October 12, 2023 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about the Dodgers getting eliminated from the postseason yet again, Deshaun Watson's injury status, Maller to the Third Degree, another edition of #AskBen, and much more!
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know that there's a tradition every October. And that tradition
is I come in here and scream like a banshee
after the Dodgers, the choking dog. Dodgers go out and
ride the vomit comment in a playoff series against the Diamondbacks,
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of all people, the Diamondbacks. And that's our lead. I
know there were three games and all that, we'll talk about,
all the games that were played in baseball. But the
story for our purposes, in our little ecosystem that we've
developed here in the middle of the night, is all
about the Dodgers. My god, what was that crap that
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they were serving up in these three games against Arizona.
And so we're gonna start in the Valley of the Sun.
The pesky Diamondbacks, who were not very good. They were
not very good over the course of the regular season,
but they completely pummeled the Dodgers here. They hit a
postseason record, not one, not two, not three, how about
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four home runs in the third inning off the big
Tobagoo lance Lynn in his final act as a Dodger.
We hope he could be back, but lance Lynn and
that was it. That was all the runs Arizona score.
They win four to two, and they get the three games,
sweep aoo of the paper Tigers. Baseball. The Dodgers, who
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get panted yet again, yet again, they get panted. Last year,
at least they won a game against the Padres. This
year they couldn't even do that against the Diamondbacks. I
guess next year the Rockies are gonna beat him, and
then after that they'll have the Giants kick their ass
in a playoffs. Here they have everyone you get a turn,
you'll get it to everyone gets a turn against the Dodgers.
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So Arizona now has a date with either Philly or Atlanta.
That'll be on Monday. I'll be watching the Cowboys and Chargers,
but Monday will be the date of that game, Game
one of the National League Championship Series. Philly up two
to one, they will win away the Dodgers. They have
a date with their yachts, their vacation homes, their maseratis,
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their pushas and all of that. Because they're done, I
can go to Cancun. The better story, though, is in
that locker room, the losing locker room. So that is
where we are going to start. And the question here,
what is your opinion of the Dodgers performance. One of
the greatest questions ever asked, what is your opinion? So
I've got urban myth, skid marks, and crabshack, and we
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will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a splitsh splash in that pool in
Arizona or they were dancing there years ago, the Dodgers
beat the Diamondbacks and they celebrated the clinch of playoff
spot if I remember, and they celebrated in the pool.
And you would have thought this was a war crime
by yasie O Puige and the Dodgers going in the pool.
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But I guess so for them to celebrate, it's all good.
So again, I've got urban myths, skid marks, and crabshack,
and we'll make the pool. But a what is my opinion?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
My opinion is? Lance Lynn went out there and give
up four home runs. I'm trying to win a bleeping
game here, and the guy went out there and served
up four four home runs. That's a spicy meatball by
lance Lynn. He knows a thing or two about a
spicy meatball. And you can add this another chapter spy
to the book of Dave Roberts. Yet again. Yeah, And
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I had people messaging me. They were like, Ah, the Dodgers,
this is it, this is it. Roberts has gone No, no,
he will outlast all of us. Dave Roberts, He's not
going anywhere. Why he follows what they want. This is
what the Dodgers want. He gives them what they want,
a bunch of bums in the postseason, and they continue
to find new and creative ways to screw up. It's amazing.
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We talk about all the time. Everyone knows it. All
that matters is what you do in the moment. It's
no different than any other sport. In football, you can
have the better record, how do you perform that day?
How do you perform that day? Basketball, although it rarely
happens in basketball where a lesser team wins, in baseball
it happens all the time. And the urban myth of
baseball has been propped up and confirmed by the Dodgers.
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What is the urban myth of baseball? The vanishing hitchhiker?
You heard that story that when you were a kid,
maybe the vanishing hitchhiker. Like a country road dark late
at night, you know, kind of foggy, and then you
see a hitchhiker and then you drive by and it vanishes,
you know, just disappears. That's the Dodgers in October. They
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just vanish. They pier uh. That's it. Nanda Nada day,
good boy. Just like that. Underperformance of masculating, the Dodgers
starting pitchers went oh and three with an ERA of
close to thirty. In the three games, they got fourteen
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outs and give up thirteen earned runs. How do you
do that if you're trying, seriously, how do you I
don't know. I don't understand. I can't wrap my minra
and kershaw. We'll drive him to the to the airport,
or hell, I'll drive him all the way to Texas.
If he wants to go back and just don't come back.
I'm done. I don't want to hear. I don't want
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to hear the excuse. I'm done with all of this.
Bring somebody else in. I don't care if they're stiffs,
because maybe it'll a should be good in the plus,
because the Dodgers have these guys that these big fancy resumes.
Oh they're so great, they're sexy in the regular season,
and then they go out there and they drop a
pile of po all over the field, all over the field.
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Mookie Bets my ass, Mookie Bets, Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman.
I was told by people that worked for the Dodgers
the greatest one to two combination in the history of
Dodger baseball. Please they went kerflooey. Mookie didn't even get
a hit. And I don't want to hear about Mooie.
Mook is gonna go back to Nashville. He's gonna have
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perfect games bowling this weekend. I don'tant to hear about it.
I don't want to hear about Mookie Bets bowling. I
don't want to hear about what a great guy Freddie
Freeman is. Twenty one at Bets, they had one hit,
they had one more. Mookie had as many hits as
you had, and I had one hit for Freddy Freeman.
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Dodger's now eleven straight postseason appearances. Now, they do have
two World Series. They won in twenty seventeen, they won
in twenty twenty, so they got the two World Series.
But lately absolute buppkus and the lottery. The Powerball numbers
for the Dodgers eighteen, twenty two, and sixteen. That is
how many games ahead of the Atlanta Braves, the Padres,
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and the Diamondbacks. The Dodgers finished in the regular season
only to go out and need the Heimlich maneuver because
they lost to those teams one in seven their last
eight postseason games. And there's a flaw, and I'm gonna
tell you what the floy is. I'm gonna tell you
what the flaw is with the Dodgers. Tell you right now,
there's evil plan for the Dodgers, right. The flow is
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that these guys do not handle the pressure, which is obvious.
But Andrew Friedman, the smartest guy in the room, and
the Dodger people, they got all these algorithms and all that,
but there's a glitch in the in the algorithm, the
human element, and that's the problem here. They baby the
players so much with pitch counts. Don't throw one more
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pitch than you're supposed to. God forbid, your arm might
explode on the mound. And there's so worried about micro
managing spin rates and all this bull crab rather than
just go play good play, and you know what, maybe
you have to pitch a couple of extra innings and
get more guys out and may just maybe maybe you
have to do something different at the plate, but no,
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they do. They ever outperform expectation. They never They The
greatest example at the nineteen eighty eight Dodgers, right as
a million years ago. It's an outdated reference, but they
outperformed expectation. They were not supposed to be good. They
outperformed expectations. These modern Dodger teams, they go out there
and they just gag game after game, and then Dave Roberts.
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Dave Roberts puts Austin one point eighty Barnes in as
a pinch hitter. Austin Barnes, the man is an automatic out.
Why not just four fifty at bat? If you're gonna
put Austin Barnes up there, the guy can't hit. Get
rid of him. To let him go live with Kershaw.
That's the only reason he's on the team because of Kershaw.
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So let the backup catcher go em it cheez, We're
gonna go back to this plenty of times. I did
want to mention the other other games, and we'll play
sound and all that as we go through the overnight.
But I did want to spend a couple of minutes
on the game in Minnesota. Boy, I didn't realize we
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do that well in Houston. On the Astro station seven
ninety there in Houston. My god, my inbox was full.
My social media I peaked on there, so many fans
of the a holes in Houston were reaching out to
me to tell me that the Houston cheaters ended up
beating the Minnesota Twins, who the malnourished Twins who were
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eliminated in four games. And so back to the America
League Championship Series and there they are again. There they
are again, everyone's worst nightmare, back yet again. So are
you impressed with the cheating Astros having now made what
seven consecutive American League Championship Series appearances? So my answer
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is actually gonna surprise you. My answer is yes, I
am impressed. I'm impressed that the Astros were able to
continue to win when Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman were
suspended for life, and the fact that the Astros came
back after being banished in the postseason for five years
for cheating with cause and evidence, and they still came
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back and made the American League Championship Series. Unless none
of that happened, and that only happened in the Twilight Zone. Imagine,
if you will, a world where a commissioner actually had
teeth and he's not toothless like Rob Manfraud, the commissioner
of Baseball who looked the other way. And the thing
that's tremendous about this is the people in Houston are
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so ob toosed. You idiots don't even realize. None of
this counts to anybody within ten None of it counts zero, right,
I mean this and Rob Manford also all those all
those idiots on Park Avenue in New York at Baseball's offices.
I mean this, Every win the a holes get is
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another skid mark in the underwear of Rob Manfreud. Okay,
every single one. Baseball's brass embarrassing. It's embarrassing. You did nothing,
you did, you know? And I saw a clip of
this cheeseball documentary on PBS that had it was about
the a holes and Fay Vincent, a very old man.
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You know, FA is probably on death doorstep at this point,
but he was interviewed for the for the documentary. He's like, yeah,
I would have suspended them all for life. I mean
that's pretty much what he said. I'm paraphrase. All right,
last word here will stop in Philadelphia. What a matchup here,
the Braves and the Phillies. And the story all about
an interaction between Atlanta Braves infielder Orlando are Sea, who
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trolled Bryce Harper earlier in the NLDS. This is back
the game of Atlanta where Harper got thrown out at
first base if you'd been watching this series. And so
Bryce Harper responded by pulling out the heavy lumber there
and he hit two home runs and Nick Caslanos hit
two home runs, a ten two beatdown Philly, a franchise
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postseason record six home runs. But the interaction, because every
single time Bryce Harper, the two times he hit home runs,
he gave the mad dog stared down to Arcia. He
gave the mad down in the mad dog look, you know,
he gave him the evil eye. So did Bryce Harper.
Here's the question on this one. Did Bryce Harper cross
the line? Did he cross the line with the staredown
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of the Atlanta Braves infielder. And you can't see me,
but I'm shaking my head. No. And this is a
trip to the crab Shack. It's a dinner special at
the crab shack and if you mess with the crabo,
you get the stab. And that's what Bryce Arper did.
He gave me the old stab right there with the bat.
And I loved the erasma task. It is amusing though,
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because the Phillies manager was in a kerfluffle earlier. He
was all upset during the season about the Braves celebrating,
and here the Phillies are, and you know they're doing
the same thing. And I did also like the quote
from Orlando Arcia who said that my favorite part was
he said that that Bryce Harper was not supposed to
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hear the giggles when he say ha ha at a
boy Harper in the clubhouse. And I guess he thought
that that was that was off the record, but it
was not off the record.
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So we're gonna go to football now. I am, I'm here.
I'm here all night. I see a bunch of you
guys want to bash me over the Dodgers. That's fine.
I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. So if you've got patience,
you can step into the batter's box. You get a swing,
that's right. But I'm gonna swing back. So if you
swing at me, I'm swinging back at you. Wow. But
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our lead this hour coming from northern Ohio where the
birds are chirping yet again. The Cleveland Browns. That's a
football team. And if you've not heard you, they're quarterback.
There's an issue. There is an issue going on. If
you haven't seen Deshaun Watson missed practice again. He has
a shoulder issue. I don't know if you'd call it
an injury because well explained, but he skipped out on
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his weekly media session. Sell them, does this happen? Sell them?
Does this happen? So the plot has thickened around Deshaun Watson,
the Brown's coming off a bye week. Watson missed the
game prior to that against the Baltimore Ravens. So let
us discuss the question is there more? Is there more
to Deshaun Watson's story in Cleveland than meets the eye?
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And the answers one hundred percent? One hundred percent. Now,
now am I trying to facilitate this on the radio?
I don't think I am. I think there's something here.
There's meat on the bone. So I've got McDonald's, my
fan lady, and Bill Maher and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
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a lousy, lousy offense, which is what the Cleveland Browns
have at this point, a lousy offense. So number one,
All right, so there is there is some funny business
going on in northern Ohio. Now what is my evidence?
You got? You have to be an investigator, you have
to follow the cookie crumbs on this story. So if
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you follow the cookie crumbs here the Browns. Let's go
back to Week four. The Browns expected Watson to play.
He told his teammates he was going to play in
the game Week four against Baltimore. He then taps out
a couple hours before kickoffs. So of course the locker
room's all upset. After the game, Kevin Stefanski, the head coach,
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that's the coach in Cleveland. He chose not to run interference.
He didn't run the naked bootleg for Watson. He told
the media that DeShawn was medically cleared to play, and
there are whispers that people in the locker room were
upset that he went a wall and he deserted his post.
Now Watson is still practice, he's not practicing. He's still
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not practicing. They had the bye week, so that week off,
another week off, the medical staff cleared them the play.
So my hypothesis is heavy doses of palace intrigue. And
I gotta tell you, much like McDonald's I'm loving it man.
I love this story because Deshaun Watson, we call him
the creepy quarterback. He's earned the name. He's sulking right,
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and he clearly has got a beef. I bet you
the beef is with Stefanski because Kevin Stefanski did not
cover for Watson. Now the players are upset because the
Browns don't they didn't have a quarterback. They played the
kid out of Ucla. He got toasted. And so now
they've signed PJ. Walker, who used to play in Carolina.
They're gonna add him, supposedly, and I mean he's all right.
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He's certainly better than what they had. All right. Now,
page two, we go to Western New York, where yet
again it has happened, television cameras catching one of the
big stars at the wide receiver position having a sideline
Kerv Fluffel talking about Stefan Diggs. Here we go Buffalo
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Stefan Digs melting down on the sidelines. He was caught
on camera spiking down a tablet during the loss to
the Jacks. Now, Josh Allen, that's a quarterback. Josh Allen,
a big burley guy for the Buffalo Bills. He was
asked about this, he told reporters, well, rather let me
tell you what Josh Allen said. Here is Here is
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Josh Allen explaining his take on Stefan Diggs tossing down
a tablet during a game that was lost for Buffalo
in London. Take a list.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I know a lot of people are throwing different ideas
of what he was mad at on the sideline. You know,
he was mad at himself for running the wrong release
on a route. He's a competitor, He's a competitor. I'm
tired of hearing all this nonsense from people because it's
a lot of guys in the league that have that
same fire that don't get talked about. But he's a
lot of our juice on the sideline, you know, making
sure that the offense is staying up and as energized
as possible, and we feed off of that. So, for
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better or worse, he's up in up in guy's faces,
and he's making sure that we have as much juice
as we need, and he supplies that to our offense,
especially in times when we need it. He doesn't get
to burn that he deserves there. Frankly, that kind of
ticks me off when people want to say stuff about him.
But we'll keep that all all that internal here.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, we're not really keeping it internal. You're talking about
a new a microphone and here we are on the
radio broadcasting it. But can you classify? Can you classify
what we just heard here Josh Allen's comments on the
Stefan Diggs So it's obviously not nonsense. It's not nothing,
it's something. And much like we talked about with the
Deshaun Watson story, if you follow the pattern, if you
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follow the pattern here with Stefawon Diggs, there's something here
as well. Like Josh Allen continues to make all kinds
of excuses for his wide receiveies rationalizing what's going on.
But this is and I think this is the proper
way to look at this. This is a my fair
lady situation. That's my fair lady situation for Stefan Diggs.
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London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down. This
happened of course in the UK last week. And Diggs
does not get the benefit of the doubt. And here's
what the resume speaks for herself. Stefan Diggs is not
a happy camper in Buffalo. Let's go back here, let's
go back in the hot tup time machine. You had
him sulking on CBS at the end of the Bengal
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playoff loss. He left the stadium before the all the
coaches were even in the Buffalo locker room. He was
so upset at something. We think he was upset with
the play calling and his role in the offense and
the lack of targets that he got. So he was
obviously pissed. And so that you had that, and then
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Stefan Diggs he missed a mandatory workout.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
The thing that.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Blows me is like the Bill's mafia. They buy into
the Buffalo, Tody's in the media, like guys like Andy
the comic book guy, and those guys like the media.
Obviously they think they're pr people for the team, and
they so they send these little stories. Oh, everything's great,
there's nothing to see here. It's like, come on, have
a mind of your own, Have a mind of your own.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
There.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I mean, it's overwhelming. The evidence is overwhelmed. How many
more incidents do we have to have? He's not happy, right,
He's not. Maybe it won't matter, but it's definitely there,
all right, final point, So let's go to Charlotte, where
Bryce Young is not only a quarterback, he is being
pummeled on a weekly basis without a number one pick
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they traded it Carolina to get Bryce Young. The Panthers
are the only team in the NFL that has not
won a game, and his performance is at the very
bottom of every measurement that we have to judge a
quarterback's performance. Now, some pundits, some pundite now are starting
to go the other direction. They're running to defend Bryce Young.
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To paraphrase the the recent commentary here that the criticism
is said to be ridiculous, that people are being unfair
to the former Alabama quarterback. So how would you summarize
how would you summarize the commentary around Bryce Young and
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the Carolina Panthers. So I would summarize it like this,
It is fair, it's a fair ball. And I would
say it's like a Bill Maher television show or go
in real time, right in real time. Like these people
are like, well, you just gotta wait. It's a small samples.
So I have to do the show today. I don't
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have to worry about tomorrow show. I gotta worry about
the show I'm doing right now. I gotta worry about
this hour of radio that I'm doing right now. So
these morons that are like, oh no, you got to
you gotta wait until the season plays, like, no, we
don't have time for that. Now. If you pay me
a lot of money and I do one show a year,
I'll wait till after the NFL season and then we
can break it all down and we're good to go.
But it's real time, in real time, Bryce Young, ain't it.
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I mean, he has been lousy from jump Street. He's
been like a Dodger starting pitcher, just terrible. Just agast
how bad he is. He's ranked thirtieth in terms of
the overall quarterback rating. He's dead last in yards per
pass attempt at five point two. Looks completely overmatched when
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you watch Carolina play, if you flip over to a
Panthers game, and I mean, I don't know he's made
out of twigs or what, but the number one pick.
You gotta expect more than this. And when you don't perform,
this is what happens. He's played. Bryce Young's played like
an undrafted free agent and in Carolina, and they wrote
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a lot of checks of optimism and it's gonna be different.
This is the guy and all that, and Bryce Young
has bounced every one of those checks that were written
so far, much like his passes hit the ground there,
and I get the quarterback. Lap dogs. They blame everybody
but the quarterback. This goes out all the time every town.
Although I don't know what's going on in like with
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the Patriots, although there are there actually are people with
Mac Jones that are trying to claim, well, it's not
mac Jones's his fault, it's you know this guy, that
guy and all that. But in the case of Bryce
Young in Carolina, they're like, well, that's the offensive one.
But then I look at CJ. Stroud in Houston and
their offensive line stinks, and they've had a couple of
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big a couple of big name lineman and they've been
out Laramie Tunzel has missed time. He's their top offensive lineman.
But it doesn't seem to be bothering CJ. Stroud, so
he's able to overcome that. And then they're like, well
they don't have any receivers. Well does Houston have any
great receivers? I don't know, maybe I missed it, maybe
they picked somebody up who's good. I don't see anybody good.
So there's always an excuse. You can always blame somebody.
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But the bottom line is that Bryce young ain't getting
it done, and so I get a kick out of
these people like, oh, it's unfair, you know you SHO
shouldn't be goofing on him. We're not. We're just calling
it like it is. It goes with the territory. Makes
a lot of money good for him, but a little
criticism make can it hurt him?
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It's Mallard. How about that to the third degree, This
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Speaker 1 (26:55):
Grilled and right over there the Coop dal Loop.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Bill Belichick said that mac Jones will continue to be
the starter for the Patriots heading into week six, but
reports say that changes are on the horizon. Ben does
a poor performance this week land Jones on the bench.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
All right, So, first of all, if I was coaching
the Patriots, mac Jones would have been benched after the
Cowboy game. He certainly would have been benched after the
game with the Saints last week. And you know he's
been running around like you know those little free library
boxes that they have around certain cities and you go,
you take a book, leave a book. Mac Jones has
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been just inviting everyone to take the football out of
that little free library box thing because he's just giving
the ball away pick six everywhere. So I got a
theory of this though, that Bill O'Brien, the offensive coordinator,
he despises Bailey Zappy. Otherwise, why wouldn't you go to
Bailey Zappy at this point? If you're the Patriots, you'd
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be better I think Will Greer is still around the
ex Cowboy you'd be better off going with Will Greer. Now,
the good news is the Raiders aren't for good, So
it's conceivable if the Patriots actually played hard, they could
beat the Raiders this weekend and mac Jones could have
a decent game. But I still would have benched him.
It's a bad job not doing it after those two games.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Next, my goodness, that was a dated reference. What was
dated about the library book?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
No, they still have those. Actually, in my neighborhood they
have those little library so you just don't go out
of your house. Cool. I always say thank you for that. Yeah,
you don't go outside. They have those are very popular.
They in COVID time, they were really popular.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah, just make him a home.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Churches, community centers. I guess.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
I guess my town is just not. Uh, you don't
share much in your town, Yeah, I guess not. Gardner
Minshew has been filling in admirably for Anthony Richardson and
will likely be at the Helm for the next several weeks.
Ben If Minshew continues to play well in Richardson's absence,
do you think he'll be starting somewhere next season?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
No? No, he should have been starting this season. He
played pretty well in relief of Jalen or Her a little
bit last year, did decent in Jacksonville. But the problem
Gardiner Minshew has, it's the same problem I had in
the early days of Fox Sports Radio. I was pigeonholed.
As an update, Guy, weekend talk show host fill in Guy,
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and so you really have to break the glass ceiling
to get out of that box that they put you
in there. And based on his performance, I would have
thought he would have gotten a starting job. He's better
than I'd say about seven or eight of the starting
quarterbacks in the NFL at least right now. And I
love Minshew mania and I wouldn't be shocked if they
come out here the Colts and certainly cover the spread
(29:37):
against Jacksonville. But we'll get to that on the TV
show this weekend. But the problem is based on the
orthodoxy of the NFL, I don't see Gardner Minshew getting
a chance to start. I don't think he's gonna move
up very much.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
Next USC is six to zero. But they've had a
cupcake schedule up until this point. Now, five of their
next six games are against opponents ranked in the top twenty. Ben,
how do you think the Trojans come out of this
next stretch?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
So they'll lose at least two of them. And here's why. A.
They don't have any defense, as you said, they haven't.
They've been playing the little sisters of the poor and blind,
and they're ranked ninety ninth in defense in college football?
What happens when you play good good team? I know
Colorado supposed they had a good offense and all that,
but their offensive line was terrible and all. But there's
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only one hundred and thirty school one hundred and thirty
three schools ranked, and USC is ninety ninth in total defense.
So good luck against Utah, Washington, Oregon. The meat of
the schedule that is not going to end well. The
problem is Caleb Williams has to be perfect and if
he has a bad half or a bad quarter, then
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the Utes. What is a ute? The Utes? The Huskies
and the Ducks will absolutely run right over the men
of Troy and sc will be cooked there. It is
malt of degree. How did we do?
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Speaker 6 (32:00):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from Noah. I Noah Noah from Austin.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I know him well, I don't really know him, but
he's a fan of the show. He sends stuff in Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
He says, if you got to live in another country
for a year, where would you live New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I have friends there from I did a radio show
weekly for years in New Zealand. It seems kind of
like here, except the toilets go backwards there and stuff
like that. Either that or Australia, although I would not
live in the western part of Australia where Ozzi Waz lives.
I would live maybe like over in Perth or something
like that. I don't want to get attacked by a
wild kangaroo. But that's probably where i'd go. Uh, you
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want to play Spartacus? Where would you? Where would you go?
Speaker 7 (32:41):
I would say Ireland. It's probably the favorite country I've
ever been to, the land of my.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
People and your people.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
That gives me EU right, So I can go to
basically any country in Europe. Italy, France.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
We don't need the whole couple, I know, I will.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
Say, I will say I'd probably say Italy just so
I could try all the foods go around. There's Northern
and Southern Italy are very different in terms of just
like the the culture and stuff and the food. So
I think I spend a lot of time just tour around.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Pick a country based on just food.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
Well, also, it's beautiful, it's got a Mediterranean climate, It's
sunny and warm a lot, you know, Tuscany, all that
great Souf Coop.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Told me in my headphones he would pick North Korea.
Why North Koreao, Wow, I'd actually pick Italy as well. Oh,
you just copying off.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I was saying, No, Well, he's he's Italian, so that's true.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I understand.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
I'm not Italian and I have.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Been there, and I am picking Italy like beaches seventy
five percent because of the food.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Food. Beaches, sunny.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I have good food, it's rock mountains.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
The best food is in Italy.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, I've never been. I like to go. I think
I will make it to Italy at some point. My
my wife's family's from there, so I think i'll make it.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
You like us, You like a sun dried tomato and
eat like on spread, on a sandwich or something.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
I eat pretty good.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I eat like a child.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
I don't know that's what that's true, he does. What's
sext Rory would like to know? Is chili a soup?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
See, it's served in a bowl. It's often eaten with
it's eating with a spoon, as long as it's not
too chunky soup Spartacus, yes or no.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
I I agree that it's based on the thickness of
it it is. I would say the chunkier it is,
it's more of a stew, but less chunky. Yeah, it's definitely.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, Because you know what, my mom when I was
a kid, would make me lentil soup. She's called it soup,
but it was so thick it was disgusting. It was
not a soup. It was it was a I was saying.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
It's a porridge. Yeah, it's a soup. Yeah cool, I'm
gonna go against the trend here. Not a soup. It's
not a soup.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
It's in a bowl, it's with a spoon. Yeah, but
it's a liquid based thing.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
It's too thick.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
It's just like a thick chunky Look.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
If you would if you were to put like a
square of corn bread in a literally brand, if you
were to put what chunky soup?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
It's literally a brand. But chunky soup isn't the brand
of chili. Well they could. I think they have a.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Chot But if you can have you can have a
light chili and a thick chili.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
If you put a square of corn bread in a
bowl of soup, it's gonna absorb that soup. But you
put it in a bowl of chili, it's it's not
gonna absorb.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
You just need You don't know how how liquid based
the chili is. I mean some people it's all kinds
of different chili. I do not like a bean based chili.
I only want to be no beans.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Beans.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
But I'm a meat man. I am I like the
I like meat. Moving on what that's a great question.
What is next? There? Think that's that is why this
bit was designed for questions like that, what is next?
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Cowboy killer wants to know?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Cowboy Kill.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
When you get car trouble, do any of you try
to fix it or just take it straight to get service.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
So when I was younger, I did try to fix
it myself, and then I realized I have no ability
other than sitting on my ass and talking and ripping
professional athletes that are better than me athletically. So I
have no tangible skill, so I just go to the
mechanic Spartagus back when I was.
Speaker 7 (36:15):
In like heist. When I first started driving, I thought
I could save money like changing the oil myself, and
it just became way too much of a pain, and
I'm like, screw it taking a mechanic.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Then I remember I had a flat tire in San
Diego and I changed it on the side of the
eight in San Diego. My mom yelled at me, you
could have been killed, so I stopped even doing that.
Iowa Sam quickly. The only thing I know how to
do is change a tire. Other than that, anything inside
the hood, I do not know it. So I take
it to get I know, and the car is today
or so. If you have to do a car, it's
a night micro chips. It's designed for you not to
(36:44):
be able to fix it. What about your coop? I
am the same as Sam. I can change a tire
and that's it. Yeah I could. I know the lug nutting.
I know that. What's nice sitting up the car? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Ferd cat Hi Fergie?
Speaker 4 (36:55):
He wants this is a two This is a two
part question.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Oh my, this is deep. He said.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Is pumpkin I underrated or overrated? And is it better
with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
All right, so I believe pie. It is underrated at
Halloween and it's there's only two times a year, Halloween
and Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
No, you can eat it Halloween.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
It's pumpkin pie.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Yeah, I already got it at Costco.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Sam.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yes, we're over a month away from the Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Now about this, I go cool whip, Cool whips.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
That's the answer. That's the answer. I won the game.
Speaker 7 (37:30):
I was at quick pumpkin pie overrated? Otherwise ice cream though?
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Is you have to go now go home?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
No, that's wrong, Sam, Quickly, I.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
Essentially eat pumpkin pie cold, so you go with whipped
cream or coolhip cool whip.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
You don't put ice cream on cool whip.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Underrated whip. Cool cool whip is the way to go.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
I could eat a whole I could eat a whole canister,
a whole case of cool.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
I love cool.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
It just melts send your mouth. It's so damn god.
I'm not kidding, but I love cool if I do
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know that there's a tradition every October. And that tradition
is I come in here and scream like a banshee
after the Dodgers, the choking dog. Dodgers go out and
ride the vomit comment in a playoff series against the Diamondbacks,
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of all people, the Diamondbacks. And that's our lead. I
know there were three games and all that, we'll talk about,
all the games that were played in baseball. But the
story for our purposes, in our little ecosystem that we've
developed here in the middle of the night, is all
about the Dodgers. My god, what was that crap that
(02:02):
they were serving up in these three games against Arizona.
And so we're gonna start in the Valley of the Sun.
The pesky Diamondbacks, who were not very good. They were
not very good over the course of the regular season,
but they completely pummeled the Dodgers here. They hit a
postseason record, not one, not two, not three, how about
(02:25):
four home runs in the third inning off the big
Tobagoo lance Lynn in his final act as a Dodger.
We hope he could be back, but lance Lynn and
that was it. That was all the runs Arizona score.
They win four to two, and they get the three games,
sweep aoo of the paper Tigers. Baseball. The Dodgers, who
(02:48):
get panted yet again, yet again, they get panted. Last year,
at least they won a game against the Padres. This
year they couldn't even do that against the Diamondbacks. I
guess next year the Rockies are gonna beat him, and
then after that they'll have the Giants kick their ass
in a playoffs. Here they have everyone you get a turn,
you'll get it to everyone gets a turn against the Dodgers.
(03:09):
So Arizona now has a date with either Philly or Atlanta.
That'll be on Monday. I'll be watching the Cowboys and Chargers,
but Monday will be the date of that game, Game
one of the National League Championship Series. Philly up two
to one, they will win away the Dodgers. They have
a date with their yachts, their vacation homes, their maseratis,
(03:30):
their pushas and all of that. Because they're done, I
can go to Cancun. The better story, though, is in
that locker room, the losing locker room. So that is
where we are going to start. And the question here,
what is your opinion of the Dodgers performance. One of
the greatest questions ever asked, what is your opinion? So
I've got urban myth, skid marks, and crabshack, and we
(03:53):
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a splitsh splash in that pool in
Arizona or they were dancing there years ago, the Dodgers
beat the Diamondbacks and they celebrated the clinch of playoff
spot if I remember, and they celebrated in the pool.
And you would have thought this was a war crime
by yasie O Puige and the Dodgers going in the pool.
(04:14):
But I guess so for them to celebrate, it's all good.
So again, I've got urban myths, skid marks, and crabshack,
and we'll make the pool. But a what is my opinion?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
My opinion is? Lance Lynn went out there and give
up four home runs. I'm trying to win a bleeping
game here, and the guy went out there and served
up four four home runs. That's a spicy meatball by
lance Lynn. He knows a thing or two about a
spicy meatball. And you can add this another chapter spy
to the book of Dave Roberts. Yet again. Yeah, And
(04:48):
I had people messaging me. They were like, Ah, the Dodgers,
this is it, this is it. Roberts has gone No, no,
he will outlast all of us. Dave Roberts, He's not
going anywhere. Why he follows what they want. This is
what the Dodgers want. He gives them what they want,
a bunch of bums in the postseason, and they continue
to find new and creative ways to screw up. It's amazing.
(05:13):
We talk about all the time. Everyone knows it. All
that matters is what you do in the moment. It's
no different than any other sport. In football, you can
have the better record, how do you perform that day?
How do you perform that day? Basketball, although it rarely
happens in basketball where a lesser team wins, in baseball
it happens all the time. And the urban myth of
baseball has been propped up and confirmed by the Dodgers.
(05:37):
What is the urban myth of baseball? The vanishing hitchhiker?
You heard that story that when you were a kid,
maybe the vanishing hitchhiker. Like a country road dark late
at night, you know, kind of foggy, and then you
see a hitchhiker and then you drive by and it vanishes,
you know, just disappears. That's the Dodgers in October. They
(05:58):
just vanish. They pier uh. That's it. Nanda Nada day,
good boy. Just like that. Underperformance of masculating, the Dodgers
starting pitchers went oh and three with an ERA of
close to thirty. In the three games, they got fourteen
(06:19):
outs and give up thirteen earned runs. How do you
do that if you're trying, seriously, how do you I
don't know. I don't understand. I can't wrap my minra
and kershaw. We'll drive him to the to the airport,
or hell, I'll drive him all the way to Texas.
If he wants to go back and just don't come back.
I'm done. I don't want to hear. I don't want
(06:40):
to hear the excuse. I'm done with all of this.
Bring somebody else in. I don't care if they're stiffs,
because maybe it'll a should be good in the plus,
because the Dodgers have these guys that these big fancy resumes.
Oh they're so great, they're sexy in the regular season,
and then they go out there and they drop a
pile of po all over the field, all over the field.
(07:04):
Mookie Bets my ass, Mookie Bets, Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman.
I was told by people that worked for the Dodgers
the greatest one to two combination in the history of
Dodger baseball. Please they went kerflooey. Mookie didn't even get
a hit. And I don't want to hear about Mooie.
Mook is gonna go back to Nashville. He's gonna have
(07:26):
perfect games bowling this weekend. I don'tant to hear about it.
I don't want to hear about Mookie Bets bowling. I
don't want to hear about what a great guy Freddie
Freeman is. Twenty one at Bets, they had one hit,
they had one more. Mookie had as many hits as
you had, and I had one hit for Freddy Freeman.
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Dodger's now eleven straight postseason appearances. Now, they do have
two World Series. They won in twenty seventeen, they won
in twenty twenty, so they got the two World Series.
But lately absolute buppkus and the lottery. The Powerball numbers
for the Dodgers eighteen, twenty two, and sixteen. That is
how many games ahead of the Atlanta Braves, the Padres,
(08:11):
and the Diamondbacks. The Dodgers finished in the regular season
only to go out and need the Heimlich maneuver because
they lost to those teams one in seven their last
eight postseason games. And there's a flaw, and I'm gonna
tell you what the floy is. I'm gonna tell you
what the flaw is with the Dodgers. Tell you right now,
there's evil plan for the Dodgers, right. The flow is
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that these guys do not handle the pressure, which is obvious.
But Andrew Friedman, the smartest guy in the room, and
the Dodger people, they got all these algorithms and all that,
but there's a glitch in the in the algorithm, the
human element, and that's the problem here. They baby the
players so much with pitch counts. Don't throw one more
(08:53):
pitch than you're supposed to. God forbid, your arm might
explode on the mound. And there's so worried about micro
managing spin rates and all this bull crab rather than
just go play good play, and you know what, maybe
you have to pitch a couple of extra innings and
get more guys out and may just maybe maybe you
have to do something different at the plate, but no,
(09:16):
they do. They ever outperform expectation. They never They The
greatest example at the nineteen eighty eight Dodgers, right as
a million years ago. It's an outdated reference, but they
outperformed expectation. They were not supposed to be good. They
outperformed expectations. These modern Dodger teams, they go out there
and they just gag game after game, and then Dave Roberts.
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Dave Roberts puts Austin one point eighty Barnes in as
a pinch hitter. Austin Barnes, the man is an automatic out.
Why not just four fifty at bat? If you're gonna
put Austin Barnes up there, the guy can't hit. Get
rid of him. To let him go live with Kershaw.
That's the only reason he's on the team because of Kershaw.
(10:00):
So let the backup catcher go em it cheez, We're
gonna go back to this plenty of times. I did
want to mention the other other games, and we'll play
sound and all that as we go through the overnight.
But I did want to spend a couple of minutes
on the game in Minnesota. Boy, I didn't realize we
(10:21):
do that well in Houston. On the Astro station seven
ninety there in Houston. My god, my inbox was full.
My social media I peaked on there, so many fans
of the a holes in Houston were reaching out to
me to tell me that the Houston cheaters ended up
beating the Minnesota Twins, who the malnourished Twins who were
(10:44):
eliminated in four games. And so back to the America
League Championship Series and there they are again. There they
are again, everyone's worst nightmare, back yet again. So are
you impressed with the cheating Astros having now made what
seven consecutive American League Championship Series appearances? So my answer
(11:08):
is actually gonna surprise you. My answer is yes, I
am impressed. I'm impressed that the Astros were able to
continue to win when Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman were
suspended for life, and the fact that the Astros came
back after being banished in the postseason for five years
for cheating with cause and evidence, and they still came
(11:32):
back and made the American League Championship Series. Unless none
of that happened, and that only happened in the Twilight Zone. Imagine,
if you will, a world where a commissioner actually had
teeth and he's not toothless like Rob Manfraud, the commissioner
of Baseball who looked the other way. And the thing
that's tremendous about this is the people in Houston are
(11:55):
so ob toosed. You idiots don't even realize. None of
this counts to anybody within ten None of it counts zero, right,
I mean this and Rob Manford also all those all
those idiots on Park Avenue in New York at Baseball's offices.
I mean this, Every win the a holes get is
(12:16):
another skid mark in the underwear of Rob Manfreud. Okay,
every single one. Baseball's brass embarrassing. It's embarrassing. You did nothing,
you did, you know? And I saw a clip of
this cheeseball documentary on PBS that had it was about
the a holes and Fay Vincent, a very old man.
(12:38):
You know, FA is probably on death doorstep at this point,
but he was interviewed for the for the documentary. He's like, yeah,
I would have suspended them all for life. I mean
that's pretty much what he said. I'm paraphrase. All right,
last word here will stop in Philadelphia. What a matchup here,
the Braves and the Phillies. And the story all about
an interaction between Atlanta Braves infielder Orlando are Sea, who
(13:01):
trolled Bryce Harper earlier in the NLDS. This is back
the game of Atlanta where Harper got thrown out at
first base if you'd been watching this series. And so
Bryce Harper responded by pulling out the heavy lumber there
and he hit two home runs and Nick Caslanos hit
two home runs, a ten two beatdown Philly, a franchise
(13:22):
postseason record six home runs. But the interaction, because every
single time Bryce Harper, the two times he hit home runs,
he gave the mad dog stared down to Arcia. He
gave the mad down in the mad dog look, you know,
he gave him the evil eye. So did Bryce Harper.
Here's the question on this one. Did Bryce Harper cross
the line? Did he cross the line with the staredown
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of the Atlanta Braves infielder. And you can't see me,
but I'm shaking my head. No. And this is a
trip to the crab Shack. It's a dinner special at
the crab shack and if you mess with the crabo,
you get the stab. And that's what Bryce Arper did.
He gave me the old stab right there with the bat.
And I loved the erasma task. It is amusing though,
(14:06):
because the Phillies manager was in a kerfluffle earlier. He
was all upset during the season about the Braves celebrating,
and here the Phillies are, and you know they're doing
the same thing. And I did also like the quote
from Orlando Arcia who said that my favorite part was
he said that that Bryce Harper was not supposed to
(14:27):
hear the giggles when he say ha ha at a
boy Harper in the clubhouse. And I guess he thought
that that was that was off the record, but it
was not off the record.
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So we're gonna go to football now. I am, I'm here.
I'm here all night. I see a bunch of you
guys want to bash me over the Dodgers. That's fine.
I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. So if you've got patience,
you can step into the batter's box. You get a swing,
that's right. But I'm gonna swing back. So if you
swing at me, I'm swinging back at you. Wow. But
(15:59):
our lead this hour coming from northern Ohio where the
birds are chirping yet again. The Cleveland Browns. That's a
football team. And if you've not heard you, they're quarterback.
There's an issue. There is an issue going on. If
you haven't seen Deshaun Watson missed practice again. He has
a shoulder issue. I don't know if you'd call it
an injury because well explained, but he skipped out on
(16:22):
his weekly media session. Sell them, does this happen? Sell them?
Does this happen? So the plot has thickened around Deshaun Watson,
the Brown's coming off a bye week. Watson missed the
game prior to that against the Baltimore Ravens. So let
us discuss the question is there more? Is there more
to Deshaun Watson's story in Cleveland than meets the eye?
(16:45):
And the answers one hundred percent? One hundred percent. Now,
now am I trying to facilitate this on the radio?
I don't think I am. I think there's something here.
There's meat on the bone. So I've got McDonald's, my
fan lady, and Bill Maher and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
(17:07):
a lousy, lousy offense, which is what the Cleveland Browns
have at this point, a lousy offense. So number one,
All right, so there is there is some funny business
going on in northern Ohio. Now what is my evidence?
You got? You have to be an investigator, you have
to follow the cookie crumbs on this story. So if
(17:29):
you follow the cookie crumbs here the Browns. Let's go
back to Week four. The Browns expected Watson to play.
He told his teammates he was going to play in
the game Week four against Baltimore. He then taps out
a couple hours before kickoffs. So of course the locker
room's all upset. After the game, Kevin Stefanski, the head coach,
(17:50):
that's the coach in Cleveland. He chose not to run interference.
He didn't run the naked bootleg for Watson. He told
the media that DeShawn was medically cleared to play, and
there are whispers that people in the locker room were
upset that he went a wall and he deserted his post.
Now Watson is still practice, he's not practicing. He's still
(18:11):
not practicing. They had the bye week, so that week off,
another week off, the medical staff cleared them the play.
So my hypothesis is heavy doses of palace intrigue. And
I gotta tell you, much like McDonald's I'm loving it man.
I love this story because Deshaun Watson, we call him
the creepy quarterback. He's earned the name. He's sulking right,
(18:34):
and he clearly has got a beef. I bet you
the beef is with Stefanski because Kevin Stefanski did not
cover for Watson. Now the players are upset because the
Browns don't they didn't have a quarterback. They played the
kid out of Ucla. He got toasted. And so now
they've signed PJ. Walker, who used to play in Carolina.
They're gonna add him, supposedly, and I mean he's all right.
(18:55):
He's certainly better than what they had. All right. Now,
page two, we go to Western New York, where yet
again it has happened, television cameras catching one of the
big stars at the wide receiver position having a sideline
Kerv Fluffel talking about Stefan Diggs. Here we go Buffalo
(19:19):
Stefan Digs melting down on the sidelines. He was caught
on camera spiking down a tablet during the loss to
the Jacks. Now, Josh Allen, that's a quarterback. Josh Allen,
a big burley guy for the Buffalo Bills. He was
asked about this, he told reporters, well, rather let me
tell you what Josh Allen said. Here is Here is
(19:40):
Josh Allen explaining his take on Stefan Diggs tossing down
a tablet during a game that was lost for Buffalo
in London. Take a list.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I know a lot of people are throwing different ideas
of what he was mad at on the sideline. You know,
he was mad at himself for running the wrong release
on a route. He's a competitor, He's a competitor. I'm
tired of hearing all this nonsense from people because it's
a lot of guys in the league that have that
same fire that don't get talked about. But he's a
lot of our juice on the sideline, you know, making
sure that the offense is staying up and as energized
as possible, and we feed off of that. So, for
(20:13):
better or worse, he's up in up in guy's faces,
and he's making sure that we have as much juice
as we need, and he supplies that to our offense,
especially in times when we need it. He doesn't get
to burn that he deserves there. Frankly, that kind of
ticks me off when people want to say stuff about him.
But we'll keep that all all that internal here.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, we're not really keeping it internal. You're talking about
a new a microphone and here we are on the
radio broadcasting it. But can you classify? Can you classify
what we just heard here Josh Allen's comments on the
Stefan Diggs So it's obviously not nonsense. It's not nothing,
it's something. And much like we talked about with the
Deshaun Watson story, if you follow the pattern, if you
(20:53):
follow the pattern here with Stefawon Diggs, there's something here
as well. Like Josh Allen continues to make all kinds
of excuses for his wide receiveies rationalizing what's going on.
But this is and I think this is the proper
way to look at this. This is a my fair
lady situation. That's my fair lady situation for Stefan Diggs.
(21:13):
London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down. This
happened of course in the UK last week. And Diggs
does not get the benefit of the doubt. And here's
what the resume speaks for herself. Stefan Diggs is not
a happy camper in Buffalo. Let's go back here, let's
go back in the hot tup time machine. You had
him sulking on CBS at the end of the Bengal
(21:37):
playoff loss. He left the stadium before the all the
coaches were even in the Buffalo locker room. He was
so upset at something. We think he was upset with
the play calling and his role in the offense and
the lack of targets that he got. So he was
obviously pissed. And so that you had that, and then
(21:57):
Stefan Diggs he missed a mandatory workout.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
The thing that.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Blows me is like the Bill's mafia. They buy into
the Buffalo, Tody's in the media, like guys like Andy
the comic book guy, and those guys like the media.
Obviously they think they're pr people for the team, and
they so they send these little stories. Oh, everything's great,
there's nothing to see here. It's like, come on, have
a mind of your own, Have a mind of your own.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
There.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I mean, it's overwhelming. The evidence is overwhelmed. How many
more incidents do we have to have? He's not happy, right,
He's not. Maybe it won't matter, but it's definitely there,
all right, final point, So let's go to Charlotte, where
Bryce Young is not only a quarterback, he is being
pummeled on a weekly basis without a number one pick
(22:43):
they traded it Carolina to get Bryce Young. The Panthers
are the only team in the NFL that has not
won a game, and his performance is at the very
bottom of every measurement that we have to judge a
quarterback's performance. Now, some pundits, some pundite now are starting
to go the other direction. They're running to defend Bryce Young.
(23:04):
To paraphrase the the recent commentary here that the criticism
is said to be ridiculous, that people are being unfair
to the former Alabama quarterback. So how would you summarize
how would you summarize the commentary around Bryce Young and
(23:25):
the Carolina Panthers. So I would summarize it like this,
It is fair, it's a fair ball. And I would
say it's like a Bill Maher television show or go
in real time, right in real time. Like these people
are like, well, you just gotta wait. It's a small samples.
So I have to do the show today. I don't
(23:47):
have to worry about tomorrow show. I gotta worry about
the show I'm doing right now. I gotta worry about
this hour of radio that I'm doing right now. So
these morons that are like, oh no, you got to
you gotta wait until the season plays, like, no, we
don't have time for that. Now. If you pay me
a lot of money and I do one show a year,
I'll wait till after the NFL season and then we
can break it all down and we're good to go.
But it's real time, in real time, Bryce Young, ain't it.
(24:10):
I mean, he has been lousy from jump Street. He's
been like a Dodger starting pitcher, just terrible. Just agast
how bad he is. He's ranked thirtieth in terms of
the overall quarterback rating. He's dead last in yards per
pass attempt at five point two. Looks completely overmatched when
(24:31):
you watch Carolina play, if you flip over to a
Panthers game, and I mean, I don't know he's made
out of twigs or what, but the number one pick.
You gotta expect more than this. And when you don't perform,
this is what happens. He's played. Bryce Young's played like
an undrafted free agent and in Carolina, and they wrote
(24:53):
a lot of checks of optimism and it's gonna be different.
This is the guy and all that, and Bryce Young
has bounced every one of those checks that were written
so far, much like his passes hit the ground there,
and I get the quarterback. Lap dogs. They blame everybody
but the quarterback. This goes out all the time every town.
Although I don't know what's going on in like with
(25:14):
the Patriots, although there are there actually are people with
Mac Jones that are trying to claim, well, it's not
mac Jones's his fault, it's you know this guy, that
guy and all that. But in the case of Bryce
Young in Carolina, they're like, well, that's the offensive one.
But then I look at CJ. Stroud in Houston and
their offensive line stinks, and they've had a couple of
(25:34):
big a couple of big name lineman and they've been
out Laramie Tunzel has missed time. He's their top offensive lineman.
But it doesn't seem to be bothering CJ. Stroud, so
he's able to overcome that. And then they're like, well
they don't have any receivers. Well does Houston have any
great receivers? I don't know, maybe I missed it, maybe
they picked somebody up who's good. I don't see anybody good.
So there's always an excuse. You can always blame somebody.
(25:56):
But the bottom line is that Bryce young ain't getting
it done, and so I get a kick out of
these people like, oh, it's unfair, you know you SHO
shouldn't be goofing on him. We're not. We're just calling
it like it is. It goes with the territory. Makes
a lot of money good for him, but a little
criticism make can it hurt him?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
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Speaker 2 (26:48):
It's Mallard. How about that to the third degree, This
is one big Ben gets.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Grilled and right over there the Coop dal Loop.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Bill Belichick said that mac Jones will continue to be
the starter for the Patriots heading into week six, but
reports say that changes are on the horizon. Ben does
a poor performance this week land Jones on the bench.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
All right, So, first of all, if I was coaching
the Patriots, mac Jones would have been benched after the
Cowboy game. He certainly would have been benched after the
game with the Saints last week. And you know he's
been running around like you know those little free library
boxes that they have around certain cities and you go,
you take a book, leave a book. Mac Jones has
(27:31):
been just inviting everyone to take the football out of
that little free library box thing because he's just giving
the ball away pick six everywhere. So I got a
theory of this though, that Bill O'Brien, the offensive coordinator,
he despises Bailey Zappy. Otherwise, why wouldn't you go to
Bailey Zappy at this point? If you're the Patriots, you'd
(27:52):
be better I think Will Greer is still around the
ex Cowboy you'd be better off going with Will Greer. Now,
the good news is the Raiders aren't for good, So
it's conceivable if the Patriots actually played hard, they could
beat the Raiders this weekend and mac Jones could have
a decent game. But I still would have benched him.
It's a bad job not doing it after those two games.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Next, my goodness, that was a dated reference. What was
dated about the library book?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
No, they still have those. Actually, in my neighborhood they
have those little library so you just don't go out
of your house. Cool. I always say thank you for that. Yeah,
you don't go outside. They have those are very popular.
They in COVID time, they were really popular.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah, just make him a home.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Churches, community centers. I guess.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
I guess my town is just not. Uh, you don't
share much in your town, Yeah, I guess not. Gardner
Minshew has been filling in admirably for Anthony Richardson and
will likely be at the Helm for the next several weeks.
Ben If Minshew continues to play well in Richardson's absence,
do you think he'll be starting somewhere next season?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
No? No, he should have been starting this season. He
played pretty well in relief of Jalen or Her a little
bit last year, did decent in Jacksonville. But the problem
Gardiner Minshew has, it's the same problem I had in
the early days of Fox Sports Radio. I was pigeonholed.
As an update, Guy, weekend talk show host fill in Guy,
(29:14):
and so you really have to break the glass ceiling
to get out of that box that they put you
in there. And based on his performance, I would have
thought he would have gotten a starting job. He's better
than I'd say about seven or eight of the starting
quarterbacks in the NFL at least right now. And I
love Minshew mania and I wouldn't be shocked if they
come out here the Colts and certainly cover the spread
(29:37):
against Jacksonville. But we'll get to that on the TV
show this weekend. But the problem is based on the
orthodoxy of the NFL, I don't see Gardner Minshew getting
a chance to start. I don't think he's gonna move
up very much.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
Next USC is six to zero. But they've had a
cupcake schedule up until this point. Now, five of their
next six games are against opponents ranked in the top twenty. Ben,
how do you think the Trojans come out of this
next stretch?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
So they'll lose at least two of them. And here's why. A.
They don't have any defense, as you said, they haven't.
They've been playing the little sisters of the poor and blind,
and they're ranked ninety ninth in defense in college football?
What happens when you play good good team? I know
Colorado supposed they had a good offense and all that,
but their offensive line was terrible and all. But there's
(30:26):
only one hundred and thirty school one hundred and thirty
three schools ranked, and USC is ninety ninth in total defense.
So good luck against Utah, Washington, Oregon. The meat of
the schedule that is not going to end well. The
problem is Caleb Williams has to be perfect and if
he has a bad half or a bad quarter, then
(30:46):
the Utes. What is a ute? The Utes? The Huskies
and the Ducks will absolutely run right over the men
of Troy and sc will be cooked there. It is
malt of degree. How did we do?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
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Speaker 1 (31:03):
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but it won't sound like he's reading the Cooper loop.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from Noah. I Noah Noah from Austin.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I know him well, I don't really know him, but
he's a fan of the show. He sends stuff in Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
He says, if you got to live in another country
for a year, where would you live New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I have friends there from I did a radio show
weekly for years in New Zealand. It seems kind of
like here, except the toilets go backwards there and stuff
like that. Either that or Australia, although I would not
live in the western part of Australia where Ozzi Waz lives.
I would live maybe like over in Perth or something
like that. I don't want to get attacked by a
wild kangaroo. But that's probably where i'd go. Uh, you
(32:38):
want to play Spartacus? Where would you? Where would you go?
Speaker 7 (32:41):
I would say Ireland. It's probably the favorite country I've
ever been to, the land of my.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
People and your people.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
That gives me EU right, So I can go to
basically any country in Europe. Italy, France.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
We don't need the whole couple, I know, I will.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
Say, I will say I'd probably say Italy just so
I could try all the foods go around. There's Northern
and Southern Italy are very different in terms of just
like the the culture and stuff and the food. So
I think I spend a lot of time just tour around.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Pick a country based on just food.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
Well, also, it's beautiful, it's got a Mediterranean climate, It's
sunny and warm a lot, you know, Tuscany, all that
great Souf Coop.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Told me in my headphones he would pick North Korea.
Why North Koreao, Wow, I'd actually pick Italy as well. Oh,
you just copying off.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I was saying, No, Well, he's he's Italian, so that's true.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I understand.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
I'm not Italian and I have.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Been there, and I am picking Italy like beaches seventy
five percent because of the food.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Food. Beaches, sunny.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I have good food, it's rock mountains.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
The best food is in Italy.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, I've never been. I like to go. I think
I will make it to Italy at some point. My
my wife's family's from there, so I think i'll make it.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
You like us, You like a sun dried tomato and
eat like on spread, on a sandwich or something.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
I eat pretty good.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I eat like a child.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
I don't know that's what that's true, he does. What's
sext Rory would like to know? Is chili a soup?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
See, it's served in a bowl. It's often eaten with
it's eating with a spoon, as long as it's not
too chunky soup Spartacus, yes or no.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
I I agree that it's based on the thickness of
it it is. I would say the chunkier it is,
it's more of a stew, but less chunky. Yeah, it's definitely.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, Because you know what, my mom when I was
a kid, would make me lentil soup. She's called it soup,
but it was so thick it was disgusting. It was
not a soup. It was it was a I was saying.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
It's a porridge. Yeah, it's a soup. Yeah cool, I'm
gonna go against the trend here. Not a soup. It's
not a soup.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
It's in a bowl, it's with a spoon. Yeah, but
it's a liquid based thing.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
It's too thick.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
It's just like a thick chunky Look.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
If you would if you were to put like a
square of corn bread in a literally brand, if you
were to put what chunky soup?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
It's literally a brand. But chunky soup isn't the brand
of chili. Well they could. I think they have a.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Chot But if you can have you can have a
light chili and a thick chili.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
If you put a square of corn bread in a
bowl of soup, it's gonna absorb that soup. But you
put it in a bowl of chili, it's it's not
gonna absorb.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
You just need You don't know how how liquid based
the chili is. I mean some people it's all kinds
of different chili. I do not like a bean based chili.
I only want to be no beans.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Beans.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
But I'm a meat man. I am I like the
I like meat. Moving on what that's a great question.
What is next? There? Think that's that is why this
bit was designed for questions like that, what is next?
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Cowboy killer wants to know?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Cowboy Kill.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
When you get car trouble, do any of you try
to fix it or just take it straight to get service.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
So when I was younger, I did try to fix
it myself, and then I realized I have no ability
other than sitting on my ass and talking and ripping
professional athletes that are better than me athletically. So I
have no tangible skill, so I just go to the
mechanic Spartagus back when I was.
Speaker 7 (36:15):
In like heist. When I first started driving, I thought
I could save money like changing the oil myself, and
it just became way too much of a pain, and
I'm like, screw it taking a mechanic.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Then I remember I had a flat tire in San
Diego and I changed it on the side of the
eight in San Diego. My mom yelled at me, you
could have been killed, so I stopped even doing that.
Iowa Sam quickly. The only thing I know how to
do is change a tire. Other than that, anything inside
the hood, I do not know it. So I take
it to get I know, and the car is today
or so. If you have to do a car, it's
a night micro chips. It's designed for you not to
(36:44):
be able to fix it. What about your coop? I
am the same as Sam. I can change a tire
and that's it. Yeah I could. I know the lug nutting.
I know that. What's nice sitting up the car? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Ferd cat Hi Fergie?
Speaker 4 (36:55):
He wants this is a two This is a two
part question.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Oh my, this is deep. He said.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Is pumpkin I underrated or overrated? And is it better
with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
All right, so I believe pie. It is underrated at
Halloween and it's there's only two times a year, Halloween
and Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
No, you can eat it Halloween.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
It's pumpkin pie.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Yeah, I already got it at Costco.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Sam.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yes, we're over a month away from the Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Now about this, I go cool whip, Cool whips.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
That's the answer. That's the answer. I won the game.
Speaker 7 (37:30):
I was at quick pumpkin pie overrated? Otherwise ice cream though?
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Is you have to go now go home?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
No, that's wrong, Sam, Quickly, I.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
Essentially eat pumpkin pie cold, so you go with whipped
cream or coolhip cool whip.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
You don't put ice cream on cool whip.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Underrated whip. Cool cool whip is the way to go.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
I could eat a whole I could eat a whole canister,
a whole case of cool.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
I love cool.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
It just melts send your mouth. It's so damn god.
I'm not kidding, but I love cool if I do
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