June 11, 2024 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about Dan Hurley rejecting the Lakers offer to become their next head coach, Mike Tomlin getting a 3-year contract extension from the Steelers, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Bill Burr Edition, and more!
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This hour coming from skid Row, that is where the
Lakers play their basketball games on skid Row. And the
highly publicized coaching search. We have a conclusion. We have closure.
And I assume you've heard by now, but maybe you're
a little slow. You have things going on, you're not
paying attention. But after a highly publicized week and fling,
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Dan Hurley has said no. He has rejected a massive
amount of money to coach the Lakers, instead continue on
as the coach at Yukon. He will not be going
to the NBA, at least not now. As Dan Hurley
given the VIP trip to La La Land over the weekend, he.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Was whined and dined by.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The Laker front office, Laker ownership, and then the moment
of truth and he swiped left, not right, He swiped left.
He said, I am uninterested. You suck, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Your team blows.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That's essentially what he said. Hurley declining seventy million dous.
Of course, with California taxes that's about seventeen dollars, but
still seventy million in average of almost twelve million a year,
little less than twelve million a year. He turned down
cowhard Money's what he now? Who turns down cowhard money?
He did, all right? So Dan Hurley turning down all
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that money the discussion.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Let's have a little conversation here talk radio. We'll have
a conversation. So the question is why why.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Did Dan Hurley reject the very public courtship from the Lakers.
So I've got TikTok, banana, cream pie, and army, and.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
We will connect all of these things.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Together and we are going to make a nice celebratory party,
which I'm guessing Dan Hurley had a nice party on Monday.
Everyone kissed his assid in Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And said, oh, we love you Dan.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Thanks for strewing the Lakers over, Thanks for making them
look like a bunch of losers.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Thank you. All right.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So a my first observation on this story is that
Dan Hurley did the right thing. He did the thing
you have to do with the time you have to
do it. Good job by him, and it was pretty
much telegraphed. I think you'd agree on this. Dan Hurley
would have been a fool. The village would have been
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without its idiot if Dan Hurley had taken this job.
He's sitting right now at the summit. Granted its college basketball,
but he's at the summit of college basketball. And with
all these old codgers getting out of the college game
in recent years, the old guard like Jim Beheim and
coach k and that realm of coaches, you've got John
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Calipari who's now at Arkansas. But outside of that and
really colin parties in terms of wins and losses championships
is already behind the success of Hurley. So Hurley's at
the summit, And why would you leave that to go
to a Laker franchise that is crumbling. Everyone knows that,
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every man, woman and child knows what's going on with
the Lakers. It's a dead end job. And when the
decision comes, you're at pork Chop Island? Right do you
go to the Lakers dead end job franchise guys that
has bad ownership, bad GM Skinny Jeans the general manager there,
Lebron James agent rapidly and who knows if it'll even
(05:08):
be back.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Although it seems like this is all being orchestrated by.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Lebron You've got Anthony Davis, the unibrow who is built
out of toilet paper, but not the good Kirkling brand
toilet paper. The one ply you know, that terrible one
ply when you go to the store and you have
to go to the bathroom in the back and they
get the cheapest toilet paper, that's Anthony Davis. The rest
of the roster, though, is a hodgepodge of nothingness. That's
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the Laker. Why would you want that job?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The money?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
The only reason to take the job is the moy
And it's not that that's a terrible reason. That's like
a horrible reason to take the money. But you just
have this emptiness there. And for all the bragging about
being a multi billion dollar international mega brand, which the
Lakers love to tell you about, they love to pump
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their chest out and strut around like a peacock. Where
the Lakers they can get anybody they want, haha. Not
a college coach who chose to stay in stores. Connecticut
with a population of about sixteen thousand, turning down Tinseltown
said go pound sand I don't want to coast to Lakers.
And the Lakers continue to be all sizzle and no steak.
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That's the problem there, and I love it. I hope
it continues for years to come. But Dan Hurley, we
know what he did. I tell you exactly what did.
He hummed some bars of Piano Man, because that's where
he went. He flew out to la interviewed with the Lakers,
and then flew back to the East Coast in time
to make it to a concert at Madison Square Garden
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at MSG right there. And the payoff on this for
Hurley it would appear the media dopes providing him with
TikTok influencer level clout. Can you imagine Dan Hurley?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And this is my head.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I don't know about yours, but in my head, that
cartoon bubble, I've got Dan Hurley doing a pirouette as
he gives the bird to Genie Buss and the Lakers
because Yukon will pay him a little more money. They're
already talking about redoing his contract. They just redid his contract,
so he'll payhim more money. He can then brag to
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all the players that are only going to Connecticut because
of the nil deals anyway, but he'll bragg to them
nonetheless about how he's the guy that turned down the
Lakers he said, screw you, that Connecticut is so special
that I couldn't go coach Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I turn him down. It's a pretty good feather in
the cap.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I would say I had pretty good feather in the
cap here in terms of braggadociousness. Now page two. Here,
how embarrassing is Dan Hurley's rejection in Lakerland? The historians who.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Love to talk about all their success, but it's gonna
be devastating with the Celtics, who already are ahead of
the Lakers and championships at an another one. They're two
wins away from that happening.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But on the Malard scale of humiliation for Dan Hurley
sticking it to the Lakers rejecting them, a Malord scale
of humiliation one to ten, with ten being sending a
text message to the wrong person and some graphic photographs
in that text message, the Lakers get a nine point
oh on the Malor scale of humiliation.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
This is I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
This is what the Lakers did by even contacting Dan
Hurley and not doing their due diligence. What they did
is a kin to being called on in class by
the teacher, and you were daydreaming and you were not
paying attention. It's rather embarrassing, right, tose Hey, can you
tell me about what's on page thirty two? We just
covered it well. Actually, I was thinking about the turkey
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sandwich I was going to have for lunch, and I'm sorry, Professor,
I did not pay attention. It's a banana cream pie,
not a good one, A cheap banana cream pie, right
to the face, right.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
What kind of mama?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Luke's with the Lakers are so delusional that they thought
Dan Hurley, who turned down Kentucky and other big time job,
that he was going to leave Connecticut for a mid
NBA job, a second rate NBA job. Genie Buss, who's
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not a great owner. I mean, look at a resumetion,
not very good as an owner. It's being honest. And
Rob Polenka tweedled the and tweedled dumb. A couple of
Dingleberry's there with the Lakers. Read the room, do some
opposition research. Dan Hurley is in his early fifties. He's
in his early fifties. He has worked as a coach
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since he finished playing college basketball, and he started as
a high school assistant coach in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Every gig that he has had all of.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Those years, way back in nineteen ninety six to all
the way till now, every one of those jobs has
been in the eye and ninety five corridor. He's a
New Jersey guy, he married a New Jersey girl. He's
never left that I ninety five quarter within a short
drive of the motherland in New Jersey. All right, last word,
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So where do the Lakers turn now that they have
been pants in their head coaching search that everyone knows
whoever they hire, whoever they hire will not be the
guy that they wanted original that's the issue here. So
at this point, the immediate thing is you circle the
wagons and you enter the spin zone. Spin spin, Spin,
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not the spin cycle because that's a caller that used
to call the show but she doesn't call anymore in Colorado.
But you enter the spin zone and you attempt. At
this point you would dust yourself off. I would think, right,
put an ice pack, maybe some ibuprofen, pharmacy, great ibuprofen, because.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
You got a headache.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And whoever the Lakers get though, and there's no way
to spin this in any other direction, has stank on them,
you know. That, and I know that, and everyone knows
that they are not the preferred choice. So the Lakers
are gonna have to go go army if you will.
Now what does that mean? Go army here? Not the
US Army. No, no, no, the Lakers are going to have
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to go Salvation army. And they're gonna have to jump
into that red kettle. You know the Cowboys when they
play on Thanksgiving, they always of that red kettle in
the end zone and sometimes players jump into it, and
then the NFL gets very upset and finds them.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And says, how are you you cut?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Up? Do that?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
They got to jump into the red kettle and get
some like a handy down, hand me down.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Coach, some some pre used coach.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And the former Hornets coach has been mentioned. James Barrego
has been tossed out as a possibility.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And I still think it's gonna be jj Reddick. And
I can't wait to laugh when you hire Lebron's podcast
buddy as your coach.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
And I just think that's going to be wonderful and
I will have a wonderful guffaw when that that happens.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I hope that happens. Let's speak that into existence.
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so our lead this hour from the Berg Coaching Carousel. Update.
We had pro bouncy ball last hour. Now we go
to the NFL. If you have not heard the word
maybe not. We learned that the Petsburg Stailers have signed, sealed,
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and delivered a contract crossing all the t's dotting the
i's head coach Mike Tomlin. He's not going anywhere three
year contract extensions. So all the talk that Tomlin was
in a lame duck year and it was a proved
situation in Pittsburgh, that was.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
All bull crap, all of it.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Tomlin now under contract through twenty twenty seven. He was
entering the last year of his deal in Pittsburgh. But
Tomlin now free to settle in for another few years
as coach in Pittsburgh. Let us discuss the question on this.
Mike Tomlin locked up three year contract extension. What are
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your thoughts on Tomlin sticking around Pittsburgh through twenty twenty seven,
least being paid through twenty twenty seven. So I've got
manager special General Mills and wreck It Ralph, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make blank TVs. We have four TVs, four
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giant TVs in the main studio here, and three of
them are completely not blank, but they're on that like
that filler.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I don't know what that I don't know if that's
all about anyway. Number one.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Al Right, so this is how they roll in Land.
When you coach the Pittsburgh steeis just like you're James Bond.
One of the early James Bond movies. A Diamond is forever.
Coaching the Steelers is forever. It is forever and ever
and ever and ever and ever. It's all about uniformity
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when you're coaching in Pittsburgh, and may we have that
in every job. And some of you might think I
have that I've been here so long, but trust me,
I do not have tenure. They can get rid of
me at any moment. But it's like a tenured professor.
It's like Mike Tomlin is teaching at Oxford and he's
just happens to be coaching in the NFL with the
Pittsburgh football team. Despite our obligatory Mallard monologues to fire
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Mike Tomlin, which happens on a yearly basis, and I
promise you we'll have another one at some point during
the twenty twenty four NFL regular season when September gets around.
Despite that, I do have a soft spot in my
heart for Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I I'm not a Steeler fan. I'm not from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I have friends that are in Pittsburgh and from Pittsburgh
and all that, but I have no skin in the
game other than I have a four hour talk show
every single night and three hours of podcasting on the
weekends that I.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Have to worry about.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So Tomlin makes my life a little bit easier because
normally every other week Mike Tomlin will give us a
great piece of audio and we can play it and
we go crazy. He's a living, breathing dial a quote.
If you need a quote, just turn to tom He'll
give you something.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
In terms of success on the field, there's a drought.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Is that fair to say? I don't think that's unfair.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
There's a droughts that Pittsburgh has been a little bit
better than Jeff Fisher was in his run near the
end there.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Oh, that's outraged. You're comparing Mike Tomlin Jeff Fisher. What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But I'm talking about the second part of Mike Tomlin's
act in Pittsburgh, not the first part. When he inherited
Bill Cowers players and they still had that group together
and they won the Super Bowl and then a few
years later they got to the I think they were
in the AFC Championship game.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
After that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
They had a run of success there early on for Tomlin.
But since then, in recent years, Mike Tomlin has been
a short order cook serving up the manager's special. You know,
you know what the manager special. It's the manager special is.
You're mixed together the leftover corn, the chopped up potatoes,
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the spaghetti. There's a little bit of General Sala's chicken
in the back there the fridge, and you dump it
all into a casse role, a dump casse role, and
you servant. It's the manager Special. And that's what the
Steelers have been doing. And Tomlin has shown an ability
to produce average to slightly above average results with substandard ingredients.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The old line from.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Bill Parcells was you expect me to make chicken salad
out of chicken craft right, or something along those lines.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I think there was more saucy than that.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But nonetheless, in recent years, the Steelers have had the
three Stooges at quarterback, Kenny Pickett, Mitchell Trubisky, and Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
The red nose quarterback. Those have been the three quarterbacks
in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
They all stink the big pot of miscellaneous leftovers, that's what.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
They had, and Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Cooked up a passable gulash on the field.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
But the proof is that the results.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
People bring up the fact that Tomlin's gone his entire
run there seventeen seasons in Pittsburgh without having a losing
record in his time sitting in the big chair. And
so now they change it up a little bit and
they have a different set of leftovers.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I think they have broccoli.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
There's some cheese over their little rice at the quarterback position,
Russell Wilson and Justin Field. So on one side of
the ledger for the Steelers, if you're Mike Tomlin going
into this year, you have a quarterback that is way
past his pri and then you have one that hasn't
had a prime So good luck keeping the customers there
in Pittsburgh, fat and Sassey, which is what's required now
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Page two here, What are the odds that Mike tom
getting this extension three extra years tacked on to his
contract in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
What are the odds that the Steelers have a return to.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Glory, that they get to a super Bowl in the
next three years? So the malarodds. The only odds that
matter on this show, because my name's on the show.
The only odds that matter Malar odds, and I have
the Steelers at plus eight hundred, which is roughly ten percent.
I give him a ten percent chance. And here's why.
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Have you looked out on the Serengetti. Have you looked
out at the landscape that is around there? And if
you don't need to have binoculars to see what's going
on here, Kenza City is not going anywhere. Patrick Mahomes
and Andy Reid, and barring some kind of health problem
for Andy Reid, you gotta think Andy six around because.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
He's going to be the one.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Andy Reid winning twelve games a year is going to
be the one that becomes the record holder, passing Don
Schulebay and zooming past Bill Belichick in the in the
record books, is the all time winning as coach. So Reid,
assuming he six to Renty Will was his health falls apart,
obviously that changes things. But then Pittsburgh in the division,
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you got to contend with Joe Burrow the second top quarterback.
Mahomes is his way, hey, he's like secretariat, but Burrow
is number two and then you've got Lamar Jackson, who's
a hell of a regular season player, and then he
turns into the big dumper in the playoffs. And that's
his problem with the Ravens. But you factor in patternicity, patternicity,
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and I am being generous when I say ten percent,
it's the Steelers. You gotta got terrible towels. Come on
the Pittsburgh says since twenty eighteen, talk about the second
part of Mike Tomlins run there in Pittsburgh since twenty eighteen,
Momblin is seventeen games above really got seventeen games above
five hundred.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
That's solid.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
However, the Steelers have been one and done one in
Dunskies in the playoffs four of the last seven years.
But wait, there's more. Mike Tomlin has an eight to
ten career record in the playoffs and has not won
a playoff game since Barack Obama was the president. That's
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a twenty twenty sixteen last time the Steelers won a
playoff game with Tomlin and Russell Wilson, we mentioned him.
He's a salvage and recovery situation at this point and
justin fields to be kind as a fixer upper. But
there's not a really good foundation there unless you're a
nerd that watches the highlights and don't actually watch the games. Wait,
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looks great, So Pittsburgh will be a one trick pony, Well,
maybe a two. There's three ways to win, right, special teams, defense,
and offense. The Steelers offense is a zero teams they
can be all right in that. And defensively you've got TJ. Watt,
who's now that Aaron Donald's gone, the preeminent defensive player.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
In the NFL. But he's one of eleven, so you
have him all right.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Final point. We move away from Pittsburgh. We go to Denver,
where the air is thin and the football blows. Whispers
that Zack Wilson in recent days, that Zack Wilson is
still very much in the mix to be the Broncos
starting quarterback.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Do you believe that? Do you believe the chatter? So?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I am ambivolent on this. That's the word, always a
big word, ambivalent. I've got mixed thoughts on this, and
here's why. Because I know that Zack Wilson can't play.
I know that Zack Wilson is the stiff. I saw
him play enough with the Jets to know, this guy
just doesn't have it that Jenny si Quah.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
He's lacking that whatever that is, he doesn't have it.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
So I know that he's good at getting headlines in
the tabloids, but actually successful football. However, the reason I
have mixed thoughts on this is because of the wildcard factor.
And the wildcard factor, I cannot completely dismiss the outrageous,
the unimaginable that Zack Wilson would start for the Broncos
to begin the year because of the swashbuckling bravado of
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Sean Payton, who fancies himself iconic football coach, mixed with
a character from Wrecket Ralph fix it feelings. I fix
it feelings that Peyton figures he can put a new
code of paint on Zach Wilson, smooth out some of
the rough edges there, run the same dumb down offense
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they ran last year with Russell Wilson and get middling
results at worst, and then let the Prodigy marinate bo Nicks. Now,
if I'm the Broncos, you know how I feel about this.
We talked about this all the time.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You play.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You'll learn from doing, you don't learn from watching. I
wanted to be on the radio, and I watched a
lot of people do radio, but I didn't really learn
how to do it until I did it. And that's
usually how life works at most things. It's just the
way it is.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
It's Mallard. How about that? To the third degree? This
is one big event.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Gets grilled?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Got you Allen Iverson's pissed that he didn't get forty
nine shots up in a finals game for the Sixers
back in the day, Cubelo the reading of the questions.
Unless you're not Mallard of the third degree, what do
we have?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
It was reported over the weekend that the Orlando Magic
are being mentioned as a possible suitor for Paul George.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
The Magic are already a playoff team in the East.
Do you think Paul George would make them a real contender?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
No, there'll be a full contender. And I'm fine if
Paul George comes back. Okay, I don't have a problem
with him leaving either. It's not gonna break my heart
if Paul George leaves the Clipers because the Clippers are
squad and get somebody else who's great, because Steve Bomber's
got one hundred and twenty five billion dollars. But Paul
George with the Clippers, there's parts of his game that
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are that are flawed and it's just been that way.
He vanishes for stretches at a time, and if Orlando
wants them, they canna have Next.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
It's being reported that the rival executives believe Toronto Blue
Jays could look to trade vlad Garreo Junior and Bobashet
if they don't turn it around this year. Ben, do
you think either of those guys are gone by the deadline?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well, more likely will be Bobashet.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It's a harder sell for your fan base in Toronto
if you get rid of Vladimir Guerrero, even though his
numbers have not been particularly great. I did actually a
monologue about this about a month ago. If I'm the Angels,
I do whatever I have to do to get Vladimir
Guerrero Junior in Anaheim, try to reconnect with his dad
and all that and the good old days for the Angels.
And then if I'm the Dodgers, I would want Bobashet
(26:53):
I know his dad played for the Angels.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Also next Ben.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Last year I asked you wish NFL team he thought
could go from worst to first in their division? This year,
I want to know, are there any teams that you
think could go from first to worst?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, I mean any any of these teams based on
injuries Koople Loop. If you look at the you know,
the NFL, your starting quarterback goes down and that's it
could put.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But I keep an eye in Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
They don't have a lot on offense there, Josh Allen
injury prone.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
That's a team right there that I would keep an eye.
How we go, how we go? You pass?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That is a way you can put it on the board.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
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Speaker 3 (27:46):
Has made our contestants real quick. We'll get the game
set up.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
We have a Masshole Mickey who is making the rare
and appropriate call. Hello Masshole Mickey in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Oh what's up?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
What's up Melaysia?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Welcome in mass Will Mickey, who do you want to
partner up with as we are going to play mallards
a mount of money.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I'm gonna go with my friend Ben.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
That's right, Not Eddie, not true, not mark me all right,
hold on and uh Dave has been on hold for
davey Ben.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I remember you.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I remember you.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, you wanted to do the oath and you trash me,
you schmuck.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
No, I didn't try you.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You tried yourself.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Then.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I don't think I'm a god fair man, Ben, I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I don't give anybody that.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That's stuff that don't deserve it.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, you want to play or no, I'm other people
that are better.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Than you that want to play. They are on hold.
I want to play.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I have bigger name people on hold of you. They
want to play. But I'm giving you the opportunity. Okay,
who do you want to hurry? Who do you want
to partner?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Wait? Hurry up, I'm gonna take Oh not Eddie. Interesting.
Eddi's sitting this one out. Ben's excited about that now
because he has a chance to win.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Hey, the all time wins King, What are the categories here?
Coop a little please quickly so we can get plenty
of time for the game.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
All right.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
This is the Bill Burr edition of Mallard's Mountain of Money.
He turned fifty six years old on Monday, old fart.
The categories are at the front runner F is for family,
back home again and Leo. And let's see, Mickey.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
You were on first.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Which category would you like? Eis for family, fis for family?
All right, and Dave, how about you?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
We'll go Leo?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
All right, because my guy's a family guy and he
picked the family category, and you pick a lee. All right, everyone,
stay where you are, do not hang up. If one
of you hang up. I have a big name backup,
ready to go in the bullpen. We'll get the Mallards
Mountain of Money. We'll do it, and we will do
it next.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Now, poor Malor's Mountain of Money.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Hell, do you have what it takes to get to
the top? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
And right to the game.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
We go on Mallow's Amount of Money and you can
play along. We call that the home work version of
the game. Just play along as you listen. And it
is the Bill Burr edition.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I believe I am going first year. I am teamed
up me Ben with our friend Masshole. Mickey, are you there,
mass Whole, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Let's go all right. You picked f is for family.
These athletes are all members of a sports family.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Are you ready? That's all right. We'll put forty five
sec on the clock. We're on our way and go.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Not Peyton, but his brother at quarterback. Yes, catcher for
the Sand Louis Cardinals. He just retired about a year ago.
Longtime Saint Louis catchers brothers also catching eight Angels.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Professional wrestler was the victim of the Montreal screw Job
in the WWE Foundation, nickname of his wrestling outfit. All right,
how about Toronto Blue Jay player spit at an umpire
when he was with the Orioles. I believe second Baseman,
Hall of Fame, Second basement.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Roberto Am Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
NBA player shot his shots underhanded for the Warriors in
the seventies.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
His son's no boy, spend a little too much time
on Brett Hart, the hit man.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Well, I had to get Brett Hart. That's a legend.
I know. I'd rather lose and get Brett Hart. I'm
not sorry.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
You approve that seven zero.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Why'd you say that? With joy ed? He screwed you?
All right, because I like it when you lose, all right, Dave,
all right, alt, I'm not gonna cheat like you would.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
That We've got uh, we've got Leo is our category, Dad,
Davut there with me? Yes, I am all right, cool
David Leo. These athletes all have the zodiac sign Leo.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Don't choke, Dave, don't choke.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Choke.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Begin quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles right now. Yes, best
cornerback of all time, prime time.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Player for the Memphis Grizzlies. He loves guns.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
One of the best known professional wrestlers of all time
is Mania blank Mania. Yes, first baseman from the Cubs
when they won the championship. He's on the Yankees now.
I believe Italian. Yes, this guy was akers player. He
(33:01):
was married to Vanessa Williams.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
He's an actor.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Also, No, not very impressive, well compared to what you did. Actually,
I set this up perfectly. Sixty points leads.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
All right, get going there, you're doing it right now, nickey.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Do you want the front runner or back home again?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Back home again? Back?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You turn your mic gothic? Which one do you want?
Mickey back home again? All right, very good? All right?
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Uh, these athletes all returned to their original team. Forty
five seconds on the clock. Begin all right, the pride
of Akron, Ohio. He went to the Heat and the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yes, uh, Prince of the Cardinals, big slugger for the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
He went to the Angels.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yes uh, notice flash for the Miami basketball team with
Lebron and Chris Bosh.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Safety for the Raiders. He went to the Green Bay
Packers as well. In the two thousands here Hall of
Fame safety won the Heisman at Michigan. Oh all right,
how about this safety for the Patriots kind of got
an Asian surname from Jamaica. Twenty ten Patriots, You are
(34:21):
New England.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
You are a Patriots fan.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Not Smolts, not no wow, I mean, Mickey, oh terrible,
Shut off the clues.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Shut up.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Safety for the twenty ten Patriots with an age a surname?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
How many how many exactly are there other than Patrick Chung?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
I mean my god, no.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, it was not no, it was out of your tongue.
That was nothing on your tongue. Your tongue was that
day had nothing.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
That's right. It wasn't even close. One hundred points total
for Ben after two caps.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Mis were wonderful. Everyone's compliment. You want to up the greatest. No,
there's no need to run up the stole.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Want to talk. He want you that loser day?
Speaker 4 (35:10):
All right, Dave, we got the David.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
He's such a loser you should not celebrate that. You
know what, this reminds me.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
This reminds me of Texas Jack. Remember Texas Jack choked
in the octagon unfortunately, and I like masshole Mickey, but
he panicked.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
He had the flops.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Way all right, Dave, we got the front runner. These
athletes were all drafted number one overall.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
You ready, yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
All right?
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Current quarterback of the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Yes, guard on the Mavericks. He thinks the earth is flat. Yes, uh.
Chinese center he was like seven foot six, yes.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Uh. Picture that was drafted by the Pirates. He's now
in the Yankees. This is so boring, he's so This
guy's so bad.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
I mean this.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Quarterback that was drafted by the Tampa Bush when they
had the creams.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Panic you're supposed to do? He panic? Oh, this is
embarrassing period.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
He because you're doculs, always you. You didn't turn the
gold he didn't get in the golden You're not allowed.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
To give out sexual golden ticket. Yes, he did not.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Tourist because you get a loser.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
For your day sport. You didn't.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Even those answers are terrible, Dave, this is embarrassment sports radio.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
You get to the front of that the next all
you never a gall with the other cars up on
the street.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
You're not allowed to have your band bad. No, he
sucks more to Infinity
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This hour coming from skid Row, that is where the
Lakers play their basketball games on skid Row. And the
highly publicized coaching search. We have a conclusion. We have closure.
And I assume you've heard by now, but maybe you're
a little slow. You have things going on, you're not
paying attention. But after a highly publicized week and fling,
(02:02):
Dan Hurley has said no. He has rejected a massive
amount of money to coach the Lakers, instead continue on
as the coach at Yukon. He will not be going
to the NBA, at least not now. As Dan Hurley
given the VIP trip to La La Land over the weekend, he.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Was whined and dined by.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The Laker front office, Laker ownership, and then the moment
of truth and he swiped left, not right, He swiped left.
He said, I am uninterested. You suck, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Your team blows.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That's essentially what he said. Hurley declining seventy million dous.
Of course, with California taxes that's about seventeen dollars, but
still seventy million in average of almost twelve million a year,
little less than twelve million a year. He turned down
cowhard Money's what he now? Who turns down cowhard money?
He did, all right? So Dan Hurley turning down all
(03:04):
that money the discussion.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Let's have a little conversation here talk radio. We'll have
a conversation. So the question is why why.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Did Dan Hurley reject the very public courtship from the Lakers.
So I've got TikTok, banana, cream pie, and army, and.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
We will connect all of these things.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Together and we are going to make a nice celebratory party,
which I'm guessing Dan Hurley had a nice party on Monday.
Everyone kissed his assid in Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And said, oh, we love you Dan.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Thanks for strewing the Lakers over, Thanks for making them
look like a bunch of losers.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Thank you. All right.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So a my first observation on this story is that
Dan Hurley did the right thing. He did the thing
you have to do with the time you have to
do it. Good job by him, and it was pretty
much telegraphed. I think you'd agree on this. Dan Hurley
would have been a fool. The village would have been
(04:04):
without its idiot if Dan Hurley had taken this job.
He's sitting right now at the summit. Granted its college basketball,
but he's at the summit of college basketball. And with
all these old codgers getting out of the college game
in recent years, the old guard like Jim Beheim and
coach k and that realm of coaches, you've got John
(04:26):
Calipari who's now at Arkansas. But outside of that and
really colin parties in terms of wins and losses championships
is already behind the success of Hurley. So Hurley's at
the summit, And why would you leave that to go
to a Laker franchise that is crumbling. Everyone knows that,
(04:48):
every man, woman and child knows what's going on with
the Lakers. It's a dead end job. And when the
decision comes, you're at pork Chop Island? Right do you
go to the Lakers dead end job franchise guys that
has bad ownership, bad GM Skinny Jeans the general manager there,
Lebron James agent rapidly and who knows if it'll even
(05:08):
be back.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Although it seems like this is all being orchestrated by.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Lebron You've got Anthony Davis, the unibrow who is built
out of toilet paper, but not the good Kirkling brand
toilet paper. The one ply you know, that terrible one
ply when you go to the store and you have
to go to the bathroom in the back and they
get the cheapest toilet paper, that's Anthony Davis. The rest
of the roster, though, is a hodgepodge of nothingness. That's
(05:33):
the Laker. Why would you want that job?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The money?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
The only reason to take the job is the moy
And it's not that that's a terrible reason. That's like
a horrible reason to take the money. But you just
have this emptiness there. And for all the bragging about
being a multi billion dollar international mega brand, which the
Lakers love to tell you about, they love to pump
(05:57):
their chest out and strut around like a peacock. Where
the Lakers they can get anybody they want, haha. Not
a college coach who chose to stay in stores. Connecticut
with a population of about sixteen thousand, turning down Tinseltown
said go pound sand I don't want to coast to Lakers.
And the Lakers continue to be all sizzle and no steak.
(06:20):
That's the problem there, and I love it. I hope
it continues for years to come. But Dan Hurley, we
know what he did. I tell you exactly what did.
He hummed some bars of Piano Man, because that's where
he went. He flew out to la interviewed with the Lakers,
and then flew back to the East Coast in time
to make it to a concert at Madison Square Garden
(06:42):
at MSG right there. And the payoff on this for
Hurley it would appear the media dopes providing him with
TikTok influencer level clout. Can you imagine Dan Hurley?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And this is my head.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I don't know about yours, but in my head, that
cartoon bubble, I've got Dan Hurley doing a pirouette as
he gives the bird to Genie Buss and the Lakers
because Yukon will pay him a little more money. They're
already talking about redoing his contract. They just redid his contract,
so he'll payhim more money. He can then brag to
(07:20):
all the players that are only going to Connecticut because
of the nil deals anyway, but he'll bragg to them
nonetheless about how he's the guy that turned down the
Lakers he said, screw you, that Connecticut is so special
that I couldn't go coach Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I turn him down. It's a pretty good feather in
the cap.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I would say I had pretty good feather in the
cap here in terms of braggadociousness. Now page two. Here,
how embarrassing is Dan Hurley's rejection in Lakerland? The historians who.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Love to talk about all their success, but it's gonna
be devastating with the Celtics, who already are ahead of
the Lakers and championships at an another one. They're two
wins away from that happening.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But on the Malard scale of humiliation for Dan Hurley
sticking it to the Lakers rejecting them, a Malord scale
of humiliation one to ten, with ten being sending a
text message to the wrong person and some graphic photographs
in that text message, the Lakers get a nine point
oh on the Malor scale of humiliation.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
This is I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
This is what the Lakers did by even contacting Dan
Hurley and not doing their due diligence. What they did
is a kin to being called on in class by
the teacher, and you were daydreaming and you were not
paying attention. It's rather embarrassing, right, tose Hey, can you
tell me about what's on page thirty two? We just
covered it well. Actually, I was thinking about the turkey
(08:47):
sandwich I was going to have for lunch, and I'm sorry, Professor,
I did not pay attention. It's a banana cream pie,
not a good one, A cheap banana cream pie, right
to the face, right.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
What kind of mama?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Luke's with the Lakers are so delusional that they thought
Dan Hurley, who turned down Kentucky and other big time job,
that he was going to leave Connecticut for a mid
NBA job, a second rate NBA job. Genie Buss, who's
(09:22):
not a great owner. I mean, look at a resumetion,
not very good as an owner. It's being honest. And
Rob Polenka tweedled the and tweedled dumb. A couple of
Dingleberry's there with the Lakers. Read the room, do some
opposition research. Dan Hurley is in his early fifties. He's
in his early fifties. He has worked as a coach
(09:43):
since he finished playing college basketball, and he started as
a high school assistant coach in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Every gig that he has had all of.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Those years, way back in nineteen ninety six to all
the way till now, every one of those jobs has
been in the eye and ninety five corridor. He's a
New Jersey guy, he married a New Jersey girl. He's
never left that I ninety five quarter within a short
drive of the motherland in New Jersey. All right, last word,
(10:13):
So where do the Lakers turn now that they have
been pants in their head coaching search that everyone knows
whoever they hire, whoever they hire will not be the
guy that they wanted original that's the issue here. So
at this point, the immediate thing is you circle the
wagons and you enter the spin zone. Spin spin, Spin,
(10:38):
not the spin cycle because that's a caller that used
to call the show but she doesn't call anymore in Colorado.
But you enter the spin zone and you attempt. At
this point you would dust yourself off. I would think, right,
put an ice pack, maybe some ibuprofen, pharmacy, great ibuprofen, because.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
You got a headache.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And whoever the Lakers get though, and there's no way
to spin this in any other direction, has stank on them,
you know. That, and I know that, and everyone knows
that they are not the preferred choice. So the Lakers
are gonna have to go go army if you will.
Now what does that mean? Go army here? Not the
US Army. No, no, no, the Lakers are going to have
(11:17):
to go Salvation army. And they're gonna have to jump
into that red kettle. You know the Cowboys when they
play on Thanksgiving, they always of that red kettle in
the end zone and sometimes players jump into it, and
then the NFL gets very upset and finds them.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And says, how are you you cut?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Up? Do that?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
They got to jump into the red kettle and get
some like a handy down, hand me down.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Coach, some some pre used coach.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And the former Hornets coach has been mentioned. James Barrego
has been tossed out as a possibility.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And I still think it's gonna be jj Reddick. And
I can't wait to laugh when you hire Lebron's podcast
buddy as your coach.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
And I just think that's going to be wonderful and
I will have a wonderful guffaw when that that happens.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I hope that happens. Let's speak that into existence.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
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so our lead this hour from the Berg Coaching Carousel. Update.
We had pro bouncy ball last hour. Now we go
to the NFL. If you have not heard the word
maybe not. We learned that the Petsburg Stailers have signed, sealed,
(14:36):
and delivered a contract crossing all the t's dotting the
i's head coach Mike Tomlin. He's not going anywhere three
year contract extensions. So all the talk that Tomlin was
in a lame duck year and it was a proved
situation in Pittsburgh, that was.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
All bull crap, all of it.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Tomlin now under contract through twenty twenty seven. He was
entering the last year of his deal in Pittsburgh. But
Tomlin now free to settle in for another few years
as coach in Pittsburgh. Let us discuss the question on this.
Mike Tomlin locked up three year contract extension. What are
(15:16):
your thoughts on Tomlin sticking around Pittsburgh through twenty twenty seven,
least being paid through twenty twenty seven. So I've got
manager special General Mills and wreck It Ralph, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make blank TVs. We have four TVs, four
(15:39):
giant TVs in the main studio here, and three of
them are completely not blank, but they're on that like
that filler.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I don't know what that I don't know if that's
all about anyway. Number one.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Al Right, so this is how they roll in Land.
When you coach the Pittsburgh steeis just like you're James Bond.
One of the early James Bond movies. A Diamond is forever.
Coaching the Steelers is forever. It is forever and ever
and ever and ever and ever. It's all about uniformity
(16:19):
when you're coaching in Pittsburgh, and may we have that
in every job. And some of you might think I
have that I've been here so long, but trust me,
I do not have tenure. They can get rid of
me at any moment. But it's like a tenured professor.
It's like Mike Tomlin is teaching at Oxford and he's
just happens to be coaching in the NFL with the
Pittsburgh football team. Despite our obligatory Mallard monologues to fire
(16:46):
Mike Tomlin, which happens on a yearly basis, and I
promise you we'll have another one at some point during
the twenty twenty four NFL regular season when September gets around.
Despite that, I do have a soft spot in my
heart for Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I I'm not a Steeler fan. I'm not from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I have friends that are in Pittsburgh and from Pittsburgh
and all that, but I have no skin in the
game other than I have a four hour talk show
every single night and three hours of podcasting on the
weekends that I.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Have to worry about.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So Tomlin makes my life a little bit easier because
normally every other week Mike Tomlin will give us a
great piece of audio and we can play it and
we go crazy. He's a living, breathing dial a quote.
If you need a quote, just turn to tom He'll
give you something.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
In terms of success on the field, there's a drought.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Is that fair to say? I don't think that's unfair.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
There's a droughts that Pittsburgh has been a little bit
better than Jeff Fisher was in his run near the
end there.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Oh, that's outraged. You're comparing Mike Tomlin Jeff Fisher. What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But I'm talking about the second part of Mike Tomlin's
act in Pittsburgh, not the first part. When he inherited
Bill Cowers players and they still had that group together
and they won the Super Bowl and then a few
years later they got to the I think they were
in the AFC Championship game.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
After that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
They had a run of success there early on for Tomlin.
But since then, in recent years, Mike Tomlin has been
a short order cook serving up the manager's special. You know,
you know what the manager special. It's the manager special is.
You're mixed together the leftover corn, the chopped up potatoes,
(18:29):
the spaghetti. There's a little bit of General Sala's chicken
in the back there the fridge, and you dump it
all into a casse role, a dump casse role, and
you servant. It's the manager Special. And that's what the
Steelers have been doing. And Tomlin has shown an ability
to produce average to slightly above average results with substandard ingredients.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The old line from.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Bill Parcells was you expect me to make chicken salad
out of chicken craft right, or something along those lines.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I think there was more saucy than that.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But nonetheless, in recent years, the Steelers have had the
three Stooges at quarterback, Kenny Pickett, Mitchell Trubisky, and Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
The red nose quarterback. Those have been the three quarterbacks
in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
They all stink the big pot of miscellaneous leftovers, that's what.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
They had, and Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Cooked up a passable gulash on the field.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
But the proof is that the results.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
People bring up the fact that Tomlin's gone his entire
run there seventeen seasons in Pittsburgh without having a losing
record in his time sitting in the big chair. And
so now they change it up a little bit and
they have a different set of leftovers.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I think they have broccoli.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
There's some cheese over their little rice at the quarterback position,
Russell Wilson and Justin Field. So on one side of
the ledger for the Steelers, if you're Mike Tomlin going
into this year, you have a quarterback that is way
past his pri and then you have one that hasn't
had a prime So good luck keeping the customers there
in Pittsburgh, fat and Sassey, which is what's required now
(20:08):
Page two here, What are the odds that Mike tom
getting this extension three extra years tacked on to his
contract in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
What are the odds that the Steelers have a return to.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Glory, that they get to a super Bowl in the
next three years? So the malarodds. The only odds that
matter on this show, because my name's on the show.
The only odds that matter Malar odds, and I have
the Steelers at plus eight hundred, which is roughly ten percent.
I give him a ten percent chance. And here's why.
(20:39):
Have you looked out on the Serengetti. Have you looked
out at the landscape that is around there? And if
you don't need to have binoculars to see what's going
on here, Kenza City is not going anywhere. Patrick Mahomes
and Andy Reid, and barring some kind of health problem
for Andy Reid, you gotta think Andy six around because.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
He's going to be the one.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Andy Reid winning twelve games a year is going to
be the one that becomes the record holder, passing Don
Schulebay and zooming past Bill Belichick in the in the
record books, is the all time winning as coach. So Reid,
assuming he six to Renty Will was his health falls apart,
obviously that changes things. But then Pittsburgh in the division,
(21:23):
you got to contend with Joe Burrow the second top quarterback.
Mahomes is his way, hey, he's like secretariat, but Burrow
is number two and then you've got Lamar Jackson, who's
a hell of a regular season player, and then he
turns into the big dumper in the playoffs. And that's
his problem with the Ravens. But you factor in patternicity, patternicity,
(21:45):
and I am being generous when I say ten percent,
it's the Steelers. You gotta got terrible towels. Come on
the Pittsburgh says since twenty eighteen, talk about the second
part of Mike Tomlins run there in Pittsburgh since twenty eighteen,
Momblin is seventeen games above really got seventeen games above
five hundred.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
That's solid.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
However, the Steelers have been one and done one in
Dunskies in the playoffs four of the last seven years.
But wait, there's more. Mike Tomlin has an eight to
ten career record in the playoffs and has not won
a playoff game since Barack Obama was the president. That's
(22:28):
a twenty twenty sixteen last time the Steelers won a
playoff game with Tomlin and Russell Wilson, we mentioned him.
He's a salvage and recovery situation at this point and
justin fields to be kind as a fixer upper. But
there's not a really good foundation there unless you're a
nerd that watches the highlights and don't actually watch the games. Wait,
(22:49):
looks great, So Pittsburgh will be a one trick pony, Well,
maybe a two. There's three ways to win, right, special teams, defense,
and offense. The Steelers offense is a zero teams they
can be all right in that. And defensively you've got TJ. Watt,
who's now that Aaron Donald's gone, the preeminent defensive player.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
In the NFL. But he's one of eleven, so you
have him all right.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Final point. We move away from Pittsburgh. We go to Denver,
where the air is thin and the football blows. Whispers
that Zack Wilson in recent days, that Zack Wilson is
still very much in the mix to be the Broncos
starting quarterback.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Do you believe that? Do you believe the chatter? So?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I am ambivolent on this. That's the word, always a
big word, ambivalent. I've got mixed thoughts on this, and
here's why. Because I know that Zack Wilson can't play.
I know that Zack Wilson is the stiff. I saw
him play enough with the Jets to know, this guy
just doesn't have it that Jenny si Quah.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
He's lacking that whatever that is, he doesn't have it.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
So I know that he's good at getting headlines in
the tabloids, but actually successful football. However, the reason I
have mixed thoughts on this is because of the wildcard factor.
And the wildcard factor, I cannot completely dismiss the outrageous,
the unimaginable that Zack Wilson would start for the Broncos
to begin the year because of the swashbuckling bravado of
(24:18):
Sean Payton, who fancies himself iconic football coach, mixed with
a character from Wrecket Ralph fix it feelings. I fix
it feelings that Peyton figures he can put a new
code of paint on Zach Wilson, smooth out some of
the rough edges there, run the same dumb down offense
(24:39):
they ran last year with Russell Wilson and get middling
results at worst, and then let the Prodigy marinate bo Nicks. Now,
if I'm the Broncos, you know how I feel about this.
We talked about this all the time.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You play.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You'll learn from doing, you don't learn from watching. I
wanted to be on the radio, and I watched a
lot of people do radio, but I didn't really learn
how to do it until I did it. And that's
usually how life works at most things. It's just the
way it is.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
It's Mallard. How about that? To the third degree? This
is one big event.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Gets grilled?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Got you Allen Iverson's pissed that he didn't get forty
nine shots up in a finals game for the Sixers
back in the day, Cubelo the reading of the questions.
Unless you're not Mallard of the third degree, what do
we have?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
It was reported over the weekend that the Orlando Magic
are being mentioned as a possible suitor for Paul George.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
The Magic are already a playoff team in the East.
Do you think Paul George would make them a real contender?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
No, there'll be a full contender. And I'm fine if
Paul George comes back. Okay, I don't have a problem
with him leaving either. It's not gonna break my heart
if Paul George leaves the Clipers because the Clippers are
squad and get somebody else who's great, because Steve Bomber's
got one hundred and twenty five billion dollars. But Paul
George with the Clippers, there's parts of his game that
(26:08):
are that are flawed and it's just been that way.
He vanishes for stretches at a time, and if Orlando
wants them, they canna have Next.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
It's being reported that the rival executives believe Toronto Blue
Jays could look to trade vlad Garreo Junior and Bobashet
if they don't turn it around this year. Ben, do
you think either of those guys are gone by the deadline?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well, more likely will be Bobashet.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It's a harder sell for your fan base in Toronto
if you get rid of Vladimir Guerrero, even though his
numbers have not been particularly great. I did actually a
monologue about this about a month ago. If I'm the Angels,
I do whatever I have to do to get Vladimir
Guerrero Junior in Anaheim, try to reconnect with his dad
and all that and the good old days for the Angels.
And then if I'm the Dodgers, I would want Bobashet
(26:53):
I know his dad played for the Angels.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Also next Ben.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Last year I asked you wish NFL team he thought
could go from worst to first in their division? This year,
I want to know, are there any teams that you
think could go from first to worst?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, I mean any any of these teams based on
injuries Koople Loop. If you look at the you know,
the NFL, your starting quarterback goes down and that's it
could put.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But I keep an eye in Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
They don't have a lot on offense there, Josh Allen
injury prone.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
That's a team right there that I would keep an eye.
How we go, how we go? You pass?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That is a way you can put it on the board.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
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Speaker 3 (27:46):
Has made our contestants real quick. We'll get the game
set up.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
We have a Masshole Mickey who is making the rare
and appropriate call. Hello Masshole Mickey in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Oh what's up?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
What's up Melaysia?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Welcome in mass Will Mickey, who do you want to
partner up with as we are going to play mallards
a mount of money.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I'm gonna go with my friend Ben.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
That's right, Not Eddie, not true, not mark me all right,
hold on and uh Dave has been on hold for
davey Ben.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I remember you.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I remember you.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, you wanted to do the oath and you trash me,
you schmuck.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
No, I didn't try you.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You tried yourself.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Then.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I don't think I'm a god fair man, Ben, I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I don't give anybody that.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That's stuff that don't deserve it.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, you want to play or no, I'm other people
that are better.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Than you that want to play. They are on hold.
I want to play.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I have bigger name people on hold of you. They
want to play. But I'm giving you the opportunity. Okay,
who do you want to hurry? Who do you want
to partner?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Wait? Hurry up, I'm gonna take Oh not Eddie. Interesting.
Eddi's sitting this one out. Ben's excited about that now
because he has a chance to win.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Hey, the all time wins King, What are the categories here?
Coop a little please quickly so we can get plenty
of time for the game.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
All right.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
This is the Bill Burr edition of Mallard's Mountain of Money.
He turned fifty six years old on Monday, old fart.
The categories are at the front runner F is for family,
back home again and Leo. And let's see, Mickey.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
You were on first.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Which category would you like? Eis for family, fis for family?
All right, and Dave, how about you?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
We'll go Leo?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
All right, because my guy's a family guy and he
picked the family category, and you pick a lee. All right, everyone,
stay where you are, do not hang up. If one
of you hang up. I have a big name backup,
ready to go in the bullpen. We'll get the Mallards
Mountain of Money. We'll do it, and we will do
it next.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Now, poor Malor's Mountain of Money.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Hell, do you have what it takes to get to
the top? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
And right to the game.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
We go on Mallow's Amount of Money and you can
play along. We call that the home work version of
the game. Just play along as you listen. And it
is the Bill Burr edition.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I believe I am going first year. I am teamed
up me Ben with our friend Masshole. Mickey, are you there,
mass Whole, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Let's go all right. You picked f is for family.
These athletes are all members of a sports family.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Are you ready? That's all right. We'll put forty five
sec on the clock. We're on our way and go.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Not Peyton, but his brother at quarterback. Yes, catcher for
the Sand Louis Cardinals. He just retired about a year ago.
Longtime Saint Louis catchers brothers also catching eight Angels.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Professional wrestler was the victim of the Montreal screw Job
in the WWE Foundation, nickname of his wrestling outfit. All right,
how about Toronto Blue Jay player spit at an umpire
when he was with the Orioles. I believe second Baseman,
Hall of Fame, Second basement.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Roberto Am Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
NBA player shot his shots underhanded for the Warriors in
the seventies.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
His son's no boy, spend a little too much time
on Brett Hart, the hit man.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Well, I had to get Brett Hart. That's a legend.
I know. I'd rather lose and get Brett Hart. I'm
not sorry.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
You approve that seven zero.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Why'd you say that? With joy ed? He screwed you?
All right, because I like it when you lose, all right, Dave,
all right, alt, I'm not gonna cheat like you would.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
That We've got uh, we've got Leo is our category, Dad,
Davut there with me? Yes, I am all right, cool
David Leo. These athletes all have the zodiac sign Leo.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Don't choke, Dave, don't choke.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Choke.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Begin quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles right now. Yes, best
cornerback of all time, prime time.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Player for the Memphis Grizzlies. He loves guns.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
One of the best known professional wrestlers of all time
is Mania blank Mania. Yes, first baseman from the Cubs
when they won the championship. He's on the Yankees now.
I believe Italian. Yes, this guy was akers player. He
(33:01):
was married to Vanessa Williams.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
He's an actor.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Also, No, not very impressive, well compared to what you did. Actually,
I set this up perfectly. Sixty points leads.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
All right, get going there, you're doing it right now, nickey.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Do you want the front runner or back home again?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Back home again? Back?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You turn your mic gothic? Which one do you want?
Mickey back home again? All right, very good? All right?
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Uh, these athletes all returned to their original team. Forty
five seconds on the clock. Begin all right, the pride
of Akron, Ohio. He went to the Heat and the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yes, uh, Prince of the Cardinals, big slugger for the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
He went to the Angels.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yes uh, notice flash for the Miami basketball team with
Lebron and Chris Bosh.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Safety for the Raiders. He went to the Green Bay
Packers as well. In the two thousands here Hall of
Fame safety won the Heisman at Michigan. Oh all right,
how about this safety for the Patriots kind of got
an Asian surname from Jamaica. Twenty ten Patriots, You are
(34:21):
New England.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
You are a Patriots fan.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Not Smolts, not no wow, I mean, Mickey, oh terrible,
Shut off the clues.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Shut up.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Safety for the twenty ten Patriots with an age a surname?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
How many how many exactly are there other than Patrick Chung?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
I mean my god, no.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, it was not no, it was out of your tongue.
That was nothing on your tongue. Your tongue was that
day had nothing.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
That's right. It wasn't even close. One hundred points total
for Ben after two caps.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Mis were wonderful. Everyone's compliment. You want to up the greatest. No,
there's no need to run up the stole.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Want to talk. He want you that loser day?
Speaker 4 (35:10):
All right, Dave, we got the David.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
He's such a loser you should not celebrate that. You
know what, this reminds me.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
This reminds me of Texas Jack. Remember Texas Jack choked
in the octagon unfortunately, and I like masshole Mickey, but
he panicked.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
He had the flops.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Way all right, Dave, we got the front runner. These
athletes were all drafted number one overall.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
You ready, yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
All right?
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Current quarterback of the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Yes, guard on the Mavericks. He thinks the earth is flat. Yes, uh.
Chinese center he was like seven foot six, yes.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Uh. Picture that was drafted by the Pirates. He's now
in the Yankees. This is so boring, he's so This
guy's so bad.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
I mean this.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Quarterback that was drafted by the Tampa Bush when they
had the creams.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Panic you're supposed to do? He panic? Oh, this is
embarrassing period.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
He because you're doculs, always you. You didn't turn the
gold he didn't get in the golden You're not allowed.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
To give out sexual golden ticket. Yes, he did not.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Tourist because you get a loser.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
For your day sport. You didn't.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Even those answers are terrible, Dave, this is embarrassment sports radio.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
You get to the front of that the next all
you never a gall with the other cars up on
the street.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
You're not allowed to have your band bad. No, he
sucks more to Infinity
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