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So we have met our quota. We talked about the NCAA Men's basketball Tournament and it was a dud last hour, so we will move on from that and get back to where the power is. The power is kept on here. The lights are on because of the National Football League and our lead this hour from northern Kentucky or very very southern Ohio. And while some some we're bracket busting and filling out different brackets and whatnot, an NFL team under the cover of darkness, moving in a clandestine way to pay a lot of money out. Now, if you didn't hear the Bengals wrote not one, but two cartoon sized checks the news coming down on Sunday night, Sunday night over the weekend. If you did not hear, perhaps not the Benggals. The Cincinnati football team has agreed to deals with Jamar Chase four years, one hundred and sixty one million Dead Presidents, making him the highest paid non quarterback non quarterback in NFL history. That has changed three times. Three times in the past ten days. There has been a different player at the very top. It started with Max Crosby from the Raiders who got paid. And then the guy that really wanted to win and wanted to be traded from the Cleveland Browns because he couldn't win in Cleveland. And then the Browns made him the highest paid non quarterback, Miles Garrett, and suddenly he didn't care about winning. He wanted to play for the Browns. And now now it's Jamar Chase. So Jamar Chase is at the very top. He is under contract. I know you're concerned about his finances through twenty twenty nine, so he's he's locked in. But wait, there's more. So not only one hundred and twelve million Garon teed for Jamar Chase, but you also have t Higgins, the franchise tag wide receiver T Higgins was he traded of the Patriots. No t Higgins gets a four year deal for one hundred and fifteen million, making him the highest paid number two, number two receiver in NFL history. Not a number one, not a number one. He's the deuce and he's getting paid a lot of money. The first two years of T. Higgins contract are guaranteed, so essentially it's a two year deal. After that, there's some loopholes and whatnot. The deal keeping Higgins, who's twenty six, in a ben Gal's uniform through the twenty twenty eight season. So let us discuss the money flying everywhere in the NFL, even in Cincinnati. Wow. All right, So question for the panel, what do you make We've seen the moves. Shit, we went over the moves here, these moves to extend Jamar Chase and T Higgins. What are these moves signify to you? What do these moves signify the Jamar Chase T Higgins contract. So I've got Whistlestop, Dolly Parton, and primal Fear, and we will combine all of these things together and we are gonna make the Gaba Ghoul Because these guys can buy as much Gabba Ghul as they want. They're loaded. So to lead off, here. This is the way I will phrase it is out of character. If you've been around for a few years, this is very unbangal like what they're doing here. In fact, when I saw this at first, I thought, well, this must be some kind of satire. This must be Sports Talk Berry or one of those satire sites. This is not real. But it turns out it is legit. That we double checked it, did the discount double check, and sure enough, the Cincinnati football team was able to dust the cobwebs off the wallet and pay out a bunch of money. And that's old family money. Normally, old family money does not get spent this way, not by the Bengals. They are the cheapest franchise in the NFL. That they did this, now, why did they do it? It signifies we are going to pacify. We're going to buy the biggest pacifier we can get to that. Joe Burrow, right, Joe Burrow was over there bitching that the Bengals needed to keep this team together, a team that didn't even make the playoffs last year. And Burrow's out there screaming, you got to keep these And it turns out the lesson of this story and you can't disagree with me on this is that the grumbling by Joe Burrow, grumble, grumbo grumbo. The grumbling by Joe Burrow worked his little whistle stop tour around the NFL media Super Bowl week and around that time where he publicly advocated and demanded that ownership pay these guys, and sure enough it actually worked. Right. The stump speech paid off two hundred and seventy six million dollars in contracts handed out. Not all of it guaranteed, but most of it is. Most of it is guaranteed to t Higgins and also to Jamar Chase. So Joe Burrow somewhere at a secret location with a cheshire cat smile from ear to ear that his koviching, his complaining paid off right and way to go, It all worked out. Burrow, by the way, is getting two hundred nineteen million dollars he's on his that's in guaranteed money. And the great thing about this is that as good as I believe Joe Burrow is, he does not have to make players around him better. There was for many, many years this belief if you're going to pay a quarterback top dollar, they're so good they elevate the players around them. But what Joe Burrow has publicly stated, I think it's kind of clear here that he needed these guys on his team is he's not good enough to elevate the players around him. Otherwise it would have made more fiscal sense to allow at least one of those two receivers to go somewhere else. But what Joe Burrow wis said, Hey, I'm not good enough as a quarterback, and so i have to have these premier receivers because I can't take a B level receiver and turn them into an A level receiver. And I'd be tremendously handicapped as a quarterback if I don't have these guys. And ownership agreed with the Bengals. Ownership's like, you know, you're right, You're absolutely CORRECTO, You're not that good. And now you look around, and so you've got an absolute loaded offense. You'll continue to have that. You have an elite one to two punch right there at wide receiver. And the Bengals with all those offensive dynamos, explosive players all over the field, and it's just wonderful, But yet where else are they? Right? You assume that the defensive star Trey Hendrickson will be traded at some point here soon. Can't imagine they'd signed him. If they weren't going to sign him, theyrobably would have announced it on Sunday night, over the weekend and do everything at the same time. There was no announcement, which there have been some rumors that Colts are interested in Hendrickson. Will see if that trade happens or not, but it'd be surprising at this point if the Bengals keep Hendrickson. They had a terrible defense last year, didn't make the playoffs. Now, furthermore, let's focus in. We're gonna lock in our laser pointer on T Higgins because T Higgins now the NFL's ninth highest paid wide receiver. Then we repeat that for those of you in the back room that are barely awake T Higgins. He's a wide receiver number two and T Higgins ninth highest paid receiver in the NFL. So that is a bitter pill to swallow. It is Higgins. Here's the way I look at against, Like, if I was the Patriots and I paid him that contract, you know that's justified. If I was the Chargers and I paid T Higgins that contract because he'd be my number one. So that makes a lot of sense. But if I'm Kansas City, I would I would pay T Higgins that countract If I'm the Bengals, it's not my money. It's fine. They want to burn money, you can do it. But from a just a logical standpoint, if you already have the number one receiver and you're paying him the most money of any player not a quarterback in the NFL at number two, you put your ninth highest contract for T Higgins. I mean, that is a that is a tough one. That is a tough one. You had to make Burrow happy. Burrow complained, right, you had to make him happy. He had a hissy fit, and so you make Burrow happy. But the second wide receiver is the ninth highest pace second wide receiver in your locker room and overall the Bengals, if you look at the way they're set up, they are like Dolly Parton, the Dolly Partner of the NFL. They're very top heavy, if you know what I mean. And Jamar Chase, T Higgins and Joe Burrow. The estimate is they're going to take up almost fifty percent of the salary cap. Now, I am a salary cap truther. I am a salary cap truth. I know that to be true, which means you can finagle the salary cap, and these contracts will be reworked in future years, and so there's some ways you can work around it. But to pay both receivers one okay, but seems seems be a little much. Seems a little much. And so Cincinnati is going to have a hodgepodge of players from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Amazon delivery drivers and Uber x drivers will be filling out their roster and that'll be the way that goes there. Good luck, I'm sure it'll work well. As long as you can go out and score thirty five points a game, you'll have a chance to win most games. And then that's the way it goes. Just send a bunch of flotsam and jets them out there and see how it goes.

So we have met our quota. We talked about the NCAA Men's basketball Tournament and it was a dud last hour, so we will move on from that and get back to where the power is. The power is kept on here. The lights are on because of the National Football League and our lead this hour from northern Kentucky or very very southern Ohio. And while some some we're bracket busting and filling out different brackets and whatnot, an NFL team under the cover of darkness, moving in a clandestine way to pay a lot of money out. Now, if you didn't hear the Bengals wrote not one, but two cartoon sized checks the news coming down on Sunday night, Sunday night over the weekend. If you did not hear, perhaps not the Benggals. The Cincinnati football team has agreed to deals with Jamar Chase four years, one hundred and sixty one million Dead Presidents, making him the highest paid non quarterback non quarterback in NFL history. That has changed three times. Three times in the past ten days. There has been a different player at the very top. It started with Max Crosby from the Raiders who got paid. And then the guy that really wanted to win and wanted to be traded from the Cleveland Browns because he couldn't win in Cleveland. And then the Browns made him the highest paid non quarterback, Miles Garrett, and suddenly he didn't care about winning. He wanted to play for the Browns. And now now it's Jamar Chase. So Jamar Chase is at the very top. He is under contract. I know you're concerned about his finances through twenty twenty nine, so he's he's locked in. But wait, there's more. So not only one hundred and twelve million Garon teed for Jamar Chase, but you also have t Higgins, the franchise tag wide receiver T Higgins was he traded of the Patriots. No t Higgins gets a four year deal for one hundred and fifteen million, making him the highest paid number two, number two receiver in NFL history. Not a number one, not a number one. He's the deuce and he's getting paid a lot of money. The first two years of T. Higgins contract are guaranteed, so essentially it's a two year deal. After that, there's some loopholes and whatnot. The deal keeping Higgins, who's twenty six, in a ben Gal's uniform through the twenty twenty eight season. So let us discuss the money flying everywhere in the NFL, even in Cincinnati. Wow. All right, So question for the panel, what do you make We've seen the moves. Shit, we went over the moves here, these moves to extend Jamar Chase and T Higgins. What are these moves signify to you? What do these moves signify the Jamar Chase T Higgins contract. So I've got Whistlestop, Dolly Parton, and primal Fear, and we will combine all of these things together and we are gonna make the Gaba Ghoul Because these guys can buy as much Gabba Ghul as they want. They're loaded. So to lead off, here. This is the way I will phrase it is out of character. If you've been around for a few years, this is very unbangal like what they're doing here. In fact, when I saw this at first, I thought, well, this must be some kind of satire. This must be Sports Talk Berry or one of those satire sites. This is not real. But it turns out it is legit. That we double checked it, did the discount double check, and sure enough, the Cincinnati football team was able to dust the cobwebs off the wallet and pay out a bunch of money. And that's old family money. Normally, old family money does not get spent this way, not by the Bengals. They are the cheapest franchise in the NFL. That they did this, now, why did they do it? It signifies we are going to pacify. We're going to buy the biggest pacifier we can get to that. Joe Burrow, right, Joe Burrow was over there bitching that the Bengals needed to keep this team together, a team that didn't even make the playoffs last year. And Burrow's out there screaming, you got to keep these And it turns out the lesson of this story and you can't disagree with me on this is that the grumbling by Joe Burrow, grumble, grumbo grumbo. The grumbling by Joe Burrow worked his little whistle stop tour around the NFL media Super Bowl week and around that time where he publicly advocated and demanded that ownership pay these guys, and sure enough it actually worked. Right. The stump speech paid off two hundred and seventy six million dollars in contracts handed out. Not all of it guaranteed, but most of it is. Most of it is guaranteed to t Higgins and also to Jamar Chase. So Joe Burrow somewhere at a secret location with a cheshire cat smile from ear to ear that his koviching, his complaining paid off right and way to go, It all worked out. Burrow, by the way, is getting two hundred nineteen million dollars he's on his that's in guaranteed money. And the great thing about this is that as good as I believe Joe Burrow is, he does not have to make players around him better. There was for many, many years this belief if you're going to pay a quarterback top dollar, they're so good they elevate the players around them. But what Joe Burrow has publicly stated, I think it's kind of clear here that he needed these guys on his team is he's not good enough to elevate the players around him. Otherwise it would have made more fiscal sense to allow at least one of those two receivers to go somewhere else. But what Joe Burrow wis said, Hey, I'm not good enough as a quarterback, and so i have to have these premier receivers because I can't take a B level receiver and turn them into an A level receiver. And I'd be tremendously handicapped as a quarterback if I don't have these guys. And ownership agreed with the Bengals. Ownership's like, you know, you're right, You're absolutely CORRECTO, You're not that good. And now you look around, and so you've got an absolute loaded offense. You'll continue to have that. You have an elite one to two punch right there at wide receiver. And the Bengals with all those offensive dynamos, explosive players all over the field, and it's just wonderful, But yet where else are they? Right? You assume that the defensive star Trey Hendrickson will be traded at some point here soon. Can't imagine they'd signed him. If they weren't going to sign him, theyrobably would have announced it on Sunday night, over the weekend and do everything at the same time. There was no announcement, which there have been some rumors that Colts are interested in Hendrickson. Will see if that trade happens or not, but it'd be surprising at this point if the Bengals keep Hendrickson. They had a terrible defense last year, didn't make the playoffs. Now, furthermore, let's focus in. We're gonna lock in our laser pointer on T Higgins because T Higgins now the NFL's ninth highest paid wide receiver. Then we repeat that for those of you in the back room that are barely awake T Higgins. He's a wide receiver number two and T Higgins ninth highest paid receiver in the NFL. So that is a bitter pill to swallow. It is Higgins. Here's the way I look at against, Like, if I was the Patriots and I paid him that contract, you know that's justified. If I was the Chargers and I paid T Higgins that contract because he'd be my number one. So that makes a lot of sense. But if I'm Kansas City, I would I would pay T Higgins that countract If I'm the Bengals, it's not my money. It's fine. They want to burn money, you can do it. But from a just a logical standpoint, if you already have the number one receiver and you're paying him the most money of any player not a quarterback in the NFL at number two, you put your ninth highest contract for T Higgins. I mean, that is a that is a tough one. That is a tough one. You had to make Burrow happy. Burrow complained, right, you had to make him happy. He had a hissy fit, and so you make Burrow happy. But the second wide receiver is the ninth highest pace second wide receiver in your locker room and overall the Bengals, if you look at the way they're set up, they are like Dolly Parton, the Dolly Partner of the NFL. They're very top heavy, if you know what I mean. And Jamar Chase, T Higgins and Joe Burrow. The estimate is they're going to take up almost fifty percent of the salary cap. Now, I am a salary cap truther. I am a salary cap truth. I know that to be true, which means you can finagle the salary cap, and these contracts will be reworked in future years, and so there's some ways you can work around it. But to pay both receivers one okay, but seems seems be a little much. Seems a little much. And so Cincinnati is going to have a hodgepodge of players from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Amazon delivery drivers and Uber x drivers will be filling out their roster and that'll be the way that goes there. Good luck, I'm sure it'll work well. As long as you can go out and score thirty five points a game, you'll have a chance to win most games. And then that's the way it goes. Just send a bunch of flotsam and jets them out there and see how it goes.

Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

So we had a lot to get to and I learned my lesson. We attempted to talk some hot college basketball in a previous episode of the show. We literally had to turn the transmitters back on. We had to turn the transmitters back on there. They just know no one left, and it was warning. There was like a light flashing, what are you doing? What are you doing? So we are going to go back to the thing that keeps the lights up here at the mighty powerful Fox Sports Radio studios here in the Premiere Networks building at the iHeart Building, which is in a different building. I don't know, but our lead this hour is from the neighborhood, from the neighborhood, mister Rogers neighborhood. I'm convinced that mister Rogers has ulterior motives here that Aaron Rodgers' goal, all right, his goal here is to just make sure that we have fresh content on sports media radio television, because we have a status update, a status update on Aaron Rodgers. If you've not been paying attention here, you've been distracted by some other shiny object. Aaron Rodgers is in the ballot booth. He's got the ball in front of him. It's got Steelers on the line right there below it's got the Giants, then it's got the Vikings with a question mark, and then at the very bottom it says none of the above. And so Rogers is in the voting booth and he's an undecided voter, and he's just decided that he doesn't want to decide. The decision is I don't want to do side anything at this point. And so his hands wobbling and he's got the shivers, he's got the flop sweat. He don't know what to do now. State sponsored NFL media, he propped the news service in the National Football League, tells us that the decision conceivably will not happen until the NFL Draft, which is, let me check my notes here, thirty seven days away, so over a month away. That you might remember a couple of years back when Aaron Rodgers was debating where he was gonna end up, and he's with the Green Bay Packers, and it was around the draft, if I remember correctly, when Rogers got off the toilet and finally decided to go live in the toilet, which is the Jets building there in New Jersey. So we've got some time here, if that's If that's act, of course, you'll get that report today tomorrow. There'll be a report that Rogers wants to decide by this weekend because there's a comic book festival somewhere he wants to go to. So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which you are part of the chatter that Aaron Rogers' free agentcision, the decision of Rogers could not come until the NFL Draft, which is in late April, believe it or not. So I've got drummer, FB, Express Train, and telemarketer, and we will combine all of these things together and we are going to make some jumbalaya, is what we're going to make. Not that Aaron Rodgers has ever eaten jumbalaya, I don't think he has, but we're just going to make some jumbala. So a my first thought on on the Rogers thing, to answer the question, is it a believe it or not situation? Well, I am a believer in this one. I believe believe is in the cards at this point. Because initially it was like, well, Roger's going to sign in the next forty eight hours. There was that report, and then that didn't happen, and then there were the tabloid photos of Rogers meandering around the beach in Malibu and contemplating the time space continuum as he wandered around there. But Rogers, one thing's for sure, he is not going to be bullied. You're not gonna bully Adam Schefter Aaron Rodgers into making a decision. It's not gonna happen. He marches to the beat of his own drummer, and his own drummer. Who knows that drummer might be named Joe Rogan or you know, somebody in the Trump administry. I don't know. I have no idea. But Rogers will not conform to what normal football decorum is. Right, the popular societal norms in the NFL is that you sign rapidly, and because because you've got a bottleneck here, you got other suckbag quarterbacks that are like, what about U? What about us? You know, like the Russell Wilson's out there, what about me? You got Kirk Cousins in Atlanta who we traded at some point here, and so they're like, hey, we suck too, but we want to go to different teams. What about us? And Rogers is at the front and what you can't the whole roads blocked. Rogers is blocking the whole road at this particular point. But he's in his canoe and he paddles his own canoe, and he's just gonna paddle la la la, la la la. I'm paddling my own canoe, just like that. That sound of him paddling his own canoe, refusing to follow the crowd, and Rogers figures, if you really want him, you're gonna wait for it. Yeah, you're gonna wait for him and ergo. You know what that means. Rogers wants to enjoy his downtime. See the way I'm reading this, the longer that Rogers is just floating in the wind like a tin can and a hurricane, just floating in the wind there, and he can do what ever he wants. He will walk around the beaches of Malibu, he can travel to the four corners of the planet. It doesn't matter right the moment he signs a deal, the moment Rogers agrees to a contract with the Steelers, the Giants, the Vikings or Mystery Team my favorite, the Mystery Team. The moment that happens. You know what that means. Rogers will then be expected to attend team functions, to be a leader, to not travel to Egypt when there's many camps going on, and so the longer he doesn't agree to a contract, the further he kicks it back, the more time he can do whatever he wants. And no one will criticize Rogers because he hasn't signed a contract. And it's as long as he drags it out. He can go hang out with Joe Rogan and Austin and do the podcast. He can travel to Tim Buck to and to go anywhere. It doesn't matter, right And as the world turns out. Speaking of as the world turns one of our favorite quarterbacks who loves crab legs, famous Jamis Winston is set to meet later on hours from now with the New York Football Giants, we are told, And so Jameis Winston, famous Jamis who played with Cleveland, not well, not well with Cleveland, then was a commentator for Fox during the Super Bowl coverage, and now Jamis Winston is going to meet with the New York Giants and free agency? Is that something or nothing? So have I jotted down on my my chicken scratch. I dritted down something and I'm pulling for Jamis Winston. If you're gonna get a mediocre to bad quarterback, if you're the Giants. You might as well go down this road. In fact, I will rubber stamp the malord rubber stamp of approval for Jamis Winston. That means a lot. It does. It means send that out on social media. That means a lot. That is the contingency plan for the Giants, the lesser of not two, the lesser of three evils. Because if you take the temperature in the room, it's pretty obvious Aaron Rodgers isn't all that interested in playing for the Giants. Does anyone disagree with that? I don't see any hands raised, So he's not interested in playing for the Giants. So you look around and you're like the bronze winner in that it's the Steelers, Vikings or retirement and then the Giants and the other options you got Russell Wilson, who's absolutely cooked at this particular point, and Kirk Cousins, whoopee dam doo. Those are your options Dollsville, Dollsville. So Jameis Winston is the antithesis of that. Now, I'm not sitting here and telling you behind the microphones of FSR that Jameis Winston's good. I don't believe he is. But what he is is. More importantly, he's on the train what I call the FB Express train, the fun Bad Express train, And I want fun bad. I love fun bad. Who doesn't enjoy fun back? Fun bad is great. I live for fun bad. If you're gonna be bad, at least be fun. Don't be bad boring, be fun bad. And that's Jameis Winston. He's mesmerizing. He's charismatic off the field, he says, goofy things. He's fun, just a fun loving guy and all that. He's a high risk, high reward situation, a quarterback. There one man band, it says in the Bible, Jameith Gibbeth and Jamith take it away. That involves throwing interceptions and pick sixes and all that, and it's fun. And for every two interceptions that Jameis Winston throws, he'll throw like a touchdown. For every two touchdowns, four interceptions, it's it's fascinating watch him play. And also, don't forget if he does go Jameis Winston to the Giants, that would mean that Saquon Barkley. His stretch of hits continues. Because remember at the Super Bowl media event, which used to be Media Day before it became commercialized by the NFL and he ruined it. But at that event, Jameis Winston interviewed Saquon Barkley called NFL opening that would have dope be named. They came up with it and they saw tickets or where they let people go. But Barkley was asked by Winston, hey, where should I go? And kind of sarcastically, Sequon Barkley said, well, I hear that New York the Giants need a quarterback. And sure enough, later today Jameis Winston will meet with the team that fired Saquon Barkley and allowed him to go to Philadelphia and lead the Eagles to the Super Bowl.

So we had a lot to get to and I learned my lesson. We attempted to talk some hot college basketball in a previous episode of the show. We literally had to turn the transmitters back on. We had to turn the transmitters back on there. They just know no one left, and it was warning. There was like a light flashing, what are you doing? What are you doing? So we are going to go back to the thing that keeps the lights up here at the mighty powerful Fox Sports Radio studios here in the Premiere Networks building at the iHeart Building, which is in a different building. I don't know, but our lead this hour is from the neighborhood, from the neighborhood, mister Rogers neighborhood. I'm convinced that mister Rogers has ulterior motives here that Aaron Rodgers' goal, all right, his goal here is to just make sure that we have fresh content on sports media radio television, because we have a status update, a status update on Aaron Rodgers. If you've not been paying attention here, you've been distracted by some other shiny object. Aaron Rodgers is in the ballot booth. He's got the ball in front of him. It's got Steelers on the line right there below it's got the Giants, then it's got the Vikings with a question mark, and then at the very bottom it says none of the above. And so Rogers is in the voting booth and he's an undecided voter, and he's just decided that he doesn't want to decide. The decision is I don't want to do side anything at this point. And so his hands wobbling and he's got the shivers, he's got the flop sweat. He don't know what to do now. State sponsored NFL media, he propped the news service in the National Football League, tells us that the decision conceivably will not happen until the NFL Draft, which is, let me check my notes here, thirty seven days away, so over a month away. That you might remember a couple of years back when Aaron Rodgers was debating where he was gonna end up, and he's with the Green Bay Packers, and it was around the draft, if I remember correctly, when Rogers got off the toilet and finally decided to go live in the toilet, which is the Jets building there in New Jersey. So we've got some time here, if that's If that's act, of course, you'll get that report today tomorrow. There'll be a report that Rogers wants to decide by this weekend because there's a comic book festival somewhere he wants to go to. So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which you are part of the chatter that Aaron Rogers' free agentcision, the decision of Rogers could not come until the NFL Draft, which is in late April, believe it or not. So I've got drummer, FB, Express Train, and telemarketer, and we will combine all of these things together and we are going to make some jumbalaya, is what we're going to make. Not that Aaron Rodgers has ever eaten jumbalaya, I don't think he has, but we're just going to make some jumbala. So a my first thought on on the Rogers thing, to answer the question, is it a believe it or not situation? Well, I am a believer in this one. I believe believe is in the cards at this point. Because initially it was like, well, Roger's going to sign in the next forty eight hours. There was that report, and then that didn't happen, and then there were the tabloid photos of Rogers meandering around the beach in Malibu and contemplating the time space continuum as he wandered around there. But Rogers, one thing's for sure, he is not going to be bullied. You're not gonna bully Adam Schefter Aaron Rodgers into making a decision. It's not gonna happen. He marches to the beat of his own drummer, and his own drummer. Who knows that drummer might be named Joe Rogan or you know, somebody in the Trump administry. I don't know. I have no idea. But Rogers will not conform to what normal football decorum is. Right, the popular societal norms in the NFL is that you sign rapidly, and because because you've got a bottleneck here, you got other suckbag quarterbacks that are like, what about U? What about us? You know, like the Russell Wilson's out there, what about me? You got Kirk Cousins in Atlanta who we traded at some point here, and so they're like, hey, we suck too, but we want to go to different teams. What about us? And Rogers is at the front and what you can't the whole roads blocked. Rogers is blocking the whole road at this particular point. But he's in his canoe and he paddles his own canoe, and he's just gonna paddle la la la, la la la. I'm paddling my own canoe, just like that. That sound of him paddling his own canoe, refusing to follow the crowd, and Rogers figures, if you really want him, you're gonna wait for it. Yeah, you're gonna wait for him and ergo. You know what that means. Rogers wants to enjoy his downtime. See the way I'm reading this, the longer that Rogers is just floating in the wind like a tin can and a hurricane, just floating in the wind there, and he can do what ever he wants. He will walk around the beaches of Malibu, he can travel to the four corners of the planet. It doesn't matter right the moment he signs a deal, the moment Rogers agrees to a contract with the Steelers, the Giants, the Vikings or Mystery Team my favorite, the Mystery Team. The moment that happens. You know what that means. Rogers will then be expected to attend team functions, to be a leader, to not travel to Egypt when there's many camps going on, and so the longer he doesn't agree to a contract, the further he kicks it back, the more time he can do whatever he wants. And no one will criticize Rogers because he hasn't signed a contract. And it's as long as he drags it out. He can go hang out with Joe Rogan and Austin and do the podcast. He can travel to Tim Buck to and to go anywhere. It doesn't matter, right And as the world turns out. Speaking of as the world turns one of our favorite quarterbacks who loves crab legs, famous Jamis Winston is set to meet later on hours from now with the New York Football Giants, we are told, And so Jameis Winston, famous Jamis who played with Cleveland, not well, not well with Cleveland, then was a commentator for Fox during the Super Bowl coverage, and now Jamis Winston is going to meet with the New York Giants and free agency? Is that something or nothing? So have I jotted down on my my chicken scratch. I dritted down something and I'm pulling for Jamis Winston. If you're gonna get a mediocre to bad quarterback, if you're the Giants. You might as well go down this road. In fact, I will rubber stamp the malord rubber stamp of approval for Jamis Winston. That means a lot. It does. It means send that out on social media. That means a lot. That is the contingency plan for the Giants, the lesser of not two, the lesser of three evils. Because if you take the temperature in the room, it's pretty obvious Aaron Rodgers isn't all that interested in playing for the Giants. Does anyone disagree with that? I don't see any hands raised, So he's not interested in playing for the Giants. So you look around and you're like the bronze winner in that it's the Steelers, Vikings or retirement and then the Giants and the other options you got Russell Wilson, who's absolutely cooked at this particular point, and Kirk Cousins, whoopee dam doo. Those are your options Dollsville, Dollsville. So Jameis Winston is the antithesis of that. Now, I'm not sitting here and telling you behind the microphones of FSR that Jameis Winston's good. I don't believe he is. But what he is is. More importantly, he's on the train what I call the FB Express train, the fun Bad Express train, And I want fun bad. I love fun bad. Who doesn't enjoy fun back? Fun bad is great. I live for fun bad. If you're gonna be bad, at least be fun. Don't be bad boring, be fun bad. And that's Jameis Winston. He's mesmerizing. He's charismatic off the field, he says, goofy things. He's fun, just a fun loving guy and all that. He's a high risk, high reward situation, a quarterback. There one man band, it says in the Bible, Jameith Gibbeth and Jamith take it away. That involves throwing interceptions and pick sixes and all that, and it's fun. And for every two interceptions that Jameis Winston throws, he'll throw like a touchdown. For every two touchdowns, four interceptions, it's it's fascinating watch him play. And also, don't forget if he does go Jameis Winston to the Giants, that would mean that Saquon Barkley. His stretch of hits continues. Because remember at the Super Bowl media event, which used to be Media Day before it became commercialized by the NFL and he ruined it. But at that event, Jameis Winston interviewed Saquon Barkley called NFL opening that would have dope be named. They came up with it and they saw tickets or where they let people go. But Barkley was asked by Winston, hey, where should I go? And kind of sarcastically, Sequon Barkley said, well, I hear that New York the Giants need a quarterback. And sure enough, later today Jameis Winston will meet with the team that fired Saquon Barkley and allowed him to go to Philadelphia and lead the Eagles to the Super Bowl.

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Not? All right, let's do it here. Let's play the game right now. We have Richie in Minnesota. Who's gonna play the game. Hello, Richie, welcome, thank you, thank you, good to have you. Richie. You're gonna play? And who do you want to partner up with? You got me or kooble loop. Well, thank you, all right, you seem very excited about that, Richie. And we have Mike in Boston. Old, let me punch the right line up. Hello, Mike, welcome. Hey, how's the going. Good to have you and you're gonna be with Coop? Is that all right?

Not? All right, let's do it here. Let's play the game right now. We have Richie in Minnesota. Who's gonna play the game. Hello, Richie, welcome, thank you, thank you, good to have you. Richie. You're gonna play? And who do you want to partner up with? You got me or kooble loop. Well, thank you, all right, you seem very excited about that, Richie. And we have Mike in Boston. Old, let me punch the right line up. Hello, Mike, welcome. Hey, how's the going. Good to have you and you're gonna be with Coop? Is that all right?

Yeah?

Yeah?

That's great? All right, sure, very good? What the categories quickly, Coop? We got to play a quick game here, quick game?

That's great? All right, sure, very good? What the categories quickly, Coop? We got to play a quick game here, quick game?

All right.

All right.

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The categories are of mice and men Forrest Gump, Apollo thirteen and CSI New York.

The categories are of mice and men Forrest Gump, Apollo thirteen and CSI New York.

Richie, you were on first. Which category would you like?

Richie, you were on first. Which category would you like?

Mice and men?

Mice and men?

All right, Mison men? And what about you, Mike follow thirteen? Alright, Pollo thirteen for you? Coop? All right, music here, get me in the mood and all right, very good, Richie, you're up first here. And these athletes all live or lived on a farm. We need the first and last name, Richie. Are you ready? Yes, sir? All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock and here we go. Quarterback of the Buffalo Bills right now, the man that the name of the award for the top pitcher in baseball is blank. The top picture. Yeah, yeah, I work the biggest professional wrestler. He battled Hulk Hogan in the nineteen eighties. A giant man. No, the guy that wrestled Hal Coogan, massive human being, big hands, Yes, closer for the Cubs. That the Orioles, a journeyman African American closer in the eighties and the nineties, was on the Cubs in eighty four, Blue blew a game there, slept a lot, took ten minutes walking in from the bullpen. No, i' bit give it a shot. I went for one hundred point one. That was Lee Smith. You know who that is, do Youah? No, all right, he played a long time ago. I don't know that.

All right, Mison men? And what about you, Mike follow thirteen? Alright, Pollo thirteen for you? Coop? All right, music here, get me in the mood and all right, very good, Richie, you're up first here. And these athletes all live or lived on a farm. We need the first and last name, Richie. Are you ready? Yes, sir? All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock and here we go. Quarterback of the Buffalo Bills right now, the man that the name of the award for the top pitcher in baseball is blank. The top picture. Yeah, yeah, I work the biggest professional wrestler. He battled Hulk Hogan in the nineteen eighties. A giant man. No, the guy that wrestled Hal Coogan, massive human being, big hands, Yes, closer for the Cubs. That the Orioles, a journeyman African American closer in the eighties and the nineties, was on the Cubs in eighty four, Blue blew a game there, slept a lot, took ten minutes walking in from the bullpen. No, i' bit give it a shot. I went for one hundred point one. That was Lee Smith. You know who that is, do Youah? No, all right, he played a long time ago. I don't know that.

You should have got points for Andre the giant he said, cheated there, she said, giant, a giant man.

You should have got points for Andre the giant he said, cheated there, she said, giant, a giant man.

Come on, oh stoord cheater Stop exactly. That's a good point, see that? All right? All right? Cool? All right? Mike? Uh what do we get sixty points? Cop?

Come on, oh stoord cheater Stop exactly. That's a good point, see that? All right? All right? Cool? All right? Mike? Uh what do we get sixty points? Cop?

Yes, we only got sixty points, Mike. We have Apollo thirteen, not yet, not yet. These athletes all ware, these athletes all ware or war number thirteen. Are you ready, Mike, yep, let's do it, all right, let's begin, all right. He was the quarterback for the Dolphins. Never won a Super Bowl. Yes, uh, this guy did win a Super Bowl for the Rams. He was also in the Super Bowl for the Cardinals. Yes, that's right. This guy scored one hundred points in an NBA game, chamblin. Yes, this guy has had like eleven thousand yard seasons to start his NFL career.

Yes, we only got sixty points, Mike. We have Apollo thirteen, not yet, not yet. These athletes all ware, these athletes all ware or war number thirteen. Are you ready, Mike, yep, let's do it, all right, let's begin, all right. He was the quarterback for the Dolphins. Never won a Super Bowl. Yes, uh, this guy did win a Super Bowl for the Rams. He was also in the Super Bowl for the Cardinals. Yes, that's right. This guy scored one hundred points in an NBA game, chamblin. Yes, this guy has had like eleven thousand yard seasons to start his NFL career.

Wide receiver for the Yes. Uh.

Wide receiver for the Yes. Uh.

This guy was a wide receiver for the Colts during the Andrew Luck era. He has initials for his first name. That's right. This guy was a closer for the Astros in the nineties. He's got four hundred saves and the Mets, I think. Yes, this guy was a five tool player for the Rays and the Red Sox.

This guy was a wide receiver for the Colts during the Andrew Luck era. He has initials for his first name. That's right. This guy was a closer for the Astros in the nineties. He's got four hundred saves and the Mets, I think. Yes, this guy was a five tool player for the Rays and the Red Sox.

Yeah, and he should have gone with that you guys in Boston. He would have gotten oh yeah, hey, yeah, yeah, he didn't get to You got everyone else though, right, Yes, so two forty rat bastards. All right, we are up again, Richie. You got Forrest Gump or CSI New York for Gum? All right, go Forest Gump. These athletes all suffered gruesome leg injuries. With forty five seconds on the clock and here we go small forward. He's with the Sixers. He used to play for the Clippers. He's terrible. He does a podcast. He's hurt right now. Quarterback for the Washington Redskins. His leg was broken in half in the eighties. He was a broadcaster on Monday Night Football for like twenty five years. Come on, there you go. That was Mike. Yeah, we'll take that, all right, Mike point guard for the Clippers. He injured himself. He was a then a back back up for the Golden State Warriors one a bunch of championships out of a school in Illinois.

Yeah, and he should have gone with that you guys in Boston. He would have gotten oh yeah, hey, yeah, yeah, he didn't get to You got everyone else though, right, Yes, so two forty rat bastards. All right, we are up again, Richie. You got Forrest Gump or CSI New York for Gum? All right, go Forest Gump. These athletes all suffered gruesome leg injuries. With forty five seconds on the clock and here we go small forward. He's with the Sixers. He used to play for the Clippers. He's terrible. He does a podcast. He's hurt right now. Quarterback for the Washington Redskins. His leg was broken in half in the eighties. He was a broadcaster on Monday Night Football for like twenty five years. Come on, there you go. That was Mike. Yeah, we'll take that, all right, Mike point guard for the Clippers. He injured himself. He was a then a back back up for the Golden State Warriors one a bunch of championships out of a school in Illinois.

No.

No.

Two. Golub was his quarterback for the Oh my, really, yeah we win? Gi good Rich, Mikechi what are you doing? Richie? I mean, could you even watch sports? You get a golden Ticketchie? What's wrong?

Two. Golub was his quarterback for the Oh my, really, yeah we win? Gi good Rich, Mikechi what are you doing? Richie? I mean, could you even watch sports? You get a golden Ticketchie? What's wrong?

Man?

Man?

I love it, but you gotta better than that. Joe Size, I mean the other guy got it? Oh my god.

I love it, but you gotta better than that. Joe Size, I mean the other guy got it? Oh my god.

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Here's Ben Meler. It is a rematch on password the word Game of the Stars. And let's introduce our combatants. Here. We should point out that Rocket is giving every home on address rocket dot com, a single, seamless homeownership platform to help you find, buy, sell, finance, and even refinance your home. Everything you need, all under one roof, is at Rocket dot com, the new home for all things homeownership, Rocket and Own the Dream. Let's welcome in Phase in Chicago. Hello, Phase, you're back. You're you're with me? Is that correct? Phase? Correct? And I love Rocket? Okay, and so do we? Uh, very good. And Andrew is where are you at? Andrew? Where are you hanging out? Oh? We know Andrew from the Bay Area. That's a great Andrew. All right, you're you're with Lorena again. And we have a list of work one to ten and I guess Phase was on the air first, So Phase, please pick a number one to ten. Phase number one, All right, number, alright, let's go with the how about HM sleepless? Now? All right? Lorena conscious? Lay no, all right, I'm gonna use the Mala maneuver I'm using the Mala maneuver. Here we go, malim, Are you ready? Phase ready? Okay? Why awake? Yes, my guy, the Mallard maneuver still works. What alright? What was it? Seven? Eight? Eight? All right? Eight? And Andrew pick a number two to ten? Andrew Lucky said, why is seven? Who cares? Go ahead, Loraina number seven? Number seven?

Here's Ben Meler. It is a rematch on password the word Game of the Stars. And let's introduce our combatants. Here. We should point out that Rocket is giving every home on address rocket dot com, a single, seamless homeownership platform to help you find, buy, sell, finance, and even refinance your home. Everything you need, all under one roof, is at Rocket dot com, the new home for all things homeownership, Rocket and Own the Dream. Let's welcome in Phase in Chicago. Hello, Phase, you're back. You're you're with me? Is that correct? Phase? Correct? And I love Rocket? Okay, and so do we? Uh, very good. And Andrew is where are you at? Andrew? Where are you hanging out? Oh? We know Andrew from the Bay Area. That's a great Andrew. All right, you're you're with Lorena again. And we have a list of work one to ten and I guess Phase was on the air first, So Phase, please pick a number one to ten. Phase number one, All right, number, alright, let's go with the how about HM sleepless? Now? All right? Lorena conscious? Lay no, all right, I'm gonna use the Mala maneuver I'm using the Mala maneuver. Here we go, malim, Are you ready? Phase ready? Okay? Why awake? Yes, my guy, the Mallard maneuver still works. What alright? What was it? Seven? Eight? Eight? All right? Eight? And Andrew pick a number two to ten? Andrew Lucky said, why is seven? Who cares? Go ahead, Loraina number seven? Number seven?

Oh goodness for the gentleman from the Bay area.

Oh goodness for the gentleman from the Bay area.

Okay, I'll try my Mallard maneuver right here. Okay, she's already tell she's given up, Pinky, squere bagfly. That was actually pretty good.

Okay, I'll try my Mallard maneuver right here. Okay, she's already tell she's given up, Pinky, squere bagfly. That was actually pretty good.

That was a good guy.

That was a good guy.

That was pretty good.

That was pretty good.

She didn't have the right cadence on the she didn't deliver it the right way, all right, So let's.

She didn't have the right cadence on the she didn't deliver it the right way, all right, So let's.

Go with your face the right way, Pinky. That's how you should have said that. Oh well, thank you man. All right, then we're dominating. It is seventeen. I didn't have to give a clue. Why did they have to give a call? All right? We got to go again this run up the score. Face, run up the score, my man, all right, cause I know the Cubs aren't gona run up the score on the Dodgers. So go ahead, big ball. What's that number five? All right? Number five? Here we go. All right, I use the mallet maneuver again, the malon maneuver again, Lament tree. Wow, what is it? What? What?

Go with your face the right way, Pinky. That's how you should have said that. Oh well, thank you man. All right, then we're dominating. It is seventeen. I didn't have to give a clue. Why did they have to give a call? All right? We got to go again this run up the score. Face, run up the score, my man, all right, cause I know the Cubs aren't gona run up the score on the Dodgers. So go ahead, big ball. What's that number five? All right? Number five? Here we go. All right, I use the mallet maneuver again, the malon maneuver again, Lament tree. Wow, what is it? What? What?

Yeah?

Yeah?

I'm running. Yeah, it's twenty seven, lovely, this is carnage. We are going scorch ard. All right, Andrew trying to say some face here, Vader, go come, how dare you all? I guarantee you got more hits than the Cubs are gonna get. I go ahead, and Andrew, pick a number of what? Number nine? All right? Go ahead, Lorena, number night. Try to not get shut out? Please? Oh gosh, is that your clue? Goney shiny? Right? All right, there will not be a shutout. It is still at You don't know. You can't still with Take another number, Phase, take your number, coup number two. All right, let's go, let's see. I'll do the coop. I don't know what should do me? Wait, don't it? How about but you want to go? All right? Laceate? What lacee?

I'm running. Yeah, it's twenty seven, lovely, this is carnage. We are going scorch ard. All right, Andrew trying to say some face here, Vader, go come, how dare you all? I guarantee you got more hits than the Cubs are gonna get. I go ahead, and Andrew, pick a number of what? Number nine? All right? Go ahead, Lorena, number night. Try to not get shut out? Please? Oh gosh, is that your clue? Goney shiny? Right? All right, there will not be a shutout. It is still at You don't know. You can't still with Take another number, Phase, take your number, coup number two. All right, let's go, let's see. I'll do the coop. I don't know what should do me? Wait, don't it? How about but you want to go? All right? Laceate? What lacee?

No?

No?

Okay? My turn, Andrew?

Okay? My turn, Andrew?

Incision the cut? We won, face, We made the cut, we won. Good job. Phase in your face, Larena, you lost

Incision the cut? We won, face, We made the cut, we won. Good job. Phase in your face, Larena, you lost