May 4, 2021 • 33 mins
Big Ben talks about Aaron Rodgers getting called out by Terry Bradshaw, Scott Brooks claiming that Russell Westbrook is the 2nd best PG of all-time, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: James Brown Edition, and more!
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all night long in our lead. This hour comes from
a place we have been over the last several days.
With a little bit of a twist on it. Quarterback
on Quarterback Crime, we take you to the mouth of
a Hall of Famer attacking a future Hall of Famer,
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and we get the benefit of that. On Sports Talk Radio,
we're talking about Terry Bradshaw, star commentator NFL on Fox.
For years and years and years, Terry Bradshaw has been
embedded on the Fox pregame postgame coverage there for the NFL. Well,
Bradshaw made the rounds. I'm not sure what he was promoting.
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I'm assuming he was promoting something because he popped up
on a number of sports radio shows doing interviews. Well,
he unloaded on we were in Rogers and if you
didn't hear, perhaps you missed. I'll give you some of
the highlights here. So Terry Bradshaw, he was all over
the map. He expressed a disgust with the way Aaron
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Rodgers is handling his relationship with the Packers. I can't
go on on, but let's play a little taste of it.
Here is Terry Bradshaw in his own words. He popped
up on wfa N in New York. He was on
the score in Chicago. Here's a little taste of Terry
Bradshaw making the rounds. With him being that upset shows
me just how weak he is. Who the hell cares
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who you draft? I mean, there's a three time MVP
in the league and he's worried about this guy they
drafted last year at number one, and for him to
be upset, my god, I don't understand that Pittsburgh drafted
Mark Malone number one, Cliff Stout in the third or
fourth round. I had him coming at me from all angles.
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I embraced it because when we went to practice, I
wasn't worried about those guys. You know, they didn't scare
me a bit. So I don't understand why he's so
upset at Green Bay. Yeah, all right, So that was
That was a meaty part of what Bradshaw said. He
also went on to admit that there might be more
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to the story than meets the eye. And then when
he popped up on a separate radio interview in the
Windy City, Terry Bradshaw said that he thinks that Aaron
Rodgers is dumber than a box of rocks. That's a
that's a just a bomb tossed out by Terry Bradshaw.
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So let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs
down on Terry Bradshaw's extreme attack criticism directed at Aaron Rodgers.
So I am going to go thumbs up all right now,
full disclosure, I'm a little biased here. Years ago and
Terry did a radio show in la I became decent
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acquaintances for a brief time with Terry Bradshaw, So I
do appreciate the gift of gab that Terry has. But
my thoughts on this, You've got footwear, Clark Gable and
double edged sword and we will tie all of these
things together into a nice, neat little package. Now, a
Aaron Rodgers is certainly not a victim in all this.
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The people, Oh, it's not fair that Terry Bradshaw would
do this. You know, he's just gruppy and angry. He's
the old guy. But Aaron Rodgers, and we're gonna talk
about him a lot. So if you've already got your
fill of Aaron Rodgers commentary on the radio or bad news,
bad news, we don't make up the news, we just
talk about it. So Aaron Rodgers delusional about his situation.
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That's pretty much what Terry Bradshaw was saying. He used
some flowery language to get there. But Rogers hubris is
uncalled for, and Bradshaw did a solid job of counterpunching
Aaron Rodgers and his And that's why Bradshaw's been on
TV for a long time. Gets paid a lot of
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money to do that kind of thing. And as they
say in the footwear business, if the shoe fits wear.
It talking for us about Aaron Rodgers being the guy
who looks terrible in the situation in Green Bay, that
is the drama queen in this particular story, like anyone
would disagree with that. Now, part B of this Terry Bradshaw,
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who is so far removed, so far away from the
playing field that and he's made so much money doing
television when he can put his neck out there like
this is the exception the rule. Terry doesn't have the
typical guardrails that other ex jocks have. We used the
phrase jockocracy quite a bit on this show, and it
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refers to X players who get jobs that they're not
qualified for in broadcasting. But one of the problems with
that is that when you become a broadcaster as a
former player, most commentators are very cautious, they're extra cautious,
and they're soft smoking because they don't want to step
on any toes. And so what happens is you get
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a bunch of blah commentary where people speak in these
glittering generalities, and you don't get any meat on the bone. Well,
not Terry Bradshaw. He last played for the Steelers in
one game during the nineteen eighty three NFL season. So
thirty eight years removed from the Houseyon days in Pittsburgh,
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and he's got the cache. So it's not only does
Bradshaw have the resume of being a broadcaster, but as
a player, four times Super Bowl winner, Hall of Famer
and all that, but he is lacking your typical water
filtration system for his commentary, which we love, We absolutely
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love that you're getting unfettered opinion. And Terry Bradshaw is
not being held and chained because he needs to get
an interview, is not being held a hostage because, oh
my god, I might have to interview. If you're Terry Bradshaw,
you're thinking I might have to interview Aaron Rodgers. Next
You're Bradshaw, didn't care he might have to interview Aaron Rodgers.
It'll just make for better television. And so in this
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little play, Terry Bradshaw is cast in the role of
Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind, one of the
iconic old Hollywood movies, Gone with the Wind, and that
famous closing scene Clark Gable's character. Frankly, my dear, I
don't give a damn. That's essentially what Bradshaw is saying.
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He's not worried about the collateral damage here. And there
was some blowbacks and pushed back from some in the
fraternity of football who were annoyed that Bradshaw would be
as as strong as he was and Bradshaw's losing his
mind and oh my god, and all this stuff because
you don't like what he had to say. And we
do know that Aaron Rodgers is the kind of human
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being that will hold a grudge. He's not gonna let
bygones be bygones. That's not how he's wired. And so
you have to appreciate the Maverick approach to all this.
Now the last word, at least for a little bit
on Aaron Rodgers. The Aaron Rodgers story continues to be
on the front burner, and it's not dying down anytime
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soon anyway. In fact, it's not just Terry Bradshaw. We
had Aaron Rodgers bff, Davante Adams, his teammate there, who
took a page out of the Quarterbacks Passive Aggressive Handbook.
It's page thirteen of the Passive Aggressive handbook, Adams sending
out a cryptic post on social media that certainly appeared
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to run neck and neck with the drama of the
day involving Aaron Rodgers. What did Davante Adams post. I'll
tell you. The wide receiver said quote, gotta appreciate what
you got while you got it. Explanation point. Now, that
might be just some regular positive thinking mumbo jumbo, or
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it was a shot across the bow. Right, So if
you parse the words of Davante Adams, that's what we're
about to do here. Is that really a low blow
below the waist there at the Packer front office? It
suddenly sounded that way, right? And does what does he
know that we don't know about Aaron Rodgers and his
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situation going forward? And does that cryptic, vague comment. Does
that comment by Davante Adams mean that he's also underappreciated
and he needs out. Nobody appreciates my hard work. Now
my response to Adams and also to Aaron Rodgers. But
Davante Adams, the one that sent this out, it is
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a double edged sword, right, meaning that appreciation cuts both ways.
Aaron Rodgers does not, at this moment in time, seem
appreciative of the situation he's got in Green Bay. And
no one, no one is indispensable. We've said this for
a while now and it's going to be the case forever.
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No one is indispensable. Everyone is replaceable. And the Packers,
believe it or not, had quarterbacks and receivers prior to
Aaron Rodgers and DeVante Adams and spoiler alert, when they're gone,
and both of them will be gone, whether it's now
or down the line. Other players will play quarterback and
play receiver. And where the Green Bay Packer uniform. Just
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a cog in the wheel. Now, granted, some cogs are
more important than other cogs, but you're still just a
cog in the wheel. That's how it works. So that's
the latest on the Aaron Rodgers soap opera. As the
plot thickens. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. An
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NBA ranking rucus say, well, well come man, the beginning
of yet another hour of The Ben Mather Show. We
are together in the air everywhere as we pontificate coast
to coast border to order and beyond on the vast
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and powerful microphones of fsre ammanating live from under the moonlight,
camouflaged by the darkness. Hanging out here at the Fox
Sports Radio Studios. Hopeball as well with you, and I
am saving you from the Lebron James Mallard monologue. I
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was gonna do it Lebron monologue, and then at the
last minute I saw something that caught my attention and
I said, wait a minute, did that guy say the
thing that I think he said? And it happened. And
our lead this hour coming from the NBA. It's the
team we don't often focus too much on, certainly not
Mallard monologue worthy, the Washington Wizards. And now this is
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a story that is worthy of conversation and a few
good minutes on the radio. So Washington their star guard
they picked up as a giveaway by the Houston Roquetts.
Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook, he made some history against the
Indiana Pacers, and that was a ridiculously high scoring game
and nobody decided to play any defense in that game,
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but the Pacers were the opponent. Washington won the game,
and Russell Westbrook dished out twenty four assists, he had
twenty one rebounds in thirty nine minutes. And by doing that,
having those combination of stats, he has become the first
player ever in the NBA with multiple twenty assists twenty
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rebound games. Not Wilt Chamberlain, no him by himself on
an island by himself. Now, that led to some over
the top HYPERBA league from Scottie Brooks, the former UC
Irvine ant Eater back in the day and a journeyman
NBA coach. Did you see what Scott Brooks had to say?
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You did not? All right, maybe you missed it. So
Scott Brooks, who coached Russell Westbrook with Oklahoma City and
is coaching him again now with Washington, he was asked
about Westbrook and his status, and Scott Brooks said that
he thinks Russell Westbrook is the second best point guard ever,
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that only Magic Johnson is ahead of Russell Westbrook. He said,
point guards don't do what he does. Point guards don't
do what he does. Yeah, Now, as you might imagine,
this quote ruffled some feathers around the basketball world where
everyone loves to rank everything, this, that and the other.
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So we we're not going to give you any of
the other quotes from Scott Brooks, because that's the money quote.
And I was told by a program director, Ben, when
you get the money quote, don't don't go with the
other nonsense. What he cares about the other Nonsen's just
just focus on the money quote. That's the money quote
that Scott Brooks thinks that Russell Westbrook is the second
best point guard ever behind Magic Johnson. So the question,
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it's not brain surgery, it's sports talk radio. The question,
in your opinion, is Russell Westbrook just a whisker behind
Magic Johnson the second greatest point guard in NBA history?
Shaking my head, no no, no, no, no, no, no no.
All right, now, I've got my observation. So if you've
got looney tunes, moonshine, and bandit, and we will combine
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all of these things together into an adequate, an adequate
mala monologue and number one Russell Westbrook. We have said
this before, we will repeat it now it bears repeating.
Russell Westbrook is an acquired taste. He's not for everyone,
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and my taste are not there with Russell Westbrook. Now
we pick him all the time when we play the
NBA pick him because as a fantasy basketball player, Wow,
he's the Bee's knees man. He's amazing, unbelievable, unreal great.
But in terms of actual NBA, I was concerned. I
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was worried there. I was biting my nails. I was
thinking that the Clippers were rumored to get Russell Westbrook,
and I was concerned he was gonna end up with
the Clippers and then I'd have to reevaluate my position.
Fortunately that did not happen. But Russell Westbrook, who've said
it many times, he plays with a reckless abandon which
works really well for ninety five percent of a basketball game.
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It's the other five percent which is problematic, and that's
why you cannot, if you're being authentic, put Russell Westbrook
second to Magic Johnson. If he was a Warner Brothers cartoon,
and if he was one of the Looney Tunes, he
would be the Tasmanian devil. Is who Russell Westbrook meat.
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That's how he plays. He's the whirling dervish. And we
mentioned this the other day, the law of the instrument.
If the only tool you have, the only tool that
you have is the hammer, then you're gonna treat everything
as if it were a nail, right, because I'll got
your hammer for better or worse. That is the way
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that Russell Westbrook plays basketball. He's the hammer. Now. The
second thing, you're Scott Brooks, who's It's very very clear
what's going on here. It's transparent what's going on. Scott
Brooks is desperately trying to curry favor from Russell Westbrook
and also Bradley Beale, but mostly Russell Westbrook so he
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can keep his job, you know, and I know what
the stakes are here. He's buttering the biscuits. It also
sounded when I saw the quotes coming out of the
Wizard's locker room from Scott Brooks, it sounded like he's
drinking gallons of moonshine, right, because he's tossing out these
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verbal bouquets with one hand, and then you know, he's
got the rose petals in front of Westbrook's feet in
the other hand. Really, really, even NBA veteran Ron Hollywood Harper,
what are the Clipper Greats of all time? Ron Harper?
Even he said that Scott Brooks is just happy to
keep his job, and that's what was going on, and
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Brooks has not guaranteed of that. He's on thin ice.
And even with all the statistical greatness that Russell Westbrook
has put up, and I imagine years from now will
have endless numbers of who am I game and Insta
trivia questions based on Russell Westbrook and the statistics he's
put up during his career. And he got Bradley Beale
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over there, a couple of studs, a couple of absolute studs,
and Washington spoiler alert, They've got a losing record. They're
losers as a team. They are only in position, only
in position to be in the playoffs. Because of the
generosity of the NBA's expanded postseason field. They went to
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twenty teams, sixty six percent. Sixty six percent of NBA
teams qualified for the postseason. You have to be a
total stumble bum to miss out. And now keep in mind,
I have a bet our colleague year, Rob Parker. I
have a bet with Rob, and I was very bullish
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that the Wizards would make the playoffs. I still think
that's going to happen right now. They would be in
the play in tournament. They'd be able to make at
least the first opening salvo in the playoffs, but I'm
not going any further than that. I figure with that
level of talent, you should be able to get to
the playoffs. The fact that the Wizards were buried and
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they're still under five hundred, even though they've been one
of the better teams in the NBA the last couple
of weeks tells you all you need to know. Alright, Alarm,
that's right, Rob, alright, final point here, So Magic Johnson,
I think we're gonna agree he's the gold standard at
point guards. So that's fine, no argument with Scott Brooks
on that. But after that, to me, there's no debate
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that John Stockton is the number two guy and his
salad days with Carl Malone and the Utah Jazz. I
think Stockton is the all time leader in assists and
also in steels, at least he was. I'm pretty sure
he's right there in the top in both those categories.
And then it comes down after that. It's like personal preference. Right,
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you can debate Westbrook he's a name, but he's he's
not number three in my book. And there's a bunch
of players. Depending on how old you are, you might
say Jason Kidd, you might say Steve Nash. I'm sure
there's some someone I've not met. These people, say Chris Paul,
I'm not in that camp. Isaiah Thomas, the Pistons, Isaiah Thomas,
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Bob Kuzy. We can go on and on. There's old
school sixer fans that will argue that Mo Cheeks one
of the greats of all time, and we have never
been particularly giddy for Russell Westbrooks game. And again I
go back, I'm gonna circle back to what we had
said in Fantasy Basketball terminology. He is the Wilt Chamberlain
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of his day. Now, that being said, in the category
of wins and losses. Wins and losses, right, if that's
the category, most games are close. Most games are closed.
Teams are separated by inches. And that's the problem. It's
that final push down the stretch. We come, right down
the stretch we come, which is problematic, and that has
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been the bugaboo for Russell Westbrook. And that's why you cannot,
if you're being fair and balanced, put Russell Westbrook in
the number two position. He is a classical bandit. He's
a stat bandit, right, and kind of like bamboo at
the end of games. Now, I like bamboo. Baboo's pretty solid,
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but bamboo's also hollow, all right. And that's how Westbrook plays,
That's how he performs at the end of games. He's
got those zombie stats. And Russell Westbrook is a liability
in crunch time. He's a terrible outside shooter, and yet
he continues to shoot from the outside, and you can
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defend him. I have limited knowledge as a basketball coach.
They didn't call me back in the day when I
played basketball moneyball Mallard. But you can leave him wide
open and he'll shoot. In fact, if you remember last
year with the Rockets, Russell Westbrook inside the Fugazi bubble
against the Lakers, that's exactly what the Lakers are doing.
They were just not even pretending like they cared about
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Russell Westbrook at all, and he kept shooting and missing
and shooting and missing over and over. He never got
the message. And that's been the case all the way
since the early days of his NBA sojourn. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. It's Maller, how
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about that to the third degree. This is one big
Ben gets grilled Coop dal Loop. So Vic Fangio told
reporters over the weekend that Drew Locke and Teddy Bridgewater
will see equal reps with the first team offense during
training camp, indicating that it'll be a true quarterback competition. Now, Ben,
let's assume that the Broncos don't land Aaron Rodgers, who
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is starting for them week one. All right, So, first
of all, I believe this is a bogey statement by
Vic Fangio, and I've heard similar comments coming out of
the front office of the Broncos. The Broncos are going
to start Teddy Bridgewater. If they thought that Drew Locke
was going to be the guy, that Teddy Bridgewater would
not be here. Makes no sense, right Bridgewater, unless Bridgewater
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gets hurt, he's going to be the quarterback. And secondly, Denver,
I hate to say a coop, but it's true. They've
become a halfway house for shaky quarterbacks. The Broncos are
just essentially twiddling their thumbs at some point, whether it's
Aaron Rodgers or drafting a quarterback at the very top,
they're going to have to make a move there. They're
just treading water right now. Next the new regime, Atlanta
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Falcons sent a message that they weren't interested in a
rebuild by restructuring Matt Ryan's contract and by drafting Kyle
Pitts with the fourth overall pick, Ben, how do you
think the Falcons will do this season? Well, the Kyle Pitts.
We think he's gonna be great. We love the guy.
I think it would be very good in the NFL.
But remember that the guy he's compared to, Calvin Megatron.
Johnson put up great stats and the Lions were terrible
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most of the years, and the Falcons have a mishmash
of a roster. They got a new coach, Arthur Smith,
who knows how he's gonna do. I say the Falcons
at best, if everything goes right, they win seven games
to go seven and ten or eight and nine next.
Stefan Diggs took to Twitter this weekend to go on
a rant about water. He said he doesn't care about
anyone thinks water has a taste and that Dasani tastes
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like someone dropped a penny in it. Ben, I know
you're a big water drinker. Does it have a taste?
In which bottled brand is your favorite? Well? Most water
does not have a taste. I love water, it's zero calorie,
my favorite brand. I'm willing to drink any water, but
Kirkland brandwater from Costco is my favorite. How do we
do kob Loo? You pass us? There? It is? That's
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because that's the right answer. You guys are shaming me.
But Kirkland Brands the way to go. Fox Sports Radio
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of money. Do you have what it takes to get
to the top? Probably not? All right, let's do it
right now. Here we go. It's Maler's mount of money.
That's meet our contestants. First of all, from the great
state of Virginia. We say, Allo to TJ. What's going on? TJ?
What's going on? Mister Maller? There he is, loud and
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proud and ready to go from the old Dominion state.
All right, what you got going on there in Virginia?
What do you j? What's that rain? Just rain? You're
not working, you have no job. You just have rain. Okay,
I just sit around and listen to mister Maller. That's all,
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mister Mallers. Respect. All right, hold on a sec, TJ
and we have a regional matchup because not far away
from where TJ is we go over to the state
of Maryland and we say hello to Jeff. What's going on? Jeff?
All right, big Ben? How are you doing this one? Buddy?
If I was any better, I'd be TJ. But no,
I wouldn't because it's raining there, and he sounds unhappy.
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It'll get better. The rain always stops if the sun
comes out. It's a fair point. I have heard that
that does happen. And we'll come out tomorrow. Tomorrow. You
saw Anny too, Coop. I was forced to when I
was in elementary school. They took us to see any
Woh yeah, yeah. I gotta say, yesterday was a horrible
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day for me. Ben. Why is that what happened? Jeff?
They had soccer on in your place on serious radio
in my area. Heads are going Heads are gonna roll, Jeff,
Heads are gonna roll. How dare they put the the
what is it, the most popular sport in the world
on that channel? How dare them? Yeah? My first stop
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and your show gets me there, so it was really
bored yesterday. I'm sorry, Jeff. Well, you need the backup
option we have. There's plenty of ways you can stream
the show. I know you might eat up some of
your your phone issues there, but we have the iHeart
radio app, and there's plenty of other apps you can
hear the show. We're not supposed to promote those because
we work at Fox and iHeart and all that. All right, Jeff,
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hold on a second, you're gonna play back to t
J TJ. Who would you like to partner up on
the show. You can play with me, Ben, Eddie, Roberto
or Coop Dalup, give me them, all right? Which one
that I would be? Edie Edie? All right? Okay, Jeff, yeah,
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Jeff yeah, I'm gonna go with you Ben. All right.
It's a good job by you, Jeff. I will not
force you to listen to soccer alright. Alright, gentlemen, this
is Mallard's Mountain of Money James Brown Edition. He would
have been eighty eight years old yesterday. That's right. Uh.
The categories are Papa's got a brand new bag, cold sweat,
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get up off of that thing, and I got ants
in my pants. Uh, TJ. You were on first? Which
category would you like? Thing? All right? And Jeff you
were you were up next? Which category? Papa got a
brand new alright? Got brand new? Back? All right? Everyone's down,
Stay where you are, don't hang up, don't hang up
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at all. We'll put you on hold here. We'll get
right to the game. On the other side, as they say,
we'll have Maller's amount of money, the James Brown Edition.
Get to it next. Be sure to catch live editions
of the Ben Maller Show weekday, said two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific, And right to the game we go.
It's TJ in Virginia, who I think is playing with Eddie,
and then I I Ben and matched up with our
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buddy Jeff there who drives around the state of Maryland.
And so that is the matchup. Let's get the game
started here, Cooper Loop, you want to set everything up? Yes,
TJ is up first. The category that you have with
Eddie is get up off of that thing. You're gonna
have forty five seconds. We need the first and last
name of the athletes for this category. These athletes are
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all considered lazy forty five seconds on the clock. Ready
begin NBA. Former NBA star the d solely one titles
with Kobe, but they feuded. He's now all yeah, what's
the full Yes uh. Infielder, third baseman, shortstop, slugger first
for the Orioles, he went to the Dodgers. He's now
on the padres. Uh. Former Broncos quarterback, also with the Bears.
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He always had a sour look on his face. Yes, uh.
Slugger from the Dominican Republic for the Red Sox. He
later went to the Dodgers. He was very yes. Um
baseball shortstop from the Dominican Republic. He was a rookie
of the Year and he won a batting title with
the Marlins. Later went with the Dodgers and the Red Sox. Alright, alright,
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let's press on that one. All right, let's not get
any more right done. Okay, you're done. That was Hanley Ramirez, Yes,
Hanley Ramirez as a hard one. That's Eddy Machado was
the Sego player. He didn't get all right, move on it. Uh,
Moving over to Jeff and Ben Go your category as
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Papa's got a rand new bag. Big money, big money,
big money. These athletes, these athletes switched sports forty five
seconds on the clock. Begin all right, his airness for
the Bulls. Yes, he played for the Denver Broncos and
then went to play for the Mets. He's trying to
come back with Jacksonville. Yes, tight end for the old
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San Diego slash la charges. He just retired a couple
of years ago. Oh yeah, you're right, all right, past
guard for the Celtics in the eighties. He's now the
GM in Boston. White guy at a b YU. All right,
greatest coach in Chicago Bears history. The practice facilities named
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after him. No before Mike Dick. All right, how about
a no A wrestler. He turned Viking defensive line pro
wrestler for Mitch mc bah. Wow, you got thirty points there,
Antonio gates him. Yeah, not a household name. And George
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hallis the George Hallis who's Some would say it's more
important than Vince Lombardi. George Hallis, that's true. Shounded the Bears. Uh,
you guys are behind place. You guys are behind Jeff
and Ben. So you need you need to go. You
need to go as well. Uh cold sweat, Jeff or
I got ant my pants all right, these that's kind
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of what you had, isn't it, Jeff, you had a cold.
These athletes are all considered chokers. Forty five seconds begin
all right, greatest quarterback in Dolphin history. That's correct guard
for the Clippers, currently on the Phoenix Suns. Point guard,
one of the great point guards of this era. All right,
pass quarterback for the Buffalo Bills when they kept getting
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to the Super Bowl and losing in the nineties. Yes, uh,
coach of the forty nine ers. Who is dead? Coach
the Broncos and the Redskins. No, it's yes, all right, Uh,
guard for the Spurs. You used to play for Toronto Raptors,
was traded for Kawhi Leonard. All right, guy outfielder for
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the Yankees, killed a bird in Toronto, played with the Angels.
Hall of Famer, play the alright, Uh you missed? All right?
What's that sound you missed? Chris Paul for twenty points? Uh,
Demard de Rosen for sixty and then Dave Winfield was
that last one? But you are leading? Jeff U four
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quarter off? I got answer my pants. These all have
st begin go. Hall of Fame point guard eighties showtime
Laker is HIV. Yes, I went to prison for dog fighting.
NFL quarterback Michael Vick yes uh. A Hall of Fame
second baseman, Blue Jays Orioles. He was best known for
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spitting in the face of an umpire Craig uh No,
Latino guy. All right, I don't know. NBA player from Europe.
They call him the Unicorn. He came on with the Knicks.
He's now with the Mavericks. We won. TI goes to
the Gun that was in the league first we went,
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Oh my god, shut up.
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all night long in our lead. This hour comes from
a place we have been over the last several days.
With a little bit of a twist on it. Quarterback
on Quarterback Crime, we take you to the mouth of
a Hall of Famer attacking a future Hall of Famer,
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and we get the benefit of that. On Sports Talk Radio,
we're talking about Terry Bradshaw, star commentator NFL on Fox.
For years and years and years, Terry Bradshaw has been
embedded on the Fox pregame postgame coverage there for the NFL. Well,
Bradshaw made the rounds. I'm not sure what he was promoting.
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I'm assuming he was promoting something because he popped up
on a number of sports radio shows doing interviews. Well,
he unloaded on we were in Rogers and if you
didn't hear, perhaps you missed. I'll give you some of
the highlights here. So Terry Bradshaw, he was all over
the map. He expressed a disgust with the way Aaron
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Rodgers is handling his relationship with the Packers. I can't
go on on, but let's play a little taste of it.
Here is Terry Bradshaw in his own words. He popped
up on wfa N in New York. He was on
the score in Chicago. Here's a little taste of Terry
Bradshaw making the rounds. With him being that upset shows
me just how weak he is. Who the hell cares
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who you draft? I mean, there's a three time MVP
in the league and he's worried about this guy they
drafted last year at number one, and for him to
be upset, my god, I don't understand that Pittsburgh drafted
Mark Malone number one, Cliff Stout in the third or
fourth round. I had him coming at me from all angles.
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I embraced it because when we went to practice, I
wasn't worried about those guys. You know, they didn't scare
me a bit. So I don't understand why he's so
upset at Green Bay. Yeah, all right, So that was
That was a meaty part of what Bradshaw said. He
also went on to admit that there might be more
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to the story than meets the eye. And then when
he popped up on a separate radio interview in the
Windy City, Terry Bradshaw said that he thinks that Aaron
Rodgers is dumber than a box of rocks. That's a
that's a just a bomb tossed out by Terry Bradshaw.
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So let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs
down on Terry Bradshaw's extreme attack criticism directed at Aaron Rodgers.
So I am going to go thumbs up all right now,
full disclosure, I'm a little biased here. Years ago and
Terry did a radio show in la I became decent
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acquaintances for a brief time with Terry Bradshaw, So I
do appreciate the gift of gab that Terry has. But
my thoughts on this, You've got footwear, Clark Gable and
double edged sword and we will tie all of these
things together into a nice, neat little package. Now, a
Aaron Rodgers is certainly not a victim in all this.
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The people, Oh, it's not fair that Terry Bradshaw would
do this. You know, he's just gruppy and angry. He's
the old guy. But Aaron Rodgers, and we're gonna talk
about him a lot. So if you've already got your
fill of Aaron Rodgers commentary on the radio or bad news,
bad news, we don't make up the news, we just
talk about it. So Aaron Rodgers delusional about his situation.
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That's pretty much what Terry Bradshaw was saying. He used
some flowery language to get there. But Rogers hubris is
uncalled for, and Bradshaw did a solid job of counterpunching
Aaron Rodgers and his And that's why Bradshaw's been on
TV for a long time. Gets paid a lot of
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money to do that kind of thing. And as they
say in the footwear business, if the shoe fits wear.
It talking for us about Aaron Rodgers being the guy
who looks terrible in the situation in Green Bay, that
is the drama queen in this particular story, like anyone
would disagree with that. Now, part B of this Terry Bradshaw,
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who is so far removed, so far away from the
playing field that and he's made so much money doing
television when he can put his neck out there like
this is the exception the rule. Terry doesn't have the
typical guardrails that other ex jocks have. We used the
phrase jockocracy quite a bit on this show, and it
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refers to X players who get jobs that they're not
qualified for in broadcasting. But one of the problems with
that is that when you become a broadcaster as a
former player, most commentators are very cautious, they're extra cautious,
and they're soft smoking because they don't want to step
on any toes. And so what happens is you get
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a bunch of blah commentary where people speak in these
glittering generalities, and you don't get any meat on the bone. Well,
not Terry Bradshaw. He last played for the Steelers in
one game during the nineteen eighty three NFL season. So
thirty eight years removed from the Houseyon days in Pittsburgh,
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and he's got the cache. So it's not only does
Bradshaw have the resume of being a broadcaster, but as
a player, four times Super Bowl winner, Hall of Famer
and all that, but he is lacking your typical water
filtration system for his commentary, which we love, We absolutely
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love that you're getting unfettered opinion. And Terry Bradshaw is
not being held and chained because he needs to get
an interview, is not being held a hostage because, oh
my god, I might have to interview. If you're Terry Bradshaw,
you're thinking I might have to interview Aaron Rodgers. Next
You're Bradshaw, didn't care he might have to interview Aaron Rodgers.
It'll just make for better television. And so in this
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little play, Terry Bradshaw is cast in the role of
Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind, one of the
iconic old Hollywood movies, Gone with the Wind, and that
famous closing scene Clark Gable's character. Frankly, my dear, I
don't give a damn. That's essentially what Bradshaw is saying.
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He's not worried about the collateral damage here. And there
was some blowbacks and pushed back from some in the
fraternity of football who were annoyed that Bradshaw would be
as as strong as he was and Bradshaw's losing his
mind and oh my god, and all this stuff because
you don't like what he had to say. And we
do know that Aaron Rodgers is the kind of human
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being that will hold a grudge. He's not gonna let
bygones be bygones. That's not how he's wired. And so
you have to appreciate the Maverick approach to all this.
Now the last word, at least for a little bit
on Aaron Rodgers. The Aaron Rodgers story continues to be
on the front burner, and it's not dying down anytime
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soon anyway. In fact, it's not just Terry Bradshaw. We
had Aaron Rodgers bff, Davante Adams, his teammate there, who
took a page out of the Quarterbacks Passive Aggressive Handbook.
It's page thirteen of the Passive Aggressive handbook, Adams sending
out a cryptic post on social media that certainly appeared
(08:43):
to run neck and neck with the drama of the
day involving Aaron Rodgers. What did Davante Adams post. I'll
tell you. The wide receiver said quote, gotta appreciate what
you got while you got it. Explanation point. Now, that
might be just some regular positive thinking mumbo jumbo, or
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it was a shot across the bow. Right, So if
you parse the words of Davante Adams, that's what we're
about to do here. Is that really a low blow
below the waist there at the Packer front office? It
suddenly sounded that way, right? And does what does he
know that we don't know about Aaron Rodgers and his
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situation going forward? And does that cryptic, vague comment. Does
that comment by Davante Adams mean that he's also underappreciated
and he needs out. Nobody appreciates my hard work. Now
my response to Adams and also to Aaron Rodgers. But
Davante Adams, the one that sent this out, it is
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a double edged sword, right, meaning that appreciation cuts both ways.
Aaron Rodgers does not, at this moment in time, seem
appreciative of the situation he's got in Green Bay. And
no one, no one is indispensable. We've said this for
a while now and it's going to be the case forever.
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No one is indispensable. Everyone is replaceable. And the Packers,
believe it or not, had quarterbacks and receivers prior to
Aaron Rodgers and DeVante Adams and spoiler alert, when they're gone,
and both of them will be gone, whether it's now
or down the line. Other players will play quarterback and
play receiver. And where the Green Bay Packer uniform. Just
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a cog in the wheel. Now, granted, some cogs are
more important than other cogs, but you're still just a
cog in the wheel. That's how it works. So that's
the latest on the Aaron Rodgers soap opera. As the
plot thickens. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. An
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NBA ranking rucus say, well, well come man, the beginning
of yet another hour of The Ben Mather Show. We
are together in the air everywhere as we pontificate coast
to coast border to order and beyond on the vast
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and powerful microphones of fsre ammanating live from under the moonlight,
camouflaged by the darkness. Hanging out here at the Fox
Sports Radio Studios. Hopeball as well with you, and I
am saving you from the Lebron James Mallard monologue. I
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was gonna do it Lebron monologue, and then at the
last minute I saw something that caught my attention and
I said, wait a minute, did that guy say the
thing that I think he said? And it happened. And
our lead this hour coming from the NBA. It's the
team we don't often focus too much on, certainly not
Mallard monologue worthy, the Washington Wizards. And now this is
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a story that is worthy of conversation and a few
good minutes on the radio. So Washington their star guard
they picked up as a giveaway by the Houston Roquetts.
Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook, he made some history against the
Indiana Pacers, and that was a ridiculously high scoring game
and nobody decided to play any defense in that game,
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but the Pacers were the opponent. Washington won the game,
and Russell Westbrook dished out twenty four assists, he had
twenty one rebounds in thirty nine minutes. And by doing that,
having those combination of stats, he has become the first
player ever in the NBA with multiple twenty assists twenty
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rebound games. Not Wilt Chamberlain, no him by himself on
an island by himself. Now, that led to some over
the top HYPERBA league from Scottie Brooks, the former UC
Irvine ant Eater back in the day and a journeyman
NBA coach. Did you see what Scott Brooks had to say?
(13:06):
You did not? All right, maybe you missed it. So
Scott Brooks, who coached Russell Westbrook with Oklahoma City and
is coaching him again now with Washington, he was asked
about Westbrook and his status, and Scott Brooks said that
he thinks Russell Westbrook is the second best point guard ever,
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that only Magic Johnson is ahead of Russell Westbrook. He said,
point guards don't do what he does. Point guards don't
do what he does. Yeah, Now, as you might imagine,
this quote ruffled some feathers around the basketball world where
everyone loves to rank everything, this, that and the other.
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So we we're not going to give you any of
the other quotes from Scott Brooks, because that's the money quote.
And I was told by a program director, Ben, when
you get the money quote, don't don't go with the
other nonsense. What he cares about the other Nonsen's just
just focus on the money quote. That's the money quote
that Scott Brooks thinks that Russell Westbrook is the second
best point guard ever behind Magic Johnson. So the question,
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it's not brain surgery, it's sports talk radio. The question,
in your opinion, is Russell Westbrook just a whisker behind
Magic Johnson the second greatest point guard in NBA history?
Shaking my head, no no, no, no, no, no, no no.
All right, now, I've got my observation. So if you've
got looney tunes, moonshine, and bandit, and we will combine
(14:37):
all of these things together into an adequate, an adequate
mala monologue and number one Russell Westbrook. We have said
this before, we will repeat it now it bears repeating.
Russell Westbrook is an acquired taste. He's not for everyone,
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and my taste are not there with Russell Westbrook. Now
we pick him all the time when we play the
NBA pick him because as a fantasy basketball player, Wow,
he's the Bee's knees man. He's amazing, unbelievable, unreal great.
But in terms of actual NBA, I was concerned. I
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was worried there. I was biting my nails. I was
thinking that the Clippers were rumored to get Russell Westbrook,
and I was concerned he was gonna end up with
the Clippers and then I'd have to reevaluate my position.
Fortunately that did not happen. But Russell Westbrook, who've said
it many times, he plays with a reckless abandon which
works really well for ninety five percent of a basketball game.
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It's the other five percent which is problematic, and that's
why you cannot, if you're being authentic, put Russell Westbrook
second to Magic Johnson. If he was a Warner Brothers cartoon,
and if he was one of the Looney Tunes, he
would be the Tasmanian devil. Is who Russell Westbrook meat.
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That's how he plays. He's the whirling dervish. And we
mentioned this the other day, the law of the instrument.
If the only tool you have, the only tool that
you have is the hammer, then you're gonna treat everything
as if it were a nail, right, because I'll got
your hammer for better or worse. That is the way
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that Russell Westbrook plays basketball. He's the hammer. Now. The
second thing, you're Scott Brooks, who's It's very very clear
what's going on here. It's transparent what's going on. Scott
Brooks is desperately trying to curry favor from Russell Westbrook
and also Bradley Beale, but mostly Russell Westbrook so he
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can keep his job, you know, and I know what
the stakes are here. He's buttering the biscuits. It also
sounded when I saw the quotes coming out of the
Wizard's locker room from Scott Brooks, it sounded like he's
drinking gallons of moonshine, right, because he's tossing out these
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verbal bouquets with one hand, and then you know, he's
got the rose petals in front of Westbrook's feet in
the other hand. Really, really, even NBA veteran Ron Hollywood Harper,
what are the Clipper Greats of all time? Ron Harper?
Even he said that Scott Brooks is just happy to
keep his job, and that's what was going on, and
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Brooks has not guaranteed of that. He's on thin ice.
And even with all the statistical greatness that Russell Westbrook
has put up, and I imagine years from now will
have endless numbers of who am I game and Insta
trivia questions based on Russell Westbrook and the statistics he's
put up during his career. And he got Bradley Beale
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over there, a couple of studs, a couple of absolute studs,
and Washington spoiler alert, They've got a losing record. They're
losers as a team. They are only in position, only
in position to be in the playoffs. Because of the
generosity of the NBA's expanded postseason field. They went to
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twenty teams, sixty six percent. Sixty six percent of NBA
teams qualified for the postseason. You have to be a
total stumble bum to miss out. And now keep in mind,
I have a bet our colleague year, Rob Parker. I
have a bet with Rob, and I was very bullish
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that the Wizards would make the playoffs. I still think
that's going to happen right now. They would be in
the play in tournament. They'd be able to make at
least the first opening salvo in the playoffs, but I'm
not going any further than that. I figure with that
level of talent, you should be able to get to
the playoffs. The fact that the Wizards were buried and
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they're still under five hundred, even though they've been one
of the better teams in the NBA the last couple
of weeks tells you all you need to know. Alright, Alarm,
that's right, Rob, alright, final point here, So Magic Johnson,
I think we're gonna agree he's the gold standard at
point guards. So that's fine, no argument with Scott Brooks
on that. But after that, to me, there's no debate
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that John Stockton is the number two guy and his
salad days with Carl Malone and the Utah Jazz. I
think Stockton is the all time leader in assists and
also in steels, at least he was. I'm pretty sure
he's right there in the top in both those categories.
And then it comes down after that. It's like personal preference. Right,
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you can debate Westbrook he's a name, but he's he's
not number three in my book. And there's a bunch
of players. Depending on how old you are, you might
say Jason Kidd, you might say Steve Nash. I'm sure
there's some someone I've not met. These people, say Chris Paul,
I'm not in that camp. Isaiah Thomas, the Pistons, Isaiah Thomas,
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Bob Kuzy. We can go on and on. There's old
school sixer fans that will argue that Mo Cheeks one
of the greats of all time, and we have never
been particularly giddy for Russell Westbrooks game. And again I
go back, I'm gonna circle back to what we had
said in Fantasy Basketball terminology. He is the Wilt Chamberlain
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of his day. Now, that being said, in the category
of wins and losses. Wins and losses, right, if that's
the category, most games are close. Most games are closed.
Teams are separated by inches. And that's the problem. It's
that final push down the stretch. We come, right down
the stretch we come, which is problematic, and that has
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been the bugaboo for Russell Westbrook. And that's why you cannot,
if you're being fair and balanced, put Russell Westbrook in
the number two position. He is a classical bandit. He's
a stat bandit, right, and kind of like bamboo at
the end of games. Now, I like bamboo. Baboo's pretty solid,
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but bamboo's also hollow, all right. And that's how Westbrook plays,
That's how he performs at the end of games. He's
got those zombie stats. And Russell Westbrook is a liability
in crunch time. He's a terrible outside shooter, and yet
he continues to shoot from the outside, and you can
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defend him. I have limited knowledge as a basketball coach.
They didn't call me back in the day when I
played basketball moneyball Mallard. But you can leave him wide
open and he'll shoot. In fact, if you remember last
year with the Rockets, Russell Westbrook inside the Fugazi bubble
against the Lakers, that's exactly what the Lakers are doing.
They were just not even pretending like they cared about
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Russell Westbrook at all, and he kept shooting and missing
and shooting and missing over and over. He never got
the message. And that's been the case all the way
since the early days of his NBA sojourn. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. It's Maller, how
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about that to the third degree. This is one big
Ben gets grilled Coop dal Loop. So Vic Fangio told
reporters over the weekend that Drew Locke and Teddy Bridgewater
will see equal reps with the first team offense during
training camp, indicating that it'll be a true quarterback competition. Now, Ben,
let's assume that the Broncos don't land Aaron Rodgers, who
(22:33):
is starting for them week one. All right, So, first
of all, I believe this is a bogey statement by
Vic Fangio, and I've heard similar comments coming out of
the front office of the Broncos. The Broncos are going
to start Teddy Bridgewater. If they thought that Drew Locke
was going to be the guy, that Teddy Bridgewater would
not be here. Makes no sense, right Bridgewater, unless Bridgewater
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gets hurt, he's going to be the quarterback. And secondly, Denver,
I hate to say a coop, but it's true. They've
become a halfway house for shaky quarterbacks. The Broncos are
just essentially twiddling their thumbs at some point, whether it's
Aaron Rodgers or drafting a quarterback at the very top,
they're going to have to make a move there. They're
just treading water right now. Next the new regime, Atlanta
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Falcons sent a message that they weren't interested in a
rebuild by restructuring Matt Ryan's contract and by drafting Kyle
Pitts with the fourth overall pick, Ben, how do you
think the Falcons will do this season? Well, the Kyle Pitts.
We think he's gonna be great. We love the guy.
I think it would be very good in the NFL.
But remember that the guy he's compared to, Calvin Megatron.
Johnson put up great stats and the Lions were terrible
(23:41):
most of the years, and the Falcons have a mishmash
of a roster. They got a new coach, Arthur Smith,
who knows how he's gonna do. I say the Falcons
at best, if everything goes right, they win seven games
to go seven and ten or eight and nine next.
Stefan Diggs took to Twitter this weekend to go on
a rant about water. He said he doesn't care about
anyone thinks water has a taste and that Dasani tastes
(24:03):
like someone dropped a penny in it. Ben, I know
you're a big water drinker. Does it have a taste?
In which bottled brand is your favorite? Well? Most water
does not have a taste. I love water, it's zero calorie,
my favorite brand. I'm willing to drink any water, but
Kirkland brandwater from Costco is my favorite. How do we
do kob Loo? You pass us? There? It is? That's
(24:24):
because that's the right answer. You guys are shaming me.
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of money. Do you have what it takes to get
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right now. Here we go. It's Maler's mount of money.
That's meet our contestants. First of all, from the great
state of Virginia. We say, Allo to TJ. What's going on? TJ?
What's going on? Mister Maller? There he is, loud and
(25:09):
proud and ready to go from the old Dominion state.
All right, what you got going on there in Virginia?
What do you j? What's that rain? Just rain? You're
not working, you have no job. You just have rain. Okay,
I just sit around and listen to mister Maller. That's all,
(25:29):
mister Mallers. Respect. All right, hold on a sec, TJ
and we have a regional matchup because not far away
from where TJ is we go over to the state
of Maryland and we say hello to Jeff. What's going on? Jeff?
All right, big Ben? How are you doing this one? Buddy?
If I was any better, I'd be TJ. But no,
I wouldn't because it's raining there, and he sounds unhappy.
(25:52):
It'll get better. The rain always stops if the sun
comes out. It's a fair point. I have heard that
that does happen. And we'll come out tomorrow. Tomorrow. You
saw Anny too, Coop. I was forced to when I
was in elementary school. They took us to see any
Woh yeah, yeah. I gotta say, yesterday was a horrible
(26:13):
day for me. Ben. Why is that what happened? Jeff?
They had soccer on in your place on serious radio
in my area. Heads are going Heads are gonna roll, Jeff,
Heads are gonna roll. How dare they put the the
what is it, the most popular sport in the world
on that channel? How dare them? Yeah? My first stop
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and your show gets me there, so it was really
bored yesterday. I'm sorry, Jeff. Well, you need the backup
option we have. There's plenty of ways you can stream
the show. I know you might eat up some of
your your phone issues there, but we have the iHeart
radio app, and there's plenty of other apps you can
hear the show. We're not supposed to promote those because
we work at Fox and iHeart and all that. All right, Jeff,
(26:55):
hold on a second, you're gonna play back to t
J TJ. Who would you like to partner up on
the show. You can play with me, Ben, Eddie, Roberto
or Coop Dalup, give me them, all right? Which one
that I would be? Edie Edie? All right? Okay, Jeff, yeah,
(27:18):
Jeff yeah, I'm gonna go with you Ben. All right.
It's a good job by you, Jeff. I will not
force you to listen to soccer alright. Alright, gentlemen, this
is Mallard's Mountain of Money James Brown Edition. He would
have been eighty eight years old yesterday. That's right. Uh.
The categories are Papa's got a brand new bag, cold sweat,
(27:41):
get up off of that thing, and I got ants
in my pants. Uh, TJ. You were on first? Which
category would you like? Thing? All right? And Jeff you
were you were up next? Which category? Papa got a
brand new alright? Got brand new? Back? All right? Everyone's down,
Stay where you are, don't hang up, don't hang up
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at all. We'll put you on hold here. We'll get
right to the game. On the other side, as they say,
we'll have Maller's amount of money, the James Brown Edition.
Get to it next. Be sure to catch live editions
of the Ben Maller Show weekday, said two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific, And right to the game we go.
It's TJ in Virginia, who I think is playing with Eddie,
and then I I Ben and matched up with our
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buddy Jeff there who drives around the state of Maryland.
And so that is the matchup. Let's get the game
started here, Cooper Loop, you want to set everything up? Yes,
TJ is up first. The category that you have with
Eddie is get up off of that thing. You're gonna
have forty five seconds. We need the first and last
name of the athletes for this category. These athletes are
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all considered lazy forty five seconds on the clock. Ready
begin NBA. Former NBA star the d solely one titles
with Kobe, but they feuded. He's now all yeah, what's
the full Yes uh. Infielder, third baseman, shortstop, slugger first
for the Orioles, he went to the Dodgers. He's now
on the padres. Uh. Former Broncos quarterback, also with the Bears.
(29:14):
He always had a sour look on his face. Yes, uh.
Slugger from the Dominican Republic for the Red Sox. He
later went to the Dodgers. He was very yes. Um
baseball shortstop from the Dominican Republic. He was a rookie
of the Year and he won a batting title with
the Marlins. Later went with the Dodgers and the Red Sox. Alright, alright,
(29:38):
let's press on that one. All right, let's not get
any more right done. Okay, you're done. That was Hanley Ramirez, Yes,
Hanley Ramirez as a hard one. That's Eddy Machado was
the Sego player. He didn't get all right, move on it. Uh,
Moving over to Jeff and Ben Go your category as
(29:59):
Papa's got a rand new bag. Big money, big money,
big money. These athletes, these athletes switched sports forty five
seconds on the clock. Begin all right, his airness for
the Bulls. Yes, he played for the Denver Broncos and
then went to play for the Mets. He's trying to
come back with Jacksonville. Yes, tight end for the old
(30:21):
San Diego slash la charges. He just retired a couple
of years ago. Oh yeah, you're right, all right, past
guard for the Celtics in the eighties. He's now the
GM in Boston. White guy at a b YU. All right,
greatest coach in Chicago Bears history. The practice facilities named
(30:41):
after him. No before Mike Dick. All right, how about
a no A wrestler. He turned Viking defensive line pro
wrestler for Mitch mc bah. Wow, you got thirty points there,
Antonio gates him. Yeah, not a household name. And George
(31:08):
hallis the George Hallis who's Some would say it's more
important than Vince Lombardi. George Hallis, that's true. Shounded the Bears. Uh,
you guys are behind place. You guys are behind Jeff
and Ben. So you need you need to go. You
need to go as well. Uh cold sweat, Jeff or
I got ant my pants all right, these that's kind
(31:29):
of what you had, isn't it, Jeff, you had a cold.
These athletes are all considered chokers. Forty five seconds begin
all right, greatest quarterback in Dolphin history. That's correct guard
for the Clippers, currently on the Phoenix Suns. Point guard,
one of the great point guards of this era. All right,
pass quarterback for the Buffalo Bills when they kept getting
(31:52):
to the Super Bowl and losing in the nineties. Yes, uh,
coach of the forty nine ers. Who is dead? Coach
the Broncos and the Redskins. No, it's yes, all right, Uh,
guard for the Spurs. You used to play for Toronto Raptors,
was traded for Kawhi Leonard. All right, guy outfielder for
(32:16):
the Yankees, killed a bird in Toronto, played with the Angels.
Hall of Famer, play the alright, Uh you missed? All right?
What's that sound you missed? Chris Paul for twenty points? Uh,
Demard de Rosen for sixty and then Dave Winfield was
that last one? But you are leading? Jeff U four
(32:41):
quarter off? I got answer my pants. These all have
st begin go. Hall of Fame point guard eighties showtime
Laker is HIV. Yes, I went to prison for dog fighting.
NFL quarterback Michael Vick yes uh. A Hall of Fame
second baseman, Blue Jays Orioles. He was best known for
(33:02):
spitting in the face of an umpire Craig uh No,
Latino guy. All right, I don't know. NBA player from Europe.
They call him the Unicorn. He came on with the Knicks.
He's now with the Mavericks. We won. TI goes to
the Gun that was in the league first we went,
(33:23):
Oh my god, shut up.
Host
Ben Maller
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