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Big Ben talks about Jalen Ramsey getting traded to the Miami Dolphins, the Field of 68 getting set for the NCAA Tournament on Selection Sunday, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and the biggest two Benny Awards of the night!

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What's king In these parts, we'll talk about the big
trade that has been agreed upon in the NFL. We

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that we will start handing out the hardware the greatest
night in overnight sports talk radio. Nobody else has this.
We're the only show that has this. Right now, we
will be giving out Benny's, the twenty twenty three Bennies.
I'll be kicking off in just minutes, and we're very

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excited to welcome in all the winners and congratulations to
all the nominees. We're all dressed up. There's a certain
buzz in the air. Everyone getting here early to prepare
for the Bennies, and boy are we excited about that.
So we'll get to that coming up in a bit.
But we have trade action in the NFL. A big name,
a name we have heard of, is on the move.

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The defensive back, shut down defensive back, Jalen Ramsey is
changing laundry. The Dolphins are wheeling and dealing. Don't if
you've heard about this or not, maybe not. We learned
over the weekend the La Rams are saying bye bye
to Jalen Ramsey, They send him to Miami in exchange
for a third round pick, a tight end someone named

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Hunter Long, we don't know who that is, and a
my tie to be named later. The deal will be
made official on Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday. No, it's always a
big day on Wednesday when trades are official, because that
is the new league year. That is when the new
league year begins. And Jalen Ramsey cranking open social media

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saying that he quote pray for this to happen for
about a month. Took him a month of prayer, and
it happened, not just a couple of days, a full
month before the prayer was answered. Ramsey has not one
not to but three years. Yes, how about a higher
power wanted him in Miami. But Ramsey's got three years

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remaining on his contract. The Finns already agreed to Garrodtate
the next two years, so that means Ramsey's only gonna
be in Miami for two years. But based on that,
that's kind of obvious. All right, So let us discuss
the question how do you grade the Jalen Ramsey trade
from the Rams to the Dolphins. So I have the
Malle report card here Dolphins get in a minus. The

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Rams get a C plus. So that's the Malle report card.
I've got pipe piper, codependency, and sorcerer's Workshop, and we
will tie all of these things together and we are
going to make a nice, toasty, warm playoff game in
South Florida, which has not happened very often. Like that

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was the last time the Dolphins hosted a home playoff game.
It feels like it's been a long time since that
took place. So a big day, big day for the Dolphins.
Miami has a football team and they're in it to
win it. The Dolphins who are lowered down the totem
pole in the AFC. You do not have to be

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an insider to know that. You look at the upper
crust of the American Football Conference at the very top
Cansa City, and the Chiefs are out by a couple
of lengths. Then behind them you got the ben Gals
and the Buffalo Bills. The Dolphins are lagging behind. However,

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this is a flex the muscle situation where it's an
active aggression. Miami is marking their territory like a dog.
Like a dog, They're marking their territory the Jayman ram
bringing the Pied Piper effect, the eight hundred year old myth.
He's a he's a leader, a leader of man, the
face of the defense, invaluable. He's got the charisma, he

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inspires loyalty, just like the Pied Piper. And now he's
a dolphin A page due what exactly, what exactly is
going on here with the love connection between Jalen Ramsey
and the Dolphins. So in addition to the Pied Piper effect,
this continues a metamorphosis. It's very bizarre what's going on

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here because Miami is looking at the end. They're trying
to end their codependency with two A Tongue of Byela
while agreeing to extend the relationship. It makes no sense.
The Dolphins know that even after picking up the fifth
year option on two A Tongue of Eyeloa for the
twenty twenty four season, they know they cannot rely on

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Ta He's undependable. They've got to end the codependence. So
what are you doing. He's made out of glass. We
all know that he's fragile. So as a result, Miami
is deciding, Hey, you know what we're gonna We're gonna
fatten up the d that's what we're gonna do. Fatten
up the defense right there. And so that's what they're
doing there. Ramsey is going to be the face of

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that side of the football. But this continues a pattern.
It started during the season last year. The Dolphins picked
up an elite edge rusher, Bradley Chubb, the linebacker from
the Broncos during the twenty twenty two regular season. They
then in this offseason, what do they do? They Dolphins,
that cried Uncle Uncle Vic vic Fangio. He's a defensive gooper.

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Just don't want him as your head coach. And Vic Fangio.
Now he's surrounded in Miami. He's got Jalen Ramsey, Bradley Chubb,
he's the one calling the shots. And they've got Zavian Howard,
the leftover defensive back who is very good. He's also
there Christian Wilkins, who was a high draft pick defensive tackle.
So they have the ingredients to be a top ten

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defense in South Florida. They do that major upgrades, major
upgrades here. Miami was twenty fourth in scoring defense last season.
They were nineteenth in total defense. And that tells me
that's not good. So I'm a Football Insider in the
middle of the night that day. We're twenty fourth out

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of thirty two. That's not good. If you're nineteenth out
of thirty two, that's not good. That's not good at all.
All right, last word here, So how do the Rams
turn the page? Say bye bye to Jalen Ramsey? His
ass is grass. Well, it's clearly a bitter pill to swallow.
Do I believe that it's all over? The Rams are done?
It's all over. Have a funeral for the Rams? No,

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I do not. Ramsey is a good player. He will
continue to be a good player. Hopefully he does very
well with the Dolphins. Was an All Pro in two
of the three full seasons that he spent in Los Angeles,
helped the Rams win Super Bowl fifty six, the greatest
Super Bowl of all time, against the Bengals, and Ramsey
was the third highest rated defensive back in the NFL

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this past season. So it's not like you fell off
the face of the earth that according to the nerds
the geeks over at Pro Football Focus. He finished the
season with four interceptions, eighteen passes defended, and a whole
lot of downtime as many teams did not even bother
throwing to his side because they figured, why would we
because he's good and the other side it's not so good.

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So the Rams what they're doing here. It's not a
turnout the last the parties over. It's not that. It's
a reshuffling of the deck. Is what it is, and
nothing last forever we knew this was happening. It is
the circle of life, the circle of life in the NFL.
Ramsey has gone. Bobby Wagner spent one year with the
Ramsey's out. Leonard Floyd sporadically good and often bad pass

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rush specialist. He's out. They all exit stage left. In return,
Oh you draft, You're you're having orgasm. The Rams got
a draft pick. Oh it's so exciting. Oh man, The
Rams get the seventy seventh pick in the draft and
a tight end named Hunter Long, who was a third

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round pick out of Boston College. So he came out
of BC in twenty twenty one, so essentially the Rams
got two third round picks for Jalen Ramsey. Long has
played all of sixteen games, and I believe you have
made a bigger impact in the NFL than he has. Then.
Hunter Long has who has mostly been a blocking special

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team's tight end who has made no impact whatsoever with
the Dolphins. So now now we turn our attention to
Sean McVeigh and Less Snead, who have to go into
the sorcerer's workshop. They have to go into the sorcerer's workshop,
find a few diamonds in the rough and fill out

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the roster, which is going to have a lot of
peace meal players on the roster. But they will figure
things out. There'll be some bumps, some bruises, but it
was all worth it. Every loss was worth it. I
don't care how long the Rams blow. It was worth it.
They got to two super Bowls in this run of

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trading f them picks and getting players. Two super Bowls
they won one of them. And you look at some
of these pathetic, disgraceful franchises that never do this kind
of thing, like the Lions and the Browns and teams
like that. You said, of course, so if the Rams
are down for a few years, that's fine, perfectly okay

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with that, all good, and they still have some other
players that we've heard of on the team. You get
one thing about being in la Is. You can't be
a faceless, nameless team or you are doomed. You have
to have have to have some headline players. And they
have one on offense in Cooper Cup. And they have
one on defense in Aaron Donald. And we'll see what
the future holds for the Rams. Be sure to catch

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will get back to the festivities of the Red Carpet
was amazing. The after parties are going to be off
the hook, and we'll get back to that coming up
in a bit. But our lead this hour coming from
the madness of it all, March madness. It's a big
day on a Sunday, Sunday, Sunday the annual right of spring.
Now technically spring does not get started for another week

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March twentieth. Looking at the weather forecast, it's going to
be delayed. Looks like punks of tany. Phil's right. But
selection Sunday is the start of spring in our little world.
And did you watch did you watch the revealing of
the names? Were you locked in, where you engaged, where
you mesmerize, They're probably not. The field of sixty eight

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teams revealed the INCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Now the automatic bids,
it's important to note, handed out to thirty two teams.
So thirty two teams knew we're in, We're good, We're golden.
The rest of the field. The other thirty six teams
earned at large tickets. They punched their ticket at large.

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Now the chalky mc chalk at the very top. Alabama.
What an interesting year it's been for the Crimson Tide
as Alabama out of the South, they're the overall number
one seed in the tournament. Kansas in the West with
their coach coming out of the hospital, Bill Self, Houston
in the Midwest, and they were all number one seats

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along with Purdue in the East, the final number one
overall seats. So you've got Alabama, Kansas, Houston, and Purdue,
and based on the math, it is likely at least
two of those teams, certainly one of them, but two
likely will end up in the final four. So let
us just us the question. Tell me your level of

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interest in the twenty twenty three men's college basketball Tournament
March Madness. What is your level of interest? So, on
a scale of one to tend the maller scale of
interest one to ten, I am at a two. I'm
out of two two now for gambling purposes, I am engaged,

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locked in and will enjoy the fun. But in terms
of compelling content, not so much. We'll explain what this
is all about. I've got the Commodorees, Crescendo and Milk Carton,
and we will combine all of these things together and
that will be the foundation of this mallar monogue. So

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first of all, now we could sit behind these microphones
all night long and pretend that we're fired up, and
many people will. Many people will do the job that
I'm doing. They are fellow gas bags and blowhards, and
they will put on a happy face whoa and the
lu little song and dance and they'll go, WHOA, We're
so excited. Whoa college basketball? And then when Susana Mike's

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turned off, you'll get the honest perspective by this sucks.
What are we doing? I mean, did I sell that segment?
Where did I sell that? Did people buy into that?
And it listen, it's it's not based on reality. We
play the hits, one of our boss play the heads
of my man play this. No, I'm not totally against
college basketball. We have sampled some college basketball. I've tried

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to do my due diligence to watch random college basketball
games over the last couple of months. The results have
been less than memorable. It has been a lounge act,
not a main event. A lounge act. Underwhelming would be
a word we can use and we have watched teams
with little rhythm and timing. These are supposed to be
some of the top teams in the country, disjointed, choppy

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sea's turbulent waters and college hoops continues to be a
Commodores hit song from the night seventies brick House. Now
they're not talking about a curvaceous woman. They are talking
about bricks. There's a brick there, there's a brick here,
There's a brick everywhere. You get a brick, you get
a brick, You get a brick, you get a brick.

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So the lyrics of the song have obviously been changed,
and this is about a medley of bricks, airballs, clankny
clanks off the rim, poor shooting techniques, lack of focus,
poor form, and just a general lack of quality control
which is not there in college hoops. Games are ugly
slow highlights. Really, when I've watched these games, there's a

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lot of unskilled players grappling in the paint, and the
officials still to this day micro manage, microw manage the games.
They interfere, they're interlopers. Now, I know we're never going
to get college basketball back to the way it used
to be, and there were not perfects in college. But

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I mean even when I remember in romanticized college basketball,
I'm sure if I went back and watched it, I'd
be like, well, that wasn't that good. But it's not
going to be professional quality regardless. It shouldn't be Hamburger
Helper quality either. It's got to be somewhere in between.
And a lot of it stinks to high Heaven. When
you get past the pomp and circumstance and the tradition

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March Madness, it's a lot of it is unwatchable. Now. Secondly,
can this become a compelling television show? And this is
where things get wacky. So my level of interest, out
of a scale of one to ten, I'm out of two.
But that said, March Madness is captivating because of gambling,

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because of the office pool. It's manufactured drama, it's gripping,
nail biting, and in all that, the wild thing is
that March Madness is not like you know, it's not
your typical rock song. It kind of starts out mellow.
Most rock songs start out mellow, and then that's the

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introduction and then they studily increase in volume. This is
more a piece of music that starts out really loud,
and it's got the crescendo right there at the beginning
before decreasing in volume. And that is the fly in
the ointment, and there's really no way to fix it.

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There's a direct line between engagement when your bracket is
alive as opposed to when your bracket is busted. The
level of interest goes down, down, down, down down, meaning that,
for example, let's say you had perdue in your bracket
winning the whole thing, go boiler Makers, and then the
boiler Makers do a belly whopper in the second round

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of the tournament. All of a sudden, you're back to Netflix.
You're not given a cockroaches ass what happens the arrest
of the tournament because you are out now for what
it's worth, we turn to our friends in the gambling
world to find out where the most bang for the
buck is, and that would be in the West bracket.

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That's what the gamblers tell us. They're in it to
win it. They have a financial stake, and they tell
us that of the top ten teams most likely to
win the NCAA tournament, four of them, forty percent are
in the West. Forty percent. You've got Kansas the top
seat in the West. They're the favorite, opening up at

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plus eight hundred to win the title. But you've got
the Jayhawks who have the third best odds overall behind
Houston and Alabama. But the gambling community has UCLA as
the number two team in the West, the fifth best
odds to win the tournament at plus twelve hundred. The
Bruins only the only team I own refers they're the

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highest ranked team outside of the four number one seats,
So as a number two, UCLA the highest stranked, and
then the third seed Gonzaga. The Bulldogs are tied for
the seventh lowest odds in the tournament at plus sixteen hundred,
same as Arizona. You've got Yukon, Connecticut sitting at plus

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eighteen hundred to win it. They've got the ninth best
odds in the tournament. So that means that of the
nine most likely scenarios in the looking at the gambling world,
looking at what Vegas is doing, the nine most likely
winners of the NCAA Tournament according to the odds that
they all are in the West region. The Western region

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now the East. If you're looking for soft you go
head East head East young Man Perdue, which is the
least likely winner of the tournament based on the number
one seeds from what I was perusing earlier. At plus
one thousand second seed Marquette, they're the eleventh most likely champion.

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That is behind the rest of the two seeds in
the end A tournament, and the three seed in the
East region is Kansas State. Now Kansas State case State
is plus four thousand to win the tournament. That is
tied with four other teams as the sixteenth most likely champion.
Keeping track of this, all right, So the final thought,

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what are you looking forward to? What are you really
looking forward to in March? Matt as well, I'm like
a broken record if you've heard me over the years.
Here it's the stars, it's the stars. I'm a scout,
and in this tournament you're looking at who are the
guys are going to be at the next level. And
that's where it really where. This is a dud, right,

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And that's the problem. There's no way to fix it.
The twenty twenty three NCAA tournament is devoid of blue
chip talent. Is that a correct statement or any correct statement?
I believe it is a correct statement. I'll tell you why.
The unicorn is on the milk carton. The unicorn is
on the milk carton and nowhere to be seen. You
will not watch in the Southeast Midwest any of these brackets.

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You will not be seeing the bona fide runaway superstar
in the making who will not not be part of
the tournament. He's on a mel carton. Victor when Yami
of France the number one pick, and when by Yama
was he didn't not playing in college basketball, so we

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have heard his name for several years, the French connection,
and he will be playing as the number one over
a pick for the Rockets, the Pistons, or a team
to be named later. The projected number two pick is
someone named Scoot Henderson. Who is that I don't know,

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but he's not playing college basketball. He's a G League
guy and he's projected as the number two pick. So
that leaves the gun loaning Brandon Miller of Alabama as
the top ranked player in the tournament. Miller giving a
teammate a weapon that was then used to kill a woman,
and the most amazing part of the story was not

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punished in any way, No tangible punishment for that whether
criminally or by the team, was more of a pat
on the back, good job by you from the Crimson Tide,
which is very bizarre, but hey, I guess they do
things a little differently there, and so here we are.
And even the NCAA selection committee, you think maybe them
all the wolkesters over there would have punished Alabama. That

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did not happen. So that is the player Brandon Miller,
who is at the very top in terms of the projections.
Now after that, you've got a couple of Arkansas players,
Nick Smith, the point guard, Anthony Black who's a guard
as well, projected to be top five picks. And then
you go down to Dick Grady Dick of Kansas as

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he has projected as a lottery pick. And there's a
kid from Baylor as well. So those are some of
the NBA bound players. North Carolina. How about a special
tip of the microphone of North Carolina, who went from
starting the season as the preseason number one to missing
the tournament. The tar Hills will now become the answer
to a trivia question, the first top ranked team in

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the AP preseason poll to miss March Madness altogether since
nineteen eighty five, when they expanded the field to sixty
four teams, it had never happened to Tar Hills twenty
and thirteen. They had four starters back from a team
that made a magical run last March to the NCAA

(24:38):
title game, beat Duke on the way there in the
final four weekend spoiling coach k Hubert Davis taking over
for Roy Williams and with Roy Williams players did pretty well.
With his own players, of which were a lot of
leftovers not so well. Be sure to catch live editions
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Coop Dello. Over the weekend, Lebron James took to Twitter

(25:43):
to endorse Mike Brown for NBA Coach of the Year. Yeah, Ben,
Will he win the award is buddy? It would be
an upset if Mike Brown does not win the award.
There's a formula, there's a cadence to these kind of things,
and the formula is in favor of Mike Brown. The
Kings were supposed to suck this year. They were supposed

(26:04):
to blow and they don't. They've overachieved. They've got one
of the top records in the West. They play a
high octane style of basketball. They're aesthetically pleasing. And the
only real competition Mike Brown has is Joe Missoula of
the Celtics, who took over a chaotic situation, the fly
of the Celtics, who are were flying very high. They've

(26:25):
cooled off a little bit here of late, but Mike
Brown is several lengths ahead of Joe Missoula and he's
pulling away as the Coach of the Year. So it's
nice a little Brown to go with Chalk, a guy
that he's hired and gotten fired multiple times. Mike Brown
next there are reports that the Carolina Panthers are at
odds over which quarterback to take with the number one
overall pick and could even trade back down. Ben Are

(26:48):
you buying this? No, that would be the dumbest of
the dumb for the Carolina pep Listen, they made the trade,
stay with them. You obviously wanted somebody You were horny
enough to get one of these quarterbacks that you traded
up to get the number one pick. The pick is CJ.
Stroud of the Ohio State University. That should be the
number one pick. He's ahead of Bryce Young on my board.

(27:08):
The Mallard board's the only board that matters. Anthony Richardson
would be football negligence if they draft him. Will Levis
is a good story because the guy eats banana's whole.
He doesn't even take the skin off the banana. But
it's it's CJ. Stroud. And secondly, Carolina the idea that
they would trade the number one pick, what is the

(27:29):
point of trading to get the number one pick and
then unlook, it makes no sense. My theory is that
these NFL insiders are just tossing this out there to
continue to build up the trauma to the late April draft.
But we had a month and a half to go
and there's no need for this. Okay, stop Next, the

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NFL Players Association issued a statement over the weekend opposing
a rule change that would see the hip drop tackle outlawed.
Ben you think there's any chance they succeed at change
or stopping the rule change, Well, first of all, it's unlikely,
since it's the NFL does everything out of an abundance
of caution. Out of an abundance of caution, the NFL

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is going to continue. They're heading that direction to outlaw
the hip drop tackle. And if you don't know what
that is, Tony Pollard or the Cowboys was injured against
the forty nine Ers. It looked like a pretty routine
football play. Of course, people blustered and screened and shouted
and got all upset. But the NFL's got to prevent liability.

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The rule is subjective. How else are you supposed to tackle?
It's rather absurd, and injury is part of tackle football.
It was not a dirty play and the only reason
it is under review is because a Dallas Cowboy player
was involved. As we said, Tony Pollard against the forty
nine ers. It would be very difficult to enforce the

(28:52):
punishment in real time. So I don't know how you
would enforce it in real time because it looked like
a fine play. It didn't look like a go play
like the horse call the horse collar tackles kind of.
You can obviously see that one. But i'd answer your question,
I do not think the union will succeed. How did
we do? That? Is a winner at the buzzer. That's

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line four, Fenley should have won one two. That's total
BF all right, hanging up on him? What's wrong with
that jacket? Be happy a one? Tell him to go
to bed. Tell Philly to go to bed. Hello, line six,
you're on the airline six. Line six is not paying attention.
We'll go to line one again. Hello, line one. It's
the instant advice line for the winners of the Benny Awards. Hello,

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line one, Hello, Ben, I didn't wait. I'm sorry about that.
So unfortunate. Hello line two, you're on the air. We're
giving advice to all the award winners of the Benny's
demand of voter recount, voter fraud. Scott, all right, voter fraud.

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Sound like an angry tammy in Montana. Hello, line three,
you're on the airline three. Line three, cocaine and hookers.
All right, sir, we I didn't ask what you I
didn't ask what you're doing? Right is that John Moran?
I don't know? All right? Hello one four, Line four, Hello,
line four, all right, this is going very well. Eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox is the number. It's unscreened radio. Hello,

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line six, you're on the Airline six. Party time at
the waffle house. It's on Ben Meller. That's right, absolutely,
come on down, al right. Line one, Hello, I know
it is, I know it you. Line three, Hello, line three, oh,

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all right, one more hurry up, Coop pick eight light six.
You're on the air light six oh line six not
fast enough. Great advice. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm. Let's get back to the Benny Awards. So exciting,

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so so exciting. The twenty twenty two Beer Drinking Brian
Worst Caller of the Year, the Worst Caller of the Year.
The nominees are so many nominees. Poppy in San Diego,
Andre in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, our buddy hollering James

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from the Twin Cities, Sir Scratch Off from the Highways
and Byways of Arkansas, Paul better known as Redbreast Paul
and Rhode Island. And Marcel in Brooklyn. Marcel nominated a
couple of times. Here to close it out, envelope please,

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And the winner of the twenty twenty two Beer Drinking
Brian Memorial Worst Caller of the Year goes to Poppy
in San Diego. Congratulation winner, Poppy Winner Winter Winter. What unbelievable.

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It has been said this is the most important category
on the show. The Worst Caller of the Year, and
Poppy in San Diego, he put in a lot of work.
He did. There were many terrible phone calls that Poppy
made almost every night. It was a terrible phone call.
And Poppy, you are a winner. You get the two

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golden tickets, you get the prize pack. There. I can't
wait to see you at the after party. Congratulations Poppy,
you are the worst caller in the year twenty twenty two.
What an honor well earned. Poppy well earned a lot
of bad phone calls to get to that level. So
congratulations to you, Poppy and one of the few people
honored as a winner. And thanks to all the nominees.

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And this is a very upsetting category. People were pulling
for Marcel and Brooklyn, and some really believe that Andrea
and the Commonwealth should be the answer. But in the
end it goes to Poppy in San Diego. Now there
is one category left. Oh my god, Oh my god.

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The moment of truth, the pinnacle of the twenty twenty
three Bennies. It is right now, the twenty twenty two
Slash twenty twenty three Genie and Medford Caller of the Year.
The nominees for Caller of the Year Marcel in Brooklyn, Yes,

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Marcelle was nominated for Worst Caller and Best Caller. Marcell
has won this award in the past. Jed who fled
from the Gulf Coast of Florida, from the Great State
of Maine, whoopee Pie Blair from the Commonwealth, from the
North end of Boston, Blind Scott from Windsor, Ontario. He's

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retiring from sports talk radio, Cowboy John Braden, Windsor. And
the final nominee from Dayton, Ohio, Dick in Dayton. The
envelope please, and the winner of the Genie in Medford

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Caller of the Year. The benny goes to Dick in Dayton.
Oh my god, the Dickster. It is the caller of
the Year. Dick in Dayton, Dick in Dayton, you are
the winner. Congratulations Dick, you have been honored by the

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electorate two hundreds and hundreds of from all over the world.
And Dick and Dayton is the big winner. And congratulations
to as you edged out to Cowboy John Brad and
Marcel in Brooklyn. Marcel, Marcel came close to winning Worst

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Caller and Best call That would have been amazing. But
but nonetheless, Dick and Dayton is the winner. And he
won't know until he calls us. Dick has no idea
that this is he's even nominated, and couldn't couldn't give
a rats ass that he's nominated at all. He just
wants to get his takes on. But thank you everyone, seriously,
all you guys that were part of the show. Whether

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you won or lost, it doesn't matter. We don't give
We don't give awards just for being nominated, but we
were happy that you're part of the show and it's
all in good fun. Poppy Big Winner, Worst Caller, Poppy,
Dick and Dayton the top call