December 2, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the New England Patriots dominating the New York Giants on MNF, how the game has affected QB Drake Maye's MVP campaign, Giants QB Jaxon Dart insisting he won't change his style of play, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dilly, dilly, It's our number one, be Tuesday to you.
It is the second day of December and we are
reunited here in the Magic radio Box with the Ben
Mathers Show podcast. We stayed up all night. We're not
an overnight radio show. We just record the pod overnight
for you because you don't listen to the radio show,
you're listening to the podcast. So here on hour number one,
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how would you describe coach Mike rabels Patriots performance a
domination situation, beating down the pathetic giants, the gutlass giants
who don't want to be there on Monday night. Also
after the Monday night football win. Patriots quarterback Drake May's
twenty twenty five MVP campaign, is it better worse or
the same? Better worse or the same? And where are
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you at on? Giants quarterback Jackson Dart saying despite getting
his head knocked sideways, he's not changing his style of play.
We'll discuss that as well. It's all coming your way
right now. It's our number one. A patriotic kind of
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post Monday night or Tuesday show here heading into the
second day of December, still late on a Monday in
the West, and our lead story some paddy Cake fun
under the darkness powered by moonlight there and it was
the final game of the week thirteen card in the NFL.
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Jackson Dart leading the Giants, they drove the honey wagon
into Foxborough to take on Drake May and the Patriots
in the Commonwealth, Were you watching this game? New Haly
A sizable favorite the Fox refugees Joe Buck and Troy
Aikman on ABC. They had the call there on television,
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so I don't know if you were checking this game
out or not. It really wasn't much else to watch.
I can't really watch the NBA much during the regular season,
so don't worry. We watched so you would not have
to watch. And let's see what did we see. Let's say, oh, yes, right,
Drake May living up to the hype. He passed for
a couple of touchdowns to the Patriots. Special teams were
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extra special good. They get a Neon Eraser Marcus Jones
generic name but not a generic player at a ninety
four yard punt return for a touchdown, and the Patriots
kept the good times a rolling a long as they
become the first NFL team into the eleven win club
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and they beat up the Giants who aren't so giant
thirty three to fifteen. Good coaching change there for the Giants.
That's fixed that franchise right right from the beginning there.
Oh and three now I believe with the new coach.
So it is the tenth straight win. I'm told that's
good for the Patriots. Ten straight wins the AFC leaders
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the new only Patriot eleven and two on the season,
the franchisees longest winning streak some since somebody named Tom
Brady and some guy named Bill Belichick were there. That
was back in twenty fifteen. So Mike Rabel, who took
some time off because he didn't get a job after
the Patriots' former Patriot player was let go by the
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Tennessee Titans. He was schmoozing at Ohio State. Now he's
in the NFL again with the Patriots, and Mike Rabel
has become now the third coach since nineteen seven. It's
fifty five years to win ten or more games in
his first season with a new employer. That is a
good jumping off points So let us discuss the question,
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how would you describe coach Mike Rabel's Patriots the performance
that we saw. Patriots don't play a lot of these
primetime games, So how would you describe the performance of
Mike Rabel's Patriots in the Monday Night game. So I've
got us military dance class and nature documentary, and we
will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
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make pulled barbecue chicken sandwiches. We're gonna make it, and
they're gonna be freaking delicious, and you're gonna love them,
and you're gonna gettle baked potato action going the whole thing,
all right, So tell me, yeah, ay, this was what
we call a boom box game for the Patriots is
a boombox game. It did not go away. I anticipated
the game would go but that's why they play the games.
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That's why they play the games. There Mike Rabel turning
the volume up on that boombox to eleven all the
way up to eleven, smashing the base there and really
sticking it to the giants and putting them in the
food processor and setting it to pure. In the first
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half of this game, as it was, oh, v e
r at halftime game was are they pigged out on
a bad opponent? That's what good teams do, beat bad
teams convincingly. And it was like a midweek buffet special
for the Patriots, of course, not midweek, the end of
the week end, of the weekend, beginning of the new week,
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so New England. What they did is they met expectations.
They met expectations period full stop. They were supposed to
win by a lot. They won by a lot. And
this was a team that was a heavy favorite to
Patriots coming into this game, the kind of a game
that if you look at it on a tablet, he said, well,
this was actually a classic trap spot. And if you
watched Benny Versus then on YouTube, we talked about it
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on the TV show, we discussed it that you had
the Thanksgiving hangover, you had the bye week looming, the
final week of the Buyser's upcoming for the Patriots and
the Giants as well some other teams. But the bye
week is coming up for them, so they're gonna be
in can Kun on vacation. And then you've also got,
in addition to that, a makeshift offensive line. Make shift
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offensive line, a couple of starters gone from the Patriots
offensive line, and the offensive line they tossed out there
looked like it was something that was built from akia
Ikea and it was not built following the instruction. You
just kind of put it together there. But none of
that mattered, not an ounce of that matter. It didn't
matter in this game. Mike Rabel squad comes in here
and with a level headed approach. Blue collar. I don't
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blue collar again. These guys are all rich. But that
mindset that we always talked about this, you know, take
care of do your job with Belichick used to say.
And then they flipped on the boom box again. They
cranked up the volume a little higher and they hit
theman turner overdrive. Taken care of business is what they did.
They was what they did. They took care of his
exactly what you would expect them to do. They did
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no frills, no real razzle dazzle other than the special
teams played. But it was a scorched earth policy. And
the first half of this game barbaric is the word.
They were barbaric in the first half of the game,
talking US military style by land, by sea, by air,
in this case, by offense, by defense, by special teams,
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all phases of the game. Body blow, body blow, body blow.
And by the time we got the halftimes, thirty to
seven at halftime, thirty to seven, thirty to seven at halftime,
and there was an obese woman, a fat lady was singing.
And right there before the two minute warning in the
first half, she was singing, and there you go, turn
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out the last the parties over. So a wood shed
job by the Patriots in this game. They turned the
Giants into mulch, is what they did. They turned them
into most Now, as for the hardware, a lot of
discussion MVP, MVP, MVP. Well, Matthew Stafford had a dud
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in his game. He was the MVP favorite coming into
the weekend. Ram's lost to Carolina. That's embarrassing. So here's
Drake May's opportunity to show the world that he's mister
envy pay MVP. So the question now the morning after
or the few hours after the game here as we're
talking after that Monday and night football win. Patriots quarterback
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Drake May. His twenty twenty five MVP campaign, better, worse
or the same. Drake May's MVP campaign this season now
thirteen weeks into the campaign on the campaign trail, are
things better, worse or the same? All right, So I'm
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gonna go first. I don't think we should overthink this.
Drake May gave a simpotical performance on the Monday night game.
He was great. It completed almost eighty percent of his passes,
averaged nine yards per pass, had a couple of touchdowns,
didn't have any mistakes, no turnovers, and had a solid
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stat line across the board. For a clean, polished performance
by Drake May. NFL quarterbacking one o one, one oh one.
He was basically the Vale Victorian of error free football,
which is important. Nevertheless, I would say, in terms of
the actual meat of the matter, let's pump the brakes
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on this somehow being a climbing of the latter situation.
I didn't see it that way, and it could not
have been why because of the opponent you played, the Giants.
They blow they're two and ten, they benched their top
defensive player, didn't even play the first or the game
where you jumped out to a massive lead and they
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came in there and it's like the Giants did play
in the Northeast, it gets cold in New York, but
there was thirty degrees at kickoff, and it was just
kind of you wanted to sit inside, somebody would be outside.
They played like snowmen in that in that way, it
was no snow, but they played like it. They looked
like they needed to jumper cables the Giants and get
in their stand. They got their doors smashed in in
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this one. But you don't really win an MVP contest.
You don't win points and gain ground. If you look
at the exit polling, you don't gain ground by beating
up the lazy Bones brigade from the Giants. A lot
of lazy bones there. So it was really dance class.
And Drake May he did the sideway shuffle. Do the shuffle.
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Now you gotta do the shovel, the sideway shove. Not
a moonwalk. You didn't moon walk forward and didn't do
that in the MVP race. He certainly did not do
a pratfall that didn't happen. Didn't go backward, more like
stay in your light. He stayed in his lane, put
on cruise control, self driving situation and just kind of
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wave politely at everyone who was outside and look, I'm driving.
I'm actually not driving the cars driving itself. And so
the malor mantra, which we have preached from the bully
pulpit for many, many years here is you don't get
extra credit for doing what you're supposed to do, like
your big favorite at home. You're supposed to win the
game against an inferior opponent that clearly has quit. That's
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a bunch of gutlass Giants players. So hey, through what
you're supposed to do. They did. So the verdict not
better for Drake may on the campaign trail, not worse,
the same, the same, And so it was. It was
more of a maintenance night situation. No Heisman House moment,
No Heismanhouse moment here all right. Now, last word the
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story that many people are freaking out about on the
Giant side, and it's not the fact they've got a
bunch of lazy guys that didn't really want to play
this game after missing the previous two games. We were
hoping for Jameis Winston. We were counting on Jameis Winston playing.
He did not, which is disappointing because he's fun bad
and Jackson Dart, who's not terrible. I don't hate Jackson Dart,
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but I was looking forward to seeing Jameis Winston play,
so Jackson Dart missed the previous two games with a concussion,
and everyone and their mother yapping about the play if
you saw the game in the first half, was a
bone crushing, bone crushing hit taken by the Giants quarterback
Jackson Dart on the sidelines that led to a scuffle.
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There was a rhubarb that took place right there on
the sidelines, and it was early in the game. Patriots
linebacker Christian Ellis knocking Dart. His eyeballs went a little goofy.
He hit him so hard there it was right on
the sidelines and knocked him, knocked him into the shadow realm.
The hit was vicious. You don't normally see that Dart.
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Jackson Dart was actually flying like a lawn Dart, which
you don't often see in an NFL game anymore. Since
Dart was still in bounds, there was no penalty and
no harm, no foul or in this case harm but
no foul. So there you go. Now everyone's like, oh
my god, we must protect Jackson Dart, we must save
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Jackson Dart. Well, here's Jackson Dart. He was asked about
that here's what he had to say postgame about whether
or not he's gonna change anything.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I understand the question, but like this is like this
is football, Like I'm gonna get hit if I'm in
the pocket or outside the pocket, like it's out.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I feel like I've played this way.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
My whole entire life.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
There shouldn't be like any shocker anybody if you've followed
along with my career and I'm we're not playing like
we're not playing soccer out here, like you're gonna get hit.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Things happen.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It's part of the game.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
See that, I say, we're not playing soccer football, We're
playing football, which is not football. It's football. There's a difference,
all right. So the question on this one's rather obvious,
but we'll address it to those of you in the
back of the room. So where are you at on
the Giants? Jackson Dart saying, Hey, I'm not changing the
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way that I play, even though he got knocked silly
by a Patriot defender. So look, I'll go first here.
I'm good with it. I'm good with it. I'm not
like these other guys freaking out. Everyone's trying to do
a therapy session with Jackson Dart. I'm not enough, already
enough helicopter parenting of quarterbacks. And listen, Jackson Dart essentially said,
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he said, relax, Francis is what he said. This is football.
It's not Ballate's class. It's not there. Right across the
courtyard there's a hot yoga place. It's not hot yoga, Okay,
it's not. It's just something else. And you know what,
I like that. I think that's that's kind of cool.
I'm not a Giants fan. I'm not a Jackson Dart fan.
I'm a neutral party here. But if this guy wants
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to play like that, the Giants knew what they were
getting when they drafted him, and he wants to play,
and it's like he's a throwback, although he's too young
to have been raised with NHL, NHL, NFL films, those
NFL films, those VHS tapes with all the hits and
the fiberglass helmets and human meat missiles flying around the
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field and all that, and so this is who Jackson
Dart apparently is. I like that. He addressed that, like
if you followed my career, like everyone's following Jackson Dart's career,
Like I mean I know we're all losers, but we're
not that big of a loser where we're following your career. Dude,
so chilled out on that. But telling Jackson Dart to
avoid the hits is akin to asking Kyler Murray to
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not play Call of Duty. Now, the Cardinals tried to
get Kyler Murray to not play Call of Duty. They
had to take it out of the contract because the
little fella loves the PlayStation, loves the pleasure. It'd be
like the chief saying, hey, mahomes, can you not eat
water burger? He loves water burger. That's what he enjoys.
Wa burger? What a shot? What a burger? He's all
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about that. It's baked into the DNA. So if you're
gonna get Jackson Dart to stop taking hits, you gotta
get Kyler Murray to stop being obsessed with video games.
Neither one of those things is going to happen. You
can't take the fangs out of a rattlesnake. Cannot do it.
And by the way, the NFL again, they celebrated this,
So this is one of those things again. It's like oh,
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those a million years ago boomer Well, okay, maybe it was.
But there was a time where and I remember the
name of it. It was called Thunder and Destruction from
NFL Films, the NFL's Hardest Hits, Thunder and Destruction narrated.
It was like a nature documentary, but gladiators of the
Gridiron Gladiators. It was great. And now all these years
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later we act like quarterback taking a hit or getting
involved in any kind of contact is some kind of
federal crime. There needs to be some war tribunal. And
I was like, no, that was kind of cool. I
was like, wow, that's what the NFL was like. Not
every single play, every single game, however, there were points
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where it happened a couple times a game. And if
Jackson Dart wants to do some cosplay as a crash
test dummy, then let him. He's an adult. He signed
up for the circus. And when you sign up for
the circus, you know the lions actually do bite. They're
not fake lions, they actually do bite there, and the
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elephants will actually step on you, so you might want
to pay attention there. And you're not playing trivial pursuit,
you're not, and so there you go. It's the hurt business.
You're in the hurt business. You're either giving the hurt
or you're getting hurt, and things go boom and sometimes
they go come boom. It is the Ben Malor Show.
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not fat. She's looking real good. Didn't she get canceled
by the Wolkesters though? I thought they canceled her?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
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don't talk to me and Cooper Loop at a Bronco fan.
Your comments can and we'll be used against you in
the court of sports rating. Back to it, Well, we'll
get back to it. Patriots win big in a non
competitive Monday night game game over at halftime. I did
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watch the second half. There was nothing else to watch,
so I didn't. Can't. But it's really tough to watch
these NBA games, very very difficult. I did get a
message here I did not know. I guess we'll find
out who's in at the company here later in the week,
because on Thursday I was told that there's a big event.
A lot of the the iHeart people are going to
(21:56):
Disneyland on Thursday night. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I'm
never invited to these things, so I don't. I don't
get invite Like, you don't have to get invited. You
have to win tickets. Oh, win tickets please, we'll at
this company. Let's just give tickets to people that work
at this company. But anyway, so whatever, I'm not going.
We'll find out who's off that night, who got the tickets?
I wonder who I wonder who that could be. I
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wonder who got the tickets to go to see we'll
see people that missing missing assignments there to be there
and the schmooze at Disneyland. Make sure until one in
the morning too. I saw the email. It was crazy
or you got an email? Really well, yeah, everyone got
an email. I don't check my work email. I stopped.
I'll tell you the day I stopped. January twentieth of
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twenty oh nine was the day I stopped check. I know,
I know the exact Yeah, I know the exact date.
That was the day the company whacked me and they
shut down my email right away, all my emails. I'm
never using that work email again. I have not. I
do not check my work email ever since then. Now,
if they made a deal, we'll get rid of you.
You get to keep your email and then fine. But
they don't. They don't do that. Random Ryan rights in
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from Carolina. He says random ryaning Carolina says, the best
NFL film is VHS tape will always be NFL Rocks,
where we get to watch Don Beebee land on his
head while bon Jovie sings about heartbreak. I'll push back
on that, Ryan Here's why I love those NFL team documentaries.
(23:21):
For the horrible teams like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when
they had mister McKay as the coach, John McKay, they
were just horrific and he was a SoundBite machine. The
New Orleans Saints, horrible Saints teams, Like I always thought
those are the greatest because that was such bull crap.
And I was waved before I was a kid, but
I remember growing up and I was like, wow, this
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is really bull crap. They were making it seem like
these teams that were just horrific. Oh they're just a
couple of players away from winning the super Bowl. It's like, no,
they suck. They're absolutely terrible. They're they're horrific and you're
just putting your you're putting lipstick on pig. Yeah, all right,
what else do we let to see? Page down. Saucy
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Meatball writes in that's a that's a burner account for
meat Sauce and says Justin Jefferson should go to the
Patriots and join Stefan Diggs next year. It will be
a Super Bowl win from Saucy Meatball. There you go,
ferd Dog says Lizzo was a hero to fat people everywhere.
(24:24):
Screw her for losing all that weight. Fat is beautiful.
Yeah she's now. She's now a shame for the fat community.
The fat community now is very upset with Lizzo. She's
let the fat people down. You know, they just can't
be happy.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
They're not happy when they're fat, They're not happy when
they lose weight.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I'm just telling you, Uh, shame no. St Denis writes
in from Seattle. He's got his his onesie, his Sam
Donald onesie on right now, he says much of Ben,
much to Ben's chagrin. The Patriots, just like the good
guy Seahawks, and unlike the fraudster Rams, beat up on
pitiful opponent because that's what good teams do. I'm smelling
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a Super Bowl forty nine rematch. Well, I think you're
smelling something else. You might want to take a shower.
I would recommend a shower with extra soap, irish spring.
He should do that. Tiger Man, answering the call to
the wild, the great tiger Man, he says. In the
past two days, my team's Lsu and b Yu have
had coaching fiascos. He says, uh I Hope Klate stays
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in Provo Go Tigers Go Koog's. That's from the great
tiger Man. Who wasn't the malard meat greet we had
in Vegas. He showed up there, he did it, Shane,
and Mooyns says, I'm impressed, Ben, that you can hate
Geno Smith this much after all these years and during
his play. That's truly next level of hate like I have.
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And then he named someone that works with Well, it's
not very it's not very nice, Shane. I wouldn't say
I have hate. I just was on the right side
of history that I knew right away Gino Smith was
a fraudster and some other people did not know. And
that's that. Let's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to any meaning mining. Let's go to Tom Tom's
in Rhode Island and he's in the leadoff spot with
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some patriot propaganda. Hello Tom, Welcome.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Oh no, I'm not no patriot propaganda here, benmin happy
to day. Listen, this Patriots team is screwed if they
have to play the Houston Texans. They played a pitiful
New York Football Giants team last night, who sucks. Who
has had no direction since Odell Beckham left this city.
He is This entire team is garbage. So all these
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Patriots sands are all excited and who We're go fifteen
to two, We're gonna get the number one seed. They
are overrated, they are shrewed against a real team. They
are frauds. They are and you know what, the city
of Boston is a city of losers hanging on to
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the past. Celtics are gonna get smoked by the New
York Knickerbocker tonight, my fifty points, it doesn't matter. All
these Patriots fans that are in my DM this morning
are losers, and they're gonna be brought back to reality
in January. It's a joke. It's an absolute joke. I
am sick of these people. I have to live amongst
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these people. I hate them. I hate everything about them.
It's just the worst sports city in America. Next to
the fake Cowboys fan that you're sitting next to every day,
you have a wonderful day. I love you.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Okay, I just want you to know we do not
actually sit next to each other. Okay, we're in separate rooms.
We we you know, six six feet socially distanced. You
will be happy to know Ben if I if I
am absent by chance Thursday evening, Oh, you are going
to Disneyland. Okay, I will be watching the Cowboys game
(27:57):
you're going to You're one of those people going to Disneyland.
Huh the tickets, Oh you did there? You go all right?
Amazing how you always seem to win the tickets every year.
It was one of the first ones to sign up
for it too. I saw that email come in. I
was like, oh, me, me, me, okay, I'd have to
go to Disneyland, okay until one in the month. That's
what all nine year olds do. They go to Disneyland
on a day off from work. I love that guy
(28:19):
from That's Snake Venom though, that's quality snake Venom. And
you did the old the back door trick where you
called up and you're like, all right, I can I
can rant and rave here like a lunatic, and I can.
I can do it on all these different platforms and
nobody can, like the local guys in Boston can't stop you.
And so you just toss out atomic waste and that
(28:39):
was that was outstanding. Outstanding. Doc Dan writes and says, personally,
I feel like the NFL has accomplished its goal almost
complete parody. I feel like there are really no exceptional teams.
A few teams that suck, but pretty much every game
is a toss up. Well, that's not a good thing,
Doc Dan. It's not good. You need greatness, you need dominants,
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and it's not good for the product that you don't
have that I the idea that parodies this. If I
own an NFL team, I'd want parody as a consumer
of the product. I want a truly dominating, unbeatable team.
You've got the Broncos who have ten wins, nobody takes
them seriously because of pone Nicks. You got the Patriots
who've got eleven wins, and if you look at their
(29:23):
strength of schedule, I believe it's the worst in the NFL,
and not even close. I mean the Broncos. I guess
we're close for a while, but that has changed now.
The strength of schedule of the Patriots opponents is three
sixty nine. Three sixty nine is the strength of schedule team.
How bad that is. I'm trying to find a team
(29:44):
that's close to that, and I guess the Broncos are
the closest. The Broncos are the closest that everyone else
is way up. So you got teams that have good records,
but they haven't played anybody. Whats Broncos opponent winning percentage
is four to four forty four, So I mean that's
the closest, and that's that's well. The Bears are Actually,
(30:04):
the Bears are closest. The Bears are four thirty nine.
So it's the three teams that have the top records.
I think those are the three teams, the Bears, the Patriots,
and the Broncos. And they're all at the very bottom
of winning opponent winning percentage or whatever. They played good
soft schedules, so you know that's gonna upset Lucky Tony.
(30:25):
So that's good. He's gonna be very upset here, and
you know what that means. So we'll get this going here.
Lucky Tony, the Chicago Bears apologist. Hello in the Bay Area,
Hello Lucky Tony Tony.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I can't hear you. They stopped stop listen, Hey man,
Why am I?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Why am I band from Disneyland? I don't know, because
I'm fucking goofy. Thanks Ben, thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
There you go. It's Lucky Tony. That's a pretty funny joke. Actually, yeah, you.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Know, what's good be taken two ways.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I'm like, okay, right right, Yeah, I'm a fan of
Lucky Tony. He's really good for the podcast. People have
to go listen to the podcast to hear what he said. So,
and if you heard it, we're all in a lot
of trouble. So if you heard what he's said, and
if you were doing that, you would get bannedrom Disneyland.
I'm sure. Yeah, they likely would not look kindly upon that.
(31:18):
That's not not what they're they're looking for. Nostre Deenis writes, since,
as my wife says, Irish spring has too many chemicals,
so I only get overpriced soap bars from Whole Foods
that last about three showers. What a nightmare. What a
freaking nightmare that must be. Holy crap, my god. All right,
let's say hello to eeny meeny, miney moll. Let's go
(31:39):
to John who's in Atlanta and John is next. It
is the Ben Maller Show eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. Hello, John, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
How's it going man? How's it going? Brother?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
If I was any better, I'd be a Giant, but
not a New York Giant because they stik.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Well, yeah, I mean a course off man at Weeks.
I called in earlier, I apologized, I dropped that bomb.
Ain't going to happen again.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, I don't care. My boss's care, I don't really care.
But the people I work for getting very upset by that.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
So, well, it's not gonna happen again. And I'll tell you.
You know, I worked as a machinist that night, and
then I just got off work here in Atlanta and
I got to listen to the you know, I listened
to the game on the New Serious Exam on the radio.
That's how I listened to your show too, And it
sounded to me like that hit. I didn't see it,
(32:35):
but it was a legit hit on Dart like he
was going for a first down and he took a
big hit, obviously. But my question to you is, do
you think that if Patrick Mahomes took that hit, would
there have been a flag?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yes, there would have been a flag.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Okay, well yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Wow,
it sounds like, you know, they're starting to fight on
the field over that. So I'm going to watch the
highlights when I get home. But I tell you, I
agree with you. With the Patriots. It's like we'll see
what's going to happen with them in January.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Now, are you at work right now? John? I hear
like there's a lot of stuff going on in the background,
a lot of yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I'm just walking out the door after this.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
No I know, but I hear the noise in the bag.
It sounds like he's at the factory, like there's stuff
going on. I hear, I hear something in the background.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I'm just trying to Yeah, there's machines going on and everything.
I'm about to punch out here at three o'clock. I'm
just like wasting time.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Okay, Well, we're a great if you ever need to
waste time. The Ben Maler Show is great at wasting time.
We do that.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
I'm not really wasting time.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I hear you.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I hear, I hear, yeah. You know.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
The thing is with the Patriots. So Rabel's got that
defense believing. I don't know, maybe, I mean, they sounded
like they were just hyped to win that game and
not let the Giants put money points up.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
But well they were high. The Giants didn't seem like
they wanted to be there, which is the other problem here.
That's the bye week coming up. They're a bad team,
the Giants. How many games in a row if they
lost here? I think it's was it seven games in
a row? Now the Giants have lost? Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Yeah. Yeah, the NFC East is looking kind of rough
right now, except for the I don't know, maybe the
Cowboys will take the NFC East. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
You know, well, this is usually the part of the
script where they go, they play the Lions and lose
by ten points to the Lions. That's usually how this
would go. But yeah, they played well the last couple
of games the Cowboys, and I think when will the
Patriots lose? They do play Buffalo after the bye week,
but that's at home in Foxborough. That's a that's they
I they don't win if they win that game. I mean,
(34:57):
they played the Ravens. They should beat the Ravens the
way the Ravens are this year, and they play the
Jets and the Dolphins, those should be wins. So you're
looking at possibly fifteen and two for the Patriots. That's insane.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, and then they'll learned to you know, learn their
lesson than their first playoff game. They might get smoked,
you know, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well not the wall. They won't play on wild card
weekend if they're fifteen and two of the bye week
so I have to worry about that, all right, John,
be safe on the way home. Thank you, be safe, John,
John from Atlanta kept it clean. He likes to work
blue occasionally, but he kept it clean here did good.
That's good, unlike Lucky Tony in the Bay Area who
just never works clean. He never works clean, dirty dirty.
(35:37):
Stee Mean Ball says there is way too much awesome.
Ben Malers show Christmas music created by dedicated, talented Mallard
Militia members to be able to even fit in between
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I agree, Steve Balls. I've I've made that clear. I
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(36:00):
Ben said that the fat Lady sang in the first Yeah,
I know. So do you want me to call one
of our listeners fat and have them be the first
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I've met them. They're fat.
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Also, let's be realistic here, there's there's like three there's
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Cooper Lorena who when I asked something, they rationalize not
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this is their example of what I deal with you.
I can't play it. There's not that many songs there
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(36:43):
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quarterback Drake May became the first quarterback to guide a
team to a ten game winning streak a year after
losing thirteen plus games. Who am I the answer? We'll
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we go and the play of the day. Then we'll
play off the who am I game? The play of
the day on special teams, and boy were they special.
For the New England Patriots, a guy named Marcus Jones,
(39:24):
a generic name but not a generic play.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Invernus fields the snap left foot's the fun left to
right toward Marcus Jones.
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He's under it between the hash marks at the sixth he.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
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Speaker 1 (39:42):
Marcus Jones gone to the twenty to the ten to
the house clutch down. Patriots play can tell me that
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to guide a team to a ten game winning school
year after losing thirteen or more games. Who am I?
I'm the last quarterback to do it before Drake May?
That is the question, and what is the answer? And
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from Jim Who Else Page Down, Alf of the AFL
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(41:09):
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Lorena and mister No, it's Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning is
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Dilly, dilly, It's our number one, be Tuesday to you.
It is the second day of December and we are
reunited here in the Magic radio Box with the Ben
Mathers Show podcast. We stayed up all night. We're not
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you're listening to the podcast. So here on hour number one,
(00:21):
how would you describe coach Mike rabels Patriots performance a
domination situation, beating down the pathetic giants, the gutlass giants
who don't want to be there on Monday night. Also
after the Monday night football win. Patriots quarterback Drake May's
twenty twenty five MVP campaign, is it better worse or
the same? Better worse or the same? And where are
(00:45):
you at on? Giants quarterback Jackson Dart saying despite getting
his head knocked sideways, he's not changing his style of play.
We'll discuss that as well. It's all coming your way
right now. It's our number one. A patriotic kind of
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post Monday night or Tuesday show here heading into the
second day of December, still late on a Monday in
the West, and our lead story some paddy Cake fun
under the darkness powered by moonlight there and it was
the final game of the week thirteen card in the NFL.
(03:02):
Jackson Dart leading the Giants, they drove the honey wagon
into Foxborough to take on Drake May and the Patriots
in the Commonwealth, Were you watching this game? New Haly
A sizable favorite the Fox refugees Joe Buck and Troy
Aikman on ABC. They had the call there on television,
(03:24):
so I don't know if you were checking this game
out or not. It really wasn't much else to watch.
I can't really watch the NBA much during the regular season,
so don't worry. We watched so you would not have
to watch. And let's see what did we see. Let's say, oh, yes, right,
Drake May living up to the hype. He passed for
a couple of touchdowns to the Patriots. Special teams were
(03:45):
extra special good. They get a Neon Eraser Marcus Jones
generic name but not a generic player at a ninety
four yard punt return for a touchdown, and the Patriots
kept the good times a rolling a long as they
become the first NFL team into the eleven win club
(04:06):
and they beat up the Giants who aren't so giant
thirty three to fifteen. Good coaching change there for the Giants.
That's fixed that franchise right right from the beginning there.
Oh and three now I believe with the new coach.
So it is the tenth straight win. I'm told that's
good for the Patriots. Ten straight wins the AFC leaders
(04:28):
the new only Patriot eleven and two on the season,
the franchisees longest winning streak some since somebody named Tom
Brady and some guy named Bill Belichick were there. That
was back in twenty fifteen. So Mike Rabel, who took
some time off because he didn't get a job after
the Patriots' former Patriot player was let go by the
(04:48):
Tennessee Titans. He was schmoozing at Ohio State. Now he's
in the NFL again with the Patriots, and Mike Rabel
has become now the third coach since nineteen seven. It's
fifty five years to win ten or more games in
his first season with a new employer. That is a
good jumping off points So let us discuss the question,
(05:12):
how would you describe coach Mike Rabel's Patriots the performance
that we saw. Patriots don't play a lot of these
primetime games, So how would you describe the performance of
Mike Rabel's Patriots in the Monday Night game. So I've
got us military dance class and nature documentary, and we
will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
(05:36):
make pulled barbecue chicken sandwiches. We're gonna make it, and
they're gonna be freaking delicious, and you're gonna love them,
and you're gonna gettle baked potato action going the whole thing,
all right, So tell me, yeah, ay, this was what
we call a boom box game for the Patriots is
a boombox game. It did not go away. I anticipated
the game would go but that's why they play the games.
(05:58):
That's why they play the games. There Mike Rabel turning
the volume up on that boombox to eleven all the
way up to eleven, smashing the base there and really
sticking it to the giants and putting them in the
food processor and setting it to pure. In the first
(06:18):
half of this game, as it was, oh, v e
r at halftime game was are they pigged out on
a bad opponent? That's what good teams do, beat bad
teams convincingly. And it was like a midweek buffet special
for the Patriots, of course, not midweek, the end of
the week end, of the weekend, beginning of the new week,
(06:39):
so New England. What they did is they met expectations.
They met expectations period full stop. They were supposed to
win by a lot. They won by a lot. And
this was a team that was a heavy favorite to
Patriots coming into this game, the kind of a game
that if you look at it on a tablet, he said, well,
this was actually a classic trap spot. And if you
watched Benny Versus then on YouTube, we talked about it
(07:01):
on the TV show, we discussed it that you had
the Thanksgiving hangover, you had the bye week looming, the
final week of the Buyser's upcoming for the Patriots and
the Giants as well some other teams. But the bye
week is coming up for them, so they're gonna be
in can Kun on vacation. And then you've also got,
in addition to that, a makeshift offensive line. Make shift
(07:23):
offensive line, a couple of starters gone from the Patriots
offensive line, and the offensive line they tossed out there
looked like it was something that was built from akia
Ikea and it was not built following the instruction. You
just kind of put it together there. But none of
that mattered, not an ounce of that matter. It didn't
matter in this game. Mike Rabel squad comes in here
and with a level headed approach. Blue collar. I don't
(07:46):
blue collar again. These guys are all rich. But that
mindset that we always talked about this, you know, take
care of do your job with Belichick used to say.
And then they flipped on the boom box again. They
cranked up the volume a little higher and they hit
theman turner overdrive. Taken care of business is what they did.
They was what they did. They took care of his
exactly what you would expect them to do. They did
(08:08):
no frills, no real razzle dazzle other than the special
teams played. But it was a scorched earth policy. And
the first half of this game barbaric is the word.
They were barbaric in the first half of the game,
talking US military style by land, by sea, by air,
in this case, by offense, by defense, by special teams,
(08:30):
all phases of the game. Body blow, body blow, body blow.
And by the time we got the halftimes, thirty to
seven at halftime, thirty to seven, thirty to seven at halftime,
and there was an obese woman, a fat lady was singing.
And right there before the two minute warning in the
first half, she was singing, and there you go, turn
(08:53):
out the last the parties over. So a wood shed
job by the Patriots in this game. They turned the
Giants into mulch, is what they did. They turned them
into most Now, as for the hardware, a lot of
discussion MVP, MVP, MVP. Well, Matthew Stafford had a dud
(09:13):
in his game. He was the MVP favorite coming into
the weekend. Ram's lost to Carolina. That's embarrassing. So here's
Drake May's opportunity to show the world that he's mister
envy pay MVP. So the question now the morning after
or the few hours after the game here as we're
talking after that Monday and night football win. Patriots quarterback
(09:36):
Drake May. His twenty twenty five MVP campaign, better, worse
or the same. Drake May's MVP campaign this season now
thirteen weeks into the campaign on the campaign trail, are
things better, worse or the same? All right, So I'm
(09:58):
gonna go first. I don't think we should overthink this.
Drake May gave a simpotical performance on the Monday night game.
He was great. It completed almost eighty percent of his passes,
averaged nine yards per pass, had a couple of touchdowns,
didn't have any mistakes, no turnovers, and had a solid
(10:21):
stat line across the board. For a clean, polished performance
by Drake May. NFL quarterbacking one o one, one oh one.
He was basically the Vale Victorian of error free football,
which is important. Nevertheless, I would say, in terms of
the actual meat of the matter, let's pump the brakes
(10:41):
on this somehow being a climbing of the latter situation.
I didn't see it that way, and it could not
have been why because of the opponent you played, the Giants.
They blow they're two and ten, they benched their top
defensive player, didn't even play the first or the game
where you jumped out to a massive lead and they
(11:03):
came in there and it's like the Giants did play
in the Northeast, it gets cold in New York, but
there was thirty degrees at kickoff, and it was just
kind of you wanted to sit inside, somebody would be outside.
They played like snowmen in that in that way, it
was no snow, but they played like it. They looked
like they needed to jumper cables the Giants and get
in their stand. They got their doors smashed in in
(11:24):
this one. But you don't really win an MVP contest.
You don't win points and gain ground. If you look
at the exit polling, you don't gain ground by beating
up the lazy Bones brigade from the Giants. A lot
of lazy bones there. So it was really dance class.
And Drake May he did the sideway shuffle. Do the shuffle.
(11:48):
Now you gotta do the shovel, the sideway shove. Not
a moonwalk. You didn't moon walk forward and didn't do
that in the MVP race. He certainly did not do
a pratfall that didn't happen. Didn't go backward, more like
stay in your light. He stayed in his lane, put
on cruise control, self driving situation and just kind of
(12:09):
wave politely at everyone who was outside and look, I'm driving.
I'm actually not driving the cars driving itself. And so
the malor mantra, which we have preached from the bully
pulpit for many, many years here is you don't get
extra credit for doing what you're supposed to do, like
your big favorite at home. You're supposed to win the
game against an inferior opponent that clearly has quit. That's
(12:33):
a bunch of gutlass Giants players. So hey, through what
you're supposed to do. They did. So the verdict not
better for Drake may on the campaign trail, not worse,
the same, the same, And so it was. It was
more of a maintenance night situation. No Heisman House moment,
No Heismanhouse moment here all right. Now, last word the
(12:56):
story that many people are freaking out about on the
Giant side, and it's not the fact they've got a
bunch of lazy guys that didn't really want to play
this game after missing the previous two games. We were
hoping for Jameis Winston. We were counting on Jameis Winston playing.
He did not, which is disappointing because he's fun bad
and Jackson Dart, who's not terrible. I don't hate Jackson Dart,
(13:18):
but I was looking forward to seeing Jameis Winston play,
so Jackson Dart missed the previous two games with a concussion,
and everyone and their mother yapping about the play if
you saw the game in the first half, was a
bone crushing, bone crushing hit taken by the Giants quarterback
Jackson Dart on the sidelines that led to a scuffle.
(13:38):
There was a rhubarb that took place right there on
the sidelines, and it was early in the game. Patriots
linebacker Christian Ellis knocking Dart. His eyeballs went a little goofy.
He hit him so hard there it was right on
the sidelines and knocked him, knocked him into the shadow realm.
The hit was vicious. You don't normally see that Dart.
(14:01):
Jackson Dart was actually flying like a lawn Dart, which
you don't often see in an NFL game anymore. Since
Dart was still in bounds, there was no penalty and
no harm, no foul or in this case harm but
no foul. So there you go. Now everyone's like, oh
my god, we must protect Jackson Dart, we must save
(14:23):
Jackson Dart. Well, here's Jackson Dart. He was asked about
that here's what he had to say postgame about whether
or not he's gonna change anything.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I understand the question, but like this is like this
is football, Like I'm gonna get hit if I'm in
the pocket or outside the pocket, like it's out.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I feel like I've played this way.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
My whole entire life.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
There shouldn't be like any shocker anybody if you've followed
along with my career and I'm we're not playing like
we're not playing soccer out here, like you're gonna get hit.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Things happen.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It's part of the game.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
See that, I say, we're not playing soccer football, We're
playing football, which is not football. It's football. There's a difference,
all right. So the question on this one's rather obvious,
but we'll address it to those of you in the
back of the room. So where are you at on
the Giants? Jackson Dart saying, Hey, I'm not changing the
(15:22):
way that I play, even though he got knocked silly
by a Patriot defender. So look, I'll go first here.
I'm good with it. I'm good with it. I'm not
like these other guys freaking out. Everyone's trying to do
a therapy session with Jackson Dart. I'm not enough, already
enough helicopter parenting of quarterbacks. And listen, Jackson Dart essentially said,
(15:47):
he said, relax, Francis is what he said. This is football.
It's not Ballate's class. It's not there. Right across the
courtyard there's a hot yoga place. It's not hot yoga, Okay,
it's not. It's just something else. And you know what,
I like that. I think that's that's kind of cool.
I'm not a Giants fan. I'm not a Jackson Dart fan.
I'm a neutral party here. But if this guy wants
(16:09):
to play like that, the Giants knew what they were
getting when they drafted him, and he wants to play,
and it's like he's a throwback, although he's too young
to have been raised with NHL, NHL, NFL films, those
NFL films, those VHS tapes with all the hits and
the fiberglass helmets and human meat missiles flying around the
(16:29):
field and all that, and so this is who Jackson
Dart apparently is. I like that. He addressed that, like
if you followed my career, like everyone's following Jackson Dart's career,
Like I mean I know we're all losers, but we're
not that big of a loser where we're following your career. Dude,
so chilled out on that. But telling Jackson Dart to
avoid the hits is akin to asking Kyler Murray to
(16:54):
not play Call of Duty. Now, the Cardinals tried to
get Kyler Murray to not play Call of Duty. They
had to take it out of the contract because the
little fella loves the PlayStation, loves the pleasure. It'd be
like the chief saying, hey, mahomes, can you not eat
water burger? He loves water burger. That's what he enjoys.
Wa burger? What a shot? What a burger? He's all
(17:14):
about that. It's baked into the DNA. So if you're
gonna get Jackson Dart to stop taking hits, you gotta
get Kyler Murray to stop being obsessed with video games.
Neither one of those things is going to happen. You
can't take the fangs out of a rattlesnake. Cannot do it.
And by the way, the NFL again, they celebrated this,
So this is one of those things again. It's like oh,
(17:35):
those a million years ago boomer Well, okay, maybe it was.
But there was a time where and I remember the
name of it. It was called Thunder and Destruction from
NFL Films, the NFL's Hardest Hits, Thunder and Destruction narrated.
It was like a nature documentary, but gladiators of the
Gridiron Gladiators. It was great. And now all these years
(18:01):
later we act like quarterback taking a hit or getting
involved in any kind of contact is some kind of
federal crime. There needs to be some war tribunal. And
I was like, no, that was kind of cool. I
was like, wow, that's what the NFL was like. Not
every single play, every single game, however, there were points
(18:22):
where it happened a couple times a game. And if
Jackson Dart wants to do some cosplay as a crash
test dummy, then let him. He's an adult. He signed
up for the circus. And when you sign up for
the circus, you know the lions actually do bite. They're
not fake lions, they actually do bite there, and the
(18:44):
elephants will actually step on you, so you might want
to pay attention there. And you're not playing trivial pursuit,
you're not, and so there you go. It's the hurt business.
You're in the hurt business. You're either giving the hurt
or you're getting hurt, and things go boom and sometimes
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Lizzo still fat? I thought she lost way. She's not
fat anymore. She's a little less y abb No, she's
not fat. She's looking real good. Didn't she get canceled
by the Wolkesters though? I thought they canceled her?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
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(21:13):
don't talk to me and Cooper Loop at a Bronco fan.
Your comments can and we'll be used against you in
the court of sports rating. Back to it, Well, we'll
get back to it. Patriots win big in a non
competitive Monday night game game over at halftime. I did
(21:34):
watch the second half. There was nothing else to watch,
so I didn't. Can't. But it's really tough to watch
these NBA games, very very difficult. I did get a
message here I did not know. I guess we'll find
out who's in at the company here later in the week,
because on Thursday I was told that there's a big event.
A lot of the the iHeart people are going to
(21:56):
Disneyland on Thursday night. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I'm
never invited to these things, so I don't. I don't
get invite Like, you don't have to get invited. You
have to win tickets. Oh, win tickets please, we'll at
this company. Let's just give tickets to people that work
at this company. But anyway, so whatever, I'm not going.
We'll find out who's off that night, who got the tickets?
I wonder who I wonder who that could be. I
(22:18):
wonder who got the tickets to go to see we'll
see people that missing missing assignments there to be there
and the schmooze at Disneyland. Make sure until one in
the morning too. I saw the email. It was crazy
or you got an email? Really well, yeah, everyone got
an email. I don't check my work email. I stopped.
I'll tell you the day I stopped. January twentieth of
(22:39):
twenty oh nine was the day I stopped check. I know,
I know the exact Yeah, I know the exact date.
That was the day the company whacked me and they
shut down my email right away, all my emails. I'm
never using that work email again. I have not. I
do not check my work email ever since then. Now,
if they made a deal, we'll get rid of you.
You get to keep your email and then fine. But
they don't. They don't do that. Random Ryan rights in
(23:00):
from Carolina. He says random ryaning Carolina says, the best
NFL film is VHS tape will always be NFL Rocks,
where we get to watch Don Beebee land on his
head while bon Jovie sings about heartbreak. I'll push back
on that, Ryan Here's why I love those NFL team documentaries.
(23:21):
For the horrible teams like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when
they had mister McKay as the coach, John McKay, they
were just horrific and he was a SoundBite machine. The
New Orleans Saints, horrible Saints teams, Like I always thought
those are the greatest because that was such bull crap.
And I was waved before I was a kid, but
I remember growing up and I was like, wow, this
(23:43):
is really bull crap. They were making it seem like
these teams that were just horrific. Oh they're just a
couple of players away from winning the super Bowl. It's like, no,
they suck. They're absolutely terrible. They're they're horrific and you're
just putting your you're putting lipstick on pig. Yeah, all right,
what else do we let to see? Page down. Saucy
(24:04):
Meatball writes in that's a that's a burner account for
meat Sauce and says Justin Jefferson should go to the
Patriots and join Stefan Diggs next year. It will be
a Super Bowl win from Saucy Meatball. There you go,
ferd Dog says Lizzo was a hero to fat people everywhere.
(24:24):
Screw her for losing all that weight. Fat is beautiful.
Yeah she's now. She's now a shame for the fat community.
The fat community now is very upset with Lizzo. She's
let the fat people down. You know, they just can't
be happy.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
They're not happy when they're fat, They're not happy when
they lose weight.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I'm just telling you, Uh, shame no. St Denis writes
in from Seattle. He's got his his onesie, his Sam
Donald onesie on right now, he says much of Ben,
much to Ben's chagrin. The Patriots, just like the good
guy Seahawks, and unlike the fraudster Rams, beat up on
pitiful opponent because that's what good teams do. I'm smelling
(25:03):
a Super Bowl forty nine rematch. Well, I think you're
smelling something else. You might want to take a shower.
I would recommend a shower with extra soap, irish spring.
He should do that. Tiger Man, answering the call to
the wild, the great tiger Man, he says. In the
past two days, my team's Lsu and b Yu have
had coaching fiascos. He says, uh I Hope Klate stays
(25:27):
in Provo Go Tigers Go Koog's. That's from the great
tiger Man. Who wasn't the malard meat greet we had
in Vegas. He showed up there, he did it, Shane,
and Mooyns says, I'm impressed, Ben, that you can hate
Geno Smith this much after all these years and during
his play. That's truly next level of hate like I have.
(25:49):
And then he named someone that works with Well, it's
not very it's not very nice, Shane. I wouldn't say
I have hate. I just was on the right side
of history that I knew right away Gino Smith was
a fraudster and some other people did not know. And
that's that. Let's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to any meaning mining. Let's go to Tom Tom's
in Rhode Island and he's in the leadoff spot with
(26:10):
some patriot propaganda. Hello Tom, Welcome.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Oh no, I'm not no patriot propaganda here, benmin happy
to day. Listen, this Patriots team is screwed if they
have to play the Houston Texans. They played a pitiful
New York Football Giants team last night, who sucks. Who
has had no direction since Odell Beckham left this city.
He is This entire team is garbage. So all these
(26:36):
Patriots sands are all excited and who We're go fifteen
to two, We're gonna get the number one seed. They
are overrated, they are shrewed against a real team. They
are frauds. They are and you know what, the city
of Boston is a city of losers hanging on to
(26:58):
the past. Celtics are gonna get smoked by the New
York Knickerbocker tonight, my fifty points, it doesn't matter. All
these Patriots fans that are in my DM this morning
are losers, and they're gonna be brought back to reality
in January. It's a joke. It's an absolute joke. I
am sick of these people. I have to live amongst
(27:20):
these people. I hate them. I hate everything about them.
It's just the worst sports city in America. Next to
the fake Cowboys fan that you're sitting next to every day,
you have a wonderful day. I love you.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Okay, I just want you to know we do not
actually sit next to each other. Okay, we're in separate rooms.
We we you know, six six feet socially distanced. You
will be happy to know Ben if I if I
am absent by chance Thursday evening, Oh, you are going
to Disneyland. Okay, I will be watching the Cowboys game
(27:57):
you're going to You're one of those people going to Disneyland.
Huh the tickets, Oh you did there? You go all right?
Amazing how you always seem to win the tickets every year.
It was one of the first ones to sign up
for it too. I saw that email come in. I
was like, oh, me, me, me, okay, I'd have to
go to Disneyland, okay until one in the month. That's
what all nine year olds do. They go to Disneyland
on a day off from work. I love that guy
(28:19):
from That's Snake Venom though, that's quality snake Venom. And
you did the old the back door trick where you
called up and you're like, all right, I can I
can rant and rave here like a lunatic, and I can.
I can do it on all these different platforms and
nobody can, like the local guys in Boston can't stop you.
And so you just toss out atomic waste and that
(28:39):
was that was outstanding. Outstanding. Doc Dan writes and says, personally,
I feel like the NFL has accomplished its goal almost
complete parody. I feel like there are really no exceptional teams.
A few teams that suck, but pretty much every game
is a toss up. Well, that's not a good thing,
Doc Dan. It's not good. You need greatness, you need dominants,
(29:01):
and it's not good for the product that you don't
have that I the idea that parodies this. If I
own an NFL team, I'd want parody as a consumer
of the product. I want a truly dominating, unbeatable team.
You've got the Broncos who have ten wins, nobody takes
them seriously because of pone Nicks. You got the Patriots
who've got eleven wins, and if you look at their
(29:23):
strength of schedule, I believe it's the worst in the NFL,
and not even close. I mean the Broncos. I guess
we're close for a while, but that has changed now.
The strength of schedule of the Patriots opponents is three
sixty nine. Three sixty nine is the strength of schedule team.
How bad that is. I'm trying to find a team
(29:44):
that's close to that, and I guess the Broncos are
the closest. The Broncos are the closest that everyone else
is way up. So you got teams that have good records,
but they haven't played anybody. Whats Broncos opponent winning percentage
is four to four forty four, So I mean that's
the closest, and that's that's well. The Bears are Actually,
(30:04):
the Bears are closest. The Bears are four thirty nine.
So it's the three teams that have the top records.
I think those are the three teams, the Bears, the Patriots,
and the Broncos. And they're all at the very bottom
of winning opponent winning percentage or whatever. They played good
soft schedules, so you know that's gonna upset Lucky Tony.
(30:25):
So that's good. He's gonna be very upset here, and
you know what that means. So we'll get this going here.
Lucky Tony, the Chicago Bears apologist. Hello in the Bay Area,
Hello Lucky Tony Tony.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I can't hear you. They stopped stop listen, Hey man,
Why am I?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Why am I band from Disneyland? I don't know, because
I'm fucking goofy. Thanks Ben, thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
There you go. It's Lucky Tony. That's a pretty funny joke. Actually, yeah, you.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Know, what's good be taken two ways.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I'm like, okay, right right, Yeah, I'm a fan of
Lucky Tony. He's really good for the podcast. People have
to go listen to the podcast to hear what he said. So,
and if you heard it, we're all in a lot
of trouble. So if you heard what he's said, and
if you were doing that, you would get bannedrom Disneyland.
I'm sure. Yeah, they likely would not look kindly upon that.
(31:18):
That's not not what they're they're looking for. Nostre Deenis writes, since,
as my wife says, Irish spring has too many chemicals,
so I only get overpriced soap bars from Whole Foods
that last about three showers. What a nightmare. What a
freaking nightmare that must be. Holy crap, my god. All right,
let's say hello to eeny meeny, miney moll. Let's go
(31:39):
to John who's in Atlanta and John is next. It
is the Ben Maller Show eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. Hello, John, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
How's it going man? How's it going? Brother?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
If I was any better, I'd be a Giant, but
not a New York Giant because they stik.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Well, yeah, I mean a course off man at Weeks.
I called in earlier, I apologized, I dropped that bomb.
Ain't going to happen again.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, I don't care. My boss's care, I don't really care.
But the people I work for getting very upset by that.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
So, well, it's not gonna happen again. And I'll tell you.
You know, I worked as a machinist that night, and
then I just got off work here in Atlanta and
I got to listen to the you know, I listened
to the game on the New Serious Exam on the radio.
That's how I listened to your show too, And it
sounded to me like that hit. I didn't see it,
(32:35):
but it was a legit hit on Dart like he
was going for a first down and he took a
big hit, obviously. But my question to you is, do
you think that if Patrick Mahomes took that hit, would
there have been a flag?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yes, there would have been a flag.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Okay, well yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Wow,
it sounds like, you know, they're starting to fight on
the field over that. So I'm going to watch the
highlights when I get home. But I tell you, I
agree with you. With the Patriots. It's like we'll see
what's going to happen with them in January.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Now, are you at work right now? John? I hear
like there's a lot of stuff going on in the background,
a lot of yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I'm just walking out the door after this.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
No I know, but I hear the noise in the bag.
It sounds like he's at the factory, like there's stuff
going on. I hear, I hear something in the background.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I'm just trying to Yeah, there's machines going on and everything.
I'm about to punch out here at three o'clock. I'm
just like wasting time.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Okay, Well, we're a great if you ever need to
waste time. The Ben Maler Show is great at wasting time.
We do that.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
I'm not really wasting time.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I hear you.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I hear, I hear, yeah. You know.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
The thing is with the Patriots. So Rabel's got that
defense believing. I don't know, maybe, I mean, they sounded
like they were just hyped to win that game and
not let the Giants put money points up.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
But well they were high. The Giants didn't seem like
they wanted to be there, which is the other problem here.
That's the bye week coming up. They're a bad team,
the Giants. How many games in a row if they
lost here? I think it's was it seven games in
a row? Now the Giants have lost? Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Yeah. Yeah, the NFC East is looking kind of rough
right now, except for the I don't know, maybe the
Cowboys will take the NFC East. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
You know, well, this is usually the part of the
script where they go, they play the Lions and lose
by ten points to the Lions. That's usually how this
would go. But yeah, they played well the last couple
of games the Cowboys, and I think when will the
Patriots lose? They do play Buffalo after the bye week,
but that's at home in Foxborough. That's a that's they
I they don't win if they win that game. I mean,
(34:57):
they played the Ravens. They should beat the Ravens the
way the Ravens are this year, and they play the
Jets and the Dolphins, those should be wins. So you're
looking at possibly fifteen and two for the Patriots. That's insane.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, and then they'll learned to you know, learn their
lesson than their first playoff game. They might get smoked,
you know, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well not the wall. They won't play on wild card
weekend if they're fifteen and two of the bye week
so I have to worry about that, all right, John,
be safe on the way home. Thank you, be safe, John,
John from Atlanta kept it clean. He likes to work
blue occasionally, but he kept it clean here did good.
That's good, unlike Lucky Tony in the Bay Area who
just never works clean. He never works clean, dirty dirty.
(35:37):
Stee Mean Ball says there is way too much awesome.
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Militia members to be able to even fit in between
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I agree, Steve Balls. I've I've made that clear. I
love the Malard theme music. I would only play that,
but they don't listen. I do want to by that.
(36:00):
Ben said that the fat Lady sang in the first Yeah,
I know. So do you want me to call one
of our listeners fat and have them be the first
fat lady to sing they are fat? I don't care.
I've met them. They're fat.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Also, let's be realistic here, there's there's like three there's
four comebacks on three comeback songs the show or more
than that.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
This is where Cooper, This is where cool. This is
Cooper Lorena who when I asked something, they rationalize not
doing what I asked them to do. Here this is
this is their example of what I deal with you.
I can't play it. There's not that many songs there
just isn't okay. Again, you can either listen to what
I asked. I asked you to put the Hollering James
song in seven months ago. You have not done that yet,
(36:43):
and you guys were away last week Christmas. I went
to play it and I wasn't there because you guys
didn't put in the system. So this is the kind
of stuff. But that's fine, you guys. I'll get CEB
Peo balls. I recommend things and then this is what happens.
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(37:07):
became the first quarterback to guide the team to a
ten game winning streak a year after losing thirteen or
more games. Since me again? Who am my game? Patriots
quarterback Drake May became the first quarterback to guide a
team to a ten game winning streak a year after
losing thirteen plus games. Who am I the answer? We'll
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YouTube it's Ben Mallor's show. There you go back to it,
we go and the play of the day. Then we'll
play off the who am I game? The play of
the day on special teams, and boy were they special.
For the New England Patriots, a guy named Marcus Jones,
(39:24):
a generic name but not a generic play.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Invernus fields the snap left foot's the fun left to
right toward Marcus Jones.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
He's under it between the hash marks at the sixth he.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Runs it left to the fifteen umber twenty accelebrates thirty
thirty five, forty beating get off the him along the
near side, forty to the three.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Marcus Jones gone to the twenty to the ten to
the house clutch down. Patriots play can tell me that
I read it the playoff football, so let's stay okay.
That was Patriots cheerleader Scott Zolak with the commentsary on
that and that is the tire Iraq play of the day.
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for a touchdown by Marcus Jones. Time now for the
who am I? Games? Drake May became the first quarterback
(40:24):
to guide a team to a ten game winning school
year after losing thirteen or more games. Who am I?
I'm the last quarterback to do it before Drake May?
That is the question, and what is the answer? And
let's see as anyone know. Joe Pendleton aka Leo Farnsworth
from Jim Who Else Page Down, Alf of the AFL
from Malaprop Guy. That's his answer. The Bearded Fat Lady,
(40:47):
Blind Scott from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Mark from Queen's
Going with Troy Aikman, Tom Bosley there's a name I've
been heard in a while, from Mark, or from rob
Rather the goat Man, Robbie the mayor, fans Christmas decoration,
lou On a two from not a Burner, Scott Zolac
from Eke. Who else do we have? Santa Claus a hey,
(41:09):
Saint Ben from Scrooge in the Bay Area Disney Adults
from Ferd Dog. All right, you have an answer quickly,
Lorena and mister No, it's Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning is
the answer. Nineteen ninety nine, ninety nine Peyton mann
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