November 18, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the effort of Pete Carroll's Raiders in their loss to the Cowboys on MNF, who is responsible for the Raiders latest eyesore of a season, the media coverage of Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys dealing with a tragedy, and more!
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The greatness of the Raiders, unless that's not true. Welcome in.
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We started with that Monday night game, a dominating win
for Dallas. The better story in the loser's locker room?
How would you describe Pete Carroll and the Raiders' effort
for Pete Carroll or lack thereof? Also, who's responsible for
this latest Raiders I sore of a season as the
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Raiders are circling the drain yet again? And what did
you think of the media's coverage of Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys
dealing with tragedy and coming back and playing less than
two weeks after said tragedy. We'll talk about that and
more right now here it is ow We're number one.
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card came to an end for the weekend on Monday
Night football and that is where we will start off.
And this Malard monologue begins in southern Nevada. A vintage matchup.
If only you had a time machine and you could
go back thirty forty fifty years. Oh my god, what
a matchup, bucking my day all the old people. I
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remember when the Cowboys and Raiders. Oh my god, that
was amazing. It was epic. Now, like, how did that
game end up on Monday Night Football? The Cowboys and Raiders.
They throwback to the vintage days. There, the days of
your of course, these days a couple of dogs with fleas,
but they were out there fletson around. You got Joe
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Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox refugees there on a
b C. Now, they're gonna get huge ratings for this game.
Massive ratings for this game, certainly ratings that are not
not worthy of the two teams that were participating in
this game. I don't know if you were watching it
or not. I watched it kind of have to. I mean,
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I really want to watch NBA, so there's really nothing
else to watch. It's pretty much that's it. So if
you want to watch some sports, you're gonna have to
watch this. So I watched, and what did we see? Well,
Dak Prescott went out there against a bunch of tomato cans.
Dak passed for two hundred and sixty eight yards and
not one, not two, not three, but four a four
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pack of touchdowns thirty three to sixteen, Dallas vaporizing the
I can't even say once proud Las Vegas Raiders. They've
sucked ever since they got to Vegas, just like they
sucked when they were in Oakland. Anyway, the Cowboys first game,
if you watched any second of the Monday night game,
you realize it was the first game the Cowboys had
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played since their defensive player at marsha On Neeland's dath
he committed suicide last to Ted eleven days ago. Eleven
days ago. Brian Schottenheim or the Cowboys coach, the players,
all they wore, they wore stuff honoring there was the
coach shot and ever were a T shirt. They were
honoring Neil in there bowed their head. There was a
moment of silence before the game. Cowboys are four to
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five and one on the season, and you could argue
they played better than they have played all season. Some
trying to sell the fact the Cowboys are a playoff contender.
That is a lie. They are not. Dallas had lost
three of their last four games coming up against Now
they have Philadelphia Kansas City in Detroit. Good afternoon, good evening,
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and good night for the Dallas Cowboys there. But the
better story is in the losing locker room. So that
is where we are going to begin. And for some reason,
we see the Raiders in these primetime games way too often,
considering how much they stink. But here they were again
one more time, Gino Smith reminding everyone he can't play
quarterback at a high level, and the Raiders in general
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played with a lack of edge. That was to me
the most telling thing about this. So that's a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question for the room,
and you're part of the room as we discuss here.
The question is how would you describe Pete Carroll and
the Raiders effort in this game? Not the result. The
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result was they got their face smashed in, But the
effort by the Raiders, that's the question. So on this one,
I've got rumba, hoover, dam, and boilerplate and we will
combine all of these things together and we were going
to make a chopped chicken sandwiches. What we're going to
make and we'll see how it turns out. Now, Ay,
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we were a little confused, a little confused watching this game.
And why would we be confused, because we assumed that
we tuned in to watch a football game. It looked
like some of the Raider defensive players are being held hostage.
My god, they did not want to be there. They
did not want to be there. Look at the way
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they were playing. The effort was nonexistent, non existent. By
and listen, the Raiders are a bad team. All that stuff.
The Raiders look like they look like Gunner, our guy
in Minnesota clocking in at the walmart is what they
look like. You know what I'm saying. They're just kind
of going through it. Not Monday night football. They're just
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I gotta show up. I got my tunea fish sandwich
for the break room. I'm good. It was the marching band.
But it was the marching band with the drum line
a little out of sync, just a little out of sink.
Half the horns pointed backwards. That doesn't seem real good.
I mean, I'm not in a band. It doesn't seem
real good. The baton twirlers asleep like they're a New
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York Giants rookie player off to the side, and you
slow down the film, in this case the digital video,
and what did we see We saw on the Raider
defense Pete Carroll defensive guy. You saw a lot of
arm tackles, traffic cones, illusions of effort. There's a lot
of illusions of effort making it appear that you're actually
hustling when you're not actually hustling. Guys jogging towards the
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ball la la la la la la la la la
la la, kind of like they were late to a
brunch at the Bellagio. They were just kind of jogging
la la la la la la la la la, just
like that. That's what it actually sounded like when they
were jogging. It sounded like that. My god, it just
it is. It is brutal, absolutely brutal. I guess they
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don't have to try. The season's over, so they'll just
kind of go through the motions and that's it. But man, all,
I have no attention to detail. I don't know what
the game plan was. I have no idea that they
even prepare. Did the coaching staff prepare? Players didn't look
like they wanted to be there, and it's nights like this,
this Monday night game here where you separate the people
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that really love playing football and the people that are
there because they make a lot of money, insane amounts
of money. Money they could not make in any other business,
like insane money, but they just happened to fall into
it because they won the genetic lottery or whatever. And
they're great athletes, but they don't really like football. And
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there's a lot of guys on that, you know, the
guys that are just kind of there for the team photo.
Those guys floaters, coasters, the bus riders, that group the
hawksin's that affect every losing team. And you're two and
eight now the Raiders. You just put the whole league
on Notice that record is not misleading. You stank, you do,
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and not only do you stink, your entire team appears
to be okay with it. There's not a lot of fight.
It's not a lot of fighting. Now pivoting, let's talk
about the curious case of Geno Smith. Here's Pete Carroll.
Let's see, I've heard that Pete is not allowed to
criticize Geno Smith. Gino is so soft? How soft is he?
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He can't take any criticism. If you criticize Geno Smith,
you will lose Geno Smith. So if there was ever
a day to criticize Geno Smith, this would have been
to day. Let's hear what Pete Carroll had to say.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Thirty one dropbacks in that first half three runs? Is that?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I mean, I can't imagine that that's something that you
like to look at it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It wasn't thirty one drop backs was a bunch of
play action passes and really I really wanted to see
us do that. And there's only one person to look
at me, because I was influence from the game plan.
I love the way we were chunking them and we
may beg plays, but as as and I didn't, I.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Knew it was.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I knew it was happening, you know, and the chip
and I knew what was going on. But we were
trying to stay with it and to see if we
could continue to get the big plays which we were getting,
and then we just stalled in the red zone. And unfortunately,
and I don't really care about pleasing people with our
run past mix. I'm trying to move the football. And
when you come back to it, we were supposed to
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be ahead with that approach, and then we're supposed to
come back and run the football in the second half
and then later in the second quarter, but our inability
to get in the zone and to stop them didn't.
It didn't work out that way. So I'm totally responsible
for how that happened.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
The standard dance remix. There nothing short from Pete Carroll anyway. Listen,
he did say there, and that was kind of telling
I'm not here to please people, and the Raiders haven't
pleased anyone. So Pete was not wrong when he said
that I'm not here to please people with my run
pass breakdown. He's also not there to please people with
the product on the field, which if this was if
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this was a vagae show, like if you put this
at MGM or New York New York, well, because it
would have already closed. It literally would have canceled the show.
That's it. They're still going if they do. But Gino Smith,
is he not one of the great swindlers of the NFL. Seriously,
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I mean, it's fascinating to me that this has continued
as long as it has. A man built to wear
a headset and hold the clipboard and deliver packages for
Amazon somehow has now started for four seasons, four seasons
as a QB one, he has earned over one hundred
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million dollars and can't play as a starter. It's wild.
It's like he's slipped through the cracks. Gino Smith, it
really is one of the great I give him credit.
I'm not ripping him. I'm impressed. The guy that can't
do the job has risen. It's the Peter principle. He's
risen to his highest level of incompetence and he's staying there.
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You talk about a shortage of quarterbacks, well, this would
indicate there is a shortage of quarterbacks there. My god,
holy crap. And if Joe six Pack with seventeen burner
accounts with different avatars on every one of them knows
that Gino ain't it. And yet now he's started for
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multiple NFL teams, billion dollar, multi billion dollar franchises. Can't
get the memo. Then you had Ashton Genty, the rookie
running back who didn't get a lot of work, and
when he did touch the ball, wow did he stink?
He was bad too? Against a bottom five run defense,
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the Dallas Cowboys, against one of the worst defenses in football,
and you didn't even try to run the ball. When
you did, you couldn't run the ball. That's not just bad,
that's an indictment of multiple people, is what That is.
Football version of an open book test, and you screwed
it up. You had the teacher's book you had to
copy with all the answers. You messed it up. Now,
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it's appropriate that if you've ever been to Vegas, the
Raiders stadium looks like a giant rumba when you drive by.
It looks like a big old rumba there on the
way into Vegas from La And seriously, they actually needed
the Raiders a robotic vacuum here because there's a lot
of mess, lot of debris that they got to clean up.
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So get that giant rumba and crank it up there.
At some point you could almost hear the Star Trek
line from years ago. Beat me up, Scottie, get me
out of here. I want to go please. And that's
just the players, that's Pete Carroll, that's everyone involved here.
Get me far far away from this planet, take me
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somewhere else, please. The effort was anemic. It was alarming,
not surprising. This is the culture the Raiders have had
for years different coaches. It's toxic. It's absolutely toxic. They
don't fight, they don't scratch and claw. There's a couple
types of bad teams. There's the bad teams that know
they're bad and don't give a crap, and then there's
the bad teams that know they're bad and try. The
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Raiders are not that team. They're the ladder, the team
that knows they're bad and they don't really put a
lot of effort into it. And so that's it, and
it's been that way. It's it's unwatchable for a generation.
Now the Raiders all right, now going to thirty thousand
feet in the sky, Who's responsible? Who is responsible for
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this latest Raiders I sore of a season? So this
is easy. All you have to do is look at
the DNA trail. There's a long DNA trail here. And
if you peel back the onion and you look at
the DNA the layers of the onion, it kind of
smells like Tom Brady's after shave. This is the Patriot
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way gone wild, is what it is. Now. Tom Brady
is the Patriot saying of the NFL. Beyond criticism the
football media seems to refuse to criticize Tom Brady. I
don't understand why Mark Davis basically handed Tom Brady the
keys and said, I can't figure this out, you fix it.
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He gave the keys to the French. He's a big
owner and the Raiders, and he's eat on every major decision.
And he's like, Mark Davis, I listen, you drive, buddy.
I've tried to drive this car, and all I've gotten
his orange chicken at PF Changs. That's all. I've gotten
good appetizers at PF Chase. But the team sucks. Come on,
skinny pantsat tom Brady. Fix it. And Tom Brady said, okay,
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Mark Davis, I'm gonna fix it, and he took the
keys and he drove the Raider Mobile right into the
Hoover Dam kurkflowy, right into the Hoover dam. The man
that had the mightest touch with the New England Patriots,
the mightest touch. Right now, he's got the Adam touch.
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And if you know where that is, looking up, but
everything he touches turns to the dust at this particular
point with the Sadam touch. And forget the goat, oh,
he's the goat. You can't rip Tom Brady. He's the goat.
Oh you want to bet? Yeah? How about Tom the
team killer? Wow? The Raiders actually are in a worse
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position now than when they had Antonio Pierce and a
different front office last year, which is impossible, but they are.
They're in a worse position now, and nobody will talk
about it in the media. There's like a blackout on
talking about Tom Brady. What a terrible job he's done.
He's Michael Jordan, Charlotte Hornet's bad as an executive, legendary player, clueless,
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clueless at building a roster, hiring a coaching staff, the
whole thing. It's kind of like hiring Bob Ross because
he used to watch him on PBS. He's dead now.
But if you hired him to fix your plumbing, well
I probably don't want Bob Ross to fix your plumbing.
Maybe paint a mosaic or something like that, but that's it.
So remember Brady handpicked the coach and the quarterback. He
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wanted Matthew Stafford as his quarterback. He took him to
a retreat in Montana and tried to brainwash him into
the colt of Tom Brady. Stafford said I'm good. He
then thought he was gonna get Ben Johnson, who's coaching
the Bears. That didn't work out either, So what did
he end up with? He ended up with Tom Brady
ended up with a Kirkland brand version of the twenty
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thirteen Well actually night in twenty thirty, twenty seventeen, eighteen Seahawks,
Pete Carroll Light, Pete Carroll Light, Gino Smith without the spark,
not that he ever had one. It's kind of like
ordering a Fidaye mignon and you get the plate and
there's a Salisbury steak and why didn't order the Salisbury stake?
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Why is it not on a play Why is it
on a styrofoam? Well, that's what it comes with. It's
the Salisbury steak. But I wanted the let mignon, but
I know, but we ran out of that, so we
just gave you the Salisbury steak. And it's really good.
It's delicious, but I don't want the Salisbury but it
just enjoyed, but I don't want the styrofie. Just eat it.
That's it. The autumn wind is a raider, No it's not.
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The autumn wind is a gas leak. Flatulence that's the Raiders.
That's the Raiders right here. And tom Brady's fingerprints are
all over the body, all over the body here. This
is a forensic disaster, is what this is. Here. The
chalk outline goes right from the fifty yard line to
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TV twelve's front door right there. Pick his house. He's
got a lot of houses. But let's be real here,
all right, tom Brady believed he could just sprinkle on
some Patriot pixie dust with the Raiders and that would
be it. And unfortunately, you're a long way from Foxborough.
It's football in the desert, a losing culture. The man's
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out there planting roses. Tom Brady, he's a gardener and
wondering why they're dying, Why they're dying the roses. Yeah, okay,
so you say as a quarterback he was Mozart and
then as an executive, as the front office puppet master,
he's essentially playing the kazoo. No, I don't mind the kazoo,
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but you don't pay big money to watch the kazoo.
And so welcome to the Tom Brady era in Sin City.
With no innings, no winnings. Everyone's a loser. Everyone's a loser. Yeah. Anyway,
last word, we go to the Dallas side of things,
and the question is, what did you think of the
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media coverage on the Monday night game coverage of Brian
Schottenheimer's Cowboys dealing with tragedy and where we are and
that on that the way it was handled and all
that stuff. So this was hallmark storytelling, is what it was.
I was actually texting a couple of buddies of mine,
one of them former sports writer. We were going back
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and forth. But this game story was written before the
game was kicked off. Cowboys and Raiders. It didn't matter
if the Cowboys won the game thirty three to sixteen,
which they did. If they won the game thirty three
to thirty two, Marshawn Neeland, the young man whofortunately lost
his life at his own hands. According to the story,
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he was the lead. That was the story. The media
already had it ready. It was boiler plate ready, is
what it was. Insert score, copy paste and click publish
and that's that. Now. In the multiverse, I do believe
in the multiverse and the multiverse there is a dimension
where Dallas actually lost the game. Hard to believe the
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way the game went out, but they lost the game.
But if the Cowboys had lost the game, the story
would have been the same. Headline would have been about
the young man that lost his life, but the story
would have been, you know, Cowboys lose this game by
four touchdowns because they were emotionally drained. It turned out
they weren't emotionally drained. They won the game, so you
go away from that. And since they didn't lose, it's
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inspired when playing for their fallen brother, all that stuff.
But let's be real, though, Let's be real about just
the state of the cowboy. You don't get neon erasers.
The teacher does not give you a Neon green or
Neon pink eraser for beating the Raiders in a Monday
night game. The Raiders are trash. You are garbage. When
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garbage beats trash, garbage doesn't become gold. It doesn't. So yeah, congratulated,
Cowboys are four five and one. They are who we
thought they were. And if you want to crown them,
then crown them. And here comes the gauntlet. Here comes
the gauntlet, the doomsday prophecy for the Cowboys. They've got
the Eagles, Chiefs at home, Lions on the road. You
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think there's suddenly a contender with that out in front,
this Cowboy team, mark my words, And I'm never wrong
about this. They're gonna win seven or eight games. That's it.
They've got four wins right now. They'll squeeze out another
three or four wins, and they'll be perfectly mediocre, perfectly mediocre,
and the questions will continue to linger about Dak Prescott
against good opponents. You look great against a bad opponent,
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but in big games down the stretch, we'll see how
how he does there. And I hope they enjoyed this
mom here, the Cowboys there, because the calm before the
waterboarding starts there. And let's stop pretending I've already seen
some of the stories. Oh, it's a turning point game. No, no,
it's not. This is not a turning point game at all.
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It is just merely a calm. It's like being in
the eye of the storm and you know that you've
got the rest of the hurricane you're gonna have to
deal with. It's gonna be a bumpy run. It is
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the game began. We'll get to that and we will
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go back to it, and not everyone, not everyone was
gung ho ready to go at the start of the game.
We'll explain what that's all about. Coming up in a
little bit. Screwge says, you know things are bad when
your team is being compared to Gunner. Also, where are
these other three or four wins gonna come from?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
The Raiders are so bad, I'm not even sure we
could beat the Browns or the Jets at this point.
When I said the Cowboys are going to get three
or four more wins, I didn't say the Raiders are
going to get three or four more wins. Na, Na,
you gotta check your hearing on that screen. I know
you're a young guy. You're bragging about being the younger demo,
but you gotta listen closely. I was talking about the
Cowboys ending up getting some more wins because the Cowboys
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the next three games they'll lose. They should lose all three.
If they don't, there should be some kind of criminal investigation.
And then after that they play the Vikings. JJ McCarthy
can't play. That guy sucks. The Chargers are hot and cold.
That game is in La. You got the Commanders that's
a terrible team, and the Giants, who are a terrible team.
So if the Cowboys should beat the Vikings, Commanders and Giants,
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that'll get them three wins, and they'll get to they'll
get to six. They could get to seven with the
Charger game. That's a swing game, but that would mean
they would have won their last four games of the season,
which is highly unlikely, highly unlikely that that is going
to happen. So anyway, what else do you have a
see on the X machine page down here? We'll skip
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over that one. You femi and should I writes and
says A Mallard a plus and a Brown's chicken victory
feast on the Mallard monologue. The media has been upselling
the Cowboys as if Schottenheimer Junior is the second coming
of Jimmy Johnson. Is this the same Cowboy team that
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the Bears dog walked a few weeks back? Believe it is?
You fee me? I think it's the same same exact team,
same exact team. Nurse Jockey writes in and says, since
Tom Brady clones his dog, yes, my question to you,
Ben is would you clone your dog or your wife?
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He says, I would definitely clone my wife. He says
four boobs are better than two. Okay, there you go,
very funny, very funny, Nurse Jockey. There, I'm good on
the cloning Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Right since says
two thumbs up on another monologue, I've got a few
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questions though, whatever happened to Michael Irvin? And where is
the glory hole that they used to talk about? Well,
that was at the White House, and we used to
have a guy named James James Washington. J Dubb used
to work here back in the day, and he was
one of the big people behind the White House and
told some great stories off the air, some stories on
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the air about the White House and and all that.
As far as the Raiders, I want to pivot because
the screwgers like, well, how the Raiders' gonna win three
more games? The Raiders have a very winnable game this
coming week. The Browns are pretty much forfeiting. They're starting
Tradeur Sanders, who looked like he had never played quarterback
before against the Baltimore Ravens in that last game. That
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game is in Vegas, so there's a winnable game. They
play the Giants. That's a winnable game down the line.
So they got like two winnable games. That's about it.
They'll lose every other game. They'll lose every other so
they maybe get to four and thirteen. Another solid scene
of Raider football and the hits just keep on coming.
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Congratulations to Pete Carroll. Did you hear the news? This
is the Ben Maler Show fun fact of the hour,
The fun fact of the hour malord fun fact. So
Pete Carroll has coached four hundred and seventeen games, four
hundred and thirty nine if you include the playoffs twenty
eight seasons as an NFL or college head coach and
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after the game on Monday night. This is now the
first time ever a Pete Carroll coach team has ever
been six games under five hundred. This is the worst
Pete Carroll team in this They are as the great
quarterback of the Tennessee Titans. Cam Ward would say, they
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ask is what they are? Absolutely terrible terrible, terrible terrible
terrible terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. Point that out. Some people
are asking, is lorraina fired up for her Cowboys? I
do not see any cowboy fan gear. I don't think
you're fired up, Lorena. I went to Wicked instead of
watching the Cowboy games. Big Cowboy fan, Big Cowboys. There
(30:08):
was an early prime screening premiere only at one time
of the day, so I had to go. Okay, but
the Cowboys only play once a week.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
They win once every season, you skip eight. They only
play seventeen meaningful games. They don't normally make the playoffs.
Seventeen games. And you went to see what Wicked?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Wicked?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Wicked. No, that's a good d Oh my god, so good,
Oh my god. We'd originally had plans to go to
that together later in the week, not during the Cowboy game,
but then Loraina was just like, oh, you know, I'm
gonna go on Monday. Why do you have to paint
it like that? That's exactly what happened the time. Okay,
all right, well listen, you guys can hammer that out.
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But so man A Love, that is not a decision
I would make. I would not be decided to go
to see Wicked. Malard prop guy rights and he says
another ten out of ten on the Mallard monologue. With
all the talk, all the talk about Roomba and Hoover dam,
it's pretty clear that the Raiders not only blow well truly,
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will you know? Yeah, there you go. That's well, good room,
but does blow that is that's accurately there better one suck. Hello,
let's go to John in Atlanta. Hello, John in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Welcome, what's going on brother? Hey? No event?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Hey Hi John?
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I just want to say, man, like I said last time, Man,
you're on point. You definitely made a definitely accurate prediction
of what's going on right now. But the thing I
wanted to ask you about, what did you think about
the Seattle and the Rams? At the Seahawks and Rams,
(31:55):
what do you think about that game over the weekend?
I mean, I knew the Rams really needed that game,
but it seemed like the Seawks out played them.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But uh, well, I only you could say outplayed it.
And they turned the ball over at Sam Donald four times.
It's like the chances that the Rams are going to
play that bad again against Seattle or slimming none. That
was the Seahawks chance, and they blew it by the
four interceptions. I mean yeah, I mean they're not going
to play that bad again on offense the Rams. The
Seahawks defense is not that good and the Rams blew it,
(32:25):
or they Seahawks rather blew it by losing the Rams
with those you know, fourteen I think it was fourteen
of the points. I did a monologue about it yesterday.
But fourteen of the points the Rams scored directly off
Sam Donald turnovers.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
So yeah, And the thing was is that they had
I think they definitely they had more yardage, they had
more first downs, they had time of position and everything.
But it's like, you know, I don't know, maybe it's
kind of like one of those things that the Rams
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kind of got lucky.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I don't buy that Sam Donald sucks. He'll suck when
they play again. He's not a big game quarterback. The
guy stinks. And so if you if you want to
bet on Sam Donald, good luck. The casinos would like
you to bet on Sam Donald. Cause I'm hearing the
same stuff John I heard in Minnesota last year when
I was doing monologues. I was like, oh, Sam Donald's
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gonna break your heart in the end, and everyone in
Minnesota said, no, it's different. He's got better players around him,
he's got better coaches. Everything's gonna be fine with Sam Donald.
And then what happened. Sam Donald at the end of
the year, the final week of the regular season, pooped
the bet against the Lions, and then just to confirm
that was not a mistake, he went out against the
Rams and wrote the Vomit Comet, confirming everything that we
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had said about him. He'll do the same exact thing
in Seattle. I don't. I don't bounce back here, and
the Seahawks will win some games and everything will be great,
and they'll win a few games and raw raw and
all that stuff, and then eventually, you know, down the line,
well things are gonna turn sever with this, except the
Tennessee Titans and the Vikings up next. Those teams stink.
They'll win both those games. Brother, and they play Atlanta,
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they're terrible too, So they win three the next three
they're gonna win.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, and yeah, I agree with you. But what I
was saying is like, it's like where do the Rams
end up? You know, It's kind of like what happens
to the Rams. I'm not a fan of either one
of the teams.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah, yeah, Well the Rams are. They won the game,
and they'll they're battling the Eagles. The problem is they
have to obviously finish a game ahead of the Eagles
because they lost on that blocked field goal, yeah, which
was insane. And they've got you look at the Rams
upcoming year and they have the Sunday night game In
week twelve, they played Tampa Bay, which is got a
(34:47):
bunch of guys out, and then you know Hot and
Cold Carolina and Arrows. I mean they've got they got
a pretty soft schedule too. They know many tough teams
the rest of the way.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
So yeah, it's gonna be interesting. But I want to
tell you, man, and uh, I.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Love your show, man, thank you appreciate.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I got, I got, I got all the guys at
my shop watching it. I'm at work right now, I'm
on my break, but you know, we get off four him.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
But well we thank you guys at the show. What
kind of shop?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
What are you doing? I think he told me last time,
but I forgot.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, I'm a I'm gonna retired first start in the
United States arm. You know, I was a paratrooper, jump master,
all that stuff. But I still work as a CNC machinist.
And at my shop, I mean all we we can't
you know, get any sports when we're you know, four
o'clock in the morning. Yeah, you know, when you get
off you so uh it's really cool because all the
(35:38):
other guys are like, yeah, man, dude, that guy then man,
he's he's he's fucking on points.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Okay, yeah, he is. I love that. I'll be in
the podcast. Unfortunately, John, we you know, I love it.
That's how men talk, John, but unfortunately the.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Language well no, this is that's so confident with me
and John are besties.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
I'm more tight buddy, old path. Yeah, that's how men talk.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Lery.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
All right, we'd like to curse aggressively, and it's fine.
I'm okay with that. Can I do it? I've been told, well,
you go ahead. Uh, you know what, you can do
anything once, right? Is that true? You can do anything
in life once one time. You can do literally anything.
Was that a warning? I'm just pointing that out. I'm
just pointing that out. I've cursed before on the year
(36:22):
I have so on the bench, baby, twiddling your thumbs.
We'll get to that time now though, for the who
am I game? No, we are not piling on the
Raiders unless, yes, we are piling on the Raiders. So
Pete Carroll at as a Raider coach. Now, he's a
two hundred winning percentage of this season as a Raiders coach,
and that has dropped him behind me for the worst
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winning percentage for a Raiders coach since Al Davis took
over with the Raider franchise in nineteen sixty three. Again,
Pete Carroll now has dropped below me. He is now
the worst has the worst winning percentage for a Raiders
coach since Al Davis joined the team in nineteen sixty three.
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Pete Carroll dropping behind me. Who am I? That's the question?
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
it next.
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we go before we pay off the who am I?
Game time? Now for the play of the day, and
we go back to Vegas where the Rumba is and
where the Cowboys. Dak Prescott was getting her done. Snap
to Prescott back steps up in the pocket, deep to
the middle, Coboy pickings of the stircles. Not to run direct,
twenty fifteen to ten touch right touchdown. The Raiders just
(38:27):
quit running after it. There you go, Cowboys. Not the
greatest call in the world, but for some reason, that
is the play of the day. Dak Prescott getting it
done for the Dallas Cowboys. There he had four touchdown
passes on the day. The Cowboys get to win. Tiraq
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Dak also made team history. They're tying Danny White and
Roger Staubach for the most touchdown passes on Monday Night
football according to the nerds that keep track of that stuff.
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Time now though, for the who am I? Game? And
congratulations to Pete Carroll, he now at a two hundred
winning percentage. He has dropped behind me for the worst
winning percentage for a Raiders coach since Al Davis joined
the franchise in nineteen sixty three. Who am I? That
is the question? And what is the answer? Who all right?
(39:31):
Stevie Meebaul says his favorite coach Victoria the webcam girl,
who I think he's watching right now? Coach Poppy and
his mentor b Finley from malaprop Guy. Who else do
we have? Joe Bugle from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota? Caleb Williams,
who is twenty four today from Late Night Drug Tester
(39:53):
Page down. We'll skip over that one. Joe Orselac good
good get by mister nice guy. He's like a random
outfielder in the nineteen eighty years because he wasn't that good.
Scrooge got it right, proving that he is a real
Raider fan. Ralph Firley from Rob the goat Man. Who
else we have? Lorna's favorite cowboy coach? Dave Campo from
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Eloy from cop Big Fan, Yes, Ashton Genti from Shane
in Des Moines, Christopher from The Sopranos guests by Just
Josh the Skipper from King Rory. Who else we have?
Mark Trestman from Pauli d Neil Armstrong guest by Femi
art Shell from Dante. What say you, Lorena? Aunt Jemima
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was the first one in my head, Aunt Jemima. It
was either that or Eskimo Pie. No, the correct answer
is Dennis Allen, Dennis the Menace. Dennis Allen is the
correct answer. Whoo who Yeah, I knew that. I knew
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How would you describe Pete Carroll and the Raiders' effort
for Pete Carroll or lack thereof? Also, who's responsible for
this latest Raiders I sore of a season as the
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card came to an end for the weekend on Monday
Night football and that is where we will start off.
And this Malard monologue begins in southern Nevada. A vintage matchup.
If only you had a time machine and you could
go back thirty forty fifty years. Oh my god, what
a matchup, bucking my day all the old people. I
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remember when the Cowboys and Raiders. Oh my god, that
was amazing. It was epic. Now, like, how did that
game end up on Monday Night Football? The Cowboys and Raiders.
They throwback to the vintage days. There, the days of
your of course, these days a couple of dogs with fleas,
but they were out there fletson around. You got Joe
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Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox refugees there on a
b C. Now, they're gonna get huge ratings for this game.
Massive ratings for this game, certainly ratings that are not
not worthy of the two teams that were participating in
this game. I don't know if you were watching it
or not. I watched it kind of have to. I mean,
(03:38):
I really want to watch NBA, so there's really nothing
else to watch. It's pretty much that's it. So if
you want to watch some sports, you're gonna have to
watch this. So I watched, and what did we see? Well,
Dak Prescott went out there against a bunch of tomato cans.
Dak passed for two hundred and sixty eight yards and
not one, not two, not three, but four a four
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pack of touchdowns thirty three to sixteen, Dallas vaporizing the
I can't even say once proud Las Vegas Raiders. They've
sucked ever since they got to Vegas, just like they
sucked when they were in Oakland. Anyway, the Cowboys first game,
if you watched any second of the Monday night game,
you realize it was the first game the Cowboys had
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played since their defensive player at marsha On Neeland's dath
he committed suicide last to Ted eleven days ago. Eleven
days ago. Brian Schottenheim or the Cowboys coach, the players,
all they wore, they wore stuff honoring there was the
coach shot and ever were a T shirt. They were
honoring Neil in there bowed their head. There was a
moment of silence before the game. Cowboys are four to
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five and one on the season, and you could argue
they played better than they have played all season. Some
trying to sell the fact the Cowboys are a playoff contender.
That is a lie. They are not. Dallas had lost
three of their last four games coming up against Now
they have Philadelphia Kansas City in Detroit. Good afternoon, good evening,
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and good night for the Dallas Cowboys there. But the
better story is in the losing locker room. So that
is where we are going to begin. And for some reason,
we see the Raiders in these primetime games way too often,
considering how much they stink. But here they were again
one more time, Gino Smith reminding everyone he can't play
quarterback at a high level, and the Raiders in general
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played with a lack of edge. That was to me
the most telling thing about this. So that's a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question for the room,
and you're part of the room as we discuss here.
The question is how would you describe Pete Carroll and
the Raiders effort in this game? Not the result. The
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result was they got their face smashed in, But the
effort by the Raiders, that's the question. So on this one,
I've got rumba, hoover, dam, and boilerplate and we will
combine all of these things together and we were going
to make a chopped chicken sandwiches. What we're going to
make and we'll see how it turns out. Now, Ay,
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we were a little confused, a little confused watching this game.
And why would we be confused, because we assumed that
we tuned in to watch a football game. It looked
like some of the Raider defensive players are being held hostage.
My god, they did not want to be there. They
did not want to be there. Look at the way
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they were playing. The effort was nonexistent, non existent. By
and listen, the Raiders are a bad team. All that stuff.
The Raiders look like they look like Gunner, our guy
in Minnesota clocking in at the walmart is what they
look like. You know what I'm saying. They're just kind
of going through it. Not Monday night football. They're just
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I gotta show up. I got my tunea fish sandwich
for the break room. I'm good. It was the marching band.
But it was the marching band with the drum line
a little out of sync, just a little out of sink.
Half the horns pointed backwards. That doesn't seem real good.
I mean, I'm not in a band. It doesn't seem
real good. The baton twirlers asleep like they're a New
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York Giants rookie player off to the side, and you
slow down the film, in this case the digital video,
and what did we see We saw on the Raider
defense Pete Carroll defensive guy. You saw a lot of
arm tackles, traffic cones, illusions of effort. There's a lot
of illusions of effort making it appear that you're actually
hustling when you're not actually hustling. Guys jogging towards the
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ball la la la la la la la la la
la la, kind of like they were late to a
brunch at the Bellagio. They were just kind of jogging
la la la la la la la la la, just
like that. That's what it actually sounded like when they
were jogging. It sounded like that. My god, it just
it is. It is brutal, absolutely brutal. I guess they
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don't have to try. The season's over, so they'll just
kind of go through the motions and that's it. But man, all,
I have no attention to detail. I don't know what
the game plan was. I have no idea that they
even prepare. Did the coaching staff prepare? Players didn't look
like they wanted to be there, and it's nights like this,
this Monday night game here where you separate the people
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that really love playing football and the people that are
there because they make a lot of money, insane amounts
of money. Money they could not make in any other business,
like insane money, but they just happened to fall into
it because they won the genetic lottery or whatever. And
they're great athletes, but they don't really like football. And
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there's a lot of guys on that, you know, the
guys that are just kind of there for the team photo.
Those guys floaters, coasters, the bus riders, that group the
hawksin's that affect every losing team. And you're two and
eight now the Raiders. You just put the whole league
on Notice that record is not misleading. You stank, you do,
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and not only do you stink, your entire team appears
to be okay with it. There's not a lot of fight.
It's not a lot of fighting. Now pivoting, let's talk
about the curious case of Geno Smith. Here's Pete Carroll.
Let's see, I've heard that Pete is not allowed to
criticize Geno Smith. Gino is so soft? How soft is he?
(09:27):
He can't take any criticism. If you criticize Geno Smith,
you will lose Geno Smith. So if there was ever
a day to criticize Geno Smith, this would have been
to day. Let's hear what Pete Carroll had to say.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Thirty one dropbacks in that first half three runs? Is that?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I mean, I can't imagine that that's something that you
like to look at it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It wasn't thirty one drop backs was a bunch of
play action passes and really I really wanted to see
us do that. And there's only one person to look
at me, because I was influence from the game plan.
I love the way we were chunking them and we
may beg plays, but as as and I didn't, I.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Knew it was.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I knew it was happening, you know, and the chip
and I knew what was going on. But we were
trying to stay with it and to see if we
could continue to get the big plays which we were getting,
and then we just stalled in the red zone. And unfortunately,
and I don't really care about pleasing people with our
run past mix. I'm trying to move the football. And
when you come back to it, we were supposed to
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be ahead with that approach, and then we're supposed to
come back and run the football in the second half
and then later in the second quarter, but our inability
to get in the zone and to stop them didn't.
It didn't work out that way. So I'm totally responsible
for how that happened.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
The standard dance remix. There nothing short from Pete Carroll anyway. Listen,
he did say there, and that was kind of telling
I'm not here to please people, and the Raiders haven't
pleased anyone. So Pete was not wrong when he said
that I'm not here to please people with my run
pass breakdown. He's also not there to please people with
the product on the field, which if this was if
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this was a vagae show, like if you put this
at MGM or New York New York, well, because it
would have already closed. It literally would have canceled the show.
That's it. They're still going if they do. But Gino Smith,
is he not one of the great swindlers of the NFL. Seriously,
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I mean, it's fascinating to me that this has continued
as long as it has. A man built to wear
a headset and hold the clipboard and deliver packages for
Amazon somehow has now started for four seasons, four seasons
as a QB one, he has earned over one hundred
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million dollars and can't play as a starter. It's wild.
It's like he's slipped through the cracks. Gino Smith, it
really is one of the great I give him credit.
I'm not ripping him. I'm impressed. The guy that can't
do the job has risen. It's the Peter principle. He's
risen to his highest level of incompetence and he's staying there.
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You talk about a shortage of quarterbacks, well, this would
indicate there is a shortage of quarterbacks there. My god,
holy crap. And if Joe six Pack with seventeen burner
accounts with different avatars on every one of them knows
that Gino ain't it. And yet now he's started for
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multiple NFL teams, billion dollar, multi billion dollar franchises. Can't
get the memo. Then you had Ashton Genty, the rookie
running back who didn't get a lot of work, and
when he did touch the ball, wow did he stink?
He was bad too? Against a bottom five run defense,
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the Dallas Cowboys, against one of the worst defenses in football,
and you didn't even try to run the ball. When
you did, you couldn't run the ball. That's not just bad,
that's an indictment of multiple people, is what That is.
Football version of an open book test, and you screwed
it up. You had the teacher's book you had to
copy with all the answers. You messed it up. Now,
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it's appropriate that if you've ever been to Vegas, the
Raiders stadium looks like a giant rumba when you drive by.
It looks like a big old rumba there on the
way into Vegas from La And seriously, they actually needed
the Raiders a robotic vacuum here because there's a lot
of mess, lot of debris that they got to clean up.
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So get that giant rumba and crank it up there.
At some point you could almost hear the Star Trek
line from years ago. Beat me up, Scottie, get me
out of here. I want to go please. And that's
just the players, that's Pete Carroll, that's everyone involved here.
Get me far far away from this planet, take me
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somewhere else, please. The effort was anemic. It was alarming,
not surprising. This is the culture the Raiders have had
for years different coaches. It's toxic. It's absolutely toxic. They
don't fight, they don't scratch and claw. There's a couple
types of bad teams. There's the bad teams that know
they're bad and don't give a crap, and then there's
the bad teams that know they're bad and try. The
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Raiders are not that team. They're the ladder, the team
that knows they're bad and they don't really put a
lot of effort into it. And so that's it, and
it's been that way. It's it's unwatchable for a generation.
Now the Raiders all right, now going to thirty thousand
feet in the sky, Who's responsible? Who is responsible for
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this latest Raiders I sore of a season? So this
is easy. All you have to do is look at
the DNA trail. There's a long DNA trail here. And
if you peel back the onion and you look at
the DNA the layers of the onion, it kind of
smells like Tom Brady's after shave. This is the Patriot
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way gone wild, is what it is. Now. Tom Brady
is the Patriot saying of the NFL. Beyond criticism the
football media seems to refuse to criticize Tom Brady. I
don't understand why Mark Davis basically handed Tom Brady the
keys and said, I can't figure this out, you fix it.
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He gave the keys to the French. He's a big
owner and the Raiders, and he's eat on every major decision.
And he's like, Mark Davis, I listen, you drive, buddy.
I've tried to drive this car, and all I've gotten
his orange chicken at PF Changs. That's all. I've gotten
good appetizers at PF Chase. But the team sucks. Come on,
skinny pantsat tom Brady. Fix it. And Tom Brady said, okay,
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Mark Davis, I'm gonna fix it, and he took the
keys and he drove the Raider Mobile right into the
Hoover Dam kurkflowy, right into the Hoover dam. The man
that had the mightest touch with the New England Patriots,
the mightest touch. Right now, he's got the Adam touch.
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And if you know where that is, looking up, but
everything he touches turns to the dust at this particular
point with the Sadam touch. And forget the goat, oh,
he's the goat. You can't rip Tom Brady. He's the goat.
Oh you want to bet? Yeah? How about Tom the
team killer? Wow? The Raiders actually are in a worse
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position now than when they had Antonio Pierce and a
different front office last year, which is impossible, but they are.
They're in a worse position now, and nobody will talk
about it in the media. There's like a blackout on
talking about Tom Brady. What a terrible job he's done.
He's Michael Jordan, Charlotte Hornet's bad as an executive, legendary player, clueless,
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clueless at building a roster, hiring a coaching staff, the
whole thing. It's kind of like hiring Bob Ross because
he used to watch him on PBS. He's dead now.
But if you hired him to fix your plumbing, well
I probably don't want Bob Ross to fix your plumbing.
Maybe paint a mosaic or something like that, but that's it.
So remember Brady handpicked the coach and the quarterback. He
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wanted Matthew Stafford as his quarterback. He took him to
a retreat in Montana and tried to brainwash him into
the colt of Tom Brady. Stafford said I'm good. He
then thought he was gonna get Ben Johnson, who's coaching
the Bears. That didn't work out either, So what did
he end up with? He ended up with Tom Brady
ended up with a Kirkland brand version of the twenty
(17:35):
thirteen Well actually night in twenty thirty, twenty seventeen, eighteen Seahawks,
Pete Carroll Light, Pete Carroll Light, Gino Smith without the spark,
not that he ever had one. It's kind of like
ordering a Fidaye mignon and you get the plate and
there's a Salisbury steak and why didn't order the Salisbury stake?
(17:58):
Why is it not on a play Why is it
on a styrofoam? Well, that's what it comes with. It's
the Salisbury steak. But I wanted the let mignon, but
I know, but we ran out of that, so we
just gave you the Salisbury steak. And it's really good.
It's delicious, but I don't want the Salisbury but it
just enjoyed, but I don't want the styrofie. Just eat it.
That's it. The autumn wind is a raider, No it's not.
(18:19):
The autumn wind is a gas leak. Flatulence that's the Raiders.
That's the Raiders right here. And tom Brady's fingerprints are
all over the body, all over the body here. This
is a forensic disaster, is what this is. Here. The
chalk outline goes right from the fifty yard line to
(18:41):
TV twelve's front door right there. Pick his house. He's
got a lot of houses. But let's be real here,
all right, tom Brady believed he could just sprinkle on
some Patriot pixie dust with the Raiders and that would
be it. And unfortunately, you're a long way from Foxborough.
It's football in the desert, a losing culture. The man's
(19:02):
out there planting roses. Tom Brady, he's a gardener and
wondering why they're dying, Why they're dying the roses. Yeah, okay,
so you say as a quarterback he was Mozart and
then as an executive, as the front office puppet master,
he's essentially playing the kazoo. No, I don't mind the kazoo,
(19:24):
but you don't pay big money to watch the kazoo.
And so welcome to the Tom Brady era in Sin City.
With no innings, no winnings. Everyone's a loser. Everyone's a loser. Yeah. Anyway,
last word, we go to the Dallas side of things,
and the question is, what did you think of the
(19:45):
media coverage on the Monday night game coverage of Brian
Schottenheimer's Cowboys dealing with tragedy and where we are and
that on that the way it was handled and all
that stuff. So this was hallmark storytelling, is what it was.
I was actually texting a couple of buddies of mine,
one of them former sports writer. We were going back
(20:08):
and forth. But this game story was written before the
game was kicked off. Cowboys and Raiders. It didn't matter
if the Cowboys won the game thirty three to sixteen,
which they did. If they won the game thirty three
to thirty two, Marshawn Neeland, the young man whofortunately lost
his life at his own hands. According to the story,
(20:29):
he was the lead. That was the story. The media
already had it ready. It was boiler plate ready, is
what it was. Insert score, copy paste and click publish
and that's that. Now. In the multiverse, I do believe
in the multiverse and the multiverse there is a dimension
where Dallas actually lost the game. Hard to believe the
(20:53):
way the game went out, but they lost the game.
But if the Cowboys had lost the game, the story
would have been the same. Headline would have been about
the young man that lost his life, but the story
would have been, you know, Cowboys lose this game by
four touchdowns because they were emotionally drained. It turned out
they weren't emotionally drained. They won the game, so you
go away from that. And since they didn't lose, it's
(21:15):
inspired when playing for their fallen brother, all that stuff.
But let's be real, though, Let's be real about just
the state of the cowboy. You don't get neon erasers.
The teacher does not give you a Neon green or
Neon pink eraser for beating the Raiders in a Monday
night game. The Raiders are trash. You are garbage. When
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garbage beats trash, garbage doesn't become gold. It doesn't. So yeah, congratulated,
Cowboys are four five and one. They are who we
thought they were. And if you want to crown them,
then crown them. And here comes the gauntlet. Here comes
the gauntlet, the doomsday prophecy for the Cowboys. They've got
the Eagles, Chiefs at home, Lions on the road. You
(22:01):
think there's suddenly a contender with that out in front,
this Cowboy team, mark my words, And I'm never wrong
about this. They're gonna win seven or eight games. That's it.
They've got four wins right now. They'll squeeze out another
three or four wins, and they'll be perfectly mediocre, perfectly mediocre,
and the questions will continue to linger about Dak Prescott
against good opponents. You look great against a bad opponent,
(22:24):
but in big games down the stretch, we'll see how
how he does there. And I hope they enjoyed this
mom here, the Cowboys there, because the calm before the
waterboarding starts there. And let's stop pretending I've already seen
some of the stories. Oh, it's a turning point game. No, no,
it's not. This is not a turning point game at all.
(22:45):
It is just merely a calm. It's like being in
the eye of the storm and you know that you've
got the rest of the hurricane you're gonna have to
deal with. It's gonna be a bumpy run. It is
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the live program. Well, the Cowboys played well, but not
everyone was there at the start of the game. You
cannot have a Cowboy game without drama or rama. What
is the real story and why a couple of stars
(23:30):
were standing there twiddling their thumbs on the bench when
the game began. We'll get to that and we will
do it next.
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(25:27):
go back to it, and not everyone, not everyone was
gung ho ready to go at the start of the game.
We'll explain what that's all about. Coming up in a
little bit. Screwge says, you know things are bad when
your team is being compared to Gunner. Also, where are
these other three or four wins gonna come from?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
The Raiders are so bad, I'm not even sure we
could beat the Browns or the Jets at this point.
When I said the Cowboys are going to get three
or four more wins, I didn't say the Raiders are
going to get three or four more wins. Na, Na,
you gotta check your hearing on that screen. I know
you're a young guy. You're bragging about being the younger demo,
but you gotta listen closely. I was talking about the
Cowboys ending up getting some more wins because the Cowboys
(26:12):
the next three games they'll lose. They should lose all three.
If they don't, there should be some kind of criminal investigation.
And then after that they play the Vikings. JJ McCarthy
can't play. That guy sucks. The Chargers are hot and cold.
That game is in La. You got the Commanders that's
a terrible team, and the Giants, who are a terrible team.
So if the Cowboys should beat the Vikings, Commanders and Giants,
(26:35):
that'll get them three wins, and they'll get to they'll
get to six. They could get to seven with the
Charger game. That's a swing game, but that would mean
they would have won their last four games of the season,
which is highly unlikely, highly unlikely that that is going
to happen. So anyway, what else do you have a
see on the X machine page down here? We'll skip
(26:58):
over that one. You femi and should I writes and
says A Mallard a plus and a Brown's chicken victory
feast on the Mallard monologue. The media has been upselling
the Cowboys as if Schottenheimer Junior is the second coming
of Jimmy Johnson. Is this the same Cowboy team that
(27:19):
the Bears dog walked a few weeks back? Believe it is?
You fee me? I think it's the same same exact team,
same exact team. Nurse Jockey writes in and says, since
Tom Brady clones his dog, yes, my question to you,
Ben is would you clone your dog or your wife?
(27:41):
He says, I would definitely clone my wife. He says
four boobs are better than two. Okay, there you go,
very funny, very funny, Nurse Jockey. There, I'm good on
the cloning Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Right since says
two thumbs up on another monologue, I've got a few
(28:01):
questions though, whatever happened to Michael Irvin? And where is
the glory hole that they used to talk about? Well,
that was at the White House, and we used to
have a guy named James James Washington. J Dubb used
to work here back in the day, and he was
one of the big people behind the White House and
told some great stories off the air, some stories on
(28:22):
the air about the White House and and all that.
As far as the Raiders, I want to pivot because
the screwgers like, well, how the Raiders' gonna win three
more games? The Raiders have a very winnable game this
coming week. The Browns are pretty much forfeiting. They're starting
Tradeur Sanders, who looked like he had never played quarterback
before against the Baltimore Ravens in that last game. That
(28:42):
game is in Vegas, so there's a winnable game. They
play the Giants. That's a winnable game down the line.
So they got like two winnable games. That's about it.
They'll lose every other game. They'll lose every other so
they maybe get to four and thirteen. Another solid scene
of Raider football and the hits just keep on coming.
(29:03):
Congratulations to Pete Carroll. Did you hear the news? This
is the Ben Maler Show fun fact of the hour,
The fun fact of the hour malord fun fact. So
Pete Carroll has coached four hundred and seventeen games, four
hundred and thirty nine if you include the playoffs twenty
eight seasons as an NFL or college head coach and
(29:26):
after the game on Monday night. This is now the
first time ever a Pete Carroll coach team has ever
been six games under five hundred. This is the worst
Pete Carroll team in this They are as the great
quarterback of the Tennessee Titans. Cam Ward would say, they
(29:47):
ask is what they are? Absolutely terrible terrible, terrible terrible
terrible terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. Point that out. Some people
are asking, is lorraina fired up for her Cowboys? I
do not see any cowboy fan gear. I don't think
you're fired up, Lorena. I went to Wicked instead of
watching the Cowboy games. Big Cowboy fan, Big Cowboys. There
(30:08):
was an early prime screening premiere only at one time
of the day, so I had to go. Okay, but
the Cowboys only play once a week.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
They win once every season, you skip eight. They only
play seventeen meaningful games. They don't normally make the playoffs.
Seventeen games. And you went to see what Wicked?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Wicked?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Wicked. No, that's a good d Oh my god, so good,
Oh my god. We'd originally had plans to go to
that together later in the week, not during the Cowboy game,
but then Loraina was just like, oh, you know, I'm
gonna go on Monday. Why do you have to paint
it like that? That's exactly what happened the time. Okay,
all right, well listen, you guys can hammer that out.
(30:51):
But so man A Love, that is not a decision
I would make. I would not be decided to go
to see Wicked. Malard prop guy rights and he says
another ten out of ten on the Mallard monologue. With
all the talk, all the talk about Roomba and Hoover dam,
it's pretty clear that the Raiders not only blow well truly,
(31:13):
will you know? Yeah, there you go. That's well, good room,
but does blow that is that's accurately there better one suck. Hello,
let's go to John in Atlanta. Hello, John in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Welcome, what's going on brother? Hey? No event?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Hey Hi John?
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I just want to say, man, like I said last time, Man,
you're on point. You definitely made a definitely accurate prediction
of what's going on right now. But the thing I
wanted to ask you about, what did you think about
the Seattle and the Rams? At the Seahawks and Rams,
(31:55):
what do you think about that game over the weekend?
I mean, I knew the Rams really needed that game,
but it seemed like the Seawks out played them.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But uh, well, I only you could say outplayed it.
And they turned the ball over at Sam Donald four times.
It's like the chances that the Rams are going to
play that bad again against Seattle or slimming none. That
was the Seahawks chance, and they blew it by the
four interceptions. I mean yeah, I mean they're not going
to play that bad again on offense the Rams. The
Seahawks defense is not that good and the Rams blew it,
(32:25):
or they Seahawks rather blew it by losing the Rams
with those you know, fourteen I think it was fourteen
of the points. I did a monologue about it yesterday.
But fourteen of the points the Rams scored directly off
Sam Donald turnovers.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
So yeah, And the thing was is that they had
I think they definitely they had more yardage, they had
more first downs, they had time of position and everything.
But it's like, you know, I don't know, maybe it's
kind of like one of those things that the Rams
(32:58):
kind of got lucky.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I don't buy that Sam Donald sucks. He'll suck when
they play again. He's not a big game quarterback. The
guy stinks. And so if you if you want to
bet on Sam Donald, good luck. The casinos would like
you to bet on Sam Donald. Cause I'm hearing the
same stuff John I heard in Minnesota last year when
I was doing monologues. I was like, oh, Sam Donald's
(33:22):
gonna break your heart in the end, and everyone in
Minnesota said, no, it's different. He's got better players around him,
he's got better coaches. Everything's gonna be fine with Sam Donald.
And then what happened. Sam Donald at the end of
the year, the final week of the regular season, pooped
the bet against the Lions, and then just to confirm
that was not a mistake, he went out against the
Rams and wrote the Vomit Comet, confirming everything that we
(33:44):
had said about him. He'll do the same exact thing
in Seattle. I don't. I don't bounce back here, and
the Seahawks will win some games and everything will be great,
and they'll win a few games and raw raw and
all that stuff, and then eventually, you know, down the line,
well things are gonna turn sever with this, except the
Tennessee Titans and the Vikings up next. Those teams stink.
They'll win both those games. Brother, and they play Atlanta,
(34:06):
they're terrible too, So they win three the next three
they're gonna win.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, and yeah, I agree with you. But what I
was saying is like, it's like where do the Rams
end up? You know, It's kind of like what happens
to the Rams. I'm not a fan of either one
of the teams.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah, yeah, Well the Rams are. They won the game,
and they'll they're battling the Eagles. The problem is they
have to obviously finish a game ahead of the Eagles
because they lost on that blocked field goal, yeah, which
was insane. And they've got you look at the Rams
upcoming year and they have the Sunday night game In
week twelve, they played Tampa Bay, which is got a
(34:47):
bunch of guys out, and then you know Hot and
Cold Carolina and Arrows. I mean they've got they got
a pretty soft schedule too. They know many tough teams
the rest of the way.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
So yeah, it's gonna be interesting. But I want to
tell you, man, and uh, I.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Love your show, man, thank you appreciate.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I got, I got, I got all the guys at
my shop watching it. I'm at work right now, I'm
on my break, but you know, we get off four him.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
But well we thank you guys at the show. What
kind of shop?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
What are you doing? I think he told me last time,
but I forgot.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, I'm a I'm gonna retired first start in the
United States arm. You know, I was a paratrooper, jump master,
all that stuff. But I still work as a CNC machinist.
And at my shop, I mean all we we can't
you know, get any sports when we're you know, four
o'clock in the morning. Yeah, you know, when you get
off you so uh it's really cool because all the
(35:38):
other guys are like, yeah, man, dude, that guy then man,
he's he's he's fucking on points.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Okay, yeah, he is. I love that. I'll be in
the podcast. Unfortunately, John, we you know, I love it.
That's how men talk, John, but unfortunately the.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Language well no, this is that's so confident with me
and John are besties.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
I'm more tight buddy, old path. Yeah, that's how men talk.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Lery.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
All right, we'd like to curse aggressively, and it's fine.
I'm okay with that. Can I do it? I've been told, well,
you go ahead. Uh, you know what, you can do
anything once, right? Is that true? You can do anything
in life once one time. You can do literally anything.
Was that a warning? I'm just pointing that out. I'm
just pointing that out. I've cursed before on the year
(36:22):
I have so on the bench, baby, twiddling your thumbs.
We'll get to that time now though, for the who
am I game? No, we are not piling on the
Raiders unless, yes, we are piling on the Raiders. So
Pete Carroll at as a Raider coach. Now, he's a
two hundred winning percentage of this season as a Raiders coach,
and that has dropped him behind me for the worst
(36:44):
winning percentage for a Raiders coach since Al Davis took
over with the Raider franchise in nineteen sixty three. Again,
Pete Carroll now has dropped below me. He is now
the worst has the worst winning percentage for a Raiders
coach since Al Davis joined the team in nineteen sixty three.
(37:05):
Pete Carroll dropping behind me. Who am I? That's the question?
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
it next.
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(37:41):
You can watch, oh man, who wants to do that?
And also everyone everyone wants to do that? And if
you want Benny versus the Penny get his back. Every
Wednesday and Thursday or Friday, depends on the week. New
episodes drop week twelve of the NFL season. So that's
at Benny Vspenny. Now back to it, back to where
(38:04):
we go before we pay off the who am I?
Game time? Now for the play of the day, and
we go back to Vegas where the Rumba is and
where the Cowboys. Dak Prescott was getting her done. Snap
to Prescott back steps up in the pocket, deep to
the middle, Coboy pickings of the stircles. Not to run direct,
twenty fifteen to ten touch right touchdown. The Raiders just
(38:27):
quit running after it. There you go, Cowboys. Not the
greatest call in the world, but for some reason, that
is the play of the day. Dak Prescott getting it
done for the Dallas Cowboys. There he had four touchdown
passes on the day. The Cowboys get to win. Tiraq
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Dak also made team history. They're tying Danny White and
Roger Staubach for the most touchdown passes on Monday Night
football according to the nerds that keep track of that stuff.
(39:10):
Time now though, for the who am I? Game? And
congratulations to Pete Carroll, he now at a two hundred
winning percentage. He has dropped behind me for the worst
winning percentage for a Raiders coach since Al Davis joined
the franchise in nineteen sixty three. Who am I? That
is the question? And what is the answer? Who all right?
(39:31):
Stevie Meebaul says his favorite coach Victoria the webcam girl,
who I think he's watching right now? Coach Poppy and
his mentor b Finley from malaprop Guy. Who else do
we have? Joe Bugle from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota? Caleb Williams,
who is twenty four today from Late Night Drug Tester
(39:53):
Page down. We'll skip over that one. Joe Orselac good
good get by mister nice guy. He's like a random
outfielder in the nineteen eighty years because he wasn't that good.
Scrooge got it right, proving that he is a real
Raider fan. Ralph Firley from Rob the goat Man. Who
else we have? Lorna's favorite cowboy coach? Dave Campo from
(40:15):
Eloy from cop Big Fan, Yes, Ashton Genti from Shane
in Des Moines, Christopher from The Sopranos guests by Just
Josh the Skipper from King Rory. Who else we have?
Mark Trestman from Pauli d Neil Armstrong guest by Femi
art Shell from Dante. What say you, Lorena? Aunt Jemima
(40:37):
was the first one in my head, Aunt Jemima. It
was either that or Eskimo Pie. No, the correct answer
is Dennis Allen, Dennis the Menace. Dennis Allen is the
correct answer. Whoo who Yeah, I knew that. I knew
that
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