September 17, 2024 • 35 mins
Big Ben talks about the Falcons coming from behind to beat the Eagles on MNF, Bryce Young getting benched by the Panthers, Maller to the Third Degree, Cite the Bite, and much more!
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Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Wowser's Philadelphia, the birthplace of our freedom, allegedly the original
White House right there in Philadelphia, all this his American history.
That was the stage for Week two, the matchup on
Monday Night football North versus South.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah, Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And the Eagles against Kirk Cousins and the Atlanta Falcons
in an NFC slobber knocker.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Troy Aikman was there.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You had Joe Buck, A couple of Fox refugees were
calling the game on ABC. And where you watching? Were
you checking this out? Were you consuming the product? Possibly not?
Possibly you missed the said product there we watched so
you would not have to. And he actually missed a
good game. A lot of these primetime games are duds.
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This was not one of them. It wasn't the most
riveting game throughout, but in the end it's all about
the finish and Kirk Cousins conducting a dramatic, picture perfect
last minute drive for Atlanta and capped it off with
a seven yard pass and catch to Drake London with
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thirty four seconds left, and the Falcons get a flabbergasting
twenty two to twenty one win with the point after
touchdown as they take down the Eagles. They took them down,
all right, So let us discuss the question did the
kirk Cousins Falcons win the game or was it a
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story of Jalen Hurtz, Sequon Barkley and the Eagles losing
said game. So I've got candy man, cry uncle and
horse play, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a tasty cake
which tasted a little better on the way back to
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that great airport in Atlanta for the Falcons. So a
the arrow on this one rather obvious. The better story
is in the losing locker room. It is squarely pointed
the bullseye the city of brotherly love. Most games are lost,
they're not won. And this this is a textbook example
case in point Monday night football. It was in the
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green bag. The game was in the green bag. The
Eagles had all of the pieces, all of the pieces
to complete the jigsaw puzzle. They were holding the final piece.
It was a middle piece. They had the final piece
to the jigsaw puzzle to get the victory. Only the
futs it away and they drop it down the garbage
disposal and it's gone. So in terms of who gets
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the biggest chunk of the blame cheese steak, We're gonna
cut this thing up three ways. Now, a lot of
low information people say, oh, that's only one person gets
the entire blame cheese steak. But now I say, no,
it's deeper than that. We have Sequon Barkley, Jalen Hurtz,
and Nick Sirianni. They each get a big chunk that
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the biggest. We're gonna start with a guy I'm gonna
call him candy Man. Saquon Barkley is candy Man. You see,
if you watch the game, you know what I'm talking about.
Butter fingers Barkley. Butter fingers bark Well, you had one job.
You had one job, siquand one job and a reminder
that you can take the player out of the Giants uniform.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You can do that.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can take the player out of the gizz uniform,
but you can't take the stank of that Giants uniform
out of a player, not easily anyway.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And this was pro.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Barkley did the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it a dramatic game changing play, A
rudimentary basic pass that running backs catch almost all of
the time.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It was right there. It wasn't a terrible pass.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It wasn't over his head, it wasn't on the ground,
it wasn't sideways, it was right there.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Short pass, catch the ball, win the game.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
He didn't catch the ball, and the clocked stop because
of that one forty six left that forced the Eagles
to settle for a field goal instead of the game
ceiling first nam, which would have ended things. Here is
mister Barkley, butterfingers Barkley afterwards explaining that he is a dumb.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Ass, dropped the ball.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Let my team now today shouldn't have put the defense
in that position.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Make that catch, game over.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Relax. Came back to my o abits and just gotta
go back and could that to work.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
The problem is they're playing like they're still with the Giants.
That's Giants football. That's Giants football. That's the New York
Giants of modern times. Would could have should have ice
the game, but did not. All right, next up, Jaldeners.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now, the Eagles offense was too methodical for my taste.
They were too medic who they were productive to methodical. Right,
the object of the game is to score points, it's
not playing keep away.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The Philadelphia Eagles offense, they should be much better than
the Atlanta offense because of all the new players the
Falcons have. But Philadelphia was should have never been in
position to lose the game late because you can't get
it done late. That is on Jalen Hurts, who averaged
six point one yards per pass in this game. Pedestrian
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not not only pedestrian performance. And then after Barkley had
the brain fart, butterfingers Barkley dropping the pass, Hurts he
has a Tom Brady moment, Right, you can go down
the field, lead your team back to victory, pick up
your teammate. Butterfingers Barkley game winning drive ended, and he
tosses a wounded duck with three Atlanta defenders around. It
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was really the only question is whether wich Atlanta defender
was going to pick off the pass. All three had
a chance to pick off that wounded Duck in that moment. Now,
finally you had Siriatti, Nick Siriotti. And the reason I'm
gonna bring Nick Sirianti on here is because of acid reflux. Okay,
the Eagles coach. That was what we call a burp,
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a reminder of last season's collapse where the Eagles, if
they had any real ownership, they would have fired Nick Siriotti.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
The guy's still there.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't know, uh, but Nick Siriani made some questionable
decisions in this game. Now you'll hear the question and
the answer on this one. We'll play some of it.
I don't know that we're gonna play all of it.
But here's Nick Sirianni commenting on the decision. There was
a third down decision. Let's let's take a listen to
the audio.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Here we go on the third tree called want to
pass it until my plasory mechanism where no challenge just
six down takes it back.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
You know, we uh, we wanted to They were they
were running a certain defense and junking it up in
the middle. So we're trying to go on around the
outside and uh, you know it didn't work.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Here golf pattern there on going kicking up.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
You think about doing you know again in that scenario,
I was thinking they might not have any timeouts there,
but obviously they did with with the with the incomplete pass,
you know, that would have that would have came down
to maybe a minute, and so we wanted to go
up six points, you know, and it didn't work. So
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you know, my decision to pass it there again, like
I said, you know what, they were junking it up
inside with it being fourth and three to go for
I thought, you know, with them not having any timeouts,
I wanted to be down a touchdown and see if
they could drive the field.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
And they did.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
All right, there you go, Nick Sirianni. Is there a
better front running coach in the NFL? Than Nick Sirianni?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Is there? Is there anybody like you want?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
This guy's like a male cheerleader out there when his
team's doing well, right and when they're losing, he turtles up.
That's a Nick Sirianni right there. That's your head coach.
That's the Eagles head coach. That's your leader of men
now page two. Here does the absence of wide receiver A. J.
Brown does that give the Eagles a reasonable excuse for
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this performance? And I'm shaking my head no on this.
The answer is no. It's a pass fail grading system
when it comes to these games. Pass fail, no excuses,
so you get a fail. And Brown is a good
wide receiver. You could say he's a top ten wide receiver.
I wouldn't disagree. I don't know about top five. But
he's very good. He's not the super nova.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
You're gonna throw the ball to him five to ten times.
He'll catch three or four, maybe five passes. Maybe one
of them will go for a bunch of yard. There's
no guarantee he's gonna score a touchdown. Here's a score
touchdown every game. But in this particular night, the real
bird brain, which has not been mentioned yet, goes to
the Eagles as a team pivoting to cry uncle, as
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in Uncle Vic Fangio, the defensive quarter, where have you gone?
Vic Fangio? Shutdown defense. Kirk Cousins looked absolutely cooked.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
He looked like a.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Display case mannequin. Last week against the Pittsburgh Steelers, it
was weekend at burnt type stuff and then Fangio's defense
failing to keep him on his toes. The Eagles had
just two quarterback hits against Atlanta's quarterback, just two one sack.
On the night, there was very little pressure. The final
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drive by Atlanta against Vic Fangio's Eagles defense was the
perfect encapsulation of the problem for the Birds defense.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Here, even with the.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Barkley fumble, which not on a fumble, he just dropped it,
and then the interception by the quarterback, the Eagles played soft.
That's not Philadelphia Eagle style football, not in my lifetime,
not recently. That's not how the Eagles had played defense.
They played soft coverage, they had a non existent pass rush,
and they lost the game. There was a lot of
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things that could have matched that, and the things didn't
work out. Defense, they had to make a stop at
the end. They didn't make a stop. All right, Now,
last word here we briefly go to the place where
it's not as go to story, the winning locker room,
and we asked the question for the esteem panel, how
impressed were you with Kirk Cousins and the Falcons. Well,
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considering that the game was in the bag for the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I wasn't all that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Impressed, right, how clunky Cousins looked last week. It was
stupefying that they had a chance to win this game.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
It really was.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
After a couple of punts to start the game, and
I'm thinking early on, I'm like, all right, this is
neither team got off to a great start, but the
Atlanta offense the first couple of possessions like this is
not going to go well for the Falcons. This game
should be a route or a route, depending on where
you grew up, and to have that turn into what
it became is rather mind boggling when you think about it.
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The Falcons after those first two drives went haywire because
of the soft Vic Fangio defense. The Falcons scored either
field goals or touchdowns on five of their final six
real drives of the game. I don't count the last
drive because they down the.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Ball that was it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But overall, Atlanta is certainly not out of the woods.
They're not out of the woods here, and I consider
this horseplay. This win is horseplay. Never look a gift
mouth in the gift horse in the mouth. You shouldn't
do that. You should not look at gift horse in
the mouth because the dirty Birds were the beneficiary of
a gift.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It's like the room service cart shows up at your
hotel room and you get a nice meal. You didn't
pay for the meal, You don't know who paid for
the meal, but you get the meal. It was more
incompetence by the Philadelphia Eagles. They had ninety seven percent
chance Philadelphia, if you go by the nerd numbers of
winning the game, and so you accept the gift gracefully. Fine,
you move on, but you look ahead and Atlanta under
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their new head coach Raheem Morris, they have the Chiefs,
the Saints, and the Buccaneers lined up and good afternoon,
good evening again, good night. All those three games in Georgia,
but they at the Chiefs primetime. I'm the Saints and
the Buccaneers. Two of those three are night games in
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night coverage here last hour we can continue to talk
about this hour dramatic ending as the Philadelphia Eagles coughed
up a fur ball at the end of the Monday
night game and the Atlanta Falcons right there to snatch
victory from defeat, and of course the Eagles on the
other side snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as
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they gagged the game up, butterfingers Barkley dropping a would
be first down that would have iced the game, and
instead the Falcons matriculate the ball down the field and
they get to go ahead touchdown.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
And point after touchdown.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But they in the end, the Eagles, they they still
a shot to get in field goal range. Jalen Hurst
then who goofed? I've got to know he threw an interception.
But our lead this hour is from down south. We
go just adjacent to Tobacco Road. And a quarterback shake up,
the first quarterback shakeup of the new NFL season.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
If you have not heard, if you have not been
paying attention here.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We learned very early in the day when I woke up,
I was woken up by my phone. There was some
text messages, not many. They were a couple and hey,
you see what happened.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So we learned.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
The Carolina Panthers are demoting. They're benching the former number
one over Bryce Young from the twenty twenty three draft.
He has lost his stature as the starting quarterback there
and he will not not be starting Week three. The
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Carolina football team goes to Las Vegasages, Nevada, a matchup
against Gardner Minshew and the Raiders. Andy Dalton, yes that guy,
Yes he's still playing. I'm shocked to Andy Dalton will
be the new starting quarterback for your Panthers. Tickets are
available now. I bring this up because on Sunday, Dave Canalis,
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the head coach there, passionately defended his quarterback Tickels we
fristar quarterback.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
We're going to just continue to shore up and fix
the things we need to fundamentally from a scheme standpoint,
all those things, these are all valuable reps, These are
all valuable games. We'll learn a lot from this game,
and hopefully we'll take another step this week.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Okay, less than twenty four hours. You are the weakest.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Link, is what Dave Canalis told his quarterback there, deciding
to bench him now. He claimed this was after watching film.
He said he met with various personnel decision makers, people
to make a lot of money to do nothing, and
then he decided this is how he wanted to proceed now,
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keeping right, NFL insiders who are fed their information from
people that have an agenda, and the agenda they have
is CYA cover your ass is the agenda. So the
general narrative coming out of North Carolina. Is the picture
that is being painted? Is this that Dave Canalis did
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this without the help of ownership.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
This was his decision. This was not from the meddling owner.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
So let us discuss the question the Panthers, through their
useful idiots in the media claiming that the head coach
they're Dave Canalis acted alone. He acted alone in benching
the former number one pick there, Bryce Young for Andy Dalton.
Is this possible? Is this possible? So I've got Apple Maps,
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United Airlines, and cosm Medics, and we will combine all
of these things together and we're gonna make hemorrhoids, which
is what Bryce Young canal get hemorrhoids sitting on the bench.
So number one, Yeah, in the multiverse, and I do
believe in the multiverse there is a dimension where this
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is possible, But not the dimension I'm in and not
the dimension you're in.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
We're not in that dimension because we're in the same dimension.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And if you have even a rudimentary understanding of how
business is done in the National Football League in the
modern world, there is zero percent chance in this dimension
of the multiverse that Dave Canalis and Dave Canalis solely
made this move. No chance, no chance in my existence
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in the world that I'm living in. And if you
look at Apple Maps, you will see the GPS is
directed towards Spin City, Spin Spin Spin, Spin, Spin, Spin,
Spin Spin Spin Spin Spin. Now, what is my evidence?
Let me give you my evidence, and you can decide
I'm gonna make my case, and then you decide you're
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the jury, and you decide whether I've made my case.
The reason I do not believe at all that the
head coach made this decision. You have a rookie head coach,
a guy that nobody had ever heard of, who all
of a sudden became a head coach out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
So you have that. You have a.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Neurotic hands on meddling owner. Check it's only two weeks
into the NFL season. Check check check. It's still the
getting to know you stage, still the getting to know
you stage. Now, when asked about the Heela monster in
the room, Coach Canalis declined to answer. Decline to answer
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what role, if any, the Panthers meddling owner David Tepper
hedge fun guy had in the decision to remove Bryce Young,
so he wouldn't ask the question. Now, why would he
not answer the question because whatever he said.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Would have been used against him.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Because the whole point of this is, Hey, I'm paying
you to be my coach. I don't want this guy
playing anymore. But you're gonna be the one making the decision.
It ain't gonna be me, So you got to own it.
Do whatever you want. We'll paint you as some kind
of heroic coach who stood up for the locker room.
But you gotta bench this guy because he sucks. Okay,
and I don't want to be the one that's responsible
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for it because everyone hates me already.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
That's my theory, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So the idea that Canalis did not have anything to
do with this, that is bullshoy. Is what that is.
That is absolute, fresh piping hot bullshoy. There's not a
grain of truth in that at all. The temper pepper,
if you will, the temper temper pepper, it's a tongue twister.
That's what's behind this move. You worth twenty one billion,
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This guy's twenty one billions. That worth David Tepper, the
guy who owns Carolina Panthers. Everything this guy has touched
in the NFL. Everything, Okay, everything smells like manure. There's
not anything this guy has touched. It doesn't smell like manure.
It's fascinating how you can be so successful in business,
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well if you want to call what he does business,
and then be so bad at running a football team.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But here we are, Here we are, and so.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
The big picture here Young can't play. You might like him,
I know. We had a very passionate call from a
gentleman from Alabama fan, the one legged Bama man who
loves Alabama football cursed on the air, passionately defending Bryce Young.
Price is wonderful. He's a very religious man. All that
good for him and wonderful. Just can't play. And to
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continue to send him out there, it's like he won
a raffle. It's like a contest. Hey, you won the raffle.
He kind of did win a raffle because he was
the number on.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
In the draft.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And when you're the number one overall pick, then you
got to keep playing the guy that justify the pig
all right now, page due turning to the player's side.
A player side takes a couple sides here to do
the tango, and they release their own narrative. The people
that are invested that have decided they are in the
business of Bryce Young. Those people are not looking very
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good right now. They apparently attach themselves to the wrong horse.
They're claiming that Bryce Young was shocked, shocked, that he
has been benched by the Carolina football team.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
How is that possible? How is it possible that Bryce
Young could be shocked?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And the answer is, it's not unless you think Bryce
Young is your typical meathead, cliche football player and is
the village idiot.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
That's the only way he could be shocked by this.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Right, if Bryce Young was a schmen, you'd say, Okay,
the guys at Dingleberry, he can't. He doesn't get it,
and that's why. But if you follow the science of
this under any reasonable measurement, any reasonable measurement, even if
you've never like our friend Lorena, who we'd love, right,
Lorena could not pick a football from like a softball.
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But even she knows this guy can't play, right, even
she is aware. She doesn't know whether as Parcels used
to say, the ball's puffed or stuffed, but she knows
Bryce Young ain't it right.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
She's aware of that.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So the checkdown became the first down option. On every
play for Carolina. It's fascinating you talk about first read.
His first read is to check down, to throw the
ball behind the line of scrimmage right, and then the
team started. The funniest part is that the Chargers started covering.
I saw some clips of this online, So the Chargers
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realized that all he was doing was checking down, so
they started covering the checkdown.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
And then he didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
He's like, wait, I gotta throw the ball downfield, and
I don't know what to do. It's a wild Bryce
Young has been living what I call the United Airlines
a life in the NFL. He has been flying the
friendly skies on the vomit combat since he got there.
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The worst number one overall pick since JaMarcus Russell, and
some of the numbers. You gotta go back even further.
How bad this guy has been and how bad is it?
It's so bad that Andy Dalton, who's gonna turn thirty
seven in a couple of weeks. Andy Dalton is fourteenth
NFL season is the preferred option. And Young was a
hell of a player at Alabama for Nick Saban. Wonderful
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player there. However, it's a different game and the comparison
how I relate to it. It's like people, there's a lot
of people do podcasting. Everyone's into podcasting now, and I
do radio and podcasting, but it's a different skill set
right now, anybody can do a podcast, but to do
live radio like podcasting, record at any time you want,
you can go back, can edit it and all that stuff.
But to do it live and to have to follow
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the certain guidlines, it's a harder situation than just doing
a podcast.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Anyone need a podcast, right, but it's a more difficult thing.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
It's like it's like college football is like podcasting. Anybody
can do it now at a high level, sure there's
not that many people. But to do the radio thing
and have that live and do it well, he can't
handle it right. Final point, So you are now the
career counselor. I have now deputized you as the career
counselor for Bryce Young. You have just been fired, although
(27:31):
you're not out of work, you're just demoted. Demoted Bryce Young,
so you've lost your standing. What is your advice as
the career counselor for Bryce Young? So Young who has
been historically terrible, as we have documented in this mall
of monologue. He has no confidence, left no confidence. He
doesn't pass the eyeball test, doesn't pass the stat test.
(27:53):
There's no test. He looks physically too small to play.
But more importantly, he plays like he's physically too small
to play in the NFL, like he can't see over
the line. There's no vision, there's no confidence. Everything is
collapsing right every The walls are caving in at this point.
So he has backed up the hypothesis that he can't play.
So with that is the standing you must change careers.
(28:14):
Now you've made a small fortune, so you don't really
have to do anything because these even players that are
absolute busts like Bryce Young still get paid game changing money.
Good for him, congratulations, But you have shown no signs
of improvement. Eighteen games. Okay, Well, it's as the former
(28:34):
coach Jerry Glanville taught me when I was a child.
He said, the NFL stands for not for long. If
you play like that, it's not for long. Eighteen games
is a long time. So Young has gotten statistically, either
he stayed the same or he's gotten worse in every
category since he took over. So his future as a
career counselor his future is production meetings and cosmetics as
(28:58):
in Ergo.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
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Speaker 10 (29:41):
Tom Brady was getting a lot of praise for an
honest moment on Sunday. Cowboys rookie wide receiver Jalen Brooks
slipped and fell, which led to an interception. Brady was
asked if he would go back to that receiver, and
Brady said not today. Pretty tough to go back there. Yeah, Ben,
does this give you hope for Brady's commentary?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
No, I went back.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And I watched some of the clips online, and he's
still mostly being a mister softy, it's not my kind
of commentary, Coop.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
I have no hope that Brady's gonna be any good
at this. I think he stinks.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
Next, so the Chiefs are able to eke out a
win against the Bengals on Sunday, but they lost running
back Isaiah Pacheco late in the game, who's later seen
in a walking boot and on crutches. Ben, how big
of a blow is this loss for Kansas City?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well, I will pull out the Malard scale of concern
for the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
It's not very high, though, Coop.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I'll do that later, because Isaiah Pacheco has been a
good player for them. He's been productive. He was a
seventh round pick out of Rutgers. You can replace the
seventh round pick out of Rutgers. They will find someone.
They actually have a couple of guys already on the roster,
so they'll be okay. Now, if Mahomes gets hurt, it's
over with him getting hurt. Their fine.
Speaker 10 (30:47):
Next, after the Jags fell to zero to two in
the season, Trevor Lawrence spoke to reporters and he didn't
mince words, saying we suck right now, Ben, do you
think Jacksonville can turn things around?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Well, can they turn things around? Yes? Are they going
to turn things around?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I see no evidence that Trevor Lawrence can consistently play
high level football in the NFL for two months, which
is what you gotta do to turn things around. No,
but what does he care? You know, it doesn't suck
his bank account, that doesn't suck.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
He got paid. All right? How did we do? Kobolo?
You pass the session as a win. You can put
her on the bard WHOA I won the game? Fine emit?
I won, blind abbit, I won.
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From sports to the last seven to ten days is
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So somebody should get this.
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Play it again, playing better football.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Playing better football. Who could that be?
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I know it's not Sean McVay. I know it's not McVeigh,
the coach of the Rams.
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Can't say that. Who is it? Played again, play.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Again, playing better football.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Somebody from the world the sports. I would assume somebody
in football, but maybe not. Could be a coach, a player,
medium member, could be w NBA. That's right, a lot
of female football players. All right, I'll say call her
five Eddie.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Nobody you're a schmocker. What about you? Call a six
baby that you never have time to get you six calls? Cool?
Speaker 10 (33:24):
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Speaker 4 (33:24):
Call number five? All right, let's get to its sight
the bite. We'll start out, play it again, Play again.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
All right, let's start out with George, George George in
La Hello George.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Hey, d Gannon from the Cardinals thinks, what do you say?
From the Cardinals?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Gannon from Is it Coach Gannon of the Cardinals? No,
but but thank you. Caller two is cowboy John Brad
in Windsor, Ontario who died?
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Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Hi, Ben, is that my old street nephew, Jesse Turner of.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Them A twenty seven? Happy birthday? Is that Jesse Turner?
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Sorry, cowboy, it's not just okay, all right, I'll talk
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I'm seeing you, you're a stalker. Time for our first clue.
His father was a defensive end for the Miami Dolphins.
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Salo to our guy Eddie in Charlotte. Caller number three.
Hello Eddie, Fast Eddie, easy money Eddie. Hello Eddie the
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Really good work.
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Thank you.
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guess that's not it. But thank you for watching the
show any God bless you. All Right, let's go to
caller number four and that would be persona non grata.
Caller four, persona non grata.
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Bobby.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Is that Bobby Vania? No, what a great guess.
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Before being drafted, he was criticized for calling Colin Kaepernick
a clown.
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A clown.
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Wow.
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Wowser's Philadelphia, the birthplace of our freedom, allegedly the original
White House right there in Philadelphia, all this his American history.
That was the stage for Week two, the matchup on
Monday Night football North versus South.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah, Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And the Eagles against Kirk Cousins and the Atlanta Falcons
in an NFC slobber knocker.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Troy Aikman was there.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You had Joe Buck, A couple of Fox refugees were
calling the game on ABC. And where you watching? Were
you checking this out? Were you consuming the product? Possibly not?
Possibly you missed the said product there we watched so
you would not have to. And he actually missed a
good game. A lot of these primetime games are duds.
(02:38):
This was not one of them. It wasn't the most
riveting game throughout, but in the end it's all about
the finish and Kirk Cousins conducting a dramatic, picture perfect
last minute drive for Atlanta and capped it off with
a seven yard pass and catch to Drake London with
(02:59):
thirty four seconds left, and the Falcons get a flabbergasting
twenty two to twenty one win with the point after
touchdown as they take down the Eagles. They took them down,
all right, So let us discuss the question did the
kirk Cousins Falcons win the game or was it a
(03:21):
story of Jalen Hurtz, Sequon Barkley and the Eagles losing
said game. So I've got candy man, cry uncle and
horse play, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a tasty cake
which tasted a little better on the way back to
(03:42):
that great airport in Atlanta for the Falcons. So a
the arrow on this one rather obvious. The better story
is in the losing locker room. It is squarely pointed
the bullseye the city of brotherly love. Most games are lost,
they're not won. And this this is a textbook example
case in point Monday night football. It was in the
(04:04):
green bag. The game was in the green bag. The
Eagles had all of the pieces, all of the pieces
to complete the jigsaw puzzle. They were holding the final piece.
It was a middle piece. They had the final piece
to the jigsaw puzzle to get the victory. Only the
futs it away and they drop it down the garbage
disposal and it's gone. So in terms of who gets
(04:26):
the biggest chunk of the blame cheese steak, We're gonna
cut this thing up three ways. Now, a lot of
low information people say, oh, that's only one person gets
the entire blame cheese steak. But now I say, no,
it's deeper than that. We have Sequon Barkley, Jalen Hurtz,
and Nick Sirianni. They each get a big chunk that
(04:46):
the biggest. We're gonna start with a guy I'm gonna
call him candy Man. Saquon Barkley is candy Man. You see,
if you watch the game, you know what I'm talking about.
Butter fingers Barkley. Butter fingers bark Well, you had one job.
You had one job, siquand one job and a reminder
that you can take the player out of the Giants uniform.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You can do that.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can take the player out of the gizz uniform,
but you can't take the stank of that Giants uniform
out of a player, not easily anyway.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And this was pro.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Barkley did the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it a dramatic game changing play, A
rudimentary basic pass that running backs catch almost all of
the time.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It was right there. It wasn't a terrible pass.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It wasn't over his head, it wasn't on the ground,
it wasn't sideways, it was right there.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Short pass, catch the ball, win the game.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
He didn't catch the ball, and the clocked stop because
of that one forty six left that forced the Eagles
to settle for a field goal instead of the game
ceiling first nam, which would have ended things. Here is
mister Barkley, butterfingers Barkley afterwards explaining that he is a dumb.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Ass, dropped the ball.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Let my team now today shouldn't have put the defense
in that position.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Make that catch, game over.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Relax. Came back to my o abits and just gotta
go back and could that to work.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
The problem is they're playing like they're still with the Giants.
That's Giants football. That's Giants football. That's the New York
Giants of modern times. Would could have should have ice
the game, but did not. All right, next up, Jaldeners.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now, the Eagles offense was too methodical for my taste.
They were too medic who they were productive to methodical. Right,
the object of the game is to score points, it's
not playing keep away.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The Philadelphia Eagles offense, they should be much better than
the Atlanta offense because of all the new players the
Falcons have. But Philadelphia was should have never been in
position to lose the game late because you can't get
it done late. That is on Jalen Hurts, who averaged
six point one yards per pass in this game. Pedestrian
(07:06):
not not only pedestrian performance. And then after Barkley had
the brain fart, butterfingers Barkley dropping the pass, Hurts he
has a Tom Brady moment, Right, you can go down
the field, lead your team back to victory, pick up
your teammate. Butterfingers Barkley game winning drive ended, and he
tosses a wounded duck with three Atlanta defenders around. It
(07:30):
was really the only question is whether wich Atlanta defender
was going to pick off the pass. All three had
a chance to pick off that wounded Duck in that moment. Now,
finally you had Siriatti, Nick Siriotti. And the reason I'm
gonna bring Nick Sirianti on here is because of acid reflux. Okay,
the Eagles coach. That was what we call a burp,
(07:52):
a reminder of last season's collapse where the Eagles, if
they had any real ownership, they would have fired Nick Siriotti.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
The guy's still there.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't know, uh, but Nick Siriani made some questionable
decisions in this game. Now you'll hear the question and
the answer on this one. We'll play some of it.
I don't know that we're gonna play all of it.
But here's Nick Sirianni commenting on the decision. There was
a third down decision. Let's let's take a listen to
the audio.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Here we go on the third tree called want to
pass it until my plasory mechanism where no challenge just
six down takes it back.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
You know, we uh, we wanted to They were they
were running a certain defense and junking it up in
the middle. So we're trying to go on around the
outside and uh, you know it didn't work.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Here golf pattern there on going kicking up.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
You think about doing you know again in that scenario,
I was thinking they might not have any timeouts there,
but obviously they did with with the with the incomplete pass,
you know, that would have that would have came down
to maybe a minute, and so we wanted to go
up six points, you know, and it didn't work. So
(09:08):
you know, my decision to pass it there again, like
I said, you know what, they were junking it up
inside with it being fourth and three to go for
I thought, you know, with them not having any timeouts,
I wanted to be down a touchdown and see if
they could drive the field.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
And they did.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
All right, there you go, Nick Sirianni. Is there a
better front running coach in the NFL? Than Nick Sirianni?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Is there? Is there anybody like you want?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
This guy's like a male cheerleader out there when his
team's doing well, right and when they're losing, he turtles up.
That's a Nick Sirianni right there. That's your head coach.
That's the Eagles head coach. That's your leader of men
now page two. Here does the absence of wide receiver A. J.
Brown does that give the Eagles a reasonable excuse for
(09:57):
this performance? And I'm shaking my head no on this.
The answer is no. It's a pass fail grading system
when it comes to these games. Pass fail, no excuses,
so you get a fail. And Brown is a good
wide receiver. You could say he's a top ten wide receiver.
I wouldn't disagree. I don't know about top five. But
he's very good. He's not the super nova.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
You're gonna throw the ball to him five to ten times.
He'll catch three or four, maybe five passes. Maybe one
of them will go for a bunch of yard. There's
no guarantee he's gonna score a touchdown. Here's a score
touchdown every game. But in this particular night, the real
bird brain, which has not been mentioned yet, goes to
the Eagles as a team pivoting to cry uncle, as
(10:43):
in Uncle Vic Fangio, the defensive quarter, where have you gone?
Vic Fangio? Shutdown defense. Kirk Cousins looked absolutely cooked.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
He looked like a.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Display case mannequin. Last week against the Pittsburgh Steelers, it
was weekend at burnt type stuff and then Fangio's defense
failing to keep him on his toes. The Eagles had
just two quarterback hits against Atlanta's quarterback, just two one sack.
On the night, there was very little pressure. The final
(11:16):
drive by Atlanta against Vic Fangio's Eagles defense was the
perfect encapsulation of the problem for the Birds defense.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Here, even with the.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Barkley fumble, which not on a fumble, he just dropped it,
and then the interception by the quarterback, the Eagles played soft.
That's not Philadelphia Eagle style football, not in my lifetime,
not recently. That's not how the Eagles had played defense.
They played soft coverage, they had a non existent pass rush,
and they lost the game. There was a lot of
(11:48):
things that could have matched that, and the things didn't
work out. Defense, they had to make a stop at
the end. They didn't make a stop. All right, Now,
last word here we briefly go to the place where
it's not as go to story, the winning locker room,
and we asked the question for the esteem panel, how
impressed were you with Kirk Cousins and the Falcons. Well,
(12:09):
considering that the game was in the bag for the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I wasn't all that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Impressed, right, how clunky Cousins looked last week. It was
stupefying that they had a chance to win this game.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
It really was.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
After a couple of punts to start the game, and
I'm thinking early on, I'm like, all right, this is
neither team got off to a great start, but the
Atlanta offense the first couple of possessions like this is
not going to go well for the Falcons. This game
should be a route or a route, depending on where
you grew up, and to have that turn into what
it became is rather mind boggling when you think about it.
(12:45):
The Falcons after those first two drives went haywire because
of the soft Vic Fangio defense. The Falcons scored either
field goals or touchdowns on five of their final six
real drives of the game. I don't count the last
drive because they down the.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Ball that was it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But overall, Atlanta is certainly not out of the woods.
They're not out of the woods here, and I consider
this horseplay. This win is horseplay. Never look a gift
mouth in the gift horse in the mouth. You shouldn't
do that. You should not look at gift horse in
the mouth because the dirty Birds were the beneficiary of
a gift.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It's like the room service cart shows up at your
hotel room and you get a nice meal. You didn't
pay for the meal, You don't know who paid for
the meal, but you get the meal. It was more
incompetence by the Philadelphia Eagles. They had ninety seven percent
chance Philadelphia, if you go by the nerd numbers of
winning the game, and so you accept the gift gracefully. Fine,
you move on, but you look ahead and Atlanta under
(13:45):
their new head coach Raheem Morris, they have the Chiefs,
the Saints, and the Buccaneers lined up and good afternoon,
good evening again, good night. All those three games in Georgia,
but they at the Chiefs primetime. I'm the Saints and
the Buccaneers. Two of those three are night games in
the atl.
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about this hour dramatic ending as the Philadelphia Eagles coughed
up a fur ball at the end of the Monday
night game and the Atlanta Falcons right there to snatch
victory from defeat, and of course the Eagles on the
other side snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as
(16:43):
they gagged the game up, butterfingers Barkley dropping a would
be first down that would have iced the game, and
instead the Falcons matriculate the ball down the field and
they get to go ahead touchdown.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
And point after touchdown.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But they in the end, the Eagles, they they still
a shot to get in field goal range. Jalen Hurst
then who goofed? I've got to know he threw an interception.
But our lead this hour is from down south. We
go just adjacent to Tobacco Road. And a quarterback shake up,
the first quarterback shakeup of the new NFL season.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
If you have not heard, if you have not been
paying attention here.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We learned very early in the day when I woke up,
I was woken up by my phone. There was some
text messages, not many. They were a couple and hey,
you see what happened.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So we learned.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
The Carolina Panthers are demoting. They're benching the former number
one over Bryce Young from the twenty twenty three draft.
He has lost his stature as the starting quarterback there
and he will not not be starting Week three. The
(17:55):
Carolina football team goes to Las Vegasages, Nevada, a matchup
against Gardner Minshew and the Raiders. Andy Dalton, yes that guy,
Yes he's still playing. I'm shocked to Andy Dalton will
be the new starting quarterback for your Panthers. Tickets are
available now. I bring this up because on Sunday, Dave Canalis,
(18:19):
the head coach there, passionately defended his quarterback Tickels we
fristar quarterback.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
We're going to just continue to shore up and fix
the things we need to fundamentally from a scheme standpoint,
all those things, these are all valuable reps, These are
all valuable games. We'll learn a lot from this game,
and hopefully we'll take another step this week.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Okay, less than twenty four hours. You are the weakest.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Link, is what Dave Canalis told his quarterback there, deciding
to bench him now. He claimed this was after watching film.
He said he met with various personnel decision makers, people
to make a lot of money to do nothing, and
then he decided this is how he wanted to proceed now,
(19:06):
keeping right, NFL insiders who are fed their information from
people that have an agenda, and the agenda they have
is CYA cover your ass is the agenda. So the
general narrative coming out of North Carolina. Is the picture
that is being painted? Is this that Dave Canalis did
(19:29):
this without the help of ownership.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
This was his decision. This was not from the meddling owner.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
So let us discuss the question the Panthers, through their
useful idiots in the media claiming that the head coach
they're Dave Canalis acted alone. He acted alone in benching
the former number one pick there, Bryce Young for Andy Dalton.
Is this possible? Is this possible? So I've got Apple Maps,
(19:57):
United Airlines, and cosm Medics, and we will combine all
of these things together and we're gonna make hemorrhoids, which
is what Bryce Young canal get hemorrhoids sitting on the bench.
So number one, Yeah, in the multiverse, and I do
believe in the multiverse there is a dimension where this
(20:19):
is possible, But not the dimension I'm in and not
the dimension you're in.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
We're not in that dimension because we're in the same dimension.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And if you have even a rudimentary understanding of how
business is done in the National Football League in the
modern world, there is zero percent chance in this dimension
of the multiverse that Dave Canalis and Dave Canalis solely
made this move. No chance, no chance in my existence
(20:49):
in the world that I'm living in. And if you
look at Apple Maps, you will see the GPS is
directed towards Spin City, Spin Spin Spin, Spin, Spin, Spin,
Spin Spin Spin Spin Spin. Now, what is my evidence?
Let me give you my evidence, and you can decide
I'm gonna make my case, and then you decide you're
(21:10):
the jury, and you decide whether I've made my case.
The reason I do not believe at all that the
head coach made this decision. You have a rookie head coach,
a guy that nobody had ever heard of, who all
of a sudden became a head coach out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
So you have that. You have a.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Neurotic hands on meddling owner. Check it's only two weeks
into the NFL season. Check check check. It's still the
getting to know you stage, still the getting to know
you stage. Now, when asked about the Heela monster in
the room, Coach Canalis declined to answer. Decline to answer
(21:51):
what role, if any, the Panthers meddling owner David Tepper
hedge fun guy had in the decision to remove Bryce Young,
so he wouldn't ask the question. Now, why would he
not answer the question because whatever he said.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Would have been used against him.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Because the whole point of this is, Hey, I'm paying
you to be my coach. I don't want this guy
playing anymore. But you're gonna be the one making the decision.
It ain't gonna be me, So you got to own it.
Do whatever you want. We'll paint you as some kind
of heroic coach who stood up for the locker room.
But you gotta bench this guy because he sucks. Okay,
and I don't want to be the one that's responsible
(22:30):
for it because everyone hates me already.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
That's my theory, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So the idea that Canalis did not have anything to
do with this, that is bullshoy. Is what that is.
That is absolute, fresh piping hot bullshoy. There's not a
grain of truth in that at all. The temper pepper,
if you will, the temper temper pepper, it's a tongue twister.
That's what's behind this move. You worth twenty one billion,
(22:58):
This guy's twenty one billions. That worth David Tepper, the
guy who owns Carolina Panthers. Everything this guy has touched
in the NFL. Everything, Okay, everything smells like manure. There's
not anything this guy has touched. It doesn't smell like manure.
It's fascinating how you can be so successful in business,
(23:18):
well if you want to call what he does business,
and then be so bad at running a football team.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But here we are, Here we are, and so.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
The big picture here Young can't play. You might like him,
I know. We had a very passionate call from a
gentleman from Alabama fan, the one legged Bama man who
loves Alabama football cursed on the air, passionately defending Bryce Young.
Price is wonderful. He's a very religious man. All that
good for him and wonderful. Just can't play. And to
(23:52):
continue to send him out there, it's like he won
a raffle. It's like a contest. Hey, you won the raffle.
He kind of did win a raffle because he was
the number on.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
In the draft.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And when you're the number one overall pick, then you
got to keep playing the guy that justify the pig
all right now, page due turning to the player's side.
A player side takes a couple sides here to do
the tango, and they release their own narrative. The people
that are invested that have decided they are in the
business of Bryce Young. Those people are not looking very
(24:24):
good right now. They apparently attach themselves to the wrong horse.
They're claiming that Bryce Young was shocked, shocked, that he
has been benched by the Carolina football team.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
How is that possible? How is it possible that Bryce
Young could be shocked?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And the answer is, it's not unless you think Bryce
Young is your typical meathead, cliche football player and is
the village idiot.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
That's the only way he could be shocked by this.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Right, if Bryce Young was a schmen, you'd say, Okay,
the guys at Dingleberry, he can't. He doesn't get it,
and that's why. But if you follow the science of
this under any reasonable measurement, any reasonable measurement, even if
you've never like our friend Lorena, who we'd love, right,
Lorena could not pick a football from like a softball.
(25:20):
But even she knows this guy can't play, right, even
she is aware. She doesn't know whether as Parcels used
to say, the ball's puffed or stuffed, but she knows
Bryce Young ain't it right.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
She's aware of that.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So the checkdown became the first down option. On every
play for Carolina. It's fascinating you talk about first read.
His first read is to check down, to throw the
ball behind the line of scrimmage right, and then the
team started. The funniest part is that the Chargers started covering.
I saw some clips of this online, So the Chargers
(25:52):
realized that all he was doing was checking down, so
they started covering the checkdown.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
And then he didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
He's like, wait, I gotta throw the ball downfield, and
I don't know what to do. It's a wild Bryce
Young has been living what I call the United Airlines
a life in the NFL. He has been flying the
friendly skies on the vomit combat since he got there.
(26:20):
The worst number one overall pick since JaMarcus Russell, and
some of the numbers. You gotta go back even further.
How bad this guy has been and how bad is it?
It's so bad that Andy Dalton, who's gonna turn thirty
seven in a couple of weeks. Andy Dalton is fourteenth
NFL season is the preferred option. And Young was a
hell of a player at Alabama for Nick Saban. Wonderful
(26:42):
player there. However, it's a different game and the comparison
how I relate to it. It's like people, there's a lot
of people do podcasting. Everyone's into podcasting now, and I
do radio and podcasting, but it's a different skill set
right now, anybody can do a podcast, but to do
live radio like podcasting, record at any time you want,
you can go back, can edit it and all that stuff.
But to do it live and to have to follow
(27:02):
the certain guidlines, it's a harder situation than just doing
a podcast.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Anyone need a podcast, right, but it's a more difficult thing.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
It's like it's like college football is like podcasting. Anybody
can do it now at a high level, sure there's
not that many people. But to do the radio thing
and have that live and do it well, he can't
handle it right. Final point, So you are now the
career counselor. I have now deputized you as the career
counselor for Bryce Young. You have just been fired, although
(27:31):
you're not out of work, you're just demoted. Demoted Bryce Young,
so you've lost your standing. What is your advice as
the career counselor for Bryce Young? So Young who has
been historically terrible, as we have documented in this mall
of monologue. He has no confidence, left no confidence. He
doesn't pass the eyeball test, doesn't pass the stat test.
(27:53):
There's no test. He looks physically too small to play.
But more importantly, he plays like he's physically too small
to play in the NFL, like he can't see over
the line. There's no vision, there's no confidence. Everything is
collapsing right every The walls are caving in at this point.
So he has backed up the hypothesis that he can't play.
So with that is the standing you must change careers.
(28:14):
Now you've made a small fortune, so you don't really
have to do anything because these even players that are
absolute busts like Bryce Young still get paid game changing money.
Good for him, congratulations, But you have shown no signs
of improvement. Eighteen games. Okay, Well, it's as the former
(28:34):
coach Jerry Glanville taught me when I was a child.
He said, the NFL stands for not for long. If
you play like that, it's not for long. Eighteen games
is a long time. So Young has gotten statistically, either
he stayed the same or he's gotten worse in every
category since he took over. So his future as a
career counselor his future is production meetings and cosmetics as
(28:58):
in Ergo.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Television.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Now, we don't have any room on Benny versus the Penny,
but I'm sure at the SEC network they can find
a job for you. You can sit on set breaking
down Georgia or Tennessee or Kentucky or god forbid. If
you do bad at that, you'll have to break down Vanderbilt.
Know no old miss or LSU. But you get the point.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
You get the point.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
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Speaker 4 (29:31):
It smaller here we got that.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Gets grill, There.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
We go, get ready, get right, here we go.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
Tom Brady was getting a lot of praise for an
honest moment on Sunday. Cowboys rookie wide receiver Jalen Brooks
slipped and fell, which led to an interception. Brady was
asked if he would go back to that receiver, and
Brady said not today. Pretty tough to go back there. Yeah, Ben,
does this give you hope for Brady's commentary?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
No, I went back.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And I watched some of the clips online, and he's
still mostly being a mister softy, it's not my kind
of commentary, Coop.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
I have no hope that Brady's gonna be any good
at this. I think he stinks.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
Next, so the Chiefs are able to eke out a
win against the Bengals on Sunday, but they lost running
back Isaiah Pacheco late in the game, who's later seen
in a walking boot and on crutches. Ben, how big
of a blow is this loss for Kansas City?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well, I will pull out the Malard scale of concern
for the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
It's not very high, though, Coop.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I'll do that later, because Isaiah Pacheco has been a
good player for them. He's been productive. He was a
seventh round pick out of Rutgers. You can replace the
seventh round pick out of Rutgers. They will find someone.
They actually have a couple of guys already on the roster,
so they'll be okay. Now, if Mahomes gets hurt, it's
over with him getting hurt. Their fine.
Speaker 10 (30:47):
Next, after the Jags fell to zero to two in
the season, Trevor Lawrence spoke to reporters and he didn't
mince words, saying we suck right now, Ben, do you
think Jacksonville can turn things around?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Well, can they turn things around? Yes? Are they going
to turn things around?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I see no evidence that Trevor Lawrence can consistently play
high level football in the NFL for two months, which
is what you gotta do to turn things around. No,
but what does he care? You know, it doesn't suck
his bank account, that doesn't suck.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
He got paid. All right? How did we do? Kobolo?
You pass the session as a win. You can put
her on the bard WHOA I won the game? Fine emit?
I won, blind abbit, I won.
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We've been here all night wherever you get your podcasts,
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Speaker 4 (32:39):
Let's go to the audio tape playing better Football someone.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
From sports to the last seven to ten days is
a long one.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
So somebody should get this.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Play it again, playing better football.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Playing better football. Who could that be?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I know it's not Sean McVay. I know it's not McVeigh,
the coach of the Rams.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Can't say that. Who is it? Played again, play.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Again, playing better football.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Somebody from the world the sports. I would assume somebody
in football, but maybe not. Could be a coach, a player,
medium member, could be w NBA. That's right, a lot
of female football players. All right, I'll say call her
five Eddie.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Nobody you're a schmocker. What about you? Call a six
baby that you never have time to get you six calls? Cool?
Speaker 10 (33:24):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Call number five? All right, let's get to its sight
the bite. We'll start out, play it again, Play again.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
All right, let's start out with George, George George in
La Hello George.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Hey, d Gannon from the Cardinals thinks, what do you say?
From the Cardinals?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Gannon from Is it Coach Gannon of the Cardinals? No,
but but thank you. Caller two is cowboy John Brad
in Windsor, Ontario who died?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Hi, Ben, is that my old street nephew, Jesse Turner of.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Them A twenty seven? Happy birthday? Is that Jesse Turner?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Sorry, cowboy, it's not just okay, all right, I'll talk
to you to morow if I'll see you. If you
I'm seeing you, you're a stalker. Time for our first clue.
His father was a defensive end for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Play again, playing bitter football.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Salo to our guy Eddie in Charlotte. Caller number three.
Hello Eddie, Fast Eddie, easy money Eddie. Hello Eddie the
list guy.
Speaker 9 (34:28):
Uh yeah, that was up on your show.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Really good work.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
K K is that Kirk Cousins fo No, not, I
guess that's not it. But thank you for watching the
show any God bless you. All Right, let's go to
caller number four and that would be persona non grata.
Caller four, persona non grata.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Bobby.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Is that Bobby Vania? No, what a great guess.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Before being drafted, he was criticized for calling Colin Kaepernick
a clown.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
A clown.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Let's go to Ben in Idaho or my collar five? Quickly, Ben, Ben,
you hung up? You smug it?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
No, it's Nick Bosa, Nick Bosa Bosa, Nick Bosa.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
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