September 13, 2025 • 50 mins
Big Ben talks about the Bills come-from-behind victory over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday Night Football, Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears starting off strong and then choking away the lead against JJ McCarthy and the Vikings, Maller's Mountain of Money: Eazy-E Edition, and more!
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So we'll get that up at some point.
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But our lead to begin the festivities here we start
with the Sunday night game and all what a Sunday
night game it was from Western New York. I don't
know if you were tuned in. Supposed to be a
big matchup made for TV. Couple of AFC heavyweights here,
the Bills and the Race going at it, scoring up
the first Sunday night Island game. You know, we love
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our island games. Let's they suck and then we don't
talk about it. But this was a game worthy of conversation.
So I don't know if you're watching it or not.
So the Bills are not as fun to me early
in the year when the weather's okay to watch a
Bills game in Orchard Park, like it's got to be
nasty weather. When the weather's not that bad. It's like,
who cares, It's just not as compelling. But the weather
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was fine, and the Bills taking on the Ravens squaring up,
and that was the matchup. And if you did not
watch it, you were burned out on football. You missed
a doozy. You missed a doozy. So Josh Allen putting
the team on his back. There he leads the Buffalo
football team for three scores, not one, not two, but
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three scores in the final four minutes, and it was
capped off by a thirty two yard field goal by
vagabond kicker Matt Prater, who they made a big deal
about the fact that he just joined the team.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That's what kickers do. They're not real players. They just
changed teams all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Anyway, Matt Prater gifed a thirty two yard chip shot
field goal as time expired. Turn out the last the
parties over see you later, that's it, goodbye, And so
the Bills rally from fifteen points down, fifteen points down,
and they clipped the wings of the once proud Ravens
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say bye bye, see you later, alligator there as the
Ravens go down forty one to forty in the season opener,
a thriller, and somebody do a wellness check on Chris Collinsworth.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I think he might have had an orgasm in the
fourth quarter. He was so excited. Oh my god, he
was exit. Put your pants up, Chris. It's okay, It's
all right, pal.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Anyway, so Buffalo somehow scores what turned out to be
sixteen points in the final three fifty six of the
football game, and it was capped off, as we said,
by the kick by Matt Prater. There but May three
hundred and ninety four totally ourds for Josh Allen and
the Bills offense, click a lick and couple of touchdown throws,
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a couple of touchdowns on the ground for Josh Allen
as the past, couple of MVPs in the NFL getting
together there and guys.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That are in the shadow.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Let's face it, these guys aren't as good as Patrick Mahomes,
but you know they're fun to watch each other play
one on one. There only they could do something against
the Chiefs in the playoffs, it would be different.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The better story is in the losing locker room. We
talk about losers. We love losers. We live for the losers.
That's where the story is. Especially the Ravens, like the
losers are just more compelling to talk about.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They're just better talk radio.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Losers always more compelling than winners one hundred percent of
the time. There the tragedy is more important than the
triumph in a sporting context, and the heartbreak the common
denominator the heartbreak for a great story. And there's a
lot of finger pointing, a lot of finger pointing going
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on on the Baltimore side of things, as it's not
very often that you are that incompetent, it considered a
good team, and you play like El Poopo down the
stretch of that game. So let us discuss the question
did the Bills win this game? Outright? Did they take
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the game? Or was this in case where the Ravens
lost the game. And so I've got vending Machine, President Biden,
and Global Tour and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some Buffalo wings,
which were invented in Buffalo. The chicken wing. Yeah yeah,
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chickens didn't have wings before a restaurant in.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Buffalo, the Anchor Bar. That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The chicken did not have wings until the anchor bar
in Buffalo started serving them. And that's true. I've been
to the anchor bar before that. Chickens did not have
wings all right, So let us discuss the first thought
here is that this was less It was less about
Josh Allen riding in on a white horse with a
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cape on to save the day. Josh Allen is here
to save the day. No, this it's about Baltimore lighting
their own house on fire and getting a full, all
inclusive trip on the vomit commet they flat's absolutely right,
they did ride the vomit comment. This was such a
bad performance. When the game was over, the raven fiends
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were calling billboard lawyers. You know those billboard lawyers who
hurt you and will fight for you. Well, they were
contacting those lawyers I know who hurt me. Number twenty
two in your program, but number zero in clutch time.
That would be the running back for the Ravens. Dereck
Henry again, number twenty in your program, but number zero
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when it matters most there for the Ravens. At the
end of this game, Lord hen Lord Henry Gibmeth, and
Lord Henry Taketh away in this game here one hundred
and sixty nine yards and a couple of touchdowns, and
then that monstrosity at the end of the game there
three ten or so on the clock and.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Bug on the rug.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The bug on the rug, all right, And that Sunday
night game the Grinch on Christmas Eve. That was Derrick Henry.
It'll fumble on the ground there. And so he wanted
a snack. Derrick Henry's like, hey, it's Sunday night. I
want to have a nice little snack. So he went
to the vending machine and he ended up finding the
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vending machine of Doom, and he went up there. He
put a dollar into the vending machine of Doom, and
he wanted.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
A snickers bar.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
He thought that would be a nice snack at dice
delicious Snickers bar, And so he punched in the number
on the vending machine of Doom, and for some reason
it spit out a butterfinger, and that's what he did.
He'd say, you know, I got a butter finger, so
I'm gonna give a butterfinger performance there.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Boom ball on the ground. That's it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It was a three to zh six when the play stopped.
Three oh six to go on the clock in that game,
Bug on the rug and Ravens recover. And that's the
thing you can't do at the moment. You can't do
it for the Ravens. And the Ravens, make no mistake,
they had this game in the bag. The game was
in the bag. And it bothers me because obviously we
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know what happened to Bill's won the game, and so
what ends up happening now is like anytime a team
is down by a couple of scores, the cliche and
broadcasting at Sportscasters College is, well, let's keep talking about
remember that Bill's Ravens game. Yeah, this will not happen
again this season.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
This is the one, the one off for the entire
season that a team chokes as badly and as pathetically
as the Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Ravens bid in this game. And then that is a
flat out choke job by the Ravens. There.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Derrick Henry was the if you look around here, all
the Ravens had to do. I mentioned games in the back.
All the Ravens had to do was stroll down the
monopoly board and pass go, collect two hundred dollars and
a nice victory and.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Call it a night.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That's it, go back to Baltimore and hang out with
sports with Coleman.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But what do they do there?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
No, Instead, they landed on go directly to jail, Go
right to jail, Do not pass, go, do not collect
squat you get nothing. And Dereck Henry, the prison warden
there handing, handing them the orange jumpsuit, saying, here you go, boys.
It's a nice, big juicy L right there, nice big,
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delicious L.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And so now there will be some. It's not his fault.
He put up great numbers.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But okay, these are bad people. These are evil people.
The people that believe that they're fantasy nerd. There, losers,
we need it. It's like a disease. We need to
cut the disease out people that believe that because listen.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Forget the snut sheet. I'm not playing fantasy football all right,
forget the game plan, forget all that other stuff. Here.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
This was about the E word execution, and they failed.
Most games are lost, not one. Most games are lost,
not one. This is a great example. This is a
humiliation situation, is what it was. I mean, the Ravens fans,
they got served, and they got served some bad open
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mic poetry is what they got, roses are red, violets
are blue, and I can hold on to a football
better than number twenty two.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, wow, tell me I'm wrong. No, that was pretty bad. Listen.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
This was not somehow Buffalo going Rocky Balboa. I don't
want to hear that. I'm sure that's already been written somewhere,
but that's not my position on this. This was ball
more face planting, like the iconic George Costanza back in
the day running out of the kid's birthday party fire drill,
just about having a melt down there and the bills there. Essentially,
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this win is like, hey, I found a twenty dollar bill.
I found a nice twenty dollar bill blowing down the street,
and yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You know you take it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, maybe you go out and buy some food with it,
and you haven't. I don't think you can buy a
full lunch with that anymore twenty dollars. But you put
the money down, you buy a little food, and that's it.
But you didn't earn it. You know, you found it,
you didn't necessarily earn it, per se. And so the
w does go to Buffalo, congratulations on that, and the
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scar tissue goes to the Baltimore football team and l
butterfinger wrapper to Derek Henry. Let's hear from the head
coach of the Ravens one, John Harbaugh. John, your team
just rode the vomit comet. What do you have to
say for yourself, Coach Harbaugh?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Or just pointing, We're just gonna have to regroup and
get ready to go play a long season. We've got
sixteen games in front of us, good football team, tough environment. Obviously,
we did many good things, but we didn't play well
at the end. Two big situations. The fourth down play,
I mean, that's kind of a play that you don't
really expect to happen. I mean, it was pretty pretty
lucky play, but they made it between the scrambles. Josh
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Allen played a great game obviously, especially at the end
on the fourth quarter to make those plays. Scrambled plays,
extended extended completions and then a couple of big pass plays.
So that's it. We're disappointed, but we'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Play like that, you might not have sixteen more games
to play. Holy crap, all right now? Aside from Derrick
Henry and his putting the bug on the rug and
that that's a trend around the NFL. I think there's
a certain Houston Texans player we can thank for that
as well. Anyway, aside from Derrick Henry, who else ends
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up who else ends up eating a piece of the
Baltimore Blame crabcakes. Henry's clearly got half the crabcake. He's
got like the majority of the crab cakes and all
that stuff. But you gotta hand Lamar Jackson a fork.
You gotta hand Lamar Jackson the fork. Lamar gets a
doggy bag as well. Oh he's a former MVP.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
What are you talking about? You didn't watch the game?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Ban a shut up Lamar Jackson as guilty as anybody
of taking his foot off the gas as well. That's
John Harbaugh's strategy to just let up in the fourth
quarter of the game was over and all that. They
let up on the gas too soon. Though, they let
up on the gas too soon. That's the issue here.
For three quarters, the Ravens as a team, they were
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a well filtered Instagram booty model. I mean, they had
a lot going on looking good, right, and then in
the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
That's when it all went to hell. Right. The Henry
fumble was.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Brutal, but they roll around there and Lamar Jackson did
he finish the game properly? Let's see here, let's go,
let's go to the eyeball test and the stats. The
eyeball test said no. The stats say no as well.
He put on cruise control like he was driving Miss
Daisy in the fourth quarter there, and turns out that
bit him. Fifteen yards passing in the fourth quarter for
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Lamar Jackson and a fifty nine passer rating. It was
kind of like he was playing Madden but demo mode.
It was like the demo mode on Madden. He ever
done that?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, it's not good, and he just kind of gave
the controller back now.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I Meanwhile, Josh Allen in the fourth quarter was doing
the electric boogaloo. He was doing the electric slide there
for the Ravens right into the end zone. And let's
also not not forget here, since we're playing the blame game,
let's not forget the Baltimore defense. Let's not take them
off the hook here. The Baltimore defense was ooey gooey
and then went kabbouie. They just went kub blue, kub blue,
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kab louie. At the end of that game, they gave
up two hundred and sixty four yards and twenty two
points in the fourth quarter. Tell me you saw defense
without telling me the second events, and then they spend
a bunch of money on defensive players, improving the secondary
in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Wasn't I told that? Where was that?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I guess they'll play well against the Cleveland Browns. Though
they'll do very well against the Cleveland Browns. That's good, Okay,
So they'll play well against them.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That's good. Right against the.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Bills, not so much. That was not defense that the
team from Baltimore play. That was an open borders policy
is what that was. And somewhere former President Biden is
very proud of the way the Buffalo Bills approached that,
and the Ravens defensively approached that because it was like,
come on, fellas, come on in here, take the end zone,
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take yourselves, make yourselves at home, settle right in. The
Ravens opening the door here, no resistance at all, borderless
end zone for the Baltimore Ravens. Tremendous here, and the
secondary wide open. Kind of like when you get to
Costco if you get there early before the rush on
a Saturday and there's Costco samples and if you get
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there early enough before the rush boom, you're in as
many samples.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
As you want.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Some way to go, man, And we heard the soundway
from John Harball, the Ravens head coach.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Here he was just standing there.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It appeared based on my television I was watching the game,
and what I saw was John Harbaugh standing there. He
had his headset and like a guy, he was trying
to return something like a TV or something that was broken.
He's getting no answers from the desk. And that was it.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And so there you go.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And there'll be people said, well, you just don't you
don't know ball, but Lamar Jackson had a great stat
line and all that, just like Derrick Henry. And of
course my response is always whoopee, damn doo. That's my
response on that. And games generally are decided in the
fourth quarter. That game should not have been decided in
the fourth quarter. You have a fifteen point lead, you
should be very comfortable. They were not very comfortable in
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that position. You should have been very comfortable there in
that position. So down the stretch it was a game
we call crazy eights, or in this case crazy eight,
as Derrick Henry. Yeah, Derek Henry holding he was already
holding the scarlet letter card. And then Lamar he drew
another eight and the defense for the Ravens they were
playing and they struck with the draw. Four game over
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is what they had there. So hand, everyone at the table,
everyone gets a crab cake and they all stink. And
we talk about absolutely setting the tone, and they set
the tone.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
They all blew it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Henry Lamar, Henry the most Lamar, and that defense defense
could have picked up the slack that was, who's at
your dinner table right there eating crabcakes? The blame crabcakes
now quick right, all right, last word here, So how
encouraging we'll go to the winners locker room. How encouraging
is this performance and victory for Josh Allen and the
Buffalo football team. A team that's been lurking around in
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contender status, but a faux contender. They find new and
creative ways to choke in big games. So this is
not a big game. It's a regular season game. And
how big could it be? It's I mean, we're sitting
here talking in September. The season will go all the
way through end of December, and then January, the playoffs
in February, the Super Bowl and all that. So how encouraging.
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This is the daily double. It is the daily double.
Here you get the one to oh record for the Bills.
Check that box. So you're one and oher and you
have more importantly, the game in hand, the head to head,
assuming that the Ravens don't completely fall off the map
this year, you have the hand in hand with the
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Ravens AFC bragging rights if it comes down to Buffalo
and Baltimore at the end of the year. And Buffalo,
to their credit, played until the final whistle, unlike.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
The Ravens who had the lead and gave up.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And that is a gutless performance at the end of
that game by the Baltimore evens, the Bills to their credit,
did not play like that. They went right until the end.
But I would not get too excited though, if I'm
a Buffalo Bill fin based on this win, because you
were getting your ask for the vast majority of that game,
and a fluky thing does not change the fact that
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for the balance of that game you could not match
up with the Baltimore Ravens offensively. The Ravens lost this
game because of more self inflicted wounds. It wasn't anything
the Buffalo Bills did, It was what the Ravens did
to cost themselves this game. Baltimore had been manhandling, absolutely
manhandling the Bills dollar general defense. In this game, Ravens
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scored on seven of the first eight possessions, seven of
them including not one, not two, three to nine, four,
but five touchdowns. So Buffalo's defense ready to go on
a global tour as a matador. Holy holy, yeah, bullfighting baby.
In this case, they actually won though. Ravens averaged eight
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point six yards per play and lost.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
How do you do that?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They averaged nine point two yards per pass, eight point
two yards per run and still lost the game. Now,
in a positive note, the Bills have some time to
work out their defensive frailties. They have the hostess schedule
coming up. They play the Jets, that's pretty much a
guaranteed win. They play the Dolphins, and then they also
play the Saints. Those last two games at home, two
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of what figure to be the worst teams in the
NFL this year, the Dolphins and the Saints. That's Cupcake City.
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should be. So our lead this hour to begin the night.
We start out from sweet home Chicago, right there, the
shores of Lake Michigan. Iconic, Soldier Field, so iconic the
Bears can't wait to leave there and go to a
new stadium out in the suburbs. But for now they're
still playing at Soldier Field. They'll be there for a
couple more years until they build that new shiny taj
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Mahall Stadium and then gouge people to go to the stadium.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
That's the way businesses done in the NFL anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So Soldier Field, that was the stage right there, with
the skyline of Chicago on one side, and then you
had the lake on the other.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Lake Michigan.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
There and the final act of the opening weekend the
NFL twenty twenty five season, Vikings and Bears and NFC
North slaber knocker, slaber knocker. Now, this was an island game.
You know, we love our island games. We love island games.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
So if you were watching, you likely know what happens.
It happened. If not, maybe if we were watching, you
might not have paid attention.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
This game is over. Perhaps you missed it, but don't worry.
We watched so you would not have to. In a
very shaky beginning, there, very wobbly, wobbly beginning for JJ McCarthy,
the red shirt rookie, red shirt rookie JJ McCarthy, who
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then in the fourth quarter went bonkers. He had not
one but two fourth quarter touchdown passes, ran for another
score in his long awaited NFL debut, the former first
round draft pick. The Vikings snapped out of the doldrums
dreadful performance and they end up getting and when you
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only remember the outcome, you won't remember how bad the
game was from the Minnesota side of things for three quarters.
But they end up winning it on a big push
twenty seven to twenty four.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Over the Bears.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
So that's good for the Vikings for our purposes, though,
the better story is.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
In the losing locker room.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
So that is where we are going to go, Sweet
home Chicago Bear football right there. Holy crap. So the
debut of Ben Johnson as the Chicago Bears head coach,
the big money coach who's spent time as the Lions
offensive coordinator and that's where he built his legacy, and
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so many teams wanted Ben Johnson to be the coach
and here's his opportunity in Chicago, and he inherited the
former number one overall in Caleb Who Caleb Williams, who
is bounced all over the place in college and now
in the NFL. Looks like he should be bouncing somewhere
else the way he played in this game. So with
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the better story being in the losing locker room, let
us discuss the question for the esteem panel, how did
you grade Ben Johnson's debut as a coach in the
Windy City. So I've got utility, Bill, the coasters, and hearse,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
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we're going to make the Baba Ganooshe. We're gonna make
it early. We're gonna make the Baba Ganooshe here early on.
So my first thought here as we connect all these
things together, my first thought is, and I wrote this down,
how do you grade Ben Johnson on the MAL report card?
How do you create his debut as coach of the Bears?
Ben Johnson? The MAL report card? I wrote down. I
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didn't write down an A. I wrote down, s O B. Now,
not what you think, not what you I wrote down,
same old Bears. That's what I wrote you probably thought
it meant something else. Same old Bears. That's that's right.
They dominated for three quarters. We're really dominated for two
quarters defensively part of a third. The big interception there.
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They did control. The tempo was a low scoring game.
Minnesota could not get out of their own way. And
yet when it was time to finish, the opponent off
the kill shot and put them six feet under. What
happened not good. Chicago decided to slide into their snuggie.
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The Bears there and they went into hibernation mode, and
it burned them.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
It burned them.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Proof that there is no such thing as momentum. The
Bears had all the momentum them, should have won the game.
Minnesota at no momentum. Why would the Bears give up momentum?
It makes no sense because it's not real, you dummies.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Anyway, So the.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Chicago Bears hired Ben Johnson, who is on the pulse
of He's at the forefront of modern offensive NFL football.
That was the selling point of Ben Johnson, right, slick agent,
the whole thing. And so there we go. Instead of
the next gen, which is all the nerd rage, the
next gen and all that, this was the dormant Bears,
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and it was a Bear jamboree, a country Bear jamboree.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Here.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Every time they had a chance, and there were multiple
opportunities to deliver the knockout punch and just end the game,
they tapped out, I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Cannot do it, not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Instead, they landed, They landed some little jabs they couldn't
land the haymaker, could not land the haymaker, and Ben
Johnson's team pulling punches which you generally don't want to see. Listen,
I have no skin in the game, and I'm not
a Bears fan or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
But the power went out and they forgot to pay
their utility bill, and then they needed it most. They're
late in the game, just make one or two plays
who win the game, and they had nothing, so they
forgot to pay the utility bill. There at Soldier Field,
the power went out.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And this is not just a loss, mind you, this
is two losses for the Chicago Bears, because not only
lose at home, but you lose a divisional game in
what figures to be a pretty close nip and tuck division.
So now you've really lost two games at home and
in the division for the Bears.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
That's a double gut punch, is what that is. And
this is supposed to be the new Bears, right, the
new Bears, all that crap that we read and heard about.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Oh it's gonna be different now, Oh yeah, it's gonna
be different. Okay, So the job was to protect home
field advantage soldier field. Instead, you hand the w to
the Vikings. Because as much as we're going to rip
the offense for the Chicago Bears, the defense also what
happened there to the Chicago Bears defense. I guess Dennis
(29:13):
Allen's back to being a moron after you were really
just kissing his ass on the TV brought to you,
Oh Dennis Allen's defense and all that stuff for three
quarters and then in the fourth.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Not so much. Now as for the inevitable, what are
you doing? It's it's only one game. Why do you
have all these strong opinions after one game? You know
that crowd spoiler alert, spoil Guess what? Guess what? It's
a daily talk show. I am.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I asked to give my opinion as things unfold. They
don't ask me to wait to the end of the year.
I've told management. I said, listen, why don't you just
pay me a lot of money. I'll have no opinions.
I'll be boring. There's a lot of people that do
this that are very boring, don't know a strong opinion.
And I'll just do that and then just give me
like a big bag of money. In the end, I'll
never get an opinion wrong. It'll be wonderful, it'll be glorious.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
It's great. But this is all we have to judge
the Bears on. All we have is one game, one game.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
To judge Ben Johnson on and the other factor. And
I noticed this watching the way the Bears were throwing
the football around. The margin for error in that style
of offense for Ben Johnson and the Chicago Bears is
razor thin, and it's a pass happy offense. That's what
they do. They incorporate the running game via short passes
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and all that stuff. But you're playing outdoors, you're not
playing in a dome like you were with the Detroit Lions.
You've got that win from Lake Michigan. Swirling around when
it gets later in the year becomes a big problems.
Like a blender goes swirling around, You've got that to
deal with. You've also got the occasional dormant weather, whether
it's fog or snow when you get late in the year,
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assuming you even have a mathematical chance of leaning those
games and having them mean something. If you're the Chicago
Bears and you're struggling in September weather and I mean
just you think about what's gonna be like down the
line in Chicago, and it's like wow. And so that's
why you can't call it progress. They lost the game.
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They rode the vomit comet and they crashed it into
the side of the building there. Man, it was bad.
It's a piecemeal effort to close the game. Did they
think they were gonna play with a running clock or
something like that, I don't know. Well, here's Ben Johnson,
the man of the hour. Here is the coach of
the Chicago football team pointing out the key to wins
(31:39):
and losses.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Disappointing way to start the season there for us. You
think you can have a seventeen to six lead, right,
and yeah, see go the way it did there in
the fourth quarter. You know, we said going into Week
one that the team that would make the least number
of mistakes would win the game, and unfortunately we were
on the wrong side of that. We made too many
there late in the game.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Myself included, Yeah, the coaches always have to include themselves
in that. You can never say it to the players.
You always have to say, well, I'm part of that.
When you most coaches are like, well, no, I'm not.
That's These are the idiots that screwed up. I didn't
screw up. They screwed up. They have to up. I
had a good game plan. They didn't listen. It's a
bad job by them, so shame on them. The new
shiny offense right looked looked shiny for but ten of
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ten to start the game for Caleb Williams. And then
and then things started popping up that weren't supposed to
pop up.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
There.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The Bears teased you, they gave some hope. There were
people excited that, oh this is great, Bears are going
to get off to the one and oh start and
then they pulled the rug right from underneath you and
Caleb Williams is a debut in the new offense. Not
a lot of fireworks and for the balance of the
game there it was more like a sparkler not explosive pyrotechnic.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
It was more of a sparkler and it.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Fizzled out before the game ended. Bad job by him,
all right.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Secondly, speaking of that wide Angle ents Wide Angle, NZ,
what did you make of Caleb williams Maiden voyage as
the new Chicago Bears offense gets put into place?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
So what do you think?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
So it was a tune that topped the hot one
hundred back in the day from the Coasters called yackety
yac and the song goes yakay act don't talk back.
In this case it was yackety act don't fight back.
That's the Bears. They just they had the lead. The
Vikings said we want this. The Vikings took it, and
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the Bears were but that's what they did. And Caleb Williams,
it turns out he's multitasking. He's actually moonlighting Caleb Williams
as an elevator operator. I know they don't have many
of those left. I know if you go down to
the Hotel del Cornado there in San Diego, they have
elevator operators. And so he was leaving the elevator door open.
(33:51):
He hit the button that says leave doors open and
he left it wide open. He said, come on in,
Come on in Minnesota, Viking. I'll give you a ride
right to the penthouse where there's serving w's.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
You can have one. Knock yourself out. So here is.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Caleb Williams, a man that always has the best looking
nails on the football field, and here is him talking
about a bunch of gibberish about this, that and the other.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Mentality. We'll take all this that mentality. Mentality, have something
that we you know, that we preach and does that
work it out?
Speaker 8 (34:24):
And I'm not it's not a play call thing. It's
not anything like that. It's just being able to go
out there and execute the players that are called and
be able to you know, executeim at a high level.
And that's something that that we take pride in. And
you know, today that didn't happen, and we're going to
get back to it.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Good news is Caleb went out, he found in all
night parlor. He got a manny and a petty after
the game, so he's feeling a little pressed, but he
got the manny in the petty, so he's in good shape,
all right. Now, How bad was Caleb to allow the
Vikings to come back right, because it's not. You can't
just come back and win a game unless the team sucks.
I remember we talked about this in the Sunday Night
game where the Bills cannot mathematically come back without.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
The Thumbo bug on the rug by Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Well, in this game, it was just consistent suck in
the second and third quarters where the Bears had opportunities.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Talked about that.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
To close the game out, for example, I went back,
I did the Malord math in the second and third quarter.
Caleb Williams attempted seventeen passes. He completed less than fifty
percent of them. He averaged less than five yards per attempt.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
He was horrible. And so what was missing?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Well, after a minute long deliberation on the difference between
the offense the Lions had with Ben Johnson and the
offense we saw from the Chicago Bears, the thing that
was missing, the secret sauce for Ben Johnson and the
Lions was the yards after the catch of the yak
at the yac and they didn't have that. Right Detroit
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would turn and he still he didn't do it much
against Green Bay, but they'll turn that those little swing
passes and the big you know, chunky peter peanut butter
plays and all that good stuff. You'll stick to your
mouth kind of peanut butter. Hard to defend the Bears. Now,
they did have a couple of big plays, but not
enough and more smooth peanut butter. Smooth peanut butter, creamy,
(36:17):
easy to swallow, and no.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Bite. There's really no bite to it.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
A few extra yards, but it was mostly catch and
crash is what it was, all right, now, final thought,
So we go now to the winning locker room where
it looked pretty bleak. It looked pretty bleak for a
long stretch of time, but in the end, the Minnesota
Vikings came back. And so give me your reaction to
(36:44):
JJ McCarthy in his first start with the Vikings. Is
the glass half full? Or is the glass half empty?
On the first go round of JJ McCarthy, So what
a juxtaposition?
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Why don't we start with that juxtapvisition Because the.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
First three quarters of this game, I was texting some
friends and we were going back and forth and say, Wow,
this is one of the worst performances I can remember, Like,
this guy looks like he'd never played football before.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Holy crap. You could literally see him urinating down his leg.
It was wild.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
And so you go from that where he was having
a nice meal at the Shaky's Pizza parlor and you know,
just the sticky floors, kind of the low quality pizza,
the mojo potatoes, and the picture of flat soda had
all that going for him. And he's just sitting there
(37:42):
and not even close to looking like he knows what
he's doing as an NFL quarterbacks Like wow, it was
like he was living in Pukesville. And how bad was he?
I'm glad you asked. So the first three quarters of
an NFL game, JJ McCarthy was at seven of twelve passing,
which is not good average less than five yards per
(38:05):
pass attempt. Had fifty six total yards passing through three
quarters of the game, one interception that was a pick
six to give the Chicago Bears an extra score, a
passer rating of thirty five point four going to the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
That was the passer ready.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
So that means that they, they being the Minnesota Vikings,
would have been better off calling up a hearse and
holding a mock funeral procession for the duke and burying
the duke, putting the duke, putting the duke down in
the ground, right, and then just ordering some tombstone pizza
(38:45):
and that's it.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
See you later.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Because the fun fact that we will use this from
time to time, if McCarthy had just spiked the ball
every single time he had snapped the ball, if he'd
spiked the ball every single time into the ground, his
passer would have been thirty nine point six. Statistically, he
was actually worse by attempting to pass than if he
had not passed. And it wasn't just bad, it was
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historical bad for McCarthy for three quarters. Like it was
worse than just don't screw up, just kind of be
a game manager, that's the baseline. Like the Vikings essentially
played three quarters of an NFL game with a mannequin
at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
That's what they had. And it didn't matter that the
Bears still left the door open. We talked about this,
Caleb Williams leaving the door open, the opportunity of the air,
and they took advantage of it. Now, Kevin O'Connell is
the Viking head coach. I'm sure he's not going to
say anything negative about the first three quarters of JJ McCarthy. Instead,
we'll focus on the end of the game. Is that correct,
(39:49):
Coach JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 9 (39:51):
For him to make some of the plays he did,
I told him at halftime, you are going to bring
us back to win this game. When the look in
his eye was fantastic and the best thing is just
a belief I felt from the team unit. And ultimately
that doesn't get done without him in the second half,
two passing touchdowns and then the critical rushing touchdown.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
You smell that. Yeah, bull crap, that is bull crap.
That is hot bull crap by Kevin O'Connell. Holy crap,
what a dummy? I told him. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Is that why he went out after halftime and threw
a pick six in the third quarter?
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Is that why, coach?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Because you had told him, let's make it even worse,
let's dig a bigger hole.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Why not? Why not? Oh? Man?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Well, he did light it up in the fourth quarter,
but man alive, it was like a cheat code there late.
But the first three quarters. Greek tragedy goes from it.
We talked about a rewrite. It goes from a Greek
tragedy where everyone's dead the stage is covered in blood,
to a Shakespearean comedy. All's well that ends well, just
like that there, and unfortunately there is a problem. You
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cannot just live like that in the NFL, obviously, right,
you can't stink for forty five minutes and then expect
to play Superman in the fourth quarter. That generally doesn't
have But it's not Disneyland. It's not like that, and
it's not sustainable, So good luck. We'll give him credit
for the comeback. Hell of a rally there for the
(41:20):
Vikings to come back and win it. But the narrative,
I'm sure will be praising JJ McCarthy and how great
he was and the resiliency and all that stuff. To me, though,
you cannot ignore the first three quarters of the game
that he was at the salad bar and he was
serving up suck salad and that's what it was. So
(41:42):
that's a bit of a reality check. I would think
he's a rookie. So yeah, there's gonna be some bumps
on the road and all that, but man, the Vikings,
if that's the way it's gonna go, you talk about
a roller coaster situation.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Holy Kenolly.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
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Speaker 3 (42:01):
Let's know imaging.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Let's welcome in our conceessants for the game. We have Jed,
who fled? Who's gonna play Maus amount of Money? Hello, Jed, welcome.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
I don't know what the news is, but I've always
got my thinking head on.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
All right, who do you wanna? Yeah? Right, who do
you want to partner with?
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Cooper?
Speaker 3 (42:15):
I just said my thinking gaps on. Just a Gooper,
all right?
Speaker 1 (42:18):
And uh boy, blind Scott? Yes, blind Scott, you want
to play Maus amount of money?
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Yes, yeah, I'll partner with you. Ben.
Speaker 6 (42:26):
You're my hero.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
I'm your hero. I thought I thought Fred Tutcher was
your hero. I didn't realize I was your heron. He
likes me that much anyone trying to win him back?
So okay, well just send him money? All right? Very well,
what are the keatedgies? Quickly, Coop, let's pick the first category.
Speaker 10 (42:41):
Now this is the easy E edition. He would have
been sixty one years old on Sunday. The categories are
boys in the hood, still talking, nobody move and creeping crawl.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
All right, and hold on, I say here, let me
punch him in, and I'll punch him in.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Jed, which one do you want Jed Eric right, ain't
no confident buster du he's a childer hero. Just give
me that boy.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Nobody move, I'll give you creep all right, creeper crawl
all right, Scott?
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Which one you want? Scott?
Speaker 10 (43:14):
I'll take easy.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
I'm taking the tribute to medication. There is no.
Speaker 10 (43:18):
There is no Do you want boys in the hood
still talking or nobody move?
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Boy? Yeah? You think the hood? You think blind Scott? Yes?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
All right, very good gentlemen, Do not hang up, do
not Let make sure you feed them down. All right,
we will have that's the matchup. It's Malver's Mountain of
Money in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (43:58):
All Let's do this. Here we go, we walk him in.
Are contestants.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
We have Blind Scott who's teamed up with me, Jed
who fled with Coop a loop from the swamp lands
of Florida, and Jed.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
You were on the air first, so you will go
with coople loop. It is the easy e. Addition, which
category did you pick?
Speaker 10 (44:17):
There?
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Creep and crawl? All right, creep and crawl very good?
All right, Jed.
Speaker 10 (44:23):
These athletes were on wild card teams that went to
win it all.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Do you know what a wildcard team is? Jed?
Speaker 10 (44:32):
Go for forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
Broncos quarterback that looks like a horse. Yes, big poppy
from the Red Sox, Yes, gap too, defensive lineman from
the Giants. Yes, crazy haired safety from the Steelers from
(44:53):
the back of the day. Yes, let's we're gonna skip ahead.
This guy had the last name of a fish. He
was on the Angels team that actually won it all.
Jim Tammons getting no, you're close, Simmon, no with the
different letter.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Nor, we're let's skip it. Uh. This guy was a
pick yes, yes, yes, oh god, this guy was a man.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
A lot of time, way too much salmon, A lot
of salmon. You took a long time with Samon.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
I was playing a call game, dud. Do you have
any dancing around that?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Okay, blind Scott, you're not going to sabotage this game,
right Scott.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
You're in it to win.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
It.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
Yes, No, I'm ready.
Speaker 9 (45:41):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
Okay, these athletes you pick boys in the hood, which
is so appropriate, and you think the North end of Boston,
you think the hood.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
These athletes are all from south central Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
Blind Scott. Forty five seconds on the clock. Ball, he's
not He's from Inglewood. No, forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way, and here we go.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
He had a triple double every game during an NBA
season for Oklahoma City. Jarg Hardy No I played with
the Clippers. All right, legion of boom. Defensive mac defensive back.
He's got a big mouth. He's on television on Amazon. Okay,
(46:25):
Orioles first baseman in the nineteen eighties. Black guy hit
a lot of home run switch hitter with Cal Ripken.
He was the other star of the Orioles.
Speaker 6 (46:36):
With the Freddie merccurry.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Okay, all right, you're done. Get out of here. You you, Dennis,
Dennis and Ramondi.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
You there, Dennis, Dennis, You're going to the bench. Dennis
first basement of the nineteen eighties, Orioles in the nineties. Yeah,
that's one hundred porter all right, wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
Let's see here.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
The greatest female tennis play of all time, the greatest
female tennis player of all time, African American.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Jerry right, he.
Speaker 10 (47:12):
Said, the greats tennis player of all time.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
I'm glad that we have all this time. Thank you?
All right? Well we got one hundred. We got a hundred?
Is that?
Speaker 5 (47:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (47:27):
You got a hundred points? All right, yo, Dennis, I'm
glad I went to the bench. Good job. You're my closer. Dennis.
You're gonna get about seconds? Can I be the I
stop you bitching? All right, let's go, Dennis. You what
do we I guess we get to go again? Right,
because we all get a hundred?
Speaker 1 (47:43):
So we have nobody move or still talking? Which one
do you want?
Speaker 3 (47:47):
Dennis? Mom man, nobody moved, Nobody move? All right, Dennis
is in VERMONTI just haw's your home. You have no go.
It's just a little small talk, Coop.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
All right, we'll put forty five seconds in the cock
of these athletes own records that have stood a long time.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Are you ready, Dennis, I'm all right. Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
The NFL's all time leading rusher, Yes, the greatest wide
receiver of all time. Yeah, Yankee player nickname Jolton. His
nickname was Jolton.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
With a J. Played in the sixties.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Yes, greatest pitcher of all time, the top pitcher in
baseball gets this award with his name on it. Shit,
that's not I'd be quite the award if they got that.
How about this nickname night train? Nickname night Train.
Speaker 8 (49:00):
Scared.
Speaker 10 (49:02):
I don't think you quite made it up to the one.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
Yeah, you got some of them. Cy Young, is the
award name that you're looking for? Yours was more interesting,
though your award?
Speaker 9 (49:13):
And if he didn't get the point, no more question.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
Dick Dick Lane. Dick Lane was a night trained nick
Dick Lane's real name is night Scott. Do you want
to run up the score here?
Speaker 1 (49:24):
Nobody wants not Scott call them Scott gone.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
He called you told you Blind Scott. Jed Jed Coop
called you. You picked Scott was just on the phone.
He was, he said, Freddie Mercury was the answer. I mean,
come on, he wasn't even trying.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
That was a stupid cheesy radio bit by blind Scott.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
What no, no, he me?
Speaker 9 (49:49):
He answered not he answered.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
The word he did.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
But there's a lot of layers of who to blame
on that.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Good news is we don't have to take Blind Scott's
call the rest of the show. He's out of the
show now, that's great. Right, he's been on the air
and he ruined the whole thing, and that's the way
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our island games. Let's they suck and then we don't
talk about it. But this was a game worthy of conversation.
So I don't know if you're watching it or not.
So the Bills are not as fun to me early
in the year when the weather's okay to watch a
Bills game in Orchard Park, like it's got to be
nasty weather. When the weather's not that bad. It's like,
who cares, It's just not as compelling. But the weather
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was fine, and the Bills taking on the Ravens squaring up,
and that was the matchup. And if you did not
watch it, you were burned out on football. You missed
a doozy. You missed a doozy. So Josh Allen putting
the team on his back. There he leads the Buffalo
football team for three scores, not one, not two, but
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three scores in the final four minutes, and it was
capped off by a thirty two yard field goal by
vagabond kicker Matt Prater, who they made a big deal
about the fact that he just joined the team.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That's what kickers do. They're not real players. They just
changed teams all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Anyway, Matt Prater gifed a thirty two yard chip shot
field goal as time expired. Turn out the last the
parties over see you later, that's it, goodbye, And so
the Bills rally from fifteen points down, fifteen points down,
and they clipped the wings of the once proud Ravens
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say bye bye, see you later, alligator there as the
Ravens go down forty one to forty in the season opener,
a thriller, and somebody do a wellness check on Chris Collinsworth.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I think he might have had an orgasm in the
fourth quarter. He was so excited. Oh my god, he
was exit. Put your pants up, Chris. It's okay, It's
all right, pal.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Anyway, so Buffalo somehow scores what turned out to be
sixteen points in the final three fifty six of the
football game, and it was capped off, as we said,
by the kick by Matt Prater. There but May three
hundred and ninety four totally ourds for Josh Allen and
the Bills offense, click a lick and couple of touchdown throws,
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a couple of touchdowns on the ground for Josh Allen
as the past, couple of MVPs in the NFL getting
together there and guys.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That are in the shadow.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Let's face it, these guys aren't as good as Patrick Mahomes,
but you know they're fun to watch each other play
one on one. There only they could do something against
the Chiefs in the playoffs, it would be different.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The better story is in the losing locker room. We
talk about losers. We love losers. We live for the losers.
That's where the story is. Especially the Ravens, like the
losers are just more compelling to talk about.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They're just better talk radio.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Losers always more compelling than winners one hundred percent of
the time. There the tragedy is more important than the
triumph in a sporting context, and the heartbreak the common
denominator the heartbreak for a great story. And there's a
lot of finger pointing, a lot of finger pointing going
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on on the Baltimore side of things, as it's not
very often that you are that incompetent, it considered a
good team, and you play like El Poopo down the
stretch of that game. So let us discuss the question
did the Bills win this game? Outright? Did they take
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the game? Or was this in case where the Ravens
lost the game. And so I've got vending Machine, President Biden,
and Global Tour and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some Buffalo wings,
which were invented in Buffalo. The chicken wing. Yeah yeah,
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chickens didn't have wings before a restaurant in.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Buffalo, the Anchor Bar. That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The chicken did not have wings until the anchor bar
in Buffalo started serving them. And that's true. I've been
to the anchor bar before that. Chickens did not have
wings all right, So let us discuss the first thought
here is that this was less It was less about
Josh Allen riding in on a white horse with a
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cape on to save the day. Josh Allen is here
to save the day. No, this it's about Baltimore lighting
their own house on fire and getting a full, all
inclusive trip on the vomit commet they flat's absolutely right,
they did ride the vomit comment. This was such a
bad performance. When the game was over, the raven fiends
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were calling billboard lawyers. You know those billboard lawyers who
hurt you and will fight for you. Well, they were
contacting those lawyers I know who hurt me. Number twenty
two in your program, but number zero in clutch time.
That would be the running back for the Ravens. Dereck
Henry again, number twenty in your program, but number zero
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when it matters most there for the Ravens. At the
end of this game, Lord hen Lord Henry Gibmeth, and
Lord Henry Taketh away in this game here one hundred
and sixty nine yards and a couple of touchdowns, and
then that monstrosity at the end of the game there
three ten or so on the clock and.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Bug on the rug.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The bug on the rug, all right, And that Sunday
night game the Grinch on Christmas Eve. That was Derrick Henry.
It'll fumble on the ground there. And so he wanted
a snack. Derrick Henry's like, hey, it's Sunday night. I
want to have a nice little snack. So he went
to the vending machine and he ended up finding the
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vending machine of Doom, and he went up there. He
put a dollar into the vending machine of Doom, and
he wanted.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
A snickers bar.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
He thought that would be a nice snack at dice
delicious Snickers bar, And so he punched in the number
on the vending machine of Doom, and for some reason
it spit out a butterfinger, and that's what he did.
He'd say, you know, I got a butter finger, so
I'm gonna give a butterfinger performance there.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Boom ball on the ground. That's it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It was a three to zh six when the play stopped.
Three oh six to go on the clock in that game,
Bug on the rug and Ravens recover. And that's the
thing you can't do at the moment. You can't do
it for the Ravens. And the Ravens, make no mistake,
they had this game in the bag. The game was
in the bag. And it bothers me because obviously we
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know what happened to Bill's won the game, and so
what ends up happening now is like anytime a team
is down by a couple of scores, the cliche and
broadcasting at Sportscasters College is, well, let's keep talking about
remember that Bill's Ravens game. Yeah, this will not happen
again this season.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
This is the one, the one off for the entire
season that a team chokes as badly and as pathetically
as the Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Ravens bid in this game. And then that is a
flat out choke job by the Ravens. There.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Derrick Henry was the if you look around here, all
the Ravens had to do. I mentioned games in the back.
All the Ravens had to do was stroll down the
monopoly board and pass go, collect two hundred dollars and
a nice victory and.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Call it a night.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That's it, go back to Baltimore and hang out with
sports with Coleman.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But what do they do there?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
No, Instead, they landed on go directly to jail, Go
right to jail, Do not pass, go, do not collect
squat you get nothing. And Dereck Henry, the prison warden
there handing, handing them the orange jumpsuit, saying, here you go, boys.
It's a nice, big juicy L right there, nice big,
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delicious L.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And so now there will be some. It's not his fault.
He put up great numbers.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But okay, these are bad people. These are evil people.
The people that believe that they're fantasy nerd. There, losers,
we need it. It's like a disease. We need to
cut the disease out people that believe that because listen.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Forget the snut sheet. I'm not playing fantasy football all right,
forget the game plan, forget all that other stuff. Here.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
This was about the E word execution, and they failed.
Most games are lost, not one. Most games are lost,
not one. This is a great example. This is a
humiliation situation, is what it was. I mean, the Ravens fans,
they got served, and they got served some bad open
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mic poetry is what they got, roses are red, violets
are blue, and I can hold on to a football
better than number twenty two.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, wow, tell me I'm wrong. No, that was pretty bad. Listen.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
This was not somehow Buffalo going Rocky Balboa. I don't
want to hear that. I'm sure that's already been written somewhere,
but that's not my position on this. This was ball
more face planting, like the iconic George Costanza back in
the day running out of the kid's birthday party fire drill,
just about having a melt down there and the bills there. Essentially,
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this win is like, hey, I found a twenty dollar bill.
I found a nice twenty dollar bill blowing down the street,
and yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You know you take it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, maybe you go out and buy some food with it,
and you haven't. I don't think you can buy a
full lunch with that anymore twenty dollars. But you put
the money down, you buy a little food, and that's it.
But you didn't earn it. You know, you found it,
you didn't necessarily earn it, per se. And so the
w does go to Buffalo, congratulations on that, and the
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scar tissue goes to the Baltimore football team and l
butterfinger wrapper to Derek Henry. Let's hear from the head
coach of the Ravens one, John Harbaugh. John, your team
just rode the vomit comet. What do you have to
say for yourself, Coach Harbaugh?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Or just pointing, We're just gonna have to regroup and
get ready to go play a long season. We've got
sixteen games in front of us, good football team, tough environment. Obviously,
we did many good things, but we didn't play well
at the end. Two big situations. The fourth down play,
I mean, that's kind of a play that you don't
really expect to happen. I mean, it was pretty pretty
lucky play, but they made it between the scrambles. Josh
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Allen played a great game obviously, especially at the end
on the fourth quarter to make those plays. Scrambled plays,
extended extended completions and then a couple of big pass plays.
So that's it. We're disappointed, but we'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Play like that, you might not have sixteen more games
to play. Holy crap, all right now? Aside from Derrick
Henry and his putting the bug on the rug and
that that's a trend around the NFL. I think there's
a certain Houston Texans player we can thank for that
as well. Anyway, aside from Derrick Henry, who else ends
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up who else ends up eating a piece of the
Baltimore Blame crabcakes. Henry's clearly got half the crabcake. He's
got like the majority of the crab cakes and all
that stuff. But you gotta hand Lamar Jackson a fork.
You gotta hand Lamar Jackson the fork. Lamar gets a
doggy bag as well. Oh he's a former MVP.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
What are you talking about? You didn't watch the game?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Ban a shut up Lamar Jackson as guilty as anybody
of taking his foot off the gas as well. That's
John Harbaugh's strategy to just let up in the fourth
quarter of the game was over and all that. They
let up on the gas too soon. Though, they let
up on the gas too soon. That's the issue here.
For three quarters, the Ravens as a team, they were
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a well filtered Instagram booty model. I mean, they had
a lot going on looking good, right, and then in
the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
That's when it all went to hell. Right. The Henry
fumble was.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Brutal, but they roll around there and Lamar Jackson did
he finish the game properly? Let's see here, let's go,
let's go to the eyeball test and the stats. The
eyeball test said no. The stats say no as well.
He put on cruise control like he was driving Miss
Daisy in the fourth quarter there, and turns out that
bit him. Fifteen yards passing in the fourth quarter for
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Lamar Jackson and a fifty nine passer rating. It was
kind of like he was playing Madden but demo mode.
It was like the demo mode on Madden. He ever
done that?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, it's not good, and he just kind of gave
the controller back now.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I Meanwhile, Josh Allen in the fourth quarter was doing
the electric boogaloo. He was doing the electric slide there
for the Ravens right into the end zone. And let's
also not not forget here, since we're playing the blame game,
let's not forget the Baltimore defense. Let's not take them
off the hook here. The Baltimore defense was ooey gooey
and then went kabbouie. They just went kub blue, kub blue,
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kab louie. At the end of that game, they gave
up two hundred and sixty four yards and twenty two
points in the fourth quarter. Tell me you saw defense
without telling me the second events, and then they spend
a bunch of money on defensive players, improving the secondary
in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Wasn't I told that? Where was that?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I guess they'll play well against the Cleveland Browns. Though
they'll do very well against the Cleveland Browns. That's good, Okay,
So they'll play well against them.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That's good. Right against the.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Bills, not so much. That was not defense that the
team from Baltimore play. That was an open borders policy
is what that was. And somewhere former President Biden is
very proud of the way the Buffalo Bills approached that,
and the Ravens defensively approached that because it was like,
come on, fellas, come on in here, take the end zone,
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take yourselves, make yourselves at home, settle right in. The
Ravens opening the door here, no resistance at all, borderless
end zone for the Baltimore Ravens. Tremendous here, and the
secondary wide open. Kind of like when you get to
Costco if you get there early before the rush on
a Saturday and there's Costco samples and if you get
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there early enough before the rush boom, you're in as
many samples.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
As you want.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Some way to go, man, And we heard the soundway
from John Harball, the Ravens head coach.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Here he was just standing there.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It appeared based on my television I was watching the game,
and what I saw was John Harbaugh standing there. He
had his headset and like a guy, he was trying
to return something like a TV or something that was broken.
He's getting no answers from the desk. And that was it.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And so there you go.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And there'll be people said, well, you just don't you
don't know ball, but Lamar Jackson had a great stat
line and all that, just like Derrick Henry. And of
course my response is always whoopee, damn doo. That's my
response on that. And games generally are decided in the
fourth quarter. That game should not have been decided in
the fourth quarter. You have a fifteen point lead, you
should be very comfortable. They were not very comfortable in
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that position. You should have been very comfortable there in
that position. So down the stretch it was a game
we call crazy eights, or in this case crazy eight,
as Derrick Henry. Yeah, Derek Henry holding he was already
holding the scarlet letter card. And then Lamar he drew
another eight and the defense for the Ravens they were
playing and they struck with the draw. Four game over
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is what they had there. So hand, everyone at the table,
everyone gets a crab cake and they all stink. And
we talk about absolutely setting the tone, and they set
the tone.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
They all blew it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Henry Lamar, Henry the most Lamar, and that defense defense
could have picked up the slack that was, who's at
your dinner table right there eating crabcakes? The blame crabcakes
now quick right, all right, last word here, So how
encouraging we'll go to the winners locker room. How encouraging
is this performance and victory for Josh Allen and the
Buffalo football team. A team that's been lurking around in
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contender status, but a faux contender. They find new and
creative ways to choke in big games. So this is
not a big game. It's a regular season game. And
how big could it be? It's I mean, we're sitting
here talking in September. The season will go all the
way through end of December, and then January, the playoffs
in February, the Super Bowl and all that. So how encouraging.
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This is the daily double. It is the daily double.
Here you get the one to oh record for the Bills.
Check that box. So you're one and oher and you
have more importantly, the game in hand, the head to head,
assuming that the Ravens don't completely fall off the map
this year, you have the hand in hand with the
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Ravens AFC bragging rights if it comes down to Buffalo
and Baltimore at the end of the year. And Buffalo,
to their credit, played until the final whistle, unlike.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
The Ravens who had the lead and gave up.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And that is a gutless performance at the end of
that game by the Baltimore evens, the Bills to their credit,
did not play like that. They went right until the end.
But I would not get too excited though, if I'm
a Buffalo Bill fin based on this win, because you
were getting your ask for the vast majority of that game,
and a fluky thing does not change the fact that
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for the balance of that game you could not match
up with the Baltimore Ravens offensively. The Ravens lost this
game because of more self inflicted wounds. It wasn't anything
the Buffalo Bills did, It was what the Ravens did
to cost themselves this game. Baltimore had been manhandling, absolutely
manhandling the Bills dollar general defense. In this game, Ravens
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scored on seven of the first eight possessions, seven of
them including not one, not two, three to nine, four,
but five touchdowns. So Buffalo's defense ready to go on
a global tour as a matador. Holy holy, yeah, bullfighting baby.
In this case, they actually won though. Ravens averaged eight
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point six yards per play and lost.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
How do you do that?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They averaged nine point two yards per pass, eight point
two yards per run and still lost the game. Now,
in a positive note, the Bills have some time to
work out their defensive frailties. They have the hostess schedule
coming up. They play the Jets, that's pretty much a
guaranteed win. They play the Dolphins, and then they also
play the Saints. Those last two games at home, two
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of what figure to be the worst teams in the
NFL this year, the Dolphins and the Saints. That's Cupcake City.
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should be. So our lead this hour to begin the night.
We start out from sweet home Chicago, right there, the
shores of Lake Michigan. Iconic, Soldier Field, so iconic the
Bears can't wait to leave there and go to a
new stadium out in the suburbs. But for now they're
still playing at Soldier Field. They'll be there for a
couple more years until they build that new shiny taj
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Mahall Stadium and then gouge people to go to the stadium.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
That's the way businesses done in the NFL anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So Soldier Field, that was the stage right there, with
the skyline of Chicago on one side, and then you
had the lake on the other.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Lake Michigan.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
There and the final act of the opening weekend the
NFL twenty twenty five season, Vikings and Bears and NFC
North slaber knocker, slaber knocker. Now, this was an island game.
You know, we love our island games. We love island games.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
So if you were watching, you likely know what happens.
It happened. If not, maybe if we were watching, you
might not have paid attention.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
This game is over. Perhaps you missed it, but don't worry.
We watched so you would not have to. In a
very shaky beginning, there, very wobbly, wobbly beginning for JJ McCarthy,
the red shirt rookie, red shirt rookie JJ McCarthy, who
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then in the fourth quarter went bonkers. He had not
one but two fourth quarter touchdown passes, ran for another
score in his long awaited NFL debut, the former first
round draft pick. The Vikings snapped out of the doldrums
dreadful performance and they end up getting and when you
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only remember the outcome, you won't remember how bad the
game was from the Minnesota side of things for three quarters.
But they end up winning it on a big push
twenty seven to twenty four.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Over the Bears.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
So that's good for the Vikings for our purposes, though,
the better story is.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
In the losing locker room.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
So that is where we are going to go, Sweet
home Chicago Bear football right there. Holy crap. So the
debut of Ben Johnson as the Chicago Bears head coach,
the big money coach who's spent time as the Lions
offensive coordinator and that's where he built his legacy, and
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so many teams wanted Ben Johnson to be the coach
and here's his opportunity in Chicago, and he inherited the
former number one overall in Caleb Who Caleb Williams, who
is bounced all over the place in college and now
in the NFL. Looks like he should be bouncing somewhere
else the way he played in this game. So with
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the better story being in the losing locker room, let
us discuss the question for the esteem panel, how did
you grade Ben Johnson's debut as a coach in the
Windy City. So I've got utility, Bill, the coasters, and hearse,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
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we're going to make the Baba Ganooshe. We're gonna make
it early. We're gonna make the Baba Ganooshe here early on.
So my first thought here as we connect all these
things together, my first thought is, and I wrote this down,
how do you grade Ben Johnson on the MAL report card?
How do you create his debut as coach of the Bears?
Ben Johnson? The MAL report card? I wrote down. I
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didn't write down an A. I wrote down, s O B. Now,
not what you think, not what you I wrote down,
same old Bears. That's what I wrote you probably thought
it meant something else. Same old Bears. That's that's right.
They dominated for three quarters. We're really dominated for two
quarters defensively part of a third. The big interception there.
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They did control. The tempo was a low scoring game.
Minnesota could not get out of their own way. And
yet when it was time to finish, the opponent off
the kill shot and put them six feet under. What
happened not good. Chicago decided to slide into their snuggie.
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The Bears there and they went into hibernation mode, and
it burned them.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
It burned them.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Proof that there is no such thing as momentum. The
Bears had all the momentum them, should have won the game.
Minnesota at no momentum. Why would the Bears give up momentum?
It makes no sense because it's not real, you dummies.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Anyway, So the.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Chicago Bears hired Ben Johnson, who is on the pulse
of He's at the forefront of modern offensive NFL football.
That was the selling point of Ben Johnson, right, slick agent,
the whole thing. And so there we go. Instead of
the next gen, which is all the nerd rage, the
next gen and all that, this was the dormant Bears,
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and it was a Bear jamboree, a country Bear jamboree.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Here.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Every time they had a chance, and there were multiple
opportunities to deliver the knockout punch and just end the game,
they tapped out, I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Cannot do it, not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Instead, they landed, They landed some little jabs they couldn't
land the haymaker, could not land the haymaker, and Ben
Johnson's team pulling punches which you generally don't want to see. Listen,
I have no skin in the game, and I'm not
a Bears fan or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
But the power went out and they forgot to pay
their utility bill, and then they needed it most. They're
late in the game, just make one or two plays
who win the game, and they had nothing, so they
forgot to pay the utility bill. There at Soldier Field,
the power went out.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And this is not just a loss, mind you, this
is two losses for the Chicago Bears, because not only
lose at home, but you lose a divisional game in
what figures to be a pretty close nip and tuck division.
So now you've really lost two games at home and
in the division for the Bears.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
That's a double gut punch, is what that is. And
this is supposed to be the new Bears, right, the
new Bears, all that crap that we read and heard about.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Oh it's gonna be different now, Oh yeah, it's gonna
be different. Okay, So the job was to protect home
field advantage soldier field. Instead, you hand the w to
the Vikings. Because as much as we're going to rip
the offense for the Chicago Bears, the defense also what
happened there to the Chicago Bears defense. I guess Dennis
(29:13):
Allen's back to being a moron after you were really
just kissing his ass on the TV brought to you,
Oh Dennis Allen's defense and all that stuff for three
quarters and then in the fourth.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Not so much. Now as for the inevitable, what are
you doing? It's it's only one game. Why do you
have all these strong opinions after one game? You know
that crowd spoiler alert, spoil Guess what? Guess what? It's
a daily talk show. I am.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I asked to give my opinion as things unfold. They
don't ask me to wait to the end of the year.
I've told management. I said, listen, why don't you just
pay me a lot of money. I'll have no opinions.
I'll be boring. There's a lot of people that do
this that are very boring, don't know a strong opinion.
And I'll just do that and then just give me
like a big bag of money. In the end, I'll
never get an opinion wrong. It'll be wonderful, it'll be glorious.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
It's great. But this is all we have to judge
the Bears on. All we have is one game, one game.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
To judge Ben Johnson on and the other factor. And
I noticed this watching the way the Bears were throwing
the football around. The margin for error in that style
of offense for Ben Johnson and the Chicago Bears is
razor thin, and it's a pass happy offense. That's what
they do. They incorporate the running game via short passes
(30:32):
and all that stuff. But you're playing outdoors, you're not
playing in a dome like you were with the Detroit Lions.
You've got that win from Lake Michigan. Swirling around when
it gets later in the year becomes a big problems.
Like a blender goes swirling around, You've got that to
deal with. You've also got the occasional dormant weather, whether
it's fog or snow when you get late in the year,
(30:53):
assuming you even have a mathematical chance of leaning those
games and having them mean something. If you're the Chicago
Bears and you're struggling in September weather and I mean
just you think about what's gonna be like down the
line in Chicago, and it's like wow. And so that's
why you can't call it progress. They lost the game.
(31:14):
They rode the vomit comet and they crashed it into
the side of the building there. Man, it was bad.
It's a piecemeal effort to close the game. Did they
think they were gonna play with a running clock or
something like that, I don't know. Well, here's Ben Johnson,
the man of the hour. Here is the coach of
the Chicago football team pointing out the key to wins
(31:39):
and losses.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Disappointing way to start the season there for us. You
think you can have a seventeen to six lead, right,
and yeah, see go the way it did there in
the fourth quarter. You know, we said going into Week
one that the team that would make the least number
of mistakes would win the game, and unfortunately we were
on the wrong side of that. We made too many
there late in the game.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Myself included, Yeah, the coaches always have to include themselves
in that. You can never say it to the players.
You always have to say, well, I'm part of that.
When you most coaches are like, well, no, I'm not.
That's These are the idiots that screwed up. I didn't
screw up. They screwed up. They have to up. I
had a good game plan. They didn't listen. It's a
bad job by them, so shame on them. The new
shiny offense right looked looked shiny for but ten of
(32:21):
ten to start the game for Caleb Williams. And then
and then things started popping up that weren't supposed to
pop up.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
There.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The Bears teased you, they gave some hope. There were
people excited that, oh this is great, Bears are going
to get off to the one and oh start and
then they pulled the rug right from underneath you and
Caleb Williams is a debut in the new offense. Not
a lot of fireworks and for the balance of the
game there it was more like a sparkler not explosive pyrotechnic.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
It was more of a sparkler and it.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Fizzled out before the game ended. Bad job by him,
all right.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Secondly, speaking of that wide Angle ents Wide Angle, NZ,
what did you make of Caleb williams Maiden voyage as
the new Chicago Bears offense gets put into place?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
So what do you think?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
So it was a tune that topped the hot one
hundred back in the day from the Coasters called yackety
yac and the song goes yakay act don't talk back.
In this case it was yackety act don't fight back.
That's the Bears. They just they had the lead. The
Vikings said we want this. The Vikings took it, and
(33:30):
the Bears were but that's what they did. And Caleb Williams,
it turns out he's multitasking. He's actually moonlighting Caleb Williams
as an elevator operator. I know they don't have many
of those left. I know if you go down to
the Hotel del Cornado there in San Diego, they have
elevator operators. And so he was leaving the elevator door open.
(33:51):
He hit the button that says leave doors open and
he left it wide open. He said, come on in,
Come on in Minnesota, Viking. I'll give you a ride
right to the penthouse where there's serving w's.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
You can have one. Knock yourself out. So here is.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Caleb Williams, a man that always has the best looking
nails on the football field, and here is him talking
about a bunch of gibberish about this, that and the other.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Mentality. We'll take all this that mentality. Mentality, have something
that we you know, that we preach and does that
work it out?
Speaker 8 (34:24):
And I'm not it's not a play call thing. It's
not anything like that. It's just being able to go
out there and execute the players that are called and
be able to you know, executeim at a high level.
And that's something that that we take pride in. And
you know, today that didn't happen, and we're going to
get back to it.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Good news is Caleb went out, he found in all
night parlor. He got a manny and a petty after
the game, so he's feeling a little pressed, but he
got the manny in the petty, so he's in good shape,
all right. Now, How bad was Caleb to allow the
Vikings to come back right, because it's not. You can't
just come back and win a game unless the team sucks.
I remember we talked about this in the Sunday Night
game where the Bills cannot mathematically come back without.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
The Thumbo bug on the rug by Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Well, in this game, it was just consistent suck in
the second and third quarters where the Bears had opportunities.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Talked about that.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
To close the game out, for example, I went back,
I did the Malord math in the second and third quarter.
Caleb Williams attempted seventeen passes. He completed less than fifty
percent of them. He averaged less than five yards per attempt.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
He was horrible. And so what was missing?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Well, after a minute long deliberation on the difference between
the offense the Lions had with Ben Johnson and the
offense we saw from the Chicago Bears, the thing that
was missing, the secret sauce for Ben Johnson and the
Lions was the yards after the catch of the yak
at the yac and they didn't have that. Right Detroit
(35:54):
would turn and he still he didn't do it much
against Green Bay, but they'll turn that those little swing
passes and the big you know, chunky peter peanut butter
plays and all that good stuff. You'll stick to your
mouth kind of peanut butter. Hard to defend the Bears. Now,
they did have a couple of big plays, but not
enough and more smooth peanut butter. Smooth peanut butter, creamy,
(36:17):
easy to swallow, and no.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Bite. There's really no bite to it.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
A few extra yards, but it was mostly catch and
crash is what it was, all right, now, final thought,
So we go now to the winning locker room where
it looked pretty bleak. It looked pretty bleak for a
long stretch of time, but in the end, the Minnesota
Vikings came back. And so give me your reaction to
(36:44):
JJ McCarthy in his first start with the Vikings. Is
the glass half full? Or is the glass half empty?
On the first go round of JJ McCarthy, So what
a juxtaposition?
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Why don't we start with that juxtapvisition Because the.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
First three quarters of this game, I was texting some
friends and we were going back and forth and say, Wow,
this is one of the worst performances I can remember, Like,
this guy looks like he'd never played football before.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Holy crap. You could literally see him urinating down his leg.
It was wild.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
And so you go from that where he was having
a nice meal at the Shaky's Pizza parlor and you know,
just the sticky floors, kind of the low quality pizza,
the mojo potatoes, and the picture of flat soda had
all that going for him. And he's just sitting there
(37:42):
and not even close to looking like he knows what
he's doing as an NFL quarterbacks Like wow, it was
like he was living in Pukesville. And how bad was he?
I'm glad you asked. So the first three quarters of
an NFL game, JJ McCarthy was at seven of twelve passing,
which is not good average less than five yards per
(38:05):
pass attempt. Had fifty six total yards passing through three
quarters of the game, one interception that was a pick
six to give the Chicago Bears an extra score, a
passer rating of thirty five point four going to the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
That was the passer ready.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
So that means that they, they being the Minnesota Vikings,
would have been better off calling up a hearse and
holding a mock funeral procession for the duke and burying
the duke, putting the duke, putting the duke down in
the ground, right, and then just ordering some tombstone pizza
(38:45):
and that's it.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
See you later.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Because the fun fact that we will use this from
time to time, if McCarthy had just spiked the ball
every single time he had snapped the ball, if he'd
spiked the ball every single time into the ground, his
passer would have been thirty nine point six. Statistically, he
was actually worse by attempting to pass than if he
had not passed. And it wasn't just bad, it was
(39:09):
historical bad for McCarthy for three quarters. Like it was
worse than just don't screw up, just kind of be
a game manager, that's the baseline. Like the Vikings essentially
played three quarters of an NFL game with a mannequin
at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
That's what they had. And it didn't matter that the
Bears still left the door open. We talked about this,
Caleb Williams leaving the door open, the opportunity of the air,
and they took advantage of it. Now, Kevin O'Connell is
the Viking head coach. I'm sure he's not going to
say anything negative about the first three quarters of JJ McCarthy. Instead,
we'll focus on the end of the game. Is that correct,
(39:49):
Coach JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 9 (39:51):
For him to make some of the plays he did,
I told him at halftime, you are going to bring
us back to win this game. When the look in
his eye was fantastic and the best thing is just
a belief I felt from the team unit. And ultimately
that doesn't get done without him in the second half,
two passing touchdowns and then the critical rushing touchdown.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
You smell that. Yeah, bull crap, that is bull crap.
That is hot bull crap by Kevin O'Connell. Holy crap,
what a dummy? I told him. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Is that why he went out after halftime and threw
a pick six in the third quarter?
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Is that why, coach?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Because you had told him, let's make it even worse,
let's dig a bigger hole.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Why not? Why not? Oh? Man?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Well, he did light it up in the fourth quarter,
but man alive, it was like a cheat code there late.
But the first three quarters. Greek tragedy goes from it.
We talked about a rewrite. It goes from a Greek
tragedy where everyone's dead the stage is covered in blood,
to a Shakespearean comedy. All's well that ends well, just
like that there, and unfortunately there is a problem. You
(40:59):
cannot just live like that in the NFL, obviously, right,
you can't stink for forty five minutes and then expect
to play Superman in the fourth quarter. That generally doesn't
have But it's not Disneyland. It's not like that, and
it's not sustainable, So good luck. We'll give him credit
for the comeback. Hell of a rally there for the
(41:20):
Vikings to come back and win it. But the narrative,
I'm sure will be praising JJ McCarthy and how great
he was and the resiliency and all that stuff. To me, though,
you cannot ignore the first three quarters of the game
that he was at the salad bar and he was
serving up suck salad and that's what it was. So
(41:42):
that's a bit of a reality check. I would think
he's a rookie. So yeah, there's gonna be some bumps
on the road and all that, but man, the Vikings,
if that's the way it's gonna go, you talk about
a roller coaster situation.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Holy Kenolly.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern be em Pacific.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Let's know imaging.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Let's welcome in our conceessants for the game. We have Jed,
who fled? Who's gonna play Maus amount of Money? Hello, Jed, welcome.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
I don't know what the news is, but I've always
got my thinking head on.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
All right, who do you wanna? Yeah? Right, who do
you want to partner with?
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Cooper?
Speaker 3 (42:15):
I just said my thinking gaps on. Just a Gooper,
all right?
Speaker 1 (42:18):
And uh boy, blind Scott? Yes, blind Scott, you want
to play Maus amount of money?
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Yes, yeah, I'll partner with you. Ben.
Speaker 6 (42:26):
You're my hero.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
I'm your hero. I thought I thought Fred Tutcher was
your hero. I didn't realize I was your heron. He
likes me that much anyone trying to win him back?
So okay, well just send him money? All right? Very well,
what are the keatedgies? Quickly, Coop, let's pick the first category.
Speaker 10 (42:41):
Now this is the easy E edition. He would have
been sixty one years old on Sunday. The categories are
boys in the hood, still talking, nobody move and creeping crawl.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
All right, and hold on, I say here, let me
punch him in, and I'll punch him in.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Jed, which one do you want Jed Eric right, ain't
no confident buster du he's a childer hero. Just give
me that boy.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Nobody move, I'll give you creep all right, creeper crawl
all right, Scott?
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Which one you want? Scott?
Speaker 10 (43:14):
I'll take easy.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
I'm taking the tribute to medication. There is no.
Speaker 10 (43:18):
There is no Do you want boys in the hood
still talking or nobody move?
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Boy? Yeah? You think the hood? You think blind Scott? Yes?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
All right, very good gentlemen, Do not hang up, do
not Let make sure you feed them down. All right,
we will have that's the matchup. It's Malver's Mountain of
Money in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (43:58):
All Let's do this. Here we go, we walk him in.
Are contestants.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
We have Blind Scott who's teamed up with me, Jed
who fled with Coop a loop from the swamp lands
of Florida, and Jed.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
You were on the air first, so you will go
with coople loop. It is the easy e. Addition, which
category did you pick?
Speaker 10 (44:17):
There?
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Creep and crawl? All right, creep and crawl very good?
All right, Jed.
Speaker 10 (44:23):
These athletes were on wild card teams that went to
win it all.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Do you know what a wildcard team is? Jed?
Speaker 10 (44:32):
Go for forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
Broncos quarterback that looks like a horse. Yes, big poppy
from the Red Sox, Yes, gap too, defensive lineman from
the Giants. Yes, crazy haired safety from the Steelers from
(44:53):
the back of the day. Yes, let's we're gonna skip ahead.
This guy had the last name of a fish. He
was on the Angels team that actually won it all.
Jim Tammons getting no, you're close, Simmon, no with the
different letter.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Nor, we're let's skip it. Uh. This guy was a
pick yes, yes, yes, oh god, this guy was a man.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
A lot of time, way too much salmon, A lot
of salmon. You took a long time with Samon.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
I was playing a call game, dud. Do you have
any dancing around that?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Okay, blind Scott, you're not going to sabotage this game,
right Scott.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
You're in it to win.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
It.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
Yes, No, I'm ready.
Speaker 9 (45:41):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
Okay, these athletes you pick boys in the hood, which
is so appropriate, and you think the North end of Boston,
you think the hood.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
These athletes are all from south central Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
Blind Scott. Forty five seconds on the clock. Ball, he's
not He's from Inglewood. No, forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way, and here we go.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
He had a triple double every game during an NBA
season for Oklahoma City. Jarg Hardy No I played with
the Clippers. All right, legion of boom. Defensive mac defensive back.
He's got a big mouth. He's on television on Amazon. Okay,
(46:25):
Orioles first baseman in the nineteen eighties. Black guy hit
a lot of home run switch hitter with Cal Ripken.
He was the other star of the Orioles.
Speaker 6 (46:36):
With the Freddie merccurry.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Okay, all right, you're done. Get out of here. You you, Dennis,
Dennis and Ramondi.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
You there, Dennis, Dennis, You're going to the bench. Dennis
first basement of the nineteen eighties, Orioles in the nineties. Yeah,
that's one hundred porter all right, wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
Let's see here.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
The greatest female tennis play of all time, the greatest
female tennis player of all time, African American.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Jerry right, he.
Speaker 10 (47:12):
Said, the greats tennis player of all time.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
I'm glad that we have all this time. Thank you?
All right? Well we got one hundred. We got a hundred?
Is that?
Speaker 5 (47:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (47:27):
You got a hundred points? All right, yo, Dennis, I'm
glad I went to the bench. Good job. You're my closer. Dennis.
You're gonna get about seconds? Can I be the I
stop you bitching? All right, let's go, Dennis. You what
do we I guess we get to go again? Right,
because we all get a hundred?
Speaker 1 (47:43):
So we have nobody move or still talking? Which one
do you want?
Speaker 3 (47:47):
Dennis? Mom man, nobody moved, Nobody move? All right, Dennis
is in VERMONTI just haw's your home. You have no go.
It's just a little small talk, Coop.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
All right, we'll put forty five seconds in the cock
of these athletes own records that have stood a long time.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Are you ready, Dennis, I'm all right. Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
The NFL's all time leading rusher, Yes, the greatest wide
receiver of all time. Yeah, Yankee player nickname Jolton. His
nickname was Jolton.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
With a J. Played in the sixties.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Yes, greatest pitcher of all time, the top pitcher in
baseball gets this award with his name on it. Shit,
that's not I'd be quite the award if they got that.
How about this nickname night train? Nickname night Train.
Speaker 8 (49:00):
Scared.
Speaker 10 (49:02):
I don't think you quite made it up to the one.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
Yeah, you got some of them. Cy Young, is the
award name that you're looking for? Yours was more interesting,
though your award?
Speaker 9 (49:13):
And if he didn't get the point, no more question.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
Dick Dick Lane. Dick Lane was a night trained nick
Dick Lane's real name is night Scott. Do you want
to run up the score here?
Speaker 1 (49:24):
Nobody wants not Scott call them Scott gone.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
He called you told you Blind Scott. Jed Jed Coop
called you. You picked Scott was just on the phone.
He was, he said, Freddie Mercury was the answer. I mean,
come on, he wasn't even trying.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
That was a stupid cheesy radio bit by blind Scott.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
What no, no, he me?
Speaker 9 (49:49):
He answered not he answered.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
The word he did.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
But there's a lot of layers of who to blame
on that.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Good news is we don't have to take Blind Scott's
call the rest of the show. He's out of the
show now, that's great. Right, he's been on the air
and he ruined the whole thing, and that's the way
to go.
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