December 15, 2025 • 47 mins
Big Ben talks about the Dallas Cowboys losing to the Vikings on SNF and inching closer to elimination from the playoff race, Patrick Mahomes tearing his ACL in a loss to the Chargers and getting eliminated from the playoffs for the first time, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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it again here all week no days off. If you
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heard the podcast this weekend, you got a brief preview
of coming attractions. But enough of that, it's get right
into it. Don't waste any time, waste anytime. So our
lead this hour from Jerry's World. That's whe We're going
to start the Dallas Divas in Action hosting the Purple
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People Eaters. And I mean lying if I said the
game had any juice. There was really no juice in
the game other than the fact that you just put
the Cowboys on TV. They could be peeling oranges and
people would watch. They could be chopping up onions like
a line line cook and just people would be watching.
It didn't matter. So he had Chris Collinsworth and Mike
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Tarico an Island game. They had the call on the
peacock there and see. So I don't know if you
watched it or not. Maybe you were not watching, you
were burned out from the other events of the day
and you did not watch that. We are somewhat I
don't know, directly paid to watch. But if we don't
watch it, kind of what are we doing. So we
watched and red Shirt rookie J J. McCarthy looking like
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he actually kind of knew what he was doing a
little bit. That's not a it's crazy though. He threw
a couple of touchdowns, he ran for a score, and
the great CJ. Ham just in time for the Christmas holiday. CJ.
Ham had the go ahead touchdown on his first carry
of the season. That's good efficiency there. And the Minnesota
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Vikings put a giant dent in the Jerry Mobile Jerry
Jones playoff hopes there with a thirty four to twenty
six victory over the once proud Dallas Cowboys. They say,
once proud, that was back thirty years ago. They really
haven't been proud since then. The Vikings get to their
six wins, their six and eight sub five hundred, They
win their second consecutive game, and they were eliminated, see
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you later, Bye bye, Nana na na hey, hey, good bye.
Eliminated from postseason consideration before the kickoff of this game.
But they didn't have a pity party. They didn't say,
oh woe is me, We've been eliminated. And they went
out there. They played that game. They played the game,
and they ended up well winning but still losing in
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the end. So Minnesota was a fourteen win team a
year ago, and now they do not qualify for the postseason.
Now the Cowboys six seven and one, they have to win.
Check this out. You want to just eliminate the Cowboys
for God's sakes, This is what the Cowboys have. So
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in order for them to make the playoffs, they have
to win their three remaining games. And then in addition,
but wait, there's more, they need the Philadelphia Eagles to
lose all three of their games in order for Dallas
to overtake the Eagles in the NFC East Philly. Mind you,
they do play Buffalo, however, the other two games are
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against the Washington Commanders. Hello, yeah, so good luck on that.
Here is the owner, he's the GM. You liked the
team so much you bought it. Here's Jerry Jones commenting
on another lost cow Boys season. Tiger was.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We certainly didn't think we'd be here in this kind
of shape with three games to go, and hacked be
behind the eight ball the way we are. It's very disappointing.
I'm really obviously very disappointed for our fans. I'm disappointed
for these players. I didn't expect that. I thought we
could come out here and on both sides of the
ball make a better accounting of ourself. Minnesota did the
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best job out there today on both sides.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Of the low. Okay, so let me translate that for
those of you who are a little slow. That's Jerry's
way of saying we blow. That's his way of saying that.
So that is a good starting point to this. And
I think the jumping off point would be George Pickens
because that's the subplot to this. George Pickens was there,
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he played and did next to nothing. And this continues
a recent theme for George Pickens as the Cowboys wide
receiver who was the toast of the town a little
while back, but not anymore. So let us discuss the
question is this, how does this performance change things for
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the Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens going forward. So I
got warn Buffett, tea spoon, and wagon wheel, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some delicious corn bread is what we're
going to make, with the proper amount of butter, a
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nice warm butter on top. That sounds like a delicious
meal to me. Well, not a meal, it's a corn bread.
It's not a meal, but it's an addition to a meal.
It's an add on. It enhances the dining experience properly
made corn bread. So the way we'll start, and obviously
this changes things. It continues to change things big time, big, big,
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big time. For a few weeks. For a few weeks,
George Pickens was I guess I amposter syndrome. Is that
the way you discover he was playing like a legitimate
number one wide receiver, number one in the entire NFL.
There and Jerry Jones was out on his radio shows
every week, very braggadocious. Jerry was celebrating how good George
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Pickens was and really congratulating himself in many ways for
making the deal to acquire George Pickens. As many Cowboy fans,
they're not that bright. I can't believe. How did we
get this guy for a couple of late trappers. I
don't understand. Well, now you understand, dummy, Now you get it, dummy.
That's why he was available, George Pickens. That's exactly why
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George Pickens. You could have gotten him for a cup
of sand, which is what the Cowboys gave up to
get George Pickens. This is it, you know, Jerry bragging
and all that stuff. He pulled his shoulder muscle, Jerry
Jones did, patting himself on the back. He was so
proud of himself. Full on navel gazing from Jerry Jones.
And now fast forward a couple of weeks and all
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of a sudden, the costume is off. And as Warren
Buffett famously said back in the day, when the tide
goes out, you see who's swimming naked, And we now know,
we now know that's Peckts and Stark naked there in
Jerry Jones on the shoreline, right there in Jerry's world.
And Mike Tomlin somewhere in the greater Pittsburgh area yet again,
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taking a victory lap for the Pitts sparg Steelers. There
they play on Monday Night football against the Miami Dolphins,
and Tomlin doing a victory lap there, sticking his tongue
out and going no, no, no, no, boo boo, just like that,
that's exactly what he's doing. And all the eld haters
there told you so. The last three games, George Pickens
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has caught fifty percent of his passes, just fourteen catches
in three games, one hundred and fifty eight yards, no touchdowns,
and has gotten worse by the week. If you look
at the diagram, down down, down, down, down down down,
just like that, just like that, and not a weapon,
not a weapon, doing little cardio. I don't get my
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workout in. It's on television, the little cardio. And not
even a decoy. He's not even involved enough as a decoy.
He's not that like at this point, George Pickens is
a ship. He's a ghost ship, is what he is.
An empty vessel, just kind of drifting aimlessly on the
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Jerry world, see and just kind of floating along there.
Now the bottom line, he's not in the bubble of trust,
cannot be in the bubble of trust, not even close.
And you know, if you have the Cowboys and Jerry Jones,
he runs the show. It's his world, as we all know,
it's his world. So Jerry Jones, you can't you can't
extend this guy, you can't trust him. Cannot do it now.
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I give him a one year deal or something like that.
But any more than that, forget about it. Forget about it.
Are now on the Minnesota side of things. The question,
and it's a burning question. Did quarterback JJ McCarthy play
his way out of the Vikings dungeon? Did he play
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out of the Vikings dungeon? That's the question. So I
would say not quite, is the way I would approach that,
because he's got one foot out of the cell JJ
McCarthy at this point. The rest of his body, though,
is still chained to the wall on the brig. If
you know what I'm saying, you feel me on that,
all right? So the good news is, and I will
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be Benny Brightside a lot of great listeners in the
Twin Seas, I would be Benny bright Side here that
if you look at this JJ McCarthy's his Viking ship.
The ship ain't be sinking at this moment. It's not sinking.
The bad news, See, that's the good news. The ship
is not sinking. The bad news is they're still bailing
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water out and all they have is a tea spoon.
And so it's the odds are not good. The odds
are not good here and McCarthy finally showing a bit
of a pulse. We thought he was completely gone, completely gone.
That not the case. There's a bit of a flicker.
Do we go full spark? I don't know that we
want to go full spark. I'm not ready to go
full spark. I can't go full spark. Not gonna go
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full spark. Will not do full spark. Not gonna happen,
Not full spark. Sorry no. And here's he's drifting out
McCarthy of the Purple Haze, like a groggy boxer making
it to his knees in that scene in every boxing movie,
we make it to your knees right before the ten
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count and the referees all sweaty and leans in to
count you out, and then you kind of get up
a little bit. That's McCarthy at this point. However, let's
not throw a parade right in front of hollering James
group home in the greater Minneapolis area there because this
came against the last couple of games commanders who really
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looked spent. I mean they just looked the bad anyway,
and they played an overtime game of the Broncos the
week prior, and then this Cowboy team a couple of defenses.
If you were to say, what is the the toughness
level of the Cowboys defense and the Commander's defense, it's
very similar to Coolwhip if you've ever tried to stop
a train with cool whip, it you need a lot
of cool whip to stop the train. I really like
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a ton of cool web. It's it's a problem. Uh
it is, so anyway, list and there's there's still some
warning flares out there, several of them for JJ McCarthy
here that are shining shooting off into the night sky
and you're like, well, what's going on with that, McCarthy.
And the big one for me is you have the
top wide receiver in the game. You all told me
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that JJ McCarthy gets to throw the ball to Justin Jefferson.
I mean, this guy's a total stud. He's being paid
like a total stud, and yet they're speaking different languages.
Someone needs to get them a Rosetta stone because it's
not it's not good, mister wonderful. I mean, Justin Jefferson
had two catches for eight on two guys eight targets.
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You had twenty two yards but eight targets. That means
six of the targets did not connect if my mal
or math is correct on that, which is essentially the
witness protection level witness protection level statline, the Vikings went
two for nine on third down. Kevin O'Connell treated the
passing game like it was radioactive. For the Vikings only
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twenty four pass attempts, that's it, and it worked a
full game in modern NFL football, where you play hide
and seek with your quarterback. You know what. That reminds
me of Jim Harball when he was coaching at Michigan.
And so, yeah, it's progress. For jj McCarthy, it is progress,
but it's baby steps in mid December, which is kind
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of like learning to crawl during a marathon. Like that's
usually not how that goes. You're not supposed to be
doing that, but here we are. And so it's desperation.
They got to find a lot from McCarthy in the
next few weeks or they're going to go back to
market they being the Vikings and try to get somebody
else in there. And so it's not really growth, it's
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just there's something else going on there. And the dungeon
door is cracked, as we said, for McCarthy, and you know,
he's still kind of hearing the jailer's keys Jinglin a
little bit there on the side, and it's not great.
All right, now, last word, let's just get right to
the story of the weekend. If there's one word that
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would sum up the Sunday in the NFL, it would
be the I word, as in injury, Yes, injury and
the man alive. What a what a hot mess? That
was the Three Musketeers. He had quarterback Patrick Mahomes the
snap suffered a torn ACL and that's it. That's all
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she wrote. He's out for the year. Only a few
weeks ago, Chiefs have been eliminated. The Green Bay Packers
lost star edge rusher Micah Parsons shortly after Mahomes went down.
Parsons went down. That's the crackle. NFL's highest paid non quarterback,
highest paid defensive player in the NFL. He tore his ACL.
He's out for the year. And wide receiver Davonte Adams
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the hammy went whammy for the Rams, although the injury
report not as bad as the other two. Here the
Hollywood style kind of like NFL injury. In Hollywood, they
say celebrity DEAs. Rule of three is the theme there,
and one star dies, then two more tend to follow,
and that's how the common wisdom goes. Apparently with NFL
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injuries it's a similar thing. So the question of the three,
you've got Patrick Mahomes, Michael Parsons and Davonte Adams, three
big names, household names in the NFL if you care
about football, all hurt. Which one is the biggest? So
I preface this for Terry and England. We do not
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do lists. We do not believe in list on this show,
as Terry knows, and he's the gatekeeper that we don't
do this. But on Big Ben's Big board, which is
not a list, as Shannon de Moine knows, not a list,
but on Big Ben's Big board. Here's how it shakes out.
So at number three, Devonte Adams coming in at number three.
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Here we mentioned the hammy went whammy for Devonte Adams,
but it's not a season ending injury, at least not
at this point. So they'll attempt the Rams to rub
some dirt on it. They'll try to rub some dirt
on it, and then they'll duct tape the hammy and
then after that they'll put some icy hot on it,
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give it a couple of advil, and then call it aday,
call it a day after that. So that's the plan there.
It is code read for the Rams. They going to
Seattle and that's a very beatable team with Seattle. How
embarrassing was that Seattle needing a late field goal to
beat Grandpa at quarterback? Holy crap. Seattle's worse than I thought.
By the way, if they had to they need a
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field goal, their top three defensive guys were out and
they had forty four year old. The Colts had forty
four year old you know, mister Rivers out there, and
they still had to lead the final second. Unbelievable. How
bad is that Seattle team is? But anyway, the Rams
going to Seattle. And listen, the secret weapon for the
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Rams this year has been in the red zone. Devonte
Adams has been the man, the myth, the legend. And
so now more pressure on Puka Nakua to get her
done there. And they still have a bunch of torpedoes
the Rams, so they should be all right. At number two,
Patrick mahomey, have we done a wellness check on keg
our keg drinking friend in Kansas City? Nor so? Patrick
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Mahomes torn to acl season cooked burnt toast for Kansas City.
The Chiefs were already moving like the drunk uncle at
the wedding and Patrick Mahomes sending the season to the well,
he was out by the time the season ended, but
they weren't winning that game anyway. So Patrick Mahomes there
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will spend his off season getting a lot of quality
time with rehab clinics in Kansas City and wherever he
travels to and all that, and they'll stitch him back
together and they'll give him some terminator parts and some
wizard dust and he'll be back and we'll likely miss
half of next season. Though this is gonna spill over
based on what I've been hearing, this is gonna spill over,
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just on timeline. Mahomes will not be ready to go
next September when the NFL season kicks off. So that
Mahomes magic, that hocus pocus, the Abra cadabra temporarily unplugged.
And again that leaves us with number one. That would
be Micah Parsons, and Micah Parsons that injury, and I
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don't want to be too dramatic, that is a kick
to the testicles for the green Bay Packers. It is
that's a right to the cheese kurds for green Bay.
They went out of character. They went out of character
green Bay. They decide we're gonna somebody almost never do.
We're gonna go all in this season. We're gonna trade
some draft picks, and we're gonna get the player and
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pay him the highest contract ever given to a defensive player.
Michah Parsons, you shot, you shoot your shot. They shot
their shot there, and they put Michaeh. Parsons right in
the center of the wagon wheel, right there in the middle,
right in the middle of the wagon wheel. And now
the wagon wheel is sinking in the quicksand outside Sherboygan,
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it's not it's not going very well at this point.
So the whole advantage that you had where you all
love to brag to me when Parsons would have a
bad game, I would point that out and the packer
stockholders would get very upset with me, and they said, well,
you know, it's because he's getting double teamed. Okay, well
you know have to worry about that. No more double teams,
no more fear, no more chaos on that side there,
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that's all down the drain there, Michael Parsons, he's out,
and a year of Parsons prime, a year of his
prime wasted. And it's also a dead giveaway that this
is an indictment on Jordan Love, that Jordan is simply
not good enough. That that's really the lesson. Based on
what I've been hearing from the Packer stockholders out there,
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they're like, we're cooked. Now. If you had a truly
great quarterback, you could make up for that. You could
Jordan Love could play out of his mind bonkers football
for a month and could win a championship. And as
he showed late against the Denver Broncos, he's not that guy.
You're not that guy, Pal, You're not that guy. And
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he can't carry the team. And so really the Packers
are they're double cooked because not on his Parson is
going to be out also part of next year. You
also got a quarterback and you've given a decent amount
of money to who's not an alpha, he's an omega.
That's problematic. And so as for the people claiming it's
not fair, oh my god, it's not fair. Stop star power.
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It happens, Guys get hurt. This is why it's not
flag football, even though the NFL would love for this
to be flag football. People get hurt in that anyway.
The NFL regular season. Again, this is the way I
was taught oh, you're old malor.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
It was.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It was, Hey, a war of attrition. Like you play
the regular season with integrity, you play it to your
fullest ability, and then oftentimes the team that wins the
championship is the one that has the fewest injuries. And
so that's really what this is. Green Bay is not
going to be that team. They're not. It sucks rocks.
I mean, there's no question it sucks rocks and all that.
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You're not dealing with robots, even robots would get hurt.
You're dealing with plausibly human beings, and so there's no
load management. And if this is with the NBA, then
Micah Parsons wouldn't have played. He would have just waited
to the playoffs, because that's what NBA ballers do, right.
I then don't want to play. God forbid we play,
we might hurt ourselves. So that's not yet fully the
mindset in the NFL, and I'm happy about that.
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Speaker 1 (23:27):
Let's go to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. And I'm
so happy that this happened this year and not last
year because I would have been blamed, you know, it
making all about me. I was able to go to Arrowhead.
I saw the Chiefs last year last November against the Broncos,
one of the craziest games I've ever been at. That
was the game the Broncos had the game winning field
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goal blocked and the Chiefs won and they end up
going to the Super Bowl before they fell apart and
the hangover has continued. So Kansas City playing host to
the Charger in an AFC West Brew ha ha in
this key game for Kansas City, Stand Alive, Stand Alive,
taking on the Chargers. I don't know if you watch
the game or not. Now, if you had Kansas City
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winning this game and staying alive in the playoff race
in the AFC, you are a big fat loser, You're
a loser. As the Chargers said, turn out the last
the parties over. They eliminate Kansas City from playoff contention.
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They are d E A D debt debt debt Derwin
James picking off a pass from Gardner Minshew. Yes, Gardner Minshew,
number seventeen in your program, but number ninety nine in
your heart. Gardner Minshew was in there. He had taken
over for an injured Patrick Mahomes. As we mentioned earlier
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in this program, Mahomes done for the season. He was
injured late. The game was already over pretty much at
that point, closing seconds, and so Cans City goes down.
Chargers get a win. They won by three, and the
reigning AFC champions are no more as they have been
exterminated and decommissioned from the playoffs. Justin Herbert had two
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uttered ten yards. Modest numbers, and so the quarterback apologist
will say he's had he's hard. What's long with Yeah? Okay,
fine two uttered ten yards and a touchdown for the
team from SoCal. The Chargers get to ten wins, ten
and four consecutive ten win seasons for the first time
since they were the old San Diego Chargers. Show me
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your lightning bolt way back in six seven. My god,
So the rare season sweep, very rare season sweep for
the Chargers over the Chiefs. The story here, though, is
clearly in the loser's locker room. This is a pivot point,
is it not? At least it feels like a pivot
point that here we are. The Chiefs have been eliminated.
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They have been excommunicated from the NFL postseason after all
of these years, first time in ten years, ten years,
the Chiefs will not be hanging out in playoff football.
No wild card game. You don't have to worry about
the AFC Championship game. You don't have to worry about
going to the Super Bowl in San Francisco, although I
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imagine many of those guys that go out there to
sell all the crap they're trying to sell you on
radio row. That's usually what happens. But let us discuss
the question, and we're gonna get into this right now
we're going to focus on Andy Reid. All right, So
the question is who gets most of the blame for
Andy Reid's Chiefs missing the plauf. Who's most to blame
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for Andy Reid's Chiefs missing the playff? So I've got
sewing machine, swamp water, and Applebee's and we will combine
all of these things together and we will punch you
right in your intestines, is what we're gonna do. So
before we get into this, let's hear from Andy Reid.
Everyone's very concerned about the morale, the morale of Kansas City.
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Here's it what Andy Reid had to say on that top.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Oh yeah, guys are down the bust of their butt
to win the game, you know, and I wouldn't expect
anything less. So you know, it's not a great feeling.
I wouldn't expect it to be after losing a game.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Okay, was anyone expecting any other feeling they think they
were gonna have like a Chuck E Cheese party, go down,
play some ski ball or something like that, Like what
are we gonna do? So as far as who's most
to blame for the Chiefs missing the playoff under Andy Reid,
number one. Let's start at the very top. The snake
rocks from the head down. Let's start with mahomes magic.
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It went poof, Oh my god, you can't say that. Yeah,
you can absolutely say he ends the year in the
injury tent, which is a bummer. However, let's not let
that cloud the reality of the situation. You watch the
NFL this year, Long before Mahomes suffered the season ending injury,
Patrick Mahomes went to the candy shop and he ordered
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fun dip. Except it wasn't so fun. The fun Dip
wasn't fun. Normally, Mahomes has been a wizard, the wizard
of Arrowhead and under pressure pulling rabbits out of the
helmet and this guy's magic wand and all that. And
this year he turned on the sewing machine and he
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stitched together a bunch of overthrows and bad wreaths and
ill timed giveaways and passes bouncing off receivers, hands and
helmets and all that stuf and on the deep ball
for Mahomes, it has been the Rocky Mountain horror show,
is what it's been here and more picks than touchdowns
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for Mahomes, barely completing a third of those deep passes
for the Kansas City Chiefs offense. Now, is he still
an elite player?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Has he had an elite season. No, he did not
have an elite season, and a lot of butter fingers
around him. Butter fingers, a lot of butterfingers at the
worst possible moments, which is part of the story. And
he didn't get much help. But ultimately a lot of
that is on Mahomes though also for not there were
some terrible games, he said the last month here, as
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things continued to go the wrong direction. You also have
to point out the drops were often drive killers. They
were Rashie Rice. I hope he is better now at
the driving than he was before, because he's not very
good at football these days. My god, Travis Kelsey, who's
thirty six, I believe he moves like a cell phone
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maybe older than that now, like a cell phone on
low power, like you know, the batteries on a loan
and it says, all right, you plug your phone in,
you got ten percent power. And he caught passes the
way you'd expect a podcast, like if we put Joe
Rogan out there and said, hey, Joe, catch some passes. Okay,
Joe would catch passes the way Travis Kelsey caught passes
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a lot of bricks brick house like the Combodoor's there
no separation, no vertical threat at all. The front office. Now,
the other indictment here is on the Chiefs front office,
like they just assume we're gonna get some guys back,
and you know what happens when you assume, and we'll
be okay, and everything'll be fine there. And they sat
on their hands at the trade deadline. They refused to
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give up any draft picks to try to complete the roster.
They just kind of waited. It was like, it's like, well,
we're out of samples at Costco. Let's wait until they
fill up the sample trae. Okay, we'll wait. Well they
never did. They went home. The people that put the
samples out their day was done. That was it. And
so you look at everything. Yeah, the defense, Chris Jones,
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keeping up with the Joneses. If there's one mall to
me that sums up this entire season for the Chiefs,
it was the game against Jacksonville was I believe a
Monday night game, and you remember Trevor Lawrence fell down
a couple of times and Chris Jones, mister all everything
defensive star face of the franchise, his effort, his lack
(31:23):
of hustle was next level and just caught on tape
and then got all defensive about it and all that.
Like that kind of sums up this season, just like
the offense had the thing of the jigs that weren't working,
the watching mccollegs. But the defense, the numbers weren't terrible,
but then there were these little things like they couldn't
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get the do hickey to work, and it was just
a big It was a big mess bottom third and
sacks bottom third and pressures third down stops were not
great for the Chiefs defense, and they couldn't get off
the field. Often when they needed to get off the field,
they couldn't get off the field. So the ma if
you do the Malet math crunch the numbers on the
Chiefs here it's shared blame, which is never fun. But
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the buck ultimately does stop with Mahomes because he's he
was able to elevate the players around him, and this
year he did not elevate the players around him on offense,
and the defense wasn't good enough to pick up the
slack and now they find themselves watching the playoffs when
that comes around here in January. All right now, page two,
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So continuing the theme of the hour, the theme of
the hour, The question here is Chiefs coach Andy Reid,
big Rad. Is Andy Reid in danger of being whacked?
Is he going to be collateral damage from the Chiefs
being failures this year, not even making the playoffs? So
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in terms of Andy Reid being in danger, is he
about to get fired? No? Is he in stranger danger?
I'm nodding my head. Yes, I'm gonna nod my head. Yes,
on Andy Reid. I don't see him being fired, just
like you get out of here. However, the massage goodbye,
I call it the massage, whether he's finesse, you know
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what I'm talking about. Like this whole thing smells right now,
And it doesn't smell like delicious barbecue at the tailgated arrowhead.
It doesn't smell like that. It's musty, it's funky, and
it's kind of like the equipment. If you've ever been
around hockey, the goalies equipment smells like ass just horrible.
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Or I guess any gym bag, any gym bag on
a hot, hot day. You know, sitting out there in
the sun during the summer just smells really gnarly bad
and terrible. And Andy Reid you talking about Mahomes being
the wizard of Arrowhead, Well, Andy Reid was the maestro
of offensive play calling. And this season the Chiefs attack
it looked like his spell book. The spellbook for Andy
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Reid was soaked in swamp water and the pages were
sticking together. There was no real creativity, just kind of
reheated leftover and it wasn't working and so and this
didn't just pop up one overnight for the Chiefs. Now,
this has been festering. You remember last year in the
second half there were some signs that things were not
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going well, and then it bottomed out in the Super
Bowl when the Chiefs got smoked by the Philadelphia Eagles,
and so Big Red was unable to find the source
of the mildew, couldn't find it. And Mahomes, as good
as Mahomes has been this year, he could not find
a can of fabreeze big enough to take care of
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the flatulence in the phone booth that was taking place here.
And normally you get a mulligan when you're a legend.
We're gonna give that person a mulligan. They're a legend
of the game that the whispers out of Kansas City
are that there are some factions saying it's time to
make a change, and it's the perfect time now with
Mahomes being hurt, because you bring in a new coach,
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you'll let them settle in. There'll be no expectations for
the chiefs. Kelsey's going to retire. Mahomes will be out
at least probably half the year. Next year, you bring
a new coaching staff in, they don't have any real
pressure on them. They go in there kind of set
up their own thing. And these are grassroots whispers, is
what they are. You know, pitchforks padded in bubble wrap,
(35:22):
if you will, and all that stuff, and people gonna
lean into the age game. We saw what happened with Pete.
Pete Carroll was not fired by the Seattle Seahawks, although
he was fired, they just made it seem like he
left to take an advisor's role. We know that's bull
crap because he immediately came back to coach the Raiders,
if you want to call what he's doing coaching the Raiders,
and so it'd be like, well, Andy Reids, old, let's
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just send Grandpa to the retirement home at midnight when
no one's looking, and I just can watch. My advice
now is to watch for leaks, watch for the league
source behind a paywall on the athletic watch for someone
connected to Mahomes questioning Andy Reid, and useful idiots in
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the media pushing the Andy slipping stories in the media
that he's not doing this right and he's screwing this
thing up. And then the Mahomes needs a new voice.
As we said and read now, the saving grace for
Andy Reid, and there is a saving grace is there
are no obvious replacements. It's just no obvious name that
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they say, Okay, we get that guy and we're gold.
The only one that would make a little bit of
sense would be Cliff Kingsbury, who's the OC of the
Washington Commanders, and he coached Mahomes in college at Texas Tech.
And there's a guy. How about Cliff Kingsbury was a
hot he was hot, hot to trot last year Washington
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got to the final four in the NFL playoffs, and
then he didn't take a head coaching jobs are arrogant.
He didn't like the jobs that were open. And now
you think anyone's gonna go out of the way to
hire Cliff Kingsbury after the Washington offense tank this year.
Come on, he had a chance and he set it out.
But that would be the only one. Arrowhead mahomes Cliff Kingsbury.
There's a connection there. And so unless he leaves the
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beltway and heads over and with a whiteboard in hand
and drop plays for Patrick mahomes the loyalty, so that
the malord math on Andy Reid. He's in the danger zone.
The good news is there's no one who's really stepping up.
You're like, oh, that guy's gonna get the job, all right.
Final point now to the pop star in the corner
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of the room, question, what does the storyline of the
Chiefs being eliminated from playoff considerations? What does this do
for the Taylor Swift fueled NFL conspiracy theories that have
been going around for several years. So I'll address this.
(37:57):
This is the snuffleophagus in the room. This is what
happens when a conspiracy theory runs out of oxygen. There's
no more auction here. The Taylor Swift fueled NFL rigging crowd.
Can we do a wellness check on them? Are they
doing okay? Are they quietly right now? They're slipping out
(38:18):
the emergency exit at the Applebee's, and they don't want
to pay the check. They're like, I was just going
to get out of apple as we go through the
emergency exit, We're not paying the check. That's it. For years,
those that partake not farmer John, Their engagement farmers is
what they are. They're doing engagement farming. And they've got
their tinfoil sombreros on and they swore up and down
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on the Holy Bible that the NFL was greasing the skids,
that it was all a rig deal for Kansas City.
It was the Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift romance. It was
the Golden Boy Patrick Mahomes, a scripted love story. And
if it was a scripted love story, wouldn't it end
with the Super Bowl confetti in the air everywhere, drippling down, down, down,
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down down the confetti just like that February retirement. Then
sometime in the spring wedding vibes with the biggest wedding
in America in many, many years. There instead Travis Kelcey
couldn't I guess we could say couldn't shake it off.
He was unable to shake it off this year and
it was just a bad year. And he limped off
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Arrowhead and with a bit of a blank space. He
had a bit of a blank space where the magic
used to be, and he was kind of frozen there.
And that stench that the Chiefs had on offense there.
You know, it's just bad bad blood. There's another one
bad blood. So did not go well here, and the
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wizardry of the Chiefs obviously away. Kelsey's magic gone, the
plot armor ripped away for the conspiracy theory. And this
was not cinema. This was definitely not cinema. It was
a documentary, but not the documentary Taylor Swift's been in
here recently. No refs with Q cards, we didn't have
any of that. No Lombardi delivery service on demand, we
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didn't get that. Just a football boone doggle. It was
a boone doggle. And now Travis kelce can look at
Taylor Swift and mutter, look what you made me do?
It's another one. By the way, I think that's a
that's a song. Look what you mean it is anyway,
(40:38):
all right, So the conspiracy is dead for now. Now
the big story is, will Taylor Swift dump Travis Kelsey?
She's a winner, she's only married a loser. Will Taylor
Swift Willy break up before the wedding? And will she
whoever wins the Super Bowl, will she latch onto that
team's tight end. Inquiring minds would like to know, But
I do expect a spin off conspiracy, and here's my
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my expectation using the Mallard crystal ball. As you know,
I am a distant relative of Nostre damas friend of Nostradinas.
He lives in Seattle, but not his wife. She's a vegan,
but anyway, she's a nice woman, but she's a vegan.
So the conspiracy theory would be that Taylor Swift wanted
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the Chiefs to lose so her husband to be Travis
Kelsey will have more time to plan the wedding, and
so she wanted to make sure and he's healthy relatively speaking,
and all that stuff. So it's worked out well on me.
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Ben Trevor Lawrence had a historic performance on this Sunday,
first player in NFL history with five passing touchdowns, a
rushing touchdown, and fifty plus rushing yards in a single game.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Are we buying the Jaguars yet? I'm not. They're obviously
playing very well, They're good. I'm not quite fully on board.
I'm like looking at the train and I'm seeing the engine.
There's some steam engines there. There's you know, locomotives that
look pretty impressive. I'm not. I just it's gonna take more.
They play the Jets, coop. You know they're supposed to
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win that game when you play the Jets. So I'll
hold off on that next.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
So you kind of alluded to it during your phone
call with Andrea, But a lot of people have been
making this connection. Tom Brady tore his ACL in his
ninth season. This is Patrick Mahomes' ninth season. They both
had three Super Bowls at the time of the torn ACL.
Of course, Tom Brady came back and won four more.
Do you think Patrick Mahomes is gonna come back and
have you know, at least somewhat kind of a similar success.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Well, yeah, if he's gonna have to commit himself and
you get in great shape, and that's part of his job.
He's selling his body. That's what you do. You're a
professional athlete, You're selling your body. That's your product. There.
So Tom Brady was always in pretty good shape. My homes.
It was a little chubby. Any little chubby. He's enjoying.
He's gonna father likes donuts. I like donuts too, But
I don't play quarterback in the NFL. So get in
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good shape, I can. Why not they can win another
couple of Super Bowls in Kansas City. This is not
Tom Brady two point zero though.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Next, Fernando Mendoza became the first ever player from Indiana
to win the Highestman Trophy over the weekend, and now
he is the favorite to be the number one overall
pick in the NFL draft. I don't believe I was
gonna say, do you think that's gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Though I've seen him play obviously Andianism one of the
top teas. I just doesn't even look like an NFL
quarterback to me. I don't am I missing something like
he's just like he's fine. He's got the height, he
just doesn't there's nothing magical about his game. I'm gonna
say he will not be then a more pick. How
did we doubt he passes? Adition? That is, he went
put away. Not a great year for quarterbacks, though in
the draft doesn't look great.
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of coming attractions. But enough of that, it's get right
into it. Don't waste any time, waste anytime. So our
lead this hour from Jerry's World. That's whe We're going
to start the Dallas Divas in Action hosting the Purple
(03:11):
People Eaters. And I mean lying if I said the
game had any juice. There was really no juice in
the game other than the fact that you just put
the Cowboys on TV. They could be peeling oranges and
people would watch. They could be chopping up onions like
a line line cook and just people would be watching.
It didn't matter. So he had Chris Collinsworth and Mike
(03:32):
Tarico an Island game. They had the call on the
peacock there and see. So I don't know if you
watched it or not. Maybe you were not watching, you
were burned out from the other events of the day
and you did not watch that. We are somewhat I
don't know, directly paid to watch. But if we don't
watch it, kind of what are we doing. So we
watched and red Shirt rookie J J. McCarthy looking like
(03:57):
he actually kind of knew what he was doing a
little bit. That's not a it's crazy though. He threw
a couple of touchdowns, he ran for a score, and
the great CJ. Ham just in time for the Christmas holiday. CJ.
Ham had the go ahead touchdown on his first carry
of the season. That's good efficiency there. And the Minnesota
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Vikings put a giant dent in the Jerry Mobile Jerry
Jones playoff hopes there with a thirty four to twenty
six victory over the once proud Dallas Cowboys. They say,
once proud, that was back thirty years ago. They really
haven't been proud since then. The Vikings get to their
six wins, their six and eight sub five hundred, They
win their second consecutive game, and they were eliminated, see
(04:42):
you later, Bye bye, Nana na na hey, hey, good bye.
Eliminated from postseason consideration before the kickoff of this game.
But they didn't have a pity party. They didn't say,
oh woe is me, We've been eliminated. And they went
out there. They played that game. They played the game,
and they ended up well winning but still losing in
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the end. So Minnesota was a fourteen win team a
year ago, and now they do not qualify for the postseason.
Now the Cowboys six seven and one, they have to win.
Check this out. You want to just eliminate the Cowboys
for God's sakes, This is what the Cowboys have. So
(05:23):
in order for them to make the playoffs, they have
to win their three remaining games. And then in addition,
but wait, there's more, they need the Philadelphia Eagles to
lose all three of their games in order for Dallas
to overtake the Eagles in the NFC East Philly. Mind you,
they do play Buffalo, however, the other two games are
(05:44):
against the Washington Commanders. Hello, yeah, so good luck on that.
Here is the owner, he's the GM. You liked the
team so much you bought it. Here's Jerry Jones commenting
on another lost cow Boys season. Tiger was.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We certainly didn't think we'd be here in this kind
of shape with three games to go, and hacked be
behind the eight ball the way we are. It's very disappointing.
I'm really obviously very disappointed for our fans. I'm disappointed
for these players. I didn't expect that. I thought we
could come out here and on both sides of the
ball make a better accounting of ourself. Minnesota did the
(06:25):
best job out there today on both sides.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Of the low. Okay, so let me translate that for
those of you who are a little slow. That's Jerry's
way of saying we blow. That's his way of saying that.
So that is a good starting point to this. And
I think the jumping off point would be George Pickens
because that's the subplot to this. George Pickens was there,
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he played and did next to nothing. And this continues
a recent theme for George Pickens as the Cowboys wide
receiver who was the toast of the town a little
while back, but not anymore. So let us discuss the
question is this, how does this performance change things for
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the Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens going forward. So I
got warn Buffett, tea spoon, and wagon wheel, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some delicious corn bread is what we're
going to make, with the proper amount of butter, a
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nice warm butter on top. That sounds like a delicious
meal to me. Well, not a meal, it's a corn bread.
It's not a meal, but it's an addition to a meal.
It's an add on. It enhances the dining experience properly
made corn bread. So the way we'll start, and obviously
this changes things. It continues to change things big time, big, big,
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big time. For a few weeks. For a few weeks,
George Pickens was I guess I amposter syndrome. Is that
the way you discover he was playing like a legitimate
number one wide receiver, number one in the entire NFL.
There and Jerry Jones was out on his radio shows
every week, very braggadocious. Jerry was celebrating how good George
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Pickens was and really congratulating himself in many ways for
making the deal to acquire George Pickens. As many Cowboy fans,
they're not that bright. I can't believe. How did we
get this guy for a couple of late trappers. I
don't understand. Well, now you understand, dummy, Now you get it, dummy.
That's why he was available, George Pickens. That's exactly why
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George Pickens. You could have gotten him for a cup
of sand, which is what the Cowboys gave up to
get George Pickens. This is it, you know, Jerry bragging
and all that stuff. He pulled his shoulder muscle, Jerry
Jones did, patting himself on the back. He was so
proud of himself. Full on navel gazing from Jerry Jones.
And now fast forward a couple of weeks and all
(08:55):
of a sudden, the costume is off. And as Warren
Buffett famously said back in the day, when the tide
goes out, you see who's swimming naked, And we now know,
we now know that's Peckts and Stark naked there in
Jerry Jones on the shoreline, right there in Jerry's world.
And Mike Tomlin somewhere in the greater Pittsburgh area yet again,
(09:18):
taking a victory lap for the Pitts sparg Steelers. There
they play on Monday Night football against the Miami Dolphins,
and Tomlin doing a victory lap there, sticking his tongue
out and going no, no, no, no, boo boo, just like that,
that's exactly what he's doing. And all the eld haters
there told you so. The last three games, George Pickens
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has caught fifty percent of his passes, just fourteen catches
in three games, one hundred and fifty eight yards, no touchdowns,
and has gotten worse by the week. If you look
at the diagram, down down, down, down, down down down,
just like that, just like that, and not a weapon,
not a weapon, doing little cardio. I don't get my
(10:00):
workout in. It's on television, the little cardio. And not
even a decoy. He's not even involved enough as a decoy.
He's not that like at this point, George Pickens is
a ship. He's a ghost ship, is what he is.
An empty vessel, just kind of drifting aimlessly on the
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Jerry world, see and just kind of floating along there.
Now the bottom line, he's not in the bubble of trust,
cannot be in the bubble of trust, not even close.
And you know, if you have the Cowboys and Jerry Jones,
he runs the show. It's his world, as we all know,
it's his world. So Jerry Jones, you can't you can't
extend this guy, you can't trust him. Cannot do it now.
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I give him a one year deal or something like that.
But any more than that, forget about it. Forget about it.
Are now on the Minnesota side of things. The question,
and it's a burning question. Did quarterback JJ McCarthy play
his way out of the Vikings dungeon? Did he play
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out of the Vikings dungeon? That's the question. So I
would say not quite, is the way I would approach that,
because he's got one foot out of the cell JJ
McCarthy at this point. The rest of his body, though,
is still chained to the wall on the brig. If
you know what I'm saying, you feel me on that,
all right? So the good news is, and I will
(11:25):
be Benny Brightside a lot of great listeners in the
Twin Seas, I would be Benny bright Side here that
if you look at this JJ McCarthy's his Viking ship.
The ship ain't be sinking at this moment. It's not sinking.
The bad news, See, that's the good news. The ship
is not sinking. The bad news is they're still bailing
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water out and all they have is a tea spoon.
And so it's the odds are not good. The odds
are not good here and McCarthy finally showing a bit
of a pulse. We thought he was completely gone, completely gone.
That not the case. There's a bit of a flicker.
Do we go full spark? I don't know that we
want to go full spark. I'm not ready to go
full spark. I can't go full spark. Not gonna go
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full spark. Will not do full spark. Not gonna happen,
Not full spark. Sorry no. And here's he's drifting out
McCarthy of the Purple Haze, like a groggy boxer making
it to his knees in that scene in every boxing movie,
we make it to your knees right before the ten
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count and the referees all sweaty and leans in to
count you out, and then you kind of get up
a little bit. That's McCarthy at this point. However, let's
not throw a parade right in front of hollering James
group home in the greater Minneapolis area there because this
came against the last couple of games commanders who really
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looked spent. I mean they just looked the bad anyway,
and they played an overtime game of the Broncos the
week prior, and then this Cowboy team a couple of defenses.
If you were to say, what is the the toughness
level of the Cowboys defense and the Commander's defense, it's
very similar to Coolwhip if you've ever tried to stop
a train with cool whip, it you need a lot
of cool whip to stop the train. I really like
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a ton of cool web. It's it's a problem. Uh
it is, so anyway, list and there's there's still some
warning flares out there, several of them for JJ McCarthy
here that are shining shooting off into the night sky
and you're like, well, what's going on with that, McCarthy.
And the big one for me is you have the
top wide receiver in the game. You all told me
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that JJ McCarthy gets to throw the ball to Justin Jefferson.
I mean, this guy's a total stud. He's being paid
like a total stud, and yet they're speaking different languages.
Someone needs to get them a Rosetta stone because it's
not it's not good, mister wonderful. I mean, Justin Jefferson
had two catches for eight on two guys eight targets.
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You had twenty two yards but eight targets. That means
six of the targets did not connect if my mal
or math is correct on that, which is essentially the
witness protection level witness protection level statline, the Vikings went
two for nine on third down. Kevin O'Connell treated the
passing game like it was radioactive. For the Vikings only
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twenty four pass attempts, that's it, and it worked a
full game in modern NFL football, where you play hide
and seek with your quarterback. You know what. That reminds
me of Jim Harball when he was coaching at Michigan.
And so, yeah, it's progress. For jj McCarthy, it is progress,
but it's baby steps in mid December, which is kind
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of like learning to crawl during a marathon. Like that's
usually not how that goes. You're not supposed to be
doing that, but here we are. And so it's desperation.
They got to find a lot from McCarthy in the
next few weeks or they're going to go back to
market they being the Vikings and try to get somebody
else in there. And so it's not really growth, it's
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just there's something else going on there. And the dungeon
door is cracked, as we said, for McCarthy, and you know,
he's still kind of hearing the jailer's keys Jinglin a
little bit there on the side, and it's not great.
All right, now, last word, let's just get right to
the story of the weekend. If there's one word that
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would sum up the Sunday in the NFL, it would
be the I word, as in injury, Yes, injury and
the man alive. What a what a hot mess? That
was the Three Musketeers. He had quarterback Patrick Mahomes the
snap suffered a torn ACL and that's it. That's all
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she wrote. He's out for the year. Only a few
weeks ago, Chiefs have been eliminated. The Green Bay Packers
lost star edge rusher Micah Parsons shortly after Mahomes went down.
Parsons went down. That's the crackle. NFL's highest paid non quarterback,
highest paid defensive player in the NFL. He tore his ACL.
He's out for the year. And wide receiver Davonte Adams
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the hammy went whammy for the Rams, although the injury
report not as bad as the other two. Here the
Hollywood style kind of like NFL injury. In Hollywood, they
say celebrity DEAs. Rule of three is the theme there,
and one star dies, then two more tend to follow,
and that's how the common wisdom goes. Apparently with NFL
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injuries it's a similar thing. So the question of the three,
you've got Patrick Mahomes, Michael Parsons and Davonte Adams, three
big names, household names in the NFL if you care
about football, all hurt. Which one is the biggest? So
I preface this for Terry and England. We do not
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do lists. We do not believe in list on this show,
as Terry knows, and he's the gatekeeper that we don't
do this. But on Big Ben's Big board, which is
not a list, as Shannon de Moine knows, not a list,
but on Big Ben's Big board. Here's how it shakes out.
So at number three, Devonte Adams coming in at number three.
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Here we mentioned the hammy went whammy for Devonte Adams,
but it's not a season ending injury, at least not
at this point. So they'll attempt the Rams to rub
some dirt on it. They'll try to rub some dirt
on it, and then they'll duct tape the hammy and
then after that they'll put some icy hot on it,
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give it a couple of advil, and then call it aday,
call it a day after that. So that's the plan there.
It is code read for the Rams. They going to
Seattle and that's a very beatable team with Seattle. How
embarrassing was that Seattle needing a late field goal to
beat Grandpa at quarterback? Holy crap. Seattle's worse than I thought.
By the way, if they had to they need a
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field goal, their top three defensive guys were out and
they had forty four year old. The Colts had forty
four year old you know, mister Rivers out there, and
they still had to lead the final second. Unbelievable. How
bad is that Seattle team is? But anyway, the Rams
going to Seattle. And listen, the secret weapon for the
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Rams this year has been in the red zone. Devonte
Adams has been the man, the myth, the legend. And
so now more pressure on Puka Nakua to get her
done there. And they still have a bunch of torpedoes
the Rams, so they should be all right. At number two,
Patrick mahomey, have we done a wellness check on keg
our keg drinking friend in Kansas City? Nor so? Patrick
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Mahomes torn to acl season cooked burnt toast for Kansas City.
The Chiefs were already moving like the drunk uncle at
the wedding and Patrick Mahomes sending the season to the well,
he was out by the time the season ended, but
they weren't winning that game anyway. So Patrick Mahomes there
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will spend his off season getting a lot of quality
time with rehab clinics in Kansas City and wherever he
travels to and all that, and they'll stitch him back
together and they'll give him some terminator parts and some
wizard dust and he'll be back and we'll likely miss
half of next season. Though this is gonna spill over
based on what I've been hearing, this is gonna spill over,
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just on timeline. Mahomes will not be ready to go
next September when the NFL season kicks off. So that
Mahomes magic, that hocus pocus, the Abra cadabra temporarily unplugged.
And again that leaves us with number one. That would
be Micah Parsons, and Micah Parsons that injury, and I
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don't want to be too dramatic, that is a kick
to the testicles for the green Bay Packers. It is
that's a right to the cheese kurds for green Bay.
They went out of character. They went out of character
green Bay. They decide we're gonna somebody almost never do.
We're gonna go all in this season. We're gonna trade
some draft picks, and we're gonna get the player and
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pay him the highest contract ever given to a defensive player.
Michah Parsons, you shot, you shoot your shot. They shot
their shot there, and they put Michaeh. Parsons right in
the center of the wagon wheel, right there in the middle,
right in the middle of the wagon wheel. And now
the wagon wheel is sinking in the quicksand outside Sherboygan,
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it's not it's not going very well at this point.
So the whole advantage that you had where you all
love to brag to me when Parsons would have a
bad game, I would point that out and the packer
stockholders would get very upset with me, and they said, well,
you know, it's because he's getting double teamed. Okay, well
you know have to worry about that. No more double teams,
no more fear, no more chaos on that side there,
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that's all down the drain there, Michael Parsons, he's out,
and a year of Parsons prime, a year of his
prime wasted. And it's also a dead giveaway that this
is an indictment on Jordan Love, that Jordan is simply
not good enough. That that's really the lesson. Based on
what I've been hearing from the Packer stockholders out there,
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they're like, we're cooked. Now. If you had a truly
great quarterback, you could make up for that. You could
Jordan Love could play out of his mind bonkers football
for a month and could win a championship. And as
he showed late against the Denver Broncos, he's not that guy.
You're not that guy, Pal, You're not that guy. And
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he can't carry the team. And so really the Packers
are they're double cooked because not on his Parson is
going to be out also part of next year. You
also got a quarterback and you've given a decent amount
of money to who's not an alpha, he's an omega.
That's problematic. And so as for the people claiming it's
not fair, oh my god, it's not fair. Stop star power.
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It happens, Guys get hurt. This is why it's not
flag football, even though the NFL would love for this
to be flag football. People get hurt in that anyway.
The NFL regular season. Again, this is the way I
was taught oh, you're old malor.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
It was.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It was, Hey, a war of attrition. Like you play
the regular season with integrity, you play it to your
fullest ability, and then oftentimes the team that wins the
championship is the one that has the fewest injuries. And
so that's really what this is. Green Bay is not
going to be that team. They're not. It sucks rocks.
I mean, there's no question it sucks rocks and all that.
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You're not dealing with robots, even robots would get hurt.
You're dealing with plausibly human beings, and so there's no
load management. And if this is with the NBA, then
Micah Parsons wouldn't have played. He would have just waited
to the playoffs, because that's what NBA ballers do, right.
I then don't want to play. God forbid we play,
we might hurt ourselves. So that's not yet fully the
mindset in the NFL, and I'm happy about that.
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Speaker 1 (23:27):
Let's go to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. And I'm
so happy that this happened this year and not last
year because I would have been blamed, you know, it
making all about me. I was able to go to Arrowhead.
I saw the Chiefs last year last November against the Broncos,
one of the craziest games I've ever been at. That
was the game the Broncos had the game winning field
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goal blocked and the Chiefs won and they end up
going to the Super Bowl before they fell apart and
the hangover has continued. So Kansas City playing host to
the Charger in an AFC West Brew ha ha in
this key game for Kansas City, Stand Alive, Stand Alive,
taking on the Chargers. I don't know if you watch
the game or not. Now, if you had Kansas City
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winning this game and staying alive in the playoff race
in the AFC, you are a big fat loser, You're
a loser. As the Chargers said, turn out the last
the parties over. They eliminate Kansas City from playoff contention.
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They are d E A D debt debt debt Derwin
James picking off a pass from Gardner Minshew. Yes, Gardner Minshew,
number seventeen in your program, but number ninety nine in
your heart. Gardner Minshew was in there. He had taken
over for an injured Patrick Mahomes. As we mentioned earlier
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in this program, Mahomes done for the season. He was
injured late. The game was already over pretty much at
that point, closing seconds, and so Cans City goes down.
Chargers get a win. They won by three, and the
reigning AFC champions are no more as they have been
exterminated and decommissioned from the playoffs. Justin Herbert had two
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uttered ten yards. Modest numbers, and so the quarterback apologist
will say he's had he's hard. What's long with Yeah? Okay,
fine two uttered ten yards and a touchdown for the
team from SoCal. The Chargers get to ten wins, ten
and four consecutive ten win seasons for the first time
since they were the old San Diego Chargers. Show me
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your lightning bolt way back in six seven. My god,
So the rare season sweep, very rare season sweep for
the Chargers over the Chiefs. The story here, though, is
clearly in the loser's locker room. This is a pivot point,
is it not? At least it feels like a pivot
point that here we are. The Chiefs have been eliminated.
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They have been excommunicated from the NFL postseason after all
of these years, first time in ten years, ten years,
the Chiefs will not be hanging out in playoff football.
No wild card game. You don't have to worry about
the AFC Championship game. You don't have to worry about
going to the Super Bowl in San Francisco, although I
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imagine many of those guys that go out there to
sell all the crap they're trying to sell you on
radio row. That's usually what happens. But let us discuss
the question, and we're gonna get into this right now
we're going to focus on Andy Reid. All right, So
the question is who gets most of the blame for
Andy Reid's Chiefs missing the plauf. Who's most to blame
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for Andy Reid's Chiefs missing the playff? So I've got
sewing machine, swamp water, and Applebee's and we will combine
all of these things together and we will punch you
right in your intestines, is what we're gonna do. So
before we get into this, let's hear from Andy Reid.
Everyone's very concerned about the morale, the morale of Kansas City.
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Here's it what Andy Reid had to say on that top.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Oh yeah, guys are down the bust of their butt
to win the game, you know, and I wouldn't expect
anything less. So you know, it's not a great feeling.
I wouldn't expect it to be after losing a game.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Okay, was anyone expecting any other feeling they think they
were gonna have like a Chuck E Cheese party, go down,
play some ski ball or something like that, Like what
are we gonna do? So as far as who's most
to blame for the Chiefs missing the playoff under Andy Reid,
number one. Let's start at the very top. The snake
rocks from the head down. Let's start with mahomes magic.
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It went poof, Oh my god, you can't say that. Yeah,
you can absolutely say he ends the year in the
injury tent, which is a bummer. However, let's not let
that cloud the reality of the situation. You watch the
NFL this year, Long before Mahomes suffered the season ending injury,
Patrick Mahomes went to the candy shop and he ordered
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fun dip. Except it wasn't so fun. The fun Dip
wasn't fun. Normally, Mahomes has been a wizard, the wizard
of Arrowhead and under pressure pulling rabbits out of the
helmet and this guy's magic wand and all that. And
this year he turned on the sewing machine and he
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stitched together a bunch of overthrows and bad wreaths and
ill timed giveaways and passes bouncing off receivers, hands and
helmets and all that stuf and on the deep ball
for Mahomes, it has been the Rocky Mountain horror show,
is what it's been here and more picks than touchdowns
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for Mahomes, barely completing a third of those deep passes
for the Kansas City Chiefs offense. Now, is he still
an elite player?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Has he had an elite season. No, he did not
have an elite season, and a lot of butter fingers
around him. Butter fingers, a lot of butterfingers at the
worst possible moments, which is part of the story. And
he didn't get much help. But ultimately a lot of
that is on Mahomes though also for not there were
some terrible games, he said the last month here, as
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things continued to go the wrong direction. You also have
to point out the drops were often drive killers. They
were Rashie Rice. I hope he is better now at
the driving than he was before, because he's not very
good at football these days. My god, Travis Kelsey, who's
thirty six, I believe he moves like a cell phone
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maybe older than that now, like a cell phone on
low power, like you know, the batteries on a loan
and it says, all right, you plug your phone in,
you got ten percent power. And he caught passes the
way you'd expect a podcast, like if we put Joe
Rogan out there and said, hey, Joe, catch some passes. Okay,
Joe would catch passes the way Travis Kelsey caught passes
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a lot of bricks brick house like the Combodoor's there
no separation, no vertical threat at all. The front office. Now,
the other indictment here is on the Chiefs front office,
like they just assume we're gonna get some guys back,
and you know what happens when you assume, and we'll
be okay, and everything'll be fine there. And they sat
on their hands at the trade deadline. They refused to
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give up any draft picks to try to complete the roster.
They just kind of waited. It was like, it's like, well,
we're out of samples at Costco. Let's wait until they
fill up the sample trae. Okay, we'll wait. Well they
never did. They went home. The people that put the
samples out their day was done. That was it. And
so you look at everything. Yeah, the defense, Chris Jones,
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keeping up with the Joneses. If there's one mall to
me that sums up this entire season for the Chiefs,
it was the game against Jacksonville was I believe a
Monday night game, and you remember Trevor Lawrence fell down
a couple of times and Chris Jones, mister all everything
defensive star face of the franchise, his effort, his lack
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of hustle was next level and just caught on tape
and then got all defensive about it and all that.
Like that kind of sums up this season, just like
the offense had the thing of the jigs that weren't working,
the watching mccollegs. But the defense, the numbers weren't terrible,
but then there were these little things like they couldn't
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get the do hickey to work, and it was just
a big It was a big mess bottom third and
sacks bottom third and pressures third down stops were not
great for the Chiefs defense, and they couldn't get off
the field. Often when they needed to get off the field,
they couldn't get off the field. So the ma if
you do the Malet math crunch the numbers on the
Chiefs here it's shared blame, which is never fun. But
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the buck ultimately does stop with Mahomes because he's he
was able to elevate the players around him, and this
year he did not elevate the players around him on offense,
and the defense wasn't good enough to pick up the
slack and now they find themselves watching the playoffs when
that comes around here in January. All right now, page two,
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So continuing the theme of the hour, the theme of
the hour, The question here is Chiefs coach Andy Reid,
big Rad. Is Andy Reid in danger of being whacked?
Is he going to be collateral damage from the Chiefs
being failures this year, not even making the playoffs? So
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in terms of Andy Reid being in danger, is he
about to get fired? No? Is he in stranger danger?
I'm nodding my head. Yes, I'm gonna nod my head. Yes,
on Andy Reid. I don't see him being fired, just
like you get out of here. However, the massage goodbye,
I call it the massage, whether he's finesse, you know
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what I'm talking about. Like this whole thing smells right now,
And it doesn't smell like delicious barbecue at the tailgated arrowhead.
It doesn't smell like that. It's musty, it's funky, and
it's kind of like the equipment. If you've ever been
around hockey, the goalies equipment smells like ass just horrible.
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Or I guess any gym bag, any gym bag on
a hot, hot day. You know, sitting out there in
the sun during the summer just smells really gnarly bad
and terrible. And Andy Reid you talking about Mahomes being
the wizard of Arrowhead, Well, Andy Reid was the maestro
of offensive play calling. And this season the Chiefs attack
it looked like his spell book. The spellbook for Andy
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Reid was soaked in swamp water and the pages were
sticking together. There was no real creativity, just kind of
reheated leftover and it wasn't working and so and this
didn't just pop up one overnight for the Chiefs. Now,
this has been festering. You remember last year in the
second half there were some signs that things were not
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going well, and then it bottomed out in the Super
Bowl when the Chiefs got smoked by the Philadelphia Eagles,
and so Big Red was unable to find the source
of the mildew, couldn't find it. And Mahomes, as good
as Mahomes has been this year, he could not find
a can of fabreeze big enough to take care of
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the flatulence in the phone booth that was taking place here.
And normally you get a mulligan when you're a legend.
We're gonna give that person a mulligan. They're a legend
of the game that the whispers out of Kansas City
are that there are some factions saying it's time to
make a change, and it's the perfect time now with
Mahomes being hurt, because you bring in a new coach,
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you'll let them settle in. There'll be no expectations for
the chiefs. Kelsey's going to retire. Mahomes will be out
at least probably half the year. Next year, you bring
a new coaching staff in, they don't have any real
pressure on them. They go in there kind of set
up their own thing. And these are grassroots whispers, is
what they are. You know, pitchforks padded in bubble wrap,
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if you will, and all that stuff, and people gonna
lean into the age game. We saw what happened with Pete.
Pete Carroll was not fired by the Seattle Seahawks, although
he was fired, they just made it seem like he
left to take an advisor's role. We know that's bull
crap because he immediately came back to coach the Raiders,
if you want to call what he's doing coaching the Raiders,
and so it'd be like, well, Andy Reids, old, let's
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just send Grandpa to the retirement home at midnight when
no one's looking, and I just can watch. My advice
now is to watch for leaks, watch for the league
source behind a paywall on the athletic watch for someone
connected to Mahomes questioning Andy Reid, and useful idiots in
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the media pushing the Andy slipping stories in the media
that he's not doing this right and he's screwing this
thing up. And then the Mahomes needs a new voice.
As we said and read now, the saving grace for
Andy Reid, and there is a saving grace is there
are no obvious replacements. It's just no obvious name that
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they say, Okay, we get that guy and we're gold.
The only one that would make a little bit of
sense would be Cliff Kingsbury, who's the OC of the
Washington Commanders, and he coached Mahomes in college at Texas Tech.
And there's a guy. How about Cliff Kingsbury was a
hot he was hot, hot to trot last year Washington
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got to the final four in the NFL playoffs, and
then he didn't take a head coaching jobs are arrogant.
He didn't like the jobs that were open. And now
you think anyone's gonna go out of the way to
hire Cliff Kingsbury after the Washington offense tank this year.
Come on, he had a chance and he set it out.
But that would be the only one. Arrowhead mahomes Cliff Kingsbury.
There's a connection there. And so unless he leaves the
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beltway and heads over and with a whiteboard in hand
and drop plays for Patrick mahomes the loyalty, so that
the malord math on Andy Reid. He's in the danger zone.
The good news is there's no one who's really stepping up.
You're like, oh, that guy's gonna get the job, all right.
Final point now to the pop star in the corner
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of the room, question, what does the storyline of the
Chiefs being eliminated from playoff considerations? What does this do
for the Taylor Swift fueled NFL conspiracy theories that have
been going around for several years. So I'll address this.
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This is the snuffleophagus in the room. This is what
happens when a conspiracy theory runs out of oxygen. There's
no more auction here. The Taylor Swift fueled NFL rigging crowd.
Can we do a wellness check on them? Are they
doing okay? Are they quietly right now? They're slipping out
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the emergency exit at the Applebee's, and they don't want
to pay the check. They're like, I was just going
to get out of apple as we go through the
emergency exit, We're not paying the check. That's it. For years,
those that partake not farmer John, Their engagement farmers is
what they are. They're doing engagement farming. And they've got
their tinfoil sombreros on and they swore up and down
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on the Holy Bible that the NFL was greasing the skids,
that it was all a rig deal for Kansas City.
It was the Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift romance. It was
the Golden Boy Patrick Mahomes, a scripted love story. And
if it was a scripted love story, wouldn't it end
with the Super Bowl confetti in the air everywhere, drippling down, down, down,
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down down the confetti just like that February retirement. Then
sometime in the spring wedding vibes with the biggest wedding
in America in many, many years. There instead Travis Kelcey
couldn't I guess we could say couldn't shake it off.
He was unable to shake it off this year and
it was just a bad year. And he limped off
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Arrowhead and with a bit of a blank space. He
had a bit of a blank space where the magic
used to be, and he was kind of frozen there.
And that stench that the Chiefs had on offense there.
You know, it's just bad bad blood. There's another one
bad blood. So did not go well here, and the
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wizardry of the Chiefs obviously away. Kelsey's magic gone, the
plot armor ripped away for the conspiracy theory. And this
was not cinema. This was definitely not cinema. It was
a documentary, but not the documentary Taylor Swift's been in
here recently. No refs with Q cards, we didn't have
any of that. No Lombardi delivery service on demand, we
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didn't get that. Just a football boone doggle. It was
a boone doggle. And now Travis kelce can look at
Taylor Swift and mutter, look what you made me do?
It's another one. By the way, I think that's a
that's a song. Look what you mean it is anyway,
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all right, So the conspiracy is dead for now. Now
the big story is, will Taylor Swift dump Travis Kelsey?
She's a winner, she's only married a loser. Will Taylor
Swift Willy break up before the wedding? And will she
whoever wins the Super Bowl, will she latch onto that
team's tight end. Inquiring minds would like to know, But
I do expect a spin off conspiracy, and here's my
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my expectation using the Mallard crystal ball. As you know,
I am a distant relative of Nostre damas friend of Nostradinas.
He lives in Seattle, but not his wife. She's a vegan,
but anyway, she's a nice woman, but she's a vegan.
So the conspiracy theory would be that Taylor Swift wanted
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the Chiefs to lose so her husband to be Travis
Kelsey will have more time to plan the wedding, and
so she wanted to make sure and he's healthy relatively speaking,
and all that stuff. So it's worked out well on me.
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Speaker 1 (41:43):
It's Mallard. How about that to the third degree, This
gets all right.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Ben Trevor Lawrence had a historic performance on this Sunday,
first player in NFL history with five passing touchdowns, a
rushing touchdown, and fifty plus rushing yards in a single game.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Are we buying the Jaguars yet? I'm not. They're obviously
playing very well, They're good. I'm not quite fully on board.
I'm like looking at the train and I'm seeing the engine.
There's some steam engines there. There's you know, locomotives that
look pretty impressive. I'm not. I just it's gonna take more.
They play the Jets, coop. You know they're supposed to
(42:21):
win that game when you play the Jets. So I'll
hold off on that next.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
So you kind of alluded to it during your phone
call with Andrea, But a lot of people have been
making this connection. Tom Brady tore his ACL in his
ninth season. This is Patrick Mahomes' ninth season. They both
had three Super Bowls at the time of the torn ACL.
Of course, Tom Brady came back and won four more.
Do you think Patrick Mahomes is gonna come back and
have you know, at least somewhat kind of a similar success.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Well, yeah, if he's gonna have to commit himself and
you get in great shape, and that's part of his job.
He's selling his body. That's what you do. You're a
professional athlete, You're selling your body. That's your product. There.
So Tom Brady was always in pretty good shape. My homes.
It was a little chubby. Any little chubby. He's enjoying.
He's gonna father likes donuts. I like donuts too, But
I don't play quarterback in the NFL. So get in
(43:09):
good shape, I can. Why not they can win another
couple of Super Bowls in Kansas City. This is not
Tom Brady two point zero though.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Next, Fernando Mendoza became the first ever player from Indiana
to win the Highestman Trophy over the weekend, and now
he is the favorite to be the number one overall
pick in the NFL draft. I don't believe I was
gonna say, do you think that's gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Though I've seen him play obviously Andianism one of the
top teas. I just doesn't even look like an NFL
quarterback to me. I don't am I missing something like
he's just like he's fine. He's got the height, he
just doesn't there's nothing magical about his game. I'm gonna
say he will not be then a more pick. How
did we doubt he passes? Adition? That is, he went
put away. Not a great year for quarterbacks, though in
the draft doesn't look great.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
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Speaker 1 (44:05):
Hey you sports figure, guy or girl? Who got here
with you? Talking to so here some incident advice? Hold
that on, no one's paid attention to me for ten
whole seconds. And if you don't like it, anyway we go.
It's the advice line Onscreened Radio. As we get started
here and reminder, Mark points out that this portion of
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on assist dot com. Who needs our advice? Well, it's
all over now. They've been decommissioned. Cans City out of
the playoffs. Patrick Holmes a season ending injury that will
spill into next year. Snap crackle pop at Arrowhead. Any
advice to Ma Holmes, Travis Kelcey and Andy Reid As
(45:12):
the Chiefs have been bumped. They're not gonna make the
playoffs this year. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox
is the number eight seven seven nine nine six six
three six nine. You're live on the air. When you
hear my voice, Hello, line number one, Hello, Line.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
One, Holiday Road.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
All right, there we go call it here next, Hello caller, Hello.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Take ninety minute showers. It'll help you sell boot Lake
merch outside of Airwhead Stadium.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
Yeah, just like the Great helmet Man Sofa Stadium. Also Hello,
Line four, you're on the airline for we're giving advice
to the Chiefs. Unscreened radio. You're on the airline four
morning time.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
And look at it, Ben, Did you know Henry Ford
was a driven man?
Speaker 1 (45:56):
Oh? I see you. There you go. It's a card
joke here, all right, you're on your collar. Five yellow.
You're on the air line five.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
Oh that's random laugh guy, that's just random laugh guy.
Let's go to you. Line six, you're on there. It's
unscreened radio. Get quick, right to the point, right off
the air. Hello. Line six.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Andy Reid celebrates making the playoffs with a cheeseburger.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
And he celebrates and I'm making the playoffs. That's a
great way to live life. Live life, cheeseburgers to paradise.
Line number one, you're on the airline one, eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Hello, line one, Yeah, boyor time Philepercawns, Yippie.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Bitter blind Scott caller. You're on the air Hello caller,
go oh Ben.
Speaker 5 (46:42):
My advice is just start another dynasty, Am Lisa.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Okay, all right, pull your pants back up your dope.
Line four, you're on the air line four. You gotta
eating barbecue and enjoy playing football. That's wonderful advice. That's
that's our friend from Iowa. I believe I Line up five.
You're on the airline five.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
Hello, Daniel Mallards. You coming to the hood this year?
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Uh yeah, I'll be. You don't invite met me, invite
me over man, I'll come down, I'll hang out.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
I want more.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Hurr up Pine one. Line one you're on there, go
Line one, god go go. No Line one, you're too slow.
Line one bet job bye Line one
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