May 27, 2025 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about the Minnesota Timberwolves falling short against the Thunder in Game 4 with poor performances from their stars, a Cowboys insider saying that George Pickens is "being shielded" in Dallas, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Lenny Kravitz Edition, and more!
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the playoff game on the holiday Monday night, a national
holiday and America Moral Day, and some pro bouncy ball.
Not a good one. Not a good one. Now I
admit I have no skin in the game on this.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Obviously we talk about it doesn't matter whose plays in
these games. We come in here and we break them down.
But there is just no juice at all in this series.
There just isn't. My God, And it continued again on
a Monday night, not a blowout, but not exactly a
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game that you thought Minnesota was going to win at
the end. And so our lead is from the land
of ten thousand Lakes. And as we have pointed out
in previous episodes of the show, that is just a
marketing term. There are actually eleven eight hundred and forty
two lakes in Minnesota that are ten acres or more.
But people love round numbers, So it sounds better to
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put on the license plate the Land of ten thousand Lakes.
It doesn't sound as good if you say the Land
of eleven eight hundred forty two Lakes. It just doesn't
have the same Rasmataz, so they go with the Land
of ten thousand Lakes. Nevertheless, that was the playground for
game number far.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Between the Thunder and the Wolves.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
In a series that has been one blowout after another blowout,
this was a pivot point game, a pivot point game.
It was a two to one series going in so Minnesota.
They win this game and it's now a best of
three series. We square the books up, mono a mono,
eye to eye, and here we go. And how did
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that turn out? Well, hopefully you did not watch. We
did for you. It's our public service, it's our good
mits for the day. And so the newly crowned recently
as of a few days ago most valuable players shay
Jogis Alexander forty points, ten rebounds, nine assists, a partridge
in a pear tree as Okac snapping back and bringing
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the hand down goes the hammer. After getting a forty
two point shahalacking over the weekend. They come back and
beat the Minnesota Timberwolves six year final in Game four,
and so that's where we are three to one, and
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using the Mather math on this, the team from Oklahoma
needs one more win. They can close it out back
in the dust Bowl, they are close out Game five
on Wednesday. They do that and it's onto the NBA Finals.
But the better story here is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we will direct our focus,
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the losing locker room as we discuss the question for
the esteem panel here, how do you explain the diminishing
returns of Anthony Edwards of the Timberwolves? And you can
sit here, take it down, and we normally do the
blame pie. It's rather obvious there's not a lot of
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debate here. Julius Randall gets an assist, but the headliner,
mister I dominate. I'm the man. Anthony Edwards was not
the man at all. So let us discuss how do
you explain Anthony Edwards and the diminishing returns in this
particular performance. So my thoughts on this, I've got state Farm,
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cool mint, and saloon, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a delicious,
juicy lucy, which is really good, much better than the
performance of the basketball team through much of this game.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
But hey, listen the story here. Don't bury the lead
mom man.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The story in this game is the rising star, Anthony Edwards,
the headliner. And these playoff games or opportunities, they're launching
pads to go up in the heavens of basketball chatter
and have people lick your toes and all that if
you play well. And so here's Anthony Edwards, who've been
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dazzling people for most of the season and certainly earlier
in the playoffs, has had some big moments here and
now he finds himself in the slump at the time
you cannot slump, which is like, right here, what are
we doing? So Anthony Edwards, we enjoy watching a play.
He's obviously a star. How big a star? How bright
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a star? That's open to interpretation. That's opening to debate
yet again, though he looked rattled with a capitol R.
He looked rattled with capitol R here, and that was
not the moment to do that. That was not the
game to do that, That was not the situation to
do that. And that was not the performance you give
your team, but he did.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
He did it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
He was five of thirteen from the floor, did not
even shoot, I think only took a couple of shots
in the first half.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
He won like the first ten to eleven twelve minutes
something like that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
That was like ten minutes without taking a shot in
the game, which I didn't play in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I don't think that's ideal. I don't think that's ideal.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Sixteen points, five turnovers for Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That is a chicken feathers performance.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I can't say what I'd like to say, so instead
I will substitute the word I would like to use
is an S word, but I will instead use the
word feathers. So it's a chicken feathers performance there by
Anthony Edwards. Now, so we thought, hey, this is a
chance you even up the series here, best of three.
You win this game. Man, you're in really good shape.
All of a sudden, you're the Cape Crusader. Right, you
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can go out there, you're the Cape Crusader. But that
was not the version of Anthony Edwards you got. Instead,
he was what a decoy for much of this game,
a decoy unacceptable and The commercial which gets shown a
million times during these basketball games is the State Farm commercial.
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That was appropriate because you had Anthony. Originally, this guy's
the cape crusader out there, and no, you're it's like
getting Baitman when you wanted the protection of Batman, and
that's what they got.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
They got Baitman. They didn't get Batman. And man, what
a night.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You're supposed to put your cape on, go out there
and fly around and all that, and man, instead the
Minnesota got a counterfeit version and just look like a
brain frog. Usually what happens if you go by the book,
we've been doing this for a couple of minutes over
the years, and so usually when a player plays that pathetically,
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there'll be some kind of phantom injury that they will
chalk it up to when the series ends.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, he was knealing with so and so, and it
would have killed seven of ten players, but he stayed
and played.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
They'll make some kind of bull crap excuse. He just
looked like his mind was wandering. I don't know, maybe
he's got some more kids on the way. We don't
know about very prolific in that area as well. I
don't know what's going on, but he was pressing and
did not get the job done. And you know, he
was bragging to the historians in La that he had
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the big D and did not look he looked like
he had more of a micro D in this game here,
not a big D, a micro D.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And the moment he.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Was small, he was small, passive, way too passive, spectator
like spectator like here. And so there you go, no
no rhyme or reason why that would happen in this
particular game. But he was was there, and then he wasn't.
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I was there that he wasn't just a spectator, very
passive and not a compelling lead.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Character at all.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And then you've got Julius Randall, the yin to the Yang,
and well he does not get as much crap old
look because he's not as big a deal in the
universe of basketball. Julius Randall showing everyone why he keeps
changing teams. And a couple days ago there was a
question that was asked about, Wow, he's arrived. Now he's
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proved the doubters wrong. Well, methinks you spoke too soon.
The regression to the mean water seeks its own level,
and also extreme outcomes are followed by more moderate ones
or in this case, more normal ones, as this is
the player that we have seen in the past from
Julius Randall. This is the enigma. This is the guy
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that looks really good and then goes out there and
vomits all over himself. Writing the vomit comment one of
seven from the floor for Julius Randall, he had five points.
He was a five for five five five points, five turnovers,
so very impressive.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And way to go, Way to go. That was a
manure like performance.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Now on the other side, the winning locker room, which
is not as good as story. How do you juxtapose
OKAC and the way they were able to play with SGA.
There's a lot of letters there. You got OKAC and
then SGA need some more vowels. But that's that's where
we are. So this was a Listerine cool Mint performance.
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After suffering from halatosis in that game three, really bad breath,
they get their mojo back in a large way. Here
they went a wall in game three, and when you
compare and contrast, when you can compare and contrast the
way the Thunder played in game three where they just quit,
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they did the thing that was gutless OKAC Championship possible
team quit in a playoff game.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
They did. They gave up, which is wild to me.
It's it's just so, But they did.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And when you look at that and compare it to
where we are right now, where they didn't give up.
I was in the game, they played with the lead
most of the game, it makes you wonder. Those are
the kind of nights where you're like, what happened? Like
it's one thing to lose by twenty, but to lose
by forty you got to put work into losing by forty.
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So what kind of funny business was going on? I
don't get either way. On this particular night, while ant
man on the Minnesota side was drowning in the soup,
you had Sga shay Yogis Alexander out there who was cooking,
controlling the game for the most part, the merchant of doom,
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the merchant of doom and made mostly the right decisions,
put up big fantasy stats and all that stuff, and
played the way you thought your star player was gonna play.
Minnesota star player didn't play like that, obviously, And so.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
That is where we are.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And so the thunder who gave up in Game three,
and now they come back they win again.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And are they good for basketball?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
No, they're not. They're boring. They're not good for talk radio.
They're not good for the conversation Oklahoma City. They're good
at basketball, but in terms of the conversation around it,
there's no theatrics there. There's nothing that really just moves
the needle. They're an efficient team. They come at you
in waves. It's just not entertaining to talk about. There
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is nothing really that compelling. SGA is pretty boring, and you.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Go down the list. I mean, that's where we are
all right now. Last word, So.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
The Wolves are on the brink of extinction. The Timberwolves
are on the brink of extinction. Is this series over.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
At three to one? Is it? Ov are over?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So it certainly feels over. Technically it's not. They have
to play on other game and there will be another
game that is broadcast coming up back in Oklahoma. If
this were a film for the Timberwolves, if it was
a film, it would.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Be called Timberwolves the Western Collapse.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
It's a sequel. Actually, it's a sequel to last season.
You might remember when the Mavericks with Fat Luca were
able to beat Minnesota. That was in five games Dallas.
One of the first three. A little different this year
because it was two to one and Minnesota has shot
to end up tying the series as opposed to last
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year it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Was three to one and then they lost Game four.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
But it's a deja vus situation where it's highly unlikely
that the Wolves are going to come back in this series.
Now technically can they sure? I mean technically they could, right,
Minnesota can claw back into this. You and I both
know that you have to scratch and you have to push,
and you have to have that determination, that target determination.
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And are they the type of team that is willing
to get into the mud, neck deep into the mud?
It doesn't appear that way, it does. I mean, you
couldn't even get Anthony Edwards to show up and lock
in in a game that would have tied the series
up at two two. He just decided, for whatever reason
to not perform. And I should have gotten him a
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bucket of popcorn at one point early in the game.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
My god.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So the other issue here is the saloon, and that's
the other issue because it's the last chance saloon.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And again it goes back to how much fight are
they willing to.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Put in here, and you have no wiggle room at
this particular point. It's like the NCAA Tournament, single elimination.
Now the rest of the way in this series for Minnesota,
and it's going to take perfection for three consecutive games.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It really is one game, and then you have to
do it again and again, and you also need a
voodoo doll would help, Like a good voodoo doll, like
a twisted ankle here or a sprained a knee ligament
over there.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And then all of a sudden, like things flip around,
like things get much different, and things change around quite
a bit. And I know I'm not going popped Achilles.
We've already had a couple of those who were not
doing that, but dependsulum can't swing that direction.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
But you have to have the fight.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I have not seen any real evidence here, based
on what I just saw a few hours ago, that
Minnesota's got that fight in him.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I just don't. I don't see it.
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And yet again and here we are holiday weekend and Teta,
Oops it happened again. Oops it happened again. Some more
chatter about the relationship between wide receiver George Pickens, who
was decommissioned thrown overboard by the Pittsburgh Steelers, and how
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he fits in with Cowboys in Dallas, the X Steeler
pass catcher now part of Jerry's universe, and how's that going. Well,
I hadn't played a game yet, so it's fine. I
hadn't played a game yet. Everything's great. They are planting
stories in the media that he's been a model teammate,
everything is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. There was one
a dendum to this that I thought is worthy of
some talk, and I don't know if you saw it
or not. It happened recently. The word on the.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Street out of the Dallas area is that not only
is Dak Prescott planning on hell helping out here, but
Jerry Jones, that Dak Prescott and Jerry Jones both are
going to shield George Pickens from the criticism. But wait,
there's more.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Okay, So that's fine. You expect them to help out.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
There's been some chatter that they're even going to be
calling on the media in Dallas to back off criticism
of George Pickens to allow.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Him to grow to blossom like a flower.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
So let us discuss the question, how does the Cowboys
plan to protect wide receiver? George Pickens sound to you? So,
I've got handholding, lobster, and flight school, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
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to drive away in a station wagon. Now they wh's
the last time they made a station wagon? They don't
make those anyway. I haven't made those in thirty years
at least. Why did they stop making the station wagon?
Would anyone buy the station wagon if they had? I
know it was replaced by the minivan, but and then
the suv. But if they had the station wagon. I
know these people collect him. Why don't they make him
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any things that make you go anyway? To get to
the point, how does the Cowboys plan to protect wide receiver?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
George Pickens sound you so?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Number? I said, Number.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Jerry Jones has decided to use a carbon copy. Now
I would say he would have used a laser printer
to recreate this, but it's Jerry, So he's using a
carbon copy of Cowboy Season gone by. And you might
remember the famous stories that are part of internet lore
that des Bryant famously had a babysitter. He was on
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the knucklehead spectrum, and so in an effort to fully
monetize fully monetize it performance. The legend of the Internet
is Jerry Jones hired a round the clock babysitter to
keep Des Bryant's nose clean. Now, whether that's true or
not is open for debate. However, it is not open
for debate that Jerry Jones will do whatever he has
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to do in terms of taking a diminished asset and
trying to get that diminished asset squeeze some extra toothpaste
out of the tube heer, And that sounds like things
are not that.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Extreme with George Pickens.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And nevertheless, I would file the information that we have.
I would file this under the overprotective.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Handholding category. Right, Like, what do we do, Like Jerry
Jones and Dak Prescott, how's this gonna work? Like they're
gonna play big.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Brother here and Y're gonna like put up what They're
gonna put up a human firewall around George Pickens' locker.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. It ain't gonna work, dude, It's
not gonna work. This is the the NFL. You're not
on the playground at elementary school. You're not doing recess,
you're not on the swing set, You're you're not playing hopscotch,
You're not playing you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You just it's not gonna work. You play for the
Dallas Cowboys. The Steelers have a lot of media. The
Steelers are a high profile profile team. They have a
national following the Dallas Cowboys. They make the Steelers seem
like they're a Canadian Football League team the way the
amount of attention that they get and you're living under
the microscope, and especially a guy like George Pickens, who
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you know, if you're covering the Cowboys and you want
to get a story George pickketts, who are you gonna call?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You call George Pickens up. He's very emotional, right, He's unpredictable,
but he's unpredictable in a way where he's predictable, where
you know he's at any moment, it's it's the fuse
is going to reach the end and then kaboom with
with Pickens. So Hey, I'm in it, good talk radio.
I'm excited about.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
This and I will enjoy all the efforts made by
Dak Prescott, and what's that puppet coach Schottenheimer's kid? And
then who shouldn't be the coach? And then Jerry Jones?
So why not all right now?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Page two, page number two to the schedule we go?
Always a fun topic. Now Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Somewhat recently, Joe Burrow got on the bully pulpit and complained, complain, complain, complain, complain.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Did you you remember the complaints?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
So he was upset because the Bengals don't get to
play international games. He wants to play international games. The
main complaint, though, he was grumbling about the Cincinnati football
team having to play prime time yet again in Baltimore.
Fourth straight season, fourth straight season, the Bengals will play
a primetime game against their blood rival the Ravens. There
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in front of sports with Coleman in Baltimore. So the
NFL vice president of broadcast Planning, how much do you
think that job pays? How much has that been?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Two?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand? How much is that
job pack? So the guy's name Mike North. When I
think of Mike North, I think of a proud Chicagoan,
a Hall of Fame, lifetime Achievement Award winning radio man
Mike North. But this is Mike North, the NFL Vice
president of Broadcasting and Planning, who told the state funded
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Team website that the message from Joe Burrow has been received,
even if it did not change anything this year. The
empty suit for the NFL said, when trends like that emerge,
we probably have to adjust at some point.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Okay, so the NFL admitting it quote probably had to
adjust following Joe Burrow's complaints about the schedule. What is
your reaction to this news? So this is the rare,
the rare, very rare confession. It is a confession.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And it's a multi billion dollar entity, the NFL. And
here they are, and what are they doing. They are
doing something truly remarkable. They're confessing, They're admitting they're gonna change.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
This is not good. Well, it's sort of right.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And having documented for many, many years behind these microphones
of Fox Sports Radio and other places, but mostly Fox
Sports Radio, having documented the NFL, you know how rare
it is for the NFL to ever admit they f
anything up at any point. There is a better chance
of going out on a dingy out in the Atlantic
(25:53):
and catching a blue lobster. There's a better chance of
that happening right, one in two million, or something like that.
Joe Burrow made the simple observation, very simple, that the
NFL current scheduling model there's a glitch, and the Bengals
are not a glamour team. The NFL worries about the
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teams that get big ratings. The Bengals don't get big ratings.
The Cowboys get ratings, the Steelers, the usual suspects who
have national followings get ratings. The Bengals don't. They don't
get bad ratings. But they're they're not moving the wrecking
ball around in the in that department. So in a moment,
a rare moment of clarity or perhaps confusion, the NFL responded,
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and of course they use the word probably, which is
a weasel word, corporate speak for we might change something.
We're not guaranteeing it. We probably, we might, we might not.
Probably it's leaning that direction, And so like Joe Burrow,
he's onto something.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
So probably I probably will help you move your so
far I might not, but probably I will.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
My final point to the Bayou, we go to New Orleans,
where veteran wide receiver Brandon Cooks, he's back. Brandon Cooks
is back in Louisiana. He played for the Saints and
then went to the Patriots and the Rams and a
bunch of other teams. But he's worked his way back
to Louisiana, and the veteran wide receiver says the quarterback
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battle in the Bayou between Tyler Shuck and Spencer Rattler
is quote going to be fun to watch your thoughts,
all right? So fun to watch? That would not be
the word I would use. I look at that quarterback
competition in New Orleans, and I have no skin in
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the game. Obviously we know that. However, it sounds like charity.
It's like make a wish, Hey you want to play quarterback.
It's like that scene from Major Leaue. Hey, how would
you like to play quarterback for.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
The Saints this year? Brandon cook you on even work
for the team.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You're one of the veteran leaders here, so you've got
to get the polish out and some you're polishing turds,
is what you're doing here.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
And so he's polishing some turds.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
But man saying the right thing, right, Gota say the
right thing and that's corporate speak, trying to hype up
the young guys and all that stuff. Does anyone think
that's good? Maybe a bet against the Saints that's a
good thing, because you think whoever plays quarterback, you talk
about a battle of futility. Holy crap, unless you're somehow
related to Tyler Shuck or Spencer Rattler, and not even
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like friend related. I'm talking like blood relations. Welcome to Dolesville.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
So the Saints trying to figure stuff out.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I guess they're just throwing pasta against the wall and
there's still the wild card. They go out in trade
for another quarterback. But if you go with Tyler Shuck,
the like thirty seven year old rookie from Louisville who
was in transfer portal a million times, or Spencer Rattler,
it's akin to going to flight school and saying, hey,
fly the plane while you're reading the manual, Like why
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don't you take take the plane off, read the manual
and just kind of fly.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
And then land the plane and all that stuff. Good luck,
good luck.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That's a developmental situation, which means a wasted season is upcoming.
A wasted season. Get out the paper bags. The ants
are back. The ants are back trying to catch lightning
in a bottle here outside of lightning in a bottle
or a trade man. And yet you look at the
NFC South, and am I wrong to say there was
(29:43):
there was no one there that's head and shoulders above
everyone else. I look at that division as pretty much
wide open. Atlanta a flawed team, Tampa Bay a flawed
football team. Carolina they suck, but they're supposed to be
on the come, as they say in poker, And so
it doesn't look like anyone's gonna run away with that division.
They're all though, likely going to run away from the
New Orleans Saints, the headless Saints, the headless Saints running
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around there, and if only they had a quarterback, If
only they had a quarterback, they'd have a chance.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
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Speaker 3 (30:18):
About that to the here we go, this is one
big Ben gets.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Graillbl So since Lebron left Cleveland from Miami fifteen years ago,
it sparked an NBA player empowerment movement that so many
superstars leave their small market teams for the big city.
Now we have three budding superstars and three small markets,
all vying for the championship. Been out of a SGA,
Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Halliburton.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Who do you think is most likely to eventually leave
for a big market?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
All right, so I don't do this, but I will
tell you on my big board. The most likely is
Anthony Edwards. Like this guy's get ties to Atlanta. Big
city guy. You know, I just not that minnesot is
not a big city. It's just not as big as
I think he wants. So I put him at the top.
Halliburton second SGA. He seems fine in Oklahoma. I don't
get any sense he's dying to leave there. So that's it.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Next show, hal Tani threw to live batters for the
first time since his elbow surgery and a twenty two
pitch Live BP on Sunday, drawing lots of spectators. But
how important is it to the Dodgers success this season
for Atani to return to form on the mound?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Everyone's hurt, Coop, They're all hurt. The entire effing rotation
is on the injury list. They need someone who actually
wants to pitch and is somewhat heavy, but the problem
is Otani. I don't expect much to Tommy John's come
up next.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Jim nance said in a recent interview that he thinks
the Cowboys Chiefs game on Thanksgiving Day will set new
viewership records for the NFL.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Do you agree with him?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Well, I expect the Cowboys should be a mid level team,
but they always get pretty good ratings. And if I
was Jim NaNs and I was working for CBS, I'd
say the same thing. I say, close, but not on
an all time record.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
How did we do?
Speaker 6 (31:56):
He passes it?
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That is a weg.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I love the game.
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Don't go Lorena coughing. I won the game.
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Confidence?
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Good to have you. We want to partner up with
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No, No, he's not gonna partner up with why not?
Rena doesn't know who any of these people are.
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Speaker 3 (33:34):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
The categories are it ain't over till it's over? Are
you gonna go my way? Fly away? And again?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Kevin?
Speaker 6 (33:42):
You were on first? Which category would you like? Fly away?
Speaker 5 (33:47):
All right? And Patrick? You got it ain't over till
it's over? Are you gonna go my way? Or again?
Speaker 6 (33:53):
It's not over till it's not over till it's over
all right?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Ain't it ain't over? Yeah, it ain't over.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
All right, Kevin, I need the first and last name
of the athlete in order to get points.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
We have fly away.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Here.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
These athletes retired in their prime. Are you ready, Kevin?
Speaker 3 (34:13):
All right?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Forty five seconds begin. He was a quarterback for the
Indianapolis Colts. He had a really big beard. Yes that's right.
This guy's nickname was Megatron for the Lions. Yes, this
guy was the best running back of all time for
the Lions. Yes that's correct. This guy was one of
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the best football players of all time. He played for
the Browns.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
This guy was one of the best left handed pictures
of all time. Played for the Dodgers. He's Jewish, Yes,
all right. This guy is a linebacker. Was a linebacker
for the forty nine ers. He retired early. He just
made it into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I am no, wow, I guess he's not a ringer.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
There's Patrick Willis.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Oh bad. That's pathetic, dude, this guy's embarrassing to all right,
all right, Patrick, here we go, let's do it. Here
we go. H he picked fly away. We know you
picked over so it's over right.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
These athletes were involved in some of the greatest comebacks
of all time.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Are you ready, Patrick? Sure? Okay, you sound very confident.
Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Here we go, greatest comeback in Super Bowl history by
the Patriots quarterback who retired.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
He's on TV now, yes.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Uh, the point guard for the Indiana Pacers. He's having
a big playoff run. Here is last Yes, yes, big
Poppy for the Red Sox, the designated hitter with all
his great red Yes, running back his last name is
like like a chef or something like that.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Uh. In the NFL, he's playing currently for I don't
know who's played for the Vikings. A bunch of different teams.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
No, Buffalo Bill's backup quarterback led one of the great
comebacks of all time out of Maryland back in the nineties,
back up to Jim Kelly now Toronto Blue Jay second
Basement played for the Orioles.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
He spit a loogie and.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Sixty point. Those were terrible clues, man, those were great clues.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
No, they were not running back. They'd like a chef,
a Dalvin Cook. Come on, Bill's quarterback that had a
great comeback. Is it fines? Let's go okay, we can
do again? All right, Patrick, we have what do we have?
We have? Are you going to go my way? Or again?
Let's do again? Okay.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
These athletes have all won multiple MVPs forty five seconds
on the clock.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
We're on our way.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Go basketball player. This guy slept with twenty thousand women.
He's scored one hundred points in an NBA game. Oh okay,
third baseman for the Phillies at five hundred home runs
seventies and eighties. All right, how about the greatest Baltimore
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cult quarterback of all time?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
All right, we'll take that. Uh so, what's his name?
You know that's he said his name? No, he didn't.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Orioles shortstop all time consecutive game record.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Are you Patrick? Did you give up? I've given up up.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Sorry, I'm flad.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Oh man, Patrick, you don't give up? I mean, what
are you doing?
Speaker 6 (37:31):
That's just just your clues are so bad. He couldn't
work with anything.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Scored one hundred points game, slut with twenty thousand women,
Get jock, Kevin Wae should have been anybody who has
to stopp with twenty thousand women and scored one hundred
points in an NBA game, that's like seven hundred people
have done that. Come on,
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the playoff game on the holiday Monday night, a national
holiday and America Moral Day, and some pro bouncy ball.
Not a good one. Not a good one. Now I
admit I have no skin in the game on this.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Obviously we talk about it doesn't matter whose plays in
these games. We come in here and we break them down.
But there is just no juice at all in this series.
There just isn't. My God, And it continued again on
a Monday night, not a blowout, but not exactly a
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game that you thought Minnesota was going to win at
the end. And so our lead is from the land
of ten thousand Lakes. And as we have pointed out
in previous episodes of the show, that is just a
marketing term. There are actually eleven eight hundred and forty
two lakes in Minnesota that are ten acres or more.
But people love round numbers, So it sounds better to
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put on the license plate the Land of ten thousand Lakes.
It doesn't sound as good if you say the Land
of eleven eight hundred forty two Lakes. It just doesn't
have the same Rasmataz, so they go with the Land
of ten thousand Lakes. Nevertheless, that was the playground for
game number far.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Between the Thunder and the Wolves.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
In a series that has been one blowout after another blowout,
this was a pivot point game, a pivot point game.
It was a two to one series going in so Minnesota.
They win this game and it's now a best of
three series. We square the books up, mono a mono,
eye to eye, and here we go. And how did
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that turn out? Well, hopefully you did not watch. We
did for you. It's our public service, it's our good
mits for the day. And so the newly crowned recently
as of a few days ago most valuable players shay
Jogis Alexander forty points, ten rebounds, nine assists, a partridge
in a pear tree as Okac snapping back and bringing
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the hand down goes the hammer. After getting a forty
two point shahalacking over the weekend. They come back and
beat the Minnesota Timberwolves six year final in Game four,
and so that's where we are three to one, and
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using the Mather math on this, the team from Oklahoma
needs one more win. They can close it out back
in the dust Bowl, they are close out Game five
on Wednesday. They do that and it's onto the NBA Finals.
But the better story here is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we will direct our focus,
(04:44):
the losing locker room as we discuss the question for
the esteem panel here, how do you explain the diminishing
returns of Anthony Edwards of the Timberwolves? And you can
sit here, take it down, and we normally do the
blame pie. It's rather obvious there's not a lot of
(05:05):
debate here. Julius Randall gets an assist, but the headliner,
mister I dominate. I'm the man. Anthony Edwards was not
the man at all. So let us discuss how do
you explain Anthony Edwards and the diminishing returns in this
particular performance. So my thoughts on this, I've got state Farm,
(05:25):
cool mint, and saloon, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a delicious,
juicy lucy, which is really good, much better than the
performance of the basketball team through much of this game.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
But hey, listen the story here. Don't bury the lead
mom man.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The story in this game is the rising star, Anthony Edwards,
the headliner. And these playoff games or opportunities, they're launching
pads to go up in the heavens of basketball chatter
and have people lick your toes and all that if
you play well. And so here's Anthony Edwards, who've been
(06:09):
dazzling people for most of the season and certainly earlier
in the playoffs, has had some big moments here and
now he finds himself in the slump at the time
you cannot slump, which is like, right here, what are
we doing? So Anthony Edwards, we enjoy watching a play.
He's obviously a star. How big a star? How bright
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a star? That's open to interpretation. That's opening to debate
yet again, though he looked rattled with a capitol R.
He looked rattled with capitol R here, and that was
not the moment to do that. That was not the
game to do that, That was not the situation to
do that. And that was not the performance you give
your team, but he did.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
He did it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
He was five of thirteen from the floor, did not
even shoot, I think only took a couple of shots
in the first half.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
He won like the first ten to eleven twelve minutes
something like that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
That was like ten minutes without taking a shot in
the game, which I didn't play in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I don't think that's ideal. I don't think that's ideal.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Sixteen points, five turnovers for Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That is a chicken feathers performance.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I can't say what I'd like to say, so instead
I will substitute the word I would like to use
is an S word, but I will instead use the
word feathers. So it's a chicken feathers performance there by
Anthony Edwards. Now, so we thought, hey, this is a
chance you even up the series here, best of three.
You win this game. Man, you're in really good shape.
All of a sudden, you're the Cape Crusader. Right, you
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can go out there, you're the Cape Crusader. But that
was not the version of Anthony Edwards you got. Instead,
he was what a decoy for much of this game,
a decoy unacceptable and The commercial which gets shown a
million times during these basketball games is the State Farm commercial.
(08:01):
That was appropriate because you had Anthony. Originally, this guy's
the cape crusader out there, and no, you're it's like
getting Baitman when you wanted the protection of Batman, and
that's what they got.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
They got Baitman. They didn't get Batman. And man, what
a night.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You're supposed to put your cape on, go out there
and fly around and all that, and man, instead the
Minnesota got a counterfeit version and just look like a
brain frog. Usually what happens if you go by the book,
we've been doing this for a couple of minutes over
the years, and so usually when a player plays that pathetically,
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there'll be some kind of phantom injury that they will
chalk it up to when the series ends.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, he was knealing with so and so, and it
would have killed seven of ten players, but he stayed
and played.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
They'll make some kind of bull crap excuse. He just
looked like his mind was wandering. I don't know, maybe
he's got some more kids on the way. We don't
know about very prolific in that area as well. I
don't know what's going on, but he was pressing and
did not get the job done. And you know, he
was bragging to the historians in La that he had
(09:12):
the big D and did not look he looked like
he had more of a micro D in this game here,
not a big D, a micro D.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And the moment he.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Was small, he was small, passive, way too passive, spectator
like spectator like here. And so there you go, no
no rhyme or reason why that would happen in this
particular game. But he was was there, and then he wasn't.
(09:43):
I was there that he wasn't just a spectator, very
passive and not a compelling lead.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Character at all.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And then you've got Julius Randall, the yin to the Yang,
and well he does not get as much crap old
look because he's not as big a deal in the
universe of basketball. Julius Randall showing everyone why he keeps
changing teams. And a couple days ago there was a
question that was asked about, Wow, he's arrived. Now he's
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proved the doubters wrong. Well, methinks you spoke too soon.
The regression to the mean water seeks its own level,
and also extreme outcomes are followed by more moderate ones
or in this case, more normal ones, as this is
the player that we have seen in the past from
Julius Randall. This is the enigma. This is the guy
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that looks really good and then goes out there and
vomits all over himself. Writing the vomit comment one of
seven from the floor for Julius Randall, he had five points.
He was a five for five five five points, five turnovers,
so very impressive.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And way to go, Way to go. That was a
manure like performance.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Now on the other side, the winning locker room, which
is not as good as story. How do you juxtapose
OKAC and the way they were able to play with SGA.
There's a lot of letters there. You got OKAC and
then SGA need some more vowels. But that's that's where
we are. So this was a Listerine cool Mint performance.
(11:22):
After suffering from halatosis in that game three, really bad breath,
they get their mojo back in a large way. Here
they went a wall in game three, and when you
compare and contrast, when you can compare and contrast the
way the Thunder played in game three where they just quit,
(11:45):
they did the thing that was gutless OKAC Championship possible
team quit in a playoff game.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
They did. They gave up, which is wild to me.
It's it's just so, But they did.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And when you look at that and compare it to
where we are right now, where they didn't give up.
I was in the game, they played with the lead
most of the game, it makes you wonder. Those are
the kind of nights where you're like, what happened? Like
it's one thing to lose by twenty, but to lose
by forty you got to put work into losing by forty.
(12:23):
So what kind of funny business was going on? I
don't get either way. On this particular night, while ant
man on the Minnesota side was drowning in the soup,
you had Sga shay Yogis Alexander out there who was cooking,
controlling the game for the most part, the merchant of doom,
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the merchant of doom and made mostly the right decisions,
put up big fantasy stats and all that stuff, and
played the way you thought your star player was gonna play.
Minnesota star player didn't play like that, obviously, And so.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
That is where we are.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And so the thunder who gave up in Game three,
and now they come back they win again.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And are they good for basketball?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
No, they're not. They're boring. They're not good for talk radio.
They're not good for the conversation Oklahoma City. They're good
at basketball, but in terms of the conversation around it,
there's no theatrics there. There's nothing that really just moves
the needle. They're an efficient team. They come at you
in waves. It's just not entertaining to talk about. There
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is nothing really that compelling. SGA is pretty boring, and you.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Go down the list. I mean, that's where we are
all right now. Last word, So.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
The Wolves are on the brink of extinction. The Timberwolves
are on the brink of extinction. Is this series over.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
At three to one? Is it? Ov are over?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So it certainly feels over. Technically it's not. They have
to play on other game and there will be another
game that is broadcast coming up back in Oklahoma. If
this were a film for the Timberwolves, if it was
a film, it would.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Be called Timberwolves the Western Collapse.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
It's a sequel. Actually, it's a sequel to last season.
You might remember when the Mavericks with Fat Luca were
able to beat Minnesota. That was in five games Dallas.
One of the first three. A little different this year
because it was two to one and Minnesota has shot
to end up tying the series as opposed to last
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year it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Was three to one and then they lost Game four.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
But it's a deja vus situation where it's highly unlikely
that the Wolves are going to come back in this series.
Now technically can they sure? I mean technically they could, right,
Minnesota can claw back into this. You and I both
know that you have to scratch and you have to push,
and you have to have that determination, that target determination.
(14:58):
And are they the type of team that is willing
to get into the mud, neck deep into the mud?
It doesn't appear that way, it does. I mean, you
couldn't even get Anthony Edwards to show up and lock
in in a game that would have tied the series
up at two two. He just decided, for whatever reason
to not perform. And I should have gotten him a
(15:22):
bucket of popcorn at one point early in the game.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
My god.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So the other issue here is the saloon, and that's
the other issue because it's the last chance saloon.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And again it goes back to how much fight are
they willing to.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Put in here, and you have no wiggle room at
this particular point. It's like the NCAA Tournament, single elimination.
Now the rest of the way in this series for Minnesota,
and it's going to take perfection for three consecutive games.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It really is one game, and then you have to
do it again and again, and you also need a
voodoo doll would help, Like a good voodoo doll, like
a twisted ankle here or a sprained a knee ligament
over there.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And then all of a sudden, like things flip around,
like things get much different, and things change around quite
a bit. And I know I'm not going popped Achilles.
We've already had a couple of those who were not
doing that, but dependsulum can't swing that direction.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
But you have to have the fight.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I have not seen any real evidence here, based
on what I just saw a few hours ago, that
Minnesota's got that fight in him.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I just don't. I don't see it.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
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Well that is very Jerry of you. Welcome in the
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And yet again and here we are holiday weekend and Teta,
Oops it happened again. Oops it happened again. Some more
chatter about the relationship between wide receiver George Pickens, who
was decommissioned thrown overboard by the Pittsburgh Steelers, and how
(18:21):
he fits in with Cowboys in Dallas, the X Steeler
pass catcher now part of Jerry's universe, and how's that going. Well,
I hadn't played a game yet, so it's fine. I
hadn't played a game yet. Everything's great. They are planting
stories in the media that he's been a model teammate,
everything is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. There was one
a dendum to this that I thought is worthy of
some talk, and I don't know if you saw it
or not. It happened recently. The word on the.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Street out of the Dallas area is that not only
is Dak Prescott planning on hell helping out here, but
Jerry Jones, that Dak Prescott and Jerry Jones both are
going to shield George Pickens from the criticism. But wait,
there's more.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Okay, So that's fine. You expect them to help out.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
There's been some chatter that they're even going to be
calling on the media in Dallas to back off criticism
of George Pickens to allow.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Him to grow to blossom like a flower.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
So let us discuss the question, how does the Cowboys
plan to protect wide receiver? George Pickens sound to you? So,
I've got handholding, lobster, and flight school, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
(19:51):
to drive away in a station wagon. Now they wh's
the last time they made a station wagon? They don't
make those anyway. I haven't made those in thirty years
at least. Why did they stop making the station wagon?
Would anyone buy the station wagon if they had? I
know it was replaced by the minivan, but and then
the suv. But if they had the station wagon. I
know these people collect him. Why don't they make him
(20:12):
any things that make you go anyway? To get to
the point, how does the Cowboys plan to protect wide receiver?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
George Pickens sound you so?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Number? I said, Number.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Jerry Jones has decided to use a carbon copy. Now
I would say he would have used a laser printer
to recreate this, but it's Jerry, So he's using a
carbon copy of Cowboy Season gone by. And you might
remember the famous stories that are part of internet lore
that des Bryant famously had a babysitter. He was on
(20:54):
the knucklehead spectrum, and so in an effort to fully
monetize fully monetize it performance. The legend of the Internet
is Jerry Jones hired a round the clock babysitter to
keep Des Bryant's nose clean. Now, whether that's true or
not is open for debate. However, it is not open
for debate that Jerry Jones will do whatever he has
(21:16):
to do in terms of taking a diminished asset and
trying to get that diminished asset squeeze some extra toothpaste
out of the tube heer, And that sounds like things
are not that.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Extreme with George Pickens.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And nevertheless, I would file the information that we have.
I would file this under the overprotective.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Handholding category. Right, Like, what do we do, Like Jerry
Jones and Dak Prescott, how's this gonna work? Like they're
gonna play big.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Brother here and Y're gonna like put up what They're
gonna put up a human firewall around George Pickens' locker.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. It ain't gonna work, dude, It's
not gonna work. This is the the NFL. You're not
on the playground at elementary school. You're not doing recess,
you're not on the swing set, You're you're not playing hopscotch,
You're not playing you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You just it's not gonna work. You play for the
Dallas Cowboys. The Steelers have a lot of media. The
Steelers are a high profile profile team. They have a
national following the Dallas Cowboys. They make the Steelers seem
like they're a Canadian Football League team the way the
amount of attention that they get and you're living under
the microscope, and especially a guy like George Pickens, who
(22:32):
you know, if you're covering the Cowboys and you want
to get a story George pickketts, who are you gonna call?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You call George Pickens up. He's very emotional, right, He's unpredictable,
but he's unpredictable in a way where he's predictable, where
you know he's at any moment, it's it's the fuse
is going to reach the end and then kaboom with
with Pickens. So Hey, I'm in it, good talk radio.
I'm excited about.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
This and I will enjoy all the efforts made by
Dak Prescott, and what's that puppet coach Schottenheimer's kid? And
then who shouldn't be the coach? And then Jerry Jones?
So why not all right now?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Page two, page number two to the schedule we go?
Always a fun topic. Now Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Somewhat recently, Joe Burrow got on the bully pulpit and complained, complain, complain, complain, complain.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Did you you remember the complaints?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
So he was upset because the Bengals don't get to
play international games. He wants to play international games. The
main complaint, though, he was grumbling about the Cincinnati football
team having to play prime time yet again in Baltimore.
Fourth straight season, fourth straight season, the Bengals will play
a primetime game against their blood rival the Ravens. There
(24:00):
in front of sports with Coleman in Baltimore. So the
NFL vice president of broadcast Planning, how much do you
think that job pays? How much has that been?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Two?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand? How much is that
job pack? So the guy's name Mike North. When I
think of Mike North, I think of a proud Chicagoan,
a Hall of Fame, lifetime Achievement Award winning radio man
Mike North. But this is Mike North, the NFL Vice
president of Broadcasting and Planning, who told the state funded
(24:33):
Team website that the message from Joe Burrow has been received,
even if it did not change anything this year. The
empty suit for the NFL said, when trends like that emerge,
we probably have to adjust at some point.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Okay, so the NFL admitting it quote probably had to
adjust following Joe Burrow's complaints about the schedule. What is
your reaction to this news? So this is the rare,
the rare, very rare confession. It is a confession.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And it's a multi billion dollar entity, the NFL. And
here they are, and what are they doing. They are
doing something truly remarkable. They're confessing, They're admitting they're gonna change.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
This is not good. Well, it's sort of right.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And having documented for many, many years behind these microphones
of Fox Sports Radio and other places, but mostly Fox
Sports Radio, having documented the NFL, you know how rare
it is for the NFL to ever admit they f
anything up at any point. There is a better chance
of going out on a dingy out in the Atlantic
(25:53):
and catching a blue lobster. There's a better chance of
that happening right, one in two million, or something like that.
Joe Burrow made the simple observation, very simple, that the
NFL current scheduling model there's a glitch, and the Bengals
are not a glamour team. The NFL worries about the
(26:14):
teams that get big ratings. The Bengals don't get big ratings.
The Cowboys get ratings, the Steelers, the usual suspects who
have national followings get ratings. The Bengals don't. They don't
get bad ratings. But they're they're not moving the wrecking
ball around in the in that department. So in a moment,
a rare moment of clarity or perhaps confusion, the NFL responded,
(26:38):
and of course they use the word probably, which is
a weasel word, corporate speak for we might change something.
We're not guaranteeing it. We probably, we might, we might not.
Probably it's leaning that direction, And so like Joe Burrow,
he's onto something.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
So probably I probably will help you move your so
far I might not, but probably I will.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
My final point to the Bayou, we go to New Orleans,
where veteran wide receiver Brandon Cooks, he's back. Brandon Cooks
is back in Louisiana. He played for the Saints and
then went to the Patriots and the Rams and a
bunch of other teams. But he's worked his way back
to Louisiana, and the veteran wide receiver says the quarterback
(27:26):
battle in the Bayou between Tyler Shuck and Spencer Rattler
is quote going to be fun to watch your thoughts,
all right? So fun to watch? That would not be
the word I would use. I look at that quarterback
competition in New Orleans, and I have no skin in
(27:48):
the game. Obviously we know that. However, it sounds like charity.
It's like make a wish, Hey you want to play quarterback.
It's like that scene from Major Leaue. Hey, how would
you like to play quarterback for.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
The Saints this year? Brandon cook you on even work
for the team.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You're one of the veteran leaders here, so you've got
to get the polish out and some you're polishing turds,
is what you're doing here.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
And so he's polishing some turds.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
But man saying the right thing, right, Gota say the
right thing and that's corporate speak, trying to hype up
the young guys and all that stuff. Does anyone think
that's good? Maybe a bet against the Saints that's a
good thing, because you think whoever plays quarterback, you talk
about a battle of futility. Holy crap, unless you're somehow
related to Tyler Shuck or Spencer Rattler, and not even
(28:40):
like friend related. I'm talking like blood relations. Welcome to Dolesville.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
So the Saints trying to figure stuff out.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I guess they're just throwing pasta against the wall and
there's still the wild card. They go out in trade
for another quarterback. But if you go with Tyler Shuck,
the like thirty seven year old rookie from Louisville who
was in transfer portal a million times, or Spencer Rattler,
it's akin to going to flight school and saying, hey,
fly the plane while you're reading the manual, Like why
(29:13):
don't you take take the plane off, read the manual
and just kind of fly.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
And then land the plane and all that stuff. Good luck,
good luck.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That's a developmental situation, which means a wasted season is upcoming.
A wasted season. Get out the paper bags. The ants
are back. The ants are back trying to catch lightning
in a bottle here outside of lightning in a bottle
or a trade man. And yet you look at the
NFC South, and am I wrong to say there was
(29:43):
there was no one there that's head and shoulders above
everyone else. I look at that division as pretty much
wide open. Atlanta a flawed team, Tampa Bay a flawed
football team. Carolina they suck, but they're supposed to be
on the come, as they say in poker, And so
it doesn't look like anyone's gonna run away with that division.
They're all though, likely going to run away from the
New Orleans Saints, the headless Saints, the headless Saints running
(30:07):
around there, and if only they had a quarterback, If
only they had a quarterback, they'd have a chance.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
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Speaker 3 (30:18):
About that to the here we go, this is one
big Ben gets.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Graillbl So since Lebron left Cleveland from Miami fifteen years ago,
it sparked an NBA player empowerment movement that so many
superstars leave their small market teams for the big city.
Now we have three budding superstars and three small markets,
all vying for the championship. Been out of a SGA,
Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Halliburton.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Who do you think is most likely to eventually leave
for a big market?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
All right, so I don't do this, but I will
tell you on my big board. The most likely is
Anthony Edwards. Like this guy's get ties to Atlanta. Big
city guy. You know, I just not that minnesot is
not a big city. It's just not as big as
I think he wants. So I put him at the top.
Halliburton second SGA. He seems fine in Oklahoma. I don't
get any sense he's dying to leave there. So that's it.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Next show, hal Tani threw to live batters for the
first time since his elbow surgery and a twenty two
pitch Live BP on Sunday, drawing lots of spectators. But
how important is it to the Dodgers success this season
for Atani to return to form on the mound?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Everyone's hurt, Coop, They're all hurt. The entire effing rotation
is on the injury list. They need someone who actually
wants to pitch and is somewhat heavy, but the problem
is Otani. I don't expect much to Tommy John's come
up next.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Jim nance said in a recent interview that he thinks
the Cowboys Chiefs game on Thanksgiving Day will set new
viewership records for the NFL.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Do you agree with him?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Well, I expect the Cowboys should be a mid level team,
but they always get pretty good ratings. And if I
was Jim NaNs and I was working for CBS, I'd
say the same thing. I say, close, but not on
an all time record.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
How did we do?
Speaker 6 (31:56):
He passes it?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
That is a weg.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I love the game.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Don't go Lorena coughing. I won the game.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
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(32:27):
by let's do it.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Welcome into our contestants. We have Kevin in Ithaca. Hello, Kevin,
good morning, Good morning, Kevin. You ready to play?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Okay? Man of many words?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Confidence?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
All right, Hold on, say Kevin, who do you want
to partner up with Kevin. Lorena would be good, but yeah,
I'll coop, oh man, and we have who do we
have about?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Patrick in South Carolina?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Hello? Patrick, Welcome, Good morning guys. How's it going? Welcome?
Good to have you. We want to partner up with
the Rain on this. Yes, yeah, go ahead, all right?
Speaker 5 (33:17):
No, No, he's not gonna partner up with why not?
Rena doesn't know who any of these people are.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
All well, apparely you stuck with me? Okay, hurry up,
hurry up.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
All right, gentlemen. This is the Lenny Kravitz edition of
Mallards Amount of Money. He turned sixty one years old
on Monday.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
The categories are it ain't over till it's over? Are
you gonna go my way? Fly away? And again?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Kevin?
Speaker 6 (33:42):
You were on first? Which category would you like? Fly away?
Speaker 5 (33:47):
All right? And Patrick? You got it ain't over till
it's over? Are you gonna go my way? Or again?
Speaker 6 (33:53):
It's not over till it's not over till it's over
all right?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Ain't it ain't over? Yeah, it ain't over.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
All right, Kevin, I need the first and last name
of the athlete in order to get points.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
We have fly away.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Here.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
These athletes retired in their prime. Are you ready, Kevin?
Speaker 3 (34:13):
All right?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Forty five seconds begin. He was a quarterback for the
Indianapolis Colts. He had a really big beard. Yes that's right.
This guy's nickname was Megatron for the Lions. Yes, this
guy was the best running back of all time for
the Lions. Yes that's correct. This guy was one of
(34:36):
the best football players of all time. He played for
the Browns.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
This guy was one of the best left handed pictures
of all time. Played for the Dodgers. He's Jewish, Yes,
all right. This guy is a linebacker. Was a linebacker
for the forty nine ers. He retired early. He just
made it into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I am no, wow, I guess he's not a ringer.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
There's Patrick Willis.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Oh bad. That's pathetic, dude, this guy's embarrassing to all right,
all right, Patrick, here we go, let's do it. Here
we go. H he picked fly away. We know you
picked over so it's over right.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
These athletes were involved in some of the greatest comebacks
of all time.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Are you ready, Patrick? Sure? Okay, you sound very confident.
Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Here we go, greatest comeback in Super Bowl history by
the Patriots quarterback who retired.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
He's on TV now, yes.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Uh, the point guard for the Indiana Pacers. He's having
a big playoff run. Here is last Yes, yes, big
Poppy for the Red Sox, the designated hitter with all
his great red Yes, running back his last name is
like like a chef or something like that.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Uh. In the NFL, he's playing currently for I don't
know who's played for the Vikings. A bunch of different teams.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
No, Buffalo Bill's backup quarterback led one of the great
comebacks of all time out of Maryland back in the nineties,
back up to Jim Kelly now Toronto Blue Jay second
Basement played for the Orioles.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
He spit a loogie and.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Sixty point. Those were terrible clues, man, those were great clues.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
No, they were not running back. They'd like a chef,
a Dalvin Cook. Come on, Bill's quarterback that had a
great comeback. Is it fines? Let's go okay, we can
do again? All right, Patrick, we have what do we have?
We have? Are you going to go my way? Or again?
Let's do again? Okay.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
These athletes have all won multiple MVPs forty five seconds
on the clock.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
We're on our way.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Go basketball player. This guy slept with twenty thousand women.
He's scored one hundred points in an NBA game. Oh okay,
third baseman for the Phillies at five hundred home runs
seventies and eighties. All right, how about the greatest Baltimore
(37:01):
cult quarterback of all time?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
All right, we'll take that. Uh so, what's his name?
You know that's he said his name? No, he didn't.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Orioles shortstop all time consecutive game record.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Are you Patrick? Did you give up? I've given up up.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Sorry, I'm flad.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Oh man, Patrick, you don't give up? I mean, what
are you doing?
Speaker 6 (37:31):
That's just just your clues are so bad. He couldn't
work with anything.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Scored one hundred points game, slut with twenty thousand women,
Get jock, Kevin Wae should have been anybody who has
to stopp with twenty thousand women and scored one hundred
points in an NBA game, that's like seven hundred people
have done that. Come on,
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