January 12, 2023 • 47 mins
Big Ben talks about Lamar Jackson missing his 16th straight practice and if this has to do with his contract issues, Tua Tagovailoa being set to miss the Dolphins playoff game, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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hour coming from Baltimore. As the NFL playoffs crank up
this coming weekend. One of the games getting the special
treatment the Baltimore Ravens and the Cincinnati Bengals in the
Sunday night NFL game made for Primetime TV. Now, the
Ravens getting ready to play the Bengals for the third time,
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but we've learned they will be shorthanded yet again. And
if you have not been paying attention because you have
other things going on, and you have not given the
NFL the proper treatment that you believe it deserves, or
maybe you have given it the proper treatment that you
think it deserves. But either way, if you've missed it,
Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson, down, goes Lamar. He's got a
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bum knee. He missed yet another practice on Wednesday. And
if you thought that Lamar Jackson was gonna play this weekend,
you or a loser. Lamar expected to miss his sixth
consecutive game he sprained his knee over a month ago.
Not only is he in the injury tent, but the
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backup Tyler Huntley is also down for the count right now,
he's dealing with a bum shoulder. He did not practice
on Wednesday, But don't bury the leave, mama. And it's
all about the former MVP, Lamar Jackson and his situation.
So let us discuss the question clear here, is Lamar
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Jackson intentionally sitting out due to contractual issues with the rabist?
Do you think Lamar Jackson is intentionally not coming back
to the field because of his contract or is this
all legitimate? Right? See the arrow on this one is
pointing towards contract, contract, contract, contract, contract, contract contract. I've
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got court martial, bad Burrito, and Johnny Cash and we
will tie all of these random things together and will
make them make sense. We're gonna make them make sense.
So ay, I realized that for some delicate souls, this
is a taboo topic. You're not supposed to talk about
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in polite society. You're not supposed to say the quiet
part out loud. But from what we are hearing, this
just does not pass the smell test. Is it true
that the Ravens quarterback is making the franchise pay the
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piper for not giving him a Deshaun Watson creepy quarterback
like contract. So here's all I would answer that if
this was the military, we have a lot of ex military,
some active duty military list of the show. If this
was the military, Lamar would be facing a court martial.
All right, and then let me give you the evidence
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that I have procured, the evidence against Lamar that there's
some funny business going on. So Lamar was diagnosed with
a PCL string that's in unique. It was believed at
the time to be a Grade two strain. The standard
timeline for a mere mortal, a mere mortal to come
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back from that kind of injuries two to three weeks.
The timeline for Lamar Jackson was three weeks. Now, when
you're a professional athlete, you have access to things like
around the clock medical attention, the best help that money
can buy to get your ass back on the field.
It's a whole different world. It's a whole different world.
And so now Lamar has missed thirty eight days and
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he's not going to play on Sundays, so that'll take
him to forty two days, which is six weeks. That's
double the original timeline for Lamar Jackson. And there's no
there's no pot of gold at the end of the
rainbow for the Ravens here in terms of Lamar coming back,
and they don't win this weekend, that's it. It's it's over.
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And you know, and I know that Lamar is not
a happy camp. That he's huffing and puffing and grumbling
he didn't get the proper amount of dead presidents offered
to him guaranteed money. And listen, what do I know.
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I'm just a guy that hosts an overnight radio show.
But you do realize that this sounds like the textbook
definition of malingering. Minor injury timeline three weeks, upset over
the contract, and now you will have missed six weeks. Right,
It's like, I'm not going to rush back and help
out the company. I'm upset with the company. Screw the company.
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I'm anti work. I don't want to work. Now. I
understand the motivation. I get it, and there's logic behind
it that if Lamar thinks he can hornswoggle some other
NFL team to pay him the money in the offseason
and he can really push the hand of the Raven
management and get what he wants, then for him this
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is a win win. He looks terrible in the eyes
of people that value competition, and trying to help your
teammates out. If you believe in those kind of things.
If you're from the old country, then Lamar looks like
a douche. But if you're if you're part of the
new Wave and it's all about it's all about the
bottom line and you got to be a cutthroat and
all that, and then Lamar's your hero. All this guy's
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playing the system here by dragging out the injury, not
coming back, hurting the team, but also forcing the team
into action. We'll get back to that and say, now,
the other part of this, and the other part of
this is the immediate reality that Baltimore is going into
a game against Cincinnati, that high powered Bengal offense, and
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they will not be at full strength. So can the
Ravens compete with the Bengals without Lamar Jackson. So this
is the part of the story where things get uncomfortable.
Not John Harbaugh's team has shown great resolve. They've had
some over the years in these games, but they can
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scratch and claw with the best of them. However, there
is a massive gap between whether Tyler Huntley plays or
the third string guy plays, or whoever it is, and
Joe Burrow. It's kind of like betting into a shootout situation.
Say a one on one draw and one person's holding
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a semi automatic weapon, the other person's got a musket.
The Ravens are the ones with the musket. Right, they
should be able to compete for a quarter or a
half of the game. But over the course of the
full monty, if both teams play as expected, then the
Ravens are cooked birds. It's a checkmate situation. Now that
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being said, there is actually a path to the Ravens
pulling the upset. I'll make the argument on how the
Ravens can do it. Now. The obvious one would be
the defense playing the game of their lives. And you
also need what I call the bad burrito well dysenterry
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mana Zuma's revenge, call it whatever you want. But Joe Burrow,
let's say he ends up needing a barf bag and
all of a sudden, a couple of turnovers short field,
and then the Bengals start feeling it a little bit,
and all of a sudden, the Ravens are in position
to shock the world. Now do I think that's going
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to happen? Though? I do not think that's going to
happen more times than not. What ends up happening is
it's close for a quarter or a half and then
it's a snowball going down the mountain. Right, they're rolling
down picking up more snow down the mountain. Where if
the Bengals come out, Let's say it's close for a
quarter and then they go up by fourteen points and
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all of a sudden, the Ravens have to start throwing
the ball more. They start getting out of what they're
good at, they go out of bounds what they're comfortable with,
and then we know how that turns out. All right,
that's just a run up to score situation. And you say, oh,
Mercy nurse is what you say? All right? Last word here,
So what are the odds that Lamar Jackson has now
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played his final game for the Baltimore Ravens. The assumption
had always been that he was gonna go year to year,
and now the stakes have changed based on what is
believed to be malingering from Lamar Jackson. So I'm gonna
update the odds on this, and the odds lar Jackson's
played his final down for the Ravens. I'm gonna set
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the line on this at minus one ninety, so I'm
looking at a sixty five percent chance that this is it.
That Lamar has already played his last game back in
early December, and that he pulls what I'd call the
Johnny Cash and he goes down the dusty win a
muck of road, and that's it, right. We're gonna find out.
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And that's the great thing about It's like, we have theories,
and I've heard some things in the streets are talking
around Baltimore and they're saying that Lamar is embellishing this.
But we're gonna find out whether or not that smoke
is based in reality, whether he is embellishing the injury,
or there's an actual wildfire there. Maybe it's just like
a fire pit. Maybe it's just a fire pit, but
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it could be the wildfire. The plane in Baltimore had
been to say, hey, Tag, you're it. Franchise Tag Lamar
for a couple of years after this will be paid
a top five quarterback salary, and then down the line
you figure it out. But the best laid plans of
mice men and NFL coaches, and it certainly appears by
all indications that that savvy treasure map that the Ravens
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were following. Lamar Jackson has come over and he is
spilled ink on it and torn it up into little pieces,
an act of sabotas the saboteur Lamar Jackson. Because of
these hijias, the Ravens are going to have to reevaluate things.
It would be football malpractice if the Ravens believe that
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Lamar Jackson is not actually injured right now and just
doesn't want to come back and play, that he's over
the injury, that he's gone a wall. You cannot franchise
tag him because that's a year to year thing. And
if Lamar has done it this year, he'll certainly do
it the year after this and the following year. You
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lose your status. You're no longer in the bubble of trust.
You're not in the bubble of trust. You're better off.
Jenuflecting and said, all right, you know what, we'll accush.
We'll give in to the to the hostage demands, and
we'll send Lamar on his merry way. And that's it.
And there's that transitional franchise tag that you can give
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where Lamar can go talk to other teams and all that.
And if not you can work out a trade. But
also keep in mind that he did not play well
this year. He was not warming at a high level.
Even before this latest episode in the Days of Our
Lives soap opera, he was hiding out in the back
alley there. It's not a great setup. This was Hey,
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I'm gonna put up great numbers and you're gonna have
to pay me. Now, someone's gonna play him, just not
the Ravens. I would think at this point the Ravens
are not gonna pay him because of his skill set.
The NFL teams are gonna overlook the hideout situation that
he's in a bunker. And we know that beauty is
in the eye of the beholder, as we learn when
we're little kids. But all it takes to somebody desperate,
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and there's plenty of desperate teams out there that need
quarterback help. Who will overlook all of the imperfections, all
of the warts that Lamar brings to the table with
his performance this year, with the disappearance, missing in action
and his play before that. But if Baltimore gives that
transition tag down the line, you look around, you're like,
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would the Patriots make a move? Probably? Not, but would
would they go that direction? That's a radical move for
Bill Belichick. He doesn't normally go radical. That would be
a sight to behold. What about the Bears who have
the number one overall pick and a scattershot quarterback who
gets a lot of highlights but was statistically terrible in Chicago.
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And you've got the Jets who can't get their head
out of their tookis and the Atlanta Falcons, among others.
So it is certainly a story that is going to
be on the front burners. It's on the back burner
right now, but it's gonna be on the front burner
soon enough, especially if the Ravens get charboiled and they
end up over a bowl of chili on wild Card weekend,
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and then that story will bounce right back around. Be
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And so at leave this hour coming from the NFL.
Plus there's a theme to this all night long. And
the Dolphins, Miami, Miami, Miami. The Dolphins getting set for
a wild card weekend. They're calling it super wild Card weekend.
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Doesn't seem very super to me. But wild Card weekend
match up with the Bills where the Buffalo Rome, and
they will be doing it without their headliner, without their headliner.
And I assume you've heard by now you've had a
chance to chew this over, but maybe not. The Miami
Dolphins postseason turning into a dark comedy. At this point,
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we've learned that to a tongue of iyeloa will not
be walking through that door for the Dolphins and the
wild card game against the Bills. Is Mike McDaniel good SoundBite, Okay,
Coach Mike McDaniel ruling out officially with lightning speed to
a tongue of iyeloah for the playoff game this weekend
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as he has not been cleared for football activities. He
has had the concussion bugaboo that has popped up multiple
times here, most recently Week sixteen against the Green Bay Packers.
So the change, change, change continuing in Miami. McDaniels city
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was frustrated. He wants he wants to be with the playoff.
His team in the playoffs, he said of Tua. And
so when it rains, it pours, Because not only is
tongue of voloa kode for the playoff game against Buffalo,
you also have Teddy Bridgewater, Teddy two gloves, the backup.
Not a starter, not a starter. We talked about the
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backup who seemingly would be put on the spot, but
he appears unlikely to be able to play as well.
He suffered a finger injury and that was the following
week against the New England Patriots in week seventeen. So
here we are the New England Patriots knocking out Bridgewater,
the Packers knocking out to a tongue of Voloha, the
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beneficiary would be Buffalo. But there's there's a bigger d
going on because not only is Miami preparing to start
a seventh round rookie Tyler Skyler, not Tyler Skyler Thompson
before they get whisked out of the playoffs, but you
have the fallout from this right first and foremost, too,
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a tongue of Byloa is in the crosshairs and his
football life is not doing very well. So let us
discuss the question, what does this situation on this latest
revelation that too will be silent for the playoff game
against the Bills, he will not be playing for the Dolphins.
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What does this revelation do for two, a tongue of
Byloah's future in Miami. So I've got London Acorn and
Fuzzy Dice and we will lock all of these things
together and we are going to blow your mind unless
we don't. So number one, you don't have to be
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some kind of guru of football like Jay Glazer to
know this is not going well. To a tongue of
Eloah is not long for Miami, Coffee in, coffee out.
This was a make or break season for Tongue of Bloa.
And while he started out like gangbusters, his overall body
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performance the first eight games that he played and he
was a fringe, fringe MVP candidates. Some of those stats
eye popping for TUA with the eighteen touchdowns, the three
interceptions and whatnot over the first eight games, But there
was a jumping off point because as the year progressed,
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it has become a house of card situation, down down, down,
down down, tumbling down. Tah has been a combination of
unproductive and because of injury, untrustworthy. When you say it's
a make or break season, he's been broken more times
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than we can count now and ever since the bye
week to a coming back from that seven touchdowns, five
interceptions of passer rating below eighty five, he's morphed back
into the player that he had been prior to this
regime change in Miami. And because of that, you've got
the cat and mouse game between the front office and
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the player, and you look at it and the long
term forecast, if you look at your Doppler radar, the
long term forecast is calling for London fog, pe soup fog,
low visibility in terms of the outlook going forward. Now,
who knows if the doctors will even clear to U
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to ever play again in the NFL. We think they will.
Most likely, he'll be able to find someone to give
him at least a yellow light, not a green light,
but a yellow light with caution. Proceed with caution. However,
the chances of too a tongue of voloa getting handed
the keys to a franchise, whether it's the Dolphins or
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another franchise, are slim, and nunskis right at this point,
and it's facts over feelings too. He will turn twenty
five before next season, so my math tells me that
he's twenty four right now. But the problem is the
medical charts, and you look at the medical charts, and
there's this red mist that descends upon those medical charts,
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and there's no way to overlook that, right, there's no
way to over look at that. Football players get hurt,
that's what they do. But when you're constantly being hurt
and you're at that age, it's a bad combination. Bad
combination in terms of getting a massive contract and connecting
connecting the dots on that all right now, page two.
So let's look at the game coming up this weekend,
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the Hustle and bustle of the NFL Wild Card Weekend,
and the Bills went from a ten and a half
point favorite to a thirteen point favorite. Buffalo now favored
by almost two touchdowns if the spread does climb to fourteen.
If we get to fourteen, it would be the Dolphins'
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largest spread as an underdog in a playoff game since
the merger. That's over fifty years of football since the
nineteen seventy merger. That's a long long time ago. Now. Meanwhile,
many people in the gaming world think this is a
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free money situation, that Buffalo is clearly the healthier team
even with the and they've had injuries as well as
late in the season. Everyone's all mangled up at this point.
It's a war of attrition, but Buffalo is the healthier team.
And yeah, yeah, I really have to stick your neck
out if you're taking the Dolphins. Now we do Benny
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versus the Penny, and I'm not gonna reveal my hand
right now, but i will tell you some of the
logic going into this. You'll have to download the podcast
for the full Monty. But Skylar Thompson, who has I
would say lived up to expectations. The third string quarterback
has played like a third string quarterback, like he belongs
in a garbage disposal. He started a couple of games.
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He's played a limited amount of time, one hundred and
five pass attempts, one touchdown, and three interceptions. The biggest sin, though,
all right, biggest sin for Skylar Thompson is the pop
gun ability of moving the ball down the field. Now
Thompson has average five point one yards per attempt. Instead
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of being as fearsome as a barracuda, Skyler is about
as lethal as a koala bear leading this offense. And
forget the Bill's defense for a minute. In Buffalo defense
is not as good without von Miller. But so far,
Thompson has essentially by himself whittled down the Dolphin offense.
He's neutralized Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill because they're just
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not making the big plays when he's been out there. Now,
keep in mind them the other side of the coin.
The stats tell you what has happened, they don't tell
you what's going to happen. And as we have seen
from time to time, every once in a while that
blind hog finds an acorn. Doesn't happen very often, but
you don't want to be the one that's there when
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that happens. And everyone else, though, is going to have
to step up. It's gonna have to be the defensive
performance of the year with bells and whistles for the
Miami defense. You gotta think that since the Dolphins on
offense are in hot water, even though they're going to
Chili Buffalo, they're gonna run a rudimentary offense and attempt
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to do what they did last time they were in Buffalo.
But to a play in game long methodical drives a
lot of running with whatever they have in the back.
I guess Jeff Wilson's the healthy running back that they'll
play him quite a bit and rotate some other guys in,
but essentially play keepaway. In order to pull this off,
Skyler Thompson is going to have to have a few
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throws of his life connect on third down, move the chains,
et cetera. To be too hard on football guy, but
that's the big, the big thing that my eyeballs pop
out at on third down, Skyler Thompson. Because the games
are won on third down two minute offense connecting throws.
So with Thompson under center, he's had twenty nine pass
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attempts on third down for the Dolphins this year. You
know how many converted eight eight of twenty nine throwing
the ball on third down. That is a conversion rate
of less than twenty eight percent. And that is not
gonna get it done. That's drinking from a fire hose
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when you're you're you're gonna be behind and you can't
convert him third down. Good luck on that, all right,
final point. So this is something a little different. Are
the Miami Dolphins cursed? Now? When I poached that topic, initially,
my thought was, that's a bunch of poppycock. The Dolphins
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are cursed. I don't believe in that nonsense. But I
was swayed a bit by a Fox Sports radio listener
like yourself, a fan of the show, guy named Barry
who lives in South Florida, and he sent me a
message this week and he said that he's been a
Miami Dolphin fan. He claims since the nineteen seventies. He's
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had insomnia since the nineteen eighties, and he says that
everything went sideways when the Dolphins left the Orange Bowl,
so we're gonna way back and when they moved into
their new stadium, said even he even sent me. He
said he has physical evidence to back up his claim
that the Dolphins are a jinx team. He says, this
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proves that the Dolphin franchise is star crossed and he's
got the evidence. So you might want to get out
your teal fuzzy dice for this one. So what is
the problem here, all right? What is Let's get to
the point, please, So I'm gonna jump on the cosmic treadmill.
Cosmic treadmill, We're gonna take you back in time to
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the mid nineteen eighties. The Dolphins are building I believe
it was called Joe Robbie Stadium at the time, which
is still the site where they play, but they've changed
the name multiple times over the years. So this is
a newspaper article that this guy sent me, and it
says here that construction had been stopped after they discovered
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ancient remains from a long extinct Indian tribe that lived
in South Florida until the mid seventeen hundreds, when the
entire Indian tribe was wiped out by disease This is
a nineteen eighties newspaper story. The Dolphins stadium was built
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on an ancient burial ground and the artifacts had been
carefully excavated and preserved and all that, and it says
in this story it talks about how like the Dolphins
were like, maybe they shouldn't go somewhere else, and you
know whatever, they decided to build the stadium there. And
since the Dolphins built the stadium, it's not exactly gone
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that well, fair to say it was not great and
it's continued to not be great. Be sure to catch
live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. All right, this is Jay Glazer.
And you may know me for the world of football
or fighting or even shows like HBO's Ballers. Well you
don't know is for my entire life, I have lived
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in something I referred to his great depression, anxiety. So
now I'm coming out with a new podcast, Unbreakable, a
mental health podcast with Jay Glazer, where each week, well
we talk about mental health. I hope to describe it,
give it words. Listen to Unbreakable with Jay Glazer on
the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, Smeller,
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how about that to the third degree, this is one
big band gets grilled. Hoop that loop. When asked if
there was any result for the Cowboys this weekend that
could put Mike McCarthy's job in jeopardy, Jerry Jones essentially
sidestep the question, saying that he has a lot more
to evaluate McCarthy on than just this playoff game. Ben,
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is there a chance McCarthy could get the boot? Absolutely,
We're gonna talk about the Cowboys more a little bit later.
But Jerry Jones is not getting any younger. He's been teased.
He has not been pleased since the nineteen eighties or
you know, nineties for the Cowboys, early nineties. And so
there are big name coaches out there. There's Sean McVay,
who could be yours if the Cowboys want him. There's
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Sean Payton. So there are options for Jerry Jones that
are more attractive right now than Mike McCarthy. Next, the
Kentucky Wildcats blue ad twenty eight game home win street
by losing to South Carolina on Tuesday. This has caused
the pressure to rise on John Calipari as Kentucky hasn't
been the powerhouse fans are used to the last couple
of years, Ben, as Calipari lost his mojo, Well, it
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certainly seems like a chunk of the fan base in
Kentucky has turned on him. The Wildcats have lost thirty
games since COVID started. They're forty five and thirty in
the COVID era, so clearly they're suffering from brain fog there.
They're no longer invincible. The Wildcats and this name image
likeness thing. You'd think that John Calipari would have been
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able to navigate that, but that appears to have been
the poison pill. He's gonna have to reinvent himself or
he'll be coaching at Arizona State next Rob Gronkowski spoke
with the media and said that he never really had
the itch to play, and that's why he never seriously
thought about making a return this season. I want to
ask about maybe next season, Gronk said, Well, maybe it's
someone through like half the salary cap at him. Ben,
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do you think he's done for good? He's lying? Could
we know that? Gronk? He tried to come back this year.
He put out feelers. The fish were not biting, and
so he didn't come back. I don't believe what Gronk
is selling here. How did we do? He passed this edition.
That is a winner. You can put it on the board. Yes,
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Horry Harry. I can ask bad Twitter, send us your
questions on Twitter. Now. I think of this as an appetizer,
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a harmless appetizer for these segment, asked Ben, we'll get started.
We passed the mic over to the Coopa loop for
the reading of the questions. And all of these questions,
even the ones that are cheap shots, have been sent
in by listeners like yourself via the social media app Twitter,
the Twitter app and hashtag, asked Ben, and we got
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over to the Cooper loop right now, No softball questions, Coop,
No softball? All right, let's go with um start pyrotechnic Scoop.
I want skyrockets, I want koboom is what? No? Um,
let's start? What are you saying we've got safe? Insane?
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Is that what you're saying. Let's start off with the
question from furg dog that's safe insane, My man, furg
dog safe insane. He wants to know have any of
you used an umbrella at all this month? Whoa that is? Eddie?
That's a Roman candle is Eddie? God, that's dynamite. That
is a dynamit. What a way to start. That's the
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kind of information. That's why we're on in the middle
of the night, Eddie. Right there. No, I don't even
have an umbrella. My wife has an umbre. I don't
have an umbrella. I don't, although I did almost die
on the one on one freeway driving to work the
other night, So there is that. What about you, Eddie?
I have used an umbrella, yes, uh, most of the
time walking in the backyard with the dog as it's
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doing its business. And I'm I'm so kind that I
am standing over the dog with an umbrella, mostly because
I don't want to have to drive the dog off
as much as you know when I get back in
the house. But it's for your own gain. It's it's
it's it's it's for both of our benefit. Yeah, and
how many dogs? You having two dogs? Two dogs? How
many cats? No, no cat, No cats. I thought you
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had cats. We had a cat. But he's now in
kitty heaven. Okay, gone to the big kitty box in
this guy. I got you, all right? What about you?
Absolutely not? Yeah, yeah, we're real men. We don't need
an umbrella, no exactly, yeah, just get wet wet wet men.
What real man? Yeah, my answer is no as well.
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And I wanted everybody to answer before I read the
rest of furd Dog's tweet, which says, which says, t
if yes, please hand in your man card, Eddie, would
you like to hand that over right now? Wow? Hand
over the hand over the third dog who who's watching
Sesame Street right now? Hand it over to fird Dog,
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he's watching Burton. I never had one to begin with.
Oh really, yeah, all right, I got you. All right.
We talk about sports. It's very masculine job. Y, we
do sports radio. We're ninety eight percent of our audiences dudes,
hard working maiden and when blue collar workers, Eddie, this
is a man's job, sports radio, for sure. Yeah, we're
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very hard working people. Yeah, absolutely, this job is not
that easy. All right, all r why don't we pause
with the carts what a great start. We'll pause for
the calls. We'll have a big giant block, big giant
block of questions. Your questions are answers. You have been empowered.
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But let's get to ask Ben right now and the
Kopa loop. All right, let's continue on with a question
from milkman Mike, all Right, he wants to know for
the crew. If invited to a Super Bowl party and
asked to bring a dish, what are you bringing? Well,
I would probably bring dessert because I've been baking a lot,
so I'm Benny the baker, So I would I would
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bring one of my because most of the things I
make are like warm and they wouldn't hold up in
a like I make cheese, steak and things like that
in burgers. You can't really take those to a pot
luck thing. So I'd make like cookies and something like that.
What about you, Eddie, I would whip up some sort
of homemade like seven layer dip in chips something be
pretty good. Yeah, Now Roberto is the big ones cooking
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with Roberto here, He's gonna he's gonna bring an entire
seven course meal. Nah nah. I would bring uh se uh,
maybe some like New York steak, you know, and then
probably like some uh some like um, some calamari, homemade
calamari calamar So I think of like pot luck. I
think of like mac and cheese or something like it.
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Pot and then some homemade actual like cheese, like a
cheese dip. Oh, I love calamari. It's great, good cheese.
What about you? Cool? What would you bring to the
super Bowl the hypothetical super Bowl party? Uh my, My
signature dish that I bring to super Bowl parties is weed.
It well, yeah, that's a given. But also it's something
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that I call. This is offensive. It's what it's. It's
something that look in the family. This is what it's
been called since I was a child. Okay, all right,
it's called trailer trash dip. Listen, you do not have
to take shots. It's a scratch off. What's wrong with alright,
that's wrong with you. But it's it's basically, uh, it's
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essentially like a chili and cream cheese sort of chip dip,
and it's great. So I would just bring the ingredients
to the party and whip it up there so it's
nice and hot and fresh. I gotta point out that's
one thing when I was a kid, I did not
like dip. As an adult pro dip, I love dip.
All right, What is next? What do we have? All right,
let's sue. Let's do a question here from Robin Vegas.
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Robin Vegas, let me guess it's about professional wrestling or
our friend Andrea in Berkeley. It is h if you
had the opportunity to run to run a billion dollars
ponzi scheme for a decade, but new in the end
you'd spend ten years in prison, would you do it?
And I feel like I feel like he left out
a caveat, like you have you have to be able,
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like to make this question interesting, you have to be
able to keep some of the money, right, because otherwise
the answer would be no. Right. Well, the move here
is you got to figure out how long are you
planning on living and oh, yeah, can you enjoy those
ten years? And then you figure like the back ten
when you're probably gonna check out one of those ten
that's you got to do the math on that. Yeah.
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But these guys that do these here's the thing, like
these guys that go to jail, Like you know, there's
like we got guys that listen in jail, and we've
got guys that get out of you. I've heard from
these guys. These guys that get out of you, Like
there's two different Like if you could violent crime, there's
like really nasty jail with people that will rip your
eyeballs out. And then there's like rich person jail where
they play softball. I remember when Bruce McNall owned the
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Kings and he got into trouble, and a bunch of
the stars that used to go to the Kings against
would go watch him play softball at this prison up
near Santa Barbara. The week it was ridiculous was like
out of the movies What about you, Eddie? Uh yeah,
I would. I would not. I would not go for that.
My life is good. I don't need to do that.
But think of all the things you could have. The
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toy you could buy, all that stuff in the Progressive
have a motorcycle, RV, boat and ATV Eddie. I mean
I don't. I really don't want any of that stuff. Okay,
if it was just me and my wife living together,
probably I probably do it. But now taken to account
my daughter, no, I would say. No. You don't think
your daughter would like you to be in jail for
taking all? Right? What about you? Cool? Please see It's
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it's interesting that Roberto said that, because I was thinking
I would do it if I could, like if the
jail sentence could somehow be with my say, but it
wouldn't be. We'd be separated, so I would say, no,
well you might have to change your gender, but Dave,
you could possibly be in the all right, any quick, one, quickly, anything,
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anything at all? Here would Daniel Romanowski wants to know,
would you get an STD if it also came with
a superpower of your choice? What's the worst SPD? Maybe
that's the ghost, Eddie. I consider it. I mean, what's
one to fly? Would you be able to fly? There? Yeah?
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I mean Gonera's curable. There you go, sign me up,
Sign me up, coach. I'm ready to go. Be sure
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to Eddie Garcia and all your inside of hockey stuff.
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The magic happened right here if you're a hockey fan, Eddie,
all right, thanks Ben. We're about halfway through the NHL
regular season, and one team and one player are on
historic runs at the moment. First, the Boston Bruins currently
riding a fourteen game points streak eleven oh and three
since December eleven. That's nice, but that's not what we're
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talking about the overall record though for the Bruins so
far thirty two, four and four for sixty eight points.
They already they peaked too soon, Eddie, peaked too soon.
They are on pace for sixty five wins the NHL record,
that'd be pretty good. NHL record for wins in the
season is sixty two shared. They're going in Boston. All
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my friends in Boston. Rob said they got rid of
Cassidy right. They were like that, what are they doing?
Did that team win at eighty right? Two wins? Uh?
The that was the twenty eighteen nineteen Tampa Bay Lightning
and the ninety five ninety six Detroit red Way. If
this was the NBA, they'd say they're trying too hard, Eddie.
They've got to arrest some players manage. That's true. Also,
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the Bruins are on pace for one hundred and thirty
nine points in a season. The NHL record is one
hundred and thirty two by the seventy six seventy seven
Montreal Canadians. So on pace for a record season for
the Boston Bruins. As for Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid,
he's pays for a career year. He has seventy seven
points thirty four goals in forty two games. He's on
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pace for sixty six goals and one hundred and fifty points.
Those would be career highs. It would be the most
goals in a season since Laney McDonald had sixty six
in the Red Mustache. I was covered hockey. He was
still playing. He was really old, but he was still playing. Yeah,
but the NHL record I think he played for that
is good. The NHL record for goals in a season
ninety two by Wayne Gretzky, which is stupid. Uh. The
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one hundred and fifty points that he's on pace for,
McDavid would be the most in a season since Bernie
Nichols had one hundred and fifty and nineteen eighty eighty
to nine without the championships. That's a little Aaron Rodgers
bred farve like that Edmonton had back in the day Gretzky,
and that they've got Conna McDavid like that. Yeah, Well,
it's ironic that he's having this ridiculous year. Uh. And
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and the Oilers are barely right now holding onto a playoffs,
but they're kind of Uh. I don't know if Coople
enjoy this, but they're kind of the the La Angels
of the NHL. They've got two superstars on their team
and yet they i mean the titles the Otani. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
got two superstars. But the goaltend, that's right, that's exactly
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all right. Their defense and their goaltending is not good.
So that's like, yeah, kind of like that. Carolina Hurricanes
put sixty seven shots on goal this past week in
the game against the Nashville Predators, and they lost six
to three. Nashville goalie Uc Sorrows made a career sixty
four saves. Those those sixty seven shots on goal the
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fourth most in NHL history in a single game. Interesting
that the record is seventy three shots on goal by
the Boston Bruins against the Quebec Door Deeks in nineteen
ninety one. And the Bruins did win that game either.
That was back when they had ties. It finished in
a three three tie. And of the top five teams
that have had the most shots on goal in a game,
only one of them actually won it won the game.
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So maybe shots on goal quiet, that's exactly true. That's
exactly true. It's like boxing, you know how you see
those punch thoughts. Yeah, thrown, but it's it's it's the
power punch ya. La Kings have turned to a journeyman
goalie and so far it is a Cinderella story. Phoenix
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Copley is his name. He's from North Alaska. Yeah, Phoenix top.
He's He's been a journeyman his whole career. He was
signed in the offseason as a complete afterthought, but because
of the bad goaltending by the Kings, they sent one
of their goalies down in the miners. They gave this
guy a shot. So far, his record twenty one and
two with the La Kings. He won again last night,
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the Kings against the Sharks. Thirty one years old and
a hockey guy. Just do an over that show. That
seems pretty good. It's not bad, not bad. Uh So, Yeah,
that's been a nice story for them. Is this a fluke?
Is he gonna come back crashing down? Or I don't
think so because he's not. He's not really putting up
crazy numbers. They're just he's just given them solid, solid
play and that's been enough. So he Usually extreme outcomes
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are followed by more moderate that's yeah my experience. Congrats
to Canada. They won the World Junior Championships three two
over the Czech Republic, which has changed his name by
the way, to Chechia, which I didn't know. Oh yeah, yeah,
I'm always like Republic. I agree, I agree, or we
could go really old school and go Czechoslovakia our dispelity.
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Yeah it's true. But Connor Badard, the projected number one
pick in the upcoming dress supposed to be just a stud,
led all players with twenty three points nine goals fourteen assists.
He didn't have any points the gold medal game, but
was named the top four in the tournament. MVP Bruins
win over the Penguins, and the Winter Classic average one
point eight million viewers on t NT, up thirty one
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percent from the twenty twenty event. And finally we talked
about the Pro Bowl for the NFL. Well, the NHL
All Star Game is coming up in a few weeks
in Sunrise, Florida. Let me guess potato sack race. Well,
we'll see. Your coaches are gonna be Jim Montgomery of
the Bruins, Rod Brenda Moore of the Caroline Hurricanes, Pete
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Debor of the Dallas Stars, and Bruce Cassidy of the
Vegas Golden Nights. Interesting awkward that Bruce Cassidy was the
coach of Boston and then Boston into the new Boston
coach is now an All Star coach, and Pete Debor
was the coach in Vegas. He's now the coach in Dallas.
So they all switched jobs and they're all they're all
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having great years this year with their new teams. But
the skills competition is coming up and they're taught there.
They are also talking about a hybrid hockey golf event
as part of their skills competition, some sort of a
dunk tank apparently they're gonna have. And and my personal favorite,
because this is in Florida, shooting frozen burgers at alligators.
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Now are they live alligators or pretend alligators? I don't know.
Are they baby alligators or those big eight hundred pounds
I don't know, But apparently they're going to shoot frozen
burgers at alligators. Yeah, stay tuned. Yeah, wonderful. And that's
your Puck the World Report. I'm sensing a press release
from PETA, That's what I'm saying. Yeah, all right,
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Sunday night NFL game made for Primetime TV. Now, the
Ravens getting ready to play the Bengals for the third time,
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but we've learned they will be shorthanded yet again. And
if you have not been paying attention because you have
other things going on, and you have not given the
NFL the proper treatment that you believe it deserves, or
maybe you have given it the proper treatment that you
think it deserves. But either way, if you've missed it,
Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson, down, goes Lamar. He's got a
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bum knee. He missed yet another practice on Wednesday. And
if you thought that Lamar Jackson was gonna play this weekend,
you or a loser. Lamar expected to miss his sixth
consecutive game he sprained his knee over a month ago.
Not only is he in the injury tent, but the
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backup Tyler Huntley is also down for the count right now,
he's dealing with a bum shoulder. He did not practice
on Wednesday, But don't bury the leave, mama. And it's
all about the former MVP, Lamar Jackson and his situation.
So let us discuss the question clear here, is Lamar
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Jackson intentionally sitting out due to contractual issues with the rabist?
Do you think Lamar Jackson is intentionally not coming back
to the field because of his contract or is this
all legitimate? Right? See the arrow on this one is
pointing towards contract, contract, contract, contract, contract, contract contract. I've
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got court martial, bad Burrito, and Johnny Cash and we
will tie all of these random things together and will
make them make sense. We're gonna make them make sense.
So ay, I realized that for some delicate souls, this
is a taboo topic. You're not supposed to talk about
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in polite society. You're not supposed to say the quiet
part out loud. But from what we are hearing, this
just does not pass the smell test. Is it true
that the Ravens quarterback is making the franchise pay the
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piper for not giving him a Deshaun Watson creepy quarterback
like contract. So here's all I would answer that if
this was the military, we have a lot of ex military,
some active duty military list of the show. If this
was the military, Lamar would be facing a court martial.
All right, and then let me give you the evidence
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that I have procured, the evidence against Lamar that there's
some funny business going on. So Lamar was diagnosed with
a PCL string that's in unique. It was believed at
the time to be a Grade two strain. The standard
timeline for a mere mortal, a mere mortal to come
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back from that kind of injuries two to three weeks.
The timeline for Lamar Jackson was three weeks. Now, when
you're a professional athlete, you have access to things like
around the clock medical attention, the best help that money
can buy to get your ass back on the field.
It's a whole different world. It's a whole different world.
And so now Lamar has missed thirty eight days and
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he's not going to play on Sundays, so that'll take
him to forty two days, which is six weeks. That's
double the original timeline for Lamar Jackson. And there's no
there's no pot of gold at the end of the
rainbow for the Ravens here in terms of Lamar coming back,
and they don't win this weekend, that's it. It's it's over.
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And you know, and I know that Lamar is not
a happy camp. That he's huffing and puffing and grumbling
he didn't get the proper amount of dead presidents offered
to him guaranteed money. And listen, what do I know.
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I'm just a guy that hosts an overnight radio show.
But you do realize that this sounds like the textbook
definition of malingering. Minor injury timeline three weeks, upset over
the contract, and now you will have missed six weeks. Right,
It's like, I'm not going to rush back and help
out the company. I'm upset with the company. Screw the company.
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I'm anti work. I don't want to work. Now. I
understand the motivation. I get it, and there's logic behind
it that if Lamar thinks he can hornswoggle some other
NFL team to pay him the money in the offseason
and he can really push the hand of the Raven
management and get what he wants, then for him this
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is a win win. He looks terrible in the eyes
of people that value competition, and trying to help your
teammates out. If you believe in those kind of things.
If you're from the old country, then Lamar looks like
a douche. But if you're if you're part of the
new Wave and it's all about it's all about the
bottom line and you got to be a cutthroat and
all that, and then Lamar's your hero. All this guy's
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playing the system here by dragging out the injury, not
coming back, hurting the team, but also forcing the team
into action. We'll get back to that and say, now,
the other part of this, and the other part of
this is the immediate reality that Baltimore is going into
a game against Cincinnati, that high powered Bengal offense, and
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they will not be at full strength. So can the
Ravens compete with the Bengals without Lamar Jackson. So this
is the part of the story where things get uncomfortable.
Not John Harbaugh's team has shown great resolve. They've had
some over the years in these games, but they can
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scratch and claw with the best of them. However, there
is a massive gap between whether Tyler Huntley plays or
the third string guy plays, or whoever it is, and
Joe Burrow. It's kind of like betting into a shootout situation.
Say a one on one draw and one person's holding
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a semi automatic weapon, the other person's got a musket.
The Ravens are the ones with the musket. Right, they
should be able to compete for a quarter or a
half of the game. But over the course of the
full monty, if both teams play as expected, then the
Ravens are cooked birds. It's a checkmate situation. Now that
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being said, there is actually a path to the Ravens
pulling the upset. I'll make the argument on how the
Ravens can do it. Now. The obvious one would be
the defense playing the game of their lives. And you
also need what I call the bad burrito well dysenterry
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mana Zuma's revenge, call it whatever you want. But Joe Burrow,
let's say he ends up needing a barf bag and
all of a sudden, a couple of turnovers short field,
and then the Bengals start feeling it a little bit,
and all of a sudden, the Ravens are in position
to shock the world. Now do I think that's going
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to happen? Though? I do not think that's going to
happen more times than not. What ends up happening is
it's close for a quarter or a half and then
it's a snowball going down the mountain. Right, they're rolling
down picking up more snow down the mountain. Where if
the Bengals come out, Let's say it's close for a
quarter and then they go up by fourteen points and
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all of a sudden, the Ravens have to start throwing
the ball more. They start getting out of what they're
good at, they go out of bounds what they're comfortable with,
and then we know how that turns out. All right,
that's just a run up to score situation. And you say, oh,
Mercy nurse is what you say? All right? Last word here,
So what are the odds that Lamar Jackson has now
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played his final game for the Baltimore Ravens. The assumption
had always been that he was gonna go year to year,
and now the stakes have changed based on what is
believed to be malingering from Lamar Jackson. So I'm gonna
update the odds on this, and the odds lar Jackson's
played his final down for the Ravens. I'm gonna set
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the line on this at minus one ninety, so I'm
looking at a sixty five percent chance that this is it.
That Lamar has already played his last game back in
early December, and that he pulls what I'd call the
Johnny Cash and he goes down the dusty win a
muck of road, and that's it, right. We're gonna find out.
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And that's the great thing about It's like, we have theories,
and I've heard some things in the streets are talking
around Baltimore and they're saying that Lamar is embellishing this.
But we're gonna find out whether or not that smoke
is based in reality, whether he is embellishing the injury,
or there's an actual wildfire there. Maybe it's just like
a fire pit. Maybe it's just a fire pit, but
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it could be the wildfire. The plane in Baltimore had
been to say, hey, Tag, you're it. Franchise Tag Lamar
for a couple of years after this will be paid
a top five quarterback salary, and then down the line
you figure it out. But the best laid plans of
mice men and NFL coaches, and it certainly appears by
all indications that that savvy treasure map that the Ravens
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were following. Lamar Jackson has come over and he is
spilled ink on it and torn it up into little pieces,
an act of sabotas the saboteur Lamar Jackson. Because of
these hijias, the Ravens are going to have to reevaluate things.
It would be football malpractice if the Ravens believe that
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Lamar Jackson is not actually injured right now and just
doesn't want to come back and play, that he's over
the injury, that he's gone a wall. You cannot franchise
tag him because that's a year to year thing. And
if Lamar has done it this year, he'll certainly do
it the year after this and the following year. You
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lose your status. You're no longer in the bubble of trust.
You're not in the bubble of trust. You're better off.
Jenuflecting and said, all right, you know what, we'll accush.
We'll give in to the to the hostage demands, and
we'll send Lamar on his merry way. And that's it.
And there's that transitional franchise tag that you can give
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where Lamar can go talk to other teams and all that.
And if not you can work out a trade. But
also keep in mind that he did not play well
this year. He was not warming at a high level.
Even before this latest episode in the Days of Our
Lives soap opera, he was hiding out in the back
alley there. It's not a great setup. This was Hey,
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I'm gonna put up great numbers and you're gonna have
to pay me. Now, someone's gonna play him, just not
the Ravens. I would think at this point the Ravens
are not gonna pay him because of his skill set.
The NFL teams are gonna overlook the hideout situation that
he's in a bunker. And we know that beauty is
in the eye of the beholder, as we learn when
we're little kids. But all it takes to somebody desperate,
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and there's plenty of desperate teams out there that need
quarterback help. Who will overlook all of the imperfections, all
of the warts that Lamar brings to the table with
his performance this year, with the disappearance, missing in action
and his play before that. But if Baltimore gives that
transition tag down the line, you look around, you're like,
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would the Patriots make a move? Probably? Not, but would
would they go that direction? That's a radical move for
Bill Belichick. He doesn't normally go radical. That would be
a sight to behold. What about the Bears who have
the number one overall pick and a scattershot quarterback who
gets a lot of highlights but was statistically terrible in Chicago.
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And you've got the Jets who can't get their head
out of their tookis and the Atlanta Falcons, among others.
So it is certainly a story that is going to
be on the front burners. It's on the back burner
right now, but it's gonna be on the front burner
soon enough, especially if the Ravens get charboiled and they
end up over a bowl of chili on wild Card weekend,
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and then that story will bounce right back around. Be
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And so at leave this hour coming from the NFL.
Plus there's a theme to this all night long. And
the Dolphins, Miami, Miami, Miami. The Dolphins getting set for
a wild card weekend. They're calling it super wild Card weekend.
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Doesn't seem very super to me. But wild Card weekend
match up with the Bills where the Buffalo Rome, and
they will be doing it without their headliner, without their headliner.
And I assume you've heard by now you've had a
chance to chew this over, but maybe not. The Miami
Dolphins postseason turning into a dark comedy. At this point,
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we've learned that to a tongue of iyeloa will not
be walking through that door for the Dolphins and the
wild card game against the Bills. Is Mike McDaniel good SoundBite, Okay,
Coach Mike McDaniel ruling out officially with lightning speed to
a tongue of iyeloah for the playoff game this weekend
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as he has not been cleared for football activities. He
has had the concussion bugaboo that has popped up multiple
times here, most recently Week sixteen against the Green Bay Packers.
So the change, change, change continuing in Miami. McDaniels city
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was frustrated. He wants he wants to be with the playoff.
His team in the playoffs, he said of Tua. And
so when it rains, it pours, Because not only is
tongue of voloa kode for the playoff game against Buffalo,
you also have Teddy Bridgewater, Teddy two gloves, the backup.
Not a starter, not a starter. We talked about the
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backup who seemingly would be put on the spot, but
he appears unlikely to be able to play as well.
He suffered a finger injury and that was the following
week against the New England Patriots in week seventeen. So
here we are the New England Patriots knocking out Bridgewater,
the Packers knocking out to a tongue of Voloha, the
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beneficiary would be Buffalo. But there's there's a bigger d
going on because not only is Miami preparing to start
a seventh round rookie Tyler Skyler, not Tyler Skyler Thompson
before they get whisked out of the playoffs, but you
have the fallout from this right first and foremost, too,
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a tongue of Byloa is in the crosshairs and his
football life is not doing very well. So let us
discuss the question, what does this situation on this latest
revelation that too will be silent for the playoff game
against the Bills, he will not be playing for the Dolphins.
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What does this revelation do for two, a tongue of
Byloah's future in Miami. So I've got London Acorn and
Fuzzy Dice and we will lock all of these things
together and we are going to blow your mind unless
we don't. So number one, you don't have to be
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some kind of guru of football like Jay Glazer to
know this is not going well. To a tongue of
Eloah is not long for Miami, Coffee in, coffee out.
This was a make or break season for Tongue of Bloa.
And while he started out like gangbusters, his overall body
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performance the first eight games that he played and he
was a fringe, fringe MVP candidates. Some of those stats
eye popping for TUA with the eighteen touchdowns, the three
interceptions and whatnot over the first eight games, But there
was a jumping off point because as the year progressed,
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it has become a house of card situation, down down, down,
down down, tumbling down. Tah has been a combination of
unproductive and because of injury, untrustworthy. When you say it's
a make or break season, he's been broken more times
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than we can count now and ever since the bye
week to a coming back from that seven touchdowns, five
interceptions of passer rating below eighty five, he's morphed back
into the player that he had been prior to this
regime change in Miami. And because of that, you've got
the cat and mouse game between the front office and
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the player, and you look at it and the long
term forecast, if you look at your Doppler radar, the
long term forecast is calling for London fog, pe soup fog,
low visibility in terms of the outlook going forward. Now,
who knows if the doctors will even clear to U
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to ever play again in the NFL. We think they will.
Most likely, he'll be able to find someone to give
him at least a yellow light, not a green light,
but a yellow light with caution. Proceed with caution. However,
the chances of too a tongue of voloa getting handed
the keys to a franchise, whether it's the Dolphins or
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another franchise, are slim, and nunskis right at this point,
and it's facts over feelings too. He will turn twenty
five before next season, so my math tells me that
he's twenty four right now. But the problem is the
medical charts, and you look at the medical charts, and
there's this red mist that descends upon those medical charts,
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and there's no way to overlook that, right, there's no
way to over look at that. Football players get hurt,
that's what they do. But when you're constantly being hurt
and you're at that age, it's a bad combination. Bad
combination in terms of getting a massive contract and connecting
connecting the dots on that all right now, page two.
So let's look at the game coming up this weekend,
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the Hustle and bustle of the NFL Wild Card Weekend,
and the Bills went from a ten and a half
point favorite to a thirteen point favorite. Buffalo now favored
by almost two touchdowns if the spread does climb to fourteen.
If we get to fourteen, it would be the Dolphins'
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largest spread as an underdog in a playoff game since
the merger. That's over fifty years of football since the
nineteen seventy merger. That's a long long time ago. Now. Meanwhile,
many people in the gaming world think this is a
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free money situation, that Buffalo is clearly the healthier team
even with the and they've had injuries as well as
late in the season. Everyone's all mangled up at this point.
It's a war of attrition, but Buffalo is the healthier team.
And yeah, yeah, I really have to stick your neck
out if you're taking the Dolphins. Now we do Benny
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versus the Penny, and I'm not gonna reveal my hand
right now, but i will tell you some of the
logic going into this. You'll have to download the podcast
for the full Monty. But Skylar Thompson, who has I
would say lived up to expectations. The third string quarterback
has played like a third string quarterback, like he belongs
in a garbage disposal. He started a couple of games.
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He's played a limited amount of time, one hundred and
five pass attempts, one touchdown, and three interceptions. The biggest sin, though,
all right, biggest sin for Skylar Thompson is the pop
gun ability of moving the ball down the field. Now
Thompson has average five point one yards per attempt. Instead
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of being as fearsome as a barracuda, Skyler is about
as lethal as a koala bear leading this offense. And
forget the Bill's defense for a minute. In Buffalo defense
is not as good without von Miller. But so far,
Thompson has essentially by himself whittled down the Dolphin offense.
He's neutralized Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill because they're just
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not making the big plays when he's been out there. Now,
keep in mind them the other side of the coin.
The stats tell you what has happened, they don't tell
you what's going to happen. And as we have seen
from time to time, every once in a while that
blind hog finds an acorn. Doesn't happen very often, but
you don't want to be the one that's there when
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that happens. And everyone else, though, is going to have
to step up. It's gonna have to be the defensive
performance of the year with bells and whistles for the
Miami defense. You gotta think that since the Dolphins on
offense are in hot water, even though they're going to
Chili Buffalo, they're gonna run a rudimentary offense and attempt
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to do what they did last time they were in Buffalo.
But to a play in game long methodical drives a
lot of running with whatever they have in the back.
I guess Jeff Wilson's the healthy running back that they'll
play him quite a bit and rotate some other guys in,
but essentially play keepaway. In order to pull this off,
Skyler Thompson is going to have to have a few
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throws of his life connect on third down, move the chains,
et cetera. To be too hard on football guy, but
that's the big, the big thing that my eyeballs pop
out at on third down, Skyler Thompson. Because the games
are won on third down two minute offense connecting throws.
So with Thompson under center, he's had twenty nine pass
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attempts on third down for the Dolphins this year. You
know how many converted eight eight of twenty nine throwing
the ball on third down. That is a conversion rate
of less than twenty eight percent. And that is not
gonna get it done. That's drinking from a fire hose
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when you're you're you're gonna be behind and you can't
convert him third down. Good luck on that, all right,
final point. So this is something a little different. Are
the Miami Dolphins cursed? Now? When I poached that topic, initially,
my thought was, that's a bunch of poppycock. The Dolphins
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are cursed. I don't believe in that nonsense. But I
was swayed a bit by a Fox Sports radio listener
like yourself, a fan of the show, guy named Barry
who lives in South Florida, and he sent me a
message this week and he said that he's been a
Miami Dolphin fan. He claims since the nineteen seventies. He's
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had insomnia since the nineteen eighties, and he says that
everything went sideways when the Dolphins left the Orange Bowl,
so we're gonna way back and when they moved into
their new stadium, said even he even sent me. He
said he has physical evidence to back up his claim
that the Dolphins are a jinx team. He says, this
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proves that the Dolphin franchise is star crossed and he's
got the evidence. So you might want to get out
your teal fuzzy dice for this one. So what is
the problem here, all right? What is Let's get to
the point, please, So I'm gonna jump on the cosmic treadmill.
Cosmic treadmill, We're gonna take you back in time to
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the mid nineteen eighties. The Dolphins are building I believe
it was called Joe Robbie Stadium at the time, which
is still the site where they play, but they've changed
the name multiple times over the years. So this is
a newspaper article that this guy sent me, and it
says here that construction had been stopped after they discovered
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ancient remains from a long extinct Indian tribe that lived
in South Florida until the mid seventeen hundreds, when the
entire Indian tribe was wiped out by disease This is
a nineteen eighties newspaper story. The Dolphins stadium was built
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on an ancient burial ground and the artifacts had been
carefully excavated and preserved and all that, and it says
in this story it talks about how like the Dolphins
were like, maybe they shouldn't go somewhere else, and you
know whatever, they decided to build the stadium there. And
since the Dolphins built the stadium, it's not exactly gone
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that well, fair to say it was not great and
it's continued to not be great. Be sure to catch
live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. All right, this is Jay Glazer.
And you may know me for the world of football
or fighting or even shows like HBO's Ballers. Well you
don't know is for my entire life, I have lived
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in something I referred to his great depression, anxiety. So
now I'm coming out with a new podcast, Unbreakable, a
mental health podcast with Jay Glazer, where each week, well
we talk about mental health. I hope to describe it,
give it words. Listen to Unbreakable with Jay Glazer on
the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, Smeller,
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how about that to the third degree, this is one
big band gets grilled. Hoop that loop. When asked if
there was any result for the Cowboys this weekend that
could put Mike McCarthy's job in jeopardy, Jerry Jones essentially
sidestep the question, saying that he has a lot more
to evaluate McCarthy on than just this playoff game. Ben,
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is there a chance McCarthy could get the boot? Absolutely,
We're gonna talk about the Cowboys more a little bit later.
But Jerry Jones is not getting any younger. He's been teased.
He has not been pleased since the nineteen eighties or
you know, nineties for the Cowboys, early nineties. And so
there are big name coaches out there. There's Sean McVay,
who could be yours if the Cowboys want him. There's
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Sean Payton. So there are options for Jerry Jones that
are more attractive right now than Mike McCarthy. Next, the
Kentucky Wildcats blue ad twenty eight game home win street
by losing to South Carolina on Tuesday. This has caused
the pressure to rise on John Calipari as Kentucky hasn't
been the powerhouse fans are used to the last couple
of years, Ben, as Calipari lost his mojo, Well, it
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certainly seems like a chunk of the fan base in
Kentucky has turned on him. The Wildcats have lost thirty
games since COVID started. They're forty five and thirty in
the COVID era, so clearly they're suffering from brain fog there.
They're no longer invincible. The Wildcats and this name image
likeness thing. You'd think that John Calipari would have been
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able to navigate that, but that appears to have been
the poison pill. He's gonna have to reinvent himself or
he'll be coaching at Arizona State next Rob Gronkowski spoke
with the media and said that he never really had
the itch to play, and that's why he never seriously
thought about making a return this season. I want to
ask about maybe next season, Gronk said, Well, maybe it's
someone through like half the salary cap at him. Ben,
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do you think he's done for good? He's lying? Could
we know that? Gronk? He tried to come back this year.
He put out feelers. The fish were not biting, and
so he didn't come back. I don't believe what Gronk
is selling here. How did we do? He passed this edition.
That is a winner. You can put it on the board. Yes,
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Horry Harry. I can ask bad Twitter, send us your
questions on Twitter. Now. I think of this as an appetizer,
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a harmless appetizer for these segment, asked Ben, we'll get started.
We passed the mic over to the Coopa loop for
the reading of the questions. And all of these questions,
even the ones that are cheap shots, have been sent
in by listeners like yourself via the social media app Twitter,
the Twitter app and hashtag, asked Ben, and we got
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over to the Cooper loop right now, No softball questions, Coop,
No softball? All right, let's go with um start pyrotechnic Scoop.
I want skyrockets, I want koboom is what? No? Um,
let's start? What are you saying we've got safe? Insane?
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Is that what you're saying. Let's start off with the
question from furg dog that's safe insane, My man, furg
dog safe insane. He wants to know have any of
you used an umbrella at all this month? Whoa that is? Eddie?
That's a Roman candle is Eddie? God, that's dynamite. That
is a dynamit. What a way to start. That's the
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kind of information. That's why we're on in the middle
of the night, Eddie. Right there. No, I don't even
have an umbrella. My wife has an umbre. I don't
have an umbrella. I don't, although I did almost die
on the one on one freeway driving to work the
other night, So there is that. What about you, Eddie?
I have used an umbrella, yes, uh, most of the
time walking in the backyard with the dog as it's
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doing its business. And I'm I'm so kind that I
am standing over the dog with an umbrella, mostly because
I don't want to have to drive the dog off
as much as you know when I get back in
the house. But it's for your own gain. It's it's
it's it's it's for both of our benefit. Yeah, and
how many dogs? You having two dogs? Two dogs? How
many cats? No, no cat, No cats. I thought you
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had cats. We had a cat. But he's now in
kitty heaven. Okay, gone to the big kitty box in
this guy. I got you, all right? What about you?
Absolutely not? Yeah, yeah, we're real men. We don't need
an umbrella, no exactly, yeah, just get wet wet wet men.
What real man? Yeah, my answer is no as well.
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And I wanted everybody to answer before I read the
rest of furd Dog's tweet, which says, which says, t
if yes, please hand in your man card, Eddie, would
you like to hand that over right now? Wow? Hand
over the hand over the third dog who who's watching
Sesame Street right now? Hand it over to fird Dog,
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he's watching Burton. I never had one to begin with.
Oh really, yeah, all right, I got you. All right.
We talk about sports. It's very masculine job. Y, we
do sports radio. We're ninety eight percent of our audiences dudes,
hard working maiden and when blue collar workers, Eddie, this
is a man's job, sports radio, for sure. Yeah, we're
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very hard working people. Yeah, absolutely, this job is not
that easy. All right, all r why don't we pause
with the carts what a great start. We'll pause for
the calls. We'll have a big giant block, big giant
block of questions. Your questions are answers. You have been empowered.
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It is cathartic. Ask Ben, and it rolls on. We'll
get to it next. Be sure to catch live editions
of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
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I don't have an RV, I don't have a boat,
I don't have an ATV. I do have a headache.
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But let's get to ask Ben right now and the
Kopa loop. All right, let's continue on with a question
from milkman Mike, all Right, he wants to know for
the crew. If invited to a Super Bowl party and
asked to bring a dish, what are you bringing? Well,
I would probably bring dessert because I've been baking a lot,
so I'm Benny the baker, So I would I would
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bring one of my because most of the things I
make are like warm and they wouldn't hold up in
a like I make cheese, steak and things like that
in burgers. You can't really take those to a pot
luck thing. So I'd make like cookies and something like that.
What about you, Eddie, I would whip up some sort
of homemade like seven layer dip in chips something be
pretty good. Yeah, Now Roberto is the big ones cooking
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with Roberto here, He's gonna he's gonna bring an entire
seven course meal. Nah nah. I would bring uh se uh,
maybe some like New York steak, you know, and then
probably like some uh some like um, some calamari, homemade
calamari calamar So I think of like pot luck. I
think of like mac and cheese or something like it.
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Pot and then some homemade actual like cheese, like a
cheese dip. Oh, I love calamari. It's great, good cheese.
What about you? Cool? What would you bring to the
super Bowl the hypothetical super Bowl party? Uh my, My
signature dish that I bring to super Bowl parties is weed.
It well, yeah, that's a given. But also it's something
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that I call. This is offensive. It's what it's. It's
something that look in the family. This is what it's
been called since I was a child. Okay, all right,
it's called trailer trash dip. Listen, you do not have
to take shots. It's a scratch off. What's wrong with alright,
that's wrong with you. But it's it's basically, uh, it's
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essentially like a chili and cream cheese sort of chip dip,
and it's great. So I would just bring the ingredients
to the party and whip it up there so it's
nice and hot and fresh. I gotta point out that's
one thing when I was a kid, I did not
like dip. As an adult pro dip, I love dip.
All right, What is next? What do we have? All right,
let's sue. Let's do a question here from Robin Vegas.
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Robin Vegas, let me guess it's about professional wrestling or
our friend Andrea in Berkeley. It is h if you
had the opportunity to run to run a billion dollars
ponzi scheme for a decade, but new in the end
you'd spend ten years in prison, would you do it?
And I feel like I feel like he left out
a caveat, like you have you have to be able,
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like to make this question interesting, you have to be
able to keep some of the money, right, because otherwise
the answer would be no. Right. Well, the move here
is you got to figure out how long are you
planning on living and oh, yeah, can you enjoy those
ten years? And then you figure like the back ten
when you're probably gonna check out one of those ten
that's you got to do the math on that. Yeah.
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But these guys that do these here's the thing, like
these guys that go to jail, Like you know, there's
like we got guys that listen in jail, and we've
got guys that get out of you. I've heard from
these guys. These guys that get out of you, Like
there's two different Like if you could violent crime, there's
like really nasty jail with people that will rip your
eyeballs out. And then there's like rich person jail where
they play softball. I remember when Bruce McNall owned the
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Kings and he got into trouble, and a bunch of
the stars that used to go to the Kings against
would go watch him play softball at this prison up
near Santa Barbara. The week it was ridiculous was like
out of the movies What about you, Eddie? Uh yeah,
I would. I would not. I would not go for that.
My life is good. I don't need to do that.
But think of all the things you could have. The
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toy you could buy, all that stuff in the Progressive
have a motorcycle, RV, boat and ATV Eddie. I mean
I don't. I really don't want any of that stuff. Okay,
if it was just me and my wife living together,
probably I probably do it. But now taken to account
my daughter, no, I would say. No. You don't think
your daughter would like you to be in jail for
taking all? Right? What about you? Cool? Please see It's
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it's interesting that Roberto said that, because I was thinking
I would do it if I could, like if the
jail sentence could somehow be with my say, but it
wouldn't be. We'd be separated, so I would say, no,
well you might have to change your gender, but Dave,
you could possibly be in the all right, any quick, one, quickly, anything,
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anything at all? Here would Daniel Romanowski wants to know,
would you get an STD if it also came with
a superpower of your choice? What's the worst SPD? Maybe
that's the ghost, Eddie. I consider it. I mean, what's
one to fly? Would you be able to fly? There? Yeah?
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I mean Gonera's curable. There you go, sign me up,
Sign me up, coach. I'm ready to go. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the iHeartRadio app. And we go right back
to Eddie Garcia and all your inside of hockey stuff.
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The magic happened right here if you're a hockey fan, Eddie,
all right, thanks Ben. We're about halfway through the NHL
regular season, and one team and one player are on
historic runs at the moment. First, the Boston Bruins currently
riding a fourteen game points streak eleven oh and three
since December eleven. That's nice, but that's not what we're
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talking about the overall record though for the Bruins so
far thirty two, four and four for sixty eight points.
They already they peaked too soon, Eddie, peaked too soon.
They are on pace for sixty five wins the NHL record,
that'd be pretty good. NHL record for wins in the
season is sixty two shared. They're going in Boston. All
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my friends in Boston. Rob said they got rid of
Cassidy right. They were like that, what are they doing?
Did that team win at eighty right? Two wins? Uh?
The that was the twenty eighteen nineteen Tampa Bay Lightning
and the ninety five ninety six Detroit red Way. If
this was the NBA, they'd say they're trying too hard, Eddie.
They've got to arrest some players manage. That's true. Also,
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the Bruins are on pace for one hundred and thirty
nine points in a season. The NHL record is one
hundred and thirty two by the seventy six seventy seven
Montreal Canadians. So on pace for a record season for
the Boston Bruins. As for Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid,
he's pays for a career year. He has seventy seven
points thirty four goals in forty two games. He's on
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pace for sixty six goals and one hundred and fifty points.
Those would be career highs. It would be the most
goals in a season since Laney McDonald had sixty six
in the Red Mustache. I was covered hockey. He was
still playing. He was really old, but he was still playing. Yeah,
but the NHL record I think he played for that
is good. The NHL record for goals in a season
ninety two by Wayne Gretzky, which is stupid. Uh. The
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one hundred and fifty points that he's on pace for,
McDavid would be the most in a season since Bernie
Nichols had one hundred and fifty and nineteen eighty eighty
to nine without the championships. That's a little Aaron Rodgers
bred farve like that Edmonton had back in the day Gretzky,
and that they've got Conna McDavid like that. Yeah, Well,
it's ironic that he's having this ridiculous year. Uh. And
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and the Oilers are barely right now holding onto a playoffs,
but they're kind of Uh. I don't know if Coople
enjoy this, but they're kind of the the La Angels
of the NHL. They've got two superstars on their team
and yet they i mean the titles the Otani. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
got two superstars. But the goaltend, that's right, that's exactly
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all right. Their defense and their goaltending is not good.
So that's like, yeah, kind of like that. Carolina Hurricanes
put sixty seven shots on goal this past week in
the game against the Nashville Predators, and they lost six
to three. Nashville goalie Uc Sorrows made a career sixty
four saves. Those those sixty seven shots on goal the
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fourth most in NHL history in a single game. Interesting
that the record is seventy three shots on goal by
the Boston Bruins against the Quebec Door Deeks in nineteen
ninety one. And the Bruins did win that game either.
That was back when they had ties. It finished in
a three three tie. And of the top five teams
that have had the most shots on goal in a game,
only one of them actually won it won the game.
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So maybe shots on goal quiet, that's exactly true. That's
exactly true. It's like boxing, you know how you see
those punch thoughts. Yeah, thrown, but it's it's it's the
power punch ya. La Kings have turned to a journeyman
goalie and so far it is a Cinderella story. Phoenix
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Copley is his name. He's from North Alaska. Yeah, Phoenix top.
He's He's been a journeyman his whole career. He was
signed in the offseason as a complete afterthought, but because
of the bad goaltending by the Kings, they sent one
of their goalies down in the miners. They gave this
guy a shot. So far, his record twenty one and
two with the La Kings. He won again last night,
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the Kings against the Sharks. Thirty one years old and
a hockey guy. Just do an over that show. That
seems pretty good. It's not bad, not bad. Uh So, Yeah,
that's been a nice story for them. Is this a fluke?
Is he gonna come back crashing down? Or I don't
think so because he's not. He's not really putting up
crazy numbers. They're just he's just given them solid, solid
play and that's been enough. So he Usually extreme outcomes
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are followed by more moderate that's yeah my experience. Congrats
to Canada. They won the World Junior Championships three two
over the Czech Republic, which has changed his name by
the way, to Chechia, which I didn't know. Oh yeah, yeah,
I'm always like Republic. I agree, I agree, or we
could go really old school and go Czechoslovakia our dispelity.
(45:38):
Yeah it's true. But Connor Badard, the projected number one
pick in the upcoming dress supposed to be just a stud,
led all players with twenty three points nine goals fourteen assists.
He didn't have any points the gold medal game, but
was named the top four in the tournament. MVP Bruins
win over the Penguins, and the Winter Classic average one
point eight million viewers on t NT, up thirty one
(45:59):
percent from the twenty twenty event. And finally we talked
about the Pro Bowl for the NFL. Well, the NHL
All Star Game is coming up in a few weeks
in Sunrise, Florida. Let me guess potato sack race. Well,
we'll see. Your coaches are gonna be Jim Montgomery of
the Bruins, Rod Brenda Moore of the Caroline Hurricanes, Pete
(46:20):
Debor of the Dallas Stars, and Bruce Cassidy of the
Vegas Golden Nights. Interesting awkward that Bruce Cassidy was the
coach of Boston and then Boston into the new Boston
coach is now an All Star coach, and Pete Debor
was the coach in Vegas. He's now the coach in Dallas.
So they all switched jobs and they're all they're all
(46:41):
having great years this year with their new teams. But
the skills competition is coming up and they're taught there.
They are also talking about a hybrid hockey golf event
as part of their skills competition, some sort of a
dunk tank apparently they're gonna have. And and my personal favorite,
because this is in Florida, shooting frozen burgers at alligators.
(47:07):
Now are they live alligators or pretend alligators? I don't know.
Are they baby alligators or those big eight hundred pounds
I don't know, But apparently they're going to shoot frozen
burgers at alligators. Yeah, stay tuned. Yeah, wonderful. And that's
your Puck the World Report. I'm sensing a press release
from PETA, That's what I'm saying. Yeah, all right,
Host
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