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September 15, 2023 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Vikings falling to the Eagles on TNF and who on the Vikings deserves most of the blame, if the Eagles 2-0 start is impressive, NFL Pick'em, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our dumber one as we slide
on into a Friday, and it's so great to have
you listening to the podcast The Ben Maler Show from overnight.
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Saturday and Sunday in most major cities, you will have
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(00:44):
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And I appreciate your support in advance. And I also
thank you for downloading the Fifth Hour parties. My god,
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Speaker 2 (00:59):
Now.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Today we talk about the good and the bad, the
good and the bad of that TV opportunity. Something I
did not realize when I signed up for the TV
show that I have to deal with. That's only on
the fifth hour podcast. Nobody else has that content. You'll
hear that for today. We'll have new podcast on Saturday

(01:19):
and Sunday with my man Danny g Radio. Here in
hour number one, it's all about that Thursday night NFL game,
the Vikings and the Eagles. Who gets the biggest chunk
of the Vikings juicy lucy a blame? Are you gonna
go with the head coach, the star defensive players that

(01:40):
couldn't tackle anybody. We'll get to all that. Also, the
Eagles are two to zero. Are you impressed with the Birds?
And will the NFL address that? For Gaysey fumble touchback
rule that popped up in the game last night. I
have a unique take, a fresh take on how the
NFL can change that rule, which blows. We'll get to

(02:03):
that right now here. It is our number one. It
is a purple haze descending on the Vikings. Well God,
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(03:12):
the Delaware Valley, but that's where my man, my guy,
al Michaels and Herbie Kirk Kerbstreet were schmoozing on the
digital boop Tube Marquee build anyways, a Marquee NFC matchup
the Vikings, who had a really sexy record last year.
I guess the Philadelphia Eagles who were in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
They didn't win it.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
At Kirk Cousins, who's the star of that quarterbacks reality show,
Jalen Hurts the next big thing. He got paid all
that money in the offseason. So did you watch? Perhaps not? Now,
don't worry, we watched for you as our good mitzvah
of the day. So the Andre Swift, a swiftye thumped

(03:56):
the purple people eaters defense. Well, they used to be
called that when they were good. One hundred and eighty
one total yards, one hundred and seventy five of those
on the ground, and a touchdown as Philadelphia held off
Minnesota thirty four to twenty eight. The Eagles improved to
two to zero on the young season. The Minnesota Vikings

(04:17):
are now oh and two. That's not good, but they did.
If you're a gambler, they got a back door push.
Depending on what line you got, you might have won
the game. It was six and a half at one point,
but it went off the board at six. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. That is where we
will gain this rant and the question as we discuss

(04:42):
who gets the biggest chunk of the Vikings juicy lucy
of blame, not to be confused with the blame pie,
not to be confused with the blame burrito. This is
the juicy lucy of blame for the Vikings. So who
gets the biggest chunk of that? I've got sugar shack,
Salvation Army, and fifty to fifty raffle, and we will

(05:07):
tie all of these things together and we are going
to make a lake because they got extra lakes there
back in Minnesota. So a listen, we start at the
very top here, we'll take a swim. Kevin O'Connell and
Brian Flores, Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Those guys get to go

(05:31):
first year, they get a big chunk. Now, I know
they didn't play it down. I realized that, however, they
are in charge of the basics. The Minnesota defense was
manhandled by the Eagles offensive line. Bunch of lightweights in Minnesota.
You guys playing who are backups, but you're still in
the NFL. You're getting paid. Do your job. Philadelphia. If

(05:56):
you watch this game, you know it was mostly the
Philadelphia Eagles running offensive plays. They ran twenty more offensive
plays than the Minnesota Vikings because they could run right,
left and right up the gut. It didn't matter. They
did what they wanted on the ground in this game,
from soup to nuts, and they had possession of the
ball for almost forty minutes of a sixty minute game.

(06:19):
Two hundred and fifty nine yards and a cherry on
top for Philadelphia. They averaged five point four yards per rush,
and it actually seemed worse than that when you were
watching the game. Now, Brian Flores, he needs to do better,
he needs to coach better. Hopefully his lawsuit goes better

(06:40):
than his job with the Vikings has gone so far.
Because man, this guy's one of the great defensive minds
and all that, and they are doing nothing, nothing in
terms in this game. They didn't last week. They didn't
give up that many points, but man, Baker Mayfield was
able to make some plays there in that game. So

(07:01):
then you have Kevin O'Connell who is the head ball coach,
the CEO of the Minnesota football team, which is fundamentally broken.
And at this point Kevin O'Connell is running a sugar shack,
but they only have one item on the menu, butter fingers.
That's it. Two words ball security, not one, not two,

(07:25):
not three. How about four fumbles? Four fumbles in this
game on Thursday night and three turnovers against the Buccaneers
the previous game. So the Vikings. I crunch the numbers
on this, I use some malord math. The Vikings are
on pace for fifty nine and a half turnovers this season,

(07:46):
which amazingly would not be the NFL record. The NFL
record was held and is still held by the nineteen
seventy eight to forty nine Ers in a much shorter season. Comparably,
they had sixty three turnovers. But the Vikings, if they
increased their turnover rate just a little bit, they're right
there neck and neck. Now, O'Connell better have these guys

(08:10):
run gassers. That's what they were doing the old times. Now,
of course you probably can't do that. But man, if
I was coaching the Vikings, if was allowed to say,
all right, you guys in the back do burpies and
the rest of you have to run to the tree. No, no,
not that tree. You have to run to the tree
in Duluth is where you have to run and run back. Now,
Kirk Cousins had a really sexy stat line at three

(08:32):
and sixty four yards passing four touchdowns. He did have
a fumble, but that's expected. But it was an uphill
situation all day. Philadelphia built up a big lead. The
Vikings did not quit. They came back, and if you're
a gambler, you're very grateful for that. But the Vikings
fall to zero and two two technically one score losses
this season, and they now have the Chargers in their

(08:55):
next game. They've got a couple of extra days of rest,
and you'd think the Vikings offensively will be fine against
the Chargers, but it doesn't matter if they keep turning
the ball over. Now on the other side of this
page two, the winning side, which is not as good
as story.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Philadelphia overpowering running rough shot over Minnesota, as we said,
but let's step back and if you take a look
at the wide angle view here, the Eagles are.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Two to zero. Are you impressed with the Birds? Are
you impressed? So I'm giving that question a little bit
of stink eye, I am, because it's a tricky little dance,
is what it is to me. The Eagles. I watched
a lot of the game against the Patriots, and certainly
this game. I watched all of it, and they haven't

(09:46):
proven anything this season, even though they're to to Oh
the Eagles have supposedly high standards after getting to the
Super Bowl and losing, but Mac Jones tore them up
in that New England game for a good chunk of
the secon in the third quarter, And in this game,
Kirk Cousins for the most part, shredded the Philadelphia pass defense,

(10:08):
and Philly has been manning a Salvation Army Red kettle
and they're getting a lot of donations, a lot of them.
The four fumbles by the Vikings. The Patriots had two turnovers,
including a pick six in the game last week. So
that is twenty four point scored as a direct result

(10:30):
of the other team just putting a nice gift in
that red kettle. And then you have Jalen Hurts, who
had one of those misleading stat lines that if you
didn't watch the game and you looked at the numbers, said, wow,
that's pretty good. Now. I continue to be blown away
that the NFL did not banish the tush push, the
rugby play that is still as fearsome as a barracuda.

(10:54):
The tush push is unstoppable. Why doesn't everyone do that?
So two more rushing touchdowns for Jalen. The passing part
was the spotty part. He had one hundred ninety three
passing yards, which looks great in the box score eight
point four yards per tempt. He had a touchdown, did
have an interception, but there were two plays that broke
the statuet apart. There was a sixty three yard pass

(11:18):
and run for a touchdown to Devonte Smith and a
fifty four yard dart to Devonte Smith. So on those
two plays, Jalen Hurts got one hundred and seventeen yards.
Now bear with me. You're not supposed to give math
on the radio, but I'm gonna give you some more math.
So one hundred and seventeen yards on those two plays.
The other sixteen completed passes that Jalen Hurts had and

(11:41):
I wrote this down in my notes, the other sixteen
completed passes went for a grand total of seventy six yards,
which means that Jalen Hurts on those other sixteen completions
averaged three point four yards and a cloud of dust.
And that was in his other twenty one pass stemps. Now,
I don't want to be but that sucks.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
All right.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Now the last word here, let's go back to Minnesota
theme of the night fumble the fumble Rooskie, which they
would have been better off running the fumble Rooskie because
that trick play worked. Their fumbles did not work. Now,
there's one fumble that stood out, head and shoulders above
all of the rest all of them, and that was

(12:22):
the one just before halftime, involving Justin Jefferson. He came
this close to having a touchdown, nearly had a touchdown
in the second quarter, relatively late, but after an instant
replay review, it was determined that the fumble you see this,
it went over the ball went over the pylon. Oh

(12:43):
my god, no saying it ain't so Batman. Yeah, So
the ball goes over the pylon and as a result,
Justin Jefferson hit the fumble that he had there. The
NFL rules made that the Eagles are given the football back,

(13:04):
and they got it. So instead of the Vikings getting
a touchdown and closing right there before halftime, they turn
the ball over and then the Eagles go down and
get a field goal before halftime. So that's a pretty
big swing in the game, which turned out to be
a one score game. Here's the aforementioned Kevin O'Connell giving

(13:24):
his ten cents on that particular play. Let's go to
the audio tape.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
We just got to continue to emphasize decision making technique
and fundamentals as far as the ball carriers go. But
like I said, Justin's just trying to make a play
in that moment, and the hardest thing to do is to,
you know, get a guy not to reach the ball
out when they're that close to scoring a touchdown in
a critical.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Moment exactly, And I would like to address this. I'm
gonna go on a little Randy. I mean my soapbox.
It's a very large soapbox, okay, And I want to
make my pitch right now. The question is will the
NFL ever address the fumble touchback rule? And I've detered
not in my life. They should, but they won't. Why

(14:05):
I've got arrogance, big headness, and neurosis as the big
three here, and we're not exactly splitting Adams. I've been
doing this for a long time. I can't believe how
long I've been doing this. Now, the years just keep
piling up and over every couple of season. That doesn't
happen every year, but every few years we get this story.
It's an evergreen story. It never changes. People are up

(14:28):
in arms, people can play, people scream and shout. Then
you've got those the rule nerds. Well it's a good rule.
We like the I hate the nerd. I hate those
rule nerds. I cannot stand them. And they'll call it.
We might get one to call up at some point. Well,
you know, Ben, it's really because out of an abundance
are caution. You gotta do this, you know, And it's

(14:49):
so stupid, it's so dumb. Fumbles it has been proven.
We have the data. A fumble in an NFL game
is it's like a fifty to fifty raffle, meaning the
ball could go either way. But yet if you fumble
out of the end zone, the defense gets the fumble

(15:10):
one hundred percent of the time. Explain how that makes
sense to me. It doesn't make sense to me, but
explain to it to me how it makes sense, Like
I'm a kindergartener. You're punishing perseverance. You are not rewarding determination.
You are kicking determination in the nuts for the offensive player.

(15:31):
You lose possession despite the defense not recovering the ball.
They didn't get the ball, the ball went out of
bounds the whistle blow. And not only do they get
the ball, they gain twenty yards of field positions, so
twenty percent of the field they gain. Now, if you
have a problem, you need a solution. So I have

(15:55):
a solution I would like to pitch. No one else
has this content. Okay, I'm gonna run this by you.
You are the jury, and I want to see if
you will vote yes or no on is So I
thought about it, and I thought about it a lot
over the years. But here's my solution to this pylon
end zone fumble turnover situation. The Malord solution add a

(16:19):
college basketball style possession arrow. Possession air that makes way. Okay,
that makes way all right? If you win the kickoff,
that means, just like in basketball, the other team gets
the fumble possession arrow. So here's the way it works.
When the offense gets the ball back, the offense gets

(16:40):
the ball back out of the fumble, you send it
to the original line of scrimmage before the end zone
fumble if they happen to have the possession air. Now,
if the defense has the possession arrow and they choose
to go that way, if it's the defense, you just
spot the ball the one yard line and they start
from there. They don't go to the twenty yard line.
You start at the one yard line because it fumbled

(17:01):
out of the end So how do you assume it
goes back to the twenty? So what do you think
about that? You want to give me your thoughts, will
take your calls. You know the number. I don't want
to give it out because every time I give it out,
dumb people call, and I don't need that. When I
don't give it out, smart people call because they have
to figure out the number. It's some weird gymnastics with
my mind that I'm using here. Anyway, We'll take your
calls also on X or Twitter, whatever you want to

(17:24):
call it today, whatever Elon decides to call it. At
Ben Mahlor, that is, at Ben Mallor, we have a
story right in my wheelhouse here. Sideline hostilities, sideline hostilities,
and musical immortality. Musical immortality. We'll get to all that,
and we will.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Do it next. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Mallor Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Join the curious world of the Ben Malor Show online.
It is pain free and easy. Do just follow your
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Ben Mallor, and you can follow me. Eddie Garcia, your
humble side kick, the voice of Reason, your news guy,
you're announcer guy. I'm at Eddie on Fox.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Those are horny rules, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
I'm not aware of those, and I'll live from the
tirac dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios, it's Ben mallor.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
We roll on coming up later on if you're with
us all night now. They say that most people who
listen do not listen more than a little bit of time.
Although I did see the numbers there. You see some
of the ratings on the streaming services for I did
not Fox Sports Radio. Very impressive, good, that excellent. We

(18:46):
dominate the not only the radio but the streaming.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
When I started here were we were on in Binghamton,
New York, in Pittsburgh, and that was about it we have.
But now we're all over the place. But they the
numbers I saw here the on the iHeart app, the
average TSL time spent listing is thirty seven minutes. That's
a long that's a long time. We are in the

(19:11):
air everywhere, So you don't need Sam, you don't need
to play that, Sam, there's no need to play that.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
That was that was the drops are back, everybody, Yeah,
the drops are That was.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
The wrong one. Actually, I was just looking for your
normal in the air everywhere.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
We're in the air every way.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
That's the wrong one, Sam, No, that's the right.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
See.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Now you're coming around. So Sam's a Benet. I talked
to Sam. He's a Benet, He's in, he's in. Finally,
I have a Benet. Yeah, but thirty seven ments. You
think that's just people forgetting to turn off the app
and they just leave us on. I think we get
credit for that.

Speaker 6 (19:46):
They're engaged.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Are they engaged or they fall asleep? I don't know.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
Well it works for us either way.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
It does work for us any any way you slice it, though,
So so thank you the people people the company seem
to be happy. We liked them happy because then they
don't bothers. We don't want them to bothers. We like
that you're listening and you stop listening, they'll bothers, they'll
pester us. We don't want to be pesterns. Let's keep
listening even if you don't like us, so we don't

(20:12):
get pestered Chris and de Moin writes. In says a
Viking monologue, followed by an ex Viking monologue. Ben your
mind is still on Minnesota four months after the Mallor
meet up. You're damn right Minnesota nice, Chris, you were there, Minnesota, nice,
great food. I happen to be there when they had
the greatest weather they've had all year in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
It was amazing.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
There's absolutely a wonderful weather. When I was in the
Twin Cities, had a great time hanging out, lake's all
over the place. The mosquitoes had not set in yet.
Now the football hip hop guy rides in and he's
very upset. He's complaining about my rant. He said, no

(20:56):
one gave a blank about the fumble into the end
zone rule when DC four. That's of course Derek Carr
did it twice on the Raiders, and now everyone cares
so much and thinks it's a disgrace. Well, first of all,
football hip hop, whatever your name is, I have been

(21:17):
an advocate of how stupid this is? Same here now, Eddie,
do you like my ideedi? Because you can't give it
one hundred percent of the offense, you can't give it
one hundred percent of the defense. So I'm adding a
new ELEMENTEDDI, and they can get a sponsor on it
and make it just like college basketball. You have the
possession arrow. No, that's a great idea. Either that or

(21:43):
my nemesis from Benny versus the Penny, which will be
back for Week two here later on Friday. You can
have the penny. I will loan the penny to the
NFL and they can then flip the penny. How about that.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
No, I'm not in favor that either.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
It's a great idea. What's your solution, then.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
I would I would call it. You could call it
a touchback. Put it at the twenty yard line or
the ten yard line.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
To give it back to the offense.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yes, if you want to penalize them for some weird
reason because they fumble it out of the side of
the ins and or the back of the end zone,
that's fine, I guess, but it shouldn't be a change
of possession. That's dumb. Well.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
See, I stand for truth and fairness, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Because I'm how is that fair if you're flipping a
coin to decide something?

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Well, I said, possession ar you shot that down?

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Okay? Yeah, again, that could be possession to the other team.
The other team should never get the ball when you.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Just like college basketball, whoever wins the tip the other
team has the possession arrow. So whoever gets the kickoff
the other team has the possession era but.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
The ball goes out of bounds. In basketball all the time,
the other team is going to get that as well.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
It's not a perfect solution, Eddie. We have now better
than that. My plan is better. It isn't all right,
you know, I'll let I'll let the people decide. What's that?

Speaker 2 (23:00):
I was saying, No, not with one of your your
rig poles.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
I do not do rig liar, Yes you do.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
You of great intelligence and rational Eddie.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Eddie's idea is unfair. Your idea is Why is it unfair?
Because just giving to the offense.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
Yeah, why why should it be any different?

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Because in a in a regular fumble, there have been
studies on this. It is fifty fifty when you fumble
the ball, whether you're gonna get.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
You're not at a bound yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, So why would you give it one hundred percent
to the offense.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
If you if you're at the fifty yard line and
you fumble it out of bounds, what happens.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Or any other yard line on the field.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
I'm being fair. I'm not going all the way on
the other way. The pendulum is not going.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Not going all the way? Correct, Okay, that's not.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
We'll let the people decide, Eddie, because I like my people.
It's a great plant. It's the greatest plan of all time.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
It's it's weird.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
I got a sneak a call in here, Eddie. This
guy's a legend. The reason we have the Malord Militia
oath is because of this guy. We did not have
the oath before this guy said I want to take
the oath. I want to be a member of the Mala Militia.
Our friend Skeeter in Montana, Hello.

Speaker 8 (24:12):
Skeeter, I'm doing just fine, and I watched the game
and I enjoyed your monologue. And I think Josh Allen
of the Buffalo Bells is the most overrated player in
the entire NFL of all.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Take that Robbie the time, Yeah, take that right, and
this guy by those Skeeters. My man, Skeeter, You've seen
every player in the NFL over your life, so listen.
Skeeter's seeing them all aady, he says, Josh Allen is
the most overrated. That is a blow to Andy the
comic book guy. Remember that, Skeeter. I don't know if
you're listening. The other day, we had a Josh Allen
apologist that called up. He actually lives in Texas, but

(24:54):
this guy was the biggest Josh Allen ballwasher.

Speaker 8 (24:58):
Unbel I'm not like that, and I I'm sorry to
hear about Zach Wilson the Jets, and I hope he
does better now.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
He won't do it better these things. You know that
you'd be better out there, Skeeter. Can you play you
right hand or left hander?

Speaker 8 (25:18):
Profersely right handed?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
All right, well, that's good. Most quarterbacks are right handed.
We'll put you out there and we'll have you run
the dunk offense. We your dink and dunk.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
And we'll have you do that.

Speaker 8 (25:32):
Good to me.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
All right, listen, continue doing well, Skeeters. Check in with
us every once in a while. Let's know how you're doing.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
Okay, Yeah, we'll do all right.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Take it.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
There he goes our buddy. Skeeter's the best.

Speaker 7 (25:43):
Then there's the rest.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, it's such a good dude. He just loves the show.
Stays up all nights. Guy, you get insomnia, and we
love that because otherwise. Thank you for not killing him
or trying to kill him this time.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
That was nice. Nice of you.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
I didn't try. I've never tried kill Skeeter.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
That's not true. You almost killed him because you got
him all riled up and he almost had a heart attack.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
No, that is you're confusing.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
We have audio to prove it.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
It wasn't Stanley. Oh that was Stanley.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Are you sure, Eddie?

Speaker 1 (26:12):
The only one that almost died on the air, it
was Stanley.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
It sounds just they sound the same.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Cardiac Stanley, cardiac Stanley in Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
I retract my statement.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Then that's bad show knowledge.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Eddy, What do you do? This sounds similar?

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Party over there? Are you sparty? You don't know the show?
You're gonna do a Little League World Series update. That's
that what you're gonna do?

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Coop. See, Coop's got my back. He says. They sound similar.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Now they don't, not at all.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
They both start with an s.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
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Speaker 2 (26:57):
If you will? A world?

Speaker 1 (26:58):
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Speaker 2 (27:10):
Well, it's gonna sound like a shot at your Clippers,
but I think you'll actually agree with this. Did you see?
Ben Bett Online has your Los Angeles Clippers with the
shortest odds when it comes to what team will most
likely be fined first for violating the NBA's new rest rules,
and the Clippers are listed as a plus two hundred.
Also have the shortest sids for having the most fines

(27:30):
in a season at one hundred plus.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Well, yeah, they have the two biggest slugs who don't
like playing on their team, and they have the richest owner.
That's a no brainer. They got the guy that can
afford to pay every single fine, guys with one hundred
billion dollars the owner of the team. And they got
Kawhi Leonard wod rather sit by the pool in San
Diego than play on a court in La or wherever

(27:55):
the Clippers play. Yeah, all right, thank you that it
is the Ben Malor Show. So we had another sideline
situation that caught our attention in Philadelphia. Did you see
at the start of the fourth quarter, Eagle wide receiver A. J.
Brown got into it with his quarterback. That's my quarterback,

(28:20):
Jalen Hurts on the sideline. Yeah, there was a brew
haha on the sideline right at the end of the
third quarter. The Birds had a thirteen point lead against
the Minnesota football team. And if you noticed, if you
were watching it paying attention, the head coach, Nick Siriani,
he had to step in to separate the bad blood

(28:42):
between Jalen Hurts and his wide receiver AJ Brown. Now,
it is interesting to note that Sirianni did not play
rock Scissors paper. He did not do that at a
rock paper scissors didn't. He didn't play that game, but
he didn't step in between. So this means now we
can officially start the AJ Brown has to be traded
rumors because Jalen Brown or Jalen Hurst rather, Jalen Hurst

(29:07):
just got paid the beldy.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
I know A. J.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Brown's got a big contract too, but Jalen Hurts got
a massive contract. He's the quarterback, he's the guy. Blah
blah blah. So that means Brown's got to go. What
can Brown do for you? Yeah, hey, J Brown. I
don't know exactly what he was mad about. I think
it was he was upset at one of the throws
to the sidelines and uh, clearly a lack of respects

(29:35):
the right word, but uh, something going on. Keep an
eye file that one way, keep an eye on that,
keep an eye on it. Just remember that. So the
Ben Aller showlet's go to the phones and we will
say hello to Let's go to Andre in the Commonwealth
because he's a teacher and he's got to get up
for school. So Hello Andre, what is going on?

Speaker 7 (29:58):
Bennett? It's good to be with you. Yes, I do
need to get up. But I need to clarify because
I mentioned this my last call. I am a teacher.
I teach history, but then I also serve on the
school committee, so I have two roles in education. This
year I set away from the classroom. Okay, I got
a job at a media web design company, so I

(30:18):
got a basic nine to five, but then I still
serve on the school committee. So just to clarify it,
you know, I'm not going to be in the classroom,
but I serve on the district level in education and
going forward, I will return to the classroom at some point,
but this year, and you know I'm not I'm not
teaching history. We're just to clarify that. Now you started

(30:40):
Ben with my team, I have to say. You know,
we talked about me based in the great state of
New Jersey, and so I have an affinity for the
for the Eagles, the Eagles and Ben. We got to
keep this quarterback sneak going on, you know what I mean.
We got to keep it. And just because the Eagles
are successful, then it doesn't mean that the play itself,
you know what I mean. Like when you have Wilt

(31:00):
Chamblain coming to the NBA. You're a sports historian, and
his dominance caught the league to change certain things, the
parameters of the game, you know, just because what was
dominant in Kareem with the skyhooks. Go back to the
Philadelphia Eagles, who did a nice job. They ruined Tom
Brady's comeback last week here in the Commonwealth. And then
we have a big game this Sunday with Miami coming in.

(31:22):
But the Patriots showed well, the defense looks stout. You know,
they gave him that they challenge the Eagles, but you know,
they showed there's not going to be a sophomore slump
after going to the Super Bowl. But then, where's the
toughness in the NFL in terms of why don't you
just stop it? Why don't you get your guys in
the box? Okay, football is a manly man sport, and
why don't you put that?

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Why isn't listen? You don't lie. It's the most lethal
play I've ever seen in the NFL, although than I
guess people talking about some of the old flying wedge
things that was before my time. But my god, andre
I don't understand why every single team in the NFL
doesn't run this. If you get into a situation and

(32:00):
it's third down and one fourth down one, why wouldn't
you do it? It's like, it's not Jalen Hurts is
not getting the first down because he's athletic. He is athletic.
He's getting the first down because the people are shoving him.
He's got two three people shoving him forward like he's
a rag doll or a stuffed animal and they're just

(32:20):
pushing him forward. You could do that with You could
do that with any quarterback in the NFL. If you want.

Speaker 7 (32:27):
Point taking, Ben, where has Ray Lewis gone? Where is
Dick Buckets? Where is Brian Urlacher? Put your middle linebackers
in the box and Mike mess fired with fire In conclusion, Ben, No,
you've got a busy show and you got a lot
of people listen. The reason is to play successful. We've
got a Kels brother all right, they got the Kel's
brother at center. Okay, A dude of dudes, a man
of men. Okay. That's why they're having success. They have

(32:48):
an offensive line. They can't be matched other teams. Shut
their game up, put some linebackers in the box and
stop them. The NFL need to keep that play, Ben,
thanks for taking a call as well.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
All right, thank you great Andre there. So here's some
music immortality. Little Wayne is still hanging out making music
and I bring this up because it's kind of funny.
So he his new song. He had a shout out
to Dion Sanders and then he took a pot shot
at Zion Williamson.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
This is great.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
I'll just read this one line. I'll actually read two ones.
So in terms of Dion, he said, nobody flow like mine.
I'm a son in these blank get me coaching blank
like prime right tribute to Dion Sanders. Then a little
wait earlier said spitting at Cayenne. Eat you like Zion?

Speaker 2 (33:41):
About that? Eat?

Speaker 1 (33:43):
You like Zion? Okay, that's wonderful.

Speaker 7 (33:51):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (33:51):
All right time now for the who am I?

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Game?

Speaker 1 (33:53):
We'll have the NFL pick them as well. Here's the
who am I Game? I can become the first quarterback
in NFL history to lose to thirty one different teams
if I end up on the losing side of the
ledger this weekend. Who am I? That is the question
and the answer. We'll get to it, and we will

(34:15):
do it next.

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Speaker 1 (34:46):
It's Ben Malor and time now for the who am
I Game? We will have the NFL pick. I'm coming
up momentarily. We're gonna pick a quarterback, running back, tight end,
and a couple of receivers. Whoever gets the most Fantasy
points this NFL weekend will get credited with a victory.
Very important, very important. Here's the who am I Game?

(35:07):
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that rule change in the NFL. My idea, Eddie's idea.

(35:28):
It's on my Twitter page at Ben Mallard. Here's the
who am I Game? I could become the first quarterback
in NFL history to lose to thirty one different teams
if I end up on the wrong side of the
ledger this weekend. Who am I? That is the question?
And what is the answer? And let's see does anyone

(35:51):
know the answer?

Speaker 2 (35:52):
In the In the.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Malard Militia, A fat bastard. Yes, by the Cowboy Killer
page down. Let's see Eddie's plan is trash. Guest by Fergkat.
You are President William Howard Taft, who was born on
this day in eighteen fifty seven, the fattest president of
all time. Who else we have? Legally blind Brett? I

(36:14):
remember when he used to call the show. Shane from
des Moines. Tony Banks guest by Chris in des Moines.
We're very big in des Moines. Jeff Spacoli left hand
passer from Big Lou, Eric Heipel from the k C.
Carr Haller the Great Optimist, Prime from the Real Martin
at the Airport in Denver, Jim Drunken Miller guest by

(36:36):
Andrew in the Bay Area. Matt the Warrior Raider A's fan.
I got it right, obviously obviously cheating Eddie. Do you
have an answer, Eddie?

Speaker 7 (36:48):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Is it Baker Mayfield?

Speaker 1 (36:50):
No, it is not Baker Mayfield, Eddie. It is Derek
Carr of the Nolan Saints. They played at Carolina Panthers
on Monday us to everyone other than Carolina and the Raiders.
I look, the Saints don't play the Raiders. This year,
so he'll have to wait, but he has a shot.
You know, if the Raiders and Saints matchup in the
next couple of years, he could if he's still there,

(37:11):
lose to every team, all thirty two in the all
thirty two in the NFL, And that leads us into
here we go. Time now for the MLB. Actually not MLB.
Are you playing the MLB music? You screwed me up
by it same it's NFL. Come on, Sam, Sam, how
dare you get some NFL music? I need NFL. Get

(37:33):
the NFL on Fox name or something. Come on, there
we go? All right now, I'm in the mood. All right, Cook,
you're going first here, Coopler. We need a quarterback, running back,
tight end, and two wide receivers.

Speaker 6 (37:44):
We'll see if it works two weeks in a row.
Give me Christian McCaffrey.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Naha, the rams man. Rams will ram it all day,
ram it all night. Let's see here.

Speaker 9 (37:52):
Oh I'm off, Oh goodie. I will take Eatie, Meetie
mighty mo. I will go with Let's see, I'll.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Take Trevor Lawrence again again. He's gonna have a big game,
all right, go ahead, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
I'll go with Brock Purty.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
That's a shot at me, Sam, back to back.

Speaker 6 (38:14):
I will take Tua Tongue Goviloa.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
And George playing the Patriots, George Kittle. Okay, Eddie, go ahead, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Let's go with Nick Chubba blah blah, little insurance there,
Fan insurance.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
All right, I'm gonna take He's back, Travis Kelsey a swifty.
I'm taking a swifty. Go ahead, Cooke, give me Amen
Ross sat Brown, all right, you can have him one more.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
And Chris o'lave.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Okay, I will take Calvin Ridley. Calvin, really, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Let's go with Tyreek Hill.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Oh yeah, big game last week? He won have back
to back big games. Go ahead, there, Sam, the back
to back on the NFL. Pick him.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
I'll take Austin Eckler rights, and I will take Hall.

Speaker 6 (39:03):
I know these are all tough, but we're gonna see.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Him gonna take two running backs. That's interesting, gop yop. Yeah,
let's go with Let's go with Stefan Dicks.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Oh that's a bad Has Davante Adams been picked yet?

Speaker 7 (39:17):
No?

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Okay, I got my guy. Davante go raiders didn't know
the rules, Yeah, all right, I did.

Speaker 9 (39:22):
I explained the five times I explained the rules, I.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Said the rules, you played the baseball song.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
Covid. I'm gonna hopefully he plays. I'm gonna go with
Mark and Oh Boy, one more, uh, one more, Oh crap,
oh crap. Let's go with oh crap and picked party. Yes,
I'll go with Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Okay, I'll take the John Robinson of the Atlanta Falcons, Eddie,
Darren Waller, Sam, last pick.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
The running back.

Speaker 6 (39:58):
Sam.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
I was sad you let everyone and I were down.
They're all upset
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