November 5, 2024 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about Patrick Mahomes leading the Chiefs to an OT win over the Bucs on MNF, if Dak Prescott's injury changes the trajectory of the Cowboys season, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: P Diddy Edition, and more!
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this hour from the city of fountains, more fountains than
any city outside Perie, and that would be the hub
of the National Football League, the epicenter of the NFL.
People wondered when the New Zealand Patriots won all those
Super Bowls, would anyone following their footsteps? Would be a
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long time before anyone was that good Again, No, no,
it turns out not really. It just shifted from New
England to the Midwest and Cana City where Baker Mayfield
and the Buccaneer ship docking at Arrowhead for a playdate
with the Chiefs. You had the Fox refugees there, Troy
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Aikman and Joe Buck. They had a call on TV
a rainy night, and it was a hume dagger of
a game, a doozy of a game. I don't know
if you were watching it. Maybe you had something else
going on and you were not watching. It's possible. I
don't know what else there was to watch a lot
of NBA, so there you go. But the way it
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turned out, it was worth to watch. You know, some
of these games we watch and we say it's a
public service, so you don't have to watch. But this
was worth. It a competitive game, it was, and in
the end, Patrick Mahomes ends up with two hundred ninety
one yards passing not one, not two, but three touchdown
passes and Kareem Hunt hunting for the end zone. He
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rumbled into the end zone with a two yard run
in overtime, and the unbeaten Chiefs remain unbeaten. They get
a six point win over the Buccaneers on Monday night.
DeAndre Hopkins remember him, I remember when it was good.
He had two touchdown receptions. The Chiefs are now eight
and all. They stand head and shoulders above everyone else
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in the NFL. As they drove through the rain for
two fourth quarter scores and they had the lead there
twenty four to seventeen with four to seventeen left. Talking
about Tampa Bay, however, Kansas City their defense able to
come up with a stopped there in the end in
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the Baker mayfield. They did lead them down, forcing the overtime,
but Kansas City's defense made enough plays early in the game.
Tampa Bay four and five now, and the story here
is what happened at the end after the Bucks did
go down the opposite way and Ryan Miller hit Peter
hit the end zone with twenty seven seconds remaining in
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the game. And so you make the call. Do you
go for the win or do you go for the
tie and test your luck? Or should I say press
your luck in overtime? Well, Tampa Bay elected to kick
the extra point. They forced the overtime, which is the
good news the bad news, rather than going for the
two point conversion, they ended up losing in overtime, Baker
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Mayfield losing the coin toss, and that's it. See you later.
But the better story is in the losing locker room.
And so that is where we discuss and the question,
the obvious question, should coach Todd Bowles have gone for
the victory for Tampa? Should he have gone for the win? Here?
So I've got Alice in Wonderland, googly guys, and a
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bugs life, and we will combine all of these things
together and we will make a long walk off a
short pier, because that's what normally happens to coaches that
make the wrong call. Here. Now, should coach Todd Bowles
have gone for the win for Tampa and not played
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for overtime? Well, in hindsight, the answer is obviously Mayfield
called tails the coin flip was heads Mahomes, and the
Chiefs took the ball five for five, passing for Mahomes
and then Kareem Hunt the touchdown plunge to win the game. However,
it's not just in hindsight. It's not You might say
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that because I wasn't with you watching the game, but
from the catbird seat I was watching it. I was like,
I was texting people, go for it. I'd give it
a shot. Now I can show you the text messages
if you want, I can give you screenshots of those
to prove that I'm not making this up. But I
often go by a case by case basis of a
very weird weekend, because we had not one, not two,
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not three, but four games this weekend that all ended
up in a similar situation. Four times a team was
down seven, they score a touchdown with less than two
minutes left in the game. You make the call, do
you go for two or do you go for one?
Then the nerds say to go for two. The nerds
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say go for it, go for two. Coaches liked playing
for overtime, and in every one of these games, every
single one of these games, the team said, you know
what we're gonna do. We're gonna play for overtime every time,
We're gonna play for overtime, And how did that work out?
All four kick the point after touchdown. All four eventually lost.
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All four of them. Shout out to the Patriots, the Seahawks,
the Dolphins as they joined the Buccaneers or the Bucks
join them. So this becomes an Alice in Wonderland, Mad
Hatterson situation. You fit all of these teams for the
Dunce cap. All four should have gone for it. The
one that you could argue shouldn't have gone for it
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is Seattle because they were at home. However, they don't
have a quarterback. Gino Smith blows. Real fans know that.
The real ones know that. So if you don't have
a quarterback and the other team's got a better quarterback,
Matthew Stafford, Tah should go for it too. But I
could understand if you're Seattle kicking the extra point, saying, hey,
the Rams defense's gas will win the game, blah blah blah.
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But the other ones make no sense on any level.
They don't Miami and Tampa playing better opponents, teams that
had top notch quarterbacks. You got Miami against Josh Allen
and Buffalo. You got Baker Mayfield and Tampa against Mahomes
and the Chiefs, and then you got New England with
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their puke in the mouth defense, and you had Drake
may who made this ridiculous play leaning in that and
you didn't go for bad job by Jerrod Mayo. Now
page two, what do you make of Baker Mayfield's performance
here in a loss? As Tampa goes down? He had
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the late drive and put up a decent performance against
what has been one of the better defenses in the
NFL in Kansas City. So for me, it was like
an NHL mascot, a seven foot tall orange creature with
googly eyes who happens to wear flyers gear. It was.
It was the gritty it was. Now. Unfortunately, there are
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no moral victories in the NFL. That said, this was
a premium grade loss. The Bucks had the fighting spirit
which you'd like to see. They didn't roll over and
get in the fetal position. Without Mike Evans and Chris
Godwin's out all year, Baker Mayfield went toe to toe
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with Patrick Mahomes and matched him for sixty minutes of
regulation football, using flotsam and jetsam against the defense for
Kansas City. You had Kate Otten and I don't even
know who the other guys were on the Bucks side.
I don't know, and I watch football every week. I
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didn't know who most of those guys were. I don't
know where'd you come from? Did you win a contest
to be on the team? You want to raffle congratulations,
But here's the problem that little gritty that and a
presidential pardon will help Todd Bowles keep his job when
the Bucks missed the playoffs. Tampas now on the wrong
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side of five hundred or four and five on the year.
The Falcons have separation in the NFC South. Now final point,
we go to the winning locker room, Canza City as
the Chiefs get her done, and yet again get her
done in a game where they were trailed in the
second and a half, and yet again they come out
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and they win the game, making some more plays. So
the obvious question, when you're the only one in this category,
the only one at eight and oh on the season,
the question must be asked when you take a couple
of steps back and you look at the Chiefs here,
who in the NFL circa twenty twenty four is beating
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Andy Reid's Chiefs with Patty Mahomes at quarterback. And the
answer to that, we got a glimpse of that, even
though the game went to the Chiefs. If you look
at this objectively, okay, the answer is a bugs life
or go. I'm not talking about Disney here, I'm talking
about the injury bug. And there was a moment. If
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you're passionate and you have invested your time in Kansas
City football, there was a moment there where you were
pausing and you were contemplating the time space continuum because
we saw a preview of that little bugger, the injury
bug in this game Nail Biden time at Arrowhead, Patrick
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Mahomes lands awkwardly on his left ankle. He had to
be helped off the field. Turned out false alarm, false alarm.
Now I'm not a Chief fan, but i gotta tell
you I was concerned. As you know, we're doing the
Mallard Meet and greet in Kansas City on Saturday. I'm
going to my first Chiefs game at Arrowhead on Sunday,
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and in my head I'm thinking, oh man, I'll be
watching Carson Wentz play quarterback for the Chiefs. That's not
what that's not something I want to do. Of course,
I made it all about me, made it all about me,
how depressed that was going to be. And I was
sending messages, the angry messages, like all the games for
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him to get what could he to Ron get hurt
right before the game with the Broncos. Well, it turns
out he'll be he'll be okay. But outside of injury,
there's only one other scenario. There's only one other scenario
looking at the Chiefs where you say there's some problems there,
they'll have a real stinker where they and they've already
had a couple of these. Really they don't play all
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that well, and they have to win those games where
they don't play all that well. And there's really no
game other than one that stands out that you say
is an obvious Hey watch that game situation. That's November
seventeenth at Buffalo against Josh Allen. Chiefs are better than
the Bills, but the games on the road and say, well,
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weird things can happen, etc. It's outside of that, you've
already beaten the Chargers once you have them at home.
Chargers have no offense. And even if that's a low
scoring game. You'll like your chances with Mahomes against that
rag tag Charger offense. And then the Steelers on Christmas.
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So maybe you have too much eggnog or something like
that on Christmas Night in Pittsburgh. But other than that,
everything is very manageable for the Chiefs to go seventeen
to zero and march their way into the playoffs and
have the number one seed and then just wait around
and see what happened after that.
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Boston approves that message. So a lot going on at
the Monday night game, A doozy went to overtime. Buccaneers
tied it late, could have gone for the win. They
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did not. They went to overtime Backer Mayfield and the
Bucks lose the coin toss and then lose the game
on a Kareem Hunt touchdown plunge in overtime. So the
Chiefs are still eight to zero. Better lead this hour
from the drama that is Jerry's world. How about them Cowboys? Yes,
that's right, miserable season, Dallas losing again on Sunday to Atlanta.
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So your Cowboys find themselves at three and five on
the season and the bad news piling up like pancakes
at a mom and pop breakfast shop. As a lot
a lot of news piling up for the Cowboys. Here
if you have not been following, we have learned that
the Cowboys quarterback Dakota Prescott hey gone. He's expected to
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miss multiple games with a ham string injury. Oh my, hammy,
Wait whammy. Yeah, that's what happened. So we are told
Prescott is in the process of getting a second opinion,
then maybe a third and a fourth opinion, and just
keep going there. And once all of that is finalized,
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likely sometime later on here on Tuesday, the Cowboys will
consider whether or not to put Dak Prescott on injured reserve. Now,
if that happens, hey goon, Dak will be out until
December ninth against the Bengals. That's when he would be
eligible return. The immediate issue, though, is that the Cowboys
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have to play their blood rival, the Philadelphia Eagles this weekend,
and that means the rush is on. Cooper Rush has
been elevated to a penthouse on the Upper east Side.
He will be the starting quarterback for the Cowboys this weekend.
So let us discuss the question does this Dak Prescott
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injury change the trajectory of the Cowboys season? Does it
change it? So my observations, I have ac DC, Nicket Night,
and remote control, and we will combine all of these
things together and we will make a sleeping bag, which
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is what the gamblers that bet all of their money
on the Cowboys to make the playoffs to go on
a playoff run to win the Super Bowl, they'll need
a sleeping bag to sleep in. So does this Dak
Prescott injury change the trajectory of the Cowboys season? My
first thought, as we like to call it, number yes. Yeah,
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So the silver lining playbook for the Cowboys here is obvious.
It doesn't change a damn thing. The injury does not
change the course of the Cowboys season. If you are
a little slow, maybe you're on the spectrum and you
haven't been paying attention. Dallas is in a little village
called Suckville, and the fact that Dak Prescott got hurt
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does not mean they're relocating out of Suckville. They're going
further in to the town of Suckville is where they're going.
That's most likely the case. The soundtrack for this Cowboys
season is an ACDC classic Highway to Hell. That's the
Dallas Cowboys here, and we're just documenting everything that's gone wrong.
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So just so we're on the same wavelength here, Dak
Prescott has been a net negative. He has not been
a net positive. He has been a net negative this season.
What is my evidence? The numbers don't lie? Dak Prescott
is the twenty third ranked quarterback in the NFL. He
got one of those Baffo Soco contract extensions. He hasn't
earned it, and even those numbers are misleading. Now. Over
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the years, we have nicknamed Dak Prescott the stat Bandito.
He earns that because in garbage time, whether the Cowboys
are way ahead or this season way behind, he has
inflated statistics, low information fans, the dummies amongst us that
watch football think he's better than he is now. This
year is a great example. Dak isn't even that good.
This year. He's the twenty third ranked quarterback in the NFL.
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What have I told you?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Though?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
This is kind of this kind of information that will
blow your mind. You don't get this during the day
because they don't bother doing it during the day, but
we can do it at night. Over twenty percent, over
twenty one point four percent of Dak's passing yards have
come in lopsided games with the Cowboys are getting blown out.
Over twenty percent of his passing yards. How about this,
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He's got eleven touchdown passes, five of them five of
the eleven, so forty five point four percent of Dak
Prescott's touchdown passes have come in games the Cowboys are
getting absolutely shredded. So almost fifty percent of his touchdown
passes and over twenty percent of his passing yards are
for Gayzy is what they are now. The other issue
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is Dak is thirty one, and as we point out,
in the real world of life, thirty one is not old.
But the sporting life, your athletic prime ends at thirty two,
So dak will be out. He's certainly a lot of things,
but one thing he is is the I word, injury prone.
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Injury prone. His home away from home is the tent.
He loves the injury tent. Now, what is my evidence?
Since twenty twenty, I don't even going there's other injuries.
I can go back prior to twenty twenty, but the
cutoff is twenty twenty. Since twenty twenty, Dakota Prescott has
missed games with a dislocation and fracture of his right ankle.
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Remember that gnarly injury that sucked. I think that was
against the Giants. A right calf strain and a broken
right thumb. Oh my aching thumb. Yeah, So he's injury prone.
This is what he does. He puts up a lot
of stats that are empty stats and gets hurt. So he's,
in many respects actually lived up to the contract because
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that's what he did before and he's still doing it
even though he's making more money all right now. Page two.
Mike McCarthy, the well fed head coach of your Dallas Cowboys. There,
Mike McCarthy gave Cooper Rush the hawk to a treatment
if you know what I mean, put on the old
knee pads there for his quarterback, singing the praises, saying
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that he is a respected backup. In fact, according to McCarthy,
I think he said this as a straight man, but
maybe not. Mike McCarthy said that Cooper Rush is in
the same category in terms of backups as Rich Gannon back.
I guess this goes back to the late nineties, I know,
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not even late. I guess it's probably the early nineties,
late eighties with the Kansas City Chiefs when rich Gannon
was the backup there. So question for the esteem panel
what needs to happen for Dallas with Cooper Rush. What
needs to happen to succeed? What do they have to
do well? Obviously Cooper Rush has got to play well,
But what the Cowboys need here is a rerun, and
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every team that has a quarterback that gets hurt is
looking for the same thing. They want to go Nick
at Night. And I'm not talking about Nickelodeon. I'm talking
about Nick Foles. That is the standard, right, Nick Foles,
marginal crappy quarterback in Philadelphia. Carson Wentz got hurt, and
he put the entire franchise on his back and led
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Philadelphia to not only the Super Bowl and then beat
the Mighty Tom Brady. Outplayed Tom Brady in the Super Bowl,
and in playoff run, Nick Foles nick at Knight had
six touchdown passes and one interception even caught. Remember that
the Philly special he cut that touchdown in the super
Bowl had almost a thousand yards passing in the playoffs
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in that twenty seventeen postseason run. So that the Cowboys, though,
even though Cooper Cooper Rush has started six games and
won five of them, there's other variables, meaning that the
defense was pretty good at that time. They did not
allow in any of those games I think more than
twenty points, and the Cowboys did not score any more
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than twenty five points in any of Rush's starts. So
he gets the opportunity. Now final point, we pivot away
from the Cowboys and we heading out a La La Land.
It is a big day today, as you know, and
you probably heard a lot about over recent days. It
is the NFL trade deadline today. I know you're so excited.
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When will the Madden all those commercials on TV for
the NFL trade deadline? But today's to day last minute shopping. Now.
I don't know why they have an NFL trade deadline.
They should just have people trade right up until the
playoffs start. I don't see the point in it, but
they have had. This is grandfathered in. So with that
as the backdrop, Jim Harbaugh, the head coach that wears
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the khaki pants for the Chargers, Jim Harbaugh says that
the Los Angeles Chargers of Inglewood do not need to
upgrade the wide receiver position ahead of today's NFL Draft.
How does that sound to you? So it sounds like
a coping mechanism to me, because one thing I know
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on this side of the microphone is absolutely the Chargers
need to do something. You got to keep up with
the Jones. This is what you have to do. You've
got a top notch defense the AFC, even though Kansas
City's eight and O. I look around, I'm like, you
can see a scenario where the Chiefs lose a playoff
game of homes, doesn't play well, turns the ball over
a couple of times, and they just have a bad
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day and they lose. There's no one that is invincible,
is what I'm trying to say. But if you look
around all of the contemporaries in the AFC, the Chiefs,
the Ravens, the Bills, what do they all have in common?
They made a move, and they all made moves for receivers.
We saw DeAndre Hopkins catch a couple of touchdown passes
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for the Chiefs in the game Monday night. And Deontay Johnson,
who I don't think is all that good, but he
was traded to Pittsburgh. He was sent there or to
the Ravens by the former Steeler went to the Ravens,
and the Buffalo Bills picked up Amari Cooper from Cleveland repackaged,
so three wide receivers. Really, even the Jets, who aren't
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aren't good, they're worse than the Chargers. They made a
move for Devonte Adams and Jim Harbin knows how this works.
He also knows who he works for, the Spanos family,
tight wid it's notoriously cheap. They don't want to pick
up any salary. They don't want to do that. And
God forbid you trade draft picks. And so Jim Harball
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is like, I want to What I want to do
is I want to grab the remote control and I
want to hit the volume button. I want to turn
the volume down. I want to lower expectations because it's
probably not gonna happen. The Chargers have the twenty first
ranked passing offense in the NFL twenty one, which is
not good. I never played in the NFL, but that's
not good. Ladd McConkey, who's like a good maybe number
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three receiver, is masquerading at the top there with Joshua
Palmer and Quinton Johnson. These guys are just Ja Broni's
and that's who they have with the wide receiver position.
So he said, well, who are they gonna get? Well,
the Miami Dolphins have been limited. Why do you call
Miami up and say, what's it going to take to
get Tyreek Hill in a charge of uniform? Make that move.
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That's the guy you can get you look at teams
that are terrible that have receivers, Miami is the obvious one.
They foolishly gave Tyreek more money. He's on a nowhere operation.
He'd love to come back and haunt the Chiefs. And
if you're the Chargers, call him up, make it happen.
Get Tyreek Hill in Los Angeles and the Dolphins will
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play ball because they're not going anywhere. They're done. They're
cooked in Miami. Now. If you can't get him, and
after that, there's not a lot there. Maybe somebody like
Darius Slayton or the Giants, or Michael Pittman or the Colt,
someone along those lines. But there are moves to be made.
There are moves to be made.
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Here we got how about that to the.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Third degree, This is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
So during the Lions game against the Packers, Lions defensive
back Brian Branch was flagged for a personal foul. The
league office then called and told officials to eject him.
Dan Campbell Lowreyna because you please turn that the music's
a little hi.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I know you're eating your donut, Lorena, but please, you're
being bled out by the music.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yes, anyway, the league office called and told officials to
eject him. Dan Campbell told Branch after the game that
he has to be extra careful because this happens more
often in high profile games.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Ben, do you think he's right? Yes, When the Lions
sucked and they were playing like the seventh game on Fox,
that ten people were watching, the NFL didn't pay attention.
But when they're doing the big game and Brady's there
and it's a big game on Fox, or if it's
Tony Robot, absolutely, one hundred percent, it's a bigger deal
for the NFL. I agree with Dan Campbell.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Next, so, during yesterday's show, Eddie said that he would
be surprised if Dennis Allen still had a job today.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
He doesn't.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
But you know, besides Allen, who's now no longer on
the hot seat because he's gone, who do you think
has the hottest seat in the league.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Well, the answer is obvious here. It's it's in Jacksonville,
Doug Peterson, they steak. I'd say Mike McCarthy, but Jerry
Jones is too nice. Uh So, he's he's another one.
But those are the two at the very top next
after the big performance.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
But justin Jefferson against the Colts, there's been some talk
about including him in the MVP conversation. Yeah, now, Ben,
you said it's only a quarterback award, But which position
player do you think has a better chance?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Jefferson or Derreck Henry, None of them. It's either gonna
be Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen, one of
those three guys the MVB. How do we know you
failed that that is a win, or you don't get
a donut? I won? Or you don't get donut eight
a donuts? Screw you.
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Speaker 1 (28:43):
Let's say hello to David in Pensacola. Hello, David, Welcome,
what's happening? How are we doing? David? You gonna You're
gonna do well on this game? David? Uh yeah, I'm
just a little bit thrown off that I called the
number and y'all got me.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Let's go shocking that we would give out the number
you would call and someone.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Man, I'm a fan, I'm in a good mood.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I'm all right, David, who do you want to partner
up with? You got Eddie over there, you got Coop,
you got me. Let's go with you, my man? All right,
you're wearing it. We'll see how that works. And we
have let's see your David and me and let's go
with Jordan, who is in Cairns City. Hello, Jordan, welcome top.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
In the morning. See you Ben. How's it going.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's going great, Jordan. You're you ready to do this year?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, let's do it City and Champions.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Let's keep it rolling. You want to play with Eddie
or Coop Eddie, let's get this done, all right? Now?
Are you gonna beat the Meet and Green on Saturday? Jordan?
You'll be able to make it of course? All right?
All right, man, all right, I look forward to that.
And don't be upset when I kick your ass right now. Okay,
I mean, I love you for showing up at the
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Meet and Greek, but I have to you know, it's
the show I have to win. What are the categories here? Coope?
Real quick? Yeah, let's get that going.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
All right, gentlemen, this is Malard's mountain of money. He
diddy edition, Oh wow, no bye, I mean my god,
Ye guess canceled.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
He turned fifty five on Monday. He's got my oil.
Hold on. I think we're good. We get pretty much
do whatever we want, right because the election, no one's listening.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Yeah, exactly. So the categories are as follows. You have
category one, I'll be missing you, Category two, stay long,
category will be doing in jail, Category three, baby oil,
Category four freak offs.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
All right, let me hold on sake, let me make
sure these guys are let me put you up. Line
five here, Line five is David, David. Which one do
you want? David, David, Let's go to baby all. Look
at this guy. What a freak. He likes the baby oil. Okay,
what about you, Jordan. Let's let's go stay long, Stay long,
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he says, say all right, good, hold on, gentlemen, do
not hang up. And you guys that are on hold,
that called to play the game, you hang on because
if these guys hang up, you're the backup. We'll have
it coming up moments away. Malor's mountain of money. We
get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
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 (31:31):
Let's do. We have David in Pensacola, Florida. He is
ready to go, and he has teamed up with me.
Ben Jordan is in Kens City. I'll meet him on
Saturday the Malor Meet and Greet and he is teamed
up with Eddie. So unfortunately he's going to lose. And
let's get the party started. Coop, you said this is
you picked this category or you pick the game. You
called it the P Diddy edition? That is correct? Very
(31:54):
interesting choice to honor P Diddy. Yes, and I believe
you David the baby oil category? Is that correct? All right?
These slippery athletes were able to avoid jail time despite
being accused of a crime and in some cases convicted.
Are you ready? I'm ready, man, forty five seconds on
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the clock. We need first and the last name he
would go died in a helicopter crash star with the Lakers.
That is correct. Ravens Hall of Fame linebacker where's the
white suit? Ray? Yes, a Fab five college basketball star.
He called a timeout when they had none. Played with
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the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
That is wrong. How about this greatest linebacker in NFL
history for the New York Giants in the nineteen eighties,
broke a guy's leg. Yes, started the malice at the Palace,
changed his name, played for the Pacers and the Lakers
and other teams were world peace. No right, no, that's
(33:05):
not I mean that's that that's his old name. He's
it changed all the time, ran out too lately. All right,
well you got you got seventy points. Chris Weber was
the Fab five one web Oh okay, yeah, how soon
we forget? All right, I'm moving over to Jordan and Eddie.
Jordan you picked stay long? Correct? Yes?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
These athletes had some of the longest careers in their sports.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
This is so easy. This Categer was so easy. Forty
five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Begin Packers Hall of Fame quarterback before Aaron Rodgers, greatest
Hall of Fame wide receiver, forty nine ers Hall of
Fame pitcher, best known for the Rangers and Astros. Greatest
strikeout Pitcher, Yes, Eric Canada and the NBA from North Carolina,
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wait for the Raptors. Yes, former Patriots kicker won multiple
Super Bowls also with the Colts. Yes, number double zero
for the eighties Celtics center.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That uh.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
No, no after that, not that long, terrible clue. Addy,
Robert parents, Robert Parrish.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Yes, that's all right, good job.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, one hundred and sixty points.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
So intimidated back.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Well, you had Ben as a party. You didn't know
who Chris Webber was, and let's go. Ron Artest was,
So I.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Mean, let's go David. Would you like I'll be missing
you or freak offs?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
You're a freak. That's what I knew. This guy was
a freak, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
On.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
These athletes have all been known to a party hard
forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Begin, greatest golfer of all time? Yes, tight end for
the Patriots when in the Tom Brady Hears Hall of Fame.
Tight end. Not in the Hall of Fame. Yet he's
on Fox. Yes, he played at usc was a star there,
played for the New Orleans Saints running back. He's also
on Foxes college football. Yes, how about this? Won the
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Heisman at Texas A and m party Guy played for
the Yes nicknamed Broadway played for the Jets in the
nineteen sixties and yes closer for the Giants from six
to twenty twelve. The Beard, a Major League Baseball closer
for the Giants. No NBA player's father was.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
That's good show. Brian Wilson was the closer that you
missed there. But the Beard have two d and thirty points.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Now, all right, we won the game you need? Uh,
I don't know seventy points?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
All right, no chance, all right, just quit right now, Jerry,
I'll be missing George Jordan. Jordan's sorry, I'll be missing
you is the category missing. These athletes all retired recently.
Forty five seconds begin. A former Eagles center.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
His brother Travis is a star tight end for the Chiefs.
Right uh. Former Clippers star. He won the dunk contest
when he jumped over a car. Yes, I think we won,
right there.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Former night number.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Number number Rams Chokeeddy Defensive Rams number ninety nine show
do not joke number ninety nine for the Rams Defensive
Player of the number ninety nine for the Rams defensive
Player of the Year. Multiple times boom even cheating, ben.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Cheating, it's a I was talking guys again. You're not
a good guy. You are like Jason, he's not nob
by you wonderful job and he was activate at all.
I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I was, I was not.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
It was not gress my Yann again. I was not aggressed.
You're a loser.
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this hour from the city of fountains, more fountains than
any city outside Perie, and that would be the hub
of the National Football League, the epicenter of the NFL.
People wondered when the New Zealand Patriots won all those
Super Bowls, would anyone following their footsteps? Would be a
(01:57):
long time before anyone was that good Again, No, no,
it turns out not really. It just shifted from New
England to the Midwest and Cana City where Baker Mayfield
and the Buccaneer ship docking at Arrowhead for a playdate
with the Chiefs. You had the Fox refugees there, Troy
(02:20):
Aikman and Joe Buck. They had a call on TV
a rainy night, and it was a hume dagger of
a game, a doozy of a game. I don't know
if you were watching it. Maybe you had something else
going on and you were not watching. It's possible. I
don't know what else there was to watch a lot
of NBA, so there you go. But the way it
(02:43):
turned out, it was worth to watch. You know, some
of these games we watch and we say it's a
public service, so you don't have to watch. But this
was worth. It a competitive game, it was, and in
the end, Patrick Mahomes ends up with two hundred ninety
one yards passing not one, not two, but three touchdown
passes and Kareem Hunt hunting for the end zone. He
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rumbled into the end zone with a two yard run
in overtime, and the unbeaten Chiefs remain unbeaten. They get
a six point win over the Buccaneers on Monday night.
DeAndre Hopkins remember him, I remember when it was good.
He had two touchdown receptions. The Chiefs are now eight
and all. They stand head and shoulders above everyone else
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in the NFL. As they drove through the rain for
two fourth quarter scores and they had the lead there
twenty four to seventeen with four to seventeen left. Talking
about Tampa Bay, however, Kansas City their defense able to
come up with a stopped there in the end in
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the Baker mayfield. They did lead them down, forcing the overtime,
but Kansas City's defense made enough plays early in the game.
Tampa Bay four and five now, and the story here
is what happened at the end after the Bucks did
go down the opposite way and Ryan Miller hit Peter
hit the end zone with twenty seven seconds remaining in
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the game. And so you make the call. Do you
go for the win or do you go for the
tie and test your luck? Or should I say press
your luck in overtime? Well, Tampa Bay elected to kick
the extra point. They forced the overtime, which is the
good news the bad news, rather than going for the
two point conversion, they ended up losing in overtime, Baker
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Mayfield losing the coin toss, and that's it. See you later.
But the better story is in the losing locker room.
And so that is where we discuss and the question,
the obvious question, should coach Todd Bowles have gone for
the victory for Tampa? Should he have gone for the win? Here?
So I've got Alice in Wonderland, googly guys, and a
(05:01):
bugs life, and we will combine all of these things
together and we will make a long walk off a
short pier, because that's what normally happens to coaches that
make the wrong call. Here. Now, should coach Todd Bowles
have gone for the win for Tampa and not played
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for overtime? Well, in hindsight, the answer is obviously Mayfield
called tails the coin flip was heads Mahomes, and the
Chiefs took the ball five for five, passing for Mahomes
and then Kareem Hunt the touchdown plunge to win the game. However,
it's not just in hindsight. It's not You might say
(05:44):
that because I wasn't with you watching the game, but
from the catbird seat I was watching it. I was like,
I was texting people, go for it. I'd give it
a shot. Now I can show you the text messages
if you want, I can give you screenshots of those
to prove that I'm not making this up. But I
often go by a case by case basis of a
very weird weekend, because we had not one, not two,
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not three, but four games this weekend that all ended
up in a similar situation. Four times a team was
down seven, they score a touchdown with less than two
minutes left in the game. You make the call, do
you go for two or do you go for one?
Then the nerds say to go for two. The nerds
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say go for it, go for two. Coaches liked playing
for overtime, and in every one of these games, every
single one of these games, the team said, you know
what we're gonna do. We're gonna play for overtime every time,
We're gonna play for overtime, And how did that work out?
All four kick the point after touchdown. All four eventually lost.
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All four of them. Shout out to the Patriots, the Seahawks,
the Dolphins as they joined the Buccaneers or the Bucks
join them. So this becomes an Alice in Wonderland, Mad
Hatterson situation. You fit all of these teams for the
Dunce cap. All four should have gone for it. The
one that you could argue shouldn't have gone for it
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is Seattle because they were at home. However, they don't
have a quarterback. Gino Smith blows. Real fans know that.
The real ones know that. So if you don't have
a quarterback and the other team's got a better quarterback,
Matthew Stafford, Tah should go for it too. But I
could understand if you're Seattle kicking the extra point, saying, hey,
the Rams defense's gas will win the game, blah blah blah.
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But the other ones make no sense on any level.
They don't Miami and Tampa playing better opponents, teams that
had top notch quarterbacks. You got Miami against Josh Allen
and Buffalo. You got Baker Mayfield and Tampa against Mahomes
and the Chiefs, and then you got New England with
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their puke in the mouth defense, and you had Drake
may who made this ridiculous play leaning in that and
you didn't go for bad job by Jerrod Mayo. Now
page two, what do you make of Baker Mayfield's performance
here in a loss? As Tampa goes down? He had
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the late drive and put up a decent performance against
what has been one of the better defenses in the
NFL in Kansas City. So for me, it was like
an NHL mascot, a seven foot tall orange creature with
googly eyes who happens to wear flyers gear. It was.
It was the gritty it was. Now. Unfortunately, there are
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no moral victories in the NFL. That said, this was
a premium grade loss. The Bucks had the fighting spirit
which you'd like to see. They didn't roll over and
get in the fetal position. Without Mike Evans and Chris
Godwin's out all year, Baker Mayfield went toe to toe
(08:59):
with Patrick Mahomes and matched him for sixty minutes of
regulation football, using flotsam and jetsam against the defense for
Kansas City. You had Kate Otten and I don't even
know who the other guys were on the Bucks side.
I don't know, and I watch football every week. I
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didn't know who most of those guys were. I don't
know where'd you come from? Did you win a contest
to be on the team? You want to raffle congratulations,
But here's the problem that little gritty that and a
presidential pardon will help Todd Bowles keep his job when
the Bucks missed the playoffs. Tampas now on the wrong
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side of five hundred or four and five on the year.
The Falcons have separation in the NFC South. Now final point,
we go to the winning locker room, Canza City as
the Chiefs get her done, and yet again get her
done in a game where they were trailed in the
second and a half, and yet again they come out
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and they win the game, making some more plays. So
the obvious question, when you're the only one in this category,
the only one at eight and oh on the season,
the question must be asked when you take a couple
of steps back and you look at the Chiefs here,
who in the NFL circa twenty twenty four is beating
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Andy Reid's Chiefs with Patty Mahomes at quarterback. And the
answer to that, we got a glimpse of that, even
though the game went to the Chiefs. If you look
at this objectively, okay, the answer is a bugs life
or go. I'm not talking about Disney here, I'm talking
about the injury bug. And there was a moment. If
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you're passionate and you have invested your time in Kansas
City football, there was a moment there where you were
pausing and you were contemplating the time space continuum because
we saw a preview of that little bugger, the injury
bug in this game Nail Biden time at Arrowhead, Patrick
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Mahomes lands awkwardly on his left ankle. He had to
be helped off the field. Turned out false alarm, false alarm.
Now I'm not a Chief fan, but i gotta tell
you I was concerned. As you know, we're doing the
Mallard Meet and greet in Kansas City on Saturday. I'm
going to my first Chiefs game at Arrowhead on Sunday,
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and in my head I'm thinking, oh man, I'll be
watching Carson Wentz play quarterback for the Chiefs. That's not
what that's not something I want to do. Of course,
I made it all about me, made it all about me,
how depressed that was going to be. And I was
sending messages, the angry messages, like all the games for
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him to get what could he to Ron get hurt
right before the game with the Broncos. Well, it turns
out he'll be he'll be okay. But outside of injury,
there's only one other scenario. There's only one other scenario
looking at the Chiefs where you say there's some problems there,
they'll have a real stinker where they and they've already
had a couple of these. Really they don't play all
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that well, and they have to win those games where
they don't play all that well. And there's really no
game other than one that stands out that you say
is an obvious Hey watch that game situation. That's November
seventeenth at Buffalo against Josh Allen. Chiefs are better than
the Bills, but the games on the road and say, well,
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weird things can happen, etc. It's outside of that, you've
already beaten the Chargers once you have them at home.
Chargers have no offense. And even if that's a low
scoring game. You'll like your chances with Mahomes against that
rag tag Charger offense. And then the Steelers on Christmas.
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So maybe you have too much eggnog or something like
that on Christmas Night in Pittsburgh. But other than that,
everything is very manageable for the Chiefs to go seventeen
to zero and march their way into the playoffs and
have the number one seed and then just wait around
and see what happened after that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
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Boston approves that message. So a lot going on at
the Monday night game, A doozy went to overtime. Buccaneers
tied it late, could have gone for the win. They
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did not. They went to overtime Backer Mayfield and the
Bucks lose the coin toss and then lose the game
on a Kareem Hunt touchdown plunge in overtime. So the
Chiefs are still eight to zero. Better lead this hour
from the drama that is Jerry's world. How about them Cowboys? Yes,
that's right, miserable season, Dallas losing again on Sunday to Atlanta.
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So your Cowboys find themselves at three and five on
the season and the bad news piling up like pancakes
at a mom and pop breakfast shop. As a lot
a lot of news piling up for the Cowboys. Here
if you have not been following, we have learned that
the Cowboys quarterback Dakota Prescott hey gone. He's expected to
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miss multiple games with a ham string injury. Oh my, hammy,
Wait whammy. Yeah, that's what happened. So we are told
Prescott is in the process of getting a second opinion,
then maybe a third and a fourth opinion, and just
keep going there. And once all of that is finalized,
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likely sometime later on here on Tuesday, the Cowboys will
consider whether or not to put Dak Prescott on injured reserve. Now,
if that happens, hey goon, Dak will be out until
December ninth against the Bengals. That's when he would be
eligible return. The immediate issue, though, is that the Cowboys
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have to play their blood rival, the Philadelphia Eagles this weekend,
and that means the rush is on. Cooper Rush has
been elevated to a penthouse on the Upper east Side.
He will be the starting quarterback for the Cowboys this weekend.
So let us discuss the question does this Dak Prescott
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injury change the trajectory of the Cowboys season? Does it
change it? So my observations, I have ac DC, Nicket Night,
and remote control, and we will combine all of these
things together and we will make a sleeping bag, which
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is what the gamblers that bet all of their money
on the Cowboys to make the playoffs to go on
a playoff run to win the Super Bowl, they'll need
a sleeping bag to sleep in. So does this Dak
Prescott injury change the trajectory of the Cowboys season? My
first thought, as we like to call it, number yes. Yeah,
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So the silver lining playbook for the Cowboys here is obvious.
It doesn't change a damn thing. The injury does not
change the course of the Cowboys season. If you are
a little slow, maybe you're on the spectrum and you
haven't been paying attention. Dallas is in a little village
called Suckville, and the fact that Dak Prescott got hurt
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does not mean they're relocating out of Suckville. They're going
further in to the town of Suckville is where they're going.
That's most likely the case. The soundtrack for this Cowboys
season is an ACDC classic Highway to Hell. That's the
Dallas Cowboys here, and we're just documenting everything that's gone wrong.
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So just so we're on the same wavelength here, Dak
Prescott has been a net negative. He has not been
a net positive. He has been a net negative this season.
What is my evidence? The numbers don't lie? Dak Prescott
is the twenty third ranked quarterback in the NFL. He
got one of those Baffo Soco contract extensions. He hasn't
earned it, and even those numbers are misleading. Now. Over
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the years, we have nicknamed Dak Prescott the stat Bandito.
He earns that because in garbage time, whether the Cowboys
are way ahead or this season way behind, he has
inflated statistics, low information fans, the dummies amongst us that
watch football think he's better than he is now. This
year is a great example. Dak isn't even that good.
This year. He's the twenty third ranked quarterback in the NFL.
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What have I told you?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Though?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
This is kind of this kind of information that will
blow your mind. You don't get this during the day
because they don't bother doing it during the day, but
we can do it at night. Over twenty percent, over
twenty one point four percent of Dak's passing yards have
come in lopsided games with the Cowboys are getting blown out.
Over twenty percent of his passing yards. How about this,
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He's got eleven touchdown passes, five of them five of
the eleven, so forty five point four percent of Dak
Prescott's touchdown passes have come in games the Cowboys are
getting absolutely shredded. So almost fifty percent of his touchdown
passes and over twenty percent of his passing yards are
for Gayzy is what they are now. The other issue
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is Dak is thirty one, and as we point out,
in the real world of life, thirty one is not old.
But the sporting life, your athletic prime ends at thirty two,
So dak will be out. He's certainly a lot of things,
but one thing he is is the I word, injury prone.
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Injury prone. His home away from home is the tent.
He loves the injury tent. Now, what is my evidence?
Since twenty twenty, I don't even going there's other injuries.
I can go back prior to twenty twenty, but the
cutoff is twenty twenty. Since twenty twenty, Dakota Prescott has
missed games with a dislocation and fracture of his right ankle.
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Remember that gnarly injury that sucked. I think that was
against the Giants. A right calf strain and a broken
right thumb. Oh my aching thumb. Yeah, So he's injury prone.
This is what he does. He puts up a lot
of stats that are empty stats and gets hurt. So he's,
in many respects actually lived up to the contract because
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that's what he did before and he's still doing it
even though he's making more money all right now. Page two.
Mike McCarthy, the well fed head coach of your Dallas Cowboys. There,
Mike McCarthy gave Cooper Rush the hawk to a treatment
if you know what I mean, put on the old
knee pads there for his quarterback, singing the praises, saying
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that he is a respected backup. In fact, according to McCarthy,
I think he said this as a straight man, but
maybe not. Mike McCarthy said that Cooper Rush is in
the same category in terms of backups as Rich Gannon back.
I guess this goes back to the late nineties, I know,
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not even late. I guess it's probably the early nineties,
late eighties with the Kansas City Chiefs when rich Gannon
was the backup there. So question for the esteem panel
what needs to happen for Dallas with Cooper Rush. What
needs to happen to succeed? What do they have to
do well? Obviously Cooper Rush has got to play well,
But what the Cowboys need here is a rerun, and
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every team that has a quarterback that gets hurt is
looking for the same thing. They want to go Nick
at Night. And I'm not talking about Nickelodeon. I'm talking
about Nick Foles. That is the standard, right, Nick Foles,
marginal crappy quarterback in Philadelphia. Carson Wentz got hurt, and
he put the entire franchise on his back and led
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Philadelphia to not only the Super Bowl and then beat
the Mighty Tom Brady. Outplayed Tom Brady in the Super Bowl,
and in playoff run, Nick Foles nick at Knight had
six touchdown passes and one interception even caught. Remember that
the Philly special he cut that touchdown in the super
Bowl had almost a thousand yards passing in the playoffs
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in that twenty seventeen postseason run. So that the Cowboys, though,
even though Cooper Cooper Rush has started six games and
won five of them, there's other variables, meaning that the
defense was pretty good at that time. They did not
allow in any of those games I think more than
twenty points, and the Cowboys did not score any more
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than twenty five points in any of Rush's starts. So
he gets the opportunity. Now final point, we pivot away
from the Cowboys and we heading out a La La Land.
It is a big day today, as you know, and
you probably heard a lot about over recent days. It
is the NFL trade deadline today. I know you're so excited.
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When will the Madden all those commercials on TV for
the NFL trade deadline? But today's to day last minute shopping. Now.
I don't know why they have an NFL trade deadline.
They should just have people trade right up until the
playoffs start. I don't see the point in it, but
they have had. This is grandfathered in. So with that
as the backdrop, Jim Harbaugh, the head coach that wears
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the khaki pants for the Chargers, Jim Harbaugh says that
the Los Angeles Chargers of Inglewood do not need to
upgrade the wide receiver position ahead of today's NFL Draft.
How does that sound to you? So it sounds like
a coping mechanism to me, because one thing I know
(23:47):
on this side of the microphone is absolutely the Chargers
need to do something. You got to keep up with
the Jones. This is what you have to do. You've
got a top notch defense the AFC, even though Kansas
City's eight and O. I look around, I'm like, you
can see a scenario where the Chiefs lose a playoff
game of homes, doesn't play well, turns the ball over
a couple of times, and they just have a bad
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day and they lose. There's no one that is invincible,
is what I'm trying to say. But if you look
around all of the contemporaries in the AFC, the Chiefs,
the Ravens, the Bills, what do they all have in common?
They made a move, and they all made moves for receivers.
We saw DeAndre Hopkins catch a couple of touchdown passes
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for the Chiefs in the game Monday night. And Deontay Johnson,
who I don't think is all that good, but he
was traded to Pittsburgh. He was sent there or to
the Ravens by the former Steeler went to the Ravens,
and the Buffalo Bills picked up Amari Cooper from Cleveland repackaged,
so three wide receivers. Really, even the Jets, who aren't
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aren't good, they're worse than the Chargers. They made a
move for Devonte Adams and Jim Harbin knows how this works.
He also knows who he works for, the Spanos family,
tight wid it's notoriously cheap. They don't want to pick
up any salary. They don't want to do that. And
God forbid you trade draft picks. And so Jim Harball
(25:09):
is like, I want to What I want to do
is I want to grab the remote control and I
want to hit the volume button. I want to turn
the volume down. I want to lower expectations because it's
probably not gonna happen. The Chargers have the twenty first
ranked passing offense in the NFL twenty one, which is
not good. I never played in the NFL, but that's
not good. Ladd McConkey, who's like a good maybe number
(25:31):
three receiver, is masquerading at the top there with Joshua
Palmer and Quinton Johnson. These guys are just Ja Broni's
and that's who they have with the wide receiver position.
So he said, well, who are they gonna get? Well,
the Miami Dolphins have been limited. Why do you call
Miami up and say, what's it going to take to
get Tyreek Hill in a charge of uniform? Make that move.
(25:54):
That's the guy you can get you look at teams
that are terrible that have receivers, Miami is the obvious one.
They foolishly gave Tyreek more money. He's on a nowhere operation.
He'd love to come back and haunt the Chiefs. And
if you're the Chargers, call him up, make it happen.
Get Tyreek Hill in Los Angeles and the Dolphins will
(26:16):
play ball because they're not going anywhere. They're done. They're
cooked in Miami. Now. If you can't get him, and
after that, there's not a lot there. Maybe somebody like
Darius Slayton or the Giants, or Michael Pittman or the Colt,
someone along those lines. But there are moves to be made.
There are moves to be made.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
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Speaker 1 (26:38):
Here we got how about that to the.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Third degree, This is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
So during the Lions game against the Packers, Lions defensive
back Brian Branch was flagged for a personal foul. The
league office then called and told officials to eject him.
Dan Campbell Lowreyna because you please turn that the music's
a little hi.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I know you're eating your donut, Lorena, but please, you're
being bled out by the music.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yes, anyway, the league office called and told officials to
eject him. Dan Campbell told Branch after the game that
he has to be extra careful because this happens more
often in high profile games.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Ben, do you think he's right? Yes, When the Lions
sucked and they were playing like the seventh game on Fox,
that ten people were watching, the NFL didn't pay attention.
But when they're doing the big game and Brady's there
and it's a big game on Fox, or if it's
Tony Robot, absolutely, one hundred percent, it's a bigger deal
for the NFL. I agree with Dan Campbell.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Next, so, during yesterday's show, Eddie said that he would
be surprised if Dennis Allen still had a job today.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
He doesn't.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
But you know, besides Allen, who's now no longer on
the hot seat because he's gone, who do you think
has the hottest seat in the league.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Well, the answer is obvious here. It's it's in Jacksonville,
Doug Peterson, they steak. I'd say Mike McCarthy, but Jerry
Jones is too nice. Uh So, he's he's another one.
But those are the two at the very top next
after the big performance.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
But justin Jefferson against the Colts, there's been some talk
about including him in the MVP conversation. Yeah, now, Ben,
you said it's only a quarterback award, But which position
player do you think has a better chance?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Jefferson or Derreck Henry, None of them. It's either gonna
be Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen, one of
those three guys the MVB. How do we know you
failed that that is a win, or you don't get
a donut? I won? Or you don't get donut eight
a donuts? Screw you.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
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Speaker 1 (28:43):
Let's say hello to David in Pensacola. Hello, David, Welcome,
what's happening? How are we doing? David? You gonna You're
gonna do well on this game? David? Uh yeah, I'm
just a little bit thrown off that I called the
number and y'all got me.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Let's go shocking that we would give out the number
you would call and someone.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Man, I'm a fan, I'm in a good mood.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I'm all right, David, who do you want to partner
up with? You got Eddie over there, you got Coop,
you got me. Let's go with you, my man? All right,
you're wearing it. We'll see how that works. And we
have let's see your David and me and let's go
with Jordan, who is in Cairns City. Hello, Jordan, welcome top.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
In the morning. See you Ben. How's it going.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's going great, Jordan. You're you ready to do this year?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, let's do it City and Champions.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Let's keep it rolling. You want to play with Eddie
or Coop Eddie, let's get this done, all right? Now?
Are you gonna beat the Meet and Green on Saturday? Jordan?
You'll be able to make it of course? All right?
All right, man, all right, I look forward to that.
And don't be upset when I kick your ass right now. Okay,
I mean, I love you for showing up at the
(29:57):
Meet and Greek, but I have to you know, it's
the show I have to win. What are the categories here? Coope?
Real quick? Yeah, let's get that going.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
All right, gentlemen, this is Malard's mountain of money. He
diddy edition, Oh wow, no bye, I mean my god,
Ye guess canceled.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
He turned fifty five on Monday. He's got my oil.
Hold on. I think we're good. We get pretty much
do whatever we want, right because the election, no one's listening.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Yeah, exactly. So the categories are as follows. You have
category one, I'll be missing you, Category two, stay long,
category will be doing in jail, Category three, baby oil,
Category four freak offs.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
All right, let me hold on sake, let me make
sure these guys are let me put you up. Line
five here, Line five is David, David. Which one do
you want? David, David, Let's go to baby all. Look
at this guy. What a freak. He likes the baby oil. Okay,
what about you, Jordan. Let's let's go stay long, Stay long,
(30:59):
he says, say all right, good, hold on, gentlemen, do
not hang up. And you guys that are on hold,
that called to play the game, you hang on because
if these guys hang up, you're the backup. We'll have
it coming up moments away. Malor's mountain of money. We
get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
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 (31:31):
Let's do. We have David in Pensacola, Florida. He is
ready to go, and he has teamed up with me.
Ben Jordan is in Kens City. I'll meet him on
Saturday the Malor Meet and Greet and he is teamed
up with Eddie. So unfortunately he's going to lose. And
let's get the party started. Coop, you said this is
you picked this category or you pick the game. You
called it the P Diddy edition? That is correct? Very
(31:54):
interesting choice to honor P Diddy. Yes, and I believe
you David the baby oil category? Is that correct? All right?
These slippery athletes were able to avoid jail time despite
being accused of a crime and in some cases convicted.
Are you ready? I'm ready, man, forty five seconds on
(32:17):
the clock. We need first and the last name he
would go died in a helicopter crash star with the Lakers.
That is correct. Ravens Hall of Fame linebacker where's the
white suit? Ray? Yes, a Fab five college basketball star.
He called a timeout when they had none. Played with
(32:38):
the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
That is wrong. How about this greatest linebacker in NFL
history for the New York Giants in the nineteen eighties,
broke a guy's leg. Yes, started the malice at the Palace,
changed his name, played for the Pacers and the Lakers
and other teams were world peace. No right, no, that's
(33:05):
not I mean that's that that's his old name. He's
it changed all the time, ran out too lately. All right,
well you got you got seventy points. Chris Weber was
the Fab five one web Oh okay, yeah, how soon
we forget? All right, I'm moving over to Jordan and Eddie.
Jordan you picked stay long? Correct? Yes?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
These athletes had some of the longest careers in their sports.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
This is so easy. This Categer was so easy. Forty
five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Begin Packers Hall of Fame quarterback before Aaron Rodgers, greatest
Hall of Fame wide receiver, forty nine ers Hall of
Fame pitcher, best known for the Rangers and Astros. Greatest
strikeout Pitcher, Yes, Eric Canada and the NBA from North Carolina,
(33:59):
wait for the Raptors. Yes, former Patriots kicker won multiple
Super Bowls also with the Colts. Yes, number double zero
for the eighties Celtics center.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That uh.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
No, no after that, not that long, terrible clue. Addy,
Robert parents, Robert Parrish.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Yes, that's all right, good job.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, one hundred and sixty points.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
So intimidated back.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Well, you had Ben as a party. You didn't know
who Chris Webber was, and let's go. Ron Artest was,
So I.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Mean, let's go David. Would you like I'll be missing
you or freak offs?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
You're a freak. That's what I knew. This guy was
a freak, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
On.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
These athletes have all been known to a party hard
forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Begin, greatest golfer of all time? Yes, tight end for
the Patriots when in the Tom Brady Hears Hall of Fame.
Tight end. Not in the Hall of Fame. Yet he's
on Fox. Yes, he played at usc was a star there,
played for the New Orleans Saints running back. He's also
on Foxes college football. Yes, how about this? Won the
(35:26):
Heisman at Texas A and m party Guy played for
the Yes nicknamed Broadway played for the Jets in the
nineteen sixties and yes closer for the Giants from six
to twenty twelve. The Beard, a Major League Baseball closer
for the Giants. No NBA player's father was.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
That's good show. Brian Wilson was the closer that you
missed there. But the Beard have two d and thirty points.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Now, all right, we won the game you need? Uh,
I don't know seventy points?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
All right, no chance, all right, just quit right now, Jerry,
I'll be missing George Jordan. Jordan's sorry, I'll be missing
you is the category missing. These athletes all retired recently.
Forty five seconds begin. A former Eagles center.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
His brother Travis is a star tight end for the Chiefs.
Right uh. Former Clippers star. He won the dunk contest
when he jumped over a car. Yes, I think we won,
right there.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Former night number.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Number number Rams Chokeeddy Defensive Rams number ninety nine show
do not joke number ninety nine for the Rams Defensive
Player of the number ninety nine for the Rams defensive
Player of the Year. Multiple times boom even cheating, ben.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Cheating, it's a I was talking guys again. You're not
a good guy. You are like Jason, he's not nob
by you wonderful job and he was activate at all.
I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I was, I was not.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
It was not gress my Yann again. I was not aggressed.
You're a loser.
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