October 15, 2024 • 35 mins
Big Ben talks about Aaron Rodgers and the Jets coming up short against Josh Allen and the Bills on MNF, the Mets evening up the NLCS with a Game 2 win against the Dodgers, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Paul Simon Edition, and more!
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my hands, two baseball playoff games, one NFL game. The
baseball games were not competitive, so I chose to go
down Pigskin Avenue to begin the night. But we have
plenty of time. We'll be here all night on the
red eye flight, so we have plenty of time to
get to everything. But we begin in New Jersey. That
is where the final game of Week six was played
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a Monday night. The only t team in New York
playing in New Jersey, that would be Josh Allen's Buffalo
Bills visiting aird Rogers and the Jets in the Swamplands,
a Jersey. You had the Fox refugees, Troy Aikman and
Joe Buck on the call, and were you watching? Maybe not,
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Maybe we're watching some baseball or exhibition basketball. I don't
know what else you were doing. I don't know hockey.
I don't know what you yeah going on, but we
watched so you would not have to. Perhaps you missed it.
And Josh Allen threw not one but two touchdown passes
early in the game, he ran for another score, and
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the Bills kicker Tyler Bass made up for an earlier
booboo as he kicked a go ahead field goal Chip
Shop twenty two yard field goal with three p forty
three left, and the Bills held off the Jets offense
and they win, ending a two game skid. They get
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a three point one twenty three to twenty. Buffalo still
has not lost three straight games with Josh Allen as
the starting quarterback. The better story though, on the losing side.
That's where the better story always is. That's where it
is here. The Jets have now lost three consecutive games
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and a chance to go into first place, and the
AFC East goes by the boards as they lose at home,
and they did it just days after they poll axe
their head coach. So'll let us discuss the question, how
did the Jets look under the interim coach, the former
Hawaii Rainbow Warrior back in his college days, Jeff Ulbrich.
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How do they look? So I've got deja vu, Yiddish
and action thriller, and we will combine all of these
things together and we'll go to the great unwashed. Well,
in a little bit, we'll go to the great unwashed,
that would be you.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
But we begin with.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The sequel is the equal. The sequel is the equal
for the Jets. And what do I mean by that
the Jets. You look at the team and I recognize
that guy. That guy was a first round pick. That
guy was a second round pick. These are building blocks
to be a good team. They're not a good team,
but they have the building blocks to be a good team.
You see the various pieces they don't fit together. And
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I did not notice any significant sea change with the
new coach head coach taking over Jeff Olbrick who has
continued on as the defensive coordinator. If anything, as an
objective observer of the Jets, it is a deja vu situation,
and I do mean the adult nightclub deja vu. The
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Jets roster is talented, but they're like strippers. They tease you,
but they don't please you. Right, that's the Jets. You're
longing for more watching the Jets play. So they had
three hundred and ninety three yards of offense, which is
a lot for the Jets. They normally don't get to
that level. But they only had twenty points in the
game and they end up doing the plexicode Burris dance
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is what they end up doing, the Jets, and they
shoot themselves in the foot. They had a cocktail, a
toxic cocktail of penalties and mistakes. So the officiating in
this game was absolutely obscene for both sides. Jets in
the red zone four chances in the red zone, one
of four in the red zone. I didn't play in
the NFL, but I believe that blows. How about third down?
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The Jets had twelve third down plays only converted for
them now thirty three percent. If you're a baseball player
hitting three thirty, you're pretty good. If you're a quarterback,
converting thirty three percent of your third down plays not
all that good. Eleven penalties, one hundred and ten yards
of penalties, and a partridge in a pear tree otherwise
known as Greg Zerline, the former Ram kicker missing a
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pair of field goals in this game, and the cherry
on top the poopy Sunday for the Jets. Airon Rogers,
It's gonna be different. It's gonna be different with Aaron Rodgers.
He got the ball back after the Bills went up
by three, plenty of time, plenty of timeouts to matriculate
the ball down the field, to play hero ball, to
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do what the Hall of Fame quarterback would do, lead
his team down the field, suck up all the time
like a Hoover vacuum cleaner, and then scored the dagger
touchdown with less than thirty seconds to go in the game.
Did Aaron Rodgers do any of that? No? No, He
instead threw a game ceiling pass that was picked off
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by the Buffalo Bills their interception. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night, and so while the offense didn't move
the ball a little bit more in terms of yardage
under Todd downing, the results were ultimately the same. They
might as well have just kept that Bobo Nathaniel Hackett
the play caller here the last three weeks. Now the
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most important stat how many points do you score? The
Jets are averaging fifteen point three points per game. That stinks.
Now on the other side, in the winning locker room,
Howard Josh Allen and the Bills of their first place here,
how are they feeling after this victory? So a breath
as a team, a collective sigh of relief. Here they
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can they can in unison all breathe the same time.
Do that rhythmic breathing situation. If you're the your Buffalo
Bills here in the first place. Okay, does anyone think
they're on the same level of the other good teams
in the AFC, they're not. They're way behind Kansas City,
They're way behind Baltimore. If you look at Big Ben's
big board, Buffalo just not in the same pedigree as
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those teams, even though they're in first place. And just
don't look at the fine print. Yeh, don't look at
the fine man. This Buffalo squad now is missing, so
that genis ahuah. They just don't have it right. Bill's
mafia is sauced. The Bills offense, it looks like they
might be sauced while they're playing here. They are teetering
on the brink of mediocrity, even though they have Josh
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Allen at the quarterback. Oh my god, what happened to
Everyone gets fed? Remember that when they put up the
big point total early in the years. Everyone's getting fed.
We don't need Sefon Diggs. We're better off without Stefon
Diggs and all that stuff. Okay, I'm watching the Bills
on offense last couple of weeks. They're wobbly. They look
like they're punch drunk out there. That's the Bills, and
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they got Josh Allen and they're just not very good
that you are what your numbers indicated, They're not a
very good offense right now. They started this game with
touchdowns on three of the first four possessions. They're like,
all right, here we go. But then as the game
went on, don't ask right And as my my grandfather
would have said, in the Buffalo Bills here the Yiddish
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term e choose my Yiddish here their offense was verkokta
in terms of production in points and whatnot the rest.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Of the game.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And since hanging forty seven points on a team that quit,
remember that Jacksonville, gutless Jacksonville team that quit on that
Monday night game, and you put up forty seven points.
Since that game, the Bills are averaging less than eighteen
points per game over the last three weeks. And needless
to say, this is not the ideal situation for the
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Buffalo Bills, and Aaron Rodgers had to bail out. Buffalo
had to do the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it through that interception and that wobbly
passed to mister Williams who slipped and fell and needed
medical assistance. As the Jets go down. The Bills get
the win, but not impressed with Buffalo at all. And
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if you're a true member of Bill's mafia, you know
this is not that impressive. It is not all right. Now,
last word here we head now to Mowtown the day
after and the fallout from star defensive end Aiden Hutchinson
crackle pop season inning. He literally went out and broke
a leg. He went out and broke a leg against
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the Dallas Cowboys, sacking Dakota Prescott. And so now you
are Dan Campbell. You have influence, you have power, You're
in a position to make something happen. You are in charge.
I know Dan Campbell's not the GM and there's other
people involved, but Dan Campbell's the head coach, and he
has a saying this. So you're Dan Campbell in the Lions.
Who you gonna call to fill the void of Aiden Hutchinson,
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your star pass rusher being out for the rest of
the season. So the answer here, this is an action thriller. Okay,
it's an action thriller. It's Sinners and Saints, that's who
you call, not the New Orleans Saints. Let makes white
all right? First person eye contact is a sinner. Max Crosby.
If the Raiders are completely tanking and based on starting
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Aidan O'Connell, I'm starting to think that's the plan. They
just want to lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose,
and get a top three pick in the If that
is the goal and you're the Lions, you call up
the Raiders and say what's it going to take to
get Max Crosby out of Vegas? And you figure you'll
keep him around and what a dynamic one two punch
that would be when Aiden Hutchinson comes back next year.
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But in the meantime, you don't throw away a season
because your defense can't stop anybody. And then you also
put out feevers to the patron saint of the NFL world,
J J. Watt. Now JJ Watt, it was a meathead
broadcaster at CBS. One thing the world needs needs is
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more ex jock meatheads doing broadcasting. So you got JJ
Watt there who has said, Hey, even though I'm a
Midwestern guy, I'm over from Wisconsin, but I don't want
interest in that. I only want to play for the Texans.
And that's it. He's indicated he is not interested in
the Lions. But that doesn't stop you, right, that's just
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the public consumption. Everyone's got a price. Everyone's got a price.
So if you're Dan Campbell and the Lions and you say, hey,
this is just add water, this is a just add
water situation, it's Temptation Island. It's the team that was
in the final four in the NFL last year. The
Lions are playing very well again this year. And one
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of the favorites in the NFC, the Niners. I don't
know if you know this, the Niners have fallen off
a bit. And so the NFC is W open, w open,
and you're the Lions of all right, we got we
gotta something going here, we got something cooking, and you
need to replace Aiden Hutchinson. So you say, hey, JJ Watt,
why don't you wait, You don't have to come right now.
Why don't you wait till the final two months of
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the season. We'll bring in in late November. You know,
you can celebrate Thanksgiving. Right after Thanksgiving, we'll bring in
and you can play from Thanksgiving and then just through
February hopefully to the super Bowl then in the Bayou
in New Orleans, and there you go. And if I'm
the Lions, I'm all in, and well you gotta save
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the trap. No you don't. And if jj Watt doesn't
want to play for you, you offer the Raiders multiple
first round picks and throw a second round pack in
and you can do a pick exchange for Max Crosby
and just throw that out there to the Raiders. And again,
the Godfather offer will get you whoever you want. And
the Lions have all their first round picks and all
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their second round picks over the next couple of years,
so they have a loaded arsenal of scratcher tickets to
toss out. So again, if you're the Lions, free unsolicited
overnight radio advice, you get the Sinners and the Saints,
the patron saint JJ Watt, You say, hey, you want
to come play for the Lions, And then if he
doesn't want to, call the Raiders up and say, what's
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it going to take to get Max Crosby, who, if
I'm not mistaken, shoved one of his coaches on the
sidelines in the game on Sunday, which is generally a
sign you're not happy where you are and I don't
care all the touching up and say, oh no, that's
not what it was. You don't know football or korm
is not to shove one of your coach is on
the sidelines.
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hour is from Chavez Ravine. We'll start with that. That
is where the Dodgers and Mets played Game two of
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the National League Championship Series. A quick turnaround after LA
absolutely humiliated the Mets nine to nothing in the opener,
and it was a reversal of fortune for the Dodgers
in the sequel here if you were not watching, the
game started four o'clock Eastern, one o'clock in the West,
and it was over early as Francisco Lindor led off
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the game with a home run, and then in the
second inning a grand Salami. Get out the rpe bred
and mustard Grandma, Yeah, grand Salami time, as Mark Vinto's
hitting a grand slam. There the Mets absolutely pularized the
Dodgers seven to three the finals. So it's one one
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now in the National League Championship Series, and they head
back to Queens after a day off, a travel day.
Although the teams I believe already on their way at
this hour, probably somewhere over the Midwest right now, on
their way to New York for Games three, four, and five.
The better story is in the losing locker room, and
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so that is where we will begin to the discussion
how do you dissect the Dave Roberts Dodger loss in
Game two? So I've got etch a sketch, diet plan
and calendar app and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to make a I
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want to get away vacation, because you'd like to think
that the Dodgers somewhere along the way realize, well, what
have we done here? Like what is what is that
that's terrible? We'll start with the culpability, and I point
the finger at Dave Roberts and the nerds. We have
long pointed out the ridiculousness of these bullpen games, and
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in many ways the game was lost before it was
even played. Going with the dreaded bullpen game. Real baseball people,
knowledgeable baseball people know how stupid the bullpen games are.
It's a gimmick that should be saved for the Cactus
League or the Grapefruit League and maybe some regular season game.
If you're a small market, second rate operation like Tampa Bay,
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you do the bullpen game. But in the final four
of Major League Baseball, it's unbecoming. It is unbecoming, and
occasionally it works, but that just reinforces the lack of
consistency with the bullpen game. The point that we have
been making for some time here. It is a flawed strategy.
And I've ranted and raved and howled the moon many
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a night about this, and it's like drawing a masterpiece,
but you're doing it on an etche sketch. You need
perfection and one blemish, one drop, and all of a sudden,
the whole thing goes sideways. It's all Oversee you later
or go. In this particular game, someone named Landon Knack
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who did not have a knack for pitching. It looked
like he might have been on crack while he was pitching.
My god, did he suck. The Italian chef was on
the mound. Here's a meat ball. Here's a meat ball.
Here's a meat ball. Everyone gets a meat ball. Disgusting.
It was absolutely disgusting the way that guy pitched. I'd
take him off the roster right now. I'd take him
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off the NLCS roster right now. But that's a bullpen game.
And Dave Roberts was hell bent on the plan. And
this is one of the flaws the Dodgers have. They
have to overcome this. It's all about the plan. They
it's all about the three ring binder, and here's how
we're gonna do it. And and then you know, this
guy's gonna start. Bragier's gonna start, and he's go out
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there and then NAT's gonna pitch multiple endings blah blah
blah blah blah blah. So Nack goes two innings, fifty
five pitches, gives up a Grand Slam, a total of
five runs, torpedoing the Dodger chances as they were playing uphill. Now,
one run, you say, all right, well the Lindor home run?
Who kN one runs nothing? Any time you can tie
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the game. Everyone can hit a home run in modern baseball.
But the Grand Slam, that was it. And yet again,
Dave Roberts, as he has done so often, he's the
fifth losing his manager in postseason history. And this loser,
Andy the comic book guy, wanted me to apologize to
Dave Roberts. What a loser he is to want me
to buy Why don't I tal apologize to Dave Roberts.
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All right, Dave Roberts has paid a lot of money
to not f up, and he often f's up. He's
bad at his job on a regular basis. Is a
great example, right, Read the room, Dave, Read the room, Dave.
You know know when somebody's got it, no, when somebody
doesn't have it? And I knew watching on my TV
that Landon Knack had flop sweat all over his brow.
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The moment was too big. The guy couldn't handle it.
You knew he was a softy and he couldn't handle it.
And sure enough, by the time he took him out
of the game, the Dodgers were They found themselves in
a sinkle bullpen game. That's a bullpen game. One guy sucks,
the whole thing goes kaboom. That's a bullpen game.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it,
hate it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
It's minor league. It's bush league. Bullpen game. Bullpen game.
Hate it, hate it. You do that maybe in June
against the Rockies. You don't do that in the final
four of Major League Baseball. It's embarrassed. It's embarrass Now
the other part of this page two here what happened
to Shohey o'tani and the Dodger offense. Now, they didn't
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get shut out in this game, right we mentioned the
Mets jumped out to a big lead and the final
score was seven to three. I just put up three runs.
At one point they had the bases loaded, a situation
where they could have really put some real pressure on
the Mets and gotten back into it, but the top
of the Dodger lineup, the guys that have all those
three hundred million dollar contracts, was a zombie operation there
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at the very top and nocturnal. I guess they're not
day workers. Yikes, completely horn swag. Let's face, the Mets
have an average pitching staff. They're not really all that good.
It's a bit of a fluke. What's happened to the Mets? Here?
And sure enough the Dodger top five batters, though, how
bad was it? Otani Bets, Ti, Oscar Hernandez, Freddie Freeman,
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and Will Smith, the fresh prince of Chavez Ravine sucked
at a time you cannot suck. They had nineteen at
bats oho for nineteen, not one hit out of the
top five hitters in the lineup against second rate pitching. Hey,
come on, what are you doing? All right? It's good
you get out. It's a good loss. We'll get it
out of the system, all right now. Page the final
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page here, and really the final point on all this.
We are two games in to the National League Championship Series,
two games in, and where do things stand at this
point between the Dodgers and the Mets. So it's a
dead heat. One one. I give the edge to the
Dodgers because they're better. They have better players, and so
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if you have better players and it's even up, you
have the advantage. The Mets don't have as good a
roster as the Dodgers have, so the edge is still
in favor of the Dodgers. And you say, well, neck
and neck and all that. But if you look at
your calendar app on your phone, it's the season of giving.
And the thing that does scary a little bit is
that Dave Roberts and the Nerds will likely send out
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another bullpen game down the line, and they make those
traditional It's a season of giving, right, so the charitable
donation Dave Roberts and Landon knack handing that particular game
to the New York Mets. But overall, on a Malar
scale of concern one to ten, I'm like a one again.
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It's best of five. Now, it's not like there's any
intimidation playing in New York. Mets fans are losers. Dodgers
have no problem playing in New York. It's not a
big issue there. And where they can be afraid of Grimace,
Oh my god, Grimmace is there. Oh my god, we
can't play baseball because Grimmas is there. There's no real
home field advantage with the Mets, and so you don't
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have to worry about that. And Dodgers recently in San
Diego they dominated the last couple of times they played
on the road, and so and New York's also just
not a fundamentally sound team. They're not a good defensive
baseball team, and that normally will come back to bite you.
There's plenty of holes there to exploit for the Dodgers
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against the Mets. Of course, the great equalizer here is
the nerd factor and Dave Roberts just doing whatever he's
told the nerds advise him to do. But the matchup
in Game three, after a day off on Tuesday, they'll
be back add it on Wednesday and be Walker Bueller,
who's terrible, but Luis Severino, who's no good either on
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the mound for the Mets. So it's not exactly herscheizer
Gooden two point zero in that particular matchup.
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Here we go, it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
To the third degree, yeah, this is one big then
gets grill who all loop?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
So Killer Williams has strung together some good performances lately,
and with four touchdowns against the Jaguars in London, some
analysts are starting to throw around words like superstar.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Oh yeah, soon, it's still becoming a superstar.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, I don't know. Is he on the menu at
Carls Junior? I don't know. No, here, listen, Caleb Williams
is playing very well lately for the Chicago Bears. But
to be a superstar you have to do it for
more than a month. So no, But he's supposed to
be the guy was the number one pick in the Giraffe.
He's supposed to be a superstar next.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Peyton Manning made a podcast appearance where he said that
he hopes one of his records gets broken someday, his
twenty eight interceptions that he threw as a rookie. Now, Ben,
is this a record that will stand the test of time.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yes, because anytime someone gets close to that, they'll bench him.
They'll say, oh no, we gotta bench him, we gotta
shut him down and all that. That is one of
those records and be very difficult. I don't see it
anytime soon. The way the NFL's played today, that will
be a record that will be in danger of being
broken next.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
So the Broncos offense was an EP for three quarters
on Sunday. Then in the fourth quarter when they went
to no huddle and Bonick started changing plays that the
Lions began to produce and a lot of Broncos fans
on social media are throwing blame at Sean Payton and
his play calling.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You think there's any truth to that the blame there.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Well, Sean Payton did as we talked about on the
TV show. He was questioning bo Nick saying he goes
off the script that they're not exactly on the same page. Group.
So yeah, how do we do coopolo? Yes, that is
a wing of the putter on the ball? What the game?
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Let's welcome our contestants for the game, and then we'll
get to the game. We have a man that talks
way too fast. He is in Florida. We will say
hello to Jed who fled.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Hello, Jed, I want to bring to the tea teenage
which Salem saber Higgins was a warlock that was doing
one hundred year sentence to the black Cat, trying to
take over the world as a wizard. That's what I
felt like every time I listened to one of those
calls remainers.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Hey, bab Okay, who do you want to partner up.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Tustin Jupert?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Okay, Hold on a second, and we have Brian who
is in many the applis Sello. Brian, you are on
Malar's amount of money. Who would you like to partner
up with? Brian?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Keep Eddie's name out saw effing mouth?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
All right, very good, So you will lose with Eddie.
I'll put that down. And if you're on hold, to
stay there in case we have to hang up on
Jed or Brian because of bad activity. It's Malard's a
mountain of money. The Paul Simon edition. And what are
the categories here?
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Coup The categories are the sound of Silence, Missus Robinson,
faking it and my little Town.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
All right, Jed, you were on first. Pick a category? Please?
Speaker 6 (27:41):
I love those drops?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Okay, Brian, which shatoy do you want Brian? All right,
missus Robinson, everyone, hold on, we'll have Mallard's amount of money.
It is entirely we'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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Malor's mountain of money. Helloy, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Oh, let's do here we go Malo's amount of money.
The Paul Simon additioned instead of birthday turned eighty three.
Let's welcome in Jed who fled who was teamed up
with Coop? And Jed's in Florida. He's swampland he's dodging
gators and snorting all kinds of things. And Brian is
in Minneapolis and he wants to lose, so he teamed
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up with Eddie. All right, Uh, Coop, you and Jed? Jed?
Which shadow would you pick? Jed?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Faking it?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Facing it all right? These athletes had a teammate they
actually hated. They hated each other. Are you okay, Jed?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
It's nothing to be I've got very close to get
to get paid.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Spit together, Okay, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
And these athletes all had a teammate they actually hated.
And you're on your way or.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Go basketball player died in a helicopter crash. Yes, this
guy was a wide receiver for the Cowboys during the
Troy Aikman era.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Brian, don't answer the questions.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
He threw up on the field during the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
No earlier than that, Terrell Owens was on the team.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Yes, yes, this guy was on the SuperSonics then won
a title with the heat three point shooter Jesus Jesus Shuttlesworth. Yes,
one of the best second basement of all time. He
got in a fight with Barry Bonds like all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yes, all right, did not go for the big point total,
but you did get one hundred and sixty, all.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Right, all right, not Benens, all right, Brian, Now it's
your turn.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
All right, let's go Waddy, all right, missus Robinson. These
sports figures are in a relationship with a giant aid gap.
A big age gap. Will put forty five seconds on
the clock. We need the first and last name. You're
on your way go.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Former quarterback of the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Same last name as me Montana. Let's yeap what Let's
then just going to the next one.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Okay, uh, let's try. NBA player for the seventy six
ers known as the Doctor.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
God.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Yes, Thoma Patriots head coach, won a lot of Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Grumpy Yes, running.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Back for the Giants, had a twin brother that played
for the Buccaneers by Barber Yes, the flash for the
Miami Heat.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
No tough clues, Eddie, Eddie Montana about you?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
You?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah? You got My mathis director forty.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Brian. Do you know what my last name is?
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Eddie? I don't all.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Right, Eddie Garcia?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Why would you pick Eddie? You don't even know his
last I do up?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Jeff Garcia was the one that you missed there?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, oh, Montana was. At least it'll be a good
drop on the show and it'll be sad, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
We have the sound of silence and my little town, Brian,
very exciting.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You're trailing, so pick a category. Okay, the sound of SATs.
These athletes let their play do the talking for them.
Forty five seconds on the clock. You're on your way.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Go. NBA player for the Clippers he's always injured hard.
Oh yes, Uh, this is what the greatest wide receiver
in Arizona Cardinals history, number eleven new play at the
University of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Okay, it's from Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Let's let's go with wide receiver for the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Won Super bowls with John Elway. Very generic last name. Okay, Uh,
let's see you know what. Let's just call it quits.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
He's giving up.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Oh my god, he's winning.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Brian, you should have picked me. I wouldn't give up.
Eddie's a quitter. Ben would have gotten rid of you,
and I respect the listeners.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
I never get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Complete.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Brian sounds like a great guy. Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I like Brian. He doesn't know who you are. I
like him. That's good. He picks you, but he has
no idea who you are. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
He's upset, so he's going away. I'm upset that he sucks. Wow. Yeah, what, Jed.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
I think we'll get better competition if you would let
the game go through his inking and conclude the easing.
Every weekend not shortened.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Jed, do you know my last name? No? No, Yet
we've allowed the game to go.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
We can finish the game. Jed, do you want to
finish the game? We can. We can run up the
score here.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Yeah, thank don I think of sounds. I would have
to have hung up all right.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Uh my little town. Uh, these athletes are all from
a small town. Forty five seconds. Let's go the mail
man basketball alone.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yes uh.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
This guy used to be a quarterback for the Cowboys.
He's now a broadcaster.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Uh, he is a running back for the Rams. He's
got the most rushing yards in a single season.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Marshall, Marshall thomp No the other guy.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Yes, uh, this guy was a baseball player just recently died.
The say hey kid, Yes uh, this guy used to
be running back for the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
He's now on the Commanders, Little dude.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Du.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Commanders should be the Redskins. I don't know. I can't
do it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I can't. Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
He's like the top wide receiver in Saints history. Yeah,
Joe Horn, No, no.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
People know who that is.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
How about the white guy from Duke He's gonna go
number one in this year's draft.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
No, you don't know that that could be.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
That could be, that could be back.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
We're out of time. You didn't get Austin Eckler, Marcus
Colston and Cooper flag. There you go, all right, thank you, ja,
you won. Boy Eddie was terrible job by it.
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my hands, two baseball playoff games, one NFL game. The
baseball games were not competitive, so I chose to go
down Pigskin Avenue to begin the night. But we have
plenty of time. We'll be here all night on the
red eye flight, so we have plenty of time to
get to everything. But we begin in New Jersey. That
is where the final game of Week six was played
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a Monday night. The only t team in New York
playing in New Jersey, that would be Josh Allen's Buffalo
Bills visiting aird Rogers and the Jets in the Swamplands,
a Jersey. You had the Fox refugees, Troy Aikman and
Joe Buck on the call, and were you watching? Maybe not,
(02:18):
Maybe we're watching some baseball or exhibition basketball. I don't
know what else you were doing. I don't know hockey.
I don't know what you yeah going on, but we
watched so you would not have to. Perhaps you missed it.
And Josh Allen threw not one but two touchdown passes
early in the game, he ran for another score, and
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the Bills kicker Tyler Bass made up for an earlier
booboo as he kicked a go ahead field goal Chip
Shop twenty two yard field goal with three p forty
three left, and the Bills held off the Jets offense
and they win, ending a two game skid. They get
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a three point one twenty three to twenty. Buffalo still
has not lost three straight games with Josh Allen as
the starting quarterback. The better story though, on the losing side.
That's where the better story always is. That's where it
is here. The Jets have now lost three consecutive games
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and a chance to go into first place, and the
AFC East goes by the boards as they lose at home,
and they did it just days after they poll axe
their head coach. So'll let us discuss the question, how
did the Jets look under the interim coach, the former
Hawaii Rainbow Warrior back in his college days, Jeff Ulbrich.
(03:42):
How do they look? So I've got deja vu, Yiddish
and action thriller, and we will combine all of these
things together and we'll go to the great unwashed. Well,
in a little bit, we'll go to the great unwashed,
that would be you.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
But we begin with.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The sequel is the equal. The sequel is the equal
for the Jets. And what do I mean by that
the Jets. You look at the team and I recognize
that guy. That guy was a first round pick. That
guy was a second round pick. These are building blocks
to be a good team. They're not a good team,
but they have the building blocks to be a good team.
You see the various pieces they don't fit together. And
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I did not notice any significant sea change with the
new coach head coach taking over Jeff Olbrick who has
continued on as the defensive coordinator. If anything, as an
objective observer of the Jets, it is a deja vu situation,
and I do mean the adult nightclub deja vu. The
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Jets roster is talented, but they're like strippers. They tease you,
but they don't please you. Right, that's the Jets. You're
longing for more watching the Jets play. So they had
three hundred and ninety three yards of offense, which is
a lot for the Jets. They normally don't get to
that level. But they only had twenty points in the
game and they end up doing the plexicode Burris dance
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is what they end up doing, the Jets, and they
shoot themselves in the foot. They had a cocktail, a
toxic cocktail of penalties and mistakes. So the officiating in
this game was absolutely obscene for both sides. Jets in
the red zone four chances in the red zone, one
of four in the red zone. I didn't play in
the NFL, but I believe that blows. How about third down?
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The Jets had twelve third down plays only converted for
them now thirty three percent. If you're a baseball player
hitting three thirty, you're pretty good. If you're a quarterback,
converting thirty three percent of your third down plays not
all that good. Eleven penalties, one hundred and ten yards
of penalties, and a partridge in a pear tree otherwise
known as Greg Zerline, the former Ram kicker missing a
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pair of field goals in this game, and the cherry
on top the poopy Sunday for the Jets. Airon Rogers,
It's gonna be different. It's gonna be different with Aaron Rodgers.
He got the ball back after the Bills went up
by three, plenty of time, plenty of timeouts to matriculate
the ball down the field, to play hero ball, to
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do what the Hall of Fame quarterback would do, lead
his team down the field, suck up all the time
like a Hoover vacuum cleaner, and then scored the dagger
touchdown with less than thirty seconds to go in the game.
Did Aaron Rodgers do any of that? No? No, He
instead threw a game ceiling pass that was picked off
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by the Buffalo Bills their interception. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night, and so while the offense didn't move
the ball a little bit more in terms of yardage
under Todd downing, the results were ultimately the same. They
might as well have just kept that Bobo Nathaniel Hackett
the play caller here the last three weeks. Now the
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most important stat how many points do you score? The
Jets are averaging fifteen point three points per game. That stinks.
Now on the other side, in the winning locker room,
Howard Josh Allen and the Bills of their first place here,
how are they feeling after this victory? So a breath
as a team, a collective sigh of relief. Here they
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can they can in unison all breathe the same time.
Do that rhythmic breathing situation. If you're the your Buffalo
Bills here in the first place. Okay, does anyone think
they're on the same level of the other good teams
in the AFC, they're not. They're way behind Kansas City,
They're way behind Baltimore. If you look at Big Ben's
big board, Buffalo just not in the same pedigree as
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those teams, even though they're in first place. And just
don't look at the fine print. Yeh, don't look at
the fine man. This Buffalo squad now is missing, so
that genis ahuah. They just don't have it right. Bill's
mafia is sauced. The Bills offense, it looks like they
might be sauced while they're playing here. They are teetering
on the brink of mediocrity, even though they have Josh
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Allen at the quarterback. Oh my god, what happened to
Everyone gets fed? Remember that when they put up the
big point total early in the years. Everyone's getting fed.
We don't need Sefon Diggs. We're better off without Stefon
Diggs and all that stuff. Okay, I'm watching the Bills
on offense last couple of weeks. They're wobbly. They look
like they're punch drunk out there. That's the Bills, and
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they got Josh Allen and they're just not very good
that you are what your numbers indicated, They're not a
very good offense right now. They started this game with
touchdowns on three of the first four possessions. They're like,
all right, here we go. But then as the game
went on, don't ask right And as my my grandfather
would have said, in the Buffalo Bills here the Yiddish
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term e choose my Yiddish here their offense was verkokta
in terms of production in points and whatnot the rest.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Of the game.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And since hanging forty seven points on a team that quit,
remember that Jacksonville, gutless Jacksonville team that quit on that
Monday night game, and you put up forty seven points.
Since that game, the Bills are averaging less than eighteen
points per game over the last three weeks. And needless
to say, this is not the ideal situation for the
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Buffalo Bills, and Aaron Rodgers had to bail out. Buffalo
had to do the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it through that interception and that wobbly
passed to mister Williams who slipped and fell and needed
medical assistance. As the Jets go down. The Bills get
the win, but not impressed with Buffalo at all. And
(09:44):
if you're a true member of Bill's mafia, you know
this is not that impressive. It is not all right. Now,
last word here we head now to Mowtown the day
after and the fallout from star defensive end Aiden Hutchinson
crackle pop season inning. He literally went out and broke
a leg. He went out and broke a leg against
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the Dallas Cowboys, sacking Dakota Prescott. And so now you
are Dan Campbell. You have influence, you have power, You're
in a position to make something happen. You are in charge.
I know Dan Campbell's not the GM and there's other
people involved, but Dan Campbell's the head coach, and he
has a saying this. So you're Dan Campbell in the Lions.
Who you gonna call to fill the void of Aiden Hutchinson,
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your star pass rusher being out for the rest of
the season. So the answer here, this is an action thriller. Okay,
it's an action thriller. It's Sinners and Saints, that's who
you call, not the New Orleans Saints. Let makes white
all right? First person eye contact is a sinner. Max Crosby.
If the Raiders are completely tanking and based on starting
(10:52):
Aidan O'Connell, I'm starting to think that's the plan. They
just want to lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose,
and get a top three pick in the If that
is the goal and you're the Lions, you call up
the Raiders and say what's it going to take to
get Max Crosby out of Vegas? And you figure you'll
keep him around and what a dynamic one two punch
that would be when Aiden Hutchinson comes back next year.
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But in the meantime, you don't throw away a season
because your defense can't stop anybody. And then you also
put out feevers to the patron saint of the NFL world,
J J. Watt. Now JJ Watt, it was a meathead
broadcaster at CBS. One thing the world needs needs is
(11:35):
more ex jock meatheads doing broadcasting. So you got JJ
Watt there who has said, Hey, even though I'm a
Midwestern guy, I'm over from Wisconsin, but I don't want
interest in that. I only want to play for the Texans.
And that's it. He's indicated he is not interested in
the Lions. But that doesn't stop you, right, that's just
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the public consumption. Everyone's got a price. Everyone's got a price.
So if you're Dan Campbell and the Lions and you say, hey,
this is just add water, this is a just add
water situation, it's Temptation Island. It's the team that was
in the final four in the NFL last year. The
Lions are playing very well again this year. And one
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of the favorites in the NFC, the Niners. I don't
know if you know this, the Niners have fallen off
a bit. And so the NFC is W open, w open,
and you're the Lions of all right, we got we
gotta something going here, we got something cooking, and you
need to replace Aiden Hutchinson. So you say, hey, JJ Watt,
why don't you wait, You don't have to come right now.
Why don't you wait till the final two months of
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the season. We'll bring in in late November. You know,
you can celebrate Thanksgiving. Right after Thanksgiving, we'll bring in
and you can play from Thanksgiving and then just through
February hopefully to the super Bowl then in the Bayou
in New Orleans, and there you go. And if I'm
the Lions, I'm all in, and well you gotta save
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the trap. No you don't. And if jj Watt doesn't
want to play for you, you offer the Raiders multiple
first round picks and throw a second round pack in
and you can do a pick exchange for Max Crosby
and just throw that out there to the Raiders. And again,
the Godfather offer will get you whoever you want. And
the Lions have all their first round picks and all
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their second round picks over the next couple of years,
so they have a loaded arsenal of scratcher tickets to
toss out. So again, if you're the Lions, free unsolicited
overnight radio advice, you get the Sinners and the Saints,
the patron saint JJ Watt, You say, hey, you want
to come play for the Lions, And then if he
doesn't want to, call the Raiders up and say, what's
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it going to take to get Max Crosby, who, if
I'm not mistaken, shoved one of his coaches on the
sidelines in the game on Sunday, which is generally a
sign you're not happy where you are and I don't
care all the touching up and say, oh no, that's
not what it was. You don't know football or korm
is not to shove one of your coach is on
the sidelines.
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hour is from Chavez Ravine. We'll start with that. That
is where the Dodgers and Mets played Game two of
(15:14):
the National League Championship Series. A quick turnaround after LA
absolutely humiliated the Mets nine to nothing in the opener,
and it was a reversal of fortune for the Dodgers
in the sequel here if you were not watching, the
game started four o'clock Eastern, one o'clock in the West,
and it was over early as Francisco Lindor led off
(15:38):
the game with a home run, and then in the
second inning a grand Salami. Get out the rpe bred
and mustard Grandma, Yeah, grand Salami time, as Mark Vinto's
hitting a grand slam. There the Mets absolutely pularized the
Dodgers seven to three the finals. So it's one one
(15:59):
now in the National League Championship Series, and they head
back to Queens after a day off, a travel day.
Although the teams I believe already on their way at
this hour, probably somewhere over the Midwest right now, on
their way to New York for Games three, four, and five.
The better story is in the losing locker room, and
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so that is where we will begin to the discussion
how do you dissect the Dave Roberts Dodger loss in
Game two? So I've got etch a sketch, diet plan
and calendar app and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to make a I
(16:45):
want to get away vacation, because you'd like to think
that the Dodgers somewhere along the way realize, well, what
have we done here? Like what is what is that
that's terrible? We'll start with the culpability, and I point
the finger at Dave Roberts and the nerds. We have
long pointed out the ridiculousness of these bullpen games, and
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in many ways the game was lost before it was
even played. Going with the dreaded bullpen game. Real baseball people,
knowledgeable baseball people know how stupid the bullpen games are.
It's a gimmick that should be saved for the Cactus
League or the Grapefruit League and maybe some regular season game.
If you're a small market, second rate operation like Tampa Bay,
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you do the bullpen game. But in the final four
of Major League Baseball, it's unbecoming. It is unbecoming, and
occasionally it works, but that just reinforces the lack of
consistency with the bullpen game. The point that we have
been making for some time here. It is a flawed strategy.
And I've ranted and raved and howled the moon many
(17:56):
a night about this, and it's like drawing a masterpiece,
but you're doing it on an etche sketch. You need
perfection and one blemish, one drop, and all of a sudden,
the whole thing goes sideways. It's all Oversee you later
or go. In this particular game, someone named Landon Knack
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who did not have a knack for pitching. It looked
like he might have been on crack while he was pitching.
My god, did he suck. The Italian chef was on
the mound. Here's a meat ball. Here's a meat ball.
Here's a meat ball. Everyone gets a meat ball. Disgusting.
It was absolutely disgusting the way that guy pitched. I'd
take him off the roster right now. I'd take him
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off the NLCS roster right now. But that's a bullpen game.
And Dave Roberts was hell bent on the plan. And
this is one of the flaws the Dodgers have. They
have to overcome this. It's all about the plan. They
it's all about the three ring binder, and here's how
we're gonna do it. And and then you know, this
guy's gonna start. Bragier's gonna start, and he's go out
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there and then NAT's gonna pitch multiple endings blah blah
blah blah blah blah. So Nack goes two innings, fifty
five pitches, gives up a Grand Slam, a total of
five runs, torpedoing the Dodger chances as they were playing uphill. Now,
one run, you say, all right, well the Lindor home run?
Who kN one runs nothing? Any time you can tie
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the game. Everyone can hit a home run in modern baseball.
But the Grand Slam, that was it. And yet again,
Dave Roberts, as he has done so often, he's the
fifth losing his manager in postseason history. And this loser,
Andy the comic book guy, wanted me to apologize to
Dave Roberts. What a loser he is to want me
to buy Why don't I tal apologize to Dave Roberts.
(19:44):
All right, Dave Roberts has paid a lot of money
to not f up, and he often f's up. He's
bad at his job on a regular basis. Is a
great example, right, Read the room, Dave, Read the room, Dave.
You know know when somebody's got it, no, when somebody
doesn't have it? And I knew watching on my TV
that Landon Knack had flop sweat all over his brow.
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The moment was too big. The guy couldn't handle it.
You knew he was a softy and he couldn't handle it.
And sure enough, by the time he took him out
of the game, the Dodgers were They found themselves in
a sinkle bullpen game. That's a bullpen game. One guy sucks,
the whole thing goes kaboom. That's a bullpen game.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it,
hate it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
It's minor league. It's bush league. Bullpen game. Bullpen game.
Hate it, hate it. You do that maybe in June
against the Rockies. You don't do that in the final
four of Major League Baseball. It's embarrassed. It's embarrass Now
the other part of this page two here what happened
to Shohey o'tani and the Dodger offense. Now, they didn't
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get shut out in this game, right we mentioned the
Mets jumped out to a big lead and the final
score was seven to three. I just put up three runs.
At one point they had the bases loaded, a situation
where they could have really put some real pressure on
the Mets and gotten back into it, but the top
of the Dodger lineup, the guys that have all those
three hundred million dollar contracts, was a zombie operation there
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at the very top and nocturnal. I guess they're not
day workers. Yikes, completely horn swag. Let's face, the Mets
have an average pitching staff. They're not really all that good.
It's a bit of a fluke. What's happened to the Mets? Here?
And sure enough the Dodger top five batters, though, how
bad was it? Otani Bets, Ti, Oscar Hernandez, Freddie Freeman,
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and Will Smith, the fresh prince of Chavez Ravine sucked
at a time you cannot suck. They had nineteen at
bats oho for nineteen, not one hit out of the
top five hitters in the lineup against second rate pitching. Hey,
come on, what are you doing? All right? It's good
you get out. It's a good loss. We'll get it
out of the system, all right now. Page the final
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page here, and really the final point on all this.
We are two games in to the National League Championship Series,
two games in, and where do things stand at this
point between the Dodgers and the Mets. So it's a
dead heat. One one. I give the edge to the
Dodgers because they're better. They have better players, and so
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if you have better players and it's even up, you
have the advantage. The Mets don't have as good a
roster as the Dodgers have, so the edge is still
in favor of the Dodgers. And you say, well, neck
and neck and all that. But if you look at
your calendar app on your phone, it's the season of giving.
And the thing that does scary a little bit is
that Dave Roberts and the Nerds will likely send out
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another bullpen game down the line, and they make those
traditional It's a season of giving, right, so the charitable
donation Dave Roberts and Landon knack handing that particular game
to the New York Mets. But overall, on a Malar
scale of concern one to ten, I'm like a one again.
(23:07):
It's best of five. Now, it's not like there's any
intimidation playing in New York. Mets fans are losers. Dodgers
have no problem playing in New York. It's not a
big issue there. And where they can be afraid of Grimace,
Oh my god, Grimmace is there. Oh my god, we
can't play baseball because Grimmas is there. There's no real
home field advantage with the Mets, and so you don't
(23:29):
have to worry about that. And Dodgers recently in San
Diego they dominated the last couple of times they played
on the road, and so and New York's also just
not a fundamentally sound team. They're not a good defensive
baseball team, and that normally will come back to bite you.
There's plenty of holes there to exploit for the Dodgers
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against the Mets. Of course, the great equalizer here is
the nerd factor and Dave Roberts just doing whatever he's
told the nerds advise him to do. But the matchup
in Game three, after a day off on Tuesday, they'll
be back add it on Wednesday and be Walker Bueller,
who's terrible, but Luis Severino, who's no good either on
(24:10):
the mound for the Mets. So it's not exactly herscheizer
Gooden two point zero in that particular matchup.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
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Speaker 1 (24:23):
Here we go, it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
To the third degree, yeah, this is one big then
gets grill who all loop?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
So Killer Williams has strung together some good performances lately,
and with four touchdowns against the Jaguars in London, some
analysts are starting to throw around words like superstar.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Oh yeah, soon, it's still becoming a superstar.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, I don't know. Is he on the menu at
Carls Junior? I don't know. No, here, listen, Caleb Williams
is playing very well lately for the Chicago Bears. But
to be a superstar you have to do it for
more than a month. So no, But he's supposed to
be the guy was the number one pick in the Giraffe.
He's supposed to be a superstar next.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Peyton Manning made a podcast appearance where he said that
he hopes one of his records gets broken someday, his
twenty eight interceptions that he threw as a rookie. Now, Ben,
is this a record that will stand the test of time.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yes, because anytime someone gets close to that, they'll bench him.
They'll say, oh no, we gotta bench him, we gotta
shut him down and all that. That is one of
those records and be very difficult. I don't see it
anytime soon. The way the NFL's played today, that will
be a record that will be in danger of being
broken next.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
So the Broncos offense was an EP for three quarters
on Sunday. Then in the fourth quarter when they went
to no huddle and Bonick started changing plays that the
Lions began to produce and a lot of Broncos fans
on social media are throwing blame at Sean Payton and
his play calling.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You think there's any truth to that the blame there.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Well, Sean Payton did as we talked about on the
TV show. He was questioning bo Nick saying he goes
off the script that they're not exactly on the same page. Group.
So yeah, how do we do coopolo? Yes, that is
a wing of the putter on the ball? What the game?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
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Speaker 1 (26:20):
Let's welcome our contestants for the game, and then we'll
get to the game. We have a man that talks
way too fast. He is in Florida. We will say
hello to Jed who fled.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Hello, Jed, I want to bring to the tea teenage
which Salem saber Higgins was a warlock that was doing
one hundred year sentence to the black Cat, trying to
take over the world as a wizard. That's what I
felt like every time I listened to one of those
calls remainers.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Hey, bab Okay, who do you want to partner up.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Tustin Jupert?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Okay, Hold on a second, and we have Brian who
is in many the applis Sello. Brian, you are on
Malar's amount of money. Who would you like to partner
up with? Brian?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Keep Eddie's name out saw effing mouth?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
All right, very good, So you will lose with Eddie.
I'll put that down. And if you're on hold, to
stay there in case we have to hang up on
Jed or Brian because of bad activity. It's Malard's a
mountain of money. The Paul Simon edition. And what are
the categories here?
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Coup The categories are the sound of Silence, Missus Robinson,
faking it and my little Town.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
All right, Jed, you were on first. Pick a category? Please?
Speaker 6 (27:41):
I love those drops?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Okay, Brian, which shatoy do you want Brian? All right,
missus Robinson, everyone, hold on, we'll have Mallard's amount of money.
It is entirely we'll get to that. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern in PM Pacific. Now
Malor's mountain of money. Helloy, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Oh, let's do here we go Malo's amount of money.
The Paul Simon additioned instead of birthday turned eighty three.
Let's welcome in Jed who fled who was teamed up
with Coop? And Jed's in Florida. He's swampland he's dodging
gators and snorting all kinds of things. And Brian is
in Minneapolis and he wants to lose, so he teamed
(28:33):
up with Eddie. All right, Uh, Coop, you and Jed? Jed?
Which shadow would you pick? Jed?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Faking it?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Facing it all right? These athletes had a teammate they
actually hated. They hated each other. Are you okay, Jed?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
It's nothing to be I've got very close to get
to get paid.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Spit together, Okay, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
And these athletes all had a teammate they actually hated.
And you're on your way or.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Go basketball player died in a helicopter crash. Yes, this
guy was a wide receiver for the Cowboys during the
Troy Aikman era.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Brian, don't answer the questions.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
He threw up on the field during the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
No earlier than that, Terrell Owens was on the team.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Yes, yes, this guy was on the SuperSonics then won
a title with the heat three point shooter Jesus Jesus Shuttlesworth. Yes,
one of the best second basement of all time. He
got in a fight with Barry Bonds like all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yes, all right, did not go for the big point total,
but you did get one hundred and sixty, all.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Right, all right, not Benens, all right, Brian, Now it's
your turn.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
All right, let's go Waddy, all right, missus Robinson. These
sports figures are in a relationship with a giant aid gap.
A big age gap. Will put forty five seconds on
the clock. We need the first and last name. You're
on your way go.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Former quarterback of the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Same last name as me Montana. Let's yeap what Let's
then just going to the next one.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Okay, uh, let's try. NBA player for the seventy six
ers known as the Doctor.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
God.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Yes, Thoma Patriots head coach, won a lot of Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Grumpy Yes, running.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Back for the Giants, had a twin brother that played
for the Buccaneers by Barber Yes, the flash for the
Miami Heat.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
No tough clues, Eddie, Eddie Montana about you?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
You?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah? You got My mathis director forty.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Brian. Do you know what my last name is?
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Eddie? I don't all.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Right, Eddie Garcia?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Why would you pick Eddie? You don't even know his
last I do up?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Jeff Garcia was the one that you missed there?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, oh, Montana was. At least it'll be a good
drop on the show and it'll be sad, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
We have the sound of silence and my little town, Brian,
very exciting.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You're trailing, so pick a category. Okay, the sound of SATs.
These athletes let their play do the talking for them.
Forty five seconds on the clock. You're on your way.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Go. NBA player for the Clippers he's always injured hard.
Oh yes, Uh, this is what the greatest wide receiver
in Arizona Cardinals history, number eleven new play at the
University of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Okay, it's from Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Let's let's go with wide receiver for the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Won Super bowls with John Elway. Very generic last name. Okay, Uh,
let's see you know what. Let's just call it quits.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
He's giving up.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Oh my god, he's winning.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Brian, you should have picked me. I wouldn't give up.
Eddie's a quitter. Ben would have gotten rid of you,
and I respect the listeners.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
I never get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Complete.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Brian sounds like a great guy. Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I like Brian. He doesn't know who you are. I
like him. That's good. He picks you, but he has
no idea who you are. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
He's upset, so he's going away. I'm upset that he sucks. Wow. Yeah, what, Jed.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
I think we'll get better competition if you would let
the game go through his inking and conclude the easing.
Every weekend not shortened.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Jed, do you know my last name? No? No, Yet
we've allowed the game to go.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
We can finish the game. Jed, do you want to
finish the game? We can. We can run up the
score here.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Yeah, thank don I think of sounds. I would have
to have hung up all right.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Uh my little town. Uh, these athletes are all from
a small town. Forty five seconds. Let's go the mail
man basketball alone.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yes uh.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
This guy used to be a quarterback for the Cowboys.
He's now a broadcaster.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Uh, he is a running back for the Rams. He's
got the most rushing yards in a single season.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Marshall, Marshall thomp No the other guy.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Yes, uh, this guy was a baseball player just recently died.
The say hey kid, Yes uh, this guy used to
be running back for the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
He's now on the Commanders, Little dude.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Du.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Commanders should be the Redskins. I don't know. I can't
do it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I can't. Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
He's like the top wide receiver in Saints history. Yeah,
Joe Horn, No, no.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
People know who that is.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
How about the white guy from Duke He's gonna go
number one in this year's draft.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
No, you don't know that that could be.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
That could be, that could be back.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
We're out of time. You didn't get Austin Eckler, Marcus
Colston and Cooper flag. There you go, all right, thank you, ja,
you won. Boy Eddie was terrible job by it.
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