August 15, 2024 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about J.J. McCarthy being ruled out for the season after knee surgery, Jim Harbaugh saying Colin Kaepernick is considering joining the Chargers coaching staff, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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Our lead this this out. We're gonna start with a bang.
Here we go to the Twin Cities. A Malor Show
follow up, Malor Show follow up. The Viking ship has
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come across an iceberg. Now, normally you don't see icebergs
in August, but here we are. If you have not heard,
perhaps not, we told you there are two things that
could happen when you have a torn meniscus. They go
and they don't know until they operate. So you go
in there and either it's a minor tune up or
it's a full rebuild. Well, Minnesota, we have found out.
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If you can't see this, well, they're behind the eight ball.
This week, the Vikings have confirmed that rookie quarterback J. J. McCarthy,
a Michigan Man, is going to miss the entire season.
Not part of the season, not a few games, not
half the season, the entire season. After having a full
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meniscus repair.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's in your knee now.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
During Wednesday's practice, after that news came down, wide receiver
Jordan Addison went down in a heap with an injury
and they brought the golf cart out to take him away.
And then you factor in the annals of Minnesota football.
You go to their pro Football reference page and you
see the many shanked field goals, missed opportunities and playoff games,
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the futility, the ineptitude.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
In the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And this has led to a conversation that the unwashed
are having that the Minnesota Viking football team is jinxed.
So let us discuss the question. We're just gonna keep
it simple, sports Radio. It's not that hard. So the question,
are the Vikings curs? So I've got optometrist, Sleeping Beauties,
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Castle and Dolly Parton, and we will combine all of
these things together and we're gonna fill up the Rainy
Day Fund is what we're going to do, all right.
So a to answer the question, are the Vikings cursed?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'm gonna shake my head.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, they are not.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
On the surface. I totally are. Then why that is
a talking point.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
This has been a Murphy's law situation for the Vikings,
anything and everything that can go wrong seemingly has happened,
in particular the last couple of days or so. However,
when you pause, take a couple of steps back, you
take a deep breath. I reject that hypothesis that they're cursed.
And if you believe that you're a sucker, right, that
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the Viking faithful need to visit an optometrists because in
this case, this week, you're suffering, and the reason you
need to go to an optometrist, you're suffering from myopia.
Right and near side of this, not all objects are
as they appear. Is it true that the Minnesota football
team is actually secretly relieved that they will not not
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be pressured to play rookie quarterback JJ McCarthy, Yeah, I
don't playing at all. The initial plan was you would
miss a few games, but he's going to be out
all year. And you hear the chatter and how much
of this is real, how much of it is just
bull crab? So for debate, But they would like him
to learn by osmosis rather than on the job training.
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We like baptism by fire. They don't. Plus, if I
read this properly, wide receiver Jordan Addison who went down
snapcrackle pop. It was all for the cameras. He dodged
the major injury. The Vikings are saying, he's okay, might
missed a day or two, but that's it all right now,
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turning the page on that, but staying in Minnesota, coach
Kevin O'Connell was singing the praises of rookie quarterback JJ McCarthy, saying,
and I'm gonna give you some of the highlights here.
He said that the Vikings fan base should be excited. Now,
why should they be excited because they have their young
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franchise quarterback in the building. That's a direct quote, young
franchise quarterback in the building. O'Connor went on to say,
this is going to be a small bump in the road.
JJ is confirmed to the Viking coach and a lot
of other people and players that he's the right guy
in the building for the future. Close quote. So let's
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put a bow on this one. Kevin O'Connell, the Viking coach,
saying that JJ McCarthy is the Minnesota young franchise quarterback.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
He's in the building.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Your thoughts, So my thought is this is way premature, right,
this is like half cooked pie. It's not quite done yet,
and it's a Also, I just got this hot twol
vibe hype man, and Kevin O'Connell knows if this thing
goes to the dark side in Minnesota, there's no guarantee
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that he's back to even coach JJ McCarthy. So he's
working as a boot liquor for McCarthy and he's planting
the seed.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Hey, you know, this is the franchise guy.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
So if we go out there and ride the vomit kin,
I remember that because my franchise quarterback is going to
be playing next year, not this year. But he was
putting on those purple knee pads and it really wasn't
a trip to Sleeping Beauty's cast.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It was fantasy.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Lane because well, McCarthy looked really good in these seventeen
pass attempts he had in an exhibition game against l
Raiders where he averaged over eleven yards per pass play.
You gotta remember, though, this guy at Michigan ended up
being a first round draft pick, and Michigan didn't play
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him like he was a first round draft pick. They
hit the quarterback. Who does that? Seriously? Who in college football.
If you have a player that you know is going
to be a first round quarterback who says I.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Don't want him to throw the ball that much.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He only had twenty five or more pass attempts in
less than forty three percent of his career starts at Michigan.
He had more games with less than twenty five attempts
where he was just a decoy handing the ball off
than throwing the ball. Lose the bad weather, the Big ten.
It's not all bad weather the Big ten. And I
would argue this is more than a small bump in
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the road. It is it's historical. JJ McCarthy has become
now the first quarterback drafted in the first round in
the common draft ear that goes all the way back
through the two thousand's, the nineties, the eighties, the seventies,
goes back to the late sixties nineteen sixty seven, the
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common draft era. So my math is correct on that
we're looking here at close to sixty years. He's the
first one to miss his entire rookie season due to injury. Now,
there have been players that didn't play as rookies because
of contract situations and also just being benched because you
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know the old school mindset in the NFL, Oh dare
you play the rookie quarterback? All right?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
The last word here with JJ McCarthy in the infirmary
theory is, Hey, the Vikings, I believe they wanted this.
I think a lot of smart people thought they wanted it.
It's official that the quarterback who's going to start is
a guy who has been much maligned who's now going
to have to try to climb them out. And what
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can we expect from Sam Donald in Minnesota? So we
know what Sam Donald is. This is not like I
don't know what he's gonna be. Sam Donald has already
written his story. He is the big eie. He's an enigma.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
He's one of these cats.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
He's got everything in his tool bag, right, all the
tools of the trade can make all the throws. Scouts
go god got when they watch them throw the ball.
But ultimately, given enough time, what is Sam Donald? Sam Donald?
It's it's like a Dolly Parton tune. He's a He's
a heartbreaker. Right, weaves this magic spell and there's a
lot of low information fans that get all excited, and
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you promises that things are gonna be great that and
never end up like that never ended, maybe for a
little bit. I don't want to be shocked if the
Vikings come out of the gates and play pretty well
early in Donald's throwing touchdown passes and everybody like, oh,
he's arrived. But eventually, sooner than later, you'll find out
that he's just like the guy that he was with
the Jets and the Panthers, the other teams he's played
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for better receivers. I'll give you that right. You can't
argue nobody has a assuming Addis is gonna play he's
not hurt, which the Vikings are saying. Nobody's got a
better one two punch of wide receiver than that team,
So I take them over the Dolphins, who were a second,
but I would take the Bikings so they've got better
receivers than he's ever had in his career. But that'd
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be damned because we know how the story ends. The
Vikings will end up with Sam Darnold. By the time
we get to the late season. They will be a
ship out on Lake Minnetonka, but not the love boat.
They will be a ghost ship, a ghost ship on
that beautiful Lake Minnetaka that is what they're going to be.
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lead this hour from the Bolts. We're going right to
the ball. Play the hits. Ball Man, play the hits.
I will play the hits. It's also the third railball Man,
third Round. So Jim Harbaugh making headlines what did he do?
This does not have anything to do with Michigan? Did
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you hear?
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You did not hear?
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Okay?
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Good?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
So we have learned that the Chargers head football coach
Jim Harbaugh has made a proposal. He's made an offer
to Colin Kaepernick. Is Colin Kaepernick could have joined the
Chargers as a player. No, Jim Harbaugh has offered Colin Kaepernick,
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who hasn't played in the NFL in seven years, a
job as a coach. Say what yeah, recent interview Harball quote,
we talked a little bit about it. He's considering it.
Harbaugh said of the interesting Colin Kaepernick, he was out
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of the country, which he was. He was interviewed by
Sky News in Paris this week, and Harball also said
that Kaepernick told him he was going to get back
to him. They have not reconnected since that point. He
was singing the praises of his former quarterback. Harbaugh said
he'd be a tremendous coach.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Says again, he's waiting to hear back. All right. So
the question, as we discussed.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Jim Harbaugh announcing that Colin Kaepernick is considering he has
an offer, a standing offer to join the Chargers organization
as a coach.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Is there more to this story?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So I've got confessional, powerball, and flight plant, and we're
gonna combine all of these things together and we are
going to avoid goose pimples. That's what we're gonna avoid.
So n burn Yes, number one. This is a tupperware story.
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That's what I'm gonna put it as a tupperware story.
Let me tell you why. Meaning it's like the leftover
spaghetti or the leftover Chinese food in the back of
your refrigerator. Because Jim Harbaugh reached out to Colin Kaepernick
back in January or February about potentially becoming a coach,
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and he is still waiting for an answer. Now, maybe
you are challenged by the calendar, but today is the
fifteenth day of August, as we are doing the show today,
so it's the fifteenth day of August. This offer came
back in like February, let's say, and he's still waiting.
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So what does that tell us? Dead do it? It's
a dead do it. Colin Kaepernick has ghosted Jim Harbaugh.
He has since Harball offered Kaepernick a job. From Harball's
own words, training camp has started. Offseason workouts obviously have
coming gone. Training camp started, exhibition games have been played
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the NFL season while it gets started in a few
weeks the real season for all intensive purposes, it is
underway right now. Jobs have already been filled, and Kaepernick
just did an interview with Sky Sports where he said
he wants to still play. Doesn't that tell you he's
not taking this job? But for me, the dynamic between
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Harbaugh and Kaepernick is the story here. That's the story.
That's the there there, if you will, as we psychoanalyze,
and when you become a gas bag, you have to
you have to be a bit of a shrink. So
my theory and I want to pitch this to you.
I'm gonna make my elevator pitch. It's an original take.
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I want to see if you buy it. Okay, here's
my theory. And I had this as I was walking.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Into the studio to do the show.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Jim Harbaugh, this is a confessional. He feels guilt now
for what you ask. Jim Harball feels somewhat responsible for
Colin Kaepernick's NFL career going bonkers because when Jim Harbaugh
coached him in San Francisco, Colin Kaepernick had a winning record,
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he played, he started a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Lost it against the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It was only after Jim Harbaugh went to loggerheads with
the Niner front office. As I remember it, Harball wanted
more power. The Niners didn't want to give him more power.
They were fighting, and so he left after like a
five hundred season. They went. He went off to Michigan,
back to save ann Arbor, and then sucked for a
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few years before he put that program back on the map.
But at that point, that was the point of demarcation
where Kaepernick crossed the rubicon, and instead of having another
five or six years in the NFL, he underwent a
quantum lely when Jim Harball left. He couldn't play anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
He sucked. He was a terrible quarterback.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
The last three years the Niners were eleven and twenty
four in games started by Kaepernick. He got benched in
favor of Blaine Gabbert. For God's sakes, what a bloody
mess that was. He also became radicalized. He was no
longer just a quarterback playing in the NFL. He was
the I hate America, I can't stand the national anthem,
I hate all cops say it was a race bader.
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He became all of that. It was after Jim Harball left.
So in the multiverse there is a dimension where none
of that happens, and Kaepernick continues on in the NFL,
and who knows what we've been good or not, but
he would have had several more years, maybe he would
still be in the NFL as a player. But the
thing that changed was Harball left and Jim Harball very
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religious man, a little father flanning in situation here as
he's doing reputation rehab for Kaepernick, trying to clean up
the mess. Right. Remember he made him an honorary captain
for the Wolverines. I believe it was last year for
the spring game for Michigan. And now he's offering him
another job, which is pretty wild when you think about
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Kaepernick's relationship with the NFL.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
He sued the NFL, took an out of court settlement.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
He also on a Netflix documentary a little while back,
compared the NFL to a slave auction.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
And yet he just got offered a job well a
few months.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Ago from Jim Harwell.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
What would Kaepernick have to do to not get offered
a job in the NFL? All right, now, page two,
we're gonna move away from that. And by the way,
if if you agree with me or now, I would
like to know your thoughts. That's my theory. I'm psychoanalyzing
Jim harbonn Kaepernick. We're gonna move on. We got a trade.
We got a trade.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Unfortunately it's a defensive trade. Those aren't sexy.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But the New England Patriots have said bye bye to
edge rusher Matthew Judin as he is going to the
Dirty South. He's going to the Atlanta Falcons. The Dirty
Birds is bason below the Mason Dixon line. The trade
Judon in exchange for a third round draft pick. Question,
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can you put a grade on the trade of Matthew
Judon from the Pats to the Falcons? So mal a
report card which is never wrong. It's the report card record.
Atlanta gets a B minus. New England a C minus
and they barely got a CS. And here's why. Matthew
Judon is entering the final year of his contract. He
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has demanded more money. He will be thirty two early
on here at the start of the regular season. And
if you look at the computer model, though, I'm giving
Atlanta a B minus, I'm going to assume that they're
gonna give him a little more money sweet in the contract,
so he'll be a happy camper. And he does improve
the Dirty Birds pass rush, So there is that. And
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for the Patriots they get a C minus. I was
gonna give him DP plus. I get him C minus
because they got rid of a malcontent who was beefing
with girod Mayo, who's appear appears to be way in
over his head as coach of the Patriots. But this
is one less problem, right, I got he's got ninety
nine problems, but this ain't one.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And so.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Get rid of the player who's not happy and Judon's gone,
and you know, someone who will be washed up by
the time the Patriots are in position to have good
teams again. So you get rid of him. And but
you get is a scratcher ticket, but you don't you
get a lottery ticket, but it's it's a scratcher. So
the top prize is like five hundred dollars. It's not
a powerball ticket where you could win five hundred million.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
It's five hundred dollars all right.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Now, the final point is this, how does the Matthew
Judon trade effect Hassan Reddick, who's on happy with the Jets.
So this is a preview, as they say when you
go to the movies, a preview of coming attractions. And
while it's cute that Joe Douglass, the big cheese.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
There.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
The big ragou with.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
The Jets said that franchise will not be trading Hassan Reddick.
Last I checked, and maybe I'm wrong on this. Hassan
Reddick is not a Hall of Famer. He's not a
great great. He's good, he's not great. He's not a
generational player. Everyone could be traded. Everyone, Joe Montana that
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was traded. Tom Brady was not traded, but he left
the pager played for another team, and so the idea
that the Jets would never ever trade Hassan Redick is farcical.
So it's in play, meaning that the Matthew Judan trade.
If you look at the template right, the Jets now
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have flight plan and they can send it into the
FAA on what they can expect on this flight in
return for Hassan Reddick, who is a few years younger,
a few years younger than Matthew Judon. So Gang Green
could get a third round pick and a conditional late
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round pick for the sack Master, which is basically what
the Jets gave up to the Philadelphia football team to
get the player from these I think it was a
conditional third round pick, which it's fair to say, well,
not be a third round pick because Son Reddick has
decided to not show.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Up to work because he wants more money.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Don't we all want more money?
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I believe Anthony Richardson because lebron wouldn't show up to
the contest. All right, what do we have here?
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And a piece published on Tuesday, a reporter from the
Athletics suggested that Zach Wilson, Jared Stidham, and bow Knicks
will all make the Broncos Week one roster. Ben, could
you see Sean Payton keeping three quarterbacks?
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No? Because Jack Wilson sucks, So I mean you put
him on the practice squad. But they should just start
bow Knicks, go with bow bow knows, have Stidham as
the backup. It's not that hard. You want to hire me,
I'll give you free advice. I mean by you, I'd
like you to pay me.
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Next.
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Former Patriots star as Sante Samuel predicted in a recent
radio appearance that Jerry Jones is already planning for the
departure of Mike McCarthy and has Bill Belichick peg to
replace him, Ben, Would the Cowboys be the team that
you put your money on for Belichick next season?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
No, because I still think the I ninety five quarter Giants,
Jets one of those who or Philadelphia the Cowboys would
be great for what we do. But you gotta remember
a Sante Samuel has a bug up his tooks for Belichick.
He hates Belichick. And because there's a lot of reasons
when we have time to get into it, but I
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would put the Jets, Giants, and Eagles ahead of the
Cowboys on my big board right next.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
In the past, Matthew Stafford has said that he doesn't
want to be one of those players that goes until
the wheels fall off. Well, this week he revealed that
he would like to play another three or four years.
Do you think the wheels fall off in that time?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Well, great timing coup, because as you asked me this question,
Stafford left Rams practice on Wednesday with a tight hamstring.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So yes, he's not gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Play another three or four years. He's got to play
another couple of years because he's got guaranteed money at
least this year and the Rams can.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Get out of the contract after this year.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
How did wait?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Now you pass the editions?
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That is away?
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All right, cowboy killer would like to know? Hi, cowboy
killer who snores the loudest?
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Well? How would all?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
James?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Well? Yeah, I mean, like, do you know if you're
allowed snore? I guess because I'm I don't snore really
too often, and even so it's.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Not Yeah, so I have been told that I do
not snore much. I think back in the day when
I was large and in charge, there was some snoring,
but I don't think I saw that much. Eddie. What
do you hear?
Speaker 7 (26:57):
I've been told that on occasion I will snore or
for a few minutes and then it goes away. So
I guess when you're maybe when I'm first getting in
that deep sleep that I can a little bit, but
it doesn't last too long.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Okay, all right, what about you, Lorraina.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
I do not snore unless I am pregnant, fat, or sick,
and you are not fat.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
You are not sick, although you sound like you were
getting sick and you're sick, you're pregnant, So we're okay,
all right, gotcha?
Speaker 6 (27:29):
All right? Very good? Cool?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
No, yeah, not really, not very loud, so I guess
so probably probably none of us.
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Really, all right, very good. Body's next here. We are
having some fun here. It's asked Ben your questions and
our answers.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Donkey Sausage would like to know what activity groups were
you in during high school?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Uh? Well, I played football, I briefly played basketball, that
was pretty much it. And then I hung out with
my friends who all plotted to take over the world
and none of them did.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
What about you, Ddie?
Speaker 7 (28:01):
I played football four years, I played baseball three years,
and I played soccer two years. And then I was
in the marching band as a trombone player.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Very rare. You cross over football and marching.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
It is true.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Although we had a we had a very prestigious marching band.
We had over three hundred members, and there was like
six or seven guys who did play football and were
in the band too.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
So but it is rare.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
That is rare.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, there was a when I was in high school
that the band and the football they hated each other.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
They were like blood ribles. What about you about right?
Speaker 8 (28:31):
I was with a dance studio my whole high school career.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh yes, I was a dance Was that through Was
that through the high school technically? No? But it was
all of my high school mates who went with me.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
So okay, Kuvulu, I don't really want to answer this question.
He was in the Young Thespians, No, it was. It
was a poetry club.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Actually Poker Players of America.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
No, he wishes poetry.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Yeah, we need some poetry who could.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Together read Shakespeare.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
I didn't know you write. You write your own poetry
and then read it in front of everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Roses are red, violet of blue, and I'm a better
poet than you.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I got a great story about the Sager and poetry,
But I don't have time to tell it right now. Unfortunately,
the Great Steve to Sager, what is next year? What
do we have? It's asked, Ben, Your questions are answers.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
The King Rory would like to know. Do you attend
family reunions?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I do not. I probably would now. They haven't had
one in a while. There was one in Phoenix years
ago and I didn't go, and I kind of regret
it because a lot of my family's older and the
other's dropping dead and I wish I had gone. But
uh I did. When I was a kid, we used
to go. We had big family reunions. They got like
theme T shirts and it was wild. I have great
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memories of going. We won in Chicago, one in Phoenix,
there were some in La It was it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
What about you?
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Ddie would totally do it, But there's I don't know.
I've got one cousin who I still communicate with, and
that's it on my in my family. I mean, everyone
else is either gone or I just don't know them.
So if somebody organized something and said, hey, come to this,
I would be like, hell, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Lorain.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
No, I only go to reunions when someone dies.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Ben let's call it the funeral.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Yeah, that's when I see my family.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah, generally, and I do go to a lot of funerals,
but no, honestly.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
My ex but his family would do family reunions and
I'd go with him, and I'm like, this is so weird.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
This is my great aunt Martha.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
She lives over in North Dakota and I've haven't seen
her in five years.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
This is my girlfriendra. Let me tell you it was
a nightmare when I was a kid. I go to
these events and you know, all my old from the
old world. Why don't you have a girlfriend? Why are
you fat?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
You know?
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I was like.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
These old, these old Jewish women. I was like, leave
me alone, you know, I just want to I just
want to eat, you know.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
So that would have been something my grandmother would have
would have said.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
My grandmother they had no yeah, Italian the Jews the
same thing. I mean, they had no shame.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I was like, dude, just leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I don't know, uh, Coop, what are you any family
union stuff?
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I don't know, not necessarily like a family reunion per se,
but like you know, one side of the family all
gets together for Christmas. That's there. You go about it.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Okay, very good. We have the mal or ugly Sweater
party every year, but that's with friends and stuff. Yeah,
and we have we have another event for family. What
my wife like small parties? What's next? What do we
have to ask?
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Your your questions are answers? I'm all choked up.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
This is a good one from Ferd Dog. He said,
would you rather be stranded on the International Space Station
or in a submarine on the bottom of the ocean?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Man, how far are at the very bottom.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Of the ocean?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, that's like the same thing, though.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Right, you're not going to make it out if you're
in the submarine. Let's see, So what I guess i'd
go submarine. But if you run out of oxygen like that?
What was that thing a couple of years ago that
they could imploded? Yeah, the Titanic just just crumble down
to itself.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, but none of the above. But I guess I
would take space because it would be kind of cool
to see around. There's probably a bunch of aliens up there.
They don't tell us about, you know, UFO things.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Well, what about you, Eddie?
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Well, I would thoroughly hate either, but I would go
space station, because, as you said, it would be I
think it would be cooler up in space than down
to the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, I see everything we know in that little blue marble, or,
as Kyrie would say, that little flat piece of thing.
What about you about right? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Both absolutely terrify me.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
I'm probably gonna go for the ocean, though, Why because
I feel like there's a lot of cool creatures I'd
be able to find down there, and I could find
something to occupy my mind instead of just staring at
the nothingness of space.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Okay, cool quickly.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Space is absolutely the right answer here, It's the only answer.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
No, no, no, the rain, the creatures at the bottom.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Have you seen the creature at the bottom, the notion
that it's terrible?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
They're disgusting.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
A better view while you die up in space closer
to Heaven.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yes, your body can fall back down to Earth and
burn up when it comes from the Solar System.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
How great would that?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Lovely?
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Speaker 1 (33:33):
All right, let's get to puck the world right now?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Here's that?
Speaker 8 (33:37):
All right?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Then?
Speaker 7 (33:38):
The Saint Louis Blues did something that has happened less
than fifty times in the history of the NHL.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
They did it twice on the same day to the
same team.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
They signed Edmonton Oilers restricted free agents defenseman Philip Broberg
and forward Dillan Holloway two contracts. The Oilers now have
five days to match or let one or both the
players walk. They will receive draft pick compensation if they
do let those players walk away. Oilers are over the
salary cap right now, while the Blues have seven million
dollars in salary cast space. This is fun, this is controversial,
(34:09):
This is cool. I wish team more teams would do this.
So we'll see if it works out or not.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Why do they match or not, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
I'm gonna say they don't. I'm gonna say they don't.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
They're in cap aaron cap hell here Broberg's twenty three
former first round pick eighth overall and Hollway's twenty two
former first round pick fourteenth overall. Now, something that could
help out the Oilers is if they put Evander Kaine
on long term mated reserve and there's a report that
he's not gonna be able to start the season as
he's recovering from a sports Atartney. He makes five point
(34:40):
one two five million per seasons, so that could help
out if they end up doing that. Toronto Maple's have
a new captain. It's Austin Matthews, twenty six captains him.
He replaces John Tavares, who had the role in Taveras
said he supports the decision. What else is he gonna say? Matthews'
is twenty six. He has been the face the franchise
since he was drafted first overall twenty sixteen. He's coming
(35:01):
off a season where he had sixty nine goals in
eighty one games, one of the best seasons as far
as goalscorers in recent NHL history. Now, back in twenty nineteen,
he was about to be named captain, was Matthews and
then he had off the field to run in, off
the court, off the ice, run in with a female
security guard while he was intoxicated in Arizona in the offseason,
and so they feel like, maybe we shouldn't name him
(35:23):
captain right now, so they named Tavaris instead. So a
few years later they're finally getting around to naming him captain.
Tampa Bay Lightning majority owner Jeff Vinick confirmed he's looking
to sell the majority stake in the team, sports Net
reporting we should buy it, dy, Yeah, and well I
need two billion dollars to do that, so I'm not
sure I have that right now.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
How about we crowdsource it with the valid militia.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
That sounds like a great idea. I'm sure we can
come up with that money.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
Vinick bought the franchise in twenty ten for one hundred
and seventy million and now selling not the entire portion,
but majority stake for two billions. Let's say nice return
on his investment. I would say if the sale has
completed it when he eclipse the nine hundred and fifty
million dollar price in the Ottawa Senators in September as
the largest sale price for an AHL franchise. Canadian junior
(36:07):
hockey player Raylan Masterson has filed a class action lawsuit
against the nc DOUBLEA violate violating anti trust laws from
preventing players who appeared in a major junior hockey game
from playing in the n C DOUBLEA. Now, the NCAA
says that individuals should not be eligible for intercollegiate athletics
in a sport if they have competed on a professional team.
(36:28):
The nineteen year old, though, says, well, Katie Ledecki is
competing in the Olympics, She's getting compensated, and she still
has INCAA eligibility not to mention the NIL deals for
college athletes these days. So if he wins, his suit
could change how junior hockey players for years to come
will be allowed to play in college hockey or major
junior leagues as well.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Sam Rosen, longtime voice.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Of the New York follows I've interviewed him. Very nice man,
Sam Rail.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
He is seventy seventh birthday the other day, and then
he announced this season will be his last calling Ranger
games for MSG. Started in nineteen seventy seven as the
backup to Marv Alberts. This is fortieth season as the
full time play by playing man for the New York Rangers.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Sam ram used to do NFL games on fotod Yeah,
And when I did this show with Looney on Sundays,
we had Sam Rosen on pretty regularly promote the game
he was doing. Could not have been a nicer man,
could not have been nicer.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
So good good broadcast as well.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah, very nice.
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Here we go to the Twin Cities. A Malor Show
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in August, but here we are. If you have not heard,
perhaps not, we told you there are two things that
could happen when you have a torn meniscus. They go
and they don't know until they operate. So you go
in there and either it's a minor tune up or
it's a full rebuild. Well, Minnesota, we have found out.
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If you can't see this, well, they're behind the eight ball.
This week, the Vikings have confirmed that rookie quarterback J. J. McCarthy,
a Michigan Man, is going to miss the entire season.
Not part of the season, not a few games, not
half the season, the entire season. After having a full
(02:46):
meniscus repair.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's in your knee now.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
During Wednesday's practice, after that news came down, wide receiver
Jordan Addison went down in a heap with an injury
and they brought the golf cart out to take him away.
And then you factor in the annals of Minnesota football.
You go to their pro Football reference page and you
see the many shanked field goals, missed opportunities and playoff games,
(03:13):
the futility, the ineptitude.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
In the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And this has led to a conversation that the unwashed
are having that the Minnesota Viking football team is jinxed.
So let us discuss the question. We're just gonna keep
it simple, sports Radio. It's not that hard. So the question,
are the Vikings curs? So I've got optometrist, Sleeping Beauties,
(03:41):
Castle and Dolly Parton, and we will combine all of
these things together and we're gonna fill up the Rainy
Day Fund is what we're going to do, all right.
So a to answer the question, are the Vikings cursed?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'm gonna shake my head.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, they are not.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
On the surface. I totally are. Then why that is
a talking point.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
This has been a Murphy's law situation for the Vikings,
anything and everything that can go wrong seemingly has happened,
in particular the last couple of days or so. However,
when you pause, take a couple of steps back, you
take a deep breath. I reject that hypothesis that they're cursed.
And if you believe that you're a sucker, right, that
(04:26):
the Viking faithful need to visit an optometrists because in
this case, this week, you're suffering, and the reason you
need to go to an optometrist, you're suffering from myopia.
Right and near side of this, not all objects are
as they appear. Is it true that the Minnesota football
team is actually secretly relieved that they will not not
(04:48):
be pressured to play rookie quarterback JJ McCarthy, Yeah, I
don't playing at all. The initial plan was you would
miss a few games, but he's going to be out
all year. And you hear the chatter and how much
of this is real, how much of it is just
bull crab? So for debate, But they would like him
to learn by osmosis rather than on the job training.
(05:11):
We like baptism by fire. They don't. Plus, if I
read this properly, wide receiver Jordan Addison who went down
snapcrackle pop. It was all for the cameras. He dodged
the major injury. The Vikings are saying, he's okay, might
missed a day or two, but that's it all right now,
(05:31):
turning the page on that, but staying in Minnesota, coach
Kevin O'Connell was singing the praises of rookie quarterback JJ McCarthy, saying,
and I'm gonna give you some of the highlights here.
He said that the Vikings fan base should be excited. Now,
why should they be excited because they have their young
(05:52):
franchise quarterback in the building. That's a direct quote, young
franchise quarterback in the building. O'Connor went on to say,
this is going to be a small bump in the road.
JJ is confirmed to the Viking coach and a lot
of other people and players that he's the right guy
in the building for the future. Close quote. So let's
(06:15):
put a bow on this one. Kevin O'Connell, the Viking coach,
saying that JJ McCarthy is the Minnesota young franchise quarterback.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
He's in the building.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Your thoughts, So my thought is this is way premature, right,
this is like half cooked pie. It's not quite done yet,
and it's a Also, I just got this hot twol
vibe hype man, and Kevin O'Connell knows if this thing
goes to the dark side in Minnesota, there's no guarantee
(06:47):
that he's back to even coach JJ McCarthy. So he's
working as a boot liquor for McCarthy and he's planting
the seed.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Hey, you know, this is the franchise guy.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
So if we go out there and ride the vomit kin,
I remember that because my franchise quarterback is going to
be playing next year, not this year. But he was
putting on those purple knee pads and it really wasn't
a trip to Sleeping Beauty's cast.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It was fantasy.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Lane because well, McCarthy looked really good in these seventeen
pass attempts he had in an exhibition game against l
Raiders where he averaged over eleven yards per pass play.
You gotta remember, though, this guy at Michigan ended up
being a first round draft pick, and Michigan didn't play
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him like he was a first round draft pick. They
hit the quarterback. Who does that? Seriously? Who in college football.
If you have a player that you know is going
to be a first round quarterback who says I.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Don't want him to throw the ball that much.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He only had twenty five or more pass attempts in
less than forty three percent of his career starts at Michigan.
He had more games with less than twenty five attempts
where he was just a decoy handing the ball off
than throwing the ball. Lose the bad weather, the Big ten.
It's not all bad weather the Big ten. And I
would argue this is more than a small bump in
(08:07):
the road. It is it's historical. JJ McCarthy has become
now the first quarterback drafted in the first round in
the common draft ear that goes all the way back
through the two thousand's, the nineties, the eighties, the seventies,
goes back to the late sixties nineteen sixty seven, the
(08:27):
common draft era. So my math is correct on that
we're looking here at close to sixty years. He's the
first one to miss his entire rookie season due to injury. Now,
there have been players that didn't play as rookies because
of contract situations and also just being benched because you
(08:48):
know the old school mindset in the NFL, Oh dare
you play the rookie quarterback? All right?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
The last word here with JJ McCarthy in the infirmary
theory is, Hey, the Vikings, I believe they wanted this.
I think a lot of smart people thought they wanted it.
It's official that the quarterback who's going to start is
a guy who has been much maligned who's now going
to have to try to climb them out. And what
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can we expect from Sam Donald in Minnesota? So we
know what Sam Donald is. This is not like I
don't know what he's gonna be. Sam Donald has already
written his story. He is the big eie. He's an enigma.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
He's one of these cats.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
He's got everything in his tool bag, right, all the
tools of the trade can make all the throws. Scouts
go god got when they watch them throw the ball.
But ultimately, given enough time, what is Sam Donald? Sam Donald?
It's it's like a Dolly Parton tune. He's a He's
a heartbreaker. Right, weaves this magic spell and there's a
lot of low information fans that get all excited, and
(09:55):
you promises that things are gonna be great that and
never end up like that never ended, maybe for a
little bit. I don't want to be shocked if the
Vikings come out of the gates and play pretty well
early in Donald's throwing touchdown passes and everybody like, oh,
he's arrived. But eventually, sooner than later, you'll find out
that he's just like the guy that he was with
the Jets and the Panthers, the other teams he's played
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for better receivers. I'll give you that right. You can't
argue nobody has a assuming Addis is gonna play he's
not hurt, which the Vikings are saying. Nobody's got a
better one two punch of wide receiver than that team,
So I take them over the Dolphins, who were a second,
but I would take the Bikings so they've got better
receivers than he's ever had in his career. But that'd
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be damned because we know how the story ends. The
Vikings will end up with Sam Darnold. By the time
we get to the late season. They will be a
ship out on Lake Minnetonka, but not the love boat.
They will be a ghost ship, a ghost ship on
that beautiful Lake Minnetaka that is what they're going to be.
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lead this hour from the Bolts. We're going right to
the ball. Play the hits. Ball Man, play the hits.
I will play the hits. It's also the third railball Man,
third Round. So Jim Harbaugh making headlines what did he do?
This does not have anything to do with Michigan? Did
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you hear?
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Speaker 1 (13:19):
So we have learned that the Chargers head football coach
Jim Harbaugh has made a proposal. He's made an offer
to Colin Kaepernick. Is Colin Kaepernick could have joined the
Chargers as a player. No, Jim Harbaugh has offered Colin Kaepernick,
(13:40):
who hasn't played in the NFL in seven years, a
job as a coach. Say what yeah, recent interview Harball quote,
we talked a little bit about it. He's considering it.
Harbaugh said of the interesting Colin Kaepernick, he was out
(14:00):
of the country, which he was. He was interviewed by
Sky News in Paris this week, and Harball also said
that Kaepernick told him he was going to get back
to him. They have not reconnected since that point. He
was singing the praises of his former quarterback. Harbaugh said
he'd be a tremendous coach.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Says again, he's waiting to hear back. All right. So
the question, as we discussed.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Jim Harbaugh announcing that Colin Kaepernick is considering he has
an offer, a standing offer to join the Chargers organization
as a coach.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Is there more to this story?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So I've got confessional, powerball, and flight plant, and we're
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So n burn Yes, number one. This is a tupperware story.
(15:02):
That's what I'm gonna put it as a tupperware story.
Let me tell you why. Meaning it's like the leftover
spaghetti or the leftover Chinese food in the back of
your refrigerator. Because Jim Harbaugh reached out to Colin Kaepernick
back in January or February about potentially becoming a coach,
(15:24):
and he is still waiting for an answer. Now, maybe
you are challenged by the calendar, but today is the
fifteenth day of August, as we are doing the show today,
so it's the fifteenth day of August. This offer came
back in like February, let's say, and he's still waiting.
(15:45):
So what does that tell us? Dead do it? It's
a dead do it. Colin Kaepernick has ghosted Jim Harbaugh.
He has since Harball offered Kaepernick a job. From Harball's
own words, training camp has started. Offseason workouts obviously have
coming gone. Training camp started, exhibition games have been played
(16:08):
the NFL season while it gets started in a few
weeks the real season for all intensive purposes, it is
underway right now. Jobs have already been filled, and Kaepernick
just did an interview with Sky Sports where he said
he wants to still play. Doesn't that tell you he's
not taking this job? But for me, the dynamic between
(16:31):
Harbaugh and Kaepernick is the story here. That's the story.
That's the there there, if you will, as we psychoanalyze,
and when you become a gas bag, you have to
you have to be a bit of a shrink. So
my theory and I want to pitch this to you.
I'm gonna make my elevator pitch. It's an original take.
(16:52):
I want to see if you buy it. Okay, here's
my theory. And I had this as I was walking.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Into the studio to do the show.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Jim Harbaugh, this is a confessional. He feels guilt now
for what you ask. Jim Harball feels somewhat responsible for
Colin Kaepernick's NFL career going bonkers because when Jim Harbaugh
coached him in San Francisco, Colin Kaepernick had a winning record,
(17:22):
he played, he started a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Lost it against the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It was only after Jim Harbaugh went to loggerheads with
the Niner front office. As I remember it, Harball wanted
more power. The Niners didn't want to give him more power.
They were fighting, and so he left after like a
five hundred season. They went. He went off to Michigan,
back to save ann Arbor, and then sucked for a
(17:51):
few years before he put that program back on the map.
But at that point, that was the point of demarcation
where Kaepernick crossed the rubicon, and instead of having another
five or six years in the NFL, he underwent a
quantum lely when Jim Harball left. He couldn't play anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
He sucked. He was a terrible quarterback.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
The last three years the Niners were eleven and twenty
four in games started by Kaepernick. He got benched in
favor of Blaine Gabbert. For God's sakes, what a bloody
mess that was. He also became radicalized. He was no
longer just a quarterback playing in the NFL. He was
the I hate America, I can't stand the national anthem,
I hate all cops say it was a race bader.
(18:31):
He became all of that. It was after Jim Harball left.
So in the multiverse there is a dimension where none
of that happens, and Kaepernick continues on in the NFL,
and who knows what we've been good or not, but
he would have had several more years, maybe he would
still be in the NFL as a player. But the
thing that changed was Harball left and Jim Harball very
(18:54):
religious man, a little father flanning in situation here as
he's doing reputation rehab for Kaepernick, trying to clean up
the mess. Right. Remember he made him an honorary captain
for the Wolverines. I believe it was last year for
the spring game for Michigan. And now he's offering him
another job, which is pretty wild when you think about
(19:15):
Kaepernick's relationship with the NFL.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
He sued the NFL, took an out of court settlement.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
He also on a Netflix documentary a little while back,
compared the NFL to a slave auction.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
And yet he just got offered a job well a
few months.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Ago from Jim Harwell.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
What would Kaepernick have to do to not get offered
a job in the NFL? All right, now, page two,
we're gonna move away from that. And by the way,
if if you agree with me or now, I would
like to know your thoughts. That's my theory. I'm psychoanalyzing
Jim harbonn Kaepernick. We're gonna move on. We got a trade.
We got a trade.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Unfortunately it's a defensive trade. Those aren't sexy.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But the New England Patriots have said bye bye to
edge rusher Matthew Judin as he is going to the
Dirty South. He's going to the Atlanta Falcons. The Dirty
Birds is bason below the Mason Dixon line. The trade
Judon in exchange for a third round draft pick. Question,
(20:22):
can you put a grade on the trade of Matthew
Judon from the Pats to the Falcons? So mal a
report card which is never wrong. It's the report card record.
Atlanta gets a B minus. New England a C minus
and they barely got a CS. And here's why. Matthew
Judon is entering the final year of his contract. He
(20:45):
has demanded more money. He will be thirty two early
on here at the start of the regular season. And
if you look at the computer model, though, I'm giving
Atlanta a B minus, I'm going to assume that they're
gonna give him a little more money sweet in the contract,
so he'll be a happy camper. And he does improve
the Dirty Birds pass rush, So there is that. And
(21:08):
for the Patriots they get a C minus. I was
gonna give him DP plus. I get him C minus
because they got rid of a malcontent who was beefing
with girod Mayo, who's appear appears to be way in
over his head as coach of the Patriots. But this
is one less problem, right, I got he's got ninety
nine problems, but this ain't one.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And so.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Get rid of the player who's not happy and Judon's gone,
and you know, someone who will be washed up by
the time the Patriots are in position to have good
teams again. So you get rid of him. And but
you get is a scratcher ticket, but you don't you
get a lottery ticket, but it's it's a scratcher. So
the top prize is like five hundred dollars. It's not
a powerball ticket where you could win five hundred million.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
It's five hundred dollars all right.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Now, the final point is this, how does the Matthew
Judon trade effect Hassan Reddick, who's on happy with the Jets.
So this is a preview, as they say when you
go to the movies, a preview of coming attractions. And
while it's cute that Joe Douglass, the big cheese.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
There.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
The big ragou with.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
The Jets said that franchise will not be trading Hassan Reddick.
Last I checked, and maybe I'm wrong on this. Hassan
Reddick is not a Hall of Famer. He's not a
great great. He's good, he's not great. He's not a
generational player. Everyone could be traded. Everyone, Joe Montana that
(22:37):
was traded. Tom Brady was not traded, but he left
the pager played for another team, and so the idea
that the Jets would never ever trade Hassan Redick is farcical.
So it's in play, meaning that the Matthew Judan trade.
If you look at the template right, the Jets now
(22:59):
have flight plan and they can send it into the
FAA on what they can expect on this flight in
return for Hassan Reddick, who is a few years younger,
a few years younger than Matthew Judon. So Gang Green
could get a third round pick and a conditional late
(23:20):
round pick for the sack Master, which is basically what
the Jets gave up to the Philadelphia football team to
get the player from these I think it was a
conditional third round pick, which it's fair to say, well,
not be a third round pick because Son Reddick has
decided to not show.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Up to work because he wants more money.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Don't we all want more money?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacificaller, how
about that? To the third degree, this is gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I believe Anthony Richardson because lebron wouldn't show up to
the contest. All right, what do we have here?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
And a piece published on Tuesday, a reporter from the
Athletics suggested that Zach Wilson, Jared Stidham, and bow Knicks
will all make the Broncos Week one roster. Ben, could
you see Sean Payton keeping three quarterbacks?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
No? Because Jack Wilson sucks, So I mean you put
him on the practice squad. But they should just start
bow Knicks, go with bow bow knows, have Stidham as
the backup. It's not that hard. You want to hire me,
I'll give you free advice. I mean by you, I'd
like you to pay me.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Next.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Former Patriots star as Sante Samuel predicted in a recent
radio appearance that Jerry Jones is already planning for the
departure of Mike McCarthy and has Bill Belichick peg to
replace him, Ben, Would the Cowboys be the team that
you put your money on for Belichick next season?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
No, because I still think the I ninety five quarter Giants,
Jets one of those who or Philadelphia the Cowboys would
be great for what we do. But you gotta remember
a Sante Samuel has a bug up his tooks for Belichick.
He hates Belichick. And because there's a lot of reasons
when we have time to get into it, but I
(25:03):
would put the Jets, Giants, and Eagles ahead of the
Cowboys on my big board right next.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
In the past, Matthew Stafford has said that he doesn't
want to be one of those players that goes until
the wheels fall off. Well, this week he revealed that
he would like to play another three or four years.
Do you think the wheels fall off in that time?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Well, great timing coup, because as you asked me this question,
Stafford left Rams practice on Wednesday with a tight hamstring.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So yes, he's not gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Play another three or four years. He's got to play
another couple of years because he's got guaranteed money at
least this year and the Rams can.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Get out of the contract after this year.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
How did wait?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Now you pass the editions?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
That is away?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I got the game.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I want James Hollowing James.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
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Speaker 1 (26:02):
A Twitter said, is your questions on Twitter now? And
no way we go to ask me? Your questions are answers,
lightning deals. All these answers very valuable. We give them
to you for free. The reading of the questions from
the Cooper Look.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
All right, cowboy killer would like to know? Hi, cowboy
killer who snores the loudest?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well? How would all?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
James?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Well? Yeah, I mean, like, do you know if you're
allowed snore? I guess because I'm I don't snore really
too often, and even so it's.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Not Yeah, so I have been told that I do
not snore much. I think back in the day when
I was large and in charge, there was some snoring,
but I don't think I saw that much. Eddie. What
do you hear?
Speaker 7 (26:57):
I've been told that on occasion I will snore or
for a few minutes and then it goes away. So
I guess when you're maybe when I'm first getting in
that deep sleep that I can a little bit, but
it doesn't last too long.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Okay, all right, what about you, Lorraina.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
I do not snore unless I am pregnant, fat, or sick,
and you are not fat.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
You are not sick, although you sound like you were
getting sick and you're sick, you're pregnant, So we're okay,
all right, gotcha?
Speaker 6 (27:29):
All right? Very good? Cool?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
No, yeah, not really, not very loud, so I guess
so probably probably none of us.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Really, all right, very good. Body's next here. We are
having some fun here. It's asked Ben your questions and
our answers.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Donkey Sausage would like to know what activity groups were
you in during high school?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Uh? Well, I played football, I briefly played basketball, that
was pretty much it. And then I hung out with
my friends who all plotted to take over the world
and none of them did.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
What about you, Ddie?
Speaker 7 (28:01):
I played football four years, I played baseball three years,
and I played soccer two years. And then I was
in the marching band as a trombone player.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Very rare. You cross over football and marching.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
It is true.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Although we had a we had a very prestigious marching band.
We had over three hundred members, and there was like
six or seven guys who did play football and were
in the band too.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
So but it is rare.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
That is rare.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, there was a when I was in high school
that the band and the football they hated each other.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
They were like blood ribles. What about you about right?
Speaker 8 (28:31):
I was with a dance studio my whole high school career.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh yes, I was a dance Was that through Was
that through the high school technically? No? But it was
all of my high school mates who went with me.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
So okay, Kuvulu, I don't really want to answer this question.
He was in the Young Thespians, No, it was. It
was a poetry club.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Actually Poker Players of America.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
No, he wishes poetry.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Yeah, we need some poetry who could.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Together read Shakespeare.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
I didn't know you write. You write your own poetry
and then read it in front of everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Roses are red, violet of blue, and I'm a better
poet than you.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I got a great story about the Sager and poetry,
But I don't have time to tell it right now. Unfortunately,
the Great Steve to Sager, what is next year? What
do we have? It's asked, Ben, Your questions are answers.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
The King Rory would like to know. Do you attend
family reunions?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I do not. I probably would now. They haven't had
one in a while. There was one in Phoenix years
ago and I didn't go, and I kind of regret
it because a lot of my family's older and the
other's dropping dead and I wish I had gone. But
uh I did. When I was a kid, we used
to go. We had big family reunions. They got like
theme T shirts and it was wild. I have great
(29:53):
memories of going. We won in Chicago, one in Phoenix,
there were some in La It was it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
What about you?
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Ddie would totally do it, But there's I don't know.
I've got one cousin who I still communicate with, and
that's it on my in my family. I mean, everyone
else is either gone or I just don't know them.
So if somebody organized something and said, hey, come to this,
I would be like, hell, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Lorain.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
No, I only go to reunions when someone dies.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Ben let's call it the funeral.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Yeah, that's when I see my family.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah, generally, and I do go to a lot of funerals,
but no, honestly.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
My ex but his family would do family reunions and
I'd go with him, and I'm like, this is so weird.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
This is my great aunt Martha.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
She lives over in North Dakota and I've haven't seen
her in five years.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
This is my girlfriendra. Let me tell you it was
a nightmare when I was a kid. I go to
these events and you know, all my old from the
old world. Why don't you have a girlfriend? Why are
you fat?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
You know?
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I was like.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
These old, these old Jewish women. I was like, leave
me alone, you know, I just want to I just
want to eat, you know.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
So that would have been something my grandmother would have
would have said.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
My grandmother they had no yeah, Italian the Jews the
same thing. I mean, they had no shame.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I was like, dude, just leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I don't know, uh, Coop, what are you any family
union stuff?
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I don't know, not necessarily like a family reunion per se,
but like you know, one side of the family all
gets together for Christmas. That's there. You go about it.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Okay, very good. We have the mal or ugly Sweater
party every year, but that's with friends and stuff. Yeah,
and we have we have another event for family. What
my wife like small parties? What's next? What do we
have to ask?
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Your your questions are answers? I'm all choked up.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
This is a good one from Ferd Dog. He said,
would you rather be stranded on the International Space Station
or in a submarine on the bottom of the ocean?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Man, how far are at the very bottom.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Of the ocean?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, that's like the same thing, though.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Right, you're not going to make it out if you're
in the submarine. Let's see, So what I guess i'd
go submarine. But if you run out of oxygen like that?
What was that thing a couple of years ago that
they could imploded? Yeah, the Titanic just just crumble down
to itself.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, but none of the above. But I guess I
would take space because it would be kind of cool
to see around. There's probably a bunch of aliens up there.
They don't tell us about, you know, UFO things.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Well, what about you, Eddie?
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Well, I would thoroughly hate either, but I would go
space station, because, as you said, it would be I
think it would be cooler up in space than down
to the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, I see everything we know in that little blue marble, or,
as Kyrie would say, that little flat piece of thing.
What about you about right? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Both absolutely terrify me.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
I'm probably gonna go for the ocean, though, Why because
I feel like there's a lot of cool creatures I'd
be able to find down there, and I could find
something to occupy my mind instead of just staring at
the nothingness of space.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Okay, cool quickly.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Space is absolutely the right answer here, It's the only answer.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
No, no, no, the rain, the creatures at the bottom.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Have you seen the creature at the bottom, the notion
that it's terrible?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
They're disgusting.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
A better view while you die up in space closer
to Heaven.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yes, your body can fall back down to Earth and
burn up when it comes from the Solar System.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
How great would that?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Lovely?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
All right, let's get to puck the world right now?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Here's that?
Speaker 8 (33:37):
All right?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Then?
Speaker 7 (33:38):
The Saint Louis Blues did something that has happened less
than fifty times in the history of the NHL.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
They did it twice on the same day to the
same team.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
They signed Edmonton Oilers restricted free agents defenseman Philip Broberg
and forward Dillan Holloway two contracts. The Oilers now have
five days to match or let one or both the
players walk. They will receive draft pick compensation if they
do let those players walk away. Oilers are over the
salary cap right now, while the Blues have seven million
dollars in salary cast space. This is fun, this is controversial,
(34:09):
This is cool. I wish team more teams would do this.
So we'll see if it works out or not.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Why do they match or not, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
I'm gonna say they don't. I'm gonna say they don't.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
They're in cap aaron cap hell here Broberg's twenty three
former first round pick eighth overall and Hollway's twenty two
former first round pick fourteenth overall. Now, something that could
help out the Oilers is if they put Evander Kaine
on long term mated reserve and there's a report that
he's not gonna be able to start the season as
he's recovering from a sports Atartney. He makes five point
(34:40):
one two five million per seasons, so that could help
out if they end up doing that. Toronto Maple's have
a new captain. It's Austin Matthews, twenty six captains him.
He replaces John Tavares, who had the role in Taveras
said he supports the decision. What else is he gonna say? Matthews'
is twenty six. He has been the face the franchise
since he was drafted first overall twenty sixteen. He's coming
(35:01):
off a season where he had sixty nine goals in
eighty one games, one of the best seasons as far
as goalscorers in recent NHL history. Now, back in twenty nineteen,
he was about to be named captain, was Matthews and
then he had off the field to run in, off
the court, off the ice, run in with a female
security guard while he was intoxicated in Arizona in the offseason,
and so they feel like, maybe we shouldn't name him
(35:23):
captain right now, so they named Tavaris instead. So a
few years later they're finally getting around to naming him captain.
Tampa Bay Lightning majority owner Jeff Vinick confirmed he's looking
to sell the majority stake in the team, sports Net
reporting we should buy it, dy, Yeah, and well I
need two billion dollars to do that, so I'm not
sure I have that right now.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
How about we crowdsource it with the valid militia.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
That sounds like a great idea. I'm sure we can
come up with that money.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
Vinick bought the franchise in twenty ten for one hundred
and seventy million and now selling not the entire portion,
but majority stake for two billions. Let's say nice return
on his investment. I would say if the sale has
completed it when he eclipse the nine hundred and fifty
million dollar price in the Ottawa Senators in September as
the largest sale price for an AHL franchise. Canadian junior
(36:07):
hockey player Raylan Masterson has filed a class action lawsuit
against the nc DOUBLEA violate violating anti trust laws from
preventing players who appeared in a major junior hockey game
from playing in the n C DOUBLEA. Now, the NCAA
says that individuals should not be eligible for intercollegiate athletics
in a sport if they have competed on a professional team.
(36:28):
The nineteen year old, though, says, well, Katie Ledecki is
competing in the Olympics, She's getting compensated, and she still
has INCAA eligibility not to mention the NIL deals for
college athletes these days. So if he wins, his suit
could change how junior hockey players for years to come
will be allowed to play in college hockey or major
junior leagues as well.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Sam Rosen, longtime voice.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Of the New York follows I've interviewed him. Very nice man,
Sam Rail.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
He is seventy seventh birthday the other day, and then
he announced this season will be his last calling Ranger
games for MSG. Started in nineteen seventy seven as the
backup to Marv Alberts. This is fortieth season as the
full time play by playing man for the New York Rangers.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Sam ram used to do NFL games on fotod Yeah,
And when I did this show with Looney on Sundays,
we had Sam Rosen on pretty regularly promote the game
he was doing. Could not have been a nicer man,
could not have been nicer.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
So good good broadcast as well.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah, very nice.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Yeah, And that's pucked the world
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