November 12, 2024 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about Matthew Stafford's poor performance in the Rams loss to the Dolphins on MNF, Micah Parsons blaming the media for "twisting his words" about Mike McCarthy, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Eddie Garcia Edition, and more!
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The Way tirebind should be. So gonna start with the
Monday night game. There is a big announcement I will
give you, guys in a few minutes, but I'm gonna
start with the football game. We'll work our way to that.
But you want to keep listening, well you should listen anyway.
But I know some of you knuckleheads too nowt But
a big, big news, grown up news that we have
to share with you coming up in a little bit.
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But our lead this hour from the hood in Inglewood.
As our friend in that region, Helmet Man likes to say,
Sofa Stadium, It's actually called Sofi Stadium was the scene
of the final act on the Week ten NFL card.
The Fox refugees Troy Aikman and Joe Buck had to
call the floundering toua tongue of I Loa and the
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Dolphins swimming into Sociel trying to stop the magnet. Here.
They'd lost a bunch had won in a while and
they had a date with Matthew Stafford on the rams.
That was the match up there. And if you saw
it or not you're watching, did this get you a
little little turned out? No? It did not? All right, Well,
we watched, so you would not have to Tyreek Hill,
who had been missing. Tyreek Hill caught a short touchdown
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pass from Tua Tongue of Ila in the third quarter,
and that held up and it ended that long drought,
in fact, the longest scoring drought of his career. And
the Dolphins, not a great defensive team, not recently anyway,
the Dolphins limiting la to field goals keeping them out
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of the end zone, did not even get in the
end zone the Rams. That's and the Dolphin snap a
three game losing streak, just their second win in eight games.
So the Miami football team. The better story, though, is
in the losing locker room. So that is where we
will focus here. And who's to blame? Who's to blame
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for the rams pathetic performance? On Monday Night football, we
play the blame game. I've got knine, hoverboard and treasure map,
and we will combine all of those things together and
we are going to make barbecue. And I spent the
weekend in Kansas City. I met some of you, you
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know who you are, and I had a great time
and I had some amazing barbecue, which is good and bad.
It's good because I enjoyed it. It's bad because I
can't get that where I live, So I'm screwed, you understand,
all right? Anyway, my first thought here when you talk
about the matchup on Monday Night Football, the LA defense
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actually played well like the Rams were terrible defensively early year,
so you can't blame the La Rams defense. They held
Miami to two hundred and thirty eight yards of offense
and two I got off to a fast start and
then after that was shake. Now maybe it was my TV,
but that's how I saw the game. So we'll start
with the eye of the storm for the Rams, who
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turned out couldn't ram it all night, not in the
end zone. It falls on the shoulders of Matthew Stafford
in this game, the Rams offense when it got timed
for Payder stonewalled LA failing to score a touchdown on offense.
To how rare is that Sean McVay has been coaching
for a while with the Rams now and that's only
the eighth time in Sean mcvay's career the Rams have
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failed to score an offensive touchdown. And since Matthew Stafford
came over from the MotorCity Kiddies, the Rams always score
at least one touchdown. And this is only a second
time with Stafford in four years that they have not
gotten into the end zone. And it was it was
so bad that Stafford needed a canine. He needed to
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borrow Blind Scott's service dog. He needed a need some
help there, definitely needed some help.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It was bad. I mean the whole he was missed.
There were a couple of plays where he missed receivers
that were there. He could have scored touchdowns, could have,
should have and all that. Well, here's Matthew Stafford pointing
out what could have happened but didn't happen, similar game
plans going into it. It feels like when you when you
go back and play in your head. But you know,
he did a better job at excuting and come away
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with some touchdowns, which is another one. That's way I'm
saying I sucked. I sucked. That's what he could have said,
but he didn't say that. He did not say that.
So he needs a need some help on that and
not just the missed plays, the touchdowns that were left
on the field. Stafford was sacked by four four four times,
just sacked, but it seemed like more than that watching
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it seemed like it was more than four. Not Caleb
Williams bad didn't didn't sense the pass rush, which is
kind of important. I didn't play quarterback, This is kind
of important. And was serving up just sloppy Joe's or
in this clase, say sloppy Stafford's all over the field
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and a bad job by him and Stafford. If you
looked at the box screersa way, I had two hundred
ninety three yards, that's not that bad, but forty six
attempts averaging six point four yards for attamp seven's average,
so he was below average on that and a lot
of that coming late. The Dolphins able to let the
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Rams go down a little bit down the field and
just kick field goals and that was it. That was all.
And over the last month, you mean this Dolphin defense
the last month ranked eighteenth in the NFL? Is that good?
There's thirty two teams?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I don't think that's good. Do you think that's good?
I don't think that's good. And over the last three
weeks just one sack and they had four sacks against
Matthew Staffer, Efford and whatnot. So they played above what
they were supposed to play. The Rams played below what
they were supposed to play, and that's how you get
the result that you get now, Page two. What is
the Mallord scale of concern? The Mallor scale of concern
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for Sean mcvay's Rams making the playoffs playoffs after this
loss knocks to them back under the even water mark
on the season. So the Malor scale of concern, which
is never wrong, Okay, you can listening with them. Mallard
scale of concern is never wrong. One to ten, with
ten being getting ready for the scouting combine and the
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NFL Draft in those pro days. One to ten, I'm
in a seven, a seven point zero on the Mallard
scale of concern. This is a game the Rams should have,
could have would have won. They didn't. They fetched it away,
they didn't play well. Miami, they blow and yet you
lost the game at home East Coast team coming west.
All of that, however, for the Rams, they continue despite
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this loss on the hoverboard of mediocrity. They're hovering around mediocrity.
You don't have to be that good to make the playoffs. Now,
it's a little different in the NFC than it is
in the AFC. However, the Rams now sit at four
and five on the season, so they're one game under
five hundred, and they still have by my count, not one,
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not two, not three, not four, but five games that
I have as the fifty to fifty raffle meaning could
go either way, should win summer on the road, you'll
be an underdog in those games likely, but they're toss
up games, fifty to fifty raffle games. So of those,
if you win those and you're not gonna win all
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me four and one, that gets you to eight wins,
and then you have to pull one upset along the way.
The NFC West, though, is wide open, wide open. So
to rephrase this for those of you the little slow,
if you pull a couple of upsets, your back where
you need to be in terms of plus. But the
great quote by Henry Ford, kind of an important person
in American history, Henry Ford said, whether you think you
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can or you can't, either way, you're right. So whether
you think the Rams can make the playoffs or can't,
either way, you're correct. All right. Now, last word here
the winning locker room, that is where we would go.
So what does this victory for the TUA tongue of
Bloa Dolphins. What does this win do for that Dolphin team?
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Because I don't like that good. Do you think they're good?
I don't think they're good. I watched the game embarrassed
for the Rams. It was emasculating. But what upsetting the
Rams does from thirty thousand feet It's like the quote
from Jesse Jackson back in the day, they got to
keep hope alive. Got to keep hope alive. It keeps
hope alive is what it does. It keeps hope alive.
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If you look at the treasure map, it's a little different.
Like the Rams pretty much have to win the NFC West,
that's most realistic to make the playoffs. It's not that
for the Dolphins. The Dolphins aren't gonna win the division,
gonna win the division by a million games. So instead
it's about getting that last wild card, and this opens
up a portal to another dimension called the postseason. The
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Dolphins are three and six on what planet in the
cosmos is three and six good? Not this one? Maybe
maybe the one you live on, but not this one.
They're bad to the bone, bad to them. However, you
still have a lot of those cupcake games, a lot
of those cream pie games, see a lot of those,
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and five games, five games with tomato cans. Okay, So
if you'll win those all of them, that gets you
to eight wins. Now eight wins, say, well, you're still
under five one hundred and eight and nine. That ain't
ain't good. If you look around at the very bottom
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of the AFC standings, the last team in barring some
kind of super nova over the last part of the
NFL season, you're looking at a team right around eight
or nine wins getting in maybe even less than that
if you look at how bad those teams at the bottom.
So you mix all of that together and you let
that settle, and then you put that in the fridge,
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let it cool a little bit, and then you put in
the oven. So they're they're right in the middle of
the maze e meean at three and six. Three in six,
you're right in the middle of the maze, bottom of
the ABC. The issue is they deserve to be three
and six. It's not like it's a misleading three and six.
It's not a confusing three and six. It's not perplexing
at all. You're three and six. You suck, You deserve
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to suck and every one of those games the Dolphins
are going into thinking, hey, you know, we don't We
really don't think we're gonna lose that game. Those other
teams playing the Dolphins are like, oh, we can't lose
to the Dolphins. The Rams didn't think they were gonna
lose to the dolph. Why would you lose the Dolphin
lose of the Dolphins. Dan Marino's not walking through that
door to play.
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are they bad? My god? I don't have you saw
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what happened on Sunday? Maybe not the Philadelphi Eagles absolutely
roasting char broiling the cowboys. The Cowboys not only beaten
by the Eagles, but also the twelfth Man, not the
Seahawks twelfth Man, that would be the twelfth Man, or
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go the Sun. Even God and the planets are against
the Dallas Cowboys. But wait, there's more. Now. Now they
are dealing with locker room drama. The drama orama in
the locker room. What is this all about? If he
somehow missed it, we can follow up on the story now.
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I was away from my post yesterday, but I can
follow up with it now. So defensive stalwart past rusher extraordinary.
Just to ask him how good he is, he'll tell you.
Micah Parsons after the Cowboys had just gotten roasted on
their home field yet again, Michael Parsons was asked what
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he would tell people wondering whether or not Mike McCarthy
would be the Cowboys head coach in twenty twenty five.
Concerned about that, his response he said that is, well,
rather let me tell you what he said. We have
the audience, so let's go. This is Micah Parsons, Big
Star Cowboy Player podcast. Guy. Here's Michael Parson.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
That's about my pay grade. About if Mike is coaching
again next year, But you know, all coaching side coaching.
You know, Mike can leave and go wherever he wants.
But the guys, I you know, I kind of feel
bad for his guys like Zach Martin there. Yeah, guys
who might be on their last year on That's right,
you know, because that's what I wanted to hold a
trophy for. You know, you want to win games and
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do great things with those type of legends who put
in more time and work Mike McCarthy every day, That's right.
Those are the kind of guys that I have so
much sympathy and hurt for it.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Okay, how do you really feel? Oh, I guess not
like that. Not like that, because a follow up, those words,
those words we just played for you have gone viral
woo woo all over the place. So Parsons, he's attempting
to clarify what he actually meant by what you just heard,
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and do not believe you're lying. Ears.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Listen, I never once brung up his past.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I'm talking and the question that was asked was about
here and that's cowboys. Did I see Mike McCarthy in
our future? And I said, that's above my pay grade.
So not once, not ever intended or wanted to reflect
on Mike McCarthy's career because I always knew it was
a good one. I've always had a great relationship with
Mike McCarthy, and I've never even put that in a question.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
All right, So you heard there that was on his podcast,
which seven people listen to. Parsons said he never won
through or even intended to throw Mike McCarthy under the bus.
Let us discuss. So you've just heard the initial comment
and then you've heard the clarification so you on the
esteem panel, I ask you, Michah Parson's blaming.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
The media, the media.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
For twisting what he said, his comments around about Mike McCarthy.
What is your take on this situation with Micah Parson.
So I've got wood, Chipper, Crash Davis, and Campbell's chunky soup,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make burnt ends, which are just
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what barbecue burn in. Man, they have a lot of
that in Kansas City. Really good, really good. All right,
So Naber Michael Parsons is a gift that keeps giving
and I would like to on behalf of the brotherhood
of Overnight gas Bags. Say what a peach Michael Parsons is.
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My god, I cannot begin to tell you how much
I appreciate and support the mouth of Micah Parthen's. Michael
Parsons in the sports radio community is ten out of ten. Okay,
I believe he is either completely a moron or maybe
he's just really obtuse, which is not quite a moron,
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but he's just it's wild. He did not throw Mike
McCarthy under the bus, that is correct. What he did
is he picked Mike McCarthy up and put him into
a wood chipper. Is what he did, right of the
wood chipper. Jip jip jip jip jip jip jip. That's
what he did. No ifs ands or butts about it.
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And this was friendly fire. This was friendly fire. Micah
Parsons committed a self inflicted wound.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
He did, all right, wowser's and then well, that's the media,
the media, Hey, Micah, they played the sound bite you said,
those are your words.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's the media, of course, low information fans. Otherwise, I
know those idiots. Let me lick your toes. It's the media,
all right, now paytre Is. Micah Parson's podcast a problem,
so not for me. You know, I'm looking for content.
I'm in the content business, and Michah Parson's not a problem.
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I just think you should do more podcasts. I do three,
and I do this show which just turned into a podcast.
But I do three other podcasts. More, do more than
you're doing. Go above and beyond the call of duty.
Of course, if I worked for the Dallas Cowboys, if
I was Jerry Jones, I mean, like, this is unnecessary,
this is unnecessary, But part of Jerry loves it because
it's all about talking about the Cowboys. There's nothing on
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the field to talk about in terms of success. There's
a lot of failure to talk about, and you talk
a lot about that. But Michael Parsons is supposedly one
of the great players a couple of years ago, is
it last year? First two weeks the Cowboys beat the
Jets and the Giants, and the media, the same media
that is twisting the words around Michael Parsons told us
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that Michael Parsons was the greatest thing since Lawrence Taylor,
and he was the defensive player of the year. If
you don't agree with that, you're a loser. And then
they had to play the rest of the games. Then
they had to play the rest of the games. He
has been this season a jag, just a guy. He's
been hurt most of the time and the impact plays
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far and few between. Michael Parsons really needs to watch
an old movie from Hollywood called Bull Durham. That's what Michael,
that's my advice, watch bullet Now. I don't want him
to ever watch it because I like the fact that
he doesn't do this, but it would if I work
for the team, I'd be like, here's what we're gonna do.
You're gonna have to take notes is pop quiz, and
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the pop quiz is all about the movie Bull Durham.
And if you've never seen the movie, there's a scene
in there that I'm gonna reference. If if you've seen it,
you know exactly where I'm going that there's just a
part of it where he doesn't know how to play
the game. What's in the game. It's in the game.
Now he knows how to play football, I assume, but
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the media game no, no, No, does not have a
poker face. Definitely. There's a scene in that movie which
refers to Jock Talk jockxby crash Davis giving advice as
nuke Lalouche, right, and that he's giving advice there, or
give me advice to nuke lalush crash Davis for Kevin Coster.
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So in that famous scene, he's a you're gonna have
to learn your cliches. You got to learn your cliches, right,
You're gonna have to study them and you you're just
gonna have to have to know them. They're your friends.
And Michael Parsons is not believing that because if somebody says, hey,
is if you asked me and I was using cliches
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and somebody asked me saying, hey, Mike, the question I
have for you is, Mike McCarthy, would he be the
cowboy coach? You see him as the cowboy coach in
twenty twenty five, a lot of people are wondering, I'm
just wondering about next week. We got a game to
play next week. I'm not worried about next year. I'm
living in the moment. I am. I'm bringing my a game.
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I am taking it one play at a time. That's
what most of these boring athletes say. Michaeh. Parson's like, no,
I don't want to win for him, man, I want
to win for Zach Martin. That's who I want to
win for. Screw Mike McCarthy. End put work in and
then you have the balls, the balls to say, well,
you know the media, the media. We have the audio, Dubby,
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we have the audio, Moron, we have the audio. There's
no media twisting involved. You said what you said own
net all right, now, final point. There was one thing
that caught my attention on the field in Dallas. Mike McCarthy,
who's last I check is still the coach. He hasn't
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fired yet. We'll check. I know, we'll be all over
that if any news breaks overnight, boy, we will be
right over that. So anyway, Mike McCarthy told reporters that
the plan is to keep the drowned Cooper Rush. Boy
did he drown out there against Philadelphia under center moving
forward instead of Trey Lance. Now, the Cowboys traded a
fourth round pick to the team that plays their games
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in Northern California for the right to have Trey Lance
on the roster. Trey Lance was also a player that
the Miami Dolphins traded the draft rights to to the
San Francisco Football team for eight million draft picks and
then got upstaged by mister irrelevant whose rock party and
is still there. Anyway, McCarthy says the plan is to
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keep Cooper Rush under center. He says, we have a
lot of faith in Cooper Rush. He said, everybody believes
in him. That's a lie. How could you not considering
how he has performed. Mike McCarthy was getting a massage
rather than coaching the game. So Cooper Rush, if you
believe Mike McCarthy, will remain as QB one for Dallas
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over Treyl. Answer the question is why why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
And I'm gonna go with the P word, not that
P word, procrastination. That's the word I'm using, procrastination. And
Cooper Rush is he played like a rash. I's like
an annoying rash. You gotta scratch and you don't his age.
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You don't want to scratch it, but you know you
can't stop scratching. He's a rush. He had forty five
yards passing? Is that really what I saw? Maybe? Maybe
I imagine that, maybe that didn't actually happen. He had
like four hundred and forty five yards he averaged in
an NFL game plausibly with practice in all week. He
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averaged two yards per pass play against the Eagles. Now,
last I checked, the Philadelphia Eagles are not a great
defensive team. There's a couple of good players on that team,
but they're not They're not amazing. Dallas had one hundred
and forty five yards of offense. That's it against the
Philadelphi Eagles. They blood rabble everyone around him. For Cooper
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Rush to succeed, we had said this to something good.
Cooper Rush has to be perfect. Everything has to be
perfect around him for him to succeed. And a spoiler alert,
the walls are caving in. The walls are caving in
Trey Lance. Now he's a wild card. And I had
a epiphany on my long drive in to the studio here.
I had an epiphany that what the Cowboys are doing
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because Trey Lance is a wild card. So they're taking
the Campbell's Chunky Soup can kicking it down the road.
At some point they will play Trey Lance. I'm guessing
on Thanksgiving. Yeah, the Cowboys have now replaced the Lions.
Let that sink in it used to be every year
at Thanksgivings, I don't want to watch the Cowboys, but boy,
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the guy or the lines, I don't watch the Lions
of Terrible. Now it's the Cowboys. Now it's the Cowboys
are the new Lions. And the Lions are what the
Cowboys were supposed to be but really haven't been since
you know, maybe your daddy or grandpa back in the day.
So Trey Lance will, under chance, I predict on Thanksgiving.
And I'm never wrong about these things. I'm never wrong
about these things. And the Cowboys are trying to navigate
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an obstacle course, and if Lance plays well in his audition.
If he plays well in his audition, that causes problems
for Dak Prescott. Now, Dak Prescott's not going to play
the rest of this year, even though some think he might.
He's not. But going forward, if Trey Lance shows a
little something, then that becomes a problem, much like in
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Cleveland when Joe Flacco sparked a little something and in
Cleveland's like, well, Deshaun Watson doesn't like that. We got
to get rid of Joe Flaccho and so they got
rid of Joe Flacco and now Flacco sucks in India apparently.
But the Browns brought in Famous Jamis because Watson was nervous.
Now Watson's be.
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But this is one Big Ben gets grilled Crippler.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
It was reported that Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Naggy could
be a twenty twenty five head coaching candidate. Ben, do
you think someone is gonna give Naggiy another chance in
the at the Big chair?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The odds are low However, when you look back at
what he did in Chicago, in hindsight, it's not as bad.
I considering where the Bears are right now. He got
to the playoffs with a guy who's not very good
at quarterback, and he's part of the Andy Reid coaching tree,
and that everyone wants part of that Chief's aura. And
I was there. I saw it in first hand. There
is an aura around the Chiefs right now. So I listen,
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I'd say there's a twenty five percent chance, which is
better than I ever thought there would be for Matt Naggie.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Next, after the Cardinals win against the Bears, Jonathan Gannon
said that Kyler Murray was the best player on the
planet Sunday, Ben Murray has been playing well as of late.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Are these six and four Cardinals legit NFC contenders?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Well, they're playoff contenders because of the division and they're
ahead of the division, so yeah, in the playoffs yet,
But are they legit to win the NFC? No, they're
a fraud. I don't believe Kyler Murray. I don't buy it.
I just don't. I'm not on board.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Next, so, the Bears failed to score a touchdown for
the second week in a row, and it had a
lot of people calling for Matt Eberflus to be handed
the pink slip.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Ben, do you think that is imminent? Well, I was
on the TV show. I know you're watching it every week.
Thank your coop. You always text me when you're watching
their Benny versus Benny. So I was on the TV show.
I said, listen, if the Bears lose to the Patriots,
this is Matt, I'd fire him. And but the Bears
are owned by like one hundred and thirty year old
warn who you know, probably don't even know that you
know how many points the Bears sad, So they don't
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fire coaches during the season, but I would. If I
own the Bears, I'd fire him. How did we do? Cool?
You pass? That is a wing? You can put it
on that bark. All time waits? Okay, all time waits.
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Speaker 1 (28:39):
Probably not play the game, And we welcome in Manuel
in Guardina. Hello, Manuel in Guardina. I do not hear
Manuel in Guardiana. As you parted up. Let's see here,
bunch them up. I touch him. He's there. I don't
hear there. There he is there. There he is yellow Manuel.
(29:01):
Hey man, real quick.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
I got to give a shout out to my boy,
King Eddy.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
It is a sad day.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
He has been your side gig for.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Teams like Keons Man. He's gonna be grazy, mad girl.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Got a lot of enough for that guy. Absolutely, and
you got to come in here. You were the last
listener to come in here before the news came down.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It was an honor and a privilege. The guy was
also a class always a class ass man.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Gotcha man? Well, very nice. Who do you want to
partner up with? You've got me or kop? Now? All right?
All right, worried it? All right? Hold on a second,
and we have let's see here any meaning many more?
Andrew in Fremont, California, in the Bay.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
I want to play.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I know you you called up the port. I'm where
you want to play. How's the life treating you? Everything
good with you?
Speaker 7 (29:49):
Everything?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
All right?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Celeb Walmart.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It's eighteen year anniversary last month, and then Walmart gave
me a three crupter Panama come out. That's why why
I wasn't I haven't been calling.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I'm sorry. Walmart did this for you.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
He celebrated his eighteenth anniversary with Walmart and they gave
him a cruise to with the Panama Canal.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yeah, that's pretty awesome, but.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
It was a boat made at Walmart.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
So I don't know if they.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
But i'll bump the lamb jokes are on Friday? All right,
you're gonna team up with Coop? Is that all right?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Andrew?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Okay, alright, really good? Let's play the game. Would you
like to play? But one of these weeks.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
We're going to have you Oh I'll keep count.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, well that's pretty much gonna have to happen here
because anyway, all right, one of the categories here, Coop,
all right, this.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Is Mallard's Mountain of Money. The Eddie Garcia Edition. Our
friend Eddie, Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Still alive. He's not dead. This is not the memorial
Eddie Garcia edition is just not working with us anymore. Correct.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
The categories are Born in Paradise, Fresno State, Puck Podcast,
and Steamboat Willie.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I'll never forget when I gave him the nicknames.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Manuel, Which category would you like?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
We're going with?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, okay, why not? All right?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
And Andrew, how about you fretless state?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
All right? Interesting, okay, you picked steamboat, Willie. These athletes
all have the famous I'm going to Disneyland or disney
World line. They've all said it. All right, you ready, Yeah,
all right, We'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
Manuel in Guardina and you're on your way. Our quarterback
of the Chiefs right now, Lakers star in the eighties, Yes,
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Cardinals slugger played for the Athletics, said sat Yes, a
quarterback for the nineteen eighties eighty six Giants. He got hurt. Yes,
quarterback for the Bucks before Tom Brady, but won a
Super Bowl in the early two thousands with Tampa.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Bay on that beach man.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
All right. How about this Michigan Heisman, Michigan Heisman, that
is Dirrect Michigan Heisman winner, defensive player to win the
Heisman at Michigan. He's on TV right now. College. Yes,
that is correct, nineteen eighty six Twins ACE eighty seven.
Oh alright, now, Ace, it was Frank Fiola. You did well,
(32:19):
what was that?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Forty?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
All right, Andrew? Although Andrew there, Andrew, Yes, how is
your trip?
Speaker 7 (32:28):
No, we don't have time for that. Jesus God, Andrew.
All right, we have Fresno State. These athletes all went
to Fresno State, just like Eddie h forty five seconds.
Let's begin. Current quarterback of the Saints. Yes, MVP slugger
for the Yankees, Sara Good. Yes, this guy is the
(32:50):
wide receiver. He's now on the Jets. He was on
the Packers.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Uh, this guy used to play for the Clip he's
now on the seventy six ers.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
He gets hurt all the time.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Yes, uh, this guy won a Super Bowl with the Ravens. No,
no quarterback quarterback. Sorry, he's not wrong, Jackson, No, no,
ear the two thousand, two thousand.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Man, It is a long clock here.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
No all right?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Fall back for Ladinian Tominson.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Unfortunate coop didn't really work out for you. You didn't
get Trent Dilfer, right and correct?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
One hundred points?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, I got one hundred points, which means you're up again.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
That's right, Andrew. Would you like Born in Paradise or
puck podcast?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Born in Paradise?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
He doesn't want hockey. That's what he's saying.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
There's no, that's not hockey.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Alright, alright, born in Paradise, Andrew. These athletes were all
born in Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
All right.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Forty five seconds begin current quarterbacks for the Dolphins. Who, Yes,
this guy was the quarterback at Oregon. He was drafted
by the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Uh, this guy was a pitcher for the Mets.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
I believe he does the color commentating for the Mets
broadcast in the end.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
Wow, this guy was a defensive tackle. He is a
defensive tackle for the Colts. He used to be on
the forty nine ers. His first name is what happens
when you cut down trees?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
All right?
Speaker 7 (34:32):
This guy was the Flying Hawaiian. He was on like
the Phillies, I believe. Yes, this guy was a catcher
for the A's. You should have done with that one,
that's yeah, I know. I should have gone to baseball, right, Yeah,
he's a baseball guy.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
You didn't get Kurt Suzuki, although you didn't get the
crew and right, DeForest Buckner. You know who that is,
Andrew DeForest Buckner. So how much how many points do
you get?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Enough?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
But we don't run up the score man. Well, oh yeah,
all right, the last Category Puck podcast. These athletes were
known to play hockey before going pro. Are you ready
forty five seconds on the clock, You're on your way go.
Defensive star is now on CBS. He played for the
Houston Texans. Yes, tight end for Tom Brady and the Patriots.
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He's now on the Yes. White two time MVP point
guard in the NBA for the Dallas Mavericks and the
Phoenix Suns, and played Canadian He went to Santa Clara.
All right, Atlanta brave pitcher, not Smolts, not Maddox. Yes,
(35:42):
Saint Louis Rams quarterback was the number one overall pick
for Saint Louis Rams, got a lot of money and sucked. Yes,
big white center from Kansas played for the U for
the Utah Yes, no, greg Oaster tag. How many points
is that? Give me my tone on the rain Now
(36:03):
I want Steve Nash, Steve Nash, Yeah, Steve Man. Well
listen that sandwich place, that place was. I thought you
were full of crap. That place was really good. By
the way we won. We won, man, that's all we won.
You go down, Andrew going your little canoe, going your canoe, Andrew.
(36:26):
We want that to win, all right, I won, Ben,
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The Way tirebind should be. So gonna start with the
Monday night game. There is a big announcement I will
give you, guys in a few minutes, but I'm gonna
start with the football game. We'll work our way to that.
But you want to keep listening, well you should listen anyway.
But I know some of you knuckleheads too nowt But
a big, big news, grown up news that we have
to share with you coming up in a little bit.
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But our lead this hour from the hood in Inglewood.
As our friend in that region, Helmet Man likes to say,
Sofa Stadium, It's actually called Sofi Stadium was the scene
of the final act on the Week ten NFL card.
The Fox refugees Troy Aikman and Joe Buck had to
call the floundering toua tongue of I Loa and the
(02:13):
Dolphins swimming into Sociel trying to stop the magnet. Here.
They'd lost a bunch had won in a while and
they had a date with Matthew Stafford on the rams.
That was the match up there. And if you saw
it or not you're watching, did this get you a
little little turned out? No? It did not? All right, Well,
we watched, so you would not have to Tyreek Hill,
who had been missing. Tyreek Hill caught a short touchdown
(02:35):
pass from Tua Tongue of Ila in the third quarter,
and that held up and it ended that long drought,
in fact, the longest scoring drought of his career. And
the Dolphins, not a great defensive team, not recently anyway,
the Dolphins limiting la to field goals keeping them out
(02:56):
of the end zone, did not even get in the
end zone the Rams. That's and the Dolphin snap a
three game losing streak, just their second win in eight games.
So the Miami football team. The better story, though, is
in the losing locker room. So that is where we
will focus here. And who's to blame? Who's to blame
(03:18):
for the rams pathetic performance? On Monday Night football, we
play the blame game. I've got knine, hoverboard and treasure map,
and we will combine all of those things together and
we are going to make barbecue. And I spent the
weekend in Kansas City. I met some of you, you
(03:40):
know who you are, and I had a great time
and I had some amazing barbecue, which is good and bad.
It's good because I enjoyed it. It's bad because I
can't get that where I live, So I'm screwed, you understand,
all right? Anyway, my first thought here when you talk
about the matchup on Monday Night Football, the LA defense
(04:00):
actually played well like the Rams were terrible defensively early year,
so you can't blame the La Rams defense. They held
Miami to two hundred and thirty eight yards of offense
and two I got off to a fast start and
then after that was shake. Now maybe it was my TV,
but that's how I saw the game. So we'll start
with the eye of the storm for the Rams, who
(04:22):
turned out couldn't ram it all night, not in the
end zone. It falls on the shoulders of Matthew Stafford
in this game, the Rams offense when it got timed
for Payder stonewalled LA failing to score a touchdown on offense.
To how rare is that Sean McVay has been coaching
for a while with the Rams now and that's only
the eighth time in Sean mcvay's career the Rams have
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failed to score an offensive touchdown. And since Matthew Stafford
came over from the MotorCity Kiddies, the Rams always score
at least one touchdown. And this is only a second
time with Stafford in four years that they have not
gotten into the end zone. And it was it was
so bad that Stafford needed a canine. He needed to
(05:07):
borrow Blind Scott's service dog. He needed a need some
help there, definitely needed some help.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It was bad. I mean the whole he was missed.
There were a couple of plays where he missed receivers
that were there. He could have scored touchdowns, could have,
should have and all that. Well, here's Matthew Stafford pointing
out what could have happened but didn't happen, similar game
plans going into it. It feels like when you when you
go back and play in your head. But you know,
he did a better job at excuting and come away
(05:37):
with some touchdowns, which is another one. That's way I'm
saying I sucked. I sucked. That's what he could have said,
but he didn't say that. He did not say that.
So he needs a need some help on that and
not just the missed plays, the touchdowns that were left
on the field. Stafford was sacked by four four four times,
just sacked, but it seemed like more than that watching
(05:57):
it seemed like it was more than four. Not Caleb
Williams bad didn't didn't sense the pass rush, which is
kind of important. I didn't play quarterback, This is kind
of important. And was serving up just sloppy Joe's or
in this clase, say sloppy Stafford's all over the field
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and a bad job by him and Stafford. If you
looked at the box screersa way, I had two hundred
ninety three yards, that's not that bad, but forty six
attempts averaging six point four yards for attamp seven's average,
so he was below average on that and a lot
of that coming late. The Dolphins able to let the
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Rams go down a little bit down the field and
just kick field goals and that was it. That was all.
And over the last month, you mean this Dolphin defense
the last month ranked eighteenth in the NFL? Is that good?
There's thirty two teams?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I don't think that's good. Do you think that's good?
I don't think that's good. And over the last three
weeks just one sack and they had four sacks against
Matthew Staffer, Efford and whatnot. So they played above what
they were supposed to play. The Rams played below what
they were supposed to play, and that's how you get
the result that you get now, Page two. What is
the Mallord scale of concern? The Mallor scale of concern
(07:14):
for Sean mcvay's Rams making the playoffs playoffs after this
loss knocks to them back under the even water mark
on the season. So the Malor scale of concern, which
is never wrong, Okay, you can listening with them. Mallard
scale of concern is never wrong. One to ten, with
ten being getting ready for the scouting combine and the
(07:36):
NFL Draft in those pro days. One to ten, I'm
in a seven, a seven point zero on the Mallard
scale of concern. This is a game the Rams should have,
could have would have won. They didn't. They fetched it away,
they didn't play well. Miami, they blow and yet you
lost the game at home East Coast team coming west.
All of that, however, for the Rams, they continue despite
(08:00):
this loss on the hoverboard of mediocrity. They're hovering around mediocrity.
You don't have to be that good to make the playoffs. Now,
it's a little different in the NFC than it is
in the AFC. However, the Rams now sit at four
and five on the season, so they're one game under
five hundred, and they still have by my count, not one,
(08:21):
not two, not three, not four, but five games that
I have as the fifty to fifty raffle meaning could
go either way, should win summer on the road, you'll
be an underdog in those games likely, but they're toss
up games, fifty to fifty raffle games. So of those,
if you win those and you're not gonna win all
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me four and one, that gets you to eight wins,
and then you have to pull one upset along the way.
The NFC West, though, is wide open, wide open. So
to rephrase this for those of you the little slow,
if you pull a couple of upsets, your back where
you need to be in terms of plus. But the
great quote by Henry Ford, kind of an important person
in American history, Henry Ford said, whether you think you
(09:07):
can or you can't, either way, you're right. So whether
you think the Rams can make the playoffs or can't,
either way, you're correct. All right. Now, last word here
the winning locker room, that is where we would go.
So what does this victory for the TUA tongue of
Bloa Dolphins. What does this win do for that Dolphin team?
(09:27):
Because I don't like that good. Do you think they're good?
I don't think they're good. I watched the game embarrassed
for the Rams. It was emasculating. But what upsetting the
Rams does from thirty thousand feet It's like the quote
from Jesse Jackson back in the day, they got to
keep hope alive. Got to keep hope alive. It keeps
hope alive is what it does. It keeps hope alive.
(09:49):
If you look at the treasure map, it's a little different.
Like the Rams pretty much have to win the NFC West,
that's most realistic to make the playoffs. It's not that
for the Dolphins. The Dolphins aren't gonna win the division,
gonna win the division by a million games. So instead
it's about getting that last wild card, and this opens
up a portal to another dimension called the postseason. The
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Dolphins are three and six on what planet in the
cosmos is three and six good? Not this one? Maybe
maybe the one you live on, but not this one.
They're bad to the bone, bad to them. However, you
still have a lot of those cupcake games, a lot
of those cream pie games, see a lot of those,
(10:31):
and five games, five games with tomato cans. Okay, So
if you'll win those all of them, that gets you
to eight wins. Now eight wins, say, well, you're still
under five one hundred and eight and nine. That ain't
ain't good. If you look around at the very bottom
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of the AFC standings, the last team in barring some
kind of super nova over the last part of the
NFL season, you're looking at a team right around eight
or nine wins getting in maybe even less than that
if you look at how bad those teams at the bottom.
So you mix all of that together and you let
that settle, and then you put that in the fridge,
(11:11):
let it cool a little bit, and then you put in
the oven. So they're they're right in the middle of
the maze e meean at three and six. Three in six,
you're right in the middle of the maze, bottom of
the ABC. The issue is they deserve to be three
and six. It's not like it's a misleading three and six.
It's not a confusing three and six. It's not perplexing
at all. You're three and six. You suck, You deserve
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to suck and every one of those games the Dolphins
are going into thinking, hey, you know, we don't We
really don't think we're gonna lose that game. Those other
teams playing the Dolphins are like, oh, we can't lose
to the Dolphins. The Rams didn't think they were gonna
lose to the dolph. Why would you lose the Dolphin
lose of the Dolphins. Dan Marino's not walking through that
door to play.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
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Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Benmlor Show.
We are in the air everywhere a consortium as we move,
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The great Cowboy. John bradd and Windsor are lead this
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hour from deep in the heart of Texas. The cowboys
have found their mojo. It took a while, didn't look
like it was gonna happen, But here we are reaching
new levels in the little community known as Suckville. Wow
are they bad? My god? I don't have you saw
(13:28):
what happened on Sunday? Maybe not the Philadelphi Eagles absolutely
roasting char broiling the cowboys. The Cowboys not only beaten
by the Eagles, but also the twelfth Man, not the
Seahawks twelfth Man, that would be the twelfth Man, or
(13:48):
go the Sun. Even God and the planets are against
the Dallas Cowboys. But wait, there's more. Now. Now they
are dealing with locker room drama. The drama orama in
the locker room. What is this all about? If he
somehow missed it, we can follow up on the story now.
(14:10):
I was away from my post yesterday, but I can
follow up with it now. So defensive stalwart past rusher extraordinary.
Just to ask him how good he is, he'll tell you.
Micah Parsons after the Cowboys had just gotten roasted on
their home field yet again, Michael Parsons was asked what
(14:31):
he would tell people wondering whether or not Mike McCarthy
would be the Cowboys head coach in twenty twenty five.
Concerned about that, his response he said that is, well,
rather let me tell you what he said. We have
the audience, so let's go. This is Micah Parsons, Big
Star Cowboy Player podcast. Guy. Here's Michael Parson.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
That's about my pay grade. About if Mike is coaching
again next year, But you know, all coaching side coaching.
You know, Mike can leave and go wherever he wants.
But the guys, I you know, I kind of feel
bad for his guys like Zach Martin there. Yeah, guys
who might be on their last year on That's right,
you know, because that's what I wanted to hold a
trophy for. You know, you want to win games and
(15:12):
do great things with those type of legends who put
in more time and work Mike McCarthy every day, That's right.
Those are the kind of guys that I have so
much sympathy and hurt for it.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Okay, how do you really feel? Oh, I guess not
like that. Not like that, because a follow up, those words,
those words we just played for you have gone viral
woo woo all over the place. So Parsons, he's attempting
to clarify what he actually meant by what you just heard,
(15:43):
and do not believe you're lying. Ears.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Listen, I never once brung up his past.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I'm talking and the question that was asked was about
here and that's cowboys. Did I see Mike McCarthy in
our future? And I said, that's above my pay grade.
So not once, not ever intended or wanted to reflect
on Mike McCarthy's career because I always knew it was
a good one. I've always had a great relationship with
Mike McCarthy, and I've never even put that in a question.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
All right, So you heard there that was on his podcast,
which seven people listen to. Parsons said he never won
through or even intended to throw Mike McCarthy under the bus.
Let us discuss. So you've just heard the initial comment
and then you've heard the clarification so you on the
esteem panel, I ask you, Michah Parson's blaming.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
The media, the media.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
For twisting what he said, his comments around about Mike McCarthy.
What is your take on this situation with Micah Parson.
So I've got wood, Chipper, Crash Davis, and Campbell's chunky soup,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make burnt ends, which are just
(16:57):
what barbecue burn in. Man, they have a lot of
that in Kansas City. Really good, really good. All right,
So Naber Michael Parsons is a gift that keeps giving
and I would like to on behalf of the brotherhood
of Overnight gas Bags. Say what a peach Michael Parsons is.
(17:20):
My god, I cannot begin to tell you how much
I appreciate and support the mouth of Micah Parthen's. Michael
Parsons in the sports radio community is ten out of ten. Okay,
I believe he is either completely a moron or maybe
he's just really obtuse, which is not quite a moron,
(17:43):
but he's just it's wild. He did not throw Mike
McCarthy under the bus, that is correct. What he did
is he picked Mike McCarthy up and put him into
a wood chipper. Is what he did, right of the
wood chipper. Jip jip jip jip jip jip jip. That's
what he did. No ifs ands or butts about it.
(18:03):
And this was friendly fire. This was friendly fire. Micah
Parsons committed a self inflicted wound.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
He did, all right, wowser's and then well, that's the media,
the media, Hey, Micah, they played the sound bite you said,
those are your words.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's the media, of course, low information fans. Otherwise, I
know those idiots. Let me lick your toes. It's the media,
all right, now paytre Is. Micah Parson's podcast a problem,
so not for me. You know, I'm looking for content.
I'm in the content business, and Michah Parson's not a problem.
(18:46):
I just think you should do more podcasts. I do three,
and I do this show which just turned into a podcast.
But I do three other podcasts. More, do more than
you're doing. Go above and beyond the call of duty.
Of course, if I worked for the Dallas Cowboys, if
I was Jerry Jones, I mean, like, this is unnecessary,
this is unnecessary, But part of Jerry loves it because
it's all about talking about the Cowboys. There's nothing on
(19:07):
the field to talk about in terms of success. There's
a lot of failure to talk about, and you talk
a lot about that. But Michael Parsons is supposedly one
of the great players a couple of years ago, is
it last year? First two weeks the Cowboys beat the
Jets and the Giants, and the media, the same media
that is twisting the words around Michael Parsons told us
(19:30):
that Michael Parsons was the greatest thing since Lawrence Taylor,
and he was the defensive player of the year. If
you don't agree with that, you're a loser. And then
they had to play the rest of the games. Then
they had to play the rest of the games. He
has been this season a jag, just a guy. He's
been hurt most of the time and the impact plays
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far and few between. Michael Parsons really needs to watch
an old movie from Hollywood called Bull Durham. That's what Michael,
that's my advice, watch bullet Now. I don't want him
to ever watch it because I like the fact that
he doesn't do this, but it would if I work
for the team, I'd be like, here's what we're gonna do.
You're gonna have to take notes is pop quiz, and
(20:10):
the pop quiz is all about the movie Bull Durham.
And if you've never seen the movie, there's a scene
in there that I'm gonna reference. If if you've seen it,
you know exactly where I'm going that there's just a
part of it where he doesn't know how to play
the game. What's in the game. It's in the game.
Now he knows how to play football, I assume, but
(20:30):
the media game no, no, No, does not have a
poker face. Definitely. There's a scene in that movie which
refers to Jock Talk jockxby crash Davis giving advice as
nuke Lalouche, right, and that he's giving advice there, or
give me advice to nuke lalush crash Davis for Kevin Coster.
(20:52):
So in that famous scene, he's a you're gonna have
to learn your cliches. You got to learn your cliches, right,
You're gonna have to study them and you you're just
gonna have to have to know them. They're your friends.
And Michael Parsons is not believing that because if somebody says, hey,
is if you asked me and I was using cliches
(21:14):
and somebody asked me saying, hey, Mike, the question I
have for you is, Mike McCarthy, would he be the
cowboy coach? You see him as the cowboy coach in
twenty twenty five, a lot of people are wondering, I'm
just wondering about next week. We got a game to
play next week. I'm not worried about next year. I'm
living in the moment. I am. I'm bringing my a game.
(21:36):
I am taking it one play at a time. That's
what most of these boring athletes say. Michaeh. Parson's like, no,
I don't want to win for him, man, I want
to win for Zach Martin. That's who I want to
win for. Screw Mike McCarthy. End put work in and
then you have the balls, the balls to say, well,
you know the media, the media. We have the audio, Dubby,
(21:58):
we have the audio, Moron, we have the audio. There's
no media twisting involved. You said what you said own
net all right, now, final point. There was one thing
that caught my attention on the field in Dallas. Mike McCarthy,
who's last I check is still the coach. He hasn't
(22:18):
fired yet. We'll check. I know, we'll be all over
that if any news breaks overnight, boy, we will be
right over that. So anyway, Mike McCarthy told reporters that
the plan is to keep the drowned Cooper Rush. Boy
did he drown out there against Philadelphia under center moving
forward instead of Trey Lance. Now, the Cowboys traded a
fourth round pick to the team that plays their games
(22:40):
in Northern California for the right to have Trey Lance
on the roster. Trey Lance was also a player that
the Miami Dolphins traded the draft rights to to the
San Francisco Football team for eight million draft picks and
then got upstaged by mister irrelevant whose rock party and
is still there. Anyway, McCarthy says the plan is to
(23:01):
keep Cooper Rush under center. He says, we have a
lot of faith in Cooper Rush. He said, everybody believes
in him. That's a lie. How could you not considering
how he has performed. Mike McCarthy was getting a massage
rather than coaching the game. So Cooper Rush, if you
believe Mike McCarthy, will remain as QB one for Dallas
(23:26):
over Treyl. Answer the question is why why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
And I'm gonna go with the P word, not that
P word, procrastination. That's the word I'm using, procrastination. And
Cooper Rush is he played like a rash. I's like
an annoying rash. You gotta scratch and you don't his age.
(23:47):
You don't want to scratch it, but you know you
can't stop scratching. He's a rush. He had forty five
yards passing? Is that really what I saw? Maybe? Maybe
I imagine that, maybe that didn't actually happen. He had
like four hundred and forty five yards he averaged in
an NFL game plausibly with practice in all week. He
(24:09):
averaged two yards per pass play against the Eagles. Now,
last I checked, the Philadelphia Eagles are not a great
defensive team. There's a couple of good players on that team,
but they're not They're not amazing. Dallas had one hundred
and forty five yards of offense. That's it against the
Philadelphi Eagles. They blood rabble everyone around him. For Cooper
(24:32):
Rush to succeed, we had said this to something good.
Cooper Rush has to be perfect. Everything has to be
perfect around him for him to succeed. And a spoiler alert,
the walls are caving in. The walls are caving in
Trey Lance. Now he's a wild card. And I had
a epiphany on my long drive in to the studio here.
I had an epiphany that what the Cowboys are doing
(24:56):
because Trey Lance is a wild card. So they're taking
the Campbell's Chunky Soup can kicking it down the road.
At some point they will play Trey Lance. I'm guessing
on Thanksgiving. Yeah, the Cowboys have now replaced the Lions.
Let that sink in it used to be every year
at Thanksgivings, I don't want to watch the Cowboys, but boy,
(25:18):
the guy or the lines, I don't watch the Lions
of Terrible. Now it's the Cowboys. Now it's the Cowboys
are the new Lions. And the Lions are what the
Cowboys were supposed to be but really haven't been since
you know, maybe your daddy or grandpa back in the day.
So Trey Lance will, under chance, I predict on Thanksgiving.
And I'm never wrong about these things. I'm never wrong
about these things. And the Cowboys are trying to navigate
(25:40):
an obstacle course, and if Lance plays well in his audition.
If he plays well in his audition, that causes problems
for Dak Prescott. Now, Dak Prescott's not going to play
the rest of this year, even though some think he might.
He's not. But going forward, if Trey Lance shows a
little something, then that becomes a problem, much like in
(26:00):
Cleveland when Joe Flacco sparked a little something and in
Cleveland's like, well, Deshaun Watson doesn't like that. We got
to get rid of Joe Flaccho and so they got
rid of Joe Flacco and now Flacco sucks in India apparently.
But the Browns brought in Famous Jamis because Watson was nervous.
Now Watson's be.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler Show
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the third degree.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
But this is one Big Ben gets grilled Crippler.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
It was reported that Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Naggy could
be a twenty twenty five head coaching candidate. Ben, do
you think someone is gonna give Naggiy another chance in
the at the Big chair?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The odds are low However, when you look back at
what he did in Chicago, in hindsight, it's not as bad.
I considering where the Bears are right now. He got
to the playoffs with a guy who's not very good
at quarterback, and he's part of the Andy Reid coaching tree,
and that everyone wants part of that Chief's aura. And
I was there. I saw it in first hand. There
is an aura around the Chiefs right now. So I listen,
(27:04):
I'd say there's a twenty five percent chance, which is
better than I ever thought there would be for Matt Naggie.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Next, after the Cardinals win against the Bears, Jonathan Gannon
said that Kyler Murray was the best player on the
planet Sunday, Ben Murray has been playing well as of late.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Are these six and four Cardinals legit NFC contenders?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Well, they're playoff contenders because of the division and they're
ahead of the division, so yeah, in the playoffs yet,
But are they legit to win the NFC? No, they're
a fraud. I don't believe Kyler Murray. I don't buy it.
I just don't. I'm not on board.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Next, so, the Bears failed to score a touchdown for
the second week in a row, and it had a
lot of people calling for Matt Eberflus to be handed
the pink slip.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Ben, do you think that is imminent? Well, I was
on the TV show. I know you're watching it every week.
Thank your coop. You always text me when you're watching
their Benny versus Benny. So I was on the TV show.
I said, listen, if the Bears lose to the Patriots,
this is Matt, I'd fire him. And but the Bears
are owned by like one hundred and thirty year old
warn who you know, probably don't even know that you
know how many points the Bears sad, So they don't
(28:04):
fire coaches during the season, but I would. If I
own the Bears, I'd fire him. How did we do? Cool?
You pass? That is a wing? You can put it
on that bark. All time waits? Okay, all time waits.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
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listen live. Now Mailer's Mountain of Money? Do you have
what it takes to get to the top?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Probably not play the game, And we welcome in Manuel
in Guardina. Hello, Manuel in Guardina. I do not hear
Manuel in Guardiana. As you parted up. Let's see here,
bunch them up. I touch him. He's there. I don't
hear there. There he is there. There he is yellow Manuel.
(29:01):
Hey man, real quick.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
I got to give a shout out to my boy,
King Eddy.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
It is a sad day.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
He has been your side gig for.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Teams like Keons Man. He's gonna be grazy, mad girl.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Got a lot of enough for that guy. Absolutely, and
you got to come in here. You were the last
listener to come in here before the news came down.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It was an honor and a privilege. The guy was
also a class always a class ass man.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Gotcha man? Well, very nice. Who do you want to
partner up with? You've got me or kop? Now? All right?
All right, worried it? All right? Hold on a second,
and we have let's see here any meaning many more?
Andrew in Fremont, California, in the Bay.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
I want to play.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I know you you called up the port. I'm where
you want to play. How's the life treating you? Everything
good with you?
Speaker 7 (29:49):
Everything?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
All right?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Celeb Walmart.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It's eighteen year anniversary last month, and then Walmart gave
me a three crupter Panama come out. That's why why
I wasn't I haven't been calling.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I'm sorry. Walmart did this for you.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
He celebrated his eighteenth anniversary with Walmart and they gave
him a cruise to with the Panama Canal.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yeah, that's pretty awesome, but.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
It was a boat made at Walmart.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
So I don't know if they.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
But i'll bump the lamb jokes are on Friday? All right,
you're gonna team up with Coop? Is that all right?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Andrew?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Okay, alright, really good? Let's play the game. Would you
like to play? But one of these weeks.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
We're going to have you Oh I'll keep count.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, well that's pretty much gonna have to happen here
because anyway, all right, one of the categories here, Coop,
all right, this.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Is Mallard's Mountain of Money. The Eddie Garcia Edition. Our
friend Eddie, Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Still alive. He's not dead. This is not the memorial
Eddie Garcia edition is just not working with us anymore. Correct.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
The categories are Born in Paradise, Fresno State, Puck Podcast,
and Steamboat Willie.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I'll never forget when I gave him the nicknames.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Manuel, Which category would you like?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
We're going with?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, okay, why not? All right?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
And Andrew, how about you fretless state?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
All right? Interesting, okay, you picked steamboat, Willie. These athletes
all have the famous I'm going to Disneyland or disney
World line. They've all said it. All right, you ready, Yeah,
all right, We'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
Manuel in Guardina and you're on your way. Our quarterback
of the Chiefs right now, Lakers star in the eighties, Yes,
(31:37):
Cardinals slugger played for the Athletics, said sat Yes, a
quarterback for the nineteen eighties eighty six Giants. He got hurt. Yes,
quarterback for the Bucks before Tom Brady, but won a
Super Bowl in the early two thousands with Tampa.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Bay on that beach man.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
All right. How about this Michigan Heisman, Michigan Heisman, that
is Dirrect Michigan Heisman winner, defensive player to win the
Heisman at Michigan. He's on TV right now. College. Yes,
that is correct, nineteen eighty six Twins ACE eighty seven.
Oh alright, now, Ace, it was Frank Fiola. You did well,
(32:19):
what was that?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Forty?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
All right, Andrew? Although Andrew there, Andrew, Yes, how is
your trip?
Speaker 7 (32:28):
No, we don't have time for that. Jesus God, Andrew.
All right, we have Fresno State. These athletes all went
to Fresno State, just like Eddie h forty five seconds.
Let's begin. Current quarterback of the Saints. Yes, MVP slugger
for the Yankees, Sara Good. Yes, this guy is the
(32:50):
wide receiver. He's now on the Jets. He was on
the Packers.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Uh, this guy used to play for the Clip he's
now on the seventy six ers.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
He gets hurt all the time.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Yes, uh, this guy won a Super Bowl with the Ravens. No,
no quarterback quarterback. Sorry, he's not wrong, Jackson, No, no,
ear the two thousand, two thousand.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Man, It is a long clock here.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
No all right?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Fall back for Ladinian Tominson.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Unfortunate coop didn't really work out for you. You didn't
get Trent Dilfer, right and correct?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
One hundred points?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, I got one hundred points, which means you're up again.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
That's right, Andrew. Would you like Born in Paradise or
puck podcast?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Born in Paradise?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
He doesn't want hockey. That's what he's saying.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
There's no, that's not hockey.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Alright, alright, born in Paradise, Andrew. These athletes were all
born in Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
All right.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Forty five seconds begin current quarterbacks for the Dolphins. Who, Yes,
this guy was the quarterback at Oregon. He was drafted
by the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Uh, this guy was a pitcher for the Mets.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
I believe he does the color commentating for the Mets
broadcast in the end.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
Wow, this guy was a defensive tackle. He is a
defensive tackle for the Colts. He used to be on
the forty nine ers. His first name is what happens
when you cut down trees?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
All right?
Speaker 7 (34:32):
This guy was the Flying Hawaiian. He was on like
the Phillies, I believe. Yes, this guy was a catcher
for the A's. You should have done with that one,
that's yeah, I know. I should have gone to baseball, right, Yeah,
he's a baseball guy.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
You didn't get Kurt Suzuki, although you didn't get the
crew and right, DeForest Buckner. You know who that is,
Andrew DeForest Buckner. So how much how many points do
you get?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Enough?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
But we don't run up the score man. Well, oh yeah,
all right, the last Category Puck podcast. These athletes were
known to play hockey before going pro. Are you ready
forty five seconds on the clock, You're on your way go.
Defensive star is now on CBS. He played for the
Houston Texans. Yes, tight end for Tom Brady and the Patriots.
(35:19):
He's now on the Yes. White two time MVP point
guard in the NBA for the Dallas Mavericks and the
Phoenix Suns, and played Canadian He went to Santa Clara.
All right, Atlanta brave pitcher, not Smolts, not Maddox. Yes,
(35:42):
Saint Louis Rams quarterback was the number one overall pick
for Saint Louis Rams, got a lot of money and sucked. Yes,
big white center from Kansas played for the U for
the Utah Yes, no, greg Oaster tag. How many points
is that? Give me my tone on the rain Now
(36:03):
I want Steve Nash, Steve Nash, Yeah, Steve Man. Well
listen that sandwich place, that place was. I thought you
were full of crap. That place was really good. By
the way we won. We won, man, that's all we won.
You go down, Andrew going your little canoe, going your canoe, Andrew.
(36:26):
We want that to win, all right, I won, Ben,
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