March 4, 2026 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about Daniel Jones getting the "transition tag" from the Colts, Kyler Murray getting released by the Arizona Cardinals, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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So a pretty decent day here. Sometimes we're coming in
here and we're polishing turds. Not that we're not polishing
turds all the time, but there's more more turds to
polish on this day as opposed to some other days.
So our lead story is from Indianapolis, where Indiana Jones
has been tagged. You can't tag Indiana Jones. Why would
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you tag Indiana Jones? Come on, well, the Colts. If
you didn't hear and maybe not, maybe you. Here is
the deadline day to tag players, and a few players
around the NFL got tagged. The most interesting one we
start with that, and that is Daniel Jones, who was
given what they say is a rarely used the rarely
used transition tag. So he got that tag. You're it,
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there you go. So the Colts are going to give
Daniel Jones thirty seven point eight million. Thirty seven point
eight million, that's the by now rate for Daniel Jones
there in instead of the franchise tag, which would have
paid him like an extra six million dollars on top
of that. And so that opens up the possibility since
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it was not the franchise tag instead it was the
transition tag. It's all just red tape bull crap bureaucracy,
but it means that there is there's a way. Could
could Daniel Jones. Could Daniel Jones leave the Colt Yes,
and the compensation would go to Indian Appose, so Jones
can can sign an offer sheet with another team next
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week March eleventh. I know you're excited about that. Mark
that on your on your calendar app on your phone,
March eleventh. There the Colts have will have five days
five days to match or allow him to wild all
go off into the wild blue yonder and get out
of here. Daniel Jones. Now, as Vin Scully used to say,
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it is interesting to note that Indy picking up the
tag on Daniel Jones means they decided not not to
give any kind of tag. They could not do two,
so they didn't give one to Alec Pierce, the wide
receiver who they're trying to sign to a contract. So
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that is a good jumping up point. Let us discuss
the question for the class, and you're part of the class.
Thumbs up or thumbs down on the Colts picking Daniel
Jones over Alec Pierce, that was the choice. So I've
got spaghettios, antibiotics, and one eight hundred flowers, and we
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will combine all of these things together. We're gonna make
some Jimmy chungis is what we're gonna make, Jimmy chunk,
all right, So a the thumbs up thumbs down, I'm
going thumbs down, and I'll go another thumbs down, and
then if I can get more thumbs down, I'll get more.
But capital d down, down, down, down, down, down, down
down down. To me, this is football malpractice. It is
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you should not be doing this. What are you thinking? Seriously?
What do you think? Indy? Now I understand the backstory.
We talked about it in he traded a gaggle of
draft picks. They got saucy. They got sauce gardener from
the Jets, and so they boxed themselves into this awkward
situation where they were stuck between the devil and the
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deep blue sea. And so there's this financial broom closet
and they fell. They were forced to double down on
Daniel Jones, but they were not. So it's a total
panic move when you think about you look at the
resume of Daniel Jones and what even when he did
in Indy, and there's a lot of people that are
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selectively telling you that Daniel Jones was amazing for the Colts.
And so again they were right there, devil on one side,
the deep blue Sea on the other, and they chose
to toss out the anchor. No, you're not supposed to
do that. And now you're not gonna hear this. A
lot of plays in the daytime, guys. They're suck ups,
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most of them. So the reality is this, Daniel Jones
was on a proved deal in twenty twenty five. He
didn't prove it. He didn't and so why are you
rewarding him with this this thirty seven point eight million
dollar contract. It's for Gayzy, is what it is, right,
And so what exactly did Daniel Jones prove last year, Okay,
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let's go through it. So he proved moved that. As
the season went on, he got exposed right that. For
a while it was a smoking mirror show. And then
eventually Daniel Jones turned into the same stumble bum that
we saw with the Giants. It was the same stumblebum.
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You know, He's fine for a few games there at
the beginning of the year, and then the wheels on
the bus came off. The wheels on the bus. They
didn't go round and round, they came off. They did.
They did, And so Jones his wide angle wins in
his career. Look at his Pro Football Reference packed thirty
two career wins in the NFL as a starting quarterback
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seven years, thirty two wins and then snap crackle pop
as in Indians. And he wasn't playing well before that,
and then four or five games that were el stinko
and then he got hurt and you're gonna reward him
with thirty seven point eight million because you're afraid he's
gonna leave. You should drive them to the airport and
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you're afraid he's gonna leave. This's insanity. It's absolute insanity,
is what it is, and he's not head and shoulder.
This is the main issue. If there was no one
else who was as good as Daniel Jones would be like, Okay,
I get it. He's not head and shoulders above everyone.
He's at the same level. You look at who's available,
the contemporaries on the market, the quarterback market. If he
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did the coll of challenge, let's do the col of chan,
do the cold chan. You got two a tongue of
Byloa Kyler Murray, the Little Fella, the Munchkin, and Daniel Jones.
Those are the three quarterbacks side by side. I call
them the spaghettios quarterbacks. And now why do I call
them the Spaghettios Because they're overwhelmed, overmatched, and overpowered on
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a regular basist of O's a lot of o's. There,
different cans, same crappy product, same flat soda. So that's
the call to challenge there and the culture like, no, no,
we have to have our flat soda. We don't want
someone else's flat soda. We love our flat soda. Daniel Jones, baby,
oh my god. Meanwhile, wide receiver Alec Pearce, who broke
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out all year unlike Daniel Jones, he did it all year.
He didn't do it for five games or eight games
and then disappear. He did it the entire year. He
was consistent, he was reliable to put a big stats.
He was legit in his breakout year. And so the Colts,
they could have punted on Daniel Jones, no loss there,
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he's not that good and locked up Piers. Now they're trying,
they say to lock him up, good luck on that,
more than that in a minute. And so instead they said, no, no,
we really want fool's gold. That's what we want. So
the Colts they picked the fools goal. Congratulations all right.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Meanwhile, staying with the theme of the hour, as I
have just treated Daniel Jones like a pinata, there are
reports bouncing around the echo chamber here that's say they wait,
wait a minute, wait a minute, Minnesota, they don't have
a quarterback. They need a quarterback. What are you gonna do?
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And that the Purple people eaters might make Eke and
Rosewo Minnesota vomit in his mouth. And they are said
to be exploring the possibility of going after Vanilla vic.
That could be the move right there, Vanilla Vick. So
question how believable. How believable are the whispers that the
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Vikings are going to make some kind of offer to
try to pry away Daniel Jones. Not that they would
have to pry away that much, because I'm assuming the
Colts they'll come to their senses here and say, well,
we're not going to give them that contract, whatever the
Vikings offer. So I give this the very premise that
the whispers are true, that the Vikings are going to
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make this run at Daniel Jones. I give this side eye,
all right. And the reason that I give this side
eye is we know that Minnesota has a blank square
on the quarterback bingo card. They don't have anything right.
They've tried hope, they've tried cosmic intervention, they tried JJ McCarthy,
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which apparently he's now outside the bubble of trust. So
he's out. The bubbles burst and that's it. Pop goes
the babble. So what do you do? What do you do? Well?
You go shopping on the clearance aisle. And this is
the NFL's version of the rummaging through the dented can
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aisle at High V You're going through all the dented
cans there and all that stuff. But Minnesota, they have
the pick of the litter. That's the goodness. I'll be
Benny Bright said, you have to pick of the litter.
Congratulations there. Of course, the Picco litter is all the cracked,
damaged and warped quarterbacks as we have laid out here.
So you've got to pick a litter. You're gonna need
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antibiotics speak cause you're gonna get cat scratch fever is
what you're going to get. And as for Daniel Jones,
they would have to pay him, if my math is correct,
I'm using Malard math, about forty million a year on average,
a little bit more than the Vikings thing, paying about
forty million dollars a year, which would be like paying
for a thick steak at Ruth Chris Steakhouse, and you're
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paying that price and you're getting a microwaved hot pocket. No,
I'm not here to knock the hot pocket. I've had them.
Some of them are good, some of them are horrific,
but it's not the same as a nice steak. But wait,
there's more. Oh, we're not done. No, you'd also to
get Daniel Jones. You'd have to give the Colts compensation.
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A lot of compensation that would be. And again we
just laid out all these guys are about to say
they've all got warts and moles and all that stuff.
That would be shrewd dumbness if you decide on Daniel Jones. Now,
if you do the malord math on that, the malarads
that Danny Dimes ends up in the Twin Cities, I'll
put that at plus five hundred, which, if you're not
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good with math, that implies, based on malor math, a
about a fifteen percent chance, about a fifteen percent chance,
which is higher than it should be, higher than it
should be. It should be because the Golden rule is
in play. And the only reason I'm going around fifteen
percent is the Golden rule, which is it's not what
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you know, it's who you know. And it is true
that Kevin O'Connell seems to be calling the shots there
in Minnesota. He had Jones in the building for a
cup of coffee and they hung out together for half
a season, so there's a common bond. And to that,
I say, whoopedie, damn do That's what I say. I'm
leaving a fifteen percent chance on that. Now, last word, here,
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let's circle back. We talked about Alec Pierce, the wide
receiver who was hanging out there in Indy, and the
Colts decided that they wanted to tag Daniel Jones and said, well,
you know what, we want to keep you. But yeah, okay,
So we are told the Colts are again very motivated
to get Pierce in his contract done as we're about
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a week away now from the start of NFL free agency.
So the question who's going to be bidding, Who's going
to be bidding for the pending free agent wide receiver
late of Indianapolis here, Alec Pierce. So this is one
of those stories. I call it a one eight hundred
flower story. Now why do I call it that, because
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this is going to look like The Bachelor, NFL edition
of The Bachelor. Imagine, if you will, Alec Pearce standing
there in a nice tuxedo and there's a bunch of teams,
now not every team, but a bunch of teams that
are lined up, and they all went and got their
roses and they said, hey, Alex, and will you accept
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this franchise tag row and then he'll say yes or
no and all that, and he would be crazy at
this point not to test the market. So all you
have to do is wait a week and then you
are able to take bits on it from it. Of course,
there's a legal tampering periods. He's gonna already know. They
probably are now his agent knows who wants to pay
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him or not. But he did have the breakout seasons.
We talked about Alex Pierce last year in Indianapolis, and
you gotta think his agent's phone and the text messages
and all that will be blown up like a mom
and pop pizza shop on Super Bowl Sunday, like there'll
be a lot going on. And it really comes down it,
does he want to stay in Indianapolis? Okay, fine, you
could stay there, or you could do some dumpster diving
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with the Raiders or the Titans. Couple of crappy teams
like that that have money, bad teams with cap space
and no shame. You could say, what about the Patriots
they don't have any receivers there any good and they
got to the Super Bowl. Or the Buffalo Bills they
don't have any receivers there any good and they got
Josh Allen that they need help there. Meanwhile, Pearce is
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sitting there like a like a guy at auction. Do
I hear thirty thirty million? Thirty million? Do I thirty
one million? Thirty one million? The back thirty one million
man the brown hatton back? All right? Thirty two million,
thirty two million, go much going twice, going three times,
So thirty two million. Someone's gonna overpay. They always do,
they always do. Be sure to.
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So our lead this hour, we go to Arizona. Now.
Back in the day, while I was doing some work
here at Fox Sports Radio, for a number of years,
I ran a gossip sports gossip website that was that
was my thing. I was whatsing around with that, did
that for a number of years, had some success with that,
got some critical acclaim whatever that's worth obviously nothing because
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I'm not doing it anymore, although I can't buy my
website back for like ten thousand dollars or whatever it is.
But anyway, yeah, it's ridiculous. But back in the day
when I did that job, we had a mantra in
the newsroom that when I was putting that together, aggregating
a rumor is just a fact that has yet to
be discovered. And today's rumors or tomorrow's news, well that's
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been proven correct. Again if you have not heard by now,
a story that we talked about as a rumor over
the last couple of weeks has turned out to be reality.
The Cardinals have said bye bye, and they have informed
Kyler Murray that he will be fired, that he's done,
he's out, and he is going to be able to
go to another NFL team when the new league year
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begins a week from today. His reign of terror in
the Desert will come to an end, and they will
drive him to Sky Harbor Airport there in the Valley
of the Sun and say get out of here. Now.
Murray posted a sappy, good buy note to the fans
in the Valley of the Sun there on social media.
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It was ninety nine words, the ninety nine ninety nine words,
and now some fans ran to defend Kyler Murray upset
that he used one word in particular. Now there were
three paragraphs, but ninety nine worth three paragraphs, and there's
one word in particular that upset people. He used the
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word failed, and that was the money. Quote he said,
I wanted nothing more than to be the one to
and the seventy seven year route for this organization. I
am sorry, he said I failed us close quote. So
that is a good jumping off point, and let's discuss
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the question. Kyler Murray says that he quote failed the
Arizona Cardinals and a number of jocksniffers running to defend
Kyler Murray. Is that valid or invalid that he used
the word failed? Kyler Murray, So I've got pyromaniac, memory, foam,
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and KFC and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to play Connect three is
what we're going to play. So number one, number one.
So we ran this through the very technical, very technical
Malor Lie detector, the Mallard Lie detector, and we determined
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there were no lies detected, no lies detected, none, Zippo, zippo.
The guy, Kyler Murray was the number one overall um
of the twenty nineteen collegiate Draft. Now, when you are
the top pick, is it fair or unfair to expect
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that you're getting the team that's drafting the players getting
a quarterback who's a Hollywood star? Is that fair or unfair?
I believe it's fair. I believe it's fair. And I'm
the one with the microphone, so I'm gonna go first.
You can call in later if you want. I believe
that's fair. Now, did the Cardinals get a Hollywood level quarterback? No,
under any measurement, they did not get a Hollywood level quarterback.
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What they got was a Bollywood quarterback. That's what the
not Hollywood bally would all right for bally Wood, That's
what they got. Kyler Murray saying that he failed, that's
even an understatement, right. It's like a pyromaniac arsonist showing
up to the fire and going, boy, somebody really burned
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this place down. I wonder what that was all about Yeah,
franchise quarterbacks supposed to elevate everyone, and he didn't do it.
And to be fair, he needed a booster seat. So
we knew going in it was not gonna be easier
for Kyler Murray. Finishes ten games under five hundred, ten
games under five hundred, not exactly a franchise savior. And
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he wasn't even a five hundred quarterback. And get the
playoff resume. And if you had been drafted, whoever you
might be, if you had been drafted with the top
pick of the twenty nineteen NFL draft, you would have
the same number today as Kyler Murray of playoff wins.
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He didn't win a single playoff game. Squad douche in
terms of playoff wins none And you know he and
I want to kill him, and I am going to
be Benny bright Side. He said, well, you can't be
Benny Bright's. You've been ripping Kyler murright this, I was
right in Hostey And I'm sure the Arizona Republic will
write a tract shit and apology to me. And do
they still even have that newspaper? I don't know. I
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feel like all newspapers are out of business at this point.
But if they're still around, they they said, you know what,
that guy Mattelin was right, Maybe we should pay more
attention to that overnight guy on Fox. He called this
in twenty nineteen, seven years ago. He called this anyway,
I knew right away and the moment I knew, well,
first of all, looking at Kyler Murray looks like a
glitch in a video game. Not a good one. Not
a good one. But I think it was actually on
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Fox Sports Radio. I think it was before the draft.
Kyler Murray was interviewed. I think it was on the
Dan Patrick Show, and he was waiting for his dad
to answer question. He didn't know what to say, and
his dad was like there and his parent was along
and answering the question. I said, oh my god, this
is terrible. And that was a sign of coming attractions,
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is what it was. So no playoff wins, he did
lead the league in one category, So I will pump
the tires on Kyler. Congratulations seven years as an NFL's
starting quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, and he led the
NFL in sacks taken. So condract, you know, impress it.
Not everyone can leave the NFL and sacks taken. But
there you go, that and that, and I don't know
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that we'll see another quarterback that has a more impressive
signature moment playing quarterback in the NFL than Kyler Murray
who famously and it's one of the all time great
moments in my career and do this a long time.
The study clause, the homework clause in Kyler Murray's contract,
where he literally literally had to have it in writing.
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The team had they felt it was so important. He
was such a such a loser and he was so
lazy that they had to put it in the contract
where he was contractually obligated to you know, do his
job and to like watch tape and study for the
opponent and all that stuff. And some of Europe said, well,
you know, these people say, oh, you didn't fail. He
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did fail, that's obvious. But the good news is for
Kyler is that while he flopped playing football in Arizona
with the joystick, he was one of the great gamers
in the state of Arizona, top ten gamer. When it
comes to call of duty, first ballot, Hall of Famer,
Video Game Hall of Fame. Now I know they give
you a gold jacket when you go to the Pro
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Football Hall of Fame? What do you get when you
go to the Gamer Hall of Fame? Is it a
golden joystick? Is there something like a cartridge? Is there?
I don't know what it is? All right now, payt you?
So keeping the drum beat going and going and going
and going. So what is the forecast? You pull out
the DoPT two thousand radar. What is the forecast for
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Kyler Murray? Who has now been excommunicated from the Cardinals.
So what's next on the forecast? So the forecast, if
you look right now, the forecast is the He's getting
the day SPA send off. It's a nice SPA day
for Kyler. Go to the spall have a good time.
Imagine if you will, a world where you are fired
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from your job. You're tossed overboard and you land in
a velvet lifeboat. That's Kyler Murray. Remember, sports is not
reality like the reality is. And what I mean by
that is a different cartoon issuites. It's a different world. Normally,
when somebody loses their job, you're like, oh man, I'm
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bummed out. That sucks for that guy. He's gonna have
to go an unemployment he's gonna have to find another job.
What are you gonna do? You gotta go to the
Express Employment website and all that. So that's normal, But
in sports, the Cardinals will be paying the little munchkin
thirty six point seven million to not play quarterback. Do
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you understand how much of a absolute loser, a jackwagon
one has to be for a team to give you
that kind of severance package that you're so useless Kyler Murray,
that the Cardinals would rather pay almost thirty seven million
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to not have you, That you're that much of a
bad influence in the locker room, and you're that you're
that pathetic on the field. It's wild. That is a
severance package wrapped in a memory foam mattress. That is
what that is. And the Cardinals didn't just throw him
off the ship. They tossed him overboard. They gave him
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a charcuterie board in that boat, and they gave him
a spa, you know, the rope from the spa and
just everything. I mean, this gave him everything. And the
crazy part is that now he wasn't good and we
documented that, and now there are teams that are like, wow,
this is great. I saw some NFL punnits that Kyler
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Murray is clearly the top quarterback of ail. Really, what
is the measurement on that? How are you measuring that
Kyler Murray, who doesn't even like football, is not good
at football, is the top guy available clearly? Really? What
kind of fentanyl are you on, sir? If you think that? Seriously?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Like?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
What are we doing? But there you go, Well Kyler
Murray and there's always out. Is one man's trash is
another man's fantasy reclamation project. But to say that he's
clearly better than the other quarterbacks, I don't buy that.
I don't know how anyone with an IQ above twenty
could buy that. The Vikings again, every quarterback's being connected
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with the Vikings, Daniel Jones, Kyler Murray. They should have
like seven quarterbacks on the field. Yeah, that's it. Just
go with four. No, no, you have three offensive linemen. You're
gonna have seven quarterbacks one wide receiver. Now you might
go with five quarterbacks and then four offensive linemen. The
rest would be be pass catchers. I mean, you could
do there's different ways you can do it, but my god,
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so the Jets, now that would be perfect. You imagined
Kyler Murray with the Jets. The Raiders, they're gonna have
Fernando Mendoza supposedly if they keep the first pick in
the draft and they need a bridge quarterback. Of course
Kyler would be a very small bridge, but that's fine.
And the island of misfit quarterbacks right there, and even
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this scares me a little bit. The Rams have been mentioned,
but only because the Rams hired Cliff Kingsbury as a
Sean McVay loyalist. So Cliff Kingsbury, there's a connection members
not what you know, it's who you know. And so
Cliff Kingsbury is with the Rams coaching staff unless he
gets a better job and then leaves. So Cliff Kingsbury's
hanging out there, and then Kyler Murray could come in
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there be the backup for a year, and it's you know,
it's kind of yead. Listen, why not go play for
the minimum somewhere? Go to the Rams. Have the Rams
leak good stories about how great you look and practice
and what a great locker room guy you are. The
typical bull crap that goes out in the media, and yeah,
play for the minimum and Arizona, remember they're picking up
the tab like that rich uncle that's got a lot
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of cash and likes to throw it around to show
everyone in the family how rich he is. And does
he want to Does Kyler Murray actually want to play
for a bad team or is he willing to go
be a backup on the Rams, take a sabbatical and
make all that money and just play video games? And
that's it all right? Meanwhile, final point to Seattle. We
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go and you, sir, have just won the Super Bowl MVP.
What are you gonna do now? I'm gonna go find
a job somewhere else because this team doesn't want me
in a clear act of malfeasance. And I know somewhere
in the great Pacific Northwest JJ and Renton is devastated,
and no Stradinas is gonna gonna cry like crime Craig
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because Seattle, classless Seahawks, you just went out and won
the Super Bowl MVP. Get out of here. They chose
not not the place the Seahawks. The franchise tag on
Kenneth Walker. They will let him walk away from the
Pacific Northwest. And so instead of getting a guaranteed salary
of fourteen million dollars for one year, he will run
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off carrying his Pete Roselle Super Bowl MVP trophy and say,
I just played better than anyone else on my offense
in the Super Bowl and I'm now going to explore
the open market. There you go, all right? So the
question here which direction? Which direction? Is Seahawks running back
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Kenneth Walker headed as he heads to the auctioning block
after and he's auctioning his own services. As we said,
he's he's a free agent and next week and go
anywhere it wants. So it's nice to know that the
Seattle Seahawks value the Super Bowl MVP like he is
a spork from KFC. So he's not just a fork
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or a spoon. He's a spark. So he's a little
more valuable than just a fork or a spoon. It's
a multi dimensional situation, but ultimately, just a cheap piece
of takeout cutlery is what he is. And it's like, hey,
thanks for the memories. Don't let the door hit you
where the good Lord split you get out of here,
and now you're someone else's problem. You're not our problem. Now. Financially,
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this is not bad. Financially this is not bad. This
is a bonanza. Is what it is. It's a seller's market.
Sellers market. You look at running backs, and running backs
have become more in vogue in recent years, as Skwon
Barkley in Philadelphia was the man of the hour there
for the Eagles and their championship run, and then Kenneth
Walker the Super Bowl MVP. So the last couple of
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years it has been an uptick in running backs. So
it is a seller's market. Has said there's a shortage
of goods available, so that's a positive. And Breece Hall
got tagged by the Jets, so he's off the market.
So Walker becomes the bell of the ball. Yeah, and
it's happy days are here again. Financially, happy days are
(30:11):
here again. It's an old show watching on the reruns,
on the on the streaming and all that. But it's
like Richie Cunningham out there getting paid, getting paid big money. Now, listen,
is Walker the greatest running back? No, he's solid. He's
a solid, not great. It's like he was splitting chores
with Zach Charbonnay in Seattle and Charboney got hurt. So
(30:35):
Seattle's gonna have to bring multiple running backs in. They're
gonna draft one and then likely sign one as a
free agent, and so we'll see how this goes. But
good luck to Kenneth Walker who goes to market. Now
who's window shopping? Who's out there window shopping? So you
got the supposedly the Giants, I thought they had some
running backs. The Giants cansa city. You got the Broncos
(30:59):
have been mentioned as a possibility for Kenneth Walker. So
there's a few teams out there that are really horny
to get a running back. They're really horny to get
a running back upgrade. They see the explosive style and
all that. So Kenneth Walker, it's like the classic scene
from the old movies, ready to say, show me the money,
Show me the money. Now. My unsolicited malor advice to
(31:22):
Kenneth Walker the Super Bowl MVP, all things being equal,
you take your talents, and you take your GPS, and
you set your GPS and your talents to Arrowhead Stadium
and you go there, set that GPS and do not
look back. Do not look back now. Seat on. Meanwhile,
(31:44):
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The Wizards last one fifty games. I believe before I'm
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That was There's a lot going on. There's a lot
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pick a number one to ten. You were up first,
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M spell what.
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Spell?
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Yeah?
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Spell?
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What magic? I think?
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So?
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Okay?
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go ahead the ryot pick a number one to ten,
but not you guys are thinking different types of curses.
Number pick a. Pick a number one to ten, but
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(40:27):
it simple melody. What do you say? No?
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Me Dick, Well, you got it off my clue. Obviously
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He's excited because he wants he wants.
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Me to lose. He's a hader. Go ahead, pick a number.
Who's next, Mike, New Hampshire.
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Four?
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God, that is not hard, come on, charming? What Yeah,
that's a good one, Mike, Mike, you want to answer
night No, let's go with how about uh love?
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So a pretty decent day here. Sometimes we're coming in
here and we're polishing turds. Not that we're not polishing
turds all the time, but there's more more turds to
polish on this day as opposed to some other days.
So our lead story is from Indianapolis, where Indiana Jones
has been tagged. You can't tag Indiana Jones. Why would
(00:54):
you tag Indiana Jones? Come on, well, the Colts. If
you didn't hear and maybe not, maybe you. Here is
the deadline day to tag players, and a few players
around the NFL got tagged. The most interesting one we
start with that, and that is Daniel Jones, who was
given what they say is a rarely used the rarely
used transition tag. So he got that tag. You're it,
(01:18):
there you go. So the Colts are going to give
Daniel Jones thirty seven point eight million. Thirty seven point
eight million, that's the by now rate for Daniel Jones
there in instead of the franchise tag, which would have
paid him like an extra six million dollars on top
of that. And so that opens up the possibility since
(01:41):
it was not the franchise tag instead it was the
transition tag. It's all just red tape bull crap bureaucracy,
but it means that there is there's a way. Could
could Daniel Jones. Could Daniel Jones leave the Colt Yes,
and the compensation would go to Indian Appose, so Jones
can can sign an offer sheet with another team next
(02:03):
week March eleventh. I know you're excited about that. Mark
that on your on your calendar app on your phone,
March eleventh. There the Colts have will have five days
five days to match or allow him to wild all
go off into the wild blue yonder and get out
of here. Daniel Jones. Now, as Vin Scully used to say,
(02:24):
it is interesting to note that Indy picking up the
tag on Daniel Jones means they decided not not to
give any kind of tag. They could not do two,
so they didn't give one to Alec Pierce, the wide
receiver who they're trying to sign to a contract. So
(02:45):
that is a good jumping up point. Let us discuss
the question for the class, and you're part of the class.
Thumbs up or thumbs down on the Colts picking Daniel
Jones over Alec Pierce, that was the choice. So I've
got spaghettios, antibiotics, and one eight hundred flowers, and we
(03:09):
will combine all of these things together. We're gonna make
some Jimmy chungis is what we're gonna make, Jimmy chunk,
all right, So a the thumbs up thumbs down, I'm
going thumbs down, and I'll go another thumbs down, and
then if I can get more thumbs down, I'll get more.
But capital d down, down, down, down, down, down, down
down down. To me, this is football malpractice. It is
(03:33):
you should not be doing this. What are you thinking? Seriously?
What do you think? Indy? Now I understand the backstory.
We talked about it in he traded a gaggle of
draft picks. They got saucy. They got sauce gardener from
the Jets, and so they boxed themselves into this awkward
situation where they were stuck between the devil and the
(03:54):
deep blue sea. And so there's this financial broom closet
and they fell. They were forced to double down on
Daniel Jones, but they were not. So it's a total
panic move when you think about you look at the
resume of Daniel Jones and what even when he did
in Indy, and there's a lot of people that are
(04:15):
selectively telling you that Daniel Jones was amazing for the Colts.
And so again they were right there, devil on one side,
the deep blue Sea on the other, and they chose
to toss out the anchor. No, you're not supposed to
do that. And now you're not gonna hear this. A
lot of plays in the daytime, guys. They're suck ups,
(04:36):
most of them. So the reality is this, Daniel Jones
was on a proved deal in twenty twenty five. He
didn't prove it. He didn't and so why are you
rewarding him with this this thirty seven point eight million
dollar contract. It's for Gayzy, is what it is, right,
And so what exactly did Daniel Jones prove last year, Okay,
(04:57):
let's go through it. So he proved moved that. As
the season went on, he got exposed right that. For
a while it was a smoking mirror show. And then
eventually Daniel Jones turned into the same stumble bum that
we saw with the Giants. It was the same stumblebum.
(05:18):
You know, He's fine for a few games there at
the beginning of the year, and then the wheels on
the bus came off. The wheels on the bus. They
didn't go round and round, they came off. They did.
They did, And so Jones his wide angle wins in
his career. Look at his Pro Football Reference packed thirty
two career wins in the NFL as a starting quarterback
(05:38):
seven years, thirty two wins and then snap crackle pop
as in Indians. And he wasn't playing well before that,
and then four or five games that were el stinko
and then he got hurt and you're gonna reward him
with thirty seven point eight million because you're afraid he's
gonna leave. You should drive them to the airport and
(06:02):
you're afraid he's gonna leave. This's insanity. It's absolute insanity,
is what it is, and he's not head and shoulder.
This is the main issue. If there was no one
else who was as good as Daniel Jones would be like, Okay,
I get it. He's not head and shoulders above everyone.
He's at the same level. You look at who's available,
the contemporaries on the market, the quarterback market. If he
(06:25):
did the coll of challenge, let's do the col of chan,
do the cold chan. You got two a tongue of
Byloa Kyler Murray, the Little Fella, the Munchkin, and Daniel Jones.
Those are the three quarterbacks side by side. I call
them the spaghettios quarterbacks. And now why do I call
them the Spaghettios Because they're overwhelmed, overmatched, and overpowered on
(06:47):
a regular basist of O's a lot of o's. There,
different cans, same crappy product, same flat soda. So that's
the call to challenge there and the culture like, no, no,
we have to have our flat soda. We don't want
someone else's flat soda. We love our flat soda. Daniel Jones, baby,
oh my god. Meanwhile, wide receiver Alec Pearce, who broke
(07:13):
out all year unlike Daniel Jones, he did it all year.
He didn't do it for five games or eight games
and then disappear. He did it the entire year. He
was consistent, he was reliable to put a big stats.
He was legit in his breakout year. And so the Colts,
they could have punted on Daniel Jones, no loss there,
(07:33):
he's not that good and locked up Piers. Now they're trying,
they say to lock him up, good luck on that,
more than that in a minute. And so instead they said, no, no,
we really want fool's gold. That's what we want. So
the Colts they picked the fools goal. Congratulations all right.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Meanwhile, staying with the theme of the hour, as I
have just treated Daniel Jones like a pinata, there are
reports bouncing around the echo chamber here that's say they wait,
wait a minute, wait a minute, Minnesota, they don't have
a quarterback. They need a quarterback. What are you gonna do?
(08:10):
And that the Purple people eaters might make Eke and
Rosewo Minnesota vomit in his mouth. And they are said
to be exploring the possibility of going after Vanilla vic.
That could be the move right there, Vanilla Vick. So
question how believable. How believable are the whispers that the
(08:31):
Vikings are going to make some kind of offer to
try to pry away Daniel Jones. Not that they would
have to pry away that much, because I'm assuming the
Colts they'll come to their senses here and say, well,
we're not going to give them that contract, whatever the
Vikings offer. So I give this the very premise that
the whispers are true, that the Vikings are going to
(08:53):
make this run at Daniel Jones. I give this side eye,
all right. And the reason that I give this side
eye is we know that Minnesota has a blank square
on the quarterback bingo card. They don't have anything right.
They've tried hope, they've tried cosmic intervention, they tried JJ McCarthy,
(09:14):
which apparently he's now outside the bubble of trust. So
he's out. The bubbles burst and that's it. Pop goes
the babble. So what do you do? What do you do? Well?
You go shopping on the clearance aisle. And this is
the NFL's version of the rummaging through the dented can
(09:37):
aisle at High V You're going through all the dented
cans there and all that stuff. But Minnesota, they have
the pick of the litter. That's the goodness. I'll be
Benny Bright said, you have to pick of the litter.
Congratulations there. Of course, the Picco litter is all the cracked,
damaged and warped quarterbacks as we have laid out here.
So you've got to pick a litter. You're gonna need
(09:58):
antibiotics speak cause you're gonna get cat scratch fever is
what you're going to get. And as for Daniel Jones,
they would have to pay him, if my math is correct,
I'm using Malard math, about forty million a year on average,
a little bit more than the Vikings thing, paying about
forty million dollars a year, which would be like paying
for a thick steak at Ruth Chris Steakhouse, and you're
(10:22):
paying that price and you're getting a microwaved hot pocket. No,
I'm not here to knock the hot pocket. I've had them.
Some of them are good, some of them are horrific,
but it's not the same as a nice steak. But wait,
there's more. Oh, we're not done. No, you'd also to
get Daniel Jones. You'd have to give the Colts compensation.
(10:42):
A lot of compensation that would be. And again we
just laid out all these guys are about to say
they've all got warts and moles and all that stuff.
That would be shrewd dumbness if you decide on Daniel Jones. Now,
if you do the malord math on that, the malarads
that Danny Dimes ends up in the Twin Cities, I'll
put that at plus five hundred, which, if you're not
(11:05):
good with math, that implies, based on malor math, a
about a fifteen percent chance, about a fifteen percent chance,
which is higher than it should be, higher than it
should be. It should be because the Golden rule is
in play. And the only reason I'm going around fifteen
percent is the Golden rule, which is it's not what
(11:27):
you know, it's who you know. And it is true
that Kevin O'Connell seems to be calling the shots there
in Minnesota. He had Jones in the building for a
cup of coffee and they hung out together for half
a season, so there's a common bond. And to that,
I say, whoopedie, damn do That's what I say. I'm
leaving a fifteen percent chance on that. Now, last word, here,
(11:49):
let's circle back. We talked about Alec Pierce, the wide
receiver who was hanging out there in Indy, and the
Colts decided that they wanted to tag Daniel Jones and said, well,
you know what, we want to keep you. But yeah, okay,
So we are told the Colts are again very motivated
to get Pierce in his contract done as we're about
(12:13):
a week away now from the start of NFL free agency.
So the question who's going to be bidding, Who's going
to be bidding for the pending free agent wide receiver
late of Indianapolis here, Alec Pierce. So this is one
of those stories. I call it a one eight hundred
flower story. Now why do I call it that, because
(12:34):
this is going to look like The Bachelor, NFL edition
of The Bachelor. Imagine, if you will, Alec Pearce standing
there in a nice tuxedo and there's a bunch of teams,
now not every team, but a bunch of teams that
are lined up, and they all went and got their
roses and they said, hey, Alex, and will you accept
(12:58):
this franchise tag row and then he'll say yes or
no and all that, and he would be crazy at
this point not to test the market. So all you
have to do is wait a week and then you
are able to take bits on it from it. Of course,
there's a legal tampering periods. He's gonna already know. They
probably are now his agent knows who wants to pay
(13:19):
him or not. But he did have the breakout seasons.
We talked about Alex Pierce last year in Indianapolis, and
you gotta think his agent's phone and the text messages
and all that will be blown up like a mom
and pop pizza shop on Super Bowl Sunday, like there'll
be a lot going on. And it really comes down it,
does he want to stay in Indianapolis? Okay, fine, you
could stay there, or you could do some dumpster diving
(13:42):
with the Raiders or the Titans. Couple of crappy teams
like that that have money, bad teams with cap space
and no shame. You could say, what about the Patriots
they don't have any receivers there any good and they
got to the Super Bowl. Or the Buffalo Bills they
don't have any receivers there any good and they got
Josh Allen that they need help there. Meanwhile, Pearce is
(14:02):
sitting there like a like a guy at auction. Do
I hear thirty thirty million? Thirty million? Do I thirty
one million? Thirty one million? The back thirty one million
man the brown hatton back? All right? Thirty two million,
thirty two million, go much going twice, going three times,
So thirty two million. Someone's gonna overpay. They always do,
they always do. Be sure to.
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So our lead this hour, we go to Arizona. Now.
Back in the day, while I was doing some work
here at Fox Sports Radio, for a number of years,
I ran a gossip sports gossip website that was that
was my thing. I was whatsing around with that, did
that for a number of years, had some success with that,
got some critical acclaim whatever that's worth obviously nothing because
(15:24):
I'm not doing it anymore, although I can't buy my
website back for like ten thousand dollars or whatever it is.
But anyway, yeah, it's ridiculous. But back in the day
when I did that job, we had a mantra in
the newsroom that when I was putting that together, aggregating
a rumor is just a fact that has yet to
be discovered. And today's rumors or tomorrow's news, well that's
(15:46):
been proven correct. Again if you have not heard by now,
a story that we talked about as a rumor over
the last couple of weeks has turned out to be reality.
The Cardinals have said bye bye, and they have informed
Kyler Murray that he will be fired, that he's done,
he's out, and he is going to be able to
go to another NFL team when the new league year
(16:09):
begins a week from today. His reign of terror in
the Desert will come to an end, and they will
drive him to Sky Harbor Airport there in the Valley
of the Sun and say get out of here. Now.
Murray posted a sappy, good buy note to the fans
in the Valley of the Sun there on social media.
(16:30):
It was ninety nine words, the ninety nine ninety nine words,
and now some fans ran to defend Kyler Murray upset
that he used one word in particular. Now there were
three paragraphs, but ninety nine worth three paragraphs, and there's
one word in particular that upset people. He used the
(16:51):
word failed, and that was the money. Quote he said,
I wanted nothing more than to be the one to
and the seventy seven year route for this organization. I
am sorry, he said I failed us close quote. So
that is a good jumping off point, and let's discuss
(17:11):
the question. Kyler Murray says that he quote failed the
Arizona Cardinals and a number of jocksniffers running to defend
Kyler Murray. Is that valid or invalid that he used
the word failed? Kyler Murray, So I've got pyromaniac, memory, foam,
(17:34):
and KFC and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to play Connect three is
what we're going to play. So number one, number one.
So we ran this through the very technical, very technical
Malor Lie detector, the Mallard Lie detector, and we determined
(17:57):
there were no lies detected, no lies detected, none, Zippo, zippo.
The guy, Kyler Murray was the number one overall um
of the twenty nineteen collegiate Draft. Now, when you are
the top pick, is it fair or unfair to expect
(18:19):
that you're getting the team that's drafting the players getting
a quarterback who's a Hollywood star? Is that fair or unfair?
I believe it's fair. I believe it's fair. And I'm
the one with the microphone, so I'm gonna go first.
You can call in later if you want. I believe
that's fair. Now, did the Cardinals get a Hollywood level quarterback? No,
under any measurement, they did not get a Hollywood level quarterback.
(18:41):
What they got was a Bollywood quarterback. That's what the
not Hollywood bally would all right for bally Wood, That's
what they got. Kyler Murray saying that he failed, that's
even an understatement, right. It's like a pyromaniac arsonist showing
up to the fire and going, boy, somebody really burned
(19:05):
this place down. I wonder what that was all about Yeah,
franchise quarterbacks supposed to elevate everyone, and he didn't do it.
And to be fair, he needed a booster seat. So
we knew going in it was not gonna be easier
for Kyler Murray. Finishes ten games under five hundred, ten
games under five hundred, not exactly a franchise savior. And
(19:27):
he wasn't even a five hundred quarterback. And get the
playoff resume. And if you had been drafted, whoever you
might be, if you had been drafted with the top
pick of the twenty nineteen NFL draft, you would have
the same number today as Kyler Murray of playoff wins.
(19:48):
He didn't win a single playoff game. Squad douche in
terms of playoff wins none And you know he and
I want to kill him, and I am going to
be Benny bright Side. He said, well, you can't be
Benny Bright's. You've been ripping Kyler murright this, I was
right in Hostey And I'm sure the Arizona Republic will
write a tract shit and apology to me. And do
they still even have that newspaper? I don't know. I
(20:08):
feel like all newspapers are out of business at this point.
But if they're still around, they they said, you know what,
that guy Mattelin was right, Maybe we should pay more
attention to that overnight guy on Fox. He called this
in twenty nineteen, seven years ago. He called this anyway,
I knew right away and the moment I knew, well,
first of all, looking at Kyler Murray looks like a
glitch in a video game. Not a good one. Not
a good one. But I think it was actually on
(20:29):
Fox Sports Radio. I think it was before the draft.
Kyler Murray was interviewed. I think it was on the
Dan Patrick Show, and he was waiting for his dad
to answer question. He didn't know what to say, and
his dad was like there and his parent was along
and answering the question. I said, oh my god, this
is terrible. And that was a sign of coming attractions,
(20:51):
is what it was. So no playoff wins, he did
lead the league in one category, So I will pump
the tires on Kyler. Congratulations seven years as an NFL's
starting quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, and he led the
NFL in sacks taken. So condract, you know, impress it.
Not everyone can leave the NFL and sacks taken. But
there you go, that and that, and I don't know
(21:13):
that we'll see another quarterback that has a more impressive
signature moment playing quarterback in the NFL than Kyler Murray
who famously and it's one of the all time great
moments in my career and do this a long time.
The study clause, the homework clause in Kyler Murray's contract,
where he literally literally had to have it in writing.
(21:35):
The team had they felt it was so important. He
was such a such a loser and he was so
lazy that they had to put it in the contract
where he was contractually obligated to you know, do his
job and to like watch tape and study for the
opponent and all that stuff. And some of Europe said, well,
you know, these people say, oh, you didn't fail. He
(21:56):
did fail, that's obvious. But the good news is for
Kyler is that while he flopped playing football in Arizona
with the joystick, he was one of the great gamers
in the state of Arizona, top ten gamer. When it
comes to call of duty, first ballot, Hall of Famer,
Video Game Hall of Fame. Now I know they give
you a gold jacket when you go to the Pro
(22:17):
Football Hall of Fame? What do you get when you
go to the Gamer Hall of Fame? Is it a
golden joystick? Is there something like a cartridge? Is there?
I don't know what it is? All right now, payt you?
So keeping the drum beat going and going and going
and going. So what is the forecast? You pull out
the DoPT two thousand radar. What is the forecast for
(22:40):
Kyler Murray? Who has now been excommunicated from the Cardinals.
So what's next on the forecast? So the forecast, if
you look right now, the forecast is the He's getting
the day SPA send off. It's a nice SPA day
for Kyler. Go to the spall have a good time.
Imagine if you will, a world where you are fired
(23:04):
from your job. You're tossed overboard and you land in
a velvet lifeboat. That's Kyler Murray. Remember, sports is not
reality like the reality is. And what I mean by
that is a different cartoon issuites. It's a different world. Normally,
when somebody loses their job, you're like, oh man, I'm
(23:25):
bummed out. That sucks for that guy. He's gonna have
to go an unemployment he's gonna have to find another job.
What are you gonna do? You gotta go to the
Express Employment website and all that. So that's normal, But
in sports, the Cardinals will be paying the little munchkin
thirty six point seven million to not play quarterback. Do
(23:48):
you understand how much of a absolute loser, a jackwagon
one has to be for a team to give you
that kind of severance package that you're so useless Kyler Murray,
that the Cardinals would rather pay almost thirty seven million
(24:10):
to not have you, That you're that much of a
bad influence in the locker room, and you're that you're
that pathetic on the field. It's wild. That is a
severance package wrapped in a memory foam mattress. That is
what that is. And the Cardinals didn't just throw him
off the ship. They tossed him overboard. They gave him
(24:35):
a charcuterie board in that boat, and they gave him
a spa, you know, the rope from the spa and
just everything. I mean, this gave him everything. And the
crazy part is that now he wasn't good and we
documented that, and now there are teams that are like, wow,
this is great. I saw some NFL punnits that Kyler
(24:57):
Murray is clearly the top quarterback of ail. Really, what
is the measurement on that? How are you measuring that
Kyler Murray, who doesn't even like football, is not good
at football, is the top guy available clearly? Really? What
kind of fentanyl are you on, sir? If you think that? Seriously?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Like?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
What are we doing? But there you go, Well Kyler
Murray and there's always out. Is one man's trash is
another man's fantasy reclamation project. But to say that he's
clearly better than the other quarterbacks, I don't buy that.
I don't know how anyone with an IQ above twenty
could buy that. The Vikings again, every quarterback's being connected
(25:39):
with the Vikings, Daniel Jones, Kyler Murray. They should have
like seven quarterbacks on the field. Yeah, that's it. Just
go with four. No, no, you have three offensive linemen. You're
gonna have seven quarterbacks one wide receiver. Now you might
go with five quarterbacks and then four offensive linemen. The
rest would be be pass catchers. I mean, you could
do there's different ways you can do it, but my god,
(26:01):
so the Jets, now that would be perfect. You imagined
Kyler Murray with the Jets. The Raiders, they're gonna have
Fernando Mendoza supposedly if they keep the first pick in
the draft and they need a bridge quarterback. Of course
Kyler would be a very small bridge, but that's fine.
And the island of misfit quarterbacks right there, and even
(26:25):
this scares me a little bit. The Rams have been mentioned,
but only because the Rams hired Cliff Kingsbury as a
Sean McVay loyalist. So Cliff Kingsbury, there's a connection members
not what you know, it's who you know. And so
Cliff Kingsbury is with the Rams coaching staff unless he
gets a better job and then leaves. So Cliff Kingsbury's
hanging out there, and then Kyler Murray could come in
(26:49):
there be the backup for a year, and it's you know,
it's kind of yead. Listen, why not go play for
the minimum somewhere? Go to the Rams. Have the Rams
leak good stories about how great you look and practice
and what a great locker room guy you are. The
typical bull crap that goes out in the media, and yeah,
play for the minimum and Arizona, remember they're picking up
the tab like that rich uncle that's got a lot
(27:12):
of cash and likes to throw it around to show
everyone in the family how rich he is. And does
he want to Does Kyler Murray actually want to play
for a bad team or is he willing to go
be a backup on the Rams, take a sabbatical and
make all that money and just play video games? And
that's it all right? Meanwhile, final point to Seattle. We
(27:33):
go and you, sir, have just won the Super Bowl MVP.
What are you gonna do now? I'm gonna go find
a job somewhere else because this team doesn't want me
in a clear act of malfeasance. And I know somewhere
in the great Pacific Northwest JJ and Renton is devastated,
and no Stradinas is gonna gonna cry like crime Craig
(27:55):
because Seattle, classless Seahawks, you just went out and won
the Super Bowl MVP. Get out of here. They chose
not not the place the Seahawks. The franchise tag on
Kenneth Walker. They will let him walk away from the
Pacific Northwest. And so instead of getting a guaranteed salary
of fourteen million dollars for one year, he will run
(28:17):
off carrying his Pete Roselle Super Bowl MVP trophy and say,
I just played better than anyone else on my offense
in the Super Bowl and I'm now going to explore
the open market. There you go, all right? So the
question here which direction? Which direction? Is Seahawks running back
(28:39):
Kenneth Walker headed as he heads to the auctioning block
after and he's auctioning his own services. As we said,
he's he's a free agent and next week and go
anywhere it wants. So it's nice to know that the
Seattle Seahawks value the Super Bowl MVP like he is
a spork from KFC. So he's not just a fork
(29:03):
or a spoon. He's a spark. So he's a little
more valuable than just a fork or a spoon. It's
a multi dimensional situation, but ultimately, just a cheap piece
of takeout cutlery is what he is. And it's like, hey,
thanks for the memories. Don't let the door hit you
where the good Lord split you get out of here,
and now you're someone else's problem. You're not our problem. Now. Financially,
(29:26):
this is not bad. Financially this is not bad. This
is a bonanza. Is what it is. It's a seller's market.
Sellers market. You look at running backs, and running backs
have become more in vogue in recent years, as Skwon
Barkley in Philadelphia was the man of the hour there
for the Eagles and their championship run, and then Kenneth
Walker the Super Bowl MVP. So the last couple of
(29:47):
years it has been an uptick in running backs. So
it is a seller's market. Has said there's a shortage
of goods available, so that's a positive. And Breece Hall
got tagged by the Jets, so he's off the market.
So Walker becomes the bell of the ball. Yeah, and
it's happy days are here again. Financially, happy days are
(30:11):
here again. It's an old show watching on the reruns,
on the on the streaming and all that. But it's
like Richie Cunningham out there getting paid, getting paid big money. Now, listen,
is Walker the greatest running back? No, he's solid. He's
a solid, not great. It's like he was splitting chores
with Zach Charbonnay in Seattle and Charboney got hurt. So
(30:35):
Seattle's gonna have to bring multiple running backs in. They're
gonna draft one and then likely sign one as a
free agent, and so we'll see how this goes. But
good luck to Kenneth Walker who goes to market. Now
who's window shopping? Who's out there window shopping? So you
got the supposedly the Giants, I thought they had some
running backs. The Giants cansa city. You got the Broncos
(30:59):
have been mentioned as a possibility for Kenneth Walker. So
there's a few teams out there that are really horny
to get a running back. They're really horny to get
a running back upgrade. They see the explosive style and
all that. So Kenneth Walker, it's like the classic scene
from the old movies, ready to say, show me the money,
Show me the money. Now. My unsolicited malor advice to
(31:22):
Kenneth Walker the Super Bowl MVP, all things being equal,
you take your talents, and you take your GPS, and
you set your GPS and your talents to Arrowhead Stadium
and you go there, set that GPS and do not
look back. Do not look back now. Seat on. Meanwhile,
(31:44):
they're going to try to find again some new plastic
forks and spoons and some knives and see what they
can find there.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
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Speaker 1 (31:56):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go. Here we all agree. This
is one big gets great.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
A report over the weekend suggested that Kirk Cousins could
be selective about his next destination, that he could even
quote wait through the offseason for some team situation to
change in his favor. Ben, could you see the season
starting with Kirk Cousins unsigned.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
No, I think he'll sign. He might sign with CBS,
but he'll sign. He'll sign with somebody if the TV
hires him. I think he'll go there. But there's enough
starting jobs open. There's not enough quarterbacks. There'll be a
job if he wants to get a job in Pittsburgh.
If Rogers doesn't go there in Miami, Minnesota yet again, Arizona,
they bunch of you up next.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Trey Ungon hasn't played a minute for the Washington Wizards,
but he's already been kicked out of a game after
being ejected from the bench on Monday, Fans in DC
were loving it, going to social media to proclaim Young
a legend. Yes, Ben, do you think Young is going
to bring the Wizards back from irrelevance.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The Wizards last one fifty games. I believe before I'm
a lot, before I was a live coop. I've been along.
I've been around a long time. No, not gonna have
Anthony Davis. The guy's always hurting. Next.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
With March Madness soon approaching, talks of an NCAA tournament
expansion have revved up again. However, coach k said, that's
a big mistake. You don't mess with something that is gold.
Is he right?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Well, it's risky, but if TV is willing to pay
for it, whatever TV wants, they're gonna do. They've proven
that in college basketball. How do we how do we do? Coop?
You pass hours? They would put it on the bar,
put it on the chicken dinna.
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going to help you. Dear Rye, gear Rye, and I
hear right and n dear.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Ry you heard the man.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
It's own for love Here on the ben mallor show.
You know, sports season down, so love season is up. Baby,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Let's do this here, Lorena, huh huh, fired up. I
have a bunch of random questions by random people.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
I love random questions.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Okay, ferg Dog rights In says, is it okay to
use AI to talk to women if you have no game?
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Oh my gosh, I think that's very creative.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
It's like Google Translate for women.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Yeah, because you will.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
I mean, every conversation's random anyways, So why not practice
on someone who's not.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Going to give you the ick face every time?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Good chatbot or something like that. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
It's the same as trying new moves on a blow
up doll, like they're not gonna judge.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
You, all right. Douglas writes in from Mississippi, says, I'm
forty three. If I only had two partners and I
married both of them, one was twenty one years the
second going on seven, What does that say about me?
What do you think, Lorena?
Speaker 6 (34:57):
That sounds like you're a one girl type of guy?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, well, obviously you know he's not out there. You
sound faithful, yes, very much, though that's what it sounds.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Maybe you're a little afraid to try new things.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Well, he's locked up now, but if the contract ends
or something like that, I guess.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
But a lot of people want to try out the ocean,
you know, when they break up with.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
A fish, the motion in the ocean, and yeah, they don't.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Just hop into another full time gig. So that's impressive.
Congratulations on your commitments.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
All right. Uh Kyle rights in from parts unknown. He says,
I really want my wife to give me a blank
hold on here. It's not not that it's a you
know what that is? Lerin, I said off here.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
Yeah, No, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I don't know how to ask hold on? I should
I even google it? Hold on? I mean you should.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
I want to know it all.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Thank you. I'm glad you're.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Encouraging me to I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Hold on a second. Let me see. I mean, maybe
it's harmless, maybe it's really sweet and innocent. Oh okay,
oh yeah, yeah, okay, Well so that is okay, So
that's yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that is. That's
a code word for that. I didn't know that.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Yeah, just gonna say filatio the lollipop, you know. Yeah, No,
so you want you want your.
Speaker 7 (36:19):
Woman to do that, apparently, Well, make sure you take
care of yourself. Okay, make sure you make yourself delectable,
because you know sometimes a woman doesn't do it because
you know, certain things don't need to be down there.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Yeah, make sure you take care of yourself and then.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Also good hygiene.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Yeah, and then also trying to do a game.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
A game, will you win the game? Break the game?
You'll win?
Speaker 6 (36:40):
And what cream on it?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Okay, there you go a little bit. Yes. JT the
wingman says, how do you keep your Ben Mallard? Make
sure you reciprocate there you are, he says, make sure.
JT the woman says, how do you keep your Ben
mallor show wife happy when there is such a long
time between malor meet and greets?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
That said, JT, Yeah, no, that would be really we're
gonna have This is.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Gonna be a big year for meet and greets. So
I think we're gonna I think where if everything goes
as planned, I think we're gonna set a record for
meet and greets in the year. I'm so we got
to do. We haven't no one in La in a while.
We're based in.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
La, so I've been here two years, we haven't.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Okay, so it's been a while. Vegas. We got to
do again. If slugs on board with that, gonna do Ohio,
going to do Boston. I'd like to do San Francisco.
That would be a record. That would be a record
if we.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Fit all that in between here and now, like you
and your Mallard girlfriend would be on Cloud Night. Yeah,
you might even have a Mallard baby by then.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
All Right, RPS says, what to do if I'm an
older lady trying to court a younger fellow, please help.
By the way, I'm nineteen year old Malatese and he
is fifty five. There you go a bit of a dog,
I think, yeah, wait, wait, wait, I just go with it.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
Yeah, I was thinking it was a cougar coming in.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
The cougars are coming, The cougars are coming for Yeah,
Michael says, would your date a shorter guy when you dead.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
A short, short man? It's really ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Okay, she likes the shorties.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
They're just so cute.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Get Shorty, Get Shorty.
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everyone and The password is password, you idiot, password the
word Game of the Stars.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Here's Ben Meler. Let's do it right now. Password time.
Let's welcome in. We have Mike in New Hampshire. Who's
gonna play? Hello Mike, good morning.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
I think I need meds after that last second.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, we'll try not to do that again.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
That was.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
That was There's a lot going on. There's a lot
going on. Yeah, all right, who do you want to
partner up with? Mike in New Hampshire? Got me, Ben,
you got Loraina, got Kopolo.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
But let's change things up a little bit. Lreda, you gained.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Sure. She sounds very excited, Mike. Let me tell you
something that she's so happy. Mike, you've made her day
very nice. And we have Ryan in ran Rapids, Michigan. Hello, Ryan, welcome. Hey,
how's it going. Thanks for having me? Good to have you. Ryan.
Who do you want to partner up with? You've got
me as an option or the Kooper loop.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
That's right. We're in it to win it. We're in
it to win it. Ryan, Let's play the game here.
We nervous, you got no chance. You might as well
conceived defeat right now, here we go. Let's play the game. Mike,
pick a number one to ten. You were up first,
Mike in New Hampshire. Eight number eight good one?
Speaker 6 (39:31):
M spell what.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Spell?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Spell?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
What magic? I think?
Speaker 2 (39:48):
So?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Uh uh yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, I'm gonna go
with obscenity. Hey, one more times obscenity curse.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yeah, there you go. All right, gosh, good job of Okay, Lorena,
go ahead the ryot pick a number one to ten,
but not you guys are thinking different types of curses.
Number pick a. Pick a number one to ten, but
not eight. Number. Dude, let's go with uh, we'll keep
(40:27):
it simple melody. What do you say? No?
Speaker 6 (40:35):
Alright, Loreen, I'm gonna go with harmony.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Me Dick, Well, you got it off my clue. Obviously
you got it off my clue. All right, what the
tie game? Why? Why are you yelling? You don't need
to yell.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
He's excited because he wants he wants.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Me to lose. He's a hader. Go ahead, pick a number.
Who's next, Mike, New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Four?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
God, that is not hard, come on, charming? What Yeah,
that's a good one, Mike, Mike, you want to answer
night No, let's go with how about uh love?
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Oh come on, Ryan, you're a lover.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Come on passion. No, we're gonna be The word was romantic?
Was the word? There's no ties tie. There's no ties
in radio tie
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The Clifford Show with Clifford Taylor IV blends humor, culture, and behind-the-scenes sports talk with real conversations featuring athletes, creators, and personalities—spotlighting the grind, the growth, and the opportunities shaping the next generation of sports and culture.