September 25, 2025 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer saying that you can't predict if the team would be playing better with Micah Parsons still on it, Giants coach Brian Daboll and QB Russell Wilson speaking to the media after Wilson's demotion, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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The Green Bay Packers, fresh off losing to Joe Flacco
and the Cleveland Browns. The Green Bay Packers with Micah
Parsons take on Dallas Cowboys Sunday Night football. So the
Micah Parsons revenge game, and this is the thing everyone's
talking about. At prem episode of this show, we discussed
(03:03):
the reality that Micah Parsons was talking out of both
sides of his mouth.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
He was giving mixed messages.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, there's some new information out around this game, and
that is the head coach. I say that he's a
figurehead in Dallas who has now entered the chat and
would like to have his saying this.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
We're talking about Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Coach Brian Schottenheimer, who downplayed attempted to downplay the impact
of the Micah Parsons trade as his team off to
the one and two start as they head into Week four.
Schottenheimer said, quote, we have not been playing to the standard.
(03:42):
That's a big word, it's a word of the week standard.
We have not been playing to the standard that would
what we would want to play with, he said. But
if we had Micah, you can't predict. Schottenheimer said, you
can't predict that we'd be playing any better, he told
they gaggle of reporters, and Day says, are you are
(04:03):
you three and zero? Are you zero and three? You
don't know, man, those are projections.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Okay, so let's good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question. Brian Schottenheimer, coach in name only. Coach in
name only, Brian Schottenheimer says, you cannot predict if the
Cowboys will be playing any better with Micah Parsons on
that defense had that trade not happened.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Does this make sense to you? So I've got on
this one.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I've got wedding cake, I've got shoelaces and lunch box,
and we'll put all these things together. We're gonna make
a French onion burger, is what. We're gonna make a
burger with the French onion to dip there. That's what
we're gonna do. So a listen. Unpopular opinion. I actually
(04:52):
agree with Brian Schottenheim on this.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I do.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I didn't detect any lies, and it's one of the
oldest tricks. You learn this when you get in a
talk radio, and I'm guilty of it. Every once in a while,
But hypotheticals are great. And the reason hypotheticals are great
is you're never wrong. You are never wrong. When you
dabble in hypotheticals. It's impossible to prove you wrong, right,
(05:16):
It's impossible to prove you right. You can't prove or
disprove a hypothetical because they're hypotheticals.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And now I do believe in the multiverse.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And so there is a dimension where Michael Parsons stayed
in Dallas and the Cowboys have the same exact record.
There's also a dimension where Parsons stays in Dallas and
they have a better record. But I do know that
Michael Parsons is not he man. I know that he's not.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That he's not.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Walking out of the tunnel with the sword yelling by
the power of Greyskull. He's not doing that. And then
suddenly the Cowboys win. No, Michael Parsons is an impact guy. However,
he is not a.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
One man demolition crew.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And the idea that the Cowboys' entire defense and the
secondary mainly collapsing and in harassmen when they played the
Chicago Bears, if you want to call it that, and
that Parsons being out.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
There, they would have been a different situation.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's just nonsense. It's absolute nonsense. And so on this one,
shady Shotty is telling you what you already know, that
the suck runs deep in Dallas for their football team,
and it's systemic dysfunction and incompetence. The defense is like
a poorly made wedding cake. There's layers upon layers of problems.
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And you could have Micah Parsons on one side, Lawrence
Taylor on the other. Put Ray Lewis out there somewhere.
I don't put bat Batman out there. I don't care
put Batman out there. And they still be giving up
chunk plays because there as one pundit said, they're doing
a cover zero is what they're doing. They're covering No One,
(06:55):
the cover zero defense of the Dallas Cowboys. And so
Schottenneimer is es sense telling you. He's telling me without
saying it, that they've got no depth, they have no creativity.
They can't cover for the mistakes, which is mostly what
coaching is. You cover for the shortcomings of your players.
And it appears some of these guys have no backbone.
(07:17):
So the Cowboys coach is pretty much admitting that listen,
Micah was good, He's not.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
A miracle worker.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Translation, we stank and we'd stank with him as well.
And yes, so keep in mind Green Bay has Micah
Parsons and they just lost to a team led by
Joe Flacco and his dad Jeans.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So congratulations on that.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Now, turning the page to Atlanta, we go, why quarterback drama?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Quarterback drama? We love quarterback drama. So the Falcons, who.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Every year are supposed to be good and then usually
pretty mediocre.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Pretty mediocre.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So Falcons coach Rahem Morris declared that he is not
considering benching incompetent quarterback Michael Pennex junior and making a
move permanent to the veteran Kirk Cousins as the starting QB,
and Morris explaining that quote, Pennix is.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Is our guy.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Still, he's our guy until I let you guys know,
all right, well, just to prove I'm not making this up,
here's why. He Morris commenting on Michael Pennex and the
situation there in Atlanta, Tikolaus, he said, sunny Kirk kwall
Baker Pete for the starting job.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Meltwad why Mike's out quarterback, you know, like Mike's at quarterback.
We got a lot of confidence in Mike. We're moving
forward with Mike. Mike's the guy. Mike is the guy
until I'd let you guys know otherwise.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
But Mike so guy. Okay, he's your guy. Stand by
your guy.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
As you heard and later on, is not even close
to the point where Penex would be demoted. He was
benched in the game against Carolina over the week. And
so the question, how do you categorize the Falcons what
appears to be blind loyalty to quarterback Michael Pennex Junior.
All right, so on this one, we don't know what
(09:12):
Raheem Morris is watching. Maybe he's not watching the games.
I don't know what he's doing. Maybe he's got like
a tablet, he's watching some other games here. However, the
games we've watched when we flipped over to watch the Falcons,
that Michael Pennex Junior hasn't shown us anything that would
indicate that he's going to be a long term good
option at quarterback in Atlanta. Certainly nothing to have blind confidence,
(09:36):
you know, zippo, zilch bupkis all those things. He's the
thirtieth rank quarterback in the league so far this year.
Small sample size, but that's all we have to go with.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And if he's the answer, I do not want to know.
If he's the answer, I do not want to know
what the question was. I don't want to know. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'm certainly not sitting here and singing the virtues of
Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
He's got his own issues.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
But you're paying kirkus starter money to essentially be a
quarterback coach. While Penex looks like he's afraid to throw
over the middle.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Everything is a checkdown.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You look at the spray chart on where Penex throws
the ball and almost everything is to the dump off
area on the right side or the left side of
the field. There's almost nothing in the middle of the field.
They attempted one pass in the middle of the field,
So he's Charlie checkdown and you've got Raheem Morris who's
doubling down on Charlie checkdown. And one of the things
(10:34):
he was like, he really just had a bad game.
It wasn't just a bad game. It was not it's
three bad games. And really the games he played last
year were not all that impressive either. Michael pennex to
this point, and again, I like the player in college,
but I'm just being fair here in the NFL. Michael Pennix, junior,
the highlight of his career so far is the fact
(10:55):
that he did not trip over his own shoelaces.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Running out of the locker room and down the tunnel. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And while you look at this, whether it's regressing or
this is just who he is, Raheem Morris is standing
on the sidelines and getting buried neck deep in quick
sent He sucked as a head coach the first time,
and it appears he still blows as a head coach.
But he's really nice and the guy that owns home Depot,
that owns the Falcons likes him a lot. So the
(11:23):
Carolina loss wasn't just a bad game. That was a
total organizational no show. They got shut out thirty and
to zhering by one of the most god awful teams
in the NFL, and they appear to have some problems
admitting and I can't understand why they don't want to
admit Michael Pennix is not any good at this point
and may never be any good because they don't want
(11:45):
to go back to Cousins, because then they would be
admitting we fed up because we already benched Cousins. That
was a vote of no confidence. We think he can't play. Okay, fine,
you think he can't play. So then you drafted this
guy's insurance. Well, your insurance is a bad, insane insurance policy,
and you you know it's not worth anything. So you
got bad insurance on the You had the original investment
(12:06):
which was bad. Then you doubled down on some insurance
saying one of these ways is gonna work then and
the insurance isn't good. Like then everyone loses their job.
So you have to go with Pedix, every dump off pass,
every incomplete pass, every every time he looks like a
deer in the headlights and he's hair brained.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You got to go with it, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Last word, we had a trade, not a big one,
but an interesting trade.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Now, not a big one, but an interesting trade. And
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So the Jets picked up what the nerds tell me
is a very talented defensive back named Jarvis Brownlee Junior
from the Tennessee Titans for a pick swap in twenty
twenty six. So the question is why would the Tennessee
Titans make what most say is a foolish trade based
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on the talent of the player, Jarvis Brownlee. And is
this just an amazing mitzvah for the New York Jets.
So after a minutes long, a minute long deliberation, I
have determined it's for the culture. It's for the cultures.
That's what I'm seeing here. This guy I don't know
a lot about, Jarvis Brownlee Junior, bounced around, went to
(13:19):
I believe, Florida State and Louisville. But he has been
described as a nut, a cancer, and high maintenance. Strike one, strike, two,
strike three. I believe you're out unless Rob Manford adds
a fourth strike. But then you've got him going on
the defensive apparently, And he tried to delete this, and
(13:39):
so he went on social media, went on the defensive
about the attacks against his good name mentioned he deleted it,
and that is a dead de boy, that is a
dead do it that it's a sore subject. And teams,
even bad ones like the Tennessee Titans, and they do stink.
They don't dump cheap productive defensive backs unless unless they
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think that they show up to the locker room and
they've got a lunch box, and in that lunch box,
it's filled to the very top of the lunch box,
which as best as it's a hogy, it's an as
best as hogy, and it's going to poison the locker room.
And then the Titans are saying, well, we essentially what
they're saying by the trades, we'd rather be bad and
have our wits to us then be bad and even
(14:27):
more dysfunctional. And so what a week it is for
the Tennessee Titans. They traded one of their somewhat productive
defensive backs, gave that player away, they demoted their offensive
play caller who's also their head coach. So things are
going very well there in Tennessee. And now the Jets
they're all feeling good about themselves because they get this
(14:47):
young player. And however, the teams always think that will
be the ones to fix them. Now, I will tell
you that, based on years of talk radio what sometimes happens.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
It'll work in the short term. Okay, to work with
the short term.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I've seen that with basketball players and football players, even baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Guys that are little nut jobs on the.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Spectrum, that it'll work for maybe a year and then
eventually it blows up. Eventually it blows up, like Antonio
Brown went to Tampa and it worked for a little
while and then it didn't work. And there's also another
piece of evidence when I started digging around here for
the player here, Jarvis brownly Junior was traded to the
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Jets from the Titans. The draft is also a tell
that is a good piece of evidence because I went
back and I looked at my notes because I have
keep everything saved in my email here, and I went
back and I looked at the draft notes, and some
of the stuff that I read that my eyeballs want
to pop out of my head when I read this crap.
But I went back, and I don't really remember the player.
(15:54):
So I went back and I read the Scotty point
and said, well, he was greater as a first or
second round pick, character issues, and he ended up getting
drafted in the fifth round. So they don't always get
the draft right. They get it wrong a lot, but
on this one it appears they got it right. Teams
had heard that there were some issues there, and typically
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typically there's some kind of smoke, there's usually some kind
of flame. That's normally how that goes there and so
the Titans it doesn't look like it based on how
they played so far this year, but in theory, they're
trying to build a very sturdy house there in Nashville.
And it's hard to build a sturdy house when you
get wood that already has termites in it, it's a bit.
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up to the follow up.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Russell Wilson mode it better.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Story is in the losing locker room, and that is
where Russ is hanging out these days, the losing locker room.
Even when he plays, he's in the losing locker room.
So Russell Wilson informing the assembled media that he will
not will not be requesting a trade or two be
released by the Giants this season. There had been some
(20:03):
speculation about that. He also wants you to know that
he has not done. Let's go to cut two on that.
Here's a Russ pointing out he has not done.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I'm not done. I got so much belief in myself
and know what I'm capable of.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
I believe I was able to show, especially you know
on the road in Dallas and everything else.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You played the Cowboys. I think I would have had
three touchdowns in that game.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
All right, So let us discuss the key part of
this is Russ telling reporters that he won't be requesting
a trade or to be released by the Giants. So
the question should the Giants now back up quarterback Russell
Wilson be applauded for not demanding out of the Giants'
locker room. So I've seen some glowing stories saying well
(20:46):
Russ even in defeat, Russell's doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
So my observations on this.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
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(21:14):
to the question should Giants backup quarterback Russell Wilson be applauded.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
For not demanding out? The answer is no. But I
have to do a talk show, so I can't just
say no.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I have to expand on that. Here's why I say no.
I can say absolutely not. That's two words. I said no,
and then I said absolutely not. Now up to three words.
But you don't commend someone for not quitting when the
truth is, and it's an ugly truth.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Nobody wants him.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
See, it's not a situation where he's doing this because
he's loyalty. He's loyal It's not about loyalty for Russell Wilson,
it's about reality. There's a difference there. Russ is not
making some kind of noble stand here. He is a
floppy disc. He's dated tech, he's washed up. He's a
(21:59):
relic of a different era. He had his time in
the sun. Congratulations. But this is like we all know
somebody that still has a VCR, right, And it's like
that person that has the VCR in their living room
and they're bragging it's a conversation piece. Now it's like, well,
what do you have that? What's a VCR? I know
what it is, boy, i'd have it. Well, you know,
it's a throwback to the old days and all that.
And I just haven't decided I had that streaming thing.
(22:20):
I don't like the streaming thing. I haven't switched to
streaming yet. Well I know, but you should do that.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It's better. No, No, I like the VCR.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
So the way he's played, he's lucky that the Giants
are even paying him to pretend that he's a quarterback,
like as a backup. He's not a backup. I don't
think you can call him back. He's like working at
the Ford Modeling Agency as a clipboard model when he's
wandering around.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Mister, mister unlimited.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
And if Russell Wilson had any value, and I guarantee
I'm never wrong about these things, If Russell Wilson had
any value on the market, he would go to market.
If there was one GM who is stupid enough to say,
I need that guy, I need that's my guy, I
need Russell Wilson, then I guarantee you that his agent
(23:12):
would be tooting away there on the phone right now,
demanding the Giants release him or trade him and all
that through back channels. But the fact that he's not
tells you everything you need to know about the value
of Russell. This is what we knew anyway privately, even
with that decree by Russ. Privately, you know his people
are working the text machine, trying to drum up some interest.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Out of thin air.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And what about Russ, how would you like to play
for the Bengals or whoever?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
And the tape does not lie, and what's on the tape?
All right? So if it was a movie, it would
be a horror show, is what it would be.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It's jumps, jumps right off the video there, right off
the computer laptop, bad endings and the whole thing ghosts
and goblins. So again, this is not something you commend
Russell Wilson for because you just acknowledged the obvious that
Russell Wilson's career, while he had some great moments in Seattle,
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is on life support. He's been on life support through
three teams, now Denver, Pittsburgh, and now the Giants, and
he's hanging around because the Giants are the only ones
still footing the bill, although not very much because most
of Russ's money was based on the incentives, which you're
not going to cash in because.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
You're not playing now.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Brian day Ball commented the road Ton coach of the Giants,
who will be an offensive coordinator somewhere.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Next year, but not with the Giants.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
But here's Brian day Ball, who gave his first comments
on the decision to say bye bye to Russ as
a starter taking list. I met both with Russ yesterday
and privately, and Russ was nothing but a pro, which
I expect them to be.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
It's my decision. We're going with Jackson.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
We're gonna get him ready to play this week and
the remainder of the season.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
He's gonna do everything he can. Russe will be the backup.
It's my decision, and we're going with Jackson, all right.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So the key part of that he kept saying, it's
my decision, it's my decision. It's my decision, mad Yeah, okay,
which is a tell. It tells you that that was
one of the talking points that he wanted.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
To get in.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
He kept repeating it, like you go into these things
and you have a couple of points you want to make,
and so you keep going back to those points. Now,
there's another part of this where Brian day Ball did
not even tell the locker room. Right, people are up
in arms. I saw some things being passed around.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
People say, oh, I can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I can't believe it that he decided to bench the
quarterback for the Giants, Russell Wilson. He went this rookie
Jackson Dart and the players found out on social media.
O MG, oh my god, says and so and of
course people are clutching pearls saying it's not right, it's
not fair.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So question, did Brian Dayball disrespect the Giant locker room?
Did he break the korum by not informing the players
at they were making a change and letting them find
out on social media about the quarterback change.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
So my response on this is police, what are we
doing here. It's not nineteen eighty five, it's twenty twenty five. Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You don't send a telegram, you don't send a carrier pigeon,
you don't send the pony Express. You don't post it
on a bulletin board next to the coffee machine. There's
a laundry schedule there.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
In the break room.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's Twitter, it's Instagram, it's TikTok.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Probably not Facebook, these guys are too young.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
But that's the megaphone, right, that's the megaphone. That's the
way it works. And this isn't Bill Parcells calling a
team meeting and he's got the overhead projector and he
puts a thing on the projectors and that's how they
find out. I know, guys find out the news the
way the rest of the world does. They scroll, they swipe, boom,
goes to dynamite, done and listen. It's part of the
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times we're in, right. People are chronically, whether you're an
NFL player just a regular smoll, you're chronically addicted to
the online world.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And they're just refreshing their feeds.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And before practice, if you played for Cliff Kingsbury back
in the day, during practice, probably in the huddle, the
whole thing, and you think Brian dayball owes each player
like a personal courtesy call, you know, like there's an
emergency and you send an emergency text out to everyone
and say, oh, here's what.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You need to do.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Foolish and let's not act like this is some massive scandal. Again,
it's a lot of pearl clutching, a lot of that.
Even coaches themselves.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Have been finding out that they've been.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Fired via social media. The last coaching cycle where they
changed coach at Robert Sala, coach of the Jets, found
out on social media. Gerrod Mayo, the Patriots coach who
used to be the Patriots coach, he found out on
social media. And Matt Eberflus, the terrible Chicago Bears coach,
also found out.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
They all got canned.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
They saw confirmation on social media before the team officially
told them they were fired.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
But that is the world that we live in. Man.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Years ago, I got whacked by this company, and I
found out before they told me, and I found out
from the New York Post, who sent out a story
about it. So that's how I found out. Am I
still am I bitter? I wouldn't even better. At the time,
I was like, all, well that sucks. I'll go get
another job.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I'm out and I six months in twenty six days
and that was that was away, and that was it.
But social media is the fire alarm, and if you
want news first, that's where it often breaks.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
And complaining about it.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's like being mad at your local gas station because
they don't have a payphone anymore and you wanted to
use a payphone.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Well, they don't need a payphone, they don't have it.
Get over it, Get over yourself.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
This idea that players need to be coddled and sat
down and walked.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Through, it's just nonsense. It's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
They're not children. They're supposed to be pros. They act
like children a lot, but they're supposed to be pros.
And Brian dave Ball doesn't owe the room some kind
of group therapy session where they sit around the campfire,
roast marshmallows and sing Kumbaya. You want the news first,
you know, we win some games, be indispensable and maybe
if you're one of those headline players, you'll get a
(29:41):
courtesy tap on the shoulder. Otherwise you get the same treatment.
Everyone else, the rank and file, get the hoypol ow.
You get the same treatment, just like if you were
nicking Nebraska. Right a push alert on your phone. The outrage,
it's faux outrage.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Is what it is.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Social media is the scoreboard of can Unication. Is the
jumbo tron right there. If you don't like it, you
can always take the blue pill. You can always take
the blue pill, delete the app. The story ends. You
wake up in your bed, believe whatever you want to
believe because you don't have access to it, so you don't.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Know, and you don't know what you don't know. But
good luck doing that.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
And these guys would rather have I'm convinced they would
rather give up oxygen the modern athlete than Instagram.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
They would they would.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right, final point to motown we go and a question.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
A question.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Some people are basically up in arms, you know, wringing
their hands. They're wringing their hands here that Lions quarterback
Jared Goff does not get enough love. He just needs
more love. He's underappreciated. So I asked the question is
Lions quarterback Jared Goff underappreciated after Detroit ended up stopping
(30:59):
the Ravens back on Monday night. So the answer to
this is an overreaction. This is an overreaction. In fact,
if you look at my mallor scorecard, which is never wrong,
never wrong about these quarterbacks, never wrong about these quarters.
So if you look at it right there, if you
look at my scorecard, we put a graphic up, but
it's radio so you can't see it, and we don't
(31:20):
have graphics on the YouTube feed for this channel, so
you're pretty much stuck. But he's exactly where he needs
to be. Jared Goff is exactly where he needs to be.
He is not in the top percentile, he's not in
the bottom percentile. He's right in the middle. He's in
the middle of the pack. He's your standard dome quarterback.
(31:42):
You give Jared Goff perfect conditions, clean pocket, he will
carve you up. He will carve you up like your
prime rib. However, the second there's any kind of adversity,
cold weather, defensive pressure gets right in his face.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Forget about it, forget about it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
He turns into all pumpkin pumpkin, and Jared Goff.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Is he's not some plucky underdog.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
That's the other thing, Like it's it's very We've had
a couple of quarterbacks who were number one picks in
the draft who have really leaned in, really leaned in
to the fact that they're the the underdog, right, they
really lean to that. Baker Mayfield in Tampa. But Jared
Goff also, I guess the number one broke the button
broke on that, but a little delayed.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But these guys were the top pick in the draft.
And that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Like Jared Goff, if you were the number one overall
pick in the draft he was in twenty sixteen, you
can't say, well, I was, I was underappreciated and all that. No, no,
that that's not possible. He was spoon fed in la
by Sean McVeigh and then spoon fed in Detroit by
Ben Johnson. And you put training wheels on Jared Goff
(32:57):
and he can ride the bike, ride the bike. You
take them off and he's wobbling all over the place.
And let's not act like the league doesn't appreciate him.
What is the what is the way that you are
shown appreciation.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
In that business? Uh, if you you want to cue
up the old.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Respect song from Aretha Franklin back in the day riespect
direct deposit.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Direct deposit is.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
A direct indicator that you are somewhat of value. Jared
Goff is currently on a one hundred and thirty four
million dollar extension. Where I come from, that means he
is appreciated. And by the time he's done with this
current contract, he will have cashed checks just on the
field earnings for four hundred million in career earnings. For
(33:48):
Jared Goff. That is appreciation with a capital A is
what that is. And the the money is the love letter.
That's the love letter.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
And fans some I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I think most people in Detroit to pretty level headed,
but there's some fans in Detroit that may throw roses
at him.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Right, the league doesn't get it right.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I would argue that the league does. They've got this one right.
They view him correctly. He's good, not great. He's the
middle of the road quarterback. You can win with the
middle of the road quarterback. Rams got to a Super
Bowl with jaredy Goff, and if everything goes right in
the Super Bowl, you can win. But he's not gonna
make players around him better, right, and honestly, listen, that
is not bad for a guy everyone thought was absolutely finished.
(34:27):
They thought he would never start when he played for
Jeff Fisher, meaning that he was so bad it's like horrible.
And then with McVeigh, McVeigh was fed up with him
and shipped him out like an old couch when you're
moving out of college.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
And you don't need your soulf anymore and just getting
rid of it.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
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Speaker 3 (34:48):
It's Smeller, how about that? To the third degree?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (34:57):
Kolo Dean Sanders called out the j Aguars on a
podcast this week, saying that they underutilize Travis Hunter. He
said that Hunter needs more reps to be effective, but
are they not using Hunter enough?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Well, generally, the way it works is you have to
show the wow factor. I have not seen it. It's
very exciting the idea of Travis Hunter in the NFL,
but if he's going to be a middling defensive back
and nothing really electrifying on offense, it doesn't excite you.
There's nothing eye popping. So if you play well, you're
going to get more opportunities. I disagree, and Dion's going
(35:31):
to defend his guy.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
I get it. I understand why Dan said it. I
don't agree with them.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Next, so the Cleveland Guardians have made history with the
largest September deficit overcome to tire or take the lead
in a division or league. The Guardians were eleven games
back and they took the division lead on Tuesday. They
still have it right now, Ben, are the Guardians legit contenders?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Well, they're obviously contenders going they're in the playoffs. They're
going to be in the playoffs. But in terms of
are they a real threat to win everything? I don't
consider them a real threat. But it's been amazing. We're
going to talk about this coming up next hour because
it's really more about the Tigers and the Guardians. But
the Guardians are They're They're a pesky team. Those teams
do cost some problems, but they're not a real contender.
Speaker 8 (36:07):
Next, it was supporter of this week that Anthony Edwards
has been watching tape of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
to help develop his post up game. Ben, do you
think Edwards will finally realize his potential and become the
face of the league.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Well, Coop, you know I listened to Rush Limba and
Howard Stern tapes. Look at me now, I'm just as
good as them, so clearly. And Paul Harvey, good day,
Come on listen. I like Edwards, I like his Rasthmatazzy.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I'm not buying it. How do we do? How do
we do?
Speaker 6 (36:31):
There?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
We go?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I passed it. I passed, I passed Matt.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
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Time for Harry Henry Harvey wa ask bad Twitter said
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here is the Kooper loop with the reading of the questions.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
blind Scott.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Hi, Blind Scott.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
For some reason, Blind Scott would like to know if
we can do a meetup in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Why would why? Well, I don't understand what I mean.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I'm supposed to actually at some point get to Baltimore
because my guy sports with Coleman, who I have known,
he's a radio friend. But I've never actually been to Baltimore.
I was close, and I had I was at a
fork on the road and I was like, I was
in Gettysburg and Baltimore is not that far away from Gettysburg.
But I didn't end up going, so I know I'm
not going anytime soon. Though, Well does he why does
(37:42):
he want to go?
Speaker 9 (37:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
But now that I've been to Wrigley and Fenway, uh,
Camden Yard is actually the number one on my list
right now.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Now, you should go to Pittsburgh. I do want to
go to Pittsburgh. Is Pittsburgh is amazing?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
They bad baseball team, good ballpark, Loraina, do you want
to go to Baltimore.
Speaker 9 (38:02):
I'm down to go anywhere and everywhere.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Do you know where Baltimore is?
Speaker 9 (38:06):
Somewhere over there on the eastern side?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
What state is Baltimore?
Speaker 4 (38:11):
New York?
Speaker 9 (38:12):
Stop fans? All right, no, be be for real right now?
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Oh man, Okay, okay, I don't think she knows. All right?
What is next to?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
No?
Speaker 8 (38:23):
Go ahead, and mister irrigation would like to know what's
the most heard of him? What's what's the most money
you have spent at a gentleman's club in one night?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Well?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
I never spent that much, but I did go out
with some baseball players who spent a couple thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
But I was along for the ride. It wasn't my money.
It was only my money.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I don't know, maybe one hundred bucks or something like that,
the most when I was younger.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
But yeah, Loraina, what about you? Most money you ever
spent at a gentleman's club?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Fourteen dollars ben for one drink, one streamer?
Speaker 9 (38:55):
Oh all right, what do you mean just dollars at
a time? Yeah, fourteen singles? Okay, gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 3 (39:02):
That's an Oregon Yeah all right. Uh cool.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
So it was probably like somewhere like in the range
of like two fifty to two sixty.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
And that was not even I didn't even mean to
do it. But was it worth it?
Speaker 8 (39:16):
It was my It was my bachelor party and somebody
had somebody had somebody had bought.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
Me a dance with two girls, and I was.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Did you go to the champagne room? Coop?
Speaker 8 (39:28):
I was, I was already like I was already pretty inebriated,
and I had two hundred and sixty cash in my
pocket when I went in there, and I didn't have
it when I left there.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
So, oh cool, it was that good?
Speaker 9 (39:40):
Huh No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I just I don't remember.
Speaker 9 (39:43):
I'm pretty sure they just took it out of my pocket.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Now. Years ago, there was a stripper from Houston that
used to call the show and pick NFL games when
I first started here, and she told me that the
whole key to being a stripper.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Is the upcharge. That you you have the basic rate,
but then you up charge, you got the add on.
It's just kind of like buying a car. Yeah, of course, right,
you want a tinted windows, and that's exact you want
those times? You want those rims on the tire?
Speaker 9 (40:11):
Do you want the top down? Anyway?
Speaker 8 (40:16):
Moving on, Yes, moving on. Let's see ferg dogs and
a bunch of questions. Oh, let's go. This one's from dogs.
Some of them are not from Fergut. Do you have
a favorite blanket?
Speaker 3 (40:28):
I do?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Oh well, I actually have a pretty good blanket. Right now,
I wouldn't say it's my favorite blanket. If the blanket
went into the Twilight Zone and left today. I'd be okay,
I'd get another blanket, but I do like the blanket.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
I'm a blanket guy.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
I always need the room cold, I need a blanket
on top of me, or I don't sleep well.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
So I have a good blanket. But I'm not.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
It's not like I'm Linus from the Peanuts or anything
like that.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
What about you, Lorena.
Speaker 9 (40:55):
I absolutely love blankets. I love being warm.
Speaker 8 (40:58):
I have three on my bed right now, and my
favorite one is actually the one that Bobby and Florida
sent with the villains on it, because it is so
soft and it's so cute for the season.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Oh that's cool, That's very cool. Bobby has been very
kind here.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
He's sending us jerky too, by the way, Oh nice
fun jerky kangaroo jerky.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Oh okay, what about is it actual kangaroo?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (41:20):
I say? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (41:21):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Okay, what about you? Cool?
Speaker 8 (41:24):
I have a favorite couch blanket. But as far as
like in bed, like we have we have a one
comforter that we use.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
I mean, like, I actually have a favorite pillow that
I have. It's like the perfect size. I sleep on
my side. It's the perfect size pillow, and I actually
got it. I used to do commercials for sleep number
years ago and they sent me the pillow.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
And I love it. I cannot find that pillow. I've
been trying to find that same size pillow. I cannot
find it.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
So I use it, and it does not look good
at this point, but I still use It's what's the
next cool?
Speaker 3 (41:57):
All right?
Speaker 9 (41:58):
Staying on theme, we have this question for Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Hi, Cowboy Killer, you would like to know do you prefer.
Speaker 9 (42:03):
A firm or soft bed?
Speaker 2 (42:06):
More more?
Speaker 3 (42:07):
It's it's not I'm in the middle. I'm not firm.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
I do have the sleep number, so I like it
in the middle. In fact, my sleep number is fifty,
which is right in the middle. So not too firm,
not too soft, but in the middle.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 9 (42:20):
Oh, I love to sleep on a cloud.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
The softer the better, Okay, cool?
Speaker 9 (42:25):
Yeah, I'm gone with Loraina. I lean towards a softer bed.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Wait a few more years, you'll change your position, all right?
Speaker 9 (42:31):
Sleep around?
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yes? What is next year? To ask? Ben?
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 8 (42:39):
Out the alien Opiner would like to know, are you
old enough to have had a soda from a three
liter bottle.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
No, no, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (42:48):
I'd never recall that. I didn't even know there was
a thing.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
I am old enough to. Are those old credit card machines?
Remember they slid the credit card?
Speaker 8 (42:56):
Do you remember the old soda machines that used to
have like the circles and the metal thing down the side.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
I do.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
There's one in there's one in Passadena. There's there's one
over in Pasadena.
Speaker 9 (43:05):
I want to play.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Let's go, Okay, we'll go to Pasading. They're closed right now,
they're open.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
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chair and our lead. This hour is the matchup of
the year in the NFL, this upcoming weekend, which ironically
is not not the Thursday night NFL game between Sam
Darnold and Kyler Murray.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yikes, but no, this is Weekends.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
We go to Jerry's World and you are listening live
as the hype gets cranked up here for what is
being described as.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
A Super Bowl level coverage for a Sunday night game.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The Green Bay Packers, fresh off losing to Joe Flacco
and the Cleveland Browns. The Green Bay Packers with Micah
Parsons take on Dallas Cowboys Sunday Night football. So the
Micah Parsons revenge game, and this is the thing everyone's
talking about. At prem episode of this show, we discussed
(03:03):
the reality that Micah Parsons was talking out of both
sides of his mouth.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
He was giving mixed messages.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, there's some new information out around this game, and
that is the head coach. I say that he's a
figurehead in Dallas who has now entered the chat and
would like to have his saying this.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
We're talking about Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Coach Brian Schottenheimer, who downplayed attempted to downplay the impact
of the Micah Parsons trade as his team off to
the one and two start as they head into Week four.
Schottenheimer said, quote, we have not been playing to the standard.
(03:42):
That's a big word, it's a word of the week standard.
We have not been playing to the standard that would
what we would want to play with, he said. But
if we had Micah, you can't predict. Schottenheimer said, you
can't predict that we'd be playing any better, he told
they gaggle of reporters, and Day says, are you are
(04:03):
you three and zero? Are you zero and three? You
don't know, man, those are projections.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Okay, so let's good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question. Brian Schottenheimer, coach in name only. Coach in
name only, Brian Schottenheimer says, you cannot predict if the
Cowboys will be playing any better with Micah Parsons on
that defense had that trade not happened.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Does this make sense to you? So I've got on
this one.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I've got wedding cake, I've got shoelaces and lunch box,
and we'll put all these things together. We're gonna make
a French onion burger, is what. We're gonna make a
burger with the French onion to dip there. That's what
we're gonna do. So a listen. Unpopular opinion. I actually
(04:52):
agree with Brian Schottenheim on this.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I do.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I didn't detect any lies, and it's one of the
oldest tricks. You learn this when you get in a
talk radio, and I'm guilty of it. Every once in a while,
But hypotheticals are great. And the reason hypotheticals are great
is you're never wrong. You are never wrong. When you
dabble in hypotheticals. It's impossible to prove you wrong, right,
(05:16):
It's impossible to prove you right. You can't prove or
disprove a hypothetical because they're hypotheticals.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And now I do believe in the multiverse.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And so there is a dimension where Michael Parsons stayed
in Dallas and the Cowboys have the same exact record.
There's also a dimension where Parsons stays in Dallas and
they have a better record. But I do know that
Michael Parsons is not he man. I know that he's not.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That he's not.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Walking out of the tunnel with the sword yelling by
the power of Greyskull. He's not doing that. And then
suddenly the Cowboys win. No, Michael Parsons is an impact guy. However,
he is not a.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
One man demolition crew.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And the idea that the Cowboys' entire defense and the
secondary mainly collapsing and in harassmen when they played the
Chicago Bears, if you want to call it that, and
that Parsons being out.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
There, they would have been a different situation.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's just nonsense. It's absolute nonsense. And so on this one,
shady Shotty is telling you what you already know, that
the suck runs deep in Dallas for their football team,
and it's systemic dysfunction and incompetence. The defense is like
a poorly made wedding cake. There's layers upon layers of problems.
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And you could have Micah Parsons on one side, Lawrence
Taylor on the other. Put Ray Lewis out there somewhere.
I don't put bat Batman out there. I don't care
put Batman out there. And they still be giving up
chunk plays because there as one pundit said, they're doing
a cover zero is what they're doing. They're covering No One,
(06:55):
the cover zero defense of the Dallas Cowboys. And so
Schottenneimer is es sense telling you. He's telling me without
saying it, that they've got no depth, they have no creativity.
They can't cover for the mistakes, which is mostly what
coaching is. You cover for the shortcomings of your players.
And it appears some of these guys have no backbone.
(07:17):
So the Cowboys coach is pretty much admitting that listen,
Micah was good, He's not.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
A miracle worker.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Translation, we stank and we'd stank with him as well.
And yes, so keep in mind Green Bay has Micah
Parsons and they just lost to a team led by
Joe Flacco and his dad Jeans.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So congratulations on that.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Now, turning the page to Atlanta, we go, why quarterback drama?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Quarterback drama? We love quarterback drama. So the Falcons, who.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Every year are supposed to be good and then usually
pretty mediocre.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Pretty mediocre.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So Falcons coach Rahem Morris declared that he is not
considering benching incompetent quarterback Michael Pennex junior and making a
move permanent to the veteran Kirk Cousins as the starting QB,
and Morris explaining that quote, Pennix is.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Is our guy.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Still, he's our guy until I let you guys know,
all right, well, just to prove I'm not making this up,
here's why. He Morris commenting on Michael Pennex and the
situation there in Atlanta, Tikolaus, he said, sunny Kirk kwall
Baker Pete for the starting job.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Meltwad why Mike's out quarterback, you know, like Mike's at quarterback.
We got a lot of confidence in Mike. We're moving
forward with Mike. Mike's the guy. Mike is the guy
until I'd let you guys know otherwise.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
But Mike so guy. Okay, he's your guy. Stand by
your guy.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
As you heard and later on, is not even close
to the point where Penex would be demoted. He was
benched in the game against Carolina over the week. And
so the question, how do you categorize the Falcons what
appears to be blind loyalty to quarterback Michael Pennex Junior.
All right, so on this one, we don't know what
(09:12):
Raheem Morris is watching. Maybe he's not watching the games.
I don't know what he's doing. Maybe he's got like
a tablet, he's watching some other games here. However, the
games we've watched when we flipped over to watch the Falcons,
that Michael Pennex Junior hasn't shown us anything that would
indicate that he's going to be a long term good
option at quarterback in Atlanta. Certainly nothing to have blind confidence,
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you know, zippo, zilch bupkis all those things. He's the
thirtieth rank quarterback in the league so far this year.
Small sample size, but that's all we have to go with.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And if he's the answer, I do not want to know.
If he's the answer, I do not want to know
what the question was. I don't want to know. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'm certainly not sitting here and singing the virtues of
Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
He's got his own issues.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
But you're paying kirkus starter money to essentially be a
quarterback coach. While Penex looks like he's afraid to throw
over the middle.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Everything is a checkdown.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You look at the spray chart on where Penex throws
the ball and almost everything is to the dump off
area on the right side or the left side of
the field. There's almost nothing in the middle of the field.
They attempted one pass in the middle of the field,
So he's Charlie checkdown and you've got Raheem Morris who's
doubling down on Charlie checkdown. And one of the things
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he was like, he really just had a bad game.
It wasn't just a bad game. It was not it's
three bad games. And really the games he played last
year were not all that impressive either. Michael pennex to
this point, and again, I like the player in college,
but I'm just being fair here in the NFL. Michael Pennix, junior,
the highlight of his career so far is the fact
(10:55):
that he did not trip over his own shoelaces.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Running out of the locker room and down the tunnel. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And while you look at this, whether it's regressing or
this is just who he is, Raheem Morris is standing
on the sidelines and getting buried neck deep in quick
sent He sucked as a head coach the first time,
and it appears he still blows as a head coach.
But he's really nice and the guy that owns home Depot,
that owns the Falcons likes him a lot. So the
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Carolina loss wasn't just a bad game. That was a
total organizational no show. They got shut out thirty and
to zhering by one of the most god awful teams
in the NFL, and they appear to have some problems
admitting and I can't understand why they don't want to
admit Michael Pennix is not any good at this point
and may never be any good because they don't want
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to go back to Cousins, because then they would be
admitting we fed up because we already benched Cousins. That
was a vote of no confidence. We think he can't play. Okay, fine,
you think he can't play. So then you drafted this
guy's insurance. Well, your insurance is a bad, insane insurance policy,
and you you know it's not worth anything. So you
got bad insurance on the You had the original investment
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which was bad. Then you doubled down on some insurance
saying one of these ways is gonna work then and
the insurance isn't good. Like then everyone loses their job.
So you have to go with Pedix, every dump off pass,
every incomplete pass, every every time he looks like a
deer in the headlights and he's hair brained.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You got to go with it, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Last word, we had a trade, not a big one,
but an interesting trade.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Now, not a big one, but an interesting trade. And
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So the Jets picked up what the nerds tell me
is a very talented defensive back named Jarvis Brownlee Junior
from the Tennessee Titans for a pick swap in twenty
twenty six. So the question is why would the Tennessee
Titans make what most say is a foolish trade based
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on the talent of the player, Jarvis Brownlee. And is
this just an amazing mitzvah for the New York Jets.
So after a minutes long, a minute long deliberation, I
have determined it's for the culture. It's for the cultures.
That's what I'm seeing here. This guy I don't know
a lot about, Jarvis Brownlee Junior, bounced around, went to
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I believe, Florida State and Louisville. But he has been
described as a nut, a cancer, and high maintenance. Strike one, strike, two,
strike three. I believe you're out unless Rob Manford adds
a fourth strike. But then you've got him going on
the defensive apparently, And he tried to delete this, and
(13:39):
so he went on social media, went on the defensive
about the attacks against his good name mentioned he deleted it,
and that is a dead de boy, that is a
dead do it that it's a sore subject. And teams,
even bad ones like the Tennessee Titans, and they do stink.
They don't dump cheap productive defensive backs unless unless they
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think that they show up to the locker room and
they've got a lunch box, and in that lunch box,
it's filled to the very top of the lunch box,
which as best as it's a hogy, it's an as
best as hogy, and it's going to poison the locker room.
And then the Titans are saying, well, we essentially what
they're saying by the trades, we'd rather be bad and
have our wits to us then be bad and even
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more dysfunctional. And so what a week it is for
the Tennessee Titans. They traded one of their somewhat productive
defensive backs, gave that player away, they demoted their offensive
play caller who's also their head coach. So things are
going very well there in Tennessee. And now the Jets
they're all feeling good about themselves because they get this
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young player. And however, the teams always think that will
be the ones to fix them. Now, I will tell
you that, based on years of talk radio what sometimes happens.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
It'll work in the short term. Okay, to work with
the short term.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I've seen that with basketball players and football players, even baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Guys that are little nut jobs on the.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Spectrum, that it'll work for maybe a year and then
eventually it blows up. Eventually it blows up, like Antonio
Brown went to Tampa and it worked for a little
while and then it didn't work. And there's also another
piece of evidence when I started digging around here for
the player here, Jarvis brownly Junior was traded to the
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Jets from the Titans. The draft is also a tell
that is a good piece of evidence because I went
back and I looked at my notes because I have
keep everything saved in my email here, and I went
back and I looked at the draft notes, and some
of the stuff that I read that my eyeballs want
to pop out of my head when I read this crap.
But I went back, and I don't really remember the player.
(15:54):
So I went back and I read the Scotty point
and said, well, he was greater as a first or
second round pick, character issues, and he ended up getting
drafted in the fifth round. So they don't always get
the draft right. They get it wrong a lot, but
on this one it appears they got it right. Teams
had heard that there were some issues there, and typically
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typically there's some kind of smoke, there's usually some kind
of flame. That's normally how that goes there and so
the Titans it doesn't look like it based on how
they played so far this year, but in theory, they're
trying to build a very sturdy house there in Nashville.
And it's hard to build a sturdy house when you
get wood that already has termites in it, it's a bit.
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Now and a way we go interesting story here out
of Gotham and follow up to the follow up, follow
up to the follow up.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Russell Wilson mode it better.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Story is in the losing locker room, and that is
where Russ is hanging out these days, the losing locker room.
Even when he plays, he's in the losing locker room.
So Russell Wilson informing the assembled media that he will
not will not be requesting a trade or two be
released by the Giants this season. There had been some
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speculation about that. He also wants you to know that
he has not done. Let's go to cut two on that.
Here's a Russ pointing out he has not done.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I'm not done. I got so much belief in myself
and know what I'm capable of.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
I believe I was able to show, especially you know
on the road in Dallas and everything else.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You played the Cowboys. I think I would have had
three touchdowns in that game.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
All right, So let us discuss the key part of
this is Russ telling reporters that he won't be requesting
a trade or to be released by the Giants. So
the question should the Giants now back up quarterback Russell
Wilson be applauded for not demanding out of the Giants'
locker room. So I've seen some glowing stories saying well
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Russ even in defeat, Russell's doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
So my observations on this.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I've got the Ford Modeling Agency, overhead projector, and direct
deposit and we will combine all all of these things
together and we are going to make some delicious French
onion soup. Is what we're going to do. You're Babushka's
favorite French onion soup. So number W Now, the answer
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to the question should Giants backup quarterback Russell Wilson be applauded.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
For not demanding out? The answer is no. But I
have to do a talk show, so I can't just
say no.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I have to expand on that. Here's why I say no.
I can say absolutely not. That's two words. I said no,
and then I said absolutely not. Now up to three words.
But you don't commend someone for not quitting when the
truth is, and it's an ugly truth.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Nobody wants him.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
See, it's not a situation where he's doing this because
he's loyalty. He's loyal It's not about loyalty for Russell Wilson,
it's about reality. There's a difference there. Russ is not
making some kind of noble stand here. He is a
floppy disc. He's dated tech, he's washed up. He's a
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relic of a different era. He had his time in
the sun. Congratulations. But this is like we all know
somebody that still has a VCR, right, And it's like
that person that has the VCR in their living room
and they're bragging it's a conversation piece. Now it's like, well,
what do you have that? What's a VCR? I know
what it is, boy, i'd have it. Well, you know,
it's a throwback to the old days and all that.
And I just haven't decided I had that streaming thing.
(22:20):
I don't like the streaming thing. I haven't switched to
streaming yet. Well I know, but you should do that.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It's better. No, No, I like the VCR.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
So the way he's played, he's lucky that the Giants
are even paying him to pretend that he's a quarterback,
like as a backup. He's not a backup. I don't
think you can call him back. He's like working at
the Ford Modeling Agency as a clipboard model when he's
wandering around.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Mister, mister unlimited.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
And if Russell Wilson had any value, and I guarantee
I'm never wrong about these things, If Russell Wilson had
any value on the market, he would go to market.
If there was one GM who is stupid enough to say,
I need that guy, I need that's my guy, I
need Russell Wilson, then I guarantee you that his agent
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would be tooting away there on the phone right now,
demanding the Giants release him or trade him and all
that through back channels. But the fact that he's not
tells you everything you need to know about the value
of Russell. This is what we knew anyway privately, even
with that decree by Russ. Privately, you know his people
are working the text machine, trying to drum up some interest.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Out of thin air.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And what about Russ, how would you like to play
for the Bengals or whoever?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
And the tape does not lie, and what's on the tape?
All right? So if it was a movie, it would
be a horror show, is what it would be.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It's jumps, jumps right off the video there, right off
the computer laptop, bad endings and the whole thing ghosts
and goblins. So again, this is not something you commend
Russell Wilson for because you just acknowledged the obvious that
Russell Wilson's career, while he had some great moments in Seattle,
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is on life support. He's been on life support through
three teams, now Denver, Pittsburgh, and now the Giants, and
he's hanging around because the Giants are the only ones
still footing the bill, although not very much because most
of Russ's money was based on the incentives, which you're
not going to cash in because.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
You're not playing now.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Brian day Ball commented the road Ton coach of the Giants,
who will be an offensive coordinator somewhere.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Next year, but not with the Giants.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
But here's Brian day Ball, who gave his first comments
on the decision to say bye bye to Russ as
a starter taking list. I met both with Russ yesterday
and privately, and Russ was nothing but a pro, which
I expect them to be.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
It's my decision. We're going with Jackson.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
We're gonna get him ready to play this week and
the remainder of the season.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
He's gonna do everything he can. Russe will be the backup.
It's my decision, and we're going with Jackson, all right.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So the key part of that he kept saying, it's
my decision, it's my decision. It's my decision, mad Yeah, okay,
which is a tell. It tells you that that was
one of the talking points that he wanted.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
To get in.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
He kept repeating it, like you go into these things
and you have a couple of points you want to make,
and so you keep going back to those points. Now,
there's another part of this where Brian day Ball did
not even tell the locker room. Right, people are up
in arms. I saw some things being passed around.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
People say, oh, I can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I can't believe it that he decided to bench the
quarterback for the Giants, Russell Wilson. He went this rookie
Jackson Dart and the players found out on social media.
O MG, oh my god, says and so and of
course people are clutching pearls saying it's not right, it's
not fair.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So question, did Brian Dayball disrespect the Giant locker room?
Did he break the korum by not informing the players
at they were making a change and letting them find
out on social media about the quarterback change.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
So my response on this is police, what are we
doing here. It's not nineteen eighty five, it's twenty twenty five. Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You don't send a telegram, you don't send a carrier pigeon,
you don't send the pony Express. You don't post it
on a bulletin board next to the coffee machine. There's
a laundry schedule there.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
In the break room.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's Twitter, it's Instagram, it's TikTok.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Probably not Facebook, these guys are too young.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
But that's the megaphone, right, that's the megaphone. That's the
way it works. And this isn't Bill Parcells calling a
team meeting and he's got the overhead projector and he
puts a thing on the projectors and that's how they
find out. I know, guys find out the news the
way the rest of the world does. They scroll, they swipe, boom,
goes to dynamite, done and listen. It's part of the
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times we're in, right. People are chronically, whether you're an
NFL player just a regular smoll, you're chronically addicted to
the online world.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And they're just refreshing their feeds.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And before practice, if you played for Cliff Kingsbury back
in the day, during practice, probably in the huddle, the
whole thing, and you think Brian dayball owes each player
like a personal courtesy call, you know, like there's an
emergency and you send an emergency text out to everyone
and say, oh, here's what.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You need to do.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Foolish and let's not act like this is some massive scandal. Again,
it's a lot of pearl clutching, a lot of that.
Even coaches themselves.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Have been finding out that they've been.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Fired via social media. The last coaching cycle where they
changed coach at Robert Sala, coach of the Jets, found
out on social media. Gerrod Mayo, the Patriots coach who
used to be the Patriots coach, he found out on
social media. And Matt Eberflus, the terrible Chicago Bears coach,
also found out.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
They all got canned.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
They saw confirmation on social media before the team officially
told them they were fired.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
But that is the world that we live in. Man.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Years ago, I got whacked by this company, and I
found out before they told me, and I found out
from the New York Post, who sent out a story
about it. So that's how I found out. Am I
still am I bitter? I wouldn't even better. At the time,
I was like, all, well that sucks. I'll go get
another job.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I'm out and I six months in twenty six days
and that was that was away, and that was it.
But social media is the fire alarm, and if you
want news first, that's where it often breaks.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
And complaining about it.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's like being mad at your local gas station because
they don't have a payphone anymore and you wanted to
use a payphone.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Well, they don't need a payphone, they don't have it.
Get over it, Get over yourself.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
This idea that players need to be coddled and sat
down and walked.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Through, it's just nonsense. It's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
They're not children. They're supposed to be pros. They act
like children a lot, but they're supposed to be pros.
And Brian dave Ball doesn't owe the room some kind
of group therapy session where they sit around the campfire,
roast marshmallows and sing Kumbaya. You want the news first,
you know, we win some games, be indispensable and maybe
if you're one of those headline players, you'll get a
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courtesy tap on the shoulder. Otherwise you get the same treatment.
Everyone else, the rank and file, get the hoypol ow.
You get the same treatment, just like if you were
nicking Nebraska. Right a push alert on your phone. The outrage,
it's faux outrage.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Is what it is.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Social media is the scoreboard of can Unication. Is the
jumbo tron right there. If you don't like it, you
can always take the blue pill. You can always take
the blue pill, delete the app. The story ends. You
wake up in your bed, believe whatever you want to
believe because you don't have access to it, so you don't.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Know, and you don't know what you don't know. But
good luck doing that.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
And these guys would rather have I'm convinced they would
rather give up oxygen the modern athlete than Instagram.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
They would they would.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right, final point to motown we go and a question.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
A question.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Some people are basically up in arms, you know, wringing
their hands. They're wringing their hands here that Lions quarterback
Jared Goff does not get enough love. He just needs
more love. He's underappreciated. So I asked the question is
Lions quarterback Jared Goff underappreciated after Detroit ended up stopping
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the Ravens back on Monday night. So the answer to
this is an overreaction. This is an overreaction. In fact,
if you look at my mallor scorecard, which is never wrong,
never wrong about these quarterbacks, never wrong about these quarters.
So if you look at it right there, if you
look at my scorecard, we put a graphic up, but
it's radio so you can't see it, and we don't
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have graphics on the YouTube feed for this channel, so
you're pretty much stuck. But he's exactly where he needs
to be. Jared Goff is exactly where he needs to be.
He is not in the top percentile, he's not in
the bottom percentile. He's right in the middle. He's in
the middle of the pack. He's your standard dome quarterback.
(31:42):
You give Jared Goff perfect conditions, clean pocket, he will
carve you up. He will carve you up like your
prime rib. However, the second there's any kind of adversity,
cold weather, defensive pressure gets right in his face.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Forget about it, forget about it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
He turns into all pumpkin pumpkin, and Jared Goff.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Is he's not some plucky underdog.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
That's the other thing, Like it's it's very We've had
a couple of quarterbacks who were number one picks in
the draft who have really leaned in, really leaned in
to the fact that they're the the underdog, right, they
really lean to that. Baker Mayfield in Tampa. But Jared
Goff also, I guess the number one broke the button
broke on that, but a little delayed.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But these guys were the top pick in the draft.
And that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Like Jared Goff, if you were the number one overall
pick in the draft he was in twenty sixteen, you
can't say, well, I was, I was underappreciated and all that. No, no,
that that's not possible. He was spoon fed in la
by Sean McVeigh and then spoon fed in Detroit by
Ben Johnson. And you put training wheels on Jared Goff
(32:57):
and he can ride the bike, ride the bike. You
take them off and he's wobbling all over the place.
And let's not act like the league doesn't appreciate him.
What is the what is the way that you are
shown appreciation.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
In that business? Uh, if you you want to cue
up the old.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Respect song from Aretha Franklin back in the day riespect
direct deposit.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Direct deposit is.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
A direct indicator that you are somewhat of value. Jared
Goff is currently on a one hundred and thirty four
million dollar extension. Where I come from, that means he
is appreciated. And by the time he's done with this
current contract, he will have cashed checks just on the
field earnings for four hundred million in career earnings. For
(33:48):
Jared Goff. That is appreciation with a capital A is
what that is. And the the money is the love letter.
That's the love letter.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
And fans some I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I think most people in Detroit to pretty level headed,
but there's some fans in Detroit that may throw roses
at him.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Right, the league doesn't get it right.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I would argue that the league does. They've got this one right.
They view him correctly. He's good, not great. He's the
middle of the road quarterback. You can win with the
middle of the road quarterback. Rams got to a Super
Bowl with jaredy Goff, and if everything goes right in
the Super Bowl, you can win. But he's not gonna
make players around him better, right, and honestly, listen, that
is not bad for a guy everyone thought was absolutely finished.
(34:27):
They thought he would never start when he played for
Jeff Fisher, meaning that he was so bad it's like horrible.
And then with McVeigh, McVeigh was fed up with him
and shipped him out like an old couch when you're
moving out of college.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
And you don't need your soulf anymore and just getting
rid of it.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
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Speaker 3 (34:48):
It's Smeller, how about that? To the third degree?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (34:57):
Kolo Dean Sanders called out the j Aguars on a
podcast this week, saying that they underutilize Travis Hunter. He
said that Hunter needs more reps to be effective, but
are they not using Hunter enough?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Well, generally, the way it works is you have to
show the wow factor. I have not seen it. It's
very exciting the idea of Travis Hunter in the NFL,
but if he's going to be a middling defensive back
and nothing really electrifying on offense, it doesn't excite you.
There's nothing eye popping. So if you play well, you're
going to get more opportunities. I disagree, and Dion's going
(35:31):
to defend his guy.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
I get it. I understand why Dan said it. I
don't agree with them.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Next, so the Cleveland Guardians have made history with the
largest September deficit overcome to tire or take the lead
in a division or league. The Guardians were eleven games
back and they took the division lead on Tuesday. They
still have it right now, Ben, are the Guardians legit contenders?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Well, they're obviously contenders going they're in the playoffs. They're
going to be in the playoffs. But in terms of
are they a real threat to win everything? I don't
consider them a real threat. But it's been amazing. We're
going to talk about this coming up next hour because
it's really more about the Tigers and the Guardians. But
the Guardians are They're They're a pesky team. Those teams
do cost some problems, but they're not a real contender.
Speaker 8 (36:07):
Next, it was supporter of this week that Anthony Edwards
has been watching tape of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
to help develop his post up game. Ben, do you
think Edwards will finally realize his potential and become the
face of the league.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Well, Coop, you know I listened to Rush Limba and
Howard Stern tapes. Look at me now, I'm just as
good as them, so clearly. And Paul Harvey, good day,
Come on listen. I like Edwards, I like his Rasthmatazzy.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I'm not buying it. How do we do? How do
we do?
Speaker 6 (36:31):
There?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
We go?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I passed it. I passed, I passed Matt.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
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Speaker 1 (36:48):
Time for Harry Henry Harvey wa ask bad Twitter said
us your questions on Twitter now and no way we
go to ask man. Your questions are answers. We will
attempt to not fly too close to the sun. And
here is the Kooper loop with the reading of the questions.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
blind Scott.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Hi, Blind Scott.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
For some reason, Blind Scott would like to know if
we can do a meetup in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Why would why? Well, I don't understand what I mean.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I'm supposed to actually at some point get to Baltimore
because my guy sports with Coleman, who I have known,
he's a radio friend. But I've never actually been to Baltimore.
I was close, and I had I was at a
fork on the road and I was like, I was
in Gettysburg and Baltimore is not that far away from Gettysburg.
But I didn't end up going, so I know I'm
not going anytime soon. Though, Well does he why does
(37:42):
he want to go?
Speaker 9 (37:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
But now that I've been to Wrigley and Fenway, uh,
Camden Yard is actually the number one on my list
right now.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Now, you should go to Pittsburgh. I do want to
go to Pittsburgh. Is Pittsburgh is amazing?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
They bad baseball team, good ballpark, Loraina, do you want
to go to Baltimore.
Speaker 9 (38:02):
I'm down to go anywhere and everywhere.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Do you know where Baltimore is?
Speaker 9 (38:06):
Somewhere over there on the eastern side?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
What state is Baltimore?
Speaker 4 (38:11):
New York?
Speaker 9 (38:12):
Stop fans? All right, no, be be for real right now?
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Oh man, Okay, okay, I don't think she knows. All right?
What is next to?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
No?
Speaker 8 (38:23):
Go ahead, and mister irrigation would like to know what's
the most heard of him? What's what's the most money
you have spent at a gentleman's club in one night?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Well?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
I never spent that much, but I did go out
with some baseball players who spent a couple thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
But I was along for the ride. It wasn't my money.
It was only my money.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I don't know, maybe one hundred bucks or something like that,
the most when I was younger.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
But yeah, Loraina, what about you? Most money you ever
spent at a gentleman's club?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Fourteen dollars ben for one drink, one streamer?
Speaker 9 (38:55):
Oh all right, what do you mean just dollars at
a time? Yeah, fourteen singles? Okay, gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 3 (39:02):
That's an Oregon Yeah all right. Uh cool.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
So it was probably like somewhere like in the range
of like two fifty to two sixty.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
And that was not even I didn't even mean to
do it. But was it worth it?
Speaker 8 (39:16):
It was my It was my bachelor party and somebody
had somebody had somebody had bought.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
Me a dance with two girls, and I was.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Did you go to the champagne room? Coop?
Speaker 8 (39:28):
I was, I was already like I was already pretty inebriated,
and I had two hundred and sixty cash in my
pocket when I went in there, and I didn't have
it when I left there.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
So, oh cool, it was that good?
Speaker 9 (39:40):
Huh No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I just I don't remember.
Speaker 9 (39:43):
I'm pretty sure they just took it out of my pocket.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Now. Years ago, there was a stripper from Houston that
used to call the show and pick NFL games when
I first started here, and she told me that the
whole key to being a stripper.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Is the upcharge. That you you have the basic rate,
but then you up charge, you got the add on.
It's just kind of like buying a car. Yeah, of course, right,
you want a tinted windows, and that's exact you want
those times? You want those rims on the tire?
Speaker 9 (40:11):
Do you want the top down? Anyway?
Speaker 8 (40:16):
Moving on, Yes, moving on. Let's see ferg dogs and
a bunch of questions. Oh, let's go. This one's from dogs.
Some of them are not from Fergut. Do you have
a favorite blanket?
Speaker 3 (40:28):
I do?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Oh well, I actually have a pretty good blanket. Right now,
I wouldn't say it's my favorite blanket. If the blanket
went into the Twilight Zone and left today. I'd be okay,
I'd get another blanket, but I do like the blanket.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
I'm a blanket guy.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
I always need the room cold, I need a blanket
on top of me, or I don't sleep well.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
So I have a good blanket. But I'm not.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
It's not like I'm Linus from the Peanuts or anything
like that.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
What about you, Lorena.
Speaker 9 (40:55):
I absolutely love blankets. I love being warm.
Speaker 8 (40:58):
I have three on my bed right now, and my
favorite one is actually the one that Bobby and Florida
sent with the villains on it, because it is so
soft and it's so cute for the season.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Oh that's cool, That's very cool. Bobby has been very
kind here.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
He's sending us jerky too, by the way, Oh nice
fun jerky kangaroo jerky.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Oh okay, what about is it actual kangaroo?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (41:20):
I say? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (41:21):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Okay, what about you? Cool?
Speaker 8 (41:24):
I have a favorite couch blanket. But as far as
like in bed, like we have we have a one
comforter that we use.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
I mean, like, I actually have a favorite pillow that
I have. It's like the perfect size. I sleep on
my side. It's the perfect size pillow, and I actually
got it. I used to do commercials for sleep number
years ago and they sent me the pillow.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
And I love it. I cannot find that pillow. I've
been trying to find that same size pillow. I cannot
find it.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
So I use it, and it does not look good
at this point, but I still use It's what's the
next cool?
Speaker 3 (41:57):
All right?
Speaker 9 (41:58):
Staying on theme, we have this question for Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Hi, Cowboy Killer, you would like to know do you prefer.
Speaker 9 (42:03):
A firm or soft bed?
Speaker 2 (42:06):
More more?
Speaker 3 (42:07):
It's it's not I'm in the middle. I'm not firm.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
I do have the sleep number, so I like it
in the middle. In fact, my sleep number is fifty,
which is right in the middle. So not too firm,
not too soft, but in the middle.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 9 (42:20):
Oh, I love to sleep on a cloud.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
The softer the better, Okay, cool?
Speaker 9 (42:25):
Yeah, I'm gone with Loraina. I lean towards a softer bed.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Wait a few more years, you'll change your position, all right?
Speaker 9 (42:31):
Sleep around?
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yes? What is next year? To ask? Ben?
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 8 (42:39):
Out the alien Opiner would like to know, are you
old enough to have had a soda from a three
liter bottle.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
No, no, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (42:48):
I'd never recall that. I didn't even know there was
a thing.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
I am old enough to. Are those old credit card machines?
Remember they slid the credit card?
Speaker 8 (42:56):
Do you remember the old soda machines that used to
have like the circles and the metal thing down the side.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
I do.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
There's one in there's one in Passadena. There's there's one
over in Pasadena.
Speaker 9 (43:05):
I want to play.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Let's go, Okay, we'll go to Pasading. They're closed right now,
they're open.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
Turn it
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