September 22, 2025 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about Russell Wilson putting up another poor performance against the Chiefs, who gets the blame for the Rams collapse against the Eagles, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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So our lead this hour, we start out, Play the Hits,
Play the Hitts. We'll start out with that Sunday night
game in New Jersey as the Chiefs oh in two,
the Giants oh in two, And there they were. You
had Collinsworth and Mike Tarrico yapping what Collin's worth, going
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gaga over the Chiefs as he normally does. And they
had all the documentation of these two bad football teams.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And so the Chiefs trying.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
To get off the schneid right and Russell Wilson desperate
to get that taste of victory. How did that play out? Well,
e if you didn't see the game, he didn't miss much.
As Patrick Mahomes had two hundred and twenty four yards passing,
It's fine and a touchdown. It was a relative bumpy
ride for the majority of the game for the Chiefs
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offense yet again, and they ended up taking advantage of
the lowly Giants. Point future generations will not realize. Even
the current generation does not realize. Jazz used to be good.
What an embarrassment to Giants and it is so bad,
Holy crap. Anyway, the Chiefs get to win, they improve
the one and two. The Giants drop to zero and
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three on the seasons. But the better story is in
the losing locker room. So that is where we go.
A lot of chatter about a quarterback change in New
York with the Giants. As you were watching this game,
he saw that Jackson Dart did come in a couple
of times, as they did that last week. But Russell Wilson,
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all right, so let us discuss the question. Is Russell
Wilson done as the Giants starting quarterback?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
That's the question. So I've got.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Suntan City, Lettuce and George thorergood and we will combine
all of these things together.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We're gonna make some deep fried mac and cheese, is
what we're going to do. Delicious.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Anything deep fried is both bad for you and good
for you at the same time. Anyway, So in terms
of the question, is Russell Wilson done as the Giants
starting quarterback. Well, you can spell it out if you
watch D O N E. That's how you spell the
We're done. Of course he is, Come on, of course
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he is. Russ is cooked. It's microwave leftovers at this
particular point, and it's the kind of microwave leftovers that
were left in the break room for a little too long,
just a little too long there. And of course you
could argue he was showing signs of being dune skis
when he was playing for the Seattle Seahawks at the
end there, and they got rid of him and they
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went to Denver and kind of confirmed, yeah, I'm done.
I can't really play that well. And then the steers said, well,
we think you're not done. We'll bring in He sucked there,
and now the Giants are like, wow, we want you
to suck for our team as well. I guess we
Maybe the news doesn't travel, is it possible? Like the
this is one of those times, like the fans, no
more than the people running the sport, they all, oh,
we're going to turn things around. Oh yeah, I won't
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be fine. We're gonna unlock Russ mister unlimited, how's that
going for you? How's that going with a bunch of
dingleberries around the NFL? As Russ going out there and
another stinker. And then you've got Brian Dayball, the coach
of the Giants, who is basically running suntan city. Here,
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they're laying in suntan beds. You've got one side has Russ,
the other side had Brian day Ball in it, and
it is kind of laying there and they've got that
artificial heat lamp above them, and they're sweating bullets, getting
paid a lot of money and just kind of waiting
for the pink slip to.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Come down, down, down, down down.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
At this point, you do wonder what Brian Dable has
to do to lose his job. Coaching bad football is
not enough, clearly, I mean it's I mean, if you
just judged him off his record, which usually is what
happens in that business, Brian Dayball would have been fired
long ago. The guy blows as a head coach. What
more does he need to show you? He's he's telling
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you I suck as a head coach, and the chants
are like, oh no, we're loyal, we don't fire coaches
really Okay, he stinks horrific And anyway, here's that Brian
Daball the fans were serenading the team in Boo Flat.
Here is Brian Dabele on the fans giving the Giants
the business.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Jackson's progressing.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, we'll continue to work with him.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I got a lot of confidence in him, his development.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
That he's had, and that's what.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
We'll continue to do.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Jack by boor too.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
To be honest with you, in terms of not being
good enough, no, not scoring, not finishing, I understand that
that's that's a nature of it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So the Giants under Brian Dable have a three forty
winning percentage, which ironically.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Maybe not ironically, is pubbing at the word.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The Giants has the same winning percentage they've had the
last decade. There is ten years of poo poo, and
for the New York Jiants ten years, ten years. It's
almost like those Fluke championships. They made a deal with
the devil. Those the Giant teams that weren't good enough
to win the championship but did when they beat the Patriots. Right,
fraudulent teams that got you know, played well, played well
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at the end of the year in the playoffs, but
they weren't really worthy of being a championship team. So
now the payback on that is a decade of suck.
That's the Giants. And they're not even rebuilding, they're just rotting.
They're just rotten. That's the Giants, right. Russell Wilson in theory,
was supposed to be the bridge. He was gonna be
the study veteran hand that would come in there. And instead,
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at this point Russ looks like a guy who missed
the bridge and he drove. He didn't listen to the GPS,
he missed the bridge. He somehow drove into the East River,
which you're not supposed to do. You're not supposed to
miss the bridge and drive into East.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Rivers, but he did.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And the biggest sin is being unable to find Molik
neighbors until I don't know, garbage time's the right word.
But for most of the game you failed.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
To get the ball to your top guy.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Bad job by none never played in me n if.
I know Ryan Clark doesn't want to hear this, but
that sucks, all right. Neighbors had as many catches as
you had, and I had combined going to the fourth quarter.
He had zero catches through three quarters. Zero buppkis nothing
zip oo. That was Molik neighbors in this game, that
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malpractice and the fans and rhythm. They were also rhythmically
chanting for Jackson Dart as Russell Wilson tossing a couple
of interceptions in the first half. Of course, they assume,
what do they think he's.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Going to be?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
They just want to be average? Well, I guess they
want to be Eli Manning. Eli Manning was just an
average quarterback. Elis not a Hall of Famer with that
good had a couple of fluke playoff runs. So I
guess they want Jackson Dart to just be average.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Just please be having. We need average, is what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And you know, the crowd's basically sending you a a
door dash receipt saying, get Dart in there now him.
Of course he'll stink also, and then what are they
gonna do?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
They're trying to push that back as long as they
can because the chances are pretty good he's gonna be terrible.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I love the fact that Russell Wilson was the safe bet.
I love the fact that Wilson was the safe bet,
which is which is great, which is kind of like
saying the Bad News Bears were. You know, they're gonna
go out win a championship, you know that, except their
their pitchers are drunk and the head coach there doesn't
care and all that, and the catcher's probably smoking SIGs
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behind the stands. So it's just ridiculous. And so they
got Wilson and day Ball together here, and you got
the coach. How about the GM here, Joe Shane, the
guy that came over from the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You've got this guy.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And they thought Russell Wilson would keep them afloat, keep
their jobs, And how's that looking right now? Instead he's
he's been an anchor, like the kind JJ and Renton
makes those big giant anchors for those massive that the
Navy uses. And so just a giant anchor strapped to
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the bottom of the boat, right there at the bottom
of the boat. And he's only, I guess good against
the Cowboys last week.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
A lot of yards, a loss, a loss, a lot
of yards.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But otherwise Russ has been pretty much completely guilty of
strategic incompetence as a quarterback for the Giants, the Steelers
and the Broncos, and so they've turned big blue, which
they used to.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Brag, oah, we're big blue. We're the Giants, We're big blue.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And now they're like big blab blab blab, big blab,
that's what they are, right, And you know, waste three
quarters of elite neighbors. And at this point you're just
gonna waste the early part of his career. And then
he's gonna have to run off to the Rams and
win a championship like Odell Beckham did back in the day.
But the Giants are owing three. They are lifeless, and
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next step, logical step would be the bench. Russell Wilson. Now,
I was sending some correspondence to people I know around
the football world. The consensus is actually that he will
not be benched. This he should be benched. But the
Giants play the Chargers. That's a good team. And if
you open a restaurant, what do they tell you want
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to soft launch? Right? You want a soft launch. You
don't want to open it up with a rush crowd.
So the Chargers would be a rush crowd. They're pretty good.
So after that you play the Saints. That's the game.
The Saints, I mean, they're the Yints. Then when I
was a kid there the Aints, they they're terrible. So
that's the that's the game. If you want a soft
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start for Jackson Dart, you toss him out there against
the New Orleans Saints, which is not this coming weekend,
a week four.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It be week five of the NFL season.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Meanwhile, on the cansa City, the Kansas City side of things,
and the question here, I've been seeing some of the
commentary after the game and a lot of the commentaries, right, well,
and the Chiefs got back on track. The train is
back on the tracks and all that. So question, indeed,
Patrick Mahomes, did Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense find something?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Did they find the spark? Did they find the spark?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
On a Sunday night in Jersey against the Giants and
they find a spark? And after a minutes long deliberation
on that question, right, everyone wants to throw rose pedals
at Patrick Mahomes right at his feet because the Chiefs
beat the Giants. But to answer the question, pump the
brakes on that. No, they found the giants. They found
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the giants. It's a tomato can that's the Giants. As
we've laid out that, that's it. That is your cure all.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's kind of like, if.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
You don't feel good, you got a headache, maybe you
take some ibuprofen. If your football team's not playing well,
play the Giants.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But that being said, we realize the Giants are a
medicine ball of incompetence. But the game was still sitting
there was It wasn't anyone's game, but it was a
one score game, fourth quarter one against Giants.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
One score.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Again, if Kansas City had really found something, this game
would have been forty one to ten or something along
those lines.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
They would have.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Blown the doors off the Giants. But that didn't happen.
Did not happen. Instead, we got more of the Andy Reid,
which is ironic. He didn't usually eat this the plotting
Chiefs offense, which is it was essentially they're serving up
iceberg lettuce and much like myself and me and Andy
have that in come, we don't enjoy iceberg lettuce because
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it's got no taste to it. It's ninety six percent water.
But that's essentially what the Chiefs offense is, right, even
in this game, for a mild flavor. There's not a
lot of spice to it.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
You look at the numbers.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Mahomes average six point one yards to seven yards per
pass is average. Above seven is really good. Six point
one is not even average quarterback play for Mahomes. Oh,
but he was the Chiefs found something. Then you had
certain he wasn't a video game guy. And then you
look at Travis Kelcey. More on him later this hour.
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But Travis Kelly, mister Taylor Swift had four catches for
twenty six yards.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
He better get married. She's gonna dump him.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
He keeps playing like this, and Taylor Swift's gonna dump
his ass because he sucks.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
She's got I'm gonna find a younger tight end. I'm
gonna marry. I'm gonna marry you. You're terrible.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I mean, that's not even a decent his standard. That's
not even a decent half for Travis Kelcey. His production.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Low, how low all?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I mean, he's terrible. The Giant and I guess the Giants. Oh,
the Giants have all these first round back draft picks. Wonderful,
But then when Kelsey's not producing, it's a big factor
in the Chiefs offense looking like they're stuck in molasses
and Mahomes and company. They barely cracked three hundred yards.
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He said, well, that's acceptable. Three hundred yards. Yeah, until
you realize the Giants gave up almost five hundred yards
to the Cowboys last week. You know, well wait a minute,
hold on a second. So the Chiefs are like two
hundred yards worse offensively than the Dallas Cowboys at this
particular point. Dallas carved them up like the Thanksgiving Turkey
and the Kansas City struggling to get to twenty two
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points with Russell Wilson turning the ball over with two
interceptions in this game. And so it's just not a
championship level of football for the Chiefs even it's more
like survival. It's and they got the Ravens. They have
the Ravens next week. That's looking like that's the way
they played against the Giants. Obviously they got to played better,
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but that man, play like that, you're gonna lose that.
You'd be one in three the first four games of
the year to start the year. You had special teams problems.
Harrison Buckner missed a field goal, missed an extra point
in this game. That's four points left on the table
by the special teams and three games in and the
offense for the Kansas City Chiefs still looks broken. That's
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my diagno. I'm now working at the repair shop and
it just looks broken. And this is the supposed to
be the improvement though, again because all the Chiefs salents
just showed some signs of improvement here. And if that's
the case, the bar is. I don't know what's below
the basement, but whatever's below the basement, that's where the
bar is.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
And so it's just not a scary team.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know, that offense does not intimidate anyone, despite having
Patrick Mahomes and they got some trash from the Patriots
who had a good game at wide receiver. I mean,
you look around here and they still are searching for
answers in Kansas City. Andy Reid's got to clean a
lot up before you put them as a legit title threat.
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And they can get there. They certainly can get there.
There's no doubt that defense is legit. They're not there yet,
there's no guarantee they're going to get there. So for now,
because we do the show right now today, you have
to downgrade, continue to downgrade to Kansas City Chiefs. What
they found is they found the giants, which is just
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what the doctor ordered.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
That's what they found, all right. Now, last word to Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
We go and is there a quarterback change on the horizon? Say, why, Well,
this is one of the surprising games and Benny versus
the Penny, and we hope you watch that and enjoy.
We had a middling week yet again, had a couple
of bad beats. The worst beat I've had in probably
fifteen years. The Eagles Cowboys Eagles Rams game. Holy crap,
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that is like a PSA. Maybe you should stay away
from certain things. My god, the Rams. We'll get to
this later. It's on my big board. Not a list
terry in England, but a big board. The Rams were
trying to kick a game winning field goal. So the
options were, they made the field goal, they win the game.
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If they missed the field goal, I still win the
bet because of the points spread. The only way that
bet loses if the kick is blocked and returned for
a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Some fat ass for the Eagles ran it back for
a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh my god. All right, anyway, but we want to
focus on Atlanta. This is one of the surprising I
for some reason, I guess I'm a moron. I thought
Atlanta would actually play a competent football game. I know
that's on me, it's not on them. They're the Falcons.
This is what the Falcons do. They're a joke of
a franchise. This is what jokes of a franchise do.
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So they benched Michael Pennex Junior, their next franchise quarterback.
They benched him with eleven minutes left in the game
for veteran Kirk Cousins. The Falcons were trailing Carolina twenty
seven to nothing. You know how bad you have to
play to lose? Be down twenty seven nothing to Carolina?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
My god.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Anyway, So Raheem Morris after the game attempted to squawksh
any chance of a quarterback change, just dismissing the idea
that Michael Penick Junior is in jeopardy of being benched.
So the question is, does Michael Pennex Junior deserve the
benefit of the doubt from Raheem Morris. Has he's shown
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you enough in his brief time as an NFL quarterback
that he's worthy of the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
So I'm gonna go first year. No, of course not.
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Seriously, Michael Pennix Junior look like he didn't even belong
holding a football two picks, one for a pick six,
the other setting up a Carolina touchdown. So you do
the malor math on that. Michael Penix Junior was no
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Falcon scored no points in this game. He led them
to no points. They scored no points. Penex was a
negative fourteen minus fourteen. And you know he was the
essence of the George Thoroughgood song bad to the bone.
He was bad to the bone. What Mike, except without
the cool guitar rift. He didn't have that. Even I
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didn't have that. He was an average four point eight yards.
I guess Carolina the Panthers. All right, my god, so
they're so bad. And Michael Pennix Jr. Did he practice
this week? Was there something else going on? Maybe there
was a death in the family.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
My god.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And here's the other problem, all right, Michael, bad games.
Well everyone has a bad game, Okay, fine, but you
don't normally have bad games against that opponent that is
who you fat in your stats up against the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Anyway, So Penix is I believe he's twenty five.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
This is not some twenty year old kids straight out
of college, campus housing and all that. And he played
last year in the NFL. He came into the league,
he's already one of the older quarterbacks, and you're supposed
to get NFL that's always the argument. Well, the older player.
He played a lot of games Michael Pennix junior at
Washington in Indiana, and we liked him at Washington, we did.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
But this is terrible. It's absolutely terrible.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
And he had even the first couple of games he
wasn't all that good. So it's not like he showed
some overnight improvement from from a year to year improvement. Meanwhile,
Kirk Cousins standing there with the clipboard. You're paying him
all this money, right, what's the point of paying him
as your backup quarterback so we can rot on the
sidelines when Penex is clearly drowning at as QB number
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one and you're you're paying Cousins. You were afraid to
trade him, So what what.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I don't get it, and I don't I don't. I
don't get it again. I guess they're they're looking at
the long game. What is the long game?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Like the Falcons are always terrible, Like there is no
long game there anyway. So when coach Rahie Morris says
there's no quarterback controversy unless trade Kirk Cousins this week,
there is a quarterback controversy, it's coach speak for we
have a quarterback controversy.
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call from the Stanford Band game, which is so long ago.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
It's so long ago.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I'm pretty sure most people don't even know what I'm
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The band is on the field.
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Anyway, So It was kind of like that rematch NFC
playoff game Philadelphia, led by Friy Daddy, he's a big
Eagles fan, fats in Philadelphia and all that. Jonathan and Delaware,
so they were hosting the Rams and they got together
to a PLAYD eight for Week three. If you saw
the game, you know what happened, but we'll tell you
about it anyway. If you didn't see the game, will
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fill the endless. So the Rams built a nineteen point lead,
nineteen point lead, which turns out was not big enough,
not big enough for that great defense to hold the game.
They had a ten yard touchdown run by Kyron Williams,
the Rams went up nineteen. They then allowed twenty six
unanswered points. Twenty six unanswered points. This is a defensive
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football team, I've been told, defensive football team. Game of
twenty six unanswered points to the Eagles, capped off by
the most ridiculous, craziest play, a sixty one yard after
a blocked field goal, Jordan and Davis rumbling and stumbling
and bumbling and into the end zone after blocking that
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game winning field goal by Joshua Carty, and that was it.
As the Eagles win it, Rams not only do they
not cover the spread, and they were getting a few points.
They lost everything thirty three to twenty six. They head home,
licking their wounds to take on the Colts next week
in Los Angeles with a pit in their stomach, a
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pit in their stomach after blowing such a massive lead
in the second and a half, and they did the
thing they wanted to do. They totally bottled up Sequon Barkley,
who was mister everything last year in Philadelphia and is
off to a very sluggish start here to begin. And
the Rams, you can pick it apart all you want.
In fact, before we get into the meat of the monologue,
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let's hear from Sean McVay. The Rams had some major
issues on off fense, but really the third down was
that was the devil for them. Mister mcvagh, can you
comment on how bad you were on third Now.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
We weren't good enough on third down. I just said
I had a touchdown called back in the red area.
That changes the dynamics of a lot of different things.
You go from you know, third and goal on the
two to third.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And goal on the twelve.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
That's a big difference right there. And so ultimately we
got to be better in the red area. We could
really open that game up. Our defense was suffocating them.
They got going, they got a little bit of life,
you know, had some opportunities and and I'm looking forward
to h to responding accordingly. And that's exactly what you
guys are.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Going to see.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Oh good, So lose more games like that to see
how you respond. Wonderful great loss. We'll see how you respond.
Wonderful loss. Here's Matthew Stafford, yet again trying to spin
a negative into a positive.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Here is Matthew stuff.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Learned from it. There's there's so many other plays in
this game, like I said earlier, that we can learn
from that, we can be better. Oh yeah, first and
foremost myself disappointed with how I threw it in some
instances today.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
So just go back to it.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Continue to work hard and know that you know what
you're doing and the process that we're doing is the
right thing, and find ways to win games.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
All right. So the better story is in the losing
locker room. That's where we're going to focus in.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Here. At the start, the Rams had more first downs,
The Rams had more yards the Rams. If you go
by the statue, the Rams dominated the statuet in most areas,
and they still ended up losing the game. So let
us discuss who gets the blame Street Dog, who gets
the blame Street Dog for Sean mcvay's Rams after blowing
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a nineteen point lead against Philadelphia. So my observations, I've
got cafeteria, Guardian and Apple sauce, and we'll combine all
of these together. We're gonna make your Babusha's favorite brisket.
And they had I was freeloading at the ramsgate or
the Charges again. They had the They had the brisket sliders.
It's a solid, solid halftime food. Not bad.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
They were pretty good. They were pretty good, all right.
So number are.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
This is a jumbo size, not small, not baby size,
jumbo size bacon wrapped stuff with Halapago's dripping grease all
over it. Sidewalk loss for the La Rams embarrassing listen
and you guys also, oh, you're a houseman for the teams.
You're like, you know much hate I'm getting. Last week,
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I did a model. I'll talk more about this later
in the week. It's a football Monday, but I talked
about Clayton Kershaw and they had a burial. They actually
dug up the pitching mound at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Did you see this? Oh my god? And I'm still
getting crap. Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I used to like you, but you gave an opinion
I don't like. I can't listen it. But low information,
knuckle dragging Neanderthal fan, you know what I'm talking about.
So on this one, I do like the Rams. That
is an unacceptable defeat. Unacceptable defeat cannot happen, cannot happen,
and it did.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
The Rams had.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Philadelphia cooked, baked and wrapped in rental rap is what
they had, right, and they somehow had a reversal fortune,
which is still hard to believe. It's still hard to be.
The Eagles had thirty three yards of offense in the
first half of the game. Thirty three get for all purposes,
it's the games Oh yep, nineteen points, the game's over
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and then obviously it wasn't here but the Rails up nineteen.
That's a stranglehold situation. Jalen Hurts had seventeen yards passing
at halftime, seventeen. Sekwan Barkley kept running into his own lineman.
The Rams defense did look in the first half like
the Steel Curtain reincarnate. They were living up to the
hyde and then the problem they had to play the
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rest of the game. The Rams second half turned into
a cafeteria line. They were serving only one item, sloppy
Joe's or sloppy tackles. And there's a lot of manadors
out there for the Rams. Ole ole o leo le Yeah,
they were out there. And suddenly Jalen Hurts, who look
like he should maybe be selling insurance in the first
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half of the game, right, and then all of a sudden,
he's the old vintage Montana back in the day. Or
Drew Brees completed seventy one percent of his passes, seventy
one percent of his passes, three touchdowns, no picks in
the second half, a passer Randy of one hundred and
thirty seven, which I'm told is good. I'm told as good. Now,
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apparently I didn't think he could do that. He did
the impossible, and the Rams were accomplices in this, and
the Rams made it possible. Spineless football by the Rams. Uh,
you parlay that with the extra special wink wink special
teams that they get in the doghouse or or if
they're in the doghouse there as well. And you got
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the kicker, jo idiot kicker Joshua Carty there, josh Carty coordinator,
Chase Blackburn. That's the Rams special teams coordinator. Absolute debacle,
Absolute debacle. You had the game, it was your game.
You said, I don't want the game. I don't need
the game. It'd be a signature win. I don't want
a signature win. You take the signature win, you go away.
So it went from a signature win to a signature loss.
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The kind of a loss that the rest of the year,
whenever the Rams go up by two or three touchdowns,
they say, well, they did blow the game in Philadelphia.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
They can lose this game. The defense is good, but
they caved in. Yeah, well, these special teams. I hope
they took the short bus to the airport because I
know they should. They took the short bus to the stadium.
The way they were playing, it's comical. And I want
to point something out. This is a once in a
generation situation.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
What happened to the Rams. And I'm not blowing smoke up.
You took us the Rams.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Going back to nineteen eighty four, when then they playing
an Anaheim, the Rams one hundred and seven and one
when they led by at least nineteen points one hundred
and seven and one, when they had a nineteen point lead,
That is Vegas jackpot one hundred and seven and one.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
That is a historical low for the Rams.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
You don't blow those games, except they've now done it
twice in forty years. That's once every twenty years, so
they've gotten that out of their system at this point.
Once every twenty years, the Rams will blow a game
like this, and mcveig's crew found a way to add
their name to the Wall of shame. And it's not
even so much that Philadelphia won the game. The Rams
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flat out gifted them the comeback. I'm not impressed with Philadelphia.
They should should have, could have would have lost the game.
The Rams turned what was going to be a feel
good Sunday cookout into a case of food poising. Everyone
got food poisoning at the cookout. It was supposed to
be fun. What was that about?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
All right? Now?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Page due Now, we would be remiss if we did
not mention the heal a monster in the room that
is dressed up like a zebra. They played a massive
role in this game. Now Rams wide receiver Puka Nokua,
who had I believe eleven catches. I think he went
over one hundred yards at big numbers for Puka in
this game, and he was called for a very questionable,
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very questionable taunting penalty.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Towards the end of the third quarter. There was a.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Big third down catch play for a first down for
Pulka had a twenty yard grab, so big play in
the game. Rams trying to settle things down here, he
stood up and did what he's done.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Every other time.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
He flexed before pointing towards the end zone, which is
what he always does. Pretty harmless, benign act unless the
Philadelphia referee there, who's got a big poster of Jalen
Hurts in his bedroom, said wait a minute, here's my
opportunity to meddle with the outcome of the game, and
I'm gonna take advantage of it because everyone wants a
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referee to medal with an effing game.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
And he did.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, now he called a penalty harmless. Something that happened
had been happening for a couple of years. Now, all
of a sudden it was a penalty in that moment.
Greg Olsen, if you're watching the Fox broadcast. He thought
it was ridiculous. Pooka Nicoua said his flex that led
to the taunting penalty wasn't any different and it wasn't,
by the way, from what he usually does after first
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down ketches. Nicole also pointed out that Aj Brown, who's
playing for the Philadelphiagos, but the referee apparently like that.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
He had a big celebration.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
On third down, saying, you know, feeling that that plays
very similar, but just didn't feel like it went both ways,
said Pookin the Coua. Now keep in mind that the Rims,
even with that should have could have would have won
the game.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
They did not.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
But the question, does Ram wide receiver Pookinn Coua have
a compelling argument in questioning the taunting penalty was called
against him? And I'm nodding my head, yes, absolutely. It's
the inconsistency of it all. And you've got Eagle coach
Nick Sirianni over there who should have been handing out
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game balls in the locker room. And I'm not talking
about the Eagles locker room. I'm talking about the officials
locker room. Holy crap. Nkoua makes that huge third down
play again. He then flexes and he points downfield, he
points down.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Field, and it's nothing. That literally is nothing, And in a.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Game that is promoting violence and all of a sudden,
it's nothing until the official decides. I think I'm going
to inject myself in the story, like what is that?
And there was also some funny business on the Toush push, which, oh,
by the way, didn't the NFL send some kind of
(36:42):
memo out that we're going to clean this up, We're
gonna call the penalty on the touch.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Push and all that.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
It makes you buy into the conspiracy that the NFL
is purposely misofficiating the touch push. So at the end
of the year they can claim, well, listen, the officials
just can't call it right. We have to get rid
of it. It was just not fair. We told the officials,
we made this a point of emphasis. They still screwed up.
We just have to get rid of the play.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
But in the meantime, the Eagles are still running it
and there's no consistency in general. Back to the Puka
Nkua gyrations there, aj Brown was out there doing these
Broadway level performances after every catch, look at me, look
at me, I made j Brown, Aren't I special? I
can smell myself.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
So there he was.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
And posing and stomping and whatever, and nobody bat an
eye but Pookin Nicoua flexes and all of a sudden
fifteen yard penalty. It's a fifteen yard pedalany that's not
enforcing the rules. That is selectively deciding who gets dinged
ding ding ding ding ding, who gets ding? And when
you do that in that particular spot, you're giving Philadelphia
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a little bumpity bump is what you're doing there, and it's.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
The ultimate bailout.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The Rams had converted a big third down play, and
so in many ways, the officials here in this game
were the guardian angels that helped guide Philadelphia to the comeback. Now,
Pukakua celebrated perfectly fine, perfectly fine, unless the officials subjectively
wanted to decide, no, you can't do that, and that's it.
(38:21):
So that's the way it was handled. The ref essentially saying, hey, Philly,
you need a little help. We're here for you, and
we were here to help you, and we did. We
helped you. I hope you appreciate that. Send us some
flowers or candy or something.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Like that. We'd like that. That would be good. Probably
candy more than flowers. Probably candy.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
So all right, now, final point to Vegas. We love losers,
And how about the Raiders? How much money did Is
Tom Brady the worst GM by.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
The way in football?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Holy crap, he is so bad Tom Brady because you
can't rip Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
He's a demigod. Cannot do it.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So the Raiders traveling circus stopped in DC. I say
stopped because they stopped playing when they got to DC.
They somehow gave up forty one points to a team
playing with backup quarterback.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Forty one to twenty four year final? The team formerly
knows the Redskins played their backup quarterback Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
And it's just insane.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
So now people are saying, well, wait a minute, Pete
Carroll anything like the Seahawks. This anything like Gino Smith
and Pete Carroll in Seattle when they would have at
least competitive teams to five hundred team, this team looks
just like they didn't make any any changes to last
year's coachings to have it which was not a good
team by the end of the year, or any of
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the other coaches in recent years. It's like, why are
you bringing in Pete Carroll? And this is what you're
gonna get. So the question is how much heat does
Pete Carroll deserve for the Raiders getting blown to bits
by the Washington football team? So how much heat? About
one thousand percent? One thousand percent? Playing Washington without Jayden Daniels,
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he's the bloody franchise in Washington. And that's a great
mitzvah if you if I said before that, ye, you're
gonna play Washington on the road. The weather won't be
a real big factor, and you're gonna be playing a
team with.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Their backup quarterback.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Okay, and Daniels is the one that stirs the drink
for that offense. And you got panted by Marcus Mariota.
You got pants, Mariota pants you. That's the Raiders. It's
a member of the Witness Protection program for quarterbacks. And
it's it's worse than just Marcus Mariota embarrassing you, because
(40:37):
it was really you were really gutted by the ground
game physicality.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
You're soft.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
That's a soft football team, the Raiders softing Washington ran
for two hundred one yards and three touchdowns. Somebody named
Jeremy McNichols. I have no idea that freaking Jeremy McNichols,
who I thought was working at Trader Joe's Bagging Groceries,
who ripped off a sixty yard run against the Raiders.
(41:02):
That is not soft. That is that Matt's apple sauce.
Soft is what that is by the Raiders. You can
spoon feed this defense to a toddler. The Raiders defense
there trench warfare. What happened to that? What happened to
Pete Carroll Man? I know you're mister positive and all that,
and rah ra guy and me supposed to coach them
(41:24):
up right? I know, realize the Raiders have a talent gap.
You can close the gap by good coaching. Scheme them
up instead, that's not happening and it's just a hot man.
Then you have Geno Smith, this dingle Berry who entered
the chat. Did you hear what Geno Smith had to say?
(41:44):
He said, listen, things are not going well right now. Well,
I'll let him say, take a list.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
I believe in the type of guys that we have.
I believe in the Raider nation.
Speaker 7 (41:52):
I know that we can get this thing headed in
the right direction, and that's what I'm focused on.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
I really want to, you know, get back to work.
Speaker 7 (41:58):
I can't wait to get back to work so we
can solve these problems and come out next week with
a new enthusiasm.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Is there a bigger fraud than Gino Smith. I'll answer
the question for you. No, No bigger fraud than Gino Smith.
He did it again, and yet there are so many
dumb people that I was, well, Gino had a good game.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
It's not his fault. Raiders loss.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Tell me you didn't watch the game, Geno Smith. Another stat, Bandito,
Gino Smith. So the Commanders, let me give you the
basics on this. So the Commanders were up thirty four
to ten going to the fourth quarter, and then the dumpster
diving Gino Smith racked up one hundred and sixty five
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yards passing and two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, down
by twenty four points. That's fifty seven percent of his
passing yards for the game, sixty six point six percent
of his touchdowns as after the game was already decided.
Those are say it with me now, O. Their phony
stats is what they are. They are empty calaries. It's
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like eating a tube of pringles and saying, just had
my dinner. Well, no, you ate a tube of pringles.
They're good, but that's not your dinner. No, they are.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
And the Raiders again, this is a problem.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
I'm getting old, but when I was younger, the Raiders
always had that tough guy image.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
The autumn wind is a Raider and the autumn wind.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
If the autumn wind blows, now, they'll fall over and
get in the feed up position.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
That's the radars. They'll start sucking that thumb.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
That's raider football pirate ship, my ass more like a dinghy.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
That's the Raiders right there.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
If they were there's like a cruise line is in
all you can eat buffet of mistakes for the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
It's terrible, terrible, terrible, turrible. It's captain of the carnival
cruise lines. There.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
You got Pete Carroll on one side, chewing his gum
passionately while his team is floating a floating turd right there.
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Speaker 5 (44:23):
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Lakers should trade Austin Reeves due to positional overlap with
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Speaker 3 (44:31):
Is he right? So I have two theories on this coop.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
My first theory is Robert Ori works for the Lakers
as a broadcaster. He would not just throw that out
unless that he's heard that they're trying to trade or
considering trading Austin Reeves. Secondly, based on small sample size
that playoff series against Minnesota, if you remember, Austin Reeves
was exposed he was not good in that playoff series there.
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So just based on that, I think there's something to it.
I think there is something there. They got to get
a Luca friendly tea next.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
So there's a survey of like twenty five thirty scouts done,
and only one scout has arch Manning at the top
of their draft board, and the main reason, apparently, is
that most expect him to return to Texas in twenty
twenty six. Ben, do you think that's the right move?
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Well, as long as he can play who they play
Sam Houston State this weekend, as long as he can
play them in the NFL, he'll be in the shot.
The way he's played, he definitely has to go back.
Everyone's hyping up this Leonora's sellars. Have you heard that
from South Carolina? He's supposed to the next big quarterback.
Now he's pasted arch Manning by.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
Next all right, so the Dodgers are gonna be without
catcher Will Smith for the rest of the regular season
and likely some of the playoffs as well.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
How big of a blow has this been?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Well, it's not that big a blow because the biggest
problem the Dodgers have is their bullpen. That's the gas squad.
I'm not worried about that. They've got Ben wrote verd
or whatever his name is. They'll be all right. He'll
catch a good game. The bullpen's the problem. How did
we do he passes?
Speaker 2 (45:54):
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Speaker 3 (45:54):
Is they win the pot. I won the guys that
as I win, I won the fuck.
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Who needs our advice this week? Well, the La Rams,
who a nineteen point lead against Philadelphia. They went from
a signature win to L Choco in l Philadelphia h
on a block field goal that was returned for a touchdown,
so it didn't even cover the spread. So what is
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your advice to Sean McVay and the Rams blowing a
nineteen point lead against a team they're trying to catch
in the NFC, the Philadelphia Eagles. You're live on the air.
When you hear my voice. Hello, Line one, you're on
the advice of the RAMS. Line one, all right, Michael
Leprechaun didn't speak fast enough.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
Line two, you're on their advice. Please to the Rams.
Sean McVay.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
I'd get ahead about twenty points, nickt okay, there you
go pretty good. Well, I'll actually more than that because
they lost by more than the one. Line three, you're
on the air. We're giving advice to Sean McVay and
the RAMS.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Hello. Line three, if.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
You had the RAMS plus the points in order to
call the suicide hotline, just down nine eight.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
Okay, I thank you.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
This supermarket Steve as always annoying. Line four, you're on
the air Line four.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
Hello, Yeah, morning time.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
I'm a Commanders fan.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Cheap Thanks, Rams, you could have helped you out there.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Rick and Maryland. Oh there's a there's a coughing.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
I told him a doctor.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
He's a doctor immediate, whoever that is. On line five.
Line six, you're on the airline Sex.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Hello, Yeah, I think the RAM should I just cut
my band A line one. Berg dog might want to,
you know, see a doctor. A Line one. You're on
the airline one. Hello, you need some culture, salt and
black pepper. Yes, very very important.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
Line two, you're on the airline two. We're giving advice
to the Rams. They bow a nineteen point lead on
the road. Gutless football by the Rams. Your advice, Hey, Ben,
this is Kenny from Spokane.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
It's been six years since I called you, but you know,
at the last time I called you, we won password.
I would tell those sons of bitches play better football.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Jesus Christ. Yeah, there you go. All right, sounds good there, Keddy.
Line every six years you called line three. You're on
the airline three. Hello, I found that.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
A line four. Your next we're giving advice to the
La Ram. Sean McVay. They lost the nineteen pointly lose
the game to Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
They should have played Yeah, that would have been It
would have been better, as Seann the hood guy.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
Line foh call it your your next. Line six? Hello,
your advice please to the o Rams.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
Line six. Okay, ey, two weeks off and quick. Okay,
sounds good. That sounds like what you've done. There's a
coffin guy.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
We'll do one more, only one more of it's good.
I'll take credit, Coop, hurry up. Final call instant advice
line for Sean mcvalley two, line two.
Speaker 3 (49:33):
You're on the airline too.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Hello, I changed my name to Philahelpia And there you go.
And you could have gone with that line five. There,
but what is the coughing guy? I like that line five,
coffin guy. That's pretty good.
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So our lead this hour, we start out, Play the Hits,
Play the Hitts. We'll start out with that Sunday night
game in New Jersey as the Chiefs oh in two,
the Giants oh in two, And there they were. You
had Collinsworth and Mike Tarrico yapping what Collin's worth, going
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gaga over the Chiefs as he normally does. And they
had all the documentation of these two bad football teams.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And so the Chiefs trying.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
To get off the schneid right and Russell Wilson desperate
to get that taste of victory. How did that play out? Well,
e if you didn't see the game, he didn't miss much.
As Patrick Mahomes had two hundred and twenty four yards passing,
It's fine and a touchdown. It was a relative bumpy
ride for the majority of the game for the Chiefs
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offense yet again, and they ended up taking advantage of
the lowly Giants. Point future generations will not realize. Even
the current generation does not realize. Jazz used to be good.
What an embarrassment to Giants and it is so bad,
Holy crap. Anyway, the Chiefs get to win, they improve
the one and two. The Giants drop to zero and
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three on the seasons. But the better story is in
the losing locker room. So that is where we go.
A lot of chatter about a quarterback change in New
York with the Giants. As you were watching this game,
he saw that Jackson Dart did come in a couple
of times, as they did that last week. But Russell Wilson,
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all right, so let us discuss the question. Is Russell
Wilson done as the Giants starting quarterback?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
That's the question. So I've got.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Suntan City, Lettuce and George thorergood and we will combine
all of these things together.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We're gonna make some deep fried mac and cheese, is
what we're going to do. Delicious.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Anything deep fried is both bad for you and good
for you at the same time. Anyway, So in terms
of the question, is Russell Wilson done as the Giants
starting quarterback. Well, you can spell it out if you
watch D O N E. That's how you spell the
We're done. Of course he is, Come on, of course
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he is. Russ is cooked. It's microwave leftovers at this
particular point, and it's the kind of microwave leftovers that
were left in the break room for a little too long,
just a little too long there. And of course you
could argue he was showing signs of being dune skis
when he was playing for the Seattle Seahawks at the
end there, and they got rid of him and they
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went to Denver and kind of confirmed, yeah, I'm done.
I can't really play that well. And then the steers said, well,
we think you're not done. We'll bring in He sucked there,
and now the Giants are like, wow, we want you
to suck for our team as well. I guess we
Maybe the news doesn't travel, is it possible? Like the
this is one of those times, like the fans, no
more than the people running the sport, they all, oh,
we're going to turn things around. Oh yeah, I won't
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be fine. We're gonna unlock Russ mister unlimited, how's that
going for you? How's that going with a bunch of
dingleberries around the NFL? As Russ going out there and
another stinker. And then you've got Brian Dayball, the coach
of the Giants, who is basically running suntan city. Here,
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they're laying in suntan beds. You've got one side has Russ,
the other side had Brian day Ball in it, and
it is kind of laying there and they've got that
artificial heat lamp above them, and they're sweating bullets, getting
paid a lot of money and just kind of waiting
for the pink slip to.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Come down, down, down, down down.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
At this point, you do wonder what Brian Dable has
to do to lose his job. Coaching bad football is
not enough, clearly, I mean it's I mean, if you
just judged him off his record, which usually is what
happens in that business, Brian Dayball would have been fired
long ago. The guy blows as a head coach. What
more does he need to show you? He's he's telling
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you I suck as a head coach, and the chants
are like, oh no, we're loyal, we don't fire coaches
really Okay, he stinks horrific And anyway, here's that Brian
Daball the fans were serenading the team in Boo Flat.
Here is Brian Dabele on the fans giving the Giants
the business.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Jackson's progressing.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, we'll continue to work with him.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I got a lot of confidence in him, his development.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
That he's had, and that's what.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
We'll continue to do.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Jack by boor too.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
To be honest with you, in terms of not being
good enough, no, not scoring, not finishing, I understand that
that's that's a nature of it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So the Giants under Brian Dable have a three forty
winning percentage, which ironically.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Maybe not ironically, is pubbing at the word.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The Giants has the same winning percentage they've had the
last decade. There is ten years of poo poo, and
for the New York Jiants ten years, ten years. It's
almost like those Fluke championships. They made a deal with
the devil. Those the Giant teams that weren't good enough
to win the championship but did when they beat the Patriots. Right,
fraudulent teams that got you know, played well, played well
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at the end of the year in the playoffs, but
they weren't really worthy of being a championship team. So
now the payback on that is a decade of suck.
That's the Giants. And they're not even rebuilding, they're just rotting.
They're just rotten. That's the Giants, right. Russell Wilson in theory,
was supposed to be the bridge. He was gonna be
the study veteran hand that would come in there. And instead,
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at this point Russ looks like a guy who missed
the bridge and he drove. He didn't listen to the GPS,
he missed the bridge. He somehow drove into the East River,
which you're not supposed to do. You're not supposed to
miss the bridge and drive into East.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Rivers, but he did.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And the biggest sin is being unable to find Molik
neighbors until I don't know, garbage time's the right word.
But for most of the game you failed.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
To get the ball to your top guy.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Bad job by none never played in me n if.
I know Ryan Clark doesn't want to hear this, but
that sucks, all right. Neighbors had as many catches as
you had, and I had combined going to the fourth quarter.
He had zero catches through three quarters. Zero buppkis nothing
zip oo. That was Molik neighbors in this game, that
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malpractice and the fans and rhythm. They were also rhythmically
chanting for Jackson Dart as Russell Wilson tossing a couple
of interceptions in the first half. Of course, they assume,
what do they think he's.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Going to be?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
They just want to be average? Well, I guess they
want to be Eli Manning. Eli Manning was just an
average quarterback. Elis not a Hall of Famer with that
good had a couple of fluke playoff runs. So I
guess they want Jackson Dart to just be average.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Just please be having. We need average, is what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And you know, the crowd's basically sending you a a
door dash receipt saying, get Dart in there now him.
Of course he'll stink also, and then what are they
gonna do?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
They're trying to push that back as long as they
can because the chances are pretty good he's gonna be terrible.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I love the fact that Russell Wilson was the safe bet.
I love the fact that Wilson was the safe bet,
which is which is great, which is kind of like
saying the Bad News Bears were. You know, they're gonna
go out win a championship, you know that, except their
their pitchers are drunk and the head coach there doesn't
care and all that, and the catcher's probably smoking SIGs
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behind the stands. So it's just ridiculous. And so they
got Wilson and day Ball together here, and you got
the coach. How about the GM here, Joe Shane, the
guy that came over from the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You've got this guy.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And they thought Russell Wilson would keep them afloat, keep
their jobs, And how's that looking right now? Instead he's
he's been an anchor, like the kind JJ and Renton
makes those big giant anchors for those massive that the
Navy uses. And so just a giant anchor strapped to
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the bottom of the boat, right there at the bottom
of the boat. And he's only, I guess good against
the Cowboys last week.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
A lot of yards, a loss, a loss, a lot
of yards.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But otherwise Russ has been pretty much completely guilty of
strategic incompetence as a quarterback for the Giants, the Steelers
and the Broncos, and so they've turned big blue, which
they used to.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Brag, oah, we're big blue. We're the Giants, We're big blue.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And now they're like big blab blab blab, big blab,
that's what they are, right, And you know, waste three
quarters of elite neighbors. And at this point you're just
gonna waste the early part of his career. And then
he's gonna have to run off to the Rams and
win a championship like Odell Beckham did back in the day.
But the Giants are owing three. They are lifeless, and
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next step, logical step would be the bench. Russell Wilson. Now,
I was sending some correspondence to people I know around
the football world. The consensus is actually that he will
not be benched. This he should be benched. But the
Giants play the Chargers. That's a good team. And if
you open a restaurant, what do they tell you want
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to soft launch? Right? You want a soft launch. You
don't want to open it up with a rush crowd.
So the Chargers would be a rush crowd. They're pretty good.
So after that you play the Saints. That's the game.
The Saints, I mean, they're the Yints. Then when I
was a kid there the Aints, they they're terrible. So
that's the that's the game. If you want a soft
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start for Jackson Dart, you toss him out there against
the New Orleans Saints, which is not this coming weekend,
a week four.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It be week five of the NFL season.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Meanwhile, on the cansa City, the Kansas City side of things,
and the question here, I've been seeing some of the
commentary after the game and a lot of the commentaries, right, well,
and the Chiefs got back on track. The train is
back on the tracks and all that. So question, indeed,
Patrick Mahomes, did Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense find something?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Did they find the spark? Did they find the spark?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
On a Sunday night in Jersey against the Giants and
they find a spark? And after a minutes long deliberation
on that question, right, everyone wants to throw rose pedals
at Patrick Mahomes right at his feet because the Chiefs
beat the Giants. But to answer the question, pump the
brakes on that. No, they found the giants. They found
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the giants. It's a tomato can that's the Giants. As
we've laid out that, that's it. That is your cure all.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's kind of like, if.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
You don't feel good, you got a headache, maybe you
take some ibuprofen. If your football team's not playing well,
play the Giants.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But that being said, we realize the Giants are a
medicine ball of incompetence. But the game was still sitting
there was It wasn't anyone's game, but it was a
one score game, fourth quarter one against Giants.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
One score.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Again, if Kansas City had really found something, this game
would have been forty one to ten or something along
those lines.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
They would have.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Blown the doors off the Giants. But that didn't happen.
Did not happen. Instead, we got more of the Andy Reid,
which is ironic. He didn't usually eat this the plotting
Chiefs offense, which is it was essentially they're serving up
iceberg lettuce and much like myself and me and Andy
have that in come, we don't enjoy iceberg lettuce because
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it's got no taste to it. It's ninety six percent water.
But that's essentially what the Chiefs offense is, right, even
in this game, for a mild flavor. There's not a
lot of spice to it.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
You look at the numbers.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Mahomes average six point one yards to seven yards per
pass is average. Above seven is really good. Six point
one is not even average quarterback play for Mahomes. Oh,
but he was the Chiefs found something. Then you had
certain he wasn't a video game guy. And then you
look at Travis Kelcey. More on him later this hour.
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But Travis Kelly, mister Taylor Swift had four catches for
twenty six yards.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
He better get married. She's gonna dump him.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
He keeps playing like this, and Taylor Swift's gonna dump
his ass because he sucks.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
She's got I'm gonna find a younger tight end. I'm
gonna marry. I'm gonna marry you. You're terrible.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I mean, that's not even a decent his standard. That's
not even a decent half for Travis Kelcey. His production.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Low, how low all?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I mean, he's terrible. The Giant and I guess the Giants. Oh,
the Giants have all these first round back draft picks. Wonderful,
But then when Kelsey's not producing, it's a big factor
in the Chiefs offense looking like they're stuck in molasses
and Mahomes and company. They barely cracked three hundred yards.
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He said, well, that's acceptable. Three hundred yards. Yeah, until
you realize the Giants gave up almost five hundred yards
to the Cowboys last week. You know, well wait a minute,
hold on a second. So the Chiefs are like two
hundred yards worse offensively than the Dallas Cowboys at this
particular point. Dallas carved them up like the Thanksgiving Turkey
and the Kansas City struggling to get to twenty two
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points with Russell Wilson turning the ball over with two
interceptions in this game. And so it's just not a
championship level of football for the Chiefs even it's more
like survival. It's and they got the Ravens. They have
the Ravens next week. That's looking like that's the way
they played against the Giants. Obviously they got to played better,
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but that man, play like that, you're gonna lose that.
You'd be one in three the first four games of
the year to start the year. You had special teams problems.
Harrison Buckner missed a field goal, missed an extra point
in this game. That's four points left on the table
by the special teams and three games in and the
offense for the Kansas City Chiefs still looks broken. That's
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my diagno. I'm now working at the repair shop and
it just looks broken. And this is the supposed to
be the improvement though, again because all the Chiefs salents
just showed some signs of improvement here. And if that's
the case, the bar is. I don't know what's below
the basement, but whatever's below the basement, that's where the
bar is.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
And so it's just not a scary team.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know, that offense does not intimidate anyone, despite having
Patrick Mahomes and they got some trash from the Patriots
who had a good game at wide receiver. I mean,
you look around here and they still are searching for
answers in Kansas City. Andy Reid's got to clean a
lot up before you put them as a legit title threat.
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And they can get there. They certainly can get there.
There's no doubt that defense is legit. They're not there yet,
there's no guarantee they're going to get there. So for now,
because we do the show right now today, you have
to downgrade, continue to downgrade to Kansas City Chiefs. What
they found is they found the giants, which is just
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what the doctor ordered.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
That's what they found, all right. Now, last word to Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
We go and is there a quarterback change on the horizon? Say, why, Well,
this is one of the surprising games and Benny versus
the Penny, and we hope you watch that and enjoy.
We had a middling week yet again, had a couple
of bad beats. The worst beat I've had in probably
fifteen years. The Eagles Cowboys Eagles Rams game. Holy crap,
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that is like a PSA. Maybe you should stay away
from certain things. My god, the Rams. We'll get to
this later. It's on my big board. Not a list
terry in England, but a big board. The Rams were
trying to kick a game winning field goal. So the
options were, they made the field goal, they win the game.
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If they missed the field goal, I still win the
bet because of the points spread. The only way that
bet loses if the kick is blocked and returned for
a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Some fat ass for the Eagles ran it back for
a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh my god. All right, anyway, but we want to
focus on Atlanta. This is one of the surprising I
for some reason, I guess I'm a moron. I thought
Atlanta would actually play a competent football game. I know
that's on me, it's not on them. They're the Falcons.
This is what the Falcons do. They're a joke of
a franchise. This is what jokes of a franchise do.
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So they benched Michael Pennex Junior, their next franchise quarterback.
They benched him with eleven minutes left in the game
for veteran Kirk Cousins. The Falcons were trailing Carolina twenty
seven to nothing. You know how bad you have to
play to lose? Be down twenty seven nothing to Carolina?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
My god.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Anyway, So Raheem Morris after the game attempted to squawksh
any chance of a quarterback change, just dismissing the idea
that Michael Penick Junior is in jeopardy of being benched.
So the question is, does Michael Pennex Junior deserve the
benefit of the doubt from Raheem Morris. Has he's shown
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you enough in his brief time as an NFL quarterback
that he's worthy of the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
So I'm gonna go first year. No, of course not.
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Seriously, Michael Pennix Junior look like he didn't even belong
holding a football two picks, one for a pick six,
the other setting up a Carolina touchdown. So you do
the malor math on that. Michael Penix Junior was no
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Falcon scored no points in this game. He led them
to no points. They scored no points. Penex was a
negative fourteen minus fourteen. And you know he was the
essence of the George Thoroughgood song bad to the bone.
He was bad to the bone. What Mike, except without
the cool guitar rift. He didn't have that. Even I
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didn't have that. He was an average four point eight yards.
I guess Carolina the Panthers. All right, my god, so
they're so bad. And Michael Pennix Jr. Did he practice
this week? Was there something else going on? Maybe there
was a death in the family.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
My god.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And here's the other problem, all right, Michael, bad games.
Well everyone has a bad game, Okay, fine, but you
don't normally have bad games against that opponent that is
who you fat in your stats up against the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Anyway, So Penix is I believe he's twenty five.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
This is not some twenty year old kids straight out
of college, campus housing and all that. And he played
last year in the NFL. He came into the league,
he's already one of the older quarterbacks, and you're supposed
to get NFL that's always the argument. Well, the older player.
He played a lot of games Michael Pennix junior at
Washington in Indiana, and we liked him at Washington, we did.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
But this is terrible. It's absolutely terrible.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
And he had even the first couple of games he
wasn't all that good. So it's not like he showed
some overnight improvement from from a year to year improvement. Meanwhile,
Kirk Cousins standing there with the clipboard. You're paying him
all this money, right, what's the point of paying him
as your backup quarterback so we can rot on the
sidelines when Penex is clearly drowning at as QB number
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one and you're you're paying Cousins. You were afraid to
trade him, So what what.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I don't get it, and I don't I don't. I
don't get it again. I guess they're they're looking at
the long game. What is the long game?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Like the Falcons are always terrible, Like there is no
long game there anyway. So when coach Rahie Morris says
there's no quarterback controversy unless trade Kirk Cousins this week,
there is a quarterback controversy, it's coach speak for we
have a quarterback controversy.
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the lead this out, We're gonna go to Philadelphia. It
was the craziest, zaniest, wackiest wild It's like that famous
call from the Stanford Band game, which is so long ago.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
It's so long ago.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I'm pretty sure most people don't even know what I'm
talking about when I say the Stanford Band game. But
it was was legendar the call on that at the
most zany crazy, Well, the band is on the field.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
The band is on the field.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Anyway, So It was kind of like that rematch NFC
playoff game Philadelphia, led by Friy Daddy, he's a big
Eagles fan, fats in Philadelphia and all that. Jonathan and Delaware,
so they were hosting the Rams and they got together
to a PLAYD eight for Week three. If you saw
the game, you know what happened, but we'll tell you
about it anyway. If you didn't see the game, will
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fill the endless. So the Rams built a nineteen point lead,
nineteen point lead, which turns out was not big enough,
not big enough for that great defense to hold the game.
They had a ten yard touchdown run by Kyron Williams,
the Rams went up nineteen. They then allowed twenty six
unanswered points. Twenty six unanswered points. This is a defensive
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football team, I've been told, defensive football team. Game of
twenty six unanswered points to the Eagles, capped off by
the most ridiculous, craziest play, a sixty one yard after
a blocked field goal, Jordan and Davis rumbling and stumbling
and bumbling and into the end zone after blocking that
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game winning field goal by Joshua Carty, and that was it.
As the Eagles win it, Rams not only do they
not cover the spread, and they were getting a few points.
They lost everything thirty three to twenty six. They head home,
licking their wounds to take on the Colts next week
in Los Angeles with a pit in their stomach, a
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pit in their stomach after blowing such a massive lead
in the second and a half, and they did the
thing they wanted to do. They totally bottled up Sequon Barkley,
who was mister everything last year in Philadelphia and is
off to a very sluggish start here to begin. And
the Rams, you can pick it apart all you want.
In fact, before we get into the meat of the monologue,
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let's hear from Sean McVay. The Rams had some major
issues on off fense, but really the third down was
that was the devil for them. Mister mcvagh, can you
comment on how bad you were on third Now.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
We weren't good enough on third down. I just said
I had a touchdown called back in the red area.
That changes the dynamics of a lot of different things.
You go from you know, third and goal on the
two to third.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And goal on the twelve.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
That's a big difference right there. And so ultimately we
got to be better in the red area. We could
really open that game up. Our defense was suffocating them.
They got going, they got a little bit of life,
you know, had some opportunities and and I'm looking forward
to h to responding accordingly. And that's exactly what you
guys are.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Going to see.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Oh good, So lose more games like that to see
how you respond. Wonderful great loss. We'll see how you respond.
Wonderful loss. Here's Matthew Stafford, yet again trying to spin
a negative into a positive.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Here is Matthew stuff.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Learned from it. There's there's so many other plays in
this game, like I said earlier, that we can learn
from that, we can be better. Oh yeah, first and
foremost myself disappointed with how I threw it in some
instances today.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
So just go back to it.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Continue to work hard and know that you know what
you're doing and the process that we're doing is the
right thing, and find ways to win games.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
All right. So the better story is in the losing
locker room. That's where we're going to focus in.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Here. At the start, the Rams had more first downs,
The Rams had more yards the Rams. If you go
by the statue, the Rams dominated the statuet in most areas,
and they still ended up losing the game. So let
us discuss who gets the blame Street Dog, who gets
the blame Street Dog for Sean mcvay's Rams after blowing
(28:32):
a nineteen point lead against Philadelphia. So my observations, I've
got cafeteria, Guardian and Apple sauce, and we'll combine all
of these together. We're gonna make your Babusha's favorite brisket.
And they had I was freeloading at the ramsgate or
the Charges again. They had the They had the brisket sliders.
It's a solid, solid halftime food. Not bad.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
They were pretty good. They were pretty good, all right.
So number are.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
This is a jumbo size, not small, not baby size,
jumbo size bacon wrapped stuff with Halapago's dripping grease all
over it. Sidewalk loss for the La Rams embarrassing listen
and you guys also, oh, you're a houseman for the teams.
You're like, you know much hate I'm getting. Last week,
(29:22):
I did a model. I'll talk more about this later
in the week. It's a football Monday, but I talked
about Clayton Kershaw and they had a burial. They actually
dug up the pitching mound at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Did you see this? Oh my god? And I'm still
getting crap. Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I used to like you, but you gave an opinion
I don't like. I can't listen it. But low information,
knuckle dragging Neanderthal fan, you know what I'm talking about.
So on this one, I do like the Rams. That
is an unacceptable defeat. Unacceptable defeat cannot happen, cannot happen,
and it did.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
The Rams had.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Philadelphia cooked, baked and wrapped in rental rap is what
they had, right, and they somehow had a reversal fortune,
which is still hard to believe. It's still hard to be.
The Eagles had thirty three yards of offense in the
first half of the game. Thirty three get for all purposes,
it's the games Oh yep, nineteen points, the game's over
(30:18):
and then obviously it wasn't here but the Rails up nineteen.
That's a stranglehold situation. Jalen Hurts had seventeen yards passing
at halftime, seventeen. Sekwan Barkley kept running into his own lineman.
The Rams defense did look in the first half like
the Steel Curtain reincarnate. They were living up to the
hyde and then the problem they had to play the
(30:40):
rest of the game. The Rams second half turned into
a cafeteria line. They were serving only one item, sloppy
Joe's or sloppy tackles. And there's a lot of manadors
out there for the Rams. Ole ole o leo le Yeah,
they were out there. And suddenly Jalen Hurts, who look
like he should maybe be selling insurance in the first
(31:03):
half of the game, right, and then all of a sudden,
he's the old vintage Montana back in the day. Or
Drew Brees completed seventy one percent of his passes, seventy
one percent of his passes, three touchdowns, no picks in
the second half, a passer Randy of one hundred and
thirty seven, which I'm told is good. I'm told as good. Now,
(31:24):
apparently I didn't think he could do that. He did
the impossible, and the Rams were accomplices in this, and
the Rams made it possible. Spineless football by the Rams. Uh,
you parlay that with the extra special wink wink special
teams that they get in the doghouse or or if
they're in the doghouse there as well. And you got
(31:45):
the kicker, jo idiot kicker Joshua Carty there, josh Carty coordinator,
Chase Blackburn. That's the Rams special teams coordinator. Absolute debacle,
Absolute debacle. You had the game, it was your game.
You said, I don't want the game. I don't need
the game. It'd be a signature win. I don't want
a signature win. You take the signature win, you go away.
So it went from a signature win to a signature loss.
(32:07):
The kind of a loss that the rest of the year,
whenever the Rams go up by two or three touchdowns,
they say, well, they did blow the game in Philadelphia.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
They can lose this game. The defense is good, but
they caved in. Yeah, well, these special teams. I hope
they took the short bus to the airport because I
know they should. They took the short bus to the stadium.
The way they were playing, it's comical. And I want
to point something out. This is a once in a
generation situation.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
What happened to the Rams. And I'm not blowing smoke up.
You took us the Rams.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Going back to nineteen eighty four, when then they playing
an Anaheim, the Rams one hundred and seven and one
when they led by at least nineteen points one hundred
and seven and one, when they had a nineteen point lead,
That is Vegas jackpot one hundred and seven and one.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
That is a historical low for the Rams.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
You don't blow those games, except they've now done it
twice in forty years. That's once every twenty years, so
they've gotten that out of their system at this point.
Once every twenty years, the Rams will blow a game
like this, and mcveig's crew found a way to add
their name to the Wall of shame. And it's not
even so much that Philadelphia won the game. The Rams
(33:24):
flat out gifted them the comeback. I'm not impressed with Philadelphia.
They should should have, could have would have lost the game.
The Rams turned what was going to be a feel
good Sunday cookout into a case of food poising. Everyone
got food poisoning at the cookout. It was supposed to
be fun. What was that about?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
All right? Now?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Page due Now, we would be remiss if we did
not mention the heal a monster in the room that
is dressed up like a zebra. They played a massive
role in this game. Now Rams wide receiver Puka Nokua,
who had I believe eleven catches. I think he went
over one hundred yards at big numbers for Puka in
this game, and he was called for a very questionable,
(34:09):
very questionable taunting penalty.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Towards the end of the third quarter. There was a.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Big third down catch play for a first down for
Pulka had a twenty yard grab, so big play in
the game. Rams trying to settle things down here, he
stood up and did what he's done.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Every other time.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
He flexed before pointing towards the end zone, which is
what he always does. Pretty harmless, benign act unless the
Philadelphia referee there, who's got a big poster of Jalen
Hurts in his bedroom, said wait a minute, here's my
opportunity to meddle with the outcome of the game, and
I'm gonna take advantage of it because everyone wants a
(34:46):
referee to medal with an effing game.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
And he did.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, now he called a penalty harmless. Something that happened
had been happening for a couple of years. Now, all
of a sudden it was a penalty in that moment.
Greg Olsen, if you're watching the Fox broadcast. He thought
it was ridiculous. Pooka Nicoua said his flex that led
to the taunting penalty wasn't any different and it wasn't,
by the way, from what he usually does after first
(35:12):
down ketches. Nicole also pointed out that Aj Brown, who's
playing for the Philadelphiagos, but the referee apparently like that.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
He had a big celebration.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
On third down, saying, you know, feeling that that plays
very similar, but just didn't feel like it went both ways,
said Pookin the Coua. Now keep in mind that the Rims,
even with that should have could have would have won
the game.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
They did not.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
But the question, does Ram wide receiver Pookinn Coua have
a compelling argument in questioning the taunting penalty was called
against him? And I'm nodding my head, yes, absolutely. It's
the inconsistency of it all. And you've got Eagle coach
Nick Sirianni over there who should have been handing out
(35:59):
game balls in the locker room. And I'm not talking
about the Eagles locker room. I'm talking about the officials
locker room. Holy crap. Nkoua makes that huge third down
play again. He then flexes and he points downfield, he
points down.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Field, and it's nothing. That literally is nothing, And in a.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Game that is promoting violence and all of a sudden,
it's nothing until the official decides. I think I'm going
to inject myself in the story, like what is that?
And there was also some funny business on the Toush push, which, oh,
by the way, didn't the NFL send some kind of
(36:42):
memo out that we're going to clean this up, We're
gonna call the penalty on the touch.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Push and all that.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
It makes you buy into the conspiracy that the NFL
is purposely misofficiating the touch push. So at the end
of the year they can claim, well, listen, the officials
just can't call it right. We have to get rid
of it. It was just not fair. We told the officials,
we made this a point of emphasis. They still screwed up.
We just have to get rid of the play.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
But in the meantime, the Eagles are still running it
and there's no consistency in general. Back to the Puka
Nkua gyrations there, aj Brown was out there doing these
Broadway level performances after every catch, look at me, look
at me, I made j Brown, Aren't I special? I
can smell myself.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
So there he was.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
And posing and stomping and whatever, and nobody bat an
eye but Pookin Nicoua flexes and all of a sudden
fifteen yard penalty. It's a fifteen yard pedalany that's not
enforcing the rules. That is selectively deciding who gets dinged
ding ding ding ding ding, who gets ding? And when
you do that in that particular spot, you're giving Philadelphia
(37:54):
a little bumpity bump is what you're doing there, and it's.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
The ultimate bailout.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The Rams had converted a big third down play, and
so in many ways, the officials here in this game
were the guardian angels that helped guide Philadelphia to the comeback. Now,
Pukakua celebrated perfectly fine, perfectly fine, unless the officials subjectively
wanted to decide, no, you can't do that, and that's it.
(38:21):
So that's the way it was handled. The ref essentially saying, hey, Philly,
you need a little help. We're here for you, and
we were here to help you, and we did. We
helped you. I hope you appreciate that. Send us some
flowers or candy or something.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Like that. We'd like that. That would be good. Probably
candy more than flowers. Probably candy.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
So all right, now, final point to Vegas. We love losers,
And how about the Raiders? How much money did Is
Tom Brady the worst GM by.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
The way in football?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Holy crap, he is so bad Tom Brady because you
can't rip Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
He's a demigod. Cannot do it.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So the Raiders traveling circus stopped in DC. I say
stopped because they stopped playing when they got to DC.
They somehow gave up forty one points to a team
playing with backup quarterback.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Forty one to twenty four year final? The team formerly
knows the Redskins played their backup quarterback Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
And it's just insane.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
So now people are saying, well, wait a minute, Pete
Carroll anything like the Seahawks. This anything like Gino Smith
and Pete Carroll in Seattle when they would have at
least competitive teams to five hundred team, this team looks
just like they didn't make any any changes to last
year's coachings to have it which was not a good
team by the end of the year, or any of
(39:40):
the other coaches in recent years. It's like, why are
you bringing in Pete Carroll? And this is what you're
gonna get. So the question is how much heat does
Pete Carroll deserve for the Raiders getting blown to bits
by the Washington football team? So how much heat? About
one thousand percent? One thousand percent? Playing Washington without Jayden Daniels,
(40:02):
he's the bloody franchise in Washington. And that's a great
mitzvah if you if I said before that, ye, you're
gonna play Washington on the road. The weather won't be
a real big factor, and you're gonna be playing a
team with.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Their backup quarterback.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Okay, and Daniels is the one that stirs the drink
for that offense. And you got panted by Marcus Mariota.
You got pants, Mariota pants you. That's the Raiders. It's
a member of the Witness Protection program for quarterbacks. And
it's it's worse than just Marcus Mariota embarrassing you, because
(40:37):
it was really you were really gutted by the ground
game physicality.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
You're soft.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
That's a soft football team, the Raiders softing Washington ran
for two hundred one yards and three touchdowns. Somebody named
Jeremy McNichols. I have no idea that freaking Jeremy McNichols,
who I thought was working at Trader Joe's Bagging Groceries,
who ripped off a sixty yard run against the Raiders.
(41:02):
That is not soft. That is that Matt's apple sauce.
Soft is what that is by the Raiders. You can
spoon feed this defense to a toddler. The Raiders defense
there trench warfare. What happened to that? What happened to
Pete Carroll Man? I know you're mister positive and all that,
and rah ra guy and me supposed to coach them
(41:24):
up right? I know, realize the Raiders have a talent gap.
You can close the gap by good coaching. Scheme them
up instead, that's not happening and it's just a hot man.
Then you have Geno Smith, this dingle Berry who entered
the chat. Did you hear what Geno Smith had to say?
(41:44):
He said, listen, things are not going well right now. Well,
I'll let him say, take a list.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
I believe in the type of guys that we have.
I believe in the Raider nation.
Speaker 7 (41:52):
I know that we can get this thing headed in
the right direction, and that's what I'm focused on.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
I really want to, you know, get back to work.
Speaker 7 (41:58):
I can't wait to get back to work so we
can solve these problems and come out next week with
a new enthusiasm.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Is there a bigger fraud than Gino Smith. I'll answer
the question for you. No, No bigger fraud than Gino Smith.
He did it again, and yet there are so many
dumb people that I was, well, Gino had a good game.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
It's not his fault. Raiders loss.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Tell me you didn't watch the game, Geno Smith. Another stat, Bandito,
Gino Smith. So the Commanders, let me give you the
basics on this. So the Commanders were up thirty four
to ten going to the fourth quarter, and then the dumpster
diving Gino Smith racked up one hundred and sixty five
(42:35):
yards passing and two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, down
by twenty four points. That's fifty seven percent of his
passing yards for the game, sixty six point six percent
of his touchdowns as after the game was already decided.
Those are say it with me now, O. Their phony
stats is what they are. They are empty calaries. It's
(42:57):
like eating a tube of pringles and saying, just had
my dinner. Well, no, you ate a tube of pringles.
They're good, but that's not your dinner. No, they are.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
And the Raiders again, this is a problem.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
I'm getting old, but when I was younger, the Raiders
always had that tough guy image.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
The autumn wind is a Raider and the autumn wind.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
If the autumn wind blows, now, they'll fall over and
get in the feed up position.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
That's the radars. They'll start sucking that thumb.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
That's raider football pirate ship, my ass more like a dinghy.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
That's the Raiders right there.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
If they were there's like a cruise line is in
all you can eat buffet of mistakes for the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
It's terrible, terrible, terrible, turrible. It's captain of the carnival
cruise lines. There.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
You got Pete Carroll on one side, chewing his gum
passionately while his team is floating a floating turd right there.
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Speaker 5 (44:23):
Over the weekend, Lakers legend Robert Or said that the
Lakers should trade Austin Reeves due to positional overlap with
Luka Doncik.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Is he right? So I have two theories on this coop.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
My first theory is Robert Ori works for the Lakers
as a broadcaster. He would not just throw that out
unless that he's heard that they're trying to trade or
considering trading Austin Reeves. Secondly, based on small sample size
that playoff series against Minnesota, if you remember, Austin Reeves
was exposed he was not good in that playoff series there.
(44:54):
So just based on that, I think there's something to it.
I think there is something there. They got to get
a Luca friendly tea next.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
So there's a survey of like twenty five thirty scouts done,
and only one scout has arch Manning at the top
of their draft board, and the main reason, apparently, is
that most expect him to return to Texas in twenty
twenty six. Ben, do you think that's the right move?
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Well, as long as he can play who they play
Sam Houston State this weekend, as long as he can
play them in the NFL, he'll be in the shot.
The way he's played, he definitely has to go back.
Everyone's hyping up this Leonora's sellars. Have you heard that
from South Carolina? He's supposed to the next big quarterback.
Now he's pasted arch Manning by.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
Next all right, so the Dodgers are gonna be without
catcher Will Smith for the rest of the regular season
and likely some of the playoffs as well.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
How big of a blow has this been?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Well, it's not that big a blow because the biggest
problem the Dodgers have is their bullpen. That's the gas squad.
I'm not worried about that. They've got Ben wrote verd
or whatever his name is. They'll be all right. He'll
catch a good game. The bullpen's the problem. How did
we do he passes?
Speaker 2 (45:54):
That?
Speaker 3 (45:54):
Is they win the pot. I won the guys that
as I win, I won the fuck.
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Who needs our advice this week? Well, the La Rams,
who a nineteen point lead against Philadelphia. They went from
a signature win to L Choco in l Philadelphia h
on a block field goal that was returned for a touchdown,
so it didn't even cover the spread. So what is
(47:05):
your advice to Sean McVay and the Rams blowing a
nineteen point lead against a team they're trying to catch
in the NFC, the Philadelphia Eagles. You're live on the air.
When you hear my voice. Hello, Line one, you're on
the advice of the RAMS. Line one, all right, Michael
Leprechaun didn't speak fast enough.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
Line two, you're on their advice. Please to the Rams.
Sean McVay.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
I'd get ahead about twenty points, nickt okay, there you
go pretty good. Well, I'll actually more than that because
they lost by more than the one. Line three, you're
on the air. We're giving advice to Sean McVay and
the RAMS.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Hello. Line three, if.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
You had the RAMS plus the points in order to
call the suicide hotline, just down nine eight.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
Okay, I thank you.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
This supermarket Steve as always annoying. Line four, you're on
the air Line four.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
Hello, Yeah, morning time.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
I'm a Commanders fan.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Cheap Thanks, Rams, you could have helped you out there.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Rick and Maryland. Oh there's a there's a coughing.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
I told him a doctor.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
He's a doctor immediate, whoever that is. On line five.
Line six, you're on the airline Sex.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Hello, Yeah, I think the RAM should I just cut
my band A line one. Berg dog might want to,
you know, see a doctor. A Line one. You're on
the airline one. Hello, you need some culture, salt and
black pepper. Yes, very very important.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
Line two, you're on the airline two. We're giving advice
to the Rams. They bow a nineteen point lead on
the road. Gutless football by the Rams. Your advice, Hey, Ben,
this is Kenny from Spokane.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
It's been six years since I called you, but you know,
at the last time I called you, we won password.
I would tell those sons of bitches play better football.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Jesus Christ. Yeah, there you go. All right, sounds good there, Keddy.
Line every six years you called line three. You're on
the airline three. Hello, I found that.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
A line four. Your next we're giving advice to the
La Ram. Sean McVay. They lost the nineteen pointly lose
the game to Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
They should have played Yeah, that would have been It
would have been better, as Seann the hood guy.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
Line foh call it your your next. Line six? Hello,
your advice please to the o Rams.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
Line six. Okay, ey, two weeks off and quick. Okay,
sounds good. That sounds like what you've done. There's a
coffin guy.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
We'll do one more, only one more of it's good.
I'll take credit, Coop, hurry up. Final call instant advice
line for Sean mcvalley two, line two.
Speaker 3 (49:33):
You're on the airline too.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Hello, I changed my name to Philahelpia And there you go.
And you could have gone with that line five. There,
but what is the coughing guy? I like that line five,
coffin guy. That's pretty good.
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