November 10, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Mike Tomlin's death stare when asked about Aaron Rodgers' performance for the Steelers in their loss to the Chargers on SNF, how much stock to put into Tomlin claiming the Steelers will "be back," the overwhelming amount of Steelers fans in SoFi Stadium, and more!
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But here in our Number one, it's all about the
Sunday night game. Not much of a game. The Steelers
had an early lead and then it was domination the
rest of the way from the Chargers. What's your takeaway
from Mike Tomlin giving a reporter the death stare when
asked about Aaron Rodgers' performance for the Pittsburgh football team. Also,
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how much stalk do you put in Mike Tomlin promising
that the Steelers he said, we'll be back and show
up to the game on Sunday night? And is this
embarrassing for the NFL that the Chargers haven't been able
to develop a fan base. There were thousands and thousands
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it again and busy night bouncing around here, did have
a chance to attend most of the Sunday night cam.
I was out there watching the Sunday night game, I
believe a little early to make it here to the
Mothership to avoid the mass exodus. And it was the
daily double at so Far and as our lead there
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Sunday night for Mike Tomlin and the Steelers visiting SoCal
to take on Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers in a
made for TV matchup. I did not get to hear
the broadcast. I imagine that Chris Collsworth was slobbering all
over both quarterbacks, so the very difficult to slobber over
Aaron Rodgers the way that he played. But there they
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were at so Far in the hood in Inglewood and
up to no good. That was Aaron Rodgers up to
no good. My god, horrific. So I'll get right into it.
Justin Herbert, who wasn't all that great either. He had
two hundred and twenty yards passing and a touchdown and
Aaron Rodgers a stumble bump performance for Aaron Rodgers, his
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worst game with the Pet sparkstiff. Despite being surrounded by
nothing but black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow,
black and yellow. It did not matter as the Chargers
slapping around Aaron Rodgers and a lot of that was
unforced mistake by Rogers twenty five to ten. Your final
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score saw the game? You know that on Sunday night
there for the third straight win. Show me your lightning bolt. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room. Aaron
Rodgers completed barely over fifty percent of his passes in
this game. I'm told that's not good. He averaged a
little over five yards of pass which was actually better
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than it had been most of the game thanks to
the fourth quarter and the garbage time touchdown with less
than three minutes to go the game. Well in the bag,
what's in the back? The win is in the bag
for the team from Los Angeles, the Chargers. There. Rogers
also had an interception that he sacked for a safety
in the end zone, obviously, and then also fumble, though
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that was recovered. So when asked to assess Aaron Rodgers play,
Mike Tomlin, the Steelers head coach, seemingly dismissing the question
there and he delivered a death stare, a Mike Tomlin
death stare to the reporter, do we have that. I
don't know we have that we have that. I listened
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to Mike Tomlin here has asked the basic question you're
starting quarterback, went out there and wrote the comment, what
do you have to say for yourself?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
How would you?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How would you? How would you? All right? So that
is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss I
always like angry Mike Tomlin's fun. It's fun angry Mike Tomlin.
It was an obvious question. Everyone knows the answer to that.
It's like, but you're not supposed to say it. So
let us discuss the question what is your takeaway from
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Mike Tomlin and the death Stare? The death stair like
the male Medusa right there, Mike tom about Aaron Rodgers
and how to assess his performance or lack thereof. So
I've got limited edition frosty mug and background noise, and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to pig out on ballpark food like stale popcorn, nachos,
hot dogs. There's a lot of ballpark food everywhere being tossed.
So hey, my first thought on this, I loved the
Tomlin desk there, not quite to the level of Bill
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Belichick back in his salad days with the Patriots. But Tomlin,
his blood was boiling. The blood was He's like, here
we go again, Here we go again. And Ben Roethlisberger
was not very good the end of his time in Pittsburgh.
They've had a revolving door of dumb and dumber at
quarterback ever since Roethlisberger left. And again he went very
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good at the end there in Pittsburgh. And so they
went through a bunch last year was justin Fields, Holy
crappt us. He sucked and you see what he did
for the Jets. Again they won, but not because him
and then also Russell Wilson. So they're like, well we
got better, and Aaron Rodgers has actually been better than
what they had gotten there in Pittsburgh. But this was horrific.
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That was not the kind of performance you expected. Obviously,
no one expected that. And man Rogers looking like he
belonged in a museum, and not the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. I'm talking about like a museum where they
look at dinosaurs. Man ancient looking there for Rogers in
the game. And I was actually sitting kind of near
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the end zone when Rogers stumbled and bumbled and fell
down there for the safety early in the football game there,
and any success he had in this game was in
garbage time. The game had already been decided. The outcome
was going to go to the Chargers, and then that's it.
So you'd think the way he was playing, there should
be some kind of spin off with Nike, a limited
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edition Nike Orthopedic cleat. I get those special Orthopedic cleats
with the swooshot him and get him a walker holy
canoy man. Instead of just do it, just nap will
be the phrase there for Rogers. Watching him play here,
he looked like forget forty one. He played like he
was in his late sixties there, plodding along slow. There
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was really no rhythm, no method to the madness here
for Aaron Rodgers, and we call the type of game
Rogers had it's called the Compass Rose. What is the
compass Rose quarterback? That is where the passes go up
and down and right and left, and Rogers, it seemed, specifically,
had mastered in this game the art of the overthrow.
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The art of the overthrow. There was vintage. This was
like Jets era Rodgers, although I felt like it was
worse than that. Even watching it in person. I've seen
it on TV a bunch, but to be there in
the building and watch it in person, I was like,
ooh yeah, man, like boy, I gotta get more monologues
in on Rogers. He's not gonna be around very much longer.
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Holy crap, man a lot with the last twenty years
of my life talking about his cat Rodgers and who
man and just grumpy, your typical one. Things aren't going well.
You're disengaged, you're not fired up here. He's like trying
to do a fill in for a Sesame Street character
Oscar the Grouch, grouchy, grouchy, grouchy, grouchy, grouchy man a lot.
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Let's they were playing in a swamp. The Steelers' offense, nothing,
nothing going on. Third down for Aaron Rodgers. It was bad.
So they had that limited edition orthopedic shoe for Rogers,
and you half expected him in the third quarter just
to crawl back into the trash can the way that
he was playing, and of course see what it was.
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He distracted because you know, his imaginary wife was there,
maybe his real wife, I don't know, who knows he's
in your house in Malibu. Although I think he's moving.
I don't know what's going on with that. But it's
week ten. There are no more excuse like the first
five weeks. Wo it's early, We'll figure it out. Nothing
to worry about. It's weak ten. We are past the
midway point. What are you doing? This is who you are.
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The trade deadline is over. There's no reinforcements coming in
to save the day. This is what you got. Now
are we discounting the Chargers? Here? Are the Chargers a
really good defense? Then we're like they're good defense? I
don't know. I would say really good, and I would
argue based on both watching the game on the monitor
and I'm flipping down with my own eyeballs. It seemed
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more case of these were self inflicted wounds by the
Pittsburgh Steelers in this game. So, using the Malor scale
of concern, the Malor scale of concern one to ten,
with ten being the worst of the worst of the worst,
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I'm at a nine. I'm at a nine. Am I
being a prisoner of the moment? Probably so? Probably so?
But I'm at a nine. I just I'm telling you
what I just watched. That is not a guy that's
gonna win a playoff game. That is not a guy.
It looks like he's even gonna make the playoffs. That
was bad. That was bad on That's one game. Blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. But that's all I
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have to do this show right now, It's all I
have to go out. He sucked. Rogers was garbage in
that game, okay, And if this keeps up, forget a quarterback,
coach or a wide receiver. He's gonna need a lifeguard
because he's drowning. The whole offense is drowning out. There
was a gigantic turn Berger is what they served up there.
And Rogers now, he said after the game that he
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feels good and that he'll play better and he's gonna
do better decision making and all that. You know, come on,
all right now, turning the page. As for the big
picture again, better story in the losing locker room now.
Mike Tomlin also said, regarding the situation, the steels are
and he said, there's quote nothing mystical about it. He said,
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he says we'll be back, he claimed, will be better.
We have to be close. Quote from the very verbose
Mike Tomlin. A good SoundBite, really good sound bite, Mike
tom top five sound bite coach. We don't do lists.
I'm just saying, top five sound bite coach. Big board,
not list, big board not list. So the question here
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it is how much stalk? How much stalk do you
put into Mike Tomlin promising that these Steelers will be back,
will be back? Is the quote for Mike Tomlin. So
my first reaction, much like when Aaron Rodgers says, hey, uh,
you know, I feel good, we'll play better, when Mike
Tomlin says something similar, it's like, well, what else you
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supposed to say? Like you imagine if Tomlin had come
out as the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers and say,
well we stink boys, we'll just shut it down and
get ready for next year. Load management, lot management. He
can't say that, So it's coach speak. One oh one,
you gotta say something. And so we'll be back as
just Tom Linese. What is tomlines? It's a we're not
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going to forfeit yet. Now we're not. We just decided
not to forfeit. We'll try to play the game. Can congratulations.
So the Steelers are going to show up next week
and the Steelers can say hellllelujah, hellllelujah. Now, why can't
they say halluh? The problem is not the pep talk.
Pep talk really means all that much. It's the quality
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control of the product. It has not been consistent. The
defense was atrocious the beginning of the year. The defense
has played a little bit better now. The offense falls
apart one thing. It's like playing whack a mole, like
you got one problem, you slap that down, and then
another one pops up over he way. I only got
two halves, I only got two hours what he's supposed
to do. And so Rogers looked like watching him play
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in the first half of that game and into the
third quarter, it looked like he had gone out prior
to the game and he was tailgating with like Joe Rogan,
even though Rogan lives in Texas, but they some maybe
flew out to La They were tailgating. They had like
a frosty mug of ayahuasca. And Rogers went out there
and he was seeing demons to the right and he
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was seeing aliens to the left, and it was wild,
wild goes spook. It was a comedy of errors is
what it was. And now the good news is and
I said, hallelujah, the good news is up next be
ben Gals. They suck. If you don't have success in
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offense against the Cincinnati Bengals, then you might want to
go and get your pulse checked because you might be dead. Okay,
they suck. So that's the good news. That's the silver
lining playbook for Mike Tomlin and for Aaron Rodgers. You
got Cincinnati their easy mark. You still got to show up.
You gotta win the game. You'll get a focused Pittsburgh
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team next week. The question is is this going to
be what Rogers is the rest of the way. Who knows,
But Mike Tomlin can talk about and he loves the quote.
The standard is the standard. It's the iconic Mike Tomlin
quote from his time in Pittsburgh with the if you
look at the drive through menu board right now, if
you look at the drive through menu board there it
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says here and you can look at up it says
a standard lately has been mediocrity. And then they've got
a side dish with the combo on the drive through menu.
You've got mediocrity and then a side of false hope
aside of false hope. So you've got a little bit
of that, a little bit of this. It's all kind
of mixed agether now the last word among and I
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did see this. It was multitasking and people were telling
me old stories that they didn't really want to hear,
but they kept on me anyway. The other storyline was
the crowd and it's not new. It's been this way
ever since the NFL left Los Angeles for a generation
and came back. Certain teams that have a rich history
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packed the stadium, in this case the Pittsburgh Steelers. It
might as well have been in the confluence there with
the they formed the Ohio River, the Monongahela and the
Alleghany give birth to a baby might as well have
had that. They had a little man made lake out front.
So far that they have there. But the NBC cameras
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you couldn't help but miss it. You couldn't. You couldn't
avoid it, is what I'm trying to say. The cameras
showed and now we were shocked by it, shouldn't be
shocked by it was happens every time they play a
legacy team like the Packers. Steelers of the forty nine
ers teams that have huge followings. So the cameras kept
showing these Steeler fans waving the terrible towels, and a
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buddy of mine in the press box is like, hey,
did they give those out? I said, why would they
give out terrible towels? That's a Pittsburgh thing, you dummy.
They don't give those out. But it looked like it
was saying a promotion. Everyone had one. Everyone had a
Terrible towel. At one point, I think the Charger fans
started holding them up. They were like, hey, they're yellow.
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We'll make it about that. And so you had Mike
Rico on the broadcast. He said, and he was being
generous when he said sixty five percent. He estimated a
pro Steeler crowd as sixty five percent. Other estimates said
seventy percent. I did the malor math and I was there,
so boots on the ground, I said seventy five percent
Steeler fans seventy five percent. The place was packed. It
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was absolutely packed. Everyone in the house there with the
black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, black
and yellow all that. So the question is this embarrassing
for the NFL that you have an Island game, Island Game,
Sunday Night football. Yet again, Chargers there, and they've been
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in LA for a while now, and they have not
been able to develop a fan base in LA. And
here's the latest example example. A your honor the defense
now rest, so listen. It is I would not say
it's embarrassing. I'm looking. I'm not gonna use the word embarrassing.
The word that should be used here, and I like words.
Inevitable is the word I will use. So I'm gonna
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use the word inevitable. And the reason I'm using the
word inevable. The Chargers ghosted San Diego. You know how
you're sending you a date and you might just yeah,
you go out and date, you get a free meal,
you blow the other person off. I'm gonna contact them again.
So the Chargers ghosted the city of San Diego. Now
you know some of you know I started in radio
in San Diego. I was there as a young lad.
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The Chargers got to a Super Bowl. The town was electric.
It was a loyal fan base of Charger fans in
San Diego. And the franchise, the Spanos family, said screw you,
We're done. That's it. And so they and I know this.
I've had this explained to me by some people that
work for the Chargers years ago. When they first came
to LA. They said, listen, we're gonna get a certain
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percentage of people that are going to drive up from
San Diego, and they're gonna make the drive every Sunday.
It's gonna be a thing. And then they're gonna go back.
And so they figured they'd have that, and then they'd
adds slowly, they'd add fans in LA. Could not have
been more wrong, could not have been more wrong. I
love when really educated people who have gone through all
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of academia have had all that crap and they just
are complete morons people. There's a few Charger fans that
make the trip up in San Diego, very few. The
town's pretty much like, screw you, we hate all things LA.
We're not going up there. You people come down here
on the weekends and run amok in our city. So
we're out. And so you can't just reboot a fan
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base like you can reboot a computer or a phone.
It's not the way it works. Obviously. You certainly can't
get all of a sudden loyal large numbers of loyal fans.
There are loyal Charger fans, it's just not many, not
many of them. And you know, San Diego say what
you want, military towns, surfer town, all that. But they
did love the Chargers. They did, and they were rewarded
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with the bird from the NFL and from the Spanos family. Well,
the reality is hardly anybody cares about the Chargers in LA.
They're just kind of background noise, if you will, in
between commercials and they pop up and you're like, why
is the Charger game? I don't want to watch the
Charger game. Why don't we get another game? Well, that's
the game because they're in LA, so you get to
charge again. But I don't want to charge again. But
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that's the game. That's what you get. Nine years they've
been back. It's been nine years already. The Chargers have
been back in LA and most of the time they're
playing road games and it doesn't affect the outcome. And
I'm not gonna say people make a big deal about it.
They love to talk about home field. It doesn't The
Chargers won this game. It was a Steeler home game.
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The Rams win most of their home games when there's
other fans from the other teams. It doesn't matter. It
feels good if you're a fan of another team. Like
I know the Niner fans love when they come to
La to play the Rams and it's like a Niner
home game. They love it. Ms win most of the time.
When the other team has more fans than the Chargers,
it doesn't affect him. But it does take at least
a generation, at least a generation to cultivate, to grow.
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If you're a Farmer, it takes a generation to grow
on fan base. Right, twenty years, it's been nine, So
if you do the math on that, eleven more years.
Holy crap, we're looking at twenty thirty six, twenty thirty
six before you start to feel any kind of local,
local family. And that's the kids that became charge of
fans that now have become adults and then they're starting
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families and crap like that. That's what that is. Now,
you can fast track it. You can fast track it
the way you would fast track it is to win
a couple of Super Bowls. Because everyone's a front runner.
Everyone's a band wagner, as Blair and Maine likes to say,
And so you can zip things along a little faster.
The Chargers don't look like a super Bowl team to me?
Do they look like a super Bowl team to you?
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They don't look like a super Bowl team to me.
They like a typical middle of the pack good team,
not great team where five things happen, right, meaning a
couple of quarterbacks break their ankles or whatever, you could
go to the super Bowl. Other than that, eh, they'll
win their ten or eleven games, and they'll be a
playoff team and they're losing the first or the second
weekend of the NFL playoffs, and that'll be that. And
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so meanwhile, the Steeler fans generation, which under the mathot
so nineteen seventies, the great Steeler teams with Terry Bradshaw
on that great defense. And so you fast forward out
for those people in the seventies had kids, so then
they became adults in the nineties. So then those people
they had kids maybe in the twenty tens, right, So
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now we're on to another generation of Steeler fans. And
it was crazy, man, I was looking around. I want
to I saw her buddy, Eddie, the Great Eddie Garcia
caught up with him. Had a little pow wow with
Eddie down there he had full Steeler gear on I
couldn't find him because he had full steeler gear. If
you want to stand out, you should want to charge
your jersey. I would have found him right away, King
Eddy right there. But it was like a black and yellow,
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black and yellow circus. It was like Halloween had continued
here and it was like a pajama party mixed with Halloween.
There were dudes with homemade costumes. It was pretty pretty intense.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
These guys have spent a lot of time and effort
to come up with the right look. And now some
of it was store bought, you know. Some of it
was just what you can find online. But it looked
like there were some things I had never seen before.
I saw a lot of Steely McBean, which is I
thought that was kind of have a mascot. Eddie hated
the mascot. But I saw a lot of shirts with
Steely McBean on it and all that stuff. So anyway,
there's the deal. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If
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natives are restless. Ferg Dog says, stop making fun of
the lack of charger fans at so far, there were
plenty of us there. Maybe you were just looking in
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think the charger fans that showed up that was a
mistake because you're better off selling it. You could get
three or four times the money for face value the
secondary mark. The upper bowl tickets like near the near
the Pearly gates were going for four hundred dollars. My god,
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what else do you have to see that page? Van
Andrea points out that just a reminder from the Astrology Insider.
She says, mercury retrograde November ninth through the twenty ninth,
All Aaron Rodgers, what while that's why Rogers wrote devinement comment,
That's why he rode Devin comment right there, what else
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do I see? Page Dan, We'll skip over that one.
Curtis right, sin Athough, I think he misspelled his own name,
says the biggest thing standing in the way of the
Chargers having a bigger fan base is the Rams. There's
enough people in LA for two teams. It's a massive metropolis.
There's plenty of people in LA. Matt Jack says, I
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used to live in San Diego, but you didn't have
to live there to see the TV that the Packers
and other legacy teams would drown out Charger fans at
Qualcomm in San Diego. That is true, Jack, but it
was never like this. It was never like this. It
was never to that level. So it's just a whole
different stratosphere where we are right now. Brock says, Aaron
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Rodgers is washed. He points that out. Doc Dan checks
in from Minnesota. He says, it's the Toronto Tempo, the
world first game ever for a team. I don't know,
I don't know what that. I don't know what you're
talking about. I have no idea your fomi sending some
random Ryan or Aaron Rodgers nonsense. Who's your Bill says
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Andrea the Astrology Insider is cool. Let's go now for
a Pulse of the People report. We start out in
the leadoff chair. We go to a man who I
don't think it was there. I don't think he was
in attendance, but his heart was. We sailo to Sean
the Hood Guy, who's a longtime officionato of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hello,
(28:33):
Sean the Hood Guy, Welcome man.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
It's not a good day, man. What embarrassment all that
at that whole game?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
That was on?
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Ann Rodgers Aaron Rodgers. You can't be coming to Kelly
and smoking that Kelly cush before you play a game,
because your mind was not on that game. Too many
the guy was getting sacked on the ball, look like
they didn't have no receivers. A throw to the defense
was kind of showing a little bit.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Of flashes, but it was there were guys all open
throughout the game. He just didn't find them. They were
they were there. I mean I saw him. Maybe it
was just in the press box, but it looked there
were guys that were open. He just wasn't making the
players to connect with them. So it's not like the
Chargers shut everyone down. They didn't. There were people open
and he just didn't didn't find them. So that's bad
(29:19):
job by him. But he was only sacked three times.
It seemed it seemed like he was sacked more than that.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
But yeah, go ahead, that's a sorry performance.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Man.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Being a Steeler fan is like being on a magic
mountain ride. You get on too many rides, you're gonna
be sick. And the way they be raising my high
my blood pressure, my high blood press appeals should be
black and yellow because they be just having me sick.
They'd be spinning, like one day that we would have
a good game, then the next day we have a
bad game. So it's like my friend asked me, should
I've been on the Steelers this week? And I told
(29:47):
him no, I said. We beat the coach like that,
I said, but we bound to have a bad game
the next game. And they not looking in the rear
view mirror. The ravens is creeping up, and the guys
on TV and the suits they all talking about you.
They creeping up on the aren't creeping up on us?
And don't be surprised if we started dropping games and
they come right pastes and pass us uthing.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Well, they are the math on this, and that was
the teams showing the hood guys. So it's like poetry here.
The Ravens started one in five and at one in
five they were still the betting favorite to win the division.
It's almost like the gambling market knew something. The Ravens
now are one game back of your Steelers for first
place in the division, and the next five opponents for
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the Ravens. If you look at the next five games,
there are against four sub five hundred teams and versus
the Steelers at home. That's what is up ahead for
the Ravens.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Sound like heat a schedule of me, man, But watching
that game. As soon as I got through watching, I
went to Instagram and then your picture was right there
waiting on me with you and Haiti right there. I know.
I got to hear from being the night.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh yeah, no, no, listen, your people were there. Shot.
I thought you might be there because there were nothing
but Steeler fans.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
I came up there earlier, man, But I just stick
around for the game.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You just tailgated. You were right, You were bouncing around
the parking lot tail gaming. Is that what you were doing?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Okay, but I think I think that tickets was too high, man.
So I just socialized with a couple of fans and
I just left.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
That's a smart move, that's a veteran move. You get
the you get the comforts a home, you save your money.
I would do the same thing absolutely.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
All right man, all right, man.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Thank you. There's the Sewan, the hood guy checking in
the inside skinny right there. Jed who Fled? Where has
he been? I wondered, he must have had a probation
meeting or something last week. Only when he asked to
meet with this probation officer, he stops calling the show
for a week. He sobers up. Hello, Jed who Fled?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I thought, I thought, sure you were going to go
to me first, So I started, I'm barefooted walking around
in my yard and I had to go back to
my chair so I could put my hair back on
my feet while Sean went going on his call. One time,
Sean and I were going to play the game, and
you went to him first, and he said, was I
had to Helmie and you went to Jed who friend?
So I was like, I had to Holmie and you
were very uncomfortable because of the racial implications. And it
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worked that well, because Shawn is an awesome guy and everything.
Last Monday, I had had to get you to the hospital.
I was at the promasion office and I was like, man,
my hospital's leaders and so I had had had had problems.
Went to the left of permation office, probasion officer starched
out and I was like, went straight to the R
and I was like, listen, and you got nothing to
(32:16):
do with my I ain't sketched up, but I ain't
scarched out like the analysis and I ain't scarched at all.
And I'm I'm I'm not so not scissed down that
I got heart problems. And actually they sent me there
to the Bay County which is found on city Medicine
with the er because I was like, oh, actually what
turned out to be serious. They can't meat for a
couple of nights and so z it's been a long time.
(32:39):
I get I get dischargement hospital and it was a
myocardial in function Instidney, which is a heart attack. Myles,
heart attacks.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
That you had a heart attack last week.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
All about Monday is slate Monday.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Is yeah, yeah, Jed, Jed, I'm not ready to do
the ugy on Jed who fled but we got to
take care. Are you man? What will what will we
help you?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
But I was borderline concerned, but I was I was like,
I sweating my u A. I sweating my u A.
I'm sorry. I got to be not sweating so much
that I was sweating, and I was like, hey, I
had heart pumps and then whenever this past it was
over seven days. So this past Friday, when I went
in there to check pen for probations, I was like,
I've been in the hospital. She's trying of the idea
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of u A and because of my natural glclers, I
turned out turned out to begause. Because of my natural grizzlers,
I had a UA, like a false positive. And she
was like she asked the male guy who she's a
female film female probation officer, and I've been drinking instead
of doing other stuff. So that's my annunciation packs But
the female promation officer, I had to have a mail
and she's like, do you see a line? And he
(33:44):
was like, no, I don't see nothing. He squeating, really
don't see nothing. Sad. She's like, I'm MNSA sit it
off anyway, So now she's pissed off. The male promison officer,
because like, why am I going to ask for his
advice and then just write in his space disregard his input,
answered it off, and I already got the natural gliscerin
false positive situation going.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
On coming out. So you had a heart attack. Did
you know at the time you were having a heart
attack or did you just think you had you were
having a bad day.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
The Sins Amendment gives me the right to not self
incriminate and say it might have been hypothetically, might have
been both of them. I might have been like, man,
I'm not sure how my urine is going be on that.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Okay, all right, now I've heard I had. I had
a boss, one of our bosses here had a heart attack,
one of the programmers. He told me, he said, you
start feeling it, yeah, before you long before you were here.
But he uh, he said that you feel it in
your arms, like I guess women feel it different, but
in men it comes kind of up your arms. And
did you feel anything in your arms yet?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
My arms have feeling as I'm not some sort of paraplegic.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
No, no, no, I mean when you were having the
heart attack, did you feel like there were some weird
things going on in your arms, like going towards your heart.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Listen, I'm not saying that I was fifty one concerned
about how my year analysis would turn out possible as death.
But also listen, I also had the fear of my Chiff.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
I had ran out of all right, Jed hold on
saying I'll go back to you. I got some business.
I gotta take care, all right, Jed? There you go, Jed,
who had a heart attack? It is the Ben Mallord Show.
Time now for the Who Am I?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Game? You're watching the blowout between the Lions and the Commanders.
President Trump showed up at the game. President Trump joined
Richard Nixon and me as the only sitting presidents to
ever attend a regular season NFL game. Has only been three.
President Trump became the third. So President Trump joined Richard
Nixon and me as the only sitting president to attend
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a regular season NFL game. Who Am I? That is
the question. What is the answer. We'll get to it
and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
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ever closes. Back to it we go, and the time
to pay off the Insta Actually the who am I?
We'll get the Insta trivia later. Here's the who am I? Game?
So President Trump joint Richard Nixon and Me is the
only sitting presidents to ever attend a regular season NFL game.
I found that surprising. I thought, Man, if you're the president,
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you can go anywhere you want for free. Dude, just
got NFL games, big games. I'd be there. Scrooge in
the Bay Area is part of the younger demo. Going
with our great President. Mister Burns is his answer. Who
else do we have Tony Blair from ferg Dog, remember
of the Tony Blair era, his time in the White House.
Charlie Kerfeld from Mister Nice Guy Man, Really good president there.
(37:31):
Charlie Kurfeld Michigan Wolverine alumni, Gerald Ford from King Rory.
That's his answer. Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says, got
to be the father of our country. George Washington. George
was a big fan of the Washington Muskets, A big
fan of that team. Team yep, really good team. I
forty Ian, says our Lee Ermey. Happy two hundred and
(37:53):
fiftieth birthday to the United States Marine Corps. That's right,
I forty I in. And we have our guy Wayne
from Missouri who was in the How crazy is that?
Wayne from Missouri was in boot camp with r Lee
Ermi the famous most famous boot camp person of all time.
Rocket Man from Just Josh. That's his answer. Shannon boy
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and says rest in peace. Lenny Wilkins, Yes, rest in peace, Lenny.
I interviewed him many times back in the day. He
coached just about every team in the NBA, and I
give always good with the coach speak and all that
back in the day, Rest in Peace, Chane in the
moy and going with Mookie Blaylock. Who Brian says Mallard
fan boying it over there in LA with Mookie, Snoop,
(38:34):
Reggie and Troy Paulamalo. Yes, I was fan boying it
with him for sure. Who else do we have Page
down Hill, Billy Jimmy from Joe the Ghost Hunter. That's
his answer. Bill Hoosier Bill says, I tried to walk
out of the hospital twice. Not sure why I even
went to begin ninety two thousand dollars bill for Hoosier Bill.
(38:57):
Oh what ninety two grand for going to the hospital.
I'll stay home. Yeah, I'll go on YouTube and see
if I can figure it out myself. Parito going with
President Rogers, Mister Roger Jack Sparrow from Freeman. That's his answer.
Everyone's trying to understand what Jed said. Mad Jack got
it right. Bad job by him. Terry in England says
(39:19):
it's justin in Cincinnati that that's the answer. Who else
can't read that?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
On?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Leon Spinks remember when he was president for a couple
of years back in the day. The Nature Boys going
with Leon Spinks is his answer. El el Choppo. I'm
trying to remember who is his vice president? El Choppo,
I don't know. That's from Sean in the Valley of
the Sun. Who else the page down? Lorenzo O'Neil from
Big lou He's on number two. Captain Pete Mitchell from
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Gill in San Diego. What say you? Lay? My favorite
president Theodore Roosevelt, one of the all time great president
of course incorrect. The only other president got Trump, Nixon
and the third president Jimmy Carr. Jimmy Carter. How about that,
Jimmy Carter mhm
Put in the eye in ayahuasca. It's our number on.
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Happy Monday to you. It is I Ben this tenth
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But here in our Number one, it's all about the
Sunday night game. Not much of a game. The Steelers
had an early lead and then it was domination the
rest of the way from the Chargers. What's your takeaway
from Mike Tomlin giving a reporter the death stare when
asked about Aaron Rodgers' performance for the Pittsburgh football team. Also,
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how much stalk do you put in Mike Tomlin promising
that the Steelers he said, we'll be back and show
up to the game on Sunday night? And is this
embarrassing for the NFL that the Chargers haven't been able
to develop a fan base. There were thousands and thousands
of terrible tale at that game last night at sofar
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it again and busy night bouncing around here, did have
a chance to attend most of the Sunday night cam.
I was out there watching the Sunday night game, I
believe a little early to make it here to the
Mothership to avoid the mass exodus. And it was the
daily double at so Far and as our lead there
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Sunday night for Mike Tomlin and the Steelers visiting SoCal
to take on Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers in a
made for TV matchup. I did not get to hear
the broadcast. I imagine that Chris Collsworth was slobbering all
over both quarterbacks, so the very difficult to slobber over
Aaron Rodgers the way that he played. But there they
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were at so Far in the hood in Inglewood and
up to no good. That was Aaron Rodgers up to
no good. My god, horrific. So I'll get right into it.
Justin Herbert, who wasn't all that great either. He had
two hundred and twenty yards passing and a touchdown and
Aaron Rodgers a stumble bump performance for Aaron Rodgers, his
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worst game with the Pet sparkstiff. Despite being surrounded by
nothing but black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow,
black and yellow. It did not matter as the Chargers
slapping around Aaron Rodgers and a lot of that was
unforced mistake by Rogers twenty five to ten. Your final
(04:03):
score saw the game? You know that on Sunday night
there for the third straight win. Show me your lightning bolt. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room. Aaron
Rodgers completed barely over fifty percent of his passes in
this game. I'm told that's not good. He averaged a
little over five yards of pass which was actually better
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than it had been most of the game thanks to
the fourth quarter and the garbage time touchdown with less
than three minutes to go the game. Well in the bag,
what's in the back? The win is in the bag
for the team from Los Angeles, the Chargers. There. Rogers
also had an interception that he sacked for a safety
in the end zone, obviously, and then also fumble, though
(04:46):
that was recovered. So when asked to assess Aaron Rodgers play,
Mike Tomlin, the Steelers head coach, seemingly dismissing the question
there and he delivered a death stare, a Mike Tomlin
death stare to the reporter, do we have that. I
don't know we have that we have that. I listened
(05:08):
to Mike Tomlin here has asked the basic question you're
starting quarterback, went out there and wrote the comment, what
do you have to say for yourself?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
How would you?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How would you? How would you? All right? So that
is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss I
always like angry Mike Tomlin's fun. It's fun angry Mike Tomlin.
It was an obvious question. Everyone knows the answer to that.
It's like, but you're not supposed to say it. So
let us discuss the question what is your takeaway from
(05:42):
Mike Tomlin and the death Stare? The death stair like
the male Medusa right there, Mike tom about Aaron Rodgers
and how to assess his performance or lack thereof. So
I've got limited edition frosty mug and background noise, and
(06:02):
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to pig out on ballpark food like stale popcorn, nachos,
hot dogs. There's a lot of ballpark food everywhere being tossed.
So hey, my first thought on this, I loved the
Tomlin desk there, not quite to the level of Bill
(06:22):
Belichick back in his salad days with the Patriots. But Tomlin,
his blood was boiling. The blood was He's like, here
we go again, Here we go again. And Ben Roethlisberger
was not very good the end of his time in Pittsburgh.
They've had a revolving door of dumb and dumber at
quarterback ever since Roethlisberger left. And again he went very
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good at the end there in Pittsburgh. And so they
went through a bunch last year was justin Fields, Holy
crappt us. He sucked and you see what he did
for the Jets. Again they won, but not because him
and then also Russell Wilson. So they're like, well we
got better, and Aaron Rodgers has actually been better than
what they had gotten there in Pittsburgh. But this was horrific.
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That was not the kind of performance you expected. Obviously,
no one expected that. And man Rogers looking like he
belonged in a museum, and not the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. I'm talking about like a museum where they
look at dinosaurs. Man ancient looking there for Rogers in
the game. And I was actually sitting kind of near
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the end zone when Rogers stumbled and bumbled and fell
down there for the safety early in the football game there,
and any success he had in this game was in
garbage time. The game had already been decided. The outcome
was going to go to the Chargers, and then that's it.
So you'd think the way he was playing, there should
be some kind of spin off with Nike, a limited
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edition Nike Orthopedic cleat. I get those special Orthopedic cleats
with the swooshot him and get him a walker holy
canoy man. Instead of just do it, just nap will
be the phrase there for Rogers. Watching him play here,
he looked like forget forty one. He played like he
was in his late sixties there, plodding along slow. There
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was really no rhythm, no method to the madness here
for Aaron Rodgers, and we call the type of game
Rogers had it's called the Compass Rose. What is the
compass Rose quarterback? That is where the passes go up
and down and right and left, and Rogers, it seemed, specifically,
had mastered in this game the art of the overthrow.
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The art of the overthrow. There was vintage. This was
like Jets era Rodgers, although I felt like it was
worse than that. Even watching it in person. I've seen
it on TV a bunch, but to be there in
the building and watch it in person, I was like,
ooh yeah, man, like boy, I gotta get more monologues
in on Rogers. He's not gonna be around very much longer.
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Holy crap, man a lot with the last twenty years
of my life talking about his cat Rodgers and who
man and just grumpy, your typical one. Things aren't going well.
You're disengaged, you're not fired up here. He's like trying
to do a fill in for a Sesame Street character
Oscar the Grouch, grouchy, grouchy, grouchy, grouchy, grouchy man a lot.
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Let's they were playing in a swamp. The Steelers' offense, nothing,
nothing going on. Third down for Aaron Rodgers. It was bad.
So they had that limited edition orthopedic shoe for Rogers,
and you half expected him in the third quarter just
to crawl back into the trash can the way that
he was playing, and of course see what it was.
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He distracted because you know, his imaginary wife was there,
maybe his real wife, I don't know, who knows he's
in your house in Malibu. Although I think he's moving.
I don't know what's going on with that. But it's
week ten. There are no more excuse like the first
five weeks. Wo it's early, We'll figure it out. Nothing
to worry about. It's weak ten. We are past the
midway point. What are you doing? This is who you are.
(10:05):
The trade deadline is over. There's no reinforcements coming in
to save the day. This is what you got. Now
are we discounting the Chargers? Here? Are the Chargers a
really good defense? Then we're like they're good defense? I
don't know. I would say really good, and I would
argue based on both watching the game on the monitor
and I'm flipping down with my own eyeballs. It seemed
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more case of these were self inflicted wounds by the
Pittsburgh Steelers in this game. So, using the Malor scale
of concern, the Malor scale of concern one to ten,
with ten being the worst of the worst of the worst,
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I'm at a nine. I'm at a nine. Am I
being a prisoner of the moment? Probably so? Probably so?
But I'm at a nine. I just I'm telling you
what I just watched. That is not a guy that's
gonna win a playoff game. That is not a guy.
It looks like he's even gonna make the playoffs. That
was bad. That was bad on That's one game. Blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. But that's all I
(11:07):
have to do this show right now, It's all I
have to go out. He sucked. Rogers was garbage in
that game, okay, And if this keeps up, forget a quarterback,
coach or a wide receiver. He's gonna need a lifeguard
because he's drowning. The whole offense is drowning out. There
was a gigantic turn Berger is what they served up there.
And Rogers now, he said after the game that he
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feels good and that he'll play better and he's gonna
do better decision making and all that. You know, come on,
all right now, turning the page. As for the big
picture again, better story in the losing locker room now.
Mike Tomlin also said, regarding the situation, the steels are
and he said, there's quote nothing mystical about it. He said,
(11:52):
he says we'll be back, he claimed, will be better.
We have to be close. Quote from the very verbose
Mike Tomlin. A good SoundBite, really good sound bite, Mike
tom top five sound bite coach. We don't do lists.
I'm just saying, top five sound bite coach. Big board,
not list, big board not list. So the question here
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it is how much stalk? How much stalk do you
put into Mike Tomlin promising that these Steelers will be back,
will be back? Is the quote for Mike Tomlin. So
my first reaction, much like when Aaron Rodgers says, hey, uh,
you know, I feel good, we'll play better, when Mike
Tomlin says something similar, it's like, well, what else you
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supposed to say? Like you imagine if Tomlin had come
out as the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers and say,
well we stink boys, we'll just shut it down and
get ready for next year. Load management, lot management. He
can't say that, So it's coach speak. One oh one,
you gotta say something. And so we'll be back as
just Tom Linese. What is tomlines? It's a we're not
(12:55):
going to forfeit yet. Now we're not. We just decided
not to forfeit. We'll try to play the game. Can congratulations.
So the Steelers are going to show up next week
and the Steelers can say hellllelujah, hellllelujah. Now, why can't
they say halluh? The problem is not the pep talk.
Pep talk really means all that much. It's the quality
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control of the product. It has not been consistent. The
defense was atrocious the beginning of the year. The defense
has played a little bit better now. The offense falls
apart one thing. It's like playing whack a mole, like
you got one problem, you slap that down, and then
another one pops up over he way. I only got
two halves, I only got two hours what he's supposed
to do. And so Rogers looked like watching him play
(13:41):
in the first half of that game and into the
third quarter, it looked like he had gone out prior
to the game and he was tailgating with like Joe Rogan,
even though Rogan lives in Texas, but they some maybe
flew out to La They were tailgating. They had like
a frosty mug of ayahuasca. And Rogers went out there
and he was seeing demons to the right and he
(14:02):
was seeing aliens to the left, and it was wild,
wild goes spook. It was a comedy of errors is
what it was. And now the good news is and
I said, hallelujah, the good news is up next be
ben Gals. They suck. If you don't have success in
(14:25):
offense against the Cincinnati Bengals, then you might want to
go and get your pulse checked because you might be dead. Okay,
they suck. So that's the good news. That's the silver
lining playbook for Mike Tomlin and for Aaron Rodgers. You
got Cincinnati their easy mark. You still got to show up.
You gotta win the game. You'll get a focused Pittsburgh
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team next week. The question is is this going to
be what Rogers is the rest of the way. Who knows,
But Mike Tomlin can talk about and he loves the quote.
The standard is the standard. It's the iconic Mike Tomlin
quote from his time in Pittsburgh with the if you
look at the drive through menu board right now, if
you look at the drive through menu board there it
(15:08):
says here and you can look at up it says
a standard lately has been mediocrity. And then they've got
a side dish with the combo on the drive through menu.
You've got mediocrity and then a side of false hope
aside of false hope. So you've got a little bit
of that, a little bit of this. It's all kind
of mixed agether now the last word among and I
(15:28):
did see this. It was multitasking and people were telling
me old stories that they didn't really want to hear,
but they kept on me anyway. The other storyline was
the crowd and it's not new. It's been this way
ever since the NFL left Los Angeles for a generation
and came back. Certain teams that have a rich history
(15:51):
packed the stadium, in this case the Pittsburgh Steelers. It
might as well have been in the confluence there with
the they formed the Ohio River, the Monongahela and the
Alleghany give birth to a baby might as well have
had that. They had a little man made lake out front.
So far that they have there. But the NBC cameras
(16:12):
you couldn't help but miss it. You couldn't. You couldn't
avoid it, is what I'm trying to say. The cameras
showed and now we were shocked by it, shouldn't be
shocked by it was happens every time they play a
legacy team like the Packers. Steelers of the forty nine
ers teams that have huge followings. So the cameras kept
showing these Steeler fans waving the terrible towels, and a
(16:35):
buddy of mine in the press box is like, hey,
did they give those out? I said, why would they
give out terrible towels? That's a Pittsburgh thing, you dummy.
They don't give those out. But it looked like it
was saying a promotion. Everyone had one. Everyone had a
Terrible towel. At one point, I think the Charger fans
started holding them up. They were like, hey, they're yellow.
(16:56):
We'll make it about that. And so you had Mike
Rico on the broadcast. He said, and he was being
generous when he said sixty five percent. He estimated a
pro Steeler crowd as sixty five percent. Other estimates said
seventy percent. I did the malor math and I was there,
so boots on the ground, I said seventy five percent
Steeler fans seventy five percent. The place was packed. It
(17:21):
was absolutely packed. Everyone in the house there with the
black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, black
and yellow all that. So the question is this embarrassing
for the NFL that you have an Island game, Island Game,
Sunday Night football. Yet again, Chargers there, and they've been
(17:42):
in LA for a while now, and they have not
been able to develop a fan base in LA. And
here's the latest example example. A your honor the defense
now rest, so listen. It is I would not say
it's embarrassing. I'm looking. I'm not gonna use the word embarrassing.
The word that should be used here, and I like words.
Inevitable is the word I will use. So I'm gonna
(18:04):
use the word inevitable. And the reason I'm using the
word inevable. The Chargers ghosted San Diego. You know how
you're sending you a date and you might just yeah,
you go out and date, you get a free meal,
you blow the other person off. I'm gonna contact them again.
So the Chargers ghosted the city of San Diego. Now
you know some of you know I started in radio
in San Diego. I was there as a young lad.
(18:25):
The Chargers got to a Super Bowl. The town was electric.
It was a loyal fan base of Charger fans in
San Diego. And the franchise, the Spanos family, said screw you,
We're done. That's it. And so they and I know this.
I've had this explained to me by some people that
work for the Chargers years ago. When they first came
to LA. They said, listen, we're gonna get a certain
(18:48):
percentage of people that are going to drive up from
San Diego, and they're gonna make the drive every Sunday.
It's gonna be a thing. And then they're gonna go back.
And so they figured they'd have that, and then they'd
adds slowly, they'd add fans in LA. Could not have
been more wrong, could not have been more wrong. I
love when really educated people who have gone through all
(19:10):
of academia have had all that crap and they just
are complete morons people. There's a few Charger fans that
make the trip up in San Diego, very few. The
town's pretty much like, screw you, we hate all things LA.
We're not going up there. You people come down here
on the weekends and run amok in our city. So
we're out. And so you can't just reboot a fan
(19:34):
base like you can reboot a computer or a phone.
It's not the way it works. Obviously. You certainly can't
get all of a sudden loyal large numbers of loyal fans.
There are loyal Charger fans, it's just not many, not
many of them. And you know, San Diego say what
you want, military towns, surfer town, all that. But they
did love the Chargers. They did, and they were rewarded
(19:56):
with the bird from the NFL and from the Spanos family. Well,
the reality is hardly anybody cares about the Chargers in LA.
They're just kind of background noise, if you will, in
between commercials and they pop up and you're like, why
is the Charger game? I don't want to watch the
Charger game. Why don't we get another game? Well, that's
the game because they're in LA, so you get to
charge again. But I don't want to charge again. But
(20:16):
that's the game. That's what you get. Nine years they've
been back. It's been nine years already. The Chargers have
been back in LA and most of the time they're
playing road games and it doesn't affect the outcome. And
I'm not gonna say people make a big deal about it.
They love to talk about home field. It doesn't The
Chargers won this game. It was a Steeler home game.
(20:37):
The Rams win most of their home games when there's
other fans from the other teams. It doesn't matter. It
feels good if you're a fan of another team. Like
I know the Niner fans love when they come to
La to play the Rams and it's like a Niner
home game. They love it. Ms win most of the time.
When the other team has more fans than the Chargers,
it doesn't affect him. But it does take at least
a generation, at least a generation to cultivate, to grow.
(21:02):
If you're a Farmer, it takes a generation to grow
on fan base. Right, twenty years, it's been nine, So
if you do the math on that, eleven more years.
Holy crap, we're looking at twenty thirty six, twenty thirty
six before you start to feel any kind of local,
local family. And that's the kids that became charge of
fans that now have become adults and then they're starting
(21:24):
families and crap like that. That's what that is. Now,
you can fast track it. You can fast track it
the way you would fast track it is to win
a couple of Super Bowls. Because everyone's a front runner.
Everyone's a band wagner, as Blair and Maine likes to say,
And so you can zip things along a little faster.
The Chargers don't look like a super Bowl team to me?
Do they look like a super Bowl team to you?
(21:44):
They don't look like a super Bowl team to me.
They like a typical middle of the pack good team,
not great team where five things happen, right, meaning a
couple of quarterbacks break their ankles or whatever, you could
go to the super Bowl. Other than that, eh, they'll
win their ten or eleven games, and they'll be a
playoff team and they're losing the first or the second
weekend of the NFL playoffs, and that'll be that. And
(22:07):
so meanwhile, the Steeler fans generation, which under the mathot
so nineteen seventies, the great Steeler teams with Terry Bradshaw
on that great defense. And so you fast forward out
for those people in the seventies had kids, so then
they became adults in the nineties. So then those people
they had kids maybe in the twenty tens, right, So
(22:31):
now we're on to another generation of Steeler fans. And
it was crazy, man, I was looking around. I want
to I saw her buddy, Eddie, the Great Eddie Garcia
caught up with him. Had a little pow wow with
Eddie down there he had full Steeler gear on I
couldn't find him because he had full steeler gear. If
you want to stand out, you should want to charge
your jersey. I would have found him right away, King
Eddy right there. But it was like a black and yellow,
(22:52):
black and yellow circus. It was like Halloween had continued
here and it was like a pajama party mixed with Halloween.
There were dudes with homemade costumes. It was pretty pretty intense.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
These guys have spent a lot of time and effort
to come up with the right look. And now some
of it was store bought, you know. Some of it
was just what you can find online. But it looked
like there were some things I had never seen before.
I saw a lot of Steely McBean, which is I
thought that was kind of have a mascot. Eddie hated
the mascot. But I saw a lot of shirts with
Steely McBean on it and all that stuff. So anyway,
there's the deal. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If
(23:27):
you'd like to be part eight seven, seven ninety nine
on five, anything goes. Obviously we'll focus on the Sunday
Night game here, but we had a full card. Another
win for the Patriots. Another win for the Colts, so
they had to go to overtime in Berlin to begin
the day. The Ravens are in really good shape. In fact,
straight ahead. It is amazing poetry. It is amazing poetry.
(23:48):
We'll explain what that is all about. We'll get to it.
We'll take your phone calls, the whole thing, and we
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we are just beginning the brand new week and the
natives are restless. Ferg Dog says, stop making fun of
the lack of charger fans at so far, there were
plenty of us there. Maybe you were just looking in
the wrong place. It would be a wise move. I
(26:23):
think the charger fans that showed up that was a
mistake because you're better off selling it. You could get
three or four times the money for face value the
secondary mark. The upper bowl tickets like near the near
the Pearly gates were going for four hundred dollars. My god,
(26:44):
what else do you have to see that page? Van
Andrea points out that just a reminder from the Astrology Insider.
She says, mercury retrograde November ninth through the twenty ninth,
All Aaron Rodgers, what while that's why Rogers wrote devinement comment,
That's why he rode Devin comment right there, what else
(27:06):
do I see? Page Dan, We'll skip over that one.
Curtis right, sin Athough, I think he misspelled his own name,
says the biggest thing standing in the way of the
Chargers having a bigger fan base is the Rams. There's
enough people in LA for two teams. It's a massive metropolis.
There's plenty of people in LA. Matt Jack says, I
(27:28):
used to live in San Diego, but you didn't have
to live there to see the TV that the Packers
and other legacy teams would drown out Charger fans at
Qualcomm in San Diego. That is true, Jack, but it
was never like this. It was never like this. It
was never to that level. So it's just a whole
different stratosphere where we are right now. Brock says, Aaron
(27:51):
Rodgers is washed. He points that out. Doc Dan checks
in from Minnesota. He says, it's the Toronto Tempo, the
world first game ever for a team. I don't know,
I don't know what that. I don't know what you're
talking about. I have no idea your fomi sending some
random Ryan or Aaron Rodgers nonsense. Who's your Bill says
(28:11):
Andrea the Astrology Insider is cool. Let's go now for
a Pulse of the People report. We start out in
the leadoff chair. We go to a man who I
don't think it was there. I don't think he was
in attendance, but his heart was. We sailo to Sean
the Hood Guy, who's a longtime officionato of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hello,
(28:33):
Sean the Hood Guy, Welcome man.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
It's not a good day, man. What embarrassment all that
at that whole game?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
That was on?
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Ann Rodgers Aaron Rodgers. You can't be coming to Kelly
and smoking that Kelly cush before you play a game,
because your mind was not on that game. Too many
the guy was getting sacked on the ball, look like
they didn't have no receivers. A throw to the defense
was kind of showing a little bit.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Of flashes, but it was there were guys all open
throughout the game. He just didn't find them. They were
they were there. I mean I saw him. Maybe it
was just in the press box, but it looked there
were guys that were open. He just wasn't making the
players to connect with them. So it's not like the
Chargers shut everyone down. They didn't. There were people open
and he just didn't didn't find them. So that's bad
(29:19):
job by him. But he was only sacked three times.
It seemed it seemed like he was sacked more than that.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
But yeah, go ahead, that's a sorry performance.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Man.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Being a Steeler fan is like being on a magic
mountain ride. You get on too many rides, you're gonna
be sick. And the way they be raising my high
my blood pressure, my high blood press appeals should be
black and yellow because they be just having me sick.
They'd be spinning, like one day that we would have
a good game, then the next day we have a
bad game. So it's like my friend asked me, should
I've been on the Steelers this week? And I told
(29:47):
him no, I said. We beat the coach like that,
I said, but we bound to have a bad game
the next game. And they not looking in the rear
view mirror. The ravens is creeping up, and the guys
on TV and the suits they all talking about you.
They creeping up on the aren't creeping up on us?
And don't be surprised if we started dropping games and
they come right pastes and pass us uthing.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Well, they are the math on this, and that was
the teams showing the hood guys. So it's like poetry here.
The Ravens started one in five and at one in
five they were still the betting favorite to win the division.
It's almost like the gambling market knew something. The Ravens
now are one game back of your Steelers for first
place in the division, and the next five opponents for
(30:27):
the Ravens. If you look at the next five games,
there are against four sub five hundred teams and versus
the Steelers at home. That's what is up ahead for
the Ravens.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Sound like heat a schedule of me, man, But watching
that game. As soon as I got through watching, I
went to Instagram and then your picture was right there
waiting on me with you and Haiti right there. I know.
I got to hear from being the night.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh yeah, no, no, listen, your people were there. Shot.
I thought you might be there because there were nothing
but Steeler fans.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
I came up there earlier, man, But I just stick
around for the game.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You just tailgated. You were right, You were bouncing around
the parking lot tail gaming. Is that what you were doing?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Okay, but I think I think that tickets was too high, man.
So I just socialized with a couple of fans and
I just left.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
That's a smart move, that's a veteran move. You get
the you get the comforts a home, you save your money.
I would do the same thing absolutely.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
All right man, all right, man.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Thank you. There's the Sewan, the hood guy checking in
the inside skinny right there. Jed who Fled? Where has
he been? I wondered, he must have had a probation
meeting or something last week. Only when he asked to
meet with this probation officer, he stops calling the show
for a week. He sobers up. Hello, Jed who Fled?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I thought, I thought, sure you were going to go
to me first, So I started, I'm barefooted walking around
in my yard and I had to go back to
my chair so I could put my hair back on
my feet while Sean went going on his call. One time,
Sean and I were going to play the game, and
you went to him first, and he said, was I
had to Helmie and you went to Jed who friend?
So I was like, I had to Holmie and you
were very uncomfortable because of the racial implications. And it
(31:56):
worked that well, because Shawn is an awesome guy and everything.
Last Monday, I had had to get you to the hospital.
I was at the promasion office and I was like, man,
my hospital's leaders and so I had had had had problems.
Went to the left of permation office, probasion officer starched
out and I was like, went straight to the R
and I was like, listen, and you got nothing to
(32:16):
do with my I ain't sketched up, but I ain't
scarched out like the analysis and I ain't scarched at all.
And I'm I'm I'm not so not scissed down that
I got heart problems. And actually they sent me there
to the Bay County which is found on city Medicine
with the er because I was like, oh, actually what
turned out to be serious. They can't meat for a
couple of nights and so z it's been a long time.
(32:39):
I get I get dischargement hospital and it was a
myocardial in function Instidney, which is a heart attack. Myles,
heart attacks.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
That you had a heart attack last week.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
All about Monday is slate Monday.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Is yeah, yeah, Jed, Jed, I'm not ready to do
the ugy on Jed who fled but we got to
take care. Are you man? What will what will we
help you?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
But I was borderline concerned, but I was I was like,
I sweating my u A. I sweating my u A.
I'm sorry. I got to be not sweating so much
that I was sweating, and I was like, hey, I
had heart pumps and then whenever this past it was
over seven days. So this past Friday, when I went
in there to check pen for probations, I was like,
I've been in the hospital. She's trying of the idea
(33:23):
of u A and because of my natural glclers, I
turned out turned out to begause. Because of my natural grizzlers,
I had a UA, like a false positive. And she
was like she asked the male guy who she's a
female film female probation officer, and I've been drinking instead
of doing other stuff. So that's my annunciation packs But
the female promation officer, I had to have a mail
and she's like, do you see a line? And he
(33:44):
was like, no, I don't see nothing. He squeating, really
don't see nothing. Sad. She's like, I'm MNSA sit it
off anyway, So now she's pissed off. The male promison officer,
because like, why am I going to ask for his
advice and then just write in his space disregard his input,
answered it off, and I already got the natural gliscerin
false positive situation going.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
On coming out. So you had a heart attack. Did
you know at the time you were having a heart
attack or did you just think you had you were
having a bad day.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
The Sins Amendment gives me the right to not self
incriminate and say it might have been hypothetically, might have
been both of them. I might have been like, man,
I'm not sure how my urine is going be on that.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Okay, all right, now I've heard I had. I had
a boss, one of our bosses here had a heart attack,
one of the programmers. He told me, he said, you
start feeling it, yeah, before you long before you were here.
But he uh, he said that you feel it in
your arms, like I guess women feel it different, but
in men it comes kind of up your arms. And
did you feel anything in your arms yet?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
My arms have feeling as I'm not some sort of paraplegic.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
No, no, no, I mean when you were having the
heart attack, did you feel like there were some weird
things going on in your arms, like going towards your heart.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Listen, I'm not saying that I was fifty one concerned
about how my year analysis would turn out possible as death.
But also listen, I also had the fear of my Chiff.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
I had ran out of all right, Jed hold on
saying I'll go back to you. I got some business.
I gotta take care, all right, Jed? There you go, Jed,
who had a heart attack? It is the Ben Mallord Show.
Time now for the Who Am I?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Game? You're watching the blowout between the Lions and the Commanders.
President Trump showed up at the game. President Trump joined
Richard Nixon and me as the only sitting presidents to
ever attend a regular season NFL game. Has only been three.
President Trump became the third. So President Trump joined Richard
Nixon and me as the only sitting president to attend
(35:47):
a regular season NFL game. Who Am I? That is
the question. What is the answer. We'll get to it
and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Miller and you. It is the Ben Maller Show as
the Insomniacs, Night Owls, the Mallard Militia join the show
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(36:24):
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(36:47):
ever closes. Back to it we go, and the time
to pay off the Insta Actually the who am I?
We'll get the Insta trivia later. Here's the who am I? Game?
So President Trump joint Richard Nixon and Me is the
only sitting presidents to ever attend a regular season NFL game.
I found that surprising. I thought, Man, if you're the president,
(37:09):
you can go anywhere you want for free. Dude, just
got NFL games, big games. I'd be there. Scrooge in
the Bay Area is part of the younger demo. Going
with our great President. Mister Burns is his answer. Who
else do we have Tony Blair from ferg Dog, remember
of the Tony Blair era, his time in the White House.
Charlie Kerfeld from Mister Nice Guy Man, Really good president there.
(37:31):
Charlie Kurfeld Michigan Wolverine alumni, Gerald Ford from King Rory.
That's his answer. Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says, got
to be the father of our country. George Washington. George
was a big fan of the Washington Muskets, A big
fan of that team. Team yep, really good team. I
forty Ian, says our Lee Ermey. Happy two hundred and
(37:53):
fiftieth birthday to the United States Marine Corps. That's right,
I forty I in. And we have our guy Wayne
from Missouri who was in the How crazy is that?
Wayne from Missouri was in boot camp with r Lee
Ermi the famous most famous boot camp person of all time.
Rocket Man from Just Josh. That's his answer. Shannon boy
(38:14):
and says rest in peace. Lenny Wilkins, Yes, rest in peace, Lenny.
I interviewed him many times back in the day. He
coached just about every team in the NBA, and I
give always good with the coach speak and all that
back in the day, Rest in Peace, Chane in the
moy and going with Mookie Blaylock. Who Brian says Mallard
fan boying it over there in LA with Mookie, Snoop,
(38:34):
Reggie and Troy Paulamalo. Yes, I was fan boying it
with him for sure. Who else do we have Page
down Hill, Billy Jimmy from Joe the Ghost Hunter. That's
his answer. Bill Hoosier Bill says, I tried to walk
out of the hospital twice. Not sure why I even
went to begin ninety two thousand dollars bill for Hoosier Bill.
(38:57):
Oh what ninety two grand for going to the hospital.
I'll stay home. Yeah, I'll go on YouTube and see
if I can figure it out myself. Parito going with
President Rogers, Mister Roger Jack Sparrow from Freeman. That's his answer.
Everyone's trying to understand what Jed said. Mad Jack got
it right. Bad job by him. Terry in England says
(39:19):
it's justin in Cincinnati that that's the answer. Who else
can't read that?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
On?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Leon Spinks remember when he was president for a couple
of years back in the day. The Nature Boys going
with Leon Spinks is his answer. El el Choppo. I'm
trying to remember who is his vice president? El Choppo,
I don't know. That's from Sean in the Valley of
the Sun. Who else the page down? Lorenzo O'Neil from
Big lou He's on number two. Captain Pete Mitchell from
(39:47):
Gill in San Diego. What say you? Lay? My favorite
president Theodore Roosevelt, one of the all time great president
of course incorrect. The only other president got Trump, Nixon
and the third president Jimmy Carr. Jimmy Carter. How about that,
Jimmy Carter mhm
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