October 2, 2023 • 34 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Chicago Bears choking away a 21 point lead against the Denver Broncos as they fall to 0-4, if they should make a coaching change, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb berth three, our three
ready to roll, and we start out in the Windy
City where the Chicago Bears managed to blow a three
touchdown lead. So does the coach there, Matt Eberflus, deserve
to keep his job with the Bears. Also as justin
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Fields out of the doghouse with his performance for the Bears.
He had a big stat line. And what will Mike
Tomlin do to shake up the Steelers offense? Is they
somehow lost to the Houston Texans and that vaunted Pittsburgh
defense emasculated by c. J. Stroud and the Houston Texans.
We talk about that as well. Right now here it
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month now of television after this past weekend. And did
I beat the Penny? I don't know. It's gonna be
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the last couple of weeks, I have taken it in
the shorts. The penny has gotten the best of me.
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But enough about that. Our lead this hour coming from Chaitown,
Good Old Chicago, a matchup of manure on one side
and fertilizer on the other. The Broncos and Bears zero
and three, a matchup so bad it became good. So
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bad it became good. That's right. If something so terrible,
eventually it becomes good. So if you saw this game,
chances are you did not watch this game. Why would you?
Unless you're a Bronco or a Bears fan, you probably
missed it. Justin Field passed for a career high three
hundred and thirty five yards and four touchdowns, but still
found a way to f the game up in the end,
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living up to his reputation because he had a fembow
returned for a touchdown and also threw an interception on
Chicago's final drive of the game. Thirty one twenty eight
that Denver Broncos come from behind. The Bears led this
game twenty eight to seven with four minutes and eleven
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seconds on the clock. They were up by three touchdowns
and then that was in the third quarter. They had
to play the rest of the game. How did that
turn out? Well, don't ask, I don't ask now. Coach
Matt eberflus me he's the head coach O. You don't
need to learn his name because it's hard name to pronounce,
and he's in Chicago, so he won't be there for
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very long. You would assume Matt Eberflus decided to go
for it big call here in this game. It was
a fourth down play, fourth and one from the Denver
eighteen yard line, with two point fifty seven left. At
that point, the game was tied. So at that point,
if you're the coach of the Bears, you make the call.
Do you kick the field goal, assume you're gonna make
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the field goal and have a three point lead and
trust your defense, or do you keep the ball on
offense and try to go for it, try to get
the first down, keep the ball away from the Denver Broncos,
eat more clock and possibly win the game that way. Well,
coach of the Chicago Bears said, you know what I'm
gona do. I'm gonna I like the offense, I like
the way we're running the ball, so I'm gonna hand
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the ball off to Khalil Herbert. And he was stuffed.
He was stuffed like pus right there. He were absolutely stuffed.
And the Bears turned it over on down. So the
Broncos then marched down. They went on a five play
forty eight yard drive for the game winning Will Lutz
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not a Klutz, he's Will Lutts, and he kicked the
game winning field goal. Good afternoon, good evening, and good
nights of the Broncos. Get off the schneide and they
are victorious. Matt Eberflus, the head coach of the Bears,
bizarrely praising his team's passion after the game, was very
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very odd, including the quarterback. Here. Just to prove that
we're not lying, here's the coach of the Chicago Bears here,
who was very happy with his starting quarterback. Take a Liz.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I thought the guys did a really good job. You
know you talk about you know, justin Field's play. I mean,
he really got into the flow. I thought that the
plan was excellent. I thought the guys did a good
job of executing that, and you know, he distributed all
of the skill. I thought we did a nice to
have a run on the football.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So he was full of praise there. Matt Eberflus said,
really good in spots, big improvements. Yeah, a lot of
good moments. All right, let's discuss the question does Matt
Eberflus deserve to keep his job as coach of the
Chicago Bears. So I don't own the Bears, but if
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I did, the answer would be no. The answer we know.
I'm shaking my head. No, I've got governor, Lagoon and
eminent domain, and we will combine all of these things together,
all of these things together, and we are going to
make a victory something that the Chicago Bears have not had.
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And sometimes fourteen straight stinkers for the Chicago Bears, fourteen
in a row, and their defense is doing things that
have never been done ever in the history of the end. So,
first of all, it is not a question of whether
the Bears coach is going to be fired. It's a
matter of timing. Now, the Chicago Bears have this thing
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where they've never fired a head coach during the season.
They just don't do that. That's not how they operate.
The McCaskey family, the group that's in charge running the
Bears day to day, they just don't operate that way.
But under any measurement, any measurement that we use, every man,
woman and child knows that Matt Eberflus blows as a
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head coach. He's not doing the job. And so you
blew a twenty one point lead at home against the
team that gave up seventy points and seven hundred plus
yards of offense last week. And this is a step
in the right direction. That's the Chicago Bears, my fat ass,
that's the Chicago But that should not be the standard,
right And the head coach, Matt Eberflus, has been proven
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to be overmatched on the sidelines. I don't know. The guy.
Maybe is nice guy when I have a beer with him,
but he can't coach iright. And and this guy has
become the governor of Loserville. That is what the head
coach of the Bears is right now, he's the governor
of Loserville. This guy was hired as a defensive guru
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out of Indianapolis. Does anyone see a defensive guru when
they watched the Chicago Bears. The Bears his record in
Chicago three and eighteen, Now that is it works out
my computer, like Brady tells me to a one forty
three winning percentage, Matt Ebraflus in Chicago. The Bears, by
the way, the first team in the history of the
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NFL to allow twenty five or more points in fourteen
consecutive games. There have been bad defenses. There has never
been a defense consistently as dreadful as the Chicago Bears,
the old monsters of the Midway. And you can't say that, yeah,
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manbo said for years, probably going back to like the
nineteen forties. But man alive.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Secondly, we're gonna go thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs
up er thumbs down on Justin Fields turning the corner.
Is he now out of the doghouse, harf arf? Is
he out of the doghouse there in Chicago based on
a statistically dominant performance for the Bears. So the answer
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on that is thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down on this.
That is the reality here now Fields, on my if
I've got a graph, here, on my graph, Justin Fields
is still sinking into the lagoon of disaster. You don't
want to be in the lagoon of disaster. But that
is where Justin Fields is right. It's the tail of
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two halves. It's like poetry, mister perfect against the Broncos defense.
For thirty minutes, all right, thirty minutes, Justin Fields was wonderful,
Like what the heck happened. Where's this guy? But it's
like he's back at Ohio State and they're playing Iowa
or something like that. It's like, come on. But with
the game in the balance, what happened to Justin Fields?
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He became frazzled. Frazzled and if you look at the
numbers in the second half, Justin Fields was bad. How
bad was he? Well, you look at the numbers. Had
one hundred and four yards passing in the second half,
averaged a less than six yards per pass attempt in
the second half, one touchdown, one backbreaking interception, one backbreaking fumble,
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and his quarterback rating in the second half was seventy
seven point zero. That's the same guy. It had been
so for half a game against the Broncos, Justin Fields
was running around like a peacock with his feathers out.
And then the second half that's the guy we knew,
that's the guy we've seen there, Justin Field. So to
answer the question again, is he out of the Doghousees
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he turned the corner. No, he turned the corner and
he fell off the cliff. When the game there, he
became the ragamuffin under center there down the stretch and
so Chicago, not only do they not have a head coach,
they still don't have a quarterback. But other than that,
the pizza is really really good. Right, the pizza is
really really good in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Final thought, let's go to Houston, and Houston, we don't
have a problem, but the opponent has a problem there.
That's where these Steelers did the unthinkable, the unimaginable, the unforgivable.
The Pittsburgh Steelers, as a small road favorite, went into
Houston and did something that no one's done for ever,
lost a game to the Texas. It had been a given.
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You show up. It's like knocking on that really nice
neighbor in your house's neighborhood and you're knocking on the
door on Halloween. You get a big bag of candy.
Oh your little kids. You show up to Houston and
you put a mild amount of effort in there, and boom.
You end up getting a victory. But not the Steelers,
as they lost to rookie quarterbacks Cjs Trow. The Texans
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win this game thirty to six, wasn't even close. A
despicable performance for the Pittsburgh football team. Now, Mike Tomlin
announced after the game and they're going to make some change.
He said, Hell yeah, we've got to make some changes
after only getting a couple of field goals in this game.
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So with that said, what will Mike Tomlin do? What
can Mike Tomlin do to shake it up? As a
Scott Farrell said back in the day, they're shake it
up for the Pittsburgh Steelers off Now, just to prove
I'm not making this up, here is Mike Tomlin in
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his own words describing what I just said about the
Pittsburgh offense and the issues they are having. So let's
go to the audio tape. Will you contemplate any changes
or is it's still too early?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Hell yeah, we got to make some changes, man. Was
that was an ugly product we put out there today.
So we're not going to do the same things and
and hope for a different outcome. What those changes are, man,
we'll put together a plan in preparation.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So they were the Stealer fans were not fat and
sassy after that gime.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
We want them to be fat and sassy.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
No, they were not, Mike. They were not fat and sassy.
They were depressed. Were they were crying in their terrible towels?
Is what they were doing after that. So what can
he do? Let's get back to the question what can
Mike Common do here? So we got a limited amount
of time. But here's my first piece of advice. You're
not going to fire Matt Canada. Just what's the kind
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way of saying this? If you're not going to fire
your offensive coordinator, take his balls away. Don't allow him
to call the place. All right? You call you. You're
the head coach, You're the one that's in charge here.
Either you do it or you put somebody else in
charges of the play caller. You want to keep Matt
Canada as the offensive coordinator. Fine, Now, other than that,
you can move some pieces around, rearrange the deck chairs.
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On the Titanic, Kenny Pickett damaged his knee. I don't
know how bad that is, whether or not he'll be
able to play or not. But before he damaged his knee,
he took several large steps back and looked all right
against the Raiders. But that was back to being the
same guy that Kenny Pickett had been. The Statistically, anyway,
Houston had a very average defense. At the peak of
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their powers, they were average. Mitch Trubisky is the backup
good luck on that we've seen mister Bisky play. It
does not go well. Of course, the way Kenny Pickett
has played it couldn't be a downgrade. You would think
that would be more of a lateral move than anything else.
But no running game for the most part, all season
offensive line issues. It is a pepto bismol commercial waiting
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to happen there for Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh football team.
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New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson caught multiple times looking
at blank during the Sunday night football game. Again, Jets'
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quarterback Zach Wilson caught multiple times looking at blank during
the Sunday night football game. That is the Mallard riddle
of the day, and so we'll get to it. We'll
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Malor Riddle of the daytime and here it is. Zach
Wilson had a better stat line. He's still ended up losing.
But the Jets quarterback. The standard's pretty low for the Jets.
They'll celebrate anything. Zach Wilson caught multiple times looking at
blank during the Sunday night football game. That is the question.
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What is the answer to the Mallord Riddle of the
day And see does anyone know? Sawman says he was
looking at Travis Kelsey's many friendship bracelets. Matt the Warrior Raider,
former a's fan, says, Zach Wilson was caught multiple times
looking at Fireman Ed's crazy eyes. Yeah, that's one celebrity
fan that I don't know. Fire Minute, I know Clipper
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Darryl Marlon's man Friends of the Show, don't know, don't
know him, don't know fire Minute. Who else do we have?
Luke the Vending Guys says he was looking at my
lovely lady lumps. Okay, thank you for that. What else
we have? Page down? Page down?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
J C.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Pennies Undies catalog from Stevie Meatball's Bergcat says Travis Kelsey's mom,
uh oh, watch out, missus Kelsey go that Sam Darnold
saw according to Alf the Alien Opiner in Springfield, mass
where the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame is and Blake Griffin.
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We'll be in Trine someday. Courtesy Flusher says he was
caught multiple times as Zach Wilson looking at Benny versus
the penny. Yeah, absolutely, why not? What else? That's a
very popular TV show, but it's only available on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday and then it vanishes into thin airs
for boating after that. Okay, I don't understand either. Robin
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Minnesota says he was caught looking at what the Charger
security guard was doing. So he says, oh, that's that's
an outdated take, but it's still a funny take. Zach
Wilson was caught looking at blank. That's from Rory. What
else we have? Page down? Page down, a lot of
Travis Kelcey mom takes as the answer to the the
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malar Riddle of the day. Donkey Sausage says he was
watching Fox Animation Domination. Absolutely from donkey sausage. Again, that's
the year's Stu says. Zach was caught looking at his
mom's boyfriend during the game. All Right, our best friend.
I think I think he my best friend. I can't
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read that. We'll skip over that, Polly d says the
Transfer Portal. He was checking that. Casey Carr Haller who
incorrectly doesn't think that Blake Griffin will be in the
Hall of Fame. He's wrong on that, says his mentions
on ex Eddie, do you have an answer to the
mallor Riddle of the day? And again, for those of
you that are late to the party, the mallor riddle
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of the day the most important riddle of them all.
No other riddle quite compares to the mallor Riddle of
the day. Zach Wilson, Jets quarterback, was caught multiple times
looking at blank during Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
The scores of his fantasy football.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Teams scores of his fantasy football Is that correct? I
was saying that is wrong? You're wrong the correct answer.
Zach was caught multiple times looking up at Taylor Swift's booth,
trying to get a peek at Taylor Swift or maybe
he was looking at Ryan Reynolds or who else was there?
Blake Lively, that's like a country music person, right, I think,
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no actress or an actor actress.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
That's Ryan reynolds wife.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Oh, that's why she was there. There were some other
I don't know. These people I know were very old.
Well I'm not. I know Ryan Reynolds, I know who
that is.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
You know his wife?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I don't know. I don't know these people. Why do
I know his wife?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I'm not because she's a famous actress and she's super hot.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
What's she known for?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
I know she was in there.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Name what she's known for? Eddie? How famous are you?
How famous? Saying Bill, I'm not angry at myself. I
don't know. I saw the name.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Voices raised.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
My voice is raised because it's a radio show, Eddie,
your voice. I want people to be engaged, Eddie. I'm
not angry because I'm not angry at all. Eddie. She's
famous from Gossip Girl. Never saw it. I never saw
so for me, she's not famous. I never saw a
Gossip Girl.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
It doesn't matter if it's just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
That sound like a male country music singer, Blake Lively?
Doesn't that sound like a male country music singer. I
was saying, there's Blake Shelton. There you go. See right there,
I was saying, there you go. Iowa Sam agrees with me.
I honestly, I could not have named anything she's been
in exactly. So if you're if you're famous, she's famous
because she's, you know, sleeping with Ryan Reynolds. Right, that's
why she's famed in Green Lantern.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
That's what I said, you do said Green Lantern. It's
where they met.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Nobody cares. Yeah, Ryan Reynolds is known for a lot more.
We care, Yeah, Ryan Reynolds. Man, Come on, this guy's
get Wrex Deadpool, you know, Superhero? Thanks? Yeah, all right, anyway,
movie about college fan Wilder. Yeah, all right, all right,
come down, Let's go to the phones and we'll say
a lot to Let's go to another Ben. It's Ben
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and Ben sounds like a morning show. Ben is in Maine?
What's going on? Ben? Welcome?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
How piss is Bill Belichick? How piss is this guy?
I swear he was walking over the mac. I thought
he was gonna smack him. What the heck?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Man?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I remember watching Bloodshed my father back when I was
just a wee little boy, and we thought, wow, this
is pretty bad Steve boots blood. So but he's the
man now. I'll do anything to get him back. You
got a cannon, he can make some good decisions. He's
a good quarterback. Mac What the heck of the Patriots
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Manna, I'd be more worried about the defense because the
only chance you had was a shutdown defense, and your
two top defensive players are in the injury ten. It
sounds like Matthew Judon is gonna be out for the
year and Gonzalez his shoulder is messed up, so officially
Gonzalez a Rookie of the Month in the first month
of the year. Sounds like he's gonna be out maybe
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for the season. Also, who knows how long, but he's
gonna be out for a long period of time. You're done.
You're done. That's it.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
I know we need that. We need that kid from USC,
that quarterback.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
You need to lose for a while. You won too much.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, but I can still hope.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I can still we need How how old are you?
Ben four? All right? And do you have any kids
or no? Yo, how's your kid? So when that kid's
about forty five and he's got a couple of kids,
then they'll be good again. Okay, so when your kids
is forty five, they'll be But look at but look
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at the math, bet, I mean the Pats right now,
they're one and three, right, but if you go it
goes by win, there's a bunch of one in three teams.
They would right now have the number seven pick. Chicago
would have the number one and number two pick because
they're on and four and the other owing four team
is Carolina and they also own that pick, So the
Bears would have number one and number two in the draft.
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But there is there is a path here. There is
a path, and that is that Kayle, you're talking about Williams.
You don't want to play in Chicago. So if he doesn't
want play in Chicago, and then if the bait, if
the Pats can get in the number three pick, then
they could jerry rigg it and maybe trade up and
then they can get him that way.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
So I take it doing.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
That though, No, you're right, he's more likely to trade
down even if they got the number one pick. You'd
be like, oh, I can get like seventeen fifth round
draft picks for this and I can get I can
get a bunch of like backup centers. You know, it
gets a receiver out of liberty. It'll be wonderful. All right, Well,
hanging there, Ben, I mean you did Eddi's right, I
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mean you did live the good life. I mean you're Oh,
I'm very fortunate.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I'm very happy. This is a great football sherance my
whole life. But I guess I got this.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
You gotta understand, Ben, when I when I started doing
the show, we had guys called from Boston when the
Patriots started winning, and they were all fans of like
the Giants or the Jets, or the Dolphins, or because
the Patriots were so bad they picked up other teams.
They weren't even fans of the Patriots.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
In the day.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, and but now I guess now they're back, and
that you and your generation will be Patriot fans until
they suck for another twenty years and then yeah, all right,
thank you. At least you got a cool pat Patriot logo, Ben,
that you got that going for you.
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I can't wait for this, Joe.
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Speaker 5 (25:34):
And this lost in an NFL Sunday, But we had
a pro bouncy ball trade the Portland Trail player. Yeah,
sent All star guard Drew Holliday to the Boston side.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Is a good trade for the Celtics.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Center Robert Williams, the third guard, Malcolm Brogdon, and two
first round picks one in twenty twenty four nine.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Going down is a major upgrade, my hot take, Eddie,
major upgrade because the Celtics got rid of Marcus Smart,
who was their glue guy. But now they got a
new glue guy who's actually halfway decent offensively and Drew Holiday.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
If you're the Celtics, couldn't you ask the Blazers? Can
we wait one day to announce this so we can
actually get some headlines? No one give a crap on
an NFL Sunday. I barely mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They've got to worry about sports content here for those
you are correct, I mean, you gotta time this about.
That's like a news dump type of trade. That's like
that you make the trade when you don't want anyone
to know about it. That is a fair point. It's
like announcing it on a Friday afternoon when people are
out going out, you know, It's like, yeah, it's ridiculous,
right it is the Ben mauacher I did. I wanted
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to mention I thought this was kind of cool. I'm
usually not into these kind of things, you know, I
have no heart Eddy, but I thought it was kind
of cool. George Kirby of the Seattle Mariners, as a
homage to the passing of Tim Wakefield, they tribute a
tip of the cap confirmed he did throw a knuckleball
for the first time in his career. As a tribute
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seventy three mile an hour knuckleball from George Kirby of
the Mariners as a homage to the passing of Tim Wakefield,
the knuckleball pitcher from the Red Sox back in the day,
died at the age of fifty seven, and we just
found out that he was sick on Friday. I'm guessing
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Kurt Shilling will not be invited to the memorial service.
But I don't know, no idea. And was it a strike?
I do think it was a strike. I think it
was a strike. So how about this the Dodgers. I
don't want to talk baseball out mentioning. The Dodgers have
now won one hundred games. They went exactly one hundred games.
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They're the first team in Big League history with four
straight one hundred win seasons in non pandemic shortened season
and Dave Roberts in the playoffs will screw this up
yet again. So they win one hundred games, and I
have complete confidence that Roberts will make the wrong move
at the wrong time, and he'll say I liked him
in that spot. And no World Series titles, well, the
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hardest World Series of them all. I'm glad you brought
that up coople during the global pandemic. The hardest, the
hardest of all time, the hardest of all time, of
the hardest of all time. Okay, do you understand that,
the hardest of all time? In a baseball a sport
where you take months off, you don't worry about it
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till the All Star break, only sixty games you gotta
show up.
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You got.
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The Dodgers did it against that dynasty, the Tampa Bay
Raised team. What a great race team that was, and
they beat I liked him in that the competition for
I liked him in that spot. Bro, I'm risking my life. Bro,
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know who the lowest rated quarterback in the NFL? Do
you know who's dead lasting yards per pass attempt in
the entire NFL?
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That Joe Burrow?
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ready to roll, and we start out in the Windy
City where the Chicago Bears managed to blow a three
touchdown lead. So does the coach there, Matt Eberflus, deserve
to keep his job with the Bears. Also as justin
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Fields out of the doghouse with his performance for the Bears.
He had a big stat line. And what will Mike
Tomlin do to shake up the Steelers offense? Is they
somehow lost to the Houston Texans and that vaunted Pittsburgh
defense emasculated by c. J. Stroud and the Houston Texans.
We talk about that as well. Right now here it
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month now of television after this past weekend. And did
I beat the Penny? I don't know. It's gonna be
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But enough about that. Our lead this hour coming from Chaitown,
Good Old Chicago, a matchup of manure on one side
and fertilizer on the other. The Broncos and Bears zero
and three, a matchup so bad it became good. So
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bad it became good. That's right. If something so terrible,
eventually it becomes good. So if you saw this game,
chances are you did not watch this game. Why would you?
Unless you're a Bronco or a Bears fan, you probably
missed it. Justin Field passed for a career high three
hundred and thirty five yards and four touchdowns, but still
found a way to f the game up in the end,
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living up to his reputation because he had a fembow
returned for a touchdown and also threw an interception on
Chicago's final drive of the game. Thirty one twenty eight
that Denver Broncos come from behind. The Bears led this
game twenty eight to seven with four minutes and eleven
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seconds on the clock. They were up by three touchdowns
and then that was in the third quarter. They had
to play the rest of the game. How did that
turn out? Well, don't ask, I don't ask now. Coach
Matt eberflus me he's the head coach O. You don't
need to learn his name because it's hard name to pronounce,
and he's in Chicago, so he won't be there for
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very long. You would assume Matt Eberflus decided to go
for it big call here in this game. It was
a fourth down play, fourth and one from the Denver
eighteen yard line, with two point fifty seven left. At
that point, the game was tied. So at that point,
if you're the coach of the Bears, you make the call.
Do you kick the field goal, assume you're gonna make
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the field goal and have a three point lead and
trust your defense, or do you keep the ball on
offense and try to go for it, try to get
the first down, keep the ball away from the Denver Broncos,
eat more clock and possibly win the game that way. Well,
coach of the Chicago Bears said, you know what I'm
gona do. I'm gonna I like the offense, I like
the way we're running the ball, so I'm gonna hand
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the ball off to Khalil Herbert. And he was stuffed.
He was stuffed like pus right there. He were absolutely stuffed.
And the Bears turned it over on down. So the
Broncos then marched down. They went on a five play
forty eight yard drive for the game winning Will Lutz
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not a Klutz, he's Will Lutts, and he kicked the
game winning field goal. Good afternoon, good evening, and good
nights of the Broncos. Get off the schneide and they
are victorious. Matt Eberflus, the head coach of the Bears,
bizarrely praising his team's passion after the game, was very
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very odd, including the quarterback. Here. Just to prove that
we're not lying, here's the coach of the Chicago Bears here,
who was very happy with his starting quarterback. Take a Liz.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I thought the guys did a really good job. You
know you talk about you know, justin Field's play. I mean,
he really got into the flow. I thought that the
plan was excellent. I thought the guys did a good
job of executing that, and you know, he distributed all
of the skill. I thought we did a nice to
have a run on the football.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So he was full of praise there. Matt Eberflus said,
really good in spots, big improvements. Yeah, a lot of
good moments. All right, let's discuss the question does Matt
Eberflus deserve to keep his job as coach of the
Chicago Bears. So I don't own the Bears, but if
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I did, the answer would be no. The answer we know.
I'm shaking my head. No, I've got governor, Lagoon and
eminent domain, and we will combine all of these things together,
all of these things together, and we are going to
make a victory something that the Chicago Bears have not had.
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And sometimes fourteen straight stinkers for the Chicago Bears, fourteen
in a row, and their defense is doing things that
have never been done ever in the history of the end. So,
first of all, it is not a question of whether
the Bears coach is going to be fired. It's a
matter of timing. Now, the Chicago Bears have this thing
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where they've never fired a head coach during the season.
They just don't do that. That's not how they operate.
The McCaskey family, the group that's in charge running the
Bears day to day, they just don't operate that way.
But under any measurement, any measurement that we use, every man,
woman and child knows that Matt Eberflus blows as a
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head coach. He's not doing the job. And so you
blew a twenty one point lead at home against the
team that gave up seventy points and seven hundred plus
yards of offense last week. And this is a step
in the right direction. That's the Chicago Bears, my fat ass,
that's the Chicago But that should not be the standard,
right And the head coach, Matt Eberflus, has been proven
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to be overmatched on the sidelines. I don't know. The guy.
Maybe is nice guy when I have a beer with him,
but he can't coach iright. And and this guy has
become the governor of Loserville. That is what the head
coach of the Bears is right now, he's the governor
of Loserville. This guy was hired as a defensive guru
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out of Indianapolis. Does anyone see a defensive guru when
they watched the Chicago Bears. The Bears his record in
Chicago three and eighteen, Now that is it works out
my computer, like Brady tells me to a one forty
three winning percentage, Matt Ebraflus in Chicago. The Bears, by
the way, the first team in the history of the
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NFL to allow twenty five or more points in fourteen
consecutive games. There have been bad defenses. There has never
been a defense consistently as dreadful as the Chicago Bears,
the old monsters of the Midway. And you can't say that, yeah,
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manbo said for years, probably going back to like the
nineteen forties. But man alive.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Secondly, we're gonna go thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs
up er thumbs down on Justin Fields turning the corner.
Is he now out of the doghouse, harf arf? Is
he out of the doghouse there in Chicago based on
a statistically dominant performance for the Bears. So the answer
(09:23):
on that is thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down on this.
That is the reality here now Fields, on my if
I've got a graph, here, on my graph, Justin Fields
is still sinking into the lagoon of disaster. You don't
want to be in the lagoon of disaster. But that
is where Justin Fields is right. It's the tail of
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two halves. It's like poetry, mister perfect against the Broncos defense.
For thirty minutes, all right, thirty minutes, Justin Fields was wonderful,
Like what the heck happened. Where's this guy? But it's
like he's back at Ohio State and they're playing Iowa
or something like that. It's like, come on. But with
the game in the balance, what happened to Justin Fields?
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He became frazzled. Frazzled and if you look at the
numbers in the second half, Justin Fields was bad. How
bad was he? Well, you look at the numbers. Had
one hundred and four yards passing in the second half,
averaged a less than six yards per pass attempt in
the second half, one touchdown, one backbreaking interception, one backbreaking fumble,
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and his quarterback rating in the second half was seventy
seven point zero. That's the same guy. It had been
so for half a game against the Broncos, Justin Fields
was running around like a peacock with his feathers out.
And then the second half that's the guy we knew,
that's the guy we've seen there, Justin Field. So to
answer the question again, is he out of the Doghousees
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he turned the corner. No, he turned the corner and
he fell off the cliff. When the game there, he
became the ragamuffin under center there down the stretch and
so Chicago, not only do they not have a head coach,
they still don't have a quarterback. But other than that,
the pizza is really really good. Right, the pizza is
really really good in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Final thought, let's go to Houston, and Houston, we don't
have a problem, but the opponent has a problem there.
That's where these Steelers did the unthinkable, the unimaginable, the unforgivable.
The Pittsburgh Steelers, as a small road favorite, went into
Houston and did something that no one's done for ever,
lost a game to the Texas. It had been a given.
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You show up. It's like knocking on that really nice
neighbor in your house's neighborhood and you're knocking on the
door on Halloween. You get a big bag of candy.
Oh your little kids. You show up to Houston and
you put a mild amount of effort in there, and boom.
You end up getting a victory. But not the Steelers,
as they lost to rookie quarterbacks Cjs Trow. The Texans
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win this game thirty to six, wasn't even close. A
despicable performance for the Pittsburgh football team. Now, Mike Tomlin
announced after the game and they're going to make some change.
He said, Hell yeah, we've got to make some changes
after only getting a couple of field goals in this game.
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So with that said, what will Mike Tomlin do? What
can Mike Tomlin do to shake it up? As a
Scott Farrell said back in the day, they're shake it
up for the Pittsburgh Steelers off Now, just to prove
I'm not making this up, here is Mike Tomlin in
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his own words describing what I just said about the
Pittsburgh offense and the issues they are having. So let's
go to the audio tape. Will you contemplate any changes
or is it's still too early?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Hell yeah, we got to make some changes, man. Was
that was an ugly product we put out there today.
So we're not going to do the same things and
and hope for a different outcome. What those changes are, man,
we'll put together a plan in preparation.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So they were the Stealer fans were not fat and
sassy after that gime.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
We want them to be fat and sassy.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
No, they were not, Mike. They were not fat and sassy.
They were depressed. Were they were crying in their terrible towels?
Is what they were doing after that. So what can
he do? Let's get back to the question what can
Mike Common do here? So we got a limited amount
of time. But here's my first piece of advice. You're
not going to fire Matt Canada. Just what's the kind
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way of saying this? If you're not going to fire
your offensive coordinator, take his balls away. Don't allow him
to call the place. All right? You call you. You're
the head coach, You're the one that's in charge here.
Either you do it or you put somebody else in
charges of the play caller. You want to keep Matt
Canada as the offensive coordinator. Fine, Now, other than that,
you can move some pieces around, rearrange the deck chairs.
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On the Titanic, Kenny Pickett damaged his knee. I don't
know how bad that is, whether or not he'll be
able to play or not. But before he damaged his knee,
he took several large steps back and looked all right
against the Raiders. But that was back to being the
same guy that Kenny Pickett had been. The Statistically, anyway,
Houston had a very average defense. At the peak of
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their powers, they were average. Mitch Trubisky is the backup
good luck on that we've seen mister Bisky play. It
does not go well. Of course, the way Kenny Pickett
has played it couldn't be a downgrade. You would think
that would be more of a lateral move than anything else.
But no running game for the most part, all season
offensive line issues. It is a pepto bismol commercial waiting
(14:42):
to happen there for Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh football team.
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New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson caught multiple times looking
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Malor Riddle of the daytime and here it is. Zach
Wilson had a better stat line. He's still ended up losing.
But the Jets quarterback. The standard's pretty low for the Jets.
They'll celebrate anything. Zach Wilson caught multiple times looking at
blank during the Sunday night football game. That is the question.
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What is the answer to the Mallord Riddle of the
day And see does anyone know? Sawman says he was
looking at Travis Kelsey's many friendship bracelets. Matt the Warrior Raider,
former a's fan, says, Zach Wilson was caught multiple times
looking at Fireman Ed's crazy eyes. Yeah, that's one celebrity
fan that I don't know. Fire Minute, I know Clipper
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Darryl Marlon's man Friends of the Show, don't know, don't
know him, don't know fire Minute. Who else do we have?
Luke the Vending Guys says he was looking at my
lovely lady lumps. Okay, thank you for that. What else
we have? Page down? Page down?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
J C.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Pennies Undies catalog from Stevie Meatball's Bergcat says Travis Kelsey's mom,
uh oh, watch out, missus Kelsey go that Sam Darnold
saw according to Alf the Alien Opiner in Springfield, mass
where the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame is and Blake Griffin.
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We'll be in Trine someday. Courtesy Flusher says he was
caught multiple times as Zach Wilson looking at Benny versus
the penny. Yeah, absolutely, why not? What else? That's a
very popular TV show, but it's only available on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday and then it vanishes into thin airs
for boating after that. Okay, I don't understand either. Robin
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Minnesota says he was caught looking at what the Charger
security guard was doing. So he says, oh, that's that's
an outdated take, but it's still a funny take. Zach
Wilson was caught looking at blank. That's from Rory. What
else we have? Page down? Page down, a lot of
Travis Kelcey mom takes as the answer to the the
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malar Riddle of the day. Donkey Sausage says he was
watching Fox Animation Domination. Absolutely from donkey sausage. Again, that's
the year's Stu says. Zach was caught looking at his
mom's boyfriend during the game. All Right, our best friend.
I think I think he my best friend. I can't
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read that. We'll skip over that, Polly d says the
Transfer Portal. He was checking that. Casey Carr Haller who
incorrectly doesn't think that Blake Griffin will be in the
Hall of Fame. He's wrong on that, says his mentions
on ex Eddie, do you have an answer to the
mallor Riddle of the day? And again, for those of
you that are late to the party, the mallor riddle
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of the day the most important riddle of them all.
No other riddle quite compares to the mallor Riddle of
the day. Zach Wilson, Jets quarterback, was caught multiple times
looking at blank during Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
The scores of his fantasy football.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Teams scores of his fantasy football Is that correct? I
was saying that is wrong? You're wrong the correct answer.
Zach was caught multiple times looking up at Taylor Swift's booth,
trying to get a peek at Taylor Swift or maybe
he was looking at Ryan Reynolds or who else was there?
Blake Lively, that's like a country music person, right, I think,
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no actress or an actor actress.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
That's Ryan reynolds wife.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Oh, that's why she was there. There were some other
I don't know. These people I know were very old.
Well I'm not. I know Ryan Reynolds, I know who
that is.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
You know his wife?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I don't know. I don't know these people. Why do
I know his wife?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I'm not because she's a famous actress and she's super hot.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
What's she known for?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
I know she was in there.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Name what she's known for? Eddie? How famous are you?
How famous? Saying Bill, I'm not angry at myself. I
don't know. I saw the name.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Voices raised.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
My voice is raised because it's a radio show, Eddie,
your voice. I want people to be engaged, Eddie. I'm
not angry because I'm not angry at all. Eddie. She's
famous from Gossip Girl. Never saw it. I never saw
so for me, she's not famous. I never saw a
Gossip Girl.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
It doesn't matter if it's just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
That sound like a male country music singer, Blake Lively?
Doesn't that sound like a male country music singer. I
was saying, there's Blake Shelton. There you go. See right there,
I was saying, there you go. Iowa Sam agrees with me.
I honestly, I could not have named anything she's been
in exactly. So if you're if you're famous, she's famous
because she's, you know, sleeping with Ryan Reynolds. Right, that's
why she's famed in Green Lantern.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
That's what I said, you do said Green Lantern. It's
where they met.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Nobody cares. Yeah, Ryan Reynolds is known for a lot more.
We care, Yeah, Ryan Reynolds. Man, Come on, this guy's
get Wrex Deadpool, you know, Superhero? Thanks? Yeah, all right, anyway,
movie about college fan Wilder. Yeah, all right, all right,
come down, Let's go to the phones and we'll say
a lot to Let's go to another Ben. It's Ben
(21:50):
and Ben sounds like a morning show. Ben is in Maine?
What's going on? Ben? Welcome?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
How piss is Bill Belichick? How piss is this guy?
I swear he was walking over the mac. I thought
he was gonna smack him. What the heck?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Man?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I remember watching Bloodshed my father back when I was
just a wee little boy, and we thought, wow, this
is pretty bad Steve boots blood. So but he's the
man now. I'll do anything to get him back. You
got a cannon, he can make some good decisions. He's
a good quarterback. Mac What the heck of the Patriots
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Manna, I'd be more worried about the defense because the
only chance you had was a shutdown defense, and your
two top defensive players are in the injury ten. It
sounds like Matthew Judon is gonna be out for the
year and Gonzalez his shoulder is messed up, so officially
Gonzalez a Rookie of the Month in the first month
of the year. Sounds like he's gonna be out maybe
(22:43):
for the season. Also, who knows how long, but he's
gonna be out for a long period of time. You're done.
You're done. That's it.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
I know we need that. We need that kid from USC,
that quarterback.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
You need to lose for a while. You won too much.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, but I can still hope.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I can still we need How how old are you?
Ben four? All right? And do you have any kids
or no? Yo, how's your kid? So when that kid's
about forty five and he's got a couple of kids,
then they'll be good again. Okay, so when your kids
is forty five, they'll be But look at but look
(23:21):
at the math, bet, I mean the Pats right now,
they're one and three, right, but if you go it
goes by win, there's a bunch of one in three teams.
They would right now have the number seven pick. Chicago
would have the number one and number two pick because
they're on and four and the other owing four team
is Carolina and they also own that pick, So the
Bears would have number one and number two in the draft.
(23:41):
But there is there is a path here. There is
a path, and that is that Kayle, you're talking about Williams.
You don't want to play in Chicago. So if he doesn't
want play in Chicago, and then if the bait, if
the Pats can get in the number three pick, then
they could jerry rigg it and maybe trade up and
then they can get him that way.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
So I take it doing.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
That though, No, you're right, he's more likely to trade
down even if they got the number one pick. You'd
be like, oh, I can get like seventeen fifth round
draft picks for this and I can get I can
get a bunch of like backup centers. You know, it
gets a receiver out of liberty. It'll be wonderful. All right, Well,
hanging there, Ben, I mean you did Eddi's right, I
(24:21):
mean you did live the good life. I mean you're Oh,
I'm very fortunate.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I'm very happy. This is a great football sherance my
whole life. But I guess I got this.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
You gotta understand, Ben, when I when I started doing
the show, we had guys called from Boston when the
Patriots started winning, and they were all fans of like
the Giants or the Jets, or the Dolphins, or because
the Patriots were so bad they picked up other teams.
They weren't even fans of the Patriots.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
In the day.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, and but now I guess now they're back, and
that you and your generation will be Patriot fans until
they suck for another twenty years and then yeah, all right,
thank you. At least you got a cool pat Patriot logo, Ben,
that you got that going for you.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
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Speaker 7 (25:04):
Hey, this is Tom Berducci from Fox Sports MLB Network
in Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And I'm Joe Madden, and we're going to be around
to talk a little bit about managerial decisions and what
may have accredited to dugout maybe in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
It's the Book of Joe podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I can't wait for this, Joe.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
We're going to dive into what goes on in the
dugout and behind the scenes in Major League.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Baseball, cars, wind, whatever else we want to talk about.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
Yeah, well there are no boundaries, right. Listen to the
Book of Joe podcast on the iHeartRadio app on Apple
Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
And this lost in an NFL Sunday, But we had
a pro bouncy ball trade the Portland Trail player. Yeah,
sent All star guard Drew Holliday to the Boston side.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Is a good trade for the Celtics.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Center Robert Williams, the third guard, Malcolm Brogdon, and two
first round picks one in twenty twenty four nine.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Going down is a major upgrade, my hot take, Eddie,
major upgrade because the Celtics got rid of Marcus Smart,
who was their glue guy. But now they got a
new glue guy who's actually halfway decent offensively and Drew Holiday.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
If you're the Celtics, couldn't you ask the Blazers? Can
we wait one day to announce this so we can
actually get some headlines? No one give a crap on
an NFL Sunday. I barely mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They've got to worry about sports content here for those
you are correct, I mean, you gotta time this about.
That's like a news dump type of trade. That's like
that you make the trade when you don't want anyone
to know about it. That is a fair point. It's
like announcing it on a Friday afternoon when people are
out going out, you know, It's like, yeah, it's ridiculous,
right it is the Ben mauacher I did. I wanted
(26:34):
to mention I thought this was kind of cool. I'm
usually not into these kind of things, you know, I
have no heart Eddy, but I thought it was kind
of cool. George Kirby of the Seattle Mariners, as a
homage to the passing of Tim Wakefield, they tribute a
tip of the cap confirmed he did throw a knuckleball
for the first time in his career. As a tribute
(26:56):
seventy three mile an hour knuckleball from George Kirby of
the Mariners as a homage to the passing of Tim Wakefield,
the knuckleball pitcher from the Red Sox back in the day,
died at the age of fifty seven, and we just
found out that he was sick on Friday. I'm guessing
(27:16):
Kurt Shilling will not be invited to the memorial service.
But I don't know, no idea. And was it a strike?
I do think it was a strike. I think it
was a strike. So how about this the Dodgers. I
don't want to talk baseball out mentioning. The Dodgers have
now won one hundred games. They went exactly one hundred games.
(27:39):
They're the first team in Big League history with four
straight one hundred win seasons in non pandemic shortened season
and Dave Roberts in the playoffs will screw this up
yet again. So they win one hundred games, and I
have complete confidence that Roberts will make the wrong move
at the wrong time, and he'll say I liked him
in that spot. And no World Series titles, well, the
(28:01):
hardest World Series of them all. I'm glad you brought
that up coople during the global pandemic. The hardest, the
hardest of all time, the hardest of all time, of
the hardest of all time. Okay, do you understand that,
the hardest of all time? In a baseball a sport
where you take months off, you don't worry about it
(28:22):
till the All Star break, only sixty games you gotta
show up.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
You got.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
The Dodgers did it against that dynasty, the Tampa Bay
Raised team. What a great race team that was, and
they beat I liked him in that the competition for
I liked him in that spot. Bro, I'm risking my life. Bro,
I'm risking my life. So I want to point that out.
We are going to have straight Ahead for your dancing
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Speaker 5 (30:31):
Now?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
A lot of you seem to think I was gonna
do the Chicago Bears again, but we've we flogged that
dead bear. Enough. Ryan, Good job by Ryan in Maine.
He knows where I'm going here. There's one game left
in Week four, The bye week start next week. There's
one game left in Week four, that's tonight the Giants
(30:51):
and the Seahawks. And as of this moment, do you
know who the lowest rated quarterback in the NFL? Do
you know who's dead lasting yards per pass attempt in
the entire NFL?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
That Joe Burrow?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yes, Joe Burrow. It's no longer Zach Wilson.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Or as our friend ROBERTA would say.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Borrow is a quarter So advice to Joe Burrow, who, currently,
despite the big contract, is the worst quarterback statistically in
the NFL. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, You're
on the airline one. Hello, It's the instant advice line
for Joe Burrow. Hello, line one.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
If you're whining about your team losing, fuck off.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
All right, thank you for that. We're off to a
flying start. Tony from the Bay. Nobody heard that line too.
You're on the airline too, fire, okay, everybody from des Moines?
Is it bad that I recognize everyone's voice that calls up?
Is that a bad sign that you gift new people?
Line n.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Your bullet Fedley crushed his debut.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
They had to be the best woman's volleyball game.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Line that was his numb nuts from southern California. There
a line four, Hello, line four, third cat, Hello, line four,
mister Staley, keep thinking that it's okay a fourth down?
That's super Marcus Steve Eddie. Maybe I've known everyone that's
called so far? What with my streak? Can I run
(32:19):
the board? Line five? Hello, line five?
Speaker 6 (32:23):
He needs his own Swiss be I don't.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Recognize that guy. Line six, you're on the ever giving
advice to Joe Burrow At this moment, with one game
left and week four, Joe Burrow is the worst. We
haven't heard him in a while. Yeah, a worst call.
Worst quarterback we've had this season in terms of quarterback
rating and also yards per attempt. Hello, line six.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
He needs to get help from the bad news Drew
to know how to throw the ball and pass the
ball and hand the ball off right.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Okay, thank you. Line one, you're on the Airline one. Hello, okay,
line two, your next, line two. We're giving advice on
screened advice. That's why we have a screener. Unscreened advice
to Joe Burrows, now the NFL's lowest rated quarterback after
signing that big contract in Cincinnati. Hello, line number two. Okay,
(33:18):
thank you? Can you use your inside voice? Line three
is next? Hello, line three. I'm the real and who's
players with? There's only one fudgie and you're not it.
Line four. Hello, line four, rivet rivet rivet rivet ribbit ribbt.
(33:40):
Line five is next, Hello line five. Line five. Not
paying attention, we go to line six. Hello, line six.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Yeah, morning time.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
I saw a girl that looked like Taylor Swift at.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
The Jet game. Oh is that right? Interesting? All right,
I never heard that before. Thank you. On line one.
Do you know that Eddie?
Speaker 6 (33:57):
We're gonna call him a.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Line two. Hello, line two.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Maybe Justin in Cincinnati could be his missuit.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Oh well, Justin is looking for work. I understand a
line line three. Hello, line three.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
As long as there's no hair pulling or on contact
is not gay?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Okay, oh yes, absolutely, sir. A line four, Hello, line
four I didn't understand. Well, yes, absolutely direct deposit line five.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Hello, call Andrea the sports Sorceress.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That's right, all right, Well do one more, and only
one more. Coop quickly picked the final call for Joe Burrow.
Line three, line three, you're on the Airline three, go.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Go a dime, not a dime back.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Not a dime.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
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