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December 4, 2017 • 47 mins

Big Ben talks about the Seahawks win over the Eagles, the cheap shot by Rob Gronkowski, Maller to the 3rd Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
Fox Sports Radio. If you had the Philadelphia Eagles winning
out the rest of the NFL regular season, you're a loser.
Nine game winning streak is ov e r and he's
all done for the boys from the Delaware Valley. Russell Wilson,

(00:25):
who didn't have a gatty number of yards passing a
two hundred twenty two yards, but three touchdowns and the
one dimensional Seattle Seahawks offense, a team that has been
unable to get any kind of a running game all year.
And it's not like they ran the ball down the
throws of the Eagles here they did not, but they

(00:46):
end up winning the game convinctionally with a dominating defense
twenty four to ten, and Philly put constant pressure on
what Russell Wilson they did, but he was able to
use the ability to get out of the pocket and
make some plays. And so that is a signature win
for a beaten, broken and battered Seattle defense. But the

(01:10):
better story is in the losing locker room, and let
the TV people suck the toes of Pete Carroll. We're
in radio and we like a good story in a
losing locker room, and that would be the Philadelphia Eagles
side of things. So let's discuss now. The question is
how concerned Doug Peterson, the coach of the Eagles, should

(01:34):
be with this particular game right now. On one hand,
you can say, hey, it's only one game. They were
due to lose, right, they were due to lose. Nothing's
gonna last forever, and there were some questionable moves in
this game. The challenge to not to challenge decisions on
fourth down for Doug Peterson. But if I'm the Eagles coach,

(01:57):
you know what I got right now. I got heartburnt.
And it's not because of a meal and I had
to eat before the game. I got heartburn, all right.
And my thoughts on this, You've got the old monkey wrench,
reality check, a constipation situation, and shorthanded. You got all
that now. Number one, they'll walk you through. The Eagles

(02:19):
have been lighting them up and mowing them down. This
is a cruise control situation. Now they have played several
god awful teams, but not every one of these nine
wins has been against the Sisters of the Blind and
the Poor. So you said, well, well, we shouldn't react
disproportion but here's the deal. Seattle, what they did in

(02:45):
this particular game, especially on the defensive side of things.
And Russell Wilson made some plays, but on the defensive
side when able to keep Philadelphia from getting in the
end zone. I don't care about the yardage total and
all that. That is what really put the old monkey
wrench in the fine oil machine of Eagles football. You
can say, well, Philadelphia won the statuet, the first downs,

(03:05):
the yardage and all that. That's great, that's wonderful. But
there's a beat up Seattle defense playing without the core
of what had been this run of success in the
Pacific Northwest, the vaunted legion of boom. They're not there.
Two thirds of it's gone. Richard Sherman he ain't playing,

(03:27):
Cam Chancellor he ain't playing, and they're out injured. And
so the Seahawks were still able to force Carson Wentz
at times to play like a peasant. Yeah, he had
three hundred forty eight yards, but points matter more than yards,
and the Eagles only came up with ten. And the
numbers to the novice will say. The novels says, oh

(03:48):
it was good, Garson West was gud yah Marod you
don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, you're dope. That's
my response to you. Points points points, points points, points,
and you gotta make the scoring plays when it was
scoring time. The Eagles had a constipation situation, right, the

(04:09):
derailment of the MVP campaign. No, it's not the derailment
of the MVP campaign because the stats were still gattie
as far as the yardage total is concerned. However, it
does give a blueprint to the La Rams who have
Philadelphia and next and everyone else that plays the Eagles
of the rest of the way, and especially you look
down the line in the postseason. If a Seattle defense

(04:34):
that is a shell, a shell of what they had
been can do this, then you've got to think other
teams that have more health should be able now dissolve
the matrix. That is, they think at the cheap code
now because of Pete Carroll and they did a good
job with the xs and os and all that. It

(04:54):
was nice. The players, though executed, gave up some yardage,
but the points did not about points. Call it bend
but not break, call it whatever you want. It worked.
Carson Wentz missed a number of throws. He also had
the play that I hate the most in the NFL,
the fumble out of the end zone that you give
the ball the other team. I hate that play. I

(05:17):
gotta get rid of that play. It's happened several times.
You having the Rams earlier Todd Gurley fumble that the
goal line sucks. It absolutely sucks that play. Can't stand
it all right, let's hear it from Carson Wentz. Carson,
you've got to be in a panic right now. Your
team is falling apart. Yes, I'm not too worried about
how we'll respond. Well, I know we'll come out right
away Tuesday with our meetings and everything. Wednesday's practice, you know,

(05:39):
I know we'll be well, running full speed. You know,
I know we'll be fine. We're again, we're frustrated about
this loss. M hats off Seattle. That's a great, great
football team and they made more places than us today.
But I know what we'll respond. Just far see this
works out perfectly for the Rams. I was a little
worried because the Eagles, you know, I figured it'd be
better if they'd beat in Seattle. But the Eagles are

(06:00):
going to spend the week in Orange County. They're flying
from Seattle to southern California, and they're practicing in preparation
for the game against the Rams. They're gonna be staying
in coast to Mason, which is a stone throwaway from Disneyland.
All Right, these these guys, I don't know how many
of them have families, but the ones that do will

(06:21):
be hanging out after practice with Mickey Mouse. Okay, they're
not gonna be focused. They're not. That's go back to
Doug Peterson, though, the Eagles coach. Now the Eagles team
that just didn't have it in this particular game. He's
called out, the referees called out, Well, Carson Winnes didn't
see him. Upset. You've got to be upset, coach, Right,

(06:43):
you're gonna be very upset by this. Yes, he can't
just show up and expect to win against good football team,
that's right. And this is this is a football team
in the month of December, talking about the Seahawks, and
so that's a really good team. It's a really good
team December and that's when teams need to be playing
their best football and and we didn't do that. Sorry. Yeah,
let's not go ancient history here. Let's go what's gone

(07:04):
on right now, and this same Seattle Seahawks team. In fact,
I would say that the team prior had been better
than this vintage of the Seahawks, just in this particular year.
But remember the Seahawks, if you look at their schedule,
the last couple of home games, they lost to the Redskins,

(07:25):
and they lost to the Atlanta Falcons, and Atlanta put
a thirty burger on him in Seattle, and the Philadelphi
Eagles wrobably better offense this year than the Atlanta Falcons
held to ten points, and that was an Atlanta team.
Or the Atlanta game where the Seahawks had a couple
more of their guys. Now that Richard Sherman got hurt

(07:46):
the week before, but still it's embarrassing, m embarrassing, and
the mistakes there, Carson Wentz looking confused at some times
during the game. And the Eagles had this long stretch
of scoring twenty or more points that was a badge
of honor. They would always get twenty points no matter what.

(08:07):
Sometimes they put fifty up if they played the Broncos,
usually over thirty points, but no more, no more. In fact,
that's the first time under the Carson Wentz Doug Peterson
regime that the Eagles have ended up with less than
twenty points. I believe right, the streak ending at long streak,

(08:28):
and so the guys in the Delaware Valley now the
hang out with Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck. And
they have been leap frogged by the Minnesota Vikings, who
only scored twice against Atlanta, but still beat the Falcons
at the new Stadium in Georgia. And so Minnesota has
leap frogged Philadelphia. They have a same record, but the

(08:49):
Vikings are in the number one position in the NFC
and so they would have home field advantage, so technically
are tied. But the leap frog situation, the Vikings ahead
of the Eagles, and the immense pressure that I've loved
so much, and all the nonsense you morons said about

(09:10):
the Dodgers, I will now say about the Philadelphi Eagles.
Cannot wait. Peak two soon, Peak two soon, immense pressure. Overrated, yep, overrated, yep.
They wasted all their energy during the regular season in
weeks seven, eight, nine, and ten, and eleven. That bye week,
they really wasted a lot of energy. Now they've got
nothing left, nothing left at all time to panic in

(09:36):
the Delaware Valley. The Eagles have crashed back down to earth,
Yes they have. All right, did the last thing here
I mentioned the blueprint to attacking Carson Wentz and Pete
Carroll helping out all future opponents with the game plan
that the Eagles were or the sat rather were able
to execute. But they the game plan that Pete Carroll

(09:57):
came up with against Carson went There is a piece
of kryptonite that has popped up here nine times in
Carson Wentz's brief career, he has had a game where
he has had to attempt forty or more pass attempts
nine times. You know what his record is in those
nine games? You don't, I will tell you. In those

(10:20):
nine games Carson Wentz where he has had to throw
forty or more passes is one and eight and this
year oh and two, the Kansas City game and now
the Seattle game here just a few hours ago. So
get him to throw, throw early, and throw off and
that is the key. All right, spend mallor show will
take your phone calls if you would like to be part.

(10:43):
Lines are open for you. We'll open them all up here.
New week of programming on Fox Sports Radio eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine
six sixty three six nine. And I'm expecting some zenies.
I'm expecting some craziness because I am a skywatcher and tonight,

(11:06):
why is tonight different? It is a supermoon. We have
a supermoon right now. Oh look at look at Look
at that. Oh it's visible the only time in twenty
seven teen, the year that we're in. Right now, the
supermoon illuminating the night sky. Now, my science friends tell me,

(11:31):
I was reading about this earlier, that the supermoon is
seven percent bigger, sixteen percent brighter than your normal standard moon.
And that's just to the naked eye. That's just the
naked eye. So the lunar effect will be in play
here on this show. Now. A man who is much

(11:53):
too busy to attend the big social event of the weekend,
Edmund Dallas steamboat. I don't like Ben maller Garcia areas
right there, so hard to believe you would take it,
take it there. But I do apologize for I like
the text an hour before the party that you're gonna make.
That's solid. I was just trying to go to the
very last second to see if I was gonna be
able to get out there or not. But I apologize

(12:15):
for not making it very difficult. You will not be
invited next year. That's not that's not fair. You said
it's two. I changed, now it's one. Come on, I
had legitimate reasons for a couple of people to text
me the last minute. They're off the list. You're having
to be one of the people. You're off the list. Well,
that's not fair. You're off the list. I'm sorry you
can't go. I'm gonna invite Arnie next year. He's gonna go.

(12:38):
Arnie's willing to travel three thousand miles from the sticks.
I'm sure that's true. Yeah, yeah, so he's in. And
the Morning Guy in Kansas City, FESCO. He said he
would fly out from Kansas City. He's in. I'm sure
that's so. I gotta fill those spots. I only have
limited spaces. You know what, it's a it's a jam
packed party. So when people cancel the last minute, people,
are you pible? I told you that I was going

(13:00):
to try and make it. Hold it happens. I told
you I was going to try and make it, and
it was gonna be a game time decision. I understand,
and that's fine. Listen, I don't want you to be
prepped next year. You don't have to worry about it.
You don't have to go. Don't be so but hurt.
I'm not but her a. There's other people that want
to go that we're willing to show up and travel.
I heard Danny G was there and Cooper was there
as well. Yeah, but they were there. I heard Danny

(13:22):
G's sweater was the hit of the party. Not really.
He didn't win that top three so it wasn't that popular.
Once again, people didn't like it. That's radio has been Uh.
I had the custom made sweater last year and UH
finished second. You know, Danny finished out of anything. Again.

(13:43):
It was not it was amazing and original. Wasn't that
It really wasn't right. The contest was definitely rigged. Of
course it is. And Ben was trying to lead the booze.
I didn't have to lead the booze. Other people boots
saying boo boo and people listen, they don't like yourself.
For people who didn't see it, it was a sweater

(14:06):
with little snowflakes all over it, and they had like
Clipper Fanny was, Danny was a little snowflake. Clipper faces
on the snowflake snowflakes, and then because the Clippers are delicate,
they were La snow Blakes, snow Blake. Keep in mind
the Lakers that night lost to the Denver Nuggets, who
were out like their top three players. That no effect
on the great Keep in mind that your Clippers got

(14:28):
blown out by twenty something by the mad I understand that,
but it's not like the Lakers became good the Clippers. Clippers.
Clippers are bad. So here's the differences Holiday parties. All
I am willing to admit the Clippers are a bad
basketball team. You are unwilling to admit the Lakers have
not bad now, they're bad. They've been bad for years. Alight,

(14:49):
you should have made it, you know, you should have
made a sweater with Lonzo ball and the miss shots
of Lonzo balls would have been That would have been
great any other team. How about the Agelo Russell the
next step Curry? How did that work out? I want
to hear from want great power forward. Want to hear
from a man who attended the skelet for the first time,

(15:11):
Brandon Ingram a skeletor Coop the Loop. Coop the Loop.
You went to the party. Give me give me your
thoughts on the food, because the food has been spectacular
when I'm there the last two years. He asked me,
you should have gone it if you want to review.
Nobody wants to hear about this. Nobody wants to hear Coop,
tell me what you thought? Was it worth your time?
I know you were kind of a be a little
bit of baby about how it was going to be

(15:32):
a start at nine o'clock, and then they moved it
up to eight o'clock just for you to see that true,
That's what I heard. He didn't show up though, anyway,
until after. He was one of the later people. I
wasn't the latest one though, No. I think that was
Tom Loop. There were many people that came after me
later arriving. Crow Felix came after I did, So did Tom.
All right, all right, I want to hear about the

(15:52):
I want to hear about the food. Look the food.
The food was good. Um, how was bella? Bella? Can
you ben out of peanut M and M's. There was
a race between it was Oop and and then former
Fox Sports Radio technical producer Who's got the serial killer dies?
Steve Stillwell was partaking a lot of Eminem's. Yeah, now
it was Ben holding a baby when you guys walked

(16:14):
into the night. There was no babies. There's no party.
The last year when I showed up, you were holding
there were no kids. There's no The only babies were
the fire pit. No, that's doesn't sound here. Wow, look
at you. The final question? All right, thank you? Did
Ben have fifty two Christmas light things plugged into one

(16:35):
at all? It were lights everywhere, but not like I'm
nuanced with that. I did not see where the lights
were plugged into, but there was many different lights. Yeah,
so there were lost lights. Yeah, it was. It was
exactly all right, Well, I'll be there next year. You're
not invited, if you can talk. If Arnie doesn't go,
I'll give you the invite. I'll talk to No, No,
she didn't like you, Arnie. If Arnie doesn't go, then

(16:58):
Bella will invite me. Arnie. He complained a lot, and
he wanted to go, so he gets the inbo. That's
kind of how that hold on a second, Arnie complained
a lot. Yeah, he wanted to gotlie and well Apparently
Jonas Knox was complaining a lot on the network. Lasses well,
that was the two year rule he had. The two years.
He didn't show up either years, so he's out, that's done.
You know, he didn't want to go and he could

(17:20):
have taken a sick day. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Ben Maller Show weeknights at two am
Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeart Radio app. Remember back to week four of the
NFL season. The Patriots had just lost at home to
the Carolina Panthers, and they were a two and two
football team at that time. And you looked ahead and

(17:40):
you look down the line and said, oh my god,
this straight. The Patriots are two and two, couple of
home losses, and look at them. Now, look at them. Now,
you getta win, you gotta win, you getta win. They
keep stacking them up. Eight straight wins. Now for the Patriots,
who are ten and two. The Patriots are rolling along,

(18:05):
ruling along now as they have that game upcoming December
seventeenth with Pittsburgh. But other than that, it is the
hostess schedule. It got Miami upcoming this week in South Florida.
That's a game that Tom Brady's had some problems in Miami.
That's one of the few spots he's had some issues
in my old issues because he's got a good record
against everybody. And then the Buffalo Bills and the Jets

(18:28):
in Foxboro to close out the season. So it's the
same old story in Buffalo. This particular game, the Patriots
clabbard the Bills. It was a lopsidy game. The Buffalo
offense mustered up three points three points against the Patriots defense.
The same Patriot defense that was gouged for forty two

(18:50):
points by Kansas City gave up thirty three points Deshaun
Watson and the Texans in a game that was played
in Foxboro, a game the Patriots won. Kimon roll. The
thirty three point total against the Patriots defense. We're going
on on here breakdown individual games. But this Patriot defense

(19:10):
in this game no contest against the Buffalo Bills, and
so there's not a lot to say it was a
lopsided game as far as the actual result is concerned.
So it's the subplot that I want to focus in
on here that's got some some buzz to it. It's
got some juice a Rob Gronkowski who demolished the Bills defense.

(19:34):
He had one hundred and forty seven yards nine catches.
He also demolished some of the defensive players or one
of them for the Buffalo Bills. A very bold strategy
by Sean mcdermot's defense to leave Gronkowski uncovered in the
second half. Just let him run free. Why impede the

(19:56):
progress of Gronk. But it was a play in the
fourth quarter late in the game when Tom Brady ended
up throwing an interception Gronkowski, Let's just say he did
not handle it well. He did not handle it off. Now,
and this game was off your radar. If you're focused
on other games, you weren't paying attention, you might not
have seen this. But Rob Gronkowski felt like it was

(20:17):
his job to get a pound of flesh in response
to what he perceived as a great injustice and particularly
or particularly wearing a Bill's defensive back, your Davias White,
Gronk believes held him so on this particular play where
Brady threw the interception, Gronkowski felt like he was getting

(20:39):
held on the play, so he delivered a savage, cheap
shot to this guy. Tr Davias White from behind after
the whistle, and White was laying on the ground, and
you know, it looked back look probably looked a lot
worse than it was. And so I want to talk
about it now. White said to have suffered a can

(21:00):
rushing on the play. And you've got Gronkowski apologizing, You've
got other people apologize, you got Bill Belichick apologizing. He's
been a parade of apology since that particular play. If
you don't believe me, here's Rob Gronkowski. He's doing the
walk of shame. The Gronk I definitely want to apologizing
number twenty seven. I'm not in the business of that.

(21:22):
I mean, there was a lot of frustration and uh,
I was just really frustrated at that moment. It just
just happened naturally through emotions and frustration, and uh, I
just want to apologize to Davious White. Um, I know
don't don't don't really believe any type of shots like that,
but just do the frustration process, gaming football emotions, just

(21:46):
just because what happened melancholy, huh, pressed Gronk not happy.
So expand on you said, frustrated Gronk, You got to
expand on What the hell's that mean? Why are you frustrated?
What are you frustrated? At the top of the round,
I mean, I felt like it was it was a
big hole at the top, and then the throw was

(22:09):
definitely I mean, I felt like kind of pushed me
a little bit, I mean, and made the play, and
I just don't understand why there wasn't a flag and
just do that. And there's a couple times in the
game and they're calling me for the craziest, craziest stuff
ever and it's like crazy, I mean, like one am
I supposed to do? And then I mean, are you

(22:30):
pessimistic that at that point? I understand gron and you
had to take some from field justice in your own
hands and you decided to take care of it, all right,
So let's let's ask the question. I think it's kind
of obviously we're gonna talk about this. What are the
chances that Rob Gronkowski gets suspended. It's gonna come down
twenty four hours from the conclusion of that game, So

(22:52):
sometime on Monday, we'll have a pretty good read on this,
the Rob Gronkowski suspension. I am going to go eighty
five percent. I believe there's an eighty five percent chance
that Rob Gronkowski is going to be suspended. Now my
perspective on this, You've got the old school wiggle room
and WrestleMania and all of those things, and I'll tie

(23:16):
them all together in a nice little package. First of all,
First of all, you have this particular play, the gron
play from a different generation, back in the Bronze Age,
the old school days of the NFL. This particular play
happened not every game, but it seemed like every other

(23:38):
game there was a play like this. It happened semi
regularly in the NFL buck in my day, and the
NFL celebrated right as different times. The NFL films people
put a few highlight tapes together, the ruthless hits of
football barbaric plays, and for those sentimental types that remember
the NFL when it was known as a barber league,

(24:01):
this is celebrate. But now what has happened. It has
been one person after another person condemning and yelling on
social media about Gronky's being tagged as a monster and
a football radical, and going on and on and on.
He's getting he's getting the Montes perfect treatment because of

(24:23):
this particular play. They looked bad. I'm not gonna sit
here and tell you it didn't look bad. That replay
that everyone's been watching that does not look good for Gronk.
It does not look good at all. Now, the second
thing here, the NFL does not have a lot of
wiggle room when it comes to this. He's not Gronkowski's
not technically a first time offender. He's been in the

(24:45):
crosshairs of the NFL a couple of times over the
course of his career. It's been disciplined for a few
other things. So if past results are any indication of
future outcomes, then Gronkowski is doing I'm going eighty five percent.
I'm not going one hundred percent, but I'm going eighty
five percent. It's all anecdotal evidence. But if Tredavious White
supposedly suffered a concussion, if that's true, that's bad for Gronkowski.

(25:09):
The public opinion. You know how the NFL works here,
They gauge this, and what's the blowback on social media?
How are people feeling? And let's go that direction. Ezekiel Elliott.
People said to suspend his ass, get rid of him
and the NFL without without the evidence pointing that way.
They did it anyway, there's plenty of evidence via the
tape here of what happened. So if you go by

(25:31):
the court of public opinion, Gronk screwed. Gronk happens to
where Patriot laundry. That doesn't help him out. The NFL's
got a bit of a you know what for the Patriots,
and we know they loved his stick it to New England.
And then the final thing on this, you have the
micro and the macro, and the micro Gronk likely suspended

(25:54):
one game. He'll go to the appeals process. He might
not even miss a game on a heel. But let's
say he does miss a game, and if the NFL
wants him to miss a game, they should suspend him
two games and then he'll have appeal. And Gronkowski only
missed one game, so he'll missed the Week fourteen game
against the Miami Dolphins. Let's say that happens in the macro.

(26:16):
This will actually help Gronk. Why why is it gonna
help Gronk Because this is one of those particular moments
that was a wrestling move what Gronkowski did right, So
you need if you want to become a wrestler, I
know he's done some wrestling stuff before, which was hokey
and all that. But when you gotta have that sizzle

(26:37):
reel pops, you gotta have that you when you get
the wrestling. And so my Crystal Ball and I am
a distant relative of the Great Nose Damas And on
this being a super moon, what better day to project
into the future when Rob Gronkowski isn't worried about hoisting
up the Lombardi Trophy. No, no, no, no, He's worried
about winning wrestle Mania. That is what he's worried about.

(27:01):
He's worried about being the people's champ because that was
the people's elbow, right what he did there on the
big stage, there that great elbow against the Buffalo Bill's
defenseless defender, and Vince McMahon is gonna make it rain.
You figure Gronkowski will play a couple more years if
his body holds up, which is a question in the NFL,
and then he'll travel around the world and become a wrestler.

(27:25):
The question when Gronk does become a wrestler, is he
a good guy or is he a heel? Would Gronk
be a better bad guy? Or would he be a
better goofy good guy. I'd like to see him as
a bad guy because I think it would be more fun.
I think Gronkowski has like a renegade heel would be wondering,

(27:46):
all right, j Benn Maller's show on Fox. If you
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now eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven
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be part of the festivities. We count down the days
until we are forced to play holiday musics. Several listeners

(28:07):
have asked, did the memo come down? I did not
get any memo. We miscalculated that nothing has come down
the pipe yet. But they the corporate office has opened
up at the iHeart Building in Los Angeles in a
few hours, so many hours from now, and I would
think at that time there'll be some get together, some
high profile meetings in those big boardrooms they have with

(28:29):
the nice televisions and all that, the big high end chairs,
and so I would think something will be done then.
But so far we're good to go. No, no, let
us snow, let it snow, let us know, or jingle bells,
jingle bells, jingle bells, you don't. You don't have to
hear that yet. If you out of your house anywhere there,
I went out a little bit. I'd do some shopping
for the party that Eddie chose not to show up to,

(28:50):
I'd go I do some shopping there. And everywhere I went,
every store I went to, it's holiday music. Overwhelmed with
holiday music. Well, first off, I didn't miscount alculate anything.
I said it was going to start two weeks before Christmas,
so we're not a two week next next Monday, I
think it's gonna start. We'll see if you'll see about that.
I'm happy that I guessed wrong. You're pleased that you

(29:14):
because I thought it was going to be all month long.
So one of the good things about my house being redone,
other than when it's over, that will be the best thing.
But I have not heard much Christmas stews at all
in the house. Just too much crap going on when
you go out, Eddie, the whole world out there. Eventually
I'll have to, but so far I haven't had to
do that yet. What are you staying home watching them
do the construction? Uh no, I mean the sleep schedules.

(29:37):
Ald it screwed up because of I'm out of the house.
You should tell them to work during the nighttime hours.
Well that my wife probably wouldn't enjoy that. Yeah, but
you have to work during the day, and it's I know,
and I got to find a place to be while
they're painting and ripping up floors and doing all that
kind of stuff. So you don't want the fumes. The
fumes smell good, you know. I would disagree with that.

(29:58):
I would disagree with that. Mess up you in sides,
But they smell Okay. You don't like to smell the paint,
I don't do you, No, it's not in my face.
I like the smell of gas. I don't like to
smell a paint. I've always been fond of the smell
of gas. At the gas you know you're pumping gas there,
you know, the eighty seven grade gas. It smells better. Look,
it smells better. Not even as a kid, I always

(30:19):
love to smell gas better than like the ninety one grade,
because the eighty seven smells better, Is that right? He does?
Put it in a glass and sniffing. I laugh at
the people that put the ninety one grade in there,
A bunch of idiots. They are morons. Yeah, we don't
have a ping in our engine. Yeah, okay, well you
do have a hole in your wallet though apparently that's

(30:42):
I'm not putting the money out of it. Car is
not gonna fall apart about that? What are you talking about, Danny?
The mallarmobiles last foreverllarmobiles going fine? Just run, I just
run until the wheels fall off, and then I'll get
new wheels and put them back on. We're good to go.
So that works, all right, Let's go the phones. You
know it's a supermoon. I don't even know what that means.

(31:03):
Let's find out more about the supermoon. And Andrea, the
one that knows all about the supermoon, just gonna enlighten
you and fill you in. Looking to the heavens to
give us the lowdown. Hello Andrea, Hi, Ben, who are you?
If I was any better? Eddie Garciodas shown up to

(31:24):
my holiday party, but he was big timing. He didn't
show up. But that's all right. There's room for Arnie. Now,
there's a room for Arnie. Things happened for a reason.
Even Jimmy g said that today everything happened for a reason. Yeah,
so they won an impressive performance by the forty nine
ers offense. There they dominated the Chicago Bears unless they didn't,

(31:45):
but they won the game. Yeah, you know, check this out.
It was a super full moon. Jimmy G was back
in his hometown. He's a scorpio. Jupiter isn't scorpio. Literally,
Jupiter are aligned with his Mars. Remember that song the
Age of Aquarius when the moon is in the seventh
House and Jupiter aligned with Mars. Peaceful guide the planets

(32:09):
and love will fill the stars. Might have been before
your time, but anyway, I'm part of the song. I
mean it's an old Yeah, it's a classic. Yeah I heard, Yeah,
the Age of Aquarius. So literally, Jimmy G had Jupiter
aligned with his Mars. Jupiter expansion, abundance, opportunity, Mars energy, assertion, aggression,
and he was great. He looked great in the pocket.

(32:32):
He had leadership, ability, strong willpower, high energy. And it
was actually his dad's birthday. Did you know that? I
did not know that, But I want here's what I wanted. Yeah,
I want to know how the supermoon affects me. That's
what I want to know about. I'm worried about Jimmy
g I'm worried. I am worried about this show. I
want to know what's gonna happen. I know in the

(32:52):
past we've had a full moon. It's the zaniness. We
already had Pencil neck Ray call up earlier. He hasn't
called for months. That's an odd thing that you would
call on a super moon night. So I want to
know what we can expect, Andrea, when you look out
and you look at all the charts at all that
you forecast, I want to know through astrology what we
can expect. Okay, well, the super moon it's the only

(33:14):
one that's visible in twenty seventeen. There'll be one the
end of January in twenty eighteen. It's bigger and brighter.
You had the ratios correct, And basically the full moon
is a culmination. It's more emotional energy. So that's why
you have a little more zany callers, emergency rooms or
fold is, you know, just more chaotic energy during full moons.

(33:36):
So that now I'm told the moon is was it
sixteen thousand miles closer than it normally is? It appears
to be. It is actually a lot closer. It's sixteen
thousand that's a lot of miles and brighter. Also, I
mean I saw her. She was just beautiful. Of how
do you know, how do you know the moon's a woman? Oh? Yeah,
well maybe maybe the moon's gender neutral. How about that, Well,

(34:00):
maybe it's a transgender moon. The sun is a solar energy,
in the moon is a lunar energy. Yeah, that's part
of what I kind of grab. I don't. I don't
like to, you know, I don't want to type you
in the moon as a woman or a man. I don't.
That's unrude to the moon. The moon can use either
bathroom the moon wants to use, in my opinion, Oh
you do you do in Berkeley? Of course? Well you

(34:20):
live there, Andrea, So your your guys there and women
there your people. Excuse me, I don't want to say
guys are women people? Those are? These are your people there? Yes? Exactly,
exactly all right, Well, Andrea, thank you? And there for more.
You can follow Andrea their virgo in service. Yes, yes,
thank you, Andrea. There she goes. Andrea looking at all

(34:41):
the stars through astrology and sports. How amazing is. Be
sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
weeknights at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. It's maller. How
about that? To the third degree? This gets grilled? All right,

(35:03):
here we go third degree time we bring in the coopolo.
And after the Cowboys win on Thursday night, he talked
a lot about how it was a misleading win by
the Cowboys, and he pointed to the many turnovers by
the Redskins. Well after the game, NFL network analysts also
pointed to the Redskins, specifically Kirk Cousins. Marshall Falk, and
Steve Smith questioned his leadership, and Smith even said that

(35:24):
Cousins probably cost himself ten to twenty million with that game.
Cousins shrugged off those comments over the weekend, essentially saying
that they you know, they just drive ratings. Do you
think it really cost himself that much money? Ban absolutely not. Listen,
Cousins twenty nine years old, he's in the prime of
his NFL career. He didn't lose one dollar with that game.

(35:47):
In fact, he probably made an extra ten million dollars
this weekend. I'll tell you why it is supply and demand.
Did you watch the Drek playing quarterback in the NFL,
the Seaniser, Blaine Gabbard, Geno Smith are starting quarterbacks. You're
a guy with the Broncos. Come on, Kirk Cousins compared

(36:13):
to those players is Hercules. He's Hercules, and be when
the wooing process begins in the off season right a month,
a few days after the Super Bowl kind of simmers
and then the crank up when the free agency period
begins in the NFL, assuming the Redskins don't keep him
again as a franchise player, Kirk Cousins is gonna have
the Broncos, the Jags, the Cardinals, the Giants and others

(36:37):
whispering sweet nothings into his ears. And I would love
to be his agent when the bidding process or process begins,
because it's gonna be off the hook. There's there's no
end in sight here. So no, he didn't cost himself
one dollar forget ten million. Next, with Jimbo Fisher leaving
FSC to take seven point five million a year at

(36:59):
Texas A and M, that just adds to recent data
that top college coaches now make just as much, if
not more than top NFL coaches. Ben, do you think
we are heading to a time where coaches make the
jump from NFL to college No, no, no, app so
loosely not that this is a break the bank situation
for Texas A and M. It's also a unique situation.

(37:22):
You're not talking about taking an NFL coach. The Texas
A and M Athletic Department did not try to hunt
down some random manifact go Jack del Rio, for example.
So we need you to come to the Texas A
and M. This is unique. And the worst job in
the NFL is better than the best job in college football.

(37:43):
Why is that? Because you are coaching the junior varsity
when you're in college football. Look at Clemson. We're just
talking about Dabo Sweeney at Clemson. Clemson as a fine team.
They're the favorite to win the national championship this year
in college football. What do they have maybe five or
six future your NFL players on that roster. And out
of those five or six, how many of them will

(38:04):
actually be good NFL players? Maybe one, maybe two tops.
You see the difference there. You coach an NFL team,
you've got actual NFL players at every position. Even the
Browns now number two college football. The main reason that
it's better in the NFL and college is all the
red tape, all the bs, all the nonsense, the charades

(38:25):
about student athletes, the terminology amateurism, all the crap that
you have to You know, it's ridiculous, but you have
to regurgitate recruiting the unhinged, lunatic fan bases like those
guys in Knoxville, Tennessee. In the NFL, you coach the
top one percent, the best of the best, the krem

(38:46):
della krem, and everyone gets paid. Everyone gets a lot
of money. In the NFL. You don't have to worry
about the nonsense of college football. Next, been one of
the failed poor sad clippers, Austin Rivers. He's not he's
not poor. He's a lot of things, but he's not poor.
It's very wealthy. He's poor. On the court, Austin everst

(39:09):
fed thousand dollars for yelling at a fan last week. Yeah,
what's the most trouble that you've gotten into for something
that you said? Well, first of all, Austin Rivers makes
eleven million dollars, almost twelve million, I think, so he's
not poor anyway. Let's see. First of all, I would
say that as a talk shows you know you have

(39:29):
to you have to be a bit of a daredevil.
You have to do the old tightrope walk without a
net verbal daredevil. I got in trouble before. I've had
some conversations with Doc Mike that did not go so well.
Some things were said that got us banned from Chicago
Radio for a while. There was a guy in Boston
that was also triggered by a conversation I had with

(39:53):
the Boston Hater, and he was very upset with some
commentary about Johnny Pesky, famous for the Pesky Pull at
Fenway Park, and I was forced to give an apology
against my will because of that conversation. There's a couple
of examples. But look at the time, Cooper, I'm on time, Mather,
buy the clock for the clock? All about the clock?

(40:14):
How did we do? Then? He passed us edition, that's sweeter.
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Hey you
sports figure, guy or girl, will you talking to son?

(40:37):
Hears some instant advice, hold that thought. No one's paid
attention to me for ten whole seconds, and if you
don't like it, and away we go, it's time yet
again for the Instant Advice Line. Unscreen radio, the safety
net comes off. It is a super Moon edition. I
know our friend Andrea who we talked to earlier. She's

(40:59):
the astrology person to the Sports Star. She's all excited
about that, and we are excited as well for this
edition of what else but the Instant Advice Line where
we give back to the coaches the players. Who needs
our advice? Here? Who needs our advice? There's a lot
of people who need terrifies. You've got a new coach

(41:21):
at Arizona State, Herm Edwards, former NFL coach, going to
coach college football. We could have gone with that. You've
got Marcus Peters who were just talking about throwing the
flag into the crowd. That's always another option, there's no question.
But I kind of like Rob Gronkowski, right Gronk, the
Gronk who got into it with a Bills player upset

(41:45):
there was no penalty flag called. He apologized it was
a dirty play, but clearly some lingering anger issues hidden
by Rob Gronkowski is he apologized to Davious White of
the Bills for that late hit. The Bills condemning Gronkowski
as a dirty player, being part of a dirty play.
So advice to Rob Gronkowski on his anger issues at

(42:09):
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox Again, we're giving
advice to Rob Gronkowski eight seven seven nine nine six
six three six nine. We'll start out with you on
line one. Hello, line one, you're live on Fox. Go.
Line one is not there. We'll try line two. If
we have three bad calls and Rowe the bid is over.

(42:29):
Line three advice to Rob Gronkowski on his anger issues.
Love Bella loves Bella perfect. Line three. Advice to Gronk
on his anger issues. Line three, Mark twenty four. I'll
see the Bible guy formerly the John three sixteen guy.

(42:53):
Now he's opened up the entire Bible. We gave him advice.
He listened to us eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
If you want to get on this the Supermoon Edition.
Line four. Advice to Gronkowski on his anger issues. Well, Norman,
I would see Pete manning his best ever. But who cares?
The Broncos suck fire always. He sucks Fireman, he sucks often. Alight,

(43:20):
All all right, stop the line. This is not a philipbuster.
Line five your advice to Rob Gronkowski on his anger issues.
I tell Ron ron Kowski gets some advice from Real
Talk's girlfriend Rosie Palm. All right, thank you for that.
She's available. Line six Hello, Line six two, all right,

(43:41):
the line one you our next advice to Rob Gronkowski
on his anger issues? Touched up. I just love the
idea of that guy's And he's like, I don't know
his work or his house, but he's just screaming into
the phone. I just love that line too. Hello, line two,

(44:01):
nine year old girl. I'm gonna give out the number again.
If I hear from him one more time, it's over.
That means no one else is calling. Eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox makes angry Bill. That was angry Bill.
That was angry No, that was angry Bill. That was
angry Bill. I think that was angry Bill. Line three, Hello,

(44:28):
Oh it's Donald. Look hi Donald. What do you have
to say to Gronkowski? Nobody can understand anyway? On line four, Hello,
line four, take up some anger management with Tom Looney? Yeah, okay,
and enough of him over the weekend? There nothing? Yeah

(44:51):
Looney who just mutilated pizza because he won't eat the cheese.
On the pizza, so Billy pulls the top off of
the b we had. We had stacks of pizza and
much of it was mutilated by Loney. That's a party five, right, Yes, disgusting.
And then he had to like look at all the

(45:12):
cupcakes and cookies and he couldn't eat any of them
because he's on this fugazy diet. I've always told you
could eat them. He chooses not to. Luni, there's a
very healthy lifestyle, right, But he's gonna end up in
the same place the most unhealthy person in the world's
can end up all heading towards the same finished line
Line five. Hello, line five, Ruse versus Gronk WrestleMania thirty four.

(45:36):
I'm all about it. Russef will win that. Line Line six,
you're next. We're giving advice to Rob Gronkowski on his
anger issues. Matthew, All right, Wow, that's a good one.
Do a couple more. Line one, your next advice to
the Gronk on his anger issues. I would look him
spare in the eye and I would say, you look

(45:58):
like a big back clown. All right. Line to your
next advice to Gronkowski on his anger issues, you look
like a big fat clown. Well man, this is Ernie
from Michigan and the Great. Are we very bad? There's
always a best advice to get at face? Oh there
it is Ernie's back listening live tonight. He yes, he's

(46:21):
been listening live in a while. Line three, Hello Love
angry Bill. That was him. That's it. It's over all right.
We'll do one more and only one more. If it's good,
I'll take credit. If not, I will blame the Kooper Loop.
Who's about to pick the final call on the instant
advice line? Cooper Loop, who you got? Let's go to
line one, Line number one, the last call on the

(46:44):
instant advice line. Advice to Rob Gronkowski on his anger issues.
Line one, he needs to show pencil penis way what
a real man's organ looks like. Tammy in Montana to
save the day and get asked on Facebook where she goes?

(47:08):
No one knows.
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