December 30, 2022 • 39 mins
Brian Noe fills in for Ben Maller and talks about the Dallas Cowboys win over the Tennessee Titans on TNF and why there are reasons for concern with the Cowboys despite the win.
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Everybody. Brian No here in for Big Ben yet again.
Lots of good stuff here reacting to the Cowboys beating
the Titans, the undermanned Titans on Thursday Night football. Some
fun with bowl games. Apparently you don't pronounce the S
and cheese it kind of weird. Will we get to
that with the cheese It Bowl? And then also some
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other NFL stuff. Flats of NFL are the Chargers? Are
they the surprise team come playoff time? And then we
have some fun just general randomness with soup and music.
Of course always big topics. We have some fun with that.
Hope you enjoyed the podcast. Oh what's going on? I
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hope you're enjoying your Friday morning slash late Thursday night.
A lot going on here Thursday Night Football, the crazy
Bowl games, learn how to pronounce one of my favorite products.
Eventful evening very much so, get to a interesting ruling
in the seation as far as suspensions go. But let's
start it off here with some ball, shall we. We
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should be. How about them Cowboys. We'll start off with Dallas.
They gotta win, gotta win. It was a sleepy win,
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but a win. Nevertheless, they won by two touchdowns against
the Tennessee Titans, twenty seven to thirteen. And it was
not picturesque, it was not a work of art. It
was against the team that was resting a bunch of
their starters. No Derek Henry for the Titans, no Jeffrey
Simmons for Tennessee, among others. But a win is a win.
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Dallas moves on gets the w Dalton Schultz with two
touchdown grabs. The tight end over there for the Titans,
with a little uh. It's not a neck role, not
like a neck brace. He's got like the uh. I
don't even know how to explain it. It's like this
little neck thing. It might help with balance. I don't know.
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I gotta do a deep dive into that. I don't
know what what's going on there, but I think it's
for balance. Dalton Schultz with two touchdown catches. The Cowboys
wearing their Arctic cowboy white uniform on Thursday night football.
That's right, that's what they called it. Dallas wore their
Arctic Cowboy unis and they got to win. Now. Reason
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for concern here going forward, because it's not about beating
an undermanned Titans team on Thursday Night football. It's about
spinning this thing forward for Dallas, and I thought there
were a lot of reasons for concern over here with
the Dallas Cowboys. Concern number one, Dak Prescott continues to
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turn the football over two interceptions. God to protect the
football better, God to protect the ball better. With the
playoffs right around the corner. Now. One interception was not
his fault at all, bounced off one of his backup
tight ends. It's a great pass, the tight end just
bobbled the ball led to a pick. Not his fault whatsoever.
But the other interception was completely Dak Prescott's fault. I
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don't know what he was doing through it. Right to
Kevin Bayer, the stud safety for the Titans, just not good.
It's okay against a team like the Titans, you're gonna
get away with that, but come playoff time, he's just
gotta protect the ball better. He's got five games with
multiple interceptions. This season, that's gotta be a whole lot better.
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And he is trending in the wrong direction. Now. Reason
for concern number two, Tyler Beatish. Let's talk some offensive linemen,
shall we here, Let's get knee deep. So Dallas's center
was carted off the field. He got rolled up on.
Happens all the time with offensive lineman and it's unfortunate,
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but it's all we is a bad sign when your
teammates immediately looked to the sideline and starts motioning the
trainers to get on the field and help out this
poor guy. Get over come on, and that's what happened.
He was carted off the field, didn't return. That's a
big deal because they had to completely rearrange their offensive line.
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Dallas moved Connor McGovern, he kicked over to center, you
had Tyler Smith, he kicked over to guard, and then
you brought in the forty year old Jason Peters to
play left tackle. That's a lot of rearranging right there.
And by the way, hats off to Jason Peters at
forty years old, still getting it done as an offensive
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tackle in the NFL. That is awesome right there. But
if Beardish is out if he's missing significant time. I
just rattled off all the rearranging that had to take place.
That is not a good situation for Dallas moving forward
in the playoffs if they're missing their center. Reason for
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concern Number three, Micah Parsons had a cast on his hand.
He had the big old club cast. He's wearing that
for a reason, right the hand. All the digits that
not everything is is bien over there, right, not everything
buano over there for our guy, Mica Parsons. So there
were reasons for concern when you look forward when the
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Cowboys are in the playoffs and they're playing the big boys.
Not so much about Thursday night against the Titans. It's
about looking forward. I'm probably no in for Big Ben
Maller here on Fox Sports Radio. Now, what is truly
in bad form here? I started off with the winning
locker room. That is not how Ben typically gets down
thinks the better story is in the losing locker room.
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I rearrange the order over here, the Cowboys rearranging their
offensive line. I'm rearranging the order. Let's get to the
losing lit room right here. Now, a couple of interesting
things with the Tennessee Titans so it's their QB situation.
They signed Joshua Dobbs eight days before Thursday Night Football.
They signed the guy on December twenty, first off the
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Lions practice squad, and he started for the Titans. That
was his first ever NFL start. He hadn't played in
a game before Thursday Night against the Cowboys. The last
game he played was in Week seventeen of the twenty
twenty season, So we're tucking two years ago. This guy
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played a game in the NFL, and yet he was
starting on Thursday Night. Not a ringing endorsement for the
rookie Malik Willis. And so the question becomes this for
the Titans, who starts next week? The division is on
the line. It's gonna be Titans at Jags. Should be
a ratings bonanza over the Titans at Jags for the
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AFC South. And this week didn't matter whatsoever. It all
comes down to next week. So they started josh Dobbs,
and the real question becomes next week matters. Next week
is your season on the line. Who is behind center?
Who are you starting? Is it the rook Malik Willis
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or is it josh Dobbs who was signed eight days ago.
It's gonna be Josh Dobbs. I'd be surprised if it wasn't.
He played pretty well all things considered. Only been with
the team for eight days, and that was his first
ever NFL start, and there was no Derreck Henry. The
defense was under man like. That was not too bad.
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Throwing for two hundred thirty two yards, a touchdown and
an interception. Not the worst ever. And you compared that
to Malik Willis. So Malik Willis the third round rookie.
He started three games this season, and he hasn't cracked
a hundred yards passing in any of those games. I'm
not asking for a two hundred fifty yards or something.
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We're just talking about a hundred. Just get to triple digits.
He hasn't done it in any game. He's completing just
a smidge over fifty percent of his passes, which is awful.
And in those three games he's thrown for two hundred
seventy six yards and three interceptions. He has not been
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good at all throwing the football. Now, he has been
able to run the ball pretty well. He's gained one
hundred and twenty three yards on the ground and he's
rushed for a touchdown, But I think it's gonna be
Josh Dobbs. I think you're gonna roll with Dobbs. That
seemed to be the general feeling on Prime Video. Ryan Fitzpatrick,
former NFL quarterback. He was asked a question, you start
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Dobbs next week, and he was emphatic, he's absolutely, absolutely,
without a question. I don't know if it was as
much a ringing endorsement of Josh Dobbs or just a
lack of belief in Malik Willis, or a cocktail of both,
you know, but I think that's what's going to happen
with the Tennessee Titans. One other thing that applies more
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to the league than just the Tennessee Titans. How about this,
So the Titans, they are currently in eleventh place in
the AFC. They're number eleven in the AFC. If they
beat Jacksonville next week, they move all the way up
to number four, they'd be the four seed in the playoffs.
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I don't know about you, guys, but I've griped about
this for years. I just don't think it makes sense
for a division winner to get an automatic home game.
If Tennessee jumps from eleven to number seven. Let's say
they've got the worst record of all the playoff teams, well,
then you should be seated the lowest. That's how I see.
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I don't know why you get the extra cherry on top,
which is a significant sherry by the way, right, getting
a home game in the playoffs is a big deal.
I don't think you should get that just because you
won your division. I mean, really, look at the standings here,
and I'll rattle them off for you in case you
don't happen to be looking at the standings right now.
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You know, if you look at the AFC South winner,
best case scenario Jacksonville, let's say they win their last
two games, Jacksonville would be nine and eight. Like, they're
not gonna have a better record. The Ravens already have
ten wins, you know, the Chargers already have nine wins.
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Chances are they win one of their two remaining games
against the Rams and Broncos. Right, so there are gonna
be multiple teams with better records than Jacksonville. That's just
odd to me. If you look at the NFC, it
stands out even more. The Cowboys who just won on
Thursday night, they are twelve and four, and right now
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they're a five seed. They're looking up at the four seed,
which is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Like the Cowboys, Even
if Tampa wins on Sunday against Carolina, Tampa would be
eight and eight. Even if Tampa wins, the Cowboys would
still have four more wins this season, which is more impressive.
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Is it Dallas being twelve and four and, by the way,
having an Eagles team who's thirteen and two? The Giants
and Commanders are currently in the playoffs. Everybody in their
division is currently in the playoffs? Or is it Tampa
leading their cesspool of a division. It's a joke that
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Tampa would get a home playoff game. I don't know
why the NFL continues to do this. It's just the
way it's always been done. That doesn't mean it makes
sense to continue to do it going forward. If it
was the other way. Think about this, if it was
the other way, if you, let's say you get a
playoff berth, if you win your division, okay, you at
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least get into the playoff field. But then we do
the seating based on record. We don't care if you're
a non division winner or a division winner. We're just
seating you based on your record. If that's the way
it's always been done, would it make any sense whatsoever
to change it to what it actually is now. Imagine
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if we just seated everybody based on their record top
to bottom, and somebody came along and said, you know what,
why don't we change things up? Why don't we have
the four division winners, why don't we have those teams
host these playoff games? And then the non division winners, well,
they're the wild cards, and we just seed them below
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the division winners. And someone raised their hand be like,
even if, like you know, the wild card team has
four more wins than the division winner, Like, even then, yeah,
even then, we'd still do it that way. You'd look
at that person and be like, that is stupid. That
doesn't make sense, Like what I think. You just get
used to the way things are, and you're like, well,
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you know, division winner, you get a home playoff game.
It's just amazing to me that the Titans, who are
seven and nine right now, if they win next week
to improve to eight and nine, they're a four seed,
no questions asked, and they host a playoff game. That's
amazing to me. I wish that would change. I would
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change that immediately. That would be I like making New
Year's resolutions for other people or leagues or whatever. You know.
I make a couple of my own, but it's more
fun to make resolutions for others, you know. That's one
resolution I would have for the NFL. Change this weird
seeding process. If you win your division, cool, you're in
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the playoffs. That doesn't mean you automatically get a home
playoff game. You have to earn that by I don't know, oh,
winning games right, winning more than the other teams who
are in the playoffs. If you do that, then yeah,
then you earn your home playoff game. New Year's resolution
for the NFL, make that happen, Okay, eight seven seven
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I'm all ears. I want to hear that. I think
that could be fun. Some very creative people in the
Maller militia, so you know, I'm sure there are going
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to be some creative answers. I feel like participating in
that coming up next, I learned how to pronounce one
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your humble sidekick, the voice of reason. You're announcer guy.
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I'm at Eddie on Fox. There's an old school newspaper
report on the act. Talk like Bess great great impression
of the great Myron Cope, Pittsburgh newspaper reporter and Steeler's
announcer talked really funny at all I from Thetirerat dot Com.
Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Brian No. What a great impression, Eddie.
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I just said that. Yeah, um, are you a System
of a down fan there, Eddie? Where do you feel
about How do you feel about I like him? Yeah?
I did too. It's weird. It's uh, I don't know
how to explain it. Man. It's kind of like if
you were to watch a movie and there are a
handful the scenes that you really like, and then there's
a scene where you're like, it's not the greatest, not
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my favorite, but overall, I still like the movie. That's
how I feel about System. You know, they've got some
great songs and they just have random stuff going on. Man,
there's a random band over there. Are you Are you
into song lyrics? Oh? Yeah, absolutely? Yeah, okay you not
so much? No, No, not into song lyrics for example?
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Uh like some of the messages like rage against the machine,
right right, sure, I'm not a fan of them because
of that. I'm just hear I just like, uh, you
know the music and you know the lyrics and not
the lyrics but the vocals, right right? No, I hear you. Yeah,
I get that lyrics don't really. I mean sometimes Eddie's
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a fan of the man. Well, if if my option
is that or the Looters, then yes, I guess I
would have to come down on that side, to be
honest with you. But I don't know any system lyrics
that mentioned looters. Okay, I get what you're saying. Though
you're here for a good time and not watching like
the news channel or something, is what you're really getting at.
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I don't. I don't, I'm not. I don't. I don't
need Uh, I'm trying to think of his name is
a surge. What's his name? Roberto? Yeah, I don't need
that dude to tell me, you know what I should
be thinking, and you know, or anyone else. Frankly, yeah,
I'll think for myself. But thank you. No interesting right there.
I didn't know that's how you felt. But uh, yeah,
I hear you. I hear you to an extent on that.
How about this Eddie. The Bowl games going on the
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Cheese It Bowl. Very good game. By the way, Florida
State beat Oklahoma thirty five thirty two bunch of yards
in that game, um and Florida State got the last
field goal field goal in the final minute over there
entertaining game. But during the game, dan Orlovsky said this
where he said it's actually improper to use an s
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at the end of cheese it like if you were
to make it plural, if you're to say, hey, you
want some cheese, it's over here, that would technically be wrong.
They want you to pronounce it just cheese it, like
that's the name. You never put an S on there. Now,
I ask you, does it feel unnatural? Because it does
to me to not add the S. Right, you add
the S on that, don't you? Of course, what do
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you do if you're talking, you know, I mean he's
not saying that you should do that. If you're if
you're saying I would like some cheese, it's you gotta
say cheese it. Yeah, apparently that's the proper way, is yeah, right,
it's it sounds like you have to use a very
distinguished accent, like I would like some cheese. It's you know,
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you have to project by saying that. It seems way
too fancy. Yeah, I think the S is fine. I
think you had the S over there, no worries. I
also like the Nightcap, Washington over Texas, Levin wins and
Year one for Kalin debor not a bad start with
you dub over there, And I felt bad for Quinn
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Yours and his Mullet. He had a great game through
for a bunch of yards through for over three fifty,
but a couple of drop passes. It was just wild, man,
just a wild game. But man, the bull season has
been really good. It's been the last couple of nights
I've filled in for Ben Maller, and we've had some
really good college games. And we got a lot more
like five on Friday, and this is the home stretch. Man.
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We got the playoff games coming up on Saturday. And
it's always weird, you know, I gotta get to this
rest versus rust thing because I never really put all
of this together where you think about it. In the NFL,
it's always that question of, hey, if you have your
playoff spot locked up, do you rest your guys at
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the end of the regular season and risk a little
bit of rustiness? You know, if you look at college football,
if you think about the playoff teams, they haven't played
in weeks, Like the championship games were a long time ago,
where when you had TCU against Kansas State and Michigan's
play in Iowa and all that all that business right,
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Ohio State was on their couches watching everybody play on
Championship Saturday. Right, they weren't even involved. But it's been weeks.
And what's funny is you rarely hear, oh, well, this
team's just rusty. When it comes to college bowl games,
like the major games, take the playoff games that we'll
see on Saturday weeks in between when they play, you
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rarely hear that. But man, you hear that all the time.
In the NFL. Is if a team plays badly, oh
they're they're rusty. They should have played in Week eighteen
and knocked off some of the rust. It's just funny
how it's viewed that way. But if you think about
the NFL, and I'll get into this a little bit more,
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sometimes teams are just bad. They're not automatically rusty. I
think that we automatically jump to, oh, this team's rusty.
They rested their starters the final week of the season,
and they might just be bad. If you look at
a normal NFL season, I'll take a team for instance here,
how about the Vikings. Right, look at the Vikings. So
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the Vikings have had a really good season. Vikings are
twelve and three, and if you look at their year,
it's been weird. Right where they got crushed by the
Cowboys forty to three. That was the largest win in
the Cowboys franchise history forty to three. Did the Vikings
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rest their starters the week before? No, No, they've played
all their starters. They were just awful against Dallas, right Like,
if you look at the Vikings again, So it's just
a couple of weeks ago they played the Colts. They
were trailing thirty three to nothing at home to the Colts. Okay,
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did they rest their starters the week before? No, they
were just bad. So I'm not sitting here telling you
that rust isn't a real thing. Yeah, certainly it can
be a part of a struggling team in the playoffs
or if they rested their starters at the end of
the regular season. Yet, there might be something to it.
But my point is we automatically jump to, oh, well,
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it's rust, gotta be rusted when the team just might
be bad. If they have all these weird results from
week to week during the regular season without rest occurring,
why is it automatically rust If they rest their guys
at the end of the year. It's just weird to
me how that goes. And if you compare it to
college football. We rarely play that card, and that's when
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you It would make a lot more sense to play
it if you haven't played for three weeks or more
than Yeah, I think you have a leg to stand on.
That might be rust. But we apply that to the
NFL way more than college football. It is just weird,
just weird how that whole thing plays out. Okay, with that,
we had the baton over here to mister Eddie Garcia,
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not a huge fan of messages within lyrics, just here
for a good time and here with an award winning
sports update. What should we know here, mister Garcia, By
the way, that goes for pretty much anything and not
not just you know, like anti government or police or whatever.
I don't it's not just that. It's like, you know,
any any any really message they want to send me.
I'm just pushing beliefs on to you here. I get it,
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I get it they I understand why they might want
to do that. But I don't know. I'm sure that
people out there they're like, oh yeah, speaking to me, man.
I wonder how many fans there and there are there
are a lot of fans that might have much different
political beliefs than rage who still love rage. It's just
funny how that works out sometimes, you know. Be sure
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from soccer Brazilian legend passing away at the age of
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eighty two after a battle with a cancer. That's how
I always said it, Eddie, I always said, Paley, and
some people go play it does why I do? I
think I believe it does have the accent on the either. Yeah, yeah,
but what a legend man eighty two years old, three
World Cups and really just an ambassador for the sport.
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You know. He was and a bunch of you know,
well wishes obviously, like MESSI putting out a photo of
him in play and uh ibope over there at France,
uh putting out a tweet there, but really just an
ambassador of the game. And he could have easily just
been full of himself, you know, like I'm the greatest,
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I'm the man like. But he seemed very very gracious
and generous and he'll absolutely be missed. How about this too,
Brazil with a declared a three day morning period with
play passing away, but legendary life career, the whole nine
yards man. Did you ever see the movie Victory? I
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didn't know. I haven't seen that. No, it's a World
War two movie with Sylvester Stallone in it, Michael Caine
and pile Is in it, and they it's about a
they play a soccer game against like the Nazis and
then they escape ops spoiler alert, They try to escape
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during the big during the big match, I try to
escape during the big match, and then tune in to
find out, says to Sylvester Stallonet, we can win hotch
because he wants to escape at halftime, and they want
to keep playing the game because they think they can
beat the Nazis. Wow, so we're talking major stakes over
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here in this one. Have you seen that one? Stallone
is like, hey man, I'd like to get out of
the prison camp f this game. How I gotta tell
you I was on stallone side on that one. I
just want to tune in for the conversation between stallone
and Weekend. But why don't we leave? How about that?
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He's like, how about if we live our lives not
in the prison camp and Nazi Germany? How about that?
He didn't say that, though he legitimate point right. It
was a decent It was a decent movie. By the way,
have you as where two soccer movies go? Yeah? What
was the wasn't it? Matt Damon was in a rugby movie? Yeah,
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with Uman, right right now, that was pretty good. What
was that one called? Do you remember? It was something
along those lines? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think
that's right. I think that's it. Okay, So I gotta
see Invictus and Victory, two different flicks right there. Okay,
By the way, did you see this. I don't know
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if you saw the minor brawl in an NBA game
the other night, Eddie, but between the Yeah, so is
the Magic and the Pistons. So yeah, I think it's
it's all no worries, man, But Mo goes over there
and he he clips Killian Hayes right like, just knocks
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him in the back into his own bench, and Hayes
didn't like it. So Hayes runs over as Wagner's back
is turned and kind just clubs him in the head,
you know, kind of half punches him, half foe arms
him in the headed to forearm shiver. Back in my
high school. There you go, that's exactly what it was.
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A forearm shiver to the back of the head, that is.
But that's what they called it. I know. I mean,
I know what it is when I when I hear
somebody say it. But it's a it's an odd term shiver.
Yeah it isn't. Yeah, but we roll with it. It
was a forearm shiver. So the suspensions have been handed
down by the NBA. So Killian Hayes with the forearm
shiver three games, Moe Wagner, who started this thing, two games,
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and then there are a bunch of other players that
got one game. Eight Magic players got a one game
suspension for leaving the bench in all that business. But
if you whittle it down to just the main suspects
over here, right, if Moe Wagner who starts this whole
thing and and hits Hayes into his own bench, but
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it's not anything crazy, he gets two games that kill you,
and Hayes with the forearms shiver to the back of
Wagner's head, he gets one extra game. He gets three
games for that. That's just weird to me. Don't you
think the forearm shiver should be double? Is it just me?
I don't understand the uh the logic behind those suspensions
being handed down by the NBA, but that's what they've
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decided to go with. A problem with what you're saying.
But I did think that Wagner, uh huh. I think
he sold that one a little bit, Like he like
acted like he was not cold, and like, oh, that's
a good point. He really did overacting. Give him an
extra game for bad acting. I say, he kind of
fell into the arms, like closed his eyes and just
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went live. Yeah, Like, well, I mean, I guess it's
possible he could have got It's like he was trying
to draw He's trying to draw a red card or something. Yes, exactly,
that's what I thought too. That's a good point. That's
absolutely what happened, no doubt. All right, feel free to
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Studios in for Ben Maller. It's Brian no. I thought
this is interesting, Eddie. The tweet from Adam Schefter, NFL insider,
and he wrote this was on Thursday, right, so on
the East coast we're into Friday, but he wrote on
this day, meaning Thursday. Tom Brady has spent exactly half
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of his life in the NFL. He was twenty two years,
eight months, thirteen days old when he was drafted. Today
is twenty two years, eight months, thirteen days since he
was drafted. So now that we're into Friday, most of
us aside from the West Coast, yet Tom Brady has
now spent more than half his life in the NFL,
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which is just freaking wild, man. But that's a long
time in the NFL, and the question remains not only
how will this season end, but will he be around
for next season? Will he be a Raider next See,
they're all ready rumors of Tom Brady the Raider. By
the way, how would you feel about that, Roberto, as
a diehard Raider fan, tom Brady suiting up in the
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silver and black, I don't know, man, I don't know.
It's kind of like the bron playing with the Lakers.
That oh wow, yeah. Yeah. Would it be like Korea
with your Dodgers that Helen, I'll screw that guy. Yeah yeah,
I don't know. Man. If if if Tom Brady was
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was playing at his normal level, I think you'd have
to take it. I would if they do that. I
wanted to drop the quarterback though, so the quarterback could
at least learn on the Brady. Yeah, yeah, I hear
you on that. Hey, let's go out to the militia here.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number. Jordan.
Let's go out to him. He's over in New York.
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Has a thought for his Jordan. What's up, man? You're
ad Fox Sports Radio? All right, Brian, how are you good?
Budd good? I wanted to go back to your point
about the division winner is getting a home field or
a home game. Um, keep in mind that to win
your division, you're playing six games against other teams in
your division. You're over record cowca, gainst people that you
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haven't played in your division, and other divisions don't have
those same games. To win your division, you have to
win majority of six games, and I think that gets
you to a point where you deserve to have that
home game. I just see it differently, man, And I
think now that it's been expanded to seventeen games, you
have even more non division games. I'm just in favor
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of if you win your division, fine, you get a
seat at the playoff table. I just don't think you
deserve a home playoff game on top of it, Like,
do you really believe that Tampa deserves a home game
more than Dallas right now? Like, I just don't see
how that can be the argument right now, you know,
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But that's what we're looking at. Onest opinion. I don't
think Tampa's gonna get that home game. I think Carolina
is going to take that division well, either one, whether
it's Carolina or Tampa. Do you think they've earned it
more than Dallas has with twelve wins? I don't think so. Well,
what do you take into account that Carolina gonna have.
If Carolina should get that division, they'll have beaten Tampa twice.
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They meet in New Orleans, and they'll have meeting in Atlanta. Yes,
I do think they deserved that home game. Well, hey man,
nothing nothing wrong with seeing it differently. I appreciate you
checking in. I just I don't see it the same.
You know, I'd like to see just uh N NFCAT
table and an AFC table. But then those teams still
keep their traditional matchups throughout the year and they're then
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their divisional matchups. But still the top uh seven teams
in each table get in, So you'd like to just
see divisions. Does not necessarily to have divisions anymore. Everybody
just kind of you know, one through sixteen, and I
still would like those matches those but I'm saying it's
still like like the teams in the AFC West played
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each other twice what I'm saying, and et cetera, and
every other division the same, so we still have similar schedules.
We just get rid of divisions. Okay, Um, look, man,
the NFC South is a cesspool. It's a terrible division.
I don't care whoever wins that division. It's like, Okay,
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you played Atlanta and New Orleans and Carolina. If you're Tampa,
big deal. If you emerge with the NFC table on
an ACY table, they wouldn't get in though, you know
what I'm saying, right the top seven I would be see,
that's the next phase of it, Like do you even
deserve to be in the playoffs if you win your division. Personally,
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I would say yes. I just dislike the additional benefit
of getting that home playoff game. If we're gonna have divisions,
I think you should get something for winning it, which
is getting to the playoffs. I just don't think you
get the extra, you know, home game. On top of that,
you had a sub five hundred record. That's crazy to me.
Let me go out to Poppy. He's over in San Diego, Poppy.
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What's going on? Man? These back picking with Poppy? Thank
you very much, Robretto. That was a nice, very introduction
our prey. I wanna tell everyone happier new year. Give
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him a big hug. What's you guys? The bet for
twenty twenty three rest and Peaches a legend Paylin. You
know everybody wants to hear picking with Poppy because I
give you guys winners last time. So we're gonna continue tomorrow. Tomorrow.
There's a lot of great games and what I'm seeing,
what I'm liking. It's the final in Mexico. It's called
the Sky and it's gonna be the Chievs of Wallajada
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against crusasul Ill the way, We're gonna take a bet.
Twenty dot Com Wallrada achievers are gonna win the Cup
working a cash guys. You guys are gonna have a
great New year. Have some money for next year twenty
twenty three. Guys, I like that, Poppy. My World Cup
addictions were terrible. Every bet I made didn't work out.
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I just I stopped betting that. So I'll take your
soccer advice. You know mine is horrible, but yeah, you
might be on the right track. Yeah, I'm on the
right track because I predicted on the Ben Maller Show
Argentina went in the World Cup and Week cash two. Enough.
How about football? Do you have any football predictions either
Week seventeen or the college bowl games? Poppy, Yeah, I do.
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I actually like Michigan. I think Michigan's gonna destroy TCO.
So that's gonna be an easy one right there. So
we're gonna go with Michigan and another um, you know,
for the ball for the Bowl game. For the Georgia.
I think Georgia's gonna win on that one. We just
have to go with Georgia and keep on going out
of the have to go with Georgia. Okay, all right, man,
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we'll see how that works out. Poppy. Thanks for checking in.
But we got a minute here. Let's hear from our guy,
Jed who fled. Let's get Jed who fled. He's normally concise,
you know, Jed. What's on your mind? Bud? How's everything
going on? My mind is generally, you know, like the
imagine the lottery, you know, the balls popping up and
down the machines. Is like tonight we got number forty seven.
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Did high on my cote as I was going, I
think in the betting pool of like Tom Brady high
he ended his career. I think Tom Brady has himself
ending in a like carted off injury, and I think
that's why he's playing so long. And I'm wondered, do
do you think rush the humulates on collars on colors?
Because I don't. I can call night after night after
night and get rushed here his teams as as as
it goes on and man, yeah, yeah, go ahead, Jed, Yeah,
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go ahead. How about Eddie with the introspective intelligence sounding
like I don't like messages in my music, you know,
spits back of like how that man in the mirror,
like cats in the cradle, you know, family time about
all gospel music? I saw a lot of Hank Williams,
you know, I mean Eddie. Eddy drives around listen to
elevator music and instrumentals? Is that? Is that what your
playlist is there, Eddie? Yes it is. Yeah, like that
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was on Eddie's list, Like he mentioned Master of Puppets,
Thanks for checking in. Jed who Flint? Master of Puppet
so damage Incorporated? Or no, no, no, what would it be?
It would be, uh, what's the instrumental? Or Oriyan is
the instrumental there? Or the call of Cutulu. Yes, he's
on something. The word deserve doesn't apply
Everybody. Brian No here in for Big Ben yet again.
Lots of good stuff here reacting to the Cowboys beating
the Titans, the undermanned Titans on Thursday Night football. Some
fun with bowl games. Apparently you don't pronounce the S
and cheese it kind of weird. Will we get to
that with the cheese It Bowl? And then also some
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other NFL stuff. Flats of NFL are the Chargers? Are
they the surprise team come playoff time? And then we
have some fun just general randomness with soup and music.
Of course always big topics. We have some fun with that.
Hope you enjoyed the podcast. Oh what's going on? I
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hope you're enjoying your Friday morning slash late Thursday night.
A lot going on here Thursday Night Football, the crazy
Bowl games, learn how to pronounce one of my favorite products.
Eventful evening very much so, get to a interesting ruling
in the seation as far as suspensions go. But let's
start it off here with some ball, shall we. We
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should be. How about them Cowboys. We'll start off with Dallas.
They gotta win, gotta win. It was a sleepy win,
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but a win. Nevertheless, they won by two touchdowns against
the Tennessee Titans, twenty seven to thirteen. And it was
not picturesque, it was not a work of art. It
was against the team that was resting a bunch of
their starters. No Derek Henry for the Titans, no Jeffrey
Simmons for Tennessee, among others. But a win is a win.
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Dallas moves on gets the w Dalton Schultz with two
touchdown grabs. The tight end over there for the Titans,
with a little uh. It's not a neck role, not
like a neck brace. He's got like the uh. I
don't even know how to explain it. It's like this
little neck thing. It might help with balance. I don't know.
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I gotta do a deep dive into that. I don't
know what what's going on there, but I think it's
for balance. Dalton Schultz with two touchdown catches. The Cowboys
wearing their Arctic cowboy white uniform on Thursday night football.
That's right, that's what they called it. Dallas wore their
Arctic Cowboy unis and they got to win. Now. Reason
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for concern here going forward, because it's not about beating
an undermanned Titans team on Thursday Night football. It's about
spinning this thing forward for Dallas, and I thought there
were a lot of reasons for concern over here with
the Dallas Cowboys. Concern number one, Dak Prescott continues to
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turn the football over two interceptions. God to protect the
football better, God to protect the ball better. With the
playoffs right around the corner. Now. One interception was not
his fault at all, bounced off one of his backup
tight ends. It's a great pass, the tight end just
bobbled the ball led to a pick. Not his fault whatsoever.
But the other interception was completely Dak Prescott's fault. I
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don't know what he was doing through it. Right to
Kevin Bayer, the stud safety for the Titans, just not good.
It's okay against a team like the Titans, you're gonna
get away with that, but come playoff time, he's just
gotta protect the ball better. He's got five games with
multiple interceptions. This season, that's gotta be a whole lot better.
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And he is trending in the wrong direction. Now. Reason
for concern number two, Tyler Beatish. Let's talk some offensive linemen,
shall we here, Let's get knee deep. So Dallas's center
was carted off the field. He got rolled up on.
Happens all the time with offensive lineman and it's unfortunate,
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but it's all we is a bad sign when your
teammates immediately looked to the sideline and starts motioning the
trainers to get on the field and help out this
poor guy. Get over come on, and that's what happened.
He was carted off the field, didn't return. That's a
big deal because they had to completely rearrange their offensive line.
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Dallas moved Connor McGovern, he kicked over to center, you
had Tyler Smith, he kicked over to guard, and then
you brought in the forty year old Jason Peters to
play left tackle. That's a lot of rearranging right there.
And by the way, hats off to Jason Peters at
forty years old, still getting it done as an offensive
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tackle in the NFL. That is awesome right there. But
if Beardish is out if he's missing significant time. I
just rattled off all the rearranging that had to take place.
That is not a good situation for Dallas moving forward
in the playoffs if they're missing their center. Reason for
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concern Number three, Micah Parsons had a cast on his hand.
He had the big old club cast. He's wearing that
for a reason, right the hand. All the digits that
not everything is is bien over there, right, not everything
buano over there for our guy, Mica Parsons. So there
were reasons for concern when you look forward when the
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Cowboys are in the playoffs and they're playing the big boys.
Not so much about Thursday night against the Titans. It's
about looking forward. I'm probably no in for Big Ben
Maller here on Fox Sports Radio. Now, what is truly
in bad form here? I started off with the winning
locker room. That is not how Ben typically gets down
thinks the better story is in the losing locker room.
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I rearrange the order over here, the Cowboys rearranging their
offensive line. I'm rearranging the order. Let's get to the
losing lit room right here. Now, a couple of interesting
things with the Tennessee Titans so it's their QB situation.
They signed Joshua Dobbs eight days before Thursday Night Football.
They signed the guy on December twenty, first off the
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Lions practice squad, and he started for the Titans. That
was his first ever NFL start. He hadn't played in
a game before Thursday Night against the Cowboys. The last
game he played was in Week seventeen of the twenty
twenty season, So we're tucking two years ago. This guy
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played a game in the NFL, and yet he was
starting on Thursday Night. Not a ringing endorsement for the
rookie Malik Willis. And so the question becomes this for
the Titans, who starts next week? The division is on
the line. It's gonna be Titans at Jags. Should be
a ratings bonanza over the Titans at Jags for the
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AFC South. And this week didn't matter whatsoever. It all
comes down to next week. So they started josh Dobbs,
and the real question becomes next week matters. Next week
is your season on the line. Who is behind center?
Who are you starting? Is it the rook Malik Willis
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or is it josh Dobbs who was signed eight days ago.
It's gonna be Josh Dobbs. I'd be surprised if it wasn't.
He played pretty well all things considered. Only been with
the team for eight days, and that was his first
ever NFL start, and there was no Derreck Henry. The
defense was under man like. That was not too bad.
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Throwing for two hundred thirty two yards, a touchdown and
an interception. Not the worst ever. And you compared that
to Malik Willis. So Malik Willis the third round rookie.
He started three games this season, and he hasn't cracked
a hundred yards passing in any of those games. I'm
not asking for a two hundred fifty yards or something.
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We're just talking about a hundred. Just get to triple digits.
He hasn't done it in any game. He's completing just
a smidge over fifty percent of his passes, which is awful.
And in those three games he's thrown for two hundred
seventy six yards and three interceptions. He has not been
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good at all throwing the football. Now, he has been
able to run the ball pretty well. He's gained one
hundred and twenty three yards on the ground and he's
rushed for a touchdown, But I think it's gonna be
Josh Dobbs. I think you're gonna roll with Dobbs. That
seemed to be the general feeling on Prime Video. Ryan Fitzpatrick,
former NFL quarterback. He was asked a question, you start
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Dobbs next week, and he was emphatic, he's absolutely, absolutely,
without a question. I don't know if it was as
much a ringing endorsement of Josh Dobbs or just a
lack of belief in Malik Willis, or a cocktail of both,
you know, but I think that's what's going to happen
with the Tennessee Titans. One other thing that applies more
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to the league than just the Tennessee Titans. How about this,
So the Titans, they are currently in eleventh place in
the AFC. They're number eleven in the AFC. If they
beat Jacksonville next week, they move all the way up
to number four, they'd be the four seed in the playoffs.
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I don't know about you, guys, but I've griped about
this for years. I just don't think it makes sense
for a division winner to get an automatic home game.
If Tennessee jumps from eleven to number seven. Let's say
they've got the worst record of all the playoff teams, well,
then you should be seated the lowest. That's how I see.
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I don't know why you get the extra cherry on top,
which is a significant sherry by the way, right, getting
a home game in the playoffs is a big deal.
I don't think you should get that just because you
won your division. I mean, really, look at the standings here,
and I'll rattle them off for you in case you
don't happen to be looking at the standings right now.
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You know, if you look at the AFC South winner,
best case scenario Jacksonville, let's say they win their last
two games, Jacksonville would be nine and eight. Like, they're
not gonna have a better record. The Ravens already have
ten wins, you know, the Chargers already have nine wins.
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Chances are they win one of their two remaining games
against the Rams and Broncos. Right, so there are gonna
be multiple teams with better records than Jacksonville. That's just
odd to me. If you look at the NFC, it
stands out even more. The Cowboys who just won on
Thursday night, they are twelve and four, and right now
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they're a five seed. They're looking up at the four seed,
which is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Like the Cowboys, Even
if Tampa wins on Sunday against Carolina, Tampa would be
eight and eight. Even if Tampa wins, the Cowboys would
still have four more wins this season, which is more impressive.
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Is it Dallas being twelve and four and, by the way,
having an Eagles team who's thirteen and two? The Giants
and Commanders are currently in the playoffs. Everybody in their
division is currently in the playoffs? Or is it Tampa
leading their cesspool of a division. It's a joke that
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Tampa would get a home playoff game. I don't know
why the NFL continues to do this. It's just the
way it's always been done. That doesn't mean it makes
sense to continue to do it going forward. If it
was the other way. Think about this, if it was
the other way, if you, let's say you get a
playoff berth, if you win your division, okay, you at
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least get into the playoff field. But then we do
the seating based on record. We don't care if you're
a non division winner or a division winner. We're just
seating you based on your record. If that's the way
it's always been done, would it make any sense whatsoever
to change it to what it actually is now. Imagine
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if we just seated everybody based on their record top
to bottom, and somebody came along and said, you know what,
why don't we change things up? Why don't we have
the four division winners, why don't we have those teams
host these playoff games? And then the non division winners, well,
they're the wild cards, and we just seed them below
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the division winners. And someone raised their hand be like,
even if, like you know, the wild card team has
four more wins than the division winner, Like, even then, yeah,
even then, we'd still do it that way. You'd look
at that person and be like, that is stupid. That
doesn't make sense, Like what I think. You just get
used to the way things are, and you're like, well,
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you know, division winner, you get a home playoff game.
It's just amazing to me that the Titans, who are
seven and nine right now, if they win next week
to improve to eight and nine, they're a four seed,
no questions asked, and they host a playoff game. That's
amazing to me. I wish that would change. I would
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change that immediately. That would be I like making New
Year's resolutions for other people or leagues or whatever. You know.
I make a couple of my own, but it's more
fun to make resolutions for others, you know. That's one
resolution I would have for the NFL. Change this weird
seeding process. If you win your division, cool, you're in
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the playoffs. That doesn't mean you automatically get a home
playoff game. You have to earn that by I don't know, oh,
winning games right, winning more than the other teams who
are in the playoffs. If you do that, then yeah,
then you earn your home playoff game. New Year's resolution
for the NFL, make that happen, Okay, eight seven seven
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seven nine nine six sixty three six nine. Also on
Twitter at the No Show. You can always reach me
there if you have any New Year's resolutions for other people.
I'm all ears. I want to hear that. I think
that could be fun. Some very creative people in the
Maller militia, so you know, I'm sure there are going
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to be some creative answers. I feel like participating in
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your humble sidekick, the voice of reason. You're announcer guy.
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I'm at Eddie on Fox. There's an old school newspaper
report on the act. Talk like Bess great great impression
of the great Myron Cope, Pittsburgh newspaper reporter and Steeler's
announcer talked really funny at all I from Thetirerat dot Com.
Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Brian No. What a great impression, Eddie.
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I just said that. Yeah, um, are you a System
of a down fan there, Eddie? Where do you feel
about How do you feel about I like him? Yeah?
I did too. It's weird. It's uh, I don't know
how to explain it. Man. It's kind of like if
you were to watch a movie and there are a
handful the scenes that you really like, and then there's
a scene where you're like, it's not the greatest, not
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my favorite, but overall, I still like the movie. That's
how I feel about System. You know, they've got some
great songs and they just have random stuff going on. Man,
there's a random band over there. Are you Are you
into song lyrics? Oh? Yeah, absolutely? Yeah, okay you not
so much? No, No, not into song lyrics for example?
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Uh like some of the messages like rage against the machine,
right right, sure, I'm not a fan of them because
of that. I'm just hear I just like, uh, you
know the music and you know the lyrics and not
the lyrics but the vocals, right right? No, I hear you. Yeah,
I get that lyrics don't really. I mean sometimes Eddie's
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a fan of the man. Well, if if my option
is that or the Looters, then yes, I guess I
would have to come down on that side, to be
honest with you. But I don't know any system lyrics
that mentioned looters. Okay, I get what you're saying. Though
you're here for a good time and not watching like
the news channel or something, is what you're really getting at.
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I don't. I don't, I'm not. I don't. I don't
need Uh, I'm trying to think of his name is
a surge. What's his name? Roberto? Yeah, I don't need
that dude to tell me, you know what I should
be thinking, and you know, or anyone else. Frankly, yeah,
I'll think for myself. But thank you. No interesting right there.
I didn't know that's how you felt. But uh, yeah,
I hear you. I hear you to an extent on that.
How about this Eddie. The Bowl games going on the
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Cheese It Bowl. Very good game. By the way, Florida
State beat Oklahoma thirty five thirty two bunch of yards
in that game, um and Florida State got the last
field goal field goal in the final minute over there
entertaining game. But during the game, dan Orlovsky said this
where he said it's actually improper to use an s
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at the end of cheese it like if you were
to make it plural, if you're to say, hey, you
want some cheese, it's over here, that would technically be wrong.
They want you to pronounce it just cheese it, like
that's the name. You never put an S on there. Now,
I ask you, does it feel unnatural? Because it does
to me to not add the S. Right, you add
the S on that, don't you? Of course, what do
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you do if you're talking, you know, I mean he's
not saying that you should do that. If you're if
you're saying I would like some cheese, it's you gotta
say cheese it. Yeah, apparently that's the proper way, is yeah, right,
it's it sounds like you have to use a very
distinguished accent, like I would like some cheese. It's you know,
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you have to project by saying that. It seems way
too fancy. Yeah, I think the S is fine. I
think you had the S over there, no worries. I
also like the Nightcap, Washington over Texas, Levin wins and
Year one for Kalin debor not a bad start with
you dub over there, And I felt bad for Quinn
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Yours and his Mullet. He had a great game through
for a bunch of yards through for over three fifty,
but a couple of drop passes. It was just wild, man,
just a wild game. But man, the bull season has
been really good. It's been the last couple of nights
I've filled in for Ben Maller, and we've had some
really good college games. And we got a lot more
like five on Friday, and this is the home stretch. Man.
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We got the playoff games coming up on Saturday. And
it's always weird, you know, I gotta get to this
rest versus rust thing because I never really put all
of this together where you think about it. In the NFL,
it's always that question of, hey, if you have your
playoff spot locked up, do you rest your guys at
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the end of the regular season and risk a little
bit of rustiness? You know, if you look at college football,
if you think about the playoff teams, they haven't played
in weeks, Like the championship games were a long time ago,
where when you had TCU against Kansas State and Michigan's
play in Iowa and all that all that business right,
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Ohio State was on their couches watching everybody play on
Championship Saturday. Right, they weren't even involved. But it's been weeks.
And what's funny is you rarely hear, oh, well, this
team's just rusty. When it comes to college bowl games,
like the major games, take the playoff games that we'll
see on Saturday weeks in between when they play, you
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rarely hear that. But man, you hear that all the time.
In the NFL. Is if a team plays badly, oh
they're they're rusty. They should have played in Week eighteen
and knocked off some of the rust. It's just funny
how it's viewed that way. But if you think about
the NFL, and I'll get into this a little bit more,
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sometimes teams are just bad. They're not automatically rusty. I
think that we automatically jump to, oh, this team's rusty.
They rested their starters the final week of the season,
and they might just be bad. If you look at
a normal NFL season, I'll take a team for instance here,
how about the Vikings. Right, look at the Vikings. So
(21:20):
the Vikings have had a really good season. Vikings are
twelve and three, and if you look at their year,
it's been weird. Right where they got crushed by the
Cowboys forty to three. That was the largest win in
the Cowboys franchise history forty to three. Did the Vikings
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rest their starters the week before? No, No, they've played
all their starters. They were just awful against Dallas, right Like,
if you look at the Vikings again, So it's just
a couple of weeks ago they played the Colts. They
were trailing thirty three to nothing at home to the Colts. Okay,
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did they rest their starters the week before? No, they
were just bad. So I'm not sitting here telling you
that rust isn't a real thing. Yeah, certainly it can
be a part of a struggling team in the playoffs
or if they rested their starters at the end of
the regular season. Yet, there might be something to it.
But my point is we automatically jump to, oh, well,
(22:25):
it's rust, gotta be rusted when the team just might
be bad. If they have all these weird results from
week to week during the regular season without rest occurring,
why is it automatically rust If they rest their guys
at the end of the year. It's just weird to
me how that goes. And if you compare it to
college football. We rarely play that card, and that's when
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you It would make a lot more sense to play
it if you haven't played for three weeks or more
than Yeah, I think you have a leg to stand on.
That might be rust. But we apply that to the
NFL way more than college football. It is just weird,
just weird how that whole thing plays out. Okay, with that,
we had the baton over here to mister Eddie Garcia,
(23:12):
not a huge fan of messages within lyrics, just here
for a good time and here with an award winning
sports update. What should we know here, mister Garcia, By
the way, that goes for pretty much anything and not
not just you know, like anti government or police or whatever.
I don't it's not just that. It's like, you know,
any any any really message they want to send me.
I'm just pushing beliefs on to you here. I get it,
(23:34):
I get it they I understand why they might want
to do that. But I don't know. I'm sure that
people out there they're like, oh yeah, speaking to me, man.
I wonder how many fans there and there are there
are a lot of fans that might have much different
political beliefs than rage who still love rage. It's just
funny how that works out sometimes, you know. Be sure
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from soccer Brazilian legend passing away at the age of
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eighty two after a battle with a cancer. That's how
I always said it, Eddie, I always said, Paley, and
some people go play it does why I do? I
think I believe it does have the accent on the either. Yeah, yeah,
but what a legend man eighty two years old, three
World Cups and really just an ambassador for the sport.
(25:00):
You know. He was and a bunch of you know,
well wishes obviously, like MESSI putting out a photo of
him in play and uh ibope over there at France,
uh putting out a tweet there, but really just an
ambassador of the game. And he could have easily just
been full of himself, you know, like I'm the greatest,
(25:20):
I'm the man like. But he seemed very very gracious
and generous and he'll absolutely be missed. How about this too,
Brazil with a declared a three day morning period with
play passing away, but legendary life career, the whole nine
yards man. Did you ever see the movie Victory? I
(25:42):
didn't know. I haven't seen that. No, it's a World
War two movie with Sylvester Stallone in it, Michael Caine
and pile Is in it, and they it's about a
they play a soccer game against like the Nazis and
then they escape ops spoiler alert, They try to escape
(26:03):
during the big during the big match, I try to
escape during the big match, and then tune in to
find out, says to Sylvester Stallonet, we can win hotch
because he wants to escape at halftime, and they want
to keep playing the game because they think they can
beat the Nazis. Wow, so we're talking major stakes over
(26:25):
here in this one. Have you seen that one? Stallone
is like, hey man, I'd like to get out of
the prison camp f this game. How I gotta tell
you I was on stallone side on that one. I
just want to tune in for the conversation between stallone
and Weekend. But why don't we leave? How about that?
(26:46):
He's like, how about if we live our lives not
in the prison camp and Nazi Germany? How about that?
He didn't say that, though he legitimate point right. It
was a decent It was a decent movie. By the way,
have you as where two soccer movies go? Yeah? What
was the wasn't it? Matt Damon was in a rugby movie? Yeah,
(27:07):
with Uman, right right now, that was pretty good. What
was that one called? Do you remember? It was something
along those lines? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think
that's right. I think that's it. Okay, So I gotta
see Invictus and Victory, two different flicks right there. Okay,
By the way, did you see this. I don't know
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if you saw the minor brawl in an NBA game
the other night, Eddie, but between the Yeah, so is
the Magic and the Pistons. So yeah, I think it's
it's all no worries, man, But Mo goes over there
and he he clips Killian Hayes right like, just knocks
(27:50):
him in the back into his own bench, and Hayes
didn't like it. So Hayes runs over as Wagner's back
is turned and kind just clubs him in the head,
you know, kind of half punches him, half foe arms
him in the headed to forearm shiver. Back in my
high school. There you go, that's exactly what it was.
(28:11):
A forearm shiver to the back of the head, that is.
But that's what they called it. I know. I mean,
I know what it is when I when I hear
somebody say it. But it's a it's an odd term shiver.
Yeah it isn't. Yeah, but we roll with it. It
was a forearm shiver. So the suspensions have been handed
down by the NBA. So Killian Hayes with the forearm
shiver three games, Moe Wagner, who started this thing, two games,
(28:37):
and then there are a bunch of other players that
got one game. Eight Magic players got a one game
suspension for leaving the bench in all that business. But
if you whittle it down to just the main suspects
over here, right, if Moe Wagner who starts this whole
thing and and hits Hayes into his own bench, but
(28:57):
it's not anything crazy, he gets two games that kill you,
and Hayes with the forearms shiver to the back of
Wagner's head, he gets one extra game. He gets three
games for that. That's just weird to me. Don't you
think the forearm shiver should be double? Is it just me?
I don't understand the uh the logic behind those suspensions
being handed down by the NBA, but that's what they've
(29:19):
decided to go with. A problem with what you're saying.
But I did think that Wagner, uh huh. I think
he sold that one a little bit, Like he like
acted like he was not cold, and like, oh, that's
a good point. He really did overacting. Give him an
extra game for bad acting. I say, he kind of
fell into the arms, like closed his eyes and just
(29:41):
went live. Yeah, Like, well, I mean, I guess it's
possible he could have got It's like he was trying
to draw He's trying to draw a red card or something. Yes, exactly,
that's what I thought too. That's a good point. That's
absolutely what happened, no doubt. All right, feel free to
check in. Mallard Militia eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox is your phone number always available for you at
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l I from the tireat dot com. Fox Sports Radio
Studios in for Ben Maller. It's Brian no. I thought
this is interesting, Eddie. The tweet from Adam Schefter, NFL insider,
and he wrote this was on Thursday, right, so on
the East coast we're into Friday, but he wrote on
this day, meaning Thursday. Tom Brady has spent exactly half
(31:08):
of his life in the NFL. He was twenty two years,
eight months, thirteen days old when he was drafted. Today
is twenty two years, eight months, thirteen days since he
was drafted. So now that we're into Friday, most of
us aside from the West Coast, yet Tom Brady has
now spent more than half his life in the NFL,
(31:30):
which is just freaking wild, man. But that's a long
time in the NFL, and the question remains not only
how will this season end, but will he be around
for next season? Will he be a Raider next See,
they're all ready rumors of Tom Brady the Raider. By
the way, how would you feel about that, Roberto, as
a diehard Raider fan, tom Brady suiting up in the
(31:54):
silver and black, I don't know, man, I don't know.
It's kind of like the bron playing with the Lakers.
That oh wow, yeah. Yeah. Would it be like Korea
with your Dodgers that Helen, I'll screw that guy. Yeah yeah,
I don't know. Man. If if if Tom Brady was
(32:16):
was playing at his normal level, I think you'd have
to take it. I would if they do that. I
wanted to drop the quarterback though, so the quarterback could
at least learn on the Brady. Yeah, yeah, I hear
you on that. Hey, let's go out to the militia here.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number. Jordan.
Let's go out to him. He's over in New York.
(32:36):
Has a thought for his Jordan. What's up, man? You're
ad Fox Sports Radio? All right, Brian, how are you good?
Budd good? I wanted to go back to your point
about the division winner is getting a home field or
a home game. Um, keep in mind that to win
your division, you're playing six games against other teams in
your division. You're over record cowca, gainst people that you
(33:01):
haven't played in your division, and other divisions don't have
those same games. To win your division, you have to
win majority of six games, and I think that gets
you to a point where you deserve to have that
home game. I just see it differently, man, And I
think now that it's been expanded to seventeen games, you
have even more non division games. I'm just in favor
(33:25):
of if you win your division, fine, you get a
seat at the playoff table. I just don't think you
deserve a home playoff game on top of it, Like,
do you really believe that Tampa deserves a home game
more than Dallas right now? Like, I just don't see
how that can be the argument right now, you know,
(33:46):
But that's what we're looking at. Onest opinion. I don't
think Tampa's gonna get that home game. I think Carolina
is going to take that division well, either one, whether
it's Carolina or Tampa. Do you think they've earned it
more than Dallas has with twelve wins? I don't think so. Well,
what do you take into account that Carolina gonna have.
If Carolina should get that division, they'll have beaten Tampa twice.
(34:07):
They meet in New Orleans, and they'll have meeting in Atlanta. Yes,
I do think they deserved that home game. Well, hey man,
nothing nothing wrong with seeing it differently. I appreciate you
checking in. I just I don't see it the same.
You know, I'd like to see just uh N NFCAT
table and an AFC table. But then those teams still
keep their traditional matchups throughout the year and they're then
(34:30):
their divisional matchups. But still the top uh seven teams
in each table get in, So you'd like to just
see divisions. Does not necessarily to have divisions anymore. Everybody
just kind of you know, one through sixteen, and I
still would like those matches those but I'm saying it's
still like like the teams in the AFC West played
(34:52):
each other twice what I'm saying, and et cetera, and
every other division the same, so we still have similar schedules.
We just get rid of divisions. Okay, Um, look, man,
the NFC South is a cesspool. It's a terrible division.
I don't care whoever wins that division. It's like, Okay,
(35:12):
you played Atlanta and New Orleans and Carolina. If you're Tampa,
big deal. If you emerge with the NFC table on
an ACY table, they wouldn't get in though, you know
what I'm saying, right the top seven I would be see,
that's the next phase of it, Like do you even
deserve to be in the playoffs if you win your division. Personally,
(35:34):
I would say yes. I just dislike the additional benefit
of getting that home playoff game. If we're gonna have divisions,
I think you should get something for winning it, which
is getting to the playoffs. I just don't think you
get the extra, you know, home game. On top of that,
you had a sub five hundred record. That's crazy to me.
Let me go out to Poppy. He's over in San Diego, Poppy.
(35:57):
What's going on? Man? These back picking with Poppy? Thank
you very much, Robretto. That was a nice, very introduction
our prey. I wanna tell everyone happier new year. Give
(36:18):
him a big hug. What's you guys? The bet for
twenty twenty three rest and Peaches a legend Paylin. You
know everybody wants to hear picking with Poppy because I
give you guys winners last time. So we're gonna continue tomorrow. Tomorrow.
There's a lot of great games and what I'm seeing,
what I'm liking. It's the final in Mexico. It's called
the Sky and it's gonna be the Chievs of Wallajada
(36:42):
against crusasul Ill the way, We're gonna take a bet.
Twenty dot Com Wallrada achievers are gonna win the Cup
working a cash guys. You guys are gonna have a
great New year. Have some money for next year twenty
twenty three. Guys, I like that, Poppy. My World Cup
addictions were terrible. Every bet I made didn't work out.
(37:03):
I just I stopped betting that. So I'll take your
soccer advice. You know mine is horrible, but yeah, you
might be on the right track. Yeah, I'm on the
right track because I predicted on the Ben Maller Show
Argentina went in the World Cup and Week cash two. Enough.
How about football? Do you have any football predictions either
Week seventeen or the college bowl games? Poppy, Yeah, I do.
(37:27):
I actually like Michigan. I think Michigan's gonna destroy TCO.
So that's gonna be an easy one right there. So
we're gonna go with Michigan and another um, you know,
for the ball for the Bowl game. For the Georgia.
I think Georgia's gonna win on that one. We just
have to go with Georgia and keep on going out
of the have to go with Georgia. Okay, all right, man,
(37:49):
we'll see how that works out. Poppy. Thanks for checking in.
But we got a minute here. Let's hear from our guy,
Jed who fled. Let's get Jed who fled. He's normally concise,
you know, Jed. What's on your mind? Bud? How's everything
going on? My mind is generally, you know, like the
imagine the lottery, you know, the balls popping up and
down the machines. Is like tonight we got number forty seven.
(38:09):
Did high on my cote as I was going, I
think in the betting pool of like Tom Brady high
he ended his career. I think Tom Brady has himself
ending in a like carted off injury, and I think
that's why he's playing so long. And I'm wondered, do
do you think rush the humulates on collars on colors?
Because I don't. I can call night after night after
night and get rushed here his teams as as as
it goes on and man, yeah, yeah, go ahead, Jed, Yeah,
(38:34):
go ahead. How about Eddie with the introspective intelligence sounding
like I don't like messages in my music, you know,
spits back of like how that man in the mirror,
like cats in the cradle, you know, family time about
all gospel music? I saw a lot of Hank Williams,
you know, I mean Eddie. Eddy drives around listen to
elevator music and instrumentals? Is that? Is that what your
playlist is there, Eddie? Yes it is. Yeah, like that
(38:57):
was on Eddie's list, Like he mentioned Master of Puppets,
Thanks for checking in. Jed who Flint? Master of Puppet
so damage Incorporated? Or no, no, no, what would it be?
It would be, uh, what's the instrumental? Or Oriyan is
the instrumental there? Or the call of Cutulu. Yes, he's
on something. The word deserve doesn't apply
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