March 6, 2026 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about the Cowboys deciding not to pursue Maxx Crosby, the Bears trading WR D.J. Moore to the Bills, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, and much more!
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All right, so our lead to begin. We're gonna start
with the grapevine. It is the silly season, and when
it is the silly season, you must go on a
rampage and enjoy every little nugget that comes out. So
we start out deep in the heart of Texas. The
plot thickens in Jerry's world. Have you heard the latest
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on this? Have you been following?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay, good? Good for you? Maybe not. So we've learned
now that the Cowboys thought they assumed, you know what
happens when you assume they were close to acquiring Raiders
Edge rusher Max Crosby. That's Max with two xes, not
three xes. Max Crosby via a trade this week. However,
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apparently that did not happen because he's Crosby's I've been
traded and the other teams have been sniffing around trying
to get in there. And so now the offers that
the Raiders have are supposedly greater than the Cowboys offer.
And I love that the report said that the offers
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for Crosby are potentially potentially up to two first round
draft picks. So the Cowboys, again this is the scuttle butt,
have tapped out. They've tossed in the sponge here and
pivoted to free agent defensive end or as soon to
be free agent defensive end Trey Hendrickson, who the Bengals
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decided they didn't want to pay anymore, and so they
got rid of him. Get out of here, you're done.
We can have the NFL's worst defense without you. We
don't need you. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss. There's a lot to this. So the question,
the reporting the Cowboys are bowing out of the Max
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Crosby sweepsteaks, what's that storyline? Tell you? So my thoughts
on this. I've got QBC Madrid and large yellow sticker,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we're going to pull the pin on an audio grenade,
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is what we're going to dell. Yeah, I know, I know,
all right, so a I like to use the time
tested Mallard Schnaz test and do the old smell test.
So I'm gonna do that right now. Yeah. So it
smells like Jerry Jones is doing what Jerry Jones does best.
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He wins the off season. You can rip them all
you want, you can say that what he does is
a throwback to medieval times, but he wins the off season.
The marketing circus under the Big Top fun for all ages,
Come one, come all. Jerry's great at it. Not just
an owner, He's a marketing maven, an absolute marketing maven.
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The Guide treats the NFL like QVC. Everything is a promotion,
Everything is a teaser trailer. Jerry leaks out, Dallas is out,
the Sharks starts circling. The debate shows start going on
and on about the cowboys. Of course, Jerry don't have
to say anything for the debate shows to talk about
the cowboys. Everyone gets all worked into a lather, all
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worked into a ladder, and suddenly the cowboys are the
lead story yet again and MaTx Crosby right now is
sitting on a folding chair somewhere out there, maybe a table,
I think maybe a chair, sitting on a chair there.
And the flea market is open for business. And then
the Raiders are walking around and Tom Brady's got his
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skinny pants on. You get the megaphone out there. Who
wants an all pro pass rusher? Come on down, come
on down? Right now? Do I hear two first round picks?
How about two first rounds? The second round pick? Now, somebody.
Here's my theory on this. If somebody met the reserve
price for Max Crosby, then he wouldn't be in Vegas.
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And I just checked before we cracked the microphones, and
he's still he's still with the Raiders, so he hadn't
been traded. There's no report of a trade happening, So
that would mean that that report was wishful thinking. And
they did use the weasel word. Remember this is the
time of the year pop goes to weasel You got
to pay attention to weasel words. And so when you
use words like potentially, right, potentially great weasel word, really
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solid weasel word, potential. Yeah, it's just outstanding. See throw
it all together and it hadn't happened in the trade
of Max Crosby, Say, Jerry, is it possible? Is there
a world, a dimension in the multiverse where Jerry Jones
leaked this out? And the Cowboys they stay in the headlines.
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And then it's the art of negotiation via trickeration, the
old negotiation trickeration, smoke mirrors and a couple of planted
stories to useful idiots in the media, and the message
to Crosby. It's like a dog whistle to Crosby. I'll say, hey, listen,
if you want to play in Dallas, which is the
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Raiders with a different logo on the helmet, then start
raising a ruckus in Vegas. You got to create chaos,
a hulla baloo if you want that. Now, keeping the
theme going page two here, as we continue all night
on the Ben Maler Show, so we are told the
Cowboys are expected to shift their focus to instead of
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continuing to try to get Max Crosby to acquire when
the new league year begins, free agent Trey Hendrickson of
the Well he was with the Ben Gals. So let's pretend,
for the purposes of this Mallar monologue that that's not
some kind of squeeze play and that this is actually
the real deal. And that's true. So the question, if
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Dallas is pivoting to Trey Hendrickson over Max Crosby, how
big a downgrade would that be for the Cowboys side
by side? So if you go side by side, if
the Cowboys do pivot from Max Crosby to Trey Hendrickson,
I'm gonna use a sandwich analogy, the Hogi analogy here
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it's similar but not the same. For example, Max Crosby,
if you were to look not a list but a
big board, Benny's big board of sandwiches, a properly made
cheese steak. As the godfather of Fox Sports Radio, the
great Tony Bruno taught me years ago, you gotta have
the provolone, not the cheese whiz on, that the right
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kind of bread, the whole thing. Throw that together. That's
a perfect sandwich, the cheese steak sandwich with the onion,
the peppers and all that. That's the way to do it. Now. Hendrickson,
he's a sandwich. However, he's like a spicy chicken sandwich
that's been sitting out under a heating lamp at a
seven to eleven for the last twenty two hours. Not
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quite the same, not quite the same, a sandwich, but
not quite the same. Now both these guys get sacks. However,
when the run game comes towards Hendrickson, he undergoes a metamorphosis.
He travels through time to Madrid, Spain. He becomes a bullfighter,
a matador ole lay and running backs. They just go
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who right by him? Now, Crosby, when you look at
his body of work here he's a Swiss army knife
and he's able to play the run and wants to
play all the time, and all that has been durable.
And he's also a little bit younger and in that
business obviously, that's a big deal. The kind of a
guy that is the centerpiece. Not that Hendrickson wouldn't be
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the centerpiece. The cowboys have a bunch of no names
and bums on defense Flotsham and Jetsam. But he's more.
Instead of a Swiss army knife that has a little
bit of everything, he's more like a switchblade. Doesn't have
the other attachments, just a switchblade. That's it. That's all
he's got. So Jerry is being a it would appear again,
how much of this is true, and how much of
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this is for public consumption. As Jerry likes to say,
when things get boring around here, I like to stir
it up a little bit so it looks from the
outside that Jerry is being a frugal shopper, that he's
being a frugal shopper budgets tight. You know, it is
true that those megayachts and Jerry's got a really nice
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yacht last we heard, and you need to have a
bunch of people on staff for that. If you want
to enjoy the South of France, you got to have
the internet on there. You gotta have, you know, the
greatest chefs and the cleaning people and servants and all
that on those megayachts. And so if you spend a
little more on Max Crosby, do you then have to
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get rid of your butler, your second or third butler
on the yacht. That's a tough decision. I think we
can all understand and relate to the dilemma that Jerry
would have. All right, now, last word to the belt
Way we go a player that we have talked about
way too much. I was saying about this when I
was coming to the studio. I was like, we've talked
about this guy way too much, considering how few impact
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moments he's had in his career. Now who am I
talking about? That would be Brandon Auk, the wide receiver
who I guess is technically part of the forty nine Ers.
I guess the new league year starts next week. So
there's some chatter, and we love our chatter that the
Commanders could sign Brandon Ayuk to a one year prove
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it deal, a one year prove it deal if the
forty nine Ers end up doing they release them, which
I assume we all assume that's going to happen. It
seems like that's obviously the Niners are pretty much said
they're gonna get rid of him, whether they trade them
or release them. More likely you would just release him
because why would you trade for a player who's going
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to be released anyway. So the question on this one
what stands out, if anything, what stands out to you
about Washington, the team formerly known as the Redskins looking
to add wide receiver Brandon Auk on a prove it contract.
So the first thing is rather clear. I think everyone
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you know, the person in the back of the room over.
The person in the way in the back of the
warehouse is not even listening. They know. The NFL motto
is never give up on talent, even when the talent,
like in this case, is clearly given up on their
own frontal lobe. You just don't give up on the talent,
you don't, you know. I mean, there's a wide receiver
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right now in jail who killed a young woman and
her dog. They burned up alive because of him, and
he's gonna get out of jail relatively soon, and someone's
gonna give him a tryout. That's how the NFL operates,
That's how they do things there. Obviously this is not
that this is much much different, but Brandon auc has
a large yellow sticker that has been slapped on his
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back and it reads buyer, Beware, buyer Beware. A dynamic
separation merchant, an artist of separation who has also managed
to separate himself from his teammates. His coach is not
his own ego, though he cannot separate himself from his
own ego, and after that Frisco fiasco where he cost
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himself a cool twenty seven million, you realize in the
annals of the NFL there are only a handful of
people in the history of the NFL that have blown
twenty seven million dollars of their money guaranteed loot. There's
a guy in jail that was going around robbing banks
to go to Chiefs games and to gamble. And that
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guy didn't get twenty seven million when he was robbing banks.
This guy gave up twenty seven million, the steepest exit
tax to leave California yet and certainly in NFL history.
And he's now looking to have what make it prove
it deals? That's what he's got, which even that, you're like,
why does he even have that? What is he out
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to prove? He's out to prove what that he's not
some kind of high speed social media addicted powder keg.
And that's what is it give the commanders? And then
the commanders are in this weird spot. They came out
of know where they had sucked for years. They came
out of know where. It got to the Final four
and then got smoked in the final four, had that
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magic playoff run. Jayden Daniels looks like he's gonna snap
at any moment. He snapped last year. And the commanders
are terrible and so if they pull the trigger on this,
they can enjoy a nice lunch menu that includes their
own sandwich, the knuckle Sandwich from the knucklehead in Chief.
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And look forward to the two receivers set in Washington.
On one side, you'll have scary Terry McLaren. On the
other side, you'll have scary immaturity iyuk and good Luck
good Luck and Washington supposedly realizing that even if they
got this guy, they still have to go get somebody
else at the White opposition. And so the reason you
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would have to do that is because whoever adds the
soon to be former forty nine or Brandon knows that
they are one or he is one bad tick talk
post away from a self inflicted trip back to the doghouse.
And good luck. Now in DC, they'll learn the only
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thing more toxic, the only more toxic in DC than politics,
is a white out who sends communication via a cryptic
emoji or a bunch of cryptic emojis and cannot stop
cold turkey, cannot do it, addicted, addicted, and is so
addicted to it that he's willing to give up twenty
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seven million dollars at some point if he's lucky. Brandon
and I could be an old man and'll be sitting
on a rocking chair somewhere and talking about his life
and say, you know, maybe I shouldn't have Maybe I
shouldn't have done that. Maybe I just you know, I
could have been could have had a little more money there,
leave the kids, grandkids, great grandkids.
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So our lead this hour is from the transaction Wire.
We go where the Buffalo Roam and the NFL. The
Bills have made a move. They needed help. They don't
have much there. They didn't have much there at the
wide receiver position. I assume you've heard by now, but
maybe not if you missed it. We learned that the
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Buffalo football team as acquired wide receiver d J. Moore
and a fifth round draft pick and they gave the
Bears dump Bears a second round pick. Yeah, so this
is now the new player that has been deputized, DJ
Moore to get Josh Allen over the Humpty Humpty and
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get him into the super Bowl and win the Super
Bowl and all that. That is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question is wide receiver d J.
Moore going to be a success or will he be
another Bills boondoggle? Is he going to be a success
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or another Bills boondoggle? So my observations, I've got airport,
gift shop, CBS Special and treasure map and we're gonna
lock all of these things together and go boom goes
to dynamite boom so number number. Yeah. After a very brief,
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a very very brief Mallard deliberation in the jury room,
we have come to the verdict on this and that
would be the Malard report card. On the Malard report card,
the Buffalo Bills. This is the most coveted report card
in all of overnight talk radio. The Buffalo Bills get
a C, they get the CE, the Chicago Bears a bit.
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The Bears actually did better in this than the Bills,
and that almost never happens. And I'll tell you why.
Let me walk you through this. Yere, Chicago had let
the world know they were getting a new DJ. They
were done with DJ Moore. Yafimi knows this tree in Chicago.
All my guys there in Chicago knows. So Chicago essentially
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sold the used car that already had to check engine
light and they said, okay, we can get that. I mean,
they got top dollar for it, no haggling, they got
top dollar. And more was being phased out of the
Bears offense, kind of like an old iPhone, like an
iPhone five or something like that. And Romadunza and others
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arrived on the scene. The pecking order had changed, and
suddenly DJ Moore's stat line had some supply chain issues.
He was not getting the ball enough. There was a
shortage of targets. And now the question is why would
Buffalo with all the receivers that are available, why would
they trade a second round pick for this guy. So
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the reason I've determined is you follow the breadcrumbs. The
new coach, Joe Brady, I believe this is the gentleman's name.
He won't be there long, but he worked with DJ
Moore back in Carolina. So the coach Brady and Moore
worked together with the Carolina Panthers. And as always, you
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don't need to send a group text about this. But
it's not what you know, it's who you know, which
is really tough if you're an introvert, because it's really
not what you know, it's who you know. Now that said,
if you're looking this objectively, looking at this objective, then
there's nothing more objective than overnight sports radio. Free agents
treat Buffalo like it's Siberia with chicken wings. The players
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the Bills get are typically older, broken down, and have
no other options. That's typically who goes to the Bills.
It's a hard sell in free agency. It is. It's
not a glamour location, and you know it's got a
great fan base and all that's wonderful, that it's just
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not people want to go there. So this is more
like shopping the Bills getting DJ more It's kind of
like shopping at the airport gift shop. We've all done it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Maybe when you were a kid, Hey, I need I
need a souvenir. You forgot you Maybe you were supposed
to get your kids a souvenir. You went on a
business trip or something like that, and you forgot to
get a souvenir. You're like, oh, crap, man, I got
to get my kid at souvenir. So you're at the
airport and you end up paying like fifty dollars for
a T shirt that should cost about fifteen dollars or whatever,
and then you bought it. Now, add in the fact,
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as we slice and dice this, add in the fact
that DJ Moore's got the double whammy. What is the
double whammy? Well, questionable effort, bad attitude, what whoe? What whoe?
A chronic case of IDGA f itis. I don't give
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I forget what the f wort is, but something fun
I don't give a fun. No, I don't think that's it.
Fudge might be fudge lollygagging through routes or roots. There
were some clips online that were made months ago of
and you can look him up yourself. You know even
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Stevie Meatballs can see them. But they showed clips of
DJ Moore who was lollygagging. It looked like he was
touring a museum on his routes and he didn't want
to be at that particularly museum, and he was doing it.
And so now Buffalo was hoping for a rebirth, a reboot,
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and there is talent there Dj Moore. The reason that
he has had the long career in the NFL is
because he has the reputation of a guy that can
turn a five yard pass into a highlight. It was
a slippery player, elusive, and so that's very valuable. But
more as he has not been that guy sliding away
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the last couple years. And so now by default he
is the number one wide number. He will go ahead
of the other pass catchers and Buffalo the other people
that get the ball a lot Khalil Shakur and Dalton
Kincaid and those guys Buffalo betting. They are betting on
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a career resurrection tour, a comeback tour for the ages,
one of those things. Will it work? Eh? Or maybe
this just turns into another magic trick, a disappearing, disappearing
second round pick for a player who is washed up.
All right, so we'll see all right now, Page two
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to the Quarterback Shuffle, the fun size edition of the
Quarterback Shuffle. The latest on Alligator Arms. He's on the
move again, Yes, Alligator Arms. You think that a number
of these teams would be frightened to death at doing
business with Kyler Murray, That where well, will likely be
the case. However, the rumors are in the air everywhere.
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The latest one which I heard and smiled when I
saw this, I thought, boy, that's pretty good, that's pretty funny.
So we're hearing now that the the team that is
considering Kyler Murray. One of the teams considering Kyler Murray
is a team that had not been mentioned, had not
been mentioned, that team Canza City. What yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So it's like an insurance policy for Patrick Mahomes who's
recovering from a torn acl little snap, crackle pop there.
So Adam Schefter, the NFL insider who famously reported years
ago that Kandy Rice was a candidate to be the
coach of the Cleveland Browns. So Adam Schefter or general
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manager whatever, but Adam Schefter brought off the Chiefs as
a possible landing spot for Kyler Murray. So the question
are we buying Are we buying this Kyler Murray to
Kansas City garbage or is this just more spin from
Kyler Murray's the people that are trying to get him
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a job somewhere and peddling things through back channels. So
this one I jotted down on my note card CVS
special click views spreader, click views spreader as in click
any click. There is not going to be a stampede
for Kyler Murray. There's not. And that's all this is
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is engagement farming. It's a total non starter. Why would
Kansas City, run by a Hall of Famer Andy Reid,
the gold standard, invite this little bug on the rug,
this virus into the building. There'd be no reason to
do that. It's an absolute joke. If I'm drafting a league,
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and I say league, I mean League of Legends, team
Kyler Murray is my first overall pick, I would be
scratching and clawing to get my hot my hands on
Kyler Murray. The little fella is the goat of the joystick. However,
the Chiefs they don't use the joystick. They use the duke.
We're good alligator arms. Kyler Murray should be on the
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no fly list for a reason. Here's another guy. He's
got some attitude issues, pouting and all that. Mahomes has.
How many years do you think Mahomes has left. He's
in his early thirty he got seven, seven, eight years.
If he wants to keep going, he's got to pay
for those water burgers. He's got that water burger empire,
so he's got to buy more water burgers. What a shot?
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What a burger? He doesn't need a backup? Who'd rather
be on Twitch than watching film? And it isn't I
don't want this to happen. But if Kyler wants a
gap year, a sabbatical and to go to a good
team and be a backup, then just go go to
the Rams. I don't want that. I would dislike that
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a lot. Of course, most of the people in my
career that I have bashed end up with teams I
like that. Seems to be how this always happens. It's
a return of the curse of the Benbino. Bro. I'm
risking my life, bro that slug Blake snails on the Dodgers.
I did a lot of material ripping James Harden playoff Harden.
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He ended up playing for the Clippers for a little bit.
And now there's a chance that Kyler Murray ends up
with the Rams. But that would actually make some sense
because Cliff Kingsbury is there, and that means it's a
safe space for him. Cliff Kingsbury who allowed Kyler to
play all the video games unchecked and all that. So
Kyler likes him because he's the parent that lets you
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get away with everything. But the Chiefs. If you're the Chiefs,
you don't put a juice box in a wine cellar.
The quarterback room's a wine cellar. You don't put a
juice box in there. What are you doing? All? Right?
Final point? Now we go to Tampa where a little
birdie tells us the wide receiver mark for Mike Evans
is not looking that great. The Tennessee Titans and the Raiders.
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Those are the two teams that are said to be
the most interested in Mike Evans should he end up
leaving Tampa Bay. Those are the two teams that are
trying to get their hands and rallying around to get
a wide receiver Mike Evans. So the question you've got
this pending free agent wide receiver Mike Evans, who is
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very popular with Tennessee and Vegas. You make the call
on what that means. So I will make the call here.
I've read the treasure map. I've looked at the treasure map.
It means that all roads and all bodies of water
lead back to Tampa, all of them. There is no
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decision to be made. You're telling me that your options are.
You can either go play for the quote we asked Titans.
That's not my nickname. That's cam Ward's nickname for the Titans,
the wee ass Titans, or the Supreme Greens Raiders. Now,
if you don't know the history of Supreme Greens and
you want to get an education, type into Google Alex Guerrero,
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that's Tom Brady's best friend and Supreme Greens. Check that out. Yeah. Absolutely,
even that would make Doc Mike blush that story. So
that whole thing's pathetic. It's kind of like these choices
are like being the kid and your parents says, Okay
for dinner, We've got Brussels sprouts and cauliflower, and you
have to pick one. Well, no, you're a picky little eater.
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You look at the stats. Evans, I get that he's
coming off a bad year. He was hurt, he had
less than four hundred yards receiving, only had a few touchdowns.
He played I think it was like eight games or
something like that. Had a hammy that went whammy, that
was taped together and then the collar bone went snap,
crackle pop like a windshield there and a bunch of pieces,
so damage goods. He's at the age where that's a problem.
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And unless if I'm Mike Evans, unless the Patriots, Bills
or Chiefs come knocking on the door, I hear them
knocking right there. Unless they come knocking on the door,
you don't move. Why would you? Now if they call
you pack the suitcase and you hitchhike out of dodge
and you say bye bye, we'll see you later, get
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out here. And otherwise you bunker down in the pirate
ship and to quote the Great Gene Decker, off fire
the cannons is what you do because the other options.
If this is accurate, it's shiver me, Timbers, Raiders and
the Titans. No bueno, no bueno on that.
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Speaker 1 (29:56):
It's mallar. How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets
grilled Krubolo.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Miles Garrett just signed a contract extension last offseason, but
teams apparently think the Browns could still trade him. Teams
have reportedly reached out and Cleveland is listening. Ben, do
you think he actually gets traded?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I say there's a ten percent chance. He's all that
Cleveland has. They have no other star players. Everyone else
saw Shooter Sanders blows, so he's the only they have
and they don't They can't win, so they got at
least one star player. So I'd say there's a there's
a ten percent chance that Miles Garrett is traded before
the NFL Draft next And.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
The latest trade rumors, Kawhi Leonard is being linked to
these seventy six ers. This would reunite him with former
teammate Paul George. Seventy six Ers are currently on the
fringe of contention in the East. Would this move a
catapult them to the top?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Only if they hire Doc Rivers as the coach, then
they would be going No, come on, listen, Well, Couy's
got issues. Who knows what's going to happen with this investigation?
And I'm done with Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Next, Team USA dominated the Rockies in the final exhibition
match of the World Baseball Classic. That's got people excited,
with some even claiming this is the most uh do
I care?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I don't care. I do not care. Coop, I do
not I'm not into a coop. I don't care. Thank
you heard the good.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
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It's Big Man's lame joke of the Week. Lame jokes,
Lame jokes of the week. These are actual jokes by
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There we go? All right now, weed man, I had
to wake you up, Weed Man. I'm gonna contact HR.
I'm gonna contact HR. Weed Man. What is up with that?
Weed Man? How dare you? No?
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You didn't wing me up?
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And I was just calling. No you, I know when
someone's sleeping and they answer the phone. Just admit it.
It's okay. You were sleeping.
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I was just calling right then. Okay, yeah, I just
worked the guy just worked the clock and it was
four point thirty and I was just waiting a couple
of minutes more. Okay, all right, all right, so you
were not listening. You admit you were not listening. Yeah,
oh no, I wasn't looking. Okay, here we go, weed Man.
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These are actual jokes by actual listeners. SpongeBob square Pants
sent this one in He says, why did weed Man
get fired from the landscaping company? Why? Because when asked
to pull the weeds, he smoked them instead, Let's spent them.
I wonder if SpongeBob smoked seaweed he I will have
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to ask him next time he calls. Who is weed
Man's least favorite coach? Who a job coach? That's Eric
in Kansas, who also said, Hey, Ben, what does weed
man do for spring cleaning? What he empties the ashtrays?
He's where the area is out?
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Where?
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Young?
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Do you still have your latest ring for mister irrigation
weed Man? Yeah? Dude, great, you haven't lost it yet. Okay, good?
What can what can weed Man remember the next time
life gets Hard. What at least I'm not blind, Scott,
that's noahing in I know, Genie? Why is weed Man
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so good at opera? Why you love the high notes?
You love him weed Man? Michael African? Why did weed
Man stop dropping acid? Why the die Hard broke three
of his toes? I said Terry in St. Paul. Kathy
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and Madison sent this one, and she's a big fan
weed Man. Kathy and Madison big fan of Hey, did
you know or do you know rather why Miami police
kept throwing weed Man in jail? Why they wanted to
hear him laugh in person? Says Kathy. Well, a lot
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of people know this, but apparently weed Man is going
to Ireland for Saint Patty's a Why is weed Man
going to Ireland for St? Patty?
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Wow?
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Wow? Why? Well, because the grass is always greener over there.
That's from Mike the Lepica. What is the what is
the difference between a slow cooker and weed Man? What
one's a crock pot and the others a crack pot?
That's from Uh. This next one's from Lucky Tony. He said,
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what happened when weed Man fell asleep during his doctor visit?
What apparently you woke up with a thermometer in your
mouth and a for some reason, there was a breath
mint in your took us. I don't know why. That's
our lucky Tony. Did you hear that? Weed? Man is
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worried about losing an hour of beauty sleep this week?
You know it's daylight savings time?
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Are you really?
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Yeah? Yeah, Sun Sunday and yeah, two in the morning
turns hour ahead unless you're in like Arizona, Indiana.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, the phone will do it. You got the Obama phone, right,
You're good on that. You're good on that. Yeah. But
do you you're worried though about losing an hour beauty sleep?
Do you hear about that? Yeah? Yeah, apparently you know
you said you thought that you're you're gonna try not
to get ahead of your of yourself. That's Tom in Indiana.
Your time? What do you call? These are some other
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jokes Surfer Todd, the comedian multi time lame joke Righter
of the Year. What do you call a narcoleptic terrorist?
What a sleeper cell? There you go? What? What's hollering?
James favorite type of study? What sleep study? Eric in Kansas? What?
What game will blind? Scott never be able to play
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What I Spy? That's Noah in How does hollering James
know his viagra is at least working five days a week.
The pizza guy tells him that's a lucky Tony. Uh,
that's not that I went in there. You go, all right,
what's what's Marcell's favorite football position? What blocker? That's Mike
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the Leprechaun. And there you go, Big Ben's lame jokes,
the wait you eat men. Go back to bed. God,
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All right, so our lead to begin. We're gonna start
with the grapevine. It is the silly season, and when
it is the silly season, you must go on a
rampage and enjoy every little nugget that comes out. So
we start out deep in the heart of Texas. The
plot thickens in Jerry's world. Have you heard the latest
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on this? Have you been following?
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No?
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Okay, good? Good for you? Maybe not. So we've learned
now that the Cowboys thought they assumed, you know what
happens when you assume they were close to acquiring Raiders
Edge rusher Max Crosby. That's Max with two xes, not
three xes. Max Crosby via a trade this week. However,
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apparently that did not happen because he's Crosby's I've been
traded and the other teams have been sniffing around trying
to get in there. And so now the offers that
the Raiders have are supposedly greater than the Cowboys offer.
And I love that the report said that the offers
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for Crosby are potentially potentially up to two first round
draft picks. So the Cowboys, again this is the scuttle butt,
have tapped out. They've tossed in the sponge here and
pivoted to free agent defensive end or as soon to
be free agent defensive end Trey Hendrickson, who the Bengals
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decided they didn't want to pay anymore, and so they
got rid of him. Get out of here, you're done.
We can have the NFL's worst defense without you. We
don't need you. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss. There's a lot to this. So the question,
the reporting the Cowboys are bowing out of the Max
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Crosby sweepsteaks, what's that storyline? Tell you? So my thoughts
on this. I've got QBC Madrid and large yellow sticker,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we're going to pull the pin on an audio grenade,
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is what we're going to dell. Yeah, I know, I know,
all right, so a I like to use the time
tested Mallard Schnaz test and do the old smell test.
So I'm gonna do that right now. Yeah. So it
smells like Jerry Jones is doing what Jerry Jones does best.
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He wins the off season. You can rip them all
you want, you can say that what he does is
a throwback to medieval times, but he wins the off season.
The marketing circus under the Big Top fun for all ages,
Come one, come all. Jerry's great at it. Not just
an owner, He's a marketing maven, an absolute marketing maven.
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The Guide treats the NFL like QVC. Everything is a promotion,
Everything is a teaser trailer. Jerry leaks out, Dallas is out,
the Sharks starts circling. The debate shows start going on
and on about the cowboys. Of course, Jerry don't have
to say anything for the debate shows to talk about
the cowboys. Everyone gets all worked into a lather, all
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worked into a ladder, and suddenly the cowboys are the
lead story yet again and MaTx Crosby right now is
sitting on a folding chair somewhere out there, maybe a table,
I think maybe a chair, sitting on a chair there.
And the flea market is open for business. And then
the Raiders are walking around and Tom Brady's got his
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skinny pants on. You get the megaphone out there. Who
wants an all pro pass rusher? Come on down, come
on down? Right now? Do I hear two first round picks?
How about two first rounds? The second round pick? Now, somebody.
Here's my theory on this. If somebody met the reserve
price for Max Crosby, then he wouldn't be in Vegas.
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And I just checked before we cracked the microphones, and
he's still he's still with the Raiders, so he hadn't
been traded. There's no report of a trade happening, So
that would mean that that report was wishful thinking. And
they did use the weasel word. Remember this is the
time of the year pop goes to weasel You got
to pay attention to weasel words. And so when you
use words like potentially, right, potentially great weasel word, really
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solid weasel word, potential. Yeah, it's just outstanding. See throw
it all together and it hadn't happened in the trade
of Max Crosby, Say, Jerry, is it possible? Is there
a world, a dimension in the multiverse where Jerry Jones
leaked this out? And the Cowboys they stay in the headlines.
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And then it's the art of negotiation via trickeration, the
old negotiation trickeration, smoke mirrors and a couple of planted
stories to useful idiots in the media, and the message
to Crosby. It's like a dog whistle to Crosby. I'll say, hey, listen,
if you want to play in Dallas, which is the
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Raiders with a different logo on the helmet, then start
raising a ruckus in Vegas. You got to create chaos,
a hulla baloo if you want that. Now, keeping the
theme going page two here, as we continue all night
on the Ben Maler Show, so we are told the
Cowboys are expected to shift their focus to instead of
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continuing to try to get Max Crosby to acquire when
the new league year begins, free agent Trey Hendrickson of
the Well he was with the Ben Gals. So let's pretend,
for the purposes of this Mallar monologue that that's not
some kind of squeeze play and that this is actually
the real deal. And that's true. So the question, if
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Dallas is pivoting to Trey Hendrickson over Max Crosby, how
big a downgrade would that be for the Cowboys side
by side? So if you go side by side, if
the Cowboys do pivot from Max Crosby to Trey Hendrickson,
I'm gonna use a sandwich analogy, the Hogi analogy here
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it's similar but not the same. For example, Max Crosby,
if you were to look not a list but a
big board, Benny's big board of sandwiches, a properly made
cheese steak. As the godfather of Fox Sports Radio, the
great Tony Bruno taught me years ago, you gotta have
the provolone, not the cheese whiz on, that the right
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kind of bread, the whole thing. Throw that together. That's
a perfect sandwich, the cheese steak sandwich with the onion,
the peppers and all that. That's the way to do it. Now. Hendrickson,
he's a sandwich. However, he's like a spicy chicken sandwich
that's been sitting out under a heating lamp at a
seven to eleven for the last twenty two hours. Not
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quite the same, not quite the same, a sandwich, but
not quite the same. Now both these guys get sacks. However,
when the run game comes towards Hendrickson, he undergoes a metamorphosis.
He travels through time to Madrid, Spain. He becomes a bullfighter,
a matador ole lay and running backs. They just go
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who right by him? Now, Crosby, when you look at
his body of work here he's a Swiss army knife
and he's able to play the run and wants to
play all the time, and all that has been durable.
And he's also a little bit younger and in that
business obviously, that's a big deal. The kind of a
guy that is the centerpiece. Not that Hendrickson wouldn't be
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the centerpiece. The cowboys have a bunch of no names
and bums on defense Flotsham and Jetsam. But he's more.
Instead of a Swiss army knife that has a little
bit of everything, he's more like a switchblade. Doesn't have
the other attachments, just a switchblade. That's it. That's all
he's got. So Jerry is being a it would appear again,
how much of this is true, and how much of
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this is for public consumption. As Jerry likes to say,
when things get boring around here, I like to stir
it up a little bit so it looks from the
outside that Jerry is being a frugal shopper, that he's
being a frugal shopper budgets tight. You know, it is
true that those megayachts and Jerry's got a really nice
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yacht last we heard, and you need to have a
bunch of people on staff for that. If you want
to enjoy the South of France, you got to have
the internet on there. You gotta have, you know, the
greatest chefs and the cleaning people and servants and all
that on those megayachts. And so if you spend a
little more on Max Crosby, do you then have to
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get rid of your butler, your second or third butler
on the yacht. That's a tough decision. I think we
can all understand and relate to the dilemma that Jerry
would have. All right, now, last word to the belt
Way we go a player that we have talked about
way too much. I was saying about this when I
was coming to the studio. I was like, we've talked
about this guy way too much, considering how few impact
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moments he's had in his career. Now who am I
talking about? That would be Brandon Auk, the wide receiver
who I guess is technically part of the forty nine Ers.
I guess the new league year starts next week. So
there's some chatter, and we love our chatter that the
Commanders could sign Brandon Ayuk to a one year prove
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it deal, a one year prove it deal if the
forty nine Ers end up doing they release them, which
I assume we all assume that's going to happen. It
seems like that's obviously the Niners are pretty much said
they're gonna get rid of him, whether they trade them
or release them. More likely you would just release him
because why would you trade for a player who's going
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to be released anyway. So the question on this one
what stands out, if anything, what stands out to you
about Washington, the team formerly known as the Redskins looking
to add wide receiver Brandon Auk on a prove it contract.
So the first thing is rather clear. I think everyone
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you know, the person in the back of the room over.
The person in the way in the back of the
warehouse is not even listening. They know. The NFL motto
is never give up on talent, even when the talent,
like in this case, is clearly given up on their
own frontal lobe. You just don't give up on the talent,
you don't, you know. I mean, there's a wide receiver
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right now in jail who killed a young woman and
her dog. They burned up alive because of him, and
he's gonna get out of jail relatively soon, and someone's
gonna give him a tryout. That's how the NFL operates,
That's how they do things there. Obviously this is not
that this is much much different, but Brandon auc has
a large yellow sticker that has been slapped on his
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back and it reads buyer, Beware, buyer Beware. A dynamic
separation merchant, an artist of separation who has also managed
to separate himself from his teammates. His coach is not
his own ego, though he cannot separate himself from his
own ego, and after that Frisco fiasco where he cost
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himself a cool twenty seven million, you realize in the
annals of the NFL there are only a handful of
people in the history of the NFL that have blown
twenty seven million dollars of their money guaranteed loot. There's
a guy in jail that was going around robbing banks
to go to Chiefs games and to gamble. And that
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guy didn't get twenty seven million when he was robbing banks.
This guy gave up twenty seven million, the steepest exit
tax to leave California yet and certainly in NFL history.
And he's now looking to have what make it prove
it deals? That's what he's got, which even that, you're like,
why does he even have that? What is he out
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to prove? He's out to prove what that he's not
some kind of high speed social media addicted powder keg.
And that's what is it give the commanders? And then
the commanders are in this weird spot. They came out
of know where they had sucked for years. They came
out of know where. It got to the Final four
and then got smoked in the final four, had that
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magic playoff run. Jayden Daniels looks like he's gonna snap
at any moment. He snapped last year. And the commanders
are terrible and so if they pull the trigger on this,
they can enjoy a nice lunch menu that includes their
own sandwich, the knuckle Sandwich from the knucklehead in Chief.
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And look forward to the two receivers set in Washington.
On one side, you'll have scary Terry McLaren. On the
other side, you'll have scary immaturity iyuk and good Luck
good Luck and Washington supposedly realizing that even if they
got this guy, they still have to go get somebody
else at the White opposition. And so the reason you
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would have to do that is because whoever adds the
soon to be former forty nine or Brandon knows that
they are one or he is one bad tick talk
post away from a self inflicted trip back to the doghouse.
And good luck. Now in DC, they'll learn the only
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thing more toxic, the only more toxic in DC than politics,
is a white out who sends communication via a cryptic
emoji or a bunch of cryptic emojis and cannot stop
cold turkey, cannot do it, addicted, addicted, and is so
addicted to it that he's willing to give up twenty
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seven million dollars at some point if he's lucky. Brandon
and I could be an old man and'll be sitting
on a rocking chair somewhere and talking about his life
and say, you know, maybe I shouldn't have Maybe I
shouldn't have done that. Maybe I just you know, I
could have been could have had a little more money there,
leave the kids, grandkids, great grandkids.
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So our lead this hour is from the transaction Wire.
We go where the Buffalo Roam and the NFL. The
Bills have made a move. They needed help. They don't
have much there. They didn't have much there at the
wide receiver position. I assume you've heard by now, but
maybe not if you missed it. We learned that the
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Buffalo football team as acquired wide receiver d J. Moore
and a fifth round draft pick and they gave the
Bears dump Bears a second round pick. Yeah, so this
is now the new player that has been deputized, DJ
Moore to get Josh Allen over the Humpty Humpty and
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get him into the super Bowl and win the Super
Bowl and all that. That is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question is wide receiver d J.
Moore going to be a success or will he be
another Bills boondoggle? Is he going to be a success
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or another Bills boondoggle? So my observations, I've got airport,
gift shop, CBS Special and treasure map and we're gonna
lock all of these things together and go boom goes
to dynamite boom so number number. Yeah. After a very brief,
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a very very brief Mallard deliberation in the jury room,
we have come to the verdict on this and that
would be the Malard report card. On the Malard report card,
the Buffalo Bills. This is the most coveted report card
in all of overnight talk radio. The Buffalo Bills get
a C, they get the CE, the Chicago Bears a bit.
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The Bears actually did better in this than the Bills,
and that almost never happens. And I'll tell you why.
Let me walk you through this. Yere, Chicago had let
the world know they were getting a new DJ. They
were done with DJ Moore. Yafimi knows this tree in Chicago.
All my guys there in Chicago knows. So Chicago essentially
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sold the used car that already had to check engine
light and they said, okay, we can get that. I mean,
they got top dollar for it, no haggling, they got
top dollar. And more was being phased out of the
Bears offense, kind of like an old iPhone, like an
iPhone five or something like that. And Romadunza and others
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arrived on the scene. The pecking order had changed, and
suddenly DJ Moore's stat line had some supply chain issues.
He was not getting the ball enough. There was a
shortage of targets. And now the question is why would
Buffalo with all the receivers that are available, why would
they trade a second round pick for this guy. So
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the reason I've determined is you follow the breadcrumbs. The
new coach, Joe Brady, I believe this is the gentleman's name.
He won't be there long, but he worked with DJ
Moore back in Carolina. So the coach Brady and Moore
worked together with the Carolina Panthers. And as always, you
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don't need to send a group text about this. But
it's not what you know, it's who you know, which
is really tough if you're an introvert, because it's really
not what you know, it's who you know. Now that said,
if you're looking this objectively, looking at this objective, then
there's nothing more objective than overnight sports radio. Free agents
treat Buffalo like it's Siberia with chicken wings. The players
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the Bills get are typically older, broken down, and have
no other options. That's typically who goes to the Bills.
It's a hard sell in free agency. It is. It's
not a glamour location, and you know it's got a
great fan base and all that's wonderful, that it's just
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not people want to go there. So this is more
like shopping the Bills getting DJ more It's kind of
like shopping at the airport gift shop. We've all done it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Maybe when you were a kid, Hey, I need I
need a souvenir. You forgot you Maybe you were supposed
to get your kids a souvenir. You went on a
business trip or something like that, and you forgot to
get a souvenir. You're like, oh, crap, man, I got
to get my kid at souvenir. So you're at the
airport and you end up paying like fifty dollars for
a T shirt that should cost about fifteen dollars or whatever,
and then you bought it. Now, add in the fact,
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as we slice and dice this, add in the fact
that DJ Moore's got the double whammy. What is the
double whammy? Well, questionable effort, bad attitude, what whoe? What whoe?
A chronic case of IDGA f itis. I don't give
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I forget what the f wort is, but something fun
I don't give a fun. No, I don't think that's it.
Fudge might be fudge lollygagging through routes or roots. There
were some clips online that were made months ago of
and you can look him up yourself. You know even
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Stevie Meatballs can see them. But they showed clips of
DJ Moore who was lollygagging. It looked like he was
touring a museum on his routes and he didn't want
to be at that particularly museum, and he was doing it.
And so now Buffalo was hoping for a rebirth, a reboot,
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and there is talent there Dj Moore. The reason that
he has had the long career in the NFL is
because he has the reputation of a guy that can
turn a five yard pass into a highlight. It was
a slippery player, elusive, and so that's very valuable. But
more as he has not been that guy sliding away
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the last couple years. And so now by default he
is the number one wide number. He will go ahead
of the other pass catchers and Buffalo the other people
that get the ball a lot Khalil Shakur and Dalton
Kincaid and those guys Buffalo betting. They are betting on
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a career resurrection tour, a comeback tour for the ages,
one of those things. Will it work? Eh? Or maybe
this just turns into another magic trick, a disappearing, disappearing
second round pick for a player who is washed up.
All right, so we'll see all right now, Page two
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to the Quarterback Shuffle, the fun size edition of the
Quarterback Shuffle. The latest on Alligator Arms. He's on the
move again, Yes, Alligator Arms. You think that a number
of these teams would be frightened to death at doing
business with Kyler Murray, That where well, will likely be
the case. However, the rumors are in the air everywhere.
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The latest one which I heard and smiled when I
saw this, I thought, boy, that's pretty good, that's pretty funny.
So we're hearing now that the the team that is
considering Kyler Murray. One of the teams considering Kyler Murray
is a team that had not been mentioned, had not
been mentioned, that team Canza City. What yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So it's like an insurance policy for Patrick Mahomes who's
recovering from a torn acl little snap, crackle pop there.
So Adam Schefter, the NFL insider who famously reported years
ago that Kandy Rice was a candidate to be the
coach of the Cleveland Browns. So Adam Schefter or general
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manager whatever, but Adam Schefter brought off the Chiefs as
a possible landing spot for Kyler Murray. So the question
are we buying Are we buying this Kyler Murray to
Kansas City garbage or is this just more spin from
Kyler Murray's the people that are trying to get him
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a job somewhere and peddling things through back channels. So
this one I jotted down on my note card CVS
special click views spreader, click views spreader as in click
any click. There is not going to be a stampede
for Kyler Murray. There's not. And that's all this is
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is engagement farming. It's a total non starter. Why would
Kansas City, run by a Hall of Famer Andy Reid,
the gold standard, invite this little bug on the rug,
this virus into the building. There'd be no reason to
do that. It's an absolute joke. If I'm drafting a league,
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and I say league, I mean League of Legends, team
Kyler Murray is my first overall pick, I would be
scratching and clawing to get my hot my hands on
Kyler Murray. The little fella is the goat of the joystick. However,
the Chiefs they don't use the joystick. They use the duke.
We're good alligator arms. Kyler Murray should be on the
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no fly list for a reason. Here's another guy. He's
got some attitude issues, pouting and all that. Mahomes has.
How many years do you think Mahomes has left. He's
in his early thirty he got seven, seven, eight years.
If he wants to keep going, he's got to pay
for those water burgers. He's got that water burger empire,
so he's got to buy more water burgers. What a shot?
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What a burger? He doesn't need a backup? Who'd rather
be on Twitch than watching film? And it isn't I
don't want this to happen. But if Kyler wants a
gap year, a sabbatical and to go to a good
team and be a backup, then just go go to
the Rams. I don't want that. I would dislike that
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a lot. Of course, most of the people in my
career that I have bashed end up with teams I
like that. Seems to be how this always happens. It's
a return of the curse of the Benbino. Bro. I'm
risking my life, bro that slug Blake snails on the Dodgers.
I did a lot of material ripping James Harden playoff Harden.
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He ended up playing for the Clippers for a little bit.
And now there's a chance that Kyler Murray ends up
with the Rams. But that would actually make some sense
because Cliff Kingsbury is there, and that means it's a
safe space for him. Cliff Kingsbury who allowed Kyler to
play all the video games unchecked and all that. So
Kyler likes him because he's the parent that lets you
(26:41):
get away with everything. But the Chiefs. If you're the Chiefs,
you don't put a juice box in a wine cellar.
The quarterback room's a wine cellar. You don't put a
juice box in there. What are you doing? All? Right?
Final point? Now we go to Tampa where a little
birdie tells us the wide receiver mark for Mike Evans
is not looking that great. The Tennessee Titans and the Raiders.
(27:08):
Those are the two teams that are said to be
the most interested in Mike Evans should he end up
leaving Tampa Bay. Those are the two teams that are
trying to get their hands and rallying around to get
a wide receiver Mike Evans. So the question you've got
this pending free agent wide receiver Mike Evans, who is
(27:30):
very popular with Tennessee and Vegas. You make the call
on what that means. So I will make the call here.
I've read the treasure map. I've looked at the treasure map.
It means that all roads and all bodies of water
lead back to Tampa, all of them. There is no
(27:54):
decision to be made. You're telling me that your options are.
You can either go play for the quote we asked Titans.
That's not my nickname. That's cam Ward's nickname for the Titans,
the wee ass Titans, or the Supreme Greens Raiders. Now,
if you don't know the history of Supreme Greens and
you want to get an education, type into Google Alex Guerrero,
(28:17):
that's Tom Brady's best friend and Supreme Greens. Check that out. Yeah. Absolutely,
even that would make Doc Mike blush that story. So
that whole thing's pathetic. It's kind of like these choices
are like being the kid and your parents says, Okay
for dinner, We've got Brussels sprouts and cauliflower, and you
have to pick one. Well, no, you're a picky little eater.
(28:40):
You look at the stats. Evans, I get that he's
coming off a bad year. He was hurt, he had
less than four hundred yards receiving, only had a few touchdowns.
He played I think it was like eight games or
something like that. Had a hammy that went whammy, that
was taped together and then the collar bone went snap,
crackle pop like a windshield there and a bunch of pieces,
so damage goods. He's at the age where that's a problem.
(29:04):
And unless if I'm Mike Evans, unless the Patriots, Bills
or Chiefs come knocking on the door, I hear them
knocking right there. Unless they come knocking on the door,
you don't move. Why would you? Now if they call
you pack the suitcase and you hitchhike out of dodge
and you say bye bye, we'll see you later, get
(29:26):
out here. And otherwise you bunker down in the pirate
ship and to quote the Great Gene Decker, off fire
the cannons is what you do because the other options.
If this is accurate, it's shiver me, Timbers, Raiders and
the Titans. No bueno, no bueno on that.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
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Speaker 1 (29:56):
It's mallar. How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets
grilled Krubolo.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Miles Garrett just signed a contract extension last offseason, but
teams apparently think the Browns could still trade him. Teams
have reportedly reached out and Cleveland is listening. Ben, do
you think he actually gets traded?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I say there's a ten percent chance. He's all that
Cleveland has. They have no other star players. Everyone else
saw Shooter Sanders blows, so he's the only they have
and they don't They can't win, so they got at
least one star player. So I'd say there's a there's
a ten percent chance that Miles Garrett is traded before
the NFL Draft next And.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
The latest trade rumors, Kawhi Leonard is being linked to
these seventy six ers. This would reunite him with former
teammate Paul George. Seventy six Ers are currently on the
fringe of contention in the East. Would this move a
catapult them to the top?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Only if they hire Doc Rivers as the coach, then
they would be going No, come on, listen, Well, Couy's
got issues. Who knows what's going to happen with this investigation?
And I'm done with Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Next, Team USA dominated the Rockies in the final exhibition
match of the World Baseball Classic. That's got people excited,
with some even claiming this is the most uh do
I care?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I don't care. I do not care. Coop, I do
not I'm not into a coop. I don't care. Thank
you heard the good.
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Speaker 1 (31:32):
Blame Weed?
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Blame week too.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It's Big Man's lame joke of the Week. Lame jokes,
Lame jokes of the week. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners. So fraid to us down a little bit?
There we go? All right now, weed man, I had
to wake you up, Weed Man. I'm gonna contact HR.
I'm gonna contact HR. Weed Man. What is up with that?
Weed Man? How dare you? No?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You didn't wing me up?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
And I was just calling. No you, I know when
someone's sleeping and they answer the phone. Just admit it.
It's okay. You were sleeping.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
It happened, absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I was just calling right then. Okay, yeah, I just
worked the guy just worked the clock and it was
four point thirty and I was just waiting a couple
of minutes more. Okay, all right, all right, so you
were not listening. You admit you were not listening. Yeah,
oh no, I wasn't looking. Okay, here we go, weed Man.
(32:33):
These are actual jokes by actual listeners. SpongeBob square Pants
sent this one in He says, why did weed Man
get fired from the landscaping company? Why? Because when asked
to pull the weeds, he smoked them instead, Let's spent them.
I wonder if SpongeBob smoked seaweed he I will have
(32:57):
to ask him next time he calls. Who is weed
Man's least favorite coach? Who a job coach? That's Eric
in Kansas, who also said, Hey, Ben, what does weed
man do for spring cleaning? What he empties the ashtrays?
He's where the area is out?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Where?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Young?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Do you still have your latest ring for mister irrigation
weed Man? Yeah? Dude, great, you haven't lost it yet. Okay, good?
What can what can weed Man remember the next time
life gets Hard. What at least I'm not blind, Scott,
that's noahing in I know, Genie? Why is weed Man
(33:46):
so good at opera? Why you love the high notes?
You love him weed Man? Michael African? Why did weed
Man stop dropping acid? Why the die Hard broke three
of his toes? I said Terry in St. Paul. Kathy
(34:10):
and Madison sent this one, and she's a big fan
weed Man. Kathy and Madison big fan of Hey, did
you know or do you know rather why Miami police
kept throwing weed Man in jail? Why they wanted to
hear him laugh in person? Says Kathy. Well, a lot
(34:35):
of people know this, but apparently weed Man is going
to Ireland for Saint Patty's a Why is weed Man
going to Ireland for St? Patty?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Wow? Why? Well, because the grass is always greener over there.
That's from Mike the Lepica. What is the what is
the difference between a slow cooker and weed Man? What
one's a crock pot and the others a crack pot?
That's from Uh. This next one's from Lucky Tony. He said,
(35:10):
what happened when weed Man fell asleep during his doctor visit?
What apparently you woke up with a thermometer in your
mouth and a for some reason, there was a breath
mint in your took us. I don't know why. That's
our lucky Tony. Did you hear that? Weed? Man is
(35:30):
worried about losing an hour of beauty sleep this week?
You know it's daylight savings time?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Are you really?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yeah? Yeah, Sun Sunday and yeah, two in the morning
turns hour ahead unless you're in like Arizona, Indiana.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah, the phone will do it. You got the Obama phone, right,
You're good on that. You're good on that. Yeah. But
do you you're worried though about losing an hour beauty sleep?
Do you hear about that? Yeah? Yeah, apparently you know
you said you thought that you're you're gonna try not
to get ahead of your of yourself. That's Tom in Indiana.
Your time? What do you call? These are some other
(36:08):
jokes Surfer Todd, the comedian multi time lame joke Righter
of the Year. What do you call a narcoleptic terrorist?
What a sleeper cell? There you go? What? What's hollering?
James favorite type of study? What sleep study? Eric in Kansas? What?
What game will blind? Scott never be able to play
(36:31):
What I Spy? That's Noah in How does hollering James
know his viagra is at least working five days a week.
The pizza guy tells him that's a lucky Tony. Uh,
that's not that I went in there. You go, all right,
what's what's Marcell's favorite football position? What blocker? That's Mike
(36:55):
the Leprechaun. And there you go, Big Ben's lame jokes,
the wait you eat men. Go back to bed. God,
you are sleeping. It's okay, Go back to bed.
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