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August 11, 2025 • 48 mins

Big Ben talks about Joe Milton's debut for the Cowboys and Brian Schottenheimer upselling him, Jets coach Aaron Glenn saying Justin Fields will be criticized for 'every little thing', Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!

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lead this hour, and we survived the weekend and all that.
Our lead this hour from the Cowboys. Oh yeah, well
why not? So now Dallas played the Rams. I can't

(01:59):
get into these these exhibition games. I can't. I know
there are some people that are better people than me
that can talk about these exhibition games. I can't do it.
I just I can't. I try to watch two seconds
of them. I want to puke in my mouth watching
this crap. That being said, That being said, I do
have a talk show to do right now. And there
are some stories that came out of these exhibition football games.

(02:22):
One of them Dallas losing to the Rams over the
weekend in a practice game, not real game, not real game,
a practice game. We Rams won, all right. So quarterback
Joe Milton, quarterback Joe Milton, who played for the Patriots
last year now with the Dallas Cowboys, and he played

(02:43):
in that game, played a lot in that game, did
not do anything all that memorable as the QB two
for the Cowboys. It was at meh, meh performance for
Joe Milton, and that was that left bruising his shoulder
in the third corps, so he left the game early,
although he was likely going to come out of the

(03:03):
game anyway. Around that time, he gave himself a D minus.
He gave himself the D the D minus grade on that. However,
that's not what I want to chat with you about.
It will lead up to that exhibition game. Coaches say
the darnedest things. We got a hum dinger humdinger of
a quote recently from the coach I say that loosely

(03:27):
coach in Dallas. If you did not hear what he said,
perhaps not. Coach Brian Schottenheimer shotzi Brian Schottenheimer describing Joe
Milton's passes as quote, piss missiles. That's what he said.
That's a quote from the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
When speaking to reporters prior to that Cowboy exhibition game

(03:49):
with the Rams, he compared his throwing to that of
Brett Farv, the Hall of Fame former Green Bay Packer quarterback.
So you know what that means. Let's parse the words.
Let's parse the words here of the Cowboys coach Brian
Schottenheimer as we discuss so Brian Schottenheimer up selling obviously

(04:12):
up selling backup quarterback Joe Milton saying that he throws
quote piss missiles, compared him to Brett Farv Is this
something or is this nothing? All right? So I've got twister,
hot tub and cinnabun. Cinnabun so good, and we'll combine

(04:35):
all of these things together, and we are going to
make the Gabba Ghoul. We're gonna make the Gabba gol
so a. Where's the beef? The first question is where
is the beef? This is a burger. It's not an
in and out burger, is not a McDonald's Burger's not
a whopper from Burger King. It is a nothing burger,

(04:57):
is what it is. It's your typical coach high Garbai
garbais listen. How many let me ask a questions, how
many quarterbacks have great arm talent in the month of August?
How many? The answer all of them physically right, They're

(05:18):
all listen, they're there, they're in the NFL. They all
can make all the throws and all that stuff. So listen,
Joe Milton. If you look at the raw ingredients, he's
a specimen. He's got the prototypical cannon arm and mobilities,
the whole deal, and then some and then some, and

(05:39):
the kind of stuff that coaches and scouts get all
horny for. They're, oh, man, the problem is it's all unprocessed.
It is all unprocessed. And you can throw a fastball
and just zing it downfield, and it can also go
into the fifteenth throw and that's great. Can you consistently

(06:00):
read the defense and find the open receiver and all that?
Can you hit the open player more importantly underneath when
it's third down and four or are you one of
those checkdown charlie guys when it is I say, third
and seven, and you complete a pass at the line
of scrimmage and then it gets five yards so you
come up short, but your completion percentage is good. Milton

(06:23):
was chased out of New England in part because Drake May,
who was the chosen one, the chosen one there with
the Patriots. Drake May was uncomfortable. So those around the
Patriots said, with Joe Milton, which is odd because if
you look at the resume of the new Cowboy backup

(06:44):
quarterback here Joe Milton. His biggest NFL moment, the thing
that stands out on his resume was a believe it
was Week eighteen last year, last year when he beat
the Buffalo bill backups backups in the final game of
the regular season, a meaningless game. That's it. That's the resume,

(07:06):
that's all. Now, regardless of that, you can't just overlook
the fact. And this is why I'm intrigued by this
to a point, not just the great quote from Schoenheimer
piss missile describing the throws, but the fact that you've
got the incompetent Dakota Prescott as QB won there in Dallas.
The man is made of toilet paper. And I'm not

(07:28):
talking about charman. I'm talking about one plied toilet paper
that you see at a truck stop on the side
of the Jersey Turnpike. That's what I'm talking about, that
one plied toilet paper. He's always hurt. And Jerry Jones
knows this. He's aware of this because it happens every
year where Dakota Prescott gets hurt. So Jerry Jones is
out there playing twister now nobody wants to see Jerry

(07:51):
Jones play twister, But Joe Milton is one twisted ankle
or twisted knee or tweaked elbow away from playing in
the regular season for the Dallas Cowboys. And while again
piss missile, great quote, really, good quote, wonderful. However, Joe Milton,
if you look at the comparison, it's like, well, certainly

(08:15):
more of a JaMarcus Russell, though Russell was the number
one over of the old Oakland Raiders. I'm old, I
remember the Raiders played in Oakland, and Brett Farv certainly
nowhere near Brett Farrv. Joe Milton in that category. Now,
we would enjoy, we would absolutely enjoy watching him play

(08:36):
in real game. Now. Why is that, I'll tell you
because of chaos with a capital C. Chaos with a
capital C. Here it could be awesome, right, real games.
So there's a little bit of intrigue there. Why not
see what he can do? But for now, we're doing

(08:56):
the show right now. For now, this is just a
nice puffy pastry in August, a nice delicious pastry served
up in August, and Brian Schottenheimer trying to build up
the player and give him some false confidence and all that,
and that's really what he's going for here. Now, we
will revisit this. We're gonna file this one away. We're

(09:17):
gonna revisit this around week three when Dak Prescott feels
a twinge in his hamstring, and then we'll revisit all
this now, Page two. Staying though, staying in Jerry's world,
because we had a wonderful mall mate, a wonderful moment.
I did not see this live, but let me set

(09:38):
the scene here for you. So again, Cowboys preseason. Cowboys
playing a nothing game against the Rams in the hood
in Inglewood on Saturday. And Ceedee Lamb. That's a high
paid wide receiver, not an actual Lamb, a football player
named Lamb, Ceedee Lamb. So Ceedee Lamb doesn't even playing

(10:00):
the game. Why would he. He's a star, he's a diva.
Divas don't play. Stars don't play in these first exhibition games.
So fine, he didn't play in the game, but he's there.
He doesn't take a snap in the game. He's not
wearing a uniform. You're not able to take a snap.
And so somehow, some way, this player, Ceedee Lamb, somehow

(10:23):
manages to get the biggest hit of the game. He
was involved in the biggest hit of the game. Well,
how did he do that? I don't understand, all right,
So without even being in uniform again, we'll go back
to Joe Milton, the backup quarterback who played a lot
because this was an exhibition game. So Joe Milton is
in there and he unquirks a deep pass down the

(10:43):
sideline to someone named Jonathan Mingo to the Mingo down
the sidelines and Lamb who is standing there right on
that white painted area and that stripe on the sidelines
where you're not allowed to be that literally is the
get out of the way zone in football. And so
he's in the lane where the officials are running down

(11:05):
the field, and sure enough he starts celebrating like this
is the Super Bowl. Cose playing for the Cowboys. They
don't actually get to the Super Bowl, so you have
to celebrate these kind of things. And so he was
so engaged, so caught up into the moment. How caught
up was he, Cede Lamb. He was so caught up
he did not notice in his peripheral vision a bad
situational awareness, did not notice the side judge barely down

(11:29):
the sideline in full sprint. Eh ca boom a cup boom.
It was great. Obliterated the side a sideline judge there
obliterated Ceedee Lamb from behind, blind side hit pancake in
Madden on the blind side. Fifteen yard penalty for the

(11:53):
Cowboys for unsportsmanlike conduct. And it's good to know that
the coaches have changed, that the calendar has changed, all
of this has changed, all of this has changed, and
yet here we are. So my reaction to that particular place, well, yes,

(12:14):
it was entertaining. It was entertaining, I'll give you that.
But my reaction to the Cowboy wide receiver Ceedee Lamb
being trucked in a exhibition game that he didn't even
play in, I loved it. This was exactly exactly the
kind of dopey staff that the preseason is fourth. That

(12:37):
was my first thought. Here, what a bonehead move. And
you can't keep your third or fourth or fifth string
this guy and that guy and these battles. You know,
some people into that kind of stuff, the analytical crowds
into that. Give me an all pro level player in

(12:58):
street close getting bulldozed by a referee any day, NFL films.
You know what they need to do. They need to
go in the hot tub time machine. Go into the
hot tub time machine and bring back the classic old
school NFL's Greatest follies. Bring that back and you can

(13:20):
just stream it. You don't have to do the DVD.
You don't have to do obviously the VHS, that's old tech.
But you can bring back NFL's Greatest follies and slap
CD Lamb in there right in between. The mascot falling
off the ATV always a classic, always very entertaining. The
quarterback who lines up behind the guard not realizing where

(13:44):
they are on the field, that's also very entertaining. Put
the Dunce cap on him, and CD seemed to appreciate
the fact that he was the butt of the joke.
After the game, and be cause you can have all
the follies, the usual follies, the fumbles, the ball bouncing
off a player's helmet, all that stuff just bobbled passes here,

(14:07):
there and everywhere. You know, guys slipping on the logo
and now you can add ceedee Lamb, the cowboy player
not in uniform and taking a shoulder from the side judge.
There like he's running the Oklahoma drill. And it was
very very inertending, so instant classic and the rookie sock

(14:29):
puppet coach Brian Schottenheimer out there saying that CD knows better,
he knows better, and that is the Dallas Cowboys in
a nutshell. As we said, things change, the calendar changes,
the names change, the coaches changed, and all that. But
even in August, even in August, they're still drawing thumb
penalties for nothing, for nothing at all, preseason or regular season.

(14:55):
You can count on Dallas for one thing, entertainment at
their own expense, and they did it it yet again.
Now turning the page on that last word, we go
to Cleveland, the Mistake by the Lake. That is where
Shadur Sanders, rookie quarterback Brownies out there over the weekend

(15:16):
they played the Panthers. Also of course all these games
meaningless exhibition games and all that stuff, and he apparently
it was very good. The numbers were good by all accounts.
So Shuldar Sanders went out there and looked like he
was back in Colorado and he was playing Colorado State
or Texas Tech and lighting up the stat sheet, except
he was wearing an NFL uniform and lighting up the

(15:39):
stat sheet in this game. That was not the story here. No, no, no, no,
that's not the story. The story here happened after the game,
not during the game, but after the game. And if
you saw this or heard about it, you know where
I'm going with this. Maybe not, he meaning Shadar Sanders confronted,

(16:00):
confronted a longtime Cleveland sports radio gas bag, and I
guess this guy works on the Browns broadcasts as well.
During the exhibition season in the tunnel Tony GROSSI longtime
Cleveland media guy, and the Sanders was recorded there. The
message to the sports radio gas bag. The message was

(16:24):
you always say negative stuff about me. Never seen you
say anything positive. That was the gist of the quote.
So then you had Dion Sanders come out and he
made his comment. He was of course, he's the patriarch
of the family. And Dion Sanders insisting that Shuder Sanders
tunes out all the media rhetoric, all the noise from

(16:47):
the media, does not hear anything, all right, that's what
Dion was selling. He's oh no, no, he does not
know the narrative, does not know any of that stuff.
So what is your verdict, what is your vertic on
the Browns rookie quarterback Shoulder Sanders confronting a Cleveland sports
radio host over negative commentary about his play. So on

(17:12):
this one, as as Big Red would say, quoting Andy Reid,
film don't lie, Film don't lie. So if you watch
the film or hear the audio from the film, should
it was preseason game number one, number one? You shredded guys. Congratulations?

(17:32):
Who will be selling insurance or maybe they'll be trying
their hand at door dash next month and try to
deliver some sandwiches. But it's not the super Bowl. This
is not I know, based on the preponderance of the evidence,
you might think it's the super Bowl, but it's not,
and it is indisputable. It is indisputable. Shoulder is a

(17:55):
consumer of sports talk radio, So for that, brav, he's listening.
And to be perfectly clear, these guys are always listening,
and they're not listening. They have relatives who do listen
and monitor everything that is said twenty four hours a day,
and they read every word about them. Should certainly is

(18:16):
doing that, which is fine if you're a fan. If
you're the quarterback, that's bad news. Browns is what that is?
Bad news Browns here. Now, I get the fact. Listen,
he's twenty three years old and he grew up in
a generation where everyone's got a platform and you gotta
speak your mind, keep it real, all that stuff, right. However,

(18:38):
the fact that a rookie, a rookie quarterback got time
to in the bowels of the stadium hunt down the
sixty eight year old radio guy in the tunnel not
a great look. It screams insecurity, is what. It screams insecurity.
And you gotta know time and place, time and place.

(19:00):
There's always a camera there. And the radio guy. I
don't know this guy. I mean, we've talked about it
a few times over the years because he's gotten involved
in these type of situations. But he's been doing this
job for many, many decades. He's old school, he's got
a little bit of bite. And you know, younger talk
radio hosts, they do a lot of lists. They're lazy,

(19:21):
they do a lot of lists, and they don't have
strong opinions. That's the modern sports talk radio host The
old school guys though, they would throw fire, right, they
would have a flame throw and all that. So, yeah,
I get there's a lot of the social media fanboys
out there that are, oh man, shoo, there's the goat,
because he had good numbers and looked pretty good against
a Carolina team backups for Carolina in the first exhibition game,

(19:46):
and you know, all excited. He completed a slant against
a guy who will be working the counter at the
cinnabon at the airport in Charlotte in a couple of weeks.
And as far as the critic, that's his job, and
I go back a refresher course of you will a reminder,
a reminder. The critic is the unleaded gasoline of sports

(20:08):
that you need that fuel, You need that fuel. Without it,
the whole thing is just vanilla ice cream. And it's unlistenable.
If you've ever heard a boring sports radio host, my god,
is there anything worse in the world than someone that's
just dull and Moore has no opinion. It's horrible. But
every athlete, I mean, as long as I've been doing this,
every athlete, when they reach a peak, they reach the

(20:31):
top of the mountain, there it's always the hater that
is brought up. It's the they didn't think we could
do it, they didn't believe in us. This person didn't
believe in us. And yet they also say, well, I
don't listen to the noise and all that stuff. And
so Michael Jordan, the greatest ever to play basketball by
our country mile over every other stiff out there. Michael

(20:52):
Jordan had the slights right. The people have slighted him.
Tom Brady had that late round six round draft pick
thing that he wore on his shoulder there, and so
I guess sure now apparently has the chip with a
sports radio guy in Cleveland. So my advice, it's late

(21:14):
night radio advice here. Stop acting like a thin skinned
Instagram influencer and try to act the part, at least
pretend to act the part as an NFL quarterback. And
if you want sports radio gas bags, old school guys
that still have critique to say something positive about you,

(21:35):
then win actual games. Not against Carolina in week one
of the exhibition season. We're talking about December. We're talking
about down the line, beating Baltimore in Baltimore, out playing
Lamar Jackson. Do that, and then everyone will be shutting
up quicker and faster than you can possibly imagine. Until then,
Until then, these guys will continue to stay in business

(21:59):
and there can stay mad and angry and all that stuff.
And so that's where we are.

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So we talk about the news of the day or
lead this hour from the Garden State, and that is
where the Jets coach Aaron Glenn, Aaron Glenn, longtime Lion
defensive guru, if you want to call him that. Aaron
Glenn waxing poetic recently about his quarterback. That's my quarterback,

(24:21):
Justin Fields, Justin Fields, the vagabond football hobo who failed
in Chicago and failed in Pittsburgh and now the carpetbagger
going to Jersey trying to make it with the Jets.
So I know you heard what he said. Perhaps not.
We have audio on this Here is Aaron Glenn commenting
on his quarterback, Justin Fields and the criticism that his

(24:45):
quarterback is going to get. Take a listen, let's go
to the audio tape.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
So much noise on the outside. And again I've told
you guys, let's and I'll tell him this. He's gonna
get criticized for every little thing. And the good thing
about him is he is so mature. We talk about
this on a consistent basis that he doesn't care, all right.
The only thing that we care about is how is
he operating and is he getting better? And we see

(25:08):
that in house, so we love where he's at right now.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
All right. So that was Aaron Glenn. The key part
of that two words, doesn't care about the media, narrative
and all that, and he but praised how mature he is. Okay, congratulations.
So let us discuss the question Jets coach Aaron Glenn,
as you just heard coach of the Jets, Aaron Glenn

(25:35):
saying quarterback Justin Fields quote doesn't care about the media,
saying he'll be a criticized for every little thing. Do
you believe that Justin Fields does not care about the
critics and he's so mature, he doesn't care. So my
observations on this one. I've got Craftsman, doctor Strange, and Sephora,

(26:01):
three things that have never been thrown together. But yet
here we go, and we'll put them all together, and
we are gonna make the Baba Ganooche. We're gonna make
the Baba Ganoosh. Now, number I said number one. Now,
when it comes to Justin Fields, I am firmly on

(26:22):
the side of the aisle that is agnostic. I'm a
non believer. I am a non believer on Justin Fields.
How about ignoring the cliches and completing the basic five
yard pass play? How about that? See, that's been one
of the problems. That has been one of the problems.

(26:43):
Justin Fields flopped in Chicago. He got benched for the
rotting carcass of Russell Wilson in Pittsburgh. And listen, we
do not care if he's now Buddha reincarnated. Congratulations zend
like Phil Jacks like bull crap. We don't care about that.
How about you not get sacked on every third play?

(27:06):
How about that? Oh, it's the offensive loads full bid,
Shut up, you're a moron. It's the NFL. It's not
some kind of yoga class. It's not We're not doing
hot yoga, although there's a hot yoga studio right across
from the Fox Sports radio studios. The numbers do not
lie by any measurement. Justin Fields as a quarterback blows

(27:29):
in pirate terms. There she blows Justin Fields his record
as a starter. When the other team scores more than
twenty one points, more than twenty one points, his team
has a zero and twenty one record. Now, I didn't
play in the NFL. That sucks. That sucks. The numbers
don't lie. They're right there in front of you. You

(27:51):
literally cannot win with Justin Fields at quarterback based on
what has happened, unless the defense is better than average.
Even every bridge is not good enough with Justin Fields. Literally,
I mean, the numbers speak for themselves. And yet the
fanboys are out there and they're telling you it's the
over its lines fault. It's ner fault. Give me a break.

(28:16):
Justin Fields is in that Vince Young. If you're old
enough to remember the old Texas Longhorns quarterback Vince Young
who loved the cheesecake factory, JaMarcus Russell. Yet again comes
up on the show and Tim Tebow in that mold
of quarterback. All the tools, all the tools, you know,
that's the word you always hear from the scouts, the

(28:39):
talient talent evaluators. They talk about all the tools. They
love talking about tools, Oh my god. And it's kind
of like buying a craftsman set. You've got all the
tools you can possibly want there. You've got the hammer
and congratulations on that's good hammer, craftsman hammer, but you
don't have a screwdriver. For some reason, they did not

(29:00):
have the screwdriver in there. And that's a job quarterbacked
in this case that requires a screwdriver. You don't have one.
Justin Fields, no screwdriver doesn't have it right. He's trying
to screw in the shelf that he got from Ikea,
and he's using a sledgehammer to try to screw in
the shelf. Great runner, live arm. If you want him

(29:23):
to throw the ball seventy yards and make a great
sizzle reel for TikTok man? Is he good man? Is
he good? Right? Just absolutely great? That the accuracy don't
ask right, forget about it. The release time. That's the biggest,
biggest knock on Justin Fields is how long it takes
to get rid of the football. He does not treat

(29:45):
it like a hot potato. He treats it like it's
a stuffed animal and he wants to cuddle with it.
You can make a tuna fish sandwich, a large, not
a small, not a small, A large tuna fish sandwich.
You can pair the sandwich with all the toppings you
could possibly want. In the time that it takes Justin
Fields to release the ball. It's a one one thousand

(30:08):
and two, one thousand and three, one thousand chickens tuna
sandwich has done three with about four one thousand and five,
and Bombi throws the ball right now at some point,
at some point, just observing on the sidelines, observing the NFL,
you have to update the processor. It's kind of like
using a computer from nineteen ninety seven and then using

(30:31):
a computer from twenty twenty five. Processes things much quicker. Right,
You don't have that little thing spinning the wheel spinning. Uh,
Justin Fields has a lot of spinning wheel when he's processing,
and he just does not has not shown the ability
to make the quick decision, the proper decision, and he
does not make the throws in time. And so justin

(30:53):
fields out there. You talking about his maturity. Ah, he's
so mature. He's been in the league now for several
years with multiple teams. He's not some raw rookie, although
he often looks like a raw rookie when he's out there.
And you got Aaron Glenn on cbe as predicted, right,
what was the scouting report on Aaron Glenn. He's like
a poor man's Dan Campbell. He's doing that Tony Robbins

(31:15):
bull crap a quarterback therapy. That's the scouting report on
Aaron Glenn. All right, enough, justin Field is the summer
blockbuster quarterback. All the hype, a lot of hype coming
to the Chicago Bears from the Ohio State University, all
the trailers. When you looked at the clips online, boy

(31:38):
those look good? Man? Did he look good? And you
got that superhero poster kind of look to you and
all the explosions and all that man looks really good,
looks really good. Then you actually watch the film and
it's fast and the Furious nine and it's all over again.

(31:58):
You're like, what are we doing here? Like, what are
we doing here? It's loud, it's flashy, and you walk
out thinking that one't very good. I mean, why did
I spend my time? Why'd I spend my money? That's
it rotten tomatoes score, forget about it, forget about how
low can you go? How low can you go? But

(32:21):
somehow the coach here thinks that the critics, well they
just don't get it right, that he's not going to
listen to them, and he's very mature, and maybe the
critics are right. Though what if they're right? What if
the critic in this case is accurate about justin fields? Right? Fields?
Is yet another quarterback in his what is this his

(32:42):
third proven year? He had approven year with the Bears
failed and last year in Pittsburgh a stopover but really
a prove it situation. And Mike Tomlin, one of the
more respected coaches in the NFL, he thought so much
of justin fields he continued to throw out a player
that has been done for multiple years in Russell Wilson.

(33:04):
But that's how little he thought of justin fields. He
wanted to put Russell Wilson out there instead. And so
here we are if field does not does not figure
things out, and the passing part, the passing part of
the job and all the maturity that Aaron Glenn loves
to talk about there and not caring about the criticism.

(33:26):
You can flush that right down the toilet. There you go.
The Jets will move on. They'll bring in some other
slub will play quarterback next season. Not page two. We
continue a trend of talking about mediocre quarterbacks. We go
to Las Vegas. Now they know a thing or two
about mediocre quarterbacks in Vegas. After confronting a Seattle fan

(33:47):
who had a mean sign, you can't make this stuff up.
How embarrassing. So this literally happens, So I don't watch
the game. I saw the clip. Raiders played Seattle recently
and a fan had a derogatory sign mocking the Raiders
quarterback and Raider coach Pete Carroll. Pete Carroll confronted said

(34:11):
Seattle fan, there were the bird is the word? The
bird is the word. Situations going on with multiple Raider
players flicking the bird to the fan. Very upset by
a side by a fricking sign. You talk about empowering
a Seattle Seahawk fan. What are you doing, you dummies?

(34:33):
My God, who cares anyway? So Raider coach Pete Carroll,
good old Pete. Now he said this is not about
the sign, but he talked about his quarterback, Gino Smith,
and said, Gino Smith is quote the leader we needed.
He said, can you decode this quote from Pete Carroll,

(34:55):
So Pollyanna Pete strikes again, good old Pollyanna, Pete Pete Carro,
keep in mind, did not say that Geno Smith is
a quote great quarterback. He didn't say that. He did
not say he's going to win us a lot of games.
Pete Carroll did not say that. He used the L word,
which also goes for not only leader but loser. But

(35:19):
he used a leader. That is coach speak. That is
invisible ink. Coach speak is what it is, invisible ink.
Now we are like doctor Strange, and we have a
mastery of the mystical arts, a mastery of the mystical arts,
and we can translate the meaning the meaning about this.

(35:42):
So Carol said leader, because even Pete, good Pollyanna, Pete
Carroll cannot blow that much smoke up your keyster about
the ability of Geno Smith, the great arm that he
has and all this. So let's talk about his locker
room presence, just like Aaron Glenn was talking about Justin
Field's maturity, then talking about how great Justin Fields is.

(36:04):
He talked about his maturity. Well, here's Pete Carroll talking
about what a leader Gino Smith is. That's what you say,
by the way, about a guy who cannot consistently play
at a high level. Hello, exactly, he's a leader. He's
a leader. You know who else is a great leader?
Alex Smith was a great leader. Ryan Fitzpatrick a great leader,

(36:26):
really good locker room guys. Leaders. And Gino is the
definition the living, talking, the whole thing, walking embodiment of
mid You know, those are the type of quarterbacks that
you throw out there and you don't want to tank
the season. You don't want to finish with a top

(36:47):
five pick, but you also know that you're not going
to a super Bowl. You just want to be somewhere
in the middle. Somewhere in the middle. Gino is that guy.
He's that guy, right, This is the guy you add
your rock when you're like, well, listen, we don't want
to bottom out, because that's what the Raiders normally do.
We don't bought him out, but we also we don't

(37:08):
have a franchise guy, so we'll just plug him in
there and we'll pretend. And if seventeen things go right,
if we have that number one defense in the NFL,
the Raiders, and they have great special teams, they have
all that going for them, then a couple of weird
things happen here and there with turnovers and the play,
all of a sudden, the Raiders find themselves in the

(37:28):
super Bowl. But because you've got that guy, not a
great guy, you just got a guy who's out there.
That's what you got. And who are you gonna call?
All right, who are you gonna call when things are
not looking good? You need a quarterback? Who are you
gonna trade for? Gino West is what you're gonna call.
His career record eighty three games, starting forty and forty three.

(37:51):
Geno Smith. You can practically hear, if you listen closely,
you can hear the five hundred mark in and the
voice in the voice there when he's in the huddle.
Just just average, just average, average average. Gino Smith is
the NFL spam at quarterback. He's a spam quarterback. It's

(38:14):
the canned meat of quarterbacks that is Geno Smith. And
now you can't live off that. You can't live off spam.
There are people that love spam and they eat a
lot of spam. Many of them live in Hawaii. I'm
amazed how much spam are friends in Hawaii eat. But
you can live on on spam. Nobody's going to host
a dinner party with friends and families and say, hey,
what's on the menu spam? No one's doing that. A

(38:38):
little salt, little protein, and processed mystery meat is what
you got there. I don't know where it is. That's
where the Raiders find themselves today. That's where the Raider
franchise is. They're so pathetic. How pathetic, God, they're so pathetic.
You've got Pete Carroll who's just just out there and
you know, essentially drooling over Gino Smith, like this is

(38:59):
the I had to get. This is who I want.
It's like, calm down, Pete, everything, calm down. You're not
getting the Legion of Boom Defense. You're not getting Russell
Wilson from twenty thirteen. You're getting Gino, who is a
PA quarterback, perfectly adequate quarterback, PA, perfectly adequate quarterback. And

(39:22):
you call someone a leader a leader when you can't
call them elite because you know they're not elite. You
don't want to blatantly lie. It's kind of like saying
that you went on a blind date and your blind
date has a great personality, really good personality. You're like, okay,
what does that mean? That means buckle up? It is

(39:45):
the mediocrity. Merry go round, round and round and round
and round on the mediocrity. Merry go round, We go
all right? Final point? Wait, guy to Miami, Miami, Miami
that Dolphins and bare has played an exhibition game. No,
I am not going to talk about that. Instead, we
have learned over the weekend that there are said to

(40:07):
be multiple multiple teams that are monitoring Dolphins wide receiver,
the always disgruntled Tyreek Hill, Dolphins wide receiver for a
potential trade. Could you see that happening? Could you see
Tyreek Hill actually being traded? The windows seemingly closed once

(40:31):
the training camp portion opened up, But there are reports
multiple teams are eyeing the Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill
for a late training camp trade before the regular season
gets going early next month. As we do this show
here on this eleventh of August. So I am one

(40:51):
thousand percent, one thousand percent in the camp of yes,
I could see this happening. The Dolphins should have could
have would a trade Tyreek Hill in the offseason. That's
what they should have done. They did not do that.
Bad job by them, and so here we are. Tyreek
Hill is like a high end sports cars, like a Maserati.

(41:12):
You got the turbo engine, everything looks really good, and
yet the check engine light keeps coming on. The second
you stop complimenting the turbo engine, Tyreek hill check engine
light pops on just like that. And he's a guy.
If you look at his resume, he will take you

(41:34):
from zero to sixty in under four seconds. Zero sixty
and under four second, and I want out of your
team in under two seconds. So zero to sixty in
less than four and I want out in under two Tyreek. Now,
I'm a talk shows. Tyreek Hill's good for what I
do because he does dumb things, and I live on

(41:58):
people doing dumb things and then go on them. That's
the job profile. I get it. But Tyreek, he's got
more mood swings on the sidelines than a Kardashian trying
to decide what to get at Spura, right, And it's
just there's a lot going on there. One minute, he's
grinning ear to ear, the happiest guy in the world, right,
and he just burns some defensive back for an eighty

(42:19):
yard catch and run touchdown. The next he's giving you
the silent treatment because he only had eight targets and
he thought he was gonna get nine or ten, but
she only threw the ball to him eight times, and
that's clearly not enough for a player of the pedigree
of Tyreek Hill. So we suspect what's going on here

(42:40):
with no insider information, we suspect that Miami is putting
out feels kind of like the drunk, horny guy on
Tinder at one p thirty or two o'clock in the morning.
Hey you up, what are you up to? You know,
it's like seeing if anyone else is also drunk enough
to take on the Now there are teams out there

(43:02):
that makes sense. The obvious ones, teams that are in
it to win it, the Detroit Lions, the Washington Commanders
who have these are both NFC teams. The Commanders have
a problem with Terry McLaurin, so there's an option there.
And then you look at some other teams in the
in the AFC. If the Dolphins would be willing to
deal the teams that they could use Tyreek Hill, like

(43:22):
the Chargers and the Broncos as possibilities.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
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Speaker 1 (43:30):
Here we go, it's mallar. How about that?

Speaker 2 (43:34):
To the third degree?

Speaker 1 (43:36):
This is one gets quat all right? Cool?

Speaker 5 (43:40):
John Gruden recently spoke to the Georgia Bulldogs and in
his speech he said he'd quote died to coach in
the SEC. There aren't any openings right now, but could
you see Gruden eventually landing somewhere.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Well, the SEC is a high turnover conference, and you absolutely,
you look at some of these teams that expect to
be good that haven't been good enough. You look at
to a school like the Florida Gators, for example, hiring
John Gruden will be a big get or a bottom
feeding team in the SEC like South Carolina or an
underachieving team Texas and m Absolutely, he's got a lot

(44:13):
of baggage, but they don't care about baggage in Southern
Fried football. If you can win next.

Speaker 5 (44:18):
It's been one preseason game, but already people are saying
that Jackson Dart has closed the gap between himself and
Russell Wilson. Yeah, close the gap, and that Dart becoming
quarterback one could be closer than we think.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Ben, when do you think that happens? Listen, unless Russell
Wilson gets hurt, He's gonna start the regular season as
the QB one for the Giants. But they have a
tough schedule. They open up at Washington at Dallas. That
should be a winnable game Kansas City and the Chargers.
So I say week five, Week five. If Jackson Darts
doesn't blow, he could take over. The Giants play the

(44:51):
Saints in Week five, so I'm circling that date. Next.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
Celtics legend Bob Coosey turned ninety seven years old Saturday birthday.
Cows Yeah, and he told a reporter that he sees
a major rebuilding effort by the Celtics because Jalen Brown
isn't the level of superstar that Jason Tatum is hot take,
and that he won't bring them to the Promised Land.
Kho's ripping him, is he right?

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Man? Well, the Celtics have trimmed away a lot of
their roster. They got rid of Porzingis they got, you know,
several of those rotation guys, those secondary guys are gone.
So it's not if they have the same team and
Jalen Brown they just lost Jason Tatum. You say, okay,
there's something they can can work with, but you know

(45:32):
it's it's the Jalen Brown's weaknesses. He can only apparently
go one way and all that. I don't think Kuzzi's wrong,
and let's put it that way. But it's more than
just Jalen Brown is not the headline star. There's more
to it, are there? It is how did we do heat?
The guy I won the game? Hollering James.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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listen live. Hey you sports figure, guy or girl?

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Who here? Was you talking to?

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Sons?

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Here some intent? Advice? Hold that thought. No one's paid
attention to me for ten whole seconds, and if you
don't like it, then away we go. It's the insta
advice line, unscreened radio. The safety net is off. Who
needs our advice? In the world of sports? At eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven

(46:34):
nine nine six six three six nine. Well, right now,
a team that is really feeling it and not in
a good way, that would be the New York Mets.
Also the Yankees if you want. But the Mets have
lost seven straight. They're one in nine in their last
ten games, free fall in So any advice to both
the struggling Mets and Yankees. You're live on the air.

(46:57):
When you hear my voice at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox, hellow caller, you're on the air your
advice to the Yankees. And that's line one. All right,
thank you for that. Sounds like hollering, James. Is there
a line? Then two, you're on the airline too. Hello,
your advice, please.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Congress on the forever contract, man, I hope you stay
on the air.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
It's not a forever contract, but thank you. Line three,
you're on the Airline three.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Hello, cashman, should have picked up Blake's now strikeouts not
too shure?

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Yeah, pretty good. I'm starting to feel some tenderness in
his elbow though he'll be out for three months. Don't worry, though,
I say I'll get him breakfast in bed every day.
Line five. Hello, line five.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
Bring in John Rocker to reinvigorate the spirit.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Of New York. Oh, look at the very calm, sober Jed.
Who fled your next caller six, we're giving advice to
the New York baseball teams. Hello, line six, you're on the.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Air morning time. You mean to tell me race cars,
robins breaking bones?

Speaker 1 (47:51):
After the race, I saw that the jackass fell out
of his celebrating try to stand up. He fell down
in the hospital. Yeah, I did look bad.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Call it.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
You're on their advice to the New York baseball teams.
It's the instant advice. Line Hello. I don't want it,
but I need it. I understand. I feel the same way.
Line four, Hello, Line four. Line four is not to
ever go to line five at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Hello, line five.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
New York, New York, big city of dreams.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Oh yes, big city of dreams and bad baseball. Line six, Hello,
tell me any thing you won't, but don't call me sober.
You some bit all right, so Jed? I don't offend
Jed and you call him the S word, sober. Let's
go to you. Line line too, Hello, line too, you're
on the air.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
Bring in George Castanza as the assistant to the traveling secretary.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
That's a great idea. It worked so well back in
the nineties. Why not do it again.
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