November 20, 2025 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about Jalen Hurts saying that he'll never run away from holding himself accountable, the Saints releasing WR Brandin Cooks and where he should head next, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and much more!
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lead this hour. Don't bury the lead, my man. All right,
We're not gonna bury the lead. So our lead this
hour from Philadelphia are ongoing coverage as we have a
follow up to the follow up to the follow up.
As the birds sitting at the very top there their nest,
the bird nest the very top of the NFC either
tied with the Rams, but they won the tiebreaker because
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the Rams special team sucked and had a kick block
that would have won the game. But not all is
right in the Delaware Valley. No, no, no, no, no.
We've been talking about the Eagle players who have been
whispering in hushed tones, whispering in hushed tones to medium
members in Philadelphia frustrated. Who are they frustrated with Jalen Hurts? OMG,
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they're upset with Jalen Hurts and his approach this season now,
specifically when it comes to his hesitancy to throw the
ball into U. I don't know, tight windows, they say,
when you could be picked off right, it's not a
no risk situation for the quarterback and he's tried to
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avoid that. Now, Hurts address this. I don't know if
you heard what he had to say or not. Maybe not.
I believe we have some audio here. So Eagles quarterback
Jalen Hurts said he was not startled by the many
reports that are bouncing around the echo chamber. People frustrated
inside the organization on with his play. The finger being
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pointed at him, A number of fingers being pointed at
Jalen Hurts for what he's been doing here and well
he's used the a word accountability. Let's go to the
audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I guess I get a lot of attention when things
are going well and when things are not going so well,
and so I never run away from holding myself accountable.
And I think, you know, I think that's exactly what
I've taken the approach of doing.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, so I never run away from holding myself accountable.
I think exactly what I've taken that approach of doing
and all that. All right, So that is a good
jumping off point. Let's get into this right now. The
question Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts as you just Hurt says
he never runs away from holding himself accountable. How do
you interpret the meaning of this? Is it straightforward? Is
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there some nuance to it? So on this one, I've
got Ruth, Chris steakhouse, wooden palettes, and gymnastics, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to have some delicious, delicious banana cream pie. The
king of the pie is the banana cream pie. So A,
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there's really no need for us to sit here and
just blab blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah,
and give you all kinds of fluff. We cut through
the fluff. We actually have a machete. We cut through
the fluff. It's a fluff cutting machete and we use
that every night. So Jalen Hurts did not actually accept accountability. Well,
we shuid it. What are you talking about? He shut it?
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Oh shut up, Okay, here's what he did. He said,
I'll never run away from it. But really, yeah, it's
really I know I'm at fall, and the key part
is I'm not changing. I did not get the sense
from watching the Jalen Hurts news conference that he has
any intention of doing anything differently. And that's how the
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Mallor Rosetta Stone ruled. When we listened to what he
had to say. This is the modern day quarterback news conference.
What do you do with these things? Right? You do
some news conference? Jiu jitsu is what you do. You
say accountability, and if you say it, certain percentage of
people don't pay attention. Oh he said it, he said accountability.
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But you say that, but you do stubbornness. Okay, you
do stubborness. Meanwhile, the Eagles offense, despite that great record,
they are circling the drain. They're twenty fifth overall on offense.
That's not good. Oh, you're being too critical. Twenty eight
been passing. I think that sucks. Oh why'd you say that?
That's why you're doing overnights twenty ninth in terms of
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third down play, which is not great either. Last year
behind Sakwan Barkley, they were bulldozing people one hundred and
seventy nine yards rushing per game. I believe last season ridiculous.
This year it's like a buck fifteen or something like that.
That's not a dip, that is a sixty four foot
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plunge off the Ben Franklin Bridge. All right, and then
and the locker room knows it, and the Eagle, the
people around the Eagle are claiming that, hey, listen, they
got the game plan. Jalen Hurts is using the I
word ignorance in terms of the game plan there. He
will not throw into the tight windows against the zone,
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and you know he plays he essentially the translation is
he doesn't want to risk anything at all, Like you know,
he's the guy that will buy stock and if it
goes down, he keeps it. He just it's a long
term strategy. Here, and this all started a couple of
years back in twenty twenty three through a bunch of interceptions.
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He got buried for it. Jalen Hurts is that what
are you doing? You're turning the ball over too much.
And so he' say, okay, I'm going to get ripped
for that. So I'm going to now go into my
safe space. And he the last seven hundred and twenty
one pass attempts since that fateful twenty twenty three season,
he has seven interceptions. He's playing safe. He's being very
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conservative with the football. The Eagles winning. Yes, they're being
very successful on the field. It's also uninspiring, right, they're spending.
Here's the issue. If Jalen Hurts was being paid a
pedestrian amount of money and they didn't go out and
fill out the roster, it would be fine. But they're
paying him as a franchise quarterback. He's a checkdown merchant,
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is what he is, Charlie. Checkdown is what they're getting.
They're paying him for a franchise quarterback. They're not getting that.
It's kind of like going to Ruth Chris steakhouse and
they have all those delicious steaks and all that and
you're like, you know what I want to order. The
I would like to order the lettuce wedge is what
I would like? Well, no, no, it's a steak. Well no,
it's on the menu though it says lettuce which I
know it's on the menu, but you should get a steak.
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But I don't want a steak. I want the lettuce witch.
When nobody orders the lettuce witch, we don't even know
why it's on the menu. You're the first person ever
to order that. It's fine, that's what I want, Okay whatever,
So technically reads a meal, but it's like kind of
a waste, right, It's like, you know you're not there
for that. And you got aj Browne prime years of
his career. He's the only one that's been vocal and
spoken on the record put their name on it. Davonte
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Smith is also another guy who might as well trade him.
You don't need him. If you're just gonna check down,
you're wasting the entire buffet of playmakers. And you've got
this big offensive line and all that. And so the
Eagles they're winning winning, You know what they remind me
of they used to be. I'm gonna talk hockey here, much.
The New Jersey Devils, believe it or not, years ago,
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won a bunch of Stanley Cups. They had a really
good run and they were contenders every year, and they
were so boring. They were so boring boring winners is
what they were. And kind of like the San Antonio
Spurs when they won. They were boring in basketball. So
you're doing that, you're winning, and you're paying a luxury
rate for your roster, and you've just dumbed down everything.
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You've dumbed down everything. And so they've got a team
that plays football like they're trying not to wake up
a baby. There's a baby sleeping off to the site.
They don't want to wake up the baby. And Jalen Hurts,
he says he'll never run from accountability, which is fine.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Men.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Jalen Hurts has been a great SoundBite in terms of cliches.
And remember when he first came on the scene against
the Cowboys and they played terribly the Eagles against Dallas
in Dallas, and yeah, he gave us that great quote
when you drop a deuce, you don't stop and stare
at it, You flush it and move on, which is
still one of my favorite Jalen Hurds quotes, but here's
the deal. Just to be clear, for those of you
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that are late, like a Dallas Cowboy receiver, you're a
little late there in the back of the room. So
Jalen Hurts admits that he's the problem. He's not running
from it. He just won't solve it. So that's the
Philly paradox is what it is. And as long as
they win, you can't say anything. Everything is good. Blah
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blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. All right. Meanwhile,
to Arizona we go, where another coach on the hot seat,
Jonathan Gannon. Jonathan Gann, the Cardinals head coach, was questioned
about his job status. The Cardinals off to the typical
three and seven start, and they now have they benched
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their starting corp back. They made some fake injury up
for him, a little fella the garden home their alligator
arms Murray, so Gannon on the hot seat. He was
asked about this. He dismissed it. Of course, I'm great.
If he said yeah, they should probably fire my ass,
I suck. He didn't say that, he said he would
he wouldn't pay attention to it. He said, it's not controllable.
He said, quote, I didn't hire myself. I'm not going
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to fire myself. Well, okay, that's the quote. Question what
are the chances? What are the chances that coach Jonathan
Gannon is Jonathan Gannon and he's out? What are the
chances he avoids the pinxil Let's look at that way?
So what are the chances he actually stays in Arizona?
So the mallard of sports book odds, which is never
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wrong because they're the maler of sports book gods, the
chances that Jonathan Gannon remained with the Cardinals of the
football variety is plus two thousand. Now, that implies, based
on the math, the mal of math about five percent,
give or take about five percent. So you'd be better
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off wandering through the deserts of Arizona with no water
in July late July and just thinking, well, maybe I'll
stumble on some water somewhere. You know, you got better
odds of that happening. He's got a three forty one
winning percentage in Arizona and barreling towards his third straight
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losing season. There. Cliff Kingsbury, who wasn't very good either
he was. He was the guy that gave the player's
cell phone breaks during practice and the orange slices and
all that. He got run out of town. He had
one bad year, and this guy, Jonathan Gannon is stacking
up bad performances like wooden palletts in a warehouse, and
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the whole reason that you hire a guy like that.
He was a defensive coach. He was with the Philadelphia Eagles,
and he's okay, he's going to fix the defense. They're
going to fix the defense. Okay, so let's see how
that's going. He's been there three years. First year thirty
second in the NFL. Second year twenty seventh, and now
they're twenty fifth in the NFL. So if you do
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the math on that, you give another ten years, they'll
have the number one defense in the NFL. Not exactly
fixing things, it's kind of like you have a problem
with termites and you're like, let me hire the exterminator,
and the exterminator comes over and seals the house off
and fumigates the house with the family still in the house.
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That's essentially what's going going on here. And the bid Wells,
the family that owns that team they're getting closer to
finally getting rid of alligator arms Murray. And once they
dump his little tush, they might as well just dump
the coach as well. Get a fresh start and reboot
the whole thing, right, reboot the whole thing, and get
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a new quarterback and a new coach, and get a
new sofa, get a new television, all that stuff, all right,
and now this is what they do. This is amazing
fun factor. So no Cardinals coach has lasted six seasons
since they became the Cardinals when they well the Arizona
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or they were the Phoenix Cardinals for a while when
they moved from Saint Louis in nineteen eighty eight. Nineteen
eighty eight. That's been a minute. So this franchise treats
stability like it's contagious. They also can't seem to hire
a good coach to save their life, maybe once every generation.
And johnthan Gannon is a again defensive guy coaching a
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bad defense and it's like hiring a chef or in
this case, a baker, and the baker comes in he said, well,
I really, you know, I love My favorite thing is toast.
I love perfectly made toast. And the baker says, well,
I I make toast all the time. That's it's not
really a baked that cookies. I make toast. I'll make
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toast for you, sure, And he said, well, who do
you make toast for? I want to make toast for
Jim Nantz. I like burnt toast, and he likes burnt toast,
and I don't like burnt toast. But anyway, so again
it's a dead man walking in the valley of the sun.
Now the last word here we go now to Mowtown.
The Detroit football team hosting the New York NFC football
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team that would be the Giants this weekend. Not a
game that has a lot of juice to it. Not
a game that has a lot of juice to it.
And some interesting comments by Dan Campbell, the coach of
your Detroit Lions. Question, how do you process? Lions coach
Dan Campbell praising the Giants quote fresh energy? Fresh energy
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was the quote under interim coach Mike Kofka. So on
this one, Dan Campbell suddenly turning into the meathead Lou
Holtz on this SoundBite, just buttering the popcorn of the opponent. Here. Now,
the term that predates Lou Holtz is called poor mouthing.
You can look it up. I'm not making that up.
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Poor mouthing one oh one, and he's taking that fresh
energy fresh energy under Mike Kafka, like the Giants somehow
just discovered fire and the wheel and just wonderful. It's like,
give me a break. It's the oldest move in the
coaching world. You're a double digit favorite, you being the
Detroit Lions. What are you gonna do? You inflate the
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other guy. You turn them into the Jimmy Johnson, Troy Aikman,
Michael Irvin, emmittt Smith Cowboys back in the day. And
you're like, well, my team's not gonna get get caught
flat footage, sleepwalking all that, and Campbell he sees the odds.
This is a trap game situation. You're not getting up
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for it. The Lions have a Thanksgiving game next week,
as they always play on Thanksgiving, and so this is
a game you kind of get through and then the
whole world's watching next week and you see the standings
and so it's mental gymnastics, is what it is. It's
mental gymnastics now. The fresh energy thing, that's that's what
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they say when a team fires the coach and still blows.
There she blows. It's a red bull energy. The Giants
win three or four games a year. They don't beat anybody.
Let's not rewrite the Bible over here. Dan Campbell knows
what this is. He's just planting some insurance, is what
he's doing. If Detroit goes out and wins the game
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in a dominating fashion, which according to the pointspread, they're
supposed to be doing if they win this game, big big, big,
big big big, big, big big big. Then he said, well, yeah, hey,
we respected him. We showed up to play. And now
if they don't, if they don't win big, well we warned,
we warned. Guys. You know this is fresh energy. Now
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the Lions actually lose this somehow, you might have to
cancel the Thanksgiving game in Detroit and pull the Ford
Field fire alarm. You might have to do that, and
then Dan Campbell's knee biting card will be taken away.
No more knee biting for you. So there's that.
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Our lead this hour from the high speed sports wires.
My old mentor in San Diego used to say, as
we try not to throw a wobbler, so we head
to the buy you as the transaction wire heating up.
If you did not hear about this, perhaps not well
if you missed it. The New Orleans Saints have fired
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wide receiver Brandon Cooks. He will become a free agent,
assuming he is not claimed on waivers. I don't know
why anyone would claim him, as his career is in
ashes at this point, Cooks asked to be fired. And
the team that made the paper bag famous, the team
that's now back to the Aints. They're Innaulvence. And now,
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if you dig a little deeper, Cooks had a bunch
of incentives in his contract for things like receptions and
touchdowns and playing time and receiving yards. Would you like
to take a guess how many of those incentives he
reached this year? Yeah? None, none. That is a body blow,
body blow, body blow. He finished his time in New
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Orleans his second run with the Saints with nineteen catches
for one hundred and sixty five yards and as many
touchdowns as you and I scored none. All right, so
that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
this is post trade deadline. This is a player that
the Saints tried to trade nobody wanted. So the question
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does former Saints wide receiver Brandon Cooks budge the needle
at all? Does he budge the needle at all? My
observations on this. I've got Alan Wrench, Elmer's brand ambassador,
and The Big Lebowski, a classic movie, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we are going
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to hire an exterminator to kill the gremlins, is what
we're going to do, all right. Rap punch right to
the gut, right to the gut is what we're gonna do,
all right. So number wh I said number? Why? Yes?
All right? So I would say it's not a zero.
The needle moves a smidge, just a smidge. This is
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not clearly Puka Nakua. It's not Justin Jefferson or Jamar
Chase spitting a loogie in your face. This is a
depth piece, that's all. This is He's a receiver that is.
I don't even know how serviceable he is. You put
him in the huddle, he won't hurt you. He's obviously
not the focal point Brandon Cooks of anyone's offense at
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this point. You know what he is. He's like an
Alan wrench. You know everyone's got that junk drawer. He's
the Allen wrench in the junk drawer. You keep it
around because you might need it. It could be useful,
but you're not building the house with it. You know
what I'm saying. Cooks might be the Johnny Cash of
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the NFL because he has been everywhere. Man, He's traveled
every road in this year football land he has. He
started with the Saints, went to the Patriots, was traded
again to the Rams, Texans, Cowboys. Now he's gone back
to the New Orleans Saints and he's on the market again.
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So that's one, two, three, four, five, five teams. He's
thirty two years old. He just turned thirty two, not
that long ago. He's got more luggage tags than Delta
Airlines has available. And this dude has been traded so
many times. Imagine the Marriotte points, because when you change
teams during the year. He's done that a couple of times.
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You end up living in a hotel most of the time.
And so this production of Cooks at one point very productive.
That's what teams wanted him. And he has been fading
like the sun off in the horizon there, fading down,
and you're not getting the twenty seventeen vintage of Brandon Cooks.
That model has been discontinued. Yards per target down. At
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the very peak, which was actually twenty sixteen, he averaged
nine point three yards. Now he's in the mid sixes
this season. His legs not young, not young, over one
thousand snaps a year. Eventually, the mileage, it affects the
injured quality of the engine. And so what you're signing
is a high end number three receiver, wink wink, a
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situational number two receiver, possibly in the red zone. Own
you can get something out of him. Occasionally he'll go
into the hot tub time machine Brandon Cooks, and he'll
burn one down the sidelines. But Cooks does not change
the trajectory of your season. He does not. He's there
for depth. He's a nice player. You could talk about
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what he used to be. He doesn't move the needle,
just a little smidge. That's it now, page two, that say,
we all know one of the great things about life.
One man's trash is another man's treasure. If you don't
believe that, go to like a good Will store or
any of the any of the stores where they sell
you know what, one of my friends, you say, dead
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people's stuff. You know, people that die and they donate
their stuff when they're gone, and people run to buy
that stuff at thrift shops and all that. So again,
one man's trash, another man's treasure. So we know that
this is not a dynamic playmaker at this point, but
he's going to continue to hammer away. And clearly he
made the decision that there's somebody that wants You don't
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ask to be fired from the job that you have
if you have nothing else out there that would be
that would be ridiculous. So the question I have now
deputized you as the career counselor for the ballplayer. Okay,
so the question where should wide receiver Brandon Cooks take
his talents, the wandering white out and that big suitcase
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to finish the season and most likely his career. So
after eight minutes long deliberation. Of the available options, there
are two primetime landing spots and sleeper team. Sleeper Team,
Sleeper Team. Now at the very top. This is not
a list for Terry and England. This is not a list.
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It's Big Ben's Big board, which is nothing like a list.
It's Big Ben's big board. And the first up here.
Here we go, Buffalo, Here we go, Buffalo. Josh Allen
the Bazooka arm An MVP season a year ago. What's
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not to like? And the Bills don't have much at
the wide receiver position. There's some reports out here that
Keon Coleman, who was benched for malfeasance last week, is
going to be benched again for the game coming up
here on Thursday night in Houston. So Keon Coleman's in
the doghouse. He's in the very back of the doghouse.
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Heck he's He's not in the back of the doghouse.
He's in the basement of the dog house. Oh, they
don't have a basement of the doghouse. Well, yes they do.
Now He's in the basement of the doghouse. So they
need help there, and that would be a smart football fit.
In theory, Josh Allen the deep ball, and every once
in a while you could get a throwback highlight from
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Brandon Cooks maybe once a game or one and a
half times on average per game. Now if not Western
New York, do I hear Kansas City? You can go
there and Andy read and loves a good lottery ticket
and Brandon Coosk can enjoy the Ben Mallard chicken fingers
at the landing and Liberty Missouri delicious food. Rashie Rice
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is the man. He's the man. Although they didn't throw
to a much in the second half of the game
against Denver, but Rashie Rice, that's it, that's all. They
certainly could use another grown up in the room there
at the wide receiver position, a savvy veteran who knows
how to line up and can run, run the route
or root and uh and not be worried about social media.
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And hey Cooks playing with Mahomes every once in a while,
why not give it a shot, right, Mahomes likes throwing
to old dudes. He throws to Kelsey all the time. Now,
the sleeper team, sleeper team, the Insers, Petsburg. Don't don't laugh,
do not know, don't laugh. Mike Tomlin has a PhD
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in veteran rehab. He does, and he loves football guys.
I love my football guys. Oh yeah, absolute the tape war,
his lunch pale grinders and all that. So Aaron Rodgers
at this point needs all the help he can get.
Don't have that much to get the DK Metcalf obviously,
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he's great, great player. There's not much else there. Now
we realize in a league that is absolutely obsessed, completely
obsessed with youngness, right, you know you want youth, it's
it's forty times, it's are you under the age of
twenty five? A guy like Brandon Cooks Still, there's still
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a place for a guy like that, even though he's
running on fumes at this point. Brandon Cooks is an
Elmer's Glue brand adbassador. He's a glue guy, glue guy,
glue guy. Yep. He's a good guy, which means he's
not that good anymore, but used to be good and
has some redeeming qualities that makes you a glue guy.
He's a glue guy. He's not good again, not get
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you inter season. He won't ruin it, and there's a
chance he actually is value added. It's kind of like
Cooks think of him like if he was a phone,
he would be an iPhone, but he'd be like an
iPhone seven. Now, nobody needs an iPhone seven. Not exciting.
It still works, you know he need it. You know
(29:21):
you want the newest one. But it's okay. You know
it still works and all the apps work for the
most part, and all that and nothing to really complain about.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Now, final point, we go to the land Cleveland to
be exactly where Shauldur Sanders announced. I know you're very
concerned about the new quarterback there in Cleveland. Should announced
that he is excited. He's excited to make his first
career start for the Brownies versus the Raiders. He said, quote,
(29:52):
I'm just excited for everything. I feel like I'm the guy.
I know, I'm the guy Shoulder is saying, and said
that's the money quote the spawn of Dion. He's going
to fill in for the concussed Dylan Gabriel who is
currently well, he's taking some advill he's got a migraine
(30:14):
headache from the concussion protocol and all that. So the
question on this one Shader Sanders saying that he feels
like he's the guy for the Browns. Are you okay
with this? Are you okay with?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
So?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
This is on brand and as a struggling overnight gas bag.
Struggling overnight gas bag would not have it any other way.
The thing that I am most impressed with from paying
attention to the story around Shuldhar Sanders is how powerful
(30:47):
the Dion Caucus is in the NFL. Now we knew
Dion was a star back in the day, in the
eighties and the nineties and all that, it's been a minute.
The amount of influence that Dion Sanders has from all
the media jobs and all his buddies, his ex players
that are all doing meathead podcasts and all. I mean,
it's wild. I think this is the people talk about
(31:08):
the most most powerful political party, well, Democrats, Republican number three,
the Dion Caucus, my goodness, prime time politics. Really it's wild.
But as far as sure, this is showmanship, it's arrogance,
it's bravado. It's a modern day Big Lebowski, one of
the great movies. It's an old movie, but I highly
(31:31):
recommend it. And in this case, you've got Sadr Sanders
who's announcing to you and to me and the world.
He says, hey, listen, I'm the dude or his dudinus
or el duderino. And if you're not into the whole
brevity thing and all that stuff, but he's got swagger.
Well you know, hopefully he has his own advil as well,
(31:52):
because life hits you fast in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
And good luck. You're not going to get a parade here, Beau,
because your dad was a great player in a different
generation of the NFL. And we'll see how Shooter does.
Hard to imagine he'll be any worse than he was
in the opening performance there. But the test will be
when it's third down at eight and you've got Max
(32:15):
Crosby chasing you down like a junkyard dog. What are
you gonna do? What are you gonna do? So the Raiders, though,
if you think of this like a restaurant, I've had
a few friends of mine over the years that have
gotten into restaurants and they always say, well, you open
the restaurant, a million things that can go wrong. You
always have to have a soft launch before you have
(32:37):
the official official launch. And soft launch is normally friends
and family, friends and family, and you know, maybe somebody
will come in and just happen to be there and
look at your restaurant, and you want everyone in the
kitchen to know what they're doing and everything like that,
and you want to have just a small crowd, not
too busy. And in the NFL, if you're a quarterback,
you want to start against the Raiders because that defense
(32:57):
is cotton candy other than Mac Crosby cotton candy. We
like cotton candy, but you don't really need functioning teeth
to eat cotton candy. And as cam Ward would say,
total ass, total ass. So as for Shoulder say, it's
the Browns are praying that they get the razzle dazzle
and not just the frazzle. They want that razzle dazzle.
(33:19):
The damage control. I go back to the Dion caucus.
With circle back to the Dion Caucus. It's happened. Anyone
and everyone who has Dion's phone number has magically blamed,
among other things, the offensive line, the play calling, the weather,
the lack of practice reps. I believe mercury being in
(33:44):
retrograde has also been blamed. We'll having to check with
our astrology insider. Some kind of cosmic event in the
Farmer's Almanac and essentially anything but Shader. He is not
culpable at all. He gets a full pardon from the
Dion Caccas. And you can tell who exactly is in
Dion's DMS, who's getting text messages from Dion based on
(34:06):
how loud they are capping for his kid. It's wild.
No shame, no shame that. There was a point, you know,
I got again, I'm getting old. But there was a
point where people would never take part in that because
it was so embarrassing. Now they're lining up to wear
knee pads with Dion's logo on it to support the kid.
(34:30):
It's wild. We got generation after generation of excuses and
all of that, of course, is prologue. And if you
say you're the guy, if you say that, then you
go out and be the guy. You know, do I
expect him to play well? No, although, boy, the Raiders
are so they're so bad, uh, I mean, the NFL
(34:52):
generally does expose the fraudsters, the con artists right faster
than Dion's dad can sen out a message saying here
are the talking points for you on television, Here are
the talking points for you, you insider, A woman who
just repeats whatever I tell you, that kind of thing,
because I'm the Big Khuda, the Big Khuda.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
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Speaker 1 (35:21):
It's Mallard. How about that? To the third degree? This
is one big bent gets grilled. All right, here we
go cool.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
I was reported on Tuesday that Aaron Rodgers will not
need surgery on his left wrist, and he's reportedly pushing
to play this week. He's spoke to the media said
it's more of a safety issue than a pain tolerance issue.
But do you think the stealers should let him play
against the Bears?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yes, yes, you only get seventeen games. If he's medically
cleared the play, he should play. I don't see what
the issue is. That's a winnable game, that's a toss
up game. The Bears have a good record. They've been
winning with as Tree in Chicago and yourphemeio in weird ways.
But yeah, if he's able to go, and he's medically cleared,
there's no reason not to play him. I'd put him
(36:07):
out there next.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
There's apparently chatter in some circles that the Vikings will
explore trading for Mac Jones this upcoming offseason. Do you
think Jones is a good insurance policy for JJ McCarthy, He.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Is an insurance policy. I do not know that I
would use the word good. I do not know that
I would use the word good in that there are
some advantages to mac Jones. He has cooled off though,
right for a couple of weeks it looked like Bob
this guy's great, not so much anymore with the forty
nine ers, and now brock Perty's obviously back in the
(36:38):
picture and all that stuff. But you know, I don't
think there's gonna be a beating war for mac Jones.
Speaker 6 (36:43):
How about that next well, Like Fatherlike Son, apparently as
a bad season for the Buffaloes wraps up, Dean Sanders
addressed the media and assured everyone that Colorado has the
right man for the job. He is the guy. Do
they have the right man?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Ben? It would be more fun if Deon said, you know,
I am not the right for the job. I am not,
and I'm in the cockpit on the vomit comment. It
is not going well. But Dion, it just looks like
he's he's one of those, not the vomit comment, but
like he's a comed He burned brightly for a little bit,
quickly gone. That's it like or like a rainbow kind
of fading off in the distance there. I love the
(37:18):
Deon story, but man, does he look like he doesn't
know what he's doing this year. We'll give another year,
but it's not looking good.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
How we know you passed?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
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Speaker 1 (37:27):
I passed it? Yeah?
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Speaker 6 (38:02):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from Femi.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Hey, Fammi, I met him. Good dude, Femi. And one
of the great photos. Remember that photo, Coop when he
went back to his home country and he took the
photo with a yid.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
Yes, I do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I love that photo so good.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
He wants to know, have you ever found money on
the street or floor, and if so, what's the highest
amount that you have found?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Yes? Uh, Dodger Stadium twenty dollars bill. Uh there no, Now,
there was one time in Vegas. I was in the
sports book at where was it? I forget the name
of the casino, I forget which one one of the
newer ones in the middle of the strip, and there
was like a wad of one hundred dollar bills. I
didn't take it. And the reason I didn't take it
(38:45):
there were cameras everywhere, and I had a feeling like
if I took that, I could have been in some trouble.
You know, it was so much money. I didn't take it.
I did think about taking it. What about you, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
I know when I was little, I found one hundred
dollars bill in a kmart that I definitely kept. But
Reese once again, in Vegas, my friend went into a
bathroom stall and inside of an old like not a
tampon rapper, but a pad rapper, there was hundreds of
dollars behind a toilet stuck wrapped in.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
On a great way to hide toilet paper. Yah, know
I's going to touch that, right, Yeah, Yeah, that's good. Yeah,
it was the Ario. It was at the Ario Sports
Book in Vegas. I found a big water money. I
didn't take it, so cool.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
I think the most like you. I think the most
I found is twenty bucks.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, it'd be nice to find a big wad of
money that we could just take. All right, what's next?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Here?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
What is next? It's ask ben? Your questions are answer?
All right.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I've seen this question from a lot of people, but
the one I'm looking at right now is from Georgia Boy.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Uh, Georgia Boy.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
They want to know, do you host Thanksgiving or do
you visit others?
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yeah? So Thanksgiving is kind of we usually do like
stuff around the end of year, Christmas and stuff. Thanksgiving,
I usually work. My mom would always host it. She's
been gone for a while, so really sometimes I go
to a family. This year, we're not really doing anything.
It's gotten working watching games all day. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Yeah, I've never hosted. I'm usually a guest.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Yeah, I've hosted before. It's a pantoy asked what about you, coop? Uh.
Speaker 6 (40:12):
I think I've hosted maybe one time and then that's it.
I just I prefer going to my mom's.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah, you might as well take advantage of mom. Yeah, yeah,
enjoy that. All right, what's next year?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
What do we have?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
It's ask man. Your questions are answers, Rob the goat man,
hot goat man.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
He wants to know where was the worst public toilet
you have ever used or didn't?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Well? I think I destroyed the public toilet. The worst
the one I was at. You're going to add my
gallbladder issue a few years back. I was walking around
during COVID and it was it was a hot mess,
but the worst one I've been in probably in Jersey
I was driving. Those are legendarily bad. I mean I've
been in some really bad ones. I had the one
(40:55):
New Jersey stands out. What about you Lorena here at
Fox Sports? Really bathroom? Yep, that's my answer to it's
really I can't.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Even use it.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
I'm telling you I will get You're in all.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Over my own You have your own bathroom, which.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
Is why I have my own bathroom.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
Yes, there's like three women that doesn't that doesn't and
they have their own bathroom, mean that the bathroom isn't
discussing still on the other side.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I got you, all right, what coop? You agree with? Marine? Okay,
what's next here? What do we have? It's ask ben.
Your questions are answers.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
All right, fird dog wants to know I Fergie. When
given the option of super salad, what do you pick?
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Well, obviously soup. I never go salad. It tends on
the soup. Though there's only like four soups I like,
but soup, what about you, Lorena?
Speaker 7 (41:38):
I usually go salad, and I hope the other person
next to me get soup in the haslem of theirs.
Speaker 6 (41:42):
No, that's a answer.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah, I like that. You go soup, you go chicken soup,
you go you know the French onion? Yeah, I want
of those soups things. All right, there there is We
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Later on, we'll have Mallard of the third degree that'll
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So all that coming away throughout the overnet. But our
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lead this hour. Don't bury the lead, my man. All right,
We're not gonna bury the lead. So our lead this
hour from Philadelphia are ongoing coverage as we have a
follow up to the follow up to the follow up.
As the birds sitting at the very top there their nest,
the bird nest the very top of the NFC either
tied with the Rams, but they won the tiebreaker because
(02:48):
the Rams special team sucked and had a kick block
that would have won the game. But not all is
right in the Delaware Valley. No, no, no, no, no.
We've been talking about the Eagle players who have been
whispering in hushed tones, whispering in hushed tones to medium
members in Philadelphia frustrated. Who are they frustrated with Jalen Hurts? OMG,
(03:14):
they're upset with Jalen Hurts and his approach this season now,
specifically when it comes to his hesitancy to throw the
ball into U. I don't know, tight windows, they say,
when you could be picked off right, it's not a
no risk situation for the quarterback and he's tried to
(03:35):
avoid that. Now, Hurts address this. I don't know if
you heard what he had to say or not. Maybe not.
I believe we have some audio here. So Eagles quarterback
Jalen Hurts said he was not startled by the many
reports that are bouncing around the echo chamber. People frustrated
inside the organization on with his play. The finger being
(03:57):
pointed at him, A number of fingers being pointed at
Jalen Hurts for what he's been doing here and well
he's used the a word accountability. Let's go to the
audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I guess I get a lot of attention when things
are going well and when things are not going so well,
and so I never run away from holding myself accountable.
And I think, you know, I think that's exactly what
I've taken the approach of doing.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, so I never run away from holding myself accountable.
I think exactly what I've taken that approach of doing
and all that. All right, So that is a good
jumping off point. Let's get into this right now. The
question Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts as you just Hurt says
he never runs away from holding himself accountable. How do
you interpret the meaning of this? Is it straightforward? Is
(04:44):
there some nuance to it? So on this one, I've
got Ruth, Chris steakhouse, wooden palettes, and gymnastics, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to have some delicious, delicious banana cream pie. The
king of the pie is the banana cream pie. So A,
(05:06):
there's really no need for us to sit here and
just blab blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah,
and give you all kinds of fluff. We cut through
the fluff. We actually have a machete. We cut through
the fluff. It's a fluff cutting machete and we use
that every night. So Jalen Hurts did not actually accept accountability. Well,
we shuid it. What are you talking about? He shut it?
(05:29):
Oh shut up, Okay, here's what he did. He said,
I'll never run away from it. But really, yeah, it's
really I know I'm at fall, and the key part
is I'm not changing. I did not get the sense
from watching the Jalen Hurts news conference that he has
any intention of doing anything differently. And that's how the
(05:49):
Mallor Rosetta Stone ruled. When we listened to what he
had to say. This is the modern day quarterback news conference.
What do you do with these things? Right? You do
some news conference? Jiu jitsu is what you do. You
say accountability, and if you say it, certain percentage of
people don't pay attention. Oh he said it, he said accountability.
(06:11):
But you say that, but you do stubbornness. Okay, you
do stubborness. Meanwhile, the Eagles offense, despite that great record,
they are circling the drain. They're twenty fifth overall on offense.
That's not good. Oh, you're being too critical. Twenty eight
been passing. I think that sucks. Oh why'd you say that?
That's why you're doing overnights twenty ninth in terms of
(06:32):
third down play, which is not great either. Last year
behind Sakwan Barkley, they were bulldozing people one hundred and
seventy nine yards rushing per game. I believe last season ridiculous.
This year it's like a buck fifteen or something like that.
That's not a dip, that is a sixty four foot
(06:53):
plunge off the Ben Franklin Bridge. All right, and then
and the locker room knows it, and the Eagle, the
people around the Eagle are claiming that, hey, listen, they
got the game plan. Jalen Hurts is using the I
word ignorance in terms of the game plan there. He
will not throw into the tight windows against the zone,
(07:15):
and you know he plays he essentially the translation is
he doesn't want to risk anything at all, Like you know,
he's the guy that will buy stock and if it
goes down, he keeps it. He just it's a long
term strategy. Here, and this all started a couple of
years back in twenty twenty three through a bunch of interceptions.
(07:37):
He got buried for it. Jalen Hurts is that what
are you doing? You're turning the ball over too much.
And so he' say, okay, I'm going to get ripped
for that. So I'm going to now go into my
safe space. And he the last seven hundred and twenty
one pass attempts since that fateful twenty twenty three season,
he has seven interceptions. He's playing safe. He's being very
(07:57):
conservative with the football. The Eagles winning. Yes, they're being
very successful on the field. It's also uninspiring, right, they're spending.
Here's the issue. If Jalen Hurts was being paid a
pedestrian amount of money and they didn't go out and
fill out the roster, it would be fine. But they're
paying him as a franchise quarterback. He's a checkdown merchant,
(08:21):
is what he is, Charlie. Checkdown is what they're getting.
They're paying him for a franchise quarterback. They're not getting that.
It's kind of like going to Ruth Chris steakhouse and
they have all those delicious steaks and all that and
you're like, you know what I want to order. The
I would like to order the lettuce wedge is what
I would like? Well, no, no, it's a steak. Well no,
it's on the menu though it says lettuce which I
know it's on the menu, but you should get a steak.
(08:44):
But I don't want a steak. I want the lettuce witch.
When nobody orders the lettuce witch, we don't even know
why it's on the menu. You're the first person ever
to order that. It's fine, that's what I want, Okay whatever,
So technically reads a meal, but it's like kind of
a waste, right, It's like, you know you're not there
for that. And you got aj Browne prime years of
his career. He's the only one that's been vocal and
spoken on the record put their name on it. Davonte
(09:07):
Smith is also another guy who might as well trade him.
You don't need him. If you're just gonna check down,
you're wasting the entire buffet of playmakers. And you've got
this big offensive line and all that. And so the
Eagles they're winning winning, You know what they remind me
of they used to be. I'm gonna talk hockey here, much.
The New Jersey Devils, believe it or not, years ago,
(09:29):
won a bunch of Stanley Cups. They had a really
good run and they were contenders every year, and they
were so boring. They were so boring boring winners is
what they were. And kind of like the San Antonio
Spurs when they won. They were boring in basketball. So
you're doing that, you're winning, and you're paying a luxury
rate for your roster, and you've just dumbed down everything.
(09:52):
You've dumbed down everything. And so they've got a team
that plays football like they're trying not to wake up
a baby. There's a baby sleeping off to the site.
They don't want to wake up the baby. And Jalen Hurts,
he says he'll never run from accountability, which is fine.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Men.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Jalen Hurts has been a great SoundBite in terms of cliches.
And remember when he first came on the scene against
the Cowboys and they played terribly the Eagles against Dallas
in Dallas, and yeah, he gave us that great quote
when you drop a deuce, you don't stop and stare
at it, You flush it and move on, which is
still one of my favorite Jalen Hurds quotes, but here's
the deal. Just to be clear, for those of you
(10:28):
that are late, like a Dallas Cowboy receiver, you're a
little late there in the back of the room. So
Jalen Hurts admits that he's the problem. He's not running
from it. He just won't solve it. So that's the
Philly paradox is what it is. And as long as
they win, you can't say anything. Everything is good. Blah
(10:49):
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. All right. Meanwhile,
to Arizona we go, where another coach on the hot seat,
Jonathan Gannon. Jonathan Gann, the Cardinals head coach, was questioned
about his job status. The Cardinals off to the typical
three and seven start, and they now have they benched
(11:09):
their starting corp back. They made some fake injury up
for him, a little fella the garden home their alligator
arms Murray, so Gannon on the hot seat. He was
asked about this. He dismissed it. Of course, I'm great.
If he said yeah, they should probably fire my ass,
I suck. He didn't say that, he said he would
he wouldn't pay attention to it. He said, it's not controllable.
He said, quote, I didn't hire myself. I'm not going
(11:31):
to fire myself. Well, okay, that's the quote. Question what
are the chances? What are the chances that coach Jonathan
Gannon is Jonathan Gannon and he's out? What are the
chances he avoids the pinxil Let's look at that way?
So what are the chances he actually stays in Arizona?
So the mallard of sports book odds, which is never
(11:54):
wrong because they're the maler of sports book gods, the
chances that Jonathan Gannon remained with the Cardinals of the
football variety is plus two thousand. Now, that implies, based
on the math, the mal of math about five percent,
give or take about five percent. So you'd be better
(12:15):
off wandering through the deserts of Arizona with no water
in July late July and just thinking, well, maybe I'll
stumble on some water somewhere. You know, you got better
odds of that happening. He's got a three forty one
winning percentage in Arizona and barreling towards his third straight
(12:36):
losing season. There. Cliff Kingsbury, who wasn't very good either
he was. He was the guy that gave the player's
cell phone breaks during practice and the orange slices and
all that. He got run out of town. He had
one bad year, and this guy, Jonathan Gannon is stacking
up bad performances like wooden palletts in a warehouse, and
(12:57):
the whole reason that you hire a guy like that.
He was a defensive coach. He was with the Philadelphia Eagles,
and he's okay, he's going to fix the defense. They're
going to fix the defense. Okay, so let's see how
that's going. He's been there three years. First year thirty
second in the NFL. Second year twenty seventh, and now
they're twenty fifth in the NFL. So if you do
(13:20):
the math on that, you give another ten years, they'll
have the number one defense in the NFL. Not exactly
fixing things, it's kind of like you have a problem
with termites and you're like, let me hire the exterminator,
and the exterminator comes over and seals the house off
and fumigates the house with the family still in the house.
(13:41):
That's essentially what's going going on here. And the bid Wells,
the family that owns that team they're getting closer to
finally getting rid of alligator arms Murray. And once they
dump his little tush, they might as well just dump
the coach as well. Get a fresh start and reboot
the whole thing, right, reboot the whole thing, and get
(14:03):
a new quarterback and a new coach, and get a
new sofa, get a new television, all that stuff, all right,
and now this is what they do. This is amazing
fun factor. So no Cardinals coach has lasted six seasons
since they became the Cardinals when they well the Arizona
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or they were the Phoenix Cardinals for a while when
they moved from Saint Louis in nineteen eighty eight. Nineteen
eighty eight. That's been a minute. So this franchise treats
stability like it's contagious. They also can't seem to hire
a good coach to save their life, maybe once every generation.
And johnthan Gannon is a again defensive guy coaching a
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bad defense and it's like hiring a chef or in
this case, a baker, and the baker comes in he said, well,
I really, you know, I love My favorite thing is toast.
I love perfectly made toast. And the baker says, well,
I I make toast all the time. That's it's not
really a baked that cookies. I make toast. I'll make
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toast for you, sure, And he said, well, who do
you make toast for? I want to make toast for
Jim Nantz. I like burnt toast, and he likes burnt toast,
and I don't like burnt toast. But anyway, so again
it's a dead man walking in the valley of the sun.
Now the last word here we go now to Mowtown.
The Detroit football team hosting the New York NFC football
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team that would be the Giants this weekend. Not a
game that has a lot of juice to it. Not
a game that has a lot of juice to it.
And some interesting comments by Dan Campbell, the coach of
your Detroit Lions. Question, how do you process? Lions coach
Dan Campbell praising the Giants quote fresh energy? Fresh energy
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was the quote under interim coach Mike Kofka. So on
this one, Dan Campbell suddenly turning into the meathead Lou
Holtz on this SoundBite, just buttering the popcorn of the opponent. Here. Now,
the term that predates Lou Holtz is called poor mouthing.
You can look it up. I'm not making that up.
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Poor mouthing one oh one, and he's taking that fresh
energy fresh energy under Mike Kafka, like the Giants somehow
just discovered fire and the wheel and just wonderful. It's like,
give me a break. It's the oldest move in the
coaching world. You're a double digit favorite, you being the
Detroit Lions. What are you gonna do? You inflate the
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other guy. You turn them into the Jimmy Johnson, Troy Aikman,
Michael Irvin, emmittt Smith Cowboys back in the day. And
you're like, well, my team's not gonna get get caught
flat footage, sleepwalking all that, and Campbell he sees the odds.
This is a trap game situation. You're not getting up
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for it. The Lions have a Thanksgiving game next week,
as they always play on Thanksgiving, and so this is
a game you kind of get through and then the
whole world's watching next week and you see the standings
and so it's mental gymnastics, is what it is. It's
mental gymnastics now. The fresh energy thing, that's that's what
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they say when a team fires the coach and still blows.
There she blows. It's a red bull energy. The Giants
win three or four games a year. They don't beat anybody.
Let's not rewrite the Bible over here. Dan Campbell knows
what this is. He's just planting some insurance, is what
he's doing. If Detroit goes out and wins the game
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in a dominating fashion, which according to the pointspread, they're
supposed to be doing if they win this game, big big, big,
big big big, big, big big big. Then he said, well, yeah, hey,
we respected him. We showed up to play. And now
if they don't, if they don't win big, well we warned,
we warned. Guys. You know this is fresh energy. Now
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the Lions actually lose this somehow, you might have to
cancel the Thanksgiving game in Detroit and pull the Ford
Field fire alarm. You might have to do that, and
then Dan Campbell's knee biting card will be taken away.
No more knee biting for you. So there's that.
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Speaker 1 (19:30):
Our lead this hour from the high speed sports wires.
My old mentor in San Diego used to say, as
we try not to throw a wobbler, so we head
to the buy you as the transaction wire heating up.
If you did not hear about this, perhaps not well
if you missed it. The New Orleans Saints have fired
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wide receiver Brandon Cooks. He will become a free agent,
assuming he is not claimed on waivers. I don't know
why anyone would claim him, as his career is in
ashes at this point, Cooks asked to be fired. And
the team that made the paper bag famous, the team
that's now back to the Aints. They're Innaulvence. And now,
(20:12):
if you dig a little deeper, Cooks had a bunch
of incentives in his contract for things like receptions and
touchdowns and playing time and receiving yards. Would you like
to take a guess how many of those incentives he
reached this year? Yeah? None, none. That is a body blow,
body blow, body blow. He finished his time in New
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Orleans his second run with the Saints with nineteen catches
for one hundred and sixty five yards and as many
touchdowns as you and I scored none. All right, so
that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
this is post trade deadline. This is a player that
the Saints tried to trade nobody wanted. So the question
(20:55):
does former Saints wide receiver Brandon Cooks budge the needle
at all? Does he budge the needle at all? My
observations on this. I've got Alan Wrench, Elmer's brand ambassador,
and The Big Lebowski, a classic movie, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we are going
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to hire an exterminator to kill the gremlins, is what
we're going to do, all right. Rap punch right to
the gut, right to the gut is what we're gonna do,
all right. So number wh I said number? Why? Yes?
All right? So I would say it's not a zero.
The needle moves a smidge, just a smidge. This is
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not clearly Puka Nakua. It's not Justin Jefferson or Jamar
Chase spitting a loogie in your face. This is a
depth piece, that's all. This is He's a receiver that is.
I don't even know how serviceable he is. You put
him in the huddle, he won't hurt you. He's obviously
not the focal point Brandon Cooks of anyone's offense at
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this point. You know what he is. He's like an
Alan wrench. You know everyone's got that junk drawer. He's
the Allen wrench in the junk drawer. You keep it
around because you might need it. It could be useful,
but you're not building the house with it. You know
what I'm saying. Cooks might be the Johnny Cash of
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the NFL because he has been everywhere. Man, He's traveled
every road in this year football land he has. He
started with the Saints, went to the Patriots, was traded
again to the Rams, Texans, Cowboys. Now he's gone back
to the New Orleans Saints and he's on the market again.
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So that's one, two, three, four, five, five teams. He's
thirty two years old. He just turned thirty two, not
that long ago. He's got more luggage tags than Delta
Airlines has available. And this dude has been traded so
many times. Imagine the Marriotte points, because when you change
teams during the year. He's done that a couple of times.
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You end up living in a hotel most of the time.
And so this production of Cooks at one point very productive.
That's what teams wanted him. And he has been fading
like the sun off in the horizon there, fading down,
and you're not getting the twenty seventeen vintage of Brandon Cooks.
That model has been discontinued. Yards per target down. At
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the very peak, which was actually twenty sixteen, he averaged
nine point three yards. Now he's in the mid sixes
this season. His legs not young, not young, over one
thousand snaps a year. Eventually, the mileage, it affects the
injured quality of the engine. And so what you're signing
is a high end number three receiver, wink wink, a
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situational number two receiver, possibly in the red zone. Own
you can get something out of him. Occasionally he'll go
into the hot tub time machine Brandon Cooks, and he'll
burn one down the sidelines. But Cooks does not change
the trajectory of your season. He does not. He's there
for depth. He's a nice player. You could talk about
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what he used to be. He doesn't move the needle,
just a little smidge. That's it now, page two, that say,
we all know one of the great things about life.
One man's trash is another man's treasure. If you don't
believe that, go to like a good Will store or
any of the any of the stores where they sell
you know what, one of my friends, you say, dead
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people's stuff. You know, people that die and they donate
their stuff when they're gone, and people run to buy
that stuff at thrift shops and all that. So again,
one man's trash, another man's treasure. So we know that
this is not a dynamic playmaker at this point, but
he's going to continue to hammer away. And clearly he
made the decision that there's somebody that wants You don't
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ask to be fired from the job that you have
if you have nothing else out there that would be
that would be ridiculous. So the question I have now
deputized you as the career counselor for the ballplayer. Okay,
so the question where should wide receiver Brandon Cooks take
his talents, the wandering white out and that big suitcase
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to finish the season and most likely his career. So
after eight minutes long deliberation. Of the available options, there
are two primetime landing spots and sleeper team. Sleeper Team,
Sleeper Team. Now at the very top. This is not
a list for Terry and England. This is not a list.
(25:44):
It's Big Ben's Big board, which is nothing like a list.
It's Big Ben's big board. And the first up here.
Here we go, Buffalo, Here we go, Buffalo. Josh Allen
the Bazooka arm An MVP season a year ago. What's
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not to like? And the Bills don't have much at
the wide receiver position. There's some reports out here that
Keon Coleman, who was benched for malfeasance last week, is
going to be benched again for the game coming up
here on Thursday night in Houston. So Keon Coleman's in
the doghouse. He's in the very back of the doghouse.
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Heck he's He's not in the back of the doghouse.
He's in the basement of the dog house. Oh, they
don't have a basement of the doghouse. Well, yes they do.
Now He's in the basement of the doghouse. So they
need help there, and that would be a smart football fit.
In theory, Josh Allen the deep ball, and every once
in a while you could get a throwback highlight from
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Brandon Cooks maybe once a game or one and a
half times on average per game. Now if not Western
New York, do I hear Kansas City? You can go
there and Andy read and loves a good lottery ticket
and Brandon Coosk can enjoy the Ben Mallard chicken fingers
at the landing and Liberty Missouri delicious food. Rashie Rice
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is the man. He's the man. Although they didn't throw
to a much in the second half of the game
against Denver, but Rashie Rice, that's it, that's all. They
certainly could use another grown up in the room there
at the wide receiver position, a savvy veteran who knows
how to line up and can run, run the route
or root and uh and not be worried about social media.
(27:31):
And hey Cooks playing with Mahomes every once in a while,
why not give it a shot, right, Mahomes likes throwing
to old dudes. He throws to Kelsey all the time. Now,
the sleeper team, sleeper team, the Insers, Petsburg. Don't don't laugh,
do not know, don't laugh. Mike Tomlin has a PhD
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in veteran rehab. He does, and he loves football guys.
I love my football guys. Oh yeah, absolute the tape war,
his lunch pale grinders and all that. So Aaron Rodgers
at this point needs all the help he can get.
Don't have that much to get the DK Metcalf obviously,
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he's great, great player. There's not much else there. Now
we realize in a league that is absolutely obsessed, completely
obsessed with youngness, right, you know you want youth, it's
it's forty times, it's are you under the age of
twenty five? A guy like Brandon Cooks Still, there's still
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a place for a guy like that, even though he's
running on fumes at this point. Brandon Cooks is an
Elmer's Glue brand adbassador. He's a glue guy, glue guy,
glue guy. Yep. He's a good guy, which means he's
not that good anymore, but used to be good and
has some redeeming qualities that makes you a glue guy.
He's a glue guy. He's not good again, not get
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you inter season. He won't ruin it, and there's a
chance he actually is value added. It's kind of like
Cooks think of him like if he was a phone,
he would be an iPhone, but he'd be like an
iPhone seven. Now, nobody needs an iPhone seven. Not exciting.
It still works, you know he need it. You know
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you want the newest one. But it's okay. You know
it still works and all the apps work for the
most part, and all that and nothing to really complain about.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Now, final point, we go to the land Cleveland to
be exactly where Shauldur Sanders announced. I know you're very
concerned about the new quarterback there in Cleveland. Should announced
that he is excited. He's excited to make his first
career start for the Brownies versus the Raiders. He said, quote,
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I'm just excited for everything. I feel like I'm the guy.
I know, I'm the guy Shoulder is saying, and said
that's the money quote the spawn of Dion. He's going
to fill in for the concussed Dylan Gabriel who is
currently well, he's taking some advill he's got a migraine
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headache from the concussion protocol and all that. So the
question on this one Shader Sanders saying that he feels
like he's the guy for the Browns. Are you okay
with this? Are you okay with?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
So?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
This is on brand and as a struggling overnight gas bag.
Struggling overnight gas bag would not have it any other way.
The thing that I am most impressed with from paying
attention to the story around Shuldhar Sanders is how powerful
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the Dion Caucus is in the NFL. Now we knew
Dion was a star back in the day, in the
eighties and the nineties and all that, it's been a minute.
The amount of influence that Dion Sanders has from all
the media jobs and all his buddies, his ex players
that are all doing meathead podcasts and all. I mean,
it's wild. I think this is the people talk about
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the most most powerful political party, well, Democrats, Republican number three,
the Dion Caucus, my goodness, prime time politics. Really it's wild.
But as far as sure, this is showmanship, it's arrogance,
it's bravado. It's a modern day Big Lebowski, one of
the great movies. It's an old movie, but I highly
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recommend it. And in this case, you've got Sadr Sanders
who's announcing to you and to me and the world.
He says, hey, listen, I'm the dude or his dudinus
or el duderino. And if you're not into the whole
brevity thing and all that stuff, but he's got swagger.
Well you know, hopefully he has his own advil as well,
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because life hits you fast in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
And good luck. You're not going to get a parade here, Beau,
because your dad was a great player in a different
generation of the NFL. And we'll see how Shooter does.
Hard to imagine he'll be any worse than he was
in the opening performance there. But the test will be
when it's third down at eight and you've got Max
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Crosby chasing you down like a junkyard dog. What are
you gonna do? What are you gonna do? So the Raiders, though,
if you think of this like a restaurant, I've had
a few friends of mine over the years that have
gotten into restaurants and they always say, well, you open
the restaurant, a million things that can go wrong. You
always have to have a soft launch before you have
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the official official launch. And soft launch is normally friends
and family, friends and family, and you know, maybe somebody
will come in and just happen to be there and
look at your restaurant, and you want everyone in the
kitchen to know what they're doing and everything like that,
and you want to have just a small crowd, not
too busy. And in the NFL, if you're a quarterback,
you want to start against the Raiders because that defense
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is cotton candy other than Mac Crosby cotton candy. We
like cotton candy, but you don't really need functioning teeth
to eat cotton candy. And as cam Ward would say,
total ass, total ass. So as for Shoulder say, it's
the Browns are praying that they get the razzle dazzle
and not just the frazzle. They want that razzle dazzle.
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The damage control. I go back to the Dion caucus.
With circle back to the Dion Caucus. It's happened. Anyone
and everyone who has Dion's phone number has magically blamed,
among other things, the offensive line, the play calling, the weather,
the lack of practice reps. I believe mercury being in
(33:44):
retrograde has also been blamed. We'll having to check with
our astrology insider. Some kind of cosmic event in the
Farmer's Almanac and essentially anything but Shader. He is not
culpable at all. He gets a full pardon from the
Dion Caccas. And you can tell who exactly is in
Dion's DMS, who's getting text messages from Dion based on
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how loud they are capping for his kid. It's wild.
No shame, no shame that. There was a point, you know,
I got again, I'm getting old. But there was a
point where people would never take part in that because
it was so embarrassing. Now they're lining up to wear
knee pads with Dion's logo on it to support the kid.
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It's wild. We got generation after generation of excuses and
all of that, of course, is prologue. And if you
say you're the guy, if you say that, then you
go out and be the guy. You know, do I
expect him to play well? No, although, boy, the Raiders
are so they're so bad, uh, I mean, the NFL
(34:52):
generally does expose the fraudsters, the con artists right faster
than Dion's dad can sen out a message saying here
are the talking points for you on television, Here are
the talking points for you, you insider, A woman who
just repeats whatever I tell you, that kind of thing,
because I'm the Big Khuda, the Big Khuda.
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It's Mallard. How about that? To the third degree? This
is one big bent gets grilled. All right, here we
go cool.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
I was reported on Tuesday that Aaron Rodgers will not
need surgery on his left wrist, and he's reportedly pushing
to play this week. He's spoke to the media said
it's more of a safety issue than a pain tolerance issue.
But do you think the stealers should let him play
against the Bears?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yes, yes, you only get seventeen games. If he's medically
cleared the play, he should play. I don't see what
the issue is. That's a winnable game, that's a toss
up game. The Bears have a good record. They've been
winning with as Tree in Chicago and yourphemeio in weird ways.
But yeah, if he's able to go, and he's medically cleared,
there's no reason not to play him. I'd put him
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out there next.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
There's apparently chatter in some circles that the Vikings will
explore trading for Mac Jones this upcoming offseason. Do you
think Jones is a good insurance policy for JJ McCarthy, He.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Is an insurance policy. I do not know that I
would use the word good. I do not know that
I would use the word good in that there are
some advantages to mac Jones. He has cooled off though,
right for a couple of weeks it looked like Bob
this guy's great, not so much anymore with the forty
nine ers, and now brock Perty's obviously back in the
(36:38):
picture and all that stuff. But you know, I don't
think there's gonna be a beating war for mac Jones.
Speaker 6 (36:43):
How about that next well, Like Fatherlike Son, apparently as
a bad season for the Buffaloes wraps up, Dean Sanders
addressed the media and assured everyone that Colorado has the
right man for the job. He is the guy. Do
they have the right man?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Ben? It would be more fun if Deon said, you know,
I am not the right for the job. I am not,
and I'm in the cockpit on the vomit comment. It
is not going well. But Dion, it just looks like
he's he's one of those, not the vomit comment, but
like he's a comed He burned brightly for a little bit,
quickly gone. That's it like or like a rainbow kind
of fading off in the distance there. I love the
(37:18):
Deon story, but man, does he look like he doesn't
know what he's doing this year. We'll give another year,
but it's not looking good.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
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Speaker 2 (37:26):
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Speaker 1 (37:27):
I passed it? Yeah?
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It's now time for time more Harry, Harry, Homya, ask
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away we go to ask Ben. Your questions are are
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a loop for the reading of the questions.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from Femi.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Hey, Fammi, I met him. Good dude, Femi. And one
of the great photos. Remember that photo, Coop when he
went back to his home country and he took the
photo with a yid.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
Yes, I do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I love that photo so good.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
He wants to know, have you ever found money on
the street or floor, and if so, what's the highest
amount that you have found?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Yes? Uh, Dodger Stadium twenty dollars bill. Uh there no, Now,
there was one time in Vegas. I was in the
sports book at where was it? I forget the name
of the casino, I forget which one one of the
newer ones in the middle of the strip, and there
was like a wad of one hundred dollar bills. I
didn't take it. And the reason I didn't take it
(38:45):
there were cameras everywhere, and I had a feeling like
if I took that, I could have been in some trouble.
You know, it was so much money. I didn't take it.
I did think about taking it. What about you, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
I know when I was little, I found one hundred
dollars bill in a kmart that I definitely kept. But
Reese once again, in Vegas, my friend went into a
bathroom stall and inside of an old like not a
tampon rapper, but a pad rapper, there was hundreds of
dollars behind a toilet stuck wrapped in.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
On a great way to hide toilet paper. Yah, know
I's going to touch that, right, Yeah, Yeah, that's good. Yeah,
it was the Ario. It was at the Ario Sports
Book in Vegas. I found a big water money. I
didn't take it, so cool.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
I think the most like you. I think the most
I found is twenty bucks.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, it'd be nice to find a big wad of
money that we could just take. All right, what's next?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Here?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
What is next? It's ask ben? Your questions are answer?
All right.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I've seen this question from a lot of people, but
the one I'm looking at right now is from Georgia Boy.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Uh, Georgia Boy.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
They want to know, do you host Thanksgiving or do
you visit others?
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yeah? So Thanksgiving is kind of we usually do like
stuff around the end of year, Christmas and stuff. Thanksgiving,
I usually work. My mom would always host it. She's
been gone for a while, so really sometimes I go
to a family. This year, we're not really doing anything.
It's gotten working watching games all day. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Yeah, I've never hosted. I'm usually a guest.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Yeah, I've hosted before. It's a pantoy asked what about you, coop? Uh.
Speaker 6 (40:12):
I think I've hosted maybe one time and then that's it.
I just I prefer going to my mom's.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah, you might as well take advantage of mom. Yeah, yeah,
enjoy that. All right, what's next year?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
What do we have?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
It's ask man. Your questions are answers, Rob the goat man,
hot goat man.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
He wants to know where was the worst public toilet
you have ever used or didn't?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Well? I think I destroyed the public toilet. The worst
the one I was at. You're going to add my
gallbladder issue a few years back. I was walking around
during COVID and it was it was a hot mess,
but the worst one I've been in probably in Jersey
I was driving. Those are legendarily bad. I mean I've
been in some really bad ones. I had the one
(40:55):
New Jersey stands out. What about you Lorena here at
Fox Sports? Really bathroom? Yep, that's my answer to it's
really I can't.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Even use it.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
I'm telling you I will get You're in all.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Over my own You have your own bathroom, which.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
Is why I have my own bathroom.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
Yes, there's like three women that doesn't that doesn't and
they have their own bathroom, mean that the bathroom isn't
discussing still on the other side.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I got you, all right, what coop? You agree with? Marine? Okay,
what's next here? What do we have? It's ask ben.
Your questions are answers.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
All right, fird dog wants to know I Fergie. When
given the option of super salad, what do you pick?
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Well, obviously soup. I never go salad. It tends on
the soup. Though there's only like four soups I like,
but soup, what about you, Lorena?
Speaker 7 (41:38):
I usually go salad, and I hope the other person
next to me get soup in the haslem of theirs.
Speaker 6 (41:42):
No, that's a answer.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah, I like that. You go soup, you go chicken soup,
you go you know the French onion? Yeah, I want
of those soups things. All right, there there is We
do this every week. It's nothing like the mail bag
on the Fifth Hour podcast. There it is, ask man,
thank you all
Speaker 6 (42:04):
Right,
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