December 15, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Cowboys fading playoff hopes after losing to the Vikings on SNF, how this performance changes things for WR George Pickens, if J.J. McCarthy has played his way out of the Vikings dungeon, which injury has the biggest impact out of Patrick Mahomes, Micah Parsons, and Davante Adams, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you do? It's our number one, hour one
and all. What fun we're about to have as we
kick off a brand new week on the Ben Malors Show.
Happy fifteenth day of December. I'm told we're ten days
away from kind of a big day and I hope
you had a great start to honik if you celebrate that.
But here in our number one, we start with that
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Sunday night game. How does this performance or lack thereof
change things for Cowboys Wide receiver George Pickens, who had
yet another quiet night at the office. Also, did quarterback
JJ McCarthy play his way out of the Vikings dungeon
and his Minnesota gets the road win playing the role
of spoiler? And the big story all about snap crackle
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pop of the Patrick Mahomes, Micah Parsons and DeVante Adams injuries.
Which one is the biggest? Now this is not a list,
it's more of a big board, more of a big board.
But that's coming up here in our number one here
it is, Well, if you thought the Cowboys were going
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We'll help you. Had a great weekend, We are back
at it again here all week no days off. If
you heard the podcast this weekend, you got a brief
preview of coming attractions. But enough of that, it's get
right into it. Don't waste any time, Do not waste
any time. So our lead this hour from Jerry's World.
That's where're going to start the Dallas Divas in Action
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hosting the Purple People Eaters. And I mean lying if
I said the game had any juice. There was really
no juice in the game other than the fact that
you just put the Cowboys on TV. They could be
peeling oranges and people would watch. They could be chopping
up onions like a line cook and just people would
be watching. It didn't matter. So he had Chris Collinsworth
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and Mike Tarrico an Island game. They had the call
on the peacock there and b se. So I don't
know if you watched it or not. Maybe you were
not watching. You were burned out from the other events
of the day and you did not watch that. We
are somewhat, I don't know, directly paid to watch, but
if we don't watch it, kind of what are we doing.
So we watched and Red Shirt rookie JJ McCarthy looking
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like he actually kind of knew what he was doing
a little bit. Let's not get crazy though. He threw
a couple of touchdowns, he ran for a score and
the great CJ. Ham just in time for the Christmas holiday. CJ.
Ham had the go ahead touchdown on his first carry
of the season. That's good efficiency there. And the Minnesota
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Vikings put a giant dent in the Jerry Mobile Jerry
Jones playoff hopes there with a thirty four to twenty
six victory over the one proud Dallas Cowboys. They say
once proud. That was back thirty years ago. They really
haven't been proud since then. The Vikings get to their
six wins, their six and eight sub five hundred. They
win their second consecutive game, and they were eliminated, see
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you later, Bye bye, nada na na, hey hey, good bye.
Eliminated from postseason consideration before the kickoff of this game.
But they didn't have a pity party. They didn't say,
oh woe is me, We've been eliminated. And they went
out there, they played that game. They played the game,
and they ended up well winning but still losing in
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the end. So Minnesota was a fourteen win team a
year ago, and now they do not qualify for the postseason.
Now the Cowboys six seven and one, they have to win.
Check this out. You want to just eliminate the Cowboys
for God's sake, This is what the Cowboys have. So
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in order for them to make the playoffs, they have
to win their three remaining games and then in addition,
but wait, there's more. They need the Philadelphia Eagles to
lose all three of their games in order for Dallas
to overtake the Eagles in the NFC East Philly. Mind you,
they do play Buffalo, However, the other two games are
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against the Washington Commanders. Hello, yeah, so good luck on that.
Here is the owner and he's the GM. You like
the team so much you bought it. Here is Jerry
Jones commenting on another lost Cowboys season.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Takea was We certainly didn't think we'd be here in
this kind of shape with three games to go and
help be behind the eight ball the way we are,
it's very disappointing. I'm really obviously very disappointed for our fans.
I'm disappointed for these players. I didn't expect that. I
thought we could come out here and on both sides
of the ball make a better accounting of our South
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Minnesota did the best job out there today on both
sides of Well.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Okay, so let me translate that for those of you
who are a little slow. That's Jerry's way of saying
we blow. That's his way of saying that. So that
is a good starting point to this, And I think
the jumping off point would be George Pickens because that's
the subplot to this. George Pickens was there, he played
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and did next to nothing. And this continues a recent
theme for George Pickens as the Cowboys wide receiver who
was the toast of the town a little while back,
but not anymore. So let us discuss the question is this,
how does this performance change things for the Cowboys wide
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receiver George Pickens going forward? So I got Warren Buffett,
tea spoon, and wagon wheel, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
some delicious cornbread. Is what we're going to make with
the proper amount of a nice warm butter on top.
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That sounds like a delicious meal to me. Well, not
a meal. It's a corn bread. It's not a meal,
but it's in addition to a meal. It's an add on.
It enhances the dining experience, properly made cornbread. So the
way we'll start, and obviously this changes things. It continues
to change things big time, big, big, big time for
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a few weeks. For a few weeks, George Pickens was,
I guess I imposter syndrome. Is that the way you
discover he was playing like a legitimate number one wide receiver,
number one in the entire NFL. There and Jerry Jones
was out on his radio shows every week, very braggadocious.
Jerry was celebrating how good George Pickens was and really,
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you know, congratulating himself in many ways for making the
deal to acquire George Pickens. Many Cowboy fans they're not
that bright. I can't believe. How do we get this
guy for a couple of late traffers. I don't understand. Well,
now you're stand dummy. Now you get it, dummy. That's
why he was available, George Pickens. That's exactly why George Pickens.
You could have gotten him for a cup of sand,
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which is what the cowboys gave up to get George Pickens.
This is it, you know, bragging and all that stuff.
He pulled his shoulder muscle, Jerry Jones did, patting himself
on the back. He was so proud of himself. Full
on navel gazing from Jerry Jones. And now fast forward
a couple of weeks and all of a sudden, the
costume is off. And as Warren Buffett famously said, back
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in the day, when the tide goes out, you see
who's swimming naked, And we now know, we now know
that's Pickts and Stark naked there in Jerry Jones on
the shoreline, right there in Jerry's world, and Mike Tomlin
somewhere in the Greater Pittsburgh area, yet again taking a
victory lap for the pitt sparg Steelers. There they play
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on Monday Night football against the Miami Dolphins, and Tomlin
doing a victory lap. They're sticking his tongue out and
going no, no, no, no, boo boo, just like that.
That's exactly what he's doing. And all the other haters
there told you so. The last three games, George Pickens
has caught fifty percent of his passes, just fourteen catches
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in three games, one hundred and fifty eight yards, no touchdowns,
and has gotten worse by the week. If you look
at the diagram, down down down, down, down down down,
just like that, just like that, and not a weapon,
not a weapon, doing little cardio. I haven't get my
workout in it's on television. Do a little cardio. And
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not even a decoy. He's not even involved enough as
a decoy. He's not that. At this point. George Pickens
is a ship. He's a ghost ship, is what he is.
An empty vessel, just kind of drifting aimlessly on the
Jerry World Sea and just kind of floating along there. Now,
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the bottom line, he's not in the bubble of trust.
Can not be in the bubble of trust, not even close.
And you know, if you're the Cowboys and Jerry Jones,
he runs the show. It's his world, as we all know,
it's his world. So Jerry Jones, you can't you can't
extend this guy, You can't trust him. Cannot do it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You give him a one year deal or something like that,
but any more than that, forget about it. Forget about it.
Are now on the Minnesota side of things. The question,
and it's a burning question, did quarterback JJ McCarthy play
his way out of the Vikings Dungeon? Did he play
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out of the Vikings Dungeon? That's the question. So I
would say not quite is the way I would approach that,
because he's got one foot out of the cell JJ
McCarthy at this point. The rest of his body, though,
is still chained to the wall on the brig. If
you know what I'm saying, you feel me on that?
All right? So the good news is, and I will
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be Benny Brightside, great listeners in the Twin Cities. I
would you have any right side here that if you
look at this JJ McCarthy's his Viking ship the ship
ain't be sinking at this moment. It's not sinking. The
bad news. See, that's the good news. The ship is
not sinking. The bad news is there's still bailing water
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out and all they have is a tea spoon. And
so it's the odds are not good. The odds are
not good here and McCarthy finally showing a bit of
a pulse. We thought he was completely gone, completely gone.
That not the case. There was. There's a bit of
a flicker. Do we go full spark? I don't know
that we want to go full spark. I'm not ready
to go full spark. I can't go full spark. Not
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gonna go full spark. Will not do full spark, Not
gonna happen, not full spark. Sorry no. And here's the
he's he's drifting out McCarthy of the Purple Haze, like
a groggy boxer making it to his knees in that
scene in every boxing movie, we make it to your
knees and write for the ten count, and the referees
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all sweaty and leans in to count you out, and
then you kind of get up a little bit. That's
McCarthy at this point. However, let's not throw a parade
right in front of hollering James Group home in the
Greater Minneapolis area there because this came against the last
couple of games commanders who really looked spent. I mean
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they just looked the bad anyway, And they played an
overtime game of the Broncos the week prior, and then
this Cowboy team a couple of defenses. If you were
to say, what is the the toughness level of the
Cowboys defense and the Commander's defense, it's very similar to coolwip.
If you've ever tried to stop a train with cool
whip it you need a lot of coolhip to stop
the train, like a ton of cool web. It's a problem.
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It is. So anyways, and there's there's still some warning
flares out there, several of them for JJ McCarthy here
that are shining shooting off into the night sky and
you're like, well, what's going on with that McCarthy. And
the big one for me is you have the top
wide receiver in the game. You all told me that
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JJ McCarthy gets to throw the ball to Justin Jefferson.
I mean, this guy's a total stud. He's being paid
like a total stud and yet they're speaking different languages.
Someone needs to get them a Rosetta stone because it's
not good. Mister wonderful, I mean justin Jefferson had two
catches for eight on two keys on eight targets. He
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had twenty two yards but eight targets. That means six
of the targets did not connect if my mal or
math is correct on that, which is essentially the witness
protection level witness protection level statline. The Vikings went two
for nine on third down. Kevin O'Connell treated the passing
game like it was radioactive for the Vikings only twenty
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four pass attempts. That's it, and it worked a full
game in modern in NFL football, will you play hide
and seek with your quarterback? You know what? That reminds
me of Jim Harball when he was coaching at Michigan,
And so, yeah, it's progress. For JJ McCarthy, it is progress,
but it's baby steps in mid December, which is kind
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of like learning to crawl during a marathon, Like that's
usually not how that goes. You're not supposed to be
doing that, but here we are, and so's it's desperation.
They got to find a lot from McCarthy the next
few weeks, or they're going to go back to market,
they being the Vikings, and try to get somebody else
in there. And so it's not really growth, it's just
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there's something else going on there. And the dungeon door
is cracked, as we said, for McCarthy, and you know,
he's still kind of hearing the jailer's keys jinglin a
little bit there on the side, and it's not great.
All right now, last word, let's just get right to
the story of the weekend. If there's one word that
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would sum up the Sunday in the NFL, it would
be the I word, as in injury, Yes, injury and
the man alive. What a hot mess that was the
Three Musketeers. He had quarterback Patrick Mahomes the snap suffered
a torn acl and that's it. That's all she wrote.
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He's out for the year. Only a few weeks. Togo
Chiefs have been eliminated. The Green Bay Packers lost star
edge rusher Micah Parsons shortly after Mahomes went down. Parsons
went down. That's the crackle. NFL's highest paid non quarterback,
highest paid defensive player in the NFL he tore his
ACL he's out for the year. And wide receiver Davonte Adams.
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The hammy went whammy for the Rams, although the injury
report not as bad as the other two. Here the
Hollywood style kind of like NFL injury. In Hollywood, they
say celebrity DEAs. Rule of three is the theme there.
One star dies, two more ten to follow and that's
how the common wisdom goes. Apparently with NFL injuries it's
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a similar thing. So the question of the three, you've
got Patrick Mahomes, Michael Parsons and Davonte Adams, three big names,
household names in the NFL, if you care about football,
all hurt which one is the biggest? So I preface
this for Terry and England. We do not do lists.
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We do not believe in list on this show, as
Terry knows, and he's the gatekeeper of that. We don't
do list. But on Big Ben's Big Board, which is
not a list, as Shanon de Moine knows, not a list.
But on Big Ben's Big Board, here's how it shakes out.
So at number three, DeVante Adams coming in at number
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three here, and we mentioned the hammy went whammy for
Devonte Adams. But it's not a season ending injury, at
least not at this point. So they'll attempt, the Rams
to rub some dirt on it. They'll try to rub
some dirt on it, and then they'll duct tape the
hammy and then after that they'll put some icy hot
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on it, give it a couple of advil, and then
call it aday, call it a day after that. So
that's the plan there. It is code read for the Rams.
They going to Seattle, and that's a very beatable team
with Seattle. How embarrassing was that Seattle needing a late
field goal to beat Grandpa at quarterback? Holy crap. Seattle's
worse than I thought. By the way, if they had
to they need a field goal, their top three defensive
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guys were out and they had forty four year old
The Colts had forty four year old mister Rivers out
there and they still had to lead in the final second. Unbelievable.
How bad is that Seattle team is? But anyway, the
Rams going to Seattle, and the secret weapon for the
Rams this year has been in the red zone. Devonte
Adams has been the man, the myth, the legend, and
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so now more pressure on Puka Nukua to get her
done there. They still have a bunch of torpedoes, the rams,
so they should be all right. At number two, Patrick mahomey,
have we done a wellness check on keg our keg
drinking friend in Kansas City? No? So, Patrick Mahomes tore
to acl season cooked burnt toast for Kansas City. The
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Chiefs were already moving like the drunk uncle at the
wedding and Patrick Mahomes sending the season to the well.
He was out by the time the season ended, but
they weren't winning that game anyway. So Patrick Mahomes there
will spend his off season getting a lot of quality
time with rehab clinics in Kansas City and wherever he
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travels to and all that, and they'll stitch him back
together and they'll give him some terminator parts and some
wizard dust and he'll be back and we'll likely miss
half of next season. Though this is gonna spill over
based on what I've been hearing, this is gonna spill over.
Just on timeline, Mahomes will not be ready to go
next September when the NFL season kicks off. At Mahomes
Magic that hocus pocus, the abra cadabra uh temporarily unplugged.
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And again that leaves us with number one. That would
be Micah Parsons and Michael Parsons. That injury, and I
don't want to be too dramatic. That is a kick
to the testicles for the green Bay Packers. Uh it is.
That's a right to the cheese kurds for green Bay.
They went out of character. They went out of character.
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Green Bay. They decide we're gonna do somebody almost never do.
We're gonna go all in this season. We're gonna trade
some draft picks, and we're gonna get the player and
pay him the highest contract ever given to a defensive player.
Michah Parsons, you shot, You shoot your shot. They shot
their shot there, and they put Micah Parsons right in
the center of the wagon wheel, right there in the middle,
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right in the middle of the wagon wheel. And now
the wagon wheel is sinking in the quicksand outside Sherboygan.
It's not it's not going very well at this point.
So the whole advantage that you had where you all
love to brag to me when Parsons would have a
bad game, I would point that out, and the Packer
stockholders would get very upset with me, and they said, well,
you know it's because he's getting double teamed. Okay, well
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you know I have to worry about that. No more
double teams, no more fear, no more chaos on that
side there, that's all down the drain there, Michael Parsons,
he's out, and a year of Parsons prime, a year
of his prime wasted. And it's also a dead giveaway
that this is an indictment on Jordan Love, that Jordan
Love is simply not good enough. That that's really the lesson.
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Based on what I've been hearing from the Packer stockholders
out there, they're like, we're cooked. Now, if you had
a truly great quarterback, you could make up for that.
You could Jordan Love could play out of his mind
bonkers football for a month and could win a championship.
And as he showed late against the Denver Broncos, he's
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not that guy. You're not that guy, pal, You're not
that guy. And he can't carry the team. And so
really the Packers are they're double cooked because now on
the Parson is going to be out. Also part of
next year, you also got a quarterback and you've given
a decent amount of money to who's not an alpha,
he's an omega. That's problematic. And so as for the
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people claiming it's not fair, oh my god, it's not fair.
Stop star power. It happens, Guys get hurt. This is
why it's not flag football. Even though the NFL would
love for this to be flag football. People get hurt
in that anyway. The NFL regular season, again, this is
the way I was taught. Oh, you're old, malor it was.
It was, hey, a war of attrition, Like, you play
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the regular season with integrity, you play it to your fullestability.
And then oftentimes the team that wins the championship is
the one that has the fewest injuries. And so that's
really what this is. Green Bay is not going to
be that team. They're not. It sucks Rocks. I mean,
there's no question it sucks Rocks and all that. You're
not dealing with robots, even robots would get hurt. You're
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dealing with plausibly human beings, and so there's no load management.
If it's with the NBA, then Michael Parsons wouldn't have played.
He would have just waited to the playoffs because that's
what NBA ballers do, right then, don't want to play.
God forbid we play, we might hurt ourselves. So that's
not yet fully the mindset in the NFL, and I'm
happy about that. If you'd like to be part eight
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Steve is more into tabloids and the chiefs. That is true, actually, Yeah,
that is true, keg drinking Steve. I have noticed that
since the Chiefs started getting mediocre this year, he's been
more worried about what People Magazine and US Weekly and
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The New York Post have been saying about Travis Kelsey.
He says, with Kansas City out of the playoffs, pressure
is now on Buffalo to make the Super Bowl this year.
Speaking of that, David writes and says Superman Josh Allen
continues to showcase his amazing tools have made him a
great quarterback. Sounds like he's written by Ai. Buffalo just
needed a stout defense to be truly dangerous, just needs
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a stout defense. Well, they don't have that. So what
they do have is they don't have to play Joe Burrow.
They don't have to play Patrick Mahomes, and it would
appear barring. We'll see what happens here last couple weeks.
There's a good chance that the Ravens on they went
big on Sunday against the Bengals, the Ravens don't make
the playoffs see King Rory Rights Since says, even though
the injury bug helped the Broncos beat the Packers, I
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am not too concerned. For them. The Packers will still
make the playoffs and can only pray that momentum can
become a real thing if they want to go on
a long playoff run. Yeah, well again, King Roy, you
know my position. I'm momentum. You're trying to trigger me.
I'm not gonna fall for the trig. It's not gonna happen.
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So deal with that bagel boy right since its excellent monologue. However,
the Patriots not done yet. Bro Okay, I didn't Did
I say the Patriots were done? I don't know. I
said that Patriots were done. I said that it's not
a great performance when you blow a twenty one to
nothing lead. Terry in England writes and says, good to
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hear you and the holiday spirit bend prepping the list?
Have you sent your latest list to Santa? Who are
your top four guests for Christmas? Christmas lunch drafting foods
for the table? Stuffing at number one? That's Terry, No, no, Terry,
remember you want me to do that podcast? Alf loses
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his mind because they do that podcast every year. The
sign your talk show host is lazy when they do
when they do all those toffs, it's uh yeah, listen.
There's a lot of people that do radio because it's
easy and you know, you don't have to put a
lot of work into it. And they're exposed every holiday
season when they do the same evergreen topics because they
don't want to do any preparations, so they just go
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in there say all right, let's let's see who inviting
to Christmas dinner, who's been naughty, who's been and all
that fine stuff. Big Rig Rob writes in from the
Great Pacific Northwest. He says the shot in Freude has
reached the ultimate high. As the chiefs de nasty Croaks.
The raiders failed to break one hundred yards of total
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offense and almost a trifecta with a narrow escape by
the the she Hacks against the old man Rivers. I
got work at four am, but I had to hear
the A plus Mallard monologue. Well we thank you, big
rig Rob. Go to get a little nap in there
before you have to get to work. Mikey Cano, don't
you know, says we were only down by thirty one
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Mather we ran out of time seven oh two mafia.
I saw Pete Carroll, and I like Pete. I like Pete,
that's a tough hill to die on. As Pete got
on the microphone and was talking about how hard the
Raiders played, did Pete watch the game? What was he
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doing during the game? What was doing? Now? You said
how the Raiders suck and they had Kenny Pickett? And
that is true. It is my belief that the margin
between the top team in the NFL and whoever you
think the worst team, maybe that is the Raiders. Who
do you think the worst team is in the end
right now is the Giants? Is not that big where
(29:21):
one team should have twenty more first downs and one
team should have three hundred more yards passing. This is
like a D one football team versus a triple A team.
Is ridiculous, absolutely embarrassing, Like did they even practice there?
Kenny Pickett average two point six yards per pass? The
(29:43):
greatness of the Raiders. Let's go to the phones and
we'll say hello to Let's start out with the great
Danny DeVito, America's favorite trash man in the greater Boston area.
Did he win money or lose money this week? Let's
find out right now. Hello Danny, welcome Ben.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Now what's going on? It was a good week? It
was the great week every time. You wouldn't money it's
a good week, as.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You know, Yes it is. Yes, it is not a
great week for me. There are a couple of games
that flipped that did not go well. I lost the Lions.
I took the Lions plus the points I was getting six.
They lost by seven. That one stung a little bit.
But you know, watch that on Benny Versus the Penny
on YouTube. But it was not a not a great week.
The forty nine ers had a huge lead. They gave
up a garbage time score to the Titans, so that
(30:25):
one stung.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Also, Oh they did. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I was.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I thought watching that, I thought it was all over.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Well it was. It was well I was thirteen, I
was thirteen and a half. Right, that was the line.
I believe it was thirt.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
The heavy stay spread.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, they then I was one by thirteen. Then I
was won by thirteen. So they and they were, they
were up thirty seven to seventeen. I believe it wasn't long.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Their doors offul good portion of that game and they
started pull away. And how about the pay shoots. Ben,
you're up by twenty one at home, you have tows
that game. I know shosh Allen, he's he's a guy
in the regular season that goes crazy. He's not so
good in the playoffs. But and you know, you have
to close it out. You're up by twenty one points
and they blow that game. I almost set the Patriots,
(31:13):
and I changed my mind on that. I took the
total in that game, so I saved money there. I
took the OVA.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, well that's another game. And on Benny versus the penny,
I took the Patriots. I thought all right at home
and Buffaloes had issues on the road, divisional game, all
that stuff, and when they were up twenty one nothing,
I was like, Okay, I'm in really good shape. But
I know anytime I'm about you know, when you're up early, Danny,
you're waiting for something's gonna fall apart. You know, something's
gonna Know if you if you're doing very well in
(31:40):
the first half of all those early games, you're just
waiting for the avalanche. Oh yeah, oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, you could be winning every game and you know
you're gonna lose at least two or three of them.
You know that's gonna happ.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yeah, always happens. Yeah, what you know, how about Philip Rivers? Ben,
how about having this guy throw the ball? I had
to total in that game, and I knew after the
first quarter it was gonna happen have him throw the
ball least.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Well, you you you thought they were gonna throw the ball.
Why would you think they were gonna throw the ball?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I mean, well, I mean you're bringing a guy like that.
I know he's he's the old man now calls leave.
But he can't throw, he can't run, he can't move,
but he can.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Still well he definitely he can't move. Uh but you know,
you had to think going in they were just gonna
run the ball and occasionally throw on third and long
and things like that. And they they didn't throw past
the line of scrimmers, did they. I didn't see him
when I was watching.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
No, he only had a couple of throws that are
like twenty yards and more.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Talk and he's still he always had this with the Chargers,
but that hurky jerky kind of delivery, and it's it's
not yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
He still has that. Yeah, he still has that. And
then uh, Ben, how about you know there's some real
bad teams guys already mentioned won the Raiders. What are
these teams gonna do? The Raiders, the Jets, I mean,
they getting blow mcconnells. These team's just getting blown out
of the water right in the first quarter. It's all over.
They can't even hang with these teams and the spreads,
so you know, they're so heavy, I know, I know, well,
(33:09):
you know.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
It shows you who's got pride in performance and who doesn't.
The teams, you know, Cardinals are quitters, the Raiders are quitters.
They're gutless. That's what that is. I mean, and really
that's what it comes down to you. And whether they
want to admit it or not, you should never get
blown out like this. It just shows you that the
whole operation is fundamentally broken in Vegas. Tom Brady a
(33:31):
disaster as an owner. He's the he's the guy calling
the shots there. That's it's a Bengals quit against Baltimore.
Let's call that. When they call them out to the Bengals,
they didn't show up. So hell, this is the time
of the year, Danny, that the teams that the guys
that want to compete and put a little fight into it.
And I'll give that. Minnesota as a team that's going nowhere,
(33:52):
but they put some fight into it and they competed.
New Orleans is a crappy team, but they were at home.
They competed in their game. They gave it a shot
and uh and then a bunch of these Jets gave up.
They suck they didn't try.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Oh brutal, you know, I give you a credit. So
I don't care anybody trashing Brady about the team.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Man, nothing, well, because you can't. You can't, man, you
can't rip Brady's protect He's in a protected class. You
won't be allowed. Yeah, exactly, all right, Dad, I gotta go.
You've been on there for ten minutes. My god, all right,
thank you, go away. All right, there's the great Danny
de Vito there checking in. So some high drama. One
thing the Cowboys are good at is drama. Football not
very good at drama, very good. So one of the
(34:37):
Cowboys is a name because the family. He got a
he's got a brother playing for the pitchers, Trevon Diggs.
It would appear he's not gonna be on the Dallas
Cowboys next season. He was what's called a healthy scratch
in the game on Sunday night. He was inactive now,
I say healthy scratch because Trevon Diggs said he was
(34:57):
ready to go and ready to play, and as of
Friday he said he was certain he was gonna play
Sunday night. He had practiced all week, he was included
in the game plan, and then over the weekend they said, psych,
you're not playing. And so Diggs stood on the sidelines
the like numb nuts, and he was wearing his street
(35:18):
clothes and was wandering around there watching the Minnesota Vikings
beat the Dallas Cowboys, and he said he'd pretty much
said listen, I was ready to go. I thought, he said,
I thought I was playing. And then he said, it
is what it is, which is like the F you.
And when you say it is what it is, that's
(35:40):
f you. That's what that means. It's a universally known now.
Jerry Jones stated after the game that Stefon Diggs quote
isn't healthy enough to play for us. He's not healthy
enough for us to put him out there, even though
Diggs claimed he was healthy and he did practice all week.
So someone is not telling the truth. I'm gonna go
with Jerry Jones not telling the truth. That's what I'm
(36:02):
gonna go with because if he was medically cleared to practice,
Diggs and he practiced all week and he was included
in the game plan. You know this is not You
don't have to have a a be a mensa to
figure this out. It's not that hard. Yeah, Jerry's looking
for that glory hole is what he's looking for. And
trying to circumcise the mosquito is what he's trying to do.
(36:24):
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Happy fifteenth day of December. I'm told we're ten days
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But here in our number one, we start with that
(00:21):
Sunday night game. How does this performance or lack thereof
change things for Cowboys Wide receiver George Pickens, who had
yet another quiet night at the office. Also, did quarterback
JJ McCarthy play his way out of the Vikings dungeon
and his Minnesota gets the road win playing the role
of spoiler? And the big story all about snap crackle
(00:45):
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Which one is the biggest? Now this is not a list,
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We'll help you. Had a great weekend, We are back
at it again here all week no days off. If
you heard the podcast this weekend, you got a brief
preview of coming attractions. But enough of that, it's get
right into it. Don't waste any time, Do not waste
any time. So our lead this hour from Jerry's World.
That's where're going to start the Dallas Divas in Action
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hosting the Purple People Eaters. And I mean lying if
I said the game had any juice. There was really
no juice in the game other than the fact that
you just put the Cowboys on TV. They could be
peeling oranges and people would watch. They could be chopping
up onions like a line cook and just people would
be watching. It didn't matter. So he had Chris Collinsworth
(04:05):
and Mike Tarrico an Island game. They had the call
on the peacock there and b se. So I don't
know if you watched it or not. Maybe you were
not watching. You were burned out from the other events
of the day and you did not watch that. We
are somewhat, I don't know, directly paid to watch, but
if we don't watch it, kind of what are we doing.
So we watched and Red Shirt rookie JJ McCarthy looking
(04:30):
like he actually kind of knew what he was doing
a little bit. Let's not get crazy though. He threw
a couple of touchdowns, he ran for a score and
the great CJ. Ham just in time for the Christmas holiday. CJ.
Ham had the go ahead touchdown on his first carry
of the season. That's good efficiency there. And the Minnesota
(04:51):
Vikings put a giant dent in the Jerry Mobile Jerry
Jones playoff hopes there with a thirty four to twenty
six victory over the one proud Dallas Cowboys. They say
once proud. That was back thirty years ago. They really
haven't been proud since then. The Vikings get to their
six wins, their six and eight sub five hundred. They
win their second consecutive game, and they were eliminated, see
(05:14):
you later, Bye bye, nada na na, hey hey, good bye.
Eliminated from postseason consideration before the kickoff of this game.
But they didn't have a pity party. They didn't say,
oh woe is me, We've been eliminated. And they went
out there, they played that game. They played the game,
and they ended up well winning but still losing in
(05:36):
the end. So Minnesota was a fourteen win team a
year ago, and now they do not qualify for the postseason.
Now the Cowboys six seven and one, they have to win.
Check this out. You want to just eliminate the Cowboys
for God's sake, This is what the Cowboys have. So
(05:56):
in order for them to make the playoffs, they have
to win their three remaining games and then in addition,
but wait, there's more. They need the Philadelphia Eagles to
lose all three of their games in order for Dallas
to overtake the Eagles in the NFC East Philly. Mind you,
they do play Buffalo, However, the other two games are
(06:16):
against the Washington Commanders. Hello, yeah, so good luck on that.
Here is the owner and he's the GM. You like
the team so much you bought it. Here is Jerry
Jones commenting on another lost Cowboys season.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Takea was We certainly didn't think we'd be here in
this kind of shape with three games to go and
help be behind the eight ball the way we are,
it's very disappointing. I'm really obviously very disappointed for our fans.
I'm disappointed for these players. I didn't expect that. I
thought we could come out here and on both sides
of the ball make a better accounting of our South
(06:56):
Minnesota did the best job out there today on both
sides of Well.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Okay, so let me translate that for those of you
who are a little slow. That's Jerry's way of saying
we blow. That's his way of saying that. So that
is a good starting point to this, And I think
the jumping off point would be George Pickens because that's
the subplot to this. George Pickens was there, he played
(07:21):
and did next to nothing. And this continues a recent
theme for George Pickens as the Cowboys wide receiver who
was the toast of the town a little while back,
but not anymore. So let us discuss the question is this,
how does this performance change things for the Cowboys wide
(07:41):
receiver George Pickens going forward? So I got Warren Buffett,
tea spoon, and wagon wheel, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
some delicious cornbread. Is what we're going to make with
the proper amount of a nice warm butter on top.
(08:02):
That sounds like a delicious meal to me. Well, not
a meal. It's a corn bread. It's not a meal,
but it's in addition to a meal. It's an add on.
It enhances the dining experience, properly made cornbread. So the
way we'll start, and obviously this changes things. It continues
to change things big time, big, big, big time for
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a few weeks. For a few weeks, George Pickens was,
I guess I imposter syndrome. Is that the way you
discover he was playing like a legitimate number one wide receiver,
number one in the entire NFL. There and Jerry Jones
was out on his radio shows every week, very braggadocious.
Jerry was celebrating how good George Pickens was and really,
(08:48):
you know, congratulating himself in many ways for making the
deal to acquire George Pickens. Many Cowboy fans they're not
that bright. I can't believe. How do we get this
guy for a couple of late traffers. I don't understand. Well,
now you're stand dummy. Now you get it, dummy. That's
why he was available, George Pickens. That's exactly why George Pickens.
You could have gotten him for a cup of sand,
(09:10):
which is what the cowboys gave up to get George Pickens.
This is it, you know, bragging and all that stuff.
He pulled his shoulder muscle, Jerry Jones did, patting himself
on the back. He was so proud of himself. Full
on navel gazing from Jerry Jones. And now fast forward
a couple of weeks and all of a sudden, the
costume is off. And as Warren Buffett famously said, back
(09:33):
in the day, when the tide goes out, you see
who's swimming naked, And we now know, we now know
that's Pickts and Stark naked there in Jerry Jones on
the shoreline, right there in Jerry's world, and Mike Tomlin
somewhere in the Greater Pittsburgh area, yet again taking a
victory lap for the pitt sparg Steelers. There they play
(09:56):
on Monday Night football against the Miami Dolphins, and Tomlin
doing a victory lap. They're sticking his tongue out and
going no, no, no, no, boo boo, just like that.
That's exactly what he's doing. And all the other haters
there told you so. The last three games, George Pickens
has caught fifty percent of his passes, just fourteen catches
(10:16):
in three games, one hundred and fifty eight yards, no touchdowns,
and has gotten worse by the week. If you look
at the diagram, down down down, down, down down down,
just like that, just like that, and not a weapon,
not a weapon, doing little cardio. I haven't get my
workout in it's on television. Do a little cardio. And
(10:36):
not even a decoy. He's not even involved enough as
a decoy. He's not that. At this point. George Pickens
is a ship. He's a ghost ship, is what he is.
An empty vessel, just kind of drifting aimlessly on the
Jerry World Sea and just kind of floating along there. Now,
(10:56):
the bottom line, he's not in the bubble of trust.
Can not be in the bubble of trust, not even close.
And you know, if you're the Cowboys and Jerry Jones,
he runs the show. It's his world, as we all know,
it's his world. So Jerry Jones, you can't you can't
extend this guy, You can't trust him. Cannot do it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You give him a one year deal or something like that,
but any more than that, forget about it. Forget about it.
Are now on the Minnesota side of things. The question,
and it's a burning question, did quarterback JJ McCarthy play
his way out of the Vikings Dungeon? Did he play
(11:37):
out of the Vikings Dungeon? That's the question. So I
would say not quite is the way I would approach that,
because he's got one foot out of the cell JJ
McCarthy at this point. The rest of his body, though,
is still chained to the wall on the brig. If
you know what I'm saying, you feel me on that?
All right? So the good news is, and I will
(11:58):
be Benny Brightside, great listeners in the Twin Cities. I
would you have any right side here that if you
look at this JJ McCarthy's his Viking ship the ship
ain't be sinking at this moment. It's not sinking. The
bad news. See, that's the good news. The ship is
not sinking. The bad news is there's still bailing water
(12:19):
out and all they have is a tea spoon. And
so it's the odds are not good. The odds are
not good here and McCarthy finally showing a bit of
a pulse. We thought he was completely gone, completely gone.
That not the case. There was. There's a bit of
a flicker. Do we go full spark? I don't know
that we want to go full spark. I'm not ready
to go full spark. I can't go full spark. Not
(12:40):
gonna go full spark. Will not do full spark, Not
gonna happen, not full spark. Sorry no. And here's the
he's he's drifting out McCarthy of the Purple Haze, like
a groggy boxer making it to his knees in that
scene in every boxing movie, we make it to your
knees and write for the ten count, and the referees
(13:02):
all sweaty and leans in to count you out, and
then you kind of get up a little bit. That's
McCarthy at this point. However, let's not throw a parade
right in front of hollering James Group home in the
Greater Minneapolis area there because this came against the last
couple of games commanders who really looked spent. I mean
(13:24):
they just looked the bad anyway, And they played an
overtime game of the Broncos the week prior, and then
this Cowboy team a couple of defenses. If you were
to say, what is the the toughness level of the
Cowboys defense and the Commander's defense, it's very similar to coolwip.
If you've ever tried to stop a train with cool
whip it you need a lot of coolhip to stop
the train, like a ton of cool web. It's a problem.
(13:50):
It is. So anyways, and there's there's still some warning
flares out there, several of them for JJ McCarthy here
that are shining shooting off into the night sky and
you're like, well, what's going on with that McCarthy. And
the big one for me is you have the top
wide receiver in the game. You all told me that
(14:10):
JJ McCarthy gets to throw the ball to Justin Jefferson.
I mean, this guy's a total stud. He's being paid
like a total stud and yet they're speaking different languages.
Someone needs to get them a Rosetta stone because it's
not good. Mister wonderful, I mean justin Jefferson had two
catches for eight on two keys on eight targets. He
(14:33):
had twenty two yards but eight targets. That means six
of the targets did not connect if my mal or
math is correct on that, which is essentially the witness
protection level witness protection level statline. The Vikings went two
for nine on third down. Kevin O'Connell treated the passing
game like it was radioactive for the Vikings only twenty
(14:55):
four pass attempts. That's it, and it worked a full
game in modern in NFL football, will you play hide
and seek with your quarterback? You know what? That reminds
me of Jim Harball when he was coaching at Michigan,
And so, yeah, it's progress. For JJ McCarthy, it is progress,
but it's baby steps in mid December, which is kind
(15:16):
of like learning to crawl during a marathon, Like that's
usually not how that goes. You're not supposed to be
doing that, but here we are, and so's it's desperation.
They got to find a lot from McCarthy the next
few weeks, or they're going to go back to market,
they being the Vikings, and try to get somebody else
in there. And so it's not really growth, it's just
(15:37):
there's something else going on there. And the dungeon door
is cracked, as we said, for McCarthy, and you know,
he's still kind of hearing the jailer's keys jinglin a
little bit there on the side, and it's not great.
All right now, last word, let's just get right to
the story of the weekend. If there's one word that
(15:59):
would sum up the Sunday in the NFL, it would
be the I word, as in injury, Yes, injury and
the man alive. What a hot mess that was the
Three Musketeers. He had quarterback Patrick Mahomes the snap suffered
a torn acl and that's it. That's all she wrote.
(16:21):
He's out for the year. Only a few weeks. Togo
Chiefs have been eliminated. The Green Bay Packers lost star
edge rusher Micah Parsons shortly after Mahomes went down. Parsons
went down. That's the crackle. NFL's highest paid non quarterback,
highest paid defensive player in the NFL he tore his
ACL he's out for the year. And wide receiver Davonte Adams.
(16:42):
The hammy went whammy for the Rams, although the injury
report not as bad as the other two. Here the
Hollywood style kind of like NFL injury. In Hollywood, they
say celebrity DEAs. Rule of three is the theme there.
One star dies, two more ten to follow and that's
how the common wisdom goes. Apparently with NFL injuries it's
(17:06):
a similar thing. So the question of the three, you've
got Patrick Mahomes, Michael Parsons and Davonte Adams, three big names,
household names in the NFL, if you care about football,
all hurt which one is the biggest? So I preface
this for Terry and England. We do not do lists.
(17:28):
We do not believe in list on this show, as
Terry knows, and he's the gatekeeper of that. We don't
do list. But on Big Ben's Big Board, which is
not a list, as Shanon de Moine knows, not a list.
But on Big Ben's Big Board, here's how it shakes out.
So at number three, DeVante Adams coming in at number
(17:48):
three here, and we mentioned the hammy went whammy for
Devonte Adams. But it's not a season ending injury, at
least not at this point. So they'll attempt, the Rams
to rub some dirt on it. They'll try to rub
some dirt on it, and then they'll duct tape the
hammy and then after that they'll put some icy hot
(18:08):
on it, give it a couple of advil, and then
call it aday, call it a day after that. So
that's the plan there. It is code read for the Rams.
They going to Seattle, and that's a very beatable team
with Seattle. How embarrassing was that Seattle needing a late
field goal to beat Grandpa at quarterback? Holy crap. Seattle's
worse than I thought. By the way, if they had
to they need a field goal, their top three defensive
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guys were out and they had forty four year old
The Colts had forty four year old mister Rivers out
there and they still had to lead in the final second. Unbelievable.
How bad is that Seattle team is? But anyway, the
Rams going to Seattle, and the secret weapon for the
Rams this year has been in the red zone. Devonte
Adams has been the man, the myth, the legend, and
(18:56):
so now more pressure on Puka Nukua to get her
done there. They still have a bunch of torpedoes, the rams,
so they should be all right. At number two, Patrick mahomey,
have we done a wellness check on keg our keg
drinking friend in Kansas City? No? So, Patrick Mahomes tore
to acl season cooked burnt toast for Kansas City. The
(19:18):
Chiefs were already moving like the drunk uncle at the
wedding and Patrick Mahomes sending the season to the well.
He was out by the time the season ended, but
they weren't winning that game anyway. So Patrick Mahomes there
will spend his off season getting a lot of quality
time with rehab clinics in Kansas City and wherever he
(19:41):
travels to and all that, and they'll stitch him back
together and they'll give him some terminator parts and some
wizard dust and he'll be back and we'll likely miss
half of next season. Though this is gonna spill over
based on what I've been hearing, this is gonna spill over.
Just on timeline, Mahomes will not be ready to go
next September when the NFL season kicks off. At Mahomes
Magic that hocus pocus, the abra cadabra uh temporarily unplugged.
(20:07):
And again that leaves us with number one. That would
be Micah Parsons and Michael Parsons. That injury, and I
don't want to be too dramatic. That is a kick
to the testicles for the green Bay Packers. Uh it is.
That's a right to the cheese kurds for green Bay.
They went out of character. They went out of character.
(20:28):
Green Bay. They decide we're gonna do somebody almost never do.
We're gonna go all in this season. We're gonna trade
some draft picks, and we're gonna get the player and
pay him the highest contract ever given to a defensive player.
Michah Parsons, you shot, You shoot your shot. They shot
their shot there, and they put Micah Parsons right in
the center of the wagon wheel, right there in the middle,
(20:50):
right in the middle of the wagon wheel. And now
the wagon wheel is sinking in the quicksand outside Sherboygan.
It's not it's not going very well at this point.
So the whole advantage that you had where you all
love to brag to me when Parsons would have a
bad game, I would point that out, and the Packer
stockholders would get very upset with me, and they said, well,
you know it's because he's getting double teamed. Okay, well
(21:13):
you know I have to worry about that. No more
double teams, no more fear, no more chaos on that
side there, that's all down the drain there, Michael Parsons,
he's out, and a year of Parsons prime, a year
of his prime wasted. And it's also a dead giveaway
that this is an indictment on Jordan Love, that Jordan
Love is simply not good enough. That that's really the lesson.
(21:36):
Based on what I've been hearing from the Packer stockholders
out there, they're like, we're cooked. Now, if you had
a truly great quarterback, you could make up for that.
You could Jordan Love could play out of his mind
bonkers football for a month and could win a championship.
And as he showed late against the Denver Broncos, he's
(21:57):
not that guy. You're not that guy, pal, You're not
that guy. And he can't carry the team. And so
really the Packers are they're double cooked because now on
the Parson is going to be out. Also part of
next year, you also got a quarterback and you've given
a decent amount of money to who's not an alpha,
he's an omega. That's problematic. And so as for the
(22:18):
people claiming it's not fair, oh my god, it's not fair.
Stop star power. It happens, Guys get hurt. This is
why it's not flag football. Even though the NFL would
love for this to be flag football. People get hurt
in that anyway. The NFL regular season, again, this is
the way I was taught. Oh, you're old, malor it was.
It was, hey, a war of attrition, Like, you play
(22:40):
the regular season with integrity, you play it to your fullestability.
And then oftentimes the team that wins the championship is
the one that has the fewest injuries. And so that's
really what this is. Green Bay is not going to
be that team. They're not. It sucks Rocks. I mean,
there's no question it sucks Rocks and all that. You're
not dealing with robots, even robots would get hurt. You're
(23:02):
dealing with plausibly human beings, and so there's no load management.
If it's with the NBA, then Michael Parsons wouldn't have played.
He would have just waited to the playoffs because that's
what NBA ballers do, right then, don't want to play.
God forbid we play, we might hurt ourselves. So that's
not yet fully the mindset in the NFL, and I'm
happy about that. If you'd like to be part eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox that's eight seven seven
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nine nine six sixty three six y nine. Also on
ex at Ben Mahlor that's at Ben Mall or if
you want to be part of the program and straight
ahead the clock beat ticking on a headline player, name
brand player in the NFL who is playing his final
couple of games for the team he's with right now
(23:49):
because of a beef with the owner. Yeah, what's that
all about. We'll get to it and we will do
it next.
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Speaker 1 (24:41):
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As we are a day closer, Roberta now a bus driver,
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(25:25):
can and will be used against you in the court
of sports radio. Late Night drug tester says Keck drinking,
Steve is more into tabloids and the chiefs. That is true, actually, Yeah,
that is true, keg drinking Steve. I have noticed that
since the Chiefs started getting mediocre this year, he's been
more worried about what People Magazine and US Weekly and
(25:45):
The New York Post have been saying about Travis Kelsey.
He says, with Kansas City out of the playoffs, pressure
is now on Buffalo to make the Super Bowl this year.
Speaking of that, David writes and says Superman Josh Allen
continues to showcase his amazing tools have made him a
great quarterback. Sounds like he's written by Ai. Buffalo just
needed a stout defense to be truly dangerous, just needs
(26:08):
a stout defense. Well, they don't have that. So what
they do have is they don't have to play Joe Burrow.
They don't have to play Patrick Mahomes, and it would
appear barring. We'll see what happens here last couple weeks.
There's a good chance that the Ravens on they went
big on Sunday against the Bengals, the Ravens don't make
the playoffs see King Rory Rights Since says, even though
the injury bug helped the Broncos beat the Packers, I
(26:30):
am not too concerned. For them. The Packers will still
make the playoffs and can only pray that momentum can
become a real thing if they want to go on
a long playoff run. Yeah, well again, King Roy, you
know my position. I'm momentum. You're trying to trigger me.
I'm not gonna fall for the trig. It's not gonna happen.
(26:52):
So deal with that bagel boy right since its excellent monologue. However,
the Patriots not done yet. Bro Okay, I didn't Did
I say the Patriots were done? I don't know. I
said that Patriots were done. I said that it's not
a great performance when you blow a twenty one to
nothing lead. Terry in England writes and says, good to
(27:13):
hear you and the holiday spirit bend prepping the list?
Have you sent your latest list to Santa? Who are
your top four guests for Christmas? Christmas lunch drafting foods
for the table? Stuffing at number one? That's Terry, No, no, Terry,
remember you want me to do that podcast? Alf loses
(27:34):
his mind because they do that podcast every year. The
sign your talk show host is lazy when they do
when they do all those toffs, it's uh yeah, listen.
There's a lot of people that do radio because it's
easy and you know, you don't have to put a
lot of work into it. And they're exposed every holiday
season when they do the same evergreen topics because they
don't want to do any preparations, so they just go
(27:55):
in there say all right, let's let's see who inviting
to Christmas dinner, who's been naughty, who's been and all
that fine stuff. Big Rig Rob writes in from the
Great Pacific Northwest. He says the shot in Freude has
reached the ultimate high. As the chiefs de nasty Croaks.
The raiders failed to break one hundred yards of total
(28:15):
offense and almost a trifecta with a narrow escape by
the the she Hacks against the old man Rivers. I
got work at four am, but I had to hear
the A plus Mallard monologue. Well we thank you, big
rig Rob. Go to get a little nap in there
before you have to get to work. Mikey Cano, don't
you know, says we were only down by thirty one
(28:38):
Mather we ran out of time seven oh two mafia.
I saw Pete Carroll, and I like Pete. I like Pete,
that's a tough hill to die on. As Pete got
on the microphone and was talking about how hard the
Raiders played, did Pete watch the game? What was he
(28:59):
doing during the game? What was doing? Now? You said
how the Raiders suck and they had Kenny Pickett? And
that is true. It is my belief that the margin
between the top team in the NFL and whoever you
think the worst team, maybe that is the Raiders. Who
do you think the worst team is in the end
right now is the Giants? Is not that big where
(29:21):
one team should have twenty more first downs and one
team should have three hundred more yards passing. This is
like a D one football team versus a triple A team.
Is ridiculous, absolutely embarrassing, Like did they even practice there?
Kenny Pickett average two point six yards per pass? The
(29:43):
greatness of the Raiders. Let's go to the phones and
we'll say hello to Let's start out with the great
Danny DeVito, America's favorite trash man in the greater Boston area.
Did he win money or lose money this week? Let's
find out right now. Hello Danny, welcome Ben.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Now what's going on? It was a good week? It
was the great week every time. You wouldn't money it's
a good week, as.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You know, Yes it is. Yes, it is not a
great week for me. There are a couple of games
that flipped that did not go well. I lost the Lions.
I took the Lions plus the points I was getting six.
They lost by seven. That one stung a little bit.
But you know, watch that on Benny Versus the Penny
on YouTube. But it was not a not a great week.
The forty nine ers had a huge lead. They gave
up a garbage time score to the Titans, so that
(30:25):
one stung.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Also, Oh they did. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I was.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I thought watching that, I thought it was all over.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Well it was. It was well I was thirteen, I
was thirteen and a half. Right, that was the line.
I believe it was thirt.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
The heavy stay spread.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, they then I was one by thirteen. Then I
was won by thirteen. So they and they were, they
were up thirty seven to seventeen. I believe it wasn't long.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Their doors offul good portion of that game and they
started pull away. And how about the pay shoots. Ben,
you're up by twenty one at home, you have tows
that game. I know shosh Allen, he's he's a guy
in the regular season that goes crazy. He's not so
good in the playoffs. But and you know, you have
to close it out. You're up by twenty one points
and they blow that game. I almost set the Patriots,
(31:13):
and I changed my mind on that. I took the
total in that game, so I saved money there. I
took the OVA.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, well that's another game. And on Benny versus the penny,
I took the Patriots. I thought all right at home
and Buffaloes had issues on the road, divisional game, all
that stuff, and when they were up twenty one nothing,
I was like, Okay, I'm in really good shape. But
I know anytime I'm about you know, when you're up early, Danny,
you're waiting for something's gonna fall apart. You know, something's
gonna Know if you if you're doing very well in
(31:40):
the first half of all those early games, you're just
waiting for the avalanche. Oh yeah, oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, you could be winning every game and you know
you're gonna lose at least two or three of them.
You know that's gonna happ.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yeah, always happens. Yeah, what you know, how about Philip Rivers? Ben,
how about having this guy throw the ball? I had
to total in that game, and I knew after the
first quarter it was gonna happen have him throw the
ball least.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Well, you you you thought they were gonna throw the ball.
Why would you think they were gonna throw the ball?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I mean, well, I mean you're bringing a guy like that.
I know he's he's the old man now calls leave.
But he can't throw, he can't run, he can't move,
but he can.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Still well he definitely he can't move. Uh but you know,
you had to think going in they were just gonna
run the ball and occasionally throw on third and long
and things like that. And they they didn't throw past
the line of scrimmers, did they. I didn't see him
when I was watching.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
No, he only had a couple of throws that are
like twenty yards and more.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Talk and he's still he always had this with the Chargers,
but that hurky jerky kind of delivery, and it's it's
not yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
He still has that. Yeah, he still has that. And
then uh, Ben, how about you know there's some real
bad teams guys already mentioned won the Raiders. What are
these teams gonna do? The Raiders, the Jets, I mean,
they getting blow mcconnells. These team's just getting blown out
of the water right in the first quarter. It's all over.
They can't even hang with these teams and the spreads,
so you know, they're so heavy, I know, I know, well,
(33:09):
you know.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
It shows you who's got pride in performance and who doesn't.
The teams, you know, Cardinals are quitters, the Raiders are quitters.
They're gutless. That's what that is. I mean, and really
that's what it comes down to you. And whether they
want to admit it or not, you should never get
blown out like this. It just shows you that the
whole operation is fundamentally broken in Vegas. Tom Brady a
(33:31):
disaster as an owner. He's the he's the guy calling
the shots there. That's it's a Bengals quit against Baltimore.
Let's call that. When they call them out to the Bengals,
they didn't show up. So hell, this is the time
of the year, Danny, that the teams that the guys
that want to compete and put a little fight into it.
And I'll give that. Minnesota as a team that's going nowhere,
(33:52):
but they put some fight into it and they competed.
New Orleans is a crappy team, but they were at home.
They competed in their game. They gave it a shot
and uh and then a bunch of these Jets gave up.
They suck they didn't try.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Oh brutal, you know, I give you a credit. So
I don't care anybody trashing Brady about the team.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Man, nothing, well, because you can't. You can't, man, you
can't rip Brady's protect He's in a protected class. You
won't be allowed. Yeah, exactly, all right, Dad, I gotta go.
You've been on there for ten minutes. My god, all right,
thank you, go away. All right, there's the great Danny
de Vito there checking in. So some high drama. One
thing the Cowboys are good at is drama. Football not
very good at drama, very good. So one of the
(34:37):
Cowboys is a name because the family. He got a
he's got a brother playing for the pitchers, Trevon Diggs.
It would appear he's not gonna be on the Dallas
Cowboys next season. He was what's called a healthy scratch
in the game on Sunday night. He was inactive now,
I say healthy scratch because Trevon Diggs said he was
(34:57):
ready to go and ready to play, and as of
Friday he said he was certain he was gonna play
Sunday night. He had practiced all week, he was included
in the game plan, and then over the weekend they said, psych,
you're not playing. And so Diggs stood on the sidelines
the like numb nuts, and he was wearing his street
(35:18):
clothes and was wandering around there watching the Minnesota Vikings
beat the Dallas Cowboys, and he said he'd pretty much
said listen, I was ready to go. I thought, he said,
I thought I was playing. And then he said, it
is what it is, which is like the F you.
And when you say it is what it is, that's
(35:40):
f you. That's what that means. It's a universally known now.
Jerry Jones stated after the game that Stefon Diggs quote
isn't healthy enough to play for us. He's not healthy
enough for us to put him out there, even though
Diggs claimed he was healthy and he did practice all week.
So someone is not telling the truth. I'm gonna go
with Jerry Jones not telling the truth. That's what I'm
(36:02):
gonna go with because if he was medically cleared to practice,
Diggs and he practiced all week and he was included
in the game plan. You know this is not You
don't have to have a a be a mensa to
figure this out. It's not that hard. Yeah, Jerry's looking
for that glory hole is what he's looking for. And
trying to circumcise the mosquito is what he's trying to do.
(36:24):
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Game?
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The New Orleans Saints or a morbid franchise, but they
did show some fight in a divisional game against Carolina. Saints.
Quarterback Tyler Shuck joined me as the only rookie quarterbacks
in the last decade to lead a game winning drive
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the only rookie quarterbacks in the last decade to lead
a game winning drive in back to back games against
the team with a winning record. Who am I? That's
the question. The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do
it next.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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It's an original Malard Militia song from years gone by.
This is professionally done. What a tune it is? I
Bill Miller and you're locked in on the Ben Mahler Show.
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Here's the who am I Game? Man, We go to
the Bayou where Saints quarterback Tyler Shuck Oh Shucks, he
joined me is the only rookie quarterbacks the last decade
to lead a game winning drive in back to back
games against the team with a winning record, the Saints
taking down Tampa Bay and also now taking down here
(39:27):
this weekend, the Carolina Panthers so let's see, does anyone
know the answer? We go to the great Unwashed at
Ben Mahler at Ben Mahler, Rob the Goatman says, somewhere
over Dwayne bow is the answer. Scarecrow from Scrooge in
the Bay Area. Alf the Alien Olpiners says, the mench
(39:48):
on a bench and Alf always on the pulse of
the people. There. Clearly good good find there. Natron in Stockton, California.
But he comes to the Mallard meeting in Vegas every year.
He says, Billy Joe Hobert or Billy and Billy Joe Tolliver,
both of them. Mister nice guy, here's a great name.
Dick Schofield will shortstop back in the day. Ryan Lee
(40:09):
from Doc Dan in Minnesota. Josh Rosen, who's celebrating Honick
here from Eke and Rosevio, Minnesota. Sage Rosenfells from Shane
and des Moines. Another one who's celebrating Honika. Justin Herbert
from John that's his answer, Gunner, don't bury his panthers
just yet. Yeah, okay, I'd seen Gunner very active on
(40:30):
social media. Sir Perr from King Rory, Josh Norman, who
is thirty eight today is the name I haven't heard
a long time defensive back from late night drug tester.
The correct answer, though, just last year, Jaden Daniels of
the Washington Commanders is the answer. Jadon Daniels, Jayden Daniels,
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