September 15, 2023 • 44 mins
Big Ben talks about the Vikings falling to the Eagles on Thursday Night Football thanks to many turnovers, the latest wrinkle in the Stefon Diggs story, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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where my man, my guy, Al Michaels and Herbie Kirk
Kerbstreet were schmoozing on the digital boop Tube. Marquee build anyways,
a Marquee NFC matchup the Vikings, who had a really
sexy record last year. I guess the Philadelphia Eagles, who
were in the Super Bowl didn't win it. At Kirk Cousins,
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who's the star of that quarterbacks reality show, Jalen Hurts
the next big thing. He got paid all that money
in the offseason. So did you watch? Perhaps not? Now,
don't worry, we watched for you as our good mitzvah
of the day, sod Andre Swift, a swiftye thumped the
Purple people Eaters defense. Well they used to be called
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that when they were good. One hundred and eighty one
total yards, one hundred and seventy five of those on
the ground and a touchdown as Philadelphia held off Minnesota
thirty four to twenty eight. The Eagles improved to two
to zero on the young season. The Minnesota Vikings are
now oh and two. That's not good, but they did
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if you're a gambler. They got a back door push.
Depending on what line you got, you might have won
the game. It was six and a half at one point,
but it went off the board at six. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. That is where we
will gain this rant and the question as we discuss
who gets the biggest chunk of the vikings juicy lucy
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of blame, not to be confused with the blame pie,
not to be confused with the blame burrito. This is
the juicy lucy of blame for the vikings. So who
gets the biggest chunk of that? I've got sugar shack,
Salvation Army, and fifty to fifty raffle, and we will
tie all of these things together and we are going
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to make a lake, because they got extra lakes there
back in Minnesota. So a listen, we start at the
very top here. We'll take a swim. Kevin O'Connell and
Brian Flores, Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Those guys get to go
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first year. They get a big chunk. Now, I know
they didn't play down. I realized that, however, they are
in charge of the basics. The Minnesota defense was manhandled
by the Eagles offensive line. Bunch of lightweights in Minnesota,
guys playing who are backups, But you're still in the NFL.
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You're getting paid. Do your job, Philadelphia. If you watch
this game, you know it was mostly the Philadelphia Eagles
running offensive places. They ran twenty more offensive plays than
the Minnesota Vikings because they could run right, left and
right up the gut. It didn't matter. They did what
they wanted on the ground in this game, from soup
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to nuts, and they had possession of the ball for
almost forty minutes of a sixty minute game. Two hundred
and fifty nine yards and a cherry on top for Philadelphia.
They averaged five point four yards per rush, and it
actually seemed worse than that when you're watching the game. Now,
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Brian Flores, he needs to do better. He needs to
coach better. Hopefully his lawsuit goes better than his job
with the Vikings has gone so far, because man, this
guy's one of the great defensive minds and all that,
and they are doing nothing, nothing in terms of in
this game. They didn't last week. They didn't give up
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that many points. But man, Baker Mayfield was able to
make some plays there in that game. So then you
have Kevin O'Connell, who is the head ball coach, the
CEO of the Minnesota football team, which is fundamentally broken.
And at this point Kevin O'Connell is running a sugar shack.
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But they only have one item on the menu, butter fingers.
That's it. Two words ball security, not one, not two,
not three? How about four fumbles? Four fumbles in this
game on Thursday night and three turnovers against the Buccaneers
the previous So the Vikings. I crunch the numbers on this,
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I use some malord math. The Vikings are on pace
for fifty nine and a half turnovers this season, which
amazingly would not be the NFL record. The NFL record
was held and is still held by the nineteen seventy
eight to forty nine Ers in a much shorter season. Comparably,
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they had sixty three turnovers. But the Vikings, if they
increased their turnover rate just a little bit, they're right there,
neck and neck. Now, O'Connell better have these guys run gassers.
That's what they were doing the old times. Now, of
course you probably can't do that, But man if I
was coaching the Vikings, if was allowed to say, all right,
you guys in the back do burpies and the rest
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of you have to run to the tree. No, no,
not that tree. You have to run to the tree
in Duluth is where you have to run and run back. Now,
Kirk Cousins had a really sexy stat line at three
and sixty four yards passing four touchdowns. He did have
a fumble, but that's expected. But it was an uphill
situation all day. Philadelphia built up a big lead, the
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Vikings did not quit. They came back, and if you're
a gambler, you're very grateful for that. But the Vikings
fall the zero to two two technically one score losses
this season, and they now have the Chargers in their
next game. They've got a couple of extra days of rest,
and you'd think the Vikings offensively will be fine against
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the Chargers, but it doesn't matter if they keep turning
the ball over. Now, on the other side of this
page two, the winning side, which is not as good
a story Philadelphia overpowering running rough shot over Minnesota, as
we said. But let's step back and if you take
a look at the wide angle view here the Eagles
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are two to zero. Are you impressed with the Birds?
Are you impressed? So I'm giving that question a little
bit of stink eye, I am, because it's a tricky
little dance, is what it is to me. The Eagles.
I watched a lot of the game against the Patriots,
and certainly this game. I watched all of it, and
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they haven't proven anything this season, even though they're to
to Oh the Eagles have supposedly high standards after getting
to the Super Bowl and losing, but Mac Jones tore
them up in that New England game for a good
chunk of the second and third quarter, And in this game,
Kirk Cousins for the most part shredded the Philadelphia pass defense.
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And Philly has been manning a salvation army red kettle,
and they're getting a lot of donations, a lot of them.
The four fumbles by the Vikings. The Patriots had two turnovers,
including a pick six in the game last week. So
that is twenty four point scored as a direct result
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of the other team just putting a nice gift in
that red kettle. And then you have Jalen Hurts, who
had one of those misleading stat lines that if you
didn't watch the game and you looked at the numbers,
say wow, that's pretty good. Now I continue to be
blown away that the NFL did not banish the tush push,
the rugby play that is still as fearsome as a barracuda.
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The tush push is unstoppable. Why doesn't everyone do that?
So two more rushing touchdowns for Jalen Hurts. The passing
part was the spotty part. He had one hundred ninety
three passing yards, which looks great in the box score
eight point four yards per tempt. He had a touchdown,
he did have an interception, But there were two plays
that broke the statuet apart. There was a sixty three
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yard pass and run for a touchdown to Devonte Smith
and a fifty four yard dart to Devonte Smith. So
on those two plays, Jalen Hurts got one hundred and
seventeen yards. Now bear with me. You're not supposed to
give math on the radio, but I'm gonna give you
some more math. So one hundred and seventeen yards on
those those two plays. The other sixteen completed passes that
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Jalen Hurts had, and I wrote this down in my notes,
The other sixteen completed passes went for a grand total
of seventy six yards, which means that Jalen Hurts on
those other sixteen completions averaged three point four yards in
a cloud of dust. And that was in his other
twenty one past steps. Now, I don't want to be critical,
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but that sucks all right. Now the last word here,
let's go back to Minnesota theme of the night fumble
the fumble Rooskie, which they would have been better off
running the fumble Rooskie because that trick play worked. Their
fumbles did not work. Now, there's one fumble that stood out,
head and shoulders above all of the rest all of them,
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and that was the one just before halftime involving Justin Jefferson.
He came this close to having a touchdown, nearly had
a touchdown in the second quarter, relatively late. But after
an instant replay review, it was determined that the fumble
you see this, it went over the ball went over
the pylon. Oh my god, no saying it ain't so Batman. Yeah,
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So the ball goes over the pilon and as a result,
Justin Jefferson hit the fumble that he had there the
NFL rules mandate that the Eagles are giving the football back,
and they got it. So instead of the Vikings getting
a touchdown and closing right there before halftime, they turn
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the ball over and then the Eagles go down and
get a field goal before halftime. So that's a pretty
big swing in the game, which turned out to be
a one score game. Here's the aforementioned Kevin O'Connell giving
his ten cents on that particular play. Let's go to
the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We just got to continue to emphasize decision making, technique
and fundamentals as far as the ball carriers go. But
like I said, Justin's just trying to make a play
in that moment, and the hardest thing to do is
to get a guy not to reach the ball out
when they're that close to scoring a touchdown in a
critical moment exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And I would like to address this. I'm gonna go
on a little Randy. I mean my soapbox. It's a
very large soapbox, okay, And I want to make my
pitch right now. The question is will the NFL ever
address the fumble touchback rule? And I've determined not in
my life they should. But they won't. Why I've got arrogance,
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big headness, and neurosis as the big three here, and
we're not exactly splitting Adams. I've been doing this for
a long time. I can't believe how long I've been
doing this. Now the years just keep piling up and
over every couple of season. That doesn't happen every year,
but every few years we get this story. It's an
evergreen story. It never changes. People are up in arms,
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people can play, and people scream and shout. Then you've
got those the rule nerds. Well it's a good rule
we walk through. I hate the nerd. I hate those
rule nerds. I cannot stand them. And they'll call it.
Maybe we might get one to call up at some point.
You're well, you know, Ben, it's really because out of
an abundance a caution, you gotta do this, you know.
And it's so stupid, it's so dumb. Fumbles. It has
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been proven. We have the data. A fumble in an
NFL game is it's like a fifty to fifty raffle,
meaning the ball could go either way. But yet if
you fumble out of the end zone, the defense gets
the fumble one hundred percent of the time. Explain how
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that makes sense to me. It doesn't make sense to me,
but explain to it to me how it makes sense.
Like I'm a kindergartener. You're punishing perseverance. You are not
rewarding determination. You are kicking determination in the nuts for
the offensive player. You lose possession despite the defense not
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recovering the ball. They didn't get the ball. The ball
went out of bounds the whistle blow. And not only
do they get the ball, they gain twenty yards of
field positions, so twenty percent of the field they gain. Now,
if you have a problem, you need a solution. So
I have a solution I would like to pitch. No
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one else has this content. Okay, I'm gonna run this
by you. You are the jury, and I want to
see if you will vote yes or no on this.
So I thought about it, and I thought about a
lot over the years. But here's my solution to this
pylon end zone fumble turnover situation. The Malord solution. Add
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a college basketball style possession row possession That makes way. Okay,
let me explain, all right, if you win the kickoff,
that means, just like in basketball, the other team gets
the fumble possession arrow. So here's the way it works.
When the offense gets the ball back, the Alvins gets
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the ball back out of the fumble, you send it
to the original line of scrimmage before the end zone
fumble if they happen to have the possession air. Now,
if the defense has the possession arrow and they choose
to go that way, if it's the defense, you just
spot the ball the one yard line and they start
from there. They don't go to the twenty yard line.
You start at the one yard line because it fumbled
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out of the endzone. How do you assume it goes
back to the twenty.
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back to the Philadelphia Eagles and the Minnesota Vikings coming
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up a little bit later. We had a full Mallon
monologue on that earlier, as that game goes the way
of the Birds. Although if you bet on the game,
you did not did not end up smiling. I don't
think you were smiling, guys. The game was a push.
It went went off the board. The gambling market had
it at six, although it was if you got it
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earlier in the week. It was six and a half
if you're better, but it ended up at six, and
so the game pushed, and so I get your money
back if you did that unless you bought a point.
The Vikings with four more fumbles in that game, and
the Philadelphia Eagles, who win but yet don't look very impressive.
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It's a it's a weird, weird situation. Situation. But we'll
have more on that coming up a little bit later
on as we continue here through the overnight. But we're
gonna get to a story off the shores of Lake
Erie as we have been overwhelmed with Buffalo Bill apologists,
and we go where the news of the day takes
us and it continues to swirl around a wide receiver
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in Orchard Park, New York. The Stefan Diggs story, its
tentacles are all over the NFL. And if you haven't
heard the latest year, perhaps not. Let me give you
the very small recap of what happened here. So Stefan
Diggs got called out by a Buffalo Bill's team reporter
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and then he responded. It seemed like he had a
ghost writer, very worthy thing. He was playing the victim
card from the bottom of the deck, this great travesty.
Somebody didn't like him, and they got recorded not liking him,
and so he had this very sob story on social media.
And now we've learned that the cowboy defender who happens
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to be the brother of Stefan Diggs, Trayvon Diggs, has
now spoken and he wants his brother out of a
Buffalo Bill's uniform after the latest drama o rama in
Buffalo upset upset that that reporter was caught on a
hot mic candid camera saying that there's no control roll
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over Stefan Diggs. And then of course she apologized because
he's trying to save her job. But we all know
the way this works. You don't accept the apology. You
accept the initial statement because they didn't realize they were
being recorded, and so they spoke anyway. So Tremato the
Cowboys responded to that. He said, uh tah, they turn
on you so quick. Gotta get Bro somewhere safe bus quote,
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Gotta get Bro somewhere safe, shots fired. Let us discuss
the question, what is your verdict on this latest wrinkle
in the Stefan Diggs story. So I've got parachute, hormal foods,
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and island time, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make chicken wings. Now,
the modern American chicken wing started in Buffalo. Chickens have
always had wings, but the mass consumption of the chicken
wing you can thank the Anchor Bar in Buffalo. I
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was there years ago. I was in Buffalo. I went
to the Anchor Bar and heard so much about it,
and walked in there, and the first thing I saw
was a photo of the old Dodger manager, Tommy Lasorda,
who had stopped by there and probably not paid a
dime for his meal. It was just kind of funny anyway,
all right, So first of all, Trayvon Diggs didn't turn
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on the fog machine here. It's not like he's tiptoeing
around this. It's rather clear. It's like vodka's right clear.
It's as plain as the schnazola on your face. Buffalo
is not a safe space. Not a safe space. Stefan
Diggs taking friendly fire body blow from a reporter who
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is supposed to be on the payroll and put players
on a pedestal. When you are a team employee, say
I never pay attention to these team website stories or
the league website stories. It's all bull crap, right. They're
paid to genuflect to the athletes wants and needs. That's
just the way it is. And for all those Bill's
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Mafia guys who have flooded the phones and the social
media on this show, who tell me, including Andy the
comic book guy, that Stefan Diggs's story is contrived by
gas bags and media people. It's national media. Nobody in
Buffalo believes as well. You have a Bill's reporter who
said it, but they didn't realize they were on the record.
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So you have that. And now you have the brother
of Stefan Diggs, an active NFL player, implying that he
would like a trade for his brother. So put that
in your pipe and smoke. And the cowboy player Travai
try he wants his brother to flip the switch, apparently
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and enter what they have in college football they don't.
I guess Travon knows they don't have this in the
NFL the transfer portal, and when Stefan Diggs enters the
transfer portal, I'm guessing. I don't want to speak for
the Diggs family, but they would like the parachute to
drop down in Jerry's world. Now, is it's true that
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Stefon Diggs, the Bills player, and his brother conspired together. Now,
we've seen players relocate because of family. The greatest example
recently was Odell Beckham a couple of years ago, whose
old man went on social media and ripped the part.
Baker Mayfield ripped the Browns apart, and then Eventually they
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got their wish, and Baker Mayfield stayed briefly in Cleveland
and Odell Beckham did not. But blood is thicker than water.
I saw that on a bumper sticker, and this is
the family business, and the family's not happy. Now. Secondly,
on to turn to baseball, there's an interesting story, a
couple of stories in baseball. I caught my attentions. The
season winds down and then the hunt for the World
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Series in October starts up. So the guillotine fell at
fin Way pack heim Bloom, who heim Bloom was whacked
as the general manager of the stumbling and bumbling Red
Sox after four seasons. The Socks playing the Yankees in
a double header on Thursday, and while all that was
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going on, it was announced that they had removed their
general manager. Now the owner John Henry pulling the plug
on his latest Yale educated czar of baseball ops. And
it was only a four year run. So did heim
Bloom get a raw deal as the Red Sox GM
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That's the first quest question. And I'm shaking my head
no on this. Like heim Bloom, oversaw an era of
mostly mediocrity in Boston baseball and it is a results
based business. I think that's the way it is. I
know this one is so Heim Bloom was there when
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they tore down the stars that had been there. They
merrily carrying out the orders to trade mookie bets from ownership.
It's the problem was not necessarily trading mookie bets if
the Red Sox weren't gonna pay him, But you gotta
get something in return, more than a bunch of flat
soda and stale potato chips. That was a total train
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heist by the Dodgers. The Red Sox traded mookie bets
and David Price, he stinks, and cash for Alex Verdugo
who's an average outfielder, Connor Wong, who's inn below average player,
and Jeter Downs who's not even that. And that trade
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alone justifies giving a pink slip to Hein Bloom. If
he signed off on that and said, this is the
best we can get for a player who's a generational
talent in mookie bets, and then he also gave Trevor's
story and his broken down body one hundred and forty
million dollars. He's harreadly played for the Red Sox. So
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when you take a couple of steps back, heim Bloom
was working at Hormel Foods. The Red Sox roster was
filled with can spam from top to botom. They were
signing stopgap players, a bunch of leftover Dodger guys. They
had Justin Turner's at the end of his career, Ken
Lee Janssen, guys like that. But the biggest indictment to
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the Red Sox former GM is the a word that
is the word that gets you fired every day of
the week and twice on sign day, apathy. And from
what my guys are telling me in Boston that there
was a there's been a bunch of apathy among the
Red Sox fans. That the diehard fans are just that
the Finnway has been, by its standards, pretty much a
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ghost town, and they're indifferent that there's not a lot
of passion. They know the team's not very good and
we have complete confidence. He asked the question, is this
a good job? Of yeah, it's a good job. The
Red Sox have a big payroll, but it doesn't matter
because the Red Sox are just going to hire another
computer whiz some whiz kid who has an Ivy League
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degree and that's just what they do. They just will
go that direction right quickly. One other thought on baseball,
and I want to head to Anaheim, where we are
now told the Angels have quote seen no indication close
quote that Mike Trout wants to be traded. Now, this
comes on the heels of a recent report that said
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Trout is going to request the t trade. The assumption
is in a private conversation with the front office he
wants to know about the direction of the team, and
the assumption is he's gonna ask for a trade. But
this latest report says there's no indication of that happen.
So we have conflicting reports, dueling banjos. How do you
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decode Mike Trout's passive attitude if this report is true
on his Halo future? So I have predictable. I have
predictable as the word here. Mike Trout just doesn't seem
all that motivated to do anything, to play baseball, to complain,
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to not complain. He's just he's not a guy that's
gonna raise a hullabaloo. He's not wired that way. He's
living on island time chillaxing. Mike Trout is not a
guy who seems to be neurotic about shadow blasting the Halo's.
He just wants to have a pineapple cocktail, sit on
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the beach, put some suntan lotion on, and just enjoy life.
If the team happens to be good, that's more fun.
But if the team sucks, you know, he's just He's
an island time. He's living the island life. But this story,
I will guarantee you that this Mike Trout story is
going to work as freshly chopped firewood. And this will
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be on the hot stove League of Baseball fire as
soon as the playoffs end and the usual suspects will
Mike Trout go to the hometown Phillies. Is he gonna
go to the Yankees? How about the Red Sox? Well,
the Mets make a splash, same old, same old, same old.
Everyone will be chomping at the bit to get their
hands on Mike Trout.
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Speaker 6 (29:31):
Some baseball scribes are suggesting that Julio Rodriguez could make
a case for al MVP if the Mariners are able
to win the AL West. And there's nothing Rodrigez can
do to win the award right.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, other than divine intervention or Shoho Tani being arrested
in some scandal. Yeah, show Hayes got that wrapped up.
There used to be a Laker broadcaster who said, back
in the day, it's in the refrigerator, the doors closed,
the lights out, the eggs are cooling, and the butter
is getting hard, and that yellows jiggling and all that crap.
Even if with Otani's body falling apart. He's he was
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the top story in baseball most of the baseball season
and the Angels terrible. Don matter, Otani's gonna win the MVP.
The other issue is Julia Rodriguez is in Seattle, and
as Jimmy Johnson called it for most of the East
Coast media, that's southern Alaska and it's off the grid
from the I ninety five media corridor, So good luck
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on that.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Next, the Clippers are gonna try out an alternative to
the season tickets. Steve Balmer called it more of a
season pass that you can share with three or four people,
like you used to be able to do with a
Netflix account. Uh, Ben, do you think this is gonna
catch on throughout the league?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
So I didn't hear anything about this. It sounds like
something that people have already been doing. I mean, people
buy season tickets and they split them up among their
friends or businesses split them up with the employees and stuff.
So it doesn't sound like that unorthodox, and I guess
the team just wants in on it. But Steve Balmer
is a marketing maven that clip joint the into it dome.
My God is that gonna be great, So if Bomber
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wants it, I'm good with it.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Next, Nick Bosa said that he thinks fans are gonna
take over so far this weekend and that the forty
nine Ers have the best traveling fan base in the league.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Then do the forty nine Ers have the best traveling
fan base? Well, yes, Coop, because the term best means
as good as all the rest, So yes, they have
the best, as good as every other team in the NFL.
But no, No, the Niners have a national fan base,
and we have some fans of this show that travel
around a bunch of Niner games, and it's a byproduct
of the nineteen eighties. But when I think of the
greatest traveling teams that I've seen at NFL games I've
(31:34):
been to, I think of the Steelers, the Cowboys, the Packers,
the forty nine Ers are right around, They're the Raiders,
the Eagles. Those are the teams that stand out there.
It is Mallard of the third degree. How do we
doubt pass the sedition? That is, even with a Clipper question,
Even with a Clipper question, I got the win.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
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Speaker 1 (32:14):
That it is every weekend about this time. The comedy
Club is open to business, open for business. We want
to thank you for sending the jokes in. You guys
have been great. We started this years ago. When we started,
we had just Josh in Cincinnati and like two other
people that sent jokes in. I think Bill and Iowa
and No, those guys don't send jokes anymore. But we
have a bunch of other people that sent jokes in.
(32:35):
It's great and so thank you guys, Surf for Todd
the comedian, George and Valdi and Gordon at Tacoma and
all you other guys that sent jokes in. We do
appreciate it and joining us again the laugh track. He
lives in Miami. He only calls us now on Friday
for lame jokes. America's favorite weed man, weed Man Hippie.
(32:57):
I love you Ben, ohons working that weed man. No,
you just hit the button. Here we go. These are
actual jokes sitting by actual listeners. What are the odds
in Vegas for Lizzo to beat the sexual harassment chargers
against her? I don't know what are the odds. They're
(33:18):
currently listed Eddie on the Big Board as fat chance.
Eddie as fat chance from chipping Man. You didn't like that,
weed man, You didn't like that one? No, no, that
was a fake laugh. You don't even know who Liz
fake lass. What's the difference between Aaron Rodgers falling down
(33:38):
and Lizzo falling down?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Aaron Rogers and Jets from York?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
That but your primals t you a Jets fan? Weed man?
I know that doesn't mean you're a Jets fan, though.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I now like that Rogers came back.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, he's gonna have a big year. You should bet
on the Jets to win the Super Bowl, weak Man.
The answer Eddy Aaron Rodgers twists and ankle. Lizzo twists
the sidewalk. That's the answer. It's Gordon. I'm not feeling
to laugh this week, weed Man. Have you changed your laugh?
(34:23):
I feel like you've lost your way? Is his luck? Yeah?
Are you down on your luck? Have you found your teeth?
Weed yet? Have you.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I didn't I have my.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Can't even work the phone? All right? Did you know
that Lizzo is a fan of the Indianapolis Colts. I
was aware of that. Yeah, Jim Irsay once offered twenty
million dollars to fly her home at he So, yes,
we have a winner. It's a George from Uvaldi there.
Thank you, George. Why does Lizzo have more threads than
(35:02):
other people? I don't know why. Well, she accidentally split
her jeans, Eddie. That's why I'm everywhere. That's that's from
Surfer Todd the Comedian. Now check this out. We've met
Surfer Toid. We love Surfer Todd the Comedian. Right, he's
a great guy, friend of the show. Did you know
Surfer Todd the Comedian has been in the hospital for
(35:24):
twenty four straight days. He's got some kind of infection.
So get better, get better, Surfer Todd the Comedian. Man,
hopefully they give you some powerful drugs there and off that.
I know, man, come on, we love you, Surfer Toid.
What's worse than Lizzo in your refrigerator. I don't know
what's worse Peyton and Eli Manning on your TV. That
(35:46):
would be worse, Eddie. Gordon in Tacoma. What is Lizzo's
favorite scene from the movie Beverly Hills Cop I don't know.
For some reason, she likes the banana in the tailpipe.
I don't know why, Eddie. I have no idea why
he likes that. All right, we have the the weed
(36:09):
Man radio erost. How is weed Man like a worm?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
He's down in the dirt. Well, neither one has teeth,
Eddie and Bow should be found underground. No surfer, surfer
Todd the comedian. Why will weed Man? Why will weed
Man Hippie never go to Buffalo? All of those bills, Eddie,
(36:37):
he wants nothing to do with those bills. No, no, no,
he can't pay him. Oh, that's Eric in Kansas. Why
does it or what does it mean? What does it
mean if weed Man sticks a penny into a tire
and doesn't see Lincoln's head? I don't know what does
it mean? It means the donations were down that day, Eddie.
(36:57):
That's what it means.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
That ship.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
In Maine. Very funny man chip in Maine. We thank
you for that. Of course, weed Man has no idea
that joke, because he he does not hear the tire
rack commercials. Why doesn't Lizzo want to date weed Man?
I don't know why. Well, apparently Lizzo said she can't
eat him out of house and homes, so she wants
nothing to do with already out of those things. That's
(37:24):
Brendan from Boston. Thank you, Brendan. Why doesn't weed Man
have cocker roaches in his apartment? Oh? I assumed he did.
Why doesn't he? No, it turns out he doesn't because
the dust mites ate them. All Eddy, they ate the
cocker roaches. So Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. Coop, you got
(37:45):
any jokes over there? Coop? You have a couple.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Uh. What's the best way to drown a hipster? Throw
him in the mainstream?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Oh yeah, I don't like that. And I got I
got one more here? All right?
Speaker 6 (38:07):
What's worse than waking up after a party and finding
a penis was drawn on your face? I don't know
finding out it was traced? Those are from Assie Momentum.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Okay, I sent you a couple of ways if you
want as well. Good job. Do you know what the difference?
Do you know what the difference between weed Man, hippie
and a slug is? No? What's the difference, nothing, Eddie,
Absolutely nothing, Eddie. That's a hell, Willy Mike. When we
calm down, we made When weed Man and his buddy
(38:43):
come across roadkill, why does he always let his buddy
eat first? I don't know why, because when when his
buddy throws up weed make, it's a hot meal, Eddie,
hill Billy Mike set that one in. Very nice. What
(39:03):
do we men Hippie in the New York giants have
in common? I don't know what. They are both surrounded
by squalor and have no teeth, Attie, they have absolutely
no teeth. There, very nice? Who is Who is Wander
Franco's literary hero? Oh boy, I don't know. The pied Piper, Eddie.
He likes the pied piper? All right, there it is?
(39:27):
That was Hilpilly Mike, fakeaway man, lame jokes up the week,
Good job joke riders.
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Speaker 1 (39:38):
Here's another tale. It's It's Hollywood. Hooray for Hollywood. The
Coop Scoop on entertainment and here he is the Cooper Loop.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
Justin Sorry, Ben as you know we are. We are
heading into the fifth month of the riders strike, and
so U I.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Saw some of the talk show they said that we're
going to cross over and get back on the air.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Well, that's actually what I was going to talk to
you about during that. During this edition of Koop, Scoop
and Entertainment, Bill Maher announced that he will be returning
to the screen. He sent out a message on x
or Twitter, and I will read it for you. I
actually got into a little bit of a Twitter kerfluffle
(40:25):
with some people because I replied to this. I know
he says, Real Time is coming back. Unfortunately, sans writers
or writing, it has been five months and it is
time to bring people back to work. The writers have
important issues that I sympathize with and hope they are
addressed to their satisfaction. But they are not the only
people with issues, problems, and concerns. Despite some assistance from me,
(40:47):
much of the staff is struggling mightily. We were all
hopeful this would come to an end after Labor Day,
but that day has come and gone and there still
seems to be nothing happening. I love my writers, I
am one of them, but I am not prepared to
lose an entire year and see so many below the
line people suffer so much. I will honor the spirit
of the strike by not doing a monologue, a desk piece,
new rules, or editorial the written pieces that I am
(41:09):
so proud of on real time. And I'll say it
up front of the audience. The show that I will
be doing without my writers will not be as good
as our normal show, full stop. But the heart of
the show is an off the cuff panel discussion that
aims to cut through the bs and predictable partisan ship,
and that will continue. The show will not disappoint.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
So as why does he just write his own stuff?
Speaker 6 (41:30):
Well, because then, I mean, because then that would be
I mean, some people are arguing that he is crossing
the picket line anyway by doing this, but by writing
his own stuff, then that would really be.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Well, this is the kind of thing that sticks to
you too, right, because you know down the line when
the writer's strike ends, and they'll you know that people
will remind well, see he says something about some kind
of labor issue, right, and that's kind of the.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
That's kind of the discussion. I wonder how his writers
are going to feel about it because because I get it,
because there's a lot of people that you know, work
on a on a show or a production that have
nothing to do with the writer's strike, and they're out
of work right now there, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
So well. I remember in baseball when they had the
strike years ago, and they were they had replacement players,
and the guys, some of those guys ended up staying
in the major leagues and the rest of their careers.
Like the they were not part of the union, and
they got goofed on by other certain hardliners in baseball
were never accepted those guys, and they some of those
guys lasted a long time.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Yeah, well I I I commented something in support of
of what he's doing and then I got attacked, so
I know, and some of somebody at some random person
was like, wow, I can't believe the little kid from
Liar Liars, the scab.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Oh whatever.
Speaker 6 (42:53):
I don't know that I considered scabbing, but I get
it's it's a fine line.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
What are they gonna end this? I mean, this is great.
I know, I know.
Speaker 6 (43:00):
It's it's insane. But there are still a few new
things premiering this weekend in theaters. Is the a new movie,
A Haunting in Venice, and that one I was seen
by Fox Sports Radio producer lead To Lap already said
it was entertaining.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
How many stars did lead To Lap give it on
the lead a Lap scale.
Speaker 6 (43:25):
He did not give me a stars stars grading, but
its stars Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, who I believe is
from Fifty Shades of Gray, and Michelle Yo who is
who is so hot right now in the industry. And yeah,
I mean that's that's pretty much.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
I left out the star of the movie, Kenneth Brannow.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
Oh fell hot right now. I thought I didn't know
he started. I thought he was the director. I mean,
he is the director, but I didn't. I didn't know
he was also in it.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
It's the god that famous French detective Paro or Parot
or something like that. No, not that, Yeah, I don't know.
It's it's a famous uh you know, like, uh, it's
famous inspector clues. You're wasting time on the pink panther
inspector Cluzoh, all right, I must move on from the
(44:10):
pink panther. Move on then, I'm sorry, all right, that
is Coop Scoob
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where my man, my guy, Al Michaels and Herbie Kirk
Kerbstreet were schmoozing on the digital boop Tube. Marquee build anyways,
a Marquee NFC matchup the Vikings, who had a really
sexy record last year. I guess the Philadelphia Eagles, who
were in the Super Bowl didn't win it. At Kirk Cousins,
(02:02):
who's the star of that quarterbacks reality show, Jalen Hurts
the next big thing. He got paid all that money
in the offseason. So did you watch? Perhaps not? Now,
don't worry, we watched for you as our good mitzvah
of the day, sod Andre Swift, a swiftye thumped the
Purple people Eaters defense. Well they used to be called
(02:25):
that when they were good. One hundred and eighty one
total yards, one hundred and seventy five of those on
the ground and a touchdown as Philadelphia held off Minnesota
thirty four to twenty eight. The Eagles improved to two
to zero on the young season. The Minnesota Vikings are
now oh and two. That's not good, but they did
(02:48):
if you're a gambler. They got a back door push.
Depending on what line you got, you might have won
the game. It was six and a half at one point,
but it went off the board at six. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. That is where we
will gain this rant and the question as we discuss
who gets the biggest chunk of the vikings juicy lucy
(03:13):
of blame, not to be confused with the blame pie,
not to be confused with the blame burrito. This is
the juicy lucy of blame for the vikings. So who
gets the biggest chunk of that? I've got sugar shack,
Salvation Army, and fifty to fifty raffle, and we will
tie all of these things together and we are going
(03:36):
to make a lake, because they got extra lakes there
back in Minnesota. So a listen, we start at the
very top here. We'll take a swim. Kevin O'Connell and
Brian Flores, Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Those guys get to go
(03:56):
first year. They get a big chunk. Now, I know
they didn't play down. I realized that, however, they are
in charge of the basics. The Minnesota defense was manhandled
by the Eagles offensive line. Bunch of lightweights in Minnesota,
guys playing who are backups, But you're still in the NFL.
(04:17):
You're getting paid. Do your job, Philadelphia. If you watch
this game, you know it was mostly the Philadelphia Eagles
running offensive places. They ran twenty more offensive plays than
the Minnesota Vikings because they could run right, left and
right up the gut. It didn't matter. They did what
they wanted on the ground in this game, from soup
(04:37):
to nuts, and they had possession of the ball for
almost forty minutes of a sixty minute game. Two hundred
and fifty nine yards and a cherry on top for Philadelphia.
They averaged five point four yards per rush, and it
actually seemed worse than that when you're watching the game. Now,
(04:57):
Brian Flores, he needs to do better. He needs to
coach better. Hopefully his lawsuit goes better than his job
with the Vikings has gone so far, because man, this
guy's one of the great defensive minds and all that,
and they are doing nothing, nothing in terms of in
this game. They didn't last week. They didn't give up
(05:18):
that many points. But man, Baker Mayfield was able to
make some plays there in that game. So then you
have Kevin O'Connell, who is the head ball coach, the
CEO of the Minnesota football team, which is fundamentally broken.
And at this point Kevin O'Connell is running a sugar shack.
(05:40):
But they only have one item on the menu, butter fingers.
That's it. Two words ball security, not one, not two,
not three? How about four fumbles? Four fumbles in this
game on Thursday night and three turnovers against the Buccaneers
the previous So the Vikings. I crunch the numbers on this,
(06:02):
I use some malord math. The Vikings are on pace
for fifty nine and a half turnovers this season, which
amazingly would not be the NFL record. The NFL record
was held and is still held by the nineteen seventy
eight to forty nine Ers in a much shorter season. Comparably,
(06:25):
they had sixty three turnovers. But the Vikings, if they
increased their turnover rate just a little bit, they're right there,
neck and neck. Now, O'Connell better have these guys run gassers.
That's what they were doing the old times. Now, of
course you probably can't do that, But man if I
was coaching the Vikings, if was allowed to say, all right,
you guys in the back do burpies and the rest
(06:45):
of you have to run to the tree. No, no,
not that tree. You have to run to the tree
in Duluth is where you have to run and run back. Now,
Kirk Cousins had a really sexy stat line at three
and sixty four yards passing four touchdowns. He did have
a fumble, but that's expected. But it was an uphill
situation all day. Philadelphia built up a big lead, the
(07:05):
Vikings did not quit. They came back, and if you're
a gambler, you're very grateful for that. But the Vikings
fall the zero to two two technically one score losses
this season, and they now have the Chargers in their
next game. They've got a couple of extra days of rest,
and you'd think the Vikings offensively will be fine against
(07:27):
the Chargers, but it doesn't matter if they keep turning
the ball over. Now, on the other side of this
page two, the winning side, which is not as good
a story Philadelphia overpowering running rough shot over Minnesota, as
we said. But let's step back and if you take
a look at the wide angle view here the Eagles
(07:49):
are two to zero. Are you impressed with the Birds?
Are you impressed? So I'm giving that question a little
bit of stink eye, I am, because it's a tricky
little dance, is what it is to me. The Eagles.
I watched a lot of the game against the Patriots,
and certainly this game. I watched all of it, and
(08:10):
they haven't proven anything this season, even though they're to
to Oh the Eagles have supposedly high standards after getting
to the Super Bowl and losing, but Mac Jones tore
them up in that New England game for a good
chunk of the second and third quarter, And in this game,
Kirk Cousins for the most part shredded the Philadelphia pass defense.
(08:33):
And Philly has been manning a salvation army red kettle,
and they're getting a lot of donations, a lot of them.
The four fumbles by the Vikings. The Patriots had two turnovers,
including a pick six in the game last week. So
that is twenty four point scored as a direct result
(08:55):
of the other team just putting a nice gift in
that red kettle. And then you have Jalen Hurts, who
had one of those misleading stat lines that if you
didn't watch the game and you looked at the numbers,
say wow, that's pretty good. Now I continue to be
blown away that the NFL did not banish the tush push,
the rugby play that is still as fearsome as a barracuda.
(09:19):
The tush push is unstoppable. Why doesn't everyone do that?
So two more rushing touchdowns for Jalen Hurts. The passing
part was the spotty part. He had one hundred ninety
three passing yards, which looks great in the box score
eight point four yards per tempt. He had a touchdown,
he did have an interception, But there were two plays
that broke the statuet apart. There was a sixty three
(09:42):
yard pass and run for a touchdown to Devonte Smith
and a fifty four yard dart to Devonte Smith. So
on those two plays, Jalen Hurts got one hundred and
seventeen yards. Now bear with me. You're not supposed to
give math on the radio, but I'm gonna give you
some more math. So one hundred and seventeen yards on
those those two plays. The other sixteen completed passes that
(10:04):
Jalen Hurts had, and I wrote this down in my notes,
The other sixteen completed passes went for a grand total
of seventy six yards, which means that Jalen Hurts on
those other sixteen completions averaged three point four yards in
a cloud of dust. And that was in his other
twenty one past steps. Now, I don't want to be critical,
(10:25):
but that sucks all right. Now the last word here,
let's go back to Minnesota theme of the night fumble
the fumble Rooskie, which they would have been better off
running the fumble Rooskie because that trick play worked. Their
fumbles did not work. Now, there's one fumble that stood out,
head and shoulders above all of the rest all of them,
(10:47):
and that was the one just before halftime involving Justin Jefferson.
He came this close to having a touchdown, nearly had
a touchdown in the second quarter, relatively late. But after
an instant replay review, it was determined that the fumble
you see this, it went over the ball went over
the pylon. Oh my god, no saying it ain't so Batman. Yeah,
(11:14):
So the ball goes over the pilon and as a result,
Justin Jefferson hit the fumble that he had there the
NFL rules mandate that the Eagles are giving the football back,
and they got it. So instead of the Vikings getting
a touchdown and closing right there before halftime, they turn
(11:35):
the ball over and then the Eagles go down and
get a field goal before halftime. So that's a pretty
big swing in the game, which turned out to be
a one score game. Here's the aforementioned Kevin O'Connell giving
his ten cents on that particular play. Let's go to
the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We just got to continue to emphasize decision making, technique
and fundamentals as far as the ball carriers go. But
like I said, Justin's just trying to make a play
in that moment, and the hardest thing to do is
to get a guy not to reach the ball out
when they're that close to scoring a touchdown in a
critical moment exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And I would like to address this. I'm gonna go
on a little Randy. I mean my soapbox. It's a
very large soapbox, okay, And I want to make my
pitch right now. The question is will the NFL ever
address the fumble touchback rule? And I've determined not in
my life they should. But they won't. Why I've got arrogance,
(12:32):
big headness, and neurosis as the big three here, and
we're not exactly splitting Adams. I've been doing this for
a long time. I can't believe how long I've been
doing this. Now the years just keep piling up and
over every couple of season. That doesn't happen every year,
but every few years we get this story. It's an
evergreen story. It never changes. People are up in arms,
(12:54):
people can play, and people scream and shout. Then you've
got those the rule nerds. Well it's a good rule
we walk through. I hate the nerd. I hate those
rule nerds. I cannot stand them. And they'll call it.
Maybe we might get one to call up at some point.
You're well, you know, Ben, it's really because out of
an abundance a caution, you gotta do this, you know.
And it's so stupid, it's so dumb. Fumbles. It has
(13:17):
been proven. We have the data. A fumble in an
NFL game is it's like a fifty to fifty raffle,
meaning the ball could go either way. But yet if
you fumble out of the end zone, the defense gets
the fumble one hundred percent of the time. Explain how
(13:38):
that makes sense to me. It doesn't make sense to me,
but explain to it to me how it makes sense.
Like I'm a kindergartener. You're punishing perseverance. You are not
rewarding determination. You are kicking determination in the nuts for
the offensive player. You lose possession despite the defense not
(14:01):
recovering the ball. They didn't get the ball. The ball
went out of bounds the whistle blow. And not only
do they get the ball, they gain twenty yards of
field positions, so twenty percent of the field they gain. Now,
if you have a problem, you need a solution. So
I have a solution I would like to pitch. No
(14:22):
one else has this content. Okay, I'm gonna run this
by you. You are the jury, and I want to
see if you will vote yes or no on this.
So I thought about it, and I thought about a
lot over the years. But here's my solution to this
pylon end zone fumble turnover situation. The Malord solution. Add
(14:43):
a college basketball style possession row possession That makes way. Okay,
let me explain, all right, if you win the kickoff,
that means, just like in basketball, the other team gets
the fumble possession arrow. So here's the way it works.
When the offense gets the ball back, the Alvins gets
(15:05):
the ball back out of the fumble, you send it
to the original line of scrimmage before the end zone
fumble if they happen to have the possession air. Now,
if the defense has the possession arrow and they choose
to go that way, if it's the defense, you just
spot the ball the one yard line and they start
from there. They don't go to the twenty yard line.
You start at the one yard line because it fumbled
(15:26):
out of the endzone. How do you assume it goes
back to the twenty.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
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back to the Philadelphia Eagles and the Minnesota Vikings coming
(16:45):
up a little bit later. We had a full Mallon
monologue on that earlier, as that game goes the way
of the Birds. Although if you bet on the game,
you did not did not end up smiling. I don't
think you were smiling, guys. The game was a push.
It went went off the board. The gambling market had
it at six, although it was if you got it
(17:06):
earlier in the week. It was six and a half
if you're better, but it ended up at six, and
so the game pushed, and so I get your money
back if you did that unless you bought a point.
The Vikings with four more fumbles in that game, and
the Philadelphia Eagles, who win but yet don't look very impressive.
(17:27):
It's a it's a weird, weird situation. Situation. But we'll
have more on that coming up a little bit later
on as we continue here through the overnight. But we're
gonna get to a story off the shores of Lake
Erie as we have been overwhelmed with Buffalo Bill apologists,
and we go where the news of the day takes
us and it continues to swirl around a wide receiver
(17:52):
in Orchard Park, New York. The Stefan Diggs story, its
tentacles are all over the NFL. And if you haven't
heard the latest year, perhaps not. Let me give you
the very small recap of what happened here. So Stefan
Diggs got called out by a Buffalo Bill's team reporter
(18:12):
and then he responded. It seemed like he had a
ghost writer, very worthy thing. He was playing the victim
card from the bottom of the deck, this great travesty.
Somebody didn't like him, and they got recorded not liking him,
and so he had this very sob story on social media.
And now we've learned that the cowboy defender who happens
(18:35):
to be the brother of Stefan Diggs, Trayvon Diggs, has
now spoken and he wants his brother out of a
Buffalo Bill's uniform after the latest drama o rama in
Buffalo upset upset that that reporter was caught on a
hot mic candid camera saying that there's no control roll
(19:00):
over Stefan Diggs. And then of course she apologized because
he's trying to save her job. But we all know
the way this works. You don't accept the apology. You
accept the initial statement because they didn't realize they were
being recorded, and so they spoke anyway. So Tremato the
Cowboys responded to that. He said, uh tah, they turn
on you so quick. Gotta get Bro somewhere safe bus quote,
(19:28):
Gotta get Bro somewhere safe, shots fired. Let us discuss
the question, what is your verdict on this latest wrinkle
in the Stefan Diggs story. So I've got parachute, hormal foods,
(19:49):
and island time, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make chicken wings. Now,
the modern American chicken wing started in Buffalo. Chickens have
always had wings, but the mass consumption of the chicken
wing you can thank the Anchor Bar in Buffalo. I
(20:13):
was there years ago. I was in Buffalo. I went
to the Anchor Bar and heard so much about it,
and walked in there, and the first thing I saw
was a photo of the old Dodger manager, Tommy Lasorda,
who had stopped by there and probably not paid a
dime for his meal. It was just kind of funny anyway,
all right, So first of all, Trayvon Diggs didn't turn
(20:37):
on the fog machine here. It's not like he's tiptoeing
around this. It's rather clear. It's like vodka's right clear.
It's as plain as the schnazola on your face. Buffalo
is not a safe space. Not a safe space. Stefan
Diggs taking friendly fire body blow from a reporter who
(21:00):
is supposed to be on the payroll and put players
on a pedestal. When you are a team employee, say
I never pay attention to these team website stories or
the league website stories. It's all bull crap, right. They're
paid to genuflect to the athletes wants and needs. That's
just the way it is. And for all those Bill's
(21:22):
Mafia guys who have flooded the phones and the social
media on this show, who tell me, including Andy the
comic book guy, that Stefan Diggs's story is contrived by
gas bags and media people. It's national media. Nobody in
Buffalo believes as well. You have a Bill's reporter who
said it, but they didn't realize they were on the record.
(21:43):
So you have that. And now you have the brother
of Stefan Diggs, an active NFL player, implying that he
would like a trade for his brother. So put that
in your pipe and smoke. And the cowboy player Travai
try he wants his brother to flip the switch, apparently
(22:03):
and enter what they have in college football they don't.
I guess Travon knows they don't have this in the
NFL the transfer portal, and when Stefan Diggs enters the
transfer portal, I'm guessing. I don't want to speak for
the Diggs family, but they would like the parachute to
drop down in Jerry's world. Now, is it's true that
(22:26):
Stefon Diggs, the Bills player, and his brother conspired together. Now,
we've seen players relocate because of family. The greatest example
recently was Odell Beckham a couple of years ago, whose
old man went on social media and ripped the part.
Baker Mayfield ripped the Browns apart, and then Eventually they
(22:48):
got their wish, and Baker Mayfield stayed briefly in Cleveland
and Odell Beckham did not. But blood is thicker than water.
I saw that on a bumper sticker, and this is
the family business, and the family's not happy. Now. Secondly,
on to turn to baseball, there's an interesting story, a
couple of stories in baseball. I caught my attentions. The
season winds down and then the hunt for the World
(23:13):
Series in October starts up. So the guillotine fell at
fin Way pack heim Bloom, who heim Bloom was whacked
as the general manager of the stumbling and bumbling Red
Sox after four seasons. The Socks playing the Yankees in
a double header on Thursday, and while all that was
(23:37):
going on, it was announced that they had removed their
general manager. Now the owner John Henry pulling the plug
on his latest Yale educated czar of baseball ops. And
it was only a four year run. So did heim
Bloom get a raw deal as the Red Sox GM
(23:58):
That's the first quest question. And I'm shaking my head
no on this. Like heim Bloom, oversaw an era of
mostly mediocrity in Boston baseball and it is a results
based business. I think that's the way it is. I
know this one is so Heim Bloom was there when
(24:21):
they tore down the stars that had been there. They
merrily carrying out the orders to trade mookie bets from ownership.
It's the problem was not necessarily trading mookie bets if
the Red Sox weren't gonna pay him, But you gotta
get something in return, more than a bunch of flat
soda and stale potato chips. That was a total train
(24:44):
heist by the Dodgers. The Red Sox traded mookie bets
and David Price, he stinks, and cash for Alex Verdugo
who's an average outfielder, Connor Wong, who's inn below average player,
and Jeter Downs who's not even that. And that trade
(25:05):
alone justifies giving a pink slip to Hein Bloom. If
he signed off on that and said, this is the
best we can get for a player who's a generational
talent in mookie bets, and then he also gave Trevor's
story and his broken down body one hundred and forty
million dollars. He's harreadly played for the Red Sox. So
(25:26):
when you take a couple of steps back, heim Bloom
was working at Hormel Foods. The Red Sox roster was
filled with can spam from top to botom. They were
signing stopgap players, a bunch of leftover Dodger guys. They
had Justin Turner's at the end of his career, Ken
Lee Janssen, guys like that. But the biggest indictment to
(25:51):
the Red Sox former GM is the a word that
is the word that gets you fired every day of
the week and twice on sign day, apathy. And from
what my guys are telling me in Boston that there
was a there's been a bunch of apathy among the
Red Sox fans. That the diehard fans are just that
the Finnway has been, by its standards, pretty much a
(26:12):
ghost town, and they're indifferent that there's not a lot
of passion. They know the team's not very good and
we have complete confidence. He asked the question, is this
a good job? Of yeah, it's a good job. The
Red Sox have a big payroll, but it doesn't matter
because the Red Sox are just going to hire another
computer whiz some whiz kid who has an Ivy League
(26:36):
degree and that's just what they do. They just will
go that direction right quickly. One other thought on baseball,
and I want to head to Anaheim, where we are
now told the Angels have quote seen no indication close
quote that Mike Trout wants to be traded. Now, this
comes on the heels of a recent report that said
(26:56):
Trout is going to request the t trade. The assumption
is in a private conversation with the front office he
wants to know about the direction of the team, and
the assumption is he's gonna ask for a trade. But
this latest report says there's no indication of that happen.
So we have conflicting reports, dueling banjos. How do you
(27:18):
decode Mike Trout's passive attitude if this report is true
on his Halo future? So I have predictable. I have
predictable as the word here. Mike Trout just doesn't seem
all that motivated to do anything, to play baseball, to complain,
(27:42):
to not complain. He's just he's not a guy that's
gonna raise a hullabaloo. He's not wired that way. He's
living on island time chillaxing. Mike Trout is not a
guy who seems to be neurotic about shadow blasting the Halo's.
He just wants to have a pineapple cocktail, sit on
(28:04):
the beach, put some suntan lotion on, and just enjoy life.
If the team happens to be good, that's more fun.
But if the team sucks, you know, he's just He's
an island time. He's living the island life. But this story,
I will guarantee you that this Mike Trout story is
going to work as freshly chopped firewood. And this will
(28:25):
be on the hot stove League of Baseball fire as
soon as the playoffs end and the usual suspects will
Mike Trout go to the hometown Phillies. Is he gonna
go to the Yankees? How about the Red Sox? Well,
the Mets make a splash, same old, same old, same old.
Everyone will be chomping at the bit to get their
hands on Mike Trout.
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Speaker 6 (29:31):
Some baseball scribes are suggesting that Julio Rodriguez could make
a case for al MVP if the Mariners are able
to win the AL West. And there's nothing Rodrigez can
do to win the award right.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, other than divine intervention or Shoho Tani being arrested
in some scandal. Yeah, show Hayes got that wrapped up.
There used to be a Laker broadcaster who said, back
in the day, it's in the refrigerator, the doors closed,
the lights out, the eggs are cooling, and the butter
is getting hard, and that yellows jiggling and all that crap.
Even if with Otani's body falling apart. He's he was
(30:05):
the top story in baseball most of the baseball season
and the Angels terrible. Don matter, Otani's gonna win the MVP.
The other issue is Julia Rodriguez is in Seattle, and
as Jimmy Johnson called it for most of the East
Coast media, that's southern Alaska and it's off the grid
from the I ninety five media corridor, So good luck
(30:26):
on that.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Next, the Clippers are gonna try out an alternative to
the season tickets. Steve Balmer called it more of a
season pass that you can share with three or four people,
like you used to be able to do with a
Netflix account. Uh, Ben, do you think this is gonna
catch on throughout the league?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
So I didn't hear anything about this. It sounds like
something that people have already been doing. I mean, people
buy season tickets and they split them up among their
friends or businesses split them up with the employees and stuff.
So it doesn't sound like that unorthodox, and I guess
the team just wants in on it. But Steve Balmer
is a marketing maven that clip joint the into it dome.
My God is that gonna be great, So if Bomber
(31:04):
wants it, I'm good with it.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Next, Nick Bosa said that he thinks fans are gonna
take over so far this weekend and that the forty
nine Ers have the best traveling fan base in the league.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Then do the forty nine Ers have the best traveling
fan base? Well, yes, Coop, because the term best means
as good as all the rest, So yes, they have
the best, as good as every other team in the NFL.
But no, No, the Niners have a national fan base,
and we have some fans of this show that travel
around a bunch of Niner games, and it's a byproduct
of the nineteen eighties. But when I think of the
greatest traveling teams that I've seen at NFL games I've
(31:34):
been to, I think of the Steelers, the Cowboys, the Packers,
the forty nine Ers are right around, They're the Raiders,
the Eagles. Those are the teams that stand out there.
It is Mallard of the third degree. How do we
doubt pass the sedition? That is, even with a Clipper question,
Even with a Clipper question, I got the win.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
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Speaker 1 (32:14):
That it is every weekend about this time. The comedy
Club is open to business, open for business. We want
to thank you for sending the jokes in. You guys
have been great. We started this years ago. When we started,
we had just Josh in Cincinnati and like two other
people that sent jokes in. I think Bill and Iowa
and No, those guys don't send jokes anymore. But we
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(32:35):
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the comedian, George and Valdi and Gordon at Tacoma and
all you other guys that sent jokes in. We do
appreciate it and joining us again the laugh track. He
lives in Miami. He only calls us now on Friday
for lame jokes. America's favorite weed man, weed Man Hippie.
(32:57):
I love you Ben, ohons working that weed man. No,
you just hit the button. Here we go. These are
actual jokes sitting by actual listeners. What are the odds
in Vegas for Lizzo to beat the sexual harassment chargers
against her? I don't know what are the odds. They're
(33:18):
currently listed Eddie on the Big Board as fat chance.
Eddie as fat chance from chipping Man. You didn't like that,
weed man, You didn't like that one? No, no, that
was a fake laugh. You don't even know who Liz
fake lass. What's the difference between Aaron Rodgers falling down
(33:38):
and Lizzo falling down?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Aaron Rogers and Jets from York?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
That but your primals t you a Jets fan? Weed man?
I know that doesn't mean you're a Jets fan, though.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I now like that Rogers came back.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, he's gonna have a big year. You should bet
on the Jets to win the Super Bowl, weak Man.
The answer Eddy Aaron Rodgers twists and ankle. Lizzo twists
the sidewalk. That's the answer. It's Gordon. I'm not feeling
to laugh this week, weed Man. Have you changed your laugh?
(34:23):
I feel like you've lost your way? Is his luck? Yeah?
Are you down on your luck? Have you found your teeth?
Weed yet? Have you.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I didn't I have my.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Can't even work the phone? All right? Did you know
that Lizzo is a fan of the Indianapolis Colts. I
was aware of that. Yeah, Jim Irsay once offered twenty
million dollars to fly her home at he So, yes,
we have a winner. It's a George from Uvaldi there.
Thank you, George. Why does Lizzo have more threads than
(35:02):
other people? I don't know why. Well, she accidentally split
her jeans, Eddie. That's why I'm everywhere. That's that's from
Surfer Todd the Comedian. Now check this out. We've met
Surfer Toid. We love Surfer Todd the Comedian. Right, he's
a great guy, friend of the show. Did you know
Surfer Todd the Comedian has been in the hospital for
(35:24):
twenty four straight days. He's got some kind of infection.
So get better, get better, Surfer Todd the Comedian. Man,
hopefully they give you some powerful drugs there and off that.
I know, man, come on, we love you, Surfer Toid.
What's worse than Lizzo in your refrigerator. I don't know
what's worse Peyton and Eli Manning on your TV. That
(35:46):
would be worse, Eddie. Gordon in Tacoma. What is Lizzo's
favorite scene from the movie Beverly Hills Cop I don't know.
For some reason, she likes the banana in the tailpipe.
I don't know why, Eddie. I have no idea why
he likes that. All right, we have the the weed
(36:09):
Man radio erost. How is weed Man like a worm?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
He's down in the dirt. Well, neither one has teeth,
Eddie and Bow should be found underground. No surfer, surfer
Todd the comedian. Why will weed Man? Why will weed
Man Hippie never go to Buffalo? All of those bills, Eddie,
(36:37):
he wants nothing to do with those bills. No, no, no,
he can't pay him. Oh, that's Eric in Kansas. Why
does it or what does it mean? What does it
mean if weed Man sticks a penny into a tire
and doesn't see Lincoln's head? I don't know what does
it mean? It means the donations were down that day, Eddie.
(36:57):
That's what it means.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
That ship.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
In Maine. Very funny man chip in Maine. We thank
you for that. Of course, weed Man has no idea
that joke, because he he does not hear the tire
rack commercials. Why doesn't Lizzo want to date weed Man?
I don't know why. Well, apparently Lizzo said she can't
eat him out of house and homes, so she wants
nothing to do with already out of those things. That's
(37:24):
Brendan from Boston. Thank you, Brendan. Why doesn't weed Man
have cocker roaches in his apartment? Oh? I assumed he did.
Why doesn't he? No, it turns out he doesn't because
the dust mites ate them. All Eddy, they ate the
cocker roaches. So Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. Coop, you got
(37:45):
any jokes over there? Coop? You have a couple.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Uh. What's the best way to drown a hipster? Throw
him in the mainstream?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Oh yeah, I don't like that. And I got I
got one more here? All right?
Speaker 6 (38:07):
What's worse than waking up after a party and finding
a penis was drawn on your face? I don't know
finding out it was traced? Those are from Assie Momentum.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Okay, I sent you a couple of ways if you
want as well. Good job. Do you know what the difference?
Do you know what the difference between weed Man, hippie
and a slug is? No? What's the difference, nothing, Eddie,
Absolutely nothing, Eddie. That's a hell, Willy Mike. When we
calm down, we made When weed Man and his buddy
(38:43):
come across roadkill, why does he always let his buddy
eat first? I don't know why, because when when his
buddy throws up weed make, it's a hot meal, Eddie,
hill Billy Mike set that one in. Very nice. What
(39:03):
do we men Hippie in the New York giants have
in common? I don't know what. They are both surrounded
by squalor and have no teeth, Attie, they have absolutely
no teeth. There, very nice? Who is Who is Wander
Franco's literary hero? Oh boy, I don't know. The pied Piper, Eddie.
He likes the pied piper? All right, there it is?
(39:27):
That was Hilpilly Mike, fakeaway man, lame jokes up the week,
Good job joke riders.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
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Speaker 1 (39:38):
Here's another tale. It's It's Hollywood. Hooray for Hollywood. The
Coop Scoop on entertainment and here he is the Cooper Loop.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
Justin Sorry, Ben as you know we are. We are
heading into the fifth month of the riders strike, and
so U I.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Saw some of the talk show they said that we're
going to cross over and get back on the air.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Well, that's actually what I was going to talk to
you about during that. During this edition of Koop, Scoop
and Entertainment, Bill Maher announced that he will be returning
to the screen. He sent out a message on x
or Twitter, and I will read it for you. I
actually got into a little bit of a Twitter kerfluffle
(40:25):
with some people because I replied to this. I know
he says, Real Time is coming back. Unfortunately, sans writers
or writing, it has been five months and it is
time to bring people back to work. The writers have
important issues that I sympathize with and hope they are
addressed to their satisfaction. But they are not the only
people with issues, problems, and concerns. Despite some assistance from me,
(40:47):
much of the staff is struggling mightily. We were all
hopeful this would come to an end after Labor Day,
but that day has come and gone and there still
seems to be nothing happening. I love my writers, I
am one of them, but I am not prepared to
lose an entire year and see so many below the
line people suffer so much. I will honor the spirit
of the strike by not doing a monologue, a desk piece,
new rules, or editorial the written pieces that I am
(41:09):
so proud of on real time. And I'll say it
up front of the audience. The show that I will
be doing without my writers will not be as good
as our normal show, full stop. But the heart of
the show is an off the cuff panel discussion that
aims to cut through the bs and predictable partisan ship,
and that will continue. The show will not disappoint.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
So as why does he just write his own stuff?
Speaker 6 (41:30):
Well, because then, I mean, because then that would be
I mean, some people are arguing that he is crossing
the picket line anyway by doing this, but by writing
his own stuff, then that would really be.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Well, this is the kind of thing that sticks to
you too, right, because you know down the line when
the writer's strike ends, and they'll you know that people
will remind well, see he says something about some kind
of labor issue, right, and that's kind of the.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
That's kind of the discussion. I wonder how his writers
are going to feel about it because because I get it,
because there's a lot of people that you know, work
on a on a show or a production that have
nothing to do with the writer's strike, and they're out
of work right now there, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
So well. I remember in baseball when they had the
strike years ago, and they were they had replacement players,
and the guys, some of those guys ended up staying
in the major leagues and the rest of their careers.
Like the they were not part of the union, and
they got goofed on by other certain hardliners in baseball
were never accepted those guys, and they some of those
guys lasted a long time.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Yeah, well I I I commented something in support of
of what he's doing and then I got attacked, so
I know, and some of somebody at some random person
was like, wow, I can't believe the little kid from
Liar Liars, the scab.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Oh whatever.
Speaker 6 (42:53):
I don't know that I considered scabbing, but I get
it's it's a fine line.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
What are they gonna end this? I mean, this is great.
I know, I know.
Speaker 6 (43:00):
It's it's insane. But there are still a few new
things premiering this weekend in theaters. Is the a new movie,
A Haunting in Venice, and that one I was seen
by Fox Sports Radio producer lead To Lap already said
it was entertaining.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
How many stars did lead To Lap give it on
the lead a Lap scale.
Speaker 6 (43:25):
He did not give me a stars stars grading, but
its stars Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, who I believe is
from Fifty Shades of Gray, and Michelle Yo who is
who is so hot right now in the industry. And yeah,
I mean that's that's pretty much.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
I left out the star of the movie, Kenneth Brannow.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
Oh fell hot right now. I thought I didn't know
he started. I thought he was the director. I mean,
he is the director, but I didn't. I didn't know
he was also in it.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
It's the god that famous French detective Paro or Parot
or something like that. No, not that, Yeah, I don't know.
It's it's a famous uh you know, like, uh, it's
famous inspector clues. You're wasting time on the pink panther
inspector Cluzoh, all right, I must move on from the
(44:10):
pink panther. Move on then, I'm sorry, all right, that
is Coop Scoob
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