Ben Maller Show Best of the Week

Ben Maller talks about Aaron Rodgers looking old in a loss against the Chargers on SNF, the lack of support for the Chargers in their home stadium, Brian Daboll getting fired as New York Giants coach, Maller's Mountain of Money: Warren G Edition, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:32):
So we're back at it again and busy night bouncing
around here. Did have a chance to attend most of
the Sunday night game. I was out there watching the
Sunday Night game Idalie a little early to make it
here to the Mothership to avoid the mass exodus, and
it was the daily double at sofar and as our

(00:53):
lead there Sunday Night football, Mike Tomlin and the Steelers
visiting SoCal to take on Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers
in a made for TV matchup. I did not get
to hear the broadcast. I imagine that Chris Collinsworth was
slobbering all over both quarterbacks, so very difficult to slobber
over Aaron Rodgers the way that he played, But there

(01:15):
they were at so far in the hood in Inglewood
and up to no good. That was Aaron Rodgers up
to no good, My god, horrific. So I'll get right
into it. Justin Herbert, who wasn't all that great either.
He had two hundred and twenty yards passing and a
touchdown and Aaron Rodgers a stumble bump performance for Aaron Rodgers,

(01:38):
his worst game with the pet sparkstif. Despite being surrounded
by nothing but black and yellow, black and yellow, black
and yellow, black and yellow, it did not matter as
the Chargers slapping around Aaron Rodgers, and a lot of
that was unforced mistakes by Rogers. Twenty five to ten.

(01:58):
Your final score saw the game, you know that on
Sunday night there for the third straight win. Show me
your lightning bolt. Now, the better story is in the
losing locker room. Aaron Rodgers completed barely over fifty percent
of his passes in this game. I'm told that's not good.
He averaged a little over five yards of pass which
was actually better than it had been most of the

(02:20):
game thanks to the fourth quarter and the garbage time
touchdown with less than three minutes to go. The game
well in the bag what's in the back. The win
is in the bag for the team from Los Angeles,
the Chargers. There, Rogers also had an interception that he
sacked for a safety in the in the end zone, obviously,
and then also fumble, though that was recovered. So when

(02:43):
asked to assess Aaron Rodgers play, Mike Tomlin, the Steelers
head coach, seemingly dismissing the question there and he delivered
a death stare, a Mike Tomlin death stare to the porter.
Do we have that? I don't know we have that?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
We have that?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I listened to Mike Tomlin here is asked the basic
question you're starting quarterback, went out there and wrote the comment,
what do you have to say for yourself? How would you?
How would you? All? Right? So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss always like angry Mike

(03:25):
Tomlin's fun. It's fun angry Mike tom It was an
obvious question. Everyone knows the answer to that. It's like,
but you're not supposed to say it. So let us
discuss the question what is your takeaway from Mike Tomlin
and the death stare? The death stare like the male
medusa right there, Mike tom about Aaron Rodgers and how

(03:47):
to assess his performance or lack thereof. So I've got
limited edition frosty mug and background noise, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to pig out on ballpark food like stale popcorn, nachos,

(04:08):
hot dogs. There's a lot of ballpark food everywhere being tossed.
So hey, my first thought on this, I loved the
Tomlin desk there. Not quite to the level of Bill
Belichick back in his salad days with the Patriots, but Tomlin,
his blood was boiling. The blood was He's like, here
we go again, Here we go again. And Ben Roethlisberger

(04:29):
was not very good the end of his time in Pittsburgh.
They've had a revolving door of dumb and dummer at
quarterback ever since Roethlisberger left. And again he went very
good at the end there in Pittsburgh. And so they
went through a bunch last year was justin Fields, Holy
craped us. He sucked and you see what he did
for the Jets. Again they won, but not because I

(04:50):
am and then also Russell Wilson, so they're well, we
got better. And Aaron Rodgers has actually been better than
what they had got there in Pittsburgh. But this was horrific.
That was not the kind of performance you expected. Obviously
nobody expected that. And man Rogers looking like he belonged

(05:11):
in a museum, and not the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
I'm talking about like a museum where they look at dinosaurs.
Man ancient, ancient looking there for Rogers in the game.
And I was actually sitting kind of near the end
zone when Rogers stumbled and bumbled and fell down there
for the safety early in the football game there, and

(05:33):
any success he had in this game was in garbage time.
The game had already been decided. The outcome was going
to go to the Chargers, and then that's it. So
you'd think the way he was playing, there should be
some kind of spin off with Nike, a limited edition
Nike Orthopedic cleat. I get those special Orthopedic cleats with

(05:53):
the swooshot him and get him a walker, Holy canody man,
instead of just do it just now, We'll be the
phrase there for Rogers watching him play here, he looked
like forget forty one. He played like he was in
his late sixties there, plodding along slow there was really
no rhythm, no method to the madness here for Aaron Rodgers,

(06:16):
and we call the type of game Rogers had. It's
called the compass Rose. What is the compass Rose? Quarterback?
That's where the passes go up and down and right
and left, and Rogers, it seemed, specifically, had mastered in
this game the art of the overthrow, the art of
the overthrow. There was vintage. This was like Jets era Rodgers,

(06:39):
although I felt like it was worse than that even
watching it in person. I've seen it on TV a bunch,
but to be there in the building and watch it
in person, I was like, oohah, Man, like, wait, I
gotta get more monologues in on Rogers. He's not gonna
be around very much longer. Holy crap, man alive. I've
smere the last twenty years of my life talking about
his cat Rogers and man and just grumpy, you know,

(07:01):
typical one. Things aren't going well, you're disengaged, you're not
fired up. Here. He's like trying to do a fill
in for a Sesame Street character, Oscar the grouch, grouchy, grouchy, grouchy,
grouchy grouchy man a lot. Let's say, were playing in
a swamp. The Steelers offense, nothing, nothing going on. Third
down for Aaron Rodgers, it was bad. So they had

(07:24):
that limited edition orthopedic shoe for Rogers, and you half
expected him in the third quarter just to crawl back
into the trash can the way that he was playing,
and you, of course what it was he distracted because
you know his imaginary wife was there, maybe his real wife.
I don't know who knows. He's in yours house in Malibu,
although I think he's moving. I don't know what's going

(07:44):
on with that. But it's week ten. There are no
more excuse like the first five weeks. Well, it's early,
we'll figure it out. Nothing to worry about. It's week ten.
We are past the midway point. What are you doing?
This is who you are. The trade deadline is over.
There's no reinforcements coming in to save the day. This

(08:05):
is what you got. Now are we discounting the Chargers? Here?
Are the Chargers a really good defense? Then we're they're
good defense. I don't know that. I would say really good,
and I would argue based on both watching the game
on the monitor and I'm flipping down with my own eyeballs.
It seemed more case of these were self inflicted wounds

(08:26):
by the Pittsburgh Steelers in this game. So, using the
Malor scale of concern, the Malor scale of concern one
to ten, with ten being the worst of the worst
of the worst, I'm at a nine. I'm out of nine.
Am I being a prisoner of the moment? Probably so?

(08:47):
Probably so? But I'm at a nine. I just I'm
telling you what I just watched. That is not a
guy that's gonna win a playoff game. That is not
a guy that looks like he's even gonna make the playoffs.
That was bad. That was bad No One game. Blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. But that's all I
have to do this show right now, It's all I
have to go out. He sucked. Rogers was garbage in

(09:08):
that game, Okay, And if this keeps up, forget a quarterback,
coach or a wide receiver, He's gonna need a lifeguard
because he's drowning. The whole offense is drowning out. There
was a gigantic Turnberger is what they served up there.
And Rogers. Now, he said after the game that he
feels good, and that he'll play better and you know
he's gonna do better decision making and all that. Come on,

(09:31):
all right now, turning the page. As for the big
picture again, better story in the losing locker room now.
Mike Tomlin also said regarding the situation, this steelser and
he said, there's quote nothing mystical about it. He said,
he says we'll be back, he claimed, will be better.
We have to be close. Quote from the very verbose

(09:55):
Mike Tomlin. A good SoundBite, really good sound bite, Mike
TOMPI sound bite coach. We don't do lists. I'm just saying,
top five sound bite coach. Big board, not list, big
board not list. So the question here it is how
much stalk? How much stalk do you put into Mike
Tomlin promising that these Steelers will be back, will be back?

(10:18):
Is the quote for Mike Tomlin. So my first reaction,
much like when Aaron Rodgers says, hey, uh, you know,
I feel good, We'll play better, when Mike Tomlin says
something similar, it's like, well, what else are you supposed
to say? Like you imagine if Tomlin had come out
as the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers and say well,
we stink boys, We'll just shut it down. Get ready
for next year. Load management, lot management. He can't say that,

(10:41):
So it's coach speak. One oh one. You got to
say something and so we'll be back. Is just Tom
liniese What is tomlines It's a we're not going to
forfeit yet. Now we're not. We just decided not to forfeit.
We'll try to play the game. Congratulations. So the Steelers
are going to show up next week and the Steelers
can say hellllelujah, hellelujah. Now why can't they say hall?

(11:06):
The problem is not the pep talk. Pep talk really
means all that much. It's the quality control of the
product that has not been consistent. The defense was atrocious
the beginning of the year. The defense has played a
little bit better now. The offense falls apart one thing.
It's like playing whack a mole, like you got one problem,
you slap that down, and then another one pops up

(11:27):
on me. Way, I only got two halves, I only
got two hours. What he's supposed to do, And so
Rogers looked like watching him play in the first half
of that game and into the third quarter, it looked
like he had gone out prior to the game and
he was tailgating with like Joe Rogan, even though Rogan

(11:48):
lives in Texas, but they some have maybe flew out
to La. They were tailgating. They had like a frosty
mug of ayahuasca. And Rogers went out there and he
was seeing demons to the right, and he was seeing
aliens to the left. And it was wild, wild goes spook.
It was a comedy of errors, is what it was.

(12:10):
And now the good news is and I said, hallelujah,
the good news is up next be ben Gals. They suck.
If you don't have success on offense against the Cincinnati Bengals,
then you might want to go and get your pulse
check because you might be dead. Okay, they suck. So
that's the good news. That's the silver lining playbook for

(12:31):
Mike Tomlin and for Aaron Rodgers. You got Cincinnati their
easy mark. You still got to show up. You gotta
win the game. You'll get a focused Pittsburgh team next week.
The question is is this going to be what Rogers
is the rest of the way. Who knows. But Mike
Tomlin can talk about and he loves the quote the

(12:52):
standard is the standard. It's the iconic Mike Tomlin quote
from his time in Pittsburgh with the if you look
at the drive through menu board right now, if you
look at the drive through menu board there, it says
here and you can look it up. It says a
standard lately has been mediocrity. And then they've got a
side dish with the combo on the drive through menu.

(13:12):
You've got mediocrity and then a side of false hope
aside of false hope. So you've got a little bit
of that, a little bit of this. It's all kind
of mixedgether now. The last word among and I did
see this was multitasking, and people were telling me old
stories that they didn't really want to hear, but they
kept on me anyway. The other storyline was the crowd,

(13:35):
and it's not new. It's been this way ever since
the NFL left Los Angeles for a generation. Came back.
Certain teams that have a rich history packed the stadium,
in this case the Pittsburgh Steelers. It might as well
have been in the confluence there where they formed the

(13:55):
Ohio River, the Monongahela and the Allegheny give birth to
a baby. I might as well have had that. They
had a little man made lake out front so far
that they have there. But the NBC cameras you couldn't
help but miss it. You couldn't, You couldn't avoid it,
is what I'm trying to say. The cameras showed, Now
we were shocked by it, shouldn't be shocked by. It

(14:17):
was happens every time they play a legacy team like
the Packers, Steelers and the forty nine Ers, teams that
have huge followings. So the cameras kept showing these Steeler
fans waving the terrible towels, and a buddy of mine
in the press box is like, hey, did they give
those out? I said, why would they give out terrible towels?
That's a Pittsburgh thing, you dummy. They don't give those out,

(14:40):
but it looked like it. It was like a promotion.
Everyone had one. Everyone had a Terrible towel. At one point,
I think the Charger fans started holding them up there
were like, hey, they're yellow, we'll make it about that.
So you had Mike Tariko on the broadcast. He said,
and he was being generous when he said, sixty five percent,
he estimate a pro Steeler crowd at sixty five percent.

(15:03):
Other estimates said seventy percent. I did the malor math
and I was there, so boots on the ground, I
said seventy five percent. Steeler fans seventy five percent. The
place was packed. It was absolutely packed, everyone in the
house there with the black and yellow, black and yellow,
black and yellow, black and yellow, all that. So the

(15:24):
question is this embarrassing for the NFL that you have
an island game, island game Sunday night football. Yet again,
Chargers there and they've been in LA for a while
now and they have not been able to develop a
fan base in LA. And here's the latest example example

(15:45):
A your honor the defense now rest, so listen. It
is I would not say it's embarrassing. I'm looking. I'm
not gonna use the word embarrassing. The word that should
be used to you, and I like words. Inevitable is
the word I will use. So I'm gonna use the
word inevitable. And the reason I'm using the word inevable
the Chargers ghosted San Diego. You know how you're saying

(16:07):
you a date and you might just you know, you
go out and date, you get a free meal, you
blow the other person off it, I'm gonna contact them again.
So the Chargers ghosted the city of San Diego. Now
you know some of you know, I started in radio
in San Diego. I was there as a young lad.
The Chargers got to a Super Bowl. The town was electric.
It was a loyal fan base of Charger fans in

(16:27):
San Diego, and the franchise, the Spanos family, said screw you,
We're done and that's it. And so they they and
I know this guy, I've had this explained to me
by some people that work for the Chargers years ago.
When they first came to LA, they said, listen, we're
gonna get a certain percentage of people that are going
to drive up from San Diego, and they're gonna make

(16:48):
the drive every Sunday. It's gonna be a thing. And
then they're gonna go back. And so they figured they'd
have that, and then they'd add slowly, they'd add fans
in LA. Could not have been more wrong, couldn't not
have been more wrong. I love when really educated people
who have gone through all of academia have had all
that crap and they just are complete morons. People. There's

(17:12):
a few Charger fans that make the trip up in
San Diego very few. The town's pretty much like, screw you,
we hate all things LA. We're not going up there.
You people come down here on the weekends and run
amok in our city. So we're out. And so you
can't just reboot a fan base like you can reboot
a computer or a phone. It's not the way it works. Obviously.

(17:35):
You certainly can't get all of a sudden loyal large
numbers of loyal fans. There are loyal Charger fans, just
not many, not many of them. And you know, San
Diego say what you want, military towns, surf for town,
all that. But they did love the Chargers. They did,
and they were rewarded with the bird from the NFL
and from the Spanos family. So the reality is hardly

(17:57):
anybody cares about the Chargers in LA. They're just kind
of background noise, if you will, in between commercials and
they pop up and you're like, why is the Charger game?
I don't want to watch the Charger game. Why don't
we get another game? Well, that's the game because they're
in LA, so you get to charge again, but I
don't want the charge of it. But that's the game.
That's what you get. Nine years they've been back. It's
been nine years already. The Chargers have been back in

(18:18):
LA and most of the time they're playing road games
and it doesn't affect the outcome. And I'm not gonna
say people make a big deal about it. They love
to talk about home field, ev it doesn't. The Chargers
won this game. It was a Steeler home game. The
Rams win most of their home games. When there's other
fans from other teams, it doesn't matter. It feels good
if you're a fan of another team, Like I know,

(18:40):
the Niner fans love when they come to LA to
play the Rams and it's like a Niner home game.
They love it. Lin Ms win most of the time.
When the other team has more fans than the Chargers,
it doesn't affect them. But it does take at least
a generation, at least a generation to cultivate to grow.
If you're a farmer, it takes a generation to grow

(19:01):
on fan base. Right, twenty years, it's been nine So
if you do the math on that, eleven more years,
Holy crap, we're looking at twenty thirty six. Twenty thirty
six Before you start to feel any kind of local,
local family. And that's the kids that became charge of
fans that now have become adults and then they're starting
families and crap like that. That's what that is. Now

(19:22):
you can fast track it. You can fast track it
the way you would fast track it is to win
a couple of super Bowls, because everyone's a front runner.
Everyone's a band wagner, as Blair and Maine likes to say,
and so you can zip things along a little faster.
The Chargers don't look like a super Bowl team to me.
Do they look like a super Bowl team to you?
They don't look like a super Bowl team to me.
They like a typical middle of the pack good team,

(19:43):
not great team where five things happen, right, meaning a
couple of quarterbacks break their ankles or whatever. You could
go to the super Bowl. Other than that, eh, you know,
they'll win their ten or eleven games, and they'll be
a playoff team and they're losing the first or the
second weekend of the NFL playoffs, and that'll be that.
And so meanwhile, the Steeler fans generation, which under the

(20:05):
mathot so nineteen seventies, the Great Steeler teams with Terry
Bradshaw on that great defense. And so you fast forward
out for those people in the seventies had kids, so
then they became adults in the nineties. So then those
people they had kids maybe in the twenty tens, right,

(20:26):
So now we're on to another generation of Steeler fans.
And it was crazy, man. I was looking around. I
saw her buddy, Eddie, the Great Eddie Garcia caught up
with him, had a little pow wow with Eddie down there.
He had full Steeler gear on. I couldn't find him
because he had full Steeler gear. If you want to
stand out, you should want to charge your jersey. I
would have found him right away. Was King EDDI right there.
But it was like a black and yellow, black and

(20:47):
yellow circus. It was like Halloween had continued here and
it was like a pajama party mixed with Halloween. There
were dudes with homemade costumes. It was pretty pretty intense.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Man.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
These guys spent a lot of time and effort to
come up with the right look. And some of it
was store bought, you know. Some of it was just
what you can find online. But it looked like there
were some things I had never seen before. I saw
a lot of Steely McBean, which is I thought that
was kind of a mascot. Eddie hated the mascot, but
I saw a lot of shirts with Steely McBean on
it and all that stuff.

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Let's go to the coaching care So round and round
and round and round and round and round the coaching carousel.
So on a giving year, anywhere from seven to ten
coaches typically get whacked in the NFL. That's normally how
this goes. Seven to ten coaches typically get whacked in
the NFL. And so it got cranked up on Monday.
We anticipated that somebody was going to lose their job

(22:20):
when the sun rose in the east on Monday. We
talked about this in the Overnight Show in a previous episode,
and it turns out that we were correct. We weren't
sure whether it would be the head coach or one
of the coordinators. But it turns out if you did
not hear by now, perhaps not. We have learned that
the gat alright, hey and t s Giants they fired

(22:40):
coach Brian day Ball. He gon' he's out here, Na
La day go bye. He's out. Brian dave Ball moving
on from the coaching ranks. There head coach of the Giants,
and he's out way through his fourth season of suckage

(23:03):
with the Giants two and eight record, two and eight.
Oh Man offensive quarner Mike Kofka will take over as
the interim coach at one point, a up and coming
star and the coach he ranks and not lately, but
he'll be the interim coach. Always watch out for that
interim coach. You always want to avoid giving the full

(23:24):
time job to the interim coach. If you don't believe me,
look up Romeo Crennell. Anyway, so the move made by ownership.
It came a day after the Giants did the impossible.
They've been a laughing stock of a franchise and they
embarrassed themselves some more with that double digit blown lead

(23:45):
yet again against the man that has the manny and
the petty down Pat Caleb Williams and Chicago as the
Bears came back down ten and we talked about Greg Olsen,
the Fox broadcaster who put the coach, Brian day Ball
on blast. Normally, when a broadcaster goes after a coach
or a player, they've been given the green light to

(24:07):
do that. So Olsen, it turns out he blasted Brian Daball.
He must have known if the Giants did not win
that game that the coach was going to be fired,
and he was. He was whacked. That's it. So Joe Shane,
the most amazing part of this is this guy, Joe Shane,
not spelled like that, will remain as the general manager

(24:29):
of the Giants. Yeah. John Mara and the other ownership
people there said that the GM will lead a search party.
It's a rescue and recovery mission for the franchise, which
sucks now. Day Ball. The second coach number two that
has been has been let go as Brian Callahan, whose

(24:55):
team as to quote cam Ward we asked that was
his quote about to tell Titan. So the we ass
coach got let go. He was let go after six games.
Titans started out one in five and they have not
won since then. So as far as the Giants not
everyone is pleached, which blows me away, like this seemed
like one of those moves in sports that no one

(25:17):
would have a problem with. How would you possibly justify
keeping Brian day Ball as the coach? It makes no sense.
But sure enough, there are people of some prominence depending
on who you give prominence to, that are on the record,
on the record stating that this is not a good move.

(25:39):
Some of the commentary coming in from the NFL, the
poor Brian day Ball crowd, it's not fair. It's not fair,
led by who else but that dunce Dan Orlovsky, the
man that famously playing for the Ohen sixteen Lions decided
to run out of the back of the end zone.
That guy is now giving football commentary on television. That's right, yes, anyway,

(26:03):
Dan Olasky and the usual other NFL pity Party crew.
They're like, oh man, this is a mistake. This is
a mistake, saying the Giants should have let Brian day
Ball finish what is essentially like a love story with
Jackson Dart, the coach and the player Jackson Dart there

(26:24):
because they had I love this good chemistry bull crap,
all right, So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question did Brian day Ball deserve
more time? Did the Giants not give him enough time
to coach Jackson Dart the prodigy from Old Miss, and

(26:49):
did he not get the fair shake with the Giants?
So on this one, I've got tender Muppet babies and
Windy's and we will combine all of these things together
and we're going to put that in a deep frier
because anything in a deep fryer just tastes good. Just
anything fried just as delicious. So number number, you can

(27:12):
tell who Brian Dayball's buddies are in the media. It's
not that hard to test. I'm not that bright. I
do an overnight show, but I know the people right
now that are advocating and that are preaching and singing
the gospel about Brian Dayball. They are in the tank.
They are in the tank. They're all his media buddies.

(27:32):
And like I said, the word on the street is
that Brian Dave Ball is a great guy. Everyone loves
hanging out with him, which is how he was able
to keep the job that he was unfit for for
as long as he kept the job with the Giants
and all these guys trying to convince you, you and
me that the Giants were building something. What were they building?

(27:53):
They were building an outhouse is what they were building. Okay,
there's one problem with his building the offense up. The
offense was dial up Internet. That was the Giants offense.
But what about that game when he scored a lot
of plays? Okay, what about the other games? What about
the other games? I don't have any skin in the game,
But it was past time for the Giants here to

(28:16):
go on tender and swipe left, not right, not right,
swipe left unattractive. Brian day Ball has been living off
borrow time. There's only so many days you get. Well,
I'm the guy that coached up Josh Allen. I'm the guy.
What about me, George Allen? No, shove it up your tuckers,
with Josh Allen living on borrow time in that Fluke

(28:40):
fugase playoff situation a couple of years ago. You go
two and eight this year, uh, and since Coach of
the Year he somehow won that eleven and thirty three.
That is a brown bag situation, as in brown backett,
pack your stuff up in a brown bag and get
out of here. And enough. Brian day Ball overall forty losses,

(29:04):
twenty wins and one time twenty games under five hundred,
a three thirty six winning percentage for the now former
head coach of the Giants. Now what does that mean
in Layman's terms? So that means if you look at
the NFL since the merger, there have been one hundred
and sixty six coaches, one hundred and sixty six coaches

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that have met the criteria, and Brian day Ball has
in that group one hundred sixty sixties, ranked one hundred
and fifty fourth, So he's in the ninety third percent tile,
which means ninety three percent of all coaching hires have
been better than Brian Dayball. But yet his buddies get

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on television. Who's not in full and Jackson Darden, Oh
my god, they're acting like the these day Ball stands
are acting like they just the Giants just got rid
of Sean McVeigh two point zero. You combine Sean McVay
and the late Steve Jobs or someone along that isa, well,
no no, no, no, no no no. Even the movie

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Man Moving Man matchs like, well, this is ridiculous. Guess what.
Brian day Ball is not innovating anything. I'm sure he's
great over a prime rib dinner that's paid for by
the Giants and a nice bottle of alcohol and the
whole thing at a dinner. Do I want him coaching
an NFL team? No?

Speaker 3 (30:29):
No.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
The Giants offense for the most part, you're gonna judge
him by the full body of work has been prehistoric,
prehistoric with Brian day Ball as the coach. And as
far as the whole chemistry experiment, this is not junior
high school chemistry. And I don't know where that's coming from.
I don't see it. Do you see it? I don't.

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I must be missing something. There's got to be a disconnect,
because I don't see any sign that this is going
as good as some of these idiots are saying. So
pump the breaks, Pump the break, Jackson Dart, whether or
not he makes it or not, will have nothing to
do with Brian Dayball nothing. And they're making it seem

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like he's a top five quarterback in the NFL right now.
It's because of the scheme for Brian day Ball the coach,
and everybody's being held back. And now this evil ownership
in the front office is involved in all this stuff.
It's like, is he a top ten quarterback? No? Is
he a top fifteen. No, He's right in the middle.
He's an average NFL quarterback. Jackson Dart is ranked eighteenth

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in the NFL. He is right now, he's in a wedgie.
He's wedged between Jaden Daniels, who's always hurt these days,
and CJ. Stroud, who's also missing games because of concussions
and other things here. So those are the two guys
right there. On one side, you got Jayden and Daniels.
On the other side you got c J. Stroud there,
And for the most part, those other quarterbacks have been

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like day Old Seltzer. It's just not that great for
Jayden Daniels or CJ. Stroud. Now, as far as Jackson Darty,
jury is obviously still out there. Is no formal decision
that has been made here, and they'll say, oh, he'll
figure something out. But the whole chemistry thing, I was like, dude,
come on, that tells you that they have no argument

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to keep the coach, because there'd be no reason, absolutely
no reason to bring that up, no reason if there
was something tangible like chemistry is just made up sports gibberish.
It's something that dumb people say. It's like momentum, chemistry, momentum.
It's all bull crap that people just get taught when

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they're kids and they just couldn't get They repeat it
because they're lazy and all that stuff. And so yeah,
I always bring this up because I used to cover
the NBA a lot, and I covered the Clippers in
the nineties, and they those guys, they loved each other.
Late nineties, early two thousands. They had a guy named
Darius Miles and oh he was the life of the party.
Quentin Richardson, those guys hung out together all the time.
They were playing video games on the road. They went

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out to dinner and meals and all that. And they
not play basketball to save their life. They sucked, but
they got they got along while that great chemistry, Greg chemistry.
Oh Man Anyway, turning the page, So the question now
becomes Who's got next? Who's got next? Lane Kiffen has
entered the chat. Lane Kiffen and Clint Kubiak. Huh who Yeah?

(33:23):
Lane Kiffin and Clint Kubiak are among the betting favorites
as the body is not yet cold for Brian day
Ball in terms of coaching the Giants, and already the
talk is Lane Kiffin and Clint Kubiak among the favors
to be the next head coach of the Giants. So
how would that play? How would that play with the

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bass with the Giants? If this assume for the purposes
of this monologue that those are the two guys. So
how would that play? So what you have here, you
have the Muppet babies is what you've got? You've got,
or actually the net Bole Babies would be a better
way to discribe. You've got the net Bole babies. You've
got the sons of former NFL big shots Monty Kiffen

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and Gary Kubiak. Monty Kiffin, the father of the Tampa two.
All right back in the day, Gary Kubiak, John Elway's caddie,
who hold he held the clipboard for John Elway. Both
dads coached a long time in the NFL, and certainly
Monty Kiffen considered roy he died, I think it was

(34:25):
last year, but he considered royalty because of the Tampa
two defense, which is still mimicked by a bunch of
teams in the NFL, and not so much Gary Kubiak.
But if you look around, all right, both of them
NEPO babies, So we know that going in. What is
an internet meme and the other ones just kind of there.
I think we know who the internet meme is. The
other guy, Clint Kubiak, is like a carbon neutral coach.

(34:50):
He's a carbon neutral coach. Now what does that mean.
That means there's no real carbon footprint, no noise, no headlines,
nothing gets you all excited. Just a guy with the
right last name who went into the family business and
because his dad he got him connections. He was able
to get some jobs and he's currently working in Seattle

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and things are going well for the Seahawks. And Sam Darnold,
who played well last year in minnesota's playing well again
in the regular season until it's a big game, and
then he rides the vomit comet and so because of that,
and there's really a supply chain shortage of coaches. The
name Clint Kubiak has been mentioned for the Giants. Now
Lane Kiffin. Meanwhile, all right, so Lane Kiffen would bring

(35:34):
the full circus parade, and I'm there for I Am
talking elephants, camels, zebras, clown cars, the whole shebang. There'll
be a thing of a jig and watch you m
call Oh, I'm all for it. He's the ultimate look
at me coach? Is there any coach more about looking

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at me than Lane Kiffen. Everything he does is for
the matrix. He's full immersed in the fake world of
social media. He is. He's the ultimate look at me
guy in college football. He could get any college football
job he wants. Really, he's like the big name that
could get any job he wants. But you'd much rather

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a coach in the NFL. College football is a joke
compared to the NFL. You'd much rather coach in the NFL.
All these guys want to coach in the NFL. And
Lane Kiffin, though, here's the thing. He would turn the
Giants into a reality show. It would be a content superstore.
For those of us that do sports talk radio, man, Now,
would it work? Probably not? Probably not, wouldn't work, but

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it doesn't matter. I don't care about that. It'd be
a fun thrill ride, be pretty cool, right, you know,
lots of loopty loops and maybe a few barf bags
mixed in. For Lane Kiffin with the Giants, the problem,
he's got to get the job. The Giants are so
buttoned up as a franchise, so conservative, that's the family

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brand for the New York Giants. Doesn't seem like they'd
go for Lane Kiffin striking a pose at the thirty
five yard line and they wouldn't liked it all right,
So there you go. And the fact that the Giants
are going to allow this guy, Joe Shane allegedly to
continue as the gym. We'll see if that actually happens

(37:21):
when we get to the end of the year. Feeling
there could be a switch roo on that one that
he doesn't seem like he's willing to go off off
the grid on a coach, and so you're going to
bring in another coach, but you're going to keep the
general manager, which means the coach and GM are not aligned.
And so you're essentially rearranging the furniture on the Exxon Valdize.

(37:45):
It's not going very well. It's gonna be a big
oil spill there, and so so much for the full reboot.
You know, turn the computer off, turn it back on.
Wait a minute, blah blah blah, blah blah. Now someone's
gonna take the job. It pays very well. It's New
York while it's New Jersey. And yeah, you get paid
a lot in taxi and I guess you can get
free free bus rides. If he coached the Giants, you
get free cheese at the government store. So that'll be good.

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And there's only thirty two of the jobs, So there
you go. You know, so somebody will take it. And
if it's laying kiffing, buckle up, I'm there for it.
Why not. It's gonna be gonna be loud, and it'll
be fast and will likely crash and burn spectacularly. But
that's fine, all right. Final point. So, now that Brian
Dayball has been decommissioned as the coach of the Giants,

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what do you think happens? Suddenly he becomes hot to trot.
He becomes the hottest offensive mind on the market, the
guy that just proved he can't get the job done
as a head coach. He was horrific in that job,
one of the worst coaches in the ninety third percent
tile as a head coach, and his resume actually got

(38:53):
better from getting canned, actually got better from getting canned. Yeah,
So okay, that's that's the way it is. So they
asked the Buffalo Bills he used to work in Buffalo.
His claim defend the reason he got the Giants job
is because he was credited with Josh Josh Allen could
not even eat his food without being being cut up

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and all that, and he was eating baby food until
Brian Daball came in and so Buffalo coach Sean McDermott
was asked about this and basically said, now, we're good.
When asked whether or not Brian da Ball would be
joining the Giants joined the Bills from the Giants and
some kind of fluff, no show consulting job which all

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these guys get, you know, paid a lot of money,
fly in, you know, text a few times a day,
that kind of thing. So when asked about a reunion,
he essentially said, we're good. So the question is this
with Brian Dable on the market the Buffalo Bills underachieving
this season. What was that response by McDermott about why
would you not at least text and say come buy sometime.

(40:04):
I'll get you a creampuff. You can have a cream
puff and watch Josh Allen practice. So my theory on this,
and I don't think I'm wrong on it, is this
is personal to totally dismiss this is a personal situation,
like the old marketing campaign for Windy's back in the day.
Where's the beef. Where's the beef? Now here's the beef.

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There's clearly a beef there. And if there was no beef.
If there was no beef, then you'd say, well, we'll
talk to him, but we like our coaching staff, we'll
see you never know, he might not want to coach.
He didn't say anything. McDermott and day Ball, I remember
if I'm doing monologues about this back in the day,
and went back and I checked some of my notes
and they were not they were not best buds at

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the end. In fact, there was a lot of chatter
that you're not gonna see McDermott and day Ball splitting
chicken wings at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo. It's not
gonna happen. They were loggerheads, didn't really like each other
all that much. And McDermott was, I believe, jealous of
the amount of attention that the day Ball coaching genius

(41:16):
was getting and getting credited by all the TV guys
for propping up Josh allen Wood above me and all
that stuff. So day Ball now he has been type cast.
He has been type cast as a good coordinator and
a bad head coach, the kind of a guy that
will keep getting gigs year after year after year after

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year until the next offensive fad comes along and then
he will be persona non grata. Brian David that's the
NFL's comfort food. It's saying, well, we want he's got
coaching experience, head coaching experience. Yeah, but he suck. Doesn't matter,
he's got coaching experience. You know, same names. They just
get reshuffled around the NFL and there is a apply

(42:00):
chain shortage on available coaches. But you just microwave the resume.
That's it. Serve it up again. Go to a new
town like the carpet baggery that you are.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
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Speaker 4 (42:25):
Not?

Speaker 1 (42:25):
All right, let's do it. Here we go. We have
our matchup here. We have Grant in Kansas City and
Jed who fled? I believe Jed deferred? Is that correct?
He chose not he didn't choose a category right away.
I'm hearing a lot of feedback which is not particularly
great here. So what are the categoyies again? Coop here?
What are we doing here?

Speaker 4 (42:45):
We have regulate and you don't stop game, don't wait?
And I want it all you have? I won it
all with Grant?

Speaker 1 (42:50):
All right? I want it all? Are you ready there, Grant?
Let go? All right? For these athletes all won MVP
and championships in the same season. We'll put forty five
sections on the clock. Were on our way and go.
He was Larry Bird's rival with the Lakers in the eighties. Yes,
the greatest running back, leading all time leading rusher in

(43:11):
NFL history for the Cowboys. Yes, play just won the
World Series with the Dodgers. He was traded from the
Red Sox. He's played shortstop this year. Was an out
it was an outfielder, all right. Greatest Bronco running back
of all time. He helped John Elway win two Super Bowls
late in Lway's career. No close. Nicknamed Pops for the

(43:37):
Pittsburgh Steelers in the nineteen seventies. A giant home run
hitter for the Pirates. We are family, all right. Brooklyn
Dodger Catcher was in a car accident, was paralyzed. No A,
thirty points, thirty points.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
Mookie Betts was who he wanted, and Terrell Davis not to.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Willie Starge was Pops and Roy Camp all.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Right, Jed, we have regulate. These athletes are all from
Long Beach, California.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
I'm sure Jet's familiar with Long Beach.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
For the LBC forty five seconds on the clock, let's begin.
This guy was the triple double guy. He started his
career with Oklahoma City. Yes, butt fumble quarterback for the Jets.
Mark Yes, mister Padre best Padre ever. This guy is
a forty two year old tight end who's still in

(44:34):
the league. He started with the Jaguars out of u
c l A. Yes, uh, this guy was a linebacker
for the Patriots and the Tom Brady era.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
He beat somebody up in a nightclub.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Nope, nope, all right, the female tennis player, she had
the square glasses. She's a lesbian marking. No billy Jeane King.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
All right, great, we need seven, we need over seven.
Grant you want and you don't stop or game? Don't
wait wait, Okay, these athletes did not bother playing in college.
It didn't matter. Are you ready? Forty five seconds? Run
away and go?

Speaker 3 (45:22):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
The star for the Lakers out of Akron, Ohio. He
played with the Cavaliers in the Heat. All right, yes,
what an MVP with Orlando. He was a center, not
Shaquille O'Neill, though out of Georgia. Played high school ball
in Georgia. Played with the White Yes, that is correct.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
He was a number two pick by the Chicago Bulls.
Out of Southern California. He was a center. Played in
the early two thousands with Chicago. Nope, all right, Uh,
we're out of time. We want we congratulations, grant. Maybe
you'll learn nokie Betts. Maybe you'll learn about milky bets

(46:01):
next time. All right, milky bets