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September 19, 2023 • 39 mins

Big Ben talks about the Monday Night Football doubleheader as the Browns give the game away to the Steelers late, Bryce Young and the Panthers fall to 0-2 after a loss to the Saints, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Joan Jett Edition, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:32):
You can crowd them if you want. But they gave
that game away. They gave it away. Well come in
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go to the Rust Belt in AFC Divisional Donnybrook, the
AFC North there featured main event there that was the

(01:44):
big game, not on the undercard, the main top of
the top of the full Cleveland going the one hundred
and thirty five miles to Pittsburgh. You know it was
a big deal because the Fox refugees Joe Buck and
Troy Aikman were there hanging out calling the game. So
if you didn't watch this and maybe you missed it.

(02:05):
So TJ Watt, TJ Watt the beneficiary being in the
right place there he scooped up a fumble that his
teammate caused that Deshaun Watson puking up the football and
then TJ. Watt running seventeen yards for the go ahead
touchdown midway through the fourth quarter, and that would be

(02:26):
the final nail in the coffin. The Steelers defense led
the way twenty six twenty two the final So Pittsburgh
a small home dog and they're able to get the
win over the Browns. Now, for many people watching the game,
they needed to go puke because the game itself took
a back seat to a moment in time, a sliver

(02:49):
of time, a gruesome mccobbre injury to Nick Chubb, the
Browns running back. There he was hit by Steelers safety
Mink Fitzpatrick. And not only is this a seasoned ending injury,
it could end up being a career ending injury. Back
at Georgia, he did a similar thing to his knee. Well,

(03:10):
somebody else did it to him, but his knee exploded
when he was in college, and it just exploded again,
multiple torn ligaments.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
It was so bad.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
How bad was it? It was so bad. ABC would
not even show the clip, that's how bad it was.
But I don't understand that. And here's why it's all
over the internes. It's like when TV people don't show
a fan running on the field. There's oh, the games paused,
there's somebody running on the field. So then I go
on one of these apps and I have seventeen different

(03:42):
camera angles of the fan running on the field, and
the Nick Chubb thing is there. If you put a
warning out saying, hey, you probably don't want to watch this.
If you're a little skittish, that's all.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
You have to do.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
But you don't show it, and then everyone's like, oh, curiosity,
I want to go check it out. Now. I hate
looking at these things. I can't stand it. But people
were sending it to me.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Did you see this?

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Your knee is not supposed to go like that anyway?
All right, So we will get back to that in
a moment. But let's start with the game itself. The
better story in the losing locker room. So that is
where we will begin. How do you dissect as we discuss,
how do you dissect DeShawn Watson's performance for the Cleveland

(04:24):
Browns in this game? So I've got Nordstrom's, Eddie Murphy
and harpoon gun and we will combine all of these
things together.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
And we are going to give you heartache. That's what
the Cleveland Browns have right now. They have a lot
of heartache. So a I.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
As far as the game itself, I loved every second
of watching Deshaun Watson play quarterback. Man, was that fun?
Sign me up for more of that? Sign me up
for more of that? Uh to thirty million dollars guaranteed
money here? And wow, I guess that money two hundred

(05:06):
thirty million dollars did not get you what it used
to get you. As this guy was all braggadocious in
recent days talking about how he was gonna be a
better version of the quarterback in Houston when he played
for the Texas.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Spoiler alert, spoiler alert.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I can tell you right now he's played eight games
with the Cleveland Browns. He is tangibly worse. Deshaun Watson
is tangibly worse. And he wasn't that great in Houston.
He just put up a lot of fantasy stats and
dumb fans, low information fans, thought Watson was better than
he was. But he wasn't all right. We knew that
the Cleveland Browns didn't know that. This guy watching Watson

(05:44):
play on Monday night, he was the f word frazzled.
Not that fward. Frazzled was how Deshaun Watson performed in
this game. And going out there he was stumbling and
bumbling around was absolutely priceless. It was absolutely pried there.
The guy is supposedly builled as a franchise quarterback for

(06:04):
the Cleveland football team and he went out there, and
man man, was that a pathetic performance.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
He needed I think we needed auction. He didn't need auction.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
I needed auction because I was overdosing on shot in freude.
Watching Deshaun Watson out there was fabuloso, is what it was.
And I didn't see any air guitar, did you? I
didn't see that. Maybe I missed it. Did he have
the air guitar like he did in Week one when
he didn't play that well and the Cleveland football team
beat the Cincinnati football team. I don't recall seeing the

(06:35):
air guitar here in Week two. But if the NFL
thing doesn't work out, and by the way, it's not
looking so good for.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Deshaun Watson right now.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
He's got a terrible reputation and all that he's not
playing well, He's a total bust. The greatest failure in
NFL history is Deshaun Watson. Based on the amount of
money he was given guaranteed and the results we have
seen up until this point, Shawn Watson has another job
lined up for him if it doesn't work out in
the NFL. So Watson he can get a job at

(07:07):
Nordstrom's because he has mastered the art of gift wrapping
the game to the opposition here, because that game was
gift wrap for the Pittsburgh Steelers Watson. Let's go down
the not a list, but the big board, Deshaun Watson.
If you look at Big Ben's big board, Deshaun Watson
had a pick six to start the game. He handed
the Steelers seven points right there to begin the game.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Then not one but two two from ball.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
I loved it. He was sacked six times. Watson was
sacked six times in this game. Again, the same Watson
we saw in Houston. He's got no internal clock. He
doesn't know when to get rid of it. You gotta
throw the ball quick. You can't hold on to it.
You gotta treat it like a hot potato. You gotta
treat that ball like a hand grenade and a live
hand grenade. You've pulled the pin. You want to get

(07:56):
rid of the hand grenade, So the Shrapn'll go somewhere else?
Not Why no, no, no, he knows better. He knows better.
So sack six times. He committed not one but two
two face mask penalties where he held the face mask.
That's a personal foul penalty which handicapped the Cleveland Browns

(08:16):
on those two drives. He could not help but grab
the Pittsburgh Steeler players face mask. It was like he
was back at the massage table and he was getting
a massage, and he just liked to play touchy feely,
And that's what it looked like. You hate to see it,
unless you don't. I don't hate to see it. Man,
Watson is a wonderful villain. He even shoved the referee

(08:40):
and they didn't kick him out. Why would you not
kick Watson out? He shoved the official. It was on camera.
I'm sitting on my fat ass watching Deshaun Watson push
a referee.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, didn't call it. They didn't kick him out. Why
were they afraid he was gonna get in the happy
baby yoga?

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Pos?

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Were they worried about that from Deshaun Watson? But what
a what a curse being a Cleveland Browns fan. I mean,
you gotta pull for this guy. You gotta pull for Watson.
The guys got coodies. DeShawn Watson's got the cooties here,
the creepy quarterback man flying all over the place, the

(09:21):
football's going.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Here, there and everywhere.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
And he sucked at a time you cannot suck during
the game. All right, now, turning the page, page two,
he let's get to the injury and what a blow,
what a horrible thing here. Nick Chubb chub goes down here,
And there have been mixed opinions about this, There's mixed
opinions about everything, but Nick Chubb, the all everything running

(09:46):
back for the Cleveland football team, goes down.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
He's out.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
So first for the Browns, We'll start with the Browns,
then we'll get to the bigger picture. But the Cleveland
brown side of things here. You look at the Brownies,
all right, Yeah, what's going on here? The Cleveland Browns
on the field, right, what is the malor scale of
concern for the Cleveland offense without Nick Chubble Loublub in

(10:13):
the lineup, and he's not gonna play, might never play
again in the NFL based on how terrible this injury
wasn't past injuries that he's had to that leg. So
on a scale of one to ten with ten being
armageddon football armageddon, I am at a nine point zero
for the Cleveland Browns offense. And I don't think I'm
being a shock jock and all that. Here's why DeShawn

(10:37):
Watson is under center and he's channeling an old movie
I saw back and I think it was a late nineties.
I think it was maybe I think, yeah, somewhere around
there it was an Eddie Murphy movie Doctor Doolittle, because
Deshaun Watson is Doctor Dolittle out there at the quarterback position.

(10:57):
He gets paid a whole lot of money, but he
don't live up to that contract. And Nick Chubb was
the lynchpin for the Cleveland offense, and that firepower is
not there anymore. You toss a wet blanket on the
human dynamo. He's out and so not that Cleveland was
going to be great and have the Browns being an

(11:20):
amazing all world team. However, with Nick Chubb exiting stage left,
Deshaun Watson, god only knows what kind of trouble he's
going to get into. He average like five point nine
yards per pass in this game, and that sucks.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
That is not good.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
All right now the last word here, So let's let's
go the big picture. Does the injury to Nick Chubb
help or hurt the argument that running backs have made
to try to get more money that there's some people saying, wow,
this proves they've got to get more money. The NFL

(11:59):
has to take running backs. Because Nick Chubb played two
games his career could be over now that this is
right there, the proof that the running backs can give
the NFL saying that you have to pay us more money.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
And so I'm on the.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Other side of that, I would argue the other way
that if you asked the question, does this injury to
Nick Chubb help or hurt? It is a harpoon gun
to the argument that running backs get more money.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
It just is right.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
NFL teams will use this as a direct line to
not pay running backs as evidence that you shouldn't pay
running backs because they are unreliable, they are injury proof,
injury prone. This is proof for NFL teams like, hey see,
we didn't pay these guys the big money over the
long term, and now look at it.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
We're in better shape. We've got a business to run here,
we have a business to run.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
And it's not not only is it so is it Nick?
But you have Saquon Barkley also with the Giants, who's
out for at least a few weeks.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
He's gone.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
JK. Dobbins is out for the year in Baltimore. And
so you've got all of these moving parts here and
they're all pointing against the NFL teams wanting to pay
running backs any kind of big money.

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Speaker 1 (14:29):
On a Monday night last hour, we ranted and raved
about the Pittsburgh Steelers being given a gift. There are
multiple ways to win games. Occasionally you can just be
handed the game by another team. That's what happened for
Pittsburgh there, the Cleveland Browns said, we don't deserve this game,
we don't want this game.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Take the game, Please take the game.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
And that's exactly what the Steelers did is Deshaun Watson,
single handedly, the one man wrecking crew, gave the game
to the Pittsburgh Steeers. How great is that to see
Deshaun Watson, that creepster sucking in the NFL. But there
was another game, and that would be the early matchup
here our league coming from Tobacco Road, double header action,
as we said, Monday night football, the early game in Charlotte.

(15:16):
A lot of excitement there. This is the New Carolina Panthers.
They got their franchise quarterback. Now, okay, you're watching or not,
someone named Tony Jones Junior. We're not sure who that is.
We leave. It's a running back. He scored a couple
of touchdowns. And rookie Blake Groopie, he's a groupie. Blake

(15:39):
Groupie kicked a couple of field goals and the New
Orleans Saints beat the Panthers twenty to seventeen in a
game that was not that close Monday night there, so
they improved to two to zero for the first time
in a decade. The New Orleans Saints are off to
the two and oh start, and Jones came in Tony
Jones Junior, replacing Jamal Williams, who was supposed to be

(16:00):
the man, the myth, the legend. The first half he
ran for thirty four yards on twelve carries. So anyway,
get to the point here. The better story is in
the losing locker room. Carolina was not supposed to be
good this year, and they are off to the kind
of start you expected owing two, sitting at the very
bottom looking up at the toukis of everyone in the

(16:22):
NFC South, losing to the Falcons in the opener, now
going down to the Saints. So a couple of the
divisional games, let us discuss the question. Are the Carolina Panthers.
Are the Carolina Panthers right now having regrets about hiring
Frank Reich as their head coach? So yes, I'm nodding

(16:45):
my head. Yes they are having regrets. And if they're
not having regrets, well there needs to be some kind
of internal investigation. I've got Hashlinger, fast Lane and Santa's
nice list, and we will combined all of these things
together and we are going to make a slice of pie,

(17:06):
which is what the New Orleans Saints had they had
that king cake, not even pie, they had kingcake. And
then maybe they found that little baby there in the kingcake.
But they celebrated that win. So to begin here, we'll
combine all these things together. But number one, Yes, if
the football team in the Carolinas is not looking around

(17:29):
the room saying what have we done here? That is
what's known as malfeasance. Carolina is playing Frank Reich's brand
of football. You can't say they are not playing Frank
Reich's brand of football.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
They are.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
His fingerprints are all over this squad. They have an
offense that is barf bag worthy. Yeah, get a little
doggy bag and fill it with barf. It was a
three dog night for the Carolina Panthers in this game.
They had missed use penalties and mental.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Errors ding ding ding ding ding.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yet all of them and Frank Reight's coached long enough
in the NFL where you have the book of Frank
and to be Frank. The Book of Frank is very dull.
It lacks the rasmatazz, does not have that. The team
logo might be different. They changed the team logo. The

(18:28):
colors are different now. But Frank Wright at his core
is still the same Hashlinger serving up milk toast. It's
like watching grass grow. Watching the Carolina Panthers on offense. Here,
it's just plane. You go to the ice cream shop,
you just get vanilla bean.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
You don get nothing else, No toppings, no little sprinkles
on top, no syrup.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Is just vanilla. That's all you get. How bad was it?

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, Caroline, if you saw the first game, Carolina two
hundred and thirty nine yards of offense. They had fourteen
first downs, which in comparison to the Steelers looks pretty impressive,
but two of those came via penalty gifted by the
New Orleans football team. And then that late touchdown drive
where Carolina.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
La la la la la la la la la la
la la they marched down the field.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
It was a two score game, but they it was
like they were treating it like practice, not a real game.
They were treating it like practice. I don't even give
them credit for that, because New Orleans was like, Okay,
if you want to throw these little short four or
five yard passes, we'll let you do that. We'll even
let you score a touchdown. We don't give a crap
knock yourself out all right now.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Page two.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Here we must get to the Comodo dragon in the room,
the number one overall pick, the prize of prizes. The
Carolina football team traded up to get the right to
draft anybody wanted at quarterback. With the number one pick,

(20:04):
they gave the Chicago Bears a bag full of draft picks.
They said, this is our time, this is our window.
We need a franchise messiah. And so they scouted all
the quarterbacks. They looked at all the different players that
were available, and they chose the prodigy, the chosen one,
the face of the franchise. And how's that working out

(20:29):
for Bryce Young?

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (20:30):
How do you agrade Bryce Young? After two games in
his NFL career? So the Malor report card, the only
report card record, the Malor report card for Bryce Young.
He gets an F, he gets the F. Wow. Looks

(20:50):
completely overmatched? Am I wrong? Have you seen these games?
It's fascinating to watch a guy that was so in
control at Alabama and now you look at him and
you're like, WHOA, what is what the heck is I mean?

Speaker 3 (21:09):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
I mean, what are we doing? It's wild? Completely overmatched.
Here the flop sweat and the Saints. Listen, the Saints
have a good defense.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
They do. Let's not get carried away here.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
I don't think this is the reincarnation of the great
Ravens defense of two thousand of the Chicago Bears monsters
in the midway of the nineteen eighties. I look at
Trey Young and he right now is speeding down the
fast lane on Suck Avenue and he's going as fast
as he can. There's no speed limits like the Autobahn. Now,

(21:49):
we used to have a guy that called us from
the autobam but we scared him away. He doesn't call anymore. Yeah,
but a massive failure here. And this is not some
fourth round draft pick out of Central Michigan. This is
a guy that played in all the big games for
Nick Saban at Alabama. And wow, he looks like a

(22:11):
floundering fish out of water.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
You take him out of Tuscaloosion.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
I was thinking about this watching Alabama play over the
weekend against the South Florida which is not in South Florida.
But watching that game, is there any way that we
can go back in the hot tup time machine and
Bryce Young can go back to Alabama and save Nick
Saban and the Carolina Panthers will be saved as well

(22:36):
because he'll have somebody else playing quarterback who actually.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Has a pulse.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Me.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
There is just no spark. There's nothing.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
And he said, oh, Zieros a couple of games, And
it is a couple of games, and you have to
go through the season, the progressions and all that. But
two games into Bryce Young's career in the NFL, he's
averaging four point two yards per pass. To put that
in perspective, in the history of the NFL, two games
in the four point two yards per pass is the

(23:08):
third worst in the history of the sport. Well, he'll
get better. There's no guarantee he gets better. You gotta
think he's gonna get idn't.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Think it would be this bad. I thought it would
be some rough edge.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
I thought I expected Carolina, you just get an average
quarterback performance out of Bryce Young.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
You win that game.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
The Saints were plump for the taking. They were plump
for the taking right there. Didn't get it done, did
not get it done. And so you look at this
and it's it's early, but it's kind of getting late early.
As we've been saying, the theme of the early part
of the season. It is something knocks you off your rocker.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
It does.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
I mean the Panthers, They've lost two divisional games and
there is no sign of hope. You've got a coach
that is boring. You've got a quarterback that looks like
he can't play. That's the Carolina Panthers. I hope, I
hope your tickets are refundable, because man, the degree of difficulty.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Who horrible?

Speaker 6 (24:06):
All right?

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Now, final points? So let's go to the winner side. Winners. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room. We
will go to the winter side.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
And now the New Orleans Saints are too and oh
we to and O the New Orleans Saints. Are you impressed?
Are you impressed with the New Orleans Saints? So let
me combine a couple of letters together. I'm can I
get an on the wheel of fortune? Can I get
an OH? And an N? And I'll put the end first?

(24:35):
How about N plus oh? And that gives me no?
How about that? Yes, I have high standards. I do.
You might not think I have high standards you're doing
the Overnight Show.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
But I do have high standards. I do.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
And the New Orleans Saints have been on Santa's Nice list.
That's what I will say about the New Orleans Saints
at this point that in Week one, that game was
given to them because Ryan Tannehill was not prepared to
play in an NFL game. It wasn't tremendous defensive plays
by the New Orleans secondary. It was incompetence football in
competence by the Tennessee Titans and led by Ryan Tannehill

(25:12):
that gave not one, not two, but three room service
interceptions to the Saints defense. And then in Week two
here we just saw it on Monday night. Bryce Young
looks like he needs a therapist. He can't play. He
sucks right now. And so that's where we are. And
then on the other side, the censer to and oh,
are you impressed with Derek Carr. No, Derek Carr is

(25:34):
the same guy he was with the Raiders. It's like
that old thing we said about the leopard, right, the
leopard can't change its spots. And Derek Carr as seen
on TV. As seen on TV, there's consistency with Derek
Carr that he'll have the occasional really good game. He
reminds me of a poor man's Michael Vick. Michael Vick

(25:55):
was like this when he played back in the day,
where he'd be really really good for four or five games,
he'd be really really bad for five or six games,
and then the rest he'd be somewhere in the middle.
And that's where Derek Carr is like for a few games,
Derek Carr played really well. We haven't seen that yet
as a New Orleans Saint, but you'll have real stinkers.

(26:17):
He was dreadful in this game in the first half,
although I would put this one in the mediocre category,
not the He can play much worse and will play
much worse than this. So the NFC South, which is
a dumpster division, you've got three teams that are off
to two and oh starts. Atlanta, New Orleans, and Tampa
Bay are all off to two and oh starts. Wow,
does that mean we were wrong about the NFC South? No? No,

(26:40):
look at the teams these these clubs have played. Atlanta
played Carolina, bad team played the Packers. Mediocre team won
those two games. New Orleans Tennessee game the game Carolina
check check. The one that's the most impressive is Tampa Bay.
They are the most impressive because they did beat the Vikings.
Of the Vikings, they have their their mastery of suckage

(27:03):
and then they ended up coming back Tampa Bay and
winning a game and the Bears. Is not that the
Viking win is the most impressive in the division.

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Speaker 5 (28:07):
On Sunday, Josh Jacobs became the first reigning NFL rushing
champs since the merger to finish a game with negative
rushing yards. Now this comes after rushing for only forty
eight yards in the opener. Ben, you attribute this to
rust after a whole dout or is it something more?

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Well, it's emasculating, but it's the game got away from
the Raiders. There was a team white malaise for the
Silver and Black against the Buffalo Bills, and they were
bad in the first half and then they packed it
in at halftime. They had to get out of there.
They had to leave early there. But Josh Jacmes, you
only had nine carries. He was not effective. The Bills,
who got gashed in the run defense the prior week,

(28:42):
were able to contain Jacobs. But no, it's not I
don't know. It's Russ he has he's not playing well.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
Next, after the Falcons comeback win against the Packers, head
coach Arthur Smith said that you can see that guys
believe in him talking about Desmond Ritter.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Haha, Ben are starting to believe. No, No, I'm starting
to believe. Atlanta has had some fortuitas scheduling right now.
Good for them. Congratulations Desmond Ridderd number one. Uh, he
has been writing shotgun here. He's not the one rowing
the boat. He's not the one's who's rowing the boat.
He's got pretty mediocre numbers. It's not like he's been

(29:20):
this dynamic quarterback for Atlanta. And if you look at
the Atlanta Falcons, Jon Robinson, that's the guy that has
been moving the needle there. He's been the one that
has been carrying the load on offense. But it's it's
really just been a product of playing the Panthers and
the Packers.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
That's why the Falcons are two and oho.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
Next, Sirius Sewn's Tampa Bay Bucks are off to a
surprising two and oh start on the season. Are Baker
and the Bucks legit contenders?

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Sean told me he's wearing creamsicle underwear. He's so excited
to be here. It's it's amazing. No, listen that the Panthers,
let's say they are the most impressive team in the
NFC South to start the year. But I'm not completely
by things here again because he's it's still the feeling
out process. I still know that Baker Mayfield will end

(30:05):
up pooping the bed before too much longer.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Anyway, how did we do?

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Coop?

Speaker 5 (30:10):
You failed Baker for MVP.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Oh stop Baker. I bet you wish you had Baker.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
You wish you had Baker in Denver, though I know
that you gotta stiff there.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
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Speaker 1 (30:30):
Why don't we welcome in our contestants we have. We
don't need to play the whole imaging and all that's
welcoming in.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
We'll have the game.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
On the other side, we say hello to Jed who
fled from the Sticks of Florida.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Hello Jed, who fled. When I asked about that terminator,
ask surgery? You know that experimental surgery, Nick Chuff said,
I'm not sure about that, but I know one thing,
mar My works.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
I'll be back.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
All right.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Who do you want to partner up?

Speaker 2 (30:59):
I want to say, justin, just give it all.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Hold and we have Joe hanging out in North Carolina.
Hello Joe, what man? Joe?

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Hopefully this call goes better than the Carolina Panthers offense.
We hope he goes better than that, because man, that
was painful to watch last night. Joe, do you uh,
let's see here, Joe, who do you want to partner
up with?

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Joe?

Speaker 3 (31:22):
All right, that's that you're out, Eddie, You're out of
the game. What are the categories here?

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Coople loop?

Speaker 3 (31:28):
And then we'll have the game on the other side.
How about that Coople Loop has the reading of the
categories here?

Speaker 5 (31:34):
All right, gentlemen, this is Malard's mount of money. The
Joan jet addition. Oh, j yes, she turns sixty five
years old something the black Irish when we would bring up.
But okay, sixty five years oldest for her. Happy it's
like the same age as my parents. Mozelto the categories?
Are you don't know what? You've got? Bad reputation? I
love rock and roll and everyday people, jed, you were

(31:57):
on first? Which category would you like?

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Alright? I love.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
All right? And yeah, I know, Joe? Which category would
you like?

Speaker 4 (32:13):
You don't remember them?

Speaker 3 (32:14):
I knew, I knew it? Which one?

Speaker 5 (32:17):
He said? The last one? So so everyday people?

Speaker 4 (32:21):
All right?

Speaker 3 (32:22):
All right, everyone standing ill, do not hang up or
you will not play.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
The can oh cold on my home and native land
unless it's not, but I do love poutine.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
I'm an honorary Canadian. You know what they call poutine
in Canada. You know what they call it. They call
it a salad. They call it's a It's a Canadian
salad is poutine. That's a fun fact. Healthy, very healthy.
Just potatoes in there. There's gravy, there's cheese, curds. That's
a Canadian salla. That's my kind of salad. When people
say I don't eat a salad, I said, I eat

(32:55):
a Canadian salad, just like I wear a Canadian tuxedo.
We're gonna have Mallards Mountain of Money Malar's amount of
Money for the rest of the hour.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
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to get to the top? Probably not.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Here we go Malor's amount of Money, the Jones Jet Edition.
Let's get right to the game, not waste any time.
We have Jed who fled in the Sunshine State, matched
up with the Cooper Loop, and we have Joe hanging
out in North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
And he is matched up with me.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Men, Coop, you are up first, I believe, yes, yes,
all right, all right.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
See I love rock and roll.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
Category, that is correct, all right, Jedu, these athletes all
love rock and roll. We're gonna sweep this category. Forty
five seconds on the clock. Hold on, all right, forty
five seconds o'clock. Begin, all right, splash brother not Klay Thompson,

(34:15):
quarterback rusher from the Broncos Super Bowl at fifty m
VP went to the Rams and then now the Bills.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Oh boy, he sat Cam Newton in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
Catcher for the Dodgers in the nineties went to the Mets.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yes, yes, pitcher for the Dodgers that like allegedly beat
up a woman while having set with her. Holy crap.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
Oh jeez off, the former former head coach of the
Jacksonville Jaguars was a linebacker for USC.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
God, that's the worst ever j you should have pick.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
I say I don't have a brave in my hands.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Dude, don't ever say we're.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
Going to sleep it again. Von von Miller, Trevor Bauer,
you got two right, year forty not good?

Speaker 3 (35:13):
All right? Joe, are you there, Joe, shut up, Jet Joe.
Here we go. These are vict everyday people.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
These athletes all got regular jobs after their playing careers. Allegedly,
here we go, forty five seconds on the clock. You're
on your way go. He was known as the male
man for the Utah Jazz in the nineties. All right,
big unit for the Arizona Diamondbacks, big tall starting pitcher
in baseball. Yes, he was the He didn't win the Heisman,

(35:46):
but he won a National championship as the quarterback at
Texas in twenty oh five. He was a bust in
the NFL for the tennis center. Yes, number twenty seven
for the Titans. He was a running back in the
nineties out of Ohio. Yes, catcher for the Yankees when
the Glory days, when they were winning all the World Series. Yes, uh,
small forward for the Pistons. He was traded for Mark

(36:09):
Aguire in the nineties and the NBA played with the
Lakers the Jazz in the seventies and the eighties. No,
how about that's all right, I can't get them, all right.
That was the last one, was it?

Speaker 4 (36:21):
Remember?

Speaker 3 (36:22):
That was that was Adrian Dantley was the last one.
But you got every other one.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
We did one and sixty points.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
All right, we got the lead, all right, Jed?

Speaker 5 (36:29):
Do you want you don't know what you've got or
bad reputation?

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Yeah, probably what's happening right now. Probably.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yeah, you're definitely have a bad reputation, all right?

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Right?

Speaker 5 (36:40):
Yeah, uh, these sports figures all have bad reputations. Forty
five seconds. Former quarterback for the Steelers Terry Yes used
a switch on his kid running back for the.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Vikings here Pearson.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
Yes. Former head coach of the pit the Nitney Lions,
Penn State. Yes, this guy started the molice in the Palace. Yes,
nickname Nails played for the Phillies. No, all right. The

(37:22):
NBA player that choked his coach.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
For the Timpers. Yes, in the lead.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
Lead this guy played for the Panthers.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Time they are in the lead. Though they are in
the lead.

Speaker 8 (37:38):
Though, Yes, Ray Kars, I did not cut shut off.
I didn't cut you off. That's a drug dealer cut
you off. I didn't cut you off.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
All right, So one hundred, one hundred shut up, Jed,
shut up.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
One hundred and eighty points.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
Sam, Sam lead him down, for God's sakes, Jesus, one
hundred and eighty points. It's plus the forty gives you
two twenty. So we need what do we need? You need?
Sixty points?

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Sixty points?

Speaker 4 (38:07):
Tie?

Speaker 3 (38:07):
All right, Joe? Are you ready? Joe?

Speaker 4 (38:10):
Get it all right?

Speaker 6 (38:11):
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
You don't know what you've got.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
These athletes all were all traded before they reached superstardom.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
And we're on our way go.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
He was the.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Closer for the Podres all time saves leader in Sandy eight.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yes, the time, we're tied.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Ace of the Red Sox when they ended the Curse
of the Banbino. Along with Kurt Schilling, he was the
other number one pitcher.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
What's his last.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Name, Martinez?

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah, that's a winter we'll keep going.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
He was known as the chief for the Boston Celtics
in the nineteen eighties, the center alongside Kevin McHale and
Larry Bird. That great front line of the Boston Celtics.
Got it all right, mister big shot. For the Pistons
in the NBA, they won the championship in five I
believe it was against the Lakers.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
NOI yeah, you got you got it right?

Speaker 6 (39:04):
All right?

Speaker 3 (39:04):
It doesn't matter this and we won the game. That's
all that matters. You get a goal, that tech it.
You got that goal, that check and hey, let me play.

Speaker 5 (39:13):
I take it.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yes, are you still talking to take it to the
pawn shop?

Speaker 4 (39:18):
It ain't real?

Speaker 3 (39:20):
All right, Joe, thank you, good job. You dominated this guy.
You put the one week one week for the whole game.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
All right, Well, we had time and you try to
you try to sabotage the game.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
But me and Joe, do.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
You see the not chemistry, the bond. There was a
bond that I had. There was a bond with me
and connection. We had a cosmic connection.
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