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Big Ben talks about Micah Parsons' return to Dallas in a game that saw the Packers and Cowboys finish in a tie on SNF, the Cincinnati Bengals essentially quitting on Zac Taylor as they get blown out by the Denver Broncos, Maller's Mountain of Money: Kieran Culkin Edition, and more!

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small Man play. It's one of our old bosses used
to say so the most hype game of the NFL weekend.
You had Jordan Love and the Packers versus Dak Prescott
and the Cowboys, a lopsided match up according to the
gambling market one sided, supposed to be a blowout. Then
they played the game and we know the biggest part

(02:21):
of the hype for the game, the build up was
the side show. That was the biggest thing here was
It was Micah Parson's return to the Death Star. And
I don't know if you were checking this out or not.
Maybe you were burned out from all the football throughout
the day which started early. There was a game in
Ireland very early and continued all this You might have

(02:44):
missed it. And if you missed it, you didn't really
miss anything because the game didn't end with a winner.
We did not have a winner. We had multiple losers,
and the game came down to the final second of
overtime when Brian McManus booted a thirty four yard field
goal with just one second left. Not to win the game,

(03:06):
not to win the game, No no, no, no no, not
to win the game. Instead to get a tie, to
procure a tie. Forty forty eighty points were scored in
this game. Now, we usually say the better stories in
the losing locker room. Both these teams losers lose ours,
all right, So let us discuss the question. Let's just

(03:29):
get right into the nitty gritty of this. Did Green
Bays Micah Parsons raise his game up to match the
hype the much anticipated return to Jerry's World? Did Micah
Parsons live up to his end of the bargain? So
I've got diagnosis, kitty kat and yoga, and we will

(03:52):
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make garlic potato knots is what we're going to make.
Absolutely going to mix the potatoes together with some post
and holy anyway. All right, so, first of all, to
answer the question, did Green Bay's Micah Parsons end up
raising his game to match the stage that he was on?

(04:15):
And the only answer, and you can't see me unless
you're watching on the YouTube feed, is I'm shaking my head. No,
he did not. That was revenge. That was Michaeh Parson's revenge.
That was a statement that you want defense, you go
to Green Bay, baby. The Packers are great defensively. You
know what. That was a lot of cardio. That was

(04:36):
a cardio game for Micah Parson. He was doing pilates
out there. He wasn't really playing football. He was doing pilates.
Michaeh Parsons did more running around than actually making plays
in this game, much to the chagrin of the television
executives who were not obviously happy with this. But the
guy was number one in your program, right there, Micah

(04:57):
Parsons number one, but unfortunately zero in the box score
for ninety nine point nine percent of this particular game.
Getting a pity sack. I called it a pity sack
because if you were watching the game, it didn't really
look like a sack. It didn't feel like a sack.
It shouldn't have been a sack. But the fugazy rules

(05:18):
of the NFL, they gave Michael Parsons a sack with
four forty nine to go in overtime four forty Even
Dak Prescott after the game was shocked. You kidding me?
They gave him a sack on that that's ridiculous, but
they did so. Michael Parsons did not raise his game. Now,
we were not shocked by this. We thought the Packers
would win. If you have watched Benny versus the Penny,

(05:39):
we certainly thought that the Packers were gonna win this
game by a wide margin. We did not have on
our Bengo card that the team from Wisconsin would be
that pathetic defensively. But Michael Parsons, we're talking about him
right now, he did not elevate his performance in this game. Now,
the NBC podcast, if NBC was not showing MICHAEH. Parsons

(06:06):
and then shoving him down your throat like your parents
would making vegetables when you were a kid. It was
like a medicine situation. Here, take the peal, I don't
want the pill. Take the pail. I don't like I
don't need the pell. Take the damn pill. I don't
want the pell. You gotta have the pill. You wouldn't
even known Michael Parsons was out there. Every other snap

(06:26):
was Michael Parsons. This Michael Parsons that we knew what
he had for breakfast, we knew what he had for lunch,
We knew what time he took his bowel movement. We
knew everything about Michael Parsons. It was unbelievable. That's in
depth covers there Michael Parsons and is a return to
Jerry's world. Now Here is Michael Parsons, the man of
the hour who points out that he didn't really do

(06:49):
all that.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, I'm pissed off, you know, I'm very disappointed overall
how we performed. You know, I even told Jordan to
the sign and you know, thank you for having our
back today.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
That's why I'm so pivotal that you know.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
He played complimentary football, because today Jordan played like the
player he was, and we let him down. We a
little to the expectations. On defense, Well, there was a.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Lot of huffing and puffing from Micah Parsons, stumbling and
bumbling as well so they Mallard diagnosis, the overnight talk
radio diagnosis from Micah Parsons chronic case of tight tuck
his syndrome, tight toock his syndrome for Michael Parsons shrinkage

(07:34):
if you know what I mean. Parsons treated his return
to Jerry's world just like a playoff game. And guess
what he played like. It was a playoff guy. He
was nowhere, out there, nowhere to be seen, got boxed up,
He was neutered by the Dallas Cowboys. Micah Parsons tossed

(07:55):
in a boiling cauldron. If you will here, Holy Toledo,
he's bad. Highest paid non quarterback in football. The guy blows,
and that ninety sucks. Man invisible man, the invisible man.
And let's not bury the lead, my man. We won't
bury the lead. The Green Bay Packers who followed up
a loss a wake up call. You lost to Cleveland

(08:18):
because you were caught looking ahead. Wake up call, loss,
wake up call, loss to the Browns. And what do
you do? You come back against a ragtag cowboy team
and play to a tie. The Green Bay Packers are frauds.
The Green Bay Packers are frauds. Pathetic and if I

(08:39):
hear one more thing about oh the Packers, Dave just sucked.
Good shoving up your ass. They suck. They allowed the
Dallas Cowboys without Seedy Lamb to put up four hundred
and thirty six yards of offense forty points. Four hundred
and thirty six yards of offense forty points, and Dallas
still tried to lose again. They had eleven penalties for

(09:01):
ninety five yards, handing multiple first downs to the Green
Bay Packers. And then Jordan Love, he also tried to
lose the game as much as Micah Parsons was licking
the toes of Jordan Love. Jordan Love at the end.
You talk about bad situational awareness by Jordan Love at
the end of his game. Now he also had problems

(09:22):
in the pocket, bad pocket awareness. He was stripsacked on
a fumble that handed the Cowboys touchdown. But late in
the game, My god, what a what a fraud. The
Green Bay Packers are total fool gayzy team, the Green
Bay Packers, My god. All right, Now, on the other
side of things, not the losing locker room, not the

(09:43):
winning locker room, the other part of the tie here.
So how does this tie play for Jerry Jones and
the Cowboys. All right, it's all about Micah, it was
all about Jerry Jones. Well, let's hear from Jerry Jones.
And he felt bad for the people that liked the Cowboys.
He felt bad for the people that like the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Tiles, there's nobody in here obviously that I'm gonna let
it in any way.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
I can.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Put the lost part of the tiele. Now, I'm proud
of this boch. They competed their tails off in here tonight.
They competed out there at the end when they were tired.
I'm proud of them, and I thought we played well
enough to win the game. I'm sick for these guys,
sick for these players, sick for these coaches, said well,
mostly sick for our fans if we didn't bring home

(10:33):
a win. But I am proud of the way we
competed tonight.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Well, it's good he's proud. Who's a glitch at the
end of that. But I'm glad that he's proud. It's
nice that he's Jerry's proud of you. Okay, here's more.
Here's Mike. Actually, here's Jerry Jones on whether or not
ties are necessary. Do we need ties in the NFL.
Here's Jerry Jones.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't want to speak.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
That game was probably a great game for the NFL
as far as the showcase for the game and competition,
because you had outstanding quarterback play, you had some very
talented people out there playing. You certainly had one of
the most expensive players in the history of the NFL
out there playing. And so I guess everybody was going

(11:15):
to take a look tonight and decide to see we're
fall there.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Okay, so apparently not. That's so backhanded shot there by
Jerry Jones. But here's the deal. To answer the question,
how does this tie and Micah Parsons return to Dallas
play for Jerry Jones and the Cowboys plays. So Jerry
gets a strut around like a banti rooster running around there.

(11:39):
That's Jerry Jones, their chest puffed out. His team didn't
drown in the cheese fondue. They were supposed to drown in.
They were supposed to go deep down into that cheese
fondue and not be able to breathe there on Sunday night.
And that's all it takes. And the Cowboys didn't win
the game. And if you don't win, you're a loser.
But they were a touchdown underdog in this game. The

(12:00):
gambling market had the Green Bay Packers winning by a
wide margin. Vegas basically told the world in terms of
this matchup here that the Cowboys were going to get
a Wisconsin baptism in boiling cheddar and that certainly did
not happen in this game. And you say, well, Jerry
Jones defense, the Cowboys defense could not have stopped a

(12:23):
leaky faucet. That is accurate. In fact, how bad was it?
The Green Bay Packers went three touchdowns, two field goals
on their second half and overtime possessions. They had five
possessions after halftime, three touchdowns and two field goals. That's
five scoring drives. My computer, like brain tells me five

(12:43):
scoring drives. And I think that's all of the possessions.
I believe. I think five for five of my math
is correct on that. But Dallas still still despite that,
ended up in a tie situation. All that matters to
Jerry Jones is that Michah Parson sucked. Any time he

(13:05):
cannot suck, vindicating his trade of Michah Parsons. The guy's
not a big game players. That's the argument. When it
was with the Cowboys, the guy disappears, he comes tiny
in big spots. And that was what Michael Parsons did
on this night. That's that perfect capsule of Michah Parsons
as an NFL player. Total fraud in big games, total fraud.

(13:26):
And Jerry Jones can walk around smiling from ear to
ear and all that and postgame I saw some of
the interview that Jerry did. We played a couple of
clips there for you, but Jerry Jones, it was a
kiddy cat moment for Jerry Jones. He was like a
cheshire cat, smile from ear to ear, so happy, so happy. Right,
I gets to sit there in his luxury suite look

(13:47):
down at all this waving to the cameras, knowing that
he's on the NBC feed twenty times during the broadcast,
and he can they can pump out some of his
classic quotes like the Gospel of Jerry's World and all
that stuff is just great. And forget a tie, because
that's a win, baby, for Jerry Jones. That is a
win for Jerry Jones. And all you trash talking people,

(14:09):
you can't talk trash to Jerry Jones. Now. He literally
said afterwards in one of the quotes I saw Dak
he said, his indispensable Micah, isn't That's it. That's the
end of the story there. So Micah Parsons was supposed
to be Lawrence Taylor two point zero was supposed to
be that when it mattered. You didn't see him, say
where'd he go? Oh, he's invisible? Where did he go?

(14:32):
Maybe he's having a snack. I don't know where you went,
jogging around like he's stuck in molasses out there, the
highest paid non quarterback in the NFL. Everything is bigger
in Dallas. If you happen to see Jerry Jones postgame interview,
everything's bigger. Even the cold sore on Jerry's his lip.
There very large, very very large. There. Man alive, my god.

(14:54):
It's all part of the circus though. It's all part
of the circus at Jerry's world. There the extra dry
it's got eat it up and then wins, losses or ties,
win losses or ties, they're just the backdrop. It's Jerry
Jones doing performance art. That's what it does. This was
a net positive for the Dallas Cowboys here. Why because

(15:16):
the Cowboys did not embarrass themselves. They didn't defensively, but
it didn't matter because the offense embarrassed the Green Bay Packers,
who are total Does anyone disagree with that? By the way,
how can you disagree with the Packers are frost They
lost at Cleveland, They gave the game to Cleanway last week,
and now they they lose in a game they had circled.
The Cowboys pathetic and so it's not the Cowboys that

(15:40):
are laughing stock, it's the Green Bay Packers. This is
their time. They went for it. They went We got
Michael Parsons to give up forty points in a big
game that they had circle Man. And you know, now
Jerry can crow about Michael Parsons being expendable and go
on and on about that is going to challenge him,

(16:00):
not at this point.

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We'll start with the late Monday night game which ended
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powerful microphones here on Fox Sports Radio. So the lead
from the Mile High City from Denver. That is where
the Broncos reeling after losing to the Colts and the
Rams and now taking on Cincinnati in an island game.
The island life. Not a lot of islands in Denver,

(18:51):
but they had an island game. You had Joe Bock
and Troy Aikman calling this game. And the reason they
were calling this game because it was the lesser of
two evils. The other game was the winless Dolphins and
the windless Jets. So instead they put the Broncos and
the Bengals in the late TV windows. So I don't
know if you saw this game or not, it wasn't

(19:12):
It wasn't much of a game. I'd be honest. What
you're doing here? Uh got to sit here in Polish turds.
So bow knicks if you didn't see it, bow knicks
looking like he was back at Oregon playing some lightweight
as the Denver offense, matriculating the ball up and down
the field. After somewhat sluggish beginning which lasted about I

(19:35):
don't know half the first quarter, but anyway, bow knicks
not one but two touchdowns. He also ran for another
to a tone for his sin where he threw a
end zone interception. That is a no no, You're not
allowed to throw an interception in the end zone. So
the Broncos snapped the two game el skiddo and they

(19:57):
beat the Bengals. Didn't just beat them, they sent them
back to Siberia with a twenty eight to three loss.
That is back to back belly to belly blowout losses
for the team from Cincinnati. Somewhere Cardiac Stanley is not
very happy right now at his hometown Bengals. But the
better story is in the losing locker room. So it's

(20:18):
always fun to talk about the Bengals because they're losers.
So it's fun to talk about the Bengals here. So
the question, based on my viewing of this game, the
thing that I noticed, having watched sports my entire life,
and certainly as a long suffering gas bag for many
many years now, I noticed something about Cincinnati here, and

(20:41):
I want to pose the question as we discuss did
the Cincinnati Bengals players quit on coade Zach Taylor? Let
us discuss the question as we said, did the Bengal
players quit on Zach Taylor? So I've got chronic New
York Times and Pfizer, and we will combine all of

(21:04):
these things together and we are going to make some
delicious Mediterranean chicken is what we're going to make. And
cider rise somewhat healthy. I'm told that's somewhat healthy. Probably
not that healthy, but what the hell? All right? So
a to answer the question, did the Cincinnati Bengals quit
on coach Zach Taylor? That is a rhetorical question. I

(21:25):
am nodding my head. Yes, you can't see unless you're
watching the YouTube feed, which is on YouTube dot com
slash at Benmather Show. You can actually watch these monologues. Unbelievable.
There's all these cameras. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
seven cameras in here for a radio show. Seven cameras
for a radio anyway. All right, So the Bengals flat

(21:47):
out quit on Zach Taylor. No iff sands or butts
about it. And every man, woman and child that watched
that game that has any knowledge, even a rudimentary knowledge
of how sports work, would agree with that take. That's
not an outrageous take. They quit on their coach. They did.
They played like they had a chronic case of I

(22:10):
don't give an F. I'm not allowed to say what
that F stands for. I think you can imagine what
it stands for. This was not just a bad game.
This was now back to back bellied to belly coach
killing performances by the Cincinnati football team. Now, it's embarrassing

(22:30):
to lose to Carson Wentz and the Viking get blown
out in that game, and then Minnesota the following week.
They go across the Atlantic Ocean and they lose to
a mediocre Pittsburgh team. So they say, okay, normally, the
rule is everyone's gonna have a stinker, right, every team's
gonna have a bad game. You can't stack them. You

(22:50):
can't stack them like hotcakes. Cannot do it. Cannot do it.
And so you can stick it up, but you can't
do it back to back games there, And that's two
sons days, well, Sunday and a Monday now in a row.
You do that, you're trying to send a message. And
what is the message? The message is we are dune
skis with this guy. He h't my coach. The guy's

(23:14):
a bad coach, all right. Now, if you watch the game,
this is this is such a mismatch. It's like those
early season college football games where their money games and
you cut a giant check to the other team that
come be fodder so you can beat them up. The
ben Gals had nine first downs. An NFL team that

(23:35):
plausibly practiced all week, that is paid a lot of money,
it's their job, had nine first downs. They had eight punts,
They almost had one for one punt to first down
one hundred and fifty nine yards. Denver put up twenty
nine first downs, and five hundred and twelve yards of offense.

(23:57):
Now that is not football, Okay, that is not for all.
That is varsity scrimmaging against not even the JV. That's
like varsity versus freshmen is what that was. And the
Cincinnati players were lolligagging. La la la la la la la.
That's what it sounds like when you l lagag la
la la la la la la. You're lollygagging. You're lollygagging

(24:18):
around like it was some kind of seven on seven
walkthrough and OTAs or something like that. And I see this.
I have seen this a lot in basketball. It's more
of a basketball thing than a football thing. It's the
I guess the NBA affication of the NFL what I
saw here. You see this kind of thing in basketball.

(24:38):
I used to when I got into radio. One of
my early jobs, I covered the professional basketball and I
was around some really bad teams and some teams that
did quit on their coach that wanted to get the
coach fired. So I know back then what it was like,
and it's obviously the same thing. It's just with social
media now and you look at it, it's again something

(25:01):
that's usually reserved for basketball. Not something you see in
football that much, where guys on purpose try to get
the coach canned. And because of the physicality in football,
it's not as common a situation. But when it happens,
it's unmistakable. It's absolutely unmistakable. It's strike three strikes. You

(25:22):
got Strike one you're lazy, Strike two your lack of passion,
and strike three your lack character. And that's good afternoon,
good evening, and good night. And that appears to be
the Cincinnati Bengals. Watch what happens next. I don't know
what the next move is. It's not about the scheme,
it's not about that. In the I guess that the

(25:43):
move would be. And we'll see with some of the
quotes coming out of the Bengals locker room following the
Monday night game. But the generally the move is publicly,
you say one thing privately, you say something else publicly,
you'll say it's on us, it's not the coach's fault.
You'll give that speech. You'll have a team. We're gonna
have a team meeting, players only meeting, and publicly you'll

(26:05):
defend Zach Taylor. That's the move. You publicly defend Zach
Taylor in front of the cameras and the microphones, and
then privately you stick a butcher knife right in his back,
right there, big bloody butcher knife right in the back.
There you go. How's that going? But it's the NFL
player's guide to getting a coach fired. I think that's

(26:29):
on page twelve. And if the Bengals had real ownership
that really cared about winning, which they don't, it's good money.
It's a family a good amount of money you can
make you it's a family business. There in Cincinnati, they
had legitimate ownership that was passionate and cared. Zach Taylor
would be left at the airport in Denver, he would

(26:49):
have to take a Greyhound bus back to Cincinnati. That's
not gonna happen because they don't really care that much.
They're more obsessed with pinching pennies than they are winning
football games and all that stuff. It's a mom and
pop shop, that's how they operate. There's something unique and
cute about that that there's a few family ownership groups

(27:09):
left in the industrial complex of American sport and they're
one of them. And the family who currently runs the team,
Paul Brown's the owner, but he's not doing everything day
to day. They just happen to get the right DNA
and the right line, or they married well and they're
running the franchise and all that stuff. But they've been

(27:30):
running this franchise the same way since the Reagan administration.
It's been a minute. And there you go, so always
out there counting their dollars and cents and whatnot, and
good luck. So Mike Brown can count more Nichols and
that'll go well for him and the team. The locker

(27:51):
room waving the white flag here for sure. And so
the Bengels did not just lose to den there's a
sham losing. And every weekend half the teams lose in
the NFL. You quit, that's the thing. They quit. They quit.
The Denver Broncos are quitters on that night, on Monday night.

(28:14):
They quit. That's the story. That's your story. And that
is a coach killing performance. That is a no show.
And effort is the one thing. You're not to be talented.
You're goin'ta be the most talented, etcetera, etcetera, et cetera.
If you put the work in, that's just the that's
the baseline. That's the baseline, all right, now, page two.

(28:37):
So more on this zombie Island game for the Cincinnati Bengals.
I'm fascinated by it. Now. This was a scene right
out of our friend Hayes in Minnesota. It was like
a morgue scene there watching the Cincinnati Bengals more than
a football game. I bring this up. The whole league
is watching these Island games. Everyone's tuned in and night
in theory. Anyway, some of these guys who play football,

(28:58):
she hate football, so they're not. But those that actually
care about football, that are playing and coaching, they're watching. Yep,
probably at Applebee's somewhere, watching, eating some appetizers and watching
the game. So I bring this up because everyone's watching
and the Bengals are going through the motions like the
kids in the back of gym class. I don't want
to be there, you know, and we all know. And

(29:20):
so the epitome of this was Jamar Chase, the one
hundred and sixty one million dollar pass catcher for the Bengals,
and he lost his mind. This video went viral, a
clip of him getting into it with Zach Taylor, which
was actually a good thing because it shows he's passionate.
He knew the camera was on. He did it for

(29:40):
the camera. I'm convinced of that. Everyone knows, Hey, if
your star receiver is going to confront the coach, there's
gonna be seven different camera angles on it. So he
knew exactly what he was doing. Jamar Chase, he knew
that would be talked about. Things were not going well
for the Bengals, and he confronted Zach Taylor on camera,
yelling at him. So what did you make the question?
What did you make of Jamar Chase getting into a

(30:03):
screaming match, a shouting match with the Bengals coach as
the Cincinnati football team got into the fetal position and
started sucking their thumb. So on this one, it's actually
bad Bunny's cousin, which is bad body language. That's a
second cousin of Bad Bunny. Bad body language is what

(30:24):
this is. And it paid a visit, which is always
part of the crumbling of the walls of teams that
suck Jamar Chase and t Higgins. There was also a
clip that a couple of you idiots sent me of
them sitting on the bench during the game, sitting there
like they were waiting for Femi to deliver a bag
of uber eats, some onion rings, possibly some fries, but

(30:47):
maybe just onion rings and some mazzarella sticks. And they
were just waiting on that, and they had the slump
shoulders and then we all know the bad body language there,
and there is kind of man they were doing Matador blocks,
yay O Leo Layoley doing that. He had the kind
of like a half speed jog kind of routine going

(31:08):
on there, and it's the classic gay we're out on
this coach. We did not like the coach. We do
not want to be here. I don't like this altitude.
I don't like the whole thing. I'm not happy. And
again that's out of the New York Times bestseller, which
is The Idiot's Guide to Losing. That is on page
thirty three if you check your notes, page thirty three

(31:30):
of The Idiot's Guide to Losing. As we discuss here
on Fox Sports Radio, star players moping on the sidelines,
coach staring into space, wondering why he chose this profession.
You've got that check that box. You get the backup
quarterback who's out there futzing around looking like he won

(31:50):
a contest at a Kroger, a national contest, not just
a local contest in Cincinnati. He won a national contest,
and he was given the helmet. We're talking about Jake
Browning here, who actually looked somewhat decently the last time
he got some extended playing time when Joe Burrow got
hurt a couple years back, and now looks like he
doesn't know whether a football is puffed or stuffed when

(32:12):
he's out there. And again it looks like he won
a raffle at Paul Brown Stadium or whatever corporate name
it has now. And hey, how would you like to
play quarterback for the Bengals? All right? I don't play
quarterback for the Bengals? Why not? What the heck? All right? Now,
don't sell me on losing builds character. I don't want
to hear about losing builds character. But my belief on

(32:33):
losing has been pretty consistent over the years. Losing does
not build character. It exposes character. And without Joe Burrow,
what are we seeing from the Bengals here? What are
we seeing? Are we seeing a team that's going next
man up? We got to unite together. We got a
lock in here, we got a lock in and go
on the warpath or or are we seeing a team

(32:56):
that is filled with a bunch of show ponies. They're
not the Bengals of the show and front Runners, because
that's what it looks like to me, that's what it's not. Hey,
whoever's there, we're gonna win I with Burrows here or not.
It's like, no, no. The minute Joe Burrow went snap, crackle,
pop and his toe exploded, the whole season went right
into the shredder, right into the shredder. And they know

(33:19):
they're cooked. They've got no fight. They're gutless, they're toothless.
That's the bags. That's what they look like right now.
I'm just merely reacting to what I'm watching. And if
they're embarrassed by that, and they're offended by that, how
about you do better? Play better, don't play like that,
don't play gutless football, all right now? Last word to
the Denver side the winning locker room. So I had

(33:40):
a chance to see the Broncos in person. In the
previous game they played the Chargers that game, they had
in the bag, and then they cut a hole in
the bag and the Chargers came back. In the final
part of the fourth quarter and won a game that
the Broncos seemingly we're going to win. Just by executing
down the stretch, they would have won that game, just
like the Cincinnati or the Indianapolis game where they screwed

(34:01):
up with special teams and they could have should have
won that game. So the question is rather simple. Here
are Sean Payton's Broncos now back after they pull axed
the Bengals on Monday night? Forel are they back? Are
they back? They don't all. Here's the deal. I'm sorry
about I realized my producers like he's working for the

(34:23):
Bronco pep squad over there. But here's the deal. Pump
the brakes on that. You cannot get too worked up
by the Broncos and their domination situation. That's not the story.
You beat up a lightweight, You beat up a team
that didn't want to be there. That is it. This
was not some grand decree. This was not an announcement
by the Broncos. We're back, baby, We're back. This was

(34:46):
not it. It's like sparring with someone who does not
have their their gloves, you know, It's like, okay, you're
spartagas somebody that didn't bring their gloves. Congratulations. This was
a Pfizer booster shot, is what it was for the Broncos.
That's all it was. Congratulations. He didn't really cure anything.
It gives you the illusion that you're in better shape
and all that. But bo Nicks threw for three hundred

(35:08):
plus YARDSS is great, a couple of touchdowns, he ran
for a touchdown. He made up for the interception in
the end zone. So it's got a little more pep
in his step, which is nice and all that stuff.
And you need a confidence booster every now and again.
But yeah, you feel good, congratulations on that, but it
doesn't really count for the big picture down the line

(35:32):
when you play better teams. Oh they beat up the
They beat up the Bengals who didn't want to be there.
Oh man, that's impressive. Bests. I did the math because
they had this opening drive. They came out and they
scored early on. They kicked a field goal. The Bengals
had seventy one yards of offense in the first quarter.
The final three quarters of the game, they had eighty

(35:52):
eight yards over the eighty eight yards the final three
quarters of the game, which is seemingly hard to do,
but they managed to have less than thirty yards on
average the final three quarters of the game. They basically
tapped out. As we've said, they tapped out there, and
the Bronco defense listen, Congrad, they locked the doors, all

(36:14):
that stuff. But it was more about what the Bengals
didn't do, didn't play with fight, didn't play just lazy,
just floating on the lazy river there. And so, as
the great comedian Chris Rock taught me years ago, you
do not get extra credit for doing what you're supposed
to do. That was a game the Broncos were favored
by over a touchdown. They were supposed to win. They did.

(36:35):
So let's not pretend like Sean Payton's now figured out
time travel or something like that. That's not it at all.
So it's not the resurrection of the Denver Broncos. Now
they have a chance. They played Philadelphia next week, and
so I'm assuming Philadelphia is not going to quit in
that game like the Bengals did. They're actually going to

(36:56):
be competitive, be professional, and not be gutless like the
Cincinnati Bengals. And so the other thing is there's no
such thing as momentum. So it's not like Oh, the
Broncos have all the Momentumn doesn't exist, all right, It's
just some crap dumb people buy into in sports since
some sports writer named Grantlin Rice or whatever cooked it

(37:17):
up years ago, and it just gets repeated and idiots
buy into it here so that we'll see what happens
next week when they play the Eagles, who have been
a beatable team. Like every game, the Eagles have been
on the doorstep of despair, and then find a way
to pull it out.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
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Speaker 1 (37:40):
You want to send it right now, Cooper, You just
want to get to the game. What do you want
to do?

Speaker 4 (37:44):
All right?

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Well, no, no imaging. Holiday. Every day is a holiday
with holiday in La. Hello holiday. Haven't heard from him
in a while? Hello holiday man, Man, It is always
a pleasure to speak to you, my friend. Always been
a while, my man been a while. Well, welcome. Who
do you want to partner up with?

Speaker 4 (38:01):
You?

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Got me Ben? Coop? Over there, Lorena, I give you
three gases in the first two, don count then you
already know I'm going with you. Nah, look at that Coop,
You're not picked first? Yeah? See that? Me and Hollow?
Bad choice. It's a bad choice. Great choice. I've never
picked all right, hold on holiday and uh boy, it
would be fun if you were picked. All right, Lorena

(38:23):
picked number one or number two? Number two? All right?
You picked Hugh on the five? Hello, Hugh on the five?
Welcome you. I want more Gana. There's a dated reference
Morgana the Kissing Man. Wow, that's a solid. All right,
you're gonna team up with Coop? All right? You're okay
with that? Yes? I don't hear him? Where'd you go? Uh? Oh?

(38:46):
Do we need to go to our backup already? Hugh
oh Man? All right, Well, I'm glad to see Tyler's
smart man. Some of these these people hang up right away,
but Tyler does not. Hello Tyler, what's going on? Tyler?
And Boston? You're ready to go? You're in there. You're
right out of a bullpen, Tyler. I couldn't have been
happy to stay on the line. I usually do. I know,
I know you. Most people do.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Hang up?

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Are you gonna play with Cooper? What are the categories here? Coop?

Speaker 6 (39:09):
Please hurry up? Chup, chup, chump jarraph This is the
Kieran Kolkin addition. He turns forty three today. The categories
are home Alone, Father of the Bride, Succession, and a
Real Pain and Holiday.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
You run first, Which category would you like?

Speaker 5 (39:23):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Alone?

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Home alone? Okay? All right? And Tyler, how about you? Succession? Succession?
All right? Everyone, hold on here. We are going to
have Malar's amount of money. We'll get to that. We'll
do it next.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?

Speaker 4 (39:57):
Not?

Speaker 1 (39:57):
All right, Right to the game, no wasting of time.
We have Holiday a long time listening to the show.
Have not heard from him in a while. And Tyler,
who's locked in, and he made the wise decision not
to hang up because she won the fives line dropped,
and so Tyler gets to play with Coop and I'm
with Holiday and let's get right to the game. It's
the what is it, Coop? The Kieran hear In Kulkin edition.

(40:19):
It's mccully's brother. Okay, and you picked home alone holiday,
is that correct? Yes? All right, these athletes come from
a big family, and we need the first and last
day and forty five seconds on the clock. We are
on our way and go. Known as the Greek Freak
for the Bucks in the NBA. Yes, star running back

(40:41):
for the forty nine ers. He played for the Carolina Panthers.
His father with mc yes, tight end for the Patriots.
He's retired now he's on the NFL on Fox. Yes,
the Human Highlight film for the Atlanta Hawks. Back up. Yes,
a catcher for the Saint Louis Cardinals in the two thousand.
He had a bunch of stick them all right, white

(41:03):
guy for the Rockets out of New Zealand. Uh kind
of got long hair tattoos, that whole deal. All right,
baseball player, same name as a Mexican rock star.

Speaker 6 (41:17):
Yeah, that was gonna be my clue for that.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
All right, all right, we got the hundred port. We
didn't get Steven Adams.

Speaker 6 (41:27):
Yadier Molina points alright, alright, Tyler, we have succession here.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (41:34):
These athletes all followed in their father's footsteps. Uh need
the first and last name. Forty five seconds. T Are
you ready ready to go?

Speaker 1 (41:41):
All right? Begin? All right?

Speaker 6 (41:43):
Famous basketball player died in a helicopter crash.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Yes, this guy was the all time home run king.
Yes uh.

Speaker 6 (41:52):
This guy was the kid for the Seattle Mariners. Yes,
this is one of the Splash brothers, not Curry but
the other one.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
This guy was a linebacker for the Packers. He had
long hair.

Speaker 6 (42:07):
Yes, uh, this guy is one of the best second
basement of all time.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Uh his father's sandy. Yes uh. This guy is a
safety on the Tampa Bay Bucks. He No. I don't
know what else to say about him. Yes, Wow, was
my guy? That was my guy? Was that was who

(42:33):
was was? No? That was not you. That was Holiday.
That was Holiday. You said that Holiday? You said it?
Holiday said good, good Tyler, No, Holiday said it looks sweet,
Holiday said it all right? That's good? All right? What
do you want, Holliday? Shop the pudding out answers? Holiday?
Let's just heart turn father of the bride or a

(42:54):
real pain, real pain? All right? Forty five seconds on
the clock. Where on our Way and go was a
wide receiver at Tennessee played in the NFL in the
early nineties for the Bengals. Also, the Tennessee Times was
a Rookie of the Year on offense at eight. No,

(43:16):
all right, I can't say the clue. I want to say,
white guy offensive lineman for the Raiders. He went a
wall right before the Super Bowl in Tijuana from the center.
All right, pitcher for the Chicago We're not doing well.
Pitcher for the Chicago Cups, who threw gatorade bottles in
the dugout about ten years ago. Now defensive back for

(43:41):
the for the Steelers, play with the Rams and the Jaguars. Yeah,
there you go. All right, forty I think I think
he lost. Well, you counted the holiday, but holiday said
the end you get. You're taking credits. Tyler
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