Hour 2 - Courting Kirk

Ben Maller talks about the reported interest by the 49ers in Kirk Cousins and if it's believable, if the Vikings are ready to divorce Cousins, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Hello and welcome. It's our nah bird two hour two
of our show. We're going to the NFL here on
the Ben Mathers Show on Fox podcast and the forty
nine ers interested in quarterback Kirk Cousins rumor bouncing around
the echo chamber believe it or not, are the Vikings

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ready to divorce themselves from Kirk Cousins? And how are
things looking in the future twenty twenty three and beyond
for the Minnesota Viking quarterback. We'll discuss all of that
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me certainly this hour coming from the NFL play the Hits,
Mama play the Hits sure coming out of the Bay Area,
the team that was this close to getting the Super
Bowl and then snapcrack will popapp into their quarterback. The
forty nine ers have shown up on our radar. Are

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in the gossip mill? Is it true that San Francisco
pursued a veteran, established starting quarterback in the trade market
within the last month? Say what did you see this?

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You hear about this? No, you did not, Okay, and
give you the cliff notes version. So we have learned
the forty nine ers contacting the Minis Shota Vikings about
a transaction that would could have and should have sent
quarterback Kirk Cousins to San Francisco. But the trade fizzle.

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It fizzled, just like that's what sounded like when it fizzled. Fizzle. Yeah. Well,
Cousins has redone his contracts, so he will remain in
Minnesota for another season. The forty nine Ers, they moved on.
They added a veteran quarterback. Sam Darnald is who they
added in free agency. That is the Wooden Spoon Prize,

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thus pumping the brakes on the trade for now. For now,
but stay tuned in the fluid world of the NFL.
So let us discuss question forty nine ers interest in
kirk Cousins. Believe it or not. It's a rumor, believe
it or not. So I've got window, tug of war

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and soup, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to make some sour attitudes and
sour dough bread is what we're gonna make. Number one

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true believers on this one. Forty nine ers underwent explore
tory talks with the Vikings. Believe it, believe it, believe it,
believe it, believe it. Kicking the tires on kirk Cousins.
Buy it, by it, by it, by it, by it.
This validates a take that we had a few months back.
It is a no braider, so no brander. Now, if

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you go on the way back machine, all the way
back to the scouting combine, Oh my god, I barely
remember that. It was a few weeks ago. And if
you look at the depth chart at that time, take
a look at it. Go back, all right, you remember
you had brock Purty facing Tommy John surgery, Jimmy Garoppolo

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heading to Sins City to hang out with the Raiders,
and all you had was Trey Lance, last man standing
with the last quarterback in the quarterback room. Please turn
out the lights. And so that's where you are. And
as a result, we do not doubt for a second
the forty nine ers did some windows shopping, let their

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minds wander, explore. Tory talks little retail therapy on the
quarterback market. Kyle Shanahan has a connection. Always look at
the connection. Kyle Shanahan coached Kirk Cousins in Washington, so
there's a bit of a bromance. There have been rumors

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connecting Shanahan and Cousins together to work again for several years.
So it made sense to think that there is a
possibility of this happening where the Niners pulled the trigger
and could we get Cousins on the chief How much
would it cost? Would we give up a few draft picks?
Who really cares about that? Whatever, we get a quarterback.
That's the way to go. Now, Page two. Are the

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Vikings ready? Is it now the time to go to
divorce court for Kirk Cousins and the Vikings and the
answers no on that one. And this is where things
get interesting. And when I'm my visit to Minnesota in May,
I might have to give counsel to the Vikings. I

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might have to have a meeting and give them my
thoughts on this, because they need to know my real
thoughts I give them every night. But at face to
face meeting, I'm sure they'll meet with me. So this
is where it gets interested. So you got Cousins is
from the old Guard in Minnesota, came to the Twin
Cities during the Mike Zimmer Rain of mediocrity. Since then,

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both the GM and the coach who were in Minnesota
have changed over, and as we understand it, the mensa
who's now running the front office there. There's a bit
of a tug of war that has taken place. We
like a good tug of war. You have factions of
the Vikings, is what we're hearing. You've got some parts

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of the Viking brass that would like to move on
that they believe they've squeezed as much toothpaste out of
the tube as they possibly can with Kirk Cousins. And
this is it. But there are other cliques in the
Vikings that are loyalist to Cousins. And what does that mean?
Means that Purple People leaders are in a dysfunctional relationship

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with Kirk Cousins. F OTU foe two fear of the
unknown foto fear of the unknown showing reasonable caution about
changing quarterbacks. And this is also a code for in
relationships called codependency, that the Cousins is not anxious to
scramble to another team. He's comfortable. They paid him a

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ton of money. Vikings have taken care of him. So
the status quo continues. Now final point, here we go.
How are things looking for Kirk cousins future in twenty
twenty three and beyond? So even though he's still there,
if you look at the GPS, it is still directing

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you down the highway called Splitsville Road. That's the highway
outside of the Vikings, finding the end of the rainbow
and that big pot of gold. Don't hold your breath.
Twenty twenty three is the last port of the Viking
cruise ship. That's it. Why you got age, you also

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have money. Kirk Cousins is heading into his age thirty
five season. The Vikings have done advanced algebra. They've moved
a bunch of numbers around. Cousins has gotten back to
back one year contracts. That is a dad giveaway. That
is a dad giveaway. You're on a need to know
basis when it comes to your contract and you don't

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need to know what's going on next year. There is
a growing belief weasel terminology, the Vikings are going to
select the quarterback relatively early in the draft, probably not
the top of the draft. But the nerds, the draft
nicks tell me that the Vikings are one of the
teams infatuated with an injured quarterback from the Southeastern Conference

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from ten to see Henn and hooker, and they the
Vikings would like to make love with a hooker, They
would like to draft a hooker, and so they're interested
in that. He's recovering from a torn ACL. He will
not be able to play much in twenty twenty three,
making him a perfect draft and stash draft and stashed

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developmental quarterback. No pressure of him playing because he can't play,
he's recovering from an ACL. Cousins will be the guy
and then when his contract runs out, musical chairs. And
as for Kirk Cousins, he will get a starting gig
somewhere else outside of Minnesota. It's all about the soup
duck soup, as in lame Duck, One Last Dance, One

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last Dance. It won't get a documentary like the Chicago
Bulls got a documentary. Won't do that. They won't do
that in Purple Rain. For Kirk Cousins, the forty nine
ers job will be there. If Brock Purty sucks at
a time time you cannot suck, I'll be shocked. If
he's ready to start the year. The forty nine is like,
oh yeah, he'll be good to go and all that. Okay,

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I'll believe it. When it happened, he dodged Tommy John surgery.
We'll see, we'll see how that turns out. But every year,
as long as I've been doing this job in the
monitor year in the NFL, and you follow the NFL
like I do, you know that every year there are
six to eight quarterback jobs that open up. Six to
eight is the average. Out of thirty two teams, Six

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to eight of the teams change quarterbacks in a given year.
So with that said, that means that if the Vikings
are one of those six teams that means there'll be
five other jobs at the very least, and maybe even seven.
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and hey talking over this song. It's such a good
song and domestic and I will lopay the order wonderful
two piecefull leaf fight back, Okay, it stalls stile attacks.
That was crazy COVID. We had so many songs that
were submitted. It was like every week we were getting

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two songs. It was nuts. Now COVID's over no songs.
But we for for a while we had mister PC,
we had a guy Enriched, We had Jay Scoop Now
and the Ukraine and Ohio Will I mean so many,
so many legends. There wasn't a lot to talk about, no,
so we just didn't use it. I wonder ras quit

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the band in Minnesota. That was great, man, that was
the greatest couple of months we've ever had for song contact.
And it's been been great. But if you're a musician
and you think you can put a little ditty together
for the show and you want to send it in,
contact one of us. Contact me Ben Mallers Show at
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But song on the headline and we may use it
on the air. I still have to play I said
last week. I was gonna do it. I failed to
do it, but I got to send this to Roberto,
our music director, Roberto. But Dick and Dayton and Kathy
and Madison, a couple of the young frisky kids on
the show. They put a song together and we are
going to play that on the air. I promised that

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a while ago. His bad job by me. Dick is
in two bands, the Cattering Bands of Society and the Drummers.
Dick is double dipping. Yeah, yeah, he's going in a
couple of different places there, but anyway, so we'll have
that at some point. That that's the latest song that
we've had submitted. Euphemie in Chicago rights and he says, Hey, Mallard,
four to four skull horns with a large leg of meat.

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On that Mallar monologue, tell the peasants to fetch more drink,
for we are parched with the medicine man adrift, the
vikings lost in the dewey mist, and the mal nurse ions.
It is time for dub bears to take the north.
You fee me, stay off the weed, Stay off the weed?

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What are you doing? What else? Chip in the Queues
says a plus on the Malan monologue. I was hearing
that hooker is being looked at by the Titans as well. Well.
It is appropriate that a number of NFL teams are
interested in hiring a hooker. So that is absolutely appropriate.
Let's go going out of Boston. A man who will
be giving Cooper Loop a VIP tour around the Commonwealth

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later this month, just days away, Blind Scott, the tour
guide of the Mallard Militia. Hello, Blind Scott, Hey, what's happening? Yeah?
I got the logistics of the tour already. He wants
to see a little freedom trail because you know why
he likes the freedom is free. And well, you're supposed

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to know, you're supposed to pay for it, but you
can do you can kind of hitch along and get
a free version, but you're kind of supposed to pay
for it. Yeah, you're gonna you don't have to pay
somebody when you know the number one Boston tour guide
and Blind scot and then uh, you know, I'm centrally
located to all the great monuments, so it's so easy
to get around. And then I got good chips about
the Red Sox. I was telling him he's going to

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the Red Sox at the time of the year, especially
being from California where it's really cold, you know what
I mean. It might not you could probably see the
ten day forecast now, but you could really be cold
at the Red Sox in April, but yeah, it will
be a good Say what are you going, Coop? What
day are you going to be in Boston? You know
the day there, the fourteenth through the seven. Oh, that
is coming up here. Let's see. Hold on, let me check,

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let me check that that's Boston Marathon weekend too, So,
oh you going? Are you going to the Boston Riot?
Are you going to go to the Patriots Day? Are
the Angels playing in the Patriots Day game? They are? They?
Are you going to go to that? It's a very
early game? Was eleven in the morning? Sky? Is that
when they play? Ye? That's too early? Cool? You don't
want to get up that early? Form? Well, my my
flight leaves at four pm on on that day. You

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can go for half the game or something. You might
get in some terrible traffic though. Yeah, that's what I'm
worried about. I mean, like, it's it's probably enough time
to see the whole game. But I'm just I'm worried
about now. It doesn't look that bet Scott. I'm looking
at the long term forecast. Next Thursday, it's seventy four
in Boston. The high Friday sixty five. Perfect. Yeah that's fine.
Yeah it could be, but it could be really a

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windy breeze off the Atlantic and it might feel like
forty you know what I mean. But you think it's
gonna go from seventy with a wind and feel like forty?
Come on, what kind of forecasts are you the Atlantics
sn't call the water the wind glows right off. He's
staying right near Santapios too. Oh oh, said, are you

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staying in the East Boston coop? Yeah, I don't know.
I had one of the great it's a pizza place
in East Boston so years ago, I think Eddie was
with me. I lost a bet with Vinnie and Boston,
so I had to pay off. I had to buy
a pizza, pizza, dinner or lunch for Vinnie. So I
show up. Vinnie's got every All those buddies from the
neighborhood are at this pizza place, the Saint Tarpio's place,

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and we have like this whole big table. And he
cost me hundreds of dollars to borrow his pizza. Was ridiculous.
But I paid up my bet because I pay up
my bets is what I do, right, Scott, I pay
up my bets. Yeah. You're you're a man of honor
and your word, and you do these sleep inducing monologues,
which one of your listless told me, what are you
talking about? That was award winning Mallon Marr, but the

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Minnesota Vikings you were not fascinated by that. I'm actually
a big Vikings fan. Everyone in Boston loves the Vikings. Yes, yeah,
when he's like sixteen. Now, he said when he was
a kid, that was the only team that was on TV.
I don't understand. Well, you like Minnesota because Lizzo's from
Minnesota and she's the punchline and all these jokes we

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do every week. And I like the governor. I like
the governor of Minnesota. He's a really honorable dude. He
does right for the people, you know what I mean. Hey,
it's easy to get a song for the show. I
might commission you one. There's all these people on Twitter
that pro all this music. I can commission a song
for the show for one dollar, so it's it's pretty
It's pretty cheap to put that out there. And we

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need more guests for the podcast. I'm doing some housekeeping now.
People are saying, we need more guests for the podcast,
and we need you to go live on Instagram on
the weekend. Sometimes we need live content. You would like
live content on the weekends. Yeah, okay, And the Bruins
did the best NHL team of all time? Did you
know that? Okay? Well, and that note. I think the

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calls come to any piece of strengths are better than
the Canadian team that had nine Hall of Famers because
they're in a tougher league. Just ask Wayne Gretzky. This
is Wayne Gretzky. Okay, I think bone Scott said it, Eddie.
He pointed it out, sat on the toilet with the
plunger and at the other I also said the wind
was going to make it like fifty degrees cooler. That's

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why you show up. Maybe you bring a jacket. It
might be, could be Angry Bill is in the Sunshine State. Hello,
Angry Bill, to take that in your pooper and yeah,
are you doing guys? Then the other day you and
Coop said the Angel Reese and the Caitlyn Clark wasn't
a racist thing. It was so racist. It's unbelievable. You

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and Coop living a white bubble. Okay, racist, this out
to be good coming here. Did you get your robe
clean today? By the way, before this call Angry Bill,
if Clark did that, the rees they'd be screaming racism
all over the world. Angel Reese is nothing but a
female FuG Okay. The racist didn't the ref didn't put

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any stop to it because she was black. Okay, you
get this all you got this all figured out. So
the GI me Caitlyn Clark. Caitlyn Clark, Hey, you dummy, wow,
we have to we had to dump that. I think

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before he said anything, all right, well you Maren, I
would put you on hold. You to be dumbass. But
Caitlin Clark was doing similar things throughout when I saw
I didn't watch the women's tournament sitting pretend I did,
but I saw the clips on social media, and she
was enjoying the fact that she was having a great

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amount of success, and she was playing to the cameras
and Angry Bill. Of course, of all people, the one
person I wanted to hear his take on was Angry.
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wherever you get at your podcast. So Adrian on Twitter says, well,
he's upset with me because I did not give the
Sacramento Kings score because he believes it's important to report
that the Sacramento Kings are Pacific Division champions. Now, you
guys are NBA fans. I am not, so I leave
it up to you. Is it Does anyone care about

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division championships in the NBA Kings fan? Absolutely, that's not
the question. That's not the question. Do you think that
the fact that they won the Pacific Division is worthy
of them being included in games? Let this, well, if
if they were the Clippers, they would hang a banner
for it, So say, won't yet yet Again, the Clippers

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are in the head of every Laker history. I did
not want the every is not what I wanted. I
just wanted an honest answer to my question. I mean,
what are we doing here? Okay, Cooper Loop's a bigger
Clipper fan than I am. He's always talking Clippers. Always
stop you are you are? You bring up the Clippers.
Clippers here we are Clippers? Here, we are here? We Clippers. Apparently,

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the answer is no, so Adrian, Sorry, No, Sacramento Kings
and Games. Again, nobody cares about they won the Pacific Division. Hooray.
Last time you could name a division winner, Eddie. Last
division winner you can name? Could you name who won this?
Let's see him in the Southeast Division, could you name
who won that? Last year in the NBA? Yes, I
don't even know what teams are in the Southeast Division. Well,

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I would think teams in the Southeast Lanta, I guess,
is there on that? Orlando? Okay, Miami, Yeah, there you go.
How many how many teams are there? That's three? And
there's New Orleans. No, it's not. They should be, but
they're hornets. They're not. Yeah, I think they're in there.
I don't have it. You don't even you don't even

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know there's one. But there's one team that's you don't
think of as a Southern team, Eddie, Memphis, but they're
in that that No, no, no, they should that's another
team that should be. They're in the West, so they
camp in the Southeast because they're they're in the West.
But the last team, Eddie you met, you named Miami, Atlanta,
Orlando and Charlotte. The other team is the Washington Wizards.

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That's as good as when the Atlanta Braves from the
nationally West the Cincinnati Reds West. Always good times, good memories.
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dot com. So if you gave Dan Hurley some true serum,
he would say that Connecticut had a guardian angel that
was looking out for them in the men's National Championship game.
And that guardian angel, for some reason, they named it Poppy.
In San Diego, we welcome in a man that boldly said,

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wait for the eight, wait for the seven and a
half to go to eight. Take bet the mortgage on
San Diego State Aztec basketball. We welcome in right now,
but man, the mid the legend right there. Poppy in
San Diego. Congratulations, Poppy, you got it done. Good job
by you all up. Ben Mallard. Sorry, can I take

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your call? Last night? I had some news come up.
But I'm here now and I'm more proud of my
hope than ever. I'm sure you and others had them.
Getting knocked out before the national championship, first final four
in school history is a good accomplishment. Hey, Ben Mallard,
I bet you had to school. Your niece went to

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Charleton eating us in the first round. How did that go? Wow? Hey,
everyone can die every everyone can try to clown on it. Now, Pop,
is it? Is it true? Is it true, Poppy? That
you are going to be on one of the floats
for Connecticut when they have their parade. Are you which

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float will you be on? Hey? Everyone could try to
clown on me. But where were you when the Assex
all the way to the national Championship? No one said,
Poppies kurse? Spin Mallard? Facebook? What was the what was
the Aztecs record against the spread in the tournament? Poppy? Hey,

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we did good? You did good. I know you lost.
I know you lost. You lost the last two games, Poppy,
I know that for sure. So that means what were
your five hundred at best in the NCAA tournament against
the number because you lost on the buzzer beater. You
were two and a half point favorite. You lost that
seven and a half dogs. You lost by much more
than that. It's bad job. If they did not we went.

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We went bla bling You go bla blay. That's not
big bag, that's not big back, Blake Bank. There's no black, no,
no blake bit. Oh my god, Poppy, what what kind
of world are you living in? Poppy? Poppy about Poppy
my mim, you dumbass. My pics were available that the

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company made me do my picts. I picked San Diego, State,
the beat, Charleston. You listen, the picts are there, they're online. Jeez,
I'm surprised. I'm surprised. Oh, I know you're shot. Yes,
and what what? Hey? You know what you were talking about?
Have a good suggestion. I think you're gonna love this. Hey.

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You know we're talking about your first monarchue that I
loved about, the pitch truck. I think you should do
that with guests, have a pitch truck and go like, hey,
seven six, okay, let's let's try that. How about we
do that with you, Poppy? How about you you go
ahead do it? Take go ahead, all right, it's five
four three two one. I liked that. It's a fun bit.

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Thank you. Poppy couldn't have come out come up with
that without you, God, bless you. The great Poppy did
not call up and take his medicine when he should have.
He waited. But there he is. Spendage show on Fox.
We've got the inch to tribute Mallard of the Third Degree.
Here's the instad trivia, and we'll go to baseball. Blank

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has the worst road road earn run average among all
Major League baseball starters since the beginning of last season,
minimum seventy innings pitched. Again, Blank has the worst road
earn run average among all Big Leagues starting pitchers since
the start of last season, minimum seventy innings pitched. That

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is the do trivia, the answer and Mallard of the
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We're keeping track of the baseball highlights. Here pitches back, baby,
We're on top of it. That quick pitch, which is
now a thing in baseball. You can yeah, here's here's
the instant trivia. Blank has the worst road earn run
average among all Big Leagues starting pitchers since the beginning

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of last season, minimum seventy innings pitched. We've got Mallard
to the third degree. That is coming up momentarily. But
first answer the question. Let's see if it does anyone
in the Mallar militia know the answer. We're gonna find
out right now. Let's see. Answers are coming in. We've
got Irvin Santana, guests by Furd Dog Angel, Lapdog, Bob

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Backlan from Rob in Vegas. The Dixter parody account going
with Jennifer love Hewitt as the answer. Cowboy Killer says
it has to be wild thing. Ricky Vaughan the answer,
page down, page down, Just Josh as Weedman took Poppy's
advice and bet his mortgage on the Aztecs. It cost

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him a cardboard box in a milk crate. Hey, Josh,
lame jokes are on Friday. You used to write jokes
you got you can send that joke in Sean and
Phoenix is going with Madison bum Gardner as his answer.
Tyler Glass Now from Eke and Rosville, Minnesota. Terry Pool
guests by mister Nie Get another old school baseball name.

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Page down, page down. Late Night drug Tester says Javier
Vasquez of the expos of the Montreal or Expose. Vince McMahon,
You're fired from Maverick. Rick Sutcliffe tossed out by Miguel
on fire. Teddy Higara from Rob the Goatman in Des Moines, Iowa,
Milwaukee Brewer legend Teddy Higara the Rob Manford Burner account

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says Steve Lombardozy is the way to go. Starsky and
Hutch guest by Alf the alien opiner Phil Brickford from
Rob in Minnesota. Page down, page down, Justin in the
enchanted forest says, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is the answer.

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Page down, Marge shot from Callaghan Tim, that's his answer. Poppy,
the full name guy was guested as well by Rob
says that he never stops, and Eke says, you gotta
fight for the right to parley. Oh, you found a
photo of Eddie. Do you have an answer? Do you

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have an answered? Yes? Former Indian and Dodger knuckleballer Tom Candiotti,
the candy Man, long time Arizona Diamondback broadcaster. I don't
know if he's still doing that, but that is incorrect,
the correct answer, and nobody else has this question any
other than the Toronto Blue Jay starting pitcher Jose Barrios.
Jose Burrios the worst road era among all pictures since

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the start of last season. It's maller. How about that?
To the third degree, this is one big band gets grilled.
Coop da Loop. Sean McVay said in a radio appearance
on Monday that he expects Matthew Stafford, who was reportedly
healthy for the first offseason in two years, to bounce

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back in a big way next season, Ben, do you
expect a bounce back from Matthew Stafford? So I take
I saw the report. I take what was said with
a grain of salt, because what else is Sean mcveighanna say,
I think this guy's gonna show up and they'll be
in a wheel in a wheelchair. You can't say that.
And he missed the end of the regular season. He's

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Matthew Stafford last played an NFL game over four months ago,
back in November. And it's an awkward situation because he
can't retire. He's got this amazing golden parachute contract the
Rams Gabe Stafford. I would be floored if he returns
to a top level quarterback. I hope I'm wrong, but Stafford,

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they squeezed the Lombardi out of Matthew Stafford and then
the music stopped. That said, I do expect the Rams
offensive line to be better. They'll have a new offensive
line coach, a few new players on the offensive line,
and statistically they can't be much worse than they were
last year. But do I think this is going to
be a leap in bound situation. No, there's a good

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chance the Rams finish in second place because Seattle was
a small com mirror show. Gino Smith is not. That's
not sustainable and Seahawks know that based on the contract
they give him, and Arizona's got nothing. So the Rams
can finish in second place. But what does that get
you next? Nick Nurse got a bit testy with reporters
at Oh Yeah. He was asked about his future for

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quote the third game in a row. I hate when
a Nurse gets upset, but these speculations probably his own
fault after he said that he plans to take a
few weeks and see where he is once the season ends. Ben,
do you think Nurse has done in Toronto? So I
believe in the philosophy that when you start contemplating leaving
a job, you've already got at least a couple of

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toes out the door. Nick Nurse is looking for a
new outpost to hitch his wagon too, and Larry Bird
said it, Phil Jackson said it. Players start tuning out
coaches after about three years. Nick Nurse has been there
longer than that. Hot rumor Coop tweet this out. Clippers
flame out in the playoffs with tylu Kawhi Leonard makes

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a fall, would call the Clippers bring in a nurse
boom next. Is that what you're expecting to happen? No,
I expect me win the championship. But if in a
parallel to mension when they lose. Speaking of new coaches,
it's being reported that Emay Udoka, Frank Vogel, and Kenny
Atkinson are all candidates to coach the Rockets next season, Ben,
who do you think gets the job? So the Rockets

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job is a crap job. It is not a good
job right now. If that continues, none of the abuff
or none of you. But but assuming the Rockets try
to win, and the rumors James Harden is gonna go
there back to Houston, They're gonna make some moves and
try to be a good team again, I would go
emayl Udoka. That's the name, right, that's the name, that's

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the hot names, you know, and he fell in on
asteroid field. How do we do in Boston there? It is?
That's a winner. I want the guy. I like Poppy.
I like you Poppy. I want not you Poppy. I
want