November 11, 2024 • 35 mins
Bernie Fratto is in for Ben Maller and talks about the full slate of NFL games from Sunday including an embarrassing loss by Aaron Rodgers and the Jets to the Cardinals, what the future holds for Aaron Rodgers, and more!
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is easy, so let's get it. You know, there are
two types of people in the world, those who are
focused and those who aren't. And that's the thing. And
it's no different in the National Football League. Is this
week in marks the official beginning in the second half
of the season. And I like to thank the Dallas
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Cowboys and the New York Giants, and especially the New
York Jets for participating in the twenty twenty four seats.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on
the way out. Oh, I know, I know. Mike McCarthy
aka Barney Rubble, the one who looks like he's wandering
them all parking lot, can't find his car. He's told
us they were focused. Really, Aaron Rodgers, Aaron, I'm the
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smartest guy in the world. Just ask me hyahuasca darkness retreat,
road trip to Egypt. Just get me DeVante Adams and
everything will be kosher. Rogers told us he was focused. Really,
let me tell you what the definition of focus is.
Meet None held the cab driver. He's your benchmark. I'll
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prove it. Nonzio pulls up. One day, A lady gets
into a cab. He turns around to ask her where
she's going, and he notices she's stark naked. He stares
her up and down. She says, what you've never seen
a naked lady? He said, of course I have, lady,
but I don't see a per sh wallet. So how
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the hell are you gonna pay me? That's focused? You
think the stupid New York Giants are focused today? Are
you kidding me? There was one play in that game
he figured up early and I did. He had called
me a slappy. It's the NFL. Man got off my
shift about three am Sunday morning, Pacific kickoff at six
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point thirty. Damn right, I was up. I was dedicated,
just in time to see Brian Dable losing it on
the sideline on a third and one flea flicker. His
wide receiver Wan del Robinson was wide open coming across
the field, and where the hell was Daniel Jones. He
missed him, he got sacked. Dable lost his mind to
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make matters worse. The Giants through two interceptions, Daniel Jones
through two interceptions in the red zone, and if he'd
just taken a little bit better care of the football,
the game wouldn't have even gone to overtime, which gave
a chance for rookie back, rookie running back. He's for
me to say, Tyrone Tracy Junior to fumble deep in
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Giants territory. This team, the New York Giants, You think
they're focused, They said they were. No, they look like
a drunk cross the unicy street. By the way, Daniel
Jones has him thrown a touchdown in four of his
last five games, and he's taken an explosive rookie Molaque
Neighbors and complete it completely made him void. Neighbors has
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only gotten more than fifty nine receiving yards in just
one of his last four games. Now I get it.
The Giants are well out of playoff contention. They need
they need a chaplain, they need a blood transfusion, whatever
the hell they need. And by the way, Brian Dable,
he's don't even take questions about a quarterback switch. I
don't know. Maybe he doesn't like Drew Locke. It's working
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so well with Daniel Jones. Why change? Which brings us
to the Dallas Cowboys, who I said, Naucus, this would
be the they go off a cliff. This would be
the year Dallas goes off a cliff. Eight to nine.
Their metal midgets. They're walking through the season with a
bunch of lamb ducks, including their coach. Like I just said,
Mike McCarthy, akaaa, Barney Rubble. Nothing against the guy personally,
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just don't want him coaching my team, Dallas, maybe America's team,
and they are because people love to hate him. The
opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. You gotta care.
People still show up to their away games and still
watch them on TV, and they're not watching it for
that offense. That offense they couldn't score in a women's
prison with a fistful of fifties. And that's even when
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they had Dak Prescott the Cowboys. Do you know the
Cowboys entered Sunday there's only one of two teams not
to win a game at home. This season, for the
first time in history, the Cowboys had the distinction of
trailing by twenty or more points in five straight home games.
By the way, including the playoffs, the Eagles, we're up
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twenty eight to six on the Cowboys, and the Cowboys
beat writers were tweeting as if the game was over,
because it was. Cowboys went on to lose thirty four
to six. The Cowboys now have the longest streak the
twenty thirteen Raiders, with four in a row and a
situation where you don't lose at home, you lose by
twenty By the way, this streak dates back to last
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season's playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers, remember that,
and now it runs through the loss of the Eagles
on Saturday. Everything about the Cowboys is so incredibly horribly
dysfunctional it makes your teeth itch. Enough about the Cowboys,
Rogers McCarthy credibility, Daniel Jones, No, you got the credibility
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of a dermatologist with acne, which brings us to the
lovable New York Jets. And by the way, I'm going
to rip them later. I'm going to give you the
single reason why this whole experiment failed, and it's right
there in front of us. We'll talk about it a
little bit later. You can officially, I think now officially
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scrap the Jets playoff talk and start talking about their
mock draft. And you don't know if you're a mock
their draft or you want to talk about a mock draft,
but knock yourself out for Gang Green to pluck. The
Arizona Cardinals as a home underdog completely embarrassed the Jets
thirty one to six on Sunday at State Farm Stadium.
The Jets are now three and seven, and forget all
the happy talk that surrounded the team after last week's
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win over the Texans, who were completely beat up Mac unit.
It was a debacle in the desert. How's that for
a little alliteration. The Jets showed that that win over
Houston last week was just a tease to suck the
Jets fans who must be hooked up to a blender
two hours before the game to tolerate watching this hoping
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believing this team would end that playoff drought that now
is destined to reach fourteen. Count them, fourteen consecutive seasons.
They missed the days of the butt fubble, that's how
bad it has becolm these Mark Sanchez got them to
the playoffs in the AFC Championship game a couple times.
By the way the offense, the offense, or how about
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that over hyped, over confident defense that even I got
suckered into and said they were so good. Remember they
were seven and ten last year with you know, Pee
Herman a quarterback and all that. We were told we're
just missing a quarterback. That's it. At your Hall of Famer,
the smartest guy in the world, just ask him, you know,
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add water in your set. Well, how about that tremendous
defense gave up touchdown drives on Sunday of seventy yards,
seventy yards, seventy yards and eighty three yards And how
was your day? The Cardinals, they're now six and four,
they're fourth straight win, they're the first place team in
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the NFC West, and the Dolphins managed to make them
look check that, the Jets managed to make them look
like the Bears. Kyler Murray did it all two touchdowns.
He ran fourth through for two sixty six and a touchdown,
and the Jets had game plan to stop the running
attack of James Connor, but Arizona said, okay, no problem,
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We'll pitch and catch all over the lot over your
self proclaimed vaunted Jets secondary. The Cardinals scored on their
first five possessions, didn't even have to punt till the
fourth quarter. Maybe Robert Solo really wasn't the problem, because
ever since they got rid of Robert Sala, the defense
is even worse. Cardinals had two hundred and thirty nine
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yards and eighteen first downs in the first half, four
hundred and six total yards in the game and twenty
eight first downs. The Jets, on the other hand, with
your Hall of Fame quarterback, could barely move the ball.
When they did, they kept faltering in the red zone.
They had eighty five yards and no touchdowns in the
opening half. Are you kidding me? Rogers threw for just
forty yards and a half. DeVante Adams zero catches on
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two targets. You shouldn't be surprised. I saw it here
with the Raiders. This is a second time now he's
asked out of a situation. Did in Green Bay? Did
it here in Las Vegas? How's it working on for
you Jets? How was your day got on? Nat mister Johnson?
How was the play, it was clear this thing was
done from the start. The Jets were cooked. They were overmatched,
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and it's incredible, incredible. The ugly first half defense continued.
Arizona just did whatever they want, whenever they wanted. The
Jets defense had no answers and blah blah blah. I
could sit here and give you know how bad Sauce
Gardner was, or I could all a name of the
whole team. What would it matter. It looked like the
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Jets thought they might try to find some magic, but halftime, no,
forget it. Any light at the end of the tunnel
was an oncoming train. Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers threw two interceptions
on passes intended for DeVante Adams, then fumbled on fourth
and goal when he was sacked by Xavier Thomas. There's
your Hall of Fame quarterback Hyahuasca. Yeah, you talk about
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the darkness, he never came out of the darkness. Good news.
The Jets returned home to face the Colts before their
bye week. Yeah, maybe they won that game. What does
it matter? Like I said, for the Jets, there's only
one thing you look forward to, the mock draft. Either
you mock the Jets for who they're gonna draft, or
you can have a mock draft thinking that they'll draft
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somebody to save this team. Remembercause last year you said
it was just a quarterback. Okay, I'm done.
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All right, thanks Eddie. Well, why don't we just go
ahead and hell hold that New York Jets funeral right
now and get this over with. Okay, why wait any longer?
I'm pointing the finger directly at one particular gentleman, and
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you don't have to be Fellini to figure this out.
We were told, we were all told last year that
the Jets, well, they were just missing one thing, one thing,
a quarterback. They were seven and ten, they showed some
signs they were a game. They even beat Buffalo in Buffalo.
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Everybody waited, bited their time, had high hopes. Hell, I
don't care if the Jets win or lose. I think
it's a better story for the National Football League if
they would have won. Frankly, but I guarantee you there
are a lot of people in twos and threes that'll
be around the water cooler Monday morning. Is that still
a thing? By the way, that will be talking about
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the Jets with a palpable sense of lead that they
pooped the bed. Only it's way worse than that. See,
only Aaron Rodgers could put an exclamation point on the
promise that the tortured and fermented Jets fans of hell
for fourteen years and turn these great expectations into an
entire season that resembles a butt fumble season. Only the
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Jets could head to the desert and get desert stormed
by a team that nobody was talking about in August
when everybody was talking about the Jets, and there was
a visual. There was a visual in that game if
you watched it. If not, I'm sure the photos are
everywhere of Aaron Rodgers lying face down on the ground
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early in the third quarter at the Arizona nine yard line,
as State Farms Stadium cheered and roared and went crazy
because from second to goal and three they failed twice
and then Aaron Rodgers lost to fumble on a sack
and it's along with the football his brain was rolling
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around on the ground. And then the next thing you know,
Aaron took a visit to the tent for an examination
or maybe a little shot of Higauasca. You got to
see this picture. It's almost like a metaphor for the
entire season, even the entire franchise. They spent the money,
they have a good roster, but you know what it
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adds up to nothing by then at that point with
Aaron Rodgers lying on the ground as a metaphor for
the hopes and dreams of the Jets franchise going back
fourteen years, and then it became thirty one to six
and Arizona twisted the knife even further. Aaron Rodgers was
brought to New York to eat the Savior, to win
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these types of games, to stare it on adversity and
laugh in their face, to lift up the entire Jets
nation in their hour of need, and instill the belief
that I got you, I can put you on my back.
There's a reason I'm going to the Hall of Fame.
There's a reason I'm the smartest guy in the world.
Jeff asked me, there's a reason I got all the answers.
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And I'm so articulate. And I can't imagine how agonizing
and ridiculous that flight back home to New York from Arizona,
all five hours of it, with their first ballot Hall
of Famer quarterback, and not only a season he has
not saved in a franchise. He is not uplifted. They've
regressed with Arizona or checked out. They've regressed with Aaron Rodgers.
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Sam Rogers just older. He is now the quarterback of
the dead team, walking completely dysfunctional, and I guess they're
soon blame to go around. You have to blame the
owner somewhat. Woody Johnson, raise your hand, firing Robert Sala
hasn't worked. Acquiring DeVante Adams hasn't worked. What a shock,
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Hassan Reddick. He sat out, wanted to get the bag.
He comes back, they're all in three. On his return,
that was your day, And at three and seven, Aaron
Rodgers hasn't worked. They've actually got to go four and
three down the stretch to match what they did last year.
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Aaron Rodgers. Every now and then, we'll give you just
some sort of a like basic flash, but not nearly enough.
If this regretted on a curve, you get an f.
If it's a pass grade, he gets a fail. And
then Aaron Rodgers continues to make statements and that are
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platitudes and are meaningless. What was he running for office? Quote?
There been a lot of emotions this year, for sure.
Rogers said, what the hell does that mean? When asked
to expand on that statement, When asked to elaborate on
that statement, he said, this is not the time or
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place to elaborate on it. But at some point I'll
give you a better answer. Rogers added, well, well, jeez,
we can't wait. How about just look at the facts.
Man yards per attempt four point three longest completion fifteen
yards to the running back Brize Hall. Longest completion to
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DeVante Adams, who did so well here in Las Vegas.
I'm convinced six weeks ago when head coach Antonio Pierce
said we're going to make some business decisions, I'm looking
out there and I'm seeing some players making business decisions,
which means they don't want to play hard because they
don't want to get hurt. I happen to be at
the game that day. In the press box. It was
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against the Steelers. You could tell when DeVante Adams wasn't
going to get the ball. He didn't run a route.
Facts facts long as completion to DeVante Adams fourteen yards.
Then he had a hamstring injury for the last four
weeks he was in Las Vegas. Then when he got
to New York, miraculously was he Hey, maybe it was.
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I'm no doctor, I'm not that smart. I'm no high
school drop. But I went the full six years. But
that doesn't mean I know if DeVante Adams has really
hurt or not. Long as completion to what is actually
a superstar receiver in my opinion, Garrett Wilson twelve yards
and then Aaron Rodgers said, the most prophetic thing you
could imagine. This is incredible. Yeah, an insightful statement like this,
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It needs to be framed and hung on the wall
to Louve right next to the Mona Lisa Wait for it.
Aaron Rodgers went on to say, you're not gonna beat
anybody scoring six points. Well, that's not true. If they
score five or less, you beat him. But that would
take a defense. And I already pissed all over the
defense's parade fifteen minutes ago. In case you missed it,
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DeVante Adams once said that Aaron Rodgers had the Michael
Jordan effect in Green Bay. I don't recall Green Bay
winning six titles and three peating twice, and something about
if Michael Jordan was on this team, he wouldn't be happy.
I don't even know what the hell does now Devanti
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Adams gets to talk. Then Rogers went on to finally
bemoan that he wasn't able to target tight end Tyler
Conkland during the goal line follies and maybe that could
have made it a game. And DeVante Adams, you know,
lamented about the fact he didn't catch one of the
two passes to him that may or may not have
been tipped. But these visions of grandeur turned out to
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be nothing but an illusion and delusion. And this is
the way Aaron Rodgers is going on. People people I
talk to that are closer to the situation, even back
on week one or two, when there was still hope.
And by the way, hope's not a strategy. There was hope.
They told me this is gonna be Rogers last year.
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I think it is. Would you want him back? But
I digress. Believe it or not, the three and seven
Jets are still actually mathematically alive. Now if the Jets,
let's just put it this way, I think, I think
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led Zeppelin re record the Gilligans Island theme song and
sell a million copies before the Jets come back to
find their way into the playoffs. You tell me they're alive,
they don't look They look mentally dead, they look spiritually dead,
they look emotionally dead. They didn't give an effort. They
can't tackle, they can't block. That was four weeks ago.
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They couldn't block, they couldn't protect Rodgers. They couldn't run
the ball with a stud like Bristol. So what do
you do? You go out and get Devanta Adams dead
team walking. They're limping crawling. Fourteenth consecutive reason season. Excuse
me without a playoff? Perth, a forty year old quarterback
who looks like he's eighty. What went wrong? Third down?
Red zone? That was Aaron Rodgers answer situational football. Guess what,
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I covered the Detroit lines for ten years. That's exactly
how you That's exactly how you judge a quarterback third down.
They don't pay it upont red zone in the fourth quarter.
The Cardinals were the hunger your team, the more physical team,
the more buttoned up team. The Jets were the softer team,
the more disappointing team, the more embarrassing team.
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John Parker Romo, the dude must be an assassinated. He's
got three names, and I say that in those complimentary sets,
or a serial killer, right, something like that. When it
comes to kicking field goals, he is hey real quickly,
and we'll get to your chargers later. I like the
success they're having. Just give you your two cents on
the Jets. I've let him have it. You find any
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fault with anything, I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
No, absolutely not. Aaron Rodgers was expected to be the savior.
I think he himself carried himself like he was going
to be the savior, and he's been anything but and
he is. There's a lot of blame to go around
in New York, and I'm glad you did point out
Woody Johnson. The guy's an awful owner and it starts
from the top. But there's, like I said, plenty of
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blames will go around. Aaron Rodgers certainly deserves a lot
of it as well.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
So do you believe Aaron Rodgers will be back next year?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
I guess it may depend on who the head coach is.
Do they want him back?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I don't think so. I don't even know if he
wants to come back. You can clearly see he's completely
broken down.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
I thought, yeah, I mean, it wouldn't It wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I mean, would surprise if he comes back.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
It wouldn't you know, it wouldn't surprise me if he
didn't come back. I guess, you know, if he.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Somehow turns it around sort of, you know, maybe he
gets back on his game. Regardless of about the team
does if he perform, performs individually better, maybe looks to go.
I don't know, somewhere else that's looking for a veteran
quarterback that maybe could get him over the top.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
I don't know. It doesn't look good.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah. The reason I bring that up, Eddie, is one
of the things coming out of New York this morning
before the game, was it. Remember they were coming off
a ten day arrest, they'd played the Thursday night game
last week. Aaron Rodgers does have a forty year old
body coming off the Achilles surgery. He has taken a
lot of hits this year. He's been sacked a lot.
He's been hit a lot because that offensive line's not great.
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So there was sort of this additional optimism among the
Jets that he'd got, you know, halfway point in the season.
They made it this far coming off a ten day rest.
The offensive line had no injuries, none of their offensive
line on the injury report. So there was sort of
this false optimism. And yet the same old Rogers, same
quarterback of the dead team walking even though they had
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ten days rest, and it was not a fluke. Right
out of the gate. DeVante Adams zero first half catches,
and you know, supposedly he and Garrett Wilson were primed
to catch fire. They'd had a good week of practice,
all that stuff, and the exact opposite happened, right, and
the Jets they just showed no fight whatsoever. And their
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leader showed no fight, face first on the ground. You
got to see that photo. And you know the Jets defense.
Every time it was third and ten, all of a sudden,
there's first down. You know, Quincy Williams sends Kyler Murray.
Cayler Murray, by the way, is healthy. When he's healthy,
he's a different animal. And I very happy for what
they're doing this year. There was a sack. There was
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a sack though. Quincy Williams hit Kyler Murray sent his
helmet flying midway through the second quarter, and that's seemed
to fire up Arizona. And I'm back to the defense now.
Right on a third and ten, they hit Trade McBride
for thirteen yards and then they found Marvin Harrison and
they went down the field and they scored a nine
yard touchdown. And by that point the Jets are already
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getting dominated. But it was only fourteen to six, right,
so the Jets needed Rogers to come back and fight
fire with fire and see if he could duel Kyler Murray,
and he didn't. At that point, twenty one to six
became twenty four to six and thirty one to six,
and you don't look. They basically said, you know, we
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believe we're a team. The Jets said, we believe we're
a team that can play with anybody, but they don't
do it when it matters. And that's my conclusion. Rogers
came to New York to change all of that. Same
old Jets, same older Rogers once again for the youmpteenth
time quarterback of the dead team walking. Coming up, the
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college football twelve team playoff is so much better than
the four team made for TV Invitational tournament that I
think there are a lot of pluses, but still got
their detractors right. I want to talk about that and
chase the detractors. And now we have an update after
who lost, and time to sort of bring that to
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the forefront. I'm Bernie Frattle sitting in for Ben Maller,
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All right, thanks Eddie. You know, this college football season,
I think is shaping up to be one of the
most interesting. But you know what has happened starting last Tuesday.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised. It kind of reminds
me when I was in the third grade. I might
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have been a little bit of a smart ass. Troublemaker.
And I didn't really like my third grade teacher, missus Birch.
I just didn't and I used to make faces at her.
I did, and she wasn't looking. But then one day
she then she caught me. I was busted. And she said,
mister Frodo, I was told by my mother that if
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I made faces like that when I grew up as
an adult, they would be stuck. I said, well, missus Birch,
you can't say you weren't warned. You can't say you
weren't warned. We go from the BCS, which was a
complete fagazy, to the four team made for TV Invitational Tournament,
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which was just as big a f gazy because it
wasn't decided on the field. You know that. And you
have five power conferences in fourteens, so you could have
an undefeated team and they could get left in the
cold paging Florida State. All right, they might not have won,
they lost their quarterback, but we're never gonna know. But
right on Q, right on que, what happens? What happens?
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On Tuesday? When the committee their initial college football playoff
top twelve, they pissed off about BYU. Why why all
arguments are going to be decided on the field as
opposed to the previous format. It's championship based, which is
what we want. I get it. The SEC is better
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than the Big twelve. So if you're Texas, Alabama, Mississippi
and you'd certainly be favored over BYU on a neutral
and your butt hurt because you're better than BYU, then fine,
succeed from the SEC and go to a lesser conference.
But you're not gonna do that, are you. Oh? By
the way, the SEC, they're gonna get four teams in
the in this tournament. The Big twelve will get one.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Alan Irison once said, I don't like to lift weights
because they're heavy. Change can be heavy, transition can be heavier.
This is gonna work. It's gonna work huge. I'm gonna
get to that in just a second. Let's go out
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on Fox Eat seven seven nine nine sixty six three
sixty nine. Let's go to tiger Man in Utah. You
want to talk about the college football playoff? Good evening, sir,
how are you.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
I'm doing well, Bernie.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
How about you doing fine? My friend?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Well, Bernie, I you know, I'm just honestly, I'm just
a little bit perplexed. I'm sad. I live in a
world where sixty eight million dollars there's a lot of
money to buy out a coach that will not win
a national championship. And I'm dad and I live in
a world where we are paying two million dollars for
unproven quarterbacks that don't know how to play college football.
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And I know people don't like BYU as a Utah
telling you BYU is legitimate. They are a great team,
and I think that they're highly disrespected by the country
right now. There's no one in the country that books
anything like e YU. They're extremely exciting, they're able to
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play it together really late in the games. But again,
you know, I really just think that money is kind
of destroying the sport. And I'm really sad about it,
you know me, Bernie, you know, but they go us,
you been, And I'm just really sad that my program
is the way it is and we're paying quarterbacks that
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can't play, We're paying head coaches that can't coach. So
that's kind of where college football is right now. I
think for a lot of teams, I think for the
part of states of the world, for the USC's of
the world, it's that it really is a lot of
these top two programs are no longer top tiering. It's
very sad to city, all.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Right, Tiler Man, I appreciate you, Man. I do agree
about BYU, But I would say this, It's always been
this way in terms of players getting paid. It's just
now it's come out of the dark room and out
of the clouds and it's above board, even though it's
the wild West and it's not particularly regulated. And the
reason people are bent about BYU is because they're set
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to get a first round by because they're on pace
to win the Big twelve. And that's where this that's
where this whole college football playoff structure should have been
from the get make it championship based. Now, see, here's
the thing. BYU might get that first round by, but
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they are still going to have to They're still going
to have to beat somebody like an Oregon or a
Penn State or Georgia or Tennessee. And that's where this
whole thing is going to shake out if you look
at what they've already given us, what the projected bracket
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is going to look like Tuesday now for some reason,
for some reason, they've got Ohio State number one, now
Texas number two, Miami still three, even though they lost.
They're leading the ACC and the AEC will only get
one team and byu fourth. Oregon remains undefeated after getting
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by Maryland fairly easily, and the Ducks are currently number one.
But see they're projecting that if those if Ohio State,
who Oregon already beat earlier in the year and a
house state could have won that game. These knuckleheads are
projecting that in a rematch in Indianapolis, which is where
the Big Ten championship game would be, they believe how
Ohio State would win that rematch. And Penn State, I
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think was shown too much love if they're the sixth
ranked team in the country. Yeah, sure, you know. It's
like Lily Tomplin once said, I always wanted to be somebody.
I just wish I'd been more specific. Who the hell
is Penn State? We know who they are. They beat
everybody unless it really matters. But this is shaping up
to be something special. B why you're still going to
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have to prove it on the field. Let's say this
goes according to Oyles. Just fun the shows tonight, we
got to talk about what's going on today. The first
round games would be Oregon versus Boise State five versus twelve,
Penn State versus Indiana, Georgia versus Alabama, Notre Dame versus Tennessee.
If the higher ranked team won, that will lead to
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Ohio State playing Notre Dame, BYU playing Oregon, Miami playing
Penn State, in Texas playing Georgia. Tell me you not
sign enough for that? And what really pisses me off
about people who don't think this playoff format is good
They thought the regular season would lose its intensity due
to the expanded playoff, because well, you know, I don't
agree with that at all. One loss used to be
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essentially season ending. Did you see what happened in Baton
Rouge Saturday night? We had a legit college football playoff
elimination game in Baton Rouge. Number eleven Alabama played LSU,
their ranked fifteenth. Both teams had two losses. They both
had two losses in past seasons. That game would have
been played for Pride. But now it's a playoff game
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because the third defeat, for all intentsive purposes, knocks LSU
out of the playoff and Alabama is still alive. And
the beauty of this expanded playoff is that there are
games like this in November that are meaningful, keeps more
teams in conversation because they're playing for much more than
just a bid. They might get a first round game
on their campus, they might get a first round by
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plus you've even finally got a group of five conference
team guaranteed to get in there, which will pie be
Boise State. So take your complaints park the mohere, you know,
and let's have a little fun coming up. We'll bring
in Mark Medina, always crazy NBA news. Keep it locked
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is easy, so let's get it. You know, there are
two types of people in the world, those who are
focused and those who aren't. And that's the thing. And
it's no different in the National Football League. Is this
week in marks the official beginning in the second half
of the season. And I like to thank the Dallas
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Cowboys and the New York Giants, and especially the New
York Jets for participating in the twenty twenty four seats.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on
the way out. Oh, I know, I know. Mike McCarthy
aka Barney Rubble, the one who looks like he's wandering
them all parking lot, can't find his car. He's told
us they were focused. Really, Aaron Rodgers, Aaron, I'm the
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smartest guy in the world. Just ask me hyahuasca darkness retreat,
road trip to Egypt. Just get me DeVante Adams and
everything will be kosher. Rogers told us he was focused. Really,
let me tell you what the definition of focus is.
Meet None held the cab driver. He's your benchmark. I'll
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prove it. Nonzio pulls up. One day, A lady gets
into a cab. He turns around to ask her where
she's going, and he notices she's stark naked. He stares
her up and down. She says, what you've never seen
a naked lady? He said, of course I have, lady,
but I don't see a per sh wallet. So how
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the hell are you gonna pay me? That's focused? You
think the stupid New York Giants are focused today? Are
you kidding me? There was one play in that game
he figured up early and I did. He had called
me a slappy. It's the NFL. Man got off my
shift about three am Sunday morning, Pacific kickoff at six
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point thirty. Damn right, I was up. I was dedicated,
just in time to see Brian Dable losing it on
the sideline on a third and one flea flicker. His
wide receiver Wan del Robinson was wide open coming across
the field, and where the hell was Daniel Jones. He
missed him, he got sacked. Dable lost his mind to
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make matters worse. The Giants through two interceptions, Daniel Jones
through two interceptions in the red zone, and if he'd
just taken a little bit better care of the football,
the game wouldn't have even gone to overtime, which gave
a chance for rookie back, rookie running back. He's for
me to say, Tyrone Tracy Junior to fumble deep in
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Giants territory. This team, the New York Giants, You think
they're focused, They said they were. No, they look like
a drunk cross the unicy street. By the way, Daniel
Jones has him thrown a touchdown in four of his
last five games, and he's taken an explosive rookie Molaque
Neighbors and complete it completely made him void. Neighbors has
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only gotten more than fifty nine receiving yards in just
one of his last four games. Now I get it.
The Giants are well out of playoff contention. They need
they need a chaplain, they need a blood transfusion, whatever
the hell they need. And by the way, Brian Dable,
he's don't even take questions about a quarterback switch. I
don't know. Maybe he doesn't like Drew Locke. It's working
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so well with Daniel Jones. Why change? Which brings us
to the Dallas Cowboys, who I said, Naucus, this would
be the they go off a cliff. This would be
the year Dallas goes off a cliff. Eight to nine.
Their metal midgets. They're walking through the season with a
bunch of lamb ducks, including their coach. Like I just said,
Mike McCarthy, akaaa, Barney Rubble. Nothing against the guy personally,
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just don't want him coaching my team, Dallas, maybe America's team,
and they are because people love to hate him. The
opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. You gotta care.
People still show up to their away games and still
watch them on TV, and they're not watching it for
that offense. That offense they couldn't score in a women's
prison with a fistful of fifties. And that's even when
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they had Dak Prescott the Cowboys. Do you know the
Cowboys entered Sunday there's only one of two teams not
to win a game at home. This season, for the
first time in history, the Cowboys had the distinction of
trailing by twenty or more points in five straight home games.
By the way, including the playoffs, the Eagles, we're up
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twenty eight to six on the Cowboys, and the Cowboys
beat writers were tweeting as if the game was over,
because it was. Cowboys went on to lose thirty four
to six. The Cowboys now have the longest streak the
twenty thirteen Raiders, with four in a row and a
situation where you don't lose at home, you lose by
twenty By the way, this streak dates back to last
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season's playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers, remember that,
and now it runs through the loss of the Eagles
on Saturday. Everything about the Cowboys is so incredibly horribly
dysfunctional it makes your teeth itch. Enough about the Cowboys,
Rogers McCarthy credibility, Daniel Jones, No, you got the credibility
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of a dermatologist with acne, which brings us to the
lovable New York Jets. And by the way, I'm going
to rip them later. I'm going to give you the
single reason why this whole experiment failed, and it's right
there in front of us. We'll talk about it a
little bit later. You can officially, I think now officially
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scrap the Jets playoff talk and start talking about their
mock draft. And you don't know if you're a mock
their draft or you want to talk about a mock draft,
but knock yourself out for Gang Green to pluck. The
Arizona Cardinals as a home underdog completely embarrassed the Jets
thirty one to six on Sunday at State Farm Stadium.
The Jets are now three and seven, and forget all
the happy talk that surrounded the team after last week's
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win over the Texans, who were completely beat up Mac unit.
It was a debacle in the desert. How's that for
a little alliteration. The Jets showed that that win over
Houston last week was just a tease to suck the
Jets fans who must be hooked up to a blender
two hours before the game to tolerate watching this hoping
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believing this team would end that playoff drought that now
is destined to reach fourteen. Count them, fourteen consecutive seasons.
They missed the days of the butt fubble, that's how
bad it has becolm these Mark Sanchez got them to
the playoffs in the AFC Championship game a couple times.
By the way the offense, the offense, or how about
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that over hyped, over confident defense that even I got
suckered into and said they were so good. Remember they
were seven and ten last year with you know, Pee
Herman a quarterback and all that. We were told we're
just missing a quarterback. That's it. At your Hall of Famer,
the smartest guy in the world, just ask him, you know,
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add water in your set. Well, how about that tremendous
defense gave up touchdown drives on Sunday of seventy yards,
seventy yards, seventy yards and eighty three yards And how
was your day? The Cardinals, they're now six and four,
they're fourth straight win, they're the first place team in
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the NFC West, and the Dolphins managed to make them
look check that, the Jets managed to make them look
like the Bears. Kyler Murray did it all two touchdowns.
He ran fourth through for two sixty six and a touchdown,
and the Jets had game plan to stop the running
attack of James Connor, but Arizona said, okay, no problem,
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We'll pitch and catch all over the lot over your
self proclaimed vaunted Jets secondary. The Cardinals scored on their
first five possessions, didn't even have to punt till the
fourth quarter. Maybe Robert Solo really wasn't the problem, because
ever since they got rid of Robert Sala, the defense
is even worse. Cardinals had two hundred and thirty nine
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yards and eighteen first downs in the first half, four
hundred and six total yards in the game and twenty
eight first downs. The Jets, on the other hand, with
your Hall of Fame quarterback, could barely move the ball.
When they did, they kept faltering in the red zone.
They had eighty five yards and no touchdowns in the
opening half. Are you kidding me? Rogers threw for just
forty yards and a half. DeVante Adams zero catches on
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two targets. You shouldn't be surprised. I saw it here
with the Raiders. This is a second time now he's
asked out of a situation. Did in Green Bay? Did
it here in Las Vegas? How's it working on for
you Jets? How was your day got on? Nat mister Johnson?
How was the play, it was clear this thing was
done from the start. The Jets were cooked. They were overmatched,
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and it's incredible, incredible. The ugly first half defense continued.
Arizona just did whatever they want, whenever they wanted. The
Jets defense had no answers and blah blah blah. I
could sit here and give you know how bad Sauce
Gardner was, or I could all a name of the
whole team. What would it matter. It looked like the
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Jets thought they might try to find some magic, but halftime, no,
forget it. Any light at the end of the tunnel
was an oncoming train. Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers threw two interceptions
on passes intended for DeVante Adams, then fumbled on fourth
and goal when he was sacked by Xavier Thomas. There's
your Hall of Fame quarterback Hyahuasca. Yeah, you talk about
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the darkness, he never came out of the darkness. Good news.
The Jets returned home to face the Colts before their
bye week. Yeah, maybe they won that game. What does
it matter? Like I said, for the Jets, there's only
one thing you look forward to, the mock draft. Either
you mock the Jets for who they're gonna draft, or
you can have a mock draft thinking that they'll draft
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somebody to save this team. Remembercause last year you said
it was just a quarterback. Okay, I'm done.
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Speaker 3 (12:06):
All right, thanks Eddie. Well, why don't we just go
ahead and hell hold that New York Jets funeral right
now and get this over with. Okay, why wait any longer?
I'm pointing the finger directly at one particular gentleman, and
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you don't have to be Fellini to figure this out.
We were told, we were all told last year that
the Jets, well, they were just missing one thing, one thing,
a quarterback. They were seven and ten, they showed some
signs they were a game. They even beat Buffalo in Buffalo.
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Everybody waited, bited their time, had high hopes. Hell, I
don't care if the Jets win or lose. I think
it's a better story for the National Football League if
they would have won. Frankly, but I guarantee you there
are a lot of people in twos and threes that'll
be around the water cooler Monday morning. Is that still
a thing? By the way, that will be talking about
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the Jets with a palpable sense of lead that they
pooped the bed. Only it's way worse than that. See,
only Aaron Rodgers could put an exclamation point on the
promise that the tortured and fermented Jets fans of hell
for fourteen years and turn these great expectations into an
entire season that resembles a butt fumble season. Only the
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Jets could head to the desert and get desert stormed
by a team that nobody was talking about in August
when everybody was talking about the Jets, and there was
a visual. There was a visual in that game if
you watched it. If not, I'm sure the photos are
everywhere of Aaron Rodgers lying face down on the ground
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early in the third quarter at the Arizona nine yard line,
as State Farms Stadium cheered and roared and went crazy
because from second to goal and three they failed twice
and then Aaron Rodgers lost to fumble on a sack
and it's along with the football his brain was rolling
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around on the ground. And then the next thing you know,
Aaron took a visit to the tent for an examination
or maybe a little shot of Higauasca. You got to
see this picture. It's almost like a metaphor for the
entire season, even the entire franchise. They spent the money,
they have a good roster, but you know what it
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adds up to nothing by then at that point with
Aaron Rodgers lying on the ground as a metaphor for
the hopes and dreams of the Jets franchise going back
fourteen years, and then it became thirty one to six
and Arizona twisted the knife even further. Aaron Rodgers was
brought to New York to eat the Savior, to win
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these types of games, to stare it on adversity and
laugh in their face, to lift up the entire Jets
nation in their hour of need, and instill the belief
that I got you, I can put you on my back.
There's a reason I'm going to the Hall of Fame.
There's a reason I'm the smartest guy in the world.
Jeff asked me, there's a reason I got all the answers.
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And I'm so articulate. And I can't imagine how agonizing
and ridiculous that flight back home to New York from Arizona,
all five hours of it, with their first ballot Hall
of Famer quarterback, and not only a season he has
not saved in a franchise. He is not uplifted. They've
regressed with Arizona or checked out. They've regressed with Aaron Rodgers.
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Sam Rogers just older. He is now the quarterback of
the dead team, walking completely dysfunctional, and I guess they're
soon blame to go around. You have to blame the
owner somewhat. Woody Johnson, raise your hand, firing Robert Sala
hasn't worked. Acquiring DeVante Adams hasn't worked. What a shock,
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Hassan Reddick. He sat out, wanted to get the bag.
He comes back, they're all in three. On his return,
that was your day, And at three and seven, Aaron
Rodgers hasn't worked. They've actually got to go four and
three down the stretch to match what they did last year.
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Aaron Rodgers. Every now and then, we'll give you just
some sort of a like basic flash, but not nearly enough.
If this regretted on a curve, you get an f.
If it's a pass grade, he gets a fail. And
then Aaron Rodgers continues to make statements and that are
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platitudes and are meaningless. What was he running for office? Quote?
There been a lot of emotions this year, for sure.
Rogers said, what the hell does that mean? When asked
to expand on that statement, When asked to elaborate on
that statement, he said, this is not the time or
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place to elaborate on it. But at some point I'll
give you a better answer. Rogers added, well, well, jeez,
we can't wait. How about just look at the facts.
Man yards per attempt four point three longest completion fifteen
yards to the running back Brize Hall. Longest completion to
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DeVante Adams, who did so well here in Las Vegas.
I'm convinced six weeks ago when head coach Antonio Pierce
said we're going to make some business decisions, I'm looking
out there and I'm seeing some players making business decisions,
which means they don't want to play hard because they
don't want to get hurt. I happen to be at
the game that day. In the press box. It was
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against the Steelers. You could tell when DeVante Adams wasn't
going to get the ball. He didn't run a route.
Facts facts long as completion to DeVante Adams fourteen yards.
Then he had a hamstring injury for the last four
weeks he was in Las Vegas. Then when he got
to New York, miraculously was he Hey, maybe it was.
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I'm no doctor, I'm not that smart. I'm no high
school drop. But I went the full six years. But
that doesn't mean I know if DeVante Adams has really
hurt or not. Long as completion to what is actually
a superstar receiver in my opinion, Garrett Wilson twelve yards
and then Aaron Rodgers said, the most prophetic thing you
could imagine. This is incredible. Yeah, an insightful statement like this,
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It needs to be framed and hung on the wall
to Louve right next to the Mona Lisa Wait for it.
Aaron Rodgers went on to say, you're not gonna beat
anybody scoring six points. Well, that's not true. If they
score five or less, you beat him. But that would
take a defense. And I already pissed all over the
defense's parade fifteen minutes ago. In case you missed it,
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DeVante Adams once said that Aaron Rodgers had the Michael
Jordan effect in Green Bay. I don't recall Green Bay
winning six titles and three peating twice, and something about
if Michael Jordan was on this team, he wouldn't be happy.
I don't even know what the hell does now Devanti
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Adams gets to talk. Then Rogers went on to finally
bemoan that he wasn't able to target tight end Tyler
Conkland during the goal line follies and maybe that could
have made it a game. And DeVante Adams, you know,
lamented about the fact he didn't catch one of the
two passes to him that may or may not have
been tipped. But these visions of grandeur turned out to
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be nothing but an illusion and delusion. And this is
the way Aaron Rodgers is going on. People people I
talk to that are closer to the situation, even back
on week one or two, when there was still hope.
And by the way, hope's not a strategy. There was hope.
They told me this is gonna be Rogers last year.
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I think it is. Would you want him back? But
I digress. Believe it or not, the three and seven
Jets are still actually mathematically alive. Now if the Jets,
let's just put it this way, I think, I think
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led Zeppelin re record the Gilligans Island theme song and
sell a million copies before the Jets come back to
find their way into the playoffs. You tell me they're alive,
they don't look They look mentally dead, they look spiritually dead,
they look emotionally dead. They didn't give an effort. They
can't tackle, they can't block. That was four weeks ago.
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They couldn't block, they couldn't protect Rodgers. They couldn't run
the ball with a stud like Bristol. So what do
you do? You go out and get Devanta Adams dead
team walking. They're limping crawling. Fourteenth consecutive reason season. Excuse
me without a playoff? Perth, a forty year old quarterback
who looks like he's eighty. What went wrong? Third down?
Red zone? That was Aaron Rodgers answer situational football. Guess what,
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I covered the Detroit lines for ten years. That's exactly
how you That's exactly how you judge a quarterback third down.
They don't pay it upont red zone in the fourth quarter.
The Cardinals were the hunger your team, the more physical team,
the more buttoned up team. The Jets were the softer team,
the more disappointing team, the more embarrassing team.
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John Parker Romo, the dude must be an assassinated. He's
got three names, and I say that in those complimentary sets,
or a serial killer, right, something like that. When it
comes to kicking field goals, he is hey real quickly,
and we'll get to your chargers later. I like the
success they're having. Just give you your two cents on
the Jets. I've let him have it. You find any
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fault with anything, I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
No, absolutely not. Aaron Rodgers was expected to be the savior.
I think he himself carried himself like he was going
to be the savior, and he's been anything but and
he is. There's a lot of blame to go around
in New York, and I'm glad you did point out
Woody Johnson. The guy's an awful owner and it starts
from the top. But there's, like I said, plenty of
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blames will go around. Aaron Rodgers certainly deserves a lot
of it as well.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
So do you believe Aaron Rodgers will be back next year?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
I guess it may depend on who the head coach is.
Do they want him back?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I don't think so. I don't even know if he
wants to come back. You can clearly see he's completely
broken down.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
I thought, yeah, I mean, it wouldn't It wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I mean, would surprise if he comes back.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
It wouldn't you know, it wouldn't surprise me if he
didn't come back. I guess, you know, if he.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Somehow turns it around sort of, you know, maybe he
gets back on his game. Regardless of about the team
does if he perform, performs individually better, maybe looks to go.
I don't know, somewhere else that's looking for a veteran
quarterback that maybe could get him over the top.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
I don't know. It doesn't look good.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah. The reason I bring that up, Eddie, is one
of the things coming out of New York this morning
before the game, was it. Remember they were coming off
a ten day arrest, they'd played the Thursday night game
last week. Aaron Rodgers does have a forty year old
body coming off the Achilles surgery. He has taken a
lot of hits this year. He's been sacked a lot.
He's been hit a lot because that offensive line's not great.
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So there was sort of this additional optimism among the
Jets that he'd got, you know, halfway point in the season.
They made it this far coming off a ten day rest.
The offensive line had no injuries, none of their offensive
line on the injury report. So there was sort of
this false optimism. And yet the same old Rogers, same
quarterback of the dead team walking even though they had
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ten days rest, and it was not a fluke. Right
out of the gate. DeVante Adams zero first half catches,
and you know, supposedly he and Garrett Wilson were primed
to catch fire. They'd had a good week of practice,
all that stuff, and the exact opposite happened, right, and
the Jets they just showed no fight whatsoever. And their
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leader showed no fight, face first on the ground. You
got to see that photo. And you know the Jets defense.
Every time it was third and ten, all of a sudden,
there's first down. You know, Quincy Williams sends Kyler Murray.
Cayler Murray, by the way, is healthy. When he's healthy,
he's a different animal. And I very happy for what
they're doing this year. There was a sack. There was
(25:04):
a sack though. Quincy Williams hit Kyler Murray sent his
helmet flying midway through the second quarter, and that's seemed
to fire up Arizona. And I'm back to the defense now.
Right on a third and ten, they hit Trade McBride
for thirteen yards and then they found Marvin Harrison and
they went down the field and they scored a nine
yard touchdown. And by that point the Jets are already
(25:25):
getting dominated. But it was only fourteen to six, right,
so the Jets needed Rogers to come back and fight
fire with fire and see if he could duel Kyler Murray,
and he didn't. At that point, twenty one to six
became twenty four to six and thirty one to six,
and you don't look. They basically said, you know, we
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believe we're a team. The Jets said, we believe we're
a team that can play with anybody, but they don't
do it when it matters. And that's my conclusion. Rogers
came to New York to change all of that. Same
old Jets, same older Rogers once again for the youmpteenth
time quarterback of the dead team walking. Coming up, the
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college football twelve team playoff is so much better than
the four team made for TV Invitational tournament that I
think there are a lot of pluses, but still got
their detractors right. I want to talk about that and
chase the detractors. And now we have an update after
who lost, and time to sort of bring that to
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the forefront. I'm Bernie Frattle sitting in for Ben Maller,
coming to live from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio
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It's Bernie Fratto.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
All right, thanks Eddie. You know, this college football season,
I think is shaping up to be one of the
most interesting. But you know what has happened starting last Tuesday.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised. It kind of reminds
me when I was in the third grade. I might
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have been a little bit of a smart ass. Troublemaker.
And I didn't really like my third grade teacher, missus Birch.
I just didn't and I used to make faces at her.
I did, and she wasn't looking. But then one day
she then she caught me. I was busted. And she said,
mister Frodo, I was told by my mother that if
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I made faces like that when I grew up as
an adult, they would be stuck. I said, well, missus Birch,
you can't say you weren't warned. You can't say you
weren't warned. We go from the BCS, which was a
complete fagazy, to the four team made for TV Invitational Tournament,
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which was just as big a f gazy because it
wasn't decided on the field. You know that. And you
have five power conferences in fourteens, so you could have
an undefeated team and they could get left in the
cold paging Florida State. All right, they might not have won,
they lost their quarterback, but we're never gonna know. But
right on Q, right on que, what happens? What happens?
(28:56):
On Tuesday? When the committee their initial college football playoff
top twelve, they pissed off about BYU. Why why all
arguments are going to be decided on the field as
opposed to the previous format. It's championship based, which is
what we want. I get it. The SEC is better
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than the Big twelve. So if you're Texas, Alabama, Mississippi
and you'd certainly be favored over BYU on a neutral
and your butt hurt because you're better than BYU, then fine,
succeed from the SEC and go to a lesser conference.
But you're not gonna do that, are you. Oh? By
the way, the SEC, they're gonna get four teams in
the in this tournament. The Big twelve will get one.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Alan Irison once said, I don't like to lift weights
because they're heavy. Change can be heavy, transition can be heavier.
This is gonna work. It's gonna work huge. I'm gonna
get to that in just a second. Let's go out
to the phones. By the way, the phones are open
all night. Have a little fun tonight. Come on, people,
get off your butt eight seven seven nine ninety nine
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on Fox Eat seven seven nine nine sixty six three
sixty nine. Let's go to tiger Man in Utah. You
want to talk about the college football playoff? Good evening, sir,
how are you.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
I'm doing well, Bernie.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
How about you doing fine? My friend?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Well, Bernie, I you know, I'm just honestly, I'm just
a little bit perplexed. I'm sad. I live in a
world where sixty eight million dollars there's a lot of
money to buy out a coach that will not win
a national championship. And I'm dad and I live in
a world where we are paying two million dollars for
unproven quarterbacks that don't know how to play college football.
(30:41):
And I know people don't like BYU as a Utah
telling you BYU is legitimate. They are a great team,
and I think that they're highly disrespected by the country
right now. There's no one in the country that books
anything like e YU. They're extremely exciting, they're able to
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play it together really late in the games. But again,
you know, I really just think that money is kind
of destroying the sport. And I'm really sad about it,
you know me, Bernie, you know, but they go us,
you been, And I'm just really sad that my program
is the way it is and we're paying quarterbacks that
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can't play, We're paying head coaches that can't coach. So
that's kind of where college football is right now. I
think for a lot of teams, I think for the
part of states of the world, for the USC's of
the world, it's that it really is a lot of
these top two programs are no longer top tiering. It's
very sad to city, all.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Right, Tiler Man, I appreciate you, Man. I do agree
about BYU, But I would say this, It's always been
this way in terms of players getting paid. It's just
now it's come out of the dark room and out
of the clouds and it's above board, even though it's
the wild West and it's not particularly regulated. And the
reason people are bent about BYU is because they're set
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to get a first round by because they're on pace
to win the Big twelve. And that's where this that's
where this whole college football playoff structure should have been
from the get make it championship based. Now, see, here's
the thing. BYU might get that first round by, but
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they are still going to have to They're still going
to have to beat somebody like an Oregon or a
Penn State or Georgia or Tennessee. And that's where this
whole thing is going to shake out if you look
at what they've already given us, what the projected bracket
(32:50):
is going to look like Tuesday now for some reason,
for some reason, they've got Ohio State number one, now
Texas number two, Miami still three, even though they lost.
They're leading the ACC and the AEC will only get
one team and byu fourth. Oregon remains undefeated after getting
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by Maryland fairly easily, and the Ducks are currently number one.
But see they're projecting that if those if Ohio State,
who Oregon already beat earlier in the year and a
house state could have won that game. These knuckleheads are
projecting that in a rematch in Indianapolis, which is where
the Big Ten championship game would be, they believe how
Ohio State would win that rematch. And Penn State, I
(33:35):
think was shown too much love if they're the sixth
ranked team in the country. Yeah, sure, you know. It's
like Lily Tomplin once said, I always wanted to be somebody.
I just wish I'd been more specific. Who the hell
is Penn State? We know who they are. They beat
everybody unless it really matters. But this is shaping up
to be something special. B why you're still going to
(33:56):
have to prove it on the field. Let's say this
goes according to Oyles. Just fun the shows tonight, we
got to talk about what's going on today. The first
round games would be Oregon versus Boise State five versus twelve,
Penn State versus Indiana, Georgia versus Alabama, Notre Dame versus Tennessee.
If the higher ranked team won, that will lead to
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Ohio State playing Notre Dame, BYU playing Oregon, Miami playing
Penn State, in Texas playing Georgia. Tell me you not
sign enough for that? And what really pisses me off
about people who don't think this playoff format is good
They thought the regular season would lose its intensity due
to the expanded playoff, because well, you know, I don't
agree with that at all. One loss used to be
(34:38):
essentially season ending. Did you see what happened in Baton
Rouge Saturday night? We had a legit college football playoff
elimination game in Baton Rouge. Number eleven Alabama played LSU,
their ranked fifteenth. Both teams had two losses. They both
had two losses in past seasons. That game would have
been played for Pride. But now it's a playoff game
(34:59):
because the third defeat, for all intentsive purposes, knocks LSU
out of the playoff and Alabama is still alive. And
the beauty of this expanded playoff is that there are
games like this in November that are meaningful, keeps more
teams in conversation because they're playing for much more than
just a bid. They might get a first round game
on their campus, they might get a first round by
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plus you've even finally got a group of five conference
team guaranteed to get in there, which will pie be
Boise State. So take your complaints park the mohere, you know,
and let's have a little fun coming up. We'll bring
in Mark Medina, always crazy NBA news. Keep it locked
right here. You listening to the Ben Maller Show. Bernie
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