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November 17, 2023 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Joe Burrow getting knocked out of the Bengals loss to the Ravens on TNF and how worried Bengals fans should be, Mark Andrews suffering a season ending injury for the Ravens, NFL Pick'em, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go, Hell and welcome to the Ben Mahlor
Show podcast. As we are just beginning four hours of
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(00:23):
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
The fifth hour today. But here an hour one.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's all about that Thursday night NFL game as the
Ravens get an easy win. But the story is in
the injury tent. Where is the Malord worry ometer for
Joe Burrow's wrist Burrow out in the second quarter wrist injury.
What kind of punishment are the Bengals going to get
for hiding the Joe Burrow injury? And can you put

(01:41):
into words how big a loss tight end Mark Andrews
is going to be for the Ravens. We'll talk about
all that and more right now, have a wonderful, wonderful day,
but we got three other hours to go.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Here it is.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Our number one. It is panic at the Joe Burrow.
Well come, in the beginning of another edition of the
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in our lead coming from the charm City. The Ravens
hosting the Beals in a made for TV match with
Al Michaels and Kirk herb Street hanging out there. And

(03:04):
if you watched this game the Thursday Night special, maybe not.
Lamar Jackson played pretty well over three hundred yards. He
was also pretty lucky on some of those passes and
certainly had the officials in his back pocket.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
But a couple of touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
The Ravens serve, shall we say, poetic justice to the
Bengals thirty four to twenty in a game that was
not that close in Maryland. Now, Baltimore improves to eight
and three. They're currently the number two seed in the
American Football Conference, bird dogging the Chiefs, who close out

(03:43):
Week eleven as they take on the Eagles in the
Monday night game Cincinnati. They are now four and five.
But the better story is in the losing locker room
or should we say, should we say the losing injury tent,
because that's what you will find.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Joe Burrow. Yeah, this is the story of the night.
The Bengals quarterback.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
The early report the sprained right risk, sprained right wrist.
The injury forced him out of the game and expected
to be out for an extended period of time. Burrow
hurting his wrist probably several days ago, but in this
game he exited in the second quarter, right after throwing
a touchdown pass to Joe Mixon that gave the Bengals

(04:28):
the lead ten to seven. Now, once I saw Joe
Burrow go into the injury tent, I said, that's it.
I'm done. My bet is overright, no chance, no chance,
all right? So the Ravens win that really they were
given the game once Borrow got hurt. So let us
discuss the question where is the malor worry O meter

(04:53):
for Joe Burrow's wrist.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
So on the malor worry O meter one to ten, this.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Is a nine point oh nine point zero on.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
The malor Warrio meter.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
I've got Lizzo pinatas and a t Rex stuffed animal
and we'll combine all of these things together, and we're
gonna get you some anxiety meds if you like the
Bengals or you happen to have Joe Burrow as your
fantasy quarterback. So a, we're at a solid nine because

(05:30):
even if this is not a season ending injury, the.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Burrow, the Burrow injury, they have no margin for ayer.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Right, even if Burrow can come back this season, if
he's missing multiple games and they were to lose those games.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's all she wrote.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
As of now, the Bengals playoff hopes are on life support.
When you look at their record against AFC opponents, they're
just a five hundred team.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
You are what your record says you are.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
They have a faint pulse, But if Burrow's playing, that's
a little more than a faint pulse because Burrows a capable.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Of going on a Burrow burner.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
There's no such thing as momentum, but he can play
consistently well for a period of time. And Lizzo, of
all people, has entered the chat. She's warming up her
vocal cords right now and she's looking at the song sheet,
and the song sheet there says turn out.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
The last the parties over.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Back up Jake Browning for Cincinnati. Now that is actually Yiddish.
Browning is Yiddish for can't play. He looks like your
standard Ham and Egger mix. Whoever your Your definition of
a bad quarterback is Mac Jones, Zach Wilson, Kenny Pickett. Now,
these guys can play. He's a jag, but not a

(06:48):
Jacksonville jack. Just a guy, just a guy.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Now, to answer the question, why did the Bengals have
no other options?

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Right?

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Why why do they not have a better backup quarterback
on the roster, Well, the simple answer is they cost
money to pay a backup quarterback. The Bengals are notorious
frug notoriously frugal. But also I always go back in
these situations to the great Tom Moore was with the
Indianapolis Colls for a long time, been around the NFL
as an offensive coordinator. I think he's mostly retired as

(07:18):
a consultant these days. But he was asked a question
years ago about Peyton Manning, and I'm gonna parrot his response.
I'm gonna change it up for the modern story that
we're talking about. But the question would be why do
backups not get more reps?

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Right?

Speaker 1 (07:33):
As a guy like Jake Browning not get more opportunity
and practice, And a guy like Tom Moore would say, fellas,
if number nine goes down, we're porked.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
And we don't practice porked, like to learn all the affiliates.
That was a radio edit. He used a different word
than porked. I cleaned it up. I cleaned it up.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
But the Bengals would be baking Bengal bacon, and I'll
bet you someplace at a hotel in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Carson Wentz is whimpering, wishing.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
If I'd only waited, if I'd only waited another couple
of weeks, I would have gone to Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
But no, no.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
I was stuck with the Rams turning the page. So
pundits are already speculating that the Bengals are in deep
doo doo, that they're gonna get essentially court martialed by
the NFL because of Joe Burrow's injury. Now, why is
that some video was bouncing around the echo chamber of

(08:34):
social media. It has been deleted. It was deleted shortly
after it was posted. The posting by the Cincinnati football
team on social media is getting some into a lather.
You see if you haven't, if you haven't seen this
in the clip for our blindlisters. In the clip, Joe
Burrow can be seen getting off the Bengals team bus. Well,

(08:55):
who cares about that, right? I mean, I've gotten off
a bus. I'm sure you've probably gotten off a bus
at some point in your life. But he was wearing
some kind of brace or protective sleeve something on his
right hand. And in the week leading up to this game, Burrow,
let me, let me check the Bengal injury report and

(09:17):
we'll go page down.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Paid.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
No Joe Burrow not on the Bengals injury report.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
What woe? Now?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
The NFL they claim they have no room, no room
for this kind of nonsense, these kind of shenanigans.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
They take these injuries very seriously.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
So the question what kind of punishment are the Bengals
going to get for circumventing the NFL injury list and
hiding the Burrow injury. So Cincinnati, here's what's gonna happen
for their coaching staff to front office.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
They will be human pinatas, human pinatas. That's public shaming.
The cover up is it's worse than the crime.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
If only Joe Burrow had stayed healthy, nobody would have
known about this. But the NFL is a conduit to gambling, right,
They're a pipeline to gambling. That is the financial bonanza
for the NFL. You can't watch an NFL game.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
And I love gambling.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Listen, I go gambling show on television on the weekends.
I love gambling, but every other commercials gambling, gambling, gambling.
So expect the Bengals to be fined and Zach Taylor
will also be fine. This happened a few years ago
Mike Tomlin and the Steelers not exactly the same, but
Ben Roethlisberger was the quarterback at the time and he
didn't show up on the injury report, but he was hurt.

(10:36):
And so the NFL thing the Steelers Now, it's a
little different because gambling is much more prevalent now than
it was four years ago. However, Bengals are not a
regular in this world, so it's not like they have
a track record. They're not like Draymond Green where they've
got a lot of recidivism. So I'm gonna say that

(10:56):
they're gonna get a fine, and that's it. Now the
last word here. Let's go to the winning locker room.
The game itself not really a good talker because once
Joe Burrow got hurt the Ravens they were given the game.
Here you go take it. But there is a big
storyline with Baltimore tight end Mark Andrews.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
His season cop.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Put Buppkus over for me too, dun skies for Mark Andrews.
He suffered a late left ankle injury on the opening drive.
John Harbaugh announcing after the game that is a big
deal and season ender season ender against Tarbor season entered

(11:37):
four Andrews.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
According to Harbaugh, so.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Put in the words how big a loss Mark Andrews
is for the Ravens who are cooking right now at
eight and three. So the way I would describe it,
it's like flashing back to when you were six years
old and you went on a like a road trip
with the family and you were on a jet blue

(12:02):
plane and you left your favorite t Rex stuffed animal
on the plane and you were really upset.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
This is a devastation situation.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
The reason it's a devastation situation is because Mark Andrews
is Lamar Jackson's safety blanket. It's he's his blanket. Right
went in doubt, throw the ball out to Mark Andrews.
The numbers are redonculous with these two. Andrews gets over
thirty percent of all the targets. He's the top pass

(12:36):
catcher in every category from Lamar Jackson since they both
came into the NFL, and the name.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
That will pop up and we'll we'll throw it out.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Right now, right, We'll try to get ahead of the mainstream.
The Ravens could look for a diamond in the rough,
but the obvious connection here is Rob Grodenkowski. Will the
Ravens be able to convince Rob Gronkowski to come back?
Developing hot dot dot dot. Now, Gronkowski will like to

(13:09):
flirt with the Ravens. He likes to do that, but
ultimately I've looked at him and he's a little finn.
Little finn gotta fat him up. I don't think he's
anywhere close to being able to play. Even if he
wanted to come back, I don't think he'd be making
much of an impact based on what I've seen of
his podcast shenanigans and whatnot. But this is actually I'm

(13:31):
gonna be Betty bright side here for a second. I
want to be Betty Bright's side for the Ravens. Because
there is a dimension in the Twilight Zone where this
ends up a blessing.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Let me tell you why.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Because Lamar Jackson is going to have to get over
his crutch or the Ravens are on a kamikaze mission here,
it's not gonna work. Lamar's had a blind spot. He
doesn't trust his receivers. Maybe his receiver blow, I don't know,
but he's so depending on throwing the Mark Andrews that

(14:08):
it becomes a net negative.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
When you play the Ravens, you know where the ball
is gonna go, and he doesn't really spread it around.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
So in that dimension in the Twilight Zone, Lamar is
going to have to share the sugar.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
And that's not a bad thing. That's actually a good thing.
That's a positive thing.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
If you're gonna do the Waltz, the playoff Waltz, and
get to Vegas for the super Bowl, it is the.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
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Speaker 2 (14:39):
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Speaker 3 (14:47):
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But straight ahead, just how long will Joe Burrow be out?
Doctor Mahler is about to pop up on your radio.
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Speaker 1 (17:12):
Joe Burrow injured. How bad is it? And that's the
headline there. Burrow with Mark Andrews and the Ravens also
knocked out for Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
And we are reacting. We'll give you.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
The alleged timeline on Joe Burrow coming up in a minute.
Bird Dog rights and says, Joe Burrow or no Burrow.
The bugles are done. Turn off the lines the parties over.
I see no path for them to get the electoral
votes needed to make the plus.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
That is unfortunate, Yapheme.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
In Chicago, says Malar a plus and a rotting Bengo
carcass on the mal monologue. As soon as Browning reached
for a football, I turned off Amazon. Elite quarterbacks seem
to have the crappiest backups. Does the starting quarterback need
the backup to suck that bad to feel better about himself?

(18:10):
So my first thought on that, Yafeemi is that was
the rumor about Tom Brady. Brady didn't want anyone to
threaten him, and he always had bad backups, and then
one time he had a decent backup, Jimmy Garoppolo. There
was that famous story that he wanted Garoppolo Trady. He
went to Robert Kraft because he was uncomfortable Garoppolo was

(18:31):
threatening him, even though at the time Brady had won
multiple Super Bowls. I think he won almost all of them
except for two at that point.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
But yeah, it's like it just blows me away.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Like I understand, you know, you're not paying a guy
a ton of money, but I don't base results off
just money.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
It's like they.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Don't even bother coaching the backups. And as I said
the line from Tom Moore, right, we don't practice what
we were porked. If we have to play our backup,
we don't practice getting porked. So why Bob Late Night
drug Testers says, So, doctor Mallard, will you be giving
medical advice tonight in addition to giving a diagnosis of
the Joe Burrow injury? Will stay tuned. We get later

(19:16):
and later in the night. You never know, You never
quite know what's gonna happen. Inca terror writes in says
fifty to fifty on the Malle monologue, a scale inflated
in honor of Lizzo. Benny, did you leave a stuffed
t Rex on a plane when you were little? It
sounded like you were speaking from a traumatic experience. Well,

(19:38):
we all make mistakes at one point or another.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Inca.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
When something is gone, it is gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone,
gone gone. Mister Mason in socalm Huntington Beach, beautiful place, says.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Hey, Ben, how about a half hour.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Ago, I was at a grocery store and there was
a guy there wearing a Lizzo T shirt. And I thought, oh, yeah,
lame jokes or later on true story? Yeah, well it
is a true story. And I assume I don't know.
I wasn't there, I didn't see what you saw. Listener Mason. However,

(20:13):
lame jokes are later and as you know, tunnel Lizzo jokes. Right,
that's a serendipitous situation, is what that is. Listener David
writes in he's in Ohio, but he loves the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He says, holy hide, my injury, Batman, how the mighty
continue to fall? Man Watson, Andrews Burrow and almost Lamar.

(20:38):
At this rate, all the Steelers have to do is
stay healthier than every other divisional opponent. And now, what
do you think about Pittsburgh's playoff hopes?

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Are you a believer? Now, Eddie?

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well, listen, Steelers, if they don't beat the Cleveland Browns
with that turd Berger playing quarterback in Cleveland. Come on,
they'll win that game. So they'll get to seven and three.
And then the week after in week twelve, there looks
like they'll be playing Jake Browning and the Bengals, so
that's that's a win. So that gets you to eight wins.

(21:16):
So then you're sitting there at eight and three, and
then you've got the Cardinals and Patriots and Colts after that.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
There is a scenarios scenario here.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
It's like the parting of the Red Sea for the
Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
My god, are they gonna end up eleven and three.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
And they'll lose one of those games?

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Lose one of those but Eddie, you'd admit these games
are all I mean, these are winnable games for the Steelers.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
All right, craft, Let's do the Pittsburgh poker.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Everybody everyone's a yinser right now, YOI get my terrible
towel out, Eddie man. So the Steers are one two
in row, Brown's, Bengals, Cardinals, Patriots, Colt straight ahead, and

(22:10):
then the Bengals again, and who knows what's going on
with Burro Well I know because I am doctor mant
Am I an actual doctor?

Speaker 2 (22:16):
No, but I can play one on the radio.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
Are you more of a doctor than Doc Mike?

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yes, I've never told anyone to drink their urine, so
I've never done that anyway, listen, not a doctor, but
I did play one on the radio. So they said
Joe Burrow sprained his wrist. So there are three possible timelines.
It all depends on the grade. Like when you wanted
to get into a certain college, if you were worried
about going to college, it depends on your grade. So

(22:41):
this depends on the grade. So grade one is the
top scenario for Cincinnati. Grade two that's a more moderate situation,
and grade three that is bye bye, see you later.
That would be grade three. So grade three means you're

(23:02):
out minimum three months.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
You can do the math.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
We're in mid November, so that takes you through December January,
the playoffs, not to the Bengals will be in the playoffs.
So if it's grade three, it's over. They're not saying
it's grade three, So that means it's either grade two
or grade one. Now what does that mean? So the
more moderate situation, Grade two is a six to twelve

(23:28):
week injury. Six to twelve week injury that would also
eliminate the Bengals. They're not winning more than maybe one
game with Jake Browning, so if it's a Grade two,
they're done. And even if it's a Grade one, depending
on how bad it's, because a Grade one sprain is
anywhere between it's a mild sprain anywhere between one to

(23:51):
six weeks. But let's say it's a little more than
just a mild one, because he clearly had a burrow,
had a brace on when he was getting off the
Bengal busy in Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
So let's say that's a three week injury. Is that fair?
Am I being fair? I think I'm being fair? Three weeks?

Speaker 1 (24:07):
So he's gonna miss the next three games for the Bengals. Okay,
So let's look at that. So that they play. The
next three games are the Steelers, the Jags, and the Colts,
So you figure they'll lose the first two and then
maybe maybe the Colts put Jake Browning. Eh, So those

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are the next three and if they lose all three of.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Them, they're done.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Even if they lose two of three, they're likely done
because the Bengals are five and five right now, and
if they lose two or the next three, let's say
they get that, they get that win, there's six and
six and seven. The most they can get is ten
and seven. But they also later on they have to
play Kansas City and they also have to play the

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Vikings with the great Joshua Dopps and the Steelers again.
So it ain't looking good at least for the postseason.
But at least the Bengals will get another shiny draft pick.
You're into that kind of thing, yay.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
So doctor Maller has checked in.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
I am by the powers invested to me with the
microphone and the headset that I'm wearing, very powerful tools
of ignorance.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Grade one sprain. I am diagnosing right now.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Alert all the affiliates Burrow three week injury, three week injury, YEP,
Grade one, Grade one, three week injury. The Bengals are porked.
They're done.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
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Speaker 5 (25:42):
Remember when MLB stripped the twenty twenty one All Star
Game from Atlanta because of objections over the Georgia.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Racist in Georgia.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
They told us Baseball, all you people in Georgia are racist.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
People now in the dirty South.

Speaker 5 (25:58):
The twenty twenty five All Star Game will be in Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Oh is that right now? Did they change any of
those laws? Baseball was upset with.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Well, I was wondering about that myself.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
So the answer is no, Yeah. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said,
quote Georgia's voting laws haven't changed, but it's good to
see that Major League Baseball's misguided understanding of them has.
We look forward to welcoming the All Star Game back
to John right.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
So this is an admission by Major League Baseball that
they fed up by getting political. And it was we
said it at the time, how stupid it was. Rob
Manford a clown commissioner. And at least they are realizing
that they made a mistake and they're going back to
landa that I give a rats ass about the All

(26:42):
Star Game.

Speaker 5 (26:42):
No, not really, but no interest in that amusing, amusing story.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
I thought.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
I have heard though, that the ballpark in Atlanta, even
though it's out in the suburbs.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
My friends that have traveled on.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
The MLB circuit say it's a beautiful complex they have there,
and they've done a really nice job.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
Theyn't want a new stadium in like ten years though.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Of course that's what they do in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Then the Falcon Stadium is twenty years old. They had
to tear that down. The Brave Stadium, wasn't that? Wasn't
that both for the Olympics the I believe it was, Yes,
in the mid.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Nineties, they had to tear that down.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
It's fascinating you look at these soccer stadiums in Europe
that have been built in the early nineteen hundreds, some
of them in the eighteen hundreds, and they're still playing
in them.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
But here twenty five years tear it down. What are
they gonna tear down?

Speaker 1 (27:23):
That place used to be called Staples Center in La
They gotta tear that thing down.

Speaker 6 (27:27):
The skin, they're upgrading it.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
They're upgrading, y upgrading. What are they doing?

Speaker 6 (27:33):
Just doing all kinds of improvements.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
They put in the big screen, big scoreboards, scoreboards.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
Yeah, right there.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
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Zach Taylor is the head coach of the Cincinnati football team.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
We have a little taste of We're gonna play this
because we have it.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
I don't know if I could tell you Zach Taylor's voice,
I tell you who inca Terror's voice is, or some
of these other guys that call the show all the time,
like Dad Gummett. But I don't know that I could
tell you Zach Taylor's voice. But anyway, here's Zach Taylor's
apparently the head coach of the Cincinnati football team. Do
you think he is a excited by the way the
Bengals played and the way that night went.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Be discouraged or see no comment. Let's fight out.

Speaker 7 (29:14):
I know we're disappointed with the loss, but I'm not
discouraged about where the season's headed after this.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Not discouraged. Whys are gonna stick together.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
We're gonna We're gonna take the long weekend here in
regroup and get ready for Pittsburgh next week. Don't get
it twisted on what kind of team we have. We
got a chance to regroup, and all the things that
we really wanted to do are still in front of us,
and so we're gonna have opportunities to do that. We
control our own destiny at this point, you know, by
just winning these these games that are in front of us,
starting with Pittsburgh, and I know our guys are gonna

(29:41):
be fired up in the right mindset to be able
to do that.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
How do they control their own destiny? That's a lie.
He just lied. He lied. That is a lie. They
do not control their own destiny. Liar, Liar, liar, liar,
pants on fire, You're a liar. The great Jake Brett.
You know what, Jake Brawny went to college Eddie on
the don't he went to Washington. I had to look
it up, though, I had to look it.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
Up now that you mentioned that, I do. I do
remember that now.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, but he wasn't considered an NFL prospect, you know how.
I know that he played all four years as a
starting quarterback at Washington. So normally, if you're worthy of
the NFL, you don't go all all four years.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
It's kind of a little slow there and knock it out.
So it's all fake. I know. We have not mentioned
this story in a while.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
The ratings have gone down, the podcast downloads have gone down,
so we need to try to artificially enhance all of that.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
A TikToker is.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Claiming that the Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift relationship is essentially performance.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Art, that it is fake.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
It's it's all for for the cameras, which doesn't quite
I understand that. The conspiracy. I do love conspiracy. You know,
the flat earthers, really, the hollow earthers are my people
because we and Kyrie Irving was with the Celtics and
talked about his love of the flat Earth, and we
did shows on that. And I've talked about this from

(31:12):
time to time, but the Hollow Earth, one of the
Hollow Earth Society groups, one of their members keeps sending
me propaganda about the Hollow Earth. And there's like little
goblins living in the middle of the Earth, and I
think that would be great to meet them. So if
anybody knows how I can go down to the middle
of the Earth and meet the goblins, I would love
to do that.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
I think it would be fun. Maybe we'd be friends.
That'd be cool.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Maybe they're the original leprechauns. I don't know sure the
moon landing thing, I mean, think that actually happened anyway, whatever,
But this newest conspiracy is and I'm not on the
TikTok world, but a lot of doubts, very high profile
TikToker claiming that it's all all bogus, all bogus, and

(31:57):
questioning the behavior of both parties there now, not just
some random TikTok. I wouldn't know who this person is
in if I name them, I don't know who these
people are on TikTok. But I do know who Skip
Bayless is.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
He's kind of a big deal.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
He makes a lot of money, got a lot of
a lot of power. He sits on the bully pulpit,
the king of Fox Sports, Skip bayliss so Skip Bayless
essentially any he's essentially issuing, issuing a warning to Travis Kelcey.

(32:33):
He said that he does not trust Taylor Swift. And
if there's one person you need to give approval if
you're dating someone, it's television Skip Bayless. That's the person
that you need approval from. But Skip still give him
the hot takes Out says that Taylor Swift comes off

(32:55):
as stagy.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
And fake stagy and fake Okay, do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do do.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
But if this is all for show, I hope that
Kelsey is getting a lot of money out of this.
To have to fly to Argentina on your week off
and pretend like you're into a relationship with a woman
you're not really that into that, that would.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Be that would be something.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
I mean, I help you pay a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
They're going for it.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
They're absolutely going forward. I know the NFL marketing people
are going forward as well. We have the NFL pick them.
We'll get to that coming up. Here's the who am I?

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Game? Since I occasionally dabble in the gambling world.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Got the TV show coming up later today, Benny versus
the Penny, I'll give you a gambling themed who am I?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Game?

Speaker 1 (33:50):
So one hundred and fifteen NFL head coaches have had
fifty or more career games under their belt since nineteen ninety,
so that's the last generation.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Over his generation, so since nineteen ninety.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Since nineteen ninety, so one hundred and fifteen NFL coaches
have had fifty or more games under their belt coaching
since nineteen ninety.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I am the coach who.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Has the top against the spread winning percentage.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Of all of them. So for the gambler, I have
the top winning percentage. Who am I?

Speaker 1 (34:25):
That is the question, the answer, and the NFL pickup.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.

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Speaker 6 (35:05):
It's Ben Maler.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
And we are gonna have coming up here momentarily.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
The NFL pickhim, the only pick them we do until
baseball season because of a kerfluffle on the show, the
Kooper Loop upset that we are not doing the pro
bouncy ball pickup the NBA pick them and saying that
he will not do the hockey without the basketball, and

(35:30):
Eddie's saying that's fine, willing to give up hockey to
prevent the show from having pro bouncy ball pick them.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
So that's what we are.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Can I do it, not gonna do it, not gonna happen,
not gonna be a party to it. No, no, no,
the who am I game?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Change it up? A little bit? Gambling related.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
One hundred and fifteen NFL head coaches over the years
have had fifty or more games experience. This goes back
to nineteen ninety, so this is the last generation plus.
But of those fifty d plus or one hundred and
fifteen coaches who have had fifty plus games, I am
the head coach who has the top winning percentage against
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militia happen to know the answer?

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Page down?

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Patches o'hallahan from Cowboy Killer, Great Characters in Cinema, Bud
Kilmer from Milkman, Mike and Colorado, Joe Din, Joe DiMaggio.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
The Great oakland A, Jolton, Joe Deamagio.

Speaker 6 (36:48):
Who else?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Sacred?

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Norvel Turner from Double O Mexican Paige.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Down.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
We'll skip over that bum Phillips from David in Ohio,
The Big Tune of Parcels guest by the Pom does it?

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Rat?

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Coach Klein from Don Juan That is his answer. Former
Bengals back up. Jordan Palmer tossed out by Bay City
Tony my Rooster from Scott Very nice there, Matthew Warrior
Raider Fans is Mike Silver's main squeeze. Hugh Jackson is

(37:24):
the the answer. Big Rig Rob a chief fan till
the casket drops says MTV original VJ. Kurt Loder is
the answer. David Schula from Sean in the Valley of
the Sun. Rory's going with Mike Sherman as his answer.
Jimmy mcginney from the k C car Holler. Wally Zerbiak

(37:49):
tossed up by Robin Minnesota. Former Fox Sports radio personality
Jim Mora Playoffs from Chris.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
In Des Moines. That is his answer.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Bobby Hurley from Masshole Mickey I like the name. Homer
Simpson from Easy E and We Can go On has
a bunch of his Matt from Flint went Bobby Ross.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
That was his answer. Eddie. Do you have an answer, Eddie? Please?
I need an answer.

Speaker 6 (38:13):
It's yes.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
I believe it is oil. Andrew bum Phillips Junior.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
The Great Love the Blue bum Phillips. Is it bum
Phillips wrong? Now it's wrong?

Speaker 1 (38:24):
The correct answer The man with the top forty percent
among all NFL coaches is nineteen ninety minimum fifty.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Games, Motor City Dan Dan Campbell.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
He's thirty four and twenty one against the spread as
Lions coach.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
That's a sixty.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
One percent winning percentage of six 't eighteen on the
winning percentage for Dan Campbell, which all but guarantees the
Bears will cover against the Lions this weekend. Because that's
stat is now out, which means the jinx is on,
So we must move on and get to the NFL.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Pick them.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Who's the smartest, most savvy NFL person.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
In the room. That would be me. That would be me, ben.

Speaker 6 (39:09):
Uh Penny uh.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Listen, three good weeks in a row, Eddie, three good
weeks in a row. You'll find out if show will
be airing later today. Check your local TV listens. I'm
gonna take my first pick, give me Patrick my home
Pat Sam terrible pick.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
There will be no jinks.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
I went heavy on these Lions for my pick, so
I'll take Jared Goff.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Wow, yeah, Eddie, watch.

Speaker 6 (39:35):
Let's go Christian mccow.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
I'll go Tyreek Hill all right, one more and ceedee.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Lamb all right, Eddie, Travis Kelsey, Sam David Montgomery.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
All right, I'll take A J.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Brown and uh.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Give me George Kittle. George, good week?

Speaker 6 (39:57):
What about you?

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Sam? Back to you we go. I will take Brandon Ayuk.
We got him and Coop the bat already.

Speaker 6 (40:04):
Rather, let's go c J.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
Stroud all right, hey, hurry up. Justin Herbert one more,
one more, one more, You'll always kill us, Sarah Henry,
Sam Laporta.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Pooka Nakula, Austin Eckler, got him, got it in, We
got it in.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Boys. Good job
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