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Speaker 1 (00:00):
An early hibernation for the Chicago Bears. They are out
of the NFL playoffs, and it's how they went out.
That's the story. Welcome in the beginning of the Ben
Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere the vast
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com for a free rate quote. Now, I had suspected,
and we talked about it on the radio last week,
that the really for the last couple of months, I
had suspected that the Chicago Bears were a fraud. We

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talked about that, We had mentioned it that I did
not buy into Mitch Trubisky. I did not buy into
the Chicago Bears being as good as they are. There
were many national pundits that waxed poetic about the Bears.
They won twelve games, they were twelve and four the
Chicago Bears. Well, we have what we call confirmation on

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wild Card weekend. The Chicago Bears laden egg at Soldier
Field wasn't ridiculous. Wea there was no fog, there was
no snow, there was no rain. The biggest favorite of
the NFL Wild Card weekend, a team favored by six
points on the home field against what's left the shell

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of the Philadelphia Eagles. Was in a dog fight from
the very beginning with Philly, and you knew right away
that this was not going to be a likely cover
situation if you're a gambler. And even if you look
at the six points that they were favored by, the
Bears offense had just six points in the first three quarters.

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They averaged five yards per play in the first three quarters,
and that was an inflated number. There was a forty
five yard pass play to Allan Robinson on a broken coverage.
Philadelphia had a ten six league going to the fourth
quarter and then and then the Bears ended up making
a couple of plays there. Chicago's defense had the game
in their hands at the end. The Bears had built

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up a lead and they had a five point advantage
final minute and they couldn't stop Nick Foles. That monsters
of the Midway Bears defense couldn't contain Nick Voles. Foles
found Golden Tate. You saw the game, you know what
I'm talking about. Game winning score, no win. The Bears

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got the ball back, and because of some incompetence by
the Eagles defense, it's set up Cody Parkey for what
would have been the game winning field goal, well within
his range with five seconds left. Somehow he hit the
upright and the crossbar. See you later. So let's discuss
now on the Mallar scale of embarrassment one to ten,

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how humiliating is it as a six point favorite, a
twelve win regular season team to lose to the Eagles
on a scale one to ten for the Bears, dull Bears,
I am going to put this at a nine plus. Now.
I can't go ten because it wasn't the Super Bowl,

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but I'm gonna go nine. It was a playoff game,
so I'm gonna go nine. All right. Now, my thoughts,
you've got shrug inducing, weakest link and soul searching, and
we will connect all of this now. Number one, all right.
The Chicago Bears have been selling this defense the people

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around the Bears, to Chicago media. Defense, Defense, defense, all time,
great defense. I've heard from some No it's not no, no,
no new new new new monsters of the Midway, my
ass please, all right, game on the line, you had
the game in your hands. Nick Foles took over down

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fifteen ten. He engineered a storybook finish, marching the Eagles
right down the throat, right down the gullet of the Bears.
Twelve play, sixty yard drive and under four minutes. That's
an all time great defense, my ass. That's an all
time great defense. Please. And then Golden Tate, who've been

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pretty much a bust since coming over from the Lions,
a bust no more, a two yard touchdown on a
fourth down play and that put the Eagles up by
a point with fifty six seconds to play. Now the NFL.
I looked at the official NFL statue. They had the
wrong name associated with the burn coverage. I had Sherrick

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McManus as the Bears defensive back that was closest to
Golden Tate. McManus, I had him as the closest defensive
player who ended up costing that what turned out? Wow,
Because you don't pay attention to the Bears defense, it's
a bad job by you. But Nick Foles found found
Golden Tate and McManus I had him the closest defensive player.

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So Chicago's vaunted defense had stopped the Birds for all
intensive purposes, the game over. If they had done that,
they didn't. Instead, Philly got the score, giving the Eagles
the lead, and what should have been. That's it, Clater
that you talk about a shrug inducing performance late, and
I've heard a lot of love broadcasters love to slobber

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all over Vic Fangio, the defensive coordinator. He's gonna interview
some some head coaching jobs. You gotta think this hurts
Vic Fangio's chances of being a head coach. The defense
had a five point lead at home late fourth quarter,
the Eagles a second rate Eagles offense twenty one first downs,
they converted almost fifty percent on third down against the

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Bears defense. Of course, we'll keep it real here now.
I should never have come down to a bloody Cody
Parky field goal. I've down the side I made. I
had a revelation over the week. I'm gonna share this
with you. I was with the wife was we did
not talk much because I'm trying. I was trying to
say my voice. I think I'm doing pretty well. I

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had some voice issues at the end of last week.
I was fighting the bug and thanks to my Apple
side of integer, but I was watching some random TV
shows and they had some Australian show and what they
do in Australia, I'm now going to become an Australian
because what they do is when they want to curse,
instead of saying the F word, they say bloody. So
I figure I could say bloody and no one will

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be upset. So when I'm saying bloody, I really mean
the F word, but I can't say the F words.
So instead, you know, when I say, for example, you know,
talking about Cody Parky, you know should not have come
down to a bloody Cody Parki field goal. That's what
I'm talking about, just so you understand. So we're on
the same page now. By the way, Internet investigators did
a frame by frame analysis and the Twitter sluice apparently

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discovered that Cody Parkey's kick was tipped by Treyvon Hester
of the Eagles. Still should have gone in. I don't care.
I don't give him a pass. You gotta make that
the Bears defense does his job. Of course, you don't
worry about double doink doing in your season doink doink? Yeah,

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depend on an idiot kicker. You're gonna lose more times,
not now, Cody Parkey has now hit the goalpost six
times this season. Is he gonna blame defensive players for
all six of those? He's missed the eleven kicks in total.
How about the Bears front office? They got to own this.
They refused to find another kicker when they knew this
was a distinct possibility. Now, by the way, Khalil Mack,

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remember all those broadcasters that went on and on about
Khalil Mack. How great Khalil Mack was Jesus H. Christ
at linebacker, the modern day Lawrence Taylor. Khalil Mack did
not register any sacks in the wild card game. He
only had five tackles. In fact, the Bears defensive stars
work for the most part, contained Nick Foles. He did
have two first half interceptions, but only one of those

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was because of the Bears defense. The other was just
a terrible throw by Nick Foles. There were four four
Bear defensive players and he threw it into When there's
one receiver and four defensive players, generally that ends up
pretty poorly. And Philly only allowed one sack. Leonard Floyd
had the only sack for the entire game. So Nick
Foles gets to play hero and He certainly left some

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plays on the field. It was very wild at times
with some of his throws. And it didn't matter. The
Bears defense, Everyone say it with me now, the Chicago
Bears defense of twenty eighteen, now into the twenty nineteen playoffs,
over raided, Yes, over raided. Absolutely. Philly did a better
job of executing down the stretch and these postseason games

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separated by millimeters, and the Eagles did a better job.
Now be the box score readers are some of them
are praising Mitch trubisk I. Gotta set you straight here, okay,
saying that mister Bisky had three hundred three yards passing.
If you watched the game closely, though, I would believe
you would feel differently about mister Bisky. I was not impressed.
It was not impressed. Why would you be impressed with

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that performance? I was not impressed. Were you impressed? Why
would you be impressed? Tell me why you'd be impressed.
Your job is to leave the offense to score points.
The Bears only had six points a couple of field
goals in the first three quarters against a second rate
Eagles defense. Now, overall, Trubisky, he had more bad plays

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than Nick Foles. It was very close, right, fact, Trubisky
had nineteen negative plays interceptions incompletion, sacks, fumbles. Nick Foles
had eighteen. But that one more negative play, you could argue,
is the difference between the win and a loss in
the playoffs. That's the margin, right, the separation point, the
point of vmarkation. Now, by the way, the Philadelphia secondary,

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which had been essentially packing groceries a couple of months ago,
was not the most intimidating bunch. You take away Avante
Maddox and miss Trubisky would have had less than two
hundred yards passing. Think about that. Now, what's my evidence? Now,
Trubisky he started the game over four on deep passes,

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passes that go twenty or more air yards. Rubisky then
completed three straight for one hundred and one yards, all
of them against Maddox. In throwing against whoever Maddox was
lined up against most of it Allan Robinson now used
some mallor math, and I was taking notes because I'm
a loser, and as I was watching the Peacock broadcast

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there in the second half, Maddox single handedly, by my
calculation the notes I took, allowed one hundred and thirty
five passing yards the guy he was supposed to be defending.
That's one hundred and thirty five extra miss Rubisky passing
yards in the second half. So doing mallor math, if
Trubisky had three hundred and three passing yards overall in

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the game, and I didn't even count the first to
have one hundred and thirty five against Maddox against DeVante Maddox,
that means he actually had one hundred and sixty eight
yards against everybody else, So that not quite as impressive.
I would say Maddox definitely was the weakest link for
the Birds defense. You talk about an implosion situation, right that,

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I mean the Eagles. They were in control. Other than Maddox,
I thought the entire defense did a fine job Earlier.
Maddick he got burned on a forty five yard pass
play to Allan Robinson. He also had Josh Bellamy zoom
passed him on a thirty four yard pass play on
that same possession, and then he got burned. Also when
the Bears were driving down to get the Cody Parky

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chip would have been a chip shot field goal, which
he double dooined. I know it was tipped. Man did
Maddox suck though in that secondary for Philadelphia. Last word
here now, So now the Bears are left to do
some soul searching at this particular point. They're gonna have
a tougher schedule next season, tougher road to Hoe and

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Chicago had inflated defensive stats against a number of inept
offensive teams. If you look at the Bears defense and
what they were going against, they played against Arizona, Buffalo,
the Jets, the Dolphins, who actually had a good offensive day,
the Lions twice, the forty nine ers. I did the

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math over half, almost sixty percent of the Bears games
were against teams that finished in the bottom part of
scoring offense in the NFL, teams that were offensively inept.
You'd have to think that in twenty nineteens regular season
it's going to be more of a difficult grind for

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the Bears defense, which means their numbers are going to
go down. And also clearly mister Bisky needs to get
a hell of a lot better. And as the Eagles now,
they head to an Orleans and a rematch with the
Saints that was carnage. That was a blood bath. The
last time they played that game. And if this game
was in Philadelphia, I would take the Eagles to win

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the game out right now, I don't know. I might
take the Eagles in the points. I haven't handicapped the
game yet, but you gotta think the Saints end up winning.
Outside of the only thing that gives me pause on
the Saints is Drew Brees, who has looked his age.
No one wants to say it, Right's one of those
ugly little things nobody wants to talk about because Drew
Brees is football royalty. You can't say any bad about
Drew Bloody Breese, right, can't say anybody him bloody Drew Brees.

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But hey, we're not mainstream, we're overnights. We can speak
the truth here. It looked like Drew Brees ran out
of gas at the end of the regular season last
If you do the math on this, I looked at
the last four regular season games, Breese had three touchdowns,
three interceptions, He averaged six point four yards per attempt,
and had a quarterback rating of under eighty five the

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last four games. That's a quarter. I believe that's a
quarter of the season. Yes, four out of sixteen, Yes,
I think so. Here am I correct on that. All right,
let's hear from some of the participants here. Let's hear
from Cody Parky, the man of the hour. He missed
the kick. I know everyone's trying to make excuses. They
want people that donate money to his favorite charity. I say,

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screw that. This guy's a professional kicker. He blew it.
He sucks at his job. He deserves to be criticized.
What do you have to say, Cody Parky? Terrible? Let
the team down, that's tell me, not team you know,
unfortunately unfortunate and went for today. Can we get a

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mic outside where I can Springfield, Illinois? Can we get
a mike closer? All right, let's hear more from Cody
Parky here, and he says, don't worry, I got a
cone of protection around. Every single one of them said
they got my back and they love me and to
not let this affect me. Of course, it's gonna sting
for a few days. I mean, just being completely honest,

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But yeah, I have to move on. That's what they
say to your face, behind your back, they are taking
the knife and nay, I put it right in your back.
Cody park all right, the coach of the Chicago Bears.
Mister Naggi, Matt Nagee, who's been there and loved and
all that. I guess I don't know rookie coach, and

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here he is. He's he's trying to keep things in
the proper context. It's okay to be upset, it's okay
to let it hurt a little bit. But we gotta
use this now to be better. We set the bar.
We all felt like we grew as the year went on.
We did get calloused, we did get stronger, we did
become a tighter family. Every team's different from here on out.

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So we're gonna rally together. We're gonna stick together. We're
gonna be a family. You'd be a family, the family
that loses home playoff games together. You can be that family.
Here's more from Matt Naggee on his choking kicker Cody Parkey.
I don't think you can make write that story, you know,
just with how things went this year and how he
rebounded and then for that time rebound, it's tough, and

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it's hard for for all the players. It's hard for him,
it's hard for everybody. It's it's stinks, you know, it's
not it's not easy. Guy didn't rebound if he missed
the most important kick of the year, he didn't rebound.
Stop with the rebound. There's no rebound for party. Stop
making excuses. I'm so sick everyone has to make excuses.

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It's like the bleeping NBA. Right at NBA playoffs, when
a guy has a bad performance, well he's he's fatigued.
Zip bet all. Yeah, here's mister bisky. Mitch, you just
lost the home playoff game as the biggest favorite on
wild card weekend. You must be very excited. Just try
to get as close as you can to give our

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team an opportunity to finish it, and just came out short.
We're just all sell shocks a little bit. Wouldn't expect
it to end that way, but we put ourselves in
a pretty good position to win that game, and we
just battled all on that long. Could you speak in
some more cliches. I think you missed a couple. I
just read a story over the weekend about how Trubisky

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is this He shuts all the media out, doesn't listen
to any outside media and all that stuff. Yeah, sure, okay,
really helped out. Go watch watch the sports news on
TV or something go on the internet. All right, let's
say hello to Edmund Dallas, Steamboat, Willie Judas guards. That

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was pretty disappointed with Wildcard weekend. I was looking forward
to it. I thought we had four pretty good matchups though,
we'd have all pretty competitive games, and well, it started
off with a real stinker. And I thought the first
game was the best game of the weekend. That it
was a horrible game. A clown. Deshaun Watson is. We'll
get to that some I know, But what a fraud?
What a fraud? John Watson is? You know this game

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the Eagles Bears. I mean, I know it had a
dramatic finish, but god, the first half was terrible. What
do you wanted? I thought you I thought you thought
a touchdown. I thought you were all about defense. When
I say I love offense, You've always said I like defense.
How about a little defense. I like a little of both,
not just one way or the other. I'd like to
see whatever happened. You're like a woman who's never happy. Eddy.

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You always complain, all right, I always you always complain.
I went three and one in my picks. I was
very happy. I don't care. Nobody cares. I'm upset with
everyone cares about nobody cares about people very worried about
my pick. No, they're concerned about Benny versus the Penning.
What are the concerned because they want you to pick
a you know, the other team when it's their team play. Yeah,
it is that dopey Seahawk fans. Oh, everyone's in the

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Pacific Northwest. Thanks you for picking the Cowboys. How's that
working out? Loser twelfth Man? Yeah, it was not a
good Wildcard week. I love it very I enjoyed every
second of it. The Underdogars went three and one. Yeah,
well I'm not surprised by that. Cowboys were favored. They
were the only one that Yeah, depends on what you
where you got the points playing the Cowboy. Yeah, I

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thought Khalil MCA was supposed to lead them Barriss to
the super Bowl. That's a Raider fan. That's all a
lot further than the Raiders did. Wow. All right, so
the Ben Maller show. Look at the time, I got yes, Well,
you know I did something before the show, Eddie. It
almost got me fired. I told Roberto already, I will
explain it on the I've not told this story on
the air yet. I will tell this story because it

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just happened a few minutes ago. We'll get to that. Also, Roger,
that Roger that we'll get to that as well. Pepill
do it all, and we will do it next. Be
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Ben Maller. Mister wonderful, writes in As we recap Wildcar Weekend,
He says, I listened to the last hour and a
half of the Friday show via the podcast. He says
three things. Stuck Out says cornbread is an inbread hillbilly. Well,
it's not very nice. I guess that's mister Wonderful's way
of saying, I don't want to take him on in

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the challenge line or not the challenge. I need the
verbal octagon, which Cornbread's looking for someone who loves Lebron
James to take him on. And we've yet to have
anyone respond to Cornbread that would be willing to do that.
And I thought mister Wonderful would have been the perfect person,
but he's not interested. He then says Billy and Albany's

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prediction of Seattle and Baltimore in the Super Bowl looks solid,
and he also said bald Dashes off to a rough
start in twenty nineteen. I don't think that does it justice.
That was a bloody nightmare. What happened in Balderdash last week.
I'm trying to forget about that. I so want to
pretend that didn't happen. We had terrible just the questions,

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the game, the whole thing. It's yeah, we need some
new categories. I feel like we have the same category,
the same two categories every week. We need some new
creative categories. I don't know what happened to Baldadash. We
need to make Balderdash great again. In twenty nineteen, because
I don't I don't like having these same categories. There's
so much out there in the sports world. We can
do better. We can get some creative categories, some different

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questions in there, and maybe we'll actually get some better competitors.
All right. So the thing that I did that I
didn't intend to do, but if I had done it,
I would have likely been in unemployment. So I came
in here. And that's kind of a a rainy night in
Los Angeles where we do the show from. And it
doesn't rain very often in La doesn't never rains. It

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rains ever owns, so it's raining here. So I got
here as I normally do around the same time, and
I noticed in the parking lot at the iHeart Media
Building here where we do the show from. Uh, we're
usually like the only ones here on the overnight right
because usually there's not a lot of there's not even
cleaning the toilets here. It's just filthy. It's a pig sty.

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They don't clean the toilet's the trash until later. It's
it's like the National park System. Right now, there's trash
piling up. It's discussed. So I come in here, I
see all these other cars. And then I see, like
a shining light, this beautiful automobile, which is worth has
more of a net worth than me. Me if you

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would put everything I own from a lifetime in radio,
this automobile is worth more than me. It is Steve
Harvey's car in the parking lot. So I thought, you
know what, since me and Steve Harvey have such a
great bond our cars, I haven't seen Steve in a
long time, I thought, no, he likes my car, he said,
I like he liked the color of the an alomobile.

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So I thought, why don't I give Steve a little
treat the lie candy when he comes out to his car,
I'll park my car next to his. I'll back my
car in right next to Steve Harvey's and our cars
can kind of hang out and mingle, a couple of
big radio guys hanging out, you know, side by side
my car Steve Harvey's car. And I thought that would
be great. The problem was, because of the rain the

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backup camera, I couldn't see out the back like the
traditional way I'm used to backing up because I'm like
every other lazy person has one of these things. So
I tried a couple of times to back up, but
I was getting real close to the side of Steve
Harvey's automobile. Was your backup camera beeping at you? It
was the whole I couldn't see, but it was definitely

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it was to the to the to the rights. I
was backing up, trying to back into it so and
so I thought I did it twice. And then I
was like, you know what, I can't because if I
hit this, how am I going to explain that? Like
I mean, I can't do it. So I parked somewhere
else and then I Roberto. After I got out of car,
I was walking into the building. Roberto pulled in and

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then I explained to Roberto. I said, Roberto, you're not
gonna believe this. And I pointed at Steve Harvey's car
and I said, I tried to park there, but I
know my backup things all messed up because it's got
water on it. And but then like Roberto, I parked.
I think you parked like right. Next I was trying
to park next to the one. I'm like, you didn't
make it either, right, because it looked like you were
having the same issue that I was adding lacking up. Yeah,

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and I was worried, but I didn't want to see it.
I was waiting for the noise of the Collegia as
I turned the corner. I was waiting to hear Roberto's
car hit Steve Harvey's car. But it did not did
not happen. So that's that's my story, Eddie. I almost
hit Steve Harvey's car in the parking lot. Now what
I could have done, what I could have done if

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I had had more energy, is I could have just
gone out with like a tissue and wiped out the
backup cam and then I would have had no problem
backing up. But I didn't think about that until I
got in the building. By then it was too late.
That's my issue, I see, That's all. I have. Nothing else.
You always park in the same spot. No one parks
where you park. No, that's true, but there's a reason

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for it because of my uh immense laziness. Yeah, by
the time I leave that there's a gate right next
to my car that is unlocked by the time you
like to go out there, So I go out. Yeah, yeah,
it's like ten feet away from my car and boom
them out. A lot of people want to get ten
thousand steps. Eddie wants to get ten steps, right, that's
the goal. Yes, okay, all right, so Ben Mallows show

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on Fox. We'll press on here, we'll get to Roger.
That Roger that we'll do it in mom tell you
right now, though, Eddie Garcia is here and he's got
the latest from the Guico Fox Sports Radio studios, and
of course Ben, it's all about wrapping up wild Card
weekend with Sunday's playoff action in the NFL. We'll start
with the late game in the NFC in Chicago. Eagles

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taken on the Bears and the defending Super Bowl champs
are still alive thanks to backup a quarterback Nick Foles,
who engineered a last minute drive capped by a two
yard teen passed to wide receiver Golden Take with fifty
six seconds left. Now, Chicago did get in position for
a game winning field goal with ten seconds left, forty
three yards. Cody Parkey attempted the kick. It was apparently
slightly deflected the line, then it went off the left, upright,

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then off the crossbar. No good. Eagles hold on for
the sixteen fifteen win and advanced to face the Saints
in New Orleans next Sunday. That means the Rams will
be hosting the Cowboys next Saturday and the other NFC
divisional matchup. Because you can ram it all day, you
can ram it all night. Yes, Poliseul Cowboys. It going
down a cowboy face. Jarry Jones is gonna be so

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upset when the Rams winning. Now on the AFC side,
it was the Chargers going into Baltimore beating the Ravens
twenty three to seventeen. LA kicker Michael Badgeley hit five
field goals. Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson he was horrific head quarters.
He should have been bad. He had a quarterback rating
of zero, three of ten passing for twenty five yards.
It was two to fourth quarter. They stuck with him

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in the fourth quarter and he did have a couple
of late tims times, but in the end he did
fumble trying to engineer a late touchdown drive and the
Chargers get the twenty three seventeen victory to advance face
the Patriots and Lamars surrounded by a bunch of Sunday
He's got a bunch of jock sniffers. Lamar Jackson, I
love him. They worship terms Kansas City will be hosting

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Indianapolis next Saturday and the other AFC divisional matchup. The
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(27:40):
twenty two points, firing Thibodeau on Sunday. It's embarrassing. What
are they doing in Minnesota? The hell's that about? Well,
if you're gonna fire him, why didn't they fire him?
And they could have kept Jimmy Butler around? That makes
no sense. So it's illogical what they're doing in Minnesota.
No serious. Some explain that to me? Why you would

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do that? Now? I don't understand, do you know, Eddie,
I have no idea, No, nor do I care. Wow.
You know what they should do is they can't hire
the original muscleman because he passed away, but his kid
is coaching, so they should hire his kids. Yeah. Yeah,
former Fox Sports radio analysts. They're saying Flip Signer's son

(28:21):
might be the coach. Oh that's the other thing. Well yeah,
oh wow, you know a lot of wow? Is that
what you got, Eddie? Is that it is not We're
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uh dolphin Mikes's Bravo, bravo. Another ward winning Maler monologue,
exactly what I was thinking. All wild Card quarterbacks are frauds,
and the Bears, Eagles and Texans defenses are over rated?
Right to very good, Thank you. Mister wonderful says he
is going to verbally assault corn bread. Count me in.

(29:03):
He says, all right, on what other show can you
hear someone verbally assault? No other show? That's right? I
love that. What day should we do that this week?
Should we do it on a Wednesday night? Would that
be good for everybody? Can we have a couple of
days to promote it? A few days to mooting? Is that? No?
I should we do it on works for Tuesday into
Wednesday or Wednesday and the Thursday. That's the question. Though,

(29:24):
we need the proper promotion. I'll say Wednesday, Wednesday, all right,
that's good, We'll do Wednesday anyway. Anyone objected at Thursday?
All right? Everyone says, yes, ay, all right, very good,
We're good. Coop's kicking a vow silence. But well, we'll
put that down for Wednesday into Thursday, which would be
Thursday morning at two am sometime. And so we need
mister Wonderful to call in and we meet Cornbread later

(29:46):
on to get his number and the logistics. They have
to agree to do it now. In the past, when
I have tried to set these things up, typically one
person leaves and does not take part in the fun. Uh.
And that's how Jed who Fled got the nickname Jed
who Fled because he fled the verbal octagon Blind Scott.
We thought Blind Scott was dead somewhere in the North

(30:08):
End of Boston and a gutter because he disappeared from
one of these things. These are these are the issues
we have. Jordan says, it sounds like you guys need
to start parking in the handicap spaces, driving disability. That's
not nice. Jordan's screw you. Matt says, it's a good thing.
You did not strike Steve Harvey's car, or else you

(30:29):
would have been out some fast money. He says, yeah,
that's that's true. Yeah, I don't think my insurance would
have covered the You know, even if you like scratch
like his car, that's worth more than Steve's doing. The
short library all right? That what's going on? I don't
know what's going on. I have no idea. I just
saw him and I sometimes they record things across the

(30:51):
hall and a bunch of people over there. They're all
nice people. I don't know what's going on. It's none
of my business. I just noticed he was here, so
I told Babball, I said, why don't we hang out?
I mean you and Steve Harvey said, I'll get to you,
Bobo and the rate. He's been saying that for a while. Yeah,
he's been telling Yeah, James says, Ben, why don't you
use your bloody mirrors like the rest of us when

(31:13):
you back up, you bloody butts. I'm so I'm so
used to the backup game that I lost the skill.
You know what. I hate I hate this argument because
cops getting passionate. This is passionate the back How about
how about you use the mirrors like a normal How

(31:34):
about the backup camera is more accurate you can see.
I agree. I love the backup camera. My wife doesn't
have the backup camera. I hate driving a car. Yeah,
I'll get a rental sometimes with I don't know how
you still have rentals without backup cameras, but they do,
and I'm like, wow, it's horrible. I feel like I'm
at a competitive disadvantage when I'm driving. I like to

(31:57):
back into spaces, make the quick getter one. Exactly. I'm
the best parallel parker in the world with the backup
camera because I have a camera on my car. Exactly.
It's great. It's like Barry Buns on steroids. You can't
miss right with the backup camera. All right, hand a camera,

(32:17):
I know. Camera. Yeah, you stay here in about twenty
years to be able to afford. So you just be
You'll be okay, all right. We just put one on
my mother in Love's car. It was a thousand bucks
and that sounds like a lot. But if it saves
you from hitting something, that's not bad. Yeah, I understand.
I understand completely. Uh, my dad needs a backup camera.

(32:38):
Dad has a terrible driver. My old man is a
terrible driver. He definitely needs a backup camera. Thousand bucks,
thousands done installed everything? Really, yeah, his car is not
worth a thousand bucks. Well that could be a problem.
That would double the value of his car, is what
it would do. All right? So the Bell Show on Fox?
So Roger that now I I he here's my problem.
I noticed these things. A lot of people do not

(33:00):
notice these things. I noticed over the weekend. Did you
notice the forced PR on the NFL Wildcard broadcast? It
involves Roger Goodell now a couple of years ago, Roger
Goodell who is seen as a heathen by many because
of his suspensions of NFL players and his attacks on
certain teams or whatnot. So Roger Goodale hired a PR

(33:24):
guy to try to change his image. And if you
watch the Cowboys Seahawk game, there's there's the commissioner of
the NFL just randomly meeting a super fan, a super
Cowboy fan at his house, looking into all his Cowboy
memorable yea, and he gives him a couple of Super
Bowl tickets. And then and then he just happened to

(33:47):
be hanging out at the Cowboy game with five times
Super Bowl winner Charles Haley and Charles Haley was like
canoodling with Roger Goodell. Did you see this as yesterday?
Like like Charles Haley, who's got very long arms, his
entire arm was around the commissioner of the NFL, Roger

(34:08):
Goodell was with him. Yeah, they were like canoodling, spooning,
whatever you want to call it. Uh, And so it
was it's just blatant, you know, It's like I can't
stand forced these kind of forced things. I don't like
these terrible these pr situations with Charity, those always bothered
me this same but this was all obviously in an

(34:28):
attempt to try to curry public favor with with the
I don't know who who's gonna look at this and say, well,
I didn't like Roger Goodell yesterday, but now that he's
hanging out with Charles Haley and walking through a random fans.
They tried to make it seem like he just like
showed up at this cowboy fan's house and happened to

(34:49):
happen to be, you know, just giving him a couple
of Super Bowl tickets. It's like, what is that anyway?
All right? So the Ben Mauther Show on Fox, we
will press on we have the NBA pick and we'll
get to that. Here's the who am I game? Now?
Nick Foles improved to four and one. He's got an
eight hundred winning percentage in his postseason career with Philadelphia

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that is tied for the second best winning percentage since
the merger, trailing me among all quarterbacks since nineteen seventy
with a minimum of five playoffs starts. There's only one
quarterback that has a better career winning percentage than Nick
Foles in the postseason. Again, Nick Foles of the Eagles

(35:32):
four and one. He's got an eight hundred winning percentage
in his playoff career that is tied for the second
best winning percentage, trailing me among all quarterbacks since nineteen
seventy minimum five postseason starts. The answer next, be sure
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It's Ben Maller time for the Who Am I? Game?
Eagles quarterback Nick Foles now four and one. He's got
an eight hundred winning percentage in his postseason career that
is tied for the second best winning percentage, trailing me
among all quarterbacks since nineteen seventy with a minimum of
five playoffs. Starts Who am I? That is the question?

(36:40):
What's the answer? Cliff the weather man from his car
in Arizona says, well, he's not homeless, but his wife
doesn't want him to listen because she wants to sleep,
so he's going with Elijah Manning. He says, I'm serious music.
Mike in Kansas City is going with Joe Montana as
his answer. Colin Kaepernick from Valls and Jimmy, who else

(37:01):
do we have? Jim Plunkett tossed out by mister nice guy.
Page down, Page down. Cowboy Killer is going with Doink
the Clown, which I think is the new nickname for
the Bears kicker. Jim Mora from Ivanson at the Quickie
Martin Orlando, eric in Ohio, Happily married is going with
Luca don Chick as his answer. Elvis Gerbach from Jeff.

(37:23):
Who else do we have? Roger Goodell and Charles Haley
on kiss Cam from Ernie, Sarah Palin from Cardiac, Stanley
Cordell Stewart from The Rooster Eddie, Do you have an answer? Eddie? Yeah,
I'm gonna go with Elvis Gerback. No, it is incorrect.
The correct answer Trent Dilfer. Trent Dilfer five and one

(37:48):
in his postseason career with multiple teams and eight thirty
three winning percentage number one ahead of Nick Foles, Who's
tied with Jeff Hostetler and Jim plunk Kid on the
winning percentage list, which is a very important list, the
winning percentage list. People refer to it so often. They
love the winning percentage unless they don't love the winning percentage.

(38:10):
You know what I love? I love winning the NBA
Pick him is what I love. So let's do that
right now. It is time to start out a new week.
How do we do last week? I'm going to hear
a couple of days last week, Coop and well Ben,
This is actually based off the results of the wild
card round card. Yes, and Eddie Garcia was the winner. Yeah,

(38:30):
really who was his quarterback? I can't remember. I deleted it.
Oh wait, no, actually hold on, let me tell you
right now, because it was Nick Foles. But he he
had Ezekiel Elliott, which got him the most points of anybody.
Screw him. Boom and then Falls and Lockett both had
good games as well, So luckhead two touchdowns doesn't matter.

(38:55):
I will guarantee my win on the NBA or I
will not show them. All right, Oh yeah, James Harden
will be the first pick. Harden is off the board.
He's hurt. Coop, go ahead. I will go with Anthony Davis.
Anthony Davis. The board has held Nicola Yok of the
Denver Nuggets second round pick, Robert Johns at all right,

(39:21):
that's a week pick there for you. I will go
with back to back. Oh yeah, go ahead, Roberto Luca.
All right, that's a bad piece. Blake Griffin, the Blake effect,
it's actually the that's actually the wrong piston to pick
Andre Drummond thirteen points, ten rebounds. Who cares? Blakes can
go for thirty and fifteen. Eddie the back to back

(39:43):
Damian Lillard. Alright, we coopa loop last pick on the NBA.
Pick him with my last pick. I wan Rudy Gobert.
You can have Rudy. I will go with bring God
into this. I will bring in DeMar derision of these
sen Antonio Spurs who will get me twenty five points?

(40:05):
And that's about it because he's changed my pick? No Roberto,
last pick, Marcus Auldridge. Who did you want? Who? Clint Cappella?
Who Clint Cappella? Yeah, set by Clint Capella, Rocket fan
book better than Rudy Gobert. Closet rocket Fan. Hey, how
Lakers do it? By the way, guys, your Lakers good weekend. Yes,
that's a solid team. The Lakers frocks. You know you're

(40:28):
really tested when you're injured, players are out and Luke
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(40:52):
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Ray free ray quote. So we continue to dissect Wildcard weekend.
The early game on Sunday, the Ravens favored by three
at home against the Chargers. The Los Angeles Chargers, formerly
of San Diego, now of Carson, California, and Baltimore put

(41:35):
up one of the most humiliating, demoralizing offensive performances in
recent memory in the postseason. Now it was for three
quarters the Ravens had three first downs in the you
saw the game, He really had to see it to
believe it. Man was at bed three first down seven

(41:55):
passing yards for the Ravens. In the first three quarters.
They could not do any right. Lamar Jackson was not
only a quarterback, he was horrific. And then in garbage
time down twenty points with the clock running in the
fourth quarter, it was about nine minutes or so to
go in the fourth quarter, down twenty Lamar Jackson patted

(42:16):
his stats. But don't let that cloud you think Lamar
Jackson was horrible. Was absolutely horrid for the Ravens. So
the question, let's discuss did the Ravens make the right
call leaving Lamar Jackson of the game. The answer is
absolutely not. There's a disaster. Now my observations here, you've

(42:37):
got the ancient ritual peewee football and the parade of excuses,
and we will lock all this together now. Number one,
I'm not sitting here doing hindsight twenty twenty radio. I'm
not doing that during the game. You're you're on social
media during the game. On Twitter, I was very active

(42:59):
during the game. I was calling for the beheading at
the quarterback position for the Ravens. I was calling for
the benching of the quarterback. This was the Lamar Jackson
that I had anticipated. I had expected to show up
during the regular season. Now I got blindside. I didn't
see it happening in this game. You might remember that
the first couple of games, Lamar Jackson started on Benny

(43:20):
versus the Penny. I had bet against Baltimore those first
few starts because I anticipated this would be the type
of quarterback that the Ravens were going to be getting,
but instead he was able to squeeze out winning performances
statistically really bad in many of those games. He one
of the worst passing quarterbacks in the National Football League
when he took over. And it's it's an outdated offensive strategy.

(43:43):
Run run, run, un run, run, run, that's how they do.
The passing game is really an afterthought. The Chargers became
the first team to play the Ravens twice in the
Lamar Jackson era. And if this is any indication of
what's to come for the Ravens, run for the Hills.
Be very scared, Baltimore, because this is your future. Games

(44:07):
like this, because the NFL is gonna catch up to
Lamar Jackson's gimmick. And name, what do you got? You
got problems is what you got, big problems. The Chargers
played with the lead and Lamar Jackson was overwhelmed for
the balance of the game. The evidence again the first
seventy five percent first three quarters of the game twenty

(44:31):
five yards passing two point seven yards per attempt for
the Ravens offense, a quarterback creating of two point seven
going to the fourth quarter, and then the game was
already decided. The Chargers had twenty three to three lead,
they let up a little bit. Jackson started to inflate
his stats. And by the way, let me point something out,
because people in Louisville aren't that smart, so I have

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to educate you when it's garbage time. It's a twenty
point deficit, a three score deficit in the fourth quarter,
that's garbage time. Okay, you're not that Brant. I guess
you're not good at Matt, so I'll help you out
a little bit. Now in the fourth quarter, with the
Chargers defense again taking the foot off the gas pedal,
Lamar Jackson took part in what I like to call

(45:13):
the ancient ritual of stat padding. Stat padding down twenty
Lamar then was eleven of twenty for one hundred and
sixty nine yards, two touchdowns, and had a quarterback rating
of one hundred and sixteen point five when the game
was already decided. Not impressed. Not impressed now Jackson publicly
defecated all over the field. He did. That was a

(45:36):
public defecation situation for the Ravens offense. If he was
even mildly compliment a competent should say, in the first
three quarters, of this game, the Ravens would have had
an opportunity to legitimately win the game. They couldn't. Actually
had the lead earlier in the game. The Chargers did
not do much on offense. Baltimore's defense played well enough

(45:58):
to win and those bloody turnovers crippling, crippling. Lamar Jackson
had an interception he lost to fumble. The Ravens as
a team had four fumbles. Anytime you fumble, there's no
guarantee you're gonna get the ball back. They were lucky
they only have lost two of them, but two lost
fumbles and an interception for the Baltimore offense in this
particular game. Now, number two John Harball, and there was

(46:21):
a report a couple of weeks ago that Harball got
a new contract. He's going to stick around as the
Ravens coach. You have to think that he was following
an instruction that this was a mandate for management. Now,
why would that be a mandate, because if Joe Flacco
had come back into the game at halftime, which would
have been the proper football move to put Flacco in.

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When your quarterback has a zero point zero rating, you
go to the other guy. But they couldn't do that
because it would have been a disaster. Imagine if Flacco
had come into that game and thrown a few touchdown
passes and led the Ravens back. That would have thrown
a monkey wrench into the Baltimore plans, the best laid
plans of mice Men and Ravens. For Joe Flacco to

(47:06):
have led the Ravens back. They want to go to
Lamar Jackson. Right, They're worried about messing with the psyche.
I heard some people say that in the mainstream football media.
They're worried about messing with the psyche of Lamar Jackson.
And yet again, the right move, which was the move
that hadn't been made, that wasn't made, was to put
Flacco into that game in half time. And again, I'm

(47:27):
no Joe Flacco advocate. He's a bum, but you know
who's more of a bum, Lamar Jackson. And Flacco's got
his own issues. But again, the move here, you want
to play to win the game. The Ravens didn't play
to win the game. They didn't. They're worried about the
psyche of Lamar Jackson. Some say it's embarrassing. We're not

(47:52):
talking about peewee football. Here professional football. You can't be
worried about feelings. Lamar Jackson's feels could be hurt. She's
worried about the facts, and the facts are you're getting
your you know what drilled in. If Jackson's soul was
going to be crushed by being benched, you know what,

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he's not the guy. If he's that delicate a little flower,
Lamar Jackson, that being benched because he got a quarterback
rating of zero, He's gonna do him in. He's not
your quarterback long term anyway. Cannot win with him, cannot
coach with him, can't do it. The fact is the
Raven coaching staff royally screwed this up. But again I
believe it was a mandate. Jackson deserved to be benched.

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He earned it. We're not talking about a ten year
decorated veteran. I would have besched a ten year decorated
veteran anyway. I was calling for Tom Brady to be
benched when he had a bad Monday night game a
few years ago in Kansas City. I said, the pitchers
get a bench. So it's not knowledge of anything. It's
not just because I hate rookie quarterbacks. I would it

(48:55):
doesn't matter. Play like that. I hand you a clipboard
and a ball cat and I said, go stand over there,
here's your dunce cap. It was a disservice to the
Ravens defense. The Ravens held the Chargers the three point
seven yards per play. The Chargers converted only six of
seventeen on third down. These are winning defensive numbers. Philip

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Rivers was terrible. He had one hundred and sixty yards
in the game, no touchdowns, a quarterback rating of eighty.
Melvin Gordon only had forty yards on the ground. He
did have a touchdown, but again, seventy five percent of
the game was given away by Lamar Jackson's football in
competence and the Ravens defensive effort went to waste. It's

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embarrassing now the last point here. The Bolts became the
first team as I said, to play Lamar Jackson twice,
and clearly they quickly figured out they were licking their chops.
They were like, ah, we got something, we got something.
You knew right away. I mean, was it the first
I saw the stats? CBS said the stat on the broadcast.
It was like the first eight plays the Ravens had

(50:02):
like three fumbles or something like. It was ridiculous, some
ridiculous stat like that. I forget exactly what it was,
but do not allow the garbage time performings to change
your belief here. The Ravens would have had a much
better chance to win this game with Flacco playing the
entire second half, because you wouldn't have given away the

(50:23):
third quarter rather than go to Lamar Jackson and leaving
him in there, which is what they did. And I
do get amused by the parade of excuses. Lamar Jackson
is someone that many people have invested a lot in.
They want him to do weather many champions of Lamar Jackson.

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I like to call them apologists, and they have every
excuse in the book. Offensive line, a bunch of turnstyles,
the play callings, sucked, playing the blame game, Lamar Jackson
not his fault. Lamar's protected don't work. He's he's protected
people around him. There's like a firewall, and no one

(51:04):
can criticize. He's beyond reproach. Lamar jacks just happened to
suck at a time. You can't suck the first three
quarters of a playoff game at home. And I assumed wrongfully,
clearly I was handicapped this game. I got it completely wrong.
I assumed that because the Ravens are not a passing team,
they're a running team, that the rookie quarterback thing would

(51:28):
not be an issue because you're running, you're not throwing.
But he looked completely like he had never played football before.
It was like the first time he'd ever picked up
a football. He's like, wait, what is this? What is
this ob shaped object that I'm holding in my hands?
What am I supposed to do with this object? Man?
And I Meanwhile, Philip Rivers and the Chargers are going

(51:49):
ahead to Foxboro for a matchup with Tom Brady and
the Patriots, an obvious weather advantage for New England. I've
already looked at the long term forecast and it called,
you know what the weather is in Foxboro this coming
Sunday when the Chargers and the Patriots will get together.
High of thirty degrees and an icy mix in Foxborough.

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That is Patriot playoff weather? Is what? That is? Patriot
playoff weather. Forty one year old Tom Brady versus thirty
seven year old Philip Rivers. The stat geeks, the football
walks have already announced that we the oldest pair of
Playoffs starting quarterbacks. The previous record was only a few
years ago when Peyton Manning and Tom Brady got together.

(52:33):
So that'll be a new record for if you like
old quarterbacks, Tom Brady and Philip Rivers, you will be
all excited. But let's talk about let's not bury the lead.
Don't bear the lead, my man. I won't ravens lamar Jacks.
What the hell happened? Let's hear from John Harbory. He'll
be doing a little tap dance. They will spin from

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John Harball And the obvious comote to dragging in the
room is why the hell did you not put Joe
Flacco in this game. I can assure you we were considering,
you know, putting Joe in the game and all that
kind of stuff. That was part of the conversation, certainly
thought about, certainly talked about it with everybody, And I
can tell you this, it was. It was everybody was

(53:13):
on the same page. It's what we did, everybody, including Joe.
That's a lie. That's that's that's where we was at. Yeah,
you know he's lying. I mean, Pinocchio is even embarrassed
for you you know this is growing John Harball here's
more from the coach of the Ravens. He says that
Flacco would not have done anything better, really, you believe

(53:34):
in the end, talking about the fourth quarter, Lamar played
really well in two minutes garbage time. I don't think
Joe would have played any better in two minutes than
Lamar did. So give Lamar credit, right, No way, he
played in two played really well. No, And you'd have
to say based on that part of it at that time,
at that point in time in the game, it was
it was the right decision. We went down and scored
two touchdowns. So was he looking for a pat on
the back? Was it playing that It sounded like he's

(53:54):
looking for a pat on the back. It's embarrassing. Listen here, listen.
You know what that is as someone that's it's the
equivalent of the NBA when you fall behind by twenty
five points and you in the fourth quarter you outscore
the other team by eighteen, you only lose by seven,
and you say, well, we really fought to the end,
We really showed some gut. No, you were the game
was over. The game was over. Why do people are

(54:18):
so stupid They don't understand. They just such a bunch
of idiots. All right, here's more from John Harbaugh, and
he is cuddling up. He is going to now make
out with Lamar Jackson. I mean, Lamar's our quarterback going forward.
There's no question about that. Joe Flacco is gonna play
really well in this league. Joe can still play. I
think we saw that the first half of the season.

(54:38):
Joe's gonna have a market. There's gonna be a lot
of teams are gonna want Joe because they understand that.
And I'll be I'll be in Joe's corner wherever he's
at it. You know, unless we play him, he might
be coaching him. John, you might who knows, you might
be coaching John, John and Jim together again. I just
hear from Lamar Jackson. Who this guy must be great

(55:01):
to be. Lamar Jackson, you got a bunch of fan
boys that just love you, and you can do no wrong. Lamar.
I men, my god, you were terrible, and just admit
how bad you were. I flay, I played poorly. You know,
there's a lot of things you know, we could have
did down that field put us in a better situation.
Just gotta move on, get rid of finisition. See he's

(55:24):
not that concerned. I see the fans are more upset
than Lamar Jackson. I one more from Lamar. The fans.
It was boo flat from the Baltimore fan base, a
chorus of boosh, boom, boom. That's what they were doing
for Lamar Jackson. Lamar your thoughts, No, man, you know,

(55:44):
still a lot of fans. You know they're gonna come
full up seats for us. Man, Now, hard feelings. You know,
they were looking for better than us. We didn't perform well.
Happened sometimes. When's the last time a quarterback went three
quarters with a quarterback rating of two point seven in
a playoff game? I mean, that's Tebow had some bad
moments in his playoff run back in the day with

(56:06):
the Broncos. But was he that Maybe he was that bad?
I don't. I have to go back and look at
that game the Broncos played against the Patriots after they
beat the Steelers on that ridiculous touchdown pass the next game.
I don't know anyway it let's say hello, yeah, you're
already talking there, Edmund Dallas, steamboat Willie. That was cup
That wasn't Oh, I thought that was yeah, yeah, all right. Anyway,

(56:28):
there's Eddie right there. Look at that Eddie Garcia. Amazing
it was. It is amazing. Uh, how many people are
going out of their way to defend Lamar Jackson's embarrassing.
I mean, but just because you say he was, as
you like to say, biblically bad, he was the three quarters,
that doesn't mean that you're taking a giant dump on
him and his career in his future. But just call

(56:49):
would call the obvious he was. He was beyond the fall.
We lived with such a fan boys that can admit it, like,
oh we gotta protect the calling out the fans of
Baltimore booing him. Oh my god, he would a zero
quarterback rating the three quarts. What are you supposed to do?
Givehim a stadio ovation? I mean, come on, he was terrible,

(57:10):
all right. Tibo Tebo played two playoff games. The game
against the Steelers, he played well in the game against
the Patriots. The next game when they got smoked forty
five to ten. Back in twenty twelve, Tebow I remember
being horrific. He had a quarterback rating of fifty two
point seven in that In that particular performance there, so

(57:34):
compared to the way Lamar Jackson played for the bounce
of that game, was was great. It was wonderful. So well,
good luck. Where's Joe Flacco gonna end up? Was it? Jackson?
Let's go down the list of the usual suspect. I
don't think there's gonna be He'll get a job somewhere,
but I mean this whole they're gonna be beating down
his door to try and sign up. Come on, now,
where where does Joe Flacco end up? Let's see here?

(57:55):
Does he become a high end backup? Joe Flacco? And
the most teams don't carry a high end backup? Right,
so they don't he'll be the next Nick Foles, the
next yet right, let's see, probably not. We're the only one.
Maybe the Redskins. Yeah, Alex Smith is, Yeah, I'll be
back for a while. If ever. Yeah, I can see
that Jets possibly have to go far from where he lives. Now,

(58:16):
I guess, yeah, you think Jim Nor beat the Jets?
Why not be a backup? You could be the back
I thought you were talking about being a maybe a
starter somewhere? What is it? Northeast guy? So you gotta
think like Northeastern Corridor, I ninety five corridor, somewhere in
that Johnfalo Giants. Maybe Buffalo. Here we go, Buffalo. Yeah,
there you go. Let's go. Let's go. The phone is

(58:37):
real quick because I have to get Whoopy Pie Blair
has something he wants to say real quick, so we
must get him on Hello Whoopie Pie Blair in Man
strip to Colorado. Got to tell you that you went
to Colorado sucky Bronco fans because they suck a Cooper.
Do you have those Bronco Geary and all those Bronco

(58:57):
fans saying that the Patriots are eaters and they're not,
because look at us. We gotta play San Diego. We're
gonna put them in the them in the field, whip
them in the field, do whatever we can. And I
don't see San Diego winning. I don't. Don't. Look at
the temperature on Sunday. You you just said it. The

(59:19):
temperature is gonna is gonna make them freeze. Man, They're
gonna freeze. They're not used to it. They're California, US,
They're California yaa, whatever you call it. Because they're not
used to the temperature. Man. I don't think that Philip
Rivers is gonna be used to this whole temperature out
here man in Boston. Yeah, you're not. You lived there

(59:41):
for a while now you're not used to it. I'm used. No,
you're not. You can play, you can plain about it.
You can plain about it all the time. I have
a I have a mask for my face. I have
a Patriot beanie. I'm all right. I put that being
on when I get cold, I covered my face. Now, yeah,
and I have a Patriot beanie. But guess what this up?

(01:00:01):
Where are the Stealers? They are not in the playoffs?
Where they are they they had to buy. The Raiders
are buying. The Raiders are playing next weekend. You didn't
the No, no, no, no Blair, No, no Blair. Listen
to me. The NFL announced Roger Goodell made an announcement

(01:00:22):
that he felt sorry for the Raider fans because they're
leaving Oakland, so he wanted them to be in the playoffs. No, no,
I'm telling you, no, I'm not joking Goodell. It's part
of Goodell's pr to No. He no, they're not. God,
They're gonna beat the Cowboys and Jerry Jones to be
crying on the side. I gotta go, all right, get

(01:00:43):
thanks show you squeeze. That's gonna hang off and devastating.
All right, the Baltimore beat down and not on the field.
We'll get to that. We'll do it. Name. Be sure
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It's Ben Maller. We get to the Baltimore beat down,

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and no, it did not involve the game itself. We'll
get to that coming up here in a moment. The
Mallar Militia very active on Twitter. Rob and Vegas says
call of the Year, mister san Diego. Whoopee Pie Blair.
A lot of love Whoopie Pie Blair. People loved hearing
his voice. Manning Mike said that I said he says,
I love hearing Blair. He should be Caller of the Year.

(01:01:48):
When do we vote with the voting will be coming up,
but we still have a lot of ways to go.
We try to line up. I know that everyone's excited
about the Golden Globes. Who the hell is excited about that?
Did anyone watch watch the Golden Globes? Right? No, of
course no, who the hell watches the Golden Globe? Tangled?
What I I? Somebody said, what was the movie that
won the Green Book? What is the Green Book? What

(01:02:11):
is that? Uh? It's about um No, not that or else.
Troop would have an in depth to recap about. Now
for me, Eddie, it's the forties. Is it about the
National League? Because kids, it's the sixties and it's the
BASTI P and s. When I was a kid, the
Green Book was the National League. In the Red Book
was the American League. But they stopped making those years ago.

(01:02:31):
But they if I wanted to learn about the National League,
I would read the Green Book and it would have
everything about the National League. It would have the pictures,
the coaches, the minor league system, historical stats. That's the
Green Book, and then the Red Book was the American League,
but they they don't make that. I remember that. Yeah,
so black was the NFL. Right, it's not what the
movie was about. The black books the NFL. That's that's

(01:02:52):
your that's your people. You're eating. That's the black No.
But I mean like the contact like book for the
NFL that was it was a black book and then
the blue one. They have an NBA, right, they have
like a meat Yeah, the NBA media book is like
blue word. What are we doing? What are you doing it?
I don't know. I have no idea, but I do know.

(01:03:12):
Another video of a sucker punch between fan on fan vials,
this time in Baltimore, Maryland. Yes, Eddie and boy or
wife's not gonna like this. A Charger fan beat down
a Raven fan. Clearly he's seen punching the snot out
of a Charger fan in the upper deck at the

(01:03:35):
Raven Charger game. There's a twenty eight second video clip
which has made the rounds. It's been seen. Were you
were doing that day? Yeah, it appears that the Raven
fans did not enjoy the loss to the Chargers. Eddie,
they did not handle that very well. As a twenty
eighth second clip, which is going around there and you
can see the Raven fan punching another guy in Charger gear.

(01:03:59):
And then this is where it got a little scary.
One of the guys falls over. Now it's the upper deck.
What happens if you fall off the upper deck, right, yeah?
Or or you demise of someone down below you top
that's your point. And of course in any kind of
mob violence, the Raven fans around were encouraging the fight.

(01:04:22):
They were like, hey, we want to see it. Let's
see some blood the field. Yeah, not not everyone, but
there were there were good number of people. And then
but at the end of the clip, the twenty eight
second clip, you can see the police came over to
try to break things up. But there's one like one
part of the clip where like you can see like
the legs of the charger I think it was a

(01:04:43):
Charger fan. It goes up in the air and it's
like it's on the upper deck. You're like, wow, my,
probably of these videos that you don't know who the
instincator is. So even though that Chargers fan got his
butt kicked, he could have been the instigator. You never know.
Look at Roberto, It's true though, ye could have been,
but a little saucy language though here. I can't believe that. Yeah, hard,

(01:05:04):
hard to believe. That doesn't happen in NFL games normally,
does it? That kind of saucy language like that? Really? No,
it's like going to church. My virgin ears can't handle that.
We'll have Mallard to the third degree. We'll get to
that coming up here in a little bit, and I
guess we'll find out more about that. That's not as bad.
This was like two dudes, So I guess that's okay.
Unlike the Charger Steeler game, we're a pregnant woman got attacked,

(01:05:27):
all right. At least we're getting better, Okay. I don't
think the guy was pregnant, but it's twenty nineteen. I
don't know. Maybe he was pregnant. Who knows. All Right,
we'll get to Mallard to the third degree. We'll get
to that coming up momentarily from the Geico Fox Sports
Radio studios. But right now here is Eddie Garcia with
and we recap NFL Wildcard action from Sunday. In the NFC,

(01:05:48):
it was the Eagles beating the Bears at Chicago sixteen
to fifteen. Philadelphia had to drive down the field of
the final minutes, Nick Foles able to engineer a drive
and hit Golden tap wide receiver with a two yard
touched un pass on fourth day out with fifty six
seconds to play. The two point conversion fails to their
up by a point. Chicago then was able to get
the ball into field goal range for Cody Parkey with
ten seconds to go. Forty three yard attempt to win

(01:06:10):
the game went off the left, upright, then off the crossbar.
No good. Eagles, with the sixteen fifteen win in Philadelphi,
advanced to face in the Saints in New World's next Sunday,
and that means the Rams will be hosting the Cowboys
in the other NFC divisional game next Saturday on the
AMC side. Chargers beat the Ravens in Baltimore twenty three
to seventeen. LA kicker Michael Batley booted five field goals
for Baltimore. Quarterback Mark Jackson was terrible through three quarters,

(01:06:33):
is three of ten passing twenty five yards, had a
zero quarterback rating, did have a couple of late touchdown passes,
but fumbled at the very end to end up losing
the game. Chargers with twenty three seventeen win Charges will
face the Patriots in Foxboro next Sunday. I mean its
chiefs will be hosting the Colts next Saturday. The support
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And one note from the NBA. The Minnesota Timberwolves fired
their president and head coach Tom Thibodeau on Sunday. TIBs,
but I feel bad. That guy's no life like he's
all he is is about basketball. He's got nothing else
going on, if you believe these reports about him. And

(01:07:15):
so this is whole life, no hobbies on nothing, no
social life, no hobby family. No. I don't think he does.
I don't. I don't think he is. He gonna be
joining the Clippers staff. Why would he join the Why
would you Rivers? What's it? Win? What? What? Oh Tibau?
I don't think he's been a head coach too many
times you get a coaching job. I don't see him
becoming the lead assistant plus doc Rivers has pretty much

(01:07:38):
been neutered, right, He's no longer the president of basketball
Operations or whatever it was for the for the Clippers,
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Mannick Mike says, I am totally amazed at fans who

(01:07:59):
physically fight over any kind of a sporting event. Yeah.
I've never been like that worked up. But if you
know somebody punches, your first used to Yeah, Roberto did. Yeah,
let's go to our might expert, Roberto. Yeah, you're okay.
A lot of alcohol infused rage back in the day.

(01:08:21):
So when you did this, you thought you were like
part of the team, right, Yeah. And the colors orange
and black really really ignited me and got me upset
and wanted me to throw punches, you know, the Giants,
the Gantaste. Yeah, do you ever go to Giants games
in the ball I'm glad and go back in the day.
You know I have gone recently, you have, yes, but

(01:08:42):
I've controlled my sutiful ballpark there San Francisco. It's a
nice part, crappy neighborhood. Yeah, it's good, good ball, it's
a nice part. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, I'm glad and go. Yeah,
I hear you years ago. All right, let's go to
the phones and our number one Raven fan on the show,
make way for helmet Man, who's on the Ben Maller Show.

(01:09:03):
Hello helmet Man, Top the morning. Hello to you, helmet man. Yeah,
over the morning. To the whole crew, our first Cooper Loop, uh,
Ben Nollin and Alberto of whatever is that you were?
Somebody played a drop. Unfortunately we didn't get a clean

(01:09:24):
copy that. But I heard Alberto. Alberto, Yeah, Alberto, that's
the time I was Rico. No, you're Alberto. You want
a bunch of restaurants in the La area fast food? Oh? Yeah.
I was at the Raven SOBGECT game on a twenty
second of December. You were you were in Carson, California.
I was with my I was wearing my raising gear.

(01:09:44):
Now did you actually go in the stadium or you
outside the stadium? Oh? I took nothing. I just took
a backpack of and I went in the game. Some
of some Raisins fans gave me a ticket. Oh that's great,
this guy, get Eddy, you got a free ticket to
the race. He didn't come over and say hello to me.
I was a that game. Oh I didn't see y'all.
I didn't see anybody. I didn't see anybody I was.

(01:10:06):
I didn't even see Matt money Smith, the voice of
the Chargers. But the day before I was telling that,
I'll say, your chargers are going down. Y'all going down.
That's why I tell them on the radio. They really
take calls. But yeah, but you're a special take any calls.

(01:10:26):
But now it's the other way around. Yeah, now they
don't take a lot of down. What you just have sportsmanship?
How I see it is you pick yourself up, just
yourself off, and start all over again. Have you ever

(01:10:46):
punched anybody? Helmet in? No, no man of peace. No
violence is not the answer. Have you ever been punched? You?
That's good, that's a life. Well if you never punched,
anybody has never been punched. Because you're you're you're a
sweet spirit. No one would mess with you. What everyone
loves you? Well, man, I'm I was supposed to given

(01:11:08):
to a Peter Solerus a celer a Scelerus. Sure, flipping
bolts and flipping Boston, flipping houses, but it's the opposite
of everything you did. He made a fifty three thousand
dollars and four days, oh flipping houses. Oh no, you're

(01:11:29):
not going to do a flipping houses seminar. Are you
a helmet man? No, I do it on a web name.
But I'm charging my other phone because I gotta I'm
still on my No, helmet man, listen to me. I
love you as a friend, even though I've only met
you a few times. Do not give any of your money.
You are not gonna flip any houses. Helmet man. Please
do not do not do that, helmet man. Do not

(01:11:51):
how come, helmet man. Definitely, I don't know that person individually,
but generally speaking, helmet man, it's a scam. Okay, they're
trying to he was on all the talk shows. It
doesn't matter, it does' helmet man. I love you, man,
You're better off saving that money. Don't don't give that
per I don't know any about that. I just in general,
as a general rule, helmet man, if it sounds too

(01:12:13):
good to be true, it is too good to be true. Okay, again,
listen to me. I love you, man. I don't want
you to see you lose any money. You don't have
a ton of money. I want I want you to
come down here tomorrow. I'm coming in the studio. I
would love to see you again. You better come down here. Okay,
okay to bye bye, all right there on the live air, Boy,

(01:12:40):
did I hear that prob I think I heard that
he's some someone is trying to recruit Helmet Man to
flip houses. When I first met him, he didn't have
a house. He was homeless, yea, And they're trying to
get him to flip houses. Man. That's terrible. No, don't
do that. That's not right. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I
love infommercials, and I've bought stuff on infommercials. But those scams,

(01:13:04):
there's a lot of snake or during this time on
the TV's here, yeah, I mean, and then the top scams.
You go back over the history. I've I've read the
books on this stuff. I've studied the art of it.
I mean, the the weight loss, the real estate. There's
like certain areas no matter what period of time in
the history of humanity, no matter what kind of gadgets
come along, and what kind of access to computers and phones.

(01:13:28):
The get rich quick you know, no fail, You're you're
gonna make a bunch of money. And all you have
to do is show up to this convention at the airport. Uh.
You know, ninety nine point nine percent of those are complete,
complete schemes. So anyway, all right, good luck to the helmet.
He's gonna come down here. It'd be great to see.

(01:13:50):
We love helm, he's good people. Hopefully he doesn't fall
for the scheme. We'll get to Mallard to the third degree.
Here's the inst the tribute in honor of Seattle punter
Michael Dixon, who Michael Dixon, who had to fill in
for the injured Sebastian Johannakowski, Blank is the last player

(01:14:11):
to successfully drop kick a field goal in the NFL. Again,
Michael Dixon, who had to fill in for the injured
Sebastian Janikowski for the Seahawks. Blank is the last player
to successfully drop kick a field goal in the NFL.
That's the instant trivia. The answer next. Be sure to
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give us five stars. It will annoy the corporate muckety
MUCKs and I live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios.
It's Ben Maller, Right. Here's the answer. Tribute and honor
of Seahawks punner Michael Dixon, who had to fill in
for the injured Sebastian John Iikowski Blank is the last
player to successfully drop kick a field goal in the NFL.

(01:15:15):
That's the question. What's the answer? Eric in Ohio is
going with Ricky Prole as his answer. Everyone else seems
to have the same answer here. Let's see here. Tony says,
I just heard the answer to this question and I
can't remember. Getting older sucks. He says, yes, it does.
I'm glad you don't know the answer. Riek or Eric
misspelled is going with Big Ray McClain as his answer.

(01:15:38):
Justin is going with Kareem Hunt. Interesting. Fred Flintstone from
the Rooster Jay formerly of Philadelphia back in Florida's going
with Kurt Gibson as his answer trip I got it right,
although he thinks someone else did it. Eddie, do you
have the answer? Ed I thought it was Doug Fluty,
but I could be wrong. Was it was Doug Flutey?

(01:16:01):
Now it was? It was. I had a double check
on this because I originally had a different name, but
it was Doug Flutey. Game in Belichick let him do it.
It was January first of the year twenty oh one,
so it was twenty six, so it was thirteen years ago,
a little over thirteen years ago. Was a Dolphin Patriot game.

(01:16:24):
And yeah, the Patriots allowed Flutey to kick the drop
kick field goal, which made at that point it was
in the fourth quarter, late in the fourth quarter minute
day twenty five to twenty two. I was the extra point.
Actually it was the extra point. So technically how about
this city, So I'm technic. The name I heard that

(01:16:44):
was the last drop kick, which was an extra point,
the last drop kick field goal. Though in the NFL
was Hall of Famer Earl dutch Clark, oh in nineteen
thirty seven. How about that. It's a while ago, but
the last successful dropkicked field goal that flute he had
the extra point was actually Earl dutch Clark for the

(01:17:07):
Detroit Lions wan against the Chicago Cardinals in nineteen thirty seven.
All right, let's get to it. Here we go, it's Maller.
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(01:17:28):
Ben Daryl Morey said over the weekend, and for those
that don't know, that's the GM of the Houston Rockets.
He said over the weekend that he thinks James Harden
averaging forty points this season is possible. Do you think so, man, Well,
he's off to get to forties. Off to a slow
start for that, but it is possible. We've seen it
before in the NBA. It's really a simple mathmadical formula.

(01:17:50):
If you're selfish enough and the Rockets direct everything through
James Harden and make that the sole focus of their offense,
you can get to forty point game, Harden is averaging
thirty three point seven points. He's taking an NBA leading
twenty two point four field goal attempts per game, so
if he gets to twenty seven or twenty eight, the

(01:18:11):
numbers will get around forty. Now, Wilt Chamberlain, he averaged
more than forty twice. You know I love this. He
averaged fifty in nineteen sixty two. He averaged thirty nine
and a half field goal attempts per game that season
to get to fifty points a game, So Harden's only
averaging twenty two point four. The other thing here to
remember about Harden the way he's officiated during the regular season.

(01:18:35):
He doesn't have to shoot all that much because if
you breathe on him, he'll go to the charity stripe.
And Harden also is allowed to run. He doesn't have
to dribble like normal basketball players do. He on offense
does not have to dribble. He can run around and
still score, so that helps him out all right. Next
been During the Texans Cults wildcard game, booker McFarland criticized
JJ Watt, saying that batted balls are nice, but they

(01:18:58):
pay defensive lineman to get to the quarterback and it
finally got a lot of backlash for the criticism. But
do you think it's deserved? Yeah, of course I'm on
team Booger, Benny and the Booger. Yeah, that's right. Absolutely.
I used to pick Boogers when I was a kid.
I support Booger far Now. First of all, JJ Watt
is treated as mother Teresa, right, He's Mother Teresa in

(01:19:20):
the NFL. He's beyond criticism, but not on our show.
We know that charity is great, but true charity should
be done without your name on it anonymously. Right now,
Watt feels differently. Secondly, for all the glowing tributes and
there's a lot heartfelt love notes written about JJ Watt

(01:19:40):
on the internet, he has not given any offensive coordinators
heartburner headaches in the playoffs. He's got two tackles and
zero sacks in the last couple of postseason games for
the Texans, and he's been pretty much a zero in
the postseason in his career. Next, Bennett took LaVar ball
seven tries to bury a three pointer in a video

(01:20:02):
that's making the round. You stay in your lane, Kopa loop,
how many tries do you think it would take you
how many would it take? Alonzo Ball didn't have pictures
shut out for was? I guarantee? It wasn't the question power.
I will shoot better than LaVar Ball. Okay, I have studied,
thanks to NBA two K nineteen, I have studied the

(01:20:25):
great shooters, Chris Mullen, Purvish Short, World b Free, Bob McAdoo,
Rick Barry Purvish Short. I'd have no problem, not too.
I'm a natural born shooter. They called me the assassin
on the playground back when I played basketball. Money Mallard,
the money ball was my friend, Cooper loop I would

(01:20:45):
absolutely make one out, at least one out of seven.
I mean, come on, moneyballs, I'm a mean outside shooter
in the game of basketball. There's pick up games back
on those mean streets in Irvine, Cooper loop Man, all right,
there it is Mallard of the third Agree. How did
we do? Ben? You fail for an uncalled for shot
at Lonza. Oh he didn't score, he got shut out.

(01:21:06):
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(01:21:27):
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prey free. Great quote. So the Indianapolis Colts, you saw
the game unset, all right. They jumped out of the
gates earlier. They never looked back in the first game

(01:22:11):
of wild Card weekend, overwhelming the outclass Texans. It was
one of the most amazing statistics we had come across.
We mentioned it last week. This was the first time
all year the Texans had planned an opponent that had
a winning record the week they played them, and they
were exposed. They were exposed. Andrew Luck in the first

(01:22:34):
half alone had one hundred ninety two yards two touchdowns.
Indianapolis led twenty one nothing at halftime, and they didn't
do anything offensively in the second half. They didn't have to.
They get a twenty one to seven win in the
kickoff game of the wild card weekend, Marlon Mack running
for one hundred and fifty four yards from scrimmage the Colts.
Now we'll move on and they'll play the number one seed,

(01:22:56):
the Chiefs at Arrowhead in the divisional round is coming weekend.
We have plenty of time to break that game down
later in the week. We must take a look back
to what happened on Sunday, you know, the drill the
better stories in the losing locker room. And I am
not gonna do Schadenfreud radio unless I am unless I

(01:23:17):
have been preparing and crafting this particular mala monologue all
season long, all season long. Now, the question is this lifeless, gutless,
spineless playoff effort by the Texans a referendum on their
entire twenty eighteen season. Stay with me now, one hundred percent,

(01:23:45):
Ding Ning, Ning, Ning Ning. Now my thoughts, You've got
the life preserver, rudimentary and protocol, and we will link
all of this together. Now. First of all, Deshaun Watson,
much like Lamar Jackson, suck at a time you should
not have sucked, and he was overmatched in this playoff game.

(01:24:06):
And as we expected, he's a fraud. And unlike the
other blowhards and gasbags who made excuses for Deshaun Watson,
we don't do that in these parts. Deshaun Watson gets
total credit for this loss. It was a bloody clown show,
is what it was. The Texans are getting smashed and

(01:24:26):
he's giving first down salutes while they're down by twenty
one points. It's the equivalent of a defensive player doing
a sack dance when his team is losing forty three
to fourteen in the fourth quarter. Deshaun Watson, who had
the hood spot to call me a clown, is doing
salutes while trailing by three touchdowns in a playoff game.

(01:24:51):
Life comes at your fastest, Jean. You lose all right anyway, Listen.
He passed for ninety yards in the first half, ninety
He had a quarterback rating of fifty point seven down
three touchdowns at home. Now, much like Lamar Jackson, Deshaun

(01:25:12):
Watson played a little better late in the game when
the game was already over, but when it was in
the balance, he was drowning Watson had two hundred and
thirty five yards. He finished with one touchdown, one interception,
three sacks, and in emasculating four point eight yards per attempt. Now,
remember the minimum acceptable number for a quarterback is seven

(01:25:34):
yards per attempt, but really in the modern NFL it
should be higher than that, should be seven and a
half to eight yards per attempt. Deshaun Watson four point
eight yards attempt per attempt against the Horseshoes defense. Bill O'Brien,
You know what Bill O'Brien needed to do. He needed
to throw him a life preserver, is what he needed
to do, because he was he was really drowning out there,

(01:25:55):
and it was it was amateur hour. Indianapolis had twenty
first downs. They went five for five on third down,
while Houston had six first downs. I'm talking about the
first half of this game. Twenty first downs to six
in the first half. And this new stat which I'm
obsessed with for quarterbacks, bad plays, right, interceptions in completion, sacks,

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and fumbles. You add all those up and Deshaun Watson,
the clown Show, had twenty four bad plays. Now, this
is what we anticipated when we handicapped the game last week,
that that would be the undoing of the Texans. And
indeed it was twenty four bad plays for Houston, Andrew
Luck had only fourteen negative plays in the wild card game.

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That's a minus ten handicap for Houston or a plus
ten advantage for Indianapolis, which is the word is backbreaking
if you're the Texans trying to overcome a ten negative
play situation. And so the Texans ought to be in
the doll rooms the way they play. They were exposed

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that secondly, and this pains me to do it, but
Frank Reich proved that he's not a chump, the coach
for Indianapolis, and he's recovered from that epic brain fart
when he picked a loss over a tie early in
the season against the Texans. But watching the Colts and

(01:27:23):
you watch the contrasting styles between the Colts and the Texans,
the Colts are a fundamentally sound football team. They're a
well coached football team. The rudimentary parts of football, the
Colts have the basics down pat The Texans are a sloppy,
poorly coached football team. You can tell they had eight
penalties for sixty seven yards. Deshaun Watson doing the first down, salute,

(01:27:47):
What are you the coach? Why don't you go over
there say hey, stupid, you're down by three touchdowns? What's
wrong with you? All those negative plays by Watson like
Bozo the clown. Here the Texans went three for thirteen
on third down. Now, Watson was not alone. Although he's
got the biggest dunce cap on JJ Watt, who parades
around as the Incredible Hulk. He was the incredible mime

(01:28:11):
who he's very quiet like a mime. Mine show a
Lamar Miller. Where's Lamar Lamar Miller? He had five carries
for only eighteen yards. The Texans main running backs of
Lamar Miller and Alfred Blue had twenty six yards between them.
Wow wow. Anyway, the final point here, Bill O'Brien is

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not expected to be on the hot seat. He should be.
The Texans went eleven and five this season. They won
the AFC South. They rolled off nine straight wins after
starting in the year oh and three. But the playoff
pratfall has become regular protocol in the Bill O'Brien era.

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All Right, this is what's known as standard operating procedure.
Under O'Brien, he's now been around five seasons in Houston.
He's got a one in three record in the postseason,
and even that is misleading. Why, I'll tell you the
Texans have been outscored eighty five to twenty three, and
the three playoff losses, they scored only seven points in

(01:29:19):
the game on Saturday, which is tied for their second
fewest by any team in a home playoff game or
the last ten seasons. The only time team scored fewer
was the Texans against the Chiefs under Bill O'Brien's watch
back in twenty fifteen. Now, keep in mind that the
Texans only signature moment with Bill O'Brien. Their signature playoff

(01:29:42):
win was also pathetic, the twenty seventeen wild card game
against the Raiders. Do you remember who started that game
for Oakland? It wasn't car it was Connor Cook. Yeah,
so that's the only playoff win in the Bill O'Brien here.
So if you you eliminate that, the Texans don't have

(01:30:04):
any playoff wins under Bill O'Brien's watch, Connor Cook had
a thirty passer rating with three interceptions and three sacks
in that game for the Raiders. Keep in mind that
he was not on an NFL roster, did not appear
in a regular season NFL game this past season. His
last appearance in an NFL game was regular postseason, was

(01:30:24):
that game against the Texas. In other words, the future
is not that bright for Houston under Bill O'Brien and
certainly Deshaun watching. You think about where Deshaun Watson was
a year ago and he got hurt, and people said, oh,
when he comes back, he's gonna be the MVP. He's
gonna turn the NFL upside down, topsy turvy. Now the

(01:30:46):
guy's doing first down salutes. Down by three touchdowns in
the playoff game. What a clown, What a clown, Deshaun Watson.
Here's de Sean just trying to sell a false narrative
about the Texas. I mean, it is right for this organization.
Um features is uh, you know, is always gonna be bright,

(01:31:06):
you know, regardless of who's here. You know, a lot
of Carson started off and three and made a run,
and you know, Clint the division and had a chance,
had an opportunity for this playform, and you know it didn't.
It didn't end the way that we wanted to, you know,
to him. But you know, at the end of the day.
You know, you look at the fourth season, you know
you should, you know, have some smiles and some more
positivity than and a lot of negative stuff. Yeah. Sure,

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there's a guy who doesn't care, Deshaun Watson. He doesn't
give a crap. Be scared, Houston, be very scared about
Deshaun watching. This guy's a loser. That's a that's the
sound of a loser right there, Deshaun watch it. I
here's more from the Shaun Watson and he stunk up
the joint. He was terrible. The whole team sucked with
him in particular. Defend yourself, but you're staying missing the

(01:31:49):
opportunities down field, you know, trying to give my receiver
as a chance, Um, you know it didn't didn't capitalize
on that and just kind of um, you know, a
sqing on third down, keeping the change moving. That's my part.
You know, other guys, you know, miscommunication, things like that.
But you know we all could have played better. But
you know, sitting before, you gotta give close to credit.
And you know they made more plays. Yeah, they made

(01:32:11):
more plays, but you made more first down salutes. So
if you if you look at the first down salute
category to Sean Wins. Do they give you points for that?
They don't. I'm told they don't. All right, God, here's
more from DeShawn Watson, who's now got an excuse for
his poor performance. Here we go, speak up the Sean.

(01:32:33):
I can't hear you the show. No, no excuse, there's
no excuse at all. That's up. We're done with the
Shaun Watson. All right, here's one more. Let's hear from
Bill O'Brien, who is gonna keep his job. But Bill O'Brien,
defend yourself. Got a lot of really you know, great
guys in the locker room. I told the team, like
nothing that happened today. I took you know, great guys,

(01:32:53):
stood up there and said, look, I just didn't do
a good enough job getting you guys ready to play.
Yeah sure, it's yeah, yeah, well you didn't. But god,
good guys. You know who has good guys? You know
who else? The Arizona Cardinals have good guys. They also
have the number one pick in the draft. They've got
good guys though, good guys. All right, we have more.
Let's go back to Deshaun Watson. Now here's Deshaun Watson

(01:33:16):
who is now going to he's got an excuse for
his poor performance. That's here his excuse here. Y gotta
look at the film and you know the pressure was there.
I can't step into my throws out where I was,
you know, sitting there by myself, you know, with a
full pocket. Guys was in my face. Throws like that.
I can't fully throw any quarterback, not just me. You

(01:33:37):
can't step into that throw and you know, get their
full strength with their lower body and get the system
step then. I mean a lot of balls canna be low.
So U I mean that's that was just it. Well,
you gotta be a real cool, a drinking textan fan
to buy that nonsense. So just to get the record
straight to Seaun. Unless there's a perfect pocket, he's gonna suck.

(01:34:01):
That's pretty much what he just said. Right, What a
pathetic loser he got manhandled. You know what doesn't matter
if you don't have great protection. You gotta step up
and make plays. You gotta make things happen. That was
a cringeworthy response. Cringeworthy. Now many of you have reached
out to me and said, where's Chris and Houston? This

(01:34:24):
guy is a caller and people wanted to hear him
call in and take his his loss. Now, Chris has
called up a couple of times. I don't see him
on hold right now. His phone keeps apparently dying on.
Coop tells me, but if he calls in again, we
will put him right on and we will beat him up.
Oh he's there, all right. Let's go to him right now,

(01:34:46):
and we'll say hello to Christopher in Houston who had
to watch that floundering, pathetic effort quarterback. You pity man,
You know that you are a real pity Now we
ain't talking about how bad Jared Golf played his first
playoff performance. You didn't give Jared Goff that type of lashing.

(01:35:08):
Now the Sean might have played, man, but I gotta
give that that secondary is horrible chance. Oh my god,
I mean you want to bring up j J. You're
not getting bad sex and he looks to get the ball,
by the way, because the secondary suck. Jared Goff, the
Ram scored more points than the Texans did in his
playoff debut. They had thirteen points. The Texans had what seven?

(01:35:31):
You lost the Atlanta that's nothing to brag about. You
lost the Colts being that Oh please stop. Atlanta was
in the Super Bowl the year before. The Colts are
gonna save a Super Bowl? They were, They were up
twenty eight to three, and the Super Bowl they excuses
for your loss where they say you can lose by

(01:35:51):
one or you can lose by twenty a lost game.
Hey wait, Chris, Chris, do the salute, Chris be the
Seant salute. Your team just lost. Do the salute, just
like the Shawn. That's your quarterback, that's your quarterback. Deshaun Watson,
what an embarrassment, Wow being aren't you? You're a petty man.
You're making a big deal because the guy got a

(01:36:12):
first down because you're still trying to play and trying
to do something because he lost his second and his
third wilde receiver in the same year. He's not let me,
let me get my violin out, but my tiny violin
to play for. Deshaun Watson sitting back. Listen. The guy's terrible.
He was terrible, terrible ball. He got annihilated. It was bad.

(01:36:34):
It was his first game. But I guarantee you he
will come back next year. Being he will come back
next year better better than Jared Goffel. All I know
is Jared Goff's advanced past wild card weekend this year,
and Deshaun Watson didn't happen. No, he didn't last year.
They lost on wildcrup They lost on wild card weekend
last year. But they are they're ahead of the Texas

(01:36:57):
because they were better during the regular season, and you
earned the right of the buy. And if the text,
if the Texans hadn't lost late in the year, they
would have gotten to buy. But they are pathetic, and
I'm glad you're admitting that right now. I will admit it.
Being like I said, the secondary is trans It's been trads.
I hope it's test Texans finally wake up and do

(01:37:18):
something about their secondary, because it's it's really They won't
even make the playoffs next year, the Texans. How about that,
they won't even be missed up. I don't know what
you're talking about, correct, That's what I said, will not
make the playoffs next year. I have just one more thing,
the one more thing. Here we go, Philip Rivers. Did
you see the press conference for Philip Rivers? What exactly

(01:37:42):
did he say that offended you? No, he didn't offend me.
It just seems like Philip Rivers seems to be a
golfer instead of a quarterback. He looks like a golfer.
He looks like he can be on on a nine
holes or something. Right now, you're a PGA tournament. Did
you see that? Now? I did not see that. I didn't.
Rivers do not look like a quarter bet and he

(01:38:03):
got lucky that Baltimore choked like Choken Dolls. Rivers was terrible. No,
I agree with your. Rivers was bad. That's why the
Ravens should have gone to Flacco. I thought the Flacco
is good, but Lamar Jackson was in over his head
and they waited too long and they didn't They didn't
change quarterbacks in that game. All right, listen, Chris, Yeah,
you're a Houston sports fan. All your teams blow, but

(01:38:24):
we still love you and we must move on. There,
He goes, Chris in Houston. Eddie's here somewhere. I'm sorry, Eddie,
but people with the people demanded Chris and Houston Edmund
Dallas steamboat. Willie's perfectly fine. And I give Chris a
lot of credit because you've been doing this for a
long time, and you know a lot of people will

(01:38:45):
call in and thump their chest about their team, but
when their team loses, they will rarely call in and
take their lumps. So he at least he does that.
I'll give him that. Just Josh says, the Texans are
the Bengals of the South. Bill O'Brien is the white
version of Marvin Lewis. There's a hot take from that. Well,
Bill O'Brien's got a job. Marvin Lewis does not have
a job. What's what's Marvin you're gonna do? Now? Does

(01:39:07):
he do TV? Is he gonna get a Bengal front
office job? Ernie says Ernie. Michigan says Ben. I think
Rod Marinelli said that the future is bright no matter
what after the Lions own sixteen season. Also, Deshaun Watson
must be stealing his line. Bad job by him, he says,
I gotta I gotta agree with you. Though. On the
I noticed that as well watching the game when Deshaun

(01:39:28):
was doing the first down doing getting your ass kid?
What are you doing? No time and place? He's toned down.
My god, Shaun Watson's toned It's like the defensive player
of the fourth quarter when the games are decided. There's
too much pressure. There's too much pressure. But one time
he did it on the cold sidelines and the players
were like, they were chirping him hard. You were like, hey, scoreboard, buddy,

(01:39:52):
you kidding, mister wonderful right ss this boy. You have
to listen really hard to hear the joy in your
voice during the Deshaun Mary, I agree with you. I
really I hit it. Let me tell you something, I
hit it. I'm a professional broadcaster. I am a professional broadcast.
I did not take cheap shots at all. Everything I
said was spot on there about the Shaun Wasson. I
didn't go across the line at all, Eddie did I

(01:40:14):
I didn't not know no no one. If you want
to correct me, go ahead and correct man. And there's
nothing I said that was wrong, not at any at all.
Everything was spot on, all right, So that the Ben
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(01:41:19):
biggest diva here at Fox Sports Radio? Our imaging department
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you show up for work every I can't be offended
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falling asleep on the air like other people have. So
I don't know. But my diva, I don't know. I
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(01:41:43):
I can't complain though, because if I complain, then I'm
like in trouble because I'm and I will become the diva.
If I complain, then I'm a diva. Because you said
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called the diva. I just have to wait till they
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and then I will no longer be a diva. So

(01:42:05):
now that I'm complaining, let's go to the phones. We'll
say that we got the instant of Iceline coming up
in a little bit. Also turn up. We'll get to
that right now. Though. We go to weed Man Hippie,
who's somewhere in a bunker in Miami and he is
next on Fox Sports Radio. Hello weed Man Hippie, Ben,
I love you. It's a new year. I want to

(01:42:27):
be very clear. I'm channeling God directly to you. Okay,
do I need God in my life more? Do you
think that I am missing that? And the cars can
ask me questions now that being said, I'll have a
lot of supports. But that being said, well you can't
say that being said, that becomes a crutch when you

(01:42:49):
keep saying that being said, you don't need to say
that you are ground to cover here down, all right,
let's cover it here we go, your Twitter verse, your quevers. Yeah,
well what about them weep weep rocks bleep you bleep
you rocks in Well, that's not very nice. Why would

(01:43:12):
you no, yo yo yo in my life, Yeah, I
paid a quarter million dollars inheritance tacks. I paid tacks
on a building I sold for seven hundred thousand. I
sold my mother's house to three hundred and fifty thousand.
I paid tacks on all that bleep you bleep. So

(01:43:37):
you just for the right you you said bleep you
bleep is what you you said? There? Then you're on
SCC regulated radio, right. I don't want to get dumped,
that's true. No, no, no, we met wee meen. I
was watching TV with my wife over the weekend. We
noticed that in Australia a beautiful wife. I love your wife.
Stay away from my wife. Stay away from my wife.

(01:43:58):
Listen to listen to me. She's not she's lovely. Rocks
is beautiful. Stop that all right? I met Rock says
she's a lovely woman. But listen to me. Okay, here's
the thing. We'd man, all right, listen to me very clearly.
In Australia, instead of saying the F word, it's say
saying you know fin, they say bloody. So I'm now

(01:44:19):
going to say that from now on, I'm gonna use
bloody when I want to say the F word. You
like bleep better? Okay, you're like okay, Ben, Yes, yes,
you'd like to chime in, Kooba Loop, what do you have?
Isn't the isn't the FCC shut down right now because
of the government is correct, So technically there's no one
to check us. So, Cooper Loop, I would like you

(01:44:40):
to be the first person to curse on Fox Sports Radio.
Go ahead, Kooper Loop, right now, say it loud and proud.
Here we go, Coopa Loop after you, No, No, I insist.
I insist that you go first. I would like you
to be the first person to curse. You could just
do it. How about Robert too? How about you, Robert Fast?

(01:45:04):
Come on, Roberto No not making the money man, Eddie?
Go ahead, Eddie. I think the host should be the
first one to get You're a fearless leader on the show.
People love you, guys. They love you guy, you bloody guys,
you they love you. You know I'm gonna say it right,

(01:45:27):
and you don't have to dump me Roberto at all.
And I'm gonna say it right now. Fuck you there
you go right there. See I said it, Eddie right there,
loud and proud. Thank you very much. See that, weed Man?
You heard me curse? Did you not? Weed Man? Oh

(01:45:48):
you didn't even get bumped. I don't want to get bumped, right,
weed Man. Listen, there's like three people that see those tweets.
What you're giving all these people a lot of publicity,
but everybody will audience. There's a segment of your audience
on all right, Well, you don't need to feed all

(01:46:08):
You're feeding the beast is what you're doing. Then you're
you're just gonna get in neighboring a wheelchair. Wait man,
it's kind of like when you go to the beach
in Miami and the birds. If you start feeding the birds,
what's gonna happen. There's a ton of birds that are
gonna come down and rain down on you. So you're
just gonna encourage more of it. Thank you. So the

(01:46:30):
remember the show on Fox. We will get to turn up.
We'll get to that coming up here momentarily. Also later
this hour, the intertent advice line right now though from
the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios, Bloody Eddie Garcia with
the latest Eddie. Let's start with NFL Wildcard action on
Sunday and in the NFC was the Eagles getting by
the Bears sixteen to fifteen. Philadelphia quarterback mcfoles engineered a

(01:46:54):
last minute drive down the field, had a two yard
touchdown pass on fourth down to wide receiver Golden Date
with fifth six seconds left. The two point conversion failed
and the Eagles at a one point lee. Chicago then
would get into field goal range for Cody Parkey with
ten seconds left, but his forty three yard attempt apparently
was blocked at the line, but also went off the
left up side till crossbar. It wasn't a full block,

(01:47:15):
it was a tip, but day he didn't make it.
Sixteen fifteen Eagles win and Philadelphia advanced to face the
Saints in New Orleans next Sunday. That means that the
Rams will be hosting the Dallas Cowboys next Saturday. On
the AMC side was the Chargers over the Ravens twenty
three to seventeen. LA kicker Michael Badgeley at five field goals.
Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson through three quarters at a zero rating,

(01:47:35):
three of ten passing for twenty five yards, had a
couple of late touchdowns, but then had a late fumble
with the team looking for the Gohad touchdown in the
fourth quarter. Chargers get the win in advance the face
to Patriots in Foxborough next Sunday. It means that the
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So visit Truecar and enjoying more confident car experience. More
from the NFL, where, of course, there are many teams
looking for their next head coach, and the Denver Broncos
are one of them. But apparently they don't want to
let other teams. Wait wait, wait, wait wait, are they
bringing back Dan Reeves? No, no, they are not allowing
their former head coach Gary Kubiak to interview for offensive

(01:48:18):
coordinator positions. Apparently both wanted to talk to him, they
said no. Kubiak still working with the team as a
senior personal advisor. And I think I saw over the
weekend that USC was also blocking Kingsbury. The Kingsbury thing.
There was a rumor he's gonna quit. He hadn't really
done anything yet they hired him at USC. It's it's weird,

(01:48:39):
like my position on this, having been fired from many
jobs in radio, and I was the most loyal soldier
you could possibly be when I first got into radio business.
I would fight if people criticize the radio station I
was black, Roberto, Yeah exactly, I would like, you know,
that's my family, these are my friends I work with.
You can't criticize. Now I'm taking cheap shots at everybody.

(01:49:01):
But but yeah, and so then they fired me, And
I think you gotta look out for yourself, right, I mean,
so if you can get a better Jeff Cliff Kingsbury,
if somebody's dumb enough to hire him as an NFL
head coach, why would you be the offensive coordinator at
SC when you could be a head coach of the
Jets or the Cardinals in the NFL. I mean, you
got to look out for yourself. And plus the other
thing about Kingsbury, Let's say he resigns from USC and

(01:49:22):
then does an interviews and doesn't get a head coaching job.
He can still end up an offensive coordinator somewhere in
college football. So so you gotta if USC is gonna
play like that, you got say I'm out See you
later anyway, all right, Ben Maller's show on Fox We
Press on so over the weekend. If you missed the
Mallard monologue earlier, go back and hear the podcast. Very

(01:49:42):
very level headed, very concise, fair, no schotten freud at
all with the Houston Texans at all, Deshaun Watson. But
we talked about Deshaun Watson in particular after several plays
in the second half when it was twenty one nothing
and the Texans got some first downs, Deshaun us did
the salute first down, did the first down salute well.

(01:50:04):
Steve Smith Senior went on State run NFL television. He
had a major issue with Deshaun Watson beyond his performance,
but the first down salutes well, running like a night
in shining armor to the rescue to save Deshaun Watson
was who Jalen Ramsey, of all people, Jalen Ramsey went

(01:50:27):
on a rant about Steve Smith and I guess me
and other people that have criticized Deshaun Watson for his
celebratory moment when the Texans are getting their their face
mask smashed in, Ramsey of Jacksonville said, a little late.
But this ain't it. This is what's wrong with the
game now. Ramsey stated, of the opinion that Watson should

(01:50:48):
not have done the first down salute. Ramsey continued, no
matter the score, he said, you always supposed to turn
up and play with passion on the field. I'm ding Ramsey,
you're getting first down after first down. Swag it out,
Deshaun Watson. Keep balling and having fun while doing it.

(01:51:13):
Young King Ramsey continued, It's crazy that when you turning
up regardless of the score, people get mad. But if
you don't turn up and stop playing with passion and
having fun, they call you a front runner. So regardless,

(01:51:34):
Jalen Ramsey said, always be yourself. Number one's perfect. But
can't ever let anyone or situation take away the fun.
You see that, Eddie, You always gotta turn up. That's
what Jalen Ramsey said right there. Yeah, it's it's great advice. Yeah, absolutely,
who's gonna trade for Jalen Ramsey this offseason. That would

(01:52:00):
I'm a feeling though. Don't you think that Tom Coughlin's
just gonna go scorched earth, that he is just gonna
blow the entire thing up? And just like apparently they're
gonna keep Doug Moron. No, as far as the players like,
he was so upset, upset Coughlin got we were. I
was away, but I was keeping track of this stuff.
When Leonard for he got upset with Leonard Fournett and

(01:52:20):
the running backs. I don't think he's gonna get rid
of Leonard Fournette. I don't know about that. Coughlin's an
angry old man. Angry old men do irrational things. That's
what happens. What about a nine year old girl? Answer
that question? And every when he used to call the
show guy, you didn't call anymore. We we chased him away.

(01:52:42):
We got rid of him. Yeah, through the magic of radio,
he still lives. He's still alive. He's dead, but we
kept him alive. I just go to Cliff the weather man,
and he is next on Fox Sports Radio. Let's see
if he turned he gets turned up, turned up? Is
it turned up or turn up? I don't know, turned
turned up like burnt up. Hello, Cliff the weather Man.
Are you there, Cliff? He then hello, Cliff Legendary. Yes, welcome,

(01:53:06):
you're back a regular now, Cliff, you must be feeling better.
You're back a semi regular. Well, you know, I had
so much fun. So it's you know, I work harder
at staying up to to be on the show. It's good.
It's good to know that we're influencing your life in
a negative way, Cliff, that you're that's positive because I
always have a good time. I need to clear something

(01:53:28):
up though about my wife. Yeah, you said that she
doesn't want me to listen to the show because she
doesn't like you. Jack Sy does like you. She's in
no way a sports fan. However, she likes you. And
in the morning she always asked me, did you get
a chance to talk to Ben? What? What did you
guys talk? Ah. I like to apologize to the misses

(01:53:50):
of Cliff the weather Man the weather Woman. I'd like
to appolige. Yeah, thank you. A couple of things on
that stairs defense that I wanted to just quickly mentioned.
I mean, they played poorly. I think it was the
first drive the Eagles had in uh the second half

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where the defense gave up thirty yards on a past
interference and an unnecessary roughness penalty. Prince of Lukah Moore
was the past interpearance and he was with the Giants
drive think three four years, and that's the kind of
stuff that he did, and that's why they traded him.
That you were you were looking forward to that, Cliff,

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You're like, I hated that guy Prince with the Giants,
and now he's with the Bears, and I'm gonna take
a shot at him right now. You feel good, don't you, Cliff? Yeah? Yeah?
And the other thing was was that punt before the
final drive by the Bears did go? Did that even go?
Like thirty five thirty seven yards? Yeah? Well there was.
But but ultimately, Cliff, it was the fourth quarter, a

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twelve play sixty yard drive that the Bears defense could
not stop Nick Foles from scoring the touchdown. And I said, well, well, yeah,
a park he missed the field goal. But still your defense,
the bread and butter of the Bears was their defense,
and they allowed Nick Foles to complete a fourth down
pass the Golden Tate for what turned out to be
the game when he touched out, Cliff, give me the weather. Cliffye,
I need the weather. Then it is a very chilly,

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damp for six degrees and I've had to turn my
heater on here in the parland or a few times
just to people on. All right, we'll go in the
house now, Cliff. You know, I give you the pass.
You can go inside. Okay, okay, thank you, all right, buddy,
There he goes Cliff the weather man. All right, thank you, buddy.
There he goes our friend, Cliff the weatherman. Imagine how

(01:55:39):
guilty I would feel if something happens to the Cliff
as he sits out there in the in the Arizona.
I guess he's not in the desert. He's in the
hills in Arizona, and he just be terrible. He'll be
safe in his car. Yeah, I don't know what if
a wild animal comes across there, a bear or something
like that and just brutal. We are going to get

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to the instant advice on who needs our advice? Hmm. Interesting,
where should the sea Watson? Obviously Seaun Watson? But is
there somebody that needs more advice than de Shaun Watson.
We'll find out. We'll get to that the instant advice
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you sports figure, guy or girl. Were you talking to Son?
Here's some instant advice. Hold that thought. No one's paid
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line unscreened Radio. We're giving advice to who, Well, we
have a lot of options. We could have given advice

(01:57:12):
to Lamar Lamar Jackson after that quarterback rating of zero
in the first half against the Los Angeles Chargers. Certainly
would have been fair to give him advice. Could have
done that. We could have given advice to the Chicago
Bears who lost at home. Is the biggest favorite on
wild Card weekend. Would have been fair to give them
some advice, absolutely, no question about it, and go on

(01:57:36):
and on, you go down down the list, right, But
we decided the one that needs the advice the most.
Deshaun Watson. Why he was giving first down salutes down
by three touchdowns? Embarrassing. You talk about being tone deaf
time and place, and I don't mind the celebratory touchdown

(01:57:56):
dance and all that, but when you're trailing, that is
a bad look. So what is your advice to the
Texans quarterback? To Shaun Watson, you're live on the air.
When you hear my voice at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox, we'll go to you on line one. Hello,
Line one, Hey Ben, Happy new year to you. Now,
what's your advice to the Shaun Watson? I tell him
to join the airs one the Cardinals and then he'll

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really be screwed. That's a good point. Yeah, line too,
you're on the air. Hello, line too. Your advice to
to Shaun Watson? Thank you for that. Line two, Line three,
you're live on the air. Line three. Your advice to
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homestyle chicken figure friar. Line four, I should I should

(01:58:38):
do that. We'd sell a ton of those. Line four. Hello,
Line four. Your advice to de Shaun Watson. I'm not
getting advice. I'm gonna to bear fans. Remember remember a party?
He was consistent after all the key thing. Line five,
you're on your Hello. Line five. Advice to to Shaun Watson.
I'm joining the Patriots. It doesn't matter what you do.
They cheat, they get all the call. Yeah yeah, yeah,

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you're you're a loser. You get yet out of here.
Your your schmock. Line six. Hello, you're on the airline six?
Hey weed man, I knocked up Lease over the week. Alright,
random line? Are you there? Everybody? Oh it's cowboy John
Bradon Windsor, Ontario. Okay, Lamar Jackson needs a Yeah, I'm sure, Lamar.

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We'll have no trouble on that air line one. Hello,
Line one, you're on the airline one. Go yeah, keep
swagging out and needing turnips. Line two. We're giving advice
to the Texans quarterback to Shaun Watson, who was doing
salutes while down by three touchdowns in the game on Saturday. Hello,
line two, I know what's we know who that guy is?

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Now we know who he is. Right. Line three, you're
on the air. Hello. Line three, dude, cheese buble cheese, motherfucker?
All right, thank you all right. Line Line four, whether
no ecc Line four? Hello? Line four? Hellkee bookey pokey. There,
here you go. Congratulations. Line five, you are an extra.

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Is the instant advice line for Deshaun Watson. Bloody, bloody,
bloody pencil neck. Hey, pencil neck ray. I love that guy,
one of our favorites. Line six, you're on the air. Hello,
all right. Line six is not there. We'll go to
line one. It's the instant of ice. Line eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. You're live on the air.

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When you hear my voice, Hello, line one, Hey man,
my advice for here is for him to watch the
ram Cowboys game. Nick fervidy, you know why it's on?
Fuck you better what that's right? Thank you for that.
I don't need to say it. Hello, line too, you're
on the air. Go get some better weed peeds and
stay away from the Broncos. There you go, All right.

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Random line you're on the air. Hello, see Bob Welch.
Is that what he said? Line line two? Hello, lights,
It could always be worse. At least you showed up
unlike Ko mac alright. Line three, you're on the air. Hello.
Line three, then what's wrong with your San Diego Clippers?
Clippers are great a beat Orlando climber four I believe

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now in the Western Conference. Line four. Speaking of line four, Hello,
you're on the air. Go with J. J. Wattonfers for nothing.
There you go. Line five, you're on the air. Go
all right. That was Coop one? More hurry up, Coop?
How much time? Three? Line three? Last call? He is
an advice line go ahead. Line three, you're on the

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air for the Seahn Watson. They haven't had a road
playoff game in twelve years. That Foxboro is all right?
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Search f SR to listen live. Wild Card Weekend now
in the rear view mirror and one of the outcomes
on wild Carter weekend, leading to some speculation about a
big old trade that could happen this offseason. It, of course,
involves the losing locker room. We will discuss welcome in

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free great quotes. The Philadelphia Eagles victorious over the Chicago
Bears thanks to a Cody Parky missed field goal was blocked.
Give him a pass, shut up. The Chargers beat the
Ravens twenty three to seventeen, so Los Angeles and they're
seven fans advanced out of Foxborough to play the Patriots.

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The Indianapolis Colts victorious over Houston twenty one to seven.
That leaves the Cowboys and the Seahawks were Ezekiel Elliott
barreling his way for one hundred and thirty seven yards
the go ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter to lead
the Cowboys to a two point wildcard win over the Seahawks.
The game was played on Saturday night, Dak Prescott scoring

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on a quarterback keeper. He also had that head over
heels run, and the Cowboys getting the win over the
Seattle Seahawks. So with the win, the Cowboys now advanced.
They'll play the Rams and the first win in the
postseason career of Zeke Elliott and Dak Prescott. But the
better story in the losing locker room. And you know,

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let's go into the kitchen here, because I would like
to make the blame pie. I like the blame pie. Now,
we suspected that the Seahawks were going to be in
some trouble in this game, but many of the twelfth
Man seemed convinced that offensive coordinator Brian Schottneimer his play
calling was to blame. Now, how much responsibility he does

(02:04:11):
the Seattle offensive coordinator get for the mess that took place?
And it was, oh, that's a two point loss. The
Seahawks were writing the game. You want to play that game?
Not really, I'm gonna give him seventy percent of the
blame pie because the play calling was ridiculous. I mean,
the Seahawks have been doing this all year. They got
away with it, and they finally finally caught up with him.

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They kept the ball out of Russell Wilson's hands, which
led to a more interesting story here which I would
like to discuss, and that is the conundrum of what
to do with Russell Wilson. He's now heading into the
final year of his contract in twenty nineteen, and there

(02:04:55):
has been some noise. Now I know how this works. Now,
it starts on the internet and then eventually it'll die down,
and then it will rise back up once the playoffs
are over, and you will hear the name Russell Wilson
tossed out as trade fodder leading up to the NFL Draft.

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So let's discuss what are the chances. Here's the question,
what are the chances the Seahawks will actually trade Russell
Wilson before the start of the twenty nineteen season. Now
I am I'm gonna send the odds that he stays
in Seattle. Obviously that's the favorite. So I say there's
a plus eight hundred chance as far as a trade. Now,

(02:05:38):
if you're not a gamble of that implies a ten
percent chance. So there's a ninety percent chance that he stays,
but there's a ten percent chance that he's traded Russell Wilson.
And my observations here you have the doppel Ganger B
seventeens and piranhas? Did you get all that Doppelganger B
seventeens and piranhas? And we will lock all these together

(02:06:02):
like legos. Now to lead off with, it is illogical
to pay Russell Wilson twenty four million dollars a year
if you're going to use him as a decoy, which
is essentially what the Seattle Seahawks have decided to do here.
It makes no sense. Now, I questioned Russell Wilson's performance
in recent playoff games, but even I would have thrown

(02:06:23):
the ball more than the Seahawks did. You can get
any Joe Schmo to come in and be a game manager.
The Seahawks franchise is facing a waterloo Mollman here. Why
is that the owner Paul Allen passed away way too young?
Paul Allen passing away a few months ago. Pete Carroll

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just got an extension as the coach in Seattle. Now,
that doesn't mean that he's gonna play out the extension,
because the coaches get extensions and still get let go
all the time, especially when ownership changes, and many suspect
that the Seahawks franchise will eventually be sold sooner than later.
That is the anticipation of many that are in the know.

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And so look at this objective. Now, you know that
teams are gonna try to make a chance. Let's take
a chance at Russell Wills. You know that's going to happen.
And you gotta think, as long as Pete Carroll is
in the equation, as long as Carroll's there, he's gonna say,
over my dead body that why would I trade Russell Wills? Right,

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Russell Wilson, we have mocked him for several years here
as the doppel ganger of Pete Carroll. He sounds just
like him. They speak in the same cliches, the mannerisms.
It's scary, right, It would be like Pete Carroll trading
his shadow and saying, I don't need my shadow anymore.
I'm gonna trade my shadow. Russell Wilson is thirty years old,

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He's in the middle of his athletic prime. He's got
a couple more years to go and then the slow
decline and after that. So again, I'm at plus eight hundred,
which about a ten percent chance. Now. Furthermore, Pete Carroll
has to do some introspection here in the off season.
The pendulum has shifted too far the direction of the

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running game for Seattle, and it's really a waste right now. Now,
I had the Cowboys winning this game, and I'm happy
because we did Benny versus the Penny. At that time,
the line was one and a half in favor of
the Cowboys, so they covered the one and a half.
Some people got into two, some people got into two
and a half. You got into two and a half.

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The Cowboys didn't cover the spread. Now that's said. If
you're a Seattle apologist, you gotta be livid, right you
gotta be like Russell Wilson was never given the opportunity
to win this game for the Seahawks. You got a
franchise quarterback and your handcuff your quarterback. That is poor

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coaching by Brian Schottenheimer, who has been a lousy offensive
coordinator the vast majority of his career. He keeps getting
jobs and he's part of the good Old Boys network.
The last name Schottenheimer, Marty was a coach for a
thousand years. And essentially what the Seahawks did is they
helped the Cowboys defense out. It was obsession with the

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running game was the undoing of the Seahawks. As Seattle
average early in the game, they averaged two point nine
yards per run. They got over ten yards per pass
play early in the game, and they called run plays
sixty five percent of the time, almost seventy percent of

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the time they were running, and they were getting less
than three yards per carry. That is a direct reflection
of terrible coaching by Brian Schottenheimer. Now, the yeah butt
crowd says, well, yeah, but that's how the Seahawks played.
That was their style. You gotta be a million You
got to be able to adjust. You can't be so

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set in your ways that you're unwilling to change. Be
kind of like in battle. You go back some of
the great historical battles, like General MacArthur deciding, you know,
I don't want to use the B seventeen or the
Sherman tank in one of the World Wars I in
World War Two, right, the Sherman tank to B seventeen.
I don't want to use these weapons. I didn't use

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them before. I don't want to use them. Now. What
are you doing? Silliness? You use all the weapons at
your disposal. Now here's what I would do if I'm
the Seahawks. You know what I do. I fire Brian Shottinghimer.
I say thank you very much. I stopped this obsession
with a running game. I hand him a pink slip.

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It's not like real firing, because you'll get a job
somewhere else, and that's how the football business works. It
does appear that Pete Carroll is trying to still make
up for that decision to pass instead of run at
the end of the Super Bowl a few years back,
when instead of handing it off to Marshawn Lynch, they decided,
you know, I'm gonna throw, and we all know what happened. Yeah,

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it didn't go so well. Not a last word here,
I will garin t is. This is bloody gonna happen,
all right, listen to me, that is gonna happen. The
vultures are going to start circling overhead looking to poach
Russell Wilson from the Seattle Seahawks. The pit Bulls and

(02:11:33):
the piranhas ready to attack the Seahawks front office and
they will be frothing at the mouth here to try
to get a little piece of the Seattle Seahawks. Now,
I would like to make a trade happen, even though
I believe there's only a ten percent chance. What good
is sports talk radio if we don't make up trades, right,
I mean, come on, please, So let's do this objectively.

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Let's do this as we are helping out NFL teams.
I have five hypothetical traits, five trades for Russell Wilson.
You want to hear these trades? Yes, you do? You
add I know you do. Don't laugh at me. You
want to hear these trades. And I predict that at

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least two of these trades will pop up in the
rumor mongers crowd, the j Glazer, Adam Schefter, Mortenson crowd,
the rumor mongers. All right, here we go, Russell Wilson trades.
The New York Giants send Elijah Manning and two first

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round draft picks to Seattle for Russell Wilson. Done right, done.
Jacksonville sends both Blake Bortles and Leonard Fournett and a
first and a second round pick to Seattle for Russell Wilson.
All right, as flip Derek Carr and two of their

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three first round picks in this year's NFL draft for
the services of Russell Wilson. But wait, there's more. That's
three of them. The fourth trade the Detroit Lions and
Matthew Stafford and draft capital to Seattle to get Russell Wilson. Now,

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the fifth trade is the most outrageous, it's the most
perfect for our format here of sports talk radio. But
I don't think it's completely outrageous when I explain it.
Russell Wilson flipped for Matt Ryan in a trade of
star quarterbacks. All right, straight up, Russell Wilson, Matt Ryan,

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mono amano. Now, remember Pete Carroll. His protege was Dan Quinn,
who's now the coach of the Atlanta Falcons. Dan Queen
went scorched Earth and blew out his special teams coach,
his offensive coordinator, and his defensive coordinator. He's next. You

(02:14:06):
want to shake it up, What better way to shake
it up than flip Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan. About that,
I mean, there's a bunch of other scenarios you can
throw out. It is the Ben Mallers Show on Fox,
and we say hello to Edmund Dallas, Steamboat, Willie Judas

(02:14:29):
Scars see it. I was trying to think of the
last time I can remember that starting quarterbacks were traded
for each other, and the one that popped in my
head was Ken Stabler from the Raiders to the Oilers
for Dan Pastorini. Is that the last one. I don't
know that that's the last one. It's the first one
that popped in my head. It's very very very very

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very rare. That is an outdated thing. They don't want
to do it, they don't. They It's like, oh, we're
gonna get cooties if we trade a quarterback for another quarterback.
We can't do that. But I have a feeling this
is going to circle back around, Eddie. I'm pretty good
about this stuff. That teams are going to be trying
to poach Russell Wilson off the Seahawks. He only has

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one year left, right, and if you don't have an
owner and the owner of the Seahawks passed away, you
know you're talking about another one hundred million dollar plus
contract extension for Russell Wilson that he's gonna try to
get after this year. So something to keep an eye
on for sure. All Right, So I've been Malo's show
on Fox, will take your calls eight seven seven ninety

(02:15:35):
nine on Fox. You don't have the Broncos there on
your list, did not have the Broncos, but Coop failed
me on Mallard of the third degree, so I took
the Broncos off. I originally had six, but Coop failed me.
Nothing good day. I notice you, like your fanboys over
there have been pretty quiet and unfortunately, I if this

(02:15:55):
was not post playoff weekend, I'd do a whole malle
monologue which I was thinking about going anyway, about the
criticism of Lonzo and Brandon Ingram by Luke Walton, who
finally pointed out after several years here what I've been
saying that these guys are sleep essentially sleepwalk especially Brandon Ingram.

(02:16:16):
No passion, no energy. And finally Luke Walton, who's on
death's door he's about to be fired as a Laker coach. Finally,
as he's about to be fired, he's like, I gotta
point this out. You know, Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram,
those two guys drafted number two overall. They need more passion.
Brandon Ingham sucks, he does what a bum. Maybe he
didn't smoke a giant blunt before every game, Coop, you

(02:16:39):
were come. I smoke hours before the show. Okay, hours
before the show after another bus from the University of
Duke at Duke University whatever. Like some guys in the NBA,
that one. Some guys in the NBA, though, they can
go in and like I remember, I used to cover

(02:17:00):
the NBA all the time. They'd be eating like nachos
and chicken fingers and um. The guy with the Clippers,
Marcine Gore Todd he back when he played with the Wizards. Yeah,
who has you before that? I think he was played
on Orlando I remember correctly, but eat. He would eat
like hot dogs with mayo, because that's how you do
it in Poland. You get the mayo on the hot
dog and it was disgusting. But he would he go

(02:17:23):
out and play. Fine, some guys can do it. But yeah,
I mean they talk about man, I wish maybe I'll
save that for the month off if nothing major happened,
they do play the NAG Yeah, that's true. What a mess?
What are they one in five without Lebron? Now? Yeah,
all right again? Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox

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The Number eight seven seven ninety nine six six three
six nine. So where is the early money. I always
like to look at where the money is. And we
have the second round of the NFL Playoffs, the Divisional
Round as it is often referred to. We have the matchups,
we have the point spreads. We also have some early
line moves in those games. One in particular, I'm looking

(02:18:07):
at right here. There's there's two line moves in the
Divisional round. We will take a look at that and
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Rob twenty four, A Little Bit and Olive from the
Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios it's Ben Maller, So divisional
round matchups are all set in the NFL a couple
of line moves. Kansas City opened a four and a
half point favorite over Indianapolis that currently is at six,

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though Colt's rolling in with a five game winning speak,
which will not help them. The Chiefs went seven and
one at Arrowhead this year. They're only lost to the
LA Chargers late in the year, and the money is
pretty even. The early money, at least of the numbers
I have are pretty even on that game. The favorites

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of one I think ten in a row going back
over the last couple of years in the NFL playoffs,
But Kansas City as six point favorite home the Rams
a touchdown favorite over the Dallas Cowboys in the late game.
That's on Fox, So you better watch Cowboys and Rams
Saturday night at the college seam. I told my wife
she was making plans. I said, nope, new new new name.

(02:19:56):
The game I don't know about. I feel like I
watched I've been to the coliseum enough over the years.
By I watched it on TV, I feel like I
can actually see everything, especially now there's construction going on
at the coliseum. Oh yeah, plus also gonna rain. So
I don't know. But the my neighbor Tony good Guy,
Tony good Man, big cowboy guy. So we're texting back
and forth. I told Tony said, listen to me. You know,

(02:20:19):
we're guaranteed one of our teams is gonna end up
in the NFC Championship Game. We're guaranteed of that. And
of course it's gonna be the Rams. But anyway, the money,
there's a little more. Money's pretty close the early money,
but the Cowboys are getting a little bit more of
the action against the spread. And I'm gonna look at
the game later in the week, but you know, even

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I might take the Cowboys plus seven the Rams to
win the Cowboys plus seven. Then the game's on Sunday
in Foxborough. Remember the forecast, and I do do the
weather in Boston when I go on the radio. There
and a moonlight occasionally on WI. But the Patriots four
and a half point favor they open at four and
a half. There's still a four and a half point favorite.

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The temperature in Foxboro on Sunday, the early forecast thirty
degrees and little ice in Foxboro for that particular game,
and the Chargers getting a bunch more on the spread
sixty eight percent. Now, that would be a game based
on how the Patriots were bipolar this year. Grade at home,

(02:21:23):
same old Patriots at home, garbage on the road. I
would take the Patriots. I'll look at the game more,
but at this point that's the game I'm better favorite.
That would be the game where you say, Patriots only
four and a half at home, Chargers offense did nothing
against the Ravens, and that's the game you look at.
I said that Patriots minus four and a half doesn't

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look so bad. And then the last game Philadelphia and
New Orleans games in the Bayou, and New Orleans opened
an eight point favorite. They're a nine point favorite current
Vegas line nine the consensus in favor of New Orleans.
Remember they played during the regular season the worst loss

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ever for a Super Bowl winning team. The following year,
the Philadelphia Eagles. The Saints won that game forty eight
to seven. Now I was interested what the closing point
spread was on that Eagles game with the Saints. When
they played back in November, the Saints were seven point favorite.

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So now that Nick Foles is the quarterback, it's up
to nine. So there's two more points, and Drew Brees
was bad the last four weeks of the season, so
I'll look more at that too. But that's a lot
of nine points in a playoff game when generally they're
officiated differently. The games are played closer to the vest,

(02:22:50):
so that's where the numbers are as far as the
NFL is concerned. So the Floes we go, and let's
check in now with Dick in Dayton, who's on Fox
Sports Radio. Hello Dick, Hello Ben, Hello Eddie and everybody.
How are you top of the morning to your dat?
How can we help you? Oh? I just wanted to
tell you I'm rooting for New Orleans. Oh so you've

(02:23:13):
jumped on the Why have you jumped on the Saints band? Way?
Is there some former Brown or Bengal there that you're Paul? Oh,
it's because our band goes there. Uh. We our band
has been down there at the French Quarter in Bourbons.
Really you got you performed there? No way, the Freddered
Instrument Guild of America. They have at every July, and

(02:23:35):
I think it was three years ago. We performed there
on the on the levy and on the in one
of the restaurants. So what kind of crowd was there
in the bay. It was overwhelming band. Yeah. Sure, well
you you're a legend. You gotta perform. You gotta take
the cattering banjo Society and go around the entire country

(02:23:57):
dicking day. And I'm telling you, I'll come out and see.
I want to see you reform. Yeah, and you know,
the best thing's been two weeks been we get to
play tonight. I bet it's going to be good. Two
weeks huh is that? Where are you performing in two weeks?
What do we go to this club? We practice, We practice,
and we get some of my friends come, and you know,

(02:24:18):
people come from all over you know. Well, it's a
big deal in live music. I mean the experience they
want to experience that you can feel. You can hear
the music on the internet, but when you there in
person and a live musical performance, there's an energy there
in the building. It's great. Thank you all right, well, Dick,

(02:24:40):
thank you very much that you watch any football this weekend,
this weekend, you know. But now what you're a big
college football guy. Now, I know you love the Buck guys,
but the championship game in college football is tonight and
we are going to talk. I imagine on tomorrow's show
it'll be a lot about Alabama and Clemson. I'll be
watching the game. Are you gonna watch that game? Yeah? Yeah,

(02:25:04):
I want Alabama to win it. Yeah you want Alabama? Okay,
all right, have a very good Yeah. I think I
just hope it. Say, I hope we have controversy h
and an Alabama. I don't care if Alabama wins or clemps.
I have no skin in the in the game. There,
all right, thank you, Dick, my bye. All right? There
he goes Dick in Dayton where he goes only he knows.
We're gonna play Coach Player Entertainer coming up in a

(02:25:25):
little bit, if you would like to play now. I
worked on a different game, but I haven't gotten it
quite where I want it yet. Over the holiday seven
months off I took I worked on this, but I'm
not quite where I want to debut it, and I
want to get it right before I debut a new game.
So for now, we're gonna play Coach Player Entertainer. If

(02:25:47):
you would like to play Coach Player Entertainer, the game's
so easy. All you have to do is know the
names of the coaches, the players, and some entertainment people.
It's all you have to do when you win, but
yet it's so hard. We'll get to that coming up,
mom tell you right now though, here's Eddie Garcia from
the Geico Studios to give you the ladies and we
will get you updated on the wildcard. Action from Sunday's

(02:26:08):
playoff games in the NFL will start with the NFC
where the Eagles hold off the bars for his sixteen
fifteen win. Philadelphia quarterback Nick Foles engineered a last minute
drive capped by a two yard ten pass to wide
receiver goal to take with fifty six seconds to play.
They missed the two point conversion, so they had a
one point lead. Chicago then moved into position for kicker
Cody Parkey to an attempt at game winning field goal

(02:26:29):
ten seconds left, forty three yards out. Apparently was slightly
deflected at the line, went off the left, up right,
then off the crossbar. No good. Eagles. With a sixteen
fifteen win. Thefending Super Bowl champs advanced to face the
Saints in New Orleans next Sunday, and that means the
Rams will be hosting the Dallas Cowboys next Saturday on
the AFC side. The Chargers beat the Ravens in Baltimore
twenty three to seventeen. LA kicker Michael Badgeley hit five

(02:26:50):
field goals for Baltimore. Quarterback Lamar Jackson struggled for most
of the game. Matter of factory three quarters he had
at zero quarterback rating was three of ten passing where
his twenty five yards did have two touchdown asses in
the fourth quarter to making close, but then fumbled in
the final moments as the team was trying to get
a game winning touchdown. He was sacked seven times, also
through an interception. Again, Chargers with the twenty three seventeen
win and they advanced to face the Patriots in Foxmore

(02:27:12):
next Sunday. Means that the Kansity Chiefs and we hosted
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(02:27:37):
Gunzo see you later. He's out of after they beat
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(02:27:58):
in Iowa, who's acted on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Frank,
Hey Dan, how are you? I'm as good as some,
better than most. How can I help you? Yeah? How
I know what a free agent quarterback you think that
could be out there? That could be can help the
bank and get to the next level. So you're ready
to get rid of Kirk Cousins. You've decided, Frank, you've

(02:28:18):
had enough of Kirk Cousins. You would like to move on.
You know that they're paint him all that money. He
didn't he didn't deliver like they expected him too. But
you know he's got guaranteed money the next couple of
years so that's true. That's true. They can get some high, high,
high profile quarterbacks for the money. I think they should
bring back Randall cunning him. He's only fifty five years old.

(02:28:40):
Why don't they bring him back? Frank, what do you think? Yeah,
but you'd hope he don't have the spa out on
the field though, that would be a problem. I was thinking.
I was thinking of that quarterback they traded to Denver
and get him back if he left him to this.
Kooba Loops just shook his head. Yes, you want Kay's
Keenan back. Yeah, that you got him. You can have

(02:29:01):
Kase Keenan back. Well, here are the available quarterbacks. Are
you ready for this? This is I'm boy, there's nothing
better than a free agent talk on the radio. This
is you want. I'll give you the unrestricted free agent quarterbacks.
Okay to Rod Taylor available? You want him? No, all right?
Josh McCown, Josh McCown. You can get Josh McCown. He's

(02:29:24):
only forty. That's young. Forty is the new thirty. Joh
Teddy Bridgewater twenty seven? You want Teddy Bridgewater? He can Yeah.
How about the Amish rifle? Is there a large Amish
population in the Twin Cities. Probably No, I don't think so. Uh.
Here's Gino Smith. Gino told me years ago when he

(02:29:47):
was coming out of West Virginia that he was going
to prove me wrong that he was going to be
a star quarterback in the NFL. How's that working out
too well? No, but this is quite the list. Wait,
but wait, there's more. Brock Oswiler unrestricted free agent. You
can get him. You want Tom Savage? What a list?
This is quite the list. Eddy. Yeah, this is a

(02:30:07):
who's who. A lot of these guys I'd take over
case Keenum. Wow, it's a shot that take Teddy Bridgewater.
Matt Schwab can be yours. He's an unrestricted free agent.
You want him? Matchwapstone the league. Oh yeah, he's a
he's a list of you's in Atlanta last year they
also take Bridgewater. Play there you go? All right? Thank you, Frank.

(02:30:28):
I gotta go, Frank, but thank you, buddy. A big
fan of your work. Frank. You know what Frank needs.
He needs to chill out, and I recommend a good
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(02:30:49):
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And even I a curmudgeon. I mean, my wife says
I'm in a better mood when I get a good

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I love it, but she's like, we go these nice hotels.
A great hotel in San Francisco. A friend of the
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very charming, and my wife said, what's great hotel. I
love it, but the bed, everything but the bed. I

(02:31:32):
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If you're in a relationship you're dating, I don't care.
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Tell them I sent you, and I'm telling you you'll

(02:32:35):
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Some people see Maller m A l l R to
look at the bed and I'll get a little credit
for that. Find the one nearest you. All right, very good.
We're gonna have coach player entertainer now. Line three Cooper

(02:33:20):
Loop is advocating to play says he's the defending champion.
Is he really the defending champion? Is line three the
defending champion? Damhn, I guess it kind of has been
that long since we've played at CPE. So what do
you think about line three? In line five is kind
of an iconic matchup, right, all right, we'll do that
line three in line five, which you don't have no

(02:33:41):
idea what that means. If you like, line three might
actually win, you think line three will beat line five. Well,
line three has a competitive advantage in one area, correctly,
all right, but he's also handicap in other areas, you see,
because he's all right, we'll get to that. A line
three versus line five matchup. What the hell does that mean?
You'll find out. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.

(02:34:03):
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(02:34:28):
It's Ben Maller. I just now so both my Super
Bowl teams are still alive. I had the Patriots in
the ramps, so they made it through a wild card week. Yeah,
you see Jason McIntyre pick the Ravens and Bears to play.
Actually that was the match of Ravens and Bears. Solid.
It's good. I always want to I love the guy

(02:34:51):
they want to pick those wild teams either smart pick,
you pick a one or two seed to play a
one or two seed, because ninety five percent of time
you're gonna be very rarely do teams that play on
wild card we can actually end up getting to the
super Bowl. But anyway, I have a bunch of people
made interesting picks. Shall we say? All right, let's get
to it. Here we go, let's do it right. Put

(02:35:13):
on your thinking caps. My name is time. Do identify
my name is Is it a coach player or entertainer?
It is coach player, entertainer. Let's play the game right now.
We have our contestants lined up, ready to go. I
said line three versus line five. Now line three he says,

(02:35:37):
he's the defending champion. Coop thinks line three is the
favorite weed Man hippie, Hello weed Man. Everybody downso podcast,
Yeah alright, I on the defending champions. I've been compared
for this game my whole life, saying half been watching

(02:36:00):
sports entertainment. Now, several people we'd man, we're calling you
out earlier because last time you were on the air,
you talked about how you were I blocked them. I
blocked them all. I brought five six people already tonight. No.
But they were saying how you were talking about how
you were spreading the word of God, but then you
were talking about how ugly people were and how rude
they were, and how you hated them. Ugly people have

(02:36:22):
some kind of group like against hating ugly people. All right,
hold on, and we have blind Scott, who's gonna be
lying five? Hello, blind Scott? My financial uh stock. I
actually bought some stock on a tip from blind Scott.
If I lose my ass on that, Blind Scott, I'm
coming to get you. Don't worry. I raised one hundred
thirty Fluffy, Dave and the special Leprics over the weekend too.

(02:36:45):
And don't I don't know why everybody had to hate
on the mentally ill you know what I mean. It's
like you dude took the better with your time. That's unproductive,
you know, And I'm gonna I'm gonna beat him up
in a password here or whatever. All right, it's actually
not past. Don't even know what game it is, which
is which is a troubling thing. It's coach Player entertainer,
and let's welcome back weed man. All right, guys, yes, Scott,

(02:37:08):
I love you, thank you should thank God. You don't
have to look at that, all right, all right, all right, yeah,
I'm sure that a stop. Get a room, okay, please
my god. All right, here we go. It's coach player entertainer.
The first name up for us on coach player entertainer.

(02:37:28):
Let's see here. Where should we go? Let's go with
let's see here. Jacob Hollister, coach player entertainer. Damn, weed Man,
you said you said something, weed Man, you have an answer?
I say, damn, I do not have an answer. All right.
That's a famous actor. Jacob Hollister is an actor. You say, no,

(02:37:52):
that is incorrect. Jacob Jacob Hollister is a backup tight
end for the New England Patriots who happened to play
well anyway. All right, it's coach player entertainer. All right.
Next up on coach Player Entertainer. Travis Swanson coach player entertainer.

(02:38:15):
Blind Scott, Yes, blind Scott. Oh, that's the Campbell soup guy.
You know Swanson goes Microwave dinners. No, but I do
love Back in one of my bachelor days, I used
to eat that the heavy Man TV dinner, two pounds
of food, man, I love that man. Whatever. I don't know,
the fat Man, whatever it was I used to Yeah,

(02:38:36):
a lot of salt. You're right man, hungry man, Oh,
hungry man. I was close. You can smell the heavy Man. Yeah,
I know. Travis Swanson is an offensive lineman for the
Miami Dolphins. So you guys are you guys are doing
a great job. Very proud of you. All right, Next up, exactly,
it's coach player entertainer. Next up for us is Nick Nurse.

(02:38:57):
Nick Nurse, coach player entertaining. Yes, weed man, Oh, weed man,
you're just obviously guessing. No, No, you're wrong too. Oh
my god, if only you got points for wrong answers,

(02:39:19):
you guys will be kicking as I only we should
get rid of this game. Now we might will someone
get one. I was working on another game, but you
guys are so bad. Nick Nurse is the head coach
of the Toronto Raptors. The Toronto Rappers, who knows not
you said? Yeah, you said you were gonna win this.
What's up with that? Man? Damn? All right? The next

(02:39:43):
all right? Next up, Dabbo Sweeney, coach player in well.
Weed Man said it's like dumb and dumber. Weed Man
said his name first, weed Man? All right, call him?
He got six points? Who does he? Coachabo? Oh hallelujah

(02:40:09):
for Don Sweeney. Once he went to Harvard. He's an
old hockey player. Yeah, well he's not on the list. Now.
Next up for us, Yeah, you're winning. Congratulations. Not yet,
it's not over, although it might as well be over.
Next up for us, Charlie Watts, coach player, entertaining player.

(02:40:30):
He know he's not a player, No, he shot a
coach one guest man. Yeah, Scott who if you can
say who he is, we'll give you the points. Yeah? Good?
Who is he? Hey, we're gonna mute our Kelly Roberto,
delete all our Kelly music. He's an entertainer, you know,
you know what was he known for? What he was?

(02:40:52):
When I took a film study class in high school
once he was in one of those You guys are
such a right. How about he's a musician, he's he's
a drummer. What band. Is he in? What band? Nor
Charlie wats is from the Rolling Stars? God, you guys

(02:41:13):
are so terrible. Arts coach fish yeah, fish yeah? All right,
yeah it's coach player entertainer. Next up, qu Quandre Diggs athlete?
Oh all right? Name you? Wow? What? What? What sport?

(02:41:40):
What team does he play for? He played from his
first name? All right, you guys are a bunch of knuckleheads.
All right, what's the score your coolies? I don't know.
Cares you both get You're so stupid, but you're dating.
You both get a golden ticket. I don't care. I

(02:42:01):
leave me alone. Well, they're not gonna do it if
they have a golden ticket. Is there anybody else Eddie
in radio that takes financial Wall Street advice? Blind guy,
I bought stock as a milind guy

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