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Big Ben talks about the Jets trading CB Sauce Gardner to the Colts for two first-round draft picks, the Cowboys trading for Jets DT Quinnen Williams, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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from the trading block. We love trades now. I ran

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for years long time ago. You don't know about this,
but I ran a gossip website in addition to the
radio stuff, sports, trade rumors and things like that, and
got pretty popular. A cult following, did pretty well. We
had success with it. We loved the rumor. We didn't
love the trade. The rumor was fun. The trade eh eh.

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So we have a lot to dissect. Tuesday afternoon, depending
where you were, early afternoon on the West coast, late
afternoon on the East coast, the music stopped the game
of musical cheers. Here the twenty twenty five NFL Trade
deadline cup put did your team make a deal? I
don't know what your team is a lot to pick

(02:54):
apart though, and we like that that's fun to do,
to pick trades apart the good, the bad, and the ugly.
We're gonna focus in on the big names because it's
called broad casting, not narrow casting. We believe in broad
cast we have a broad audience even though we're really
only talking to you. It's amazing, we have a large audience,
but we're really only talking to one person. Shocking. So

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we're gonna start with the biggest name traded, the biggest
on the block. A name is so good he goes
by a nickname, not his birth name. And if you
have not heard, I assume you have possibly not. The
New York Jets decided they were going out of business.
The one part of the team that was any good

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was the defense. And they said, you know what, we
can't have a good defense. We don't need to do
good defense. We don't want a good defense, even though
we hired a defensive minded head coach. Let's get rid
of the guys on the defense that are gun And
so they said bye bye to Sauce Gardner. Get your
ass out of Jersey, Sauce. They sent Sauce Guardardner, the

(04:00):
All Pro defensive back to the Indianapolis Colts for a
first round draft pick in next year's draft, and then
another one another one in twenty twenty seven. So that's
back to back first round draft picks along with a
wide receiver who, if I remember, correctly fumbled the ball
before crossing the goal line in the game against the Rams.

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And so he has also traded Donnie Mitchell going to
the Jets as well in that particular transaction. So the
reporting of it said sauce Gardner was stunned, stunned to
be traded to the Horseshoes from the Jets, and just

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a lot to dissect. So let's stop there. We'll have
that as the jumping off point as we discussed the
question for the esteem panel, who got the best of
the Jets? Sauce Gardner trade to the Colts two first
round picks. Two? All right, So I've got on this one.

(05:04):
I've got claw machine, remote control, and Golden Horseshoe and
we will combine all of these things together and we're
gonna make some delicious kettle corn. Gonna be really not
good for you. It's popcorn covered in sugar, but man
does it taste good? Man? Is it delicious? So a

(05:26):
this one does count as a stutter from down under.
I pay attention to this crap because I have a
daily talk show to do, and so you look for names,
and there's certain names that are mentioned. Did not have
sauce Gardener on my big board. Not a list for
Terry and England, not a list big Bore. Did not

(05:47):
see sauce Gardener being traded. Sauce Gardener was supposed to
be untouchable. He was supposed to be the guy that
you build your defense around, the cornerstone, shutdown defensive back
in the prime of his career another five or six
dominant years ahead two all pro nds locked up long term,
big money contract, long term, big money contract. That's not

(06:12):
the guy that you typically trade. That's a guy that
you build around. You showcase that player that like, oh
my god, we finally got a draft pick.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Right.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
The Jets suck in the draft every year. They finally
did something smart. They drafted a player that knows what
he's doing and they signed him and then they said
bye bye and they traded his ass. It's so great
that it's again, not a guy that you should trade,
that's a guy you build around, and instead they they

(06:40):
got rid of him. So mal a report card. The
Colts get a B plus, not an A, not an
AA B plus. The Jets get a C minus. I
should have gone D, but I went C minus. I
was being generous. I went C minus. I should have
gone lower than that bad job by me, but I
went C minus on the Mouth report card. And the

(07:01):
Colts get a B plus Indy on my scorecard. And
if you look at the Kompu box stats, they absolutely
swindled the Jets. They absolutely swindled the Jets. And I'm
hearing a lot, Oh my god, I can't believe the
other way. And we'll get to that in a minute,
that the Jets won. But I don't see it that way.

(07:22):
If I'm sitting in Indiana right now and I like
the Colts, I don't know there's many Colt fans out
of Indiana. I'm smiling. I got a cheshire cat smile
from ear to ear right now at this trade. I
do you have a known commodity, Sauce Gardner. It's not
like you you're not sure. Can guy play? I don't

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know you plug and play him? How good is he?
That's open to debate. He's been surrounded by crap with
the Jets will be not a great upgrade in talent
with the with the Colts, but the Colts defense is
the weak part of the team has been. But the secondary,
you slide him in to that Indianapolis coult secondary and

(08:04):
immediately Sauce Gardner is the number one defensive player for
Indianapolis when he puts on that uniform for the first time.
And so you put the Jets in the food process
there and you hit pure and there you go. That's
the Jets. They get two lottery tickets. We yeah, it's great. Uh.

(08:27):
And it is such a such a debacle with the Jets.
I just you just have to laugh. I mean, is
there a dumber fan base and the Jet fan base
with what these these guys the Jets organization does, and
how the Jet fan base always like, oh well, this
are so good. Oh my god, I got that pants down.
They got two first round draft picks of this trade,

(08:48):
and they got another one from the Cowboys. We'll get
to that later, Oh my god. Yeah. Okay, of course, again,
the vast majority never pan out. The vast majority never
pan out. Sauce is a legit, top level defensive back,
and you say it was not playing well this year,
and there's this that, and they'll come up with a
million stats whatnot. He's in his prime. He's made the

(09:10):
All Pro team twice in a row. Not the Pro
Bowl where they play tic tac toe and grab ass.
This is like a legitimate thing, All Pro status, which
means you're top one percent of the NFL. And so
you cannot replace that with a couple of rookies. And
remember these draft picks, you're more likely to get the
next d Milner. If you're Jets fan, you know that name.

(09:32):
Oh he was good at Alabama. D Milner. Good luck
on that the Jets are able to continue this this
long term con, the long term con which is the
Jets where they pull these kind of moves as far
as sauce Gardner, these contracts in the NFL unless you

(09:54):
got a full note trade fauser in this situation. But
the Jets fooled everyone. They foiled absolutely everyone with that
extension that Sauce Gardner got, total headfake. It was trick
ration by Aaron Glenn and the new regime with the Jets.
Aaron Glenn and those guys, they were the ones pumping
the tires on a sauce Gardener that he's a cornerstone

(10:15):
guy Psich psych Yeah, he's a cornerstone of the demolition,
the demo of the Jets defense there. So the Colts
are the big beneficiary of this. Now they're getting an
absolute dog. I don't need any cats. I want some dolls.
Are They're getting a dog here in the secondary. So
it's a B plus easy the Jets I mentioned a

(10:38):
C minus here. They're the guy the Jets who trade
a Rolex watch because they're at the carnival and they
trade their Rolex watch because they get a couple of
tokens to the claw machine. And they're really excited about
the claw machine because there's a really cute stuffed kangaroo
in there and they want to get the stuff kangaroo

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and they might not get it, and it's only got
two tokens, but it's worth the shot. They give up
the Rolex, it's worth the shot to take two chances
of that nice stuffed kangaroo. And so the Colts win
this by a country mile a country mile. Now, in
another part of the trade, we break this down eight
million ways, page two, page two. Inspite, in spite of

(11:24):
the Malor report, card declaring Indy the winner here. All right,
we did give Indy the win. Many Jet fans, or
at least people masquerading those Jets fans, seem to think
that I'm wrong, that the Jets actually fleeced the Colts

(11:45):
by getting those two first round draftings. It was an
absolute fleece job. Two first round draft picks from Indy
for a sauce guard. Now, can you explain the mindset,
the different mindset here that I think Indianapolis clearly won
this trade. But there's a lot of people like, oh, no,
you don't know what you're talking about. They got two
draft picks. Oh my god, two draft picks. Let me

(12:05):
tell you something. There's a lot of dumb people out there.
Number one, number two. It's a suckers game. It is
an absolute suckers game. And these people have convinced themselves.
They've convinced themselves that the mystery box, what's in the box,
the mystery box of draft picks, whatever that might become,

(12:25):
is better than an actual all pro. It's like rich
people that gamble. It makes no sense. Dummy, you're already rich.
What are you doing? Remember Mark Davis, the Raiders owner
who never earned a dollar. He just wrote off the
daddy's money, family money. And yeah he's gamma playing slot

(12:46):
machines at the airport in Vegas. He won a jackpot. Like, dude,
you're already rich, You're you inherited in an NFL team.
What are you doing? And I look at the same
way when you have an established good player and you're like, ah,
I'd rather get something in the box. What's in the
mystery box? It just doesn't make any sense. And it's like,

(13:07):
what are you doing? You have an actual all pro
do you know how hard it is to get that right?
And the math against you. And that's what people don't understand.
They don't It's like the lotteries. You know, dumb people
play the lottery. They played a lot I play a lottery,
so I guess I'm dumb too. But if you played
a lot it's really just a stupid tax. And Sauce

(13:27):
is an elite player right now. But what if we
make the draft and we pick up two Sauce Gardeners.
Oh my god, we'll get two of them. Oh man,
come on. The Jet fans are right now in the
process yet again of being hoodwinked, bamboozled, and hornswoggled. It

(13:48):
happens every couple of years. Rinse, wash and repeat, Rinse,
wash and repeat. They're being led down the garden path
yet again, every couple of years, like clockwork. I've been
doing this job for a while. I can't tell you
how many monologues we've done about the Jets. The future
is right for the Jets. Oh my god. Just a
couple years ago, they had pre first round draft picks

(14:08):
and they suck right now, but they had pre first
round trafficks. Oh my god. Yeah, So every couple of
years they get a bunch of draft picks, they blow
that up. They sell the future, and remember they sell
the future, and people always buy the future being better.

(14:29):
It's like some sleazy politicians end up winning that way
because he's just say, well, the future is it's unrealistic though, right,
it's unrealistic. It's like promising everyone free food. Well, someone
has to pay for the food. Is no such thing
as free food. It's like, well, every draft pick is
going to be great. Well, actually the math on that
is not that that great, right, But it's easy to

(14:50):
say that stuff. It's easy to say that stuff. You know,
rebuild it is the easiest thing to sell in pro sports,
it is the easiest thing to sell. Well, you just
wait till next year. We have a plan. We have
a five year plan to put a bad product out.
It's like a restaurant to serve food with cockroaches for
five years, but in year six, mane is that food

(15:12):
gonna be good? Just eat the cockroaches, eat them, eat
the cockroaches. It's the same green goblin circus. And so
here we are again. By the way, the malor math
I fell down a rabbit hole. He did the malor
math here. So the last twenty years, I feel like
that's a good sample size. That's a generation of generation's
twenty years. By the time you're born, you grow up,

(15:35):
you get out of school, you have a job, you
start to settle up, you're settling in your life. Twenty
years is a generation. So the last twenty years, what
percentage of first round draft picks have become all pro players?
Like sauce card, you want to take your guess, give
me a percentage, all right? The answer is it forty percent? No,

(15:59):
how about you gotta be thirty percent, three out of
three out of at least twenty five percent? Right? No,
how about sixteen percent. You have a sixteen percent chance
of getting what you just traded away. That's it. That
is a one sixty one batting average, which by the way,

(16:21):
is better than Mookie Betts hitting the World Series. I'm
just saying, but a one to sixty one batting average.
You'd get demoted if you batted one sixty one unless
you're making thirty million dollars a year, and then you'd
be in the lineup every day. My god. Uh even
top ten picks, you say, well, not all first round
picks are the same. So what about the top ten?
All right, So the top ten picks hits about two

(16:41):
ten hit about two ten twenty one percent, and the
Jets fans are drunk on the green kool aid of
the draft and some faceless, nameless player, he's got a
high upside. Okay, it's great. And most of these guys
who are draft in the first round, you know, supposed
to say this part out loud. They'll become backups in

(17:03):
the NFL. Journeymen NFL players. Some of them will sell
you insurance there'll be complete bus. Some of them will
kill young women and dogs that burn up in their
cars and go to jail in Nevada. That happens. Ask
the Raiders about that. Yeah, and you'll draft occasionally, you'll
draft a great talented player who will turn out to

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be great and wonderful. But you had that you draft,
you got it right once and a fan favorite with
a cool name and the whole thing and locked up
under contract. Then you said bye bye. And it really
is backwards thinking too, when you think you hired a
defensive coach in Aaron Glenn and if you have a

(17:45):
top defense, you don't have to be great on offense.
You just have to be middle of the road on
offense if you have a truly great defense. And that's
a formula to become a playoff team. Now the Jets
are like, well, no, we want to get really bad, bad,
bad bad. We want bo. We want really nasty bo
is what we want. So the Jets are like, all right,

(18:05):
let's grab the remote control and we're gonna hit the
pause button and then we're gonna hit the mute button
to block out all the noise and no results needed,
just kick the can down the road and go, ah,
we need more time, We need more time. Okay, good, wonderful,
all right, last word here, so on the indie side
of things, the question we go back to the Colts.

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The Colts are being hyped up now as AFC super
Ball favorites by many on social media. After these Sauce
Gardener trade do you think they measure up? Do you
believe the Colts measure up to that lofty status? Is
now the team to beat, not Kansas City, not Buffalo,

(18:48):
but instead Indianapolis, not any of the other teams in
the FC. So under the Malard microscope, which is always right,
never wrong, the Malard microscope, under the maln microscope. With
apologies to the Blue and White Horseshoe fan base, let's
pump the brakes now or in I guess the better
phrase would be coolier jets. Coolier jets would be the

(19:10):
phrase here. So the Sauce is a baller, no question.
We like the player. That is an upgrade. He becomes
the face of your defensive football team. They believe they
got a shutdown defensive back. Otherwise you don't trade two
first round back draft picks. However, unfortunately, this is not Madden.
You're not playing Madden here, and you don't just plug

(19:32):
in one guy and all of a sudden become the
favorites overnight here. And the biggest problem for the Colts
is not the defense. Defensen't great. That's not the biggest
problem here. It's Daniel freakin' Jones. That's the problem. That's
why I can't say that Indianapolis is the favorite in
the AFC. I can't do it. You can slap lipstick

(19:54):
on that horse, of course you can do that. They're
in any and that's what they've done so far. He
had a dud of a game against Pittsburgh. Daniel Jones.
You can do all that you want, but you still
got a ride. Ultimately, at some point to get to
the super Bowl, you're gonna have to win a game
on the back of Danny Dimes. Danny Dimes at quarterback,

(20:14):
and that dude is not a Thoroughbred. He turns into
a Clydesdale. He's a plotter in big moments there. And
he's got the nickname now Indiana Jones. Now that's cool nick. However,
he's doing cosplay's an impersonator of Indiana Jones. And the
problem is, in crunch time, the Indiana Jones the places

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quarterback for the Colts. He doesn't have the whip. It's
not allowed. He doesn't have the brain power, doesn't have that,
and he's fumbling the relics all over the place, for
better or worse, for better or worse. Though the Colts
have basically staple gunned themselves to Daniel Jones going forward
here for the next couple of years. They are guaranteed

(20:58):
to offer him a good size contract. They probably already
have the outline of the deal done. I would imagine
at this point here there is no other option, there
is no Plan B. It is all about Daniel Jones.
He just got the golden horseshoe stuck right up his
tukis congratulations, right, And because they have no others. And

(21:18):
that's why I gave the Colts less than the full
top grade, because for this to work, Daniel Jones has
to be good in order for this all to work here,
So regardless, I will give Indie credit. We have made
some jokes of Carly Ursay Jordan or Carl Ersay, Carli

(21:38):
er Jordan, carl Ersa Gordon, the daughter of Jim Ursay
who passed away, died from the drugs and stuff a
while back, and he's out there on the sidelines doing
her thing whatever. But this is cool. I like it.
This is I can get on board with this. This
is cool, right, And she's trying to make waves, honoring

(22:00):
the family tradition, the Ursa family tradition of doing ridiculous things,
crazy things. Jim Ursay's final act as Colts owner was
to hire an ESPN broadcaster as coach, which I thought
was great because I'm a broadcaster. I could coach an
NFL team. Why not Jeff Saturday did? I could do it.
So it's a bold move. It's a hey, it's our
time type move. You don't make this move if you

(22:21):
don't think you can get to a super Bowl's fun.
I'm all about the fun. It's great. We need more
teams to act like the Colts and make the big move.
Who cares about the draft picks? Man? Losers care about
draft picks? And again, so the problem is they have
an underlying condition. That's the only problem here, and that's
why I gave him a B plus and not an

(22:42):
A plus. Is Daniel Jones, and I know he wasn't
part of the transaction, but again I give him a
B plus because ultimately for this to work, you have
to overcome your underlying pre existing condition. Here and it's indigestion.
Every time Daniel Jones has the ball in his hands,
close and late, close and late, big spot, you know
it's not gonna work out for it.

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to get to. If you wren't with us last hoar,
you might have been covered up by some other programming.
But you can always go back and hear the podcast.
We talked about the Sauce Gardner trade from the Cowboys
and the Colts. We will not revisit that here. Instead
we will turn the page and go to Dallas. How
about them Cowboys? Jerry Jones and the Cowboys A man
of his word. Jerry said on Monday that there was

(26:35):
a trade that had been worked out, they just hadn't
announced it yet. The Cowboys technically made two trades, but
one of them we're not gonna talk about. We're gonna
talk about the other one. This after they got mollywopped
by the Cardinals. Do you know embarrassing? This get mollywopped
by the Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals are one of those
spam teams for the good teams to play. You're not

(26:56):
supposed to lose to a spam team, but here we are.
So Jerry said that he would get a deal done,
and Jerry's a man of his word. All right, man,
it was worse if you didn't hear. Maybe not. The
Dallas Cowboys pulled off a second blockbuster trade in barely
a couple of months here, as they might remember the

(27:16):
Micah Parsons trade to the Green Bay Packers for a
bunch of scratcher tickets. Well, the Cowboys said, we have
too many scratcher tickets. We don't need all these scratcher tickets.
We don't want all these scratcher tickets. So they have
now a They've traded some of their own draft picks
in order to get defensive tackle Quinn Williams from the
j e t s suck, suck, suck. The Jets have

(27:38):
announced they're going out of business. Everything must go. It's
a liquidation sale. And so the Cowboys acquired Quinn Williams
from the Jets, all pro defensive tackle for a gaggle,
a gaggle of draft picks, including a twenty six second
round pick. Oh my god, they give up a second
round pick and a twenty twenty seven first round pick.

(28:00):
Oh no, another draft PICKO. Yeah. So a few hours earlier,
on trade deadline Day, Dallas also acquired a linebacker from
the Bengals because they said, hey, Cincinnata is the only
team worse than us defensively, so why don't we trade
for one of their guys. That's not a name, so
we won't worry about that. Instead, we focus on the

(28:21):
big name. You got to focus on the big name.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question, did Jerry Jones finally, after all these years,
did Jerry Jones finally nail the trade deadline? Did he
make the big splash, the proper splash at the deadline
here or is this another cowboy overpay? So keep in

(28:44):
mind the early read from Joe Schmow is holy overpay, Batman.
That's the word of the street. So on this one,
I've got Bubblegum, Amazon and beach front bungalow, and we'll
combine all all of these things together and we're gonna
make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the perfect sandwich

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with lots of jelly and lots of peanut butter. You
put on one side, you put the peanut butter. On
the other side, you put the jelly, and then they
come together and they have a delicious baby called the
peanut butter and jelly Sandwich. It's just wonderful. So number one,
I'm gonna call this on the Mallard score card, the
Malor score card. A splish splash trade, a splish splash trade.

(29:31):
Now the scales are leading, I'm going in favor. I'm
going against the mob because the Mob's always wrong, and
I'm gonna stand with my guy, Jerry Jones. Good job
by you, Jerry. I support Jerry's world on this one. Now,
some Dallas fans are panicked, just like the Jet fans.
Oh I can't believe we gave up these draft picks.
Oh my god, get a life. You lose her. That's

(29:53):
what I have to say. Listen, you should be happy.
This is a celebratory moment. You should a good trade.
How often do I say the Cowboys made a good move.
This is a good move. F them pecks. F them pecks,
That's what I say. And finally, teams like the Jets
and the Well not the Jets, the Colts and the Cowboys.

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These teams are doing what they should be doing. Who
cares about draft picks? Draft picks are losers. You're always
gonna be a loser with your stupid little draft picks.
The same teams are at the top of the draft
every year because they suck. They're terrible, and you idiots
fall for this scam, this hustle. So I'm glad that
Jerry did this. Now the Cowboy's still plenty of draft
picks even with this trade. It's it's a zero sum game, essentially.

(30:38):
Traded Micah Parsons because he was He was a doge
and his agent was a doche and Jerry didn't want
to deal with him. He's like out on the team.
I'm worth a gazillion dollars. I don't deal. You're you're
an a hole. I'm gonna send you to northern Wisconsin.
Enjoy yourself. I hope you have wolf socks. Good luck.
And so that's it. And Jerry Jones, the old oil baron,
he's an oil baron here. And he finally did something

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Cowboys a couple years ago. It's been a few years.
They traded for a wide receiver Amari Cooper. Pretty good player,
not a great player, pretty good player. There's a splash move.
This is a splash move also, and so he found
himself somem Gloria hole. And we are not circumcising the
mosquito when we break this trade down at all. Quinn
Williams is the whole Enchilada, just what they need on

(31:24):
defense and perfect slide them right in. And so when
you look at the Cowboys now defensively upfront, they're still
not great. They have improved dramatically after the trade deadline.
And that's why you have the trade deadline to improve
the roster. And so you look at it the Cowboy defense,
which has been absolute Swiss cheese since they shipped out

(31:46):
Micah Parsons and the guys that were given opportunities. What
a great opportunity to make a name for yourself in
the NFL, and these guys have all proved they suck, right,
I mean, it's so embarrassing for these guys. What a
great opportunity of make a name for yourself in the NFL,
and these guys have been abject failures across the board.
So now they have a new opportunity with new players
here and side by side, right, Jerry's been sitting on

(32:09):
draft picks. Cows very rarely make traits like this. They
just don't. That's not what they do here, And they
sit on these draft picks like they're sitting on gold bars, right,
gold bars. Meanwhile, the defense ranked thirty first in the NFL.
Only the Bengals had a worse defense so far this year.
And so to me, it makes sense you brought in
a big time force at his position on defense, and

(32:35):
Quinn Williams is not only the whole Enchilada, he's built
like a tank. So good for him. And Jerry's going
with the old bubble gum mantra here, the bubble gum philosophy. Now,
what does that mean? Double mintgum, double your pleasure, double
your fun because you put Williams in there in the middle.
You put Quinn Williams in there, and you put him

(32:57):
right there, plug him next to Kenny Clark, who you
got in the Ika Parsons trade from Green Bay, and
suddenly that should make things easier on the rest of
the defense. The trickled down economics of defensive football where
your linebackers don't look like they're running in quicksand because
the two guys up front are doing their job, and

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then makes it easier on everyone across the board. So
for once, the Cowboys are not chasing some shiny white
out or a running back or some other skill guy.
They went out there and they bought themselves some trench warfare,
which is good. That is a good thing. Could this
go sideways? Could Quinn Williams go out in his first

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game and break his ankle and be out for the
your sure, could happen. Could happen? You can't run a
team that way and say, oh my god, this could happen.
That could happen. Oh, oh, the worst thing in the world.
Oh my god, that first round draft picks a gonna
come out and bite us in the ass in a
couple is who cares about that? I don't worry about
that and regard compared to the usual just draft and

(34:00):
developed nonsense, which is what the Cowboys have been doing here.
They've been feeding that slop to their fans for a
number of years. It hasn't worked. I'm gonna take this,
and I'm not a Cowboy fan. But Jerry Jones is
eighty three. God bless him. His face is only about thirty,
but the rest of him is eighty three years old.
So Jerry's in his eighties. He's not building a team

(34:21):
for twenty thirty. He's not planning well. I hope the
team's good when I'm eighty eight years old. No, by then, Jerry,
if he's lucky, he will be living at leisure World. Okay,
I mean, so what are we doing here? He didn't
overthink this one. The defense was a white hot tire fire.

(34:43):
They brought in an all pro fire extinguisher. That's what
this guy is, right, and so that's why I call
it a splash splash success for the Dallas Cowboys on
this trade. I don't care about draft picks. You can
love your draft picks. I'm over it. I'm done. I've
seen way too many of these guys. Can't miss guys
that suck. If you don't believe me, go watch Trevor

(35:04):
Lawrence play football. He blows. Oh, but he was a
generational player. Can't miss quarterback Trevor Lawrence until he actually
had to play for Jacksonville and now he's a coach. Killer.
Can't play. Guy sucks. Guy stinks, all right. So anyway,
turning the page on that to Seattle, we had other moves,
not just the Cowboys, other moves. Saints said bye bye.

(35:28):
They traded wide receiver and returned specialist Rashid Shaid to
the Seahawks in exchange for a fourth round draft pick
and a twenty twenty six fifth round draft pick. So
question for the esteem panel, what does now former Saints
wide receiver Rashid Shahid do for the Seattle Sex offense

(35:53):
as he heads to the Great Pacific Northwest to hang
out with sasquatch and drink coffee. So, Mike McDonald, who
doesn't have that much influence on the player movement, but
I'll just use him as the coach, and so I'll
use him as a reverend. The Seahawks what they did
here on this trade is they went down to the
Amazon liquidation warehouse. They went down to the Amazon liquidation

(36:15):
warehouse and they were rummaging, and they're like, well, we
don't want to we don't want to make a big
trade for aj Brown or Jalen Waddle. We're not going
to make that big a move. But somehow they found
themselves a brand new iPhone still in the box which
wasn't even opened, Like, what are the odds of that?
And so, hey, this is not a scrub. He's not

(36:39):
a top guy. He's in the middle, the man in
the middle. He's got legit, big time speed as a
Shahid runs a four point three. So if you want
him in track and field for the Olympics, which is
coming up in a couple of years, you can get
him out there and put him in the Olympics. That's fine, uh,
and so good. He's got he's got a you know,
speed to burn, basically a turbo charger for Sam Donald.

(37:02):
And of course Sam Donald's like a used Honda Civic
putting up numbers which are not sustainable for the Seattle
Seahawks here and so no Serdinis knows that. But really
that's the only issue now to me. The only issue
with this trade is much like the Colts trying to
double down on Daniel Jones, Sam Donald's the guy who
has the check engine light on, but he does it

(37:24):
this year he's an MVP candidate. Okay, we'll see what happens.
It's only a matter of time. It's only amount of time.
You're gonna have to call it tow truck because he'll
be pulled over on I five there on the side
of the road with his flashing lights on. The emergency
lights will be flashing and all that stuff. But regardless,
Seattle got in theory a dynamic playmaker. Again, it's the

(37:46):
trickle down, much like the Cowboys makes other players better.
And for Seattle, you look at their depth chart and
they've got Jackson Smith and jigbub the Crown Jewel having
that breakout season. He's there, Puka Nakoa there, they're Jamar Chase,
that big time receiver. And then you put behind him.
You've now got Shaid and you put him out there,

(38:07):
Tory Horton, and you still have the often injured, almost
always injured Cooper Cup who inevitably will have another big
injuries out right now he's supposed to come back soon
and all this stuff. So it's like adding a shot
of caffeine, nice big shot of caffeine, and you've already
already got a pretty shaky hand because you're drinking that

(38:29):
really powerful gas station coffee, really powerful stuff, and so
you a little bit of a caffeine buzz going. You
got that going for you, and just don't expect it
to taste too good for too long, you know what
I'm saying. So the Malor report card on the Seattle
New Orleans trade, I'm gonna give the Seattle Seahawks on
the Malard report card an A plus. That's right, and they

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give up nothing who cares about a mid round traffic
for a player that can help them right now, that's
an eight plus trade. The Saints they get the D.
They get the D because they have maybe three or
four players that are any good on the team. They
just traded one of them away, So good luck, but
we'll suck more and we're going to a higher draft pic. Okay,
good congratulations. So Seattle adds speed. They have a guy

(39:11):
that can put out there on the special teams as well,
and they got someone who's a proven somewhat. I don't
I don't want to say fully proven, but a somewhat
proven commodity. And they got that, and uh, guy, that
can be a couple times a game break the game open,
explosive chunk plays, which is what you're looking for, and

(39:33):
a little red bull on cleats, which is not bad.
And if Darnold can just stay out of his own
way and not get tackled by the Boogeyman the Boogeyman,
then Seattle can can make some magic. I'm not betting
on that, I would bet against that. I'm just saying
there is a dimension in the multiverse where that does happen.

(39:53):
So that's the ultimate what about ism? What about this?
What about that? What about? What about? What about? What about?
What about? What about? What about? What about?

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (40:02):
All right, so uh turning on, turning the page again, Sam.
Just for the record, Sam on my nauty list until
he's off the Natilist. Very rarely do you get off
the nautalist. He's on the nauticalist all right. Now, moving
on final point to Jacksonville. We go to Jacksonville where
the Jags made the trade with the Raiders. The Raiders
said Nandaalana, na Alana, good bye. They traded away, Jacoby

(40:27):
Myers sounds like an ambulance chasing law firm. Jacoby Myers
traded away to the Jaguars. That's right. So a couple
of mid round draft picks exchange there, the Raiders get
a couple of filler draft picks, and Jacksonville gets the player. Question,
what is the big takeaway from wide receiver Jacoby Myers

(40:50):
going from Vegas to Jacksonville. Keep in mind, we've talked
about Jacoby Myers a couple of times. His name has
been in the echo chamber. We've discussed his situation. He
was not happy with the Raiders. To me, the big
takeaway with Jacoby Myers is be careful what you wish for.
Be careful what you wish for. So he was pretty

(41:10):
open about the fact he didn't want to play for
the Raiders anymore. Why would you? The Raiders are embarrassment.
He don't want to play there anymore. But Jacoby Myers
spent half the summer whining because he wanted out. Clearly
realized that Geno Smith is a fraud at a quarter
As a quarterback, if I'm going to be on a
bad team, I'd rather be on a bad team and
a better quarterback than that, and so he was unhappy

(41:32):
with Geno Smith that if you're happy with your quarterback
and you know it, you don't ask for a trade.
If you're happy with your quarterback and you know it,
you don't ask for a trade. He asked for a trade.
So there's that, and so he complained and all that stuff.
And so he thought, he assumed, he assumed that he
was going to go to a team like his old team,
the Patriots or the Steelers, somebody who's at least a
mid level contender, like at least a mid level contender

(41:55):
and all that. Instead he was given a one way
ticket to Myers, a one way ticket on the Siberian
Express Jacksonville, du All County. Yeah, that's also fun. Why
not good times? Also for football, it's in that camp

(42:16):
of Siberia. It's like Siberia beachfront Bungalows. It's Siberia with
beachfront bungalows is what it ad better weather. So there
you go there in your career pretty much vanishes. That's it.
And so Myers, who has been reliable, he has been reliable.
He has only dropped four passes, I believe in three seasons.

(42:40):
That seems pretty good. I didn't play in the NFL
off to check with Ryan Clark, but I think that's
pretty good. So three, three seasons, four drop passes. If
my maven math is correct, and he's about to find
himself in a whole new world. As Jacobe Myers walks
into Jacksonville where Trevor checked down, Lawrence is the quarterback.
Good old Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence, if you're keeping track

(43:00):
at home, Jacksonville leads the entire NFL and drop passes.
There is no quarterback that has had more of his
passes dropped than Trevor Lawrence. Now there's an assumption, Well,
that's the receiver's fault. They don't have good receivers. Much
like sacks. I don't have time to get into this now,
but a lot of the sacks are because of malfeasan's

(43:21):
by the quarterback. They don't get rid of the ball
fast enough. They hold the ball too long. It's hot potato,
get rid of the ball. They don't do that. Bad
job by them well, also dropped passes, if the throw
by Trevor Lawrence is too high or behind the receiver,
it will look like a drop pass in the box
score when really it was in competence by the quarterback.

(43:42):
So congratulations to Jacoby Myers. You complained, you got your wish.
You crow barred your way out of lost wages Nevada,
and you went to the Harry Reid Airport, got on
a plane and went to Jacksonville. And now you're going
to be playing your home games in front of a
swimming pool and roughly ten thousand empty seats. Good luck,

(44:03):
they're teal seats, so they look good. The teal seats
are pretty nice. Those are good to look at, right,
they're not bad. There you go. So the Raiders meanwhile
traded a known commodity, traded a known commodity for roster
spam a couple of mid round draft picks, fourth and
sixth round pick. The chances of either one of those
picks being as good as Jacoby Myers is right now

(44:23):
slim and none. And as the line goes, none has
has gone off the reservation and has left the building there,
So the Raiders continue to be like a toilet, a
clogged toilet, and Tom Brady does not own a plunger.
There you go.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
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Speaker 1 (44:44):
It's maller how about that?

Speaker 2 (44:46):
To the third degree, this is one big vent gets grilled.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
So the Chargers are six and three and in second
place in the FC West, but the vibe among Chargers
fans don't really match the team record. They struggled against
the lowly Titans the last Sunday, and they also lost
left tackle Joe Ault for the season. Ben is Herbert
good enough to keep the Chargers afloat amid all their injuries.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Well, he did make a trade for an offensive lineman
I've never heard of who was apparently drafted in the
first round, Trevor Penning from New Orleans, and the Chargers
will be in the mix. I wouldn't bet on him.
I'm not a big Trevor Lawrence or Trevor Lawrence a
fan of their quarterback who you know. You look at
the play of Justin Herbert and he's been very shaky,

(45:35):
So I am not a believer. Next.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
After a disappointing twenty twenty five season, a lot of
people expected to shake up in the Braves Clubhouse. Instead,
the team has hired Walt Weiss, who has been the
team's hitting coach since twenty eighteen, to be the new manager. Ben,
you think this is a big mistake for Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
I don't think it matters. He's a little bit younger
of actually a lot younger than the last guy. A snicker.
And just have to make sure that Ronald who Junior
likes you and the other star players on the Atlanta Brids,
because as far as the meat and potatoes of managing
the Atlanta Braves, that's done just like all these other
teams by the nerds day to day during the season.
So you pretty much have to talk to the media
and you have to make sure that the star players

(46:14):
like you. If you do those two things, Walt Weiss
will be fine as the manager in Atlanta next.

Speaker 5 (46:20):
MLB revealed the finalists for major awards on Monday. Tiger's
pitcher Tarik Schooble is favored to win his second straight
AlSi Young Award. The Red Sox medom Garrett Crochet is
in the running after winning eighteen games and leading the
league in strikeouts with two hundred and fifty five. Do
you think he has a chance, Well, he's.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
In the running, but no, Schooble's gonna win the Cy
Young Award. He's the top pitcher in the American League.
He's gonna take home the title. There it is Maloy
the third degree? How do we die? You pass them?
Buzzer pasted it, pasted it.

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Speaker 1 (47:04):
It's up it buzz with lir Rain a tennin clean up.
Hearts going to help you gear right, get right to
I get right to night. Dear ry ooh you.

Speaker 6 (47:17):
Heard the man.

Speaker 7 (47:18):
It's time for love here on the Ben Mallor Show.
We're gonna start out with a little bit of you know,
this is what not to do if someone is not
texting you back, just know they probably don't like you
that much. Stop trying so hard.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Sounds like something personal, Rena, You like.

Speaker 6 (47:36):
It always sounds personal, but it's never personal.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Like listen like it's somebody blowing up your phone.

Speaker 6 (47:43):
There is that everyone always blows up my phone?

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Really?

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Okay? Popular? All right? First question from Elloy from Compton.
He says, why is it always one sided when it
comes to Valentine's Day or anniversaries.

Speaker 6 (47:58):
Oh, it sounds like you been in bad relationships.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
No, he said, he's been married for twenty three years.
I'm always doing everything. Hell, I want flowers and chocolate.

Speaker 8 (48:08):
Two.

Speaker 7 (48:08):
Well, why doesn't your lover note that you want flowers
and chocolate? Why is your lover not spoiling you just
as much?

Speaker 2 (48:15):
You know what?

Speaker 7 (48:16):
They could even do something fun and like get you
edible chocolates that you could eat right from little places
that you know. Maybe the you can get a little
kinky with it. Yeah, if your person loves you, they
should know that you want that.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
I did see. I don't remember where I stap, but
I said, men on average spend fifteen thousand dollars in
courtship on a woman.

Speaker 6 (48:38):
That's a lot. Fifteen should be more.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
We could have that be more on the women. Spend
some My women are working. Come on, spend some of
your money. JT. The Wingman rights and says, do women
find men with gout sexy?

Speaker 6 (48:52):
What's up?

Speaker 9 (48:52):
Far?

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 6 (48:57):
I was talking through Disney today.

Speaker 7 (48:58):
And someone said something about that my planner fasci itis
is flaring up.

Speaker 6 (49:02):
I'm like, that's sexy. Yeah, you know, some people like feed.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
So you know, Blan scotspin on hold the whole show
to ask you a very important question. Hello Blind Scot
the Queen of Hearts with Lorena right, I.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Said to the information about what she said back to me.
I guess I'll have to just go for it because
we're up against it. But so I reached out to her.
She said, she's a farm girl. She lives in the
western part of the state. She said, she's one to
have a relationship with me, but I got to be patient.
She's a manager at a big box store. The thing is,
we were dating the year ago, my own partners. So then,
you know, I get her down here and I find out,

(49:37):
you know, usually when you're a woman on social media,
you assume you're going to be a woman when you
meet them.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
You know.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
And then when I meet her, she's a dude, you know.
And she's still ten years younger than me. So, like,
we dated a little bit, and I don't.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Think there's a question. Is there a question?

Speaker 6 (49:52):
I was curious, where's the question?

Speaker 1 (49:53):
He just wanted to tell a story. Let's go to
James in. I mean, get to the point, dude, James
is in to call James Queen of hearts with Lorraina.
What's going on, James?

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Yes, So when buying someone to your house, do you
want your shoes on or off? Because, let me tell you,
my sticky feet is much better than my dirty shoes
on your carpet.

Speaker 7 (50:12):
Oh yeah, that's a hard one. And also if you
take your shoes off, it makes it harder to leave faster,
so if you need to get out, I had to
do that. One said my shoes were half off my feet.
I was like, I'm not even going to take the
time to tie these.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
And have you thought about buying some soap?

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Sir?

Speaker 6 (50:27):
Okay, you can just lick your toes clean. It's better
that way.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Great to advice, all right, thank you. A firg dog says,
if a woman makes eye contact with me, does that
mean she likes me?

Speaker 8 (50:41):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (50:41):
I hate that. Oh my gosh. That's why I never
look at people anymore. I only look at the ground.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
No, if you make eye contact with someone, they get
the wrong idea and they're like, oh, she likes me.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
I mean women have been It's like in the DNA
of women, they never make eye contact unless the guy's hot.

Speaker 6 (50:56):
They'll I'm not hot, so then it's like don't look
at me.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Yeah, no, I mean that's like a big issue. There's
no eye contact. I wonder back in the day, did
women you think years ago used to make eye contact?

Speaker 7 (51:06):
That used to be the way, like you make eye contact,
then you look away and look back again, and.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
That not anymore. Now that's over weekends. Oh wow.

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Speaker 1 (51:28):
Password the word Game of the Stars.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Here's Ben Meller.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Yeah, we welcome in the Milkman, Mike from Colorado, one
of our contestants. Old Milkman they.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Often imitated, but never duplicated. Good morning everybody.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Yes, the man of many, man of many voices. Who
do you want to partner up with? Do you got me?
Lorena or Coop?

Speaker 4 (51:49):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (51:50):
I gotta go with a champion. Let's go with Coop?

Speaker 1 (51:52):
All right? So you want to be a loser, you
can be a loser. We have one tour or three
Lorena picked one too or three? Number two? Hey, you
have picked Mike in New Hampshire. Hello, Mike, welcome, Good morning,
Good morning, mister Mallard. Good to have you. Who do
you want to partner up with?

Speaker 3 (52:11):
We're winning this thing, so we're gonna go with you.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
That's right, all right, let's play the game one to
ten here, Sorry, Loreni, you're out of the show.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
It's okay.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
List the words one to ten and then let's see
who was on first. That would be the milkman. Milk man, Mike,
go ahead, pick a number please. Now, let's go with
number four, number four, number four, all right, cool, should
be easy, I think. Okay. Let's see here. Uh, let's

(52:39):
go with hurry up, chop chop.

Speaker 9 (52:43):
Let's go with I'm I'm gonna do malar engagement. Yeah,
yes's my move.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
That's my proprie Terry Blain, I go ahead there. Please
pick a number, Mike in New Hampshire, go six, number six,
number six, all right, I could do a malamed easy.
Uh no, how about hm hm be fuddled?

Speaker 3 (53:25):
You should have went with the malameduver?

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Come on, be fuddled, you're be fuddled? No nothing, God,
all right, go ahead, h coop, go ahead, let's go
with hurry off bewildered. Oh it was easy, yeah, got

(53:52):
he's got too easy? Shut up, go ahead, up milkman.
Pick a number. Hurry up, number one, he go, hurry up, Coop,
hurry up. Let's go with Billfold.

Speaker 8 (54:08):
You came, you gave, You gave him the words he
gave the way. He gave him the words. You know what,
pig a number Mic, Come on, we get the blowout.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
You cheated, Coop a loop cheated. I'm gonna call the
f c C. He cheated. He gave him the answers.
You talked to him all.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
I know what you did.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
You talked to him off THEOS connection. It was all
a con.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
It was.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
It was all a rip off job. We got screwed.
Mike in New Hampshire,