December 2, 2025 • 47 mins
Big Ben talks about the Patriots beating up on the Giants on MNF thanks to another big performance from QB Drake Maye, the dysfunction of the Las Vegas Raiders, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Woody Allen Edition, and more!
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we are back at it on a post Monday night
or Tuesday show here heading into the second day of December,
still late on a Monday in the West, and our
lead story some patty Cake fun under the darkness powered
by moonlight there and it was the final game of
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the week thirteen card in the NFL. Jackson Dart leading
the Giants, they drove the honey Wagon into Foxborough to
take on Drake May and the Patriots in the Commonwealth.
Were you watching this game? New elland a sizable favorite
the Fox Refugees Joe Buck and Troy Aikman on ABC.
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They had the call there on television, so I don't
know if you were checking this game out or not.
It really wasn't much else to watch. I can't really
watch the NBA much during the regular season, so don't worry.
We watched so you would not have to watch. And
let's see what did we see. Let's say, oh, yes, right,
Drake May living up to the hype. He passed for
a couple of touchdowns. The Patriots special teams were extra
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special good. They get a Neon Eraser Marcus Jones generic
name but not a generic player at a ninety four
yard putt return for a touchdown. And the Patriots kept
the good times rolling along as they become the first
NFL team into the eleven win club, and they beat
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up the Giants, who aren't so giant thirty three to fifteen.
Good coaching change there for the Giants. That's fixed that
franchise right right from the beginning there. Oh and three
now I believe with the new coach. So it was
the tenth straight win. I'm told that's good for the Patriots.
Ten straight wins the AFC leaders the new only patri
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eleven and two on the the franchise's longest winning streak
some since some guy named Tom Brady and some guy
named Bill Belichick were there. That was back in twenty fifteen.
So Mike Rabel, who took some time off because he
didn't get a job after the Patriots' former Patriot player
was let go by the Tennessee Titans. He was schmoozing
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at Ohio State. Now he's in the NFL A game
with the Patriots, and Mike Rabel has become now the
third coach since nineteen seven. It's fifty five years to
win ten or more games in his first season with
a new employer. That is a good jumping off points.
So let us discuss the question, how would you describe
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coach Mike Rabel's Patriots the performance that we saw. Patriots
don't play a lot of these primetime games, so how
would you describe the performance of Mike Rabel's Patriots in
the Monday night game. So I've got us military dance
class and nature doc entry, and we will combine all
of these things together and we're gonna make pulled barbecue
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chicken sandwiches. We're gonna make it. They're gonna be freaking delicious,
and you're gonna love them, and you're gonna get baked
potato action going the whole thing, all right, So tell me, yeah,
a this was what we call a boom box game
for the Patriots. As a boombox game, it did not
go the way I anticipated the game would go. But
that's why they played the games. That's why they play
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the games. There Mike Rabel turning the volume up on
that boombox to eleven all the way up to eleven,
smashing the base there and really sticking it to the
giants and put putting them in the food processor and
setting it to pure in the first half of this game,
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as it was oh v e r at halftime games
are they pigged out on a bad opponent. That's what
good teams do, beat bad teams convincingly. And it was
like a midweek buffet special for the Patriots, of course,
not midweek, the end of the week end, of the
weekend beginning of the new week, so New England. What
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they did is they met expectations. They met expectations period
full stop. They were supposed to win by a lot.
They won by a lot. And this was a team
that was a heavy favorite the Patriots coming into this game.
The kind of a game that if you look at
it on a tablet. He said, well, this was actually
a classic trap spot. And if you watched Benny Versus
the Penny on YouTube. We talked about it on the
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TV show. We discussed it that you had the Thanksgiving hangover,
you had the bye week looming, the final week of
the Buyser's upcoming for the Patriots and the Giants as
well some other teams. But the bye week is coming
up for them, so they're going to be in can
Coon on vacation. And then you've also got, in addition
to that, a makeship offensive line, make shift offensive line,
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a couple of starters gone from the Patriots offensive line,
and the offensive line they tossed out there looked like
it was something that was built from akia Ikia and
it was not built following the instruction. You just kind
of put it together there. But none of that mattered,
not an ounce of that matter. It didn't matter in
this game. Mike Rabel squad comes in here and with
a level headed approach, blue collar, blue collar. Again, these
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guys are all rich, but that mindset that we always
talk about this, you know, take care of do your
job with Belichick used to say, and then they flipped
on the boombox again. They cranked up the volume a
little higher and they hit the Bachmann turner overdrive. Taking
care of business is what they did, was what they did.
They took care of exactly what you would expect them
to do. They did no frills, no real razzle dazzle
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other than the special teams played. But it was a
scorched earth policy. And the first half of this game
barbaric is the word. They were barbaric in the first
half of the game, talking us military style, by land,
by sea, by air, in this case, by offense, by defense,
by special teams, all phases of the game. Body blow,
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body blow, body blow. And by the time we got
the halftimes, thirty to seven at halftime, thirty to seven,
thirty to seven at halftime, and there was an obese woman,
a fat lady was singing, and right there before the
two minute warning in the first half, she was singing.
And there you go, turn out the last. The party
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is over. So a wood shed job by the Patriots
in this game. They turned the giants into mulch is
what they did. They turned them into most Now, as
for the hardware, a lot of discussion MVPTE, MVT PTE, MVP. Well,
Matthew Stafford had a dud in his game. He was
the MVP favorite coming into the weekend. Ram's lost to Carolina.
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That's embarrassing. So here's Drake May's opportunity to show the
world that he's mister MVP MV pay. So the question
now the morning after or the few hours after the
game here as we're talking after that Monday night football
win Patriots quarterback Drake May. His twenty twenty five MVP campaign, better,
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worse or the same? Drake May's MVP campaign this season,
now thirteen weeks into the campaign, on the campaign trail,
are things better, worse or the same? All right, So
I'm gonna go first. I don't think we should overthink this.
Drake May gave a simpotical performance on the Monday night game.
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Was great. It completed almost eighty percent of his passes,
averaged nine yards per pass, had a couple of touchdowns,
didn't have any mistakes, no turnovers, and had a solid
stat line across the board. Very clean, polished performance by
Drake May. NFL quarterbacking one O one one oh one.
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He was basically the vallee victorian of error free football,
which is important. Nevertheless, I would say, in terms of
the actual meat of the matter, let's pump the brakes
on this somehow being a climbing of the ladder situation.
I didn't see it that way, and it could not
have been why because of the opponent you played. The Giants,
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they blow they're two and ten, They benched their top
defensive player, didn't even play the first quarter of the
game where you jumped out to a massive lead, and
they came in there and it's like the Giants did
play in the Northeast and it gets cold in New
York with there was thirty degrees at kickoff, and it
was just kind of you wanted to sit inside. Some
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of you would be outside. They played like snowmen in
that in that way, it was no snow, but they
played like it. They looked like they needed to jumper
cables the Giants and get in their stand. They got
their doors smashed in this one. But you don't really
win an MVP contest. You don't win points and gain ground.
If you look at the exit polling, you don't gain
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ground by beating up the lazy Bones brigade from the Giants,
a lot of lazy bones there. So it was really
dance class and Drake May he did the sideway shuffle.
Do the shuffle, now you gotta do the shovel. The
sideway shove, not a moonwalk. You didn't moon walk forward
and didn't do that. In the MVP race. He certainly
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did not do a pratfall that didn't happen, didn't go backwards,
more like stay in your light. He stayed in his lane,
put on cruise control, self driving situation, and just kind
of waved politely at everyone who was outside and look,
I'm driving. I'm actually not driving the cars driving itself.
And so the malor mantra, which we have preached from
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the bully pulpit for many many years here is you
don't get extra credit for doing what you're supposed to do.
Like your big favorite at home. You're supposed to win
the game against an fear of your opponent that clearly
has quit. That's a bunch of gutlass Giants players. So hey,
through what you're supposed to do. They did. So the
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verdict not better for Drake May on the campaign trail,
not worse, the same, the same, And so it was
more of a maintenance night situation. No Heisman House moment,
No Heisman House moment here all right now, last word
the story that many people are freaking out about on
the Giant side, and it's not the fact they've got
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a bunch of lazy guys that didn't really want to
play this game after missing the previous two games. We
were hoping for Jamis Winston. We were counting on Jameis
Winston playing. He did not, which is disappointing because he's
fun bad and Jackson Dart, who's not terrible. I don't
hate Jackson Dart, but I was looking forward to seeing
Jameis Winston play. So Jackson Dart missed the previous two
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games with a concussion, and everyone and their mother yapping
about the play. If you saw the game in the
first half, was a bone crushing, bone crushing hit taken
by the Giants quarterback Jackson Dart on the sidelines that
led to a scuffle. There was a rhubarb that took
place right there on the sidelines, and it was early
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in the game. Patriots linebacker Christian Ellis knocking Dart. His
eyeballs went a little goofy. He hit him so hard there.
It was right on the sidelines and knocked him, knocked
him into the shadow realm. The hit was was vicious.
You don't normally see that here Dart. Jackson Dart was
actually flying like a lawn Dart, which you don't often
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see in an NFL game anymore. Since Dart was still
in bounds, there was no penalty and no harm, no
foul or in this case harm but no foul. So
there you go. Now everyone's like, oh my god, we
must protect Jackson Dart, we must save Jackson Dart. Well,
here's Jackson Dart. He was asked about that. Here's what
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he had to say postgame about whether or not he's
going to change anything.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I understand the question, but like this is like this
is football, Like I'm gonna get hit if I'm in
the pocket or outside the pocket, Like it's out of
I feel like I've played this way my whole entire life.
There shouldn't be like any shocker at anybody. If you've
followed along with my career and I'm we're not playing
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like we're not playing soccer out here, Like you're gonna
get hit.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Things happen.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It's part of the game.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
See that I say, we're not playing soccer football. We're playing football,
which is not football. It's football. There's a difference, all right.
So the question on this one's rather obvious, but we'll
address it to those of you in the back of
the room. So where are you at on the Giants?
Jackson Dart saying, hey, I'm not changing the way that
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I play, even though he got knocked silly by a
Patriot defender. So look, I'll go first year. I'm good
with it. I'm good with it. I'm not like these
other guys freaking out. Everyone's trying to do a therapy
session with Jackson Dart. I'm not enough already enough helicopter
parenting of quarterbacks and listen, Jackson Dart essentially said, he said, relax,
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Francis is what he said. This is football. It's not
Pilate's class. It's not there. Right across the courtyard there's
a hot yoga place. It's not hot yoga, Okay, it's not.
It's just something else. And you know what, I like that.
I think that's that's kind of cool. I'm not a
Giants fan, I'm not a Jackson Dart fan. I'm a
neutral party here. But if this guy wants to play
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like that. The Giants knew what they were getting when
they drafted him, and he wants to play. And it's
like he's a throwback, although he's too young to have
been raised with NHL, NHL NFL films, those there's NFL films,
those VHS tapes with all the hits and the fiberglass
helmets and human meat missiles flying around the field and
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all that, And so this is who Jackson Dart apparently is.
I like that he addressed that, like if you followed
my career, like everyone's following Jackson Dart's career, Like, I mean,
I know we're all losers, but we're not that big
of a loser where we're following your career. Dude, so
chilled out on that. But telling Jackson Dart to avoid
the hits is akin to asking Kyler Murray to not
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play Call of Duty. Now, the Cardinals tried to get
Kyler Murray to not play Call of Duty. They had
to take it out of the contract because the little
fella loves the PlayStation, loves the place. It'd be like
the Chief saying, hey, mahomes, can you not eat what
a burger? He loves water burger. That's what he enjoys.
Whataa burger? What a shot? What a burger? He's all
about that. It's baked into the DNA. So if you're
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gonna get Jackson Dart to stop taking hits, you got
to get Kyler Murray to stop being obsessed with video games.
Neither one of those things is going to happen. You
can't take the fangs out of a rattlesnake, cannot do it.
And by the way, the NFL again they celebrated this,
so this is one of those things again. It's like, oh,
those a million years ago boomer Well, okay, maybe it was.
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But there was a time where and I remember the
name of it. It was called Thunder and Destruction from
NFL Films, the NFL's Hardest hits, Thunder and Destruction narrated.
It was like a nature documentary, but gladiators of the
Gridiron gladiators. It was great. And now all these years
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later we act like quarterback taking a hit or getting
involved in any kind of contact is some kind of
federal crime. There needs to be some war tribunal. And
I was like, no, that was kind of cool. I
was like, wow, that's the NFL was like not every
single play every single game. However, there were points where
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it happened a couple times a game. And if Jackson
Dart wants to do some cosplay as a crash test dummy,
then let him. He's an adult. He signed up for
the circus. And when you sign up for the circus,
you know, the lions actually do bite. They're not fake lions,
they actually do bite there, and the elephants will actually
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step on you, so you might want to pay attention there.
And you're not playing trivial pursuit, you're not. And so
there you go. It's the hurt business. You're in the
hurt business. You're either giving the hurt or you're getting hurt.
And things go boom and sometimes they go come boom.
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this hour will circle back later on to the Monday
Night beat down as the Patriots get another win and
they're sitting pretty in the catbird seat in the American
Football Conference, the first team to eleven wins. But our
lead this hour is from Sin City because bad football
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makes for good talk radio. The fallout from the flop,
the floppy mcflop that is the Raiders. So former Raiders
coach Antonio Pierce. Remember this guy was born to be
a Raider and had the whole marketing campaign and the
fan base fell in love with him and lasted just
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a full season and then it was turn out the
last the parties over. So he did an interview this
week and it's about who cares what he has to say? Well,
I thought this was interesting, and I have the key
to the microphone. So here I am, so Antonio Piers.
It says he said, not I said he said. Antonio
Pierce said that he doesn't think the Raiders bad mojo
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will be solved anytime soon. So if you didn't see this,
perhaps not. Pierce says that if the Raiders continue to
go the way they're going, and they've gone down that
path of this season, he says they might need decades
decades to fix this bad boy. That's a quote. They
might need decades to fix this bad boy, Pierce said
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during a TV appearance at AP as his friends call him,
talked about the one and done changes as the Raiders
have handed out pink slips to two of the three coordinators.
The special teams coach got whacked, the offensive coodator was
molly whacked, and the offensive coordinator he's gone, as I
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said Chip Kelly. The defensive coordinator has not been curb
stomped yet, but only because it's Pete Carroll's like pretty
much doing everything on defense. So that's where we are
right now, he says. Everyone is Antonio. Pierce said, everyone's
pointing fingers, but at some point there has to be
a thumb pointing back offered that before. I've heard that before.
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All right, so that is a good jumping off point.
So let us discuss the question. Former NFL head coach,
Antonio Pierce says, the Raiders may need decades, decades to
fix because of the dysfunction in the building. Your thoughts.
So I've got mashed potatoes, boarding pass and law of
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the Jungle, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some delicious kettle corn,
is what we're going to make. So a let's start here.
Antonio Piers did not just light a match. He lit
a Molotov cocktail and loved it. He loved the Molotov
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cocktail right into the Silver and Black Circus tent. All right,
Darren Henderson at that big Raider facility there, you know what,
No lies detected, No lies detected. This is a fresh wound.
It's an open wound. It is not scabbed over for
Antonio Piers. And he said, well, it's just a disgruntled
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former employee. But is he wrong?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is he wrong?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah? If you look at what Pierce did, and he said,
well he wasn't that good at coach. Okay, what about
the fossilized Pete Carroll, good old Pete positive Pete positively
sucks as Raider coach. Look at the slop they've trotted
out on the field and Pierce. If you do a
side by side between Antonio Pierce and Pete Carroll Tonio
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Piers is looking more and more like a young John
Madden reincarnated with a clipboard and a boom mic. My god.
Compared to the Raiders season this year, I saw the
Raiders in person. They're an embarrassedment. Gino Smith should not
even be in the NFL. He's that bad. The guy
just sucks. He's so terrible it's wild. And the fact
that Antonio Pierce did better with Gardner Minshew and Aidan
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O'Connell last season. Now, I get that Pierce was going
for shock value, the shock and awe with the quote.
But sometimes the truth is the shock, Like that's the thing, right,
The truth is the shock. That is the thing there.
The dysfunction junction, what's your function? That runs through the
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entire organization fun our Raiders. It runs through the organization
like gravy through mashed potatoes, like a mashed potato volcano
with gravy everywhere, and standing in the middle of it.
You know, he's standing right in the don't knee deep
in mashed potatoes and right there with the gravy. Human
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traffic code. Mark Davis. Yeah, that guy, the spawn the
next generation there, spawn of VL and my god. So
you know, you can always find Mark Davis at the
PF chain's right near the Raider facility there inhaling Kung
pou chicken and making terrible decisions, rolling the dice and
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on the craps table. And it comes back snake eyes
every single time. It's snake eyes. You hire. Normally, what
you do in business is you hire good employees and
get the f out of a way. Whether you're running
a professional sports team, you're running a radio station, a factory,
a trucking business, whatever it might be, the most important
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part is to hire good people and then just let
them work. That's it, right, And if you're an NFL owner,
you just hire a good executive and a smart execut
of a quality head coach and get out of the way.
And what's going on now? Not in Raiderland, all right,
not in Radlo. Mark Davis is the common denominator in
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most of this run. Now, Al Davis was actually still
around at the beginning of this debacle, but he was
really old, good old Al. So it goes back twenty
three years. That's an entire generation of face plants for
the Raider franchise, and the Raiders have become Area fifty one,
the football version. It's a mysterious barren, possibly occupied by
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extraterrestrial and competent land out there in the Nevada desert.
And now you got pretty boy Tom Brady, Tom Brady,
the man that is the teflon dawn at the end
of it. I don't see anyone ripping tom Brady like
we're not part of the mainstream. We're on overnight. The
mainstream media will not go there. They will not go there.
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I wonder why that is. I wonder why there's Tom
Brady there tinkering. He is the GM by proxy of
the Raiders. And let's see he signed off on Chip Kelly.
Give chip Kelly the most money of any offensive coordinator. Check.
Let's hire Pete Carroll. Check Geno Smith the biggest crime
of them all to not only trade for Geno Smith,
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to then pay Geno Smith more money. This is a
Vegas residency. The Raiders here of bad decisions and perform
nightly at the Collapse theater right on the strip there
the Raider Nation, as it is called. They deserve better.
They deserve better, and you don't see that the Raider charging.
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A lot of Raider fans, they're older. I don't see
many young Raider fans because they have been cool in
a long time. But they're stuck in this barren wasteland,
the Raiders of rubble and minefields and abandoned trenches of
what used to be the Raiders decades. Twenty years, twenty years,
I mean Mike guy So and Antonio Piers, the way
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things have gone the last couple of years of the
Raiders things. Actually, he might be optimistic to say that
twenty years is all it's gonna take.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
All.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Right, Now to Minnesota we go a roster move. Did
the Vikings actually add a quarterback that knows how to throat? No, Instead,
they fired franchise icon Adam Feelin bye bye one day
after he was a healthy scratch, which is what you
don't want to be. He was a healthy scratch and
the shutout loss to the Seattle football team. Adam Feelin
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turns out he wanted to be fired. That's how bad
the Vikings are. Franchise legend would rather go to the
unemployment line than finish the year in the purple of
the Minnesota Vikings. It's crazy, absolutely crazy, and the Vikings
traded for this guy from Carolina. They traded some day
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three draft picks, but who cares about that, But they
traded for the guy to add to the roster so
we could retire as a Minnesota Viking and finished the
year on the Vikings of the Vikings are so bad
that this guy's like, I don't want to be here.
I gotta leave, and so they asked for the release.
The decision was made. It ends the second and final
stint with the Purple People leaders for Adam Thielen, his
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hometown team, and now he's gone there. He ranks third
in career touchdown catches. I'm told that's good, fourth in receptions.
I'm also told that's good, and fifth in receiving yards,
which I also have heard is pretty good for the
Minnesota Viking now, he said. In a prepared statement posted
on the social media which likely he had nothing to
do with. Adam Feelin said that he long ago decided
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that this would be his final season and he wanted
to go to a new place, go compete somewhere else.
He said, they want to go compete somewhere else. The
last few weeks of my career. Question, here's the question,
what do you make of Adam Thieland asking for and
received the pink slip, the release from the Minnesota Vikings.
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So let's just call this what this is. Adam Thielen
is ring chasing. In fact, right now he's sprinting through
the terminal B at the Minneapolis Saint Paul International Airport
there trying to find his boarding pass to catch a
flight to Glorytown. He wants to go, not Glory Hole.
That's where Jerry Jones goes. Jerry goes to Glory Hole. No, no, no,
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he wants Adam Thieling wants to go to Glorytown, which
is a different town. It's the next town over. Well, no,
this is Glorytown. This is a little different here. But
this is not complicated. It's not the Vikings are admitting.
He's like, we suck and there is no chance, we
have no future. Okay, we like you. We are going
to let you go. That's what this is. And he
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saw the Viking office. The other thing about is steeling
came over from Carolina. He saw the Vikings offense. The
headless horseman, no quarterback got shut out. Now he didn't play
in this game, but get shutout loss there throw back
to the leather helmet era of the NFL, and he said,
I'm out. I'm good, see you later, suckers. Let me
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find a contender before I completely fade the black. I
got to get out of here. And the Vikings agree,
They told them, he yeah, Adam, go ahead, thanks for
the memories. Don't let the door hit you where the
Good Lord split you. And that's it, so feeling. We
call this the shady move. It's the Shady McCoy move.
I don't know if you know who that is. Lashawan
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Shady McCoy, who did a TV show at one point
that nobody watched. I don't know what he's doing now,
but Shandy McCoy, a legacy Polisher tour, a last shady
McCoy for Adam feelin. Now, Yeah, you hop on a contender,
You play I don't know, fifteen snaps or something like that,
maybe less than that. You get your little ring that
you'll sell on an auction at Sotheby's at some point.
(30:57):
There you pose with the ring on Instagram and there
you go and you make it seem like you're Jerry
Rice or something like that in his prime, because you
want the bling bling. It's all about the bling blink.
So the Malor wheel of speculation, the malor wheel of
speculators never all round and round for Adam Feeling, malar
wheel of speculation, big money, big money. He stop. Here
(31:19):
we go, Buffalo, Here we go Buffalo, and you got
the terrible towels and the Carolina cats. That's it, that's
all Buffalo. They need receive they just added, they just
added a guy that can't play in Cook's brand. And
so say you got another one, right, And they're collecting
(31:40):
these washed up wide receivers in Buffalo and just need
them to be on the roster and they can run
around like roombus out there. And then Pittsburgh. We'll talk
more about this later, but Aaron Rodgers story that still
has legs Rogers unloading on the wide receiver room there
and so they don't know what they're doing, and they've
(32:01):
been scolded by Aaron Rodgers for mental mistakes. So she
got that in Carolina. The comedy on that one writes itself.
So they Carolina traded him. Now Minnesota's fired him, Adam Feelin,
and they could bring him back like an Amazon return
that says like an Amazon return. So Feeling is not
(32:23):
trying to He's not trying to save anyone season. He's
not that good. He's just trying to get some nice
photos for the scrapbook and a nice trinket for the
retirement celebration. One last shot. This happens more in basketball
than football. A lot of guys in basketball have chased
(32:44):
rings and it's like, well you win, but it's not
quite the same deal, but you get one. It's like
not normal football activity. Not normal football activity. A right
last word to the former player land where all injured
now cliche Field sportscaster JJ Watt is not not buying
(33:08):
into all the chatter about NFL referees must be full time.
They've got to be full time. That'll fix everything, everything
at all that's wrong in the NFL full time referece. Well,
he said no. He said no. That he was asked
about that on the Socials JJ Watt and whether it's
a good time to revisit the full time referee argument
(33:28):
which has been going on. Watt pushed back on that.
He pointed out that the human element is a big
part of this, which is a correct point. So JJ
Watt pushing back on the full time NFL referee argument
fixing the issues? Does this make sense to you? So,
(33:49):
after a minute long Mallard deliberation, yes, I actually think
JJ Watt nailed it dead center of the bullseye. For
JJ Watt, the idea that making refere foreze full time
magically fixes everything is vercocta is what it is, right,
It's a fugazy it's nonsense, just like Baseball thinks that
(34:11):
using AI eventually will fix the umpire and well, though
someone's going to have to program it, someone's gonna have
to monitor it. There'll be some glitches and some thing
of a jigs and watch mccaus to go wrong. But
in terms of the NFL issue, making officials full time,
it's it's unnecessary. You could totally do it. It'll make
people feel better, and it's all other full time this
(34:33):
is it, okay? Uh yeah uh. But the problem is
they're not like they're humans. They're not laptops. You can't
just reboot them. That's the problem there. And they're flesh
and blood zebras is what they are. And humans, I
don't know if you heard about this. Humans f up,
Humans screw up. It's it's part of the human condition.
It's the malar law of the jungle. If it can
(34:56):
be botched, okay, eventually someone will botch it. It's the
Malard law of the jungle. And you could lock every
official into a film room for ten to twelve hours
a day, three hundred and sixty five days a year,
no holidays off and spoiler alert, spoiler alert, they'd still
(35:18):
miss a holding penalty. They'd still screw up a defensive
pass interference penalty. They left that up. And here's why.
Because half half the NFL rule book is subjective versus objective,
meaning belief versus fact. There's a lot of shades of gray,
(35:40):
more than fifty shades of gray when it comes to
the officiating. And if you're one of these, you must
call every penalty you want, every little tug, call the penalty.
And I know people like this that, friends of mine,
they're like this, fine, Okay, that's good. Everyfing game will
be six and a half hours. There'll be seventy four
penalty and one hundred and forty replays. Is that what
(36:03):
you want? You do? Okay? I hope you get it, loser,
I hope you get that. You loser because you're a loser,
all right. You gotta let the game breathe. You gotta
let the game breathe, but not too much. Right, there's
this sweet spot, it really, it's a sweet spot. And
the full time crowd, the group with their torches and
their pitchforks. We need full time the nerdoust colony, if
(36:26):
you will, of football sikos. They want one hundred percent
accuracy and newslash. It's never going to happen. You're never
going to get one hundred percent accuracy. Not gonna happen,
and not with humans, not even with robots. Okay, football
is not math. It is chaos. And it's the old
(36:46):
argument we make all time, this letter of the law
versus the spirit of the law. The NFL survives on
the spirit of the rule book, not the letter of
the rule book. And so jj Watt again to mark
this full circle is correct that the fixing of the
reps is not a job title or full time, part
time situation. It is a reality problem.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
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It's Mallard, how about that?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
To the third degree.
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This is one big vent gets grilled cool.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
After the Buccaneers ended their three game losing streak on Sunday,
Baker Mayfield said the team is quote very very close
to where they want to be on offense. Ben, do
you think that with Bucky Irving and Chris Godwin back
and playing well, that Tampa can return to being the
playoff beat that they seem to be early on.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Well, yes, but only because of the division that they're in.
You need a hazmad suit in that division. Sants are horrific,
Atlanta blows, they're going to fire their coaching staff there,
and Carolina's got some wings, but nobody takes them seriously.
Someone's going to win that division. Tampa bays in good
shape to win that. It's a dead man zone. So
(37:59):
by location, yes.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Next a few weeks ago, it seemed like the Colts
could run away with the AFC South. Not only have
the Jets taken over first place, but the Texans are
right on both of their heels.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
What do you think comes out ahead in this the
end of the season.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Well, I love the Texans defense, and so I'm going
I don't believe in CJ. Strapp, but I don't believe
in Trevor Lawrence either so uh, and certainly Daniel Jones.
I would say the top unit is the defensive unit
of the Texans. So if you're gonna put your money
on one of those teams, I would take the Houston
Texans next.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Dan Orlovsky set an a post on X Monday.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
We'll stop right if dan Orlovsky said something. If dan
Orlovsky go ahead?
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Uh, he said the Miami Dolphins are a dangerous football
team right now. Dangerous have totally transformed their offensive identity.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Oh stop?
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Is any of that believable?
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yes, here's how they've done that. They played the Let's
go the Atlanta Falcons, the Commanders, and the Saints in this.
Come on, I don't buy it. It's nonsense. How do
we do? Koupolo passes?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
I won the game?
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Jet who played?
Speaker 4 (38:58):
I love the game?
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Speaker 2 (39:23):
What's happening waiting on a big old snowstorm up here today?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Benny Block. I wanted it to happen last night because
I was hoping to watch a snow game. I didn't
get the snow game. I'm bummed out by that.
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We'll have a few in the playoffs.
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Don't worry. Oh look at you, you're back. I thought
you were a Texans fan. No, you're done with that.
You're back on what they fighted?
Speaker 5 (39:41):
Bill?
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I jumped back on, Baby.
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I got you, all right, Rob? Who do you want
to partner up with? Rob?
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Rob goes?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Baby? Okay? Ok God, hold on, And we have Mike
in Boston. What's going on? Mike? Welcome Mikey? What's up?
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Hey?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
What's up? Man? What's going on? What's going on? What
are you doing? Are you driving around? You're working right now?
You what are you doing on my way to work? Oh? God?
All right? Well, who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 6 (40:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:06):
You?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Okay? All right, Sarl Rena. You're not popular. It's the
only time Laran is not popular? Is this game? Right here?
All right? Go ahead?
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Cool, all right, gentlemen, this is Malor's Mount of Money
the Woody Allen edition. He turned ninety years old on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
That seems old to me. Yes.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
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The categories are take the Money and Run midnight in Paris,
husbands and wives, and small time Crooks and rob was
on first. Robbis category would you.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Like take the money and run?
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Alright?
Speaker 6 (40:36):
And then Mike, how about you?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Small time crooks? Small time crooks? All right? Everyone, hold on,
do not hang up. We will have Malors Mountain of
Money in its entirety. We'll get to that. We will
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Speaker 1 (41:00):
Hello, that's not money.
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Do you have what it takes to get to the top.
Probably not.
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(41:26):
who is teamed up with me. Rob in Maine waiting
for the Snow teamed up with Coop. Rob was on
the air first, So you will go with Coop the
Woody Allen edition cooplehop.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
Yes, that is correct, right Rob. We have take the
money and run.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
These athletes didn't live up to their mega contracts. We
need the first and last name. Forty five seconds on
the clock.
Speaker 6 (41:49):
Are you ready, Rob, Rob?
Speaker 5 (41:53):
Yeah, okay, all right, forty five seconds.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
Let's begin.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
All right.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
He's the quarterbacks for the Cleveland Browns who I loved massages.
Speaker 6 (42:03):
Yes uh.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
This guy was nicknamed the Machine in baseball. He was
with the Angels for like ten years and sucked for
most of them.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Albert Yes uh.
Speaker 5 (42:12):
This guy was on the Orlando Magic and the Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
His dad was in the NFL. Yes uh.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
This guy was a.
Speaker 5 (42:21):
Quarterback for the Denver Broncos and the Chicago Bears. His
nickname was Smoking Yes, the rain Man from the Seattle SuperSonics.
Speaker 6 (42:32):
Yes uh.
Speaker 5 (42:32):
This guy was another Angel player, a third baseman from
the Washington Nationals. Yes, let's go, and then a quarterback.
He was on the Broncos, but it was the Texans
who gave him a big contract.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Oh didn't get it in No, Yeah, we're up. Now
let's show him Madge done. That was pathetic by Coop
and Rob. Not good at all. We'll show Madge done here.
All right, Mike, here we go. You picked small time crooks.
These athletes have all been caught stealing. Okay you Ready's
all right, Mike. Forty five seconds. We need the first
(43:04):
and last name runaway. This guy played quarterback in Florida State.
He loved crab legs. He's now in the NFL with Yes.
He was known as the Juice with the Buffalo Bills.
He also liked Yes. Currently the coach of the New
England Patriots. Yes, known as Nails for the eighty six Mets,
also played for the Phillies outfielder had a lot of Yes.
(43:27):
He was a quarterback for the Chargers, drafted after Peyton Manning,
one of the great busts in NFL draft teds No,
No before that. Yes, he played basketball at Notre Dame.
He's currently a colleague of mine here at Fox Sports Radio.
He's a college basketball coach in Wisconsin, Green Bay. Yeah,
(43:49):
there you go. Stole a right. We didn't get the
hundred point in all right, tired, crazy match so far?
Speaker 5 (43:56):
All right, Rob, do you want midnight in Paris? Or
husbands and wives midnight?
Speaker 6 (44:02):
All right?
Speaker 5 (44:03):
Uh, these athletes all have at least some French heritage.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Current quarterback
for the Lions, Jared. Yes, this guy is the best
player in the NBA right now. A huge guy on
the Spurs. Yes, this guy was nicknamed the Stifled Tower.
(44:23):
He was a center on the Jazz and the Timberwolves. Yes,
this guy was a point guard on the Spurs. He
was married to an actress. Yes, this guy was on
the Florida Gators, then the Bulls. His dad was a
tennis player. Let's go. This guy was a closer for
the Dodgers eighty eight saves in a row or something
like that. Eric, Yes, this guy was a catcher for
(44:46):
the Dodgers and the Yankees. He was from Canada, though
French Canadian. When he hit a home money was blank
with muscle, so tough. Russell.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
All right, so let's show o's done here again. We
got an opportunity, Mike. The opportunity is ours.
Speaker 6 (45:08):
Close one, all right.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Here we go get put forty five seconds the category
where we have husbands and wives. Is is that break? These
athletes are all married to another athlete. Okay, you understand, Mike.
All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
We need the first and last name. Good luck, We're
on our way and go. Currently at the quarterback of
the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, he plays football. Actually he's
(45:32):
no longer a football players on CBS. His brother plays
for the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. Yes, tight end for the
believers with the Washington Commanders. He was a star with
the Philadelphia Eagles. He's one of the Yes, he a
quarterback for notre name. He's a talk show host here
at Fox Sports Radio. Golden Domeer played with the Cleveland Browns.
Sucked in the NFL, though he's on Fox. Yes, a
(45:54):
female gymnast. I was in a documentary Rippinger. She's married
to a Chicago Bears tight end. Uh now a short
stop for the Red Sox back when they they traded
him when he won the World. Yes, a white guy
for the he played for the Knicks. First son of
a billionaire out of damn Uh David. We were trying
(46:19):
to get David and Simone Biles.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Simone yeah, yeah, that's all right. Well I ripped Simone
Biles and it made it like a Netflix documentary. I
had all these middle aged women yelling at me. It
was yeah, they were very upset with my take. I
did a monologue about Simone Biles getting she was depressed.
Well yeah, she got like the twisties or what, and
I was goofing on her and then uh, they put
(46:43):
it in this documentary and they ripped. They all these
middle aged women were very upset with me. Anyway, Wilson
was actually a rare good game. We don't normally get that. Rob,
you won, so you get a golden ticket. There, Rob,
I got a golden chickats I've got gold. We didn't
get David Lee and what he was it brock Oswather
(47:05):
was at the last category, Russell Martin. Russell Martin. So
there you go. All right, Well, thank you, gentlemen. Good job.
There's a Mic and Rob another edition of Malay's Money.
If you like the game, we play it every week
at about this time. If you don't like the game,
we only play it once a week. So who the
hell cares? I mean, lightening up, Francis right, we want
to play it once a week. What's a big deal.
Who cares about that one once a week? So that
(47:26):
was one of the better games we've had. I think
I would say that's like a top three game we've
had this year.
Speaker 6 (47:30):
I was sweat.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
That was a good, solid, good job, Good job boys,
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we are back at it on a post Monday night
or Tuesday show here heading into the second day of December,
still late on a Monday in the West, and our
lead story some patty Cake fun under the darkness powered
by moonlight there and it was the final game of
(02:28):
the week thirteen card in the NFL. Jackson Dart leading
the Giants, they drove the honey Wagon into Foxborough to
take on Drake May and the Patriots in the Commonwealth.
Were you watching this game? New elland a sizable favorite
the Fox Refugees Joe Buck and Troy Aikman on ABC.
(02:51):
They had the call there on television, so I don't
know if you were checking this game out or not.
It really wasn't much else to watch. I can't really
watch the NBA much during the regular season, so don't worry.
We watched so you would not have to watch. And
let's see what did we see. Let's say, oh, yes, right,
Drake May living up to the hype. He passed for
a couple of touchdowns. The Patriots special teams were extra
(03:15):
special good. They get a Neon Eraser Marcus Jones generic
name but not a generic player at a ninety four
yard putt return for a touchdown. And the Patriots kept
the good times rolling along as they become the first
NFL team into the eleven win club, and they beat
(03:36):
up the Giants, who aren't so giant thirty three to fifteen.
Good coaching change there for the Giants. That's fixed that
franchise right right from the beginning there. Oh and three
now I believe with the new coach. So it was
the tenth straight win. I'm told that's good for the Patriots.
Ten straight wins the AFC leaders the new only patri
(03:58):
eleven and two on the the franchise's longest winning streak
some since some guy named Tom Brady and some guy
named Bill Belichick were there. That was back in twenty fifteen.
So Mike Rabel, who took some time off because he
didn't get a job after the Patriots' former Patriot player
was let go by the Tennessee Titans. He was schmoozing
(04:20):
at Ohio State. Now he's in the NFL A game
with the Patriots, and Mike Rabel has become now the
third coach since nineteen seven. It's fifty five years to
win ten or more games in his first season with
a new employer. That is a good jumping off points.
So let us discuss the question, how would you describe
(04:43):
coach Mike Rabel's Patriots the performance that we saw. Patriots
don't play a lot of these primetime games, so how
would you describe the performance of Mike Rabel's Patriots in
the Monday night game. So I've got us military dance
class and nature doc entry, and we will combine all
of these things together and we're gonna make pulled barbecue
(05:07):
chicken sandwiches. We're gonna make it. They're gonna be freaking delicious,
and you're gonna love them, and you're gonna get baked
potato action going the whole thing, all right, So tell me, yeah,
a this was what we call a boom box game
for the Patriots. As a boombox game, it did not
go the way I anticipated the game would go. But
that's why they played the games. That's why they play
(05:28):
the games. There Mike Rabel turning the volume up on
that boombox to eleven all the way up to eleven,
smashing the base there and really sticking it to the
giants and put putting them in the food processor and
setting it to pure in the first half of this game,
(05:48):
as it was oh v e r at halftime games
are they pigged out on a bad opponent. That's what
good teams do, beat bad teams convincingly. And it was
like a midweek buffet special for the Patriots, of course,
not midweek, the end of the week end, of the
weekend beginning of the new week, so New England. What
(06:09):
they did is they met expectations. They met expectations period
full stop. They were supposed to win by a lot.
They won by a lot. And this was a team
that was a heavy favorite the Patriots coming into this game.
The kind of a game that if you look at
it on a tablet. He said, well, this was actually
a classic trap spot. And if you watched Benny Versus
the Penny on YouTube. We talked about it on the
(06:31):
TV show. We discussed it that you had the Thanksgiving hangover,
you had the bye week looming, the final week of
the Buyser's upcoming for the Patriots and the Giants as
well some other teams. But the bye week is coming
up for them, so they're going to be in can
Coon on vacation. And then you've also got, in addition
to that, a makeship offensive line, make shift offensive line,
(06:52):
a couple of starters gone from the Patriots offensive line,
and the offensive line they tossed out there looked like
it was something that was built from akia Ikia and
it was not built following the instruction. You just kind
of put it together there. But none of that mattered,
not an ounce of that matter. It didn't matter in
this game. Mike Rabel squad comes in here and with
a level headed approach, blue collar, blue collar. Again, these
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guys are all rich, but that mindset that we always
talk about this, you know, take care of do your
job with Belichick used to say, and then they flipped
on the boombox again. They cranked up the volume a
little higher and they hit the Bachmann turner overdrive. Taking
care of business is what they did, was what they did.
They took care of exactly what you would expect them
to do. They did no frills, no real razzle dazzle
(07:40):
other than the special teams played. But it was a
scorched earth policy. And the first half of this game
barbaric is the word. They were barbaric in the first
half of the game, talking us military style, by land,
by sea, by air, in this case, by offense, by defense,
by special teams, all phases of the game. Body blow,
(08:00):
body blow, body blow. And by the time we got
the halftimes, thirty to seven at halftime, thirty to seven,
thirty to seven at halftime, and there was an obese woman,
a fat lady was singing, and right there before the
two minute warning in the first half, she was singing.
And there you go, turn out the last. The party
(08:24):
is over. So a wood shed job by the Patriots
in this game. They turned the giants into mulch is
what they did. They turned them into most Now, as
for the hardware, a lot of discussion MVPTE, MVT PTE, MVP. Well,
Matthew Stafford had a dud in his game. He was
the MVP favorite coming into the weekend. Ram's lost to Carolina.
(08:47):
That's embarrassing. So here's Drake May's opportunity to show the
world that he's mister MVP MV pay. So the question
now the morning after or the few hours after the
game here as we're talking after that Monday night football
win Patriots quarterback Drake May. His twenty twenty five MVP campaign, better,
(09:11):
worse or the same? Drake May's MVP campaign this season,
now thirteen weeks into the campaign, on the campaign trail,
are things better, worse or the same? All right, So
I'm gonna go first. I don't think we should overthink this.
Drake May gave a simpotical performance on the Monday night game.
(09:37):
Was great. It completed almost eighty percent of his passes,
averaged nine yards per pass, had a couple of touchdowns,
didn't have any mistakes, no turnovers, and had a solid
stat line across the board. Very clean, polished performance by
Drake May. NFL quarterbacking one O one one oh one.
(10:00):
He was basically the vallee victorian of error free football,
which is important. Nevertheless, I would say, in terms of
the actual meat of the matter, let's pump the brakes
on this somehow being a climbing of the ladder situation.
I didn't see it that way, and it could not
have been why because of the opponent you played. The Giants,
(10:21):
they blow they're two and ten, They benched their top
defensive player, didn't even play the first quarter of the
game where you jumped out to a massive lead, and
they came in there and it's like the Giants did
play in the Northeast and it gets cold in New
York with there was thirty degrees at kickoff, and it
was just kind of you wanted to sit inside. Some
(10:42):
of you would be outside. They played like snowmen in
that in that way, it was no snow, but they
played like it. They looked like they needed to jumper
cables the Giants and get in their stand. They got
their doors smashed in this one. But you don't really
win an MVP contest. You don't win points and gain ground.
If you look at the exit polling, you don't gain
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ground by beating up the lazy Bones brigade from the Giants,
a lot of lazy bones there. So it was really
dance class and Drake May he did the sideway shuffle.
Do the shuffle, now you gotta do the shovel. The
sideway shove, not a moonwalk. You didn't moon walk forward
and didn't do that. In the MVP race. He certainly
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did not do a pratfall that didn't happen, didn't go backwards,
more like stay in your light. He stayed in his lane,
put on cruise control, self driving situation, and just kind
of waved politely at everyone who was outside and look,
I'm driving. I'm actually not driving the cars driving itself.
And so the malor mantra, which we have preached from
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the bully pulpit for many many years here is you
don't get extra credit for doing what you're supposed to do.
Like your big favorite at home. You're supposed to win
the game against an fear of your opponent that clearly
has quit. That's a bunch of gutlass Giants players. So hey,
through what you're supposed to do. They did. So the
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verdict not better for Drake May on the campaign trail,
not worse, the same, the same, And so it was
more of a maintenance night situation. No Heisman House moment,
No Heisman House moment here all right now, last word
the story that many people are freaking out about on
the Giant side, and it's not the fact they've got
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a bunch of lazy guys that didn't really want to
play this game after missing the previous two games. We
were hoping for Jamis Winston. We were counting on Jameis
Winston playing. He did not, which is disappointing because he's
fun bad and Jackson Dart, who's not terrible. I don't
hate Jackson Dart, but I was looking forward to seeing
Jameis Winston play. So Jackson Dart missed the previous two
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games with a concussion, and everyone and their mother yapping
about the play. If you saw the game in the
first half, was a bone crushing, bone crushing hit taken
by the Giants quarterback Jackson Dart on the sidelines that
led to a scuffle. There was a rhubarb that took
place right there on the sidelines, and it was early
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in the game. Patriots linebacker Christian Ellis knocking Dart. His
eyeballs went a little goofy. He hit him so hard there.
It was right on the sidelines and knocked him, knocked
him into the shadow realm. The hit was was vicious.
You don't normally see that here Dart. Jackson Dart was
actually flying like a lawn Dart, which you don't often
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see in an NFL game anymore. Since Dart was still
in bounds, there was no penalty and no harm, no
foul or in this case harm but no foul. So
there you go. Now everyone's like, oh my god, we
must protect Jackson Dart, we must save Jackson Dart. Well,
here's Jackson Dart. He was asked about that. Here's what
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he had to say postgame about whether or not he's
going to change anything.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I understand the question, but like this is like this
is football, Like I'm gonna get hit if I'm in
the pocket or outside the pocket, Like it's out of
I feel like I've played this way my whole entire life.
There shouldn't be like any shocker at anybody. If you've
followed along with my career and I'm we're not playing
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like we're not playing soccer out here, Like you're gonna
get hit.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Things happen.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It's part of the game.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
See that I say, we're not playing soccer football. We're playing football,
which is not football. It's football. There's a difference, all right.
So the question on this one's rather obvious, but we'll
address it to those of you in the back of
the room. So where are you at on the Giants?
Jackson Dart saying, hey, I'm not changing the way that
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I play, even though he got knocked silly by a
Patriot defender. So look, I'll go first year. I'm good
with it. I'm good with it. I'm not like these
other guys freaking out. Everyone's trying to do a therapy
session with Jackson Dart. I'm not enough already enough helicopter
parenting of quarterbacks and listen, Jackson Dart essentially said, he said, relax,
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Francis is what he said. This is football. It's not
Pilate's class. It's not there. Right across the courtyard there's
a hot yoga place. It's not hot yoga, Okay, it's not.
It's just something else. And you know what, I like that.
I think that's that's kind of cool. I'm not a
Giants fan, I'm not a Jackson Dart fan. I'm a
neutral party here. But if this guy wants to play
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like that. The Giants knew what they were getting when
they drafted him, and he wants to play. And it's
like he's a throwback, although he's too young to have
been raised with NHL, NHL NFL films, those there's NFL films,
those VHS tapes with all the hits and the fiberglass
helmets and human meat missiles flying around the field and
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all that, And so this is who Jackson Dart apparently is.
I like that he addressed that, like if you followed
my career, like everyone's following Jackson Dart's career, Like, I mean,
I know we're all losers, but we're not that big
of a loser where we're following your career. Dude, so
chilled out on that. But telling Jackson Dart to avoid
the hits is akin to asking Kyler Murray to not
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play Call of Duty. Now, the Cardinals tried to get
Kyler Murray to not play Call of Duty. They had
to take it out of the contract because the little
fella loves the PlayStation, loves the place. It'd be like
the Chief saying, hey, mahomes, can you not eat what
a burger? He loves water burger. That's what he enjoys.
Whataa burger? What a shot? What a burger? He's all
about that. It's baked into the DNA. So if you're
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gonna get Jackson Dart to stop taking hits, you got
to get Kyler Murray to stop being obsessed with video games.
Neither one of those things is going to happen. You
can't take the fangs out of a rattlesnake, cannot do it.
And by the way, the NFL again they celebrated this,
so this is one of those things again. It's like, oh,
those a million years ago boomer Well, okay, maybe it was.
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But there was a time where and I remember the
name of it. It was called Thunder and Destruction from
NFL Films, the NFL's Hardest hits, Thunder and Destruction narrated.
It was like a nature documentary, but gladiators of the
Gridiron gladiators. It was great. And now all these years
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later we act like quarterback taking a hit or getting
involved in any kind of contact is some kind of
federal crime. There needs to be some war tribunal. And
I was like, no, that was kind of cool. I
was like, wow, that's the NFL was like not every
single play every single game. However, there were points where
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it happened a couple times a game. And if Jackson
Dart wants to do some cosplay as a crash test dummy,
then let him. He's an adult. He signed up for
the circus. And when you sign up for the circus,
you know, the lions actually do bite. They're not fake lions,
they actually do bite there, and the elephants will actually
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step on you, so you might want to pay attention there.
And you're not playing trivial pursuit, you're not. And so
there you go. It's the hurt business. You're in the
hurt business. You're either giving the hurt or you're getting hurt.
And things go boom and sometimes they go come boom.
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this hour will circle back later on to the Monday
Night beat down as the Patriots get another win and
they're sitting pretty in the catbird seat in the American
Football Conference, the first team to eleven wins. But our
lead this hour is from Sin City because bad football
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makes for good talk radio. The fallout from the flop,
the floppy mcflop that is the Raiders. So former Raiders
coach Antonio Pierce. Remember this guy was born to be
a Raider and had the whole marketing campaign and the
fan base fell in love with him and lasted just
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a full season and then it was turn out the
last the parties over. So he did an interview this
week and it's about who cares what he has to say? Well,
I thought this was interesting, and I have the key
to the microphone. So here I am, so Antonio Piers.
It says he said, not I said he said. Antonio
Pierce said that he doesn't think the Raiders bad mojo
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will be solved anytime soon. So if you didn't see this,
perhaps not. Pierce says that if the Raiders continue to
go the way they're going, and they've gone down that
path of this season, he says they might need decades
decades to fix this bad boy. That's a quote. They
might need decades to fix this bad boy, Pierce said
(20:42):
during a TV appearance at AP as his friends call him,
talked about the one and done changes as the Raiders
have handed out pink slips to two of the three coordinators.
The special teams coach got whacked, the offensive coodator was
molly whacked, and the offensive coordinator he's gone, as I
(21:04):
said Chip Kelly. The defensive coordinator has not been curb
stomped yet, but only because it's Pete Carroll's like pretty
much doing everything on defense. So that's where we are
right now, he says. Everyone is Antonio. Pierce said, everyone's
pointing fingers, but at some point there has to be
a thumb pointing back offered that before. I've heard that before.
(21:25):
All right, so that is a good jumping off point.
So let us discuss the question. Former NFL head coach,
Antonio Pierce says, the Raiders may need decades, decades to
fix because of the dysfunction in the building. Your thoughts.
So I've got mashed potatoes, boarding pass and law of
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the Jungle, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some delicious kettle corn,
is what we're going to make. So a let's start here.
Antonio Piers did not just light a match. He lit
a Molotov cocktail and loved it. He loved the Molotov
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cocktail right into the Silver and Black Circus tent. All right,
Darren Henderson at that big Raider facility there, you know what,
No lies detected, No lies detected. This is a fresh wound.
It's an open wound. It is not scabbed over for
Antonio Piers. And he said, well, it's just a disgruntled
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former employee. But is he wrong?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is he wrong?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah? If you look at what Pierce did, and he said,
well he wasn't that good at coach. Okay, what about
the fossilized Pete Carroll, good old Pete positive Pete positively
sucks as Raider coach. Look at the slop they've trotted
out on the field and Pierce. If you do a
side by side between Antonio Pierce and Pete Carroll Tonio
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Piers is looking more and more like a young John
Madden reincarnated with a clipboard and a boom mic. My god.
Compared to the Raiders season this year, I saw the
Raiders in person. They're an embarrassedment. Gino Smith should not
even be in the NFL. He's that bad. The guy
just sucks. He's so terrible it's wild. And the fact
that Antonio Pierce did better with Gardner Minshew and Aidan
(23:23):
O'Connell last season. Now, I get that Pierce was going
for shock value, the shock and awe with the quote.
But sometimes the truth is the shock, Like that's the thing, right,
The truth is the shock. That is the thing there.
The dysfunction junction, what's your function? That runs through the
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entire organization fun our Raiders. It runs through the organization
like gravy through mashed potatoes, like a mashed potato volcano
with gravy everywhere, and standing in the middle of it.
You know, he's standing right in the don't knee deep
in mashed potatoes and right there with the gravy. Human
(24:05):
traffic code. Mark Davis. Yeah, that guy, the spawn the
next generation there, spawn of VL and my god. So
you know, you can always find Mark Davis at the
PF chain's right near the Raider facility there inhaling Kung
pou chicken and making terrible decisions, rolling the dice and
(24:27):
on the craps table. And it comes back snake eyes
every single time. It's snake eyes. You hire. Normally, what
you do in business is you hire good employees and
get the f out of a way. Whether you're running
a professional sports team, you're running a radio station, a factory,
a trucking business, whatever it might be, the most important
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part is to hire good people and then just let
them work. That's it, right, And if you're an NFL owner,
you just hire a good executive and a smart execut
of a quality head coach and get out of the way.
And what's going on now? Not in Raiderland, all right,
not in Radlo. Mark Davis is the common denominator in
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most of this run. Now, Al Davis was actually still
around at the beginning of this debacle, but he was
really old, good old Al. So it goes back twenty
three years. That's an entire generation of face plants for
the Raider franchise, and the Raiders have become Area fifty one,
the football version. It's a mysterious barren, possibly occupied by
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extraterrestrial and competent land out there in the Nevada desert.
And now you got pretty boy Tom Brady, Tom Brady,
the man that is the teflon dawn at the end
of it. I don't see anyone ripping tom Brady like
we're not part of the mainstream. We're on overnight. The
mainstream media will not go there. They will not go there.
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I wonder why that is. I wonder why there's Tom
Brady there tinkering. He is the GM by proxy of
the Raiders. And let's see he signed off on Chip Kelly.
Give chip Kelly the most money of any offensive coordinator. Check.
Let's hire Pete Carroll. Check Geno Smith the biggest crime
of them all to not only trade for Geno Smith,
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to then pay Geno Smith more money. This is a
Vegas residency. The Raiders here of bad decisions and perform
nightly at the Collapse theater right on the strip there
the Raider Nation, as it is called. They deserve better.
They deserve better, and you don't see that the Raider charging.
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A lot of Raider fans, they're older. I don't see
many young Raider fans because they have been cool in
a long time. But they're stuck in this barren wasteland,
the Raiders of rubble and minefields and abandoned trenches of
what used to be the Raiders decades. Twenty years, twenty years,
I mean Mike guy So and Antonio Piers, the way
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things have gone the last couple of years of the
Raiders things. Actually, he might be optimistic to say that
twenty years is all it's gonna take.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
All.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Right, Now to Minnesota we go a roster move. Did
the Vikings actually add a quarterback that knows how to throat? No, Instead,
they fired franchise icon Adam Feelin bye bye one day
after he was a healthy scratch, which is what you
don't want to be. He was a healthy scratch and
the shutout loss to the Seattle football team. Adam Feelin
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turns out he wanted to be fired. That's how bad
the Vikings are. Franchise legend would rather go to the
unemployment line than finish the year in the purple of
the Minnesota Vikings. It's crazy, absolutely crazy, and the Vikings
traded for this guy from Carolina. They traded some day
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three draft picks, but who cares about that, But they
traded for the guy to add to the roster so
we could retire as a Minnesota Viking and finished the
year on the Vikings of the Vikings are so bad
that this guy's like, I don't want to be here.
I gotta leave, and so they asked for the release.
The decision was made. It ends the second and final
stint with the Purple People leaders for Adam Thielen, his
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hometown team, and now he's gone there. He ranks third
in career touchdown catches. I'm told that's good, fourth in receptions.
I'm also told that's good, and fifth in receiving yards,
which I also have heard is pretty good for the
Minnesota Viking now, he said. In a prepared statement posted
on the social media which likely he had nothing to
do with. Adam Feelin said that he long ago decided
(28:40):
that this would be his final season and he wanted
to go to a new place, go compete somewhere else.
He said, they want to go compete somewhere else. The
last few weeks of my career. Question, here's the question,
what do you make of Adam Thieland asking for and
received the pink slip, the release from the Minnesota Vikings.
(29:03):
So let's just call this what this is. Adam Thielen
is ring chasing. In fact, right now he's sprinting through
the terminal B at the Minneapolis Saint Paul International Airport
there trying to find his boarding pass to catch a
flight to Glorytown. He wants to go, not Glory Hole.
That's where Jerry Jones goes. Jerry goes to Glory Hole. No, no, no,
(29:27):
he wants Adam Thieling wants to go to Glorytown, which
is a different town. It's the next town over. Well, no,
this is Glorytown. This is a little different here. But
this is not complicated. It's not the Vikings are admitting.
He's like, we suck and there is no chance, we
have no future. Okay, we like you. We are going
to let you go. That's what this is. And he
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saw the Viking office. The other thing about is steeling
came over from Carolina. He saw the Vikings offense. The
headless horseman, no quarterback got shut out. Now he didn't play
in this game, but get shutout loss there throw back
to the leather helmet era of the NFL, and he said,
I'm out. I'm good, see you later, suckers. Let me
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find a contender before I completely fade the black. I
got to get out of here. And the Vikings agree,
They told them, he yeah, Adam, go ahead, thanks for
the memories. Don't let the door hit you where the
Good Lord split you. And that's it, so feeling. We
call this the shady move. It's the Shady McCoy move.
I don't know if you know who that is. Lashawan
(30:33):
Shady McCoy, who did a TV show at one point
that nobody watched. I don't know what he's doing now,
but Shandy McCoy, a legacy Polisher tour, a last shady
McCoy for Adam feelin. Now, Yeah, you hop on a contender,
You play I don't know, fifteen snaps or something like that,
maybe less than that. You get your little ring that
you'll sell on an auction at Sotheby's at some point.
(30:57):
There you pose with the ring on Instagram and there
you go and you make it seem like you're Jerry
Rice or something like that in his prime, because you
want the bling bling. It's all about the bling blink.
So the Malor wheel of speculation, the malor wheel of
speculators never all round and round for Adam Feeling, malar
wheel of speculation, big money, big money. He stop. Here
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we go, Buffalo, Here we go Buffalo, and you got
the terrible towels and the Carolina cats. That's it, that's
all Buffalo. They need receive they just added, they just
added a guy that can't play in Cook's brand. And
so say you got another one, right, And they're collecting
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these washed up wide receivers in Buffalo and just need
them to be on the roster and they can run
around like roombus out there. And then Pittsburgh. We'll talk
more about this later, but Aaron Rodgers story that still
has legs Rogers unloading on the wide receiver room there
and so they don't know what they're doing, and they've
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been scolded by Aaron Rodgers for mental mistakes. So she
got that in Carolina. The comedy on that one writes itself.
So they Carolina traded him. Now Minnesota's fired him, Adam Feelin,
and they could bring him back like an Amazon return
that says like an Amazon return. So Feeling is not
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trying to He's not trying to save anyone season. He's
not that good. He's just trying to get some nice
photos for the scrapbook and a nice trinket for the
retirement celebration. One last shot. This happens more in basketball
than football. A lot of guys in basketball have chased
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rings and it's like, well you win, but it's not
quite the same deal, but you get one. It's like
not normal football activity. Not normal football activity. A right
last word to the former player land where all injured
now cliche Field sportscaster JJ Watt is not not buying
(33:08):
into all the chatter about NFL referees must be full time.
They've got to be full time. That'll fix everything, everything
at all that's wrong in the NFL full time referece. Well,
he said no. He said no. That he was asked
about that on the Socials JJ Watt and whether it's
a good time to revisit the full time referee argument
(33:28):
which has been going on. Watt pushed back on that.
He pointed out that the human element is a big
part of this, which is a correct point. So JJ
Watt pushing back on the full time NFL referee argument
fixing the issues? Does this make sense to you? So,
(33:49):
after a minute long Mallard deliberation, yes, I actually think
JJ Watt nailed it dead center of the bullseye. For
JJ Watt, the idea that making refere foreze full time
magically fixes everything is vercocta is what it is, right,
It's a fugazy it's nonsense, just like Baseball thinks that
(34:11):
using AI eventually will fix the umpire and well, though
someone's going to have to program it, someone's gonna have
to monitor it. There'll be some glitches and some thing
of a jigs and watch mccaus to go wrong. But
in terms of the NFL issue, making officials full time,
it's it's unnecessary. You could totally do it. It'll make
people feel better, and it's all other full time this
(34:33):
is it, okay? Uh yeah uh. But the problem is
they're not like they're humans. They're not laptops. You can't
just reboot them. That's the problem there. And they're flesh
and blood zebras is what they are. And humans, I
don't know if you heard about this. Humans f up,
Humans screw up. It's it's part of the human condition.
It's the malar law of the jungle. If it can
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be botched, okay, eventually someone will botch it. It's the
Malard law of the jungle. And you could lock every
official into a film room for ten to twelve hours
a day, three hundred and sixty five days a year,
no holidays off and spoiler alert, spoiler alert, they'd still
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miss a holding penalty. They'd still screw up a defensive
pass interference penalty. They left that up. And here's why.
Because half half the NFL rule book is subjective versus objective,
meaning belief versus fact. There's a lot of shades of gray,
(35:40):
more than fifty shades of gray when it comes to
the officiating. And if you're one of these, you must
call every penalty you want, every little tug, call the penalty.
And I know people like this that, friends of mine,
they're like this, fine, Okay, that's good. Everyfing game will
be six and a half hours. There'll be seventy four
penalty and one hundred and forty replays. Is that what
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you want? You do? Okay? I hope you get it, loser,
I hope you get that. You loser because you're a loser,
all right. You gotta let the game breathe. You gotta
let the game breathe, but not too much. Right, there's
this sweet spot, it really, it's a sweet spot. And
the full time crowd, the group with their torches and
their pitchforks. We need full time the nerdoust colony, if
(36:26):
you will, of football sikos. They want one hundred percent
accuracy and newslash. It's never going to happen. You're never
going to get one hundred percent accuracy. Not gonna happen,
and not with humans, not even with robots. Okay, football
is not math. It is chaos. And it's the old
(36:46):
argument we make all time, this letter of the law
versus the spirit of the law. The NFL survives on
the spirit of the rule book, not the letter of
the rule book. And so jj Watt again to mark
this full circle is correct that the fixing of the
reps is not a job title or full time, part
time situation. It is a reality problem.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
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Speaker 1 (37:15):
It's Mallard, how about that?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
To the third degree.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
This is one big vent gets grilled cool.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
After the Buccaneers ended their three game losing streak on Sunday,
Baker Mayfield said the team is quote very very close
to where they want to be on offense. Ben, do
you think that with Bucky Irving and Chris Godwin back
and playing well, that Tampa can return to being the
playoff beat that they seem to be early on.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Well, yes, but only because of the division that they're in.
You need a hazmad suit in that division. Sants are horrific,
Atlanta blows, they're going to fire their coaching staff there,
and Carolina's got some wings, but nobody takes them seriously.
Someone's going to win that division. Tampa bays in good
shape to win that. It's a dead man zone. So
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by location, yes.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Next a few weeks ago, it seemed like the Colts
could run away with the AFC South. Not only have
the Jets taken over first place, but the Texans are
right on both of their heels.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
What do you think comes out ahead in this the
end of the season.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Well, I love the Texans defense, and so I'm going
I don't believe in CJ. Strapp, but I don't believe
in Trevor Lawrence either so uh, and certainly Daniel Jones.
I would say the top unit is the defensive unit
of the Texans. So if you're gonna put your money
on one of those teams, I would take the Houston
Texans next.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Dan Orlovsky set an a post on X Monday.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
We'll stop right if dan Orlovsky said something. If dan
Orlovsky go ahead?
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Uh, he said the Miami Dolphins are a dangerous football
team right now. Dangerous have totally transformed their offensive identity.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Oh stop?
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Is any of that believable?
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yes, here's how they've done that. They played the Let's
go the Atlanta Falcons, the Commanders, and the Saints in this.
Come on, I don't buy it. It's nonsense. How do
we do? Koupolo passes?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
I won the game?
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Jet who played?
Speaker 4 (38:58):
I love the game?
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Speaker 1 (39:13):
We don't need to play the imaging. Let's welcome in
our contestants. Who do we have here? We've got Rob
in Maine who called up right away, Rob, Hello, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
What's happening waiting on a big old snowstorm up here today?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Benny Block. I wanted it to happen last night because
I was hoping to watch a snow game. I didn't
get the snow game. I'm bummed out by that.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
We'll have a few in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Don't worry. Oh look at you, you're back. I thought
you were a Texans fan. No, you're done with that.
You're back on what they fighted?
Speaker 5 (39:41):
Bill?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I jumped back on, Baby.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I got you, all right, Rob? Who do you want
to partner up with? Rob?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Rob goes?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Baby? Okay? Ok God, hold on, And we have Mike
in Boston. What's going on? Mike? Welcome Mikey? What's up?
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
What's up? Man? What's going on? What's going on? What
are you doing? Are you driving around? You're working right now?
You what are you doing on my way to work? Oh? God?
All right? Well, who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 6 (40:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:06):
You?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Okay? All right, Sarl Rena. You're not popular. It's the
only time Laran is not popular? Is this game? Right here?
All right? Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Cool, all right, gentlemen, this is Malor's Mount of Money
the Woody Allen edition. He turned ninety years old on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
That seems old to me. Yes.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
The categories are take the Money and Run midnight in Paris,
husbands and wives, and small time Crooks and rob was
on first. Robbis category would you.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Like take the money and run?
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Alright?
Speaker 6 (40:36):
And then Mike, how about you?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Small time crooks? Small time crooks? All right? Everyone, hold on,
do not hang up. We will have Malors Mountain of
Money in its entirety. We'll get to that. We will
do it next.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Hello, that's not money.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Do you have what it takes to get to the top.
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Let's do it right now. And this show, by the way,
sponsored by DraftKings sportsbook and official sports spreading partner of
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At DraftKings. The crown is yours. We've got Mike in Boston,
(41:26):
who is teamed up with me. Rob in Maine waiting
for the Snow teamed up with Coop. Rob was on
the air first, So you will go with Coop the
Woody Allen edition cooplehop.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
Yes, that is correct, right Rob. We have take the
money and run.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
These athletes didn't live up to their mega contracts. We
need the first and last name. Forty five seconds on
the clock.
Speaker 6 (41:49):
Are you ready, Rob, Rob?
Speaker 5 (41:53):
Yeah, okay, all right, forty five seconds.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
Let's begin.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
All right.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
He's the quarterbacks for the Cleveland Browns who I loved massages.
Speaker 6 (42:03):
Yes uh.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
This guy was nicknamed the Machine in baseball. He was
with the Angels for like ten years and sucked for
most of them.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Albert Yes uh.
Speaker 5 (42:12):
This guy was on the Orlando Magic and the Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
His dad was in the NFL. Yes uh.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
This guy was a.
Speaker 5 (42:21):
Quarterback for the Denver Broncos and the Chicago Bears. His
nickname was Smoking Yes, the rain Man from the Seattle SuperSonics.
Speaker 6 (42:32):
Yes uh.
Speaker 5 (42:32):
This guy was another Angel player, a third baseman from
the Washington Nationals. Yes, let's go, and then a quarterback.
He was on the Broncos, but it was the Texans
who gave him a big contract.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Oh didn't get it in No, Yeah, we're up. Now
let's show him Madge done. That was pathetic by Coop
and Rob. Not good at all. We'll show Madge done here.
All right, Mike, here we go. You picked small time crooks.
These athletes have all been caught stealing. Okay you Ready's
all right, Mike. Forty five seconds. We need the first
(43:04):
and last name runaway. This guy played quarterback in Florida State.
He loved crab legs. He's now in the NFL with Yes.
He was known as the Juice with the Buffalo Bills.
He also liked Yes. Currently the coach of the New
England Patriots. Yes, known as Nails for the eighty six Mets,
also played for the Phillies outfielder had a lot of Yes.
(43:27):
He was a quarterback for the Chargers, drafted after Peyton Manning,
one of the great busts in NFL draft teds No,
No before that. Yes, he played basketball at Notre Dame.
He's currently a colleague of mine here at Fox Sports Radio.
He's a college basketball coach in Wisconsin, Green Bay. Yeah,
(43:49):
there you go. Stole a right. We didn't get the
hundred point in all right, tired, crazy match so far?
Speaker 5 (43:56):
All right, Rob, do you want midnight in Paris? Or
husbands and wives midnight?
Speaker 6 (44:02):
All right?
Speaker 5 (44:03):
Uh, these athletes all have at least some French heritage.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Current quarterback
for the Lions, Jared. Yes, this guy is the best
player in the NBA right now. A huge guy on
the Spurs. Yes, this guy was nicknamed the Stifled Tower.
(44:23):
He was a center on the Jazz and the Timberwolves. Yes,
this guy was a point guard on the Spurs. He
was married to an actress. Yes, this guy was on
the Florida Gators, then the Bulls. His dad was a
tennis player. Let's go. This guy was a closer for
the Dodgers eighty eight saves in a row or something
like that. Eric, Yes, this guy was a catcher for
(44:46):
the Dodgers and the Yankees. He was from Canada, though
French Canadian. When he hit a home money was blank
with muscle, so tough. Russell.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
All right, so let's show o's done here again. We
got an opportunity, Mike. The opportunity is ours.
Speaker 6 (45:08):
Close one, all right.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Here we go get put forty five seconds the category
where we have husbands and wives. Is is that break? These
athletes are all married to another athlete. Okay, you understand, Mike.
All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
We need the first and last name. Good luck, We're
on our way and go. Currently at the quarterback of
the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, he plays football. Actually he's
(45:32):
no longer a football players on CBS. His brother plays
for the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. Yes, tight end for the
believers with the Washington Commanders. He was a star with
the Philadelphia Eagles. He's one of the Yes, he a
quarterback for notre name. He's a talk show host here
at Fox Sports Radio. Golden Domeer played with the Cleveland Browns.
Sucked in the NFL, though he's on Fox. Yes, a
(45:54):
female gymnast. I was in a documentary Rippinger. She's married
to a Chicago Bears tight end. Uh now a short
stop for the Red Sox back when they they traded
him when he won the World. Yes, a white guy
for the he played for the Knicks. First son of
a billionaire out of damn Uh David. We were trying
(46:19):
to get David and Simone Biles.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Simone yeah, yeah, that's all right. Well I ripped Simone
Biles and it made it like a Netflix documentary. I
had all these middle aged women yelling at me. It
was yeah, they were very upset with my take. I
did a monologue about Simone Biles getting she was depressed.
Well yeah, she got like the twisties or what, and
I was goofing on her and then uh, they put
(46:43):
it in this documentary and they ripped. They all these
middle aged women were very upset with me. Anyway, Wilson
was actually a rare good game. We don't normally get that. Rob,
you won, so you get a golden ticket. There, Rob,
I got a golden chickats I've got gold. We didn't
get David Lee and what he was it brock Oswather
(47:05):
was at the last category, Russell Martin. Russell Martin. So
there you go. All right, Well, thank you, gentlemen. Good job.
There's a Mic and Rob another edition of Malay's Money.
If you like the game, we play it every week
at about this time. If you don't like the game,
we only play it once a week. So who the
hell cares? I mean, lightening up, Francis right, we want
to play it once a week. What's a big deal.
Who cares about that one once a week? So that
(47:26):
was one of the better games we've had. I think
I would say that's like a top three game we've
had this year.
Speaker 6 (47:30):
I was sweat.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
That was a good, solid, good job, Good job boys,
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Ben Maller
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