January 14, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Sam Darnold's performance to end the season as the Vikings get routed by the Rams on Wild Card Monday, Kevin O'Connell's approach to the game, why Vikings fans should actually be happy with this performance, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here week a welcome. It's our number one hour.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
One of the original recipe podcast, the Ben Malers, So
the classic the Only but a Goodie, And here a
hour number one. On this Tuesday, the fourteenth day of January,
we start out with wild Card Monday Night, the Vikings
and the Rams. What's your opinion of Sam Donald's performance
as it ends Minnesota's season? Also, do you have any
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thoughts on Minnesota coach Kevin O'Connell's approach or lack thereof
for the wildcard game? Why should Viking fans actually be
happy with the suck bag playoff performance by Sam Donald?
And who are the big winners for the Rams? And
can the Rams actually win in Philadelphia? We'll talk about
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all that and much more, just getting the party started here.
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Speaker 3 (02:04):
Be.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I got it till it's kind of cool. I got
nothing right all weekend on the TV show until Monday night,
and so there was a little salvation from Monday Night football,
the last leg of wild Card Weekend. That is our
lead from the Valley of the Sun, not La La Land,
No the Valley that's not. For only the second time
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in NFL history, a neutral site playoff game Playoffs now
the last time there was a neutral site the only
other time there was a neutral site PLAYFF game.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The owner of.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The Boston Redskins moved the game because he was planning
on moving the franchise to Washington, DC. He moved it
to New York because he wanted to get out of Boston.
This because of the wildfires, the Rams chased out of
La that fire, tornado, the winds back.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Here we do the show from LA.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The winds are back, and the Rams spent the weekend
at part of it anyway in the Greater Phoenix. Here
at Glendale, Arizona wild Card Showdown with the Vikings, Troy Aikman,
Joe Buck.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
They were there.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I don't know you watched it or not. Maybe you
were not watching, watching something else going on. I have
no idea, but we do know that we watched the
game and Matthew Stafford throwing not one, but two two
touchdown passes, and the Rams, the La Rams, the team
that won the NFC West, taking on a fourteen win
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Viking team. The Rams defense of all things, disemboweled the Vikings,
sacking Sam Donald not once, not twice, not three times,
not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight,
how about nine an NFL playoff record tying nine times,
many of those out of the generosity of Sam Donald
being completely incompetent, devoid of the ability to succeed at
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the quarterback position at a big spot. Rams win twenty
seven to nine the final and the Monday night NFC
Wildcard game. They've been playing these Monday night wild card
games for a few years now, and every one of
them has sucked. None of them have been good. And
the Rams winning year leaving of course because of the
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devastation of the wildfire.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So they go to Arizona.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
They win the game, rookie Jared Verse returning a fumble
fifty seven yards the scoop and score for the Rams,
who ended up boat racing the Purple People eaters. You
know why, because you can ram it all day and
you can ram it all night. The Rams are in
to the divisional round and they have a date in
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the land of the Tasty Cake and the cheese steak
and all that. So let us discuss the question, what
is your opinion? Let's get right to the villain for
the Minnesota Vikings. What is your opinion of Sam Darnold's
performance to end the Viking season, not only on the
wild card game, but also the Week eight team member.
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The Vikings had a shot here, The Vikings had a
big time chance to get.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The number one the overall.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Scene, number one overall see in the NFC, and they
lost that game. So it was your opinion of Sam
Donald's performance to end the Viking season. I've got fingerlakes, typewriter,
and elevator, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we'll tell you the wheels on the bus go
round end round. The wheels on the bus go round
end round, and that bus is going to take Sam
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Donald out of Minnesota. He's gonna go on a bus
and they're gonna drive his ass out of Minnesota. After
that performance, now, Sam Donald had one of the great
smoking mirror seasons in the history of the NFL. You
could argue, considering how good he actually is as a quarterback,
this was the greatest smoke and mirror season in NFL history.
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There were people who claim to be knowledgeable football people
that were campaigned for that guy to be the MVP
of the end of it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well, Sam Donald should be in the pig conversation, my.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Fat ass, Sam, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You talk about premature? We sell pills for that on
the radio.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
My God, And then when the lights are the brightest,
like Donald had a chance to prove people like me wrong.
He had an opportunity to go out there and shove
it down my throat, and instead, in the Rams defense,
shoved the football down his throat. God, you talk about
the double whammy, the double whammy for Sam dn not
only flopsway he had that, He then had stage fright
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on top of the flopsway right, he had those sweaty palms,
the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
No ifs ands or buts about it. Now, the quarterback
apologies was on his vault. Played the fat guys, played
the fat guys.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, they're gonna come up with all these excuses.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, yes, the Vikings had injuries on their offensive line.
Welcome to modern football, Welcome to the way the NFL
has played a ragtag offensive.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Stop to stop with that nonsense. Okay, Sam Donald was
visited by his imaginary friend. And when I was a kid,
I hadn imaginary friend named Bob. Sam Donald's imaginary friend
is a boogeyman, a literal boogeyman.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Visit Sam Donald in these spots.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He closed the season like he was at Finger Lakes
Racetrack in New York.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He was Zippy Chippy. Do you know who Zippy Chippy is?
Are you aware?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Zippy Chippy is considered the worst racehorse of all time,
raced one hundred times and lost all one hundred races,
many of them down the stretch faded down the stretch.
In fact, this is actually about twenty years ago, give
or take, but zippy chippy is considered by many in
the horse racing business as the modern definition of fading
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down the stretch. You just say zippy chippy and that's it.
Donald played the Lions for the number one seed in
the entire NFC. They would have had a bye week,
they would have the Vikings would have been in the
divisional round. I didn't have short, so number one seat.
Then the Rams in a playoff game to advance to
the divisional round. In those games, obviously, Minnesota goes zero
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to two. Darnold had a sixty six point four passer rating,
He was sacked eleven times, through an interception, fumbled, and
generally looked like he had never picked up a football
in his life prior to these games, completely flummixed by pressure,
not only defensive pressure, but just the pressure of the moment, Anxiety,
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self doubt set in. All that. Now, turning the page
on that wide angle lens, wide angle lens, any thoughts
do we have any thoughts here on Minnesota coach Kevin
O'Connell's getting absolutely slayed for his approach to the wild
card games, so many thoughts on his approach. The Minnesota
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mindset going into the wild card game. So the Viking
coach treated this like it was election night, and not
all precincts had reported in so the election was not over.
But yet O'Connell roughly midway through the third quarter threw
in the sponge. He was sitting at the typewriter and
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he typed off a concession speech.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That's the only plausible.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Explanation for the way the Minnesota Vikings approached this game.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
There was no sense of urgency. It's do or die,
it's win or that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You've got to come out with an amazing hocus pocus
ending to that game. You got to hope that Matthew
Stafford rides the vomit comet, since your guy's riding the
vomit comet, and you can get back in the game. Instead,
Minnesota conceded defeat very rarely.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Do you see that? Very rarely?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Reminded me of the Pittsburgh Steelers over the weekend. They
looked like they were just content to lose the game
against Baltimore. And here's Minnesota, no effort fourteen games, and
that is one of the great modern miracles. They're running
the ball on offense down multiple scores. La la la
la la la la la la la la la la
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la la la la la la.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Like, I'm sitting on my fat ass. I even I
know you can't be doing that. You've got to hurry up.
The game is getting away from you. Time is of
the essence and that is how you. And I'm like,
obviously like the Rams and the games. I was happy
for the Rams. Who I was like, that's a competitor.
That's how you you compete if you're the Minnesota Vikings,
And why'd you waste the money flying out to Arizona
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to play the game to play like that? But there
needs to be a Netflix docu series done on how
Sam Donald was able to navigate a fourteen win season
for the Minnesota Vikings. Now, why should maybe be Benny
bright side here for a second. Don't tell anybody and
be Benny Bright's side. So why should Viking fans actually
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be happy that Sam Donald played life like this? Why
should they be happy with this suck bag playoff performance
by Sam Donald? So this is gonna be very deep,
It's gonna cut very deep here. Yet it's not that
deep at the same time, So it's deep, but not
that deep because the agony of defeat. But the chances
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of ever seeing Sam Donald in a Viking uniform, the
only way you'll see that is if you watch highlights
of this season.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
That's it, right.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So, because your front office realized and they didn't get
bullied into signing Donald, durs and we had talked about
it a couple times. We had mentioned it in Malard monologues.
There were people saying that Viking should sign Sam Donald,
and we said at the time that clearly the Viking
front office did not believe that this was real.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It was all an hallucination. What Sam Donald was doing.
It was wish upon a star type stuff. And sure
enough in the end that theory proved correct.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It was fake. It was phony. Sam listen, Donald's a
good Yeah, I guess, I don't know. He's a total
frog though he absolutely able to bamboozle the NFL during
the regular season. And the reason you should be happy
if you're a Viking fan is you're not handcuffed to
Sam Donald. You didn't give him another couple of years
on his contract. He's free to roam around the NFL. Donald,
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by rough estimates, has cost himself using malor matth here
anywhere between eighty five and one hundred.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And twenty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You think you had a bad couple of weeks at work,
Sam Donald just went out there with the entire football
world watching all over and he vomited. Projectile vomited all
over the field, not once, twice, projectile vomit from Sam Darnald.
He calls himself like a hundred twenty million dollars. There
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is no team in the NFL that can sell Sam
Donald to their fan base. He's he is a guy.
Even he plays well during the regular season. You know
in the end how the story is going to go.
You know the ending. You know the ending. That's the
real Sam Darnell, all right, not last word on the
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other side the winner's locker room. Let's focus in on
the Rams here. So who is the biggest winner? Who
are the biggest winners for the Rams?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So the obvious one is Sean McVay, who will get
another bouquet of flowers? The winning is coach in Ram
history already and with all the built in distractions. And
I heard from some Charger fans over the weekend. Well,
the reason the Chargers lost to the Texas is because
the fires at LA.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
That's why they lost. They were distracted.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, the Rams all live in LA, all right, They're
dealing with us everyone else who has work.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
We have our job here. We do the show from LA.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The whole place is on fire around here, but we
come in here, we do the show. There's a show
to be done, right, So you look at that, and
the Rams went out there. They could have easily folded
like the Chargers did that pathetic performance by Jim Harbaugh's team.
But instead, under McVeigh, the Rams went out there. They
didn't use the wildfires as an excuse. The game was moved.
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They went out there and won the game. Another winner
would be Chris Schuler. Now, if you watch the game
on Monday night, there was a lot of slobbery, slapper,
slap slaughterer during the broadcast from Aikman and Buck for
Chris Shuler. So, Chris Shuil is the defensive coordinator of
the Rams, and he is in the Otis elevator, the
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Otis elevator, and the elevator is going up, up.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Up, and away it is. It's going up up on
the way the LA defense swarming Minnesota like locusts. And
if the.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Rams end up compete, you know already this point that
he's moved up a couple of notches, Schuler. But assuming
they don't completely fall apart against Philadelphia next week, you
look ahead here, and as a distant relative of Nostradamus
and friend of nos tradinas it is not hard to
imagine a set of circumstances where the Miami Dolphins in
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twenty twenty five go out there and drown. And so
Mike McDaniel's ass is grass, he's out.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Dolphins need a new coach. All of a.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Sudden, Hey, let's go back down memory lane, get all
those old Dolphin fans all horny, and bring in Don
Shula's grandson, Chris Schuler. Yeah, and the fact that Justin Jefferson,
the greatest receiver in the NFL, Justin Jefferson was just
a guy.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
What was that?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Five catches fifty eight yards for Justin Jefferson. Now, can
the Rams win in Philadelphia? It's a tricky little dance. Yes,
they can win in Philadelphia. They're not favorite. These teams
played back in Week twelve, and Saquon Barkley put the
Rams defense in a body bag.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
He gouged him.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I went for two point fifty five, two hundred and
fifty five yards rushing in that game. But that was then, right,
That was back in week twelve.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
This is now. Obviously it's not gonna be the same situation.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
The Rams. The way I look at the Rams are
playing with house money. They're a soft West Coast team
going to a cold weather environment to a team in
Philadelphia that already kicked their ass. So they're playing with
house money. They'll be sizeable dogs in this game. The
pressure is on Nick Sirianni and the Eagles in that spot,
and we have seen teams with that kind of pressure.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
They chowk, they chowk. How sweet would that be? It
is the.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
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Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, but Bill, you got to see you didn't say
my name. Bill, that's a bad job by you.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Carl writes in after the wild card performance by the
Vikings against the Rams, he says, thank you for shredding
the Vikings. They definitely deserve it after the last two weeks. Yikes,
that's from Car Now, he's a real Minnesota sports route.
So that's not a pretender. That's a real Minnesota guy.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I've been told by my friends in Minnesota, not only
when I was at the Mallard Meet and Greet the
Mermaid hosted by the Great Regina spin cycle Regina a
while back, but just in general, it's like a lot
of the local talk show guys in Minnesota. They never
really they never bad mouthed the Vikings or the local teams.
They kissed their ass. But tough love. We believe in
tough love.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
We do.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Supermarcut Steve wrights In. He says, I love that Brian
Flores defense tonight. It was really lights out. I think
the only time they actually got to stop after the
first quarter wasn't when the referees called two phantom holding calls.
On the twelve yard and fifteen yard runs by the Rams. Yeah,
the Rams, uh, not too much, not too much trouble.
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He did actually punt five times, but there were penalties
involved in a couple of those couple of those drives.
But the Rams came out, jumped out to the early lead,
and Minnesota had a couple of turnovers on downs, they
had the fumble, the interception, and so there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That's it. That's all.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
She wrote another Viking season in the books. The statistics
were not that outrageous. The Rams were only two of
ten on third down in this game. Vikings were relatively
close in every category, actually had more first downs. Of course,
the Rams didn't need to get all those first downs
because Minnesota handed them a touchdown, just gave them a touchdown,
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and they were taking their time. They were trying to
run that ball control office. They had the ball more
than the Rams did and they lost the game. And
we're down the entire game now to defend the Minnesota Vikings.
We say hello to She's back spin cycle, Regina. Hello, Regina,
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Hello Regina, are you in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Still?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I am? I am training and you didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Make your way down. I thought you might go down
to Arizona and check out the game. The Vikings just
a couple of states over.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I decided to shut my sears here. I'm shitting my
tears hears, and I really thought that Sam might have
gotten all of his scary big stage.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
This is actually happening, Regina.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Are you crying because the Vikings lost the playoff game? Yeah, Regina,
it's just a football game, Regiene. It's not the end
of the world here, it's you.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Know, but it's my voice, it's my boys and Sam
everything that he released on the Lawyer's game. I was
just like, Okay, that's right, that's right, lose game, get
over yours.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
See, that's the difference. I'm a different kind of fan.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
When my team poops the bad I get upset, I
get I don't get emotional.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I get angry. Well, I guess that is an emotion,
but I don't. I don't get like. I don't cry
about it. But you know, listen, you're very word.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
My versus.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
What are we drinking tonight, Regina.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I'm just actually coming home from.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Her, not drinking, no, nothing, not at all. You know,
little appetizer, a little starter, get your.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Started these at the House, the Safe and Home. I'm
sure I'm.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Parked, Okay, all right, well you're parked in the driveway
and uh, okay, well, I'm sorry you're so emotional. I
if only Sam Donold had shown that emotion or Kevin O'Connell,
maybe they would have actually hustled and tried to score
some points more. And yeah, we'd like to open up
the Ben Maler Show confessional for Regina Spins, the famous
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Regina spin cycle, Regina the Hostess with the mostest go Ahead, Regina.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I wanted.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I wanted a highlight for everyone in California, in the
LA area that I was not going to cry if
my vikings couldn't show up today because I want them
to have something to hold on to, something to hope for,
something to go forward with.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
And okay, you're trying to find a positive here that
that that the the number of RAM fans.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I'm fired up.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Although you know, I I appreciate the sentiment. It's very
kind sentiment. I don't know, I like it doesn't it
doesn't change the fact.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
For everyone, everyone, everyone asted in all those fires and stuff.
And I just want you to know that it's okay
that my biking to last, because hopefully you've got something
I look forward to.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Okay, you've got something, all right, listen, do not leave
your house, Regina. Make sure the door is locked. Okay,
don't go outside. And if you're if you're.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Ready, didn't drink. I'm good but ready.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Don't drown mysel I know, I know, aren't we?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
All well, if you feel like calling up later, Regina,
feel free, but all right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Be safe.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
There's our friend Regina, very emotional. She's for kempt is
what she is. Ever klempt Is is the the word
I was looking for.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
My guy. Distraught.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, wow, she's a glass case of emotion, is what
she is.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Man alive see here coin each I believe that's the
guy's name. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
He says, has Donald gotten off the turf yet? Now
they actually used a steamroller? They just left him there.
The Russian kid writes and says, well, the real Sam
Donald please stand up, please stand up? Yeah, we saw him,
we saw him. That was that was impressive. That was impressive.
Russian kid says, I do my talking before the game starts.
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I knew the real Sam Donald will stand up like
slim Shady. Go rams there you fine, you can ramadall
Knights well, Jeff writes in from Tulsa, I don't heard
from him and all well. I thought he stopped listening
to the show. He says, I had to reload my
X account. Ask you, Ben, do you honestly think that
was that was Sam De's a loss? Did you watch
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the game? Why do you have to be so negative
in the majority of your monologues? The man one fourteen?
Git yes, Jeff, I don't know what team you like, Jeff.
May your team signed Sam Donald to a ten year
May May the Raiders sign Sam Donald to a ten
year contract. For Jeff in Tulsa, I'm any positive, Jeff,
I want you like Sam Donald. You don't think Sam
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Donald was a problem. I remember I had to coach
one time. Tell me a sack is like half a turnover,
because most of the time when you get sacked, he
kills the drive. So he had if you do the
math on, let.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Me just some math. He had the Donald had the
fumble doing some Malard math here. Let's see here. I
would love to have a drop for that malor math
mallor math. Let's see here.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So he had he had nine half a turnovers. So
that equals four and a half plus the fumble and
plus the interception, so that works out to six and
a half turnovers for Sam Donald.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
But according to.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Jeff, it's my problem, it's not his. But it's not
the fact that Sam Donald played poorly. And I should
be more positive about Sam Donald. And should we also
be positive when he when he urinated down his leg
against the Lions also, Jeff, should we be happy about
that as well? Listen, Okay again, I hope, I pray.
I'm praying to Jesus that Sam Donald signs with the Raiders.
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That's what I want to see, and I hope he
signs a multi year, one hundred and fifty million dollar
contract for the Raiders, Jeff, so you can watch him
play because he's not the problem.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
He is not the problem.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Late Night Drug tester rights and says, even with the
salarycap going up next season, I can't imagine many NFL
owners signing off on any quarterback contracts this offseason for
fifty sixty million dollars a year. I'm sorry, Sam in Brock, Well,
the Niners are sounds like they're gonna they're gonna pay
Brock a lot of money a lot of money. Ryan
writes and says, I mentioned this earlier, said the earliest
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season Rams so coundnot tackle. Now they look like the
eighty five Bears, Mickey and State forty eight a solid monologue.
I saw fifty to fifty Viking and Ram fans around
downtown Phoenix over the last couple of days. Haven't seen
a single Viking fan walking around.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
After the game. I hope they're able to emotionally heal.
So he says, all right, let's.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Go to another another Viking fan hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Are you gonna start crying to James because the Viking's lost?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Why should I cry? I'm not going out that way.
I'm not gonna die. I'm gonna remain a Viking fan
all the way to the sky.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Okay, that's a You're a poet and you don't even
know it.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
No, that's not all.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Rye Roses are red vilers of blue, and I can
do poetry better than you.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Now you cannot be out tell the truth. And I
don't believe in you.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
You don't believe in me.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Okay, I believe one thing that you ben What's that
You're not a fair of the fan over and over again.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
No, no, I'm I'm I'm a perfect fan. I criticize
my team and they deserve it. Tough love is what
I believe, tough love.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
But you know what they ca them, the referees, the referee.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
The referees cost the Vikings.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Touchdown, and that would have turned the momentum around.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
There is no such thing as momentum. There was there
was no woman, There was no.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
But that was called back.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You're making that up. You're making.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I Wanta's opinion on that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I believe whatever you believe.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
All that rend and you're so sweet. You can't be
sweet on me. You know you're been professional, very professional.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yes, we run a tight ship herex Sports. Hey, who
I want? You want to hear your song again? Do
you want to hear your song again?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
I was gonna mention that, yeah, I want to hear it.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
She don't want It's not one of my favorite Lada.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
I am.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I like it when the songs have me and if
they don't have it, I want to hear them playing.
I want to hear it again.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
You got Jay Scoop and just Josh teamed up a collaboration.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
This is a song for holloween James, thirty.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Six kills in the morning and thirty six bills that night,
a month to do in the afternoon. It makes me
feel all right. I bought these bills in time of sleep,
I bought in time of sports. I bought some bills
People's show, and then I bought.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Some more for ja James hollering, James, James, I'm gonna
good set, send into all your shot. James, were you
ever cast snoring?
Speaker 8 (30:10):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
No, daddy. He once told me, James, you be sports
color man.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
What a buffer?
Speaker 8 (30:17):
He turned into a Vikings fan.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But then one day it's sold. Cato games show game
you crit He's stupid, Just Josh, do not do bad working.
You can run well. Jemmy takes care of head day.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
This has become one of the great moments in show history.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
A man fast asleep has won a radio game show.
I show you're talking over your song, James, you're not
supposed to be with all right, all right, there's thirty
six pills in the morning, thirty six pills at night,
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A song dedicated to James.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
For the red bells.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Congratulations, all right, Jane, I gotta move on, but thank you.
Jane all right there, oh man, all right, uh far out,
Dave says. Regina says she wasn't drinking. Ask her if
she needs blind Scott or me to drive.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Stuck in Sacramento says, come on, Regina, we all saw
this coming. As a UCLA grad and a RAM fan.
It was not a surprise that USC's very own Sam
dar not poop the bed. Even Benny got this one
right on versus the penny. That's a shocking thing. There
you go, La strong baby. Sacramento sucks, says the guy
(31:43):
in Sacramento. Scrooge rites in from the Bay Area, says
Regina really thought that loser Sam Vomit Darnold was actually
going to win.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
She deserves to be a Viking fan. Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Ferg Dog says Ben. The difference between you and Regina
is you're a man and she's a woman. You are
highly locked. Well, she's powered by emotion. That's from ferg Dog.
He wrote that Late Night Drug Tester says crying calls
from angry Bill two weeks ago, spin cycle Regina on
tonight's show, Doc Mike is on the clock for the
tear drop telephone next week. Yeah, Robbie the Mariner fan
(32:18):
says Sam Donold was so bad?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
How bad was he?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
He was so bad he reduced spin cycle Reginia to tears. Yikes, yikes, indeed, yikes, jeez.
A little much, A little much is the Ben Maller Show.
As we are getting the party started well, fishing for compliments,
that would be Jay Gruden, not John Gruden, Jay Gruden,
(32:42):
the other Gruden. So Jay Gruden made sure to remind
you and me, and the person in the back of
the room and everybody Jay Gruden, reminding us that he
is the person who initially hired Sean McVay and Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It was Jay Gruden. He pointed out that will not
be mentioned on the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
It was not mentioned on the broadcast because Jay Gruden's
not on the nice list.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
He's on the knotty list for some reason. Jay Gruden's not.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
You can't be smooching all over Jay Gruden because he's
not in the NFL, so they avoided that time. Now
for the who Am I Game? This is where we
pretend to be somebody else with us. We call it
the whom I Game? Who Baker Mayfield broke my NFL
record for the highest passer rating ever by a losing
(33:29):
quarterback in a playoff game. Again, Baker Mayfield brook my
NFL record for the highest passer rating ever by a
losing quarterback in a playoff game.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Who am I? That is the question the answer. We'll
get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Bill Miller here reminding you during the live show we
use X a lot, but there are photos and videos
of ail. They pop up on the Facebook page of
the show. Can contribute to content there as well. But
on the Facebook page it's at Ben Mahler's show Instagram.
Ben Mahler on Fox. Don't forget the YouTube channel, the
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Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel, as everything is saved there
from all the different shows on Fox Sports Radio. Ben
has asked me to have you only watch his videos
because he's an egomaniac.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
But that's you got for the internet.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Fox Sports Radio channel on YouTube. Check that out. Back
to it we go, well again, Bill, you didn't yet
again say my name. Bad job by you. But time
now for the who am I? Game? This is where
we pretend to be somebody else else. We call it
the who am I?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Game?
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my record for the highest passer rating ever by a
losing quarterback in a playoff game minimum ten attempts.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Mister nice guy from the Bay Area going with Toby
Harra as his answer. King Rory says gunner is the
way to go. Nick checks in with Randall Cunningham as
his answer. Malarprop Guy says Lebron James brother from a
different mother. Hollering James is the answer. That's a great
photo drawing there, malard prop guy, of what hollering James
(35:34):
would look like if he was playing for the Vikings.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
That is outstanding. A good job by you. He sent
a lot of those things in some Hit, some Miss.
That was a ten.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Ribman writes in says is it Robbie the Mariner fan
overworked an undertipped waitress.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Wow, Bam bam Bigelow from Rob Hey, where are the
white women at in Vegas? Who else you have?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Joe Capp from I four Ian Sam Darnell from Alf
the Alien Yevill.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
You know Alf will never hear from that guy again.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
That guy's not checking in the guy that called up
all upset because I criticized Sam Darnell after the Viking
game with the Lions.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, he'll knock call it.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
You are Byron Lefwich, who is forty five today from
the Late night drug tester Gary Hogeboom. There's a blast
from the past from the Bourbon Badger. That's his answer.
Uh so, Robbie the Meriner fan. I was gonna give
him the answer as a correct answer, but he gave
two answers. So when you give two answers, it doesn't
matter whether you got it right, because you're you're you're
answering too many times. Bad y'aw about you? Barry Bernstein
(36:37):
from Far Out, Dave Randall McDaniel, Viking Legend from Big
Lou He's on number two. Steve Berlin from Econ Roseill, Minnesota, Trucker.
Joe says, you're a guy in Dayton, Ohio named Dick.
That's the answer. Stan Gable from Malibu Rubin see your
(36:58):
fried cheese, some slim Tim the proud Cheesehead. Danny Whirfol
from James, that's his answer. Dieter Brock from The Nature Boy,
Aaron Rogers from that Boy Malcolm.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
All right, Lorraine, what is the answer here? Lorraine? I
believe it is Mark Sanchez? Is it Mark Sanchez for
the win?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
No wrong?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
There's a quarterback who blew it on the biggest stage.
That would be Mattie Ice. Matt Ryan up twenty eight
to three in the Super Bowl over the New England Patriots,
and the Falcons would go on to lose that game.
Matt Ryan had a passer rating of one hundred and
forty four point one for Atlanta, although I seem to
remember him not doing much after Atlanta went up twenty
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eight to three in that game. So Ryan is the
answer there. But Baker Mayfield broke that record by Matt Ryan.
But people are still gonna remember Matt Ryan's performance much
longer than they remember Baker Mayfield, who handed the game
to Washington with that horrific fumble. Late, let's say, lo
to Dan, who's in Boston?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Danny? You were up next on the Ben Maler Show
on Fox. Hello Danny, Ben, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
My friend?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
We're hanging out here?
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Is this the Danny? I think it is?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah, the veto?
Speaker 2 (38:12):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Oh, the great Danny DeVito. I want you to know
I mentioned your name on the TV show and it
led to one of the great moments in the in
the history of Benny versus the Penny. I don't know
if you had a chance to see it or not,
but it was hilarious.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
Oh really, I see that one.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
It was a couple of weeks we watch you. I
only watched the show was a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Your name came up, and I have a feeling it'll
end up in the year end Blooper show that we
do because it was pretty funny. I dropped your name
and Looney had an interesting reaction. But we don't have
a lot of time. What's on your mind? The great day,
Danny DeVito? He's who knew that Dan. Times are tough
for Danny DeVito.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yes, go ahead, I totally agree with you about Sean
sol I'm.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Gonna ask you, Ben, Yeah, somebody gonna pay him, like
he's gonna actually pay you. This guy. They can't pay him.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
No, No, they're not gonna know.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
No, there's some other dumb team's gonna pay him. Not
the Vikings. Somebody else is gonnay him, whether that's Seattle
or the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Uh, you go around.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Tennessee needs a quarterback, the usual suspects. They all need quarterbacks.
Somebody's gonna be Now. They're not gonna pay Darnald. Like
I said, he costs himself anywhere from eighty five to
one hundred and twenty million dollars he would have earned.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
I don't agree with that.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I got a friend that works out here too in
the city, the trash man too before I called.
Speaker 8 (39:25):
You, always yelling him the ball that.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
He said he's not gonna be getting paid.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
He just lost a lot of money out there last night.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
So yeah, well he's well here's the difference though, See, Danny,
he's still gonna get paid, Danny, He's just not gonna
get paid the full amount.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
You know what I'm saying. He would exactly if he
had if he had won one of these last two.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
And he's still gonna make ridiculous amounts of money, but
it's just not going to be the same because he's
got as we said back on the playground Danny, when
I was a kid, he's got cooties. Now he's got
the cooties, So be safe to take a shower when
you get on. It's a great Danny de Vito, who
says famous people don't love Overnight Ports Radio coma
Here week a welcome. It's our number one hour.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
One of the original recipe podcast, the Ben Malers, So
the classic the Only but a Goodie, And here a
hour number one. On this Tuesday, the fourteenth day of January,
we start out with wild Card Monday Night, the Vikings
and the Rams. What's your opinion of Sam Donald's performance
as it ends Minnesota's season? Also, do you have any
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thoughts on Minnesota coach Kevin O'Connell's approach or lack thereof
for the wildcard game? Why should Viking fans actually be
happy with the suck bag playoff performance by Sam Donald?
And who are the big winners for the Rams? And
can the Rams actually win in Philadelphia? We'll talk about
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all that and much more, just getting the party started here.
It is our number one in a purple haze to
the NFL Playoffs. Well come, in the beginning of another
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Speaker 3 (02:04):
Be.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I got it till it's kind of cool. I got
nothing right all weekend on the TV show until Monday night,
and so there was a little salvation from Monday Night football,
the last leg of wild Card Weekend. That is our
lead from the Valley of the Sun, not La La Land,
No the Valley that's not. For only the second time
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in NFL history, a neutral site playoff game Playoffs now
the last time there was a neutral site the only
other time there was a neutral site PLAYFF game.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The owner of.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The Boston Redskins moved the game because he was planning
on moving the franchise to Washington, DC. He moved it
to New York because he wanted to get out of Boston.
This because of the wildfires, the Rams chased out of
La that fire, tornado, the winds back.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Here we do the show from LA.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The winds are back, and the Rams spent the weekend
at part of it anyway in the Greater Phoenix. Here
at Glendale, Arizona wild Card Showdown with the Vikings, Troy Aikman,
Joe Buck.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
They were there.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I don't know you watched it or not. Maybe you
were not watching, watching something else going on. I have
no idea, but we do know that we watched the
game and Matthew Stafford throwing not one, but two two
touchdown passes, and the Rams, the La Rams, the team
that won the NFC West, taking on a fourteen win
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Viking team. The Rams defense of all things, disemboweled the Vikings,
sacking Sam Donald not once, not twice, not three times,
not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight,
how about nine an NFL playoff record tying nine times,
many of those out of the generosity of Sam Donald
being completely incompetent, devoid of the ability to succeed at
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the quarterback position at a big spot. Rams win twenty
seven to nine the final and the Monday night NFC
Wildcard game. They've been playing these Monday night wild card
games for a few years now, and every one of
them has sucked. None of them have been good. And
the Rams winning year leaving of course because of the
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devastation of the wildfire.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So they go to Arizona.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
They win the game, rookie Jared Verse returning a fumble
fifty seven yards the scoop and score for the Rams,
who ended up boat racing the Purple People eaters. You
know why, because you can ram it all day and
you can ram it all night. The Rams are in
to the divisional round and they have a date in
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the land of the Tasty Cake and the cheese steak
and all that. So let us discuss the question, what
is your opinion? Let's get right to the villain for
the Minnesota Vikings. What is your opinion of Sam Darnold's
performance to end the Viking season, not only on the
wild card game, but also the Week eight team member.
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The Vikings had a shot here, The Vikings had a
big time chance to get.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The number one the overall.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Scene, number one overall see in the NFC, and they
lost that game. So it was your opinion of Sam
Donald's performance to end the Viking season. I've got fingerlakes, typewriter,
and elevator, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we'll tell you the wheels on the bus go
round end round. The wheels on the bus go round
end round, and that bus is going to take Sam
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Donald out of Minnesota. He's gonna go on a bus
and they're gonna drive his ass out of Minnesota. After
that performance, now, Sam Donald had one of the great
smoking mirror seasons in the history of the NFL. You
could argue, considering how good he actually is as a quarterback,
this was the greatest smoke and mirror season in NFL history.
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There were people who claim to be knowledgeable football people
that were campaigned for that guy to be the MVP
of the end of it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well, Sam Donald should be in the pig conversation, my.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Fat ass, Sam, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You talk about premature? We sell pills for that on
the radio.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
My God, And then when the lights are the brightest,
like Donald had a chance to prove people like me wrong.
He had an opportunity to go out there and shove
it down my throat, and instead, in the Rams defense,
shoved the football down his throat. God, you talk about
the double whammy, the double whammy for Sam dn not
only flopsway he had that, He then had stage fright
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on top of the flopsway right, he had those sweaty palms,
the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
No ifs ands or buts about it. Now, the quarterback
apologies was on his vault. Played the fat guys, played
the fat guys.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, they're gonna come up with all these excuses.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, yes, the Vikings had injuries on their offensive line.
Welcome to modern football, Welcome to the way the NFL
has played a ragtag offensive.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Stop to stop with that nonsense. Okay, Sam Donald was
visited by his imaginary friend. And when I was a kid,
I hadn imaginary friend named Bob. Sam Donald's imaginary friend
is a boogeyman, a literal boogeyman.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Visit Sam Donald in these spots.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He closed the season like he was at Finger Lakes
Racetrack in New York.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He was Zippy Chippy. Do you know who Zippy Chippy is?
Are you aware?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Zippy Chippy is considered the worst racehorse of all time,
raced one hundred times and lost all one hundred races,
many of them down the stretch faded down the stretch.
In fact, this is actually about twenty years ago, give
or take, but zippy chippy is considered by many in
the horse racing business as the modern definition of fading
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down the stretch. You just say zippy chippy and that's it.
Donald played the Lions for the number one seed in
the entire NFC. They would have had a bye week,
they would have the Vikings would have been in the
divisional round. I didn't have short, so number one seat.
Then the Rams in a playoff game to advance to
the divisional round. In those games, obviously, Minnesota goes zero
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to two. Darnold had a sixty six point four passer rating,
He was sacked eleven times, through an interception, fumbled, and
generally looked like he had never picked up a football
in his life prior to these games, completely flummixed by pressure,
not only defensive pressure, but just the pressure of the moment, Anxiety,
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self doubt set in. All that. Now, turning the page
on that wide angle lens, wide angle lens, any thoughts
do we have any thoughts here on Minnesota coach Kevin
O'Connell's getting absolutely slayed for his approach to the wild
card games, so many thoughts on his approach. The Minnesota
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mindset going into the wild card game. So the Viking
coach treated this like it was election night, and not
all precincts had reported in so the election was not over.
But yet O'Connell roughly midway through the third quarter threw
in the sponge. He was sitting at the typewriter and
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he typed off a concession speech.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That's the only plausible.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Explanation for the way the Minnesota Vikings approached this game.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
There was no sense of urgency. It's do or die,
it's win or that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You've got to come out with an amazing hocus pocus
ending to that game. You got to hope that Matthew
Stafford rides the vomit comet, since your guy's riding the
vomit comet, and you can get back in the game. Instead,
Minnesota conceded defeat very rarely.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Do you see that? Very rarely?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Reminded me of the Pittsburgh Steelers over the weekend. They
looked like they were just content to lose the game
against Baltimore. And here's Minnesota, no effort fourteen games, and
that is one of the great modern miracles. They're running
the ball on offense down multiple scores. La la la
la la la la la la la la la la
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la la la la la la.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Like, I'm sitting on my fat ass. I even I
know you can't be doing that. You've got to hurry up.
The game is getting away from you. Time is of
the essence and that is how you. And I'm like,
obviously like the Rams and the games. I was happy
for the Rams. Who I was like, that's a competitor.
That's how you you compete if you're the Minnesota Vikings,
And why'd you waste the money flying out to Arizona
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to play the game to play like that? But there
needs to be a Netflix docu series done on how
Sam Donald was able to navigate a fourteen win season
for the Minnesota Vikings. Now, why should maybe be Benny
bright side here for a second. Don't tell anybody and
be Benny Bright's side. So why should Viking fans actually
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be happy that Sam Donald played life like this? Why
should they be happy with this suck bag playoff performance
by Sam Donald? So this is gonna be very deep,
It's gonna cut very deep here. Yet it's not that
deep at the same time, So it's deep, but not
that deep because the agony of defeat. But the chances
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of ever seeing Sam Donald in a Viking uniform, the
only way you'll see that is if you watch highlights
of this season.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
That's it, right.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So, because your front office realized and they didn't get
bullied into signing Donald, durs and we had talked about
it a couple times. We had mentioned it in Malard monologues.
There were people saying that Viking should sign Sam Donald,
and we said at the time that clearly the Viking
front office did not believe that this was real.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It was all an hallucination. What Sam Donald was doing.
It was wish upon a star type stuff. And sure
enough in the end that theory proved correct.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It was fake. It was phony. Sam listen, Donald's a
good Yeah, I guess, I don't know. He's a total
frog though he absolutely able to bamboozle the NFL during
the regular season. And the reason you should be happy
if you're a Viking fan is you're not handcuffed to
Sam Donald. You didn't give him another couple of years
on his contract. He's free to roam around the NFL. Donald,
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by rough estimates, has cost himself using malor matth here
anywhere between eighty five and one hundred.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And twenty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You think you had a bad couple of weeks at work,
Sam Donald just went out there with the entire football
world watching all over and he vomited. Projectile vomited all
over the field, not once, twice, projectile vomit from Sam Darnald.
He calls himself like a hundred twenty million dollars. There
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is no team in the NFL that can sell Sam
Donald to their fan base. He's he is a guy.
Even he plays well during the regular season. You know
in the end how the story is going to go.
You know the ending. You know the ending. That's the
real Sam Darnell, all right, not last word on the
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other side the winner's locker room. Let's focus in on
the Rams here. So who is the biggest winner? Who
are the biggest winners for the Rams?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So the obvious one is Sean McVay, who will get
another bouquet of flowers? The winning is coach in Ram
history already and with all the built in distractions. And
I heard from some Charger fans over the weekend. Well,
the reason the Chargers lost to the Texas is because
the fires at LA.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
That's why they lost. They were distracted.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, the Rams all live in LA, all right, They're
dealing with us everyone else who has work.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
We have our job here. We do the show from LA.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The whole place is on fire around here, but we
come in here, we do the show. There's a show
to be done, right, So you look at that, and
the Rams went out there. They could have easily folded
like the Chargers did that pathetic performance by Jim Harbaugh's team.
But instead, under McVeigh, the Rams went out there. They
didn't use the wildfires as an excuse. The game was moved.
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They went out there and won the game. Another winner
would be Chris Schuler. Now, if you watch the game
on Monday night, there was a lot of slobbery, slapper,
slap slaughterer during the broadcast from Aikman and Buck for
Chris Shuler. So, Chris Shuil is the defensive coordinator of
the Rams, and he is in the Otis elevator, the
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Otis elevator, and the elevator is going up, up.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Up, and away it is. It's going up up on
the way the LA defense swarming Minnesota like locusts. And
if the.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Rams end up compete, you know already this point that
he's moved up a couple of notches, Schuler. But assuming
they don't completely fall apart against Philadelphia next week, you
look ahead here, and as a distant relative of Nostradamus
and friend of nos tradinas it is not hard to
imagine a set of circumstances where the Miami Dolphins in
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twenty twenty five go out there and drown. And so
Mike McDaniel's ass is grass, he's out.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Dolphins need a new coach. All of a.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Sudden, Hey, let's go back down memory lane, get all
those old Dolphin fans all horny, and bring in Don
Shula's grandson, Chris Schuler. Yeah, and the fact that Justin Jefferson,
the greatest receiver in the NFL, Justin Jefferson was just
a guy.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
What was that?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Five catches fifty eight yards for Justin Jefferson. Now, can
the Rams win in Philadelphia? It's a tricky little dance. Yes,
they can win in Philadelphia. They're not favorite. These teams
played back in Week twelve, and Saquon Barkley put the
Rams defense in a body bag.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
He gouged him.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I went for two point fifty five, two hundred and
fifty five yards rushing in that game. But that was then, right,
That was back in week twelve.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
This is now. Obviously it's not gonna be the same situation.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
The Rams. The way I look at the Rams are
playing with house money. They're a soft West Coast team
going to a cold weather environment to a team in
Philadelphia that already kicked their ass. So they're playing with
house money. They'll be sizeable dogs in this game. The
pressure is on Nick Sirianni and the Eagles in that spot,
and we have seen teams with that kind of pressure.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
They chowk, they chowk. How sweet would that be? It
is the.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
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Other people go out fishing and they try to catch
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Speaker 1 (17:24):
We'll take your calls, your comments on X the whole thing,
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Speaker 5 (17:32):
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The court of Sports talk radio through the overnight journey
back to it we go.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, but Bill, you got to see you didn't say
my name. Bill, that's a bad job by you.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Carl writes in after the wild card performance by the
Vikings against the Rams, he says, thank you for shredding
the Vikings. They definitely deserve it after the last two weeks. Yikes,
that's from Car Now, he's a real Minnesota sports route.
So that's not a pretender. That's a real Minnesota guy.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I've been told by my friends in Minnesota, not only
when I was at the Mallard Meet and Greet the
Mermaid hosted by the Great Regina spin cycle Regina a
while back, but just in general, it's like a lot
of the local talk show guys in Minnesota. They never
really they never bad mouthed the Vikings or the local teams.
They kissed their ass. But tough love. We believe in
tough love.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
We do.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Supermarcut Steve wrights In. He says, I love that Brian
Flores defense tonight. It was really lights out. I think
the only time they actually got to stop after the
first quarter wasn't when the referees called two phantom holding calls.
On the twelve yard and fifteen yard runs by the Rams. Yeah,
the Rams, uh, not too much, not too much trouble.
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He did actually punt five times, but there were penalties
involved in a couple of those couple of those drives.
But the Rams came out, jumped out to the early lead,
and Minnesota had a couple of turnovers on downs, they
had the fumble, the interception, and so there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That's it. That's all.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
She wrote another Viking season in the books. The statistics
were not that outrageous. The Rams were only two of
ten on third down in this game. Vikings were relatively
close in every category, actually had more first downs. Of course,
the Rams didn't need to get all those first downs
because Minnesota handed them a touchdown, just gave them a touchdown,
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and they were taking their time. They were trying to
run that ball control office. They had the ball more
than the Rams did and they lost the game. And
we're down the entire game now to defend the Minnesota Vikings.
We say hello to She's back spin cycle, Regina. Hello, Regina,
(20:39):
Hello Regina, are you in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Still?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I am? I am training and you didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Make your way down. I thought you might go down
to Arizona and check out the game. The Vikings just
a couple of states over.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I decided to shut my sears here. I'm shitting my
tears hears, and I really thought that Sam might have
gotten all of his scary big stage.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
This is actually happening, Regina.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Are you crying because the Vikings lost the playoff game? Yeah, Regina,
it's just a football game, Regiene. It's not the end
of the world here, it's you.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Know, but it's my voice, it's my boys and Sam
everything that he released on the Lawyer's game. I was
just like, Okay, that's right, that's right, lose game, get
over yours.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
See, that's the difference. I'm a different kind of fan.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
When my team poops the bad I get upset, I
get I don't get emotional.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I get angry. Well, I guess that is an emotion,
but I don't. I don't get like. I don't cry
about it. But you know, listen, you're very word.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
My versus.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
What are we drinking tonight, Regina.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I'm just actually coming home from.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Her, not drinking, no, nothing, not at all. You know,
little appetizer, a little starter, get your.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Started these at the House, the Safe and Home. I'm
sure I'm.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Parked, Okay, all right, well you're parked in the driveway
and uh, okay, well, I'm sorry you're so emotional. I
if only Sam Donold had shown that emotion or Kevin O'Connell,
maybe they would have actually hustled and tried to score
some points more. And yeah, we'd like to open up
the Ben Maler Show confessional for Regina Spins, the famous
(22:48):
Regina spin cycle, Regina the Hostess with the mostest go Ahead, Regina.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I wanted.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I wanted a highlight for everyone in California, in the
LA area that I was not going to cry if
my vikings couldn't show up today because I want them
to have something to hold on to, something to hope for,
something to go forward with.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
And okay, you're trying to find a positive here that
that that the the number of RAM fans.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I'm fired up.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Although you know, I I appreciate the sentiment. It's very
kind sentiment. I don't know, I like it doesn't it
doesn't change the fact.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
For everyone, everyone, everyone asted in all those fires and stuff.
And I just want you to know that it's okay
that my biking to last, because hopefully you've got something
I look forward to.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Okay, you've got something, all right, listen, do not leave
your house, Regina. Make sure the door is locked. Okay,
don't go outside. And if you're if you're.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Ready, didn't drink. I'm good but ready.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Don't drown mysel I know, I know, aren't we?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
All well, if you feel like calling up later, Regina,
feel free, but all right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Be safe.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
There's our friend Regina, very emotional. She's for kempt is
what she is. Ever klempt Is is the the word
I was looking for.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
My guy. Distraught.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, wow, she's a glass case of emotion, is what
she is.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Man alive see here coin each I believe that's the
guy's name. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
He says, has Donald gotten off the turf yet? Now
they actually used a steamroller? They just left him there.
The Russian kid writes and says, well, the real Sam
Donald please stand up, please stand up? Yeah, we saw him,
we saw him. That was that was impressive. That was impressive.
Russian kid says, I do my talking before the game starts.
(24:48):
I knew the real Sam Donald will stand up like
slim Shady. Go rams there you fine, you can ramadall
Knights well, Jeff writes in from Tulsa, I don't heard
from him and all well. I thought he stopped listening
to the show. He says, I had to reload my
X account. Ask you, Ben, do you honestly think that
was that was Sam De's a loss? Did you watch
(25:10):
the game? Why do you have to be so negative
in the majority of your monologues? The man one fourteen?
Git yes, Jeff, I don't know what team you like, Jeff.
May your team signed Sam Donald to a ten year
May May the Raiders sign Sam Donald to a ten
year contract. For Jeff in Tulsa, I'm any positive, Jeff,
I want you like Sam Donald. You don't think Sam
(25:30):
Donald was a problem. I remember I had to coach
one time. Tell me a sack is like half a turnover,
because most of the time when you get sacked, he
kills the drive. So he had if you do the
math on, let.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Me just some math. He had the Donald had the
fumble doing some Malard math here. Let's see here. I
would love to have a drop for that malor math
mallor math. Let's see here.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So he had he had nine half a turnovers. So
that equals four and a half plus the fumble and
plus the interception, so that works out to six and
a half turnovers for Sam Donald.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
But according to.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Jeff, it's my problem, it's not his. But it's not
the fact that Sam Donald played poorly. And I should
be more positive about Sam Donald. And should we also
be positive when he when he urinated down his leg
against the Lions also, Jeff, should we be happy about
that as well? Listen, Okay again, I hope, I pray.
I'm praying to Jesus that Sam Donald signs with the Raiders.
(26:33):
That's what I want to see, and I hope he
signs a multi year, one hundred and fifty million dollar
contract for the Raiders, Jeff, so you can watch him
play because he's not the problem.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
He is not the problem.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Late Night Drug tester rights and says, even with the
salarycap going up next season, I can't imagine many NFL
owners signing off on any quarterback contracts this offseason for
fifty sixty million dollars a year. I'm sorry, Sam in Brock, Well,
the Niners are sounds like they're gonna they're gonna pay
Brock a lot of money a lot of money. Ryan
writes and says, I mentioned this earlier, said the earliest
(27:04):
season Rams so coundnot tackle. Now they look like the
eighty five Bears, Mickey and State forty eight a solid monologue.
I saw fifty to fifty Viking and Ram fans around
downtown Phoenix over the last couple of days. Haven't seen
a single Viking fan walking around.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
After the game. I hope they're able to emotionally heal.
So he says, all right, let's.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Go to another another Viking fan hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Are you gonna start crying to James because the Viking's lost?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Why should I cry? I'm not going out that way.
I'm not gonna die. I'm gonna remain a Viking fan
all the way to the sky.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Okay, that's a You're a poet and you don't even
know it.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
No, that's not all.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Rye Roses are red vilers of blue, and I can
do poetry better than you.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Now you cannot be out tell the truth. And I
don't believe in you.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
You don't believe in me.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Okay, I believe one thing that you ben What's that
You're not a fair of the fan over and over again.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
No, no, I'm I'm I'm a perfect fan. I criticize
my team and they deserve it. Tough love is what
I believe, tough love.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
But you know what they ca them, the referees, the referee.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
The referees cost the Vikings.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Touchdown, and that would have turned the momentum around.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
There is no such thing as momentum. There was there
was no woman, There was no.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
But that was called back.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You're making that up. You're making.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I Wanta's opinion on that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I believe whatever you believe.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
All that rend and you're so sweet. You can't be
sweet on me. You know you're been professional, very professional.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yes, we run a tight ship herex Sports. Hey, who
I want? You want to hear your song again? Do
you want to hear your song again?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
I was gonna mention that, yeah, I want to hear it.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
She don't want It's not one of my favorite Lada.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
I am.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I like it when the songs have me and if
they don't have it, I want to hear them playing.
I want to hear it again.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
You got Jay Scoop and just Josh teamed up a collaboration.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
This is a song for holloween James, thirty.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Six kills in the morning and thirty six bills that night,
a month to do in the afternoon. It makes me
feel all right. I bought these bills in time of sleep,
I bought in time of sports. I bought some bills
People's show, and then I bought.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Some more for ja James hollering, James, James, I'm gonna
good set, send into all your shot. James, were you
ever cast snoring?
Speaker 8 (30:10):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
No, daddy. He once told me, James, you be sports
color man.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
What a buffer?
Speaker 8 (30:17):
He turned into a Vikings fan.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But then one day it's sold. Cato games show game
you crit He's stupid, Just Josh, do not do bad working.
You can run well. Jemmy takes care of head day.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
This has become one of the great moments in show history.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
A man fast asleep has won a radio game show.
I show you're talking over your song, James, you're not
supposed to be with all right, all right, there's thirty
six pills in the morning, thirty six pills at night,
(30:57):
A song dedicated to James.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
For the red bells.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Congratulations, all right, Jane, I gotta move on, but thank you.
Jane all right there, oh man, all right, uh far out,
Dave says. Regina says she wasn't drinking. Ask her if
she needs blind Scott or me to drive.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Stuck in Sacramento says, come on, Regina, we all saw
this coming. As a UCLA grad and a RAM fan.
It was not a surprise that USC's very own Sam
dar not poop the bed. Even Benny got this one
right on versus the penny. That's a shocking thing. There
you go, La strong baby. Sacramento sucks, says the guy
(31:43):
in Sacramento. Scrooge rites in from the Bay Area, says
Regina really thought that loser Sam Vomit Darnold was actually
going to win.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
She deserves to be a Viking fan. Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Ferg Dog says Ben. The difference between you and Regina
is you're a man and she's a woman. You are
highly locked. Well, she's powered by emotion. That's from ferg Dog.
He wrote that Late Night Drug Tester says crying calls
from angry Bill two weeks ago, spin cycle Regina on
tonight's show, Doc Mike is on the clock for the
tear drop telephone next week. Yeah, Robbie the Mariner fan
(32:18):
says Sam Donold was so bad?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
How bad was he?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
He was so bad he reduced spin cycle Reginia to tears. Yikes, yikes, indeed, yikes, jeez.
A little much, A little much is the Ben Maller Show.
As we are getting the party started well, fishing for compliments,
that would be Jay Gruden, not John Gruden, Jay Gruden,
(32:42):
the other Gruden. So Jay Gruden made sure to remind
you and me, and the person in the back of
the room and everybody Jay Gruden, reminding us that he
is the person who initially hired Sean McVay and Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It was Jay Gruden. He pointed out that will not
be mentioned on the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
It was not mentioned on the broadcast because Jay Gruden's
not on the nice list.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
He's on the knotty list for some reason. Jay Gruden's not.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
You can't be smooching all over Jay Gruden because he's
not in the NFL, so they avoided that time. Now
for the who Am I Game? This is where we
pretend to be somebody else with us. We call it
the whom I Game? Who Baker Mayfield broke my NFL
record for the highest passer rating ever by a losing
(33:29):
quarterback in a playoff game. Again, Baker Mayfield brook my
NFL record for the highest passer rating ever by a
losing quarterback in a playoff game.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Who am I? That is the question the answer. We'll
get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Bill Miller here reminding you during the live show we
use X a lot, but there are photos and videos
of ail. They pop up on the Facebook page of
the show. Can contribute to content there as well. But
on the Facebook page it's at Ben Mahler's show Instagram.
Ben Mahler on Fox. Don't forget the YouTube channel, the
(34:13):
Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel, as everything is saved there
from all the different shows on Fox Sports Radio. Ben
has asked me to have you only watch his videos
because he's an egomaniac.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
But that's you got for the internet.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Fox Sports Radio channel on YouTube. Check that out. Back
to it we go, well again, Bill, you didn't yet
again say my name. Bad job by you. But time
now for the who am I? Game? This is where
we pretend to be somebody else else. We call it
the who am I?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Game?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
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my record for the highest passer rating ever by a
losing quarterback in a playoff game minimum ten attempts.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Mister nice guy from the Bay Area going with Toby
Harra as his answer. King Rory says gunner is the
way to go. Nick checks in with Randall Cunningham as
his answer. Malarprop Guy says Lebron James brother from a
different mother. Hollering James is the answer. That's a great
photo drawing there, malard prop guy, of what hollering James
(35:34):
would look like if he was playing for the Vikings.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
That is outstanding. A good job by you. He sent
a lot of those things in some Hit, some Miss.
That was a ten.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Ribman writes in says is it Robbie the Mariner fan
overworked an undertipped waitress.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Wow, Bam bam Bigelow from Rob Hey, where are the
white women at in Vegas? Who else you have?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Joe Capp from I four Ian Sam Darnell from Alf
the Alien Yevill.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
You know Alf will never hear from that guy again.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
That guy's not checking in the guy that called up
all upset because I criticized Sam Darnell after the Viking
game with the Lions.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, he'll knock call it.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
You are Byron Lefwich, who is forty five today from
the Late night drug tester Gary Hogeboom. There's a blast
from the past from the Bourbon Badger. That's his answer.
Uh so, Robbie the Meriner fan. I was gonna give
him the answer as a correct answer, but he gave
two answers. So when you give two answers, it doesn't
matter whether you got it right, because you're you're you're
answering too many times. Bad y'aw about you? Barry Bernstein
(36:37):
from Far Out, Dave Randall McDaniel, Viking Legend from Big
Lou He's on number two. Steve Berlin from Econ Roseill, Minnesota, Trucker.
Joe says, you're a guy in Dayton, Ohio named Dick.
That's the answer. Stan Gable from Malibu Rubin see your
(36:58):
fried cheese, some slim Tim the proud Cheesehead. Danny Whirfol
from James, that's his answer. Dieter Brock from The Nature Boy,
Aaron Rogers from that Boy Malcolm.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
All right, Lorraine, what is the answer here? Lorraine? I
believe it is Mark Sanchez? Is it Mark Sanchez for
the win?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
No wrong?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
There's a quarterback who blew it on the biggest stage.
That would be Mattie Ice. Matt Ryan up twenty eight
to three in the Super Bowl over the New England Patriots,
and the Falcons would go on to lose that game.
Matt Ryan had a passer rating of one hundred and
forty four point one for Atlanta, although I seem to
remember him not doing much after Atlanta went up twenty
(37:43):
eight to three in that game. So Ryan is the
answer there. But Baker Mayfield broke that record by Matt Ryan.
But people are still gonna remember Matt Ryan's performance much
longer than they remember Baker Mayfield, who handed the game
to Washington with that horrific fumble. Late, let's say, lo
to Dan, who's in Boston?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Danny? You were up next on the Ben Maler Show
on Fox. Hello Danny, Ben, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
My friend?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
We're hanging out here?
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Is this the Danny? I think it is?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah, the veto?
Speaker 2 (38:12):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Oh, the great Danny DeVito. I want you to know
I mentioned your name on the TV show and it
led to one of the great moments in the in
the history of Benny versus the Penny. I don't know
if you had a chance to see it or not,
but it was hilarious.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
Oh really, I see that one.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
It was a couple of weeks we watch you. I
only watched the show was a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Your name came up, and I have a feeling it'll
end up in the year end Blooper show that we
do because it was pretty funny. I dropped your name
and Looney had an interesting reaction. But we don't have
a lot of time. What's on your mind? The great day,
Danny DeVito? He's who knew that Dan. Times are tough
for Danny DeVito.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yes, go ahead, I totally agree with you about Sean
sol I'm.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Gonna ask you, Ben, Yeah, somebody gonna pay him, like
he's gonna actually pay you. This guy. They can't pay him.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
No, No, they're not gonna know.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
No, there's some other dumb team's gonna pay him. Not
the Vikings. Somebody else is gonnay him, whether that's Seattle
or the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Uh, you go around.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Tennessee needs a quarterback, the usual suspects. They all need quarterbacks.
Somebody's gonna be Now. They're not gonna pay Darnald. Like
I said, he costs himself anywhere from eighty five to
one hundred and twenty million dollars he would have earned.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
I don't agree with that.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I got a friend that works out here too in
the city, the trash man too before I called.
Speaker 8 (39:25):
You, always yelling him the ball that.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
He said he's not gonna be getting paid.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
He just lost a lot of money out there last night.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
So yeah, well he's well here's the difference though, See, Danny,
he's still gonna get paid, Danny, He's just not gonna
get paid the full amount.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
You know what I'm saying. He would exactly if he
had if he had won one of these last two.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
And he's still gonna make ridiculous amounts of money, but
it's just not going to be the same because he's
got as we said back on the playground Danny, when
I was a kid, he's got cooties. Now he's got
the cooties, So be safe to take a shower when
you get on. It's a great Danny de Vito, who
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