July 23, 2025 • 51 mins
Big Ben talks about Micah Parsons talking to the media and saying that he's discouraged with Cowboys' contract talks, Trey Hendrickson holding out of Cincinnati Bengals training camp, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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So our lead this hour is the Yen to the End. Now.
In a previous episode of this show, we were ranting
about the stylings of Jerry Jones, good old Jared Jerry's World.
So that is where we're going to pick up here
the end of the Yang. I mentioned that, and so
we had Jerry Jones give the State of the Cowboy
address at the beginning of training camp in the Nard
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Aux nerd Well Now Cowboy all pro edge rusher extraordinaire,
or at least ask him. He'll tell you that. Michael
Parsons pushing back, Push it back, now, push you back,
pushing back against Jerry Joe's Now Michael publicly acknowledged that
he is the D word discouraged, oh my god, discourage
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that a long term deal has not been reached with
the organization. So I don't know if you saw this
or heard about. We have some audio. We're going to
play for you. We've got the receipts. So rather than
me give you the transcit riped of what Michaeh Parsons said,
here's Michaeh. Parsons in his own words at Cowboy Camp,
discussing why he's not all that please.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Honestly, Yeah, when you go around the league and you
see these the team's taking care of their best guys.
I see TJ got taken care of you know, Max
got taken care of, Miles got taken care of him.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
He got two years left on his deal.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Phil, It's hard to Yeah, you see a lot of player.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Around league and taking care of you.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
You know, I wish you had something like you know,
that same type of energy.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
All right, so let us discuss You mentioned Miles Garrett, TJ. Watt,
Max Crosby in his rant. So as we discussed do
you feel bad? Do you feel bad for Micah Parsons
being discouraged by his Cowboy contract talks. So on this one,
I've got Kardashians, alphabet soup, and Russian roulette, and we
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will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make one of those elbow long State Fair style corn dogs.
That you can get in the summer. You know, everything's
deep fried at those state fairs and man, they good.
So hey, my favorite part is, and I don't know
if you could pick up on it, a lot of
people have other things going on. We're pretty much background noise.
You're working, you're driving, you're trying to sleep, whatever. If
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we can't play that again, though, if you listen in
the background, you can hear one of Micah parsons teammates
there who was like his hype man, who was throwing
out names. If you can listen, turn up the audio
because I heard this. You could hear the teammate who
was shouting out like the next line for Micah Parsons,
kind of like a good hype man. Take a listen again,
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listen to this.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Well, honestly, yeah, when you go around the league and
you see these other teams taking care of their best guys,
I see TJ got taken care of you know, Max
got taken care of, Miles got taken care of him,
he got two years left on his jill. So it's
hard to hear. You see a lot of pig going around.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
The league and taking care of you something like you know.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, same type of all right, all right, you could
hear it in the background if you've turned the audio
all the way up. And yeah, your ear drums are
blown when I started talking. So this whole thing makes me.
I want a puke in my mouth, is what it
makes me. Michael Parsons is discouraged. Give me a break,
all right, give me a break on this one. He's
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gonna get paid eventually. This is all part of the process.
It's all part of the show. Uh. And he's that
the freaky freak of defense, right, all pro all this
face of the defense of America's team and all these
fine things here, and he's out there playing sad boy
with the media, right because Jerry Jones has not handed
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him a cartoon sized blank check and say just sign
on the dot line. It's like a pity party a
training camp. We're gonna start training camp and we're gonna
have a pity party. Just whine to the media. I'll
get my teammate over alongside here. We're gonna whine and complain.
And then, of course you got a sub tweet. He's
already done that. He's already done that. Uh, post some
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kind of cryptic social media message. Uh, and you do that.
It's right out of the middle school play book, right
out of the middle school playbook. So you do that,
and I want the same energy as TJ. Watt, God
and Max Crosby money and all that stuff. Boo freaking
who right are you kidding me here? Seriously? I was like,
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this just sounds terrible. It's classic cowboys dysfunction, is what
it is, Classic cowboys dysfunction. They are the Kardashians of
the NFL, and they've been the Kardashians before the Kardashians,
and they'll be the Kardashians when the Kardashians are gone.
It's the soap opera in cleats, not spandex in cleats.
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And they've got the glitz, the glamour, the big headlines,
and God bless them because they provide content, a lot
of great content right here. And man, is that good?
That is really really important here. But the drama, it
goes on and on and on and on. You've got
the star of the drama, the soap opera, the senile
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old oil tycoon, old oil family money. And Jerry Jones,
good old Jerry out there. He's doing his news conferences
and he's got his sunglasses on, he's got his water
burger cup, he's got his nineteen ninety eight flip phone,
and he's got these ridiculous as I said, glasses on
and the whole thing. And then you got Micah Parson's
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who if you great him objectively as an NFL player,
he's got to get paid. He's also fools. Go does
anyone think he's not fools?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Go?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Anyone raising their hand? I don't see any hands raised.
Mike has got all these gaudy stats, and people get
all horny because they see the stats. And yet, despite
being a fantasy football superstar, when the games are the biggest,
when the pressure is cranked up, where's Mike. Not where's Waldough,
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it's where's Mike? Where we I don't know? He is
the defensive equivalent of what Dak Prescott is on offense.
He just is. And you know, that's the proper way
to approach this, because that's the reality. You can kid
yourself and put on your cowboy fanboy year and all
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that stuff, but that's the way that there's a lot
of empty calories. There a lot of empty calories when
you look at the performance of one Micah Parson there
and do not be fooled by the junk stats. Do
not be fooled by the junk stats when the games
don't matter. The moping over the payday, which is standard
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fair and we'll have many more malle monologues about this.
It's a popular topic this time of the sporting calendar there.
But every player now thinks that they need to be
the highest paid guy at their position the moment, the second,
the second they see someone else. It's the Ponzi scheme
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situation involving ego is what it is here, and it's
it's rather exhausting, maybe not for you, but I got
no life. They pay me to pay attention to this crap,
and so every day it's none of these stories here.
It's the nbification, if you will, NBA official vacation of
the NFL. So something used to happen only in the NBA,
and now it's it's spilled over to the NFL. Now
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Page two to Viva Las Vegas, Viva las Vegas, we go.
That is where Pete Carroll, good old Pete, giving us
the money quote he set the tone for the start
of Raiders training camp in Sin City, saying, quote, we're
going to win a bunch, and I don't care who
hears that close quote. So that is what we call
(09:49):
kids the money quote. So let's parse the words. What
do he said? It's fun game, let's parse the words.
So Pete Carroll saying the Raiders are going to quote
win a b those are his words and he doesn't
care who hears that. What are your impressions on this one?
So let me start by saying, I love Pollyanna Pete.
(10:11):
I'm a big fan of Pollyanna. Pete. Pete Carroll parachutes
into town because the Raiders couldn't hire the coach they
wanted and Tom Brady got pinched by the NFL, and
so he had to hire somebody. Had to hire somebody,
so he hired this guy. And you know, Pete Carroll
comes in there, parachutes in like he's Zeus at a
pep rally. And that's the beauty of Pete Carroll. He's
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spraying faery dust around the Raider facility, making bold proclamations,
bold decrees from good old Pete Carroll. It really is
wonderful when you put it under the Mallard microscope. We
like to put these things under the Mallard microscope. When
you put it under the Mallard microscope. A bunch Pete
Carroll said, the Raiders are gonna win a bunch of games.
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So a bunch is it's got to be the most
non committal, watered down, buzzword based catchphrase you could possibly
cook up in coach speak. Got it be it's NFL
alphabet soup. We essentially are saying, hey, Pete, Care's like, well,
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we hope to compete and not completely suck, and so
we're gonna win a bunch. Because I try to find
out what does a bunch mean? Does a bunch mean five?
Does a bunch mean ten? Does a bunch mean twelve? Fifteen?
What's a bunch? The Brady Bunch, that's an old show,
but that was more. That was more than just a few.
That was there was a lot of six kids as
a lot. Is that a bunch? Is it six? So
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the Raider's gonna win six because a bunch? That's I
don't know. That's the only thing I could come up with.
I tried to find it by Google it and I
had said, what is a bunch? What is the number
of a bunch? And it's like, well, there's nothing, really,
It's not a defined definition of what a bunch is.
So I'm gonna go with six. So really, Pete Carroll's
saying the Raiders a gona win six games. More of
the same, more of the same from the Raiders. And
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I hate to be the spoiler. The Legion of Boom
is not walking through that door in Vegas. And if
they do walk through that door, they're old men now,
so forget about that. And in Vegas, the Raiders do
have an old Seahawk trash player, Geno Smith, and the
Seahawks when they traded Geno Smith, they went on about
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cake and they got balloons to celebrate. They got rid
of that dead weight. So now you've got a quarterback
who's the equivalent of DCAF coffee. Like, what's the point
of drinking DCAF coffee? I don't get it. I don't
drink coffee, but what's the point of drinking DCAF coffee? Anyway?
Gino Smith is the guy that you call when your
QB one has decided to go on a vacation or
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has been abducted by some kind of lizard people species
taken to the sub earth at the end of the
flat earth underneath the hollow Earth, that's where you get
Gino Smith and he comes in there. Now, Gino is
not bad. People think I believe Geno Smith is bad.
I don't believe Gino Smith is bad. And we've had
our beef going back to his days at West Virginia.
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You don't let Gino cook, you know, let him cook.
No one ever says let Geno Smith cook. You let
Geno Smith simmer because his temperature is lukewarm. That is
what he is. Now. The Raiders have had such crappy
quarterback play that's actually an upgrade. That's actually an upgrade.
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That's how bad the Raiders' offense has been. But it's
essentially built around a bubble screen and a wish. That's
the Raider offense. So unless a bunch, unless a bunch
means more than six like the Brady bunch, and you're
just getting a participation trophy at this particular point. You know,
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the Bravado. I know you're supposed to be the hype man.
Everyone's got a hype up thirteen this time of the year,
and I am cognizant of that. I realized that's part
of the game. You're in the hype business. At show business.
You got to get people excited, excite the fan base,
excite the electorate. It's like political rallies here, these training
camp situations. But in reality, when you look at the
Raiders here, this franchise has not had any kind of
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real identity since Al Davis was dominating trades using a
rotary phone. That's the last time the Raiders. I mean,
when I was a kid, the Raiders used to always
brag about how they had the top winning percentage in
all the sports. There used to be these things called
pocket schedules. I remember when the Raiders were in LA
and I was a young lad and we used to
get those pocket schedules, and I was a little kid,
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and I was like, oh man, these are cool. And
the Raiders always in the back of the pocket schedule.
They had, you know, commitment to excellence Al's quote there,
and they had the top winning percentages over however many
years and the Raiders are always like number one. And
if you go back to last twenty five years generation,
the Raiders are in the bottom five and all of
North American sport, it's just a wild how much they blow.
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They are so bad. But hey, we love Pete Carroll,
Me and Pete Carroll of course lifetime friends. When he
was coaching at USC, he used the malorphone to do
a phoner the Fox Sports radio the malorphone. Pete Carroll
used the malorphone. So there was that. And unfortunately, though
you cannot bluff your way. You might win a couple
extra games because you got good coach, but you're not
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gonna win enough to really move the needle in a
division with Kansas City. And then you've got the Chargers
and the Broncos who kind of flip flip flop there.
Now the last word to Tampa. We go, to Tampa,
we go where the Bucks star wide receiver man that
was up for grabs in the off season, Chris Godwin, Well,
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he's not up for grabs anymore. He stayed in Tampa.
Chris Godwin reportedly had to have a not first a second,
a second ankle sir, Did you see this? He had
a second ankle surgery during the off season that wasn't
talked about until like this week. Say what. He was
already rehabbing from the first operation, and then they said, surprise,
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we're going back in So can you unscramble what this means?
So I will be medicine man Mallor. On this one,
I will unscrabble, unscramble what it means using my medical knowledge.
I'll put on my medical hat here doing overnight talk radio.
So my first thought was the natural question that I
think you probably had, and I'm just like, we all
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have this just out of curiosity. What exactly did the
first operation fix. It's one of these things where I
goof on these stories the surgery was successful. They almost
always say the surgery was successful. And an athlete has
an operation and it's only successful because they didn't die
in the operating room. But it does happen. Often these
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operations do not fix the problem. They don't. And it's
kind of like, I don't know, rotating your tires. When
you go in and have your ankle operating, it's like, well,
that didn't work, let's try this again. Maybe this will
fix the tires. Right, It's what are you doing? It's
an ankle. It's not as tires, it's his ankle. And
I think maybe I'm wrong on this. I just do
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the overnight shore, but I think it's attached to the ground.
When he makes cuts as a wide receiver to try
to zip past wide receivers, and I don't think it
belongs in a petri dish at a lab somewhere for
medical experiments. But that appears to be what's happening. So
in the age of the robotic arm, the three D
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printed ligaments, and all the other gadgets and thing of
the jigs they have in medicine and all this cutting
edge rehab that they love to brag about, and all
this stuff, this appears to be it's just my understanding
of it. Maybe I'm wrong. It appears to be medical
Russian roulette. We spun the chamber in the operating room
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and we took a shot. Click any click, nothing, So
we're gonna try togain. I mean, it'll probably work. Kind
of reminds me, and you probably do the same thing.
Like when my WiFi goes out at the Malord mansion.
What I do is a savvy tech move. I go
and unplug the Wi Fi the router, and then I
wait ten to twenty seconds and I plug it back in,
(18:25):
and then I expect it to be fixed. And sometimes
it's not fixed, And you know what I do. Then
I do it again. You do the same thing, but
you do it again, and then you wait and you
plug it back in and it doesn't work, and you
do it again, and why not, you know, what the hell,
I'll go for it. So the Bucks even some playoff team,
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not a great team, a middling team, kind of in
the middle of the NFC Tampa Bay and it's like, well,
we'll just turn Chris Godwin on and off again. We'll
put them back in the operating room and all this stuff.
But he's going into the year. The expectation was he's
going to be a reliable, dependable, lunch pale guy. He's
been that player. You don't really talk a lot about him.
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He just goes out and gets you eighty catches or
so a year and a bunch of touchdowns and big
blaze and that's it. And you don't really make a
fuss about Chris Godwin. And so now he's rehabbing his
second ankle operation. So if you're Baker Mayfield, good luck Baker,
good luck Baker Mayfield. As the Bucks already just at
the start of training camp, tiptoeing their way into the
season and literally hanging on by an ankle.
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is from the Natty. We follow the story of the day,
and many of the stories are rich football players complaining
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they're not rich enough. These are, of course, first world problems,
the latest and this is the soup of the day.
That would be in Cincinnati where Bengals pass rushed extraordinaire,
a beacon of light in the darkness that is the
Bengals defense. Trey Hendrickson has exited stage right or is
(22:29):
it stage left, depends which direction he went. But yeah,
here's what we know. If you didn't see this, and
perhaps not, we are told that Hendrickson has relocated from
his football home in southern Ohio slash Northern Kentucky and
gone to Jacksonville, Florida, not because he wants to hang
out with angry Bill in Jacksonville instead, as holdout is beginning,
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and he said, bye, boy, isn't going to be anywhere
near the facility. Hendrickson telling that he relocated, telling those
the care that he relocated out of Ohio to the
state of Florida as a means to remove himself from
the area surrounding training camp there for the Bungals and
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not to not to be a distraction. So okay, well
that's he's clearly not attraction. He's not there, so it's
that there's no distraction. Of course, he maybe want to
rather be in Florida, you know, whether it's nice to
get the water there and all that. So let us discuss, Okay,
let us discuss the question. How does this Trey Hendrickson
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hold out end in Cincinnati? So I've got Chick fil a,
Beanie Baby, and kiss and we will combine all of
these things together, and we are going to put the
biscuit in the basket, is what we're going to do.
So number one, I said, what number is it? So
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Trey Hendrickson looking into my crystal ball, as a distant
relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas, who used to
be an active member, an active member of the Malam Milisia,
now is semi retired from day to day activity in
the militia. It's not for everyone. So Hendrickson's holdout right
now is hotter than the chili in Cincinnati at a
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chili cookoff there in Cincinnati, real hot, right, And so
this is not a minor skirmish. See now we're getting
to the part of the story where it gets good.
It's one thing to complain to each other in the offseason.
But now training camp is going on and Hendrickson is deciding,
I'm going to go full Alamo. I am going Now
he's not in San Antonio, but he's going Alamo. There
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barricading himself in a compound in my cartoon bubble above
my head, somewhere in the greater Jacksonville area. And he's
doing that, barricading himself against the Bengals. We know how
the Alamo ended. Did not end well, did not end well.
They don't like to talk about that. I didn't know
that when I watched Pewee Herman back in the day,
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but I learned I died. I also saw that I
think is his bike. I saw it was going to
be immortalized there at the Alamo, Peewee's bike from those
old movies. Anyway, listen, here's the back to the point.
So when holding out, and that is what Hendrickson is doing,
he will be racking up fins like a gambler in Vegas,
a high roller who's not doing very well now. Already
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he's lost over one hundred thousand dollars for skipping Mini
camp to Ching to Ching to Chin. He's facing fifty
thousand dollars a day and millions once the season begins.
Now per game, once the exhibition game start, his per
game penalty will be eight hundred and seventy seven thousand
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dollars fines per game. If I lost eight thousand, eight
hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars per day of work,
I would need some serious drugs to handle that. That hurts.
I don't care how much money you got. That hurts.
And so where we are now, as I analyze and
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looking into my crystal ball, we are at the part
of the story where it's like Chick fil A. It's
a game of Chicken Chicken, who's gonna who's gonna fold?
Who's gonna fold? Right now, the big stumbling block and
I don't believe there's a workaround for Trey Henderson is
the Bengals front office. The franchise charter of the Cincinnati
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football team under Mike Brown and his tutelas is that
they pinch pennies. They pinch pennies so much that Lincoln
starts screaming, that's how tight they pinched their pennies in Cincinnati. Right,
So they charge players for gatorade we talked about that.
It's a famous Bengals story up until just a few
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years ago, and they've already paid a lot of money.
It is true. They paid Mega Mega Mega Bucks for
Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase and t Higgins two hundred
and seventy six million dollars combined for that offensive trio.
That's a lot for the mom and pop delicatessen there
in Cincinnati. Nevertheless, this is not specifically about the money. Now,
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it's always about the money, but this one is not
specifically about the money. What I mean by that, let
me put some clarity on that. It's about the pigheadedness
of the Bengals, the stubbornness of the Bengals who have
a refusal and they draw a line in the sand there.
They will not give out multi year guarantee. They have
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a tradition and much like Jim Man said, it's a
tradition unlike any other. So they will not will not
possibly break that. And that's problematic. Now, what's the compromise?
What is the comerace compromise would be what Trey Hendrickson
looking for some kind of endorsement deal from Southwest Airlines.
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I want to get away endorsement. He's already gone to Florida.
And we remember months ago, back in March, we talked
about it on previous episodes of the show. You might remember,
you probably don't, but we talked about it. The Bengals
let Trey Hendrickson shop himself. They let him go to market.
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They said, all right, go see what you can get
and see who wants you. And there were teams that
wanted Trey Hendrickson. And there were teams like the Colts
and the Lions and the Packers and some others that
supposedly had some interest in Trey Hendrickson. And so then
the teams said, okay, we want this guy. And Hendrickson said, okay,
I found some teams that want me in a trade
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and said let's work out a deal. And so the
Bengals are like, okay, we're gonna work out a deal.
We want a first round draft pick, and we prefer
it to be a top ten pick in the draft.
We'd like to get that. And everyone that was interested
in Trey Hendrickson suddenly was no longer interested. They suddenly
realized that we're not really uninterested, We're not that into it.
(29:12):
And so that's it. And so they you know, they
lower the buy now price. If they go back to
market and say I will lower the buy now price
and you give us a second round pick and a
fifth round pick or something like that, there is a
deal there. And then when that happens, the next thing
that happens I've seen the script is Joe Burrow comes
(29:34):
out moaning and grumbling and no bo just like that,
all right now, page two, by request, by request, we
go to Los Angeles, where there have been no games played,
there have been really no practices and already problems. You
see the Rams who can ram it all day and
(29:54):
ram it all night. They're starting quarterback, quarterback number one,
Matthew staff Well, he's not going to be practicing. He'll
be off to the side there. And why oh my
aching back, Yeah, coach Sean mcvagh telling reporters that, well,
(30:17):
it's just not good. His back is cracking. And McVeigh
does not expect that to be a major issue, he said,
likely with a smile on his face. So what stands
out about the fact that Matthew Stafford before even a practice,
is already out for the Rams. So what stands out
(30:38):
is the date we are in the month of July.
We are in the month of July, and Matthew Stafford
is already being baby And we're not talking about Week
six in Baltimore against the Ravens defense. We are talking
about day number one, all right, and he's already watching
from the sidelines like he's in the VIP ten at
(31:00):
Coachella and he's watching practice. So the Rams, now, they
somehow made it through last season, got all the way
to the playoffs, and gave Philadelphia, the team that would
win the championship, their toughest game by far of anyone
in the postseason. Everyone else was a pushover against the
Eagles except the Rams in a blizzard in Philadelphia. And
(31:21):
yet Stafford was standing for the most part upright at
the end of that even though he had a lot
of stuff that was broken. So the question is can
they do it again? Can the Rams do it again
without Stafford? And right now they're off to a bad start. Stafford,
I'm convinced, is being held together by Elmer's glue. Nice
to love Elmer's glue. When I was in elementary school,
I played with Elmer's glue. I would put it all
(31:41):
over my hands and then peel off the elmer's glue,
and I was able to kill a lot of time
in the back of the classroom while the other people
were learning, I was playing with glue. But if you
touch Matthew Stafford just a little too hard, a little
bit on the wrong side, he shatters. He literally shatters,
and and he's made out of peanut brittle. Now, I
(32:02):
like peanut britle. I'm a fan of a peanut britle.
I enjoy the peanut brittle. But you can't have your
quarterback made out of peanut britle. That's a problem. So
when Sean McVeigh comes out and announces it's not a
major issue, like when we Ba said it's not a
major issue, let me translate that. I have a translater
(32:24):
key here, a key that I put in the machinery.
I twist the key and then it spits out what
McVeagh really means. He means, we're already panicking, but we
have to pretend publicly like we're not, and we have
to keep everything clean publicly, is what that means. So McVeigh,
in order for this to work with Stafford, he has
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to keep Matthew Stafford wrapped in bubble wrap like a
collectible Beanie Baby from the late nineties, like a ninety
seven Beanie Baby. He's got to keep that bad boy
wrapped for the resale market. And you just know that
when October comes around and the weather the fall weathers here,
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well not here, because we're in la the weather doesn't change,
but where the leaves start changing, that beautiful fall weather,
and there's a little crisp in the air, and all
that stuff in Halloween's around the corner. When we get
to October, Matthew Stafford is going to be like one
of those skeleton costume things that's all broken at the
(33:26):
spirit stores that pop up in October. And the backup plan,
don't worry is Jimmy g that's right, Jimmy Garopolo, who's
also made of glass and now Seanmigray. The great thing aboutmcvanny,
he's proven that he's right about this. He's got so
much hubris, he's oozing with hubris that he believes he
(33:47):
can figure it out. That he'll just go into a
sorcerer's workshop and he'll hold a meeting with some warlocks
and some wizards and he'll figure things out with Jimmy
G and Jimmy G is not great and he's a
middle aged older quartererback, but they'll find a way to
make it work. And Groppolo, even if he's not good
at playing quarterback, he's got a great drawlne really good
(34:08):
draw line, and he's been in big games. Hadn't played
well in most of them, but he's been in big games.
And so he gives the Rams someone who looks really
good holding a clipboard and wearing a visor on the sidelines.
That's what he does, all right, now, final point to
a social media brew ha ha we go and I
got a kick out of this motown beef motown beef
(34:33):
on display. And this does tie into Matthew Stafford. So
a boy named Sue in doma Con Sue who is
on the short list of athletes who have blocked yours
truly because of this show and things I've said on
this show. The thin skin tough guy and doma Con Sue,
who was known for smashing players faces in on the
football field, couldn't handle overnight gas baggery. But nonetheless so
(34:58):
and Domakan Sue went on social media, went on a
tirade ripping the Lions. Now Sue retired from the NFL. Recently,
he took some shots at the Lions, saying that he,
meaning Sue, should have been paid more than Matthew Stafford
during the twenty fifteen NFL free agency So what intrigues
you the most about this one? So? To me, the
(35:23):
thing that stands out like a throbbing sore thumb is
the utter stupidity of we're talking about a decade old
grudge and it's so ridiculous. It's not like these guys
both didn't make tons of money, and here's Sue still upset.
(35:44):
This has got to be one of the dumbest things
I've heard come out of the mouth of a grown
ass man who was known as a mean sob. While
you play right, and Sue said, I should have been
paid more than Matthew Stafford said what? So this goes again,
(36:06):
this goes back. We're going to twenty fifteen, the off
season of twenty fifteen, so soon. Let me get it straight.
So you think a defensive tackle, a position that often
rotates off the field on third down, and a guy
that would get flagged for major penalties on a regular basis,
you believe that player should have been paid more than
(36:27):
the starting quarterback, the face of the franchise, the only
guy in the league who touches the ball on every
single offensive play. That would be the equivalent of me
going to management here and saying, hey, listen, we have
a more diverse audience, We have a more loyal audience
than Colin Coward. You should pay me more. They don't.
(36:50):
They would laugh at me, and then they would they
would spit a loogie right between my eyes, right above
my nose, between my eyes, and I'd walk out. To
put it a different way in musical terms, Sue does
not understand. Tell me, you don't understand roster building without
telling me. If you think of the classic rock group Kiss, right,
(37:11):
it would be like they've they've had a few drummers
over the years with Kiss. But Eric Singer aka Catman
the Catman, right, Eric Singer, if he walked into the
record label and he said, listen, I gotta get more money. Okay,
I got to get more money. I got to be
paid more than Gene Simmons because I bang the drums
(37:34):
louder than he sings, right, And so they would say
what they would say. The record label would say, don't
let the door hit you. Where the good Lord split
you is what they now. They wouldn't spit a loogie,
I'd get the lougie, but that's what he would get.
And yet here we are. That's in Domakon Sue on
this one. That's what he's doing now, don't get me wrong.
(37:55):
And Donakan Sue, even though you had to hear a
beef with our show, was a very dominant, nasty, violent player,
and he was like one of the last guys that
played like that. We have a bunch of wusses playing
football relative to that era and players before, they're softer
than ever now. But that's the way it goes, right,
get softers and get more violent. People can't handle violence.
In the NFL went from a mom and pop business
(38:17):
where they sold NFL's hardest hits and they celebrated that,
and they got sued and they have so much money
and they have lawyers involved, and so they changed everything.
And now you can't do that, and you have to
limit practices and because the players can't handle the practices
and so and Sue was a problem child on the
field and all that stuff. But regardless of all of that, again,
(38:38):
this is about a beef and Domacons, who ten years
later still complaining that the Lions paid Matthew Stafford more
than him. All right, and again, quarterbacks, we don't necessarily
like them, but they get paid a lot. They have
the ball in their hands all the time. They're the
ones that side off and who wins and loses and
defensive tackles. While they are important, they can also get
(39:00):
double teamed and get taken out of competition. Right, and
so there you go. I will give Endomiconsu a little
extra credit. It's a little bit for holding on to
a grudge. The bad blood, bad blood, bad blood. What
you're gonna do when the bad blood comes for you?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
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Speaker 1 (39:26):
Here we go, Here we go to the third degree,
Here we go, this is one big gets grailed. Here
we go. Cooo.
Speaker 10 (39:37):
So the Titans are in the market for a quarterback.
Number one overall pick cam Ward will certainly start, but
with Will Levis out for the season, the backup plan
is very murky. Yeah, Ben, who do you think the
Titans should go to to fill their voyd? A quarterback?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
They got to find a guy in the Canadian Football League.
The top available free agent quarterbacks right now are Carson Wentz,
Okay and CJ. Bethard. Those the top available unless they
want to take Teddy Bridgewater from that high school in
Miami where he's apparently coaching, but he got suspended. But
that's pretty much it like of people we've heard of.
(40:11):
I think Tyler Huntley might be on side also, but
there's there's not a lot there, so they're pretty much
screwed at this point.
Speaker 10 (40:19):
Next, former safety and current analyst Ryan Clark said on
TV Monday that the team with the most pressure to
reach the Super Bowl this season is the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Is he right, No, it's got to be Buffalo. His
Buffalo has been teetering on the brink, as have the Ravens.
The Bills, though, if they don't get it done, and
you got Belichick out there that wants to go back
to the NFL, if Belichick does well at North Carolina,
that's a natural fit Belichick to Buffalo. So the McDermott's toast,
(40:48):
if the Bills don't get to the super Bowl, he
should be fired this year. If they don't get the
Super Bowl, So I'm going Buffalo next.
Speaker 10 (40:54):
Former gym Mike Tannebaum is coming with the hot takes again, Yeah,
this time saying that Jordan Love will win MVP this
upcome season.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
That's good, that's funny. Ben, let's hear your hot take.
Give us a dark horse MVP. Is you gonna win
MVP for like the top the cheese like some cheese
brand in wiscons will name him? Is the MVP. I'm
gonna go. Joe Burrow is my MVP. Joe Burrow? All
right there it is malardly third of you. How do
we do? He passes in there?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
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Speaker 1 (41:20):
That's a what b on the board? No what the
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You heard the man.
Speaker 11 (41:54):
It's time for love here on the Ben Mallor Show.
And you know I like to start it with a
little bit of wisdom. So if your lover, your partner,
your person wants to try something new, be open minded
toys great.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
What if they want to try a different person, that's great.
Speaker 11 (42:16):
Just really sure you communicate that, and you know what,
your partner might get excited and be like, oh my gosh,
can I join in? Or can I watch this totally thing?
Do what you need to be freaks. Just stay together.
That's the point.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
All right, Well, we have questions, Lareya. I thought this
was amusing, So we'll start with this listener, Jay Scoop
right since says what should a guy do if his
wife disrespects and pisses off one of your very best
friends and you know she was absolutely in the wrong
asking for a friend. That's from Jay school.
Speaker 11 (42:50):
Oh you got to learn to laugh, And I think
that's what everyone will do, you know, It's just one
of those things. They're going to keep laughing for a
long time, hunger and be like, you have a good
sense of humor.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yeah, Lady Sideburns rights in says, how do I confront
my partner about their dragon breath? When don't you think
someone named Lady Sideburns would have dragon breath? Also, I
was gonna.
Speaker 11 (43:12):
Say, maybe you should take care of your sideburns first
before thinking about other people's business. But at the same time,
if you are in their mouth all the time, that's
really gross and you don't want them to have bad breath.
I dated this one guy once. Oh my god, he
had the worst breath I've ever smelled on a person.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
You would have dealt with it if he had the
big bank.
Speaker 11 (43:29):
I would be like, Hey, I'm gonna go brush my teeth.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
You want to come brush my.
Speaker 11 (43:32):
Brush our teeth together? Oh yeah, just to encourage him
to brush his teeth a sign. And then I'd be like,
when was the last time you went to the dentist?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Wow, don't laugh, you buy Muffer's birthday mouthwash.
Speaker 11 (43:45):
You didn't make it that long bit.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
By those fishermen friends? What's up? Cheff wow? BP rights
and he says, hey, Lorena, can a man ever escape
the friend zone?
Speaker 11 (44:02):
It's to escape.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
You can't. If you win the lottery, you can't.
Speaker 11 (44:06):
You technically, yeah, you can fight your way out of
the trenches.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yeah, for sure. We all know that.
Speaker 11 (44:12):
It's usually after someone dies, though, so like if their
regular husband died and you're still there after slide in,
you slide in. They trust you.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Because it's on the big I don't do list, as
you know, but on big, on the big board, you
move up. Yeah, it's like the minor league system.
Speaker 11 (44:27):
You could even be his best friend. You don't even
have to be her best friend. Who was that guy
the other day that called on?
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Oh, the guy from Mississippi.
Speaker 11 (44:35):
He's with his wife's girl.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
That's right. Yeah, And then she gave the approval. She said,
if I die, you can, you know, knock yourself up?
And he did, teach. Let's say hello to raul N
l Passo, who's calling in? Hello? Rol, You're on the
Queen of Hearts with the RAINA. What's up? Hey?
Speaker 6 (44:57):
Is it wrong for me to think about others people
while we're in doing something and think about other women
while I've been married for twenty two years?
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Hey, it's a long run, man.
Speaker 11 (45:11):
You know, just like sometimes you have to about think
thinking of something that's disturbing to keep going. Sometimes you
have to think about something you know that's not your person.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
And I don't know that I would advertise that to
the person who with And.
Speaker 11 (45:25):
That's the problem, though, is when you know you're about
to climax and you scream the wrong name. So you
got to make sure you.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Definitely don't want to do that. Yeah. Yeah's remember my
my buddy Striker, he used to has love line and
he I think he was the one who we call
it like this spanky sweet. Yeah he would. That's all right, Roll,
You're fine as long as you're you know, Actually, I
just don't.
Speaker 11 (45:46):
Say it out loud. Don't be like I'm thinking about
someone else right now, honey. Yeah, I mean unless they're
into that.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Yeah, all right, thank you, ro I appreciate that. What
do we have? Andy? And Lionel Lake says? Is it
awkward when your significant other gives a of lingerie? The
last time I went to Victoria's Secret, they would not
let me try anything on.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
This.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Oscar de la Hoya, what's going on here?
Speaker 11 (46:13):
You can have another girl try it on for her.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Yellow ferg Dog says, how long should I date a
girl before bringing up that I'm a fan of sports radio.
I'll never never bring that up, fer Dog. That is
why women run for the hills when they hear that.
Speaker 11 (46:28):
I think you guys watch sports all the time. Is
already bad enough. Don't make it worse anything, but.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Try to avoid that costs quick. JT. The wingman says,
when my fiance returns from Wisconsin, is it wrong to
skip dinner? Go right to dessert, Loraina.
Speaker 11 (46:44):
Right to dessert, to dessert first, and after.
Speaker 9 (46:46):
What we're going about, and again and again.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
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attention everyone, and the password.
Speaker 12 (46:58):
Is you idiot? Password? The word Game of the Stars.
Here's Ben Meler. Right to the game we go. Let's
welcome in our contestants. We have Slug from Lost Wages
no matter. Hello, Slug?
Speaker 6 (47:14):
What's that buddy?
Speaker 1 (47:15):
You think mouthwash? Mike is alive, out.
Speaker 11 (47:18):
And praying and kick my vitamins, making sure he.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Was still grown.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Yeah, I think of him every time I use mouthwash.
I think of him, you know I do. All Who
do you want to partner up with? Slug? Who is?
Slug's the guy that hosted the Mallard meet we did
in Vegas last year. We'll do another one here soon. Slug?
What what do we got here? What's the answer here? Slug?
Who you gonna play?
Speaker 5 (47:38):
All right?
Speaker 1 (47:39):
We're any dog? That's my dog? That's my dog?
Speaker 11 (47:42):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (47:43):
And dog? Yeah, me and slug. And then we have Clifford.
I was a big fan of Clifford the Big Red Dog.
And the area is Clifford the Big Red Dog, another dog,
or for that's my willis Hello Clifford, Hello man, how
are you? Oh? You sound just like I would imagine
(48:04):
Clifford the Big Red Dog would sound. Well, Clifford, who
do you want to partner up with? Clifford?
Speaker 9 (48:09):
I will, well, since you're taking already, I won't go.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
With for reina, all right, the reina you're in unbelievable. Okay,
let's play the game right then, all right, slug. You
picked the first pick of number one to ten. Slug
number one to ten. Please, let's go lucky number four,
Lucky number four, all right, number, let's go with How
(48:40):
about we go with flask? Flask? Yeah, all right, yeah,
that's a I bet you, slug. I bet you've owned some.
I bet you've owned some flasks in your day. I
got one of the one or ten the cabinet, right, yes.
Speaker 11 (49:01):
All right, Clifford, pick a number.
Speaker 6 (49:04):
Slug number two.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Number two.
Speaker 11 (49:08):
Okay, okay, let's do.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Hover. I'm sorry, hover.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Hover airborne?
Speaker 1 (49:25):
No, oh, come on, don't even wait, just to float yeah,
there you go. That's you're just bragging. Now. My next
one was going to be nineteen nothing. By the way, slug,
go ahead, pick a number one to ten. It's like
we're playing password the word Game of the Stars. Slug
is in Vegas, Clifford, the Big Red Dogs from child books.
(49:46):
I don't know where you lives. Go ahead, slack, Kobe
number eight, number eight, Kobe, alright, let's go with I
know one. What's that?
Speaker 11 (49:57):
I know a clue? Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
I think this is one word. Let me hold, let
me check. I think it's one word. Yeah, all right,
white wall.
Speaker 4 (50:13):
Yeah, yeah, that's one word.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Twenty twenty nine nothing.
Speaker 11 (50:19):
Wow, I was gonna say rubber, so I don't.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Even go ahead, Clifford, try to save some face. Surrey
exactly five, number five, all right, Germs, Germs, Cox Andrena.
(50:43):
Oh that is not right. I mean that was a
good clue. Actually, think that was a good clue. The
word we were looking for wash bacteria. We went slog
another way. We just feeded Clifford in Lorena, cats go
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So our lead this hour is the Yen to the End. Now.
In a previous episode of this show, we were ranting
about the stylings of Jerry Jones, good old Jared Jerry's World.
So that is where we're going to pick up here
the end of the Yang. I mentioned that, and so
we had Jerry Jones give the State of the Cowboy
address at the beginning of training camp in the Nard
(02:12):
Aux nerd Well Now Cowboy all pro edge rusher extraordinaire,
or at least ask him. He'll tell you that. Michael
Parsons pushing back, Push it back, now, push you back,
pushing back against Jerry Joe's Now Michael publicly acknowledged that
he is the D word discouraged, oh my god, discourage
(02:37):
that a long term deal has not been reached with
the organization. So I don't know if you saw this
or heard about. We have some audio. We're going to
play for you. We've got the receipts. So rather than
me give you the transcit riped of what Michaeh Parsons said,
here's Michaeh. Parsons in his own words at Cowboy Camp,
discussing why he's not all that please.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Honestly, Yeah, when you go around the league and you
see these the team's taking care of their best guys.
I see TJ got taken care of you know, Max
got taken care of, Miles got taken care of him.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
He got two years left on his deal.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Phil, It's hard to Yeah, you see a lot of player.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Around league and taking care of you.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
You know, I wish you had something like you know,
that same type of energy.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
All right, so let us discuss You mentioned Miles Garrett, TJ. Watt,
Max Crosby in his rant. So as we discussed do
you feel bad? Do you feel bad for Micah Parsons
being discouraged by his Cowboy contract talks. So on this one,
I've got Kardashians, alphabet soup, and Russian roulette, and we
(03:45):
will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make one of those elbow long State Fair style corn dogs.
That you can get in the summer. You know, everything's
deep fried at those state fairs and man, they good.
So hey, my favorite part is, and I don't know
if you could pick up on it, a lot of
people have other things going on. We're pretty much background noise.
You're working, you're driving, you're trying to sleep, whatever. If
(04:07):
we can't play that again, though, if you listen in
the background, you can hear one of Micah parsons teammates
there who was like his hype man, who was throwing
out names. If you can listen, turn up the audio
because I heard this. You could hear the teammate who
was shouting out like the next line for Micah Parsons,
kind of like a good hype man. Take a listen again,
(04:29):
listen to this.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Well, honestly, yeah, when you go around the league and
you see these other teams taking care of their best guys,
I see TJ got taken care of you know, Max
got taken care of, Miles got taken care of him,
he got two years left on his jill. So it's
hard to hear. You see a lot of pig going around.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
The league and taking care of you something like you know.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, same type of all right, all right, you could
hear it in the background if you've turned the audio
all the way up. And yeah, your ear drums are
blown when I started talking. So this whole thing makes me.
I want a puke in my mouth, is what it
makes me. Michael Parsons is discouraged. Give me a break,
all right, give me a break on this one. He's
(05:11):
gonna get paid eventually. This is all part of the process.
It's all part of the show. Uh. And he's that
the freaky freak of defense, right, all pro all this
face of the defense of America's team and all these
fine things here, and he's out there playing sad boy
with the media, right because Jerry Jones has not handed
(05:31):
him a cartoon sized blank check and say just sign
on the dot line. It's like a pity party a
training camp. We're gonna start training camp and we're gonna
have a pity party. Just whine to the media. I'll
get my teammate over alongside here. We're gonna whine and complain.
And then, of course you got a sub tweet. He's
already done that. He's already done that. Uh, post some
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kind of cryptic social media message. Uh, and you do that.
It's right out of the middle school play book, right
out of the middle school playbook. So you do that,
and I want the same energy as TJ. Watt, God
and Max Crosby money and all that stuff. Boo freaking
who right are you kidding me here? Seriously? I was like,
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this just sounds terrible. It's classic cowboys dysfunction, is what
it is, Classic cowboys dysfunction. They are the Kardashians of
the NFL, and they've been the Kardashians before the Kardashians,
and they'll be the Kardashians when the Kardashians are gone.
It's the soap opera in cleats, not spandex in cleats.
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And they've got the glitz, the glamour, the big headlines,
and God bless them because they provide content, a lot
of great content right here. And man, is that good?
That is really really important here. But the drama, it
goes on and on and on and on. You've got
the star of the drama, the soap opera, the senile
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old oil tycoon, old oil family money. And Jerry Jones,
good old Jerry out there. He's doing his news conferences
and he's got his sunglasses on, he's got his water
burger cup, he's got his nineteen ninety eight flip phone,
and he's got these ridiculous as I said, glasses on
and the whole thing. And then you got Micah Parson's
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who if you great him objectively as an NFL player,
he's got to get paid. He's also fools. Go does
anyone think he's not fools?
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Go?
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Anyone raising their hand? I don't see any hands raised.
Mike has got all these gaudy stats, and people get
all horny because they see the stats. And yet, despite
being a fantasy football superstar, when the games are the biggest,
when the pressure is cranked up, where's Mike. Not where's Waldough,
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it's where's Mike? Where we I don't know? He is
the defensive equivalent of what Dak Prescott is on offense.
He just is. And you know, that's the proper way
to approach this, because that's the reality. You can kid
yourself and put on your cowboy fanboy year and all
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that stuff, but that's the way that there's a lot
of empty calories. There a lot of empty calories when
you look at the performance of one Micah Parson there
and do not be fooled by the junk stats. Do
not be fooled by the junk stats when the games
don't matter. The moping over the payday, which is standard
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fair and we'll have many more malle monologues about this.
It's a popular topic this time of the sporting calendar there.
But every player now thinks that they need to be
the highest paid guy at their position the moment, the second,
the second they see someone else. It's the Ponzi scheme
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situation involving ego is what it is here, and it's
it's rather exhausting, maybe not for you, but I got
no life. They pay me to pay attention to this crap,
and so every day it's none of these stories here.
It's the nbification, if you will, NBA official vacation of
the NFL. So something used to happen only in the NBA,
and now it's it's spilled over to the NFL. Now
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Page two to Viva Las Vegas, Viva las Vegas, we go.
That is where Pete Carroll, good old Pete, giving us
the money quote he set the tone for the start
of Raiders training camp in Sin City, saying, quote, we're
going to win a bunch, and I don't care who
hears that close quote. So that is what we call
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kids the money quote. So let's parse the words. What
do he said? It's fun game, let's parse the words.
So Pete Carroll saying the Raiders are going to quote
win a b those are his words and he doesn't
care who hears that. What are your impressions on this one?
So let me start by saying, I love Pollyanna Pete.
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I'm a big fan of Pollyanna. Pete. Pete Carroll parachutes
into town because the Raiders couldn't hire the coach they
wanted and Tom Brady got pinched by the NFL, and
so he had to hire somebody. Had to hire somebody,
so he hired this guy. And you know, Pete Carroll
comes in there, parachutes in like he's Zeus at a
pep rally. And that's the beauty of Pete Carroll. He's
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spraying faery dust around the Raider facility, making bold proclamations,
bold decrees from good old Pete Carroll. It really is
wonderful when you put it under the Mallard microscope. We
like to put these things under the Mallard microscope. When
you put it under the Mallard microscope. A bunch Pete
Carroll said, the Raiders are gonna win a bunch of games.
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So a bunch is it's got to be the most
non committal, watered down, buzzword based catchphrase you could possibly
cook up in coach speak. Got it be it's NFL
alphabet soup. We essentially are saying, hey, Pete, Care's like, well,
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we hope to compete and not completely suck, and so
we're gonna win a bunch. Because I try to find
out what does a bunch mean? Does a bunch mean five?
Does a bunch mean ten? Does a bunch mean twelve? Fifteen?
What's a bunch? The Brady Bunch, that's an old show,
but that was more. That was more than just a few.
That was there was a lot of six kids as
a lot. Is that a bunch? Is it six? So
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the Raider's gonna win six because a bunch? That's I
don't know. That's the only thing I could come up with.
I tried to find it by Google it and I
had said, what is a bunch? What is the number
of a bunch? And it's like, well, there's nothing, really,
It's not a defined definition of what a bunch is.
So I'm gonna go with six. So really, Pete Carroll's
saying the Raiders a gona win six games. More of
the same, more of the same from the Raiders. And
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I hate to be the spoiler. The Legion of Boom
is not walking through that door in Vegas. And if
they do walk through that door, they're old men now,
so forget about that. And in Vegas, the Raiders do
have an old Seahawk trash player, Geno Smith, and the
Seahawks when they traded Geno Smith, they went on about
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cake and they got balloons to celebrate. They got rid
of that dead weight. So now you've got a quarterback
who's the equivalent of DCAF coffee. Like, what's the point
of drinking DCAF coffee? I don't get it. I don't
drink coffee, but what's the point of drinking DCAF coffee? Anyway?
Gino Smith is the guy that you call when your
QB one has decided to go on a vacation or
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has been abducted by some kind of lizard people species
taken to the sub earth at the end of the
flat earth underneath the hollow Earth, that's where you get
Gino Smith and he comes in there. Now, Gino is
not bad. People think I believe Geno Smith is bad.
I don't believe Gino Smith is bad. And we've had
our beef going back to his days at West Virginia.
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You don't let Gino cook, you know, let him cook.
No one ever says let Geno Smith cook. You let
Geno Smith simmer because his temperature is lukewarm. That is
what he is. Now. The Raiders have had such crappy
quarterback play that's actually an upgrade. That's actually an upgrade.
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That's how bad the Raiders' offense has been. But it's
essentially built around a bubble screen and a wish. That's
the Raider offense. So unless a bunch, unless a bunch
means more than six like the Brady bunch, and you're
just getting a participation trophy at this particular point. You know,
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the Bravado. I know you're supposed to be the hype man.
Everyone's got a hype up thirteen this time of the year,
and I am cognizant of that. I realized that's part
of the game. You're in the hype business. At show business.
You got to get people excited, excite the fan base,
excite the electorate. It's like political rallies here, these training
camp situations. But in reality, when you look at the
Raiders here, this franchise has not had any kind of
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real identity since Al Davis was dominating trades using a
rotary phone. That's the last time the Raiders. I mean,
when I was a kid, the Raiders used to always
brag about how they had the top winning percentage in
all the sports. There used to be these things called
pocket schedules. I remember when the Raiders were in LA
and I was a young lad and we used to
get those pocket schedules, and I was a little kid,
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and I was like, oh man, these are cool. And
the Raiders always in the back of the pocket schedule.
They had, you know, commitment to excellence Al's quote there,
and they had the top winning percentages over however many
years and the Raiders are always like number one. And
if you go back to last twenty five years generation,
the Raiders are in the bottom five and all of
North American sport, it's just a wild how much they blow.
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They are so bad. But hey, we love Pete Carroll,
Me and Pete Carroll of course lifetime friends. When he
was coaching at USC, he used the malorphone to do
a phoner the Fox Sports radio the malorphone. Pete Carroll
used the malorphone. So there was that. And unfortunately, though
you cannot bluff your way. You might win a couple
extra games because you got good coach, but you're not
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gonna win enough to really move the needle in a
division with Kansas City. And then you've got the Chargers
and the Broncos who kind of flip flip flop there.
Now the last word to Tampa. We go, to Tampa,
we go where the Bucks star wide receiver man that
was up for grabs in the off season, Chris Godwin, Well,
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he's not up for grabs anymore. He stayed in Tampa.
Chris Godwin reportedly had to have a not first a second,
a second ankle sir, Did you see this? He had
a second ankle surgery during the off season that wasn't
talked about until like this week. Say what. He was
already rehabbing from the first operation, and then they said, surprise,
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we're going back in So can you unscramble what this means?
So I will be medicine man Mallor. On this one,
I will unscrabble, unscramble what it means using my medical knowledge.
I'll put on my medical hat here doing overnight talk radio.
So my first thought was the natural question that I
think you probably had, and I'm just like, we all
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have this just out of curiosity. What exactly did the
first operation fix. It's one of these things where I
goof on these stories the surgery was successful. They almost
always say the surgery was successful. And an athlete has
an operation and it's only successful because they didn't die
in the operating room. But it does happen. Often these
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operations do not fix the problem. They don't. And it's
kind of like, I don't know, rotating your tires. When
you go in and have your ankle operating, it's like, well,
that didn't work, let's try this again. Maybe this will
fix the tires. Right, It's what are you doing? It's
an ankle. It's not as tires, it's his ankle. And
I think maybe I'm wrong on this. I just do
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the overnight shore, but I think it's attached to the ground.
When he makes cuts as a wide receiver to try
to zip past wide receivers, and I don't think it
belongs in a petri dish at a lab somewhere for
medical experiments. But that appears to be what's happening. So
in the age of the robotic arm, the three D
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printed ligaments, and all the other gadgets and thing of
the jigs they have in medicine and all this cutting
edge rehab that they love to brag about, and all
this stuff, this appears to be it's just my understanding
of it. Maybe I'm wrong. It appears to be medical
Russian roulette. We spun the chamber in the operating room
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and we took a shot. Click any click, nothing, So
we're gonna try togain. I mean, it'll probably work. Kind
of reminds me, and you probably do the same thing.
Like when my WiFi goes out at the Malord mansion.
What I do is a savvy tech move. I go
and unplug the Wi Fi the router, and then I
wait ten to twenty seconds and I plug it back in,
(18:25):
and then I expect it to be fixed. And sometimes
it's not fixed, And you know what I do. Then
I do it again. You do the same thing, but
you do it again, and then you wait and you
plug it back in and it doesn't work, and you
do it again, and why not, you know, what the hell,
I'll go for it. So the Bucks even some playoff team,
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not a great team, a middling team, kind of in
the middle of the NFC Tampa Bay and it's like, well,
we'll just turn Chris Godwin on and off again. We'll
put them back in the operating room and all this stuff.
But he's going into the year. The expectation was he's
going to be a reliable, dependable, lunch pale guy. He's
been that player. You don't really talk a lot about him.
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He just goes out and gets you eighty catches or
so a year and a bunch of touchdowns and big
blaze and that's it. And you don't really make a
fuss about Chris Godwin. And so now he's rehabbing his
second ankle operation. So if you're Baker Mayfield, good luck Baker,
good luck Baker Mayfield. As the Bucks already just at
the start of training camp, tiptoeing their way into the
season and literally hanging on by an ankle.
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is from the Natty. We follow the story of the day,
and many of the stories are rich football players complaining
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they're not rich enough. These are, of course, first world problems,
the latest and this is the soup of the day.
That would be in Cincinnati where Bengals pass rushed extraordinaire,
a beacon of light in the darkness that is the
Bengals defense. Trey Hendrickson has exited stage right or is
(22:29):
it stage left, depends which direction he went. But yeah,
here's what we know. If you didn't see this, and
perhaps not, we are told that Hendrickson has relocated from
his football home in southern Ohio slash Northern Kentucky and
gone to Jacksonville, Florida, not because he wants to hang
out with angry Bill in Jacksonville instead, as holdout is beginning,
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and he said, bye, boy, isn't going to be anywhere
near the facility. Hendrickson telling that he relocated, telling those
the care that he relocated out of Ohio to the
state of Florida as a means to remove himself from
the area surrounding training camp there for the Bungals and
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not to not to be a distraction. So okay, well
that's he's clearly not attraction. He's not there, so it's
that there's no distraction. Of course, he maybe want to
rather be in Florida, you know, whether it's nice to
get the water there and all that. So let us discuss, Okay,
let us discuss the question. How does this Trey Hendrickson
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hold out end in Cincinnati? So I've got Chick fil a,
Beanie Baby, and kiss and we will combine all of
these things together, and we are going to put the
biscuit in the basket, is what we're going to do.
So number one, I said, what number is it? So
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Trey Hendrickson looking into my crystal ball, as a distant
relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas, who used to
be an active member, an active member of the Malam Milisia,
now is semi retired from day to day activity in
the militia. It's not for everyone. So Hendrickson's holdout right
now is hotter than the chili in Cincinnati at a
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chili cookoff there in Cincinnati, real hot, right, And so
this is not a minor skirmish. See now we're getting
to the part of the story where it gets good.
It's one thing to complain to each other in the offseason.
But now training camp is going on and Hendrickson is deciding,
I'm going to go full Alamo. I am going Now
he's not in San Antonio, but he's going Alamo. There
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barricading himself in a compound in my cartoon bubble above
my head, somewhere in the greater Jacksonville area. And he's
doing that, barricading himself against the Bengals. We know how
the Alamo ended. Did not end well, did not end well.
They don't like to talk about that. I didn't know
that when I watched Pewee Herman back in the day,
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but I learned I died. I also saw that I
think is his bike. I saw it was going to
be immortalized there at the Alamo, Peewee's bike from those
old movies. Anyway, listen, here's the back to the point.
So when holding out, and that is what Hendrickson is doing,
he will be racking up fins like a gambler in Vegas,
a high roller who's not doing very well now. Already
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he's lost over one hundred thousand dollars for skipping Mini
camp to Ching to Ching to Chin. He's facing fifty
thousand dollars a day and millions once the season begins.
Now per game, once the exhibition game start, his per
game penalty will be eight hundred and seventy seven thousand
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dollars fines per game. If I lost eight thousand, eight
hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars per day of work,
I would need some serious drugs to handle that. That hurts.
I don't care how much money you got. That hurts.
And so where we are now, as I analyze and
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looking into my crystal ball, we are at the part
of the story where it's like Chick fil A. It's
a game of Chicken Chicken, who's gonna who's gonna fold?
Who's gonna fold? Right now, the big stumbling block and
I don't believe there's a workaround for Trey Henderson is
the Bengals front office. The franchise charter of the Cincinnati
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football team under Mike Brown and his tutelas is that
they pinch pennies. They pinch pennies so much that Lincoln
starts screaming, that's how tight they pinched their pennies in Cincinnati. Right,
So they charge players for gatorade we talked about that.
It's a famous Bengals story up until just a few
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years ago, and they've already paid a lot of money.
It is true. They paid Mega Mega Mega Bucks for
Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase and t Higgins two hundred
and seventy six million dollars combined for that offensive trio.
That's a lot for the mom and pop delicatessen there
in Cincinnati. Nevertheless, this is not specifically about the money. Now,
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it's always about the money, but this one is not
specifically about the money. What I mean by that, let
me put some clarity on that. It's about the pigheadedness
of the Bengals, the stubbornness of the Bengals who have
a refusal and they draw a line in the sand there.
They will not give out multi year guarantee. They have
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a tradition and much like Jim Man said, it's a
tradition unlike any other. So they will not will not
possibly break that. And that's problematic. Now, what's the compromise?
What is the comerace compromise would be what Trey Hendrickson
looking for some kind of endorsement deal from Southwest Airlines.
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I want to get away endorsement. He's already gone to Florida.
And we remember months ago, back in March, we talked
about it on previous episodes of the show. You might remember,
you probably don't, but we talked about it. The Bengals
let Trey Hendrickson shop himself. They let him go to market.
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They said, all right, go see what you can get
and see who wants you. And there were teams that
wanted Trey Hendrickson. And there were teams like the Colts
and the Lions and the Packers and some others that
supposedly had some interest in Trey Hendrickson. And so then
the teams said, okay, we want this guy. And Hendrickson said, okay,
I found some teams that want me in a trade
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and said let's work out a deal. And so the
Bengals are like, okay, we're gonna work out a deal.
We want a first round draft pick, and we prefer
it to be a top ten pick in the draft.
We'd like to get that. And everyone that was interested
in Trey Hendrickson suddenly was no longer interested. They suddenly
realized that we're not really uninterested, We're not that into it.
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And so that's it. And so they you know, they
lower the buy now price. If they go back to
market and say I will lower the buy now price
and you give us a second round pick and a
fifth round pick or something like that, there is a
deal there. And then when that happens, the next thing
that happens I've seen the script is Joe Burrow comes
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out moaning and grumbling and no bo just like that,
all right now, page two, by request, by request, we
go to Los Angeles, where there have been no games played,
there have been really no practices and already problems. You
see the Rams who can ram it all day and
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ram it all night. They're starting quarterback, quarterback number one,
Matthew staff Well, he's not going to be practicing. He'll
be off to the side there. And why oh my
aching back, Yeah, coach Sean mcvagh telling reporters that, well,
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it's just not good. His back is cracking. And McVeigh
does not expect that to be a major issue, he said,
likely with a smile on his face. So what stands
out about the fact that Matthew Stafford before even a practice,
is already out for the Rams. So what stands out
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is the date we are in the month of July.
We are in the month of July, and Matthew Stafford
is already being baby And we're not talking about Week
six in Baltimore against the Ravens defense. We are talking
about day number one, all right, and he's already watching
from the sidelines like he's in the VIP ten at
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Coachella and he's watching practice. So the Rams, now, they
somehow made it through last season, got all the way
to the playoffs, and gave Philadelphia, the team that would
win the championship, their toughest game by far of anyone
in the postseason. Everyone else was a pushover against the
Eagles except the Rams in a blizzard in Philadelphia. And
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yet Stafford was standing for the most part upright at
the end of that even though he had a lot
of stuff that was broken. So the question is can
they do it again? Can the Rams do it again
without Stafford? And right now they're off to a bad start. Stafford,
I'm convinced, is being held together by Elmer's glue. Nice
to love Elmer's glue. When I was in elementary school,
I played with Elmer's glue. I would put it all
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over my hands and then peel off the elmer's glue,
and I was able to kill a lot of time
in the back of the classroom while the other people
were learning, I was playing with glue. But if you
touch Matthew Stafford just a little too hard, a little
bit on the wrong side, he shatters. He literally shatters,
and and he's made out of peanut brittle. Now, I
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like peanut britle. I'm a fan of a peanut britle.
I enjoy the peanut brittle. But you can't have your
quarterback made out of peanut britle. That's a problem. So
when Sean McVeigh comes out and announces it's not a
major issue, like when we Ba said it's not a
major issue, let me translate that. I have a translater
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key here, a key that I put in the machinery.
I twist the key and then it spits out what
McVeagh really means. He means, we're already panicking, but we
have to pretend publicly like we're not, and we have
to keep everything clean publicly, is what that means. So McVeigh,
in order for this to work with Stafford, he has
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to keep Matthew Stafford wrapped in bubble wrap like a
collectible Beanie Baby from the late nineties, like a ninety
seven Beanie Baby. He's got to keep that bad boy
wrapped for the resale market. And you just know that
when October comes around and the weather the fall weathers here,
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well not here, because we're in la the weather doesn't change,
but where the leaves start changing, that beautiful fall weather,
and there's a little crisp in the air, and all
that stuff in Halloween's around the corner. When we get
to October, Matthew Stafford is going to be like one
of those skeleton costume things that's all broken at the
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spirit stores that pop up in October. And the backup plan,
don't worry is Jimmy g that's right, Jimmy Garopolo, who's
also made of glass and now Seanmigray. The great thing aboutmcvanny,
he's proven that he's right about this. He's got so
much hubris, he's oozing with hubris that he believes he
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can figure it out. That he'll just go into a
sorcerer's workshop and he'll hold a meeting with some warlocks
and some wizards and he'll figure things out with Jimmy
G and Jimmy G is not great and he's a
middle aged older quartererback, but they'll find a way to
make it work. And Groppolo, even if he's not good
at playing quarterback, he's got a great drawlne really good
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draw line, and he's been in big games. Hadn't played
well in most of them, but he's been in big games.
And so he gives the Rams someone who looks really
good holding a clipboard and wearing a visor on the sidelines.
That's what he does, all right, now, final point to
a social media brew ha ha we go and I
got a kick out of this motown beef motown beef
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on display. And this does tie into Matthew Stafford. So
a boy named Sue in doma Con Sue who is
on the short list of athletes who have blocked yours
truly because of this show and things I've said on
this show. The thin skin tough guy and doma Con Sue,
who was known for smashing players faces in on the
football field, couldn't handle overnight gas baggery. But nonetheless so
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and Domakan Sue went on social media, went on a
tirade ripping the Lions. Now Sue retired from the NFL. Recently,
he took some shots at the Lions, saying that he,
meaning Sue, should have been paid more than Matthew Stafford
during the twenty fifteen NFL free agency So what intrigues
you the most about this one? So? To me, the
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thing that stands out like a throbbing sore thumb is
the utter stupidity of we're talking about a decade old
grudge and it's so ridiculous. It's not like these guys
both didn't make tons of money, and here's Sue still upset.
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This has got to be one of the dumbest things
I've heard come out of the mouth of a grown
ass man who was known as a mean sob. While
you play right, and Sue said, I should have been
paid more than Matthew Stafford said what? So this goes again,
(36:06):
this goes back. We're going to twenty fifteen, the off
season of twenty fifteen, so soon. Let me get it straight.
So you think a defensive tackle, a position that often
rotates off the field on third down, and a guy
that would get flagged for major penalties on a regular basis,
you believe that player should have been paid more than
(36:27):
the starting quarterback, the face of the franchise, the only
guy in the league who touches the ball on every
single offensive play. That would be the equivalent of me
going to management here and saying, hey, listen, we have
a more diverse audience, We have a more loyal audience
than Colin Coward. You should pay me more. They don't.
(36:50):
They would laugh at me, and then they would they
would spit a loogie right between my eyes, right above
my nose, between my eyes, and I'd walk out. To
put it a different way in musical terms, Sue does
not understand. Tell me, you don't understand roster building without
telling me. If you think of the classic rock group Kiss, right,
(37:11):
it would be like they've they've had a few drummers
over the years with Kiss. But Eric Singer aka Catman
the Catman, right, Eric Singer, if he walked into the
record label and he said, listen, I gotta get more money. Okay,
I got to get more money. I got to be
paid more than Gene Simmons because I bang the drums
(37:34):
louder than he sings, right, And so they would say
what they would say. The record label would say, don't
let the door hit you. Where the good Lord split
you is what they now. They wouldn't spit a loogie,
I'd get the lougie, but that's what he would get.
And yet here we are. That's in Domakon Sue on
this one. That's what he's doing now, don't get me wrong.
(37:55):
And Donakan Sue, even though you had to hear a
beef with our show, was a very dominant, nasty, violent player,
and he was like one of the last guys that
played like that. We have a bunch of wusses playing
football relative to that era and players before, they're softer
than ever now. But that's the way it goes, right,
get softers and get more violent. People can't handle violence.
In the NFL went from a mom and pop business
(38:17):
where they sold NFL's hardest hits and they celebrated that,
and they got sued and they have so much money
and they have lawyers involved, and so they changed everything.
And now you can't do that, and you have to
limit practices and because the players can't handle the practices
and so and Sue was a problem child on the
field and all that stuff. But regardless of all of that, again,
(38:38):
this is about a beef and Domacons, who ten years
later still complaining that the Lions paid Matthew Stafford more
than him. All right, and again, quarterbacks, we don't necessarily
like them, but they get paid a lot. They have
the ball in their hands all the time. They're the
ones that side off and who wins and loses and
defensive tackles. While they are important, they can also get
(39:00):
double teamed and get taken out of competition. Right, and
so there you go. I will give Endomiconsu a little
extra credit. It's a little bit for holding on to
a grudge. The bad blood, bad blood, bad blood. What
you're gonna do when the bad blood comes for you?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
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Speaker 1 (39:26):
Here we go, Here we go to the third degree,
Here we go, this is one big gets grailed. Here
we go. Cooo.
Speaker 10 (39:37):
So the Titans are in the market for a quarterback.
Number one overall pick cam Ward will certainly start, but
with Will Levis out for the season, the backup plan
is very murky. Yeah, Ben, who do you think the
Titans should go to to fill their voyd? A quarterback?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
They got to find a guy in the Canadian Football League.
The top available free agent quarterbacks right now are Carson Wentz,
Okay and CJ. Bethard. Those the top available unless they
want to take Teddy Bridgewater from that high school in
Miami where he's apparently coaching, but he got suspended. But
that's pretty much it like of people we've heard of.
(40:11):
I think Tyler Huntley might be on side also, but
there's there's not a lot there, so they're pretty much
screwed at this point.
Speaker 10 (40:19):
Next, former safety and current analyst Ryan Clark said on
TV Monday that the team with the most pressure to
reach the Super Bowl this season is the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Is he right, No, it's got to be Buffalo. His
Buffalo has been teetering on the brink, as have the Ravens.
The Bills, though, if they don't get it done, and
you got Belichick out there that wants to go back
to the NFL, if Belichick does well at North Carolina,
that's a natural fit Belichick to Buffalo. So the McDermott's toast,
(40:48):
if the Bills don't get to the super Bowl, he
should be fired this year. If they don't get the
Super Bowl, So I'm going Buffalo next.
Speaker 10 (40:54):
Former gym Mike Tannebaum is coming with the hot takes again, Yeah,
this time saying that Jordan Love will win MVP this
upcome season.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
That's good, that's funny. Ben, let's hear your hot take.
Give us a dark horse MVP. Is you gonna win
MVP for like the top the cheese like some cheese
brand in wiscons will name him? Is the MVP. I'm
gonna go. Joe Burrow is my MVP. Joe Burrow? All
right there it is malardly third of you. How do
we do? He passes in there?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
It is?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
That's a what b on the board? No what the
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Speaker 2 (41:27):
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Speaker 1 (41:53):
You heard the man.
Speaker 11 (41:54):
It's time for love here on the Ben Mallor Show.
And you know I like to start it with a
little bit of wisdom. So if your lover, your partner,
your person wants to try something new, be open minded
toys great.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
What if they want to try a different person, that's great.
Speaker 11 (42:16):
Just really sure you communicate that, and you know what,
your partner might get excited and be like, oh my gosh,
can I join in? Or can I watch this totally thing?
Do what you need to be freaks. Just stay together.
That's the point.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
All right, Well, we have questions, Lareya. I thought this
was amusing, So we'll start with this listener, Jay Scoop
right since says what should a guy do if his
wife disrespects and pisses off one of your very best
friends and you know she was absolutely in the wrong
asking for a friend. That's from Jay school.
Speaker 11 (42:50):
Oh you got to learn to laugh, And I think
that's what everyone will do, you know, It's just one
of those things. They're going to keep laughing for a
long time, hunger and be like, you have a good
sense of humor.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yeah, Lady Sideburns rights in says, how do I confront
my partner about their dragon breath? When don't you think
someone named Lady Sideburns would have dragon breath? Also, I
was gonna.
Speaker 11 (43:12):
Say, maybe you should take care of your sideburns first
before thinking about other people's business. But at the same time,
if you are in their mouth all the time, that's
really gross and you don't want them to have bad breath.
I dated this one guy once. Oh my god, he
had the worst breath I've ever smelled on a person.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
You would have dealt with it if he had the
big bank.
Speaker 11 (43:29):
I would be like, Hey, I'm gonna go brush my teeth.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
You want to come brush my.
Speaker 11 (43:32):
Brush our teeth together? Oh yeah, just to encourage him
to brush his teeth a sign. And then I'd be like,
when was the last time you went to the dentist?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Wow, don't laugh, you buy Muffer's birthday mouthwash.
Speaker 11 (43:45):
You didn't make it that long bit.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
By those fishermen friends? What's up? Cheff wow? BP rights
and he says, hey, Lorena, can a man ever escape
the friend zone?
Speaker 11 (44:02):
It's to escape.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
You can't. If you win the lottery, you can't.
Speaker 11 (44:06):
You technically, yeah, you can fight your way out of
the trenches.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yeah, for sure. We all know that.
Speaker 11 (44:12):
It's usually after someone dies, though, so like if their
regular husband died and you're still there after slide in,
you slide in. They trust you.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Because it's on the big I don't do list, as
you know, but on big, on the big board, you
move up. Yeah, it's like the minor league system.
Speaker 11 (44:27):
You could even be his best friend. You don't even
have to be her best friend. Who was that guy
the other day that called on?
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Oh, the guy from Mississippi.
Speaker 11 (44:35):
He's with his wife's girl.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
That's right. Yeah, And then she gave the approval. She said,
if I die, you can, you know, knock yourself up?
And he did, teach. Let's say hello to raul N
l Passo, who's calling in? Hello? Rol, You're on the
Queen of Hearts with the RAINA. What's up? Hey?
Speaker 6 (44:57):
Is it wrong for me to think about others people
while we're in doing something and think about other women
while I've been married for twenty two years?
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Hey, it's a long run, man.
Speaker 11 (45:11):
You know, just like sometimes you have to about think
thinking of something that's disturbing to keep going. Sometimes you
have to think about something you know that's not your person.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
And I don't know that I would advertise that to
the person who with And.
Speaker 11 (45:25):
That's the problem, though, is when you know you're about
to climax and you scream the wrong name. So you
got to make sure you.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Definitely don't want to do that. Yeah. Yeah's remember my
my buddy Striker, he used to has love line and
he I think he was the one who we call
it like this spanky sweet. Yeah he would. That's all right, Roll,
You're fine as long as you're you know, Actually, I
just don't.
Speaker 11 (45:46):
Say it out loud. Don't be like I'm thinking about
someone else right now, honey. Yeah, I mean unless they're
into that.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Yeah, all right, thank you, ro I appreciate that. What
do we have? Andy? And Lionel Lake says? Is it
awkward when your significant other gives a of lingerie? The
last time I went to Victoria's Secret, they would not
let me try anything on.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
This.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Oscar de la Hoya, what's going on here?
Speaker 11 (46:13):
You can have another girl try it on for her.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Yellow ferg Dog says, how long should I date a
girl before bringing up that I'm a fan of sports radio.
I'll never never bring that up, fer Dog. That is
why women run for the hills when they hear that.
Speaker 11 (46:28):
I think you guys watch sports all the time. Is
already bad enough. Don't make it worse anything, but.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Try to avoid that costs quick. JT. The wingman says,
when my fiance returns from Wisconsin, is it wrong to
skip dinner? Go right to dessert, Loraina.
Speaker 11 (46:44):
Right to dessert, to dessert first, and after.
Speaker 9 (46:46):
What we're going about, and again and again.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
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attention everyone, and the password.
Speaker 12 (46:58):
Is you idiot? Password? The word Game of the Stars.
Here's Ben Meler. Right to the game we go. Let's
welcome in our contestants. We have Slug from Lost Wages
no matter. Hello, Slug?
Speaker 6 (47:14):
What's that buddy?
Speaker 1 (47:15):
You think mouthwash? Mike is alive, out.
Speaker 11 (47:18):
And praying and kick my vitamins, making sure he.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Was still grown.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Yeah, I think of him every time I use mouthwash.
I think of him, you know I do. All Who
do you want to partner up with? Slug? Who is?
Slug's the guy that hosted the Mallard meet we did
in Vegas last year. We'll do another one here soon. Slug?
What what do we got here? What's the answer here? Slug?
Who you gonna play?
Speaker 5 (47:38):
All right?
Speaker 1 (47:39):
We're any dog? That's my dog? That's my dog?
Speaker 11 (47:42):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (47:43):
And dog? Yeah, me and slug. And then we have Clifford.
I was a big fan of Clifford the Big Red Dog.
And the area is Clifford the Big Red Dog, another dog,
or for that's my willis Hello Clifford, Hello man, how
are you? Oh? You sound just like I would imagine
(48:04):
Clifford the Big Red Dog would sound. Well, Clifford, who
do you want to partner up with? Clifford?
Speaker 9 (48:09):
I will, well, since you're taking already, I won't go.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
With for reina, all right, the reina you're in unbelievable. Okay,
let's play the game right then, all right, slug. You
picked the first pick of number one to ten. Slug
number one to ten. Please, let's go lucky number four,
Lucky number four, all right, number, let's go with How
(48:40):
about we go with flask? Flask? Yeah, all right, yeah,
that's a I bet you, slug. I bet you've owned some.
I bet you've owned some flasks in your day. I
got one of the one or ten the cabinet, right, yes.
Speaker 11 (49:01):
All right, Clifford, pick a number.
Speaker 6 (49:04):
Slug number two.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Number two.
Speaker 11 (49:08):
Okay, okay, let's do.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Hover. I'm sorry, hover.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Hover airborne?
Speaker 1 (49:25):
No, oh, come on, don't even wait, just to float yeah,
there you go. That's you're just bragging. Now. My next
one was going to be nineteen nothing. By the way, slug,
go ahead, pick a number one to ten. It's like
we're playing password the word Game of the Stars. Slug
is in Vegas, Clifford, the Big Red Dogs from child books.
(49:46):
I don't know where you lives. Go ahead, slack, Kobe
number eight, number eight, Kobe, alright, let's go with I
know one. What's that?
Speaker 11 (49:57):
I know a clue? Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
I think this is one word. Let me hold, let
me check. I think it's one word. Yeah, all right,
white wall.
Speaker 4 (50:13):
Yeah, yeah, that's one word.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Twenty twenty nine nothing.
Speaker 11 (50:19):
Wow, I was gonna say rubber, so I don't.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Even go ahead, Clifford, try to save some face. Surrey
exactly five, number five, all right, Germs, Germs, Cox Andrena.
(50:43):
Oh that is not right. I mean that was a
good clue. Actually, think that was a good clue. The
word we were looking for wash bacteria. We went slog
another way. We just feeded Clifford in Lorena, cats go
the tack. You gotta golden ticket,
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