September 13, 2023 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about Robert Saleh's optimism when it comes to the Jets season after Rodgers' injury, Travis Kelce dating Taylor Swift, Maller to the Third Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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our lead this hour, the same lead we had last night.
It's still alive, it will not die. The story still
got legs, it still has legs. Our lead coming from
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of our little world. We love the NFL, talking about
the NFL, and that is the story. Everyone is yapping about.
The shockwaves, these shockwaves bouncing around the Jets losing aerid
Rogers to snap, crackle and pop. Is he got for
the rest of the season. A Achilles injury that was confirms,
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So Rogers suffering injury, not one, not two, not three?
How about four plays into that Jets game with the
Buffalo Bills, and so he is out following months of
build up, months of hyperbole and high expectations. And they
were talking about Super Bowl confetti falling down from the
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heavens in Lost Wages, Nevada. Well not the heavens, there's
a roof on that stadium, but falling down, falling down,
falling down, and now all of it is gone in
a jiffy pop, jiffy pop, see you later. So the
coach of the New York AFC football team, has spoken here.
If you didn't hear what he had to say, and
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possibly not, Robert Salah. You think he's worried right now
about whether or not he'll be coaching the Jets in
twenty twenty four, you should be if you're not well.
Robert sala publicly remains very bullish on the chances of
the New York Jets to remain competitive this year. Is
the only one apparently. I think him and Joe Beningo
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are the only two people that's a talk show guy
used to work in New York. But here's the deal. Listen,
you didn't hear this and possibly not well, here's the
audio tape. Listen to Robert Sala here as he explains.
Listen the things you're gonna be alright here, I be
careful with what you say. Hear you people.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I don't know why people are trying to put an
obituary under our team names. Aaron is an unbelievable piece
to this whole thing, and we love him. But there's
fifty two other guys in the locker room, plus the
sixteen part squad, guys that believe that we can do
a hell of a lot of good things here.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
All right. So the key part of that was the beginning.
We got a microphone at radio Shack, which no longer
even exists. But that's how it sounded a little muffled.
But here's the thing. Listen, Robert Sala warning the fans
and media, what is your viewpoint on Robert Salas. We
discussed your viewpoint on Robert Sala saying that the media
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and the fans should not be writing the obituary for
the Jets following Aaron Rodgers exiting stage left for the
entire season. So I've got supper club, Jeorts and demolition Derby,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make the baba Ganooche, which Aaron
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Rodgers can eat a lot of babaganosh with his special
sauce on the babag noosh there on top of Yeah,
that's good sauce anyway. All right, So hey, listen, Robert Sala,
I get the whole spiel. I understand we've been doing
this for a while. We've been dealing with him for
the last couple of years. This is why you are
supposed to say your star player gets hurt. There's a
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yin to the yang. You are the spokes hack for
the team you coach. You come out there and anything
less would have been a breach of decorum. This is
proper pig skin etiquette. All you want to have a
positive atmosphere, and this has always been his demeanor. He's
always been a cheerful kind of a guy, enthusiastic, very
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animated Robert Salam. Remember when he was coaching the Niners defense,
the TV people loved to show Robert Sala because he
was moving his arms around and he was like a cartoon.
And now he's coaching the Jets and he's the same way.
But you gotta be positive despite that. I am not
Benny Brightside on the New York Jets. No no, no, no, no, no, no,
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not at all. I will be the voice of reason
here right now. Robert Sala has joined the supper club,
as in the last Supper for the Jets, and you
might as well start cooking those funeral potatoes at this
point for the twenty twenty three Jets. And I've heard
some people's ah, things will be okay. And I do
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realize that the Jets have a pretty good defense and
I'm not going to sit here and say they don't
have a good defense. As we pointed out in a
previous episode of the show, unless you have some kind
of time machine. In the modern NFL, it doesn't mean
Diddley po to have a dominant defense if your quarterback
is completely inept. And there lies the problem in this
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tangled web of chaos for the Jets. Zach Wilson, good
old Zach Wilson. He ain't it, man, he ain't it.
He ain't that guy who Yeah, he is a feeble quarterback.
He's what's known as a total lightweight. So you want
to go out and buy some rosary beads on Amazon
for the Jets twenty twenty three season. Feel free here
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and you can warm up the band. Nada na da
da da da Hey hey good bye. Yeah, that's the
way it's gonna go.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
People do improve and people get better and all that happens. Sure, absolutely,
every once in a while you catch lightning in a bottom,
it does happen. But is it gonna happen with Zack Wilson. No, no, uh,
zero chance, zero chance. With this guy's as stiff as
our old caller from Rhode Island, would say, the guys
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a bum. The guys a bum. Zack Wilson. All right, now,
turn of the page. We stay in Gotham. The Jets
are currently window shopping because they realize even though publicly
they're like, hey, listen, this is our guy. We're gonna
continue with Zack Wilson, he's our leader. Well that's why
they're doing publicly. Privately they are contacting anyone that's got
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a pulse that used to play quarterback and say, hey,
how would you like to play for the Jets. Yeah.
Some of the names that have mentioned from CBS, Matt Ryan,
who just called his first regular season NFL game as
an analyst. Matt Ryan, the same Matt Ryan that was
not only a quarterback, he blew chunks, projectile vomit with
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the Indianapolis Colts last year. So Matt Ryan has been mentioned.
You've got Carson Wentz, he's failed for three teams in
a row. And then you have Nick Foles. He is
available if you want him, Just give him a call.
Just give him a call. Now, there is also a
trade possibility. It's been kicked around. If you've been paying
attention here, and a name that was mentioned over the
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weekend that Jets had interested in this guy, and it
had interested him last year and even this offseason. From
the La Rams. You can ram it all day, you
can ram it all night. After the big upset win
over the overrated Seahawks, Matthew Stafford, his name has been
tossed out into the echo chambers. A possibility. So I
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am now going to deputize you. I'm going to make
you a senior advisor for the Jets. You're now a
senior advisor for the Jets. What should the Jets do
at quarterback going forward? Assuming the position that they realize
they've got a turd burger at quarterback right now? And
Zach Wilson, you don't want to put a turd burger
out there all season, so you gotta go out and
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get somebody else. You gotta get somebody else. So what
would you do? Now? I'll go first here and you
can go and I'll give out the number in a
secon you can call in. But here's what I would do.
First of all, I activate the Mallard think tank. That's
my first move. So I do that. I have to
activate the malthink tank. And as an unsolicited consultant for
Gang Green. I avoid Matthew Stafford because Matthew Stafford is
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the same kind of a ticking time bomb that Aaron
Rodgers was going into the year we saw the Aaron Rodgers,
but the Aaron Rodgers time bomb went caboo, and Matthew
Stafford has been put through the wood chipper, so he's
not long to make it through the entire So you're
trade for Matthew Stafford, and the Rams would be happy
to trade him, but you're gonna have the same problem
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in week five or six where Stafford is out and
then what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
You'll be back with Zach Wilson. So I've got the
perfect solution. Nobody else has. This, the perfect solution for
the Jets the guy to go out there and get
and it involves Halloween, which is not that far away,
right next month and the next month Halloween. So here's
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what you do. You go out to the Halloween shop.
You get one of those fake mustaches, you get one
of those wig mullets, and you get some scissors, and
you cut your jeans and make them jorts, and then
you have the full outfit for the man that will
save the New York Jets season. He's not my gardener.
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He's not your gardener. He's Gardner Minshew. That's the guy.
That's the guy, Gardner Minshew. Get him. He won't cost
that much. The Colts aren't trying to win. Jimmerson and
about the Colts this year. It's a throwaway year. So
go out and get Gardner Mische's the backup in Indianapolis.
Do it?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Trade for Minshow. That's the guy. That's the guy, and
he would be magical. It would certainly be an upgrade. Well,
I think if you know, there's some people in the
cemeteries that would be an upgrade over Zach Wilson. But
here's the deal. Upgrade, better player. I'm not gonna cost
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you that much. And he's got that chlax attitude he does.
He's got that rasthmataz. Also, he would dominate with the
Jets because you don't need great. He's not great. I'm
not gonna sit here and say it's great. He's average.
But average is better than bad, and you have bad
right now in Zach Wilson. The guy can't play, Okay,
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he doesn't have it. Gardner minshe's got a little bit
of it. He can play a little bit. He's average,
but average is fine. You've got a good defense. He
got average. And occasionally Gardner will do amazing landscaping, and man,
will he be great. And you have a shot of
getting that little magical dust that Nick Foles had in
Philadelphia Kurt Warner way back in the day for the
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old Saint Louis Rams. But Zach Wilson ain't gonna do it,
all right, last word here, So let's go to Park Avenue.
And I was in New York earlier this year. I
wandered by the Park Avenue offices of the NFL. No
NFL logo, by the way, it's a nondescript skyscraper in Manhattan.
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Walked by it there and many are convenienced that Aaron
Rogers blew attire because of the Boogeyman, the turf Monster.
The turf monster got him that if he'd been playing
on national grass, then he wouldn't have gotten hurt. But
because the Jets play in a multi team facility, that
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he played on the turf and the synthetic grass is
what caused the injury. So the NFL has responded to
this bold decree. Do you think the NFL A said, yes,
that's all true. It's all because of the turf, and
if Rogers had played on grass, you would have been fined.
Do you think the NFL said no, that's not true
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or see no comment. So the answer is is door
number two. The answers be Jeff Miller. It's a very
generic name. He's an NFL executive overseeing health and safety.
He went on a conference call this week and said
that there is no statistical difference to injury data going
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back to twenty fifteen for achilles injuries suffered on natural
grass versus turf, that it's essentially the same. He also
pointed out JK. Dobbins of the Ravens he had a
torn achilles on a natural grass field in Baltimore. So
people are up in arms over this. Oh, I can't
believe the NFL. This was just respectful blah blah blah
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blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
So let's talk about this one. So the NFL big
wig says they've got the numbers and it shows that
the Achilles injuries happened the same rate on turf as
grass does that pass the smell test. So I have
an unpopular opinion. I actually believe it. I do believe it. Uh,
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And I know that's an unpopular opinion, and it's you
should get on here and scream and shout and blow
the whole thing down over there at the NFL. But
maybe I'm gollible. I mean, I can call me gible.
But here's the thing. Is it true that the NFL
if they got rid of every turf field in this
hypothetical twilight zone scenario, every turf field indoors outdoors, and
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they went to a natural grass I'm talking Kentucky bluegrass,
good old Kentucky bluegrass, and that's where they went. Wood
players stop popping their achilles if that was the case.
And the answer is obviously no. That's a rhetorical question
because the NFL is a demolition derby. So when I
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was a kid, they had these things monster truck competitions,
which I guess they still do, but it was a
big deal. That's what the NFL is. And players are
crash test dummies, and a certain percentage of players are
going to be injured every season. The NFL hopes not
star player because that's bad for business. But it's as
long as it's within the margin of era, that's what
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you gotta do.
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are back in it. We'll get back to the Jets
conversation with Aaron Rogerrison a couple of minutes, but there
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is other information that caught my attention, and we're gonna
start this hour. Lead this hour coming from the tabloids,
the rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate malmonologue directly out
of the tabloid. So the reigning Super Bowl champions who
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played like trumps against the Detroit Lions in the NFL
season opening game are now fair game. It is hunting
season on Conzaw City for the paparazzo. Now, what's this about?
If you didn't see it, maybe you missed it. You
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don't read the tablets. Bad job by you, Oh those
crusted over It was not just a tabloid story. It
bounced around the pinball machine of sports chatter. So we
have learned that Taylor Swift has indeed been dating Travis
Kelsey of the Kanzaw City Chiefs, the tight End. We
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talked about this story a while ago because there was
a report that said that Kelsey tried to get a
hold of Taylor Swift, left a friendship bracelet for Swift
and it never got to her. Before a concert during
the summertime, Apparently it got to her. So they are
both the same age, they're thirty three years old. Something
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called the Messenger, I'm not sure what that is, but
they tell us that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey have
been quote quietly hanging out. Obviously not that quietly. We
know about it, and it's being broadcast all over the place.
A lot of bandwidth, a lot of bandwidth, a lot
of gigabytes being used on the Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift story.
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So let us discuss the question. We'll keep this simple.
It's not brain surgery. It is merely sports radio. So
the question, Travis Kelsey dating Taylor Swift? Is this a
big deal, a little deal, or no deal? So this
is a godzilla, Godzilla sized deal. Yeah, I'm sicking to that.
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So I've got layaway, merry melodies and cigarette smoke, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a platinum record, is what we're
going to make. So a number one. This is not
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last I checked. Maybe I'm wrong. This is not just
some random karaoke singer from the Spit and Sawdust bar
down the street, right, is not that? Is this somebody
that works as like a dental hygienist and then she
sings at weddings and bar mitzvah's on the weekends. No, yeah,
I didn't think so. Yeah, Taylor Swift and I don't
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want to speak in hyperbole. Is one of the five
most famous entertainers in the world. Is that an accurate
statement or is that not accurate? That if you were
to look at all the entertainers in the internet world
that we live in, that she's in the top five
and probably going on going loan on that, you know,
likely higher than that, likely like top two. But either way,
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she's in the top five. And Taylor Swift as this
beacon of fame kind of a big deal, kind of
a big deal, and this is a major notch in
the dating belt for Travis Kelcey. However, in the big picture,
in the big picture, this is a problem. It is
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a problem for Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes and the chiefs.
Why you ask, well, I'll tell you why. What is
going to happen to this relationship? And I'm not serious.
I'm doing the old love line show like Doctor Drew
back in the day. But here's what I know. Famous
people that date other famous people end up in a
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separation situation. Very rarely, very rarely does it end up
working out. And so it's going to fail, it's not
going to succeed. You have a better chance of finding
a horse that can recite the alphabet than you do
of this romance succeeding, and in the process, Travis kelce
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has opened Pandora's box. Has opened up Pandora's boxer. He
welcomed the tabloid bedbugs into the locker room there to
have a feeding frenzy, guaranteeing what is this guarantee? It
guarantees upheaval, right, it guarantees upheaval. And the first cousin
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of upheaval is disruption that that will shadow Kansas City's
locker room. Now of bigger concern the law you get
to you got the micro and the macro. So the
short term, it's the tabloid's kind of messing around, messing
around and snooping around. The long term, though, the long
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game is what's on Layoway? And you know and I
know what's on Layoway. It's called lyrical Layoway. Lyrics on Layoway.
And when ultimately Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey go their
separate ways as adults, and when Taylor Swift moves on
to somebody else, she will do what she is going
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to immortalize her time with Travis kelcey, and she will
write a hokey love song and all the Swifties are
gonna love it and they will buy it, and it'll
be great, and she'll take cryptic shots at Travis Kelcey,
and she might even reference some of the other key
players there in Kansas City. That is a garong tait.
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That is a guarantee. Now, page two, let's go to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Now,
if you watch the maiden voyage of Benny versus the
Penny on television last weekend, you know that the one
thing I royally effed up was I believe in the Insers.
I believed in the dast the forty nine Ers, and
boy did they make me look like a schmuck man
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was at a terrible analysis of that game. But I
looked at what had happened going into that game, and
I anticipated that I would get an honest effort by
the Steelers. That didn't happen, and it was a no
show situation for the Black and Gold and Steelers coach
Mike Tomlin. He went on the microphones there and he
does not want the Pittsburgh football team to fully move
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on from the public pantsing that they took the hands
of Rock Party and the Niners over the week Here's
a quote from Mike Tommy. He said, quote, we stunk
up the joint. He told the assembled reporters, we have
to carry that stench for a while. We're big boys,
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he said, we can take it. And then he went
to the old cliches, said we better roll up our
sleeves and not forget what happened. Close quote. So what
did you make of Mike Tomlin's statement on the Petsburgh
Steelers not moving on from what they did against the
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forty nine Ers in that loss over the weekend. So
I'll go first. I give this a capital l loved it,
loved it. Yes, that's what I want now. I would
have liked it better if the Steelers had actually shown
up and not needed to have this diatribe from Mike Tomlin.
But here's where we are. Fine, I'll take Mike tom
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has always been a wonderful SoundBite. And this game for
the Steelers was a It was a merry melodies special
pepe le pew the order there and really no lies
and so go out and get some Irish spring, scrub
a dub dub and get that stench off of your body.
He was a half hearted performance, very raggedy, unkempt, and
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like the Steelers, you would expect them. And we've seen
this over these even when they've not had the more
talented team, they've normally been able to compete because they
do things with a certain rhythm that allows them to
have opportunities to beat teams that are perceived to be
better than them. And that was not the case, not
the case at all on this particular game. So the
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Steelers were in total shambles, a for cock the performance
all the way round. We got kicked in the tief
today in a lot of ways. Yes, I could do
nothing but Mike Tomlin vignettes and I'd be happy with that.
We we make no excuses, We seek no council, you
know that kind of rant that he goes on that
and we want we want the volunteers, not hostages. There's
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so many of those great Mike Tomlin rants. Now turning
the page. There's a ticker we have in studio. We're
not allowed to go more than about ten minutes without
mentioning airon Rogers. Yeah, we got to get all our
Aaron Rodgers messages. We gotta get those messages out because
Rogers will be out of the Sporting News soon but
we go down to Dreamland with Aaron Rodgers out for
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the season. We talked about this earlier, the Jets being
bombarded with veteran quarterbacks who are like, hey, I'd like
to play for the Jets, And they're all putting a
full court press via their agents on the Jets from
aug They're like, hey, we want a job. Now there
is one in particular popped up on the radar. Colin Kaepernick. Yeah,
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Colin Caepernick, his agent reached out to the Jets. We
are told to express a desire to make a triumphant
return to the NFL with the New York Jets. Okay.
NFL insider Jordan Schultz shared that story, which is a
rather predictable story. But what is your position? What is
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your position on Colin Kaepernick's agent reaching out to the
Jets to replace Aaron Roger. So this my first thought is, man,
that's a lot of hutzba. That is a hell of
a lot of hutzba. Capeche I mean, man, a man
alive that he would do this now. Secondly, it's par
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for the course. Colin Kaepernick is like a tobacco product.
He's like cigarette smoke. You know, cigarette smoke kind of
lingers around this, kind of lingers in the room there,
and that's that's it. That's it's in the in the
air for a long time. That's Colin Kaepernick. Yeah, get
an ashtray. Kaepernick has not played in an NFL regular
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season game till since the twenty sixteenth season. So you
can go through this twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
twenty twenty, that's four twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,
twenty twenty three. So my computer like brain tells me,
with back of the napkin finger counting, that that is
we're heading into the eighth full season where Kaepernick has
not played in the NFL. But he's available, he is available,
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and he also in that time sued the NFL. He
took a hush hush financial settlement in twenty nineteen. And
here we are get so Kaepernick always does this, and
I think he's gonna do this. I envision in that
cartoon bubble above my head that if we're still here
and Kaepernick's like fifty fifty five years old and some
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quarterback gets hurt that probably hasn't even been born yet,
and Colin Kaepernick will be like, hey, I'd like to play.
I'd like to play for the new expansion franchise in
tim bucktoo, and I'm available. I know I haven't played
in you know, you know, thirty five years, but I
would like to play. I would like to play, And
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he asked it is he has to stay relevant. It's
good for his brand. There's two Kaepernick stories we're guaranteed
of getting every year. Number one during the summer Sizzle
real workout video guaranteed leak the TMZ happens every year.
Number two star quarterback gets hurt story pops up. Colin
Kaepernick wants to play for that team. So it's good
he keeps his name out there, and he's I don't
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know what he's doing to make money. I have no idea,
but I'm sure he's got some kind of stuff going
on and it helps him out.
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This is gets called all right, Cooper loop.
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It was reported this week that these Spurs are planning
to start Victor Benyama at power forward rather than center.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
You think this is the right move, So it is
a meaningless move. And here's why the NBA got rid
of traditional centers and forwards. It's positionless basketball now interchangeable
parts for pretty much everybody. So Victor can be listed
as a forward, but he'll likely play some center depending
on matchups and all that. But the position doesn't really
matter as much as the production. The NBA. This is
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the next big thing, the Parisian prodigy, and he's supposed
to return the sport Spurs irrelevance. They've been bad the
last couple years, but he's gonna carry on the tradition
of Duncan and Robinson. I will believe it when I
see it. I will believe it when I see it.
The sizzle reel looks good, but everyone looks good on
the sizzle reel. All right, what's next?
Speaker 7 (30:43):
The NBA is set to pass some new rules that
will find teams for sitting star players in National TV
games and back to back games. Ben, do you think
they've finally solved the load management problem?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
No? No, this is a band aid. It's one of
those Hello any band aids that they're gonna put on
this and the NBA teams. Here's the reason that this
isn't gonna solve. But the NBA teams have convinced themselves
that they know better than everyone else that when to
rest players, and if it happens to be on a
TNT or an ESPN game, who cares. They're gonna do
it anyway. Load management, it is a cult, you know
(31:18):
how hardest to get somebody out of a cult. You
have to deprogram them. Very difficult, and if need be,
the aristocrats who own these teams will just have a
slush fund of money to pay for the fines and
they'll be like, well, that's it, We'll just pay the fine.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Next Steelers wide receiver George Pickens, like they comment on
Instagram that seemed to throw some shade at Kenny Pickett.
Do the Steelers have a picket problem?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, they have a problem because their offense was totally inept.
I don't know if that's a George Pickens problem or
just a team wide problem. But he was targeted seven times,
he had five I think he had five catches, but nothing,
nothing really of game breaking nature. Alan Robinson was the
top receiver in terms of passes thrown his way, which
tells you something, but very unchisscharacteristic from Pittsburgh. They're gonna
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win this weekend. By the way, how did we go?
That is a way you put it on the bar?
Won the game? I won the game.
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And no way we go with passwords. Welcome in our
contestants for password a fan favorite. We've met him years ago,
just after he got out of high school. Now he's
all growing up. He's been working, busting his ass, driving
around the Valley of the Sun. Serious Sean is going
(32:58):
to play? Hello, Serious Sean? Yeah, everybody? What about Eddie? Eddie?
Hi Sean, are you guys gonna hang out when Eddie goes?
Is it this weekend? When is it? Friend? You're not going?
My buddy bailed on. Go by yourself. I've driven a
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phoenix by myself.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
Oh yeah, let's go to a game together.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
You gotta stop in like Palm Springs and then there's
nowhere else to stop. Well, I guess you stop.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
I mean I was kind of hoping that with the
costs of the hotel, gas and I'll.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Just go to the game and drive back. Boom done.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Let's go to a game together.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Okay, I guess you're not going to a game Sean
with with Eddie. Hold on and you all right? Eddie
picked door number one or door number two? Number two?
Oh right, you picked, but you did not pick the
international line. Sorry, Gordon? And do you want to pick
the international line? Yeah? Sure, all right? Gordon in Okinawa,
(33:56):
Hello Gordon, Hey.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
How are you doing, man, I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Thanks, I did I did not ask how you're doing, sir,
I did not ask.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
I'm just saving.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
I don't thank you. Thank you, Eddie. I appreciate you
for picking the international line. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
No, no, no, no, no, go ahead, Sean. Who do
you want to partner up with? Sean? Go ahead? Hey, shocking? Shocking? Okay?
Do you have like an Eddie bobblehead in your like
a shrine to Eddie? Yeah? Absolutely no, no, okay, I
thought he did. Gordon, who do you want to partner
up with? Their? Gordon and Okinawa.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Coop's going on his honeymoon. He's not coming to ok
go with you? Ben?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
All right, very nice there, Thank you Gordon. We have
a list of words one to ten and there's a
number near each word. Seria, Sean and Eddie. You guys
are going first. So Sean picked a number. We start
out with ten points, we go all the way down
to nine, eight, seven, six, five, and we throw the
word out number on quoting me. You see that, that's easy, Eddie.
Speaker 8 (35:09):
Come on, Sean, are you familiar with the Garcia maneuver?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
No, don't do that, Eddie. You don't even need that.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
It's the Garcia maneuver. It's I say a word and
then it's the opposite of that word.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
God, it's a wild West maneuver.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
All right, here we go, Pepper.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Uh No, the Garcia one for a while.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Called an antonym. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
After today you are no longer allowed to explain the
Garcia maneuver.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
They have to know it. I don't explain the mal maneuver.
I'm sure you did at one point. Definitely. All right, Gordon,
do you have a number you would like to pick? Here? Gordon,
let's gop the number full, then number four? All right?
Uh the clue is hm hmm. How about hushed?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Now?
Speaker 8 (36:15):
I was actually gonna say, hushed, your bastard.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Use your little Garcia maneuver. Eddie, come up quiet, okay,
all right, I will use the Garcia. Go ahead, loudly.
Speaker 9 (36:27):
Shout the opposite, the opposite. It sucks, all right, it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
How about mumble Gordon in Okinawa.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Mumble and something I missed.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
I just think about it. You come on, you got
it right inside you tip of your tongue. Come on,
I need an answer. Five four three two. I don't
know at least he guessed something quiet. Go ahead, Eddie,
I didn't realize it, Sean.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
This is not the Garcia maneuver. We are now just
doing the plain old nothing maneuver. How about softly, softly,
I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Say, whisper.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, I didn't think we were gonna get that world
about that?
Speaker 4 (37:33):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
What do we have to Who's going next? Is that? Sean?
Pick a number? Hurry up, pick a number five?
Speaker 8 (37:42):
All right, number five?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
All about this one, Eddie? You know well, the way
you're playing this game, I think it's about you. Let's
go with stench, stench.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Crash?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
No, how about how about come on, let's get on
the board, Gordon. How about we go with smell? No,
come on, Gord, what do we are? We're out of time?
The word was oder on Hey, Hodie ho
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our lead this hour, the same lead we had last night.
It's still alive, it will not die. The story still
got legs, it still has legs. Our lead coming from
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of our little world. We love the NFL, talking about
the NFL, and that is the story. Everyone is yapping about.
The shockwaves, these shockwaves bouncing around the Jets losing aerid
Rogers to snap, crackle and pop. Is he got for
the rest of the season. A Achilles injury that was confirms,
(02:17):
So Rogers suffering injury, not one, not two, not three?
How about four plays into that Jets game with the
Buffalo Bills, and so he is out following months of
build up, months of hyperbole and high expectations. And they
were talking about Super Bowl confetti falling down from the
(02:40):
heavens in Lost Wages, Nevada. Well not the heavens, there's
a roof on that stadium, but falling down, falling down,
falling down, and now all of it is gone in
a jiffy pop, jiffy pop, see you later. So the
coach of the New York AFC football team, has spoken here.
If you didn't hear what he had to say, and
(03:01):
possibly not, Robert Salah. You think he's worried right now
about whether or not he'll be coaching the Jets in
twenty twenty four, you should be if you're not well.
Robert sala publicly remains very bullish on the chances of
the New York Jets to remain competitive this year. Is
the only one apparently. I think him and Joe Beningo
(03:23):
are the only two people that's a talk show guy
used to work in New York. But here's the deal. Listen,
you didn't hear this and possibly not well, here's the
audio tape. Listen to Robert Sala here as he explains.
Listen the things you're gonna be alright here, I be
careful with what you say. Hear you people.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I don't know why people are trying to put an
obituary under our team names. Aaron is an unbelievable piece
to this whole thing, and we love him. But there's
fifty two other guys in the locker room, plus the
sixteen part squad, guys that believe that we can do
a hell of a lot of good things here.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
All right. So the key part of that was the beginning.
We got a microphone at radio Shack, which no longer
even exists. But that's how it sounded a little muffled.
But here's the thing. Listen, Robert Sala warning the fans
and media, what is your viewpoint on Robert Salas. We
discussed your viewpoint on Robert Sala saying that the media
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and the fans should not be writing the obituary for
the Jets following Aaron Rodgers exiting stage left for the
entire season. So I've got supper club, Jeorts and demolition Derby,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make the baba Ganooche, which Aaron
(04:42):
Rodgers can eat a lot of babaganosh with his special
sauce on the babag noosh there on top of Yeah,
that's good sauce anyway. All right, So hey, listen, Robert Sala,
I get the whole spiel. I understand we've been doing
this for a while. We've been dealing with him for
the last couple of years. This is why you are
supposed to say your star player gets hurt. There's a
(05:05):
yin to the yang. You are the spokes hack for
the team you coach. You come out there and anything
less would have been a breach of decorum. This is
proper pig skin etiquette. All you want to have a
positive atmosphere, and this has always been his demeanor. He's
always been a cheerful kind of a guy, enthusiastic, very
(05:29):
animated Robert Salam. Remember when he was coaching the Niners defense,
the TV people loved to show Robert Sala because he
was moving his arms around and he was like a cartoon.
And now he's coaching the Jets and he's the same way.
But you gotta be positive despite that. I am not
Benny Brightside on the New York Jets. No no, no, no, no, no, no,
(05:53):
not at all. I will be the voice of reason
here right now. Robert Sala has joined the supper club,
as in the last Supper for the Jets, and you
might as well start cooking those funeral potatoes at this
point for the twenty twenty three Jets. And I've heard
some people's ah, things will be okay. And I do
(06:15):
realize that the Jets have a pretty good defense and
I'm not going to sit here and say they don't
have a good defense. As we pointed out in a
previous episode of the show, unless you have some kind
of time machine. In the modern NFL, it doesn't mean
Diddley po to have a dominant defense if your quarterback
is completely inept. And there lies the problem in this
(06:36):
tangled web of chaos for the Jets. Zach Wilson, good
old Zach Wilson. He ain't it, man, he ain't it.
He ain't that guy who Yeah, he is a feeble quarterback.
He's what's known as a total lightweight. So you want
to go out and buy some rosary beads on Amazon
for the Jets twenty twenty three season. Feel free here
(06:59):
and you can warm up the band. Nada na da
da da da Hey hey good bye. Yeah, that's the
way it's gonna go.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
People do improve and people get better and all that happens. Sure, absolutely,
every once in a while you catch lightning in a bottom,
it does happen. But is it gonna happen with Zack Wilson. No, no, uh,
zero chance, zero chance. With this guy's as stiff as
our old caller from Rhode Island, would say, the guys
(07:29):
a bum. The guys a bum. Zack Wilson. All right, now,
turn of the page. We stay in Gotham. The Jets
are currently window shopping because they realize even though publicly
they're like, hey, listen, this is our guy. We're gonna
continue with Zack Wilson, he's our leader. Well that's why
they're doing publicly. Privately they are contacting anyone that's got
(07:51):
a pulse that used to play quarterback and say, hey,
how would you like to play for the Jets. Yeah.
Some of the names that have mentioned from CBS, Matt Ryan,
who just called his first regular season NFL game as
an analyst. Matt Ryan, the same Matt Ryan that was
not only a quarterback, he blew chunks, projectile vomit with
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the Indianapolis Colts last year. So Matt Ryan has been mentioned.
You've got Carson Wentz, he's failed for three teams in
a row. And then you have Nick Foles. He is
available if you want him, Just give him a call.
Just give him a call. Now, there is also a
trade possibility. It's been kicked around. If you've been paying
attention here, and a name that was mentioned over the
(08:35):
weekend that Jets had interested in this guy, and it
had interested him last year and even this offseason. From
the La Rams. You can ram it all day, you
can ram it all night. After the big upset win
over the overrated Seahawks, Matthew Stafford, his name has been
tossed out into the echo chambers. A possibility. So I
(08:56):
am now going to deputize you. I'm going to make
you a senior advisor for the Jets. You're now a
senior advisor for the Jets. What should the Jets do
at quarterback going forward? Assuming the position that they realize
they've got a turd burger at quarterback right now? And
Zach Wilson, you don't want to put a turd burger
out there all season, so you gotta go out and
(09:17):
get somebody else. You gotta get somebody else. So what
would you do? Now? I'll go first here and you
can go and I'll give out the number in a
secon you can call in. But here's what I would do.
First of all, I activate the Mallard think tank. That's
my first move. So I do that. I have to
activate the malthink tank. And as an unsolicited consultant for
Gang Green. I avoid Matthew Stafford because Matthew Stafford is
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the same kind of a ticking time bomb that Aaron
Rodgers was going into the year we saw the Aaron Rodgers,
but the Aaron Rodgers time bomb went caboo, and Matthew
Stafford has been put through the wood chipper, so he's
not long to make it through the entire So you're
trade for Matthew Stafford, and the Rams would be happy
to trade him, but you're gonna have the same problem
(10:05):
in week five or six where Stafford is out and
then what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
You'll be back with Zach Wilson. So I've got the
perfect solution. Nobody else has. This, the perfect solution for
the Jets the guy to go out there and get
and it involves Halloween, which is not that far away,
right next month and the next month Halloween. So here's
(10:26):
what you do. You go out to the Halloween shop.
You get one of those fake mustaches, you get one
of those wig mullets, and you get some scissors, and
you cut your jeans and make them jorts, and then
you have the full outfit for the man that will
save the New York Jets season. He's not my gardener.
(10:49):
He's not your gardener. He's Gardner Minshew. That's the guy.
That's the guy, Gardner Minshew. Get him. He won't cost
that much. The Colts aren't trying to win. Jimmerson and
about the Colts this year. It's a throwaway year. So
go out and get Gardner Mische's the backup in Indianapolis.
Do it?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Trade for Minshow. That's the guy. That's the guy, and
he would be magical. It would certainly be an upgrade. Well,
I think if you know, there's some people in the
cemeteries that would be an upgrade over Zach Wilson. But
here's the deal. Upgrade, better player. I'm not gonna cost
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you that much. And he's got that chlax attitude he does.
He's got that rasthmataz. Also, he would dominate with the
Jets because you don't need great. He's not great. I'm
not gonna sit here and say it's great. He's average.
But average is better than bad, and you have bad
right now in Zach Wilson. The guy can't play, Okay,
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he doesn't have it. Gardner minshe's got a little bit
of it. He can play a little bit. He's average,
but average is fine. You've got a good defense. He
got average. And occasionally Gardner will do amazing landscaping, and man,
will he be great. And you have a shot of
getting that little magical dust that Nick Foles had in
Philadelphia Kurt Warner way back in the day for the
(12:15):
old Saint Louis Rams. But Zach Wilson ain't gonna do it,
all right, last word here, So let's go to Park Avenue.
And I was in New York earlier this year. I
wandered by the Park Avenue offices of the NFL. No
NFL logo, by the way, it's a nondescript skyscraper in Manhattan.
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Walked by it there and many are convenienced that Aaron
Rogers blew attire because of the Boogeyman, the turf Monster.
The turf monster got him that if he'd been playing
on national grass, then he wouldn't have gotten hurt. But
because the Jets play in a multi team facility, that
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he played on the turf and the synthetic grass is
what caused the injury. So the NFL has responded to
this bold decree. Do you think the NFL A said, yes,
that's all true. It's all because of the turf, and
if Rogers had played on grass, you would have been fined.
Do you think the NFL said no, that's not true
(13:18):
or see no comment. So the answer is is door
number two. The answers be Jeff Miller. It's a very
generic name. He's an NFL executive overseeing health and safety.
He went on a conference call this week and said
that there is no statistical difference to injury data going
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back to twenty fifteen for achilles injuries suffered on natural
grass versus turf, that it's essentially the same. He also
pointed out JK. Dobbins of the Ravens he had a
torn achilles on a natural grass field in Baltimore. So
people are up in arms over this. Oh, I can't
believe the NFL. This was just respectful blah blah blah
(14:02):
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
So let's talk about this one. So the NFL big
wig says they've got the numbers and it shows that
the Achilles injuries happened the same rate on turf as
grass does that pass the smell test. So I have
an unpopular opinion. I actually believe it. I do believe it. Uh,
(14:24):
And I know that's an unpopular opinion, and it's you
should get on here and scream and shout and blow
the whole thing down over there at the NFL. But
maybe I'm gollible. I mean, I can call me gible.
But here's the thing. Is it true that the NFL
if they got rid of every turf field in this
hypothetical twilight zone scenario, every turf field indoors outdoors, and
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they went to a natural grass I'm talking Kentucky bluegrass,
good old Kentucky bluegrass, and that's where they went. Wood
players stop popping their achilles if that was the case.
And the answer is obviously no. That's a rhetorical question
because the NFL is a demolition derby. So when I
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was a kid, they had these things monster truck competitions,
which I guess they still do, but it was a
big deal. That's what the NFL is. And players are
crash test dummies, and a certain percentage of players are
going to be injured every season. The NFL hopes not
star player because that's bad for business. But it's as
long as it's within the margin of era, that's what
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you gotta do.
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conversation with Aaron Rogerrison a couple of minutes, but there
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is other information that caught my attention, and we're gonna
start this hour. Lead this hour coming from the tabloids,
the rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate malmonologue directly out
of the tabloid. So the reigning Super Bowl champions who
(17:03):
played like trumps against the Detroit Lions in the NFL
season opening game are now fair game. It is hunting
season on Conzaw City for the paparazzo. Now, what's this about?
If you didn't see it, maybe you missed it. You
(17:23):
don't read the tablets. Bad job by you, Oh those
crusted over It was not just a tabloid story. It
bounced around the pinball machine of sports chatter. So we
have learned that Taylor Swift has indeed been dating Travis
Kelsey of the Kanzaw City Chiefs, the tight End. We
(17:47):
talked about this story a while ago because there was
a report that said that Kelsey tried to get a
hold of Taylor Swift, left a friendship bracelet for Swift
and it never got to her. Before a concert during
the summertime, Apparently it got to her. So they are
both the same age, they're thirty three years old. Something
(18:08):
called the Messenger, I'm not sure what that is, but
they tell us that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey have
been quote quietly hanging out. Obviously not that quietly. We
know about it, and it's being broadcast all over the place.
A lot of bandwidth, a lot of bandwidth, a lot
of gigabytes being used on the Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift story.
(18:32):
So let us discuss the question. We'll keep this simple.
It's not brain surgery. It is merely sports radio. So
the question, Travis Kelsey dating Taylor Swift? Is this a
big deal, a little deal, or no deal? So this
is a godzilla, Godzilla sized deal. Yeah, I'm sicking to that.
(18:57):
So I've got layaway, merry melodies and cigarette smoke, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a platinum record, is what we're
going to make. So a number one. This is not
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last I checked. Maybe I'm wrong. This is not just
some random karaoke singer from the Spit and Sawdust bar
down the street, right, is not that? Is this somebody
that works as like a dental hygienist and then she
sings at weddings and bar mitzvah's on the weekends. No, yeah,
I didn't think so. Yeah, Taylor Swift and I don't
(19:44):
want to speak in hyperbole. Is one of the five
most famous entertainers in the world. Is that an accurate
statement or is that not accurate? That if you were
to look at all the entertainers in the internet world
that we live in, that she's in the top five
and probably going on going loan on that, you know,
likely higher than that, likely like top two. But either way,
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she's in the top five. And Taylor Swift as this
beacon of fame kind of a big deal, kind of
a big deal, and this is a major notch in
the dating belt for Travis Kelcey. However, in the big picture,
in the big picture, this is a problem. It is
(20:28):
a problem for Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes and the chiefs.
Why you ask, well, I'll tell you why. What is
going to happen to this relationship? And I'm not serious.
I'm doing the old love line show like Doctor Drew
back in the day. But here's what I know. Famous
people that date other famous people end up in a
(20:53):
separation situation. Very rarely, very rarely does it end up
working out. And so it's going to fail, it's not
going to succeed. You have a better chance of finding
a horse that can recite the alphabet than you do
of this romance succeeding, and in the process, Travis kelce
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has opened Pandora's box. Has opened up Pandora's boxer. He
welcomed the tabloid bedbugs into the locker room there to
have a feeding frenzy, guaranteeing what is this guarantee? It
guarantees upheaval, right, it guarantees upheaval. And the first cousin
(21:39):
of upheaval is disruption that that will shadow Kansas City's
locker room. Now of bigger concern the law you get
to you got the micro and the macro. So the
short term, it's the tabloid's kind of messing around, messing
around and snooping around. The long term, though, the long
(22:00):
game is what's on Layoway? And you know and I
know what's on Layoway. It's called lyrical Layoway. Lyrics on Layoway.
And when ultimately Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey go their
separate ways as adults, and when Taylor Swift moves on
to somebody else, she will do what she is going
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to immortalize her time with Travis kelcey, and she will
write a hokey love song and all the Swifties are
gonna love it and they will buy it, and it'll
be great, and she'll take cryptic shots at Travis Kelcey,
and she might even reference some of the other key
players there in Kansas City. That is a garong tait.
(22:42):
That is a guarantee. Now, page two, let's go to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Now,
if you watch the maiden voyage of Benny versus the
Penny on television last weekend, you know that the one
thing I royally effed up was I believe in the Insers.
I believed in the dast the forty nine Ers, and
boy did they make me look like a schmuck man
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was at a terrible analysis of that game. But I
looked at what had happened going into that game, and
I anticipated that I would get an honest effort by
the Steelers. That didn't happen, and it was a no
show situation for the Black and Gold and Steelers coach
Mike Tomlin. He went on the microphones there and he
does not want the Pittsburgh football team to fully move
(23:29):
on from the public pantsing that they took the hands
of Rock Party and the Niners over the week Here's
a quote from Mike Tommy. He said, quote, we stunk
up the joint. He told the assembled reporters, we have
to carry that stench for a while. We're big boys,
(23:50):
he said, we can take it. And then he went
to the old cliches, said we better roll up our
sleeves and not forget what happened. Close quote. So what
did you make of Mike Tomlin's statement on the Petsburgh
Steelers not moving on from what they did against the
(24:10):
forty nine Ers in that loss over the weekend. So
I'll go first. I give this a capital l loved it,
loved it. Yes, that's what I want now. I would
have liked it better if the Steelers had actually shown
up and not needed to have this diatribe from Mike Tomlin.
But here's where we are. Fine, I'll take Mike tom
(24:34):
has always been a wonderful SoundBite. And this game for
the Steelers was a It was a merry melodies special
pepe le pew the order there and really no lies
and so go out and get some Irish spring, scrub
a dub dub and get that stench off of your body.
He was a half hearted performance, very raggedy, unkempt, and
(25:00):
like the Steelers, you would expect them. And we've seen
this over these even when they've not had the more
talented team, they've normally been able to compete because they
do things with a certain rhythm that allows them to
have opportunities to beat teams that are perceived to be
better than them. And that was not the case, not
the case at all on this particular game. So the
(25:22):
Steelers were in total shambles, a for cock the performance
all the way round. We got kicked in the tief
today in a lot of ways. Yes, I could do
nothing but Mike Tomlin vignettes and I'd be happy with that.
We we make no excuses, We seek no council, you
know that kind of rant that he goes on that
and we want we want the volunteers, not hostages. There's
(25:45):
so many of those great Mike Tomlin rants. Now turning
the page. There's a ticker we have in studio. We're
not allowed to go more than about ten minutes without
mentioning airon Rogers. Yeah, we got to get all our
Aaron Rodgers messages. We gotta get those messages out because
Rogers will be out of the Sporting News soon but
we go down to Dreamland with Aaron Rodgers out for
(26:08):
the season. We talked about this earlier, the Jets being
bombarded with veteran quarterbacks who are like, hey, I'd like
to play for the Jets, And they're all putting a
full court press via their agents on the Jets from
aug They're like, hey, we want a job. Now there
is one in particular popped up on the radar. Colin Kaepernick. Yeah,
(26:32):
Colin Caepernick, his agent reached out to the Jets. We
are told to express a desire to make a triumphant
return to the NFL with the New York Jets. Okay.
NFL insider Jordan Schultz shared that story, which is a
rather predictable story. But what is your position? What is
(26:52):
your position on Colin Kaepernick's agent reaching out to the
Jets to replace Aaron Roger. So this my first thought is, man,
that's a lot of hutzba. That is a hell of
a lot of hutzba. Capeche I mean, man, a man
alive that he would do this now. Secondly, it's par
(27:16):
for the course. Colin Kaepernick is like a tobacco product.
He's like cigarette smoke. You know, cigarette smoke kind of
lingers around this, kind of lingers in the room there,
and that's that's it. That's it's in the in the
air for a long time. That's Colin Kaepernick. Yeah, get
an ashtray. Kaepernick has not played in an NFL regular
(27:37):
season game till since the twenty sixteenth season. So you
can go through this twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
twenty twenty, that's four twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,
twenty twenty three. So my computer like brain tells me,
with back of the napkin finger counting, that that is
we're heading into the eighth full season where Kaepernick has
not played in the NFL. But he's available, he is available,
(28:01):
and he also in that time sued the NFL. He
took a hush hush financial settlement in twenty nineteen. And
here we are get so Kaepernick always does this, and
I think he's gonna do this. I envision in that
cartoon bubble above my head that if we're still here
and Kaepernick's like fifty fifty five years old and some
(28:24):
quarterback gets hurt that probably hasn't even been born yet,
and Colin Kaepernick will be like, hey, I'd like to play.
I'd like to play for the new expansion franchise in
tim bucktoo, and I'm available. I know I haven't played
in you know, you know, thirty five years, but I
would like to play. I would like to play, And
(28:45):
he asked it is he has to stay relevant. It's
good for his brand. There's two Kaepernick stories we're guaranteed
of getting every year. Number one during the summer Sizzle
real workout video guaranteed leak the TMZ happens every year.
Number two star quarterback gets hurt story pops up. Colin
Kaepernick wants to play for that team. So it's good
he keeps his name out there, and he's I don't
(29:06):
know what he's doing to make money. I have no idea,
but I'm sure he's got some kind of stuff going
on and it helps him out.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
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This is gets called all right, Cooper loop.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
It was reported this week that these Spurs are planning
to start Victor Benyama at power forward rather than center.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
You think this is the right move, So it is
a meaningless move. And here's why the NBA got rid
of traditional centers and forwards. It's positionless basketball now interchangeable
parts for pretty much everybody. So Victor can be listed
as a forward, but he'll likely play some center depending
on matchups and all that. But the position doesn't really
matter as much as the production. The NBA. This is
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the next big thing, the Parisian prodigy, and he's supposed
to return the sport Spurs irrelevance. They've been bad the
last couple years, but he's gonna carry on the tradition
of Duncan and Robinson. I will believe it when I
see it. I will believe it when I see it.
The sizzle reel looks good, but everyone looks good on
the sizzle reel. All right, what's next?
Speaker 7 (30:43):
The NBA is set to pass some new rules that
will find teams for sitting star players in National TV
games and back to back games. Ben, do you think
they've finally solved the load management problem?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
No? No, this is a band aid. It's one of
those Hello any band aids that they're gonna put on
this and the NBA teams. Here's the reason that this
isn't gonna solve. But the NBA teams have convinced themselves
that they know better than everyone else that when to
rest players, and if it happens to be on a
TNT or an ESPN game, who cares. They're gonna do
it anyway. Load management, it is a cult, you know
(31:18):
how hardest to get somebody out of a cult. You
have to deprogram them. Very difficult, and if need be,
the aristocrats who own these teams will just have a
slush fund of money to pay for the fines and
they'll be like, well, that's it, We'll just pay the fine.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Next Steelers wide receiver George Pickens, like they comment on
Instagram that seemed to throw some shade at Kenny Pickett.
Do the Steelers have a picket problem?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, they have a problem because their offense was totally inept.
I don't know if that's a George Pickens problem or
just a team wide problem. But he was targeted seven times,
he had five I think he had five catches, but nothing,
nothing really of game breaking nature. Alan Robinson was the
top receiver in terms of passes thrown his way, which
tells you something, but very unchisscharacteristic from Pittsburgh. They're gonna
(32:03):
win this weekend. By the way, how did we go?
That is a way you put it on the bar?
Won the game? I won the game.
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And no way we go with passwords. Welcome in our
contestants for password a fan favorite. We've met him years ago,
just after he got out of high school. Now he's
all growing up. He's been working, busting his ass, driving
around the Valley of the Sun. Serious Sean is going
(32:58):
to play? Hello, Serious Sean? Yeah, everybody? What about Eddie? Eddie?
Hi Sean, are you guys gonna hang out when Eddie goes?
Is it this weekend? When is it? Friend? You're not going?
My buddy bailed on. Go by yourself. I've driven a
(33:20):
phoenix by myself.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
Oh yeah, let's go to a game together.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
You gotta stop in like Palm Springs and then there's
nowhere else to stop. Well, I guess you stop.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
I mean I was kind of hoping that with the
costs of the hotel, gas and I'll.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Just go to the game and drive back. Boom done.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Let's go to a game together.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Okay, I guess you're not going to a game Sean
with with Eddie. Hold on and you all right? Eddie
picked door number one or door number two? Number two?
Oh right, you picked, but you did not pick the
international line. Sorry, Gordon? And do you want to pick
the international line? Yeah? Sure, all right? Gordon in Okinawa,
(33:56):
Hello Gordon, Hey.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
How are you doing, man, I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Thanks, I did I did not ask how you're doing, sir,
I did not ask.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
I'm just saving.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
I don't thank you. Thank you, Eddie. I appreciate you
for picking the international line. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
No, no, no, no, no, go ahead, Sean. Who do
you want to partner up with? Sean? Go ahead? Hey, shocking? Shocking? Okay?
Do you have like an Eddie bobblehead in your like
a shrine to Eddie? Yeah? Absolutely no, no, okay, I
thought he did. Gordon, who do you want to partner
up with? Their? Gordon and Okinawa.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Coop's going on his honeymoon. He's not coming to ok
go with you? Ben?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
All right, very nice there, Thank you Gordon. We have
a list of words one to ten and there's a
number near each word. Seria, Sean and Eddie. You guys
are going first. So Sean picked a number. We start
out with ten points, we go all the way down
to nine, eight, seven, six, five, and we throw the
word out number on quoting me. You see that, that's easy, Eddie.
Speaker 8 (35:09):
Come on, Sean, are you familiar with the Garcia maneuver?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
No, don't do that, Eddie. You don't even need that.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
It's the Garcia maneuver. It's I say a word and
then it's the opposite of that word.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
God, it's a wild West maneuver.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
All right, here we go, Pepper.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Uh No, the Garcia one for a while.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Called an antonym. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
After today you are no longer allowed to explain the
Garcia maneuver.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
They have to know it. I don't explain the mal maneuver.
I'm sure you did at one point. Definitely. All right, Gordon,
do you have a number you would like to pick? Here? Gordon,
let's gop the number full, then number four? All right?
Uh the clue is hm hmm. How about hushed?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Now?
Speaker 8 (36:15):
I was actually gonna say, hushed, your bastard.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Use your little Garcia maneuver. Eddie, come up quiet, okay,
all right, I will use the Garcia. Go ahead, loudly.
Speaker 9 (36:27):
Shout the opposite, the opposite. It sucks, all right, it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
How about mumble Gordon in Okinawa.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Mumble and something I missed.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
I just think about it. You come on, you got
it right inside you tip of your tongue. Come on,
I need an answer. Five four three two. I don't
know at least he guessed something quiet. Go ahead, Eddie,
I didn't realize it, Sean.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
This is not the Garcia maneuver. We are now just
doing the plain old nothing maneuver. How about softly, softly,
I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Say, whisper.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, I didn't think we were gonna get that world
about that?
Speaker 4 (37:33):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
What do we have to Who's going next? Is that? Sean?
Pick a number? Hurry up, pick a number five?
Speaker 8 (37:42):
All right, number five?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
All about this one, Eddie? You know well, the way
you're playing this game, I think it's about you. Let's
go with stench, stench.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Crash?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
No, how about how about come on, let's get on
the board, Gordon. How about we go with smell? No,
come on, Gord, what do we are? We're out of time?
The word was oder on Hey, Hodie ho
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