February 17, 2025 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about the reaction to the new NBA All-Star Game format from Draymond Green and Charles Barkley, reports that the Steelers have been interested in Cooper Kupp, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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have to and our lead this hours from San Francisco.
That was the scene of a starry night. The NBA's
mid It's not Midsummer Midwinter Classic, the All Star Game
or whatever that was this round robin. It was like
an AAU tournament, but it was All Stars. We do
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you watch any of this? Were you captivated by the
All Star Game? They played a mini tournament between four teams.
This is to avoid anyone scoring two hundred points in
the All Star Game. You just cap each team at
forty points, first to forty and that's it. But if
you did not watch, and you probably didn't, perhaps you
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missed it. They had comedian Kevin Hart was the MC
of the event. And you know, you need a stand
up comedian to host your All Star Game because you
don't have big enough stars to carry the event. And
we found out a few hours before the game that
the event was not worthy of Lebron James Lebron deciding
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to tap out of the All Star Game, ending a
twenty year streak of All Star performances. Koop has a
ride by the Way, Steph Curry, Steph Curry took home
the Kobe Bryant All Star NVP honor who Yes, he
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had a way he listen was in the Bay Area.
I gotta give the local guy the All Star Game
MVP a twenty year streak of All Star Games. Stephgre
has had been twenty years, but he's been there a
lot most of the last twenty years. And Steph Curry
was a Team Shack, the ogs of Team Shack. Yeah yeah,
they called me a Team Shack. O G's beat Team Chuck.
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That would be Charles Barkley in the final of the
first of forty first of forty point tournament in the
All Star Game. Now for me, and I watched this,
I was not captivated. This is not really for me.
I'm not sure who this was for. I don't really know.
It certainly wasn't for me, But I did enjoy the
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back and forth with Draymond Green, who was not playing
in the All Star Game was not selected to the
All Star Team. But Raymond Green was working the studio
set for TNT and he was asked, on a scale
of one to ten, how much he liked the new
format of the All Star Game, and he responded with
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a zero as his response. He had thought it was
a zero. That was it now? Charles Barkley, who was coaching,
as we mentioned and also commentating the game that he
did not coach in Charles Barkley responding to Draymond Green,
and he said, the reason the NBA is doing what
they're doing to the All Star Game is because of
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Raymond Green's generation of players in the NBA that have
destroyed the All Star Game. So that was Barkley's response,
some saucy commentary, The commentary more worthy of conversation than
the game itself. That is the NBA All Star experience
in a nutshell. So let us discuss the question. We'll
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go back and forth here. Draymond Green again. Draymond Green
I was asked on a scale of one to ten
what he thought of the new All Star format while
plausibly being paid to commentate on the All Star Game,
and Draymond said it was a zero, while Charles Barkley,
who was being paid to participate as a sham coach
in said All Star Game, says that the reason they're
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doing this is because of Draymond Green's generation. You make
the call, whose side are you on? Whose side are
you on. So I've got bastardized hotel, Pitchman, and Wizard
of Oz, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to make a nice night taking
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a nap. That's what we're gonna make, because that's not
much going on. Let's you're like college basketball, not much
going on. I think it's a little hockey. Get a
little hockey, all right. So again, I've got bastardized hotel, Fitchman,
and Wizard of Oz, and we'll combine all these things together.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
So na Burn, I said, Nah Burn, My answer is,
am I gonna go a Draymond Green or b Charles Barkley.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
My answers actually see all the above. I'm gonna go
see all of the above. I no lies detected. The
All Star Game round robin tournament was capitol l lame,
capital l lame. It just was right. And when your customers,
the most passionate people for your business, your product, have
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to google the rules on what the f is going on,
you've done something wrong. And Draymond was complaining about the
fact that the team from the Saturday Rookie or Young
Stars of the Amba, whatever they're calling it, got to
participate because they needed a fourth team. They had to
get a fourth team in there. So like Dalton Connect
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of the Lakers who was traded to the Hornets and
then he came back to the Lakers, he's kind of
a nomad's he was on one of the teams of
the Future Stars that was playing in the All Stars
Saturday or also Sunday tournament from Saturday. So I would
have chosen to go with the kiss method, keep it simple, stupid.
The NBA chose to crank it up a couple of
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notches and they decided to bastardize the All Star Game.
It's lower in quality now. It's been unwatchable for years,
so it's just a different kind of unwatchable. But Draymond
is correct, Now, how did we end up here? Well,
that's the part where Charles Barkley enters the chat. Charles
Barkley is also spot on. No lies detected from Sir Charles,
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because it's Draymond Green's generation of grab Ass and Huggy
Huggy during the All Star Game that created the mess
that we have today.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
To be fair in all sports, the All Star Game sucks.
One thing's changed in my lifetime. Used to be a
highlight of the year to see all the great players
united together, and it was wonderful. Now it blows in
the NBA game in particular, and there's different theories the
AAU tournament. All these guys know each other from the
time they're first tag for greatness, and they all hang
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out together at the same tournaments and travel the same circuit,
so they all know each other. So they don't really
have any competition with any of these people because they're
all buddy buddy, and they're all filthy rich in the NBA.
But what has happened to the bug ridden NBA All
Star Game? It has affected all of the All Stars right.
The contamination is widespread contamination. It's highly infectious. And the headliners,
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they make so much money in the professional ranks that
they cannot be troubled to provide a proper night of
effort and focus and have that competitive spirit. They just can't.
And this is a result. You play stupid games and
win stupid prizes. So in a perfect world for me,
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it will never likely happen this way. But you go
back old school style where I first I love watching
basketball when I was younger, Back in my day, it
was East versus West. It's gonna shock you. What I'm
about to say is a boomer take East versus West
teams wearing their home uniforms, meaning that if you wear
a Celtic uniform, you're wearing your Celtic uniform during the
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All Star Game or a Sixers or Bowls or Sons
or whoever you got your home uniform on. And that's it.
And then the Shenanigans and you actually put some effort
into that. And that's too much to ask. It's way
too much asking, all right now, Page two to the
trade that still has legs, The trade that still had elects.
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A few weeks after the Dallas Mavericks landed Luka and
traded him, they said, we're gonna trade Luca. We're gonna
land him in La They traded him to the Lakers
on a silver platter. The Commissioner over the weekend addressed
the chatter Adam Silver over the weekend, shooting down the
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widespread conspiracy theory that the Mavericks decision to give away
Luca old not signey, but decision to give away Luka
to the Lakers is to move the franchise to Las Vegas. Right,
people that own the Mavericks now are gambling people. They
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thought they were going to get a law passed in
Texas to allow sports wagering and casinos, and they wanted
to build an areno at the casino and all that stuff.
But Adam Silver shooting down that conspiracy theory that the
Luca trade was to upset the fan base so much
so they could relocate the franchise to Vegas. Does this
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end the storyline? So I'm shaking my head. No, not
by a long shot. And my response is the hotel pitchman.
My response is the hotel pitchman here, Captain Obvious. Remember
those commercials from years ago, Captain Obvious, what did you expect,
Adam SILVERSI can you imagine if the commission had gotten
up there. But by the way, yeah, we absolutely we
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hope the franchise will move to Las Vegas. We want
to leave Dallas and we want to go to Vegas
because of the gambling money in Vegas. Of course, he's
not going to say that. You can't admit that. He
would never admit that. But there's something that just doesn't
smell right about the whole situation. No matter what Adam
Silver says, and the fact that Adam Silver gave his
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blessing here on the trade, which makes you believe that
Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA, either orchestrated that
Luca ends up with the Lakers. The heist is allowed,
or either orchestrated or allowed it to happen. But either way,
he's the commissioner of the NBA, and this is a
conspiracy theory. Unlike the NFL's fixing games for the Chiefs,
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this is one I can get behind. Either Adam Silver.
The NBA is like, well, listen, we got to get
a bigger start Lebron's old. We need the Lakers to
have a star at all times. That's the way we've
done business for the past fifty years in the NBA.
So we've got to keep that street going and we've
got to make sure we get a star with the Lakers,
and said, we'll have Luca go there and TV you'll
be happy. Either that or the Mavericks want to relocate
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to Las Vegas. But back when the NBA had a
commissioner with hair on his chest, and back when they
had a man that wasn't from somewhere else out in
the cosmos in the Milky Way as commissioner, a real
commissioner in the late David Stern. That was when Commissioner
Stern stepped in and vetoed lopsided trades, at least one
in particular, that Chris Paul trade. He put his foot
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down said no, Moss, Chris Paul, you're not getting traded.
That's a giveaway trade. You're not going to the Lakers. Now.
Silver never says he never considered such a move, claim
that they they have the power to do that, even
though it has happened in the past. Now as far
as the idea that the Mavericks would would never be
allowed to relocate to Nevada, of course, the Maps have
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admitted they've never They've never, or at least they say
they never shopped Luca around. They only wanted to give
to the Lakers. It's not trade. A trade is when
you see what the item is worth, you put it
up for bid at an auction, even if it's a
silent auction, and see what you can get, and then
you give the item to the highest bidder. That was
not what happened, but the idea that the NBA would
not ever allow a team leaving a bigger market for
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a smaller market is fugazi and here's why. It has
happened in other sports multiple times in recent years and
over the last like thirty five years, it's happened many times.
There were teams that left Los Angeles in the NFL
for smaller markets, mainly the Rams who left for Saint
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Louis years ago, and then they came back to LA.
The Raiders left LA went to Oakland. They then left Oakland,
a bigger market the San Francisco Bay Area for Las Vegas,
a smaller market. The Athletics and Major League Baseball have
also done that as they went to a smaller TV market.
The San Francisco Bay Area market number six in the
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United States and the city of Las Vegas market number
believe it's number forty two now. Dallas is the fifth
biggest media market in the United States. So you'd move
from number five to number forty two, but you'd make
up for that in gambling revenue. And don't be naive
to think that that would not be allowed to happen.
Right now. Final point, as the All Star festivities continue
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to fill at Delphia, we go some social media posts
going viral. Several of you sent me this over the
weekend as the All Star Game played out in San Francisco,
a non All Star star, a fledgling podcaster, Paul George,
Bye George, Bye Bye George. Paul George of your Philadelphia
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seventy six ers. When viral his wife did posting photos
on the social media of a nice tropical All Star
Break vacation. So Paul George's wife posting photos of the
All Star tropical beachside vacation is blank. So my word
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is obtuse. My word is ubtuse. The look it up,
obt usc up toos PG thirteen. I look at this.
I'm so glad he's not a Clipper. Thank God, I
get rid of that guy. But it's like the Wizard
of Oz, like Paul George the Scarecrow. If I only
had a brain, If I only had a brain, that's
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the amazing thing. Like I would be so embarrassed if
I was Paul George the guy scored two points in
a game for Philly before the All Star Break against
a dog food team, the Brooklyn Nets, I would be
posting photos of anything. I'd be posting photos of me
taking jump shots in an empty gymnasium. Somewhere in the
Delaware Valley. But no, Paul George is out there with
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his beautiful stripper wife there, I believe, on the beach there,
somewhere in a tropical location. You'd think he would be
cognizant of how bad that looks. And even if his
wife's posting photos, maybe not be in the photo. Say
let's do me a solid on that. I don't need
to be in those those photos. But instead instead of
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putting up jump shots, he was putting on suntan locean
at the beach, and then did not lock himself in
the gym. Instead of holding a basketball, he was holding
a margarita and it would appear in his hands. And
so there you go.
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But instead now we turn our attention to the rumor Mill,
and if you like rumors, buckle up, buckeroo. Expect the
chatter to drive the storylines on this show and many
other gas bags and blowhards over the next couple of
months before we settle in to NFL Draft Apaloosa, which
coming up. But the big buzz this hour is around
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a former Super Bowl MVP that can be yours if
the price is right. So if you haven't heard yet,
name's been out there, but perhaps not. We are told
the Pittsburg standards. The Ginzers are hot and heavy. They're
all horny to get themselves a former Super Bowl MVP.
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That would be La ri I am wide receiver Cooper Cup.
Jay Glazer reporting recently that the Pittsburgh football team gung
ho to get their hands on a Cup and have
him come to the confluence. They're in Pittsburgh, So let
us discuss the question. Some recent buzz picking up up
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that the Steelers have been interested for many many months
in getting their hands on Cooper Cup in a trade.
Would that be a good fit. So I have Twilight
Zone war slogan and fire drill and we will combine
all of these things together and hold up a protest sign.
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Is what we're going to do. So Nu burn I said,
Na Burn, Well, this all depends on what exactly Mike
Tomlin is itching for in Pittsburgh. But keeping it real,
if you have watched watch the NFL in recent years,
that you know what. I know that while Cooper Cup
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is a big name, he has not provided a lot
of game in recent years. He is a diminishing asset.
That is why the Rams are looking to get out
of the Cooper Cup business. He's better in theory and
he is in reality. It's been that way for several years.
So if you want a player who is what I
call in the twilight zone, then Cooper Cup's your guy. Picture.
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If you will a world where you trade for someone
that has name brand value and instead get a guy
with generic brand performance, that's Cooper Cup. The arrow is
pointing in the wrong direction. Now we have seen players
change teams and have a career renaissance, so that's clearly
what someone will be banking on if they acquire Cooper Cup.
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But based on what he has done, if you look
at the eyeball test and you look at the Pro
Football Reference page, Cooper Cup his yards per season has
trended down down, down, down, down, down, down down down
four straight seasons, four straight seasons going the wrong direction.
His receiving success rate also down down, down, down, down
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down down four straight years. And his magical season of
his superpowers when he was the MVP candidate, Cooper Cup
is fifty percent the player that he had been. He
averaged that year one hundred and fourteen and a half
yards per game. He is down to fifty nine point two.
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The biggest problem, which is unsolvable at this point, is
that even if Cooper Cup were to go to a
place like Pittsburgh, go to the Patriots and would have
some success, would have a taste of success. Even if
that was the case, he is star crossed, all right.
He is star cross because he's heading towards his age
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thirty two seasons and the bugaboo, the Komodo dragon in
the room. He is damaged goods damage with buyer beware,
buyer beware. Cooper Cup has missed an entire season eighteen
games and a season plus a season plus with various
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various injuries in recent years. And as he gets older,
I think we know how this works, because we're all
getting older. No one's getting younger. If you're getting younger,
you're a freak. Everyone's getting older. And as you get older,
stuff starts going haywire, and the thing majig doesn't work,
and the watch McCall it. Something's messed up with the
watch McCall it, and that's what happens now. Page two.
Staying with the Rams, though the RAMS reports recently saying
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the Rams are trying to trade Matthew Stafford. A lot
of buzz connecting Stafford to the New York Giants in
recent days, and the RAMS supposedly upset with Stafford's wife
for her public commentary amid the trade rumors. So what
do you think the issue here with Matthew Stafford's wife
and the Rams is, well, that's actually not that difficult.
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After a seconds long, second long, mallor investigation, we determined
it is a war slogan the RAMS are upset about
back to World War Two, the slogan loose lips sink ships.
That would be the issue here, or in the case
the transfer portal, the RAMS trying to finesse a trade
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of Stafford working back channels as we speak right now,
and these deals are often consummated way in advance, right
way before they actually get announced, months before they're officially announced.
So they're doing their legwork to figure out where to
put Stafford, and his wife is meddling. The meddling wife, Yes,
it's like a reality show on her fledgling podcast, because
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everyone's got a podcast, even I have a podcast. Kelly Stafford,
that's the name. Kelly Stafford ripped the Rams personnel decisions,
including the looking to trade Cooper Cup and his uncertain
future even though Cupp has been a diminishing player for
several years. That has robbed the RAM organization the wrong way. Now,
I'm still not convinced the Rams are going to actually
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have the moxie as my dog is named to trade
Cooper Cup. I'm still reluctant that this is actually what happened,
but I believe it when it does happened. Ultimately, if
you take a couple of steps back and look at this,
we believe that Matthew Stafford has he just doesn't care.
He's like whatever, say whatever you want. I don't care
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to his wife and that whole thing. And it's kind
of like that celebrity chef Emerald where it's like bam, bam,
you know, kick it up a notch. Here they're kicking
it up a notch and Stafford he's ready to move on,
even though he's, oh, I want to stay with the Rams.
Does he really want to stay with the Rams? Eh?
I don't think so. He's going to New York. Here
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you make it in New York. And he's thinking about
post football career if you have success with the Giants,
which nobody really does, but if you were able to
figure it out, you could get the New York market.
You've already had success in LA So it's the old
good cop, bad cop and wife is the bad cop.
Stafford's the good cop. And it's either this or he
is so whipped Matthew Stafford and his wife just the
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toxicity level there and meddling with his and he just
sits there like a zombie and does nothing. Stafford, while
he would be an upgrade for the Giants, as we
have pointed out on this show in previous episodes, at
this point Matthew Stafford is he went from a Tier
two quarterback. He's now a Tier three high tier three
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quarterback in the NFL. The last six games of his
LA Ram regular season career, Stafford was like a house
of cards ready to come tumbling down for the Rams.
Very inconsistent and as we have seen in all sports,
that is the telltale sign of a diminishing career where
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every once in a while you go out and play great,
but more times than not you stink looking like Paul George.
We talked about him last yar Paul George and the NBA.
Everyone's wing to else score thirty points and then he'll
come back and have like eight or twelve or two.
That's more of the regular all right, not final point
to since cinnaty we go and as we're an NFL
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general man, an NFL GM says that Joe Burrow, star
quarterback Joe Burrow is not telling you to be happy.
And if Joe Burrow is not happy, no one's happy.
Burro's gonna be unhappy with the Bengals after the offseason.
Can you decot what that GM means? So the message
is rather simple, prepare for a two words fire drill
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or go a mass exodus. In fact, the only one
left in Cincinnati will be Justin in Cincinnati and possibly
just Josh, but he might relocate alls a mass exus. Now,
Cincinnati has the following players that can be yours if
the price is right, Jamar, Chase t Higgins, defensive star
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Trey Hendrickson, and tight end Mike is SICKI. All of
them either free agents or looking to get paid. And
if they don't get paid, they're looking to leave Cincinnati now.
Burrow has already offered to redo his contract to play
the shell game and move money around in order to
allow the Bengals to keep the band together on a
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non playoff team. But my take on this is level
headed approach. Level headed approach here. If you look at
this level head, the GM predicted that fifty percent of
those guys would be gone at best, and I think
that's accurate. I think that's accurate. They're not going to
cook the books. They're not into cooking the Bengals front office.
They've never operated that way. Why would they all of
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a sudden start operating that way. It just doesn't make
a lot of sense compared to other NFL teams that
are willing to go above and beyond, above and beyond
what is required. And you can always futs around with
the numbers. The salary cap is designed in a way
for manipulation if you want to manipulate it. If not,
you can use it as the end all, be all
excuse and say I can't afford this player, I can't
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afford that players. Put your hands up in the air
and say, oh, it's a salary kin, Oh it's a
salary kid. But if you want the player, you can
keep the player. So the Bengals have never been that motivated.
And we pointed out out it's old family money. It's
old family money, it's family business. It's it's essentially a
slush fund for the family. And if you put more
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money into the payroll and you take money out of
the vacation fund, that's one less a yacht you can rent,
that's one less private plane flight you can take, because
that's going to the play the player payroll. But if
I'm in charge, based on what I know of the Bengals,
then I would do everything I can to keep Jamar
Chase because he's a top top ten receiver, top five
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receiver in the NFL. So you keep him, you figure
you can get someone to slide into the t Higgins
role because everyone will be focused on Jamar Chase, and
then you would keep Trey hendrickson. And as far as
Mike is Sicky, you know it's okay. You're gonna lose
any sleep if Mike Sicky leaves, probably not. And t Higgins,
you hope you can work something out where you do
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like a sign and trade type deal and you get
some something in return for T Higgins. If you can
futs around that direction, That's what I would do. And
I'm never wrong about these things, ever, never ever wrong.
I've been the general manager for thirty two NFL teams
for over twenty years, and my record is spotless. My
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record is perfect. I have not lost my jet. Well,
actually did lose my job one time, but overall my record,
I have a winning record as an executive for all
these teams.
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To the third?
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Speaker 4 (29:37):
A report over the weekend suggested that Aaron Rodgers pleaded
with the Jets to give him another chance, Ben, are
you buying that?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I don't think anyone has ever pleaded with the Jets
to play another season with the Jets, so I don't
believe that. Now. I do think that Aaron Rodgers wants
to play again, and he doesn't want to leave the
NFL world. But why would you beg to play for
the Jets. If you want to play for a bad team,
you can play for the Titans, or there's plenty of
bad teams that need the Raiders that need quarterbacks. So
I'm a little skeptical, but I'm sure my man, Aaron Rodgers,
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Pat hang out with Pat McAfee and straighten the record. Cope,
we'll get to the bottom of this one way or another.
We are gonna hear whether or not that report is
legitimate or not about airin Rogers, so you just relax.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Next, the Giants are in need of a franchise quarterback
and a NFL insiders suggested this weekend that they would
have to give up a significant haul to get the
number one overall pick. They'd have to give the number
three pick at least one second rounder and possibly more.
Ben do you see them? Were the Titans making that deal?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Now, there are years to make that trade. This is
not one of the years to make that trade. This
is not it right. And wasn't it Jimmy Johnson that
came up with the formula of the point system for
how much each draft pick's worth and how much you
have to give up to get that pick. And now,
if you're the gizz number three, but they should do
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is get Matthew Stafford. He's a tier three quarterback, but
the Giants have had Tier five quarterbacks for several years.
And gets Stafford in there, and he's at least not
going to embarrass you unless he completely falls off the map,
which many have with the Giants. But keep the number
three pick and get Stafford, and I think that would
be the way to go next.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
After the Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday, John Morant tweeted,
Mac might make me decide to dunk.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Now a lot of people speculated that this means the
Morant could join the contest next year. Do you think
it happens and if so, would it make a difference.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Well, the fact that Mac mac McClung right three years
in a row, Mack McClung, he's played in five NBA
games and won three dunk contests is fascinating, but not
ledge of John Morant say that. Then Gianni said, Dan
to Koombo said if you do it, I'll do it.
This the NBA players, it's Machiezma. They don't want to
embarrass themselves in the Slam Dunk Contest by not winning
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the Slam. It's why Lebron's never been part of the
Slam Dunk contest because they're fre of embarrassing themselves. Make
the make the slam dunk contest great again. I'm all
for it. I'll believe it when I see it. I
don't buy it. How did we do you pass us?
That is a win? I want to write out. Happy
President's Day, President's Day, President's Day.
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Not just a basketball issues, there's a football issue. It's
pretty much across all professional sports. How can we make
all Star games great again? Let's make all Star great?
All Star games great again. The basketball one stinks. The
hockey one, they don't word. That's not an all Star game.
The four Nations thing. That's something different, but it's not
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One, go back to playing East versus Win.
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There you go. That's right, Sean, the hood guy, East
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Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We're giving advice
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Speaker 2 (34:14):
You should be done anonymously. I just donated fifty bucks
a weed man, and you don't hear me bragging about it.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
How dare you ferg dog? And I know you didn't.
I know you didn't. Line let's go to line six.
We'll jump over to line six. It's the instant advice
line to make All Star Games great again? Hello, line
number six. Yeah, in morning time, let's let the college
champions play the pro champions. There you go. Well they
kind of did that in the NBA. They had the
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Future Star is playing and people are ripping that. Hello,
line one, you're on the air. We're giving advice to
make All Star Games great again. Okay, line sounded like poppy.
I think Line two. Hello, line two, you're on the
air Line two. Line two is not paying attention. We're
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line three.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Commissioners need Jason Gianpi buster.
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Okay, get that slumpbluster. Line number four, Hello, line four.
Uh yeah, we'll get you one right away, sir. Line five,
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paying attention. We're going to line six. Advice to make
All Star Games great again? Line number six, Play the game,
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It's the instant advice line. We're asking the great, unwashed
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At eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Hello, Line one. Oh,
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Line two. You're on the Airline two, go.
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Yeah, thank you, Rick. Pizza came out pretty good, actually
not bad. I would do one more, only one more.
If it's good. I'll take credit and I'll blame the coop.
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Star Game great again? Line six, Line number six, final call.
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have to and our lead this hours from San Francisco.
That was the scene of a starry night. The NBA's
mid It's not Midsummer Midwinter Classic, the All Star Game
or whatever that was this round robin. It was like
an AAU tournament, but it was All Stars. We do
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you watch any of this? Were you captivated by the
All Star Game? They played a mini tournament between four teams.
This is to avoid anyone scoring two hundred points in
the All Star Game. You just cap each team at
forty points, first to forty and that's it. But if
you did not watch, and you probably didn't, perhaps you
(02:22):
missed it. They had comedian Kevin Hart was the MC
of the event. And you know, you need a stand
up comedian to host your All Star Game because you
don't have big enough stars to carry the event. And
we found out a few hours before the game that
the event was not worthy of Lebron James Lebron deciding
(02:42):
to tap out of the All Star Game, ending a
twenty year streak of All Star performances. Koop has a
ride by the Way, Steph Curry, Steph Curry took home
the Kobe Bryant All Star NVP honor who Yes, he
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had a way he listen was in the Bay Area.
I gotta give the local guy the All Star Game
MVP a twenty year streak of All Star Games. Stephgre
has had been twenty years, but he's been there a
lot most of the last twenty years. And Steph Curry
was a Team Shack, the ogs of Team Shack. Yeah yeah,
they called me a Team Shack. O G's beat Team Chuck.
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That would be Charles Barkley in the final of the
first of forty first of forty point tournament in the
All Star Game. Now for me, and I watched this,
I was not captivated. This is not really for me.
I'm not sure who this was for. I don't really know.
It certainly wasn't for me, But I did enjoy the
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back and forth with Draymond Green, who was not playing
in the All Star Game was not selected to the
All Star Team. But Raymond Green was working the studio
set for TNT and he was asked, on a scale
of one to ten, how much he liked the new
format of the All Star Game, and he responded with
(04:12):
a zero as his response. He had thought it was
a zero. That was it now? Charles Barkley, who was coaching,
as we mentioned and also commentating the game that he
did not coach in Charles Barkley responding to Draymond Green,
and he said, the reason the NBA is doing what
they're doing to the All Star Game is because of
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Raymond Green's generation of players in the NBA that have
destroyed the All Star Game. So that was Barkley's response,
some saucy commentary, The commentary more worthy of conversation than
the game itself. That is the NBA All Star experience
in a nutshell. So let us discuss the question. We'll
(04:57):
go back and forth here. Draymond Green again. Draymond Green
I was asked on a scale of one to ten
what he thought of the new All Star format while
plausibly being paid to commentate on the All Star Game,
and Draymond said it was a zero, while Charles Barkley,
who was being paid to participate as a sham coach
in said All Star Game, says that the reason they're
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doing this is because of Draymond Green's generation. You make
the call, whose side are you on? Whose side are
you on. So I've got bastardized hotel, Pitchman, and Wizard
of Oz, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to make a nice night taking
(05:41):
a nap. That's what we're gonna make, because that's not
much going on. Let's you're like college basketball, not much
going on. I think it's a little hockey. Get a
little hockey, all right. So again, I've got bastardized hotel, Fitchman,
and Wizard of Oz, and we'll combine all these things together.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
So na Burn, I said, Nah Burn, My answer is,
am I gonna go a Draymond Green or b Charles Barkley.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
My answers actually see all the above. I'm gonna go
see all of the above. I no lies detected. The
All Star Game round robin tournament was capitol l lame,
capital l lame. It just was right. And when your customers,
the most passionate people for your business, your product, have
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to google the rules on what the f is going on,
you've done something wrong. And Draymond was complaining about the
fact that the team from the Saturday Rookie or Young
Stars of the Amba, whatever they're calling it, got to
participate because they needed a fourth team. They had to
get a fourth team in there. So like Dalton Connect
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of the Lakers who was traded to the Hornets and
then he came back to the Lakers, he's kind of
a nomad's he was on one of the teams of
the Future Stars that was playing in the All Stars
Saturday or also Sunday tournament from Saturday. So I would
have chosen to go with the kiss method, keep it simple, stupid.
The NBA chose to crank it up a couple of
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notches and they decided to bastardize the All Star Game.
It's lower in quality now. It's been unwatchable for years,
so it's just a different kind of unwatchable. But Draymond
is correct, Now, how did we end up here? Well,
that's the part where Charles Barkley enters the chat. Charles
Barkley is also spot on. No lies detected from Sir Charles,
(07:37):
because it's Draymond Green's generation of grab Ass and Huggy
Huggy during the All Star Game that created the mess
that we have today.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
To be fair in all sports, the All Star Game sucks.
One thing's changed in my lifetime. Used to be a
highlight of the year to see all the great players
united together, and it was wonderful. Now it blows in
the NBA game in particular, and there's different theories the
AAU tournament. All these guys know each other from the
time they're first tag for greatness, and they all hang
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out together at the same tournaments and travel the same circuit,
so they all know each other. So they don't really
have any competition with any of these people because they're
all buddy buddy, and they're all filthy rich in the NBA.
But what has happened to the bug ridden NBA All
Star Game? It has affected all of the All Stars right.
The contamination is widespread contamination. It's highly infectious. And the headliners,
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they make so much money in the professional ranks that
they cannot be troubled to provide a proper night of
effort and focus and have that competitive spirit. They just can't.
And this is a result. You play stupid games and
win stupid prizes. So in a perfect world for me,
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it will never likely happen this way. But you go
back old school style where I first I love watching
basketball when I was younger, Back in my day, it
was East versus West. It's gonna shock you. What I'm
about to say is a boomer take East versus West
teams wearing their home uniforms, meaning that if you wear
a Celtic uniform, you're wearing your Celtic uniform during the
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All Star Game or a Sixers or Bowls or Sons
or whoever you got your home uniform on. And that's it.
And then the Shenanigans and you actually put some effort
into that. And that's too much to ask. It's way
too much asking, all right now, Page two to the
trade that still has legs, The trade that still had elects.
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A few weeks after the Dallas Mavericks landed Luka and
traded him, they said, we're gonna trade Luca. We're gonna
land him in La They traded him to the Lakers
on a silver platter. The Commissioner over the weekend addressed
the chatter Adam Silver over the weekend, shooting down the
(09:58):
widespread conspiracy theory that the Mavericks decision to give away
Luca old not signey, but decision to give away Luka
to the Lakers is to move the franchise to Las Vegas. Right,
people that own the Mavericks now are gambling people. They
(10:19):
thought they were going to get a law passed in
Texas to allow sports wagering and casinos, and they wanted
to build an areno at the casino and all that stuff.
But Adam Silver shooting down that conspiracy theory that the
Luca trade was to upset the fan base so much
so they could relocate the franchise to Vegas. Does this
(10:40):
end the storyline? So I'm shaking my head. No, not
by a long shot. And my response is the hotel pitchman.
My response is the hotel pitchman here, Captain Obvious. Remember
those commercials from years ago, Captain Obvious, what did you expect,
Adam SILVERSI can you imagine if the commission had gotten
up there. But by the way, yeah, we absolutely we
(11:02):
hope the franchise will move to Las Vegas. We want
to leave Dallas and we want to go to Vegas
because of the gambling money in Vegas. Of course, he's
not going to say that. You can't admit that. He
would never admit that. But there's something that just doesn't
smell right about the whole situation. No matter what Adam
Silver says, and the fact that Adam Silver gave his
(11:22):
blessing here on the trade, which makes you believe that
Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA, either orchestrated that
Luca ends up with the Lakers. The heist is allowed,
or either orchestrated or allowed it to happen. But either way,
he's the commissioner of the NBA, and this is a
conspiracy theory. Unlike the NFL's fixing games for the Chiefs,
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this is one I can get behind. Either Adam Silver.
The NBA is like, well, listen, we got to get
a bigger start Lebron's old. We need the Lakers to
have a star at all times. That's the way we've
done business for the past fifty years in the NBA.
So we've got to keep that street going and we've
got to make sure we get a star with the Lakers,
and said, we'll have Luca go there and TV you'll
be happy. Either that or the Mavericks want to relocate
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to Las Vegas. But back when the NBA had a
commissioner with hair on his chest, and back when they
had a man that wasn't from somewhere else out in
the cosmos in the Milky Way as commissioner, a real
commissioner in the late David Stern. That was when Commissioner
Stern stepped in and vetoed lopsided trades, at least one
in particular, that Chris Paul trade. He put his foot
(12:30):
down said no, Moss, Chris Paul, you're not getting traded.
That's a giveaway trade. You're not going to the Lakers. Now.
Silver never says he never considered such a move, claim
that they they have the power to do that, even
though it has happened in the past. Now as far
as the idea that the Mavericks would would never be
allowed to relocate to Nevada, of course, the Maps have
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admitted they've never They've never, or at least they say
they never shopped Luca around. They only wanted to give
to the Lakers. It's not trade. A trade is when
you see what the item is worth, you put it
up for bid at an auction, even if it's a
silent auction, and see what you can get, and then
you give the item to the highest bidder. That was
not what happened, but the idea that the NBA would
not ever allow a team leaving a bigger market for
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a smaller market is fugazi and here's why. It has
happened in other sports multiple times in recent years and
over the last like thirty five years, it's happened many times.
There were teams that left Los Angeles in the NFL
for smaller markets, mainly the Rams who left for Saint
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Louis years ago, and then they came back to LA.
The Raiders left LA went to Oakland. They then left Oakland,
a bigger market the San Francisco Bay Area for Las Vegas,
a smaller market. The Athletics and Major League Baseball have
also done that as they went to a smaller TV market.
The San Francisco Bay Area market number six in the
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United States and the city of Las Vegas market number
believe it's number forty two now. Dallas is the fifth
biggest media market in the United States. So you'd move
from number five to number forty two, but you'd make
up for that in gambling revenue. And don't be naive
to think that that would not be allowed to happen.
Right now. Final point, as the All Star festivities continue
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to fill at Delphia, we go some social media posts
going viral. Several of you sent me this over the
weekend as the All Star Game played out in San Francisco,
a non All Star star, a fledgling podcaster, Paul George,
Bye George, Bye Bye George. Paul George of your Philadelphia
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seventy six ers. When viral his wife did posting photos
on the social media of a nice tropical All Star
Break vacation. So Paul George's wife posting photos of the
All Star tropical beachside vacation is blank. So my word
(15:04):
is obtuse. My word is ubtuse. The look it up,
obt usc up toos PG thirteen. I look at this.
I'm so glad he's not a Clipper. Thank God, I
get rid of that guy. But it's like the Wizard
of Oz, like Paul George the Scarecrow. If I only
had a brain, If I only had a brain, that's
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the amazing thing. Like I would be so embarrassed if
I was Paul George the guy scored two points in
a game for Philly before the All Star Break against
a dog food team, the Brooklyn Nets, I would be
posting photos of anything. I'd be posting photos of me
taking jump shots in an empty gymnasium. Somewhere in the
Delaware Valley. But no, Paul George is out there with
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his beautiful stripper wife there, I believe, on the beach there,
somewhere in a tropical location. You'd think he would be
cognizant of how bad that looks. And even if his
wife's posting photos, maybe not be in the photo. Say
let's do me a solid on that. I don't need
to be in those those photos. But instead instead of
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putting up jump shots, he was putting on suntan locean
at the beach, and then did not lock himself in
the gym. Instead of holding a basketball, he was holding
a margarita and it would appear in his hands. And
so there you go.
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it's a fun time, fun time, good times, all right.
So our lead this hour, we'll get back to the
bouncy Ball and the faux All Star Game in San Francisco.
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But instead now we turn our attention to the rumor Mill,
and if you like rumors, buckle up, buckeroo. Expect the
chatter to drive the storylines on this show and many
other gas bags and blowhards over the next couple of
months before we settle in to NFL Draft Apaloosa, which
coming up. But the big buzz this hour is around
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a former Super Bowl MVP that can be yours if
the price is right. So if you haven't heard yet,
name's been out there, but perhaps not. We are told
the Pittsburg standards. The Ginzers are hot and heavy. They're
all horny to get themselves a former Super Bowl MVP.
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That would be La ri I am wide receiver Cooper Cup.
Jay Glazer reporting recently that the Pittsburgh football team gung
ho to get their hands on a Cup and have
him come to the confluence. They're in Pittsburgh, So let
us discuss the question. Some recent buzz picking up up
(19:00):
that the Steelers have been interested for many many months
in getting their hands on Cooper Cup in a trade.
Would that be a good fit. So I have Twilight
Zone war slogan and fire drill and we will combine
all of these things together and hold up a protest sign.
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Is what we're going to do. So Nu burn I said,
Na Burn, Well, this all depends on what exactly Mike
Tomlin is itching for in Pittsburgh. But keeping it real,
if you have watched watch the NFL in recent years,
that you know what. I know that while Cooper Cup
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is a big name, he has not provided a lot
of game in recent years. He is a diminishing asset.
That is why the Rams are looking to get out
of the Cooper Cup business. He's better in theory and
he is in reality. It's been that way for several years.
So if you want a player who is what I
call in the twilight zone, then Cooper Cup's your guy. Picture.
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If you will a world where you trade for someone
that has name brand value and instead get a guy
with generic brand performance, that's Cooper Cup. The arrow is
pointing in the wrong direction. Now we have seen players
change teams and have a career renaissance, so that's clearly
what someone will be banking on if they acquire Cooper Cup.
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But based on what he has done, if you look
at the eyeball test and you look at the Pro
Football Reference page, Cooper Cup his yards per season has
trended down down, down, down, down, down, down down down
four straight seasons, four straight seasons going the wrong direction.
His receiving success rate also down down, down, down, down
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down down four straight years. And his magical season of
his superpowers when he was the MVP candidate, Cooper Cup
is fifty percent the player that he had been. He
averaged that year one hundred and fourteen and a half
yards per game. He is down to fifty nine point two.
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The biggest problem, which is unsolvable at this point, is
that even if Cooper Cup were to go to a
place like Pittsburgh, go to the Patriots and would have
some success, would have a taste of success. Even if
that was the case, he is star crossed, all right.
He is star cross because he's heading towards his age
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thirty two seasons and the bugaboo, the Komodo dragon in
the room. He is damaged goods damage with buyer beware,
buyer beware. Cooper Cup has missed an entire season eighteen
games and a season plus a season plus with various
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various injuries in recent years. And as he gets older,
I think we know how this works, because we're all
getting older. No one's getting younger. If you're getting younger,
you're a freak. Everyone's getting older. And as you get older,
stuff starts going haywire, and the thing majig doesn't work,
and the watch McCall it. Something's messed up with the
watch McCall it, and that's what happens now. Page two.
Staying with the Rams, though the RAMS reports recently saying
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the Rams are trying to trade Matthew Stafford. A lot
of buzz connecting Stafford to the New York Giants in
recent days, and the RAMS supposedly upset with Stafford's wife
for her public commentary amid the trade rumors. So what
do you think the issue here with Matthew Stafford's wife
and the Rams is, well, that's actually not that difficult.
(22:44):
After a seconds long, second long, mallor investigation, we determined
it is a war slogan the RAMS are upset about
back to World War Two, the slogan loose lips sink ships.
That would be the issue here, or in the case
the transfer portal, the RAMS trying to finesse a trade
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of Stafford working back channels as we speak right now,
and these deals are often consummated way in advance, right
way before they actually get announced, months before they're officially announced.
So they're doing their legwork to figure out where to
put Stafford, and his wife is meddling. The meddling wife, Yes,
it's like a reality show on her fledgling podcast, because
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everyone's got a podcast, even I have a podcast. Kelly Stafford,
that's the name. Kelly Stafford ripped the Rams personnel decisions,
including the looking to trade Cooper Cup and his uncertain
future even though Cupp has been a diminishing player for
several years. That has robbed the RAM organization the wrong way. Now,
I'm still not convinced the Rams are going to actually
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have the moxie as my dog is named to trade
Cooper Cup. I'm still reluctant that this is actually what happened,
but I believe it when it does happened. Ultimately, if
you take a couple of steps back and look at this,
we believe that Matthew Stafford has he just doesn't care.
He's like whatever, say whatever you want. I don't care
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to his wife and that whole thing. And it's kind
of like that celebrity chef Emerald where it's like bam, bam,
you know, kick it up a notch. Here they're kicking
it up a notch and Stafford he's ready to move on,
even though he's, oh, I want to stay with the Rams.
Does he really want to stay with the Rams? Eh?
I don't think so. He's going to New York. Here
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you make it in New York. And he's thinking about
post football career if you have success with the Giants,
which nobody really does, but if you were able to
figure it out, you could get the New York market.
You've already had success in LA So it's the old
good cop, bad cop and wife is the bad cop.
Stafford's the good cop. And it's either this or he
is so whipped Matthew Stafford and his wife just the
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toxicity level there and meddling with his and he just
sits there like a zombie and does nothing. Stafford, while
he would be an upgrade for the Giants, as we
have pointed out on this show in previous episodes, at
this point Matthew Stafford is he went from a Tier
two quarterback. He's now a Tier three high tier three
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quarterback in the NFL. The last six games of his
LA Ram regular season career, Stafford was like a house
of cards ready to come tumbling down for the Rams.
Very inconsistent and as we have seen in all sports,
that is the telltale sign of a diminishing career where
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every once in a while you go out and play great,
but more times than not you stink looking like Paul George.
We talked about him last yar Paul George and the NBA.
Everyone's wing to else score thirty points and then he'll
come back and have like eight or twelve or two.
That's more of the regular all right, not final point
to since cinnaty we go and as we're an NFL
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general man, an NFL GM says that Joe Burrow, star
quarterback Joe Burrow is not telling you to be happy.
And if Joe Burrow is not happy, no one's happy.
Burro's gonna be unhappy with the Bengals after the offseason.
Can you decot what that GM means? So the message
is rather simple, prepare for a two words fire drill
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or go a mass exodus. In fact, the only one
left in Cincinnati will be Justin in Cincinnati and possibly
just Josh, but he might relocate alls a mass exus. Now,
Cincinnati has the following players that can be yours if
the price is right, Jamar, Chase t Higgins, defensive star
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Trey Hendrickson, and tight end Mike is SICKI. All of
them either free agents or looking to get paid. And
if they don't get paid, they're looking to leave Cincinnati now.
Burrow has already offered to redo his contract to play
the shell game and move money around in order to
allow the Bengals to keep the band together on a
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non playoff team. But my take on this is level
headed approach. Level headed approach here. If you look at
this level head, the GM predicted that fifty percent of
those guys would be gone at best, and I think
that's accurate. I think that's accurate. They're not going to
cook the books. They're not into cooking the Bengals front office.
They've never operated that way. Why would they all of
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a sudden start operating that way. It just doesn't make
a lot of sense compared to other NFL teams that
are willing to go above and beyond, above and beyond
what is required. And you can always futs around with
the numbers. The salary cap is designed in a way
for manipulation if you want to manipulate it. If not,
you can use it as the end all, be all
excuse and say I can't afford this player, I can't
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afford that players. Put your hands up in the air
and say, oh, it's a salary kin, Oh it's a
salary kid. But if you want the player, you can
keep the player. So the Bengals have never been that motivated.
And we pointed out out it's old family money. It's
old family money, it's family business. It's it's essentially a
slush fund for the family. And if you put more
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money into the payroll and you take money out of
the vacation fund, that's one less a yacht you can rent,
that's one less private plane flight you can take, because
that's going to the play the player payroll. But if
I'm in charge, based on what I know of the Bengals,
then I would do everything I can to keep Jamar
Chase because he's a top top ten receiver, top five
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receiver in the NFL. So you keep him, you figure
you can get someone to slide into the t Higgins
role because everyone will be focused on Jamar Chase, and
then you would keep Trey hendrickson. And as far as
Mike is Sicky, you know it's okay. You're gonna lose
any sleep if Mike Sicky leaves, probably not. And t Higgins,
you hope you can work something out where you do
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like a sign and trade type deal and you get
some something in return for T Higgins. If you can
futs around that direction, That's what I would do. And
I'm never wrong about these things, ever, never ever wrong.
I've been the general manager for thirty two NFL teams
for over twenty years, and my record is spotless. My
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record is perfect. I have not lost my jet. Well,
actually did lose my job one time, but overall my record,
I have a winning record as an executive for all
these teams.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
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Speaker 1 (29:27):
Here we go, It's maller. How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
To the third?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Here we go, Here we go, It's grill.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
A report over the weekend suggested that Aaron Rodgers pleaded
with the Jets to give him another chance, Ben, are
you buying that?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I don't think anyone has ever pleaded with the Jets
to play another season with the Jets, so I don't
believe that. Now. I do think that Aaron Rodgers wants
to play again, and he doesn't want to leave the
NFL world. But why would you beg to play for
the Jets. If you want to play for a bad team,
you can play for the Titans, or there's plenty of
bad teams that need the Raiders that need quarterbacks. So
I'm a little skeptical, but I'm sure my man, Aaron Rodgers,
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Pat hang out with Pat McAfee and straighten the record. Cope,
we'll get to the bottom of this one way or another.
We are gonna hear whether or not that report is
legitimate or not about airin Rogers, so you just relax.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Next, the Giants are in need of a franchise quarterback
and a NFL insiders suggested this weekend that they would
have to give up a significant haul to get the
number one overall pick. They'd have to give the number
three pick at least one second rounder and possibly more.
Ben do you see them? Were the Titans making that deal?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Now, there are years to make that trade. This is
not one of the years to make that trade. This
is not it right. And wasn't it Jimmy Johnson that
came up with the formula of the point system for
how much each draft pick's worth and how much you
have to give up to get that pick. And now,
if you're the gizz number three, but they should do
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is get Matthew Stafford. He's a tier three quarterback, but
the Giants have had Tier five quarterbacks for several years.
And gets Stafford in there, and he's at least not
going to embarrass you unless he completely falls off the map,
which many have with the Giants. But keep the number
three pick and get Stafford, and I think that would
be the way to go next.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
After the Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday, John Morant tweeted,
Mac might make me decide to dunk.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Now a lot of people speculated that this means the
Morant could join the contest next year. Do you think
it happens and if so, would it make a difference.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Well, the fact that Mac mac McClung right three years
in a row, Mack McClung, he's played in five NBA
games and won three dunk contests is fascinating, but not
ledge of John Morant say that. Then Gianni said, Dan
to Koombo said if you do it, I'll do it.
This the NBA players, it's Machiezma. They don't want to
embarrass themselves in the Slam Dunk Contest by not winning
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the Slam. It's why Lebron's never been part of the
Slam Dunk contest because they're fre of embarrassing themselves. Make
the make the slam dunk contest great again. I'm all
for it. I'll believe it when I see it. I
don't buy it. How did we do you pass us?
That is a win? I want to write out. Happy
President's Day, President's Day, President's Day.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
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Speaker 1 (32:32):
Hey you sports figure, guy or girl? Who got here
with you? Talking to songs? Here some instant advice? Hold
that thought. No one's paid attention to me for ten
whole seconds. And if you don't like it, you It
is a contagious disease in all of our professional sports
and we need to help out. That's why the incident
Advice line is here. Unscreened radio, the safety net is off.
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Not just a basketball issues, there's a football issue. It's
pretty much across all professional sports. How can we make
all Star games great again? Let's make all Star great?
All Star games great again. The basketball one stinks. The
hockey one, they don't word. That's not an all Star game.
The four Nations thing. That's something different, but it's not
an All Star game. So how to make the All
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Star games and professional sports great again? If you'd like
to give advice, call right now at eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. You're live on the air. When
you hear my voice. We'll start out with you at
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Your advice to
make All Star Games great again? Hello, Line number.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
One, go back to playing East versus Win.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
There you go. That's right, Sean, the hood guy, East
versus West. That's all you need. A line to your
next it's the insta advice line unscreened Radio, how to
make the All Star Game great again in all Sports?
Hello sir, you're on the air line too. Hello.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
If your masseuse is a problem with you staring in
her eyes, you can always stare at her tits.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
All right, thank you for that. All right, there you go.
Supermarket Steve making sure he makes the podcast great again.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We're giving advice
here on how to make All Star Games watchable events again.
You're live on the air when you hear my voice. Hello,
Line three, you're on the airline three. Hello, All charity.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
You should be done anonymously. I just donated fifty bucks
a weed man, and you don't hear me bragging about it.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
How dare you ferg dog? And I know you didn't.
I know you didn't. Line let's go to line six.
We'll jump over to line six. It's the instant advice
line to make All Star Games great again? Hello, line
number six. Yeah, in morning time, let's let the college
champions play the pro champions. There you go. Well they
kind of did that in the NBA. They had the
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Future Star is playing and people are ripping that. Hello,
line one, you're on the air. We're giving advice to
make All Star Games great again. Okay, line sounded like poppy.
I think Line two. Hello, line two, you're on the
air Line two. Line two is not paying attention. We're
going to line three. I've asked a volume of calls.
(35:00):
Line three, advice. I'm making All Star Games great again. Hello,
line three.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Commissioners need Jason Gianpi buster.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Okay, get that slumpbluster. Line number four, Hello, line four.
Uh yeah, we'll get you one right away, sir. Line five,
you're on the Airline five. Hello, Line five is not
paying attention. We're going to line six. Advice to make
All Star Games great again? Line number six, Play the game,
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Play the game. Okay, very deep commentary. Line one, your back.
It's the instant advice line. We're asking the great, unwashed
and unscientific poll how to make All Star Games great again?
At eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Hello, Line one. Oh,
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that's not the original pokey pokey pokey guy, that's an invitation.
Line two. You're on the Airline two, go.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Can you send some of those hot pizzas from Ben's Pizzeria?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, thank you, Rick. Pizza came out pretty good, actually
not bad. I would do one more, only one more.
If it's good. I'll take credit and I'll blame the coop.
Final call, instant of vice line I'm making the All
Star Game great again? Line six, Line number six, final call.
You're on the Airline six. Oh your phone cut off?
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Line six Oh, no, should have gone Line three. Unfortunate
ending
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