March 16, 2023 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about Aaron Rodgers confirming that he wants to play for the Jets, Zeke Elliott getting released by the Cowboys after 7 seasons, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia!
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We thank you. We're spending a couple of good minutes
with us. Here as our lead coming from the cliffhanger,
it is the obligatory Mallard monolog on Aaron Rogers. Relax.
Did Aaron Rodgers announce his retirement from the NFL. No,
he did not, but he has spoken the highly anticipated
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from NFL News Junkies appearance on the YouTube about his
career path. Now, if you did not he he did
not see the clip, maybe not. Let me give you
the thumbnail recap. Here we heard Aaron Rodgers, in all
his glory there confirm that he intends to play for
the Jets this season, although he indicated that he was
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like retired. But rather than me just read you quotes
aimlessly blabbing into the microphone, we have Aaron Rodgers in
his own words. I know you're dying to hear this.
You've been waiting all day to hear this. This is
so amazing. Let's go to the audiotape. Here's Aaron Rodgers
at this point. As I said, here, you know, I
think since Friday, I made it clear that my intention
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was to play, and my intention was to play for
the New York Jets, and I haven't been holding anything
up at this point. It's been compensation that the packers
are trying to get for me and kind of taking
their heels in. All right. So Rodgers here in mom
with his buddy, his bestie, Pat McAfee there and said, hey,
I've agreed. It's up to the packers now. The two
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teams are still working out the particular of a trade.
Rogers also took some shots at the NFL insider crowd,
also the possibility that Rogers is going to have to
move some numbers around, move a few decimal points and
all that to restructure his contract. But listen to Rogers
unload on the pre eminent NFL insider Adam Schefter, as
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Rogers does not like the work of the NFL pundit.
Ask Schefter what I texted him when he somehow got
my number and texted me. You know, I didn't respond
to Diana Rassinia I think her name is, But like
I would say the same thing that I told Cheffie,
lose my number, I'll speak for myself. There you go.
I don't need you. Yes, all right, that'll go well
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with you. The media. One thing we've learned over the
last few years. When you make enemies with the media,
that does not come back to bite you in the
assid does not. All right, so let us discuss the
question what did you make of the over all appearance
by Aaron Rodgers confirming that he wants to play for
the Jets. So I've got hound dinner reservations and tar heels,
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and we will tie all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice, wellnessed retreat because
I'm guessing Rodgers will go back on one of those
now that he's appeared and said he wants to play
for the Jets. But this was the word is anti climactic?
Is the word right? Anti climactic? Te We behind these
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microphones and you there, me here. We have been documenting
in Days of our Lives soap opera like drama for days, weeks, months,
and really years, because this has been going on for
a couple of years around the clock in depth team coverage.
Aaron Rodgers goes to a hippie hodown. We break it
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down frame by frame because we're losers and that's what
we do. But you know, he does a podcast with
some person I've never heard of who's into high yoga boom.
We got a story there, and this in our world
this qualifies a big news is anti climactic. But in
this part of the audio jungle. So now Rogers has
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rubber stamped the Jets Suck, Suck, suck. He can hang
out with Fireman Ed Whoopedie, damn new And I believe
he is going to enjoy the New York, New Jersey
tri state experience there. And I'll tell you why, because
he's hound, not a hound dog, He's a publicity hound,
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and there is good hunting in the Big Apple. Aaron
Rodgers has played the Wisconsin media like a fiddle. Imagine
what he's gonna do when he gets to poke the
media machine in the axis of evil in the Big
Apple that watched the reporting cockroaches scurry around, because he's
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gonna have a tabloid paying attention to him all the time,
and all that the tabloids would pay attention to Rogers
even in Wisconsin. But it's a whole different ballgame when
you're playing in that area. So win, lose, or draw
so much easier if Rogers is successful. But he's gonna
be happy. He'll be as happy as a flea in
a doghouse right. If the Jets win, then Rogers is
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the king. If the Jets lose, or if he's average,
Rogers can still use his daily media availability and have
they have the reporters like putty in his hands, like
he's admitted to it. He sent stuff out and any
he sits back and watches how everyone dissects everything that
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he says and has a great time and all that.
Now part two of this, mister Rogers neighborhood, we'll be
turning forty years old. Oh my god, you're swashed up
at forty before the end of the next NFL season.
So thumbs up or thumbs down to this being worth
the risk for the Jets. So I'm going to thumbs up.
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There's a couple of reasons. The main reason is you
have the other option, which is Zach Wilson, who is
a boone doggle. We saw Zach Wilson. He went out
there and has crapped his pants when given the opportunity
to be the man in Jersey. And so Rogers is
certainly not perfect, and in fact, he showed that he
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has some weak knees. Last year he played like Smelly Ranson,
rotting food with cream Bay for stretches last season and overall,
if you look at his body at work, he was
ranked seventeenth in the NFL. He had a passer rating
of around ninety, a little over ninety. And the big
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tell on how weak Rogers was and how he was
so dependent on Davante Adams, who was not there last year,
is the yards per pass attempt and Rogers ranked twenty first.
He was a yard below average. Average is seven and
he was at six yards per tempt. Now, nevertheless, when
you look at risk assessment, it's all about risk assessment.
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This is a calculated risk. Even if this turns out
to be a toxic relationship, Rogers is going to put
the Jets back on the map, meaning that they'll get
a lot of those prime time TV games and it'll
be all about the story within the story with Aaron Rodgers,
and the Jets will be back into relevancy. Only time
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the Green team has mattered over the last few years
has been during the NFL Draft. And now they have
a dinner reservation. They can have a nice meal at
the cool kids table, and they're still way behind the
top teams in the AFC. The Jets with plenty of
roster moves still to be made. But you look at
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the very top of the totem pole Kansas City, Cincinnati
and Buffalo one, two three, and then after that it's
a jumbled mass with the Dolphins and the Chargers, and
you could you're gonna go crazy put Jacksonville in the
mixed teams like that, but you expect, you expect to
have the Jets shoved down your throat because you've got
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the head coach, Robert Salo, who's like a Tony Robbins,
want to be motivational speaker, a guy. And then you've
got Rogers, who's drinking the ayahuasca. But now he's one
of the higher end employees for Big Pharma. He's now
working for Johnson and Johnson they'll be the ones cutting
his check. And now the last word here, So Aaron Rodgers.
One of the things that he said, among other things,
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but he said the packers are digging in their heels
in trade talk. So what leverage does green Bay have
to hold up the trade? I got an email from
a passionate packer stockholder who said that he did not
want the Green Bay Packers to capitulate, did not want
them to give in to the trade and that they
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should hold out for multiple first round picks and all that.
But when you take three steps back, and if you
think about this, take the emotion. Now we think about logic.
I have no skin in the game. I'm not a
Packer fan, I'm not jetment. But when you think about logically,
the Packers they've already announced publicly they're ready for the
Jordan Love screen test. They are giving him the keys
to the cheesehead factory. Check right, and go hang out
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the cheese Castle and Kenosha if he wants. The Jets
are the only team that we know of that had
any real interest in Aaron Rodgers, and Rogers has now
given his blessing to play for the Jets. So you
check all those boxes, and that includes the salary caps
sorcery to make the numbers fit. So what does it
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all mean? You got the this plus this plus this
equals what it equals. The Packers only leverage is spitting
Luki's in the wind, running the Tar Hills four corner offense,
using stall techs, playing the old game back checket right.
If if you look at this way, the only option
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the Packers have to try to shake some more out
of the Jets. Would be to see the Jets get
a little nervous and they're like, wow, this is not right,
and then the Jets up the ante like the Jets,
we get it. They're all horny to have Aaron Rodgers
on their team. They want to make it happen and
they would like to welcome Aaron Rodgers, have a big gala,
a parade down the hero of Champions and the franchise
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Messiah has arrived and he's the new pilot of the Jets.
It's no longer a kamikaze mission. And you can't fully
do all that stuff until the trade is consummated. You
have to consummate the relationships. So Green Bay is seeing
if Gang Green will flinch. It's like a staring contest.
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Then are they gonna fla I think this gets done
for many reasons, sooner then later. I don't buy the
it's gonna go all the way to the draft. I
have a feeling by the end of the weekend it
will get done. I'd be surprised if it does not.
The outlines already there. So that is the latest on
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our lead this hour coming from deep in the heart
of Texas, as the shake up has happened in Dallas
yesterday's rumor is today's news. You might remember in a
previous episode of the show many months ago, we talked
about the reality that this particular player was not long,
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not long for Jerry's world, and it has happened. We
have now learned the Cowboys confirming they have fired Zeke Elliott.
Turn out the lads, the parties over. He was given
his unconditional release, which is a politically correct way in
sports of saying you've been fired. He's a free agent.
Now he will be designated a post June first cut.
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What the hell does that mean. It means that Dallas
will save nearly eleven million dollars against the salary cap,
but Zeke will count against the twenty twenty four cap.
You don't need to really worry about that. But the
Cowboys are going to get salarycap credit after June first.
My favorite player is salary cap credit or salary cap flexibility.
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I've always rooted for that player. Many ENVP awards, many
championships have what been won because of salary cap credit,
salary cap flexibility. Now, you might remember at the NFL
scouting Combine, which was a couple of weeks back, Jerry
Jones hold. He held court there, the media was around,
they were hanging out, and Jerry played very coy. He
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said that he was open to the possibility of keeping
Zeke Elliott in an ensemble backfield with Tony Pollard. And
how did that work out? Well, Pollard got the franchise tax.
So turn out to be just nice football decorum. The
decision was actually made long, long ago. So now that
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it's over, let's take a look back and then we'll
take a look ahead. But we'll start by looking back.
The question as we discuss, how do you grade Zeke
Elliot's tenure with the Cowboys. So I've got split personalities,
fringe benefits, and dog whistle, and we will lock all
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of these things together and we are going to make
some Texas toast is what we're gonna make now. Number one,
we go right to the Mallet report card. That's how
we judge these things. It's not that deep. We're an
overnight radio show. It's a little complicated when it comes
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to the malle report card. I'll tell you why, because
you look at Zeke Elliott. Now that it's over in Dallas.
He started out like gay busters, this guy out of
the Ohio State University was dotting the eye. He was
a holy terror in the Cowboy backfield. He was Emmett
Smith Light the first three seasons, averaged four point seven
yards per rush attempt and over nine rushing touchdowns per season.
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For the first three years, he was the Rookie of
the Year. He was an MVP finalist. He was an
all pro, a key cog in the Dallas attack who
flourished in the limelight, the spectacle of Jerry's world. He
was doing the boogie woogie. And for that chapter, Zeke
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Elliott on the Malla Report guard gets an A. He
gets an A. But then you go to the next
four seasons in a Cowboy uniform and it's a record
scratch situation. Zeke transitioned into a jag. Not at Jacksonville
Jag a jack just a guy no longer the man
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and part of a dynamic duo where the other guy
outshine him. Tony Pollard, the electric playmaker that you feared
if you're an opposing defensive coordinate or not. Zeke Elliot's
plotting attack and considering that around that time, there's a
point of d marcation. The jackpot came in. The gold
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mine was struck that Zeke Elliot because of those first
three years, Finagel a big pay. It's not my money,
it's Jerry Jones money. And Zeke he got paid. And
how did that work out? Well, we know how it
worked out. It was a debacle after that. So he
gets a D on the Malle report card and Zeke
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gets the D on that part of his career. So,
big picture, Zeke split personalities in Dallas, good cop, bad cop. Now,
if you do the math on this, a D my
teachers told me, is like a sixty percent in A
is ninety percent or so if you combine those two
numbers together, they average out to a C grade. So
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Zeke Elliott on the Malle report card gets as C
grade for his tenure in Dallas. You can't just judge
him off the first three years. You can't just judge
him off the last four years. But don't feel bad
for this guy, right, he got paid, The Cowboys got played,
and he should have just stayed in Cobbo when he
had the contract hold out or maybe hide out in
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that red kettle Salvation army bucket in the end zone.
He earned seventy million dollars during his time in Dallas. Now,
the only reason he even landed in Texas was because
the great Tony Romo got hurt in twenty fifteen. That
coincided with me being voted by the Mallar Militia a
Cowboy fan if I remember correctly. Anyway, that led to
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a four and twelve record for Dallas. But the year
press not like the Cowboys were terrible. The year prior
to that. They lost that crazy Divisional round game if
you're old enough to remember that was the Dez Bryan
game where it was a catch and they said, oh,
it's not a catch, not a catch, and then the
factors ended up winning. But to rephrase all this, Zeke
Elliott leaves the Cowboys in the same boat they were
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before he arrived. They continue to be a faux contender,
not a real contender, Not a real contender. They're a
faux contender they were when Zeke was there prior to
the year before Tony Romo got hurt, and he leaves
and they're in the same boat now page two. Should
Zeke have taken a pay cut to stay in Dallas?
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So I'm not in my head. I'm not in my
head yet easy for me to say it's not my money.
But regardless, that would have been the savvy thing to
do if you're the financial advisor. If it was an option,
maybe Jerry Jones said, no, we don't even want you
get out of here. But Zeke Elliott has been a
supporting actor the last four seasons in Dallas, and for
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most casual Cowboy fans, he is still treated like a king.
All of the fringe benefits that cowboy bluster provide. You
don't get those perks playing in the boondocks of the NFL.
You don't. And Zeke Elliott is going to learn what
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life's like on the other side of the tracks. So
say goodbye to the creature comforts of playing for the Cowboys. Now,
final point, So, now that we've looked back, what the
heck happens in the future, right, what's the market looking like?
Who's gonna claim the Zeke Elliott domain? So the market
is limited. You don't need Jay Glazer or Adam Schefter
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or one of these other insider types to tell you that,
because Zeke Elliott is what's known as a diminishing asset.
And so here's what I expect that I expect the
agents for Zeke Elliott to sell the fact leak these
stories to the media that Zeke does things that go
outside the stat sheet, that which I've already seen some places.
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That is a dog whistle from an agent to the
media through using their usefulities, that this guy's washed up,
big name, little game and the car looks good on
the outside. It's like you looked to buy a car
and it's like, oh man, that's a jet blue Porsche
that looks really good. Great, and then you inspect it further,
it's missing the spark plugs. It's it's a disaster. Now,
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what is my evidence? In the final four regular season
games of this past NFL season, the Cowboys trying to
wrap everything up playoff position again, all that Zeke Elliott
average less than three yards per carry two point seven
yards per carry and just seventeen runs of ten yards
or more all season. And the most damning stat I
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read earlier from Elliott that he has not scored a
touchdown outside of the red zone since twenty nineteen. He's
essentially a fullback. He's had over a thousand touches in
the last touchdown outside the red zone that he scored
was in twenty nineteen. Holy Canoli. That sucks. So who
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is going to be the dumb dumb to sign this guy?
So we spin the mallor wheel of speculation, which is
never roll, spin the wheel right, spin the wheel, maller
speculation for Zeke Elli, big Bundy, big money, ain't no
wimy and stop the mallor wheel of speculation. Two teams,
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two teams, show me your lightning bolt and jump on
the ghost ship. I'm talking about the Buccaneers and the charge.
Now why this is very simple, This part of the
story is very simple. You read this written at a
elementary level. This is what's known as the higher a
friend to play. And it's not what you know, it's
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who you know. That's the key to life, right, that's
the key. You go to universities, big powerful IVY League
universities not because they teach you better stuff than other institutions. No,
you go to places like that because of the network.
Because alumni from schools like Harvard and Yale and places
like that they hire other alumni and they all have
great paying jobs. And so that's how it works. You
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scratch my back, I'll scratch you're back. And Tampa they
let go of Leonard Fournette. They have an opening at
running back. They also have a Zeke Elliott confidant, a
former Cowboy assistant. Skip Pete is the running back coach,
so Zeke can skip over to Tampa. The Bolts. They
also have a running back who they could be getting
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rid of, Austin Eckler, who is looking for a trade.
And they also have an ex comrade of Jerry Jones
Kellen Moore, the offensive coordinator for Dallas who's now in LA.
Although if Kellen Moore just watched the last couple of
years with Zeke Elliott, I would think he would want
nothing to do with this guy. Some of the other
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running back deficient teams that dare I say, I should
cover my eyes and say, oh God no. The Rams.
They're also possibly Buffalo needs a running back with Zekelly.
It's washed up the Broncos. The Chiefs always have a
revolving door running back. The Texans. He could stay in
the state of Texas, so there are opportunities. It's running
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back roulette. You spin the wheel on running back Roulette,
but Tampa's the favorite where they winking a nod to
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It's maller. How about that to the third degree. This
is one big fan gets grail kop de Loup with
the Dallas Cowboys training for Stefan Gilmour on Tuesday. There
are a number of analysts that believe the Cowboys now
have a championship caliber defense. Yeah, Ben, could their defense
be good enough to carry Dak Prescott to a Super
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Bowl appearance? Well, without going crazier, I think the only
one that said that is Skip Bayless. I believe, and
he loves the Cowboys, but my vote is no. Stefan
Gilmore is no longer a shutdown defensive back. He's still
a good player, but this is not a guy who's
going to erase the other team's top wide out he's
matched up against. He also has a lot of miles
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on the odometer. I believe he's played eleven seasons now
in the FEL. The other top defensive back in Dallas
his Travon Diggs, who makes a lot of great plays.
He risked a lot, no risk it, no biscuit, but
he also gets burned a lot. He was the forty
second ranked defensive back, so you got him on one side,
you got Gilmore on the other. As the headliners in
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that defense. The defense, even if Gilmore was great, the
defense can carry you a chunk of the marathon, but
will not get you past the finish line. That's the problem.
Dak Prescott has to finally have his playoff bar mits way.
He did not have it against the Bucks, a sub
five hundred Bucks team. He played against the Niners and
he was exposed yet again. So I am not buying
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that the Cowboy defense is going to lead the way next.
The Carolina Panthers are widely expected to select a quarterback
with the number one overall pick in the draft, but
they also agreed to sign Andy Dalton to a two
year contract on Tuesday, Ben, how long will c J.
Stroud or Bryce Young sit behind Andy Dalton? They will
never get the chance to play, Coop because the red
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pea shooter Andy Dalton has arrived, and that you know,
he had a higher passer grade from the Nerds and
more touchdowns than Vanilla Vick, your guy Daniel Jones with
the Giants and uh but no, listen, he's obviously gonna
be there because for a limited time, because the more
you play Andy Dalton, the bigger stomaching stomach you get.
But I'm all about playing right. Whoever they draft, play CJ.
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Strad right away. Trial by fire. Frank Wright runs a
rudimentary offense anyway, a bowling offense from the Stone Age.
Just put the put the young quarterback out there. Let's
see what they can do. You learn from doing not
sitting next. Um, you know, I'm just gonna give you
the pass with two questions, Man, is that right, Coop?
I only I'd like to let you know I only
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needed to question. I gave you extra time, Cooper Loop,
and here we are. That's unbelievable extra time and we
didn't even need the extra time. That is the most
dominant but You've just heard the most dominant performance in
the history of Mallard to the third degree, a two
and all victory. I didn't even need the third question. Unbelievable. Wow,
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Ask Twitter. Send us your questions on Twitter now and
no wait, we go to Ask Ben. Your questions are
answers the collective wisdom of the Mallard militia. I know
that I read that that stat the other day that
the collective IQs in the United States have gone down
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for like the first time in the century. But not
on this show. We are smarter than ever on the
Ben Mallor Show. Ask Ben and Friends. You can ask
me or any of the Bennetts. We get over to
the Cooper loop for the reading of the questions, but
it's not going to sound like he's reading on Ask Ben.
Here we go, Let's get started. This is an interesting one. Okay,
We're gonna start with it. Very very rarely, Coop do
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we start with an interesting question. So this is good.
This is from Late night drug tester. All right, he says,
do you feel awkward eating outdoors with lots of people
walking by? Al fresco is what they call it? Right? Yes?
I hate eating outside of my the people I live with.
That I kind of said. When I go out to
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eat with relatives, I don't like it. I feel like
everyone's staring at me. I call it fat man disease.
And I've lost a lot of weight, but I'm always
going to be a fat man, and I always think
everyone's judging me by what I'm eating when I go
to a restaurant, even when I'm out, not forget whether
i'm outside or not. Well I'm inside. I don't like it.
What about you Eddie, Nope, doesn't bother you one damn bit.
You're a loser at Roberto. I'd rather even said you're
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a loser too. What about you, Coop? No, not at all.
Oh my god, you guys, it's wrong with you people.
All right, what's next? What do we have here? It's
ask ben your questions, our answers for the rest of
the hour. By the bing by the boom, all right,
let's do I saw going furd dog ahead this one
from furd dog. He said, this is easy for me,
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but we'll see what you guys think. This is a
Benny Award winner for dog. Pick one that has to
go away forever. Cookies, cheesecake, cupcakes or brownies. All right,
so we've got if I peat that again, talk slower,
we've got cookies, cookies, cheesecake, cupcakes or brownies. Oh, cheesecake done, done, done,
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I'm out. No cheesecake, I'm good, Eddie. H No, I
love cheesecake. I would go brownies. That's racist, Eddie. I
don't think what brownies. Brownie suck? Whoa, no, no, no, no,
you have to have milk with brown These are too dry.
Hold on, you're making the wrong You have not exactly right. No,
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I don't I don't bake. No, the proper brownie is
kind of a little bit of a not a crunch suit,
but it's a little solid on the outside. And it's
don't like a lot of chocolate either. It's got to
be moist in the Yeah, that's the key, alright, Coop.
I would get rid of cupcakes, no way. No, I
like the absolutely because exactly so you can still have cakes.
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Those brownies suck. You just make your You just cut
your cake into a smaller piece cheese. I just don't
like his name. I don't like cheese. I'm doing the
big brain move right here. All right, what is next?
What do we have here? What is next? Is asked, Ben?
Your questions are answers. Riddle me the what do we have?
(31:50):
Brave New World Comics? I believe is Andy the comic
guys is promoting his business. Yeah. Uh, have you or
the crew ever been a hosted by a homeless person accosted?
If that's asking for money, then hell yeah, yeah, I'm
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I'm pretty intimidating aggressively. That's what I've had, guys. I've
had guys follow me around and it's not funny. This
is a serious. I'm educating the masses here, this pathetic
iddie that you would go to that kind of level.
All right, that's that's embarrassing. Okay, but no, I like
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I've been wandering like the wrong part of town and
people will be, oh, you know, but I'm a pretty
tall guy. Any kind of a husky builds, so they
don't really bother me that much. What about you, Eddie, Yeah,
I've I've had a homeless person get upset with me
because I like only give them a dollar or something.
Have you ever had them? Have you ever had them
when they like knock on your window when you're driving,
(32:53):
when you're stopped. I hate Yes, Yes, I can't stand that. Um,
you know, but I've had I've given a guy like
all the change out of my you know, little cup holder.
It's like maybe a dollar or something, and they get
like they get mad, like that's not enough, and then
I tell them go f themselves, get my money back
then if you don't want it. Yeah, I always geting
annoying when I see the same people. There's a good
hustle there around here where there's like a families will
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stand outside Costico. Yeah, it's a total hustle. You know,
its ing. They're like, yes, they know. Most people see
those kids, you know, that's it. They give them money.
They don't realize that that's the kid's job. They go
from Costco to Costco or whatever or Walmart or wherever.
H Roberto, No, not really okay, Coop. No, Me and
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Eddie we've lived. We were like barbarians, me and Eddie
with these homeless people. All right, what is next year?
Where do we have? Asked Ben your questions. We are
walking into the lions den of ask ben Well. This
question kind of covers a question for both Mango, Alex
and j D and Casey two for one, what is
your guys' dream car? Yeah, we've been asked to some
(34:02):
time to time. I don't really I love This is
gonna be a pathetic the U. I had a rental
a Lincoln town Car. I was in Cleveland and it
was the most comfortable car. I don't even know if
they still make him like this, but the seat was
like a sofa, like I was driving around like I
was sitting in my living room, and it was like
the most comfortable seat. I was like, this is awesome. Man,
this is a living about Vita Loca. Man, this is
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a bat But but that's I don't really care about speed.
I don't fit in a lot of those fast cars
because I'm too tall. What about you, Eddie? I really
am not a big car person. I'm not saying I
wouldn't like like to have a nice car, of all
things being equal, but mostly just as long as it
doesn't break down, it gets me where I want to go.
That's really all I care about. But every once in
a while, I've had a chance to dry like a
big suv and kind of being up high and kind
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of feeling kind of powerful. That's kind of that's kind
of cool. I guess like you're in a tank or something. Yeah,
kind of all right, Roberto, what do you get? I'm like, yeah,
I'm kind of like Eddie. I got to choose. Give
me that new Chevy electric trucks. I not to pay
for gas. Oh you go electric? Yeah? I want to
be guess. I had an electric car one talk about
partially electric. It was a lemon. True, it's a lot.
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How to give it back? And they gave me. Oh man,
if you ever have if you've ever had a lemon,
they don't give you the full amount. It's a scam.
What about you, Coop? I would go with an Aston Martin, Uh,
pretty much any of the models like a Banquets or
dB dB seven, any of those dB eleven, any of them,
They're all They're all awesome, beautiful cars, big fan. And
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how much of those worth, Coop? It's like anywhere from
like one hundred thousand to like more a lot more.
Because I was I was car shopping recently, and like
even the average cars were like like eighty thousands. Insane.
It's crazy now, yeah, the markup on that. All right,
what is next year? To ask? Ben? Your questions are answers.
I have time for a quick question, coop, quick one. Okay,
(35:50):
um milkman, Mike said, Mike, you guys asked Marcel this question,
So now it's your turn. What planet would you want
to visit? I don't remember. I don't remember asking that either.
Oh yeah, yeah, years ago. I like the planet planet
Earth because I think we've lost Planet Earth anywhere. Planet.
Let's go Mars. I guess Mars. All right, Pluto, you
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just got a planet anymore. It's a planet again. They
brought it back. Okay, it's over. It's all over. It
disappeared and came back. Oh yeah. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
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(36:35):
Ambony Eddie Garcia. All right, thank you, Ben. We are
headed down the home stretch of the NHL season. The
teams have about fourteen games, give or take left in
the regular season. Have the playoffs ended, are started today?
The matchups would be In the East, the Bruins against
the Islanders, Hurricanes against the Penguins, Maple Leafs against the Lightning,
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and the Devils against the Rangers. Capitals and Panthers are
five points out of a playoffs foward to the holding
three games in hand on the Islanders, so they have
a chance to make up some ground if they can
win those games that they have extra In the West,
you've got Golden Knights versus Jets, Stars versus Kracken Kings
versus Oilers, and wild versus Avalanche. At the moment, the
National Predators or four points behind Winnipeg for that last
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wildcard spot, and they have three games in hand on
the Jets, so faint chance for Nashville to try and
get back in a wildcard spot. Boston Bruins continue to
lead the NHL. They've got one hundred and five points.
They beat the Red Wings this past week and become
the only team so far to officially clinch a playoff spot.
Bruins also are the fastest team in NHL history to
hit the fifty win mark. They did it in sixty
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four games. The only officially eliminated team from the playoffs
so far that would be the San Jose Sharks and
it's another Starcono McDavid continues to rock up big numbers
this season. He's at fifty six goals and one hundred
and twenty nine points so far on the season, by
far leaving the NHL, and he's going to win the MVP.
Watched the Gapol star Alexander Vetchka had another goal this
week because now at eight hundred seventeen in his career,
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eighty seven away from Wayne Gretzky and the all time
NHL goals scoring lead future all of him. Goalie Johnathan
Quick is having an amazing resurgence. After stinking and being
cast off by the La Kings, He's landed in Las
Vegas where he's completely turned things around four and old
record and putting up solid stats as well. Meanwhile, Vegas
continues to have a great season despite goalie issues. The
Golden Knights lost their number one goalie, Robin led Her
(38:22):
to start the year and they've had five different goalies
post wins so far this season. Now they're said, now
they got the ex king, they're good. We'll see. We'll
see about that guy. They're ready to go. I'm Minnesota
Wild or current leader I thought you were Kings fan.
He's not on the Kings anymore, so I know, but
he's a legend of the Kings. Man when he comes
back for his jersey retirement, give him standing O nation.
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Right now, he's playing on another team, a rival team.
As a matter of fact, Minnesota Wilder currently riding a
franchise record fourteen game points drink. They're eleven oh and
three in their last fourteen games. However, they have lost
their top player, Crew capriz Off three to four weeks
with a lower body injury. They believe he'll be back
for the playoffs. Better hope so, because a are not
gonna last very long. Carolina Hurricanes have lost forward Andre's
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fetching the coop for the rest of the season toward
Aco In his knee head surgery and he's done. And
La Kings lady scorer Kevin Fiala out in definitely with
a knee injury. Philadelphia Flyer he's fired their general manager
and president of hockey operations, Chuck Fletcher after five seasons
nice The team's gonna miss the playoffs for a third
straight year, first time that's happened since the early nineties.
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Daniel Brier has been named the interim general manager, and
he's gone on records saying he would like the job
full time. But he's getting a little bit of heat
because of his dumbass son doing something I think stupid
on a video. It was caught his Carson Brier. He's
a hockey player at mercy Hurst University in Erie. He
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was at a party and somebody was there with a
wheelchair and he decided, I think I'll throw this wheelchair
down to fly stairs, and so he did, and I
guess he broke at the time. You know, maybe he's
had a few drinks and you know, why not van
delight something when you're shrug It's what all the cool
kids are doing. But anyway, it was caught on video.
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Like everything. You're in college at Fresno State, didn't you
shoved some wheelchairs down? I? Actually I did not. Actually
he did not. I didn't do that. Guy? Are you it?
What about you? Saddleback a wheelchair tossing? I cannot talk
about that. I'd allowed to talk about it anyway. He's
he's just issued the standard apology. I'm deeply sorry for
my behavior and no excuse for my actions. Blah blah blah,
blah blah blah blah. STI I saw Gary Bettman said
(40:27):
he's not an expansion mode. He said it didn't see that,
Thank god. I mean, come on, come on, they need
the money anytime they need the money. Well, everybody needs
the money that we don't want fifty teams in the
anything back to Quebec. Nordie said he bring the Nordis back.
And no, only people are crying for that or the
people in Quebec. Nobody else cares about that looking out
for them. And what about the did you get? Are
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you done? Because you didn't get to the other story?
What's the other story? The Ryan Reynolds story. You know
what's going on with him? You didn't see that. There
was rumors a couple of months ago he wanted to
buy Spendors. So t Mobile is gonna buy mint Mobile,
which is Ryan Renol. Yeah, he's coming. It's a one
point three billion dollar deal. Is that enough money to
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buy an NHL team? It's enough to get your clothes?
Combined with the Hollywood money, that could be all right? Yeah,
how do these how do these people end up? Like?
Who was it fifty cent? What did he make all
his money? What water? Remember the water, what was it?
He made a ton of money so high end bottle
of water, Is that right? I didn't know that. You
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guys have no idea what I'm talking about. Roberto, you
know about the water. Nah, that's the same one Mike
Trout and missed it. Vitamin water. Yeah, it was vitamin water.
As he made a ton of money with vitamin water.
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We thank you. We're spending a couple of good minutes
with us. Here as our lead coming from the cliffhanger,
it is the obligatory Mallard monolog on Aaron Rogers. Relax.
Did Aaron Rodgers announce his retirement from the NFL. No,
he did not, but he has spoken the highly anticipated
(01:52):
from NFL News Junkies appearance on the YouTube about his
career path. Now, if you did not he he did
not see the clip, maybe not. Let me give you
the thumbnail recap. Here we heard Aaron Rodgers, in all
his glory there confirm that he intends to play for
the Jets this season, although he indicated that he was
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like retired. But rather than me just read you quotes
aimlessly blabbing into the microphone, we have Aaron Rodgers in
his own words. I know you're dying to hear this.
You've been waiting all day to hear this. This is
so amazing. Let's go to the audiotape. Here's Aaron Rodgers
at this point. As I said, here, you know, I
think since Friday, I made it clear that my intention
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was to play, and my intention was to play for
the New York Jets, and I haven't been holding anything
up at this point. It's been compensation that the packers
are trying to get for me and kind of taking
their heels in. All right. So Rodgers here in mom
with his buddy, his bestie, Pat McAfee there and said, hey,
I've agreed. It's up to the packers now. The two
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teams are still working out the particular of a trade.
Rogers also took some shots at the NFL insider crowd,
also the possibility that Rogers is going to have to
move some numbers around, move a few decimal points and
all that to restructure his contract. But listen to Rogers
unload on the pre eminent NFL insider Adam Schefter, as
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Rogers does not like the work of the NFL pundit.
Ask Schefter what I texted him when he somehow got
my number and texted me. You know, I didn't respond
to Diana Rassinia I think her name is, But like
I would say the same thing that I told Cheffie,
lose my number, I'll speak for myself. There you go.
I don't need you. Yes, all right, that'll go well
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with you. The media. One thing we've learned over the
last few years. When you make enemies with the media,
that does not come back to bite you in the
assid does not. All right, so let us discuss the
question what did you make of the over all appearance
by Aaron Rodgers confirming that he wants to play for
the Jets. So I've got hound dinner reservations and tar heels,
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and we will tie all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice, wellnessed retreat because
I'm guessing Rodgers will go back on one of those
now that he's appeared and said he wants to play
for the Jets. But this was the word is anti climactic?
Is the word right? Anti climactic? Te We behind these
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microphones and you there, me here. We have been documenting
in Days of our Lives soap opera like drama for days, weeks, months,
and really years, because this has been going on for
a couple of years around the clock in depth team coverage.
Aaron Rodgers goes to a hippie hodown. We break it
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down frame by frame because we're losers and that's what
we do. But you know, he does a podcast with
some person I've never heard of who's into high yoga boom.
We got a story there, and this in our world
this qualifies a big news is anti climactic. But in
this part of the audio jungle. So now Rogers has
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rubber stamped the Jets Suck, Suck, suck. He can hang
out with Fireman Ed Whoopedie, damn new And I believe
he is going to enjoy the New York, New Jersey
tri state experience there. And I'll tell you why, because
he's hound, not a hound dog, He's a publicity hound,
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and there is good hunting in the Big Apple. Aaron
Rodgers has played the Wisconsin media like a fiddle. Imagine
what he's gonna do when he gets to poke the
media machine in the axis of evil in the Big
Apple that watched the reporting cockroaches scurry around, because he's
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gonna have a tabloid paying attention to him all the time,
and all that the tabloids would pay attention to Rogers
even in Wisconsin. But it's a whole different ballgame when
you're playing in that area. So win, lose, or draw
so much easier if Rogers is successful. But he's gonna
be happy. He'll be as happy as a flea in
a doghouse right. If the Jets win, then Rogers is
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the king. If the Jets lose, or if he's average,
Rogers can still use his daily media availability and have
they have the reporters like putty in his hands, like
he's admitted to it. He sent stuff out and any
he sits back and watches how everyone dissects everything that
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he says and has a great time and all that.
Now part two of this, mister Rogers neighborhood, we'll be
turning forty years old. Oh my god, you're swashed up
at forty before the end of the next NFL season.
So thumbs up or thumbs down to this being worth
the risk for the Jets. So I'm going to thumbs up.
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There's a couple of reasons. The main reason is you
have the other option, which is Zach Wilson, who is
a boone doggle. We saw Zach Wilson. He went out
there and has crapped his pants when given the opportunity
to be the man in Jersey. And so Rogers is
certainly not perfect, and in fact, he showed that he
(07:25):
has some weak knees. Last year he played like Smelly Ranson,
rotting food with cream Bay for stretches last season and overall,
if you look at his body at work, he was
ranked seventeenth in the NFL. He had a passer rating
of around ninety, a little over ninety. And the big
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tell on how weak Rogers was and how he was
so dependent on Davante Adams, who was not there last year,
is the yards per pass attempt and Rogers ranked twenty first.
He was a yard below average. Average is seven and
he was at six yards per tempt. Now, nevertheless, when
you look at risk assessment, it's all about risk assessment.
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This is a calculated risk. Even if this turns out
to be a toxic relationship, Rogers is going to put
the Jets back on the map, meaning that they'll get
a lot of those prime time TV games and it'll
be all about the story within the story with Aaron Rodgers,
and the Jets will be back into relevancy. Only time
(08:33):
the Green team has mattered over the last few years
has been during the NFL Draft. And now they have
a dinner reservation. They can have a nice meal at
the cool kids table, and they're still way behind the
top teams in the AFC. The Jets with plenty of
roster moves still to be made. But you look at
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the very top of the totem pole Kansas City, Cincinnati
and Buffalo one, two three, and then after that it's
a jumbled mass with the Dolphins and the Chargers, and
you could you're gonna go crazy put Jacksonville in the
mixed teams like that, but you expect, you expect to
have the Jets shoved down your throat because you've got
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the head coach, Robert Salo, who's like a Tony Robbins,
want to be motivational speaker, a guy. And then you've
got Rogers, who's drinking the ayahuasca. But now he's one
of the higher end employees for Big Pharma. He's now
working for Johnson and Johnson they'll be the ones cutting
his check. And now the last word here, So Aaron Rodgers.
One of the things that he said, among other things,
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but he said the packers are digging in their heels
in trade talk. So what leverage does green Bay have
to hold up the trade? I got an email from
a passionate packer stockholder who said that he did not
want the Green Bay Packers to capitulate, did not want
them to give in to the trade and that they
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should hold out for multiple first round picks and all that.
But when you take three steps back, and if you
think about this, take the emotion. Now we think about logic.
I have no skin in the game. I'm not a
Packer fan, I'm not jetment. But when you think about logically,
the Packers they've already announced publicly they're ready for the
Jordan Love screen test. They are giving him the keys
to the cheesehead factory. Check right, and go hang out
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the cheese Castle and Kenosha if he wants. The Jets
are the only team that we know of that had
any real interest in Aaron Rodgers, and Rogers has now
given his blessing to play for the Jets. So you
check all those boxes, and that includes the salary caps
sorcery to make the numbers fit. So what does it
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all mean? You got the this plus this plus this
equals what it equals. The Packers only leverage is spitting
Luki's in the wind, running the Tar Hills four corner offense,
using stall techs, playing the old game back checket right.
If if you look at this way, the only option
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the Packers have to try to shake some more out
of the Jets. Would be to see the Jets get
a little nervous and they're like, wow, this is not right,
and then the Jets up the ante like the Jets,
we get it. They're all horny to have Aaron Rodgers
on their team. They want to make it happen and
they would like to welcome Aaron Rodgers, have a big gala,
a parade down the hero of Champions and the franchise
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Messiah has arrived and he's the new pilot of the Jets.
It's no longer a kamikaze mission. And you can't fully
do all that stuff until the trade is consummated. You
have to consummate the relationships. So Green Bay is seeing
if Gang Green will flinch. It's like a staring contest.
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Then are they gonna fla I think this gets done
for many reasons, sooner then later. I don't buy the
it's gonna go all the way to the draft. I
have a feeling by the end of the weekend it
will get done. I'd be surprised if it does not.
The outlines already there. So that is the latest on
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our lead this hour coming from deep in the heart
of Texas, as the shake up has happened in Dallas
yesterday's rumor is today's news. You might remember in a
previous episode of the show many months ago, we talked
about the reality that this particular player was not long,
(13:40):
not long for Jerry's world, and it has happened. We
have now learned the Cowboys confirming they have fired Zeke Elliott.
Turn out the lads, the parties over. He was given
his unconditional release, which is a politically correct way in
sports of saying you've been fired. He's a free agent.
Now he will be designated a post June first cut.
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What the hell does that mean. It means that Dallas
will save nearly eleven million dollars against the salary cap,
but Zeke will count against the twenty twenty four cap.
You don't need to really worry about that. But the
Cowboys are going to get salarycap credit after June first.
My favorite player is salary cap credit or salary cap flexibility.
(14:27):
I've always rooted for that player. Many ENVP awards, many
championships have what been won because of salary cap credit,
salary cap flexibility. Now, you might remember at the NFL
scouting Combine, which was a couple of weeks back, Jerry
Jones hold. He held court there, the media was around,
they were hanging out, and Jerry played very coy. He
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said that he was open to the possibility of keeping
Zeke Elliott in an ensemble backfield with Tony Pollard. And
how did that work out? Well, Pollard got the franchise tax.
So turn out to be just nice football decorum. The
decision was actually made long, long ago. So now that
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it's over, let's take a look back and then we'll
take a look ahead. But we'll start by looking back.
The question as we discuss, how do you grade Zeke
Elliot's tenure with the Cowboys. So I've got split personalities,
fringe benefits, and dog whistle, and we will lock all
(15:30):
of these things together and we are going to make
some Texas toast is what we're gonna make now. Number one,
we go right to the Mallet report card. That's how
we judge these things. It's not that deep. We're an
overnight radio show. It's a little complicated when it comes
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to the malle report card. I'll tell you why, because
you look at Zeke Elliott. Now that it's over in Dallas.
He started out like gay busters, this guy out of
the Ohio State University was dotting the eye. He was
a holy terror in the Cowboy backfield. He was Emmett
Smith Light the first three seasons, averaged four point seven
yards per rush attempt and over nine rushing touchdowns per season.
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For the first three years, he was the Rookie of
the Year. He was an MVP finalist. He was an
all pro, a key cog in the Dallas attack who
flourished in the limelight, the spectacle of Jerry's world. He
was doing the boogie woogie. And for that chapter, Zeke
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Elliott on the Malla Report guard gets an A. He
gets an A. But then you go to the next
four seasons in a Cowboy uniform and it's a record
scratch situation. Zeke transitioned into a jag. Not at Jacksonville
Jag a jack just a guy no longer the man
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and part of a dynamic duo where the other guy
outshine him. Tony Pollard, the electric playmaker that you feared
if you're an opposing defensive coordinate or not. Zeke Elliot's
plotting attack and considering that around that time, there's a
point of d marcation. The jackpot came in. The gold
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mine was struck that Zeke Elliot because of those first
three years, Finagel a big pay. It's not my money,
it's Jerry Jones money. And Zeke he got paid. And
how did that work out? Well, we know how it
worked out. It was a debacle after that. So he
gets a D on the Malle report card and Zeke
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gets the D on that part of his career. So,
big picture, Zeke split personalities in Dallas, good cop, bad cop. Now,
if you do the math on this, a D my
teachers told me, is like a sixty percent in A
is ninety percent or so if you combine those two
numbers together, they average out to a C grade. So
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Zeke Elliott on the Malle report card gets as C
grade for his tenure in Dallas. You can't just judge
him off the first three years. You can't just judge
him off the last four years. But don't feel bad
for this guy, right, he got paid, The Cowboys got played,
and he should have just stayed in Cobbo when he
had the contract hold out or maybe hide out in
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that red kettle Salvation army bucket in the end zone.
He earned seventy million dollars during his time in Dallas. Now,
the only reason he even landed in Texas was because
the great Tony Romo got hurt in twenty fifteen. That
coincided with me being voted by the Mallar Militia a
Cowboy fan if I remember correctly. Anyway, that led to
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a four and twelve record for Dallas. But the year
press not like the Cowboys were terrible. The year prior
to that. They lost that crazy Divisional round game if
you're old enough to remember that was the Dez Bryan
game where it was a catch and they said, oh,
it's not a catch, not a catch, and then the
factors ended up winning. But to rephrase all this, Zeke
Elliott leaves the Cowboys in the same boat they were
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before he arrived. They continue to be a faux contender,
not a real contender, Not a real contender. They're a
faux contender they were when Zeke was there prior to
the year before Tony Romo got hurt, and he leaves
and they're in the same boat now page two. Should
Zeke have taken a pay cut to stay in Dallas?
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So I'm not in my head. I'm not in my
head yet easy for me to say it's not my money.
But regardless, that would have been the savvy thing to
do if you're the financial advisor. If it was an option,
maybe Jerry Jones said, no, we don't even want you
get out of here. But Zeke Elliott has been a
supporting actor the last four seasons in Dallas, and for
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most casual Cowboy fans, he is still treated like a king.
All of the fringe benefits that cowboy bluster provide. You
don't get those perks playing in the boondocks of the NFL.
You don't. And Zeke Elliott is going to learn what
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life's like on the other side of the tracks. So
say goodbye to the creature comforts of playing for the Cowboys. Now,
final point, So, now that we've looked back, what the
heck happens in the future, right, what's the market looking like?
Who's gonna claim the Zeke Elliott domain? So the market
is limited. You don't need Jay Glazer or Adam Schefter
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or one of these other insider types to tell you that,
because Zeke Elliott is what's known as a diminishing asset.
And so here's what I expect that I expect the
agents for Zeke Elliott to sell the fact leak these
stories to the media that Zeke does things that go
outside the stat sheet, that which I've already seen some places.
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That is a dog whistle from an agent to the
media through using their usefulities, that this guy's washed up,
big name, little game and the car looks good on
the outside. It's like you looked to buy a car
and it's like, oh man, that's a jet blue Porsche
that looks really good. Great, and then you inspect it further,
it's missing the spark plugs. It's it's a disaster. Now,
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what is my evidence? In the final four regular season
games of this past NFL season, the Cowboys trying to
wrap everything up playoff position again, all that Zeke Elliott
average less than three yards per carry two point seven
yards per carry and just seventeen runs of ten yards
or more all season. And the most damning stat I
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read earlier from Elliott that he has not scored a
touchdown outside of the red zone since twenty nineteen. He's
essentially a fullback. He's had over a thousand touches in
the last touchdown outside the red zone that he scored
was in twenty nineteen. Holy Canoli. That sucks. So who
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is going to be the dumb dumb to sign this guy?
So we spin the mallor wheel of speculation, which is
never roll, spin the wheel right, spin the wheel, maller
speculation for Zeke Elli, big Bundy, big money, ain't no
wimy and stop the mallor wheel of speculation. Two teams,
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two teams, show me your lightning bolt and jump on
the ghost ship. I'm talking about the Buccaneers and the charge.
Now why this is very simple, This part of the
story is very simple. You read this written at a
elementary level. This is what's known as the higher a
friend to play. And it's not what you know, it's
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who you know. That's the key to life, right, that's
the key. You go to universities, big powerful IVY League
universities not because they teach you better stuff than other institutions. No,
you go to places like that because of the network.
Because alumni from schools like Harvard and Yale and places
like that they hire other alumni and they all have
great paying jobs. And so that's how it works. You
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scratch my back, I'll scratch you're back. And Tampa they
let go of Leonard Fournette. They have an opening at
running back. They also have a Zeke Elliott confidant, a
former Cowboy assistant. Skip Pete is the running back coach,
so Zeke can skip over to Tampa. The Bolts. They
also have a running back who they could be getting
(23:45):
rid of, Austin Eckler, who is looking for a trade.
And they also have an ex comrade of Jerry Jones
Kellen Moore, the offensive coordinator for Dallas who's now in LA.
Although if Kellen Moore just watched the last couple of
years with Zeke Elliott, I would think he would want
nothing to do with this guy. Some of the other
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running back deficient teams that dare I say, I should
cover my eyes and say, oh God no. The Rams.
They're also possibly Buffalo needs a running back with Zekelly.
It's washed up the Broncos. The Chiefs always have a
revolving door running back. The Texans. He could stay in
the state of Texas, so there are opportunities. It's running
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back roulette. You spin the wheel on running back Roulette,
but Tampa's the favorite where they winking a nod to
the charges. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show. Weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey,
I'm Doug Gottlie. The podcast is called All Ball. We
usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's more
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about the stories about what made these people love their
sport and all the interesting interactions along the way. We
talked to coaches, we talked to players, We tell you stories.
They download it. He listened to it. I think you
like it. Listen to All Ball with Doug golib on
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It's maller. How about that to the third degree. This
is one big fan gets grail kop de Loup with
the Dallas Cowboys training for Stefan Gilmour on Tuesday. There
are a number of analysts that believe the Cowboys now
have a championship caliber defense. Yeah, Ben, could their defense
be good enough to carry Dak Prescott to a Super
(25:34):
Bowl appearance? Well, without going crazier, I think the only
one that said that is Skip Bayless. I believe, and
he loves the Cowboys, but my vote is no. Stefan
Gilmore is no longer a shutdown defensive back. He's still
a good player, but this is not a guy who's
going to erase the other team's top wide out he's
matched up against. He also has a lot of miles
(25:57):
on the odometer. I believe he's played eleven seasons now
in the FEL. The other top defensive back in Dallas
his Travon Diggs, who makes a lot of great plays.
He risked a lot, no risk it, no biscuit, but
he also gets burned a lot. He was the forty
second ranked defensive back, so you got him on one side,
you got Gilmore on the other. As the headliners in
(26:18):
that defense. The defense, even if Gilmore was great, the
defense can carry you a chunk of the marathon, but
will not get you past the finish line. That's the problem.
Dak Prescott has to finally have his playoff bar mits way.
He did not have it against the Bucks, a sub
five hundred Bucks team. He played against the Niners and
he was exposed yet again. So I am not buying
(26:41):
that the Cowboy defense is going to lead the way next.
The Carolina Panthers are widely expected to select a quarterback
with the number one overall pick in the draft, but
they also agreed to sign Andy Dalton to a two
year contract on Tuesday, Ben, how long will c J.
Stroud or Bryce Young sit behind Andy Dalton? They will
never get the chance to play, Coop because the red
(27:02):
pea shooter Andy Dalton has arrived, and that you know,
he had a higher passer grade from the Nerds and
more touchdowns than Vanilla Vick, your guy Daniel Jones with
the Giants and uh but no, listen, he's obviously gonna
be there because for a limited time, because the more
you play Andy Dalton, the bigger stomaching stomach you get.
But I'm all about playing right. Whoever they draft, play CJ.
(27:25):
Strad right away. Trial by fire. Frank Wright runs a
rudimentary offense anyway, a bowling offense from the Stone Age.
Just put the put the young quarterback out there. Let's
see what they can do. You learn from doing not
sitting next. Um, you know, I'm just gonna give you
the pass with two questions, Man, is that right, Coop?
I only I'd like to let you know I only
(27:47):
needed to question. I gave you extra time, Cooper Loop,
and here we are. That's unbelievable extra time and we
didn't even need the extra time. That is the most
dominant but You've just heard the most dominant performance in
the history of Mallard to the third degree, a two
and all victory. I didn't even need the third question. Unbelievable. Wow,
(28:13):
wow wow. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk
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(28:33):
Ask Twitter. Send us your questions on Twitter now and
no wait, we go to Ask Ben. Your questions are
answers the collective wisdom of the Mallard militia. I know
that I read that that stat the other day that
the collective IQs in the United States have gone down
(28:55):
for like the first time in the century. But not
on this show. We are smarter than ever on the
Ben Mallor Show. Ask Ben and Friends. You can ask
me or any of the Bennetts. We get over to
the Cooper loop for the reading of the questions, but
it's not going to sound like he's reading on Ask Ben.
Here we go, Let's get started. This is an interesting one. Okay,
We're gonna start with it. Very very rarely, Coop do
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we start with an interesting question. So this is good.
This is from Late night drug tester. All right, he says,
do you feel awkward eating outdoors with lots of people
walking by? Al fresco is what they call it? Right? Yes?
I hate eating outside of my the people I live with.
That I kind of said. When I go out to
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eat with relatives, I don't like it. I feel like
everyone's staring at me. I call it fat man disease.
And I've lost a lot of weight, but I'm always
going to be a fat man, and I always think
everyone's judging me by what I'm eating when I go
to a restaurant, even when I'm out, not forget whether
i'm outside or not. Well I'm inside. I don't like it.
What about you Eddie, Nope, doesn't bother you one damn bit.
You're a loser at Roberto. I'd rather even said you're
(30:01):
a loser too. What about you, Coop? No, not at all.
Oh my god, you guys, it's wrong with you people.
All right, what's next? What do we have here? It's
ask ben your questions, our answers for the rest of
the hour. By the bing by the boom, all right,
let's do I saw going furd dog ahead this one
from furd dog. He said, this is easy for me,
(30:23):
but we'll see what you guys think. This is a
Benny Award winner for dog. Pick one that has to
go away forever. Cookies, cheesecake, cupcakes or brownies. All right,
so we've got if I peat that again, talk slower,
we've got cookies, cookies, cheesecake, cupcakes or brownies. Oh, cheesecake done, done, done,
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I'm out. No cheesecake, I'm good, Eddie. H No, I
love cheesecake. I would go brownies. That's racist, Eddie. I
don't think what brownies. Brownie suck? Whoa, no, no, no, no,
you have to have milk with brown These are too dry.
Hold on, you're making the wrong You have not exactly right. No,
(31:06):
I don't I don't bake. No, the proper brownie is
kind of a little bit of a not a crunch suit,
but it's a little solid on the outside. And it's
don't like a lot of chocolate either. It's got to
be moist in the Yeah, that's the key, alright, Coop.
I would get rid of cupcakes, no way. No, I
like the absolutely because exactly so you can still have cakes.
(31:28):
Those brownies suck. You just make your You just cut
your cake into a smaller piece cheese. I just don't
like his name. I don't like cheese. I'm doing the
big brain move right here. All right, what is next?
What do we have here? What is next? Is asked, Ben?
Your questions are answers. Riddle me the what do we have?
(31:50):
Brave New World Comics? I believe is Andy the comic
guys is promoting his business. Yeah. Uh, have you or
the crew ever been a hosted by a homeless person accosted?
If that's asking for money, then hell yeah, yeah, I'm
(32:10):
I'm pretty intimidating aggressively. That's what I've had, guys. I've
had guys follow me around and it's not funny. This
is a serious. I'm educating the masses here, this pathetic
iddie that you would go to that kind of level.
All right, that's that's embarrassing. Okay, but no, I like
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I've been wandering like the wrong part of town and
people will be, oh, you know, but I'm a pretty
tall guy. Any kind of a husky builds, so they
don't really bother me that much. What about you, Eddie, Yeah,
I've I've had a homeless person get upset with me
because I like only give them a dollar or something.
Have you ever had them? Have you ever had them
when they like knock on your window when you're driving,
(32:53):
when you're stopped. I hate Yes, Yes, I can't stand that. Um,
you know, but I've had I've given a guy like
all the change out of my you know, little cup holder.
It's like maybe a dollar or something, and they get
like they get mad, like that's not enough, and then
I tell them go f themselves, get my money back
then if you don't want it. Yeah, I always geting
annoying when I see the same people. There's a good
hustle there around here where there's like a families will
(33:17):
stand outside Costico. Yeah, it's a total hustle. You know,
its ing. They're like, yes, they know. Most people see
those kids, you know, that's it. They give them money.
They don't realize that that's the kid's job. They go
from Costco to Costco or whatever or Walmart or wherever.
H Roberto, No, not really okay, Coop. No, Me and
(33:41):
Eddie we've lived. We were like barbarians, me and Eddie
with these homeless people. All right, what is next year?
Where do we have? Asked Ben your questions. We are
walking into the lions den of ask ben Well. This
question kind of covers a question for both Mango, Alex
and j D and Casey two for one, what is
your guys' dream car? Yeah, we've been asked to some
(34:02):
time to time. I don't really I love This is
gonna be a pathetic the U. I had a rental
a Lincoln town Car. I was in Cleveland and it
was the most comfortable car. I don't even know if
they still make him like this, but the seat was
like a sofa, like I was driving around like I
was sitting in my living room, and it was like
the most comfortable seat. I was like, this is awesome. Man,
this is a living about Vita Loca. Man, this is
(34:22):
a bat But but that's I don't really care about speed.
I don't fit in a lot of those fast cars
because I'm too tall. What about you, Eddie? I really
am not a big car person. I'm not saying I
wouldn't like like to have a nice car, of all
things being equal, but mostly just as long as it
doesn't break down, it gets me where I want to go.
That's really all I care about. But every once in
a while, I've had a chance to dry like a
big suv and kind of being up high and kind
(34:43):
of feeling kind of powerful. That's kind of that's kind
of cool. I guess like you're in a tank or something. Yeah,
kind of all right, Roberto, what do you get? I'm like, yeah,
I'm kind of like Eddie. I got to choose. Give
me that new Chevy electric trucks. I not to pay
for gas. Oh you go electric? Yeah? I want to
be guess. I had an electric car one talk about
partially electric. It was a lemon. True, it's a lot.
(35:04):
How to give it back? And they gave me. Oh man,
if you ever have if you've ever had a lemon,
they don't give you the full amount. It's a scam.
What about you, Coop? I would go with an Aston Martin, Uh,
pretty much any of the models like a Banquets or
dB dB seven, any of those dB eleven, any of them,
They're all They're all awesome, beautiful cars, big fan. And
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how much of those worth, Coop? It's like anywhere from
like one hundred thousand to like more a lot more.
Because I was I was car shopping recently, and like
even the average cars were like like eighty thousands. Insane.
It's crazy now, yeah, the markup on that. All right,
what is next year? To ask? Ben? Your questions are answers.
I have time for a quick question, coop, quick one. Okay,
(35:50):
um milkman, Mike said, Mike, you guys asked Marcel this question,
So now it's your turn. What planet would you want
to visit? I don't remember. I don't remember asking that either.
Oh yeah, yeah, years ago. I like the planet planet
Earth because I think we've lost Planet Earth anywhere. Planet.
Let's go Mars. I guess Mars. All right, Pluto, you
(36:11):
just got a planet anymore. It's a planet again. They
brought it back. Okay, it's over. It's all over. It
disappeared and came back. Oh yeah. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. And we bring in the
man behind Puck World. Right over there, the fig is
(36:35):
Ambony Eddie Garcia. All right, thank you, Ben. We are
headed down the home stretch of the NHL season. The
teams have about fourteen games, give or take left in
the regular season. Have the playoffs ended, are started today?
The matchups would be In the East, the Bruins against
the Islanders, Hurricanes against the Penguins, Maple Leafs against the Lightning,
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and the Devils against the Rangers. Capitals and Panthers are
five points out of a playoffs foward to the holding
three games in hand on the Islanders, so they have
a chance to make up some ground if they can
win those games that they have extra In the West,
you've got Golden Knights versus Jets, Stars versus Kracken Kings
versus Oilers, and wild versus Avalanche. At the moment, the
National Predators or four points behind Winnipeg for that last
(37:18):
wildcard spot, and they have three games in hand on
the Jets, so faint chance for Nashville to try and
get back in a wildcard spot. Boston Bruins continue to
lead the NHL. They've got one hundred and five points.
They beat the Red Wings this past week and become
the only team so far to officially clinch a playoff spot.
Bruins also are the fastest team in NHL history to
hit the fifty win mark. They did it in sixty
(37:39):
four games. The only officially eliminated team from the playoffs
so far that would be the San Jose Sharks and
it's another Starcono McDavid continues to rock up big numbers
this season. He's at fifty six goals and one hundred
and twenty nine points so far on the season, by
far leaving the NHL, and he's going to win the MVP.
Watched the Gapol star Alexander Vetchka had another goal this
week because now at eight hundred seventeen in his career,
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eighty seven away from Wayne Gretzky and the all time
NHL goals scoring lead future all of him. Goalie Johnathan
Quick is having an amazing resurgence. After stinking and being
cast off by the La Kings, He's landed in Las
Vegas where he's completely turned things around four and old
record and putting up solid stats as well. Meanwhile, Vegas
continues to have a great season despite goalie issues. The
Golden Knights lost their number one goalie, Robin led Her
(38:22):
to start the year and they've had five different goalies
post wins so far this season. Now they're said, now
they got the ex king, they're good. We'll see. We'll
see about that guy. They're ready to go. I'm Minnesota
Wild or current leader I thought you were Kings fan.
He's not on the Kings anymore, so I know, but
he's a legend of the Kings. Man when he comes
back for his jersey retirement, give him standing O nation.
(38:43):
Right now, he's playing on another team, a rival team.
As a matter of fact, Minnesota Wilder currently riding a
franchise record fourteen game points drink. They're eleven oh and
three in their last fourteen games. However, they have lost
their top player, Crew capriz Off three to four weeks
with a lower body injury. They believe he'll be back
for the playoffs. Better hope so, because a are not
gonna last very long. Carolina Hurricanes have lost forward Andre's
(39:03):
fetching the coop for the rest of the season toward
Aco In his knee head surgery and he's done. And
La Kings lady scorer Kevin Fiala out in definitely with
a knee injury. Philadelphia Flyer he's fired their general manager
and president of hockey operations, Chuck Fletcher after five seasons
nice The team's gonna miss the playoffs for a third
straight year, first time that's happened since the early nineties.
(39:24):
Daniel Brier has been named the interim general manager, and
he's gone on records saying he would like the job
full time. But he's getting a little bit of heat
because of his dumbass son doing something I think stupid
on a video. It was caught his Carson Brier. He's
a hockey player at mercy Hurst University in Erie. He
(39:44):
was at a party and somebody was there with a
wheelchair and he decided, I think I'll throw this wheelchair
down to fly stairs, and so he did, and I
guess he broke at the time. You know, maybe he's
had a few drinks and you know, why not van
delight something when you're shrug It's what all the cool
kids are doing. But anyway, it was caught on video.
(40:05):
Like everything. You're in college at Fresno State, didn't you
shoved some wheelchairs down? I? Actually I did not. Actually
he did not. I didn't do that. Guy? Are you it?
What about you? Saddleback a wheelchair tossing? I cannot talk
about that. I'd allowed to talk about it anyway. He's
he's just issued the standard apology. I'm deeply sorry for
my behavior and no excuse for my actions. Blah blah blah,
blah blah blah blah. STI I saw Gary Bettman said
(40:27):
he's not an expansion mode. He said it didn't see that,
Thank god. I mean, come on, come on, they need
the money anytime they need the money. Well, everybody needs
the money that we don't want fifty teams in the
anything back to Quebec. Nordie said he bring the Nordis back.
And no, only people are crying for that or the
people in Quebec. Nobody else cares about that looking out
for them. And what about the did you get? Are
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you done? Because you didn't get to the other story?
What's the other story? The Ryan Reynolds story. You know
what's going on with him? You didn't see that. There
was rumors a couple of months ago he wanted to
buy Spendors. So t Mobile is gonna buy mint Mobile,
which is Ryan Renol. Yeah, he's coming. It's a one
point three billion dollar deal. Is that enough money to
(41:12):
buy an NHL team? It's enough to get your clothes?
Combined with the Hollywood money, that could be all right? Yeah,
how do these how do these people end up? Like?
Who was it fifty cent? What did he make all
his money? What water? Remember the water, what was it?
He made a ton of money so high end bottle
of water, Is that right? I didn't know that. You
(41:33):
guys have no idea what I'm talking about. Roberto, you
know about the water. Nah, that's the same one Mike
Trout and missed it. Vitamin water. Yeah, it was vitamin water.
As he made a ton of money with vitamin water.
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