December 22, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about what the map looks like for Lamar Jackson and the Ravens after their loss to the Patriots on SNF, what the Ravens usage of Derrick Henry indicates, the letter grade for Patriots QB Drake Maye, and more!
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How do you do? It's our number? What our one?
And all what fun we're having here in the Magic
radio Box. We start out a new week on this
twenty second day of December, and we start out with
that Sunday night game last night. We were up all
night providing you fresh pod content so we could do
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this podcast right here. And what does the map look
like for the Ravens who lose to the Patriots. They
blew the lead late with Lamar Jackson going down, So
what's the map looking like for the Ravens with Lamar
Jackson going forward? And what does the Ravens usage of
Derrick Henry indicate? What letter grade are you giving Patriots
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quarterback Drake May, who played very well in the fourth quarter,
had some bumps before that. We'll get to all of
it and more right now as we pick up some
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back in the stllet again here and we start out
with the game on an island in Baltimore. It was
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the time the Ravens played at home in a night game.
You thought, well, they're gonna win like ninety percent of
the time. This is not that time. We are not
in those times right now. As the Ravens and Patriots,
it looked like Baltimore was in pretty good shap. I
don't if you saw the game. Mike Turrico was there.
Chris Consworth. Did anyone want Consworth fired after this game?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I don't think he said anything that ridonculous. But there
was on the Pete Cock on NBC if you saw
it or not. But Drake May, if you didn't see it,
he did see it. Drake May guiding New England to
a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns and May helping the Pats.
They had to come back from eleven points down. How
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do you fall behind by eleven to that suck bag
Ravens team. But in the end, Pats get a twenty
eight to twenty four win over Baltimore and that means
they have punched their ticket. They are going to play
in the postseason. They're in, and that is a devastating
body blow, body blow to the Ravens and their playoff
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hopes is now. All the Steers have to do is
win next week and they are in and the Ravens
can go hang out in Cankun and have my ties
and have a fine time. But the better story is
in the losing locker room where those Ravens are. Baltimore
is in stranger danger of missing the playoffs. Much of
the focus here on the quarterback play, or lack there
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all at the quarterback position. Lamar Jackson knocked out yet again.
Where have we seen this before? It happens on a
regular basis, Lamar knocked out of this game with a
backage out. My yanche back, my neck, my back, my nega,
my back, my negga. My well, Lamar, who's won Let's
see not one, but two MVP awards and a whole
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lot of regular season games. There's it's a doctor Jekyo,
mister Hyde thing. It had been for Lamar. You had
the regular season, Lamar, and you had playoff Lamar. Well,
now even regular season Lamar falling apart. And you look
at this, and we're getting close to the end of
the road here. This season in the NFL is only
a couple of games to go, a couple of weekends
to go, and then the playoffs will begin. And Lamar Jackson,
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despite all the hardware that he's added on to his resume,
his body obviously showing signs of rapid decline, and the
playoff hopes. You talk about gasping for air here, the
Ravens are all that, and they need oxygen at this
point here. So Lamar diged up the Ravens not in
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great shape, and he said, well, the Ravens. We'll get
to the Ravens a minute. But Lamar, in general, the
sense is that this is not going particularly well. And
it certainly feels like we've reached the end of whatever
this was in Baltimore, whatever this was in Baltimore. So
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that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question what does the map look like for the
Ravens with Lamar Jackson. Is this just merely a throwaway
season or is there something else deeper involved. Now I've
got my thoughts on this. I've got the Book of
the Law, spare bedroom and Picasso, and we will combine
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all of these things together, and we'll put the mac
with the cheese. You can't have the cheese without the mac.
You can't have the mac without the cheese. You got
to put the cheese and the mac together, thus forming
the amazing dynamic duo. The mac and cheese. So a
if you look at the map for Lamar, Jackson and Baltimore,
it's flashing in neon. There's one word, one word. The
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map is flashing and it's fo RK fork as in
ergo a fork in the road. Lamar has never been
built to play until he's thirty six or thirty seven.
This is not the long term guy. He's the Huey
Lewis and the News quarterback. We're not here for a
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long time. We're here for a good time, and that
good time is rinkin. He turns twenty nine in early January,
and the body is about forty nine. At this point.
The body has been talking. And if you read the
Book of the Law, page forty seven, section B three,
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the Book of the Law, police reference to that right now,
all right, thank you. The law of diminishing returns, the
law of diminishing returns and is undefeated. So the Ravens
coming up to that fork in the road a couple
more games. They're not going to make the playoffs, so
you either shop him now.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Or or what.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
But the best move would be, and that means as
good as all the rest, but the move would be
to get the Raiders on the phone and the Falcons,
the Jets, the Giants and cashing some scratcher tickets, say
trade him to Miami, they need a quarter or you
just keep rolling down a road that you know is
booby trapped. You know there are some roadside bombs that
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it's the thing's been booby trapped, and ten pass attempts
against doing that. He got hurt, left the game early,
but before getting hurt. Ten pass attempts not so much
of a game plan, more like a witness protection situations.
You're John Harbaugh and you're trying to hide the quarterback.
So this is not hate. It's just simply math. The
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odds say that you sell on Lamar before the wheels
fall off. At least you see what's out there. You
start knocking on doors and say, hey, how would you
like Lamar Jackson? What you want him? Come on now?
All right now. One of the other storylines here in
addition to the Lamar Jackson vanishing act, in terms of injury,
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yet again, you have a different vanishing act Derek Henry. Now,
if you look at the box score, you said, well
Henry had one hundred and twenty eight yards. He scored
a couple of touchdowns and that's all good stuff. He
also had a big fumble. It's how the game unfolded.
That's the story here with Derrick Henry. Derek Henry's last
touch in the Ravens loss of the Patriots was that
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touchdown run. He had twelve fifty left in the fourth quarter.
He did not touch the football after that. Now, the
Ravens coach John Harbaugh said that Henry the reason he
didn't play after early in the fourth quarter was because
of a rotation, a running back rotation. Said John Harbaugh,
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say what, all right? So the question what does the
Ravens usage or lack thereof, of Derrick Henry indicate? All right?
So I looked at this and deliberated the available evidence,
and this thing smells funky. It smells funky, John Harbaugh.
See John Harbaugh says Derrek Henry didn't play because of
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the running back rotation, which I translated that and I
used my mother cooder ring and I translated it to
that's coach speak. Perfume is what that is. It's right
from a skunk el skunko from Harbaugh. The usage tells
you everything, everything you need to know. Derrick Henry has
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been downgraded with a capital D. He's not the Alpha anymore.
These these rotations are great, and it's wonderful. Typically what
happens though, when your season is on the line, and
while the Ravens could still get into the playoffs, the
math is really effed up. Now, if they'd won that
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game with the Patriots on Sunday night, it would not
have been ft up. So you would assume all hands
on deck. You would assume the position that you would
go with your top players, especially in a game where
Lamar Jackson was injured and knocked out yet again, so
you're playing your suck bag backup quarterback. So you would
assume you would go with Derrick Henry down the stretch
we come and no, now, once upon it. I'm old
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enough to remember when he was known as King Henry,
King Henry. You don't make a king a platoon running back.
It doesn't happen. You're no longer a king. He's lost
his crown. He's part of a committee. That's the football
version of being friend zoned, as Derrick Henry has been
put in the friend zone, and age always wins. Father
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time undefeated and somebody in Nashville's snickering right now. I said,
we talked you. We got rid of him a here
too soon. Henry played well last year in Baltimore. This year,
some of the numbers are good, but you look at
the fact that here we are the most important part
of the season, and Henry is not in there at
the end of the game. He's watching. He's got a
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better seat than I had and you had, but he's watching.
And it's clear that the legs do not have the
same turbo button that they once did. And there's also
the fumbling thing that you've got to deal with that
popped up again, and it's becoming this weird rom com
in Baltimore. The Ravens, they fell in love with the
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idea of Derrick Henry. They rode Derrick Henry last year,
and they realized that this season that you know what,
we can't live with him every snap. We just can't
have him out derby snap. It's not just Henry, by
the way, mentioned Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson is already in
the doghouse with all the injuries not being available and
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guests who moved into the spare bedroom. Henry, they're in
the same house the circle of trust has bouncers now
and there's not a lot of trust. And once you're out,
you're out. So can we see the Ravens next year?
If you look into the crystal ball where Lamar Jackson's
a trade around late February early March, and then Henry
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ends up being dumped as well, and the Ravens have
a new running back and a new quarterback in twenty
and Sillainy. It looks like at the running back position,
if you're not gonna play Henry late in the game
because you're on a platoon, that it's a timeshare. So
what's the point of bringing them back next year? He's
a rotational running back? All right? Last word here for
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the Patriots report card time. Here the question they were
doing the chant in Baltimore. A bunch of Patriot fans
made the trip down. So what letter grade are you
giving Patriot quarterback Drake may As the MVP? Ever, it's
so excited about the idea of the MVP. Actually watching
the results of the MVP rather boring. You'd like to
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know that your guy won the MVP. So what letter
grade are you giving Patriots quarterbacks? Drake may As the
Pats come back down eleven in the fourth quarter and
get the victory. So I give him on the Mallord
report card. On the Mallor Report, Guard Drake May gets
a B plus, not an A, not an a a
s palid not overly spectacula. See. I don't hand out
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gold so other guys give out gold stars on talk radio.
I don't give out gold stars like it's kindergarten. Now,
May did have his first three hundred yard passing games,
so Mazeltov his first fourth quarter comeback. So you always
remember your first time, so he'll remember that the rest
of his life. He came back in the fourth quarter
when trailing four to zero in primetime island games, which
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I think is important. Play well in those primetime games
perception people don't pay attention to all the other stuff
you do. And if you play well in the big games,
people look at you at a different different way than
they would elsewhere. And so that plays well. All right,
it plays, but it doesn't sing. You should not need
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a late rescue mission against the twenty twenty five vantage
of the Baltimore Ravens. That defense, while it's not as
bad as it was early in the year, let's not
make it seem like the Ravens solved everything. They still stink.
And for most of this season the Ravens have been
a used couch left on the side on the curb
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there and they just slapped a free sign on it
and hope somebody'd be dumb enough to pick it up. Now,
over the first three quarters, Drake May, he was not
painting the rainbow. He was painting in beige and just
middling numbers. To the first three quarters of the game,
his passer rating was like a college radio station, eighty
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five point five on the FM dial and nothing really
all that great, nothing all that great. And then zoom zoom,
boom boom. In the fourth quarter of the May magic
made its appearance there and see that's where the beat play.
I was giving him like a C. I was gonna
give him a C. And then he went up to
a B plus with that crunch time where he was
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like Picasso down the stretch. There tight windows, no panic,
adult decisions, grown up decisions. But if you want to
a you got to dominate from start to finish. No wop,
wobble wobble, none of that stuff. And we're still undecided,
not too close to call. Not all precincts reporting in
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MVP vote for the twenty twenty five regular season. You've
got Matthew Stafford still in the cap bird seat, Drake
may Lurking and Josh Allen and then that's it. That's
the big board for the MVP at this particular point.
Those are the three Musketeers and one of them is
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going to win the award with two weeks to go,
as one game on Monday Night as Old Man Rivers
Old Man Rivers, Philip Rivers and the Patriots go back
to work as they take on the team from the Bay,
the forty nine Ers and the Colts. So that'll be
the matchup on Monday Night Football. It is the Ben
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there is more campaigning taking place. In fact, a very
prominent NFL head coach leading the campaign for his candidate
for the MVP. We'll get to that as well, and
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was awesome seeing all the old radio friends from years ago,
one by that made the effort to come out, hang
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out and have a good time and drink and eat
and be merry and eat a bunch of cookies and
hang out with the dog and the whole thing. And
it was a lot of fun. Some great pictures on there.
We want to see everyone that showed up, well not everyone,
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the way, the great art Martinez, Fox Sports Radio alumni
member years ago, yet again closed the party. Now you know,
the party's not over until the already already leaves, and
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he's always the last, literally the last one there. So
he shut the place down there and then went on
the way it was. It was awesome. I had a
great time and a lot of men. I've been been
with Fox Sports Radio for most of my adult life
and so many people different eras, different lineups at Fox
Sports Radio and people that I worked with at other
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places as well. But it was great to have everyone
come out and make the effort a lot of fun.
Good to see everybody at the ugly well it wasn't
even ugly, it was just pajamas, were in pajamas, So
there was that. We'll take your calls if you would
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Ya Fimi writes in from Chicago, says, Hey, Mallard a
plus and unlimited amounts of deep dish on the Mallard monologue.
After deep unbiased thought, I've come to the conclusion that
the Bears are a dark horse Super Bowl Condender says,
your femi a man, if you cut them open, be
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like Italian Samwich will fall out of him. If you
cut your femie open, he's that Italian or that Chicago
win I should say, But what do you think we
were a pizza? Here's here's what we've learned. This is
there is no real greatness. And Denver Broncos got blown
out by the Jacksonville Jags at home. For God's sakes,
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the Rams lost cash, gave the referees gave Seattle to
win in the Thursday night game, which kicked off the weekend.
One of the most egregious things I've ever seen in
my life. Let's just hand Seattle two points, okay, because
Sam Donald blows We'll do that, why not? So that
started the weekend off, and you know, go down. Everyone
looks beatable. I don't see a single team, not a
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single team in the NFL that I cannot make a
compelling argument that they are not that good, meaning that
they are beatable, absolutely beatable in the postseason situation. Now,
if you want to look and play the look look
ahead game, which I love. I love the look at
a game if the playoffs started right now, If the
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playoffs started right now, well, if the playoffs started right now,
the number one seeds would still be Denver. Denver still
would hold onto the number one Seattle and the NFC
and the first round wild card matchups. In the AFC,
you'd have the Patriots and the Texans, the Jags and
the Bills, the Steelers and the Chargers. That would be
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the matchups in the AFC and the NFC. The Bears
would play the Packers. Doesn't seem that tough at this point.
Although the game did go to overtime. There what a
game that was. On Saturday, as the Bears came back,
he had again the Cardiac Bears waking up from hibernation
to get it done there and make all the lucky
Tony and all those guys smile you, Phoebe and Eugene
in Chicago and everybody. They're all excited about that. So
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Bears Packers would be one of those games. Eagles and
forty nine Ers, Niners play tonight on the Monday night Games,
Our Monday Show, and then Carolina and the Rams. Oh,
sign me up for that right now. Please. That's like
a first round by for the Rams, right, Can the
Rams just stay in the five spot and play Carolina?
That'd be outstanding. I mean, please, let's make that happen
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right now. Love would love that, would love that rematch
Situation eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the
number you'd like to be part. Andrea says she's trying
to call the phones working. I don't know if the
phones are working, you're not, Andrew, I have no idea.
I hope they're working it. If you're getting a busy signal,
they're probably they're probably not working. Jeremy writes, and he says,
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you cannot just put a free sign on those or
no one will take it. You got to put a
for sale five dollars a similar amount sign on it
and it'll be gone quick. He says, put that sign
on it. Well, I thought the move was just to
go to like offer up or Craigslist or one of
those type things and just say, hey, come pick it up.
It's you know, it's in front of my house or whatever,
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and boom, there you go. King Rory writes in a
proud Packer backer. He says, with the Ravens losing, and
just boost my confidence in the game. Next week against
the Green Bay Packers. The Ravens are the biggest choke
artists in the league, so this time next week the
Packers will have their playoff tickets punched. I don't know
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about that. Late night drug tester writes, and he says,
what are the odds that helmet Man knows the Ravens
are pretty much out of the playoffs. I'm guessing plus
three thousand. Well, it's possible we'll hear from it. It's
conceivable we'll hear from from him at some point, depending
on how long his shower goes. I'm actually on the
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live air.
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Chris in Houston says, Hey, Mallard, I'm shocked to hear you,
especially after the amazing ugly sweater party. But I have
two questions, says Roberto. Still driving a school bus? And
where was Eddie? Well, Roberto is driving a school bus
as far as I know, and Eddie is too busy
in retirement to he could not make it to the party.
I guess he had other plans he was invited, though.
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No stradinas right since says Drake May's fourth quarter comeback
was good, but not as good as Sam Donald getting
help from the referees. If only Drake May had the
referees in his back pocket, like Sam Darnald, you could
see something with the pages. Well that's an honest take
by no Stradinas and honest say, now, Gunner, is there
a bigger fraud among listeners in the mallin Militia than
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gun Some people say Poppy is, and people thay shots
at Poppy. But Poppy he calls in all the time.
But this guy Gunner, let me tell you what this is.
It typical. This is why people hate sports radio. People
like Gunner. All right, this guy Gunner, he's sending out
he's oh, look at the Caroline Ben You know where
he wasn't here last week? Where were your Gunner last week?
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Did you did your radio stop working? Your phone stop working?
When the New Orleans Saints, the New Orleans Saints beat
the Carolina Panthers, and Gunner had nothing to say. Radio silence,
absolute radio silence from Gunner. And now this guy comes
the fraud Gunner, he comes back in here trying to talk.
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He's trash, right, please swan with you, Gunner. It's embarrassing,
it's absolutely embarrassing that what you're up to. How dare
you see what else do we have this? See page
Then we'll skip that. All right, let's go to the phones.
And enie meenie, miney mo. Let's say hello. Let's go
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to no. Here's the guy we haven't talked in a while.
Andrew in Bakersfield. Hello, Andrew, Welcome, Benny. Hey, where have you?
Where have you been? Andrew? Not that I missed you,
but I was just wondering where you've been.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Oh, sure, you know I've been. I've been listening to
I just hadn't. I didn't have a strong comment.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
And but it's not that easy that, you know, I
had to come up with takes. That job is not
easy to come up with fresh takes every every single day.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I know. So all these people on your show are
wanting to do bits. It's interesting to me, but I
thought I could do a bit, not really, but like
a hip hop recommendation bit where I tell some tell
the peeps, sorry, tell the people a good song, a
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good album or something like that. But anyways, so have
you heard of the group Atmosphere? And then I'm just
comment on the rams.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You're going to do a song?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Here?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Are you about to do a song?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
No?
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No, I you wanted to do. That's not a bit,
that's a question a bit.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Well, Atmosphere has this song it's called really, and he goes,
I'm trying to be as fresh as you, but the
security won't let me through. Yell, ain't got nothing better
to do. Anyways, it's really good Atmosphere. Now the Rams.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
What about the Rings? They played on Thursday. They didn't
play on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
They played on Thursday, you know, right, But you know
you're blaming the rest. I'll say I didn't see the game.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Well, you're blind, you never see the game. But of
course I'm here because it was the most egregious thing
I've ever seen in my life. It was most it was.
It was like professional wrestling, is what it was. I
thought Vince McMahon was going to come out of the
the booth review from Vince McMahon. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Okay, I'm a RamSan. I remember Jim Everett and Slipper Anderson.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Congratulations, I'm glad that you remember that. That's why I
didn't know we were doing a memory show? Are we
doing a memory show?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
I love the game memory right.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
That's great. Things you remember for one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I think McVeigh. You know, they gave up the games.
There's no way that.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So they gave up the beginning by stopping a two
point conversion, having a thirty to twenty eight lead, and
then the teams were preparing to have the kickoff, and
then the referee said, well, let's just give Seattle two points.
So Seattle didn't score in regulation after that. Thus the
game should have been thirty to twenty eight, would have
been the final. So how did the Rams screw that?
You didn't even see it. You're just fighting. Why are
(30:09):
you even doing this phone call? You didn't see the game.
You don't know what you're talking about this phone. No
you don't, No, you don't. You're uneducated. And it was Thursday.
It's now with their Monday show. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
But Seattle shouldn't have even been in that position, is
my point. And that's that's all.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
They gave up sixteen points, you know, and they missed
a field goals and.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
They fired their special teams coordinator the Rams. Congratulations. Okay,
that's a terrible phone call. My god, that's such a
bad call. I might not even work all week, that's
how bad that call is I might just cut the
week off early. That's how terrible that that call was.
Let's go to Jackson from the three six. Oh hello Jackson.
Welcome jacksby Ben Maler.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Good to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
If you can see, if you can see me, you're
a stocker. Do not look at me, Do not look
at me? How Darry? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Man?
Speaker 6 (31:04):
We're doing well? It's been a while since I've called in.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
But yeah, why why have you not? Why have you
not called in a while? Where have you been? What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (31:12):
You know? Just taking it easy? Uh uh, not staying
up as late as I normally do. But I wanted
to call in about Uh, I'm Sam Donald is a fraud.
I'm three six. So the Seahawks got lucky. I'm not
naive to that. But the Seahawks defense and they're hard
hitters in our in our secondary and our defensive line
(31:36):
is is something to be uh Beard, I think we
we you You can't.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You can't be serious? Is this a phony phone call?
Are you giving me a phony phone call? Got a
phony phone on the line? Wait? Wait, wait, wait, hold
of a second. Is it bizarre? What is going on here?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
So?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Seriously, did you not watch? I mean, I know that
was on Thursday.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Now?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Did you see the game? Did you watch the game?
Did you the Rams had five hundred eighty one yards
of offense. You're calling up to praise the Seattle defense?
Is this? Is this a hey? Give the Seahawks defense
some love? What are we doing?
Speaker 6 (32:19):
It's we've got that?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I mean, do you understand, Jackson? Do you understand my position?
Do you understand like I understand? You like your team?
I got it. You think they're gonna win? You should.
You're a fan of the Seahawks. Okay, cool, I respect it, whatever,
But you can't be calling a talk radio show to
praise the defense when they got dashed for five hundred
and eighty one yards and twenty six first downs in
(32:44):
their home stadium and gave up thirty seven points of
the Rams. You cannot be serious.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Again in the NFC Championship, run it through Seattle and
we'll see what happens again.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Well, I mean, I take that right now. The Rams
already won both games against Seattle without the officials meddling
with the outcome of the games. Anybody knows ball knows that.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
But when you sign up to play a primetime game
in Seattle, weird things are going to happen. That end
zone is just the things that have happened there. It's
not the refs, it's not it's not anything. It's it's
just magic.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Are you saying it's voodoo? Do you think there's voodoo?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah, Okay, I can't.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
I mean, I can't. I can't put a finger on it.
It's not it's not really like something you can you
can really describe. It's out there in the eather, you know.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, it's like extraterrestrial or something, some kind of subspecies that.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Well, we've got Boeing, you know, We've got Boeing and
all these these guys.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
That's right, that's right. Well maybe they're Boeing. Does it
deal with like the grays? The lizard people and they
come in there?
Speaker 6 (33:56):
And then it's probably a siof.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
It's a great idea. I got a great point, great point,
sy op, clearly a sye op. All right, well, thank you,
All right, there we go. I'm gonna move on here.
What a great start on the phones, Mike. How lucky
are we to have these calls? I mean, that is
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in addition to that, Jim Harbaugh is campaigning for Justin
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(35:45):
only play the Dallas Cowboys every game, he would be
the MVP. So many quarterbacks would be the MVP they
go to play the Dallas Cowboys. But Herbert was slicing
up that Dallas defense on Sunday and Jim Harbaugh dropping
the MVP caliber line as a truth bomb regarding the
status of one Justin Herbert. Of course, hardball has long
(36:08):
more knee pads for Justin Herbert. It's a little uncomfortable
to hear him talk about his quarterback it is anyway.
It is the Ben Mathers Show. Time Now for the
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So Trevor Lawrence joined Joe Montana and me as the
only quarterbacks with three or more passing touchdowns, one or
(36:29):
more rushing touchdowns, and zero interceptions in consecutive games. This
goes back over fifty years to nineteen seventy and close
to almost close to sixty, Trevor Lawrence joining Joe Montana
and me as the only quarterbacks with three plus passing touchdowns,
one plus rushing touchdown, and zero interceptions in consecutive games
(36:51):
since nineteen seventy. Who am I? That is the question.
The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it.
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of today, we take you back to Baltimore and the
(39:03):
Patriots trying to come from behind against the Ravens, and
I think they would get it done. How would they
get it done? Ramandre Stevenson nobody deep for Baltimore in
the secondary hand off Stevenson to the right side. The
confort fifteen cuts it, the costs to.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Ten to the five j touchdown.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
Patriots huss and say runs on Maray stevensonw.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
England takes the lead.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
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something that they have done a lot of under coach Harbaugh. Recently,
John Harbour lost his twentieth twentieth time in the this
season in playoffs and leading by double digits in the
second half more than any other coach since nineteen ninety one.
Eight of those losses have come the last four years,
(40:09):
so a lot of heartbreak losses for the Ravens. There.
Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Game?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Trevor Lawrence said, a monster game yet again didn't see
that on my radar against the Broncos. But Lawrence, joining
Joe Montana and me, is the only quarterbacks with three
plus passing touchdowns, one plus rushing touchdown and no interceptions
in consecutive games all the way back to nineteen seventy
so We're going back fifty fifty plus years on that.
(40:36):
Let's see, does anyone know the answer? We go to
the Great Unwashed here the Hoy POLOI and page down.
Here we have Ryan Fitzpatrick guest by Letty in Miami.
Let's see here Steve is going with the great Jim Everett,
John Mattuzac from Stevie Meatballs in Florida. That page. Dan
(41:01):
can't read that on the air, Mala prop guy cheated.
He got it right. Justin Herbert from ferg Dog. That's
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snaggle Puss from Bobby and Florida. That was That last
one was from from alf Let's see who else do you have?
Page down? Sweeney Todd from Scrooge Lorena. Do you have
(41:24):
an answer? Jim Hart? Is it Jim Jim Hart? You
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And all what fun we're having here in the Magic
radio Box. We start out a new week on this
twenty second day of December, and we start out with
that Sunday night game last night. We were up all
night providing you fresh pod content so we could do
(00:22):
this podcast right here. And what does the map look
like for the Ravens who lose to the Patriots. They
blew the lead late with Lamar Jackson going down, So
what's the map looking like for the Ravens with Lamar
Jackson going forward? And what does the Ravens usage of
Derrick Henry indicate? What letter grade are you giving Patriots
(00:45):
quarterback Drake May, who played very well in the fourth quarter,
had some bumps before that. We'll get to all of
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back in the stllet again here and we start out
with the game on an island in Baltimore. It was
(03:00):
the time the Ravens played at home in a night game.
You thought, well, they're gonna win like ninety percent of
the time. This is not that time. We are not
in those times right now. As the Ravens and Patriots,
it looked like Baltimore was in pretty good shap. I
don't if you saw the game. Mike Turrico was there.
Chris Consworth. Did anyone want Consworth fired after this game?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I don't think he said anything that ridonculous. But there
was on the Pete Cock on NBC if you saw
it or not. But Drake May, if you didn't see it,
he did see it. Drake May guiding New England to
a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns and May helping the Pats.
They had to come back from eleven points down. How
(03:42):
do you fall behind by eleven to that suck bag
Ravens team. But in the end, Pats get a twenty
eight to twenty four win over Baltimore and that means
they have punched their ticket. They are going to play
in the postseason. They're in, and that is a devastating
body blow, body blow to the Ravens and their playoff
(04:04):
hopes is now. All the Steers have to do is
win next week and they are in and the Ravens
can go hang out in Cankun and have my ties
and have a fine time. But the better story is
in the losing locker room where those Ravens are. Baltimore
is in stranger danger of missing the playoffs. Much of
the focus here on the quarterback play, or lack there
(04:28):
all at the quarterback position. Lamar Jackson knocked out yet again.
Where have we seen this before? It happens on a
regular basis, Lamar knocked out of this game with a
backage out. My yanche back, my neck, my back, my nega,
my back, my negga. My well, Lamar, who's won Let's
see not one, but two MVP awards and a whole
(04:50):
lot of regular season games. There's it's a doctor Jekyo,
mister Hyde thing. It had been for Lamar. You had
the regular season, Lamar, and you had playoff Lamar. Well,
now even regular season Lamar falling apart. And you look
at this, and we're getting close to the end of
the road here. This season in the NFL is only
a couple of games to go, a couple of weekends
to go, and then the playoffs will begin. And Lamar Jackson,
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despite all the hardware that he's added on to his resume,
his body obviously showing signs of rapid decline, and the
playoff hopes. You talk about gasping for air here, the
Ravens are all that, and they need oxygen at this
point here. So Lamar diged up the Ravens not in
(05:33):
great shape, and he said, well, the Ravens. We'll get
to the Ravens a minute. But Lamar, in general, the
sense is that this is not going particularly well. And
it certainly feels like we've reached the end of whatever
this was in Baltimore, whatever this was in Baltimore. So
(05:55):
that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question what does the map look like for the
Ravens with Lamar Jackson. Is this just merely a throwaway
season or is there something else deeper involved. Now I've
got my thoughts on this. I've got the Book of
the Law, spare bedroom and Picasso, and we will combine
(06:18):
all of these things together, and we'll put the mac
with the cheese. You can't have the cheese without the mac.
You can't have the mac without the cheese. You got
to put the cheese and the mac together, thus forming
the amazing dynamic duo. The mac and cheese. So a
if you look at the map for Lamar, Jackson and Baltimore,
it's flashing in neon. There's one word, one word. The
(06:42):
map is flashing and it's fo RK fork as in
ergo a fork in the road. Lamar has never been
built to play until he's thirty six or thirty seven.
This is not the long term guy. He's the Huey
Lewis and the News quarterback. We're not here for a
(07:02):
long time. We're here for a good time, and that
good time is rinkin. He turns twenty nine in early January,
and the body is about forty nine. At this point.
The body has been talking. And if you read the
Book of the Law, page forty seven, section B three,
(07:23):
the Book of the Law, police reference to that right now,
all right, thank you. The law of diminishing returns, the
law of diminishing returns and is undefeated. So the Ravens
coming up to that fork in the road a couple
more games. They're not going to make the playoffs, so
you either shop him now.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Or or what.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
But the best move would be, and that means as
good as all the rest, but the move would be
to get the Raiders on the phone and the Falcons,
the Jets, the Giants and cashing some scratcher tickets, say
trade him to Miami, they need a quarter or you
just keep rolling down a road that you know is
booby trapped. You know there are some roadside bombs that
(08:08):
it's the thing's been booby trapped, and ten pass attempts
against doing that. He got hurt, left the game early,
but before getting hurt. Ten pass attempts not so much
of a game plan, more like a witness protection situations.
You're John Harbaugh and you're trying to hide the quarterback.
So this is not hate. It's just simply math. The
(08:29):
odds say that you sell on Lamar before the wheels
fall off. At least you see what's out there. You
start knocking on doors and say, hey, how would you
like Lamar Jackson? What you want him? Come on now?
All right now. One of the other storylines here in
addition to the Lamar Jackson vanishing act, in terms of injury,
(08:51):
yet again, you have a different vanishing act Derek Henry. Now,
if you look at the box score, you said, well
Henry had one hundred and twenty eight yards. He scored
a couple of touchdowns and that's all good stuff. He
also had a big fumble. It's how the game unfolded.
That's the story here with Derrick Henry. Derek Henry's last
touch in the Ravens loss of the Patriots was that
(09:12):
touchdown run. He had twelve fifty left in the fourth quarter.
He did not touch the football after that. Now, the
Ravens coach John Harbaugh said that Henry the reason he
didn't play after early in the fourth quarter was because
of a rotation, a running back rotation. Said John Harbaugh,
(09:34):
say what, all right? So the question what does the
Ravens usage or lack thereof, of Derrick Henry indicate? All right?
So I looked at this and deliberated the available evidence,
and this thing smells funky. It smells funky, John Harbaugh.
See John Harbaugh says Derrek Henry didn't play because of
(09:55):
the running back rotation, which I translated that and I
used my mother cooder ring and I translated it to
that's coach speak. Perfume is what that is. It's right
from a skunk el skunko from Harbaugh. The usage tells
you everything, everything you need to know. Derrick Henry has
(10:18):
been downgraded with a capital D. He's not the Alpha anymore.
These these rotations are great, and it's wonderful. Typically what
happens though, when your season is on the line, and
while the Ravens could still get into the playoffs, the
math is really effed up. Now, if they'd won that
(10:38):
game with the Patriots on Sunday night, it would not
have been ft up. So you would assume all hands
on deck. You would assume the position that you would
go with your top players, especially in a game where
Lamar Jackson was injured and knocked out yet again, so
you're playing your suck bag backup quarterback. So you would
assume you would go with Derrick Henry down the stretch
we come and no, now, once upon it. I'm old
(11:00):
enough to remember when he was known as King Henry,
King Henry. You don't make a king a platoon running back.
It doesn't happen. You're no longer a king. He's lost
his crown. He's part of a committee. That's the football
version of being friend zoned, as Derrick Henry has been
put in the friend zone, and age always wins. Father
(11:23):
time undefeated and somebody in Nashville's snickering right now. I said,
we talked you. We got rid of him a here
too soon. Henry played well last year in Baltimore. This year,
some of the numbers are good, but you look at
the fact that here we are the most important part
of the season, and Henry is not in there at
the end of the game. He's watching. He's got a
(11:44):
better seat than I had and you had, but he's watching.
And it's clear that the legs do not have the
same turbo button that they once did. And there's also
the fumbling thing that you've got to deal with that
popped up again, and it's becoming this weird rom com
in Baltimore. The Ravens, they fell in love with the
(12:05):
idea of Derrick Henry. They rode Derrick Henry last year,
and they realized that this season that you know what,
we can't live with him every snap. We just can't
have him out derby snap. It's not just Henry, by
the way, mentioned Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson is already in
the doghouse with all the injuries not being available and
(12:29):
guests who moved into the spare bedroom. Henry, they're in
the same house the circle of trust has bouncers now
and there's not a lot of trust. And once you're out,
you're out. So can we see the Ravens next year?
If you look into the crystal ball where Lamar Jackson's
a trade around late February early March, and then Henry
(12:54):
ends up being dumped as well, and the Ravens have
a new running back and a new quarterback in twenty
and Sillainy. It looks like at the running back position,
if you're not gonna play Henry late in the game
because you're on a platoon, that it's a timeshare. So
what's the point of bringing them back next year? He's
a rotational running back? All right? Last word here for
(13:16):
the Patriots report card time. Here the question they were
doing the chant in Baltimore. A bunch of Patriot fans
made the trip down. So what letter grade are you
giving Patriot quarterback Drake may As the MVP? Ever, it's
so excited about the idea of the MVP. Actually watching
the results of the MVP rather boring. You'd like to
(13:39):
know that your guy won the MVP. So what letter
grade are you giving Patriots quarterbacks? Drake may As the
Pats come back down eleven in the fourth quarter and
get the victory. So I give him on the Mallord
report card. On the Mallor Report, Guard Drake May gets
a B plus, not an A, not an a a
s palid not overly spectacula. See. I don't hand out
(14:04):
gold so other guys give out gold stars on talk radio.
I don't give out gold stars like it's kindergarten. Now,
May did have his first three hundred yard passing games,
so Mazeltov his first fourth quarter comeback. So you always
remember your first time, so he'll remember that the rest
of his life. He came back in the fourth quarter
when trailing four to zero in primetime island games, which
(14:26):
I think is important. Play well in those primetime games
perception people don't pay attention to all the other stuff
you do. And if you play well in the big games,
people look at you at a different different way than
they would elsewhere. And so that plays well. All right,
it plays, but it doesn't sing. You should not need
(14:46):
a late rescue mission against the twenty twenty five vantage
of the Baltimore Ravens. That defense, while it's not as
bad as it was early in the year, let's not
make it seem like the Ravens solved everything. They still stink.
And for most of this season the Ravens have been
a used couch left on the side on the curb
(15:06):
there and they just slapped a free sign on it
and hope somebody'd be dumb enough to pick it up. Now,
over the first three quarters, Drake May, he was not
painting the rainbow. He was painting in beige and just
middling numbers. To the first three quarters of the game,
his passer rating was like a college radio station, eighty
(15:28):
five point five on the FM dial and nothing really
all that great, nothing all that great. And then zoom zoom,
boom boom. In the fourth quarter of the May magic
made its appearance there and see that's where the beat play.
I was giving him like a C. I was gonna
give him a C. And then he went up to
a B plus with that crunch time where he was
(15:48):
like Picasso down the stretch. There tight windows, no panic,
adult decisions, grown up decisions. But if you want to
a you got to dominate from start to finish. No wop,
wobble wobble, none of that stuff. And we're still undecided,
not too close to call. Not all precincts reporting in
(16:09):
MVP vote for the twenty twenty five regular season. You've
got Matthew Stafford still in the cap bird seat, Drake
may Lurking and Josh Allen and then that's it. That's
the big board for the MVP at this particular point.
Those are the three Musketeers and one of them is
(16:30):
going to win the award with two weeks to go,
as one game on Monday Night as Old Man Rivers
Old Man Rivers, Philip Rivers and the Patriots go back
to work as they take on the team from the Bay,
the forty nine Ers and the Colts. So that'll be
the matchup on Monday Night Football. It is the Ben
(16:51):
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for the MVP. We'll get to that as well, and
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We want to see everyone that showed up, well not everyone,
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the party's not over until the already already leaves, and
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he's always the last, literally the last one there. So
he shut the place down there and then went on
the way it was. It was awesome. I had a
great time and a lot of men. I've been been
with Fox Sports Radio for most of my adult life
and so many people different eras, different lineups at Fox
Sports Radio and people that I worked with at other
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places as well. But it was great to have everyone
come out and make the effort a lot of fun.
Good to see everybody at the ugly well it wasn't
even ugly, it was just pajamas, were in pajamas, So
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Ya Fimi writes in from Chicago, says, Hey, Mallard a
plus and unlimited amounts of deep dish on the Mallard monologue.
After deep unbiased thought, I've come to the conclusion that
the Bears are a dark horse Super Bowl Condender says,
your femi a man, if you cut them open, be
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like Italian Samwich will fall out of him. If you
cut your femie open, he's that Italian or that Chicago
win I should say, But what do you think we
were a pizza? Here's here's what we've learned. This is
there is no real greatness. And Denver Broncos got blown
out by the Jacksonville Jags at home. For God's sakes,
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the Rams lost cash, gave the referees gave Seattle to
win in the Thursday night game, which kicked off the weekend.
One of the most egregious things I've ever seen in
my life. Let's just hand Seattle two points, okay, because
Sam Donald blows We'll do that, why not? So that
started the weekend off, and you know, go down. Everyone
looks beatable. I don't see a single team, not a
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single team in the NFL that I cannot make a
compelling argument that they are not that good, meaning that
they are beatable, absolutely beatable in the postseason situation. Now,
if you want to look and play the look look
ahead game, which I love. I love the look at
a game if the playoffs started right now, If the
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playoffs started right now, well, if the playoffs started right now,
the number one seeds would still be Denver. Denver still
would hold onto the number one Seattle and the NFC
and the first round wild card matchups. In the AFC,
you'd have the Patriots and the Texans, the Jags and
the Bills, the Steelers and the Chargers. That would be
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the matchups in the AFC and the NFC. The Bears
would play the Packers. Doesn't seem that tough at this point.
Although the game did go to overtime. There what a
game that was. On Saturday, as the Bears came back,
he had again the Cardiac Bears waking up from hibernation
to get it done there and make all the lucky
Tony and all those guys smile you, Phoebe and Eugene
in Chicago and everybody. They're all excited about that. So
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Bears Packers would be one of those games. Eagles and
forty nine Ers, Niners play tonight on the Monday night Games,
Our Monday Show, and then Carolina and the Rams. Oh,
sign me up for that right now. Please. That's like
a first round by for the Rams, right, Can the
Rams just stay in the five spot and play Carolina?
That'd be outstanding. I mean, please, let's make that happen
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right now. Love would love that, would love that rematch
Situation eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the
number you'd like to be part. Andrea says she's trying
to call the phones working. I don't know if the
phones are working, you're not, Andrew, I have no idea.
I hope they're working it. If you're getting a busy signal,
they're probably they're probably not working. Jeremy writes, and he says,
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you cannot just put a free sign on those or
no one will take it. You got to put a
for sale five dollars a similar amount sign on it
and it'll be gone quick. He says, put that sign
on it. Well, I thought the move was just to
go to like offer up or Craigslist or one of
those type things and just say, hey, come pick it up.
It's you know, it's in front of my house or whatever,
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and boom, there you go. King Rory writes in a
proud Packer backer. He says, with the Ravens losing, and
just boost my confidence in the game. Next week against
the Green Bay Packers. The Ravens are the biggest choke
artists in the league, so this time next week the
Packers will have their playoff tickets punched. I don't know
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about that. Late night drug tester writes, and he says,
what are the odds that helmet Man knows the Ravens
are pretty much out of the playoffs. I'm guessing plus
three thousand. Well, it's possible we'll hear from it. It's
conceivable we'll hear from from him at some point, depending
on how long his shower goes. I'm actually on the
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live air.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
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Chris in Houston says, Hey, Mallard, I'm shocked to hear you,
especially after the amazing ugly sweater party. But I have
two questions, says Roberto. Still driving a school bus? And
where was Eddie? Well, Roberto is driving a school bus
as far as I know, and Eddie is too busy
in retirement to he could not make it to the party.
I guess he had other plans he was invited, though.
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No stradinas right since says Drake May's fourth quarter comeback
was good, but not as good as Sam Donald getting
help from the referees. If only Drake May had the
referees in his back pocket, like Sam Darnald, you could
see something with the pages. Well that's an honest take
by no Stradinas and honest say, now, Gunner, is there
a bigger fraud among listeners in the mallin Militia than
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gun Some people say Poppy is, and people thay shots
at Poppy. But Poppy he calls in all the time.
But this guy Gunner, let me tell you what this is.
It typical. This is why people hate sports radio. People
like Gunner. All right, this guy Gunner, he's sending out
he's oh, look at the Caroline Ben You know where
he wasn't here last week? Where were your Gunner last week?
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Did you did your radio stop working? Your phone stop working?
When the New Orleans Saints, the New Orleans Saints beat
the Carolina Panthers, and Gunner had nothing to say. Radio silence,
absolute radio silence from Gunner. And now this guy comes
the fraud Gunner, he comes back in here trying to talk.
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He's trash, right, please swan with you, Gunner. It's embarrassing,
it's absolutely embarrassing that what you're up to. How dare
you see what else do we have this? See page
Then we'll skip that. All right, let's go to the phones.
And enie meenie, miney mo. Let's say hello. Let's go
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to no. Here's the guy we haven't talked in a while.
Andrew in Bakersfield. Hello, Andrew, Welcome, Benny. Hey, where have you?
Where have you been? Andrew? Not that I missed you,
but I was just wondering where you've been.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Oh, sure, you know I've been. I've been listening to
I just hadn't. I didn't have a strong comment.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
And but it's not that easy that, you know, I
had to come up with takes. That job is not
easy to come up with fresh takes every every single day.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I know. So all these people on your show are
wanting to do bits. It's interesting to me, but I
thought I could do a bit, not really, but like
a hip hop recommendation bit where I tell some tell
the peeps, sorry, tell the people a good song, a
(28:25):
good album or something like that. But anyways, so have
you heard of the group Atmosphere? And then I'm just
comment on the rams.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You're going to do a song?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Here?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Are you about to do a song?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
No, I you wanted to do. That's not a bit,
that's a question a bit.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Well, Atmosphere has this song it's called really, and he goes,
I'm trying to be as fresh as you, but the
security won't let me through. Yell, ain't got nothing better
to do. Anyways, it's really good Atmosphere. Now the Rams.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
What about the Rings? They played on Thursday. They didn't
play on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
They played on Thursday, you know, right, But you know
you're blaming the rest. I'll say I didn't see the game.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Well, you're blind, you never see the game. But of
course I'm here because it was the most egregious thing
I've ever seen in my life. It was most it was.
It was like professional wrestling, is what it was. I
thought Vince McMahon was going to come out of the
the booth review from Vince McMahon. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Okay, I'm a RamSan. I remember Jim Everett and Slipper Anderson.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Congratulations, I'm glad that you remember that. That's why I
didn't know we were doing a memory show? Are we
doing a memory show?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
I love the game memory right.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
That's great. Things you remember for one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I think McVeigh. You know, they gave up the games.
There's no way that.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So they gave up the beginning by stopping a two
point conversion, having a thirty to twenty eight lead, and
then the teams were preparing to have the kickoff, and
then the referee said, well, let's just give Seattle two points.
So Seattle didn't score in regulation after that. Thus the
game should have been thirty to twenty eight, would have
been the final. So how did the Rams screw that?
You didn't even see it. You're just fighting. Why are
(30:09):
you even doing this phone call? You didn't see the game.
You don't know what you're talking about this phone. No
you don't, No, you don't. You're uneducated. And it was Thursday.
It's now with their Monday show. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
But Seattle shouldn't have even been in that position, is
my point. And that's that's all.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
They gave up sixteen points, you know, and they missed
a field goals and.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
They fired their special teams coordinator the Rams. Congratulations. Okay,
that's a terrible phone call. My god, that's such a
bad call. I might not even work all week, that's
how bad that call is I might just cut the
week off early. That's how terrible that that call was.
Let's go to Jackson from the three six. Oh hello Jackson.
Welcome jacksby Ben Maler.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Good to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
If you can see, if you can see me, you're
a stocker. Do not look at me, Do not look
at me? How Darry? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Man?
Speaker 6 (31:04):
We're doing well? It's been a while since I've called in.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
But yeah, why why have you not? Why have you
not called in a while? Where have you been? What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (31:12):
You know? Just taking it easy? Uh uh, not staying
up as late as I normally do. But I wanted
to call in about Uh, I'm Sam Donald is a fraud.
I'm three six. So the Seahawks got lucky. I'm not
naive to that. But the Seahawks defense and they're hard
hitters in our in our secondary and our defensive line
(31:36):
is is something to be uh Beard, I think we
we you You can't.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You can't be serious? Is this a phony phone call?
Are you giving me a phony phone call? Got a
phony phone on the line? Wait? Wait, wait, wait, hold
of a second. Is it bizarre? What is going on here?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
So?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Seriously, did you not watch? I mean, I know that
was on Thursday.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Now?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Did you see the game? Did you watch the game?
Did you the Rams had five hundred eighty one yards
of offense. You're calling up to praise the Seattle defense?
Is this? Is this a hey? Give the Seahawks defense
some love? What are we doing?
Speaker 6 (32:19):
It's we've got that?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I mean, do you understand, Jackson? Do you understand my position?
Do you understand like I understand? You like your team?
I got it. You think they're gonna win? You should.
You're a fan of the Seahawks. Okay, cool, I respect it, whatever,
But you can't be calling a talk radio show to
praise the defense when they got dashed for five hundred
and eighty one yards and twenty six first downs in
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their home stadium and gave up thirty seven points of
the Rams. You cannot be serious.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Again in the NFC Championship, run it through Seattle and
we'll see what happens again.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Well, I mean, I take that right now. The Rams
already won both games against Seattle without the officials meddling
with the outcome of the games. Anybody knows ball knows that.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
But when you sign up to play a primetime game
in Seattle, weird things are going to happen. That end
zone is just the things that have happened there. It's
not the refs, it's not it's not anything. It's it's
just magic.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Are you saying it's voodoo? Do you think there's voodoo?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah, Okay, I can't.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
I mean, I can't. I can't put a finger on it.
It's not it's not really like something you can you
can really describe. It's out there in the eather, you know.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, it's like extraterrestrial or something, some kind of subspecies that.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Well, we've got Boeing, you know, We've got Boeing and
all these these guys.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
That's right, that's right. Well maybe they're Boeing. Does it
deal with like the grays? The lizard people and they
come in there?
Speaker 6 (33:56):
And then it's probably a siof.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
It's a great idea. I got a great point, great point,
sy op, clearly a sye op. All right, well, thank you,
All right, there we go. I'm gonna move on here.
What a great start on the phones, Mike. How lucky
are we to have these calls? I mean, that is
next next level well. Feeding off the success of our
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in addition to that, Jim Harbaugh is campaigning for Justin
Herbert to win the MVP. Of course, if you can
(35:45):
only play the Dallas Cowboys every game, he would be
the MVP. So many quarterbacks would be the MVP they
go to play the Dallas Cowboys. But Herbert was slicing
up that Dallas defense on Sunday and Jim Harbaugh dropping
the MVP caliber line as a truth bomb regarding the
status of one Justin Herbert. Of course, hardball has long
(36:08):
more knee pads for Justin Herbert. It's a little uncomfortable
to hear him talk about his quarterback it is anyway.
It is the Ben Mathers Show. Time Now for the
who Am I Game? This is where I pretend to
be somebody else? As we call it, who am I Game?
So Trevor Lawrence joined Joe Montana and me as the
only quarterbacks with three or more passing touchdowns, one or
(36:29):
more rushing touchdowns, and zero interceptions in consecutive games. This
goes back over fifty years to nineteen seventy and close
to almost close to sixty, Trevor Lawrence joining Joe Montana
and me as the only quarterbacks with three plus passing touchdowns,
one plus rushing touchdown, and zero interceptions in consecutive games
(36:51):
since nineteen seventy. Who am I? That is the question.
The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it.
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But oh he's gonna find God, who's not your nice
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Come on now. Those other shows don't have talent like this.
It's our woman.
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She might too? I don't know you better, So don't cry,
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of today, we take you back to Baltimore and the
(39:03):
Patriots trying to come from behind against the Ravens, and
I think they would get it done. How would they
get it done? Ramandre Stevenson nobody deep for Baltimore in
the secondary hand off Stevenson to the right side. The
confort fifteen cuts it, the costs to.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Ten to the five j touchdown.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
Patriots huss and say runs on Maray stevensonw.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
England takes the lead.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
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something that they have done a lot of under coach Harbaugh. Recently,
John Harbour lost his twentieth twentieth time in the this
season in playoffs and leading by double digits in the
second half more than any other coach since nineteen ninety one.
Eight of those losses have come the last four years,
(40:09):
so a lot of heartbreak losses for the Ravens. There.
Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Game?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Trevor Lawrence said, a monster game yet again didn't see
that on my radar against the Broncos. But Lawrence, joining
Joe Montana and me, is the only quarterbacks with three
plus passing touchdowns, one plus rushing touchdown and no interceptions
in consecutive games all the way back to nineteen seventy
so We're going back fifty fifty plus years on that.
(40:36):
Let's see, does anyone know the answer? We go to
the Great Unwashed here the Hoy POLOI and page down.
Here we have Ryan Fitzpatrick guest by Letty in Miami.
Let's see here Steve is going with the great Jim Everett,
John Mattuzac from Stevie Meatballs in Florida. That page. Dan
(41:01):
can't read that on the air, Mala prop guy cheated.
He got it right. Justin Herbert from ferg Dog. That's
his answer, Gagon's doppelganger. There you go, very funny. A
snaggle Puss from Bobby and Florida. That was That last
one was from from alf Let's see who else do you have?
Page down? Sweeney Todd from Scrooge Lorena. Do you have
(41:24):
an answer? Jim Hart? Is it Jim Jim Hart? You
don't even know who Jim Hart is. No, that is incorrect.
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