September 26, 2025 • 46 mins
Big Ben recaps Sunday Night Football that saw Kyler Murray and the Cardinals losing to the Seahawks in Arizona, Richard Sherman taking shots at his former teammate in QB Russell Wilson, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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Speaker 4 (02:14):
Friday, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And our lead this hour from the Valley of the Sun.
It was billed as an NFC West Barton Berner and
it actually did turn out to be a bit of
a Barnon Burner here, Sam Darnold and the Seahawks versus
Kyler Murray and the Cardinals. As Spaccoli pointed out, he said, well,
I'm glad you're doing the show, Ben, because you're gonna
watch it so we don't have to.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
And yeah, yeah, I did. Into the Amazon.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The iconic al Michaels, the Great Al Michaels still calling
NFL games with Herbie college football guy pretending to be
an NFL guy. Kirk Kirk Street, the failed Ohio State quarterback.
So I don't know if you watched this game, probably not.
We were watching it, so, as Spaccoli pointed out, you
would not have have to.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
And it looked like this was going to be.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Blow out city, blow out city for the team from
the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
And then it wasn't as they screwed things up, played
with their food, and it came down to the bitter end.
Jason Myers lined up for a fifty two.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yard field goal in a tie game as time expired
through the uprights. That is a kicker for the Seattle
football team and Sam Darnold. You know it's not a
big game because Sam Darnald had a good stat line
two hundred and forty two yards and a touchdown. Seattle
gagged up a big lead then had to rally to
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get by the Cardinals.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Thanks to a.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Special teams blunder by Arizona twenty three to twenty year final.
And if you did watch Benny versus the Penny, we
thank you, gave you the Seahawks and you might have
won a couple of bucks on that Seattle blew a
fourteen point eight fourth quarter lead but still win their
eighth straight game over the Rivals.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
There some rivalry. Eight straight wins.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Now for the team from Seattle, the twelfth Man smiling
as they take down the Cardinals. I know somewhere our
friend no Studinis is smiling ear to ear and JJ
and Rantin and crying Craig and all those guys. But
the better story is in the losing locker room. And
so that is where we go. And let us discuss
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the question who gets to wear the shame bell for
the Cardinals losing at home?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Losing at home in a game they fought back in
but still lost. I've got halatosis, wi fi and mojo potatoes.
All right, we'll.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Combine all of those things together, and we are going
to deep fry some bird brains, is what we're going
to do. Now, before we get into this, let's hear
from some of the key participants. Let's start with the
coach Gannon, not Rich Gannon, Jonathan Gannon.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
They're the coach of the Cardinals there.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Who points out the Cardinals have not gotten it done completely,
not yet anyway.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
We just haven't put it together like I think we're
capable of putting it together.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Oh, those are just words.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
It's my job to make.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Sure that we put it together.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
So that's what'll be working on.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You should become a talk show host. All I have
is words, all right. So to answer the question, who
gets to wear the shame bell for the Cardinals losing
at home, it's a it's not a large shame bell,
it's a kid size shame bell.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It goes to Kyler Murray. So come on down, Kyler. Congratulations,
front of the line. Shame shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. Yes,
ring the damn bell, Kyler. You know what he looked
like the first three quarters of this game. A tiny dancer.
He looked like a tiny dancer out there for three
quarters days, didn't confused for seventy five percent of the game.
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Just your run of the mill forty six million dollars
a year quarterback. Now alligator arms. Murray was on a
nice tropical vacation swimming in a cauldron of suck soup
in this game, like the guy was wearing floaties out there,
averaging for the first three quarters of this game. He
was averaging four yards per pass attempt going to the
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fourth quarter. Four yards. That is a handoff in disguise.
Had no touchdowns, not one, but two interceptions, one of
them given right back by the Seattle defense that picked
off Kyler Murray then fumbled it and gave it right back.
But a passer rating of forty one point seven for
alligator arms Murray. That is going to the fourth quarter.
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That is not quarterbacking. That is a burger. A turn
burger is what that is. And let's not forget not one,
not two, not three, not four, five six sacks for
Kyler Murray.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Six.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Now, good football people will tell you that a sack
is half a turnover. So we've done the math. Now,
if you look at the points given up based on
turns a turnovers four points, A sack is two points,
so that works out to twenty points. Using Malormath that
Kyler Murray cost the Cardinals by playing hot potato.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
With his own body and the duke and all that that.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Is halatosis football is what that is halatosis football. Bad
breath clears out the stadium faster than a sewage leak
at a Washington commander's game. Now you know he didn't
make a few plays late. He did make a few
plays late. Kyler Murray, you don't get credit for doing
a little bit at the very end.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Right, It's like if I do a talk show, if
the show I didn't prepare, you know, some guys do this.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
But if I showed up and did nothing for the
first three hours of the show, and then I went
into the boss and said, well, you know, the first
three hours were really bad. But that last hour, man,
I just killed it. I said yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But the boss said, well, no one was listening because
you were so bad. I said, I know, but I
was really good the last hour. Okay, you were good
the last hour. Congratulations. So it doesn't work that way.
It doesn't work that way. And the first three quarters count,
and so yeah, the shame bell belongs to Kyler Murray.
Put it around your neck, and that's not all bad news.
It's not all bad news because Kyler can wear that
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when he is on the stream. There fortnite. He's probably
doing that right now and he'll have some bling bling there.
So Kyler continues to be a massive headache for the
Arizona football team.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Here is that Kyler Murray in his own words, Let's
hear from the little fella.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Here's alligator Arms Murray talking about why the Cardinals offense stinks.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Wasn't it wasn't clicking, was not clicking, you know, pretty
pretty much getting physically dominated whole first half. And you
know it's frustrating because you watch the defense go out
there and get stuff out the stuff and stop and
offensively just like we just couldn't get it going, you know,
couldn't get going. Credit to their defense, but we gotta
make We just gotta make more plays. We gotta we
gotta gotta show up and be ready to go, you
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know what I mean. It's it's uh like we're just oding,
you know what I mean. And it's it's it's taking
too long.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Obviously there's the resilience of the team. Is you love
to see it and you she like, give yourself a
chance to win the game at the end.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Um what.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
He just ended on okay um um, I mean, I
don't know who edited that, but they should win sucking
kind of award anyway. All right, So here's here's the
deal on that. That's if I'm the headline rider at
the tabloid. If I'm the tabloid, they don't have tabloids
in Arizona. But if I was riding the headloid headline,
Kyler Murray calls out coach, team not prepared for games.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Boom done, boom done. That's the headline right there. That
is that is it? All right?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Moving on?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So staying with the losers. Staying with the losers. Cardinals
wide receiver Marvin Harrison Junior, who is.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Built like a Donnis. Built like this guy, what a stud.
It doesn't play like it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
He was serenaded by the fans there in Arizona with
boo flat for the first half of the game, and
he deserved. He had one catch on five targets for
eight yards eight yards. This was the guy at the
draft y'all told me was going to redefine the wide
receiver position. And then in the second half Marvin Harrison
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Junior took some smelling salts and arrived better late than ever.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
He had five catches on five targets in the second
half for fifty eight yards and a touchdown. Now, one
of the interesting things that the broadcast. Now, I watched
it because there's really nothing else going on, and I
plausibly get paid to watch this crap.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So I did.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And Kerbstreet was on the TV with Al Michaels and
he had some spicy comments on the Thursday night broadcast.
He said, Marvin Harrison Junior, this is in the first
half when Harrison was stinking at a time he can't stink.
And Herbstreet had this rant where he said that Harrison
is uberly talented, just not playing with confidence. It's like
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his mind is paralyzing his ability to be the receiver.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
He can't be close.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Quote all right, question, let's jump off on that question.
Does Marvin Harrison Junior's mind paralyzing him work for you
as a get out of jail free card for Marvin Harrison?
So to me, that's not analysis, that is an excuse.
(11:20):
And Herbstreet basically gave him the get out of jail
free card, right, that's when he gave it.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Right, if your brain is freezing, you up your a
lemon and you gotta play this on you won't get
a lement. You got a lement.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You are the Wi Fi router or router that only
works if you unplug it for thirty seconds and then
reset it. What good is that if you're mentally weak?
That is part of sports. It's not the most important thing,
and physically is more important than mentally, but it's a
big part of it. And that's in the scouting report.
And right now, Marvin Harrison Junior is the uber. Each
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jumbo bag of fries that you ordered on that app
and you're all excited about it, looks really good. You're hungry,
you want the jumbo fries, got a little seasoning on
the fries, some ketchup with it. But by the time
it shows up, the fries are cold and soggy, because.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
You know that's not good.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
You know want that.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
And the NFL generally don't forgive plays off. And I
get that.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
This is a fellow Ohio State buck guy, Herbstreet's essentially
giving giving Marvin Harrison Junior a permission slip. And to that,
I say, Phoey, the late great Bill Russell, the winningest
athlete in North American sport, the old Celtic Bill Russell,
who said concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory,
(12:42):
all right, So concentration and mental toughness. If Marvin Harrison
Junior doesn't have that, then he's on the sauce aisle
and he's serving up weak sauce.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Weak sauce in the NFL is really tasty for other teams.
Cornerbacks smell that, and it's like blood in the water
for a piranha, and they'll get you know, get in your.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Head and then rattle you and you'll disappear.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
And now Harrison did play better in the second half,
but this is a guy, Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Junior, that looks looks the part, I mean, it sounds
the part. But so far most of his career has
been stuck in thick Louisiana mud, that thick mud.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Needless to say, you have to be both mentally and
physically ready.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Ready to go there. And if you, if.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Your mind is messing up and paralyzing you, then the
NFL will will bury you.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Let's go back to Kyler Murray one more time.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Here's Kyler Kyler on the lack of communication with his
wide receiver.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Take on, is he drudge ball like there's nothing. You know,
I've seen more of case football one hundred times. I'm
not I'm not again. I told y'all throughout the week
I wasn't worried about it. Continue to continue to go
to him, obviously, and he came up clutching the stretch.
You know, that's part of football. That's part of football.
I got. I got the most confidence and Marv I
will continue to have the confidence and more of We
just gotta go back to the drawing boys and be better.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yes, the answer to every question. We have to be better,
all right?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Last word to the winner's side, which is not as
good a story. You know, when you do talk radio.
The loser story is much better than the winter story.
But we'll go to the winner side. We'll pacify our
friends in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest. So the question, were
you impressed with the Seahawks getting a divisional road win?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Were you impressed? All right? So I'm gonn play a
wheel of fortune. I'm gonna have two letters. Can I
get an N? And can I get enough? I want
an N?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And and oh all right and and oh okay, there
you go. U Now, h Impressed is not a word
I have in my lexicon for this particular performance. Impress
implies style points. You get none, right, you get none,
you get a passing great congratulations, you know, listen, tough love.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I'll give you a passing grade. You hand it in
on time. You handed it in on time. You just
got it in before the end of the game. Now
maybe you scribble something down. You write something down about
how you love Mojo potatoes at Shakey's Pizza Parlor, and
you know there's okay. I'll give you a C plus.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
This was a shaky ending to the game. Seattle was favorite.
As we said on the road, they blew a two
touchdown lead and then got bailed out by this fugazy
kickoff rule that gift wrapped the game winning field goal.
And I know it's been around for a couple of years.
They tweaked it this year, and I still don't really
(15:33):
understand what's going on. I guess that the ball had
to hit past the twenty It hit at the twenty
one yard line, and because it hit at the twenty
one yard line, the ball came out to the forty
yard line. So if it comes out to the forty
yard line, you're essentially one pass play away from being
in field goal range, which is exactly what happened here. Now,
Sam Darnold, if you listen to and watched Benny Versus
the Penny on YouTube this week, we put it out
(15:55):
these both these quarterbacks, Kyler Alligator Arms Murray and Sam Donald,
who disappears and sees ghosts. Not a big supporter of
either one of these guys. And Sam Donald's stats look fine,
which tells you, as we said, it's not a big
game because in big games he gets tight, took to syndrome, he.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Didn't have any picks, he had one fumble but got
the ball back.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Watching watching Sam Donald and Kyler Murray is really testing
the boundaries for me. But but Donald in particular, it's
like a ferris wheel quarterback.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Up down, up, down right. You get a nice view
for a second you're like, oh, this is kind of cool.
Look at that. I can see the skyline over there.
It's kind of neat. Man, that's that's great. And then
the next second you're you're looking at the parking lot.
You're like, oh, that sucks.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And that's that's what the Sam Donald experience is like.
And the biggest concern forget forget even Sam Donald here,
because Seattle, if they're gonna do anything this year, it's
not because of Sam Donald. You forget the whole fugazy kickoff.
Think it's the defense, dummy, it's the defense. Mike McDonald's
claim to fame. He's supposedly defensive guy. Right, That's how
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we got to jump and that is going to be
the salt and pepper of the Seattle Seahawks. And that
defense was so good for seventy five percent of the game,
but not one hundred percent?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Are they not in shape?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Are Is there conditioning issues for the Seattle Seahawks here
that need to be addressed here? Because they allowed the
low League Cardinals to slice and dice them in the
fourth quarter. Arizona got forty five percent of their total
yards in the fourth quarter, seventy percent of their points
came in the final quarter, and the last three possessions
were a total debacle for the Seattle defense. That is collapse.
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It's a collapse. The Seahawks ran out of gas defensively.
It looked real rough around the edges, and that was
supposed to be this intimidating Seattle defense and it was
for the first three quarters and instead they're out there
letting the Cardinals offense with alligator arms, marched down the
field three straight times. So again, just to put a
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ball on this, I am not impressed. It's a passing grade.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
That's it. I don't give you a sticker.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You're not getting a sticker, no star, no gold star
next year name, no puffy sticker, no gold star. And
you're not invited to a pizza party. But you did
get a win. Congratulations there you go.
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And we settle in to the fun here.
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And we settle in to an interesting conversation that I
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just say this bleue the doors off the algorithm. So
if you didn't see this or hear about it, perhaps not.
Chances are you were not watching the Seahawks defeat the
Cardinals in the Thursday night NFL game. But during that broadcast,
the career of Russell Wilson was analyzed. This after he
(22:08):
was demoted to back up status by the Giants. Now
Tony Gonzalez, that's a Hall of Famer, and Richard Sherman.
They went back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
But let's start with Richard Sherman, and we have some
sound here, so Richard Sherman, Richard Sherman. They went back
(22:30):
and but Sherman noted that the success that Russell Wilson,
I remember he played with russ in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I mean we most of us know that, but maybe
forgot or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So they were teammates together back in the glory days
of the Seahawks, part of the greatest era in franchise history.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
And Sherman pointed out that the real reason the Seahawks
won was it because of Russell Wilson. Well, take a listen.
Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I think you got to judge his career off win
the lead.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Jeneral Boom was there.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
He had a legendary defense and all time defense, and
how much success he had. And then without that legendary defense,
the success he had, without that legendary defense, he's been
four and eleven, seven and eight on in three to
start with the Giants. Like that's he was a winning
football player in Seattle, and people said, hey, winning his
football player, all this good stuff, all these accolades, and
now you get to go on your own and you
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get to Crove. Hey, I'm this great quarterback. I'm this
guy that's going to be dominant, and it just hasn't
worked out that way.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Okay, shots fired, So that is a pretty good spot.
We'll pause right there. Let's discuss the question did Richard
Sherman cross the line? Did he cross the line with
this seahawk on seahawk criticism of Russell Wilson. So I've
got big old chunks, Wikipedia and peacock, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Delicious soft pretzel, just oh so good, fresh hot, little
salt on top there, yummy, yummy to my tummy, tummy.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So number wa number did he cross the line? Let
me see here ixnay on the line? Cross A okay, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
No.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
This is not church.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
We're not at the tabernacle, We're not at temple. This
is football. Sherman is telling the truth. One of my
great complaints here from the bully pulpit is that so
many of these athletes get in the broadcasting and they
cover for the players that are playing today. You strip
away that defense and what is Russell Wilson a whole
(24:47):
lot of mediocrity with a capitol M. And the man's
resume is held up by Richard Sherman, Cam Chandler, Earl Thomas,
Bobby Wagner, that iconic Seattle Seahawks defense.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
In that in that era and when you peel back
the scab, and that's part of the story. Richard Sherman
and Russell Wilson are the personification of what we call.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Work friends, not real friends, not real friends, work friends.
And Sherman has never hidden that he didn't like Russell
Wilson's act. And we'd done I go back in my
archive of the notes that I keep for the show,
and we've done multiple monologues over the years since they
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stopped working together about the dislike that Sherman had with
Russell Wilson. He's never shied away from airing the fact
that he didn't like Russell Wilson. I remember when Richard
Sherman was playing for the forty nine ers after he
left Seattle, and they would play each other twice a year,
and Sherman just had nothing nice to say about Russell Wilson.
And so here we are, here's an opportunity, and like
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a great running back. I know Sherman was not a
running back. He was a defensive but a running back
gets the ball, and you've got the B gap, okay,
and you've got the A gap.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Do you go A gap? B gap?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
A gap B gap? Now if you go to the
B gap, you get stuffed at the line of scrimmage.
You see daylight on the A gap, boom right through
the A gap.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
And that's what he saw.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
An opportunity, and he went for all right, and he's
stirring the pot again and the numbers back up. Richard Truman,
Russell Wilson without that defense is not very good right now.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Now, I love it to me. This is comfort food
for talk radio.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's an old fashioned beef stew with big old chunks
of bitterness floating right at the surface.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Where's the beef, where's the right here? Here's a beef
right here, baby, that's your beef. And Richard Sherman.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I like the fact that not only is he taking
a shot at his former teammate Russell Wilson, he's also
taking advantage of it by elevating himself. Sounds like some
I do a YouTube show with every week that make
sure to make it all about them, right, So Sherman's
it's a two for one daily double, because not only
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is Sherman unloading on Russell Wilson, who he doesn't like,
he's also patting himself on the back and his boys
for by belittling Russ, which a lot of people see
is obnoxious. And I wouldn't disagree. I would not disagree
that's obnoxious. It's also true. It's also true Russ is
essentially a microwave dinner quarterback. Now, what is a microwave
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dinner quarterback? Okay, here's what you put him.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
In the right environment. I had the right environment and
looks great.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
It's kin when I was a bachelor back in the
day and i'd get those TV dinners, I'd microwave dinner,
and you know, once in a while you.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Cook it perfectly and you're like, man, this is so
freaking good, dude, Like that little apple tart thing is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It's not too hot, the corn is good, the turkey's
all right, and you take away the packaging and the preservatives.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
And all of a sudden you're left with a plate
of garbage.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And Wilson, who was marketed as the winningest quarterback in
Seattle and all that. But in truth, it is a
byproduct of the lesion of Boom, and every man, woman
and child knows it. Certainly Richard Sherman is aware of it.
He's not just pulling this out of nowhere. It's like
the facade mansion. I was lucky enough for the last
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couple of years to have access to Universal Studios, and
I took full advantage. And we'd wander around the back
lot at Universal where they make all the movies and
the TV shows, and you'd see these big mansions and
these big New York City downtowns, and they're like just
so awesome, and then you walk behind them. They look
great from the front, and then you'd walk behind them
and they're just it's a bunch of plywood, a bunch
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of nothing. That's Russell Wilson without that defense. Bunch of nothing,
bunch of plywood. And Sherman to me, he didn't cross
the line. Of course, I have a talk show to do.
He didn't cross the line. He just poked the bear.
And I don't mind poking the bear. Poking the bear
is kind of fun. In this case, is a washed
up quarterback who's gonna be sitting on the bench and
occasionally walking around.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Holding a clipboard. But wait, there's more page two.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So, staying with the theme of the hour, a bona
fide Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez from Kansas City in Atlanta, well,
originally from Huntington Beach.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
But Tony Gonzalez got the ball rolling on the Amazon.
He did. He was the one that started this.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Now we played the Sherman stuff first because that's a
teammate on teammate things, so that's a bigger deal.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
But this is also pretty good. This is also pretty good.
So Tony Gonzalez said that he wanted Russell Wilson to
stop playing. Take a listen. Do you think we've seen
the last of Russell Wilson? Honestly, I hope we have.
Speaker 10 (29:48):
And I say that because I just looking at him
in his career, his legacy, like he talked about, if
ever there was somebody who played himself out of a
Hall of Fame, it's Russell Wilson. And I say that
because look at what he's what's happened ever since he
left Seattam, when he was in sadt he was the man.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
He was making these good plays.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
He won a super went to two of them, but
as soon as he left there, he went to Dinverse
on that big old deal.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
They paid him thirty nine million dollars to leave. He
goes to Pittsburgh, plays.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
There one year, he's out of there, and now he
goes here and has three games. I just don't know
if it's gonna get any better. And I don't want
to see him on a sideline holding a clipboard.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Okay, So the money part of that is, if ever
there was somebody who played himself out of the Hall
of Fame's Russell Wilson question.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
All right, let's jump off on that question.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Give me your school of thought on Tony Gonzalez, who
is in the Hall of Fame, saying that Russell Wilson
played himself out.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Of the Hall of Fame. So my response is, I've
got two words I wrote on my scorecard.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Horse feathers. That is horse feathers is what that is?
Russell Wilson. And let me say this for those of
you in the back of the room, was never ever
on the Hall of Fame track ever, never, not in Seattle.
It's really not in Denver, not in Pittsburgh, not in
New York. The guy was good at times, but never great.
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Good at times, but never great. Middle of the pack
quarterbacks don't get to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
They don't. He rode shotgun. Russell Wilson, the legion of
Boom Boom.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Was driving. They were driving. They were in the big
chair right And if you want my evidence, you can
go to Pro Football Reference, or I recommend the Wikipedia
page of Russell Wilson. He had as many All Pro
Team appearances as I had, and you had none. None,
not first team, not second team. Gooseg gooseg zero votes
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for the Most Valuable Player Award. No one ever voted
Russell Wilson for the MVP.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Didn't happen? Did he make an All Decade Team?
Speaker 9 (31:48):
No?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
No, he didn't. You know why? He was never elite,
and elite players get to the Hall of Fame. He
was never elite. He was just there. He was just there,
like the side table near your sofa.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
He was just there.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
And don't give me the Pro bowls, I sidbody, well,
he meant.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
A bunch of Pro Bowls? What P damn newde What
P damn new? The Pro Bowl is dodgeball, now tug
of War and a skills Carnival.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
That is the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
It's kind of like getting into Harvard because you had
good penmanship. Congratulations, it means nothing, means nothing.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
And the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Remember when they actually played the Pro Bowl game, and
like one year they're every quarterback except for like one
or two skipped out and so they were going to
like the third, fourth alternatives and eventually like Vince Young,
who was terrible, made a Pro Bowl because they had
to get somebody in there.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
He was like a replacement for a replacement for replacement.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
But at his peak, Russell Wilson led the NFL in
touchdown passes one time in twenty seventeen. That's it, period stopped.
That is the only meaningful category. He led the NFL
in one category one year. Otherwise, he's known for selling
us on Nano bubbles and mister Unlimited.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
On social media. The Hall of Fame is supposed to
be reserved for players who make history, who change history
or direct history. That's not Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
So again, Tony Gonzalez saying Russ played himself out of
the Hall of Fame is factually incorrect. Russ was never
in the Hall of Fame. He wasn't all right, Russell
Wilson was the quarterbacking equivalent of a timeshare presentation. You
ever been to a timeshare presentation? I got hornswaggled in
the one in Vegas. I'll never do that again. But
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you go in there and they look all flashy. Man,
well this is a really good deal.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
My god. I can take the family on vacation every year.
I go to Hawaii, I go to Florida, I go
to the Bahamas. Man, that's good.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
But you walk out of that timeshare presentation and you
walk out of that room and you realize, Man, I've
just been I've just been hornswoggle. I mean, that is
some skullduggery that happened to me right there.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
All right, final point? We go now to Cleveland. Go
to Cleveland?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Why because we like talking about bad question. Brown's backup
quarterback Shouldur Sanders shoulder. Sanders recently said that he thinks
he could step on the field today, on the field
today and play better than some of the quarterbacks who
are getting playing time around the NFL.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
How do you process that? All right? So I thought
this was amusing. I understand that athletes have to have
big egos and kind of the way it works. You
have to have confidence in yourself, and that's fine.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
But Shuldiff Sanders should be working over at NBC because
he is as proud as a peacock. He is as
proud as a delusions of grandeur. A little self confidence
is perfectly acceptable.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I think we can all agree on that goes a
long way in life, goes a long way in life.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
However, this is like saying that you're ready to headline
at Madison Square Garden at Midtown Manhattan, just above Penn
Station there before you've even done a karaoke night the
local Moose Lodge.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Okay, what are you doing?
Speaker 9 (35:08):
All right?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Bombastic bravado. That's what it is. That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
And social nurisators should focus on beating out Joe Flacco
or Dylan Gabriel in Cleveland before you start dunking on
half the league, considering he is currently QB three QB three. Also,
Bailey Zappi last we heard, is running the scout Scout
team there in Cleveland, so play the numbers game. Does
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that mean that Dylan Gabriel could make some noise in
the league because Joe Flacco's not making much noisier anyway?
For now, it's like it's like announcing your the heavyweight
champion of the world before you've ever even stepped into
the ring to fight anybody, Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (35:52):
But that's life, that's life in the fast lane, Life
in the fast Lane.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
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Speaker 4 (36:05):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
To the third degree?
Speaker 4 (36:09):
This is one Big Ben gets grilled Koblo.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
Cowboys All Pro defensive back Ron Bland returned to practice
on Wednesday. He has missed the last two games, during
which the Cowboys pass defense has looked pretty awful.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Ben, do you think Bland's return will make a big
impact for Dallas?
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Well, big No, It's like going down to the beach
and taking a cup of sand and say, okay, I've
cleaned the sand off the beach.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Like it's nice that Bland's going to play. He is
a good player, assuming he is out there this weekend.
But no, the Cowboys are cooked. They need three or
four guys like mister Bland to be any good next.
Speaker 11 (36:48):
Jayden Daniels made it clear to reporters on Wednesday that
he quote feels good and definitely wants to play on
Sunday against the Falcons, But it's up to the doctors. Now, Ben,
since the Falcons kind of suck, would be a better
idea to take the cautious route and put Mariota back
out there.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
I know if he's able to play, if Daniels is
healthy and he's clear. No, you only get seventeen games
a year. I'd much rather watch.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
If I'm a fan of the Washington football team, I'd
much rather watch Jayden Daniels than Marcus Mariota. Now, could
they beat Atlanta? They being Washington with either quarterback? Yes,
you can't coach scared and all that.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Next, you alluded to it.
Speaker 11 (37:26):
Earlier, Mets broadcaster Gary Cohen put himself in hot water
after expressing bewilderment that Cubs infielder Matt Shaw missed a
game to attend Charlie Kirk's funeral. Cohen said, quote, the
thought of leaving your team in the middle of a
race for any reason other than a family emergency really
strikes me as weird.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Ben, does Cohen deserve the backlash?
Speaker 11 (37:43):
Well?
Speaker 4 (37:43):
The thing I will say, Gary cone is a great
broadcaster for the Mets I enjoy watching when I watch
the Mets games on the TV MLB package, But it's
just like like what do you what do you even
bother going there?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
You know, It's like I don't understand, like why you
would go down that road that in tennis they call
that an unforced era coop, you know what I mean?
It's everything political is polarizing and all that. So it's like,
I just I don't get why you would go.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Down that road.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
If it's like if you sell cheeseburgers, sell cheeseburgers, don't
sell chicken. People want cheeseburgers, so bad job by?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
How did we do? Coople?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
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I won the Rada, Thank you, Matt.
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What?
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What do you call a cup? Designed by Derek or
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Well, she is the queen of hearts and he is
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All right, very nice, there, we'll skip down. Why couldn't
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Apparently, according to Lucky Tony, it kept falling out. I
don't even know what that means. Why? Why did why
did blind let me skip over that one? I think
we've done that? What do you call it?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
When Mike the Leprechaun holds grudges against Blind Scott and Marcel?
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Why? Irish stew is what you called?
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We've got we've got weed man hippie and hollering James
on lame jokes. What is the difference between Russell Wilson
and weed man hippie? What six sick children in the
hospital would prefer being visited by weed man hippie?
Speaker 4 (41:26):
James? You started laughing early. I't even give the punchline.
That's Gordon a Takoma. Why why doesn't weed man like
the truth?
Speaker 8 (41:34):
Why?
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Why?
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Because you can't painhandle the truth? That's why I come
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How did weed Man react whenever he noticed all his
lamps were.
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Gone in his house?
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Wow?
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Delighted. That's a Noah in Austin. Which Muppet Show character
is weed Man? Jealous of Doctor Teeth? Doctor Teeth.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
A cool quickly coming to the NFL and Broke Back
Mountain have in common.
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I don't know.
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They both have cowboys that suck.
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Here you go, who showers longer than lizz Oh? Helmd Man.
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Speaker 9 (42:38):
I'm here, folks, and good morning Scoop on Entertainment for
this Friday. The show on Fox Sports Radio on Fridays
that has always a laughing and what's going on in
TV radio? Music and everything starts now. I guarantee it,
my man. It's all the ones and two, so here we.
Speaker 11 (43:05):
Thank you, Marcel. I guarantee it all right, We're gonna
start off in theaters like we always.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Do on Coop Scoop on Entertainment. And you know, if
I'm being honest, the last month or so, the theaters
have been kind of just.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
Yeah, it's the calm before the storm, right, because we
were not that far away from the big holiday season.
Speaker 11 (43:26):
Well, and I think it's officially here, the like the
good movies with this weekend, we have the latest Paul
Thomas Anderson movie, One Battle after Another. And this one,
this one stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro,
and Regina Hall and also Tianna Taylor and it is
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a former member of a revolutionary group seeks help from
other revolutionaries to find his missing daughter. I have heard
fantastic things about this movie. The word masterpiece was thrown
around by some critics. So I'm excited about this one.
I will check this out this weekend that it's called
One Battle after Another in theaters near you. Now, moving
over to television, we're gonna start off with a second
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season of the FX comedy English Teacher.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
That was a premiere that's on Hulu, available on Hulu
right now.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
Now.
Speaker 11 (44:23):
I heard a lot of great things about this series.
I started to watch the first season, I got like,
I don't know, maybe ten to fifteen minutes into the
second episode. So if the malind Milisch is listening, if
you guys are fans of this show and you think
I should get back to it given another chance, let
me know. The second season premieres today, also on Netflix.
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We have a historical drama series called House of Guinness
and it's from the creator of Peaky Blinders, and it
follows the heirs to the Guinness Brewing Company, specifically for
adult Guinness siblings in eighteen sixties Dublin, following the death
of their father, Sir Benjamin Guinness, the wealthiest man in
all of Ireland. All eight episode stream today on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (45:08):
So check out do you have to drink Guinness while
you're watching?
Speaker 5 (45:11):
That?
Speaker 9 (45:11):
Is?
Speaker 3 (45:11):
That is that it is recommended but not required.
Speaker 4 (45:14):
Okay, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 11 (45:16):
And then moving on the last thing I'm gonna mention here,
ben We have a documentary. It's a nature documentary and
the reason I bring it up because it sounds a
little bit different than your typical nature documentary. It's called
Nightmares of Nature and that is on Netflix Tuesday, September
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thirty at that premierees and it's basically a docuseries shot
like a horror film, but it's you know nature. So
it's like frogs, crocodile, snakes, raccoons facing off against nature's
real life horrors. And so if you're a fan of
You Know Nature Documentaries, is a little spin on it
on Netflix's on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
You know what I'm looking forward to this weekend. I
think it's finally out. Is Cocaine Quarterback?
Speaker 9 (46:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yes, I did see that.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
Yeah, I mean it's on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
I was in I covered the sc when they had
Pete Carroll this guy I don't remember.
Speaker 11 (46:15):
Because I remember that I saw this on there because
I was looking for something to watch and I read
the little synopsis and I'm like, I don't remember this.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
No, he was like a backup quarterback and the guy
was like a drug kingpin a cocaine How crazy is that?
That's wild. I gotta watch this this weekend. I'm gonna
check that out. And I'm excited about that again. I
hope it's good. It seems like it's I saw the
clip online. It looked pretty good. Well done, well done,
contribution man. Thank you, Cooper. I look at that, A
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Friday, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And our lead this hour from the Valley of the Sun.
It was billed as an NFC West Barton Berner and
it actually did turn out to be a bit of
a Barnon Burner here, Sam Darnold and the Seahawks versus
Kyler Murray and the Cardinals. As Spaccoli pointed out, he said, well,
I'm glad you're doing the show, Ben, because you're gonna
watch it so we don't have to.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
And yeah, yeah, I did. Into the Amazon.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The iconic al Michaels, the Great Al Michaels still calling
NFL games with Herbie college football guy pretending to be
an NFL guy. Kirk Kirk Street, the failed Ohio State quarterback.
So I don't know if you watched this game, probably not.
We were watching it, so, as Spaccoli pointed out, you
would not have have to.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
And it looked like this was going to be.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Blow out city, blow out city for the team from
the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
And then it wasn't as they screwed things up, played
with their food, and it came down to the bitter end.
Jason Myers lined up for a fifty two.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yard field goal in a tie game as time expired
through the uprights. That is a kicker for the Seattle
football team and Sam Darnold. You know it's not a
big game because Sam Darnald had a good stat line
two hundred and forty two yards and a touchdown. Seattle
gagged up a big lead then had to rally to
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get by the Cardinals.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Thanks to a.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Special teams blunder by Arizona twenty three to twenty year final.
And if you did watch Benny versus the Penny, we
thank you, gave you the Seahawks and you might have
won a couple of bucks on that Seattle blew a
fourteen point eight fourth quarter lead but still win their
eighth straight game over the Rivals.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
There some rivalry. Eight straight wins.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Now for the team from Seattle, the twelfth Man smiling
as they take down the Cardinals. I know somewhere our
friend no Studinis is smiling ear to ear and JJ
and Rantin and crying Craig and all those guys. But
the better story is in the losing locker room. And
so that is where we go. And let us discuss
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the question who gets to wear the shame bell for
the Cardinals losing at home?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Losing at home in a game they fought back in
but still lost. I've got halatosis, wi fi and mojo potatoes.
All right, we'll.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Combine all of those things together, and we are going
to deep fry some bird brains, is what we're going
to do. Now, before we get into this, let's hear
from some of the key participants. Let's start with the
coach Gannon, not Rich Gannon, Jonathan Gannon.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
They're the coach of the Cardinals there.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Who points out the Cardinals have not gotten it done completely,
not yet anyway.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
We just haven't put it together like I think we're
capable of putting it together.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Oh, those are just words.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
It's my job to make.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Sure that we put it together.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
So that's what'll be working on.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You should become a talk show host. All I have
is words, all right. So to answer the question, who
gets to wear the shame bell for the Cardinals losing
at home, it's a it's not a large shame bell,
it's a kid size shame bell.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It goes to Kyler Murray. So come on down, Kyler. Congratulations,
front of the line. Shame shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. Yes,
ring the damn bell, Kyler. You know what he looked
like the first three quarters of this game. A tiny dancer.
He looked like a tiny dancer out there for three
quarters days, didn't confused for seventy five percent of the game.
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Just your run of the mill forty six million dollars
a year quarterback. Now alligator arms. Murray was on a
nice tropical vacation swimming in a cauldron of suck soup
in this game, like the guy was wearing floaties out there,
averaging for the first three quarters of this game. He
was averaging four yards per pass attempt going to the
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fourth quarter. Four yards. That is a handoff in disguise.
Had no touchdowns, not one, but two interceptions, one of
them given right back by the Seattle defense that picked
off Kyler Murray then fumbled it and gave it right back.
But a passer rating of forty one point seven for
alligator arms Murray. That is going to the fourth quarter.
(06:37):
That is not quarterbacking. That is a burger. A turn
burger is what that is. And let's not forget not one,
not two, not three, not four, five six sacks for
Kyler Murray.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Six.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Now, good football people will tell you that a sack
is half a turnover. So we've done the math. Now,
if you look at the points given up based on
turns a turnovers four points, A sack is two points,
so that works out to twenty points. Using Malormath that
Kyler Murray cost the Cardinals by playing hot potato.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
With his own body and the duke and all that that.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Is halatosis football is what that is halatosis football. Bad
breath clears out the stadium faster than a sewage leak
at a Washington commander's game. Now you know he didn't
make a few plays late. He did make a few
plays late. Kyler Murray, you don't get credit for doing
a little bit at the very end.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Right, It's like if I do a talk show, if
the show I didn't prepare, you know, some guys do this.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
But if I showed up and did nothing for the
first three hours of the show, and then I went
into the boss and said, well, you know, the first
three hours were really bad. But that last hour, man,
I just killed it. I said yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But the boss said, well, no one was listening because
you were so bad. I said, I know, but I
was really good the last hour. Okay, you were good
the last hour. Congratulations. So it doesn't work that way.
It doesn't work that way. And the first three quarters count,
and so yeah, the shame bell belongs to Kyler Murray.
Put it around your neck, and that's not all bad news.
It's not all bad news because Kyler can wear that
(08:10):
when he is on the stream. There fortnite. He's probably
doing that right now and he'll have some bling bling there.
So Kyler continues to be a massive headache for the
Arizona football team.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Here is that Kyler Murray in his own words, Let's
hear from the little fella.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Here's alligator Arms Murray talking about why the Cardinals offense stinks.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Wasn't it wasn't clicking, was not clicking, you know, pretty
pretty much getting physically dominated whole first half. And you
know it's frustrating because you watch the defense go out
there and get stuff out the stuff and stop and
offensively just like we just couldn't get it going, you know,
couldn't get going. Credit to their defense, but we gotta
make We just gotta make more plays. We gotta we
gotta gotta show up and be ready to go, you
(08:51):
know what I mean. It's it's uh like we're just oding,
you know what I mean. And it's it's it's taking
too long.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Obviously there's the resilience of the team. Is you love
to see it and you she like, give yourself a
chance to win the game at the end.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Um what.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
He just ended on okay um um, I mean, I
don't know who edited that, but they should win sucking
kind of award anyway. All right, So here's here's the
deal on that. That's if I'm the headline rider at
the tabloid. If I'm the tabloid, they don't have tabloids
in Arizona. But if I was riding the headloid headline,
Kyler Murray calls out coach, team not prepared for games.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Boom done, boom done. That's the headline right there. That
is that is it? All right?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Moving on?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So staying with the losers. Staying with the losers. Cardinals
wide receiver Marvin Harrison Junior, who is.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Built like a Donnis. Built like this guy, what a stud.
It doesn't play like it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
He was serenaded by the fans there in Arizona with
boo flat for the first half of the game, and
he deserved. He had one catch on five targets for
eight yards eight yards. This was the guy at the
draft y'all told me was going to redefine the wide
receiver position. And then in the second half Marvin Harrison
(10:12):
Junior took some smelling salts and arrived better late than ever.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
He had five catches on five targets in the second
half for fifty eight yards and a touchdown. Now, one
of the interesting things that the broadcast. Now, I watched
it because there's really nothing else going on, and I
plausibly get paid to watch this crap.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So I did.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And Kerbstreet was on the TV with Al Michaels and
he had some spicy comments on the Thursday night broadcast.
He said, Marvin Harrison Junior, this is in the first
half when Harrison was stinking at a time he can't stink.
And Herbstreet had this rant where he said that Harrison
is uberly talented, just not playing with confidence. It's like
(10:56):
his mind is paralyzing his ability to be the receiver.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
He can't be close.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Quote all right, question, let's jump off on that question.
Does Marvin Harrison Junior's mind paralyzing him work for you
as a get out of jail free card for Marvin Harrison?
So to me, that's not analysis, that is an excuse.
(11:20):
And Herbstreet basically gave him the get out of jail
free card, right, that's when he gave it.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Right, if your brain is freezing, you up your a
lemon and you gotta play this on you won't get
a lement. You got a lement.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You are the Wi Fi router or router that only
works if you unplug it for thirty seconds and then
reset it. What good is that if you're mentally weak?
That is part of sports. It's not the most important thing,
and physically is more important than mentally, but it's a
big part of it. And that's in the scouting report.
And right now, Marvin Harrison Junior is the uber. Each
(11:59):
jumbo bag of fries that you ordered on that app
and you're all excited about it, looks really good. You're hungry,
you want the jumbo fries, got a little seasoning on
the fries, some ketchup with it. But by the time
it shows up, the fries are cold and soggy, because.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
You know that's not good.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
You know want that.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
And the NFL generally don't forgive plays off. And I
get that.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
This is a fellow Ohio State buck guy, Herbstreet's essentially
giving giving Marvin Harrison Junior a permission slip. And to that,
I say, Phoey, the late great Bill Russell, the winningest
athlete in North American sport, the old Celtic Bill Russell,
who said concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory,
(12:42):
all right, So concentration and mental toughness. If Marvin Harrison
Junior doesn't have that, then he's on the sauce aisle
and he's serving up weak sauce.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Weak sauce in the NFL is really tasty for other teams.
Cornerbacks smell that, and it's like blood in the water
for a piranha, and they'll get you know, get in your.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Head and then rattle you and you'll disappear.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
And now Harrison did play better in the second half,
but this is a guy, Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Junior, that looks looks the part, I mean, it sounds
the part. But so far most of his career has
been stuck in thick Louisiana mud, that thick mud.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Needless to say, you have to be both mentally and
physically ready.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Ready to go there. And if you, if.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Your mind is messing up and paralyzing you, then the
NFL will will bury you.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Let's go back to Kyler Murray one more time.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Here's Kyler Kyler on the lack of communication with his
wide receiver.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Take on, is he drudge ball like there's nothing. You know,
I've seen more of case football one hundred times. I'm
not I'm not again. I told y'all throughout the week
I wasn't worried about it. Continue to continue to go
to him, obviously, and he came up clutching the stretch.
You know, that's part of football. That's part of football.
I got. I got the most confidence and Marv I
will continue to have the confidence and more of We
just gotta go back to the drawing boys and be better.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yes, the answer to every question. We have to be better,
all right?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Last word to the winner's side, which is not as
good a story. You know, when you do talk radio.
The loser story is much better than the winter story.
But we'll go to the winner side. We'll pacify our
friends in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest. So the question, were
you impressed with the Seahawks getting a divisional road win?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Were you impressed? All right? So I'm gonn play a
wheel of fortune. I'm gonna have two letters. Can I
get an N? And can I get enough? I want
an N?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And and oh all right and and oh okay, there
you go. U Now, h Impressed is not a word
I have in my lexicon for this particular performance. Impress
implies style points. You get none, right, you get none,
you get a passing great congratulations, you know, listen, tough love.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I'll give you a passing grade. You hand it in
on time. You handed it in on time. You just
got it in before the end of the game. Now
maybe you scribble something down. You write something down about
how you love Mojo potatoes at Shakey's Pizza Parlor, and
you know there's okay. I'll give you a C plus.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
This was a shaky ending to the game. Seattle was favorite.
As we said on the road, they blew a two
touchdown lead and then got bailed out by this fugazy
kickoff rule that gift wrapped the game winning field goal.
And I know it's been around for a couple of years.
They tweaked it this year, and I still don't really
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understand what's going on. I guess that the ball had
to hit past the twenty It hit at the twenty
one yard line, and because it hit at the twenty
one yard line, the ball came out to the forty
yard line. So if it comes out to the forty
yard line, you're essentially one pass play away from being
in field goal range, which is exactly what happened here. Now,
Sam Darnold, if you listen to and watched Benny Versus
the Penny on YouTube this week, we put it out
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these both these quarterbacks, Kyler Alligator Arms Murray and Sam Donald,
who disappears and sees ghosts. Not a big supporter of
either one of these guys. And Sam Donald's stats look fine,
which tells you, as we said, it's not a big
game because in big games he gets tight, took to syndrome, he.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Didn't have any picks, he had one fumble but got
the ball back.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Watching watching Sam Donald and Kyler Murray is really testing
the boundaries for me. But but Donald in particular, it's
like a ferris wheel quarterback.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Up down, up, down right. You get a nice view
for a second you're like, oh, this is kind of cool.
Look at that. I can see the skyline over there.
It's kind of neat. Man, that's that's great. And then
the next second you're you're looking at the parking lot.
You're like, oh, that sucks.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And that's that's what the Sam Donald experience is like.
And the biggest concern forget forget even Sam Donald here,
because Seattle, if they're gonna do anything this year, it's
not because of Sam Donald. You forget the whole fugazy kickoff.
Think it's the defense, dummy, it's the defense. Mike McDonald's
claim to fame. He's supposedly defensive guy. Right, That's how
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we got to jump and that is going to be
the salt and pepper of the Seattle Seahawks. And that
defense was so good for seventy five percent of the game,
but not one hundred percent?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Are they not in shape?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Are Is there conditioning issues for the Seattle Seahawks here
that need to be addressed here? Because they allowed the
low League Cardinals to slice and dice them in the
fourth quarter. Arizona got forty five percent of their total
yards in the fourth quarter, seventy percent of their points
came in the final quarter, and the last three possessions
were a total debacle for the Seattle defense. That is collapse.
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It's a collapse. The Seahawks ran out of gas defensively.
It looked real rough around the edges, and that was
supposed to be this intimidating Seattle defense and it was
for the first three quarters and instead they're out there
letting the Cardinals offense with alligator arms, marched down the
field three straight times. So again, just to put a
(17:59):
ball on this, I am not impressed. It's a passing grade.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
That's it. I don't give you a sticker.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You're not getting a sticker, no star, no gold star
next year name, no puffy sticker, no gold star. And
you're not invited to a pizza party. But you did
get a win. Congratulations there you go.
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if you didn't see this or hear about it, perhaps not.
Chances are you were not watching the Seahawks defeat the
Cardinals in the Thursday night NFL game. But during that broadcast,
the career of Russell Wilson was analyzed. This after he
(22:08):
was demoted to back up status by the Giants. Now
Tony Gonzalez, that's a Hall of Famer, and Richard Sherman.
They went back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
But let's start with Richard Sherman, and we have some
sound here, so Richard Sherman, Richard Sherman. They went back
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and but Sherman noted that the success that Russell Wilson,
I remember he played with russ in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I mean we most of us know that, but maybe
forgot or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So they were teammates together back in the glory days
of the Seahawks, part of the greatest era in franchise history.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
And Sherman pointed out that the real reason the Seahawks
won was it because of Russell Wilson. Well, take a listen.
Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I think you got to judge his career off win
the lead.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Jeneral Boom was there.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
He had a legendary defense and all time defense, and
how much success he had. And then without that legendary defense,
the success he had, without that legendary defense, he's been
four and eleven, seven and eight on in three to
start with the Giants. Like that's he was a winning
football player in Seattle, and people said, hey, winning his
football player, all this good stuff, all these accolades, and
now you get to go on your own and you
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get to Crove. Hey, I'm this great quarterback. I'm this
guy that's going to be dominant, and it just hasn't
worked out that way.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Okay, shots fired, So that is a pretty good spot.
We'll pause right there. Let's discuss the question did Richard
Sherman cross the line? Did he cross the line with
this seahawk on seahawk criticism of Russell Wilson. So I've
got big old chunks, Wikipedia and peacock, and we will
(23:50):
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Delicious soft pretzel, just oh so good, fresh hot, little
salt on top there, yummy, yummy to my tummy, tummy.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So number wa number did he cross the line? Let
me see here ixnay on the line? Cross A okay, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
No.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
This is not church.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
We're not at the tabernacle, We're not at temple. This
is football. Sherman is telling the truth. One of my
great complaints here from the bully pulpit is that so
many of these athletes get in the broadcasting and they
cover for the players that are playing today. You strip
away that defense and what is Russell Wilson a whole
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lot of mediocrity with a capitol M. And the man's
resume is held up by Richard Sherman, Cam Chandler, Earl Thomas,
Bobby Wagner, that iconic Seattle Seahawks defense.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
In that in that era and when you peel back
the scab, and that's part of the story. Richard Sherman
and Russell Wilson are the personification of what we call.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Work friends, not real friends, not real friends, work friends.
And Sherman has never hidden that he didn't like Russell
Wilson's act. And we'd done I go back in my
archive of the notes that I keep for the show,
and we've done multiple monologues over the years since they
(25:34):
stopped working together about the dislike that Sherman had with
Russell Wilson. He's never shied away from airing the fact
that he didn't like Russell Wilson. I remember when Richard
Sherman was playing for the forty nine ers after he
left Seattle, and they would play each other twice a year,
and Sherman just had nothing nice to say about Russell Wilson.
And so here we are, here's an opportunity, and like
(25:56):
a great running back. I know Sherman was not a
running back. He was a defensive but a running back
gets the ball, and you've got the B gap, okay,
and you've got the A gap.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Do you go A gap? B gap?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
A gap B gap? Now if you go to the
B gap, you get stuffed at the line of scrimmage.
You see daylight on the A gap, boom right through
the A gap.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
And that's what he saw.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
An opportunity, and he went for all right, and he's
stirring the pot again and the numbers back up. Richard Truman,
Russell Wilson without that defense is not very good right now.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Now, I love it to me. This is comfort food
for talk radio.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's an old fashioned beef stew with big old chunks
of bitterness floating right at the surface.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Where's the beef, where's the right here? Here's a beef
right here, baby, that's your beef. And Richard Sherman.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I like the fact that not only is he taking
a shot at his former teammate Russell Wilson, he's also
taking advantage of it by elevating himself. Sounds like some
I do a YouTube show with every week that make
sure to make it all about them, right, So Sherman's
it's a two for one daily double, because not only
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is Sherman unloading on Russell Wilson, who he doesn't like,
he's also patting himself on the back and his boys
for by belittling Russ, which a lot of people see
is obnoxious. And I wouldn't disagree. I would not disagree
that's obnoxious. It's also true. It's also true Russ is
essentially a microwave dinner quarterback. Now, what is a microwave
(27:31):
dinner quarterback? Okay, here's what you put him.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
In the right environment. I had the right environment and
looks great.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
It's kin when I was a bachelor back in the
day and i'd get those TV dinners, I'd microwave dinner,
and you know, once in a while you.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Cook it perfectly and you're like, man, this is so
freaking good, dude, Like that little apple tart thing is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It's not too hot, the corn is good, the turkey's
all right, and you take away the packaging and the preservatives.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
And all of a sudden you're left with a plate
of garbage.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And Wilson, who was marketed as the winningest quarterback in
Seattle and all that. But in truth, it is a
byproduct of the lesion of Boom, and every man, woman
and child knows it. Certainly Richard Sherman is aware of it.
He's not just pulling this out of nowhere. It's like
the facade mansion. I was lucky enough for the last
(28:25):
couple of years to have access to Universal Studios, and
I took full advantage. And we'd wander around the back
lot at Universal where they make all the movies and
the TV shows, and you'd see these big mansions and
these big New York City downtowns, and they're like just
so awesome, and then you walk behind them. They look
great from the front, and then you'd walk behind them
and they're just it's a bunch of plywood, a bunch
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of nothing. That's Russell Wilson without that defense. Bunch of nothing,
bunch of plywood. And Sherman to me, he didn't cross
the line. Of course, I have a talk show to do.
He didn't cross the line. He just poked the bear.
And I don't mind poking the bear. Poking the bear
is kind of fun. In this case, is a washed
up quarterback who's gonna be sitting on the bench and
occasionally walking around.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Holding a clipboard. But wait, there's more page two.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So, staying with the theme of the hour, a bona
fide Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez from Kansas City in Atlanta, well,
originally from Huntington Beach.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
But Tony Gonzalez got the ball rolling on the Amazon.
He did. He was the one that started this.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Now we played the Sherman stuff first because that's a
teammate on teammate things, so that's a bigger deal.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
But this is also pretty good. This is also pretty good.
So Tony Gonzalez said that he wanted Russell Wilson to
stop playing. Take a listen. Do you think we've seen
the last of Russell Wilson? Honestly, I hope we have.
Speaker 10 (29:48):
And I say that because I just looking at him
in his career, his legacy, like he talked about, if
ever there was somebody who played himself out of a
Hall of Fame, it's Russell Wilson. And I say that
because look at what he's what's happened ever since he
left Seattam, when he was in sadt he was the man.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
He was making these good plays.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
He won a super went to two of them, but
as soon as he left there, he went to Dinverse
on that big old deal.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
They paid him thirty nine million dollars to leave. He
goes to Pittsburgh, plays.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
There one year, he's out of there, and now he
goes here and has three games. I just don't know
if it's gonna get any better. And I don't want
to see him on a sideline holding a clipboard.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Okay, So the money part of that is, if ever
there was somebody who played himself out of the Hall
of Fame's Russell Wilson question.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
All right, let's jump off on that question.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Give me your school of thought on Tony Gonzalez, who
is in the Hall of Fame, saying that Russell Wilson
played himself out.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Of the Hall of Fame. So my response is, I've
got two words I wrote on my scorecard.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Horse feathers. That is horse feathers is what that is?
Russell Wilson. And let me say this for those of
you in the back of the room, was never ever
on the Hall of Fame track ever, never, not in Seattle.
It's really not in Denver, not in Pittsburgh, not in
New York. The guy was good at times, but never great.
(31:06):
Good at times, but never great. Middle of the pack
quarterbacks don't get to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
They don't. He rode shotgun. Russell Wilson, the legion of
Boom Boom.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Was driving. They were driving. They were in the big
chair right And if you want my evidence, you can
go to Pro Football Reference, or I recommend the Wikipedia
page of Russell Wilson. He had as many All Pro
Team appearances as I had, and you had none. None,
not first team, not second team. Gooseg gooseg zero votes
(31:41):
for the Most Valuable Player Award. No one ever voted
Russell Wilson for the MVP.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Didn't happen? Did he make an All Decade Team?
Speaker 9 (31:48):
No?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
No, he didn't. You know why? He was never elite,
and elite players get to the Hall of Fame. He
was never elite. He was just there. He was just there,
like the side table near your sofa.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
He was just there.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
And don't give me the Pro bowls, I sidbody, well,
he meant.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
A bunch of Pro Bowls? What P damn newde What
P damn new? The Pro Bowl is dodgeball, now tug
of War and a skills Carnival.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
That is the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
It's kind of like getting into Harvard because you had
good penmanship. Congratulations, it means nothing, means nothing.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
And the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Remember when they actually played the Pro Bowl game, and
like one year they're every quarterback except for like one
or two skipped out and so they were going to
like the third, fourth alternatives and eventually like Vince Young,
who was terrible, made a Pro Bowl because they had
to get somebody in there.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
He was like a replacement for a replacement for replacement.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
But at his peak, Russell Wilson led the NFL in
touchdown passes one time in twenty seventeen. That's it, period stopped.
That is the only meaningful category. He led the NFL
in one category one year. Otherwise, he's known for selling
us on Nano bubbles and mister Unlimited.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
On social media. The Hall of Fame is supposed to
be reserved for players who make history, who change history
or direct history. That's not Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
So again, Tony Gonzalez saying Russ played himself out of
the Hall of Fame is factually incorrect. Russ was never
in the Hall of Fame. He wasn't all right, Russell
Wilson was the quarterbacking equivalent of a timeshare presentation. You
ever been to a timeshare presentation? I got hornswaggled in
the one in Vegas. I'll never do that again. But
(33:38):
you go in there and they look all flashy. Man,
well this is a really good deal.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
My god. I can take the family on vacation every year.
I go to Hawaii, I go to Florida, I go
to the Bahamas. Man, that's good.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
But you walk out of that timeshare presentation and you
walk out of that room and you realize, Man, I've
just been I've just been hornswoggle. I mean, that is
some skullduggery that happened to me right there.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
All right, final point? We go now to Cleveland. Go
to Cleveland?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Why because we like talking about bad question. Brown's backup
quarterback Shouldur Sanders shoulder. Sanders recently said that he thinks
he could step on the field today, on the field
today and play better than some of the quarterbacks who
are getting playing time around the NFL.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
How do you process that? All right? So I thought
this was amusing. I understand that athletes have to have
big egos and kind of the way it works. You
have to have confidence in yourself, and that's fine.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
But Shuldiff Sanders should be working over at NBC because
he is as proud as a peacock. He is as
proud as a delusions of grandeur. A little self confidence
is perfectly acceptable.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I think we can all agree on that goes a
long way in life, goes a long way in life.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
However, this is like saying that you're ready to headline
at Madison Square Garden at Midtown Manhattan, just above Penn
Station there before you've even done a karaoke night the
local Moose Lodge.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Okay, what are you doing?
Speaker 9 (35:08):
All right?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Bombastic bravado. That's what it is. That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
And social nurisators should focus on beating out Joe Flacco
or Dylan Gabriel in Cleveland before you start dunking on
half the league, considering he is currently QB three QB three. Also,
Bailey Zappi last we heard, is running the scout Scout
team there in Cleveland, so play the numbers game. Does
(35:35):
that mean that Dylan Gabriel could make some noise in
the league because Joe Flacco's not making much noisier anyway?
For now, it's like it's like announcing your the heavyweight
champion of the world before you've ever even stepped into
the ring to fight anybody, Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (35:52):
But that's life, that's life in the fast lane, Life
in the fast Lane.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
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Speaker 10 (36:04):
It's Mallard.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
To the third degree?
Speaker 4 (36:09):
This is one Big Ben gets grilled Koblo.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
Cowboys All Pro defensive back Ron Bland returned to practice
on Wednesday. He has missed the last two games, during
which the Cowboys pass defense has looked pretty awful.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Ben, do you think Bland's return will make a big
impact for Dallas?
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Well, big No, It's like going down to the beach
and taking a cup of sand and say, okay, I've
cleaned the sand off the beach.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Like it's nice that Bland's going to play. He is
a good player, assuming he is out there this weekend.
But no, the Cowboys are cooked. They need three or
four guys like mister Bland to be any good next.
Speaker 11 (36:48):
Jayden Daniels made it clear to reporters on Wednesday that
he quote feels good and definitely wants to play on
Sunday against the Falcons, But it's up to the doctors. Now, Ben,
since the Falcons kind of suck, would be a better
idea to take the cautious route and put Mariota back
out there.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
I know if he's able to play, if Daniels is
healthy and he's clear. No, you only get seventeen games
a year. I'd much rather watch.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
If I'm a fan of the Washington football team, I'd
much rather watch Jayden Daniels than Marcus Mariota. Now, could
they beat Atlanta? They being Washington with either quarterback? Yes,
you can't coach scared and all that.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Next, you alluded to it.
Speaker 11 (37:26):
Earlier, Mets broadcaster Gary Cohen put himself in hot water
after expressing bewilderment that Cubs infielder Matt Shaw missed a
game to attend Charlie Kirk's funeral. Cohen said, quote, the
thought of leaving your team in the middle of a
race for any reason other than a family emergency really
strikes me as weird.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Ben, does Cohen deserve the backlash?
Speaker 11 (37:43):
Well?
Speaker 4 (37:43):
The thing I will say, Gary cone is a great
broadcaster for the Mets I enjoy watching when I watch
the Mets games on the TV MLB package, But it's
just like like what do you what do you even
bother going there?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
You know, It's like I don't understand, like why you
would go down that road that in tennis they call
that an unforced era coop, you know what I mean?
It's everything political is polarizing and all that. So it's like,
I just I don't get why you would go.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Down that road.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
If it's like if you sell cheeseburgers, sell cheeseburgers, don't
sell chicken. People want cheeseburgers, so bad job by?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
How did we do? Coople?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
You pass this edition.
Speaker 8 (38:18):
The Rain?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
I won the Rada, Thank you, Matt.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
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Speaker 4 (38:40):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. All right,
let's do this Big Ben's lame jobs.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
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Speaker 4 (38:45):
Weed Man? Weed Man? I'm very all right hollering James,
are you there? James Davids line about you good? All right,
so now don't don't don't bolguard we met? Are you
okay with James? Okay?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Well, all right, here we go lame jokes. What is
the title of Kyler Murray's new video game? What play
like Duty? That's a that's a Chip in Maine? Who
is always favored to beat Alligator Arms Murray? Who van
(39:26):
the one legged Bama Man?
Speaker 4 (39:28):
That's from Chip in Maine?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
A game?
Speaker 6 (39:32):
What?
Speaker 9 (39:32):
What?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
What?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
What do you call a cup? Designed by Derek or
designed for Derek Henry? Designed for Derrick Henry? A fumbler?
That's Kirk. From Which of the five Burroughs does Lorena
like the most arda one? Well, you're making me regret this.
(39:56):
Joe Joe Burrow. She that's her favorite. She likes o bro.
That's Eric in Kansas. Thank you for that, Eric. Why
would Loraina and leave a Lap make a royal couple?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Why?
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Well, she is the queen of hearts and he is
the king of farts. That's George and Valdi? Who set
that one in? What is Bartolo cologne and Lizzo's favorite
martial art? What kung food? That's Gordon in Tacoma. We
set that one in. It's Big Ben's lame jokes a week,
(40:29):
actual jokes by actual listeners. Why did why did Blind
Scott's ex break up with him? What she said? She
felt invisible? That's Eric in Kansas. We set that one in.
All right, very nice, there, we'll skip down. Why couldn't
aliens probe David vasse with one size fits all?
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Why?
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Apparently, according to Lucky Tony, it kept falling out. I
don't even know what that means. Why? Why did why
did blind let me skip over that one? I think
we've done that? What do you call it?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
When Mike the Leprechaun holds grudges against Blind Scott and Marcel?
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Why? Irish stew is what you called?
Speaker 7 (41:09):
There?
Speaker 1 (41:13):
We've got we've got weed man hippie and hollering James
on lame jokes. What is the difference between Russell Wilson
and weed man hippie? What six sick children in the
hospital would prefer being visited by weed man hippie?
Speaker 4 (41:26):
James? You started laughing early. I't even give the punchline.
That's Gordon a Takoma. Why why doesn't weed man like
the truth?
Speaker 8 (41:34):
Why?
Speaker 9 (41:34):
Why?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Because you can't painhandle the truth? That's why I come
on alright, did you hear that weed Man has his
very own I p A, yeah, he's calling it. You
can't see a thing bong water?
Speaker 4 (41:51):
I pa.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
How did weed Man react whenever he noticed all his
lamps were.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
Gone in his house?
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (42:02):
Delighted. That's a Noah in Austin. Which Muppet Show character
is weed Man? Jealous of Doctor Teeth? Doctor Teeth.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
A cool quickly coming to the NFL and Broke Back
Mountain have in common.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
They both have cowboys that suck.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Here you go, who showers longer than lizz Oh? Helmd Man.
That's Noah in awesome. Thank you gentlemen. There there's lamb
jokes of the week.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 9 (42:38):
I'm here, folks, and good morning Scoop on Entertainment for
this Friday. The show on Fox Sports Radio on Fridays
that has always a laughing and what's going on in
TV radio? Music and everything starts now. I guarantee it,
my man. It's all the ones and two, so here we.
Speaker 11 (43:05):
Thank you, Marcel. I guarantee it all right, We're gonna
start off in theaters like we always.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Do on Coop Scoop on Entertainment. And you know, if
I'm being honest, the last month or so, the theaters
have been kind of just.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
Yeah, it's the calm before the storm, right, because we
were not that far away from the big holiday season.
Speaker 11 (43:26):
Well, and I think it's officially here, the like the
good movies with this weekend, we have the latest Paul
Thomas Anderson movie, One Battle after Another. And this one,
this one stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro,
and Regina Hall and also Tianna Taylor and it is
(43:51):
a former member of a revolutionary group seeks help from
other revolutionaries to find his missing daughter. I have heard
fantastic things about this movie. The word masterpiece was thrown
around by some critics. So I'm excited about this one.
I will check this out this weekend that it's called
One Battle after Another in theaters near you. Now, moving
over to television, we're gonna start off with a second
(44:14):
season of the FX comedy English Teacher.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
That was a premiere that's on Hulu, available on Hulu
right now.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
Now.
Speaker 11 (44:23):
I heard a lot of great things about this series.
I started to watch the first season, I got like,
I don't know, maybe ten to fifteen minutes into the
second episode. So if the malind Milisch is listening, if
you guys are fans of this show and you think
I should get back to it given another chance, let
me know. The second season premieres today, also on Netflix.
(44:45):
We have a historical drama series called House of Guinness
and it's from the creator of Peaky Blinders, and it
follows the heirs to the Guinness Brewing Company, specifically for
adult Guinness siblings in eighteen sixties Dublin, following the death
of their father, Sir Benjamin Guinness, the wealthiest man in
all of Ireland. All eight episode stream today on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (45:08):
So check out do you have to drink Guinness while
you're watching?
Speaker 5 (45:11):
That?
Speaker 9 (45:11):
Is?
Speaker 3 (45:11):
That is that it is recommended but not required.
Speaker 4 (45:14):
Okay, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 11 (45:16):
And then moving on the last thing I'm gonna mention here,
ben We have a documentary. It's a nature documentary and
the reason I bring it up because it sounds a
little bit different than your typical nature documentary. It's called
Nightmares of Nature and that is on Netflix Tuesday, September
(45:39):
thirty at that premierees and it's basically a docuseries shot
like a horror film, but it's you know nature. So
it's like frogs, crocodile, snakes, raccoons facing off against nature's
real life horrors. And so if you're a fan of
You Know Nature Documentaries, is a little spin on it
on Netflix's on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
You know what I'm looking forward to this weekend. I
think it's finally out. Is Cocaine Quarterback?
Speaker 9 (46:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yes, I did see that.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
Yeah, I mean it's on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
I was in I covered the sc when they had
Pete Carroll this guy I don't remember.
Speaker 11 (46:15):
Because I remember that I saw this on there because
I was looking for something to watch and I read
the little synopsis and I'm like, I don't remember this.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
No, he was like a backup quarterback and the guy
was like a drug kingpin a cocaine How crazy is that?
That's wild. I gotta watch this this weekend. I'm gonna
check that out. And I'm excited about that again. I
hope it's good. It seems like it's I saw the
clip online. It looked pretty good. Well done, well done,
contribution man. Thank you, Cooper. I look at that, A
(46:44):
compliment from Cooper. Unbelievable, al right,
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