September 21, 2024 • 31 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Houston Texans coming away with yet another unimpressive win on SNF, the Eagles giving the game way to Kirk Cousins and the Falcons on MNF, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and much more!
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Speaker 3 (02:00):
CJ.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Stroud God's gift to the quarterback position. I was told
that in the offseason the greatest young generational talent we've
ever seen.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Until the next one. But CJ.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Stroud and the Texans getting the spotlight against Caleb Williams,
the supposed next big thing of the Chicago Bears. You
had Collinsworth there, t Rico. They were having quite the time,
quite the time. So I don't know you watch this
or not. Maybe you were worn out by the day
you lost your parlays. You got smoked like someone I
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know against a penny. So see Jay Stroud. Now you
look at the stat line's well, he's the headliner. So
he had two hundred and sixty yards, most of that
in the first half, also had the one touchdown and
then Kaemy Fairbairn that is the hero, right, I mean
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that's the guy, the kicker, Fairbairn. I didn't have to
say the guys I know went to UCLA, But I mean,
when you're talking about your idiot kicker in the headline,
he had field goals of fifty six, forty seven, fifty
nine and fifty three four field goals. Yeah, not impressed.
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Houston gets the win. They don't cover the number. Remember,
good teams win, great teams cover. They're not a great team.
They didn't cover. They didn't cover the spread Sunday night.
So Caleb Williams, we'll get to him in a second,
but let us discuss the question what do you make
We'll start with the team that's supposed to be right
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there among all the elites in the AFC, the team
from Houston. So what do you make of this performance
by C. J. Stroud and the Texans offense? So I've
got campaign headquarters, patio, furniture, and wagon, and we will
combine all of these things together.
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A giant migraine headache. If you give us ten minutes,
we'll give you my I'm kidding, all right. So a
the Malor report card after a thorough minute by minute
observation the Houston Texans offense. I give the Texans offense
the D. I give him a D. I expected more.
I expected more. I was not overly impressed. Now we
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haven't we haven't seen total domination. It's only two games.
But that's all we have. We do the show today.
We don't do the show at the end of the year.
We do the show now. We'll worry about the big
picture at the end of the year. We have to
grade these things on week one and week two. We're
talking right now at the end of week two with
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one game left on Monday night, as we're doing this,
and I just did not get the sense that this
is one of those teams. I did not, despite adding
Joe Mixon and Stefan Diggs in the offseason, and even
though they're two and all, this was a grinded out
kind of a game. C J Strapp his MVP campaign,
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the campaign headquarters for the CJ. Stroud MVP is in
crisis mode at this point. They're not clicking on all cylinders.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Underwhelming.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Underwhelming would be the.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Way I would describe it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Despite the two wins, Texans were way too dependent on
the kicking game, and those not just field goals, long
field goals like long field goals. And now before you
call well yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
but the Chicago defense is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Okay, Spyler alert.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
That is true, perhaps that the Bears do have a
good defense, but irrelevant to the conversation.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Okay, it's relevant because if the Texans are high for
loutant and they're the real deal, right, they're the real
McCoy their top notch offense. Don't you agree with me
that it doesn't matter who they play, that they're going
to put up impressive offensive numbers. The opponent should not
matter and does not matter if you're truly elite. Now,
if you're good against bad teams, okay, fine, then you
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can say they're good against bad teams. That's the Texans.
But the cream's supposed to rise to the crop here,
to the top of the crop. And that that second
half offense by Houston was atrocious, was absolutely atrocious. They
had the ball seven times in the second half against
the Bears, one field goal of fumble and five punts
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and that's it in the second half. CJ Strout after
halftime averaged barely five yards per past five point one
yards per pass in the second half, had a passer
rating below seventy in the second half of the game,
and Joe Mixon overall the old Bengal Joe Mixon. He
had nine carries for twenty five yards. Whoop damn do
by about Stefan dis Clearly Stefan Diggs must have been
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the star of the show. No, he was targeted six times.
He had four catches and thirty seven yards. Ho hum
ho hum ho hum. Nico Collins was the star of
the show at the beginning of the game. It's some
big class pass plays. Now on the other side, the
better story is in the losing locker room. So, my
guys in Chicago, Eugene in Chicago, you fee me. You
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know all you guys, you know you are right? Did
their content contributors to the show? My core group of
people in Chicago listen to the show. You told me
this guy's amazing, right, So how would you qualify this
performance by the rookie quarterback Caleb Williams of the Bears
in this game? So this is nothing to paint your
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fingernails over. If you know what I'm saying, right, there's
nothing to get all excited.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
There and go down and paint your fingernails.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Because Williams, who was billed by the establishment, the football establishment,
being like patio furniture, No, what do I mean by that?
Build this patio furniture, no assembly required. Yeah, you pick
it up. It's all built. You don't have to build it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You know it's.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Wonderful, ready to use, right out of the box. Take
him out of the box and you're on your way.
That would be false advertising. That would definitely be false
advertising because he had a rude awakening in week one,
and I would say this is also in that category.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Caleb.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
He drowned against the Tennessee Titans. They won the game anyway, Chicago,
but I would argue he wasn't measurably better in this game.
I didn't see leaps and bounds of improvement. The Bears
offense finished the game with six punts, two Caleb Williams interceptions.
There could have been more one turnover on downs for
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the Bears offense. Plus they did have a touchdown and
a couple of field goals. But you could have gotten
that kind of production from justin fields right or some
guy drafted in the third round, not the.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Number one over.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I mean Kim On averaged four point seven yards per
past Kayleb Williams. Less than five seven is the standard
for average, so he's way below average. Both these quarterbacks
were way below average, at least in the second half.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
For CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
The other thing I noticed is the plague of so
many quarterbacks in the NFL. Kayleb williams internal clock appears
to be broken. What I mean by that is he
kept getting sacked. Many of them were because he held
the ball for too long, and you really got to
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speed up the clock. And if you don't, you're gonna
get killed. You're gonna lead the world in sacks. And
that's no way to consistently be successful in the NFL.
He will sack seven times in this game, and again
it's like, well, the Tuxes have a good defense, okay,
you know that. Going in, You get rid of the ball, right,
you treat it like a hot potato and you move
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Wowser's Philadelphia, the birthplace of our freedom, allegedly the original
White House right there in Philadelphia, all the history American history.
That was the stage for Week two, the matchup on
Monday Night football North versus South. Yeah, Jalen Hurts and
the Eagles against Kirk Cousins and the Atlanta Falcons in
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an NFC slobber knocker. Troy Aikman was there, you had,
yo Buck. A couple of the 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
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you would not have to. And he actually missed a
good game. A lot of these primetime games are duds.
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
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a seven yard pass and catch to Drake London with
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
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kirk Cousins Falcon win the game or was it a
story of Jalen Hurtz, Sequon Barkley and the Eagles losing
said game. So I've got candy man, cry uncle and horseplay,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Make a tasty cake which tasted a little.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Better on the way back to 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 is a textbook example case in point Monday
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Night football.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It was in the green bag. The game was in
the green bag.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
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, get the victor. Only
the futs it away and they drop it down the
garbage disposal and it's gone. So in terms of who
gets the biggest chunk of the blame cheese steak, we're
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gonna cut this thing up three ways. Now, a lot
of low information people say that's only one person gets
the entire blame chief steak.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
But now I say, no, it's deeper than that.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We have Sequon Barkley, Jalen Hurts, and Nick Sirianni. They
each get a big chunk that 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 Barkley, you had one job. You had one job.
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Sequan one job and a reminder that you can take
the player out of the Giants uniform. You can do that.
You can take the player out of the gizz uniform.
But you can't take the stank of that Giants uniform
out of the player, not easily anyway. And this was
pro Barkley did the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it. A dramatic game changing play, a rudimentary,
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basic pass that running backs catch almost all of the time.
It was right there. It wasn't a terrible pass. It
wasn't over his head, it wasn't on the ground, it
wasn't sideways. It was right there. Short pass, catch the ball,
win the game. He didn't catch the ball, and the
clock stop because of that one six left that forced
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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 dumbass.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
You dropped the ball. Let my team, Nowaday shouldn't have
put the defense in that position, make that catch.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Came over, relaxed, came back to my o habits and
just gotta go back.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And now 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, Jalen Hurs. Now, the Eagles offense was too
methodical for my taste. They were toothodic who they were
productive to methodical? Right, the object of the game is
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to score points. It's not playing keep away.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
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 Malman. Right, you can go down
the field, lead your team back to victory, pick up
your teammate. Butterfingers Barkley game winning drive, end it, and
he tosses a wounded duck with three Atlanta defenders around
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it 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 Siriatti. And
the reason I'm gonna bring Nick Sirianni on here is
because of acid reflux. Okay, the Eagles coach. That was
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what we call a burp, a reminder of last season's
collapse where the Eagles, if they had any real ownership,
they would have fired Nick Sirianti. Why the guy's still there,
I don't know, but Nick Siriotti 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
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here's Nick Sirianni commenting on the decision. There was a
third down decision. Let's take a listen to the audio.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Here we go.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
The third tree.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Called you want to pass?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
In it telling my places or a mechanism where jail
and just as sits down takes a sack.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
And 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 3 (19:24):
All pattern there.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Wanted to go on kicking up you think about.
Speaker 10 (19:29):
Doing you know again in that scenario, I was thinking
they might not have any timeouts there, but they 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 you know, my
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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 it, I thought,
you know, with them not having any timeouts, I wanted
them to be down a touchdown and see if they
could drive the field.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
And they did.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
All right, that's all right, all right, there you go,
Nick Sirianni. Is there a better front running coach in
the NFL? Than Nick Sirianni? Is there? Is there anybody
like you want?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
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.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Brown?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Does that give the Eagles a reasonable excuse for this performance?
And I'm shaking my head no on this.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
The answer is no.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
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.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But he's very good. He's not the super nova.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
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. He'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. He
looked like a display case mannequin. Last week against the
Pittsburgh Steelers. It was weekend at Bernie's type stuff and
then Fangio's defense failing to keep him on his toes.
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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 drive by Atlanta against Fangio's Eagles
defense was the perfect encapsulation of the problem for the
Birds defense here, even with the Barkley fumble, which not
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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, a 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 things
that could have matched that, and the things didn't work out. Defense,
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they had to make a stop at the end. They
didn't make a stop.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Now, last word here we briefly go to the place
where it's not as good as 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,
considering that the game was in the bag for the Eagles,
I wasn't all that impressed, right, how clunky Cousins looked
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last week. It was stupefying that they had a chance
to win this game.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It really was.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
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 gonna 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.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
When you think about it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
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 just down the ball.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
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.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
You should do that.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
You should not look at gift horse and mouth because
the dirty were the beneficiary of a gift. 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 are ninety seven percent chance Philadelphia,
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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 their new head
coach Rahee 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
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at the Chiefs primetime, the Saints and the Buccaneers. Two
of those three are night games in the atl.
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Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars.
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Here's Ben Mahler.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
And the way we go on password. I didn't want
to mention.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I was gonna give it this earlier.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
We had the nonsense with some of these wacky callers.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But there's a funny story.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
John Madden passed away a couple years ago, but they.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Told the story he would be watching NFL games in
his man cave and he had all the coaches numbers.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
So he would like call.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Andy Reid in the middle of a game he was
coaching to give him advice or ask him a question
while he was just like hanging out in northern California.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
I love that story about Matt.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
What a what a goat, what a legend. All right,
let's get to it. We welcome in JT. The Wingman
on the road again. Hello, JT. The wingman who's been
to the last three, the last three malor meeting greets.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Good morning to you, JT.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Three in a row.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Let's book four. Maybe they are.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Nothing planned there, but stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I'll let you know. We're working on something. It's actually
on my end that's the problem. But I gotta get
to the bottom of night, all right, JT. Hold on, JT.
The Wingman from Knoxville, Tennessee, And we have Milkman Mike. Hello, Milkman, Hey,
good morning from the Mile High Kitty.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
All right, very good, gentlemen. Let's play the game. JT.
Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You got me Ben, Eddie, Coop or Lorena.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Good job by you, JT. How about you? Milkman Mike,
who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 9 (26:31):
Milkman?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Well, let's go with the winner.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Let's go with Eddy. Well, I would actually be a loser.
That's the opposite, the opposite.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I've got more game show wins all time than anyone
loss of Fox Sports Radio. All right, let's play the
game here. We have a list of words one to
ten JT the wingman you were on first. Please pick
a number.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
I have blew with umber three.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Oh you changed it up. I just assumed. You know
what happens when you assume.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Please, there's a cough button. You don't need to clear
your throat on there.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Let's go with.
Speaker 11 (27:10):
Rotate rotate R O T A T E rotate. Yeah,
all right, ten that you want to quit?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Now, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
You loser? Why do you shut out for me to quit?
Because you're Fred?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I just want I get more content, Eddie. That's why
I got content.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Afraid of competition. I'm not quitting another loss for you.
Let's next, next up getting shut out.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Number four?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Please?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
No shit, Eddie does not know this at all. Well,
let's try a reverse Mallard maneuver. Oh no, no, no,
I don't.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Know if you're gonna get this or not, but I
think it'll be interesting to try uh so here's the
reverse malor maneuver.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Fact.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
What yeah, my gosh, yes, that's double points.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I agree right now, right now, that's not double points
the game?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Why why would I corypt tide? Why would I crop it? Time?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Alright, go ahead, Jake, come on, come on with my
wing man, come on.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
No bird, all right, let's see here. Let's go with.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Examination. No, well, oh, Eddie's stumped.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
We stumped.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
If we stumped at he's got nothing, he's got nothing.
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Let's go not reverse mal maneuver, but regular mallow maneuver.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
You're just using my material, regular malor maneuver. Are you
using my material? Are we go? Pop?
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Pop?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, there's no cheering cheer. Why would you cheer?
Speaker 6 (29:10):
You're cheering?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I why were these two idiots cheers? There?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
So that's not impressive.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
That was easy.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Use.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
That was a clue against you. That was my clue
table this guy. I can't hurry up. I want to
now number number number seven. No chance, no chance, Oh
my god, this is no way. All right, Tom, Yeah,
(29:43):
this is this was a tough fun.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
No.
Speaker 9 (29:46):
No, there we go, here we go, here we go.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Contrast contrast.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Different h No, uh, I've met JT.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
The wing Man. He's very smart, very educated man.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
That's why he's been to the last three MALLA.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Meet greets in Minnesota, in Charleston, and in all.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
We did one in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
How about uh differentiate?
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Oh that's uh jeez, I got dumb, God, Eddie, how
about what do you say he said opposite?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
How about analyze?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
H Now, I got one, I got he got, I
about Jucks, I got nothing. Juxtapose say it again, Yeah,
you're not gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Juxtapose.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Now the word was compare. Really for the word compare.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
You know what this means.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
That means Eddie Chetah. So I went together. That's my maneuver.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
It's not your manuver. It's the Malleur move. It's not
think everyone, it's for everyone. It's for the world. I
have the trademark. My name's on it.
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Speaker 3 (02:00):
CJ.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Stroud God's gift to the quarterback position. I was told
that in the offseason the greatest young generational talent we've
ever seen.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Until the next one. But CJ.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Stroud and the Texans getting the spotlight against Caleb Williams,
the supposed next big thing of the Chicago Bears. You
had Collinsworth there, t Rico. They were having quite the time,
quite the time. So I don't know you watch this
or not. Maybe you were worn out by the day
you lost your parlays. You got smoked like someone I
(02:32):
know against a penny. So see Jay Stroud. Now you
look at the stat line's well, he's the headliner. So
he had two hundred and sixty yards, most of that
in the first half, also had the one touchdown and
then Kaemy Fairbairn that is the hero, right, I mean
(02:55):
that's the guy, the kicker, Fairbairn. I didn't have to
say the guys I know went to UCLA, But I mean,
when you're talking about your idiot kicker in the headline,
he had field goals of fifty six, forty seven, fifty
nine and fifty three four field goals. Yeah, not impressed.
(03:15):
Houston gets the win. They don't cover the number. Remember,
good teams win, great teams cover. They're not a great team.
They didn't cover. They didn't cover the spread Sunday night.
So Caleb Williams, we'll get to him in a second,
but let us discuss the question what do you make
We'll start with the team that's supposed to be right
(03:36):
there among all the elites in the AFC, the team
from Houston. So what do you make of this performance
by C. J. Stroud and the Texans offense? So I've
got campaign headquarters, patio, furniture, and wagon, and we will
combine all of these things together.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
And we are going to give you.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
A giant migraine headache. If you give us ten minutes,
we'll give you my I'm kidding, all right. So a
the Malor report card after a thorough minute by minute
observation the Houston Texans offense. I give the Texans offense
the D. I give him a D. I expected more.
I expected more. I was not overly impressed. Now we
(04:21):
haven't we haven't seen total domination. It's only two games.
But that's all we have. We do the show today.
We don't do the show at the end of the year.
We do the show now. We'll worry about the big
picture at the end of the year. We have to
grade these things on week one and week two. We're
talking right now at the end of week two with
(04:41):
one game left on Monday night, as we're doing this,
and I just did not get the sense that this
is one of those teams. I did not, despite adding
Joe Mixon and Stefan Diggs in the offseason, and even
though they're two and all, this was a grinded out
kind of a game. C J Strapp his MVP campaign,
(05:04):
the campaign headquarters for the CJ. Stroud MVP is in
crisis mode at this point. They're not clicking on all cylinders.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Underwhelming.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Underwhelming would be the.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Way I would describe it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Despite the two wins, Texans were way too dependent on
the kicking game, and those not just field goals, long
field goals like long field goals. And now before you
call well yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
but the Chicago defense is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Okay, Spyler alert.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
That is true, perhaps that the Bears do have a
good defense, but irrelevant to the conversation.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Okay, it's relevant because if the Texans are high for
loutant and they're the real deal, right, they're the real
McCoy their top notch offense. Don't you agree with me
that it doesn't matter who they play, that they're going
to put up impressive offensive numbers. The opponent should not
matter and does not matter if you're truly elite. Now,
if you're good against bad teams, okay, fine, then you
(06:06):
can say they're good against bad teams. That's the Texans.
But the cream's supposed to rise to the crop here,
to the top of the crop. And that that second
half offense by Houston was atrocious, was absolutely atrocious. They
had the ball seven times in the second half against
the Bears, one field goal of fumble and five punts
(06:29):
and that's it in the second half. CJ Strout after
halftime averaged barely five yards per past five point one
yards per pass in the second half, had a passer
rating below seventy in the second half of the game,
and Joe Mixon overall the old Bengal Joe Mixon. He
had nine carries for twenty five yards. Whoop damn do
by about Stefan dis Clearly Stefan Diggs must have been
(06:51):
the star of the show. No, he was targeted six times.
He had four catches and thirty seven yards. Ho hum
ho hum ho hum. Nico Collins was the star of
the show at the beginning of the game. It's some
big class pass plays. Now on the other side, the
better story is in the losing locker room. So, my
guys in Chicago, Eugene in Chicago, you fee me. You
(07:15):
know all you guys, you know you are right? Did
their content contributors to the show? My core group of
people in Chicago listen to the show. You told me
this guy's amazing, right, So how would you qualify this
performance by the rookie quarterback Caleb Williams of the Bears
in this game? So this is nothing to paint your
(07:38):
fingernails over. If you know what I'm saying, right, there's
nothing to get all excited.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
There and go down and paint your fingernails.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Because Williams, who was billed by the establishment, the football establishment,
being like patio furniture, No, what do I mean by that?
Build this patio furniture, no assembly required. Yeah, you pick
it up. It's all built. You don't have to build it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You know it's.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Wonderful, ready to use, right out of the box. Take
him out of the box and you're on your way.
That would be false advertising. That would definitely be false
advertising because he had a rude awakening in week one,
and I would say this is also in that category.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Caleb.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
He drowned against the Tennessee Titans. They won the game anyway, Chicago,
but I would argue he wasn't measurably better in this game.
I didn't see leaps and bounds of improvement. The Bears
offense finished the game with six punts, two Caleb Williams interceptions.
There could have been more one turnover on downs for
(08:41):
the Bears offense. Plus they did have a touchdown and
a couple of field goals. But you could have gotten
that kind of production from justin fields right or some
guy drafted in the third round, not the.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Number one over.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I mean Kim On averaged four point seven yards per
past Kayleb Williams. Less than five seven is the standard
for average, so he's way below average. Both these quarterbacks
were way below average, at least in the second half.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
For CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
The other thing I noticed is the plague of so
many quarterbacks in the NFL. Kayleb williams internal clock appears
to be broken. What I mean by that is he
kept getting sacked. Many of them were because he held
the ball for too long, and you really got to
(09:38):
speed up the clock. And if you don't, you're gonna
get killed. You're gonna lead the world in sacks. And
that's no way to consistently be successful in the NFL.
He will sack seven times in this game, and again
it's like, well, the Tuxes have a good defense, okay,
you know that. Going in, You get rid of the ball, right,
you treat it like a hot potato and you move
(10:00):
on and that's it.
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Wowser's Philadelphia, the birthplace of our freedom, allegedly the original
White House right there in Philadelphia, all the history American history.
That was the stage for Week two, the matchup on
Monday Night football North versus South. Yeah, Jalen Hurts and
the Eagles against Kirk Cousins and the Atlanta Falcons in
(12:54):
an NFC slobber knocker. Troy Aikman was there, you had,
yo Buck. A couple of the 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
(13:15):
you would not have to. And he actually missed a
good game. A lot of these primetime games are duds.
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
(13:35):
a seven yard pass and catch to Drake London with
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
(13:58):
kirk Cousins Falcon win the game or was it a
story of Jalen Hurtz, Sequon Barkley and the Eagles losing
said game. So I've got candy man, cry uncle and horseplay,
and we will combine all of these things together and
(14:19):
we are going to.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Make a tasty cake which tasted a little.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Better on the way back to 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 is a textbook example case in point Monday
(14:44):
Night football.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It was in the green bag. The game was in
the green bag.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
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, get the victor. Only
the futs it away and they drop it down the
garbage disposal and it's gone. So in terms of who
gets the biggest chunk of the blame cheese steak, we're
(15:10):
gonna cut this thing up three ways. Now, a lot
of low information people say that's only one person gets
the entire blame chief steak.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
But now I say, no, it's deeper than that.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We have Sequon Barkley, Jalen Hurts, and Nick Sirianni. They
each get a big chunk that 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 Barkley, you had one job. You had one job.
(15:43):
Sequan one job and a reminder that you can take
the player out of the Giants uniform. You can do that.
You can take the player out of the gizz uniform.
But you can't take the stank of that Giants uniform
out of the player, not easily anyway. And this was
pro Barkley did the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it. A dramatic game changing play, a rudimentary,
(16:09):
basic pass that running backs catch almost all of the time.
It was right there. It wasn't a terrible pass. It
wasn't over his head, it wasn't on the ground, it
wasn't sideways. It was right there. Short pass, catch the ball,
win the game. He didn't catch the ball, and the
clock stop because of that one six left that forced
(16:33):
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 dumbass.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
You dropped the ball. Let my team, Nowaday shouldn't have
put the defense in that position, make that catch.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Came over, relaxed, came back to my o habits and
just gotta go back.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And now 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, Jalen Hurs. Now, the Eagles offense was too
methodical for my taste. They were toothodic who they were
productive to methodical? Right, the object of the game is
(17:22):
to score points. It's not playing keep away.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
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
(17:48):
not not only pedestrian performance. And then after Barkley had
the brain fart, butterfingers Barkley dropping the pass, Hurts, he
has a Tom Brady Malman. Right, you can go down
the field, lead your team back to victory, pick up
your teammate. Butterfingers Barkley game winning drive, end it, and
he tosses a wounded duck with three Atlanta defenders around
(18:11):
it 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 Siriatti. And
the reason I'm gonna bring Nick Sirianni on here is
because of acid reflux. Okay, the Eagles coach. That was
(18:32):
what we call a burp, a reminder of last season's
collapse where the Eagles, if they had any real ownership,
they would have fired Nick Sirianti. Why the guy's still there,
I don't know, but Nick Siriotti 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
(18:52):
here's Nick Sirianni commenting on the decision. There was a
third down decision. Let's take a listen to the audio.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Here we go.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
The third tree.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Called you want to pass?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
In it telling my places or a mechanism where jail
and just as sits down takes a sack.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
And 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 3 (19:24):
All pattern there.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Wanted to go on kicking up you think about.
Speaker 10 (19:29):
Doing you know again in that scenario, I was thinking
they might not have any timeouts there, but they 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 you know, my
(19:50):
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 it, I thought,
you know, with them not having any timeouts, I wanted
them to be down a touchdown and see if they
could drive the field.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
And they did.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
All right, that's all right, all right, there you go,
Nick Sirianni. Is there a better front running coach in
the NFL? Than Nick Sirianni? Is there? Is there anybody
like you want?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
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.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Brown?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Does that give the Eagles a reasonable excuse for this performance?
And I'm shaking my head no on this.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
The answer is no.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
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.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But he's very good. He's not the super nova.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
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. He'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
(21:24):
in Uncle Vic Fangio, the defensive quarter where have you gone?
Vic Fangio shutdown defense. Kirk Cousins looked absolutely cooked. He
looked like a display case mannequin. Last week against the
Pittsburgh Steelers. It was weekend at Bernie's type stuff and
then Fangio's defense failing to keep him on his toes.
(21:47):
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 drive by Atlanta against Fangio's Eagles
defense was the perfect encapsulation of the problem for the
Birds defense here, even with the Barkley fumble, which not
(22:11):
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, a 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 things
that could have matched that, and the things didn't work out. Defense,
(22:34):
they had to make a stop at the end. They
didn't make a stop.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Now, last word here we briefly go to the place
where it's not as good as 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,
considering that the game was in the bag for the Eagles,
I wasn't all that impressed, right, how clunky Cousins looked
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last week. It was stupefying that they had a chance
to win this game.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It really was.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
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 gonna 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.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
When you think about it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
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 just down the ball.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
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.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
You should do that.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
You should not look at gift horse and mouth because
the dirty were the beneficiary of a gift. 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 are ninety seven percent chance Philadelphia,
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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 their new head
coach Rahee 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
(24:40):
at the Chiefs primetime, the Saints and the Buccaneers. Two
of those three are night games in the atl.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
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and the password.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Here's Ben Mahler.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
And the way we go on password. I didn't want
to mention.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I was gonna give it this earlier.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
We had the nonsense with some of these wacky callers.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But there's a funny story.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
John Madden passed away a couple years ago, but they.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Told the story he would be watching NFL games in
his man cave and he had all the coaches numbers.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
So he would like call.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Andy Reid in the middle of a game he was
coaching to give him advice or ask him a question
while he was just like hanging out in northern California.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
I love that story about Matt.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
What a what a goat, what a legend. All right,
let's get to it. We welcome in JT. The Wingman
on the road again. Hello, JT. The wingman who's been
to the last three, the last three malor meeting greets.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Good morning to you, JT.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Three in a row.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Let's book four. Maybe they are.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Nothing planned there, but stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I'll let you know. We're working on something. It's actually
on my end that's the problem. But I gotta get
to the bottom of night, all right, JT. Hold on, JT.
The Wingman from Knoxville, Tennessee, And we have Milkman Mike. Hello, Milkman, Hey,
good morning from the Mile High Kitty.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
All right, very good, gentlemen. Let's play the game. JT.
Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You got me Ben, Eddie, Coop or Lorena.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Good job by you, JT. How about you? Milkman Mike,
who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 9 (26:31):
Milkman?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Well, let's go with the winner.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Let's go with Eddy. Well, I would actually be a loser.
That's the opposite, the opposite.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I've got more game show wins all time than anyone
loss of Fox Sports Radio. All right, let's play the
game here. We have a list of words one to
ten JT the wingman you were on first. Please pick
a number.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
I have blew with umber three.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Oh you changed it up. I just assumed. You know
what happens when you assume.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Please, there's a cough button. You don't need to clear
your throat on there.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Let's go with.
Speaker 11 (27:10):
Rotate rotate R O T A T E rotate. Yeah,
all right, ten that you want to quit?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Now, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
You loser? Why do you shut out for me to quit?
Because you're Fred?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I just want I get more content, Eddie. That's why
I got content.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Afraid of competition. I'm not quitting another loss for you.
Let's next, next up getting shut out.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Number four?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Please?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
No shit, Eddie does not know this at all. Well,
let's try a reverse Mallard maneuver. Oh no, no, no,
I don't.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Know if you're gonna get this or not, but I
think it'll be interesting to try uh so here's the
reverse malor maneuver.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Fact.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
What yeah, my gosh, yes, that's double points.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I agree right now, right now, that's not double points
the game?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Why why would I corypt tide? Why would I crop it? Time?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Alright, go ahead, Jake, come on, come on with my
wing man, come on.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
No bird, all right, let's see here. Let's go with.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Examination. No, well, oh, Eddie's stumped.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
We stumped.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
If we stumped at he's got nothing, he's got nothing.
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Let's go not reverse mal maneuver, but regular mallow maneuver.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
You're just using my material, regular malor maneuver. Are you
using my material? Are we go? Pop?
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Pop?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, there's no cheering cheer. Why would you cheer?
Speaker 6 (29:10):
You're cheering?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I why were these two idiots cheers? There?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
So that's not impressive.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
That was easy.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Use.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
That was a clue against you. That was my clue
table this guy. I can't hurry up. I want to
now number number number seven. No chance, no chance, Oh
my god, this is no way. All right, Tom, Yeah,
(29:43):
this is this was a tough fun.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
No.
Speaker 9 (29:46):
No, there we go, here we go, here we go.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Contrast contrast.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Different h No, uh, I've met JT.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
The wing Man. He's very smart, very educated man.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
That's why he's been to the last three MALLA.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Meet greets in Minnesota, in Charleston, and in all.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
We did one in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
How about uh differentiate?
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Oh that's uh jeez, I got dumb, God, Eddie, how
about what do you say he said opposite?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
How about analyze?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
H Now, I got one, I got he got, I
about Jucks, I got nothing. Juxtapose say it again, Yeah,
you're not gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Juxtapose.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Now the word was compare. Really for the word compare.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
You know what this means.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
That means Eddie Chetah. So I went together. That's my maneuver.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
It's not your manuver. It's the Malleur move. It's not
think everyone, it's for everyone. It's for the world. I
have the trademark. My name's on it.
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