August 5, 2024 • 34 mins
Ben Maller talks about Davante Adams comparing his QB’s to Aaron Rodgers, Blake Snell taking a victory lap after throwing a non-no, the Steelers being “open-minded” about their starting QB, front runners emerging in a Brandon Aiyuk trade and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
So our lead this we will get to the festivious
of the weekend. We think everyone that came out. People
traveled from great distances to hang out with us, and
we were flattered by that.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We think you.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We hope you made it home safely. But our lead
this hour from Socow. That is where the Raiders are
holding training camp, the Raiders. I have to get all
my Raider monologues in because who knows, who knows how
this is going to go?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Probably not great, probably not great.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Well, that is where Socow where the Raiders are holding
training camp as they prepare for the upcoming NFL regular season.
And they're one of a handful of teams that has
our interest.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
The reason they have our interest is because they don't
have a starting quarterback. There's a quarterback drama orama going
on with the Raiders on who is going to be
the starter as they prepare here, it's wide open, wide open,
legit wide open. Here. The top pass catcher for the Raiders,
who's still there even though he wants to play for
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the Jets, has chimed in. If you didn't hear Raider
wide out DeVante Adams saying that he's still getting comfortable
with both Aiden O'Connell and Gardner Minshew, the two guys
who are duking it out. What a contest this is,
he said, quote, I got my intennas up for everything,
Deavonte Adams said, regarding the quarterback battle, if you will.
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Adams then boldly compared his relationship. This is my favorite part,
So DeVante Adams comparing his relationship with O'Connell, Aidan O'Connell
and Gardner minshewe to the one he had all those
years in Green Bay with Aaron Rodgers back in the
salad days of that team, and saying that it wasn't
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just about the reps, talking about the relationship and the
communication and watching film and all this stuff. So let
us discuss the question how do you explain DeVante Adams
seemingly comparing Gardner Minshew and Aidan O'Connell.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
To Aaron Rogers.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So I've got Selena Gomez, Catwalk and House of Horrors,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice night's sleep, which
I haven't gotten in a few days. I don't normally
sleep that well anyway, say hectic a few days. So
Advante Adams is working here, he's working extra to fill
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the content machine. For that, we are grateful, we are
I appreciate guys like Davontae Adams that do my job
make my job easier.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
So it's not that hard.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
He's going above and beyond the call of duty on
this one and not quite up to the dial a
quote status for Devontae Adams. But when you come out
and are comparing Aaron Rodgers Hall of Famers, say what
you want about Rogers going to Hall of Fame and
Gardner Minshew and Aidan O'Connell, that's a bit much. So
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we know what Adams is doing. DeVonta Adams as a
distant relative of Nostradamis and friend of Nostradina's Davonte Adams
is hummin' bars. He's pulled out an old Salina Gomez song.
Kill him with kindness. He is just killing them with kindness,
smothering both of them in praise. A bathtub of praise
is what he's doing now. Nevertheless, DeVante Adams, who if
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the Jets called up and made an offer the Raiders
would accept, would say hallelujah and go off and play
for Aaron Rodgers. DeVante Adams knows the recipe is the same.
We all know the recipes are the same, the names
are different, but the core ingredients to make the dish
are the same. That the quarterback watches the film, check,
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the quarterback communicates with the player. Check check right that
you have open dialogue. All of that right when the
dust settles. Now our vote, and we're never wrong about
these things, Our vote goes to the man that likes
to wear jeorts. That's who should be the starting core
actor there is now. I'll tell you right now, if
the Raiders go that direction with Gardner Minshew, they are
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going to be a wild card team in the AFC.
Oh my god, you can't say that was wrong with you.
You can'ts I'm telling you. Gardner Minshew pound for pound
should be starting in Vegas. He should be right. And
they supposed they have a pretty good defense. They they
think they're gonna have a top five defense. The Raiders
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and just Gardner Mischaue will suck for a couple of games,
will be really good for a couple but it'd be
pretty average for most of the games. And that's all
you need. That's all you need. And remember last year
the Raiders big win was against the Chiefs in a
game Aidan O'Connell started in. But if I remember correctly,
they didn't even throw the pass a forward pass in
the second half of that game. But you have DeVante
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Adams until you get rid of him. And they're all
hyped up about brock Bauers the tight and they got
out of Georgia in the draft. So there are some
playmakers allegedly there. Now page two, we now pivot to
the Raiders Alumni Association and a black guy for Chucky Boy,
John Gruden. Do you see this over the weekend? John
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Gruden spotted at Chiefs camp. Okay, so fine, he's there
hanging out, but what was he wearing? He was decked
out from head to toe with Kansas City chief merchandise.
He had the merch on, he had the merch on,
he had the red and the yellow, red and yellow,
redd and yellow, had all that on from top to bottom.
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There out there playing grab ass with the other coaches
on Kansas City. And this, of course created a visceral reaction.
Oh my, I can't believe John Gruden would do that.
Why would John Gruden do that? Oh my god, from
Raider Nation, the faux outrage Department. So Chucky boy was
in bed with the enemy. Of course, not the enemy
right now, because he didn't work for the Raiders anymore.
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In fact, he's suing the NFL. So what is your
viewpoint on John Gruden being photographed, videoed wearing Kansas City
Chiefs merchandise there at training camp.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So it did look awkward, It looked odd.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I will admit that I'm not a Raider fan or
anything like that, but having known John Gruden, I know
he coached in Tampa Bay and whatnot. But this guy
oozing out propaganda about the Raiders and there was John
Gruden wearing Kansas City Chiefs colors on the sidelines. It
did seem like it was some kind of mind hacked
optical illusion as I said, seeing Gruden out there and
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on the catwalk doing a pirouette as he's wearing his
enemy colors or it used to be enemy colors there.
Understandable though if you wanted a puke in your mouth
this whole situation. Cruden persona non grata in NFL coaching
circles as far as being a head coach, will likely
never be a head coach again, and not welcome with
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the Raiders. He was collateral damage in a very bizarre
hit job. And I remember Brent Musburger said, a professional
hit job, not the usual gumbas. As Brent Musburger said,
when that went down, they went to the Wall Street
Journal of New York Times to take out John Cruden
with that email dump. But this is bigger than a rivalry.
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We know how this works here. John Gruden and Andy
Reid are besties. They go way back to a common
bond that they share. You go back to the Green
Bay Packers and Mike Holmgren's coaching staff in the mid
to late nineties, and they were all together a band
of upstart coaches trying to make their way in the NFL.
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And so there is a connection. There's a kinship between
Andy Reid and John Gruenelch. Likely is why Gruden ended
up out there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Or he's just sport.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
He's doing stuff with the Saints last year, and he
probably I'll do some more stuff for them this year.
Not last word here. So we go now to the
retirement home. Several of you wanted me to barf in
my mouth because you sent me a photograph that made
me want to do that. My only conclusion is that
that's why you sent it to me. It involves a
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former NFL quarterback Alex Smith. Now you might remember six
years ago Alex Smith shattered into little pieces lit The
little pieces is tibia and fibula, snap crackle, pop gone cola. Now,
somehow he came back and played in the NFL's playing
for the Washington football team at the time. I don't
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know if they were called the Redskins then or not,
but that's why he was playing. And despite the incident
occurring six years ago, randomly, Alex Smith decaid, you know,
I don't send that out. I will set a photo
out of my leg. I want you, I want the
world to see my leg. And so he sent out
a picture of his shattered leg which was put back
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together with glue and some duct tape and they put
it back together and of course went viral. So that
let us discuss when you first saw the leg of
Alex Smith, his mangled, mutilated leg.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
What did you think? All right? So this obviously this
is like a Halloween house of horrors, that situation.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
That was my first thought, like, whoa dude, how can
I even walk on that? And something should be kept private.
You don't need to show the world that, no need
to scare children. You don't have to do that. But
it really is nightmare fuel. It's nightmare juice is what
it is. And this guy mutilated from what because he's
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a glady barbarism back in the day when he's playing
Washington here. The fact that he's able to stand up
though and walk around is wild, and that he came
back to play in the NFL. That leg is bad
to the bone. Literally, there's hardly any bone there.
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recognize me. Shame on you. But our lead this hour
is from baseball. It happened over the weekend while we
were chilling, roasting or took us off in Sin City,
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in the Queen City with the skyline Chili fresh the baseball.
The Giants were playing the Reds and we got a
no hitter on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
No no for the Doe do.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It's our moral enemy, enemy of the Mala militia. Blake
Snell tossed a no hitter. Now that is not necessarily
the story. The story is not Blake Snell tossing a
no hitter. I'll explain what.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
The story is.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's what he said after the game. That is the story.
What he said after the So if you didn't hear,
maybe not. Following the no hit effort, Lake Snell was
asked how he was feeling a report, of course, always
a great question considering the fact that he'd never pitched
into the ninth inning.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Of any game in his big league career.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
This is the first time he pitched the ninth inning,
and he took that question as an opportunity to go
on a rampage against me.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
But they can't say it anymore, you know, complete game?
Shut out, no hitor, leave me alone, it doesn't going nine,
don't go eight? Yeah? Get that feels just did it
leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
One?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Just let the man play twitch. Let the man go
on Twitch and play video games. Leave the man alone
playing again. I would hear him playing again. I would
hear it again.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Play again.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
They can't say it anymore. Yeah, shut out, leave me alone,
It doesn't going nine, don't go eight?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Good?
Speaker 5 (12:50):
That feels. Just did it leave me alone one.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, all right, playing on our team is not going
to make the playoffs. Nobody in baseball wanted you. You're
a loser. Nobody wanted you. Let us discuss the question,
what are your thoughts on the Giants pitcher Blake Snell
and his leave me alone, leave me alone doing a
victory lap following his no hit pitching performance over the weekend,
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going to the ninth Inny. So, I've got Golds, Jim Aerosmith,
and Batman and we will combine all of these things
together and make likability, which is something Blake Snell does
not have.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Easy to hate now, num ber wha.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I found this whole thing amusing because Blake Snell says,
you know what, just in case people start to like
me because I pitched a no hitter, I want to
make sure everyone hates my guts. And then he started talking.
You realized, boy, this guy's a douche Canoe. My goodness,
the poster boy for athletes that are easy to pull
against Blake Snell. And again I go back to my point,
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the trade deadline, all those big trophies that he's got
from cy Young wars, and nobody was willing to meet
the asking price for Blake Snell. Nobody wanted him in baseball.
The entire industry said, we don't want you. And oh,
by the way, in the off season, nobody wanted Blake
Snell either, and he went to the Giants because nobody
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else would even give him that crappy offer he signed
with the Giants for. So what does that say about
Blake Snell. It tells you the people of baseball know
what a bad apple this guy is. And he's great
for five and a third innings, but they don't want
to deal with the bull crap from Blake Snell. But this,
I mean the gold standard and we might have to
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add that. Now leave me alone as a drop to
the show. But a while back, when the pandemic was
going on, and he said, I'm not playing unless I
get mine and bra I'm risking my life, bro, because
you know a lot of people died playing baseball during
the pandemic. I mean, how many body bags were there?
I remember that one Brewers game there was like seventeen
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players died in a Brewers game on the It was wild. Yeah,
they were risking their life. It was crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Uh, unless they weren't. Unless that's bull crap. Absolute bull crap.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Right, So we're supposed to pretend you and I are
supposed to pretend that like that one game on Friday
erases the entire body of work, that that just works
as deodorant. And for Snell, it's like it's like going
to gold gym. It's a gold Gym special. That's your flex, Like,
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that's that's your getting off point, that's your brag. That's
an odd flex to me for Blake stuff. I mean,
you just well you can rub some some soap onto
some Irish spraying or whatever and the smell goes away.
So I did some malor math here. Blake Snell has
pitched in the ninth inning in zero point four percent
of his Big League starts? Is that impressive? Is anyone
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impressed by that? Anybody at all?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Leave me alone? Leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
He said, all right, So two hundred and two starts
he's pitched into the ninth inning or beyond one time,
Numero uno one time for Blake Snell. Go take a bow,
do a victory lap? How about that?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
No, you dope. What a dandelion. The man's a dandelion,
Blake Snell. He hit very delicate. Now I'll forever be
grateful for Blake Snell, because I remember the hardest World
Series of all time, twenty twenty, Game six, Tampa Bay
and Los Angeles. Blake Snell on the mound, dealing. But
you knew it wouldn't last because he's Blake Snell, and
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the guy's a coward. And sure enough he ah, I
gotta come out of the game. Ah by ca he
got pulled Blake Snell in the sixth inning of that game.
He had thrown seventy three pitches and they took him
out of the game because he couldn't handle it anymore
because he's soft. And then the Tampa Bay bullpen melted
down because he could not complete another eating or two winnings,
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which he easily could have done with that pitch count.
And so that's where we are today. A guy couldn't
handle the pressure. And now we're supposed to believe because
he went had one game where he went all the
way he's an iron man. Now, yeah, okay, sure, please
Blake Snell. When he's pitching. You know when Blake Snell's
on the mound that you're in good shape because the
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bullpen will be called in. There'll be a conga line
of relievers, and he's playing on a team that's not
going to.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Make the playoffs this year. That's not happening.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And so you look at Blake Snell, You're like, well,
nobody wanted him last year. So he's just accumulating stats
right now, hoping to hornswaggle some random NFL, NBA team
rather baseball. We'll get to it eventually, some random baseball
team to pay him gobs and gobs of money. All
right now, page two, here we go to the Bronx.
We talked about this a little bit earlier in the
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show with the who Am I game? But Yankee star
one Sodo saying that it sucks that the Blue Jays
kept walking Aaron Judge over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
On Saturday, it was three intentional walks.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
The Toronto pitching coach, though, came out and said that
this is going to be the new normal that the
Blue Jays believe that they are on the cusp, but
the ones that started this year, So where are you
at on that? The Blue Jay coach saying that this
is going to become the normal standard chow around baseball
that Aaron Judge gets pitched around, and.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
One Soto he was a oh man, that that sucks.
So my first.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Thought on this, in terms of where I'm at is this,
it's a referendum on the Yankee line. I remember there
was a guy on the Mets who used to play
for the Yankees who came out a couple of weeks ago.
I was like, Oh, yeah, there's a two man team
over there, got Sodo and Judge. And there was a
big controversy, Oh could you trash the yank like that?
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The Yankees were all upset, they were angry, and so
now you look at it, it's been another month and
the guy was absolutely right. The Yankees are a two
man variety show. That's what the New York Yankees are
this year. And that's why Toronto can get away with
pitching around Aaron Judge early and often. You got Aaron
Judge on one side, you got one Soda on the other,
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and the rest of the lineup is bupkis. That's what
you have. So as long as you don't let Aaron
Judge beat you and hit a ball to the moon,
then you can continue walking him. It's a cowardly strategy,
but in terms of wins and losses, wins and losses.
It is effective. Let somebody else beat you. As you
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look at that Yankee lineup, who's exactly going to be
that person?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Because I don't see that person. Do you see that person?
I don't see that. I don't see that.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So for Aaron Judge, he's got to be at this
point now a big Aerosmith fan because this is going
to be his song. Walk this way for the of
the season. Because you got John Carlos Stanton, who's a lightweight,
even though he when he makes contact once every week
the ball goes into orbit, it's on the launching pad,
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but that doesn't happen all that often. And then you
look at the rest of that Yankee lineup, there's nothing there.
Austin Wells, please all right now? Final point, we go
to Chicago, where we are on the cusp of greatness. Well,
opposite of greatness, I guess he could say. But I
love losing, and I've always been a fan of losers.
And congratulations to the White Sox as they have outdone
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themselves after the festivities of the weekend. With help from
the Minnesota baseball team, the Chicago White Sox have now
lost twenty games in a row. Congratulations White Sox. The
pale hoose at it again. So what is your reaction,
Give me your reaction to the White Sox. Now the
losing streak up to twenty in a row. So it's
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a new level of stink for the White Sox. Every
loss they are adding on to the record. And they
are so close, so close to the record. Now, the
modern record for our purposes, the Baltimore Orioles of the
late eighties, and they started the season on a ridiculous
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reverse burner there. But now you look at the White
Sox here, twenty straight losses, and it just hits differently.
It just hits differently, and it's an all encompassing type
of suck, as they like to say in baseball. But
the White Sox at this point, their manager is now
one hundred games under five hundred since he took over
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there in Chicago, and Jerry Reinsdorf and the White Sox
they're like, wow, we suck. Why would we fire the manager?
Because we still suck. It's not the manager, the players
that stink. The players would like you to believe it's
the manager that stinks. The manager would like you to
believe it's the players that stink. And it's likely a
little bit of both. But the White Sox are being
run like a batman villain is running the team right
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the Joker, Zero, zip, zilch and nada. That's what the
White Sox have in the win come. They're oh in
sixteen since the All Star Break. They can't hit, they
can't field, they don't pitch very well. Other than that,
they got a heck of a team and this Chicago
American League Baseball team. Now they get what should be
the magic elixir, a date in the Bay Area with
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the Oakland Athletics. The final time in Oakland White Sox
and as will play. White Sox are vacating to go
to Sacramento next year.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
So if the.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Streak does not end, and I hope it doesn't, I
want to see the a sweep the White Soxe. But
if it does not end, if I'm you know that
goes that direction, then no watch out because they got
the Cubs upcoming. That's a that's a winnablel the Cub's
not very good. You can win that, but then you
start stacking up better teams after that could luck to
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the White Sox might why not just lose every game
the rest of the Year. And the thing is, I
belie they're actually trying. It's one thing if they're not trying,
but I think they're actually trying, and they suck like this,
which is even better.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It just is a.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Better story that they're actually putting effort into this and
they're not tanking. They just are so bad at their jobs.
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
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Alf the Alien Opiner, big fan of the Number ten
thousand so, are leading this hour from the land of
the ininsur as we continue our in depth team coverage
of the quarterback shuffle in the NFL. We talked to
earlier about the Raiders trying to side between Gardner Minshew
and Aidan O'Connell, But now we turn our attention to Pittsburg, PA,
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where state sponsored NFL media quick to tell us NFL
Media that there is optimism that Russell Wilson will be back.
He's missed a bunch of time because of injury. He's
supposed to come back here as possible.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
But as soon as today woo that matters that much.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
But Russell Wilson's been out with a calf injury and
he showed up hurt first day of work. He was
not ready to go, and that has opened up the opportunity,
knock knock, Justin Fields to see more time, and he's
been getting most of the time with the starters, he
presumed starters there in Pittsburgh. So if you've not heard
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the latest on this, and maybe not, we're now hearing
that Justin Fields, while he still has some work to
do Justin Fields in order to catch up with Russell
Wilson in that race for the starting job. The Steelers, though,
are said to be quote.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Open minded, open minded that he can beat out Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
So that's the money quote right there. So let's not
waste any more of our time and get right into it.
The question, as we discussed these Steelers are said to
be open minded on Justin Field's beating out Russell Wilson,
is that how you see it? Is that how you
see it? So I've got Swiss army knife, transformers and
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audible and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make random old movies which
have been airing on monitor number four here random old
movies on minor number.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Four, not that you can see that.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So, first of all, here's my position on Justin Fields
beating out Russell Wilson. Right, we are not seeing eyed
eye on this one.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
We're not.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Maybe you are, but I'm not seeing ey'd eye with
you like Mike Tomlin. Okay, Mike Tomlin is damned if
he doesn't. Damned if he doesn't in this case, because
Russell Wilson is washed up. He's now been bad for
three consecutive years. He's traveled down glory road back in
the day. Right, he's a shell of what he had
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been in Seattle. Not that he was ever an MVP
candad or anything like that, but now he's currently hitchhiking out.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
In the boondocks of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
But then, on the other hand, you've got Fields, who
there's a cult of Justin Field's fanboys.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
They're like, this guy's the greatest thing ever. We love
Justin Fields. He can do it all.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
He's like fantasy football rock star. But he's someone that
looks better on a highlight sizzle reel, then play in
and play out.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
He said, everyone looks better on a sizzleeel.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Okay, But with him, the warts really come out right.
I mean, the air quality in Pittsburgh at the quarterback
position is a mix of smog and haze. That's what
the air is like. And you talk about being stuck
here if you're Mike Tomlin between the devil and the
deep blue sea. Because if you go with Russell Wilson,
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he's long in the tooth, mister unlimited. You've got that
whole nonsense and the fact that he's just not good anymore.
And Mike Tomlin what he needs to do here, because
if you go the other guy, he stinks. Also, you
get out the Swiss army knife and you have to
smooth out the rough edges around justin fields if you
go that direction. But either way, there's no good decision
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here to make. There's no solid decision between these two,
all right.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Secondly to the High Speed Sportswire. We go the High
Speed Sports Wire because reports over the weekend saying that
the New England Patriots and Doc Cleveland Brown's that they
are the front runners and trade talks with the forty
nine ers to acquire Brandon auc.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Do you believe it? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So I spent a few minutes as I was cruising
through the desert heading back from Vegas, back home, looking
at the story, and you know, I'm a jaded realist
when it comes to this stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I don't buy it. Right.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
If we were a Transformer's character, and why shouldn't we
be a Transformers character, we would be Epticus Maximus. We're skeptics, right,
the Autobot Headmaster. And here's why this story is like
poison ivy has been going on months and months and
months and months and months. Realistically, it would be out
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of character to trade the player at this particular point
because the season is underway, training camp has begun, exhibition games,
everyone's gonna be playing this weekend exhibition games. The time
for John Lynch to say bye bye to Brandon Iyock
would be before the draft, but that didn't happen for
whatever reason. So the window is now closed. You'll have
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to come back in the morning. Maybe we'll open it
up again later, but you're not going to get help
in real time. This is the golden era for the
forty nine ers in terms of contention, and their quarterback,
Brock Purty. He's going to get paid after this year.
So this is it and the band is together So
if you're John Lynch and the forty nine ers, you're like,
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you got to ride this thing out unless Brandon Ayuck
becomes a complete schmuck and there's a rebellion inside the
locker room barring that better off keeping him around, and
there's a shot there's a scenario where he ends up
sticking around long term because Deebo Samuel is a little
older and Deebo Samuel's a guy that also has an
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out in his contract after the season. Now, final thought,
we go to Denver? Why are we going to Denver?
Because Broncos coach Sean Payton made a Drew Brees bow
Nicks comp say what they made a comparison. Now, it
wasn't a full throated comparison between bow Nix and Drew Brees.
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He also took a little subtle jab at Russell Wilson
and he said something that resonated with me. And that's
why I wanted to bring it up with you in
case you missed it. Peyton said, sack numbers are a
reflection more on the quarterback than the offensive line. That's
what I've been saying for a long time. It's fat
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shaming by skinny people. Skinny people rip the offensive line
when the quarterback gets sacked because they don't know ball.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
And they like to rip fat people.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
But we know that in reality, more times than not,
it's quarterback malfeasance that leads to the sack. Not always,
but i'll give you some like Daniel Jones is horrible
for the New York Giants. But there's a lot of
dumb people that think that it's not his fault, it's
all the offensive line's fault. Where you could put a
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line of dump trucks protecting him like immovable objects in
front of the quarterback of the Giants, it wouldn't matter
because it's on him. He's the problem. And Sean Payton
is spot on with that. Now, whether or not bo
Nicks will be able to repeat what he did at
Oregon and Auburn and on all the other places he played,
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it's been about twelve years in college football. Whether he
can do that or not is up for debate, and
the only way we will figure that out is when
the season begins and all that. But the premise, I'm
right there with Sean Payton that sack numbers are a
reflection more on the quarterback than the offensive line, and
he went on to smother Drew Brees with love, talking
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about Drew Brees being one of those guys that is
a tough sack and all that, and the ball came
out and he was comparing and contrasting that, and it
was a subtle shot also at Russell Wilson, who is
terrible at avoiding the sack, just terrible at that. So
how do you digest the latest stylings of Sean Payton
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on Broncos quarterback Bo Nicks and his ability to avoid
sacks and comparing him slightly to Drew Brees. So to me,
my answer is mathematical that this is mathematical Sean Payton.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Sure, he's sugarcoating the.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Thirty nine million dollar turnburger that the Broncos have to
barbecue and eat Denver is swallowing a lot of the
money that Russell Wilson was owed on that mega contract.
So thirty nine million going to Russ on that contract
to be hurt in Pittsburgh. And so now it's rookie
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bow Knicks. We trust Sean Payton calling an audible. He's
not going oh maha, omaha, is going bo bo bo
is what he's saying and it's the art of manifestation,
is what it is. Because they're all in, they have
no other options. You see the quarterback depth chart in Denver,
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it's either this bow Knicks cat turns out to be
good or Zach Wilson is going to be the quarterback.
But positive affirmations from Sean Payton trying to speak bow
Knicks into good quarterback play. And I will tell you
this for last season, Russell Wilson, who is washed that
dumb down offense the Broncos ran. Russell Wilson statistically, to
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the untrained eye, was very good in some categories. Of course,
if you watch the entire body of work, you realize
that it was smoking mirrors. But you could do that
with a rookie quarterback bow Nicks. You could spoon feed
bo Nix and get some decent production or at least
numbers that are misleading out of the player.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Could absolutely do that.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
All right is the Ben Maler Show. If you want
to comment on any of that, you can join us here.
We are back, well, most of us are back in
the set. I think Lee's right now. If the people
over there at Taco Bell could hurry up, they need
to help out Lorena. I'll give lorna credit. She's finally
realizing that the food delivery, While it's great if you're rich,
(33:50):
if you're not rich, probably not the way to go.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I'm just saying. So Lee's made a run.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
There's a fast food place just down the street here
on on Ventura, right, it's Ventura ble Vardist down the
road here, So anybody's in line.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
There, Lee's over there, yummy. What are we getting, Loraino?
What are we ordering here? Taco Bell?
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Taco Bell?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Well, I know that, but what are you getting into?
Speaker 6 (34:14):
I'm getting a cravings box, Ben Cravings?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
What's in the cravings box?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
It comes with a supreme Challoba okay BF, five layer burrito,
side nachos, cinnamon twisties, and a hard taco and a
drink for eight dollars and fifty four cents dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And fifty four cents. There's a California prices. And are
you getting an hot sauce with that?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (34:34):
I didn't tell me to get me?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Oh yeah, you've better text him right now. I go
call it Collum right now. I know, Colum, right now,
you gotta get the hot sauce. Just pour hot sauce.
All over your order.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
That's what I would do, but I'm not currently eating
right now, so i'm not I'm not going to touch
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So our lead this we will get to the festivious
of the weekend. We think everyone that came out. People
traveled from great distances to hang out with us, and
we were flattered by that.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We think you.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We hope you made it home safely. But our lead
this hour from Socow. That is where the Raiders are
holding training camp, the Raiders. I have to get all
my Raider monologues in because who knows, who knows how
this is going to go?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Probably not great, probably not great.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Well, that is where Socow where the Raiders are holding
training camp as they prepare for the upcoming NFL regular season.
And they're one of a handful of teams that has
our interest.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
The reason they have our interest is because they don't
have a starting quarterback. There's a quarterback drama orama going
on with the Raiders on who is going to be
the starter as they prepare here, it's wide open, wide open,
legit wide open. Here. The top pass catcher for the Raiders,
who's still there even though he wants to play for
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the Jets, has chimed in. If you didn't hear Raider
wide out DeVante Adams saying that he's still getting comfortable
with both Aiden O'Connell and Gardner Minshew, the two guys
who are duking it out. What a contest this is,
he said, quote, I got my intennas up for everything,
Deavonte Adams said, regarding the quarterback battle, if you will.
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Adams then boldly compared his relationship. This is my favorite part,
So DeVante Adams comparing his relationship with O'Connell, Aidan O'Connell
and Gardner minshewe to the one he had all those
years in Green Bay with Aaron Rodgers back in the
salad days of that team, and saying that it wasn't
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just about the reps, talking about the relationship and the
communication and watching film and all this stuff. So let
us discuss the question how do you explain DeVante Adams
seemingly comparing Gardner Minshew and Aidan O'Connell.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
To Aaron Rogers.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So I've got Selena Gomez, Catwalk and House of Horrors,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice night's sleep, which
I haven't gotten in a few days. I don't normally
sleep that well anyway, say hectic a few days. So
Advante Adams is working here, he's working extra to fill
(03:00):
the content machine. For that, we are grateful, we are
I appreciate guys like Davontae Adams that do my job
make my job easier.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
So it's not that hard.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
He's going above and beyond the call of duty on
this one and not quite up to the dial a
quote status for Devontae Adams. But when you come out
and are comparing Aaron Rodgers Hall of Famers, say what
you want about Rogers going to Hall of Fame and
Gardner Minshew and Aidan O'Connell, that's a bit much. So
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we know what Adams is doing. DeVonta Adams as a
distant relative of Nostradamis and friend of Nostradina's Davonte Adams
is hummin' bars. He's pulled out an old Salina Gomez song.
Kill him with kindness. He is just killing them with kindness,
smothering both of them in praise. A bathtub of praise
is what he's doing now. Nevertheless, DeVante Adams, who if
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the Jets called up and made an offer the Raiders
would accept, would say hallelujah and go off and play
for Aaron Rodgers. DeVante Adams knows the recipe is the same.
We all know the recipes are the same, the names
are different, but the core ingredients to make the dish
are the same. That the quarterback watches the film, check,
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the quarterback communicates with the player. Check check right that
you have open dialogue. All of that right when the
dust settles. Now our vote, and we're never wrong about
these things, Our vote goes to the man that likes
to wear jeorts. That's who should be the starting core
actor there is now. I'll tell you right now, if
the Raiders go that direction with Gardner Minshew, they are
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going to be a wild card team in the AFC.
Oh my god, you can't say that was wrong with you.
You can'ts I'm telling you. Gardner Minshew pound for pound
should be starting in Vegas. He should be right. And
they supposed they have a pretty good defense. They they
think they're gonna have a top five defense. The Raiders
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and just Gardner Mischaue will suck for a couple of games,
will be really good for a couple but it'd be
pretty average for most of the games. And that's all
you need. That's all you need. And remember last year
the Raiders big win was against the Chiefs in a
game Aidan O'Connell started in. But if I remember correctly,
they didn't even throw the pass a forward pass in
the second half of that game. But you have DeVante
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Adams until you get rid of him. And they're all
hyped up about brock Bauers the tight and they got
out of Georgia in the draft. So there are some
playmakers allegedly there. Now page two, we now pivot to
the Raiders Alumni Association and a black guy for Chucky Boy,
John Gruden. Do you see this over the weekend? John
(05:38):
Gruden spotted at Chiefs camp. Okay, so fine, he's there
hanging out, but what was he wearing? He was decked
out from head to toe with Kansas City chief merchandise.
He had the merch on, he had the merch on,
he had the red and the yellow, red and yellow,
redd and yellow, had all that on from top to bottom.
(05:59):
There out there playing grab ass with the other coaches
on Kansas City. And this, of course created a visceral reaction.
Oh my, I can't believe John Gruden would do that.
Why would John Gruden do that? Oh my god, from
Raider Nation, the faux outrage Department. So Chucky boy was
in bed with the enemy. Of course, not the enemy
right now, because he didn't work for the Raiders anymore.
(06:20):
In fact, he's suing the NFL. So what is your
viewpoint on John Gruden being photographed, videoed wearing Kansas City
Chiefs merchandise there at training camp.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So it did look awkward, It looked odd.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I will admit that I'm not a Raider fan or
anything like that, but having known John Gruden, I know
he coached in Tampa Bay and whatnot. But this guy
oozing out propaganda about the Raiders and there was John
Gruden wearing Kansas City Chiefs colors on the sidelines. It
did seem like it was some kind of mind hacked
optical illusion as I said, seeing Gruden out there and
(07:00):
on the catwalk doing a pirouette as he's wearing his
enemy colors or it used to be enemy colors there.
Understandable though if you wanted a puke in your mouth
this whole situation. Cruden persona non grata in NFL coaching
circles as far as being a head coach, will likely
never be a head coach again, and not welcome with
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the Raiders. He was collateral damage in a very bizarre
hit job. And I remember Brent Musburger said, a professional
hit job, not the usual gumbas. As Brent Musburger said,
when that went down, they went to the Wall Street
Journal of New York Times to take out John Cruden
with that email dump. But this is bigger than a rivalry.
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We know how this works here. John Gruden and Andy
Reid are besties. They go way back to a common
bond that they share. You go back to the Green
Bay Packers and Mike Holmgren's coaching staff in the mid
to late nineties, and they were all together a band
of upstart coaches trying to make their way in the NFL.
(08:04):
And so there is a connection. There's a kinship between
Andy Reid and John Gruenelch. Likely is why Gruden ended
up out there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Or he's just sport.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
He's doing stuff with the Saints last year, and he
probably I'll do some more stuff for them this year.
Not last word here. So we go now to the
retirement home. Several of you wanted me to barf in
my mouth because you sent me a photograph that made
me want to do that. My only conclusion is that
that's why you sent it to me. It involves a
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former NFL quarterback Alex Smith. Now you might remember six
years ago Alex Smith shattered into little pieces lit The
little pieces is tibia and fibula, snap crackle, pop gone cola. Now,
somehow he came back and played in the NFL's playing
for the Washington football team at the time. I don't
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know if they were called the Redskins then or not,
but that's why he was playing. And despite the incident
occurring six years ago, randomly, Alex Smith decaid, you know,
I don't send that out. I will set a photo
out of my leg. I want you, I want the
world to see my leg. And so he sent out
a picture of his shattered leg which was put back
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together with glue and some duct tape and they put
it back together and of course went viral. So that
let us discuss when you first saw the leg of
Alex Smith, his mangled, mutilated leg.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
What did you think? All right? So this obviously this
is like a Halloween house of horrors, that situation.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
That was my first thought, like, whoa dude, how can
I even walk on that? And something should be kept private.
You don't need to show the world that, no need
to scare children. You don't have to do that. But
it really is nightmare fuel. It's nightmare juice is what
it is. And this guy mutilated from what because he's
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a glady barbarism back in the day when he's playing
Washington here. The fact that he's able to stand up
though and walk around is wild, and that he came
back to play in the NFL. That leg is bad
to the bone. Literally, there's hardly any bone there.
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recognize me. Shame on you. But our lead this hour
is from baseball. It happened over the weekend while we
were chilling, roasting or took us off in Sin City,
(11:18):
in the Queen City with the skyline Chili fresh the baseball.
The Giants were playing the Reds and we got a
no hitter on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
No no for the Doe do.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It's our moral enemy, enemy of the Mala militia. Blake
Snell tossed a no hitter. Now that is not necessarily
the story. The story is not Blake Snell tossing a
no hitter. I'll explain what.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
The story is.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's what he said after the game. That is the story.
What he said after the So if you didn't hear,
maybe not. Following the no hit effort, Lake Snell was
asked how he was feeling a report, of course, always
a great question considering the fact that he'd never pitched
into the ninth inning.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Of any game in his big league career.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
This is the first time he pitched the ninth inning,
and he took that question as an opportunity to go
on a rampage against me.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
But they can't say it anymore, you know, complete game?
Shut out, no hitor, leave me alone, it doesn't going nine,
don't go eight? Yeah? Get that feels just did it
leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
One?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Just let the man play twitch. Let the man go
on Twitch and play video games. Leave the man alone
playing again. I would hear him playing again. I would
hear it again.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Play again.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
They can't say it anymore. Yeah, shut out, leave me alone,
It doesn't going nine, don't go eight?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Good?
Speaker 5 (12:50):
That feels. Just did it leave me alone one.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, all right, playing on our team is not going
to make the playoffs. Nobody in baseball wanted you. You're
a loser. Nobody wanted you. Let us discuss the question,
what are your thoughts on the Giants pitcher Blake Snell
and his leave me alone, leave me alone doing a
victory lap following his no hit pitching performance over the weekend,
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going to the ninth Inny. So, I've got Golds, Jim Aerosmith,
and Batman and we will combine all of these things
together and make likability, which is something Blake Snell does
not have.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Easy to hate now, num ber wha.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I found this whole thing amusing because Blake Snell says,
you know what, just in case people start to like
me because I pitched a no hitter, I want to
make sure everyone hates my guts. And then he started talking.
You realized, boy, this guy's a douche Canoe. My goodness,
the poster boy for athletes that are easy to pull
against Blake Snell. And again I go back to my point,
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the trade deadline, all those big trophies that he's got
from cy Young wars, and nobody was willing to meet
the asking price for Blake Snell. Nobody wanted him in baseball.
The entire industry said, we don't want you. And oh,
by the way, in the off season, nobody wanted Blake
Snell either, and he went to the Giants because nobody
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else would even give him that crappy offer he signed
with the Giants for. So what does that say about
Blake Snell. It tells you the people of baseball know
what a bad apple this guy is. And he's great
for five and a third innings, but they don't want
to deal with the bull crap from Blake Snell. But this,
I mean the gold standard and we might have to
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add that. Now leave me alone as a drop to
the show. But a while back, when the pandemic was
going on, and he said, I'm not playing unless I
get mine and bra I'm risking my life, bro, because
you know a lot of people died playing baseball during
the pandemic. I mean, how many body bags were there?
I remember that one Brewers game there was like seventeen
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players died in a Brewers game on the It was wild. Yeah,
they were risking their life. It was crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Uh, unless they weren't. Unless that's bull crap. Absolute bull crap.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Right, So we're supposed to pretend you and I are
supposed to pretend that like that one game on Friday
erases the entire body of work, that that just works
as deodorant. And for Snell, it's like it's like going
to gold gym. It's a gold Gym special. That's your flex, Like,
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that's that's your getting off point, that's your brag. That's
an odd flex to me for Blake stuff. I mean,
you just well you can rub some some soap onto
some Irish spraying or whatever and the smell goes away.
So I did some malor math here. Blake Snell has
pitched in the ninth inning in zero point four percent
of his Big League starts? Is that impressive? Is anyone
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impressed by that? Anybody at all?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Leave me alone? Leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
He said, all right, So two hundred and two starts
he's pitched into the ninth inning or beyond one time,
Numero uno one time for Blake Snell. Go take a bow,
do a victory lap? How about that?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
No, you dope. What a dandelion. The man's a dandelion,
Blake Snell. He hit very delicate. Now I'll forever be
grateful for Blake Snell, because I remember the hardest World
Series of all time, twenty twenty, Game six, Tampa Bay
and Los Angeles. Blake Snell on the mound, dealing. But
you knew it wouldn't last because he's Blake Snell, and
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the guy's a coward. And sure enough he ah, I
gotta come out of the game. Ah by ca he
got pulled Blake Snell in the sixth inning of that game.
He had thrown seventy three pitches and they took him
out of the game because he couldn't handle it anymore
because he's soft. And then the Tampa Bay bullpen melted
down because he could not complete another eating or two winnings,
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which he easily could have done with that pitch count.
And so that's where we are today. A guy couldn't
handle the pressure. And now we're supposed to believe because
he went had one game where he went all the
way he's an iron man. Now, yeah, okay, sure, please
Blake Snell. When he's pitching. You know when Blake Snell's
on the mound that you're in good shape because the
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bullpen will be called in. There'll be a conga line
of relievers, and he's playing on a team that's not
going to.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Make the playoffs this year. That's not happening.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And so you look at Blake Snell, You're like, well,
nobody wanted him last year. So he's just accumulating stats
right now, hoping to hornswaggle some random NFL, NBA team
rather baseball. We'll get to it eventually, some random baseball
team to pay him gobs and gobs of money. All
right now, page two, here we go to the Bronx.
We talked about this a little bit earlier in the
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show with the who Am I game? But Yankee star
one Sodo saying that it sucks that the Blue Jays
kept walking Aaron Judge over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
On Saturday, it was three intentional walks.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
The Toronto pitching coach, though, came out and said that
this is going to be the new normal that the
Blue Jays believe that they are on the cusp, but
the ones that started this year, So where are you
at on that? The Blue Jay coach saying that this
is going to become the normal standard chow around baseball
that Aaron Judge gets pitched around, and.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
One Soto he was a oh man, that that sucks.
So my first.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Thought on this, in terms of where I'm at is this,
it's a referendum on the Yankee line. I remember there
was a guy on the Mets who used to play
for the Yankees who came out a couple of weeks ago.
I was like, Oh, yeah, there's a two man team
over there, got Sodo and Judge. And there was a
big controversy, Oh could you trash the yank like that?
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The Yankees were all upset, they were angry, and so
now you look at it, it's been another month and
the guy was absolutely right. The Yankees are a two
man variety show. That's what the New York Yankees are
this year. And that's why Toronto can get away with
pitching around Aaron Judge early and often. You got Aaron
Judge on one side, you got one Soda on the other,
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and the rest of the lineup is bupkis. That's what
you have. So as long as you don't let Aaron
Judge beat you and hit a ball to the moon,
then you can continue walking him. It's a cowardly strategy,
but in terms of wins and losses, wins and losses.
It is effective. Let somebody else beat you. As you
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look at that Yankee lineup, who's exactly going to be
that person?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Because I don't see that person. Do you see that person?
I don't see that. I don't see that.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So for Aaron Judge, he's got to be at this
point now a big Aerosmith fan because this is going
to be his song. Walk this way for the of
the season. Because you got John Carlos Stanton, who's a lightweight,
even though he when he makes contact once every week
the ball goes into orbit, it's on the launching pad,
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but that doesn't happen all that often. And then you
look at the rest of that Yankee lineup, there's nothing there.
Austin Wells, please all right now? Final point, we go
to Chicago, where we are on the cusp of greatness. Well,
opposite of greatness, I guess he could say. But I
love losing, and I've always been a fan of losers.
And congratulations to the White Sox as they have outdone
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themselves after the festivities of the weekend. With help from
the Minnesota baseball team, the Chicago White Sox have now
lost twenty games in a row. Congratulations White Sox. The
pale hoose at it again. So what is your reaction,
Give me your reaction to the White Sox. Now the
losing streak up to twenty in a row. So it's
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a new level of stink for the White Sox. Every
loss they are adding on to the record. And they
are so close, so close to the record. Now, the
modern record for our purposes, the Baltimore Orioles of the
late eighties, and they started the season on a ridiculous
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reverse burner there. But now you look at the White
Sox here, twenty straight losses, and it just hits differently.
It just hits differently, and it's an all encompassing type
of suck, as they like to say in baseball. But
the White Sox at this point, their manager is now
one hundred games under five hundred since he took over
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there in Chicago, and Jerry Reinsdorf and the White Sox
they're like, wow, we suck. Why would we fire the manager?
Because we still suck. It's not the manager, the players
that stink. The players would like you to believe it's
the manager that stinks. The manager would like you to
believe it's the players that stink. And it's likely a
little bit of both. But the White Sox are being
run like a batman villain is running the team right
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the Joker, Zero, zip, zilch and nada. That's what the
White Sox have in the win come. They're oh in
sixteen since the All Star Break. They can't hit, they
can't field, they don't pitch very well. Other than that,
they got a heck of a team and this Chicago
American League Baseball team. Now they get what should be
the magic elixir, a date in the Bay Area with
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the Oakland Athletics. The final time in Oakland White Sox
and as will play. White Sox are vacating to go
to Sacramento next year.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
So if the.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Streak does not end, and I hope it doesn't, I
want to see the a sweep the White Soxe. But
if it does not end, if I'm you know that
goes that direction, then no watch out because they got
the Cubs upcoming. That's a that's a winnablel the Cub's
not very good. You can win that, but then you
start stacking up better teams after that could luck to
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the White Sox might why not just lose every game
the rest of the Year. And the thing is, I
belie they're actually trying. It's one thing if they're not trying,
but I think they're actually trying, and they suck like this,
which is even better.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It just is a.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Better story that they're actually putting effort into this and
they're not tanking. They just are so bad at their jobs.
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Alf the Alien Opiner, big fan of the Number ten
thousand so, are leading this hour from the land of
the ininsur as we continue our in depth team coverage
of the quarterback shuffle in the NFL. We talked to
earlier about the Raiders trying to side between Gardner Minshew
and Aidan O'Connell, But now we turn our attention to Pittsburg, PA,
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where state sponsored NFL media quick to tell us NFL
Media that there is optimism that Russell Wilson will be back.
He's missed a bunch of time because of injury. He's
supposed to come back here as possible.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
But as soon as today woo that matters that much.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
But Russell Wilson's been out with a calf injury and
he showed up hurt first day of work. He was
not ready to go, and that has opened up the opportunity,
knock knock, Justin Fields to see more time, and he's
been getting most of the time with the starters, he
presumed starters there in Pittsburgh. So if you've not heard
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the latest on this, and maybe not, we're now hearing
that Justin Fields, while he still has some work to
do Justin Fields in order to catch up with Russell
Wilson in that race for the starting job. The Steelers, though,
are said to be quote.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Open minded, open minded that he can beat out Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
So that's the money quote right there. So let's not
waste any more of our time and get right into it.
The question, as we discussed these Steelers are said to
be open minded on Justin Field's beating out Russell Wilson,
is that how you see it? Is that how you
see it? So I've got Swiss army knife, transformers and
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audible and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make random old movies which
have been airing on monitor number four here random old
movies on minor number.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Four, not that you can see that.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So, first of all, here's my position on Justin Fields
beating out Russell Wilson. Right, we are not seeing eyed
eye on this one.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
We're not.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Maybe you are, but I'm not seeing ey'd eye with
you like Mike Tomlin. Okay, Mike Tomlin is damned if
he doesn't. Damned if he doesn't in this case, because
Russell Wilson is washed up. He's now been bad for
three consecutive years. He's traveled down glory road back in
the day. Right, he's a shell of what he had
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been in Seattle. Not that he was ever an MVP
candad or anything like that, but now he's currently hitchhiking out.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
In the boondocks of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
But then, on the other hand, you've got Fields, who
there's a cult of Justin Field's fanboys.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
They're like, this guy's the greatest thing ever. We love
Justin Fields. He can do it all.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
He's like fantasy football rock star. But he's someone that
looks better on a highlight sizzle reel, then play in
and play out.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
He said, everyone looks better on a sizzleeel.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Okay, But with him, the warts really come out right.
I mean, the air quality in Pittsburgh at the quarterback
position is a mix of smog and haze. That's what
the air is like. And you talk about being stuck
here if you're Mike Tomlin between the devil and the
deep blue sea. Because if you go with Russell Wilson,
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he's long in the tooth, mister unlimited. You've got that
whole nonsense and the fact that he's just not good anymore.
And Mike Tomlin what he needs to do here, because
if you go the other guy, he stinks. Also, you
get out the Swiss army knife and you have to
smooth out the rough edges around justin fields if you
go that direction. But either way, there's no good decision
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here to make. There's no solid decision between these two,
all right.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Secondly to the High Speed Sportswire. We go the High
Speed Sports Wire because reports over the weekend saying that
the New England Patriots and Doc Cleveland Brown's that they
are the front runners and trade talks with the forty
nine ers to acquire Brandon auc.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Do you believe it? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So I spent a few minutes as I was cruising
through the desert heading back from Vegas, back home, looking
at the story, and you know, I'm a jaded realist
when it comes to this stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I don't buy it. Right.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
If we were a Transformer's character, and why shouldn't we
be a Transformers character, we would be Epticus Maximus. We're skeptics, right,
the Autobot Headmaster. And here's why this story is like
poison ivy has been going on months and months and
months and months and months. Realistically, it would be out
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of character to trade the player at this particular point
because the season is underway, training camp has begun, exhibition games,
everyone's gonna be playing this weekend exhibition games. The time
for John Lynch to say bye bye to Brandon Iyock
would be before the draft, but that didn't happen for
whatever reason. So the window is now closed. You'll have
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to come back in the morning. Maybe we'll open it
up again later, but you're not going to get help
in real time. This is the golden era for the
forty nine ers in terms of contention, and their quarterback,
Brock Purty. He's going to get paid after this year.
So this is it and the band is together So
if you're John Lynch and the forty nine ers, you're like,
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you got to ride this thing out unless Brandon Ayuck
becomes a complete schmuck and there's a rebellion inside the
locker room barring that better off keeping him around, and
there's a shot there's a scenario where he ends up
sticking around long term because Deebo Samuel is a little
older and Deebo Samuel's a guy that also has an
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out in his contract after the season. Now, final thought,
we go to Denver? Why are we going to Denver?
Because Broncos coach Sean Payton made a Drew Brees bow
Nicks comp say what they made a comparison. Now, it
wasn't a full throated comparison between bow Nix and Drew Brees.
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He also took a little subtle jab at Russell Wilson
and he said something that resonated with me. And that's
why I wanted to bring it up with you in
case you missed it. Peyton said, sack numbers are a
reflection more on the quarterback than the offensive line. That's
what I've been saying for a long time. It's fat
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shaming by skinny people. Skinny people rip the offensive line
when the quarterback gets sacked because they don't know ball.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
And they like to rip fat people.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
But we know that in reality, more times than not,
it's quarterback malfeasance that leads to the sack. Not always,
but i'll give you some like Daniel Jones is horrible
for the New York Giants. But there's a lot of
dumb people that think that it's not his fault, it's
all the offensive line's fault. Where you could put a
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line of dump trucks protecting him like immovable objects in
front of the quarterback of the Giants, it wouldn't matter
because it's on him. He's the problem. And Sean Payton
is spot on with that. Now, whether or not bo
Nicks will be able to repeat what he did at
Oregon and Auburn and on all the other places he played,
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it's been about twelve years in college football. Whether he
can do that or not is up for debate, and
the only way we will figure that out is when
the season begins and all that. But the premise, I'm
right there with Sean Payton that sack numbers are a
reflection more on the quarterback than the offensive line, and
he went on to smother Drew Brees with love, talking
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about Drew Brees being one of those guys that is
a tough sack and all that, and the ball came
out and he was comparing and contrasting that, and it
was a subtle shot also at Russell Wilson, who is
terrible at avoiding the sack, just terrible at that. So
how do you digest the latest stylings of Sean Payton
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on Broncos quarterback Bo Nicks and his ability to avoid
sacks and comparing him slightly to Drew Brees. So to me,
my answer is mathematical that this is mathematical Sean Payton.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Sure, he's sugarcoating the.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Thirty nine million dollar turnburger that the Broncos have to
barbecue and eat Denver is swallowing a lot of the
money that Russell Wilson was owed on that mega contract.
So thirty nine million going to Russ on that contract
to be hurt in Pittsburgh. And so now it's rookie
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bow Knicks. We trust Sean Payton calling an audible. He's
not going oh maha, omaha, is going bo bo bo
is what he's saying and it's the art of manifestation,
is what it is. Because they're all in, they have
no other options. You see the quarterback depth chart in Denver,
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it's either this bow Knicks cat turns out to be
good or Zach Wilson is going to be the quarterback.
But positive affirmations from Sean Payton trying to speak bow
Knicks into good quarterback play. And I will tell you
this for last season, Russell Wilson, who is washed that
dumb down offense the Broncos ran. Russell Wilson statistically, to
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the untrained eye, was very good in some categories. Of course,
if you watch the entire body of work, you realize
that it was smoking mirrors. But you could do that
with a rookie quarterback bow Nicks. You could spoon feed
bo Nix and get some decent production or at least
numbers that are misleading out of the player.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Could absolutely do that.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
All right is the Ben Maler Show. If you want
to comment on any of that, you can join us here.
We are back, well, most of us are back in
the set. I think Lee's right now. If the people
over there at Taco Bell could hurry up, they need
to help out Lorena. I'll give lorna credit. She's finally
realizing that the food delivery, While it's great if you're rich,
(33:50):
if you're not rich, probably not the way to go.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I'm just saying. So Lee's made a run.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
There's a fast food place just down the street here
on on Ventura, right, it's Ventura ble Vardist down the
road here, So anybody's in line.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
There, Lee's over there, yummy. What are we getting, Loraino?
What are we ordering here? Taco Bell?
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Taco Bell?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Well, I know that, but what are you getting into?
Speaker 6 (34:14):
I'm getting a cravings box, Ben Cravings?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
What's in the cravings box?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
It comes with a supreme Challoba okay BF, five layer burrito,
side nachos, cinnamon twisties, and a hard taco and a
drink for eight dollars and fifty four cents dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And fifty four cents. There's a California prices. And are
you getting an hot sauce with that?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (34:34):
I didn't tell me to get me?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Oh yeah, you've better text him right now. I go
call it Collum right now. I know, Colum, right now,
you gotta get the hot sauce. Just pour hot sauce.
All over your order.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
That's what I would do, but I'm not currently eating
right now, so i'm not I'm not going to touch
that
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