December 11, 2025 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore getting fired amid an assault and misconduct investigation, Philip Rivers officially getting introduced as a member of the Colts, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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couple months back, said there's on the podcast, the Fifth
Hour podcast they do on the weekends, and there was like,
you know you do a talk show. Oh you do
is talk about sports every day. It's going to be
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so boring. And there are days like this when I
walk into the radio station and into the studio here
and I'm like, well that's not boring. And our lead
this hour from Ann Arbor, Michigan, now I gotta tell you,
I don't know. And every day you wake up, you
have no idea, Like when you do a show like this,
what you're gonna be talking about. You imagine, you know,
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probably some NFL story, or somebody will say something stupid
in basketball or baseball or something like that. I did
not have this on my bingo card as I woke
from my hibernation, a very brief hibernation. Did not did
not anticipate that we would be talking college football, certainly
not about Michigan. I look at the college football playoff
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and I don't see the Wolverines in there at all.
But everyone is talking about what has happened here and
Ann Arbor. So if you somehow have been out of
the loop, you're not in the loop. Loop Boy, have
you missed out? My god? Oh man, I need to
take a shower. I need to take a shower. If
you didn't see this, perhaps not so. Michigan has said
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bye bye. They have said get out of here. Sharon Moore,
the head coach shockingly fired by school in Michigan. They
said get out of here. And people were confused initially,
like what is this about? We don't understand. Then the
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details started to drip out, and you realize that it
was for cause, which means Sharon mooreris cooked and second
full season at the Helm there for the World Rings
and that's it. Termination the result of an inappropriate relationship
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between Moore and a staff member who, according to the Internet,
he was stooping. Following a university investigation, they claimed they
had credible evidence, apparently a whole lot of it, that
found that Coach Moore engaged in what we call because
we're on the radio and we're all we're all kids,
making whoopee with a staff member. How about that going
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to poundtown. So this conduct constituted a clear violation of
the university policy and blah blah blah, the lawyers got involved.
We have zero tolerance for such behavior. Now more was
detained actually by the cops in a suburb of ann Arbor,
a corner to Internet reports, he let's just say, he
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kind of went off the edge there and threatened himself and,
according to Internet reports, threatened the I guess we'll call
her the side check at her house there. And so
he's been popped on an alleged assault charge. Yeah, so
you think you had a bad day, I would say
this would be this would be a worse day. Moore
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had a buyout of around fourteen million dollars. But wait,
there's more so about fourteen million dollars. So because he
was fired for cause, and from what I've been hearing
from people I've been texting, there's a lot of digital evidence,
Michigan is likely not going to have to pay hardly
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any of that. That's it. So he woke up, think
about this, he woke up as the Michigan football coach.
He ended the day in police custody and lost fourteen
million dollars. Okay, that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question, can you unpack your many
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thoughts on the downfall of Sharon Moore? We barely knew
you as the Michigan football coach, So my thoughts on this,
I've got Timeshare, Dua, Lipa and lobster roll, and we
will combine all of these things together. And may I
recommend Sharon Moore go to Express Pros. They'll help you out.
They're not currently this week in advertisement, but they will
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be back, and so go to Express Pros. Put your
resume up there maybe and get a job somewhere. All right,
So a let's dive headfirst into the amazing blue melo drama.
You know, I'm all about the melodrama. So this day
it felt to me similar to the day when the
Manti teow scandal came out. If you remember, if you're
old enough to remember that, it was a it was
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a football player, good college player, bad NFL player, bad commentator.
But Manti Teyoo with the day the scandal broke about
his fake dead girlfriend is like you couldn't click fresh
fast enough on the socials because there was something new
every two minutes. It was wild. Except we think in
the difference the juxtaposition between Sharon Moore and Mantaitos, we
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think all of these people are real people. We believe
all of these people are real people. Now, Sharon Moore
did not just torpedo his Michigan career. He lit the
fuse and he poured gasoline on top of it and
then stood there and warmed his hands. He rubbed his
hands together, is what he did. This was an infomercial
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like twist. You think you're buying the blender. You saw
the infomercial. You called the toll free number for the blender,
so you want the blender, and it turns out that
you didn't get the blender. You actually called the wrong
number and you called the infomercial. You bought the other thing.
You bought a timeshare in Disasterville, and that is where
Charon Moore bought a timeshare Disasterville. The self inflicted. Be
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very clear about this. It's self inflicted and plosion worthy
of a late night syndication block. We got to bring
back the old school hits from years ago. I'm talking
Jerry Springer, like Chaos, Maury Povich Fallout, will throw Judge
Judy's attitude in there as well and roll them all
into a nice cast role. But we'll put the Wolverines
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logo on top of the cast role. Okay, so you've
got what do you got? You got shock value reports
that the side chick had a baby that was eliminated
paternity test. You've got the cheating scandal, You've got family feud,
You've got some bizarre life choices that were being made here.
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And also much like those great classic shows of the
early two thousands in the nineties, like Jerry Springer, which
I think ended like ten years ago, but it was
on for most of this the last twenty years and
you have audience participation. Now, on those shows, you had
ooo and cheering, and you know, sometimes they joined the
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cast on this. We just had social media. We're all
rubbernecking and keeping an eye on this. The moment those
first messages buzzed on my phone, Hey you see this, mallor.
I knew. I knew this was going to be something
more than just some polite hr situation. This was hide
the kids, grab the popcorn, big movie theater, bucket of popcorn,
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extra butter, extra butter. A romantic I don't know if
romance is really the right word, but a very enjoyable relationship,
I guess for at least one of the people, maybe both,
I don't know. With what appears to be based on
photographs that you all found on the internet. You internet
investigators of the woman a crevacous staffer at the University
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of Michigan. Based on the Internet investigation, she got this
is so great, so the alley. Again, this is all alleged.
It's alleged exactly. The allegation is that the young lady,
she was just a low level staffer at Michigan and
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then about the time she started doing some gymnastics with
the head football coach. He got a fifty five percent raise,
which I think, I think is in the hush money playbook.
I don't know, I have to go read the hush
money playbook, but I believe it is. But wait, there's more.
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So she got a fifty five percent raise, I guess
she was really good at her job. And you had
donors bolting like they heard the fire alarm, the boosters
at Michigan because this started making the rounds in back channels,
and the whole thing was masterpiece of mayhem, is what
it was. So Sharon Moore, the now former head football
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coach at Michigan, he didn't just fumble the bag. He
dumped fourteen million dollars buyout money off a bridge. And
the second you hear four cause and that enters the chat,
you're porked. Yeah, And well, I guess he got porked
in more ways than one. But Michigan gets to take
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part in the executive level ghosting. And so this story
is a couple of conflicting timelines. The one that I've
been hearing a lot here as I've been keeping track
of this is that this started about a month ago,
about a month ago and mid November, and insiders felt
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that the walls were vibrating in ann Arbor. There were
people whispering, Assistant coaches were worried they were going to
lose their job. And in the end, Sharon Moore did
not really lose his job. He gift wrapped it, placed
it on the curb and yelled, bulk trash, pick up.
Come on, pick this peece wow, I mean my good
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it out. Continuing the theme of the hour all right question.
Some are saying that the stank from the Charon More
scandal will put a fog over the Michigan football program
that will last for years. It's kind of like, unfortunately
the water in Flint, Michigan. It's been fed up for
a long time. So where do you fall on this one?
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So there's no question the Charon Moore scandal palooza, as
we're calling it, is a hum dinger of a story.
It is just amazing from all angles. We are merely
rubbernecking here, and we're only in the opening credits on
the drama Arama. This is only the opening credits here,
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and then in the scandal Malard Power rankings one to ten.
This is about a twelve. It's about a twelve right.
This is a gourmet serving of tabloid fodder, is what
this is. Now. The Naked City never sleeps, and neither
do we, and right now it is feasting time. Feeding
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frenzy is going on where every morsel of this story
is being nibbled on, not on, devoured. It's like a
delicious three layer chocolate cake, is what it is. And
it's barbarian cruelty. I cannot wait till twenty twenty seven.
Can you imagine the Netflix docu series on trharn Moore's
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downfall at Michigan Hole League? Crap on a cracker man?
Is that gonna be good? It's good TV. That'll be great, So,
I you know, Netflix, it can't make it yet because
the story's going on right now. But that's gonna be
some kind of a docu series. Now, that's it. I'm
gonna step back a couple of steps here to quote
the great William Shakespeare, because all great sports talk radio
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needs to quote William Shakespeare. The Buck Guys fan doff
protest too much, methinks because a lot of the dog
pile is from Ohio state. Phase I get it. I
understand you guys arrivals, and you have your fun shot
in Freud and all that. But let's not act like
this is Macbeth at the Big House. Because I've done
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some malor math on this. I've crunched the numbers. And
if Sharon Moore had one more, all right, if he
had won more at Michigan, we wouldn't know about any
of this. This would have gone away faster than a snapchat.
It just would have been gone. And when performance dips
the algebra. When performance dips, morality suddenly matters. When performance
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is great, you look the other way on morality. You
would have gotten this young lady a nice island somewhere
in the Bahamas or wherever, and go live a nice life.
We'll pay a couple hundred thousand dollars a year because
we've got a great football coach. If Michigan, I'll give you.
If Michigan was playing, I can't believe I'm saying this
playing as the Indiana Hoosiers are this year, or heaven forbid,
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their blood rival Ohio State also preparing for with the
college football playoff. This would have been a dua lipa special.
Boys will be boys right covered up like you know,
it's kind of covering it up from going from a
bikini and then you're on the beach and you go
from wearing a bikini to a move. Move. Well, you've
covered up a lot of real estate with the moon
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move right, And so if you're good, you put the
moon MoU on, you cover it up. If not, it's
the bikini and all that effect. It's actually a nude beach.
So instead, Sharon Moore was seventeen and eight, which is
not terrible, but it's not great in the last couple
of years, and Michigan failed to reach the college football
Playoff under his tutelage. So long term, I maintained this
is a mosquito bite in the nil era where the
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kids and the coaches are pig skin mercenaries, money talks
and loyalty walks. So Michigan will be just fine. They'll
hire a pretty good coach and they've got a lot
of money to play with. Now, speaking of that, the
last word here the business at so question where does
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Michigan turn The coaching carousels pretty much ended. Lane Kiffin
was the big one and he left Ole miss to
go to LSU, and that was like the last big
whale that was out. So where does Michigan turn as
it's next full time football coach? So this is where
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you start sniffing that pungent coaching carousel aroma. It's like
someone left a lobster roll that's been sitting out in
the sun during the summer for a couple of weeks
and it just starts nasty. This always comes back to
the B word boosters. Right, they're the back They're in
the back alleys right now. I imagine, at least in my head,
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they're wearing trench coach and they're whispering, hey, how much
would it take for you to coach Michigan? Right, they're
looking to pilfer their next savior and spoiler alert, I'm
gonna go out of limb say he ain't gonna be
a Michigan man. And they're not gonna go with the
Michigan man. Now, the mythology is that you're you're getting
that that Michigan aura and all that, and you have
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to find someone with some kind of connection. I say,
hit the pause button on that, and so on your march,
get set and go. Let the poaching games begin. The
poaching games again. It is a musical chairs game on
jet fuel, and again Michigan is way behind the curve here,
way behind, and everyone else already grabbed their guy. All right,
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So regardless the brand I believe still plays, am I old, Yeah,
you're old. Michigan doesn't matter anymore. They've just won the
championship a couple years ago with hardball. I still put
them there, and that the blue blood in college football.
They're one of the top five in college football all time.
It's Broadway, it's the Coliseum, it's all that stuff, and
so they can swing for the fences. Now what we're
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hearing here, The hot name in the echo chamber is
Kaylan de Boor, which would then lead to a trickle
down effect because we know the Alabama fan base is
not smitten with Klen de Boor. The problem is they're
in the playoffs. There is a world where Alabama wins
the national championship in college football. There's also a world
where they get knocked out in their first opportunity. And
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if that happens that we'll speed up the process. It
will expedite the process. But it doesn't seem like the
Boor's beloved in Alabama, and they've been grumbling about him,
and so they got smoked by Georgia in the SEC
Championship game. The boar does have Midwest blood. He's a
Midwestern lad, and he's had success pretty much everywhere. He's been,
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just not up to the standard of Nick Saban at Alabama,
and he checks just about every box at Michigan, although
I don't think he knows the fight song. I don't
think he knows the fight song, and that's a bit
of a problem. But the other options. If you want
someone who's currently not working, you got Brian Kelly, who
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is there a Michigan accent he can learn. He underwhelmed
at LSU. I'm sure there'll be some John Gruden rumors
that's not happening, But again, listen, the Naked City never sleeps,
and neither do do we, and buckle up. If anything
happens here in the overnight, we'll let you know. The
carousel is spinning round and round and round and round
and round. It's a tilta whirl in a windstorm. This
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Michigan store, it's quite the tail.
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this out will get away from the Michigan scandal. We'll
go back to that at some point, but in the
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moments that we have ahead of us right now we
head to Indianapolis. I don know who's your bill. Very
excited that the Colts are getting a lot of attention.
So the story of the week continues to be that
the grandpa left his grandson and left the loyal Order
of the Moose Lodge to return to the league. And
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Philip Rivers had his first dance with the media on Wednesday.
The Beat reporters who cover the Indianapolis Colts. I don't
know if you heard any of what he had to say.
Perhaps you did not, But Philip Rivers said the money
quote here as he said, he is not the behavior
or a hero. He said, quote. I'm not here to
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save the year or to be the hero by any means,
he claimed. At his news conference, he said, we we
got to stink and run the crap out of the
football and play defense, he said. He also acknowledged the
legitimate possibility of injury and says, you essentially said you
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don't know until you do it whether or not that's
going to happen. So whether you can do it, that
is a good jumping all points. So I'll let us
discuss the question Philip Rivers will work off the money
quote the question Philip Rivers says he didn't join the
Colts to save the year or to be their hero.
Is that how this works? So I've got terry toons,
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finesse and penalty flag, and we'll put all of these
things together. We're gonna play Connect three is what we're
gonna do. So number number all right. So I am
shaking my head. Stop, I'm shaking my head. No, my
eyes are closed. I'm shaking my head. No, rapidly, rapidly, rapidly, rapidly. No.
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All right, so uh stop it, all right. Message to
Philip Rivers from the overnight. That is exactly why you
are in Indianapolis, all right. That is exactly why, Philip Rivers,
you are wearing a Colt uniform. They did not wake
up one morning and say, you know what, we need
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a forty four year old game manager who is not
going to be our our hero. Come on, Daniel Jones,
who was going the wrong direction. Let's be honest here
he was not playing that well. He then went snap,
crackle pop. The season's wobbling like a three legged table
at a diner at a bistro. And the Colts, what
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do they do? Who are you gonna call? They called
the Grandpaul Emergency line, and they called the Grandpa Emergency hotline.
They wanted the old gun slinger riding in with his
bolo tie glistening, ready to play firefighter. Put out the
fire firefighter, all right, I will fine whatever, and don't
tell me that he's not there to save anything. Come on,
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if they wanted just a warm body, they did pick
up Brett Rippon, who is just a warm body. They
could have gotten anyone to play quarterback who would have
been as cam Ward would say, ass And the Colts
what they are banking on and what they're counting on
with Philip Rivers is terrytoons. Rivers is the iconic cartoon
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character Mighty Mouse, whether he likes it or not, Here
I come to save the day. It's mighty Mouse. How
come all the cartoon characters in the early days were
all like Mickey Mouse, Mighty Mouse? What's up with that? Anyway?
That is the assignment that is the assignment for Philip Rivers,
and the quotes, and we gave you some of them.
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The quotes are just philip Rivers trying to downplay the expectation,
soften the landing, lower the bar. Either way, Indy, they
need more than just the training wheels if this is
gonna work. They go into Seattle hostile situation. All Seattle's
not that great at home, and you got Sam Darnold,
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who's a walking mistake, as no stradinas knows. And so
the Colts, though, they're banking on that this guy is
going to be someone not just another guy. He's gonna
be someone who can transform that harmless goldfish offense and
turn that into an offense that's as fearsome as a
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barracouter and as leathles as an a giant anaconda. That's
what they're banking on now, page two. So with the
Colts going into full Grandpa mode as they are, there's
some video clips of Philip Rivers practicing. And I don't
know if you've seen this. I don't think Stevie Meetball
seen in or Ink of Terror or Blind Scot, but
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there's video clips of Rivers practicing with Indy and they've
gone viral, and many people are saying, well, he looked terrible.
Look like he hasn't hasn't missed a meal and the
throws were not that great. So the question are you
drawing any kind of conclusions from the grainy philip rivers
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practice tape? Are there any conclusions that you are drawing?
So we find this to be hilarious, like people are
losing their collective minds over what I saw was kind
of grainy. I don't know if it was really Bigfoot quality,
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Bigfoot quality philip rivers practice tape shot on what appears
to be like an O three Nokia flip phone. Like
everybody grab a brown paper bag. There is no need
to hyperventilate. You do not need to hyperventilate. The critics
are shouting, there's no velocity, he's got no zip on
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the throws, and that one throw looks like it took
five business days to get to the receiver and all that.
But spoiler alert, philip rivers. This has not been talked
about it at all. Nobody else has this take. I'm
the only one. It's an original take. He's a grandpa
and he's forty four years old. By NFL standards. Philip
Rivers is the epitome of a museum exhibit. It's a
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traveling museum exhibit wearing cleats. Now regardless, here's the plot
twist in the Malor movie, because we make movies here
the Malor movie. Rivers, based on the clip that I saw,
looks almost identical to the way he looked when he
last played in the NFL. He is a right handed craftsman.
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He never even in his salad days with the old
San Diego Chargers, he never threw the heater. Never. He
made a career out of being a finesse pitcher, beguiling
defenses right, mixing the change up with the slider and
the loopy, loopy, loopy breaking ball that defy physics and
the ball flutters and it wobbles and all that, and
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it doesn't look like it should work. And think of
it more along lines of two a tongue of eye looa,
although more success like an upgrade. I don't know if
he's got fewer dance and played in a few years,
so he's likely in good condition there and that kind
of funky shot put delivery and it's still there. It
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was effective, Will it be effective? Still we'll find out
the real superpower. The real superpower of Philip Rivers has
always been the A and a game, anticipation and accuracy
and the most important skill set. Remember the great Mike Leach.
I loved Mike Leach. He died not that long ago,
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and he always said, the most important thing is accuracy.
Everything else you can figure out. You don't have to
have the cannon for the arm. People get all horny
for the cannon for the arm. But she got to
have accuracy. That's the most important skill and Rivers has
usually had that. And anticipation, which is another way of
saying reading defenses, knowing when to get rid of the
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ball so you don't get killed. It's not about arm strength.
And a lot of people don't like to hear that
because they get all excited at the NFL draft because
this guy throws the ball really amazingly and then he's
not accurate and all that. And Rivers during the regular
season has been fine. He's never been a good big
game quarterback. And so in terms of putting the bow
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on this any conclusions from the tape, the conclusion I
have is simple, he is who he's always been. He's
who he thought he was. And the Colts know exactly
that type of play he played for them at the
end before he retired and then came back, and so
they know what they're getting now. If Seattle ends up
jumping out to a two touchdown lead early, this can
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get really bad. And it's gonna get Uga lead with
a Capitol you all right, final point to Philadelphia we
go and fresh off that turnover debacle in the hood
in Inglewood and up to no good game. I was
at the Charger Eagle Monday night game. I was an
eyewitness there. The Eagles got back to the Delaware Valley
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and much to the surprise of Fry Daddy and Jonathan
in Delaware, the Eagles have said we no longer are
in the rabbit business. Rabbit rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Yep, they
said bye bye to the positivity rabbit. You remember we
talked about this last week. In an effort to help
team morale, the Eagles did whatevery grown up would do.
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They brought in an inflatable rabbit. They put the rabbit
on waivers. Now the inflatable Easter Bunny has been cut fired,
sent to the waiver wire. Whatever you want to say,
given the pink slip, etc. Et cetera, et cetera. So
the question, here's the question, the Eagles removing the positivity rabbit,
(32:05):
rabbit rabbit from the locker room. Give me your reaction,
because this is the kind of stuff you need on
your sports talk radio, right, this is the kind of
stuff this Only in Philadelphia could an inflatable rabbit become
part of the Eagles crisis management strategy that aj Brown
has messed that group up so much and lately Jalen
(32:28):
hurts that they have now gone to inflatables speak absurdity,
and fresh off the turnover debacle in La where they
literally got rid of the ball. They tried to get
rid of it like it was a live hand grenade,
the Birds have determined that that Easter bunny in the
locker room was not a positivity rabbit. It was a
(32:49):
bad bunny and they don't want bad bunny. And that's it.
Get out of here, see you later. So let's call
this what it was and what it is it is
a wingbata saw wingbata swinging a miss with city. You
don't mess with the holiday calendar, and that's one of
the problems here. Everything happens. Rat a tat tat, Rat
(33:13):
a tat tat, And they messed with the holiday calendar.
And when you mess with the holiday calendar, you get
the record setting turnover performance, meaning you rolled out the
Easter Bunny in December, and you're asking for a cosmic
penalty flag, as Andrea the Astrology Insider would say, and
(33:34):
they got a cosmic penalty flag, they being the Philadelihagles.
And sure enough the giveaway squad of Philly handing out
possessions like promotional T shirts at a birthday party for
like the Philly Fanatic and Jalen Hurts. I saw it
made NFL history with an interception and fumble on the
(33:55):
same play. And there's two plays now that I've seen
in my life as a witness that will likely not
happen again, at least in my lifetime. I was at
a Cardinal Dodger game, a little humble brag here way
back in the steroid boom times, and the Cardinals had
this guy for Nando Tatisse, who was either really gifted
(34:18):
athletically or I don't know, maybe he might have been
on something. I'm sure he would never do anything like that,
but this guy hit two Grand slams in the same inning.
It was. It was insane. It was absolute ridiculous against
the against the Dodgers. But and so now Jalen hurts
the fumble, well, the interception then the fumble and all
(34:39):
that stuff. But it's listen, it's not That was not quarterbacking.
That was like riding shotgun on the vomit comet is
what that was. And that's what happened. And the inflatable
rabbit never had a chance, and it was it was
it was jinxd with a with a pump to blow
it up with air and all that. And so I say,
forget balloons. The Eagles are in such a bad spot.
(35:00):
They're Mojoe's so messed up there in Philly that they
need an emotional support animal. Now I recommend Fats in Philadelphia,
but I understand he's got a family and he's not available,
So they can't hire Fats as an emotional sport animal.
How about a miniature horse, a horse, of course? How
about that right, because right now they're playing like road apples. Yeah,
(35:21):
they can get a horse in there. They're like they
drop road apples all over the fifty yard line. So
bring in the horse. Of course, of course, of course.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
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It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
To the third degree, this is one Big Ben gets.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Grill cool Ben.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
The Steelers have to win two more games this season
to break an NFL record and have twenty two consecutive
seasons above five hundred.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Do you think it's a lock bend.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Based on the schedule, Yes, obviously injuries changed that. But
the Dolph they play the Dolphins. I believe Monday night
we got the Browns also and they played the Ravens.
They also played Detroit. They'll lose that game, but there's
three winnable games. They'll win two of those. They win
the Browns game and I don't already lost to them,
and they'll beat the Dolphins, so they'll get that number,
even with Aaron Rodgers having issues.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Next, the Lakers are seventeen and seven, and there are
a couple games out of second place Aaron game out.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Of second place in the Western Conference.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
However, in a recent podcast appearance, Lebron's agent Rich Paul said, quote,
I personally don't think the Lakers are good enough to
be contenders? Not right now? And what do you think
that's about?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Uh, he wants to be fired by Lebron or he's
trying to downplay. Yeah, the Lakers have issue. I mean,
they're not a great interior defensive team. It's little stuff
like it depends on matchups in the playoffs. They're not
a great perimeter defensive team. They also turn the ball
over a lot, so I mean there are It's like
minor stuff, but it's the kind of stuff that will
have you lose a playoff series. So and I did
(36:57):
actually watch some of that Spurs game and they got
their ask get every time twenty most of the second
and Wendy was on the bench. That was not good. Next.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Oh, the Orlando Magic have won eleven of their last
fifteen games and have seven players averaging double digit scoring.
But do you think they've established themselves as legit contenders?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Well, I love Desmond Man. He didn't play well early
this year is still early, but he's played well lately.
And there they are. I'd say there's a threat. There's
no one that's unbeatable or invincible in the East. They
are a top five defensive team so far and they're
a physical team. Yeah, they look like a good bet
in the pluffs. How do we do pass this edition day?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
They've put it on the board.
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Speaker 1 (38:22):
Hi, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
He says, it's the two part question.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
But that's kind of cheating, so I'm only gonna it's
not really two part question, Mike, And those are two
different questions, so I'm only gonna read one of them.
He wants to know can you snap your fingers?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Let me let me try. I used to be able to.
I don't think I can anymore. I used to be
able to. I can move my ears, I wiggle my ears,
but I can't. I don't think I could set my
fingers in. I just tried. I couldn't do it. What
about you, Lorena? There you go.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
I know she can. She snaps at me all the time.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Do you believe the urban legend that that will lead
to arthritis when you're an old woman?
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Believe that's that's cracking your knuckles, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Or the same thing right knuckles? Snapping your fingers making tortillas?
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Can you do it? Do you believe Coop that if
you watch porn you'll go blind? Do you believe that? Also?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
No, okay is pretty bad. Yes?
Speaker 4 (39:26):
I can snap my fingers all right.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I guess I'm the only one that can. I'm a loser.
I'm a loser. Ferg Dog high Fergie. I've not met him,
but I kind of like the guy. He seemed like
a nice guy.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
I think he kind of likes you too. That's good
for him. Uh. He wants to know. Are you a
fan of karaoke?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
I've done karaoke a few times. One of my buddies,
my old oldest friends. I know is a huge karaoke fan.
I don't love it.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
It's okay, a.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
I gotta have a lot to drink to really get
into it. I guess that's for everybody. What about you, Lorena,
I like watching other people do karaoke more more than
me doing it.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
I've only done it at the Mallard meet and greets
that we've done.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
So okay, Well we'll see. What about you, Cooble Loop.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Uh yeah, I'm kind of with Loraina.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
I'm not a fan of doing karaoke myself, but I
will sit there and watch other people do karaoke.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
That's like Big Balls Bob.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
That's enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yes, the great Big Balls Bob in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
I wouldn't even do it at the mallor meet and Green.
I was, you know, props to Loraina for getting up
there and doing that.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
People try to get me to do it too, and
I said, I'm not doing it. I'm not getting up there.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
He forced coerced you.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Yeah, well we were not see peer pressure got here.
We did not fall the peer pressure. We did not.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
What is next year? What have It's? Asked Ben and
your questions are answers. If you like this, we do
it every week at about this time. If you don't
like it, we only do it once a week. So
chill out. What's wrong with you? Don't be a loser.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
This one should be interesting. I don't know if I
can think of one for me, but we'll ask the
question anyway. Maybe you guys don't know donkey sausage. He
would like donkey, he would like you know. What's the
strangest rumor that you've ever heard about yourself?
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Well, I mean there's a lot of stuff on the
internet which is not true about me being a multi millionaire.
And I mean there's there's a lot of stuff like
that which I always laugh at. I wish that was true.
What's the craziest I don't know. Years ago there were
rumors I was going to get some like big jobs.
(41:35):
I never was even up for that. I thought, was
was it amusing? I mean nothing other than that kind
of stuff, what about you, Larreta?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
I think the biggest one is that I was just
going to end up with seven children, not six.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
In high school you were most likely to have seven children. Really, okay,
I wonder how that started. I can't imagine what the
what tells that about my?
Speaker 4 (42:01):
God stopped till one people stopped?
Speaker 3 (42:03):
There?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
You go one and done. That's it, one and done
like a college basketball player. What about you, Coop? One
hit wonder. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
I can't really think of strange rumors that I've heard
about myself.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Okay, I got you.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
No one ever said you were in a porno or something. No,
I mean remember.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Remember the tabloids that did a story about you but
they used the wrong photo. Yeah, the London tabloids. That
was pretty fun.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Yeah, and they used like a like a a Canadian
Football League player or something like that.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Here's Coop, he's ready to play linebacker for the Edmonton
Eskimo or whatever called now.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah, and there are other things like, uh, you know,
your typical child actor rumors like oh he was he's
a jouggy now living in a crackhouse like stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
But you never went you never went full Goldberg from
the Mighty Ducks.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
You didn't go to no, no, no, no, to all right,
just the what's next?
Speaker 1 (43:03):
What do you go?
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Let's see I had one in front of my screen. Oh,
here we go. Freddy wants to know.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Freddy, what is the worst Christmas gift that you have
ever received.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
We'll be honey, But I don't, you know. I usually,
you know, when you're still young and you don't want
clothes and you get clothes like that kind of stuff, like,
I don't think it's terrible. I usually block out the
basket of what about quickly, Loraino, what about you?
Speaker 4 (43:27):
Worst gift is no gift. Oh yeah, it's a good point,
no gift.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
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Hour podcast they do on the weekends, and there was like,
you know you do a talk show. Oh you do
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so boring. And there are days like this when I
walk into the radio station and into the studio here
and I'm like, well that's not boring. And our lead
this hour from Ann Arbor, Michigan, now I gotta tell you,
I don't know. And every day you wake up, you
have no idea, Like when you do a show like this,
what you're gonna be talking about. You imagine, you know,
(02:50):
probably some NFL story, or somebody will say something stupid
in basketball or baseball or something like that. I did
not have this on my bingo card as I woke
from my hibernation, a very brief hibernation. Did not did
not anticipate that we would be talking college football, certainly
not about Michigan. I look at the college football playoff
(03:12):
and I don't see the Wolverines in there at all.
But everyone is talking about what has happened here and
Ann Arbor. So if you somehow have been out of
the loop, you're not in the loop. Loop Boy, have
you missed out? My god? Oh man, I need to
take a shower. I need to take a shower. If
you didn't see this, perhaps not so. Michigan has said
(03:36):
bye bye. They have said get out of here. Sharon Moore,
the head coach shockingly fired by school in Michigan. They
said get out of here. And people were confused initially,
like what is this about? We don't understand. Then the
(03:57):
details started to drip out, and you realize that it
was for cause, which means Sharon mooreris cooked and second
full season at the Helm there for the World Rings
and that's it. Termination the result of an inappropriate relationship
(04:17):
between Moore and a staff member who, according to the Internet,
he was stooping. Following a university investigation, they claimed they
had credible evidence, apparently a whole lot of it, that
found that Coach Moore engaged in what we call because
we're on the radio and we're all we're all kids,
making whoopee with a staff member. How about that going
(04:40):
to poundtown. So this conduct constituted a clear violation of
the university policy and blah blah blah, the lawyers got involved.
We have zero tolerance for such behavior. Now more was
detained actually by the cops in a suburb of ann Arbor,
a corner to Internet reports, he let's just say, he
(05:02):
kind of went off the edge there and threatened himself and,
according to Internet reports, threatened the I guess we'll call
her the side check at her house there. And so
he's been popped on an alleged assault charge. Yeah, so
you think you had a bad day, I would say
this would be this would be a worse day. Moore
(05:24):
had a buyout of around fourteen million dollars. But wait,
there's more so about fourteen million dollars. So because he
was fired for cause, and from what I've been hearing
from people I've been texting, there's a lot of digital evidence,
Michigan is likely not going to have to pay hardly
(05:44):
any of that. That's it. So he woke up, think
about this, he woke up as the Michigan football coach.
He ended the day in police custody and lost fourteen
million dollars. Okay, that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question, can you unpack your many
(06:07):
thoughts on the downfall of Sharon Moore? We barely knew
you as the Michigan football coach, So my thoughts on this,
I've got Timeshare, Dua, Lipa and lobster roll, and we
will combine all of these things together. And may I
recommend Sharon Moore go to Express Pros. They'll help you out.
They're not currently this week in advertisement, but they will
(06:29):
be back, and so go to Express Pros. Put your
resume up there maybe and get a job somewhere. All right,
So a let's dive headfirst into the amazing blue melo drama.
You know, I'm all about the melodrama. So this day
it felt to me similar to the day when the
Manti teow scandal came out. If you remember, if you're
old enough to remember that, it was a it was
(06:49):
a football player, good college player, bad NFL player, bad commentator.
But Manti Teyoo with the day the scandal broke about
his fake dead girlfriend is like you couldn't click fresh
fast enough on the socials because there was something new
every two minutes. It was wild. Except we think in
the difference the juxtaposition between Sharon Moore and Mantaitos, we
(07:12):
think all of these people are real people. We believe
all of these people are real people. Now, Sharon Moore
did not just torpedo his Michigan career. He lit the
fuse and he poured gasoline on top of it and
then stood there and warmed his hands. He rubbed his
hands together, is what he did. This was an infomercial
(07:34):
like twist. You think you're buying the blender. You saw
the infomercial. You called the toll free number for the blender,
so you want the blender, and it turns out that
you didn't get the blender. You actually called the wrong
number and you called the infomercial. You bought the other thing.
You bought a timeshare in Disasterville, and that is where
Charon Moore bought a timeshare Disasterville. The self inflicted. Be
(07:58):
very clear about this. It's self inflicted and plosion worthy
of a late night syndication block. We got to bring
back the old school hits from years ago. I'm talking
Jerry Springer, like Chaos, Maury Povich Fallout, will throw Judge
Judy's attitude in there as well and roll them all
into a nice cast role. But we'll put the Wolverines
(08:20):
logo on top of the cast role. Okay, so you've
got what do you got? You got shock value reports
that the side chick had a baby that was eliminated
paternity test. You've got the cheating scandal, You've got family feud,
You've got some bizarre life choices that were being made here.
(08:43):
And also much like those great classic shows of the
early two thousands in the nineties, like Jerry Springer, which
I think ended like ten years ago, but it was
on for most of this the last twenty years and
you have audience participation. Now, on those shows, you had
ooo and cheering, and you know, sometimes they joined the
(09:04):
cast on this. We just had social media. We're all
rubbernecking and keeping an eye on this. The moment those
first messages buzzed on my phone, Hey you see this, mallor.
I knew. I knew this was going to be something
more than just some polite hr situation. This was hide
the kids, grab the popcorn, big movie theater, bucket of popcorn,
(09:27):
extra butter, extra butter. A romantic I don't know if
romance is really the right word, but a very enjoyable relationship,
I guess for at least one of the people, maybe both,
I don't know. With what appears to be based on
photographs that you all found on the internet. You internet
investigators of the woman a crevacous staffer at the University
(09:48):
of Michigan. Based on the Internet investigation, she got this
is so great, so the alley. Again, this is all alleged.
It's alleged exactly. The allegation is that the young lady,
she was just a low level staffer at Michigan and
(10:09):
then about the time she started doing some gymnastics with
the head football coach. He got a fifty five percent raise,
which I think, I think is in the hush money playbook.
I don't know, I have to go read the hush
money playbook, but I believe it is. But wait, there's more.
(10:31):
So she got a fifty five percent raise, I guess
she was really good at her job. And you had
donors bolting like they heard the fire alarm, the boosters
at Michigan because this started making the rounds in back channels,
and the whole thing was masterpiece of mayhem, is what
it was. So Sharon Moore, the now former head football
(10:53):
coach at Michigan, he didn't just fumble the bag. He
dumped fourteen million dollars buyout money off a bridge. And
the second you hear four cause and that enters the chat,
you're porked. Yeah, And well, I guess he got porked
in more ways than one. But Michigan gets to take
(11:14):
part in the executive level ghosting. And so this story
is a couple of conflicting timelines. The one that I've
been hearing a lot here as I've been keeping track
of this is that this started about a month ago,
about a month ago and mid November, and insiders felt
(11:35):
that the walls were vibrating in ann Arbor. There were
people whispering, Assistant coaches were worried they were going to
lose their job. And in the end, Sharon Moore did
not really lose his job. He gift wrapped it, placed
it on the curb and yelled, bulk trash, pick up.
Come on, pick this peece wow, I mean my good
(12:00):
it out. Continuing the theme of the hour all right question.
Some are saying that the stank from the Charon More
scandal will put a fog over the Michigan football program
that will last for years. It's kind of like, unfortunately
the water in Flint, Michigan. It's been fed up for
a long time. So where do you fall on this one?
(12:24):
So there's no question the Charon Moore scandal palooza, as
we're calling it, is a hum dinger of a story.
It is just amazing from all angles. We are merely
rubbernecking here, and we're only in the opening credits on
the drama Arama. This is only the opening credits here,
(12:45):
and then in the scandal Malard Power rankings one to ten.
This is about a twelve. It's about a twelve right.
This is a gourmet serving of tabloid fodder, is what
this is. Now. The Naked City never sleeps, and neither
do we, and right now it is feasting time. Feeding
(13:08):
frenzy is going on where every morsel of this story
is being nibbled on, not on, devoured. It's like a
delicious three layer chocolate cake, is what it is. And
it's barbarian cruelty. I cannot wait till twenty twenty seven.
Can you imagine the Netflix docu series on trharn Moore's
(13:31):
downfall at Michigan Hole League? Crap on a cracker man?
Is that gonna be good? It's good TV. That'll be great, So,
I you know, Netflix, it can't make it yet because
the story's going on right now. But that's gonna be
some kind of a docu series. Now, that's it. I'm
gonna step back a couple of steps here to quote
the great William Shakespeare, because all great sports talk radio
(13:52):
needs to quote William Shakespeare. The Buck Guys fan doff
protest too much, methinks because a lot of the dog
pile is from Ohio state. Phase I get it. I
understand you guys arrivals, and you have your fun shot
in Freud and all that. But let's not act like
this is Macbeth at the Big House. Because I've done
(14:12):
some malor math on this. I've crunched the numbers. And
if Sharon Moore had one more, all right, if he
had won more at Michigan, we wouldn't know about any
of this. This would have gone away faster than a snapchat.
It just would have been gone. And when performance dips
the algebra. When performance dips, morality suddenly matters. When performance
(14:36):
is great, you look the other way on morality. You
would have gotten this young lady a nice island somewhere
in the Bahamas or wherever, and go live a nice life.
We'll pay a couple hundred thousand dollars a year because
we've got a great football coach. If Michigan, I'll give you.
If Michigan was playing, I can't believe I'm saying this
playing as the Indiana Hoosiers are this year, or heaven forbid,
(14:57):
their blood rival Ohio State also preparing for with the
college football playoff. This would have been a dua lipa special.
Boys will be boys right covered up like you know,
it's kind of covering it up from going from a
bikini and then you're on the beach and you go
from wearing a bikini to a move. Move. Well, you've
covered up a lot of real estate with the moon
(15:18):
move right, And so if you're good, you put the
moon MoU on, you cover it up. If not, it's
the bikini and all that effect. It's actually a nude beach.
So instead, Sharon Moore was seventeen and eight, which is
not terrible, but it's not great in the last couple
of years, and Michigan failed to reach the college football
Playoff under his tutelage. So long term, I maintained this
is a mosquito bite in the nil era where the
(15:42):
kids and the coaches are pig skin mercenaries, money talks
and loyalty walks. So Michigan will be just fine. They'll
hire a pretty good coach and they've got a lot
of money to play with. Now, speaking of that, the
last word here the business at so question where does
(16:03):
Michigan turn The coaching carousels pretty much ended. Lane Kiffin
was the big one and he left Ole miss to
go to LSU, and that was like the last big
whale that was out. So where does Michigan turn as
it's next full time football coach? So this is where
(16:25):
you start sniffing that pungent coaching carousel aroma. It's like
someone left a lobster roll that's been sitting out in
the sun during the summer for a couple of weeks
and it just starts nasty. This always comes back to
the B word boosters. Right, they're the back They're in
the back alleys right now. I imagine, at least in my head,
(16:47):
they're wearing trench coach and they're whispering, hey, how much
would it take for you to coach Michigan? Right, they're
looking to pilfer their next savior and spoiler alert, I'm
gonna go out of limb say he ain't gonna be
a Michigan man. And they're not gonna go with the
Michigan man. Now, the mythology is that you're you're getting
that that Michigan aura and all that, and you have
(17:11):
to find someone with some kind of connection. I say,
hit the pause button on that, and so on your march,
get set and go. Let the poaching games begin. The
poaching games again. It is a musical chairs game on
jet fuel, and again Michigan is way behind the curve here,
way behind, and everyone else already grabbed their guy. All right,
(17:36):
So regardless the brand I believe still plays, am I old, Yeah,
you're old. Michigan doesn't matter anymore. They've just won the
championship a couple years ago with hardball. I still put
them there, and that the blue blood in college football.
They're one of the top five in college football all time.
It's Broadway, it's the Coliseum, it's all that stuff, and
so they can swing for the fences. Now what we're
(17:57):
hearing here, The hot name in the echo chamber is
Kaylan de Boor, which would then lead to a trickle
down effect because we know the Alabama fan base is
not smitten with Klen de Boor. The problem is they're
in the playoffs. There is a world where Alabama wins
the national championship in college football. There's also a world
where they get knocked out in their first opportunity. And
(18:19):
if that happens that we'll speed up the process. It
will expedite the process. But it doesn't seem like the
Boor's beloved in Alabama, and they've been grumbling about him,
and so they got smoked by Georgia in the SEC
Championship game. The boar does have Midwest blood. He's a
Midwestern lad, and he's had success pretty much everywhere. He's been,
(18:45):
just not up to the standard of Nick Saban at Alabama,
and he checks just about every box at Michigan, although
I don't think he knows the fight song. I don't
think he knows the fight song, and that's a bit
of a problem. But the other options. If you want
someone who's currently not working, you got Brian Kelly, who
(19:09):
is there a Michigan accent he can learn. He underwhelmed
at LSU. I'm sure there'll be some John Gruden rumors
that's not happening, But again, listen, the Naked City never sleeps,
and neither do do we, and buckle up. If anything
happens here in the overnight, we'll let you know. The
carousel is spinning round and round and round and round
and round. It's a tilta whirl in a windstorm. This
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Michigan store, it's quite the tail.
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moments that we have ahead of us right now we
head to Indianapolis. I don know who's your bill. Very
excited that the Colts are getting a lot of attention.
So the story of the week continues to be that
the grandpa left his grandson and left the loyal Order
of the Moose Lodge to return to the league. And
(22:42):
Philip Rivers had his first dance with the media on Wednesday.
The Beat reporters who cover the Indianapolis Colts. I don't
know if you heard any of what he had to say.
Perhaps you did not, But Philip Rivers said the money
quote here as he said, he is not the behavior
or a hero. He said, quote. I'm not here to
(23:04):
save the year or to be the hero by any means,
he claimed. At his news conference, he said, we we
got to stink and run the crap out of the
football and play defense, he said. He also acknowledged the
legitimate possibility of injury and says, you essentially said you
(23:25):
don't know until you do it whether or not that's
going to happen. So whether you can do it, that
is a good jumping all points. So I'll let us
discuss the question Philip Rivers will work off the money
quote the question Philip Rivers says he didn't join the
Colts to save the year or to be their hero.
Is that how this works? So I've got terry toons,
(23:47):
finesse and penalty flag, and we'll put all of these
things together. We're gonna play Connect three is what we're
gonna do. So number number all right. So I am
shaking my head. Stop, I'm shaking my head. No, my
eyes are closed. I'm shaking my head. No, rapidly, rapidly, rapidly, rapidly. No.
(24:11):
All right, so uh stop it, all right. Message to
Philip Rivers from the overnight. That is exactly why you
are in Indianapolis, all right. That is exactly why, Philip Rivers,
you are wearing a Colt uniform. They did not wake
up one morning and say, you know what, we need
(24:31):
a forty four year old game manager who is not
going to be our our hero. Come on, Daniel Jones,
who was going the wrong direction. Let's be honest here
he was not playing that well. He then went snap,
crackle pop. The season's wobbling like a three legged table
at a diner at a bistro. And the Colts, what
(24:53):
do they do? Who are you gonna call? They called
the Grandpaul Emergency line, and they called the Grandpa Emergency hotline.
They wanted the old gun slinger riding in with his
bolo tie glistening, ready to play firefighter. Put out the
fire firefighter, all right, I will fine whatever, and don't
tell me that he's not there to save anything. Come on,
(25:15):
if they wanted just a warm body, they did pick
up Brett Rippon, who is just a warm body. They
could have gotten anyone to play quarterback who would have
been as cam Ward would say, ass And the Colts
what they are banking on and what they're counting on
with Philip Rivers is terrytoons. Rivers is the iconic cartoon
(25:37):
character Mighty Mouse, whether he likes it or not, Here
I come to save the day. It's mighty Mouse. How
come all the cartoon characters in the early days were
all like Mickey Mouse, Mighty Mouse? What's up with that? Anyway?
That is the assignment that is the assignment for Philip Rivers,
and the quotes, and we gave you some of them.
(25:58):
The quotes are just philip Rivers trying to downplay the expectation,
soften the landing, lower the bar. Either way, Indy, they
need more than just the training wheels if this is
gonna work. They go into Seattle hostile situation. All Seattle's
not that great at home, and you got Sam Darnold,
(26:20):
who's a walking mistake, as no stradinas knows. And so
the Colts, though, they're banking on that this guy is
going to be someone not just another guy. He's gonna
be someone who can transform that harmless goldfish offense and
turn that into an offense that's as fearsome as a
(26:40):
barracouter and as leathles as an a giant anaconda. That's
what they're banking on now, page two. So with the
Colts going into full Grandpa mode as they are, there's
some video clips of Philip Rivers practicing. And I don't
know if you've seen this. I don't think Stevie Meetball
seen in or Ink of Terror or Blind Scot, but
(27:02):
there's video clips of Rivers practicing with Indy and they've
gone viral, and many people are saying, well, he looked terrible.
Look like he hasn't hasn't missed a meal and the
throws were not that great. So the question are you
drawing any kind of conclusions from the grainy philip rivers
(27:23):
practice tape? Are there any conclusions that you are drawing?
So we find this to be hilarious, like people are
losing their collective minds over what I saw was kind
of grainy. I don't know if it was really Bigfoot quality,
(27:44):
Bigfoot quality philip rivers practice tape shot on what appears
to be like an O three Nokia flip phone. Like
everybody grab a brown paper bag. There is no need
to hyperventilate. You do not need to hyperventilate. The critics
are shouting, there's no velocity, he's got no zip on
(28:04):
the throws, and that one throw looks like it took
five business days to get to the receiver and all that.
But spoiler alert, philip rivers. This has not been talked
about it at all. Nobody else has this take. I'm
the only one. It's an original take. He's a grandpa
and he's forty four years old. By NFL standards. Philip
Rivers is the epitome of a museum exhibit. It's a
(28:28):
traveling museum exhibit wearing cleats. Now regardless, here's the plot
twist in the Malor movie, because we make movies here
the Malor movie. Rivers, based on the clip that I saw,
looks almost identical to the way he looked when he
last played in the NFL. He is a right handed craftsman.
(28:49):
He never even in his salad days with the old
San Diego Chargers, he never threw the heater. Never. He
made a career out of being a finesse pitcher, beguiling
defenses right, mixing the change up with the slider and
the loopy, loopy, loopy breaking ball that defy physics and
the ball flutters and it wobbles and all that, and
(29:10):
it doesn't look like it should work. And think of
it more along lines of two a tongue of eye looa,
although more success like an upgrade. I don't know if
he's got fewer dance and played in a few years,
so he's likely in good condition there and that kind
of funky shot put delivery and it's still there. It
(29:32):
was effective, Will it be effective? Still we'll find out
the real superpower. The real superpower of Philip Rivers has
always been the A and a game, anticipation and accuracy
and the most important skill set. Remember the great Mike Leach.
I loved Mike Leach. He died not that long ago,
(29:53):
and he always said, the most important thing is accuracy.
Everything else you can figure out. You don't have to
have the cannon for the arm. People get all horny
for the cannon for the arm. But she got to
have accuracy. That's the most important skill and Rivers has
usually had that. And anticipation, which is another way of
saying reading defenses, knowing when to get rid of the
(30:14):
ball so you don't get killed. It's not about arm strength.
And a lot of people don't like to hear that
because they get all excited at the NFL draft because
this guy throws the ball really amazingly and then he's
not accurate and all that. And Rivers during the regular
season has been fine. He's never been a good big
game quarterback. And so in terms of putting the bow
(30:36):
on this any conclusions from the tape, the conclusion I
have is simple, he is who he's always been. He's
who he thought he was. And the Colts know exactly
that type of play he played for them at the
end before he retired and then came back, and so
they know what they're getting now. If Seattle ends up
jumping out to a two touchdown lead early, this can
(30:58):
get really bad. And it's gonna get Uga lead with
a Capitol you all right, final point to Philadelphia we
go and fresh off that turnover debacle in the hood
in Inglewood and up to no good game. I was
at the Charger Eagle Monday night game. I was an
eyewitness there. The Eagles got back to the Delaware Valley
(31:21):
and much to the surprise of Fry Daddy and Jonathan
in Delaware, the Eagles have said we no longer are
in the rabbit business. Rabbit rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Yep, they
said bye bye to the positivity rabbit. You remember we
talked about this last week. In an effort to help
team morale, the Eagles did whatevery grown up would do.
(31:44):
They brought in an inflatable rabbit. They put the rabbit
on waivers. Now the inflatable Easter Bunny has been cut fired,
sent to the waiver wire. Whatever you want to say,
given the pink slip, etc. Et cetera, et cetera. So
the question, here's the question, the Eagles removing the positivity rabbit,
(32:05):
rabbit rabbit from the locker room. Give me your reaction,
because this is the kind of stuff you need on
your sports talk radio, right, this is the kind of
stuff this Only in Philadelphia could an inflatable rabbit become
part of the Eagles crisis management strategy that aj Brown
has messed that group up so much and lately Jalen
(32:28):
hurts that they have now gone to inflatables speak absurdity,
and fresh off the turnover debacle in La where they
literally got rid of the ball. They tried to get
rid of it like it was a live hand grenade,
the Birds have determined that that Easter bunny in the
locker room was not a positivity rabbit. It was a
(32:49):
bad bunny and they don't want bad bunny. And that's it.
Get out of here, see you later. So let's call
this what it was and what it is it is
a wingbata saw wingbata swinging a miss with city. You
don't mess with the holiday calendar, and that's one of
the problems here. Everything happens. Rat a tat tat, Rat
(33:13):
a tat tat, And they messed with the holiday calendar.
And when you mess with the holiday calendar, you get
the record setting turnover performance, meaning you rolled out the
Easter Bunny in December, and you're asking for a cosmic
penalty flag, as Andrea the Astrology Insider would say, and
(33:34):
they got a cosmic penalty flag, they being the Philadelihagles.
And sure enough the giveaway squad of Philly handing out
possessions like promotional T shirts at a birthday party for
like the Philly Fanatic and Jalen Hurts. I saw it
made NFL history with an interception and fumble on the
(33:55):
same play. And there's two plays now that I've seen
in my life as a witness that will likely not
happen again, at least in my lifetime. I was at
a Cardinal Dodger game, a little humble brag here way
back in the steroid boom times, and the Cardinals had
this guy for Nando Tatisse, who was either really gifted
(34:18):
athletically or I don't know, maybe he might have been
on something. I'm sure he would never do anything like that,
but this guy hit two Grand slams in the same inning.
It was. It was insane. It was absolute ridiculous against
the against the Dodgers. But and so now Jalen hurts
the fumble, well, the interception then the fumble and all
(34:39):
that stuff. But it's listen, it's not That was not quarterbacking.
That was like riding shotgun on the vomit comet is
what that was. And that's what happened. And the inflatable
rabbit never had a chance, and it was it was
it was jinxd with a with a pump to blow
it up with air and all that. And so I say,
forget balloons. The Eagles are in such a bad spot.
(35:00):
They're Mojoe's so messed up there in Philly that they
need an emotional support animal. Now I recommend Fats in Philadelphia,
but I understand he's got a family and he's not available,
So they can't hire Fats as an emotional sport animal.
How about a miniature horse, a horse, of course? How
about that right, because right now they're playing like road apples. Yeah,
(35:21):
they can get a horse in there. They're like they
drop road apples all over the fifty yard line. So
bring in the horse. Of course, of course, of course.
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Speaker 1 (35:37):
It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
To the third degree, this is one Big Ben gets.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Grill cool Ben.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
The Steelers have to win two more games this season
to break an NFL record and have twenty two consecutive
seasons above five hundred.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Do you think it's a lock bend.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Based on the schedule, Yes, obviously injuries changed that. But
the Dolph they play the Dolphins. I believe Monday night
we got the Browns also and they played the Ravens.
They also played Detroit. They'll lose that game, but there's
three winnable games. They'll win two of those. They win
the Browns game and I don't already lost to them,
and they'll beat the Dolphins, so they'll get that number,
even with Aaron Rodgers having issues.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Next, the Lakers are seventeen and seven, and there are
a couple games out of second place Aaron game out.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Of second place in the Western Conference.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
However, in a recent podcast appearance, Lebron's agent Rich Paul said, quote,
I personally don't think the Lakers are good enough to
be contenders? Not right now? And what do you think
that's about?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Uh, he wants to be fired by Lebron or he's
trying to downplay. Yeah, the Lakers have issue. I mean,
they're not a great interior defensive team. It's little stuff
like it depends on matchups in the playoffs. They're not
a great perimeter defensive team. They also turn the ball
over a lot, so I mean there are It's like
minor stuff, but it's the kind of stuff that will
have you lose a playoff series. So and I did
(36:57):
actually watch some of that Spurs game and they got
their ask get every time twenty most of the second
and Wendy was on the bench. That was not good. Next.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Oh, the Orlando Magic have won eleven of their last
fifteen games and have seven players averaging double digit scoring.
But do you think they've established themselves as legit contenders?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Well, I love Desmond Man. He didn't play well early
this year is still early, but he's played well lately.
And there they are. I'd say there's a threat. There's
no one that's unbeatable or invincible in the East. They
are a top five defensive team so far and they're
a physical team. Yeah, they look like a good bet
in the pluffs. How do we do pass this edition day?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
They've put it on the board.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
I got it done, Johnny Q? And Who's your Bill?
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Ask bat Twitter said us your questions on Twitter now.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
And no way, We're going to ask Ben. Your questions
are answers for the rest of the hour. These are
actual questions by actual listeners to the show. And now
for the reading of the questions that have been submitted
using the hashtag ask Ben the Coop.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
All right, We're gonna ask a question from Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Hi, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
He says, it's the two part question.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
But that's kind of cheating, so I'm only gonna it's
not really two part question, Mike, And those are two
different questions, so I'm only gonna read one of them.
He wants to know can you snap your fingers?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Let me let me try. I used to be able to.
I don't think I can anymore. I used to be
able to. I can move my ears, I wiggle my ears,
but I can't. I don't think I could set my
fingers in. I just tried. I couldn't do it. What
about you, Lorena? There you go.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
I know she can. She snaps at me all the time.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Do you believe the urban legend that that will lead
to arthritis when you're an old woman?
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Believe that's that's cracking your knuckles, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Or the same thing right knuckles? Snapping your fingers making tortillas?
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Can you do it? Do you believe Coop that if
you watch porn you'll go blind? Do you believe that? Also?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
No, okay is pretty bad. Yes?
Speaker 4 (39:26):
I can snap my fingers all right.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I guess I'm the only one that can. I'm a loser.
I'm a loser. Ferg Dog high Fergie. I've not met him,
but I kind of like the guy. He seemed like
a nice guy.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
I think he kind of likes you too. That's good
for him. Uh. He wants to know. Are you a
fan of karaoke?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
I've done karaoke a few times. One of my buddies,
my old oldest friends. I know is a huge karaoke fan.
I don't love it.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
It's okay, a.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
I gotta have a lot to drink to really get
into it. I guess that's for everybody. What about you, Lorena,
I like watching other people do karaoke more more than
me doing it.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
I've only done it at the Mallard meet and greets
that we've done.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
So okay, Well we'll see. What about you, Cooble Loop.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Uh yeah, I'm kind of with Loraina.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
I'm not a fan of doing karaoke myself, but I
will sit there and watch other people do karaoke.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
That's like Big Balls Bob.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
That's enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yes, the great Big Balls Bob in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
I wouldn't even do it at the mallor meet and Green.
I was, you know, props to Loraina for getting up
there and doing that.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
People try to get me to do it too, and
I said, I'm not doing it. I'm not getting up there.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
He forced coerced you.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Yeah, well we were not see peer pressure got here.
We did not fall the peer pressure. We did not.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
What is next year? What have It's? Asked Ben and
your questions are answers. If you like this, we do
it every week at about this time. If you don't
like it, we only do it once a week. So
chill out. What's wrong with you? Don't be a loser.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
This one should be interesting. I don't know if I
can think of one for me, but we'll ask the
question anyway. Maybe you guys don't know donkey sausage. He
would like donkey, he would like you know. What's the
strangest rumor that you've ever heard about yourself?
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Well, I mean there's a lot of stuff on the
internet which is not true about me being a multi millionaire.
And I mean there's there's a lot of stuff like
that which I always laugh at. I wish that was true.
What's the craziest I don't know. Years ago there were
rumors I was going to get some like big jobs.
(41:35):
I never was even up for that. I thought, was
was it amusing? I mean nothing other than that kind
of stuff, what about you, Larreta?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
I think the biggest one is that I was just
going to end up with seven children, not six.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
In high school you were most likely to have seven children. Really, okay,
I wonder how that started. I can't imagine what the
what tells that about my?
Speaker 4 (42:01):
God stopped till one people stopped?
Speaker 3 (42:03):
There?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
You go one and done. That's it, one and done
like a college basketball player. What about you, Coop? One
hit wonder. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
I can't really think of strange rumors that I've heard
about myself.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Okay, I got you.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
No one ever said you were in a porno or something. No,
I mean remember.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Remember the tabloids that did a story about you but
they used the wrong photo. Yeah, the London tabloids. That
was pretty fun.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Yeah, and they used like a like a a Canadian
Football League player or something like that.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Here's Coop, he's ready to play linebacker for the Edmonton
Eskimo or whatever called now.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah, and there are other things like, uh, you know,
your typical child actor rumors like oh he was he's
a jouggy now living in a crackhouse like stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
But you never went you never went full Goldberg from
the Mighty Ducks.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
You didn't go to no, no, no, no, to all right,
just the what's next?
Speaker 1 (43:03):
What do you go?
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Let's see I had one in front of my screen. Oh,
here we go. Freddy wants to know.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Freddy, what is the worst Christmas gift that you have
ever received.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
We'll be honey, But I don't, you know. I usually,
you know, when you're still young and you don't want
clothes and you get clothes like that kind of stuff, like,
I don't think it's terrible. I usually block out the
basket of what about quickly, Loraino, what about you?
Speaker 4 (43:27):
Worst gift is no gift. Oh yeah, it's a good point,
no gift.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
All right, there you go. H
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Brothers Ortiz
The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.