January 14, 2025 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about the Rams 27-9 victory over Sam Darnold and the Vikings and what the future holds for Darnold, the Cowboys and Mike McCarthy agreeing to 'part ways,' Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Liam Hemsworth Edition, and more!
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I got nothing right all weekend on the TV show
until Monday night, and so there was a little salvation
from Monday Night football, the last leg of Wildcard Weekend.
That is our lead from the Valley of the Sun,
not La, La.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
The Valley of This' not.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
For only the second time in NFL history, a neutral
site playoff game Playoffs now the last time there was
a neutral site The only other time there was a
neutral site playff game. The owner of the Boston Redskins
moved the game because he was planning on moving the
franchise to Washington, DC. He moved it to New York
because he wanted to get out of Boston. This because
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of the wildfires. The Rams chased out of La that fire, Tornado.
The wins back here we do the show from La.
The winds are back and the Rams spent the weekend
at part of it anyway in the Greater Phoenix. There
at Glendale, Arizona wild Card Showdown with the Vikings, Troy Aikman,
Joe Buck, They were there. I don't know you watched
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it or not. Maybe you were not watching, watching something
else going on. I have no idea, but we do
know that we watched the game and Matthew Stafford throwing
not one, but two touchdown passes, and the Ram, the
La Rams, the team that won the NFC West, taking
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on a fourteen win Viking team. The Rams defense, of
all things, disemboweled the Vikings, sacking Sam Donald not once,
not twice, not three times, not four, not five, not six,
not seven, notin eight, how about nine an NFL playoff
record tying nine times, many of those out of the
generosity of Sam Donald being completely incompetent, devoid of the
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ability to succeed at the quarterback position at a big spot.
The Rams win twenty seven to nine, the final and
the Monday night NFC Wildcard game. They've been playing these
Monday Night wild Card games for a few years now,
and every one of them has sucked. None of them
have been good. And the Rams winning year leaving, of
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course because of the devastation of the wildfire.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
So they go to Arizona.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
They win the game, rookie Jared Verse returning a fumble
fifty seven yards, the scoop and score for the Rams
who ended up boat racing the Purple people eaters. You
know why, because you can ram it all day and
you can ram it all night. The Rams are into
the divisional round and they have a date in the
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land of the Tasty Cake and the cheese steak and
all that. So let us discuss the question, what is
your opinion. Let's get right to the villain for the
Minnesota Vikings. What is your opinion of Sam Donald's performance
to end the Viking season, not only on the wild
card game, but also the Week eight team member. The
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Vikings had a shot here. The Vikings had a big
time chance to get the number one the overall scene,
number one overall see in the NFC, and they lost
that game. So what was your opinion of Sam Donald's
performance to end the Viking season. I've got finger lakes, typewriter,
and elevator, and we will combine all of the these
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things together and we'll tell you. The wheels on the
bus go round and round. The wheels on the bus
go round and round, and that bus is going to
take Sam Donald out of Minnesota. He's gonna go on
a bus and they're gonna drive his ass out of
Minnesota after that performance. Now, Sam Donald had one of
the great smoking mirror seasons in the history of the NFL.
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You could argue, considering how good he actually is as
a quarterback, this was the greatest smoke and mirror season
in NFL history. There were people who claim to be
knowledgeable football people that were campaigning for that guy to
be the MVP of the end of it.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Well, Sam Donald should be conversation.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
My fat ass, Sam, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
You talk about premature? We sell pills for that on
the radio. My god.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And then when the lights are the brightest, like Donald
had a chance to prove people like me wrong. He
had an opportunity to go out there and shove it
down my throat, and instead, in the Rams defense, shoved
the football down his throat. God, you talk about the
double whammy. The double whammy for Sam donal. Not only
flop sway he had that, he then had stage fright
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on top of the flop sweat, he had those sweaty palms.
The whole thing, No ifs ands or buts about it. Now,
the quarterback apologies, who's on his vault?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Played?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
The fat guys played the fat guys.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, they're gonna come up with all these excuses. Yes,
the Vikings had injuries on their offensive line. Welcome to
modern football. Welcome to the way the NFL has played
a ragtag offensive.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Stop to stop with that nonsense.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Sam Donald was visited by his imaginary friend. And when
I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend named Bob.
Sam Donald's imaginary friend is a boogeyman, a literal boogeyman.
Visit Sam Donald in these spots. Why he closed the
season like he was at Finger Lakes Racetrack in New
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He was Zippy Chippy. Do you know who Zippy Chippy is?
Are you aware? Zippy Chippy is considered the worst racehorse
of all time, raced one hundred times and lost all
one hundred races, many of them down the stretch, faded
down the stretch. In fact, this is actually about twenty
years ago, give or take, but Zippy Chippy is considered
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by many in the horse racing business as the modern
definition of fading down the stretch. You just say Zippy
Chippy and that's it. Darnald played the Lions for the
number one seed in the entire NFC. They would have
had the bye week, they would have the Vikings would
have been in the divisional round. I didn't have short
so number one seed, then the Rams in a playoff
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game to advance to the divisional round. In those games, obviously,
Minnesota goes zero to two. Darnald had a sixty six
point four passer rating. He was sacked eleven times, through
an interception, fumbled, and generally looked like he had never
picked up a football in his life prior to these games,
completely flummixed by pressure, not only defensive pressure, but just
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the pressure of the moment, Anxiety, self doubt set in.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
All that now, turning the page on that.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Wide angle lens, wide angle lens, any thoughts do we
have any thoughts here on Minnesota coach Kevin O'Connell's getting
absolutely slayed for his approach to the wild card game.
So many thoughts on his approach, the Minnesota mindset going
into the wild card game. So the Viking coach treated
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this like it was election night and not all precincts
had reported in so the election was not over. But
yet O'Connell roughly midway through the third quarter threw in
the sponge he was sitting at the typewriter and he
typed off a concession speech. That's the only plausible explanation
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for the way the Minnesota Vikings approached this game.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
There was no sense urgency. It's do or die, it's
win or that's it.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You've got to come out with an amazing hocus pocus
ending to that game. You gotta hope that Matthew Stafford
rides the vomit comet, since your guy's riding the vomit comet,
and you can get back in the game instead. Minnesota
conceded defeat. Very rarely do you see that? Very rarely?
Reminded me of the Pittsburgh Steelers over the weekend. They
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look like they were just content to lose the game
against Baltimore. And here's Minnesota. There no effort at all.
They won fourteen games, and that is one of the
great modern miracles. They're running the ball on offense down
multiple scores. La la la la la, la, la, la
la la la. What are you doing like I'm sitting
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on my fat ass. I even I know you can't
be doing that. You've got to hurry up. The game
is getting away from you. Time is of the essence,
and that is how you, and I'm like, obviously like
the Rams and the games.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I was happy for the Rams. Who I was like,
that's a competitor.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
That's how you compete if you're the Minnesota Vikings. And
why'd you waste the money flying out to Arizona to
play the game? To play like that? But there needs
to be a Netflix docu series done on how Sam
Donald was able to navigate a fourteen win season for
the Minnesota Vikings. Now why should maybe be Benny bright
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side here for a second, don't tell anybody and be
Benny Bright's side. So why should Viking fans actually be
happy that Sam Donald played like this? Why should they
be happy with his suck bag playoff performance by Sam Donald?
So this is this is gonna be very deep. It's
gonna cut very deep here, yet it's not that deep
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at the same time. So it's deep but not that
deep because the agony of defeat. But the chances of
ever seeing Sam Donald in a Viking uniform the only
way you'll see that is if you watch highlights of
this season. That's it, right. So, because your front office
realized and they didn't get bullied into signing Donald Duras
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and we had talked about it a couple times. We
had mentioned it in Mallard monologues. There were people saying
that Viking should sign Sam Donald, and we said at
the time that clearly the Viking front office did not
believe that this was real. It was all an hallucination.
What Sam Donald was doing. It was wish upon a
star type stuff. And sure enough in the end that
theory proved correct.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
It was fake. It was phony.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Sam listen, Donald's a good guy, I guess, I don't know.
He's a total frog though. He absolutely was able to
bamboozle the NFL during the regular season. And the reason
you should be happy if you're a Viking fan is
you're not handcuffed to Sam Donald. You didn't give him
another couple of years on his contract. He's free to
roam around the NFL. Donald, by rough estimates, has cost
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himself using malar matth here anywhere between eighty five and
one hundred and twenty million dollars. You think you had
a bad couple weeks at work, Sam Donald just went
out there with the entire football world watching all over
and he vomited. Projectile vomited all over the field, not once, twice,
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project dile vomit from Sam Darnald.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
He calls himself like a hundred twenty million dollars. There
is no.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Team in the NFL that can sell Sam Donald to
their fan base. He's he is a guy. Even he
plays well during the regular season. You know in the
end how the story is going to go. You know
the ending. You know the ending. That's the real Sam Darnald,
all right, not last word on the other side, the
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winners locker room. Let's focus in on the Rams here.
So who is the biggest winner? Who are the biggest
winners for the Rams?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
All right?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So the obvious one is Sean McVay, who will get
another bouquet of flowers the winning his coach in Ram
history already and with all the built in distractions. And
I heard from some Charger fans over the weekend, Well,
the reason the Chargers lost to the Texas is because
the fires at LA. That's why they lost. They were distracted. Well,
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the Rams all live in LA, right, They're dealing with
us everyone else who has work. We have our job here.
We do the show from LA. The whole place is
on fire around here, but we come in here, we
do the show. There's a show to be done right.
So you look at that, and the Rams went out there.
They could have easily folded like the Chargers did that
pathetic performance by Jim Harbaugh's team. But instead, under McVeigh,
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the Rams went out there. They didn't use the wildfires
as an excuse. The game was moved. They went out there,
they won the game. Another winner would be Chris Schuler. Now,
if you watch the game on Monday night, there was
a lot of slobbery, slapper slap slaughter during the broadcast
from Aikman and Buck for So, Chris Shuil is the
defensive coordinator of the Rams, and he is in the
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Otis elevator, the Otis elevator, and.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
The elevator is going up, up, up and away it is.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's going up up on the way the LA defense
swarming Minnesota like locusts. And if the Rams end up
compete already this point that he's moved up a couple
of notches Shuler. But assuming they don't completely fall apart
against Philadelphia next week, you look ahead here, and as
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a distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of nos Radinas,
it is not hard to imagine a set of circumstances
where the Miami Dolphins in twenty twenty five go out
there and drown, and so Mike McDaniel's ass is grass,
he's out. Dolphins need a new coach all of a sudden, Hey,
let's go back down memory lane, get all those old
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Dolphin fans all horny, and bring in Don Shula's grandson,
Chris Shuler.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And the fact that Justin Jefferson, the greatest receiver in
the NFL. Justin Jefferson was just a guy.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Five catches fifty eight yards for Justin Jefferson. Now, can
the Rams win in Philadelphia? It's a tricky little dance. Yes,
they can win in Philadelphia. They're not favorite. These teams
played back in week twelve and Saquon Barkley put the
Rams defense in a body bag.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
He gouged them.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I went for two fifty five, two hundred and fifty
five yards rushing in that game. But that was then, right,
that was back in week twelve.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
This is now. Obviously it's not gonna be the same situation.
The Rams.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The way I look at the Rams are playing with
house money. They're a soft West Coast team going to
a cold weather environment to a team in Philadelphia that
already kicked their ass. So they're playing with house money.
They'll be sizeable dogs in this game. The pressure is
on Nick Sirianni and the Eagles in that spot. And
we have seen teams with that kind of pressure. They chowk,
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they chowk. How sweet would that be?
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this hour. Get back to the coaching carousel now after
the Rams poll as the Vikings in the game on
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Monday night, but are lead this hour from Jerry's world.
The other shoe has dropped in the never ending soap
opera involving how about them Cowboys?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yes, the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
If you have not heard and perhaps not the Monday
morning surprise on wild Card weekend, Mike McCarthy turn in
your key card. Your services are no longer needed. McCarthy
out as Cowboy coach. He will not return. In twenty
two twenty five. He gone Jerry Jones, who many thought
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would not want to go through a whole coaching search
again after at his age having to deal with all that.
So but Jerry's going to do it. Jerry Jones and
Mike McCarthy were at impass to not work out a
new agreement, unable to find common ground. So now Jerry
Jones has told Mike McCarthy to go walk on that
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ground and go somewhere else. Jones is trying to spin
this story, issuing a prepared statement saying that this was
a mutual parting of the ways, a mutual parting of
the ways, and they decided to go their different directions,
and so this is known as the spin Zone, the
spin Zone by the Dallas Cowboys. Now, there's a lot
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of different theories that are bouncing around the echo chamber
on why this went down, how this all went down.
So let us toss our couple of shekels in on this.
All right, let's do that. So let us discuss the
question Cowboys owner Jerry Jones saying that he and coach
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Mike McCarthy mutually agreed to go there different directions, just
decided that's it. We're going in different directions. Is that
how this actually went down? So my observations, I have
alternative rock, Harry Potter, and polyester tracksuit. We'll combine all
of these things together and we are going to play
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beachside bingo is what we're going to play. Because Jerry Jones,
when he's not on his yacht, when he's laying out
on the beach there he plays beachside bingo.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Doesn't he look like a guy that played bingo? Now,
No bur w.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
To answer the question, was this actually a mutual parting
of the ways as described by the Cowboys GM and owner.
Uh yeah, I'm shaking my head, very passionately, shaking my
head with my eyes closed. No, the answer is no.
This is not my first trip to the circus. Maybe
it's your first trip to the circus. I've been doing
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this before and so I so if you've listened at
all over the years we've been here, that you know
my position on this that I call it the myth
of the mutual breakup, the myth of the mutual breakup.
And this is both in relationships and also in business. Right,
business relationship. We're talking about a business relationships, so we'll
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focus in on that. So a business relationship ending because
both parties at the same time mutually decided they didn't
want to work together.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
It does not happen right.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
One of the parties made the determination that they did
not want to work with the other party. And from
what we are hearing boots on the ground in the
Dallas area there, Jerry Jones did did offer Mike McCarthy
a contract to come back as coach of the Dallas Cowboys,
but it wasn't up to what McCarthy wanted. That's the
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word on the street. So McCarthy rejected it, thinking there
would be a better offer to come down the line,
and no better offer came.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
It was one of those take it or.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Leave it moments, that's what we're hearing, and so McCarthy
ends up pounding sand and walking out of the Cowboy facility.
So why did Mike McCarthy decide to play hardball with
Jerry Jones and the Cowboys? So my theory is he's
a fan of alternative rock and this is alternative rock
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for Jerry Jones, for Mike McCarthy with Jerry Jones, meaning
that Mike McCarthy has options. He has alternatives that he
thinks rock. Right, He's got al turns. He's got an
agent working the back channels through intermediaries, negotiating with the
teams that are not allowed to talk to Mike McCarthy.
Happens all the time. So they were testing the waters
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and what they heard better must have been pretty good. Right,
He's got an inside track. He has the same agent
Mike McCarthy as the gam manager of the Bears. Everyone's
in bed with everyone, nepotism and all that uh fratization.
So you've got that connection there's also the Saints that
are said to be interested in Mike McCarthy. Imagine how
much gumball McCarthy's gonna eat if he goes to New Orleans.
My guy, Now, McCarthy is a football lifer, right, football lifer,
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meat and potatoes, meatthead football guy.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
And so he's one of these guys. He does not care.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
About all the glitz and glamour, the pop and circumstance
of the Dallas football team. For him, he's like, you
can go coach somewhere. I've coach in New Orleans. I'll
go wherever. I don't care. I'll coach in tim Buck two.
As long as I'm getting a lot of money, I'm
a head coach. That's it. He'll be the exciting new
coach in whatever city he goes to, whether that's Chicago
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or New Orleans, and that's that. And you'll win some
regular season games and you'll disappoint and that'll be that
with whoever he ends up, Mike McCarthy, that's what you
get with Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Page TEO.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So, following the dismissal of the rotund Cowboy sideline boss
Mike McCarthy, Troy Aikman entered the chat. The group chat
and Troy Aikman criticized that Cowboys Troy Aikman Dallas Royalty.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Following the removal the departure of Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Aikman questioned whether or not the Dallas Cowboy head coaching
job is a coveted job. How does that one hit you,
Troy Aikman, Not so sure. It's a coveted job coaching
the Dallas Cowboy So this is for Troy Aikman, it's
Harry Potter like Harry Potter like for Troy Aikman. Aikman
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using the tickle belt. If you will hear tickling the
dragon's tail, tickle tickle, that's what he's doing for Jerry
Jones here, And no matter how bleak things look, no
matter how pathetic things are, for the team with the
star on the side of their helmet, it doesn't matter.
The cowboy job today and for as long as Jerry
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Jones there is a plumb job for a couple of reasons, right,
A couple of reasons is.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
A plumb job.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
First of all, you're coaching professional football and the most popular,
the most popular football league in America. Right, most popular
sports league in America. You're coaching the most popular team
in that league, the team worth the most money. And
Jerry Jones can be the biggest stumblebum around and I'm
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not gonna argue with that. Jerry's had thirty years. The
Cowboys are celebrating their thirtieth anniversary, the last time they
were any good. And yet it doesn't matter. Right you
do the arithmetic on the situation for the Cowboys and
things like this. With the Cowboys, it just moves the needle.
They are the straw that stirs the drink in the NFL.
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And when their games are on Fox, Fox has the
highest TV ratings. When their games aren't on Fox, they
don't have the highest TV ratings. Very rarely do those
two things not coincide with each other. But it's really
one of those things. If you build it, they will come.
And if you can be the guy, and all these
coaches have giant egos, if you can be the coach
that ends up turning the misery around, then you will
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be canonized around the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Now everyone wants that.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
It's a giant hit for your ego, a positive hit
if you can do it. And so that's where we
are now final point. Let's get to the Komodo dragon
in the room. So coach exit stage right. You then
have to bring in a coach stage left. What are
you gonna do? All right, let's take a look at it.
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So the reports that are circulating, dramatic reports.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I'm assuming you've heard about these if you pay attention,
but maybe not so.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
The story is that Jerry Jones has had conversations with
Dion's coach Prime from Colorado. So what do you make
of the GM slash owner of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry
Jones having a chit chat with Dion Sanders about coaching
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the Cowboys?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
What are you making it? So? My first thought is
it's on brand. It's on brand.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It's something that needs to happen for the drama o
rama of the Dallas Cowboy. Jerry Jones, we can all
shake our head in agreement is the ultimate or not
our head and agreement. He's the ultimate look at me guy,
the ultimate look at me guy. Grandstanding. That's what Jerry's
great at. He's a carnival barker. And I just imagine
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Jerry Jones walking around the Cowboy facility.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
When he's not on camera and he's.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Wearing a vintage Al Davis like polyester tracksuit and he's
he's doing that check me out, jog, You know that,
check me out, jog.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
If I look at me.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Posing and preening and all that, and all those coach
prime would be right up Jerry Jones' sleeve. With one caveat,
because the only issue here the showmanship wonderful, the boastfulness outstanding,
the bravado, the charisma of Dion Sanders are all perfectly
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in line with the Dallas Cowboys. The issue is rather
obvious that Jerry Jones has never wanted anyone to upstage
Jerry Jones. One of the reasons that he had a
big issue with Jimmy Johnson years ago, if you're old
enough to remember that, is because Jimmy Johnson was getting
all the credit. That annoyed Jerry Jones. He said, what
about me? They tried to hire Bill Parcels. He did
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work for the Dallas Cowboys and a couple of roles
for the team, and that annoyed Jerry Jones.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Although they didn't win.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
In that situation, he must rather have a guy like
Dave Campo as the coach of the Cowboys or the clapper,
clap on, clap off the yeah, Jason Garrett, He'd much
rather have that kind of a coach. But he would
bring Dion in because you'd win the popular vote. The
casual fan would celebrate Deon Sanders and say, re we
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got Dion. He's a big name, and Dion will feed
the beast. He will feed the machine that is the
marketing arm of the Dallas Cowboys. So from that perspective, now,
whether or not he wins or not, eh, But is
that enough to overcome the fact that Jerry would have
to allow the stage to have Dion on it, meaning
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is he.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Willing to share share the sugar? We don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And if not Deon, does Jerry have a plan B?
And the names that are out there do not really
get you all, Tingley. The names that are out there
are Kellen Moore, who Jerry Jones sided with Mike mccarthur.
Kellen Moore is the offensive coordinator in Philadelphia. He went
to the Chargers for a year. Now he's in Philadelphia.
But there was a power play between McCarthy and Kellen Moore,
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and Kellen Moore was sacrificed and they kept Mike McCarthy.
So now you got rid of McCarthy, Now you're gonna
bring Kellen Moore. When you chose McCarthy over kelling Moore.
The other options are like Cliff Kingsbury. He's got ties
to Texas, the state of Texas, and he's the hot
name right now because Jayden Daniels happens to.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Be good, So there is a possibility that that happens
as well.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
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to the third.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Is one Big Ben gets Grall and Kobolo.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
So with the recent news of the firing of Mike McCarthy,
this is still not out of the realm of possibilities,
you know, per se. But former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson
had a wild proposal on Sunday. He suggested that since
things have gotten stale for both the Cowboys and the Steelers,
that the team should swap head coaches. Yes, Ben, how
do you think McCarthy he would be on the Steelers
(30:01):
and Tomlin on the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Of course, the coup that's impossible because McCarthy's no longer
employed by the Cowboys. So I'm glad Jimmy Johnson got
that in the on TV because the rumor died the
next day. McCarthy's he's no longer employed by the Calboys
and Mike Thomas going to be traded next.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
I mean not a trade, But how would.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
They if Jimmy Johnson said there would be a trade?
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Yes, that's it's a whole report, but on each team.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
Despite drawing interest from teams as head coaching candidate, reports
that Cliff Kingsbury may turn down interview requests as he's
still being paid by the Cardinals and is happy in Washington.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
But are you buying this report?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Well, no, he's no. You don't turn down a job.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
He's got another year or so because he's being played
by the Cardinals. Fine, that's right, but now you only
have so many chances to be a head coach. Do
you take the opportunity? So I don't believe that report
he would become a head coach. He take the job,
assuming they don't low ball him next.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Earlier in the weekend, vlad Garreo Junior and the Blue
Jays agreed to a one year, twenty eight and a
half million dollar deal to avoid arbitration.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Ben, do you think this ends any trade speculation.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
No, Toronto's a middling team. They're a bad team. And
you know, baseball starting in like first spring training games
like a little over a month from today, the Cactus
League in the Great Fruit League.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
But yeah, the Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
If they get off to a bad start, all bets
are off and great, he could be traded before opening day.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
It's not off the table. How do we know you failed?
Speaker 7 (31:20):
This?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Is that ana win by me? You dated ques? I
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in Guardena.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Would you like to play man?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Well?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Or do you want to you want to get on
the air right now? You know what do you want
to do?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Here?
Speaker 7 (31:49):
I'll play man? You know what's all right?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Hold on?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Say do we we have Manuel? We have Kelly in
the Nashville is gonna play mat Manuel? Who do you
want to partner up with?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Man?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Well?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
You got me then? Or the Cooper Loop?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Man?
Speaker 7 (32:04):
I'm gonna go with you again, man, all right, good,
last time I kind of underachieved.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
All right, hold on a sec.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
You're gonna play and Kelly in Nashville Slash Iowa. Hello,
Kelly formerly known as Donut Kelly. But she's out of
the Donut game now she's now in the baby making
game at this point, that's the game.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
She's in, right, Wow, Okay, yeah, I mean I don't know.
Am I wrong? I don't know everything? All right? Everything good?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, everything's great, man, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
I don't want to jinx anything. So everything all right? Good?
Stupid questions, just stupid.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yes, all right, you will team up with Cooper Loop
coop one of the categories quickly so we can set
all of this up here. We'll have a lot of
time to play the game. Let the game breathe a
little bit, be a lot of fun. Cannot wait for
the game.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
All right.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
This is Malard's Mountain of Money, the Liam Hemsworth Edition.
Oh he turned and I think it was thirty five.
I have seventy one written here, and that's not accurate.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I'm pretty sure he's not. Even the little knowledge I
have coup He's not seventy one.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Yes, thirty thirty five, that's the correct age.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yeah, even I know that, Coop. You didn't get that
one past me.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
The categories are neighbors, the Hunger Games, Empire State, and
isn't it romantic?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Hmm?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Manuel, you run first? Which category?
Speaker 7 (33:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
No, man, between Shane Kelly and the baby Mallard baby,
they have to kick first? Oh deforey, I see that interesting.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Kelly, which category would you like?
Speaker 7 (33:41):
Is romantic?
Speaker 5 (33:42):
All right?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
All right? And what about you man?
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Will Bennie pick it?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
He didn't hear the category.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I wasn't listening.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Neighbors, the Hunger Games or Empire State.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Well, me and Bennie have both been fat bastards in
our time.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
We're gonna go a hunger.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Game, all right, Hunger Games. It is very good. Everyone
hold on there, no one, hang up. Everyone stay there
and we'll.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
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Speaker 4 (34:41):
But who you picking?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Me?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Picking myself?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
With Manuel and Guardina or Coop and Kelly. We'll find
out we will have a winner. It is about to begin.
Mallard's amount of money.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
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He said, two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now, Mailer's
mountain of money. Hell, do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not? In a way
we go.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Manuel was on the air first, but he deferred, So
I believe donut, Kelly and Coop, you guys are gonna
go first.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
I think that's what do you want?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
It?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Interesting?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
He waited till the second half. He's like, hey, I'll
defer the kickoff to the second half. I don't want
the ball to start the game.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
That's fine, we can do that. You ready, Kelly?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah, I'm ready?
Speaker 5 (35:37):
All right? We have isn't it romantic?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
These athletes all married their high school sweethearts. Okay, forty
five seconds on the clock, let's begin. Quarterback for the
Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, this guy won a Super Bowl
with the Ravens. He's super old. Now quarterback in the NFL.
He's He was with the Brown's last year. I think
(36:01):
it was at the Colts this year, but he won
j yes.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Uh. This guy was the closer for the Yankees. The Sandman.
Oh god, we'll skip it.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
It is not got one of the best regular season
pitchers of all time for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
He's still on the Dodgers right now.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
It's a bad klue coop.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Oh wow, he's terrible in the postseason and he has
long blonde hair shrowning right.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Oh my god. All right, white ride receiver.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
For the Wow.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Well you did it pretty well. I was impressed. You
got thirty points solid. He did not know who Mariano
Rivera is. Clayton Kershaw interesting, All right, we're.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Up, man. Well you're excited here, man.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Well in Guardina, another opportunity you picked the Hunger Games.
These athletes are all at the end of their career,
still looking for that elusive ring.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
I'm ready and I love Kelly and I love Shane.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Okay, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock. We're
on our way go. He was benched this quarterback of
the Falcons this season. Yes, guard Lob City Clippers. He's
on the Spurs now, but he's washed up. Point guard
Chris Yes, guard for the Toronto Raptors. He's played for
Side Antonio. He's bounced around from l A. He's an
(37:24):
l A guy along time. Yes, last player to win
an MVP Award for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
He's an outfielder. He's back with the Pirates. He will
played with the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
First name, all right? How about this tight end from
u C l A. He's played nineteen seasons in the NFL.
He was on the Bears this year, played in Jacksonville.
First name is like a car. Yes, center center for the.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
All right, Andrew McCutchen was Lawrence McCutcheon. You're dating yourself,
Lawrence mcusson. Holy crapeh yas still got one? And yeah,
well right the area coop, You're right in the game, all.
Speaker 6 (38:06):
Right, Kelly, would you like uh the would you like
neighbors or Empire State.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
I'm gonna go Empire State.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
These athletes are all from New York, born in New York. Okay,
forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Let's begin.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
He was the leading rusher in the NFL for the Eagles.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Yes. Uh, he's a boxer that bit somebody's ear off.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
Oh, he just fought I get fifty years old. Okay.
This guy was a slugger for the Yankees. He was
married to j Low.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Alec, yes, yeah, Alec. Yes.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
This guy was a basketball player for the Lakers. He
almost died in a whorehouse.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Oh wow, all right, it could be so many people. Yeah,
so many guys are almost Yeah. Well you did well there, Coop.
You got another fifty points, so that's you're.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Up to eighty. Wow. We could not get Mike Tyson.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I'm yon I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Lorena knew that one.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Wow. Yeah, if Lorena knows it, now, that's not good.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
If you don't know they have been pregnant before, Kelly,
it's called pregnancy brain.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Are you using the pregnancy Excuse my brain?
Speaker 7 (39:36):
My brain is rough right now.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
It's mush. Okay, not allowed back on the game show.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
You know what, how many more months is the kid
in the oven for? How many more once we gotta wait,
I don't know anyway. In August, oh Man missed the
game shows all year. Well man, Man, well, would you
like to run up the score?
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Man?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
You know we would.
Speaker 7 (39:53):
We loved him, but.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
We got you.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
The only category leftist neighbors. These athletes grew up near
their eventual pro team. We'll put forty five seconds on
the clock.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
We did.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
The first and last name are on our way, the
pride of Akron, Ohio.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
He's playing for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Game.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Yes, Cincinnati Charlie Hustle, the greatest hitro. Yes, Chicago Bulls guard.
He's just just announced. I' gonna have his number retired. No, No,
Chicago Bulls Guard. I'm gonna have his number retired. His
last name is like a flower now all right? Yes,
defensive star for the Lions. He's missed most of this
(40:30):
year out of Michigan. He's injured right now for the
Detroit Lions. How about this Chicago Bears defensive player first name. Similarly,
we'll call her from Dayton, Ohio. Legend from Yes, cheating
cheating Astroid's on the Padres right now, starting pitcher for
the Padras.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
No, it's a Joe Muskrove was on the Cheating a
Holes back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Stro Yes, all right, well we we won going away
a domination situation. You did not get a Hutchinson.
Speaker 7 (41:12):
I know their damn last names. I don't know their
first Well.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Either way, it doesn't matter. We limited the first name ability.
We still won the game. That's all that matters here.
You beat a pregnant woman. How do you feel?
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Congratulations like that? I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
All right, thank you manwell appreciated. There's a Manuel and Kelly.
Let's say hello to we have time to take called.
Jed who fled is in the Sunshine State. Hello, Jed
who fled?
Speaker 7 (41:41):
Heel from Calabama. The way you said he's being a pregnant.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Woman, I mean, lame jokes are on what jokes are
on Friday?
Speaker 7 (41:52):
Lames are on top of you, dude, and they're just
they're just rooting.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Oh yeah, you know what's on top of you. The cops.
They're on top you right now. They're coming to get you.
Speaker 7 (42:02):
I'll tell you, I wish they get valid. Oh my god,
Hey Jerome and Charleston, you got issues, man, you got issues.
Philadelphia your freedom. I don't think they won't that you
want to be associated with that at all, Like that
is not the record when you're talking about football game
team going tracking up to Philadelphia. Ver says, day for
the next week, mat Chell, what's the background? Uh, helthy
(42:23):
your freedom? Football player? Is they like hero stuff? I'm
not saying nothing negative. Hey, Briskie's a good person. You
look at me, he's good. Look at Dallas even. Why
why did you get into D block? Dude?
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Hey, what do you complain?
Speaker 5 (42:35):
You complain?
Speaker 1 (42:36):
You complain when I talk. I'm not talking. I'm allowing
you a monologue. It's a jetu fled monologue. You are
so ungrateful you what is and it's not?
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Listen? Is this the C block? This is We don't.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
We got rid of the D block. We don't have
the D block anymore. We got rid of the D.
All we have is the seed.
Speaker 7 (42:52):
What did the what did the chickens say? A chicken
chicken bar clothing times? He said, that's your life, Deny.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Is that you you're limited. There's a supply chain, shortage
of material.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
Give me your best fight cartoon last.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
No, I'm not, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
I'm a profeton I'm a grown man. I'm an adult.
I'm a voice in the night here.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
I can't be doing that.
Speaker 7 (43:18):
Why did you need to say it five times? If
you're a grown man as an adult.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
You're you're out of material. That's all. That's all. That's it.
That's all, folks. That's all folks. That's all, folks. Can
you hang Can you hang up on yourself now? Please
do the right thing. Hang up on yourself. I'm not
hang Yeah, there you go. Another classic moment on The
(43:45):
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I got nothing right all weekend on the TV show
until Monday night, and so there was a little salvation
from Monday Night football, the last leg of Wildcard Weekend.
That is our lead from the Valley of the Sun,
not La, La.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
The Valley of This' not.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
For only the second time in NFL history, a neutral
site playoff game Playoffs now the last time there was
a neutral site The only other time there was a
neutral site playff game. The owner of the Boston Redskins
moved the game because he was planning on moving the
franchise to Washington, DC. He moved it to New York
because he wanted to get out of Boston. This because
(02:23):
of the wildfires. The Rams chased out of La that fire, Tornado.
The wins back here we do the show from La.
The winds are back and the Rams spent the weekend
at part of it anyway in the Greater Phoenix. There
at Glendale, Arizona wild Card Showdown with the Vikings, Troy Aikman,
Joe Buck, They were there. I don't know you watched
(02:45):
it or not. Maybe you were not watching, watching something
else going on. I have no idea, but we do
know that we watched the game and Matthew Stafford throwing
not one, but two touchdown passes, and the Ram, the
La Rams, the team that won the NFC West, taking
(03:06):
on a fourteen win Viking team. The Rams defense, of
all things, disemboweled the Vikings, sacking Sam Donald not once,
not twice, not three times, not four, not five, not six,
not seven, notin eight, how about nine an NFL playoff
record tying nine times, many of those out of the
generosity of Sam Donald being completely incompetent, devoid of the
(03:29):
ability to succeed at the quarterback position at a big spot.
The Rams win twenty seven to nine, the final and
the Monday night NFC Wildcard game. They've been playing these
Monday Night wild Card games for a few years now,
and every one of them has sucked. None of them
have been good. And the Rams winning year leaving, of
(03:51):
course because of the devastation of the wildfire.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
So they go to Arizona.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
They win the game, rookie Jared Verse returning a fumble
fifty seven yards, the scoop and score for the Rams
who ended up boat racing the Purple people eaters. You
know why, because you can ram it all day and
you can ram it all night. The Rams are into
the divisional round and they have a date in the
(04:17):
land of the Tasty Cake and the cheese steak and
all that. So let us discuss the question, what is
your opinion. Let's get right to the villain for the
Minnesota Vikings. What is your opinion of Sam Donald's performance
to end the Viking season, not only on the wild
card game, but also the Week eight team member. The
(04:38):
Vikings had a shot here. The Vikings had a big
time chance to get the number one the overall scene,
number one overall see in the NFC, and they lost
that game. So what was your opinion of Sam Donald's
performance to end the Viking season. I've got finger lakes, typewriter,
and elevator, and we will combine all of the these
(05:00):
things together and we'll tell you. The wheels on the
bus go round and round. The wheels on the bus
go round and round, and that bus is going to
take Sam Donald out of Minnesota. He's gonna go on
a bus and they're gonna drive his ass out of
Minnesota after that performance. Now, Sam Donald had one of
the great smoking mirror seasons in the history of the NFL.
(05:20):
You could argue, considering how good he actually is as
a quarterback, this was the greatest smoke and mirror season
in NFL history. There were people who claim to be
knowledgeable football people that were campaigning for that guy to
be the MVP of the end of it.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Well, Sam Donald should be conversation.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
My fat ass, Sam, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
You talk about premature? We sell pills for that on
the radio. My god.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And then when the lights are the brightest, like Donald
had a chance to prove people like me wrong. He
had an opportunity to go out there and shove it
down my throat, and instead, in the Rams defense, shoved
the football down his throat. God, you talk about the
double whammy. The double whammy for Sam donal. Not only
flop sway he had that, he then had stage fright
(06:10):
on top of the flop sweat, he had those sweaty palms.
The whole thing, No ifs ands or buts about it. Now,
the quarterback apologies, who's on his vault?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Played?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
The fat guys played the fat guys.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, they're gonna come up with all these excuses. Yes,
the Vikings had injuries on their offensive line. Welcome to
modern football. Welcome to the way the NFL has played
a ragtag offensive.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Stop to stop with that nonsense.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Sam Donald was visited by his imaginary friend. And when
I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend named Bob.
Sam Donald's imaginary friend is a boogeyman, a literal boogeyman.
Visit Sam Donald in these spots. Why he closed the
season like he was at Finger Lakes Racetrack in New
(07:00):
He was Zippy Chippy. Do you know who Zippy Chippy is?
Are you aware? Zippy Chippy is considered the worst racehorse
of all time, raced one hundred times and lost all
one hundred races, many of them down the stretch, faded
down the stretch. In fact, this is actually about twenty
years ago, give or take, but Zippy Chippy is considered
(07:21):
by many in the horse racing business as the modern
definition of fading down the stretch. You just say Zippy
Chippy and that's it. Darnald played the Lions for the
number one seed in the entire NFC. They would have
had the bye week, they would have the Vikings would
have been in the divisional round. I didn't have short
so number one seed, then the Rams in a playoff
(07:43):
game to advance to the divisional round. In those games, obviously,
Minnesota goes zero to two. Darnald had a sixty six
point four passer rating. He was sacked eleven times, through
an interception, fumbled, and generally looked like he had never
picked up a football in his life prior to these games,
completely flummixed by pressure, not only defensive pressure, but just
(08:04):
the pressure of the moment, Anxiety, self doubt set in.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
All that now, turning the page on that.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Wide angle lens, wide angle lens, any thoughts do we
have any thoughts here on Minnesota coach Kevin O'Connell's getting
absolutely slayed for his approach to the wild card game.
So many thoughts on his approach, the Minnesota mindset going
into the wild card game. So the Viking coach treated
(08:34):
this like it was election night and not all precincts
had reported in so the election was not over. But
yet O'Connell roughly midway through the third quarter threw in
the sponge he was sitting at the typewriter and he
typed off a concession speech. That's the only plausible explanation
(08:55):
for the way the Minnesota Vikings approached this game.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
There was no sense urgency. It's do or die, it's
win or that's it.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You've got to come out with an amazing hocus pocus
ending to that game. You gotta hope that Matthew Stafford
rides the vomit comet, since your guy's riding the vomit comet,
and you can get back in the game instead. Minnesota
conceded defeat. Very rarely do you see that? Very rarely?
Reminded me of the Pittsburgh Steelers over the weekend. They
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look like they were just content to lose the game
against Baltimore. And here's Minnesota. There no effort at all.
They won fourteen games, and that is one of the
great modern miracles. They're running the ball on offense down
multiple scores. La la la la la, la, la, la
la la la. What are you doing like I'm sitting
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on my fat ass. I even I know you can't
be doing that. You've got to hurry up. The game
is getting away from you. Time is of the essence,
and that is how you, and I'm like, obviously like
the Rams and the games.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I was happy for the Rams. Who I was like,
that's a competitor.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
That's how you compete if you're the Minnesota Vikings. And
why'd you waste the money flying out to Arizona to
play the game? To play like that? But there needs
to be a Netflix docu series done on how Sam
Donald was able to navigate a fourteen win season for
the Minnesota Vikings. Now why should maybe be Benny bright
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side here for a second, don't tell anybody and be
Benny Bright's side. So why should Viking fans actually be
happy that Sam Donald played like this? Why should they
be happy with his suck bag playoff performance by Sam Donald?
So this is this is gonna be very deep. It's
gonna cut very deep here, yet it's not that deep
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at the same time. So it's deep but not that
deep because the agony of defeat. But the chances of
ever seeing Sam Donald in a Viking uniform the only
way you'll see that is if you watch highlights of
this season. That's it, right. So, because your front office
realized and they didn't get bullied into signing Donald Duras
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and we had talked about it a couple times. We
had mentioned it in Mallard monologues. There were people saying
that Viking should sign Sam Donald, and we said at
the time that clearly the Viking front office did not
believe that this was real. It was all an hallucination.
What Sam Donald was doing. It was wish upon a
star type stuff. And sure enough in the end that
theory proved correct.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
It was fake. It was phony.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Sam listen, Donald's a good guy, I guess, I don't know.
He's a total frog though. He absolutely was able to
bamboozle the NFL during the regular season. And the reason
you should be happy if you're a Viking fan is
you're not handcuffed to Sam Donald. You didn't give him
another couple of years on his contract. He's free to
roam around the NFL. Donald, by rough estimates, has cost
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himself using malar matth here anywhere between eighty five and
one hundred and twenty million dollars. You think you had
a bad couple weeks at work, Sam Donald just went
out there with the entire football world watching all over
and he vomited. Projectile vomited all over the field, not once, twice,
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project dile vomit from Sam Darnald.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
He calls himself like a hundred twenty million dollars. There
is no.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Team in the NFL that can sell Sam Donald to
their fan base. He's he is a guy. Even he
plays well during the regular season. You know in the
end how the story is going to go. You know
the ending. You know the ending. That's the real Sam Darnald,
all right, not last word on the other side, the
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winners locker room. Let's focus in on the Rams here.
So who is the biggest winner? Who are the biggest
winners for the Rams?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
All right?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So the obvious one is Sean McVay, who will get
another bouquet of flowers the winning his coach in Ram
history already and with all the built in distractions. And
I heard from some Charger fans over the weekend, Well,
the reason the Chargers lost to the Texas is because
the fires at LA. That's why they lost. They were distracted. Well,
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the Rams all live in LA, right, They're dealing with
us everyone else who has work. We have our job here.
We do the show from LA. The whole place is
on fire around here, but we come in here, we
do the show. There's a show to be done right.
So you look at that, and the Rams went out there.
They could have easily folded like the Chargers did that
pathetic performance by Jim Harbaugh's team. But instead, under McVeigh,
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the Rams went out there. They didn't use the wildfires
as an excuse. The game was moved. They went out there,
they won the game. Another winner would be Chris Schuler. Now,
if you watch the game on Monday night, there was
a lot of slobbery, slapper slap slaughter during the broadcast
from Aikman and Buck for So, Chris Shuil is the
defensive coordinator of the Rams, and he is in the
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Otis elevator, the Otis elevator, and.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
The elevator is going up, up, up and away it is.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's going up up on the way the LA defense
swarming Minnesota like locusts. And if the Rams end up
compete already this point that he's moved up a couple
of notches Shuler. But assuming they don't completely fall apart
against Philadelphia next week, you look ahead here, and as
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a distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of nos Radinas,
it is not hard to imagine a set of circumstances
where the Miami Dolphins in twenty twenty five go out
there and drown, and so Mike McDaniel's ass is grass,
he's out. Dolphins need a new coach all of a sudden, Hey,
let's go back down memory lane, get all those old
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Dolphin fans all horny, and bring in Don Shula's grandson,
Chris Shuler.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And the fact that Justin Jefferson, the greatest receiver in
the NFL. Justin Jefferson was just a guy.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Five catches fifty eight yards for Justin Jefferson. Now, can
the Rams win in Philadelphia? It's a tricky little dance. Yes,
they can win in Philadelphia. They're not favorite. These teams
played back in week twelve and Saquon Barkley put the
Rams defense in a body bag.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
He gouged them.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I went for two fifty five, two hundred and fifty
five yards rushing in that game. But that was then, right,
that was back in week twelve.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
This is now. Obviously it's not gonna be the same situation.
The Rams.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The way I look at the Rams are playing with
house money. They're a soft West Coast team going to
a cold weather environment to a team in Philadelphia that
already kicked their ass. So they're playing with house money.
They'll be sizeable dogs in this game. The pressure is
on Nick Sirianni and the Eagles in that spot. And
we have seen teams with that kind of pressure. They chowk,
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they chowk. How sweet would that be?
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the Rams poll as the Vikings in the game on
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Monday night, but are lead this hour from Jerry's world.
The other shoe has dropped in the never ending soap
opera involving how about them Cowboys?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yes, the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
If you have not heard and perhaps not the Monday
morning surprise on wild Card weekend, Mike McCarthy turn in
your key card. Your services are no longer needed. McCarthy
out as Cowboy coach. He will not return. In twenty
two twenty five. He gone Jerry Jones, who many thought
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would not want to go through a whole coaching search
again after at his age having to deal with all that.
So but Jerry's going to do it. Jerry Jones and
Mike McCarthy were at impass to not work out a
new agreement, unable to find common ground. So now Jerry
Jones has told Mike McCarthy to go walk on that
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ground and go somewhere else. Jones is trying to spin
this story, issuing a prepared statement saying that this was
a mutual parting of the ways, a mutual parting of
the ways, and they decided to go their different directions,
and so this is known as the spin Zone, the
spin Zone by the Dallas Cowboys. Now, there's a lot
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of different theories that are bouncing around the echo chamber
on why this went down, how this all went down.
So let us toss our couple of shekels in on this.
All right, let's do that. So let us discuss the
question Cowboys owner Jerry Jones saying that he and coach
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Mike McCarthy mutually agreed to go there different directions, just
decided that's it. We're going in different directions. Is that
how this actually went down? So my observations, I have
alternative rock, Harry Potter, and polyester tracksuit. We'll combine all
of these things together and we are going to play
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beachside bingo is what we're going to play. Because Jerry Jones,
when he's not on his yacht, when he's laying out
on the beach there he plays beachside bingo.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Doesn't he look like a guy that played bingo? Now,
No bur w.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
To answer the question, was this actually a mutual parting
of the ways as described by the Cowboys GM and owner.
Uh yeah, I'm shaking my head, very passionately, shaking my
head with my eyes closed. No, the answer is no.
This is not my first trip to the circus. Maybe
it's your first trip to the circus. I've been doing
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this before and so I so if you've listened at
all over the years we've been here, that you know
my position on this that I call it the myth
of the mutual breakup, the myth of the mutual breakup.
And this is both in relationships and also in business. Right,
business relationship. We're talking about a business relationships, so we'll
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focus in on that. So a business relationship ending because
both parties at the same time mutually decided they didn't
want to work together.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
It does not happen right.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
One of the parties made the determination that they did
not want to work with the other party. And from
what we are hearing boots on the ground in the
Dallas area there, Jerry Jones did did offer Mike McCarthy
a contract to come back as coach of the Dallas Cowboys,
but it wasn't up to what McCarthy wanted. That's the
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word on the street. So McCarthy rejected it, thinking there
would be a better offer to come down the line,
and no better offer came.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
It was one of those take it or.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Leave it moments, that's what we're hearing, and so McCarthy
ends up pounding sand and walking out of the Cowboy facility.
So why did Mike McCarthy decide to play hardball with
Jerry Jones and the Cowboys? So my theory is he's
a fan of alternative rock and this is alternative rock
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for Jerry Jones, for Mike McCarthy with Jerry Jones, meaning
that Mike McCarthy has options. He has alternatives that he
thinks rock. Right, He's got al turns. He's got an
agent working the back channels through intermediaries, negotiating with the
teams that are not allowed to talk to Mike McCarthy.
Happens all the time. So they were testing the waters
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and what they heard better must have been pretty good. Right,
He's got an inside track. He has the same agent
Mike McCarthy as the gam manager of the Bears. Everyone's
in bed with everyone, nepotism and all that uh fratization.
So you've got that connection there's also the Saints that
are said to be interested in Mike McCarthy. Imagine how
much gumball McCarthy's gonna eat if he goes to New Orleans.
My guy, Now, McCarthy is a football lifer, right, football lifer,
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meat and potatoes, meatthead football guy.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
And so he's one of these guys. He does not care.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
About all the glitz and glamour, the pop and circumstance
of the Dallas football team. For him, he's like, you
can go coach somewhere. I've coach in New Orleans. I'll
go wherever. I don't care. I'll coach in tim Buck two.
As long as I'm getting a lot of money, I'm
a head coach. That's it. He'll be the exciting new
coach in whatever city he goes to, whether that's Chicago
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or New Orleans, and that's that. And you'll win some
regular season games and you'll disappoint and that'll be that
with whoever he ends up, Mike McCarthy, that's what you
get with Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Page TEO.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So, following the dismissal of the rotund Cowboy sideline boss
Mike McCarthy, Troy Aikman entered the chat. The group chat
and Troy Aikman criticized that Cowboys Troy Aikman Dallas Royalty.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Following the removal the departure of Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Aikman questioned whether or not the Dallas Cowboy head coaching
job is a coveted job. How does that one hit you,
Troy Aikman, Not so sure. It's a coveted job coaching
the Dallas Cowboy So this is for Troy Aikman, it's
Harry Potter like Harry Potter like for Troy Aikman. Aikman
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using the tickle belt. If you will hear tickling the
dragon's tail, tickle tickle, that's what he's doing for Jerry
Jones here, And no matter how bleak things look, no
matter how pathetic things are, for the team with the
star on the side of their helmet, it doesn't matter.
The cowboy job today and for as long as Jerry
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Jones there is a plumb job for a couple of reasons, right,
A couple of reasons is.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
A plumb job.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
First of all, you're coaching professional football and the most popular,
the most popular football league in America. Right, most popular
sports league in America. You're coaching the most popular team
in that league, the team worth the most money. And
Jerry Jones can be the biggest stumblebum around and I'm
(24:33):
not gonna argue with that. Jerry's had thirty years. The
Cowboys are celebrating their thirtieth anniversary, the last time they
were any good. And yet it doesn't matter. Right you
do the arithmetic on the situation for the Cowboys and
things like this. With the Cowboys, it just moves the needle.
They are the straw that stirs the drink in the NFL.
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And when their games are on Fox, Fox has the
highest TV ratings. When their games aren't on Fox, they
don't have the highest TV ratings. Very rarely do those
two things not coincide with each other. But it's really
one of those things. If you build it, they will come.
And if you can be the guy, and all these
coaches have giant egos, if you can be the coach
that ends up turning the misery around, then you will
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be canonized around the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Now everyone wants that.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
It's a giant hit for your ego, a positive hit
if you can do it. And so that's where we
are now final point. Let's get to the Komodo dragon
in the room. So coach exit stage right. You then
have to bring in a coach stage left. What are
you gonna do? All right, let's take a look at it.
(25:44):
So the reports that are circulating, dramatic reports.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I'm assuming you've heard about these if you pay attention,
but maybe not so.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
The story is that Jerry Jones has had conversations with
Dion's coach Prime from Colorado. So what do you make
of the GM slash owner of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry
Jones having a chit chat with Dion Sanders about coaching
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the Cowboys?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
What are you making it? So? My first thought is
it's on brand. It's on brand.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It's something that needs to happen for the drama o
rama of the Dallas Cowboy. Jerry Jones, we can all
shake our head in agreement is the ultimate or not
our head and agreement. He's the ultimate look at me guy,
the ultimate look at me guy. Grandstanding. That's what Jerry's
great at. He's a carnival barker. And I just imagine
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Jerry Jones walking around the Cowboy facility.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
When he's not on camera and he's.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Wearing a vintage Al Davis like polyester tracksuit and he's
he's doing that check me out, jog, You know that,
check me out, jog.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
If I look at me.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Posing and preening and all that, and all those coach
prime would be right up Jerry Jones' sleeve. With one caveat,
because the only issue here the showmanship wonderful, the boastfulness outstanding,
the bravado, the charisma of Dion Sanders are all perfectly
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in line with the Dallas Cowboys. The issue is rather
obvious that Jerry Jones has never wanted anyone to upstage
Jerry Jones. One of the reasons that he had a
big issue with Jimmy Johnson years ago, if you're old
enough to remember that, is because Jimmy Johnson was getting
all the credit. That annoyed Jerry Jones. He said, what
about me? They tried to hire Bill Parcels. He did
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work for the Dallas Cowboys and a couple of roles
for the team, and that annoyed Jerry Jones.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Although they didn't win.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
In that situation, he must rather have a guy like
Dave Campo as the coach of the Cowboys or the clapper,
clap on, clap off the yeah, Jason Garrett, He'd much
rather have that kind of a coach. But he would
bring Dion in because you'd win the popular vote. The
casual fan would celebrate Deon Sanders and say, re we
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got Dion. He's a big name, and Dion will feed
the beast. He will feed the machine that is the
marketing arm of the Dallas Cowboys. So from that perspective, now,
whether or not he wins or not, eh, But is
that enough to overcome the fact that Jerry would have
to allow the stage to have Dion on it, meaning
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is he.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Willing to share share the sugar? We don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And if not Deon, does Jerry have a plan B?
And the names that are out there do not really
get you all, Tingley. The names that are out there
are Kellen Moore, who Jerry Jones sided with Mike mccarthur.
Kellen Moore is the offensive coordinator in Philadelphia. He went
to the Chargers for a year. Now he's in Philadelphia.
But there was a power play between McCarthy and Kellen Moore,
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and Kellen Moore was sacrificed and they kept Mike McCarthy.
So now you got rid of McCarthy, Now you're gonna
bring Kellen Moore. When you chose McCarthy over kelling Moore.
The other options are like Cliff Kingsbury. He's got ties
to Texas, the state of Texas, and he's the hot
name right now because Jayden Daniels happens to.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Be good, So there is a possibility that that happens
as well.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. We
to the third.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Is one Big Ben gets Grall and Kobolo.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
So with the recent news of the firing of Mike McCarthy,
this is still not out of the realm of possibilities,
you know, per se. But former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson
had a wild proposal on Sunday. He suggested that since
things have gotten stale for both the Cowboys and the Steelers,
that the team should swap head coaches. Yes, Ben, how
do you think McCarthy he would be on the Steelers
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and Tomlin on the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Of course, the coup that's impossible because McCarthy's no longer
employed by the Cowboys. So I'm glad Jimmy Johnson got
that in the on TV because the rumor died the
next day. McCarthy's he's no longer employed by the Calboys
and Mike Thomas going to be traded next.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
I mean not a trade, But how would.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
They if Jimmy Johnson said there would be a trade?
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Yes, that's it's a whole report, but on each team.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
Despite drawing interest from teams as head coaching candidate, reports
that Cliff Kingsbury may turn down interview requests as he's
still being paid by the Cardinals and is happy in Washington.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
But are you buying this report?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Well, no, he's no. You don't turn down a job.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
He's got another year or so because he's being played
by the Cardinals. Fine, that's right, but now you only
have so many chances to be a head coach. Do
you take the opportunity? So I don't believe that report
he would become a head coach. He take the job,
assuming they don't low ball him next.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Earlier in the weekend, vlad Garreo Junior and the Blue
Jays agreed to a one year, twenty eight and a
half million dollar deal to avoid arbitration.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Ben, do you think this ends any trade speculation.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
No, Toronto's a middling team. They're a bad team. And
you know, baseball starting in like first spring training games
like a little over a month from today, the Cactus
League in the Great Fruit League.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
But yeah, the Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
If they get off to a bad start, all bets
are off and great, he could be traded before opening day.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
It's not off the table. How do we know you failed?
Speaker 7 (31:20):
This?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Is that ana win by me? You dated ques? I
coop data question.
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Speaker 4 (31:43):
Would you like to play man?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Well?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Or do you want to you want to get on
the air right now? You know what do you want
to do?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Here?
Speaker 7 (31:49):
I'll play man? You know what's all right?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Hold on?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Say do we we have Manuel? We have Kelly in
the Nashville is gonna play mat Manuel? Who do you
want to partner up with?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Man?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Well?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
You got me then? Or the Cooper Loop?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Man?
Speaker 7 (32:04):
I'm gonna go with you again, man, all right, good,
last time I kind of underachieved.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
All right, hold on a sec.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
You're gonna play and Kelly in Nashville Slash Iowa. Hello,
Kelly formerly known as Donut Kelly. But she's out of
the Donut game now she's now in the baby making
game at this point, that's the game.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
She's in, right, Wow, Okay, yeah, I mean I don't know.
Am I wrong? I don't know everything? All right? Everything good?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, everything's great, man, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
I don't want to jinx anything. So everything all right? Good?
Stupid questions, just stupid.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yes, all right, you will team up with Cooper Loop
coop one of the categories quickly so we can set
all of this up here. We'll have a lot of
time to play the game. Let the game breathe a
little bit, be a lot of fun. Cannot wait for
the game.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
All right.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
This is Malard's Mountain of Money, the Liam Hemsworth Edition.
Oh he turned and I think it was thirty five.
I have seventy one written here, and that's not accurate.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I'm pretty sure he's not. Even the little knowledge I
have coup He's not seventy one.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Yes, thirty thirty five, that's the correct age.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yeah, even I know that, Coop. You didn't get that
one past me.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
The categories are neighbors, the Hunger Games, Empire State, and
isn't it romantic?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Hmm?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Manuel, you run first? Which category?
Speaker 7 (33:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
No, man, between Shane Kelly and the baby Mallard baby,
they have to kick first? Oh deforey, I see that interesting.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Kelly, which category would you like?
Speaker 7 (33:41):
Is romantic?
Speaker 5 (33:42):
All right?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
All right? And what about you man?
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Will Bennie pick it?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
He didn't hear the category.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I wasn't listening.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Neighbors, the Hunger Games or Empire State.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Well, me and Bennie have both been fat bastards in
our time.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
We're gonna go a hunger.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Game, all right, Hunger Games. It is very good. Everyone
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and we'll.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Have that'll be the matchup. Manuel in Guardiana, Kelly in Nashville.
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Speaker 4 (34:41):
But who you picking?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Me?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Picking myself?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
With Manuel and Guardina or Coop and Kelly. We'll find
out we will have a winner. It is about to begin.
Mallard's amount of money.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
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mountain of money. Hell, do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not? In a way
we go.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Manuel was on the air first, but he deferred, So
I believe donut, Kelly and Coop, you guys are gonna
go first.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
I think that's what do you want?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
It?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Interesting?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
He waited till the second half. He's like, hey, I'll
defer the kickoff to the second half. I don't want
the ball to start the game.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
That's fine, we can do that. You ready, Kelly?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah, I'm ready?
Speaker 5 (35:37):
All right? We have isn't it romantic?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
These athletes all married their high school sweethearts. Okay, forty
five seconds on the clock, let's begin. Quarterback for the
Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, this guy won a Super Bowl
with the Ravens. He's super old. Now quarterback in the NFL.
He's He was with the Brown's last year. I think
(36:01):
it was at the Colts this year, but he won
j yes.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Uh. This guy was the closer for the Yankees. The Sandman.
Oh god, we'll skip it.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
It is not got one of the best regular season
pitchers of all time for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
He's still on the Dodgers right now.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
It's a bad klue coop.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Oh wow, he's terrible in the postseason and he has
long blonde hair shrowning right.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Oh my god. All right, white ride receiver.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
For the Wow.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Well you did it pretty well. I was impressed. You
got thirty points solid. He did not know who Mariano
Rivera is. Clayton Kershaw interesting, All right, we're.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Up, man. Well you're excited here, man.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Well in Guardina, another opportunity you picked the Hunger Games.
These athletes are all at the end of their career,
still looking for that elusive ring.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
I'm ready and I love Kelly and I love Shane.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Okay, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock. We're
on our way go. He was benched this quarterback of
the Falcons this season. Yes, guard Lob City Clippers. He's
on the Spurs now, but he's washed up. Point guard
Chris Yes, guard for the Toronto Raptors. He's played for
Side Antonio. He's bounced around from l A. He's an
(37:24):
l A guy along time. Yes, last player to win
an MVP Award for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
He's an outfielder. He's back with the Pirates. He will
played with the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
First name, all right? How about this tight end from
u C l A. He's played nineteen seasons in the NFL.
He was on the Bears this year, played in Jacksonville.
First name is like a car. Yes, center center for the.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
All right, Andrew McCutchen was Lawrence McCutcheon. You're dating yourself,
Lawrence mcusson. Holy crapeh yas still got one? And yeah,
well right the area coop, You're right in the game, all.
Speaker 6 (38:06):
Right, Kelly, would you like uh the would you like
neighbors or Empire State.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
I'm gonna go Empire State.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
These athletes are all from New York, born in New York. Okay,
forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Let's begin.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
He was the leading rusher in the NFL for the Eagles.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Yes. Uh, he's a boxer that bit somebody's ear off.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
Oh, he just fought I get fifty years old. Okay.
This guy was a slugger for the Yankees. He was
married to j Low.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Alec, yes, yeah, Alec. Yes.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
This guy was a basketball player for the Lakers. He
almost died in a whorehouse.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Oh wow, all right, it could be so many people. Yeah,
so many guys are almost Yeah. Well you did well there, Coop.
You got another fifty points, so that's you're.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Up to eighty. Wow. We could not get Mike Tyson.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I'm yon I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Lorena knew that one.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Wow. Yeah, if Lorena knows it, now, that's not good.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
If you don't know they have been pregnant before, Kelly,
it's called pregnancy brain.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Are you using the pregnancy Excuse my brain?
Speaker 7 (39:36):
My brain is rough right now.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
It's mush. Okay, not allowed back on the game show.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
You know what, how many more months is the kid
in the oven for? How many more once we gotta wait,
I don't know anyway. In August, oh Man missed the
game shows all year. Well man, Man, well, would you
like to run up the score?
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Man?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
You know we would.
Speaker 7 (39:53):
We loved him, but.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
We got you.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
The only category leftist neighbors. These athletes grew up near
their eventual pro team. We'll put forty five seconds on
the clock.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
We did.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
The first and last name are on our way, the
pride of Akron, Ohio.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
He's playing for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Game.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Yes, Cincinnati Charlie Hustle, the greatest hitro. Yes, Chicago Bulls guard.
He's just just announced. I' gonna have his number retired. No, No,
Chicago Bulls Guard. I'm gonna have his number retired. His
last name is like a flower now all right? Yes,
defensive star for the Lions. He's missed most of this
(40:30):
year out of Michigan. He's injured right now for the
Detroit Lions. How about this Chicago Bears defensive player first name. Similarly,
we'll call her from Dayton, Ohio. Legend from Yes, cheating
cheating Astroid's on the Padres right now, starting pitcher for
the Padras.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
No, it's a Joe Muskrove was on the Cheating a
Holes back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Stro Yes, all right, well we we won going away
a domination situation. You did not get a Hutchinson.
Speaker 7 (41:12):
I know their damn last names. I don't know their
first Well.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Either way, it doesn't matter. We limited the first name ability.
We still won the game. That's all that matters here.
You beat a pregnant woman. How do you feel?
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Congratulations like that? I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
All right, thank you manwell appreciated. There's a Manuel and Kelly.
Let's say hello to we have time to take called.
Jed who fled is in the Sunshine State. Hello, Jed
who fled?
Speaker 7 (41:41):
Heel from Calabama. The way you said he's being a pregnant.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Woman, I mean, lame jokes are on what jokes are
on Friday?
Speaker 7 (41:52):
Lames are on top of you, dude, and they're just
they're just rooting.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Oh yeah, you know what's on top of you. The cops.
They're on top you right now. They're coming to get you.
Speaker 7 (42:02):
I'll tell you, I wish they get valid. Oh my god,
Hey Jerome and Charleston, you got issues, man, you got issues.
Philadelphia your freedom. I don't think they won't that you
want to be associated with that at all, Like that
is not the record when you're talking about football game
team going tracking up to Philadelphia. Ver says, day for
the next week, mat Chell, what's the background? Uh, helthy
(42:23):
your freedom? Football player? Is they like hero stuff? I'm
not saying nothing negative. Hey, Briskie's a good person. You
look at me, he's good. Look at Dallas even. Why
why did you get into D block? Dude?
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Hey, what do you complain?
Speaker 5 (42:35):
You complain?
Speaker 1 (42:36):
You complain when I talk. I'm not talking. I'm allowing
you a monologue. It's a jetu fled monologue. You are
so ungrateful you what is and it's not?
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Listen? Is this the C block? This is We don't.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
We got rid of the D block. We don't have
the D block anymore. We got rid of the D.
All we have is the seed.
Speaker 7 (42:52):
What did the what did the chickens say? A chicken
chicken bar clothing times? He said, that's your life, Deny.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Is that you you're limited. There's a supply chain, shortage
of material.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
Give me your best fight cartoon last.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
No, I'm not, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
I'm a profeton I'm a grown man. I'm an adult.
I'm a voice in the night here.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
I can't be doing that.
Speaker 7 (43:18):
Why did you need to say it five times? If
you're a grown man as an adult.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
You're you're out of material. That's all. That's all. That's it.
That's all, folks. That's all folks. That's all, folks. Can
you hang Can you hang up on yourself now? Please
do the right thing. Hang up on yourself. I'm not
hang Yeah, there you go. Another classic moment on The
(43:45):
Ben Mathers Show.
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