December 6, 2025 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about the Los Angeles Rams getting upset by the Carolina Panthers and what this does to Matthew Stafford's MVP campaign, Drake Maye and the Patriots beating up on the Giants to stay #1 in the AFC, Maller's Mountain of Money: Woody Allen Edition, and more!
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So it's a blessing and curse. It's it's usually Sunday nights,
like the most important game. Not this game. It wasn't
wasn't that big a game. So we can go somewhere else,
and we're gonna start our lead this hour to begin
the week. We're gonna start in the Queen City, the
Hornets Nest, the banking capital of the South. We head
to Charlotte, where Matthew Stafford was leading the l R
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I AM into a show up and win game. At
least that was a theory going in. You show up
and you win. The RAM bandwagon stopping in North Carolina
to play the lowly Panthers and the inconsistent, often terrible
Bryce Young at quarterback. There that was the match. I
don't know if you watch this game or not. It
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was regional cover. You have. Most people these days have
access to different ways to watch games, some of them legal,
some of them not so much. All right, so you
didn't see this, perhaps not as you missed this game
someone named Chris Jackson. That's kind of a generic dad.
Chris Jackson returned in interception forty eight yards. He plays
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for the team from North Carolina for a touchdown, and
the Panthers ended up forcing not one, not two, but
three Matthew Stafford turnovers and they get one at the end.
By the way, oh my god. The Rams were in
field goal range to tie the game late in the
game and numb knots Stafford fumbles the ball away thirty
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one to twenty eight the final as the Panthers are
and get the upset when that is their Super Bowl. Congratulations.
Greatest moment in Carolina Panther history, that pathetic, sad sack
franchise beating the Rams a regular season win, the biggest
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moment I'm convinced, based on a quick look at my email,
in the history of that pathetic franchise. And I'm honored.
I'm honored that beating the Rams in a regular season
game is the greatest accomplishment the team's ever had. Somewhere,
Jake de Lolme's at a horse track said what about me? Oh,
come on, we were in the Super Bowl, okay, but
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a better story is in the losing locker room. Matthew Stafford,
who entered the game with a league high thirty touchdown passes,
including eighteen in the past five games, and he was
facing a Carolina defense that did not have their starting
cornerback jac Horne. He was out with the injury. The
starting safety got suspended for a little shot to the
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nuts of a forty nine er player, and you had
a short week. The Panthers got their ass kicked playing
the Niners on Monday night on the West Coast, and
that's why they play the games. It's also a good
jumping off point. So let us discuss the question who
gets the blame? Who gets the blame for Sean mcvay's
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Rams losing to Carolina in a game where they gave
that game? Well, Carolina win the game and the game
was gifted by the Rams. So I've got financial advice.
Hot Air, Balloon and toys are us and we will
combine all of these things together, and we are going
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to create some marginal overnight talk radio. Is that what
we're gonna do together. It's what we're gonna do. And
we'll also make some brisket on the side. We'll cook
some brisket in the smoker. We'll put it in a smoker.
We'll cook it for like two days. That'll be the
way we do it, all right, So a anyway you
slice it, literally, any way you slice it. This was
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a clunker from the Rams. It was not some kind
of masterpiece by Caroline. It was we'll call it for
the Rams on the road. It was the Carolina Clunker.
A game with so many unforced errors it should have
had some kind of parental advisory on it, so many
self inflicted ruins. Sean Bavay's Rams were being celebrated all
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week to toast of the NFL. The Rams a team
to beat. Oh my god, yes it was. Everyone went
to seven to eleven, ordered a Rams slurpee. They were
slipping all over the Rams, how great the Rams were.
And then they had to go out and play a game.
And they did not did not rise to the occasion
at all in this game. As the Rams responded by
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playing like a bunch of stumblebums in shoulder pads in
this particular matchup here now right in front of the line,
play the blame game right in front. Obviously, Matthew Stafford.
He's sucked at a time you cannot suck. Here he
played a game of whack a mole with the football,
which generally speaking, not a great idea. But what do
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you know, You're just do the overnight show. I'm just saying,
I'm just saying three turnovers. There were misthrows, the body
language of a man who realized that his GPS was
broken and he was stuck on a dark highway out
in the country somewhere, and he's like, I don't know
what I'm doing here, Stafford. This was a roller coaster
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performance by Stafford. It did have a few nice scenic
views there where he found Devonte Adams for touchdowns and
then boom goes the dynamite for Matthew Stafford upside down,
losing your lunch. All of that. However, now the Simpleton
way is just to merely blame Matthew Stafford. And while
he certainly gets the in this case, lions sharees what
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he Lion's share of the blame. However, Chris, who is
also getting hyped up as a future NFL head coach
and likely will be a future head coach because of nepotism.
So Chris Jula's group the he's the defensive coordinator for
the Rams. They lacked a sense of urgency, like they
looked like they were running for stretchers in that game,
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like they were running an oatmeal, which I don't know
that you want to run through oatmeal. I don't recommend it,
and just heavy footed on defense and messing up. I'm
blundering and bumbling and all those things, a sloppy tackling.
And though the weather wasn't perfect, well, the weather's not
always going to be perfect. And down the line right
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now the Chicago Bears, because the Rams lost, the Bears
of the number one seed in the NFC, which I
would think Soldier Field. I know as a kid, I'm old,
and so I did see the Bears play home games
in Soldier Field and the weather sucked, and that was
part of the deal. So you're gonna if you have
to go there or go to Philadelphia on the road,
you're gonna be playing in bad weather. And just sloppy.
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Tackling was damp and rainy and cold and Charlotte and
it's like they had covered their hands and Carolina barbecue
sauce and slipping through tackles and whatnot. There and not
one forced turn up. You're playing one of the great
stiffs of all time, Bryce Young. We all agree, everyone agrees, right, everyone,
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This guy sucks. And you couldn't turn turn the ball
over one time from Carolina, not one forced fumble, not
one interception playing Bryce Young. Bryce Young, who if you
look at the says, oh yeah, some good stats in
the game, what are you talking about? But if you
watch the game, it's Bryce Young's not the guy to
beat the Rams, He's not. He checked them into a
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nice hotel, went to a nice hotel there, thanked them
at checkout, and got a nice gift basket from the
Rams of you know, the Carolina team got turnovers and
all that stuff. To me, though you mentioned the defense
being bad, Stafford was terrible. That fumble game had gone
to overtime where he kicked a field goal there. Who
knows what happens most likely after that, however, ifs and
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butts were candy nuts, the biggest issue here, and this
is something that you look, Stafford's gonna be fine. I'm
not worried about Matthew Stafford. However, I am concerned about
a Cinderella story. On defense, the Rams picked up a
player named Emmanuel Forbes from Washington who was a first
round pick who got released because of incompetence with the
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team formerly known as the Redskins. And they're using that
financial advice from Emmanuel Forbes. And he had been fine.
I wouldn't say great, he'd been fine or good or whatever.
But now this guy turned into a human ATM machine.
Guys were getting cash right and left for Carolina in
this game, and he burned for a thirty three yard touchdown,
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roasted again for a forty three yard touchdown. It's to
Emmanuel Forbes, who goofed. I've got to know and the
Panthers you'll be a running back combination Chuba Hubbard and
Rica Dell. They were not explosive in this game, but
it was death by a thousand paper cuts for Carolina.
Mcvay's magic did not work. Clearly, only works when the
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weather's okay, not in the rain. Didn't really work there.
So the Rams they gave that game way you are
crowd them, crowd the rash. But they gave that game
away is what they did now turning the page, but
not very far so the MVP race. The question on
this one, does this stinker of a performance by Matthew Stafford,
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the lack of performance in Carolina? Does this now put
the kibosh on the Matthew Stafford MVP campaign? Is that
it now the the MVP race. I went up to
a I went onto a plane and I went like
thirty thousand feet up. I looked down, so I'm looking
down from thirty thousand feet The MVP race went from
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Stafford in the pole position to the pothole position based
on that performance there for Stafford. Here the rams who
entered Carolina, as we said, think it was a toast
of the NFL when you was slurping all over them
and Stafford was in the lead MVP highlights all over
the place, and suddenly he's in the car there. The
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backup camera now turned on there and the bandwagon is
now reversing, So they're now going backwards on the Stafford
MVP bandwagon and they're going down a one way street backwards.
It's not recommended there so it's not Listen, it's not
a kill shot. It's certainly not a kill shot. If
you think that you're just a troll and a loser
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and a punk and a scumbag, it's not a kill shot. However,
think of it like a hot air balloon, and the
balloon's start and go down a little bit. You might
want to get that fire cranked up because it's not
going very well. Now. If you look at Stafford, let's
hit before I get into more, let's hear from Matthew
staff Here's Matthew Stafford, who sucked at a time you
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cannot suck for the Rams here and all those mistakes.
What you gotta say it for yourself, Stafford.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I mean the first one I'm playing that played the
exact same they didn't. I shall getting their hands up tipball.
I mean, that's you know, it's the name of the game.
It's you got to play aggressive, and that's fine. Second one, obviously,
I can't leave that ball inside. Got me in a
nice plays, made a bunch of good plays this year,
but can't leave that one inside and give them seven
on that one.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So that's tough.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And then find a way to hold onto that last
one because we're in.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Field goal range.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You know, give us a chance to tie that thing
up and let just go play defense. So obviously we're
not gonna win a whole lot of games. So I
turned it over three times and hasn't been an issue,
and don't expect it to be moving forward. Just continue
to trust my fundamentals, go out there and play, and
you know, know that I'm doing all the stuff I
can to make sure that I played a high level
and just didn't have them for me today.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
All right, So that was a bunch of nonsense. But
here's the This is a throwback and a reminder that
that's still somewhere in there. There's still a lot of
that stuff. It's a throwback edition of Matthew Stafford. Like
someone dug up the old Lions NFL Films sizzle reel
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from like twenty thirteen or something like that and press play,
and there you go. That's Stafford, the pristine record, Gonzo.
He did set the record, though, Stafford before he started
turning the ball over. He set the NFL record twenty
eight consecutive touchdown passes without an interception. Bye bye, Tom
Brady three hundred and seventeen throws three hundred and seventeen
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throws over ten weeks without an interception, and you can
put that right in the shredder. The first one was
to Nick Scott, who I believe played for the Rams
in the past. So that was a special FedEx delivery
right there. Congratulations on that. Stafford signed for it. Interception boom,
there you go. And so again the campaign buss here,
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the campaign buss just blew a tire. The Matthew Stafford
MVP campaign buss blew a tire. It's on the side
of the interstate right now. But Stafford survives. And the
reason he's still very much alive for the MVP is
because there's nobody else, literally, who else is there. There's
no Ma Holmes meteor shower of touchdowns. Chiefs just lost
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to the Cowboys, pathetic, there's no Lamar laser show, Lamar
not really getting or done. The Ravens also took it
on the chin to the Cincinnati ben Gals, and all
that talk about Aaron Rodgers revival tour, well that's not happening.
So Josh Allen Bill's won. He didn't play very well.
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So what do you got by the process of elimination?
Stafford is still very much in the middle of this.
And you know, you got to take this game as
an outlier. Now. If he starts throwing interceptions right and left,
the Rams play another divisional game next week on the road,
then we'll see is the opening credits of a decline documentary?
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And if not, if not, if this is just a
one off, then you're fine. Carolina is a middle of
the pack team and that's it. They're not a heavyweight.
And you know that the way they celebrate beating the
Rams on the great wins in franchise history, pathetic franchise
that is.
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So we are back at it on a post Monday
night or Tuesday show here heading into the second day
of December, still late on a Monday in the West,
and our lead story some patty Cake fun under the
darkness powered by Moonlight there and it was the final
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game of the week thirteen card in the NFL. Jackson
Dart leading the Giants, they drove the honey wagon into
Foxborough to take on Drake May and the Patriots in
the Commonwealth, Were you watching this game? New had a
sizable favorite the Fox refugees Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
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on ABC. They had the call there on television, So
I don't know if you were checking this game out
or not. It really wasn't much else to watch. I
can't really watch the NBA much during the regular season,
so don't worry. We watched so you would not have
to watch. And let's see what did we see. Let's say, oh, yes, right,
Drake May living up to the hype. He passed for
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a couple of touchdowns to the Patriots. Special teams were
extra special good. They get a Neon eraser Marcus Jones
eric name but not a generic player had a ninety
four yard putt return for a touchdown, and the Patriots
kept the good times rolling along as they become the
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first NFL team into the eleven win club and they
beat up the Giants who aren't so giant thirty three
to fifteen. Good coaching change there for the Giants. That's
fixed that franchise right right from the beginning there. Oh
and three now I believe with the new coach. So
it was the tenth straight win. I'm told that's good
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for the Patriots. Ten straight wins the AFC leaders the
new only Patriot eleven and two on the season, the
franchisees longest winning streak some since some guy named Tom
Brady and some guy named Bill Belichick were there. That
was back in twenty fifteen. So Mike Rabel, who took
some time off because he didn't get a job after
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the Patriots' former Patriot player was let go by the
Tennessee Titans. He was schmoozing at Ohio State. Now he's
in the NFL a game with the Patriots, and Mike
Rabel has become now the third coach since nineteen seven.
It's fifty five years to win ten or more games
in his first season with a new employer. That is
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a good jumping off points. So let us discuss the question,
how would you describe coach Mike Rabel's Patriots the performance
that we saw. Patriots don't play a lot of these
primetime games, so how would you describe the performance of
Mike Rabel's Patriots in the Monday night game. So I've
got us military dance class and nature documentary, and we
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will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make pull barbecue chicken sandwiches. We're gonna make it and they're
gonna be freaking delicious, and you're gonna love them, and
you're gonna gettle baked potato action going the whole thing,
all right, So tell me, yeah, Ay, this was what
we call a boom box game. For the Patriots is
a boom box game. It did not go the way
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I anticipated the game would go, but that's why they
played the games. That's why they play the games. There
Mike Rabel turning the volume up on that boombox to eleven,
all the way up to eleven, smashing the base there
and really sticking it to the giants, and putting them
in the food processor and setting it to pure in
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the first half of this game as it was oh
v e R at halftime games are they pigged out
on a bad opponent. That's what good teams do, beat
bad teams convincingly. And it was like a midweek buffet
special for the Patriots, of course, not midweek, at the
end of the week end, of the weekend beginning of
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the new week. So New England. What they did is
they met expectations. They met expectations period full stop. They
were supposed to win by a lot, They won by
a lot. And this was a team that was a
heavy favorite the Patriots coming into this game end of
a game that if you look at it on a tablet,
you said, well, this was actually a classic trap spot.
And if you watched Benny versus the Penny on YouTube,
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we talked about it on the TV show. We discussed
it that you had the Thanksgiving hangover, you had the
bye week looming, the final week of the Buyser's upcoming
for the Patriots and the Giants as well some other teams.
But the bye week is coming up for them, so
they're going to be in can Con on vacation. And
then you've also got, in addition to that, a makeshift
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offensive line, make shift offensive line, a couple of starters
gone from the Patriots offensive line, and the offensive line
they tossed out there looked like it was something that
was built from a kia ikia and it was not
built following the instruction. You just kind of put it
together there. But none of that mattered, not an ounce
of that matter. It didn't matter in this game. Mike
Rabel squad comes in here and with a level headed approach,
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blue collar, I don't know blue collar again, these guys
are all rich, but that mindset that we always talked
about this dude, take care of do your job with
Belichick used to say. And then they flipped on the
boom box again. They cranked up the volume a little
higher and they hit the Bachmann turner overdrive. Taking care
of business is what they did, was what they did.
They took care of his exactly what you would expect
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them to do. They did no frills, no real razzle
dazzle other than the special teams played. But it was
a scorched earth policy. And the first half of this game.
Barbaric is the word they were barbaric in the first
half of the game, talking US military style, by land,
by sea, by air in this case, by offense, by defense,
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by special teams, all phases of the game. Body blow,
body blow, body blow. And by the time we got
the halftimes, thirty to seven at halftime, thirty to seven,
thirty to seven at halftime, and there was a obese woman,
a fat lady was singing, and right there before the
two minute warning in the first half, she was singing
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and go turn out the last the party is over.
So a wood shed job by the Patriots in this game.
They turned the Giants into mulch is what they did.
They turned them into most Now, as for the hardware,
a lot of discussion MVP, MVP, MVP, Well, Matthew Stafford
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had a dud in his game. He was the MVP
favorite coming into the weekend. Ram's lost to Carolina. That's embarrassing.
So here's Drake May's opportunity to show the world that
he's mister envy pay MVPY. So the question now the
morning after or the few hours after the game here
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as we're talking after that Monday night football win, Patriots
quarterback Drake May, his twenty twenty five MVP campaign, Better,
Worse or the same Drake May's MVP campaign this season,
now thirteen weeks into the campaign on the campaign trail,
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are things better, worse or the same? All right, So
I'm gonna go first. I don't think we should overthink this.
Drake May gave a simpotico performance on the Monday night game.
He was great. It completed almost eighty percent of his passes,
averaged nine yards per pass, had a couple of touchdowns,
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didn't have any mistakes, no turnovers, and had a solid
stat line across the board. Very clean, polished performance by
Drake May. NFL quarterbacking one o one, one oh one.
He was basically the Vale Victorian of error free football,
which is important. Nevertheless, I would say, in terms of
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the actual meat of the matter, let's pump the brakes
on this somehow being a climbing of the latter situation.
I didn't see it that way and it could not
have been why because of the opponent you played, the Giants.
They blow they're two and ten, they benched their top
defensive player, didn't even play the first quarter of the game,
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where you jumped out to a massive lead, and they
came in there and there's like the Giants had play
in the Northeast and it gets cold in New York
with there was thirty degrees at kickoff, and it was
just kind of you wanted to sit inside, somebody would
be outside. They played like snowmen in that way. It
was no snow, but they played like it. They looked
like they needed to jumper cables the Giants and get
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in their stand. They got their doors smashed in this one.
But you don't really win an MVP contest. You don't
win points and gain ground. If you look at the
exit polling, you don't gain ground by beating up the
lazy Bones brigade from the Giants. A lot of lazy
bones there. So it was really dance class and Drake
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May he did the sideway shuffle. Do the shuffle now
you gotta do the shovel. The sideway shove, not a moonwalk.
You didn't move walk forward and didn't do that in
the MVP race. He certainly did not do a pratfall
that didn't happen, didn't go backwards, more like stay in
your light. He stayed in his lane, put on cruise control,
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self driving situation, and just kind of waved politely at
everyone who was outside and look, I'm driving. I'm actually
not driving the cars driving itself. And so the malor mantra,
which we have preached from the bully pulpit for many,
many years here is you don't get extra credit for
doing what you're supposed to do, like your big favorite
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at home. You're supposed to win the game against an
inferior opponent that clearly has quit. That's a bunch of
gutlass Giants players, So hey, do what you're supposed to do.
They did. So the verdict not better for Drake may
on the campaign trail, not worse, the same, the same,
And so it was. It was more of a maintenance
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night situation. No Heisman house moment, no heismanhouse molman here
all right now, last word the story that many people
are freaking out about on the Giant side, and it's
not the fact they've got a bunch of lazy guys
that didn't really want to play this game. After missing
the previous two games. We were hoping for Jameis Winston,
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We were counting on Jameis Winston playing. He did not,
which is disappointing because he's fun bad and Jackson Dart,
who's not terrible. I don't hate Jackson Dart, but I
was looking forward to seeing Jameis Winston play. So Jackson
Dart missed the previous two games with a concussion, and
everyone and their mother yapping about the play if you
saw the game in the first half, was a bone crushing,
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bone crushing hit taken by the Giants quarterback Jackson Dart
on the sidelines that led to a scuffle. There was
a rhubarb that took place right there on the sidelines,
and it was early in the game. Patriots linebacker Christian
Ellis knocking Dart his eyeballs went a little goofy. He
hit him so hard there it was right on the
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sidelines and knocked him, knocked him into the shadow realm.
The hit was was vicious. You don't normally see that
here Dart, Jackson Dart was actually flying like a lawn Dart,
which you don't often see in an NFL game anymore.
Since Dart was still in bounds, there was no penalty
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and no harm, no foul or in this case harm
but no foul. So there you go. Now Everyone's like,
oh my god, we must protect Jackson Dart. We must
save Jackson Dart. Well, here's Jackson Dart. He was asked
about that. Here's what he had to say postgame about
whether or not he's going to change anything.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I understand the question, but like this is like this
is football, Like I'm gonna get hit if I'm in
the pocket or outside the pocket, like it's out.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I feel like I've played this way my whole entire life.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
There shouldn't be like any shocker or anybody if you've
followed along with my career and we're not playing like
we're not playing soccer et here, like you're gonna get hit.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Things happen. It's part of the game. See that, say,
we're not playing soccer football, we're playing football, which is
not football. It's football. There's a difference, all right. So
the question on this one's rather obvious, but we'll address
it to those of you in the back of the room.
So where are you at on the Giants? Jackson Dart saying, Hey,
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I'm not changing the way that I play, even though
he got knocked silly by a Patriot defender. So look,
I'll go first here. I'm good with it. I'm good
with it. I'm not like these other guys freaking out.
Everyone's trying to do a therapy session with Jackson Dart.
I'm not enough, already enough helicopter parenting of quarterbacks. And listen,
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Jackson Dart essentially said, he said, Relax, Francis is what
he said. This is football. It's not bloate class. It's
not the right across the courtyard there's a hot yoga place.
It's not hot yoga, Okay, it's not. It's just something else.
And you know what, I like that. I think that's
that's kind of cool. I'm not a Giants fan. I'm
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not a Jackson Dart fan. I'm a neutral party here.
But if this guy wants to play like that, the
Giants knew what they were getting when they drafted him,
and he wants to play, and it's like he's a throwback,
although he's too young to have been raised with NHL, NHL,
NFL films, those there's NFL films, those VHS tapes with
all the hits and the fiberglass helmets and you know,
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human meat, missiles flying around the field and all that,
and so this is who Jackson Dart apparently is. I
like that he addressed that, like if you followed my career,
like everyone's following Jackson Dart's career. Like, I mean, I
know we're all losers, but we're not that big of
a loser where we're following your career. Dude, so chilled
out on that. But telling Jackson Dart to avoid the
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hits is a kin to asking Kyler Murray to not
play Call of Duty. Now, the Cardinals tried to get
Kyler Murray to not play Call of Duty. They had
to take it out of the contract because the little
fella loves the PlayStation, loves the place. It'd be like
the chief saying, hey, mahomes, can you not eat What
a burger? He loves? Whatater burger? That's what he enjoys.
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Whata burger? What a shot? What a burger? He's all
about that. It's baked into the DNA. So if you're
gonna get Jackson Dart to stop taking hits, you got
to get Kyler Murray to stop being obsessed with video games.
Neither one of those things is going to happen. You
can't take the fangs out of a rattlesnake. Cannot do it.
And by the way, the NFL again they celebrated this,
(29:41):
so this is one of those things again it's like, oh,
those a million years ago boomer Well, okay, maybe it was.
But there was a time where and I remember the
name of it, it was called Thunder and Destruction from
NFL Films, the NFL's Hardest hits, Thunder and Destruction narrated.
It was like a nature doc, a me nry, but
gladiators of a gridiron gladiators. It was great. And and
(30:06):
now all these years later we act like quarterback taking
a hit or getting involved in any kind of contact
is some kind of federal crime. There needs to be
some war tribunal. And I was like, no, that was
kind of cool. I was like, wow, that's what the
NFL was like. Not every single play, every single game. However,
(30:29):
there were points where it happened a couple times a game.
And if Jackson Dart wants to do some cosplay as
a crash test dummy, then let him. He's an adult.
He signed up for the circus. And when you sign
up for the circus, you know, the lions actually do bite.
They're not fake lions, they actually do bite there, and
(30:51):
the elephants will actually step on you. So you might
want to pay attention there, and you're not playing trivial pursuit.
You're not, And so well, there you go. It's the
hurt business. You're in the hurt business. You're either giving
the hurt or you're getting hurt. And things go boom,
and sometimes they go come boom.
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We don't need to play the imaging. Let's welcome in
our contestants. Who do we have here? We've got Rob
in Maine who called up right away. Rob, Hello, welcome.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What's happening waiting on a big old snowstorm up here today?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Benny Black fun I wanted it to happen last night
because I was hoping to watch a snow game. I
didn't get the snow game. I'm bummed out by that.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
We have a few in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Don't worry. Oh look at you, you're back. I thought
you were a Texans fan. No, you're done with that.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
You're back on what they fired Bell?
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I jumped back on.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I got you all right?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Rob?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Who do you want to partner up with? Rob? Rob
goes Okay, ok god, hold on, say, and we have
Mike in Boston. What's going on? Mike? Welcome Mikey. What's up?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Hey?
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are you doing? You're driving around? You're working right now?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Whe are you?
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What are you doing on my way to work? Oh? God?
All right? Well who do you want to partner up with? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (32:11):
You?
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only time Laran is not popular? Is this game right here?
All right? Go ahead?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Cool, all right, gentlemen, this is Malar's Mount of Money,
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Speaker 1 (32:24):
That seems old to me. Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
The categories are take the Money and run midnight in Paris,
husbands and wives and small time crooks and uh Rob
was on first Robbish category.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Would you like take the money and run?
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Alright? And then Mike, how about you? Small time crooks?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Small time crooks? All right, everyone, hold on, do not
hang up. We will have Malars Mountain of Money in
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We've got Mike in Boston who is teamed up with me,
(33:32):
Rob in Maine waiting for the snow teamed up with Coop.
Rob was on the air first. So you will go
with Coop the Woody Allen edition Cooplehop.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Yes, that is correct, right Rob. We have take the
money and run.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
These athletes didn't live up to their mega contracts. We
need the first and last name. Forty five seconds on
the clock. Are you ready, Rob, Rob? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Okay, all right, five seconds let's begin.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
All right.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
He's the quarterback for the Cleveland Browns who loved massages. Yes, uh,
this guy was nicknamed the machine in baseball.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
He was with the Angels for like ten years and
sucked for most of them.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Albert Yes uh.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
This guy was on the Orlando Magic and the Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
His dad was in the NFL. Yes uh. This guy
was a.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Quarterback for the Denver Broncos and the Chicago Bears. His
nickname was Smoking Yes, the rain Man from the Seattle SuperSonics.
Yes uh. This guy was another Angel player, a third
baseman from the Washington National Yes, let's go, and then
a quarterback. He was on the Broncos, but it was
the Texans who gave him a big contract.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Oh didn't get it in no, Yeah, yeah, we're up. Now,
this show Madge done. That was pathetic by Coop and Rob.
Not good at all. We'll show Madge done here. All right, Mike,
here we go. Oh you picked small time crooks. These
athletes have all been caught stealing. Okay you Ready's all right, Mike.
(35:07):
Forty five seconds. We need the first and last name. Runaway.
This guy played quarterback in Florida State. He loved crab legs.
He's now in the NFL with Yes. He was known
as the Juice with the Buffalo Bills. He also like Yes,
currently the coach of the New England Patriots. Yes, known
as Nails for the eighty six Mets. Also played for
(35:27):
the Phillies. Outfielder had a lot of Yes. He was
a quarterback for the Chargers, drafted after Peyton Manning, one
of the great busts in NFL drafteds. No, No before that. Yes,
he played basketball at Notre Dame. He's currently a colleague
of mine here at Fox Sports Radio. He's a college
(35:49):
basketball coach in Wisconsin, Green Bay. Yeah, there you go, Stole, Right,
we didn't get the hundred point in all right, we're tired.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
Crazy match so far?
Speaker 7 (36:00):
All right, Rob, do you want midnight in Paris? Or
husbands and wives midnight?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
All right?
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Uh, these athletes all have at least some French heritage.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Current quarterback
for the Lions, Jared Yes, this guy is the best
player in the NBA right now. Huge guy on the Spurs. Yes,
this guy was nicknamed the Stifled Tower. He was a
(36:28):
center on the Jazz and the Timberwolves. Yes, this guy
was a point guard on the Spurs. He was married
to an actress. Yes, this guy was on the Florida Gators.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Then the Bulls.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
His dad was a tennis player. Let's go.
Speaker 7 (36:43):
This guy was a closer for the Dodgers. Eighty eight
saves in a row or something like that. Eric, Yes,
this guy was a catcher for the Dodgers and the Yankees.
He was from Canada though French Canadian. When he hit
a home on it was Blake with so tough, yeahs
(37:04):
Russell Martin.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
All right, we so let's show Mas done here again.
We got an opportunity, Mike. The opportunity is ours a
close one. All right, here we go, get put forty
five seconds. The category where we have husbands and wives
is that break. These athletes are all married to another athlete. Okay,
you understand, Mike. All right, we'll put forty five seconds
(37:25):
on the clock. We need the first and last name.
Good luck, We're on our way and go. Currently at
the quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, he plays football.
Actually he's no longer a football players on CBS. His
brother plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. J Yes, tight
end for the Believers with the Washington Commanders. He was
(37:45):
a star with the Philadelphia Eagles. He's one of the
Ecker Yes, he a quarterback for Notre name. He's a
talk show host here at Fox Sports Radio. Golden Domer
played with the Cleveland Browns. Sucked in the NFL, though
he's on Fox. Yes, a female Jim this. I was
in a documentary ripping her. She's married to a Chicago
Bears tight end. Uh No, a short stop for the
(38:07):
Red Sox back when they traded him when he won
the World. Yes, a white guy for the He played
for the Knicks. First son of a billionaire out of.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
David.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
We were trying to get David and Simone Biles. Simone Yeah, yeah,
that's all right. Well I ripped Simone Biles and it
made like a Netflix documentary. I had all these middle
aged women yelling at me. It was really fun. Yeah,
they were very upset with my take. I did a
monologue about Simone Biles getting well, yeah she got like
(38:44):
the twisties, and I was goofing on her and then
uh they put it in this documentary and they ripped.
They all these middle aged women were very upset with me. Anyway, Wilson,
it was actually a rare good game. We don't normally
get that.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
You won, so you get a golden ticket there, Rob.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
I've got a Golden chickats.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I'm we didn't get David Lee and what was it?
Brock Oswather was at the last category, Russell Martin and
Russell Martin. So there you go. All right, well, thank
you gentlemen. Good job. There's a Mic and Rob another
edition of Mala's Money. If you like the game, we
play it every week at about this time. If you
don't like the game, we only play it once a week.
(39:24):
So who the hell cares? I mean, lighting up Francis right,
we want to play it once a week. What's a
big deal? Who cares about that one? Once a week?
So that was one of the better games we've had.
I think I would say that's like a top three
game we've had this year. Sweating that was solid. Good job,
good job boys,
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So it's a blessing and curse. It's it's usually Sunday nights,
like the most important game. Not this game. It wasn't
wasn't that big a game. So we can go somewhere else,
and we're gonna start our lead this hour to begin
the week. We're gonna start in the Queen City, the
Hornets Nest, the banking capital of the South. We head
to Charlotte, where Matthew Stafford was leading the l R
(00:54):
I AM into a show up and win game. At
least that was a theory going in. You show up
and you win. The RAM bandwagon stopping in North Carolina
to play the lowly Panthers and the inconsistent, often terrible
Bryce Young at quarterback. There that was the match. I
don't know if you watch this game or not. It
(01:14):
was regional cover. You have. Most people these days have
access to different ways to watch games, some of them legal,
some of them not so much. All right, so you
didn't see this, perhaps not as you missed this game
someone named Chris Jackson. That's kind of a generic dad.
Chris Jackson returned in interception forty eight yards. He plays
(01:35):
for the team from North Carolina for a touchdown, and
the Panthers ended up forcing not one, not two, but
three Matthew Stafford turnovers and they get one at the end.
By the way, oh my god. The Rams were in
field goal range to tie the game late in the
game and numb knots Stafford fumbles the ball away thirty
(01:56):
one to twenty eight the final as the Panthers are
and get the upset when that is their Super Bowl. Congratulations.
Greatest moment in Carolina Panther history, that pathetic, sad sack
franchise beating the Rams a regular season win, the biggest
(02:16):
moment I'm convinced, based on a quick look at my email,
in the history of that pathetic franchise. And I'm honored.
I'm honored that beating the Rams in a regular season
game is the greatest accomplishment the team's ever had. Somewhere,
Jake de Lolme's at a horse track said what about me? Oh,
come on, we were in the Super Bowl, okay, but
(02:36):
a better story is in the losing locker room. Matthew Stafford,
who entered the game with a league high thirty touchdown passes,
including eighteen in the past five games, and he was
facing a Carolina defense that did not have their starting
cornerback jac Horne. He was out with the injury. The
starting safety got suspended for a little shot to the
(03:00):
nuts of a forty nine er player, and you had
a short week. The Panthers got their ass kicked playing
the Niners on Monday night on the West Coast, and
that's why they play the games. It's also a good
jumping off point. So let us discuss the question who
gets the blame? Who gets the blame for Sean mcvay's
(03:22):
Rams losing to Carolina in a game where they gave
that game? Well, Carolina win the game and the game
was gifted by the Rams. So I've got financial advice.
Hot Air, Balloon and toys are us and we will
combine all of these things together, and we are going
(03:43):
to create some marginal overnight talk radio. Is that what
we're gonna do together. It's what we're gonna do. And
we'll also make some brisket on the side. We'll cook
some brisket in the smoker. We'll put it in a smoker.
We'll cook it for like two days. That'll be the
way we do it, all right, So a anyway you
slice it, literally, any way you slice it. This was
(04:04):
a clunker from the Rams. It was not some kind
of masterpiece by Caroline. It was we'll call it for
the Rams on the road. It was the Carolina Clunker.
A game with so many unforced errors it should have
had some kind of parental advisory on it, so many
self inflicted ruins. Sean Bavay's Rams were being celebrated all
(04:26):
week to toast of the NFL. The Rams a team
to beat. Oh my god, yes it was. Everyone went
to seven to eleven, ordered a Rams slurpee. They were
slipping all over the Rams, how great the Rams were.
And then they had to go out and play a game.
And they did not did not rise to the occasion
at all in this game. As the Rams responded by
(04:49):
playing like a bunch of stumblebums in shoulder pads in
this particular matchup here now right in front of the line,
play the blame game right in front. Obviously, Matthew Stafford.
He's sucked at a time you cannot suck. Here he
played a game of whack a mole with the football,
which generally speaking, not a great idea. But what do
(05:13):
you know, You're just do the overnight show. I'm just saying,
I'm just saying three turnovers. There were misthrows, the body
language of a man who realized that his GPS was
broken and he was stuck on a dark highway out
in the country somewhere, and he's like, I don't know
what I'm doing here, Stafford. This was a roller coaster
(05:34):
performance by Stafford. It did have a few nice scenic
views there where he found Devonte Adams for touchdowns and
then boom goes the dynamite for Matthew Stafford upside down,
losing your lunch. All of that. However, now the Simpleton
way is just to merely blame Matthew Stafford. And while
he certainly gets the in this case, lions sharees what
(05:57):
he Lion's share of the blame. However, Chris, who is
also getting hyped up as a future NFL head coach
and likely will be a future head coach because of nepotism.
So Chris Jula's group the he's the defensive coordinator for
the Rams. They lacked a sense of urgency, like they
looked like they were running for stretchers in that game,
(06:18):
like they were running an oatmeal, which I don't know
that you want to run through oatmeal. I don't recommend it,
and just heavy footed on defense and messing up. I'm
blundering and bumbling and all those things, a sloppy tackling.
And though the weather wasn't perfect, well, the weather's not
always going to be perfect. And down the line right
(06:40):
now the Chicago Bears, because the Rams lost, the Bears
of the number one seed in the NFC, which I
would think Soldier Field. I know as a kid, I'm old,
and so I did see the Bears play home games
in Soldier Field and the weather sucked, and that was
part of the deal. So you're gonna if you have
to go there or go to Philadelphia on the road,
you're gonna be playing in bad weather. And just sloppy.
(07:02):
Tackling was damp and rainy and cold and Charlotte and
it's like they had covered their hands and Carolina barbecue
sauce and slipping through tackles and whatnot. There and not
one forced turn up. You're playing one of the great
stiffs of all time, Bryce Young. We all agree, everyone agrees, right, everyone,
(07:23):
This guy sucks. And you couldn't turn turn the ball
over one time from Carolina, not one forced fumble, not
one interception playing Bryce Young. Bryce Young, who if you
look at the says, oh yeah, some good stats in
the game, what are you talking about? But if you
watch the game, it's Bryce Young's not the guy to
beat the Rams, He's not. He checked them into a
(07:45):
nice hotel, went to a nice hotel there, thanked them
at checkout, and got a nice gift basket from the
Rams of you know, the Carolina team got turnovers and
all that stuff. To me, though you mentioned the defense
being bad, Stafford was terrible. That fumble game had gone
to overtime where he kicked a field goal there. Who
knows what happens most likely after that, however, ifs and
(08:05):
butts were candy nuts, the biggest issue here, and this
is something that you look, Stafford's gonna be fine. I'm
not worried about Matthew Stafford. However, I am concerned about
a Cinderella story. On defense, the Rams picked up a
player named Emmanuel Forbes from Washington who was a first
round pick who got released because of incompetence with the
(08:27):
team formerly known as the Redskins. And they're using that
financial advice from Emmanuel Forbes. And he had been fine.
I wouldn't say great, he'd been fine or good or whatever.
But now this guy turned into a human ATM machine.
Guys were getting cash right and left for Carolina in
this game, and he burned for a thirty three yard touchdown,
(08:48):
roasted again for a forty three yard touchdown. It's to
Emmanuel Forbes, who goofed. I've got to know and the
Panthers you'll be a running back combination Chuba Hubbard and
Rica Dell. They were not explosive in this game, but
it was death by a thousand paper cuts for Carolina.
Mcvay's magic did not work. Clearly, only works when the
(09:09):
weather's okay, not in the rain. Didn't really work there.
So the Rams they gave that game way you are
crowd them, crowd the rash. But they gave that game
away is what they did now turning the page, but
not very far so the MVP race. The question on
this one, does this stinker of a performance by Matthew Stafford,
(09:29):
the lack of performance in Carolina? Does this now put
the kibosh on the Matthew Stafford MVP campaign? Is that
it now the the MVP race. I went up to
a I went onto a plane and I went like
thirty thousand feet up. I looked down, so I'm looking
down from thirty thousand feet The MVP race went from
(09:52):
Stafford in the pole position to the pothole position based
on that performance there for Stafford. Here the rams who
entered Carolina, as we said, think it was a toast
of the NFL when you was slurping all over them
and Stafford was in the lead MVP highlights all over
the place, and suddenly he's in the car there. The
(10:13):
backup camera now turned on there and the bandwagon is
now reversing, So they're now going backwards on the Stafford
MVP bandwagon and they're going down a one way street backwards.
It's not recommended there so it's not Listen, it's not
a kill shot. It's certainly not a kill shot. If
you think that you're just a troll and a loser
(10:33):
and a punk and a scumbag, it's not a kill shot. However,
think of it like a hot air balloon, and the
balloon's start and go down a little bit. You might
want to get that fire cranked up because it's not
going very well. Now. If you look at Stafford, let's
hit before I get into more, let's hear from Matthew
staff Here's Matthew Stafford, who sucked at a time you
(10:56):
cannot suck for the Rams here and all those mistakes.
What you gotta say it for yourself, Stafford.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I mean the first one I'm playing that played the
exact same they didn't. I shall getting their hands up tipball.
I mean, that's you know, it's the name of the game.
It's you got to play aggressive, and that's fine. Second one, obviously,
I can't leave that ball inside. Got me in a
nice plays, made a bunch of good plays this year,
but can't leave that one inside and give them seven
on that one.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So that's tough.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And then find a way to hold onto that last
one because we're in.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Field goal range.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You know, give us a chance to tie that thing
up and let just go play defense. So obviously we're
not gonna win a whole lot of games. So I
turned it over three times and hasn't been an issue,
and don't expect it to be moving forward. Just continue
to trust my fundamentals, go out there and play, and
you know, know that I'm doing all the stuff I
can to make sure that I played a high level
and just didn't have them for me today.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
All right, So that was a bunch of nonsense. But
here's the This is a throwback and a reminder that
that's still somewhere in there. There's still a lot of
that stuff. It's a throwback edition of Matthew Stafford. Like
someone dug up the old Lions NFL Films sizzle reel
(11:57):
from like twenty thirteen or something like that and press play,
and there you go. That's Stafford, the pristine record, Gonzo.
He did set the record, though, Stafford before he started
turning the ball over. He set the NFL record twenty
eight consecutive touchdown passes without an interception. Bye bye, Tom
Brady three hundred and seventeen throws three hundred and seventeen
(12:21):
throws over ten weeks without an interception, and you can
put that right in the shredder. The first one was
to Nick Scott, who I believe played for the Rams
in the past. So that was a special FedEx delivery
right there. Congratulations on that. Stafford signed for it. Interception boom,
there you go. And so again the campaign buss here,
(12:43):
the campaign buss just blew a tire. The Matthew Stafford
MVP campaign buss blew a tire. It's on the side
of the interstate right now. But Stafford survives. And the
reason he's still very much alive for the MVP is
because there's nobody else, literally, who else is there. There's
no Ma Holmes meteor shower of touchdowns. Chiefs just lost
(13:05):
to the Cowboys, pathetic, there's no Lamar laser show, Lamar
not really getting or done. The Ravens also took it
on the chin to the Cincinnati ben Gals, and all
that talk about Aaron Rodgers revival tour, well that's not happening.
So Josh Allen Bill's won. He didn't play very well.
(13:27):
So what do you got by the process of elimination?
Stafford is still very much in the middle of this.
And you know, you got to take this game as
an outlier. Now. If he starts throwing interceptions right and left,
the Rams play another divisional game next week on the road,
then we'll see is the opening credits of a decline documentary?
(13:48):
And if not, if not, if this is just a
one off, then you're fine. Carolina is a middle of
the pack team and that's it. They're not a heavyweight.
And you know that the way they celebrate beating the
Rams on the great wins in franchise history, pathetic franchise
that is.
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So we are back at it on a post Monday
night or Tuesday show here heading into the second day
of December, still late on a Monday in the West,
and our lead story some patty Cake fun under the
darkness powered by Moonlight there and it was the final
(15:05):
game of the week thirteen card in the NFL. Jackson
Dart leading the Giants, they drove the honey wagon into
Foxborough to take on Drake May and the Patriots in
the Commonwealth, Were you watching this game? New had a
sizable favorite the Fox refugees Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
(15:28):
on ABC. They had the call there on television, So
I don't know if you were checking this game out
or not. It really wasn't much else to watch. I
can't really watch the NBA much during the regular season,
so don't worry. We watched so you would not have
to watch. And let's see what did we see. Let's say, oh, yes, right,
Drake May living up to the hype. He passed for
(15:49):
a couple of touchdowns to the Patriots. Special teams were
extra special good. They get a Neon eraser Marcus Jones
eric name but not a generic player had a ninety
four yard putt return for a touchdown, and the Patriots
kept the good times rolling along as they become the
(16:09):
first NFL team into the eleven win club and they
beat up the Giants who aren't so giant thirty three
to fifteen. Good coaching change there for the Giants. That's
fixed that franchise right right from the beginning there. Oh
and three now I believe with the new coach. So
it was the tenth straight win. I'm told that's good
(16:30):
for the Patriots. Ten straight wins the AFC leaders the
new only Patriot eleven and two on the season, the
franchisees longest winning streak some since some guy named Tom
Brady and some guy named Bill Belichick were there. That
was back in twenty fifteen. So Mike Rabel, who took
some time off because he didn't get a job after
(16:52):
the Patriots' former Patriot player was let go by the
Tennessee Titans. He was schmoozing at Ohio State. Now he's
in the NFL a game with the Patriots, and Mike
Rabel has become now the third coach since nineteen seven.
It's fifty five years to win ten or more games
in his first season with a new employer. That is
(17:15):
a good jumping off points. So let us discuss the question,
how would you describe coach Mike Rabel's Patriots the performance
that we saw. Patriots don't play a lot of these
primetime games, so how would you describe the performance of
Mike Rabel's Patriots in the Monday night game. So I've
got us military dance class and nature documentary, and we
(17:39):
will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make pull barbecue chicken sandwiches. We're gonna make it and they're
gonna be freaking delicious, and you're gonna love them, and
you're gonna gettle baked potato action going the whole thing,
all right, So tell me, yeah, Ay, this was what
we call a boom box game. For the Patriots is
a boom box game. It did not go the way
(18:01):
I anticipated the game would go, but that's why they
played the games. That's why they play the games. There
Mike Rabel turning the volume up on that boombox to eleven,
all the way up to eleven, smashing the base there
and really sticking it to the giants, and putting them
in the food processor and setting it to pure in
(18:25):
the first half of this game as it was oh
v e R at halftime games are they pigged out
on a bad opponent. That's what good teams do, beat
bad teams convincingly. And it was like a midweek buffet
special for the Patriots, of course, not midweek, at the
end of the week end, of the weekend beginning of
(18:46):
the new week. So New England. What they did is
they met expectations. They met expectations period full stop. They
were supposed to win by a lot, They won by
a lot. And this was a team that was a
heavy favorite the Patriots coming into this game end of
a game that if you look at it on a tablet,
you said, well, this was actually a classic trap spot.
And if you watched Benny versus the Penny on YouTube,
(19:08):
we talked about it on the TV show. We discussed
it that you had the Thanksgiving hangover, you had the
bye week looming, the final week of the Buyser's upcoming
for the Patriots and the Giants as well some other teams.
But the bye week is coming up for them, so
they're going to be in can Con on vacation. And
then you've also got, in addition to that, a makeshift
(19:29):
offensive line, make shift offensive line, a couple of starters
gone from the Patriots offensive line, and the offensive line
they tossed out there looked like it was something that
was built from a kia ikia and it was not
built following the instruction. You just kind of put it
together there. But none of that mattered, not an ounce
of that matter. It didn't matter in this game. Mike
Rabel squad comes in here and with a level headed approach,
(19:52):
blue collar, I don't know blue collar again, these guys
are all rich, but that mindset that we always talked
about this dude, take care of do your job with
Belichick used to say. And then they flipped on the
boom box again. They cranked up the volume a little
higher and they hit the Bachmann turner overdrive. Taking care
of business is what they did, was what they did.
They took care of his exactly what you would expect
(20:14):
them to do. They did no frills, no real razzle
dazzle other than the special teams played. But it was
a scorched earth policy. And the first half of this game.
Barbaric is the word they were barbaric in the first
half of the game, talking US military style, by land,
by sea, by air in this case, by offense, by defense,
(20:36):
by special teams, all phases of the game. Body blow,
body blow, body blow. And by the time we got
the halftimes, thirty to seven at halftime, thirty to seven,
thirty to seven at halftime, and there was a obese woman,
a fat lady was singing, and right there before the
two minute warning in the first half, she was singing
(20:58):
and go turn out the last the party is over.
So a wood shed job by the Patriots in this game.
They turned the Giants into mulch is what they did.
They turned them into most Now, as for the hardware,
a lot of discussion MVP, MVP, MVP, Well, Matthew Stafford
(21:19):
had a dud in his game. He was the MVP
favorite coming into the weekend. Ram's lost to Carolina. That's embarrassing.
So here's Drake May's opportunity to show the world that
he's mister envy pay MVPY. So the question now the
morning after or the few hours after the game here
(21:40):
as we're talking after that Monday night football win, Patriots
quarterback Drake May, his twenty twenty five MVP campaign, Better,
Worse or the same Drake May's MVP campaign this season,
now thirteen weeks into the campaign on the campaign trail,
(22:00):
are things better, worse or the same? All right, So
I'm gonna go first. I don't think we should overthink this.
Drake May gave a simpotico performance on the Monday night game.
He was great. It completed almost eighty percent of his passes,
averaged nine yards per pass, had a couple of touchdowns,
(22:23):
didn't have any mistakes, no turnovers, and had a solid
stat line across the board. Very clean, polished performance by
Drake May. NFL quarterbacking one o one, one oh one.
He was basically the Vale Victorian of error free football,
which is important. Nevertheless, I would say, in terms of
(22:46):
the actual meat of the matter, let's pump the brakes
on this somehow being a climbing of the latter situation.
I didn't see it that way and it could not
have been why because of the opponent you played, the Giants.
They blow they're two and ten, they benched their top
defensive player, didn't even play the first quarter of the game,
(23:08):
where you jumped out to a massive lead, and they
came in there and there's like the Giants had play
in the Northeast and it gets cold in New York
with there was thirty degrees at kickoff, and it was
just kind of you wanted to sit inside, somebody would
be outside. They played like snowmen in that way. It
was no snow, but they played like it. They looked
like they needed to jumper cables the Giants and get
(23:29):
in their stand. They got their doors smashed in this one.
But you don't really win an MVP contest. You don't
win points and gain ground. If you look at the
exit polling, you don't gain ground by beating up the
lazy Bones brigade from the Giants. A lot of lazy
bones there. So it was really dance class and Drake
(23:51):
May he did the sideway shuffle. Do the shuffle now
you gotta do the shovel. The sideway shove, not a moonwalk.
You didn't move walk forward and didn't do that in
the MVP race. He certainly did not do a pratfall
that didn't happen, didn't go backwards, more like stay in
your light. He stayed in his lane, put on cruise control,
(24:14):
self driving situation, and just kind of waved politely at
everyone who was outside and look, I'm driving. I'm actually
not driving the cars driving itself. And so the malor mantra,
which we have preached from the bully pulpit for many,
many years here is you don't get extra credit for
doing what you're supposed to do, like your big favorite
(24:35):
at home. You're supposed to win the game against an
inferior opponent that clearly has quit. That's a bunch of
gutlass Giants players, So hey, do what you're supposed to do.
They did. So the verdict not better for Drake may
on the campaign trail, not worse, the same, the same,
And so it was. It was more of a maintenance
(24:56):
night situation. No Heisman house moment, no heismanhouse molman here
all right now, last word the story that many people
are freaking out about on the Giant side, and it's
not the fact they've got a bunch of lazy guys
that didn't really want to play this game. After missing
the previous two games. We were hoping for Jameis Winston,
(25:17):
We were counting on Jameis Winston playing. He did not,
which is disappointing because he's fun bad and Jackson Dart,
who's not terrible. I don't hate Jackson Dart, but I
was looking forward to seeing Jameis Winston play. So Jackson
Dart missed the previous two games with a concussion, and
everyone and their mother yapping about the play if you
saw the game in the first half, was a bone crushing,
(25:40):
bone crushing hit taken by the Giants quarterback Jackson Dart
on the sidelines that led to a scuffle. There was
a rhubarb that took place right there on the sidelines,
and it was early in the game. Patriots linebacker Christian
Ellis knocking Dart his eyeballs went a little goofy. He
hit him so hard there it was right on the
(26:00):
sidelines and knocked him, knocked him into the shadow realm.
The hit was was vicious. You don't normally see that
here Dart, Jackson Dart was actually flying like a lawn Dart,
which you don't often see in an NFL game anymore.
Since Dart was still in bounds, there was no penalty
(26:20):
and no harm, no foul or in this case harm
but no foul. So there you go. Now Everyone's like,
oh my god, we must protect Jackson Dart. We must
save Jackson Dart. Well, here's Jackson Dart. He was asked
about that. Here's what he had to say postgame about
whether or not he's going to change anything.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I understand the question, but like this is like this
is football, Like I'm gonna get hit if I'm in
the pocket or outside the pocket, like it's out.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I feel like I've played this way my whole entire life.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
There shouldn't be like any shocker or anybody if you've
followed along with my career and we're not playing like
we're not playing soccer et here, like you're gonna get hit.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Things happen. It's part of the game. See that, say,
we're not playing soccer football, we're playing football, which is
not football. It's football. There's a difference, all right. So
the question on this one's rather obvious, but we'll address
it to those of you in the back of the room.
So where are you at on the Giants? Jackson Dart saying, Hey,
(27:28):
I'm not changing the way that I play, even though
he got knocked silly by a Patriot defender. So look,
I'll go first here. I'm good with it. I'm good
with it. I'm not like these other guys freaking out.
Everyone's trying to do a therapy session with Jackson Dart.
I'm not enough, already enough helicopter parenting of quarterbacks. And listen,
(27:52):
Jackson Dart essentially said, he said, Relax, Francis is what
he said. This is football. It's not bloate class. It's
not the right across the courtyard there's a hot yoga place.
It's not hot yoga, Okay, it's not. It's just something else.
And you know what, I like that. I think that's
that's kind of cool. I'm not a Giants fan. I'm
(28:13):
not a Jackson Dart fan. I'm a neutral party here.
But if this guy wants to play like that, the
Giants knew what they were getting when they drafted him,
and he wants to play, and it's like he's a throwback,
although he's too young to have been raised with NHL, NHL,
NFL films, those there's NFL films, those VHS tapes with
all the hits and the fiberglass helmets and you know,
(28:35):
human meat, missiles flying around the field and all that,
and so this is who Jackson Dart apparently is. I
like that he addressed that, like if you followed my career,
like everyone's following Jackson Dart's career. Like, I mean, I
know we're all losers, but we're not that big of
a loser where we're following your career. Dude, so chilled
out on that. But telling Jackson Dart to avoid the
(28:57):
hits is a kin to asking Kyler Murray to not
play Call of Duty. Now, the Cardinals tried to get
Kyler Murray to not play Call of Duty. They had
to take it out of the contract because the little
fella loves the PlayStation, loves the place. It'd be like
the chief saying, hey, mahomes, can you not eat What
a burger? He loves? Whatater burger? That's what he enjoys.
(29:19):
Whata burger? What a shot? What a burger? He's all
about that. It's baked into the DNA. So if you're
gonna get Jackson Dart to stop taking hits, you got
to get Kyler Murray to stop being obsessed with video games.
Neither one of those things is going to happen. You
can't take the fangs out of a rattlesnake. Cannot do it.
And by the way, the NFL again they celebrated this,
(29:41):
so this is one of those things again it's like, oh,
those a million years ago boomer Well, okay, maybe it was.
But there was a time where and I remember the
name of it, it was called Thunder and Destruction from
NFL Films, the NFL's Hardest hits, Thunder and Destruction narrated.
It was like a nature doc, a me nry, but
gladiators of a gridiron gladiators. It was great. And and
(30:06):
now all these years later we act like quarterback taking
a hit or getting involved in any kind of contact
is some kind of federal crime. There needs to be
some war tribunal. And I was like, no, that was
kind of cool. I was like, wow, that's what the
NFL was like. Not every single play, every single game. However,
(30:29):
there were points where it happened a couple times a game.
And if Jackson Dart wants to do some cosplay as
a crash test dummy, then let him. He's an adult.
He signed up for the circus. And when you sign
up for the circus, you know, the lions actually do bite.
They're not fake lions, they actually do bite there, and
(30:51):
the elephants will actually step on you. So you might
want to pay attention there, and you're not playing trivial pursuit.
You're not, And so well, there you go. It's the
hurt business. You're in the hurt business. You're either giving
the hurt or you're getting hurt. And things go boom,
and sometimes they go come boom.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
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Speaker 1 (31:18):
We don't need to play the imaging. Let's welcome in
our contestants. Who do we have here? We've got Rob
in Maine who called up right away. Rob, Hello, welcome.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What's happening waiting on a big old snowstorm up here today?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Benny Black fun I wanted it to happen last night
because I was hoping to watch a snow game. I
didn't get the snow game. I'm bummed out by that.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
We have a few in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Don't worry. Oh look at you, you're back. I thought
you were a Texans fan. No, you're done with that.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
You're back on what they fired Bell?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I jumped back on.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I got you all right?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Rob?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Who do you want to partner up with? Rob? Rob
goes Okay, ok god, hold on, say, and we have
Mike in Boston. What's going on? Mike? Welcome Mikey. What's up?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
What's up? Man? What's going on? What's going on? What
are you doing? You're driving around? You're working right now?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Whe are you?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
What are you doing on my way to work? Oh? God?
All right? Well who do you want to partner up with? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (32:11):
You?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Okay? All right? Sarla Rena, You're not popular. He's the
only time Laran is not popular? Is this game right here?
All right? Go ahead?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Cool, all right, gentlemen, this is Malar's Mount of Money,
the Bloody Allen edition. He turned ninety years old on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
That seems old to me. Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
The categories are take the Money and run midnight in Paris,
husbands and wives and small time crooks and uh Rob
was on first Robbish category.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Would you like take the money and run?
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Alright? And then Mike, how about you? Small time crooks?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Small time crooks? All right, everyone, hold on, do not
hang up. We will have Malars Mountain of Money in
its entirety. We'll get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm. Now, Mailor's
Mountain of Money. Hello, do you have what it takes
to get to the top?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
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We've got Mike in Boston who is teamed up with me,
(33:32):
Rob in Maine waiting for the snow teamed up with Coop.
Rob was on the air first. So you will go
with Coop the Woody Allen edition Cooplehop.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Yes, that is correct, right Rob. We have take the
money and run.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
These athletes didn't live up to their mega contracts. We
need the first and last name. Forty five seconds on
the clock. Are you ready, Rob, Rob? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Okay, all right, five seconds let's begin.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
All right.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
He's the quarterback for the Cleveland Browns who loved massages. Yes, uh,
this guy was nicknamed the machine in baseball.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
He was with the Angels for like ten years and
sucked for most of them.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Albert Yes uh.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
This guy was on the Orlando Magic and the Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
His dad was in the NFL. Yes uh. This guy
was a.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Quarterback for the Denver Broncos and the Chicago Bears. His
nickname was Smoking Yes, the rain Man from the Seattle SuperSonics.
Yes uh. This guy was another Angel player, a third
baseman from the Washington National Yes, let's go, and then
a quarterback. He was on the Broncos, but it was
the Texans who gave him a big contract.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Oh didn't get it in no, Yeah, yeah, we're up. Now,
this show Madge done. That was pathetic by Coop and Rob.
Not good at all. We'll show Madge done here. All right, Mike,
here we go. Oh you picked small time crooks. These
athletes have all been caught stealing. Okay you Ready's all right, Mike.
(35:07):
Forty five seconds. We need the first and last name. Runaway.
This guy played quarterback in Florida State. He loved crab legs.
He's now in the NFL with Yes. He was known
as the Juice with the Buffalo Bills. He also like Yes,
currently the coach of the New England Patriots. Yes, known
as Nails for the eighty six Mets. Also played for
(35:27):
the Phillies. Outfielder had a lot of Yes. He was
a quarterback for the Chargers, drafted after Peyton Manning, one
of the great busts in NFL drafteds. No, No before that. Yes,
he played basketball at Notre Dame. He's currently a colleague
of mine here at Fox Sports Radio. He's a college
(35:49):
basketball coach in Wisconsin, Green Bay. Yeah, there you go, Stole, Right,
we didn't get the hundred point in all right, we're tired.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
Crazy match so far?
Speaker 7 (36:00):
All right, Rob, do you want midnight in Paris? Or
husbands and wives midnight?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
All right?
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Uh, these athletes all have at least some French heritage.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Current quarterback
for the Lions, Jared Yes, this guy is the best
player in the NBA right now. Huge guy on the Spurs. Yes,
this guy was nicknamed the Stifled Tower. He was a
(36:28):
center on the Jazz and the Timberwolves. Yes, this guy
was a point guard on the Spurs. He was married
to an actress. Yes, this guy was on the Florida Gators.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Then the Bulls.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
His dad was a tennis player. Let's go.
Speaker 7 (36:43):
This guy was a closer for the Dodgers. Eighty eight
saves in a row or something like that. Eric, Yes,
this guy was a catcher for the Dodgers and the Yankees.
He was from Canada though French Canadian. When he hit
a home on it was Blake with so tough, yeahs
(37:04):
Russell Martin.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
All right, we so let's show Mas done here again.
We got an opportunity, Mike. The opportunity is ours a
close one. All right, here we go, get put forty
five seconds. The category where we have husbands and wives
is that break. These athletes are all married to another athlete. Okay,
you understand, Mike. All right, we'll put forty five seconds
(37:25):
on the clock. We need the first and last name.
Good luck, We're on our way and go. Currently at
the quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, he plays football.
Actually he's no longer a football players on CBS. His
brother plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. J Yes, tight
end for the Believers with the Washington Commanders. He was
(37:45):
a star with the Philadelphia Eagles. He's one of the
Ecker Yes, he a quarterback for Notre name. He's a
talk show host here at Fox Sports Radio. Golden Domer
played with the Cleveland Browns. Sucked in the NFL, though
he's on Fox. Yes, a female Jim this. I was
in a documentary ripping her. She's married to a Chicago
Bears tight end. Uh No, a short stop for the
(38:07):
Red Sox back when they traded him when he won
the World. Yes, a white guy for the He played
for the Knicks. First son of a billionaire out of.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
David.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
We were trying to get David and Simone Biles. Simone Yeah, yeah,
that's all right. Well I ripped Simone Biles and it
made like a Netflix documentary. I had all these middle
aged women yelling at me. It was really fun. Yeah,
they were very upset with my take. I did a
monologue about Simone Biles getting well, yeah she got like
(38:44):
the twisties, and I was goofing on her and then
uh they put it in this documentary and they ripped.
They all these middle aged women were very upset with me. Anyway, Wilson,
it was actually a rare good game. We don't normally
get that.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
You won, so you get a golden ticket there, Rob.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
I've got a Golden chickats.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I'm we didn't get David Lee and what was it?
Brock Oswather was at the last category, Russell Martin and
Russell Martin. So there you go. All right, well, thank
you gentlemen. Good job. There's a Mic and Rob another
edition of Mala's Money. If you like the game, we
play it every week at about this time. If you
don't like the game, we only play it once a week.
(39:24):
So who the hell cares? I mean, lighting up Francis right,
we want to play it once a week. What's a
big deal? Who cares about that one? Once a week?
So that was one of the better games we've had.
I think I would say that's like a top three
game we've had this year. Sweating that was solid. Good job,
good job boys,
Host
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