January 13, 2025 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about Baker Mayfield and the Bucs falling to Jayden Daniels and the Commanders, Jordan Love and the Packers failing to show up against the Eagles, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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we'll get to our lead here in a minute, as
the story continues to be where we broadcast from the
fires which are not out, not out at all, and
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the winds supposed to pick up here over the next
couple of days, so we'll see what what happens here.
Thirty eight thousand, six hundred and twenty nine acres have burned.
To put that in perspective, that's over sixty miles of
southern California has burned up in the week and not
even a four weeks since last Tuesday when the fires started.
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So our thoughts go out to those affected, also the
first responders, the Palisades Fire, which over the weekend actually
shut down the Fox Sports radio studios which are just
below down the hill, and they had to evacuate the
studios over the weekend for I think it was Friday
night and a Saturday anyway, the Palisades Fire which is
still burning thirteen percent containment, So we'll keep an eye
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on all that. But our lead, you're here for the sports,
and we are here to give you the sports. It's
sporty Malor our lead from Tampa. That was the site
that was the site of the made for TV Sunday
Night prime time match up. Jade and Daniels and the
Commanders popping in for a visit the baker Mayfield Bucks,
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the opponent first playoff game for Jayden Daniels popping his cherry,
and there was to recall and Collinsworth. They had the
call on the Peacock. I don't know if you were
engaged in this game or not. Maybe you don't really
give a rats ask about either one of these teams.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Don't worry. We watched so you would not have to.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Jade and danis running for a critical first down, and
that set things up and allowed Washington to run the
clock down and set up a game winning field goal
opportunity for Zanganza's thirty seven yard field goal attempt for
zang Gonzalez and he donked it. He doinked it off
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the right, upright, and it still went in.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The kick went in.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That football went through anyway, despite jinking off the upright.
As time expired, turnout the last the parties over on
the Buccaneers. They did not fire the cannons as the
Commanders win the NFC wild Card game on Sunday night,
the franchisees first playoff win in six nine and forty
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five days, but who's counting. Joe Gibbs was the head
coach of a team known as the Redskins. Yes, they
were known as the Redskins the last time they won
a playoff game. And now the team with the dopey
name Commanders will face the number one overall seat, the
Detroit Lions in the divisional round. The better story is
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in the losing locker room. So that is where we
are going to focus. In the losing locker room. Let's
start with the quarterback. If you saw the game, you
know why we're starting with the quarterback. So where did
things go wrong for Baker Mayfields Buccaneers? Where did things
go wrong here? So I've got vending machine, Peter Principal,
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and sleep score, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice cigar.
You can get really good cigars. Tony Bruno used to
work here, and Tony would say, you go to Tampa
and they have those great Cuban cigars in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
See that's where you get them from right there, all right.
So A sometimes when you.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Process everything going on in the certain segment of the
sports world, sometimes the questions are easy the answers are hard.
Other times the questions are hard, the answers are easy.
But this time the questions and the answers are simple,
the real ones. No. If you watched the Sunday night game,
the script flipped in the fourth quarter. Baker Mayfield played
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relatively well for the Tampa Bay office. Wasn't great, wasn't great,
but relatively well. However, he did the thing you can't
do at the time. You cannot do it. He went
to the vending machine and he got a candy bar.
It was a butter finger because Baker Mayfield. As we
have said for many, many years, most games are lost,
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they're not won, and this is a classic example. As
the Buccaneers were set up, the Bucks defense had forced
the team formerly known as the Redskins to turn the
ball over on downs. They got the ball back deep
inside their own territory, they picked up a first down,
Mike Evans picked up a first down. So now they're
starting to matriculate the ball down the field these day.
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They feel pretty good at that point Tampa Bay and
they're nursing a four point lead. So at that point
you get a field goal, you're up by a touchdown.
You're you're not going to lose, most likely unless the
Commanders come down, score a touchdown, go for two at
that point, and then it happened. Then it happened. Baker
Mayfield had a he had a cough, He coughed up
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the football. He botched an element tree play, a handoff
the wide receiver Jalen McMillan, simple basic football play. If
you're a professional quarterback making tons of money, you should
be able to make that play every single time. The
ball ended up on the grass, the Commanders, the linebacker
former Ram and Sea Bobby Wagner, jumped on it, fumble
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fumble Ruski. He jumped right on top of it, and
four plays later, touchdown Washington and.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The script had been flipped. It was rewritten.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
The game was not lost at that point, but it
set things going the other direction.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Now, a lot of you say, what momentum, moment what
bucks at all? The momentum.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
There's no such thing as momentum, you dummies, does not exist.
But Baker Mayfield does get a nice dunce cap for
that mistake. There at the end, here's Baker explaining the
thing that went wrong. At the time it went wrong,
take a Listen, there's some.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Dumb stuff today that across the team. So it's uh yeah,
it's gonna wear on me for a while.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
First one all year that happened on So obviously timing
of if not great, getting backed up, defense had just
done a hell of a job getting us the ball.
Another fourth down stop and stay unfortunate for that foot
that falls on me right now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
The other storyline here for the Buccaneers, what are the
chances that Todd Bowles is out as coach of the Bucks?
They made the Playoffsously, you can't get rid of coach
when they make the playoffs. Well, you're gonna fire Todd Bowles,
but can you encourage him to step aside? So I'm
gonna set the malarodds that Todd Bowles is out dun
Skies as coach in Tampa Bay. I'm gonna set the
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odds Mallard sports Book gods at plus two twenty five.
That implies a thirty percent chance. Another way to look
at this in baseball, it's a three hundred hitter. In baseball,
you have a three hundred hitter, you're feeling pretty good.
You're gonna get a base hit.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Now, it doesn't get a hit all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Seven of ten times you don't get a hit, but
three hundred batting average.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That's where I am.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
There has been a grassroots movement to have Todd Bowles
step aside to retire to get some ceremonial position in
the Buccaneers organization. Now, remember the Bucks did this with
their last head coach. They kind of forced him out
to retire, and so there is a precedent there. The
critics have pointed out they are not like the Todd
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Bowles is from the old country that he's not one
of these new new coaches. He's a throwback, no nonsense
type guy and a product of the Peter principle where
he has been promoted because he was on the previous
coaching staff. He's been promoted until he's reached the highest
level of incompetence there and he's remained there, and then
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you have the Komodo dragon in the room. The clock
management issues. Bulls botched the clock multiple times in the
wild card game. It was a dereliction of duties clock management.
At the end of the first half the Buccaneers Todd
Bowles led over ten seconds run off the clock. The
Bucks had reached the ends of the red zone, so
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they only had seventeen seconds by the time they called
the time out. Now he got bailed out by his
team because they ended up scoring a touchdown. So if
you get bailed out, people are like, well, it doesn't matter,
I scored a touchdown anyway. Okay, fine, But he did
the same thing in the second half of the game.
Jaden Daniels and the team formerly known as the Redskins
were trying to milk the clock. Was kind of obvious
that their goal was to, at least in a tie game,
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either kick the game winning field goal or at worst
go to overtime to run out the clock. Milk it
like it's a cow. And that was the plan, but
they got help from Todd Bowles, who screwed that up.
He was ab twose yet again when it came to
the clock and Bulls let more than ten seconds run
off the clock there as well, and the Washington football
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team did end up getting that field goal with a
couple seconds left. Tampa never got their hands on the
ball again and lost out as time ran out. Let's
hear I want to hear the second bite here from
balls this year, the second when he's Todd Bowles, and
he's talking about the future and what things are looking
like for Tampa Bay going forward.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Here's Todd Bowles on that.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Great court group going forward, very optimistic about those guys.
Just got to keep people healthy, add to it and
clean up some spots and I think we'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Keep in mind, no one stays healthy all the time,
no one stays out. I mean, you're not gonna announce
I'm leaving right after the game. This is something that
will come out in the coming days. We'll see Todd Bowles.
I like Todd Bowles's He's an interesting cat. So I
don't think he's a great coach. I think he's a
nice dude and that I think he's entertaining. So that's
all I care about. I have no skin in the game,
all right now, last word to the scheduling department. Now
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where Tordy Tommrady. We'll be in the fox box that
rocks for the Commander's Lions game next weekend. The schedule
has been announced on who's calling what game. And people
are up at arms because Tom Brady's calling the Lions
Commander's game.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Now, why is that, you ask?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Because if you haven't been paying attention, Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson,
the glorious offensive coordinator, probably fall on his face as
head coach. But Ben Johnson's the hottest person at the
bar right now, in the coaching carousel bar. And so
Ben Johnson is a top head coaching candidate. Tom Brady
owns about ten percent of the Raiders who are looking
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for a coach. Tom Brady has been deputized to help
find said head coach.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
So will will the.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
NFL step in and remove Tom Brady as a broadcaster
for the Lions commander's game with this upheaval because of
a conflict of interest because of Brady's work with the
Raiders and the coaching job being open up.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So I'm gonna shake my head no. I'm shaking my
head no on this one.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And the NFL uses a special app, like I said,
one of those sleep score type app things to track
the sleep patterns. If you track the NFL sleep patterns,
the entire operation in the NFL, the whole league is
about as instuous as as you can get, right and
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metaphorically speaking, of course, they're in bed with everyone else.
And we've talked about this a lot over the years here,
and so there'll be a lot of noise. People write
pieces on social media, Look at me, Tom Brady shouldn't
be calling the game.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
By Brady will be allowed to broadcast. He's been allowed
to broadcast all year. They put some rules in which
makes it easier on Brady because he doesn't have to
even pretend like he's doing any homework for these games.
He can just roll in there at the last minute,
no production meetings, none of that stuff, and he just
shows up, calls the game, throws a bunch of cliches
out there that Jimmy and John's or Joe's or whatever,
and then this, that and the other thing gets out
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of there, and they probably figure, hey, it's gonna increase
the ratings, which it will not. I mean, we did learn,
without any reasonable doubt and that when Troy Aikman and
Joe Buck left Fox to go to Monday Night Football,
the ratings did not suffer on Fox. It didn't matter
who called the game. All right, my fat ass could
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be there calling the game, and if it's a cowboy
game people are gonna watch, and if it's not, people
aren't gonna watch in the same amount of numbers.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
That's the way that works.
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Birds of a Feather, I've heard they flock together?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What about the playoff playoffs?
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are all night hooting Nanny looking back at the NFL
plus now we still have a game to go in Arizona,
the Rams and the Vikings.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I think it's just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
The Rams and Vikings playing in a stadium named after
an insurance company that bailed out on California.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
It's just great.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Anyway, our lead this hour is from Philadelphia, the NFC matchup,
and oh what a matchup. It was supposed to be
Jordan Love and the Packers versus Jalen Hurts and.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
The Eagles, and it was on It was on Fox.
Did you watch? You gotta watch. Tom Brady was there.
He's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
It makes a lot of money. And Kevin Burkhardt also
on hand. So Jalen Hurts in this game did not
have a Gotti stat line. He did throw a pair
of touchdow On passes and.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
The hey gee el e e Engles.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
The Eagles let their defense do the rest, a surgical
twenty two to ten takedown, a playoff victory over the
Green Bay Packers. They have they have been eliminated. Now
they are as Tony Brune used to say, they're on
the clock for the NFL Draft, getting ready for the
NFL Draft. So Kwan Barkley one hundred and nineteen yards
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in his first postseason game as a member of the Birds.
But the better story is on the side of the
cheeseheads in the losing locker room. So that is where
we're going to focus things here, at least at the
beginning and where did things go As we discussed where
did things go wrong for Jordan Love? Where did things
go a little sideways there for Jordan Love?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
So that would be the.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Moment he got out of bed from his five star
Philadelphia area hotel. That would be when things went sideways
for Jordan Love. Love, who looked so good. Granted it
was against the Cowboys in the playoffs a year ago,
got his first taste of the new playoffs this year
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and he needed someone to contact a lifeguard. They needed
Baywatch to come in because he was drowning the Eagles defense,
which is good. Let me say something before I go
forward here. Eagles have a good defense. I get that right.
You hear that a lot over the next couple of days.
Eagles have a good defense.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Well. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
If you're truly one of the great quarterbacks in the NFL,
you are what's known as matchup proof, meaning it doesn't
matter who you go against, it doesn't matter how good
the opposite opposition is. If you're that good, Jordan Love's
the real deal, then it doesn't matter whether the Eagles
have great defensive numbers or not. You're gonna go out
there and you're gonna pduce and you'rena produce big, and
you're gonna do well, and you're gonna make the smart play.
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Jordan Love did none of those things. Okay, So I
don't want to hear about Jordan Love. And you know
all the love of Jordan Love and this, that and
the other thing. He went out there. It doesn't matter.
It should not matter who the opposition is. And he
had a real clunker and most of the packer marching
in chatter society.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Well he was hurt or you know this, that and
the other.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
The defense is really good, you know stop stop.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That was a goodie bag delivery from Green Bay to Philadelphia.
Inside the baggie? What's in the goodie bag? Whether it
was not one, not too but three interceptions by Jordan Levena.
I even give him a pass on the last one
because the game was already over. But he had two
when the game mattered. So two interceptions when the game mattered.
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One turnover on downs for the team from Wisconsin. Philly
was given a head start here. On the opening kickoff,
the alleged ace returner for the Green Bay Packers, Keishn Nixon,
was hit hard and he had the coughs like he
had COVID, except he coughed up the football and the
Eagles recovered and they scored Bay getting the ball first. No,
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they didn't get the ball first. They turned the ball over,
and I did appear that Green Bay had recovered that
for some reason, things that make you go hm hm.
The NFL, despite having replay assists which they love to
tell you about, even though it was clear that Green
Bay recovered, the officials gave the ball to Philadelphia anyway,
and they quickly got out and had a touchdown to
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begin the game. So they were playing from ahead the
entire day. Now, page two, with this win by Philadelphia.
Right with this win by the Philadelphia Eagles, we look
at the coach thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up
or thumbs down on the playoff victory for the Eagles,
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taking coach Nick Seriani off the hot seat. So I'm
gonna go thumbs down, thumbs down is where I'm going
on this and the reason I'm going thumbs down drought
like conditions. Philadelphia's win was devoid of any style points.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Is that a fair criticism? I believe it is.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Philadelphia's win was devoid of any style points. It was
a handout from the team from Wisconsin. The Eagles scored
ten points off turnovers. They were handed ten points off turnovers,
and so green Bay without the green Man mistakes. Philadelphia
scored two field goals a touchdown. They missed the extra
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point on that touchdown, so that's twelve points that the
offense generated despite having Sequon Barkley and Jalen Hurtz and
the stud here, there and everywhere, and Jalen Hurts yet again,
was a jag just a guy, just a guy out there.
He finished with a pedestrian one hundred and thirty one
yards passing against the green Bay Packers and Philadelphia on
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third down they had eleven third downs and despite having
the Tushy Pushy, they were two of eleven eighteen percent
efficiency on third down. Green Bay is a lower level
NFC team. They are not supposed to be in the
same category as Philadelphia, and yet they won the statuet.
The reason the Packers lost the game is because then
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they kept turning the ball over and that does not
bode well going forward. And I know how Philadelphia sports
are wired, Nick Sirianni is not not out of the woods.
And those woods are thick. They are thick wood, big trees,
and they're everywhere. And we imagine that the Birds, the
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Birds here will not be getting four turnovers next week
when they play the Rams or the Vikings. That will
be the matchup and they will get the benefit of
either a soft dome team like Minnesota or a soft
West Coast.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Team other Rams disability tougher.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Now, we'll see how tough they are in the game
on Monday night against the Vikings.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But they do play not in a dome.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
The NFL says, that's not a dome, even though it
has a roof on it at SOFI Stadium in La
not a dome. But that game tonight will be in Arizona,
so that'll be the match up, all right, final point.
So let's go now to the moment of the game
that most people were talking about in this Philadelphia Green
Bay game. The game was so dull. It was an
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interaction that happened after there was a misconnection between Jalen
Hurtz and AJ Brown. How do you categorize Eagles wide
receiver AJ Brown being spotted by TV cameras reading a
book on the sidelines during the game. He was perusing
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a book. Say why yeah, yeah, So my answer to
that question is worm like, worm like as in a
bookworm and Aj Brown a biblia file is the I
think that's the term bibli a file. When you're really
into books, you're a bibli a file.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And this is guy that does love books.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
And I will say, based on a minutes long malleor
investigation into this topic, unlike Lebron James, who's phony when
it comes to books and movies and things like that,
he's a fraud Lebron aj Brown. No, this checks out.
It's kosher. It's absolutely kosher.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And how do we know this.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He showed the NFL network a copy of the book
and if you saw the clip, and for those of
you that are blind, I'll describe here. The pages of
the book are worn down, essentially down to tissue. On
this book, they're dog eared and they're falling out. It's
a self help book that he's reading. We don't need
to promote it. It's already getting enough promotion. But the
excerpts of the book are highlighted, the copy that he
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showed in yellow marker, and the words are even underlined. So, hey,
he's reading the book. He wants to read one of
those motivational things. I bet you're Robert Sala, the old
Jets coach, probably read that book seven or eight times.
The book's well loved, and I like the fat that
he actually read the book. I'm fine with that. You know,
he's allowed to read a book on the sidelines, so
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being but remember when Lebron. He's been caught multiple times
over the years, Lebron pretending, pretending to read books, and
it's been hilarious.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
He's always during the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I remember famously, he'll promote on social media he's reading
these books. And so Lebron, I remember, he's asked like, hey,
what's your favorite.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Part of the book.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He has no idea, he's no concept, right, And it's
the same thing with movies. The book thing was like
a Malcolm X book and he was asked about it,
and he was totally gobsmacked when he was asked about
this Malcolm X book that he was reading. And then
even the movie The Godfather where he was bragging about
watching The Godfather six times during the NBA playoffs one year,
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and so somebody said, hey, what's your favorite quote from
the Godfather? And Lebron had no idea. Now, I've only
seen The Godfather a few times, and I can tell
you plenty of quotes in the movie, at least the
big ones, right, the big one, most famous quote. What
is the most famous quote from the Godfather. It's I'm
gonna make him an offer he can't refuse, right, that
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is it. I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
And the scene with the horse said and the.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Bed and all that.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I mean, there's some iconic moments. There's some iconic moments there.
His brains are his signature another one. Lebron could not
do any of that. There was none of that.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He had no idea how to handle that situation.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So anyway, now, as far as the postgame flavor from
this game, Matt Lafleur, do you think the head coach
of the Green Bay Packers go back to the suck
bag performance by Jordan Love? Do you think that mister Lafleur,
the coach of the Green Bay Packers. Do you think
he's a going to criticize Jordan Love for sucking at
a time you cannot suck, be blame someone else, or
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see none of the above make an excuse for Jordan Love.
Let's go to the audio tape. Here's the Green Bad
Packers head coach.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
I love Jordan Love pets and the work he puts in,
and I think he's gonna get better and better and better.
And certainly there's some lessons along the way, some tough lessons.
Anytime you end up in defeat. I mean, that's that's
hard to deal with. But he is very critical of himself.
He does such a great job of learning from every experience.
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So I think, you know, through this, I think we'll
all be better for it. Although it's tough to go through,
but I think there's there's gonna be a lot of
learning over the course of the next However, many months
before next year arrives.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Didn't you learn last year when you lost the forty
nine ers in the playoffs? I guess you didn't learn enough.
So you got to be reminded. Why don't you lose
every year? Then you'll get you You learn a lot
the Packers should just lose every year in the playoffs
and they'll.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Learn so much.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It'll be great, Mainer that to learn everything. That'll be
the smartest team in the NFL. They won't win anything,
but they're gonna learn every year when they lose. Like,
the Steelers should be really smart because they've lost six
straight playoff games over the year. So Mike Tomlins gotta
have like the smartest team in the NFL because they
learned from losing. Right, here's a Jordan Love the Man
himself pointing out that he's garbage.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
It's tough, you know, I'm definitely you know, it's the
end of the season. You know, you lose playoff game.
You know we've been here before. It sucks. It's not fun.
It's not fun being to that locker room after a game,
and you know, it's just sucks.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Well, especially considering the Green Bay Packers actually won the statue. Right,
so if you just hold on to the football, possession
is nine tenths of victory, you're going to win the game.
Look at the Washington football team on Sunday night. They
didn't turn the ball over, didn't punt, won the game
because they just waited for Baker Mayfield to puke all
over himself, and he did by routine fumble there late
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late in the game in his own territory.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Here's one more from Jordan Love, the.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Green Bay quarterback, pointing out that these were self inflicted wounds.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
You know, I think that's really the thing that hurt
us in a lot of games, is we talked about it.
You know, I feel like a lot of the times
this season it was just feeling like we're you know,
we're not getting beat by the other team.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
We're kind of beating ourselves.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
So, you know, whether it's penalties, turnovers, stall drive, things
like that. You know, I think it all comes back
down to just the details and execution and a lack
of executions in those areas. So something you got to
you gotta be focused when you go out there and
try and limit that stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So in other words, it's not a well coached team
because they make a lot of mistakes. They've made the
same mistakes all years pretty much. That Jordan Love calling
out Matt Lafleur and the coaching staff that these things
cannot be cleaned up that they've had all year. They've
known since the regular season early in the regular season.
This was a problem and they can't clean it up.
So Jordan loves blaming the head coach and claiming that
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the Packers are great. They would never lose if they
didn't make these mistakes, but they can't coach the players
out of the mistakes.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
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Speaker 3 (28:56):
I don't know what happened? How about that?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
To the third degree?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
This is one big gets.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
On Fox NFL Sunday, Rob Gronkowski praised the patriots hiring
of Mike Rabel and implored him to go out and
hire Josh McDaniels back as the team's offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Bennet is a good idea or a bad idea?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Why stop there?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Hire Matt Patricia, bring back Charlie Wise, just keep it,
bring them all back.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
See what I would like to see is hire the
next great offensive mine. But it sounds like it's already
a done deal that Josh McDaniels is going to go
back to the Patriots. But been there, done that. He's
a terrible head coach, he's an okay offensive coordinator. I
would go another direction if I was Mike Rabel, because
I would want to bring somebody in who's a.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Little younger, knows the new dynamic.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
But McDaniels will likely be the safe choice next.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
All right man.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Boise State running back and Heisman runner up Ashmon Chancey
said in a recent interview that he would love to
play for the Cowboys and Ben, what do you think
the odds are of Dallas picking him up at number twelve.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
First of all, it depends on whether or not Jerry
Jones is going to be active in the draft. They
haven't even decided whether they're going to bring back their
fat coach yet, so I don't know if he's gonna
be back or not. So they haven't decided the coach.
But if Jerry's in charge, there's a pretty good chance
because he loves the name. The Cowboys have drafted the
last couple of years, offensive lineman, defensive lineman. The last
skilled player they picked I think was twenty twenty. It's
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now twenty twenty five and Jenti was a stud at
Boise State. He's the top running back. It would be
good for business for the Cowboys. They need a running
back next one.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
NBA analyst is suggesting that Russell Westbrook is slowly rebuilding
his reputation in Denver.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Do you think that's true? No, it's the season started.
What Christmas?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
It's now.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Nobody pays attention to the NBA before Christmas. It's not
January thirteenth. Of course, no one's really paying to paying
attention to the NBA right now. No, because Westbrook's the
same player he was for the Clippers, the Lakers and
all the other teams he played for. He can't make
an outside shot and he will be exposed when the
playoffs come on for the Denver Nuggets, and we'll break
their hearts in Colorado, just like he broke the hearts
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everywhere else he's played.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
So there we go. How did we do? Coop? You pass?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That is a win?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Loreini won. I'm aware, Ron Party. Don't stay home, Lorano,
you're your on party playoffs playoffs.
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Speaker 3 (31:31):
Hey you sports figure guy or girl? Here was you
talking to sons?
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Here?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Some intent?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Advice?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Hold that thought.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
No one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds,
and if you.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Don't like it, Pato we go. It's the insta advice
line on screen radio. The safety net is off. Who
needs our advice? Who needs our advice? Let's see you
any meenie money more. How about Baker Mayfield. He did
(32:03):
the thing you can't do at the time. You can't
do a Baker Mayfield in the Sunday night game fumble
that turned the game. Tampa was in the lead, they
had the ball, they just picked up a first down.
They were going to extend the lead, most likely on
that drive against the futile Washington defense, but unable unable
to get it done, they handed a touchdown. They did
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the Buccaneers to the Washington football team. So advice to
Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers. You're live on the air
when you hear my voice at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox unscreened radio. We are trained professionals. The
safety nets off. Line one, you're on the air. Advice
to Baker Mayfield. Line one, all right, Line one, not
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quick enough.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Line two.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Advice to Baker Mayfield, Line two.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
You should call his good friend Shannon, Elizabeth or Jay
Moore does that guy?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
All right, thank you for that. Line three you're on there.
That's former talk shows Jay Moore here at the Fox
Sports Line three.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Hello, line three in morning time.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
According to my version, there's a book of Daniels and
he will be in the Lions.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Dam Oh is that all interesting? Okay, that's a rick
from Maryland morning Time. Line four, you're on the air.
It's the instant advice line for Baker Mayfield. Unscreened radio.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Hello, Line four, heke monster lessons from Ben.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
That was so much fun at the park. Ben, I
haven't left that harding year.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, well, I'm don there for you. Line five, you're
on the Airline five. Hello, we are giving advice. Line
number five to Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Put something sticky on your hands, all.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Right, stick them a Line six. You're on the here
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Hello, Line six.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Mayfield should open Baker's Bakery because he's a different making turnover.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
That kind of sounded like man Well and Guardiana. Line one,
you're on the air. It's the instant advice line for
Baker Mayfield. At eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Hello,
Line one, Ben, I.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Want Baker back in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Let's go all right, put him back in Seattle. Why not?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
He's never been to le other than the play there,
let's go. Line too, you're on the airline too.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Hello, I need an ambulance.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
All right, well call a different number.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Line three, Hello, Line three, come to the Patriots, Baker.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
We'll pay the reps and overturn that call.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Hey you got Mike Vrabel. Now all's good in the world.
Line four, Hello, Line four, you're on the airline for
instant advice. Line line for is not paying attention? Line five,
advice to Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Line five got on my hands.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
All right, well you might want to.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Go wash them.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Line six, you're on the Airline six. Hello, being on
the bad news beer, Okay, that was terrible.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Line one Hello, Line one.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
He needs to hold his ball like felexus.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, flexus holds multiple balls A line to Hello.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Line two, you've got a baba good noos.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
How about the gabba ghul? How about to gopagol eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Well giving advice to
Baker Mayfield after he had the big mistake. Tampa Bay
loses the playoff game to Washington.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Line three Hello, I miss you man, this is Luigi.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I'm hungry.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I didn't know Luigi could talk. I would have kept
Luigi Ifluigia could talk. Line four, Hello, line four.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, just show Saturday morning when Edmund was.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Let go morning time, Morning time. Line five, you're on
the airline five.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Go haveg Scoop do a song for him and he
needs to go back to planting flags.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Hello, yeah, we need Morse music on the show for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Line six, you're on the airline six.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Hello, go missus Maller is sleeping with Bill Miller.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Oh no, that's outrageous.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Oh man, I can't believe Bill Miller would do that.
All right, see incident of ice Line unscreened radio eight
seven seven ninety nine on the Fox Face. I think
we only have time for one more. If it's could
all take credit off. If not, I will blame the
kooble loop final call on the instant of ice Line
for Baker Mayfield pick the line coopbol.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Loop go Hey mine too. Line number tu, you're on
the airline to go. Oh you should have been Line one.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Call Cleveland. They'll take that.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Yeh, call Cleveland. There you go, call Cleveland. That was
a tough ending,
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the story continues to be where we broadcast from the
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the winds supposed to pick up here over the next
couple of days, so we'll see what what happens here.
Thirty eight thousand, six hundred and twenty nine acres have burned.
To put that in perspective, that's over sixty miles of
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So our thoughts go out to those affected, also the
first responders, the Palisades Fire, which over the weekend actually
shut down the Fox Sports radio studios which are just
below down the hill, and they had to evacuate the
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night and a Saturday anyway, the Palisades Fire which is
still burning thirteen percent containment, So we'll keep an eye
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on all that. But our lead, you're here for the sports,
and we are here to give you the sports. It's
sporty Malor our lead from Tampa. That was the site
that was the site of the made for TV Sunday
Night prime time match up. Jade and Daniels and the
Commanders popping in for a visit the baker Mayfield Bucks,
(02:54):
the opponent first playoff game for Jayden Daniels popping his cherry,
and there was to recall and Collinsworth. They had the
call on the Peacock. I don't know if you were
engaged in this game or not. Maybe you don't really
give a rats ask about either one of these teams.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Don't worry. We watched so you would not have to.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Jade and danis running for a critical first down, and
that set things up and allowed Washington to run the
clock down and set up a game winning field goal
opportunity for Zanganza's thirty seven yard field goal attempt for
zang Gonzalez and he donked it. He doinked it off
(03:36):
the right, upright, and it still went in.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The kick went in.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That football went through anyway, despite jinking off the upright.
As time expired, turnout the last the parties over on
the Buccaneers. They did not fire the cannons as the
Commanders win the NFC wild Card game on Sunday night,
the franchisees first playoff win in six nine and forty
(04:05):
five days, but who's counting. Joe Gibbs was the head
coach of a team known as the Redskins. Yes, they
were known as the Redskins the last time they won
a playoff game. And now the team with the dopey
name Commanders will face the number one overall seat, the
Detroit Lions in the divisional round. The better story is
(04:28):
in the losing locker room. So that is where we
are going to focus. In the losing locker room. Let's
start with the quarterback. If you saw the game, you
know why we're starting with the quarterback. So where did
things go wrong for Baker Mayfields Buccaneers? Where did things
go wrong here? So I've got vending machine, Peter Principal,
(04:49):
and sleep score, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice cigar.
You can get really good cigars. Tony Bruno used to
work here, and Tony would say, you go to Tampa
and they have those great Cuban cigars in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
See that's where you get them from right there, all right.
So A sometimes when you.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Process everything going on in the certain segment of the
sports world, sometimes the questions are easy the answers are hard.
Other times the questions are hard, the answers are easy.
But this time the questions and the answers are simple,
the real ones. No. If you watched the Sunday night game,
the script flipped in the fourth quarter. Baker Mayfield played
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relatively well for the Tampa Bay office. Wasn't great, wasn't great,
but relatively well. However, he did the thing you can't
do at the time. You cannot do it. He went
to the vending machine and he got a candy bar.
It was a butter finger because Baker Mayfield. As we
have said for many, many years, most games are lost,
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they're not won, and this is a classic example. As
the Buccaneers were set up, the Bucks defense had forced
the team formerly known as the Redskins to turn the
ball over on downs. They got the ball back deep
inside their own territory, they picked up a first down,
Mike Evans picked up a first down. So now they're
starting to matriculate the ball down the field these day.
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They feel pretty good at that point Tampa Bay and
they're nursing a four point lead. So at that point
you get a field goal, you're up by a touchdown.
You're you're not going to lose, most likely unless the
Commanders come down, score a touchdown, go for two at
that point, and then it happened. Then it happened. Baker
Mayfield had a he had a cough, He coughed up
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the football. He botched an element tree play, a handoff
the wide receiver Jalen McMillan, simple basic football play. If
you're a professional quarterback making tons of money, you should
be able to make that play every single time. The
ball ended up on the grass, the Commanders, the linebacker
former Ram and Sea Bobby Wagner, jumped on it, fumble
(07:07):
fumble Ruski. He jumped right on top of it, and
four plays later, touchdown Washington and.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The script had been flipped. It was rewritten.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
The game was not lost at that point, but it
set things going the other direction.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Now, a lot of you say, what momentum, moment what
bucks at all? The momentum.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
There's no such thing as momentum, you dummies, does not exist.
But Baker Mayfield does get a nice dunce cap for
that mistake. There at the end, here's Baker explaining the
thing that went wrong. At the time it went wrong,
take a Listen, there's some.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Dumb stuff today that across the team. So it's uh yeah,
it's gonna wear on me for a while.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
First one all year that happened on So obviously timing
of if not great, getting backed up, defense had just
done a hell of a job getting us the ball.
Another fourth down stop and stay unfortunate for that foot
that falls on me right now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
The other storyline here for the Buccaneers, what are the
chances that Todd Bowles is out as coach of the Bucks?
They made the Playoffsously, you can't get rid of coach
when they make the playoffs. Well, you're gonna fire Todd Bowles,
but can you encourage him to step aside? So I'm
gonna set the malarodds that Todd Bowles is out dun
Skies as coach in Tampa Bay. I'm gonna set the
(08:20):
odds Mallard sports Book gods at plus two twenty five.
That implies a thirty percent chance. Another way to look
at this in baseball, it's a three hundred hitter. In baseball,
you have a three hundred hitter, you're feeling pretty good.
You're gonna get a base hit.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Now, it doesn't get a hit all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Seven of ten times you don't get a hit, but
three hundred batting average.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That's where I am.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
There has been a grassroots movement to have Todd Bowles
step aside to retire to get some ceremonial position in
the Buccaneers organization. Now, remember the Bucks did this with
their last head coach. They kind of forced him out
to retire, and so there is a precedent there. The
critics have pointed out they are not like the Todd
(09:00):
Bowles is from the old country that he's not one
of these new new coaches. He's a throwback, no nonsense
type guy and a product of the Peter principle where
he has been promoted because he was on the previous
coaching staff. He's been promoted until he's reached the highest
level of incompetence there and he's remained there, and then
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you have the Komodo dragon in the room. The clock
management issues. Bulls botched the clock multiple times in the
wild card game. It was a dereliction of duties clock management.
At the end of the first half the Buccaneers Todd
Bowles led over ten seconds run off the clock. The
Bucks had reached the ends of the red zone, so
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they only had seventeen seconds by the time they called
the time out. Now he got bailed out by his
team because they ended up scoring a touchdown. So if
you get bailed out, people are like, well, it doesn't matter,
I scored a touchdown anyway. Okay, fine, But he did
the same thing in the second half of the game.
Jaden Daniels and the team formerly known as the Redskins
were trying to milk the clock. Was kind of obvious
that their goal was to, at least in a tie game,
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either kick the game winning field goal or at worst
go to overtime to run out the clock. Milk it
like it's a cow. And that was the plan, but
they got help from Todd Bowles, who screwed that up.
He was ab twose yet again when it came to
the clock and Bulls let more than ten seconds run
off the clock there as well, and the Washington football
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team did end up getting that field goal with a
couple seconds left. Tampa never got their hands on the
ball again and lost out as time ran out. Let's
hear I want to hear the second bite here from
balls this year, the second when he's Todd Bowles, and
he's talking about the future and what things are looking
like for Tampa Bay going forward.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Here's Todd Bowles on that.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Great court group going forward, very optimistic about those guys.
Just got to keep people healthy, add to it and
clean up some spots and I think we'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Keep in mind, no one stays healthy all the time,
no one stays out. I mean, you're not gonna announce
I'm leaving right after the game. This is something that
will come out in the coming days. We'll see Todd Bowles.
I like Todd Bowles's He's an interesting cat. So I
don't think he's a great coach. I think he's a
nice dude and that I think he's entertaining. So that's
all I care about. I have no skin in the game,
all right now, last word to the scheduling department. Now
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where Tordy Tommrady. We'll be in the fox box that
rocks for the Commander's Lions game next weekend. The schedule
has been announced on who's calling what game. And people
are up at arms because Tom Brady's calling the Lions
Commander's game.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Now, why is that, you ask?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Because if you haven't been paying attention, Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson,
the glorious offensive coordinator, probably fall on his face as
head coach. But Ben Johnson's the hottest person at the
bar right now, in the coaching carousel bar. And so
Ben Johnson is a top head coaching candidate. Tom Brady
owns about ten percent of the Raiders who are looking
(12:01):
for a coach. Tom Brady has been deputized to help
find said head coach.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
So will will the.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
NFL step in and remove Tom Brady as a broadcaster
for the Lions commander's game with this upheaval because of
a conflict of interest because of Brady's work with the
Raiders and the coaching job being open up.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So I'm gonna shake my head no. I'm shaking my
head no on this one.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And the NFL uses a special app, like I said,
one of those sleep score type app things to track
the sleep patterns. If you track the NFL sleep patterns,
the entire operation in the NFL, the whole league is
about as instuous as as you can get, right and
(12:50):
metaphorically speaking, of course, they're in bed with everyone else.
And we've talked about this a lot over the years here,
and so there'll be a lot of noise. People write
pieces on social media, Look at me, Tom Brady shouldn't
be calling the game.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
By Brady will be allowed to broadcast. He's been allowed
to broadcast all year. They put some rules in which
makes it easier on Brady because he doesn't have to
even pretend like he's doing any homework for these games.
He can just roll in there at the last minute,
no production meetings, none of that stuff, and he just
shows up, calls the game, throws a bunch of cliches
out there that Jimmy and John's or Joe's or whatever,
and then this, that and the other thing gets out
(13:27):
of there, and they probably figure, hey, it's gonna increase
the ratings, which it will not. I mean, we did learn,
without any reasonable doubt and that when Troy Aikman and
Joe Buck left Fox to go to Monday Night Football,
the ratings did not suffer on Fox. It didn't matter
who called the game. All right, my fat ass could
(13:50):
be there calling the game, and if it's a cowboy
game people are gonna watch, and if it's not, people
aren't gonna watch in the same amount of numbers.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
That's the way that works.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
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Birds of a Feather, I've heard they flock together?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What about the playoff playoffs?
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are all night hooting Nanny looking back at the NFL
plus now we still have a game to go in Arizona,
the Rams and the Vikings.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I think it's just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
The Rams and Vikings playing in a stadium named after
an insurance company that bailed out on California.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
It's just great.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Anyway, our lead this hour is from Philadelphia, the NFC matchup,
and oh what a matchup. It was supposed to be
Jordan Love and the Packers versus Jalen Hurts and.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
The Eagles, and it was on It was on Fox.
Did you watch? You gotta watch. Tom Brady was there.
He's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
It makes a lot of money. And Kevin Burkhardt also
on hand. So Jalen Hurts in this game did not
have a Gotti stat line. He did throw a pair
of touchdow On passes and.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
The hey gee el e e Engles.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
The Eagles let their defense do the rest, a surgical
twenty two to ten takedown, a playoff victory over the
Green Bay Packers. They have they have been eliminated. Now
they are as Tony Brune used to say, they're on
the clock for the NFL Draft, getting ready for the
NFL Draft. So Kwan Barkley one hundred and nineteen yards
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in his first postseason game as a member of the Birds.
But the better story is on the side of the
cheeseheads in the losing locker room. So that is where
we're going to focus things here, at least at the
beginning and where did things go As we discussed where
did things go wrong for Jordan Love? Where did things
go a little sideways there for Jordan Love?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
So that would be the.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Moment he got out of bed from his five star
Philadelphia area hotel. That would be when things went sideways
for Jordan Love. Love, who looked so good. Granted it
was against the Cowboys in the playoffs a year ago,
got his first taste of the new playoffs this year
(17:11):
and he needed someone to contact a lifeguard. They needed
Baywatch to come in because he was drowning the Eagles defense,
which is good. Let me say something before I go
forward here. Eagles have a good defense. I get that right.
You hear that a lot over the next couple of days.
Eagles have a good defense.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Well. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
If you're truly one of the great quarterbacks in the NFL,
you are what's known as matchup proof, meaning it doesn't
matter who you go against, it doesn't matter how good
the opposite opposition is. If you're that good, Jordan Love's
the real deal, then it doesn't matter whether the Eagles
have great defensive numbers or not. You're gonna go out
there and you're gonna pduce and you'rena produce big, and
you're gonna do well, and you're gonna make the smart play.
(17:52):
Jordan Love did none of those things. Okay, So I
don't want to hear about Jordan Love. And you know
all the love of Jordan Love and this, that and
the other thing. He went out there. It doesn't matter.
It should not matter who the opposition is. And he
had a real clunker and most of the packer marching
in chatter society.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Well he was hurt or you know this, that and
the other.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
The defense is really good, you know stop stop.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That was a goodie bag delivery from Green Bay to Philadelphia.
Inside the baggie? What's in the goodie bag? Whether it
was not one, not too but three interceptions by Jordan Levena.
I even give him a pass on the last one
because the game was already over. But he had two
when the game mattered. So two interceptions when the game mattered.
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One turnover on downs for the team from Wisconsin. Philly
was given a head start here. On the opening kickoff,
the alleged ace returner for the Green Bay Packers, Keishn Nixon,
was hit hard and he had the coughs like he
had COVID, except he coughed up the football and the
Eagles recovered and they scored Bay getting the ball first. No,
(19:01):
they didn't get the ball first. They turned the ball over,
and I did appear that Green Bay had recovered that
for some reason, things that make you go hm hm.
The NFL, despite having replay assists which they love to
tell you about, even though it was clear that Green
Bay recovered, the officials gave the ball to Philadelphia anyway,
and they quickly got out and had a touchdown to
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begin the game. So they were playing from ahead the
entire day. Now, page two, with this win by Philadelphia.
Right with this win by the Philadelphia Eagles, we look
at the coach thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up
or thumbs down on the playoff victory for the Eagles,
(19:43):
taking coach Nick Seriani off the hot seat. So I'm
gonna go thumbs down, thumbs down is where I'm going
on this and the reason I'm going thumbs down drought
like conditions. Philadelphia's win was devoid of any style points.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Is that a fair criticism? I believe it is.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Philadelphia's win was devoid of any style points. It was
a handout from the team from Wisconsin. The Eagles scored
ten points off turnovers. They were handed ten points off turnovers,
and so green Bay without the green Man mistakes. Philadelphia
scored two field goals a touchdown. They missed the extra
(20:25):
point on that touchdown, so that's twelve points that the
offense generated despite having Sequon Barkley and Jalen Hurtz and
the stud here, there and everywhere, and Jalen Hurts yet again,
was a jag just a guy, just a guy out there.
He finished with a pedestrian one hundred and thirty one
yards passing against the green Bay Packers and Philadelphia on
(20:50):
third down they had eleven third downs and despite having
the Tushy Pushy, they were two of eleven eighteen percent
efficiency on third down. Green Bay is a lower level
NFC team. They are not supposed to be in the
same category as Philadelphia, and yet they won the statuet.
The reason the Packers lost the game is because then
(21:11):
they kept turning the ball over and that does not
bode well going forward. And I know how Philadelphia sports
are wired, Nick Sirianni is not not out of the woods.
And those woods are thick. They are thick wood, big trees,
and they're everywhere. And we imagine that the Birds, the
(21:31):
Birds here will not be getting four turnovers next week
when they play the Rams or the Vikings. That will
be the matchup and they will get the benefit of
either a soft dome team like Minnesota or a soft
West Coast.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Team other Rams disability tougher.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Now, we'll see how tough they are in the game
on Monday night against the Vikings.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But they do play not in a dome.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
The NFL says, that's not a dome, even though it
has a roof on it at SOFI Stadium in La
not a dome. But that game tonight will be in Arizona,
so that'll be the match up, all right, final point.
So let's go now to the moment of the game
that most people were talking about in this Philadelphia Green
Bay game. The game was so dull. It was an
(22:18):
interaction that happened after there was a misconnection between Jalen
Hurtz and AJ Brown. How do you categorize Eagles wide
receiver AJ Brown being spotted by TV cameras reading a
book on the sidelines during the game. He was perusing
(22:38):
a book. Say why yeah, yeah, So my answer to
that question is worm like, worm like as in a
bookworm and Aj Brown a biblia file is the I
think that's the term bibli a file. When you're really
into books, you're a bibli a file.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And this is guy that does love books.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
And I will say, based on a minutes long malleor
investigation into this topic, unlike Lebron James, who's phony when
it comes to books and movies and things like that,
he's a fraud Lebron aj Brown. No, this checks out.
It's kosher. It's absolutely kosher.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And how do we know this.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He showed the NFL network a copy of the book
and if you saw the clip, and for those of
you that are blind, I'll describe here. The pages of
the book are worn down, essentially down to tissue. On
this book, they're dog eared and they're falling out. It's
a self help book that he's reading. We don't need
to promote it. It's already getting enough promotion. But the
excerpts of the book are highlighted, the copy that he
(23:43):
showed in yellow marker, and the words are even underlined. So, hey,
he's reading the book. He wants to read one of
those motivational things. I bet you're Robert Sala, the old
Jets coach, probably read that book seven or eight times.
The book's well loved, and I like the fat that
he actually read the book. I'm fine with that. You know,
he's allowed to read a book on the sidelines, so
(24:05):
being but remember when Lebron. He's been caught multiple times
over the years, Lebron pretending, pretending to read books, and
it's been hilarious.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
He's always during the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I remember famously, he'll promote on social media he's reading
these books. And so Lebron, I remember, he's asked like, hey,
what's your favorite.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Part of the book.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He has no idea, he's no concept, right, And it's
the same thing with movies. The book thing was like
a Malcolm X book and he was asked about it,
and he was totally gobsmacked when he was asked about
this Malcolm X book that he was reading. And then
even the movie The Godfather where he was bragging about
watching The Godfather six times during the NBA playoffs one year,
(24:50):
and so somebody said, hey, what's your favorite quote from
the Godfather? And Lebron had no idea. Now, I've only
seen The Godfather a few times, and I can tell
you plenty of quotes in the movie, at least the
big ones, right, the big one, most famous quote. What
is the most famous quote from the Godfather. It's I'm
gonna make him an offer he can't refuse, right, that
(25:11):
is it. I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
And the scene with the horse said and the.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Bed and all that.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I mean, there's some iconic moments. There's some iconic moments there.
His brains are his signature another one. Lebron could not
do any of that. There was none of that.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He had no idea how to handle that situation.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So anyway, now, as far as the postgame flavor from
this game, Matt Lafleur, do you think the head coach
of the Green Bay Packers go back to the suck
bag performance by Jordan Love? Do you think that mister Lafleur,
the coach of the Green Bay Packers. Do you think
he's a going to criticize Jordan Love for sucking at
a time you cannot suck, be blame someone else, or
(25:54):
see none of the above make an excuse for Jordan Love.
Let's go to the audio tape. Here's the Green Bad
Packers head coach.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
I love Jordan Love pets and the work he puts in,
and I think he's gonna get better and better and better.
And certainly there's some lessons along the way, some tough lessons.
Anytime you end up in defeat. I mean, that's that's
hard to deal with. But he is very critical of himself.
He does such a great job of learning from every experience.
(26:21):
So I think, you know, through this, I think we'll
all be better for it. Although it's tough to go through,
but I think there's there's gonna be a lot of
learning over the course of the next However, many months
before next year arrives.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Didn't you learn last year when you lost the forty
nine ers in the playoffs? I guess you didn't learn enough.
So you got to be reminded. Why don't you lose
every year? Then you'll get you You learn a lot
the Packers should just lose every year in the playoffs
and they'll.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Learn so much.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It'll be great, Mainer that to learn everything. That'll be
the smartest team in the NFL. They won't win anything,
but they're gonna learn every year when they lose. Like,
the Steelers should be really smart because they've lost six
straight playoff games over the year. So Mike Tomlins gotta
have like the smartest team in the NFL because they
learned from losing. Right, here's a Jordan Love the Man
himself pointing out that he's garbage.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
It's tough, you know, I'm definitely you know, it's the
end of the season. You know, you lose playoff game.
You know we've been here before. It sucks. It's not fun.
It's not fun being to that locker room after a game,
and you know, it's just sucks.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Well, especially considering the Green Bay Packers actually won the statue. Right,
so if you just hold on to the football, possession
is nine tenths of victory, you're going to win the game.
Look at the Washington football team on Sunday night. They
didn't turn the ball over, didn't punt, won the game
because they just waited for Baker Mayfield to puke all
over himself, and he did by routine fumble there late
(27:45):
late in the game in his own territory.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Here's one more from Jordan Love, the.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Green Bay quarterback, pointing out that these were self inflicted wounds.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
You know, I think that's really the thing that hurt
us in a lot of games, is we talked about it.
You know, I feel like a lot of the times
this season it was just feeling like we're you know,
we're not getting beat by the other team.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
We're kind of beating ourselves.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
So, you know, whether it's penalties, turnovers, stall drive, things
like that. You know, I think it all comes back
down to just the details and execution and a lack
of executions in those areas. So something you got to
you gotta be focused when you go out there and
try and limit that stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So in other words, it's not a well coached team
because they make a lot of mistakes. They've made the
same mistakes all years pretty much. That Jordan Love calling
out Matt Lafleur and the coaching staff that these things
cannot be cleaned up that they've had all year. They've
known since the regular season early in the regular season.
This was a problem and they can't clean it up.
So Jordan loves blaming the head coach and claiming that
(28:44):
the Packers are great. They would never lose if they
didn't make these mistakes, but they can't coach the players
out of the mistakes.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I don't know what happened? How about that?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
To the third degree?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
This is one big gets.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
On Fox NFL Sunday, Rob Gronkowski praised the patriots hiring
of Mike Rabel and implored him to go out and
hire Josh McDaniels back as the team's offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Bennet is a good idea or a bad idea?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Why stop there?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Hire Matt Patricia, bring back Charlie Wise, just keep it,
bring them all back.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
See what I would like to see is hire the
next great offensive mine. But it sounds like it's already
a done deal that Josh McDaniels is going to go
back to the Patriots. But been there, done that. He's
a terrible head coach, he's an okay offensive coordinator. I
would go another direction if I was Mike Rabel, because
I would want to bring somebody in who's a.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Little younger, knows the new dynamic.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
But McDaniels will likely be the safe choice next.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
All right man.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Boise State running back and Heisman runner up Ashmon Chancey
said in a recent interview that he would love to
play for the Cowboys and Ben, what do you think
the odds are of Dallas picking him up at number twelve.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
First of all, it depends on whether or not Jerry
Jones is going to be active in the draft. They
haven't even decided whether they're going to bring back their
fat coach yet, so I don't know if he's gonna
be back or not. So they haven't decided the coach.
But if Jerry's in charge, there's a pretty good chance
because he loves the name. The Cowboys have drafted the
last couple of years, offensive lineman, defensive lineman. The last
skilled player they picked I think was twenty twenty. It's
(30:22):
now twenty twenty five and Jenti was a stud at
Boise State. He's the top running back. It would be
good for business for the Cowboys. They need a running
back next one.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
NBA analyst is suggesting that Russell Westbrook is slowly rebuilding
his reputation in Denver.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Do you think that's true? No, it's the season started.
What Christmas?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
It's now.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Nobody pays attention to the NBA before Christmas. It's not
January thirteenth. Of course, no one's really paying to paying
attention to the NBA right now. No, because Westbrook's the
same player he was for the Clippers, the Lakers and
all the other teams he played for. He can't make
an outside shot and he will be exposed when the
playoffs come on for the Denver Nuggets, and we'll break
their hearts in Colorado, just like he broke the hearts
(31:04):
everywhere else he's played.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
So there we go. How did we do? Coop? You pass?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That is a win?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Loreini won. I'm aware, Ron Party. Don't stay home, Lorano,
you're your on party playoffs playoffs.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to
listen live.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Hey you sports figure guy or girl? Here was you
talking to sons?
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Here?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Some intent?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Advice?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Hold that thought.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
No one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds,
and if you.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Don't like it, Pato we go. It's the insta advice
line on screen radio. The safety net is off. Who
needs our advice? Who needs our advice? Let's see you
any meenie money more. How about Baker Mayfield. He did
(32:03):
the thing you can't do at the time. You can't
do a Baker Mayfield in the Sunday night game fumble
that turned the game. Tampa was in the lead, they
had the ball, they just picked up a first down.
They were going to extend the lead, most likely on
that drive against the futile Washington defense, but unable unable
to get it done, they handed a touchdown. They did
(32:25):
the Buccaneers to the Washington football team. So advice to
Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers. You're live on the air
when you hear my voice at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox unscreened radio. We are trained professionals. The
safety nets off. Line one, you're on the air. Advice
to Baker Mayfield. Line one, all right, Line one, not
(32:47):
quick enough.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Line two.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Advice to Baker Mayfield, Line two.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
You should call his good friend Shannon, Elizabeth or Jay
Moore does that guy?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
All right, thank you for that. Line three you're on there.
That's former talk shows Jay Moore here at the Fox
Sports Line three.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Hello, line three in morning time.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
According to my version, there's a book of Daniels and
he will be in the Lions.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Dam Oh is that all interesting? Okay, that's a rick
from Maryland morning Time. Line four, you're on the air.
It's the instant advice line for Baker Mayfield. Unscreened radio.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Hello, Line four, heke monster lessons from Ben.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
That was so much fun at the park. Ben, I
haven't left that harding year.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, well, I'm don there for you. Line five, you're
on the Airline five. Hello, we are giving advice. Line
number five to Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Put something sticky on your hands, all.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Right, stick them a Line six. You're on the here
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Hello, Line six.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Mayfield should open Baker's Bakery because he's a different making turnover.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
That kind of sounded like man Well and Guardiana. Line one,
you're on the air. It's the instant advice line for
Baker Mayfield. At eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Hello,
Line one, Ben, I.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Want Baker back in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Let's go all right, put him back in Seattle. Why not?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
He's never been to le other than the play there,
let's go. Line too, you're on the airline too.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Hello, I need an ambulance.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
All right, well call a different number.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Line three, Hello, Line three, come to the Patriots, Baker.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
We'll pay the reps and overturn that call.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Hey you got Mike Vrabel. Now all's good in the world.
Line four, Hello, Line four, you're on the airline for
instant advice. Line line for is not paying attention? Line five,
advice to Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Line five got on my hands.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
All right, well you might want to.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Go wash them.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Line six, you're on the Airline six. Hello, being on
the bad news beer, Okay, that was terrible.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Line one Hello, Line one.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
He needs to hold his ball like felexus.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, flexus holds multiple balls A line to Hello.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Line two, you've got a baba good noos.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
How about the gabba ghul? How about to gopagol eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Well giving advice to
Baker Mayfield after he had the big mistake. Tampa Bay
loses the playoff game to Washington.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Line three Hello, I miss you man, this is Luigi.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I'm hungry.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I didn't know Luigi could talk. I would have kept
Luigi Ifluigia could talk. Line four, Hello, line four.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, just show Saturday morning when Edmund was.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Let go morning time, Morning time. Line five, you're on
the airline five.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Go haveg Scoop do a song for him and he
needs to go back to planting flags.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Hello, yeah, we need Morse music on the show for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Line six, you're on the airline six.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Hello, go missus Maller is sleeping with Bill Miller.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Oh no, that's outrageous.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Oh man, I can't believe Bill Miller would do that.
All right, see incident of ice Line unscreened radio eight
seven seven ninety nine on the Fox Face. I think
we only have time for one more. If it's could
all take credit off. If not, I will blame the
kooble loop final call on the instant of ice Line
for Baker Mayfield pick the line coopbol.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Loop go Hey mine too. Line number tu, you're on
the airline to go. Oh you should have been Line one.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Call Cleveland. They'll take that.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Yeh, call Cleveland. There you go, call Cleveland. That was
a tough ending,
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