October 22, 2024 • 35 mins
Big Ben talks about Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers poor performance in a loss to the Ravens, Justin Herbert and the Chargers falling short against the Arizona Cardinals, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Snoop Dogg Edition, and more!
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Tuesday on our Tuesday show. But our lead this hour
from the Sunshine State. That is where we will begin
the conversation. That is where the main event took place.
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A doubleheader. You had Lamar Jackson and the Ravens trying
to keep the happy days alive and well taking on
the Baker Mayfield Buccaneers. Oh yeah, no, creamsicle uniforms. It
was one of those throwback nights. It was not that
at all, but that was the matchup. You had the
Fox refugees, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
They were there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
They're working for a small little cable channel out of Bristol,
Connecticut these days. I don't know if you were watching
or not. Perhaps you did not have this game on.
I don't know you were staring at a wall or
something like that, but I don't worry. We watched so
you would not have to. And Lamar Jackson getting it done.
He threw for two hundred and eighty one yards and
not one, not two, not three, not four. And when
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I say this, I'm not kidding. Five touchdowns, five touchdowns.
The Ravens fell behind ten nothing, and then the Buccaneers said,
that's it, We're done.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You score it whenever you want, do whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's like against air, and that's what the Ravens did,
by land, by sea, by everything. Baltimore ends up winning
forty one thirty one. Tampa got some garbage time points
to make it a little closer. Lamar now twenty three
and one, straight up, not against the spread, straight up
against NFC teams. That is the top mark by a
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quarterback against an opposing conference in NFL history. But the
better story is in the losing locker room. And so
that is where we shall go. And the question, based
on what we saw in this Monday night game, and
you talk about the Buccaneers here, where where does this
performance leave Baker Mayfield and Tampa. So I've got transformer
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Moses and butterball Turkey, and we will combine all of
these random things together and we are going to make
a Smorgasborie is what we're going to make. So a
to answer the question where does this performance leave Baker
Mayfield and Tampa rather quiet? Right doing some soul searching?
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Would say that would be a phrase I would use here.
This is one of those what have we done?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
What are we doing? And where are we going?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Situations during the NFL season because Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
And maybe it's just my TV. I don't know, maybe
I have a bad TV.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
However, it certainly appears that what I'm watching from Baker
Mayfield recently is a regression in front of my face,
in front of my schnaz. Am I the only one
seeing this? Am I the only person seeing a Baker
Mayfield regression? That this chicken soup for the soul story
of Baker Mayfield turning his career around to Tampa. At
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this point, it's no longer delicious chicken soup. It's borsh
is what it is, right, It's just boom. It's terrible.
Baker Mayfield is a Transformer. He's more than meets the eye.
He is right now, forget Megatron or Optimus Prime or
into the classic Transformers. It's a different kind of autobot.
I looked at Baker Mayfield's recent play here for the
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Bucket and it's more of a scouting scouting auto bot.
If you will, Baker Mayfield, it turns out the girl
Scouts version or I should have say, the Brownies version
of Baker Mayfield certainly appears recently that we have seen
the mistake prone quarterback that left the Browns in a
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cloud of dust and was the standard bearer of the
Browns in those years where he turned the ball over
to led the NFL in turnovers. And Baker Mayfield, now
he finished the game. If you're a Baker Mayfield member
of the Marching and Chowder Society, he had three hundred
and seventy yards passing at three touchdowns. However, tell me
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you didn't watch the game without telling me you didn't
watch the game, because Mayfield had one hundred and ninety
six of those yards, almost two hundred of them, almost
half of them, and he had those in the fourth quarter.
In fact, there was actually more than half in the
fourth quarter. Two of those touchdowns also came in the
fourth quarter of the year was over. We call that
stat bandito activity gotta be fair, right, we say that
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about you guys like Dak Prescott, you also have to
point that out about Baker Mayfield. And when we saw
the game and the balance, he was sitting in the
cockpit of the vomit comet. And that's the reality, right
And you knew this was gonna be a high scoring
game because the Bucks don't have a good defense. The
path to salvation for the Buccaneers was to score and
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to keep up with the Ravens. And they jumped out.
They were a nice start to the game. Ten nothing lead.
You're feeling pretty good about yourself. And they couldn't keep
it up. They couldn't do anything for the middle part
of that game. And Baker an interception in the end
zone that is a cardinal sin, but not an Arizona
cardinal sin.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
We'll get to them later.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Two official interceptions by Mike count I jotted down on
my little note thing on my phone. There were two
other passes that Mayfield threw that should have could have
would have been intercepted, that were either dropped or bounced
off a Raven defender. It was a bad, bad night.
Then you have the heel a monster in the room.
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What was the heel of monster in the room? You
sell the game?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You know what I'm about to talk about.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So very late in the game, some of us who
might have had a financial stake in the game were
watching to the very end. But near the very end
of the game, buck Star wide receiver Chris Godwin suffered
a gnarly dislocated ankle. Now I can't describe what happened
because it was so disgusting. They would not show it
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on the TV broadcast. They did not show a replay,
but it was with forty three seconds left in the game,
and immediately the do girders, Oh my god, you've gotta
killed Todd Bowles the coach and temp what are you
doing Todd Bowles?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Should Todd Bowles be held accountable for having Chris Godwin
in in the final minute of a game that was
not winnable realistically winnable for the Buccaneers And would he
be held accountable? Well, coaches are held accountable for everything.
But do I blame him? No, I do not blame him.
So I'm gonna shake my head. No, I do not
blame Todd Bowles. Todd Bowles is a mediocre coach in
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the NFL. You are what Ricord says you are. I
kind of like the guy, though he doesn't play the games.
I like that, and I at the point now watching sports,
when people do things in the old school way, it
just resonates with me. Like finishing the game, playing all
the way to the end, sixty minutes, you know, the
whole thing.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I just like it.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Now, that doesn't mean the pain, does it sting deep?
For Tampa there's no debate on that. However, Again, for
all you worry awards out there, you huffed or rush well,
Todd Bowles said that Chris Godwin wanted to play, and
he wanted to play it to the end of the game.
You don't want to raise the white flag. But the
whole argument, I say, fui too. You cannot coach scared,
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you cannot play scared. And if you have that mindset,
you're loser. Okay, you were an absolute loser. And on
some level I respect the Buccaneers, not for playing defense,
because they played none, but for finishing the game. That's
how I want you to approach. You only get seventeen games.
You're guaranteed seventeen games, that's it, and you're not supposed
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to finish those games. Now, it didn't work out, and
Tampa is now a weather beaten team. The war of
attrition has kicked in for the Buccaneers. Is Godwin is
out for who knows how long, maybe the whole year,
based on the fact he was on a cart and
he dislocated at ankle and Mike Evans also injured. Whammy
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to the hammi for Mike Evans as he was hurting
this game. So this is becoming a Moses. I'm gonna
go Biblical. This is a Moses situation. Okay, this is
the parting of the Red Sea, or in this case,
the parting of the NFC South. Have you looked around?
Things are breaking perfectly in the atl For the Dirty Birds,
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they are Carolina is a powder puff football team.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
They're a joke.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And then you look at the New Orleans team that's
Pop Warner, but not Pop Warner All Star in New Orleans.
They don't play any defense, they have no chance. And
then you look at the Buccaneers, who are broken into
little pieces and via the process of elimination, Kirk Cousins
is smiling from ear to ear in Georgia as the
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Falcons just by showing up are going to win the
NFC South and have a home playoff game in Atlanta?
Am I wrong in that? Am I wrong in pointing
this out all right? Now, last word here. The better
story not in the winning locker room, but we will
spend a little bit of time in the winning locker room.
How should Lamar Jackson and the Ravens feel about this
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domination situation win on the road against the Bucks. So,
if you're the Ravens, if you're the other Harball, not
Jim John, if you're John Harball, you're like bona fide
certified and ratified with this win on the road. For Lamar,
it was a Mona Lisa performance. And it's the kind
of performance that makes you wonder why can't he play
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more like that in a playoff game? Why does he
only do this on a primetime game during the season
on the island life, but then when it's an island
situation in the playoffs, not so much. He has twelve
point eight yards per pass and Lamar. I'll tell you
what Lamar looked like in that stretch where they scored
thirty four unanswered points. Lamar looked like he was at
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Thanksgiving in the kitchen. He had a carving knife and
he was carving up a butterball turkey on Thanksgiving. That's
what he looked like. I mean, wowsers. But in the
big wide angle lens, it is just another rung on
the ladder that you have another step along the way,
and you enjoy the journey and all that you're climbing
up higher and higher. But regular season raven football is
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a juggernaut. We know that the testing ground, the proving round,
the litmus test, the playoffs. Lamar Jackson, that is his kryptonite.
The guy blows in the Plus, he's one of the
worst playoff quarterbacks considering two MVP awards I've ever seen
in my life. In fact, statistically he's the worst when
you consider how great he has been during the regular season.
And the road is going to take them at some
point back through Arrowhead Stadium. They already lost there to
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begin the year, and is there any reason to think
it's gonna be any different when they play in January
against the Chiefs and the AFC Playoffs On my score Cardinal.
On my score Cardinal.
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done a deep dive on the Monday night early game,
the main event, which was early not the late game.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
The main event.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We talked about the Ravens domination situation over the pile
of Pooh Buccaneers. But this hour we go to the
Valley of the Sun, the second half of the twin Bill,
living the Island life, the island life, and even though
it was the late show, it was really the undercard
on these two Monday night football games. So yet Jim
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Harbaughs Chargers matching up against Alligator Arms Murray and the
Cardinals not the most riveting game. Someone says boring, That
would be an accurate adjectivity use boring. But they played
and maybe you watched it. Probably not. We watched it
so you would not have to. We help out give
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back our active kindness to the sports talk radio consumer,
and surprise, surprise, surprise, little fella scampered around the field.
Kyler Murray better known as Alligator Arms Murray. I guess
there was no video game turnament on Monday night. He
had forty four yard touchdown run for the Arizona football team,
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navigating the Cardinals on a final drive with the help
of some officiating. There to set up Chad Ryland's thirty
two yard field goal as time expired. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night, and Arizona rallies in the final seconds
they get a seventeen to fifteen victory over Harbaugh and
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the Chargers. The better story is in the losing locker room,
and the conversation around this game already is about the quarterback.
The quarterback apologies are on their high horse, saying that
Justin Herbert gets a mulligan that yet again his teammates
have led him down every time the Chargers lose. It's
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never Justin Herbert's fault. It is never the man's face.
These quarterback brown nosers are a special breed.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
They are.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Now in this game, you did have Jalen Rager, the
wide receiver who fumbled, you know those fumbles in the
end zone situation. Yeah, that happened. Somebody named cam Hart
had a penalty in overtime, a killer penalty that set
up Arizona, that pushed them in along on their drive
that resulted in the field goal. But let us discuss
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that part of it, the quarterback part. The better story
in the losing locker room. So that is where we
will go and the question for the esteem panel here,
where do you fall on the great Justin Herbert debate?
As his numbers looked all right, but the Chargers lose
yet again. So I've got Ernest Hemingway, suck and warped,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make cactus because that's what the
Chargers offense was stuck in cactus.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
So no b.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So we are on the side of accountability. We stand
on the side of accountability. The Chargers over the years
have changed coaches, they have changed players, and Justin Herbert
has remained the quarterback. He has been given multiple big
contracts and his performance never quite good enough. Now, if
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you play fantasy football, there's a lot of sexy numbers
there in terms of yardage, not so much touchdowns. It's
always been someone else's fault, always been.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I wish I.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Could do that. Wouldn't that be fun? Hey, you know
the show blew last night. Ain't my fault? No, not
my fault. No, it didn't happen, not my fault. The
whole thing is, the whole thing is weak sauce is
what it is. Right, And you watch Justin Herbert I'm
watching that game, I'm like, Okay, he's thrown for a
lot of yards. He had three hundred and forty nine
yards passing, and he completed I think around seventy percent
of his passes something like that, sixty nine percent, which
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is close to seventy. It's just empty calories, is what
it is. It's like, you know, drinking soda, soda pop.
You know it's empty calories. And he didn't have an interception.
We know he didn't have an interception. But as Ernest
Hemingway famously said, never confuse movement with action.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And that's when you watch the Chargers offense. Justin Herbert
went against the NFL's twenty seventh ranked defense. There are
only thirty two teams in the NFL. They were the
twenty seventh ranked defense Arizona, and I'm surprised they weren't
worse than that. And the Chargers offense was held out
of the end zone eight possessions. Not once did they
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get paydired. The Chargers got in scoring range, not even
the red zone. They only got the red zone one
or two times, but they got in a scoring range
and they were stuck in suspended animation is what they
were stuck in and one step forward, two steps back
part of the prop unpopular opinion here unpopular pans. Texting
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a friend of mine is a Charger fan, I said, listen,
it's a problem. Your problem is your kicker. Dicker the
kicker is a problem, right, because rather than be aggressive
and try to score touchdowns, they're like, well, we have
a good defense, and you know we've got Dicker the kicker,
so we'll just have him kickfield goals. Cameron Dicker, he's
so good. Oh, he's so good. We don't need to
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score touchdowns. And you didn't score an f in touchdown?
How did that work out? We had five field goals?
That's exciting. Whoopy damn new five field goals? We so exciting. Yeah,
losing the game and you lost to a second rate
club like the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Now page two here, where do you put the Jim
Harbaugh Chargers. Now, as we are done with Week seven
of the NFL, Chargers have already had their bye.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
They've played six games.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
So I have on my note card for the Chargers,
I wrote down sock not sock or s how about
s oc as in same old Chargers, Same old Chargers
right stuck on the hamster wheel of mediocrity. That's where
they are. And there's there's there's nothing but a tease.
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There's no there, no. The Broncos are better than them.
And they don't have a quarterback, right, I mean, they
don't have a good quarterback. They have a wobbly throwing
bow Knicks. But yet the Broncos are are better Justin Herbert.
He has nice stats in terms of yardage and things
like that. And the Chargers defense looks to be pretty good.
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And yet you look at the losses here they lost
to the Cardinals, now the Steelers with Justin Fields who
got benched after that game, shortly after that game, and
the Chiefs, who are the gold standard in the division,
that's the litmus test in the division. And so they're
three and three. You are what your record says you are,
and they're average, they're blah. That's the Chargers. They're a
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classic fol contender. They're in the wildcard race because just
being around five hundred, you're in the wildcard race.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
But they're not real.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
They're not a legit contender. They don't match up with
the top teams in the NFL. And despite having Jim
Harbaugh and yet the quarterback gets a pass and whatnot. Now,
I wanted to move away from that and spend a
couple of minutes on a story that's not NFL related,
because we have learned now that the WNBA Players Association
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has This is. When I saw this, I thought it
was butt Cracks Sports or Sportstock Barry Barry the sports
dock guy, those parody accounts online. I thought, Oh, there's
no way this is real, because in the real world,
if you work for a business that is losing money,
you would certainly not do that. But apparently this is legit.
I double verified it, and this is the funniest thing
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you're gonna here all day. The w NBA Players Association.
By the way, I'm not doing this for jokes. I'm
not doing this for this is real. What I'm about
to say is real. Okay, I'm not making this up,
but I'm about to say real. So, the WNA was
just lost money every single year they've been in business,
and they the Union for the Players, has decided to
opt out of the collective Bargaining agreement with the CBA, and
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they're going to negotiate a new deal and they are
threatening a work stoppage, work stoppage WNBA. Would anyone notice,
uh man, does any of this make sense?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Does any of this make sense? Well?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It is illogical on every layer of the cake. It
is completely illogical. And it shows you that the WNBA
rank and file are warped, right, they have a warped
sense of reality. That's the only conclusion, the only logical
conclusion one can come to. You have one player in
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the entire league that anyone cares about. One player.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
So one player league, she should hold out and everyone
else should play.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Caitlin Clark. That's it.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
The rest of the league completely useless. All these players
are useless, The teams are useless, The whole operation is useless. Right,
there's no star power, there's no fan base, there's no
interest in the league at all. The league has been
around since nineteen ninety six and they draw garden flies
in terms of interest. Right, And what is my evidence?
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How about this year the WNBA has arrived. That's what
we're told. Eddie was forced to give WNBA scores on
the news updates against his will by a corporate So
let's look at this. The twenty twenty four final WNBA
regular season viewership on all rated television networks. Games involving
Caitlin Clark had almost two well one point two million
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viewers one million, one hundred and seventy eight thousand viewers.
Every other WNBA game had less than four hundred thousand.
Now keep in mind, on some of the channels that
broadcast the WNBA, the very bottom of the ratings are
about that there's no one else. A certain amount of
people are always watching certain TV channels at any time.
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The difference is a shocking one hundred and ninety nine
percent drop off when Caitlin Clark's on and then when
anyone else is on she's not playing, one hundred and
ninety nine percent drop off. You have a lot of
hutzba to ask for more money when you are in
a business that is failing. You are not You are
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not resonating with the consumer. And the league would have
folded and should have folded fifteen years ago, if not
longer than that, if it had not been for the
NBA teams propping it up. The sugar daddies of the NBA. Right,
it's a loss, I guess a loss leader. Maybe they
write it off for tax reasons. But they've burned millions
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of dollars over the years. The WNBA has lost money
every single year they've been in business. Is there any
other business that can last almost thirty years and lose
money every year? And yet the employers are like, oh,
we need more money, we need more money. Even this
passion Aveil's forty million dollars, forty million dollars, and the
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league was shoved down my throat and your throat. And
we didn't want it, No, we didn't ask for it,
but hey, it's arrived. And when it obviously hadn't arrived,
no one cared other than when Caitlin Clark played.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
And the new TV deal that the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Is getting spiler alert, spiler alert. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
pocket change. It's chump change compared to what the other
popular sports leagues get in terms of broadcast revenue. The
WNBA is a niche sport. That's all it is now
and that's all it will ever be. And it's a fringe,
niche sport and.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
The players aren't demanding more money.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Oh my god, I laughed. I thought that was I
thought it was fake. I said, there's no way. But
yet apparently it's real, they're they're actually doing it. That
is Oh my god, that is so fun. I hope
the league, the NBA ought to say, you know, we're
pulling the money. The whole thing should go belly up
and just go out of business. The whole WNBA say
you know what you want, all right, fine, collect the bargaining.
(26:08):
We've decided we're gonna shut the business down. Good luck,
see a lighter bye, ladies.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
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Speaker 4 (26:29):
So the Rams were able to get their second win
of the season over the weekend, and the defense actually
made a positive impact in the game. Cooper Cup is
expected back next week. Do you think the Rams can
still turn their season around?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Can they? Yes? Do I believe they will?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I mean the Rams should be around eight or nine wins,
which will be a fringe wild card contender. But they've
blown a couple of games that they should have won,
the Cardinal game, the Bears game, so that they've already
fed up their season by losing those games. They're gonna
have to make up for that by beating Minnesota this
week or winning against the Eagles later on next.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
So yesterday we talked about how despite the win over
the forty nine ers, that Patrick Mahomes hasn't played very
well at all this season. The Chiefs may be the
only undefeated team remaining. But as of right now, who
do you think is the best team in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Well, if you said, here's one thousand dollars, who's gonna
win the Super Bowl? I bet on Kansas City. So
if that's the question, I would take the Chiefs to
win the Super Bowl because of their defense, and they'll
figure out a way to get it done on offense.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Next, a number of former quarterbacks took to social media
to express their outrage that Steve Sarkizian benched quinn Ewers
for arch Manning early in Texas lost to Georgia.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Ben was that a bad move by sark No.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I was watching this game and the offense was terrible.
The offensive line wasn't playing well, But you supposedly have
two good quarterbacks. Why not make a change. See if
it shakes things. If I had no problem with it,
how we now he passes.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
That is a win.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
You're your pull?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
What the game?
Speaker 2 (27:57):
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I'm thinking we're gonna try something a little different here
on the on the game here, we're gonna play Mallas
a mount that's loose the contestants here, we're gonna have
We haven't done this. I think we've done this in
some other games. I don't know if we've done on
a mallage amount of money. The All Blind Edition, celebrating
the blind, we have this. We have legally blind Christopher. Hello,
legally blind Christopher. He's from Michigan, but he lives in
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the Carolinas. Hello Christopher.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Man, I can't wait to eat breakfast at the Holi
Center now, Man, I'm starved.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Let's go not for you, Yeah, for the the the
players don't have to pay for it.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, all right, you're gonna play. Who do you want
to partner up with? Quickly?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I'm with you, Ben, Well.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Let's say it like that a huge jerk out there?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
All right, hold on a sec and we have another
blind blind listener, the blind leading the blind here blind Emmett,
the Seahawks fan who are plastically clearly uneducated, said that
you cannot spread Uh well, A, yeah, we looked on
the inn. By the way, you can't spread pneumonia from
you know.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
It's not like that though, if you haven't a week
a week immune system or.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
It's not likely.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
According the Internet, it is likely. So how about how
about I get? How about I get in the morning?
All right, we don't we don't have time. We don't
have time to face. You don't have time for that.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I spoke my lug up in your face and you
don't worry about it, you losers?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Who you playing with? A?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
What?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
What are the categories?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
I just I just em. It's young and he's not
gonna do well on this sport. But no, I believe
in you.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Have you see that he trash you, He hates you,
he hates the blind? All right? Who hates bin?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
No? This?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Uh em, it's not potted up? Uh this is this
is Mallard's Mountain of Money Snoop Dog edition. He turned,
he turned fifty.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
No you're not. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Some other He turned fifty three years old this week.
The categories are gin and juice. The next episode, lay
low and drop it like it's hot.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Christopher, Oh my god, hurry, okay, blind it.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We are the let's do drop. What's the third one?
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
All right, all right, hold on a seck, you there,
you there, and we will have Malard's Mountain of Money.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
We'll get to it. We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
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Speaker 1 (30:52):
All right, let's sue here we go, Malors amount of money.
We welcome in our Contessa's It's the all blind edition.
We lead sports talk radio in blind dudes with clogged arteries,
and we embrace it.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
We love it.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
We have blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan from the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
He's right there, he's gonna lose. He's with Coop.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And then we have my guy, legally blind Christopher. Now
let me ask you, blind Emmett. Do you count the
legally blind as blind or do you consider them fake blind?
I mean legal for a reason.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Okay, all right, very good, Well that works. Are you
ready there? Legally blind, Christopher? That's rock. Let's do this year.
We need the first and last name. It's the Snoop
Dog edition.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Turns is fifty three this week and you picked drop
it like a hot These sports figures all have notable
blenders in their career.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Are you ready, Christopher?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
All right, here we go. Forty five seconds on the clock.
You're on your way go.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
He was the head coach of the Seahawks when they
lost the Super Bowl at the one yard line. Yeah,
coach at USC call the time out for Michigan FA
fab five.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That would have been uh on this one to pass?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
He was a bash brother for the Oakland Athletics, but
not Mark McGuire and would have been.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Wow. All right. He got beat up by Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Was played for the Chicago White Sox third baseman and
was a ranger White Sox game.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Nolan Ryan kicked his ass.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I'll pass again.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Are you stupid? I know you're I know you're blind,
but you're an idiot? All right? I mean, Mike God,
how old are you?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Hey? I'm telling you man, I'm fifty eight and I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
I'm gonna help you lose again.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Okay, you know what you're done.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I'm hanging up on him. The guy was sabbat talking
the game. Alright, I just hung it up on him.
Guy's a loser. He's a blind line guy, loser. The guys,
all right, are you that random line? Random line?
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Random?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Random, random line. You're that random line? Look at it.
This is what's your name? Sir?
Speaker 5 (33:12):
All right, you don't have time for this. Let me go.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Let's go. All right, Emmett, we've got lay low. These
athletes didn't slash, don't draw attention to themselves. Forty five
seconds then o'clock began. He's the biggest star on the Angels.
Last name was a fish trout.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
His son is the best wide receiver, best rookie wide
receiver in the league right now. Yes, this guy was
a running back for the Jets Patriots. He's like the
third leading rush of all time.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
All right.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
This guy was a picture for the Yankees. He cried
when he admitted that he cheated. Okay, this guy was
a wide receiver for the Denver Broncos. His son is
Christian the running back. Yeah, the running back for the
forty nine ers. He's hurt right now, he's very upset
if Oh jeez, all right, this guy was an outfielder
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for the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
And then, oh my god, how many points did we get?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
You got thirty? So you're still ten behind a ben.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
All right, question he got right?
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Alright, Emmett, do you want gin and juice or the
next episode.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
This is so ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Alright, these sports figures all have a dui arrest. Forty
five seconds. Let's begin a former tight end. He was
the coach of the nineteen eighty five Bears.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
That's stone.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
This guy was a running back for the Chargers. Then
he went to the Broncos. He fumbled a lot.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Yes, we got alright, that's it, we win. No, no, alright, no, no,
still turn. This guy was the next level. Still late chapter.
It's still my turn.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
We won the games.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
That is boll that is bull ship.
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It was poetry in motion.
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I know Massholemickey's he loves the number ten thousand. He's
had ten thousand arteries clocked up, so he loves that
number ten thousand. Our lead to begin the night here
double barrel action on a Monday night now into a
Tuesday on our Tuesday show. But our lead this hour
from the Sunshine State. That is where we will begin
the conversation. That is where the main event took place.
(01:53):
A doubleheader. You had Lamar Jackson and the Ravens trying
to keep the happy days alive and well taking on
the Baker Mayfield Buccaneers. Oh yeah, no, creamsicle uniforms. It
was one of those throwback nights. It was not that
at all, but that was the matchup. You had the
Fox refugees, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
They were there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
They're working for a small little cable channel out of Bristol,
Connecticut these days. I don't know if you were watching
or not. Perhaps you did not have this game on.
I don't know you were staring at a wall or
something like that, but I don't worry. We watched so
you would not have to. And Lamar Jackson getting it done.
He threw for two hundred and eighty one yards and
not one, not two, not three, not four. And when
(02:40):
I say this, I'm not kidding. Five touchdowns, five touchdowns.
The Ravens fell behind ten nothing, and then the Buccaneers said,
that's it, We're done.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You score it whenever you want, do whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's like against air, and that's what the Ravens did,
by land, by sea, by everything. Baltimore ends up winning
forty one thirty one. Tampa got some garbage time points
to make it a little closer. Lamar now twenty three
and one, straight up, not against the spread, straight up
against NFC teams. That is the top mark by a
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quarterback against an opposing conference in NFL history. But the
better story is in the losing locker room. And so
that is where we shall go. And the question, based
on what we saw in this Monday night game, and
you talk about the Buccaneers here, where where does this
performance leave Baker Mayfield and Tampa. So I've got transformer
(03:38):
Moses and butterball Turkey, and we will combine all of
these random things together and we are going to make
a Smorgasborie is what we're going to make. So a
to answer the question where does this performance leave Baker
Mayfield and Tampa rather quiet? Right doing some soul searching?
(04:00):
Would say that would be a phrase I would use here.
This is one of those what have we done?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
What are we doing? And where are we going?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Situations during the NFL season because Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
And maybe it's just my TV. I don't know, maybe
I have a bad TV.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
However, it certainly appears that what I'm watching from Baker
Mayfield recently is a regression in front of my face,
in front of my schnaz. Am I the only one
seeing this? Am I the only person seeing a Baker
Mayfield regression? That this chicken soup for the soul story
of Baker Mayfield turning his career around to Tampa. At
(04:37):
this point, it's no longer delicious chicken soup. It's borsh
is what it is, right, It's just boom. It's terrible.
Baker Mayfield is a Transformer. He's more than meets the eye.
He is right now, forget Megatron or Optimus Prime or
into the classic Transformers. It's a different kind of autobot.
I looked at Baker Mayfield's recent play here for the
(04:59):
Bucket and it's more of a scouting scouting auto bot.
If you will, Baker Mayfield, it turns out the girl
Scouts version or I should have say, the Brownies version
of Baker Mayfield certainly appears recently that we have seen
the mistake prone quarterback that left the Browns in a
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cloud of dust and was the standard bearer of the
Browns in those years where he turned the ball over
to led the NFL in turnovers. And Baker Mayfield, now
he finished the game. If you're a Baker Mayfield member
of the Marching and Chowder Society, he had three hundred
and seventy yards passing at three touchdowns. However, tell me
(05:42):
you didn't watch the game without telling me you didn't
watch the game, because Mayfield had one hundred and ninety
six of those yards, almost two hundred of them, almost
half of them, and he had those in the fourth quarter.
In fact, there was actually more than half in the
fourth quarter. Two of those touchdowns also came in the
fourth quarter of the year was over. We call that
stat bandito activity gotta be fair, right, we say that
(06:05):
about you guys like Dak Prescott, you also have to
point that out about Baker Mayfield. And when we saw
the game and the balance, he was sitting in the
cockpit of the vomit comet. And that's the reality, right
And you knew this was gonna be a high scoring
game because the Bucks don't have a good defense. The
path to salvation for the Buccaneers was to score and
(06:26):
to keep up with the Ravens. And they jumped out.
They were a nice start to the game. Ten nothing lead.
You're feeling pretty good about yourself. And they couldn't keep
it up. They couldn't do anything for the middle part
of that game. And Baker an interception in the end
zone that is a cardinal sin, but not an Arizona
cardinal sin.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
We'll get to them later.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Two official interceptions by Mike count I jotted down on
my little note thing on my phone. There were two
other passes that Mayfield threw that should have could have
would have been intercepted, that were either dropped or bounced
off a Raven defender. It was a bad, bad night.
Then you have the heel a monster in the room.
(07:06):
What was the heel of monster in the room? You
sell the game?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You know what I'm about to talk about.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So very late in the game, some of us who
might have had a financial stake in the game were
watching to the very end. But near the very end
of the game, buck Star wide receiver Chris Godwin suffered
a gnarly dislocated ankle. Now I can't describe what happened
because it was so disgusting. They would not show it
(07:32):
on the TV broadcast. They did not show a replay,
but it was with forty three seconds left in the game,
and immediately the do girders, Oh my god, you've gotta
killed Todd Bowles the coach and temp what are you
doing Todd Bowles?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Should Todd Bowles be held accountable for having Chris Godwin
in in the final minute of a game that was
not winnable realistically winnable for the Buccaneers And would he
be held accountable? Well, coaches are held accountable for everything.
But do I blame him? No, I do not blame him.
So I'm gonna shake my head. No, I do not
blame Todd Bowles. Todd Bowles is a mediocre coach in
(08:10):
the NFL. You are what Ricord says you are. I
kind of like the guy, though he doesn't play the games.
I like that, and I at the point now watching sports,
when people do things in the old school way, it
just resonates with me. Like finishing the game, playing all
the way to the end, sixty minutes, you know, the
whole thing.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I just like it.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Now, that doesn't mean the pain, does it sting deep?
For Tampa there's no debate on that. However, Again, for
all you worry awards out there, you huffed or rush well,
Todd Bowles said that Chris Godwin wanted to play, and
he wanted to play it to the end of the game.
You don't want to raise the white flag. But the
whole argument, I say, fui too. You cannot coach scared,
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you cannot play scared. And if you have that mindset,
you're loser. Okay, you were an absolute loser. And on
some level I respect the Buccaneers, not for playing defense,
because they played none, but for finishing the game. That's
how I want you to approach. You only get seventeen games.
You're guaranteed seventeen games, that's it, and you're not supposed
(09:19):
to finish those games. Now, it didn't work out, and
Tampa is now a weather beaten team. The war of
attrition has kicked in for the Buccaneers. Is Godwin is
out for who knows how long, maybe the whole year,
based on the fact he was on a cart and
he dislocated at ankle and Mike Evans also injured. Whammy
(09:40):
to the hammi for Mike Evans as he was hurting
this game. So this is becoming a Moses. I'm gonna
go Biblical. This is a Moses situation. Okay, this is
the parting of the Red Sea, or in this case,
the parting of the NFC South. Have you looked around?
Things are breaking perfectly in the atl For the Dirty Birds,
(10:00):
they are Carolina is a powder puff football team.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
They're a joke.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And then you look at the New Orleans team that's
Pop Warner, but not Pop Warner All Star in New Orleans.
They don't play any defense, they have no chance. And
then you look at the Buccaneers, who are broken into
little pieces and via the process of elimination, Kirk Cousins
is smiling from ear to ear in Georgia as the
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Falcons just by showing up are going to win the
NFC South and have a home playoff game in Atlanta?
Am I wrong in that? Am I wrong in pointing
this out all right? Now, last word here. The better
story not in the winning locker room, but we will
spend a little bit of time in the winning locker room.
How should Lamar Jackson and the Ravens feel about this
(10:48):
domination situation win on the road against the Bucks. So,
if you're the Ravens, if you're the other Harball, not
Jim John, if you're John Harball, you're like bona fide
certified and ratified with this win on the road. For Lamar,
it was a Mona Lisa performance. And it's the kind
of performance that makes you wonder why can't he play
(11:10):
more like that in a playoff game? Why does he
only do this on a primetime game during the season
on the island life, but then when it's an island
situation in the playoffs, not so much. He has twelve
point eight yards per pass and Lamar. I'll tell you
what Lamar looked like in that stretch where they scored
thirty four unanswered points. Lamar looked like he was at
(11:32):
Thanksgiving in the kitchen. He had a carving knife and
he was carving up a butterball turkey on Thanksgiving. That's
what he looked like. I mean, wowsers. But in the
big wide angle lens, it is just another rung on
the ladder that you have another step along the way,
and you enjoy the journey and all that you're climbing
up higher and higher. But regular season raven football is
(11:55):
a juggernaut. We know that the testing ground, the proving round,
the litmus test, the playoffs. Lamar Jackson, that is his kryptonite.
The guy blows in the Plus, he's one of the
worst playoff quarterbacks considering two MVP awards I've ever seen
in my life. In fact, statistically he's the worst when
you consider how great he has been during the regular season.
And the road is going to take them at some
point back through Arrowhead Stadium. They already lost there to
(12:17):
begin the year, and is there any reason to think
it's gonna be any different when they play in January
against the Chiefs and the AFC Playoffs On my score Cardinal.
On my score Cardinal.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
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Speaker 1 (12:38):
Normally, when electricity hits a bird, the bird does not survive.
But on the football field it is a different story.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Well god me.
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In the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malors Show,
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He's gonna win ten thousand dollars. But he also likes
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this hour play the hits mom Man. We were on
last hour. If you are just joining us some affiliates
picking us up, you can hear the last hour on
the podcast. It will be up shortly after we get
done a deep dive on the Monday night early game,
the main event, which was early not the late game.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
The main event.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We talked about the Ravens domination situation over the pile
of Pooh Buccaneers. But this hour we go to the
Valley of the Sun, the second half of the twin Bill,
living the Island life, the island life, and even though
it was the late show, it was really the undercard
on these two Monday night football games. So yet Jim
(14:31):
Harbaughs Chargers matching up against Alligator Arms Murray and the
Cardinals not the most riveting game. Someone says boring, That
would be an accurate adjectivity use boring. But they played
and maybe you watched it. Probably not. We watched it
so you would not have to. We help out give
(14:52):
back our active kindness to the sports talk radio consumer,
and surprise, surprise, surprise, little fella scampered around the field.
Kyler Murray better known as Alligator Arms Murray. I guess
there was no video game turnament on Monday night. He
had forty four yard touchdown run for the Arizona football team,
(15:13):
navigating the Cardinals on a final drive with the help
of some officiating. There to set up Chad Ryland's thirty
two yard field goal as time expired. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night, and Arizona rallies in the final seconds
they get a seventeen to fifteen victory over Harbaugh and
(15:35):
the Chargers. The better story is in the losing locker room,
and the conversation around this game already is about the quarterback.
The quarterback apologies are on their high horse, saying that
Justin Herbert gets a mulligan that yet again his teammates
have led him down every time the Chargers lose. It's
(15:56):
never Justin Herbert's fault. It is never the man's face.
These quarterback brown nosers are a special breed.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
They are.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Now in this game, you did have Jalen Rager, the
wide receiver who fumbled, you know those fumbles in the
end zone situation. Yeah, that happened. Somebody named cam Hart
had a penalty in overtime, a killer penalty that set
up Arizona, that pushed them in along on their drive
that resulted in the field goal. But let us discuss
(16:26):
that part of it, the quarterback part. The better story
in the losing locker room. So that is where we
will go and the question for the esteem panel here,
where do you fall on the great Justin Herbert debate?
As his numbers looked all right, but the Chargers lose
yet again. So I've got Ernest Hemingway, suck and warped,
(16:50):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make cactus because that's what the
Chargers offense was stuck in cactus.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
So no b.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So we are on the side of accountability. We stand
on the side of accountability. The Chargers over the years
have changed coaches, they have changed players, and Justin Herbert
has remained the quarterback. He has been given multiple big
contracts and his performance never quite good enough. Now, if
(17:26):
you play fantasy football, there's a lot of sexy numbers
there in terms of yardage, not so much touchdowns. It's
always been someone else's fault, always been.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I wish I.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Could do that. Wouldn't that be fun? Hey, you know
the show blew last night. Ain't my fault? No, not
my fault. No, it didn't happen, not my fault. The
whole thing is, the whole thing is weak sauce is
what it is. Right, And you watch Justin Herbert I'm
watching that game, I'm like, Okay, he's thrown for a
lot of yards. He had three hundred and forty nine
yards passing, and he completed I think around seventy percent
of his passes something like that, sixty nine percent, which
(18:00):
is close to seventy. It's just empty calories, is what
it is. It's like, you know, drinking soda, soda pop.
You know it's empty calories. And he didn't have an interception.
We know he didn't have an interception. But as Ernest
Hemingway famously said, never confuse movement with action.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And that's when you watch the Chargers offense. Justin Herbert
went against the NFL's twenty seventh ranked defense. There are
only thirty two teams in the NFL. They were the
twenty seventh ranked defense Arizona, and I'm surprised they weren't
worse than that. And the Chargers offense was held out
of the end zone eight possessions. Not once did they
(18:41):
get paydired. The Chargers got in scoring range, not even
the red zone. They only got the red zone one
or two times, but they got in a scoring range
and they were stuck in suspended animation is what they
were stuck in and one step forward, two steps back
part of the prop unpopular opinion here unpopular pans. Texting
(19:03):
a friend of mine is a Charger fan, I said, listen,
it's a problem. Your problem is your kicker. Dicker the
kicker is a problem, right, because rather than be aggressive
and try to score touchdowns, they're like, well, we have
a good defense, and you know we've got Dicker the kicker,
so we'll just have him kickfield goals. Cameron Dicker, he's
so good. Oh, he's so good. We don't need to
(19:23):
score touchdowns. And you didn't score an f in touchdown?
How did that work out? We had five field goals?
That's exciting. Whoopy damn new five field goals? We so exciting. Yeah,
losing the game and you lost to a second rate
club like the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Now page two here, where do you put the Jim
Harbaugh Chargers. Now, as we are done with Week seven
of the NFL, Chargers have already had their bye.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
They've played six games.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
So I have on my note card for the Chargers,
I wrote down sock not sock or s how about
s oc as in same old Chargers, Same old Chargers
right stuck on the hamster wheel of mediocrity. That's where
they are. And there's there's there's nothing but a tease.
(20:16):
There's no there, no. The Broncos are better than them.
And they don't have a quarterback, right, I mean, they
don't have a good quarterback. They have a wobbly throwing
bow Knicks. But yet the Broncos are are better Justin Herbert.
He has nice stats in terms of yardage and things
like that. And the Chargers defense looks to be pretty good.
(20:36):
And yet you look at the losses here they lost
to the Cardinals, now the Steelers with Justin Fields who
got benched after that game, shortly after that game, and
the Chiefs, who are the gold standard in the division,
that's the litmus test in the division. And so they're
three and three. You are what your record says you are,
and they're average, they're blah. That's the Chargers. They're a
(20:57):
classic fol contender. They're in the wildcard race because just
being around five hundred, you're in the wildcard race.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
But they're not real.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
They're not a legit contender. They don't match up with
the top teams in the NFL. And despite having Jim
Harbaugh and yet the quarterback gets a pass and whatnot. Now,
I wanted to move away from that and spend a
couple of minutes on a story that's not NFL related,
because we have learned now that the WNBA Players Association
(21:24):
has This is. When I saw this, I thought it
was butt Cracks Sports or Sportstock Barry Barry the sports
dock guy, those parody accounts online. I thought, Oh, there's
no way this is real, because in the real world,
if you work for a business that is losing money,
you would certainly not do that. But apparently this is legit.
I double verified it, and this is the funniest thing
(21:45):
you're gonna here all day. The w NBA Players Association.
By the way, I'm not doing this for jokes. I'm
not doing this for this is real. What I'm about
to say is real. Okay, I'm not making this up,
but I'm about to say real. So, the WNA was
just lost money every single year they've been in business,
and they the Union for the Players, has decided to
opt out of the collective Bargaining agreement with the CBA, and
(22:08):
they're going to negotiate a new deal and they are
threatening a work stoppage, work stoppage WNBA. Would anyone notice,
uh man, does any of this make sense?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Does any of this make sense? Well?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It is illogical on every layer of the cake. It
is completely illogical. And it shows you that the WNBA
rank and file are warped, right, they have a warped
sense of reality. That's the only conclusion, the only logical
conclusion one can come to. You have one player in
(22:48):
the entire league that anyone cares about. One player.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
So one player league, she should hold out and everyone
else should play.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Caitlin Clark. That's it.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
The rest of the league completely useless. All these players
are useless, The teams are useless, The whole operation is useless. Right,
there's no star power, there's no fan base, there's no
interest in the league at all. The league has been
around since nineteen ninety six and they draw garden flies
in terms of interest. Right, And what is my evidence?
(23:20):
How about this year the WNBA has arrived. That's what
we're told. Eddie was forced to give WNBA scores on
the news updates against his will by a corporate So
let's look at this. The twenty twenty four final WNBA
regular season viewership on all rated television networks. Games involving
Caitlin Clark had almost two well one point two million
(23:45):
viewers one million, one hundred and seventy eight thousand viewers.
Every other WNBA game had less than four hundred thousand.
Now keep in mind, on some of the channels that
broadcast the WNBA, the very bottom of the ratings are
about that there's no one else. A certain amount of
people are always watching certain TV channels at any time.
(24:05):
The difference is a shocking one hundred and ninety nine
percent drop off when Caitlin Clark's on and then when
anyone else is on she's not playing, one hundred and
ninety nine percent drop off. You have a lot of
hutzba to ask for more money when you are in
a business that is failing. You are not You are
(24:26):
not resonating with the consumer. And the league would have
folded and should have folded fifteen years ago, if not
longer than that, if it had not been for the
NBA teams propping it up. The sugar daddies of the NBA. Right,
it's a loss, I guess a loss leader. Maybe they
write it off for tax reasons. But they've burned millions
(24:48):
of dollars over the years. The WNBA has lost money
every single year they've been in business. Is there any
other business that can last almost thirty years and lose
money every year? And yet the employers are like, oh,
we need more money, we need more money. Even this
passion Aveil's forty million dollars, forty million dollars, and the
(25:09):
league was shoved down my throat and your throat. And
we didn't want it, No, we didn't ask for it,
but hey, it's arrived. And when it obviously hadn't arrived,
no one cared other than when Caitlin Clark played.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
And the new TV deal that the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Is getting spiler alert, spiler alert. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
pocket change. It's chump change compared to what the other
popular sports leagues get in terms of broadcast revenue. The
WNBA is a niche sport. That's all it is now
and that's all it will ever be. And it's a fringe,
niche sport and.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
The players aren't demanding more money.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Oh my god, I laughed. I thought that was I
thought it was fake. I said, there's no way. But
yet apparently it's real, they're they're actually doing it. That
is Oh my god, that is so fun. I hope
the league, the NBA ought to say, you know, we're
pulling the money. The whole thing should go belly up
and just go out of business. The whole WNBA say
you know what you want, all right, fine, collect the bargaining.
(26:08):
We've decided we're gonna shut the business down. Good luck,
see a lighter bye, ladies.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific in
smaller How about that to the third degree, This is
one big Ben gets grailed, all right, gooblo.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
So the Rams were able to get their second win
of the season over the weekend, and the defense actually
made a positive impact in the game. Cooper Cup is
expected back next week. Do you think the Rams can
still turn their season around?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Can they? Yes? Do I believe they will?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I mean the Rams should be around eight or nine wins,
which will be a fringe wild card contender. But they've
blown a couple of games that they should have won,
the Cardinal game, the Bears game, so that they've already
fed up their season by losing those games. They're gonna
have to make up for that by beating Minnesota this
week or winning against the Eagles later on next.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
So yesterday we talked about how despite the win over
the forty nine ers, that Patrick Mahomes hasn't played very
well at all this season. The Chiefs may be the
only undefeated team remaining. But as of right now, who
do you think is the best team in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Well, if you said, here's one thousand dollars, who's gonna
win the Super Bowl? I bet on Kansas City. So
if that's the question, I would take the Chiefs to
win the Super Bowl because of their defense, and they'll
figure out a way to get it done on offense.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Next, a number of former quarterbacks took to social media
to express their outrage that Steve Sarkizian benched quinn Ewers
for arch Manning early in Texas lost to Georgia.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Ben was that a bad move by sark No.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I was watching this game and the offense was terrible.
The offensive line wasn't playing well, But you supposedly have
two good quarterbacks. Why not make a change. See if
it shakes things. If I had no problem with it,
how we now he passes.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
That is a win.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
You're your pull?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
What the game?
Speaker 2 (27:57):
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Speaker 1 (28:09):
I'm thinking we're gonna try something a little different here
on the on the game here, we're gonna play Mallas
a mount that's loose the contestants here, we're gonna have
We haven't done this. I think we've done this in
some other games. I don't know if we've done on
a mallage amount of money. The All Blind Edition, celebrating
the blind, we have this. We have legally blind Christopher. Hello,
legally blind Christopher. He's from Michigan, but he lives in
(28:29):
the Carolinas. Hello Christopher.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Man, I can't wait to eat breakfast at the Holi
Center now, Man, I'm starved.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Let's go not for you, Yeah, for the the the
players don't have to pay for it.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, all right, you're gonna play. Who do you want
to partner up with? Quickly?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I'm with you, Ben, Well.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Let's say it like that a huge jerk out there?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
All right, hold on a sec and we have another
blind blind listener, the blind leading the blind here blind Emmett,
the Seahawks fan who are plastically clearly uneducated, said that
you cannot spread Uh well, A, yeah, we looked on
the inn. By the way, you can't spread pneumonia from
you know.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
It's not like that though, if you haven't a week
a week immune system or.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
It's not likely.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
According the Internet, it is likely. So how about how
about I get? How about I get in the morning?
All right, we don't we don't have time. We don't
have time to face. You don't have time for that.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I spoke my lug up in your face and you
don't worry about it, you losers?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Who you playing with? A?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
What?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
What are the categories?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
I just I just em. It's young and he's not
gonna do well on this sport. But no, I believe
in you.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Have you see that he trash you, He hates you,
he hates the blind? All right? Who hates bin?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
No? This?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Uh em, it's not potted up? Uh this is this
is Mallard's Mountain of Money Snoop Dog edition. He turned,
he turned fifty.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
No you're not. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Some other He turned fifty three years old this week.
The categories are gin and juice. The next episode, lay
low and drop it like it's hot.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Christopher, Oh my god, hurry, okay, blind it.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We are the let's do drop. What's the third one?
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
All right, all right, hold on a seck, you there,
you there, and we will have Malard's Mountain of Money.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
We'll get to it. We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
All right, let's sue here we go, Malors amount of money.
We welcome in our Contessa's It's the all blind edition.
We lead sports talk radio in blind dudes with clogged arteries,
and we embrace it.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
We love it.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
We have blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan from the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
He's right there, he's gonna lose. He's with Coop.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And then we have my guy, legally blind Christopher. Now
let me ask you, blind Emmett. Do you count the
legally blind as blind or do you consider them fake blind?
I mean legal for a reason.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Okay, all right, very good, Well that works. Are you
ready there? Legally blind, Christopher? That's rock. Let's do this year.
We need the first and last name. It's the Snoop
Dog edition.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Turns is fifty three this week and you picked drop
it like a hot These sports figures all have notable
blenders in their career.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Are you ready, Christopher?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
All right, here we go. Forty five seconds on the clock.
You're on your way go.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
He was the head coach of the Seahawks when they
lost the Super Bowl at the one yard line. Yeah,
coach at USC call the time out for Michigan FA
fab five.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That would have been uh on this one to pass?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
He was a bash brother for the Oakland Athletics, but
not Mark McGuire and would have been.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Wow. All right. He got beat up by Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Was played for the Chicago White Sox third baseman and
was a ranger White Sox game.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Nolan Ryan kicked his ass.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I'll pass again.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Are you stupid? I know you're I know you're blind,
but you're an idiot? All right? I mean, Mike God,
how old are you?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Hey? I'm telling you man, I'm fifty eight and I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
I'm gonna help you lose again.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Okay, you know what you're done.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I'm hanging up on him. The guy was sabbat talking
the game. Alright, I just hung it up on him.
Guy's a loser. He's a blind line guy, loser. The guys,
all right, are you that random line? Random line?
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Random?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Random, random line. You're that random line? Look at it.
This is what's your name? Sir?
Speaker 5 (33:12):
All right, you don't have time for this. Let me go.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Let's go. All right, Emmett, we've got lay low. These
athletes didn't slash, don't draw attention to themselves. Forty five
seconds then o'clock began. He's the biggest star on the Angels.
Last name was a fish trout.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
His son is the best wide receiver, best rookie wide
receiver in the league right now. Yes, this guy was
a running back for the Jets Patriots. He's like the
third leading rush of all time.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
All right.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
This guy was a picture for the Yankees. He cried
when he admitted that he cheated. Okay, this guy was
a wide receiver for the Denver Broncos. His son is
Christian the running back. Yeah, the running back for the
forty nine ers. He's hurt right now, he's very upset
if Oh jeez, all right, this guy was an outfielder
(34:06):
for the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
And then, oh my god, how many points did we get?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
You got thirty? So you're still ten behind a ben.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
All right, question he got right?
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Alright, Emmett, do you want gin and juice or the
next episode.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
This is so ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Alright, these sports figures all have a dui arrest. Forty
five seconds. Let's begin a former tight end. He was
the coach of the nineteen eighty five Bears.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
That's stone.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
This guy was a running back for the Chargers. Then
he went to the Broncos. He fumbled a lot.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Yes, we got alright, that's it, we win. No, no, alright, no, no,
still turn. This guy was the next level. Still late chapter.
It's still my turn.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
We won the games.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
That is boll that is bull ship.
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