August 22, 2023 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about the Colts giving Jonathan Taylor permission to seek a trade, Bill Belichick addressing reports that the Patriots called about an Aaron Rodgers trade, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Serj Tankian Edition, and more!
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Of words, words, words, words and more words that would
come from the world of pro football Indianapolis to be
exactly going to start in Indianapolis.
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Why because something's going on there that caught my attention.
And as people chatting, and when people are chatting, we
get generally excited by the chatter. We like the chatter.
So if you have not been following along here, we
like trades, and we don't have a trade. There hasn't
been a trade consummated yet. But if you haven't became
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a track, we've learned. Now the Colts, that's a football team.
Never heard of them because you don't watch the NFL
batch up but you. But the Colts have granted they
have given a blessing, a mitzvah to running back Jonathan Taylor,
the malcontent Jonathan Taylor. They have said, be free, be free. Well,
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they didn't like let him as a free agent. They
didn't go as a free agent. But what the Colts
did have said, go out there and seek a trade.
If you can find a sucker that's dumb enough to
take you and pay you, then we will give the Okay,
we'll say okay. The franchise had previously been adamant. We
talked about many of these statements that had been passed
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through the echo chamber about Indianapolis and their position on
Jonathan Taylor keeping the running back under the stable. And
if you go back to the hot tub time machine
to July twenty ninth, so almost a month ago July
twenty ninth, and jim Irsay said, We're not trading Jonathan
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end of discussion, Not now and not in October. Close quote. Well,
here it is August, and boots on the ground are
saying that jim Irsay is gotta be floating around his
drawers to trade Jonathan Taylor. At least that's the theory
that he's willing to take a first round pick or
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a bunch of other random draft picks that add up
to a first round pick in the total value. So
let us discuss the question why why have the pull
the Colts? Why have the Colts pulled a one to
eighty here on a player that they liked and they
wanted to keep it. Why have the Colts pulled a
one eighty and given Jonathan Taylor permission to seek a trade.
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So I have c Scotch, tape and Plato, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make scrambled eggs, which is what is running
the Indianapolis cult franchise, Scrambled Eggs. That's actually in charge.
That's in charge of the organization. So a jim Irsay
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figures the only way to end this is to have
the player go out and see if he can find
greener pastors. It's like that old thing. Hey, go travel
the world, see CBA, you like it better elsewhere, and
then get back to us and let us know how
things are. So the theory on this is kind of simple,
right that it's an eye opening scientifical experiment by jim Irsay,
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and he cooked this up while he was sitting on
his party bus doing whatever he does on the party bus.
You can use your imagination, but it's it's going to
be interesting, sou plays out. I file this one in
my analysis minutes long malar analysis. I file this one
in a CIA style, a psyop operation here where it's
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a psychological operation. Jonathan Taylor very argumentative, not happy with
the colts. They're playing the contrarian demanding to get paid.
He feels like he's in the poverty world and all that.
So grumbling and stumbling and bumbling and all that. So Gimmerus,
they said, Okay, what I'm going to do is I'm
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going to allow you to go out into the world here.
And it's a reverse psychological trick. Reverse psychology is what
it is to manipulate the situation. So Taylor goes out,
he dips his toe in the water. And because remember,
not only does he have to get a trade somebody
to give the colts what they want, but it's a
double whammy because he's got to get the money that
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he wants. Otherwise, what's the point. You're in the same
contract whether you're in Miami or Indianapolis or wherever. And
so the theory is he's gonna go out there and
it's gonna put his toe in the water and he's
gonna say, well, the water's lukewarm, and I don't like
lukewarm water. What's up with that? And at this point
Jonathan Taylor would, in theory, come back to Indy with
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a better perspective on the reality of the running back market. Now,
what jimmer say is not accounting for is the sucker
in the room. And you can never discount the sucker
in the room. There's always one sucker. And all it
takes is one. All it takes is one sucker to
say that if we get player X, in this case,
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Jonathan Taylor to the moon, to the moon. Now, as
Jonathan Taylor shops around for a trade and his agent
contacts all these teams that many are connecting the dots
to the aforementioned Miami Miami. My Miami, the Miami football team
is at the top of just about everyone's tongue when
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we talk about possible destinations for Jonathan Taylor. So are
the Dolphins going to be the top bidder for Taylor? Well, Tolly,
I'm an my head yes on this that it makes
sense that the Dolphins would be the top bitter they're
all in. They didn't want Dalvin Cook, who's a South
Florida tied guy. They didn't want him, but they still need,
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not necessarily need, they could get an upgrade at the
running back position. But my gut feeling is that the
Miami Dolphins are gonna deal with Taylor if only if
they get him marked out. You know, I like the
Clippers would take James Harden from Philadelphia, who's not happy,
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but they don't want to give up anything more than
a couple of bacon wrapped street Dogs to get that
trade consummated with Philadelphia and the Dolphins, I would think
would be the same way. I mean, they would like
a nice markdown liquidation price. They're not going to take
the hammer out and break open the piggy bank to
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get Jonathan Taylor. So who else would be interested if
not the Miami Dolphins. So here's the rub, and this
is the problem that on the outside, Jonathan Taylor is
like a luxury yacht, and you don't really need a
luxury lot yeacht. If you I happened to get a
luxury yacht, that's fine, but it's a pain of the ass.
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You don't use it that much. It's a toy for
a billionaire, is what it is, and it's a terrible investment. Now,
some other wild cards that are surely going to be
tossed out. Some of them probably already have been tossed out.
I've been paying that close attention. But Cansa City, Chicago,
and Dallas also possibilities for Jonathan Taylor. The Chiefs won
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with someone named Isaiah Pacheco as their top running back
in the Super Bowl, not a household name from that
football factory from Rutgers. The Bears are getting hyped up.
They're being inflated by the NFL media that Justin Fields
is going to be like a kite on a windy
day at the beach and take off and it's going
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to be an amazing transformation. But the Bears have okay
running backs Khalil Herbert and Isaiah or Dante Foreman rather
Dante Forman, the old Carolina Panther running back and Khalil
Herbert are there, but they don't have a splashing name.
And then the Cowboys just make sense because Jerry Jones
is always horny for the biggest name he can possibly get,
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and he loves the bright shiny object, and Jonathan Taylor
would qualify as the bright shiny object in this little
narrative that we're sharing with you and any team. And
I'll say this right now, I don't care whether it's Dallas,
Kansas City, Miami. Any team that acquires the Colts running
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back Jonathan Taylor should also demand a case of Scotch
tape and a couple of kick me signs so they
can put that tape on their back with a kick
me sign, because that would be dumb, the dumb, dumb,
dumb to acquire Taylor. Considering he was injured last year,
he's an injury risk. He's going to want a new contract.
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And you can go out to the Greyhound bus terminal
and get someone that will have pretty good production at
the running back position. So what are you doing now?
The last word here? Turning the page, we go to Cleveland,
a story that got a lot of attention, The Brownies
patting themselves on the tuckis why the Cleveland Browns? Why
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are they Cleveland Browns patting themselves on the tuck? As well?
The reason we learned that the Browns restructured the contract
of their star defensive player, Miles Garrett. His contract Now
Garrett is not going to be a free agent. He
hasn't out in his contract for twenty twenty four, but
he's not scheduled for free agency until twenty twenty seven.
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And you're very concerned about that. We all are. But
unless we're not. But what does the Miles Garrett contract
reshuffle do the shuffle tell us about the salarycap? Well,
it reminds us for those of you that have been
in denial when I've done my many Malard monologues about
the salarycap, this is a reinforcement situation. It's a refresher
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course that the reality of the situation is the salarycap.
It's Plato and people who get paranoid about the salarycap.
We don't know what over space. Your fools, your morons.
I say this all the time. This is just a
tool that is manipulated by the power brokers in the NFL.
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And it's a way to say we can't afford you,
We can't give you any more money because of uscap.
But if you want to find more money, you don't
have to pull the cushions up on the sofa to
find that money. You merely just move some numbers around.
That's what the Cleveland Browns have done here, and Alekazam presto.
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Just like that. The Cleveland Browns have created twelve point
nine million dollars in salary cap space by restructuring the
Miles Garrett agreement. Cleveland now has thirty four million dollars
in salary cap space. It's the most in the NFL.
That is not something to brag about, though it is not.
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The Arizona Cardinals are also high up on that list.
They were number one before the Cleveland Browns. But do
you really want to brag and flex and take flowers
because you're spending the least amount of money. Yeah, I'm
gonna go knowing that, but what do I know.
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A visit to mister Rogers neighborhood in an indirect way.
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from Foxborough and not from New York City of mister
Rogers neighborhood. But indirect, I said, indirect way to get
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to mister Rogers neighborhood. So there there's a story that
we talked about several months back that has popped back
up on our raidar. What is that story. Well, the
story which originated from Craig Carton, the guy that quit
radio to go do the TV thing at Fox, so
he's got to show. He reported that the Patriots attempted
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to trade for airin Rogers, that the effort was made.
Now Rogers was said to be not interested in playing
in New England. That was the reporting, and the story
stopped right there, and we moved on with our lives,
and that was that. Well, not everyone moved on with
their lives. Rogers is playing with the Jets. And Bill
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Belichick was asked in his weekly paid radio spot on
EI there in Boston, was asked about the rumor about
Bill Belichick having interest in Aaron Rodgers, and Belichick himself
was asked, if you didn't hear what he had to say,
maybe not, maybe you missed it. The Patriot coach, Bill
Belichick swears swears that he did not reach out directly
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to Green Bay. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I personally couldn't speak to that. Look, there's a lot
of conversations in the off season between our personnel people
and other executives. I mean, I don't know what he's
really talking about. I personally didn't talk to the Packers
about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Now certainly makes this division tougher.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah, well no, I mean, look, it's not I'm not
saying about I mean, Aaron Rodgers is a great player,
but that's not really you know, that wasn't anything that
we were I thought I was aware of.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah. Yeah, listen closely to the words because we're going
to parse the words. So let us discuss the question.
How believable How believable was Bill Belichick in the SoundBite
he just heard right there with his Aaron Rodgers trade denial.
So I have custom embroidery, national Goose Protection Coalition, and
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two ounce cup, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are gonna make a moneyball because
I am moneyball mallersh just like that. So to begin here,
number wa waiting for christ a little late on there
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be quicker number w.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
M.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So Bill Belichick was unconvincing is the word I will use.
He was unconvincing with his dialogue when asked about the
Aaron Rodgers trade, which is not surprising the commentary from
Bill Belichick here, This was the only way you could
answer the question. If Belichick does not answer the question,
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gives a no comment and does that, which he's also
done many times, that implies that he's covering something up
that he knows about, so he doesn't want to talk
about it. If he confirms that the Patriots tried to
get Aaron Rodgers, well that's a humdinger of a story.
That also shows that you have qualms about Mac Jones,
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that you're not keeping up with the Joneses, your own quarterback.
So what Bill Belichick did is he practiced some custom embroidery.
Now what do we mean by that. It means that
Bill Belichick attempted to thread a needle little needle point
action threading a needle, if you will. And Belichick used
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weasel words, pop goes the wisel, Yeah, weasel words. He
said he personally did not engage the packers. He never
said the Patriots did not engage the Green Bay Packers.
He just said he personally did not do it. That
does not mean that Belichick did not deputize some underling
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to have dialogue with the green Bay Packers and do
the dirty work for Belichick. He's much too important to
have to make those phone calls. Don't you know who
he is? So that gives Bill Belichick plausible deniability. Plausible deniability.
And he wasn't technically lying when he said that he
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personally did not reach out to Green Bay. He just
omitted some things that actually took place. So, if you
haven't figured out yet, I believe that the Patriots did
consider Aaron Rodgers. Why would they not. They don't have
a quarterback. Mac Jones is a stiff, and so Rogers
is someone that Bill Belichick has slobbered all over for many,
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many years. Why would you not consider that possibility. It
would be negligence by the Patriots to not consider that possibility. Now,
page two, turning to lost wages. Nevada the gambling mecca
of North America. But the gambling world is everywhere these days,
sports gambling in particular. But we are told that Josh Jacobs,
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he's our running back. Josh Jacobs has decided he will
put the kibosh on his issues with the Las Vegas
football team. Jacobs expected to report the camp before the
Raiders open the regular season of course, it is unknown
when when exactly that will be. For Jacobs, who led
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the NFL in rushing yards last season breakout year and
wanted to get paid a lot of money, the Raider said,
we're good, we don't want to pay a lot of
money over long term. Sorry about that, And so he
has to show up by week one otherwise he will
start giving back money. And that's the rub on this.
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So let us discuss what has led here to Josh
Jacob's planning to end his contract kerf Fluffel with the Raiders.
So I'm going to blame the National Goose Protection Coalition.
Why am I blaming the National Goose Protection Coalition? Because
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Jacobs is looking to protect the Golden Goose and he
wants that four to oh one k within the margins,
and the way you do that is you show up
to camp. Otherwise Jacobs would have had to give back
a game check every week some of that ten point
one million dollars of the franchise tag that the Raiders
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gave him. And you don't give back money that's yours,
that has your name on it. We all know that.
And so Jacobs decided, I'm not going to do that
now soon as he ends the stalemate and reports to
duty for the Raiders, Jacobs will have to, of course,
put his tail between his legs and walk into the
Raider facility. What kind of attitude is he going to bring?
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Is he gonna bring the tude? We will? We will
find out. Does Jacobs bring hostility inside the bill? Will
he be an enemy combatant upset that he did not
get a new contract, did not get the money that
he wanted from the Raiders? Is he going to bring
that inside the facility? Or will Jacobs be able to compartmentalize,
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calm down? Right? Does this spill into more turmoil for
the Silver and Black? Because I'm all there for the turmoil.
I get a big bucket, big bucket of popcorn. I'm
right there for the turmoil. We will see now. Final point,
final point. So let's go to Washington. And we mentioned
this last hour in the B block, but we'll mention
it now. If he did not watch, it was a
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Monday night exhibition game, and I got suckered into that.
I've flipped over from the baseball for a little bit,
watched a little piece of it. Sam Howell, the Great
Sam Howell was officially named the starting quarterback of the Commanders.
Last Friday. We were away from the watchtower here at
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Fox Sports Radio on Friday, but the Washington football team
announced that the great Sam Howe would be starting. Where
have you gone, Joe thisman? Well, now you've got Sam
Howell as your quarterback. And so that news came out,
and then Sam Howe went out and had a monster
mash of a first half for the Washington football team.
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I don't know if you saw it or not, or
you saw the box score and the Commanders moving the ball,
matriculating the ball up and down the field. Sam Howe
playing the entire first half for the Raiders, for the
raven against the Ravens, for the Commanders, get the teams right,
but for the Commanders against the Ravens, and Sam Howe
attempted twenty five passes he can, played nineteen of them
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for one hundred and eighty eight yards, had a great
passer rating, solid numbers across the board. Washington led the
game at halftime when Howell exited stage left, and they
would go on to win the game on a late
field goal against Baltimore, ending that twenty four game practice
season winning streak for the Ravens. And immediately this led
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to over the top gushing about Sam Howe. They found something,
He's got the magic. These are the kind of comments
that we're bouncing around the echo chamber after an exhibition game,
not a regular season game, not a regular season game.
We're talking about an exhibition game. So what are your
reactions to Sam Howell getting hyped up there in Washington.
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So my initial reaction is the P word predictable. This
is a predictable situation. The over reaction machine gets cranked up,
and that happens all the time. But listen, how It
looked like a cool customer. He also sounded like a
total meathead in his interview. He got interviewed on the
Monday night broadcast. I thought, boy, this guy has the
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the I think Marcel could could beat him in the
IQ test. Unbelievable anyway. So with that being said, yeah,
I know, calm down, Marcell, I'll give you a shout out. Okay,
he played well, So I give Sam Howe whatever. I
don't give him credit because it's a practice game. And
the one thing I've learned as a degenerate gambler over
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the years is to not put any stock in exhibition football.
Get a little confidence. So it's like somebody leading the
Cactus League in home runs and saying they're going to
lead the American League in home runs. It generally speaking,
does not happen. And so I take all of this
with a two ounce cup of mouthwash, and it's a dummy.
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Run your gargle and you spit it out, your gargle,
your rinse, You spit it out and get ready for
the regular season. The Ravens were throwing out vanilla bean defense,
and the Raven his opponent, the Washington football team, was
playing a very generic brand of offense and defense, and
that's what's supposed to happen. Now, let's see Sam Howell
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has a very good start to the season. He has
another practice game in the regular season September tenth. The
Washington football team opens up with the team projected to
be the worst team in the NFL this year, the
Arizona Cardinals. So if Sam Howe does not dominate the
Arizona Cardinals, he got something wrong with that. And then
they I believe, played the Broncos in Week number two,
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Washington does, so that's two winnable games. So Washington has
a shot to get out to a good start this
year and Sam Howe can get some confidence. But does
that mean it's going to happen because he played well
against the Ravens. No, of course.
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is one big Van gets grilled the Coop.
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Dal Loup Justin Cooper.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
Now it's been a couple of years since the NBA
selected their seventy fifth anniversary team, but Stan Van Gundy
apparently still has a problem with it. Making a recent
podcast appearance, Van Gundy said that Dwight Howard should have
made the team over Anthony Davis. Is he right, Ben, Yeah,
So I'm gonna agree with Stan Van Gundy.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
A lot of people will dismiss Stan Van Gundy, saying
he's compromised because he coached Dwight Howard in his salad
days there in Orlando, but I disagree. Listen. Van Gundy
watched Howard dominate the league in the Sunshine State to
a level that we have not seen Anthony Davis consistently
dominate the NBA all these years, and pound for pound,
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I would take Dwight Howard in his prime. He had
more dog in him. Anthony Davis is more of a
kiddy cat, and not that either of them was the
ultimate Alpha, but I would rather have Dwight Howard next.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Now, on the back of an insane four game tear
from Julio Rodriguez and now they're on a seven game
win streak, the Seattle Mariners are in a wild card
spot and only a few games out of the Al
West lead, Ben, do you think Seattle can make some
noise in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yes, every year we see a team like this, the
Atlanta Braves couple of years ago, or not that great,
they ended up won the World Series. The Washington Nationals
the year that they won the World Series. Same thing.
Last year the Phillies got to the World Series. They
weren't a particularly great team. The American League Number one
is wide open. There are two good teams in baseball
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this year. They're the Braves and the Dodgers. They're in
the Nationally like the Orioles and Rangers are fine teams
in the American League, but they're not unbeatable teams. The
Braves and Dodgers of the Power. But the Mariners the
way Julio Rodriguez and Cal Raley are going to some
of these starting pitchers mashing and getting it done on
the mount George Kirby Luis Castillo as anchors of that rotation.
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Absolutely Seattle can get all the way to the World
Series and be the last team that hasn't been to
the World Series to cross that off the list.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Next Orioles shortstop Gunner Henderson was only a single away
from the cycle on Sunday when he came up with
a base hint, Baltimore was already up ten to one
in the contest, but instead of completing the cycle, Henderson
strolled into second for a double, much to the dismay
of his teammates.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Ben do you a Pod Henderson for this move?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Well, he's in the one percent of baseball players. Ninety
nine percent would stopped at first base and done a
dance after they hit for the cycle, So I give
him credit. But yeah, I mean, a cycle is a
cool thing to have, very rare thing. How do we
do come out? Pass that is a weed? Put it
on the board.
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Speaker 1 (29:35):
And right to the game we go. It's time now
for Malos Mountain one of us. Welcome into our contestants.
We have Jed who fled in the Sunshine. Say hello,
Jed who fled. I'm going on, dude, Christ the South.
That act was amazing. Okay, and we have Ron in
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San Antonio.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Hello, Ron, Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Welcome in Ron. How's everything in San Antonio this morning?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Hotter in hell out here, brother.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Hotter than hell right there, Hotter than hades Ah, I
got you? All right? Well, another another month and then
it'll be better. One more month, you know?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Is the season out here?
Speaker 8 (30:19):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
There you go, as long as the brown grass isn't it?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
All right, there's a lot of there's a lot of
ambient noise here. I don't like the ambient noise. Who's
making the noise? Jed?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Jed?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I'm now all right? All right, Coop? What are we doing?
What is the game this week? What do we have here?
What were the teams? By the way, Jed? Who do
you want to partner up with? We'll start with that, Jed.
Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 8 (30:47):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Jed? And Coop and uh Ron? Who do you want
to partner up with? Ron?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
In the theory of the wrath of God, I gotta
take you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That's right exactly.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
I will.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I will do a rain dance for you or something
like that.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
All right, I promise I need you to promise that.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Okay, all right, gentlemen. This is Malard's Mountain of Money,
the search to Tonkey. In addition, he turned fifty six
years old yesterday. It is the lead singer of System
of a Down. The categories are as follows Sugar, prison Song,
Highway Song, and old School Hollywood. Jed, you were on first?
Which category would you like?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Hey that those choices are chop set dude, oh school Hollywood?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Old school? All all right? And what about you, Ron?
Which category do you want?
Speaker 7 (31:31):
I guess we'll take sugar.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Okay, we'll take sugar, very good, sugar, all right, Jed,
you and I are up first. You know the you
know the rules, first and last name in order to
get points. Forty five seconds, Old School Hollywood. These athletes
have appeared in movies. Forty five seconds. Let's go. The
best basketball player of all time is Airness Michael Jordan's.
(31:53):
He was the all time leading scorer before Lebron. Yes,
this guy played Jesus shuttles were. Yes, he was one
of the best running backs of all time. Played for
the Browns. Yes, this guy was a leading scorer in
like the late seventies. He played for the Knicks. His
(32:16):
last name is like Royalty. Okay, this guy was in
My Giant.
Speaker 10 (32:27):
Oh boy, but yeah, all right, George George Morroson.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Bernard King was the other one that you missed all points.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Let's turn off the heat, ron, you know about turning
up the heat there in San Antonio. Here we go.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
These athletes have sweet names or nicknames. Are you ready there?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Ron?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Let's go all right, forty five seconds of the clock.
You're on your way and go. Running back for the
Buffalo Bills. And he was on TV killed a couple
of people. Come on, all right, Uh, running back for
the Chicago Bears of the nineteen eighties. Nickname Sweetness, Yes
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Chocolate Thunder of the NBA, known for his dunk talkin Yes.
Outfielder for the nineteen eighties Mets. He was the star
along with Dwight Gooden. Lynn Dowson, Yes, Lynn Dawson a great,
a great met outfielder for the nineteen eighties Detroit Tigers.
His last name was a citrus. Oh my god, Well,
(33:41):
these clues are just terrible. These are terrible. God forbid,
I mean, my god, there's somebody, guys, there's so many
guys for the nineteen eighties Detroit Tigers that have a
citrus last name. She could have been anybody. It should
have been straw It could have been Orange.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Chet Lemon was the one he missed that. I mean,
Darryl Strawberry is the Mets. Yes, you couldn't even get
fifty points?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
O J.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Simpson fifty points?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Go again, fifty O J.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Simpson is the one that killed people. Uh so you
guys are back up. Ron in bed? Would you like
prison song or highway song?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Highway?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
All right?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (34:28):
These these athletes have These athletes have played for both
sides of crosstown rivals. Forty five seconds begin all right?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Uh star for the Saint Louis Cardinals baseball team. He
went to the Angels in a big free agent signing
ten years ago. Oh, ed, see, now you're just being
a jacket, right, that's what you're doing. Yeah. Quarterbacks starting
quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks last season. R.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Wilson, not taker Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Big has never played for the Seahawks. M Let me,
I gotta hang off on this guy. Yeah, all right,
we're quitting home. I mean, Ron's a jackass. I hope
he's hotter than hell for the next month in san Antonio.
(35:21):
I saw the cars melt. How about that said?
Speaker 6 (35:26):
You want to you want to finish? His category?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Prison?
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Who played prison?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Sec?
Speaker 8 (35:31):
Guy?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Is such a jacket Stromano Genobli. That's what I say.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Alright, let's go prison song.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
Uh quarterback that killed dogs all time?
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Hit king.
Speaker 9 (35:44):
Herod Yes, the tight end that killed people. Uh, the
biggest bust of all time. He was drafted right after
Peyton Manner. Yes, uh, nails for the Phillies, more for
the Mets.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
But well, yeah, I guess nails. His nickname was Nails.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
What are you cheering him on?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
What are you doing from helping? Why are you are
you helping? You didn't help?
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Why are you so quiet? Did you get that one?
I didn't hear an answer.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Oh my god, answer he sucks, right, Ron, Ron sucks
part of his team.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Don't throw your teammates under the bus.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Now.
Speaker 9 (36:32):
I want to know if you would have got this
one Jed a picture that was caught with like forty
four pounds of cocaine.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
No, you wouldn't have got Okay, that's a sad story
for Jed when he hears the story.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Waste good drugs.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, he's a therapy dog. When he sees that one,
he's like, oh crap.
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Of words, words, words, words and more words that would
come from the world of pro football Indianapolis to be
exactly going to start in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Why because something's going on there that caught my attention.
And as people chatting, and when people are chatting, we
get generally excited by the chatter. We like the chatter.
So if you have not been following along here, we
like trades, and we don't have a trade. There hasn't
been a trade consummated yet. But if you haven't became
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a track, we've learned. Now the Colts, that's a football team.
Never heard of them because you don't watch the NFL
batch up but you. But the Colts have granted they
have given a blessing, a mitzvah to running back Jonathan Taylor,
the malcontent Jonathan Taylor. They have said, be free, be free. Well,
(02:29):
they didn't like let him as a free agent. They
didn't go as a free agent. But what the Colts
did have said, go out there and seek a trade.
If you can find a sucker that's dumb enough to
take you and pay you, then we will give the Okay,
we'll say okay. The franchise had previously been adamant. We
talked about many of these statements that had been passed
(02:53):
through the echo chamber about Indianapolis and their position on
Jonathan Taylor keeping the running back under the stable. And
if you go back to the hot tub time machine
to July twenty ninth, so almost a month ago July
twenty ninth, and jim Irsay said, We're not trading Jonathan
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end of discussion, Not now and not in October. Close quote. Well,
here it is August, and boots on the ground are
saying that jim Irsay is gotta be floating around his
drawers to trade Jonathan Taylor. At least that's the theory
that he's willing to take a first round pick or
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a bunch of other random draft picks that add up
to a first round pick in the total value. So
let us discuss the question why why have the pull
the Colts? Why have the Colts pulled a one to
eighty here on a player that they liked and they
wanted to keep it. Why have the Colts pulled a
one eighty and given Jonathan Taylor permission to seek a trade.
(03:59):
So I have c Scotch, tape and Plato, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make scrambled eggs, which is what is running
the Indianapolis cult franchise, Scrambled Eggs. That's actually in charge.
That's in charge of the organization. So a jim Irsay
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figures the only way to end this is to have
the player go out and see if he can find
greener pastors. It's like that old thing. Hey, go travel
the world, see CBA, you like it better elsewhere, and
then get back to us and let us know how
things are. So the theory on this is kind of simple,
right that it's an eye opening scientifical experiment by jim Irsay,
(04:48):
and he cooked this up while he was sitting on
his party bus doing whatever he does on the party bus.
You can use your imagination, but it's it's going to
be interesting, sou plays out. I file this one in
my analysis minutes long malar analysis. I file this one
in a CIA style, a psyop operation here where it's
(05:13):
a psychological operation. Jonathan Taylor very argumentative, not happy with
the colts. They're playing the contrarian demanding to get paid.
He feels like he's in the poverty world and all that.
So grumbling and stumbling and bumbling and all that. So Gimmerus,
they said, Okay, what I'm going to do is I'm
(05:36):
going to allow you to go out into the world here.
And it's a reverse psychological trick. Reverse psychology is what
it is to manipulate the situation. So Taylor goes out,
he dips his toe in the water. And because remember,
not only does he have to get a trade somebody
to give the colts what they want, but it's a
double whammy because he's got to get the money that
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he wants. Otherwise, what's the point. You're in the same
contract whether you're in Miami or Indianapolis or wherever. And
so the theory is he's gonna go out there and
it's gonna put his toe in the water and he's
gonna say, well, the water's lukewarm, and I don't like
lukewarm water. What's up with that? And at this point
Jonathan Taylor would, in theory, come back to Indy with
(06:23):
a better perspective on the reality of the running back market. Now,
what jimmer say is not accounting for is the sucker
in the room. And you can never discount the sucker
in the room. There's always one sucker. And all it
takes is one. All it takes is one sucker to
say that if we get player X, in this case,
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Jonathan Taylor to the moon, to the moon. Now, as
Jonathan Taylor shops around for a trade and his agent
contacts all these teams that many are connecting the dots
to the aforementioned Miami Miami. My Miami, the Miami football team
is at the top of just about everyone's tongue when
(07:06):
we talk about possible destinations for Jonathan Taylor. So are
the Dolphins going to be the top bidder for Taylor? Well, Tolly,
I'm an my head yes on this that it makes
sense that the Dolphins would be the top bitter they're
all in. They didn't want Dalvin Cook, who's a South
Florida tied guy. They didn't want him, but they still need,
(07:30):
not necessarily need, they could get an upgrade at the
running back position. But my gut feeling is that the
Miami Dolphins are gonna deal with Taylor if only if
they get him marked out. You know, I like the
Clippers would take James Harden from Philadelphia, who's not happy,
(07:52):
but they don't want to give up anything more than
a couple of bacon wrapped street Dogs to get that
trade consummated with Philadelphia and the Dolphins, I would think
would be the same way. I mean, they would like
a nice markdown liquidation price. They're not going to take
the hammer out and break open the piggy bank to
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get Jonathan Taylor. So who else would be interested if
not the Miami Dolphins. So here's the rub, and this
is the problem that on the outside, Jonathan Taylor is
like a luxury yacht, and you don't really need a
luxury lot yeacht. If you I happened to get a
luxury yacht, that's fine, but it's a pain of the ass.
(08:35):
You don't use it that much. It's a toy for
a billionaire, is what it is, and it's a terrible investment. Now,
some other wild cards that are surely going to be
tossed out. Some of them probably already have been tossed out.
I've been paying that close attention. But Cansa City, Chicago,
and Dallas also possibilities for Jonathan Taylor. The Chiefs won
(08:59):
with someone named Isaiah Pacheco as their top running back
in the Super Bowl, not a household name from that
football factory from Rutgers. The Bears are getting hyped up.
They're being inflated by the NFL media that Justin Fields
is going to be like a kite on a windy
day at the beach and take off and it's going
(09:21):
to be an amazing transformation. But the Bears have okay
running backs Khalil Herbert and Isaiah or Dante Foreman rather
Dante Forman, the old Carolina Panther running back and Khalil
Herbert are there, but they don't have a splashing name.
And then the Cowboys just make sense because Jerry Jones
is always horny for the biggest name he can possibly get,
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and he loves the bright shiny object, and Jonathan Taylor
would qualify as the bright shiny object in this little
narrative that we're sharing with you and any team. And
I'll say this right now, I don't care whether it's Dallas,
Kansas City, Miami. Any team that acquires the Colts running
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back Jonathan Taylor should also demand a case of Scotch
tape and a couple of kick me signs so they
can put that tape on their back with a kick
me sign, because that would be dumb, the dumb, dumb,
dumb to acquire Taylor. Considering he was injured last year,
he's an injury risk. He's going to want a new contract.
(10:27):
And you can go out to the Greyhound bus terminal
and get someone that will have pretty good production at
the running back position. So what are you doing now?
The last word here? Turning the page, we go to Cleveland,
a story that got a lot of attention, The Brownies
patting themselves on the tuckis why the Cleveland Browns? Why
(10:48):
are they Cleveland Browns patting themselves on the tuck? As well?
The reason we learned that the Browns restructured the contract
of their star defensive player, Miles Garrett. His contract Now
Garrett is not going to be a free agent. He
hasn't out in his contract for twenty twenty four, but
he's not scheduled for free agency until twenty twenty seven.
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And you're very concerned about that. We all are. But
unless we're not. But what does the Miles Garrett contract
reshuffle do the shuffle tell us about the salarycap? Well,
it reminds us for those of you that have been
in denial when I've done my many Malard monologues about
the salarycap, this is a reinforcement situation. It's a refresher
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course that the reality of the situation is the salarycap.
It's Plato and people who get paranoid about the salarycap.
We don't know what over space. Your fools, your morons.
I say this all the time. This is just a
tool that is manipulated by the power brokers in the NFL.
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And it's a way to say we can't afford you,
We can't give you any more money because of uscap.
But if you want to find more money, you don't
have to pull the cushions up on the sofa to
find that money. You merely just move some numbers around.
That's what the Cleveland Browns have done here, and Alekazam presto.
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Just like that. The Cleveland Browns have created twelve point
nine million dollars in salary cap space by restructuring the
Miles Garrett agreement. Cleveland now has thirty four million dollars
in salary cap space. It's the most in the NFL.
That is not something to brag about, though it is not.
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The Arizona Cardinals are also high up on that list.
They were number one before the Cleveland Browns. But do
you really want to brag and flex and take flowers
because you're spending the least amount of money. Yeah, I'm
gonna go knowing that, but what do I know.
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A visit to mister Rogers neighborhood in an indirect way.
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from Foxborough and not from New York City of mister
Rogers neighborhood. But indirect, I said, indirect way to get
(14:10):
to mister Rogers neighborhood. So there there's a story that
we talked about several months back that has popped back
up on our raidar. What is that story. Well, the
story which originated from Craig Carton, the guy that quit
radio to go do the TV thing at Fox, so
he's got to show. He reported that the Patriots attempted
(14:32):
to trade for airin Rogers, that the effort was made.
Now Rogers was said to be not interested in playing
in New England. That was the reporting, and the story
stopped right there, and we moved on with our lives,
and that was that. Well, not everyone moved on with
their lives. Rogers is playing with the Jets. And Bill
(14:54):
Belichick was asked in his weekly paid radio spot on
EI there in Boston, was asked about the rumor about
Bill Belichick having interest in Aaron Rodgers, and Belichick himself
was asked, if you didn't hear what he had to say,
maybe not, maybe you missed it. The Patriot coach, Bill
Belichick swears swears that he did not reach out directly
(15:18):
to Green Bay. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I personally couldn't speak to that. Look, there's a lot
of conversations in the off season between our personnel people
and other executives. I mean, I don't know what he's
really talking about. I personally didn't talk to the Packers
about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Now certainly makes this division tougher.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah, well no, I mean, look, it's not I'm not
saying about I mean, Aaron Rodgers is a great player,
but that's not really you know, that wasn't anything that
we were I thought I was aware of.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah. Yeah, listen closely to the words because we're going
to parse the words. So let us discuss the question.
How believable How believable was Bill Belichick in the SoundBite
he just heard right there with his Aaron Rodgers trade denial.
So I have custom embroidery, national Goose Protection Coalition, and
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two ounce cup, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are gonna make a moneyball because
I am moneyball mallersh just like that. So to begin here,
number wa waiting for christ a little late on there
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be quicker number w.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
M.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So Bill Belichick was unconvincing is the word I will use.
He was unconvincing with his dialogue when asked about the
Aaron Rodgers trade, which is not surprising the commentary from
Bill Belichick here, This was the only way you could
answer the question. If Belichick does not answer the question,
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gives a no comment and does that, which he's also
done many times, that implies that he's covering something up
that he knows about, so he doesn't want to talk
about it. If he confirms that the Patriots tried to
get Aaron Rodgers, well that's a humdinger of a story.
That also shows that you have qualms about Mac Jones,
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that you're not keeping up with the Joneses, your own quarterback.
So what Bill Belichick did is he practiced some custom embroidery.
Now what do we mean by that. It means that
Bill Belichick attempted to thread a needle little needle point
action threading a needle, if you will. And Belichick used
(17:48):
weasel words, pop goes the wisel, Yeah, weasel words. He
said he personally did not engage the packers. He never
said the Patriots did not engage the Green Bay Packers.
He just said he personally did not do it. That
does not mean that Belichick did not deputize some underling
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to have dialogue with the green Bay Packers and do
the dirty work for Belichick. He's much too important to
have to make those phone calls. Don't you know who
he is? So that gives Bill Belichick plausible deniability. Plausible deniability.
And he wasn't technically lying when he said that he
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personally did not reach out to Green Bay. He just
omitted some things that actually took place. So, if you
haven't figured out yet, I believe that the Patriots did
consider Aaron Rodgers. Why would they not. They don't have
a quarterback. Mac Jones is a stiff, and so Rogers
is someone that Bill Belichick has slobbered all over for many,
(18:58):
many years. Why would you not consider that possibility. It
would be negligence by the Patriots to not consider that possibility. Now,
page two, turning to lost wages. Nevada the gambling mecca
of North America. But the gambling world is everywhere these days,
sports gambling in particular. But we are told that Josh Jacobs,
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he's our running back. Josh Jacobs has decided he will
put the kibosh on his issues with the Las Vegas
football team. Jacobs expected to report the camp before the
Raiders open the regular season of course, it is unknown
when when exactly that will be. For Jacobs, who led
(19:45):
the NFL in rushing yards last season breakout year and
wanted to get paid a lot of money, the Raider said,
we're good, we don't want to pay a lot of
money over long term. Sorry about that, And so he
has to show up by week one otherwise he will
start giving back money. And that's the rub on this.
(20:06):
So let us discuss what has led here to Josh
Jacob's planning to end his contract kerf Fluffel with the Raiders.
So I'm going to blame the National Goose Protection Coalition.
Why am I blaming the National Goose Protection Coalition? Because
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Jacobs is looking to protect the Golden Goose and he
wants that four to oh one k within the margins,
and the way you do that is you show up
to camp. Otherwise Jacobs would have had to give back
a game check every week some of that ten point
one million dollars of the franchise tag that the Raiders
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gave him. And you don't give back money that's yours,
that has your name on it. We all know that.
And so Jacobs decided, I'm not going to do that
now soon as he ends the stalemate and reports to
duty for the Raiders, Jacobs will have to, of course,
put his tail between his legs and walk into the
Raider facility. What kind of attitude is he going to bring?
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Is he gonna bring the tude? We will? We will
find out. Does Jacobs bring hostility inside the bill? Will
he be an enemy combatant upset that he did not
get a new contract, did not get the money that
he wanted from the Raiders? Is he going to bring
that inside the facility? Or will Jacobs be able to compartmentalize,
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calm down? Right? Does this spill into more turmoil for
the Silver and Black? Because I'm all there for the turmoil.
I get a big bucket, big bucket of popcorn. I'm
right there for the turmoil. We will see now. Final point,
final point. So let's go to Washington. And we mentioned
this last hour in the B block, but we'll mention
it now. If he did not watch, it was a
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Monday night exhibition game, and I got suckered into that.
I've flipped over from the baseball for a little bit,
watched a little piece of it. Sam Howell, the Great
Sam Howell was officially named the starting quarterback of the Commanders.
Last Friday. We were away from the watchtower here at
(22:15):
Fox Sports Radio on Friday, but the Washington football team
announced that the great Sam Howe would be starting. Where
have you gone, Joe thisman? Well, now you've got Sam
Howell as your quarterback. And so that news came out,
and then Sam Howe went out and had a monster
mash of a first half for the Washington football team.
(22:35):
I don't know if you saw it or not, or
you saw the box score and the Commanders moving the ball,
matriculating the ball up and down the field. Sam Howe
playing the entire first half for the Raiders, for the
raven against the Ravens, for the Commanders, get the teams right,
but for the Commanders against the Ravens, and Sam Howe
attempted twenty five passes he can, played nineteen of them
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for one hundred and eighty eight yards, had a great
passer rating, solid numbers across the board. Washington led the
game at halftime when Howell exited stage left, and they
would go on to win the game on a late
field goal against Baltimore, ending that twenty four game practice
season winning streak for the Ravens. And immediately this led
(23:18):
to over the top gushing about Sam Howe. They found something,
He's got the magic. These are the kind of comments
that we're bouncing around the echo chamber after an exhibition game,
not a regular season game, not a regular season game.
We're talking about an exhibition game. So what are your
reactions to Sam Howell getting hyped up there in Washington.
(23:43):
So my initial reaction is the P word predictable. This
is a predictable situation. The over reaction machine gets cranked up,
and that happens all the time. But listen, how It
looked like a cool customer. He also sounded like a
total meathead in his interview. He got interviewed on the
Monday night broadcast. I thought, boy, this guy has the
(24:05):
the I think Marcel could could beat him in the
IQ test. Unbelievable anyway. So with that being said, yeah,
I know, calm down, Marcell, I'll give you a shout out. Okay,
he played well, So I give Sam Howe whatever. I
don't give him credit because it's a practice game. And
the one thing I've learned as a degenerate gambler over
(24:26):
the years is to not put any stock in exhibition football.
Get a little confidence. So it's like somebody leading the
Cactus League in home runs and saying they're going to
lead the American League in home runs. It generally speaking,
does not happen. And so I take all of this
with a two ounce cup of mouthwash, and it's a dummy.
(24:47):
Run your gargle and you spit it out, your gargle,
your rinse, You spit it out and get ready for
the regular season. The Ravens were throwing out vanilla bean defense,
and the Raven his opponent, the Washington football team, was
playing a very generic brand of offense and defense, and
that's what's supposed to happen. Now, let's see Sam Howell
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has a very good start to the season. He has
another practice game in the regular season September tenth. The
Washington football team opens up with the team projected to
be the worst team in the NFL this year, the
Arizona Cardinals. So if Sam Howe does not dominate the
Arizona Cardinals, he got something wrong with that. And then
they I believe, played the Broncos in Week number two,
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Washington does, so that's two winnable games. So Washington has
a shot to get out to a good start this
year and Sam Howe can get some confidence. But does
that mean it's going to happen because he played well
against the Ravens. No, of course.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
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Speaker 2 (26:30):
It's Maller. How about that to the third degree, This
is one big Van gets grilled the Coop.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Dal Loup Justin Cooper.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
Now it's been a couple of years since the NBA
selected their seventy fifth anniversary team, but Stan Van Gundy
apparently still has a problem with it. Making a recent
podcast appearance, Van Gundy said that Dwight Howard should have
made the team over Anthony Davis. Is he right, Ben, Yeah,
So I'm gonna agree with Stan Van Gundy.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
A lot of people will dismiss Stan Van Gundy, saying
he's compromised because he coached Dwight Howard in his salad
days there in Orlando, but I disagree. Listen. Van Gundy
watched Howard dominate the league in the Sunshine State to
a level that we have not seen Anthony Davis consistently
dominate the NBA all these years, and pound for pound,
(27:21):
I would take Dwight Howard in his prime. He had
more dog in him. Anthony Davis is more of a
kiddy cat, and not that either of them was the
ultimate Alpha, but I would rather have Dwight Howard next.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Now, on the back of an insane four game tear
from Julio Rodriguez and now they're on a seven game
win streak, the Seattle Mariners are in a wild card
spot and only a few games out of the Al
West lead, Ben, do you think Seattle can make some
noise in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yes, every year we see a team like this, the
Atlanta Braves couple of years ago, or not that great,
they ended up won the World Series. The Washington Nationals
the year that they won the World Series. Same thing.
Last year the Phillies got to the World Series. They
weren't a particularly great team. The American League Number one
is wide open. There are two good teams in baseball
(28:10):
this year. They're the Braves and the Dodgers. They're in
the Nationally like the Orioles and Rangers are fine teams
in the American League, but they're not unbeatable teams. The
Braves and Dodgers of the Power. But the Mariners the
way Julio Rodriguez and Cal Raley are going to some
of these starting pitchers mashing and getting it done on
the mount George Kirby Luis Castillo as anchors of that rotation.
(28:31):
Absolutely Seattle can get all the way to the World
Series and be the last team that hasn't been to
the World Series to cross that off the list.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Next Orioles shortstop Gunner Henderson was only a single away
from the cycle on Sunday when he came up with
a base hint, Baltimore was already up ten to one
in the contest, but instead of completing the cycle, Henderson
strolled into second for a double, much to the dismay
of his teammates.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Ben do you a Pod Henderson for this move?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Well, he's in the one percent of baseball players. Ninety
nine percent would stopped at first base and done a
dance after they hit for the cycle, So I give
him credit. But yeah, I mean, a cycle is a
cool thing to have, very rare thing. How do we
do come out? Pass that is a weed? Put it
on the board.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
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have what it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And right to the game we go. It's time now
for Malos Mountain one of us. Welcome into our contestants.
We have Jed who fled in the Sunshine. Say hello,
Jed who fled. I'm going on, dude, Christ the South.
That act was amazing. Okay, and we have Ron in
(29:56):
San Antonio.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Hello, Ron, Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Welcome in Ron. How's everything in San Antonio this morning?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Hotter in hell out here, brother.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Hotter than hell right there, Hotter than hades Ah, I
got you? All right? Well, another another month and then
it'll be better. One more month, you know?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Is the season out here?
Speaker 8 (30:19):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
There you go, as long as the brown grass isn't it?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
All right, there's a lot of there's a lot of
ambient noise here. I don't like the ambient noise. Who's
making the noise? Jed?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Jed?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I'm now all right? All right, Coop? What are we doing?
What is the game this week? What do we have here?
What were the teams? By the way, Jed? Who do
you want to partner up with? We'll start with that, Jed.
Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 8 (30:47):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Jed? And Coop and uh Ron? Who do you want
to partner up with? Ron?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
In the theory of the wrath of God, I gotta
take you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That's right exactly.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
I will.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I will do a rain dance for you or something
like that.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
All right, I promise I need you to promise that.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Okay, all right, gentlemen. This is Malard's Mountain of Money,
the search to Tonkey. In addition, he turned fifty six
years old yesterday. It is the lead singer of System
of a Down. The categories are as follows Sugar, prison Song,
Highway Song, and old School Hollywood. Jed, you were on first?
Which category would you like?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Hey that those choices are chop set dude, oh school Hollywood?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Old school? All all right? And what about you, Ron?
Which category do you want?
Speaker 7 (31:31):
I guess we'll take sugar.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Okay, we'll take sugar, very good, sugar, all right, Jed,
you and I are up first. You know the you
know the rules, first and last name in order to
get points. Forty five seconds, Old School Hollywood. These athletes
have appeared in movies. Forty five seconds. Let's go. The
best basketball player of all time is Airness Michael Jordan's.
(31:53):
He was the all time leading scorer before Lebron. Yes,
this guy played Jesus shuttles were. Yes, he was one
of the best running backs of all time. Played for
the Browns. Yes, this guy was a leading scorer in
like the late seventies. He played for the Knicks. His
(32:16):
last name is like Royalty. Okay, this guy was in
My Giant.
Speaker 10 (32:27):
Oh boy, but yeah, all right, George George Morroson.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Bernard King was the other one that you missed all points.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Let's turn off the heat, ron, you know about turning
up the heat there in San Antonio. Here we go.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
These athletes have sweet names or nicknames. Are you ready there?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Ron?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Let's go all right, forty five seconds of the clock.
You're on your way and go. Running back for the
Buffalo Bills. And he was on TV killed a couple
of people. Come on, all right, Uh, running back for
the Chicago Bears of the nineteen eighties. Nickname Sweetness, Yes
(33:18):
Chocolate Thunder of the NBA, known for his dunk talkin Yes.
Outfielder for the nineteen eighties Mets. He was the star
along with Dwight Gooden. Lynn Dowson, Yes, Lynn Dawson a great,
a great met outfielder for the nineteen eighties Detroit Tigers.
His last name was a citrus. Oh my god, Well,
(33:41):
these clues are just terrible. These are terrible. God forbid,
I mean, my god, there's somebody, guys, there's so many
guys for the nineteen eighties Detroit Tigers that have a
citrus last name. She could have been anybody. It should
have been straw It could have been Orange.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Chet Lemon was the one he missed that. I mean,
Darryl Strawberry is the Mets. Yes, you couldn't even get
fifty points?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
O J.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Simpson fifty points?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Go again, fifty O J.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Simpson is the one that killed people. Uh so you
guys are back up. Ron in bed? Would you like
prison song or highway song?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Highway?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
All right?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (34:28):
These these athletes have These athletes have played for both
sides of crosstown rivals. Forty five seconds begin all right?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Uh star for the Saint Louis Cardinals baseball team. He
went to the Angels in a big free agent signing
ten years ago. Oh, ed, see, now you're just being
a jacket, right, that's what you're doing. Yeah. Quarterbacks starting
quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks last season. R.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Wilson, not taker Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Big has never played for the Seahawks. M Let me,
I gotta hang off on this guy. Yeah, all right,
we're quitting home. I mean, Ron's a jackass. I hope
he's hotter than hell for the next month in san Antonio.
(35:21):
I saw the cars melt. How about that said?
Speaker 6 (35:26):
You want to you want to finish? His category?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Prison?
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Who played prison?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Sec?
Speaker 8 (35:31):
Guy?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Is such a jacket Stromano Genobli. That's what I say.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Alright, let's go prison song.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
Uh quarterback that killed dogs all time?
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Hit king.
Speaker 9 (35:44):
Herod Yes, the tight end that killed people. Uh, the
biggest bust of all time. He was drafted right after
Peyton Manner. Yes, uh, nails for the Phillies, more for
the Mets.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
But well, yeah, I guess nails. His nickname was Nails.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
What are you cheering him on?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
What are you doing from helping? Why are you are
you helping? You didn't help?
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Why are you so quiet? Did you get that one?
I didn't hear an answer.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Oh my god, answer he sucks, right, Ron, Ron sucks
part of his team.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Don't throw your teammates under the bus.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Now.
Speaker 9 (36:32):
I want to know if you would have got this
one Jed a picture that was caught with like forty
four pounds of cocaine.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
No, you wouldn't have got Okay, that's a sad story
for Jed when he hears the story.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Waste good drugs.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, he's a therapy dog. When he sees that one,
he's like, oh crap.
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