January 30, 2025 • 34 mins
Big Ben talks about Travis Kelce saying that the Chiefs are embracing the villain role heading into the Super Bowl, Matthew Stafford planning to return to the Rams in 2025, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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was not. I have no idea. I mean, maybe the
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So you're worried about Dad, That's fine, but the show
must go on, so our lead. This hour is from
Soup super Bowl fifteen night. Now, super Bowl fifty nine
is not being played this weekend, as you know. In fact,
it won't be played until the following Sunday. However, the
calm before the storm, the dreaded dead week. Now there
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is no such thing as a dead week. There was
a point in time when you did have the dead week,
but that doesn't exist anymore. So the things picking up
the next couple of days. Now, we already had a
couple of nuggets, golden nuggets that were tossed out there
as we get cranked up the full blast now in
the meantime, before we get into all that, Travis kelce
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the gift that keeps on giving, the tight end of
your cans City Chiefs, Travis kelce He has filled the
sports take collection plate. Now what has he done? What
has he done here? If you didn't hear this, maybe
not Bobbly didn't The tight end Travis kelcey saying recently
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that he and his teammates they have embraced the villain role.
They've embraced being the bad guys as they attempt to
win that third Super Bowl in a row. Kelsey, on
his Fledgling podcast said, I love it. He said, it
makes us even more of a family. Yes, it's all
about that. Yeah, f A M I L Y fam
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A Lee all day all right now. Kelsey added that
he thinks the outside noise. You know, people that have
opinions that caused the NFL to make all this money,
that the outside noise is helping to galvanize, helping to
galvanize the Chiefs as they are on their quest to
get three championships in row. He said, you just circle
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the wagons and blah blah blah blah blah. Alright, so
let us discuss now. I added the blah blah blah
blah part that he didn't actually say that. I added
the blah blah blah blah blah. That was not what
he said. He said, we'll circle the wagons and you
just do that, all right. So the question for the
esteem panel Travis Kelcey saying that he and his teammates
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are embracing villain status for this Super Bowl run here,
and what is your viewpoint on that? So I have
Darth Vader, Charlie Chaplin, and Hot Dog on a stick,
three things that have never been combined together in the
history of radio, but here they are, all right, So
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and we'll combine these things together and then we'll actually
make a knob that will be fixed. The knob will
be fixed because we put those things together. The broken
equipment in the studio. Not then I'm complaining. I'm just
merely pointing it out because maybe if I point it out,
someone will fix it. But it'll be all taken care
of because we'll combine those things together. So my first
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thought here is that Travis kelcey and the Chiefs are
laughing all the way to the bank the uproar. I
thought it would calm down. We are several days out,
several days out, we're heading into a Thursday now, and
we're still hearing the noise. It's rigged. It's fixed by
dumb people. A lot of dumb people out there. That's rigged. Yess.
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The NFL is very worried about market number thirty one.
But it hasn't calmed down, right, It hasn't calmed down.
But this has been an absolute gold rush, an absolute
gold rush for Travis Kelce. Nobody in the NFL has
monetized themselves more than Travis kelce in recent years. You
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talk about being the beneficiary writing the coattails of the
Taylor Swift fame train. Jew Yeah, right there, and all
this bad blood for the Chiefs. There is no such thing.
I heard this years ago. It is true. There is
no such thing as bad publicity. As long as they
make sure you know everything's right there, they get your
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name out there because people react. It's all about the name,
and Travis Kelcey and the Chiefs. It's like the famous
words of Darth Vader in Star Wars. You don't know
the power of the dark Side. You don't And the
Chiefs are embracing the power of the dark side at
this point. And I've always said sports hate is the
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greatest kind of hate. I love good sports hate. I
love it now misplaced sports hate's kind of silly, like
when the Bill's Mafia were so upset with my Friend's
sports with Coleman. How embarrassing was that for Bill's Mafia.
But this is like, fine, the Chiefs are winning all
the time, your team blows and so you're upset and
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you're convinced. It's that illusionary truth phenomenon where you keep
hearing over and over the games are rigged, and you
start looking for things that back that up, even when
they're not there. Now page two, So, Travis kelce also
says that Kansas City's locker room all Right has never
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ever discussed three peating. That's not been talked about at all,
not one time during the season or the playoff run.
He says, it has not been mentioned at all. It
has been asked about only by the media, but not
brought up by the players in the room. All right,
So that's what he's saying. So let's discuss Travis Kelce
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claiming that the Chiefs have not have not taken the
three pete mantra inside the locker room. They have not
done it one time ahead of the matchup as they
played the Eagles in the Super Bowl. So your thoughts
on that. So my thought is this is true, perhaps,
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but it's irrelevant. It's like, maybe that's true. I find
that hard to believe, know how the human mind is wired.
I have one. I think you do too, and find
it impossible to believe that it didn't come up at
some point, like what would it be like? And if
we win, we're golden for life, or are probably already
golden for life, but we want another one. So think
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of this like the early Hollywood star Charlie Chaplin who
made his fame in silent films, Right's silent movies and
all that. It is a tacit approach that I have
here that the historical run is understood, so you don't
have to like talk about it, even if it's unstated.
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Everyone's aware of what's going on. And it's been shadow
boxing the Chiefs all season. It hasn't mattered in the playoffs.
They've been they've been winning these games, and they're going
to win the super Bowl and they'll win the championship
and all that. And then I will guarantee you after
the Chiefs raise up the Lombardi Trophy that they will say, well,
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nobody thought we could do it. You know, if we're
going where no one's gone before. Blah blah blah. They'll
be yapping, although they claim now I don't really listen
to the outside noise and they didn't bring it up,
but you you will, one hundred percent. No, if this
does end with the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl, it
is going to be NonStop patting themselves in the back,
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overcoming the adversity, all that stuff, because every team that
wins does the same thing. They all have the same
playbook when they win. Now, last word here, so making
the media rounds. Making the media rounds, Andy Read did
several interviews. Now, Andy does not do a lot of
these interviews locally in Kansas City, but he does pop
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up on national shows. It's odd because in Philadelphia he
was on the radio a lot when he coached the Eagles.
He had a coaches show every week. He had to
go on with Angelo Cataldi in Philadelphia, and I know
he hated it, but he had to do it. Now
he doesn't have to do it. In Kansas City. There's
no coaches show. There's not even a coach's podcast. As
far as I know, that does not exist. But Andy
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Reiding knowledge in an interview this week that the Chiefs
are working on some exotic plays in the Super Bowl.
So the question is, why would Andy Reid confirm that
they are planning on using some trick plays in Super
Bowl fifty nine? How do you benefit from that? And
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this is obviously the antithesis of Bill Belichick, right, but
you'd ask Bill Belichick what time it was, he'd be
looking at the clock. He says, I'm not going to
answer that question. I have no answer. I can't comment
on that. But in comparison, Andy Reid is side by
said he's an open book. But anybody next to Bill Belichick,
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I would say, is an open book. And Belichick who
kept everything close to the vest, even the vest itself
was close to the vest. It was fascinating how he
was able to do that. But the benefit to answer
the question why would you do this if you're Andy Reid, Well,
the benefit is obvious because it is a friendly reminder,
a friendly reminder being strategic that hey, you know, we
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do this a lot, and we're probably going to do
it again, and we love trickeration. And so hey, Nick
Siriotti and all you Philadelphia Eagle types, Uncle Vic Fangio
and all you clowns over there when you're preparing you're
doing that cramming session to get ready for the Super Bowl,
getting everything lined up and all that. Here's one more
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thing to worry about and give you anxiety, one more
thing you have to concern yourself with. And Kansas City
has done it in these last couple of Super Bowls.
They have used the go go gadget play if you
will in the Super Bowl, right, Andy Reid the hot
dog on a stick philosophy, and we know he loves
a hot dog on a stick. And the team from
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Kansas City using the play, they called it the the
corn dog become iconic. Who doesn't like a corn dog?
That's delicious. So they've used that last couple of times,
and so they'll probably pull out some play from like
nineteen forty seven or nineteen forty six or something like
that that was used like one time by a team
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that no longer exists, and Andy Reid heard about it
reading a book somewhere on the toilet, and he was
inspired to bring the play back in the modern era.
And they'll run like the Flying Wedge, which unfortunately is illegal.
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So our lead this hour from Los Angeles, NFL News.
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NFL News Decision twenty twenty five. Matthew Stafford. Now, you
might remember Matthew Stafford at the end of the Rams
season when they were eliminated by the Philadelphia football team,
despite actually competing and going to blow to blow with
the Philadelphia Eagles and having a chance to win the
game in the fourth quarter. But that aside, that aside.
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After that playoff loss in Philadelphia, Matthew Stafford was rather
vague on whether or not he would be back with
the Rams. He had to ponder why would you even ponder?
If he had to ponder his future, he was debating
the drama. Will he continue to make forty plus million
dollars a year or will he step away to not
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make forty million dollars a year? These are very tough
decisions to decide, what do you want to do? So
he has made his decision. I assume you know by now,
but maybe not. Maybe you're a little late to the party.
The show starts when you turn the show on, and
the show ends when you turn the show off. It's
amazing how that works. So it turns out that we
are told Matthew Stafford says I'm back. He's planning on
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returning to the Rams for another season. NFL state sponsored
media reporting that Stafford has informed the team that he
plans on returning next season. It has been communicated in
so many words to the Sean McVay brain trust in
Los Angeles. So let us discuss the question. Matthew Stafford
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planning on coming back running it back with the Rams
at twenty twenty five. That's what he says. It's a
he said, he said situation does that Garon t that
Stafford will be back with the Rams in twenty twenty five.
So I've got doctor It, sund and Donnie Wahlberg, three
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things that have never been combined together, and through the
hocus pocus, the abra cadabra of talk radio, we're going
to combine all these things together. So number I said,
number yeah, mallor sports book ods. Now, we got a
lot of guys in Vegas that listen to the show,
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and this is not an official sports book. These are
the malar of sportsbook odds, which are much more important,
much more important. It's like an offshore sportsbook type thing.
So the malar of sportsbook odds minus three hundred, okay,
minus three hundred. That implies a seventy five percent chance
that Stafford is with the Rams, but a twenty five
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percent chance that there is impass and they can't get
past their difficulties and Stafford does not return to the Rams.
He's dude to make twenty seven million dollars next year,
which is good work if you can get it. However,
none of that money is guaranteed. Remember we told you
a couple weeks back in a previous episode of the
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show that Stafford had signed essentially a one year contract
to come back and then they would figure things out
at the end of the year. Well, now the year's
over for the Rams and everyone other than Philadelphia and
Kansas City. So the Rams are trying to figure things
out what they want to do going forward, and they
have to renegotiate. But from a business perspective, a guy
call up last hour, nice gentleman, you ps driver, right,
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I don't think Stafford's worth forty million, And I would
argue that most of these people are not worth the
money they're making. But that's not the point. It's not
our money. Who cares, We're just sitting there watching this crap.
It's on the people that work in that business. It's
their money. Stan Kronki, the owner of the Rams, is
married into the Walmart money and he made a bunch
of money on his own in real estate at one point.
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I don't know if this is still true, but the
RAMS owner, Stan Kronk, you know, owns a bunch of
teams in Colorado as well. But stan Kronki was the
largest in non government landowner in America the entire country.
No one individual owned more land. I don't know if
that's still true. It was true as of a number
of years back. I have not seen if somebody's passed
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him by or not. And he's an introvert. One of
my old radio friends back in the day, Joe McDonald,
knew him a little bit, and he didn't like talking
to the media very much, kept to himself. And all
that was years ago, and you don't see him on TV.
He's not one of these guys Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft.
They demand that television show them certain owners are attention
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wrees and Stan Cronkey is not that. But it's his money.
It's his money. The problem is Stafford is thirty seven
years old. The Rams over the last couple of years
have picked up a doctorate in kicking the can down
the road right in just waiting to get things done.
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Mainly Sean McVeagh when it comes to the quarterback position,
is tiptoeing around land mines because the Rams have put
everything into Stafford and there's no one else. There's no
heir to the throne for the Rams, there's not and
in many ways that's a dared devil approach. I don't
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really hate it because the Rams are like, well, figure
it out. Remember they picked up Baker Mayfield when he
was on death's doorstep from Carolina and he actually did okay,
and briefly briefly as the as the Rams quarterback, and
so they figure they can go get somebody in. Sean
mcvay's the quarterback whisperer, and he can coach up some
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second rate quarterback and they'll figure it out as they go.
But it's not like they've drafted anyone realistic. I know
they drafted the quarterback out of Georgia, who's got issues
and that's not really grooming someone for the future. So
the draft is in April. Will the Rams actually try
to find someone they can plug behind Stafford? When the
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inevitable Stafford my, oh, my aching knee, all my elbow
and he gets hurt and they don't have anybody all
right now, page two, we go to Philadelphia. There's an
underlying story as the Eagles prepare to take on Kansas
City in Super Bowl fifty nine, and it involves a
postgame quote that has been highlighted from Jalen Hurts. Now
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Jalen Hurts, his quote still has legs. Several days later,
Jalen Hurst was asked about having the three touchdown performance
against the Washington football team after some real duds. Let's
be honest, you didn't play very well. It wasn't much
of a factor at all in terms of what the
Eagles were doing offensively in a positive way, Jalen Hurts.
And so he's asked about that and he said, let
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me they let me out of my straight jacket a
little bit. That was the quote, let me out of
my straight jacket a little bit. So right away we
all saw that, and what do we say we said
ding dong. That's what we said, ding dong exactly. That's
the money quote. That's the money quote raised some eyebrows. Now,
the head coach of the Philadelphia football team, Nick Sirianni,
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he was asked about this now he said, he just
dismissed it. Nick Sirianni said, listen, Jalen Hurst was just
quote having fun close quote just having fun with the
straight jacket comment. Is there more to the story? Malords
show investigation? Is there more to the story. After several
minutes of contemplation and deliberation, we have determined yes, there
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is more to the story here. Jalen Hurts is annoyed
with Nick Sirianni. He's annoyed with Sirianni. And it's not
to the point where like, ah, this guy should be
firing the option of the super Bowl. But when Sirianni said,
Hurts is just having fun, right, that is the point.
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That is the point. Of course, he was having fun.
But as we know from studying human nature that there
is a Colonel kernel of truth. It's wrapped in every joke.
Right that Sigmund Freud said that the joke's really just
truth wrapped in a smile is the joke, So there's
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truth in there. Yeah, he's annoyed. It's like it is
emasculating for Jalen Hurts. He has been marginalized. Now it's working,
and I wouldn't change it. If I was the Eagle,
Are you kidding me? I would ride Sekwon Barkley's back
all the way to the Promised Land. If that's how
it's gonna go. I don't think it's gonna work, but
you're certainly not gonna change things now, and you're not
gonna go to a passing office. That was That's what
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spags in Kansas City are gonna want. They're gonna want
Jalen Hurts to throw the ball thirty five times and
you feel like you're gonna win the game. He's throwing
the ball thirty five times. You're in good shape. But
Hurts is a glorified game manager. It's unbecoming. Right, So
the straight jacket joke was a way to send a message.
All right, final point, we going out of the marketing world.
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That's right, the marketing world. Now. I read this week
that the Commanders a team with a very weak nickname.
What a dumb nickname? That is the Washington Commanders, though
their rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels, the star of the show,
the bell of the ball. He has the top selling,
top selling jersey across all of the North American Sports League,
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so all the big sports leagues in America, and he's
at the very top. He's number one right there at
the top top selling jersey according to the people over
there at fanatics. And so the Commanders also have announced,
as they're trying to pump up the reputation of Jade
and Daniels, that of course he has the top selling
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jersey since the playoffs started in the NFL. So how
does Commanders quarterback Jaden Daniels have the highest jersey sales
across all all of sports in twenty twenty five. I
know we're not even a month in, but well, the
answers right in front of you. He is like back
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in his day, Donnie Wahlberg, new kid on the block,
the new kids on the block. He's the new flavor
in the NFL, Jaden Daniels. And for a couple of weeks,
it was a magic carpet ride, beating Tampa Bay, taking
the Lions the Mighty Mighty Detroit lions and taking them
to the woodshed, and so nobody. The other thing is
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nobody had any merch who is nobody wants to buy
Washington Commanders merchandise. The team logo sucks, the jersey sucks, right,
I mean, it's just bad. And so you never you
never underestimate these shiny object syndrome. That's a big part
of it. And then the Commanders and back going back
to when they were the Redskins. They haven't had many
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name brand players in the last ten years, So just
the disease of attraction, right, like, hey, this guy's actually good.
Haven't had a good player in a while. And plus
the other thing is it's the trendy train. Sure, the
trendy train band wag nerve. People like to jump on
the bandwagon. Band wagon effect is a real thing that
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if you start a restaurant and you pay people to
wait online for the restaurant, people will wait online with
those people, even though they don't know anything about the restaurant,
because they think it's popular. They want to be part
of it. That's just the way it is. So it's
human nature. So the perception is that Jayden Daniels is
going to be great for the next fifteen years and
all that, and so there you go. Imagine how much
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more merch though they would sell if they actually had
a good logo and a good nickname. It's a fashion
faux paws at commander's uniform.
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Here we go. It's not how you do it right.
It's a terrible call. This is one big Ben gets
Grill Kupol.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
New York Giants GM Joe Shoon said in an interview
this week that the Giants are a quote open to
anything at the number three overall pick in this year's draft.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Then what direction do you think the Giants will go? Well,
Joe Shane, who is probably gonna lose his job after
this this offseason night for the Giants, I would trade
the pick. From what I've read I've tried to study
up on the draft, doesn't seem like there's a bunch
of impact players in this draft. So if you can
get multiple picks and have multiple shots at it, I
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would trade down. The Giants obviously need a quarterback. My
sense tells me they actually will draft Shradar Sanders will
likely be the pick there, but I would trade to
pick it was up to me, because the Giants have
many holes. I would try to get quantity over necessarily
quality because not only there's like great quality and who knows,
these scouts are probably completely wrong.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Next, former Colts head coach Chuck Pagano is coming out
of retirement to join the Ravens coaching Staffah, my guy, yes,
senior secondary coach. Sure, Ben, do you think Pagano is
looking to move back up the ranks? Ors here just
helping out Harbaugh.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well, we need Chuck Pegano to come back as a coach.
Two of my favorite quotes over the last twenty years
Chuck Pegano when he said it's not trigonometry and there
was some quarterback for the Colts who was playing kind
of sick, and he said he was literally on his deathbed.
We need I support Pegano back as a head coach.
He a little too old, but I support him.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Next, all right, Anthony Davis put out some put some
pressure on the Lakers' front office this week, saying I
think we need another big I feel like I've always
been at my best when I've been at the four
We know it worked when we won a championship with
JaVale and Dwight at the five and me at the four.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Bench to the Lakers listened to ad No, Lebron and
a d these guys bitching, Oh, we don't have enough talent.
Stop with the excuses. Stop what do you do? You're
never gonna have enough talent. Just go out there and
win some damn playoff games. And that's his way of
saying that the team blows. How do we do? Koop?
You passes and put it on the board. So sick
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of though all read more talent oo oo.
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Helloop, Now, this is a good question, but I don't
know if it's if it's one that's easy to come
up with on the spot. So we'll see Emmett the
Blind see how I've heard of him. He wants to note,
do you guys have any weird food weird food combinations
that you like.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I don't think they're weird, but like we had the
listeners send a bunch of snacks, and I like cheese
balls and chocolate. Wonderful, right, I mean that's weird. I
don't think that's weird. Cheese balls and chocolate. Yeah, the
salt from the cheese balls, and then the pretzels and chocolate.
I do pretzels as well, but cheese balls and chocolate.
I think that's a little weird. It's not weird at all.
It's fine, Lorena. You want to add any you do
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a lot of weird things, Lorena, I.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Do a lot of great things. If you ask me, man,
uh huh.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You struggle the two donuts the other day.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Yeah, But then there's some things that really hit Like
I like dipping my popcorn and mustard.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Oh, yeah, that's right. I love doing that.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
It's not cool, not good. I coope any weird. I'm
having trouble thinking of it.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
The only thing I can think of, and it doesn't
It's probably not weird to a lot of people because
it's kind of like so when I go to Rosco's.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I like chicken and waffle place. If you're not familiar, yes.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I'm I'm surprised how many people don't eat all of
it in the same bite. But I'm a I'm a waffle,
syrup chicken. Oh, you're a You're all in the same bite.
You're a mixer, Yes, you're a mixer. Yeah, I'm not
usually a mixer. I eat my each part of the dish,
you know, but separate.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah. My wife's a mixer too, she likes she gets
very upset. She's like, she won't eat everything in a bowl,
you know. And I'm like, I'm not a dog. I
don't know anyway, what is next year? What do we have?
It's ask bang. Your questions are answers. On a nubie night,
a very good.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Nubie night, ferd Dog would like to know Hi, fergie.
Do you sneeze into your hand, your arm, or in
the air everywhere?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Well, it depends by myself. I'll just sneeze in the
air everywhere. But no, no, I usually cover because if
I'm like on my computer or something that there's nothing
worse than yes, getting mucus all over your screen and
all that stuff. Uh. Yeah, I normally use my hand.
I think you're supposed to do the elbow thing like this, right,
You're supposed to go like that, but I usually do
the hand.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah, the hand is bad because then you go and
touch other things with your hand, thus spreading the germs.
Where if you go into your elbow, you don't touch me.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Like Jonas knocks over there. That's wrong with you.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
You got to teach your kids how not to spread germs.
Ben anyways, Yeah, no, I always try to cover my
mouth because I've seen my spit go super far when
I've sneezed before. I'm like, how did you reach that far?
Like it's crazy how far it goes.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, I've seen those videos on YouTube where they they yeah, man,
you have power human being your mucus.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I got a big sneeze too, so you know you
gotta hold that baby in Do.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
You goot like that guy on f S one? Cool?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
So when I was a teenager into young adults, I
like held my sneezes all the time, and then I
was told that that's bad.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You can die. I don't know if that's true. Yeah,
but uh.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Now I am like you, Ben. If I'm alone, I
just turned my head and let it fly.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah. Uh. But when I'm not alone, I go into
the elbow. Okay, you're an elbow guy. Yeah. During the
COVID thing they said elbow. They were big elbow people. Anyway,
what is next year? To ask?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour
the King Rory, Hi, Rory.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
You would like to know do you keep an open
box of baking soda in your fridge?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yes, we have two boxes of baking soda. We have
one that I actually use for baking in the cupboard,
and then we have one in the fridge because you know,
sometimes stuff starts smelling pretty nasty. What about you, Larena.
I like to don't cook.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I like to keep my fridge clean, Ben, So I
don't keep.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
You don't keep. You don't keep food in there? No
food is hard I just told you guys, I don't
cook Yesterday's.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I know, Goop, I do not because my fridge has
this fancy air filtrations cycle, saying the usually Hollywood have
to change filter every sing must the kitchen remodel.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Huh yes, okay, that seems like a lot of stuff
that could break on it, though I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Well, I mean, you do have to replace the filter,
and that's kind of a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Oh yeah, how often do you replace I get water
for my fridge. How often do you replace the water
in the fridge. You're supposed to do that, like every
other month or something, the water filter. I think i'd
do it every six months.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I've never changed the water filter on my phone.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Oh boy, thing, Oh boy? All right, Yes, what is
next year? To ask? Ben? Your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
All right, Ben, this is a question just for you,
all right, Just Josh, hi, Josh. He wants to know.
He says, my wife is about to have knee replacement surgery.
Oh boy, does this take doggy style off the table?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Why is he asking? Why am I the expert on it?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Actually, it says it's for Bill Miller, Sorry for Billy.
Bill Miller would say, invest in a nice pillow, is
what he would He would say, quick way, what more?
Quick way?
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Oh god, do you have any interest in visiting Punk
Satani for Groundhog's Day?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah? I love that movie, Lorena, Yeah, why not? Come on?
You know there's more than one. There's more than one
groundhog thing. That's the most famous, though, in Pennsylvania.
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I said, Loraina, the equipment's not working. And we have
a major engineering department here, people that know how to
fix things. So I assume by the time I came
back into the studio everything would be working. And you
hear that. I don't know if you can hear that,
but that's the piece that's broken, which is still broken,
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which was not fixed. So I don't know why it
was not. I have no idea. I mean, maybe the
guys out having coffee or something. I don't know what happened.
But anyway, there you go. So the equipment still still broken.
So I'll let you know, like to learn all the
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So you're worried about Dad, That's fine, but the show
must go on, so our lead. This hour is from
Soup super Bowl fifteen night. Now, super Bowl fifty nine
is not being played this weekend, as you know. In fact,
it won't be played until the following Sunday. However, the
calm before the storm, the dreaded dead week. Now there
(02:43):
is no such thing as a dead week. There was
a point in time when you did have the dead week,
but that doesn't exist anymore. So the things picking up
the next couple of days. Now, we already had a
couple of nuggets, golden nuggets that were tossed out there
as we get cranked up the full blast now in
the meantime, before we get into all that, Travis kelce
(03:06):
the gift that keeps on giving, the tight end of
your cans City Chiefs, Travis kelce He has filled the
sports take collection plate. Now what has he done? What
has he done here? If you didn't hear this, maybe
not Bobbly didn't The tight end Travis kelcey saying recently
(03:29):
that he and his teammates they have embraced the villain role.
They've embraced being the bad guys as they attempt to
win that third Super Bowl in a row. Kelsey, on
his Fledgling podcast said, I love it. He said, it
makes us even more of a family. Yes, it's all
about that. Yeah, f A M I L Y fam
(03:52):
A Lee all day all right now. Kelsey added that
he thinks the outside noise. You know, people that have
opinions that caused the NFL to make all this money,
that the outside noise is helping to galvanize, helping to
galvanize the Chiefs as they are on their quest to
get three championships in row. He said, you just circle
(04:15):
the wagons and blah blah blah blah blah. Alright, so
let us discuss now. I added the blah blah blah
blah part that he didn't actually say that. I added
the blah blah blah blah blah. That was not what
he said. He said, we'll circle the wagons and you
just do that, all right. So the question for the
esteem panel Travis Kelcey saying that he and his teammates
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are embracing villain status for this Super Bowl run here,
and what is your viewpoint on that? So I have
Darth Vader, Charlie Chaplin, and Hot Dog on a stick,
three things that have never been combined together in the
history of radio, but here they are, all right, So
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and we'll combine these things together and then we'll actually
make a knob that will be fixed. The knob will
be fixed because we put those things together. The broken
equipment in the studio. Not then I'm complaining. I'm just
merely pointing it out because maybe if I point it out,
someone will fix it. But it'll be all taken care
of because we'll combine those things together. So my first
(05:20):
thought here is that Travis kelcey and the Chiefs are
laughing all the way to the bank the uproar. I
thought it would calm down. We are several days out,
several days out, we're heading into a Thursday now, and
we're still hearing the noise. It's rigged. It's fixed by
dumb people. A lot of dumb people out there. That's rigged. Yess.
(05:41):
The NFL is very worried about market number thirty one.
But it hasn't calmed down, right, It hasn't calmed down.
But this has been an absolute gold rush, an absolute
gold rush for Travis Kelce. Nobody in the NFL has
monetized themselves more than Travis kelce in recent years. You
(06:01):
talk about being the beneficiary writing the coattails of the
Taylor Swift fame train. Jew Yeah, right there, and all
this bad blood for the Chiefs. There is no such thing.
I heard this years ago. It is true. There is
no such thing as bad publicity. As long as they
make sure you know everything's right there, they get your
(06:22):
name out there because people react. It's all about the name,
and Travis Kelcey and the Chiefs. It's like the famous
words of Darth Vader in Star Wars. You don't know
the power of the dark Side. You don't And the
Chiefs are embracing the power of the dark side at
this point. And I've always said sports hate is the
(06:44):
greatest kind of hate. I love good sports hate. I
love it now misplaced sports hate's kind of silly, like
when the Bill's Mafia were so upset with my Friend's
sports with Coleman. How embarrassing was that for Bill's Mafia.
But this is like, fine, the Chiefs are winning all
the time, your team blows and so you're upset and
(07:06):
you're convinced. It's that illusionary truth phenomenon where you keep
hearing over and over the games are rigged, and you
start looking for things that back that up, even when
they're not there. Now page two, So, Travis kelce also
says that Kansas City's locker room all Right has never
(07:27):
ever discussed three peating. That's not been talked about at all,
not one time during the season or the playoff run.
He says, it has not been mentioned at all. It
has been asked about only by the media, but not
brought up by the players in the room. All right,
So that's what he's saying. So let's discuss Travis Kelce
(07:50):
claiming that the Chiefs have not have not taken the
three pete mantra inside the locker room. They have not
done it one time ahead of the matchup as they
played the Eagles in the Super Bowl. So your thoughts
on that. So my thought is this is true, perhaps,
(08:13):
but it's irrelevant. It's like, maybe that's true. I find
that hard to believe, know how the human mind is wired.
I have one. I think you do too, and find
it impossible to believe that it didn't come up at
some point, like what would it be like? And if
we win, we're golden for life, or are probably already
golden for life, but we want another one. So think
(08:34):
of this like the early Hollywood star Charlie Chaplin who
made his fame in silent films, Right's silent movies and
all that. It is a tacit approach that I have
here that the historical run is understood, so you don't
have to like talk about it, even if it's unstated.
(08:56):
Everyone's aware of what's going on. And it's been shadow
boxing the Chiefs all season. It hasn't mattered in the playoffs.
They've been they've been winning these games, and they're going
to win the super Bowl and they'll win the championship
and all that. And then I will guarantee you after
the Chiefs raise up the Lombardi Trophy that they will say, well,
(09:19):
nobody thought we could do it. You know, if we're
going where no one's gone before. Blah blah blah. They'll
be yapping, although they claim now I don't really listen
to the outside noise and they didn't bring it up,
but you you will, one hundred percent. No, if this
does end with the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl, it
is going to be NonStop patting themselves in the back,
(09:41):
overcoming the adversity, all that stuff, because every team that
wins does the same thing. They all have the same
playbook when they win. Now, last word here, so making
the media rounds. Making the media rounds, Andy Read did
several interviews. Now, Andy does not do a lot of
these interviews locally in Kansas City, but he does pop
(10:03):
up on national shows. It's odd because in Philadelphia he
was on the radio a lot when he coached the Eagles.
He had a coaches show every week. He had to
go on with Angelo Cataldi in Philadelphia, and I know
he hated it, but he had to do it. Now
he doesn't have to do it. In Kansas City. There's
no coaches show. There's not even a coach's podcast. As
far as I know, that does not exist. But Andy
(10:25):
Reiding knowledge in an interview this week that the Chiefs
are working on some exotic plays in the Super Bowl.
So the question is, why would Andy Reid confirm that
they are planning on using some trick plays in Super
Bowl fifty nine? How do you benefit from that? And
(10:50):
this is obviously the antithesis of Bill Belichick, right, but
you'd ask Bill Belichick what time it was, he'd be
looking at the clock. He says, I'm not going to
answer that question. I have no answer. I can't comment
on that. But in comparison, Andy Reid is side by
said he's an open book. But anybody next to Bill Belichick,
(11:10):
I would say, is an open book. And Belichick who
kept everything close to the vest, even the vest itself
was close to the vest. It was fascinating how he
was able to do that. But the benefit to answer
the question why would you do this if you're Andy Reid, Well,
the benefit is obvious because it is a friendly reminder,
a friendly reminder being strategic that hey, you know, we
(11:36):
do this a lot, and we're probably going to do
it again, and we love trickeration. And so hey, Nick
Siriotti and all you Philadelphia Eagle types, Uncle Vic Fangio
and all you clowns over there when you're preparing you're
doing that cramming session to get ready for the Super Bowl,
getting everything lined up and all that. Here's one more
(11:57):
thing to worry about and give you anxiety, one more
thing you have to concern yourself with. And Kansas City
has done it in these last couple of Super Bowls.
They have used the go go gadget play if you
will in the Super Bowl, right, Andy Reid the hot
dog on a stick philosophy, and we know he loves
a hot dog on a stick. And the team from
(12:19):
Kansas City using the play, they called it the the
corn dog become iconic. Who doesn't like a corn dog?
That's delicious. So they've used that last couple of times,
and so they'll probably pull out some play from like
nineteen forty seven or nineteen forty six or something like
that that was used like one time by a team
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that no longer exists, and Andy Reid heard about it
reading a book somewhere on the toilet, and he was
inspired to bring the play back in the modern era.
And they'll run like the Flying Wedge, which unfortunately is illegal.
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So our lead this hour from Los Angeles, NFL News.
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NFL News Decision twenty twenty five. Matthew Stafford. Now, you
might remember Matthew Stafford at the end of the Rams
season when they were eliminated by the Philadelphia football team,
despite actually competing and going to blow to blow with
the Philadelphia Eagles and having a chance to win the
game in the fourth quarter. But that aside, that aside.
(14:34):
After that playoff loss in Philadelphia, Matthew Stafford was rather
vague on whether or not he would be back with
the Rams. He had to ponder why would you even ponder?
If he had to ponder his future, he was debating
the drama. Will he continue to make forty plus million
dollars a year or will he step away to not
(14:55):
make forty million dollars a year? These are very tough
decisions to decide, what do you want to do? So
he has made his decision. I assume you know by now,
but maybe not. Maybe you're a little late to the party.
The show starts when you turn the show on, and
the show ends when you turn the show off. It's
amazing how that works. So it turns out that we
are told Matthew Stafford says I'm back. He's planning on
(15:19):
returning to the Rams for another season. NFL state sponsored
media reporting that Stafford has informed the team that he
plans on returning next season. It has been communicated in
so many words to the Sean McVay brain trust in
Los Angeles. So let us discuss the question. Matthew Stafford
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planning on coming back running it back with the Rams
at twenty twenty five. That's what he says. It's a
he said, he said situation does that Garon t that
Stafford will be back with the Rams in twenty twenty five.
So I've got doctor It, sund and Donnie Wahlberg, three
(16:03):
things that have never been combined together, and through the
hocus pocus, the abra cadabra of talk radio, we're going
to combine all these things together. So number I said,
number yeah, mallor sports book ods. Now, we got a
lot of guys in Vegas that listen to the show,
(16:24):
and this is not an official sports book. These are
the malar of sportsbook odds, which are much more important,
much more important. It's like an offshore sportsbook type thing.
So the malar of sportsbook odds minus three hundred, okay,
minus three hundred. That implies a seventy five percent chance
that Stafford is with the Rams, but a twenty five
(16:45):
percent chance that there is impass and they can't get
past their difficulties and Stafford does not return to the Rams.
He's dude to make twenty seven million dollars next year,
which is good work if you can get it. However,
none of that money is guaranteed. Remember we told you
a couple weeks back in a previous episode of the
(17:06):
show that Stafford had signed essentially a one year contract
to come back and then they would figure things out
at the end of the year. Well, now the year's
over for the Rams and everyone other than Philadelphia and
Kansas City. So the Rams are trying to figure things
out what they want to do going forward, and they
have to renegotiate. But from a business perspective, a guy
call up last hour, nice gentleman, you ps driver, right,
(17:29):
I don't think Stafford's worth forty million, And I would
argue that most of these people are not worth the
money they're making. But that's not the point. It's not
our money. Who cares, We're just sitting there watching this crap.
It's on the people that work in that business. It's
their money. Stan Kronki, the owner of the Rams, is
married into the Walmart money and he made a bunch
of money on his own in real estate at one point.
(17:50):
I don't know if this is still true, but the
RAMS owner, Stan Kronk, you know, owns a bunch of
teams in Colorado as well. But stan Kronki was the
largest in non government landowner in America the entire country.
No one individual owned more land. I don't know if
that's still true. It was true as of a number
of years back. I have not seen if somebody's passed
(18:12):
him by or not. And he's an introvert. One of
my old radio friends back in the day, Joe McDonald,
knew him a little bit, and he didn't like talking
to the media very much, kept to himself. And all
that was years ago, and you don't see him on TV.
He's not one of these guys Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft.
They demand that television show them certain owners are attention
(18:35):
wrees and Stan Cronkey is not that. But it's his money.
It's his money. The problem is Stafford is thirty seven
years old. The Rams over the last couple of years
have picked up a doctorate in kicking the can down
the road right in just waiting to get things done.
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Mainly Sean McVeagh when it comes to the quarterback position,
is tiptoeing around land mines because the Rams have put
everything into Stafford and there's no one else. There's no
heir to the throne for the Rams, there's not and
in many ways that's a dared devil approach. I don't
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really hate it because the Rams are like, well, figure
it out. Remember they picked up Baker Mayfield when he
was on death's doorstep from Carolina and he actually did okay,
and briefly briefly as the as the Rams quarterback, and
so they figure they can go get somebody in. Sean
mcvay's the quarterback whisperer, and he can coach up some
(19:37):
second rate quarterback and they'll figure it out as they go.
But it's not like they've drafted anyone realistic. I know
they drafted the quarterback out of Georgia, who's got issues
and that's not really grooming someone for the future. So
the draft is in April. Will the Rams actually try
to find someone they can plug behind Stafford? When the
(20:00):
inevitable Stafford my, oh, my aching knee, all my elbow
and he gets hurt and they don't have anybody all
right now, page two, we go to Philadelphia. There's an
underlying story as the Eagles prepare to take on Kansas
City in Super Bowl fifty nine, and it involves a
postgame quote that has been highlighted from Jalen Hurts. Now
(20:24):
Jalen Hurts, his quote still has legs. Several days later,
Jalen Hurst was asked about having the three touchdown performance
against the Washington football team after some real duds. Let's
be honest, you didn't play very well. It wasn't much
of a factor at all in terms of what the
Eagles were doing offensively in a positive way, Jalen Hurts.
And so he's asked about that and he said, let
(20:47):
me they let me out of my straight jacket a
little bit. That was the quote, let me out of
my straight jacket a little bit. So right away we
all saw that, and what do we say we said
ding dong. That's what we said, ding dong exactly. That's
the money quote. That's the money quote raised some eyebrows. Now,
the head coach of the Philadelphia football team, Nick Sirianni,
(21:10):
he was asked about this now he said, he just
dismissed it. Nick Sirianni said, listen, Jalen Hurst was just
quote having fun close quote just having fun with the
straight jacket comment. Is there more to the story? Malords
show investigation? Is there more to the story. After several
minutes of contemplation and deliberation, we have determined yes, there
(21:34):
is more to the story here. Jalen Hurts is annoyed
with Nick Sirianni. He's annoyed with Sirianni. And it's not
to the point where like, ah, this guy should be
firing the option of the super Bowl. But when Sirianni said,
Hurts is just having fun, right, that is the point.
(21:55):
That is the point. Of course, he was having fun.
But as we know from studying human nature that there
is a Colonel kernel of truth. It's wrapped in every joke.
Right that Sigmund Freud said that the joke's really just
truth wrapped in a smile is the joke, So there's
(22:16):
truth in there. Yeah, he's annoyed. It's like it is
emasculating for Jalen Hurts. He has been marginalized. Now it's working,
and I wouldn't change it. If I was the Eagle,
Are you kidding me? I would ride Sekwon Barkley's back
all the way to the Promised Land. If that's how
it's gonna go. I don't think it's gonna work, but
you're certainly not gonna change things now, and you're not
gonna go to a passing office. That was That's what
(22:39):
spags in Kansas City are gonna want. They're gonna want
Jalen Hurts to throw the ball thirty five times and
you feel like you're gonna win the game. He's throwing
the ball thirty five times. You're in good shape. But
Hurts is a glorified game manager. It's unbecoming. Right, So
the straight jacket joke was a way to send a message.
All right, final point, we going out of the marketing world.
(23:03):
That's right, the marketing world. Now. I read this week
that the Commanders a team with a very weak nickname.
What a dumb nickname? That is the Washington Commanders, though
their rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels, the star of the show,
the bell of the ball. He has the top selling,
top selling jersey across all of the North American Sports League,
(23:29):
so all the big sports leagues in America, and he's
at the very top. He's number one right there at
the top top selling jersey according to the people over
there at fanatics. And so the Commanders also have announced,
as they're trying to pump up the reputation of Jade
and Daniels, that of course he has the top selling
(23:49):
jersey since the playoffs started in the NFL. So how
does Commanders quarterback Jaden Daniels have the highest jersey sales
across all all of sports in twenty twenty five. I
know we're not even a month in, but well, the
answers right in front of you. He is like back
(24:09):
in his day, Donnie Wahlberg, new kid on the block,
the new kids on the block. He's the new flavor
in the NFL, Jaden Daniels. And for a couple of weeks,
it was a magic carpet ride, beating Tampa Bay, taking
the Lions the Mighty Mighty Detroit lions and taking them
to the woodshed, and so nobody. The other thing is
(24:30):
nobody had any merch who is nobody wants to buy
Washington Commanders merchandise. The team logo sucks, the jersey sucks, right,
I mean, it's just bad. And so you never you
never underestimate these shiny object syndrome. That's a big part
of it. And then the Commanders and back going back
to when they were the Redskins. They haven't had many
(24:52):
name brand players in the last ten years, So just
the disease of attraction, right, like, hey, this guy's actually good.
Haven't had a good player in a while. And plus
the other thing is it's the trendy train. Sure, the
trendy train band wag nerve. People like to jump on
the bandwagon. Band wagon effect is a real thing that
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if you start a restaurant and you pay people to
wait online for the restaurant, people will wait online with
those people, even though they don't know anything about the restaurant,
because they think it's popular. They want to be part
of it. That's just the way it is. So it's
human nature. So the perception is that Jayden Daniels is
going to be great for the next fifteen years and
all that, and so there you go. Imagine how much
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more merch though they would sell if they actually had
a good logo and a good nickname. It's a fashion
faux paws at commander's uniform.
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Speaker 1 (25:52):
Here we go. It's not how you do it right.
It's a terrible call. This is one big Ben gets
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Speaker 3 (26:02):
New York Giants GM Joe Shoon said in an interview
this week that the Giants are a quote open to
anything at the number three overall pick in this year's draft.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Then what direction do you think the Giants will go? Well,
Joe Shane, who is probably gonna lose his job after
this this offseason night for the Giants, I would trade
the pick. From what I've read I've tried to study
up on the draft, doesn't seem like there's a bunch
of impact players in this draft. So if you can
get multiple picks and have multiple shots at it, I
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would trade down. The Giants obviously need a quarterback. My
sense tells me they actually will draft Shradar Sanders will
likely be the pick there, but I would trade to
pick it was up to me, because the Giants have
many holes. I would try to get quantity over necessarily
quality because not only there's like great quality and who knows,
these scouts are probably completely wrong.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Next, former Colts head coach Chuck Pagano is coming out
of retirement to join the Ravens coaching Staffah, my guy, yes,
senior secondary coach. Sure, Ben, do you think Pagano is
looking to move back up the ranks? Ors here just
helping out Harbaugh.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well, we need Chuck Pegano to come back as a coach.
Two of my favorite quotes over the last twenty years
Chuck Pegano when he said it's not trigonometry and there
was some quarterback for the Colts who was playing kind
of sick, and he said he was literally on his deathbed.
We need I support Pegano back as a head coach.
He a little too old, but I support him.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Next, all right, Anthony Davis put out some put some
pressure on the Lakers' front office this week, saying I
think we need another big I feel like I've always
been at my best when I've been at the four
We know it worked when we won a championship with
JaVale and Dwight at the five and me at the four.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Bench to the Lakers listened to ad No, Lebron and
a d these guys bitching, Oh, we don't have enough talent.
Stop with the excuses. Stop what do you do? You're
never gonna have enough talent. Just go out there and
win some damn playoff games. And that's his way of
saying that the team blows. How do we do? Koop?
You passes and put it on the board. So sick
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of though all read more talent oo oo.
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Speaker 3 (28:49):
Helloop, Now, this is a good question, but I don't
know if it's if it's one that's easy to come
up with on the spot. So we'll see Emmett the
Blind see how I've heard of him. He wants to note,
do you guys have any weird food weird food combinations
that you like.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I don't think they're weird, but like we had the
listeners send a bunch of snacks, and I like cheese
balls and chocolate. Wonderful, right, I mean that's weird. I
don't think that's weird. Cheese balls and chocolate. Yeah, the
salt from the cheese balls, and then the pretzels and chocolate.
I do pretzels as well, but cheese balls and chocolate.
I think that's a little weird. It's not weird at all.
It's fine, Lorena. You want to add any you do
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a lot of weird things, Lorena, I.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Do a lot of great things. If you ask me, man,
uh huh.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You struggle the two donuts the other day.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Yeah, But then there's some things that really hit Like
I like dipping my popcorn and mustard.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Oh, yeah, that's right. I love doing that.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
It's not cool, not good. I coope any weird. I'm
having trouble thinking of it.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
The only thing I can think of, and it doesn't
It's probably not weird to a lot of people because
it's kind of like so when I go to Rosco's.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I like chicken and waffle place. If you're not familiar, yes.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I'm I'm surprised how many people don't eat all of
it in the same bite. But I'm a I'm a waffle,
syrup chicken. Oh, you're a You're all in the same bite.
You're a mixer, Yes, you're a mixer. Yeah, I'm not
usually a mixer. I eat my each part of the dish,
you know, but separate.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah. My wife's a mixer too, she likes she gets
very upset. She's like, she won't eat everything in a bowl,
you know. And I'm like, I'm not a dog. I
don't know anyway, what is next year? What do we have?
It's ask bang. Your questions are answers. On a nubie night,
a very good.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Nubie night, ferd Dog would like to know Hi, fergie.
Do you sneeze into your hand, your arm, or in
the air everywhere?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Well, it depends by myself. I'll just sneeze in the
air everywhere. But no, no, I usually cover because if
I'm like on my computer or something that there's nothing
worse than yes, getting mucus all over your screen and
all that stuff. Uh. Yeah, I normally use my hand.
I think you're supposed to do the elbow thing like this, right,
You're supposed to go like that, but I usually do
the hand.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah, the hand is bad because then you go and
touch other things with your hand, thus spreading the germs.
Where if you go into your elbow, you don't touch me.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Like Jonas knocks over there. That's wrong with you.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
You got to teach your kids how not to spread germs.
Ben anyways, Yeah, no, I always try to cover my
mouth because I've seen my spit go super far when
I've sneezed before. I'm like, how did you reach that far?
Like it's crazy how far it goes.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, I've seen those videos on YouTube where they they yeah, man,
you have power human being your mucus.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I got a big sneeze too, so you know you
gotta hold that baby in Do.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
You goot like that guy on f S one? Cool?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
So when I was a teenager into young adults, I
like held my sneezes all the time, and then I
was told that that's bad.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You can die. I don't know if that's true. Yeah,
but uh.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Now I am like you, Ben. If I'm alone, I
just turned my head and let it fly.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah. Uh. But when I'm not alone, I go into
the elbow. Okay, you're an elbow guy. Yeah. During the
COVID thing they said elbow. They were big elbow people. Anyway,
what is next year? To ask?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour
the King Rory, Hi, Rory.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
You would like to know do you keep an open
box of baking soda in your fridge?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yes, we have two boxes of baking soda. We have
one that I actually use for baking in the cupboard,
and then we have one in the fridge because you know,
sometimes stuff starts smelling pretty nasty. What about you, Larena.
I like to don't cook.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I like to keep my fridge clean, Ben, So I
don't keep.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
You don't keep. You don't keep food in there? No
food is hard I just told you guys, I don't
cook Yesterday's.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I know, Goop, I do not because my fridge has
this fancy air filtrations cycle, saying the usually Hollywood have
to change filter every sing must the kitchen remodel.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Huh yes, okay, that seems like a lot of stuff
that could break on it, though I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Well, I mean, you do have to replace the filter,
and that's kind of a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Oh yeah, how often do you replace I get water
for my fridge. How often do you replace the water
in the fridge. You're supposed to do that, like every
other month or something, the water filter. I think i'd
do it every six months.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I've never changed the water filter on my phone.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Oh boy, thing, Oh boy? All right, Yes, what is
next year? To ask? Ben? Your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
All right, Ben, this is a question just for you,
all right, Just Josh, hi, Josh. He wants to know.
He says, my wife is about to have knee replacement surgery.
Oh boy, does this take doggy style off the table?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Why is he asking? Why am I the expert on it?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Actually, it says it's for Bill Miller, Sorry for Billy.
Bill Miller would say, invest in a nice pillow, is
what he would He would say, quick way, what more?
Quick way?
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Oh god, do you have any interest in visiting Punk
Satani for Groundhog's Day?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah? I love that movie, Lorena, Yeah, why not? Come on?
You know there's more than one. There's more than one
groundhog thing. That's the most famous, though, in Pennsylvania.
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