December 1, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about who gets the blame for Sean McVay's Rams losing to the Carolina Panthers, if this performance puts an end to the Matthew Stafford for MVP campaign, if Sean Payton's Broncos should feel good with the OT win or concerned that they struggled to beat the Commanders, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You can ram it all day, you can ram it
all night, but not in Carolina. It's our number wad,
our number one, and all what fun we have for
you here in our one of the Ben Malor Show.
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But here it is our number one who gets the
blame for Sean mcvay's rams as they blew it in Carolina.
Also does this performance or lack thereof in Carolina put
the cabash on the Matthew Stafford MVP Campaign Circle of
the Year twenty twenty five. We're now in December. We
had a Sunday night football game last night, shured Sean
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Payton's Broncos feel good with an overtime winner, be concerned
that they were driving the struggle bus and barely beat
the Commanders as they knock down a two point conversion
in overtime. All that and more right now, it's our
number one. Sometimes you're the ram and sometimes you're the Lamb.
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Welcome in the beginning of another week of the Ben
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the way tirebund should be. So it's a it's a blessing.
And a curse. It's it's usually Sunday nights, like the
most important game. Not this game. It wasn't wasn't that
big a game. So we can go somewhere else and
we're gonna start our lead this hour to begin the week.
We're going to start in the Queen City, the hornets Nest,
the banking capital of the South. We head to Charlotte,
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where Matthew Stafford was leading the lr I AM into
a show up and win game. At least that was
a theory going in. You show up and you win.
The RAM bandwagon stopping in North Carolina to play the
lowly Panthers and the inconsistent, often terrible Bryce Young at quarterback.
There that was the match. I don't if you watch
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this game or not. It was regional cover. You have
most people these days have access to different ways to
watch games, some of them legal, some of them not
so much. All right, so you didn't see this, perhaps
not as you missed this game. Someone named Chris Jackson,
that's kind of a generic dad. Chris Jackson returned in
interception forty eight yards. He plays for the team from
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North Carolina, for a touchdown and the Panthers ended up
forcing not one, not two, but three Matthew Stafford turnovers,
and they get one at the end by the way,
oh my god, the Rams were in field goal range
to tie the game late in the game and numb
nuts Stafford fumbles the ball away thirty one point eight
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the final as the Panthers are and get the upset
when that is their Super Bowl congratulations, greatest moment in
Carolina Panther history that pathetic sad sack franchise. Beating the
Rams a regular season win the biggest moment. I'm convinced,
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based on a quick look at my email in the
history of that pathetic franchise. And I'm honored. I'm honored
that beating the Rams in a regular season game is
the greatest accomplishment the team's ever had. Somewhere, Jake de
Lolmes at a horse track said, what about me? Oh,
come on, we were in the Super Bowl, okay, But
a better story is in the losing locker room. Matthew Stafford,
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who entered the game with a league high thirty touchdown passes,
including eighteen in the past five games, and he was
facing a Carolina defense that did not have their starting
cornerback JC Horne. He was out with the injury of
the starting safety, suspended for a little shot to the
nuts of a forty nine er player, and you had
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a short week. The Panthers got their ass kicked playing
the Niners on Monday night on the West Coast, and
that's why they play the games. It's also a good
jumping off point. So let us discuss the question who
gets the blame. Who gets the blame for Sean mcvay's
Rams losing to Carolina in a game where they gave
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that game. Carolina win the game and the game is
gifted by the Rams. So I've got financial advice, Hot Air,
balloon and toys are us and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to create
some marginal overnight talk radios. What we're gonna do together,
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that's what we're gonna do. And we'll also make some
brisket on the side. We'll cook some brisket in the smoker.
We'll put it in the smoker. We'll cook it for
like a two days. That'll be the way we do it, alright,
So a any way you slice it, literally, any way
you slice it. This was a clunker from the Rams.
It was not some kind of masterpiece by Caroline. It
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was we'll call it for the Rams on the road.
It was the Carolina Clunker. A game with so many
unforced errors it should have had some kind of parental
advisory on it, so many self inflicted RUMs. Sean Bavay's
Rams were being celebrated all week to toast of the NFL.
The Rams a team to beat. Oh my god, yes
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it was. Everyone went to seven to eleven, ordered a
Rams slurpee. They were slipping all over the Rams. How
great the Rams were. And then they had to go
out and play a game, and they did not did
not rise to the occasion at all in this game,
as the Rams responded by playing like a bunch of
stumblebums in shoulder pads in this particular matchup here now
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right in front of the line. Play the blame game,
right in front. Obviously, Matthew Stafford, he sucked at a
time you cannot suck.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Here.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
He played a game of whack a mole with the football,
which generally speaking, not a great idea. But what do
you know, you're just to the Overnight show. I'm just saying,
I'm just saying. Three turnovers. There were misthrows the body
language of a man who realized that his GPS was
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broken and he was stuck on a dark highway out
in the country somewhere, and he's like, I don't know
what I'm doing here, Stafford. This was a roller coaster
performance by Stafford. It did have a few nice scenic
views there where he found Devonte Adams for touchdowns and
then boom goes the dynamite for Matthew Stafford upside down,
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losing your lunch. All of that. However, now the Simpleton
way is just to merely blame Matthew Stafford, and while
he certainly gets the in this case, Lion shares what
he uh. Lion's share of the blame. However, Chris Shula,
who was also getting hyped up as a future NFL
head coach and likely will be a future head coach
because of nepotism. So Chris Sula's group the he's the
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defensive coordinator for the Rams. They lacked a sense of urgency. Uh,
Like they looked like they were running for stretchers in
that game, like they were running an oatmeal, which I
don't know that you want to run through oatmeal. I
don't I don't recommend it, and just heavy footed on
defense and messing up. I'm blundering and bumbling and all
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those things. A sloppy tackling and though the weather wasn't perfect, well,
the weather's not always going to be perfect. And down
the line right now the Chicago Bears, because the Rams
lost the Bears of the number one seed in the NFC,
which I would think Soldier Field. I know as a kid,
I'm old, and so I did see the Bears play
home games in Soldier Field and the weather sucked, and
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that was part of the deal. So you're gonna if
you have to go there or go to Philadelphia on
the road, you're gonna be playing in bad weather and
just sloppy tackling. Was damp and rainy and cold and
Charlotte and it's like they had covered their hands and
Carolina barbecue sauce and slipping through tackles and whatnot there
and not one forced turn up. You're playing one of
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the great stiffs of all time. Bryce Young. We all agree,
Everyone agrees, right, everyone, this guy sucks. And you couldn't
turn turn the ball over one time from Carolina, not
one forced fumble, not one interception, playing Bryce Young, Bryce Young,
who if you look at the says, well, you had
some good stats in the game. What are you talking about?
But if you watch the game, it's Bryce Young's not
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the guy to beat the Rams. He's not. He checked
them into a nice hotel, went to a nice hotel there,
thanked them at checkout, got a nice gift basket from
the Rams. Of you know, the Carolina team got turnovers
and all that stuff. To me, though you mentioned the
defense being bad, Stafford was terrible. That fumble game would
have gone to overtime, would have kicked a field goal there.
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Who knows what happens most likely after that. However, ifs
and buts were candy nuts, the biggest issue here, and
this is something that you look. Stafford's gonna be fine.
I'm not worried about Matthew Stafford. However, I am concerned
about a Cinderella's story on defense. The Rams picked up
a player named Emmanuel Forbes from Washington who was a
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first round pick who got released because of incompetence with
the team formerly known as the Redskins. And they're using
that financial advice from Emmanuel Forbes, and he had been fine.
I wouldn't say great, he'd been fine or good or whatever,
but now this guy turned into a human ATM machine.
Guys were getting cash right and left for Carolina in
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this game and burned for a thirty three yard touchdown,
roasted again for a forty three yard touchdown. It's Emmanuel
Forbes who goofed I've got to know. And the Panthers
you'll be a running back combination Chuba Hubbard and Rico Dowdell.
They were not explosive in this game, but it was
death by a thousand paper cuts for Carolina. Mcvay's magic
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did not work. Clearly only works when the weather's okay,
not in the rain. Didn't really work there. So the
rams they gave that game on you are crowd them,
crowd the rash. But they gave that game away, is
what they did now turning the page, but not very
far so. The MVP race. The question on this one,
does this stinker of a performance by Matthew Stafford, the
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lack of performance in Carolina? Does this now put the
kibosh on the Matthew Stafford MVP campaign? Is that it now?
The the MVP race. I went up to it, I
went onto a plane, and I went like thirty thousand
feet up, I looked down, so I'm looking down from
thirty thousand feet The MVP rays went from Stafford in
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the pole position to the pothole position. Based on that
performance there for Stafford. Here the Rams who entered Carolina.
As you said, I think it was a toast of
the NFL when you was slurping all over them and
Stafford was in the lead MVP highlights all over the place,
and suddenly he's in the car there. The backup camera
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now turned on there, and the bandwagon is now reversing,
so they're now going backwards on the Stafford MVP bandwagon
and they're going down a one way street backwards. It's
not recommended there, so it's not listen. It's not a
kill shot. It's certainly not a kill shot. If you
think that you're just a troll and a loser and
a punk and a scumbag, it's not a kill shot. However,
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think of it like a hot air balloon and the
balloon's start and go down a little bit. You might
want to, you know, get that fire cranked up because
it's not going very well. Now. If you look at
Stafford let's hit before I get into more. Let's hear
from Matthew staff Here's Matthew Stafford, who sucked at a
time you cannot suck for the Rams here and all
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those mistakes. What do you got to say for yourself, Stafford?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I mean, the first one I'm playing that played the
exact same they didn't, I shall get in their hands
up tipball. I mean, that's you know, it's the name
of the game. It's you got to play aggressive, and
that's fine. Second one, obviously, I can't leave that ball inside.
Got me in a nice plays, made a bunch of
good plays this year, but can't leave that one inside
and give them seven on that one, So that's tough.
And then find a way to hold onto that last
one because we're in field goal range, you know, give
us a chance to tie that thing up and let's
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go play defense. So obviously we're not gonna win a
whole lot of games. And I turned it over three
times and hasn't been an issue, and don't expect it
to be moving forward. Just continue to trust my fundamentals,
go out there and play, and you know, know that
I'm doing all the stuff I can to make sure
that I played a high level and just didn't have
them for me today.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
All right, So that was a bunch of nonsense. But
here's the This is a throwback and a reminder that
that's still somewhere in there. There's still a lot of
that stuff. It's a throwback edition of Matthew Stafford. Like
someone dug up the old Lions NFL films from like
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twenty thirteen or something like that and just press play
and there you go. That's that's Stafford, the pristine record, Gonzo.
He did set the record, though, Stafford before he started
turning the ball over. He set the NFL record twenty
eight consecutive touchdown passes without an interception, Bye bye, Tom Brady.
Three hundred and seventeen throws, three hundred and seventeen throws
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over ten weeks without an interception, and you can put
that right in the shredder. The first one was to
Nick Scott, who I believe played for the Rams in
the past. So that was a special FedEx delivery right there.
Congratulations on that. Stafford signed for it. Interception boom, there
you go. And so again the campaign buss here, the
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campaign buss just blew a tire. The Matthew Stafford MVP campaign,
buss blew a tire. It's on the side of the
interstate right now. But Stafford survives. And the reason he's
still very much alive for the MVP is because there's
nobody else, literally, who else is there. There's no Ma
Holmes meteor shower of touchdowns. Chiefs just lost to a
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Cowboys pathetic, there's no Lamar laser show, Lamar not really
getting or done. The Ravens also took it on the
chin to the Cincinnati ben Gals and all that talk
about Aaron Rodgers revival tour, Well that's not happening. So
Josh Allen Bill's won. He didn't play very well, So
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what do you got by the process of elimination? Stafford
is still very much in the middle of this, and
you know, you got to take this game as an outlier. Now,
if he starts throwing interceptions right and left, the Rams
play another divisional game next week on the road, then
we'll see. Is this the the opening credits of a
decline documentary? And if not? If not, if this is
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just a one off, then you're fine. Carolina is a
middle of the pack team and that's it. They're not
a heavyweight. And you know that the way they celebrated
beating the Rams on the great wins in franchise history.
Pathetic franchise, that is. And meanwhile, in Foxborough, you talk
about the MVP race. You look tonight Patriots quarterback Drake
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may Uh, he has a pedestal for himself there as
the Patsy's play Monday Night Island game, last game of
the weekend. The Giants and the Patriot. Now, Jacks are
not a good team. The Jets are not a good team.
We'll know that. However, everyone will be watching. There's nothing
else you can't watch. The NBA's unwatchable, there's nothing else
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to watch it. We'll all be watching. We like sports.
We're gonna be watching that game. So Drake May's got
a shot to jump up a couple of rungs in
the MVP race. Here climb the ladder as Stafford stalls
and kind of goes back down. There's a flat tire
there for Stafford. Now the MVP pole position I believe
still open. I was skeptical Stafford, then I came, I
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came around to them, and now I'm skeptical again. But
there's traffic ahead, there's plenty of traffic ahead, and there's
the home stretch of the NFL season where this MVP
will be won. It's competitive, which is a nice way
of saying there's nobody really that great. That's the way
we can say now. Meanwhile, Sunday Night Football, normally we
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get super sexy matchups, really hot matchups, real real, just
tremendous games, primetime, most important game of the weekend Sunday Night.
Not this weekend Sunday Night football. You had a mismatch
the Broncos, a big road favorite, six point road favorites
against the low the Commanders and a bunch of backups playing.
This game actually went to overtime, though, how embarrassing for
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the Broncos. They had to go overtime against the Washington
Commanders for God's sakes and Denver was. The game came
dow to a two point conversion in overtime with just
little time left on the clock. The Washington Commanders matiated
the ball the dead We scored first, they scored a touchdown.
Then Commanders came back, drove the ball down the field.
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They thought they had scored a touchdown. There was a penalty.
Then they did score a touchdown and then you make
the call. Dan Quinn's like, hey, we suck. Let's go
for two. That's what bad teams do. Go for two.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Don't play for the tie? Go for two? Like I
like it? Why not? That's fun in the game right there,
it's overtime. What do you got to lose? And the
Broncos made up the play of the day. The linebacker
Nick Benito El Micho as he came in there, batted
down a Marcus Mariota pass on the receiver, the running
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back at the back wide open for the Commanders. If
the pass, if you throw it high like one of
those those silly throws like when I used to play
basketball back in the day, you try to put the
arc way up in there. And and if Mariota had
been able to do that, the Commanders win the game
by a point because they went for two instead. Now
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the Broncos have won nine straight. As Benito, with the
Nito player of the day, blocked the pass by Mariota
into the ground, that was it game over. So question
should Sean Payton's Broncos be feeling good with the overtime
victory or be concerned that they struggled to beat a pathetic,
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ridiculously bad Washington team. So after a minute long Mallard deliberation,
we have determined that we don't want to confuse a
pulse with a powerhouse. This Bronco team has a record
that would indicate they're a powerhouse. They just don't pass
the powerhouse tests. They don't. And that wasn't any kind
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of a statement game. You were favored on the road.
If you had stopped the Commanders, you would have actually
covered the spread in overtime. I had Washington. If you
watched Benny versus the Penny this weekend on YouTube, you
know I took watch out. They're happy about that that
the game did come down to a two point conversion
at the end. But nonetheless, listen, this was an ant
acid alert for the Broncos. Here. The Broncos have zero
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fear factor. And that might not matter in the end
and all that stuff, but I'm just telling you where
they are right now, there's no fear factor playing the
Denver Broncos. Washington coming in this game was three and eight.
Three and eight playing a backup in Marcus Mariota, who
was last good when he played in Eugene, Oregon. Okay,
the guy sucks coming off six straight losses and they
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still went nose to nose with the Broncos. Embarrassing, embarrassing
and why is that two words? Bo Knicks? Bo Knicks.
He continues to be a Toys r Us quarterback. He's
a Yo yo, he's up and down right one quarter
he looks like Joe Montana and then he's Joe Schmoe
for the Broncos. There there's no consistency. I'll give you
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a in the second half of this game, now forget
over him. Just a third and fourth quarter. He was
ten of seventeen for one hundred and four yards. That's
not good. Had a pass a fifty two point one
bon Nicks in the third and fourth quarter. And the
reason that Washington was able to get back Denver's last
four drives of the second half they resulted in the
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first one was an interception. The following three punt punt punt,
and that allowed Washington to work their way back into
the game. And that's not winning. That's not winning football.
So obviously it's not winning football. It's a holiday trip
in congratulations. You're on a nice holiday trip on the
vomit comet. They're on the vomit comet. The Commanders had
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more yards than Denver, they had more first down the
Broncos defense, which is they have good players that look
good to me, but yet they allowed Washington to get
more yards. There was a in I think it was
in overtime. Might have been regulation. I didn't write down
whether it was regulation or not, but it was like
a third and twenty five for the Commanders with their
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backup quarterback, and they converted it. They ended up converting
it and kept the game going there. So you know,
you allowed the Commanders to get sixty scores in the
red zone, thirty first downs, they have more first downs,
more yards, all that stuff. And so when the bow
show then it reappeared. He I mentioned Joe Montana, Joe Shmoo.
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He was Joe schmo in. The second name was Joe Montana.
In overtime, four of four seventy one yards of the
seventy six on that drive, the Broncos capped it off
with a touchdown, and there you go. So it's like
it's kind of like Bownicks is like finding a five
dollar bill in a jacket that you're planning on donating,
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Like it's great. It's like it doesn't really doesn't really
change things too much. I gues he played well in overtime,
but I don't know so the nine game winning streak.
Is there more more fools gold than a nine game
winning streak. The Broncos have played this season the Giants, Jets, Raiders,
and Commanders, four of the worst teams in pro football,
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and they have won those games, all of them by
a combined seven points. Four of the worst teams you
can possibly find in the NFL. They've won by seven
total points, not seven points per game. Seven total points
against the Commanders, Raiders, Jets, and Giants. That's it. That's
not that's not dominance. That's faked till you make it. Now,
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there is a counter argument that you do this and
then eventually you start to believe you're actually good and
that can work out for you, but it doesn't normally
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to it. Back to it we go, Don from Duluth
Rites in home of Lake Superior. There, he says a
plus on the opening Moullad monologue, Please do not speak
of the Vikings, good lord, Vikings shut out. The Vikings
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actually boxed up Sam Darnold and still lost by twenty
six points. I got a ransom about that, now, don
you understand the bull crap? And we knew it was
bull crap the other day. There was a story last week,
at the end of last week that claimed the undrafted
quarterback the Vikings tossed out their Max Brosmer or whatever
(26:52):
his name, that he was brock party. The guy look
like they took him out of a crowd. You want
to play quarterback for the Viking? Sure, I'll play quarterback
like I don't even know what a football looks like. Okay,
what doesn't matter. We'll put you out there. Why not,
We'll even hype you up. What the hell? It's so stupid?
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Now speaking of dumb no stra deenas rights in, he
says those rams were so bad today, I thought maybe
Geno Smith was giving Stifford quarterback advice. He said, yeah,
this is the same no stradinas that had a Geno
Smith Onesie when he was playing in Seattle and now
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is turning on him. It's a bad job by you.
Notice that No Stradinis the leader in the clubhouse for
Seattle Seahawks apologists on the show. With due respect to
JJ and Ritten who does ripman crying Craig who just
cries when the Seahawks loser gave all our guys in
the Pacific Northwest. However, no mention of Sam Darnold. You
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think the Minnesota Vikings know how to defend Sam Darnald.
Donald averaged less than five yards per pass, no touchdowns,
was sacked four times. He sucked. He absolutely sucked, and
no one will talk about it because Seattle won the game. Uh.
Sam Donald also had two fumbles, lost one of them,
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but two fumbles. That is your standard Sam Donald performance,
And no, studious, I want you to I mean, I
love you man, You're a great guy. I don't know
about your wife with her vegan tendencies and all that. However,
all right, no studius, listen to me. Right that performance
you saw from Sam Donald, You're gonna get that come January.
You're gonna get that. That's what you're gonna get. I
hope you enjoy that. I hope you Maybe you can
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play Max Bred whatever his name is, MAXI Max, play
him in the playoffs, because my god, terrible. Now. Meanwhile,
we used to have these things called soundboards, which were
somewhat popular back in the day, and we have I
present to you. This was actually Spaccoli sent me this
and then I saw it myself and I thought it
was just pretty good. So Sean McVeigh, that is the
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head coach of the Rams. Sean McVay, he gave us
a piece of audio gold. Here he was trying to
be mister positive after the Rams lost to a pathetic
Carolina Panther team. And here is Sean McVay who attempts
to take down the record for the most cliches, the
most sports cliches. Let's go to the audio tape. Here
(29:23):
we go.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Love this football team. I'm really excited about how we respond.
There's never a good story without a little bit of adversity.
You know, we're all in this together. We're going to
be tighter than we've ever been, and it's going to
be a great opportunity for us to be able to respond.
That's what this group has shown they're capable of. But
you give the Panthers credit. They did enough and then
they made the plays to be able to win the
football game. And we all can collectively be able to improve.
(29:46):
And that's exactly what we're.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Going to do.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
And we're going to stay tighter than we've been.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
And this is a disappointing day, but we're not going
to stay in this moment for long. We'll look at it,
we'll figure out how do we respond, how do we
move forward the right way? And that's exactly what we're
tasked to do, and that's what we will do.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Okay, that was nothing but cliches. So it's a good
loss by the Rams. You see that good loss by
the Rams. I think I counted that was thirty seven seconds,
I believe. I think I counted fourteen cliches. He didn't
mention the Panthers by name. So it's not an evergreen SoundBite.
(30:21):
We can't play like evergreen SoundBite is John Tortorella. We
sucked at a time he cannot suck. That's an evergreen
sound bite that can be played in any context, at
any time. John McLaren, who managed the Seattle Mariners for
like half a season, he gave us an evergreen sound bite,
I'm sick of title losing, and so are these guys.
We're gonna go out, We're gonna bust our ass and
we're gonna come back and win some games. You know.
(30:43):
That was an evergreen SoundBite. These are all some of
the classic drops we used to play on the show.
You can put it on anything, exactly exactly. Do we
have any of those? By the way, do we have
any I'm sure we do. I know you don't. Do
you can find them. I should make a classic drop page.
I know we need the classic I like the classic Druss.
We're big fans of the classic drops around here. That's
(31:04):
not one of the classic d one loves the donkeys.
And by the way, that's not it. No, none of
those count as classic drops. Those are all out of
context edited. Those are AI, guys. He blew me off.
That's a hotel near l A's. Because you can hear
the test, you can hear the edits. These are these
are it's AI. I would never say that. I'm a
(31:26):
professional broadcaster. I would never say those things. But anyway,
so I counted fourteen. Play can we play the play
the group? M play the McVay stuff again this year?
This year.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
The love this football team. I'm really excited about how
we respond. There's never a good story without a little
bit of adversity. You know, we're we're all in this together.
We're going to be tighter than we've ever been, and
it's going to be a great opportunity for us.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
To be able to respond. Isn't that bad?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
This group has shown they're capable of But you give
the Panthers credit. They did enough and then they made
the plays to be able to win the football game.
And we all can collectively be able to improve. And
that's exactly what we're gonna do. And we're gonna stay
tighter than we've been. This is a disappointing day, but
we're not gonna stay in this moment for long. We'll
look at it, we'll figure out how do we respond,
how do we move forward the right way? And that's
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exactly what we're tasked to do, and that's what we
will do.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You know what I love about sports, well, a few things.
I get to make my living yapping about it. But
one of the other things I love is that in baseball,
how often when the players going through a tough patch,
they say, well, he's trying too hard. He's trying he's
too tight, you know, now, just Sean Mavez. Oh no, no,
we're gonna be really tight. Well a whole lot second.
In baseball it's oh, oh, you're just trying too hard.
(32:34):
He's too tight, and that's a bad thing. But in football,
apparently you want to be tight. I'm a little confused,
a little confused. I was at the Raider Charger game
and I could not believe any Raider fans are still
wearing their stuff. As the Raiders have sucked for twenty years,
they have been bad for twenty years, and there's still
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a bunch of people wearing the Raider gear. No shame
in their game. They're out there doing their thing and
all that. And speaking of that, I did want to
mention we have a fun fact of the hour. It
is very exciting. Your fun factor, Maler fun fact. Congratulations
to the Las Vegas Raiders. They have been eliminated from
postseason competition. There's no path to the postseason for the Raiders.
(33:21):
Tremendous job by Tom Brady, What a great executive. He
is there, just absolutely outstanding, just absolutely outstanding. And I
gotta tell you, Gino Smith planted that story. We think
he planted that story, ripping Chip Kelly, saying Chip didn't
know what he was doing. Well, they got rid of
Chip Kelly. Guess what, Gino Smith still blows so barely.
(33:41):
It wasn't Chip Kelly's fault. Even though the Raiders offense
they made the change there, and yeah, it was mostly
the same interim offensive coordinator Greg Olsen who's apparently friendly
with everybody. Greg Olsen, but god, Gino Smith is so bad, unbelievable.
The readers the fact that the Raiders traded for him.
(34:03):
The guy can't play as a starter. They traded for him,
they gave him more money, and the guy stinks. It's
wild And these are supposed to be the smartest people.
Everyone likes. Tom Brady's got a high football IQ. My
fat ass. He done. He's the Jordan of Honors. Tom
Brady sucks as an owner and as a de facto GM.
(34:25):
He hired his college buddy so Brady could just make
any moves he wants, and he brings it in. Pete
Carroll Peter Parry has lost it and then Geno Smith. Wow,
so the Raiders. Now I've been eliminated from playoffs. The Raiders'
playoff wind drought will continue. They have not won a
postseason game since twenty oh three. They have not won
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a playoff game in twenty two years. The ratis the
Greatness Dirtus. Oh man, they're so god awful. Man alive
but consistent. I will give him that. The Raiders are consistent.
They had all of twelve first downs and one hundred
and fifty six yards of offense. Again, Gino Smith his
(35:13):
people leaked the story. It's all Chip Kelly, it's all
good old chip okay, chip Chip, Chip chip Chip. Not
so much. Not one hundred and fifty six yards against
the Chargers. Suck god, so terrible, unreal, absolutely unreal. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we continue on
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sleep on gunners, Panthers. I don't know if they'll make
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cages down the home stretch. I think he said, you
might say they'll make some noise. If King Roy says,
we all know Carolina's not going to make the playoffs.
They'll be lucky if they win two more games this season.
So let the Panthers fans enjoy their greatest moment in
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And it looks like Chris in Houston is either awake
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You know if that's about anyway, It is the Bean
(36:43):
Mahlor Show. Time now for the who am I Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else as
we call it the who am I Game? So, the
Rams wide receiver Deavonte Adams had a couple of touchdown catches.
He's now two touchdowns away from breaking the rec shared
by Jerry Rice, Marvin Harrison, and me for the most
(37:04):
touchdown receptions by a player aged thirty two or older
in NFL history. Again, DeVante Adams big year for the
Rams had a couple of touchdowns. He's two touchdowns away
from breaking the record shared by Jerry Rice, Marvin Harrison
and me for the most touchdown receptions by a player
age thirty two or older. Who am I the answer?
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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And the Rams. Davante Adams now two touchdowns away from
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the way tirebund should be. So it's a it's a blessing.
And a curse. It's it's usually Sunday nights, like the
most important game. Not this game. It wasn't wasn't that
big a game. So we can go somewhere else and
we're gonna start our lead this hour to begin the week.
We're going to start in the Queen City, the hornets Nest,
the banking capital of the South. We head to Charlotte,
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where Matthew Stafford was leading the lr I AM into
a show up and win game. At least that was
a theory going in. You show up and you win.
The RAM bandwagon stopping in North Carolina to play the
lowly Panthers and the inconsistent, often terrible Bryce Young at quarterback.
There that was the match. I don't if you watch
(03:15):
this game or not. It was regional cover. You have
most people these days have access to different ways to
watch games, some of them legal, some of them not
so much. All right, so you didn't see this, perhaps
not as you missed this game. Someone named Chris Jackson,
that's kind of a generic dad. Chris Jackson returned in
interception forty eight yards. He plays for the team from
(03:38):
North Carolina, for a touchdown and the Panthers ended up
forcing not one, not two, but three Matthew Stafford turnovers,
and they get one at the end by the way,
oh my god, the Rams were in field goal range
to tie the game late in the game and numb
nuts Stafford fumbles the ball away thirty one point eight
(04:00):
the final as the Panthers are and get the upset
when that is their Super Bowl congratulations, greatest moment in
Carolina Panther history that pathetic sad sack franchise. Beating the
Rams a regular season win the biggest moment. I'm convinced,
(04:21):
based on a quick look at my email in the
history of that pathetic franchise. And I'm honored. I'm honored
that beating the Rams in a regular season game is
the greatest accomplishment the team's ever had. Somewhere, Jake de
Lolmes at a horse track said, what about me? Oh,
come on, we were in the Super Bowl, okay, But
a better story is in the losing locker room. Matthew Stafford,
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who entered the game with a league high thirty touchdown passes,
including eighteen in the past five games, and he was
facing a Carolina defense that did not have their starting
cornerback JC Horne. He was out with the injury of
the starting safety, suspended for a little shot to the
nuts of a forty nine er player, and you had
(05:06):
a short week. The Panthers got their ass kicked playing
the Niners on Monday night on the West Coast, and
that's why they play the games. It's also a good
jumping off point. So let us discuss the question who
gets the blame. Who gets the blame for Sean mcvay's
Rams losing to Carolina in a game where they gave
(05:30):
that game. Carolina win the game and the game is
gifted by the Rams. So I've got financial advice, Hot Air,
balloon and toys are us and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to create
some marginal overnight talk radios. What we're gonna do together,
(05:51):
that's what we're gonna do. And we'll also make some
brisket on the side. We'll cook some brisket in the smoker.
We'll put it in the smoker. We'll cook it for
like a two days. That'll be the way we do it, alright,
So a any way you slice it, literally, any way
you slice it. This was a clunker from the Rams.
It was not some kind of masterpiece by Caroline. It
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was we'll call it for the Rams on the road.
It was the Carolina Clunker. A game with so many
unforced errors it should have had some kind of parental
advisory on it, so many self inflicted RUMs. Sean Bavay's
Rams were being celebrated all week to toast of the NFL.
The Rams a team to beat. Oh my god, yes
(06:36):
it was. Everyone went to seven to eleven, ordered a
Rams slurpee. They were slipping all over the Rams. How
great the Rams were. And then they had to go
out and play a game, and they did not did
not rise to the occasion at all in this game,
as the Rams responded by playing like a bunch of
stumblebums in shoulder pads in this particular matchup here now
(06:59):
right in front of the line. Play the blame game,
right in front. Obviously, Matthew Stafford, he sucked at a
time you cannot suck.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Here.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
He played a game of whack a mole with the football,
which generally speaking, not a great idea. But what do
you know, you're just to the Overnight show. I'm just saying,
I'm just saying. Three turnovers. There were misthrows the body
language of a man who realized that his GPS was
(07:28):
broken and he was stuck on a dark highway out
in the country somewhere, and he's like, I don't know
what I'm doing here, Stafford. This was a roller coaster
performance by Stafford. It did have a few nice scenic
views there where he found Devonte Adams for touchdowns and
then boom goes the dynamite for Matthew Stafford upside down,
(07:48):
losing your lunch. All of that. However, now the Simpleton
way is just to merely blame Matthew Stafford, and while
he certainly gets the in this case, Lion shares what
he uh. Lion's share of the blame. However, Chris Shula,
who was also getting hyped up as a future NFL
head coach and likely will be a future head coach
because of nepotism. So Chris Sula's group the he's the
(08:13):
defensive coordinator for the Rams. They lacked a sense of urgency. Uh,
Like they looked like they were running for stretchers in
that game, like they were running an oatmeal, which I
don't know that you want to run through oatmeal. I
don't I don't recommend it, and just heavy footed on
defense and messing up. I'm blundering and bumbling and all
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those things. A sloppy tackling and though the weather wasn't perfect, well,
the weather's not always going to be perfect. And down
the line right now the Chicago Bears, because the Rams
lost the Bears of the number one seed in the NFC,
which I would think Soldier Field. I know as a kid,
I'm old, and so I did see the Bears play
home games in Soldier Field and the weather sucked, and
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that was part of the deal. So you're gonna if
you have to go there or go to Philadelphia on
the road, you're gonna be playing in bad weather and
just sloppy tackling. Was damp and rainy and cold and
Charlotte and it's like they had covered their hands and
Carolina barbecue sauce and slipping through tackles and whatnot there
and not one forced turn up. You're playing one of
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the great stiffs of all time. Bryce Young. We all agree,
Everyone agrees, right, everyone, this guy sucks. And you couldn't
turn turn the ball over one time from Carolina, not
one forced fumble, not one interception, playing Bryce Young, Bryce Young,
who if you look at the says, well, you had
some good stats in the game. What are you talking about?
But if you watch the game, it's Bryce Young's not
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the guy to beat the Rams. He's not. He checked
them into a nice hotel, went to a nice hotel there,
thanked them at checkout, got a nice gift basket from
the Rams. Of you know, the Carolina team got turnovers
and all that stuff. To me, though you mentioned the
defense being bad, Stafford was terrible. That fumble game would
have gone to overtime, would have kicked a field goal there.
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Who knows what happens most likely after that. However, ifs
and buts were candy nuts, the biggest issue here, and
this is something that you look. Stafford's gonna be fine.
I'm not worried about Matthew Stafford. However, I am concerned
about a Cinderella's story on defense. The Rams picked up
a player named Emmanuel Forbes from Washington who was a
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first round pick who got released because of incompetence with
the team formerly known as the Redskins. And they're using
that financial advice from Emmanuel Forbes, and he had been fine.
I wouldn't say great, he'd been fine or good or whatever,
but now this guy turned into a human ATM machine.
Guys were getting cash right and left for Carolina in
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this game and burned for a thirty three yard touchdown,
roasted again for a forty three yard touchdown. It's Emmanuel
Forbes who goofed I've got to know. And the Panthers
you'll be a running back combination Chuba Hubbard and Rico Dowdell.
They were not explosive in this game, but it was
death by a thousand paper cuts for Carolina. Mcvay's magic
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did not work. Clearly only works when the weather's okay,
not in the rain. Didn't really work there. So the
rams they gave that game on you are crowd them,
crowd the rash. But they gave that game away, is
what they did now turning the page, but not very
far so. The MVP race. The question on this one,
does this stinker of a performance by Matthew Stafford, the
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lack of performance in Carolina? Does this now put the
kibosh on the Matthew Stafford MVP campaign? Is that it now?
The the MVP race. I went up to it, I
went onto a plane, and I went like thirty thousand
feet up, I looked down, so I'm looking down from
thirty thousand feet The MVP rays went from Stafford in
(11:55):
the pole position to the pothole position. Based on that
performance there for Stafford. Here the Rams who entered Carolina.
As you said, I think it was a toast of
the NFL when you was slurping all over them and
Stafford was in the lead MVP highlights all over the place,
and suddenly he's in the car there. The backup camera
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now turned on there, and the bandwagon is now reversing,
so they're now going backwards on the Stafford MVP bandwagon
and they're going down a one way street backwards. It's
not recommended there, so it's not listen. It's not a
kill shot. It's certainly not a kill shot. If you
think that you're just a troll and a loser and
a punk and a scumbag, it's not a kill shot. However,
(12:40):
think of it like a hot air balloon and the
balloon's start and go down a little bit. You might
want to, you know, get that fire cranked up because
it's not going very well. Now. If you look at
Stafford let's hit before I get into more. Let's hear
from Matthew staff Here's Matthew Stafford, who sucked at a
time you cannot suck for the Rams here and all
(13:02):
those mistakes. What do you got to say for yourself, Stafford?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I mean, the first one I'm playing that played the
exact same they didn't, I shall get in their hands
up tipball. I mean, that's you know, it's the name
of the game. It's you got to play aggressive, and
that's fine. Second one, obviously, I can't leave that ball inside.
Got me in a nice plays, made a bunch of
good plays this year, but can't leave that one inside
and give them seven on that one, So that's tough.
And then find a way to hold onto that last
one because we're in field goal range, you know, give
us a chance to tie that thing up and let's
(13:25):
go play defense. So obviously we're not gonna win a
whole lot of games. And I turned it over three
times and hasn't been an issue, and don't expect it
to be moving forward. Just continue to trust my fundamentals,
go out there and play, and you know, know that
I'm doing all the stuff I can to make sure
that I played a high level and just didn't have
them for me today.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
All right, So that was a bunch of nonsense. But
here's the This is a throwback and a reminder that
that's still somewhere in there. There's still a lot of
that stuff. It's a throwback edition of Matthew Stafford. Like
someone dug up the old Lions NFL films from like
(14:00):
twenty thirteen or something like that and just press play
and there you go. That's that's Stafford, the pristine record, Gonzo.
He did set the record, though, Stafford before he started
turning the ball over. He set the NFL record twenty
eight consecutive touchdown passes without an interception, Bye bye, Tom Brady.
Three hundred and seventeen throws, three hundred and seventeen throws
(14:24):
over ten weeks without an interception, and you can put
that right in the shredder. The first one was to
Nick Scott, who I believe played for the Rams in
the past. So that was a special FedEx delivery right there.
Congratulations on that. Stafford signed for it. Interception boom, there
you go. And so again the campaign buss here, the
(14:46):
campaign buss just blew a tire. The Matthew Stafford MVP campaign,
buss blew a tire. It's on the side of the
interstate right now. But Stafford survives. And the reason he's
still very much alive for the MVP is because there's
nobody else, literally, who else is there. There's no Ma
Holmes meteor shower of touchdowns. Chiefs just lost to a
(15:08):
Cowboys pathetic, there's no Lamar laser show, Lamar not really
getting or done. The Ravens also took it on the
chin to the Cincinnati ben Gals and all that talk
about Aaron Rodgers revival tour, Well that's not happening. So
Josh Allen Bill's won. He didn't play very well, So
(15:30):
what do you got by the process of elimination? Stafford
is still very much in the middle of this, and
you know, you got to take this game as an outlier. Now,
if he starts throwing interceptions right and left, the Rams
play another divisional game next week on the road, then
we'll see. Is this the the opening credits of a
decline documentary? And if not? If not, if this is
(15:53):
just a one off, then you're fine. Carolina is a
middle of the pack team and that's it. They're not
a heavyweight. And you know that the way they celebrated
beating the Rams on the great wins in franchise history.
Pathetic franchise, that is. And meanwhile, in Foxborough, you talk
about the MVP race. You look tonight Patriots quarterback Drake
(16:14):
may Uh, he has a pedestal for himself there as
the Patsy's play Monday Night Island game, last game of
the weekend. The Giants and the Patriot. Now, Jacks are
not a good team. The Jets are not a good team.
We'll know that. However, everyone will be watching. There's nothing
else you can't watch. The NBA's unwatchable, there's nothing else
(16:36):
to watch it. We'll all be watching. We like sports.
We're gonna be watching that game. So Drake May's got
a shot to jump up a couple of rungs in
the MVP race. Here climb the ladder as Stafford stalls
and kind of goes back down. There's a flat tire
there for Stafford. Now the MVP pole position I believe
still open. I was skeptical Stafford, then I came, I
(16:59):
came around to them, and now I'm skeptical again. But
there's traffic ahead, there's plenty of traffic ahead, and there's
the home stretch of the NFL season where this MVP
will be won. It's competitive, which is a nice way
of saying there's nobody really that great. That's the way
we can say now. Meanwhile, Sunday Night Football, normally we
(17:19):
get super sexy matchups, really hot matchups, real real, just
tremendous games, primetime, most important game of the weekend Sunday Night.
Not this weekend Sunday Night football. You had a mismatch
the Broncos, a big road favorite, six point road favorites
against the low the Commanders and a bunch of backups playing.
This game actually went to overtime, though, how embarrassing for
(17:43):
the Broncos. They had to go overtime against the Washington
Commanders for God's sakes and Denver was. The game came
dow to a two point conversion in overtime with just
little time left on the clock. The Washington Commanders matiated
the ball the dead We scored first, they scored a touchdown.
Then Commanders came back, drove the ball down the field.
(18:05):
They thought they had scored a touchdown. There was a penalty.
Then they did score a touchdown and then you make
the call. Dan Quinn's like, hey, we suck. Let's go
for two. That's what bad teams do. Go for two.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Don't play for the tie? Go for two? Like I
like it? Why not? That's fun in the game right there,
it's overtime. What do you got to lose? And the
Broncos made up the play of the day. The linebacker
Nick Benito El Micho as he came in there, batted
down a Marcus Mariota pass on the receiver, the running
(18:36):
back at the back wide open for the Commanders. If
the pass, if you throw it high like one of
those those silly throws like when I used to play
basketball back in the day, you try to put the
arc way up in there. And and if Mariota had
been able to do that, the Commanders win the game
by a point because they went for two instead. Now
(18:58):
the Broncos have won nine straight. As Benito, with the
Nito player of the day, blocked the pass by Mariota
into the ground, that was it game over. So question
should Sean Payton's Broncos be feeling good with the overtime
victory or be concerned that they struggled to beat a pathetic,
(19:19):
ridiculously bad Washington team. So after a minute long Mallard deliberation,
we have determined that we don't want to confuse a
pulse with a powerhouse. This Bronco team has a record
that would indicate they're a powerhouse. They just don't pass
the powerhouse tests. They don't. And that wasn't any kind
(19:43):
of a statement game. You were favored on the road.
If you had stopped the Commanders, you would have actually
covered the spread in overtime. I had Washington. If you
watched Benny versus the Penny this weekend on YouTube, you
know I took watch out. They're happy about that that
the game did come down to a two point conversion
at the end. But nonetheless, listen, this was an ant
acid alert for the Broncos. Here. The Broncos have zero
(20:05):
fear factor. And that might not matter in the end
and all that stuff, but I'm just telling you where
they are right now, there's no fear factor playing the
Denver Broncos. Washington coming in this game was three and eight.
Three and eight playing a backup in Marcus Mariota, who
was last good when he played in Eugene, Oregon. Okay,
the guy sucks coming off six straight losses and they
(20:27):
still went nose to nose with the Broncos. Embarrassing, embarrassing
and why is that two words? Bo Knicks? Bo Knicks.
He continues to be a Toys r Us quarterback. He's
a Yo yo, he's up and down right one quarter
he looks like Joe Montana and then he's Joe Schmoe
for the Broncos. There there's no consistency. I'll give you
(20:50):
a in the second half of this game, now forget
over him. Just a third and fourth quarter. He was
ten of seventeen for one hundred and four yards. That's
not good. Had a pass a fifty two point one
bon Nicks in the third and fourth quarter. And the
reason that Washington was able to get back Denver's last
four drives of the second half they resulted in the
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first one was an interception. The following three punt punt punt,
and that allowed Washington to work their way back into
the game. And that's not winning. That's not winning football.
So obviously it's not winning football. It's a holiday trip
in congratulations. You're on a nice holiday trip on the
vomit comet. They're on the vomit comet. The Commanders had
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more yards than Denver, they had more first down the
Broncos defense, which is they have good players that look
good to me, but yet they allowed Washington to get
more yards. There was a in I think it was
in overtime. Might have been regulation. I didn't write down
whether it was regulation or not, but it was like
a third and twenty five for the Commanders with their
(21:53):
backup quarterback, and they converted it. They ended up converting
it and kept the game going there. So you know,
you allowed the Commanders to get sixty scores in the
red zone, thirty first downs, they have more first downs,
more yards, all that stuff. And so when the bow
show then it reappeared. He I mentioned Joe Montana, Joe Shmoo.
(22:16):
He was Joe schmo in. The second name was Joe Montana.
In overtime, four of four seventy one yards of the
seventy six on that drive, the Broncos capped it off
with a touchdown, and there you go. So it's like
it's kind of like Bownicks is like finding a five
dollar bill in a jacket that you're planning on donating,
(22:37):
Like it's great. It's like it doesn't really doesn't really
change things too much. I gues he played well in overtime,
but I don't know so the nine game winning streak.
Is there more more fools gold than a nine game
winning streak. The Broncos have played this season the Giants, Jets, Raiders,
and Commanders, four of the worst teams in pro football,
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and they have won those games, all of them by
a combined seven points. Four of the worst teams you
can possibly find in the NFL. They've won by seven
total points, not seven points per game. Seven total points
against the Commanders, Raiders, Jets, and Giants. That's it. That's
not that's not dominance. That's faked till you make it. Now,
(23:21):
there is a counter argument that you do this and
then eventually you start to believe you're actually good and
that can work out for you, but it doesn't normally
go that way. It is the Ben Malors Show. If
you'd like to be part, we open up the phone
lines for the first time this week, Always Dangerous the knuckleheads. Now,
somebody said, I forget I think I was doing a
podcast this week in the Fifth Hour podcast. So he said, wow,
(23:43):
we gotta do the what about newby Night? So we're
thinking about doing something like that later this week, doing
newby Night. This is not Nuby Night, but you don't
have to wait for newby Night eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine to nine
six six three six nine. Now years ago, in the
early days of the interweb, if you're old, they used
(24:03):
to be this thing called soundboards. I think they're still
out there, but they used to be really popular at
one point. So we have one person, there's a coach
in the NFL that has literally become a human sounding
board for how to how to make excuses when your
team loses, try to justify. We'll get to that. We'll
take your calls also on X at Ben Maller. We'll
(24:24):
get to all of it, and we will do it next.
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(26:07):
to it. Back to it we go, Don from Duluth
Rites in home of Lake Superior. There, he says a
plus on the opening Moullad monologue, Please do not speak
of the Vikings, good lord, Vikings shut out. The Vikings
(26:29):
actually boxed up Sam Darnold and still lost by twenty
six points. I got a ransom about that, now, don
you understand the bull crap? And we knew it was
bull crap the other day. There was a story last week,
at the end of last week that claimed the undrafted
quarterback the Vikings tossed out their Max Brosmer or whatever
(26:52):
his name, that he was brock party. The guy look
like they took him out of a crowd. You want
to play quarterback for the Viking? Sure, I'll play quarterback
like I don't even know what a football looks like. Okay,
what doesn't matter. We'll put you out there. Why not,
We'll even hype you up. What the hell? It's so stupid?
(27:13):
Now speaking of dumb no stra deenas rights in, he
says those rams were so bad today, I thought maybe
Geno Smith was giving Stifford quarterback advice. He said, yeah,
this is the same no stradinas that had a Geno
Smith Onesie when he was playing in Seattle and now
(27:34):
is turning on him. It's a bad job by you.
Notice that No Stradinis the leader in the clubhouse for
Seattle Seahawks apologists on the show. With due respect to
JJ and Ritten who does ripman crying Craig who just
cries when the Seahawks loser gave all our guys in
the Pacific Northwest. However, no mention of Sam Darnold. You
(27:55):
think the Minnesota Vikings know how to defend Sam Darnald.
Donald averaged less than five yards per pass, no touchdowns,
was sacked four times. He sucked. He absolutely sucked, and
no one will talk about it because Seattle won the game. Uh.
Sam Donald also had two fumbles, lost one of them,
(28:18):
but two fumbles. That is your standard Sam Donald performance,
And no, studious, I want you to I mean, I
love you man, You're a great guy. I don't know
about your wife with her vegan tendencies and all that. However,
all right, no studius, listen to me. Right that performance
you saw from Sam Donald, You're gonna get that come January.
You're gonna get that. That's what you're gonna get. I
hope you enjoy that. I hope you Maybe you can
(28:38):
play Max Bred whatever his name is, MAXI Max, play
him in the playoffs, because my god, terrible. Now. Meanwhile,
we used to have these things called soundboards, which were
somewhat popular back in the day, and we have I
present to you. This was actually Spaccoli sent me this
and then I saw it myself and I thought it
was just pretty good. So Sean McVeigh, that is the
(29:01):
head coach of the Rams. Sean McVay, he gave us
a piece of audio gold. Here he was trying to
be mister positive after the Rams lost to a pathetic
Carolina Panther team. And here is Sean McVay who attempts
to take down the record for the most cliches, the
most sports cliches. Let's go to the audio tape. Here
(29:23):
we go.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Love this football team. I'm really excited about how we respond.
There's never a good story without a little bit of adversity.
You know, we're all in this together. We're going to
be tighter than we've ever been, and it's going to
be a great opportunity for us to be able to respond.
That's what this group has shown they're capable of. But
you give the Panthers credit. They did enough and then
they made the plays to be able to win the
football game. And we all can collectively be able to improve.
(29:46):
And that's exactly what we're.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Going to do.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
And we're going to stay tighter than we've been.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
And this is a disappointing day, but we're not going
to stay in this moment for long. We'll look at it,
we'll figure out how do we respond, how do we
move forward the right way? And that's exactly what we're
tasked to do, and that's what we will do.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Okay, that was nothing but cliches. So it's a good
loss by the Rams. You see that good loss by
the Rams. I think I counted that was thirty seven seconds,
I believe. I think I counted fourteen cliches. He didn't
mention the Panthers by name. So it's not an evergreen SoundBite.
(30:21):
We can't play like evergreen SoundBite is John Tortorella. We
sucked at a time he cannot suck. That's an evergreen
sound bite that can be played in any context, at
any time. John McLaren, who managed the Seattle Mariners for
like half a season, he gave us an evergreen sound bite,
I'm sick of title losing, and so are these guys.
We're gonna go out, We're gonna bust our ass and
we're gonna come back and win some games. You know.
(30:43):
That was an evergreen SoundBite. These are all some of
the classic drops we used to play on the show.
You can put it on anything, exactly exactly. Do we
have any of those? By the way, do we have
any I'm sure we do. I know you don't. Do
you can find them. I should make a classic drop page.
I know we need the classic I like the classic Druss.
We're big fans of the classic drops around here. That's
(31:04):
not one of the classic d one loves the donkeys.
And by the way, that's not it. No, none of
those count as classic drops. Those are all out of
context edited. Those are AI, guys. He blew me off.
That's a hotel near l A's. Because you can hear
the test, you can hear the edits. These are these
are it's AI. I would never say that. I'm a
(31:26):
professional broadcaster. I would never say those things. But anyway,
so I counted fourteen. Play can we play the play
the group? M play the McVay stuff again this year?
This year.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
The love this football team. I'm really excited about how
we respond. There's never a good story without a little
bit of adversity. You know, we're we're all in this together.
We're going to be tighter than we've ever been, and
it's going to be a great opportunity for us.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
To be able to respond. Isn't that bad?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
This group has shown they're capable of But you give
the Panthers credit. They did enough and then they made
the plays to be able to win the football game.
And we all can collectively be able to improve. And
that's exactly what we're gonna do. And we're gonna stay
tighter than we've been. This is a disappointing day, but
we're not gonna stay in this moment for long. We'll
look at it, we'll figure out how do we respond,
how do we move forward the right way? And that's
(32:10):
exactly what we're tasked to do, and that's what we
will do.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You know what I love about sports, well, a few things.
I get to make my living yapping about it. But
one of the other things I love is that in baseball,
how often when the players going through a tough patch,
they say, well, he's trying too hard. He's trying he's
too tight, you know, now, just Sean Mavez. Oh no, no,
we're gonna be really tight. Well a whole lot second.
In baseball it's oh, oh, you're just trying too hard.
(32:34):
He's too tight, and that's a bad thing. But in football,
apparently you want to be tight. I'm a little confused,
a little confused. I was at the Raider Charger game
and I could not believe any Raider fans are still
wearing their stuff. As the Raiders have sucked for twenty years,
they have been bad for twenty years, and there's still
(32:55):
a bunch of people wearing the Raider gear. No shame
in their game. They're out there doing their thing and
all that. And speaking of that, I did want to
mention we have a fun fact of the hour. It
is very exciting. Your fun factor, Maler fun fact. Congratulations
to the Las Vegas Raiders. They have been eliminated from
postseason competition. There's no path to the postseason for the Raiders.
(33:21):
Tremendous job by Tom Brady, What a great executive. He
is there, just absolutely outstanding, just absolutely outstanding. And I
gotta tell you, Gino Smith planted that story. We think
he planted that story, ripping Chip Kelly, saying Chip didn't
know what he was doing. Well, they got rid of
Chip Kelly. Guess what, Gino Smith still blows so barely.
(33:41):
It wasn't Chip Kelly's fault. Even though the Raiders offense
they made the change there, and yeah, it was mostly
the same interim offensive coordinator Greg Olsen who's apparently friendly
with everybody. Greg Olsen, but god, Gino Smith is so bad, unbelievable.
The readers the fact that the Raiders traded for him.
(34:03):
The guy can't play as a starter. They traded for him,
they gave him more money, and the guy stinks. It's
wild And these are supposed to be the smartest people.
Everyone likes. Tom Brady's got a high football IQ. My
fat ass. He done. He's the Jordan of Honors. Tom
Brady sucks as an owner and as a de facto GM.
(34:25):
He hired his college buddy so Brady could just make
any moves he wants, and he brings it in. Pete
Carroll Peter Parry has lost it and then Geno Smith. Wow,
so the Raiders. Now I've been eliminated from playoffs. The Raiders'
playoff wind drought will continue. They have not won a
postseason game since twenty oh three. They have not won
(34:47):
a playoff game in twenty two years. The ratis the
Greatness Dirtus. Oh man, they're so god awful. Man alive
but consistent. I will give him that. The Raiders are consistent.
They had all of twelve first downs and one hundred
and fifty six yards of offense. Again, Gino Smith his
(35:13):
people leaked the story. It's all Chip Kelly, it's all
good old chip okay, chip Chip, Chip chip Chip. Not
so much. Not one hundred and fifty six yards against
the Chargers. Suck god, so terrible, unreal, absolutely unreal. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we continue on
(35:36):
here yapping away the overnight hours. There is there is
some controversy though, because Malard prop Guy claims that Ferg
Dog is not happy that in the opening tire Iraq
read of the hour that Ferg Dog did not get
top billing, and he sent a clip out of Ferg
Dog apparently upset by that. Now Ferg Dog says, don't
(35:59):
sleep on gunners, Panthers. I don't know if they'll make
the playoffs, but I guarantee the Carolina gunners rattles some
cages down the home stretch. I think he said, you
might say they'll make some noise. If King Roy says,
we all know Carolina's not going to make the playoffs.
They'll be lucky if they win two more games this season.
So let the Panthers fans enjoy their greatest moment in
(36:20):
franchise history because it will not last long, so he says.
And it looks like Chris in Houston is either awake
or he sent some auto comments on x He sent
something about Tony Dungeee some comment Dungee made hours ago.
You know if that's about anyway, It is the Bean
(36:43):
Mahlor Show. Time now for the who am I Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else as
we call it the who am I Game? So, the
Rams wide receiver Deavonte Adams had a couple of touchdown catches.
He's now two touchdowns away from breaking the rec shared
by Jerry Rice, Marvin Harrison, and me for the most
(37:04):
touchdown receptions by a player aged thirty two or older
in NFL history. Again, DeVante Adams big year for the
Rams had a couple of touchdowns. He's two touchdowns away
from breaking the record shared by Jerry Rice, Marvin Harrison
and me for the most touchdown receptions by a player
age thirty two or older. Who am I the answer?
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Maller Show
as we roll our way through the over night hours
that in between time, thanksgivings done, Gotta wait a few
more weeks for the end of the year holidays. In
the meantime, as a fellow insomniac night owl, remember the
(37:55):
Mallard Militia. You can be part of the show on
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The audio circus does not ever close. It does not
(38:18):
It's all right there, you guys. A cocka doodle do,
cocka doodle do. All right, back to where we go
before we pay off the who am I?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Game?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Let's get to the play of the day. Game on
the line Washington and overtime has scored a touchdown. They
are in position to win the game. They go for
the two point conversion, one play to win it all.
And that is when Nick Benito said it wouldn't this
be Nito take a liss Denver with the blitz on
(38:46):
the way back the fucked hen the Broncos won it.
Great play by Nick Benito. He came untouched and the
Broncos in overtime have beaten the Commanders twenty seven to
twenty six. All right, that was Broncos Radio on the call.
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Speaker 4 (39:26):
Games?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
We pretend to be somebody else else. We call it
the who am I?
Speaker 4 (39:30):
Game?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
And the Rams. Davante Adams now two touchdowns away from
breaking the record shared by Jerry Rice, Marvin Harrison, and
me for the most touchdown receptions by a player age
thirty two or older in NFL history. In NFL history,
le's see does anyone know the answer? We go to
(39:52):
the great Unwashed here on x at Ben mallor Keg drinking.
Steve was guessed by Malard prop Guy. A good video
there of him running. Karen Carpenter from Bobby in Florida,
Agent j from Scrooge, Fred Savage guests by Rob the
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