, I'm Doug Gottlieb. The podcast
is called All Ball. We usually talk all basketball all

(23:31):
the time, but it's more about the stories about what
made these people love their sport and all the interesting
interactions along the way. We talked to coaches, we talked
to players, we tell you stories. You download it, you
listen to it. I think you like it. Listen to
All Ball with Doug Gotlieb on the iHeartRadio app, Apple
Podcast orherever you get your podcast. I saw a story

(23:55):
involving your boy, John Tortorella. Hearts, We get a time
You cannot suck. Yeah, well that's going on a lot
with his his Philadelphia Flyers. He's his first year coaching Philadelphia.
They are they are not good. He recently made a
controversial move benching the team's leading score Kevin Hayes and
Keith Yandel, who was recently retired, now trying to be

(24:16):
a talking head in the NHL. He's done a little
work for TNT, called out torts. No says the parts.
He says that he's uh, he's just he's throwing games
to try and make a point. He's made some bad
coaching moves, and he says it's time for the coach
to be a healthy scratch. Wow. The only problem is
that Yandel needs to save these hot takes for when

(24:37):
he's on TV. He did it on like a Instagram video,
but uh no, you gotta have that on when you're
on TV. Right, And we sucked at a time that
you can't suck. I'm on the side of that guy, Eddie,
that's my guy. Ports Well. I will point out when
I briefly did television at NBC and I asked the
executives there the hockey guys said, why don't you put
Torts on there? They said, he's only good after games

(24:58):
and before games, but on camera he's a little stiff. Yeah,
which is unfortunate. Yeah, that's true because if he was
like that what he is with the writers, oh Man
gold Mine, that guy would be the Barkley of hockey.
He must watch TV. But he's not like that. No, no, no,
only when he's stirred up with emotions, usually after a loss.
The raw emotion, Eddy, the raw emotion. Yeah, all right

(25:22):
is the Ban Maller Show. As we continue on through
the overnight hours, I'm getting some blowback from the Twin Cities.
They're not they did not enjoy my malon monologue about
the Vikings. I'm getting some blowback. MV fan rights and
explain something for me. Genius. He wrote in all caps,
who was yelling the Vikings lose the Philly, Dallas and

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Detroit and our frauds and the forty nine Ers lose
to Chicago, Denver, and Atlanta and are considered Super Bowl contenders. Well, yes,
I know, it's it's kind of weird time and it's
hard to grasp these things. But the forty nine Ers
have something Vikings don't have, and that's defense, and you
can't rely on offense. I think we've watched enough playoff

(26:05):
football over the years. Even though the great, even the great,
offensive teams usually hit a bump in the road in
the playoffs, but defense generally carries over. I know defense
in the NFL, the modern NFL, anybody who played defense
the forty nine ers, they'll have the number one ranked
defense in terms of yards per game. The Minnesota Vikings
are at the other end of the spectrum. They're dead

(26:26):
last now after their performance against the Colts over the weekend.
They're the worst defensive team in the NFL over the
entire course of the season, and that has held up.
They're the worst team over the last month of the season. Fact,
the last month the Vikings are given up four hundred
thirty yards per game. So it's not a sustainable formula.

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It's not just my opinion, it's the gambling market, which
really forget what I say. The gambling market has skin
in the game. They're the ones that have money to lose.
Let's go to a Blind Scott who's on the North
end of Boston. Hello Blind Scot. Right over the famous
Bova's Bakery. Hello, blind Sky. Everybody's getting the pastries for
the holidays, and the Gabba gu and Athetics is delivering

(27:10):
like twenty packages to my place. That's the wrong address.
I've at the opening Christmas presents later. Hey, one thing
about John Tortorella is uh um. He's from Lexington. He
was a bully in high school. He used to bully
people in high school. He's a real jerk, you know
what I mean. And this high and bloom guy, I'm
actually friends with him. He's building the house down the
street right now. Everybody criticizing him. This is what the

(27:32):
Red Soux ownership want him to do. They want him
to save money. The Red Touch paid nine hundred millions
for the Pittsburgh Penguins franchise. They owned that franchise too.
If you haven't noticed, on January second, they're having the
Fenway on ice. It's Pittsburgh Penguins ris the Boston Bruins
they're winning, they're making money. You know what I'm saying
that that business Sky you're going soft because you play

(27:53):
you know this guy high End Bloom. That's why you're
going soft because you met him. Yeah, exactly. And I
wanted but one other thing he had to say about
angry build. There's no fool like an old fool. And
I have a song for Jay Scoop. Hey, Jay Scoop,
I feel like making you get well, super funny you okay,

(28:15):
see that's that's not helpful, Blind Scott. I think he
I think he just turned over. My man, Jay Scoop
just turned over in that hospital bed right now. He
needs a nurse to come in there and give him
attention right now. Yeah, we need him to get well
so we can fix those talent shows with those recordings.
Oh stop that sounds fixing. The man's a naturally talent,

(28:36):
naturally born musician. He's in his DNA, that Jay Schoo.
We need him to get well. I'm going to church,
but I'm gonna light a candle and I'm gonna play
for him. And you can't go to church. You'll get
struck by lightning when you go to church. Are you're talking?
They give up free meals and chocolate stuff. You know
he got money I steal out of the collecting body. Well, yeah,

(28:59):
you're you're the original ports pirate blind stat exactly, all right,
go away, thank you. I'm done with you. So Dad
on the toilet with the plunger at the other day.
This is a great story and I cannot wait to
hear more about this. Several of you have demanded we
talk about this, and I read a little bit about
it. It It hasn't hit the mainstream. It'll likely hit the

(29:20):
mainstream today with TAMZ and the New York Post in
places like that. Have you heard of the Chiefs a Halik?
Have you heard of this cat? No? All right, so
this is quite Chiefs. Chiefs a Halik what he's known
an online. So this is a super fan of the
Kansas City Chiefs Eddie. And apparently what this this cat

(29:41):
was doing too, I guess he didn't have enough money
to go to all the games. So what he was
doing on his way to the road games he would
stop off at local banks and rob them. He was
a bank robber to pay for his lifestyle of going
to chief games. And he got caught in Bixby Oklahoma

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robbing a bank with a weapon over the weekend. This
is being reported by several different media outlets, but it
hasn't it like the main mainstream And so the legend
of this cat does this not sound like a movie?
This guy is a super fan. He would go rob
banks before heading to away games so we could afford
to stay at the hotels and they're very expensive to travel.

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And there was a story and I don't think this
has been confirmed. Supposedly, the internet rumor was the guy
was wearing the same mask he would wear Chiefs games
at the bank. While I don't know that that's actually
been confirmed by the FBI. But this guy's facing some
serious jail time. I looked it up and I was

(30:49):
so if anybody the company wants to know why I
looked up bank robbery minimum time. It says the minimum
time EDDIE for bank robberies like seven seven years is
the very minim. But this guy's been robbing multiple banks, supposedly,
and I don't I mean, I know my knowledge of
the law and whatnot for movies, but like he's been

(31:10):
doing this like across state line. Yes, it's a federal
it's a federal deal. So you're here in more trouble.
Bye yeah, bye bye. And uh now the FBI is
investigating this guy. He previously, according to one of the
reports I was reading, he got away with multiple felonies.
He was also removing his ankle monitor to go to

(31:30):
the games. So what a dumber Oh my god, Oh
my goodness. Uh and so we'll say bye. Well, I
guess he can still support the team in jail. It
just won't be the same. Uh and uh so we'll
see what happens with that. But that's quite the time.
That is that going to be not an amazing documentary.

(31:52):
This guy's like a Star Chiefs fan and he's out
there robbing banks to pay for his habit. It's got
to at least be like a real sports feature or
something like that. That's got to be a documentary. That's
like a Netflix documentary. You know, this guy lives in
some small town. He can be Yeah, this shi pictures
him robbing the bank with that mask on, right. I
have seen those photos of him wearing the Chiefs, like

(32:14):
the wolf mask or whatever. Yeah. Remember the Raiders had
that guy and I was on a plane with that
guy years ago. There was a guy that wore shoulder
pads with the what was it the I would have
described the things sticking up on the shoulder pads spikes. Spikes. Yeah,
there you go. Easier for me to say. But I
was on a plane with the guy, a Southwest Airlines flight.

(32:35):
It was actually from LA to Oakland because I love
the guy lived in LA. Isn't his name Roberto A violator? Yeah?
And um but but imagine if he had like I'm
gonna go rob a bank on my way to the game,
and he was wearing the shoulder pads, It's like, what
are you? Oh man, what a story. I can't wait.
I gotta hear more. I mean it feel bad for
the guy, but what are you doing? I mean, come on,
you're Eddie. You don't rob banks to pay for your habit,

(32:56):
do you? You You know? Okay? He said no in your head? No?
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It's a coach player prominent me. Do you remember here
we go? Yeah, I'll make it work. Yeah, I'll make
it work. Yeah, I'll make it work. All right. Will
anyone get this right? Someone from the world of sports? Boy,

(35:08):
that's that's not gonna happen. Ah man, all right, I'm
gonna go. I'll make it work. I'm gonna go first.
I say, no one will get it right. I don't
believe anyone will get it right anyhow. No, no one's
gonna get it all right. Roberto he no, no, Cooper,
I don't know. Something tells me that somebody might get

(35:28):
into I'm not gonna get it. I think so not
gonna happened. No way, all right, play it again, play
it again. Yeah, I'll make it work. All right, let's
go to let's see here, any meny Miny Mo Shane
in the Moine is my leadoff hitter? Hello, Shane an
tribute to Jay Scoop. Is that Tom Crean? Oh? Is

(35:48):
that Tom Crean? Not to be confused? Yeah, is that
Tom Crean? Though? All right? Thank you hanging up on yourself.
Uncle mo Is in Brooklyn, Hello, Uncle Maul Gosh. I
think that's Vancouver Canucks star goaltender Sacher dumpko Ah, you

(36:10):
thought that. Unfortunately not right, mo. I know you were closed,
but thank you time for our first clues. Person is
one of the most productive performers in western Pennsylvania history.
Does that help you? Oh? Yeah, I'll make it work.
It'll make your work right, you make your figure it out.
Jay's in Rochester, Hello, Jay, Gus Johnson? Is that Gus Johnson? No,

(36:36):
it is not Gus Joseph, But thank you. Thanks for
playing the site to Bite, the Great sports radio Mystery. Hello,
you are next on site the Bite. Yes caller number four,
Hello caller four. Yea yeah, let me go with Sir
scratch Off hill Billy Ann. All right, Sir scratch Offs

(36:57):
hill Billy Ass. Is that the No, it's not the
correct answer. This person broke Pitt Freshman's Pitt freshman's receiving
records set by Larry Fitzgerald. Yeah, I'm eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. If you know the answer, played again,
played again. Yeah, I'll make it work. Yeah, I'm work.

(37:19):
It's going down to Cincinnati. A man who's back off
suspension after almost six months, but he apologized on Thanksgiving.
Justin in Cincinnati, caller number five like Schindler's list over
here with me in honor of Jay Scoop. That's Rachel
Almanabella right, she fall up a cliff. Wow, Okay, that
was not nice at all. All right, Justin, that is incorrect.

(37:44):
You've lost your mode. You see you're working now, Justin,
So you've lost your way because you can't practice sports
trivia a twenty four hours as they all right, well
we are out of time. Unfortunately, the correct answer we
were looking for. Play it again there, ROBERTA. Yeah, I'll
make it work. Curly currently plays for the Cincinnati Bengals.
That would be none other than the household name Tyler Boyd.

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You don't know Tyler Boyd? Is what's wrong with you?
What kind of football fan are you? You don't know
Tyler Boyd? You loser? Blow me up Rocky Roberto