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The big Turkey is going around in the sky and
it's gonna slide down every chimney and then deliver turkey
and mash. But no, well that's that's that's the other
holiday I got you, all right, So we'll begin our lead.
This hour is from Viva Las Vegas, where the Raiders
are bad at football but good at providing content. The
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incompetent Tom Brady has his fingerprints all over the crime scene,
as the Raiders are worse than they've ever been under
the leadership of Tom Brady. But you're not supposed to
talk about that because they'll cancel you in the NFL. Well,
Gino Smith, who's not on the quarterback, he sucks. He's
caught on camera. You might remember giving the two birds salute,
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telling the Raider fans that your number one, and you
over there your number one. The double bird towards the
fans at the Raiders stadium named after an airline which
they didn't buy advertising, so we're not giving a give
him a pop. But as he walked off the field
after the latest embarrassment for the Raiders, a loss to
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the Cleveland Browns, now the cliff of force went viral.
It's not often you see a forty million dollars a
year football player given the old bird it. Gino's done
this before and he'll probably do it again. However, we
now have the rest of the story. If you have
not heard yet, Gino did issue a apology for the bird,
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and we have the audio. Let's go to the audio tape.
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You know there was an incident after the game on
Sunday judus or either get your outing to say about that.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Or yeah for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You know, first of all, would like to apologize, apologize
obviously to the fans, to the fan base of Radar Nation.
You know, I made a poor judgment out of frustration,
and you know that's not an excuse. I've got to
be better than that, and I've got to hold myself
to a higher standard, and in that moment, I didn't,
you know, sincerely apologetic, and you know, I'm very sorry
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for obviously for doing that, and you know, I just
want to, you know, make it known that those things
will never happened for me.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Adia all right, we actually paid extra to get that
reverb in there. We want to make sure that if
you're wearing headphones like I am, you'll have a migraine
headache by the end of the show. But you just
take some ibuprofen pharmacy grade you'll be fine. So that
was the apology, pretty good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question here, It is, where are you at
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on Gino Smith and that apology for giving the number
one salute to the Raider fan base. So I've got
my thoughts on this. I've got Doctor Seuss, Looney Tunes,
and Rubric's Cube, and we'll put all of these things
a microwave for ten minutes and we'll take something out.
You know, I've never had something good out of a
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microwave other than popcorn. Has anyone ever made anything good
in a microwave other than popcorn? I have never had
anything that went into a microwave that came out was
decent other than popcorn. Anyway, A my first thought here,
this was the first time, and I take copious amounts
of notes, this was the first time all year that
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Geno Smith actually pointed in the right direction. This was it.
It wasn't malicious, It was instinct. It was muscle memory.
It was like a smoke detector going off in a
burning kitchen. That's just what a smoke detector does. It
didn't think about it, It just did it. That's what
it does. The only thing that Gino should be apologizing
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for is the thirteen touchdown, thirteen interception performance that he's
put out in the field. That is not production. Is production.
That is a roulette wheel in cleats, which is appropriate
as he plays in Lost Wages Nevada League leading legally,
not in yards, not in wins, of course, because you
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play for the Raiders, but in pickoffs. And then and
then he reads the apology bingo card Gino Smith, like
it's laminated in the playbook. In fact, I would argue,
and I don't think I'm wrong on this, that Gino
Smith better at giving the apology bingo card than he
is reading the Raider playbook. Poor judgment, check check that box.
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Hold myself to a higher standard. Check check. That's not
who I am. Check check check. Right there, Bingo, you
had the cliche jackpot. Now quoting the great doctor Seuss,
one of the great philosophers of my childhood, Doctor Seuss,
he meant what he said, and he said what he meant,
or in this case, he gave the bird, which is
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what he wanted to do, and he met what he
did by giving the bird. The bird is the word.
The bird is the word. Now. That is authentic Geno.
That is the real Gino Smith giving the bird double
bird to the fans the press conference. That was corporate Gino.
That was tap on the shoulder. Hey, Gino, some people
and management aren't real happy by this. Can you clean
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this up? Sure, I'll clean it up. What do you
want me to do? Well, I want you to go
give an apology. We'll give you a Bingo car. We
give an apology, Bingo car, Gino just to roll off
a few of those. Okay, sure, I'll do it, No problem.
You're paying me forty minutes. Okay, I'll do it. Sure,
no problem. That was corporate Gino's. That's a bowl of
vanilla ice cream, no sprinkles. That's vanilla ice cream, no sprinkles.
Two scoops, your Gino Smith off. That offense with Gino
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Smith is not a scheme. It's the haunted house. You
enter every game with hope and you leave with major regret.
Gino Smith has become the poster boy for super duper
football follies. They bring that back with Gino Smith. Forget
the news conference. I forget about the news conference and
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all that he should have mailed in a blooper reel
is what he should have done. That's the only tape
that Gino's winning. And several of you have sent me
the photograph of Geno giving the bird out to the fans,
and that should be That should be in the Raider
merch store. They should sell that that sums up the
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current state of the Raider franchise. That they can have
a two different chirts. They have the Geno Smith one
where he's given you the bird, and then they have
the Tom Brady one where he's in the booth pretending
like he's the offensive coordinator for the Raiders. Speaking of that,
we turn the page now. NFL Network the prov the
news service, the mouthpiece of propaganda for the NFL. They
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reported there were instances where former offensive coordinator Chip Kelly
Chipper chip Kelly botched his own play calls. Very dramatic
reporting the day before Thanksgiving when three people were watching
the NFL Network and two of them worked for the NFL,
and so the reporting said that chip Kelly screwed up
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his own play calling and left Raider players unsure of
what they were running. Oh my god, oh mg, yeah,
do you see it? No, you's. In other instances, the
state sponsor propped the news service to the NFL reports
that he chip Kelly tried to call plays that the
offense did not know. Oh my god, oh man yeah. Quote.
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There were times I was told, said the gas bag,
blowhard NFL reporter where chip Kelly was reportedly botching the
play calls. Oh my god, ye had Tom pelasorro report.
He said quote he's supposed to be, for instance, tagging
emotion on a play, so the receivers on the left,
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not the right. He forgets to say it, so Gino
Smith going to the line of scrimmage and going, this
doesn't look right. This doesn't look right. There were times
that Chip, he claimed, on several occasions, call to play
that was either not in the game plan or not
installed at all. So the question on this one, what
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is your viewpoint on the leaked story that claims Chip
Kelly botched play calls regularly with our Raiders, the now
former Raider offensive coordinator. So many many gullible people are
taking this and running with it. Oh see, I told you,
I told you, not us. I'm a skeptic and I'm
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highly skeptical of this. Chip Kelly was completely clueless. Tabloid bombshell.
Oh just before Thanksgiving? You know what this smells like?
You smell? You smell it? I smell it smells like smells.
It smells less like straight reporting and more like looney Tunes.
A little pepen and pew if you will, Skunk spray.
(11:06):
Watch out for the skunk spray. Yeah, calculated stench deployed
at the perfect time. You want to play the parlor game,
and I love playing the parlor game. I don't play
it that often. I don't I should play it more.
I should play it more. I don't play that often,
but I love the parlor game. Where's the leak coming from?
So let's do it. What do you say? It's Thanksgiving?
Let's have some fun. So let's play the parlor game.
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Where's the leak coming? The story again, Chip Kelly calling
wrong plays, calling plays that wasn't in the raid Of playbook,
confusing poor helpless Gino Smith. So we asked two questions
when we played the parlor game, where's the lake coming from?
Question number one is who gains from the league? Question
number two is why leak? Now? Those are the two questions.
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The answer to both of those questions, all right, I
will not say who the initials are gs, gs, Oh
you got it, yo, you're good. That's right, ding ding
ding ding ding, Geno Smith? Who gains from it? Geno Smith?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Why leak?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Now? Well, let's get into it. So this turns mister
middle Finger, the guy that just gave the bird to
Raider Nation. You leak now because it changes the narrative.
It changes the narrative, and you're now the helpless victim
and you're playing poorly. But you're not playing poorly because
of your fault. It's your fault. No, of course not.
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Why would you have any accountability. It's all Chip Kelly's fault.
He's the bogeyman. Blame it on Chip. It's a circus
to playbook, poor helpless Geno Smith. He had no ability.
He didn't know the plays either, so any play that
was called, he's repeated it blindly because he's a dummy.
But you're not supposed to say that, and so he
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gains from it, right, It's like, oh what mate, it
will listen. Yeah, I was flipping the fans off, but
I was confused because of Chip Kelly. It's Chip Kelly's fault,
I'm sure. No, I'm convinced no one who's riding the
gravy train for Gino Smith would dare leak that to
the NFL network. God, no, no, boo hoo hoo, No,
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don't even say that. This is such a sad story.
Somebody passed the kleenex, my god, and then also the
excuse making manuel yet it so the report says chip
Kelly was calling plays that weren't in the game plan again,
forgot motions, botched alignments, all that and a bag of chips.
So let me get this straight. Pete Carroll signed off
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on him. Tom Brady, the Raiders genius, the Michael Jordan
of football owners. Tom Brady gave the thumbs up. But suddenly,
now Chip Kelly's mister mix up. Now he's the problem. Yeah,
that's the ticket, that's the listen. Timing is everything. The
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season is already a golden corral buffet of vomit, barf spewing,
blowing chunks all over the stadium there in Vegas. That's
the Raiders season. And now Gino Smith is running the
CYA offense. Now what is that? Well, I don't know
what the cya offense is. That's cover your ass, cover
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your ass, protect your narrative, Shift the blame, change the headlines.
This ain't football. It's a political theater in shoulder pads
is what it is here. And Gino Smith just found
himself the perfect scapegoat with a headset not anymore because
they fired him. The coach killer. Geno Smith's incompetence got
chip Kelly fired, but Geno's taking advantage of it. It's like, listen,
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Geno's a really good player.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It just happens that chip Kelly was the problem.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
He's the evil bastard. That's it all right. Now, last word,
we now pivot to Jersey. Why why not? That is
where Jets quarterback Justin Fields, the guy that can't play.
He's claiming now that he was blindsided what blindside by
the demotion to QB two status from the Aaron Glenn
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coaching tree. The motion says Justin Fields said, quote, I
did not anticipate it whatsoever. Field's commenting for the first
time on the record since being demoted, being benched and
all that, he vowed to become a starter again in
the NFL as he wants to continue the con. It's
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the long con and he's long gone from the Jets,
but he wants a long con to continue. He did
send mixed signals on whether he wants to remain with
the Jets, even though technically he's under contract for another
year and methinks they will work out some kind of
financial deal to get out of that contract. Now, the
slumping Justin Fields was replaced last week by Tyrod Taylor,
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who also can't play. He's a little better at hiding
it than he can't play, and he will start again
on this Sunday here Thanksgiving weekend, the Sunday Card Jets
and Falcons. That's for friends and family only to watch
that game. Friends and family. Aaron Glenn said that he
made the switch. That's the coach, not a good one.
Made the switch because he wants more production from the
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passing attack, which currently ranks thirty second and yards the
Jets would be thirty third or thirty fourth, but fortunately
there's only thirty two teams in the NFL now. Not surprisingly,
Justin Fields did not agree with that hypothesis. Fields, a
first round pick by the Chicago Bears back in twenty
twenty one, has now started fifty three games and lost
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thirty seven of them. I don't think that's good. Two
and seven with the Jets, he's out of thirty three
qualified passers. He's twenty ninth there in total QBR, but
still sees himself as a starter. So the question how
do you process Gino Smith or not Gino Smith? Justin
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Fields got my bad quarterbacks mixed up, so how do
you process quarterback Justin Fields being blindsided by the Jets
benching him? Again, the question, how do you process quarterback?
Justin feel's they're being blindsided by the Jets benching him.
So on this one, Fields claiming the blind side thing
by the benching is the perfect summary, a summation, if
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you will, of his entire career in the NFL. He
can't read the room, just like he can't read a defense.
The Jets are dead last in passing yards. He is
twenty ninth in QBR, which is kind of a newer
stat The nerds like I gave the lifetime record, which
is terrible. And how could you not see this coming?
(17:38):
I do overnight talk radio and I saw it coming.
How do you not see it coming? I don't understand.
Do you not pay attention? Obviously you don't. It's the
same issue. It's the same issue that we saw in Chicago.
And there's a faction of the Bears fan base that
was spinning that say, oh no, it's not what you think.
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But it's the same issue in Chicago. Laid read, sloppy,
sloppy football. The throws just a little slow, no feel
for the moment, no pocket presence none of that. We
are now five years in, five years in, and Justin
Fields looks like he still needs to be assembled. And
you got it. You thought it was right out of
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the box and you can just use the quarterback, but
you can't. You need's assembly and it's a mess, and
you don't have the right tools and the thing of
a jig and all that stuff. So it's a problem.
And he looks like Justin Fields looks like he's trying
to solve a Rubik's cube on every drop back, except
he's blindfolded. And this is it's not situation, let's put
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it that way. It's not situational. It's systemic. The same
issues from Chicago followed him to Pittsburgh and then now
on to New Jersey slash New York. And you take
a couple of steps back and you go up in
the sky thirty thousand feet and you look down. Let's
see here, who's the CD. That would be Justin Field's
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common denominator. He's the common denominator and the Bear fan
base that we're blaming Matt Naggy and then Matt Eberflus
and those guys. And then they blamed the offensive line
then it was the receivers and all that. Well, that
the one with Matt Naggy and Matt Eberflus, that was good.
Then he went to Pittsburgh with Mike Tomlin, considered a
pretty good head coach, and then we got the well,
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he can't be Tomlin because people think of him as
a good coach, so it must be the It must
be the receivers that are not good there. Then it
was the offensive line because he was getting sacked a lot,
and move it around. And now he sucked in one, two,
three places, so three teams. He's been bad justin fields.
So why does the finger never seem to go back
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to justin Field? Now? Maybe finally, finally it's pointing back
at justin Fields. Justin Fields did not get blindsided. He
finally just got exposed, is what happened. It is the
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from The Twin, cities where the Juicy lucis are good
and the sports are. Not the ongoing Quarterback DRAMA O
rama with Econ, Roseville Minnesota vikings amid the likelihood That
minnesota QUARTERBACK J. J McCarthy will be sitting on his
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took us not playing this. Weekend we'll miss the game At.
Seattle while in the concussion, protocol the two of the
top veterans on the vikings there said that they fully
support their. Quarterback they're in battled QUARTERBACK jj McCarthy and
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his long, term long term outlook in THE. Nfl if
you saw this or, not you heard about. It maybe, Not,
No Steven, Meanbos Steven meeball's heard about. It. So wide
Receiver Justin jefferson and running Back Aaron jones both acknowledged
that McCarthy has clearly been, bad, bad, bad bad, bad
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bad to the, bone bad to the bone in the
six games he's. Played jefferson described McCarthy's debut as. Tough that's,
kind that's kind toughest kind a predicted. Improvement it can't
get much. Worse you get much, worse you're selling insurance.
Now Rookie Max brosmer took all the first team snaps
(26:17):
and is expected to start On sunday unless there's some
kind of eleventh hour miracle here WITH jj. McCarthy in
McCarthy's six starts this. Season The vikings have won two of,
them they've lost, four And Justin jefferson has averaged a
poultry fifty three receiving yards in those. Games, now that sounds.
Bad that sounds. Bad how bad is? It that's forty
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three percent worse than his career. Average he's a forty
percent worst ballplayer WITH jj McCarthy than all these other
quarterbacks he's played. With that's not. Good so THE nfl
insider crowd is now sounding the alarm bells that they're
very excited about McCarthy's, backup and they're pessimistic ABOUT jj
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McCarthy in his, future and they're now selling the rookie
Undrafted Max brosmer as a player to keep an eye on,
there comparing him to Brock. Purty all, right that is
a good jumping off. Point so let us discuss the
(27:26):
question what intrigues you the most About viking Quarterback Max
brosmer being compared to Brock? Purty all, right what intrigues
you the? Most So i've got Workshop otis And Lion,
king and we will combine all of these things together
(27:50):
and try not to laugh our way through the ridiculousness
of the sporting, world the industrial complex of. Sports what
a travesty of? Justice all, Right so NUMBER W so
THE nfl content machine is always. King the content machine never.
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Waivers it does not waiver at. All and it's revving
up like A minnesota snowblower in Mid. January you cannot
let it. Breathe you cannot wait to. See, OH i don't,
KNOW jj. McCarthy's i guess he's on the spectrum Of, bustville,
right you, know just, yeah he's not on the. Spectrum
(28:36):
he's actually, renting and he's thinking about buying a place In.
Busville but he's definitely he's renting a place In. BUSVILLE
jj McCarthy at this particular. Point but and so already
firing up the replacement. Generator it's called myth making one oh.
One myth making one oh. One they drag a new
kid on the, block and they take that new kid
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on the, block they put him in The sorcerer's, workshop
and then they, sprinkle just like, that they sprinkle those sprinkles, here,
sprinkle sprinklere sprinkle some pretty pixie dust on top of,
him and, poof a legend is born someone Named Max.
Brosmer six years this guy spent in college football played
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At New. HAMPSHIRE i didn't even know they had a
team At New hampshire and also was At. Minnesota he
coming out of high school with the high school In
georgia HAD Ivy league offers out of high. School and
SO i went back AND i was, LIKE i don't
even remember reading the draft guide for this. Guy AND
i normally spent a lot of time reading those. Things
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it's pretty amusing because it's creative, writing you, know the
fiction nonfiction. WAY i think you know which one those
draft guides. Are SO i went back AND i looked
through some of the guides THAT i have, online AND
i was reading The Max brosmer scouting report and he, said,
well he's he's basically a pocket passer with a master's.
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Degree and it's like good for. Him The brock party
comparisons like why because because he's NOT jj, McCarthy, right
anybody but. McCarthy that's the analysis. There so they're. Inflating
they're inflating the. Tires they're inflating the tires before we
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even see if the engine turns on for this guy
And Brock, purty lately he's looked more like Broke. Purdy
although he's certainly, wealthy his play is. Broken it, is
and so what are we even comparing? Here this is content,
manufacturing is what it. Is you don't wait for. Results
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you don't wait for. Result you airbrush the narrative before
the guy's even thrown his TWENTIETH nfl. Pass you just
airbrushed the. Narrative and who. KNOWS i don't know anything
about the. GUY i saw some, highlights big, deal who?
Cares everyone looks good in. Highlight let's see if the
kid can read a. Defense let's see if the kid
doesn't have pocket. Panic let's see if he knows what
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he's doing. Here i'm not ready to erect a statue
outside of The Viking stadium there in Downtown, minneapolis right
across the street from the hospital where the crazy people.
Are THE nfl never, waits, Right the next guy is
always the. Guy i've learned that the next guy is
always the. GUY i will believe the hype when he
passes the eye, test not THE pr. Test he's already
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passed THE pr. Test this, Guy Max, brosmer has already
passed THE pr. Test we'll see about the actual eye.
Test and SO i am like The state Of. Missouri
i'm gonna show me state of. Mind, meanwhile speaking of
show me state of, mind we go now To indianapolis
where The colts have hit a bit of a rough
patch and some finger. Pointing it's. Starting uh, oh, yeah it's.
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Starting it's. Starting The Daniel jones story In. Indianapolis question
for the class is This colts Quarterback Daniel jones facing
skepticism once? Again once again the skeptics are out For Daniel.
Jones is The Daniel jones elevator going? Up or is
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The Daniel jones elevator going? Down so is he going
up or going? Down, well The Daniel jones, elevator based
on a minutes long mallord, deliberation is not going. Up
it is not going. Down it is stuck on the thirteenth.
Floor the lights are, flickering the buttons are, jammed And
Daniel jones is pounding that door, open door, open and
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he's hitting the. Button nothing's, happening nothing's, Happening and he's
trying to get a hold of The Otis elevator. Repairman
The Otis elevator repairman is warming up his truck because
regression versus Progression it's a tale as old as. Time
it is not a philosophical debate regression versus. Progress it
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is what the colts are living right now in the.
Moment that's what's going on With. Indianapolis they thought they
Had Indiana, jones a fearless explorer of, defenses slicing through,
secondaries cracking the, whip stealing. Winds, however lately it's like
burping a. Baby, yeah he's morphing back Into Danny, dimes
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wandering through The temple Of, doom stepping on every booby, trap.
Imaginable two losses in the last. Three the schedule is
sharpening its knives. Now he certainly gagged in the fourth
quarter and overtime At, arrowhead coughed up possessions like a
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clearance sale In, pittsburgh and suddenly the blitz answers that
he had. Earlier, now let's just say they're. Gone, poof they.
Vanished Abracadabra houdini, like if you look, back not to
give too many, numbers because It's thanksgiving and it's late at,
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night early in the, morning and you're likely engrossed in something.
Else but if you go from week one through week,
Eight Daniel jones was The blitz. Whisper he owned The.
Blitz he was the old of The, blitz second in
the ENTIRE, nfl second BEST qbr in THE nfl when
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defenses sent the. Heat, however Since week, eight he currently
ranks twenty second with pitiful stats against The. Blitz so
that's not just the electric slide that that's. More that's
a skid, mark is what that. Is The colts who
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were seven and one and now they're showing signs of
being a tinder. Box and what normally happens when you
are looking like a tinder, box one spark and then
co uh. Boom Daniel jones is now going to have
to tiptoe through a minefield to survive this stretch of games.
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Upcoming we got a couple of games still to play
in the division with the number one defense in THE,
nfl The Houston, texans so that up ahead as Well,
jacksonville which doesn't seem like a good, team but they
are mathematically a good team also on the, schedule and
so Again Daniel jones is gonna have to tiptoe. Around right,
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now that elevator not going. Up it's, rattling it's groaning
a little bit things are, malfunctioning and if you don't
get this, fixed it's gonna go down, down, down, down, down,
down down down down down down down. Down all, right funal,
point we go To. Detroit we don't often talk about
offensive lineman because we try to get people to listen
to the. Show, however four Time Pro bowl Center Frank
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ragnow is coming out of. Retirement he's coming out of
retirement and returning to The Detroit. Lions he has decided to, unretire,
yes the return for the home stretch of THE nfl,
season because he quote loves the game that according to multiple,
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Reports now the deadline was On. Wednesday the deadline was On.
Wednesday that was the deadline For ragnow to come out
of retirement be eligible to play this, season and he
has done. That ragnow retired In june of this, year
and he said to prioritize his. Health he claimed at
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the time that he just had nothing. Left so the
question what stands out About lions Center Frank ragnow's unretirement
to rejoin The. Lions so this one is, like it's
like showing up to your own retirement barbecue five months
later with a fresh plate and, asking, hey, hey, boys
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potato salad. Left i'd like to, say uh, What oh, yeah,
yeah there's no there's no potato. Sala who likes potato?
Saladay nobody likes potato? Salad all right, Now frank ragnow
slammed the door shut back in Chew AND i went
back AND i looked through my, notes and at the
time the lineman talked about his, health his body had broken.
Down he wanted to put his family. First his family
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was a. Priority and now he's kicking it back open
like THE Nfl Black friday doorbusters. Time and SO i
guess he doesn't care about his family. Anymore he doesn't
care about his. Health is that what we're supposed To
his body's no longer breaking down all that. Stuff the
curtain call, over the spotlight had, dimmed the orchestra packed
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up the, instruments and now he's walked back to stage like, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait what more? Performance one more? Performance it's the sports
version of a. Boomerang you throw it away and it
smacks you right back in the helmet and, look. Listen
we can respect the love of the, game the love of,
football but you know what this feels. Like this feels
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like The Lion king seek will nobody asked. For it's
like ragnow, retired Like simba walking off into the. Sunset
now he's crawling back Like scar with a stinger, guitar
solo and. On retirement is a, dangerous dangerous. Business it's
like trying to reheat last night's steak in the. Microwave,
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now technically you are able to reheat last night's steak
in the. Microwave if you enjoy eating a rubbery, dish
you're going to get that never taste the, same but
you can't do. It. Now bring this up also because
there are reports whispers The Naked City Never sleeps That
Aaron donald of The La rams also currently contemplating a
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return for the home. Stretches The rams are now the
favorite to get to A Super bowl in THE, nfc
and so because of that and staff it's having AN mvp.
Season you put all that, together there's a lot of
noise out there That ram's greatest defensive player in franchise,
history at least in the modern, era is going to
come out of retirement and join The. Rams that would
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Be Aaron. Donald so we'll see if that happens or.
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Quarterback Matthew stafford can become the fourth player all time
with multiple touchdown passes and no interceptions and six consecutive.
Games he would Join Tom, Brady Aaron rodgers and. Me
that is the. Question what is the. Answer let's see
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Started so The steelers have lost four out of their
last six games and have fallen out of a playoff.
Spot Former All Pro steelers Linebacker James harrison recently called
the defense undisciplined and poorly coached and the schemes quote, Trash,
ben do you THINK, Dc, Terrell austin or Even Mike
tomlin could be on the hot.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Seat, Well i'm not gonna Go Mike.
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Tomlin i've done monologue since before you were, born About
tomlin losing his, job and it doesn't matter how bad it,
gets they never give rid Of. Tomlin The steelers have
been an environmental pollutant, defensively, right there's, always for most
of my, life been, great and they're like a tomic.
Waste right, NOW i would say of those, two the
defensive coordinators in much more. Danger.
Speaker 5 (45:40):
Next all, Right, next The titans fell to one to,
ten but Cam ward may have had the best game
of his career and has now gone three straight games
without throwing an. Interception On, Tuesday titans interim head Coach
mike McCoy said he Sees ward's work starting to pay.
Off ben Should titan fans be encouraged By ward's?
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Improvement all?
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Right, so but my response is always, like, well did
you expect the interim coach to, say, no he's getting
worse SINCE i took, over he's getting worse SINCE i,
mean come, on, LISTEN i have not seen. It Maybe
i'm missing. IT i guess he's statistically he's middle of
the pack, now and they need him to get a
lot lot better because right now they're still Ass, next.
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A video made The rounds online of you may a
duke A doka engaging with A heckler after rockets to
feed The suns And phoenix earlier this, Week, ben if
you were AN nba, coach do you think you'd find
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Yes it's.
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