October 11, 2025 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about the Bills losing their first game of the season in a divisional matchup against Drake Maye and the Patriots, Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars coming from behind to beat the Chiefs, Maller's Mountain of Money: John Mellenkamp Edition, and more!
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day and it's still another game on Monday, but we'll
lead off in Western New York where the last game
was played here and a patriotic performance at AFC East.
Slobber Knocker was the set up there. And if you
had the Buffalo Bills going seventeen and oher, you are
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a loser. You're a loser. Drake May being credited with
leading the Patriots. He did not have a touchdown pass,
but he did matriculate the ball down the field a
couple of times there. Patriots get it done a thirty
seven yard drive late, setting up a rookie kicker from Miami.
I'm sure that'll go well when the weather gets bad
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in the Northeast. Andy bore gallis a fifty two yard
field goal with fIF teen seconds left, and it was
turned out the last the Barties over on the undefeated
season for the Buffalo Bills as they lose twenty three
to twenty on a Sunday night. And so now the NFL.
I don't how many guys are left from the seventy
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seventy two Dolphins that went undefeated, but if there's any
of them still living, they seem like they A lot
of them have died in recent years. But any of
them still left can crack the champagne there as there
will not be an undefeated team in the NFL five
weeks into the season and they're all gone, all gone,
all the unbeaten teams. To Fawn Diggs ten catches for
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one hundred and forty six yards of the Patriots off
to the three and two start on the season. That
is a winning record. My computer, like Brank, tells me
after five games and they win there the game there
in Buffalo at diggs first game back there since he
was excommunicated from the Bills sent packing to Houston. Despite
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we said, this guy with the show named Andy, the
comic book guy who was part of Bill's mafia, and
Andy was, oh, no, Sefon Diggs. No, he's a model citizen,
model teammate. Of course, we all knew that was bull
crap and it's proven correct as time has gone on
here when you talk about what happened. But for the Patriots,
Diggs had a big day. Remandre Stevenson did not have
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a backbreaking fumble in this game. He had a couple
of touchdowns on the ground and also the second one
set up by Stefan Digs who had a thirty two
yard catch and run, and the Patriots wins. Drake May
twittered seventy three yards passing so the game but no touchdown.
Throws but no interceptions, so you know, turn the ball
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over and the defense made some plays. The Buffalo bill
is very generous in this game, but the better story
is in the losing locker room and Josh Allen not
holding back, not biting his tongue. Here Josh Allen about
the Buffalo Bills and the offense, the performance of the
Buffalo Bills. I think we have that audio. Let's go
to the audio TA. Here's Josh Allen commenting on the
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performance of the Buffalo Bills offense.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Take a listen, we just played sloppy. It's not gonna
win a football game. Turning the ball over three times
in our red zone, gave them one in their red zone.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That's just bad football.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
And we just did not play good tonight. But again
we shouldn't have shouldn't have even been in it with
three turnovers. So that's again, that's just that's just piss
poor offense.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
There you go see piss poor offense for the Buffalo Bills.
Josh Allen. That's a quote, Josh Allen, piss poor offense
by the Buffalo Bill. All right, so let us discuss
the question. How do you read the Josh Allen sound?
But you just heard it there, his take on the
Bills losing here at home to the Patriots. So I've
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got Purple Hayes, Jim bro and Sinkle, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're
going to do. But the bis get in the basket.
So a this was a Smelling Salts special, a smelling
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Salt special for the team from Buffalo. They needed a
wake up call. Now, normally you don't need a wake
up call. My experience, when you play an Island game
at night, you genuinely do not need a wake up call.
This is not a morning game. This was not a
team traveling from a different time zone to have to
play a game and an odd out or No. This
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was a standard East Coast night game between two teams
that are in the Eastern time zone. And yet the
Buffalo Bills were like sleepwalking at the beginning of this game.
And I guess they thought the Patriots are so bad
they don't have to play a full gusto here. They
can sleepwalk divisional home game against the Patriots and all
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that stuff. And the Bills got what they deserved. They
just got what they deserve. I mean, we saw the game.
If you heard about it and we saw it happened,
you're listening to on the radio. Whatever. Yeah, they got
a big fat capital L loss, primetime loss. That's what
they deserved. The way they played in this game. That
was a supermarket Steve special is what that was. Meaning,
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there's a spill on Aisle seventeen, and we need a
mop and a bucket because the Buffalo Bills made a
mess of themselves. They defecated all over asle seventeen. It's
a bad job by them. Eleven accepted penalties, eleven against
the Buffalo Bills. But wait, there's more Buffalo. What they
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did here was another caller that this guy Hayes Purple Hayes,
we call him from Minnesota, who calls the show every
four or five months, and he works at a mortuary
in Minnesota and he picks up bodies and takes care
of them and all that stuff when they meet their demise.
And so for him, it's like the Buffalo Bills they
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needed that because they needed a grave digger. They'd already
done the grave. The problem was not the grave. They
dug their own grave. Here. They dug the hole. They
jumped in. They wanted to get out, but they left
their shovel up top, and they didn't have a ladder
to get out of the grave. They dug themselves. And
so that was it. Josh Allen headlining the episode of
Disaster Piece Theater in this game for how long do
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we hear that the Bills had that long stretch? They said,
an NFL record for most games without turning the ball over,
making mistakes and all that stuff. So you figure it's
gonna even out right. All things even out over a
period of time, and so they even out here in
the first half. You had my math is right, I wrote,
I jotted down. I don't know what that is. I
jotted down fumble, jotted down punt, fumble, field goal punt.
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That's your game script for the Buffalo Bills. So again
that's fumble, punt, fumble, field goal punt. That's it. And
you play with the live hand grenades and they were
certainly playing with live hand grenades there. You play with
those and then eventually come boo, get some shrapnel. That's
what happens there. We're not surprising enough. If you watched
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Benny versus De Penny. We had another, to quote Josh Allen,
piss poor weekend on the NFL. But that's one of
the things we did get right was the Patriots plus
the points against the Buffalo Bills there. So we were
not shocked by this perform and still to see the
Bills turn the ball over that much, that was surprising.
He said, Oh, they lose the game, but they wouldn't
do it because the turnovers. But they did, and the Bills,
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if you look at their record, Bill's Mafia is not
gonna like me. Oh, I can't believe there's such a
hater because anything that's reality, anything reality based, people get
all upset about. But the Buffalo Bills have been skating
on thin ice for a while here. Remember that opening game,
the Ravens had it in control and then Derrick Henry
gave it away. I said, I want to win. We're
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gonna give the win to you, and he fumbled. Fumbleup
set the Bills up for the crazy comeback late in
the game the Dolphins right there on the fourth court.
That lowly my Miami Dolphins went into Orchard Part, New
York and had a shot that the New Orleans Saints.
The Bills could not cover the points spread against that Saints.
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That's an embarrassment. So you were you were playing with
some issues here and you finally got burned with it
and eventually the luck runs out or whatever if you
believe in that kind of things. But this was the
universal signed from above from the heavens, right that the
universe giving them the knock them down a couple of
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pegs situation here for the Buffalo Bills, and can't keep
showing up half asleep generally speaking, half asleep and expect
the football gods to keep bailing you out. And by
any way you slice it, any way that you slice it.
Here just a flat game, and it's an island game.
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And I don't know, I don't think it's like you
have seventeen supposedly hear how hard these people work, and
they spend all year working on but yet they still
some teams, you know, a couple times a year you
just have a clunker. The Bills have had several clunkers.
They won most of them, but it finally came back
to bite them. And so it's a ce la vis
situation for the Buffalo Bills at this point, such as
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life in Buffalo. Now. The good news is you look
at that division, it's like, well, the Patriots are the
only chance, the only threat lurking in that division is
the Patriots. Like the Patriots are just mediocre, then the
Bills have nothing to worry about. If the Patriots are
better than that, then there's something there. There's absolutely something
all right now turning the Patriot. So we'll stay with
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this game. There's some drama o rama going on between
Stefan Diggs, who had a breakout game, is targeted twelve
times digs the former Bill who's now toiling in New England,
that he enjoys the pink drank or the pink goo
or whatever that stuff was that they had on the
boat there with Cardi b and having a grand old
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time there at the Eye. But Sefon digs ten twelve targets,
ten catches for a undred and forty six yards. I'm
told that is good against his old friends, the Bills.
I didn't play in the NFL, but I don't want
to offend Ryan Clark. But I'm told that's good. I'm
told that's good. Then Diggs gave us the money quote
after the game. Stefan Diggs, when asked about his old
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stomping grounds there in Western New York, Stefan Diggs on
the Patriot Bills game, said that it was quote one
hundred percent personal. One hundred percent personal. Close quote from
Stefan Diggs on the matchup against his former team, the Bills.
So can you decode that particular quote from Stefan Diggs.
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Of course we can. We have the ultimate mather of
Rosetta Stone. We can decode all of this stuff. So
that response it's one hundred percent personal, is on brand
it's obviously on brand here, classic narcissism by Stefan Diggs.
And that's what it's all about, right, just obviously it's
all about it. It's never enough just to play well.
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And it's not just digs. It's like, you just can't
go out and play well. To play well, you have
to have motivation, right, You've got to sprinkle in some drama,
little flakes of drama. You just sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle, sprink
You sprinkle those in just like that. It's personal. And
the thing is great about this is there are a
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lot of dumb fans that think, well, yeah, he's right,
it was personal. The bills did him dirty? No, no,
they did not. That that would be incorrect. Here. You
were the problems to Fawn Diggs in Buffalo. We had
said it. Everyone knew it, who paid attention to it.
You were the issue there, not the bills. You were
the problem there, and you look at it and you
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powdered your way out of Buffalo. You powdered your way
out of the bills. You don't want to be there,
and it was the classic. Now he's acting like that.
It's the breakup, you know, the cliche of the boyfriend,
girlfriend breaks up, the girl dumps the boy, and the
guy's like, all right, I'm a gym bro man. I'm
gonna post a bunch of photos from the gym, right
Jim Selfie's captioned living my best life like crap like that.
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That's essentially what Stefan Diggs is doing here right now,
pretending he's over it. But he's not over it. He's
obviously not over it. And that's the big You understand
how much the Bills had enough of Stefan Diggs. They
kept around two years longer than they should have. But
Stefan Diggs, if you look at it, when he was
there at the very end in Buffalo, and the Bills
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publicly leaked a lot of stories to make it seem
like there was no issue, but there were so many
clues along the way there were problems there. And you
look at it and it's like the Buffalo Bills and
I went back and I checked my notes because I
was pretty confident I was right, and I believe I
am correct here. In order to get rid of Stefan
Digs at the end of his time with the Bills,
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the Buffalo franchise ate the biggest non quarterback salary cap
hit in the history of the NFL. Now I am
a salary cap truther, but that's still a ton of
money that the Buffalo Bills ate. The Bills ate it.
They did not have barbecue sauce, they did not have
honey mustard. They just they just ate it. They decided
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they would rather eat the money mana money, eat that money,
then deal with the sideline hissy fits from mister Diggs
there and the bad body language, the sulking, the whole
routine right, the whole routine there, and at the end
Diggs acted when he was with the Bills like he
was a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay. The way the way
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he was acting there with Josh Allen, you know, every
time Alan wouldn't throw them the ball, it was like
a personal assault against the Von Diggs and all that stuff.
So I do enjoy the revisionist history, like there's something
else that was going on. There's nothing else going on.
It's it's unbelievable. Sevon Diggs was pouting poudy, poudy, poudy
with Josh Allen at Loggerheads. I ain't playing nice now
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they're not working together. They're former work friends and you
can play nice and all that stuff. But it wasn't
just Josh Allen. There were issues with the coaching staff
have There were the cryptic text tweets back then, and
I'm all for that. I don't have a problem with that.
Good for talk radio when you send cryptic messages out.
But Buffalo did not do Stefon Diggs dirty. They did not,
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and finally called his bluff. They got rid of him.
And and so this is like Stefan Diggs doing some therapy.
So I'll sit in the chair and I'll do a
little therapy here. And you know, he needed this game.
He convinced himself clearly had a big stat line. Good
for him that he's still the guy coming off the
operation when he was in the with Houston, he hurt himself,
had had the surgery of the ACL But deep down, right,
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you look around and Stefon Diggs, he knows the Bills
don't miss him, and that's gotta bother. Right. Bills had
a good year essentially the same team they were with him.
They're not a legit championship team in Buffalo in that regard,
they're a fraud, but they're a solid second line contender, right,
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the Bills. They will get you into the playoffs, they'll
get you win a couple of games in the play
but ultimately they'll f up, they'll screw something up and
they'll lose. That's what the Bills do. And so Stefan
Diggs got his revenge. Congratulations, he got a little bit
of closure. But they play these teams play each other
twice a year, so there'll be another match up here.
The problem though, Diggs has is still trying to convince
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everyone and even himself that he was the victim, like
because everyone loves victimhood and all that stuff, and the
Bills somehow did him wrong. And of course I looked
at the evidence and they rescued themselves from Stefan Diggs.
All right, now, last thing and the last word here,
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Does this count? This Patriots win on Sunday night and
even game over the Buffalo Bills with a late field
goal under twenty seconds to go. The Patriots get that
late field goal. Does this count as a signature win
for Drake May's Patriots? So I will be Benny Bright's
side to a point, and I will nod my head. Yes,
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I'm nodding my head. Yes that This does count as
a signature win. Here's why Drake may had no signituit.
So anything literally anything against the halfway decent team would
have been a signature weit. So what I'm trying to
say here is if you look at it, the bar
has been replaced by a sinkhole. For the Patriots, there's
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no bar to clear. You're just trying to jump over
a sinkhole, is what you know. That counts as a
signature win in this modern era of the Patriots, not
for the Belichick Brady days, not in that era. Those
guys are long gone. Bill Belichick getting his face smashed
in in college football and Tom Brady, by the way,
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is there a worse general manager than Tom Brady? What
he put together with the Raiders? Holy crap. But you
can't rip Brady because he's football Royalty. What a terrible
job tom Brady did, Pete Carroll and Gino Smith more
on that later, Holy crap, that's Tom Brady. He handpicked
the coach, he hint picked the quarterback and they blow anyway.
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So those guys are gone. But like a house by
the side of the road. But you look at the team,
the pagot and this does again, the bar is low.
It's a sinkhole, so let's not go nuts. I'm not
going to overreact to this. The Bills were sloppy. That
was a large part of the game. But a lot
of these games are decided because most games are lost,
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not one, so that is a factor in this. Eleven
penalties we mentioned that early eleven penalties, a couple of
turnovers as well. For the Buffalo Bills in this game,
and the pictures, it didn't exactly wow you. It's not
like you, WHOA, this is like, oh, this is a
team that's gonna really contend in the AFC and all
that stuff. No touchdown passes for Drake may in this game. However,
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he did average nine yards per pass attempt. There were
a couple of big plays mixed in there, so didn't
turn the ball over and possession of the ball is
nine tenths of victory, so that was a big thing
and you didn't have to watch the usual slop the
Patriots have had there. It's in the last couple of years,
the Patriot quarterback situation. It's a Rubik's cube, but you're
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trying to solve it while you're blindfolded, all right, So
this does count as happy beat Days or here again.
Happy days are here again. No more Cam Newton from
a couple of years back, throwing medicine balls. You don't
have to pretend like you're interested in dog food Mac Jones.
That's what he was with the Patriots. He was dog
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food and Bailey Zappy cosplay Zappi mania. You don't have
to worry about that either. All that off the table
right there, See you later. So that's where we are,
and the Patriots are a winning team. And you know,
some of the records is how bad they've been. This
is uncharted territory since twenty nineteen. It's how pathetic the
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Patriots have been. Here that back to back wins for
the first time since twenty twenty two. That looked like
a Mike Vrabel like what he did in tennesse See
that type of perform It's heavy, underdog on the road,
grind it out type of game. And that's what the
Titans did back before things got really nasty there in
Tennessee at the end. But you tighten up the AFC
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East race and really again it's a two team race.
The Jets have already been eliminated. The Dolphins have already
been eliminated, and it's really just the Patriots or the
only hope to unseat the Buffalo Bills in that division
and the rebooted Patriots. Is it something? Is it going
to continue? Well, well we'll see here. But the post dynasty,
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the post dynasty wasteland, all right, they were competent. It's
just being a little bit better than average is where
you get a little giddy.
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baseball last hour. We now go our lead this hour
from the River City. And that's where we had Jacksonville
in a full moon. That was the stage the final
act of week number five, Week number five of the
NFL season, and you had Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs
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traveling vandwagon fit for a pop star into duoll cardy
just like that. There a little playdate with the Jaguars.
And you only see the Jags on National TV one time,
normally a regional broadcast, but here they were Monday night
Football Island game. Were you watching bad? You were watching
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the baseball game? I was flipping back and forth. I
was I was flipping back and forth. I watched the
majority of this one. And a good thing about football
a lot of timeouts, so you can go back and
forth and have a field day. So if you did
not watch Trevor Lawrence who tripped, he fell to the ground,
he stumbled, he tripped over his own line, and he
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got up and he got his feet and nobody touched
him from Kansas City a defensive boo boo and scrambling
one yard touchdown with twenty three seconds remaining. The kill
shot for the Jaguars as it was a comedic pratfall
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which ended up in an improbable touchdown and Jacksonville beats
Kansas City thirty one twenty eight on a Monday night
as Trevor Lawrence was serenaded serenaded by his teammates there
his birthday, twenty sixth birthday for Trevor Lawrence there, and
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good news is he doesn't need anything because he's really
filthy rich, so he don't need to buy him anything.
He's so loaded he can buy whatever he wants. Yes, anyway,
the ridiculous wacky ending there as Kansas City has scored
to take the lead, went up by four, so Jacksonville
had to get a touchdown. The Jaguars eight and one.
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Now they snap an eight game losing streak to Kansas City.
They also match their wintal how pathetic were they last year?
Where they've matched their win total at four from all
of last season, and the Chiefs the better story here
in the losing locker room, the Chiefs dropped back under
five hundred. I thought the Chiefs had arrived. You told
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me they had arrived. They beat Baltimore, they had arrived.
Apparently not that that was wrong. Well, the better story
is there, So let's go into it, and let's hear
from some of the key participants. Will start out with
Andy Reid. Now, one of the big storylines here was
the mistakes for the Chiefs and they had they led
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the world and penalties in this game, the referees calling
the penalty here, there and everywhere. Here is Andy Reid
talking about that particular issue.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Thirteen penalties. Therefore, whether I agree with them or don't
agree with them, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
They called them.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
And so you have that many penalties, you give a
field position. You can outstat them to death, but it
doesn't matter. It's a score that matters. And we've got
to take our business there.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Okay, Andy always sounds like he needs a throat lozenge,
he and Doc Rivers always sounds like he's got like
he needs some garlic or something like that. Anyway, all right,
so question, let's discuss the question what happened? What happened
to Andy Reid's Camps City Chiefs there in Jacksonville. So
I've got waffle house, confetti and submarine and we'll combine
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all of these things together and we're gonna make your
Babushka's favorite gummy candy. Is what we're going to make.
All right? So number one, I said number number What?
Speaker 8 (27:42):
What? What?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Right? All right? All right? So here's what I saw
on my TV, which is not I don't have like
the biggest TV in the world. I got a regular
sized television. I was a giant TV. So I saw
Kansas City walk into Duval County and get in the
face with a frying pan. Andy Reid mentioned they won
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the stats. They did. They won the stats. So if
you're just a low information fan and you worship stats
and you're a fantasy football dope, oh they won the starts.
Everything's fined. Yeah, remember what is the mantra? We have
a couple of mantras on this show because we've done
this a long time. Most games are lost, they're not won,
and the better story is in the losing locker room.
This game checks both those boxes, both those boxes. This
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was a waffle House special for Kansas City. They stacked
off mistakes, they were smothered in penalties, and they had
a side of brain farts, which I don't I think
that's an add on item at waffle house. I don't
think that's out on the actual menu. I think that's
the secret menu. You can order brain farts. You gotta
go there, like a two thirty three in the morning, though,
to get the full brain fart experience when you go
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to the waffle house. But listen, the Chiefs cooked themselves.
Andy Reid mentioned it. Thirteen penalties one hundred and nine yards,
and they even at one point late in the game,
not that it mattered, but they called back back timeouts,
which even I know didn't play in the NFL. But
even though you can't call back to back timeouts, you
cannot do it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
He did it.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Oh my god, you can't do it. I'm madden. You
can't do it in the real NFL. So Andy Reid's group,
you know what it looked like. It looked like they
were making a YouTube video on how to implode and
lose an NFL game. Things to do to lose an
NFL game, made by those influencers in Kansas City, including
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and you're not supposed to say this because Mahomes is great,
but he left way too much time on the clock.
They were so arrogant that the Chiefs assumed the position that, hey,
we're so good defensively that we don't have to worry
about limiting the time left before Jacksonville gets the ball.
So the Chiefs did score the go ahead touchdown with
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one forty five to go in the game, and then
they fed up the kickoff, which we've seen a couple
of times here in Week five, we saw it and
where they have the fugaz kicking rule where he's got
to be in the right zone. If it's not in
the right zone, if it goes out of bounds, the
ball goes to the forty yard line. So the Jags
took over at their own forty yard line. Now they
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didn't need a field goal, so it's not like that,
but they still gave them some wiggle room and they
took advantage of which is all of this is totally
unchief like. It's unchief like to play that way. We've
not seen that in this era, and the team that
has been the model franchise in this particular run of
big game performance and composure. They don't win them all,
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but they're normally not going to beat themselves and it's
been what six years more than that, I think now,
and here they are in this game looking like they're
the Cleveland Browns, tripping over their own shoelaces and just
a hot mess. And then you had that ninety nine
yard ninety nine yard return pick six from linebacker Devin
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Lloyd of Jacksonville nine yards. He should have run back
to the end zones and make it a full one
hundred yards. But that's the kind of play that you
see people. Wow, it's a rookie mistake. Mahomes not a
rookie obviously, right, Mahomes did the thing you can't do
at the time, you can't do it. He made the
big mistake there. And here's Mahomes, by the way, pointing
(31:18):
out Patrick Mahomes that there were a lot of self
inflicted wounds. Take a list.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
I mean, it kind of just talks about our whole
entire season. I mean, we I feel like we have
we have the guys, and we've executed at certain points
of game and it looked really good, and then we
kind of crush ourselves with penalties and mistakes and interceptions
and fumbles or whatever that is. I mean, it's just
we've kind we've kind of done that to ourselves all
year long. It's kind of been one guy here there,
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and in this league, it's so close that those those
change games, and so we got to be better, you know,
we we we've lost too many games already.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yes, well, good luck. So the Chiefs back under five
hundred here. That was a kick to the foot balls
by Jacksonville, the Kansas City. The Chiefs strutted in. They assume,
like everyone else that plays Jacksonville, we look it's like
a community pool. You come here, you can look at
the pool, and then you win the football game. And
they were like, hey, we're rock stars, man, we are
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Taylor Swift's favorite team. We are. And they end up
leaving doing the walk of shame right down Broad Street
there with their tails between their legs, and the Chiefs
as they lose. Mahomes did have the Gatti stat line
the three hundred and seventy eight total yards running and passing,
two touchdowns running and passing combined, and a l So
the Dorks will be happy because Mahomes had a big
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stat game. The Chiefs are two to zero against Tomato Cans.
The Giants and Ravens are a combined two and eight.
That's a two hundred winning percentage. Meanwhile, the Chiefs are
zero and three against the Chargers, Eagles, and Jaguars who
are a combined eleven and four. So that tells you
a lot, not everything, but it tells you a lot. Here,
past results we know do not guarantee future outcomes. We're
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all aware of that. And Kansas City had the Big Three.
They were let's see the Big three. They were sloppy,
they were unfocused, and they were undisciplined. So those are
the Big Three. Congratulations. And you could see we heard
from Andy Reid, but you can see Andy Reid like
kind of his mustache was twitching a little bit. Either
he wanted some chicken alfredo or he was very upset.
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I'm not sure which, but I'm going disgusted. But he
might have wanted chicken alfredo also and been disgusted. And
so the Andy Reid is always detail oriented, right, It's
one of the great Hall of Fame traits of Andy Reid.
And it's all about the little things, as coaches like
to say, but instead look like a bunch of guys
on a bender, just like they were there in Jacksonville
for the weekend, just having a great old time elsewhere
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he had, Travis Kelcey had seven catches for sixty one
yards and a touchdown, which is good but not great.
And my advice to Kelsey is he better run off
to an Elvis chapel asap, get married as fast as possible,
Do not wait for the royal wedding, because Taylor Swift
is going to realize, wait a minute, this team's a loser.
My husband plays for losers, my future husband, so I
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don't want to be associated with losers. So you better
get married quick, Travis, because it is not going well
for the Chiefs right now. And if the Chiefs keep
this up, I don't think they will. But if they
do keep it up, and she's going to be writing
her next album will be a breakup song and it'll
be like Flags and Fumbles, and she'll be rifting on that. Well,
maybe the Chiefs are so busy. They were like they
(34:26):
were trying to listen in their helmets to the new
Taylor Swift album and that's why they were unable to
play all right now, Page two. Does this count? Big
headlines all over the interweb? Does this count as a
signature win for Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars. So on
this one. I know that the clown College of Sportscasting,
(34:48):
there's a sports writer clown College. There's certain narratives that
you just have to go with, and this is one
of them. But I rolled my eyes when I saw that.
And yeah, you want to just break out the confec cannons,
you know, fire the Cottons, get the confetti cannons ready
to go for Trevor Lawrence. You can do that if
you want. However, I believe the word for that is
(35:10):
premature capital P. Premature capital P. And here's why, again,
we laid it out. Kansas City was so sloppy. They
handed the game to Jacksonville, and Jacksonville took it on
the island game, they took it. Congratulations. But stop me.
If you've heard this before, Trevor Lawrence, maybe my TV
was different than your TV and the other people's TVs.
(35:32):
I thought Trevor Lawrence played fine. I thought he was
fine Trevor Lawrence as a player. It's not like he
parted the Red Sea or the Saint John's River there
in Jacksonville. This was more about the Chiefs collapse than
it was some kind of public coronation of the Jaguars.
Trevor Lawrence had a meh performance then two hundred and
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twenty one yards passing, that's kind of where he's normally at,
somewhere between one eighty two twenty and he had his
usual two turnovers, a horrific fumble interception, So he checked
those boxes and on the signature player of the game,
he was at klutz, he fell down, he got stepped on,
he fell down. And then because the Chiefs decided they
(36:18):
wanted to kind of relax a little bit, they didn't
want to hustle, so they allowed the quarterback with the
ball to Sanchez into the end zone. So let's not
act like this is Joe Montana finding Dwight Clark in
the back of the end zone against the Cowboys. That
signature moment that ignited the career of Joe Montana. No,
that was the most whoopsie Daisy, what happened? Oh, Mike,
(36:42):
I guess I scored a touchdown moment. We've seen it
in a long time. He tripped. He tripped, And there
is a dimension in the multiverse where Trevor Lawrence trip
does not score a touchdown. Jacksonville does not win, and
we were having a much different conversation you and I
right now out. But Lawrence is one of these guys.
(37:04):
He's been a pretty big bust in his NFL career,
and yet it's like he's got his own visitor and
like the convention and visitor authority of Trevor Lawrence. So
you can't say that you just keep pumping the tires
on Trevor Lawrence. He's so good. Come on, if that's
your signature moment, tripping and scoring a touchdown, you likely
(37:25):
need to go back to the to the creative writing
room and come up with something else there. You need
to aim higher. All right, final point, follow up to
what we've been discussing here. Follow up to what we've
been discussing. So Jacksonville has a good record. In fact,
you look at your NFL standings, and I know you
love your NFL stand Oh, I can't get enough of
(37:45):
those NFL stand Boy, They're great, aren't the standings?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
So you look at the standings for Jacksonville, and now
if you look at your big board, not a list,
big board, Jacksonville is the number five seed in the
American Football Conference. So they would play in that five
to four game. It's way too early for all that.
But they're a playoff team and they're off to the
four and one start on the year, and the people
are saying, well, they've arrived, so is it time to
(38:11):
take the Jags seriously? Beat Kansas City primetime game? So
I would say, I'm gonna channel our favorite crossing guard
from Fort Wayne, and I'm gonna put the stop sign up,
is what I'm gonna do. Daniel from Fort Wahn, I'm yeah,
I'm putting the stop sign up because here's why they're
(38:31):
not there. I don't see it right, and I need
to see way more, way more before I'm going to
start carving the faces of Trevor Lawrence and the head
coach Liam Cohne into AFC Mount Rushmore. I'm not quite
there yet. The wins are against the Niners and Kansas City.
(38:55):
Those are the two big wins for Jacksonville. Those are
billboard wins. I guess they'll buy a billboard on nine
to ninety five and put that up. Congratulations. Not impressed,
I'm not so why are you not in press? Were
you just being a douchebag? Let me explain, because in
this game it was more about Jacksonville being the beneficiary
of the benefactor, which was Trevor Lawrence his opponent there
(39:19):
Mahomes and Travis Kelcey and Andy Reid. Heer, that's not
arriving when someone just hands you the game. Now you
took it. That's like somebody finding a lottery ticket on
the street and then you scratch it off with your
like a quarter or something like that. You won, well, congratulations,
but you didn't buy the lottery ticke and you found it.
And so again, just don't be a prisoner of the
moment here, relax as Aaron Rodgers fam as he said,
(39:43):
and Jacksonville, he all told me. And I did have
Jacksonville in the game Monday night, so I was happy.
If you watched Benny Versus the Penny on YouTube, what
you should watch every week, make that part of your routine.
I had Jacksonville. I was very happy that they won
the bet. I didn't think they would actually win the game.
The other factor here, though, is when you handicap the game.
The big selling point for Jacksonville is they have a
top ten defense in most of the key categories. They
(40:05):
were top ten, top five defensively, and that we thought
was going to be the calling card for Jacksonville. However,
they gave up. Let me check my notes here, four
hundred and seventy six yards that Kansas City looked like
a submarine, but they were the screen door on the
submarine trying to keep the water out and they were
at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It did not
(40:28):
go well. And so if the Chiefs and Jaguars meet
again in January in a playoff game, are you gonna
bet on Kansas City or are you gonna bet on Jacksonville.
You're gonna bet on Kansas City every time. And context
obviously plays a factor in this. You're talking about October football,
You're not talking about a playoff test or anything like that.
(40:49):
And Jacksonville they play Seattle next, that's in Duvall County.
Then they play one of those international games across the
Atlantic against the Elia Rams. So that's who they have
up next. And those are two games that are fifty
to fifty games. You can go either way where Jacksonville
could win both. They can go one and one lose bowl.
I mean, those are legitimate similar teams to Jacksonville, the
(41:12):
Seattle Seahawks and the Rams. So we'll see We'll see
what happens here. We'll watch the games. But in the
good news for the jackson I will Benny Brightside. The
division they're in, the AFC South is the kiddie pool
of the NFL. And I realize the culture playing very
well right now. They have the top record in the AFC.
(41:33):
That's not going to last. And the Jags is in
Jacksonville and Indianapolis can thumb wrestle for first place. And
the Texans are saying well about us, Well, I'm not
too impressed. They beat the Ravens and Cooper Rush, so
we'll see what they do when they play some real
opponents here. And then you got the Tennessee Titans who
are wearing the Dunce cap in the corner of the room,
sucking their thumb and the sandbox, waiting for teams to
(41:55):
give them games like the Arizona Cardinals. So Trevor Lawrence
still the poster boy. And by my world, Trevor Lawrence
is still the poster boy for getting paid on potential,
not results. And well, I'll give him this. At least
they're somewhat entertaining Jacksonville with like Trevor Lawrence is kind
of a Dopey got the long hair thing. You got
the nerdy coach who doesn't seem like he's the leader
(42:18):
of men, but yet he's coaching an NFL team. So
there's a lot going on there.
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Speaker 1 (43:43):
All right, let's do it. Here we go, let's play
the game. We have our contestants. We've got Keith in
Maine and Tyler's in Boston. Keith is partnered up with media.
What are you up to here? You're working right now?
Are you just hanging out?
Speaker 7 (43:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (43:55):
I actually just got out of work.
Speaker 7 (43:57):
I'm on my way home.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Oh nice? All right. What kind of work do you do?
I work out a paper mill in the middle of
nowhere in Vegas nine. All right, someone needs to make
paper and you're the one doing it. Yeah, yeah, all right.
Well I won't ask Tyler then, because you guys don't
care about Tyler. Let's play the game. Coop, what do
you got going on here? Me and Keith I believe, yes, yes,
(44:20):
you have small town all right. These athletes all are
from small towns, kind of like you, Keith, Are you ready?
All right? Forty five seconds on the clock. Here we
go and we're on our way. Quarterback for the Packers
before Aaron Rodgers. Yes, a wide receiver with the Vikings.
He went to the Patriots though, was on the undefeated team. Yeah,
(44:40):
the greatest Celtic of all time in the nineteen eighties. Anyway, Yes,
Yankee legend. He's not a mouse, but he played in
the nineteen sixties and outfielder number seven for the Yankees.
Speaker 7 (44:53):
Nike man.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yes, white running back for the old Washington Redskins in
the nineteen eighties. Kind of a plodding running backs guard
for the for the Lakers, white guy from no currently
on the Lakers right now? Currently, all right, that's fine, No.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
That is correct, but not that, not that one.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Austin Reeves, John Riggins. You didn't get John Riggins. All right,
let's sorry, go ahead, Coop.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
You're up, all right, Tyler. We have rain on the scarecrow.
Speaker 12 (45:31):
These athletes all grew up or currently live on a
farm Are you ready ready?
Speaker 5 (45:38):
All right, forty five seconds, let's begin. Current quarterback for the.
Speaker 12 (45:41):
Bills, the all time strikeout king in Major League Baseball.
He played for the Angels and the the the Houston Astros.
His nickname is Rocket. Okay, anyway, this guy was a
pro wrestler. He was in the Prince Bridey's Giants. He yes, Uh,
(46:04):
this guy, he said, I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
You said it.
Speaker 12 (46:07):
This guy is one of the all time greatest pitching
sheet in the postseason.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
He played for the Giants.
Speaker 12 (46:15):
His Yes, this guy was a white guy receiver for
Aaron Rodgers on the Packers. Yes, this guy was the
center for the Dallas Mavericks when they won in twenty eleven.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
All, yeah, it's on, and we'll we track the Andrey
the Giant. You said, I did not say minus third.
I did not say that we're tied.
Speaker 5 (46:33):
No, we're not.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
I believe we're tied, he said, Who said, I did
not say it.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
I heard it.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Everyone heard it. Nope, you heard it, right, Keith?
Speaker 7 (46:39):
I did?
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, he said, Heith heard it. All right, Well you're
you're cheating already. Go ahead there, Keith, we are up.
You want, uh what we got a forty song or
hurts so good? Hurt all right, hurts so good, very good.
These athletes played through injury to win in the playoffs.
Are you ready, Keith? Yeah, all right, we'll put four
forty five seconds on the clock. First and last name,
(47:02):
greatest golfer of all time? Yes, all time NFL leading
rusher for the Dallas Cowboys, starting pitcher for the Red Sox.
He had a bloody sock and he got it. Yes,
tight end for the Cleveland Browns. His son was a rapist.
(47:22):
Oh my god, all right. Dodger outfielder played for the Tigers.
Hit the home run in the eighty eight World Series.
The Yes, center for the Lakers. He liked to parking
handicap parking spaces. No, he might, well, he might actually
need one. No, how about this. A linebacker for the
Rams played with a broken leg in the Super Bowl
(47:46):
in nineteen eighties. I have no idea, all right, Jack
youngbloody one sixty two sixty total.
Speaker 12 (47:55):
Then and Andrew Bynhen was the center that le to
park in Hantower. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
I didn't know anything else to say about Andrew boy.
Speaker 12 (48:03):
I won a championship with the Lakers alongside power Gasol
between towers.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Come on, at least Kwame Brown through a cake. You
know that's funny.
Speaker 12 (48:10):
All right, Tyler, we've got authority song. These athletes all
had a problem with authority. Forty five seconds, that's begin.
His nickname was the Answer in NBA. Yes, this guy
knelt during the anthem. In the NFL. Yes, this guy
was one of the best wide receivers. He was on
the forty nine Ers, the no the Cowboys. He Yes,
(48:35):
this guy's nickname was the rain Man in the NBA
for the Sonics has the Seattle SuperSonics. He had like
seven children from like seven different women. Yes, this guy
was a wide receiver on the Saints. His cousin calls
our show a generic name with Drew Brees. No, all right,
(48:58):
this guy has the same name as a running back
in the NFL for the Rams.
Speaker 5 (49:01):
But he was an NBA player.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
It's oh sorry if you don't win, Cooper Loop. I
hate to say.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
It was the total?
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Are we one?
Speaker 5 (49:08):
You got one hundred on there and then one forty
on the other.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
We want, Yeah, we leg date, we wanted, not track.
Speaker 9 (49:17):
We again, win the game.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
We win, We won the game. We won the game.
Speaker 9 (49:26):
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day and it's still another game on Monday, but we'll
lead off in Western New York where the last game
was played here and a patriotic performance at AFC East.
Slobber Knocker was the set up there. And if you
had the Buffalo Bills going seventeen and oher, you are
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a loser. You're a loser. Drake May being credited with
leading the Patriots. He did not have a touchdown pass,
but he did matriculate the ball down the field a
couple of times there. Patriots get it done a thirty
seven yard drive late, setting up a rookie kicker from Miami.
I'm sure that'll go well when the weather gets bad
(02:55):
in the Northeast. Andy bore gallis a fifty two yard
field goal with fIF teen seconds left, and it was
turned out the last the Barties over on the undefeated
season for the Buffalo Bills as they lose twenty three
to twenty on a Sunday night. And so now the NFL.
I don't how many guys are left from the seventy
(03:16):
seventy two Dolphins that went undefeated, but if there's any
of them still living, they seem like they A lot
of them have died in recent years. But any of
them still left can crack the champagne there as there
will not be an undefeated team in the NFL five
weeks into the season and they're all gone, all gone,
all the unbeaten teams. To Fawn Diggs ten catches for
(03:37):
one hundred and forty six yards of the Patriots off
to the three and two start on the season. That
is a winning record. My computer, like Brank, tells me
after five games and they win there the game there
in Buffalo at diggs first game back there since he
was excommunicated from the Bills sent packing to Houston. Despite
(03:59):
we said, this guy with the show named Andy, the
comic book guy who was part of Bill's mafia, and
Andy was, oh, no, Sefon Diggs. No, he's a model citizen,
model teammate. Of course, we all knew that was bull
crap and it's proven correct as time has gone on
here when you talk about what happened. But for the Patriots,
Diggs had a big day. Remandre Stevenson did not have
(04:20):
a backbreaking fumble in this game. He had a couple
of touchdowns on the ground and also the second one
set up by Stefan Digs who had a thirty two
yard catch and run, and the Patriots wins. Drake May
twittered seventy three yards passing so the game but no touchdown.
Throws but no interceptions, so you know, turn the ball
(04:40):
over and the defense made some plays. The Buffalo bill
is very generous in this game, but the better story
is in the losing locker room and Josh Allen not
holding back, not biting his tongue. Here Josh Allen about
the Buffalo Bills and the offense, the performance of the
Buffalo Bills. I think we have that audio. Let's go
to the audio TA. Here's Josh Allen commenting on the
(05:03):
performance of the Buffalo Bills offense.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Take a listen, we just played sloppy. It's not gonna
win a football game. Turning the ball over three times
in our red zone, gave them one in their red zone.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That's just bad football.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
And we just did not play good tonight. But again
we shouldn't have shouldn't have even been in it with
three turnovers. So that's again, that's just that's just piss
poor offense.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
There you go see piss poor offense for the Buffalo Bills.
Josh Allen. That's a quote, Josh Allen, piss poor offense
by the Buffalo Bill. All right, so let us discuss
the question. How do you read the Josh Allen sound?
But you just heard it there, his take on the
Bills losing here at home to the Patriots. So I've
(05:46):
got Purple Hayes, Jim bro and Sinkle, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're
going to do. But the bis get in the basket.
So a this was a Smelling Salts special, a smelling
(06:08):
Salt special for the team from Buffalo. They needed a
wake up call. Now, normally you don't need a wake
up call. My experience, when you play an Island game
at night, you genuinely do not need a wake up call.
This is not a morning game. This was not a
team traveling from a different time zone to have to
play a game and an odd out or No. This
(06:30):
was a standard East Coast night game between two teams
that are in the Eastern time zone. And yet the
Buffalo Bills were like sleepwalking at the beginning of this game.
And I guess they thought the Patriots are so bad
they don't have to play a full gusto here. They
can sleepwalk divisional home game against the Patriots and all
(06:51):
that stuff. And the Bills got what they deserved. They
just got what they deserve. I mean, we saw the game.
If you heard about it and we saw it happened,
you're listening to on the radio. Whatever. Yeah, they got
a big fat capital L loss, primetime loss. That's what
they deserved. The way they played in this game. That
was a supermarket Steve special is what that was. Meaning,
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there's a spill on Aisle seventeen, and we need a
mop and a bucket because the Buffalo Bills made a
mess of themselves. They defecated all over asle seventeen. It's
a bad job by them. Eleven accepted penalties, eleven against
the Buffalo Bills. But wait, there's more Buffalo. What they
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did here was another caller that this guy Hayes Purple Hayes,
we call him from Minnesota, who calls the show every
four or five months, and he works at a mortuary
in Minnesota and he picks up bodies and takes care
of them and all that stuff when they meet their demise.
And so for him, it's like the Buffalo Bills they
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needed that because they needed a grave digger. They'd already
done the grave. The problem was not the grave. They
dug their own grave. Here. They dug the hole. They
jumped in. They wanted to get out, but they left
their shovel up top, and they didn't have a ladder
to get out of the grave. They dug themselves. And
so that was it. Josh Allen headlining the episode of
Disaster Piece Theater in this game for how long do
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we hear that the Bills had that long stretch? They said,
an NFL record for most games without turning the ball over,
making mistakes and all that stuff. So you figure it's
gonna even out right. All things even out over a
period of time, and so they even out here in
the first half. You had my math is right, I wrote,
I jotted down. I don't know what that is. I
jotted down fumble, jotted down punt, fumble, field goal punt.
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That's your game script for the Buffalo Bills. So again
that's fumble, punt, fumble, field goal punt. That's it. And
you play with the live hand grenades and they were
certainly playing with live hand grenades there. You play with
those and then eventually come boo, get some shrapnel. That's
what happens there. We're not surprising enough. If you watched
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Benny versus De Penny. We had another, to quote Josh Allen,
piss poor weekend on the NFL. But that's one of
the things we did get right was the Patriots plus
the points against the Buffalo Bills there. So we were
not shocked by this perform and still to see the
Bills turn the ball over that much, that was surprising.
He said, Oh, they lose the game, but they wouldn't
do it because the turnovers. But they did, and the Bills,
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if you look at their record, Bill's Mafia is not
gonna like me. Oh, I can't believe there's such a
hater because anything that's reality, anything reality based, people get
all upset about. But the Buffalo Bills have been skating
on thin ice for a while here. Remember that opening game,
the Ravens had it in control and then Derrick Henry
gave it away. I said, I want to win. We're
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gonna give the win to you, and he fumbled. Fumbleup
set the Bills up for the crazy comeback late in
the game the Dolphins right there on the fourth court.
That lowly my Miami Dolphins went into Orchard Part, New
York and had a shot that the New Orleans Saints.
The Bills could not cover the points spread against that Saints.
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That's an embarrassment. So you were you were playing with
some issues here and you finally got burned with it
and eventually the luck runs out or whatever if you
believe in that kind of things. But this was the
universal signed from above from the heavens, right that the
universe giving them the knock them down a couple of
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pegs situation here for the Buffalo Bills, and can't keep
showing up half asleep generally speaking, half asleep and expect
the football gods to keep bailing you out. And by
any way you slice it, any way that you slice it.
Here just a flat game, and it's an island game.
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And I don't know, I don't think it's like you
have seventeen supposedly hear how hard these people work, and
they spend all year working on but yet they still
some teams, you know, a couple times a year you
just have a clunker. The Bills have had several clunkers.
They won most of them, but it finally came back
to bite them. And so it's a ce la vis
situation for the Buffalo Bills at this point, such as
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life in Buffalo. Now. The good news is you look
at that division, it's like, well, the Patriots are the
only chance, the only threat lurking in that division is
the Patriots. Like the Patriots are just mediocre, then the
Bills have nothing to worry about. If the Patriots are
better than that, then there's something there. There's absolutely something
all right now turning the Patriot. So we'll stay with
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this game. There's some drama o rama going on between
Stefan Diggs, who had a breakout game, is targeted twelve
times digs the former Bill who's now toiling in New England,
that he enjoys the pink drank or the pink goo
or whatever that stuff was that they had on the
boat there with Cardi b and having a grand old
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time there at the Eye. But Sefon digs ten twelve targets,
ten catches for a undred and forty six yards. I'm
told that is good against his old friends, the Bills.
I didn't play in the NFL, but I don't want
to offend Ryan Clark. But I'm told that's good. I'm
told that's good. Then Diggs gave us the money quote
after the game. Stefan Diggs, when asked about his old
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stomping grounds there in Western New York, Stefan Diggs on
the Patriot Bills game, said that it was quote one
hundred percent personal. One hundred percent personal. Close quote from
Stefan Diggs on the matchup against his former team, the Bills.
So can you decode that particular quote from Stefan Diggs.
(12:38):
Of course we can. We have the ultimate mather of
Rosetta Stone. We can decode all of this stuff. So
that response it's one hundred percent personal, is on brand
it's obviously on brand here, classic narcissism by Stefan Diggs.
And that's what it's all about, right, just obviously it's
all about it. It's never enough just to play well.
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And it's not just digs. It's like, you just can't
go out and play well. To play well, you have
to have motivation, right, You've got to sprinkle in some drama,
little flakes of drama. You just sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle, sprink
You sprinkle those in just like that. It's personal. And
the thing is great about this is there are a
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lot of dumb fans that think, well, yeah, he's right,
it was personal. The bills did him dirty? No, no,
they did not. That that would be incorrect. Here. You
were the problems to Fawn Diggs in Buffalo. We had
said it. Everyone knew it, who paid attention to it.
You were the issue there, not the bills. You were
the problem there, and you look at it and you
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powdered your way out of Buffalo. You powdered your way
out of the bills. You don't want to be there,
and it was the classic. Now he's acting like that.
It's the breakup, you know, the cliche of the boyfriend,
girlfriend breaks up, the girl dumps the boy, and the
guy's like, all right, I'm a gym bro man. I'm
gonna post a bunch of photos from the gym, right
Jim Selfie's captioned living my best life like crap like that.
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That's essentially what Stefan Diggs is doing here right now,
pretending he's over it. But he's not over it. He's
obviously not over it. And that's the big You understand
how much the Bills had enough of Stefan Diggs. They
kept around two years longer than they should have. But
Stefan Diggs, if you look at it, when he was
there at the very end in Buffalo, and the Bills
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publicly leaked a lot of stories to make it seem
like there was no issue, but there were so many
clues along the way there were problems there. And you
look at it and it's like the Buffalo Bills and
I went back and I checked my notes because I
was pretty confident I was right, and I believe I
am correct here. In order to get rid of Stefan
Digs at the end of his time with the Bills,
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the Buffalo franchise ate the biggest non quarterback salary cap
hit in the history of the NFL. Now I am
a salary cap truther, but that's still a ton of
money that the Buffalo Bills ate. The Bills ate it.
They did not have barbecue sauce, they did not have
honey mustard. They just they just ate it. They decided
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they would rather eat the money mana money, eat that money,
then deal with the sideline hissy fits from mister Diggs
there and the bad body language, the sulking, the whole
routine right, the whole routine there, and at the end
Diggs acted when he was with the Bills like he
was a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay. The way the way
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he was acting there with Josh Allen, you know, every
time Alan wouldn't throw them the ball, it was like
a personal assault against the Von Diggs and all that stuff.
So I do enjoy the revisionist history, like there's something
else that was going on. There's nothing else going on.
It's it's unbelievable. Sevon Diggs was pouting poudy, poudy, poudy
with Josh Allen at Loggerheads. I ain't playing nice now
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they're not working together. They're former work friends and you
can play nice and all that stuff. But it wasn't
just Josh Allen. There were issues with the coaching staff
have There were the cryptic text tweets back then, and
I'm all for that. I don't have a problem with that.
Good for talk radio when you send cryptic messages out.
But Buffalo did not do Stefon Diggs dirty. They did not,
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and finally called his bluff. They got rid of him.
And and so this is like Stefan Diggs doing some therapy.
So I'll sit in the chair and I'll do a
little therapy here. And you know, he needed this game.
He convinced himself clearly had a big stat line. Good
for him that he's still the guy coming off the
operation when he was in the with Houston, he hurt himself,
had had the surgery of the ACL But deep down, right,
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you look around and Stefon Diggs, he knows the Bills
don't miss him, and that's gotta bother. Right. Bills had
a good year essentially the same team they were with him.
They're not a legit championship team in Buffalo in that regard,
they're a fraud, but they're a solid second line contender, right,
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the Bills. They will get you into the playoffs, they'll
get you win a couple of games in the play
but ultimately they'll f up, they'll screw something up and
they'll lose. That's what the Bills do. And so Stefan
Diggs got his revenge. Congratulations, he got a little bit
of closure. But they play these teams play each other
twice a year, so there'll be another match up here.
The problem though, Diggs has is still trying to convince
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everyone and even himself that he was the victim, like
because everyone loves victimhood and all that stuff, and the
Bills somehow did him wrong. And of course I looked
at the evidence and they rescued themselves from Stefan Diggs.
All right, now, last thing and the last word here,
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Does this count? This Patriots win on Sunday night and
even game over the Buffalo Bills with a late field
goal under twenty seconds to go. The Patriots get that
late field goal. Does this count as a signature win
for Drake May's Patriots? So I will be Benny Bright's
side to a point, and I will nod my head. Yes,
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I'm nodding my head. Yes that This does count as
a signature win. Here's why Drake may had no signituit.
So anything literally anything against the halfway decent team would
have been a signature weit. So what I'm trying to
say here is if you look at it, the bar
has been replaced by a sinkhole. For the Patriots, there's
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no bar to clear. You're just trying to jump over
a sinkhole, is what you know. That counts as a
signature win in this modern era of the Patriots, not
for the Belichick Brady days, not in that era. Those
guys are long gone. Bill Belichick getting his face smashed
in in college football and Tom Brady, by the way,
(18:43):
is there a worse general manager than Tom Brady? What
he put together with the Raiders? Holy crap. But you
can't rip Brady because he's football Royalty. What a terrible
job tom Brady did, Pete Carroll and Gino Smith more
on that later, Holy crap, that's Tom Brady. He handpicked
the coach, he hint picked the quarterback and they blow anyway.
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So those guys are gone. But like a house by
the side of the road. But you look at the team,
the pagot and this does again, the bar is low.
It's a sinkhole, so let's not go nuts. I'm not
going to overreact to this. The Bills were sloppy. That
was a large part of the game. But a lot
of these games are decided because most games are lost,
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not one, so that is a factor in this. Eleven
penalties we mentioned that early eleven penalties, a couple of
turnovers as well. For the Buffalo Bills in this game,
and the pictures, it didn't exactly wow you. It's not
like you, WHOA, this is like, oh, this is a
team that's gonna really contend in the AFC and all
that stuff. No touchdown passes for Drake may in this game. However,
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he did average nine yards per pass attempt. There were
a couple of big plays mixed in there, so didn't
turn the ball over and possession of the ball is
nine tenths of victory, so that was a big thing
and you didn't have to watch the usual slop the
Patriots have had there. It's in the last couple of years,
the Patriot quarterback situation. It's a Rubik's cube, but you're
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trying to solve it while you're blindfolded, all right, So
this does count as happy beat Days or here again.
Happy days are here again. No more Cam Newton from
a couple of years back, throwing medicine balls. You don't
have to pretend like you're interested in dog food Mac Jones.
That's what he was with the Patriots. He was dog
(20:29):
food and Bailey Zappy cosplay Zappi mania. You don't have
to worry about that either. All that off the table
right there, See you later. So that's where we are,
and the Patriots are a winning team. And you know,
some of the records is how bad they've been. This
is uncharted territory since twenty nineteen. It's how pathetic the
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Patriots have been. Here that back to back wins for
the first time since twenty twenty two. That looked like
a Mike Vrabel like what he did in tennesse See
that type of perform It's heavy, underdog on the road,
grind it out type of game. And that's what the
Titans did back before things got really nasty there in
Tennessee at the end. But you tighten up the AFC
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East race and really again it's a two team race.
The Jets have already been eliminated. The Dolphins have already
been eliminated, and it's really just the Patriots or the
only hope to unseat the Buffalo Bills in that division
and the rebooted Patriots. Is it something? Is it going
to continue? Well, well we'll see here. But the post dynasty,
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the post dynasty wasteland, all right, they were competent. It's
just being a little bit better than average is where
you get a little giddy.
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location near you. That's expresspros dot com. So we talked
baseball last hour. We now go our lead this hour
from the River City. And that's where we had Jacksonville
in a full moon. That was the stage the final
act of week number five, Week number five of the
NFL season, and you had Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs
(24:09):
traveling vandwagon fit for a pop star into duoll cardy
just like that. There a little playdate with the Jaguars.
And you only see the Jags on National TV one time,
normally a regional broadcast, but here they were Monday night
Football Island game. Were you watching bad? You were watching
(24:31):
the baseball game? I was flipping back and forth. I
was I was flipping back and forth. I watched the
majority of this one. And a good thing about football
a lot of timeouts, so you can go back and
forth and have a field day. So if you did
not watch Trevor Lawrence who tripped, he fell to the ground,
he stumbled, he tripped over his own line, and he
(24:51):
got up and he got his feet and nobody touched
him from Kansas City a defensive boo boo and scrambling
one yard touchdown with twenty three seconds remaining. The kill
shot for the Jaguars as it was a comedic pratfall
(25:12):
which ended up in an improbable touchdown and Jacksonville beats
Kansas City thirty one twenty eight on a Monday night
as Trevor Lawrence was serenaded serenaded by his teammates there
his birthday, twenty sixth birthday for Trevor Lawrence there, and
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good news is he doesn't need anything because he's really
filthy rich, so he don't need to buy him anything.
He's so loaded he can buy whatever he wants. Yes, anyway,
the ridiculous wacky ending there as Kansas City has scored
to take the lead, went up by four, so Jacksonville
had to get a touchdown. The Jaguars eight and one.
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Now they snap an eight game losing streak to Kansas City.
They also match their wintal how pathetic were they last year?
Where they've matched their win total at four from all
of last season, and the Chiefs the better story here
in the losing locker room, the Chiefs dropped back under
five hundred. I thought the Chiefs had arrived. You told
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me they had arrived. They beat Baltimore, they had arrived.
Apparently not that that was wrong. Well, the better story
is there, So let's go into it, and let's hear
from some of the key participants. Will start out with
Andy Reid. Now, one of the big storylines here was
the mistakes for the Chiefs and they had they led
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the world and penalties in this game, the referees calling
the penalty here, there and everywhere. Here is Andy Reid
talking about that particular issue.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Thirteen penalties. Therefore, whether I agree with them or don't
agree with them, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
They called them.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
And so you have that many penalties, you give a
field position. You can outstat them to death, but it
doesn't matter. It's a score that matters. And we've got
to take our business there.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Okay, Andy always sounds like he needs a throat lozenge,
he and Doc Rivers always sounds like he's got like
he needs some garlic or something like that. Anyway, all right,
so question, let's discuss the question what happened? What happened
to Andy Reid's Camps City Chiefs there in Jacksonville. So
I've got waffle house, confetti and submarine and we'll combine
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all of these things together and we're gonna make your
Babushka's favorite gummy candy. Is what we're going to make.
All right? So number one, I said number number What?
Speaker 8 (27:42):
What? What?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Right? All right? All right? So here's what I saw
on my TV, which is not I don't have like
the biggest TV in the world. I got a regular
sized television. I was a giant TV. So I saw
Kansas City walk into Duval County and get in the
face with a frying pan. Andy Reid mentioned they won
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the stats. They did. They won the stats. So if
you're just a low information fan and you worship stats
and you're a fantasy football dope, oh they won the starts.
Everything's fined. Yeah, remember what is the mantra? We have
a couple of mantras on this show because we've done
this a long time. Most games are lost, they're not won,
and the better story is in the losing locker room.
This game checks both those boxes, both those boxes. This
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was a waffle House special for Kansas City. They stacked
off mistakes, they were smothered in penalties, and they had
a side of brain farts, which I don't I think
that's an add on item at waffle house. I don't
think that's out on the actual menu. I think that's
the secret menu. You can order brain farts. You gotta
go there, like a two thirty three in the morning, though,
to get the full brain fart experience when you go
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to the waffle house. But listen, the Chiefs cooked themselves.
Andy Reid mentioned it. Thirteen penalties one hundred and nine yards,
and they even at one point late in the game,
not that it mattered, but they called back back timeouts,
which even I know didn't play in the NFL. But
even though you can't call back to back timeouts, you
cannot do it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
He did it.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Oh my god, you can't do it. I'm madden. You
can't do it in the real NFL. So Andy Reid's group,
you know what it looked like. It looked like they
were making a YouTube video on how to implode and
lose an NFL game. Things to do to lose an
NFL game, made by those influencers in Kansas City, including
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and you're not supposed to say this because Mahomes is great,
but he left way too much time on the clock.
They were so arrogant that the Chiefs assumed the position that, hey,
we're so good defensively that we don't have to worry
about limiting the time left before Jacksonville gets the ball.
So the Chiefs did score the go ahead touchdown with
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one forty five to go in the game, and then
they fed up the kickoff, which we've seen a couple
of times here in Week five, we saw it and
where they have the fugaz kicking rule where he's got
to be in the right zone. If it's not in
the right zone, if it goes out of bounds, the
ball goes to the forty yard line. So the Jags
took over at their own forty yard line. Now they
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didn't need a field goal, so it's not like that,
but they still gave them some wiggle room and they
took advantage of which is all of this is totally
unchief like. It's unchief like to play that way. We've
not seen that in this era, and the team that
has been the model franchise in this particular run of
big game performance and composure. They don't win them all,
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but they're normally not going to beat themselves and it's
been what six years more than that, I think now,
and here they are in this game looking like they're
the Cleveland Browns, tripping over their own shoelaces and just
a hot mess. And then you had that ninety nine
yard ninety nine yard return pick six from linebacker Devin
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Lloyd of Jacksonville nine yards. He should have run back
to the end zones and make it a full one
hundred yards. But that's the kind of play that you
see people. Wow, it's a rookie mistake. Mahomes not a
rookie obviously, right, Mahomes did the thing you can't do
at the time, you can't do it. He made the
big mistake there. And here's Mahomes, by the way, pointing
(31:18):
out Patrick Mahomes that there were a lot of self
inflicted wounds. Take a list.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
I mean, it kind of just talks about our whole
entire season. I mean, we I feel like we have
we have the guys, and we've executed at certain points
of game and it looked really good, and then we
kind of crush ourselves with penalties and mistakes and interceptions
and fumbles or whatever that is. I mean, it's just
we've kind we've kind of done that to ourselves all
year long. It's kind of been one guy here there,
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and in this league, it's so close that those those
change games, and so we got to be better, you know,
we we we've lost too many games already.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yes, well, good luck. So the Chiefs back under five
hundred here. That was a kick to the foot balls
by Jacksonville, the Kansas City. The Chiefs strutted in. They assume,
like everyone else that plays Jacksonville, we look it's like
a community pool. You come here, you can look at
the pool, and then you win the football game. And
they were like, hey, we're rock stars, man, we are
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Taylor Swift's favorite team. We are. And they end up
leaving doing the walk of shame right down Broad Street
there with their tails between their legs, and the Chiefs
as they lose. Mahomes did have the Gatti stat line
the three hundred and seventy eight total yards running and passing,
two touchdowns running and passing combined, and a l So
the Dorks will be happy because Mahomes had a big
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stat game. The Chiefs are two to zero against Tomato Cans.
The Giants and Ravens are a combined two and eight.
That's a two hundred winning percentage. Meanwhile, the Chiefs are
zero and three against the Chargers, Eagles, and Jaguars who
are a combined eleven and four. So that tells you
a lot, not everything, but it tells you a lot. Here,
past results we know do not guarantee future outcomes. We're
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all aware of that. And Kansas City had the Big Three.
They were let's see the Big three. They were sloppy,
they were unfocused, and they were undisciplined. So those are
the Big Three. Congratulations. And you could see we heard
from Andy Reid, but you can see Andy Reid like
kind of his mustache was twitching a little bit. Either
he wanted some chicken alfredo or he was very upset.
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I'm not sure which, but I'm going disgusted. But he
might have wanted chicken alfredo also and been disgusted. And
so the Andy Reid is always detail oriented, right, It's
one of the great Hall of Fame traits of Andy Reid.
And it's all about the little things, as coaches like
to say, but instead look like a bunch of guys
on a bender, just like they were there in Jacksonville
for the weekend, just having a great old time elsewhere
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he had, Travis Kelcey had seven catches for sixty one
yards and a touchdown, which is good but not great.
And my advice to Kelsey is he better run off
to an Elvis chapel asap, get married as fast as possible,
Do not wait for the royal wedding, because Taylor Swift
is going to realize, wait a minute, this team's a loser.
My husband plays for losers, my future husband, so I
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don't want to be associated with losers. So you better
get married quick, Travis, because it is not going well
for the Chiefs right now. And if the Chiefs keep
this up, I don't think they will. But if they
do keep it up, and she's going to be writing
her next album will be a breakup song and it'll
be like Flags and Fumbles, and she'll be rifting on that. Well,
maybe the Chiefs are so busy. They were like they
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were trying to listen in their helmets to the new
Taylor Swift album and that's why they were unable to
play all right now, Page two. Does this count? Big
headlines all over the interweb? Does this count as a
signature win for Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars. So on
this one. I know that the clown College of Sportscasting,
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there's a sports writer clown College. There's certain narratives that
you just have to go with, and this is one
of them. But I rolled my eyes when I saw that.
And yeah, you want to just break out the confec cannons,
you know, fire the Cottons, get the confetti cannons ready
to go for Trevor Lawrence. You can do that if
you want. However, I believe the word for that is
(35:10):
premature capital P. Premature capital P. And here's why, again,
we laid it out. Kansas City was so sloppy. They
handed the game to Jacksonville, and Jacksonville took it on
the island game, they took it. Congratulations. But stop me.
If you've heard this before, Trevor Lawrence, maybe my TV
was different than your TV and the other people's TVs.
(35:32):
I thought Trevor Lawrence played fine. I thought he was
fine Trevor Lawrence as a player. It's not like he
parted the Red Sea or the Saint John's River there
in Jacksonville. This was more about the Chiefs collapse than
it was some kind of public coronation of the Jaguars.
Trevor Lawrence had a meh performance then two hundred and
(35:55):
twenty one yards passing, that's kind of where he's normally at,
somewhere between one eighty two twenty and he had his
usual two turnovers, a horrific fumble interception, So he checked
those boxes and on the signature player of the game,
he was at klutz, he fell down, he got stepped on,
he fell down. And then because the Chiefs decided they
(36:18):
wanted to kind of relax a little bit, they didn't
want to hustle, so they allowed the quarterback with the
ball to Sanchez into the end zone. So let's not
act like this is Joe Montana finding Dwight Clark in
the back of the end zone against the Cowboys. That
signature moment that ignited the career of Joe Montana. No,
that was the most whoopsie Daisy, what happened? Oh, Mike,
(36:42):
I guess I scored a touchdown moment. We've seen it
in a long time. He tripped. He tripped, And there
is a dimension in the multiverse where Trevor Lawrence trip
does not score a touchdown. Jacksonville does not win, and
we were having a much different conversation you and I
right now out. But Lawrence is one of these guys.
(37:04):
He's been a pretty big bust in his NFL career,
and yet it's like he's got his own visitor and
like the convention and visitor authority of Trevor Lawrence. So
you can't say that you just keep pumping the tires
on Trevor Lawrence. He's so good. Come on, if that's
your signature moment, tripping and scoring a touchdown, you likely
(37:25):
need to go back to the to the creative writing
room and come up with something else there. You need
to aim higher. All right, final point, follow up to
what we've been discussing here. Follow up to what we've
been discussing. So Jacksonville has a good record. In fact,
you look at your NFL standings, and I know you
love your NFL stand Oh, I can't get enough of
(37:45):
those NFL stand Boy, They're great, aren't the standings?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
So you look at the standings for Jacksonville, and now
if you look at your big board, not a list,
big board, Jacksonville is the number five seed in the
American Football Conference. So they would play in that five
to four game. It's way too early for all that.
But they're a playoff team and they're off to the
four and one start on the year, and the people
are saying, well, they've arrived, so is it time to
(38:11):
take the Jags seriously? Beat Kansas City primetime game? So
I would say, I'm gonna channel our favorite crossing guard
from Fort Wayne, and I'm gonna put the stop sign up,
is what I'm gonna do. Daniel from Fort Wahn, I'm yeah,
I'm putting the stop sign up because here's why they're
(38:31):
not there. I don't see it right, and I need
to see way more, way more before I'm going to
start carving the faces of Trevor Lawrence and the head
coach Liam Cohne into AFC Mount Rushmore. I'm not quite
there yet. The wins are against the Niners and Kansas City.
(38:55):
Those are the two big wins for Jacksonville. Those are
billboard wins. I guess they'll buy a billboard on nine
to ninety five and put that up. Congratulations. Not impressed,
I'm not so why are you not in press? Were
you just being a douchebag? Let me explain, because in
this game it was more about Jacksonville being the beneficiary
of the benefactor, which was Trevor Lawrence his opponent there
(39:19):
Mahomes and Travis Kelcey and Andy Reid. Heer, that's not
arriving when someone just hands you the game. Now you
took it. That's like somebody finding a lottery ticket on
the street and then you scratch it off with your
like a quarter or something like that. You won, well, congratulations,
but you didn't buy the lottery ticke and you found it.
And so again, just don't be a prisoner of the
moment here, relax as Aaron Rodgers fam as he said,
(39:43):
and Jacksonville, he all told me. And I did have
Jacksonville in the game Monday night, so I was happy.
If you watched Benny Versus the Penny on YouTube, what
you should watch every week, make that part of your routine.
I had Jacksonville. I was very happy that they won
the bet. I didn't think they would actually win the game.
The other factor here, though, is when you handicap the game.
The big selling point for Jacksonville is they have a
top ten defense in most of the key categories. They
(40:05):
were top ten, top five defensively, and that we thought
was going to be the calling card for Jacksonville. However,
they gave up. Let me check my notes here, four
hundred and seventy six yards that Kansas City looked like
a submarine, but they were the screen door on the
submarine trying to keep the water out and they were
at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It did not
(40:28):
go well. And so if the Chiefs and Jaguars meet
again in January in a playoff game, are you gonna
bet on Kansas City or are you gonna bet on Jacksonville.
You're gonna bet on Kansas City every time. And context
obviously plays a factor in this. You're talking about October football,
You're not talking about a playoff test or anything like that.
(40:49):
And Jacksonville they play Seattle next, that's in Duvall County.
Then they play one of those international games across the
Atlantic against the Elia Rams. So that's who they have
up next. And those are two games that are fifty
to fifty games. You can go either way where Jacksonville
could win both. They can go one and one lose bowl.
I mean, those are legitimate similar teams to Jacksonville, the
(41:12):
Seattle Seahawks and the Rams. So we'll see We'll see
what happens here. We'll watch the games. But in the
good news for the jackson I will Benny Brightside. The
division they're in, the AFC South is the kiddie pool
of the NFL. And I realize the culture playing very
well right now. They have the top record in the AFC.
(41:33):
That's not going to last. And the Jags is in
Jacksonville and Indianapolis can thumb wrestle for first place. And
the Texans are saying well about us, Well, I'm not
too impressed. They beat the Ravens and Cooper Rush, so
we'll see what they do when they play some real
opponents here. And then you got the Tennessee Titans who
are wearing the Dunce cap in the corner of the room,
sucking their thumb and the sandbox, waiting for teams to
(41:55):
give them games like the Arizona Cardinals. So Trevor Lawrence
still the poster boy. And by my world, Trevor Lawrence
is still the poster boy for getting paid on potential,
not results. And well, I'll give him this. At least
they're somewhat entertaining Jacksonville with like Trevor Lawrence is kind
of a Dopey got the long hair thing. You got
the nerdy coach who doesn't seem like he's the leader
(42:18):
of men, but yet he's coaching an NFL team. So
there's a lot going on there.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
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Speaker 1 (42:27):
Real quick, let's not waste any time, but we have
our game show contestants. Keith is in May and Keith welcome.
What's going on? You sat excited? Keith? You're gonna play
the game? And who do you want to partner up with?
You got me Ben, Cooper Loop, I'll go with you,
all right? Sound sounds good? Hold on a sec. And
Tyler and Boston Tyler, you're gonna be with Coop? All right?
(42:50):
Sounds good to me. All right, we'll lock you in, coopboy.
Speaker 11 (42:53):
The categories quickly cool, please all right, gentlemen. This is
the John Mellencamp edition of Meller's Amount of Money. He
turned seventy four years old today. The categories are hurt
So Good, Authority, song, small Town, and rain on the Scarecrow. Keith,
you were on first, which category would you like?
Speaker 12 (43:12):
Town?
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Small town?
Speaker 5 (43:12):
All right? And then Tyler, how about you.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Scrow? All right, he said, with a question mark on
that coop a question. But everyone, hold on, we'll have
and it's entire. Do not hang up, gentlemen, do not
hang up. Mallard's amount of money. We'll get to that
and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's mountain of money? Hell, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably? Not?
Speaker 1 (43:43):
All right, let's do it. Here we go, let's play
the game. We have our contestants. We've got Keith in
Maine and Tyler's in Boston. Keith is partnered up with media.
What are you up to here? You're working right now?
Are you just hanging out?
Speaker 7 (43:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (43:55):
I actually just got out of work.
Speaker 7 (43:57):
I'm on my way home.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Oh nice? All right. What kind of work do you do?
I work out a paper mill in the middle of
nowhere in Vegas nine. All right, someone needs to make
paper and you're the one doing it. Yeah, yeah, all right.
Well I won't ask Tyler then, because you guys don't
care about Tyler. Let's play the game. Coop, what do
you got going on here? Me and Keith I believe, yes, yes,
(44:20):
you have small town all right. These athletes all are
from small towns, kind of like you, Keith, Are you ready?
All right? Forty five seconds on the clock. Here we
go and we're on our way. Quarterback for the Packers
before Aaron Rodgers. Yes, a wide receiver with the Vikings.
He went to the Patriots though, was on the undefeated team. Yeah,
(44:40):
the greatest Celtic of all time in the nineteen eighties. Anyway, Yes,
Yankee legend. He's not a mouse, but he played in
the nineteen sixties and outfielder number seven for the Yankees.
Speaker 7 (44:53):
Nike man.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yes, white running back for the old Washington Redskins in
the nineteen eighties. Kind of a plodding running backs guard
for the for the Lakers, white guy from no currently
on the Lakers right now? Currently, all right, that's fine, No.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
That is correct, but not that, not that one.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Austin Reeves, John Riggins. You didn't get John Riggins. All right,
let's sorry, go ahead, Coop.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
You're up, all right, Tyler. We have rain on the scarecrow.
Speaker 12 (45:31):
These athletes all grew up or currently live on a
farm Are you ready ready?
Speaker 5 (45:38):
All right, forty five seconds, let's begin. Current quarterback for the.
Speaker 12 (45:41):
Bills, the all time strikeout king in Major League Baseball.
He played for the Angels and the the the Houston Astros.
His nickname is Rocket. Okay, anyway, this guy was a
pro wrestler. He was in the Prince Bridey's Giants. He yes, Uh,
(46:04):
this guy, he said, I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
You said it.
Speaker 12 (46:07):
This guy is one of the all time greatest pitching
sheet in the postseason.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
He played for the Giants.
Speaker 12 (46:15):
His Yes, this guy was a white guy receiver for
Aaron Rodgers on the Packers. Yes, this guy was the
center for the Dallas Mavericks when they won in twenty eleven.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
All, yeah, it's on, and we'll we track the Andrey
the Giant. You said, I did not say minus third.
I did not say that we're tied.
Speaker 5 (46:33):
No, we're not.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
I believe we're tied, he said, Who said, I did
not say it.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
I heard it.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Everyone heard it. Nope, you heard it, right, Keith?
Speaker 7 (46:39):
I did?
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, he said, Heith heard it. All right, Well you're
you're cheating already. Go ahead there, Keith, we are up.
You want, uh what we got a forty song or
hurts so good? Hurt all right, hurts so good, very good.
These athletes played through injury to win in the playoffs.
Are you ready, Keith? Yeah, all right, we'll put four
forty five seconds on the clock. First and last name,
(47:02):
greatest golfer of all time? Yes, all time NFL leading
rusher for the Dallas Cowboys, starting pitcher for the Red Sox.
He had a bloody sock and he got it. Yes,
tight end for the Cleveland Browns. His son was a rapist.
(47:22):
Oh my god, all right. Dodger outfielder played for the Tigers.
Hit the home run in the eighty eight World Series.
The Yes, center for the Lakers. He liked to parking
handicap parking spaces. No, he might, well, he might actually
need one. No, how about this. A linebacker for the
Rams played with a broken leg in the Super Bowl
(47:46):
in nineteen eighties. I have no idea, all right, Jack
youngbloody one sixty two sixty total.
Speaker 12 (47:55):
Then and Andrew Bynhen was the center that le to
park in Hantower. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
I didn't know anything else to say about Andrew boy.
Speaker 12 (48:03):
I won a championship with the Lakers alongside power Gasol
between towers.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Come on, at least Kwame Brown through a cake. You
know that's funny.
Speaker 12 (48:10):
All right, Tyler, we've got authority song. These athletes all
had a problem with authority. Forty five seconds, that's begin.
His nickname was the Answer in NBA. Yes, this guy
knelt during the anthem. In the NFL. Yes, this guy
was one of the best wide receivers. He was on
the forty nine Ers, the no the Cowboys. He Yes,
(48:35):
this guy's nickname was the rain Man in the NBA
for the Sonics has the Seattle SuperSonics. He had like
seven children from like seven different women. Yes, this guy
was a wide receiver on the Saints. His cousin calls
our show a generic name with Drew Brees. No, all right,
(48:58):
this guy has the same name as a running back
in the NFL for the Rams.
Speaker 5 (49:01):
But he was an NBA player.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
It's oh sorry if you don't win, Cooper Loop. I
hate to say.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
It was the total?
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Are we one?
Speaker 5 (49:08):
You got one hundred on there and then one forty
on the other.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
We want, Yeah, we leg date, we wanted, not track.
Speaker 9 (49:17):
We again, win the game.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
We win, We won the game. We won the game.
Speaker 9 (49:26):
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