December 16, 2025 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about the Steelers eliminating the Dolphins from playoff contention with a dominating win on MNF, Dak Prescott saying that he is surprised and hurt by where the Cowboys are at this point in the season, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Krysten Ritter Edition, and more!
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So our lead this hour from the confluence where the
Ohio River is born.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Right there, the Manhangahila and the Alleghany form the Ohio
River and the island game. You know, I love my
island games.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I live the island life as Joe Buck and Troy Aikman,
the Fox refugees.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
There had the.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Call on ABC from Western Pennsylvania hanging out there the
Dolphins and Steelers doing some wrangling to close out the
weekend in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Did you watch any of this game? Did this interest
you at all? Wasn't much of a game?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You didn't watch it? What else were you watched?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
There?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Nothing else on? Can't watch that NBA crap? That's terrible,
all right, So maybe you didn't see it, old man
Aered Rogers, as far as we know, not a grandfather
and possibly a husband.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We're not sure about that. The woman to be seen later.
Do do do do Do Do do do, do do
do do?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What's she at the game? She could have been who knows.
Nobody knows if it's really a person anyway. Aaron Rodgers
two hundred and twenty four yards passing and two two
touchdowns and the Steelers they molly wopped the Dolphins twenty
eight to fifteen. They scored not indicative of the deciding outcome.
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The game was over a lot of garbage time in
the fourth quarter there on Monday night. So the Steelers
are maintaining the top spot in the AFC North Pittsburgh
at eight and six. They need one more win to
continue the streak of above five hundred seasons. They also
need one more win if it's the right win, to
end up wrapping up the division. They'll get a home
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game on wild card weekend and for the second straight
game Pittsburgh in the winners circle here and twenty third
straight at home on Monday night football. She has went
twenty three consecutive They brought this up. They had a
lot of garbage time on ABC. They among the filler
they used. They showed Joe buck going into the Baseball
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Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
They did that.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
They kept showing random weird people in the crowd to
fill time. If you made a sign, you got on TV.
There was a lot of filler, a lot of filler here.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
In this game.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But these Steelers ended up overwhelming the once proud Dolphins. Course,
anybody remembers the Dolphins good is old, like you gotta
be an old geezer, like the teams that used to
be good have sucked for a long time. They Dolphins
blow that, Dallas Cowboys are embarrassment, the Raiders. Those teams
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were the staples of the NFL for many, many years.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
But long gone.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
As Ernie Harwell, another long gone broadcaster, would say, like
a house on the side of the road there. So
Miami's they're done. They're They're absolutely out. That's it. They're
out of the playoff picture. There like they were.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Gonna get in. They've been eliminated yet again.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Nana na da goodbye. Not that you ever have a
shot to really make it. A futile effort and you
know we love losers. The Ben Malor Show loves losers.
So let's talk about some losers. Good jumping off point,
let us discuss and the quarterback getting absolutely charboiled here
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do you like Charbroyal Dolphin? Okay, well, the quarterback to
a tongue of I Law getting destroyed. So the question
what stood out or stood down about? To a tongue
of Ilawo's play for the Dolphins. So on this one,
I've got the shining Oscar Meyer and DC comics, and
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we will combine all of these things together and we're
gonna have some Iron City beer. As the Pittsburgh Steelers
they kick the crap out of the Dolphin, they need
to get some Iron City Beer on that flight back
to Miami, which they're on right now.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Hitting this for us. So hey, let's start with this.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The Dolphins walked into Pittsburgh and it was like a
magic tricks, like a more like a science trick than
a magic trick. It's like a science science trick from
like junior high school or it's like, okay, what temperature
do things start freezing over? And then we turned we
found out that dolphins actually they start freezing and they
turned into push pops.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They were teal push pops.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The Dolphins there in the second late in the second
quarter and the third quarter there absolutely gutless the cold weather.
I think these guys, even though you live in Miami
a lot of them are come from the Midwest or
the East Coast, are not all from the West coast
to the south where it's warm most of the time.
And these guys collectively are just a bunch of softies.
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And it's just ridiculous here what happened. Cold weather hits
and Miami goes cold. In fact, they don't even go cold.
They go frozen is what they do here. And this
was again steel team. If you didn't watch the Steelers
all year, you think, boy, that pretty good. I mean,
I understand that is why they are leading the division. No,
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they suck. The Steelers are a bad team. They were
twenty eighth in the you're being mean, Meler, twenty eighth
in the NFL, and defense coming into that game twenty eighth,
and yet Tua it looked like the greatest Hits album
of Steelers defense. I thought I saw Troy Polamalo out there,
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the ghost of Kevin Green, Jack Lambert making tackles the
whole Steel Curtain Reunion tour. Who was playing against the Dolphins, Tua.
They showed him there was one shot and I didn't
jot down. I think it was in the in the
second quarter. I didn't jot down the time. But Tua
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look like Jack Nicholson in The Shining You know that
it's been turned into a meme, but that famous.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Scene, it looked.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Like he was in ice and staring blankly and the
thing of a jig was not working. It was Toua
doing his cosplay of Jack Nicholson from The Shining Year.
And plus the Dolphins defense, they allowed a middling Steelers
offense to have four consecutive touchdown drives Good afternoon, good evening,
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and good night. As the Dolphins decided that tackling was optional,
they quiet quit at halftime.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
We're not sure.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The rumor is that they were just sitting around watching
OnlyFans at halftime and they tossed in the sponge there
when they came out all phases. Now, this also presents
quite the predicament for the Dolphins here. And the Dolphins
predicament is they have an underlying condition. That's the predicament
here and you can remodel the roster and they likely
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will do that. You can get a new coach that
actually knows what he's doing, they'll probably do that as well.
And you can light candles, you can burn sage. It
doesn't really matter because Tua, his underlying condition is he
malfunctions when the weather gets cold. And that's just the
reality of the situation, right, that's it. Under forty degrees,
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he's played eight games, one in seven, and the stat
line on Tua horrific, horrific, and so it's not a trend.
It's I mean, just look at the weather report we
did Benny versus the Penny. At the time we did it,
we didn't anticipate the weather being that nasty on Monday
night in Pittsburgh. Well you know, it wasn't like snowing
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or anything of that, but it was cold. And that's
what you'd expect in.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Mid December cold weather.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And you look around the Dolphins, if they ever got good,
you look around the AFC, and you're gonna have to
play outdoor games. The Patriots are pretty good this year,
so if they continue to be good, they'll have outdoor
home games. The Ravens will likely be there most of
the time, the Steelers, Buffalo. These are all outdoor cold
weather teams, not domes outdoor cold weather teams, and so
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you're gonna have to go into those places and play
unless you just have home field advantage in Tua. Either
that or you can go on TEAMU and find something
to fix the do hickey which keeps freezing over and
going doink when the playoff games. I'm not playoff games,
which is big nighttime games, cold weather games. It just
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doesn't go well. And the total stat bandito from Tua
in this game, we'll have more on that in a minute.
And so the real question though for TUA is there
is a way to get out of Tua's.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Deal and to move on.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Do the guys that own the team and Stephen Ross
is the big one, he's pretty old and Michigan guy
Steven Ross, does he have the machismo to get rid
of Tua? Does he have the machismo? Now turn the
Patriot but not far. The battled Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel
went viral on his post game and he usually goes
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viral here he did go viral yet again. The Dolphins
coach just addressing what happened. This was a one score
game at halftime. The Dolphins actually looked somewhat decent very
early in the game, and then as the game went
on after halftime, the third quarter was a awakening for
the Pittsburgh Steelers and it was nap time for the
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Miami Dolphins, and so that led I believe we have
the right bite. All right, here's Mike McDaniel, and this
is a SoundBite of him postgame trying to explain what
happened to the Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And listen, this is a head coach.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
The leader of a multi billion dollar NFL franchise, trying
to explain what went wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
As hard as we tried, that was a little too
deflating because we knew that was an important area of
focus that were we really wanted to be good coming
out of that third quarter as a one score game,
and you know, I thought that was a gigantic momentum swing.
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You know, had a couple opportunities on that drive and
the following drive to make some plays, and we didn't
make the plays they did.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Okay, can we get that man a tissue? Can we
get him a nice tissue to clean his nose?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Out.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So that's a head coach of an NFL franchise. So question,
can you unscramble the latest gibberish from the Dolphins coach
Mike McDaniel. As you just heard there, we played pretty
much all over it. There were some other bites as
well that we're pretty pretty out there. So I ran
this through the Mallard Dakota ring, and I take this
job very seriously. I don't just come in here in
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half asset. I have a Mallard Dacota ring and I
use the Mallard decoder ring. And the word that kept
popping up the official translation on the Mallard Dakota ring
whack a doodle. That's the word. So and the Decota
ring is never wrong if it says whack a doodle, doodle,
wackadoodle do is what.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It is here.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So this was wasn't some deep philosophical perspective from the
Dolphins coach. He was not doing a deep dive on
the state of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
He was not this.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
In fact, this was standard chow. This is standard chow.
Here's some reheated leftovers from Mike McDaniel. There, half baked,
foggy like he's speaking pig Latin, but only after he
fell off the back of a wagon.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And then he's speaking pig Latin.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And his superpower, I believe everyone's got a superpower hollering.
James superpower is sleeping his blind Scott's superpowers annoying people.
He's really good at that jet who fled. His superpower
is talking so fast you don't understand what he's saying.
And in the case of the Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel,
his superpower is marblemouth. Marblemouth and it sounds like a
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guy when he's talking and saying um and awe, the
um and ahs of the world, it sounds like he's
driving the Oscar Meyer Wiener will be a lot of filler.
Those are filler phrases, um and awe. People at study language,
when you don't know what you're going to say, or
you're pausing to try to buy time to find out
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what you're gonna say next, you say um and awe.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
It's a lot of filler.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
There's from some preservatives in there as well, empty calories.
Just like a nice processed hot dog. Um and awe
are the hot dogs of the spoken word. They are
and here's the thing. A big part, whether you like
it or not, a big part of the job as
head coach of an NFL team or any sports team
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professionally is you are the spokesman of the franchise.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That's your job.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You're the face of it, you're the front man, you're
the Carnival Barker, all of those things mixed together. Instead,
Mike McDaniel keeps rambling like a GPS that lost its satellites,
ignal and foot and mouth disease every time they lose.
Even when they win, we just don't play it when
they when they lose, we play it. And he's tongue tied,
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exasperated and circling the drain verbally on a weekly basis.
If only the Dolphins could play the Jets again, or
play the New Orleans Saints, one of those type teams,
they'd be in good shape.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Thus they are not.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's always the same movie, though with Mike McDaniel. We've
been doing this for a couple of minutes and McDaniel
comes in there and a lot of pauses. It's the
same movie, long pauses, no payoff, and then, just like
the Dolphins often punting on fourth down because they did
not get the line to gain there, and in some
strange odd way, I'm gonna miss this.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I'm gonna miss this.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He's not gonna last as Dolphin coach unless the Dolphins
are a fraud franchise.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Merely are just assuming that they'll get rid of him,
try to hire a.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Real coach, and so McDaniel slide back into the I
some NFL team and that'll be that, and we won't
get these soundbites anymore. He won't be a head coach,
so we'll miss it. He'll go back to OC duty
and some meatthead will come in there and replace him
an orator of the franchise. Now, the last word on
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the Petsburg Steelers side of things, the yinsers. The question,
now that Pittsburgh got a dominating win to get to
eight and six on the year, are you back on
the Pittsburgh Steelers Aaron Rodgers bandwagon or bandwagoneer, as Blair
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and Maine said many many years ago, are you back
on the Steelers Aaron Rodgers bandwagon? Here after this dominating
win over the Miami football team. So I'll go here first,
shake him my head. No, if you can see me
in live real time.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You're a loser.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You can watch on YouTube. I'm shaming my no, so
let's slow down here. Hit the pause button on I'm
gonna hit the pause button on the remote control.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Hit the pause button there. Do not overreact. Do not overreact.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Like you just found five bucks in the back pocket
of your favorite blue jeans. You were watching that you
had you washed them, but you hadn't washed them in
a while, and you found five bucks, and you're like, Wow,
that's probably cool. I don't use use cash. I normally
use a credit card. And just calm down. Calm down,
as Aaron Rodgers would say. Relax, that's what he would say.
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And so did the Steelers look shiny?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah? They did. They look good? They did they look good.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Aaron Rodgers had some vintage throws in this game, had
some zip on a few of those intermediate throws, which
he normally does not throw. Check that box. However, let's
not confuse a as the kids say a heater. Let's
not confuse that with a heat wave. The phrases are different.
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You have a heater and then you have a heat wave.
And Pittsburgh tickling the funny bone.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
For those that are like, oh, man, they're back. I'm giddy.
I'm laughing at all. They're really just.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Ticking up a little bit, just a little bit in
the right direction. I'll grant you that they are headed
that way. I didn't hear any fire Mike Tomlin chance
after that game, as the Steelers have that one game
lead in the AFC Norse, so I didn't hear any
of that. And the defense was crushing skulls for some
of this game. Demolition, derby style football, helmets, flying dolphins,
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playoff dream shattered, all of those things, all of those
things regardless, though this particular game was less about the
Steelers ascending and more about the Dolphins turning into frozen
skid marks on the side of the turnpike there as
they were horrific. They didn't just lose, they got thawed
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and evaporated. They just vanished. And that's it now Rogers again.
He looked good, not great most of the night. The
key phrase, though, he's thirty's forty thirty forty two, and
so we know.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That Father Time is undefeated. I heard that years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Father Time on defeas Even if you bring some crystals
from Andrea in the Bay Area, and you can have
a party, have some crystals. You can also bring the
Farmer's Almanac and a bunch of supplements from Tijuana and
then get together at a darkness retreat and.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Do all of those things. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
My advice to Mike Tomlin is to go to DC
Comics bring in a super villain, mister Freeze. Bring in
mister Freeze here for the playoffs because cold weather Rogers
Magic saw a lot of that in Green Bay, a
lot of those type of games in green Bay. However,
it only works in these short little bursts. There is
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a scenario where the Steelers win division, they play a
home playoff game, and there's a chance they play a
second playoff game in the division round. Could it be
in Buffalo? Maybe two cold weather games. The Bills are
not invincible. There's no one that's invincible in the NFL
this season. And remember, all you need is if tom
that can bring in mister Freezer from DC Comics and
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get that going for the last month. You only need
a month and a half. You need January and half
of February to get the bling, bling, the ring ring,
That's all you have to do. I play well in
January and February if you get in. However, let's be real,
it is much more likely, if you were to look
at the wheel of possibilities, it is much more likely
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that Aaron Rodgers in mid February will be sitting in Austin,
Texas talking about lizard people with Joe Rogan, then getting
ready to play the La Rams in the Super Bowl
in Northern California. It's much more likely that happens. So
let's pump the breaks. Pop the breaks, now, pup the Okay,
they're work. Got that NASCAR old school restrictor plate on
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the Steelers that get the playoffs and they can play
the Dolphins in the playoffs. They're in good shape. I'm
told the Dolphins will not be in the playoffs. That's
what I'm saying.
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Comment away. So our lead this hour not from the
Monday night game, a though some holestill want to yap
about that.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
We are more than welcome to discuss the events that
took place in Pittsburgh as the Steelers went again on
Monday night. But our lead this hour from Dallas, well,
the Greater Dallas area, as the Cowboys debacle continues, all
but eliminated, left for dead on the side of the
road as the Cowboys got smacked around by J. J.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Anyway, Dak Prescott some quotes he made recently making the
rounds and bouncing around the echo chamber.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
They caught my attention on the radar, so I thought
we'd discussed.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
So Dak Prescott said he was more surprised than he
has been in years past at the Cowboys' failures to
get it done here, and he pointed out that the
the way things have gone just stings a little bit
more than some of the recent abject failure Dallas Cowboy
teams the money. Quote from Dak Prescott, he said, quote,
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it's tough. I'm definitely surprised, hurt, pissed off, and frustrated.
But all I can do is get better tomorrow. Tomorrow.
Tomorrow is another day, I said Dak Prescott. I added
that last part. He didn't actually say that last part.
I sang that that was an old song. I sang that,
all right, So.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Let us discuss that is the jumping off point. Let's
discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Dak Prescott says that he's surprised, hurt, pissed off, and
frustrated at where the Cowboys are right now, more so
than in previous years. How is this possible? How is
this possible? So my observations, I've got teleprompter, boiled zucchini,
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and fifty shades, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some Texas
toast delicious when made properly.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well, anything made properly is pretty good, but Texas Toast
is the way to go. So number why.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Number one?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Alright?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
So this is adorable with the capital A. Adorable with
the capital A. It's also fiction. It's just fiction, is
what it is. And so the Cowboys are exactly who
we thought they were. In fact, the Dallas Cowboys of
twenty twenty five have followed the preseason script.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So nobody knows anything. We always hear. The odds makers
are pretty good. They know roughly where teams are going
to be.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
If you look back to the spring, when the odds
came out right around the NFL Draft, the odds on
win totals for the upcoming season. The script for the
Dallas Cowboys said that they would have a tough year.
And they're having a tough year. They're stuck in traffic
on Boondoggle Boulevard and they can't get off Boondoggle Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Now it pays very well.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Boondoggle Boulevard. Hazard lights are blinking, No tro truck is
anywhere around. So this is not betrayal, it's not it's confirmation.
Vegas set the twenty twenty five win total at eight
and a half for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Eight and a half.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
There are three games left. Dallas is hovering around five hundred.
They're right there, and they've got they're rotting meat with flies.
It's got a piece of brisket Texas barbecue brisket laid outside,
and there's flies who are hovering around right now. So
it's not a collapse. It's not the Cowboys are meeting expectations.
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There were very low expectations. They're meeting expectations with a
slight limp. Slight limp. They'd have to win a couple
of these games here to go over the total. More
likely they'll finish half a game under the total. Dak Prescott, though,
let's address the HeLa monster in the room when it
comes to Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott lives in that Derek Jeter,
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Michael Jordan media cocoon.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
He just does.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He's sanded down. When I hear Dak Prescott speak, it's
shrink wrapped media trained to death. It just is every answer.
Have you noticed this? When Dak Prescott speaks, every answer
sounds like it came from the corporate teleprompter.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
It just does.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And I do a show with a guy that loves
the teleprompter, teleprompter Tom we call him Looney Tunes. So
in this case, Dak is always very polished. That's a
word I was polished. He is professional, also utterly lifeless.
Utterly lifeless and a walking sound bite vending machine is
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what it is. Insert question and you will be given
a nice platitude with no attitude. That's a platitude with
no attitude, and it pays pretty well. It pays pretty well.
To be very vanilla. It pays very well. You don't
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upset anyone, You don't say anything any very interesting. He
worked for Jeter, work for Jordan. They were better than
Dak Prescott. However, Dak Prescott in pretty good shape, in
pretty good shape here he has made roughly I'm not
gonna say he embezzled the money. You can say he
embezzled the money. I'm not gonna say that. You can
say he embezzle it. I'm not saying he inbezzled the money.
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Roughly three hundred million dollars Dak Prescott has earned on
the field. He is the Cowboys all time stat compiler,
not their elevator operator. The elevator operator brings people up
to a higher level. They also bring them down to
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a lower level. But for the metaphor in the monologu,
we're gonna say the elevator operator raises people up, take
the elevator to the upper floors, and that's how that works.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
And in big moments, Dak Prescott is nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
He fills the box score a lot of empties, a
lot of empties, capitally empties.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
For Dak Prescott. There's a lot of those. And when
the room gets hot, Dak gets cold. That's what happens.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Seven playoff games in all these years as Cowboy quarterback,
a two to five record, and he will become the
answer to who am I game question? No one has
sucked as long as Dak Prescott has in terms of
wins and losses in the postseason and continued on as
(28:41):
the starting quarterback. Dak Prescott is the gold standard, the
absolute gold standard for that incompetence and one win over
the if you les playoff here two playoff wins, one
win over the rotting carcass of Tom Brady at the
end of his career's final game with Tampa when he
was washed up was against the Cowboys, So Dallas won
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that game. The other game was when I remember this
is we did some stuff after the game. It was
I think a Seattle, so Seattle game, Cowboys and Seahawks playoff.
I believe Russell Wilson was the quarterback for Seattle and
Dak Prescott had very beige.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Numbers. His performance didn't really stand out. They won the game.
So Dak, he's not shocked.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
He's not shocked. He's not He's doing performance art is
what he's doing. It's the Cowboys. The theater is opened
twenty four hours a day. In Jerry's world. It's cowboys, Kobookie.
Theater is what it is, and he's doing it. Never closes,
it's open all night. The snack bar gets some popcorns.
They get some popcorn, they serve alcohol. Knock yourself out now.
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Page two to Indianapolis We Go. Follow up, follow up
to Old Man Rivers follow up. Old Man Rivers started
almost beat the highly overrated Seattle Seahawks. Highly overrated Seattle Seahawks.
So I bring this up because Philip Rivers it was
announced will remain the starting quarterback for your Colts in
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week sixteen Monday Night Football, a week away from Monday
Night Football to matchup as the forty nine Ers and
the Colts, and coach Shane Steichen made the announcement. Now,
some people seem puzzled by this move.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I don't undersna why are they playing Philip Rivers again?
And said the dumb person in the back of the room.
All right, So the question why are people confused? And
I don't know how many people.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
As I've pointed out a thousand times, social media is fake.
It's the matrix. We've seen story after story about just
bought armies attacking celebrities and politicians because it's not real.
It's all just it's all big illusions. I don't know
what's real with not I do know there are people that,
at least some some people that seemed to be bedraggled
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by what's going on. So the question why are people
confused with this decision? For the Colt sticking with Philip Rivers,
this is like that Doors song. People are strange and
apparently allergic to actually paying attention.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I know you got stuff going on. I got it.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So let's review the menu. Here's what the Colts have here.
You're Shane Steichen, you're the chef. You're going into the kitchen.
Here are your ingredients. Your other quarterback options are Riley Leonard,
who's undercooked, Brett Rippon who's overcooked, and maybe Trent Richardson.
There were some whispers he's able to come back now
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dusting off the shoulder pads.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
His claim to fame as an NFL quarterback is quitting.
He took himself out of the game.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
So your options are a guy who's clearly not ready
and may never be ready, Riley Leonard, the old golden domer,
Brett Rippin, who, if only he was good as his relative,
the better ripping. And then you've got Trent Richardson, who's
claim to be famous quitting. Now you know why Philip
Rivers is back in. That is not a depth chart. Okay,
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that is not a depth chart. That is bleak, bleaker
and bleakest is what. That is a quarterback buffet where
everything tastes like boiled zucchini and carrots. If you feel
me on that from the cafeteria, that soggy, unappetizing, disgusting appearance. Yes,
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was Philip Rivers sexy. No, he did not bring sexy back.
Philip Rivers did not bring sexy back.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
He didn't.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
He was brought in to calm the waters. Calm the waters,
drive the speed limit, use your blinker when you change lanes,
all that stuff, keep the car between the lanes, between
the lines in the lanes, that's what you're supposed to do.
So Grandpa Rivers went out there. He didn't show up
(33:02):
in a Ferrari. He is that here, I am, boys,
I got my Ferrari. He showed up in a reliable
Buet with two hundred thousand miles on it and an
engine that still starts every Morning's very reliable.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And that's what that's the car he used. That's it,
and its method over madness. You keep chugging along, Chugglu
chugg with chucclt Chugglu chugg a lagga. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
And as long as the Colts have a playoff pulse,
and they don't have much of one, Jacksonville's legitimize themselves.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
The Texans appear to be very good.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And Indianapolis is in that mix. They're on the outside.
They're on the outside. They're in the mix, but they're
on the outside. So as long as they have a pulse,
Philip Rivers will be under center. And the moment they
are decommissioned, the moment they are sent to the glue factory,
and that's it. And you say Nana la na na
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la da good by when that happens. Philip Rivers is
on the first concord, that smooth supersonic flight out of
wherever the Colts are, and he's headed directly back to
the backwoods. In fact, they won't even land the plane.
They'll drop him in a parachute into the woods, is
what they're gonna do. It's shocking.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I know.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Our final point to Vegas we go during the offseason.
Pete Carroll, good old Pete Carroll. He was very Braggadocia's confident.
He thought his poo poo didn't stink stink, and he
was going to Vegas and the Raiders were gonna return
to glory because he knows how to coach, and everyone
else is the village idiot.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
And Pete Carroll's going to go in there and he's got.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
His little magic hocus pocus abracadabra and watch out, watch out.
So how's that working out?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Well?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
The Raiders just quit on Pete Carroll in Philadelphia gutlass football.
They are two and twelve, two and twelve. They are
worse this year than they were last year. When everyone
told me that they you know, the guy didn't know
what he's doing was coaching the team. So they hired
this proven, savvy veteran with a great resume from Express pros.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Pete Carroll. They got him, and they might as well
have just kept Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Antonio Pierce actually had them playing better football than Pete Carroll.
So Pete was asked about like what's going on, and
he was asked whether or not he's coaching for his job,
whether that is a thing or not, and Pete said, quote, no,
I don't feel like that at all. I really don't,
Pete said at his news conference on Monday. I'm well
(35:36):
beyond that. I don't feel like that. Close quote from
Pete Carroll.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
So the question.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Does Pete Carroll deserve to return as the Raiders coach
in twenty twenty six a topic that we will broach
many times when we get to the silly season of
the NFL. So I found Pete's response.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Charming. I'm gonna use the word charming.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I was around Pete a lot back in the old
days when he was coaching at USC and so I
know all the bull crap that Pete serves up. I
heard it all when he was coaching these amazing teams
with Reggie Bush and Matt Lionert and Mark Sanchez and
all those guys. At SC so I understand all that.
On this one, Pete Carroll, we know what he's having
for breakfast. He's cuckoo for cocoa puffs, is what he is.
(36:27):
Absolutely the Raider season, if you were to do, if
you were to do a NFL film style documentary, you
would title it fifty Shades of puke.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
That would be fifty shades of puke, is what you
would do. That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
It's a rainbow of bad decisions. That's the Raiders and
blown coverages to the right players mailing it into the
left and expired coupon for success from Pete Carroll. Those
coupons have run out right now, so good luck on that.
You are what your record says you are. The Raiders
are a two win team. They suck and when they
(37:10):
don't suck, they blow, and that's it. And they are
right now a floating tire fire. They're a floating tire fire.
There at the burning man out in the Nevada desert,
and our friend, the mouthwashed Mike is walking by looking
at the fire, saying, am I allowed to look at
the fire? Have I been banned from the fire like
(37:31):
I'm banned from Caesar's? And MGM, I don't know. I
don't know now if you didn't watch the Eagles game,
and I only watched part of it, all I needed
to do was watch part of it.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I saw a team quit. I saw it.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
I've been around a couple of times, not my first rodeo,
and you can tell. You can tell when the team
quits on their coach. It's more obvious in the NBA
than it is in football. However, the Raiders made it
clear and it was clear as vodka, clear as vodka.
In that game thirty one nothing out gained by over
(38:03):
three one hundred yards. That tells you that you are
floating on the lazy river that was too cold. You
didn't prepare, You gave up all of those things, all
of those things. That is not a lost. That is
a hasty retreat. Under Pete Carroll, white flag is a flappin'.
The white flag is a flapping. That is a surrender.
It's like a boxing match. You tossed in the sponge.
(38:25):
That team quit, Capitol Q.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
They quit. That's it. That's an unforgivable sin.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
And now the Raiders have a double mess on their
hands because Mark Davis, he likes to spend his money
on PF changs. That's about it, and you got Tom Brady.
How dumb does Mark Davis looked at He's like, okay,
let's let let's let Tom Brady be the de facto
general manager and make all the plays for the football
ops department and decide who the coach and the players are,
(38:52):
and you know all the key people and every decision
tom Brady has made his men a disaster and nobody
wants to talk about it. Conversation people aren't ready to
have and they love Tom Brady and Tom Brady's a
hero and you're not supposed to say it. It's odd though,
because when Michael Jordan was a terrible executive in the NBA,
people had no problem pointing out how terrible Michael Jordan was. Like,
(39:13):
for some reason, Tom Brady is getting an exemption. He
is the GM by proxy of the Raiders. He hand
picked Pete Carroll, he hand picked now Grant. He didn't
want Pete Cary, wanted Ben Johnson, but he took Pete Carroll.
And he didn't want Geno Smith, but he took Geno Smith.
He wanted Matthew Stafford. And what the Raiders ought to
do is a two for one special. Send Pete Carroll
(39:36):
and Geno Smith together put him on a dusty stage coach.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Down the winnemuck A Road and get him out of there.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
This, as the famous quote goes from a late NBA player,
the ship be sinking. In fact, the ship is already
sunk at this point, so you can cue the Tony
Bennett fly me to the Moon because the ra and
Pete Carroll's.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Halfway there anyways, big moon bat.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
He's halfway to the moon at this point, So oh yeah,
you don't have Pete Carroll be the rebuild guy.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Can you see this? Mid seventies and I hope Pete
lives to be one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
But if you look at the comps, p Hee's not
gonna be alive by the time the Raiders are any
good again.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
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Speaker 3 (40:23):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. Squee we go to the third degree. This
is one big Ben gets grilled coolop.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Josh Allen said that the love that the Bills have
for each other fueled their comeback against the Patriots and
that wins like these have them quote battle tested heading
towards the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Ben, Were the Bills written off too early?
Speaker 5 (40:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (40:48):
No, they were not.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Is that like woodstock in the locker room like for
the Bills? Are they all like, you know, hanging out
loving each other?
Speaker 4 (40:54):
You know some over shoulders?
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Yeah, exactly, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
You know, there's a fire. They're singing cool by Eye.
Uh No, if the Bills don't win this year, Mahomes
isn't in the playoffs. Lamar Jackson may not be in
the playoffs, right, Uh you look around. Joe Burrow not
in the player like Josh.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
This is it.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Everything's clear that it's like the parting of the Red Sea.
For Josh Allen. They got to win this year. They
gotta win the AFC this year. They got to be
in the super Bowl, all right next?
Speaker 4 (41:22):
So this has undoubtedly been a down year for the
AFC North, But the two teams still in playoff contention
are both led by former MVPs. You've got the Steelers
and the Ravens. Who do you think would be more
dangerous than the playoffs? Who do you not want to see?
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Well, I don't I don't take the Ravens seriously. Their
defense is not very good.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
And Lamar Jackson, who usually is great in the regular
season and then sucks in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
He's been terrible.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
So the Steelers are actually the team that you don't
want to play. You want to play the Ravens at
this point. You don't want to play the Steelers, which
I'm shocked I'm saying, but that's the reality. Like, Steelers
haven't really played anybody, played the Ravens and the Dolphins,
and they look good in these games. I'd still rather
avoid the Steelers and play the Ravens the way Lamar
is played all year.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Next, the Cleveland Cavaliers are one of the top teams
in the East. Last season, on Sunday, they lost to
the Hornets without LaMelo ball to Falldo mediocre fifteen to
twelve on the year. The home crowd booed them as
the clock ran out, and Donovan Mitchell told reporters that
he would boot. And is this just a stumble or
more serious problem for Cleveland?
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I would say it's just a malaise.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
You have a great year, you focus all year, and
then the NBA you come back and you're thethargic and
you just kind of get through the dol drums of
the regular season.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
That's what I would put that on. How did we do? Koubalo?
You pass? U say? W oh my god? I won?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
I won the game. I'm a runner, I won the game.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
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contestants for mal Is Mountain of Money. Right now, we
have Jed who fled Who's somewhere in the redneck riviera
of Florida.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
Hello, Jed who fled? Bennie versus Penny's a real great
YouTube channel. So I tell all the Rednicks I know
to watch you wearing some flannel. I don't know YouTube channels.
He liked, Hey I do. I'm not gonna farw that.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Try out kick me off there to play the game.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Who would you like to partner up with? Jay?
Speaker 2 (43:31):
I'd like to win?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
So man, just conre we go?
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Do you Ben? And you know you said Cooper's name first?
You want to go with cool, he said, Ben first
I heard cool. Oh my god, all right up, I
almost thank you, but I would be a great choice. Okay,
who you picked?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Are ap? Got it?
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (43:51):
You got it?
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Ah?
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You're in coop?
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There you go.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
You're in.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
And Mike is in Wisconsin. Hello, Mike, welcome. Hello, let's
going on, buddy. You ready to do this?
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Sure? All right?
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Mike? And who do you want to partner up with
on the show?
Speaker 2 (44:09):
What do you recommend?
Speaker 3 (44:11):
I think Lorena would be very entertaining. I have not
been picked. I have not been picked. All right, Yeah,
I looking at that. I'm real close. I thought I
was going to get picked that.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
I was hoping.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
I was hoping you would. But Mike came to his senses.
Cooloard of the categories quickly, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
This is the Kristin Ritter edition of Mauage Amount of Money.
She turns forty four years old today, Oh, happy birthday.
The categories are what happens in Vegas, Breaking Bad, don't
Trust the Being Apartment twenty three and Dexter Resurrection uh jed?
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Who fled? You were on first category? Head and chokey
by breaking bed?
Speaker 4 (44:51):
Okay, breaking bad and Mike, how about you? Which Cindgrey
would you like? He doesn't remember the categories what happen
in Vegas? Don't trust the being Apartment twenty three or
Dexter Resurrection Vegas?
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Mike, Mike, which one do you want?
Speaker 5 (45:10):
Vegas?
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Okay, alright, everyone, hold on there, we'll have Mallard's Mountain Money.
I didn't think we'd ever get there, but we're gonna
have Malors amount of money. That's a little rough. Only
imagine the game's gonna be worse, but we'll get to
that and we.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Will do it next.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money? Hell, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Not? All right, Right to the game we go. Let's
welcome in our contestants. Hello. I believe that's that Jed,
Jed who fled? All right, Jed, we have breaking bad.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
The category is these athletes have all had drug problems.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin in Hall
of Fame quarterback for the Packers War number four. Yes,
this guy loved cocaine. Linebacker for the Giants. Yes uh,
this guy also loved cocaine. Wide receiver for the Cowboys.
(46:15):
Yes uh, this guy almost died of an overdose in
a Brothels Hamilton no NBA player. He was married to
Chloe Kardashian. Yes uh, this guy liked weed too much.
He was a wide receiver for the Browns.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
He was very good. But yes uh.
Speaker 4 (46:31):
This guy was a quarterback for the USC Trojans and
the Raiders. He smoked a lot of weed.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Uh what the hell?
Speaker 3 (46:38):
How really? Uh like eighties? Please standing dance remix on this?
Speaker 2 (46:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (46:45):
This guy? Okay?
Speaker 1 (46:49):
All right?
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Todd Moranov Marinovitch, okay, Uh.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
My board froze here. Coop So I don't know who's
a Yeah, yeah, that's your partner. Mike.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
All right, Mike, are you there? Mike, I'm here, all right,
very good. We're gonna play the game you picked?
Speaker 3 (47:07):
What do you pick?
Speaker 1 (47:07):
What happens in Vegas? These athletes have all been arrested
in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Are you ready, Mike? Yes, all right, forty five seconds
on the clock. We need the first and last name.
We're on our way go. Uh. He killed two people
in La played running back for the Bills, Buffalo Bills,
Sir McDonald's god.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
A little bit before that. Yeah, well nobody knows who
that is. Boxer nicknamed money. Lloyd Yes, running back for
the New Orleans Saints, got into a dust up at
a casino in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
He's currently on the Saints right now. I can't think
of it.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Pat Okay, running back for the Green Bay Packers. He
played with the Raiders. Had some problems in Vegas when.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
He was with the Raiders. Sure, I'm trying to blink,
aren't you in Wisconsin?
Speaker 2 (47:59):
I can't believe it?
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Okay, you're choking? How about that? All right?
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Wow, I mean I.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
OJ's been dead for a while, so I guess not
maybe people to OJ Simpsons.
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Simmons there, Okay, Alvin Kamara and Josh Jacobs is the
current running back?
Speaker 3 (48:18):
All right, we get to go again. How ex is that?
Don't cuss the movie? Right, I don't don't trust the
b or whatever? And uh dexter, which one do you want? Decor?
Speaker 1 (48:32):
Okay, these athletes have all unretired. Here we go, forty
five seconds on the clock. First and the last name
quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts right now, former Charger. Yes,
he played. It was a start with the Lakers in
the eighties. While Larry Bird was with the Celtics, he
was with the Lakers. Now guard guard out of Michigan State. Yeah,
(48:55):
all right, tight end for the Patriots. He's on Fox
right now every sun days like a meathead, dumb guy.
But he people like him because he used to be
good at football. No, all right, baseball player nicknamed the
Rocket for the Red Sox in the eighties, played with
the Yankees as well in the nineties.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
I don't know, I don't know that. Okay, all right,
what you what you have for breakfast?
Speaker 1 (49:24):
Okay, Magic Johnson is not a household name. No, that
was good job, Jed, tremendous job by Thank you, Mike.
Never never play again, Mike, please s
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So our lead this hour from the confluence where the
Ohio River is born.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Right there, the Manhangahila and the Alleghany form the Ohio
River and the island game. You know, I love my
island games.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I live the island life as Joe Buck and Troy Aikman,
the Fox refugees.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
There had the.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Call on ABC from Western Pennsylvania hanging out there the
Dolphins and Steelers doing some wrangling to close out the
weekend in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Did you watch any of this game? Did this interest
you at all? Wasn't much of a game?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You didn't watch it? What else were you watched?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
There?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Nothing else on? Can't watch that NBA crap? That's terrible,
all right, So maybe you didn't see it, old man
Aered Rogers, as far as we know, not a grandfather
and possibly a husband.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We're not sure about that. The woman to be seen later.
Do do do do Do Do do do, do do
do do?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What's she at the game? She could have been who knows.
Nobody knows if it's really a person anyway. Aaron Rodgers
two hundred and twenty four yards passing and two two
touchdowns and the Steelers they molly wopped the Dolphins twenty
eight to fifteen. They scored not indicative of the deciding outcome.
(03:25):
The game was over a lot of garbage time in
the fourth quarter there on Monday night. So the Steelers
are maintaining the top spot in the AFC North Pittsburgh
at eight and six. They need one more win to
continue the streak of above five hundred seasons. They also
need one more win if it's the right win, to
end up wrapping up the division. They'll get a home
(03:47):
game on wild card weekend and for the second straight
game Pittsburgh in the winners circle here and twenty third
straight at home on Monday night football. She has went
twenty three consecutive They brought this up. They had a
lot of garbage time on ABC. They among the filler
they used. They showed Joe buck going into the Baseball
(04:08):
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
They did that.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
They kept showing random weird people in the crowd to
fill time. If you made a sign, you got on TV.
There was a lot of filler, a lot of filler here.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
In this game.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But these Steelers ended up overwhelming the once proud Dolphins. Course,
anybody remembers the Dolphins good is old, like you gotta
be an old geezer, like the teams that used to
be good have sucked for a long time. They Dolphins
blow that, Dallas Cowboys are embarrassment, the Raiders. Those teams
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were the staples of the NFL for many, many years.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
But long gone.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
As Ernie Harwell, another long gone broadcaster, would say, like
a house on the side of the road there. So
Miami's they're done. They're They're absolutely out. That's it. They're
out of the playoff picture. There like they were.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Gonna get in. They've been eliminated yet again.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Nana na da goodbye. Not that you ever have a
shot to really make it. A futile effort and you
know we love losers. The Ben Malor Show loves losers.
So let's talk about some losers. Good jumping off point,
let us discuss and the quarterback getting absolutely charboiled here
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do you like Charbroyal Dolphin? Okay, well, the quarterback to
a tongue of I Law getting destroyed. So the question
what stood out or stood down about? To a tongue
of Ilawo's play for the Dolphins. So on this one,
I've got the shining Oscar Meyer and DC comics, and
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we will combine all of these things together and we're
gonna have some Iron City beer. As the Pittsburgh Steelers
they kick the crap out of the Dolphin, they need
to get some Iron City Beer on that flight back
to Miami, which they're on right now.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Hitting this for us. So hey, let's start with this.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The Dolphins walked into Pittsburgh and it was like a
magic tricks, like a more like a science trick than
a magic trick. It's like a science science trick from
like junior high school or it's like, okay, what temperature
do things start freezing over? And then we turned we
found out that dolphins actually they start freezing and they
turned into push pops.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They were teal push pops.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The Dolphins there in the second late in the second
quarter and the third quarter there absolutely gutless the cold weather.
I think these guys, even though you live in Miami
a lot of them are come from the Midwest or
the East Coast, are not all from the West coast
to the south where it's warm most of the time.
And these guys collectively are just a bunch of softies.
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And it's just ridiculous here what happened. Cold weather hits
and Miami goes cold. In fact, they don't even go cold.
They go frozen is what they do here. And this
was again steel team. If you didn't watch the Steelers
all year, you think, boy, that pretty good. I mean,
I understand that is why they are leading the division. No,
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they suck. The Steelers are a bad team. They were
twenty eighth in the you're being mean, Meler, twenty eighth
in the NFL, and defense coming into that game twenty eighth,
and yet Tua it looked like the greatest Hits album
of Steelers defense. I thought I saw Troy Polamalo out there,
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the ghost of Kevin Green, Jack Lambert making tackles the
whole Steel Curtain Reunion tour. Who was playing against the Dolphins, Tua.
They showed him there was one shot and I didn't
jot down. I think it was in the in the
second quarter. I didn't jot down the time. But Tua
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look like Jack Nicholson in The Shining You know that
it's been turned into a meme, but that famous.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Scene, it looked.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Like he was in ice and staring blankly and the
thing of a jig was not working. It was Toua
doing his cosplay of Jack Nicholson from The Shining Year.
And plus the Dolphins defense, they allowed a middling Steelers
offense to have four consecutive touchdown drives Good afternoon, good evening,
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and good night. As the Dolphins decided that tackling was optional,
they quiet quit at halftime.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
We're not sure.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The rumor is that they were just sitting around watching
OnlyFans at halftime and they tossed in the sponge there
when they came out all phases. Now, this also presents
quite the predicament for the Dolphins here. And the Dolphins
predicament is they have an underlying condition. That's the predicament
here and you can remodel the roster and they likely
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will do that. You can get a new coach that
actually knows what he's doing, they'll probably do that as well.
And you can light candles, you can burn sage. It
doesn't really matter because Tua, his underlying condition is he
malfunctions when the weather gets cold. And that's just the
reality of the situation, right, that's it. Under forty degrees,
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he's played eight games, one in seven, and the stat
line on Tua horrific, horrific, and so it's not a trend.
It's I mean, just look at the weather report we
did Benny versus the Penny. At the time we did it,
we didn't anticipate the weather being that nasty on Monday
night in Pittsburgh. Well you know, it wasn't like snowing
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or anything of that, but it was cold. And that's
what you'd expect in.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Mid December cold weather.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And you look around the Dolphins, if they ever got good,
you look around the AFC, and you're gonna have to
play outdoor games. The Patriots are pretty good this year,
so if they continue to be good, they'll have outdoor
home games. The Ravens will likely be there most of
the time, the Steelers, Buffalo. These are all outdoor cold
weather teams, not domes outdoor cold weather teams, and so
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you're gonna have to go into those places and play
unless you just have home field advantage in Tua. Either
that or you can go on TEAMU and find something
to fix the do hickey which keeps freezing over and
going doink when the playoff games. I'm not playoff games,
which is big nighttime games, cold weather games. It just
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doesn't go well. And the total stat bandito from Tua
in this game, we'll have more on that in a minute.
And so the real question though for TUA is there
is a way to get out of Tua's.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Deal and to move on.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Do the guys that own the team and Stephen Ross
is the big one, he's pretty old and Michigan guy
Steven Ross, does he have the machismo to get rid
of Tua? Does he have the machismo? Now turn the
Patriot but not far. The battled Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel
went viral on his post game and he usually goes
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viral here he did go viral yet again. The Dolphins
coach just addressing what happened. This was a one score
game at halftime. The Dolphins actually looked somewhat decent very
early in the game, and then as the game went
on after halftime, the third quarter was a awakening for
the Pittsburgh Steelers and it was nap time for the
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Miami Dolphins, and so that led I believe we have
the right bite. All right, here's Mike McDaniel, and this
is a SoundBite of him postgame trying to explain what
happened to the Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And listen, this is a head coach.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
The leader of a multi billion dollar NFL franchise, trying
to explain what went wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
As hard as we tried, that was a little too
deflating because we knew that was an important area of
focus that were we really wanted to be good coming
out of that third quarter as a one score game,
and you know, I thought that was a gigantic momentum swing.
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You know, had a couple opportunities on that drive and
the following drive to make some plays, and we didn't
make the plays they did.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Okay, can we get that man a tissue? Can we
get him a nice tissue to clean his nose?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Out.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So that's a head coach of an NFL franchise. So question,
can you unscramble the latest gibberish from the Dolphins coach
Mike McDaniel. As you just heard there, we played pretty
much all over it. There were some other bites as
well that we're pretty pretty out there. So I ran
this through the Mallard Dakota ring, and I take this
job very seriously. I don't just come in here in
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half asset. I have a Mallard Dacota ring and I
use the Mallard decoder ring. And the word that kept
popping up the official translation on the Mallard Dakota ring
whack a doodle. That's the word. So and the Decota
ring is never wrong if it says whack a doodle, doodle,
wackadoodle do is what.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It is here.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So this was wasn't some deep philosophical perspective from the
Dolphins coach. He was not doing a deep dive on
the state of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
He was not this.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
In fact, this was standard chow. This is standard chow.
Here's some reheated leftovers from Mike McDaniel. There, half baked,
foggy like he's speaking pig Latin, but only after he
fell off the back of a wagon.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And then he's speaking pig Latin.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And his superpower, I believe everyone's got a superpower hollering.
James superpower is sleeping his blind Scott's superpowers annoying people.
He's really good at that jet who fled. His superpower
is talking so fast you don't understand what he's saying.
And in the case of the Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel,
his superpower is marblemouth. Marblemouth and it sounds like a
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guy when he's talking and saying um and awe, the
um and ahs of the world, it sounds like he's
driving the Oscar Meyer Wiener will be a lot of filler.
Those are filler phrases, um and awe. People at study language,
when you don't know what you're going to say, or
you're pausing to try to buy time to find out
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what you're gonna say next, you say um and awe.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
It's a lot of filler.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
There's from some preservatives in there as well, empty calories.
Just like a nice processed hot dog. Um and awe
are the hot dogs of the spoken word. They are
and here's the thing. A big part, whether you like
it or not, a big part of the job as
head coach of an NFL team or any sports team
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professionally is you are the spokesman of the franchise.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That's your job.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You're the face of it, you're the front man, you're
the Carnival Barker, all of those things mixed together. Instead,
Mike McDaniel keeps rambling like a GPS that lost its satellites,
ignal and foot and mouth disease every time they lose.
Even when they win, we just don't play it when
they when they lose, we play it. And he's tongue tied,
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exasperated and circling the drain verbally on a weekly basis.
If only the Dolphins could play the Jets again, or
play the New Orleans Saints, one of those type teams,
they'd be in good shape.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Thus they are not.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's always the same movie, though with Mike McDaniel. We've
been doing this for a couple of minutes and McDaniel
comes in there and a lot of pauses. It's the
same movie, long pauses, no payoff, and then, just like
the Dolphins often punting on fourth down because they did
not get the line to gain there, and in some
strange odd way, I'm gonna miss this.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I'm gonna miss this.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He's not gonna last as Dolphin coach unless the Dolphins
are a fraud franchise.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Merely are just assuming that they'll get rid of him,
try to hire a.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Real coach, and so McDaniel slide back into the I
some NFL team and that'll be that, and we won't
get these soundbites anymore. He won't be a head coach,
so we'll miss it. He'll go back to OC duty
and some meatthead will come in there and replace him
an orator of the franchise. Now, the last word on
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the Petsburg Steelers side of things, the yinsers. The question,
now that Pittsburgh got a dominating win to get to
eight and six on the year, are you back on
the Pittsburgh Steelers Aaron Rodgers bandwagon or bandwagoneer, as Blair
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and Maine said many many years ago, are you back
on the Steelers Aaron Rodgers bandwagon? Here after this dominating
win over the Miami football team. So I'll go here first,
shake him my head. No, if you can see me
in live real time.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You're a loser.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You can watch on YouTube. I'm shaming my no, so
let's slow down here. Hit the pause button on I'm
gonna hit the pause button on the remote control.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Hit the pause button there. Do not overreact. Do not overreact.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Like you just found five bucks in the back pocket
of your favorite blue jeans. You were watching that you
had you washed them, but you hadn't washed them in
a while, and you found five bucks, and you're like, Wow,
that's probably cool. I don't use use cash. I normally
use a credit card. And just calm down. Calm down,
as Aaron Rodgers would say. Relax, that's what he would say.
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And so did the Steelers look shiny?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah? They did. They look good? They did they look good.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Aaron Rodgers had some vintage throws in this game, had
some zip on a few of those intermediate throws, which
he normally does not throw. Check that box. However, let's
not confuse a as the kids say a heater. Let's
not confuse that with a heat wave. The phrases are different.
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You have a heater and then you have a heat wave.
And Pittsburgh tickling the funny bone.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
For those that are like, oh, man, they're back. I'm giddy.
I'm laughing at all. They're really just.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Ticking up a little bit, just a little bit in
the right direction. I'll grant you that they are headed
that way. I didn't hear any fire Mike Tomlin chance
after that game, as the Steelers have that one game
lead in the AFC Norse, so I didn't hear any
of that. And the defense was crushing skulls for some
of this game. Demolition, derby style football, helmets, flying dolphins,
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playoff dream shattered, all of those things, all of those
things regardless, though this particular game was less about the
Steelers ascending and more about the Dolphins turning into frozen
skid marks on the side of the turnpike there as
they were horrific. They didn't just lose, they got thawed
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and evaporated. They just vanished. And that's it now Rogers again.
He looked good, not great most of the night. The
key phrase, though, he's thirty's forty thirty forty two, and
so we know.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That Father Time is undefeated. I heard that years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Father Time on defeas Even if you bring some crystals
from Andrea in the Bay Area, and you can have
a party, have some crystals. You can also bring the
Farmer's Almanac and a bunch of supplements from Tijuana and
then get together at a darkness retreat and.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Do all of those things. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
My advice to Mike Tomlin is to go to DC
Comics bring in a super villain, mister Freeze. Bring in
mister Freeze here for the playoffs because cold weather Rogers
Magic saw a lot of that in Green Bay, a
lot of those type of games in green Bay. However,
it only works in these short little bursts. There is
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a scenario where the Steelers win division, they play a
home playoff game, and there's a chance they play a
second playoff game in the division round. Could it be
in Buffalo? Maybe two cold weather games. The Bills are
not invincible. There's no one that's invincible in the NFL
this season. And remember, all you need is if tom
that can bring in mister Freezer from DC Comics and
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get that going for the last month. You only need
a month and a half. You need January and half
of February to get the bling, bling, the ring ring,
That's all you have to do. I play well in
January and February if you get in. However, let's be real,
it is much more likely, if you were to look
at the wheel of possibilities, it is much more likely
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that Aaron Rodgers in mid February will be sitting in Austin,
Texas talking about lizard people with Joe Rogan, then getting
ready to play the La Rams in the Super Bowl
in Northern California. It's much more likely that happens. So
let's pump the breaks. Pop the breaks, now, pup the Okay,
they're work. Got that NASCAR old school restrictor plate on
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the Steelers that get the playoffs and they can play
the Dolphins in the playoffs. They're in good shape. I'm
told the Dolphins will not be in the playoffs. That's
what I'm saying.
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Comment away. So our lead this hour not from the
Monday night game, a though some holestill want to yap
about that.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
We are more than welcome to discuss the events that
took place in Pittsburgh as the Steelers went again on
Monday night. But our lead this hour from Dallas, well,
the Greater Dallas area, as the Cowboys debacle continues, all
but eliminated, left for dead on the side of the
road as the Cowboys got smacked around by J. J.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Anyway, Dak Prescott some quotes he made recently making the
rounds and bouncing around the echo chamber.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
They caught my attention on the radar, so I thought
we'd discussed.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
So Dak Prescott said he was more surprised than he
has been in years past at the Cowboys' failures to
get it done here, and he pointed out that the
the way things have gone just stings a little bit
more than some of the recent abject failure Dallas Cowboy
teams the money. Quote from Dak Prescott, he said, quote,
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it's tough. I'm definitely surprised, hurt, pissed off, and frustrated.
But all I can do is get better tomorrow. Tomorrow.
Tomorrow is another day, I said Dak Prescott. I added
that last part. He didn't actually say that last part.
I sang that that was an old song. I sang that,
all right, So.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Let us discuss that is the jumping off point. Let's
discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Dak Prescott says that he's surprised, hurt, pissed off, and
frustrated at where the Cowboys are right now, more so
than in previous years. How is this possible? How is
this possible? So my observations, I've got teleprompter, boiled zucchini,
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and fifty shades, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some Texas
toast delicious when made properly.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well, anything made properly is pretty good, but Texas Toast
is the way to go. So number why.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Number one?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Alright?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
So this is adorable with the capital A. Adorable with
the capital A. It's also fiction. It's just fiction, is
what it is. And so the Cowboys are exactly who
we thought they were. In fact, the Dallas Cowboys of
twenty twenty five have followed the preseason script.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So nobody knows anything. We always hear. The odds makers
are pretty good. They know roughly where teams are going
to be.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
If you look back to the spring, when the odds
came out right around the NFL Draft, the odds on
win totals for the upcoming season. The script for the
Dallas Cowboys said that they would have a tough year.
And they're having a tough year. They're stuck in traffic
on Boondoggle Boulevard and they can't get off Boondoggle Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Now it pays very well.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Boondoggle Boulevard. Hazard lights are blinking, No tro truck is
anywhere around. So this is not betrayal, it's not it's confirmation.
Vegas set the twenty twenty five win total at eight
and a half for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Eight and a half.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
There are three games left. Dallas is hovering around five hundred.
They're right there, and they've got they're rotting meat with flies.
It's got a piece of brisket Texas barbecue brisket laid outside,
and there's flies who are hovering around right now. So
it's not a collapse. It's not the Cowboys are meeting expectations.
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There were very low expectations. They're meeting expectations with a
slight limp. Slight limp. They'd have to win a couple
of these games here to go over the total. More
likely they'll finish half a game under the total. Dak Prescott, though,
let's address the HeLa monster in the room when it
comes to Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott lives in that Derek Jeter,
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Michael Jordan media cocoon.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
He just does.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He's sanded down. When I hear Dak Prescott speak, it's
shrink wrapped media trained to death. It just is every answer.
Have you noticed this? When Dak Prescott speaks, every answer
sounds like it came from the corporate teleprompter.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
It just does.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And I do a show with a guy that loves
the teleprompter, teleprompter Tom we call him Looney Tunes. So
in this case, Dak is always very polished. That's a
word I was polished. He is professional, also utterly lifeless.
Utterly lifeless and a walking sound bite vending machine is
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what it is. Insert question and you will be given
a nice platitude with no attitude. That's a platitude with
no attitude, and it pays pretty well. It pays pretty well.
To be very vanilla. It pays very well. You don't
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upset anyone, You don't say anything any very interesting. He
worked for Jeter, work for Jordan. They were better than
Dak Prescott. However, Dak Prescott in pretty good shape, in
pretty good shape here he has made roughly I'm not
gonna say he embezzled the money. You can say he
embezzled the money. I'm not gonna say that. You can
say he embezzle it. I'm not saying he inbezzled the money.
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Roughly three hundred million dollars Dak Prescott has earned on
the field. He is the Cowboys all time stat compiler,
not their elevator operator. The elevator operator brings people up
to a higher level. They also bring them down to
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a lower level. But for the metaphor in the monologu,
we're gonna say the elevator operator raises people up, take
the elevator to the upper floors, and that's how that works.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
And in big moments, Dak Prescott is nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
He fills the box score a lot of empties, a
lot of empties, capitally empties.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
For Dak Prescott. There's a lot of those. And when
the room gets hot, Dak gets cold. That's what happens.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Seven playoff games in all these years as Cowboy quarterback,
a two to five record, and he will become the
answer to who am I game question? No one has
sucked as long as Dak Prescott has in terms of
wins and losses in the postseason and continued on as
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the starting quarterback. Dak Prescott is the gold standard, the
absolute gold standard for that incompetence and one win over
the if you les playoff here two playoff wins, one
win over the rotting carcass of Tom Brady at the
end of his career's final game with Tampa when he
was washed up was against the Cowboys, So Dallas won
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that game. The other game was when I remember this
is we did some stuff after the game. It was
I think a Seattle, so Seattle game, Cowboys and Seahawks playoff.
I believe Russell Wilson was the quarterback for Seattle and
Dak Prescott had very beige.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Numbers. His performance didn't really stand out. They won the game.
So Dak, he's not shocked.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
He's not shocked. He's not He's doing performance art is
what he's doing. It's the Cowboys. The theater is opened
twenty four hours a day. In Jerry's world. It's cowboys, Kobookie.
Theater is what it is, and he's doing it. Never closes,
it's open all night. The snack bar gets some popcorns.
They get some popcorn, they serve alcohol. Knock yourself out now.
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Page two to Indianapolis We Go. Follow up, follow up
to Old Man Rivers follow up. Old Man Rivers started
almost beat the highly overrated Seattle Seahawks. Highly overrated Seattle Seahawks.
So I bring this up because Philip Rivers it was
announced will remain the starting quarterback for your Colts in
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week sixteen Monday Night Football, a week away from Monday
Night Football to matchup as the forty nine Ers and
the Colts, and coach Shane Steichen made the announcement. Now,
some people seem puzzled by this move.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I don't undersna why are they playing Philip Rivers again?
And said the dumb person in the back of the room.
All right, So the question why are people confused? And
I don't know how many people.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
As I've pointed out a thousand times, social media is fake.
It's the matrix. We've seen story after story about just
bought armies attacking celebrities and politicians because it's not real.
It's all just it's all big illusions. I don't know
what's real with not I do know there are people that,
at least some some people that seemed to be bedraggled
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by what's going on. So the question why are people
confused with this decision? For the Colt sticking with Philip Rivers,
this is like that Doors song. People are strange and
apparently allergic to actually paying attention.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I know you got stuff going on. I got it.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So let's review the menu. Here's what the Colts have here.
You're Shane Steichen, you're the chef. You're going into the kitchen.
Here are your ingredients. Your other quarterback options are Riley Leonard,
who's undercooked, Brett Rippon who's overcooked, and maybe Trent Richardson.
There were some whispers he's able to come back now
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dusting off the shoulder pads.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
His claim to fame as an NFL quarterback is quitting.
He took himself out of the game.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
So your options are a guy who's clearly not ready
and may never be ready, Riley Leonard, the old golden domer,
Brett Rippin, who, if only he was good as his relative,
the better ripping. And then you've got Trent Richardson, who's
claim to be famous quitting. Now you know why Philip
Rivers is back in. That is not a depth chart. Okay,
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that is not a depth chart. That is bleak, bleaker
and bleakest is what. That is a quarterback buffet where
everything tastes like boiled zucchini and carrots. If you feel
me on that from the cafeteria, that soggy, unappetizing, disgusting appearance. Yes,
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was Philip Rivers sexy. No, he did not bring sexy back.
Philip Rivers did not bring sexy back.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
He didn't.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
He was brought in to calm the waters. Calm the waters,
drive the speed limit, use your blinker when you change lanes,
all that stuff, keep the car between the lanes, between
the lines in the lanes, that's what you're supposed to do.
So Grandpa Rivers went out there. He didn't show up
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in a Ferrari. He is that here, I am, boys,
I got my Ferrari. He showed up in a reliable
Buet with two hundred thousand miles on it and an
engine that still starts every Morning's very reliable.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And that's what that's the car he used. That's it,
and its method over madness. You keep chugging along, Chugglu
chugg with chucclt Chugglu chugg a lagga. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
And as long as the Colts have a playoff pulse,
and they don't have much of one, Jacksonville's legitimize themselves.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
The Texans appear to be very good.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And Indianapolis is in that mix. They're on the outside.
They're on the outside. They're in the mix, but they're
on the outside. So as long as they have a pulse,
Philip Rivers will be under center. And the moment they
are decommissioned, the moment they are sent to the glue factory,
and that's it. And you say Nana la na na
(33:54):
la da good by when that happens. Philip Rivers is
on the first concord, that smooth supersonic flight out of
wherever the Colts are, and he's headed directly back to
the backwoods. In fact, they won't even land the plane.
They'll drop him in a parachute into the woods, is
what they're gonna do. It's shocking.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I know.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Our final point to Vegas we go during the offseason.
Pete Carroll, good old Pete Carroll. He was very Braggadocia's confident.
He thought his poo poo didn't stink stink, and he
was going to Vegas and the Raiders were gonna return
to glory because he knows how to coach, and everyone
else is the village idiot.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
And Pete Carroll's going to go in there and he's got.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
His little magic hocus pocus abracadabra and watch out, watch out.
So how's that working out?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Well?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
The Raiders just quit on Pete Carroll in Philadelphia gutlass football.
They are two and twelve, two and twelve. They are
worse this year than they were last year. When everyone
told me that they you know, the guy didn't know
what he's doing was coaching the team. So they hired
this proven, savvy veteran with a great resume from Express pros.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Pete Carroll. They got him, and they might as well
have just kept Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Antonio Pierce actually had them playing better football than Pete Carroll.
So Pete was asked about like what's going on, and
he was asked whether or not he's coaching for his job,
whether that is a thing or not, and Pete said, quote, no,
I don't feel like that at all. I really don't,
Pete said at his news conference on Monday. I'm well
(35:36):
beyond that. I don't feel like that. Close quote from
Pete Carroll.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
So the question.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Does Pete Carroll deserve to return as the Raiders coach
in twenty twenty six a topic that we will broach
many times when we get to the silly season of
the NFL. So I found Pete's response.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Charming. I'm gonna use the word charming.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I was around Pete a lot back in the old
days when he was coaching at USC and so I
know all the bull crap that Pete serves up. I
heard it all when he was coaching these amazing teams
with Reggie Bush and Matt Lionert and Mark Sanchez and
all those guys. At SC so I understand all that.
On this one, Pete Carroll, we know what he's having
for breakfast. He's cuckoo for cocoa puffs, is what he is.
(36:27):
Absolutely the Raider season, if you were to do, if
you were to do a NFL film style documentary, you
would title it fifty Shades of puke.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
That would be fifty shades of puke, is what you
would do. That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
It's a rainbow of bad decisions. That's the Raiders and
blown coverages to the right players mailing it into the
left and expired coupon for success from Pete Carroll. Those
coupons have run out right now, so good luck on that.
You are what your record says you are. The Raiders
are a two win team. They suck and when they
(37:10):
don't suck, they blow, and that's it. And they are
right now a floating tire fire. They're a floating tire fire.
There at the burning man out in the Nevada desert,
and our friend, the mouthwashed Mike is walking by looking
at the fire, saying, am I allowed to look at
the fire? Have I been banned from the fire like
(37:31):
I'm banned from Caesar's? And MGM, I don't know. I
don't know now if you didn't watch the Eagles game,
and I only watched part of it, all I needed
to do was watch part of it.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I saw a team quit. I saw it.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
I've been around a couple of times, not my first rodeo,
and you can tell. You can tell when the team
quits on their coach. It's more obvious in the NBA
than it is in football. However, the Raiders made it
clear and it was clear as vodka, clear as vodka.
In that game thirty one nothing out gained by over
(38:03):
three one hundred yards. That tells you that you are
floating on the lazy river that was too cold. You
didn't prepare, You gave up all of those things, all
of those things. That is not a lost. That is
a hasty retreat. Under Pete Carroll, white flag is a flappin'.
The white flag is a flapping. That is a surrender.
It's like a boxing match. You tossed in the sponge.
(38:25):
That team quit, Capitol Q.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
They quit. That's it. That's an unforgivable sin.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
And now the Raiders have a double mess on their
hands because Mark Davis, he likes to spend his money
on PF changs. That's about it, and you got Tom Brady.
How dumb does Mark Davis looked at He's like, okay,
let's let let's let Tom Brady be the de facto
general manager and make all the plays for the football
ops department and decide who the coach and the players are,
(38:52):
and you know all the key people and every decision
tom Brady has made his men a disaster and nobody
wants to talk about it. Conversation people aren't ready to
have and they love Tom Brady and Tom Brady's a
hero and you're not supposed to say it. It's odd though,
because when Michael Jordan was a terrible executive in the NBA,
people had no problem pointing out how terrible Michael Jordan was. Like,
(39:13):
for some reason, Tom Brady is getting an exemption. He
is the GM by proxy of the Raiders. He hand
picked Pete Carroll, he hand picked now Grant. He didn't
want Pete Cary, wanted Ben Johnson, but he took Pete Carroll.
And he didn't want Geno Smith, but he took Geno Smith.
He wanted Matthew Stafford. And what the Raiders ought to
do is a two for one special. Send Pete Carroll
(39:36):
and Geno Smith together put him on a dusty stage coach.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Down the winnemuck A Road and get him out of there.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
This, as the famous quote goes from a late NBA player,
the ship be sinking. In fact, the ship is already
sunk at this point, so you can cue the Tony
Bennett fly me to the Moon because the ra and
Pete Carroll's.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Halfway there anyways, big moon bat.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
He's halfway to the moon at this point, So oh yeah,
you don't have Pete Carroll be the rebuild guy.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Can you see this? Mid seventies and I hope Pete
lives to be one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
But if you look at the comps, p Hee's not
gonna be alive by the time the Raiders are any
good again.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
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Speaker 3 (40:23):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. Squee we go to the third degree. This
is one big Ben gets grilled coolop.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Josh Allen said that the love that the Bills have
for each other fueled their comeback against the Patriots and
that wins like these have them quote battle tested heading
towards the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Ben, Were the Bills written off too early?
Speaker 5 (40:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (40:48):
No, they were not.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Is that like woodstock in the locker room like for
the Bills? Are they all like, you know, hanging out
loving each other?
Speaker 4 (40:54):
You know some over shoulders?
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Yeah, exactly, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
You know, there's a fire. They're singing cool by Eye.
Uh No, if the Bills don't win this year, Mahomes
isn't in the playoffs. Lamar Jackson may not be in
the playoffs, right, Uh you look around. Joe Burrow not
in the player like Josh.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
This is it.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Everything's clear that it's like the parting of the Red Sea.
For Josh Allen. They got to win this year. They
gotta win the AFC this year. They got to be
in the super Bowl, all right next?
Speaker 4 (41:22):
So this has undoubtedly been a down year for the
AFC North, But the two teams still in playoff contention
are both led by former MVPs. You've got the Steelers
and the Ravens. Who do you think would be more
dangerous than the playoffs? Who do you not want to see?
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Well, I don't I don't take the Ravens seriously. Their
defense is not very good.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
And Lamar Jackson, who usually is great in the regular
season and then sucks in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
He's been terrible.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
So the Steelers are actually the team that you don't
want to play. You want to play the Ravens at
this point. You don't want to play the Steelers, which
I'm shocked I'm saying, but that's the reality. Like, Steelers
haven't really played anybody, played the Ravens and the Dolphins,
and they look good in these games. I'd still rather
avoid the Steelers and play the Ravens the way Lamar
is played all year.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Next, the Cleveland Cavaliers are one of the top teams
in the East. Last season, on Sunday, they lost to
the Hornets without LaMelo ball to Falldo mediocre fifteen to
twelve on the year. The home crowd booed them as
the clock ran out, and Donovan Mitchell told reporters that
he would boot. And is this just a stumble or
more serious problem for Cleveland?
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I would say it's just a malaise.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
You have a great year, you focus all year, and
then the NBA you come back and you're thethargic and
you just kind of get through the dol drums of
the regular season.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
That's what I would put that on. How did we do? Koubalo?
You pass? U say? W oh my god? I won?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
I won the game. I'm a runner, I won the game.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
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Speaker 1 (42:56):
Al Right, it is the Ben Malage. Let's welcome our
contestants for mal Is Mountain of Money. Right now, we
have Jed who fled Who's somewhere in the redneck riviera
of Florida.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
Hello, Jed who fled? Bennie versus Penny's a real great
YouTube channel. So I tell all the Rednicks I know
to watch you wearing some flannel. I don't know YouTube channels.
He liked, Hey I do. I'm not gonna farw that.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Try out kick me off there to play the game.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Who would you like to partner up with? Jay?
Speaker 2 (43:31):
I'd like to win?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
So man, just conre we go?
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Do you Ben? And you know you said Cooper's name first?
You want to go with cool, he said, Ben first
I heard cool. Oh my god, all right up, I
almost thank you, but I would be a great choice. Okay,
who you picked?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Are ap? Got it?
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (43:51):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (43:52):
You're in coop?
Speaker 1 (43:53):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
You're in.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
And Mike is in Wisconsin. Hello, Mike, welcome. Hello, let's
going on, buddy. You ready to do this?
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Sure? All right?
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Mike? And who do you want to partner up with
on the show?
Speaker 2 (44:09):
What do you recommend?
Speaker 3 (44:11):
I think Lorena would be very entertaining. I have not
been picked. I have not been picked. All right, Yeah,
I looking at that. I'm real close. I thought I
was going to get picked that.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
I was hoping.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
I was hoping you would. But Mike came to his senses.
Cooloard of the categories quickly, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
This is the Kristin Ritter edition of Mauage Amount of Money.
She turns forty four years old today, Oh, happy birthday.
The categories are what happens in Vegas, Breaking Bad, don't
Trust the Being Apartment twenty three and Dexter Resurrection uh jed?
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Who fled? You were on first category? Head and chokey
by breaking bed?
Speaker 4 (44:51):
Okay, breaking bad and Mike, how about you? Which Cindgrey
would you like? He doesn't remember the categories what happen
in Vegas? Don't trust the being Apartment twenty three or
Dexter Resurrection Vegas?
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Mike, Mike, which one do you want?
Speaker 5 (45:10):
Vegas?
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Okay, alright, everyone, hold on there, we'll have Mallard's Mountain Money.
I didn't think we'd ever get there, but we're gonna
have Malors amount of money. That's a little rough. Only
imagine the game's gonna be worse, but we'll get to
that and we.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Will do it next.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malors
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money? Hell, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Not? All right, Right to the game we go. Let's
welcome in our contestants. Hello. I believe that's that Jed,
Jed who fled? All right, Jed, we have breaking bad.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
The category is these athletes have all had drug problems.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin in Hall
of Fame quarterback for the Packers War number four. Yes,
this guy loved cocaine. Linebacker for the Giants. Yes uh,
this guy also loved cocaine. Wide receiver for the Cowboys.
(46:15):
Yes uh, this guy almost died of an overdose in
a Brothels Hamilton no NBA player. He was married to
Chloe Kardashian. Yes uh, this guy liked weed too much.
He was a wide receiver for the Browns.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
He was very good. But yes uh.
Speaker 4 (46:31):
This guy was a quarterback for the USC Trojans and
the Raiders. He smoked a lot of weed.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Uh what the hell?
Speaker 3 (46:38):
How really? Uh like eighties? Please standing dance remix on this?
Speaker 2 (46:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (46:45):
This guy? Okay?
Speaker 1 (46:49):
All right?
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Todd Moranov Marinovitch, okay, Uh.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
My board froze here. Coop So I don't know who's
a Yeah, yeah, that's your partner. Mike.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
All right, Mike, are you there? Mike, I'm here, all right,
very good. We're gonna play the game you picked?
Speaker 3 (47:07):
What do you pick?
Speaker 1 (47:07):
What happens in Vegas? These athletes have all been arrested
in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Are you ready, Mike? Yes, all right, forty five seconds
on the clock. We need the first and last name.
We're on our way go. Uh. He killed two people
in La played running back for the Bills, Buffalo Bills,
Sir McDonald's god.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
A little bit before that. Yeah, well nobody knows who
that is. Boxer nicknamed money. Lloyd Yes, running back for
the New Orleans Saints, got into a dust up at
a casino in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
He's currently on the Saints right now. I can't think
of it.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Pat Okay, running back for the Green Bay Packers. He
played with the Raiders. Had some problems in Vegas when.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
He was with the Raiders. Sure, I'm trying to blink,
aren't you in Wisconsin?
Speaker 2 (47:59):
I can't believe it?
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Okay, you're choking? How about that? All right?
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Wow, I mean I.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
OJ's been dead for a while, so I guess not
maybe people to OJ Simpsons.
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Simmons there, Okay, Alvin Kamara and Josh Jacobs is the
current running back?
Speaker 3 (48:18):
All right, we get to go again. How ex is that?
Don't cuss the movie? Right, I don't don't trust the
b or whatever? And uh dexter, which one do you want? Decor?
Speaker 1 (48:32):
Okay, these athletes have all unretired. Here we go, forty
five seconds on the clock. First and the last name
quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts right now, former Charger. Yes,
he played. It was a start with the Lakers in
the eighties. While Larry Bird was with the Celtics, he
was with the Lakers. Now guard guard out of Michigan State. Yeah,
(48:55):
all right, tight end for the Patriots. He's on Fox
right now every sun days like a meathead, dumb guy.
But he people like him because he used to be
good at football. No, all right, baseball player nicknamed the
Rocket for the Red Sox in the eighties, played with
the Yankees as well in the nineties.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
I don't know, I don't know that. Okay, all right,
what you what you have for breakfast?
Speaker 1 (49:24):
Okay, Magic Johnson is not a household name. No, that
was good job, Jed, tremendous job by Thank you, Mike.
Never never play again, Mike, please s
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