November 20, 2023 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about the Vikings loss to the Denver Broncos on SNF who have now won 4 in a row, the Jets finally deciding to bench Zach Wilson in a loss to the Bills, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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The way tire mind should be our headline this hour.
We start out from the Mile High City. We'll keep
it simple stupid. Why not the kiss method? Keep it
simple stupid. So that is where Joshua Dobbs and the
Minnesota Viking Road Show paying a visit to play Russell
Wilson and the upstart Broncos. It was in the Sunday
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Nike is not the greatest game in the world, but
not bad. We've had worse. We've had Worseday night games.
Mike Turriko was there hanging out and Chris collins Worth
doing his thing, smoochy smoochy, smoochy on all the quarterbacks
they were on hand. So I don't know if you
saw the game or not. Maybe you were burned out
from all the football earlier in the day, you had
nothing left and as possible, you don't care. And he'll
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give a rats ask about the vikings of the Broncos.
You didn't watch the game. We did, though. It's our
good mitzva of the day, our good mits for the day.
And the game decided late Courtland Sutton a leap fifteen
yard circus catch in the end zone with a minute
three seconds remaining that turned out to be the really
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the final body blow body blow as Denver gets a
one point win. They tried for the two point conversion.
They failed. They get the one point win. But if
you had the Vikings in the points, you won the
bet with the points. But that Denver wins the game.
Minnesota goes down in the Sunday night game and that
ends the NFL's longest winning streak at five game. So
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the Vikings now in the loser's column and the Broncos,
the Denver Broncos back to five hundred and five and five.
They gave up that seventy burger to the Dolphins earlier
this year, but the Denver Broncos now own the NFL's
longest winning streak. Broncos have now won four straight. The
better story, though, is in the losing locker room. So
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that is where we are going to begin. We're going
to start out talking about the Minnesota side of things
and lost in a while, but now they have with
Joshua Dobbs as they go down, So who gets the blame?
Let's play the blame game? Who gets the blame? Juicy
Lucy for the Vikings as they go down in this game.
So I've got tax deductible, Frank Sinatra and restrictor plates.
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We're gonna combine all of these things together, and we
are going to make your own lake. Because everyone that
plays with the Vikings get their They get their own lake.
Although I think they all like Lake Minnetonka. That's their
favorite lake because the love boat back in the day.
All right, So a Joshua Dobbs. We start with Joshua Dobbs,
and we finished with Joshua Dobbs in this game. Now
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you could say there's other people, but Dobbs the pastronaut,
feel good story, chicken soup for the soul story, Joshua
Dobbs doing his thing. He had the mile high malfunction
in this particular game. And you knew early on first
Viking possession. Yeah, and what do we always say? Most
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games are lost? They're not one the vast majority of
the time. It's systemic incompetence that cost the team of
victory rather than some amazing great play. And Dobbs had
been pretty good all things considered. A couple of games
in but the Sunday Night Game a textbook example of
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most games are lost. As Joshua Dobbs giveth and Joshua
Dobbs taketh away as he gave you some hope, and
he took the football away and gave it to the
other team. Problematic. Problematic. In this game, he lost a
fumble and through an interception, you toss in Alexander Madison,
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he's a running back for the Minnesota Vikings. He also fumbled.
And this made the Viking performance a red kettle performance.
Now what does that mean? A red kettle performance? The
Vikings hand delivered. It is the holiday season, thanks Givan's
coming up a few days away. The holiday season. Hand
delivered the game to the Broncos like a tax deductible donation,
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like a nice tax deductible Nay, should do the United
Way or whatever charity, Salvation Army, you name it. Here
you go, you get the game. We're good. We don't
need the game. And when you look a little bit deeper,
things even out right, the law of averages, things even
out and it's almost always the kiss. The Minnesota Vikings
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last season in close games, played eleven close games. The
Vikings were eleven and oh in those games it was remarkable.
She said, Okay, what do we got now? With the
Vikings this season have been in a NFL high ten
close games. You know what, the Vikings record is five
and five. So last year they were eleven and oh
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in these games. Now they're five, five and five, which
is where you're supposed to be. Yeah, I win a couple,
you lose a couple. It evens out. Well, last year,
it didn't even out. This year, it's evened out for
the Vikings. So they're five and five now. On the
Denver side of things, as we go to the Broncos said,
the Broncos have now won four straight and you know
what that means a lot of smoochy, smoochy smoochy for
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Sean Payton. Oh, the Broncos. All those same people that
were burying Sean Payton are now slabbering all over Sean Payton.
The very same people that Sean Payton should go back
to Fox and all that. Now they're, ah, we love you.
I'm not. I'm not slabber slabber slabber guys. So I'm
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not that guy. I'm not. But the question is how
has Sean Payton been able to turn the sales on
the Broncos ship away from the Triangle of Doom, which
is what they were going towards. So how's he doing it?
So Denver, are they playing better? Yes, they're playing better.
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Am I convinced that the Broncos have arrived? No, I
am not convinced to that. But if you ask, it's
rather simple. He saw Benny versus the Penny this weekend. Boy,
do we hope you do. You did watch that, man,
That would be great if you watched it. But we
mentioned on the TV show that the Broncos coming into
this game had won a bunch of games in a row.
But the main thing, here's Frank Sinatra saying a song
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back in his day and the musical guys and dolls
and luck be a lady, and in this case, lady
luck on the side of the Broncos. You look at
these four wins, go back to a statement we made
earlier in the monologue. Most games lost than not one.
The Broncos have been receptive to the gifts from other teams.
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If you go back point by point week seven, when
this began against the Green Bay Packers, it was I
think a two point game if I remember correctly. The
Packers had the ball, matriculating the ball down the field.
All they needed was a field goal in the mile
high altitude to win the game. And Jordan Love what
did he do? Yeah, he pooped his pants right there.
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There were skid marks on his pants. Jordan Loved threw
an interception and the game went to the Broncos a
game breaking interception. That Week eight, that was the Mahomes
creepy crud game. Mahomes had the flu. Didn't play well. Now,
it just happened. He happened to have the flu in
a game against the Broncos. So that worked out. That's luck,
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that's Lady Luck on the side of the Broncos. Then
we have the bye week. After the bye week, Week ten,
Buffalo josh Allen and friends, they have two interceptions to fumbles,
giving the game to Thecos and now here again. Week eleven,
the Minnesota Vikings said, hey, we want to be like
those other teams. Here, here's the game. Take the game.
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Take the game. Joshua Dobbs and friends too fumbles in
an interception. And in other words, while it is nice
the Broncos are winning, if this is how they have
to win, it is not sustainable. There's no way this
can continue. You're going to run into teams that don't
turn the ball. Over. It's not like these are all
forced errors by the Broncos defense all of a sudden,
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So that's that's part of it. Now the last word here,
thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down.
That Russell Wilson's comeback story is now complete because the
Broncos have the NFL's longest winning streak and they just
beat the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night. So there's this
sense that the the whole thing is proper now prim
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and proper for Russell Wilson. So again, thumbs up or
thumbs down. Has Russell Wilson's backstory now been completed with
the victory over the Biking So I'm going to god
thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down on that. Don't want
to be a prisoner of the moment. Will not be
a prisoner of the moment, not gonna happen, Not going
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to be the old prisoner of the moment. Now, here's
the thing. Russell Wilson up until this game had been
a caretaker, a guardian custodian of the offense where they
didn't have him do much of anything lately, and it
was working. So I'm not drinking the orange flavored kool aid.
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Here when it comes to mister unlimited being confirmed as
a bona fide star again, and here's why, he's still
the forty million dollar guy. So the expectations are supposed
to be high. The salary means there's certain things that
come along with that. And in this case, in this game, okay, fine,
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but if you look at what he did last season
and compared to this season, well, sure he looks like
John Elway in his prime. H better than Elway in
his prime. But in this game, Sean Payton did open
things up and he took the restrictor plates off the
Russell Wilson mobile. And there had been and we had
the numbers to back it up that he was near
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the bottom and pass attempts over the last month as
the Broncos were winning these games. But Russell Wilson in
the game Sunday Night, had a season high thirty five
pass attempts. It's the most passes he's thrown in a
game this season for the Broncos, and he completed twenty
seven of him and the numbers were good. Only had
one touchdown. You want a nitpick, that's not good enough.
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Only one touchdown, but solid performance by Russell Wilson, and
he had gone five straight games with less than two
hundred yards passing because he was just the caretaker of
the offense and they didn't ask him to screw up,
and they told him don't screw up. But that was
a step. I'm not going thumbs up. I'm still going
thumbs down, but it was a step for Russell Wilson
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as he had that ten plays, seventy five yard drive
that resulted in the touchdown to Courtland Sutton, and that
gave Denver the lead late in the game with a
minute a little over a minute to go in the game. However,
ultimately the Broncos only scored twenty one points and their
offense based on not being given the football via turnover only.
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There were nine points off turnovers, so the Broncos offense
without getting the football via turnover from Minnesota, generated twelve points. Now,
I didn't play in the NFL. I just I host
an overnight show, So maybe I'm wrong on this, but
I don't think that's good. Twelve points without the points
off the turnover. To me, that doesn't seem great. Oh,
you're just being a jerk. Bend you're just being a schmuck. No, no,
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I just I'm just calling like it is. You know
that's not a high powered offense. Now they won the game, great,
and Lady luck appears to be on the side of
the Denver Bronco at least in the near future, because
you look ahead. The Broncos longest winning streak in the
NFL right now, they won four in a row. They've
got the Browns, Texans and Chargers up next. Those are
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all winnable games like those are all games the Broncos
should win and have a great chance of winning. So
that gets you to seven in a row. And now
we really got something. But all you need is that
one off before. They got the Browns next in Denver
with no quarterback. Then they play the Texans and CJ. Stroud,
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who's good for a couple of touchdowns every game and
a couple of interceptions every game. We know what the
Broncos do when the other team's quarterback throws interceptions. And
then after that the Chargers dysfunction junction. They just lost
a Jordan. How embarrassing are the Chargers got? It's such
an embarrassing franchise.
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com Away tire Buying showb headline from Buffalo, Western New York.
We go an AFC East matchup The Bills favored by
about a touchdown about a touchdown depending on which sportsbook
you looked at. If you're into gambling. Buffalo Bill's at
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Home favored by a touchdown over the Jets, a team
made lost to to begin the year. Remember the Aaron
Rodgers game September eleventh, Snap, crackle, pop goes Rogers and
the Jets rolling in to New York from New Jersey
because they played in New Jersey. This one one team
in New York that would be the Buffalo Bills. And
if you didn't see this game, there was not much
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to see. It was a route or route depending on
how you look at it. The Buffalo Bills Josh Allen
not one, not two, but three touchdown passes as the
Bills offense finding their inner mojo as they scored on
six of their first eight possessions in this game. Thirty
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two to six would be the final as the Jets
go down or the crash and burn mission for the Jets.
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room
and a hum dinger, humdinger of a story. That is
where the New York Jets coach Robert Salah finally finally
benched Zach Wilson. Helllllujah, hellllelujah, finally finally Zach Wilson, betch
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two seventeen. It's like the date of birth, the Great
Awakening by the Jets two seventeen on the clock in
the third quarter the hook, get out of here ya,
bum and that's it. He was replaced by Tim Boyle,
who played about as well as a boil on your
ass for the Jets in this game. But the Jets
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now opening up a can of worms. Yes, they are
now quarterback controversy especially I have no good quarterback. Is
there really a quarterback controversy? Please? So the benching comes
on a day where the Jets actually scored an offense touchdown,
something that doesn't normally happen. They're not good, They're terrible
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and embarrassment to Jets. In fact, that ends a draft
of twelve quarters, forty straight possessions without reaching pay dirt
for the Jets offense, not getting the end zone. But
that was it, that was the highlight. That was all. Now,
Robert Salah after this particular game, when chatting with the media,
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Robert sala non committal, non committal on Russell Wilson's future
as the starting quarterback with the Jets. Now, this is
a change from past comments where you look at the
coach of the Jets and he would stand there with
pom poms and cheering away for the Jets and no,
we love you, you're so good and scold the media. Well,
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this time he didn't do that, but didn't say there
would be a change. And so the options are with
Tim Boyle, who's no good, or Trevor Simeon who's on
the practice squad. Those are the two options, and Tim
Boyle went in. It was twenty nine to six at
the time the decision was made, and so we'll see
what happens here. So let us discuss the question will
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the Jets be haunted by Zack Wilson. That's the question,
and the answer is yes, They've already been haunted by
Zack Wilson. They deserve to be haunted. The Poulter geist
to the Jets franchise and Zach Wilson. We talked about
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the Buffalo Bills quarterback mister Allen, who is a coach
killer right because the offensive coordinator his incompetence. Later the
offensive coordinator being fired. The Jets are in a position
were Robert Salah if I owned the Jets, I would
fire Robert South for continuing to play Zack Wilson. The
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Jets are not going to make the playoffs. They could
have if they had put someone else out there that
knew what they would do. Now, I'm not saying Trevor
Simons great, but I know Zach Wilson can't play. I've
seen Trevor Simeons start games and his team win because
they had good defense and special teams and they won.
I've seen that. I've witnessed it with my own eyes.
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I haven't seen much of that with Zack Wilson. So
man alive, but they are absolutely gonna be honest. So
I've got orange vest, crossword puzzle, and bickram yoga, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make hemorrhoids, which is what Zach Wilson
should get while sitting on the bench. Hemorrhoids. Number what yeah,
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number one? All right. So Robert Sala he gets a
little gold star from the media, little gold star from
the media. Because of this, I give him a different
kind of goal old star. I give Robert Salah a
gold star for shrewd dumbness. Okay, that it went on
this long, The game of charades went on this long.
I'm not even a Jets fan. I'm not, obviously not.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
You know, people work here like Jason Smith, who, like
you know, suck the toes of the Jets. I'm not
like that. I don't care. I mean, where I worked,
there's always Jets fans, but just as an objective arro
trader of truth justice in the sports talk radio way,
it's an absolute embarrassment. And Robert Salah and all those
guys with the Jets, we're smarter than everyone else. These
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fanboys don't know what they're talking about. And the nerds
look at the analytics, look at the analytics. The guy blows.
Zach Wilson sucks. Everyone knows it except the idiots with
the Jets. Finally, here we are week eleven. Now you
finally ben him. I would have benched him in week three.
I said, that's it, you're done, get out of here,
go away. The entire world knows except Robert Salad and
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the other idiots with the Jets, that this I can't
play and arrogantly no, no, we're the smartest people in
the room. Yeah, enjoy that when you're on your next job,
when you're you're back as a coordinator, let me know
how that goes. Maybe they'll do TV at the NFL network.
Robert sala it's ridiculous, Zach Wilson, now here's what this
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guy should be doing. He should get one of those
orange vests, not a red vest, and orange vest, and
see if he can get a job at the Department
of Sanitation there in New York. Of course, you imagine
him throwing the trash into the back of the sanitation truck.
He'd probably miss. They'd be throwing trash all over the
streets of New York, just like he misses wide open receivers.
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That's Zach Wilson. But get him one of those orange vests.
Let him have a field day. And as far as
the Jets, if they had any integrity, they don't the Jets,
But if they had any integrity, the Jets franchise would
go with the ABZW campaign. What is the ABZW campaign?
Anybody but Zach? Anybody you know he can't play. So
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if you bring somebody else in and they can't play,
that is what's called a lateral move. You're not worse right,
that's a zero some game. So you got a guy
that can't play, you bring another guy in who's a stiff. Okay,
stiff for stiff, fine, but at least he's not the
first stiff. And there's a chance maybe you get somebody
with a pulse. It's possible. I've seen it happen, all right.
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I meanwhile, the second pat here, let's go to the
Buffalo side of things. Offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey fired, former
offensive coordinator and a lot of a lot of law here,
Joe Brady taking over there as the offensive play caller
for the Buffalo football team, and does the blowout win,
Does the blowout win over the jet signify that the
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Buffalo bells are back? The bells are back? No, Uh,
that's I'm shaking my head. No that is That is bad.
That's a bad take. It's bad. That's a premature take.
Do not listen. We have pills for that. Do not
get caught with a premature situation. Okay, that's a little much.
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Now I did see Bill's Monsters back and filexus. All
these people from Bill's Mafia have returned. They've crawled out
from behind the refrigerator where they were hiding. So they're back.
Now there's a term for that. It's called front runner,
is what that is. But that's usually how we go.
Like I've got a cowboy Dan that only calls up
in the Cowboys. When I got a lot of guys
that are front runners. That happened, and we don't we
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know where Andy of the comic book guy is. He's
the r I haven't heard from him. I thought he'd
be back. I haven't heard from him. But the Bills
are not out of the wilderness yet. I look at
the Bills and I say, they're still stuck in a
crossword puzzle, and they're missing a few letters. They're in
a crossword puzzle. I mean they're trying to figure some
things out here. Up next, they have Philadelphia at Philly.
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It's a holiday weekend. The Eagles are an I lose
to the Chiefs on Monday night, so they're gonna be angry.
They'll be pissed off. They lost that game in Kansas City.
So then they're gonna go and play at home against
the Buffalo Bills. Good luck on that. Then after that,
Buffalo goes to Kansas City and as a bye week
in between, they have to play at Arrowhead. As of
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right now, Buffalo's not a playoff team. They're the eighth team.
They didn't move up a little bit, but they're the
eighth team. They're the last team out. That being said,
I will be Benny bright Side here I'm not all
doom and gloom for the Buffalo Bills. I'm gonna throw
a bone to the Bills mafia, because if you look
and I have a crystal ball, you should get one
of these things you buy on Amazon. Great investment and
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addistant relative of no ster damas and friend of no strutenie's.
But if you look ahead here, and I can't be
Benny bright'side, you look at the teams that are currently
in the player who probably shouldn't be in the play
like Cleveland, no quarterback, they never had a quarterback all year, Pittsburgh,
by god, Kenny Pickett, Holy crap on a cracker, this
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guy stinks. And then you've got Houston. I don't think
they're legit. So you got three teams right there, and
the chances are that at least one or two of
those teams will fall out of the playoffs by incompetence.
So that means Buffalo can then move on up to
a penthouse on the Upper East Side and get back
in the playoff mix. But they gotta win, that's the problem.
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They gotta win these games. They got it, and you don't,
you know, don't say why you're back because you beat
the Jets. Everyone beats the Jets. It means nothing. All right.
Now we head to La where I was at this game.
I was a witness to the great comeback the Cardiac
Rams get it done. Game decided by idiot kickers, someone
named Lucas Haversik. I have no idea who that is,
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but apparently he plays with the Rams now and he
kicked the game winning twenty two yard field goal with
a minute thirty one to play. It should not have
been the game winning kick because Seattle matriculated the ball
down the field and Jason Myers, who was booting fifty
plus yard field goals the entire day, but at the
end of the game fifty five yard attempt to win
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the game. Hey mess it, Hey mess it? Can you
say choke artist? Yeah, he blew it. So three seconds
were left. That was it and the Rams win the
game seventeen to sixteen. Geno Smith dealing with a bicep Bruce.
He came out of that game for a stretch. So
we got to see Drew Locke. And I'm not a
big Geno Smith fan, but I watched Drew Locke. I said, no,
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he can't play, Oh my god, he sucks. He was
terrible and the Rams don't have a very good defense.
And that's the other thing about this Seattle. Not impressed,
not impressed. I continue to say that's a fraud team, Seattle.
They are. When I've seen them, I have not been
left with like that's like legitimately good team. But now
you've got to get to the Comodo dragon in the
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room for Seattle. You've got Pete Carroll, who's unsure he
said afterwards, whether or not Gino Smith will play on
the Thanksgiving game with the forty nine ers. That's the
last game on Thanksgiving. So question, what is the temperature
in the room. What is the temperature in the room
for the Seattle Seahawks at this point? So it is
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like a Bickram yoga class, right, It's a hot yoga
one hundred and five degrees, a lot of humidity, a
lot of sweat going on in Seattle. The Seahawks are
six and four overall, but they are a Houdini team,
a lot of smoking mers. They're a Houdini team, smoking mirrors.
Her and two against the Rams and two against the Rams,
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my god and nail biding wins against a Washington deem
that lost twice to The Giants had to get a
late field goal to win that game, and a Cleveland
team with no quarterback not impressed, not impressed. The problem, though,
is this, Seattle is at a fork in the road,
at the old fork in the road, and they're in
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the middle of a stretcher. They're gonna about to run
the gauntlet. We talked about the bad schedule for the Bills,
but Seattle's got even worse. Seattle's got in the next
few games forty nine ers Homan Road Cowboys in Dallas. No,
I'm not a big cowboy believer, but they're better than
the Seahawks and then the Eagles in the Pacific Northwest.
So four games likely they go one in three in
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those four games, Seattle. And so right now there's six
and five? Are there? Six and four? They're the number sixteen,
they're seven that make the playoffs. The last team in
the NFC would be the Vikings, who are six and
five after their loss in the game that was played
here on Sunday night against the Denver Broncos. Now the
good news, because again you got the good with the bad.
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And I'm not all negative, no, no, no, no, I
do positive positive reaffirmation anyway. So the NFC, there is
a shortage of quality teams. There's a supply chain shortage
of quality teams. So even though Seattle is not good,
they're better than and everyone else, and that will that
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could you like the Green Bay Packers, the La Rams,
the Atlanta Falcons, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. None of those
teams are any good. They're all four and six. Those
are the eight, nine, ten, and eleven seeds in the NFC.
So one of those teams, and it could be the
Rams and play the Cardinals. Cardinals blow. They'll win that
game next week, so they'll be right there. So one
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of those teams has to rise on up. We'll keep
an eye on it.
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From here we go.
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It's smaller.
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How about that to the third degree?
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This is one big Ben gets grill all right?
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Thinkru Belop reports over the weekend said that the Dodgers
have had preliminary talks with the White Sox on a
potential trade for Dylan Cees season the Cy Young Award
in twenty twenty two. But it was pretty bad last
season with the seven to nine record and a four
point five eight ERA. And do you want the Dodgers
to pursue cease or do you think the twenty twenty
three season was more just a down year.
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Noah, I don't care whether they get him or not.
It's a futile pursuit. They don't know how to use
starting pitchers the Dodgers. They don't go third time through
the lineup. They take them out after ninety pitches. So
what's the point And plus Dylan Cees. He's only pitched
in a couple of playoff games, and I believe he
got lit up in one of them. So I don't
know if this guy has the marbles the moxie to
handle a playoff baseball. The Dodgers are gonna be in
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the playoffs every year. It's how they do in the
playoffs the matter. Next.
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Jay Glazer reported on Sunday that Frank Reich is the
NFL head coach closest to getting fired.
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Ben, do you agree now, I'm gonna fire Ron Rivera.
I'd like to learn everyone later this night. I'll be
firing Ron Rivera for losing to Tommy DeVito and the Giants.
He'll be fired. You look around the NFL. Mike Rabeles
on thin ice in Tennessee, Bill Belichick, frank Reich is
certainly she has done with Brandon Staley and she's, oh good,
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talk more about that. So yeah, there's like there's gonna
be a slaughter house of coaches that are gonna lose
your job. But Frank Riich's on the list. I don't
have at the top though. Next.
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Last week I asked you who your favorite for the
number one overall pick is you said the Bear since
they own the Panthers first round pick and the tradition
still looks good after the Panthers the Panthers lost.
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Yeah, of course, says the.
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Bears would have to be blown away by a quarterback
prospect in order to move on from fields.
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But do you think the Bears would take Caleb Williams. Yeah,
that's of course they're gonna say that. Oh no, we
believe in and justin fields and all that, but Kayleb
Willims is the top rated guys get all the measurables.
I would run to the hill. I would stay away
from Kayleb Williams. I think the guy's softy mixsoft, but
it's all about measurables. He's got all the stats and
he'll be drafted number one. How do we die? That is?
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week eleven of the NFL one game left on a
Monday night, the Eagles and the Chiefs. That's a big one.
But after Ron Rivera's Washington football team took it on
the chin against Tommy DeVito, and there are reports of
the pending demise of Ron Rivera. He needs your advice,
he needs your wisdom. I'm gonna fire him next hour.
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But before we fire him, let's get your advice to
Ron Rivera. And you're live on the air. When you
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to Ron Rivera, please take your all right. Line two.
You're on the airline too. We're giving advice to Ron Rivera.
Line two, no more.
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Clogged toilet stories. There's people trying to.
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Eat here, alright, who's eating at this hour? Line three,
you're on the air ferg dog's lost his mind? Hello?
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Who? I don't know who that is? I don't know.
Line four, you're on the air. Line four. We're giving
advice here to Ron Rivera reports he's about to lose
his job after losing to the Giants. In a route
or root Line.
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Fourago, Chicago Bears coach play pussy gifts fun.
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pretty sure he gets a right A. Line five, Yeah,
that was sounded like Tony a. Line five.
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Hello, line five, calm down, her nest team beat the Bucks,
not the eighty five Bears.
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Okay, all right, that's a line six. You're on the
ever giving advice to Ron Rivera, the head coach of
the Washington football team. Probably not for long, lost a time.
I'm the veto Hello.
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Free State does there you go?
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There you go, just do steroids, you like the Presido
State bulldos. Line one, Well, you're on the airline one,
advice to Ron Rivera. Line one that the lord at
the door, and you just what a lord's mix. There
you go, my buddy, Sean the hood guy. Line two,
you are next to eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
We're giving advice to Rod Rivera.
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Hello.
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Line two, you gotta be able to be a cowboy Bucks.
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And.
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That's a cowboy impersonator. Line three, you're on the airline three.
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I think we're good. We'll do that tomorrow. Line four, Hello,
Line four, take advice and go with Poppy's picks who
Line five, you're on the airline five, Go, yeah, man,
I'd ask him, when was the last time you checked
your tires? I mean, really checked your tire. No one
ever asked that question. It's an unusual question. Yeah, you
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The way tire mind should be our headline this hour.
We start out from the Mile High City. We'll keep
it simple stupid. Why not the kiss method? Keep it
simple stupid. So that is where Joshua Dobbs and the
Minnesota Viking Road Show paying a visit to play Russell
Wilson and the upstart Broncos. It was in the Sunday
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Nike is not the greatest game in the world, but
not bad. We've had worse. We've had Worseday night games.
Mike Turriko was there hanging out and Chris collins Worth
doing his thing, smoochy smoochy, smoochy on all the quarterbacks
they were on hand. So I don't know if you
saw the game or not. Maybe you were burned out
from all the football earlier in the day, you had
nothing left and as possible, you don't care. And he'll
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give a rats ask about the vikings of the Broncos.
You didn't watch the game. We did, though. It's our
good mitzva of the day, our good mits for the day.
And the game decided late Courtland Sutton a leap fifteen
yard circus catch in the end zone with a minute
three seconds remaining that turned out to be the really
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the final body blow body blow as Denver gets a
one point win. They tried for the two point conversion.
They failed. They get the one point win. But if
you had the Vikings in the points, you won the
bet with the points. But that Denver wins the game.
Minnesota goes down in the Sunday night game and that
ends the NFL's longest winning streak at five game. So
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the Vikings now in the loser's column and the Broncos,
the Denver Broncos back to five hundred and five and five.
They gave up that seventy burger to the Dolphins earlier
this year, but the Denver Broncos now own the NFL's
longest winning streak. Broncos have now won four straight. The
better story, though, is in the losing locker room. So
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that is where we are going to begin. We're going
to start out talking about the Minnesota side of things
and lost in a while, but now they have with
Joshua Dobbs as they go down, So who gets the blame?
Let's play the blame game? Who gets the blame? Juicy
Lucy for the Vikings as they go down in this game.
So I've got tax deductible, Frank Sinatra and restrictor plates.
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We're gonna combine all of these things together, and we
are going to make your own lake. Because everyone that
plays with the Vikings get their They get their own lake.
Although I think they all like Lake Minnetonka. That's their
favorite lake because the love boat back in the day.
All right, So a Joshua Dobbs. We start with Joshua Dobbs,
and we finished with Joshua Dobbs in this game. Now
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you could say there's other people, but Dobbs the pastronaut,
feel good story, chicken soup for the soul story, Joshua
Dobbs doing his thing. He had the mile high malfunction
in this particular game. And you knew early on first
Viking possession. Yeah, and what do we always say? Most
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games are lost? They're not one the vast majority of
the time. It's systemic incompetence that cost the team of
victory rather than some amazing great play. And Dobbs had
been pretty good all things considered. A couple of games
in but the Sunday Night Game a textbook example of
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most games are lost. As Joshua Dobbs giveth and Joshua
Dobbs taketh away as he gave you some hope, and
he took the football away and gave it to the
other team. Problematic. Problematic. In this game, he lost a
fumble and through an interception, you toss in Alexander Madison,
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he's a running back for the Minnesota Vikings. He also fumbled.
And this made the Viking performance a red kettle performance.
Now what does that mean? A red kettle performance? The
Vikings hand delivered. It is the holiday season, thanks Givan's
coming up a few days away. The holiday season. Hand
delivered the game to the Broncos like a tax deductible donation,
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like a nice tax deductible Nay, should do the United
Way or whatever charity, Salvation Army, you name it. Here
you go, you get the game. We're good. We don't
need the game. And when you look a little bit deeper,
things even out right, the law of averages, things even
out and it's almost always the kiss. The Minnesota Vikings
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last season in close games, played eleven close games. The
Vikings were eleven and oh in those games it was remarkable.
She said, Okay, what do we got now? With the
Vikings this season have been in a NFL high ten
close games. You know what, the Vikings record is five
and five. So last year they were eleven and oh
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in these games. Now they're five, five and five, which
is where you're supposed to be. Yeah, I win a couple,
you lose a couple. It evens out. Well, last year,
it didn't even out. This year, it's evened out for
the Vikings. So they're five and five now. On the
Denver side of things, as we go to the Broncos said,
the Broncos have now won four straight and you know
what that means a lot of smoochy, smoochy smoochy for
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Sean Payton. Oh, the Broncos. All those same people that
were burying Sean Payton are now slabbering all over Sean Payton.
The very same people that Sean Payton should go back
to Fox and all that. Now they're, ah, we love you.
I'm not. I'm not slabber slabber slabber guys. So I'm
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not that guy. I'm not. But the question is how
has Sean Payton been able to turn the sales on
the Broncos ship away from the Triangle of Doom, which
is what they were going towards. So how's he doing it?
So Denver, are they playing better? Yes, they're playing better.
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Am I convinced that the Broncos have arrived? No, I
am not convinced to that. But if you ask, it's
rather simple. He saw Benny versus the Penny this weekend. Boy,
do we hope you do. You did watch that, man,
That would be great if you watched it. But we
mentioned on the TV show that the Broncos coming into
this game had won a bunch of games in a row.
But the main thing, here's Frank Sinatra saying a song
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back in his day and the musical guys and dolls
and luck be a lady, and in this case, lady
luck on the side of the Broncos. You look at
these four wins, go back to a statement we made
earlier in the monologue. Most games lost than not one.
The Broncos have been receptive to the gifts from other teams.
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If you go back point by point week seven, when
this began against the Green Bay Packers, it was I
think a two point game if I remember correctly. The
Packers had the ball, matriculating the ball down the field.
All they needed was a field goal in the mile
high altitude to win the game. And Jordan Love what
did he do? Yeah, he pooped his pants right there.
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There were skid marks on his pants. Jordan Loved threw
an interception and the game went to the Broncos a
game breaking interception. That Week eight, that was the Mahomes
creepy crud game. Mahomes had the flu. Didn't play well. Now,
it just happened. He happened to have the flu in
a game against the Broncos. So that worked out. That's luck,
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that's Lady Luck on the side of the Broncos. Then
we have the bye week. After the bye week, Week ten,
Buffalo josh Allen and friends, they have two interceptions to fumbles,
giving the game to Thecos and now here again. Week eleven,
the Minnesota Vikings said, hey, we want to be like
those other teams. Here, here's the game. Take the game.
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Take the game. Joshua Dobbs and friends too fumbles in
an interception. And in other words, while it is nice
the Broncos are winning, if this is how they have
to win, it is not sustainable. There's no way this
can continue. You're going to run into teams that don't
turn the ball. Over. It's not like these are all
forced errors by the Broncos defense all of a sudden,
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So that's that's part of it. Now the last word here,
thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down.
That Russell Wilson's comeback story is now complete because the
Broncos have the NFL's longest winning streak and they just
beat the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night. So there's this
sense that the the whole thing is proper now prim
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and proper for Russell Wilson. So again, thumbs up or
thumbs down. Has Russell Wilson's backstory now been completed with
the victory over the Biking So I'm going to god
thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down on that. Don't want
to be a prisoner of the moment. Will not be
a prisoner of the moment, not gonna happen, Not going
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to be the old prisoner of the moment. Now, here's
the thing. Russell Wilson up until this game had been
a caretaker, a guardian custodian of the offense where they
didn't have him do much of anything lately, and it
was working. So I'm not drinking the orange flavored kool aid.
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Here when it comes to mister unlimited being confirmed as
a bona fide star again, and here's why, he's still
the forty million dollar guy. So the expectations are supposed
to be high. The salary means there's certain things that
come along with that. And in this case, in this game, okay, fine,
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but if you look at what he did last season
and compared to this season, well, sure he looks like
John Elway in his prime. H better than Elway in
his prime. But in this game, Sean Payton did open
things up and he took the restrictor plates off the
Russell Wilson mobile. And there had been and we had
the numbers to back it up that he was near
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the bottom and pass attempts over the last month as
the Broncos were winning these games. But Russell Wilson in
the game Sunday Night, had a season high thirty five
pass attempts. It's the most passes he's thrown in a
game this season for the Broncos, and he completed twenty
seven of him and the numbers were good. Only had
one touchdown. You want a nitpick, that's not good enough.
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Only one touchdown, but solid performance by Russell Wilson, and
he had gone five straight games with less than two
hundred yards passing because he was just the caretaker of
the offense and they didn't ask him to screw up,
and they told him don't screw up. But that was
a step. I'm not going thumbs up. I'm still going
thumbs down, but it was a step for Russell Wilson
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as he had that ten plays, seventy five yard drive
that resulted in the touchdown to Courtland Sutton, and that
gave Denver the lead late in the game with a
minute a little over a minute to go in the game. However,
ultimately the Broncos only scored twenty one points and their
offense based on not being given the football via turnover only.
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There were nine points off turnovers, so the Broncos offense
without getting the football via turnover from Minnesota, generated twelve points. Now,
I didn't play in the NFL. I just I host
an overnight show, So maybe I'm wrong on this, but
I don't think that's good. Twelve points without the points
off the turnover. To me, that doesn't seem great. Oh,
you're just being a jerk. Bend you're just being a schmuck. No, no,
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I just I'm just calling like it is. You know
that's not a high powered offense. Now they won the game, great,
and Lady luck appears to be on the side of
the Denver Bronco at least in the near future, because
you look ahead. The Broncos longest winning streak in the
NFL right now, they won four in a row. They've
got the Browns, Texans and Chargers up next. Those are
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all winnable games like those are all games the Broncos
should win and have a great chance of winning. So
that gets you to seven in a row. And now
we really got something. But all you need is that
one off before. They got the Browns next in Denver
with no quarterback. Then they play the Texans and CJ. Stroud,
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who's good for a couple of touchdowns every game and
a couple of interceptions every game. We know what the
Broncos do when the other team's quarterback throws interceptions. And
then after that the Chargers dysfunction junction. They just lost
a Jordan. How embarrassing are the Chargers got? It's such
an embarrassing franchise.
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com Away tire Buying showb headline from Buffalo, Western New York.
We go an AFC East matchup The Bills favored by
about a touchdown about a touchdown depending on which sportsbook
you looked at. If you're into gambling. Buffalo Bill's at
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Home favored by a touchdown over the Jets, a team
made lost to to begin the year. Remember the Aaron
Rodgers game September eleventh, Snap, crackle, pop goes Rogers and
the Jets rolling in to New York from New Jersey
because they played in New Jersey. This one one team
in New York that would be the Buffalo Bills. And
if you didn't see this game, there was not much
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to see. It was a route or route depending on
how you look at it. The Buffalo Bills Josh Allen
not one, not two, but three touchdown passes as the
Bills offense finding their inner mojo as they scored on
six of their first eight possessions in this game. Thirty
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two to six would be the final as the Jets
go down or the crash and burn mission for the Jets.
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room
and a hum dinger, humdinger of a story. That is
where the New York Jets coach Robert Salah finally finally
benched Zach Wilson. Helllllujah, hellllelujah, finally finally Zach Wilson, betch
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two seventeen. It's like the date of birth, the Great
Awakening by the Jets two seventeen on the clock in
the third quarter the hook, get out of here ya,
bum and that's it. He was replaced by Tim Boyle,
who played about as well as a boil on your
ass for the Jets in this game. But the Jets
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now opening up a can of worms. Yes, they are
now quarterback controversy especially I have no good quarterback. Is
there really a quarterback controversy? Please? So the benching comes
on a day where the Jets actually scored an offense touchdown,
something that doesn't normally happen. They're not good, They're terrible
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and embarrassment to Jets. In fact, that ends a draft
of twelve quarters, forty straight possessions without reaching pay dirt
for the Jets offense, not getting the end zone. But
that was it, that was the highlight. That was all. Now,
Robert Salah after this particular game, when chatting with the media,
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Robert sala non committal, non committal on Russell Wilson's future
as the starting quarterback with the Jets. Now, this is
a change from past comments where you look at the
coach of the Jets and he would stand there with
pom poms and cheering away for the Jets and no,
we love you, you're so good and scold the media. Well,
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this time he didn't do that, but didn't say there
would be a change. And so the options are with
Tim Boyle, who's no good, or Trevor Simeon who's on
the practice squad. Those are the two options, and Tim
Boyle went in. It was twenty nine to six at
the time the decision was made, and so we'll see
what happens here. So let us discuss the question will
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the Jets be haunted by Zack Wilson. That's the question,
and the answer is yes, They've already been haunted by
Zack Wilson. They deserve to be haunted. The Poulter geist
to the Jets franchise and Zach Wilson. We talked about
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the Buffalo Bills quarterback mister Allen, who is a coach
killer right because the offensive coordinator his incompetence. Later the
offensive coordinator being fired. The Jets are in a position
were Robert Salah if I owned the Jets, I would
fire Robert South for continuing to play Zack Wilson. The
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Jets are not going to make the playoffs. They could
have if they had put someone else out there that
knew what they would do. Now, I'm not saying Trevor
Simons great, but I know Zach Wilson can't play. I've
seen Trevor Simeons start games and his team win because
they had good defense and special teams and they won.
I've seen that. I've witnessed it with my own eyes.
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I haven't seen much of that with Zack Wilson. So
man alive, but they are absolutely gonna be honest. So
I've got orange vest, crossword puzzle, and bickram yoga, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make hemorrhoids, which is what Zach Wilson
should get while sitting on the bench. Hemorrhoids. Number what yeah,
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number one? All right. So Robert Sala he gets a
little gold star from the media, little gold star from
the media. Because of this, I give him a different
kind of goal old star. I give Robert Salah a
gold star for shrewd dumbness. Okay, that it went on
this long, The game of charades went on this long.
I'm not even a Jets fan. I'm not, obviously not.
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I'm not.
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You know, people work here like Jason Smith, who, like
you know, suck the toes of the Jets. I'm not
like that. I don't care. I mean, where I worked,
there's always Jets fans, but just as an objective arro
trader of truth justice in the sports talk radio way,
it's an absolute embarrassment. And Robert Salah and all those
guys with the Jets, we're smarter than everyone else. These
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fanboys don't know what they're talking about. And the nerds
look at the analytics, look at the analytics. The guy blows.
Zach Wilson sucks. Everyone knows it except the idiots with
the Jets. Finally, here we are week eleven. Now you
finally ben him. I would have benched him in week three.
I said, that's it, you're done, get out of here,
go away. The entire world knows except Robert Salad and
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the other idiots with the Jets, that this I can't
play and arrogantly no, no, we're the smartest people in
the room. Yeah, enjoy that when you're on your next job,
when you're you're back as a coordinator, let me know
how that goes. Maybe they'll do TV at the NFL network.
Robert sala it's ridiculous, Zach Wilson, now here's what this
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guy should be doing. He should get one of those
orange vests, not a red vest, and orange vest, and
see if he can get a job at the Department
of Sanitation there in New York. Of course, you imagine
him throwing the trash into the back of the sanitation truck.
He'd probably miss. They'd be throwing trash all over the
streets of New York, just like he misses wide open receivers.
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That's Zach Wilson. But get him one of those orange vests.
Let him have a field day. And as far as
the Jets, if they had any integrity, they don't the Jets,
But if they had any integrity, the Jets franchise would
go with the ABZW campaign. What is the ABZW campaign?
Anybody but Zach? Anybody you know he can't play. So
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if you bring somebody else in and they can't play,
that is what's called a lateral move. You're not worse right,
that's a zero some game. So you got a guy
that can't play, you bring another guy in who's a stiff. Okay,
stiff for stiff, fine, but at least he's not the
first stiff. And there's a chance maybe you get somebody
with a pulse. It's possible. I've seen it happen, all right.
(22:26):
I meanwhile, the second pat here, let's go to the
Buffalo side of things. Offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey fired, former
offensive coordinator and a lot of a lot of law here,
Joe Brady taking over there as the offensive play caller
for the Buffalo football team, and does the blowout win,
Does the blowout win over the jet signify that the
(22:49):
Buffalo bells are back? The bells are back? No, Uh,
that's I'm shaking my head. No that is That is bad.
That's a bad take. It's bad. That's a premature take.
Do not listen. We have pills for that. Do not
get caught with a premature situation. Okay, that's a little much.
(23:09):
Now I did see Bill's Monsters back and filexus. All
these people from Bill's Mafia have returned. They've crawled out
from behind the refrigerator where they were hiding. So they're back.
Now there's a term for that. It's called front runner,
is what that is. But that's usually how we go.
Like I've got a cowboy Dan that only calls up
in the Cowboys. When I got a lot of guys
that are front runners. That happened, and we don't we
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know where Andy of the comic book guy is. He's
the r I haven't heard from him. I thought he'd
be back. I haven't heard from him. But the Bills
are not out of the wilderness yet. I look at
the Bills and I say, they're still stuck in a
crossword puzzle, and they're missing a few letters. They're in
a crossword puzzle. I mean they're trying to figure some
things out here. Up next, they have Philadelphia at Philly.
(23:57):
It's a holiday weekend. The Eagles are an I lose
to the Chiefs on Monday night, so they're gonna be angry.
They'll be pissed off. They lost that game in Kansas City.
So then they're gonna go and play at home against
the Buffalo Bills. Good luck on that. Then after that,
Buffalo goes to Kansas City and as a bye week
in between, they have to play at Arrowhead. As of
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right now, Buffalo's not a playoff team. They're the eighth team.
They didn't move up a little bit, but they're the
eighth team. They're the last team out. That being said,
I will be Benny bright Side here I'm not all
doom and gloom for the Buffalo Bills. I'm gonna throw
a bone to the Bills mafia, because if you look
and I have a crystal ball, you should get one
of these things you buy on Amazon. Great investment and
(24:39):
addistant relative of no ster damas and friend of no strutenie's.
But if you look ahead here, and I can't be
Benny bright'side, you look at the teams that are currently
in the player who probably shouldn't be in the play
like Cleveland, no quarterback, they never had a quarterback all year, Pittsburgh,
by god, Kenny Pickett, Holy crap on a cracker, this
(25:02):
guy stinks. And then you've got Houston. I don't think
they're legit. So you got three teams right there, and
the chances are that at least one or two of
those teams will fall out of the playoffs by incompetence.
So that means Buffalo can then move on up to
a penthouse on the Upper East Side and get back
in the playoff mix. But they gotta win, that's the problem.
(25:24):
They gotta win these games. They got it, and you don't,
you know, don't say why you're back because you beat
the Jets. Everyone beats the Jets. It means nothing. All right.
Now we head to La where I was at this game.
I was a witness to the great comeback the Cardiac
Rams get it done. Game decided by idiot kickers, someone
named Lucas Haversik. I have no idea who that is,
(25:46):
but apparently he plays with the Rams now and he
kicked the game winning twenty two yard field goal with
a minute thirty one to play. It should not have
been the game winning kick because Seattle matriculated the ball
down the field and Jason Myers, who was booting fifty
plus yard field goals the entire day, but at the
end of the game fifty five yard attempt to win
(26:07):
the game. Hey mess it, Hey mess it? Can you
say choke artist? Yeah, he blew it. So three seconds
were left. That was it and the Rams win the
game seventeen to sixteen. Geno Smith dealing with a bicep Bruce.
He came out of that game for a stretch. So
we got to see Drew Locke. And I'm not a
big Geno Smith fan, but I watched Drew Locke. I said, no,
(26:29):
he can't play, Oh my god, he sucks. He was
terrible and the Rams don't have a very good defense.
And that's the other thing about this Seattle. Not impressed,
not impressed. I continue to say that's a fraud team, Seattle.
They are. When I've seen them, I have not been
left with like that's like legitimately good team. But now
you've got to get to the Comodo dragon in the
(26:51):
room for Seattle. You've got Pete Carroll, who's unsure he
said afterwards, whether or not Gino Smith will play on
the Thanksgiving game with the forty nine ers. That's the
last game on Thanksgiving. So question, what is the temperature
in the room. What is the temperature in the room
for the Seattle Seahawks at this point? So it is
(27:13):
like a Bickram yoga class, right, It's a hot yoga
one hundred and five degrees, a lot of humidity, a
lot of sweat going on in Seattle. The Seahawks are
six and four overall, but they are a Houdini team,
a lot of smoking mers. They're a Houdini team, smoking mirrors.
Her and two against the Rams and two against the Rams,
(27:35):
my god and nail biding wins against a Washington deem
that lost twice to The Giants had to get a
late field goal to win that game, and a Cleveland
team with no quarterback not impressed, not impressed. The problem, though,
is this, Seattle is at a fork in the road,
at the old fork in the road, and they're in
(27:55):
the middle of a stretcher. They're gonna about to run
the gauntlet. We talked about the bad schedule for the Bills,
but Seattle's got even worse. Seattle's got in the next
few games forty nine ers Homan Road Cowboys in Dallas. No,
I'm not a big cowboy believer, but they're better than
the Seahawks and then the Eagles in the Pacific Northwest.
So four games likely they go one in three in
(28:18):
those four games, Seattle. And so right now there's six
and five? Are there? Six and four? They're the number sixteen,
they're seven that make the playoffs. The last team in
the NFC would be the Vikings, who are six and
five after their loss in the game that was played
here on Sunday night against the Denver Broncos. Now the
good news, because again you got the good with the bad.
(28:41):
And I'm not all negative, no, no, no, no, I
do positive positive reaffirmation anyway. So the NFC, there is
a shortage of quality teams. There's a supply chain shortage
of quality teams. So even though Seattle is not good,
they're better than and everyone else, and that will that
(29:02):
could you like the Green Bay Packers, the La Rams,
the Atlanta Falcons, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. None of those
teams are any good. They're all four and six. Those
are the eight, nine, ten, and eleven seeds in the NFC.
So one of those teams, and it could be the
Rams and play the Cardinals. Cardinals blow. They'll win that
game next week, so they'll be right there. So one
(29:23):
of those teams has to rise on up. We'll keep
an eye on it.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
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Speaker 1 (30:12):
From here we go.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
It's smaller.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
How about that to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
This is one big Ben gets grill all right?
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Thinkru Belop reports over the weekend said that the Dodgers
have had preliminary talks with the White Sox on a
potential trade for Dylan Cees season the Cy Young Award
in twenty twenty two. But it was pretty bad last
season with the seven to nine record and a four
point five eight ERA. And do you want the Dodgers
to pursue cease or do you think the twenty twenty
three season was more just a down year.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Noah, I don't care whether they get him or not.
It's a futile pursuit. They don't know how to use
starting pitchers the Dodgers. They don't go third time through
the lineup. They take them out after ninety pitches. So
what's the point And plus Dylan Cees. He's only pitched
in a couple of playoff games, and I believe he
got lit up in one of them. So I don't
know if this guy has the marbles the moxie to
handle a playoff baseball. The Dodgers are gonna be in
(31:06):
the playoffs every year. It's how they do in the
playoffs the matter. Next.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Jay Glazer reported on Sunday that Frank Reich is the
NFL head coach closest to getting fired.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Ben, do you agree now, I'm gonna fire Ron Rivera.
I'd like to learn everyone later this night. I'll be
firing Ron Rivera for losing to Tommy DeVito and the Giants.
He'll be fired. You look around the NFL. Mike Rabeles
on thin ice in Tennessee, Bill Belichick, frank Reich is
certainly she has done with Brandon Staley and she's, oh good,
(31:38):
talk more about that. So yeah, there's like there's gonna
be a slaughter house of coaches that are gonna lose
your job. But Frank Riich's on the list. I don't
have at the top though. Next.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Last week I asked you who your favorite for the
number one overall pick is you said the Bear since
they own the Panthers first round pick and the tradition
still looks good after the Panthers the Panthers lost.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, of course, says the.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Bears would have to be blown away by a quarterback
prospect in order to move on from fields.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
But do you think the Bears would take Caleb Williams. Yeah,
that's of course they're gonna say that. Oh no, we
believe in and justin fields and all that, but Kayleb
Willims is the top rated guys get all the measurables.
I would run to the hill. I would stay away
from Kayleb Williams. I think the guy's softy mixsoft, but
it's all about measurables. He's got all the stats and
he'll be drafted number one. How do we die? That is?
(32:20):
I win?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I won?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Woo. That's sweater.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
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Speaker 1 (32:42):
Who here you talking to?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Sons?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Here some instant advice? Hold that thought. No one's paid
attention to me for ten whole seconds. And if you
don't like it, you.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
And no.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Wos. It's the estitum iceline on screened radio. The safety
that is off. Who needs our advice? Who needs the wisdom,
the knowledge of the Malard Militia, the great Unwashed, the
hoy Peloya, the overnight, the backbone of modern society that
keeps commerce moving under the cover of darkness. Well, there's
many options, many options. We are in the midst of
(33:18):
week eleven of the NFL one game left on a
Monday night, the Eagles and the Chiefs. That's a big one.
But after Ron Rivera's Washington football team took it on
the chin against Tommy DeVito, and there are reports of
the pending demise of Ron Rivera. He needs your advice,
he needs your wisdom. I'm gonna fire him next hour.
(33:41):
But before we fire him, let's get your advice to
Ron Rivera. And you're live on the air. When you
hear my voice eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
will start with you online one. Line one, your advice
to Ron Rivera, please take your all right. Line two.
You're on the airline too. We're giving advice to Ron Rivera.
Line two, no more.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Clogged toilet stories. There's people trying to.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Eat here, alright, who's eating at this hour? Line three,
you're on the air ferg dog's lost his mind? Hello?
Line three?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Is there anyone out there really missing copy?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Who? I don't know who that is? I don't know.
Line four, you're on the air. Line four. We're giving
advice here to Ron Rivera reports he's about to lose
his job after losing to the Giants. In a route
or root Line.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Fourago, Chicago Bears coach play pussy gifts fun.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Okay, I don't think you can say that. I'm pretty sure,
pretty sure he gets a right A. Line five, Yeah,
that was sounded like Tony a. Line five.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Hello, line five, calm down, her nest team beat the Bucks,
not the eighty five Bears.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Okay, all right, that's a line six. You're on the
ever giving advice to Ron Rivera, the head coach of
the Washington football team. Probably not for long, lost a time.
I'm the veto Hello.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Line six, take steroidsdy Garcia for your eyes, just like
Free State does there you go?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
There you go, just do steroids, you like the Presido
State bulldos. Line one, Well, you're on the airline one,
advice to Ron Rivera. Line one that the lord at
the door, and you just what a lord's mix. There
you go, my buddy, Sean the hood guy. Line two,
you are next to eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
We're giving advice to Rod Rivera.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Line two, you gotta be able to be a cowboy Bucks.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
And.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
That's a cowboy impersonator. Line three, you're on the airline three.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Y's my part.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
I think we're good. We'll do that tomorrow. Line four, Hello,
Line four, take advice and go with Poppy's picks who
Line five, you're on the airline five, Go, yeah, man,
I'd ask him, when was the last time you checked
your tires? I mean, really checked your tire. No one
ever asked that question. It's an unusual question. Yeah, you
(35:59):
never hear that the radio. We'll do one more and
only one more. Kumalo picked the final call instant of ice.
Line line three. Line three, you're on the air line three,
go then be the new coach. Oh, you're not fast enough?
Line for your new coach of who the Fox Sports
Radio football team possibly
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