November 11, 2025 • 52 mins
Big Ben talks about Jordan Love and the Packers continuing to disappoint in a loss to the Eagles on MNF, Brian Daboll finally getting fired by the Giants, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Warren G Edition, and much more!
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ma man. We'll start out at the frozen Tundra lombowl Field,
Jenen Hurts and the boys that love the Toush Push
taking on the guys that don't like the Toush Push.
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They tried to have it banned from the NFL. It's
a it's a bad blood match up here. Jordan Love
and the Cheeseheads, a key NFC battle Royale. A chamber
of commerce kind of night in Northern Wisconsin. Why was
it a chamber of commerce? Canada night? Kickoff? Temperatures in
the low thirties. It was thirty three degrees a kickoff.
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Welcome to mid November football in Northern Wisconsin. The home
team a slight favorite at the beginning of the week
the game, some of the books had the game of
pick them. By the time they kicked off on Monday night.
You had Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox refugees
who were there calling the game on the boob tube.
Did you watch? Were you riveted? No?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
You were?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
What else were you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I got you? Well, we watched so you would not
have to. It was our public service and this game,
despite what Joe Buck was trying to sell, was a
yawn fest. Call that a hollering James Special, A lot
of snoring, A lot of snoring. You missed. The first
scoreless tie of the NFL season, the first scoreless tie
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in a couple of years in the NFL. You had
on one highlight if you want to call that, Jalen
Hurts hitting a thirty six yard catch and run for
a touchdown as DeVante Smith made the play there as
the phil at deelf Eagles. That was the only touchdown
of the game. The Eagles defense made some plays, not
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that many. He didn't have to make money plays. Jordan
Love's not very good. And ten to seven your final
that's right, ten to seven. That was it. Seventeen points
in the game and it goes to the team on
the road on Monday night, the Packers go down Brandon
McManus because of some coaching miscues by Nick Siriatti. Brandon
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McManus had an opportunity to tie the game. We've been
a game tyme sixty four yard field goal? How did
that go? As time ran out?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Not?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I were close. I didn't even make it into the
actual Green Bay in Green Bay nowhere there so nowhere close,
So green Bay I can straight loss. Now the Packers
are five to three and one. They drop into third place,
third place in the NFC North behind Detroit and Chicago.
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So this is a painful night of football. The results
of that and the Packers who did have the top
record in the NFC. They were at the very top
in the NFC, and that was back on November second.
They've now they lost to Carolina at home. That's embarrassing,
tied to Dallas Cowboys, that's embarrassing. And now they're barely
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hanging on by their fingernails. At this point, the Green
Bay Packers for the seventh and final playoff spot in
the National Football Conference. So there's not a guarantee that
the Packers end up making the playoffs. Now, Jordan Love
in particular is getting charbroiled for his suck bag performance
in this game. He gets the brunt of the raspberrys
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for a royal a stinko performance there for Jordan Love,
and that is a good jumping off point as we discuss.
So the question, after another week performance by Jordan Love,
after another pathetic performance, does Jordan Love the Green Bay
quarterback belong in the elite category of quarterbacks? That's the question.
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What's the answer. So on this one, I've got Marvel,
spin Off, Culvers and the lou and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make some delicious cheese fondue yum yum to my Tom, Tom,
tell me it's just outstanding. So hey. To answer the
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question Jordan Love is he's not even in the same
zip code. If there was a town called Elite Town,
he would not be in the zip code of Elite Town.
Do we all agree on that? Okay, everyone's great, very good.
He is the antithesis of elite. They said, well, this
was just a bad game. Well, this seems seems we've
been a lot of these bad games for Jordan Love.
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He averaged in this game less than five yards per
pass attempt. Now, the argument for the Jordan Love marching
in Chada society is, well, he didn't have Tucker Kraft,
the breakout star for Green Bay. He's out for the
year with injury, and Tucker Kraft was a guy would
run through defenses like a wrecking ball, right m right
right through defenses and so glo. Without him, did Love
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elevate anyone else? No, he was a glorified checkdown artist,
and he did not did not elevate to anyone else
on that offense, and did not set them up. Finished
with a passer rating below seventy, which I don't think
is all that good. Had a fumble key fumble as
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green Bay was matriculating the ball down the field and
they were gonna get at least a field goal attempt
before halftime, and Jordan Love, uh, he fetched around, fumbled
the ball there and just handed it back to Philadelphia,
which cemented the first half scoreless tie. Now the Eagles
say whether they're legit, and yeah, they're legit. The Eagles
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are or another solid team this year. There's product. They
won the Super Bowl last year. They're obviously could this year. However,
I go back to the resume of this Green Bay
Packer team. You tied a bad cowboy team. That's a
bad Dallas cowboy team. You tied them. You lost at
home to Carolina. That should be like four losses. Carolina
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just got their doors blown off by the Saints, and
you lost at Cleveland the Browns. You lost to the Browns.
So that's that should be worth three losses. So they
should really have if you do the math on this,
like six losses based on this, and you can lose
to those teams, right, you can lose to those teams,
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uh and and and you did, but you're gonna get
killed for it, right, And you can't be in the
elite conversation when you're losing. Even once in a while,
you're gonna have a stinker against an inferior opponent. But
you can't convince anyone when you lose those type of
games that you're an ascending football player. And that's the
issue here for Jordan Love and the fact Love is
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lacking that Gennisi quah. He is right that sparked that magic.
Dust I don't see it, at least not on a
weekly base. They have been flashes of it. Usually when
he plays the Dallas Cowboys, he seems to play very well.
Could that be I don't know the Cowboy defense. Could
that be why he's playing well. I'm just saying, but
Jordan Love is part of what we call the trust
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Fund generation of quarterbacks. And this is something that's changed
in my lifetime. And someone is going to write a
great book about this. There'll be a great docu series
about what's gone on in the NFL the last five
years or so. It is fascinating. There was always this
mindset in the NFL you really got to prove it
before you got the big money. You had to prove it.
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You had to show that you were legit, and at
some point the money got so cartoonish in the NFL,
so ridiculous in the NFL. They just said, I screw it,
We'll just pay everybody, right, We'll just pay these guys
all got so rich, these NFL teams because it's the
only thing people watch live on television. Everything else is
on demand, right, nobody watching stuff live anymore. He's watch
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it when you want to watch it. This is the
only communal experience left in American television. And so they
got so much money. At this point, the salary cap
keeps going up. It's like faster than bitcoin back in
twenty twenty one, right, just keeps going up and up
and up. And the league so flushed. They're like a
drug cartel and they're trying to get rid of the cash.
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They have so much cash. It's in the washing machine,
it's in the dishwasher, it's in the sink, it's everywhere,
and so they're the accountants are essentially their money laundering,
and they're doing it by paying these suck bag quarterbacks.
It is wild. It is I mean serious. I mean
you look at some of the guys that got paid
that really suck, Like we all agree that they're not good, Like,
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how did this happen, and it happened because there's so
much money. They just had to give everyone the money.
The quarterbacks all got. Jordan Love, unproven got two hundred
and twenty million dollars, an NFL record at the time.
I don't know if it's been broken. Seventy five million
signing bonus. Seventy five million in the signing bonus for
Jordan Love criminal criminal, absolute heist, absolute heist. What Jordan
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Love got from the Green Bay Packers, my god. And
you look around and Love is sitting there at the
kiddy table in the quarterback group, and you've got on
one side of the table, you've got two a tongue
of by Law, you got Treor Lawrence right in front,
and then you've got Kyler, alligator Arms Murray. Now this
is actually a Marvel spinoff. The late great Stan Lee
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came up with the Fantastic Four for Marvel. Well, this
grew of quarterbacks is we'll call them the Boorresome Forsome,
those four. So think about these guys all nothing in play.
Kyleermbers aren't benched, Trevor Lawrence just lost to the Houston Sexs,
did nothing in the fourth quarter of Note I did
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the malor math on this. If my math is correct,
the Boresome Forsome of Trevor Lawrence Kyler, Murray Jordan Love
and to a tongue of a Loa have gotten contracts
worth nine hundred and thirty million dollars. Let me repeat
that for those of you a little slow in the
back of them. Nine hundred and thirty million dollars for
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the Marvel spinoff, the Borso Forceome. Wow, that is the
price of delusion in the NFL, where potential gets paid
like production. Didn't used to be like that, but now
you do. That's how you do it. That's the nerd
taking over the NFL. Well, we don't want to pay
someone for what they have done. We want to pay
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them for what they're going to do. So what you
end up doing is gambling your betting that these guys
are going to live up to your projections. Unfortunately, there's
the human element where most of these guys don't live
up to that, and then you end up with the
Boresom Foursome getting nine you know about a bestling nine
hundred million dollars. This is gonna be an amazing documentary.
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Holy crap, they all suck they all got paid two
hundred million dollar contracts, every one of them. Trevor Lawrence
is like two seventy five and he blows. It's wild.
He is so great. Like, listen, Jordan Love was born
at the right time. He was born under the right star.
It's a green and gold star and its shaped like
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a dollar sign. So good for him, good for him.
I'm not listen, I'm not blaming him. These teams are stupid.
They're run by smart idiots, Ivy League educated academia. They're
idiots giving those contracts out. Criminal, criminal, and it's fomo.
They were all afraid fear of missing out, fear of
missing out. Now digging deeper the question also when we
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talk about the Packers, how about the edge rusher Micah Parsons.
Let's do a deep dive on that at this point.
So Michaeh. Parsons the big story in the NFL coming
over from the Dallas Cowboys. So how is that Micah
Parsons trade working out for the green Bay Packers As
we sit here week ten now in the books, we
head on to week eleven, so ten weeks in to
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the seventeen game season and green Bay currently holding on
barely barely by their fingernails, as we said, and they're
biting their fingernails for that final playoff spot. It's like
the cheeseheads traded for a treadmill because what they got
most of these games. Now, I don't watch every second
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of every Packer game, but when I've watched the Packers,
what I have seen from Micah Parsons is TV guys
wearing knee pads talking about him, and then when I
watch them actually on the field, it's like he's getting
a nice workout in it's cardio. In this case, it
was Cardio Knight for Micah Parsons, and he had let
me do the math of his So he had zero sacks,
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zero quarterback kids, zero tackles for loss. Hmm, okay is
that good? I don't know. I just do an overnight
talk show. Is that good? Does anyone think that's good? Okay?
All right? Now? His biggest impact, and I might be
wrong on this, I believe the biggest impact that Micah
Parsons had was he took a selfie at halftime with
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some soldiers. They were honoring the military there, and I thought, well,
that was kind of cool, cool move, bro, way to
go right. But that said, you're getting paid one hundred
and thirty six million guaranteed from Green Bay. I don't
think they're paying you that to run a photo booth,
but maybe they are.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think it set you up on the mezzanine there
at Lambeau they have got that nice big event haul
where they have weddings and things. You can go in
there and put a photo booth up and knock yourself
out in the main concourse, have a great time. But man, really,
the way Parsons played, at least in this game, you
could have gone down to Culver's and gotten a bag
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of cheese curds from Culvers and that would have had
the same amount of impact plays as Micah Parsons. And
at least you know with that you get the cheese
curds there. They're delicious and satisfying. Michah Parsons, I don't
know about that. He was totally boxed up, totally boxed
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up in this game, and the Eagles and everyone's doing
the same thing. He's like, well, Parsons is good, so
we'll just scheme against him. And the offensive line when
they did go his direction there, they neutralized Micah Parsons,
and he was pretty much just background. It was a
classical music you'd hear in the background, and that's it.
That's what he was. And so mostly false adversary. He
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was builed as a game wrecker, a game rerecord. I've
not seen that. Have you seen that? Am I missing?
Maybe I'm missing something? Am I getting a different feet
of the Green Bay Packers? Maybe that's it. I don't
know because I haven't seen it. If you look at
ROI return on investment for Micah Parsons, could the Green
Bay Packers have been third place in the division if
they hadn't traded. Now, I like the fact that they
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did it, but they're not very good. They're not They
tied the Cowboys, they lost to Carolina, lost the clip.
That's not a good football team. And so Parsons looks
like a very expensive cardio machine, the kind of thing
you know people buy. They say the number one waste
of money for homes is the the treadmill or the
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workout device that you buy and then you just hang
clothes on it because you don't actually use it all
right now, last word on the Philadelphia side of things here, question,
what is the pulse of the birds. Nick Sirianni's Eagles here,
What is the pulse of the Eagles as they get
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another grinded out win, and this one in an island
game at lambeau Field, So you know what the Eagles are.
I had this epiphany as I was making the long
drive in on the winding road from the north Woods
here into the main studio. The Eagles have mastered the Picasso.
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Yeah you know what that means. So it's like going
to the toulou In perie and you know, you go
in there and you can't quite and I've never been there.
I've seen photos and what now you can't quite tell
what you're looking at. And so everyone's there because you're
supposed to be there. But most people don't give a
crap about art, and I don't really care about this,
but you're supposed to go, you go, and so you
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show up and you're like, well, that's kind of stupid.
What is that? But it's abstract. The way the Eagles
are playing, it's abstract. It's confusing, somewhat successful, I guess valuable.
They're winning another cold night rock fight, and I don't know.
Rock fight is the way we're throwing pebbles, not really rocks,
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little pebbles is what they were throwing. Not bombs, definitely
not bombs in this game, and so let's not kill ourselfs.
Jalen Hurts had been playing well. If you watched Benny
versus the Penny on YouTube, which I know you did,
we talked about Jalen Hursts the last few games and
how good he had been playing. And he had had
a bunch of touchdown passes, only one interception I believe,
and thrown for a good amount of yards by his standards.
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Jalen Hurts was playing at a very high level coming
into this game. He was not sharp at all. Was
this the weather? If that's the case, it's problematic. It
gets cold in Philadelphia too. He completed less than sixty
percent of his passes and he had a funnel not
quite in the red zone, but kind of close to
the red zone where he fumbled there. And that was
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on the opening drive of the game for the Eagles.
How about AJ Brown? They refused to trade AJ Brown?
The trade deadline is coming gone, they being the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
A J.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Brown might as well have been running wind sprints in
the combine and the forty yard dash of the combine
in your underwear. He might as well have been wearing
his underwear. He didn't need his shoulder pads or a
helm or anything like that. What can Brown do for you? Well,
what can Brown do for you? Two catches thirteen yards?
Two catches thirteen yards for aj Brown? You're paying the
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guy eighty four million dollars. You targeted him three times?
Am I the bad guy for bringing that up? Maybe?
I am? Now you do get this sideline pout and
I have not seen. I'll try to dig up. I'm
sure he had some kind of nonsense in the locker
room postgame. That's normally how this goes, passive aggressive stuff.
Even Nick Sirianni screwed this thing up. If you saw
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the game. Late in the game, up a field goal,
fourth and eight in inside Green Bay territory, Nick Sirianni decided, rather,
you don't kick the field I don't blame him not
kicking the field goal. Why can't you coffin corner kick it?
Why did they stop doing that? Very rarely do you
see that when you just punt it out of bounds,
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corner kick it out of bounds inside the ten yard line.
And that's it, and then make the Green Bay Packers
have to go down and there wasn't really enough time
to do anything, but you turn the ball over on downs,
you went for it on fourth and eight. You then
allowed because of that decision, you allowed the Packers for
the Hail Mary field goal, which it turned out wasn't
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It wasn't close, but Syrian it would have been absolute
and would have deserved to be destroyed for that that decision.
It was coaching chaos. It worked out for him because
they won. So thats all is forgetting forgotten. It's nice
body spray and all that stuff, and they almost always win.
It seems the Eagles are seven and two. They're technically
tied with Seattle for the top record in the NFC. However,
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they have the tiebreaker, so they are currently the number
one seed in the entire NFC. And it seems like
most of these games for the Eagles, most of these
games is it's a disaster in terms of style points.
You know, it's an aesthetic disaster, That's what I'm trying
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to say for the team from Philadelphia. Yet on the scoreboard,
it's a masterpiece. Back in the old day, it's one
of the catchphrases of Jim Rome was scarboard. You know
that was big back in the day. Not anymore as
like thirty years ago. But they win, winning ugly, winning ugly.
And do not confuse this. They're not invincible. They're not unbeatable.
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If you're Seattle or they got Sam Darman about that.
But if you're the Rams somebody like that, you know,
you look, it's Philadelphia is they almost beat them the
first time. Your idiot kicker f that up. So you're
not really that concerned. The Eagles don't scare. They win
a lot. They don't really scary. They don't have the
fear factor in Philadelphia. They don't. And these Picasso wins
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they look pretty good. I hang them up in a museum.
You're not gonna win like that most of the time.
It's certainly not in the playoffs.
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it up the Monday night game bit of a dud
there as the Eagles win the riveting ten to seven game.
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We anyway, let's go to the coaching carousel, round and
round and round and round and round and round the
coaching carousel. So on a giving year, anywhere from seven
to ten coaches typically get whacked in the NFL. That's
normally how this goes. Seven to ten coaches typically get
whacked in the NFL, And so it got cranked up
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on Monday. We anticipated that somebody was going to lose
their job when the sun rose in the East on Monday.
We talked about this in the Overnight Show in a
previous episode, and it turns out that we were correct.
We weren't sure whether it would be the head coach
or one of the coordinators. But it turns out if
you did not hear by now, perhaps not. We have
learned that the g A Hey and t S Giants
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they fired coach Brian day Ball.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
He gon' he's out here, Na La Day go bye.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
He's out. Brian dave Ball moving on from the coaching
ranks there head coach of the Giants and he's out
and midway through his fourth season of suckage with the
Giants two and eight record, two and eight. Oh Man
offensive quarter of Mike Kofka will take over as the
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interim coach. At one point a up coming star and
the coach he rings and not lately, but he'll be
the interim coach always watch out for that interim coach.
You always want to avoid giving the full time job
to the interim coach. If you don't believe me, look
up Romeo Crennell. Anyway, So the move made by ownership,
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it came a day after the Giants did the impossible.
They've been a laughing stock of a franchise and they
embarrassed themselves some more with that double digit blown lead
yet again against the man that has the manny and
the petty down Pat Caleb Williams and Chicago as the
Bears came back down ten and we talked about Greg Olsen,
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the Fox broadcaster who put the coach, Brian Dayball on blast. Normally,
when a broadcaster goes after a coach or a player,
they've been given the green light to do that. So Olsen,
it turns out he blasted Brian Daball. He must have
known if the Giants did not win that game, the
coach was going to be fired, and he was. He
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was whacked. That's it. So Joe Shane, the most amazing
part of this is this guy, Joe Shane, not spelled
like that, will remain as the general manager of the
of the Giants. Yeah, John Mara and the other ownership
people there said that the GM will lead a search party.
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It's a rescue and recovery mission for the franchise, which
sucks now day Ball the second coach number two that
has been has been let go as Brian Callahan, whose
team as to quote cam Ward we asked, that was
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his quote about the Tennessee Titans. So the we ass
coach got let go. He was let go after six games.
Titans started out one in five and they have not
won since then. So listen as far as the Giants,
not everyone is cleached, which blows me away, like this
seemed like one of those moves in sports that no
one would have a problem with. How could you possibly
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justify keeping Brian day Ball as the coach? It makes
no sense. But sure enough, there are people of some
prominence depending on who you give prominence to, that are
on the record, on the record stating that this is
not a good move. Some of the commentary coming in
from the NFL, the poor Brian day Ball crowd, it's
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not fair. It's not fair, led by who else but
that Dunce Dan Orlovsky, the man that famously playing for
the Ohen sixteen Lions decided to run out of the
back of the end zone. That guy's now giving you
football commentary on television. That's right.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Anyway, Dan Olasky and the usual other NFL pity party crew,
they're like, oh man, this is a mistake. This is
a mistake, saying the Giants should have let Brian day
Ball finish what is essentially like a love story with
Jackson Dart the coach and the player Jackson Dart there
(30:09):
because they had I love this good chemistry bull crap,
all right, So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question did Brian day Ball deserve
more time? Did the Giants not give him enough time
to coach Jackson Dart the prodigy from Old miss, and
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did he not get the fair shake with the Giants?
So on this one, I've got tender Muppet babies and
Windy's and we will combine all of these things together
and we're going to put that in a deep frier,
because anything in a deep frier just tastes good. Just
anything fried just as delicious. So, yeah, number number you
(30:57):
can tell who Brian day Ball's are in the media.
It's not that hard to test I'm not that bright
I do an overnight show, But I know the people
right now that are advocating and that are preaching and
singing the gospel about Brian Dayball. They are in the tank.
They are in the tank. They're all his media buddies.
(31:17):
And like I said, the word on the street is
that Brian Dave Ball is a great guy. Everyone loves
hanging out with him, which is how he was able
to keep the job that he was unfit for. For
as long as he kept the job with the Giants
and all these guys trying to convince you, you and me
that the Giants were building something. What were they building?
(31:38):
They were building an outhouse is what they were building. Okay,
there's one problem with his building the offense up. The
offense was dial up Internet. That was the Giants offense. Well,
what about that game when they scored a lot of plays? Okay,
what about the other games? What about the other games?
And I don't have any skin in the game, but
it was past time for the Giants here to go
(32:01):
on tender and swipe left, not right, not right, swipe
left unattractive. Brian day Ball has been living off borrow time.
There's only so many days you get, well, I'm the
guy that coached up Josh Allen.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I'm the guy.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
What about me, jorsh Allen all shove it up your tuckers.
With Josh Allen living on borrow time in that Fluke
Fugase playoff situation a couple of years ago, you go
two and eight this year, and since coach of the year,
he somehow won that eleven and thirty three. That is
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a brown bag situation, as in brown backett. Pack your
stuff up in a brown bag and get out of
here and enough. Brian Dabole overall forty losses, twenty wins
and one time twenty games under five hundred, a three
thirty six winning percentage for the now former head coach
of the Giants. Now what does that mean in Layman's terms?
(33:00):
So that means if you look at the NFL since
the merger, there have been one hundred and sixty six coaches,
one hundred and sixty six coaches that have met the criteria,
and Brian day Ball has in that group one hundred
and sixty Sixty's ranked one hundred and fifty fourth, so
he's in the ninety third percent tile, which means ninety
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three percent of all coaching hires have been better than
Brian Dayball. But yet his buddies get on television Who's
not in full and Jackson Dart and oh my god,
they're acting like the these day Ball stands are acting
like they just the Giants just got rid of Sean
McVay two point zero. Like if you combine Sean McVay
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and the late Steve Jobs or someone along that is, say, well, no, no, no, no, no,
no no. Even the movie Man Moving Man matchs like, well,
this is ridiculous. Guess what. Brian day Ball is not
innovating any thing. Now. I'm sure he's great over a
prime rib dinner that's paid for by the Giants and
a nice bottle of alcohol and the whole thing at
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a dinner. Do I want him coaching an NFL team?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
No. The Giants offense for the most part, You're gonna
judge him by the full body of work has been prehistoric,
prehistoric with Brian day Ball as the coach. And as
far as the whole chemistry experiment, this is not junior
high school chemistry. And I don't know where that's coming from.
I don't see it, do you? See it. I don't.
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I must be missing something. There's got to be a
disconnect because I don't see any sign that this is
going as good as some of these idiots are saying.
So pump the brakes, pump the break. Jackson Dart, whether
or not he makes it or not, will have nothing
to do with Brian day Ball nothing. And they're making
it seem like he's a top five quarterback in the
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NFL right now. It's because of the for Brian dave
Ball the coach, and everybody's being held back, and now
this evil ownership in the front office is involved in
all this stuff. It's like, is he a top ten quarterback?
Speaker 5 (35:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Is he a top fifteen? No, He's right in the middle.
He's an average NFL quarterback. Jackson Dart is ranked eighteenth
in the NFL. He is right now, he's in a wedgie.
He's wedged between Jade and Daniels, who's always hurt these days,
and c. J. Stroud, who's also missing games because of
concussions and other things. Here. So those are the two
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guys right there. On one side, you got Jayden and Daniels.
On the other side, you got c. J. Stroud there
and for the most part, those other quarterbacks have been
like day old Seltzer. It's just not that great for
Jayden Daniels or CJ. Stroud. Now as far as Jackson Dart,
the jury is obviously still out. There is no formal
decision that has been made here, and they'll say, oh,
(35:54):
he'll figure something out. But the whole chemistry thing, it's like, dude,
come on, that tells you that they have I have
no argument to keep the coach because there'd be no reason,
absolutely no reason to bring that up, no reason if
there was something tangible like chemistry is just made up
sports gibberish. It's something that dumb people say. It's like momentum, chemistry, momentum.
(36:18):
It's all bull crap that people just get taught when
they're kids and they just get they repeat it because
they're lazy and all that stuff. And so yeah, I
always bring this up because I used to cover the
NBA a lot, and I covered the Clippers in the
nineties and they those guys, they loved each other. Late nineties,
early two thousands. They had a guy named Darius Miles
and oh he was the life of the party. Quentin
Richardson those guys hung out together all the time. They
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were playing video games in the road. They went out
to dinner and meals and all that. And they could
not play basketball to saved their life. They sucked, but
they got they got along. While that great chemistry, great chemistry.
Oh man. Anyway, turning the page, so the question now
becomes Who's got next? Who's gotten next? Lane Kiffin has
(37:02):
entered the chat. Lane Kiffen and Clint Kubiak. Huh who? Yeah?
Lane Kiffin and Clint Kubiak are among the betting favorites
as the body is not yet cold for Brian day
Ball in terms of coaching the Giants, and already the
talk is Lane Kiffin and Clint Kubiak among the favors
(37:22):
to be the next head coach of the Giants. So
how would that play? How would that play with the
bass with the Giants? If this assume for the purposes
of this monologue that those are the two guys, So
how would that play? So what you have here, you
have the Muppet babies is what you've got? You've got,
or actually the Netpole babies would be a better way
to discover you've got the netpo babies. You've got the
(37:44):
sons of former NFL big shots Monty Kiffen and Gary Kubiak.
Monty Kiffen the father of the Tampa two all right
back in the day, Gary Kubiak, John Elways caddie who
hold he able to board for John Lway. Both dads
coached a long time in the NFL, and certainly Monty
(38:08):
Kiffen considered royal he died I think it was last year,
but he considered royalty because of the Tampa two defense,
which is still mimicked by a bunch of teams in
the NFL, and not so much Jared Kubiak. But if
you look around right, both of them NEPO babies. So
we know that going in. What is an Internet meme
and the other ones just kind of there. I think
we know who the internet meme is. The other guy,
(38:31):
Clint Kubiak, is like a carbon neutral coach. He's a
carbon neutral coach. Now what does that mean. That means
there's no real carbon footprint, no noise, no headlines, nothing
gets you all excited. Just a guy with the right
last name who went into the family business and because
his dad he got him connections, he was able to
(38:53):
get some jobs and he's currently working in Seattle, and
things are going well for the Seahawks, and Sam Darnold,
who played well last year in minnesota's playing well again
in the regular season until it's a big game, and
then he rides the vomit comet. And so because of that,
and there's really a supply chain shortage of coaches. The
name Clint Kubiak has been mentioned for the Giants. Now
(39:13):
Lane Kiffin. Meanwhile, all right, so Lane Kiffen would bring
the full circus parade, and I'm there for I am
talking elephants, camels, zebras, clown cars, the whole shebang. There'll
be a thing of a jig and watch you might
call it. Oh, I'm all for it. He's the ultimate
(39:36):
look at me coach? Is there any coach more about
looking at me than Lane Kiffen. Everything he does is
for the matrix. He's fully immersed in the fake world
of social media.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
He is.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
He's the ultimate look at me guy in college football.
He could get any college football job he wants. Really,
he's like the big name that could get any job
he wants. But you'd much rat a coach in the NFL.
College football is a joke. Compared to the NFL. You'd
much rather coach in the NFL. All these guys want
to coach in the NFL. And Lane Kiffin, though, here's
the thing. He would turn the Giants into a reality show.
(40:11):
It would be a content superstore for those of us
that do sports talk radio. Man, Now, would it work?
Probably not? Probably not. Wouldn't work, but it doesn't matter.
I don't care about that. It'd be a fun thrill ride.
Be pretty cool, right, you know, lots of loopy loops
and maybe a few barf bags mixed in. For Lane
(40:33):
Kiffin with the Giants, the problem, he's got to get
the job. The Giants are so buttoned up as a franchise,
so conservative, that's the family brand for the New York Giants.
Doesn't seem like they'd go for Lane Kiffin's striking a
pose at the thirty five yard line. They wouldn't like that, right,
(40:55):
So there you go. And the fact that the Giants
are to allow this guy, Joe Shane allegedly to continue
as the gym. We'll see if that actually happens when
we get to the end of the year. Feeling there
be a switch rou on that one that he doesn't
seem like he's willing to go off off the grid
(41:15):
on a coach, and so you're gonna bring in another coach,
but you're going to keep the general manager, which means
the coach and GM are not aligned, and so you're
essentially rearranging the furniture on the Exxon Valdiz. It's not
going very well. It's gonna be a big oil spill there,
and so so much for the full reboot. You know,
(41:35):
turn the computer off, turn it back on. Wait a minute,
blah blah blah, blah blah. Now someone's gonna take the job.
It pays very well. It's New York while it's New Jersey.
And yeah, you get pay a lot in taxes, and
I guess you can get free free bus rides if
you coach the giants. You get free cheese at the
government store, so that'll be good. And there's only thirty
two of the jobs, so there you go, you know,
so somebody will take it. And if it's Lane Kiffin,
(41:57):
buckle up, I'm there for it. Why not. It's gonna
be gonna be loud, and it'll be fast and will
likely crash and burn spectacularly, but that's fine. A r
final point. So, now that Brian Dayball has been decommissioned
as the coach of the Giants, what do you think happens?
Suddenly he becomes hot to trot. He becomes the hottest
(42:20):
offensive mind on the market, the guy that just proved
he can't get the job done as a head coach.
He was horrific in that job, one of the worst
coaches in the ninety third percent tile as a head coach,
and his resume actually got better from getting canned, actually
(42:41):
got better from getting canned. Yeah, So okay, that's that's
the way it is. So they asked the Buffalo Bills.
He used to work in Buffalo, has claimed to him
the reason he got the Giants' job is because he
was credited with Josh Josh Allen could not even eat
his food without being being cut up and all that,
(43:02):
and he he was eating baby food until Brian Daball
came in. And so Buffalo coach Sean McDermott was asked
about this and basically said, now we're good. When asked
whether or not Brian day Ball would be joining the Giants,
joined the Bills from the Giants and some kind of
fluff no show consulting job which all these guys get,
(43:24):
you know, pay a lot of money, fly in, you know,
text a few times a day, that kind of thing.
So when asked about a reunion, he essentially said, we're good.
So the question is this with Brian Dable on the
market the Buffalo Bill's underachieving this season, what was that
response by McDermott about why would you not at least
(43:46):
text and say come buy sometime, I'll get you a
cream puff. You can you can have a cream puff
and watch Josh Allen practice. So my theory on this,
and I don't think I'm wrong on it, is this
is personal to totally dismiss this is a personal situation,
like the old marketing campaign for Windy's back in the day.
(44:07):
Where's the beef. Where's the beef? Now, here's the beef.
There's clearly a beef there. And if there was no beef,
if there was no beef, then you'd say, well, we'll
talk to him, but we, like our coaching staff, we'll
see you never know, he might not want to coach.
He didn't say anything. McDermott and day Ball I remember
from doing monologues about this back in the day and
(44:29):
went back and I checked some of my notes, and
they were not They were not best buds at the end.
In fact, there was a lot of chatter that you're
not gonna see McDermott and day Ball splitting chicken wings
at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo. It's not gonna happen.
They were loggerheads, didn't really like each other all that much,
(44:51):
and McDermott was, I believe, jealous of the amount of
attention that the day Ball coaching genius was getting and
getting credited by all the TV guys for propping up
Josh Allen Wood abow me and all that stuff. So
Dave Ball now he has been type cast. He has
(45:13):
been type cast as a good coordinator and a bad
head coach, the kind of a guy that will keep
getting gigs year after year after year after year until
the next offensive fad comes along, and then he will
be persona non grata. Brian David that's the NFL's comfort food.
(45:34):
It's saying what we want. He's got coaching experience, head
coaching experience. Yeah, but he suck. Doesn't matter. He's got
coaching experience. You know, same names. They just get reshuffled
around the NFL and there is a supply chain shortage
on available coaches. But you just microwave the resume. That's it.
Serve it up again. Go to a new town like
the Carpetbaggery that you are.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
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It's Miller.
Speaker 5 (46:01):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (46:02):
To the third degree? This is one gets up.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
After the Buccaneers lost to the Patriots on Sunday, Baker
Mayfield said he thinks the team lacks killer instinct and
has a problem with complacency.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
Ben, do you think that's the problem with Tampa Bay?
Speaker 5 (46:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (46:19):
First of all, the problem is they're not like wired
like Baker Mayfield. There's a lack of talent there. Receivers
are out and the guys have not stepped off. That's
the issue. They they played pretty hard. I thought they're
just not that talent. They're not good.
Speaker 6 (46:31):
Next, the Seahawks have not won four straight games. Following
the blowout win of the Cardinals. After the game, Jackson
Smith and Jigba said that the team feels like they have
something special.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Yeah, Ben, do you think they have something special?
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Uh? Well, that could be why they ride the short bus.
I mean, what do you mean by that? I don't
know what. There is something special, I don't know. No,
it's that's like chemistry and momentum. It means nothing. Next.
Speaker 6 (46:53):
Over the weekend, an NHL agent turned podcaster made the
claim that he heard an MLB official threaten Bryce Harper.
Mishall reportedly scolded Harper for cursing the commissioner, saying, that's
how you end up in a ditch. And are you
buying that story?
Speaker 1 (47:06):
Absolutely? I believe it. There are some real scumbags that
work for Major League Baseball in the commission's office. I've
heard similar things. I'm not shocked by it. How do
we know that is a way?
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Play on the bar by the game?
Speaker 1 (47:18):
I won the game, Jerom Charleston, I won the game.
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All right, well, well let's get to that real. Don't
play the intro and all that jet who fled jed?
You're on? You're gonna play? What are the categories? Coop? Quickly,
let's play the game here.
Speaker 6 (47:40):
Let's get this set up, then get This is the
Warren g edition of Mallard's Mountain of Money. Okay, turns
fifty five years old. The categories are regulate. Yeah, and
you don't stop game.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
Don't wait? And I want it all right?
Speaker 1 (47:56):
First of all, Jed, who do you want to partner
up with? You have regulators for? She's a jolly good fellow.
Scott and Michael ep wasting our time. Okay, you're gonna
lose and pick the category. Yeah, but I'm not ana
loser like being. Okay, Grant, who do you want to grant?
(48:18):
You are you're gonna play with me? Pick pick. I'll
let you pick first, Grant which category you want?
Speaker 5 (48:22):
I'm playing with I'm playing with Ben.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
That's right. Who do you want? Which category? Do you want? Grant?
Speaker 4 (48:26):
I want it all?
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Oh my god, that's that.
Speaker 4 (48:29):
That's the name of the category.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Okay, that's it I wanted. At this point, I was like,
all right, very good pick Jed would pick a category?
Are you up?
Speaker 4 (48:42):
She's gonna pick regulation?
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Okay, all right, we'll get to Mallard's Mountain of Money
and it's entire we'll get to it.
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Speaker 5 (49:02):
Not?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
All right, let's do it. Here we go. We have
our matchup here. We have Grant in Kansas City and
Jed who fled? I believe Jed deferred? Is that correct?
He chose not he didn't choose a category right away.
I'm hearing a lot of feedback which is not particularly
great here. So what are the categoies again? Coop here?
What are we doing here?
Speaker 4 (49:23):
We have regulate and you don't stop game? Don't wait?
And I wanted all that you have. I won it
all with Grant?
Speaker 1 (49:28):
All right? I want it all? Are you ready there, Grant?
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Let go?
Speaker 1 (49:33):
All right? For these athletes all won MVP and championships
in the same season. We'll put forty five seconds on
the clock. We're on our way and go. He was
Larry Bird's rival with the Lakers in the eighties. Yes,
the greatest running back, leading all time leading rusher in
NFL history for the Cowboys. Yes, play just won the
(49:54):
World Series with the Dodgers. He was traded from the
Red Sox. He's played shortstop this year? Was it now?
It was an outfielder, all right, The greatest Bronco running
back of all time. He helped John Elway win two
Super Bowls late in Elway's career, No close. Nicknamed Pops
(50:15):
for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the nineteen seventy's, a giant
home run hitter for the Pirates. We are family, all right,
Brooklyn Dodger Catcher was in a car accident, was paralyzed.
No alight, thirty points, thirty points.
Speaker 4 (50:33):
Mookie Betts was who he wanted. And Terrell Davis not
Terrell Smith.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Willie Stargell was Pops.
Speaker 6 (50:40):
And Roy Campanella all right, Jed, we have regulate. These
athletes are all from Long Beach, California.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
I'm sure Jed's familiar with Long Beach.
Speaker 6 (50:50):
For the LBC forty five seconds on the clock, let's begin.
This guy was the triple double guy. He started his
career with Oklahoma City. Yes, uh butt fumble quarterback for
the Jets. Yes, mister Padre best Padre ever. This guy
is a forty two year old tight end who's still
(51:11):
in the league. He started with the Jaguars out of u. C.
Speaker 4 (51:17):
L A.
Speaker 6 (51:20):
Yes, uh, this guy was a linebacker for the Patriots
and the Tom Brady era.
Speaker 4 (51:24):
He beat somebody up in a nightclub.
Speaker 6 (51:28):
Nope, nope, all right, the female tennis player, she had
square glasses.
Speaker 4 (51:34):
She's a lesbian. No billy.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Jeane King was all right, great, we need seven, we
need over seven. Grant you want and you don't stop
or game, don't wait wait, okay. These athletes did not
bother playing in college. It didn't matter. Are you ready
forty five seconds? Run away and go? Uh. The star
for the Lakers out of Akron, Ohio. He played with
(52:03):
the Cavaliers in the Heat. All right, yes, what an
MVP with Orlando. He was a center, not Shaquille O'Neill,
though out of Georgia, played high school ball in Georgia.
Played with the Yes, that is correct. He was a
number two pick by the Chicago Bulls. Out of southern California.
He was a center. Played in the early two thousands
(52:25):
with Chicago.
Speaker 4 (52:28):
All right, uh, we're out of time.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
We want, we want.
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Jenen Hurts and the boys that love the Toush Push
taking on the guys that don't like the Toush Push.
(02:45):
They tried to have it banned from the NFL. It's
a it's a bad blood match up here. Jordan Love
and the Cheeseheads, a key NFC battle Royale. A chamber
of commerce kind of night in Northern Wisconsin. Why was
it a chamber of commerce? Canada night? Kickoff? Temperatures in
the low thirties. It was thirty three degrees a kickoff.
(03:08):
Welcome to mid November football in Northern Wisconsin. The home
team a slight favorite at the beginning of the week
the game, some of the books had the game of
pick them. By the time they kicked off on Monday night.
You had Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox refugees
who were there calling the game on the boob tube.
Did you watch? Were you riveted? No?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
You were?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
What else were you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I got you? Well, we watched so you would not
have to. It was our public service and this game,
despite what Joe Buck was trying to sell, was a
yawn fest. Call that a hollering James Special, A lot
of snoring, A lot of snoring. You missed. The first
scoreless tie of the NFL season, the first scoreless tie
(03:56):
in a couple of years in the NFL. You had
on one highlight if you want to call that, Jalen
Hurts hitting a thirty six yard catch and run for
a touchdown as DeVante Smith made the play there as
the phil at deelf Eagles. That was the only touchdown
of the game. The Eagles defense made some plays, not
(04:17):
that many. He didn't have to make money plays. Jordan
Love's not very good. And ten to seven your final
that's right, ten to seven. That was it. Seventeen points
in the game and it goes to the team on
the road on Monday night, the Packers go down Brandon
McManus because of some coaching miscues by Nick Siriatti. Brandon
(04:40):
McManus had an opportunity to tie the game. We've been
a game tyme sixty four yard field goal? How did
that go? As time ran out?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Not?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I were close. I didn't even make it into the
actual Green Bay in Green Bay nowhere there so nowhere close,
So green Bay I can straight loss. Now the Packers
are five to three and one. They drop into third place,
third place in the NFC North behind Detroit and Chicago.
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So this is a painful night of football. The results
of that and the Packers who did have the top
record in the NFC. They were at the very top
in the NFC, and that was back on November second.
They've now they lost to Carolina at home. That's embarrassing,
tied to Dallas Cowboys, that's embarrassing. And now they're barely
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hanging on by their fingernails. At this point, the Green
Bay Packers for the seventh and final playoff spot in
the National Football Conference. So there's not a guarantee that
the Packers end up making the playoffs. Now, Jordan Love
in particular is getting charbroiled for his suck bag performance
in this game. He gets the brunt of the raspberrys
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for a royal a stinko performance there for Jordan Love,
and that is a good jumping off point as we discuss.
So the question, after another week performance by Jordan Love,
after another pathetic performance, does Jordan Love the Green Bay
quarterback belong in the elite category of quarterbacks? That's the question.
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What's the answer. So on this one, I've got Marvel,
spin Off, Culvers and the lou and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make some delicious cheese fondue yum yum to my Tom, Tom,
tell me it's just outstanding. So hey. To answer the
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question Jordan Love is he's not even in the same
zip code. If there was a town called Elite Town,
he would not be in the zip code of Elite Town.
Do we all agree on that? Okay, everyone's great, very good.
He is the antithesis of elite. They said, well, this
was just a bad game. Well, this seems seems we've
been a lot of these bad games for Jordan Love.
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He averaged in this game less than five yards per
pass attempt. Now, the argument for the Jordan Love marching
in Chada society is, well, he didn't have Tucker Kraft,
the breakout star for Green Bay. He's out for the
year with injury, and Tucker Kraft was a guy would
run through defenses like a wrecking ball, right m right
right through defenses and so glo. Without him, did Love
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elevate anyone else? No, he was a glorified checkdown artist,
and he did not did not elevate to anyone else
on that offense, and did not set them up. Finished
with a passer rating below seventy, which I don't think
is all that good. Had a fumble key fumble as
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green Bay was matriculating the ball down the field and
they were gonna get at least a field goal attempt
before halftime, and Jordan Love, uh, he fetched around, fumbled
the ball there and just handed it back to Philadelphia,
which cemented the first half scoreless tie. Now the Eagles
say whether they're legit, and yeah, they're legit. The Eagles
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are or another solid team this year. There's product. They
won the Super Bowl last year. They're obviously could this year. However,
I go back to the resume of this Green Bay
Packer team. You tied a bad cowboy team. That's a
bad Dallas cowboy team. You tied them. You lost at
home to Carolina. That should be like four losses. Carolina
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just got their doors blown off by the Saints, and
you lost at Cleveland the Browns. You lost to the Browns.
So that's that should be worth three losses. So they
should really have if you do the math on this,
like six losses based on this, and you can lose
to those teams, right, you can lose to those teams,
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uh and and and you did, but you're gonna get
killed for it, right, And you can't be in the
elite conversation when you're losing. Even once in a while,
you're gonna have a stinker against an inferior opponent. But
you can't convince anyone when you lose those type of
games that you're an ascending football player. And that's the
issue here for Jordan Love and the fact Love is
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lacking that Gennisi quah. He is right that sparked that magic.
Dust I don't see it, at least not on a
weekly base. They have been flashes of it. Usually when
he plays the Dallas Cowboys, he seems to play very well.
Could that be I don't know the Cowboy defense. Could
that be why he's playing well. I'm just saying, but
Jordan Love is part of what we call the trust
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Fund generation of quarterbacks. And this is something that's changed
in my lifetime. And someone is going to write a
great book about this. There'll be a great docu series
about what's gone on in the NFL the last five
years or so. It is fascinating. There was always this
mindset in the NFL you really got to prove it
before you got the big money. You had to prove it.
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You had to show that you were legit, and at
some point the money got so cartoonish in the NFL,
so ridiculous in the NFL. They just said, I screw it,
We'll just pay everybody, right, We'll just pay these guys
all got so rich, these NFL teams because it's the
only thing people watch live on television. Everything else is
on demand, right, nobody watching stuff live anymore. He's watch
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it when you want to watch it. This is the
only communal experience left in American television. And so they
got so much money. At this point, the salary cap
keeps going up. It's like faster than bitcoin back in
twenty twenty one, right, just keeps going up and up
and up. And the league so flushed. They're like a
drug cartel and they're trying to get rid of the cash.
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They have so much cash. It's in the washing machine,
it's in the dishwasher, it's in the sink, it's everywhere,
and so they're the accountants are essentially their money laundering,
and they're doing it by paying these suck bag quarterbacks.
It is wild. It is I mean serious. I mean
you look at some of the guys that got paid
that really suck, Like we all agree that they're not good, Like,
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how did this happen, and it happened because there's so
much money. They just had to give everyone the money.
The quarterbacks all got. Jordan Love, unproven got two hundred
and twenty million dollars, an NFL record at the time.
I don't know if it's been broken. Seventy five million
signing bonus. Seventy five million in the signing bonus for
Jordan Love criminal criminal, absolute heist, absolute heist. What Jordan
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Love got from the Green Bay Packers, my god. And
you look around and Love is sitting there at the
kiddy table in the quarterback group, and you've got on
one side of the table, you've got two a tongue
of by Law, you got Treor Lawrence right in front,
and then you've got Kyler, alligator Arms Murray. Now this
is actually a Marvel spinoff. The late great Stan Lee
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came up with the Fantastic Four for Marvel. Well, this
grew of quarterbacks is we'll call them the Boorresome Forsome,
those four. So think about these guys all nothing in play.
Kyleermbers aren't benched, Trevor Lawrence just lost to the Houston Sexs,
did nothing in the fourth quarter of Note I did
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the malor math on this. If my math is correct,
the Boresome Forsome of Trevor Lawrence Kyler, Murray Jordan Love
and to a tongue of a Loa have gotten contracts
worth nine hundred and thirty million dollars. Let me repeat
that for those of you a little slow in the
back of them. Nine hundred and thirty million dollars for
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the Marvel spinoff, the Borso Forceome. Wow, that is the
price of delusion in the NFL, where potential gets paid
like production. Didn't used to be like that, but now
you do. That's how you do it. That's the nerd
taking over the NFL. Well, we don't want to pay
someone for what they have done. We want to pay
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them for what they're going to do. So what you
end up doing is gambling your betting that these guys
are going to live up to your projections. Unfortunately, there's
the human element where most of these guys don't live
up to that, and then you end up with the
Boresom Foursome getting nine you know about a bestling nine
hundred million dollars. This is gonna be an amazing documentary.
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Holy crap, they all suck they all got paid two
hundred million dollar contracts, every one of them. Trevor Lawrence
is like two seventy five and he blows. It's wild.
He is so great. Like, listen, Jordan Love was born
at the right time. He was born under the right star.
It's a green and gold star and its shaped like
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a dollar sign. So good for him, good for him.
I'm not listen, I'm not blaming him. These teams are stupid.
They're run by smart idiots, Ivy League educated academia. They're
idiots giving those contracts out. Criminal, criminal, and it's fomo.
They were all afraid fear of missing out, fear of
missing out. Now digging deeper the question also when we
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talk about the Packers, how about the edge rusher Micah Parsons.
Let's do a deep dive on that at this point.
So Michaeh. Parsons the big story in the NFL coming
over from the Dallas Cowboys. So how is that Micah
Parsons trade working out for the green Bay Packers As
we sit here week ten now in the books, we
head on to week eleven, so ten weeks in to
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the seventeen game season and green Bay currently holding on
barely barely by their fingernails, as we said, and they're
biting their fingernails for that final playoff spot. It's like
the cheeseheads traded for a treadmill because what they got
most of these games. Now, I don't watch every second
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of every Packer game, but when I've watched the Packers,
what I have seen from Micah Parsons is TV guys
wearing knee pads talking about him, and then when I
watch them actually on the field, it's like he's getting
a nice workout in it's cardio. In this case, it
was Cardio Knight for Micah Parsons, and he had let
me do the math of his So he had zero sacks,
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zero quarterback kids, zero tackles for loss. Hmm, okay is
that good? I don't know. I just do an overnight
talk show. Is that good? Does anyone think that's good? Okay?
All right? Now? His biggest impact, and I might be
wrong on this, I believe the biggest impact that Micah
Parsons had was he took a selfie at halftime with
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some soldiers. They were honoring the military there, and I thought, well,
that was kind of cool, cool move, bro, way to
go right. But that said, you're getting paid one hundred
and thirty six million guaranteed from Green Bay. I don't
think they're paying you that to run a photo booth,
but maybe they are.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think it set you up on the mezzanine there
at Lambeau they have got that nice big event haul
where they have weddings and things. You can go in
there and put a photo booth up and knock yourself
out in the main concourse, have a great time. But man, really,
the way Parsons played, at least in this game, you
could have gone down to Culver's and gotten a bag
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of cheese curds from Culvers and that would have had
the same amount of impact plays as Micah Parsons. And
at least you know with that you get the cheese
curds there. They're delicious and satisfying. Michah Parsons, I don't
know about that. He was totally boxed up, totally boxed
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up in this game, and the Eagles and everyone's doing
the same thing. He's like, well, Parsons is good, so
we'll just scheme against him. And the offensive line when
they did go his direction there, they neutralized Micah Parsons,
and he was pretty much just background. It was a
classical music you'd hear in the background, and that's it.
That's what he was. And so mostly false adversary. He
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was builed as a game wrecker, a game rerecord. I've
not seen that. Have you seen that? Am I missing?
Maybe I'm missing something? Am I getting a different feet
of the Green Bay Packers? Maybe that's it. I don't
know because I haven't seen it. If you look at
ROI return on investment for Micah Parsons, could the Green
Bay Packers have been third place in the division if
they hadn't traded. Now, I like the fact that they
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did it, but they're not very good. They're not They
tied the Cowboys, they lost to Carolina, lost the clip.
That's not a good football team. And so Parsons looks
like a very expensive cardio machine, the kind of thing
you know people buy. They say the number one waste
of money for homes is the the treadmill or the
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workout device that you buy and then you just hang
clothes on it because you don't actually use it all
right now, last word on the Philadelphia side of things here, question,
what is the pulse of the birds. Nick Sirianni's Eagles here,
What is the pulse of the Eagles as they get
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another grinded out win, and this one in an island
game at lambeau Field, So you know what the Eagles are.
I had this epiphany as I was making the long
drive in on the winding road from the north Woods
here into the main studio. The Eagles have mastered the Picasso.
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Yeah you know what that means. So it's like going
to the toulou In perie and you know, you go
in there and you can't quite and I've never been there.
I've seen photos and what now you can't quite tell
what you're looking at. And so everyone's there because you're
supposed to be there. But most people don't give a
crap about art, and I don't really care about this,
but you're supposed to go, you go, and so you
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show up and you're like, well, that's kind of stupid.
What is that? But it's abstract. The way the Eagles
are playing, it's abstract. It's confusing, somewhat successful, I guess valuable.
They're winning another cold night rock fight, and I don't know.
Rock fight is the way we're throwing pebbles, not really rocks,
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little pebbles is what they were throwing. Not bombs, definitely
not bombs in this game, and so let's not kill ourselfs.
Jalen Hurts had been playing well. If you watched Benny
versus the Penny on YouTube, which I know you did,
we talked about Jalen Hursts the last few games and
how good he had been playing. And he had had
a bunch of touchdown passes, only one interception I believe,
and thrown for a good amount of yards by his standards.
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Jalen Hurts was playing at a very high level coming
into this game. He was not sharp at all. Was
this the weather? If that's the case, it's problematic. It
gets cold in Philadelphia too. He completed less than sixty
percent of his passes and he had a funnel not
quite in the red zone, but kind of close to
the red zone where he fumbled there. And that was
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on the opening drive of the game for the Eagles.
How about AJ Brown? They refused to trade AJ Brown?
The trade deadline is coming gone, they being the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
A J.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Brown might as well have been running wind sprints in
the combine and the forty yard dash of the combine
in your underwear. He might as well have been wearing
his underwear. He didn't need his shoulder pads or a
helm or anything like that. What can Brown do for you? Well,
what can Brown do for you? Two catches thirteen yards?
Two catches thirteen yards for aj Brown? You're paying the
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guy eighty four million dollars. You targeted him three times?
Am I the bad guy for bringing that up? Maybe?
I am? Now you do get this sideline pout and
I have not seen. I'll try to dig up. I'm
sure he had some kind of nonsense in the locker
room postgame. That's normally how this goes, passive aggressive stuff.
Even Nick Sirianni screwed this thing up. If you saw
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the game. Late in the game, up a field goal,
fourth and eight in inside Green Bay territory, Nick Sirianni decided, rather,
you don't kick the field I don't blame him not
kicking the field goal. Why can't you coffin corner kick it?
Why did they stop doing that? Very rarely do you
see that when you just punt it out of bounds,
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corner kick it out of bounds inside the ten yard line.
And that's it, and then make the Green Bay Packers
have to go down and there wasn't really enough time
to do anything, but you turn the ball over on downs,
you went for it on fourth and eight. You then
allowed because of that decision, you allowed the Packers for
the Hail Mary field goal, which it turned out wasn't
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It wasn't close, but Syrian it would have been absolute
and would have deserved to be destroyed for that that decision.
It was coaching chaos. It worked out for him because
they won. So thats all is forgetting forgotten. It's nice
body spray and all that stuff, and they almost always win.
It seems the Eagles are seven and two. They're technically
tied with Seattle for the top record in the NFC. However,
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they have the tiebreaker, so they are currently the number
one seed in the entire NFC. And it seems like
most of these games for the Eagles, most of these
games is it's a disaster in terms of style points.
You know, it's an aesthetic disaster, That's what I'm trying
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to say for the team from Philadelphia. Yet on the scoreboard,
it's a masterpiece. Back in the old day, it's one
of the catchphrases of Jim Rome was scarboard. You know
that was big back in the day. Not anymore as
like thirty years ago. But they win, winning ugly, winning ugly.
And do not confuse this. They're not invincible. They're not unbeatable.
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If you're Seattle or they got Sam Darman about that.
But if you're the Rams somebody like that, you know,
you look, it's Philadelphia is they almost beat them the
first time. Your idiot kicker f that up. So you're
not really that concerned. The Eagles don't scare. They win
a lot. They don't really scary. They don't have the
fear factor in Philadelphia. They don't. And these Picasso wins
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they look pretty good. I hang them up in a museum.
You're not gonna win like that most of the time.
It's certainly not in the playoffs.
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The crown is yours. So I lead this hour. Change
it up the Monday night game bit of a dud
there as the Eagles win the riveting ten to seven game.
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We anyway, let's go to the coaching carousel, round and
round and round and round and round and round the
coaching carousel. So on a giving year, anywhere from seven
to ten coaches typically get whacked in the NFL. That's
normally how this goes. Seven to ten coaches typically get
whacked in the NFL, And so it got cranked up
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on Monday. We anticipated that somebody was going to lose
their job when the sun rose in the East on Monday.
We talked about this in the Overnight Show in a
previous episode, and it turns out that we were correct.
We weren't sure whether it would be the head coach
or one of the coordinators. But it turns out if
you did not hear by now, perhaps not. We have
learned that the g A Hey and t S Giants
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they fired coach Brian day Ball.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
He gon' he's out here, Na La Day go bye.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
He's out. Brian dave Ball moving on from the coaching
ranks there head coach of the Giants and he's out
and midway through his fourth season of suckage with the
Giants two and eight record, two and eight. Oh Man
offensive quarter of Mike Kofka will take over as the
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interim coach. At one point a up coming star and
the coach he rings and not lately, but he'll be
the interim coach always watch out for that interim coach.
You always want to avoid giving the full time job
to the interim coach. If you don't believe me, look
up Romeo Crennell. Anyway, So the move made by ownership,
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it came a day after the Giants did the impossible.
They've been a laughing stock of a franchise and they
embarrassed themselves some more with that double digit blown lead
yet again against the man that has the manny and
the petty down Pat Caleb Williams and Chicago as the
Bears came back down ten and we talked about Greg Olsen,
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the Fox broadcaster who put the coach, Brian Dayball on blast. Normally,
when a broadcaster goes after a coach or a player,
they've been given the green light to do that. So Olsen,
it turns out he blasted Brian Daball. He must have
known if the Giants did not win that game, the
coach was going to be fired, and he was. He
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was whacked. That's it. So Joe Shane, the most amazing
part of this is this guy, Joe Shane, not spelled
like that, will remain as the general manager of the
of the Giants. Yeah, John Mara and the other ownership
people there said that the GM will lead a search party.
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It's a rescue and recovery mission for the franchise, which
sucks now day Ball the second coach number two that
has been has been let go as Brian Callahan, whose
team as to quote cam Ward we asked, that was
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his quote about the Tennessee Titans. So the we ass
coach got let go. He was let go after six games.
Titans started out one in five and they have not
won since then. So listen as far as the Giants,
not everyone is cleached, which blows me away, like this
seemed like one of those moves in sports that no
one would have a problem with. How could you possibly
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justify keeping Brian day Ball as the coach? It makes
no sense. But sure enough, there are people of some
prominence depending on who you give prominence to, that are
on the record, on the record stating that this is
not a good move. Some of the commentary coming in
from the NFL, the poor Brian day Ball crowd, it's
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not fair. It's not fair, led by who else but
that Dunce Dan Orlovsky, the man that famously playing for
the Ohen sixteen Lions decided to run out of the
back of the end zone. That guy's now giving you
football commentary on television. That's right.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Anyway, Dan Olasky and the usual other NFL pity party crew,
they're like, oh man, this is a mistake. This is
a mistake, saying the Giants should have let Brian day
Ball finish what is essentially like a love story with
Jackson Dart the coach and the player Jackson Dart there
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because they had I love this good chemistry bull crap,
all right, So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question did Brian day Ball deserve
more time? Did the Giants not give him enough time
to coach Jackson Dart the prodigy from Old miss, and
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did he not get the fair shake with the Giants?
So on this one, I've got tender Muppet babies and
Windy's and we will combine all of these things together
and we're going to put that in a deep frier,
because anything in a deep frier just tastes good. Just
anything fried just as delicious. So, yeah, number number you
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can tell who Brian day Ball's are in the media.
It's not that hard to test I'm not that bright
I do an overnight show, But I know the people
right now that are advocating and that are preaching and
singing the gospel about Brian Dayball. They are in the tank.
They are in the tank. They're all his media buddies.
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And like I said, the word on the street is
that Brian Dave Ball is a great guy. Everyone loves
hanging out with him, which is how he was able
to keep the job that he was unfit for. For
as long as he kept the job with the Giants
and all these guys trying to convince you, you and me
that the Giants were building something. What were they building?
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They were building an outhouse is what they were building. Okay,
there's one problem with his building the offense up. The
offense was dial up Internet. That was the Giants offense. Well,
what about that game when they scored a lot of plays? Okay,
what about the other games? What about the other games?
And I don't have any skin in the game, but
it was past time for the Giants here to go
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on tender and swipe left, not right, not right, swipe
left unattractive. Brian day Ball has been living off borrow time.
There's only so many days you get, well, I'm the
guy that coached up Josh Allen.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I'm the guy.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
What about me, jorsh Allen all shove it up your tuckers.
With Josh Allen living on borrow time in that Fluke
Fugase playoff situation a couple of years ago, you go
two and eight this year, and since coach of the year,
he somehow won that eleven and thirty three. That is
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a brown bag situation, as in brown backett. Pack your
stuff up in a brown bag and get out of
here and enough. Brian Dabole overall forty losses, twenty wins
and one time twenty games under five hundred, a three
thirty six winning percentage for the now former head coach
of the Giants. Now what does that mean in Layman's terms?
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So that means if you look at the NFL since
the merger, there have been one hundred and sixty six coaches,
one hundred and sixty six coaches that have met the criteria,
and Brian day Ball has in that group one hundred
and sixty Sixty's ranked one hundred and fifty fourth, so
he's in the ninety third percent tile, which means ninety
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three percent of all coaching hires have been better than
Brian Dayball. But yet his buddies get on television Who's
not in full and Jackson Dart and oh my god,
they're acting like the these day Ball stands are acting
like they just the Giants just got rid of Sean
McVay two point zero. Like if you combine Sean McVay
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and the late Steve Jobs or someone along that is, say, well, no, no, no, no, no,
no no. Even the movie Man Moving Man matchs like, well,
this is ridiculous. Guess what. Brian day Ball is not
innovating any thing. Now. I'm sure he's great over a
prime rib dinner that's paid for by the Giants and
a nice bottle of alcohol and the whole thing at
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a dinner. Do I want him coaching an NFL team?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
No. The Giants offense for the most part, You're gonna
judge him by the full body of work has been prehistoric,
prehistoric with Brian day Ball as the coach. And as
far as the whole chemistry experiment, this is not junior
high school chemistry. And I don't know where that's coming from.
I don't see it, do you? See it. I don't.
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I must be missing something. There's got to be a
disconnect because I don't see any sign that this is
going as good as some of these idiots are saying.
So pump the brakes, pump the break. Jackson Dart, whether
or not he makes it or not, will have nothing
to do with Brian day Ball nothing. And they're making
it seem like he's a top five quarterback in the
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NFL right now. It's because of the for Brian dave
Ball the coach, and everybody's being held back, and now
this evil ownership in the front office is involved in
all this stuff. It's like, is he a top ten quarterback?
Speaker 5 (35:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Is he a top fifteen? No, He's right in the middle.
He's an average NFL quarterback. Jackson Dart is ranked eighteenth
in the NFL. He is right now, he's in a wedgie.
He's wedged between Jade and Daniels, who's always hurt these days,
and c. J. Stroud, who's also missing games because of
concussions and other things. Here. So those are the two
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guys right there. On one side, you got Jayden and Daniels.
On the other side, you got c. J. Stroud there
and for the most part, those other quarterbacks have been
like day old Seltzer. It's just not that great for
Jayden Daniels or CJ. Stroud. Now as far as Jackson Dart,
the jury is obviously still out. There is no formal
decision that has been made here, and they'll say, oh,
(35:54):
he'll figure something out. But the whole chemistry thing, it's like, dude,
come on, that tells you that they have I have
no argument to keep the coach because there'd be no reason,
absolutely no reason to bring that up, no reason if
there was something tangible like chemistry is just made up
sports gibberish. It's something that dumb people say. It's like momentum, chemistry, momentum.
(36:18):
It's all bull crap that people just get taught when
they're kids and they just get they repeat it because
they're lazy and all that stuff. And so yeah, I
always bring this up because I used to cover the
NBA a lot, and I covered the Clippers in the
nineties and they those guys, they loved each other. Late nineties,
early two thousands. They had a guy named Darius Miles
and oh he was the life of the party. Quentin
Richardson those guys hung out together all the time. They
(36:40):
were playing video games in the road. They went out
to dinner and meals and all that. And they could
not play basketball to saved their life. They sucked, but
they got they got along. While that great chemistry, great chemistry.
Oh man. Anyway, turning the page, so the question now
becomes Who's got next? Who's gotten next? Lane Kiffin has
(37:02):
entered the chat. Lane Kiffen and Clint Kubiak. Huh who? Yeah?
Lane Kiffin and Clint Kubiak are among the betting favorites
as the body is not yet cold for Brian day
Ball in terms of coaching the Giants, and already the
talk is Lane Kiffin and Clint Kubiak among the favors
(37:22):
to be the next head coach of the Giants. So
how would that play? How would that play with the
bass with the Giants? If this assume for the purposes
of this monologue that those are the two guys, So
how would that play? So what you have here, you
have the Muppet babies is what you've got? You've got,
or actually the Netpole babies would be a better way
to discover you've got the netpo babies. You've got the
(37:44):
sons of former NFL big shots Monty Kiffen and Gary Kubiak.
Monty Kiffen the father of the Tampa two all right
back in the day, Gary Kubiak, John Elways caddie who
hold he able to board for John Lway. Both dads
coached a long time in the NFL, and certainly Monty
(38:08):
Kiffen considered royal he died I think it was last year,
but he considered royalty because of the Tampa two defense,
which is still mimicked by a bunch of teams in
the NFL, and not so much Jared Kubiak. But if
you look around right, both of them NEPO babies. So
we know that going in. What is an Internet meme
and the other ones just kind of there. I think
we know who the internet meme is. The other guy,
(38:31):
Clint Kubiak, is like a carbon neutral coach. He's a
carbon neutral coach. Now what does that mean. That means
there's no real carbon footprint, no noise, no headlines, nothing
gets you all excited. Just a guy with the right
last name who went into the family business and because
his dad he got him connections, he was able to
(38:53):
get some jobs and he's currently working in Seattle, and
things are going well for the Seahawks, and Sam Darnold,
who played well last year in minnesota's playing well again
in the regular season until it's a big game, and
then he rides the vomit comet. And so because of that,
and there's really a supply chain shortage of coaches. The
name Clint Kubiak has been mentioned for the Giants. Now
(39:13):
Lane Kiffin. Meanwhile, all right, so Lane Kiffen would bring
the full circus parade, and I'm there for I am
talking elephants, camels, zebras, clown cars, the whole shebang. There'll
be a thing of a jig and watch you might
call it. Oh, I'm all for it. He's the ultimate
(39:36):
look at me coach? Is there any coach more about
looking at me than Lane Kiffen. Everything he does is
for the matrix. He's fully immersed in the fake world
of social media.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
He is.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
He's the ultimate look at me guy in college football.
He could get any college football job he wants. Really,
he's like the big name that could get any job
he wants. But you'd much rat a coach in the NFL.
College football is a joke. Compared to the NFL. You'd
much rather coach in the NFL. All these guys want
to coach in the NFL. And Lane Kiffin, though, here's
the thing. He would turn the Giants into a reality show.
(40:11):
It would be a content superstore for those of us
that do sports talk radio. Man, Now, would it work?
Probably not? Probably not. Wouldn't work, but it doesn't matter.
I don't care about that. It'd be a fun thrill ride.
Be pretty cool, right, you know, lots of loopy loops
and maybe a few barf bags mixed in. For Lane
(40:33):
Kiffin with the Giants, the problem, he's got to get
the job. The Giants are so buttoned up as a franchise,
so conservative, that's the family brand for the New York Giants.
Doesn't seem like they'd go for Lane Kiffin's striking a
pose at the thirty five yard line. They wouldn't like that, right,
(40:55):
So there you go. And the fact that the Giants
are to allow this guy, Joe Shane allegedly to continue
as the gym. We'll see if that actually happens when
we get to the end of the year. Feeling there
be a switch rou on that one that he doesn't
seem like he's willing to go off off the grid
(41:15):
on a coach, and so you're gonna bring in another coach,
but you're going to keep the general manager, which means
the coach and GM are not aligned, and so you're
essentially rearranging the furniture on the Exxon Valdiz. It's not
going very well. It's gonna be a big oil spill there,
and so so much for the full reboot. You know,
(41:35):
turn the computer off, turn it back on. Wait a minute,
blah blah blah, blah blah. Now someone's gonna take the job.
It pays very well. It's New York while it's New Jersey.
And yeah, you get pay a lot in taxes, and
I guess you can get free free bus rides if
you coach the giants. You get free cheese at the
government store, so that'll be good. And there's only thirty
two of the jobs, so there you go, you know,
so somebody will take it. And if it's Lane Kiffin,
(41:57):
buckle up, I'm there for it. Why not. It's gonna
be gonna be loud, and it'll be fast and will
likely crash and burn spectacularly, but that's fine. A r
final point. So, now that Brian Dayball has been decommissioned
as the coach of the Giants, what do you think happens?
Suddenly he becomes hot to trot. He becomes the hottest
(42:20):
offensive mind on the market, the guy that just proved
he can't get the job done as a head coach.
He was horrific in that job, one of the worst
coaches in the ninety third percent tile as a head coach,
and his resume actually got better from getting canned, actually
(42:41):
got better from getting canned. Yeah, So okay, that's that's
the way it is. So they asked the Buffalo Bills.
He used to work in Buffalo, has claimed to him
the reason he got the Giants' job is because he
was credited with Josh Josh Allen could not even eat
his food without being being cut up and all that,
(43:02):
and he he was eating baby food until Brian Daball
came in. And so Buffalo coach Sean McDermott was asked
about this and basically said, now we're good. When asked
whether or not Brian day Ball would be joining the Giants,
joined the Bills from the Giants and some kind of
fluff no show consulting job which all these guys get,
(43:24):
you know, pay a lot of money, fly in, you know,
text a few times a day, that kind of thing.
So when asked about a reunion, he essentially said, we're good.
So the question is this with Brian Dable on the
market the Buffalo Bill's underachieving this season, what was that
response by McDermott about why would you not at least
(43:46):
text and say come buy sometime, I'll get you a
cream puff. You can you can have a cream puff
and watch Josh Allen practice. So my theory on this,
and I don't think I'm wrong on it, is this
is personal to totally dismiss this is a personal situation,
like the old marketing campaign for Windy's back in the day.
(44:07):
Where's the beef. Where's the beef? Now, here's the beef.
There's clearly a beef there. And if there was no beef,
if there was no beef, then you'd say, well, we'll
talk to him, but we, like our coaching staff, we'll
see you never know, he might not want to coach.
He didn't say anything. McDermott and day Ball I remember
from doing monologues about this back in the day and
(44:29):
went back and I checked some of my notes, and
they were not They were not best buds at the end.
In fact, there was a lot of chatter that you're
not gonna see McDermott and day Ball splitting chicken wings
at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo. It's not gonna happen.
They were loggerheads, didn't really like each other all that much,
(44:51):
and McDermott was, I believe, jealous of the amount of
attention that the day Ball coaching genius was getting and
getting credited by all the TV guys for propping up
Josh Allen Wood abow me and all that stuff. So
Dave Ball now he has been type cast. He has
(45:13):
been type cast as a good coordinator and a bad
head coach, the kind of a guy that will keep
getting gigs year after year after year after year until
the next offensive fad comes along, and then he will
be persona non grata. Brian David that's the NFL's comfort food.
(45:34):
It's saying what we want. He's got coaching experience, head
coaching experience. Yeah, but he suck. Doesn't matter. He's got
coaching experience. You know, same names. They just get reshuffled
around the NFL and there is a supply chain shortage
on available coaches. But you just microwave the resume. That's it.
Serve it up again. Go to a new town like
the Carpetbaggery that you are.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
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Speaker 1 (46:00):
It's Miller.
Speaker 5 (46:01):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (46:02):
To the third degree? This is one gets up.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
After the Buccaneers lost to the Patriots on Sunday, Baker
Mayfield said he thinks the team lacks killer instinct and
has a problem with complacency.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
Ben, do you think that's the problem with Tampa Bay?
Speaker 5 (46:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (46:19):
First of all, the problem is they're not like wired
like Baker Mayfield. There's a lack of talent there. Receivers
are out and the guys have not stepped off. That's
the issue. They they played pretty hard. I thought they're
just not that talent. They're not good.
Speaker 6 (46:31):
Next, the Seahawks have not won four straight games. Following
the blowout win of the Cardinals. After the game, Jackson
Smith and Jigba said that the team feels like they have
something special.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Yeah, Ben, do you think they have something special?
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Uh? Well, that could be why they ride the short bus.
I mean, what do you mean by that? I don't
know what. There is something special, I don't know. No,
it's that's like chemistry and momentum. It means nothing. Next.
Speaker 6 (46:53):
Over the weekend, an NHL agent turned podcaster made the
claim that he heard an MLB official threaten Bryce Harper.
Mishall reportedly scolded Harper for cursing the commissioner, saying, that's
how you end up in a ditch. And are you
buying that story?
Speaker 1 (47:06):
Absolutely? I believe it. There are some real scumbags that
work for Major League Baseball in the commission's office. I've
heard similar things. I'm not shocked by it. How do
we know that is a way?
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Play on the bar by the game?
Speaker 1 (47:18):
I won the game, Jerom Charleston, I won the game.
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Speaker 1 (47:32):
All right, well, well let's get to that real. Don't
play the intro and all that jet who fled jed?
You're on? You're gonna play? What are the categories? Coop? Quickly,
let's play the game here.
Speaker 6 (47:40):
Let's get this set up, then get This is the
Warren g edition of Mallard's Mountain of Money. Okay, turns
fifty five years old. The categories are regulate. Yeah, and
you don't stop game.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
Don't wait? And I want it all right?
Speaker 1 (47:56):
First of all, Jed, who do you want to partner
up with? You have regulators for? She's a jolly good fellow.
Scott and Michael ep wasting our time. Okay, you're gonna
lose and pick the category. Yeah, but I'm not ana
loser like being. Okay, Grant, who do you want to grant?
(48:18):
You are you're gonna play with me? Pick pick. I'll
let you pick first, Grant which category you want?
Speaker 5 (48:22):
I'm playing with I'm playing with Ben.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
That's right. Who do you want? Which category? Do you want? Grant?
Speaker 4 (48:26):
I want it all?
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Oh my god, that's that.
Speaker 4 (48:29):
That's the name of the category.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Okay, that's it I wanted. At this point, I was like,
all right, very good pick Jed would pick a category?
Are you up?
Speaker 4 (48:42):
She's gonna pick regulation?
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Okay, all right, we'll get to Mallard's Mountain of Money
and it's entire we'll get to it.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
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Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 5 (49:02):
Not?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
All right, let's do it. Here we go. We have
our matchup here. We have Grant in Kansas City and
Jed who fled? I believe Jed deferred? Is that correct?
He chose not he didn't choose a category right away.
I'm hearing a lot of feedback which is not particularly
great here. So what are the categoies again? Coop here?
What are we doing here?
Speaker 4 (49:23):
We have regulate and you don't stop game? Don't wait?
And I wanted all that you have. I won it
all with Grant?
Speaker 1 (49:28):
All right? I want it all? Are you ready there, Grant?
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Let go?
Speaker 1 (49:33):
All right? For these athletes all won MVP and championships
in the same season. We'll put forty five seconds on
the clock. We're on our way and go. He was
Larry Bird's rival with the Lakers in the eighties. Yes,
the greatest running back, leading all time leading rusher in
NFL history for the Cowboys. Yes, play just won the
(49:54):
World Series with the Dodgers. He was traded from the
Red Sox. He's played shortstop this year? Was it now?
It was an outfielder, all right, The greatest Bronco running
back of all time. He helped John Elway win two
Super Bowls late in Elway's career, No close. Nicknamed Pops
(50:15):
for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the nineteen seventy's, a giant
home run hitter for the Pirates. We are family, all right,
Brooklyn Dodger Catcher was in a car accident, was paralyzed.
No alight, thirty points, thirty points.
Speaker 4 (50:33):
Mookie Betts was who he wanted. And Terrell Davis not
Terrell Smith.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Willie Stargell was Pops.
Speaker 6 (50:40):
And Roy Campanella all right, Jed, we have regulate. These
athletes are all from Long Beach, California.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
I'm sure Jed's familiar with Long Beach.
Speaker 6 (50:50):
For the LBC forty five seconds on the clock, let's begin.
This guy was the triple double guy. He started his
career with Oklahoma City. Yes, uh butt fumble quarterback for
the Jets. Yes, mister Padre best Padre ever. This guy
is a forty two year old tight end who's still
(51:11):
in the league. He started with the Jaguars out of u. C.
Speaker 4 (51:17):
L A.
Speaker 6 (51:20):
Yes, uh, this guy was a linebacker for the Patriots
and the Tom Brady era.
Speaker 4 (51:24):
He beat somebody up in a nightclub.
Speaker 6 (51:28):
Nope, nope, all right, the female tennis player, she had
square glasses.
Speaker 4 (51:34):
She's a lesbian. No billy.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Jeane King was all right, great, we need seven, we
need over seven. Grant you want and you don't stop
or game, don't wait wait, okay. These athletes did not
bother playing in college. It didn't matter. Are you ready
forty five seconds? Run away and go? Uh. The star
for the Lakers out of Akron, Ohio. He played with
(52:03):
the Cavaliers in the Heat. All right, yes, what an
MVP with Orlando. He was a center, not Shaquille O'Neill,
though out of Georgia, played high school ball in Georgia.
Played with the Yes, that is correct. He was a
number two pick by the Chicago Bulls. Out of southern California.
He was a center. Played in the early two thousands
(52:25):
with Chicago.
Speaker 4 (52:28):
All right, uh, we're out of time.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
We want, we want.
Speaker 3 (52:33):
Congratulations, grant. Maybe you'll learn milkie bets. Maybe you'll learn
about milky betts. Let's tip all right, milky bets
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