August 17, 2024 • 32 mins
Ben Maller talks about the return of Anthony Richardson to the field for the Colts, the preseason debut of rookie QBs including Caleb Williams and Bo Nix, the season-ending injury for J.J. McCarthy, Maller's Mountain of Money: Casey Affleck Edition, and more!
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from the NFL. We'll go to Indy.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
If I watched it, I'm gonna talk about it. So
another storyline as we continue our in depth team coverage,
not real football but practice football. But another storyline is
about injuries players coming back from injuries.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
In the NFL.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Quarterbacks coming back from injuries. You've got Kirk Cousins who
was hurt in Minnesota, but now he's in Atlanta. He's
coming back. You've got other quarterbacks that are dinged up,
little alligator arms. Murray there in Arizona's coming back for
an example. Another one of those quarterbacks returning from a
mangled shoulder is the star of Jim Rsey's favorite NFL team.
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That would be Anthony Richardson, who was a prodigy at
Florida Wink wink. No, not of the big bad Southeastern
Commerce but Anthony Richardson is back. He was in uniform
on Sunday, well dress rehearsal for the Colts. They played
the Broncos. Don't know if he saw this game or not.
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Maybe you were not partaking, perhaps you may. But Richardson
tagged as the forever quarterback when I say forever the
next few years for the Indianapolis football team.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And he played, and how did he do?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
A rusty Pelican or in this case, a rusty Colt
there against the Denver defense. A lot of backups were
playing there. It was a practice game debut. He attempted
four passes, completed two of them for twenty five yards.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He also had one rushing yard.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
One that's it, and it was an unsatisfactory performance.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It was one game, few passes and all that.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Richardson also got away with a throw that should have
would have could have been intercepted the old wounded duck.
But let us discuss the question, how would you sum
up the return of Anthony Richardson his performance there for
the Colts to the first peak at Anthony Richardson back in uniform.
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So I've got Dave Chappelle error code and British singer
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to make some x's and o's is
what we're going to make. So numb bur how you
jumping on numb burwa?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yes? Stop?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Anthony Richardson look like he had no legs underneath it, right,
no legs underneath then'n not have his sea legs. I
guess that's the way you would describe it there, wobbly,
mistake prone. That was how he was and there was
only a few passes, but that was how he was
supposed to look.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Last year.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He actually looked much better than we thought he was
going to look when he played in the handful of
games before snap crackle pop popped up on the resume there.
But these exhibition games are a work out the kink situation,
and there's a lot of work to be done for
the coaching genius. Shane Steichen, the offensive guru in Indianapolis,
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the head coach there, did not hit the ground running
Anthony Richardson. Fair to say, I think we can all
agree on that. And now you cannot make any formal
conclusions based on a handful of passes in the first
practice football game. But Richardson did look zonked in limited duty.
We know that we saw it. We saw what we
saw Richardson. It's like the old one of the old
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Dave Chappelle movies in the early days in the nineties
there half baked. He's not close to being the finished
product here. I know that was a movie about weed,
but just go with it. So it's a quagmire for
the Colts because for him to play, for Anthony Richardson,
to play up to what they thought they were getting,
he has to run with wild abandon bandit right. He
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has to run all over the place, but he's going
to get hurt. So it is a quagmire for the
Colts and Richardson. If he does not stay healthy. The
backup option is jump ball.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Joe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Joe Flacco is sitting there, thirty nine year old Joe
Flacco turned forty.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
If the Colts are.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Able to play into January, and he's the backup option
there in Indianapolis, Gardner minshewit.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Walking through that door. He's with our raiders. We'll talk
more about that as we go through the night.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But now page two here, speaking of the Horseshoes, their
opponent here, we'll get to them in a minute of
the Broncos, but the Guardians of the Galaxy before we
get there, Guardians of the Galaxy, not the baseball team,
the Guardians.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
We're just a couple months.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
After the NFL said, you know what, you were good,
will allow you yahoos to wear this padded thing atop
your helmet.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
It's wild. It's happening.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
NFL approving the players wearing in regular season games the
Guardian cap. Now we saw the first star player. Maybe
there are some other ones I missed it, but the
first one that I saw that warre it that someone
we've heard of is Jonathan Taylor. That's a running back,
Jonathan Taylor, and he was one of a handful of
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players most nondescript flotsam and jessmen. You never heard of him,
but he's one we've heard of, and he was wearing
that Guardian cap in game action. This is the padded
thing that goes over the helmet, so you still wear
the helmet, but then you get the thing on top
of it. But now they put the they put the
little rap around it to make it seem like it's legit,
and it's like the helmet and the whole thing. So
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your thoughts on this becoming normal.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Dare I say normal in the NFL. So the first
thought I have not pleasing to the eye.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It's not as outrageous as it had been because they
put the little wrap on top of it. It's like
you get your car wrapped and that wrap to make
it look critical. It's that kind of thing, so it
doesn't look as bad. It still stands out. It's not
pleasing to the eye. That's the main takeaway there. The
NFL is using also a small sample size, and they've
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determined that it's effective on a small sample size. It's
all about the health and safety mandate, which is another
code for don't sue us. We don't want to pay
our lawyers, so because of liability, we're going with this.
Just believe in us. Just like the water in Perie
is safe, go swimming, knock yourself out. We've spent a
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billion and a half dollars and you're good to go.
Now if you end up in the hospital, well you
know it happens. But either way, you know, we're skeptics
about how effective.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
This is going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
We can confirm, though, we can confirm it looks like
an error code.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Again, not as bad as it did. Look without the
shell on top of it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
But it it's like a glitch, but not a good
kind of glitch in a video game, like what was that?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
That helmet a little bit bigger? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Something went kurflui And it is impossible. And one thing
I know about doing overnight radio, you have a lot
of bizazz. There's a lot of rasthmatas when you do
overnight radio, just one of the cool people when you
do it, and when you when you have that, it's
very difficult, like as a football player to have any
kind of aura or swag when you're wearing the guardian helmet,
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protector thing, whatever they.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Call it, it's very difficult.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It is the NFL's equivalent to a kick me sign,
Like you know, you tape that, put a little scotch
tape and tape it to somebody's back.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah, kick me.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
That's essentially what it is, right, And that's just the
way I look at it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's gonna take a lot of time for this to
become a normal situation, and will it ever become a
normal situation because how many players are actually.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Going to do it?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Because for most guys, they don't want any part of
this Now, when I was younger, I was a kid,
there was a guy in the Buffalo Bills named Steve
Tasker who had a giant, oversized helmet and there were
reasons for it, but it wasn't the guardian didn't call
the guardian helmet or whatever. He had that and and
he stood out and everyone knew where he was in
the field. He was a great special teams player in
his era. And people are like, whoa, what's going on?
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They pointed to that guy?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Final point back to the practice action, practice game action,
not a real game, not a real game, a practice game.
Because for the Denver side of things, everyone's going gaga
for the performance of their quarterback, the guy that was
overdrafted by most accounts the Draftnicks said, what are you doing?
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Why would you draft this, why would you make a trade?
Why would you get there? So what is your knee
jerk reaction to bow knicks old Oregon and Alabama quarterback
and his stellar performance and a practice game against the
Indianapolis defense.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
So how can you not be impressed?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Four scoring drives bo Nicks led the Broncos on and
some initial thoughts on this, it was like a British
singer Shade a smooth operator, But you wonder how much
of that is just playing backups and it's the exhibition
game and what's going to happen when the real games begin.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
We know we've been burned. We don't want to be
burned again. It's a much different animal once the real
situation pops up.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
So he was relaxed, he was not overwhelmed. Looked to me,
maybe I'm wrong on this, but it looked like the
Broncos ran a similar dumb down offense to what Peyton
had done last year with Russell Wilson, and to the
credit of bo Nicks, he ran that very well. How
much of that is him, how much of that is
the play calling, how much of that is the fact
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the Colts were not fully engaged on defense.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And he wouldn't perfect.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He was better than Jared Stidham, who did have a
tipped interception to begin that game. But it seemed to
me like one of those situations where the Broncos were
just spoon feeding high percentage throws for the most part
to bow Knicks, and he was able to get the
job done, so good for him. It's encouraging. You always
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have to put the disclaimer on that it's August football,
and we'll see what happened in a couple weeks when
the real season begins.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
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Speaker 1 (12:02):
But the vanilla wafers of the dessert cart, right, that's
the exhibition football. Not a lot of thought goes into it.
It's more of a nuisance and an inconvenience than anything.
But when someone plays well, you're like, okay again, we've
got to do the show right now. And Bo Nicks
would be the guy that stood out over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
He's in that handful of players. They're like, oh, that's
pretty good.
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follow up. The Viking ship has come across in Iceberg. Now,
nobody 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
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a minor tune up or it's a full rebuild. Well, Minnesota,
we have found out. If you didn't see this, well,
they're behind the eight ball. This week, the Vikings have
confirmed that rookie quarterback j J. Mccarthyl Michigan Man is
going to miss the entire season. Not part of the season,
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not a few games, not half the season, the entire season,
after having a full meniscous repair.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
It's in your knee now.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
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 in playoff games,
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the futility, the ineptitude in the Super Bowl. 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.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
So the question, are the Vikings curse?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So I've got optometrist, sleeping, Beauty's Castle, and Dolly Parton,
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we're going to.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Do, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So a to answer the question, are the Vikings cursed,
I'm gonna shake my head.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
No, they are not.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
On the surface. I totally understand why that is a
talking point. 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.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Of days or so.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
However, when you pause, take a couple of steps back,
you take a deep breath. Reject that hypothesis that they're cursed.
And if you believe that you're a sucker, right, that
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,
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right and near sided this not all objects are as
they appear. Is it true that the Minnesota football team
is actually secretly.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Relieved that they will not.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Not be pressured to play rookie quarterback JJ McCarthy, Yeah,
I don't playing at all. The initial plan was he
would miss a few games, but he be out all year.
And you hear the chatter and how much of this
is real, how much of it is just bull crap?
So for debate, But they would like him to learn
by osmosis rather than on the job training. We like
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baptism by fire. They don't. Plus, if I read this,
I believe 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 miss a day
or two, but that's it all right now turning the
page on that, but staying in Minnesota, coach Kevin O'Connell
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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.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Now, why should they be excited.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Because they have their young franchise quarterback in the building.
That's a direct quote, young franchise quarterback in the building.
O'Connell went on to say, this is going to be
a small bump in the road. JJ's 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.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Close quote. So let's put a ball on this one.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Kevin O'Connell, the Viking coach, saying that JJ McCarthy is
the Minnesota young franchise quarterback.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
He's in the building.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
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 tool
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. Hey, you know this is the franchise guy.
So we go out there and ride the vomit comet.
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
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trip to Sleeping Beauty's cast.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
It was fantasy lane.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
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 him
like he was a first round draft pick.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
They hid the quarterback. Who does that? Seriously?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Who in college football if you have a player that
you know is going to be a first round quarterback,
who says I don't want him to throw the ball
that much. 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 then throwing the ball. Who's the bad weather,
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the Big ten? It's not all bad weather the Big ten.
And I would argue this is more than a small
bump in the road.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
It is it's historical.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
JJ McCarthy has become now the first quarterback drafted in
the first round in the common draft year. That goes
all the way back through the two thousands, the nineties,
the eighties, the seventies, goes back to the late sixties
nineteen sixty seven, the common Draft era. So my math
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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 know, it's the old
school mindset in the NFL, hoh d you play the
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rookie quarterback. Right now, the last word here with JJ
McCarthy in the infirmary, Like the 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
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to climb them out. And what can we expect from
Sam Darnold?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So we know what Sam donal is is. This is
not like I don't know what he's gonna be. Sam
Donald has already written his story.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
He is the biggie, He's an Enigmas, He's one.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Of these cats.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
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 him 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 yea weaves this magic spell and there's
a lot of low information fans that get all excited
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and promises that things are gonna be great that and
and never end up like that never ended maybe for
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I don't want to be.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Shocked if the Vikings come out of the gates and
play pretty well early and Donald's throwing touchdown passes, and everybody, well,
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
for better receivers.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I'll give you that right.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You can't argue nobody has a assuming aatus is gonna play,
he's not hurt, which they said. Vikings are saying, nobody's
got a better one two punch of wide receiver than
that team. I'm so I take them over the Dolphins,
who were a second, but I would take the Vikings
so they've got better receivers than he's ever had in
his career. But that'd be damned because we know how
the story ends. The Vikings will end up with Sam Darnold.
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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 Minnetauka. That is what
they're going to be.
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Speaker 1 (26:08):
Let's play the game. We have our matchup set. Doctor
Kevin from Madison, Wisconsin is going to play just down
the street from Kathy in Madison, and he's gonna partner
up with me Ben, and we've got Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
How lucky are we that Stone Cold is listening to
the show.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Sounds just like he did back in the day and
matched up with Eddie.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
That's the team, Cooper Loop. Let's get the party.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Start, all right, So Kevin and Ben are up first.
Your category is Ocean's eleven. Just a reminder, if you
don't know the rules, you need the first and last
name of the athlete in order to receive points. Kevin,
are you ready?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
I cannot wait?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Okay? Forty five? All right, Yes, you're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
He's trying to cheat Eddie, but Ray is trying to
help you out and screw me over both.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
No, just no, no, just wait till it says go.
That's the word go. Uh So, anyway, Ocean's eleven. These
athletes all wore number eleven. Forty five seconds go all right?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
The other splash brother not Steph Curry. Keep going more okay,
wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals. Greatest Cardinals wide receiver
of all time. Larry Fitzgerald, star of the Bad Boy
Pistons of the eighties.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
The guard used to hang out with Magic Johnson. They
were buddies diamonds. Yes, that is correct.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Greatest wide receiver in Atlanta Falcons history, although he's been
washed up the last couple of years. I think he's
out of the NFL now down by the school yard.
No oh, yes, wide receiver for the Patriots, not Wes Welker,
but a slot receiver for Tom Brady. Do you.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
He said it? He said it. He said it.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He said that you told me. When they start to
say it, he said it. He said, Julian Edelman say it?
He said, did you not say it? Doctor Kevin, he
said it.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
He just said it. He said it. He said the
Edelman answer. He gave answer. He said it. Garcia, you
started to rule. You see how dumb that rule is.
That's your Garcia rut saying it. No, you told me.
If he starts saying it before the it, he didn't
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even say it before the released the word. So it's point.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
At least we're going over to Stone cold Steve Austin
and uh, Eddie, your category is two hundred cigarettes. These
sports figures smoked cigarettes. So choke Stone quarter five seconds
on the clock.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Go uh the goat quarterback of the Patriots, the greatest
court back of all time, New England Patriots.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Tough on Eddie.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Current Mavericks star from Serbia, number seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
That would be Nicol Nicola.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
No, he plays for the Nuggets. He's got a place
for the Mavericks. Yes, Hall of Fame manager for the Pirates.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
He won a World Series.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Yes, former Latino World Series first baseman of the eighty
eight Mets. He's a broadcaster for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Now yes.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Serbian NBA player for the Lakers and the Kings. Beard No, no, no,
uh yes, super Bowl winning quarterback are the Chiefs way
before Patrick Mahomes in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I didn't count. Didn't get it in.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I count that arrest though he finished saying it before
the did.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Don't start with me. I'm not in the move. I
heard I'm not. He finished saying it before the pleasure
was sounding. So that's.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Eddie does not Again, Eddie does not know who Keith Nander,
so that doesn't count.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Remember he was caught with a cigarette back in like
oh nine, like a theology.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Dernandez is not a Yankee broadcaster, So that we're gonna
take the forty points off the board.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
That at the last one either all right, I'm a
terrible job by you.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Back over, Chicky doctor Kevin and Ben Manchester Kevin? Would
you like?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Would you like Goodwill hunting?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Or Manchester by the Sea?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Good Will hunting?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
All right?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
These athletes were former walk ons. Okay, forty five seconds
on the clock, begin.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
All right, Broncos safety in the no fly zone Super
Bowl team the Super Bowl fifty number forty three. Okay,
why would you HOI Coop likes Lebroncos Raiders former wide receiver.
I think he's a free agent now, white guy out
of Clemson. He was a high draft pick. He didn't
work out for the Las Vegas Raiders. Hunter, yes, kicker
(31:00):
for the Patriots, but not Adam Vinit Terry, the guy
after Van and Arry. He played for like fifteen years
or whatever it was for the Pats.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
He's got a European out of that counts, all right.
Quarterback for Georgia.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
He threw four interceptions in the Rams exhibition game over
the weekend and had.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
A game winning touch. You got thet said got Kowski,
And did they even take the lead there?
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Will give them the points for gratis Kowski because I
got it right, because because that gives them two hundred
and thirty points. Just still underwent Eddie and stone Cold.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
But you took the forty points away from because he
gets on that one. You don't know who Keith Hernandez is.
He said, he's a Yankee broadcaster. Watch still said Keith Hernandez.
That's the point of the game. But he gave a
wrong clue though it doesn't matter and I'm getting exactly
what we got the take forty away and we don't
(32:01):
know doubts if we get over doctor, doctor, doctor, give
me a game.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
This is the time we're losing yours who at this game.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
And the all time wins game time shows again, doctor
Kevin l you get to hang out with doctors. I
got to hang out with these these immoral people here
the game shows that screwed you out of the anima
and then lose, lose, lose. All he does is lose
minus forty plus seven games.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Wait waste still a win. Congratulations, that's a winner. Who
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from the NFL. We'll go to Indy.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
If I watched it, I'm gonna talk about it. So
another storyline as we continue our in depth team coverage,
not real football but practice football. But another storyline is
about injuries players coming back from injuries.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
In the NFL.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Quarterbacks coming back from injuries. You've got Kirk Cousins who
was hurt in Minnesota, but now he's in Atlanta. He's
coming back. You've got other quarterbacks that are dinged up,
little alligator arms. Murray there in Arizona's coming back for
an example. Another one of those quarterbacks returning from a
mangled shoulder is the star of Jim Rsey's favorite NFL team.
(02:36):
That would be Anthony Richardson, who was a prodigy at
Florida Wink wink. No, not of the big bad Southeastern
Commerce but Anthony Richardson is back. He was in uniform
on Sunday, well dress rehearsal for the Colts. They played
the Broncos. Don't know if he saw this game or not.
(02:56):
Maybe you were not partaking, perhaps you may. But Richardson
tagged as the forever quarterback when I say forever the
next few years for the Indianapolis football team.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And he played, and how did he do?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
A rusty Pelican or in this case, a rusty Colt
there against the Denver defense. A lot of backups were
playing there. It was a practice game debut. He attempted
four passes, completed two of them for twenty five yards.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He also had one rushing yard.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
One that's it, and it was an unsatisfactory performance.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It was one game, few passes and all that.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Richardson also got away with a throw that should have
would have could have been intercepted the old wounded duck.
But let us discuss the question, how would you sum
up the return of Anthony Richardson his performance there for
the Colts to the first peak at Anthony Richardson back in uniform.
(04:02):
So I've got Dave Chappelle error code and British singer
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to make some x's and o's is
what we're going to make. So numb bur how you
jumping on numb burwa?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yes? Stop?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Anthony Richardson look like he had no legs underneath it, right,
no legs underneath then'n not have his sea legs. I
guess that's the way you would describe it there, wobbly,
mistake prone. That was how he was and there was
only a few passes, but that was how he was
supposed to look.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Last year.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He actually looked much better than we thought he was
going to look when he played in the handful of
games before snap crackle pop popped up on the resume there.
But these exhibition games are a work out the kink situation,
and there's a lot of work to be done for
the coaching genius. Shane Steichen, the offensive guru in Indianapolis,
(05:05):
the head coach there, did not hit the ground running
Anthony Richardson. Fair to say, I think we can all
agree on that. And now you cannot make any formal
conclusions based on a handful of passes in the first
practice football game. But Richardson did look zonked in limited duty.
We know that we saw it. We saw what we
saw Richardson. It's like the old one of the old
(05:28):
Dave Chappelle movies in the early days in the nineties
there half baked. He's not close to being the finished
product here. I know that was a movie about weed,
but just go with it. So it's a quagmire for
the Colts because for him to play, for Anthony Richardson,
to play up to what they thought they were getting,
he has to run with wild abandon bandit right. He
(05:49):
has to run all over the place, but he's going
to get hurt. So it is a quagmire for the
Colts and Richardson. If he does not stay healthy. The
backup option is jump ball.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Joe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Joe Flacco is sitting there, thirty nine year old Joe
Flacco turned forty.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
If the Colts are.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Able to play into January, and he's the backup option
there in Indianapolis, Gardner minshewit.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Walking through that door. He's with our raiders. We'll talk
more about that as we go through the night.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But now page two here, speaking of the Horseshoes, their
opponent here, we'll get to them in a minute of
the Broncos, but the Guardians of the Galaxy before we
get there, Guardians of the Galaxy, not the baseball team,
the Guardians.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
We're just a couple months.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
After the NFL said, you know what, you were good,
will allow you yahoos to wear this padded thing atop
your helmet.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
It's wild. It's happening.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
NFL approving the players wearing in regular season games the
Guardian cap. Now we saw the first star player. Maybe
there are some other ones I missed it, but the
first one that I saw that warre it that someone
we've heard of is Jonathan Taylor. That's a running back,
Jonathan Taylor, and he was one of a handful of
(07:04):
players most nondescript flotsam and jessmen. You never heard of him,
but he's one we've heard of, and he was wearing
that Guardian cap in game action. This is the padded
thing that goes over the helmet, so you still wear
the helmet, but then you get the thing on top
of it. But now they put the they put the
little rap around it to make it seem like it's legit,
and it's like the helmet and the whole thing. So
(07:25):
your thoughts on this becoming normal.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Dare I say normal in the NFL. So the first
thought I have not pleasing to the eye.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It's not as outrageous as it had been because they
put the little wrap on top of it. It's like
you get your car wrapped and that wrap to make
it look critical. It's that kind of thing, so it
doesn't look as bad. It still stands out. It's not
pleasing to the eye. That's the main takeaway there. The
NFL is using also a small sample size, and they've
(07:58):
determined that it's effective on a small sample size. It's
all about the health and safety mandate, which is another
code for don't sue us. We don't want to pay
our lawyers, so because of liability, we're going with this.
Just believe in us. Just like the water in Perie
is safe, go swimming, knock yourself out. We've spent a
(08:19):
billion and a half dollars and you're good to go.
Now if you end up in the hospital, well you
know it happens. But either way, you know, we're skeptics
about how effective.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
This is going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
We can confirm, though, we can confirm it looks like
an error code.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Again, not as bad as it did. Look without the
shell on top of it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
But it it's like a glitch, but not a good
kind of glitch in a video game, like what was that?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
That helmet a little bit bigger? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Something went kurflui And it is impossible. And one thing
I know about doing overnight radio, you have a lot
of bizazz. There's a lot of rasthmatas when you do
overnight radio, just one of the cool people when you
do it, and when you when you have that, it's
very difficult, like as a football player to have any
kind of aura or swag when you're wearing the guardian helmet,
(09:12):
protector thing, whatever they.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Call it, it's very difficult.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It is the NFL's equivalent to a kick me sign,
Like you know, you tape that, put a little scotch
tape and tape it to somebody's back.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah, kick me.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
That's essentially what it is, right, And that's just the
way I look at it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's gonna take a lot of time for this to
become a normal situation, and will it ever become a
normal situation because how many players are actually.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Going to do it?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Because for most guys, they don't want any part of
this Now, when I was younger, I was a kid,
there was a guy in the Buffalo Bills named Steve
Tasker who had a giant, oversized helmet and there were
reasons for it, but it wasn't the guardian didn't call
the guardian helmet or whatever. He had that and and
he stood out and everyone knew where he was in
the field. He was a great special teams player in
his era. And people are like, whoa, what's going on?
(09:57):
They pointed to that guy?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Final point back to the practice action, practice game action,
not a real game, not a real game, a practice game.
Because for the Denver side of things, everyone's going gaga
for the performance of their quarterback, the guy that was
overdrafted by most accounts the Draftnicks said, what are you doing?
(10:19):
Why would you draft this, why would you make a trade?
Why would you get there? So what is your knee
jerk reaction to bow knicks old Oregon and Alabama quarterback
and his stellar performance and a practice game against the
Indianapolis defense.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
So how can you not be impressed?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Four scoring drives bo Nicks led the Broncos on and
some initial thoughts on this, it was like a British
singer Shade a smooth operator, But you wonder how much
of that is just playing backups and it's the exhibition
game and what's going to happen when the real games begin.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
We know we've been burned. We don't want to be
burned again. It's a much different animal once the real
situation pops up.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
So he was relaxed, he was not overwhelmed. Looked to me,
maybe I'm wrong on this, but it looked like the
Broncos ran a similar dumb down offense to what Peyton
had done last year with Russell Wilson, and to the
credit of bo Nicks, he ran that very well. How
much of that is him, how much of that is
the play calling, how much of that is the fact
(11:27):
the Colts were not fully engaged on defense.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And he wouldn't perfect.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He was better than Jared Stidham, who did have a
tipped interception to begin that game. But it seemed to
me like one of those situations where the Broncos were
just spoon feeding high percentage throws for the most part
to bow Knicks, and he was able to get the
job done, so good for him. It's encouraging. You always
(11:55):
have to put the disclaimer on that it's August football,
and we'll see what happened in a couple weeks when
the real season begins.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
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Speaker 1 (12:02):
But the vanilla wafers of the dessert cart, right, that's
the exhibition football. Not a lot of thought goes into it.
It's more of a nuisance and an inconvenience than anything.
But when someone plays well, you're like, okay again, we've
got to do the show right now. And Bo Nicks
would be the guy that stood out over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
He's in that handful of players. They're like, oh, that's
pretty good.
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We're gonna start with a bang. Here we go to
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(14:38):
follow up. The Viking ship has come across in Iceberg. Now,
nobody 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
(14:59):
a minor tune up or it's a full rebuild. Well, Minnesota,
we have found out. If you didn't see this, well,
they're behind the eight ball. This week, the Vikings have
confirmed that rookie quarterback j J. Mccarthyl Michigan Man is
going to miss the entire season. Not part of the season,
(15:20):
not a few games, not half the season, the entire season,
after having a full meniscous repair.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
It's in your knee now.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
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 in playoff games,
(15:55):
the futility, the ineptitude in the Super Bowl. 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.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
So the question, are the Vikings curse?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So I've got optometrist, sleeping, Beauty's 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.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Do, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So a to answer the question, are the Vikings cursed,
I'm gonna shake my head.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
No, they are not.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
On the surface. I totally understand why that is a
talking point. 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.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Of days or so.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
However, when you pause, take a couple of steps back,
you take a deep breath. Reject that hypothesis that they're cursed.
And if you believe that you're a sucker, right, that
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,
(17:16):
right and near sided this not all objects are as
they appear. Is it true that the Minnesota football team
is actually secretly.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Relieved that they will not.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Not be pressured to play rookie quarterback JJ McCarthy, Yeah,
I don't playing at all. The initial plan was he
would miss a few games, but he be out all year.
And you hear the chatter and how much of this
is real, how much of it is just bull crap?
So for debate, But they would like him to learn
by osmosis rather than on the job training. We like
(17:53):
baptism by fire. They don't. Plus, if I read this,
I believe 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 miss a day
or two, but that's it all right now turning the
page on that, but staying in Minnesota, coach Kevin O'Connell
(18:16):
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.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Now, why should they be excited.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Because they have their young franchise quarterback in the building.
That's a direct quote, young franchise quarterback in the building.
O'Connell went on to say, this is going to be
a small bump in the road. JJ's 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.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Close quote. So let's put a ball on this one.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Kevin O'Connell, the Viking coach, saying that JJ McCarthy is
the Minnesota young franchise quarterback.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
He's in the building.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
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 tool
vibe hype man, and Kevin O'Connell knows if this thing
goes to the dark side in Minnesota, there's no guarantee
(19:28):
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. Hey, you know this is the franchise guy.
So we go out there and ride the vomit comet.
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
(19:51):
trip to Sleeping Beauty's cast.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
It was fantasy lane.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
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 him
like he was a first round draft pick.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
They hid the quarterback. Who does that? Seriously?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Who in college football if you have a player that
you know is going to be a first round quarterback,
who says I don't want him to throw the ball
that much. 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 then throwing the ball. Who's the bad weather,
(20:42):
the Big ten? It's not all bad weather the Big ten.
And I would argue this is more than a small
bump in the road.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
It is it's historical.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
JJ McCarthy has become now the first quarterback drafted in
the first round in the common draft year. That goes
all the way back through the two thousands, the nineties,
the eighties, the seventies, goes back to the late sixties
nineteen sixty seven, the common Draft era. So my math
(21:11):
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 know, it's the old
school mindset in the NFL, hoh d you play the
(21:33):
rookie quarterback. Right now, the last word here with JJ
McCarthy in the infirmary, Like the 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
(21:54):
to climb them out. And what can we expect from
Sam Darnold?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So we know what Sam donal is is. This is
not like I don't know what he's gonna be. Sam
Donald has already written his story.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
He is the biggie, He's an Enigmas, He's one.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Of these cats.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
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 him 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 yea weaves this magic spell and there's
a lot of low information fans that get all excited
(22:36):
and promises that things are gonna be great that and
and never end up like that never ended maybe for
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I don't want to be.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Shocked if the Vikings come out of the gates and
play pretty well early and Donald's throwing touchdown passes, and everybody, well,
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
for better receivers.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I'll give you that right.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You can't argue nobody has a assuming aatus is gonna play,
he's not hurt, which they said. Vikings are saying, nobody's
got a better one two punch of wide receiver than
that team. I'm so I take them over the Dolphins,
who were a second, but I would take the Vikings
so they've got better receivers than he's ever had in
his career. But that'd be damned because we know how
the story ends. The Vikings will end up with Sam Darnold.
(23:26):
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 Minnetauka. That is what
they're going to be.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
We are going to have Mallers Mountain might as welcome
in our no need to play the open. Let's welcome
in our contestants. We have doctor Kevin. Hello, what kind
of doctor are you? Doctor Kevin? All the best kind
of doctor, internal medicine, internal medicine. How about that unbelieve doctor?
Who do you want to play with? On Mallard's amount
of money?
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Ben?
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Now that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I got doctors love me. They look hold on sex.
And we have stone Cold Steve Austin, Hello, stone Cold, good.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Morning, Ben Maller and the Mallar Militia.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Glad to be a part of the Malar's mount of money.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And I'm gonna go pick the one the.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Only got there? You want to lose?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
That that's a bad I thought stone Cold was a winner,
but not on this game. You're a loser.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You damn right. We're gonna win, Eddie, and I gotta
tell you if you don't.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
If we don't win this, I'm gonna give you a
stone Cold stunner.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Come right over to the studio. Let's ready to go, guys,
threatening violence, A lot of violence? Is there a full moon?
I don't know. I want to category is quickly cool? Please?
All right?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
This is the Casey Affleck Edition the younger brother of Ben.
The other a flex yes he turned forty nine years
old on Monday, and old fort. The categories are Goodwill, hunting,
two hundred cigarettes, Ocean's eleven, and Manchester by the Sea
and Kevin was on first. Which category would you like?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Kevin?
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Ocean's eleven?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oceans eleven.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I was a big fan of Oceans eleven back in
the day, stone Cold?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Which one do you want? Stone Cold?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I will do the two hundred two d cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
All right, it sounds like you probably have that right
now and you're in your car. Two hundred series, all right,
hold on. I was like, anyway, that is the matchup.
We're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Mallard's Mountain of Money, a classic matchup. You want to
hear Eddie losing in as I'm the all time wins
king at these game shows, had another loss to Eddie's record. Well,
it's Malar's mount of Money and it is next.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to
listen live.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Malor's mouth the money, Hell, do you have what it
takes to get to the top. Probably not.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
And here we go.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Let's play the game. We have our matchup set. Doctor
Kevin from Madison, Wisconsin is going to play just down
the street from Kathy in Madison, and he's gonna partner
up with me Ben, and we've got Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
How lucky are we that Stone Cold is listening to
the show.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Sounds just like he did back in the day and
matched up with Eddie.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
That's the team, Cooper Loop. Let's get the party.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Start, all right, So Kevin and Ben are up first.
Your category is Ocean's eleven. Just a reminder, if you
don't know the rules, you need the first and last
name of the athlete in order to receive points. Kevin,
are you ready?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
I cannot wait?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Okay? Forty five? All right, Yes, you're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
He's trying to cheat Eddie, but Ray is trying to
help you out and screw me over both.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
No, just no, no, just wait till it says go.
That's the word go. Uh So, anyway, Ocean's eleven. These
athletes all wore number eleven. Forty five seconds go all right?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
The other splash brother not Steph Curry. Keep going more okay,
wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals. Greatest Cardinals wide receiver
of all time. Larry Fitzgerald, star of the Bad Boy
Pistons of the eighties.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
The guard used to hang out with Magic Johnson. They
were buddies diamonds. Yes, that is correct.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Greatest wide receiver in Atlanta Falcons history, although he's been
washed up the last couple of years. I think he's
out of the NFL now down by the school yard.
No oh, yes, wide receiver for the Patriots, not Wes Welker,
but a slot receiver for Tom Brady. Do you.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
He said it? He said it. He said it.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He said that you told me. When they start to
say it, he said it. He said, Julian Edelman say it?
He said, did you not say it? Doctor Kevin, he
said it.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
He just said it. He said it. He said the
Edelman answer. He gave answer. He said it. Garcia, you
started to rule. You see how dumb that rule is.
That's your Garcia rut saying it. No, you told me.
If he starts saying it before the it, he didn't
(28:32):
even say it before the released the word. So it's point.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
At least we're going over to Stone cold Steve Austin
and uh, Eddie, your category is two hundred cigarettes. These
sports figures smoked cigarettes. So choke Stone quarter five seconds
on the clock.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Go uh the goat quarterback of the Patriots, the greatest
court back of all time, New England Patriots.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Tough on Eddie.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Current Mavericks star from Serbia, number seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
That would be Nicol Nicola.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
No, he plays for the Nuggets. He's got a place
for the Mavericks. Yes, Hall of Fame manager for the Pirates.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
He won a World Series.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Yes, former Latino World Series first baseman of the eighty
eight Mets. He's a broadcaster for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Now yes.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Serbian NBA player for the Lakers and the Kings. Beard No, no, no,
uh yes, super Bowl winning quarterback are the Chiefs way
before Patrick Mahomes in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I didn't count. Didn't get it in.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I count that arrest though he finished saying it before
the did.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Don't start with me. I'm not in the move. I
heard I'm not. He finished saying it before the pleasure
was sounding. So that's.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Eddie does not Again, Eddie does not know who Keith Nander,
so that doesn't count.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Remember he was caught with a cigarette back in like
oh nine, like a theology.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Dernandez is not a Yankee broadcaster, So that we're gonna
take the forty points off the board.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
That at the last one either all right, I'm a
terrible job by you.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Back over, Chicky doctor Kevin and Ben Manchester Kevin? Would
you like?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Would you like Goodwill hunting?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Or Manchester by the Sea?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Good Will hunting?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
All right?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
These athletes were former walk ons. Okay, forty five seconds
on the clock, begin.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
All right, Broncos safety in the no fly zone Super
Bowl team the Super Bowl fifty number forty three. Okay,
why would you HOI Coop likes Lebroncos Raiders former wide receiver.
I think he's a free agent now, white guy out
of Clemson. He was a high draft pick. He didn't
work out for the Las Vegas Raiders. Hunter, yes, kicker
(31:00):
for the Patriots, but not Adam Vinit Terry, the guy
after Van and Arry. He played for like fifteen years
or whatever it was for the Pats.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
He's got a European out of that counts, all right.
Quarterback for Georgia.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
He threw four interceptions in the Rams exhibition game over
the weekend and had.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
A game winning touch. You got thet said got Kowski,
And did they even take the lead there?
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Will give them the points for gratis Kowski because I
got it right, because because that gives them two hundred
and thirty points. Just still underwent Eddie and stone Cold.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
But you took the forty points away from because he
gets on that one. You don't know who Keith Hernandez is.
He said, he's a Yankee broadcaster. Watch still said Keith Hernandez.
That's the point of the game. But he gave a
wrong clue though it doesn't matter and I'm getting exactly
what we got the take forty away and we don't
(32:01):
know doubts if we get over doctor, doctor, doctor, give
me a game.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
This is the time we're losing yours who at this game.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
And the all time wins game time shows again, doctor
Kevin l you get to hang out with doctors. I
got to hang out with these these immoral people here
the game shows that screwed you out of the anima
and then lose, lose, lose. All he does is lose
minus forty plus seven games.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Wait waste still a win. Congratulations, that's a winner. Who
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