A Texas-sized Choke Job

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Now as far as the radio show podcast today, should
Bill O'Brien be fired after the Texans playoff disappearing act?
We examine that question and also is Deshaun Watson culpable

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for his role in Houston's meltdown? What happened to the
Seahawks at Lambo Field? And are you impressed with the
Green Bay Packers? They're a win away from the super Bowl.
We examine how much blame Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins should
get for his no show in Northern California over the weekend,

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and is Lamar Jackson a regular season quarterback instead of
a playoff quarterback. Those stories and a whole lot more
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In degrees of Schadenfreud, the Houston Texans performance against Kansas

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City is like a ten plus plus plus. The only
better would have been if the Texans had been leading
going into the final minute of the game and lost
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Fifteen minutes could save you a fifteen percent or more
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free rate quote. So I assume you checked it out.
But with ten minutes and fifty four seconds remaining in
the first half of the early game on Divisional Weekend Sunday,

(02:39):
the Houston Texans had built up which seemed to be
an unbeatable point to They had a twenty four to
nothing lead, insurmountable twenty four nothing lead. However, they had
to play the rest of the game. And that was
the problem. And it was a hot mess, and it
happened right. It was a volcano erupting for Kansas City.

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And if you didn't watch the game and you maybe
heard about it, we'll talk you through it. Here. The
Chiefs storm all the way back in the second quarter.
They end up becoming the first team in postseason history
to win a game by twenty points where they trailed
by twenty points. During the same game, the same game
they trailed by twenty four points, they won by twenty

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What a national embarrassment. What a laughing stock the Houston Texas.
This is a tough time for Houston sports. You got
the Astros, bang bang, you got that going on. You
got the Rockets who have to get by the Clippers
in the in the Western Conference. They're good luck on that.
Patrick Mahomes three hundred twenty one yards passing, averaged over

(03:47):
nine yards per attempt, five touchdowns, no interceptions. He did
have a fumble, but it was recovered in a passer
rating of one hundred and thirty four point six on
the day. So the city is now one game away
from getting back to the super Bowl, and Andy Reid
could get back to the super Bowl lost with Philadelphia

(04:10):
back in the day. That was the Donovan McNabb puke game.
So if the Chiefs get to the super Bowl and
as long as Mahomes doesn't vomit in the huddle, that
would be an improvement over Andy Reid's last trip to
the super Bowl. So they will play host to the
Tennessee Titans as a favorite, a home favorite by over

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a touchdown the Chiefs to get to South Florida. So
congratulations to Kansas City. They come from behind victory. But
we know on television, I was talking to a friend
of mine by TV loves winners. They like winners, right,
who do they interview right after the other side of
my friend, the old newspaper guy they back when newspapers mattered,

(04:51):
and you go interview the winning coach. No, the better
stories in the losing locker room. No, No, I want losers.
Give me losers. Give me teams that choke, Give me
the teams that are pathetic, despicable. Mama Lukes. Those are
the teams I want to talk about on the radio.
Those are my teams. I relate to them. I'm a loser.

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I relate to losers. So the Houston Texans, All right,
now the obvious question, and we will address it right now.
Should the Houston Texans fire Bill O'Brien after that performance
in the postseason one thousand percent period? Hardstock? Now to

(05:36):
expand on that, you've got ride a bicycle, lightweight and
treading water, and we will combine all these things together. Now, Ay,
Bill O'Brien should have already been let go several years ago.
He's been hanging on by a threat. Now he's got
some more time because the owner died in Houston. But
he should be dun skis. He should have been fired

(05:58):
when they got back to Euston. Now it's the middle
of the night, so maybe he was fired. But this
is a fireable offense. Not only should he lose his job,
Bill O'Brien, but Bill Kauer should also be fired at CBS.
I don't care if he's in the Hall of Fame
or not. Did you see this? This is one of
the great broadcasting attrocities. Somewhere Howard co sal is turning

(06:22):
over in his grave spinning the old sportscaster from back
in the day, because moments after the game on national television,
Bill Bill Kaller, right, was rig galing praise on Bill O'Brien.
I thought, maybe wait at I was like, maybe I'm
in the twilight zone. This can't be going on. He
said he wanted to give O'Brien credit because he had

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the Texans ready to play. Is the quote from Bill
Kaller on CBS Boo fricking, who what kind of peril
of the mentioned? Does this whack a doodle livid? I
would retract his Hall of Fame nomination on this alone.
Did Kawer even watch the game? Maybe he was in
the back watching soap operas at CBS and he didn't

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even watch the game, or maybe he stopped watching when
it was twenty four another but praise to Bill O'Brien
for having the team ready to play. Kawer lost so
many of those AFC championship games back in the day.
He's like, oh, this wasn't even the FC championship game.
He must have expected Houston players to get schnockered and

(07:29):
not show up to the stadium. So the fact that
they showed up to the stadium was impressive, unbelievable. It's ridiculous,
Bill Kawer, fire his ass. It's a twofer with O'Brien.
Does he think he must think, Bill Cower? Are the
people watching these games are slobbering morons? And maybe they are,
but anybody had paid attentions like WHOA you're praising A?

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I mean, no coaches are supposed to all unite together,
but come on, that is not a moment for praise.
That is a moment to tear a new one. To
spit roast Bill O'Brien is what should have happened? I mean,
what is that? Back to O'Brien. So, Bill O'Brien was
unable to make obviously the necessary in game adjustments, that's

(08:15):
the understatement. To hold on to a twenty four to
nothing lead. He made a couple of critical decisions that
add on to the argument to fire him. They were
jaw dropping up twenty four to seven. He decided it
was the right time to get cute and go for
a fake punt. Was a fourth down and four at

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the Texans own thirty one yard line, so they're in
their own terry. So they decided to go for a
fake trickeration there, which would have been fine if it
hadn't failed miserably. And that was right after he didn't
go for it on a fourth and one, by the way,
and the Chiefs own red zone, So instead of going
for it fourth and one in the Chiefs red zone,

(08:56):
he said, yeah, I'm gonna go for it on my
own thirty one yard line, and we know how that works.
So they kicked a field goal on their own end.
Then they turned the ball over on downs and three
plays later, Patrick Mahomes gets another touchdown and it's twenty
four to fourteen. So Bill O'Brien working his magic. He
needed to also later in the game, he needed to

(09:16):
take a time out to think about punting. He was
gonna he was gonna punt, and he had to think
about it. He decided not to punt down seventeen points
in the fourth quarter of the playoff game, and O'Brien's,
maybe we should punt the ball away here, huh. You
gotta work on our special teams for next season. That
almost completes the Bengo card of failure for Bill O'Brien. Now, Brian,

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you know what he reminded me he was like a
father teaching a child how to ride a bicycle. Right,
you run alongside your kid, you study the little bike there,
and you give a push right in the back. Look
at the kid gout. But in this case he was
pushing along Kansas City and the chief saw offense and

(10:00):
Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and all those guys to
come back. He was giving them a push. Unreal. I
don't know the town of Houston, the Texans fans on
the revolt fire this guy. Don't buy tickets, don't buy
merchandise till this a hole is gone Bill O'Brien. Now
part B of this, does the fact that Bill O'Brien's

(10:23):
the village idiot, does that give Deshaun Watson a pardon
from any culpability in this loss? And the answer, of
course is absolutely not. Anybody that's educated on football that
watched this game knows that Shaun Watson was a big
part of the problem in this game. Because this was
supposed to be a red letter day for Deshaun Watson,

(10:47):
a right quarterback. Defenders think that this is all on
Bill O'Brien, and he gets no blame. Get he give
him a pardon, Give Deshaun Watson a pardon, not on
this show. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no right,
none for Deshaun Watson. Now, the constant lament against Deshaun
Watson is that, and we've talked about it here. He's bipolar.

(11:11):
He can be the greatest quarterback in the world for
a game and then he'll come back and suck against
Jacksonville and get outplayed by Gardner Minshew. The other argument
in this game is that, well, you don't play defense. Now,
theoretically that's true. Deshaun Watson does not play defense. However,
Watson was also a no show after the first quarter. Now,

(11:32):
you will not hear this kind of commentary on any
of the mainstream football media. They are all lapdogs. You
only hear that here on our show. Deshaun Watson is
a headliner and a protected interest among the football media
elite and beall. He was great at Clemson, he's amazing,
he gives back to charity. Meanwhile, these kind of things

(11:53):
keep popping up. I cannot take Deshaun Watson seriously with
these kind of performances because they happen all the time.
This was not a one off situation. He is the
ringleader of the Texans offense. And while he certainly played
like a heavyweight, I'll give him this for fifteen minutes, right,
you can also get your car insurance from Geico. In

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fifteen minutes, he was a lightweight. For forty five minutes,
Watson was not only a quarterback, he was mostly useless
after the first quarter. Now, what's my evidence? Go to
the stats? First quarter seven of eight seventy five yards,
two touchdowns, no interceptions, passer rating of one hundred and
forty five. One hundred and forty five point three passer

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rating for Deshaun Watson in the first quarter. How about
the rest of the game? How do you do? Don't ask?
Watson had twenty complete passes, average seven point one yards
per attempt, no touchdown passes, He had no interceptions, he
was sacked three times. Had a passer rating the second, third,
and fourth quarter combined of seventy seven point one. Seventy

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seven point one was the man's passer rating after the
first quarter. And we're supposed to say he doesn't have
no culpability. Deshaun Watson, Really, I'd like to have you
as a teacher. I mean, I got a lot of numbers.
I mean, I can explain it to you differently. Deshaun
Watson was a shooting star for fifteen minutes and then
he took a ride in the vomit comment the rest

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of the game. How about that? All right? You gotta understand,
all right? Last word, So the Texans franchise, it really
depends on the fan base. I believe if the fan
base rises up and there's anarchy and chaos among the
Texans fans, there will be a change. Do I expect
that to happen. No, I don't expect that to happen.
You could have gotten rid of this guy a couple
of years ago. The Texas franchise is going to continue

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to tread water and spin their wheels in the kiddy
pool of the NFL. All Right, they have enough talent
to make the playoffs, but not enough talent or enough moxie,
I should say, to go on this extended run. Like
the Tennessee Titans have moxie. They got there's something about

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it that Texans don't have. They were lucky to be
Buffalo and Josh Allen didn't puke all over the field.
They don't win that game. Watson was a bum for
three quarters in that game. I mean, why don't we
have to Deshaun Watson's good for one out of four quarters.
Apparently in these playoff games, one out of four that's it, right,

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So I would expect this cycle to continue next season
in Houston, Rinse Washington repeat right, Bill O'Brien, he should
be whacked. But it's unlikely. The Texans put all of
their chips. They pushed them all in the middle of
the table to make the big trades. No, I have
no problem trading future draft capital. I don't, but you've

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got to get dividends. Those trades have to pay dividends,
and I don't see a lot of that from the
Houston Texas. Laramie Tunzel coming over from the Miami Dolphins
was supposed to solve Deshaun Watson from getting sacked every
other play, and it all Deshaun's ability to read defense.
I wonder what he's doing. I mean, because they have,
they've improved the offensive line, but Laramie tunzil and that,

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you know, not exactly the second coming of Orlando Pace
and Anthony Munos with the Dolphins this year, and not
too many pancake blocks, a lot of pancakes consumed, but
not too many pancake blocks from the Texans offensive line,
you know what I'm saying, all right, I mean, well,
let's hear from Bill O'Brien quickly. We'll hear a couple
of these up. Bill O'Brien. The fake punt we talked

(15:33):
about there, that was the big turning point game that
really pushed Kansas City to get right back in the
game there, and here's O'Brien saying why he did the
dumb thing that he did. We felt like, you know,
we work gona able to punt it too many times today,
you know, we felt like that we had to try
to manufacture some points, manufacture some yards and just didn't
work out. You know, It's just something we decided to do,

(15:54):
but the play didn't work. These games were always, you know,
games with momentum, momentum swings. We had momentum at that point,
just fell momentum. You know, we were gonna try to
make a play there and it just didn't work. Come,
why did you give up the momentum? If you had
the momentum, why would you give up the momentum? You
should hold on to the momentum. Good coaches hold on
to the momentum. Why would you give up the momentum?
Why did Kansas City not have the momentum at the

(16:15):
start of the game. Explain the momentum if both teams
want the momentum, how did Kansas City not have the momentum?
And why did Houston have the momentum? Oh, that's right.
It's a made up, artificial bull pucky nonsense that the
media came up with. And these dumb dumbs that play
sports repeated all the time momentum. They had all the momentum,

(16:36):
We had the momentum. Yeah, we're up twenty four nothing.
Explain momentum to me. I'm not that dumb. Explain it
to me like I'm five years old. Okay, so you're
up twenty four nothing, you have all the momentum. The
other team comes back, Well, how's that possible? If one
team has all the momentum? How is that effing possible?
I will hear from more will pause for the cause,

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I am on time out to buy the clock four
of the clock posibly all about the clocks, we'll hear
or from Bill O'Brien and also to Shaun Watson, because
the better story is in the losing locker room, if
you would like to be part before we give out
the number they will spend the wheel of producers. Let's
find out who's producing the show tonight. See here, I'm
going with lead A Lap. I'm going with lead A Lap.

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It could be Bo Benson, could be back Burr Shinger. Oh,
it's Cooper Loop has decided to join us today. Welcome in, Coop.
Good to meet you. I hope you do well and
we hope you make it here. This is a big
trial period this week, Coopy. Thank you. Yeah, so happy
to be back. Honor to have you back. You're literally

(17:37):
on your deathbed last week. Yeah. Did you have your
gallbladder taking out? How was it painful? Painful? Yeah, it's
a painful procedure. Yeah, it is absolutely painfully. Kept you
in the hospital for a couple of extra days. I'm
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I got a lot of stuff going a lot of
random stuff going on. So we'll get to all that.
But this is tremendous. Tremendously outstanding, is what this is.

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And there's a couple of stories that popped up over
the weekend in addition to the NFL playoffs, which are
are great and including the fact that you really gotta
have courage. We'll get to that and we will do
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Eddie Garcia, your humble sidekick, the voice of reason. I'm
at Eddie on Fox. It's so big, I don't think
you could really kind of get your mouth around it.
I mean, it's you know what I'm saying. And a
lie from the Geico Fox Sports radio studios. It's Ben Maller.
I hope you've recovered, Eddie. You were guilty of you
and Roberto premature tweeting, and it's a problem many people

(19:21):
have there. Why I'm not tweeting. Actually, you were just texting,
premature texting. You were twenty four nothing. I said, this
game's over, Yeah, and it was. It should have been.
It was over, um, but it was over for the Texans.
It was over for them because they're only a fifteen
minute team. So unfortunately, so I didn't know that. Yeah. Well,
Deshaun Watson doesn't play a complete game. Very rarely does

(19:43):
he play a complete game. And Eugene and Chicago rights
and now this shows you. They say most people don't
pay attention, you know. They you hear a couple of
words out of every like five words. I say, you
pay attention to those two or three words out of five,
so you miss a lot. Well, Eugene, I just pointed
out how ineffective Deshaun Watson was. After the first quarter,

(20:04):
Eugene says, Deshaun Watson actually had a good game. Sunday,
Deshaun doesn't play defense, Ben, which is what I addressed,
the Deshaun Watson marching and chatter society defense. But to
put in perspective where people are, they don't watch the
whole game. Apparently the whole game no matter. The lowest
rated qualified quarterback in the NFL this season was Andy Dalton.

(20:26):
Andy Dalton had a passer rating of seventy eight point
three for Cincinnati. The second lowest rated quarterback was Baker
Mayfield at seventy eight point eight. They were at the
very bottom of the NFL quarterback ratings. Again, among qualified quarterbacks,
there were a bunch of quarterbacks that didn't qualify that
were worse. But to put in perspective, Deshaun Watson after

(20:47):
the first quarter, from the second, third, and fourth quarter
combined had a lower passer rating than the lowest qualified
quarterback Andy Dalton in the NFL. And these guys like
Eugene who aren't that bright. Apparently I like Gene, but
I don't know what's going on with this guy. And oh,
John Watson was not the problem. Well, okay, you gotta
play the whole game. He's the face of the franchise.

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And what is that. It's ridiculous, is what it is.
All right, let's see Jay Scoop. By the way, Jay Scoop,
he's listening to us. This is kind of cool crossing
the Puget sound on a ferry. He was recording, and
he's literally in the ferry right now, and he's got
the radio on. So although that's a much better view
during the day than at night, I don't think you

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see a whole bunch there. At night. There's not a
lot of cool stuff. You can see a lot. The
lights are shimmering and all that. Many people have asked
the same question. Many people have asked the question. I
will address it right now. Robin Vegas enjoyed the monologue.
He says, the biggest question the night is Christopher in Houston?
On hold? All right, let me check here. We don't

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have line one, Line one, it's broken. I'm looking at
line two. No, how about line three? Is he online? Three?
Is Chris and Houston ready to go online? Three? Because
I'm gonna make him the first All if he is
online line three, which is really line two? Nope, nope, nope,
see him there? How about a line for it's got
to be line four right, line four? Chris and Houston.
Uh no, not there, all right, line five. It must

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be line five, not one, not two, not three, not four.
How about line five? All right? You see here? Nope,
not Chris and Houston. All right, line six. Now that's
the last line we have here, line six, we have
the inside lines. He doesn't have that number. Let's see here,
let's look line say, let's gotta be it here. Let's
let's see here. Nope, nope, no Chris and Houston. He

(22:38):
must be thinking, this is like the Astros have just
lost the World Series, so he's decided not to call
in there. It's very convenient. It's amazing how his work,
his work schedule seems to work out where whatever Houston
teams lose and blow it and puke all over the field,
he conveniently has the day off. So very impressive, very

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very impressive. All right, anyway, it is the Ben Maller.
So let's go to let's see, here's Skeeter in Montana. Hello, Skeeter,
He Skeeter. If I was any better, I'd be Chris.
But not Chris in Houston because he's not calling in
and his team blows well, it's uh tomorrow morning, it's

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going to be twenty below. Really, I would advise you
going outside and running around when it's twenty to blow
twenty below. It's good good advice, right, bad advice, bad,
just staying. Do you have like a nice heating there?
You got fire? What do you got wood? What do
you got? What kind of heating system do you have there? Skeeter, No,

(23:44):
I got natural gas? Oh, natural gas and so but
it might be minus twenty below, but what do you
keep your house at? What do you keep it at
like seventy sixty five? What do you keep it at
seventy six? So, yeah, it's not really minus twenty where
you are, it's seventy six degrees in Great Falls. That's right,
that's right. So just don't go outside and order a

(24:07):
pizza or something. Do they have pizza delivery there? Get
pizza delivery and make the other guy deliver the pizza tonight.
Oh really? What kind of meat? Love was? It was
just raw meat? I mean, did you put any spice
in there? Because yeah, little garlic or a garlic in there.
You gotta throw some garlic in there, right, damn right,
absolutely correct, my man, High five, come on air, high five.

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That's right. Good job by you What I want to
talk to you about now, is that mad Oh, that's right,
You're you're gonna send us something here. This is very exciting. Well,
I'm gonna put you on hold here and Cooper loop.
Eventually we'll pick up line number six and he will
give you the address. Okay, and you you tell him
when you're gonna send that, so he'll go, he'll go

(24:52):
to the mail room and then he'll get it. Okay,
all right, all right, a whole lot of sexually. All right,
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Search FSR to listen live. Ben, you touched on it

(25:12):
a little bit in your opening monologue. But if you're
watching football this weekend, you saw two live announcements of
a couple of guys going into the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. On Saturday, it was Bill Kauer on the
set there at CBS set in New York, and then
on Sunday it was Jimmy Johnson, former Cowboys head coach
at the Fox lock there here not to be the

(25:36):
no Scrooge, but you would never be that, and it
only works once. I mean, everyone knew that Jimmy Johnson
was gonna be Jimmy might have been the only one
that didn't know he was going to be in the
Hall of Fame, but it was leaked on the internet
after the cour announcement. I think it was rich Eisen
that said that they were gonna make a similar announcement
on Sunday, So, I mean, I know they tried to.

(25:57):
I guess it was the number one trending topic on
social media and all that. And I'm guessing Jimmy's at
the age he's not on social media. I don't think
Jimmy Johnson's reading tweets and things like that. So maybe
he didn't know, but everyone else should have known. That
pays attention to this kind of stuff, and it turns
out to a lot of Apparently a lot of people
didn't know. I didn't know. I was I was not.
Really you were not you were in the dark. Well,
you're like Jimmy Johnson. You don't pay at ten. You

(26:19):
check out on the weekends. I do, Actually I don't
check out though, That's my problem. I wish I unplugged
I would have enjoyed it more if I had not
known it was coming, you know what I'm saying, Like
I knew exactly what it was. It wasn't you know,
it was choreographed, it was it was, you know, very
predictable that it was going to happen. By the way,
the rest of the Hall of Fame class will being

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hounced on Wednesday fifteen. Those people are going into all
those other Those other people have to wait because they're
not on television. They're not important people like Bill Cower
and Jimmy Johnson who are on television, so they have
to wait till Wednesday. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's good
publicity for the Hall of Fame. And it's good though
that that fat guy from the Hall of Famers out there.
He's a massive human thing. His son was an offensive

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lineman for Atlanta. David Baker. Yeah, David Baker, the old man.
He's an oc guy, lived in Orange County. I've actually
seen him in person. His head is it's Bruce Bochi.
Man's get a large. But I always support fat people
on television, and he's so much bigger than all the
other people on Fox. I mean, and these are like
former NFL players and stuff, and he just he just

(27:22):
was a monster compared to all the other people that
were on the sea. Giant red coat on Saturday or yeah,
on Saturday and then a giant bluecoat on Sunday. I
just noticed that or something. So he had he had
the Hall of Fame pay for a cross country flight
from New York with Los Angeles. Yeah, and I'm sure
he stayed at a very reasonable hotel. I'm sure he

(27:43):
was the Travel Lodge. Yes, exactly, right down there in
West LA. The very hotel is very cheap near the
Fox Lot one. If you're wondering why it's a gigantic
Hall of Fame class, it's because of the hundred anniversary
for the NFL and the guy running the Hall of
Fame is a gigantic person. So that's what. Oh, that's
well yeah, okay, well maybe maybe part of it. I
don't know. And everyone's every time there's a coach in

(28:05):
the Hall of Fame, what about Tom Flores? What about Tom?
You ought to put Tom Flores in the Hall of Fame?
Every raise holy hell about that. It is the Ben
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a free rate quote. I love irony. The story irony applies.

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So the Patriots announced two days ago they're twenty nineteen
ed Block Courage Award recipient. The honor is bestowed annually
a poem player who best exemplifies the principles of courage
and sportsmanship while also serving as a source of inspiration.
The Patriots named Julian Edelman. They're twenty nineteen ed Blockage. Now.

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The reason that's so funny is because Julian Edelman went
out and got hammered schnockered in Beverly Hills over the
weekend and was arrested on Saturday night for something you
would expect to have happened, like when you're in college,
not a grown ass man like Julian Edelman. I mean,

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this is something like maybe you're like San Diego State
or something like that, you know, and this kind of
thing happened. But but Julian Edelman was arrested for jumping
on the hood of an automobile in Beverly Hills, a Mercedes.
And you I guess they say arrested, but he was
like it was like such a ridiculus. Even even even
the police were like, what's going on? And they they

(29:33):
sighted him, but they say he was arrested Hills Hills.
What were you doing dining out in Beverly Hills. The
mallormobile got jumped on by Julian Edelman. No, I wasn't mind.
It was not my car. Edelman's thirty three years old.
By the way, I mean, at what point do you
grow up a little bit and say maybe I shouldn't
be jumping on cars drunk in Beverly Hills. I don't know.
And he was out, by the way. Social media investigators

(29:56):
have determined that Edelman was out boozing it up with
Danny ammond Ola and Paul Pierce. It was like the
all the old Boston guys got together in La to
wreck havoc on Beverly Hills and whatnot. But they those
guys didn't jump out in the cars. He just just no.
Paul Pierce was not a cute I don't think so.
And they might have he was with Edelman was supposed
to even when I read was with a bunch of

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other people. So maybe he was with Paul Pierce and
Paul is on a wheelchair. Well, no, no, it's only
in the NBA finals he gets the wheelchair. That's it.
It's right. You're twenty nineteen ed Block Courage Award recipient,
according to the Patriots is that it did it did
it was? You're a good Paul And that is the

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principles of courage to jump on a Mercedes because many
people would just let the Mercedes go by, but not
Julian Edelman. New new, new, new, new, new, new, new new,
and it is an inspiration to other NFL players. Now
that will count in the NFL. We're not doing it
yet because the off season hasn't officially officially begun because
the playoffs are still going on. But we will bring

(30:58):
it back for twenty twenty. People have been asked, what
are you gonna do it? What are you gonna do it?
The NFL Buckham We'll return in twenty twenty. We'll do
it the week after the super Bowl. That's the plan.
The tenant of plan. The week after the Super Bowl,
we will all pick teams and whoever gets the most
arrest I'm a back to back winner, by the way,
thank you very much. I don't think I've gotten my
prize for that. But back to back winner in the

(31:19):
NFL book them, Yes, I have one of the last
two years in a row and try to make it
three in a row. Let's go to the phone's Whoopee
Pie Blair, the reigining caller of the Year from last year.
But will he win again this year? Inquiring mindes would
like to know, Hello, Whoopee Pie Blair. Oh, yes, I
will win. Get out of my way of leaping white boy.

(31:40):
You haven't called as offense. So normally if you don't
call that much, you don't win. So I don't think
you're gonna win this year. Oh there's people tell him.
There's a guy telling me that he listens. He's like, oh,
player calling calling. I want to hear you call in
to Ben Mallor. I love you're in your calls. What's
that guy's name? That guy is gonna hold me in?
Who's that guy? I don't know? What's his name? You talk?

(32:01):
You talk to people you don't know Twitter on Twitter? Okay,
all right, I have good breaking news, Ben Maor. This
ought to be big and to be the cole or
the Womba. I'll be the new Lebron James, but not
dumpkin Lebron James. I hope and and uh and I

(32:24):
unified basketball team. I made for a special Olympics. Oh
you made the basketball team. Oh congratulations. You should be
more applause. You should be like Kawhi Leonard and practice
load management is what you should do. Yeah, well you
do load management and only playing like some of the
games and not all the games and all that. Oh,

(32:46):
he's providing his own side effects here. This is yeah.
I got my bastbround music on. I guess he pumped up.
That's what's right, baby, what's right? I'm guessing go right
here in Mercedes bands, baby to my gay me a
bed more. I could just see it right, No, baby, Yeah,
I'm a way of bleep and white boy. I don't

(33:09):
think that's the radio edit, Blair. I don't think you're
playing the radio edit. I don't. Yeah, it is, No,
they play bad stuff on there. Sometimes it's not. It's
not gonna cust trust me. You said that before, and
we've been burned before. It's not gonna cut would be me.
That's true, and you have done that many times. You probably. Yeah,
I see there's an example of what I take it

(33:31):
anyway I want. If you don't get the bleep bleep
out of my way, I'm gonna take it to the
rim for a baby. Why not a dunk? Why don't
you go? You should ask the people at the Special
Olympics if you can put in a trampoline. Ask if
you can put a trampoline in there so you can
jump up? Why not that you could dunk? How much

(33:52):
can that be more fun? Why not be more fun?
Like regular basketball? You can't reach the rim, you can't dunk.
How about flubber? Why not allow flubber? That way? You
could chump up and you know I flubber is you
should allow that? Why not? I saw the movie. They
had it in the movie because it's regular basketball. You're
playing regular basketball like the pros, dude, like college does.

(34:16):
And if you can't reach the damn ram, you can't
freaking dunk. How are you gonna cheat? Are you gonna cheat?
Are you gonna cheating this at all? You're gonna play
by the rules? Oh, I'm gonna play by the rules.
You have to go in there cheating like a cheater.
What number are you gonna wear? What number? What number
are gonna wear? What number are you gonna wear? A
black I don't know what number should I wear? Tell

(34:37):
me right now? See, I see I've met you. These
guys haven't met you. I'm gonna say double zero you
should wear double zero? No? No, why not double zero?
Why not? I don't like that one single zero zingle zero?
There you go? Singles ninety nine zero? No not ninety nine.
You're not a ninety nine. You're not a big enough

(34:58):
to t fall. But uh, you have eaten tacos, so
that does count? Um? What other number? Seven? Thirteen? I
was thinking number eight, mamba mode, number eight. No, I
mean I want to like a really cool number, like
thirty one. I'm even it's cool about thirty one? Why?

(35:22):
Why is that a cool thirty one? Why not three?
Thirty three? Larry Bird? Why not that? How about twenty four? Though?
Thirty one or twenty four? I do whatever you want?
Who cares? I don't care, all right, Ben, listen to me.
So Julian Edelman jumped on and mercedes Ben. How come
he didn't end up in jail for at least ten days?

(35:45):
Because he's because he's famous and it's Beverly Hills. They
probably knew who he was, and they're like, all right,
you just drunk. Whatever? What's my line? Was getting really tangled.
The rules are different when you're famous. I thank you.
I gotta go. We'll get to stone cold marketing. Here's
the who am I? Game? With all this offense in football,

(36:07):
I hold the NFL record for the most yards from
scrimmage in a single postseason. Again, with this offensive explosion
in football in the modern era, I hold the NFL's
record for the most yards from scrimmage in a single postseason.
Who am I? The answer? Next? Be sure to catch

(36:28):
live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. All right, we'll get going here,
short on time. Eddie's sleeping in there. We'll pay off
the who am I? Game? We usually we waste a
lot of time. Just got start talking. We don't need
to waste his best time. We don't need to read
these liners. We don't because you take too long. All right,

(36:49):
With all the offense in football today, I hold the
NFL record for the most yards from scrimmage in a
single postseason. Who am I? That is the question. What
is the answer? Let's see, does anyone know the answer,
and we'll go right to it. Robin Minnesota's going with
Eric b Enemy is his answer? Ernie the Great Opiner says,

(37:12):
is it? Whoopee Pie Blair's Google? Is that the answer?
Cowboy Killer checks in with Mike all Stott, Big popa
Pump going with mister Wonderful Paul Orndorff, Morton Anderson tossed
out from Jay Scoop Crossing Puget Sound right now, Beast
Mode from Just Josh, Doctor Pimple Popper from Tortilla Man,

(37:34):
Tony Marrion, Butts guests by Chris Mike from the LBC's
going with Marshall Falk, Peyton Manning from Alex William the Refrigerator,
Perry guest by Ozzie the Dog Terry and England says,
has got to be Chris, who's in the Witness Protection
program no longer in Houston. Who else do you have?
T J Yates from Terry that's a fine guest page

(37:57):
down here, Joe Webb but from Mike the Great TD
guest by Jerry Craig Morton from Joe in San Antonio.
All right, what's the answer here, Frank Frank Whitchick? Is
that Frank whitcheck. Is that the correct thing? No, it's
not correct the correct answer, believe it or not. John Riggins,

(38:18):
even with all these offensive player I think Marshall Falk
and some of these other guys that have been ridiculously good,
John Riggins six hundred twenty five yards for the nineteen
eighty two Redskins, and that is still the record. Now.
Derrick Henry, if the Titans can upset Kansas City and
go to the super Bowl, will likely break that record.

(38:39):
But that's a big, big you know what I mean.
Henry's got four hundred and six yards right now for Tennessee,
so he's twenty first in playoff history. But if you
get to Kansas City, play that game to figure, maybe
he goes from one hundred. That puts him in over
five hundred, and then he has the Super Bowl to
go to over six hundred yards. So it's it's possible.

(38:59):
I'm saying there's a chance. But Kansas City is favored,
they are at home, and they should win that particular game.
All right, let's get to it. Here we go. It's
time now for the NBA Pick Him Daily Fantasy in
this case basketball, and Cooper has decided to come back
and join us. Who's going first? That would be Eddie Garcia. Alright, Eddie,

(39:21):
go ahead. Let's go with Damian Lillard. All right, Damian
Lillard is gone. I am gonna pick second. I will
take Joel embiid Joel embiad Uh, Coopa Loo. I will
go with Andre Drummond. All right, Drummond is gone. Roberto
Nicolaus Nicola Busevich is picked, and back one more Robert

(39:42):
ash one Uh, Lorie Marketing, Lori Marketing, all right, back
to you, Coop Derrick Crows, all right, I'm gonna take
see here, give me Hassan Whiteside and Eddie the back
to back. I'll go Ben Simmons, all right, Kyle Kuzma,
all right, I'm gonna take a Chicago bull here, Zach Levine.

(40:05):
I will take him and Coop go ahead, Coop, you
m the pick Lebron James lob Brand James and the
final pick Roberto Chris Paul Chris Paul CP three fine
pick back in his Lob City days. All right, there
it is the NBA pick him with time to spend.
I want you to know, if I had allowed Eddie
to continue, we would have had to have pushed it

(40:27):
right to the bitter end here. But I made an
executive decision because Eddie was lollygaggy and I don't put
up with lollygaggy, so I had to get right on
that thing. Otherwise we would not have some extra bonus time.
So we can wear this blabbering right now. We weren't
rushing to the end there. It wasn't blabber I'm talking,
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(41:15):
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So the NFL playoffs now down to the final four
and the Seattle Seahawks, who at one point. We're playing

(41:36):
for the number one seed in the NFC, and they
couldn't beat Alligator Arms Murray, the umpa lupa got them,
and then they lost at home to the forty nine Ers.
The forty nine Ers actually didn't win that game. The
Seahawks PR department lost that game. The incompetence, the ineptitude
of the Seattle Seahawks PR department, And I can't wait
for all those people to be fired that were responsible

(41:57):
for locking me out of that stadium. They all deserve
to lose their jobs. So the Seahawks went out, they
spotted the Packers an eighteen point first half lead. Did
they come back to win at lambeau Field on a
frigid day at Lambo, No, they did not. They did not.
Davante Adams tearing up the practice squad secondary of the

(42:20):
Seahawks eight catches for one hundred and sixty yards, had
a couple of touchdowns, Aaron Jones keeping up with the Jones,
he had a couple of scores, and by the time
it was done, the Packers had pushed back against the
Seahawks twenty eight, twenty three, and they are back in
the NFC Championship. Game, third time in six years. It
seems like it's been longer, but third time in six years.

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But the better story not on the Green Bay side.
Victory has a thousand fathers. But defeat is an orphan
and that defeat belongs to the good people from Seattle.
So let's discuss the question what the hell happened to
the Seattle Seahawks at Lambeaux in particular of the first
half of this game. Now my take, you've got Albert Einstein,

(43:04):
canoe and many and petty, and we will combine those
things and we'll line them up knock him down like Dominos.
Not to lead off with the Seattle Seahawks roster has
been ravaged by injuries, and that is not an excuse.
That is a reality, specifically in the backfield. Seattle, who
has been a team that at best is balanced but

(43:25):
really is a running team. They lost their running backs
Chris Carson and Rashad Penny both landed on injured reserve
in the span of ten days. We know what happened
in December, late December. So Pete Carroll goes into his
role at decks and he said, oh, I need a
running back. Hey, Marshawn, you want to play for the
Seahawks again, calls Marshawn Lynch. Marshawn's like, I don't know.

(43:48):
I'm busy as a bartender at the Raider game. I
don't know if I can make it. And one thing
leads to another, and there he is, right there, mars
Shawn Lynch. So the Seahawks I believe lost in large
part to the Packers because of stubborn nostalgia. Now what
do I mean by that? Brian Schottenheimer, the offensive coordinator,

(44:08):
and the Seattle Seahawks made a concerted effort to feed
the beast mode right that blew up in their hands.
Marshawn Lynch. Two point zero is actually the yards per
carry for Marshawn Lynch in his return to the Seattle Seas.
He ran twelve times for twenty six yards two touchdowns.
That's an average of two point two yards per carry.

(44:29):
His version, or this version rather Marshawn It reminded me
of C. J. Anderson. He looks like c. J. Anderson,
the butterball turkey for the Rams in last year's postseason.
But CJ. Anderson actually had a very good game against
the Dallas Cowboys. But Pete Carroll made a big misstep
in bringing back beast mode. There had to be some

(44:52):
guy out of the Canadian Football League that you could
have brought in that would have been better than Marshawn Lynch.
And then, to compound the mistake, they continued to give
Marshawn the football way too many times. And as Albert
Einstein taught the world years ago, insanity is doing the
same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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And he handed the ball off to a washed up
running back, and you expect, all of a sudden, he's
gonna turn into Emmett Smith in his prime. Probably not
gonna happen. Probably not gonna happen. Now further, Russell Wilson.
We know Russell had champagne wishes and caviar dreams for
the Seattle Seahawks here in the postseason. The Seahawks had

(45:35):
been doing a high wire act all year, right, I mean,
and I listen full transparency if you listen to the
podcast the fifth Hour Benny versus the Penny. I expected
them to come into Green Bay and to win the game.
I considered the Packers to be a similar opponent. I
was not in press the Packers looked to me like
more of a ten or eleven win team than a

(45:56):
thirteen win team. I feel like they're both. These teams
are in the same ball. Obviously, my analysis didn't happen
Russell Wilson though, when you look at the Seahawks team
and the lack of wow factor players on offense, Russell
Wilson has a future on HGTV and because he must

(46:18):
be a big fan of DIY do it yourself home
improvement projects. Because Russell Wilson's in a solitary state with
the Seattle Seahawks offense. Seattle, they got the quarterback, and
Russell's in a canoe. He's paddling his own canoe, is
what he's doing there. There's no one else in the
canoe other than them. Now. Dk Metcalf, who he praised,

(46:39):
he had an amazing game against Philadelphia, against that rag
tag secondary in Philly. DK Metcalf looked like Randy Moss.
He looked like a man among boys in Philly, and
he was mostly held in check. In Wisconsin, he had
four catches for fifty nine yards, did not get into
the end zone, and he was unable to match Davante Adams,

(47:00):
who played the way that DK Metcalf had played the
previous game with those eight catches one hundred and sixty
yards in two touchdowns. Now, Tyler Lockett did put up
big numbers, but that was it. There was nobody else.
The Seahawks playmakers collectively took a dump right at midfield
there and they brought a water gun for Russell Wilson.

(47:21):
That's all they had. They had no real ammunition. They
didn't even have a cap gun. A cap gun would
have been better than a water gun, but they didn't
have that. All right, last thing, so Aaron Rodgers was
so so you're feeling me on that. Aaron Rodgers so
so in this particularly. I know you're not supposed to
say that, right, he protected interest in all that. Of course,

(47:44):
it doesn't matter. This is one thing I've learned. This
is one lesson I've learned from all this. It does
not matter how he plays now. The reason I say
that is because the TV people continue to give him
a nice back massage, Aaron Rodgers, no matter how inefficient
he is. Now, you go down further here, if you

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look at the quarterbacks that are left, and you've only
got four teams, so you've got Ryan Tannehill, Patrick Mahomes,
Jimmy Garoppolo, who didn't do much anything against the Minnesota
Vikings forty nine ers one not because of Jimmy Garoppolo
at all. And then also you've got the final team
Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. But up the final four

(48:29):
on my big board here. Now that Lamar Jackson is
out of the playoffs, Aaron Rodgers gets to wear the crown.
He's the most slobbered over quarterback left in the postseason.
Tell me I'm wrong, right, He gets the manny and
the petty from the talking heads no matter what he does.
It's essentially a spinning match to see who can give
the most compliments to Aaron Rodgers when the Packers are

(48:51):
on television. Rodgers was actually worse as the game progressed.
People like to talk about that. In fact, in the
fourth quarter, as Seattle is coming from behind closing the
margin against the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers had a
passer rating in the fourth quarter of sixty sixty. He
had more in completions than completions. He averaged less than

(49:13):
seven yards in attempt six and a half yards per attempt.
But I'm not supposed to say that, right, Yes, get
back to that. I got to get back to that.
We often talk about this famous movie from back in
the nineteen sixties, but it's true that when the legend
becomes the fact, you print the legend, and the legend
is Aaron Rodgers is a gun slinger and a great quarterback.

(49:36):
Even when he doesn't play well, you still have to
celebrate Aaron Rodgers and praise Aaron Rodgers and kisses tuckas
is what you've got to do. So they just evangelize
the greatness of number twelve. But the Packers are on
borrowed time. They are, I mean, they get no style
points even in this game. Now they're heading into a

(49:57):
pit of vipers against the forty einers. Although the Vikings
didn't really give up much of a fight in that game.
But that's the NFC Championship game there. I guess we
don't have any any post game at all from that game.
All right, anyway, we'll take your phone calls if you'd
like to be part not on my screen eight seven
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(50:19):
six sixty three six nine. We're also on Twitter at
Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller, you can be part
of the festivities here and we will take your telephone
telephone calls in the Facebook page, Ben Maller show, I
did a nice Facebook Q and A. We had some
fun with that. What was really asked, Ben, was what
we did at the I think it's on Friday. We'll

(50:42):
time on Friday, last bed. Everyone's very nice on Facebook's
where people are nice. In Twitter is where people are douchebags.
I don't know about Instagram. I'm kind of new to Instagram.
I'm going to become a booty model on Instagram. I
think that's the way to go. If I want to
get a lot of followers and have some some power
on the Graham, then I believe I need to become

(51:03):
a booty must. I see you a little bit more
active on Instagram. Yeah, I'm trying trying to. You know,
It's I've had the page and I haven't really used it,
and it's I feel like it's time. I feel like
it's time to that. Enough people are on it now.
I used to think Instagram was just for guys to
kind of creep on beautiful women and beautiful women to
make money off being beautiful women, and you know, just

(51:24):
sell the fact that they've got certain assets that men
find attractive and all that, But what enough people are
on there? Now? I feel like it's worth my time.
So I will make a concerted effort at least a
few times randomly to post messages on on Instagram. Excited
about that all right? Now? We talked earlier about the

(51:45):
game in Houston to many people in the militia were like,
what's going on? Why why have we not heard from
Chris in Houston? Why is he not called? Well, he
didn't call in. He should have called. It should have
been the first call. It's a bad job by him.
But he has called in. Now, a man, let's hear
him defend. I mean something about Houston NFL, the Oilers.
I remember when I was very young watching the Oilers

(52:07):
blow a massive lead with Warren moved against Buffalo early
in the morning in Orchard Park, New York. And now
not so early. It was in the afternoon. But the
Houston Texans said, hey, Oilers were not as good as
you because we weren't down thirty two points or had
a thirty two point lead, but we gave up a
twenty four point lead, and we only did it in

(52:29):
fifteen minutes. So there you go. Let's go to Chris
and Houston. Defend your squad. Christopher, go ahead, defend your
Bill O'Brien, defend you. To Sean Watson, go ahead, defend Doble.
You haven't listened to my show, but I don't defend
them bums. I'm told you it was embarrassing that they
won that game against Buffalo in the first place. Bill

(52:49):
O'Brian should have been left in the con back in
Kansas City. I mean, what did you doing eating the
mall of chicken things or something? He got he got
grief on the place sheet or something. I mean, come on, man,
for the first time in his life, he found his
play sheet the first quarter, and then he lost it
as a second quarter. And then in Romeo Carnell wins right,
old timers. But you know what, at least we didn't

(53:10):
get shut out in the Super Bowls. Actually, RAMS didn't
get shut out three league and third quarter. Rams didn't
get shut out in the Super Bowl. And at least
we didn't give up six to two points and put
the record up and always put the three points like
Miami Dolphins did. So you're looking for you're looking for
positives is what you're looking for. Well, you know you
always got a little positives. When you get, you get

(53:31):
just embarrassed like that, Ben, I mean we got there's
no positive, there's no franchise. Is an embarrassment. They're a
blight on the NFL landscape. Is a fraud. I mean
the whole thing. That'll blow the whole thing up, that'll
get rid of the Texans and the Astros are two
fu all right, bank bang, get rid of all of them,

(53:52):
all of them, throw them all over time. The Rams
actually showed up in the second quarter in that game,
unlike the Houston Texans. How about that? There you go.
I'll tell you what, Jared Golf is at least one
an NFC championship. That's more than the shout of Watson.
How many trippers tip titles? You got? What's that? Twenty
twenty seven of twenty twenty it's gonna happen. Hey, you were,

(54:17):
I mean you were like you were like four years
old when the Rockets won probably the last time of
the Rockets. I remember, I don't know, I remember that.
I've remeber that Baron. That's the only thing I got.
Remember you were big oldist Thorpe fan or something like that. Yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, sure sure got Rob Come on now
eight years sail Vernon Madden macwille come on man, Vernon.

(54:43):
Vernon Maxwell was crazy. I liked it. He attacked fans
in the crowd. It was nuts, Vernon. I mean I
got I got cursed out by my wife, okay, because
I told her it was gonna be okay. Well this
to church down. It didn't did it all just with
the hill and then you know, I got cursed out. Yeah,
I told it was gonna be be fine. I mean,
I mean, well, let me tell you something that point.

(55:07):
I feel bad for you. I don't want to help
you out. I know how it feels to lose a game,
you know, not like that. I mean, I've been through
this a lot, so I think what Bill O'Brien how
to do is meet with a J. Hinch and try
to figure out maybe some signs they can use to
help them out, maybe bang bang whistles something to help
Texas out and some kind of secret buzzers. He's not

(55:30):
going to be fired, being not because call McNair doesn't
have balls. He's stuck in the office, still winding at
his daddy died. Wow, that's a low blow. Are they
gonna go out and then? Well they got that first
round pick, so it'll be fine. You got that first round. Well,
that's right, the Dolphins have the first round pick in
the Texas because they traded for we Smoker left Cackle.

(55:53):
You forgot the great Laramie Tunzil. That's right, Streak Garfage.
You think I still has that gas mask, that that
famous gas mask from World War Two? You think he
still has that in his possession? No, he probably got
a gas room. You never he's there, you go. You know, Hey,

(56:14):
I understand I love the Green yea, all right, Chris
did your teams are following apart? But you did call in.
I will give Unlike when the Astros lost the World Series.
You were coward, you were chicken hearted. You did not
call him that night, but that day what doesn't matter
enough to call in? Are you gonna ask you gonna

(56:36):
be like, you're gonna be like we be like, You're
gonna be like weed Man and ask for more money?
Is that what you're gonna do? Huh No, I don't bum,
I don't I don't need the weed man was begging
on Twitter again. You wanted me to send them money
on Twitter. What a scull back me. I would never
work for you. Yeah, all right, thank you, christ I
gotta go called in and I'll give you credit if

(57:00):
it's what the militia wanted. But you didn't. So we've
got stone cold marketing and the social media influence. So
we'll try to figure out why. I can't believe that
something would not work around here. I can't believe that
there would be a problem. Doesn't make any sense. Do
I have to go on the back and reset this.
I guess I'll have to go in the back and
hit some buttons, but maybe I will. All right, we'll
get to all that and we will do it next.

(57:23):
Gotta give it up, man, you are not the babbly
sports buffoon. You are the hype man of the Fox
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Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. Well, good news, Eddie. We
were both able to myself and cool. We walked into
master control here, which is a very dangerous room. It's
the room Bob Garret, my old producers shut down the
entire network, earning the nickname Wrong Button Bob. And we
were able to walk to the very back of that
room with a bank of computers and all the technical

(58:25):
equipment that keeps the show on the air, and found
the right computer and it is now working. Its working properly,
So we are very excited about that as we press
on here. A lot of reaction to Chris in Houston's
phone call. Azzy Guys says that was vintage Chris. He
called his team bombs and then deflected until Ben stopped

(58:49):
yelling at him. The Texans belong alongside the all time
great playoff meltdowns. The AUS guy says, that's true, So
Stone cold marketing. If you watched the Chiefs come back
again into those Houston Texans, offensive lineman Eric Fisher was
so excited after one of the touchdowns, he did the
stone cold beer celebration, right bang, bang, and then you

(59:12):
pour the beer, you float over your head, you pour
it over your head. Whatever. So now the funny thing
about this, Now the nerds that are in marketing look
at this and they're like, oh my god, that's such
a great thing. So they said, Eric Fisher's celebration provided
Blank an equivalent of brand value from the replay of
the video on social media and digital news media. How much?

(59:34):
How about over a million dollars one million, twenty two thousand,
three hundred and eighty five dollars in Van Valley. Now
keeping around, he is going to be fine, right. Remember
it was the guy from the Ravens, the guy that
used to play for the Rams, the defensive by Afro again,
Marcus Peters. Marcus Peters drank beer after a touchdown and
he got fined for that. So I would think that

(59:55):
the NFL fund police are gonna punish Eric Fisher, which
is funny to me because most of the NFL's revenue
comes from Booze right selling you beer. But yet the
NFL players when they actually partake in the beer during
a celebration, it becomes problematic. It does become problematic. We

(01:00:17):
have a great story about a social media influencer who
I didn't know was a social media influencer. I had
no idea. We'll get to that coming up. Mama tell
you right now we go to Berkeley, California. She's got
her star charts out. She told us about the wolf
moon last week. She were not incorrect to Andrea, because
we had a crazy show. We had one of the
great calls of all time from Helmet Man who talked

(01:00:38):
about a roach in his serial cockroach in his cereal.
It was nuts old time last week. Yeah, I know,
quite the wolfful moon. And yeah, we're still feeling the
repercussions of it. And interesting today, Saturn and Pluto aligned
in Capricorn at twenty two degrees and it made a

(01:00:59):
harmonious accent aspect. To Patrick Mahomes astrology forecast, he's September seventeenth,
fellow Virgo birthday twin, except he's nineteen ninety five and
check this out. Very positive aspects. Pluto is power he
was a powerhouse today, just totally strong and confidence. Five touchdowns.

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Ben Well, not in the first like five or six
minutes he was, but then after that he kicked in.
There was delayed reaction and then all of a sudden
it kicked in, right, I mean, the virgo was like, okay,
better get it together. Okay, you know, let's really focus
and get to the core of things and be really
strong and powerful. And it was really quite a sight
to behold. I really thought that was very powerful and

(01:01:47):
you know, showed his hard work. And what did it
say on this Shaun Watson's charge? That must have been
mercury and retrograde for him. Huh. Tell me his birth
data and I could tweet it to you. I don't know.
He blocked me on Twitter, so I don't know, no idea,
I'll google it. Tell me he's a very angry man.
Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson. Okay, yeah, I get it's not

(01:02:09):
that famous, but yeah, let me know when you find out,
I'll get the goods on them for you, all right, Andrew? So, Yeah,
basically recognition for Patrick Mahomes prominence. Um, Basically this is
a time of long range career planning and fulfilling his
goals and getting recognition and prominence. So this was really

(01:02:30):
a very strong performance. So I was happy to see
a fellow Virgo do so well. So that means things
are going well for you also, Andrew, because as if
you said, fellow real things are going well for me,
I would disagree. If you've been to the Mallard mansion recently,
things are not going well at the Mallard mansion. There's
a lot of upheaval at the Mallar mansion right now.
Well that's because Raness is in Taurus and that rules

(01:02:53):
expect the unexpected and change and upheaval. Yeah, yeah, my,
my had I talked about it on the podcast, but
these guys don't listen to pies. But I had my
kitchen um, I had a leak and it was coming
from under the refrigerator Andreas, So I assumed it was
the refrigerator that was busted, right, So I called the
refrigerator repair person to come out and look at the refrigerator.
They looked at every part of the refrigerator. I did

(01:03:14):
a great job, and he was maybe the most honest
repair person I've ever had. He said, there's not a
damn thing wrong with the refrigerator. I couldn't believe it.
I figured, well, like you go to a doctor, they're
gonna find something wrong with you. But but no, they
he said everything. So then then you know, he said,
this probably the leak in the pipe. So we contacted
the insurance, calling a contact the plumber contact the insurance,

(01:03:35):
and they claim because the leak had been going on
for longer than a month, even though we only knew
about it started coming out of the wall about ten days.
They said they didn't have to pay anything. So it's
gonna cost me thousands of dollars. I have no kitchen
right now. Oh I'm like weed man, hippie. I'm as
well live in the shelter or something like that. Let
me take a look at your chart and see what
we can do. Yeah, can you put a curse on

(01:03:57):
the insurance? Not one of our sponsors, of course, it's
it's some other homeowners I have for somebody else, and
they're they're bad people. They're bad people, so I like
to punish them. Yeah, yeah, no, they they'll have their
own karma. I'm sure you're not the only person they've
done wrong. Yes, I think they should go to jail.
I will look at your chart and see what's what,
because basically the Saturn Pluto conjunction and Capricorn is favorable

(01:04:19):
for Virgos and Taurus the other Earth signs, but Uranus
and Taurus right now is creating upheaval and a lot
of change and things that are infect the unexpected. Much change,
too much change. What's a joke about Taurus? The only
Taurist that likes change is a wet baby. Have you
heard that? Yeah? That's about right. Yeah, yeah. The only

(01:04:41):
thing the only meals I can cook or an air
like an air fryer. That's about it. But I can't
wash anything, so it's a problem. You can't. I can't
really prepare any real food because you need to sink
usually to do that and that kind of stuff. Anyway, Andrew,
we'll leave it there. Thank you Virgo and service on Twitter. Yes,
and take good caravans get energy your way, all right.
I appreciate that. And I might have to get another

(01:05:04):
part time radio job somewhere to pay the bills. But
that's a anybody hiring there again, to a night shift
at the sports hub or something like that. I used
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listen live. Ben, I don't know if this is what
you were teasing, but did you guys? Were you guys
bothered at all by the Woo guy? Do you know
what I'm talking about? The original Woo guys in Chicago.
That's the cub guy. Okay, Yeah, Well, my wife was
making a big deal about this while we're watching the game.
It didn't really bother me that much, but I did
hear it. But apparently a lot of people on social
media were very bothered by this. Uh you know, during

(01:05:47):
the Fox broadcast of the Souls Packers, there was someone
near one of the mics on the field who was
saying woo all the time and did it a lot
throughout the game. And then people were reacting on social
media saying, please find the Woo guy and that person up.
It's very annoying. Maybe it was Rick Flair, It might
have been the actual Maybe I didn't really pay it
didn't affect me. My wife, somebody tell that kind of

(01:06:09):
shut up. Yeah, I did not feel the power, the
wrath of the Woo guy. That's r all right. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mallish. So there's something else that
happened which was hilarious. I thought, I laugh where I
saw this at the the Chiefs game. It isn't the
Ben Mallis show. Where company from the Geico Fox Sports
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for a free ray quoes. So the Kansas City Chiefs
had such a wonderful day against the Houston Texans, they
ran out of fireworks. You know how they score firewhere
they shoot fireworks up after they scored touchdowns and all that. Well,

(01:06:53):
they did not anticipate that they would put up fifty
one points in the Divisional round of the NFL postseason.
And the Chiefs, you know all these teams, they typically
shoot off fireworks after each touchdown, but the Chiefs ran
out of explosive ordinance because the team scored so many
points and they did not have enough. They put a

(01:07:14):
message up on the scoreboard to announce the chief fans,
we are sorry to report, but due to your support,
and the Chiefs continually finding the end zone. We have
run out of touchdown fireworks, and that is to direct
all your complaints to your you know, find his fans
first booth whatever something like that, but that they ran

(01:07:37):
out of fire so we know, you know, I mean,
you don't have to have fifty one. You shouldn't have
enough fireworks for fifty one points. That's incompetence by the
Houston Texans to give up fifty one points. You're not
going to see that again probably in the in our lifetime.
Fifty one points in the divisional round. Now, as far
as the social media influencer, this is great. So Anthony Davis,

(01:08:02):
who plausibly is hurting, he's got a bad took us.
He's missed the last couple of Laker games. Where is
his priorities? Is he trying to get back on the
court as soon as he can for the Lakers? Uh No.
He and JaVale McGee were at Lambo Field last night
or tonight depending on how you look at it, to
watch the Green Bay Packers. And I am convinced that

(01:08:25):
Anthony Davis is he's a he's being paid. He was
paid to be there. Now, what is my evidence that
Anthony Davis and the Lakers was paid to be there.
Let's go to the audiotape here. This is a message
that Anthony Davis put out on social media just before
the Packers game, and it certainly would based on my

(01:08:45):
research here indicate that he was given a sideline pass
and some Packers swag to put this out on social media.
I already know it is good fans in the background there.

(01:09:06):
It is. Now. The Lakers play a game Monday night. Now,
I know they have these things called planes that take
off all the time, and so Anthony Davis could certainly
make it to the game on Monday night, and JaVale
McGee is supposed to play in that game Monday night
as well. But they're gonna have to I've been to
that part of the country. I don't think there's a

(01:09:27):
lot of flights taking off late at night. Now, Anthony
Davis might have charted his own commandeered his own private
plane to fly back late, but I don't think the
planes take off. I think you gonna have to drive
down to Milwaukee to take off late. I don't think
they have late flights there in Green Bay. So we'll
see if he gets back to the Lakers play the Cavaliers.
I would say that Anthony Davis is not going to
play in that particular game. I predicted that last week

(01:09:50):
that he wouldn't play in that game. And the native
son of Chicago, Anthony Davis loves the Green Bay Packers,
which is blasphemy. How dare you? Does that mean he's
gonna sign with the Milwaukee Bucks as a free agent
because he isn't That how it works. That's how the
game works, right, Like so and so like so and so,
so they're gonna play with so and so. Anthony Davis

(01:10:11):
loves the Packers. So if you love the Packers, don't
you have to play with the Milwaukee Bucks. You can
form a super team with Janis Adenta Kombo in Milwaukee.
About that, I think it could happen. It also shows
you how little control Frank Vogel has over the Lakers.
That his players, when they have a game the next night,
are traveling to stand on the sidelines when it's what

(01:10:33):
is it thirty degrees in Green Bay and they're standing
on the sidelines watching the game and they're gonna come
back and they're gonna get sick. Shows you how out
of control they function. Junction in laker Land is continuing
load management. It's absolutely embarrassing. You guys, I know you're embarrassed.
You're you're you're laughing in the other room. This embarrassing.
I mean, this is a Laker team is out of control. Here,

(01:10:53):
got a game the next night and you're standing outside
for four hours at lambeau Field. The frozen tonch It's
against the Calves. Wow, Calve's gonna win. Watch out for
those cadavers. The cadavers will rise up. We'll have Mallard
of the third degree. We'll get to that coming up momentarily.
Here's the Insta trivia. Patrick Mahomes of Consa City. He

(01:11:16):
joined Blank as the only players in postseason history to
have four passing touchdowns in a single quarter. Again, Patrick
Mahomes joining Blank as the only players in postseason history
to have four passing touchdowns in a single quarter. That
is the Insta trivia. The answer. Next, be sure to
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(01:11:38):
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joining Blank is the only players in postseason history with
four passing touchdowns in a single quarter. That is the question.
What is the answer. And the guest is coming in here.
Let's see we have Tony Romo guests by the Romo

(01:12:21):
sexual painter. Jayhawk got it right, clearly cheating. Bad job
by you. Emmanuel from Portugal is going with Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Page up, page up, page up, Uncle Rico from Ben
that's his guest. Johnny Q's going Warren Moon. Let's see
page up page up here. I remem where people got

(01:12:43):
this right clearly, you know, not not not doing it properly,
illegally googling Jeffrey and Bubba people like that. Bobby Brady
guest by just Josh Matt Warrior fan a's fan cheater,
Bobby the Brain heating from Rob in Vegas. Robin Minnesota
is going with Browning Nagel. Very popular with people named Rob.
On this show, Cooper Loop was guested by mister nice

(01:13:06):
Guy Elijah Manning from The Real Martin, Burt Jones tossed
out by Ernie the Great Opiner, Vince Ferragamo from Ruben,
Jay Schrader the Raider version of j Schrader La Raider
Version guests by Lamont and see. All right, do you
have an answer, Eddie? Is it Frank Reich? Uh No,

(01:13:29):
The correct answer is Doug Williams. Doug Williams in Super
Bowl twenty two, Hail to the right skids. All right,
let's get on with the show, as they say, it
is time now gets Meller. How about that to the
third degree? This is one big Ben gets grailed and

(01:13:49):
this brought you by Discover Card. We treat you like
you to treat you well. Ben. During the CBS pregame
show on Saturday, Bill Cower was surprised with the news
that's shocking. Yes, that was a surprise, Jimmy Johnson, not
a surprise. Yeah, that's true. He'll be getting inducted into
the Hall of Fame this year. Ben, do you think
Kawer is deserving of the spot. I don't. I don't

(01:14:11):
think anybody's deserving in the Hall of Fame though, so
I'm the wrong person to ask. Hey, Bill kauerle he
had very good teams in Pittsburgh. He won a bunch
of regular season games. But as my memory and my
memory is foggy, but as I recall Cowers teams regularly
underachieved in the postseason. A lot of media and talking
heads using some revisionist history, but I believe Bill Kauer

(01:14:32):
was in six AFC title games. His teams were two
and four in the AFC Championship Game, and he got
to two Super Bowls. His team's one and one. But really,
that one win is tarnished because anybody that's old enough
to have watched that Super Bowl win by Pittsburgh, the
win is tainted by the officiating. They were in the
back pocket of the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Seahawks got hosed

(01:14:54):
in that Super Bowl, so that's a tainted win. It's
kind of like saying the Astros winning the twenty seventeen
World Series his legit when they it'll be gotten gains right.
In the case of the Astros, they cheated with bang
bang and whistles and all that. Well, the Steelers had
the referees on the payroll and beat. The Hall of
Fame is obviously subjective. It's also very political. I think

(01:15:14):
we learned that here is a popularity contest. Bill Kauer
has a lot of very important people that like him.
That gives him clout right. He kept his nose clean.
He's obviously a dummy considering what he said about Bill
O'Brien after the game, praising Bill O'Brien five minutes after
Houston blew a twenty four nothing lead, one of the
great choke jobs in NFL history, and the broadcaster on

(01:15:35):
TV's praising him. He has provided I would say mediocre
commentary on CBS for many many years here and now
he's rewarded for a lifetime of service to football. But no,
I don't put him in the Hall of Fame next.
In an interview over the weekend, Danny Ames told a
local paper that he doesn't feel any urgency to trade
his young assets to get some veteran help. Yeah, Ben,

(01:15:56):
do you think these Celtics are better offstanding? Pat Well?
I don't believe Danny Age. I know Ange doesn't like
to make trades, but I don't believe it. You look
at the Eastern Conference, number one, it is wide open.
Milwaukee's the top dog, but they're a beatable team. You
look at the top teams and they are not invincible
in the East. The Celtics don't have the star power
the Sixers and the Bucks have, but they've got a

(01:16:18):
bunch of really good similar players. And the second Danny Ainge.
You look at the Celtics, you Danny Ainge does not
need to trade for a headline and the Celtics don't
need a core player they I've watched a bunch of
Celtic games this year and their bench is a problem,
problematic here, And if Boston during the regular season, bench
is more important than the playoffs. Typically rotations getting tightened up.

(01:16:41):
But you get a higher seed, you have a more
of an advantage to go further in the playoffs by
winning regular season games. But we're talking about mostly a
minor trade of some secondary draft picks to fortify the roster.
You're not looking at a total demos situation or anything
like that. So Danny would be nuts if he doesn't

(01:17:01):
trade for a backup player. The deadline is coming up here,
in early February. All right, next, now, Derek Rose hasn't
been an All Star since the year that he tore
his eightcl in the playoffs. That was eight seasons ago. Now,
so far this year he's been putting up great numbers
that only twenty five minutes per game? Ben, does he
deserve to be an All Star again? Sure? Why not
put him in the All Star Game? I don't care.

(01:17:22):
The All Star Games unwatchable anyway, I mean, put him in.
It doesn't matter. The NBA All Star Game is a
total fraud. It's a farcical event. It is so bad.
How bad is it? I'll tell you, don't yell. It's
so bad that every year at All Star weekend, I
guarantee we'll do the same thing we do all monologueist
should just get rid of the All Star Game? Or
how to make the All Star Game great again? These

(01:17:42):
things happen. It's sick through. Every year the same thing
pops up. It's a wretched event, right, It's a wretched event.
The players don't care. The final score will be one
ninety two to one hundred eighty nine will be the
final score. Pick whoever you want to win. It will
be Alli it's like an and one game is what
it is. It's like rock Park in real life with

(01:18:02):
NBA players. But the way I look at Derek Rose, Listen,
it's a beauty contest, and he is beautiful in the
eyes of the fans. I think he's fourth in voting
for front court players last I saw the other day
and when the voting totals came out last week, and
so he's popular with the players. And secondly, in a
world where the All Star Game actually mattered, like if
Bud Selick became the commissioner of the NBA and that

(01:18:25):
that decided home court in the NBA Finals, then there's
no way in hell Derek Rose. He had to have
no business being on the All Star Game because the
Pistons are I think. I think they're five losses from
the worst record in the Eastern Conference. And Derek Rose,
he's been fine. Shooting layups, He's shooting about seventy percent,
but on non layups, on jump shots, he's shooting forty percent.

(01:18:46):
So you know, fine, put him in. I don't care,
it doesn't matter. Nobody plays defense. Why not? All right? There?
It is Mallard of the third degree. How did we
do Benny Passes edition. Oh good job, welcome back. But
there it is. You can put it on the board.
I only have lost here in twenty twenty. I am

(01:19:07):
undefeated in the year twenty twenty. Well I just got back.
It's like I'm like the Harlem Globetrotters of this. It's unreal.
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(01:19:28):
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right quote. So the game's on. They go to the
Cansas City Chiefs. They knock out the overrated I don't
even they're overrated. The Houston Texans. Who are they are

(01:20:08):
what we thought they were, the Houston Texans, and they're
done at twenty four nothing lead and give it all
the way, and so the Texans go home the Chiefs
who will move on to take on Tennessee in the
AFC titled game, and you also had in the NFC
the Seattle Seahawks came out and gave up a bunch

(01:20:31):
of points early in the game. Down by eighteen points
at halftime, they came back but did not have enough,
and if you bet on Seattle, you lost by a
half a point. Line was four and a half closed
at four and a half, and it was a two
point conversion by Russell Wilson that was not converted, and
so they the Green Bay Packer betters end up winning
the game by a half a point because of a

(01:20:51):
two point conversion that if it goes the other way,
Seattle wins the game. But Seattle out cream Bay they
will go to play the forty nine Ers. That is
because the forty nine Ers have advanced to the NFC
Championship game. All the excitement, all the promise from the
Vikings win against the Saints turned out to be short lived.
In the game that kicked off the Divisional Aisle. I'll

(01:21:14):
go back to the early television window on Saturday in
the postseason, Minnesota, the Land of ten Thousand Lakes. They
drowned in the Pacific Ocean. Go figure, who knew if
you didn't see the game, maybe you had stuff going on,
you had the Honeydeo list that you had to do
on Saturday. Tevin Comb running he's a running back, one

(01:21:35):
hundred and five yards for Coleman, two touchdowns and the
forty nine ers get a twenty seven to ten win
over the Vikings. Santa Clara only had one hundred and
thirty one passing yards from Jimmy Garoppolo, and they win
the game. They controlled the game with convoys of running backs.
It wasn't just Coleman, it was the gold Rush running attack.

(01:21:57):
While the Niners defense to their will. And so that
Minnesota defense that had played pretty well against New Orleans
and controlled the line of scrimmage, the offensive line that
had held their own, all of that went sideways. All
of that went sideways in this game. So the Niners
they get Aaron Rodgers, they get Green Bay and a

(01:22:17):
regular season rematch, a rematch from the regular season, and
that'll be on Fox next Sunday. This coming Sunday, NFC
Championship game, the winner goes on to Miami. But the
better story. You know where the better story is. It
is in the losing locker room. So let us discuss
the question, what do you make of a very tepid

(01:22:40):
performance by Minnesota? And that's being kind. I've got barn
door Dogs, lunch and band, Barn door Dogs, lunch and band,
and we will connect everything together. Now, First of all,
the Vikings didn't have a partial nuclear reactor meltdown. They

(01:23:02):
had a full Chernobyl experience. In this game, they came
apart it. That seems completely overmatched and outclassed, which is
unexpected considering how they had played. Everything that worked against
New Orleans failed against the forty nine. Is Kirk Cousins
was again back to being the lord of mediocrity. It's unfortunate,

(01:23:25):
but his excuse makers have blamed everyone else. Oh, no
accountability everyone everyone else is to blame. Never the quarterback listen,
Minnesota was upside down, but it starts with Cousins. Doesn't
end with Cousins, but it starts with Cousins. Kirk Cousins
is the CEO of the Vikings. He's the highest paid player.
He's the face of the franchise, YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA,

(01:23:49):
and he was up to wazoo and not in a
good way here. I mean, you make a few more plays,
you make a few more plays early in that game,
and you keep the barn door closed. The forty nine
Ers got out of the barn door and they were
not coming back. Compreenday, Yeah Cousins twenty one of twenty nine,

(01:24:09):
one hundred and seventy two yards, He averaged less than
six yards an attempt, was sacked six times, had a
passer rating of eighty four point three. Now that only
tells you part of the story in the second half,
because the forty nine Ers, they did not put the
game away at halftime, all right. I mean you look

(01:24:30):
at the division around here of the playoffs, and at
halftime it was a fourteen to ten game. It's anybody's
game at halftime. But the Niners put the clamps and
handcuffed that Viking office. Minnesota did not score after a halftime.
And you know, but it should have been even earlier

(01:24:51):
in the game. If the Vikings that had the lead
in the game at the very beginning, You're like, okay,
then the pressures on the forty nine ers there at
home and the kind of makes something happened, and if
they don't make something happen, oh my god, it can't
be the top seed and lose back to back. We
had the Ravens, the top seed who choked in their game.
The Frauds from Baltimore, we'll get to them later. But

(01:25:13):
as far as the Vikings in the forty ends, the Vikings, obviously,
that's what they wanted to do, to come out and
play well early in the game. They didn't play all
that well. Early in the game. He had that one
big offensive play where Cousins hit Stefan Digs was a
forty yard touchdown pass and that was the first scorer
and tied the game up. You're like, okay, we're in business.

(01:25:36):
But that turned out to be the big highlight and
the only highlight really for the Vikings offense in this game.
And mentioned this on social media, but I believe it.
Cousins in the second half, now he was eleven of
seventeen for ninety one yards and a passer rating of
fifty three point seven after a halftime wowsers. He needed

(01:26:00):
day Joe Flacco circa twenty twelve out of body playoff run.
Unfortunately for the Vikings, his Cinderella magic carriage turned back
into a pumpkin. After one game. The clock struck midnight,
unlike Flacco, whose clock struck midnight right after he signed
that big extension with Baltimore and then he was stealing

(01:26:21):
money and bezling money from the franchise for the next
couple of years. Now. Secondly, the forty Niners came out
like a blood thirsty piranha, smelling that fresh Viking blood
in the water there, and they pounced down Minnesota's defensive line,
which was dominant we all saw it against New Orleans,

(01:26:42):
was pushed around by Santa Clara in this game. That
that allowed the Niners to control the game in the
second half. It was a day at the beach in
the summer, not during the winner, you know, being the
winner for the team from the Bay area. There. Some
Viking apologists are claiming, and this really guy out of
my skin here. Some Viking apologists are claiming it's because

(01:27:05):
they were too tired from having to play the week
before while their opponent rested. Can I get on my soapbox?
I would like to get in my bully pulpit here
for a second. This is a lame excuse. I hear
this every single year. In fact, my friend Arnie Spaniard
bought some of us. They should get rid of the
bye weeks. Everyone should play Shut up. This drives me

(01:27:28):
up the wall. This drives me up the wall. This
hole it's too hard. Now it's used to justify a
team being curb stomped in the playoffs. Now, Chris Collinsworth,
he went on, it's so hard, it's so hard. It
was ridiculous. He went on that rant in the third quarter.
It made me want to puke listening to this nonsense.

(01:27:52):
And I have no sympathy for the Vikings. They played
like a dog's lunch. They did had nothing to do
with having to play the week before. They played a
terrible game. The Holy Trinity, the Father of the Son,
the Holy Spirit, could not have helped the Minnesota Vikings
the way they performed in this game. But what really
drove me nuts is the fact that this argument, oh,

(01:28:13):
it's so hard. The Ravens were in the same situation
they had at They were at home right coming off
to buy. They went out there and dropped a deuce
right at the midfield logo and the Tennessee Titans who
had to play the Patriots, right, Patriots the week before.
Then they had to come back and play the number
one seed Baltimore. Why didn't they fall apartment right they

(01:28:37):
played the week before? Why didn't the Tennessee Titans implode
in that game? The reason this is something we talk
about these things all the time here. It is something
that is used to explain a win or explain a loss.
Had the forty nine ers lost, we would have heard
similar malarkey. I said, well, let's be you know, it's

(01:28:58):
because they were rusty. In fact, we heard the Ravens
game there were people saying that after the game. I've
read some of that stuff about how John Harball resting
his players in week seventeen and then they had to
buy and it's his fault. It's the same gibberish that
gets repackaged every year, right listen. I would rather play

(01:29:20):
an object in motion stays in motion. I would rather
play week in and week out and go through the
same cadence rather than all of a sudden, have a
nice vacation and all that now final fun. So the
Vikings are going to have to make some decisions here.
It sounds like they're gonna make changes. Obviously, the offensive

(01:29:41):
coordinator has gone to the Vikings, and it sounds like
they're getting rid of their defensive coordinator. But what else
are they gonna make wholesale changes to the roster? Now,
the smart money says no, the status quo as far
as the roster is gonna win out and they'll keep
the core of the band together. And now when I
say the b and I'm talking about the lead singer,

(01:30:04):
Kirk Cousin, that he's got one more year guaranteed money,
so he'll stick around. And Mike Zimmer, who writes all
the music, he will be there back in the saddle again.
But they'll have a new defensive coordinat a new offensive coordinator,
and they've really got a tighten down, batten down the
hatchets defensively and would would help to improve the offense,

(01:30:27):
although Cousins offensive line, I mean, the offensive line was
better this year, but Cousins has these brain farts, and
I don't. You could have Anthony Munio's, Jackie Slater and
all your other favorite offensive lineman upfront historically, and he
would still be a deer in the headlights on a
regular basis, so improve the ross. I mean the division.

(01:30:49):
Chicago is likely gonna stink again next year because they
got Rubisky unless they move on from Drubisky. So you've
got that. The Lions continue to spin the wheel and
they go nowhere. It's it's like mister Toad's wild ride.
You've got that going on. The Packers will I think
the Packers were that great this They won thirteen games

(01:31:09):
and didn't looked that great to me. They seemed very beatable.
So that's the division for the Vikings, and obviously these
teams will make changes in the offseason this year. From
from Mike Zimmer typically ain't no nonsense guy. The Viking coaches.
What he had to say about the Vikings being pushed
around like little children by the forty nine defense, it's
a cliche, but I think, you know, they played very well.

(01:31:33):
I thought they got off blocks well. I thought they
did a nice shot of disrupting the passing game as well,
and so um, you know, I think that that all
those entered into it. So the season came to an
end for Minnesota. They go home now, and it's a
time to look at a retrospective at the Viking season.
Mike Zimmer, What do you have to say for this version,

(01:31:54):
this vintage of the Minnesota Vikings. It's hard to just
hard the whole entirety the season. You know, there's so
many ups and downs for out of it, throughout the
course of it. And I know that I'm proud of
this football team in the way they competed and worked
and did all the things that they had to do
throughout the course of this year. It's unfortunate we didn't
play better today. So you know, I don't know, you know,

(01:32:17):
it's it's not a good day to reminisce. How come
all football coaches say the same, They all, I'm very
proud of my team. This is not the day to
say you're proud of your team they lost. This is
not the day said all right. Here's Kirk Cousins, the
man of the hour. He played like a touchdown Jesus
last week and then came back and I played like

(01:32:38):
the devil. Here is Kirk Cousins commenting on how much
he appreciates everyone, even you. I believe strongly in our organization,
our coaches, our players, our locker room, and today we
fell short. There will be you know, thirty one teams
that'll feel that way, and you know that going in
when you strap it up in April and get going again.
Today we had to face that reality. But I do

(01:33:01):
love our team and love playing with him all year.
I love my team. That's my teeth. I love my tea. Yeah,
I would point out that if I had another thirty
one million dollars coming my way, I would also love
my team. I would love every player, their wives, their girlfriends,
their mistresses, their kids, they're illegitimate kids, everyone. I would

(01:33:23):
love all of them. Everyone. I would love for thirty
one million dollars, fully guarantee, fully guarantee, it's good, good one.
It's Unfortunately, Cousins, he's missed out on that five hundred
thousand dollars bonus to win the Super Bowl. He missed
out on that top five points scored plus a super
Bowl win. He would have made a million dollars. Top

(01:33:45):
three points scored plus super Bowl win one point five million,
top eight points scored plus super Bowl MVP. He would
have made an extra two million. But he doesn't get
any of that because the Vikings are not going to Miami.
All right, spend Malors show on Fox to the phones
we go and we say hello to Brown is in Boston. Hello, Brown, Hey,

(01:34:08):
how you doing up? Man? What you got Brown? Hey? Hey, Ben?
I want to get back to Anthony David's real quick, right. Yeah,
that's like, Uh, Levian Bell was so sick with the
sniffles that they told him to take the day off
and he's out bawling till one thirty in the morning.
And uh, it's a bad look for the It's embarrassing
for the Lakers and Anthony Davis. The man's supposed to

(01:34:30):
be very injured. He needs rehab around the clock, twenty
four hours a day, and instead he's outside in frozen Wisconsin.
It's embarrassing for the entire franchise. And Jerry Buss is
turning over in his grave yet again. Yeah, nothing's gonna happen.
But getting back to Bill Kolla, right, Uh uh, Mike

(01:34:52):
Tomlin has like twenty five wins to catch him for,
like matching him for the total wins, And uh, Bill,
I was thinking, you know, after he left the NFL,
I'm thinking, didn't he didn't he coach college and I'm
thinking he coached Pitt But it was Dave Wombstat, who
I don't think you've ever seen Bill Coller and Dave

(01:35:13):
Womstat in the same room at the same time. They
use a similar like mustache product, They have the same,
very similar facial hair. They might be related somehow. I
don't know. I'd think that their their DNA. I don't know. Hey,
you know what you talk about current cousins, right, it
was with Washington. I've never seen the guy that has

(01:35:35):
won so little makes so much money. He's probably made
double what Brady's made to his career than what's Brady's made.
And uh, well, you know, brown man, you've been around
the block. You know. They pay on what they think
you're gonna do, not what you actually do. Right. They
don't pay you for past results. They pay you for
what you they think they project you're going to do.

(01:35:58):
And it is a subjective thing. The most of what
you want to get a lot of money in sports.
I've determined this years ago. You need somebody to say
you have great potential and that's all it takes, and
then somebody will throw bags of money at youvenna make
it rain like you're at the club, right right, So, Hey,
I was just gonna say, like I thought, Bill O'Brien,

(01:36:18):
my buddy called me and said, hey, the Texans are
up twenty one and nothing and you got brave bows.
So they always say nobody from the three a Belichick
has won anything, So I'm thinking maybe you got two
of them is gonna go Super Bowl. Then Bill O'Brien
spits the bet and uh forgets how to coach, and
then uh, yeah, I gave up the game. But you

(01:36:40):
were guarantee you would have You would have been guaranteed
of having a Belichick disciple in the Super Bowl if
only the Texans hadn't decided to not show up after
the first quarter. But yeah, right, you got a great show.
I think the Titans are gonna be tough a Kansas
city if King Henry can pull up running for another
one hundred and ninety all right, all right, thank you,

(01:37:02):
all right, buddy is the great Brown representing. How don't
you're talking his name's brown? Wrong with that racist fine name.
I didn't name him his parents' name. I don't even
know if that's his name. All right? In good right,
Since says bravo, Ben the vikings, should he says, should

(01:37:25):
be feeling nice and torched perfectly stated monologue on the
Total Beatdown the Niners served up in the weak display.
That was Kirk Cousins. Yeah, that was bad, bad, bad bad.
You know what's not good? Well, there's a lot of
things that are not good, including this is great. What

(01:37:45):
did you expect him to say? What did you expect
him to say? We'll get to that and we will
do it next. It's what's the brook of the Seattle Seahawks.
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(01:38:27):
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Ben Maller. Later this hour we will have the instant AdviceLine.
We'll get to that. And what did you expect him

(01:38:49):
to say? We have that as well. Coming up momentarily
to the Hollywood Jedi, who's next on Fox? Hello, Hollywood Jedide,
I wanted to sponsor you to be an Instagram button model.
I think that would be amazing. Well, I have a
beautiful looking dairy air and I have considered it. There's

(01:39:10):
a lot more money and being an influencer on Instagram
and overnight talk radio, so you never know it might happen.
Also to me, the tallest three years shows. Oh, that's right,
you were in here, Hollywood Jedi. We had you any here,
wanted about the whole crew of Misfit. That's right. You
hung out with us. You were schmoozing with us for
a while there. You brought us some food as ever

(01:39:31):
called right. You're very kind at bat. Have you finally
recovered from your your bitter illness? I have yes. Oh
that's good seeing all four of you in the same room. Yeah,
it's a low blood. That's offensive. I'm offended by Eddie

(01:39:52):
Hot takes out Mike McCarthy and my cowboys. What's that?
What do you think about McCarthy and the Cowboys. I'm
not excited. I'm not I'm not excited. Yeah, I think
it's gonna end up going to be traded. Let's put
it this way. The Green Bay Packers are a win
away from the super Bowl, and Mike McCarthy had nothing
to do with it. So, I mean, how great a

(01:40:14):
coach was he? I think anybody could coach the Packers?
How about that? Yeah? I was Aaron Rodgers, who hate itself? Really,
you hate Aaron Rodgers more than are you related to him?
Because I think his parents might feel that when in Chicago,
you're born to hate the Packers and anybody who plays
for them a right to tell that to Anthony Davis.
He loves the Packers. He was a fanboy. And the

(01:40:35):
sidelines they're going crazy for the Packers there, that's true. Yeah,
all right, thank you? All right, I was amazing. That
was not really a hot take. It was more like
a mild take. But thank you. You're a Hollywood jed.
Let's go to Dre, who's sleepless in Seattle. Hello, Dre, Man,

(01:40:57):
I'm so disappointed I missed you, man. I didn't know
what was going on. I know, I wore. I wore
a hat that night we were out. I wore the
hat that you you gave me a website where I
found that particular hat that I was wearing. I was gonna,
I was gonna regale you with praise, but you did
not show up. It's a bad job by you. I know,
I know a bad job if if it's good and everything, yeah,

(01:41:18):
it's it's great. Yeah. I didn't wear it for the
march though. I only I wore that. I wore a
different hat for them, the special hats that they got us.
So yeah, okay, hey, Ben, I got two things. Number one,
UM watching Uh we we are Chicago fans Bear fans.
We called it the Ryan Pace Bowl today. UM one

(01:41:39):
of those Houston versus Kansas City because Deshaun Watson was playing,
UM Pat Mahomes, which both the Bears passed on both
of those guys for Mitch. As some people say in Chicago, Trubinsky,
but it's Trubisky. Yeah. But well, in fairness, now, Dre
Trubisky did very well. He's playing some video games he had.

(01:41:59):
I think he did very well. I was a call
of duty, he was planning. Did very well in that game.
So he had to get the yes. So it's not
all bad. Not all bad. That's good constellation. But here's
another thing. That article popped up on my news feed. Bears, Uh,
Brady will grant the Chicago Bears an interview, and I

(01:42:20):
almost first of all, after you know, almost vomitating. I
had to catch myself and then I just thought this
was the most ridiculous thing. And some Bears fans are
excited about it. Then I need you to, uh, first
of all, explain to people that how ridiculous this is
and how bad it would be. Yeah, well, here's the

(01:42:41):
way I answer. First of all, listen, Brady's wonderful and
all that BS, but he's done, He's done skis, and
he would be good for the marketing. You'd sell a
lot of Bears merchandise. I assume a lot of people
that are casual fans that don't pay that close attention
would want to have a Tom Brady Chicago Bears jersey.
I did see Glazer though, Jay Glazier did not think

(01:43:03):
that this was a legitimate possibility. But but yeah, I mean, Brady,
what I've seen the last year and a half, the
Patriots ought to find somebody else to play quarterback, and
Brady ought to go live in Brazil with Giselle and
have a wonderful life. I have no knowledge of anything.
He's trying to do a cash he's trying to get
a cash grab, and it's going to see he's probably

(01:43:25):
looking for maybe fifty to sixty million dollars. Although you
gotta understand, you gotta understand, though, I mean, these things
are all written to get reaction. This is the silly
season of the NFL, and you've got to look out.
You're a smart guy, Dree. You got to look out
for weasel words and weasel weasel terms right when you
when you say the headline I saw was Tom Brady's

(01:43:47):
willing to listen if the Chicago Bears call, Well, I'll listen.
If somebody's willing to offer me a job and I
don't have a job, he'd probably listened to anybody that
calls him up. Doesn't mean he's going to agree to
play with him, or that it's gonna work out. You know,
if you're unemployed, which Brady technically is unemployed, and somebody
calls and offers you a job, you're gonna be receptive

(01:44:09):
to those people. That's right, Hey, One more thing being
before I go. I got an impression, all right, um, Indy,
air everywhere, emmulating lies. I don't know. Sometimes it's just
Robby driving down the road and in the you know,
in the bathroom or something. I just come to my mind,

(01:44:30):
you know, flatter that I'm immulating, emulating a lot, emanating.
It's emanating. It's emanating, emanatingmating in the air everywhere, emanating
a lot. Doesn't that feel good? D Doesn't that feel
good to say that? Right? That cleanses your soul, doesn't it? Drey?
You feel good feeling, you feel empowered. You feel empowered

(01:44:53):
when you hear that? Right? All right? Take I mean
that guy's head, see that day guys dropping a dose.
He's thinking about the show. He's repeating my line. Flattered,
I am flattered means a lot. What did you expect

(01:45:17):
him to say? We'll get to that. We have the
instead viceline a little bit later in the hour, but
right now, over to Eddie we go to find out
everything that's going on because Eddie is willing to listen. Well,
I don't know how in the world you would have
missed this, but you never know, Ben, People are busy
things happen in life. I don't know if you know this, Eddie.
People don't pay us close attention. Is we're supposed to
pay attention because we kind of get paid to pay attention.

(01:45:39):
But a lot of people, you know, Yeah, but the
NFL is pretty popular, and I'm guessing everybody, and you
don't watch every second of every game. You go out,
there's people out living their live, shopping, doing whatever they
got to do. They got stuff on the weekends today.
If you may have missed it, we're here for you.
The NFL divisional playoffs wrapping up on Sunday. In the
late game, we had the Packers holding off a late
charge from the Seahawks to get a twenty eight twenty
three victory. Green Bay led my quarterback Aaron Rodgers. He

(01:46:01):
had a pair of touchdown passes to wide receiver Davante
Adams and running back Aaron Jones also scored twice on
the ground. Packers won nine straight at home over Seattle,
and that win gets Damn a trip to San Francisco
to face the forty nine Ers in the NFC title
game next Sunday. We also had the Chiefs at home
with an epic comeback against the Texans and they post
a fifty one thirty one victory. They're down twenty four

(01:46:22):
nothing at home, then scored forty one straight points. He
had seven straight possessions with a touchdown. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes
had five touchdowns. That's the equivalent of getting like the
first ten questions right on an exam and then every
other question the rest of the exam wrong. Yeah, and
these there's like fifty question yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, get
off at a ten another start, and then here's forty

(01:46:42):
you get wrong. It's not bums. Yeah, So Kansas City
will get another home game. They will be hosting the
Tennessee Titans in the AFC title game. That'll be there,
gonna go to game Sunday. You're gonna go to that game? No,
I'm not gonna go to that game. Fingers there in
Kansas City. You should definitely be going then. And they've
got food named after you again. Stay at Bob Fesco's
house the morning. Gay there. So he asked me to

(01:47:03):
follow him on Twitter, and I did. I did. Yeah,
that's my friend. Don't be following my friends, he asked, Really, Yeah,
that's up with that man. You have to ask him
when it looks like the final head coaches see in
the NFL is going to be filled at the Cleveland
Browns reportedly gonna name Minnesota Vikings offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski

(01:47:23):
as their next head coach. Online car shopping can be confusing,
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coach Pat Schremer. He's fanito. He's done well as a

(01:47:45):
head coach, yes that's probably true, but not as an
assistant coach. He's the new offensive coordinator apparently of the
Denver Broncos. And they've got a young quarterback there and
Drew Locke. They hope that Shermer can mentor and turn
into a reliable starting quarterback. And let's talk football, not drama.
He has been a pretty good assistant coach. Not a
good head coach, but pretty good assistant coach was in

(01:48:06):
Minnesota twenty seven. Definition of pretty good. I think the
offense performs above average at least when that guy has
been your offensive coordinator. All right, title game. Last time
he oversaw an offense that was in the top ten
was twenty fourteen, so a few years back. I think
only twice in his career he's had a top five offense.

(01:48:26):
It's not that good, is it? Top five or top ten?
And out of top ten twice in his career. We'll see.
I think it's a pretty good higher. We'll see what
what Coop thinks about it. Maybe don't you have to
have whoa players? Lights just went off? We just had
our lights turn off. All the TV's have gone blake. Eddy, Yeah,
it's Paul through Guy Steady. It's kind of a oh

(01:48:50):
you're blinking on it. Now. Here's the ultimate question. They
don't fix the sign, they don't fix the computers. Will
they fix the power? That's Are we on generator power?
Generator power? We have general? We're still on the air here,
U can you hear us? Are we still on the Hello?
Is this thing on? Hello? I hear you. I don't
know if anyone else does. No, Okay, well we'll move
on it. Wow. And I was really getting into that

(01:49:12):
TV show I was watching. I don't know what. We've
got new storms going on out so maybe hit us.
Somebody hit a pole. I don't know who knows. It
could be crazy or you got you and Cooper in
the back room and hit the wrong button. Brabs. I
know not me, man, I have plausible to liability. I mean,
I'm right here. I've watched away. I was talking to you.
I did go in there earlier. What do you think
waiting in two hours? And then all of a sudden

(01:49:33):
this happened. You started some sort of countdown. Now we
have to turn on each TV individually. How's this work here?
I'm not sure how this. Uh. Coope's very he's very
interested in getting those TV back on. I was working
on that right now. All right, are still working? People
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All right, spem Malors show on Fox, and what did
you expect him to say? That? Shaun Watson was asked
about Bill O'Brien. Now, I've already fired Bill O'Brien. Do
you think Deshaun Watson a criticized Bill O'Brien for his

(01:50:36):
shady coaching in the Texas lost to the Chiefs. Do
you think he criticized him? B said no comment or
se defended him? Well, the answer is Deshaun Watson defended
Bill O'Brien. Now what do you expect him to say? Right?

(01:50:58):
Watson running like a knight in shining armor to the
defense of the beleaguered and battered head coach of the
Texans said you might have doubt, but there's no doubt.
He said, I love that man. I'm gonna play hard
for that man. Y'all can say whatever you all want.

(01:51:18):
I like I said, y'all, that's a good Southern thing.
That's that's a Southern dialect, right, y'all? Well, no, in
the South, they say, y'all right, isn't that am I wrong? Racist?
Or negative? Anyway y'all want to say through all the
media and all the writing, but as long as I'm
at quarterback, he's cool with me. Close quote. Okay, then

(01:51:42):
let's go to San Antonio and Manuel in San Antonio
is next. Hello Manuel, Then how are you doing? I'm
good other than the fact that the power just went
off in the building. But I guess we're still working here.
So you still got that cultivation their training. You got
to tell Cook to look to work on that, you know. Yeah,

(01:52:03):
there's definitely something going on, and everything shut off, everything
went dark for a second. We're back anyway. What's going on, Manual?
What you got? Man? Well, I I wanted to know
if you if you, I'm pretty sure you saw the game.
But if you remember that park where when JJ Watts
was going after after my Home and he leaped at

(01:52:25):
him but he never touched him. But then afterwards he
had to go back to the line. He didn't go
back to the huddle. He just sat on the line
waiting for the for my Home to come back with
his team, you know. But he was there puffing and puffing,
and he looked like, and the cameras got on him,
looked like he was gonna have a heart attack right
there on the on the Warrior fifty yards. Now, that

(01:52:47):
would have been a story manual if right there. But
that was that was the problem with with the Texans. Yeah,
it wasn't. It wasn't h O'Brien or whatever. Maybe he
should have gone after his defensive coordinator, but the defense
just let it all go. They just they just couldn't

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keep up. Well, they're they're saying, they're saying that Romeo Cornell.
If they always say this right after the fact, we'll
see if commerheads prevailed that Coronell is going to be
back next season. But yeah, I don't know how many
snaps JJ Watt played, but he did not show up
in terms. He had no tackles. JJ Watt no no
assisted tackles, he didn't have any combined tackles. He had

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no sacks in the game. The only thing he showed
up at was he had one pass defended. That's it.
Other than that, you had as much production as J. J.
Watt Manuel And they got rid of a clowney over
there to the Seahawks. But he JJ Watts over there
and brought a clowney. You can't trade J. J. Watty's

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the chosen one. Come on that he gave a lot
of money to charity. So that means you've got a
lifetime contract. Yeah, is that you could go? He did? No. Yeah,
haven't always hurt. I don't even't play very much anyway, Manual,
Thank you, buddy, appreciate that Manual. The Texans fan checking
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the championship games in the NFL are set. We now
know the final four teams in the NFL. The early
game will feature the Tennessee Titans against the Kansas City

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Chiefs on Championship Sunday. The Chiefs opened a seven point favorite.
They're seven and a half now in that game, and
the forty nine Ers a six point favorite at the
start when the line was posted. The gambling market has
bumped that up and the forty nine Ers now a
seven point favorite against the Packers. But we must look

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back before we look ahead. The most perfect team in
the NFL, a defense that was swarming, that had come together,
was swagger and bravadoal tremendous amounts of confidence, the ability
to run the ball down your throat in MVP at quarterback,

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a roster loaded with talented, vivacious players, playmakers everywhere you look,
a super Bowl winning head coach, and none of that
mattered for Baltimore this weekend. None of it as the Ravens.
If you saw the game, you know what I'm talking about,
Tennessee flexing its muscles and did they didn't just squeak

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past Baltimore. This was not a by the skin on
their chinny chin chin situation. This was a molly whopping,
is what it was. And what a plot twist for
the Lamar Jackson marching in Chowder society that had celebrated
Lamar Jackson's gonna win the MVP Award and put up
all kinds of gaudy numbers during the regular season, and

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then what happened? Where was Lamar Well? So why you
put up all these numbers? Well, if you watched the game,
you know he didn't play very well at all. So
the question is this, Now we know Tennessee's moving on,
but the better story is in the losing side of things,
the losing locker room. So the question is is Lamar
Jackson just a regular season quarterback? And the answer is yes, Yes,

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The answer is yes, Lamar Jackson is a regular season quarterback.
Tell me I'm wrong. We've got punched. Charlie Brown and
Deja Vaux lock all this stuff together. Now, Number one,
it is obviously that's right. Number one. It is a
very small sample size, but it's all we have to

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work with here, and that is the reality that we're
in until proven otherwise. He said, two swings at the
pinata and he's over two. This is a tag that
Lamar Jackson has earned. If the shoe fits, wear it.
If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. That's what
Johnny Cochrane taught me back back in the day. But

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it goes with the territory. Lamar Jackson unstoppable during the
regular season and then presto, he vanishes the best laid
plans of mice men and quarterbacks or football teams in
this case goal oh right. This is a classic example

(02:04:14):
of everybody has a plan until they get punched in
the mouth. Lamar Jackson had been cruising along and other
than the Cleveland Browns game, there was really nothing that
went haywire for the Baltimore Ravens. Well, Lamar got punched
in the face by Tennessee and he did not have

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the answer. It is a stunning juxtaposition from the regular season,
but this happened the first go round for Lamar Jackson
the playoffs against the Chargers. It's eerily similar, although he
was better statistically in this game, put up a lot
of empty stats. We'll get to that in a minute. Now.

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The second thing here, the Lamar Jackson hype train. Joe
was steaming around the mountain. Here we go, steaming around
the mountain. Here we go. There was a giant boulder
that came tumbling down avalanche right on top of Lamar Jackson.

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He was dabbling with the Book of legends. But you
don't join the Book of Legends when you don't perform
in the playoffs. To perform in the win in the playoffs.
We like winners. I want winners. I want players that
can win. I want winners. I want people that want

(02:05:38):
to win. Him right, and Lamar Jackson, I know he
wants to win, but he didn't play like a winning
quarterback in this particular game. Now, I know a lot
of the ex jocks, the talking heads regaled him with
overwhelming praise. There really was no weakness during the regular
season for Lamar, and I God knows, hand to god,

(02:05:58):
I tried to find him. I was looking for weaknesses,
and I thought we did a pretty good job of
talking about what Tennessee had to do in the game.
We talked about that at the end of last week.
But everyone had been putty in Lamar Jackson's hands, and
then all of a sudden in the playoffs, he becomes

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Charlie Brown trying to kick a football only to have
Lucy cruelly pull the ball away at the last second,
and that would be the Tennessee Tites. Now, if you're
just a box score reader and a stat horror, then
you will think Lamar Jackson had a fine game. You
will think that I'm crazy, that this guy on the
radios moron, because look at the numbers. Look at the numbers.

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The dumb person said, well, Lamar had three hundred and
sixty five yards passing, he had one hundred and forty
three yards in the ground. And box score readers will
huff and puff about that. Now, they say, because of
the sacks, he lost twenty yards. So he didn't finish
with five hundred eight yards, with four hundred and eighty
eight yards, which is the second most ever in a

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playoff game. You know who as the record, Tom Brady
against the Eagles a couple of years ago. Patriots lost
that game, but Lamar Jackson, yet again, is the king
of garbage time. You talk about enhancing your statistical line
when the game is out of hand. And he looked
like Russell Westbrook circa Oklahoma City or James Harden with

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the roquets of the current Rockets. Lamar Jackson passed for
one hundred and forty six yards. He ran for sixty
seven more in the fourth quarter, talking about just the
fourth quarter alone. The game was over with about five
minutes left in the third quarter, Tennessee had wrapped it up.

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It was over, and it was reminiscent of Lamar's performance
last season against the Chargers in the playoffs, when he
had one hundred in sixty nine yards passing in two
touchdowns in garbage time. Lamar Jackson last year in the playoffs,
you know what, his passer rating was at halftime zero.

(02:08:11):
His passer rating going to the fourth quarter was two
point seven against the Chargers. So yeah, he's not a
playoff performer. He's not. Cannot win with him, cannot coach
with him, can't do it all right, final points. So
we are going to pat ourselves on the back and
take a bow because we nailed it. We don't always

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nail it, but we nail it. We talked to in
the previous episode about how to slow down Lamar Jackson,
and we said, is he easy, unstoppable? How do you
stop him? Mike Rabel carefully listen to that podcast, that monologue,
and he crafted his game plan around what we said.
It's a good job by him, all right. We went

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point by point Tennessee, checked all the boxes. Right. They
hitched their wagon to Derrick Henry. They rode off into
the sunset. They jumped out to an early lead and
making the Ravens play uphill and the Ravens not so
good when they have to play up hill, and Ryan

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Tannehill was mostly a decoy. I mean, it continued. He's
a win away from being a Super Bowl quarterback and
he's along for the ride. He's got a window seat,
not even an aisle seat. He's got a window seat. Hell,
he might have a middle seat watching what's going on
right now. And the Titans used a carbon copy of

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the Buffalo Bills defensive plan. Now, the Bills did not
beat Baltimore, but they contain Lamar Jackson. The Buffalo lost
that game in the regular season because of systemic and
competence by Josh Fan Allen, but Lamar Jackson's emotional support
Dogs are the tight ends. We talked about it in

(02:09:58):
that previous monologue. You take away the tight ends or
limit to damage the tight ends can do. Suddenly he
is a stoppable quarterback and few have been able to
do it. The Titans for most of that game did
a fine job. It is the kryptonite, the only known
kryptonite of Lamar j Actually we mentioned he's a slop

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ball pitcher. He does not have a fastball. When he
has to throw to the outside of the wide receivers,
it becomes problematic. It is is kryptonite. And sure enough,
you know this situation happened. You would have to think
that this is gonna have some carry over. It is
a day ja vu situation. Remember when Bill Belichick solved

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the Sean McVay offense and the Super Bowl and everyone
was like, oh, Belichick has the cheat code on how
to stop the Rams offense under Sean McVay. Well, turn
out the Rams were not nearly as good this season
as they were the season they got to the Super Bowl.
So in many way, Bill Belichick did indeed lay the ground. Look,

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I would argue that Matt Patricia, also the Lions coach.
Here in the regular season to help that as well.
But either way, Belichick figured out McVeigh the Rams were
not nearly as good this year. Does the same thing
happen to Baltimore? Do we have deja vous two point
zero where Lamar Jackson the Ravens come tumbling back down

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and he becomes a meddling quarterback for Baltimore. Inquiring minds
would like to know. Now, John Harball also got cute,
and he had been cute all year going forward on
fourth down, being very adventurous as a coach, say, it
didn't quite work out when the game was in the

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balance for Baltimore, and they might want to fire that
punk nose stat geek, the analytical guy that they had
on the payroll there in Baltimore. What was the status
they had it on the broadcast? I think during the
regular season the Ravens were eight for eight or something

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like that on fourth down. They had four fourth down
attempts against the Tennessee Titans. How many of those do
they convert? None? They were over four over for four. Now,
the Ravens did win the stat sheet, and I think

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you get an extra chocolate chip cookie when you win
the statue, so they got an extra chocolate chip cookie,
which is good. They had more first downs than the Titans,
they had two hundred and thirty more yards, but it
was not if you watched the game, it was not
a very efficient performance. All right, it is the Ben
Mathers Show. Let's hear from some of the participates. Here,

(02:12:53):
John Harbaugh, let's hear what he had to say and
the question. We talked about this in a previous monologue.
Vikings apologists are blaming the off week and giving the
forty nine ers an advantage, but now some are saying
on the other side, for Baltimore, it was a disadvantage
to not play. Here's John Harball addressing that. It's unanswerable.

(02:13:16):
I thought our guys practiced really hard and did the
best they could, but we didn't play a shark football
game for sure, which attribute that too. I guess you
can theorize on a lot of different things. Yeah, well,
it depends what fits your narrative. Right. If you like
the Ravens, you'll say, well, it's it's unfortunate they had
the boy week. I wish they had played. If you
don't like the Ravens and say, well, it's show up,

(02:13:37):
I mean, the reality is that you know, if you
if the Ravens had won the game, then the people
from Tennessee would have said it's unfair, whatever the outcome.
Here's John Harbaugh who said that he truly thought that
the Ravens thought. It's belief. He believed in his Ravens.
I felt like this team was the best football team

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that it could be. This odds, you know, with the
with the group that we had, I thought we made
the most of of us becoming the best football team
it could be. We just weren't that today, and that's
the disappointing thing. Yeah, well, let's call it like it
is here. I mean, we we are adults who are
all grown ups. Here. The definition of paper Tiger is

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the Baltimore Ravens. It doesn't matter. You're not judged by
what you do during the regular season. You're ultimately judged
by what you do in the postseason. And for all
the Bravada, all the Shenanigans, all the antics of the Ravens,
you know, trashing the Patriots, the tackling ability and what
which I'm fine with, I don't mind. I find that intriguing.

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But when you go out there and lose the way
that Baltimore lost that game. Well, all of a sudden,
you know, and it's open season. Everyone gets a swing.
Here is more on the Ravens. John Harbaugh talking about
Lamar Jackson. What I talked about Lamar and will this linger?

(02:15:07):
You know, I won't have to say much too him.
We'll talk, I'm sure tomorrow, and we'll see where where
that conversation goes, just from people talking. But I know
how he's gonna respond. You know, he's gonna he's gonna
respond by being extremely motivated and determined to improve. But
you don't know that to be true. Maybe maybe he'll
go into a ball of emotion all of a sudden,

(02:15:28):
a class house of emotion, and he'll never be the same.
This could be the end of Lamar Jackson. This could
be the final moment of Lamar Jackson's relevant career as
a quarterback. He might never recover from this. This could
be it. He might have to retire and see therapy.
He might made therapy all r Yeah, let's here from

(02:15:49):
the man of the hour, Lamar Jackson. It turned out
to be a fraud in the playoffs. Here's Lamar who's
not willing to give that Tennessee Titans any credit, you know, yeah,
a lot of Well I had a lot of mistakes.
Might we have three turnovers that shouldn't happen, but you
know they came out of play. You know, we just
started off slow. He's got to do better next time.
But moving forward, get rid of for the all season.

(02:16:12):
He didn't give it infinition. Yeah, I think the term
is imposter. The Ravens played like imposters in this game.
But now Tennessee they did a marvelous job. Mike Rabel
and the Tennessee Titans, Henry running the football, and they
they took it. They took it to the Ravens. And
then Lamar Jackson. It's a different style of football in

(02:16:33):
the playoffs, and he was a hot mess with the interceptions,
a pair of interceptions and the loss to fumble, three turnovers.
He's a one man wrecking crew, and he's a one
man wrecking crew for the Ravens. Here's more from Lamar Jackson,
who apparently doesn't care what I say, or what you say,

(02:16:53):
or what the person over there says, or the person
over there or the person over there in the back,
not only to kill about what they said. You know,
this is my second year in the league, many people
don't be able to make it to the playoffs. I
got a great team with me. We don't really hear
about what the people saying. We're just gonna keep going.
I got said, get me afinition. Yeah, this is one
of the great This is reminiscent. He's gonna win the

(02:17:14):
MVP Award. It's going to be fascinating because they are
a total joke, the Ravens. The way they performed and
all the all the muster that they had, all the bravado,
like I said, and then they go out there and
put a zero up as far as the win total
in the playoffs. An embarrassment of disgraceful performance by the
Baltimore Ravens. A right, what do you think about all that?

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Jack writes, and he says, could not have said it
better myself. Ben, Your annalysis of the Ravens were spot on.
I felt the exact same way. Well, I'm glad he
agrees with me. Thank you, Jack. About the Rams after

(02:18:59):
last year, I feel like Baltimore is looking at an
eight and eight season ahead of them with no playoffs. Playoffs, Well,
you look at the division. What Cleveland's got. Stefanski is
at his name, the new coach there, so they'll be
set up there, probably gonna win twelve games next year.
The Steelers have the aging relic Ben Roethlisberger maybe coming back.

(02:19:21):
It sounds like he's gonna come back for another year.
So you've got that in the division. Then you always
have the very difficult Cincinnati Bungles, who are going to
have the number one pick in the draft and will
likely pick the quarterback who we will see tonight in
the National Championship Game of collegiate football from LSU, assuming

(02:19:44):
they win out they lose, maybe maybe he's not the
number one who. Maybe they make a change there, a
last minute change either way. I guarantee you once the
playoffs are over and all that we get closer to
the NFL Draft, everyone's got their big board, whatever the
opening big board is, there'll be some changes along the
way for drama. And right now Joe Burrow is the

(02:20:05):
number one pick, but maybe there'll be a rumor that
they want the Ohio State guy Chase Young because they
he's so good he's worth the number one pick over
a quarterback or to a tongue of Iloa impresses in
the work at all those all those up and that
it's like shoots and ladders, up and up and down,
up and down, up and down, up and down. That's
how I wish we've got a record setting offer. We'll

(02:20:27):
get to that coming up in a couple of minutes.
Let's go to weed Man, hippie, who's in Miami. Hello,
weed Man, there, I'm what I used to live at
the convention Center as in Miami Beach. I know that then.
I don't even have to I know the whole area.

(02:20:47):
What are you? What are you getting at? What do
you what? Do you want to be our man on
the street. You want to be our man on the street.
You are on the streets where it was, where it
was here last time I met everybody? I met all
Peterson h and Peterson was there and you look as
young I feel a year was But this is like

(02:21:09):
here where I live. We know he wasn't We know
he wasn't playing in the game if he was. No, no, no, everybody.
It's a big party for the one percenters. They all
hang out. It's so great. I was I was at
a party over the weekend and and pretty much everyone
at this party was going to the super Bowl, and

(02:21:30):
they were all, I'll see you in Miami. I'm like, no,
you won't. You won't see me in Miami. You will
not see me there With Fox? What's up with Fox
sending everybody else for you? That's all I mean, they
make decisions whatever. I don't care. I'm fine. I'm fine
with it. I mean, i'd rather go, I'd be better

(02:21:50):
with going, but I'm fine with not going. I'd never go.
I'm used to not going. Well, can you get me
into the Fox? It's all about you. Yes, I'm gonna
have you and Joe Bucks sitting side by side. Would
that be all right? How about that? How about fourth
Man and we'll have Joe Buck, Troy Akren, Mike Pereira,
and weed Man Hippie. I'm sure Fox will sign off
on that. Yes, then I'm really good at this. You

(02:22:14):
don't know what would you add to the broadcast if
you were doing the game with Joe Buck? How would
you handle the touchdown? Oh Patch? With my homes is
like Mike Rison, no no black shorts, black shoes, no socks,
and not you our you know, we mean all of

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your references are from the nineteen eighties. All of your
reference I'm sixteen. I don't say we man for the
purpose of the show. Can you say you're thirty? You
say you act like you're thirteen, so you might as well,
you know, say you're like thirty. You know, ken, you

(02:22:56):
know you back to the begging. You already begged me
on Twitter, nitwit. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports
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I had to run out to the parking lot, went in, Really,

(02:23:16):
my car, you're going to get some burgers or something?
I wish. I noticed that there is a Mercedes Benz
parked in our parking lot. Oh is Steve Harvey here?
I don't think so, because, yeah, on the side of
the door of this car is black Mercedes Benz. I
think it's a magnet and it's a it's a sign
advertising a guy's religious radio show. Really yeah, and he's

(02:23:44):
doing this show from upstairs the Premiere Network studio. Maybe so,
But I don't know. Is that something you would be
interested in to promote the Ben Mallor show. Big picture
your face and the side of your car driving around.
I'm embarrassed by the show. I would not do that.
I would not promote the show that way at all happen. Yeah,

(02:24:06):
usually the only shows that are broadcasting at this time
are our show and George Norri does this show out
of here. But I don't I think is this show over?
I think he's a live version of the show is
over now, So keep it a look on your way out,
all right, Well, if it's still there, I'll check it out. Yeah,
I thought you were gonna tell me. By the way, Ben,
on the way back, I saw someone smash your window

(02:24:27):
and they okay, that'll add to the list. I did
not notice that. Think he was distracted by the sign
of this guy's face on his Did you take a
picture of it? I was going to you should. I
know you're about You're gonna be leaving here in a minute.
You can take a look at I don't know. I
mean I'll be leaving in half an hour. I mean,
I don't know about that, but I'm sure there might
be all right, Bett Madlers show, We're coming even the

(02:24:48):
Geig Fox Sports Radio Studios, fifteen minutes could save you
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hoping for a blizzard in Kansas City for the AFC
Championship game, I looked at the forecast and no, no, no, no,

(02:25:09):
no no. Although it's gonna be cold, it's always cold
this time of the year. But the forecast at Arrowhead
Stadium give me about thirty two degrees or so at kickoff.
Of course, subject to change, but that's the forecast. I
don't think we'll get a blizzard in northern California. But
if you want the Titans to win, you're gonna need

(02:25:30):
some really inclement weather where mahomes can't throw the ball
and Tennessee has a distinct advantage. How great are the
spinning of the stats? Ryan Tannehill is now a win
away from getting to the Super Bowl with the Tennessee Titans.
But if you go inside the numbers, Ryan Tannehill in

(02:25:51):
the playoffs against the Patriots and Ravens has attempted a
total of twenty nine passes in two games complete did
fifteen of them. He's fifteen of twenty nine passing three touchdowns,
one interception, has passer rating in the playoffs, he's eighty
eight point two. He's essentially the same quarterback he was

(02:26:14):
with the Miami Dolphins, but yet because he's got a
better defense than a running game and he's a decoy.
Then Tannehill has the team from Tennessee and he didn't
have them. He's along for the ride, but they're in
position to go to the super Bowl. How about that.
Let's go to Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel, so good

(02:26:38):
to have Coop is back. Good morning, said yes Eddie,
Karen's husband, not wife. We're Bertel too good to see you.
Huh hey, it's a new dawn, it's a new days
a week? Is it a new tablet? Though it is?
Oh good, Mala militia. Let's intruet starting with our foot

(02:27:02):
picks for the morning. All right, food picks, let's see here.
I'm gonna go waiting two weeks for this. You missed
a tremendous week of radio. I'm gonna go oodles for
noodles Eddie. Well, Ben, as you know, I'm the reigning
champion of the food. I'm gonna go with French fries.

(02:27:23):
French fries, okay, yummy, what about you? Roberto. Let's play food.
We're playing food picks. Calm down, we're playing the food picks.
I'm gonna say Chef Boyard, Jeff Boyard is the whole
lineup of Chef Boyard products. What about you. I'm gonna

(02:27:45):
say that Marcel had a pepita crusted chicken in a
Chipotle Demi glaze with honey roasted Brussels sprouts. Oh my,
oh my, Okay, Marcel, go ahead, reveal answers, Marissa, we're
playing the Marcell food game. Let's play food pick doing it, Marcel.

(02:28:08):
For my food picks from last night, it will be
shop Wright Fried Chicken was so fried chicken right, shop
right anyways, not just Kennedy Fried Chicken here or nationwide,
but it was the shop Wright Fried Chicken. Don and
Mike gave it to us. My dad eats Dad when

(02:28:30):
you say, if you go they have the other the
grocery store, they have the fried chicken the little booth there.
But if you go there late. Yeah, if you go
there late, it's discounted, so you get it, you get
it for a little less. And my dad eats that
all the time. Love, Yeah, you're eating. My dad's diet
is what you're doing. Yeah, fascinating dead who was ejected? It?

(02:28:51):
And now I got to say this for two college
football teams who will be crowned Tonight's Tiger of the
Stop number three Clemson or number one LSU. Well, they're
actually both Tigers of the South. I don't know if
you know this, they're both. It's twenty twenty college football
National Playoff Championship. I'm going to rudy with Clemson. Anything

(02:29:14):
else you're playing for, Clemton, LSU is gonna win the game. Joe,
Joe Burrow, Coachoe, the Fred Flintstone of Cajun. They're gonna
win the game. I know you're trying to suck up
to the people of South Carolina, but it's not gonna work.
By the way, Marcella, would you like to add a
Kansas City radio show to your Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

(02:29:38):
six ten Sports, the only station that matters. The home,
the home of the Royals and the home of the Chiefs,
in the home of our show. Yeah, home of the Royals,
the Chiefs, the Wildcats, and the Jayhawks. Marcel I know, people,
I could make that happen for you. Marcella. I know
the big Morning guy. Call their number if I can.
And he's fascinated with you. He wants I think he's interesting.

(02:30:00):
I think he's a big Marcel fan. Bob truly. Yeah,
I know Nick, And that's our winners. The Seahawks eliminated
from the Packers, speaking of one Packer team themselves. Yeah,
My player of the night for Monday, January thirteenth goes
to here we go Corni Leonard. Wow, no, no, no, no, no,

(02:30:28):
that's not it. But Aaron Rodgers now, thank you, Eddie.
Now it is time to say hello to my new
fire seventh tablet from Amazon. Hello tablet. My uncle donom

(02:30:50):
I told me not to gonna break it. If I
go to break it, or not to break it. Oh so,
Karem's gonna kick your ass up. So here here's the thing. Listen, Marcel,
I would like I would be honored if your first tweet,
because everyone's wondered why you've had silence on social media,
I would be honored if your first tweet is something
about our show. Oh yeah, do you remember your password

(02:31:13):
on Twitter? Do you remember what your password is? M
I will go to my Twitter page at Martha Mark
seventy and I'll go to log in. All right, all right,
I gotta go right there. Thank you. I was thinking
there was about a twenty percent chance he was going
to give out his password on the year. That's what
I was looking for. My uncle he is married to.

(02:31:37):
It's all very confusing. Let's go to Dick in Dayton. Hello, Dick,
you got a new coach, Dick Bernie Kozars the new
coach of the Browns. Oh really, I knew they were
in the candidate Josh McDaniels. But Stefanski came, huh, yeah, yeah,
you're excited about Kevin Stefanski. Does that do anything for you?

(02:31:58):
The ten Times don't know anything about him, but they
can't do any worse. Yeah. It was a tenth coach
since nineteen ninety nine for the Browns. The very impressive.
I think it's ten or eleven? Uh? Is it eleven? Now?
I don't know. I lost track. I'm not good at
Matthew name is Dave and he's known as Dave. Yeah,
but this guy's apparently a real nerd. He's good at analytics.

(02:32:21):
That's why they hired him. Because Paul de Podesta is
a nerd and he wanted to hire another Nerd, so
he got a Nerd as your football coach. Yeah. I'm
rooting tonight then for how Les you because I want
to see the Bengals get Joe Burrow. Yeah. Well it
doesn't matter whether or not LSU wins Joe Burrow. The

(02:32:43):
Mengals can get whoever they want, Dick, They've got the
number one pick. Yeah, so you're saying, you're saying Joe Burrow.
There you okay, I'm going Joe Burrow. Are you gonna
watch the game today? Yeah? Well yeah after works? Well,
what time do you get off work tonight, Dick? I'm
offends and Tuesday. Oh that's right. Well you got you
have band practice, the Cattering band. The Banjo Society is

(02:33:06):
going on there. Yeah. I wanted to tell you something too.
Was all right seven under WLW. You know Gary Jeff
Walker I talked to every Saturday morning historic radio station. Yes,
and I send a tape, you know, the CD. It's
Saturday Morning Bill. I send the CD of the Banjoe

(02:33:28):
Society and he played it on the air. Yeah. Well,
Dick and dat and I want you to know that
you've sent us a mail here. If you send us
we will put that as our bumper music. We will
use that in our rotation of music as we come
back from commercial breaking on that, not that we go anywhere. Okay,

(02:33:48):
so send us if you send us, you gotta let
us know you're sending it. We'll get it out of
the mail. We'll put it in our system and we'll
have the Cattering Banjo Society. We'll play some of your music. Ohner,
and I know you love WFW, but we're on like
almost four hundred radio stations here and we're on all
over the place, so you are are all right? I
gotta go bye bye bye bye. All right, there it

(02:34:10):
goes Dick and Dayton. We will have coach player entertainer
will get to that and also the record setting offer
and we will do it next. Be sure to catch
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(02:34:32):
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Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. So a record setting offer
and who is that? Well, that would be Tone Knee
row Mo and poored it over the weekend here that

(02:34:54):
ESPN is gonna make an offer that will blow the
socks off Tony Romo. He will become the If he
signs the contract, he will become the highest paid sportscaster
in American television history. Tony Romo will be number one.
It's said to be a multi year offer that would
pay him anywhere from ten to fourteen million dollars per

(02:35:20):
year to call NFL games, the Monday Night Football television
package and the TV contracts, some of them are being
renegotiated as we speak right now. In the belief is
that the ABC Disney people are going to spend a
bunch of Buco bucks to try to get more NFL product,

(02:35:41):
And so that is it, Tony Romo. How do you
not take it now that we talked about the rumor
last week that Romo would rather do the Monday Night
package because he plans on playing more golf and if
he ever qualifies for a tournament, he would have to
play on Sunday. And you know they don't don't play
the golf tournaments on Monday, unless you know, occasionally, if

(02:36:03):
a you know, a certain tournament they don't have lights,
they have to continue on Monday. But that would allow
Tony Romo to play golf. He can have his cake
and eat it too, and then call Monday. And I
was very upset with Romo. Though I'm a Romo sexual,
but Romo did not do a good job in this

(02:36:23):
in this particular game. No, I mean it was. It
was upsetting to me. And I'll tell you why because
Tony Romo. Uh, he was a walking, talking cliche machine.
You're better than that, right. What happened to picking every
play before it happens and telling you what's going to
happen before it happens. Get back to that, all right.

(02:36:45):
I Meanwhile, speaking of television and big offers going around,
there's another report that Drew Brees has received multiple, multiple
offers to broadcast NFL games on telling you. Now, we
also addressed this. There have been some rumors going around.
We talked about this a little bit last week. The

(02:37:06):
way Drew Brees has finished the last two years, the
last four games. I think. I was asked about this
in Mallard of the third Degree last week by one
of our you know, spin the wheel producers, and my
response was that Drew Brees, the way he's played, you
got to consider the TV contract. You gotta consider these
offers because you know you'd rather get out a year

(02:37:28):
or two soon than a year or too late. And
the way Drew Brees has played, it has been the
last four games of the last two years, he has
fallen off the cliff. He's a twelve game quarterback, but
you got to play more than twelve games. You don't
get just twelve games. All right? Anyway, Lee from Seattle right,
since says Ben, I need to take my Seahawks poop

(02:37:50):
sandwich medicine and take the pain. My Jaeger fueled analysis
is the Seahawks defense should have taken away ride receiver
to Adams running back Jones and dare Aaron Rodgers too
and hang nail Jimmy Graham to beat the Seahawks. Well, Lee, listen,

(02:38:11):
I mean, you're very kind. You bought me a yeager
shot in the Seattle visit there. It was very nice
of you. I gotta tell you, everyone loved the yeager
shots wink Wick not not, but that's great. I like
the after the fact analysis. Is that also brought to
you by Discover card? We treat you like you treat you?

(02:38:32):
Is that all? That's a bonus, Robertos, what that is?
It's a little bonus for it, all right? Anyway, Robin
Vegas is tired of Marcel. He says, it's grown stale.
Move on, don't do the Marcel bet anymore. We don't
like it. Let's see here, Painter Jayhawk mildly exciting. It

(02:38:53):
sounds like I'm reading this. I'm not gonna read the
whole thing, but it sounds like he's mildly exciting that
decided that Marcel might end up on on a morning show.
But yeah, I'm trying to expand the Marcel brand. I
figure if I get him enough of these local morning shows,
maybe he won't called us as often. Right, maybe Marcel
will move on. And you don't think so anything. I

(02:39:13):
don't think so. He's just he loves us so much
that yea Malaysia. I think he has time and his
busy schedule to squeeze us in. Yeah, he's definitely got
a lot of a lot of free time for Marcell

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