September 10, 2025 • 50 mins
Big Ben talks about Jerry Jones' explanation on the Micah Parsons' trade negotiations, the NFL deciding to call Eagles' spitter Jalen Carter's punishment "time served," Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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treaded day shift listening to the podcast, But our lead
this hour from deep in the heart of Texas in Dallas,
the follow up to the follow up, follow up to
the follow up. As we settle into the night here
Jerry's world. So some news out there's always news because
Jerry does a lot of radio. He's old school that way,
right to do some podcasts with the guys, tickles toes.
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He goes on the radio. Of course, if they say
anything bad about him, they'll get in trouble. But anyway,
Jerry Jones, making a weekly radio appearance, said of the
now infamous report from Jay Glazer over the weekend that
Philadelphia Eagles, the reigning champions of the NFL, had made
an offer that was supposedly bigger than the Green Bay
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Packers offer for Micah Parsons. So Jerry Jones said that
regarding that story, the Cowboys never issued a counter offer
to the Philadelphia football team and the Micah Parsons trade sweepstakes.
He described the trade process as strategic. Of course, he did,
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what was he gonna say? Well, we really got played
on that one. I mean, come on, we got our
pants to pull down. He said, there was no counter offer.
Jerry Jones said the thought all along was to see
where the interest level was. Jones opened He said it
was very important. And from the get go, he says,
the effort on our part, Jerry said, was to chum
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up interest.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Jump jump jump jump jump jump. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Okay, Now, once that interest really started peaking, Jerry said,
then you started having the phone ring. And that's exactly
what the plan was to see if that phone would
ring in the proposition, be there enough for us to
make the move. All right, so let us discuss. That's
the end of that quote. So question, what is your
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reaction on what is your reaction to Jerry Jones and
his explanation on the Micah Parsons trade talks involving Philadelphia.
There was no counter offer made to the Eagles. So
I've gotten musket, lollipops and Neil Armstrong, three things that
have never been used in these same sentence, but now
we will be used in the same mall monologue. So
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and we'll put all these together. We're going to deep
prive some oreos like the state fair there, the County Fair.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Will deep prive those orias.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So a Jerry Jones pretending I love this, this was
the masterplane, when we know, based on his own words,
it's taking for what they're worth that Jerry Jones made
an offer in was it March somewhere around in March
April May in that area and offered Micah Parsons, he said,
the biggest contract for a non quarterback and then of
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a history. Now what does that tell us? That tells
us that if Parsons had agreed to the deal and
not said, oh I love my sleeves ball agent and
I want my agent to be if Mike get agreed
to that, then therefore he would still be with the
Dallas Cowboys. And it also tells you what it's a
tell that the Cowboys wanted no part of Micah Parsons
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in Kelly Green. They wanted no part of him in
a Philadelphia Eagles uniform. And so Jerry's bluffing's it's kind
of like that show, which I guess is still on.
I think it's on Pond Stars where you back in
the day I used to watch it. You'd walk into
Rick Harrison's pawn shop there in Vegas's the Las Vegas shop,
not in North Las Vegas, because there's a big difference,
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as we know from our our friend that calls. But
you're going to the Rick Harrison shop there and you
found your grandma's musket from the Civil War. So you've
got your grandma's musket from the Civil War.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And then Rick.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Of course, because every show is the same, they're all
cookie cutter. So I'm really not sure how much is
it worth. Let me call in an expert on this.
I have a friend, you know, I have a friend
that works down at the museum somewhere, and I want
to bring him in. So then they bring the person in.
It'sro an, old guy with a beard, and he comes
in there and he looks at the musket there, and
so he says, I'll offer you one hundred and fifty
dollars for that Civil War musket. And and of course
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that means that he never wanted, never wanted the damn
thing anyway, right, he's if your one hundred and fifty bucks,
I just wanted to use that as some kind of
leverage and all that. And that's Jerry Jones, right, that's
Jerry Jones here. And you know what, he played it safe,
not the it's not the worst move in the world.
You send Parsons to Green, but because you're you're limiting
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the blowback. You're limiting the blowback, is what you're doing. Right,
the same conference. Yes, it's a national football conference, so
it's not in the division. So it's not a big market.
It's the smallest market you can get green Bay. See,
you don't have to watch him twice a year. You'll
have to play him every once in a while, like,
for example, in a few weeks when the Packers and
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Cowboys play and they get together in Texas. But you
don't have to watch him sack your quarterback six seven,
eight times a year and treat your quarterback like a
tackling dummy. You don't have to do that, and he'll
still haunt you. I'm Michael Barson's gonna still haunt you,
but at least he's haunting you somewhat quietly in northern Wisconsin,
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where your celebrity gets muted. Well, Ben, the Packers have
a national fund, that is true, The Packers have a
national following. However, it's just not the same, right, it's
not the same. You get buried under ten layers, not
of snow, of cheese curds. And they're they are really good, man,
I mean the Green Bay Gobblers living the life. My
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brother lives up that way, living the life there with
all the delicious cheese.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh it's so good.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And so Jerry's out there and he's like trying to
sell pontoon boats out in Galveston. He's like, oh, I
get these boats are great, man, It's the deal of
a lifetime. You got to get one of these boats.
They're so good. It's going to complete your life. You
need this at this stage of your life. You need
a pontoon boat. You have to get it right. And
so you say, okay, I'll get it and all that,
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I get it, and then it's just it's really he
just unloading a lemon, like you won't get a lemon.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, you got a lemon.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know, things leaking, you know, it's a disaster and
it's all rusted and all that stuff. So it's classic
Jerry like that. Jerry, listen, I love it. I'm a
talk show host. Guilty as charged. Jerry's wonderful. You know,
it's spin, spin, Spin. It's like it's always honikah for
Jerry's always spinning the dradle. He is, I Jerry Jones
trying to sell you on the idea that that he
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wanted Parsons in Green Bay and he really just wanted
to avoid going to the usual suspects in the division,
and it's like, but he wants to be It's all
part of the plan. So how do you like them? Apples?
Now to Chicago, the fallout continues there as well. From
the Monday night coughing up of the fur ball by
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the Chicago Bears. Wow, pu whatsting? So the Viking stormback
to knock out the Bears in a dramatic fourth quarter
comeback for the Ages, Chicago gagging away an eleven point
lead in the second half, and Caleb Williams some comments
he made after that game still have legs now still
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bouncing around the echo chamber, people commenting about the situation
with one one. So cayleb was a very positive outlook.
He expressed his that he and Ben Johnson worked well together,
which we saw the quotes and I kind of rolled
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my eyes at this. I said, you know, I think
if you did, it's like fass At doing Dodger talk, right,
you know, and they know they're praising the Dodger bullpen
when they go out there and write the vomit comet
every Dodger game.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's like that, you know. It's like, well, it was
really positive, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
He didn't kill anyone with He didn't hit any batters
in the head with the pitch, and you're like, okay,
so very positive, express the belief that Ben Johnson worked
well with him and all that he said, I quote,
I think there was a lot of good there our communication.
He was getting the plays in fast. Caleb Williams smirked.
All right, So question, how do you categorize the upbeat
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comments from Caleb Williams after the Chicago Bears played like
choking dogs, not Bears choking dogs. So Caleb Williams working
as a brand ambassard, it's no more nil in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
He had that at USC.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, he made a killing at sc Holy crap for
a guy. That's the greatest memory Caleb Williams had at
USC is crying on his mommy's shoulder. And he lived
in a condo in downtown LA with a skyline view
and had everything taken care of. And that was his
contribution to USC football.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So he's in the NFL now, he's now the brand
ambassador for Lollipops dot com. Congratulations sugarcoating a lot of
sugar coating there and celebrating the communication with his Coade
in that terrific.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
My guys in Chicago tree in Chicago, and you fee
me and all you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's wonderful, right, Yeah, I'm sure you're very happy to
have good communication. Solid. Yeah, that's that. And like five
Bucks will get you a cup of coffee. If go
to have Starbucks, you get a cup of coffee like
five Bucks. But based on what we saw, Caleb Williams
was fine when the training wheels were on, which seems
to me And what do I know, I just in
the overnight show. That seems problematic if you're the Chicago
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Bears and the game was scripted. The beginning of the game,
he came out ten for ten, had a amazing quarterback
rating eighty six yards passing.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
That scripted, Caleb Williams, Okay, so let's move ahead now
on the broadcast. So that was the rehearsed version. That's
a Broadway show. You've memorized your lines. You've done it
for two years. You know every line and you know
every movement. It's muscle memory, all right. So that's fine.
So then shocker the rest of each For some reason,
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they had to play the rest of the game. Holy crap.
They had to play the rest of the game, and
how did that go? Well, they ran out of script
and then it became open Mike Knight at the second
city and well after that, twenty five pass attempts, eleven completions.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I'm told that's not good.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm told that's not good, and just one hundred and
twenty four yards, averaged like five little less than five
yards per pass attempt, and had a touchdown passer rating
in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
So he started ten of.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Ten from the early part of the second quarter, he
completed his tenth pass until the end of the game,
So the second half and most of the second quarter,
a passer rating in the seventies. That is flop sweat
city is what that is. You're the mayor of.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Flop sweat City. Congratulations, you drowned on the stage. You did.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And this is the NFL. You don't get to play
with flash cards more than just a brief period of.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Each game first quarter.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
After the first quarter, you generally do not get to
play with the flash cards.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Does not happen.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So once the Vikings and Brian Flores, who's still suing
the NFL, once they made the adjustments Caleb Williams. He
looked like the guy who lost his lines and then
just started mumbling mumbo bumble bumble. Yeah, just like that,
and there's there's the next part of it. Just drove
drove me utes. And again, I don't have his skin
in the game. It's not my team, Okay, not my team.
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But I go into this looking like if it was
my team, what will my position be? So I'm approaching
this as if I were a card carrying member like
Lucky Tony of the Chicago Bears fan So and this
gout upset Lucky Tony and Tree and all you Chicago
apologists out there, because Williams he stated that this is.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
A growing process, is what he said. And that just.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Drove me because that is the exact same line of
communication to use, Kayler Williamstern that we have gotten doing
this talk show talking about the Chicago Bears for many,
many years behind the powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio.
That's the kind of thing that should scare the crap
out of Chicago Bears fans because it's always always a
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growing process. I remember that this guy named Mitch Trubisky
who would go out there he needed a diaper, Trubisky, okay,
and he was actually good compared to these other stiffs
that followed. They said, well, it takes time. It's a
growing process. We're still waiting on Mitch Trubisky. How many
teams has he played for? How many teams does he player?
Then you got justin fields, same thing, growing process. Now
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we have we have the trifecta. Caleb Williams. It's a
growing it's a growing process. Caleb Williams said, Okay, So
generally speaking, I don't care about the play clock. I know,
oh you're a bad talk show host. I don't care
about the playclock clock. I don't and I do not
care about, you know, getting the calls in quickly and
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all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You blew an.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Eleven point lead at home to a guy that was
also having the cold sweats there, JJ McCarthy, who looked
dreadful until the fourth quarter. So that's a bad job
by all involved here. And so Caleb Williams still watering
the plant in that grade. We'll check back in your
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seven or eight see how he's doing all right now.
Last word to La we Go, where Jim Harball has
dazzled us yet again. The Chargers head football coach there
Jim Harbaugh commenting at his weekly news conference about quarterback
Justin Herbert and the toughness that he showed against Cannsa
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City in Brazil, and Jim Harbaugh said, quote, he said
a hit that Herbert to you might remember you saw
the game was on the YouTube. He said, the kind
of hit that would have killed a lesser man. That's
Jim Harball commenting on a hit that was received by
his quarterback Justin Herbert. He said, again, quote the kind
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of hit that would have killed a lesser man. Close
quote all right, so how does that quote hit you?
So we know going into this that Harball Jim Harbaugh,
not John Jim Harbaugh, a walking SoundBite machine, just always
a step.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Away from going viral and all that.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
But that's even by that standard, the line that that
hit would have killed a lesser man. So I guess
Herbert's now resputant, right. The Russian guy, the healer there
from Russia. And it's a classic hardball though. You would
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have reminded me of years ago there was this guy
named Chuck Pagotto who's a terrible head coach, but a
great SoundBite. And Pagatto was coaching the Indianapolis Colts and
they had a quarterback named Matt Hasselbeck. And Matt Hassebec
was an older quarterback at the time, not very good,
and he went out there and played well enough for
the Colts to win the game. And we used to
play this. You know, we've been through a million board ops,
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so nobody knows the old drops.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
But he had this line.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
It was on like a Thursday night game and I
came in after the game and he said that Matt
Hasselbeck was literally on his deathbed. In the postgame, we were like,
oh man, it's pretty good. You got up there were
you had a priest in there to give you a
last rights, and then right away boom, you got right
up and led them to win. So Harball he must
have remembered that filed that quote away back in the
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day and thought, well, hold my Khakis, here I go.
And he cannot resist the mellow, dramatic tongue bath for
his quarterback. He can't do it right, and he can't
resist it. Now, may we all have someone in our lives,
someone that is in love with you the way that
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Jim Harbaugh is in love with Justin Herbert.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I mean the kneeling. He's always got Justin Herbert kneepads on.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's just wild, like every news conference is a very
similar there, waxing poetic about Herbert, like he's a war hero.
He's the same guy that would tell you Jim Harball
that Justin Herbert would have been able to land the
Apollo eleven if Neil Armstrong had twisted his ankle that
Herbert was even though he wasn't alive, then he would
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have he would have come to the world a little earlier,
and he would have replaced the Neil Armstrong's It's like
the Office Chargers edition when when Harbaugh's when he's doing
this thing right, Harbaugh's basically Dwight from the office and
he's he's standing over Justin Herbert after he got hit, screaming,
we need we need a medic, stat we need a medic.
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He might be concussed, he might be concussed. And then
of course Herbert pops right back up and he brushes
himself off, and and there's a there's Jim Harbaugh playing
the Dwight character saying.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
You know what, I'm gonna write you up.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
You deserve a purple heart, You deserve a because you
got hit in a football game and that's it. And
so there you must be nominated for a purple heart.
And Herbert listen, he takes a second and he got
Jim Harbaugh out there. It's like some kind of make
a wish type situation. It's it's just great. He's America survived.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
He survived. It's a miracle. I get it. You want
to pump up your guy. I understand.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
However, when all you do is give the guy the
tongue bath, it it just we don't take anything to
say like it's legit.
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That is where Eagles defensive star. I don't know if
he's a star, but I've heard of him, so Jalen Carter.
It turns out. Is he going to be suspended for
this weekend's game for the Philadelphia Eagles. No, In fact,
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he will not miss any future games for spitting a
loogie on Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. The NFL announcing
that they decided, after a negotiation with the agent for
Jalen Carter that since this is their logic, they said,
since Carter was ejected from last week so the season
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opening game, I remember last Thursday, it was a big
kind of a big deal. He did not participate technically
in a single play. So the league said they were
going to consider that particular game the one game suspension
being served that he already time served. So this is
an important distinction, because the NFL wants you to know
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that they have established president all future players that decide
they want their flem to go on another human being,
you will be suspended. You will be suspended, and it
will result in a one game suspension. So let us
discuss the question, what's your read on the NFL's decision to.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Say time served time served for Jalen Carter?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
The Eagle spinner, So on this one, I've got freak show,
Arctic monkeys and aquafina and we will combine all of
these things together and we're going to make authentic Canadian poutine.
Now I got to enjoy that thanks to our guy
Nico and Vancouver who rolled out the red carpet that
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great Vancouver meet and greet that we did there. And
what a spread, I say, the greatest spread that we've
had because it was all free. Kim Niko rolled out
the red carpet. Everyone showed up to that Vancouver meet
and greet. It was all paid for. It was awesome
and a big thing of poutine and all my foods.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
It was wonderful, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So number one, this is not a suspension. Can we
all agree on this? Anyone disagree? No one disagrees. This
is not a suspension. This is a work around, Capitol
w work around is what this is.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
That's what the NFL is doing here.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's don't spit on my cupcake and tell me it's
all frosting.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Okay, that's what this is.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And it's a technicality because he was in uniform. He
did run out to start the game with his teammates there,
he was on the field when the game kicked off,
on the sidelines. He got ejected and now the NFL
thinks you're a moron, and they want you to believe
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that that counts as a suspension. They want you to
believe that they counts as a suspension. Now, my position
was he shouldn't get suspended. However, now I'm upset with
the NFL because the NFL is like, well, though that
was a suspension, No it was not. It's like wink green, nod, nod.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It's like, come on, what are you doing? Seriously? I mean,
I understand, I do. What do I know? You think
I'm just a country bumpkin over here? What's wrong with you? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
And it's one of these things. Whatever it takes, whatever
it takes, right, because if you look at the schedule
this weekend, and if you remember the promos from Week
one of the NFL, do you know who the Eagles
are playing?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Uh? Yeah, it's kind of a kind of a big deal.
They are playing. That's right.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Canzah City, the home of the Ben Mallard Chicken figures
that is America's game of the week. You cannot have
Jalen Carter. I don't care how fat that loogie was
and how much green mucus came out of his mouth.
Because it was Egle Green. You cannot have that man
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miss America's Game of the week. The American people need
to see Jalen Carter's fat ass on the field.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
That's what they need.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Tom Brady's calling the game. It's kind of a big deal.
You need to have him on. That is the most
protected TV window you could possibly have. Now, my favorite
part of this is the NFL slap Jalen Carter with
a fifty seven thousand dollars fine. They based it on
his per game salary. You talk about some expensive phlegm. Like,
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I'm just telling you how if I were to get
fine for spitting, and I mostly just spit, I have
a mic condom, so I practice safe spitting.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I have a mic. Hear that I have a mic condom,
so I do practice safe spinning. Why you gotta get
him that hook? Yeah, dude, and spit on that night.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
So if his is worth fifty seven thousand, like, how
much is some of mine worth?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
There?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You know malor lugi? Now, my lugies are not heard
around the world like his are. But you talk about inflation.
That is the world's priceiest spit fifty seven thousand? Now,
at least back in the day. If you're old, there's
a guy named Berto Alomar in my I heard stories
of because I wasn't doing sports radio and he spit
at an umpire.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
God no, but I've been told.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Wink wink, nod nod that when Alamar decided that he
wanted to give the umpire a nice juicy piece of
phlegm years ago, everybody knew he got suspended. That was
a suspension for a number of games. But this is
the NFL pretending to be tough. We're National Football. We
are tough, but we're also gonna make sure that the
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key players play in the most important games because we
are a TV show and we need the stars of
the TV show to be in the TV show. It's
a marquee matchup and you're gonna play. So it's it's
like a substitute teacher writing you up for detention. And
then the principle says, you know what, just to count
(27:55):
that recess as time serve punishment. That's a recess. Yeah,
and Carter, he gets to play on the big stage.
Massive game would be the highest rated game of the
NFL weekend. The Eagles and the Chiefs, a rematch of
that little game they played at the end of last season,
and so Dak Prescott he got also a game used souvenir. Congratulations,
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you got some of Jalen Carter's DNA on your uniform.
But it's all spin, right, It's all spin, And of
course it is. It's a big corporation. It's like, we
are tough on spitting. We are tough on spitting until
it interferes with a matchup against Patrick Maholmes and then
him playing Jalen hurts. Then suddenly he's eh, it's okay,
(28:41):
it's all but oh, this is we have not changed
the president. We have not changed the president at all.
So the messaging is rather clear. If you're in the
NFL and you have a predisposition for spitting, if you
are going to spit, make sure that you do it
before a primetime game, because then you will not get
And this is not primetime. It's a late TV window,
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but it's not like a night game. It's the late
game on Fox on Sunday. Now, if you spit on
someone and then the next game you play is against
the Tennessee Titans of the New Orleans Saints, you will
have to miss that game.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You will have to miss that game, but America's game
of the week. We gotta have yacht there.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
The American people, the men, women and children, need Jalen
Carter out there for the Philadelphiagos.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
That's the message from the NFL.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Now we head across the United States to Santa Clair
to the Bay Area, where it didn't take long. Snap, crackle,
pop goes to tight end. Just like that, the forty
nine ers given the whammy as George Kittle's hammy went
whammy and the San Francisco football team putting a star
tight end George Kittle on injured reserve with a hammy
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that did decide to go wammy, and so Kittle will
be forced to miss at least four games. Four games
will be eligible return in week six of the season.
If you have your phone out, that's October twelfth, you
can come back at Tampa Bay against the Baker and
the touchdown Maker.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
So how big a blow?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
How big a blow is the loss of George Kittle
for the forty nine ers over the next month, We're
gonna call it. So this is obviously not a bruise.
This is not that, it's not a hangnail. It's not
that this is old school, back in the day, old
school boxing. Rocky Marciano the susie Q punch I never saw,
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but I heard about it well. I called his his
knockout punch was the susie Q. He called it there
and right to the jaw, Right to the jaw for
the forty nine ers. So Kittle's thirty one, although he
plays a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Older than that.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Can we all agree on that plays a lot older
than that, And he's certainly an old thirty one.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
And his home away.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
From home not really the end zone anymore, and he's
moved on from that. He's graduated from the end zone.
It's now that up blue injury ten. That is his
home away from home. So you see him go down.
Kittle goes down. It's a contact sport, and you don't
even check the replay. You don't need to check the
replay when George Kittle goes down. You just start googling
who the backup tight end is because that guy's going
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to get in the game. That's all you need right there.
And the Niners are already now I know they beat Seattle,
but it's more of a product of Sam Darnold sucking
being the old Sam Duna. So the Niners are already
oozing goo already to start the year in terms of injuries,
and they tried to change the roster. They kept a
lot of the veteran guys though, and they mixed filled
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in the roster with some younger players and the older
guys already showing up in the infirmary. And so they've
already lost a couple of guys. Now, Kittle not exactly
a side dish, despite his regular appearances on the injury list.
Not side dish. He's the steak. He's the stake of
that offense. And he was the thirty first ranked player
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on that Dopey Top one hundred. I know Terry and
England loves that list. He's a big fan of the list.
So you know, so while next man up, let's just
go next man up and all that stuff. It's like
saying you're going to replace the Arctic Monkeys with a
cover band from the local dive bar.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Now, maybe that'll work. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
It seem to have a lot of downloads over there
on the introweb and all that stuff, so they seem
to be doing something right. But this is not an
isolated incident with George Kittle. He has a very rich
resume of injury, very rich resume of injury. In fact,
I believe if my math is right, I used mather math.
The last last five years he's missed sixteen games. So
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essentially he's missed almost an entire season of his last
five years in the NFL because of injury. So you
cannot call George Kittle durable. Cannot use that as a
word to describe George Kittle. You call him rent controlled
is what you call him rent control, because he finds
finds a way to take time off, and that's kind
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of the way he goes. But losing Kittle and all
of a sudden, you look at the Niners here objectively,
not to go Olhardo's Sports Radio on you, but if
you look at the forty nine ers and starting to
handicap this game as we go forward with Benny versus
the Penny, which is on YouTube now, so you handicap
the game, and you're like, all right, well, you look
at how the forty nine ers operate, and he is
your third down security blanket for brock Purty, and what
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is the scouting report on brock Purty. He does not
make players around him better that brock Purty needs the
star players to elevate him, not vice versas. So now
you're taking away his safety blanket all Who knows if
he's going to play. He's got a bad toe and
a shoulder thing, so he might not even play against
the Saints.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Now, the good news is you are playing the Saints,
so that is good.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
And the play action part of the forty nine ers
offense with Kittle as an option that does not have
the same bite to it, the same teeth to it,
So you don't have that, and the forty nine's offense
just has less of an edge. There's less of a nastiness.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
To it all right.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Now, staying with that final point though, final point to
the transaction wire, where the Niners made a roster move.
They have fired their kicker, Jake Moody. I guess he's
in a bad moody. Jake Moody gone. He missed sixteen
field goals in three years. We hear that's not good.
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Those daytime people say that's not good. If you miss
sixteen field goals in three years, you're probably doing something wrong.
Mister chipshot field goal. A couple of should have made
field goals against Seattle, and so the Niners fired Jake
Moody and he went out stage left, and then the
other guy came in stage right. That would be Eddie
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Panero on your scorecard, former Carolina kicker, Chicago Bears kicker.
So question, where are you at on the forty nine
ers dumping Jake Moody after keep in mind the other
part of the story here. Don't purry the lead my
man is that Kyle Shananahan, the coach, said after the
game that Jake Moody's job was safe. Yikes, all right,
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so that part of it is laughable. Who goofed? I've
got to know and Shanahan goes full Halloween. Pinocchio knows right,
Pinocchio knows mode after the game, and so it's just
what coaches do. Shanahan is the guy who will tell
you do not worry, nothing to worry about here, that
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Midtown Bridge is as safe as it could possibly be,
right before it falls into the river, right before that,
and standard coaching half truce, right the half truce of coaching,
the exaggerations of coaching that Shannan's saying. He said, no
question that Jake Moody would be his kicker going forward
and then basically a day and a half later he's gone.
(35:50):
So he should have said, no question, Jake Moody, he's
not a kicker. He stinks that's what he should say.
But he's a teachable moment. Don't listen to coaches, don't
believe coaches, teach him moment.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's why we're here in sports radio to break down coaches.
We give you truth and broadcasting, unlike the coaches who lie.
And it's also a reminder that drafting kickers is dumb.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
The dumb, dumb, dumb. It's a stupid test. It just is.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
It's like it's like paying full price for a bottle
of Aqua Final water while there is a drinking fountain
right there, Like why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (36:28):
You know?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Fun fact about that Dodger Stadium opened up this palace
many years ago and they did not have drinking fountains.
They forgot to put drinking fountains in Dodger Stadium, so
they had to put them in. But these I assume
the reason they didn't put drinking foundas in and they
want people to buy water, although back then people didn't
buy water as much as they do now, but anyway,
the PA, it's kind of like bring ice to Antarctica
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or Alaska or something like that. You don't really need
to do it. It's absolutely unnecessary. Drafting kickers, the Niners thought,
yet again, they were the smartest people in the room.
The rest of the league bunch of morons. And now,
of course everyone's pointing fingers and laughing. They drafted a
kicker in the third round. Ha, it's organizational. Organizational arrogance
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is what it is. And you love when it blows
up in your face or their face, not your face,
but their face. And so they thought they were gaming
the system, and the system gained them. Instead, they drafted
a guy who was so confident that he fell apart
by year two, and they kept him around for year three,
and good luck. People were throwing helmets on the sidelines.
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The teammates were not big fans, and so there you go. Kickers.
They really like relief pitchers in many ways. Kickers are
like relief pitchers in that they're pretty much everywhere, and
they're important and yet disposable. Like a good relief pitcher.
Most games in baseball are designed to be won or
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lost by relief pitchers, yet they don't make as much
money as the starting pitcher. It's one of those bizarro
things in baseball, but in kicking in the NFL it's
very similar. A lot of the games will come down
to an extra point or a field goal, and yet
the kicker is not really a football player. It's like
a weird, weird dynamic there. It's like what's a blind spot?
(38:16):
Is what it is here? And so you pick a
kicker up off the waiver wire. You go get someone
from the Toronto CFL franchise, the Argonauts or the Alouettes
over from Montreal, and you pick them up when you
go to the grocery store to buy some eggs and
some milk or butter or whatever, and the so called
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geniuses out in San Francisco, once again proving they're not
as smart as they think they are.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Here
we go, Here we to the third degree. This is
one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
So the Broncos were able to start off their season
with a win despite poor play from second year quarterback
bow Knicks. This has caused a contingent of the fan
base to panic, with some even calling for Jared Stidham. Now, Ben,
is it is it time to panic for the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
For some reason? Your MIC's very overmodulated there.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Yes, very close to always panic, Coop, You always must, No,
of course not they won the game. You panic when
you play like that and you lose the game. When
you win the game, it doesn't matter. It's like putting
on a nice cologne. It takes the full smell of
the loss, the odor away. So no, if they start
losing games and he's playing like that, then you make
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a change. But they're gonna ride with Bow the Bow
show next.
Speaker 7 (39:43):
So it was announced on Monday that George Kittle will
miss around a month with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Ben, how bad is this news for the Niners? Well,
it's we talked about it. It's a mess.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I mean, they don't have the playmakers that they've had
and their quarterback doesn't make players around George Kittle better.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
It is a huge deal for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Now, brock Perty's got an opportunity here, He's got an
opportunity to change the story about his career. I'm not
betting on brock Purty. Though he might have missed the
game this weekend, he's hurt, so it's a big deal.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Next the New York Mets probably aren't going to be
catching the Phillies and the NL East, but as of
right now, they hold on to that third and final
NL wild card spot.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Ben, do you think they keep it? No?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
I think the better story is them choking it. The
Giants have been playing, but I think that the last
twenty games or so, they have the second best record
in baseball. So they've been playing a lot better in
San Francisco, and Rafael Devers is hitting similar to what
he did in Boston. And I love the Met fans
when they blow it. And to not even make the
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playoffs with this roster, that would be so great. God,
I want that to happen. Obviously I hate the Giants,
but I want the Giants to make the playoffs for
the Mets.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Anyway, there it is, Cooperloop, how did we do?
Speaker 2 (41:00):
That?
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Is a win? I I'm a winner.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
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Speaker 5 (41:21):
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going to help you gear rye gear Ride Tonight, gear
Right Tonight, dear Ride.
Speaker 6 (41:33):
You heard the man. It is time for love here
on the Ben Mallor Show and Men and Women. I
just want to remind you as sports season comes in,
make sure you show your special person they are still
special even though you are busy watching sports like twenty thousand.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Hours of Oh, is that? I feel like that. It's
a personal situation, Lorena, I feel like this.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
No, no, no, I like watching sports I have grown
to enjoy.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Is there are a butt? No, No, there's no, there's
no spots.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
I was just thinking about women who don't enjoy sports
and how sad they must be with their men. Yeah,
just you know, disassociate for the whole season. So don't
forget to, you know, make your woman or your man
still feel special if you're into sports and they're not.
They knew the deal when they got involved.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
It's part of the deal. Listen.
Speaker 6 (42:20):
Do they realize how bad it is when you first
started dating.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
From September to February your second that's the way it
is the rest of the year, year number one.
Speaker 6 (42:29):
But make sure you put those weather breaks to good use, everybody.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yes, the hour weather breaks are halftime. Halftime's not that long,
but I guess you don't really need a lot of
time at halftime. You can kind of all right, Yeah,
these are actual questions by actual listeners. Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota,
says Lorraina. My gal wanted me to want more of
me in the bedroom, so last weekend she gave me
two blue Chew treats and said that she'd be in
(42:55):
the bedroom in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
I unfortunately fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Oh woke up choking with a stiff neck and inside
of a chalk outline.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
I get no respect.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
So yeah, I know that you should never fall asleep,
especially if you haven't done it in a while. You know,
you should be so excited that that keeps you up
a bit. You know what I'm saying? Right, maybe you
should deserve to be in a body bag.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (43:20):
RPS is right written in says has Lorena ever considered
I'm not sure what this is. I think she's a lovely,
very great voice. Oh so I think she This guy
thinks you should be doing adulta phone line, Lorena.
Speaker 6 (43:33):
Oh, I've thought about that, have you. Oh? Yeah, me
and my friends used to play around with it when
we were younger.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Yeah, but that's another story.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
The issue might be that you're aren't The people that
do that generally not that attractive.
Speaker 6 (43:47):
You know, the girls on the hotlane on the TV
commercials don't look that bad.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Yes, paid actors. All right?
Speaker 6 (43:53):
Uh, I could do that voice message.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
We have a call for you, tiger Man in Utah
or maybe maybe some other state.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Hello tiger Man.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
Hey, I'm actually in Hawaii. But just a quick recap, Lorena,
I do have two kids with two different women. Unfortunately,
do not have relationship with the woman or the kids.
Now I'm in a relationship with another woman and I
want this to work out, but I'm spending like two
to three hundred dollars a week on this girl, and
(44:25):
it's trying to get expensive. And I want to know
what you think I should do.
Speaker 6 (44:30):
Yeah, you know, your girl should not be draining your funds.
Never let them take advantage of your wallet unless you
want to be a sugar daddy. No, I do not, okay,
But also, but also is she a good companion? Is
she giving you what you need in the in the relationship?
Speaker 4 (44:49):
Yes, but how'd you would rather be alone?
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Yeah, what what do you? What is she like?
Speaker 1 (44:54):
That's like a that's like a jed who fled drug habit,
Like two thousand dollars has a.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Lot of money week two dollars. Oh I thought you said.
I thought you said two thousand.
Speaker 6 (45:05):
I still think about how much that adds up to you.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
It does add up. That does add up.
Speaker 6 (45:09):
Yeah, she buying you gifts with this money?
Speaker 3 (45:11):
Call it? Do you do you live near this woman?
Or she lives somewhere else?
Speaker 4 (45:15):
No, she lives. I mean we're almost going to live together.
Speaker 6 (45:18):
Okay, all right, okay, well, if you're planning on moving forward,
I don't think calling it is the is the thing here.
But also you need to realize if you do move forward,
you're going to be paying for everything.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
You might want to test her ass. Say I'm a
little low on money. Can I get a couple hundred
bucks from you?
Speaker 6 (45:31):
Say listen, we got to figure this out, or you
know what, maybe she needs you to be that provider
in her life and if you can't be them, do
spow out next.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
All right, thank you, good luck, Aloha, Tiger Man and
Joy Hawaii. Why are you calling us?
Speaker 3 (45:44):
All right?
Speaker 1 (45:45):
J T the Wingman says, I'm looking for suggestions for
good cosplay. I need your expertise and recommendations.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
Oh, cosplay is so fun and it depends on which
direction you want to go. I always prefer Disney cosplay.
But you know, like Alex the Vega and he's big
into anime cosplay.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Oh, so you can.
Speaker 6 (46:04):
Always be a furry to you know, furs are really
big and into things. Right now?
Speaker 1 (46:07):
All right, Ferg Duck says, who's your favorite Disney princess?
Speaker 6 (46:11):
Oh, it's got to be Bell Bell Bell, always, always
has been, always will be.
Speaker 3 (46:15):
The Queen of all princess.
Speaker 6 (46:16):
My favorite animals, poo Bear, poo Bear.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
I was like Donald Duck, goofy attention everyone.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
And the password is password, you idiot, password the word
Game of the Stars.
Speaker 3 (46:34):
Here's Ben Meler, let's do this. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
We have Chris in Boston. Who's gonna play Hello Chris, welcome,
Good morning, Ben, How are you?
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Good morning? Chris? You're gonna play passworthy? Word game says,
what are you up to this morning? Chris? On my
way to work?
Speaker 1 (46:48):
All right?
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Very cool? And tell the guy in Sheboygan what you
do for work? What kind of work you do? You
landscape to the start, that's right. All the famous people
in the Boston area they go to Chris.
Speaker 6 (47:00):
A lot of people need landscaping.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
That's right, good business. Yeah, those trees keep growing, the
grass keeps growing. All right, very good. You're gonna play.
Who do you want to partner up with? Chris?
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Let's that's right. We're in it to win it, baby,
We're in it to win it. Hold on a second.
We have George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George,
Hello George, Welcome in socoalt.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
Where is game? Hello? George? Who do you want to
partner up with? You got Lorena? You got koop? A
little bit's passed? Lorena? Okay?
Speaker 6 (47:31):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Are you? Are you working right now? George? It sounds
like you're working. No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (47:37):
You can't make any money work, you know that.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah, well that's true. I've proven that for a long time.
All right, are you on speaker phone? George?
Speaker 4 (47:46):
I could remove the phone.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, well, that would be the polite thing to do.
If you'll be a douche, just leave your speakerphone on.
But that's up to you.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
All right, let's play the game. We have a list
of words here.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Sure you're locked in lock lock Christy. All right, Chris,
pick a number one to ten. Please, one to ten.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
In honor of marcell let's go number two. Well in uh,
in more ways than one. Let's go with spoil spoil.
Speaker 6 (48:21):
Rock now, Oh good, good guests there, Loreina, I gotta
hear this.
Speaker 3 (48:27):
This ought to be good.
Speaker 6 (48:34):
You stole my word, Ben, just so you know.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Okay, five for three gifts? All right, gifts, George. This
is this would be the.
Speaker 4 (48:46):
Part I was listening.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
I thought I heard the word gift. Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (48:51):
You did? Spoiled gifts five four three two one? All right,
you got nothing? How about Chris, let's go with coddle coddle,
I got nothing.
Speaker 6 (49:12):
Should we throw away the word?
Speaker 3 (49:13):
Yeah, let's hurry. The word was pamper your coddle. You
spoil someone, your pamper in the mark.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Take a word, George, number one, number one.
Speaker 3 (49:25):
That's the proper way.
Speaker 6 (49:25):
Go ahead, all right, we're gonna go with dentures.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
Dures cheese. What do he said? Fault cheese? No, that's
not that not anywhere. Why would be the word. That's
a bad clue the rate. Let's let's go with boy
I don't know. I mean there's not.
Speaker 7 (49:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Fang f A n G fang. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
All right, he got over my clue.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
You don't lose the road, and we want to game
Chris and Boston. We won the game.
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Jerry's world. So some news out there's always news because
Jerry does a lot of radio. He's old school that way,
right to do some podcasts with the guys, tickles toes.
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He goes on the radio. Of course, if they say
anything bad about him, they'll get in trouble. But anyway,
Jerry Jones, making a weekly radio appearance, said of the
now infamous report from Jay Glazer over the weekend that
Philadelphia Eagles, the reigning champions of the NFL, had made
an offer that was supposedly bigger than the Green Bay
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Packers offer for Micah Parsons. So Jerry Jones said that
regarding that story, the Cowboys never issued a counter offer
to the Philadelphia football team and the Micah Parsons trade sweepstakes.
He described the trade process as strategic. Of course, he did,
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what was he gonna say? Well, we really got played
on that one. I mean, come on, we got our
pants to pull down. He said, there was no counter offer.
Jerry Jones said the thought all along was to see
where the interest level was. Jones opened He said it
was very important. And from the get go, he says,
the effort on our part, Jerry said, was to chum
(02:56):
up interest.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Jump jump jump jump jump jump. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Okay, Now, once that interest really started peaking, Jerry said,
then you started having the phone ring. And that's exactly
what the plan was to see if that phone would
ring in the proposition, be there enough for us to
make the move. All right, so let us discuss. That's
the end of that quote. So question, what is your
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reaction on what is your reaction to Jerry Jones and
his explanation on the Micah Parsons trade talks involving Philadelphia.
There was no counter offer made to the Eagles. So
I've gotten musket, lollipops and Neil Armstrong, three things that
have never been used in these same sentence, but now
we will be used in the same mall monologue. So
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and we'll put all these together. We're going to deep
prive some oreos like the state fair there, the County Fair.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Will deep prive those orias.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So a Jerry Jones pretending I love this, this was
the masterplane, when we know, based on his own words,
it's taking for what they're worth that Jerry Jones made
an offer in was it March somewhere around in March
April May in that area and offered Micah Parsons, he said,
the biggest contract for a non quarterback and then of
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a history. Now what does that tell us? That tells
us that if Parsons had agreed to the deal and
not said, oh I love my sleeves ball agent and
I want my agent to be if Mike get agreed
to that, then therefore he would still be with the
Dallas Cowboys. And it also tells you what it's a
tell that the Cowboys wanted no part of Micah Parsons
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in Kelly Green. They wanted no part of him in
a Philadelphia Eagles uniform. And so Jerry's bluffing's it's kind
of like that show, which I guess is still on.
I think it's on Pond Stars where you back in
the day I used to watch it. You'd walk into
Rick Harrison's pawn shop there in Vegas's the Las Vegas shop,
not in North Las Vegas, because there's a big difference,
(04:57):
as we know from our our friend that calls. But
you're going to the Rick Harrison shop there and you
found your grandma's musket from the Civil War. So you've
got your grandma's musket from the Civil War.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And then Rick.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Of course, because every show is the same, they're all
cookie cutter. So I'm really not sure how much is
it worth. Let me call in an expert on this.
I have a friend, you know, I have a friend
that works down at the museum somewhere, and I want
to bring him in. So then they bring the person in.
It'sro an, old guy with a beard, and he comes
in there and he looks at the musket there, and
so he says, I'll offer you one hundred and fifty
dollars for that Civil War musket. And and of course
(05:33):
that means that he never wanted, never wanted the damn
thing anyway, right, he's if your one hundred and fifty bucks,
I just wanted to use that as some kind of
leverage and all that. And that's Jerry Jones, right, that's
Jerry Jones here. And you know what, he played it safe,
not the it's not the worst move in the world.
You send Parsons to Green, but because you're you're limiting
(05:56):
the blowback. You're limiting the blowback, is what you're doing. Right,
the same conference. Yes, it's a national football conference, so
it's not in the division. So it's not a big market.
It's the smallest market you can get green Bay. See,
you don't have to watch him twice a year. You'll
have to play him every once in a while, like,
for example, in a few weeks when the Packers and
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Cowboys play and they get together in Texas. But you
don't have to watch him sack your quarterback six seven,
eight times a year and treat your quarterback like a
tackling dummy. You don't have to do that, and he'll
still haunt you. I'm Michael Barson's gonna still haunt you,
but at least he's haunting you somewhat quietly in northern Wisconsin,
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where your celebrity gets muted. Well, Ben, the Packers have
a national fund, that is true, The Packers have a
national following. However, it's just not the same, right, it's
not the same. You get buried under ten layers, not
of snow, of cheese curds. And they're they are really good, man,
I mean the Green Bay Gobblers living the life. My
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brother lives up that way, living the life there with
all the delicious cheese.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh it's so good.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And so Jerry's out there and he's like trying to
sell pontoon boats out in Galveston. He's like, oh, I
get these boats are great, man, It's the deal of
a lifetime. You got to get one of these boats.
They're so good. It's going to complete your life. You
need this at this stage of your life. You need
a pontoon boat. You have to get it right. And
so you say, okay, I'll get it and all that,
(07:32):
I get it, and then it's just it's really he
just unloading a lemon, like you won't get a lemon.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, you got a lemon.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know, things leaking, you know, it's a disaster and
it's all rusted and all that stuff. So it's classic
Jerry like that. Jerry, listen, I love it. I'm a
talk show host. Guilty as charged. Jerry's wonderful. You know,
it's spin, spin, Spin. It's like it's always honikah for
Jerry's always spinning the dradle. He is, I Jerry Jones
trying to sell you on the idea that that he
(08:01):
wanted Parsons in Green Bay and he really just wanted
to avoid going to the usual suspects in the division,
and it's like, but he wants to be It's all
part of the plan. So how do you like them? Apples?
Now to Chicago, the fallout continues there as well. From
the Monday night coughing up of the fur ball by
(08:24):
the Chicago Bears. Wow, pu whatsting? So the Viking stormback
to knock out the Bears in a dramatic fourth quarter
comeback for the Ages, Chicago gagging away an eleven point
lead in the second half, and Caleb Williams some comments
he made after that game still have legs now still
(08:46):
bouncing around the echo chamber, people commenting about the situation
with one one. So cayleb was a very positive outlook.
He expressed his that he and Ben Johnson worked well together,
which we saw the quotes and I kind of rolled
(09:07):
my eyes at this. I said, you know, I think
if you did, it's like fass At doing Dodger talk, right,
you know, and they know they're praising the Dodger bullpen
when they go out there and write the vomit comet
every Dodger game.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's like that, you know. It's like, well, it was
really positive, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
He didn't kill anyone with He didn't hit any batters
in the head with the pitch, and you're like, okay,
so very positive, express the belief that Ben Johnson worked
well with him and all that he said, I quote,
I think there was a lot of good there our communication.
He was getting the plays in fast. Caleb Williams smirked.
All right, So question, how do you categorize the upbeat
(09:43):
comments from Caleb Williams after the Chicago Bears played like
choking dogs, not Bears choking dogs. So Caleb Williams working
as a brand ambassard, it's no more nil in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
He had that at USC.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, he made a killing at sc Holy crap for
a guy. That's the greatest memory Caleb Williams had at
USC is crying on his mommy's shoulder. And he lived
in a condo in downtown LA with a skyline view
and had everything taken care of. And that was his
contribution to USC football.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So he's in the NFL now, he's now the brand
ambassador for Lollipops dot com. Congratulations sugarcoating a lot of
sugar coating there and celebrating the communication with his Coade
in that terrific.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
My guys in Chicago tree in Chicago, and you fee
me and all you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's wonderful, right, Yeah, I'm sure you're very happy to
have good communication. Solid. Yeah, that's that. And like five
Bucks will get you a cup of coffee. If go
to have Starbucks, you get a cup of coffee like
five Bucks. But based on what we saw, Caleb Williams
was fine when the training wheels were on, which seems
to me And what do I know, I just in
the overnight show. That seems problematic if you're the Chicago
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Bears and the game was scripted. The beginning of the game,
he came out ten for ten, had a amazing quarterback
rating eighty six yards passing.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
That scripted, Caleb Williams, Okay, so let's move ahead now
on the broadcast. So that was the rehearsed version. That's
a Broadway show. You've memorized your lines. You've done it
for two years. You know every line and you know
every movement. It's muscle memory, all right. So that's fine.
So then shocker the rest of each For some reason,
(11:33):
they had to play the rest of the game. Holy crap.
They had to play the rest of the game, and
how did that go? Well, they ran out of script
and then it became open Mike Knight at the second
city and well after that, twenty five pass attempts, eleven completions.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I'm told that's not good.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm told that's not good, and just one hundred and
twenty four yards, averaged like five little less than five
yards per pass attempt, and had a touchdown passer rating
in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
So he started ten of.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Ten from the early part of the second quarter, he
completed his tenth pass until the end of the game,
So the second half and most of the second quarter,
a passer rating in the seventies. That is flop sweat
city is what that is. You're the mayor of.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Flop sweat City. Congratulations, you drowned on the stage. You did.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And this is the NFL. You don't get to play
with flash cards more than just a brief period of.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Each game first quarter.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
After the first quarter, you generally do not get to
play with the flash cards.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Does not happen.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So once the Vikings and Brian Flores, who's still suing
the NFL, once they made the adjustments Caleb Williams. He
looked like the guy who lost his lines and then
just started mumbling mumbo bumble bumble. Yeah, just like that,
and there's there's the next part of it. Just drove
drove me utes. And again, I don't have his skin
in the game. It's not my team, Okay, not my team.
(13:00):
But I go into this looking like if it was
my team, what will my position be? So I'm approaching
this as if I were a card carrying member like
Lucky Tony of the Chicago Bears fan So and this
gout upset Lucky Tony and Tree and all you Chicago
apologists out there, because Williams he stated that this is.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
A growing process, is what he said. And that just.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Drove me because that is the exact same line of
communication to use, Kayler Williamstern that we have gotten doing
this talk show talking about the Chicago Bears for many,
many years behind the powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio.
That's the kind of thing that should scare the crap
out of Chicago Bears fans because it's always always a
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growing process. I remember that this guy named Mitch Trubisky
who would go out there he needed a diaper, Trubisky, okay,
and he was actually good compared to these other stiffs
that followed. They said, well, it takes time. It's a
growing process. We're still waiting on Mitch Trubisky. How many
teams has he played for? How many teams does he player?
Then you got justin fields, same thing, growing process. Now
(14:14):
we have we have the trifecta. Caleb Williams. It's a
growing it's a growing process. Caleb Williams said, Okay, So
generally speaking, I don't care about the play clock. I know,
oh you're a bad talk show host. I don't care
about the playclock clock. I don't and I do not
care about, you know, getting the calls in quickly and
(14:36):
all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You blew an.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Eleven point lead at home to a guy that was
also having the cold sweats there, JJ McCarthy, who looked
dreadful until the fourth quarter. So that's a bad job
by all involved here. And so Caleb Williams still watering
the plant in that grade. We'll check back in your
(14:58):
seven or eight see how he's doing all right now.
Last word to La we Go, where Jim Harball has
dazzled us yet again. The Chargers head football coach there
Jim Harbaugh commenting at his weekly news conference about quarterback
Justin Herbert and the toughness that he showed against Cannsa
(15:18):
City in Brazil, and Jim Harbaugh said, quote, he said
a hit that Herbert to you might remember you saw
the game was on the YouTube. He said, the kind
of hit that would have killed a lesser man. That's
Jim Harball commenting on a hit that was received by
his quarterback Justin Herbert. He said, again, quote the kind
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of hit that would have killed a lesser man. Close
quote all right, so how does that quote hit you?
So we know going into this that Harball Jim Harbaugh,
not John Jim Harbaugh, a walking SoundBite machine, just always
a step.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Away from going viral and all that.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
But that's even by that standard, the line that that
hit would have killed a lesser man. So I guess
Herbert's now resputant, right. The Russian guy, the healer there
from Russia. And it's a classic hardball though. You would
(16:21):
have reminded me of years ago there was this guy
named Chuck Pagotto who's a terrible head coach, but a
great SoundBite. And Pagatto was coaching the Indianapolis Colts and
they had a quarterback named Matt Hasselbeck. And Matt Hassebec
was an older quarterback at the time, not very good,
and he went out there and played well enough for
the Colts to win the game. And we used to
play this. You know, we've been through a million board ops,
(16:41):
so nobody knows the old drops.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
But he had this line.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
It was on like a Thursday night game and I
came in after the game and he said that Matt
Hasselbeck was literally on his deathbed. In the postgame, we were like,
oh man, it's pretty good. You got up there were
you had a priest in there to give you a
last rights, and then right away boom, you got right
up and led them to win. So Harball he must
have remembered that filed that quote away back in the
(17:07):
day and thought, well, hold my Khakis, here I go.
And he cannot resist the mellow, dramatic tongue bath for
his quarterback. He can't do it right, and he can't
resist it. Now, may we all have someone in our lives,
someone that is in love with you the way that
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Jim Harbaugh is in love with Justin Herbert.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I mean the kneeling. He's always got Justin Herbert kneepads on.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's just wild, like every news conference is a very
similar there, waxing poetic about Herbert, like he's a war hero.
He's the same guy that would tell you Jim Harball
that Justin Herbert would have been able to land the
Apollo eleven if Neil Armstrong had twisted his ankle that
Herbert was even though he wasn't alive, then he would
(17:59):
have he would have come to the world a little earlier,
and he would have replaced the Neil Armstrong's It's like
the Office Chargers edition when when Harbaugh's when he's doing
this thing right, Harbaugh's basically Dwight from the office and
he's he's standing over Justin Herbert after he got hit, screaming,
we need we need a medic, stat we need a medic.
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He might be concussed, he might be concussed. And then
of course Herbert pops right back up and he brushes
himself off, and and there's a there's Jim Harbaugh playing
the Dwight character saying.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
You know what, I'm gonna write you up.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
You deserve a purple heart, You deserve a because you
got hit in a football game and that's it. And
so there you must be nominated for a purple heart.
And Herbert listen, he takes a second and he got
Jim Harbaugh out there. It's like some kind of make
a wish type situation. It's it's just great. He's America survived.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
He survived. It's a miracle. I get it. You want
to pump up your guy. I understand.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
However, when all you do is give the guy the
tongue bath, it it just we don't take anything to
say like it's legit.
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That is where Eagles defensive star. I don't know if
he's a star, but I've heard of him, so Jalen Carter.
It turns out. Is he going to be suspended for
this weekend's game for the Philadelphia Eagles. No, In fact,
(22:07):
he will not miss any future games for spitting a
loogie on Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. The NFL announcing
that they decided, after a negotiation with the agent for
Jalen Carter that since this is their logic, they said,
since Carter was ejected from last week so the season
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opening game, I remember last Thursday, it was a big
kind of a big deal. He did not participate technically
in a single play. So the league said they were
going to consider that particular game the one game suspension
being served that he already time served. So this is
an important distinction, because the NFL wants you to know
(22:56):
that they have established president all future players that decide
they want their flem to go on another human being,
you will be suspended. You will be suspended, and it
will result in a one game suspension. So let us
discuss the question, what's your read on the NFL's decision to.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Say time served time served for Jalen Carter?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
The Eagle spinner, So on this one, I've got freak show,
Arctic monkeys and aquafina and we will combine all of
these things together and we're going to make authentic Canadian poutine.
Now I got to enjoy that thanks to our guy
Nico and Vancouver who rolled out the red carpet that
(23:48):
great Vancouver meet and greet that we did there. And
what a spread, I say, the greatest spread that we've
had because it was all free. Kim Niko rolled out
the red carpet. Everyone showed up to that Vancouver meet
and greet. It was all paid for. It was awesome
and a big thing of poutine and all my foods.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
It was wonderful, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So number one, this is not a suspension. Can we
all agree on this? Anyone disagree? No one disagrees. This
is not a suspension. This is a work around, Capitol
w work around is what this is.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
That's what the NFL is doing here.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's don't spit on my cupcake and tell me it's
all frosting.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Okay, that's what this is.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And it's a technicality because he was in uniform. He
did run out to start the game with his teammates there,
he was on the field when the game kicked off,
on the sidelines. He got ejected and now the NFL
thinks you're a moron, and they want you to believe
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that that counts as a suspension. They want you to
believe that they counts as a suspension. Now, my position
was he shouldn't get suspended. However, now I'm upset with
the NFL because the NFL is like, well, though that
was a suspension, No it was not. It's like wink green, nod, nod.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It's like, come on, what are you doing? Seriously? I mean,
I understand, I do. What do I know? You think
I'm just a country bumpkin over here? What's wrong with you? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
And it's one of these things. Whatever it takes, whatever
it takes, right, because if you look at the schedule
this weekend, and if you remember the promos from Week
one of the NFL, do you know who the Eagles
are playing?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Uh? Yeah, it's kind of a kind of a big deal.
They are playing. That's right.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Canzah City, the home of the Ben Mallard Chicken figures
that is America's game of the week. You cannot have
Jalen Carter. I don't care how fat that loogie was
and how much green mucus came out of his mouth.
Because it was Egle Green. You cannot have that man
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miss America's Game of the week. The American people need
to see Jalen Carter's fat ass on the field.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
That's what they need.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Tom Brady's calling the game. It's kind of a big deal.
You need to have him on. That is the most
protected TV window you could possibly have. Now, my favorite
part of this is the NFL slap Jalen Carter with
a fifty seven thousand dollars fine. They based it on
his per game salary. You talk about some expensive phlegm. Like,
(26:31):
I'm just telling you how if I were to get
fine for spitting, and I mostly just spit, I have
a mic condom, so I practice safe spitting.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I have a mic. Hear that I have a mic condom,
so I do practice safe spinning. Why you gotta get
him that hook? Yeah, dude, and spit on that night.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
So if his is worth fifty seven thousand, like, how
much is some of mine worth?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
There?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You know malor lugi? Now, my lugies are not heard
around the world like his are. But you talk about inflation.
That is the world's priceiest spit fifty seven thousand? Now,
at least back in the day. If you're old, there's
a guy named Berto Alomar in my I heard stories
of because I wasn't doing sports radio and he spit
at an umpire.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
God no, but I've been told.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Wink wink, nod nod that when Alamar decided that he
wanted to give the umpire a nice juicy piece of
phlegm years ago, everybody knew he got suspended. That was
a suspension for a number of games. But this is
the NFL pretending to be tough. We're National Football. We
are tough, but we're also gonna make sure that the
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key players play in the most important games because we
are a TV show and we need the stars of
the TV show to be in the TV show. It's
a marquee matchup and you're gonna play. So it's it's
like a substitute teacher writing you up for detention. And
then the principle says, you know what, just to count
(27:55):
that recess as time serve punishment. That's a recess. Yeah,
and Carter, he gets to play on the big stage.
Massive game would be the highest rated game of the
NFL weekend. The Eagles and the Chiefs, a rematch of
that little game they played at the end of last season,
and so Dak Prescott he got also a game used souvenir. Congratulations,
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you got some of Jalen Carter's DNA on your uniform.
But it's all spin, right, It's all spin, And of
course it is. It's a big corporation. It's like, we
are tough on spitting. We are tough on spitting until
it interferes with a matchup against Patrick Maholmes and then
him playing Jalen hurts. Then suddenly he's eh, it's okay,
(28:41):
it's all but oh, this is we have not changed
the president. We have not changed the president at all.
So the messaging is rather clear. If you're in the
NFL and you have a predisposition for spitting, if you
are going to spit, make sure that you do it
before a primetime game, because then you will not get
And this is not primetime. It's a late TV window,
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but it's not like a night game. It's the late
game on Fox on Sunday. Now, if you spit on
someone and then the next game you play is against
the Tennessee Titans of the New Orleans Saints, you will
have to miss that game.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You will have to miss that game, but America's game
of the week. We gotta have yacht there.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
The American people, the men, women and children, need Jalen
Carter out there for the Philadelphiagos.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
That's the message from the NFL.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Now we head across the United States to Santa Clair
to the Bay Area, where it didn't take long. Snap, crackle,
pop goes to tight end. Just like that, the forty
nine ers given the whammy as George Kittle's hammy went
whammy and the San Francisco football team putting a star
tight end George Kittle on injured reserve with a hammy
(29:51):
that did decide to go wammy, and so Kittle will
be forced to miss at least four games. Four games
will be eligible return in week six of the season.
If you have your phone out, that's October twelfth, you
can come back at Tampa Bay against the Baker and
the touchdown Maker.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
So how big a blow?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
How big a blow is the loss of George Kittle
for the forty nine ers over the next month, We're
gonna call it. So this is obviously not a bruise.
This is not that, it's not a hangnail. It's not
that this is old school, back in the day, old
school boxing. Rocky Marciano the susie Q punch I never saw,
(30:35):
but I heard about it well. I called his his
knockout punch was the susie Q. He called it there
and right to the jaw, Right to the jaw for
the forty nine ers. So Kittle's thirty one, although he
plays a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Older than that.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Can we all agree on that plays a lot older
than that, And he's certainly an old thirty one.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
And his home away.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
From home not really the end zone anymore, and he's
moved on from that. He's graduated from the end zone.
It's now that up blue injury ten. That is his
home away from home. So you see him go down.
Kittle goes down. It's a contact sport, and you don't
even check the replay. You don't need to check the
replay when George Kittle goes down. You just start googling
who the backup tight end is because that guy's going
(31:14):
to get in the game. That's all you need right there.
And the Niners are already now I know they beat Seattle,
but it's more of a product of Sam Darnold sucking
being the old Sam Duna. So the Niners are already
oozing goo already to start the year in terms of injuries,
and they tried to change the roster. They kept a
lot of the veteran guys though, and they mixed filled
(31:37):
in the roster with some younger players and the older
guys already showing up in the infirmary. And so they've
already lost a couple of guys. Now, Kittle not exactly
a side dish, despite his regular appearances on the injury list.
Not side dish. He's the steak. He's the stake of
that offense. And he was the thirty first ranked player
(31:58):
on that Dopey Top one hundred. I know Terry and
England loves that list. He's a big fan of the list.
So you know, so while next man up, let's just
go next man up and all that stuff. It's like
saying you're going to replace the Arctic Monkeys with a
cover band from the local dive bar.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Now, maybe that'll work. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
It seem to have a lot of downloads over there
on the introweb and all that stuff, so they seem
to be doing something right. But this is not an
isolated incident with George Kittle. He has a very rich
resume of injury, very rich resume of injury. In fact,
I believe if my math is right, I used mather math.
The last last five years he's missed sixteen games. So
(32:37):
essentially he's missed almost an entire season of his last
five years in the NFL because of injury. So you
cannot call George Kittle durable. Cannot use that as a
word to describe George Kittle. You call him rent controlled
is what you call him rent control, because he finds
finds a way to take time off, and that's kind
(32:59):
of the way he goes. But losing Kittle and all
of a sudden, you look at the Niners here objectively,
not to go Olhardo's Sports Radio on you, but if
you look at the forty nine ers and starting to
handicap this game as we go forward with Benny versus
the Penny, which is on YouTube now, so you handicap
the game, and you're like, all right, well, you look
at how the forty nine ers operate, and he is
your third down security blanket for brock Purty, and what
(33:23):
is the scouting report on brock Purty. He does not
make players around him better that brock Purty needs the
star players to elevate him, not vice versas. So now
you're taking away his safety blanket all Who knows if
he's going to play. He's got a bad toe and
a shoulder thing, so he might not even play against
the Saints.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Now, the good news is you are playing the Saints,
so that is good.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
And the play action part of the forty nine ers
offense with Kittle as an option that does not have
the same bite to it, the same teeth to it,
So you don't have that, and the forty nine's offense
just has less of an edge. There's less of a nastiness.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
To it all right.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Now, staying with that final point though, final point to
the transaction wire, where the Niners made a roster move.
They have fired their kicker, Jake Moody. I guess he's
in a bad moody. Jake Moody gone. He missed sixteen
field goals in three years. We hear that's not good.
(34:21):
Those daytime people say that's not good. If you miss
sixteen field goals in three years, you're probably doing something wrong.
Mister chipshot field goal. A couple of should have made
field goals against Seattle, and so the Niners fired Jake
Moody and he went out stage left, and then the
other guy came in stage right. That would be Eddie
(34:42):
Panero on your scorecard, former Carolina kicker, Chicago Bears kicker.
So question, where are you at on the forty nine
ers dumping Jake Moody after keep in mind the other
part of the story here. Don't purry the lead my
man is that Kyle Shananahan, the coach, said after the
game that Jake Moody's job was safe. Yikes, all right,
(35:07):
so that part of it is laughable. Who goofed? I've
got to know and Shanahan goes full Halloween. Pinocchio knows right,
Pinocchio knows mode after the game, and so it's just
what coaches do. Shanahan is the guy who will tell
you do not worry, nothing to worry about here, that
(35:28):
Midtown Bridge is as safe as it could possibly be,
right before it falls into the river, right before that,
and standard coaching half truce, right the half truce of coaching,
the exaggerations of coaching that Shannan's saying. He said, no
question that Jake Moody would be his kicker going forward
and then basically a day and a half later he's gone.
(35:50):
So he should have said, no question, Jake Moody, he's
not a kicker. He stinks that's what he should say.
But he's a teachable moment. Don't listen to coaches, don't
believe coaches, teach him moment.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's why we're here in sports radio to break down coaches.
We give you truth and broadcasting, unlike the coaches who lie.
And it's also a reminder that drafting kickers is dumb.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
The dumb, dumb, dumb. It's a stupid test. It just is.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
It's like it's like paying full price for a bottle
of Aqua Final water while there is a drinking fountain
right there, Like why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (36:28):
You know?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Fun fact about that Dodger Stadium opened up this palace
many years ago and they did not have drinking fountains.
They forgot to put drinking fountains in Dodger Stadium, so
they had to put them in. But these I assume
the reason they didn't put drinking foundas in and they
want people to buy water, although back then people didn't
buy water as much as they do now, but anyway,
the PA, it's kind of like bring ice to Antarctica
(36:49):
or Alaska or something like that. You don't really need
to do it. It's absolutely unnecessary. Drafting kickers, the Niners thought,
yet again, they were the smartest people in the room.
The rest of the league bunch of morons. And now,
of course everyone's pointing fingers and laughing. They drafted a
kicker in the third round. Ha, it's organizational. Organizational arrogance
(37:10):
is what it is. And you love when it blows
up in your face or their face, not your face,
but their face. And so they thought they were gaming
the system, and the system gained them. Instead, they drafted
a guy who was so confident that he fell apart
by year two, and they kept him around for year three,
and good luck. People were throwing helmets on the sidelines.
(37:32):
The teammates were not big fans, and so there you go. Kickers.
They really like relief pitchers in many ways. Kickers are
like relief pitchers in that they're pretty much everywhere, and
they're important and yet disposable. Like a good relief pitcher.
Most games in baseball are designed to be won or
(37:53):
lost by relief pitchers, yet they don't make as much
money as the starting pitcher. It's one of those bizarro
things in baseball, but in kicking in the NFL it's
very similar. A lot of the games will come down
to an extra point or a field goal, and yet
the kicker is not really a football player. It's like
a weird, weird dynamic there. It's like what's a blind spot?
(38:16):
Is what it is here? And so you pick a
kicker up off the waiver wire. You go get someone
from the Toronto CFL franchise, the Argonauts or the Alouettes
over from Montreal, and you pick them up when you
go to the grocery store to buy some eggs and
some milk or butter or whatever, and the so called
(38:37):
geniuses out in San Francisco, once again proving they're not
as smart as they think they are.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Here
we go, Here we to the third degree. This is
one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
So the Broncos were able to start off their season
with a win despite poor play from second year quarterback
bow Knicks. This has caused a contingent of the fan
base to panic, with some even calling for Jared Stidham. Now, Ben,
is it is it time to panic for the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
For some reason? Your MIC's very overmodulated there.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Yes, very close to always panic, Coop, You always must, No,
of course not they won the game. You panic when
you play like that and you lose the game. When
you win the game, it doesn't matter. It's like putting
on a nice cologne. It takes the full smell of
the loss, the odor away. So no, if they start
losing games and he's playing like that, then you make
(39:39):
a change. But they're gonna ride with Bow the Bow
show next.
Speaker 7 (39:43):
So it was announced on Monday that George Kittle will
miss around a month with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Ben, how bad is this news for the Niners? Well,
it's we talked about it. It's a mess.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I mean, they don't have the playmakers that they've had
and their quarterback doesn't make players around George Kittle better.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
It is a huge deal for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Now, brock Perty's got an opportunity here, He's got an
opportunity to change the story about his career. I'm not
betting on brock Purty. Though he might have missed the
game this weekend, he's hurt, so it's a big deal.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Next the New York Mets probably aren't going to be
catching the Phillies and the NL East, but as of
right now, they hold on to that third and final
NL wild card spot.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Ben, do you think they keep it? No?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
I think the better story is them choking it. The
Giants have been playing, but I think that the last
twenty games or so, they have the second best record
in baseball. So they've been playing a lot better in
San Francisco, and Rafael Devers is hitting similar to what
he did in Boston. And I love the Met fans
when they blow it. And to not even make the
(40:48):
playoffs with this roster, that would be so great. God,
I want that to happen. Obviously I hate the Giants,
but I want the Giants to make the playoffs for
the Mets.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Anyway, there it is, Cooperloop, how did we do?
Speaker 2 (41:00):
That?
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Is a win? I I'm a winner.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
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Speaker 5 (41:21):
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going to help you gear rye gear Ride Tonight, gear
Right Tonight, dear Ride.
Speaker 6 (41:33):
You heard the man. It is time for love here
on the Ben Mallor Show and Men and Women. I
just want to remind you as sports season comes in,
make sure you show your special person they are still
special even though you are busy watching sports like twenty thousand.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Hours of Oh, is that? I feel like that. It's
a personal situation, Lorena, I feel like this.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
No, no, no, I like watching sports I have grown
to enjoy.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Is there are a butt? No, No, there's no, there's
no spots.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
I was just thinking about women who don't enjoy sports
and how sad they must be with their men. Yeah,
just you know, disassociate for the whole season. So don't
forget to, you know, make your woman or your man
still feel special if you're into sports and they're not.
They knew the deal when they got involved.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
It's part of the deal. Listen.
Speaker 6 (42:20):
Do they realize how bad it is when you first
started dating.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
From September to February your second that's the way it
is the rest of the year, year number one.
Speaker 6 (42:29):
But make sure you put those weather breaks to good use, everybody.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yes, the hour weather breaks are halftime. Halftime's not that long,
but I guess you don't really need a lot of
time at halftime. You can kind of all right, Yeah,
these are actual questions by actual listeners. Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota,
says Lorraina. My gal wanted me to want more of
me in the bedroom, so last weekend she gave me
two blue Chew treats and said that she'd be in
(42:55):
the bedroom in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
I unfortunately fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Oh woke up choking with a stiff neck and inside
of a chalk outline.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
I get no respect.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
So yeah, I know that you should never fall asleep,
especially if you haven't done it in a while. You know,
you should be so excited that that keeps you up
a bit. You know what I'm saying? Right, maybe you
should deserve to be in a body bag.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (43:20):
RPS is right written in says has Lorena ever considered
I'm not sure what this is. I think she's a lovely,
very great voice. Oh so I think she This guy
thinks you should be doing adulta phone line, Lorena.
Speaker 6 (43:33):
Oh, I've thought about that, have you. Oh? Yeah, me
and my friends used to play around with it when
we were younger.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Yeah, but that's another story.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
The issue might be that you're aren't The people that
do that generally not that attractive.
Speaker 6 (43:47):
You know, the girls on the hotlane on the TV
commercials don't look that bad.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Yes, paid actors. All right?
Speaker 6 (43:53):
Uh, I could do that voice message.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
We have a call for you, tiger Man in Utah
or maybe maybe some other state.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Hello tiger Man.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
Hey, I'm actually in Hawaii. But just a quick recap, Lorena,
I do have two kids with two different women. Unfortunately,
do not have relationship with the woman or the kids.
Now I'm in a relationship with another woman and I
want this to work out, but I'm spending like two
to three hundred dollars a week on this girl, and
(44:25):
it's trying to get expensive. And I want to know
what you think I should do.
Speaker 6 (44:30):
Yeah, you know, your girl should not be draining your funds.
Never let them take advantage of your wallet unless you
want to be a sugar daddy. No, I do not, okay,
But also, but also is she a good companion? Is
she giving you what you need in the in the relationship?
Speaker 4 (44:49):
Yes, but how'd you would rather be alone?
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Yeah, what what do you? What is she like?
Speaker 1 (44:54):
That's like a that's like a jed who fled drug habit,
Like two thousand dollars has a.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Lot of money week two dollars. Oh I thought you said.
I thought you said two thousand.
Speaker 6 (45:05):
I still think about how much that adds up to you.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
It does add up. That does add up.
Speaker 6 (45:09):
Yeah, she buying you gifts with this money?
Speaker 3 (45:11):
Call it? Do you do you live near this woman?
Or she lives somewhere else?
Speaker 4 (45:15):
No, she lives. I mean we're almost going to live together.
Speaker 6 (45:18):
Okay, all right, okay, well, if you're planning on moving forward,
I don't think calling it is the is the thing here.
But also you need to realize if you do move forward,
you're going to be paying for everything.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
You might want to test her ass. Say I'm a
little low on money. Can I get a couple hundred
bucks from you?
Speaker 6 (45:31):
Say listen, we got to figure this out, or you
know what, maybe she needs you to be that provider
in her life and if you can't be them, do
spow out next.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
All right, thank you, good luck, Aloha, Tiger Man and
Joy Hawaii. Why are you calling us?
Speaker 3 (45:44):
All right?
Speaker 1 (45:45):
J T the Wingman says, I'm looking for suggestions for
good cosplay. I need your expertise and recommendations.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
Oh, cosplay is so fun and it depends on which
direction you want to go. I always prefer Disney cosplay.
But you know, like Alex the Vega and he's big
into anime cosplay.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Oh, so you can.
Speaker 6 (46:04):
Always be a furry to you know, furs are really
big and into things. Right now?
Speaker 1 (46:07):
All right, Ferg Duck says, who's your favorite Disney princess?
Speaker 6 (46:11):
Oh, it's got to be Bell Bell Bell, always, always
has been, always will be.
Speaker 3 (46:15):
The Queen of all princess.
Speaker 6 (46:16):
My favorite animals, poo Bear, poo Bear.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
I was like Donald Duck, goofy attention everyone.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
And the password is password, you idiot, password the word
Game of the Stars.
Speaker 3 (46:34):
Here's Ben Meler, let's do this. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
We have Chris in Boston. Who's gonna play Hello Chris, welcome,
Good morning, Ben, How are you?
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Good morning? Chris? You're gonna play passworthy? Word game says,
what are you up to this morning? Chris? On my
way to work?
Speaker 1 (46:48):
All right?
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Very cool? And tell the guy in Sheboygan what you
do for work? What kind of work you do? You
landscape to the start, that's right. All the famous people
in the Boston area they go to Chris.
Speaker 6 (47:00):
A lot of people need landscaping.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
That's right, good business. Yeah, those trees keep growing, the
grass keeps growing. All right, very good. You're gonna play.
Who do you want to partner up with? Chris?
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Let's that's right. We're in it to win it, baby,
We're in it to win it. Hold on a second.
We have George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George,
Hello George, Welcome in socoalt.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
Where is game? Hello? George? Who do you want to
partner up with? You got Lorena? You got koop? A
little bit's passed? Lorena? Okay?
Speaker 6 (47:31):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Are you? Are you working right now? George? It sounds
like you're working. No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (47:37):
You can't make any money work, you know that.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah, well that's true. I've proven that for a long time.
All right, are you on speaker phone? George?
Speaker 4 (47:46):
I could remove the phone.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, well, that would be the polite thing to do.
If you'll be a douche, just leave your speakerphone on.
But that's up to you.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
All right, let's play the game. We have a list
of words here.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Sure you're locked in lock lock Christy. All right, Chris,
pick a number one to ten. Please, one to ten.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
In honor of marcell let's go number two. Well in uh,
in more ways than one. Let's go with spoil spoil.
Speaker 6 (48:21):
Rock now, Oh good, good guests there, Loreina, I gotta
hear this.
Speaker 3 (48:27):
This ought to be good.
Speaker 6 (48:34):
You stole my word, Ben, just so you know.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Okay, five for three gifts? All right, gifts, George. This
is this would be the.
Speaker 4 (48:46):
Part I was listening.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
I thought I heard the word gift. Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (48:51):
You did? Spoiled gifts five four three two one? All right,
you got nothing? How about Chris, let's go with coddle coddle,
I got nothing.
Speaker 6 (49:12):
Should we throw away the word?
Speaker 3 (49:13):
Yeah, let's hurry. The word was pamper your coddle. You
spoil someone, your pamper in the mark.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Take a word, George, number one, number one.
Speaker 3 (49:25):
That's the proper way.
Speaker 6 (49:25):
Go ahead, all right, we're gonna go with dentures.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
Dures cheese. What do he said? Fault cheese? No, that's
not that not anywhere. Why would be the word. That's
a bad clue the rate. Let's let's go with boy
I don't know. I mean there's not.
Speaker 7 (49:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Fang f A n G fang. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
All right, he got over my clue.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
You don't lose the road, and we want to game
Chris and Boston. We won the game.
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