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Big Ben talks about the Philadelphia Phillies being on the brink of elimination as they fall 0-2 to the Dodgers, what happened to Andy Reid's Chiefs in Jacksonville as they lose to the Jaguars, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: John Mellencamp Edition, and more!

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So had a Monday night game and got a bunch
of baseball games, a couple baseball games. Made the editorial
decision to start with baseball. What are you doing that?
Just relax? Got a long road ahead, long winding road

(02:18):
through the overnight, so we have plenty of time and
a blank canvas to paint a word mosaic in the
darkness yere. But we begin with the baseball Playoffs Divisional
Round game number two, game number two in the National League.
Now we're gonna start with the early game because that
was the better game at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia,

(02:44):
the original capital of the United States of America. Kyle Schwarber,
the fighting Fells, looking to square things up against the
Dayers and get some good vibrations going against that. Shohei
Otani and the Dodgers of Okavy pitched in Game went,
and pitch that great in Game one. Didn't do much
of anything with the bat, but the Dodgers, with that

(03:05):
massive dream team lineup that didn't play like that. They
were chronic underachievers during the regular season, but they did
win Game one, trying to go up to Oh. I
don't know if you were watching or not. Maybe not.
We watched so you would not have to because possibly
we get paid to watch, so that's why we watched.
But we did watch. And Blake Snell, Hey, that's my guy,
you know it, Me and Blake's and we go back

(03:26):
many many years. Blake Snell, I'm not playing us I
get mine. Brawl that, Blake Snell.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I'm not playing unless I get mine.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah. Well, he struck out nine over six, shutout, and hey, listen,
the guy look good. What do you want to say?
How do I think he's a douche? But he looked good.
H and one hit ball for the Doyers and then
the bullpen barely barely held on by the skin on
their chinny chin chin. The ninth inning rally a fort
nothing leap. They almost gaged it, but they did not.

(03:56):
So LA gets the win, the Dodgers the good guy,
four to three. They get to win over the Phillies.
In Game two of the National League Divisional Series, Sho
hey o Tani did have a Ribbi single and that
was his first hit in the series. That part of
that four run seventh inning. Will Smith, the fresh Prince
of bel Air, got it done as well to run single,
and the reigning World Series champion Dodgers have a two

(04:20):
nothing lead. It is not a best of seven, it
is a best of five. They are two to zero
in Pennsylvania. The Phillies are in serious trouble at this
particular point. It's only a best of five. Dodgers can
advance in their seventeenth National League Championship Series with a
Game three win back in Los Angeles on Wednesday night

(04:44):
in downtown LA, and parking will cost you eight hundred dollars.
Good luck, all right? So let us discuss the question
better store in the losing locker room? So who is
to blame? Who is to blame for Bryce Harper's Phillies
being on the brink of elimination. It was not supposed
to be like this for the fighting Phills. Now my

(05:06):
thoughts on this, I've got minecraft grand canyon and Captain's chair,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some grilled chicken and rice,
which I'm told is healthy, and not that it's great.
I mean, you've got to have food fried, but I'm
told that's healthy. Anyway, my first thought on this is

(05:27):
what a humiliation situation for the Philadelphia Phillies to be
in this situation. The Phillies, the self proclaimed team of destiny,
that this was the team that had been hanging around
the last couple of years, and they went for they
went out, they pumped up the tires on the bullpen,
and they were ready ready for the Dodgers. And this roster,

(05:51):
all those big bats, a powdered keg of passion the
phill And we do like the way the Phillies play.
They're a fun team to watch. They've got an edge
to their game, and they like to claim their blue
collar heroes in South Philadelphia. Of course, they're all tremendously overpaid,
spoiled athletes, but they pretend they do cosplay like their

(06:14):
blue collar heroes. And they're circling the drain right now.
And the problem for the Phillies, I call it an
I ninety five problem for the Philadelphia Phillies. And now
what does that mean? The arrow is pointing towards the
headliners for the Philadelphia Phillies. It's like Minecraft dungeons, a

(06:34):
starless knight, or in this case, a couple of starless
knights for the Philadelphia Phillies. If you do the cross
check LA cross examination on the Phillies, you got Bryce
Arper over here, Trey Turner, and Kyle Schwarber, the big
three right there, and they are hitting I ninety five,
Actually not hitting I ninety five, they're hitting OWN ninety five.

(06:56):
They're eating. In the first two games they've had twenty
one at batch they're two for twenty one. Now I
didn't play professional baseball, but that sucks. Two for twenty one,
eleven strikeouts from those three the top bats in the
Phillies lineup eleven strikeouts in twenty one at bats, one
run bat at in that Trey Turner, a former Dodger
in the National League Divisional Series, so they were promoted.

(07:20):
The billing was firecrackers. The Phillies bring the fire crackers,
and instead they're wet matches. That's what they brought. They've
brought wet matches here. And it's been the same movie
for the Phillies in this run. They've had good regular
season teams. And it's not over. We'll explain why it's whatever. Yeah,
but this is not looking particularly good at this point,

(07:41):
same cast, and it looks like we're heading towards the
same ending barring a dramatic rewrite in the writer's room. Here,
the Phillies, who live on those good vibrations, right, very loud,
high volume, crank it to eleven. The fans are insane.
Citizens Bank Park. I've been there. It's a beautiful ballpark,
great and vil for baseball. The greatest mascot in sport,

(08:02):
the Philly fanatic, running his fat ass around there having fun.
And that is supposed to be Citizens Bank Park, a
cathedral of intimidation, a house of horrors for the opposing
team to go into Philadelphia with all the lunatic, trunk
Neanderthal fans and that ballpark. And yet you stop and

(08:22):
you look around the Philadelphia a Phillies there have lost
I believe the numbers five of their last six postseason
games at home at What happened to Red October? Where
did that go that? Where's that mystique of the Philadelphia Phillies. Well,
I guess the question is does the idea of home
field advantage mean something anymore now? In baseball? There's something

(08:49):
there that you only get in football, where you have
a dramatic competitive advantage. You are if you're the home team,
you are able to close the game out at home.
You have the advantage because the road team bats first,
U bat second, and so there's a little more of
an advantage knowing what you need to do in the

(09:11):
late innings. I would argue the road team has more
of an advantage early in the game, and if you
can score early and play with the lead, you put
the pressure. The pendulum of pressure swings back to the
home team. But there's a legitimate advantage there. The ballparks
are a little different in baseball, not as much as
they used to be, but it's a little different. The
only other thing in football you have warm weather dome
team cold weather. But the NFL is trying to deball

(09:33):
all the cold weather teams, and eventually they'll only be
like three cold weather outdoor stadiums because Chicago's gonna get
most likely eventually is talk they're going to get a dome.
I've seen different drawings of the stadium they're gonna build
at the racetrack in suburban Chicago. Cleveland wants a dome.
You do have Buffalo, who's building a new stadium will
be outdoors in Green Bed. There'll be a few outdoor teams,

(09:55):
but for the most parts talking me domes or warm
weather teams. And so that was always in advantage. But
when you look at the just the we're not back
in my damn the old guy story. So when I
was a kid, but I've always heard these stories about
players being rattled, Like in Philadelphia. You go there and
you be rattled by a bunch of old dudes wearing

(10:16):
Randall Cunningham jerseys, and you chuck and hot dogs on
the field and all that stuff. But like the whole
Philly fan thing where they.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Will eat you alive, they will eat you alive in.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Philadelphia, that's just a myth. It's just a myth, and
you can't weaponize it anymore. I remember when I was
watching the great Dick Stockton on subis and Pat O'Brien
who worked here at Fox Sports Radio and the Progressive
at the half there at CBS above the Boston Garden.
And I remember watching this as a kid when the

(10:50):
Lakers and Celtics played. Now, I was young, and I
used to talk about all the wonderful things that Red Arbach,
this old executive of the Celtics, would do with the
old Boston Garden my home court advantage there, from shutting
off the hot water, to turning up the heat in
the summer and to make it colder in the winter,
getting brown sludge like brown tapwater sludge in the showers,

(11:13):
like all that stuff, just to kind of mess with
the other team. Right, And so that doesn't happen. You
don't do that anymore. Right, The visiting players show up,
they get a police escort to wherever they're playing, and yeah,
they play in front of forty thousand drunks if they're
playing a baseball game or whatever. But then they go
back to the Ritz. Carlton and the never be worried

(11:36):
about anything, right, they have all the creature comforts, they
have everything. It's not hostile, it's not And so we're
living in this era where you've got the charted flights.
These Major League Baseball clubhouses, and this is one thing.
When I started, they still had crap house visiting clubhouses
in baseball, Like they were really crappy every clubhouse in

(12:00):
Major League Baseball because the union, the players Union, just complained.
It's like walking into the presidential suite. It's a penthouse.
It's not a clubhouse. It's a penthouse, and everyone's pampered.
You're really struggling on the road when you're soaking in
eucalyptus steam rooms. You know, it's really difficult. It's so bad.

(12:21):
So again, and when your own stars stop producing, there's
really no external excuse. And these were at home games
usually not road games. And Bryce Harper, you don't love
the body language. Big body language guy from Bryce Harper,
Trade Turner has he seeing ghosts or something like that?

Speaker 4 (12:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
And Kyle Swarber, it does appear he's trying to hit
a ten run home run every time he comes up.
I don't think as possible. Boy, that would be cool
for the Phillies if he hit a ten run home run,
that would be pretty neat. But the team it's supposed
to be a gritty team, the Phillies. You know, they're
all a bunch of multi millionaires, but they're a gritty team,
lunch pail outfit. And right now they are the seat

(13:02):
fillers at their own concert.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
There.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
They're done with the regular season, the playoffs. Now, they
didn't get to this point because they had the buy
and all that. And they're dancing. You know, it's dancing
on my own, crying alone. That's the vibe there. Now,
all that said, the Phillies are not dead. They are now. Listen,
I want the Dodgers, the one you know that some

(13:25):
of you think I don't, but I do. I'm not
a Dodger hate or anything like that. I'm just a
realist and you're all a bunch of fanboys. But here's
the point. The Phillies are not dead yet. Now. Teams,
if you look at the numbers, teams that have taken
a two nothing lead in the best of five postseason
have won eighty of ninety times. That works out to
eighty eight point eight percent. Eighty eight point eight on
your FM do sounds like a college radio station, and

(13:48):
fifty four sweeps, So that tells you what has happened,
not what's going to happen. And if the Phillies can
steal the game on Wednesday, win that game, they flip
the script. Now, all of the sudden, the pressure start
shifting to the Dodgers not to f this thing up
and have to go back to a Game five in Philadelphia,
even though they won two there, to have to win

(14:08):
with that ragtag bullpen to go back to the Delaware Valley.
So it's really just a one game thing. The Phillies win,
and then all of a sudden things change around quite
a bit, and it's like the Phillies found their pulse,
and you don't want them to find their pulse because
you know what that means there and now it is
a faint pulse. Even if they win, it's a faint
pulse and all that stuff. But this is all about execution.

(14:29):
That's always about execution. And the Stars haven't been better
in the moment. And it's not like, Ohtani, he was
not good in Game one on the mound or at
the plate, and you know a better here, although not great.
And the Phillies stars, though, they're the ones that have
failed to shine the brightest. Now turning the patriot. As

(14:50):
far as the Dodgers are concerned, the question here is,
and I was getting peppered with. I don't go on
social media much, but people my real world, you know,
not the fake people in social media, but the real
people were like, oh you were wrong about the Dodger
They're up for nothing. I was getting I looked at
my phone. I was like, oh boy, you're an idiot.

(15:11):
Suddenly those people stop sending me text messages. When the
Dodgers bullpen came in, there, the parade of the losers,
the parade of terribles there, but the Dodgers didn't win.
So have the Dave Roberts Dodgers now two and ohero
in the NLDS, have they solved their bullpen blues? At
Schufvezravine So I am shaking my head.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
No.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
If you're watching on the YouTube feed there, and if not,
you can watch it later Ben Mahler Show at Ben
Maler Show on YouTube, I'm going to That is what's
called as a WT situation. Wishful thinking is what that is.
The Dodgers are exactly who we thought they were. And
if you want to crown them, crown their ass right.
They've got a bunch of star power, but there's a

(15:53):
soft underbelly. They're Superman with kryptonite. We know what the
kryptonite is. You poked him in the gut and it
jiggles Jack Jackal Jaggo. That's a bullpin. Dave Roberts and boy,
you talk about Roberts came this close to being kicked
out of LA if they had blown that gid. Dave
Roberts got cute right now the front office. These guys

(16:14):
are the smartest people in the room, playing with matches
and gasoline. That's the Dodgers right there. Roberts tried to
get cute. I'm gonna bring in Blake Trining. Blake Who's head,
die die diarrhea for how many months? I'm gonna bring
in Blake Trining like he's gonna be my secret weapon.

(16:34):
Like it's two years ago and I'm only bring Blake
Trining in there, And instead he was diffuse. That sparked
the Phillies comeback. And the only reason Roberts isn't being
tarred and feathered right now is because the Dodgers held
on and won. And he gets a mulligan because that's
how it works. And the box score says at w

(16:55):
And so the fact that it was systemic incompetence by again,
Roberts is just the middle manager. We know he's not
really doing anything that the front office doesn't want. But
deep down, the Dodger fan, the real Dodger fan, they
know the truth. Right that bullpen they are the flying
will lend us that's a data reference, but go with
it all right. Every night they are wobbling on a

(17:16):
tight rope over the Grand Canyon, just waiting, waiting to
slip on that wire. And there's no net, right, there's
no net, and you can feel it coming right now.
It listen, there's a great shape against the Phillies.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
For now.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
You hear the music and you see the balancing pole
kind of shaking a little bit, and the ween gusts
up there. Those middle relievers come in, the era explodes.
So I don't think anything's been solved because my position
was the they're pitching starting pitchers in the bullpen and
they're avoiding the actual bullpen. It's that bad. They actually

(17:56):
agree with that. The Dodgers agree with me. They say,
you know what, Mallory, you're right as blow. It's the
starters we got to bring in, and yet even in
this game they got cute. And so that Dodger bullpen
has an underlying condition. All right, they do. It's a
nightly death defying stunt. Hide the women, hide the children.
Dave Roberts is the guy who's he didn't have a

(18:18):
safety net and the only safety news to bring these starters.
And then even he didn't, he didn't bring Sazaki in
and he messed around with that. All right. Now, quickly,
last thing, we go to Milwaukee, the other half of
the bracket in the National League, where if you turn
on the game very early, the Cubs had an early lead.
They're up three to nothing over the Brewers, and then
they had to play the rest of the game. Andrew

(18:39):
Vaughan and Jackson Turio each hit three run home runs,
and William Contrez also a solo shot. The Brewers not
known for their all their home run power, but they
on this day they did get it done. There. They
come back down three to nothing, the brew crew get
a seven to three win, and now they are one
win away from a rematch. This was a rematch in

(19:02):
the NLCS about seven eight years ago, Dodgers and the Brewers,
and the series now shifting to Wrigley Field for Game
number three that'll be on Wednesday as well. The better
story in the loser's locker room. So who gets to
eat the blame cheese curds because you're in Wisconsin for
the Cubs who lost to the Brewers. So this one's easy.

(19:24):
It's Imanaga showed it to in Monaga, the starting pitcher
here for the Cubs, the ace who I believe watching
this game and I was slipping back and forth from
the Monday night game in this game, but watching him,
he melted faster than some fresh cheddar in an air
fire on a hot pretzel. Just melted, just absolutely melted.
You jump back to a three to nothing lead, and

(19:44):
Suzuki hit a rocket early on for the Cubs. You got,
you know, feeling pretty good right there. You're thinking, great,
crowds kind of buzzing back home. There's a lot of
Cub fans in Milwaukee because it's not that far away
from Chicago, and everyone's excited. I know, our guy's tree, Eugene.
They're all fired up there and this you got your
so called stopper, You got your number one pitcher on

(20:06):
the mound there and it was like a kid's birthday
party pinata. You get a hit, you get to hit.
Imanaga was in the captain's chair and he was writing
the Vomit Comet. He wrote the Vomit Comet and the
just completely helpless. The Brewers played Yachtzi with Immenaga in
this game. And so there you go. So here we are.

(20:28):
It's October baseball. You need your ace, generally speaking, you
need your ace to go more than a couple of innings.
Eat some innings, be like Joey Chestnut and scarf down
all the hot dogs, the Glizzy gobbler and no. Instead.
Imanaga was nibbling, he was sweating. He was pressing forty

(20:48):
six pitches. You get a three nothing lead, your ace
goes forty six pitches. Good afternoon, good evening, and good
night and bye bye, see you later.

Speaker 6 (20:57):
There.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
So another team, the Cubs, says somebody you said, hey,
the Cubs are just built different and all that. I
don't see it. That appears to be false advertising for
the Cubs at this point. Here, it does look more
like they're built for day games in May against the
Pirates and not primetime in October. There, and we'll talk more.
I'm sure if the Cubs do lose this on Wednesday
about Craig Council, and people will be celebrating the demise

(21:20):
of Craig Council as a Wisconsin guy. And he took
the money and went down to Chicago to coach the
Cubs and his team. The Cubs are getting pantsed right
now by his old team. So the Brewers look very relaxed.
Why wouldn't. You're up to nothing in the series. The
Cubs look a little constipated. There's some pill you can take.
There's a pill. There's also a drink that you can

(21:41):
take to get rid of that here. But Council, he
left for the money, so it's not like he if
he is really worried. He was with State ofum Milwaukee.
He left because he got a bag from Chicago, become
the highest paid management in baseball. And that's the same
thing you would have done. I would have done, we
all would have done. Not worried about winning. He's I
can win in Chicago. He's in the playoffs. He's like, yeah,
find the Brewers can win, but I'm still getting paid,

(22:03):
and how can you get that money in Milwaukee.

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We now go our lead this hour from the River
City and that's where we had Jacksonville in a full moon.

(24:20):
That was the stage the final act of Week number five,
Week number five of the NFL season, and you had
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs traveling vandwagon fit for a
pop star into du All Cody.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
Just like that.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
There a little playdate with the Jaguars. And you only
see the Jags on national TV one time, normally a
regional broadcast. But here they were Monday night football Island game.
Were you watching? BA and me? We were watching the
baseball game. I was flipping back and forth. I was
I was flipping back and forth. I watched the majority
of this one. And a good thing about f football

(25:00):
a lot of time outs. He can go back and
forth and have a field day. So if you did
not watch Trevor Lawrence who tripped, he fell to the ground,
he stumbled, he tripped over his own line, and he
got up and he got his feet and nobody touched
him from Kansas City, a defensive boo boo and scrambling

(25:22):
one yard touchdown with twenty three seconds remaining, the kill
shot for the Jaguars, as it was a comedic pratfall
which ended up in an improbable touchdown and Jacksonville beats
Kansas City thirty one twenty eight on a Monday night.

(25:44):
As Trevor Lawrence was serenaded serenaded by his teammates. There
his birthday, twenty sixth birthday for Trevor Lawrence there, and
good news is he doesn't need anything because he's really
filthy rich, so he don't need to buy him anything.
He's so loaded he can buy whatever he wants. Yes, anyway,
the ridiculous wacky ending there as Kansas City has scored

(26:09):
to take the lead, went up by four, so Jacksonville
had to get a touchdown. The Jaguars eight and one.
Now they snap an eight game losing streak to Kansas City.
They also matched their wint how pathetic were they last year?
Where they've matched their win total at four from all
of last season. And the Chiefs the better story here

(26:30):
in the losing locker room, the Chiefs dropped back under
five hundred. I thought the Chiefs had arrived. You told
me they had arrived. They beat Baltimore. They had arrived.
Apparently not that that was wrong. Well, the better story
is there, so let's go into it and let's hear
from some of the key participants. Will start out with
Andy Reid. Now, one of the big storylines here was

(26:53):
the mistakes for the Chiefs, and they had they led
the world in penalties in this game. The referees calling
the penalty here, there, and everywhere. Here is Andy Reid
talking about that particular issue.

Speaker 9 (27:09):
Thirteen penalties to their four. Whether I agree with them
or don't agree with them, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
They call them.

Speaker 9 (27:15):
And so you have that many penalties, you give a
field position, you get outstat him to death. But it
doesn't matter. It's a score that matters. And we've got
to take our business there.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Okay, Andy always sounds like he needs a throat lozenge
he and Doc Rivers always sounds like he's got he
needs some garlic or something like that. Anyway, all right,
so question, let's discuss the question what happened? What happened
to Andy Reid's cams City chiefs there in Jacksonville. So
I've got waffle house, confetti, and submarine and we'll combine

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all of these things together, and we're gonna make your
Babushka's favorite gummy candy is what we're going to make,
all right? So number one, I said, Num number what?

Speaker 4 (28:02):
What?

Speaker 1 (28:02):
What? Right?

Speaker 2 (28:04):
All right?

Speaker 1 (28:04):
All right? So here's what I saw on my TV,
which is not I don't have like the biggest TV
in the world. I got a regular sized television of
a giant TV. So I saw Kansas City walk into
Duval County and get hit in the face with a
frying pan. Andy Reid mentioned they won the stats. They did.

(28:25):
They won the stats. So if you're just a low
information fan and you worship stats and you're a fantasy
football dope, oh, they won the starts. Everything's foid. Yeah,
remember what is the mantra? We have a couple of
mantras on this show because we've done this a long time.
Most games are lost, they're not won, and the better
story is losing locker room. This game checks both those boxes,

(28:47):
both those boxes. This was a waffle House special for
Kansas City. They stacked up mistakes, they were smothered in penalties,
and they had a side of brain farts, which I
don't I think that's an add on item at waffle house.
I don't think that's out on the actual menu. I
think that's the secret menu. You can order brain farts.
You gotta go there like a two thirty three in

(29:07):
the morning, though, to get the full brain fart experience
when you go to the waffle house. But listen, the
Chiefs cooked themselves. Andy Reid mentioned it thirteen penalties one
hundred and nine yards, and they even at one point
late in the game, not that it mattered, but they
called back to back timeouts, which even I know didn't
play in the NFL. But even though you can't call
back to back timeouts, you cannot do it. He did it.
Oh my god, you can't do it on Madden. You

(29:29):
can't do it in the real NFL. So Andy Reid's group,
you know what it looked like. It looked like they
were making a YouTube video on how to implode and
lose an NFL game. Things to do to lose an
NFL game, made by those influencers in Kansas City, including
and you're not supposed to say this because Mahomes is great,

(29:51):
but he left way too much time on the clock.
They were so arrogant that the Chiefs assumed the position that, hey,
we're so good defensively that we don't have to worry
about limiting the time left before Jacksonville gets the ball.
So the Chiefs did score the go ahead touchdown with
one forty five to go in the game, and then

(30:13):
they fed up the kickoff, which we've seen a couple
of times here in Week five, we saw it, and
whether they have the fugazy kicking rule, or it's got
to be in the right zone. If it's not in
the right zone, if it goes out of bounds, the
ball goes to the forty yard line. So the Jags
took over at their own forty yard line. Now they
didn't need a field goal, so it's not like that,

(30:33):
but they still it gave them some wiggle room and
they took advantage of which is all of this is
totally unchief like. It's unchief like to play that way.
We've not seen that in this era. And the team
that has been the model franchise in this particular run
of big game performance and composure. They don't win them all,

(30:55):
but they're normally not going to beat themselves. And it's
been what six years more than that, I think now,
and here they are in this game looking like they're
the Cleveland Browns, tripping over their own shoelaces and just
a hot mess. And then you had that ninety nine
yard ninety nine yard return pick six from linebacker Devin

(31:18):
Lloyd of Jacksonville ninety nine yards. He should have run
back to the end zones to make it a full
one hundred yards, but that's the kind of play that
you see people. Wow, it's a rookie mistake. Mahomes not
a rookie obviously, Right, Mahomes did the thing you can't
do at the time.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
You can't do it.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
He made the big mistake there. And here's Mahomes by
the way, pointing out Patrick Mahomes that there were a
lot of self inflicted wounds. Take a list.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
I mean, it kind of just talks about our whole
entire season. I mean, I feel like we have the
guys and we execute at certain points of game and
looked really good, and then we kind of would crush
ourselves with penalties and mistakes and interceptions and fumbled or
whatever that is. I mean, it's just we've kind of
done that to ourselves all year long. It's kind of
been one guy here there, and in this league it's

(32:06):
so close that those change games, and so we got
to be better. You know, we we've lost Chimney games already.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yes, well, good luck. So the Chiefs back under five
hundred here. That was a kick to the foot balls
by Jacksonville, the Kansas City. The Chiefs strutted in. They assumed,
like everyone else that plays Jacksonville look it's like a
community pool. You come here, you can look at the pool,
and then you win the football game. And they were like, hey,
we're rock stars, man, you know we are Taylor Swift's

(32:34):
favorite team. We are. And they end up leaving doing
the walk of shame right down Broad Street there with
their tails between their legs, and the Chiefs as they lose.
Mahomes did have the Gatti stat line, the three hundred
and seventy eight total yards running and passing, two touchdowns
running and passing combined, and a l So the Dorks
will be happy because Mahomes had a big stat game.

(32:56):
The Chiefs are two to zero against Tomato Cans, the
Giants and Ravens already combined two and eight. That's a
two hundred winning percentage. Meanwhile, the Chiefs are zero and
three against the Chargers, Eagles, and Jaguars, who are a
combined eleven and four. So that tells you a lot,
not everything, but it tells you a lot. Here, past results,
we know do not guarantee future outcomes. We're all aware

(33:18):
of that. And Kansas City had the Big Three. They
were let's see the Big three. They were sloppy, they
were unfocused and they were undisciplined. So those are the
big three. Congratulations, And you could see we heard from
Andy Reid, but you can see Andy Reid like kind
of his mustache was twitching a little bit. Either he
wanted some chicken alfredo or he was very upset. I'm

(33:41):
not sure which, but I'm going disgusted. But he might
have wanted chicken alfredo also and been disgusted. And so
the Andy Reid is always detail oriented, right, That's one
of the great Hall of Fame traits of Andy Reid.
And it's all about the little things, as coaches like
to say, but instead look like a bunch of guys
on a bender, just like they were in Jacksonville for
the weekend, just having a great old time elsewhere. Yet

(34:03):
Travis Kelsey had seven catches for sixty one yards and
a touchdown, which is good but not great. And my
advice to Kelsey is he better run off to an
Elvis chapel asap, get married as fast as possible, do
not wait for the royal wedding, because Taylor Swift is
going to realize, wait a minute, this team's a loser.
My husband plays for losers, my future husband, so I

(34:26):
don't want to be associated with losers. So you better
get married quick, Travis, because it is not going well
for the Chiefs right now. And if the Chiefs keep
this up, I don't think they will. But if they
do keep it up, and she's going to be writing
her next album will be a breakup song and it'll
be like Flags and Fumbles and she'll be rifting on that. Well,
maybe the Chiefs are so busy. They were like they

(34:47):
were trying to listen in their helmets to the new
Taylor Swift album and that's why they were unable to
play all right now? Page two? Does this count? Big
headlines all over the interweb? Does this count as a
signature for Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars? So on this one,
I know that the clown College of Sportscasting, there's a

(35:09):
sports writer clown college. There's certain narratives that you just
have to go with, and this is one of them.
But I rolled my eyes when I saw that, And yeah,
you want to just break out the confetti cannons, you know,
fire the cuttings, get the confetti cannons ready to go
for Trevor Lawrence. You can do that if you want. However,

(35:29):
I believe the word for that is premature capital P.
Premature capital P. And here's why, again, we laid it out.
Kansas City was so sloppy. They handed the game to Jacksonville,
and Jacksonville took it. On the island game, they took it. Congratulations,
But stop me. If you've heard this before, Trevor Lawrence,
maybe my TV was different than your TV and the

(35:52):
other people's TVs. I thought Trevor Lawrence played fine. I
thought he was fine Trevor Lawrence as a player. It's
not like he parted the Red Sea or the Saint
John's River there in Jacksonville. This was more about the
Chiefs collapse than it was some kind of public coronation
of the Jaguars. Cheryl. Lawrence had a meh performance. Two

(36:16):
hundred and twenty one yards passing. That's kind of where
he's normally at, somewhere between one eighty and two twenty.
And he had his usual two turnovers, a horrific fumble interception.
So he checked those boxes and he on the signature
player of the game. He was at klutz, he fell down,
he got stepped on, he fell down, and then because

(36:37):
the Chiefs decided they wanted to kind of relax a
little bit. They didn't want to hustle, so they allowed
the quarterback with the ball to Sanchez into the end zone.
So let's not act like this is Joe Montana finding
Dwight Clark in the back of the end zone against
the Cowboys, that signature moment that ignited the career of
Joe Montana. No, that was the mo whoopsie Daisy, what happened? Oh, Mike,

(37:02):
I guess I scored a touchdown moment we've seen in
a long time. He tripped. He tripped, And there is
a dimension in the multiverse where Trevor Lawrence trip does
not score a touchdown. Jacksonville does not win, and we
are having a much different conversation you and I right now.
But Lawrence is one of the one of these guys.

(37:24):
He's been a pretty big bust in his NFL career,
and yet it's like he's got his own visitor and
like the convention and visitor authority of Trevor Lawrence. So
you can't say that, you know, just keep pumping the
tires on Trevor Lawrence. He's so good. Come on, if
that's your signature moment, tripping and scoring a touchdown, you

(37:46):
likely need to go back to the to the creative
writing room and come up with something else there. You
need to aim higher. All right, final point, follow up
to what we've been discussing here. Follow up to what
we've been discussing. So Jacksonville has a good In fact,
you look at your NFL standings, and I know you
love your NFL stands. Oh, I can't get enough of

(38:06):
those NFL stand Boy, They're great, aren't the standings?

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Right?

Speaker 1 (38:09):
So you look at the standings for Jacksonville, and now
if you look at your big board, not a list,
big board, Jacksonville is the number five seed in the
American Football Conference, so they would play in that five
to four game. It's way too early for all that.
But they're a playoff team and they're off to the
four and one start on the year, and the people
are saying, well, they've arrived, So is it time to

(38:32):
take the Jags seriously? Beat Kansas City primetime game. So
I would say, I'm gonna channel our favorite crossing guard
from Fort Wayne, and I'm gonna put the stop sign up,
is what I'm gonna do. Daniel from Fort White. I'm yeah,
I'm putting the stop sign up, because here's why they're

(38:52):
not there. I don't see it right, and I need
to see way more, way more before I'm going to
start carving the faces of Trevor Lawrence and the head
coach Liam Cohne into AFC Mount Rushmore. I'm not quite
there yet. The wins are against the Niners and Kansas City.

(39:15):
Those are the two big wins for Jacksonville. Those are
billboard wins. So I guess they'll buy a billboard on
nine to ninety five and put that up. Congratulations. Not impressed,
I'm not as why are you not in press? Were
you just being a douchebag the mixplay because in this
game it was more about Jacksonville being the beneficiary of
the benefactor, which was Trevor Lawrence his opponent there Mahomes

(39:41):
and Travis Kelcey and Andy Reid Heer. That's not arriving
when someone just hands you the game. Now you took it.
That's like somebody finding a lottery ticket on the street
and then you scratch it off with your like a
quarter or something like that. You won, Well, congratulations, but
you didn't buy the lottery and you found it, and
so again, just don't be a prisoner of the moment
here relax as Aaron Rodgers fam as he said. And Jacksonville,

(40:05):
y'all told me, And I did have Jacksonville in the
game Monday night, so I was happy. If you watched
Benny versus De Penny on YouTube, WHI you should watch
every week, make that part of your routine. I had Jacksonville.
I was very happy that they won the bet. I
didn't think they would actually win the game. The other
factor here, though, is when you handicap the game. The
big selling point for Jacksonville is they have a top
ten defense in most of the key categories. They were

(40:26):
top ten, top five defensively, and that we thought was
going to be the calling card for Jacksonville. However, they
gave up. Let me shake my notes here four hundred
and seventy six yards that Kansas City looked like a submarine,
but they were the screen door on the submarine trying
to keep the water out and they were at the
bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It did not go well.

(40:49):
And so if the Chiefs and Jaguars meet again in
January in a playoff game, are you gonna bet on
Kansas City or are you gonna bet on Jacksonville, You're
gonna bet on Kansas City every time. And context obviously
plays a factor in this. You're talking about October football,
You're not talking about a playoff test or anything like that.

(41:10):
And Jacksonville they play Seattle next, that's in Duvall County.
Then they play one of those international games across the
Atlantic against the LA Rams. So that's who they have
up next. And those are two games that are fifty
to fifty games. You can go either way where Jacksonville
could win both. They can go one and one lose bowl.
I mean, those are legitimate similar teams to Jacksonville, the

(41:33):
Seattle Seahawks and the Rams. So we'll see, we'll see
what happens here. We'll watch the games. But the good
news for the jackson I will Benny Brightside. The division
they're in, the AFC South is the kiddie pool of
the NFL, and I realize the culture playing very well
right now. They have the top record in the AFC.

(41:54):
That's not going to last. And the Jags in Jacksonville
and Indianapolis can thumb wrestle for first place. And the
Texans are saying what about us, Well, I'm not too impressed.
They beat the Ravens and Hooper Rush, so we'll see
what they do when they play some real opponents here
and then got the Tennessee Titans who are wearing the
Dunce cap in the corner of the room, sucking their

(42:14):
thumb and the sandbox waiting for teams to give them
games like the Arizona Cardinals. So Trevor Lawrence still the
poster boy in my world. Trevor Lawrence is still the
poster boy for getting paid on potential, not results. And
I'll give him this. They at least they're somewhat entertaining
Jacksonville with like Trevor Lawrence is kind of a dopey,
got the long hair thing. You got the nerdy coach

(42:37):
who doesn't seem like he's the leader of men, but
yet he's coaching an NFL team. So there's a lot
going on.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
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Speaker 1 (42:48):
Here we go, how about that?

Speaker 2 (42:51):
There is one gets Great Ben.

Speaker 10 (42:58):
After another loss for the Bengals and another three interceptions
from Jake Browning, coach Zach Taylor didn't rule out a
change at quarterback, Ben, who should the who should Cincinnati
go after to keep them in the hunting?

Speaker 1 (43:08):
To Joe Barrows, I would have an open tryout. The
backup is Brent Rippen. He used to play for the Rams.
Guy can't play, so they got can't play. They got
sucked and blow at the quarterback position, Coop, So they
got a trade for somebody or get somebody out of
Canadian football. They neither one of them can play next.

Speaker 10 (43:22):
Dak Prescott was serenaded with m V pach hands in
the Meadowlands during the cow Balls against the Jets. Ben
if Dallas's wort to make it to the postseason despite
a tumultuous offseason, do you think Dak will actually be
in the discussion? Uh?

Speaker 1 (43:36):
No, I don't. I don't buy it. And uh, you know,
no one, No one's established themselves head and shoulders as
the MVP in the NFL. It's only week five. No
one's clearly headed, you know, way way above everyone. But
I know I do not have Dak Prescott in the
conversation when we have that conversation, Coop. At the end
of the year, it's a nice win. You played the Jets, Okay,

(43:56):
you can't win an MVP against the Jets.

Speaker 10 (43:58):
Next on Sun, Jamier Gibson David Montgomery both scored a
touchdown in the same game for the fourteenth time, the
ties of record held by Emmett Smith and Daryl Johnson. However,
Emmett and Moose played together for ten years. Gibbs and
Montgomery are currently in their third year together. Ben, Are
they already the greatest one two punch up running back
of all time?

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah? If I was a Lions fan, Coop, I was
living in Lansing, Michigan or something like that, they would
be the greatest of all. Of course. Not come on,
you got you do that over longevity. You do that
in big games. You have to win championships together. And
last I checked, the lines have done none of that.
How did we go? He passes it a Hi, Hi, run,
hollering James Run.

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Speaker 1 (44:51):
Let's not waste any time, but we have our game
show contestants. Keith is in May and Keith welcome. What's
going on you sat ex scaited, Keith, you're gonna play
the game, and who do you want to partner up with?
You got me Ben, Cooper Loop, I'll go with you,
all right, sounds sounds good. Hold on a sec and
Tyler and Boston. Tyler, you're gonna be with Coop all right?

Speaker 7 (45:12):
Sounds good to me.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
All right, we'll lock you in coopboard.

Speaker 10 (45:15):
The categories quickly cool please all right, gentlemen, this is
the John Mellencamp edition of Mallor's Mount of Money.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
He turned seventy four years old today.

Speaker 10 (45:23):
The categories are Hurt So Good, Authority Song, small Town,
and rain on the Scarecrow.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
Keith, you were on first, which category would you like?

Speaker 10 (45:33):
Let's go with small town?

Speaker 4 (45:34):
Small town all right? And then Tyler, how about you scarecrow?
All right?

Speaker 1 (45:40):
He said, with a question mark on that Coop a question.
But all right, everyone, hold on, we'll have and it's entire.
Do not hang up, gentlemen, do not hang up. Mallard's
Mount of Money. We'll get to that and we will
do it next.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific now
Malor's Mountain of money. Hello, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not?

Speaker 1 (46:05):
All right, let's do it. Here we go, let's play
the game. We have our contestants. We've got Keith in
Maine and Tyler's in Boston. Keith has partnered up with media.
What are you up to, Keith? Are you working right now?
Are you just hanging out?

Speaker 5 (46:17):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (46:17):
I actually just got out of work.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
I'm on my way home.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Oh nice?

Speaker 10 (46:20):
All right?

Speaker 1 (46:21):
What kind of work do you do?

Speaker 7 (46:23):
I work at a paper mill in the middle of
nowhere in now Vegas, Maine.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
All right, Well someone needs to make paper and you're
the one doing it. Yeah, yeah, get it? All right?
Well I won't ask Tyler then, because you guys don't
care about Tyler. Let's play the game, coop.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
What are you got going on here?

Speaker 1 (46:40):
And Keith?

Speaker 4 (46:41):
I believe, yes, yes, you have small town all right?

Speaker 1 (46:43):
These athletes all are from small towns, kind of like you. Keith.
Are you ready? Ye? All right? Forty five seconds on
the clock. Here we go, and we're our way. Quarterback
for the Packers before Aaron Rodgers barb yes, a wide
receiver with the Vikings, He went to the Patriots, though
on the undefeated team. Yeah, the greatest Celtic of all

(47:04):
time in the nineteen eighties. Anyway, Yes, Yankee legend. He's
not a mouse, but he played in the nineteen sixties
and outfielder number seven for the Yankees. Yes, white running
back for the old Washington Redskins in the nineteen eighties.
Kind of a plodding running backs nor guard for the

(47:28):
for the Lakers. A white guy from no currently on
the Lakers right now?

Speaker 4 (47:34):
Currently, Oh, all right, that's fine, you wo No, that
is correct, but not that, not that one.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Austin Reeves, John Riggins. You didn't get John Riggins. All right,
let's sorry.

Speaker 10 (47:49):
Go ahead, Coop, you're up, all right, Tyler, we have
rain on the scarecrow. These athletes all grew up or
currently live on a farm. Are you ready?

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Ready?

Speaker 1 (48:00):
All right?

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Forty five seconds, let's begin.

Speaker 10 (48:02):
Current quarterback for the Bills, the all time strikeout king
in Major League Baseball. He played for the Angels and
the the Houston Astros. His the nickname is Rocket. Okay, anyway,
this guy was a pro wrestler. He was in the
Princess Bride. He's giant he yes, uh, this guy he said,

(48:28):
I didn't say anything.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
You said.

Speaker 10 (48:30):
This guy is one of the all time greatest pitching
hid in the postseason, he played for the Giants. His Yes,
this guy was a white guy receiver for Aaron Rodgers
on the Packers. Yes, this guy was the center for
the Dallas Mavericks when they won in twenty eleven.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Oh yeah, it's and we'll we track the Andrey the Giant.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
You said it.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
I did not say minus third. I did not say Sup,
we're tied.

Speaker 4 (48:55):
No, we're not.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Believe we're tied. Said, I did not say it.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
I heard it.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
Everyone heard it. Nope, you heard it, right, Keith? I did, Yeah,
he said, Keith heard it? All right, Well you're you're
cheating already. Go ahead there, Keith, we are up. You
want what we got? A forty song or hurts so good?
All right, hurts so good, very good. These athletes played
through injury to win in the playoffs. Are you ready, Keith? Yeah,

(49:21):
all right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
First and last name, greatest golfer of all time? Yes,
all time NFL leading rusher for the Dallas Cowboys, starting
pitcher for the Red Sox. He had a bloody sock
and he got it there. Yes, tight end for the
Cleveland Browns. His son was a rapist. Oh my god,

(49:45):
all right, Dodger outfield played for the Tigers, hit the
home run in the eighty eight World Series. The Yes,
center for the Lakers. He liked to park in handicap
parking spaces. No, he might, well, he might actually need one. No,
how about this. A linebacker for the Rams played with
a broken leg in the Super Bowl in nineteen eighties.

Speaker 9 (50:11):
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
All right, Jack Youngblood, you have.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
One sixty two sixty total. Then and Andrew Bynen was
the center that I liked to park in.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Han Yeah. I didn't know anything else to say about
Andrew bid.

Speaker 10 (50:25):
I won a championship with the Lakers alongside power gasol
between towers.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Come on, at least Kwame Brown through a cake. You
know that's funny.

Speaker 10 (50:32):
All right, Tyler, we've got authority song. These athletes all
had a problem with authority. Forty five seconds, that's begin.
His nickname was the Answer in NBA. Yes, this guy
knelt during the anthem. In the NFL, Yes, this guy
was one of the best wide receivers. He was on
the forty nine Ers, the cow now the Cowboys. He yes,

(50:57):
this guy's nickname was the rain Man in the NBA
for the Sonics has the Seattle SuperSonics. He had like
seven children from like seven different women. Yes, this guy
was a wide receiver on the Saints.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (51:13):
His cousin calls our show a generic name with Drew Brees. No,
all right, this guy has the same name as a
running back in the NFL for the Rams. But he
was an NBA players.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Oh sorry, you don't win. I hate to say. What
was the total?

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Are we won?

Speaker 4 (51:30):
You got one hundred on there and then on the
other yea.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Yeah, we did not track. We again, win the game.
We win, We won the game. We won the game.
Game