September 6, 2023 • 35 mins
Big Ben talks about the implications of Travis Kelce injuring his knee at practice, Jerry Jones reaffirming the dictatorship status of the Cowboys, Maller to the Third Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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The NFL season going to open up here and Kansas
City already given some barbecue.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
One of their players barbecued.
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We try not to though. Coast to coast, border to border,
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Cansau City. That is the top of the NFL mountain.
You don't see a lot of mountains in Kansas City
have been there, but that's the top of the mountain.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's the peak.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm gonna try to get to that peak where Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is at the very top, and that is the focal
point as the NFL season begins tomorrow. This is our
Wednesday show, So this is the last day before there's
game action in the NFL and the raining Super Bowl
champions open up with the Lions. Now, in my life,
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most of the time I saw the Lions was on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Every once in a while, when I was a kid,
they had this guy named Barry Sanders, and he used
to put the Lions on TV. But other than that, eh,
pretty much Thanksgiving. So it sounds like Kansas City is
going to be shorthanded in this game.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
If somehow you have been in.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
A shoebox and you just escape from the shoebox, first
of all, congratulations that you got out of the shoebox,
wonderful Bosotov. And also you might have missed the fact
that we learned the tight end, the all everything, all encompassing,
all powerful, almighty Travis Kelcey, who's more than just your
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normal tight end. Travis Kelcey is down for the count.
He hyper extended his knee as he was dining on
snap Crackle pop for breakfast. It happened at practice on Tuesday,
and his status is in doubt for the Thursday night
opener against Detroit. You might say, well, just drug him up,
put a needle air, put some painkillers, and go out
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and play. Well, that's your daddy's NFL they try to
avoid that, especially for week one. If it was a
playoff game, you'd say they just drug him up, he'd
go out there and play. Probably not going to happen here. Now,
state funded NFL network tells us that Kelsey is not
believed to be dealing with a long term injury. A
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number of the online doctors. I get all my medicine
from doctors on X. That's where I get my medicine.
I don't know about you may maybe you actually go
to real doctors. But I go to my doctors on
X and they're all claiming this is not a big deal.
It'll be okay, but the timing sucks, the inflammation and
all that, and so, barring some kind of dramatic eleventh
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hour plot twists, barring some kind of dramatic plot twist,
Kelsey's going to be out for the season opener against Detroit.
So let us discuss the question how precarious a situation
is Kansas City facing without Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
In the opener, I've got.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Press your Luck, Riverboat Gambler, and George W. Bush, and
we will combined all of these things together and we
are going to make the number one food dish in
Kansas City. A lot of dumb people, the uneducated, say
that it's barbecue, but those that live in the greater
Kansas City area, no, it's the Ben Mallard chicken fingers.
(05:01):
That is what that city is known for. Not the barbecue.
That's false advertising. It's the Mallard chicken fingers over there
at the landing. So a this is a the word
I will use. It's a good word.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I like it. I don't use it enough.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
A ramshackle, A ramshackle situation for the Chiefs heading into
the opener. There's just no other way to say it. Now,
the point spread has adjusted. They always adjust when there's
a big injury in the NFL if you're a name
ram player. So the point spread has been adjusting this game.
But it was a game going into it, and we
haven't made the official picking Benny versus the penny now
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a big deal. But we still can pick the Thursday
games here on the radio and leaning heavily to the
Detroit Lions side of things, even prior to the Travis
Kelcey injury here, and so we already like Detroit, but
the spread shifting here because of the Kelsey injury.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Andy Reid, Big Ram.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Andy Reid and his guys are playing one of my
favorite game shows, Press your Luck. They really are playing
Press your Luck in Kansas City. The most competitive game
on television back in the day was Press your Luck.
It's a great game and big risks, big bucks on
the line and all that. And that's what's going on
in Kansas City right now. Andy Reid, he said, no wammy,
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big money, big money.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
And stop double whammy. He got a double whammy.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Andy Reid has a double whammy going into this game.
Why if you look at Big Ben's big board, not
a list. Don't do lists. That's what juvenile people do.
We do not do list. But on Big Ben's big board.
You look at the top three players on Big Ben's
big board for Kansas City. Now, number one, like Secretariat
is Patrick Mahomes Mahomie, He's at number one. But number
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two Travis Kelcey. You know who number three is. That's right,
Chris Jones. So heading into the season opener an Arrowhead
on Thursday night with a mad house expected there as
they hang a banner for the Super Bowl win a
year ago, they will be without two of their top
three players. Now I realize other people step up, happens
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all the time. For a week or two, you can
make by, you know, make make do without Travis Kelsey.
But that means somebody like Marquez Valdez, Scantling, the Great
Sky Moore wonderful sky More, Kadarius Tony at wide receiver,
and Noah Gray. We don't even know who that is,
but apparently he's the backup tight end for Kansas City.
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So those guys are going to have to put up
some impressive numbers. Now turning the Patriot, We're gonna stay
in the Heartland because Andy Reid announced that there has
been quote no progress in contract discussions with defensive tackle
Chris Jones, the aforementioned Chris Jones who has been holding
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out throughout training camp.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Fact, just to.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Prove I am not a liar, we have an editing staff,
dozens of people. When they're not checking their phones, they
actually put sound in. And here's Andy Reid earlier commenting
about the situation with Chris Jones.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Can you provide any kind of update on discasts of
Chris Jones in terms of any progress or no progress.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
No progress, No progress, that's a dagger. That is a dagger,
No progress, zero nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So Jones he's got one year left, he's entering the
final year of his contract, and he's got a four year,
eighty million dollar contract. He's ending that he has missed
all of training camp. So did I By the way
holding out and he is hell bent on being paid
more than Aaron Donald. Now, fortunately for him. See, when
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I go to the bosses here at FSR and say
I'd like to get Colin Coward money, they just laugh
at me and point at the door. When Chris Jones
goes to Andy Reid and the Chiefs and says I
would like Aaron Donald money, they apparently do not laugh
at him. They just ignore him. And that's how they
kind of do that. But are you surprised? Are you surprised?
(09:06):
The Chiefs continue to be at impass with Chris Jones,
so you can't see me, but I am shaking my head. No,
I am not. Chris Jones is in the fox hole.
He is not this foxhole because it's different foxholes, but
he's in the fox hole, and he has barricaded himself
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from reality. He believes that if he stays strong and
does a hunger strike, that he'll be able to get
what he wants. Here, Chris Jones is playing the role
of the riverboat gambler. The river boat gambler, that is
the role. He's betting that the Chiefs are going to
go out against the Detroit Lions and Jared goff and
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I'm on Saint Brown and all of the playmakers the
Lions have assembled here, and that Chiefs defense is going
to go out and be roasted like a pig at
a traditional Hawaiian luau by the Lions. And even if
Kansas City wins the game because they happen to outscore
the Lions, because the Lions defense ain't that great. Even
if that's the case, it's still a feather in the
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cap for Chris Jones and gives him more leverage. Now,
Andy Reid and his friends, they're like, well, we're betting
the other one. We're betting that the Chiefs will be
able to weather the clouds and the storm clouds and
all that, and we'll get this guy at you know,
a decent amount of money later on. He's already been
fining Chris Jones two million dollars and he's gonna keep
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getting fined over a million dollars for every game that
he doesn't show up for.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And that is the definition of a high stakes game
of check out. Yeah, all right, last week, let's go
to Vegas.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We had some moving and shaking, as we often do
in lost wages, and nobody this evolves the quarterback, not
my quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo. We learned the Raiders have redone
the contract of Jimmy G. According to a story I
read the other day, very popular with the porn stars.
They love Jimmy J and he loves them. Who doesn't anyway,
(11:09):
So Garoppolo signed a three year contract for seventy two
million with the Raiders this offseason, and before he even
takes a regular season snap, the Raiders have redone the contract.
So what does the Jimmy G renegotiation, the restructuring with
the Raiders tell us. It tells us a couple of
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things that Vegas is I was extending what turns out
to be the pre nuptial agreement with Jimmy D. And
by restructuring the contract, that is a guarantee they are
locked in now. And you know, you're never really locked in,
but they're more locked in now that twenty twenty four
will also be a Jimmy G year, that they're going
to roll the dice with Jimmy G in twenty twenty four,
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and the Silver and Black they lowered Garoppolos salary cap number.
The bigger meaning though, the bigger meaning to the Garoppolo
renegotiation with the Raiders is its validation of a take.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
We've had an old take, and I love when my
old takes are validated. It's validated.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
The take that was validated is that the salary cap
is bull crap. This is validation. This is absolute validation.
George W. Bush was correct years ago when he was
analyzing the arithmetic, and I said, this is fuzzy math.
The salarycap is fuzzy math. You can easily finagle the books.
(12:30):
You can manipulate the numbers and get more money out
of thin air. The Raiders just came up with seventeen
million dollars out of thin air because they move some
decimal points around.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It's completely coach, it's completely loud. So anytime it team.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Says we don't alreadymodeed Kansas City, we don't have any
sorry cap space, they could absolutely get it in two seconds.
Just move some numbers around and the decimal points and alekazaam,
You've got your money.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
That's all you need.
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So when you're.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
In the township of Jerry, you have to follow the
rules of Jerry or if you're in his world, not
just township, it's his own world. And that is where
we begin this hour of marginal overnight sports talk radio.
So more nuclear fallout, more nuclear fallout from the Trey
(14:26):
Lance trade. From the Niners to the Cowboys. Everyone loves
a backup quarterback. People love to talk about backup quarterbacks
even when they don't play, and when they do play,
they don't play that well, so if you have not
heard the latest on this, maybe not. Jerry Jones made
sure to remind the great Hovoage that he does not
(14:48):
have to answer to anyone, at any time, anywhere when
it comes to roster decisions for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
How do we know this? Well?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Jerry Jones did his weekly paid Dallas radio spot and
he commented about his mythology, the method to the Madness.
If you will hear that Jerry uses to make trades
for the Cowboys, Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
The way we're structured gets a lot of criticism, unquestionably
it does, but it lets us do a trade like
we did the other day on Lands. Because I didn't
have to fool her out. I can make that trade
in five minutes because I had all the information just
right at my fingertips of what we thought of his
play was the last couple of years. I knew what
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we thought of him. I didn't have to visit with
anybody about what kind of player he is, and so
I was able to make the call. Relative we didn't
want to put the resources in him, want to develop
him where he'd fit on the whole team. I don't
have to talk to anybody about that.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah. See, I don't need to talk to anybody, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
So the question as we discussed the question on this one,
Jerry Jones, you heard him say it. He did not
need to let anyone else know about the Trey Lance trade.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Does this make sense? Does this make sense?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So I have Denzel Washington, campfire, and Shakespearean and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Cracker jacks at the at the stadium.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know, you can eat the play regular popcorn, but
popcorn covered in sugar much better. And you get those
peanuts mixed in there as well. So number wha. Yes,
Jerry Jones is announcing there is no bureaucracy with the Cowboys. See,
you think about big government entities and you try to
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get anything through the government, whether it's local or federal government,
and it's a big pain in the ass. Right, there's
a lot of people that have their hand involved in
doing anything. Well, Jerry's like, well, this the Cowboys, we
do anything we want, of course we meaning me. I'm
Jerry Jones. And it reminds me when I was a kid,
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there was a ad campaign for Remington raisers, and the
ad campaign featured a guy who actually did briefly own
the Patriots, Victor Kaiam, and the slogan the catchphrase was
that he liked the company so much he bought it.
And so Jerry Jones liked the Cowboys so much, and
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he borrowed his daddy's money and he got the Cowboys,
and he's never giving up the Dallas cowby he will
die the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. And he also
realizes that he is at the very top of the
food chain. And when you're at the top of the
food chain, it doesn't matter. A lion does not concern
himself with the opinion of the sheep. That's just the
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way it is. And the sheep in this case Mike McCarthy,
Now he's a big sheep, big animal there, Mike McCarthy,
But he just doesn't care. Jerry doesn't care. And that's
the power structure in the the uncharted territories of Jerry's world.
And in this part of the screenplay about the Cowboys
and how they acquire players. In this part of the
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Jerry Jones story, he's actually playing a Denzel Washington character
from an old football movie. Remember the Titans saw that
movie back in the day. Remember the Titans. You might
remember the scene where Denzel who played Coach Boone, said
that this is no democracy. This is a dictatorship.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I am the law.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
That's essentially Jerry Jones, And he's not wrong. If I
bought an NFL team, I'd be the same way. And
I bet you if you bought an NFL team, you'd
be the same way. What's the point of owning a
sports franchise? Who but you actually love sports if you
can't be the person making the moves. If you want
to make a lot of money, okay, fine, but why
get into sports. There's other things you can make a
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lot of money in. You can manage a hedge fund,
can you can invest in other investments on Wall Street
or real estate and make a ton of money. You
don't have to deal with any of the fallout when
things don't go right. But Jerry Jones is like, hey,
this is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Period.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Hard stuff all right? Now, the second part of this
NFL Films. People over there at NFL Films, they released
a clip. Now Hard Knocks had their final show of
the year, the preseason version of Hard Knocks, and they
released the clip. Now that the show's already here, I
have not watched the show, but I did see this
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part of it and I wanted to share it with you.
So Aaron Rodgers does a sit down in the Jets
practice bubble and he's talking to the NFL Films producers
and listen closely as a topic of conversation that was
involved UFOs and Aaron Rodgers had a first hand, eye
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witness account of an encounter.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Take a listen and heard this sound and we saw this.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Tremendously large object moving through the sky and it was
like a scene out of Independence Day. Whatever the hell
it was, I don't know, but it was definitely identified.
It was definitely flying. It was definitely a large object.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I like that. They added the dramatic music behind Aaron Rodgers.
Ooh do do do do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do doo.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Now I realize I do an overnight show. And when
you want to hear about UFOs, you flip over to
my friend George Nori. But I'm gonna try to tackle
this one, all right. I'm gonna try. I'm not coast
to Coast guy. Okay, I'm not West of the Rockies guy,
but I'm gonna attempt to answer this the question here
on this one.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
What is your viewpoint on Aaron.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Rodgers saying that he has spotted a UFO. He talked
about that in the clip that we just played there,
So this is more evidence we are getting Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Unplugged in the raw.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Aaron Rodgers and here's Martinus and in Green Bay, in
sleepy Green Bay. Occasionally we got a little bit of
a snapshot of the zany side of Aaron Rodgers, but
it wasn't consistent. It wasn't consistent that we got that
part of Aaron Rodgers. But now he's a j TS
Suck Suck Suck. So now he's with the Jets, and
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he's come out of his darkness retreat closet, and he's
let his hair down and he's just letting it rip.
And so we're getting the teetotaling version unfiltered of Aaron Rodgers.
Of course, that tea is psychedelic tea that Rogers is
sipping there, the ayahuasca from the top rope for Aaron Rodgers,
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and he is now the second starting quarterback that will
take the field this weekend that has had a close
encounter with a Remember the other quarterback that said they
saw some kind of goblins. Yes, you remember Baker Mayfield.
Good football knowledge, good alien knowledge by you. But Baker
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Mayfield said that he was driving on an old country
road and he saw some things late at night that
he could not identify, and he talked about that.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So Baker Mayfield and Aaron Rodgers, they do not play
each other this year, unfortunately, so we will not get
that all UFO matchup. Unfortunately, that will not happen. But
I would like to pitch a new reality show for
the NFL marketing people. There, mister Rogers, Spooky Campfire Neighborhood.
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It's a little long, we might have to shorten it,
but around the Campfire with airon Rogers. I already got
a sponsor. You get craft Foods involved, You get that
jet Puff Marshmallow as the sponsor there, and it's already
got the jet in the name, so that's perfect. And
you can sell marshmallows and roast them around the campfire.
That's the way to go. And at the very end,
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the dramatic end of the show, the final episode, Aaron
Rodgers pulls the mask off like Scooby Doobe Doo, and
it's revealed he's a lizard person. Ooh, that's good compelling TV. Now,
all kidding aside, unidentified flying objects are real? Are Yes,
(23:30):
they are real. I believe they are out there. Now,
that doesn't mean they're all from some other part, far
far away out in the heavens. I don't know the origins.
Maybe there's some kind of subset of goblins that live
on the planet. I know years ago when Kyrie Irving
started going off the deep end with the Celtics and
talked about the flat Earth and all that, and we
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talked about that, and then we get the Hollow Earth
people that started calling the show. Some of them still
send me their propaganda about the hollow Earth. So it's
conceivable maybe there's like a spot somewhere out in the
Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific where there's like a some
kind of portal and there's creatures that fly out of
this portal and examine us human beings, right, because we're
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a bunch of weirdos and all that. And wouldn't it
be great if Aaron Rodgers was the one that solved
the mystery wouldn't that be wonderful? Man, that would be good.
But I've seen some things over the years. I'm a believer.
I've walked around certain places out in the woods, and
I've seen some things that I had no explanation for that.
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Now you could say, well, those are drones, but at
the time there was no such thing as drones. I
have no idea. Now, final point. We quickly go to
retirement land where former NFL running back mark Ingram, who's
now part of the Fox broadcasting Empire, doing some college football.
He is grumbling about how his former contemporaries, the running
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backs in the NFL being treated. He had a money
quote during a recent podcast appearance. Mark Ingram said, it's
just cruelty what they're doing to the running back position.
He complained every other position he talked about them being
compensated for production, but the running back still gets or
still seems to be the outlier. So quickly thumbs up
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or thumbs down on mark Ingram saying running back pay
qualifies as cruelty. He used the word cruelty in his quote.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
So I'm gonna go thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down
on the mark Ingram quote.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Here very dramatic, very dramatic reading by mark ingram there,
and it's like some kind of Shakespearean drama. And while
running backs certainly are not being compensated at the same
rate as other star players on offense, I am not
naive to the fact that that is going on. I'm
also aware of the large disparity between the cartoonish world
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of the NFL and the real world where the rest
of us happen to live, what we call the real world,
And so just take a deep breath. I looked up
the numbers. The average NFL running back salary in twenty
twenty three is two point twenty five million dollars. That
is the average running back salary here in twenty twenty
three in America. The average full time employee, the average
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full time employee in America makes over fifty three thousand.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
You work full time, you have a decent job, you
get fifty three thousand on average.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
That's the median salary in America.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Running Backs get ninety seven point five percent more than
the standard median salary for a US work. So it's
still pretty good, especially considering that you've now become disposable
trash bags in the eyes of most front offices in
the NFL, and y you up your disposable trash bag.
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When all the pieces of rotting food go in the
trash bag, you then throw it away and get a
new trash bag.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
That's usually how it works.
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To the third degree. This is one big fent gets
grilled Coop hell Loop.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
It was reported on Monday that Steve Cohen and the
Mets will at least listen to trade offers for Pete
Alonzo this offseason. Ben, do you think he gets traded
or does Cohen pony up for an extension?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Why?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
As you know, Coop have boots in the ground or
on the ground there in New York. And here's what
I'm hearing. Both sides are pig headed. Pete Alonzo believes
he's worth the moon because he's hit all these home
runs even though the Mets suck. And the way it's
gonna go down, Stephen Cohen's gonna offer his best was
it they say in real estate, last best and final offer.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
That's what they say in real estate.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And then it's up to Alonzo whether he wants to
continue to be the King of Queens or not. The
smart money, though, says that Alonzo will be traded this offseason.
He will enter the transfer portal and he thinks he
can get more money in free agency, have a bidding war,
So I expect him to leave the Mets.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Next Yesterday you shot down DJ Reid's compare of the
Jets defense to all time greats like the eighty five
Bears and Legion of Boom.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Well, while DJ Reid was making those comparisons, Doug Peterson
was saying that Trevor Lawrence is on the same path
as Brett Farv and Dan Marino. Ben, how do you
feel about those comparisons? So, Doug Peterson is a very
boring interview. He doesn't say stuff. It's all that interesting.
But I actually am on the hype train with Trevor Lawrence.
I'll be Benny bright Side on this one. He started
(29:27):
looking near the end.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Of last season like he was back at Clemson and
they were playing Wake Forest or Boston College the way
that he was just tearing up everything. But you don't
earn the Dan Marino comparison after a couple of years.
You gotta do it for longer. The jag should win
the AFC South going away. If they don't, Doug Peterson
has some explaining to do. So it's gonna be a
(29:48):
big year in Jacksonville, win loss wise.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Next.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Tyron Lou told reporters on Monday that he expects Paul
George and Kawhi Leonard to both be one hundred percent
in time for training.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Oh please blow it out?
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Come on, Ben, will you give us an over under
on games.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Played for each Kawhi is gonna get injured? Going to
the team buffet is what's gonna happen. Though.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Listen, these guys will play fifty games or less. A
Kawhi will play about forty five. Paul George will play
about fifty at the most. They never play. How do
we know you passes? That is a win?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
You canna put it on the bar?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
What the guy?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
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Speaker 3 (30:39):
You idiot?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Password The Word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
So this is kind of crazy. We're gonna play password
the War Game of the Stars. There are roughly five
hundred million different names, and the people that have called
up to play password both have the same name. What
are the odds? Let's be what do you say? We'll
play the b Frank edition of past Word the Word
(31:05):
Game of the Stars.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
We've got.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I know name jokes are on Friday. We've got Frank
in Lost Wages, Nevada. Hello, Frank, Oh boy, I punched
the wrong line.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
All right, that happened. I hate when that happens. All Right,
there we go, Hello Frank.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Hello Ben?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
How's everything in Vegas? Right now?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It's warman back up again. The rain has stopped and
we're back to triple digits out.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Here, perfect Vegas weather tomorrow. There you go, live in
the dream. All right, Frank? What do you do? You
work in the hotel business? There, Frank? What do you
got going on in?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
I do?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I work at Resource World, the newest hotel on the strip. Nice.
I have not been there.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I'll have to check it out. Hold on to stop,
all right, I'll drop your name, Frank. Hold on a second,
and we have another Frank in Pennsylvania. Hello Frank, the
Pennsylvania Frank, Hey Ben.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Hello Frank, welcome. What part of pennsylvani you're in?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Frank Sea?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
What's that? Is that? Near something else?
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Philadelphia? Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Near Philly? I got you? All right? Well very cool? Well,
thank you, Frank. And you're are you just starting your.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Day or no, my night's over. I'm going over.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
My night's over too, in like eight minutes. My night's over.
It's wild crazy. Isn't that a great feeling?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
It's good feeling, right, great feeling.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It's a wonderful feeling. Yeah, what kind of work do
you do there, Frank?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
We're gonna wearhouse.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
We're gonna wearhouse, all right, very cool, honest job. You
need to take a shower, clean up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
All right, very good.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So we'll go to Frank Frank one who's in Vegas.
We'll punch him up here if we can not screw this. No,
that was definitely not him.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Hello, Frank in Vegas? All right, I'm here, all right, Frank?
Who do you want to partner up with? By the way, Coop,
I need to listen. Word, who do you want to
partner up with?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Their?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Frank in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Well, since my my favorite rock stars Alice Cooper, I
gotta go with Coop.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Oh, Cooper Loop.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Congratulations Coop and Frank and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
You worked all night there you're outside Philly. Who do
you want to partner up with? Coop Steak? You got
me or Eddie or Chris.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
M I'll take you be all right.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You sound like you're very excited to do that. Let's
play the game. We don't have a lot of time.
We have a list of words. One to ten Frank
in Vegas. Frank, you got on the air first, Vegas, Frank.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
So pick a number we go with. I'm going nine,
number nine, it's appropriate for Cooper loop. Go ahead there, Coop,
all right. Uh, we'll go with.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Swindler, Swingler, No, swindler, Oh, swindler.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I'm gonna go with uh loup rock. No, that is
it correct? Uh? I want to say what I want
to say. I don't think I'm allowed to say. But
let's go with de fraud.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Uh what do you say?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Beef? No, not beef? All right, boy, I thought this
would be easy.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Go ahead there, cool, We start out with ten points,
go down nine to eight, now seven, Let's go with
come on, Chop, chop, oh man, jop fraud Vegas Frank,
I'll are we not even get through one word? Come on,
(34:39):
holy holy canoli. No, that's not it. All right, Let's
go with how about trickster? Trickster Pennsylvania Frank, trickster?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Oh man?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
How about astro? How about astro?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
You can't say that you got your knuckle ahead?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Cheetah was the word cheter cheeter,
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The NFL season going to open up here and Kansas
City already given some barbecue.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
One of their players barbecued.
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Speaker 3 (00:56):
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Speaker 1 (01:00):
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Cansau City. That is the top of the NFL mountain.
You don't see a lot of mountains in Kansas City
have been there, but that's the top of the mountain.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's the peak.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm gonna try to get to that peak where Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is at the very top, and that is the focal
point as the NFL season begins tomorrow. This is our
Wednesday show, So this is the last day before there's
game action in the NFL and the raining Super Bowl
champions open up with the Lions. Now, in my life,
(02:28):
most of the time I saw the Lions was on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Every once in a while, when I was a kid,
they had this guy named Barry Sanders, and he used
to put the Lions on TV. But other than that, eh,
pretty much Thanksgiving. So it sounds like Kansas City is
going to be shorthanded in this game.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
If somehow you have been in.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
A shoebox and you just escape from the shoebox, first
of all, congratulations that you got out of the shoebox,
wonderful Bosotov. And also you might have missed the fact
that we learned the tight end, the all everything, all encompassing,
all powerful, almighty Travis Kelcey, who's more than just your
(03:10):
normal tight end. Travis Kelcey is down for the count.
He hyper extended his knee as he was dining on
snap Crackle pop for breakfast. It happened at practice on Tuesday,
and his status is in doubt for the Thursday night
opener against Detroit. You might say, well, just drug him up,
put a needle air, put some painkillers, and go out
(03:33):
and play. Well, that's your daddy's NFL they try to
avoid that, especially for week one. If it was a
playoff game, you'd say they just drug him up, he'd
go out there and play. Probably not going to happen here. Now,
state funded NFL network tells us that Kelsey is not
believed to be dealing with a long term injury. A
(03:56):
number of the online doctors. I get all my medicine
from doctors on X. That's where I get my medicine.
I don't know about you may maybe you actually go
to real doctors. But I go to my doctors on
X and they're all claiming this is not a big deal.
It'll be okay, but the timing sucks, the inflammation and
all that, and so, barring some kind of dramatic eleventh
(04:20):
hour plot twists, barring some kind of dramatic plot twist,
Kelsey's going to be out for the season opener against Detroit.
So let us discuss the question how precarious a situation
is Kansas City facing without Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
In the opener, I've got.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Press your Luck, Riverboat Gambler, and George W. Bush, and
we will combined all of these things together and we
are going to make the number one food dish in
Kansas City. A lot of dumb people, the uneducated, say
that it's barbecue, but those that live in the greater
Kansas City area, no, it's the Ben Mallard chicken fingers.
(05:01):
That is what that city is known for. Not the barbecue.
That's false advertising. It's the Mallard chicken fingers over there
at the landing. So a this is a the word
I will use. It's a good word.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I like it. I don't use it enough.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
A ramshackle, A ramshackle situation for the Chiefs heading into
the opener. There's just no other way to say it. Now,
the point spread has adjusted. They always adjust when there's
a big injury in the NFL if you're a name
ram player. So the point spread has been adjusting this game.
But it was a game going into it, and we
haven't made the official picking Benny versus the penny now
(05:37):
a big deal. But we still can pick the Thursday
games here on the radio and leaning heavily to the
Detroit Lions side of things, even prior to the Travis
Kelcey injury here, and so we already like Detroit, but
the spread shifting here because of the Kelsey injury.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Andy Reid, Big Ram.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Andy Reid and his guys are playing one of my
favorite game shows, Press your Luck. They really are playing
Press your Luck in Kansas City. The most competitive game
on television back in the day was Press your Luck.
It's a great game and big risks, big bucks on
the line and all that. And that's what's going on
in Kansas City right now. Andy Reid, he said, no wammy,
(06:19):
big money, big money.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
And stop double whammy. He got a double whammy.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Andy Reid has a double whammy going into this game.
Why if you look at Big Ben's big board, not
a list. Don't do lists. That's what juvenile people do.
We do not do list. But on Big Ben's big board.
You look at the top three players on Big Ben's
big board for Kansas City. Now, number one, like Secretariat
is Patrick Mahomes Mahomie, He's at number one. But number
(06:47):
two Travis Kelcey. You know who number three is. That's right,
Chris Jones. So heading into the season opener an Arrowhead
on Thursday night with a mad house expected there as
they hang a banner for the Super Bowl win a
year ago, they will be without two of their top
three players. Now I realize other people step up, happens
(07:08):
all the time. For a week or two, you can
make by, you know, make make do without Travis Kelsey.
But that means somebody like Marquez Valdez, Scantling, the Great
Sky Moore wonderful sky More, Kadarius Tony at wide receiver,
and Noah Gray. We don't even know who that is,
but apparently he's the backup tight end for Kansas City.
(07:31):
So those guys are going to have to put up
some impressive numbers. Now turning the Patriot, We're gonna stay
in the Heartland because Andy Reid announced that there has
been quote no progress in contract discussions with defensive tackle
Chris Jones, the aforementioned Chris Jones who has been holding
(07:51):
out throughout training camp.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Fact, just to.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Prove I am not a liar, we have an editing staff,
dozens of people. When they're not checking their phones, they
actually put sound in. And here's Andy Reid earlier commenting
about the situation with Chris Jones.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Can you provide any kind of update on discasts of
Chris Jones in terms of any progress or no progress.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
No progress, No progress, that's a dagger. That is a dagger,
No progress, zero nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So Jones he's got one year left, he's entering the
final year of his contract, and he's got a four year,
eighty million dollar contract. He's ending that he has missed
all of training camp. So did I By the way
holding out and he is hell bent on being paid
more than Aaron Donald. Now, fortunately for him. See, when
(08:45):
I go to the bosses here at FSR and say
I'd like to get Colin Coward money, they just laugh
at me and point at the door. When Chris Jones
goes to Andy Reid and the Chiefs and says I
would like Aaron Donald money, they apparently do not laugh
at him. They just ignore him. And that's how they
kind of do that. But are you surprised? Are you surprised?
(09:06):
The Chiefs continue to be at impass with Chris Jones,
so you can't see me, but I am shaking my head. No,
I am not. Chris Jones is in the fox hole.
He is not this foxhole because it's different foxholes, but
he's in the fox hole, and he has barricaded himself
(09:26):
from reality. He believes that if he stays strong and
does a hunger strike, that he'll be able to get
what he wants. Here, Chris Jones is playing the role
of the riverboat gambler. The river boat gambler, that is
the role. He's betting that the Chiefs are going to
go out against the Detroit Lions and Jared goff and
(09:47):
I'm on Saint Brown and all of the playmakers the
Lions have assembled here, and that Chiefs defense is going
to go out and be roasted like a pig at
a traditional Hawaiian luau by the Lions. And even if
Kansas City wins the game because they happen to outscore
the Lions, because the Lions defense ain't that great. Even
if that's the case, it's still a feather in the
(10:09):
cap for Chris Jones and gives him more leverage. Now,
Andy Reid and his friends, they're like, well, we're betting
the other one. We're betting that the Chiefs will be
able to weather the clouds and the storm clouds and
all that, and we'll get this guy at you know,
a decent amount of money later on. He's already been
fining Chris Jones two million dollars and he's gonna keep
(10:33):
getting fined over a million dollars for every game that
he doesn't show up for.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And that is the definition of a high stakes game
of check out. Yeah, all right, last week, let's go
to Vegas.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We had some moving and shaking, as we often do
in lost wages, and nobody this evolves the quarterback, not
my quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo. We learned the Raiders have redone
the contract of Jimmy G. According to a story I
read the other day, very popular with the porn stars.
They love Jimmy J and he loves them. Who doesn't anyway,
(11:09):
So Garoppolo signed a three year contract for seventy two
million with the Raiders this offseason, and before he even
takes a regular season snap, the Raiders have redone the contract.
So what does the Jimmy G renegotiation, the restructuring with
the Raiders tell us. It tells us a couple of
(11:30):
things that Vegas is I was extending what turns out
to be the pre nuptial agreement with Jimmy D. And
by restructuring the contract, that is a guarantee they are
locked in now. And you know, you're never really locked in,
but they're more locked in now that twenty twenty four
will also be a Jimmy G year, that they're going
to roll the dice with Jimmy G in twenty twenty four,
(11:53):
and the Silver and Black they lowered Garoppolos salary cap number.
The bigger meaning though, the bigger meaning to the Garoppolo
renegotiation with the Raiders is its validation of a take.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
We've had an old take, and I love when my
old takes are validated. It's validated.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
The take that was validated is that the salary cap
is bull crap. This is validation. This is absolute validation.
George W. Bush was correct years ago when he was
analyzing the arithmetic, and I said, this is fuzzy math.
The salarycap is fuzzy math. You can easily finagle the books.
(12:30):
You can manipulate the numbers and get more money out
of thin air. The Raiders just came up with seventeen
million dollars out of thin air because they move some
decimal points around.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It's completely coach, it's completely loud. So anytime it team.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Says we don't alreadymodeed Kansas City, we don't have any
sorry cap space, they could absolutely get it in two seconds.
Just move some numbers around and the decimal points and alekazaam,
You've got your money.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
That's all you need.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
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Speaker 3 (13:04):
You must follow the rules of the township. You must
do that well, GM.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
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So when you're.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
In the township of Jerry, you have to follow the
rules of Jerry or if you're in his world, not
just township, it's his own world. And that is where
we begin this hour of marginal overnight sports talk radio.
So more nuclear fallout, more nuclear fallout from the Trey
(14:26):
Lance trade. From the Niners to the Cowboys. Everyone loves
a backup quarterback. People love to talk about backup quarterbacks
even when they don't play, and when they do play,
they don't play that well, so if you have not
heard the latest on this, maybe not. Jerry Jones made
sure to remind the great Hovoage that he does not
(14:48):
have to answer to anyone, at any time, anywhere when
it comes to roster decisions for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
How do we know this? Well?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Jerry Jones did his weekly paid Dallas radio spot and
he commented about his mythology, the method to the Madness.
If you will hear that Jerry uses to make trades
for the Cowboys, Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
The way we're structured gets a lot of criticism, unquestionably
it does, but it lets us do a trade like
we did the other day on Lands. Because I didn't
have to fool her out. I can make that trade
in five minutes because I had all the information just
right at my fingertips of what we thought of his
play was the last couple of years. I knew what
(15:35):
we thought of him. I didn't have to visit with
anybody about what kind of player he is, and so
I was able to make the call. Relative we didn't
want to put the resources in him, want to develop
him where he'd fit on the whole team. I don't
have to talk to anybody about that.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah. See, I don't need to talk to anybody, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
So the question as we discussed the question on this one,
Jerry Jones, you heard him say it. He did not
need to let anyone else know about the Trey Lance trade.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Does this make sense? Does this make sense?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So I have Denzel Washington, campfire, and Shakespearean and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Cracker jacks at the at the stadium.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know, you can eat the play regular popcorn, but
popcorn covered in sugar much better. And you get those
peanuts mixed in there as well. So number wha. Yes,
Jerry Jones is announcing there is no bureaucracy with the Cowboys. See,
you think about big government entities and you try to
(16:42):
get anything through the government, whether it's local or federal government,
and it's a big pain in the ass. Right, there's
a lot of people that have their hand involved in
doing anything. Well, Jerry's like, well, this the Cowboys, we
do anything we want, of course we meaning me. I'm
Jerry Jones. And it reminds me when I was a kid,
(17:05):
there was a ad campaign for Remington raisers, and the
ad campaign featured a guy who actually did briefly own
the Patriots, Victor Kaiam, and the slogan the catchphrase was
that he liked the company so much he bought it.
And so Jerry Jones liked the Cowboys so much, and
(17:26):
he borrowed his daddy's money and he got the Cowboys,
and he's never giving up the Dallas cowby he will
die the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. And he also
realizes that he is at the very top of the
food chain. And when you're at the top of the
food chain, it doesn't matter. A lion does not concern
himself with the opinion of the sheep. That's just the
(17:49):
way it is. And the sheep in this case Mike McCarthy,
Now he's a big sheep, big animal there, Mike McCarthy,
But he just doesn't care. Jerry doesn't care. And that's
the power structure in the the uncharted territories of Jerry's world.
And in this part of the screenplay about the Cowboys
and how they acquire players. In this part of the
(18:14):
Jerry Jones story, he's actually playing a Denzel Washington character
from an old football movie. Remember the Titans saw that
movie back in the day. Remember the Titans. You might
remember the scene where Denzel who played Coach Boone, said
that this is no democracy. This is a dictatorship.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I am the law.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
That's essentially Jerry Jones, And he's not wrong. If I
bought an NFL team, I'd be the same way. And
I bet you if you bought an NFL team, you'd
be the same way. What's the point of owning a
sports franchise? Who but you actually love sports if you
can't be the person making the moves. If you want
to make a lot of money, okay, fine, but why
get into sports. There's other things you can make a
(18:59):
lot of money in. You can manage a hedge fund,
can you can invest in other investments on Wall Street
or real estate and make a ton of money. You
don't have to deal with any of the fallout when
things don't go right. But Jerry Jones is like, hey,
this is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Period.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Hard stuff all right? Now, the second part of this
NFL Films. People over there at NFL Films, they released
a clip. Now Hard Knocks had their final show of
the year, the preseason version of Hard Knocks, and they
released the clip. Now that the show's already here, I
have not watched the show, but I did see this
(19:39):
part of it and I wanted to share it with you.
So Aaron Rodgers does a sit down in the Jets
practice bubble and he's talking to the NFL Films producers
and listen closely as a topic of conversation that was
involved UFOs and Aaron Rodgers had a first hand, eye
(20:00):
witness account of an encounter.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Take a listen and heard this sound and we saw this.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Tremendously large object moving through the sky and it was
like a scene out of Independence Day. Whatever the hell
it was, I don't know, but it was definitely identified.
It was definitely flying. It was definitely a large object.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I like that. They added the dramatic music behind Aaron Rodgers.
Ooh do do do do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do doo.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Now I realize I do an overnight show. And when
you want to hear about UFOs, you flip over to
my friend George Nori. But I'm gonna try to tackle
this one, all right. I'm gonna try. I'm not coast
to Coast guy. Okay, I'm not West of the Rockies guy,
but I'm gonna attempt to answer this the question here
on this one.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
What is your viewpoint on Aaron.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Rodgers saying that he has spotted a UFO. He talked
about that in the clip that we just played there,
So this is more evidence we are getting Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Unplugged in the raw.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Aaron Rodgers and here's Martinus and in Green Bay, in
sleepy Green Bay. Occasionally we got a little bit of
a snapshot of the zany side of Aaron Rodgers, but
it wasn't consistent. It wasn't consistent that we got that
part of Aaron Rodgers. But now he's a j TS
Suck Suck Suck. So now he's with the Jets, and
(21:28):
he's come out of his darkness retreat closet, and he's
let his hair down and he's just letting it rip.
And so we're getting the teetotaling version unfiltered of Aaron Rodgers.
Of course, that tea is psychedelic tea that Rogers is
sipping there, the ayahuasca from the top rope for Aaron Rodgers,
(21:51):
and he is now the second starting quarterback that will
take the field this weekend that has had a close
encounter with a Remember the other quarterback that said they
saw some kind of goblins. Yes, you remember Baker Mayfield.
Good football knowledge, good alien knowledge by you. But Baker
(22:13):
Mayfield said that he was driving on an old country
road and he saw some things late at night that
he could not identify, and he talked about that.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So Baker Mayfield and Aaron Rodgers, they do not play
each other this year, unfortunately, so we will not get
that all UFO matchup. Unfortunately, that will not happen. But
I would like to pitch a new reality show for
the NFL marketing people. There, mister Rogers, Spooky Campfire Neighborhood.
(22:47):
It's a little long, we might have to shorten it,
but around the Campfire with airon Rogers. I already got
a sponsor. You get craft Foods involved, You get that
jet Puff Marshmallow as the sponsor there, and it's already
got the jet in the name, so that's perfect. And
you can sell marshmallows and roast them around the campfire.
That's the way to go. And at the very end,
(23:08):
the dramatic end of the show, the final episode, Aaron
Rodgers pulls the mask off like Scooby Doobe Doo, and
it's revealed he's a lizard person. Ooh, that's good compelling TV. Now,
all kidding aside, unidentified flying objects are real? Are Yes,
(23:30):
they are real. I believe they are out there. Now,
that doesn't mean they're all from some other part, far
far away out in the heavens. I don't know the origins.
Maybe there's some kind of subset of goblins that live
on the planet. I know years ago when Kyrie Irving
started going off the deep end with the Celtics and
talked about the flat Earth and all that, and we
(23:51):
talked about that, and then we get the Hollow Earth
people that started calling the show. Some of them still
send me their propaganda about the hollow Earth. So it's
conceivable maybe there's like a spot somewhere out in the
Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific where there's like a some
kind of portal and there's creatures that fly out of
this portal and examine us human beings, right, because we're
(24:15):
a bunch of weirdos and all that. And wouldn't it
be great if Aaron Rodgers was the one that solved
the mystery wouldn't that be wonderful? Man, that would be good.
But I've seen some things over the years. I'm a believer.
I've walked around certain places out in the woods, and
I've seen some things that I had no explanation for that.
(24:36):
Now you could say, well, those are drones, but at
the time there was no such thing as drones. I
have no idea. Now, final point. We quickly go to
retirement land where former NFL running back mark Ingram, who's
now part of the Fox broadcasting Empire, doing some college football.
He is grumbling about how his former contemporaries, the running
(24:59):
backs in the NFL being treated. He had a money
quote during a recent podcast appearance. Mark Ingram said, it's
just cruelty what they're doing to the running back position.
He complained every other position he talked about them being
compensated for production, but the running back still gets or
still seems to be the outlier. So quickly thumbs up
(25:22):
or thumbs down on mark Ingram saying running back pay
qualifies as cruelty. He used the word cruelty in his quote.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
So I'm gonna go thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down
on the mark Ingram quote.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Here very dramatic, very dramatic reading by mark ingram there,
and it's like some kind of Shakespearean drama. And while
running backs certainly are not being compensated at the same
rate as other star players on offense, I am not
naive to the fact that that is going on. I'm
also aware of the large disparity between the cartoonish world
(26:02):
of the NFL and the real world where the rest
of us happen to live, what we call the real world,
And so just take a deep breath. I looked up
the numbers. The average NFL running back salary in twenty
twenty three is two point twenty five million dollars. That
is the average running back salary here in twenty twenty
three in America. The average full time employee, the average
(26:29):
full time employee in America makes over fifty three thousand.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
You work full time, you have a decent job, you
get fifty three thousand on average.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
That's the median salary in America.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Running Backs get ninety seven point five percent more than
the standard median salary for a US work. So it's
still pretty good, especially considering that you've now become disposable
trash bags in the eyes of most front offices in
the NFL, and y you up your disposable trash bag.
(27:01):
When all the pieces of rotting food go in the
trash bag, you then throw it away and get a
new trash bag.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
That's usually how it works.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
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Speaker 4 (27:52):
Rich give me the hell.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, here we go, It's Mallard. How about that.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
To the third degree. This is one big fent gets
grilled Coop hell Loop.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
It was reported on Monday that Steve Cohen and the
Mets will at least listen to trade offers for Pete
Alonzo this offseason. Ben, do you think he gets traded
or does Cohen pony up for an extension?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Why?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
As you know, Coop have boots in the ground or
on the ground there in New York. And here's what
I'm hearing. Both sides are pig headed. Pete Alonzo believes
he's worth the moon because he's hit all these home
runs even though the Mets suck. And the way it's
gonna go down, Stephen Cohen's gonna offer his best was
it they say in real estate, last best and final offer.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
That's what they say in real estate.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And then it's up to Alonzo whether he wants to
continue to be the King of Queens or not. The
smart money, though, says that Alonzo will be traded this offseason.
He will enter the transfer portal and he thinks he
can get more money in free agency, have a bidding war,
So I expect him to leave the Mets.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Next Yesterday you shot down DJ Reid's compare of the
Jets defense to all time greats like the eighty five
Bears and Legion of Boom.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Well, while DJ Reid was making those comparisons, Doug Peterson
was saying that Trevor Lawrence is on the same path
as Brett Farv and Dan Marino. Ben, how do you
feel about those comparisons? So, Doug Peterson is a very
boring interview. He doesn't say stuff. It's all that interesting.
But I actually am on the hype train with Trevor Lawrence.
I'll be Benny bright Side on this one. He started
(29:27):
looking near the end.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Of last season like he was back at Clemson and
they were playing Wake Forest or Boston College the way
that he was just tearing up everything. But you don't
earn the Dan Marino comparison after a couple of years.
You gotta do it for longer. The jag should win
the AFC South going away. If they don't, Doug Peterson
has some explaining to do. So it's gonna be a
(29:48):
big year in Jacksonville, win loss wise.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Next.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Tyron Lou told reporters on Monday that he expects Paul
George and Kawhi Leonard to both be one hundred percent
in time for training.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Oh please blow it out?
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Come on, Ben, will you give us an over under
on games.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Played for each Kawhi is gonna get injured? Going to
the team buffet is what's gonna happen. Though.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Listen, these guys will play fifty games or less. A
Kawhi will play about forty five. Paul George will play
about fifty at the most. They never play. How do
we know you passes? That is a win?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
You canna put it on the bar?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
What the guy?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
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Speaker 3 (30:39):
You idiot?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Password The Word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
So this is kind of crazy. We're gonna play password
the War Game of the Stars. There are roughly five
hundred million different names, and the people that have called
up to play password both have the same name. What
are the odds? Let's be what do you say? We'll
play the b Frank edition of past Word the Word
(31:05):
Game of the Stars.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
We've got.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I know name jokes are on Friday. We've got Frank
in Lost Wages, Nevada. Hello, Frank, Oh boy, I punched
the wrong line.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
All right, that happened. I hate when that happens. All Right,
there we go, Hello Frank.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Hello Ben?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
How's everything in Vegas? Right now?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It's warman back up again. The rain has stopped and
we're back to triple digits out.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Here, perfect Vegas weather tomorrow. There you go, live in
the dream. All right, Frank? What do you do? You
work in the hotel business? There, Frank? What do you
got going on in?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
I do?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I work at Resource World, the newest hotel on the strip. Nice.
I have not been there.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I'll have to check it out. Hold on to stop,
all right, I'll drop your name, Frank. Hold on a second,
and we have another Frank in Pennsylvania. Hello Frank, the
Pennsylvania Frank, Hey Ben.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Hello Frank, welcome. What part of pennsylvani you're in?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Frank Sea?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
What's that? Is that? Near something else?
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Philadelphia? Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Near Philly? I got you? All right? Well very cool? Well,
thank you, Frank. And you're are you just starting your.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Day or no, my night's over. I'm going over.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
My night's over too, in like eight minutes. My night's over.
It's wild crazy. Isn't that a great feeling?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
It's good feeling, right, great feeling.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It's a wonderful feeling. Yeah, what kind of work do
you do there, Frank?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
We're gonna wearhouse.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
We're gonna wearhouse, all right, very cool, honest job. You
need to take a shower, clean up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
All right, very good.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So we'll go to Frank Frank one who's in Vegas.
We'll punch him up here if we can not screw this. No,
that was definitely not him.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Hello, Frank in Vegas? All right, I'm here, all right, Frank?
Who do you want to partner up with? By the way, Coop,
I need to listen. Word, who do you want to
partner up with?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Their?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Frank in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Well, since my my favorite rock stars Alice Cooper, I
gotta go with Coop.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Oh, Cooper Loop.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Congratulations Coop and Frank and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
You worked all night there you're outside Philly. Who do
you want to partner up with? Coop Steak? You got
me or Eddie or Chris.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
M I'll take you be all right.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You sound like you're very excited to do that. Let's
play the game. We don't have a lot of time.
We have a list of words. One to ten Frank
in Vegas. Frank, you got on the air first, Vegas, Frank.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
So pick a number we go with. I'm going nine,
number nine, it's appropriate for Cooper loop. Go ahead there, Coop,
all right. Uh, we'll go with.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Swindler, Swingler, No, swindler, Oh, swindler.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I'm gonna go with uh loup rock. No, that is
it correct? Uh? I want to say what I want
to say. I don't think I'm allowed to say. But
let's go with de fraud.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Uh what do you say?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Beef? No, not beef? All right, boy, I thought this
would be easy.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Go ahead there, cool, We start out with ten points,
go down nine to eight, now seven, Let's go with
come on, Chop, chop, oh man, jop fraud Vegas Frank,
I'll are we not even get through one word? Come on,
(34:39):
holy holy canoli. No, that's not it. All right, Let's
go with how about trickster? Trickster Pennsylvania Frank, trickster?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Oh man?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
How about astro? How about astro?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
You can't say that you got your knuckle ahead?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Cheetah was the word cheter cheeter,
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