September 7, 2023 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about Nick Bosa signing an historic contract extension with the 49ers, the odds that Caleb Williams decides to return to USC, Maller to the Third Degree, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, #AskBen, and more!
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we not on the pulse of what the average overnight
sports talk radio consumer wants to talk about?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
A defensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Just talking moments ago in the hallways here at Fox
Sports Radio with the world famous Mike Harmon, and we
were discussing how the one thing that people really crave
when listening to sports communication audio communication is talk about
defensive tackles. You think about all the people that have
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bought tickets to watch defensive tackles play football. It's just
an amazing, amazing amount of money that the defensive tackle
position has raised. A lot of people go to the games.
They don't want to watch the quarterback or the running
back of the wide receiver. Now it's the defensive tackle.
That's where it's at. So the eagle has landed, or
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in this case, the forty Niner has landed. After forty
three days and nights at Impass, the Niners have paid demand.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And boy have they ever paid the man.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
If you have not heard yet, and maybe not, the
San Francisco football team has issued a massive, cartoon size
check to defensive tackle Nick Bosa gets paid? How much?
Five years, one hundred and seventy million dollars. But even
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if he sucks, he's going to be the highest paid
non quarterback in NFL history because the actual amount. See
people say the one hundred and seventy million, which is
a good number. Boy, I'd like to have that number.
But the number that's even better than that is the
actual guaranteed amount of money. And we are told that
Nick Bosa is going to get over one hundred and
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twenty two million. He lives in California though during the season,
so after taxes heal clear about five hundred thousand. But
still still that's a good amount of money compared to
everyone else. So the extension one hundred and twenty two
and a half million, as we put the contract in
a context, it is now the gold standard for anyone
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not playing the quarterback position. So let us discuss how
can Nick Bosa live up to the forty nine er contract.
So I've got Navy cockpaid and Central casting, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some gulash. That's where we're gonna make
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some delicious gulash over noodles on a kind of a
cool night. That's a good thing to now, No, it's
cool right now, but it'll be cool soon enough, so
Navy Cockpit and Central casting, and we will begin with this.
Nick Bosa goes without saying, but we'll say it anyway
because we have time to fill. He's now in a
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different zip code, right, He's in a different zip code.
He's moving on up to the east side, a deluxe
apartment in the sky. And he definitely has a piece
of the pie there for the forty nine Ers, as
the old TV show said back in the day, and
an amazing Mitzvah. Now, I don't know Nick Bosa. I'm
certainly not a forty nine Ers fan. They're a rival
of a team that I like. But from a football standpoint,
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this is a wonderful move. Nick Bosa has been a
dominant player. That's why he's getting paid.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
It's wonderful mits as he said. And Nick Bosa, though,
becomes the measuring stick, and he is now swimming in
a very small fish bowl as the highest paid non
quarterback in the NFL. He has won not Mallor's mount
of money, the forty nine Ers mountain of money is
what he is taking home now, one hundred and twenty
two million dollars now among defensive players. His annual salary
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before taxes thirty four million dollars, So that passes like
ships passing in the night. Aaron Donald of the LA
rams at thirty one point seven million. I know you're
concerned about the finances of Aaron Donald as well. Does
he need to renegotiate? So this means is an old
line that one of the great boxing promoters from a
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different generation used to have, And I'm gonna I'm going
to repurpose the line from Don King, who is I
believe still alive. He's right there near the pearly gates,
but he's still with us, Don King, and he said,
of situations like this, the guy like Nick Bos defensive
tackle with the forty nine ers, is now going to
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be more scrutinized, dep politicized, dramatized, chastise, analyze, moralized, stigmatized, sensationalized,
and criticized.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Than anyone other than quarterbacks. It's the way it is.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And every mistake, every bad game, every time he gets
hurt and misses a game that will be highlighted.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
It goes with the real estate. And I think we'd
all sign up for it. I know I would.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
My hand is raised. I would sign up for it,
and so would you. So but Nick Bosa now he
has to go full to in order to make this
work right? What does Nick Bosa have to do in
order of making this contract a success? For him, it's
a success no matter what. But for everyone involved, what
does it need to happen? What has to happen? So
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Nick Bosa, after several seconds of thinking about this, Nick
Bosa needs to go full Navy. He needs to in
order to live up the contract. I say Navy. He
has to drop anchor as the headliner anchoring a championship defense.
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Aaron Donald did it now, Aaron donng got paid a lot,
got paid a lot more after the Rams had won
the Super Bowl. Nick Bosa has been in the big
Game with the forty Niners, but he hadn't won it.
The Niners have been knocking on the door in the NFC,
but they haven't gotten it done. And so that's it.
I say, with all these contracts in baseball, basketball, football,
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in terms of the team component, you gotta win.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Mookie Betts when he came over to the Dodgers in the.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Red Sox got paid insane to the membrane amount of
money forever contract, but won the hardest World Series of
all time twenty twenty in a global pandemic with the Dodgers,
So he no matter what happens the rest of the way,
that's that's there you go. Dodgers hadn't won a World
Series in a generation, forty nine ers. It's starting to
add up for the Niners, right, Joe Montana, Steve Young,
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those guys are all so the Niner Those of us
that remember the forty nine ers winning all the time,
getting old ourselves all right now page two here, there's
a lot of buzz around the football world of what
this leads to. The fallout from Nick Bosa getting paid
most money for a non quarterback in NFL history. We
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saw Micah Parsons talked about him in a previous episode
of the show Michaeh Parsons Defensive Star in Dallas, saying
he's quote super happy close quote for the forty nine
er rival mister Bosa. So if you take three steps back,
here's the question on this one. What does the Nick
Bosa contract do for Micah Parsons, who doesn't play Obviously
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the Niners in Dallas, So the pilot has gotten on
the PA system and told the flight crew to prepare
the cabin for takeoff. We're about to take off here,
and the Parsons is currently sitting in the cockpit.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And the airline.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
He's not flying American or Delta or Southwest or JetBlue.
He is instead flying the Mega Millions airline. And he's
gonna be in the cockpit here. It's a relay race,
and Nick Bosa has just handed off to Micah. Parson's
the hammer, the golden hammer, and that is the next
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milestone to pass will now be Nick Posa. And that
seems to be the way it works. Whoever's next gets
paid the big money. Now last, we're gonna move away
from the forty nine ers. We have a story involving
the last starting quarterback that has now been named. After
days and days of treading water, we go to Arizona
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and one of the few times we can talk about
the Cardinals, the last puzzle piece, the last jigsaw puzzle piece,
has been put in on your quarterback puzzle. As the
Arizona Cardinals, we are told projected to be the worst
team in the NFL, they have named Joshua Dobbs as
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their starting quarterback. That's right, josh Dobbs will be out
there instead of Clayton Tune. He wins the job, and
Arizona opens up with the Washington Commanders, and Dobbs will
be the commander of the Cardinals huddle. He'll be breaking
the huddle there. So how will Joshua Dobbs do as
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the Cardinals quarterback? I'm glad you asked, so.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I don't think he'll be terrible. I don't. I rather
you don't.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I mean there's actually some value Arizona is. The perception
on Arizona is so terrible. I mean, getting ready for
this TV show Benny Versus the Penny, and I'm looking
at some of these teams that are dreadful. I'm like, well,
is they're a shot. They can kind of hang around,
and Arizona's brutal. They're trying to suck and all that,
but that doesn't mean they're gonna get smoked in every game.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Doesn't mean that.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And Nick Bosa is the epitome of the perfect quarterback
of the Cardinals. As I said, because it's right out
of Central Casting. The Cardinals' goal.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Is to blow right.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
They just wanna be sucky mix suck is what they
want to be in Arizona, and so you got this
substitute teacher who's in there. It's like, ah, you know,
people say, let him watch cartoons all day. I'm a
sub man.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
When I was a.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
School and he had a substitute teacher who had no
no ability to teach, and they's like, oh, let's watch
movies today.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We're gonna watch a movie. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yes, that's good teaching. Let's watch old movies. That's wonderful.
But the goal is to not get blown out anything.
They want to be bad, but you want to not
be dreadfully bad. And so Dobbs can be a professional
and at times make some game changing plays, but will
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also equalize that by going out and tripping over his
own shoelaces from time to time. So the Cardinal I
don't think they're gonna drown.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm very rarely.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Wrong when it comes to this. And once the injuries
pole See that's the problem. Once you get later in
the year and the injuries start piling up, you don't
have a lot of depth to start with, and then
that really becomes a self fulfilling prophecy of doom for
your team.
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Hope all as well. We're back at it again. This
is the beginning of the NFL season. Travis Kelcey and
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the Chiefs open up with the lines it sounds like
Kelsey might play after Doom and Gloom from Andy Reid
Big Rhea the other day, we'll find out be very dramatic.
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Imagine they'll have the.
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Big build up on the peacock there over there, they'll celebrate.
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Oh, Travis Kelsey game time. They'll shoot and he's gone
up play unless he does. But he rarely missed his game.
So that game will be going on tonight and we'll
spend pretty much the rest of our time here until
the end of the Super Bowl talking about the NFL.
So I wanted to squeeze it a little bit of
some college football. There's a good story in the mantra.
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We have a lot of mantras. We have more mantras
than listeners. But one of our mantras is to go
where the news of the day Texas and go where
the story is. And the story that caught my attention
is out of GQ magazine. As you know, if you've
seen my wardrobe, I am mister GQ.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Here at Fox Sports Radio, people always compliment me on
the shorts iewear, the sandals I wear. They very impressed anyway.
So this involves a Heisman Trophy winner. It has been assumed.
You know what happens when you assume that se quarterback
Caleb Williams will say bye bye to the campus of
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the University of Southern California and will enter the NFL Draft,
the twenty twenty four vintage of the NFL Draft. He
would in this most mostly consensus believe he'd be the
number one pick in the NFL Draft unless there's some
kind of scandal. There is chatter, and there has been
chatter that says he doesn't want to play for the
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Arizona Cardinals. And so even though the Cardinals are doing
everything they can to get Caleb Williams, they have not
only their pick, they also have the Houston Texans pick.
They're starting Josh Dobbs. That is a sign they want
Caleb Williams. So anyway, with all that there is, there's
talk to Caleb Williams wants nothing to do with Arizona.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
He's got a problem with what a burger. They're like cactus.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
He's allergic to Sayand I don't know, I have no idea,
but that's the word.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
And so he said, well, that's just chatter, that's just speculation.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
There's nothing too well now entering the chat the father
of Caleb Williams who has decided to pour jet fuel
all over that rumor. So the rumor now has life.
If you did not hear, if you did not see
this and maybe you missed it. Caleb Williams pops the
patriarch of the Williams family. There, Car Carl Williams is
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his name, but you never heard that before. Carl Williams,
the father of Caleb willimploy. This guy's thinking he's on
easy street, right, His kid's going to be the number
one pick in the NFL draft. Chi ching, Chi ching,
Chi ching. Anyway, Carl Williams, get to the point, please,
The father of Caleb gave cretency backed up the conspiracy
theory that Caleb Williams will forego the NFL Draft to
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stay at SC. In this GQ article that was published
this week. He mentioned Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray, who
both have ties to the USC coach when he was
in Oklahoma, and pointing out that those guys were flops,
and the theory is they were they were flops because
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they happened to be drafted by bad teams like the
Cleveland Browns and the Arizona Cardins. The quote was, I'll
give you the quote verbatim from Carl Williams quote. He
meaning Caleb, He's got two shots at the app So
if there's not a good situation. The truth is he
can come back to school. He then complained about the
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way the NFL is set up where the worst teams
are rewarded with the top pick, thus assuring the top
players in college football will be forced to play for
dog food teams. He did not use the word dog food.
That is my contribution to this particular story. So let
us discuss the question, what are the odds the updated outs?
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What are the updated odds that Caleb Williams would actually
skip the NFL draft and return to the University of
Southern California. So Malard sportsbook odds on this. I'm gonna
set the odds at plus two ninety. Now that implies
about a twenty five percent chance. I've got piggy Bank,
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pied Piper, and decals, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
fruit salad. The only salad I will eat is a
fruit salad. You know why, No lettuce was harmed to
make a fruit salad. So that's why I will all right,
So number one, normally we dismiss the scenario of Caleb Williams,
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star college player, going back to college and not going
to the NFL, and historically speaking, that's been the proper take,
that's been the right take. You've been on the right
side of the take when you've done that. But the
landscape has changed. Now we are in the new frontier
of college football. And so I am gonna be Benny
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bright Side. I'll put my tinfoil hat on this one.
And I believe there is a twenty five percent chance,
as I said, that Caleb Williams is going to go
back to SC. He is not beholden to the NFL
for a payday. He's been making pretty good money for
a couple of years now, so there's no need to
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rush and get that NFL money. And one thing I've
known over the years, they used to go to SC
football games all the time, back when they had Pete
Carroll's the coach million years ago. Those boosters at USC
they have really really deep pockets.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Are those pockets deep?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Man?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And they drive nice cars, they live in big houses,
and they love to support the old college football team
and the players. Now you can, legally, it's all kosher.
You can cut big checks to Caleb Williams. So Williams
can stay with the Trojans and he can get a
piggy bank. Here, a piggy bank, there, a piggy bank
in the back, a piggy bank everywhere, and name, image
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and likeness. A little birdie chirped in my ear that
Caleb Williams right now to play quarterback at the University
of Soully, California. The student athlete is making three million dollars,
about three million dollars he's taking in this year to
play college football. So either way he's a made man.
The only the only drawback, and there is a drawback
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to going back to college. The big money in the
NFL is the second contract. So if you go back
to college, you'll take maybe five million, get five million
dollars to the other active, get an extra two million
dollars on nil, so you make five million, but it
delays by a year, that second contract. That's where you
make the cartoon money in the NFL game, the second contract.
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So that is a drawback. I also hate the redistricting,
the jerry mandering of I don't want to play for
that team. I've always been of a belief if you're
good enough, if you're strong enough, if you're fast enough,
it doesn't matter where you go. You will find a
way to succeed. To me, it's the ultimate defeatist attitude.
It's like, well, I could only be I have to
play for this tream, and if I don't play for
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I don't know why. Let's seem I'm doomed. The reason
Baker Mayfield stunk in the NFL and Kyler Murray is
not because they happen to be drafted by the Cleveland
Browns and the Arizona Cardinals. It's because they didn't play well.
It's not a coach's fault, it's not somebody else's fault.
Take responsibility and accountability.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
How about that? All right? Now?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Page two, we go to TV Land. As a part
time TV guy, I feel like I'm more up to
talking television. So anyway, I read this in the trades.
They talked about the ratings for the Colorado TCU matchup
this past weekend.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Do you see this?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
They got a three point eight rating, which translates to
seven point two million viewers for the season premiere on
Fox Big Noons Saturday. And what does that mean in
Layman's terms? I'm glad you asked.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
So.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
It's the largest opening week college football audience ever on Fox.
Never have they had this many people watching the opening weekend,
and it was the number one sports broadcast across all
the networks on Saturday. So how do you interpret here's
the quest, how do you interpret Colorado being a Baffosaco
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hit their football program dominating the television ratings. So the
first thought I have is people love stories. I've known that, right,
We learn from stories. People love stories, they love good stories,
they love bad stories. Dion Sanders is the king of
that old belief that those that tell.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
The stories rule the world.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And Coach Prime's got a really good screenplay, really good.
Dion Sanders is the piper of college football. He is,
He's the pied piper of college football. He's got that
personality that celebrity. We know everyone worships celebrities in this country,
and he's charismatic and he just attracts people. And he's
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also someone that crosses over generations. Dian hasn't played football
in a long time, but he's still been on television.
People know who he is, and so he crosses generations.
The Buffaloes that win average nearly three million more viewers
than the other noon Eastern time kickoffs combined. That's how
big an audience, Colorado drew on television and it really
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is fields of dream type stuff where if you build
it not he will come. They will come in this
case because they did. And it's a great opening act.
And now there's an encore against Nebraska, and how will
Colorado do in the encore performance?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Final point?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Let's go to Columbus, Ohio, the Buckeyes. Did you see
a former Ohio State quarterback unloading on the fame base
of that institution?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Now, Kirk Herbstree, you used play quarterback for the buck
Eyes back in the day.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
What very good.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And he is attacking what he calls the lunatic fringe,
the lunatic fringe of Ohio State football supporters. This after
the Buck guys beat Indiana in a rather unmemorable twenty
three to three win over the Hoosiers. And if you
didn't hear what he had to say, I give you
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a little taste here. I am not Kirk kerb Street,
but I will pretend to be so Herb Street won
in the ran. He said, they are out of their minds.
He stated, out of their minds. The fifteen percent he
called it, of Ohio State fans on social media. What
they do is make players, high school players not want
to play for that program. They drive me crazy, he moaned.
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With everything they do. Kirk kirktre He earlier said that
they embarrass all of us as Ohio State fans.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
That's what he said.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
So when it.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Comes to Ohio State and the expectations and the lunatic
fringe as he calls them, are you on team Kirk
Kurbstreet or are you on team Buckeye Backers.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I'm gonna go first. I stand with the buck Guye backers.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I am on the side of a fan and that's
a bad job by Kirk Kerbstreet on this one. In fact,
I'm gonna give these zelots that, like Ohio stated, at
extra decal, they get an extra helmet decal. You know
that Buckeye leaf that they put on the helmet. Yeah,
I'm gonna give him an extra little Buckeye leaf sticker
on their helmet. The diabolically partisan fan base of Ohio State,
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which I think is higher than fifteen percent, that is
the very essence of why you would want to play
at a school like Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Am I wrong on it?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It is a religion at places like Ohio State, Alabama
pretty much anywhere that's any good in the South, but
Ohio State, Michigan, there's certain Notre Dome, sc Oklahoma, there's
certain schools. It's a religion, it's a Yeah, it's a
little bit like a cult. But yes, that's what you want.
And Kirk kurb Street, he is lost, by the way,
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because last I checked, maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Fanatic.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Fan is short for fanatic, So yes, everyone who's a fan,
it's a fanatic. These people live, eat, breathe, sleep, oh
High State football.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It is their obsession.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Being unrealistic about your favorite team is part of the
deal of being a real fan. And as long as
you don't have apathy, you want to have apath, you
want apathy, Go to Vanderbilt and go to Indiana.
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Retired NBA star and former Milwaukee Buck Richard Jefferson said
that he thinks that Giannis will sign an extension with
a team if they can win a championship.
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I don't remember him with the Bucks. I know he
played there, but I don't remember me either.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
I was shocked to read that.
Speaker 10 (27:37):
Uh he said that Yannis will sign an extension if
they can win a championship within the next two years.
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Otherwise he's gone.
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Ben.
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Do you agree with that assessment?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Uh? No, I don't think it matters because they've already
proven they can win a championship in Milwaukee with Giannis,
and Giannis has changed.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
He's transformed, which is fine, everyone changes.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But he's really bought into the NBA lifestyle and all that,
and he's been hanging out with all these other guys
that all they do is change teams. I think he's
gone no matter what. I don't think he's gonna stay.
He's been sniffing around more glamorous locations than Milwaukee.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I just get the vibe. Everything I'm hearing is he's gone.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Next Now, there's a lot of hype surrounding Lions rookie
running back Jamiir Gibbs, but he may be adding more
to the hype than anyone else. Gibbs said this week
that he believes that he can get one thousand rushing
yards and five hundred receiving yards as a rookie.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Ben, do you think he can do it?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, I'll be Benny Bright said, and I said, you
gotta look at this objective. The Lions are a dome team.
Even though he's playing in cold weather city Detroit. They're
a dome team, and I looked they only have one
cold weather game that is expected on the schedule. That's
a game in Chicago and December. Other than that, either
in domes or they're in good weather. So the weather's
not gonna be a problem. And they play seventeen games.
(28:50):
So all you have to do is average like fifty
eight fifty nine yards a game rushing and twenty nine
yards receiving per game, and then you get to the numbers.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
He was talking right next.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
Deon Sanders has proven that he can be a successful
head coach in the college ranks. Do you think that
success would carry over to the NFL.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
No, but he should do it anyway, Like his shtick
is perfect for college football. But you gotta test yourself
in the NFL. And keep an eye on the Atlanta Falcons.
They're gonna stink this year. Dion, a former Falcon legend.
I could see the Falcons come knocking on Deon Sanders' door. Howard,
you like to coach the Falcons? But I don't think
(29:28):
it'll work, but you might as well give it a
shot there. It is the third degree, how did we
know you pass as I went?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I wanted A, I won the game.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
I want, I want.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
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Speaker 4 (29:54):
Horry. Twitter said this your questions on Twitter?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Now you know, way we go ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
The reading of the questions, we go to the koop
a loop. It's ask Ben and friends.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
All right, We're gonna start off with a quick one here.
This is from Jeff on Twitter. He says, for all
for everybody, do you mow your own lawn?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
No? I do not. I did. When I was younger.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I was a great lawnmower and my parents really wanted
to make it as tough as possible, so they had
this old manual lawnmower.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
That I used and push more, Yeah, push more. I
had that Eddie.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
I do you do? However, should be noted I have
no front lawn, and you have a very small that's
about as big as this studio, my backyard. The grass
in your studio.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
When you're in.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, okay, that's not it's like a landing strip or somebody.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Yeah, it takes about ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, all right, you should have embellished the story.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
An I'm about truth and honesty.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
You got fifteen acres in the backyard there, I have
a plantation mark.
Speaker 11 (31:08):
When I was in Chicago, I used to, but not
now my apartment.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
No, you did in Chicago when it was like minus
ten degrees and there was four feet of snow and
you still went out there with a lawnmower.
Speaker 11 (31:19):
Well, I had to shovel some my mom could get
out in the morning.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
That's right. You got to take care of you, my
mouve I hear you? All right? What about you?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
A Cooper loup?
Speaker 7 (31:26):
No?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
No, all right?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
What is next? Here to ask? Ben? Your questions are
answers for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 11 (31:35):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
This one is from Andy, the comic book guy.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Andy.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
He wants to know what is a.
Speaker 10 (31:41):
Movie or TV show that you've never actually watched yet
still feel as though you've seen anyway, and we'll never
actually watch.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah, so there's a bunch of them.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I mean, there's movies that I'm trying to think off
the top of my head. Like, I've quoted a bunch
of movies. I don't think I've seen Gone with the
Wind the entire thing, but I quote certain things from.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
That old Hollywood movie.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
There's not like a lot of the older movies in Hollywood.
I'll quote certain things, but I haven't watched them. What
about the whole I've seen scenes on the internet.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
What about you, Eddie, and probably pretty much any Disney movie.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Uh, you're not watching Aladdin, Eddie? No, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (32:18):
I mean it's like, although we did go, we have
Disney plus, and so my wife is like, hey, to brag, Eddie.
I don't think that's really bragging. But yeah, I told
my wife I've never seen any of these classic Disney movies,
and she's like, well, let's watch a few. And then
we watched like Peter Pan and I was like, God,
this is awful. This is just terrible. Was actually wasn't
really what I thought it was gonna be either, And
(32:39):
so but I still feel like, I'll tell you the Okay,
my answer to the question is, uh, oh crap.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Oh crap, what movie was that, Eddie?
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I got the movie in my ans it is I've
got the movie in my head I'm I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Uh, you know Frankenstein. No, maybe it.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Wizard of You see that when you were a kid, Eddie, No,
watch that when I was a kid. I gotta feel
like answer, We're not in Kansas anymore.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Yeah, Dorothy Gales clicking your ruby root slippers and no
place like Home and Toto. I know all the stuff,
but I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah, there's about gone with the wind Castle Block. I mean,
there's a bunch of little old movies. Mark anything Papa
in your head there Mark old movies you feel like
you watched, but you haven't watched.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
This is a good question by Andy the comic book guy.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
I never really watched The Walking Dead that's currently on.
I guess it's is it still on various variations? Yeah,
walking It seems like it's no no Walking Dead?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
I got you all right? Cool? Rocky, Oh you didn't.
Speaker 10 (33:44):
He's a rock No, I never seen it, Yeah, rock
I feel like I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
It's like a love story, but it doesn't really hold
up the original Rocks Cinderella story.
Speaker 10 (33:55):
Yeah, and I probably will never see it because I
can't stand Selester Stallone.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Was he a jerk?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I just think he's a terrible actor. Oh there's a
lot of that. All right, what is next here?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
What do we have?
Speaker 10 (34:09):
Ferd Cat would like to know, I Fergie, when eating
Freedom fries, are you a are you a light or
heavy ketchup dipper?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
So it depends on the seasoning on the fries.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And there's certain potatoes that need more of the tomato
to enhance the experience. And I am a rebel. Sometimes
I'll go off the board. I'll dip my Freedom Fries
in barbecue sauce. Yeah, I'm gonna go off the war.
But it depends like it certain. If it's it's well seasoned,
I don't I can. I can go raw and I'll
(34:42):
just eat the fries without the ketchup.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
So I'm willing to do that as well, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Yeah, it depends on the fry. I think the last
fries I had I actually went the barbecue sauce route.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Well, I had a power dinner lunch thing yesterday and
that's why I was here early.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
And I ate sneak fries.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Yes, if they're if they're thicker, and IF's ay, then
I will I will go to the condiments. But if
it's like just I don't know, McDonald's fries then just
just plain.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah, like like steak fries and the thighs of my size,
my thumb so big.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
The fry was Mark, just ketch up. That's it, just
ketch up.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
You don't go come on Mark like light ketchup or
heavy heavy ketchup.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
That was I go thick. I go thick, like basic
ketch up.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
You're a basic bitch, all right, what about you? That's
what he is when it comes to the ketchup. Don't
go to hr Mark please, I go ahead.
Speaker 10 (35:35):
I can go sands ketchup as well, if if they
are seasoned properly. But when I do eat my fries
with ketchup, I am a heavy ketchup dipper. I like
to take two fries and scoop it my my Scooper.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
My fiance. I don't understand.
Speaker 10 (35:50):
She literally just like dips it in there and it's
just kind of like it just like wets.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
F yeah, And I'm like that's not enough.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
But now I'm with.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
I'm with there's a joke there, Coop, but I'm not
gonna wow. I total and can I keep playing right now?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
When I've ordered Cajun fries in the past and they
just poured two little drops of like Cajun seasoning on it.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
That's not to be good enough. Do better?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Be better if you get a season fries? Seriously, what
is next?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Cool? It's annoying to me.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Well, you pay extra for season fries and he just
put two little things of the season.
Speaker 10 (36:24):
I feel you. A late night drug tester wants to know.
Have you ever been at a house party that was
busted by the police?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Uh? No, but I've been at several that should have
been And the craziest part I ever went to.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I think, were you with that one, Eddie? And the
Hollywood Hills? Were you with that one? No? No, all right?
I was at one of the Hollywood Hills was insane.
What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Any yeah, in high school, every party got broken up
by the cops. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It's like every you punk kids, you mark any crazy
parties in Chicago?
Speaker 11 (36:49):
No crazy parties?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
All right, Coop.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
I wasn't invited to those high school parties.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
So really, well, I was never in high school, but
as an adult since I left high school up yeah,
knock yourself allowed to know?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
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Speaker 3 (37:13):
All right, let's get back over to Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
We're gonna puck the world.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
The hockey, hockey, Hockey, hockey. We bring in the Zamboni,
the big Zamboni, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
We are just over a month away from the NHL
season getting underway. Some news to up to John.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
One month.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Yeah, October eleventh, I believe is the September eleventh. I
believe is the No.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Win is they're starting on September eleventh.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
I think that's the Kings first game. Maybe it's like
September tenth, something like that. They're starting on Arizona. Coyte
signed their GM Bill Armstrong to a multi year contract
extension as he continues to rebuild that franchise. It's a
three year deal runs through the twenty twenty eight twenty
nine season, because he already had two more years still
left on his assisting contract. Other Coyotes news, domestic violence
(37:58):
charges dropped against No Already owner Andrew Barroway been arrested
after a fight with his wife in Colorado last spring.
He had been arrested on suspicion of second degree strangulation
at felony and third degree assaulted misdemeanor, but Matt charges dismissed.
He owns five percent of the Coyotes.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Did the Patriots get in on that? I don't know,
Jack Jones.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
He got arrested in Colorado, so there was no I
don't know connection to Arizona there, but he's rich, so
who knows. Pittsburgh Penguin's named former longtime San Jose Sharks
GM Doug Wilson as a senior Advisor of hockey operations.
He was the GM in San Jose for nineteen years
before stepping down in twenty twenty two for health reasons.
Ottawa Senator's side young defenseman Jake Sanderson eight year contract
will make eight point five million annually. He was named
(38:41):
the All Rookie Team last year. Was in the final
year of an entry level contract. Future Hall of Famer
and NHL free agent forward Patrick Kane told the Associated
Press he's been on the ice about twenty times already
and is on track, if not ahead of schedule, from
a four to six month projection as far as him
returning from hip surgery. Thirty four year old three times
Stanley Cup winner Hopes said to will be cleared for
contacts soon. He elected to have the surgery after a
(39:02):
nagging injury that hampered him over the past year, and
also fellow on resarctive agent Phil Kessel, has made it
known he's willing to sacrifice his current iron Man streak
to get a new contract in the NHL. Thirty five
year old put up thirty six points in eighty two
games last year, his lowest point total since his rookie year,
but he did break Keith the Andles record for consecutive
games played. It now currently is an ongoing streak of
(39:23):
one thousand, sixty four games.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Now.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
He was a part of the Stanley Cup winning Vegas
Golden Knights, but he only played four playoff games for
the Golden Knights, so he's hoping by saying that the
streak does not have to continue, that maybe a team
will will sign him for another contract. Veteran NHL defenseman
and Mike Goeld Delzato announced his retirement on social media
after thirteen season with eight different teams.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Brad Maxwell fully in the pension plan for the NHL.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
Absolutely good, Absolutely Brad Maxwell who spent parts of nine
seasons with the Minnesota North Stars, passed away after a
battle with lung cancer. He was sixty six years old.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Why couldn't they call it Dallas team something else? They
call the Stars. They bring back the North Stars.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
That argument has uh, I think there's been too.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Many years since it's I mean, it's never too late.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
So that was an argument for a long time, never
too late.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I like bringing back old arguments.
Speaker 6 (40:14):
We have an update on that Russian goalie. Remember his
name was Ivan Fedotov, and he wanted to play for
the Philadelphia Flyers. But once he said he was going
to leave for the US, he suddenly got drafted into
the army and set off to a place in Siberia. Well,
there was a ruling for the International Ice Hockey Federation
(40:35):
saying that he needed to honor his contract with the Flyers.
But he's now playing professionally in Russia. The season has
started and he's is in violation of this ruling. So
he will not be coming, apparently to the US to play.
And I'm guessing it had something to do with the
fact that he, you know, was detained and sent off
to a you know, a Russian Army Base for a
(40:55):
little while, and I'm guessing he's like, suddenly he doesn't
want to play in the US anymore. As my guest, there, they.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Got really good you know, this kind of foods over there.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
The Russian gula, I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
Finally, the Pittsburgh Penguins has decided to start up their
own regional sports network, the first NHL team to do so.
Now they're owned by the Fenway Sports Group.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
That's the people.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
Yeah, they own Nesson And now they've they've bought AT
and T sports Net rebranded its sports Net Pittsburgh, so
the Penguins games will be on there. This is all
that regional sports network stuff that's all going under a
lot of different teams in the NHL, NBA, and baseball
are trying to figure out where they're going to play this.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Pirates and Penguins will be together.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
Well, the Pirates will have to go to them and
say we want to be on.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
They have to ask for permission. Yeah, why would they
not want to carry the Pirates games?
Speaker 6 (41:41):
Though, I'm sure I'm sure they will.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Okay, there you go, John Henry.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
He's not adding any to the Red Sox, but he's
doing very well in television, so good for him.
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of the NFL are we not on the pulse. Are
we not on the pulse of what the average overnight
sports talk radio consumer wants to talk about?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
A defensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Just talking moments ago in the hallways here at Fox
Sports Radio with the world famous Mike Harmon, and we
were discussing how the one thing that people really crave
when listening to sports communication audio communication is talk about
defensive tackles. You think about all the people that have
(02:04):
bought tickets to watch defensive tackles play football. It's just
an amazing, amazing amount of money that the defensive tackle
position has raised. A lot of people go to the games.
They don't want to watch the quarterback or the running
back of the wide receiver. Now it's the defensive tackle.
That's where it's at. So the eagle has landed, or
(02:25):
in this case, the forty Niner has landed. After forty
three days and nights at Impass, the Niners have paid demand.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And boy have they ever paid the man.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
If you have not heard yet, and maybe not, the
San Francisco football team has issued a massive, cartoon size
check to defensive tackle Nick Bosa gets paid? How much?
Five years, one hundred and seventy million dollars. But even
(02:58):
if he sucks, he's going to be the highest paid
non quarterback in NFL history because the actual amount. See
people say the one hundred and seventy million, which is
a good number. Boy, I'd like to have that number.
But the number that's even better than that is the
actual guaranteed amount of money. And we are told that
Nick Bosa is going to get over one hundred and
(03:19):
twenty two million. He lives in California though during the season,
so after taxes heal clear about five hundred thousand. But
still still that's a good amount of money compared to
everyone else. So the extension one hundred and twenty two
and a half million, as we put the contract in
a context, it is now the gold standard for anyone
(03:40):
not playing the quarterback position. So let us discuss how
can Nick Bosa live up to the forty nine er contract.
So I've got Navy cockpaid and Central casting, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some gulash. That's where we're gonna make
(04:04):
some delicious gulash over noodles on a kind of a
cool night. That's a good thing to now, No, it's
cool right now, but it'll be cool soon enough, so
Navy Cockpit and Central casting, and we will begin with this.
Nick Bosa goes without saying, but we'll say it anyway
because we have time to fill. He's now in a
(04:26):
different zip code, right, He's in a different zip code.
He's moving on up to the east side, a deluxe
apartment in the sky. And he definitely has a piece
of the pie there for the forty nine Ers, as
the old TV show said back in the day, and
an amazing Mitzvah. Now, I don't know Nick Bosa. I'm
certainly not a forty nine Ers fan. They're a rival
of a team that I like. But from a football standpoint,
(04:48):
this is a wonderful move. Nick Bosa has been a
dominant player. That's why he's getting paid.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
It's wonderful mits as he said. And Nick Bosa, though,
becomes the measuring stick, and he is now swimming in
a very small fish bowl as the highest paid non
quarterback in the NFL. He has won not Mallor's mount
of money, the forty nine Ers mountain of money is
what he is taking home now, one hundred and twenty
two million dollars now among defensive players. His annual salary
(05:16):
before taxes thirty four million dollars, So that passes like
ships passing in the night. Aaron Donald of the LA
rams at thirty one point seven million. I know you're
concerned about the finances of Aaron Donald as well. Does
he need to renegotiate? So this means is an old
line that one of the great boxing promoters from a
(05:37):
different generation used to have, And I'm gonna I'm going
to repurpose the line from Don King, who is I
believe still alive. He's right there near the pearly gates,
but he's still with us, Don King, and he said,
of situations like this, the guy like Nick Bos defensive
tackle with the forty nine ers, is now going to
(05:58):
be more scrutinized, dep politicized, dramatized, chastise, analyze, moralized, stigmatized, sensationalized,
and criticized.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Than anyone other than quarterbacks. It's the way it is.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And every mistake, every bad game, every time he gets
hurt and misses a game that will be highlighted.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
It goes with the real estate. And I think we'd
all sign up for it. I know I would.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
My hand is raised. I would sign up for it,
and so would you. So but Nick Bosa now he
has to go full to in order to make this
work right? What does Nick Bosa have to do in
order of making this contract a success? For him, it's
a success no matter what. But for everyone involved, what
does it need to happen? What has to happen? So
(06:46):
Nick Bosa, after several seconds of thinking about this, Nick
Bosa needs to go full Navy. He needs to in
order to live up the contract. I say Navy. He
has to drop anchor as the headliner anchoring a championship defense.
(07:06):
Aaron Donald did it now, Aaron donng got paid a lot,
got paid a lot more after the Rams had won
the Super Bowl. Nick Bosa has been in the big
Game with the forty Niners, but he hadn't won it.
The Niners have been knocking on the door in the NFC,
but they haven't gotten it done. And so that's it.
I say, with all these contracts in baseball, basketball, football,
(07:31):
in terms of the team component, you gotta win.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Mookie Betts when he came over to the Dodgers in the.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Red Sox got paid insane to the membrane amount of
money forever contract, but won the hardest World Series of
all time twenty twenty in a global pandemic with the Dodgers,
So he no matter what happens the rest of the way,
that's that's there you go. Dodgers hadn't won a World
Series in a generation, forty nine ers. It's starting to
add up for the Niners, right, Joe Montana, Steve Young,
(08:00):
those guys are all so the Niner Those of us
that remember the forty nine ers winning all the time,
getting old ourselves all right now page two here, there's
a lot of buzz around the football world of what
this leads to. The fallout from Nick Bosa getting paid
most money for a non quarterback in NFL history. We
(08:21):
saw Micah Parsons talked about him in a previous episode
of the show Michaeh Parsons Defensive Star in Dallas, saying
he's quote super happy close quote for the forty nine
er rival mister Bosa. So if you take three steps back,
here's the question on this one. What does the Nick
Bosa contract do for Micah Parsons, who doesn't play Obviously
(08:43):
the Niners in Dallas, So the pilot has gotten on
the PA system and told the flight crew to prepare
the cabin for takeoff. We're about to take off here,
and the Parsons is currently sitting in the cockpit.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And the airline.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
He's not flying American or Delta or Southwest or JetBlue.
He is instead flying the Mega Millions airline. And he's
gonna be in the cockpit here. It's a relay race,
and Nick Bosa has just handed off to Micah. Parson's
the hammer, the golden hammer, and that is the next
(09:24):
milestone to pass will now be Nick Posa. And that
seems to be the way it works. Whoever's next gets
paid the big money. Now last, we're gonna move away
from the forty nine ers. We have a story involving
the last starting quarterback that has now been named. After
days and days of treading water, we go to Arizona
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and one of the few times we can talk about
the Cardinals, the last puzzle piece, the last jigsaw puzzle piece,
has been put in on your quarterback puzzle. As the
Arizona Cardinals, we are told projected to be the worst
team in the NFL, they have named Joshua Dobbs as
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their starting quarterback. That's right, josh Dobbs will be out
there instead of Clayton Tune. He wins the job, and
Arizona opens up with the Washington Commanders, and Dobbs will
be the commander of the Cardinals huddle. He'll be breaking
the huddle there. So how will Joshua Dobbs do as
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the Cardinals quarterback? I'm glad you asked, so.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I don't think he'll be terrible. I don't. I rather
you don't.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I mean there's actually some value Arizona is. The perception
on Arizona is so terrible. I mean, getting ready for
this TV show Benny Versus the Penny, and I'm looking
at some of these teams that are dreadful. I'm like, well,
is they're a shot. They can kind of hang around,
and Arizona's brutal. They're trying to suck and all that,
but that doesn't mean they're gonna get smoked in every game.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Doesn't mean that.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And Nick Bosa is the epitome of the perfect quarterback
of the Cardinals. As I said, because it's right out
of Central Casting. The Cardinals' goal.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Is to blow right.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
They just wanna be sucky mix suck is what they
want to be in Arizona, and so you got this
substitute teacher who's in there. It's like, ah, you know,
people say, let him watch cartoons all day. I'm a
sub man.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
When I was a.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
School and he had a substitute teacher who had no
no ability to teach, and they's like, oh, let's watch
movies today.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We're gonna watch a movie. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yes, that's good teaching. Let's watch old movies. That's wonderful.
But the goal is to not get blown out anything.
They want to be bad, but you want to not
be dreadfully bad. And so Dobbs can be a professional
and at times make some game changing plays, but will
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also equalize that by going out and tripping over his
own shoelaces from time to time. So the Cardinal I
don't think they're gonna drown.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm very rarely.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Wrong when it comes to this. And once the injuries
pole See that's the problem. Once you get later in
the year and the injuries start piling up, you don't
have a lot of depth to start with, and then
that really becomes a self fulfilling prophecy of doom for
your team.
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is the beginning of the NFL season. Travis Kelcey and
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the Chiefs open up with the lines it sounds like
Kelsey might play after Doom and Gloom from Andy Reid
Big Rhea the other day, we'll find out be very dramatic.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Imagine they'll have the.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Big build up on the peacock there over there, they'll celebrate.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Oh, Travis Kelsey game time. They'll shoot and he's gone
up play unless he does. But he rarely missed his game.
So that game will be going on tonight and we'll
spend pretty much the rest of our time here until
the end of the Super Bowl talking about the NFL.
So I wanted to squeeze it a little bit of
some college football. There's a good story in the mantra.
(14:02):
We have a lot of mantras. We have more mantras
than listeners. But one of our mantras is to go
where the news of the day Texas and go where
the story is. And the story that caught my attention
is out of GQ magazine. As you know, if you've
seen my wardrobe, I am mister GQ.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Here at Fox Sports Radio, people always compliment me on
the shorts iewear, the sandals I wear. They very impressed anyway.
So this involves a Heisman Trophy winner. It has been assumed.
You know what happens when you assume that se quarterback
Caleb Williams will say bye bye to the campus of
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the University of Southern California and will enter the NFL Draft,
the twenty twenty four vintage of the NFL Draft. He
would in this most mostly consensus believe he'd be the
number one pick in the NFL Draft unless there's some
kind of scandal. There is chatter, and there has been
chatter that says he doesn't want to play for the
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Arizona Cardinals. And so even though the Cardinals are doing
everything they can to get Caleb Williams, they have not
only their pick, they also have the Houston Texans pick.
They're starting Josh Dobbs. That is a sign they want
Caleb Williams. So anyway, with all that there is, there's
talk to Caleb Williams wants nothing to do with Arizona.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
He's got a problem with what a burger. They're like cactus.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
He's allergic to Sayand I don't know, I have no idea,
but that's the word.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
And so he said, well, that's just chatter, that's just speculation.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
There's nothing too well now entering the chat the father
of Caleb Williams who has decided to pour jet fuel
all over that rumor. So the rumor now has life.
If you did not hear, if you did not see
this and maybe you missed it. Caleb Williams pops the
patriarch of the Williams family. There, Car Carl Williams is
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his name, but you never heard that before. Carl Williams,
the father of Caleb willimploy. This guy's thinking he's on
easy street, right, His kid's going to be the number
one pick in the NFL draft. Chi ching, Chi ching,
Chi ching. Anyway, Carl Williams, get to the point, please,
The father of Caleb gave cretency backed up the conspiracy
theory that Caleb Williams will forego the NFL Draft to
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stay at SC. In this GQ article that was published
this week. He mentioned Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray, who
both have ties to the USC coach when he was
in Oklahoma, and pointing out that those guys were flops,
and the theory is they were they were flops because
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they happened to be drafted by bad teams like the
Cleveland Browns and the Arizona Cardins. The quote was, I'll
give you the quote verbatim from Carl Williams quote. He
meaning Caleb, He's got two shots at the app So
if there's not a good situation. The truth is he
can come back to school. He then complained about the
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way the NFL is set up where the worst teams
are rewarded with the top pick, thus assuring the top
players in college football will be forced to play for
dog food teams. He did not use the word dog food.
That is my contribution to this particular story. So let
us discuss the question, what are the odds the updated outs?
(17:27):
What are the updated odds that Caleb Williams would actually
skip the NFL draft and return to the University of
Southern California. So Malard sportsbook odds on this. I'm gonna
set the odds at plus two ninety. Now that implies
about a twenty five percent chance. I've got piggy Bank,
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pied Piper, and decals, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
fruit salad. The only salad I will eat is a
fruit salad. You know why, No lettuce was harmed to
make a fruit salad. So that's why I will all right,
So number one, normally we dismiss the scenario of Caleb Williams,
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star college player, going back to college and not going
to the NFL, and historically speaking, that's been the proper take,
that's been the right take. You've been on the right
side of the take when you've done that. But the
landscape has changed. Now we are in the new frontier
of college football. And so I am gonna be Benny
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bright Side. I'll put my tinfoil hat on this one.
And I believe there is a twenty five percent chance,
as I said, that Caleb Williams is going to go
back to SC. He is not beholden to the NFL
for a payday. He's been making pretty good money for
a couple of years now, so there's no need to
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rush and get that NFL money. And one thing I've
known over the years, they used to go to SC
football games all the time, back when they had Pete
Carroll's the coach million years ago. Those boosters at USC
they have really really deep pockets.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Are those pockets deep?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Man?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And they drive nice cars, they live in big houses,
and they love to support the old college football team
and the players. Now you can, legally, it's all kosher.
You can cut big checks to Caleb Williams. So Williams
can stay with the Trojans and he can get a
piggy bank. Here, a piggy bank, there, a piggy bank
in the back, a piggy bank everywhere, and name, image
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and likeness. A little birdie chirped in my ear that
Caleb Williams right now to play quarterback at the University
of Soully, California. The student athlete is making three million dollars,
about three million dollars he's taking in this year to
play college football. So either way he's a made man.
The only the only drawback, and there is a drawback
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to going back to college. The big money in the
NFL is the second contract. So if you go back
to college, you'll take maybe five million, get five million
dollars to the other active, get an extra two million
dollars on nil, so you make five million, but it
delays by a year, that second contract. That's where you
make the cartoon money in the NFL game, the second contract.
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So that is a drawback. I also hate the redistricting,
the jerry mandering of I don't want to play for
that team. I've always been of a belief if you're
good enough, if you're strong enough, if you're fast enough,
it doesn't matter where you go. You will find a
way to succeed. To me, it's the ultimate defeatist attitude.
It's like, well, I could only be I have to
play for this tream, and if I don't play for
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I don't know why. Let's seem I'm doomed. The reason
Baker Mayfield stunk in the NFL and Kyler Murray is
not because they happen to be drafted by the Cleveland
Browns and the Arizona Cardinals. It's because they didn't play well.
It's not a coach's fault, it's not somebody else's fault.
Take responsibility and accountability.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
How about that? All right? Now?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Page two, we go to TV Land. As a part
time TV guy, I feel like I'm more up to
talking television. So anyway, I read this in the trades.
They talked about the ratings for the Colorado TCU matchup
this past weekend.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Do you see this?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
They got a three point eight rating, which translates to
seven point two million viewers for the season premiere on
Fox Big Noons Saturday. And what does that mean in
Layman's terms? I'm glad you asked.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
So.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
It's the largest opening week college football audience ever on Fox.
Never have they had this many people watching the opening weekend,
and it was the number one sports broadcast across all
the networks on Saturday. So how do you interpret here's
the quest, how do you interpret Colorado being a Baffosaco
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hit their football program dominating the television ratings. So the
first thought I have is people love stories. I've known that, right,
We learn from stories. People love stories, they love good stories,
they love bad stories. Dion Sanders is the king of
that old belief that those that tell.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
The stories rule the world.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And Coach Prime's got a really good screenplay, really good.
Dion Sanders is the piper of college football. He is,
He's the pied piper of college football. He's got that
personality that celebrity. We know everyone worships celebrities in this country,
and he's charismatic and he just attracts people. And he's
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also someone that crosses over generations. Dian hasn't played football
in a long time, but he's still been on television.
People know who he is, and so he crosses generations.
The Buffaloes that win average nearly three million more viewers
than the other noon Eastern time kickoffs combined. That's how
big an audience, Colorado drew on television and it really
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is fields of dream type stuff where if you build
it not he will come. They will come in this
case because they did. And it's a great opening act.
And now there's an encore against Nebraska, and how will
Colorado do in the encore performance?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Final point?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Let's go to Columbus, Ohio, the Buckeyes. Did you see
a former Ohio State quarterback unloading on the fame base
of that institution?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Now, Kirk Herbstree, you used play quarterback for the buck
Eyes back in the day.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
What very good.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And he is attacking what he calls the lunatic fringe,
the lunatic fringe of Ohio State football supporters. This after
the Buck guys beat Indiana in a rather unmemorable twenty
three to three win over the Hoosiers. And if you
didn't hear what he had to say, I give you
(24:00):
a little taste here. I am not Kirk kerb Street,
but I will pretend to be so Herb Street won
in the ran. He said, they are out of their minds.
He stated, out of their minds. The fifteen percent he
called it, of Ohio State fans on social media. What
they do is make players, high school players not want
to play for that program. They drive me crazy, he moaned.
(24:22):
With everything they do. Kirk kirktre He earlier said that
they embarrass all of us as Ohio State fans.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
That's what he said.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
So when it.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Comes to Ohio State and the expectations and the lunatic
fringe as he calls them, are you on team Kirk
Kurbstreet or are you on team Buckeye Backers.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I'm gonna go first. I stand with the buck Guye backers.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I am on the side of a fan and that's
a bad job by Kirk Kerbstreet on this one. In fact,
I'm gonna give these zelots that, like Ohio stated, at
extra decal, they get an extra helmet decal. You know
that Buckeye leaf that they put on the helmet. Yeah,
I'm gonna give him an extra little Buckeye leaf sticker
on their helmet. The diabolically partisan fan base of Ohio State,
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which I think is higher than fifteen percent, that is
the very essence of why you would want to play
at a school like Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Am I wrong on it?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It is a religion at places like Ohio State, Alabama
pretty much anywhere that's any good in the South, but
Ohio State, Michigan, there's certain Notre Dome, sc Oklahoma, there's
certain schools. It's a religion, it's a Yeah, it's a
little bit like a cult. But yes, that's what you want.
And Kirk kurb Street, he is lost, by the way,
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because last I checked, maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Fanatic.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Fan is short for fanatic, So yes, everyone who's a fan,
it's a fanatic. These people live, eat, breathe, sleep, oh
High State football.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It is their obsession.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Being unrealistic about your favorite team is part of the
deal of being a real fan. And as long as
you don't have apathy, you want to have apath, you
want apathy, Go to Vanderbilt and go to Indiana.
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Retired NBA star and former Milwaukee Buck Richard Jefferson said
that he thinks that Giannis will sign an extension with
a team if they can win a championship.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I don't remember him with the Bucks. I know he
played there, but I don't remember me either.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
I was shocked to read that.
Speaker 10 (27:37):
Uh he said that Yannis will sign an extension if
they can win a championship within the next two years.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Otherwise he's gone.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Do you agree with that assessment?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Uh? No, I don't think it matters because they've already
proven they can win a championship in Milwaukee with Giannis,
and Giannis has changed.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
He's transformed, which is fine, everyone changes.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But he's really bought into the NBA lifestyle and all that,
and he's been hanging out with all these other guys
that all they do is change teams. I think he's
gone no matter what. I don't think he's gonna stay.
He's been sniffing around more glamorous locations than Milwaukee.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I just get the vibe. Everything I'm hearing is he's gone.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Next Now, there's a lot of hype surrounding Lions rookie
running back Jamiir Gibbs, but he may be adding more
to the hype than anyone else. Gibbs said this week
that he believes that he can get one thousand rushing
yards and five hundred receiving yards as a rookie.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Ben, do you think he can do it?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, I'll be Benny Bright said, and I said, you
gotta look at this objective. The Lions are a dome team.
Even though he's playing in cold weather city Detroit. They're
a dome team, and I looked they only have one
cold weather game that is expected on the schedule. That's
a game in Chicago and December. Other than that, either
in domes or they're in good weather. So the weather's
not gonna be a problem. And they play seventeen games.
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So all you have to do is average like fifty
eight fifty nine yards a game rushing and twenty nine
yards receiving per game, and then you get to the numbers.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
He was talking right next.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
Deon Sanders has proven that he can be a successful
head coach in the college ranks. Do you think that
success would carry over to the NFL.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
No, but he should do it anyway, Like his shtick
is perfect for college football. But you gotta test yourself
in the NFL. And keep an eye on the Atlanta Falcons.
They're gonna stink this year. Dion, a former Falcon legend.
I could see the Falcons come knocking on Deon Sanders' door. Howard,
you like to coach the Falcons? But I don't think
(29:28):
it'll work, but you might as well give it a
shot there. It is the third degree, how did we
know you pass as I went?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
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Horry. Twitter said this your questions on Twitter?
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Now you know, way we go ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
The reading of the questions, we go to the koop
a loop. It's ask Ben and friends.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
All right, We're gonna start off with a quick one here.
This is from Jeff on Twitter. He says, for all
for everybody, do you mow your own lawn?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
No? I do not. I did. When I was younger.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I was a great lawnmower and my parents really wanted
to make it as tough as possible, so they had
this old manual lawnmower.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
That I used and push more, Yeah, push more. I
had that Eddie.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
I do you do? However, should be noted I have
no front lawn, and you have a very small that's
about as big as this studio, my backyard. The grass
in your studio.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
When you're in.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, okay, that's not it's like a landing strip or somebody.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Yeah, it takes about ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, all right, you should have embellished the story.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
An I'm about truth and honesty.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
You got fifteen acres in the backyard there, I have
a plantation mark.
Speaker 11 (31:08):
When I was in Chicago, I used to, but not
now my apartment.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
No, you did in Chicago when it was like minus
ten degrees and there was four feet of snow and
you still went out there with a lawnmower.
Speaker 11 (31:19):
Well, I had to shovel some my mom could get
out in the morning.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
That's right. You got to take care of you, my
mouve I hear you? All right? What about you?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
A Cooper loup?
Speaker 7 (31:26):
No?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
No, all right?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
What is next? Here to ask? Ben? Your questions are
answers for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 11 (31:35):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
This one is from Andy, the comic book guy.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Andy.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
He wants to know what is a.
Speaker 10 (31:41):
Movie or TV show that you've never actually watched yet
still feel as though you've seen anyway, and we'll never
actually watch.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah, so there's a bunch of them.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I mean, there's movies that I'm trying to think off
the top of my head. Like, I've quoted a bunch
of movies. I don't think I've seen Gone with the
Wind the entire thing, but I quote certain things from.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
That old Hollywood movie.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
There's not like a lot of the older movies in Hollywood.
I'll quote certain things, but I haven't watched them. What
about the whole I've seen scenes on the internet.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
What about you, Eddie, and probably pretty much any Disney movie.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Uh, you're not watching Aladdin, Eddie? No, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (32:18):
I mean it's like, although we did go, we have
Disney plus, and so my wife is like, hey, to brag, Eddie.
I don't think that's really bragging. But yeah, I told
my wife I've never seen any of these classic Disney movies,
and she's like, well, let's watch a few. And then
we watched like Peter Pan and I was like, God,
this is awful. This is just terrible. Was actually wasn't
really what I thought it was gonna be either, And
(32:39):
so but I still feel like, I'll tell you the Okay,
my answer to the question is, uh, oh crap.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Oh crap, what movie was that, Eddie?
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I got the movie in my ans it is I've
got the movie in my head I'm I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Uh, you know Frankenstein. No, maybe it.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Wizard of You see that when you were a kid, Eddie, No,
watch that when I was a kid. I gotta feel
like answer, We're not in Kansas anymore.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Yeah, Dorothy Gales clicking your ruby root slippers and no
place like Home and Toto. I know all the stuff,
but I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah, there's about gone with the wind Castle Block. I mean,
there's a bunch of little old movies. Mark anything Papa
in your head there Mark old movies you feel like
you watched, but you haven't watched.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
This is a good question by Andy the comic book guy.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
I never really watched The Walking Dead that's currently on.
I guess it's is it still on various variations? Yeah,
walking It seems like it's no no Walking Dead?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
I got you all right? Cool? Rocky, Oh you didn't.
Speaker 10 (33:44):
He's a rock No, I never seen it, Yeah, rock
I feel like I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
It's like a love story, but it doesn't really hold
up the original Rocks Cinderella story.
Speaker 10 (33:55):
Yeah, and I probably will never see it because I
can't stand Selester Stallone.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Was he a jerk?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I just think he's a terrible actor. Oh there's a
lot of that. All right, what is next here?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
What do we have?
Speaker 10 (34:09):
Ferd Cat would like to know, I Fergie, when eating
Freedom fries, are you a are you a light or
heavy ketchup dipper?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
So it depends on the seasoning on the fries.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And there's certain potatoes that need more of the tomato
to enhance the experience. And I am a rebel. Sometimes
I'll go off the board. I'll dip my Freedom Fries
in barbecue sauce. Yeah, I'm gonna go off the war.
But it depends like it certain. If it's it's well seasoned,
I don't I can. I can go raw and I'll
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just eat the fries without the ketchup.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
So I'm willing to do that as well, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Yeah, it depends on the fry. I think the last
fries I had I actually went the barbecue sauce route.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Well, I had a power dinner lunch thing yesterday and
that's why I was here early.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
And I ate sneak fries.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Yes, if they're if they're thicker, and IF's ay, then
I will I will go to the condiments. But if
it's like just I don't know, McDonald's fries then just
just plain.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah, like like steak fries and the thighs of my size,
my thumb so big.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
The fry was Mark, just ketch up. That's it, just
ketch up.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
You don't go come on Mark like light ketchup or
heavy heavy ketchup.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
That was I go thick. I go thick, like basic
ketch up.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
You're a basic bitch, all right, what about you? That's
what he is when it comes to the ketchup. Don't
go to hr Mark please, I go ahead.
Speaker 10 (35:35):
I can go sands ketchup as well, if if they
are seasoned properly. But when I do eat my fries
with ketchup, I am a heavy ketchup dipper. I like
to take two fries and scoop it my my Scooper.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
My fiance. I don't understand.
Speaker 10 (35:50):
She literally just like dips it in there and it's
just kind of like it just like wets.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
F yeah, And I'm like that's not enough.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
But now I'm with.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
I'm with there's a joke there, Coop, but I'm not
gonna wow. I total and can I keep playing right now?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
When I've ordered Cajun fries in the past and they
just poured two little drops of like Cajun seasoning on it.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
That's not to be good enough. Do better?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Be better if you get a season fries? Seriously, what
is next?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Cool? It's annoying to me.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Well, you pay extra for season fries and he just
put two little things of the season.
Speaker 10 (36:24):
I feel you. A late night drug tester wants to know.
Have you ever been at a house party that was
busted by the police?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Uh? No, but I've been at several that should have
been And the craziest part I ever went to.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I think, were you with that one, Eddie? And the
Hollywood Hills? Were you with that one? No? No, all right?
I was at one of the Hollywood Hills was insane.
What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Any yeah, in high school, every party got broken up
by the cops. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It's like every you punk kids, you mark any crazy
parties in Chicago?
Speaker 11 (36:49):
No crazy parties?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
All right, Coop.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
I wasn't invited to those high school parties.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
So really, well, I was never in high school, but
as an adult since I left high school up yeah,
knock yourself allowed to know?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
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Speaker 3 (37:13):
All right, let's get back over to Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
We're gonna puck the world.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
The hockey, hockey, Hockey, hockey. We bring in the Zamboni,
the big Zamboni, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
We are just over a month away from the NHL
season getting underway. Some news to up to John.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
One month.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Yeah, October eleventh, I believe is the September eleventh. I
believe is the No.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Win is they're starting on September eleventh.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
I think that's the Kings first game. Maybe it's like
September tenth, something like that. They're starting on Arizona. Coyte
signed their GM Bill Armstrong to a multi year contract
extension as he continues to rebuild that franchise. It's a
three year deal runs through the twenty twenty eight twenty
nine season, because he already had two more years still
left on his assisting contract. Other Coyotes news, domestic violence
(37:58):
charges dropped against No Already owner Andrew Barroway been arrested
after a fight with his wife in Colorado last spring.
He had been arrested on suspicion of second degree strangulation
at felony and third degree assaulted misdemeanor, but Matt charges dismissed.
He owns five percent of the Coyotes.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Did the Patriots get in on that? I don't know,
Jack Jones.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
He got arrested in Colorado, so there was no I
don't know connection to Arizona there, but he's rich, so
who knows. Pittsburgh Penguin's named former longtime San Jose Sharks
GM Doug Wilson as a senior Advisor of hockey operations.
He was the GM in San Jose for nineteen years
before stepping down in twenty twenty two for health reasons.
Ottawa Senator's side young defenseman Jake Sanderson eight year contract
will make eight point five million annually. He was named
(38:41):
the All Rookie Team last year. Was in the final
year of an entry level contract. Future Hall of Famer
and NHL free agent forward Patrick Kane told the Associated
Press he's been on the ice about twenty times already
and is on track, if not ahead of schedule, from
a four to six month projection as far as him
returning from hip surgery. Thirty four year old three times
Stanley Cup winner Hopes said to will be cleared for
contacts soon. He elected to have the surgery after a
(39:02):
nagging injury that hampered him over the past year, and
also fellow on resarctive agent Phil Kessel, has made it
known he's willing to sacrifice his current iron Man streak
to get a new contract in the NHL. Thirty five
year old put up thirty six points in eighty two
games last year, his lowest point total since his rookie year,
but he did break Keith the Andles record for consecutive
games played. It now currently is an ongoing streak of
(39:23):
one thousand, sixty four games.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Now.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
He was a part of the Stanley Cup winning Vegas
Golden Knights, but he only played four playoff games for
the Golden Knights, so he's hoping by saying that the
streak does not have to continue, that maybe a team
will will sign him for another contract. Veteran NHL defenseman
and Mike Goeld Delzato announced his retirement on social media
after thirteen season with eight different teams.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Brad Maxwell fully in the pension plan for the NHL.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
Absolutely good, Absolutely Brad Maxwell who spent parts of nine
seasons with the Minnesota North Stars, passed away after a
battle with lung cancer. He was sixty six years old.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Why couldn't they call it Dallas team something else? They
call the Stars. They bring back the North Stars.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
That argument has uh, I think there's been too.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Many years since it's I mean, it's never too late.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
So that was an argument for a long time, never
too late.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I like bringing back old arguments.
Speaker 6 (40:14):
We have an update on that Russian goalie. Remember his
name was Ivan Fedotov, and he wanted to play for
the Philadelphia Flyers. But once he said he was going
to leave for the US, he suddenly got drafted into
the army and set off to a place in Siberia. Well,
there was a ruling for the International Ice Hockey Federation
(40:35):
saying that he needed to honor his contract with the Flyers.
But he's now playing professionally in Russia. The season has
started and he's is in violation of this ruling. So
he will not be coming, apparently to the US to play.
And I'm guessing it had something to do with the
fact that he, you know, was detained and sent off
to a you know, a Russian Army Base for a
(40:55):
little while, and I'm guessing he's like, suddenly he doesn't
want to play in the US anymore. As my guest, there, they.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Got really good you know, this kind of foods over there.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
The Russian gula, I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
Finally, the Pittsburgh Penguins has decided to start up their
own regional sports network, the first NHL team to do so.
Now they're owned by the Fenway Sports Group.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
That's the people.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
Yeah, they own Nesson And now they've they've bought AT
and T sports Net rebranded its sports Net Pittsburgh, so
the Penguins games will be on there. This is all
that regional sports network stuff that's all going under a
lot of different teams in the NHL, NBA, and baseball
are trying to figure out where they're going to play this.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Pirates and Penguins will be together.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
Well, the Pirates will have to go to them and
say we want to be on.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
They have to ask for permission. Yeah, why would they
not want to carry the Pirates games?
Speaker 6 (41:41):
Though, I'm sure I'm sure they will.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Okay, there you go, John Henry.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
He's not adding any to the Red Sox, but he's
doing very well in television, so good for him.
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