July 24, 2025 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about Tua Tagovailoa hinting at problems in the locker room as he talks about Tyreek Hill's request to leave the Dolphins, the Packers revealing their share of the NFL's revenue sharing at over $432M, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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is from beautiful South Florida, a vacation destination. Now, there
was a time when I was a kid. I'm old now,
but when I was a kid that the Dolphins always
had good football, the Miami Dolphins. That's a long time ago.
Dolphins suck anyway that they they're good for what we
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do in my occupation here, so we thank them for that.
The Dolphins have a quarterback named to a tongue of
I Lo, who, when he's upright, is kind of average,
kind of average, and he's somehow has been able to
stay healthy recently. We'll see if that continues. But to
a tongue of ilow, the Dolphin quarterback filling the content machine. Now,
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when I went to bed after the overnight show yesterday,
I did not anticipate that we would be leading off
with the Dolphins. But that's the magic. That's the magic.
You don't know, it's the hocus pocus. So Dolphin quarterback
to a tongue of I Lawa, did not nibble around
the edges when it came to the cheetah, Cheata cheata Cheetah. Now,
if you didn't hear this, maybe not Tua announcing that
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the relationship with star receiver Tyreek Hill, remember him, Yeah,
still a work in progress now, not just for Tua,
but for the entire Dolphins team. In fact, just to
prove I'm not making this up, we have the audio tape.
So let's go to the audio tape. Here's Tua commenting
on Tyreek Hill and the situation and take her listen.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I would say, we're still continuing to do that. But
it's not just with me, it's it's with a lot
of the guys. I'm not the only one that heard that.
You guys, aren't the older people that heard that. You
know a lot of people that followed football, that followed
the Miami Dolphins that followed Tyreek that are fans of his.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Everyone has seen that.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So when you say something like that, it's you don't
just come back.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
From that with a my bad. Now you got you
gotta work that that relationship up. You got to build
everything up again. And yeah that it's the work in progress,
not just for me but for everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
All right, there you go. Now Hill did apologize for
what it's worth for his activity. You might remember if
you're old enough to remember the last NFL season so
long ago. In case you forgot them, maybe you're a
little slow. Tyreek Hill snapped at the end of the
year and said, I'm out bro. I shouldn't do that
at the end of the show. I have a bad show.
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I say I'm out bro. But he said it was
great playing here, meaning in Miami, but at the end
of the day, got to do what's best for my
career because I'm too much of a competitor to be
just out there. And so that was that, and he'll's back.
And you heard what the quarterback had to say. So
let us discuss the question to a tongue of Iloa,
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hinting as you heard there of aible Dolphin civil war.
That's what I heard as he spoke out on the
relationship with Tyreek Kill and his request to leave at
the end of last season. So is there something deeper
going on here? Is there something deeper? So I've got
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Dali Lama, kombucha bar, and Walmart Greeter and we will
combine all of these things together and put the puzzle piece,
the jigsaw puzzle piece in the puzzle to complete the puzzle.
So a listen, you break this down. Is there something
deeper going on? Of course, like what do you smell
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around the dolphins? You got your nose out, you sniffer, Right,
it's not sunscreen, it's not seawater, it's not try again,
that would be in my professional analysis for the dolphins,
gasoline and smoke. And here's why, right, because the dolphins
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are a full blown tire fire waiting to explode. And
now Tua talking about working in this part of the movie.
In this part of the movie, Tua is the Dalai
Lama of dysfunction, and he heard he was trying to
play the peacemaker, trying to play the peacemaker, but at
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the same time letting you and I know that, Yeah,
there's a little bit of a civil war brewing behind
the South Beach curtains there, and all of this because
Tyreek Hill, the cheetah who turned into a housecat the
second things got really bad there in Miami. He saw
the real Tyreek Hill. He begged to be traded, and
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suddenly he pops up there talking about how if you're
seeing his comments recently, Hill said that he's been going
to therapy and the church. Of course, I roll my
eyes at that. You don't get to quote the Bible
and your therapist like you get out of the cat house,
not doghouse. I said, cat house free of charge. But
it's not monopoly. I don't believe. If it is, that's
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news to me. Believe it's the NFL. Now, the second
part of this is there a bigger underlying condition with
the Dolphins, and you can't see unless you're watching the
rebroadcast on the YouTube channel. I'm nodding my head, yes, Now,
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what is it right? That would be enter in stage
left hipster head coach Mike McDaniel. The plot thickens. Now.
Don't get me wrong, I like the soundbites. He's good
for at least three or four goofy things to say,
during the year, so we like the soundbites. However, he
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always looks like he's late for some kind of sit
down NPR interview or a podcast recording at a kombucha
t bar. And you know, listen, if people say he's
a great play caller, he really gets offense and he
understands that. But don't kid yourself, right if you mean,
just look at the guy. The man could not lead
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a silent prayer, and he's leading a locker room of
I think alpha males. I believe that's what an NFL
locker room is, nothing but alpha males and and people
with multi million dollar checks and egos to match. So listen,
the Dolphins ft off. Let's call it like it is here.
They screwed up. They should have could have would have
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traded Tyreek Hill and said bye bye, but they didn't
do it right. They should have done that. He's at
the age, he's at that tipping point Tyreek where you know,
how much does he have left in the tank. It's
gonna become a diminishing asset soon. If he's not producing
and he's whining, what's the point you can get some
other stiff to play wide receiver? So Miami brass. They
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had a golden opportunity to move on, to re establish
some kind of control. But what do they do instead
of that? They let this guy tiptoe, just a little
tiptoe out of the bubble of trust and waltz right
back in like nothing happened. And so now he's talking
about being a better teammate. Too late, dude, you already
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let the match. It's like every movie. There, the dynamite
sticks on fire, and so you're left with Tua tongue Bylow,
who's caught in the middle. Right, he's in the middle.
He's trying to keep the house from collapsing. And Tua knows,
and so does the Dolphin head coach there, the hipster
Mike McDaniel, that if this goes as bad as it's looking,
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if somehow the Dolphins finished behind not only the Bills,
but the Patriots, and if the Jets somehow finish ahead
of them, then it's turned out the last the parties over,
they will find a way to blow that thing up
with Tua, and the coach will be Gonzo. So this
is a last opportunity for Tua in Miami, and he
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knows it, and so the walls are collapsing, and you
can see it, and I watch it. I was saying
for our blind listeners. You look, you look at his
eyes there, and he looks like a guy who who
knows that this is a recipe that he's got in
his hands, a recipe for disaster. It's got all the ingredients.
You've got a divided locker room. Check, you've got a
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deva wide receiver with one foot out the door. And
then he put the foot back in. But he's getting
the point where he's not going to get his numbers.
He didn't have the numbers last year. He likes check
that box. You've got a coach who thinks sarcasm and
Spotify playlists are the keys to good leadership. That's a
double check. And so what's next? All right, well move
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ahead in the recipe. It is cowboom is what it is.
That's an implosion CAPITALII. All right, now, last word, we
go to another developing story in the NFL, to the
Music City where the number number in the entire league
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who was a year ago projected as a second round
pick but then went to the number one slot, cam
Ward cam Ward rookie Tennessee Titan quarterback. So cam Ward
was asked how he reacted to the news that the incumbent,
the guy that was the starter who likes mayonnaise, Will Levis,
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quarterback Will Levis has been ruled out for the twenty
twenty five regular season. And did you hear his response?
You did not. Okay, this thing's gone viral. Let's go
to the audio tape. Here's cam Ward. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
What was your reaction to the news that Levison decided
to have surgery? And it's kind of subtracted from the
quarterback round.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Now, oh, I really don't have a reaction. I focus
on cam Ward. Yeah, look at that. I didn't I
play that again, This is cam Ward. He's asked about
a team. Well, lews degals, what.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Was your reaction to the US and Levison decided to
have surgery? And it's kind of subtracted from the water background.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Now, oh, I really didn't have a reaction. I focus
on caam Warren oh Man didn't have a reaction. I
focus on Camboard. Well, that went viral. It was a
sliver of a longer sound bite, but that's the one
that got played millions of times. And the question on
this when many fans seem to be upset that the
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media did cam wore dirty. They did him dirty because
that clip went viral. Is that how you see it?
Is that how you see it? So that is not
how I see it. On this side of the microphone,
all is fair in love, war and the wild West
of the NFL media world. And you put and this
is not that difficult. I know there's a lot of
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dumb people in the world, but this is not that
difficult anymore. With an IQ above, ten should figure out
that if you're in the media, you put the most
interesting quote on a pedestal, and cam Ward who's talking
about himself in the third person, like he's the rock
or something. I focus on cam Ward ding ding ding
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ding ding. Yeah, that's the moneymaker, right. That's impressive when
you consider cam Ward has played as many NFL games
as you and I have zero zippo not a bupkis
all right, no snaps in the NFL. It's kind of
like this is one of those things. It's like a
Walmart greeter coming out and said, hey, welcome to the NFL. Pal,
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You're not in Pullman, Washington. Even though cam Warden went
to Miami played longer at Washington State, like this is
not Washington State versus Northern Colorado in front of seventy
seven people, And I think there was a skunk at
that game. You're in the league and everything you say
is clipped, it is tweeted, it is meaned, it is debated,
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and then it's debated again. Cam Ward in that clip,
and again it wasn't the whole clip, but he came
off as a bit robotic and like he was programmed
by a PR firm and he somehow failed. There was
a glitch in the thing of a jig and it
didn't work, and you just had the door blown open
for you to be the starter. Now, in all fairness,
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I think you and I can agree that cam Ward
was going to be the starter anyway. There is no
even small competition at this point. I mean, they're gonna
sign somebody else, but it's gonna be a turd. And
so he could not even read the stock answer off
the Q card right twenty twenty five And what does
that mean if you're in the media. Clickety clicks are
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the currency now, like the media get paid in that world.
They don't get paid for touchdown passes. They don't and
unless they work for the team website and they're on
the payroll. They don't get paid for fluff pieces, which
I know a lot of you love, you love the
fluff fluffy mc fluff, but that's not ours. You get
paid for engagement. And player A says something cold and
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detached like that, or player B says something in the
third person that is cha ching, cha ching, cha ching,
And this is the carnival. It's been the carnival for many,
many years. It's the carnival. Like the NFL isn't just football.
It's our daily soap opera. But it's been right. It's
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football plus a lot more. It's the personality part of it.
It's the day to day reality show. Because listen, in
the NFL, we know they we love watching our football,
but they only play seventeen regular season games. Each team
plays seventeen regular season games. It's a reality show that
has a budget of what twelve billion or something like that.
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And the second you go third person, you've officially entered
the entertainment business. All right, that's what the biggest douchebags
in the world do. They talk in the third person,
and so welcome to the big leagues. You're in the
big leagues. Now, wee a cam hoard everything you say
can and we'll be used against you in the court
of public conversation and it will be posted. It will
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be put on radio shows in the middle of the night,
and then podcasts, and I'm sure you'll bring it up
if you ever become good and you want to get
some kind of endorsement deal with Nike, you'll say, well,
look at how many times I went viral. I'm mister viral.
And they'll say, okay, all right, we'll throw some more
shekels your way and we'll have you sell some shoes.
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Good luck on that.
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our lead this hour is from the Frozen Tundra. So
the story that happens every time around this time, every
year around this time, much like certain events Punk Satani
Phil will he see his shadow? How many more weeks
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of winter the swallows returning to Capistrano. So it was
open book Day in Green Bay. Oh man, I always
look forward to Open book Day in Green Bay. It's great,
it really is. So for some reason you're not familiar
with I don't know how you wouldn't beat, but maybe
you're not paying attention. So, as a publicly owned football team,
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the green Bay Packers have to let everyone know all
of the math, all of the numbers, and they revealed
the national revenue sharing from the previous fiscal year. This
is not Wall Street Radio turns out though, that the
green Bay Packers were given a check by their sugar
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dotty at the NFL four hundred and thirty two point
six million, four hundred and thirty two point six million.
This a year after national revenue top four hundred million,
and so first time over the four hundred million threshold.
So that the finance is the only peak behind the curtain.
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The only way we look and see what's on the
other side into the NFL's revenue sharing numbers is again,
you know, the Packers, not just to bore you with
the minutia, but as the only publicly owned team. The
packers are required to reveal their financial information on an
annual basis. So what does that mean. Let's break it
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down with four hundred thirty two point six million distributed,
and you do the math on that, divide it. Thirty
two NFL teams got four hundred thirty two point six million.
That means the league as a whole shared more than
thirteen billion in revenue. More than thirteen billion if my
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malor math is correct from the previous fiscal year. So
a little bit better than the Overnight show. So let
us discuss the question where are you at on the
NFL handing over checks to each team for four hundred
and thirty two million in national revenue over the last year.
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So I've got El Chapo, Ozzie and Mark Jackson, and
we will combine all of these things together and we're
gonna go get some petty cash out of the NFL's
ATM machine. So number I said number. What this is
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is a refresher course the NFL. We say it all
the time, but for those that don't listen all the time,
the NFL is the most idiot proof business in America.
Remember years ago, I was thinking about doing another side hustle.
I always had two or three media jobs. I get
this show, I got a podcast. Hopefully they'll bring the
TV show back. But I've always got a lot of
stuff going on. I always got a lot of stuff
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going on. I thought, well, maybe I'll do a little
side hustle. I was like, I was looking at it, like,
what are the most idiot proof businesses? And they're like
vending machines atm machines, although that's risky because people might,
you know, rob you with a gun and take your money.
Laundromat things like that, or running a McDonald's, you know,
getting a successful fast food frame, which is very expensive
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to get one of those. Except so think of the
NFL kind of like a Mickeyd's, except with a lot
more money, right, And you can't screw this thing up.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Like there's some real n income poops that own NFL teams,
and these these owners, I'm convinced they could. They could
sleep through the league meetings, they could light the playbooks
on fire while they're smoking their cigars, and they still
cash these ridiculous checks. It's like every year, like clockwork,
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here come the Green Bay Packers, the Squeaky reel. Now.
I was told several years back. I don't even know exactly.
I mean, there's many, many years. It all runs together.
It's like a blank, giant blob of time. But I
was told by some of the works of the NFL
who who was an associated mind, that the league years
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ago tried to find a way to have the Packers
be owned by some meaning they would no longer be
part of the community. And they were. They had lawyers
look at everything and all the agreements because it's a
bit of a problem. The Packers are the squeaky wheel
of the NFL, the only team in the industrial complex
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of North American sport in the big sports that matter
that's owned by I say, owned by the fans, but
I have some friends of mine that owned the Packers.
They bought stock in the Packers. It's not like you
get to decide who the quarterback is, but it means
for our purposes every July we get to play Bikkaboo,
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pik kaboo, behind the Velvet Curtain, Behind the Velvet Curtain,
and Sweet Baby Jesus. It's like opening El Chapo's ledger
and finding just how much money those drug cartels make.
Four hundred and thirty two million per team in national revenue.
And so let's break that down unscientifically for those of
you that are slow learners, because I was a slow learner.
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That's not ticket sales. That's not the beer money. That's
not the nachos, the peanuts, the hot dogs. That's TV.
That's gambling partnership money. That's the streaming money. That's thirteen
point eight billion sliced up like a drug cartel, profit
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sharing operation. These guys are laundering the American passion, pure profit,
pure profit. It's like the NFL has so much money.
In my head, they've gone out to somewhere in Missouri
and they've got storage units. Maybe Ronnie the Bullet, Ronnie
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the Bullet out there can go in there and find
the storage unit where they put the cash in there.
It's like Breaking Bad season five. So maybe it's sound
in New Mexico, but like, what are they doing? Like
I don't know, but they building new yachts every year.
They got gold plated iPads, they got I mean, my god,
they could put a NFL game if they want, They
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could put it in on the moon, and not because
they need to do that, just because they can just
because they can. And the packers, and of course they're
forced to tell the truth. And they reported an eighty
three point seven million dollar operating profit last year. Good
for the I'm not ripping them. I may good for them.
May every business be profitable, not every business? And can
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they actually reward their employees unlike some cheap companies. All right,
that's up twenty three million year to year, right, twenty
three million, And so it's listen, it's good for them.
They're successful. Meanwhile, you think about the NFL, and it
doesn't matter whether you're good or not. The Cleveland Browns blow,
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and you know, they can go out there and win
four games and they still get the same game check
or the same check, not a game check, but the
same money. And the Browns could hire a kangaroo to
run the team and they'd still turn a profit with
a kangaroo. Okay, the NFL is the casino and casinos
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make money, but they this one always makes money. I
got a lot of money you don't give. You don't
give any other business that kind. I mean, I'm sure
there's some Wall Street places, some defense contractors that make
a ton of money and all that, But my god,
it is. It is insane. So remember that. Now we
do talk about who's worth money, who's not worth money.
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I don't want to hear any sob stories about some
owner crying poverty and all that stuff. When these guys
say they can't afford to pay a player, they can
always afford to pay a player. The issue is not
whether you can afford to pay the player. The issues
you want to play pay the player. Is the player
worth the money? And for a team to say, wow,
we can't afford, like a Bengals to it's like all
of your payroll is covered by the set by the
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check from the league, right, So it's just it's really
it's like Jeff Bezos saying I'm on a budget, and
you know, come on, the only thing you're really budgeting
is how many jets you're gonna buy this year, and
how many yachts and all that stuff. And the NFL
at this point, the NFL is not just a sport.
It's the cartel. But they do have nice helmets, they
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do have nice summits. Now page two to Jersey we go,
and we have a quarterback one that has been announced
coach Brian Dayball, who's still hanging around somehow. You talk,
you about a cat with nine lives. So Brian Dable
named Russell Wilson, mister unlimited, Russell Wilson the Giants starting
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quarterback before training camp. It hasn't really gotten going, but
Brian Dable, as training camp began, named Russell Wilson as
the Giants starting quarterback. That is blank. We'll play the
fill in the blank game. So Brian Dable naming Russell
Wilson QB one for the Giants is blank. My fill
in the blank is I wrote down on my scorecard.
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Chicken fertilizer is what that is. I'd rather say the
other word, but we're not allowed to. That is chicken
bleep is what it is by the Giants. It's absolute garbage,
all right. The fact that Brian Dable anointed Russell Wilson
the number one quarter like, does he not realize it's
twenty twenty five, it's not twenty fourteen or twenty fifteen.
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Spoiler alert. This just into the Fox Sports radio newsroom.
Russell Wilson there, she blows. He's not good, right, and
he has not been the guy. He hasn't been that
guy in a while. And this is a total vote
of no confidence for Jackson Dart, the rookie and famous
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Jameis Winston and at least pretend, at least pretend like
there's a competition. Right, No, this reeks of the late
Ozzy Osbourne classic crazy Train. It's a desperation from Brian Daball.
No why right? Not only is Russell Wilson's stink, it's
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bigger than that. Right, He's a glorified game manager. He's
got a bloated resume. The guy has been matt at
best for three years running. And this goes back to
something we've talked about for many, many years behind these microphones.
It is the theory the man that shot Liberty Vounce.
Once the legend becomes the fact, you go with the legend, right,
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you print the legend, you talk about the legend. And
the legend of Russell Wilson was established in those salad
days in Seattle with the legion of Boom and all that.
And Russell Wilson has as many MVP votes as I've
got and you've got right, He's never been really all
that great, but he had some good defensive teams and
he was always something. There were always three or four
or five or six or seven or eight quarterbacks better.
(30:51):
Now there are twenty quarterbacks often better than him. And
his last year in Seattle was not that great. He
went to Denver, was a dumpster fire, went to Pittsburgh
police unless you like those five yard outs, And of
course people called that a career revival. I didn't realize
a five yard out was a career revival. Apparently it is.
(31:13):
And in Russ, I get he's living off the man
that shot Liberty Vunce. He's living off that one super
Bowl and the let Russ cook hype from back in
the day, and that's it. And Brian Dabole, the coach
who's been billed as the quarterback whisper when he was
in Buffalo quarterback whisperer with Josh Allen, and he's just
(31:35):
handed Russell Wilson the job. Like why it's again, it's
not twenty thirteen, it's we've moved on from that and
now it's not all bad because we do anticipate that
we'll get some good corny sound, some good corny sound
rehearse slogan. Russ is like a mix of a motivational
(31:57):
speaker and a cheese ball, and he's ad a youth
pastor retreat because on the field, he's just blah bad,
all right, blah blah blah blah blah bad, and that's bad,
but he's not and he's not even fun bad though,
(32:17):
as we pointed out, Jameis Winston and I want the
record to show the Ben Malors show we support Jameis Winston.
Jameis Winston's chaos. Jameis Winston is a pick six to
the right, crab legs of the left, four hundred yard
passing games followed by four turnovers in the middle, and
you know what that is entertainment. You're bad, but at
(32:38):
least you're entertaining. You know what. Russ is balling And
this just feels like Brian Dable, who's one of those
guys who's on the hot seat covering his own tookas
and he needs to win and he thinks that Russ
gives him the quote safe option if you will, all right?
Final point, Jeff Philla Delphia. We go where Eagles quarterback
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Jalen Hurts explain that he is refusing to wear refusing
to wear the recent Super Bowl ring after his MVP
performance and all that, hurt says, quote He's moved on,
moved on to the new year. It's as simple as that.
Now that has upset some people, but does it work
for you? Does it work for you that Jalen Hurts
(33:23):
is not wearing his bling bling So I am nodding
my head. Yes, all right, I love it. And as
Mark Jackson would say, this is what we call a
grown man move. I'll be Benny Brightside. Good job by
Jalen Hurts. All right, Jalen Hurts gets it. You gotta
(33:44):
move forward. That is the way this works. Right. We
know that accolades people love to celebrate that they sit
there and smell themselves, right, But accolades are just the
receipts for things you've already done. And it's you know,
it's when you become an old dude. You sit on
your rocking chair and you talk about the glory days,
you drink a glass of lemonade, marcol mar Day and
(34:06):
come on the other factor And I'll never forget out
a conversation. Years ago, when I was doing some NBA stuff,
there was a guy named Phil Jackson, and he used
to coach the Bulls and the Lakers, and Phil won
more championships than just about anybody. And I remember this
was twenty five years ago and Phil Jackson was complaining
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then about how when he first won a championship I
think it was with the Knicks in the seventies, probably
fifty years ago whatever, but the championship rings were designed
for the person to wear. They were more like class rings.
And Phil would be complaints of these rings. I can't
they're too big, they're for a safety deposit box. They're
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not to wear.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Some people have made them into chains. They're more of
a chain thing than something you wear around, and they're
so valuable, like you're just asking for someone to steal
the ring at gunpoint. So they're not designed to be
worn anyway. So I mean to me, I get why
Jalen Hurts isn't doing it and you press the reset button.
That's part of the deal. And so he's also validated
(35:13):
one of the things that we've said, there is no
such thing as wait for it momentum. Uncle Ma only
exists in Jersey. Uncle Mo used to live in Brooklyn,
but he moved to Jersey. He's also validated the fact
that you don't get rollover minutes. You know, it's like, oh, well,
you play well and you leave a little extra in
(35:34):
the tank. No, no, no, no, you either dominate now or
people say you're a has been right, you're a bit irrelevant,
bit irrelevant? You know what have you done for me lately?
All that stuff and wearing that ring is like carrying
a trophy to a job interview. It's like announcing, Hey,
I'm a douche and here's my trophy to loser move
(35:56):
And uh it was Winston Churchill. I don't know if
he's the first one to say it. He repeated it,
that you don't fight the last war, right, you don't fight,
and you don't celebrate as you're fighting another war, the
last war, when the new war has already started. So
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you move on.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
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Speaker 1 (36:22):
Mister Blunt and all your other guys, how about that
to the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (36:31):
Cooper lou Tyron Matthew the Honey Badger announced his retirement
on Tuesday, ending a decorated twelve year career since coming
out of LSU in twenty thirteen. The question now is
was his career good enough to get him a gold jacket.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
No, no, good career in borderline Hall of Fame. He
wasn't All Pro three times, he was part of an
All Decade team. He was never Defensive Player of the Year.
And you can tell the story of football during his
career without mentioning his name. He's got a great nickname,
but he does not. You look at the numbers and
(37:05):
the impact, and he played on a lot of black teams.
No next.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
Warren Moon was recently asked of Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen,
and Joe Burrow who he thinks will win a Super
Bowl first, and without hesitation, he said Lamar Jackson. He
went on to say that it's not because of Jackson
being much better than the other two, but because the
Ravens have the best team surrounding him. Ben is he
right about that part?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Uh, Well, the Ravens do have, you know, defense, They
got a bunch of alpha dudes on defense and all that.
But I would still go with Burrow. Burrow plays better
in the playoffs and Josh Allen. I put Lamar Jackson third.
I put sports with Coleman ahead of Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
Next, after you get another Dodgers loss on Tuesday, Dave
Roberts said, it better be rock bottom. They did win today,
But Ben, that was the dodgers eleventh loss in the
last fourteen games. Yet they're still in first place. Is
it premature to panic?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
No, they suck and I'm sick of Dodger fans making excuses.
They got a bunch of holes in their line of
the bullpen blow and they just are so arrogant over
there at Dodger Stadium, like, will we be fine, We'll
be fine. I don't care. You're losing. You suck. How
do we do you passed? I won? I won Loreta
another win, red blooded American win. Right there.
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Speaker 1 (38:27):
It's now time for time for honey, Honey, hurry ask bad.
Twitter said us your questions on Twitter. Now they know
where we go. It's asked, Ben. Your questions are answers
for the rest of the hour, and now with the
reading of the questions.
Speaker 8 (38:48):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
Donkey Sausage Hi, donkey. He would like to know what
is something that you're terrible at but wish you could
do well?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Uh? What am I to rrible at that? I wish
I could do well. Let's see anything involving gymnastics, anything,
not that I want to be a gymnast or anything
like that, but I'm always jealous of people that have
that ability. That's like the first thing that popped up.
You see people that are very good at manipulating their
(39:19):
body in certain ways. I'm not great at that. What
about you, Lorena?
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah, somewhere between drawing and taking good photos.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
You take good photo You're very popular. People love you and.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
The but do there's some people are so photogenic and
it does takes nothing, Like I have to work really hard.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah. I hate looking at myself. That's why I got
in the radio. It sucks like doing the TV show
the last couple of years. I'm like, holy crap, I
am so ugly. My god. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 8 (39:46):
Well, there's plenty of things that I'm not very good
at that I wish I were, But I think that
on the top of the list, I would choose playing guitar.
Good one.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Oh, I'm having the music music ability. Yeah, I got you,
I got you. Yeah. I knew how to play the
piano a little bit, just like I could put my
finger across the keys. My mom taught me that. All Right,
what's next? What do we have here?
Speaker 8 (40:09):
Alf? The alien opiner?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Alf?
Speaker 8 (40:12):
We would like to know? And he puts hashtag ask band,
hashtag ask coop.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
So I guess he's yeah, you're out Lorraina.
Speaker 8 (40:19):
He says, does your spouse put items away in different
places than where they belong or where they've always been?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Uh? Yeah, So there's there's a lot of hey, you
know text, where is that thing? Of a jake? You know,
where's the watch? McCall it? And she's usually pretty good,
but sometimes there it's a it's a great it's like, uh,
where's waldough thing? So it's it is inconsistent. How about that?
What about you? Cool?
Speaker 8 (40:46):
Well, it's not so much that she puts items away
in different places than where they belong. It's just that
she doesn't put them away at all.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Well, some of that too, there's some of that he's
talking about, like laundry piling up.
Speaker 8 (40:57):
That well, laundry and then like we have like there's
a box cutter that you know, we keep in the
knife drawer, and she'll take it out of the knife drawer,
open the box wherever it is that she is, and
then just puts the box cutter down right there. And
then that's where it stays until I have to find
it for us.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
It's the backup charger. Say hey, we're going on a
weekend road trip. Where's the backup charger? You had it last?
I don't know where it is. It should be where
I put it. I don't know where it is. What's next?
Speaker 8 (41:27):
Late night drug tester. We'd like to know for everybody
in honor of National drive through Day, has your car
ever died while in line of the drive through?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
No? But I did get I did get an accident
at the McDonald's over in Hollywood when I was a
single lad at three in the morning. I was online
at the There were two drive through windows. You pay
it the first one, you get the food at the
second one. I was at the first window to pay.
I had paid, I was waiting to move up, and
as I was getting ready to move up, the car
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in front of me, driven by a sixteen year old,
realized he forgot to pay and decided to back up.
Without looking and rode into my car. Slammed into my car. Yeah,
the rain.
Speaker 8 (42:09):
I don't think so. I usually block out really traumatizing
moments like that, but I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
I understand. What about you?
Speaker 8 (42:18):
Yes, I was in a rented Dodge charger and ran
out of gas in the Arby's drive through. Why would
you go to a drive through when you know you
need gas? I didn't know how big the like reserve
tank was. I thought I hadn't plenty of time.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
It's unfortunate.
Speaker 8 (42:34):
It was very embarrassing. I had to call my mom
to come, like bring over gas in a tank.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
That's a pic of duties.
Speaker 8 (42:41):
People had to back up out of the drive through.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
And Arby's not a Taco bell And.
Speaker 8 (42:50):
Alright, Bobby and Florida wants to know what was your
favorite childhood family vacation.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Oh, we had a great time. We went on a
lot of like family renun in Chicago. I have a
very memorable one being on Lake Michigan during the Fourth
of July fireworks. That was a fond memory. Phoenix, we
had a family reunion there. Those are a couple of
big ones.
Speaker 8 (43:11):
What about you, Lorena, I like going to the lava
caves up in Oregon. That was really fun.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Okay cool.
Speaker 8 (43:16):
I did a cross country trip with my mom and
my sisters, and then I would also go to Laughlin
every year with my dad.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Oh nice, Yeah, very cool. They're just ask Ben
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is from beautiful South Florida, a vacation destination. Now, there
was a time when I was a kid. I'm old now,
but when I was a kid that the Dolphins always
had good football, the Miami Dolphins. That's a long time ago.
Dolphins suck anyway that they they're good for what we
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do in my occupation here, so we thank them for that.
The Dolphins have a quarterback named to a tongue of
I Lo, who, when he's upright, is kind of average,
kind of average, and he's somehow has been able to
stay healthy recently. We'll see if that continues. But to
a tongue of ilow, the Dolphin quarterback filling the content machine. Now,
(02:43):
when I went to bed after the overnight show yesterday,
I did not anticipate that we would be leading off
with the Dolphins. But that's the magic. That's the magic.
You don't know, it's the hocus pocus. So Dolphin quarterback
to a tongue of I Lawa, did not nibble around
the edges when it came to the cheetah, Cheata cheata Cheetah. Now,
if you didn't hear this, maybe not Tua announcing that
(03:06):
the relationship with star receiver Tyreek Hill, remember him, Yeah,
still a work in progress now, not just for Tua,
but for the entire Dolphins team. In fact, just to
prove I'm not making this up, we have the audio tape.
So let's go to the audio tape. Here's Tua commenting
on Tyreek Hill and the situation and take her listen.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I would say, we're still continuing to do that. But
it's not just with me, it's it's with a lot
of the guys. I'm not the only one that heard that.
You guys, aren't the older people that heard that. You
know a lot of people that followed football, that followed
the Miami Dolphins that followed Tyreek that are fans of his.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Everyone has seen that.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So when you say something like that, it's you don't
just come back.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
From that with a my bad. Now you got you
gotta work that that relationship up. You got to build
everything up again. And yeah that it's the work in progress,
not just for me but for everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
All right, there you go. Now Hill did apologize for
what it's worth for his activity. You might remember if
you're old enough to remember the last NFL season so
long ago. In case you forgot them, maybe you're a
little slow. Tyreek Hill snapped at the end of the
year and said, I'm out bro. I shouldn't do that
at the end of the show. I have a bad show.
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I say I'm out bro. But he said it was
great playing here, meaning in Miami, but at the end
of the day, got to do what's best for my
career because I'm too much of a competitor to be
just out there. And so that was that, and he'll's back.
And you heard what the quarterback had to say. So
let us discuss the question to a tongue of Iloa,
(04:48):
hinting as you heard there of aible Dolphin civil war.
That's what I heard as he spoke out on the
relationship with Tyreek Kill and his request to leave at
the end of last season. So is there something deeper
going on here? Is there something deeper? So I've got
(05:09):
Dali Lama, kombucha bar, and Walmart Greeter and we will
combine all of these things together and put the puzzle piece,
the jigsaw puzzle piece in the puzzle to complete the puzzle.
So a listen, you break this down. Is there something
deeper going on? Of course, like what do you smell
(05:33):
around the dolphins? You got your nose out, you sniffer, Right,
it's not sunscreen, it's not seawater, it's not try again,
that would be in my professional analysis for the dolphins,
gasoline and smoke. And here's why, right, because the dolphins
(05:54):
are a full blown tire fire waiting to explode. And
now Tua talking about working in this part of the movie.
In this part of the movie, Tua is the Dalai
Lama of dysfunction, and he heard he was trying to
play the peacemaker, trying to play the peacemaker, but at
(06:15):
the same time letting you and I know that, Yeah,
there's a little bit of a civil war brewing behind
the South Beach curtains there, and all of this because
Tyreek Hill, the cheetah who turned into a housecat the
second things got really bad there in Miami. He saw
the real Tyreek Hill. He begged to be traded, and
(06:38):
suddenly he pops up there talking about how if you're
seeing his comments recently, Hill said that he's been going
to therapy and the church. Of course, I roll my
eyes at that. You don't get to quote the Bible
and your therapist like you get out of the cat house,
not doghouse. I said, cat house free of charge. But
it's not monopoly. I don't believe. If it is, that's
(07:01):
news to me. Believe it's the NFL. Now, the second
part of this is there a bigger underlying condition with
the Dolphins, and you can't see unless you're watching the
rebroadcast on the YouTube channel. I'm nodding my head, yes, Now,
(07:21):
what is it right? That would be enter in stage
left hipster head coach Mike McDaniel. The plot thickens. Now.
Don't get me wrong, I like the soundbites. He's good
for at least three or four goofy things to say,
during the year, so we like the soundbites. However, he
(07:42):
always looks like he's late for some kind of sit
down NPR interview or a podcast recording at a kombucha
t bar. And you know, listen, if people say he's
a great play caller, he really gets offense and he
understands that. But don't kid yourself, right if you mean,
just look at the guy. The man could not lead
(08:05):
a silent prayer, and he's leading a locker room of
I think alpha males. I believe that's what an NFL
locker room is, nothing but alpha males and and people
with multi million dollar checks and egos to match. So listen,
the Dolphins ft off. Let's call it like it is here.
They screwed up. They should have could have would have
(08:25):
traded Tyreek Hill and said bye bye, but they didn't
do it right. They should have done that. He's at
the age, he's at that tipping point Tyreek where you know,
how much does he have left in the tank. It's
gonna become a diminishing asset soon. If he's not producing
and he's whining, what's the point you can get some
other stiff to play wide receiver? So Miami brass. They
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had a golden opportunity to move on, to re establish
some kind of control. But what do they do instead
of that? They let this guy tiptoe, just a little
tiptoe out of the bubble of trust and waltz right
back in like nothing happened. And so now he's talking
about being a better teammate. Too late, dude, you already
(09:12):
let the match. It's like every movie. There, the dynamite
sticks on fire, and so you're left with Tua tongue Bylow,
who's caught in the middle. Right, he's in the middle.
He's trying to keep the house from collapsing. And Tua knows,
and so does the Dolphin head coach there, the hipster
Mike McDaniel, that if this goes as bad as it's looking,
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if somehow the Dolphins finished behind not only the Bills,
but the Patriots, and if the Jets somehow finish ahead
of them, then it's turned out the last the parties over,
they will find a way to blow that thing up
with Tua, and the coach will be Gonzo. So this
is a last opportunity for Tua in Miami, and he
(10:00):
knows it, and so the walls are collapsing, and you
can see it, and I watch it. I was saying
for our blind listeners. You look, you look at his
eyes there, and he looks like a guy who who
knows that this is a recipe that he's got in
his hands, a recipe for disaster. It's got all the ingredients.
You've got a divided locker room. Check, you've got a
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deva wide receiver with one foot out the door. And
then he put the foot back in. But he's getting
the point where he's not going to get his numbers.
He didn't have the numbers last year. He likes check
that box. You've got a coach who thinks sarcasm and
Spotify playlists are the keys to good leadership. That's a
double check. And so what's next? All right, well move
(10:43):
ahead in the recipe. It is cowboom is what it is.
That's an implosion CAPITALII. All right, now, last word, we
go to another developing story in the NFL, to the
Music City where the number number in the entire league
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who was a year ago projected as a second round
pick but then went to the number one slot, cam
Ward cam Ward rookie Tennessee Titan quarterback. So cam Ward
was asked how he reacted to the news that the incumbent,
the guy that was the starter who likes mayonnaise, Will Levis,
(11:27):
quarterback Will Levis has been ruled out for the twenty
twenty five regular season. And did you hear his response?
You did not. Okay, this thing's gone viral. Let's go
to the audio tape. Here's cam Ward. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
What was your reaction to the news that Levison decided
to have surgery? And it's kind of subtracted from the
quarterback round.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Now, oh, I really don't have a reaction. I focus
on cam Ward. Yeah, look at that. I didn't I
play that again, This is cam Ward. He's asked about
a team. Well, lews degals, what.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Was your reaction to the US and Levison decided to
have surgery? And it's kind of subtracted from the water background.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Now, oh, I really didn't have a reaction. I focus
on caam Warren oh Man didn't have a reaction. I
focus on Camboard. Well, that went viral. It was a
sliver of a longer sound bite, but that's the one
that got played millions of times. And the question on
this when many fans seem to be upset that the
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media did cam wore dirty. They did him dirty because
that clip went viral. Is that how you see it?
Is that how you see it? So that is not
how I see it. On this side of the microphone,
all is fair in love, war and the wild West
of the NFL media world. And you put and this
is not that difficult. I know there's a lot of
(12:54):
dumb people in the world, but this is not that
difficult anymore. With an IQ above, ten should figure out
that if you're in the media, you put the most
interesting quote on a pedestal, and cam Ward who's talking
about himself in the third person, like he's the rock
or something. I focus on cam Ward ding ding ding
(13:16):
ding ding. Yeah, that's the moneymaker, right. That's impressive when
you consider cam Ward has played as many NFL games
as you and I have zero zippo not a bupkis
all right, no snaps in the NFL. It's kind of
like this is one of those things. It's like a
Walmart greeter coming out and said, hey, welcome to the NFL. Pal,
(13:37):
You're not in Pullman, Washington. Even though cam Warden went
to Miami played longer at Washington State, like this is
not Washington State versus Northern Colorado in front of seventy
seven people, And I think there was a skunk at
that game. You're in the league and everything you say
is clipped, it is tweeted, it is meaned, it is debated,
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and then it's debated again. Cam Ward in that clip,
and again it wasn't the whole clip, but he came
off as a bit robotic and like he was programmed
by a PR firm and he somehow failed. There was
a glitch in the thing of a jig and it
didn't work, and you just had the door blown open
for you to be the starter. Now, in all fairness,
(14:22):
I think you and I can agree that cam Ward
was going to be the starter anyway. There is no
even small competition at this point. I mean, they're gonna
sign somebody else, but it's gonna be a turd. And
so he could not even read the stock answer off
the Q card right twenty twenty five And what does
that mean if you're in the media. Clickety clicks are
(14:45):
the currency now, like the media get paid in that world.
They don't get paid for touchdown passes. They don't and
unless they work for the team website and they're on
the payroll. They don't get paid for fluff pieces, which
I know a lot of you love, you love the
fluff fluffy mc fluff, but that's not ours. You get
paid for engagement. And player A says something cold and
(15:09):
detached like that, or player B says something in the
third person that is cha ching, cha ching, cha ching,
And this is the carnival. It's been the carnival for many,
many years. It's the carnival. Like the NFL isn't just football.
It's our daily soap opera. But it's been right. It's
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football plus a lot more. It's the personality part of it.
It's the day to day reality show. Because listen, in
the NFL, we know they we love watching our football,
but they only play seventeen regular season games. Each team
plays seventeen regular season games. It's a reality show that
has a budget of what twelve billion or something like that.
(15:54):
And the second you go third person, you've officially entered
the entertainment business. All right, that's what the biggest douchebags
in the world do. They talk in the third person,
and so welcome to the big leagues. You're in the
big leagues. Now, wee a cam hoard everything you say
can and we'll be used against you in the court
of public conversation and it will be posted. It will
(16:18):
be put on radio shows in the middle of the night,
and then podcasts, and I'm sure you'll bring it up
if you ever become good and you want to get
some kind of endorsement deal with Nike, you'll say, well,
look at how many times I went viral. I'm mister viral.
And they'll say, okay, all right, we'll throw some more
shekels your way and we'll have you sell some shoes.
(16:42):
Good luck on that.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
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for years.
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Of all time.
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hour of the Ben Mahler Show. As we continue the
Red Eye flight, we are in the air everywhere, hand
in hand as we provide moonlight. Mallard monologues coast to coast,
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hammer as we hammer away, the Hot Sports takes one
after another from the Fox Sports radio studios, as approved
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by former WNBA fans, Supermarket Steve So Supermarket Steve used
to get very upset that we only talked about Caitlin Clark.
We wouldn't talk about the WNBA, and you're very upset
about that. And then after the WNBA players protested, he
now does not like the WNBA, so he's okay with
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our lead this hour is from the Frozen Tundra. So
the story that happens every time around this time, every
year around this time, much like certain events Punk Satani
Phil will he see his shadow? How many more weeks
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of winter the swallows returning to Capistrano. So it was
open book Day in Green Bay. Oh man, I always
look forward to Open book Day in Green Bay. It's great,
it really is. So for some reason you're not familiar
with I don't know how you wouldn't beat, but maybe
you're not paying attention. So, as a publicly owned football team,
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the green Bay Packers have to let everyone know all
of the math, all of the numbers, and they revealed
the national revenue sharing from the previous fiscal year. This
is not Wall Street Radio turns out though, that the
green Bay Packers were given a check by their sugar
(20:28):
dotty at the NFL four hundred and thirty two point
six million, four hundred and thirty two point six million.
This a year after national revenue top four hundred million,
and so first time over the four hundred million threshold.
So that the finance is the only peak behind the curtain.
(20:51):
The only way we look and see what's on the
other side into the NFL's revenue sharing numbers is again,
you know, the Packers, not just to bore you with
the minutia, but as the only publicly owned team. The
packers are required to reveal their financial information on an
annual basis. So what does that mean. Let's break it
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down with four hundred thirty two point six million distributed,
and you do the math on that, divide it. Thirty
two NFL teams got four hundred thirty two point six million.
That means the league as a whole shared more than
thirteen billion in revenue. More than thirteen billion if my
(21:34):
malor math is correct from the previous fiscal year. So
a little bit better than the Overnight show. So let
us discuss the question where are you at on the
NFL handing over checks to each team for four hundred
and thirty two million in national revenue over the last year.
(21:55):
So I've got El Chapo, Ozzie and Mark Jackson, and
we will combine all of these things together and we're
gonna go get some petty cash out of the NFL's
ATM machine. So number I said number. What this is
(22:17):
is a refresher course the NFL. We say it all
the time, but for those that don't listen all the time,
the NFL is the most idiot proof business in America.
Remember years ago, I was thinking about doing another side hustle.
I always had two or three media jobs. I get
this show, I got a podcast. Hopefully they'll bring the
TV show back. But I've always got a lot of
stuff going on. I always got a lot of stuff
(22:38):
going on. I thought, well, maybe I'll do a little
side hustle. I was like, I was looking at it, like,
what are the most idiot proof businesses? And they're like
vending machines atm machines, although that's risky because people might,
you know, rob you with a gun and take your money.
Laundromat things like that, or running a McDonald's, you know,
getting a successful fast food frame, which is very expensive
(23:01):
to get one of those. Except so think of the
NFL kind of like a Mickeyd's, except with a lot
more money, right, And you can't screw this thing up.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Like there's some real n income poops that own NFL teams,
and these these owners, I'm convinced they could. They could
sleep through the league meetings, they could light the playbooks
on fire while they're smoking their cigars, and they still
cash these ridiculous checks. It's like every year, like clockwork,
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here come the Green Bay Packers, the Squeaky reel. Now.
I was told several years back. I don't even know exactly.
I mean, there's many, many years. It all runs together.
It's like a blank, giant blob of time. But I
was told by some of the works of the NFL
who who was an associated mind, that the league years
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ago tried to find a way to have the Packers
be owned by some meaning they would no longer be
part of the community. And they were. They had lawyers
look at everything and all the agreements because it's a
bit of a problem. The Packers are the squeaky wheel
of the NFL, the only team in the industrial complex
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of North American sport in the big sports that matter
that's owned by I say, owned by the fans, but
I have some friends of mine that owned the Packers.
They bought stock in the Packers. It's not like you
get to decide who the quarterback is, but it means
for our purposes every July we get to play Bikkaboo,
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pik kaboo, behind the Velvet Curtain, Behind the Velvet Curtain,
and Sweet Baby Jesus. It's like opening El Chapo's ledger
and finding just how much money those drug cartels make.
Four hundred and thirty two million per team in national revenue.
And so let's break that down unscientifically for those of
you that are slow learners, because I was a slow learner.
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That's not ticket sales. That's not the beer money. That's
not the nachos, the peanuts, the hot dogs. That's TV.
That's gambling partnership money. That's the streaming money. That's thirteen
point eight billion sliced up like a drug cartel, profit
(25:20):
sharing operation. These guys are laundering the American passion, pure profit,
pure profit. It's like the NFL has so much money.
In my head, they've gone out to somewhere in Missouri
and they've got storage units. Maybe Ronnie the Bullet, Ronnie
(25:41):
the Bullet out there can go in there and find
the storage unit where they put the cash in there.
It's like Breaking Bad season five. So maybe it's sound
in New Mexico, but like, what are they doing? Like
I don't know, but they building new yachts every year.
They got gold plated iPads, they got I mean, my god,
they could put a NFL game if they want, They
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could put it in on the moon, and not because
they need to do that, just because they can just
because they can. And the packers, and of course they're
forced to tell the truth. And they reported an eighty
three point seven million dollar operating profit last year. Good
for the I'm not ripping them. I may good for them.
May every business be profitable, not every business? And can
(26:23):
they actually reward their employees unlike some cheap companies. All right,
that's up twenty three million year to year, right, twenty
three million, And so it's listen, it's good for them.
They're successful. Meanwhile, you think about the NFL, and it
doesn't matter whether you're good or not. The Cleveland Browns blow,
(26:44):
and you know, they can go out there and win
four games and they still get the same game check
or the same check, not a game check, but the
same money. And the Browns could hire a kangaroo to
run the team and they'd still turn a profit with
a kangaroo. Okay, the NFL is the casino and casinos
(27:05):
make money, but they this one always makes money. I
got a lot of money you don't give. You don't
give any other business that kind. I mean, I'm sure
there's some Wall Street places, some defense contractors that make
a ton of money and all that, But my god,
it is. It is insane. So remember that. Now we
do talk about who's worth money, who's not worth money.
(27:25):
I don't want to hear any sob stories about some
owner crying poverty and all that stuff. When these guys
say they can't afford to pay a player, they can
always afford to pay a player. The issue is not
whether you can afford to pay the player. The issues
you want to play pay the player. Is the player
worth the money? And for a team to say, wow,
we can't afford, like a Bengals to it's like all
of your payroll is covered by the set by the
(27:46):
check from the league, right, So it's just it's really
it's like Jeff Bezos saying I'm on a budget, and
you know, come on, the only thing you're really budgeting
is how many jets you're gonna buy this year, and
how many yachts and all that stuff. And the NFL
at this point, the NFL is not just a sport.
It's the cartel. But they do have nice helmets, they
(28:09):
do have nice summits. Now page two to Jersey we go,
and we have a quarterback one that has been announced
coach Brian Dayball, who's still hanging around somehow. You talk,
you about a cat with nine lives. So Brian Dable
named Russell Wilson, mister unlimited, Russell Wilson the Giants starting
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quarterback before training camp. It hasn't really gotten going, but
Brian Dable, as training camp began, named Russell Wilson as
the Giants starting quarterback. That is blank. We'll play the
fill in the blank game. So Brian Dable naming Russell
Wilson QB one for the Giants is blank. My fill
in the blank is I wrote down on my scorecard.
(28:56):
Chicken fertilizer is what that is. I'd rather say the
other word, but we're not allowed to. That is chicken
bleep is what it is by the Giants. It's absolute garbage,
all right. The fact that Brian Dable anointed Russell Wilson
the number one quarter like, does he not realize it's
twenty twenty five, it's not twenty fourteen or twenty fifteen.
(29:21):
Spoiler alert. This just into the Fox Sports radio newsroom.
Russell Wilson there, she blows. He's not good, right, and
he has not been the guy. He hasn't been that
guy in a while. And this is a total vote
of no confidence for Jackson Dart, the rookie and famous
(29:42):
Jameis Winston and at least pretend, at least pretend like
there's a competition. Right, No, this reeks of the late
Ozzy Osbourne classic crazy Train. It's a desperation from Brian Daball.
No why right? Not only is Russell Wilson's stink, it's
(30:04):
bigger than that. Right, He's a glorified game manager. He's
got a bloated resume. The guy has been matt at
best for three years running. And this goes back to
something we've talked about for many, many years behind these microphones.
It is the theory the man that shot Liberty Vounce.
Once the legend becomes the fact, you go with the legend, right,
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you print the legend, you talk about the legend. And
the legend of Russell Wilson was established in those salad
days in Seattle with the legion of Boom and all that.
And Russell Wilson has as many MVP votes as I've
got and you've got right, He's never been really all
that great, but he had some good defensive teams and
he was always something. There were always three or four
or five or six or seven or eight quarterbacks better.
(30:51):
Now there are twenty quarterbacks often better than him. And
his last year in Seattle was not that great. He
went to Denver, was a dumpster fire, went to Pittsburgh
police unless you like those five yard outs, And of
course people called that a career revival. I didn't realize
a five yard out was a career revival. Apparently it is.
(31:13):
And in Russ, I get he's living off the man
that shot Liberty Vunce. He's living off that one super
Bowl and the let Russ cook hype from back in
the day, and that's it. And Brian Dabole, the coach
who's been billed as the quarterback whisper when he was
in Buffalo quarterback whisperer with Josh Allen, and he's just
(31:35):
handed Russell Wilson the job. Like why it's again, it's
not twenty thirteen, it's we've moved on from that and
now it's not all bad because we do anticipate that
we'll get some good corny sound, some good corny sound
rehearse slogan. Russ is like a mix of a motivational
(31:57):
speaker and a cheese ball, and he's ad a youth
pastor retreat because on the field, he's just blah bad,
all right, blah blah blah blah blah bad, and that's bad,
but he's not and he's not even fun bad though,
(32:17):
as we pointed out, Jameis Winston and I want the
record to show the Ben Malors show we support Jameis Winston.
Jameis Winston's chaos. Jameis Winston is a pick six to
the right, crab legs of the left, four hundred yard
passing games followed by four turnovers in the middle, and
you know what that is entertainment. You're bad, but at
(32:38):
least you're entertaining. You know what. Russ is balling And
this just feels like Brian Dable, who's one of those
guys who's on the hot seat covering his own tookas
and he needs to win and he thinks that Russ
gives him the quote safe option if you will, all right?
Final point, Jeff Philla Delphia. We go where Eagles quarterback
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Jalen Hurts explain that he is refusing to wear refusing
to wear the recent Super Bowl ring after his MVP
performance and all that, hurt says, quote He's moved on,
moved on to the new year. It's as simple as that.
Now that has upset some people, but does it work
for you? Does it work for you that Jalen Hurts
(33:23):
is not wearing his bling bling So I am nodding
my head. Yes, all right, I love it. And as
Mark Jackson would say, this is what we call a
grown man move. I'll be Benny Brightside. Good job by
Jalen Hurts. All right, Jalen Hurts gets it. You gotta
(33:44):
move forward. That is the way this works. Right. We
know that accolades people love to celebrate that they sit
there and smell themselves, right, But accolades are just the
receipts for things you've already done. And it's you know,
it's when you become an old dude. You sit on
your rocking chair and you talk about the glory days,
you drink a glass of lemonade, marcol mar Day and
(34:06):
come on the other factor And I'll never forget out
a conversation. Years ago, when I was doing some NBA stuff,
there was a guy named Phil Jackson, and he used
to coach the Bulls and the Lakers, and Phil won
more championships than just about anybody. And I remember this
was twenty five years ago and Phil Jackson was complaining
(34:27):
then about how when he first won a championship I
think it was with the Knicks in the seventies, probably
fifty years ago whatever, but the championship rings were designed
for the person to wear. They were more like class rings.
And Phil would be complaints of these rings. I can't
they're too big, they're for a safety deposit box. They're
(34:47):
not to wear.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Some people have made them into chains. They're more of
a chain thing than something you wear around, and they're
so valuable, like you're just asking for someone to steal
the ring at gunpoint. So they're not designed to be
worn anyway. So I mean to me, I get why
Jalen Hurts isn't doing it and you press the reset button.
That's part of the deal. And so he's also validated
(35:13):
one of the things that we've said, there is no
such thing as wait for it momentum. Uncle Ma only
exists in Jersey. Uncle Mo used to live in Brooklyn,
but he moved to Jersey. He's also validated the fact
that you don't get rollover minutes. You know, it's like, oh, well,
you play well and you leave a little extra in
(35:34):
the tank. No, no, no, no, you either dominate now or
people say you're a has been right, you're a bit irrelevant,
bit irrelevant? You know what have you done for me lately?
All that stuff and wearing that ring is like carrying
a trophy to a job interview. It's like announcing, Hey,
I'm a douche and here's my trophy to loser move
(35:56):
And uh it was Winston Churchill. I don't know if
he's the first one to say it. He repeated it,
that you don't fight the last war, right, you don't fight,
and you don't celebrate as you're fighting another war, the
last war, when the new war has already started. So
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you move on.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Mister Blunt and all your other guys, how about that
to the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (36:31):
Cooper lou Tyron Matthew the Honey Badger announced his retirement
on Tuesday, ending a decorated twelve year career since coming
out of LSU in twenty thirteen. The question now is
was his career good enough to get him a gold jacket.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
No, no, good career in borderline Hall of Fame. He
wasn't All Pro three times, he was part of an
All Decade team. He was never Defensive Player of the Year.
And you can tell the story of football during his
career without mentioning his name. He's got a great nickname,
but he does not. You look at the numbers and
(37:05):
the impact, and he played on a lot of black teams.
No next.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
Warren Moon was recently asked of Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen,
and Joe Burrow who he thinks will win a Super
Bowl first, and without hesitation, he said Lamar Jackson. He
went on to say that it's not because of Jackson
being much better than the other two, but because the
Ravens have the best team surrounding him. Ben is he
right about that part?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Uh, Well, the Ravens do have, you know, defense, They
got a bunch of alpha dudes on defense and all that.
But I would still go with Burrow. Burrow plays better
in the playoffs and Josh Allen. I put Lamar Jackson third.
I put sports with Coleman ahead of Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
Next, after you get another Dodgers loss on Tuesday, Dave
Roberts said, it better be rock bottom. They did win today,
But Ben, that was the dodgers eleventh loss in the
last fourteen games. Yet they're still in first place. Is
it premature to panic?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
No, they suck and I'm sick of Dodger fans making excuses.
They got a bunch of holes in their line of
the bullpen blow and they just are so arrogant over
there at Dodger Stadium, like, will we be fine, We'll
be fine. I don't care. You're losing. You suck. How
do we do you passed? I won? I won Loreta
another win, red blooded American win. Right there.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
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Speaker 1 (38:27):
It's now time for time for honey, Honey, hurry ask bad.
Twitter said us your questions on Twitter. Now they know
where we go. It's asked, Ben. Your questions are answers
for the rest of the hour, and now with the
reading of the questions.
Speaker 8 (38:48):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
Donkey Sausage Hi, donkey. He would like to know what
is something that you're terrible at but wish you could
do well?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Uh? What am I to rrible at that? I wish
I could do well. Let's see anything involving gymnastics, anything,
not that I want to be a gymnast or anything
like that, but I'm always jealous of people that have
that ability. That's like the first thing that popped up.
You see people that are very good at manipulating their
(39:19):
body in certain ways. I'm not great at that. What
about you, Lorena?
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah, somewhere between drawing and taking good photos.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
You take good photo You're very popular. People love you and.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
The but do there's some people are so photogenic and
it does takes nothing, Like I have to work really hard.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah. I hate looking at myself. That's why I got
in the radio. It sucks like doing the TV show
the last couple of years. I'm like, holy crap, I
am so ugly. My god. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 8 (39:46):
Well, there's plenty of things that I'm not very good
at that I wish I were, But I think that
on the top of the list, I would choose playing guitar.
Good one.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Oh, I'm having the music music ability. Yeah, I got you,
I got you. Yeah. I knew how to play the
piano a little bit, just like I could put my
finger across the keys. My mom taught me that. All Right,
what's next? What do we have here?
Speaker 8 (40:09):
Alf? The alien opiner?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Alf?
Speaker 8 (40:12):
We would like to know? And he puts hashtag ask band,
hashtag ask coop.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
So I guess he's yeah, you're out Lorraina.
Speaker 8 (40:19):
He says, does your spouse put items away in different
places than where they belong or where they've always been?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Uh? Yeah, So there's there's a lot of hey, you
know text, where is that thing? Of a jake? You know,
where's the watch? McCall it? And she's usually pretty good,
but sometimes there it's a it's a great it's like, uh,
where's waldough thing? So it's it is inconsistent. How about that?
What about you? Cool?
Speaker 8 (40:46):
Well, it's not so much that she puts items away
in different places than where they belong. It's just that
she doesn't put them away at all.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Well, some of that too, there's some of that he's
talking about, like laundry piling up.
Speaker 8 (40:57):
That well, laundry and then like we have like there's
a box cutter that you know, we keep in the
knife drawer, and she'll take it out of the knife drawer,
open the box wherever it is that she is, and
then just puts the box cutter down right there. And
then that's where it stays until I have to find
it for us.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
It's the backup charger. Say hey, we're going on a
weekend road trip. Where's the backup charger? You had it last?
I don't know where it is. It should be where
I put it. I don't know where it is. What's next?
Speaker 8 (41:27):
Late night drug tester. We'd like to know for everybody
in honor of National drive through Day, has your car
ever died while in line of the drive through?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
No? But I did get I did get an accident
at the McDonald's over in Hollywood when I was a
single lad at three in the morning. I was online
at the There were two drive through windows. You pay
it the first one, you get the food at the
second one. I was at the first window to pay.
I had paid, I was waiting to move up, and
as I was getting ready to move up, the car
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in front of me, driven by a sixteen year old,
realized he forgot to pay and decided to back up.
Without looking and rode into my car. Slammed into my car. Yeah,
the rain.
Speaker 8 (42:09):
I don't think so. I usually block out really traumatizing
moments like that, but I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
I understand. What about you?
Speaker 8 (42:18):
Yes, I was in a rented Dodge charger and ran
out of gas in the Arby's drive through. Why would
you go to a drive through when you know you
need gas? I didn't know how big the like reserve
tank was. I thought I hadn't plenty of time.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
It's unfortunate.
Speaker 8 (42:34):
It was very embarrassing. I had to call my mom
to come, like bring over gas in a tank.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
That's a pic of duties.
Speaker 8 (42:41):
People had to back up out of the drive through.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
And Arby's not a Taco bell And.
Speaker 8 (42:50):
Alright, Bobby and Florida wants to know what was your
favorite childhood family vacation.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Oh, we had a great time. We went on a
lot of like family renun in Chicago. I have a
very memorable one being on Lake Michigan during the Fourth
of July fireworks. That was a fond memory. Phoenix, we
had a family reunion there. Those are a couple of
big ones.
Speaker 8 (43:11):
What about you, Lorena, I like going to the lava
caves up in Oregon. That was really fun.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Okay cool.
Speaker 8 (43:16):
I did a cross country trip with my mom and
my sisters, and then I would also go to Laughlin
every year with my dad.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Oh nice, Yeah, very cool. They're just ask Ben
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