December 9, 2025 • 50 mins
Big Ben breaks down a MNF matchup that saw Jalen Hurts and the Eagles lose to the Chargers in overtime, the Indianapolis Colts turning to old-man Philip Rivers as a stop-gap for their shaky QB situation, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Jim Morrison Edition, and more!
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we settle into a busy night, and we begin with
the Monday night football game and a memorable game. Not
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a great game, well, I mean if you like turnovers,
it was close. The game went to overtime in the
Hood and Inglewood and up to no good. The Birds
the reigning champions of the NFL and not playing like
it right now. No, they're not the bright lights of
Monday night football. The La Power Company was hosting the
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team from Philadelphia, and Joe Bock Troy Aikman were there.
They had the call on ABC, So I don't saw
a game or not if we're watching. I was at
the game for a good chunk of it. Had to
leave early to get here. It's my duty to the
American people to come in here do sports talk. So
I couldn't be stuck in traffic. But Cameron Dicker, the kicker,
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had to go ahead fifty four yard field goal. He
ended up kicking five field goals in the game. And
Tony Jefferson, who well, he intercepted on a tip pass
Jalen Hurts the one yard line and that lifted the
Chargers to a twenty two to nineteen victory over the
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free falling Philadelphie Eagles. What a bunch of chumps the
Eagles are, and it was somewhat enjoyable to see the
very braggadocius Eagle fan base who looked a little numb
the way that Jalen Hurts was playing in this particular game. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room, and
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so that is where we're going to go. Jalen Hurts
had to be kind a clunker, a clunker for the
ages for Jalen Hurts, who threw not one, not two,
not three, but four four interceptions and the Eagles committed
five turnovers in the game. Jalen Hurts said the two
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for one. We'll get to that coming up in a minute.
And here is the man of the hour, though, start
with Jalen Hurts. Here on the overtime, the Eagles had
gotten into field goal range, there was a penalty on
the Chargers on a fourth down play that extended the
drive for Philadelphia, which set up the interception and the
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final blow, the final body blow, body blow. Here is
Jalen Hurts on what a night for intercession. Let's talk
about that last one.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I knew it was going to be a tight window throw.
I'd have to watch the film to see it from
the eyes film's point of view. Ultimately, it's a play
that I didn't make. You got to handle the ball
That's a play that we've made a million times in
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that scenario versus a cloud corner, and I didn't make
that play this time around.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yes, you did not make that play. So the reigning
Super Bowl champions lose their season worst third in a row.
They are just three games above five hundred. Now, the
good news is they're in the right division. The Giants
aren't trying the Commander's blow and the Cowboys suck, so
they're in a good division. There's no one else who's
even competing with them, so they've got that going in Philadelphia. However,
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it doesn't change the fact that Eagles are a total
fraud in terms of being a Super Bowl content. Does
anyone disagree with that? Like, at this point we do
the show today, we have to worry about the show
right now, we do the overnight show at this moment.
Is there a bigger pretender than the Philadelphia Eagles in
terms of actually winning anything the way they are right now?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
My god?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
All right, but let's focus in and it's good jumping
off play. Let's focus in on the quarterback though, and
let's discuss the question, what is Jalen Hurts play? What
is the smell around Jalen Hurts, Like, let's break it
down like that, right, what's Jalen Hurts play smell like
for the Eagles. So my thoughts on this, I've got
John Madden, Gator, and spicy margarita, and we will combine
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all of these things together and we are going to
put the biscuit in the basket. So a, the smell
surrounding Jalen Hurts is a pungent smell. It's punging it up.
It's so strong it's actually peeling the paint at the
link in Philadelphia's that bad. The paint's peeling down. It
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smells so bad. And this was a masterpiece of malfunction.
And I'm happy I got to see something I've never
seen before that we're not sure has ever happened before,
and it happened on a Monday night game here. But
before we get to that, when I say that Jalen
Hurts went out there and had a masterpiece of malfunction,
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it was a performance so historically awful it deserves its
own wing at the loof across the Atlantic there. It
just deserves its own spot in the museum. And forget
Van goll and the da Vini and all the greats
Jalen Hurts in this Monday night game was Jackson Pollock.
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He was splattering turnovers in the air every way right
across the gridiron like a man who was playing possessed
by the spirit of abstract incompetence. That was Jalen Hurts
in this game. And you saw the play in particular
was interception, fumble, recovery and then fumble on the same play.
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John Madden, if he were still alive, the ghost of
John Madden would call that the turnover. Tourducan is what
that was. That was a turnover to duccan. You got
the interception, you get the recovery, and then you get
the fumble. That's the Turducan of turnovers for Jalen Hurts.
Congratulations the rare double giveaway. The rare double giveaway on
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one play. And the nerds claim that their data goes
back to nineteen seventy Apparently nothing happened before nineteen seventy eight.
Everything after nineteen seventy eight. They have no recorded history
of anyone sucking that much on one play like Jalen Hurts.
And that's not quarterback play, mind you, that's finger painting
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while on a dumb ball ride at Disney World is
what that was? Now Hertz who has gone recently from
the afterglow of the Super Bowl MVP to the LVP
as in lost Value Player. That's Jalen Hurts right now,
the LVP, the lost Value Player, and he's strapped right
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in that cockpit of the Vomit comet and he's on
a full comic Kazi mission with that Philadelphia Eagles offense
right now. And this is not just a one night
stink bomb. As we know. We've been documenting here. We
have a talk show to do every day, and we
come in here and the Eagles are good for business
because they won the Super Bowl. They're supposed to be
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good and they're underachieving and so it's always fun to
talk about teams like this, and they are really living
up to the suck mantra in Philadelphia. So the last
five games, I mean, that's a good sample size. Is
that fair? That's fair? You're shaking her, Yeah, that's fair.
So last five games, Jalen Hurts has a seventy two
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point three passer rating. He's averaging six point four yards
per pass, completing less than sixty percent of his passes.
Despite running a rudimentary Eagles offense. And he's got five
interceptions now and three fumbles. And that's the way it's
going for Jalen Hurts. And so that's not really a slump,
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mind you. That's a five alarm football funk, is what
that is for Jalen Hurts. And remember in the NFL,
there is no rest for the wicked. So right back
at it again for Jalen Hurts, although the competition does
soften going forward. Now page two, let's talk about the
leadership vacuum in Philadelphia here, and there's a there's a
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theme to the Eagles as they continue to have their
issues here. And the question is do you have any
confidence as an outsider, do you have any confidence that
Nick Sirianni can stop the bleeding of the birds? Do
you have any confidence of that that day he can
get it done? There? So I'm gonna go nope on that.
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That's nope for those of you who don't have to
spell nope. Zero confidence. And I don't know how anyone
can have confidence. The Eagles had a similar free fall
I think it was twenty twenty three. They never got
out of it, they never were able to stop it,
and Sirianni was the head coach of that team. The
Eagles right now are like the USS Gerald R. Ford.
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They are an aircraft carrier, and they're very difficult to
turn around. Those aircraft carriers. It's like they're drifting sideways
in the Delaware River right now. And Nick Sirianni is
standing on deck on the aircraft carrier and he's waving
pom poms, and instead of grabbing the wheel and trying
to turn, he's on, we're fine, Oh we're good. I
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love these guys. Oh they're so good. Let's play rock
papercis is what do you say? Okay, why not? We'll
play rock paperci Uh? Fine, So you don't turn around
the aircraft carrier by saying let's go right into the
headset that doesn't work. Here is Nick Sirianni on the
four interception game for Jalen Hers. This here what Sirianni
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had to say on this.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
This game is the ultimate team game. So it's all
it's never you know, it's never just on one person. Ultimately,
he always has the ball in his hands, and I
know he'll he'll wear a lot of that and own
that and and I got to do a better job
of helping them in those scenarios. Again, it's always it's
never just on execution, right, It's it's always that we
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look at ourselves as coaches first and we help them
be in position to succeed and then execute right. So
obviously now want to turn the ball over. We've been
pretty good at that, and tonight was a little uncharacteristic
of ourselves.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So there's a couple of things here that are classic
deflection moves. Jalen hurts in the soundbock we played, So
I gotta watch the tape. That's a classic. I'm not
answering the question. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna watch the tape.
You'll never ask me about it again, or when you
ask me about it again, i'm gonna say, well, we've
moved on to the next game. And then the it's
never on one guyline from Sirianni, when yeah, kind of is.
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That's why the quarterback gets paid ten times with the
other players get it's on him, so you can say
whatever you want. It's a team game and all that. Well,
the team games are lost by individuals, and Sirianni is
a show pony. He is a show pony. He's a
sideline cheerleader who thrives when the wind is at his back.
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And when the wind changes and the storm hits, all
of a sudden, the high tides and the birds they
start leaking oil, and all of a sudden, Syrianni does
a costume change and he becomes a gator. The inflator
Gator is Nick Sirianni. As he pumps air into every
minor issue, does not solve anything. And then it becomes
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a full blown circus balloon. And that's the Eagles, and
it says, literally blocking the highway there, it's blocking Broad
Street there in Philadelphia. It's a mess. And so Jalen Hurts,
who looked like a man whose football soul had been mugged.
He was numb as a bug. And just the whole
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thing is like, what is.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Going on here?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Passes were being tipped. They were just a little bit off.
And that's the difference between good and bad, success and failure.
And so you've got the AJ Brown situation where he
had a bunch of yards, but yet the underlying condition
is still alive. They're not singing from the same song sheet,
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Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown. As you look at it.
The coughing is still there as thirteen targets and aj
Brown had six catches. There was a key drop in
the fourth quarter down in the end zone in a
forty six percent catch rate, which doesn't appear to be
very good. It screams miscommunication for the Philadelphia Eagles, and
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there's obviously a lot of frustration with a little dash,
just a little dash of Diva sprinkles on top at
this point. So the schedule, if there is a positive,
if you want me to be Benny Brightside, the positive
here is the schedule is cotton candy like the Eagles.
Even though the Eagles are trash right now, they still
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should win three of their final four games to close
the regular seasons. Anyone want to push back on that?
Have you seen who they play? The Raiders? The Raiders
are up next in Philadelphia. The Raiders have already given up.
They are bunch of quick. They've got Geno Smith. That
tells you they're not trying to win. When you have
Geno Smith, you are trying not to win football games.
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You're just trying to cover. And Pete did cover the spread.
Goodship by him. They do have to play the Bills,
that's in Buffalo, that'll be a loss. But then you
also have two games home and home with the Washington Commandos,
so they appear to quit or have quit the way
they played against the Minnesota Vikings. So that's what's up ahead. However,
right now, the Eagles, they don't need cupcakes is what
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they need. Competence is what they they need here. And
so even if you beat up on the Raiders and
the Commanders a couple of times, you're not battle tested
when you eventually play a better team. And so Nick Sirianni,
he's not exactly stopping the bleeding here, and if anything,
he's picking at this gap. Now what's going to be
interesting is this was the kind of game and as
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we were going through it, there's some chatter in the
press box like that somebody's gonna get fired. Now I'm
not saying Sirianni's gonna get fired, but this is the
kind of a performance when you know, and everyone's watching
your offense and people are questioning whether or not you
should have demoted the offensive coordinator. This is the kind
of game that gets Kevin Patulo sacrificed and whacked by
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the Eagles, Like that's the kind of game where he
will either be demoted or just removed from the coaching room.
So stay tuned on that. Now, last word on the
Chargers side of things, show me your lightning bolt. Good
looking uniforms by the Chargers, right, they dressed for success.
They had that electric blue one on the Monday night.
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But can Jim Harbaugh Can Jim Harbaugh now exhale with
the Chargers getting the overtime win over the reigning champions
of the NFL. So the answer to this is no,
It's just no on this one, and not even close.
I'm shaking my head now. No, just for those of
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you who can watch on the YouTube, we have Ben
Mather Show on YouTube. We're actually streaming the the monologue.
So I'm shaking my head. No, here's why I'm shaking
my head. No, all right, In fact, I'm shaking my head.
I'm gonna shake my head so much I'm probably need
a chiropractor. No no, no, no, no, no no no
no no no no no, like just like that. And
here's why this was an ugly duckling win. It is
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an ugly duckling win. The offense, the defense was great.
The I say great, but the Eagles, the Eagles have
their own issues. But here's the deal. The offensive display here.
This was a capital you ugly is what it was
you had, and you underline it. You can highlight it,
however you want to put a spectacle around it, and
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you put on a billboard if you want, on the
four h five. Take one of those ambulance chasing lawyer
billboards off the four h five and put that that
up there. But depending on dicker, the kicker, the idiot
kicker for five field goals. And this is we always
say the same thing with the Cowboys. It's a blessing
and a curse to have a great kicker. Cowboys in charge,
just have great kickers. It's a blessing and a curse
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because you depend on the kicker and you don't win
big games with field goals. You don't this ill regular
season game, you won it. Congratulations. However, normally, when you
get five turnovers, am I not wrong in saying you
should win that game by thirty points? If you get
five turnovers, you're at home, You put your feet up,
you grab a spicy margarita, and you enjoyed garbage time
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and you play grab ass on the sidelines. That was
not what happened here. They were not on some kind
of Royal Caribbean cruise. They were not not the bolt
the Chargers who had turned Jalen Hurts, and Jalen was
very generous. It's the season of giving, and Jalen Hurts
his generosity was generosity machine here for the Philadelphia Eagles,
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and they managed to get. If my math is correct,
I believe six points off five turnovers by the Eagles.
They only monetize those into six points. Two field goals.
That's all they got off five turnovers. Now they did
get the you know, technically the last one they sealed
the game because that ended the game, the final interception,
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But the other four they only got six points out
of it, a couple of field goals. And this was
the type of game that you have to go back
in time. This was a super duper football follies VHS
tape the kind your uncle got at the gas station
in like ninety three is what this was. And and
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Justin Herbert, he's playing hurt. They didn't touch. They didn't
talk about that at all on the broadcast, didn't they. No,
Justin Herbert, who looked like he was trying to throw
a piano on every drop back. Now, the Eagles got
to him a fair amount. And this is the same
thing I say all the time. Just you're gonna repeat
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yourself again, I know, yeah, say it about CJ. Stroud,
Gino Smith. I'm gonna say it about Justin Herbert. Rid
of the damn ball, Okay, rather of tat tat, get
rid of the ball, dummy, And Justin Herbert kept holding
onto the ball, holding on the ball, holding on the ball.
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What are you doing? Just get rid of it and
throw it away, my god. And he had two fumbles, lost,
one of them an interception. Under fifty percent. He's the
Golden child. Every broadcaster licks this guy's toes. Justin Herbert,
I don't see it. I don't say he was holding
on the ball like was a family heirloom. Like, dude,
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it's just the duke. Get rid of the duke. The
Chargers had only two hundred seventy five yards of offense
in this game. They had sixteen first downs, two of
those via penalty by the Philadelphia Eagles. So you look
ahead now that you check the schedule, they play at
Kansas City. Kansas City's a lightweight this year, so you
play at Arrowhead. Then you've got at Dallas, the Texans
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in la or in Inglewood, and then at Denver. That
is what's left. Four games left in the regular season
for the Chargers at this point. So that's not a
stretch round. That's a rocky road. Arrowhead not easy to
play at. Dallas has some good offense, although they're not
a complete team, and so that's where we are. That's
rocky road for Jim Harbaugh, and so you can't excel.
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Plus Harbas's he's not like that. He doesn't exhale about anything.
He's always got to stick up his tookist, doesn't he
That's what he looks like. It's one of those people
and they can barely inhale.
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As we begin this hour, still talk about the Monday
night game as the Chargers up in the Philadelphia Eagles
at SOFI Stadium. A lot of angry birds, the Eagle
fan base not happy there. The Eagles go down and
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they go down hard in overtime game. They should have
lost in regulation, but they ended up playing a little
extra time there in the overtime. But our lead this hour,
all right, let's go to Indianapolis. That is the lead story.
And a hum dinger, What a homedinger. So with Daniel
Jones out for the year, snapcrackle pop, and Riley Leonard
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listed a week to week, the old golden domer, Riley Leonard,
who has a strained kneele oh my aching knee. So
the Colts are scheduled later on Tuesday to work out
Philip Rivers. Yes, that Philip Rivers, not his kid, the
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same Philip Rivers. Yep, the charger Colt got yep that guy,
and the state sponsored the NFL networked a proble the
news service of the NFL for informing us that the
workout is scheduled. Now, if you didn't hear about this,
maybe not, it will it will coincide. It's it's Philip Rivers'
birthday week this week, So happy birthday, Philip forty four
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years young, Happy birthday, Happy birthday. He last played in
an NFL game during the pandemic season of twenty twenty,
was the last time he played. And the Colts are
going to work out Philip Rivers. So they need help,
and so the Colts will work out Rivers, see what
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type of shape he's in. Matgin TV shows up and
he looks like a sumo wrestler. Likely won't sign him,
but by all accounts, Rivers is in pretty good shape.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
There.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So the former quarterback who is now a grandfather, that's right,
he's a grandfather, Philip Rivers, and he has to figure
out whether or not he wants to play in the
NFL or not. For now, he is clearly considering and
contemplating playing quarterback in Indianapolis, as he's willing to fly
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from his native land in Alabama and go to Indy
to hang out with the Colts and have a nice
meet and greet, a nice luncheon and all that. So
that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question what is crazier the fact that the Colts
are interested in Philip Rivers or the fact that Philip
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Rivers is considering this and it didn't immediately say no.
What is the more ridonculous part of this story? So
I've got family business, gold bar and turkey vultures, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some delicious Saint Elmo's Surf and Turf,
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which we had famous dinner there years ago. Is doing
some radio stuff in Indy. We had to meal at
Saint Elmo's. It's really a right if you're in the
media to go to Saint Elmo's in Indianapolis and order
the most expensive thing on the menu and just have
your company pay for it. That's the way to do it.
So number one, let me just start with the fact.
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I know the fact that the Indianapolis Colts are so desperate,
they're so horny for a quarterback that they're rummaging through
the attic at their facility and they're opening up these
dust covered boxes, and they came across an old Philip Rivers.
Jersey said, Okay, I'll have an epiphany. Why don't we
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call Philip Rivers and see if he wants to play?
And he last played when TikTok was still a toddler.
Philip Rivers, okay, And now he's a forty four year
old grandpa coaching. At last I heard he was coaching
high school football in Alabama. And so the arrow on
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this one, the arrow on this one is pointing squarely
at the Colts, squarely at the Colts. That's just the
way it is. And what are the horseshoes thinking? Even
if Rivers comes in and does okay? Right, even if
he were to do okay, the risk factor at forty
four years old, not being in the NFL shape, there
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is his next level, right, it's next level. So this
franchise has yet again, this is what the culture. This
is what the culture. The Colts have entered the wack
a doodle twilight zone. Wack a doodle do what they do.
And you thought that jimmers say, when he crossed the
pearly gates and left this mortal coil, you thought, well,
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that's it. The culture gonna be like every other NFL team.
They're not gonna do these wack of doodle things anymore
because Jim Mersay would be on a bender and he'd
do these crazy things. So he had issues. Surprise, surprise, surprise,
because hey, he might no longer be with us, Jim irsay,
but his sweet daughter is carrying on the family business.
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And I guess the apple does not fall far from
the tree. The DNA it's baked into the ursa DNA.
There the family business, the whimsical football chaos. The same
family that brought us Jeff Saturday, the television guy who
was like a high school coach as an NFL head
coach a couple of years back, and that was the Horseshoes.
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And now we have the daughter going down a similar
road with the quarterback and it's just next level. So
Indianapolis is basically what Indianapolis is doing here is there
rebooting a classic sports movie, putting an NFL spin on
Major League the movie. Remember that that movie, Major League.
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It's a classic movie. And in this scene, you've got
the general manager, Chris Ballard of Indianapolis on the phone,
ring ring, ring, Hey hey, Philip, it's Chris Ballard, the
GM of the Indianapolis Colts. You want to play quarterback
in the NFL for the Colts again? And then Rivers responds, well,
I mean, I don't know. Let me get back to
you on that. Christ. I got a kid doing burpies
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here in high school football practice. I'll get back to
Rivers has been retired. I assume when you retire, you
play shuffle board and you play bingo and you hum
Jimmy Buffett tunes from Latitude Margaritaville. That's what you do. No,
all right, And so India is so desperate. How desperate
are they? They're so desperate Indianapolis here, they're so desperate
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that they are they're actually doing this. They're checking aarp
cards at quarterback and saying, hey, you got a membership,
You're good to go. Here we go and uh and
what a great gig though there's only four games to go.
Maybe you get to the playoffs and play an extra
game or two if you're Philip Rivers there And what
are you going to get a million dollars to play
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the rest of the year or something like that, some
absurd amount of money. Let me tell you something. The
holidays are here, and those Christmas gifts do not pay
for them? Say you got he's got like ten kids.
I think he needs one more. He can feel his
own eleven man roster on the play both ways. But
this is Malard theater is what this is, Okay, embracing
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the absurd. And while I think it will not work,
I love the fact that Colts are doing. It's so crazy,
so bonkers. It's like, what are you doing? And this
is how the NFL's operated current Warner told stories. He
left the NFL, he said for like five years after
he left the NFL. People were calling up, Hey, how
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would you like to come back and play quarterback? All right?
Now to San Francisco we go. Follow up, follow up
to the mouthy wide out by the Bay forty nine
is wide receiver Jawan Jennings. Not a household name. Not
a household name, Jawan Jennings. He was asked about his
war of words, uh with the Cleveland Browns. You might
remember defensive tacker tackle Shelby Harris who announced to the
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world that Juwan Jennings is a what what is? That's right?
Demand's a how all right? And so he went on
and said that Jennings said things you should never say
to another man, that's right, And Shelby Harris went on
as this big rant and said, well he said that,
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and he said surprised he sees exactly why the Carolina
Panthers punched him in the nuts, and surprised somebody hasn't
punched him in the jaw. And then Miles Garrett responded
by saying he also took issue with whatever Juwan Jennings
said in that forty nine Ers Browns game. And then,
of course, well, Shelby Harris just again said your hoe
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and that's that's it. But the question on this one,
so the response, let me, let me give you a
responsible So the response by Juwan Jennings, he says he
did not he did not say anything that bad to
the Cleveland Browns. So the question, all right, question on
this Juwan Jennings says, I didn't say anything that bad
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to the Browns. How do you break this one down?
So I'm gonna break this down this way. So it's
a he said, he said situation. The whole Juwan Jennings
Shelby Harris dust up. It's like two guys arguing on
who insulted who louder in the nightclub bathroom while someone's
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there trying to get a tip and hand you some
cologne you don't need and some candies you don't need
in the bathroom. It's that kind of thing. So the
way I look at this, and I am the judge, jury, executioner,
all that stuff. So nobody is innocent on this. Nobody
is in everyone's guilty. Everyone's got blood on their hands
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and all it. The only truth is somewhere floating in
the stadium rafters there, uh you know, Shelby Harris calling
Jennings a what that's right? A ho ho ho ho,
that's right. That is radio gold is what that is?
That is radio gold. And it really is in the
holiday season in we could make our own song with
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just him saying ho ho ho. Let's try it. Let's see,
here's Shelby Harris his new holiday song. He's now Santa Claus.
Go ahead say it, Shelby. Come on, here's a hope
on non no, oh oh man, we butchered it. Let's
try that. Yeah, here's a hope yeah, oh man. See
there's a glitch. It's the Gremlins, but it would be
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he's a hoe' he's a ho, he's ho. So anyway, listen,
that is the kind of SoundBite when you do this
job for a living. That is the kind of SoundBite
you wrap in velvet and you keep that in a
trophy case. How often do we have someone call another
player a hoe? It doesn't happen very often. So here's
the twist, though, And I gotta be an accurate arbitrator
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of what goes on. And so the Mallard scorecard as
a longtime boxing judge on these verbal rhubarbs. So the
Malard scorecard that outburst actually by by Shelby Harris handed
this to Juwan Jennings. I give the wind to Jennings,
and here's why, because the moment it's the bro code,
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the moment you go public with locker room or on
field talk, locker room talk or on field talk. The
moment that you do that, you have breaked the the
golden wall, if you will. You've broken the the kfabe
that they have in wrestling, and you've ruined all the fun.
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You violated the code of silence that what happens on
the field stays on the field, what happens in the
locker room stays in much like Vegas, it just kind
of stays there. And Jennings essentially said that yeah, I
said something, but not that bad. And if he wants
to smack me, you know, set your DVRs. Set your DVRs.
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That's a pro wrestling heel energy by Juwan Jennings. And
the that's a man right there popping the balloon, popping
the balloon and letting all the faux outrage, all the
faux outrage hiss out like a cheap air mattress that
gets popped right there. Let's be real. The chatter almost
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certainly is a two way highway. It's not one way.
It was also guaranteed to be obscene in decent and
rated NC seventeen for language. Regardless. You kind of expect that,
right in competition. You assume there's gonna be a lot
of things said in the heat of the moment, the
fog of competition. That's what happens. And it's not fit
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for broadcast. It's not for men and men, women and
children who can't handle it. If you're fragile, it's not
for you. And for us, it's absolutely perfect. We love it.
We love it all right. Now the final point, we
go to Jersey. We go to New Jersey where the
New York Jets over the weekend. Congratulations to the Jets.
Tremendous job boys, you have you have done it yet again.
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The Jets, by losing to the Dolphins, have reclaimed sole possession,
sole possession of the longest active postseason drought among the NFL, MLB, NHL,
and NBA at fifteen years without the post fifteen. That
means if you were born and are now in high
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school as a fifteen year old your entire life, the
Jets have never made the playoffs in an age where
they have more playoff teams than ever in an age
where it's designed to be topsy turvy, and you suck
for a couple of years, then you're good for a
couple of years. And that's the way they do business
in the NFL. So following the defeat, we had multiple
Jets players who spoke about the tradition of the franchise,
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including Brees Hall, who went on a mini rant Brisoll
talking about, you know, the other players are having fun
around the NFL away from the Jets, he said, Brisall,
he said, quote, it's a yearly thing. He said, it's definitely.
It starts to weigh on you. You see your peers, you
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see other guys that you know, you're just as good
as or better than, Brisall said, And they get to
have a lot of fun, and you don't have any
fun apparently when you play for the Jets. So the
question do you have any wisdom you'd like to share
for the Jets and this stretch of futility again, they've
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missed the playoffs now for fifteen years in a row.
We are just five years away from a full generation
without making the playoffs for the New York Jets, so
this is obviously not a slump. It's not. This is
a lifestyle brand, is what this is. It's a lifestyle
brand by the Jets here. And I love that Breeze Hall,
who wanted to be traded, who did everything he thought
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he could possibly do to be traded. I love the
fact that Breecee Hall's out here talking like a philosopher
on the Staten Island ferryes saying it weighs on you.
Thank you, captain obvious, no kidding, my friend. The franchise,
they have more baggage than the Guardia over the Christmas holidays.
(40:54):
Got and my advice, lean into it. If I'm the Jets,
I lean into this. I do. Don't run from it.
Do not run from it. Embrace the annual misery tour.
That's my advice to the Jets. Make this a right
of passage. Make it a right of passion. It's kind
of like in Hinckley, Ohio. Every March they have the
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Turkey vultures that return to Hinckley, Ohio and they celebrate.
Most people would say, we don't want to celebrate turkey vultures,
But in Hinckley, Ohio, they celebrate turkey vultures they do.
And so the Jets aren't the birds of prey. They're
not that. They're like the buzzards of the ball, the
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buzzards of the ball, circling another lost season, yet again,
waiting for the next carcass, for a quarterback to drop
into their lap. And I did the maul or math
on this because I got a lot of free time
on hands, so I did the mather of math. The
Jets have had in this fifteen years. They've had six
head coaches, They've had twenty quarterbacks that have started. They've
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had how many top ten picks? Nine top ten picks
in the last fifteen years, not top twenty, top nine
top ten picks. It's musical chairs on the Hindenburg k
boom is what it is. And every year someone new.
This is what I love about Jets. Every year someone
new sits down and says it's gonna be different. I
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know what I'm doing, and those other guys didn't know
what they were doing, and I know what I'm doing,
and the whole thing explodes yet again. It's the warehouse
of regret FC is what that is there. And the
Jets business model, which other teams have copied. Here is
the sad model. Suck and draft suck and draft wash rints, repeat,
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clog the drain. That's what they do. And so yeah,
I believe the Jets should just copy to the United
States Marines. Embrace the suck. Just embrace the suck. It's
one thing the franchise if they're actually executing at an
elite level. They're not doing that, so maybe they can
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execute an elite level on the other side.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
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Speaker 1 (43:14):
It's mallor how about that to the third degree? This
is one gets grailled? All right?
Speaker 6 (43:22):
Here, wake go couple of It wasn't long ago that
Mike McDaniel's firing seemed all but inevitable. Now the Dolphins
have won four straight, there're still didn't playoff contention, and
McDaniel is talking about quote a special connection in the
locker room. Ben, has McDaniel already saved his job?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
No, look at the Bills win was I guess legit?
But the Commanders, Saints and Jets are three of the
worst teams. No. No, In fact, it's more complicated now
because the Dolphins aren't terrible, They're not good. They're stuck
in the middle. He's gotta still be on the hot seat. Next.
Speaker 6 (43:55):
GMZ caught up with Calvin Johnson on Sunday, and Megatron
said that Matthew Stafford is already Hall of Famer and
that an MVP award this year would cement it.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
Is he right, Ben?
Speaker 1 (44:04):
No, he's never even been an old pro. What are
you talking about? He's not a Hall of Famer. Now,
we want to see MVP in the Rams win the
super Bowl? Okay, even though the Super Bowl is a
team accomplishment. Then I will say yes, No, you just
put them a lot of empty stat Stafford next.
Speaker 6 (44:19):
Early on in the season, Amika Agbuka seemed to be
running away with the Offensive Rookie of the Year award. Now,
after fourteen weeks, he's a long shot. Panthers wide receiver
Ted McMillan is the favorite to win, with Jackson Dart
not too far behind. Ben.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
Do you see anyone else having a shot?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
No, this is a terrible year for rookies on offense.
It's a bag you. The only other name that you'd
throw out there is Tyler Warren, who's a tight end
for the Colts. That's it. And remember this when we
watch the NFL Draft in April, how I'll horny you
guys get and these guys are mostly gonna snake in
the NFL's rookies. How do we know he passes? I
passed out? My god, I pass hollering James any dog.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
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to listen live. Now Malor's Mountain of money? Do you
have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 5 (45:18):
Not?
Speaker 6 (45:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Right to the game. Mark is in Berkeley, hanging out
with the cool people. What's going on? Mark? You ready
to play the game?
Speaker 4 (45:25):
Here, sir?
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Hello? Mark? Okay, full of energy? Look at this man?
Ready to go? Mark, who do you want to partner
up with? All right, let's call find Ben Maller. We'll
make that happen. Okay, very good. Travis is in Florida. Hello, Travis, Welcome,
Thank you. Ben. It's a big state. What part of Florida? Travis? Ah,
(45:51):
you're a baller West Palm Beach. Look at that? All right?
Very good? Let's play the game here and you'll be
teamed up with Coop. Is that okay?
Speaker 2 (46:00):
That's great?
Speaker 1 (46:01):
I don't that is great. That's not really great. I
would have used the word great.
Speaker 6 (46:06):
This is the Jim Morrison edition of Malerd's Mountain Money.
He would have turned eighty two years old on Monday.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Would have?
Speaker 6 (46:11):
Yes, would have? He was a member of the twenty
seven club. Mark, you were on first, so you get
to choose your category first. The categories are light my Fire,
break on through, people are Strange?
Speaker 4 (46:21):
Or Alabama Song?
Speaker 6 (46:23):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (46:23):
Which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Right?
Speaker 6 (46:25):
Light my Fire? All right? And Travis, how about you?
Which category would you like? Do you want to break
on through, people are strange? Or Alabama break on Through?
Speaker 4 (46:37):
All right? All right? So Mark and Ben you are
up first.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
All right, very good. These athletes all had reputations as
good teammates. Are you ready? Mark?
Speaker 6 (46:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (46:47):
All right? What the hell was that? Okay, there's a
lot of ambient noise there. These athletes all had reputations
A good team's forty five seconds of the clock. We're
on our way. Go quarterback for the Green Bad Packers
before Aaron Rodgers, Uh yes, the center for the Spurs
all those years after David Robinson even with him. Yes,
(47:08):
wide receiver, greatest receiver in Arizona Cardinals history. Uh, all right.
His dad was a sports writer in Minnesota. Uh, a
center for the Philadelphia Eagles. His brother is Travis, who's
going to marry Taylor Swift and man all right, Red
(47:32):
Sox second baseman when they won the World Series. There
a couple of times injured, had a career inning injury.
Dust kind of a dirty dust.
Speaker 4 (47:43):
He tried to cheat, but it didn't. I didn't try
to cheat.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
How did I try to cheat? Dusty name?
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Give me a break.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
What his name's Dustin? But the way, that's not that
dust and dusty. It's a different word, dummy. It is
a different word, all.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
Right, Travis, thirty points. Our Our category is break on through.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Do not choke.
Speaker 6 (48:02):
These athletes finally won a championship late in their career.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Do not choke.
Speaker 6 (48:06):
All right, forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
Quarterback for the Broncos. He won back to back Super Bowl. Yes,
this guy is the current coach for the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
Yes. Uh, this guy's nickname was the Glove.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
Gary Payton.
Speaker 6 (48:22):
Yes, this guy spent a long time on the Raiders
as a cornerback.
Speaker 4 (48:26):
But he won a championship with the Packers Charles Woods.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
Yes, uh, this guy was a center on the Heat.
He won in twenty oh six. Yeah he No, he
got in a fight and the coach was grabbing onto
his leg. No, yes, yes, okay. This guy was an
old pitchery pitch till he was like fifty. He was
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on the Mariners and then won a championship with the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (48:53):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Yeah? Yeah, did not get the name. It at the
full damage. There was not the full before the buzzer,
not before the buzzer, not before the buzzer. He got
the Jamis, but not the Moyer. No, he didn't got
the Moris. You got the Jamie, not the bar. He
got the Jamie, not the Moyer. All right, what do
you want here, Mark? You want people are strange? Your
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Alabama song?
Speaker 6 (49:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Mark, Okay, okay, why not? These athletes are all a
little weird. We'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
Here we go. Relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and
New York Mets in the nineties and the two thousands
used to used to chew a licorice between innings relief pitcher,
not Davides. Well, that's true, that's not who it is. Uh,
(49:42):
the player for the Indiana Pacers who blew air into
Lebron James Ear. I'm so tired right now, Yes, yes,
so much. That's not going to help us out, all right.
Golfer who's fat and smokes a lot and as a
cult hero on the congratulations to be Pernando ver. No,
(50:04):
it's John da got away. Go to bed, leave me alone,
Go to bed.
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It turns out a trip to the West Coast all
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we settle into a busy night, and we begin with
the Monday night football game and a memorable game. Not
(02:59):
a great game, well, I mean if you like turnovers,
it was close. The game went to overtime in the
Hood and Inglewood and up to no good. The Birds
the reigning champions of the NFL and not playing like
it right now. No, they're not the bright lights of
Monday night football. The La Power Company was hosting the
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team from Philadelphia, and Joe Bock Troy Aikman were there.
They had the call on ABC, So I don't saw
a game or not if we're watching. I was at
the game for a good chunk of it. Had to
leave early to get here. It's my duty to the
American people to come in here do sports talk. So
I couldn't be stuck in traffic. But Cameron Dicker, the kicker,
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had to go ahead fifty four yard field goal. He
ended up kicking five field goals in the game. And
Tony Jefferson, who well, he intercepted on a tip pass
Jalen Hurts the one yard line and that lifted the
Chargers to a twenty two to nineteen victory over the
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free falling Philadelphie Eagles. What a bunch of chumps the
Eagles are, and it was somewhat enjoyable to see the
very braggadocius Eagle fan base who looked a little numb
the way that Jalen Hurts was playing in this particular game. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room, and
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so that is where we're going to go. Jalen Hurts
had to be kind a clunker, a clunker for the
ages for Jalen Hurts, who threw not one, not two,
not three, but four four interceptions and the Eagles committed
five turnovers in the game. Jalen Hurts said the two
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for one. We'll get to that coming up in a minute.
And here is the man of the hour, though, start
with Jalen Hurts. Here on the overtime, the Eagles had
gotten into field goal range, there was a penalty on
the Chargers on a fourth down play that extended the
drive for Philadelphia, which set up the interception and the
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final blow, the final body blow, body blow. Here is
Jalen Hurts on what a night for intercession. Let's talk
about that last one.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I knew it was going to be a tight window throw.
I'd have to watch the film to see it from
the eyes film's point of view. Ultimately, it's a play
that I didn't make. You got to handle the ball
That's a play that we've made a million times in
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that scenario versus a cloud corner, and I didn't make
that play this time around.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yes, you did not make that play. So the reigning
Super Bowl champions lose their season worst third in a row.
They are just three games above five hundred. Now, the
good news is they're in the right division. The Giants
aren't trying the Commander's blow and the Cowboys suck, so
they're in a good division. There's no one else who's
even competing with them, so they've got that going in Philadelphia. However,
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it doesn't change the fact that Eagles are a total
fraud in terms of being a Super Bowl content. Does
anyone disagree with that? Like, at this point we do
the show today, we have to worry about the show
right now, we do the overnight show at this moment.
Is there a bigger pretender than the Philadelphia Eagles in
terms of actually winning anything the way they are right now?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
My god?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
All right, but let's focus in and it's good jumping
off play. Let's focus in on the quarterback though, and
let's discuss the question, what is Jalen Hurts play? What
is the smell around Jalen Hurts, Like, let's break it
down like that, right, what's Jalen Hurts play smell like
for the Eagles. So my thoughts on this, I've got
John Madden, Gator, and spicy margarita, and we will combine
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all of these things together and we are going to
put the biscuit in the basket. So a, the smell
surrounding Jalen Hurts is a pungent smell. It's punging it up.
It's so strong it's actually peeling the paint at the
link in Philadelphia's that bad. The paint's peeling down. It
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smells so bad. And this was a masterpiece of malfunction.
And I'm happy I got to see something I've never
seen before that we're not sure has ever happened before,
and it happened on a Monday night game here. But
before we get to that, when I say that Jalen
Hurts went out there and had a masterpiece of malfunction,
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it was a performance so historically awful it deserves its
own wing at the loof across the Atlantic there. It
just deserves its own spot in the museum. And forget
Van goll and the da Vini and all the greats
Jalen Hurts in this Monday night game was Jackson Pollock.
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He was splattering turnovers in the air every way right
across the gridiron like a man who was playing possessed
by the spirit of abstract incompetence. That was Jalen Hurts
in this game. And you saw the play in particular
was interception, fumble, recovery and then fumble on the same play.
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John Madden, if he were still alive, the ghost of
John Madden would call that the turnover. Tourducan is what
that was. That was a turnover to duccan. You got
the interception, you get the recovery, and then you get
the fumble. That's the Turducan of turnovers for Jalen Hurts.
Congratulations the rare double giveaway. The rare double giveaway on
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one play. And the nerds claim that their data goes
back to nineteen seventy Apparently nothing happened before nineteen seventy eight.
Everything after nineteen seventy eight. They have no recorded history
of anyone sucking that much on one play like Jalen Hurts.
And that's not quarterback play, mind you, that's finger painting
(09:10):
while on a dumb ball ride at Disney World is
what that was? Now Hertz who has gone recently from
the afterglow of the Super Bowl MVP to the LVP
as in lost Value Player. That's Jalen Hurts right now,
the LVP, the lost Value Player, and he's strapped right
(09:30):
in that cockpit of the Vomit comet and he's on
a full comic Kazi mission with that Philadelphia Eagles offense
right now. And this is not just a one night
stink bomb. As we know. We've been documenting here. We
have a talk show to do every day, and we
come in here and the Eagles are good for business
because they won the Super Bowl. They're supposed to be
(09:52):
good and they're underachieving and so it's always fun to
talk about teams like this, and they are really living
up to the suck mantra in Philadelphia. So the last
five games, I mean, that's a good sample size. Is
that fair? That's fair? You're shaking her, Yeah, that's fair.
So last five games, Jalen Hurts has a seventy two
(10:13):
point three passer rating. He's averaging six point four yards
per pass, completing less than sixty percent of his passes.
Despite running a rudimentary Eagles offense. And he's got five
interceptions now and three fumbles. And that's the way it's
going for Jalen Hurts. And so that's not really a slump,
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mind you. That's a five alarm football funk, is what
that is for Jalen Hurts. And remember in the NFL,
there is no rest for the wicked. So right back
at it again for Jalen Hurts, although the competition does
soften going forward. Now page two, let's talk about the
leadership vacuum in Philadelphia here, and there's a there's a
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theme to the Eagles as they continue to have their
issues here. And the question is do you have any
confidence as an outsider, do you have any confidence that
Nick Sirianni can stop the bleeding of the birds? Do
you have any confidence of that that day he can
get it done? There? So I'm gonna go nope on that.
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That's nope for those of you who don't have to
spell nope. Zero confidence. And I don't know how anyone
can have confidence. The Eagles had a similar free fall
I think it was twenty twenty three. They never got
out of it, they never were able to stop it,
and Sirianni was the head coach of that team. The
Eagles right now are like the USS Gerald R. Ford.
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They are an aircraft carrier, and they're very difficult to
turn around. Those aircraft carriers. It's like they're drifting sideways
in the Delaware River right now. And Nick Sirianni is
standing on deck on the aircraft carrier and he's waving
pom poms, and instead of grabbing the wheel and trying
to turn, he's on, we're fine, Oh we're good. I
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love these guys. Oh they're so good. Let's play rock
papercis is what do you say? Okay, why not? We'll
play rock paperci Uh? Fine, So you don't turn around
the aircraft carrier by saying let's go right into the
headset that doesn't work. Here is Nick Sirianni on the
four interception game for Jalen Hers. This here what Sirianni
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had to say on this.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
This game is the ultimate team game. So it's all
it's never you know, it's never just on one person. Ultimately,
he always has the ball in his hands, and I
know he'll he'll wear a lot of that and own
that and and I got to do a better job
of helping them in those scenarios. Again, it's always it's
never just on execution, right, It's it's always that we
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look at ourselves as coaches first and we help them
be in position to succeed and then execute right. So
obviously now want to turn the ball over. We've been
pretty good at that, and tonight was a little uncharacteristic
of ourselves.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So there's a couple of things here that are classic
deflection moves. Jalen hurts in the soundbock we played, So
I gotta watch the tape. That's a classic. I'm not
answering the question. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna watch the tape.
You'll never ask me about it again, or when you
ask me about it again, i'm gonna say, well, we've
moved on to the next game. And then the it's
never on one guyline from Sirianni, when yeah, kind of is.
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That's why the quarterback gets paid ten times with the
other players get it's on him, so you can say
whatever you want. It's a team game and all that. Well,
the team games are lost by individuals, and Sirianni is
a show pony. He is a show pony. He's a
sideline cheerleader who thrives when the wind is at his back.
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And when the wind changes and the storm hits, all
of a sudden, the high tides and the birds they
start leaking oil, and all of a sudden, Syrianni does
a costume change and he becomes a gator. The inflator
Gator is Nick Sirianni. As he pumps air into every
minor issue, does not solve anything. And then it becomes
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a full blown circus balloon. And that's the Eagles, and
it says, literally blocking the highway there, it's blocking Broad
Street there in Philadelphia. It's a mess. And so Jalen Hurts,
who looked like a man whose football soul had been mugged.
He was numb as a bug. And just the whole
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thing is like, what is.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Going on here?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Passes were being tipped. They were just a little bit off.
And that's the difference between good and bad, success and failure.
And so you've got the AJ Brown situation where he
had a bunch of yards, but yet the underlying condition
is still alive. They're not singing from the same song sheet,
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Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown. As you look at it.
The coughing is still there as thirteen targets and aj
Brown had six catches. There was a key drop in
the fourth quarter down in the end zone in a
forty six percent catch rate, which doesn't appear to be
very good. It screams miscommunication for the Philadelphia Eagles, and
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there's obviously a lot of frustration with a little dash,
just a little dash of Diva sprinkles on top at
this point. So the schedule, if there is a positive,
if you want me to be Benny Brightside, the positive
here is the schedule is cotton candy like the Eagles.
Even though the Eagles are trash right now, they still
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should win three of their final four games to close
the regular seasons. Anyone want to push back on that?
Have you seen who they play? The Raiders? The Raiders
are up next in Philadelphia. The Raiders have already given up.
They are bunch of quick. They've got Geno Smith. That
tells you they're not trying to win. When you have
Geno Smith, you are trying not to win football games.
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You're just trying to cover. And Pete did cover the spread.
Goodship by him. They do have to play the Bills,
that's in Buffalo, that'll be a loss. But then you
also have two games home and home with the Washington Commandos,
so they appear to quit or have quit the way
they played against the Minnesota Vikings. So that's what's up ahead. However,
right now, the Eagles, they don't need cupcakes is what
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they need. Competence is what they they need here. And
so even if you beat up on the Raiders and
the Commanders a couple of times, you're not battle tested
when you eventually play a better team. And so Nick Sirianni,
he's not exactly stopping the bleeding here, and if anything,
he's picking at this gap. Now what's going to be
interesting is this was the kind of game and as
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we were going through it, there's some chatter in the
press box like that somebody's gonna get fired. Now I'm
not saying Sirianni's gonna get fired, but this is the
kind of a performance when you know, and everyone's watching
your offense and people are questioning whether or not you
should have demoted the offensive coordinator. This is the kind
of game that gets Kevin Patulo sacrificed and whacked by
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the Eagles, Like that's the kind of game where he
will either be demoted or just removed from the coaching room.
So stay tuned on that. Now, last word on the
Chargers side of things, show me your lightning bolt. Good
looking uniforms by the Chargers, right, they dressed for success.
They had that electric blue one on the Monday night.
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But can Jim Harbaugh Can Jim Harbaugh now exhale with
the Chargers getting the overtime win over the reigning champions
of the NFL. So the answer to this is no,
It's just no on this one, and not even close.
I'm shaking my head now. No, just for those of
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you who can watch on the YouTube, we have Ben
Mather Show on YouTube. We're actually streaming the the monologue.
So I'm shaking my head. No, here's why I'm shaking
my head. No, all right, In fact, I'm shaking my head.
I'm gonna shake my head so much I'm probably need
a chiropractor. No no, no, no, no, no no no
no no no no no, like just like that. And
here's why this was an ugly duckling win. It is
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an ugly duckling win. The offense, the defense was great.
The I say great, but the Eagles, the Eagles have
their own issues. But here's the deal. The offensive display here.
This was a capital you ugly is what it was
you had, and you underline it. You can highlight it,
however you want to put a spectacle around it, and
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you put on a billboard if you want, on the
four h five. Take one of those ambulance chasing lawyer
billboards off the four h five and put that that
up there. But depending on dicker, the kicker, the idiot
kicker for five field goals. And this is we always
say the same thing with the Cowboys. It's a blessing
and a curse to have a great kicker. Cowboys in charge,
just have great kickers. It's a blessing and a curse
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because you depend on the kicker and you don't win
big games with field goals. You don't this ill regular
season game, you won it. Congratulations. However, normally, when you
get five turnovers, am I not wrong in saying you
should win that game by thirty points? If you get
five turnovers, you're at home, You put your feet up,
you grab a spicy margarita, and you enjoyed garbage time
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and you play grab ass on the sidelines. That was
not what happened here. They were not on some kind
of Royal Caribbean cruise. They were not not the bolt
the Chargers who had turned Jalen Hurts, and Jalen was
very generous. It's the season of giving, and Jalen Hurts
his generosity was generosity machine here for the Philadelphia Eagles,
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and they managed to get. If my math is correct,
I believe six points off five turnovers by the Eagles.
They only monetize those into six points. Two field goals.
That's all they got off five turnovers. Now they did
get the you know, technically the last one they sealed
the game because that ended the game, the final interception,
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But the other four they only got six points out
of it, a couple of field goals. And this was
the type of game that you have to go back
in time. This was a super duper football follies VHS
tape the kind your uncle got at the gas station
in like ninety three is what this was. And and
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Justin Herbert, he's playing hurt. They didn't touch. They didn't
talk about that at all on the broadcast, didn't they. No,
Justin Herbert, who looked like he was trying to throw
a piano on every drop back. Now, the Eagles got
to him a fair amount. And this is the same
thing I say all the time. Just you're gonna repeat
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yourself again, I know, yeah, say it about CJ. Stroud,
Gino Smith. I'm gonna say it about Justin Herbert. Rid
of the damn ball, Okay, rather of tat tat, get
rid of the ball, dummy, And Justin Herbert kept holding
onto the ball, holding on the ball, holding on the ball.
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What are you doing? Just get rid of it and
throw it away, my god. And he had two fumbles, lost,
one of them an interception. Under fifty percent. He's the
Golden child. Every broadcaster licks this guy's toes. Justin Herbert,
I don't see it. I don't say he was holding
on the ball like was a family heirloom. Like, dude,
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it's just the duke. Get rid of the duke. The
Chargers had only two hundred seventy five yards of offense
in this game. They had sixteen first downs, two of
those via penalty by the Philadelphia Eagles. So you look
ahead now that you check the schedule, they play at
Kansas City. Kansas City's a lightweight this year, so you
play at Arrowhead. Then you've got at Dallas, the Texans
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in la or in Inglewood, and then at Denver. That
is what's left. Four games left in the regular season
for the Chargers at this point. So that's not a
stretch round. That's a rocky road. Arrowhead not easy to
play at. Dallas has some good offense, although they're not
a complete team, and so that's where we are. That's
rocky road for Jim Harbaugh, and so you can't excel.
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Plus Harbas's he's not like that. He doesn't exhale about anything.
He's always got to stick up his tookist, doesn't he
That's what he looks like. It's one of those people
and they can barely inhale.
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As we begin this hour, still talk about the Monday
night game as the Chargers up in the Philadelphia Eagles
at SOFI Stadium. A lot of angry birds, the Eagle
fan base not happy there. The Eagles go down and
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they go down hard in overtime game. They should have
lost in regulation, but they ended up playing a little
extra time there in the overtime. But our lead this hour,
all right, let's go to Indianapolis. That is the lead story.
And a hum dinger, What a homedinger. So with Daniel
Jones out for the year, snapcrackle pop, and Riley Leonard
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listed a week to week, the old golden domer, Riley Leonard,
who has a strained kneele oh my aching knee. So
the Colts are scheduled later on Tuesday to work out
Philip Rivers. Yes, that Philip Rivers, not his kid, the
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same Philip Rivers. Yep, the charger Colt got yep that guy,
and the state sponsored the NFL networked a proble the
news service of the NFL for informing us that the
workout is scheduled. Now, if you didn't hear about this,
maybe not, it will it will coincide. It's it's Philip Rivers'
birthday week this week, So happy birthday, Philip forty four
(26:39):
years young, Happy birthday, Happy birthday. He last played in
an NFL game during the pandemic season of twenty twenty,
was the last time he played. And the Colts are
going to work out Philip Rivers. So they need help,
and so the Colts will work out Rivers, see what
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type of shape he's in. Matgin TV shows up and
he looks like a sumo wrestler. Likely won't sign him,
but by all accounts, Rivers is in pretty good shape.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
There.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So the former quarterback who is now a grandfather, that's right,
he's a grandfather, Philip Rivers, and he has to figure
out whether or not he wants to play in the
NFL or not. For now, he is clearly considering and
contemplating playing quarterback in Indianapolis, as he's willing to fly
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from his native land in Alabama and go to Indy
to hang out with the Colts and have a nice
meet and greet, a nice luncheon and all that. So
that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question what is crazier the fact that the Colts
are interested in Philip Rivers or the fact that Philip
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Rivers is considering this and it didn't immediately say no.
What is the more ridonculous part of this story? So
I've got family business, gold bar and turkey vultures, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some delicious Saint Elmo's Surf and Turf,
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which we had famous dinner there years ago. Is doing
some radio stuff in Indy. We had to meal at
Saint Elmo's. It's really a right if you're in the
media to go to Saint Elmo's in Indianapolis and order
the most expensive thing on the menu and just have
your company pay for it. That's the way to do it.
So number one, let me just start with the fact.
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I know the fact that the Indianapolis Colts are so desperate,
they're so horny for a quarterback that they're rummaging through
the attic at their facility and they're opening up these
dust covered boxes, and they came across an old Philip Rivers.
Jersey said, Okay, I'll have an epiphany. Why don't we
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call Philip Rivers and see if he wants to play?
And he last played when TikTok was still a toddler.
Philip Rivers, okay, And now he's a forty four year
old grandpa coaching. At last I heard he was coaching
high school football in Alabama. And so the arrow on
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this one, the arrow on this one is pointing squarely
at the Colts, squarely at the Colts. That's just the
way it is. And what are the horseshoes thinking? Even
if Rivers comes in and does okay? Right, even if
he were to do okay, the risk factor at forty
four years old, not being in the NFL shape, there
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is his next level, right, it's next level. So this
franchise has yet again, this is what the culture. This
is what the culture. The Colts have entered the wack
a doodle twilight zone. Wack a doodle do what they do.
And you thought that jimmers say, when he crossed the
pearly gates and left this mortal coil, you thought, well,
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that's it. The culture gonna be like every other NFL team.
They're not gonna do these wack of doodle things anymore
because Jim Mersay would be on a bender and he'd
do these crazy things. So he had issues. Surprise, surprise, surprise,
because hey, he might no longer be with us, Jim irsay,
but his sweet daughter is carrying on the family business.
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And I guess the apple does not fall far from
the tree. The DNA it's baked into the ursa DNA.
There the family business, the whimsical football chaos. The same
family that brought us Jeff Saturday, the television guy who
was like a high school coach as an NFL head
coach a couple of years back, and that was the Horseshoes.
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And now we have the daughter going down a similar
road with the quarterback and it's just next level. So
Indianapolis is basically what Indianapolis is doing here is there
rebooting a classic sports movie, putting an NFL spin on
Major League the movie. Remember that that movie, Major League.
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It's a classic movie. And in this scene, you've got
the general manager, Chris Ballard of Indianapolis on the phone,
ring ring, ring, Hey hey, Philip, it's Chris Ballard, the
GM of the Indianapolis Colts. You want to play quarterback
in the NFL for the Colts again? And then Rivers responds, well,
I mean, I don't know. Let me get back to
you on that. Christ. I got a kid doing burpies
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here in high school football practice. I'll get back to
Rivers has been retired. I assume when you retire, you
play shuffle board and you play bingo and you hum
Jimmy Buffett tunes from Latitude Margaritaville. That's what you do. No,
all right, And so India is so desperate. How desperate
are they? They're so desperate Indianapolis here, they're so desperate
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that they are they're actually doing this. They're checking aarp
cards at quarterback and saying, hey, you got a membership,
You're good to go. Here we go and uh and
what a great gig though there's only four games to go.
Maybe you get to the playoffs and play an extra
game or two if you're Philip Rivers there And what
are you going to get a million dollars to play
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the rest of the year or something like that, some
absurd amount of money. Let me tell you something. The
holidays are here, and those Christmas gifts do not pay
for them? Say you got he's got like ten kids.
I think he needs one more. He can feel his
own eleven man roster on the play both ways. But
this is Malard theater is what this is, Okay, embracing
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the absurd. And while I think it will not work,
I love the fact that Colts are doing. It's so crazy,
so bonkers. It's like, what are you doing? And this
is how the NFL's operated current Warner told stories. He
left the NFL, he said for like five years after
he left the NFL. People were calling up, Hey, how
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would you like to come back and play quarterback? All right?
Now to San Francisco we go. Follow up, follow up
to the mouthy wide out by the Bay forty nine
is wide receiver Jawan Jennings. Not a household name. Not
a household name, Jawan Jennings. He was asked about his
war of words, uh with the Cleveland Browns. You might
remember defensive tacker tackle Shelby Harris who announced to the
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world that Juwan Jennings is a what what is? That's right?
Demand's a how all right? And so he went on
and said that Jennings said things you should never say
to another man, that's right, And Shelby Harris went on
as this big rant and said, well he said that,
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and he said surprised he sees exactly why the Carolina
Panthers punched him in the nuts, and surprised somebody hasn't
punched him in the jaw. And then Miles Garrett responded
by saying he also took issue with whatever Juwan Jennings
said in that forty nine Ers Browns game. And then,
of course, well, Shelby Harris just again said your hoe
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and that's that's it. But the question on this one,
so the response, let me, let me give you a
responsible So the response by Juwan Jennings, he says he
did not he did not say anything that bad to
the Cleveland Browns. So the question, all right, question on
this Juwan Jennings says, I didn't say anything that bad
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to the Browns. How do you break this one down?
So I'm gonna break this down this way. So it's
a he said, he said situation. The whole Juwan Jennings
Shelby Harris dust up. It's like two guys arguing on
who insulted who louder in the nightclub bathroom while someone's
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there trying to get a tip and hand you some
cologne you don't need and some candies you don't need
in the bathroom. It's that kind of thing. So the
way I look at this, and I am the judge, jury, executioner,
all that stuff. So nobody is innocent on this. Nobody
is in everyone's guilty. Everyone's got blood on their hands
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and all it. The only truth is somewhere floating in
the stadium rafters there, uh you know, Shelby Harris calling
Jennings a what that's right? A ho ho ho ho,
that's right. That is radio gold is what that is?
That is radio gold. And it really is in the
holiday season in we could make our own song with
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just him saying ho ho ho. Let's try it. Let's see,
here's Shelby Harris his new holiday song. He's now Santa Claus.
Go ahead say it, Shelby. Come on, here's a hope
on non no, oh oh man, we butchered it. Let's
try that. Yeah, here's a hope yeah, oh man. See
there's a glitch. It's the Gremlins, but it would be
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he's a hoe' he's a ho, he's ho. So anyway, listen,
that is the kind of SoundBite when you do this
job for a living. That is the kind of SoundBite
you wrap in velvet and you keep that in a
trophy case. How often do we have someone call another
player a hoe? It doesn't happen very often. So here's
the twist, though, And I gotta be an accurate arbitrator
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of what goes on. And so the Mallard scorecard as
a longtime boxing judge on these verbal rhubarbs. So the
Malard scorecard that outburst actually by by Shelby Harris handed
this to Juwan Jennings. I give the wind to Jennings,
and here's why, because the moment it's the bro code,
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the moment you go public with locker room or on
field talk, locker room talk or on field talk. The
moment that you do that, you have breaked the the
golden wall, if you will. You've broken the the kfabe
that they have in wrestling, and you've ruined all the fun.
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You violated the code of silence that what happens on
the field stays on the field, what happens in the
locker room stays in much like Vegas, it just kind
of stays there. And Jennings essentially said that yeah, I
said something, but not that bad. And if he wants
to smack me, you know, set your DVRs. Set your DVRs.
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That's a pro wrestling heel energy by Juwan Jennings. And
the that's a man right there popping the balloon, popping
the balloon and letting all the faux outrage, all the
faux outrage hiss out like a cheap air mattress that
gets popped right there. Let's be real. The chatter almost
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certainly is a two way highway. It's not one way.
It was also guaranteed to be obscene in decent and
rated NC seventeen for language. Regardless. You kind of expect that,
right in competition. You assume there's gonna be a lot
of things said in the heat of the moment, the
fog of competition. That's what happens. And it's not fit
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for broadcast. It's not for men and men, women and
children who can't handle it. If you're fragile, it's not
for you. And for us, it's absolutely perfect. We love it.
We love it all right. Now the final point, we
go to Jersey. We go to New Jersey where the
New York Jets over the weekend. Congratulations to the Jets.
Tremendous job boys, you have you have done it yet again.
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The Jets, by losing to the Dolphins, have reclaimed sole possession,
sole possession of the longest active postseason drought among the NFL, MLB, NHL,
and NBA at fifteen years without the post fifteen. That
means if you were born and are now in high
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school as a fifteen year old your entire life, the
Jets have never made the playoffs in an age where
they have more playoff teams than ever in an age
where it's designed to be topsy turvy, and you suck
for a couple of years, then you're good for a
couple of years. And that's the way they do business
in the NFL. So following the defeat, we had multiple
Jets players who spoke about the tradition of the franchise,
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including Brees Hall, who went on a mini rant Brisoll
talking about, you know, the other players are having fun
around the NFL away from the Jets, he said, Brisall,
he said, quote, it's a yearly thing. He said, it's definitely.
It starts to weigh on you. You see your peers, you
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see other guys that you know, you're just as good
as or better than, Brisall said, And they get to
have a lot of fun, and you don't have any
fun apparently when you play for the Jets. So the
question do you have any wisdom you'd like to share
for the Jets and this stretch of futility again, they've
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missed the playoffs now for fifteen years in a row.
We are just five years away from a full generation
without making the playoffs for the New York Jets, so
this is obviously not a slump. It's not. This is
a lifestyle brand, is what this is. It's a lifestyle
brand by the Jets here. And I love that Breeze Hall,
who wanted to be traded, who did everything he thought
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he could possibly do to be traded. I love the
fact that Breecee Hall's out here talking like a philosopher
on the Staten Island ferryes saying it weighs on you.
Thank you, captain obvious, no kidding, my friend. The franchise,
they have more baggage than the Guardia over the Christmas holidays.
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Got and my advice, lean into it. If I'm the Jets,
I lean into this. I do. Don't run from it.
Do not run from it. Embrace the annual misery tour.
That's my advice to the Jets. Make this a right
of passage. Make it a right of passion. It's kind
of like in Hinckley, Ohio. Every March they have the
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Turkey vultures that return to Hinckley, Ohio and they celebrate.
Most people would say, we don't want to celebrate turkey vultures,
But in Hinckley, Ohio, they celebrate turkey vultures they do.
And so the Jets aren't the birds of prey. They're
not that. They're like the buzzards of the ball, the
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buzzards of the ball, circling another lost season, yet again,
waiting for the next carcass, for a quarterback to drop
into their lap. And I did the maul or math
on this because I got a lot of free time
on hands, so I did the mather of math. The
Jets have had in this fifteen years. They've had six
head coaches, They've had twenty quarterbacks that have started. They've
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had how many top ten picks? Nine top ten picks
in the last fifteen years, not top twenty, top nine
top ten picks. It's musical chairs on the Hindenburg k
boom is what it is. And every year someone new.
This is what I love about Jets. Every year someone
new sits down and says it's gonna be different. I
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know what I'm doing, and those other guys didn't know
what they were doing, and I know what I'm doing,
and the whole thing explodes yet again. It's the warehouse
of regret FC is what that is there. And the
Jets business model, which other teams have copied. Here is
the sad model. Suck and draft suck and draft wash rints, repeat,
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clog the drain. That's what they do. And so yeah,
I believe the Jets should just copy to the United
States Marines. Embrace the suck. Just embrace the suck. It's
one thing the franchise if they're actually executing at an
elite level. They're not doing that, so maybe they can
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execute an elite level on the other side.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
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Speaker 1 (43:14):
It's mallor how about that to the third degree? This
is one gets grailled? All right?
Speaker 6 (43:22):
Here, wake go couple of It wasn't long ago that
Mike McDaniel's firing seemed all but inevitable. Now the Dolphins
have won four straight, there're still didn't playoff contention, and
McDaniel is talking about quote a special connection in the
locker room. Ben, has McDaniel already saved his job?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
No, look at the Bills win was I guess legit?
But the Commanders, Saints and Jets are three of the
worst teams. No. No, In fact, it's more complicated now
because the Dolphins aren't terrible, They're not good. They're stuck
in the middle. He's gotta still be on the hot seat. Next.
Speaker 6 (43:55):
GMZ caught up with Calvin Johnson on Sunday, and Megatron
said that Matthew Stafford is already Hall of Famer and
that an MVP award this year would cement it.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
Is he right, Ben?
Speaker 1 (44:04):
No, he's never even been an old pro. What are
you talking about? He's not a Hall of Famer. Now,
we want to see MVP in the Rams win the
super Bowl? Okay, even though the Super Bowl is a
team accomplishment. Then I will say yes, No, you just
put them a lot of empty stat Stafford next.
Speaker 6 (44:19):
Early on in the season, Amika Agbuka seemed to be
running away with the Offensive Rookie of the Year award. Now,
after fourteen weeks, he's a long shot. Panthers wide receiver
Ted McMillan is the favorite to win, with Jackson Dart
not too far behind. Ben.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
Do you see anyone else having a shot?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
No, this is a terrible year for rookies on offense.
It's a bag you. The only other name that you'd
throw out there is Tyler Warren, who's a tight end
for the Colts. That's it. And remember this when we
watch the NFL Draft in April, how I'll horny you
guys get and these guys are mostly gonna snake in
the NFL's rookies. How do we know he passes? I
passed out? My god, I pass hollering James any dog.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
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to listen live. Now Malor's Mountain of money? Do you
have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 5 (45:18):
Not?
Speaker 6 (45:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Right to the game. Mark is in Berkeley, hanging out
with the cool people. What's going on? Mark? You ready
to play the game?
Speaker 4 (45:25):
Here, sir?
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Hello? Mark? Okay, full of energy? Look at this man?
Ready to go? Mark, who do you want to partner
up with? All right, let's call find Ben Maller. We'll
make that happen. Okay, very good. Travis is in Florida. Hello, Travis, Welcome,
Thank you. Ben. It's a big state. What part of Florida? Travis? Ah,
(45:51):
you're a baller West Palm Beach. Look at that? All right?
Very good? Let's play the game here and you'll be
teamed up with Coop. Is that okay?
Speaker 2 (46:00):
That's great?
Speaker 1 (46:01):
I don't that is great. That's not really great. I
would have used the word great.
Speaker 6 (46:06):
This is the Jim Morrison edition of Malerd's Mountain Money.
He would have turned eighty two years old on Monday.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Would have?
Speaker 6 (46:11):
Yes, would have? He was a member of the twenty
seven club. Mark, you were on first, so you get
to choose your category first. The categories are light my Fire,
break on through, people are Strange?
Speaker 4 (46:21):
Or Alabama Song?
Speaker 6 (46:23):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (46:23):
Which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Right?
Speaker 6 (46:25):
Light my Fire? All right? And Travis, how about you?
Which category would you like? Do you want to break
on through, people are strange? Or Alabama break on Through?
Speaker 4 (46:37):
All right? All right? So Mark and Ben you are
up first.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
All right, very good. These athletes all had reputations as
good teammates. Are you ready? Mark?
Speaker 6 (46:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (46:47):
All right? What the hell was that? Okay, there's a
lot of ambient noise there. These athletes all had reputations
A good team's forty five seconds of the clock. We're
on our way. Go quarterback for the Green Bad Packers
before Aaron Rodgers, Uh yes, the center for the Spurs
all those years after David Robinson even with him. Yes,
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wide receiver, greatest receiver in Arizona Cardinals history. Uh, all right.
His dad was a sports writer in Minnesota. Uh, a
center for the Philadelphia Eagles. His brother is Travis, who's
going to marry Taylor Swift and man all right, Red
(47:32):
Sox second baseman when they won the World Series. There
a couple of times injured, had a career inning injury.
Dust kind of a dirty dust.
Speaker 4 (47:43):
He tried to cheat, but it didn't. I didn't try
to cheat.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
How did I try to cheat? Dusty name?
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Give me a break.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
What his name's Dustin? But the way, that's not that
dust and dusty. It's a different word, dummy. It is
a different word, all.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
Right, Travis, thirty points. Our Our category is break on through.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Do not choke.
Speaker 6 (48:02):
These athletes finally won a championship late in their career.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Do not choke.
Speaker 6 (48:06):
All right, forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
Quarterback for the Broncos. He won back to back Super Bowl. Yes,
this guy is the current coach for the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
Yes. Uh, this guy's nickname was the Glove.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
Gary Payton.
Speaker 6 (48:22):
Yes, this guy spent a long time on the Raiders
as a cornerback.
Speaker 4 (48:26):
But he won a championship with the Packers Charles Woods.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
Yes, uh, this guy was a center on the Heat.
He won in twenty oh six. Yeah he No, he
got in a fight and the coach was grabbing onto
his leg. No, yes, yes, okay. This guy was an
old pitchery pitch till he was like fifty. He was
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on the Mariners and then won a championship with the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (48:53):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Yeah? Yeah, did not get the name. It at the
full damage. There was not the full before the buzzer,
not before the buzzer, not before the buzzer. He got
the Jamis, but not the Moyer. No, he didn't got
the Moris. You got the Jamie, not the bar. He
got the Jamie, not the Moyer. All right, what do
you want here, Mark? You want people are strange? Your
(49:16):
Alabama song?
Speaker 6 (49:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Mark, Okay, okay, why not? These athletes are all a
little weird. We'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
Here we go. Relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and
New York Mets in the nineties and the two thousands
used to used to chew a licorice between innings relief pitcher,
not Davides. Well, that's true, that's not who it is. Uh,
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the player for the Indiana Pacers who blew air into
Lebron James Ear. I'm so tired right now, Yes, yes,
so much. That's not going to help us out, all right.
Golfer who's fat and smokes a lot and as a
cult hero on the congratulations to be Pernando ver. No,
(50:04):
it's John da got away. Go to bed, leave me alone,
Go to bed.
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