December 23, 2025 • 42 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Colts losing to the 49ers on MNF and if this is the end of Philip Rivers' comeback story, how his performance should be graded. Also, do the Colts deserve to be barbecued for trading draft picks to get Sauce Gardner?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Holy cow, it's our number one, our number one, and
we're ready for some fun. It is the Ben Malors Show.
The podcast here on this twenty third day of December. Hey,
programming know, this is my last live radio show for
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want to give you a heads up on that. But
this is the show and here in our number one.
We start with the Monday night football game. If it's
the end of Philip rivers comeback story with the Colts,
how do you grade his two game performance in the
zero for two in the win loss column. Do the
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Colts deserve to be barbecued for treating multiple draft picks
to get Sauce Gardner even though they appear to be
out of the playoff mix. And does this win for
San Francisco count as a signature win for brock Perties
forty nine ers. We'll get to that and more right now.
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don't bear the lead, mom man, one of our old
bosses back in day. They don't bear the lead, my
man heart, Well we won't and our lead. Story from Indianapolis,
the final game of the NFL Weekend. There are two
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weeks to go on the NFL schedule. The final game
they're Week sixteen. Christian McCaffrey leading the forty nine ers
traveling road Show, paying a visit to Old Man Rivers,
Old Man Rivers and the Colts. There you had the
Fox refugees, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They had the
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call on ab right there. I don't know if you watched
it not, maybe not, Maybe you had something else going on.
I don't know what you have going on. I watched it.
I sat there, my fat ass watched this game, the
whole thing. So there was brock Perty making Terry and
England smile. Brock Perty forty nine a quarterback career high
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five touchdown passes, five of them. Brock Perdy, he was
back at Iowa State. The sy closed. Maybe five touchdown
passes forty eight to twenty seven was your final score,
as the Niners get the win, the three touchdown win.
The Colts had the ball down by two scores. There
was enough time to come back and Philip rivers through
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the interception there, So the Niners win going away and
San Francisco eleven and four. They have won five straight.
I didn't play in the NFL, but I'm told that's good.
And so they are still alive. Stand alive, stand alive
in the NFC West race with the Seahawks and the Rams,
of course, and Rams top team in football, and the
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Niners and Seahawks have better records, but the Rams obviously
the better team. We know that. And the conference's top
seed also on the line, and so there you go.
It also snapped. I saw this note. It snapped a
five game losing streak in the series head to head.
The last time, the last time that the Niners were
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able to take down the Colts, and situation was way
back in November of twenty oh one, when Fox Sports
Radio Alumni Association member the Great Jim Mora went on
that playoffs, playoffs when the all time great rants. If
you're old, you know what I'm talking about there. That
coach More worked here for a number of years after
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that when he coached the Colts. And of course I've
told him this, I had him on my podcast a
while back. But Jim Mora, the greatest rant was not
the playoff rant. It was we couldn't do Diddley Pooh
when he coached the Saints. That's the better rant by
Jim Mora. But still Indianapolis that lost there, that loss
also clinching a playoff spot. For here we go Buffalo.
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Jacksonville is in the playoffs. Jacksonville is in the playoffs.
Buy your lottery tickets. The Chargers are in. The Chargers
are in in the AFC as well. The better story,
let's go back to the Niners and the Colts. The
better story in the losing locker room. So that is
where we will begin here, as down goes Indy, Down
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goes Indy. The Colts have now lost five straight and
they did something that mathematically is almost impossible. The Colts
got off to a seven and one start this season,
and while they're not eliminated yet, they're about to miss
the playoffs. Here's Philip Rivers breaking down the math on
the Colts. It's not looking good in Indy and I
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know this locker is hurting again.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I've been a part of it for a short time,
for two losses, and I know that it's been a
it's been a long slide now for over a month,
and I know that's tough. I've been a part of
those slides and now I'm obviously a part of this
right now. And we just got to find a way
to dig deep and find a way to win a
football game. And we can't worry about all the scenarios
and all the things out there. I know they're all
out there. I know what they are. But we got
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to find a way to win a football game or
none of the scenarios coming to play.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, that's not happening. The Colts have lost six of
seven at this point, and with the playoffs all but over,
there is a belief that Rivers might not even play
again for the Colts. That they took him out the
game was over last series, they put the Golden domer
in there at the end, the question becomes will Rivers
even play again? And the Colts it ain't looking good.
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It is not looking good, and let's hear one more
from Philip Rivers before we advance in the monologue. Here
is Philip Rivers on what it's been like for him
being back in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I'm torn of how to express it, because it's been
a blast. It's been a blast to prepare and to
go steak and get ready and go out there and
warm up and do all that with these guys again.
But again, the name of the game is not, you know,
go have a good time.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's helped a fond way to team no fun.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And we've come up short here these first two. But
I've been a part of less percentage chances of getting
in and got in before, so you'll certainly won't hear
me losing hope here as we prepare next week.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You know that was he just took a shot at
Joe Burrow if I was running a tabloid. Philip Rivers
takes a shot at Joe Burrow by saying, it's not
about having a good time now, Joe Burrow, I'm not
having fun. Boo hoo hoo. If it's not fun, why
are we here? I'm Joe Burrow. Well, Philip Rivers just said, listen,
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it's not about having a good time. It's not all right.
So the question if this is the end of this experiment,
and who knows, let's find out. The Colts will decide
where they're gonna throw Rivers out there or not. The
math ain't real good. So if this is the end
of Philip Rivers come back story in Indye, how do
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you grade his performance? We're two games into this and
this might be all So we have to worry about
the talk show we do today, and so let's discuss.
I've got porky pig, hydro power, and paper cuts, and
we will combine all of these things together, and we're
gonna make some kettle corn, is what we're gonna make.
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So a listen, the Colts dragged Philip Rivers out of
the backwoods. What a great movie this would be like
to all those old movies. Is dragonim and see what
we can we can find him? Well, I don't know where.
He's in a small town in Alabama. How do you
get to Alabama? Well, it's in the South, And so okay,
we'll go to the South. And is it No, it's
not Georgia, it's it's the next You've got to move
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over a little bit, and then you've got Mississippi on
one side there, all right, So we'll go to Alabama
and then we go to the backwoods out in the boondocks.
And they went there and they found rivers like they
were finding an emergency plumber at two in the morning
because you're plumbing the pipe broke and you've got a
major flood. And it was the ultimate Hail Mary by
the Colts to go down this road. So they went
down this road, and they didn't dial an agent. They
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called the athletic department at the high school in rural
Alabama and said, hey, Phil, you still got shoulder pads?
You want to play? And Phil's like, well, I'm kind
of fat right now, I don't care. You want to
play for the Colts. How would you like to start
for the Colts? Okay? Why not? And guess what he
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wasn't a disaster, which I don't know if that's a
compliment or not. Is that like a backhanded company. He
wasn't a disaster. He looked like a cross between and
played like a cross between Porky Pig and the michelin Man.
It appeared watching him play that he was often wheezing
he was wobbling, but he was oddly effective considering the
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very low expectations for Philip Rivers. In both games, Rivers
gave the Indianapolis offense a puncher's chance and that's all
they wanted. That's all they expected from Rivers. So he
met the standard by doing that. He met the standard.
You look at it and he said, well, okay, let's
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look at that first game. They should have could have
would have beaten Seattle. It came down to a Myers
field goal. That's another sign the Seahawks on all that good.
They the last two wins for the Seahawks. They needed
a late field goal to be a forty four year
old Philip Rivers. And then they need the officials to
give them two points in that ram Seahawks game. So
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the Seahawks are frauds. We'll get that out of the way.
But then on Monday night, it wasn't a game lost
by Rivers. The Colts defense look like a mix of
traffic cones and mattadors O o ola ole as they
were doing nothing there and Rivers was actually moving the wall.
The Colts scored twenty seven points in this game on
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Monday night. That is more than enough to win. That
is a de merit actually for the forty nine ers defense,
and a puffy sticker for Grandpa Philip Philip Rivers, Grandpaul Rivers.
The Malor report card on the two games Philip Rivers
is played, and again we don't know if they'll start
another game. So the two games Rivers gets a B
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on the Mallor report card. A B. That's a playoff invite,
not officially eliminated. However, he didn't drown, he didn't he
was respectable. How about that respectable play by Philip Rivers.
It's kind of like, you know, then't get the invite,
But he went to a wedding. He wore jeans, maybe
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a Bolo tide. It's not the greatest look. But you
showed up, and you were supposed to show up, and
you showed up. And so so there was that. And
now Philip one of the nicknames for Indianapolis's Naptown. And
so now he can take a nap and relax and
the the Cinderella of the rust Belt, as it's been
called there. The mission certainly did not get completed by
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Philip Rivers. Nevertheless, though nevertheless, if you look at the
wide angle lens. Here Rivers played well enough where this
opens up the old geezer rollodecks, meaning this is not
going to discourage in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven,
in the next couple of years. Here, when and you're
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starting quarterback, your franchise quarterback or even your reclamation project
who plays over his head, over his head gets hurt
mid season, then when that happens, all right, the you
don't mind, you don't mind going out and getting some
guy off the scrap heap. The NFL's recycling program is OPE.
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So if you got a pulse and you used to
be good, they'll give you a call. Now, staying with Indy,
there has been a dog pile, dog pile on top
of the Colts here as everyone's being a Monday morning quarterback,
as the Colts traded multiple first round draft picks to
the Jets for Sauce Gardener. Now, Gardner did not play
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in this game. He's been hurt lately for the Colts.
He missed the Monday night football game. So the question,
and this is a people, how could the Colts do this?
This is Malfeasan's trading two first round draft picks for
Sauce Gardener. That's what dumb teams do, all the experts,
so question, do the Colts deserve to be barbecued for
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trading all those draft picks to get a couple of
games out of sauce Gardener. So I am shaking my head. No,
I'm shaking my head no on this. This is what's
known as revisionist history, which is my favorite kind of
history because you're never wrong. But I like the trade
at the time, the whole fake outrage thing. It's like
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revisionist history served cold with a side dish of a
fake outverage. At the time you made the trade, the
Colts were seven and two, seven and two, They were
riding high. They were going around like a peacock. They
had their feathers in the air everywhere. You know, they
think they had found something. They were playing very very
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good football at the time. And that's when the front
office feeling, you know, smell themselves, feel themself a little bit,
and they went for it. They swung for the offences
they did. And you don't clutch traffic. These so many
people have been brainwashed, they've been indoctrinated into the draft picks.
Oh my god, you need the traffic. Shut up, you loser.
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You're a loser with these draft picks. You treat them
like they're the family jewel. Stop. Draft picks are a
renewable resource. You know what draft picks are. Their hydro
power is what they are. Right. Draft picks are abundant.
Every year you get slotted a certain number of draft picks.
They are abundant. Draft picks are abuddy. As I said,
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they're hydro power. And you look at the energy. It's
like think of the water. You think of the energy
you can get from rivers and dams and tides and
waves and all that. That's draft picks. That's it. And
you can use them anyway you want. And you can't
coach scared. You can't run a front office scared. You
can't do that. FM picks that's how you fade into
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the oatmeal, all right, you don't want to fade into
the oatmeal. And I love the fact the Colts were
feeling their mojo, they were looking pretty good and all
that stuff. And we never thought Daniel Jones was legit,
but they did, and they bought into Daniel Jones. At
the time, the whole Indiana Jones thing cracking the whip
dodging snakes like the real Indiana Jones and the movie
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and all that stuff. So the iron was hot. The
iron was hot, and so they took a hammer to
it and they're like, let's go. And that's called conviction.
It's not malpractice, it's not Now it didn't work out,
clearly sauce Gardner didn't do what they thought he was
gonna do with the offense fell apart, and it's a
hot mess. It's a hot mess. So but there's no
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give backs and you just move on and you make
your work and you figure it out. You know, rain
no rain checks or anything like that like that in
the NFL. So the Colts are like, they're kind of
like the Hinds Company at this point. They're in the
sauce business for better or worse, and there's no need
for an apology tour or anything like that. And when
he plays, Gardener's been pretty good. We'll see if that
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continues when he comes back from injury. But with this
season melting into a nice horseshoe puddle for the cult,
it doesn't change that. And next year they're gonna have
to go back to market and become salvage dogs. And
whether it's Mac Jones or Zach Wilson or some other
reject quarterback that they will bring in off the scrap
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heap and they will be the salvage dogs and they
will be prowling the quarterback junkyard to try to find
another quarterback that they can prop up and coach up
to play well as well as Daniel Jones was playing
at the time. And so that's it. But again we
don't rewrite history. We like the sauce gardener trade. At
the time. We still support the sauce gardener trade. We
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liked it then, we like it now. That's the malormath
on that all right, last word to the winner side.
So I checked my inbox, which you should never do
as a talk shows. I'm very bad riding back to people.
But occasionally I'll go in there, you know, usually once
a day, and I'll check my inbox and see what's
going on with that. And so I went in there
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and it was a lot a chunde. You so, Malor,
you're not gonna give the Niners props. You're a ram
suck up, you know all that crap. Is there anyone
more neutral than me? Seriously, my middle name is neutral anyway. Question,
does this win count as a signature win for brock
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Party and the Niners? Does this count primetime game Indianapolis
Monday Night Football? Does this count as a signature win
for the forty nine ers? So I give this sideye?
And God I help, I hope not. If this is
a signature win for the Niners, they're really not that good.
Let's just call like it. If you think this is
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some kind of big, big notch in the belt, then
there's something wrong with you. How about that? All right,
let's not exaggerate here, Let's not go there. Let's not
turn what was a Delta air Lines snack box into
a five course meal. It was not. Yeah, did brock
Purty look like a doctor from Grey's Anatomy back in
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the day with surgical precision, like what was that guy's name,
doctor Shepherd? Yeah, just just slicing up the Indianapolis Colts. Yes,
And the Niners had four hundred and forty yards. They
had forty eight points, seven of those coming from a
turnover by Philip Rivers, but forty one points by land,
by air, by sea for the forty nine ers. And
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yet context does matter, and that's that's the problem. The
Niners were touchdown favorites on the road against a flea
bitten Indianapolis defense. They were supposed to win this game
by a lot. They won this game by a lot. Therefore,
you don't get credit for doing what you're supposed to do.
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That's the cold reality of the situation. And let's not
forget also that brock Purty well he did have five touchdowns.
He also to fumble and an interception. And you look
at those things, and those are paper cuts in a
regular season game. They're paper cuts against bad teams and
the culture bad team right now. Against good teams in
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playoff games, those are amputations. So fright right now, it's
paper cut, big deal, who cares, put a band aid
on it, put some new skin on it. You're good
to go. But then in the playoffs it becomes problematic.
That's playoffs, playoffs, trying to win a game. Of course,
the bigger concern for the Niners is defense. Do we
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know they don't have their top two players and all
that that defense though built like a sand castle at
high tide, it's not going very well for that forty
nine or defense. Robert Salle does he not get more
TV time? Than Jimmy Kimmel. Holy crap, they love showing him.
Is it possible at Robert Salad and Joe Buck are
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related and we don't know it? Or possibly Akman? Do
they do? They get paid each minute they show Robert
sala on the television. Anyway, you're at the Niner defense
and Grandpa Philip Rivers went out there and looked like, yeah,
he looks like a sumo wrestler, but he was matriculating
the ball down the field for Indianapolis in this game.
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And you let the high school coaching forty four year
old grandpa average pretty much eight yards of pop. That's
the Niners defense. They get seven point nine yards per
pass for Philip Rivers. Is that a championship defense? Methinks
not so much. You such a critic, Balor, But yeah,
I got Niner fans in my inbox. Well it's a
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signature win. But you want, okay, seven point favorites on
the road. I guess the forty four year old grandpa
and that's your signature win. You guys blow. They're in it.
I said it. Anyway, It is Ben Maler Show. If
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And it always pops up. Nature Boy answering the call
to the wild Rights and he says, look looks like
these Seahawks fans think their team is a shoe in
to win the NFC West. Now, I don't think they
fear the Niners.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Well, listen, there's a lot of diabolical members of the
twelfth Man fan club there in Seattle. We'll see how
this all shakes out. Late night drug tester. Maybe Rivers
is having trouble adjusting to the new NFL. I mean
the owner of the team is on the sidelines wearing
a headset. Yes, that is accurate. That is accurate. Shaneon
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de Moin writes and says that Kelly that's his lady
friend there grew up in Seattle. So yesterday her Pac
twelve heart had me watching Washington State versus Utah States.
She's an Oregon DUC fan but loves to goof on
Washington State. Well, that's what we call a non sequitter.
Shaneon the Moyne, that's a non sequard. I'm glad you
sent that in. No Stradinis writes in from the Pacific Northwest,
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he says, Court of the Great Bill Parcells, a team
is only as good as their record, which means the
true frauds are the rams between four four and ninth
best facts. He says, that's from no Stradinis. Right now,
he's wearing his he's got his Seahawks pajamas on right now.
He's got his Dave Craig poster on his wall there,
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and it's romanticizing the Steve largent Era sounds cozy. Yeah,
he's got his little generic back when they made bobbleheads
that were just generic. They didn't make player bobbleheads back
in the day. He's got his a little bobblehead, the
little Seahawks bobblehead there, and it's got that right next
to him and it's it's the way to go. Yeah, absolutely,
not a burger rights and said, Ben, I know you're
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always worried about taking too much time off and not
having a job when you return. Rest assured your loyal
crew would never let that happen. Yeah, I'm sure, but
but no, I actually, when I worked in San Diego,
I would fight for you, Ben, You'd go to get
in the street fight. You're right, most talented. Oh oh,
you're very kindly, Ran, thank you very much. But I
I went when I worked in radio and San Diego
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we had to work our way up. And so I
remember going to the radio station. I was all excited,
you know, and I knew all the hosts on the station.
(28:54):
You know, this is a big opportunity for me. I
was like, I wanted to be on the radio as
a kid. And I went in there and I got
the internship. And the first Christmas season, two of the
talk show hosts said hey, we're going on vacation. We'll
see you in January, and we never saw him again.
They got whacked. It was like that was it. They
were done, and that was what they would do. They
(29:14):
We're going on vacation, and it just never came back,
never came back. So that set me up. I blame
that experience for me being in the situation. But no,
I'm fine. I'll take some time and nature Boys says. Troy.
Aikman did mention he thought the two point play in
the ram Seaaw game was correct. He said, well, Aikman's
not been right about a lot, so I guess we'll
(29:34):
add that to the pile of things. He wasn't right
about that. Just you just give two points away. Alf
the Alien Opiner says, as we are in the season
of Best of Alf says, why not a special edition
of Ask Ben and an impromptu lame jokes who says, no, Well,
we do have the mail bag, and if you want
(29:56):
to send those questions in earlier, the better. Here for
the mail bag on the Fifth Hour podcast, Want to
Be taking place this weekend. Spock's Weed on the Oregon
Trail upset. I'm sure I didn't mention the vomit Comet
says I did watch the Colt Niner game at the
Elks Lodge. I rooted for the old guy, got hammered
and was very entertained. Were you not entertained? Yes, there
(30:22):
you go. Nick in Wisconsin, who I met at the
Mouther Meet and Greet in Minnesota a while back, says
thanks for keeping me company while I'm up late and
need to be at work in five hours. Five hours, yikes,
take a nap. Darkey's Sausage says, time for the late
night freak show. Jubilee Sage? Is this a jubilee? When
(30:46):
does something become a jubilee? At what point does something
become a jubilee? Isn't there something you can eat that's
called the jubilee? Is there a food called the juilee?
Perry jubilee, a cherry jubilee? Okay, that's a fun word.
Jubilee also jam a fun word. Let's have a jamboree?
Why not? What the heck? All right, let's see what
else do we man? I don't want to read that
(31:07):
one on the air.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Oh my goodness, did you know that a jubilee is
a special anniversary or a year of celebration.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Really a full year a jubilee? What number years is
you might? I'm shocked you don't know this.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
This is originating from ancient Jewish tradition as a year
of forgiveness.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Oh, okay, we can do. I look like I've remember
memorized everything in that department. I mean, do I sound
like that? I don't know. I don't know if I know,
if you know this, I'm not that hardcore on anything. Okay,
if you figure that out, Larenda. Uh. Anyway, all right,
let's go to the folks and let's say hello to
Jed who fled in the Sunshine State. Hello, Jed who fled.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
It's been yeah that you believe that you believe anything,
tid I'm trying to together. God. So the important thing
to rife Overnight's first out radio man. You're talking about
the other night. See the backup quarterbacks getting the headset
as a kind of a U you know, a I
can't think of a word, but it's a uh emotion,
(32:10):
it's a demotion. It's see, it's a signals the regression
of the quarterback. Instead of headphones, We're gonna have these
things called chad phones. The quarterback's not gonna be listening
to the coaching staff. You're gonna get the best of
the Ben Maler show in your ears on the sideline,
and instead of being a demotion, becoming the backup will
become the sought after position. You want those chad phones
(32:32):
on your head all game wrong and you can be
doing sign language very clicking like that, but you're doing
some sort of you know, emergency broadcast. Because I could
do sign language, you can do siling. Is that good?
Which means we can row a signals in as plays
if we could pretend because I've been the charades over
there looking listeners to the chad phones trademark you that's possible.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
So is this is this your plan for us to
get rich in twenty twenty six? Is that this is
the way we're gonna get really wealthy?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
No, Dad, We're gonna we're gonna find them the find
the sweetest chocolate we can get. And that's the only
thing I'm gonna get this rich. I'm probably not gonna
get productive.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Come on, you gotta come up with a hustle you
gotta work. You're my hustle guy. You got to figure
out a way to get absolutely, wasn't that my pillow guy?
He became rich. I think he's broken now, but he
became rich, and he had a lot of issues, like
he was in rehab a bunch, he had a lot
of Hey, this.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Guy's crack deal. Crutch him off the crack deal. Was
concerned about Mike sounds like that is that is way
too far, dude, I've never even hurt.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
No, but come up, and it's a stupid pillow. He
made him a fortunate on pillow. You can come up
with something. Come on, Yeah, are you stumped? Are you
stumped by me bringing up a pillow? You're stumped. I
stumped Jed who fled?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
I'm stumped about your lack of privacy and your kingdanity.
Do you want your podcasting?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Oh that's true. Yeah we don't. That's good point. Yeah,
we don't want to give it out to pillow socks.
Pillow socks.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Picture your mouth on a pillow?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
What huh?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
Put a picture of the mouth on the pillow. Don't
make you I like that?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
No, No, you know we need to do We need
to come up within like I know they have some
of these companies have these air conditioners for the bed
to keep it cool, but they don't. They're big and bulky.
They don't really work that well. So you got to
find a way to keep the bed cool when it's
hot during the summertime. That would be the way. But
you there are things that you can do, but they're
not that good. The dow Wicky things aren't that good.
(34:29):
Got to come up with something better. Technology has got
Are you worried.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
About rolling blackouts staring California? Dud? We have fisher hitting
and going here in Gloria. I don't know about you. No,
I have I have.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I have a thing called batteries, So I have like
flashlights and batteries and things like that, candles.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
You know you're a criminals. I know you're criminals.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
A lie on batteries at it's a battery joke right there.
You need a battery this year. So what are you
going to do the next like week? Jed? What are
you up to? You know, like crawling?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
I'm skinning. I'm sinning, Yeah, I'm around the spot. What
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna catch up on the
ben mallor show. I'm not gonna do much, Oh Collins
kitching up the other day. I'm sorry to get your
tray to he dog. Yes, Mike Color for con and
ticking with punch Picking with poppy is Leonardo da Vinci
compared to an armless painter compared to the dog, Dude,
(35:21):
That's all I'm saying. Oka the worst, all the year,
the worst, all worst, alling all lifetime.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Thanks figure, Okay, thank you, go away. Chad who fled
from the Redneck Riviera, Florida there, Uh well, what he's doing.
He's smoking some kind of contraband there out in the
woods and living the dream. What a what a dream?
It is? My god, So I costly win for the
forty nine ers. George kittle dinged up. Was it a
(35:47):
high ankle spray? He claims that it wasn't. He doesn't
think it's a high ankle sprain that happened in the
second quarter on a play he got taken it and
taken down with a hip drop tackle the forty nine
or tight end. Just because he says it's not a
high ankle sprain doesn't mean he's not going to miss
some time for the forty nine ers. So we'll keep
(36:08):
an eye on that and the math problem. There is
a math problem for the team from Indianapolis. After the
Monday night game. The Colts only chance at the playoffs
would involve winning out the Texans, losing to the Chargers,
and then hoping to beat them in strength of schedule.
(36:30):
So that's it. That's where we are for the Indianapolis
Colts if they want to make the playoffs, just saying, well,
who do the Colts finish up with? Can they even
win the last two games? Well, the way their defense
played in the Monday night game, he'd say probably not.
Probably not. The Colts finish up with Jacksonville and Houston.
So Jacksonville, I hear pretty pretty well. It is the
(36:53):
Ben Mahlers show time down for the who am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it the who am I gameh and forty
Niners star Christian McCaffrey now has five career seasons with
one thousand plus rushing yards and five hundred plus receiving yards.
That is tied with me for the most in NFL history.
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it, and
(37:16):
we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
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That will continue as well, a couple episodes every single week,
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so check out those channel. All right, back to it
we go. We have the play of the day here,
I believe, all right, the play of the day. Philip Rivers,
Grandpa Rivers trying to lead the Colts back late against
the forty nine ers. Rivers out of the shotgun, takes
the snap, quick throw up the middle, intercepting Wolves. It's
got it. Woves going the wall, winners to the forty thirty. No,
(39:22):
what's gonna touch him?
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Nothing but the tail lights heats up tick six forty nine.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Ers pick city Baby first pick six of the year,
and d Winters was all over that and caught Philip
Rivers slip it.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Well.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I don't know who the play by play guys, I
know the color guy is Tim Ryan, a former Fox
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(40:24):
the question? What's the answer? I? Lead in San Francisco,
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Mike and Colorado Poppy from Malarprop. That's very scary. Don't
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The Great Walter Peyton from Andy in Lion O' Lakes, Minnesota,
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Alf the Alien Opiner says Santa Claus. Well, that's quite
the Santa Claus. Who else do you have? Maurice Jones
Drew from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Ferg Dog says Philip
Rivers and Ferg Dog's going through a lot of emotion
right now. He's upset. You don't know what he's gonna
do for the next week or so. Femmi in Minnesota
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we're ready for some fun. It is the Ben Malors Show.
The podcast here on this twenty third day of December. Hey,
programming know, this is my last live radio show for
the year twenty twenty five. The show goes on hiatus
and my end it will be away, but I will
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the Fifth Hour podcast as well, so you'll still hear
from me on the weekends Friday, Saturday and Sunday the
Fifth Hour podcast and also Benny Versus the Penny on
YouTube at Benny Vspenny. As far as the live radio show,
we will be dark on my end. No show from
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my part until early twenty twenty six, so I just
want to give you a heads up on that. But
this is the show and here in our number one.
We start with the Monday night football game. If it's
the end of Philip rivers comeback story with the Colts,
how do you grade his two game performance in the
zero for two in the win loss column. Do the
(01:02):
Colts deserve to be barbecued for treating multiple draft picks
to get Sauce Gardner even though they appear to be
out of the playoff mix. And does this win for
San Francisco count as a signature win for brock Perties
forty nine ers. We'll get to that and more right now.
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It's our number one old man rivers. Welcome in the
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don't bear the lead, mom man, one of our old
bosses back in day. They don't bear the lead, my
man heart, Well we won't and our lead. Story from Indianapolis,
the final game of the NFL Weekend. There are two
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weeks to go on the NFL schedule. The final game
they're Week sixteen. Christian McCaffrey leading the forty nine ers
traveling road Show, paying a visit to Old Man Rivers,
Old Man Rivers and the Colts. There you had the
Fox refugees, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They had the
(03:31):
call on ab right there. I don't know if you watched
it not, maybe not, Maybe you had something else going on.
I don't know what you have going on. I watched it.
I sat there, my fat ass watched this game, the
whole thing. So there was brock Perty making Terry and
England smile. Brock Perty forty nine a quarterback career high
(03:52):
five touchdown passes, five of them. Brock Perdy, he was
back at Iowa State. The sy closed. Maybe five touchdown
passes forty eight to twenty seven was your final score,
as the Niners get the win, the three touchdown win.
The Colts had the ball down by two scores. There
was enough time to come back and Philip rivers through
(04:16):
the interception there, So the Niners win going away and
San Francisco eleven and four. They have won five straight.
I didn't play in the NFL, but I'm told that's good.
And so they are still alive. Stand alive, stand alive
in the NFC West race with the Seahawks and the Rams,
of course, and Rams top team in football, and the
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Niners and Seahawks have better records, but the Rams obviously
the better team. We know that. And the conference's top
seed also on the line, and so there you go.
It also snapped. I saw this note. It snapped a
five game losing streak in the series head to head.
The last time, the last time that the Niners were
(04:58):
able to take down the Colts, and situation was way
back in November of twenty oh one, when Fox Sports
Radio Alumni Association member the Great Jim Mora went on
that playoffs, playoffs when the all time great rants. If
you're old, you know what I'm talking about there. That
coach More worked here for a number of years after
(05:19):
that when he coached the Colts. And of course I've
told him this, I had him on my podcast a
while back. But Jim Mora, the greatest rant was not
the playoff rant. It was we couldn't do Diddley Pooh
when he coached the Saints. That's the better rant by
Jim Mora. But still Indianapolis that lost there, that loss
also clinching a playoff spot. For here we go Buffalo.
(05:42):
Jacksonville is in the playoffs. Jacksonville is in the playoffs.
Buy your lottery tickets. The Chargers are in. The Chargers
are in in the AFC as well. The better story,
let's go back to the Niners and the Colts. The
better story in the losing locker room. So that is
where we will begin here, as down goes Indy, Down
(06:07):
goes Indy. The Colts have now lost five straight and
they did something that mathematically is almost impossible. The Colts
got off to a seven and one start this season,
and while they're not eliminated yet, they're about to miss
the playoffs. Here's Philip Rivers breaking down the math on
the Colts. It's not looking good in Indy and I
(06:28):
know this locker is hurting again.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I've been a part of it for a short time,
for two losses, and I know that it's been a
it's been a long slide now for over a month,
and I know that's tough. I've been a part of
those slides and now I'm obviously a part of this
right now. And we just got to find a way
to dig deep and find a way to win a
football game. And we can't worry about all the scenarios
and all the things out there. I know they're all
out there. I know what they are. But we got
(06:50):
to find a way to win a football game or
none of the scenarios coming to play.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, that's not happening. The Colts have lost six of
seven at this point, and with the playoffs all but over,
there is a belief that Rivers might not even play
again for the Colts. That they took him out the
game was over last series, they put the Golden domer
in there at the end, the question becomes will Rivers
even play again? And the Colts it ain't looking good.
(07:18):
It is not looking good, and let's hear one more
from Philip Rivers before we advance in the monologue. Here
is Philip Rivers on what it's been like for him
being back in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I'm torn of how to express it, because it's been
a blast. It's been a blast to prepare and to
go steak and get ready and go out there and
warm up and do all that with these guys again.
But again, the name of the game is not, you know,
go have a good time.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's helped a fond way to team no fun.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And we've come up short here these first two. But
I've been a part of less percentage chances of getting
in and got in before, so you'll certainly won't hear
me losing hope here as we prepare next week.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You know that was he just took a shot at
Joe Burrow if I was running a tabloid. Philip Rivers
takes a shot at Joe Burrow by saying, it's not
about having a good time now, Joe Burrow, I'm not
having fun. Boo hoo hoo. If it's not fun, why
are we here? I'm Joe Burrow. Well, Philip Rivers just said, listen,
(08:23):
it's not about having a good time. It's not all right.
So the question if this is the end of this experiment,
and who knows, let's find out. The Colts will decide
where they're gonna throw Rivers out there or not. The
math ain't real good. So if this is the end
of Philip Rivers come back story in Indye, how do
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you grade his performance? We're two games into this and
this might be all So we have to worry about
the talk show we do today, and so let's discuss.
I've got porky pig, hydro power, and paper cuts, and
we will combine all of these things together, and we're
gonna make some kettle corn, is what we're gonna make.
(09:07):
So a listen, the Colts dragged Philip Rivers out of
the backwoods. What a great movie this would be like
to all those old movies. Is dragonim and see what
we can we can find him? Well, I don't know where.
He's in a small town in Alabama. How do you
get to Alabama? Well, it's in the South, And so okay,
we'll go to the South. And is it No, it's
not Georgia, it's it's the next You've got to move
(09:29):
over a little bit, and then you've got Mississippi on
one side there, all right, So we'll go to Alabama
and then we go to the backwoods out in the boondocks.
And they went there and they found rivers like they
were finding an emergency plumber at two in the morning
because you're plumbing the pipe broke and you've got a
major flood. And it was the ultimate Hail Mary by
the Colts to go down this road. So they went
down this road, and they didn't dial an agent. They
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called the athletic department at the high school in rural
Alabama and said, hey, Phil, you still got shoulder pads?
You want to play? And Phil's like, well, I'm kind
of fat right now, I don't care. You want to
play for the Colts. How would you like to start
for the Colts? Okay? Why not? And guess what he
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wasn't a disaster, which I don't know if that's a
compliment or not. Is that like a backhanded company. He
wasn't a disaster. He looked like a cross between and
played like a cross between Porky Pig and the michelin Man.
It appeared watching him play that he was often wheezing
he was wobbling, but he was oddly effective considering the
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very low expectations for Philip Rivers. In both games, Rivers
gave the Indianapolis offense a puncher's chance and that's all
they wanted. That's all they expected from Rivers. So he
met the standard by doing that. He met the standard.
You look at it and he said, well, okay, let's
(10:54):
look at that first game. They should have could have
would have beaten Seattle. It came down to a Myers
field goal. That's another sign the Seahawks on all that good.
They the last two wins for the Seahawks. They needed
a late field goal to be a forty four year
old Philip Rivers. And then they need the officials to
give them two points in that ram Seahawks game. So
(11:14):
the Seahawks are frauds. We'll get that out of the way.
But then on Monday night, it wasn't a game lost
by Rivers. The Colts defense look like a mix of
traffic cones and mattadors O o ola ole as they
were doing nothing there and Rivers was actually moving the wall.
The Colts scored twenty seven points in this game on
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Monday night. That is more than enough to win. That
is a de merit actually for the forty nine ers defense,
and a puffy sticker for Grandpa Philip Philip Rivers, Grandpaul Rivers.
The Malor report card on the two games Philip Rivers
is played, and again we don't know if they'll start
another game. So the two games Rivers gets a B
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on the Mallor report card. A B. That's a playoff invite,
not officially eliminated. However, he didn't drown, he didn't he
was respectable. How about that respectable play by Philip Rivers.
It's kind of like, you know, then't get the invite,
But he went to a wedding. He wore jeans, maybe
(12:17):
a Bolo tide. It's not the greatest look. But you
showed up, and you were supposed to show up, and
you showed up. And so so there was that. And
now Philip one of the nicknames for Indianapolis's Naptown. And
so now he can take a nap and relax and
the the Cinderella of the rust Belt, as it's been
called there. The mission certainly did not get completed by
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Philip Rivers. Nevertheless, though nevertheless, if you look at the
wide angle lens. Here Rivers played well enough where this
opens up the old geezer rollodecks, meaning this is not
going to discourage in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven,
in the next couple of years. Here, when and you're
(13:00):
starting quarterback, your franchise quarterback or even your reclamation project
who plays over his head, over his head gets hurt
mid season, then when that happens, all right, the you
don't mind, you don't mind going out and getting some
guy off the scrap heap. The NFL's recycling program is OPE.
(13:24):
So if you got a pulse and you used to
be good, they'll give you a call. Now, staying with Indy,
there has been a dog pile, dog pile on top
of the Colts here as everyone's being a Monday morning quarterback,
as the Colts traded multiple first round draft picks to
the Jets for Sauce Gardener. Now, Gardner did not play
(13:44):
in this game. He's been hurt lately for the Colts.
He missed the Monday night football game. So the question,
and this is a people, how could the Colts do this?
This is Malfeasan's trading two first round draft picks for
Sauce Gardener. That's what dumb teams do, all the experts,
so question, do the Colts deserve to be barbecued for
(14:08):
trading all those draft picks to get a couple of
games out of sauce Gardener. So I am shaking my head. No,
I'm shaking my head no on this. This is what's
known as revisionist history, which is my favorite kind of
history because you're never wrong. But I like the trade
at the time, the whole fake outrage thing. It's like
(14:28):
revisionist history served cold with a side dish of a
fake outverage. At the time you made the trade, the
Colts were seven and two, seven and two, They were
riding high. They were going around like a peacock. They
had their feathers in the air everywhere. You know, they
think they had found something. They were playing very very
(14:50):
good football at the time. And that's when the front
office feeling, you know, smell themselves, feel themself a little bit,
and they went for it. They swung for the offences
they did. And you don't clutch traffic. These so many
people have been brainwashed, they've been indoctrinated into the draft picks.
Oh my god, you need the traffic. Shut up, you loser.
(15:11):
You're a loser with these draft picks. You treat them
like they're the family jewel. Stop. Draft picks are a
renewable resource. You know what draft picks are. Their hydro
power is what they are. Right. Draft picks are abundant.
Every year you get slotted a certain number of draft picks.
They are abundant. Draft picks are abuddy. As I said,
(15:33):
they're hydro power. And you look at the energy. It's
like think of the water. You think of the energy
you can get from rivers and dams and tides and
waves and all that. That's draft picks. That's it. And
you can use them anyway you want. And you can't
coach scared. You can't run a front office scared. You
can't do that. FM picks that's how you fade into
(15:57):
the oatmeal, all right, you don't want to fade into
the oatmeal. And I love the fact the Colts were
feeling their mojo, they were looking pretty good and all
that stuff. And we never thought Daniel Jones was legit,
but they did, and they bought into Daniel Jones. At
the time, the whole Indiana Jones thing cracking the whip
dodging snakes like the real Indiana Jones and the movie
(16:18):
and all that stuff. So the iron was hot. The
iron was hot, and so they took a hammer to
it and they're like, let's go. And that's called conviction.
It's not malpractice, it's not Now it didn't work out,
clearly sauce Gardner didn't do what they thought he was
gonna do with the offense fell apart, and it's a
hot mess. It's a hot mess. So but there's no
(16:40):
give backs and you just move on and you make
your work and you figure it out. You know, rain
no rain checks or anything like that like that in
the NFL. So the Colts are like, they're kind of
like the Hinds Company at this point. They're in the
sauce business for better or worse, and there's no need
for an apology tour or anything like that. And when
he plays, Gardener's been pretty good. We'll see if that
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continues when he comes back from injury. But with this
season melting into a nice horseshoe puddle for the cult,
it doesn't change that. And next year they're gonna have
to go back to market and become salvage dogs. And
whether it's Mac Jones or Zach Wilson or some other
reject quarterback that they will bring in off the scrap
(17:22):
heap and they will be the salvage dogs and they
will be prowling the quarterback junkyard to try to find
another quarterback that they can prop up and coach up
to play well as well as Daniel Jones was playing
at the time. And so that's it. But again we
don't rewrite history. We like the sauce gardener trade. At
the time. We still support the sauce gardener trade. We
(17:43):
liked it then, we like it now. That's the malormath
on that all right, last word to the winner side.
So I checked my inbox, which you should never do
as a talk shows. I'm very bad riding back to people.
But occasionally I'll go in there, you know, usually once
a day, and I'll check my inbox and see what's
going on with that. And so I went in there
(18:04):
and it was a lot a chunde. You so, Malor,
you're not gonna give the Niners props. You're a ram
suck up, you know all that crap. Is there anyone
more neutral than me? Seriously, my middle name is neutral anyway. Question,
does this win count as a signature win for brock
(18:26):
Party and the Niners? Does this count primetime game Indianapolis
Monday Night Football? Does this count as a signature win
for the forty nine ers? So I give this sideye?
And God I help, I hope not. If this is
a signature win for the Niners, they're really not that good.
Let's just call like it. If you think this is
(18:47):
some kind of big, big notch in the belt, then
there's something wrong with you. How about that? All right,
let's not exaggerate here, Let's not go there. Let's not
turn what was a Delta air Lines snack box into
a five course meal. It was not. Yeah, did brock
Purty look like a doctor from Grey's Anatomy back in
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the day with surgical precision, like what was that guy's name,
doctor Shepherd? Yeah, just just slicing up the Indianapolis Colts. Yes,
And the Niners had four hundred and forty yards. They
had forty eight points, seven of those coming from a
turnover by Philip Rivers, but forty one points by land,
by air, by sea for the forty nine ers. And
(19:31):
yet context does matter, and that's that's the problem. The
Niners were touchdown favorites on the road against a flea
bitten Indianapolis defense. They were supposed to win this game
by a lot. They won this game by a lot. Therefore,
you don't get credit for doing what you're supposed to do.
(19:52):
That's the cold reality of the situation. And let's not
forget also that brock Purty well he did have five touchdowns.
He also to fumble and an interception. And you look
at those things, and those are paper cuts in a
regular season game. They're paper cuts against bad teams and
the culture bad team right now. Against good teams in
(20:14):
playoff games, those are amputations. So fright right now, it's
paper cut, big deal, who cares, put a band aid
on it, put some new skin on it. You're good
to go. But then in the playoffs it becomes problematic.
That's playoffs, playoffs, trying to win a game. Of course,
the bigger concern for the Niners is defense. Do we
(20:34):
know they don't have their top two players and all
that that defense though built like a sand castle at
high tide, it's not going very well for that forty
nine or defense. Robert Salle does he not get more
TV time? Than Jimmy Kimmel. Holy crap, they love showing him.
Is it possible at Robert Salad and Joe Buck are
(20:56):
related and we don't know it? Or possibly Akman? Do
they do? They get paid each minute they show Robert
sala on the television. Anyway, you're at the Niner defense
and Grandpa Philip Rivers went out there and looked like, yeah,
he looks like a sumo wrestler, but he was matriculating
the ball down the field for Indianapolis in this game.
(21:17):
And you let the high school coaching forty four year
old grandpa average pretty much eight yards of pop. That's
the Niners defense. They get seven point nine yards per
pass for Philip Rivers. Is that a championship defense? Methinks
not so much. You such a critic, Balor, But yeah,
I got Niner fans in my inbox. Well it's a
(21:38):
signature win. But you want, okay, seven point favorites on
the road. I guess the forty four year old grandpa
and that's your signature win. You guys blow. They're in it.
I said it. Anyway, It is Ben Maler Show. If
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we're here and hanging out with a bunch of owls
and raccoons and like all the all the critters, all
the critters of the night. So the Niners got the win,
but was it a costly victory for the forty nine ers?
The bottom of that, we'll get to it, and we
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And it always pops up. Nature Boy answering the call
to the wild Rights and he says, look looks like
these Seahawks fans think their team is a shoe in
to win the NFC West. Now, I don't think they
fear the Niners.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Well, listen, there's a lot of diabolical members of the
twelfth Man fan club there in Seattle. We'll see how
this all shakes out. Late night drug tester. Maybe Rivers
is having trouble adjusting to the new NFL. I mean
the owner of the team is on the sidelines wearing
a headset. Yes, that is accurate. That is accurate. Shaneon
(27:05):
de Moin writes and says that Kelly that's his lady
friend there grew up in Seattle. So yesterday her Pac
twelve heart had me watching Washington State versus Utah States.
She's an Oregon DUC fan but loves to goof on
Washington State. Well, that's what we call a non sequitter.
Shaneon the Moyne, that's a non sequard. I'm glad you
sent that in. No Stradinis writes in from the Pacific Northwest,
(27:27):
he says, Court of the Great Bill Parcells, a team
is only as good as their record, which means the
true frauds are the rams between four four and ninth
best facts. He says, that's from no Stradinis. Right now,
he's wearing his he's got his Seahawks pajamas on right now.
He's got his Dave Craig poster on his wall there,
(27:50):
and it's romanticizing the Steve largent Era sounds cozy. Yeah,
he's got his little generic back when they made bobbleheads
that were just generic. They didn't make player bobbleheads back
in the day. He's got his a little bobblehead, the
little Seahawks bobblehead there, and it's got that right next
to him and it's it's the way to go. Yeah, absolutely,
not a burger rights and said, Ben, I know you're
(28:11):
always worried about taking too much time off and not
having a job when you return. Rest assured your loyal
crew would never let that happen. Yeah, I'm sure, but
but no, I actually, when I worked in San Diego,
I would fight for you, Ben, You'd go to get
in the street fight. You're right, most talented. Oh oh,
you're very kindly, Ran, thank you very much. But I
I went when I worked in radio and San Diego
(28:32):
my first ever commercial radio job at the mighty six
ninety and there was a boss named Howard Friedman who
was the programming director. And you know, when you're a kid,
you get a job as an intern. You work your
way up at radio station. Back in the old days,
used to do that. Now, I guess you do a
podcast to give you a show. But back in the day,
we had to work our way up. And so I
remember going to the radio station. I was all excited,
you know, and I knew all the hosts on the station.
(28:54):
You know, this is a big opportunity for me. I
was like, I wanted to be on the radio as
a kid. And I went in there and I got
the internship. And the first Christmas season, two of the
talk show hosts said hey, we're going on vacation. We'll
see you in January, and we never saw him again.
They got whacked. It was like that was it. They
were done, and that was what they would do. They
(29:14):
We're going on vacation, and it just never came back,
never came back. So that set me up. I blame
that experience for me being in the situation. But no,
I'm fine. I'll take some time and nature Boys says. Troy.
Aikman did mention he thought the two point play in
the ram Seaaw game was correct. He said, well, Aikman's
not been right about a lot, so I guess we'll
(29:34):
add that to the pile of things. He wasn't right
about that. Just you just give two points away. Alf
the Alien Opiner says, as we are in the season
of Best of Alf says, why not a special edition
of Ask Ben and an impromptu lame jokes who says, no, Well,
we do have the mail bag, and if you want
(29:56):
to send those questions in earlier, the better. Here for
the mail bag on the Fifth Hour podcast, Want to
Be taking place this weekend. Spock's Weed on the Oregon
Trail upset. I'm sure I didn't mention the vomit Comet
says I did watch the Colt Niner game at the
Elks Lodge. I rooted for the old guy, got hammered
and was very entertained. Were you not entertained? Yes, there
(30:22):
you go. Nick in Wisconsin, who I met at the
Mouther Meet and Greet in Minnesota a while back, says
thanks for keeping me company while I'm up late and
need to be at work in five hours. Five hours, yikes,
take a nap. Darkey's Sausage says, time for the late
night freak show. Jubilee Sage? Is this a jubilee? When
(30:46):
does something become a jubilee? At what point does something
become a jubilee? Isn't there something you can eat that's
called the jubilee? Is there a food called the juilee?
Perry jubilee, a cherry jubilee? Okay, that's a fun word.
Jubilee also jam a fun word. Let's have a jamboree?
Why not? What the heck? All right, let's see what
else do we man? I don't want to read that
(31:07):
one on the air.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Oh my goodness, did you know that a jubilee is
a special anniversary or a year of celebration.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Really a full year a jubilee? What number years is
you might? I'm shocked you don't know this.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
This is originating from ancient Jewish tradition as a year
of forgiveness.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Oh, okay, we can do. I look like I've remember
memorized everything in that department. I mean, do I sound
like that? I don't know. I don't know if I know,
if you know this, I'm not that hardcore on anything. Okay,
if you figure that out, Larenda. Uh. Anyway, all right,
let's go to the folks and let's say hello to
Jed who fled in the Sunshine State. Hello, Jed who fled.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
It's been yeah that you believe that you believe anything,
tid I'm trying to together. God. So the important thing
to rife Overnight's first out radio man. You're talking about
the other night. See the backup quarterbacks getting the headset
as a kind of a U you know, a I
can't think of a word, but it's a uh emotion,
(32:10):
it's a demotion. It's see, it's a signals the regression
of the quarterback. Instead of headphones, We're gonna have these
things called chad phones. The quarterback's not gonna be listening
to the coaching staff. You're gonna get the best of
the Ben Maler show in your ears on the sideline,
and instead of being a demotion, becoming the backup will
become the sought after position. You want those chad phones
(32:32):
on your head all game wrong and you can be
doing sign language very clicking like that, but you're doing
some sort of you know, emergency broadcast. Because I could
do sign language, you can do siling. Is that good?
Which means we can row a signals in as plays
if we could pretend because I've been the charades over
there looking listeners to the chad phones trademark you that's possible.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
So is this is this your plan for us to
get rich in twenty twenty six? Is that this is
the way we're gonna get really wealthy?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
No, Dad, We're gonna we're gonna find them the find
the sweetest chocolate we can get. And that's the only
thing I'm gonna get this rich. I'm probably not gonna
get productive.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Come on, you gotta come up with a hustle you
gotta work. You're my hustle guy. You got to figure
out a way to get absolutely, wasn't that my pillow guy?
He became rich. I think he's broken now, but he
became rich, and he had a lot of issues, like
he was in rehab a bunch, he had a lot
of Hey, this.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Guy's crack deal. Crutch him off the crack deal. Was
concerned about Mike sounds like that is that is way
too far, dude, I've never even hurt.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
No, but come up, and it's a stupid pillow. He
made him a fortunate on pillow. You can come up
with something. Come on, Yeah, are you stumped? Are you
stumped by me bringing up a pillow? You're stumped. I
stumped Jed who fled?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
I'm stumped about your lack of privacy and your kingdanity.
Do you want your podcasting?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Oh that's true. Yeah we don't. That's good point. Yeah,
we don't want to give it out to pillow socks.
Pillow socks.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Picture your mouth on a pillow?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
What huh?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
Put a picture of the mouth on the pillow. Don't
make you I like that?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
No, No, you know we need to do We need
to come up within like I know they have some
of these companies have these air conditioners for the bed
to keep it cool, but they don't. They're big and bulky.
They don't really work that well. So you got to
find a way to keep the bed cool when it's
hot during the summertime. That would be the way. But
you there are things that you can do, but they're
not that good. The dow Wicky things aren't that good.
(34:29):
Got to come up with something better. Technology has got
Are you worried.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
About rolling blackouts staring California? Dud? We have fisher hitting
and going here in Gloria. I don't know about you. No,
I have I have.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I have a thing called batteries, So I have like
flashlights and batteries and things like that, candles.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
You know you're a criminals. I know you're criminals.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
A lie on batteries at it's a battery joke right there.
You need a battery this year. So what are you
going to do the next like week? Jed? What are
you up to? You know, like crawling?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
I'm skinning. I'm sinning, Yeah, I'm around the spot. What
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna catch up on the
ben mallor show. I'm not gonna do much, Oh Collins
kitching up the other day. I'm sorry to get your
tray to he dog. Yes, Mike Color for con and
ticking with punch Picking with poppy is Leonardo da Vinci
compared to an armless painter compared to the dog, Dude,
(35:21):
That's all I'm saying. Oka the worst, all the year,
the worst, all worst, alling all lifetime.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Thanks figure, Okay, thank you, go away. Chad who fled
from the Redneck Riviera, Florida there, Uh well, what he's doing.
He's smoking some kind of contraband there out in the
woods and living the dream. What a what a dream?
It is? My god, So I costly win for the
forty nine ers. George kittle dinged up. Was it a
(35:47):
high ankle spray? He claims that it wasn't. He doesn't
think it's a high ankle sprain that happened in the
second quarter on a play he got taken it and
taken down with a hip drop tackle the forty nine
or tight end. Just because he says it's not a
high ankle sprain doesn't mean he's not going to miss
some time for the forty nine ers. So we'll keep
(36:08):
an eye on that and the math problem. There is
a math problem for the team from Indianapolis. After the
Monday night game. The Colts only chance at the playoffs
would involve winning out the Texans, losing to the Chargers,
and then hoping to beat them in strength of schedule.
(36:30):
So that's it. That's where we are for the Indianapolis
Colts if they want to make the playoffs, just saying, well,
who do the Colts finish up with? Can they even
win the last two games? Well, the way their defense
played in the Monday night game, he'd say probably not.
Probably not. The Colts finish up with Jacksonville and Houston.
So Jacksonville, I hear pretty pretty well. It is the
(36:53):
Ben Mahlers show time down for the who am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it the who am I gameh and forty
Niners star Christian McCaffrey now has five career seasons with
one thousand plus rushing yards and five hundred plus receiving yards.
That is tied with me for the most in NFL history.
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it, and
(37:16):
we will do it next.
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Use right he quit. Also he's a bus driver called
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we go. We have the play of the day here,
I believe, all right, the play of the day. Philip Rivers,
Grandpa Rivers trying to lead the Colts back late against
the forty nine ers. Rivers out of the shotgun, takes
the snap, quick throw up the middle, intercepting Wolves. It's
got it. Woves going the wall, winners to the forty thirty. No,
(39:22):
what's gonna touch him?
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Nothing but the tail lights heats up tick six forty nine.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Ers pick city Baby first pick six of the year,
and d Winters was all over that and caught Philip
Rivers slip it.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Well.
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know the color guy is Tim Ryan, a former Fox
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Forty nine Ers star Christian McCaffrey now has five five
career seasons of one thousand plus rushing yards and five
hundred plus receiving yards. That is tied with me for
the most in NFL history. Who Am I? That is
(40:24):
the question? What's the answer? I? Lead in San Francisco,
says Jim Bob Cooter. Fun name Jacoby Marley from Milkman,
Mike and Colorado Poppy from Malarprop. That's very scary. Don't
ever send that again, Mallard prop guy, you're trying to
scare people. That's a thing that goes bumping the night.
The Great Walter Peyton from Andy in Lion O' Lakes, Minnesota,
(40:47):
Rob the goat Man going with Charlie Bucket as his answer.
Alf the Alien Opiner says Santa Claus. Well, that's quite
the Santa Claus. Who else do you have? Maurice Jones
Drew from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Ferg Dog says Philip
Rivers and Ferg Dog's going through a lot of emotion
right now. He's upset. You don't know what he's gonna
do for the next week or so. Femmi in Minnesota
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says the Abominable Snowman Phil Garner Scrap Iron from Mister
Nice Guy, The A's version, Emmett Orters Jug Band from
Just Josh in Cincinnati's Emmy, I Met this guy. Emmett
used to call a show the Blind Seahawk Fan, but
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