September 9, 2025 • 51 mins
Big Ben talks about Caleb Williams and the Bears choking away a lead against the Minnesota Vikings on Monday Night Football, rumors of the Dolphins seeking to trade Tyreek Hill, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Eazy-E Edition, and more!
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So our lead this hour to begin the night. We
start out from sweet home Chicago, right there, the shores
of Lake Michigan. Iconic Soldier Field, so iconic the Bears
can't wait to leave there and go to a new
stadium out in the suburbs. But for now they're still
playing at Soldier Field. They'll be there for a couple
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more years until they build that new shiny TAIJ Mahall
Stadium and then gouge people to go to the stadium.
That's the way businesses done in the NFL anyway. So
Soldier Field, that was the stage right there with the
skyline of Chicago on one side, and then you had
the lake on the other, Lake Michigan there and the
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final act of the opening weekend the NFL twenty twenty
five season, Vikings and Bears and NFC North slaber knocker,
slaber knocker. Now, this was an island game. You know,
we love our island games. We love island games. So
if you were watching, you likely know what happens. It happened.
If not, maybe if we were watching, you might not
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have paid attention. This game's over. Perhaps you missed it,
but don't worry. We watched so you would not have to.
In a very shaky beginning, there very wobbly Bobby beginning
for JJ McCarthy, the rookie, even red shirt rookie, red
shirt rookie JJ McCarthy, who then in the fourth quarter
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went bonkers. He had not one but two fourth quarter
touchdown passes, ran for another score in his long awaited
NFL debut, the former first round draft pick. The Vikings
snapped out of the doldrums dreadful performance and they end
up getting and when you'll only remember the outcome, you
won't remember how bad the game was from the Minnesota
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side of things for three quarters. But they end up
winning it on a big push twenty seven to twenty
four over the Bears. So that's good for the Vikings
for our purposes, though, the better story is in the
losing locker room. So that is where we are going
to go, Sweet home Chicago Bear football right there. Holy crap.
So the debut of Ben Johnson as the Chicago Bears
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head coach, the big coach who's spent time as the
Lions offensive coordinator, and that's where he built his legacy,
and so many teams wanted Ben Johnson to be the coach,
and here's his opportunity in Chicago. And he inherited the
former number one overall PERU in Caleb who Caleb Williams,
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who is bounced all over the place in college and
now in the NFL. Looks like he should be bouncing
somewhere else the way he played in this game. So
with the better story being in the losing locker room,
let us discuss the question for the esteem panel, how
did you grade Ben Johnson's debut as a coach in
the Windy City. So I've got utility, Bill, the coasters,
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and hearse, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we're going to make the Baba Ganooshe. We're gonna
make it early. We're gonna make the Baba ganooge here
early on. So my first thought here as we connect
all these things together, my first thought is, and I
wrote this down, how do you grade Ben Johnson on
the Mallor report card? How do you grade his debut
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as coach of the Bears? Ben Johnson the Malor report card?
I wrote down. I didn't write down an A. I
wrote down, s O b Now, not what you think,
not what you I wrote down, Same old Bears. That's
what I wrote. You probably thought it meant something else,
Same old Bears. That's right. They dominated for three quarters.
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We're really dominated for two quarters defensively part of a third.
The big interception there they did control. The Temple was
a low scoring game. Minnesota could not get out of
their own way. And yet when it was time to
finish the opponent off the kill shot and put them
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six feet under. What happened? Not good. Chicago decided to
slide into their snuggie. The Bears there and they went
into hibernation mode, and it burned them. It burned them
that there is no such thing as momentum. The Bears
had all the momentum, should have won the game. Minnesota
had no momentum. Why would the Bears give up momentum?
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It makes no sense because it's not real, you dummies, anyway,
so the Chicago Bears hired Ben Johnson, who is on
the pulse of He's at the forefront of modern offensive
NFL football. That was the selling point of Ben Johnson, right,
slick agent, the whole thing. And so there we go.
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Instead of the next gen, which is all the nerd rage,
the next gen and all that, this was the dormant Bears,
and it was a Bear jamboree, a country bear jamboree. Here.
Every time they had a chance, and there were multiple
opportunities to deliver the knockout punch and just end the game,
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they tapped out, I can't do it, cannot do it,
not gonna happen. Instead, they landed, They landed some little jabs.
They couldn't land the haymaker, could not land the haymaker,
and Ben Johnson's team pulling punches, which you generally don't
want to see. Listen, I have no skin in the game.
I'm not a Bears fan or anything like that. But
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the power went out and they forgot to pay their
utility bill, and then he needed it most. They're late
in the game, just make one or two plays who
win the game, and they had nothing, so they forgot
to pay the utility bill. There at Soldier Field, the
power went out. And this is not just a loss,
mind you, this is two losses for the Chicago Bears,
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because not only lose at home, but you lose a
divisional game in what figures to be a pretty close
nip and tuck division. So now you've really lost two
games at home and in the division for the Bears.
That's a double gut punch, is what that is. And
this is supposed to be the new Bears, right, the
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new Bears, all that crap that we read and heard about.
Oh it's going to be different now, Oh yeah, it's
gonna be different. Okay, So the job was to protect
home field advantage Soldier Field. Instead, you hand the w
to the Vikings. Because as much as we're gonna rip
the offense with the Chicago Bears, the defense also what
happened there to the Chicago Bears defense. I guess Dennis
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Allen's back to being a moron after we were really
just kissing his ass on the TV brought toes, Oh
Dennis Allen's defense and all that stuff for three quarters
and then in the fourth not so much. Now as
for the inevitable, what are you doing. It's it's only
one game. Why do you have all these strong opinions
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after one game? You know that crowd spoiler alert, spoil
Guess what, Guess what. It's a daily talk show. I am.
I asked to give my opinion as things unfold. They
don't ask me to wait to the end of the year.
I've told management, I said, listen, why don't you just
pay me a lot of money. I'll have no opinions.
I'll be boring. There's a lot of people that do
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this that are very boring, don't know a strong opinion,
And I'll just do that and then just give me
like a big bag of money. In the end, I'll
never get an opinion wrong. It'll be wonderful, it'll be glorious.
It's great. But this is all we have to judge
the Bears on. All we have is one game, one
game to judge Ben Johnson on and the other factor.
And I noticed this watching the way the Bears were
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throwing the football around, like the margin for error in
that style of offense for Ben Johnson and the Chicago
Bears is razor thin. And it's a pass happy offense.
That's what they do. They incorporate the running game via
short passes and all that stuff. But you're playing outdoors.
You're not playing in a dome like you were with
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the Detroit Lions. You've got that win from Lake Michigan.
Swirling around when it gets later in the year becomes
a big problems like a blender goes swirling around. You've
got that to deal with. You've also got the occasional
dormant weather, whether it's fog or snow when you get
late in the year, assuming you even have a mathematic
chance of winning those games and having them mean something.
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If you're the Chicago Bears and you're struggling in September
weather and I mean just you think about what's gonna
be like down the line in Chicago, and it's like wow,
and and so that's why you can't call it progress.
They lost the game. They rode the vomit comet and
they crashed it into the side of the building there. Man,
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it was bad. It's a piecemeal effort to close the game.
Did they think they were gonna play with a running
clock or something like that, I don't know. Well, here's
Ben Johnson, the man of the hour. Here is the
coach of the Chicago football team, pointing out the key
to wins and losses.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Disappointing way to start the season there for us. You
think you can have a seventeen to six lead, that's right, yes,
go the way it did there in the fourth quarter.
You know, we said going into week one that the
team that would make the least number of mistakes would
win the game, and unfortunately we were on the wrong
that we made too many there late in the game.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Myself included Yeah, So the coaches always have to include
themselves in that. You can never say to the players.
You always have to say, well, I'm part of that
when you most coaches are like, well, no, I'm not.
That's These are the idiots that screwed up. I didn't
screw up. They screwed up. They have to up. I
had a good game plan, they didn't listen. It's a
bad job by the so shame on them. The new
shiny offense right looked looked shiny for but ten of
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ten to start the game for Caleb Williams. And then
and then things started popping up that weren't supposed to
pop up.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
There.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
The Bears teased you, they gave some hope there were
people excited that, oh this is great, Bears are going
to get off to the one and oh start and
then they pulled the rug right from underneath you. And
Caleb Williams is a debut in the new offense. Not
a lot of fireworks, and for the balance of the
game there it was more like a sparkler, not explosive pyrotechnic.
It was more of a sparkler and it fizzled out
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before the game ended. Bad job by him, all right? Now, secondly,
speak him that wide angle ents wide angle, Lentz. What
did you make of Caleb williams maiden voyage as the
new Chicago Bears offense gets put into place? So what
do you think? So it was a tune that topped
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the Hot one hundred back in the day from the
Coasters called yackety yac and the song goes yackaty act,
don't talk back. In this case it was yackety act
don't fight back. That's the Bears. They just they had
the lead. The Vikings said we want this. The Vikings
took it and the Bears were but that's what they did.
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And Caleb Williams, it turns out he's multitasking. He's actually
moonlighting Caleb Williams as an elevator operator. I know they
don't have many of those left. I know if you
go down to the Hotel del Cornado there in San Diego,
they have elevator operators. And so he was leaving the
elevator door open. He hit the button that says leave
doors open, and he left it wide open. He said,
come on in, come on in Minnesota, Vikings. I'll give
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you a ride right to the penthouse where there's serving w's.
You can have one. Knock yourself out. So here is
Caleb Williams, a man that always has the best looking
nails on the football field, and here is him talking
about a bunch of gibberish about this, that and the other. Mentality.
We'll take all this that mentality.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Mentality, have something that we you know, that we preach.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And does that work it out?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
And I'm not it's not a play call thing, it's
not anything like that.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's just being able to.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Go out there and execute the players that are called
and be able to you know, executeim at a high level.
And that's something that that we take pride in. And
you know today that didn't happen, and we're going to
get back to it.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
The good news is Caleb went out, he found in
all night parlor. He got a manny and a petty
after the game, so he's feeling a little pressed, but
he got the manny in the petty, so he's in
good shape. All right. Now, How bad was Caleb to
allow the Vikings to come back, right, because it's not.
You can't just come back and win game. Let's set
the team sucks. Remember we talked about this in the
Sunday Night game where the Bills cannot mathematically come back
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without the Thumbo bug on the rug by Derrick Henry. Well,
in this game, it was just consistent suck in the
second and third quarters where the Bears had opportunities. Talked
about that to close the game out, for example, I
went back, I did the Malard math. In the second
and third quarter, Caleb Williams attempted seventeen passes. He completed
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less than fifty percent of them. He averaged less than
five yards per attempt. He was horrible, and so what
was missing? Well, after a minute long deliberation on the
difference between the offense the Lions had with Ben Johnson
and the offense we saw from the Chicago Bears. The
thing that was missing, the secret sauce for Ben Johnson
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and the Lions was the yards after the catch of
the yak at the yac and they didn't have that right.
Detroit would turn and he's still I didn't do it
much against Green Bay, but they'll turn that. Those little
swing passes and the big chunky Peter peanut butter plays
and all that good stuff you'll stick to your mouth
kind of peanut butter. Hard to defend. The Bears. Now,
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they did have a couple of big plays, but not
enough and more smooth peanut butter. Smooth peanut butter, creamy,
easy to swallow and no bite, there's really no bite
to it. And a few extra yards. But it was
mostly catch and crash is what it was, all right now,
final thought. So we go now to the winning locker
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room where it looked pretty bleak. It looked pretty bleak
for a long stretch of time, but in the end,
the Minnesota Vikings came back. And so give me your
reaction to JJ McCarthy in his first start with the Vikings,
Is the glass half full or is the glass half empty?
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On the first go round of JJ McCarthy. So, what
a juxtaposition. Why don't we start with that? What a
juxtaposition because the first three quarters of this game, I
was texting some friends and we were going back and
forth and say, Wow, this is one of the worst
performances I can remember, Like, this guy looks like he'd
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never played football before. Holy crap. You could literally see
him urinating down his leg. It was wild. And so
you go from that where he was having a nice
meal at the Shaky's Pizza parlor and you know, just
the sticky floors, kind of the low quality pizza, the
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mojo potatoes, and the picture of flat soda had all
that going for him, and he's just sitting there, not
even close to looking like he knows what he's doing
as an NFL quarterbacks. Like, wow, it was like he
was living in Pukesville. And how bad was he? I'm
glad you asked. So the first three quarters of an
NF game, JJ McCarthy was at seven of twelve passing,
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which is not good average less than five yards per
pass attempt, had fifty six total yards passing through three
quarters of the game. One interception that was a pick
six to give the Chicago Bears an extra score a
passer rating of thirty five point four going to the
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fourth quarter. That was the passer ready, So that means
that they they being the Minnesota Vikings, would have been
better off calling up a hearse and holding a mock
funeral procession for the duke and burying the duke, putting
the duke, putting the duke down in the ground, right,
and then just ordering some tombstone pizza, and that's it,
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see you later. Because the fun fact, and we will
use this from time to time, if McCarthy had just
spiked the ball every single time he had snapped the ball,
if he'd spiked the ball every single time into the ground,
his passer rating would have been thirty nine point six. Statistically,
he was actually worse by attempting to pass than if
he had not passed. And it wasn't just bad, It
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was historical bad for McCarthy for three quarters. Like it
was worse than just don't screw up, just kind of
be a game manager. That's the baseline. Like the Vikings
essentially played three quarters of an NFL game with a
mannequin at quarterback. That's what they had, and it didn't
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matter that the Bears still left the door open. We
talked about this, Caleb Williams leaving the door open, the
opportunity there, and they took advantage of it. Now, Kevin
O'Connell is the Viking head coach. I'm sure he's not
going to say anything negative about the first three quarters
of JJ McCarthy. Instead, we'll focus on the end of
the game. Is that correct, coach.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
JJ McCarthy. For him to make some of the plays
he did, I told him at halftime, you are going
to bring us back to win this game. And the
look in his eye was fantastic. The best thing is
just a belief I felt from the team unit and
ultimately that doesn't get done without him in the second half,
two passing touchdowns and then the critical rushing touchdown.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You smell that. Yeah, bull crap, that is bull crap.
That is hot bull crap by Kevin O'Connell. Holy crap,
what a dummy? I told him. Yeah, Is that why
he went out after halftime and threw a pick six
in the third quarter? Is that why, coach? Because you
had told him, let's make it even worse, let's dig
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a bigger hole. Why not? Why not? Oh man, Well
he did light it up in the fourth quarter, but
man alive. It was like a cheat code there late.
But the first three quarters Greek tragedy goes from it.
We talk about a rewrite. It goes from a Greek
tragedy where everyone's dead the stage is covered in blood
to a Shakespearean comedy. All's well, that ends well like
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that there, and unfortunately there is a problem. You cannot
just live like that in the NFL, obviously, right. You
can't stink for forty five minutes and then expect to
play Superman in the fourth quarter. That generally doesn't happen.
It's not Disneyland, it's not like that, and it's not sustainable.
So good luck. We'll give him credit for the comeback
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hell of a rally there for the Vikings to come
back and win it. But the narrative, i'm sure will
be praising JJ McCarthy and how great he was and
the resiliency and all that stuff. To me, though, you
cannot ignore the first three quarters of the game that
he was at the salad bar and he was serving
up suck salad and that's what it was. So that's
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a bit of a reality check. I would think he's
a rookie. So yeah, there's gonna be some bumps on
the road and all that, But man, the vikings, if
that's the way it's gonna go, you talk about a
roller coaster situation.
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So our lead this hour, we'll get back to football
and we certainly revisit if you want. Monday night, the
Chicago Bears blew an eleven point lead. They gagged choking Bears,
and they lose to the Minnesota Vikings, who come back
after playing miserable football for three quarters. But our lead
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is from South Beach. That's where our lead is. The
Miami Dolphins. The story that's still bouncing around the echo chamber,
absolutely gutless football by the Miami Dolphins, with the Colts
down thirty to zero to a mediocre Indianapolis Colts team
and Daniel Jones and so the vultures are out circling
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around the Miami Dolphins at this point. So if you've
not heard the latest on this, perhaps not not even
not even a full week end of the season, because
this report came out prior to the Monday night game.
There is chatter, and we can say now radio chatter
because we're on the radio. So this radio chatter that
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a trade of disgruntled, malcontent wide receiver Tyreek Hill is
a very real possibility, very real possibility. The cheetah who
famously announced his departure from the Dolphins at the end
of last season, only to be caught surprise, you're back
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and the Vortex have sucked. They're in Miami. So there's
some noise that the Dolphins are going to try to
facilitate a trade and they're going to ask Tyreek Hill
to try to rework his contract to accommodate a team
that would be willing to acquire him. So let us
discuss the question how much truth is there in the
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Dolphins Tyreek Hill trade rumors? Then how much truth is
there in that? So I've got Cosmos, Whole Foods and
Penn and Teller, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna make your Babushka's favorite tuna
fish salad. And I don't know if your babushka has
a favorite tuna fish salad, but if she does, she's
gonna make it. So number why what said?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Number?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Why? The truth? How much truth is there? This is
the naked truth. It is the naked truth. Tyreek Hill
is finished in Miami. Dun skis cooked. Take it, it's
all over right, stick a fork in, and whatever kind
of cliche you want to use here. We've seen this
movie before. In fact, we saw this movie last year
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with Devonte Adams who was sending these vague comments out
with the Raiders and then ended up getting traded to
the Jets. How that workout? So this movie is a repeat.
The names have changed a little bit, the story is
the same. You got a big name, wide out, big
money wide out, who's still living off the brand. Got
to live off the brand, right, living off the reputation.
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But the reality of the situation, Tyreek Hill, the last
time he had a one hundred yard game in the
NFL was over a year ago. Holy Cheetah Batman, Yes,
a year. You could have grown a beard, you could
have raised a child from conception. You could have turned
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to the Cosmos, the space time Odyssey, and you could
have watched Earth's orbit for a year. Since the last
time Tyreek Hill cracked the one hundred yard barrier, it's
been now over a year and Tyreek also has a
nice fat salary of thirty six million dollars. Good for him,
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the way he's playing over the last year, Tyreek Hill.
That is bank robbery, bank robbers, it really is. I mean,
Dolphins the one they've got the gun to their head
on this one. They gave him the contract man, so
they they've got to do something sooner than later. If
you're the Dolphin, you know you should have, could have
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would have traded Tyreek Hill. We advise you yet again
the counsel of the Overnight not listen to bad job
by the Miami Dolphins. They think they're smarter than everyone else.
You could have traded Tyreek Hill in February. You could
have traded him in March. You could have worked out
agreement in April before the draft, and instead here we
are in September and nothing. Who goofed? I've got to
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know now the Chiefs and Steelers, as you might have suspected,
are being tossed around as the most likely suitors, the
most likely suitors for Tyreek Hill. Now, if I was
the New England Patriots, I would be attempting to acquire
the promise Hills washed up though. See that's the thing,
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like if you're getting the good Tyreek Hill, Okay, and
there's that dead count dead cat bounce, where if he
goes to a new team, he might play well for
a week or two or something like that, but the
teams he's an acquired taste with the amount of money
he's making. You look around the NFL, and the Steelers
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and the Chiefs are the most likely because the Steelers
they're going for it. They're all excited because they looked
pretty good against the Jets on offense. Their defense was
all messed up, and so the Steelers and the Chiefs
are like hyenas and they're waiting for the carcass to
fully rot and then they're going to go in and
have a nice meal, and Kansas City could celebrate Union
Tour and everyone's feeling giddy and all that. The Chiefs
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need some help on offense the way they played in
the opener against the Chargers. But there's sound of them
right there. But buyer beware though it is buyer beware right.
It's the old falling star thing we talk about that
don't let a falling star fall on you, and that
is the person of of Tyreek Hill at this particular point. Now,
the speed not the same. He's still fast beat me
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in a race. I'm guessing he could beat you. So
he's still fast. It's just not the same. The big
plays are drying up. And that's the reason you have him.
You're not having him because he's Prince Charming Tyreek Kill
on your roster. It's not because he's gonna win some
community award for being a good person. Not at all.
The big plays drying up. It's got the name. You
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got the name, Tyreek Kill. That's a good name. It's
smoke without the fire. It's smoke without the fire. And
this is how it ends for the top level receivers
in the NFL. You start getting shuttled around from team
to team to team. They all think they're irreplaceable, every
one of them. Then eventually reality comes slapping them across
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the face. There's just another jersey guy that can go
somewhere else and sell some merch and all that, and
the next guy comes along. And that's the way it
goes all right now, Page two. So it has been
dogpile time for the Miami Dolphins, and we stay with
the theme of the hour as we love bad football
makes for good talk Radio. Former NFL head coach for
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multiple teams, the Jets and the Bills and Gas bag
Rex Ryan. He called Mike McDaniel, the head coach of
the Miami football team. He called them quote nerd boy
and said that the Dolphins are soft across the board.
So again nerd boy, and the Dolphins are soft across
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the board. So the question is where are you at
on this one? So it is certainly great theater. It
is wonderful television to have a very strong opinion. And
I ran it through the light detector and no lies
were detected. There was no light detected here. The Dolphins
are a hot mess. Now we know that everyone knows that, right,
(30:57):
and they play football like they're on vacation. I went
back and I watched because I'm a loser, so I
was flipping around early on Sunday and I didn't focus
too much on the Dolphin game because it wasn't very competitive.
I went back and watched some of the clips that
are online. I was like, Wow, they look like they're
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in vacation mode. Is what they look like, right, Instead
of blocking and tackling the Dolphins, it's like coconuts, hammocks
and palm trees is what they were focused in on.
That's their identity. And Mike McDaniel not exactly Bill Parcells
or some of those old school coaches that just ooze
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confidence and the adult in the room right the whistle
and the scowl. There is none of that with the
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel looks like the kind of guy
you'd go up to it Whole Foods because he makes
a mean charcuterie board. And you want advice on how
to make a charcuterie board. And you say, you look
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like the kind of guy that knows to make a
good charcuteri board, and McDaniel says, yes, I do know
how to make a good charcotery board. I'll help you
out on that, and then I'll get you a salad.
But not just any salad. I'm gonna get your chickapee
salad because that's a good salad. I know how to
make that. So you'll get the charcuterie board and the
chickapea salad. You're good to go. However, the problem is
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in the locker room. People smell weakness. They do, especially
alpha people smell weaknesses right these They smell that's weakness,
and they take advantage of weakness here, and so you're
trying to create a team that has machismo and that's
not his jam, right, that's not what he does. McDaniel
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is the epitome of the hipster coach. And when you're
the hipster coach, you take the good, which is the
play calling, the x's and o's, and you have to
take the bad. And when things go bad, that's when
it goes next level turbo time. It goes turbo time.
It's like he's one of those dudes you see at
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the park who's sitting cross legged in the park and
he's like vaping lavender and then he goes like hugs
a tree and you can't really have that as your
head coach. And then when he's like, instead of drinking Gatorad,
he's drinking kombucha tea, and that's it. I mean, it
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just needs to smash people. It's not smashing mount football football.
It's about violence, it's confrontation. It's about intimidation, and that
is not it. The Dolphins, they're out there looking like
they just got back from a long weekend yoga retreat.
They flew down to Costa Rica and they were hanging
out of a hot yoga retreat somewhere out in the jungle.
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There and Rex Ryan. Now, say what you will about
Rex and we've said a lot about Rex Ryan over
the years. His brother actually worked here, Rob Ryan, who
always looks like he's pregnant. But Rob Ryan was a
weekend talk show host for a little bit. And Rex Ryan,
who you know, he's got the foot fetish low heard
all that stuff, but you got you gotta give him
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credit where credit is due, right, He understands toughness. The
defenses he coached with the Ravens and with the Bills
and the Jets, they did have an edge to them.
They did. They scared some people. Mike McDaniel Miami Dolphins,
just in general his football team. It appears most of
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the time they get out physical. They do. They get
out competed, so out competed out physical on the regular okay,
on the regular teams, just do not. They don't feel
any extra pressure that there's no respect factor there. If
you will, and Rex is right. Players smell that weakness
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in the Miami Dolphin locker room and they don't respect
the coach and they don't fear him. It's bad combination.
It's playing out right now. It's fine when everything's great
and you're you're winning and you're running up the score
and all that, but right now Miami is like like
soft tofu the Miami Dolphins, and you're supposed to be ribbi,
real fatty Ribi and there's soft tofu and mc daniels
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over there, he's like, I can fix this. Don't worry.
What are you gonna do, coach. I'll tell you what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna sprinkle chia seeds right on
top of the playbook. And there we go. Just put
some chia seeds on top, and I don't understand why
the players are not responding. These are great chia seeds,
really good. All right, final point. We go now to
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Indianapolis and a viral SoundBite Zavin Howard, defensive back of
the Indianapolis Colts and a former Dolphin who's hanging out
with the Colts. As we said there now, he came
right out and said the quiet part out loud following
the blowout, blow out, blowout victory over the Miami football
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team is former team, and he said, hey, listen, this
was our plan. The plan was rather simple. If you
take away to a tongue of iloa, first read option,
if he has no first read, he goes into panic
mode is what he does, right, Those are his words,
Those are his words. He said. Once we took away
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that first read, Zavon Howard said it was panic mode
after that close quote. So question, does the Colts defensive
back Xavon Howard his criticism of his former quarterback to
a tongue of Iloa going into panic mode? Does it
pass the eyeball test? So I'm nodding my head, Yes
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it does. In perfect vision, absolutely perfect vision, twenty twenty vision.
This is to his soft underbelly. It is. It is
the flaw in the thing of a jig. And the
fact that the Dolphins paid him a big contract just
shows you the complete systemic disc function of the Miami
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Dolphin organization. Like the whole thing with Tyreek Hill, Like
do they have a general manager? Is there someone that's
a grown up in the Miami Dolphins organization? Holy crap?
So they paid to a Now they didn't give him
the biggest contract in NFL history. It's a tremendous holly
overpay for what they're getting and we've seen it for years.
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His whole entire setup as an NFL quarterback is catch it.
One read boom, just like that, balls out real quick,
rat of tad tat. Now if not yipity yip, you
get the yips, you get the yips, right, that's what
you get. And so there's this old baseball movie way
(37:43):
way long ago called Major League, and it's really unfortunate.
The Wolkesters don't like it because it's about a baseball
team named the Cleveland Indians, so they get very offended.
But there was famous scene in that movie. There was
a player named Pedro Serrano and could just absolutely crush
fastballs just to the moon, right to the just killed
(38:03):
the fastball. And and then what happened was after that,
well they changed it up a little bit. So for
twoa he can crush fastballs like Sorano from Major League
Meeting those scripted one time throws really good. If you
give him a curveball or a breaking ball, he swings
out of his shoes right, he's way too fast. That
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goes fly in one direction, the helmet goes spinning the
other direction, and that's it. He looks helpless. And so
the Colts they threw him a steady diet of breaking pitches,
and so let's see if he can hit the breaking
ball and he couldn't now Zam and Howard spilled the tea.
He did the rooster. He walked like a rooster with
(38:45):
his chest out, was very excited about that. He spilled
the tea. And that's the scouting report. It's like people
are like, well, you shouldn't have said that. Why the
chances of the Coltson Dolphins meeting again are almost zero
this year, right unless they meet in the playoffs, which
is highly unlikely. And everyone and their mother knows. That's
the scouting report on Tua. Step one, you smother the
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first option. Step two, Tua, just wait for him to panic,
and that's it. Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato, get
rid of the football. It's not rocket science. It's not
that hard.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
To do it is hard, but to know what's going
on is not that difficult. Like that's kind of out
there in the open. And when that happens, when the
aforementioned happens there, the whole Miami offense falls down like
a house of cards. Right. They're built around that one rhythm,
that one trick pony, and once people have seen the trick,
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they don't want to pay to go watch the pony again.
They don't want to see that. When it's working, it
looks brilliant. You can run up the score in the
Denver Broncos like they did a while back. When it's not,
you suddenly realize there's nothing else there. There's absolutely nothing
else there. It's like watching Penn and Teller on that
show fool Us when they have a really crappy magician
(40:04):
on there just for giggles and the magician can't get
the rabbit to come out of the hat and you're like, man,
that's embarrassing, and it's well, it's an amateur magician. You're like,
give them a break there. But they're just standing there.
They've got their goofy gloves and their top hat and
it looked like just the country bumpkin. It's just embarrassing.
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So that's Tua. When he doesn't have the first read,
that's it. It's it's not new, and it also is
in Big Games it shows up. He gets tight took
a syndrome, chronic case of tight took a syndrome in
Big Games and Miami I like that they're still pretending
that this is not the case. And so Tyreek Hill
will be traded by the trade deadline. And I think
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late October, so he'll be gone and you gotta move
on from tour, right, you got to try to wiggle
out of that contract and read the fine prints. Even
get on, get away from Tua. They're all going to
be gone. The coach will be gone, the quarterback will
be gone, the wide receiver will be gone. Everyone's gone.
You're gone, You're gone, You're gone. It's the reverse of
the Oprah. You get a car, you get a car.
You get a pink slip. You get a pink slip,
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You get a pink slip.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Here we go. Fuck it's Mallar. How about that?
Speaker 2 (41:18):
To the third degree?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
This is one big gets graled, all right, Googleloo.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
After the Bengals win over the Browns on Sunday, Jamar
Chase told the media, worship my defense right now?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Uh Ben?
Speaker 8 (41:35):
Last year, since he's defense was a huge problem that
caused them to miss the playoffs. Were you encouraged by
what you saw against Cleveland?
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Well, no, the Browns actually moved. They had over three
hundred yards of offense. I only scored sixteen points and
all that that's a great trickeration move is what that is? Well,
our offense, you realized the Bengals offense in that game
had I think they had less than a hundred and
fifty total yards of offense. So of course you're not
(42:02):
gonna bring up look at but worship my offense. No,
until I see more, I'm not going there. The Browns
had opportunities to score they affed up. That is some
creative spin job by the ben Gals.
Speaker 8 (42:14):
Next number one overall pick, cam Ward made his debut
for the Titans and a loss against the Broncos. The
general consensus after the game was that Ward was impressive
but was let down by his coaching staff and his teammates.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Ben do agree. No, I think he was sacked six times.
Most of those were not you know, you got to
get rid of the ball the fun there's a sweet
spot there. So the sacks, you can't blame all that
on his teammates. You got to know when to get
rid of the ball. And the receivers I was flipping over.
They seemed like they were dropping passes on a semi
regular basis. That was an issue. But no, cam Ward
(42:48):
let's hold the offense. It's everyone else's fault but him.
Speaker 8 (42:50):
Next, Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Bucks needed a
last minute touchdown to come away with the victory against
the division rival Falcons. Do you think Atlanta could actually
challenge them for the division crown? Yes, because I don't
think Tampa's all that could. I don't think any one
of that division's all that good. Carolina blows, New Orleans blows,
so it's either Atlanta or Tampa, one of those two teams.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
So I think it'll be neck and neck all the
way through. How did we go? You pass that? As
they went, Oh my god, I won. I've won, blind Scott,
I won.
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Speaker 1 (43:28):
That's no imaging. Let's welcome in our contestants for the game.
We have Jed, who fled? Who's gonna play? Maus amount
of money? Hello, Jed? Welcome.
Speaker 6 (43:36):
I don't know what the news is, but I've always
got my thinking head on.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
All right, who do you wanna? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Who do you want to partner with Cooper? I just
said my thinking caps on just a Gooper all right?
And uh, boy, blind Scott, Yes, blind Scott, you want
to play maus amount of money?
Speaker 6 (43:51):
Yes? Yeah, partner with you.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Ben. You're my hero. I'm your hero. I thought I
thought Fred Tutcher was your hero. I didn't realize I
was your hero.
Speaker 6 (44:00):
It he likes me that much.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Anyone trying to win him back? So you okay, we'll
just send him money, all right, very does well? What
are the keatedgies? Quickly? Coople's I picked the first category.
Speaker 8 (44:09):
Now this is the easy e addition, he would have
been sixty one years old on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (44:13):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (44:13):
The categories are boys in the hood, still talking, nobody move,
and creeping crawl.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
All right, and hold on, I say here, let me
punch him in and I'll punch him in. Jed, Which
one do you want?
Speaker 6 (44:27):
Jaed?
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Eric right, I ain't no comptent Buster duve, he's a
child the hero. Uh just give me that boy.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Nobody move, I'll give you creep crawl all right, creeper
crawl all right?
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Scott? Which one do you want? Scott? I'll take easy
I'm taking the tribute to medication.
Speaker 8 (44:45):
There is no there is no Do you want boys
in the hood still talking or nobody move?
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Yeah? You think the hood? You think Blind Scott? Yes,
all right, very good, gentlemen, Do not hang up, do
not make sure you feed them down a right, we
will have that's the matchup. It's Malar's Mountain of Money
in its entirety. We'll get to that and we will
do it next.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 6 (45:25):
Not?
Speaker 1 (45:25):
All let's do this. Here we go. We welcome in
our contestants. We have Blind Scott who teamed up with me,
Jed who fled with Cooper Loop from the swamp lands
of Florida, and Jed, you were on the air first,
so you will go with Coople Loop. It is the
Easy E edition. Which category did you pick? There? Creep
(45:46):
and crawl? All right, creep and crawl? Very good? All right, Jed.
Speaker 8 (45:51):
These athletes were on wild card teams that went to
win it all.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Do you know what a wildcard team is?
Speaker 8 (45:58):
Jeded forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Uh,
Broncos quarterback that looks like a horse, Yes, big poppy
from the Red Sox. Yes, gap tooth defensive lineman from
the Giants.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (46:17):
Uh, crazy haired safety from the Steelers from the back
of the day. Yes, let's uh, we're gonna skip ahead.
This guy had the last name of a fish. He
was on the Angels team that actually.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Won it all.
Speaker 8 (46:32):
Jim getting No, you're close, No with.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
The different letter, We'll skip it. Uh. This guy was
a yes, yes, yes, got. This guy was a lot
of time, way too much salmon, A lot of salmon.
You took a long time with samon.
Speaker 6 (46:56):
I was playing the call game, dude, do you have any.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
Jim Salmon dancing around that? Okay, Blind Scott, you're not
going to sabotage this game, right Scott. You're in it
to win it. Yes, No, I'm ready. Let's show. Okay,
these athletes you pick boys in the hood, which is
so appropriate, and you think North end of Boston, you
think the hood. All right, here we go. These athletes
are all from south central Los Angeles. Blind Scott, forty
(47:22):
five seconds on the clock. Ball Piers, He's not he's
from Inglewood. No, we're not forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way and here we go. He had
a triple double every game during an NBA season for
Oklahoma City. James Hardy, No, I play with the Clippers,
(47:43):
all right, legion to Boom, defensive mac, defensive back. He's
got a big mouth. He's on television on Amazon. Okay,
Orioles first basement in the nineteen eighties, black guy hit
a lot of home run switch hitter with Calkin. He
was the other star of the Orioles. That would be
(48:04):
Freddie Murcury. Okay, all right, you're done, get out of here.
You you, Dennis, Dennis and Ramonti. You there, Dennis, Dennis,
you're going to the bench. Dennis first basically the nineteen eighties,
Orioles in the nineties. Yeah, that's one hundred porter, all right,
wide receiver. Let's see here. No, the greatest female tennis
(48:27):
player of all time, the greatest female tennis player of
all time, African American Jerry Right, I said, the greatest
tennis player of all time. Oh I'm sorry, I'm glad
(48:48):
that we have all this time. Oh, thank you. All right, Well,
we got one hundred. We got a hundred?
Speaker 6 (48:54):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (48:55):
Yeah? You got a hundred points? All right, Yo, Dennis,
I'm glad I went to the bench. Good job in
my my you're my closer. Dennis. You're gonna get about seconds?
Can I be the I stop you're bitching? All right,
let's go, Dennis. You what do we I guess we
get to go again? Right because we all get a
hundred on so we have nobody move or still talking?
Which one do you want? Dennis? Mom man? Nobody moved,
(49:18):
Nobody move? All right, Dennis is in VERMONTI just how's
your home? Your you have no guard. It's just a
little small talk.
Speaker 6 (49:30):
All right.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
We'll put forty five seconds in the cock of these
athletes own records that have stood a long time. Are
you ready, Dennis, I'm ready? All right? Yeah, the here
we go. The NFL's all time leading rusher. Yes, the
greatest wide receiver of all time? Right, yeah, Yankee player
(49:53):
nicknamed Joelton. His nickname was Jolton with a J played
in the sixties. Yes, the greatest picture of all time.
The top pitcher in baseball gets this award with his
name on it. Uh, ship, that's not quite the award.
(50:16):
If they got that, how about this nickname night train?
Nickname night Train.
Speaker 8 (50:30):
I don't think you quite made it up to the one. Yeah,
you got some of them, cy Young, is the award
name that you're looking for? Yours was more interesting, though
your award?
Speaker 6 (50:41):
And if he didn't get the point, no more question.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Dick Dick Lane. Dick Lane was a night train nick
Dick Lane's real name is night Scott.
Speaker 8 (50:51):
Do you want to run up the score here? Nobody
Scott them Scott gone.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Yea, he told you Blood Scott, Jed Jed Coop call you.
Speaker 8 (51:01):
You picked Cooby Peter because it was just on the phone.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
He was not he said, Freddie Mercury was the answer.
I mean, come on, he wasn't even trying. That was
a stupid, cheesy radio bit by Blind Scott. What he said,
are you telling no no, you can talk me?
Speaker 6 (51:17):
He answered not.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
He answered the word note he did.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Yeah. But there's a lot of layers of who to
blame on that. The good news is we don't have
to take Blind Scott's call the rest of the show.
He's out of the show now, that's great, right. He's
been on the air and he ruined the whole thing,
and that's the way to go.
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So our lead this hour to begin the night. We
start out from sweet home Chicago, right there, the shores
of Lake Michigan. Iconic Soldier Field, so iconic the Bears
can't wait to leave there and go to a new
stadium out in the suburbs. But for now they're still
playing at Soldier Field. They'll be there for a couple
(02:05):
more years until they build that new shiny TAIJ Mahall
Stadium and then gouge people to go to the stadium.
That's the way businesses done in the NFL anyway. So
Soldier Field, that was the stage right there with the
skyline of Chicago on one side, and then you had
the lake on the other, Lake Michigan there and the
(02:26):
final act of the opening weekend the NFL twenty twenty
five season, Vikings and Bears and NFC North slaber knocker,
slaber knocker. Now, this was an island game. You know,
we love our island games. We love island games. So
if you were watching, you likely know what happens. It happened.
If not, maybe if we were watching, you might not
(02:47):
have paid attention. This game's over. Perhaps you missed it,
but don't worry. We watched so you would not have to.
In a very shaky beginning, there very wobbly Bobby beginning
for JJ McCarthy, the rookie, even red shirt rookie, red
shirt rookie JJ McCarthy, who then in the fourth quarter
(03:12):
went bonkers. He had not one but two fourth quarter
touchdown passes, ran for another score in his long awaited
NFL debut, the former first round draft pick. The Vikings
snapped out of the doldrums dreadful performance and they end
up getting and when you'll only remember the outcome, you
won't remember how bad the game was from the Minnesota
(03:33):
side of things for three quarters. But they end up
winning it on a big push twenty seven to twenty
four over the Bears. So that's good for the Vikings
for our purposes, though, the better story is in the
losing locker room. So that is where we are going
to go, Sweet home Chicago Bear football right there. Holy crap.
So the debut of Ben Johnson as the Chicago Bears
(03:58):
head coach, the big coach who's spent time as the
Lions offensive coordinator, and that's where he built his legacy,
and so many teams wanted Ben Johnson to be the coach,
and here's his opportunity in Chicago. And he inherited the
former number one overall PERU in Caleb who Caleb Williams,
(04:20):
who is bounced all over the place in college and
now in the NFL. Looks like he should be bouncing
somewhere else the way he played in this game. So
with the better story being in the losing locker room,
let us discuss the question for the esteem panel, how
did you grade Ben Johnson's debut as a coach in
the Windy City. So I've got utility, Bill, the coasters,
(04:45):
and hearse, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we're going to make the Baba Ganooshe. We're gonna
make it early. We're gonna make the Baba ganooge here
early on. So my first thought here as we connect
all these things together, my first thought is, and I
wrote this down, how do you grade Ben Johnson on
the Mallor report card? How do you grade his debut
(05:06):
as coach of the Bears? Ben Johnson the Malor report card?
I wrote down. I didn't write down an A. I
wrote down, s O b Now, not what you think,
not what you I wrote down, Same old Bears. That's
what I wrote. You probably thought it meant something else,
Same old Bears. That's right. They dominated for three quarters.
(05:26):
We're really dominated for two quarters defensively part of a third.
The big interception there they did control. The Temple was
a low scoring game. Minnesota could not get out of
their own way. And yet when it was time to
finish the opponent off the kill shot and put them
(05:48):
six feet under. What happened? Not good. Chicago decided to
slide into their snuggie. The Bears there and they went
into hibernation mode, and it burned them. It burned them
that there is no such thing as momentum. The Bears
had all the momentum, should have won the game. Minnesota
had no momentum. Why would the Bears give up momentum?
(06:11):
It makes no sense because it's not real, you dummies, anyway,
so the Chicago Bears hired Ben Johnson, who is on
the pulse of He's at the forefront of modern offensive
NFL football. That was the selling point of Ben Johnson, right,
slick agent, the whole thing. And so there we go.
(06:33):
Instead of the next gen, which is all the nerd rage,
the next gen and all that, this was the dormant Bears,
and it was a Bear jamboree, a country bear jamboree. Here.
Every time they had a chance, and there were multiple
opportunities to deliver the knockout punch and just end the game,
(06:53):
they tapped out, I can't do it, cannot do it,
not gonna happen. Instead, they landed, They landed some little jabs.
They couldn't land the haymaker, could not land the haymaker,
and Ben Johnson's team pulling punches, which you generally don't
want to see. Listen, I have no skin in the game.
I'm not a Bears fan or anything like that. But
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the power went out and they forgot to pay their
utility bill, and then he needed it most. They're late
in the game, just make one or two plays who
win the game, and they had nothing, so they forgot
to pay the utility bill. There at Soldier Field, the
power went out. And this is not just a loss,
mind you, this is two losses for the Chicago Bears,
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because not only lose at home, but you lose a
divisional game in what figures to be a pretty close
nip and tuck division. So now you've really lost two
games at home and in the division for the Bears.
That's a double gut punch, is what that is. And
this is supposed to be the new Bears, right, the
(07:54):
new Bears, all that crap that we read and heard about.
Oh it's going to be different now, Oh yeah, it's
gonna be different. Okay, So the job was to protect
home field advantage Soldier Field. Instead, you hand the w
to the Vikings. Because as much as we're gonna rip
the offense with the Chicago Bears, the defense also what
happened there to the Chicago Bears defense. I guess Dennis
(08:18):
Allen's back to being a moron after we were really
just kissing his ass on the TV brought toes, Oh
Dennis Allen's defense and all that stuff for three quarters
and then in the fourth not so much. Now as
for the inevitable, what are you doing. It's it's only
one game. Why do you have all these strong opinions
(08:38):
after one game? You know that crowd spoiler alert, spoil
Guess what, Guess what. It's a daily talk show. I am.
I asked to give my opinion as things unfold. They
don't ask me to wait to the end of the year.
I've told management, I said, listen, why don't you just
pay me a lot of money. I'll have no opinions.
I'll be boring. There's a lot of people that do
(08:59):
this that are very boring, don't know a strong opinion,
And I'll just do that and then just give me
like a big bag of money. In the end, I'll
never get an opinion wrong. It'll be wonderful, it'll be glorious.
It's great. But this is all we have to judge
the Bears on. All we have is one game, one
game to judge Ben Johnson on and the other factor.
And I noticed this watching the way the Bears were
(09:21):
throwing the football around, like the margin for error in
that style of offense for Ben Johnson and the Chicago
Bears is razor thin. And it's a pass happy offense.
That's what they do. They incorporate the running game via
short passes and all that stuff. But you're playing outdoors.
You're not playing in a dome like you were with
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the Detroit Lions. You've got that win from Lake Michigan.
Swirling around when it gets later in the year becomes
a big problems like a blender goes swirling around. You've
got that to deal with. You've also got the occasional
dormant weather, whether it's fog or snow when you get
late in the year, assuming you even have a mathematic
chance of winning those games and having them mean something.
(10:03):
If you're the Chicago Bears and you're struggling in September
weather and I mean just you think about what's gonna
be like down the line in Chicago, and it's like wow,
and and so that's why you can't call it progress.
They lost the game. They rode the vomit comet and
they crashed it into the side of the building there. Man,
(10:26):
it was bad. It's a piecemeal effort to close the game.
Did they think they were gonna play with a running
clock or something like that, I don't know. Well, here's
Ben Johnson, the man of the hour. Here is the
coach of the Chicago football team, pointing out the key
to wins and losses.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Disappointing way to start the season there for us. You
think you can have a seventeen to six lead, that's right, yes,
go the way it did there in the fourth quarter.
You know, we said going into week one that the
team that would make the least number of mistakes would
win the game, and unfortunately we were on the wrong
that we made too many there late in the game.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Myself included Yeah, So the coaches always have to include
themselves in that. You can never say to the players.
You always have to say, well, I'm part of that
when you most coaches are like, well, no, I'm not.
That's These are the idiots that screwed up. I didn't
screw up. They screwed up. They have to up. I
had a good game plan, they didn't listen. It's a
bad job by the so shame on them. The new
shiny offense right looked looked shiny for but ten of
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ten to start the game for Caleb Williams. And then
and then things started popping up that weren't supposed to
pop up.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
There.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
The Bears teased you, they gave some hope there were
people excited that, oh this is great, Bears are going
to get off to the one and oh start and
then they pulled the rug right from underneath you. And
Caleb Williams is a debut in the new offense. Not
a lot of fireworks, and for the balance of the
game there it was more like a sparkler, not explosive pyrotechnic.
It was more of a sparkler and it fizzled out
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before the game ended. Bad job by him, all right? Now, secondly,
speak him that wide angle ents wide angle, Lentz. What
did you make of Caleb williams maiden voyage as the
new Chicago Bears offense gets put into place? So what
do you think? So it was a tune that topped
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the Hot one hundred back in the day from the
Coasters called yackety yac and the song goes yackaty act,
don't talk back. In this case it was yackety act
don't fight back. That's the Bears. They just they had
the lead. The Vikings said we want this. The Vikings
took it and the Bears were but that's what they did.
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And Caleb Williams, it turns out he's multitasking. He's actually
moonlighting Caleb Williams as an elevator operator. I know they
don't have many of those left. I know if you
go down to the Hotel del Cornado there in San Diego,
they have elevator operators. And so he was leaving the
elevator door open. He hit the button that says leave
doors open, and he left it wide open. He said,
come on in, come on in Minnesota, Vikings. I'll give
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you a ride right to the penthouse where there's serving w's.
You can have one. Knock yourself out. So here is
Caleb Williams, a man that always has the best looking
nails on the football field, and here is him talking
about a bunch of gibberish about this, that and the other. Mentality.
We'll take all this that mentality.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Mentality, have something that we you know, that we preach.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And does that work it out?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
And I'm not it's not a play call thing, it's
not anything like that.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's just being able to.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Go out there and execute the players that are called
and be able to you know, executeim at a high level.
And that's something that that we take pride in. And
you know today that didn't happen, and we're going to
get back to it.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
The good news is Caleb went out, he found in
all night parlor. He got a manny and a petty
after the game, so he's feeling a little pressed, but
he got the manny in the petty, so he's in
good shape. All right. Now, How bad was Caleb to
allow the Vikings to come back, right, because it's not.
You can't just come back and win game. Let's set
the team sucks. Remember we talked about this in the
Sunday Night game where the Bills cannot mathematically come back
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without the Thumbo bug on the rug by Derrick Henry. Well,
in this game, it was just consistent suck in the
second and third quarters where the Bears had opportunities. Talked
about that to close the game out, for example, I
went back, I did the Malard math. In the second
and third quarter, Caleb Williams attempted seventeen passes. He completed
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less than fifty percent of them. He averaged less than
five yards per attempt. He was horrible, and so what
was missing? Well, after a minute long deliberation on the
difference between the offense the Lions had with Ben Johnson
and the offense we saw from the Chicago Bears. The
thing that was missing, the secret sauce for Ben Johnson
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and the Lions was the yards after the catch of
the yak at the yac and they didn't have that right.
Detroit would turn and he's still I didn't do it
much against Green Bay, but they'll turn that. Those little
swing passes and the big chunky Peter peanut butter plays
and all that good stuff you'll stick to your mouth
kind of peanut butter. Hard to defend. The Bears. Now,
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they did have a couple of big plays, but not
enough and more smooth peanut butter. Smooth peanut butter, creamy,
easy to swallow and no bite, there's really no bite
to it. And a few extra yards. But it was
mostly catch and crash is what it was, all right now,
final thought. So we go now to the winning locker
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room where it looked pretty bleak. It looked pretty bleak
for a long stretch of time, but in the end,
the Minnesota Vikings came back. And so give me your
reaction to JJ McCarthy in his first start with the Vikings,
Is the glass half full or is the glass half empty?
(15:56):
On the first go round of JJ McCarthy. So, what
a juxtaposition. Why don't we start with that? What a
juxtaposition because the first three quarters of this game, I
was texting some friends and we were going back and
forth and say, Wow, this is one of the worst
performances I can remember, Like, this guy looks like he'd
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never played football before. Holy crap. You could literally see
him urinating down his leg. It was wild. And so
you go from that where he was having a nice
meal at the Shaky's Pizza parlor and you know, just
the sticky floors, kind of the low quality pizza, the
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mojo potatoes, and the picture of flat soda had all
that going for him, and he's just sitting there, not
even close to looking like he knows what he's doing
as an NFL quarterbacks. Like, wow, it was like he
was living in Pukesville. And how bad was he? I'm
glad you asked. So the first three quarters of an
NF game, JJ McCarthy was at seven of twelve passing,
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which is not good average less than five yards per
pass attempt, had fifty six total yards passing through three
quarters of the game. One interception that was a pick
six to give the Chicago Bears an extra score a
passer rating of thirty five point four going to the
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fourth quarter. That was the passer ready, So that means
that they they being the Minnesota Vikings, would have been
better off calling up a hearse and holding a mock
funeral procession for the duke and burying the duke, putting
the duke, putting the duke down in the ground, right,
and then just ordering some tombstone pizza, and that's it,
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see you later. Because the fun fact, and we will
use this from time to time, if McCarthy had just
spiked the ball every single time he had snapped the ball,
if he'd spiked the ball every single time into the ground,
his passer rating would have been thirty nine point six. Statistically,
he was actually worse by attempting to pass than if
he had not passed. And it wasn't just bad, It
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was historical bad for McCarthy for three quarters. Like it
was worse than just don't screw up, just kind of
be a game manager. That's the baseline. Like the Vikings
essentially played three quarters of an NFL game with a
mannequin at quarterback. That's what they had, and it didn't
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matter that the Bears still left the door open. We
talked about this, Caleb Williams leaving the door open, the
opportunity there, and they took advantage of it. Now, Kevin
O'Connell is the Viking head coach. I'm sure he's not
going to say anything negative about the first three quarters
of JJ McCarthy. Instead, we'll focus on the end of
the game. Is that correct, coach.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
JJ McCarthy. For him to make some of the plays
he did, I told him at halftime, you are going
to bring us back to win this game. And the
look in his eye was fantastic. The best thing is
just a belief I felt from the team unit and
ultimately that doesn't get done without him in the second half,
two passing touchdowns and then the critical rushing touchdown.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You smell that. Yeah, bull crap, that is bull crap.
That is hot bull crap by Kevin O'Connell. Holy crap,
what a dummy? I told him. Yeah, Is that why
he went out after halftime and threw a pick six
in the third quarter? Is that why, coach? Because you
had told him, let's make it even worse, let's dig
(19:37):
a bigger hole. Why not? Why not? Oh man, Well
he did light it up in the fourth quarter, but
man alive. It was like a cheat code there late.
But the first three quarters Greek tragedy goes from it.
We talk about a rewrite. It goes from a Greek
tragedy where everyone's dead the stage is covered in blood
to a Shakespearean comedy. All's well, that ends well like
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that there, and unfortunately there is a problem. You cannot
just live like that in the NFL, obviously, right. You
can't stink for forty five minutes and then expect to
play Superman in the fourth quarter. That generally doesn't happen.
It's not Disneyland, it's not like that, and it's not sustainable.
So good luck. We'll give him credit for the comeback
(20:24):
hell of a rally there for the Vikings to come
back and win it. But the narrative, i'm sure will
be praising JJ McCarthy and how great he was and
the resiliency and all that stuff. To me, though, you
cannot ignore the first three quarters of the game that
he was at the salad bar and he was serving
up suck salad and that's what it was. So that's
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a bit of a reality check. I would think he's
a rookie. So yeah, there's gonna be some bumps on
the road and all that, But man, the vikings, if
that's the way it's gonna go, you talk about a
roller coaster situation.
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So our lead this hour, we'll get back to football
and we certainly revisit if you want. Monday night, the
Chicago Bears blew an eleven point lead. They gagged choking Bears,
and they lose to the Minnesota Vikings, who come back
after playing miserable football for three quarters. But our lead
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is from South Beach. That's where our lead is. The
Miami Dolphins. The story that's still bouncing around the echo chamber,
absolutely gutless football by the Miami Dolphins, with the Colts
down thirty to zero to a mediocre Indianapolis Colts team
and Daniel Jones and so the vultures are out circling
(23:58):
around the Miami Dolphins at this point. So if you've
not heard the latest on this, perhaps not not even
not even a full week end of the season, because
this report came out prior to the Monday night game.
There is chatter, and we can say now radio chatter
because we're on the radio. So this radio chatter that
(24:18):
a trade of disgruntled, malcontent wide receiver Tyreek Hill is
a very real possibility, very real possibility. The cheetah who
famously announced his departure from the Dolphins at the end
of last season, only to be caught surprise, you're back
(24:40):
and the Vortex have sucked. They're in Miami. So there's
some noise that the Dolphins are going to try to
facilitate a trade and they're going to ask Tyreek Hill
to try to rework his contract to accommodate a team
that would be willing to acquire him. So let us
discuss the question how much truth is there in the
(25:04):
Dolphins Tyreek Hill trade rumors? Then how much truth is
there in that? So I've got Cosmos, Whole Foods and
Penn and Teller, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna make your Babushka's favorite tuna
fish salad. And I don't know if your babushka has
a favorite tuna fish salad, but if she does, she's
gonna make it. So number why what said?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Number?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Why? The truth? How much truth is there? This is
the naked truth. It is the naked truth. Tyreek Hill
is finished in Miami. Dun skis cooked. Take it, it's
all over right, stick a fork in, and whatever kind
of cliche you want to use here. We've seen this
movie before. In fact, we saw this movie last year
(25:52):
with Devonte Adams who was sending these vague comments out
with the Raiders and then ended up getting traded to
the Jets. How that workout? So this movie is a repeat.
The names have changed a little bit, the story is
the same. You got a big name, wide out, big
money wide out, who's still living off the brand. Got
to live off the brand, right, living off the reputation.
(26:14):
But the reality of the situation, Tyreek Hill, the last
time he had a one hundred yard game in the
NFL was over a year ago. Holy Cheetah Batman, Yes,
a year. You could have grown a beard, you could
have raised a child from conception. You could have turned
(26:38):
to the Cosmos, the space time Odyssey, and you could
have watched Earth's orbit for a year. Since the last
time Tyreek Hill cracked the one hundred yard barrier, it's
been now over a year and Tyreek also has a
nice fat salary of thirty six million dollars. Good for him,
(26:59):
the way he's playing over the last year, Tyreek Hill.
That is bank robbery, bank robbers, it really is. I mean,
Dolphins the one they've got the gun to their head
on this one. They gave him the contract man, so
they they've got to do something sooner than later. If
you're the Dolphin, you know you should have, could have
(27:21):
would have traded Tyreek Hill. We advise you yet again
the counsel of the Overnight not listen to bad job
by the Miami Dolphins. They think they're smarter than everyone else.
You could have traded Tyreek Hill in February. You could
have traded him in March. You could have worked out
agreement in April before the draft, and instead here we
are in September and nothing. Who goofed? I've got to
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know now the Chiefs and Steelers, as you might have suspected,
are being tossed around as the most likely suitors, the
most likely suitors for Tyreek Hill. Now, if I was
the New England Patriots, I would be attempting to acquire
the promise Hills washed up though. See that's the thing,
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like if you're getting the good Tyreek Hill, Okay, and
there's that dead count dead cat bounce, where if he
goes to a new team, he might play well for
a week or two or something like that, but the
teams he's an acquired taste with the amount of money
he's making. You look around the NFL, and the Steelers
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and the Chiefs are the most likely because the Steelers
they're going for it. They're all excited because they looked
pretty good against the Jets on offense. Their defense was
all messed up, and so the Steelers and the Chiefs
are like hyenas and they're waiting for the carcass to
fully rot and then they're going to go in and
have a nice meal, and Kansas City could celebrate Union
Tour and everyone's feeling giddy and all that. The Chiefs
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need some help on offense the way they played in
the opener against the Chargers. But there's sound of them
right there. But buyer beware though it is buyer beware right.
It's the old falling star thing we talk about that
don't let a falling star fall on you, and that
is the person of of Tyreek Hill at this particular point. Now,
the speed not the same. He's still fast beat me
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in a race. I'm guessing he could beat you. So
he's still fast. It's just not the same. The big
plays are drying up. And that's the reason you have him.
You're not having him because he's Prince Charming Tyreek Kill
on your roster. It's not because he's gonna win some
community award for being a good person. Not at all.
The big plays drying up. It's got the name. You
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got the name, Tyreek Kill. That's a good name. It's
smoke without the fire. It's smoke without the fire. And
this is how it ends for the top level receivers
in the NFL. You start getting shuttled around from team
to team to team. They all think they're irreplaceable, every
one of them. Then eventually reality comes slapping them across
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the face. There's just another jersey guy that can go
somewhere else and sell some merch and all that, and
the next guy comes along. And that's the way it
goes all right now, Page two. So it has been
dogpile time for the Miami Dolphins, and we stay with
the theme of the hour as we love bad football
makes for good talk Radio. Former NFL head coach for
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multiple teams, the Jets and the Bills and Gas bag
Rex Ryan. He called Mike McDaniel, the head coach of
the Miami football team. He called them quote nerd boy
and said that the Dolphins are soft across the board.
So again nerd boy, and the Dolphins are soft across
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the board. So the question is where are you at
on this one? So it is certainly great theater. It
is wonderful television to have a very strong opinion. And
I ran it through the light detector and no lies
were detected. There was no light detected here. The Dolphins
are a hot mess. Now we know that everyone knows that, right,
(30:57):
and they play football like they're on vacation. I went
back and I watched because I'm a loser, so I
was flipping around early on Sunday and I didn't focus
too much on the Dolphin game because it wasn't very competitive.
I went back and watched some of the clips that
are online. I was like, Wow, they look like they're
(31:18):
in vacation mode. Is what they look like, right, Instead
of blocking and tackling the Dolphins, it's like coconuts, hammocks
and palm trees is what they were focused in on.
That's their identity. And Mike McDaniel not exactly Bill Parcells
or some of those old school coaches that just ooze
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confidence and the adult in the room right the whistle
and the scowl. There is none of that with the
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel looks like the kind of guy
you'd go up to it Whole Foods because he makes
a mean charcuterie board. And you want advice on how
to make a charcuterie board. And you say, you look
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like the kind of guy that knows to make a
good charcuteri board, and McDaniel says, yes, I do know
how to make a good charcotery board. I'll help you
out on that, and then I'll get you a salad.
But not just any salad. I'm gonna get your chickapee
salad because that's a good salad. I know how to
make that. So you'll get the charcuterie board and the
chickapea salad. You're good to go. However, the problem is
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in the locker room. People smell weakness. They do, especially
alpha people smell weaknesses right these They smell that's weakness,
and they take advantage of weakness here, and so you're
trying to create a team that has machismo and that's
not his jam, right, that's not what he does. McDaniel
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is the epitome of the hipster coach. And when you're
the hipster coach, you take the good, which is the
play calling, the x's and o's, and you have to
take the bad. And when things go bad, that's when
it goes next level turbo time. It goes turbo time.
It's like he's one of those dudes you see at
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the park who's sitting cross legged in the park and
he's like vaping lavender and then he goes like hugs
a tree and you can't really have that as your
head coach. And then when he's like, instead of drinking Gatorad,
he's drinking kombucha tea, and that's it. I mean, it
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just needs to smash people. It's not smashing mount football football.
It's about violence, it's confrontation. It's about intimidation, and that
is not it. The Dolphins, they're out there looking like
they just got back from a long weekend yoga retreat.
They flew down to Costa Rica and they were hanging
out of a hot yoga retreat somewhere out in the jungle.
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There and Rex Ryan. Now, say what you will about
Rex and we've said a lot about Rex Ryan over
the years. His brother actually worked here, Rob Ryan, who
always looks like he's pregnant. But Rob Ryan was a
weekend talk show host for a little bit. And Rex Ryan,
who you know, he's got the foot fetish low heard
all that stuff, but you got you gotta give him
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credit where credit is due, right, He understands toughness. The
defenses he coached with the Ravens and with the Bills
and the Jets, they did have an edge to them.
They did. They scared some people. Mike McDaniel Miami Dolphins,
just in general his football team. It appears most of
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the time they get out physical. They do. They get
out competed, so out competed out physical on the regular okay,
on the regular teams, just do not. They don't feel
any extra pressure that there's no respect factor there. If
you will, and Rex is right. Players smell that weakness
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in the Miami Dolphin locker room and they don't respect
the coach and they don't fear him. It's bad combination.
It's playing out right now. It's fine when everything's great
and you're you're winning and you're running up the score
and all that, but right now Miami is like like
soft tofu the Miami Dolphins, and you're supposed to be ribbi,
real fatty Ribi and there's soft tofu and mc daniels
(35:10):
over there, he's like, I can fix this. Don't worry.
What are you gonna do, coach. I'll tell you what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna sprinkle chia seeds right on
top of the playbook. And there we go. Just put
some chia seeds on top, and I don't understand why
the players are not responding. These are great chia seeds,
really good. All right, final point. We go now to
(35:31):
Indianapolis and a viral SoundBite Zavin Howard, defensive back of
the Indianapolis Colts and a former Dolphin who's hanging out
with the Colts. As we said there now, he came
right out and said the quiet part out loud following
the blowout, blow out, blowout victory over the Miami football
(35:54):
team is former team, and he said, hey, listen, this
was our plan. The plan was rather simple. If you
take away to a tongue of iloa, first read option,
if he has no first read, he goes into panic
mode is what he does, right, Those are his words,
Those are his words. He said. Once we took away
(36:17):
that first read, Zavon Howard said it was panic mode
after that close quote. So question, does the Colts defensive
back Xavon Howard his criticism of his former quarterback to
a tongue of Iloa going into panic mode? Does it
pass the eyeball test? So I'm nodding my head, Yes
(36:40):
it does. In perfect vision, absolutely perfect vision, twenty twenty vision.
This is to his soft underbelly. It is. It is
the flaw in the thing of a jig. And the
fact that the Dolphins paid him a big contract just
shows you the complete systemic disc function of the Miami
(37:01):
Dolphin organization. Like the whole thing with Tyreek Hill, Like
do they have a general manager? Is there someone that's
a grown up in the Miami Dolphins organization? Holy crap?
So they paid to a Now they didn't give him
the biggest contract in NFL history. It's a tremendous holly
overpay for what they're getting and we've seen it for years.
(37:23):
His whole entire setup as an NFL quarterback is catch it.
One read boom, just like that, balls out real quick,
rat of tad tat. Now if not yipity yip, you
get the yips, you get the yips, right, that's what
you get. And so there's this old baseball movie way
(37:43):
way long ago called Major League, and it's really unfortunate.
The Wolkesters don't like it because it's about a baseball
team named the Cleveland Indians, so they get very offended.
But there was famous scene in that movie. There was
a player named Pedro Serrano and could just absolutely crush
fastballs just to the moon, right to the just killed
(38:03):
the fastball. And and then what happened was after that,
well they changed it up a little bit. So for
twoa he can crush fastballs like Sorano from Major League
Meeting those scripted one time throws really good. If you
give him a curveball or a breaking ball, he swings
out of his shoes right, he's way too fast. That
(38:24):
goes fly in one direction, the helmet goes spinning the
other direction, and that's it. He looks helpless. And so
the Colts they threw him a steady diet of breaking pitches,
and so let's see if he can hit the breaking
ball and he couldn't now Zam and Howard spilled the tea.
He did the rooster. He walked like a rooster with
(38:45):
his chest out, was very excited about that. He spilled
the tea. And that's the scouting report. It's like people
are like, well, you shouldn't have said that. Why the
chances of the Coltson Dolphins meeting again are almost zero
this year, right unless they meet in the playoffs, which
is highly unlikely. And everyone and their mother knows. That's
the scouting report on Tua. Step one, you smother the
(39:08):
first option. Step two, Tua, just wait for him to panic,
and that's it. Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato, get
rid of the football. It's not rocket science. It's not
that hard.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
To do it is hard, but to know what's going
on is not that difficult. Like that's kind of out
there in the open. And when that happens, when the
aforementioned happens there, the whole Miami offense falls down like
a house of cards. Right. They're built around that one rhythm,
that one trick pony, and once people have seen the trick,
(39:41):
they don't want to pay to go watch the pony again.
They don't want to see that. When it's working, it
looks brilliant. You can run up the score in the
Denver Broncos like they did a while back. When it's not,
you suddenly realize there's nothing else there. There's absolutely nothing
else there. It's like watching Penn and Teller on that
show fool Us when they have a really crappy magician
(40:04):
on there just for giggles and the magician can't get
the rabbit to come out of the hat and you're like, man,
that's embarrassing, and it's well, it's an amateur magician. You're like,
give them a break there. But they're just standing there.
They've got their goofy gloves and their top hat and
it looked like just the country bumpkin. It's just embarrassing.
(40:25):
So that's Tua. When he doesn't have the first read,
that's it. It's it's not new, and it also is
in Big Games it shows up. He gets tight took
a syndrome, chronic case of tight took a syndrome in
Big Games and Miami I like that they're still pretending
that this is not the case. And so Tyreek Hill
will be traded by the trade deadline. And I think
(40:47):
late October, so he'll be gone and you gotta move
on from tour, right, you got to try to wiggle
out of that contract and read the fine prints. Even
get on, get away from Tua. They're all going to
be gone. The coach will be gone, the quarterback will
be gone, the wide receiver will be gone. Everyone's gone.
You're gone, You're gone, You're gone. It's the reverse of
the Oprah. You get a car, you get a car.
You get a pink slip. You get a pink slip,
(41:09):
You get a pink slip.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Here we go. Fuck it's Mallar. How about that?
Speaker 2 (41:18):
To the third degree?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
This is one big gets graled, all right, Googleloo.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
After the Bengals win over the Browns on Sunday, Jamar
Chase told the media, worship my defense right now?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Uh Ben?
Speaker 8 (41:35):
Last year, since he's defense was a huge problem that
caused them to miss the playoffs. Were you encouraged by
what you saw against Cleveland?
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Well, no, the Browns actually moved. They had over three
hundred yards of offense. I only scored sixteen points and
all that that's a great trickeration move is what that is? Well,
our offense, you realized the Bengals offense in that game
had I think they had less than a hundred and
fifty total yards of offense. So of course you're not
(42:02):
gonna bring up look at but worship my offense. No,
until I see more, I'm not going there. The Browns
had opportunities to score they affed up. That is some
creative spin job by the ben Gals.
Speaker 8 (42:14):
Next number one overall pick, cam Ward made his debut
for the Titans and a loss against the Broncos. The
general consensus after the game was that Ward was impressive
but was let down by his coaching staff and his teammates.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Ben do agree. No, I think he was sacked six times.
Most of those were not you know, you got to
get rid of the ball the fun there's a sweet
spot there. So the sacks, you can't blame all that
on his teammates. You got to know when to get
rid of the ball. And the receivers I was flipping over.
They seemed like they were dropping passes on a semi
regular basis. That was an issue. But no, cam Ward
(42:48):
let's hold the offense. It's everyone else's fault but him.
Speaker 8 (42:50):
Next, Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Bucks needed a
last minute touchdown to come away with the victory against
the division rival Falcons. Do you think Atlanta could actually
challenge them for the division crown? Yes, because I don't
think Tampa's all that could. I don't think any one
of that division's all that good. Carolina blows, New Orleans blows,
so it's either Atlanta or Tampa, one of those two teams.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
So I think it'll be neck and neck all the
way through. How did we go? You pass that? As
they went, Oh my god, I won. I've won, blind Scott,
I won.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
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Speaker 1 (43:28):
That's no imaging. Let's welcome in our contestants for the game.
We have Jed, who fled? Who's gonna play? Maus amount
of money? Hello, Jed? Welcome.
Speaker 6 (43:36):
I don't know what the news is, but I've always
got my thinking head on.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
All right, who do you wanna? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Who do you want to partner with Cooper? I just
said my thinking caps on just a Gooper all right?
And uh, boy, blind Scott, Yes, blind Scott, you want
to play maus amount of money?
Speaker 6 (43:51):
Yes? Yeah, partner with you.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Ben. You're my hero. I'm your hero. I thought I
thought Fred Tutcher was your hero. I didn't realize I
was your hero.
Speaker 6 (44:00):
It he likes me that much.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Anyone trying to win him back? So you okay, we'll
just send him money, all right, very does well? What
are the keatedgies? Quickly? Coople's I picked the first category.
Speaker 8 (44:09):
Now this is the easy e addition, he would have
been sixty one years old on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (44:13):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (44:13):
The categories are boys in the hood, still talking, nobody move,
and creeping crawl.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
All right, and hold on, I say here, let me
punch him in and I'll punch him in. Jed, Which
one do you want?
Speaker 6 (44:27):
Jaed?
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Eric right, I ain't no comptent Buster duve, he's a
child the hero. Uh just give me that boy.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Nobody move, I'll give you creep crawl all right, creeper
crawl all right?
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Scott? Which one do you want? Scott? I'll take easy
I'm taking the tribute to medication.
Speaker 8 (44:45):
There is no there is no Do you want boys
in the hood still talking or nobody move?
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Yeah? You think the hood? You think Blind Scott? Yes,
all right, very good, gentlemen, Do not hang up, do
not make sure you feed them down a right, we
will have that's the matchup. It's Malar's Mountain of Money
in its entirety. We'll get to that and we will
do it next.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 6 (45:25):
Not?
Speaker 1 (45:25):
All let's do this. Here we go. We welcome in
our contestants. We have Blind Scott who teamed up with me,
Jed who fled with Cooper Loop from the swamp lands
of Florida, and Jed, you were on the air first,
so you will go with Coople Loop. It is the
Easy E edition. Which category did you pick? There? Creep
(45:46):
and crawl? All right, creep and crawl? Very good? All right, Jed.
Speaker 8 (45:51):
These athletes were on wild card teams that went to
win it all.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Do you know what a wildcard team is?
Speaker 8 (45:58):
Jeded forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Uh,
Broncos quarterback that looks like a horse, Yes, big poppy
from the Red Sox. Yes, gap tooth defensive lineman from
the Giants.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (46:17):
Uh, crazy haired safety from the Steelers from the back
of the day. Yes, let's uh, we're gonna skip ahead.
This guy had the last name of a fish. He
was on the Angels team that actually.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Won it all.
Speaker 8 (46:32):
Jim getting No, you're close, No with.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
The different letter, We'll skip it. Uh. This guy was
a yes, yes, yes, got. This guy was a lot
of time, way too much salmon, A lot of salmon.
You took a long time with samon.
Speaker 6 (46:56):
I was playing the call game, dude, do you have any.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
Jim Salmon dancing around that? Okay, Blind Scott, you're not
going to sabotage this game, right Scott. You're in it
to win it. Yes, No, I'm ready. Let's show. Okay,
these athletes you pick boys in the hood, which is
so appropriate, and you think North end of Boston, you
think the hood. All right, here we go. These athletes
are all from south central Los Angeles. Blind Scott, forty
(47:22):
five seconds on the clock. Ball Piers, He's not he's
from Inglewood. No, we're not forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way and here we go. He had
a triple double every game during an NBA season for
Oklahoma City. James Hardy, No, I play with the Clippers,
(47:43):
all right, legion to Boom, defensive mac, defensive back. He's
got a big mouth. He's on television on Amazon. Okay,
Orioles first basement in the nineteen eighties, black guy hit
a lot of home run switch hitter with Calkin. He
was the other star of the Orioles. That would be
(48:04):
Freddie Murcury. Okay, all right, you're done, get out of here.
You you, Dennis, Dennis and Ramonti. You there, Dennis, Dennis,
you're going to the bench. Dennis first basically the nineteen eighties,
Orioles in the nineties. Yeah, that's one hundred porter, all right,
wide receiver. Let's see here. No, the greatest female tennis
(48:27):
player of all time, the greatest female tennis player of
all time, African American Jerry Right, I said, the greatest
tennis player of all time. Oh I'm sorry, I'm glad
(48:48):
that we have all this time. Oh, thank you. All right, Well,
we got one hundred. We got a hundred?
Speaker 6 (48:54):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (48:55):
Yeah? You got a hundred points? All right, Yo, Dennis,
I'm glad I went to the bench. Good job in
my my you're my closer. Dennis. You're gonna get about seconds?
Can I be the I stop you're bitching? All right,
let's go, Dennis. You what do we I guess we
get to go again? Right because we all get a
hundred on so we have nobody move or still talking?
Which one do you want? Dennis? Mom man? Nobody moved,
(49:18):
Nobody move? All right, Dennis is in VERMONTI just how's
your home? Your you have no guard. It's just a
little small talk.
Speaker 6 (49:30):
All right.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
We'll put forty five seconds in the cock of these
athletes own records that have stood a long time. Are
you ready, Dennis, I'm ready? All right? Yeah, the here
we go. The NFL's all time leading rusher. Yes, the
greatest wide receiver of all time? Right, yeah, Yankee player
(49:53):
nicknamed Joelton. His nickname was Jolton with a J played
in the sixties. Yes, the greatest picture of all time.
The top pitcher in baseball gets this award with his
name on it. Uh, ship, that's not quite the award.
(50:16):
If they got that, how about this nickname night train?
Nickname night Train.
Speaker 8 (50:30):
I don't think you quite made it up to the one. Yeah,
you got some of them, cy Young, is the award
name that you're looking for? Yours was more interesting, though
your award?
Speaker 6 (50:41):
And if he didn't get the point, no more question.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Dick Dick Lane. Dick Lane was a night train nick
Dick Lane's real name is night Scott.
Speaker 8 (50:51):
Do you want to run up the score here? Nobody
Scott them Scott gone.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Yea, he told you Blood Scott, Jed Jed Coop call you.
Speaker 8 (51:01):
You picked Cooby Peter because it was just on the phone.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
He was not he said, Freddie Mercury was the answer.
I mean, come on, he wasn't even trying. That was
a stupid, cheesy radio bit by Blind Scott. What he said,
are you telling no no, you can talk me?
Speaker 6 (51:17):
He answered not.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
He answered the word note he did.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Yeah. But there's a lot of layers of who to
blame on that. The good news is we don't have
to take Blind Scott's call the rest of the show.
He's out of the show now, that's great, right. He's
been on the air and he ruined the whole thing,
and that's the way to go.
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