Hour 1 - Big City Bound

Ben Maller talks about Aaron Rodgers confirming that he wants to play for the New York Jets, if he is worth the risk as he turns 40 before the ends of the season, NHL Puck'em, and much more!

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it is a newby night. Hooray for newby night. Holay
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You give us ten minutes, we'll give you a new

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caller unless we don't. But Aaron Rogers he has spoken,
What did you make of Aaron Rodgers confirming that he
would like to play for the Jets that the rumor
is based in reality? Mister Rogers will turn forty years
old before the end of the twenty twenty three season
and a young man's game. Is he worth the risk?

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And what leverage does Green Bay have serious question that's
supposed to that they're they're not sure they want to
go forward, that they will eventually trade Rogers allegedly, but
they're dragging their feet. So what is that all about.
We'll talk about that and more right now in our
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We're spending a couple of good minutes with us. Here
is our lead coming from the cliffhanger. It is the
obligatory Mallard monologue on Aaron Rogers. Relax, did Aaron Rodgers
announce his retirement from the NFL. No, he did not,

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but he has spoken the highly anticipated from NFL News
Junkies appearance on the YouTube about his career path. Now,
if you did not here, did not see the clip,
maybe not, let me give you the thumbnail recap. Here
we heard Aaron Rodgers, in all his glory there confirm

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that he intends to play for the Jets this season,
although he indicated that he was like retired. But rather
than me just read you quotes aimlessly blabbing into the microphone,
we have Aaron Rodgers in his own words. I know
you're dying to hear this. You've been waiting all day
to hear this. This is so amazing. Let's go to
the audio tape. Here's Aaron Rodgers at this point, as

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I said, here, you know, I think since Friday, I
made it clear that my intention was to play, and
my intention was to play for the New York Jets,
and I haven't been holding anything up at this point.
It's been compensation that the packers are trying to get
for me and kind of taking their heels in. All right,
So Rodgers here, Mom, with his buddy, his bestie Pat

(03:49):
McAfee there and said, hey, I've agreed. It's up to
the Packers. Now. The two teams are still working out
the particulars of a trade. Rogers also took some shots
at the NFL insider crowd, also the possibility that Rogers
is going to have to move some numbers around, move
a few decimal points and all that to restructure his contract.

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But listen to Rogers unload on the pre eminent NFL insider,
Adam Schefter, as Rogers does not like the work of
the NFL pundit. Ask Schefter what I texted him when
he somehow got my number and texted me. You know,
I didn't respond to Diana Rassinia I think her name is,
But like I would say the same thing that I've

(04:33):
told Cheffie, lose my number. I'll speak for myself. There
you go. I don't need you. Yes, all right, that'll
go well with you. The media. One thing we've learned
over the last few years, when you make enemies with
the media, that does not come back to bite you
in the assid does not. All right, So let us
discuss the question, what did you make of the overall

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appearance by Aaron Rodgers confirming that he wants to play
for the Jets. So I've got hound dinner, reservations and
tar heels, and we will tie all of these things
together and we are going to make a nice, wellnessed
retreat because I'm guessing Rodgers will go back on one
of those now that he's appeared and said he wants

(05:18):
to play for the Jets. But this was the word
is anti climactic? Is the word right? Anti climactic? So
we behind these microphones and you there, me here. We
have been documenting in Days of our Lives soap opera
like drama for days, weeks, months, and really years, because

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this has been going on for a couple of years
around the clock, in depth team coverage. Aaron Rodgers goes
to a hippie hodown. We break it down frame by
frame because we're losers and that's what we do. But
you know, he does a podcast with some person I've
never heard of who's into hot yoga. Boom. We got
a story there, and this in our world, this qualifies

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his big news is anti climactic. But in this part
of the audio jungle, so now Rogers has rubber stamped
the Jets Suck, Suck, suck. He can hang out with
Fireman Ed Whoopedie, Damn Dow And I believe he is
going to enjoy the New York, New Jersey tri state

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experience there. And I'll tell you why, because he's a hound,
not a hound dog, he's a publicity hound, and there
is good hunting in the Big Apple. Aaron Rodgers has
played the Wisconsin media like a fiddle. Imagine what he's
gonna do when he gets to poke the media machine

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in the axis of evil in the Big Apple that
watched the reporting cockroaches scurry around because he's gonna have
a tabloid paying attention to him all the time. And
all the tabloids would pay attention to Rodgers even in Wisconsin.
But it's a whole frontball game when you're playing in
that area. So win, lose, or draw. So it's easier

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if Rogers is successful, but he's gonna be happy. He'll
be as happy as a flea in a doghouse. Right.
If the Jets win, then Rogers is the king. If
the Jets lose or if he's average, Rogers can still
use his daily media availability and have they have the

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reporters like putty in his hands, like he know, he's
admitted to it. He's sent stuff out and any he
sits back and watches how everyone dissects everything that he
says and has a great time and all that. Now
part two of this, mister Rogers neighborhood will be turning
forty years old. Oh my god, you're swashed up at

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forty before the end of the next NFL season. So
thumbs up or thumbs down to this being worth the
risk for the Jets. So I'm going to thumbs up.
There's a couple of reasons. The main reason is you
have the other option, which is Zach Wilson, who is
a boone doggle We saw Zach Wilson. He went out

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there and has crapped his pants when given the opportunity
to be the man in Jersey. And so Rogers is
certainly not perfect, and in fact, he showed that he
has some weak knees last year. He played like Smelly
Ranson rotting food with cream Bay for stretches last season

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and overall, if you look at his body at work,
he was ranked seventeenth in the NFL. He had a
passer rating of around ninety a little over ninety. And
the big tell on how weak Rogers was and how
he was so dependent on Davante Adams, who was not
there last year, is the yards per pass attempt and

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Rogers ranked twenty first. He was a yard below average
average is seven and he was at six arts per tempt. Now, nevertheless,
when you look at risk assessment, it's all about risk assessment.
This is a calculated risk. Even if this turns out
to be a toxic relationship, Rogers is going to put

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the Jets back on the map, meaning that they'll get
a lot of those prime time TV games and it'll
be all about the story within the story with Aaron Rodgers,
and the Jets will be back into relevancy. Only time
the Green team has mattered over the last few years
has been during the NFL Draft. And now they have

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a dinner reservation. They can have a nice meal at
the cool kids table. And they're still way behind the
top teams in the AFC. The Jets with plenty of
roster moves still to be made. But you look at
the very top of the totem pole Kansas City, Cincinnati
and Buffalo one, two and three, and then after that

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it's a jumbled mask with the Dolphins and the Charger
and you could you're gonna go crazy put Jacksonville in
the mixed teams like that, but you expect, you expect
to have the Jets shoved down your throat because you've
got the head coach, Robert Salo, who's like a Tony Robbins,
want to be motivational speaker, a guy. And then you've
got Rogers, who's drinking the ayahuasca. But now he's one

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of the higher end employees for big Pharma. He's now
working for Johnson and Johnson they'll be the ones cutting
his check. And now the last word here, So Aaron
Rodgers one of the things that he said, amo of
the things, but he said, the packers are digging in
their heels in trade talk. So what leverage does green
Bay have to hold up the trade? I got an

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email from a passionate packer stockholder who said that he
did not want the Green Bay packers to capitulate, did
not want them to give in to the trade, and
that they should hold out for multiple first round picks
and all that. But when you take three steps back,
and if you think about this, take the emotion we
think about logic, I have no skin in the game.

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I'm not a Packer fan, I'm a jetment. But when
you think about logically, the Packers, they've already announced publicly
they're ready for the Jordan Love screen test. They are
giving him the keys to the cheesehead factory. Check right,
and go hang out the Cheesecastle and Kenosha if he wants.
The Jets are the only team that we know of

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that had any real interest in Aaron Rodgers, and Rogers
has now given his blessing to play for the Jets.
So you check all those boxes, and that includes the
salarycap sorcery to make the numbers fit. So what does
it all mean? You got the this plus this plus
this equals what it equals. The Packers only leverage is

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spinning Luki's in the wind, running the Tar Hills four
corner offense, using stall techs, playing the old game back
checket right. If if you look at this way, the
only option the Packers have to try to shake some
more out of the Jets would be to see the
Jets get a little nervous and they're like, wow, this
is not right, and then the Jets up the ante

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like the Jets. We get it. They're all horny to
have Aaron Rodgers on their team. They want to make
it happen and they would like to welcome Aaron Rodgers,
have a big gala, a parade down the hero of
Champions and the franchise. Messiah has arrived and he's the
new pilot of the Jets. It's no longer a kamikaze mission.
And you can't fully do all that stuff until the

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trade is consummated. You have to consummate the relationships. So
Green Bay is seeing if Gang Green will flinch. It's
like a staring contest. Then are they gonna fla I
think this gets done for many reasons, sooner then later.
I don't buy the it's gonna go all the way
to the draft. I have a feeling by the end

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of the weekend it will get done. I'd be surprised
if it does not. At least the outline's already there.
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If not, we'll keep trying. Nick in Wisconsin writes in

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following an Aaron Rodgers monologue, he says a passing grade.
I hate to see Rogers go, but out with mister
Rogers neighborhood and time for the love Shacks. The love Shack. Baby.
Art Puffin appears to be upset that we have gone
to a newby Night, says, if you want to recruit

(16:24):
via phone calls, you can't put potential call over the
year on hold. He said, I guess he doesn't want anyone. Well,
that's kind of how it works. You gotta wait your
turn in line, Art Puffin, And that's what separates the
integrity of the Call of the Year, the amount of
effort they put into it. But Bennett's Art Puffin. No,

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but Art Puffin's admitted he's not a he's not a
worthy candidate. Eddie, that this guy's a fraud, that he
wants a short cut, he wants to take the easy street,
and that's not how we operate a Rodgers. Yeah, what
kind of diva bullcrap is that? Fur Dog writes? Since
us tonight's newbies have some big shoes to fill, it's

(17:06):
gonna be pretty hard the top. How annoying last year's
rookies were, or we can only hope, we can only
hope that it works out this way? Who else do
we down? Hard? Page down? Japhoebe in Chicago says, Hey,
Mallard five out of five fried mozzarella sticks on the
Malard monologue. The hippie wants to bully NFL news people.

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Wait till he shows or wait till he throws. Rather,
there's some backbreaking picks in a Jets costume and sees
how friendly his buddies in the media. There we're going
to treat him. It isn't the Green Bay toe sucking media. Yeah,
Rogers had a bad game. They'd give him a manny
and a petty and you know that's everything's okay. You're

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going to the SNA for a little bit. Everything will
be all right. Everything is gonna be okay. Nothing to
see here, no thing to see here at all, Absolutely
all right. We'll take some calls. Eight seven seven ninety
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and then let's say hello to any meany mighty mo.
Let's go to Will in southern California. Hello, Will welcome. Then.
I'm not exactly a newbie caller. I called the other
night about Saint John's. I hope that's okay. Will? Are

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you the first call and you're already saying you're not
a regular, little Will? Right? You call? You call once,
But that's not you're not a regular. You don't call
up every single night. Here tell them this's what you
had for breakfast? Yeah, full disclosure, though, I did have
a couple interactions with you a couple of years ago
when I was the pioneer baseball head coach. I used
to write in a little bit, Oh, I remember, you're

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not doing that anymore. Well, you're you're over there, No,
I'm over at a cow High it's in Whittier. Okay,
all right, very cool. How's that going for you? Yeah?
We ever up and up and down, so that team sucks.
But are you using analytics or like, what's your no?

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Hell no, hell no? What is your coaching technique? There?
If I can ask will bunt, steel, hit and run?
I like it. I like this guy. That's how I
want my manager. I don't want this new fangled bullcrap. Plus,
I'm guessing your high school does not have an analytical
department to go over the data anyway. We go over data,

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but we go over getting on base anyway. You can
take one to the chin whatever you can. Now, do
you teach the art of choking up on the bat? Oh?
Yeah you do. Yeah, it's great. Great two strikes, put
the ball in play. Make the defense do all the work.
That's right, because they will because you know, as a coach,
a baseball baseball guy, the defense will screw up, especially

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at the high school level. Man, you you don't have
to make a play all. They'll screw that up seven
out of ten times. They'll make a little mistake and'll
it'll help you out. All right, Well, what did you
call about? Will? Though? So I think I kind of
found a loophole too. Are our little debate over a
perfect bracket? No, there's no. I realized the company's got

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a contest, and I'm promoting the company, and that's great.
But the math on there's no. There's next to no
chance of a perfect bracket. All right, what's gonna happen.
It's it's it's not going to go through the company,
but it's going to go through my own, my own
head as a winner, I'm gonna pick Saint John's going

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undefeated in the NC Double A Tournament. It's a bull
old statements by you, Will, And and are you still
paying off your student loans from Saint John's by the way,
are you still still doing that? Or no? Sir? No?
Did you get a scholarship? I did? Oh look at
this guy. He got a scholarship to Saint John's. How
about that? No student deb for you? All right, I

(21:17):
gotta I gotta go, Will. But yeah, you you just
ride that Saint John's train. You just keep riding that
and see where that catch it? The express tre undefeated.
Here you go. That's right, Chris. You have to play
to be to lose. But I got a nickname for
him once that small ball will do We like that

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small ball Will. Let let's see. I mean maybe the
middle militia come with the better, but I like that guy.
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(22:40):
I cannot wait to see the Belichick Schuster video on
TikTok when they hang out together. But the Patriots giving
the ultimate middle finger to Jacoby Myers. Why because ju
Ju smith Schuster, I believe, got the identical contract of
I'm reading this right, the same contract at the Raiders

(23:00):
gave Jacoby Myers the Patriots gave Juju smith Schuster. It
doesn't appear to be a great fitch. Smith Schuster was
part of the Chiefs last year and he was fine,
He wasn't wonderful, and he had Patrick go Holmes with him.
But the Patriots do not have a number one receiver.
Juju Smith Schuster seemingly would have the opportunity unless the
Patriots go crazy and either draft somebody or trade for someone.

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At this point, if you look at the depth chart,
Smith Schuster would be the number one receiver fresh off
the afterglow of the Super Bowl. But if you look
at the Patriots in the Belicheckian era, guys like Juju
Smith Shuster normally do not flourish when they go there.
Chad Ocho Sinko Johnson back in the day, he went

(23:46):
to the Patriots and it was a hot mess. It
was a disaster. There's been a couple other examples of
that over the years, but that is the movement and
the Patriots also signed vagabond running back James Robinson generic name,
generic game. He's the guy he used to play for
Jacksonville and then they traded him to the Jets last year,
and so he's the latest in the stable of running

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backs for the Patriots. But they actually made a couple
of moves. After sitting on their hands for a couple
of days, the Patriots had now gone out and made
some moves and as far as the end of a
signature events getting a lot of buzz in Baseball the
World Baseball Classic, Eddie mentioned it and the All Star
closer for the New York Mets Snap crackle pop Edwin Diez.

(24:32):
Sometimes you jumped for joy and then you gotta land,
and that's a problem. That is a problem. The All
Star closer some kind of right knee injury as he
was celebrating the win for Puerto Rico. You play the trumpets,
there's a different song out of the trumpet, dollar, we
gotta play. There a five two win over the Dominican

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Republic for Puerto Rico. And in all the joy chumping
up and down and e Field teammates celebrating the raw emotion,
he ended up being taken off the field, Paul Pierce
style in a wheelchair. Oh this is so good, This

(25:15):
is so great. This not for him, but for us.
The Mets gave this guy a hundred and two million
dollars five year contract in November. This is the big
guy that Steve Cohen had to keep right. He's the
guy's gonna help lead the Mets to the Promised Land,
the King of Queens. And now it looks like he's
going to be out for at least an extended start

(25:38):
to the season. But knowing how baseball players operate, and
especially if you're a pitcher, how much you have to
use your knees in terms of planting and whatnot, this
appears to be a long term injury based on the
fact that he couldn't put any weight on it as
he was walking off the field. And now we can
add we can add this cat Edwin Diaz to the

(26:00):
long rich list of athletes that have been injured in
a celebratory fashion. And it depends on how old your
I'm old. I remember when Gus far Rod, who was
a quarterback for the old Washington Redskins, and he was
so excited that he headbutted the wall behind the end
zone after scoring a touchdown run. This is back in
the nineties, and he ended up getting a concussion. Yeah,

(26:26):
the wall was padded, but it wasn't really padded, and
I think it was a concussion and he sprained his neck.
If I remember, there's been so many of these things
that there was a kicker also twenty some years ago
that it was one of the Grammatica brothers who tore
his acl jumping up and down after he made a
random field goal in a regular season game. Remember the

(26:48):
Angels Old DH from Cuba Kendricks Morales. Yes, that was
that was also a while ago. Yeah, big home run,
walk off home run. Oh, that's that's so many of
these things. Pretty sure it was a Grand Slam too. Yeah, well,
if you're gonna, if you're gonna tear your body up,
you might as well do it after a Grand There

(27:08):
was a guy, Ryan Depster of the Cubs. You remember
he got He injured his foot. I think he might
have injured a toe or something like Eddie did. He
got caught. He was trying to jump over the dugout
railing and he got caught and he screwed up his foot.
He was all messed up. I mean They've done a
bunch of those things over the years. But Edwin die
as we can now addam to list. And I'm telling

(27:29):
you you mark my words. There have been a couple injuries.
This is the worst one. But Freddie Freeman, a Dodgers
also was it was dinged up at the World Baseball Classic.
And the owners are not They're not gonna put up
with it. They're not because why am I putting all
that money and paying all these guys and we're not
making enough money from the World Baseball Classic. And there
will be people saying we gotta get rid of it.

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And that's just play a bunch of minor leaguers and
don't play anyone we've ever heard of. And that's just
the way it's got to be. All r. Let's go
to the phone's real quick. Let's say hello to Mike
in Vegas. What's going on? Mike? What do you got? Budd?
Welcome here, I am here, Hello, Ben. In fact to
learn everyone, Mike, Mike in Vegas is there? We'd like

(28:10):
to learn all the affiliates down the lift. Yeah, I've
been lating for us to back to you man years
unbelieving now here we are. This is side by side,
a couple of pros. Um, well you know what, um
several of this? Thank you for um, you know, years

(28:33):
of entertainment and information and I thank you. Now? What
are we drinking tonight? What? My my usual? Oh? The usual?
Let's say, I guess what do we think Mike in
Vegas is drinking. I'm gonna go first, I think some
old school whiskey, not redbreast. I'm thinking just regular old whiskey.

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What about you, Eddie? Do you want it on this?
EDI's busy, Eddi's busy? What about you, Roberto? What do
you think there? I'm gonna say vodka? Vodka? Okay, went
in doubt, throw the vodka out and Coop you want
to in on this? We're trying to guess what Mike
has hammered on right now. He's feeling no pain, Mike
and veins. It's not much at least. Um, let's go

(29:17):
medicating tequila tequila? All right, tequila tequila to get a
d Here we go, big answer. Everyone locked their beds in. Mike,
what are we drinking? What he supposed to? Four proof? Who?
What was he saying? I can't think? He said? Blush?

(29:39):
What are you drinking? Yea a generic mouthwash. It's about
fifty four proof now mouthwash. Yeah, you might want to
see a therapist or something. You get some help. My god,
what are you doing there? How dare you? Oh? You
know I do, but I was down because I'm a

(30:03):
Vikings fan. Congratulations, I gotta go, but thank you. I'm
glad you're a Viking fan. That was a wonderful phone call.
What a debut. We're gonna have the NHL puckham. Here's
the who am I? Game? Edmonton Oilers star. We do
hockey one day a week to pacify Eddie and here
it is. Oilers star Connor McDavid recently passed me by

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for the most points in a season by an active player,
so this player previously had the record. Again, Connor McDavid
of the Oilers passed me by for the most points
in a single hockey season by an active player. Who
am I? That is the question. The answer. We'll get
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Progressive dot Com. I have the NHL Pluck Hum coming
up in a couple of minutes, and we'll pay off
the who am I game? Listening to? Lee writes in
she says, I get how great Aaron Rodgers was, but
who would trade for a quarterback who may retire after
one year and then you are right back into the rebuild.

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I wanted to call in, she says on newby Night,
but I'm working there. You go, what's good? You have
a job and you're working your ass off there, Lee,
So yeah, I would. I would have, as I have
no problem with the Jets trading for for Aaron Rodgers.
You can make the same argument with Tom Brady in
the Bucketeers. Tom Brady looked washed up at the end
with the Patriots. He went to Tampa. They had some

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magical years, a couple of years that were really good,
and then they sucked Brady's last year and now they're
gonna go get another quarterback and they'll be bad. We'll
talk more about that later, but shoot your shot. And
I hate the word rebuild. I can't stand the word.
It's a terrible word. Rebuild. Now here's the who am I? Game?
Oilers star Connor McDavid passed me by for the most

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points in a season by an active player. Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? Raffi Torres
guest by James. Who else do we have? Page down?
Can't read that? Scott Lion Brink from Jonathan in Delaware.
Robin Minnesota's going with Paul Holmgren is his answer. Willie

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the Mess says Leon Spinks is the answer. Who else?
Page down? Page down? Alfie alienal Piner went with blind Scott.
I did not realize blind Scott had his own bobblehead.
That's pretty the Grays guest by Milkman Mike in Colorado.
The Mather Militia from Yafeeme in Chicago. Harry says the

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answer is Connor McDavid. He says, that's the answer. Ron Tugnutt,
one of the great names of all time? From Jonathan
in Louisiana. Who else do we have? Page down? Page down?
Sammy Davis Junior from Lister Rich Calligan. Tim's going with
former Fox Sports radio morning host Van Earl Wright is
his answer? Page down? In the Mariner fan says it's

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Seattle cracking a mascot boy that or Booie Rather Booie,
that is the answer. Who else do we have? Angry
Bill from just Josh, I can't read that? The Fonds
from Sean in Portland. Mike in the Vegas, his favorite
hockey player, Alton Lister Reen Guests by Matt the Warrior,
Rador Rays Fan Eddie, what say you, Eddie? Just not

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Barry Wyndham. Guests by Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia. Let's
go with super Mario Lemieux. Super Mario Lemieux, all right,
it is incorrect, Eddie. Unfortunately he's no longer playing. Oiler Star.
Connor mc gregor passed me by for the most points.
Any what I say, McGregor, I keep seeing I said before,

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I said McDavid. Connor McDavid passed me by for the
most points in the season by an active player. The
answer is Nikita Kusheroff. Nikita Kusheroff. Back in twenty eighteen
twenty nineteen, he had one hundred and twenty eight points,
Connor McDavid. This season has more. Let's take some calls here.
Let's go to the phones. Attilo is in Florida and

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Attilio is next. Hello Attilio, Welcome, Hey Ben, how are
you doing? Sorry but I'm sober? Uh Ben? First of all,
I love your show. I had to tell you this.
It was the morning before the Super Bowl and Anty
Gargano is syndicated and gets calls in. It was like
six thirty in the morning, Eastern time. Your buddy from

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Sir scratch Off. Oh my god, he was fawning. I
mean he mentioned your name, but not lovingly. He was
He's like, your boy, he's a big chew. He was,
IM sure he's gonna have an orgasm. Talking to Gargano.
He that you bring up a great point because Sir
scratch Off, I think secretly hates the show. He pretends

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like he likes the show, but he sucks up to
all these other people I work with, he loves them,
and then he poops all over me. That's not right, right,
That's that's a that's a douche move. Well, it woke
me right up. I was making records with my wife.
I'm like, what the hell did I just here? I mean,
he's going on and on and on, and I don't know.
But I'll tell you know what, because you rated him

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out on a newby Night, I'm giving you a golden ticket.
I'm giving you a goal. You're defending the honor of
the show, letting me know that you scratch Off shame
me on another show, So you get a golden ticket. Congratulations, Well,
thank you sir. And there's one thing I have or
Roberto has in common with me. He was born in
a great day December tenth. That's right. Be there we go,

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a couple of legends. All right, I gotta go and
tell him, but thank you. Let's get do we have
the NHL puck them use that golden ticket whenever you want.
I'll tell her a good job by you, and we'll
take two skaters and a goaltender. I will go first.
I have the first pick. I'm gonna take. Connor McDavid
is who I will take. Roberto. Let's go with Leon

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dry sidel Board has held, Eddie. I'll go with David Pastornak,
all right, bad tick Cooper Loop go. Then I'll go
with Nikita Kutrov. Okay, one more cool, Matthew Cochuck, Eddie Garcy,
let's go with Jason Robertson. All right, Roberto Linus, oh Mark,

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I'll take e Gorsh Skirkin of the Rangers and the
Nathan McKinnon of the Avalanche. What a great I've already won.
I've won, ober, I won more than anybody. Jack Hughes, No, no, no, not,
that's a generic name. What about you Eddie Quickly Jonathan
Quick Oh, whoa coop doesn't get his last pick. Jeremy Swiman, No,

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you didn't get into the lock ran out two brewing
goalie's taken a Swimon always plays on Thursdays. Are they
gonna play two at the same time? That's never been number. Yeah. No,
your guy's not gonna play. My guys, Roberto's not gonna play.
He picked on Mark right. I don't know who that is.