December 5, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Cowboys loss to the Detroit Lions and if Brian Schottenheimer deserves all the criticism coming his way, George Pickens getting a lot of heat for seemingly not giving maximum effort, if Dan Campbell's Lions are back to biting kneecaps, and more!
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here on Hour number one. Does Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer
deserved the bows and arrows directed his way as the
Cowboys go down on a Thursday night game? Are you
surprised that George Pickings red flags have followed him from
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the Steelers to the Cowboy eyes as he had a
tough night at work and our Dan Campbell's Lions back
to biting knee caps after they get a two touchdown
win on the Thursday game. We'll discuss that as well.
All of it coming your way right now here. It
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Here we start out in Motown. It was week fourteen
of the NFL season. Kicked off game ended not that
long ago, a couple hours ago. Game over there in Detroit,
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and it was billed as a pivotal game. Oh Man
Dak Prescott, the Cowboys traveling circus leaving Jerry's World and
heading to Michigan for a playdate with Jared Goff and
the Lions of the Great Indoors. They had Al Michaels
and Herbie. They had to call on the amazon An
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Island game. Were you watching? You didn't watch? Okay, you
missed it. So Jamiir Gibbs, I hear, he's pretty good.
He ran for three touchdown. I had a thirteen yard
run the Lions against the Cowboys there late in the game.
Dallas needed their rework defense I was told had arrived
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and looked like they had. That was false. That's a lie.
Cowboys defense complete frauds. Needed to make a play there
late and it was like a three or four play drive.
The Lions went right down the field, shoved it down
their throat and a thirteen yard run by Jamiir Gibbs
with two minutes and some change left on the clock
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and that was all she wrote. The Lions get a
two touchdown win over the same old sorry ass Dallas
Cowboys forty four to thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The win.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The Lions defense, well, he had some fun with Dak Prescott.
Dak sacked five times as he decided to hold the
ball for a long time many times, and also had
a couple of interceptions, and also the Lions defense recovering
a fumble. So let's see five sacks, couple of interceptions,
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fumble recovery. Pretty good, Pretty good. Yeah. Lions get to
eight and five on the season, which isn't a playoff team. However,
they avoid losing consecutive games, so the first time in
three years. They are still on the outside. They're looking in.
They're behind the velvet ropes. They're not inside the velvet ropes.
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They're behind development ropes looking inside. There with four games left,
that's it, four games left for the Lions, and they
did improve their odds. Dan Campbell was waxing low waitious
after Oh they didn't panic. He said he played the
best game of the year. Blah blah blah blah, blah.
Of course, the best game means, as we know on
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this show, it means as good as all the other games,
because the legal definition of the term best is as
good as all the rest in that category. So you
could say that every single game is the best and
you wouldn't be wrong. You would not be wrong on
that at all. So Detroit's playoff probability is now fifty
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four percent. Fifty four percent. The better story is in
the losing locker room, where the Dallas Cowboys head coach
Shotti Brian Schottenheimer is getting roasted for the decisions he
made during the game. The Cowboys did not play a
clean game at all, and there were some decisions to
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make on whether or not to go for it or
not go for it, and Schottenheimer decided most of the time,
you know, let's just kick a field goal here. And
now he did say the loss would not deflate his team,
he said, he said, so he's getting killed, and that's
what happened. Became. Cowboys played a bad game and everyone
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saw it. They suck, and they sucked at a time
you can't suck. So that's a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss question, does Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer deserve
the bows and arrows being directed at him for his
coaching performance in this game. So I've got my thoughts
on this. I've got Hallmark, mister Rogers, and Seesaw, and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a big giant tubba guts is
what We're going to make, a big tubb of guts.
And we're gonna all right. So a I say, fire away,
fire the cannons, because Shoddy and his team are like toast.
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They're crispy, overdone, and served on a plate the Cowboys
did not want to wash. There's a balance here, There's
always this balance, and Schottenheimer does not have it. He
fell right into the classic trap. And remember having conversations
on these microphones about his dad, Marty Schottenheimer, who did
many of the same things his kid did. I guess
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the coaching apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But
it's one of those things when you have an elite
kicker like Brandon Aubrey, you end up in this situation
where it's like field goals are tappings. It's like it's
going down to the windmill at the putt putt course,
and you're like, well, I'm at the put putt course.
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I can't go wrong. I mean, everyone makes the putts.
It's a putt putt course, and that's great. So it's
a blessing and a curse, double edged sword. Right. The
blessing is automatica automatica points. The curse is you start
settling for field goals, and that is how you lose
games on the road against an opponent that is at
least as good as you, if not better than you,
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And you fall into that situation. And that's the Cowboys. Now,
even if they had gone for it, it likely would
have ended up in a loss because of the way
that they played overall. However, all right, let's not kid
ourselves here. This wasn't just an offensive strategic problem. The
Cowboys had a defensive implosion. Needed to make a play,
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make a play, make a play. But no, can't make
a play, can't do it, can't do it, blocking and tackling,
can't do it. So they're known as Big D. Although
I saw a lot of Little D energy, if you
know what I mean. Here the Cowboys looked bedraggled, out
of sorts. They played last think you know, Thursday, thanksgivings.
So it's not like they had a short week or
anything like that. There were just a lot of mental mistakes,
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drop passes, blown coverages, bad tackling, and really just the
special teams. The Lions have not had great special teams play,
and it looked like they had all pros all over
the kick return team. This was for the Cowboys, it
was a hallmark and for Shottenneimer it was a hallmark movie.
Or go all the hallmarks of a poorly coach team
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right there. Yeah, and that's that's it, hey, And the Lions,
to their credit, they cashed in. They got fourteen points
off Cowboy turnovers and about a being by the boom
just like that, after being snuffed out by the Lions.
Now are the Cowboys still a playoff contender? So on
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that one, the bunt cake is already baked and it
tastes like sadness if you think they're gonna make the
best Dallas's playoff chances have plummeted to seven percent, But
even if there were seventy five percent, the way that
they played that is not a playoff football team knowing
what was on the line, realizing the stakes of that game,
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and that performance. They literally had skid marks all over
the field there, all right, so forget about it. And
the Lions did not just beat the Cowboys, They drop
kicked them into the nearest drainage ditch that final drive
when the Cowboys had come back and closed the gap,
and well, here's this defense. We made a couple of
trades at the deadline to shore things up, and they
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came out there and were completely discombobulated on defense. And
you can hear the ghost of Dandy Don Meredith from
behind the pearly gates crooning, turn out the lost the
parties over, Stick a fork in them, Stick a fork
in the cowboys. Now, speaking of sticking a fork in
the Cowboys, the wide receiver room, Ceedee Lamb was having
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a monster game and then he had a booboo. He
got a concussion and he was knocked out of the game.
And so this is an opportunity for George Pickens to
step up, right, for George Pickens to step up. And
I guess George didn't want to spend too much energy
because it appeared he was running about half speed on
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some plays here, and he just just was like the
Pittsburgh Steelers version of George Pickens. He failed to deliver
when the team needed him. He was not available. He
had checked out of the hotel. I don't know why
he had checked out of the hotel, but he had
checked out of the hotel and just a pedestrian effort
and lase fair play from George Pickens. Here is let's
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hear from Brian Schottenheimer. You'll hear the question and the answers.
This was a talking point on the broadcast how George
Pickens had decided I want to show everyone the George
Pickens from Pittsburgh. Take a listen. No, I don't think so.
I want to look at it. I mean, he was
being doubled minute CD went out.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
They just decided to play everything two man over there
and try to double him and take him away.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
But I don't think so. I liked that we left
the question in which we couldn't understand. I love that
it's good editing, solid, good good job boys. All right, anyway,
here's how about Dak Prescott. Here's Dak Prescott. I'm sure
Dak will say George Pickens sucked and will kill him
and rip him right, Dak, Yes.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
When you're the typle player that he is. I'll be
the first to say it's hard to do that weekend
and week out. I know George believes he can, and
I think he would just say that this game wasn't
up to a standard, and I'm sure he'll loan it
and I know he'll be better.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Okay, So we also learned prior to the game that
George Pickens has been disciplined multiple times by the Cowboys
since coming over from Pittsburgh in the trade, and that
he's missed the team buses, he's shown up late to meetings.
Kind of sounds like a New York Giants rookie the
way that he's handled that, and the Cowboys, though, have
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put up with it. You only had that one incident
in Vegas where he missed the first offensive series, George Pickens.
So the question, are you surprised that here we are
it's week fourteen? This was the feel good story of
the football season, George Pickens. All you fans were pointing
like Nelson from The Simpsons at Mike Tomlin, going, aha,
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you Dubbies, you trained us Jerry Rice for a couple
of day two or three picks, you lizards. Well, now
here we are at week fourteen, and all of a sudden,
well look, looky looking now the skeletons are starting to
come out of the closet and they're dancing. They're dancing,
they're dancing. Listen, of course I'm shaking my head. No,
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not surprised that the red flags are popping up here.
If that's the question, are you surprised? I'm not. It's
not a shock, it's not a stunter. It's not even
really a plot twist. It's the football version of the
same movie, different theater. So did you really are you
that gullible where you really thought that George Pickens just
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because he changed laundry suddenly turned into mister Rogers with
shoulder pads on, come on, are you that naive? Of
course not. They got in Dallas the same guy Pittsburgh
shipped out like an Amazon return. All the quirks, the tardiness,
the great athletic ability. The only difference appears to be
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now that for most of this year, this game aside
most of this year, George Pickens has been catching passes
like heat seeking missiles locked into a Jerry Jones smoker
in Jerry's work, like this is this is how the
NFL does business right. And it's one of those amazing
questions that has to be answered because you know, this
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was a really big game, and George Pickens played it
like it was an exhibition game. The effort was like, oh,
why am I out here? Don't you know who I am? Well, George,
this is kind of a big game, But I'm George Pickens.
I can't be bothered Uscle, what's wrong with you? You schmuck? Yes,
that's the vibe he gave up, and so it again
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becomes and Pittsburgh didn't want to pay him. Pittsburgh was
fed up with him Tom and said I somewhere Tom
and poured one out to celebrate this performance, like, hey,
your losers, you rep me? How about that? Look at
this dope? How do you like him now? Dallas? How
do you like him now? But the Cowboys have had
that look the other way. That's the NFL, that's how
they do business right. They used to look the other way.
Production is the ultimate deodorant. And as long as Pickens
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is a top ten receiver and all these different categories,
explosive plays and all this, then you tolerate the guy
missing a bus or a team meeting or showing up
late and you know, they'll even warm up the engine
for him of the team bus. Is there a correlation
between the story coming out prior to the game that
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George Pickens is still the same old George by George
and then him going out there and proving to everyone
he's still got that steeler George Pickens in him. Is
there some kind of correlation between those two things. Yeah,
he's gotten fined a couple of times and all that,
But fines are just the coin slot of the diva
receiver or CAD, the fund zone, the kuin of all
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if you will, and my positions. People don't fundamentally change,
and whatever's baked in stays baked in. That's just kind
of the way it is. You can't untoast it, you know,
Once it's it's, it's there. And Brian Schottenheimer did not
fix George Pickens, obviously not. He went out there and
had a vintage George Pickens game. The Cowboys mantra has been, ah,
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let's just give him a chance, you know, well, we'll
do something a little different, and when the juice tastes good,
you know, my little pulp, Well you had a lot
of pulp. If you're the Cowboys in this game on
Thursday night, and does Pickens make a couple more plays,
a couple more hustle plays, you win the game. You
could make that argument that as a compelling argument to make. Now,
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last word on the winner's side. We have cranked up
the overreaction machine and it's all about the Detroit Lions.
And the Lions are back. It's it's all downhill now,
tough stretch, but watch out. The Lions have arrived. This
was like their bar mitzvah and a big deal. They're
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all men. Now they're men again, and it's great, wonderful.
So the question, are Dan Campbell's Lions back? Are they
back to biting knee caps? So I would advise you
to hold your horses right, I mean, what do you
what are you doing? Yeah? This wipes away some of
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the halatosis. It does. It's like a crest mouthwash thing
of majig right for for a fan base that has
been recently breathing dragon fumes for about a month, and
it feels pretty good. I'm puzzled about aman Ross Saint
Brown playing. I was told he likely wouldn't play and
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went out there and did his thing. But as far
as the overall big picture, uh yeah, it feels good
for the moment. Did they fix everything? No, Cowboys, even
with George's not that interested in playing in Ceedee Lamb
not available after he had a big start. You know,
the Cowboys still put up a bunch of points in
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this game. But this was a mode Joe Rental. I
jotted down Mojo Rental on my scorecard. A little Mojo
Rental there for the Cowboys. They didn't purchase it. It's
one night only. There's still the NFL's human seesaw up
and down, up and down, no consistency, no reliability. You
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spin the wheel every week and you hope it doesn't
land on face plant. And yeah, you can bully teams
and push him around. And Jamier Gibbs is dynamic, he's explosive,
he's elite, he's premier, all that stuff. That's the maddening
part though about the Lions, Like the ceiling is a Penhausen.
They do have an underlying condition and there's really nothing
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you can do about it. You were born with it.
Jared Goff sucks in big games. It's a problem if
everything else is great. Hey, we've seen suckbag quarterbacks win
super Bowls. Nick Foles is a super Bowl champion, Joe
Flaccoll won a Super Bowl. Those guys blow, and certainly
Jared Goff's as good as those guys. Everything else has
to go right for you and Dan Campbell smashing energy
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drinks and promising kneecap buffets for everyone, and we'll see
how this goes here. But for this particular night, it
was lipstick on a lion, not a makeover. Not a makeover.
We'll see what the future holds here. For the Lions
are still not in the playoffs. They to win out
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and have some other teams stumble and bumble, and then
they'll they'll be back in what is a wide open
appears to be a wide open NFL. Or right about now,
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we'll have that to look forward to. We started with
the Thursday night game as the Dallas Cowboy Eyes go down. Hey,
I admit I bought into it. I expected the Cowboys
to play a close game. I thought this would be
a toss up game. It really wasn't a toss up game.
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Like you handicap the game. You thought certain things were
going to happen, they didn't happen. The Cowboys play like
a poorly coach team, and so we have to say
they are a poorly coach team. That's that's how they played.
They played like a poorly coach team, and so that's
that's what you are there. And so now instead of
in the multiverse, the dimension where the Cowboys ran the
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table and you know, this guy's the coach of the year,
Jerry Jones is the executive of the year. Instead of that,
it's the same old Dallas Cowboys, the same old Dallas Cowboys.
So for those that have been around, you know, there's
a certain there's a certain calendar that one must follow
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with the Cowboys. And so the way this works here,
it begins in January. It'll happen starting sometimes late January.
Cowboys will of course be eliminated. They will not make
the playoffs. But late January Jerry Jones will hold the
news conference during the playoffs and say that he's all
in for twenty twenty six. In February, the Cowboys will
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add a clearly washed up player in late February free agency,
but someone that's got a really nice Wikipedia page with
some good stats on there. And then in March there's
the scouting combines that take place. The media will hype
up the Cowboys planning to do some big things for
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the draft, and everyone will get all excited and get
all horny. And then in April, the NFL media will
celebrate whoever the Cowboys pick. The Cowboys could pick someone
that has no legs and no pulse and they would say,
this is a future star. Just wait, just wait, You're
gonna be a star. Then we get into the second
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wave there in May and June, and there will literally
be enough hot air that will be blown out of
talking heads on television that they'll be talking about global
warming again because there'll be so much hot air about
how good the Cowboys are going to be. And then
some time July or August, Jerry will show up at
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training camp and say that he's really proud of the
team he's put together, feels really good in the coaching staff,
thinks everything will be really solid. Then we get to
the season. Cowboys will win a couple of games early
and it'll be I told you so, Cowboys are off
to the races. Here we go. Then we press on
in the season. Cowboys will beat a lot of bad teams,
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so okay, they're good. There you go. They'll play somebody
who's halfway decent sometime maybe around Halloween a little after that,
and get their doors knocked off, and everyone will be
depressed for a couple of days, but then they're still alive,
and so they'll get to December of next year, and
Jerry Jones will go on his weekly radio show and
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say that he's never been more confident in a roster
he's put together. He's never believed in the coach more
than the coach. You know. It's just boilerplate. It's all
boiler plate. And then yet again, and the Cowboys will
either be eliminated during the regular season or they will
just drown on wild card weekend. It is the cycle.
It is literally groundhog Day. We are living groundhog Day
with the Dallas Cowboys. It has been that way for
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thirty years. It has been that way for thirty years.
That's the Dallas Cowboys for thirty frickages wild Well, mister
nice guy writes in He says, hey, Ben, I received
an Amazon delivery today of Arizona Cardinals in Washington Huskies
merch who goofed I've got to know, hm. So the
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obvious question is a did you order Arizona Cardinal merch
or Washington Huskies merch. That's the first thing. B Why
how did that end up in your house? Was your
name on the package? And then C did you return
it or did you keep it? I'm gonna assume you
didn't want a bunch of Arizona Cardinal merch and Washington
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Husky merch. I'm gonna say a guy in north in
California like, I don't need this. I do not need
this at all. Late night drug tester rights and he says,
of course, George Pickens didn't look good this week. He
didn't have the Kansas City defensive backs committing past interference
every other play. Gunner from the Walmart in northern Minnesota,
just below the Canadian border, says, at least the Cowboys
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are not as bad as the Carolina Panthers. My god, yeah,
the Panthers are pretty bad. I agree with you, Gunner.
It's a good take by you. You haven't had good
take in a while. It's good job by you. What else?
We have a page down Spock's weed on the Oregon
Trail says no kneecaps were bitten or harmed during the
proceedings of this game, So he says, what else we have?
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Zach says, how do I follow the show live so
I can answer questions? Well, Zach, you just have to click.
You are following me, Zach, so you're figuring you figured
it out. That's Zach from Zion, the Great Zach from Zion.
That's a future legend right there. Absolutely says Cowboys. Stan
Maller just saw Lions end their season like the frauds
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they are. I am not a Dallas Cowboys stand although
you could argue that I've talked more about the Dallas
Cowboys than anyone else, anyone else in the NFL, because
I try to get people in the list. It's called broadcasting,
not narrow casting. And the Cowboys have a broad audience.
That's why. And it's proof you don't have to win.
The Cowboys suck and more fans than anybody, and you
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don't have to win. You put the star in the helmet,
that's all you need. Chris and Houston, who also goes
by the name Damien, writes and he says, hello, Ben,
he's up enjoying some good old water burger. Well, doctors
do recommend Chris and Houston that you eat a nice
water burger at like two in the morning. They say,
that's a really good time to eat water burger and
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really good for your health. Absolutely. See, it's a way
to do it, especially if your team is a bunch
of cheating as one one thousand and two, one thousand
and three, one thousand holes nature boy answering the call
of a wild rights and he says, same old Cowboys.
Too bad Zeke didn't get get the block for Dak again. Yes, well,
(30:07):
the worst part about that is that Zeke Elliott came
back to the Cowboys after that play that would have
been the ultimate final place. Talking about that playoff game
a couple of years ago into the Niners, remember when
they ran they ran the trick play and Zeke Elliott
was the center and he snapped the ball and got
run over like there was a stampede of water buffaloes
(30:30):
that just pushed him over, and and that whole deal
that was that was that. All Right's go to the
phones and a man working the dreaded day shift. But
he's stand up late for us right now, our friend
and your friend as well, the great Jay Dot in Utah, Hello,
Jay Dot, welcome.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Yeah, man, I'm very alive. Anymore, I'm walking zombie. I
could barely to keep my eyes awake, especially like it
listen overnight and you the goat, Yo, you hear on
every topic. You on fire, like I can't even like
(31:11):
every time I hear like the show is just stupid
funny and I can't even like it was. I could
time in every time.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You just take in take out and yo, I just
want to tell you that the the homelet Phil the Ranchos,
that was me. That was me. I put that on
the mala.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, the guy called in that. We have our answer.
They're the great, the great, mister. That's look at this
ja now, Jada you live? Now, now, Jada you live.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
It wasn't the same thing as me. Yeah either, do
that put the boot on the cars? Remember that, dude?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Oh yeah I remember the guy. Yeah yeah, I remember
the yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah. But anyways, but man, hey, you gotta get Brock
pretty as flowers.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I don't don't. Why do I have to give Brock
pretty flowers? I don't need. He doesn't even like flowers.
He didn't need flowers.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, yeah, he likes he likes red roses.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Oh he does, is that right? Okay, I'll get him
some coop. Send him some red roses. Send brock pretty
some red roses. We'll get him some red roses. Yeah,
where's that where's that place you you told me when
you came to the meet and greet in Vegas. There's
the it's like a lot of a lot of extra
terrestrial type activity and.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
The skin walker ranch.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah you live right near there, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, so so so okay, so like
like it's all in the relation. And one thing about
that is you do not want to go out there
at night because you might get sesshed up, you might
lose your life, but you do not want to go
out there, especially bro Like it's not a good time.
Like right now, I'm a home always.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, what have you have you seen? Have you seen
anything like when you oh my cousin she.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Hit one of those skinwalkers and hit them and then
kept driving driving like it's like when you hit a dog,
when you hit it like a wild animal. It was
like the most scarce things, she says, She like an
I'm believer, And it was like you don't want to
ever go out there on the roads on night because
(33:37):
it's like a scary time, like you would never want
to go out there.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, I got you, all right, listen.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, yeah, what do you what do you?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
What are you doing? What do you? What are you
reacting to? What you what? I know?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I know.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, it's okay, it's okay. I mean, Janda, I can't
talk to you all night. I mean there's other people.
I love you, man, But are you working tomorrow? Are
you off from work?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I'm happening to be up just now.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Okay, and all right, yeah, harder than I'm playing.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Send that out coop, working in the day shift, harder
than playing ping pong. You're you're a modern day poet.
J Dot. We love you, Jay Do. We'll hang out again.
We'll have a meet and greet. All right, I gotta go, buddy.
But Jay Dot, he will not remember any of this.
(34:45):
He completely shockered. I will not remember any of this conversation.
So good. All right. So if you're watching the the
big old football game there, it's one of these great
mind tricks where Dak Press was sacked in the end zone. Now,
I've always heard in my life that when someone gets
(35:05):
sacked in the end zone, it's a safety. Uh, the
NFL decided it was not a safety. It looked like
A said, it's like the duck test. If it looks
like it's a safety and it feels like it's a safety,
and everyone on the field says it's a safety, and
the officials call it a safety, it's not a safety
(35:28):
because the NFL said no, no, no, no, no no,
we we've overturned that sack of Dak Prescott for a safety.
UM replay, Yeah, that's I looked at the replay. I
still and I just look at it. That was a safety.
Look al, Michaels thought it was. Everyone thought it was
this guy, Jack Campbell. What mag you make the NFL?
(35:49):
Your name is Jack Campbell. It's kind of a generic name.
But he he sacked Dak Prescott on the end zone
for a safety, but they decided it wasn't a safety,
and they we found this angle, We found the ball,
part of the ball was out of the end zone,
and I was like, I don't know the call in
the field, I don't think that was enough evidence to
overturn the call. They were trying to help the Cowboys out,
and the Cowboys are so bad they still screwed this
(36:10):
game up and still lost the game. So there you go.
Time now for the who am I? Game? Is where
I pretend to be somebody else else? We call it
the who am A game? That's the bet and I
have I'm a defensive player. Obviously, I have the highest
fourth quarter pressure rate in a season in the next
gen stats era. That's that's not that long, but I
(36:31):
I I accord it this year in the NFL. I
have the highest fourth quarter pressure rate in a season.
It happens to be this year in the next gen
stats era. That's the nerd takeover of the NFL. The
nerd stats that are that are out there? And who
am I? That is the question the answer. We will
(36:52):
get to it and we will do it next.
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deserved the bows and arrows directed his way as the
Cowboys go down on a Thursday night game? Are you
surprised that George Pickings red flags have followed him from
(01:03):
the Steelers to the Cowboy eyes as he had a
tough night at work and our Dan Campbell's Lions back
to biting knee caps after they get a two touchdown
win on the Thursday game. We'll discuss that as well.
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Here we start out in Motown. It was week fourteen
of the NFL season. Kicked off game ended not that
long ago, a couple hours ago. Game over there in Detroit,
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and it was billed as a pivotal game. Oh Man
Dak Prescott, the Cowboys traveling circus leaving Jerry's World and
heading to Michigan for a playdate with Jared Goff and
the Lions of the Great Indoors. They had Al Michaels
and Herbie. They had to call on the amazon An
(03:11):
Island game. Were you watching? You didn't watch? Okay, you
missed it. So Jamiir Gibbs, I hear, he's pretty good.
He ran for three touchdown. I had a thirteen yard
run the Lions against the Cowboys there late in the game.
Dallas needed their rework defense I was told had arrived
(03:33):
and looked like they had. That was false. That's a lie.
Cowboys defense complete frauds. Needed to make a play there
late and it was like a three or four play drive.
The Lions went right down the field, shoved it down
their throat and a thirteen yard run by Jamiir Gibbs
with two minutes and some change left on the clock
(03:54):
and that was all she wrote. The Lions get a
two touchdown win over the same old sorry ass Dallas
Cowboys forty four to thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The win.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The Lions defense, well, he had some fun with Dak Prescott.
Dak sacked five times as he decided to hold the
ball for a long time many times, and also had
a couple of interceptions, and also the Lions defense recovering
a fumble. So let's see five sacks, couple of interceptions,
(04:27):
fumble recovery. Pretty good, Pretty good. Yeah. Lions get to
eight and five on the season, which isn't a playoff team. However,
they avoid losing consecutive games, so the first time in
three years. They are still on the outside. They're looking in.
They're behind the velvet ropes. They're not inside the velvet ropes.
(04:48):
They're behind development ropes looking inside. There with four games left,
that's it, four games left for the Lions, and they
did improve their odds. Dan Campbell was waxing low waitious
after Oh they didn't panic. He said he played the
best game of the year. Blah blah blah blah, blah.
Of course, the best game means, as we know on
(05:08):
this show, it means as good as all the other games,
because the legal definition of the term best is as
good as all the rest in that category. So you
could say that every single game is the best and
you wouldn't be wrong. You would not be wrong on
that at all. So Detroit's playoff probability is now fifty
(05:31):
four percent. Fifty four percent. The better story is in
the losing locker room, where the Dallas Cowboys head coach
Shotti Brian Schottenheimer is getting roasted for the decisions he
made during the game. The Cowboys did not play a
clean game at all, and there were some decisions to
(05:53):
make on whether or not to go for it or
not go for it, and Schottenheimer decided most of the time,
you know, let's just kick a field goal here. And
now he did say the loss would not deflate his team,
he said, he said, so he's getting killed, and that's
what happened. Became. Cowboys played a bad game and everyone
(06:14):
saw it. They suck, and they sucked at a time
you can't suck. So that's a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss question, does Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer deserve
the bows and arrows being directed at him for his
coaching performance in this game. So I've got my thoughts
on this. I've got Hallmark, mister Rogers, and Seesaw, and
(06:39):
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a big giant tubba guts is
what We're going to make, a big tubb of guts.
And we're gonna all right. So a I say, fire away,
fire the cannons, because Shoddy and his team are like toast.
(07:02):
They're crispy, overdone, and served on a plate the Cowboys
did not want to wash. There's a balance here, There's
always this balance, and Schottenheimer does not have it. He
fell right into the classic trap. And remember having conversations
on these microphones about his dad, Marty Schottenheimer, who did
many of the same things his kid did. I guess
(07:24):
the coaching apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But
it's one of those things when you have an elite
kicker like Brandon Aubrey, you end up in this situation
where it's like field goals are tappings. It's like it's
going down to the windmill at the putt putt course,
and you're like, well, I'm at the put putt course.
(07:44):
I can't go wrong. I mean, everyone makes the putts.
It's a putt putt course, and that's great. So it's
a blessing and a curse, double edged sword. Right. The
blessing is automatica automatica points. The curse is you start
settling for field goals, and that is how you lose
games on the road against an opponent that is at
least as good as you, if not better than you,
(08:06):
And you fall into that situation. And that's the Cowboys. Now,
even if they had gone for it, it likely would
have ended up in a loss because of the way
that they played overall. However, all right, let's not kid
ourselves here. This wasn't just an offensive strategic problem. The
Cowboys had a defensive implosion. Needed to make a play,
(08:28):
make a play, make a play. But no, can't make
a play, can't do it, can't do it, blocking and tackling,
can't do it. So they're known as Big D. Although
I saw a lot of Little D energy, if you
know what I mean. Here the Cowboys looked bedraggled, out
of sorts. They played last think you know, Thursday, thanksgivings.
So it's not like they had a short week or
anything like that. There were just a lot of mental mistakes,
(08:51):
drop passes, blown coverages, bad tackling, and really just the
special teams. The Lions have not had great special teams play,
and it looked like they had all pros all over
the kick return team. This was for the Cowboys, it
was a hallmark and for Shottenneimer it was a hallmark movie.
Or go all the hallmarks of a poorly coach team
(09:13):
right there. Yeah, and that's that's it, hey, And the Lions,
to their credit, they cashed in. They got fourteen points
off Cowboy turnovers and about a being by the boom
just like that, after being snuffed out by the Lions.
Now are the Cowboys still a playoff contender? So on
(09:34):
that one, the bunt cake is already baked and it
tastes like sadness if you think they're gonna make the
best Dallas's playoff chances have plummeted to seven percent, But
even if there were seventy five percent, the way that
they played that is not a playoff football team knowing
what was on the line, realizing the stakes of that game,
(09:55):
and that performance. They literally had skid marks all over
the field there, all right, so forget about it. And
the Lions did not just beat the Cowboys, They drop
kicked them into the nearest drainage ditch that final drive
when the Cowboys had come back and closed the gap,
and well, here's this defense. We made a couple of
trades at the deadline to shore things up, and they
(10:18):
came out there and were completely discombobulated on defense. And
you can hear the ghost of Dandy Don Meredith from
behind the pearly gates crooning, turn out the lost the
parties over, Stick a fork in them, Stick a fork
in the cowboys. Now, speaking of sticking a fork in
the Cowboys, the wide receiver room, Ceedee Lamb was having
(10:41):
a monster game and then he had a booboo. He
got a concussion and he was knocked out of the game.
And so this is an opportunity for George Pickens to
step up, right, for George Pickens to step up. And
I guess George didn't want to spend too much energy
because it appeared he was running about half speed on
(11:01):
some plays here, and he just just was like the
Pittsburgh Steelers version of George Pickens. He failed to deliver
when the team needed him. He was not available. He
had checked out of the hotel. I don't know why
he had checked out of the hotel, but he had
checked out of the hotel and just a pedestrian effort
and lase fair play from George Pickens. Here is let's
(11:24):
hear from Brian Schottenheimer. You'll hear the question and the answers.
This was a talking point on the broadcast how George
Pickens had decided I want to show everyone the George
Pickens from Pittsburgh. Take a listen. No, I don't think so.
I want to look at it. I mean, he was
being doubled minute CD went out.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
They just decided to play everything two man over there
and try to double him and take him away.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
But I don't think so. I liked that we left
the question in which we couldn't understand. I love that
it's good editing, solid, good good job boys. All right, anyway,
here's how about Dak Prescott. Here's Dak Prescott. I'm sure
Dak will say George Pickens sucked and will kill him
and rip him right, Dak, Yes.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
When you're the typle player that he is. I'll be
the first to say it's hard to do that weekend
and week out. I know George believes he can, and
I think he would just say that this game wasn't
up to a standard, and I'm sure he'll loan it
and I know he'll be better.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Okay, So we also learned prior to the game that
George Pickens has been disciplined multiple times by the Cowboys
since coming over from Pittsburgh in the trade, and that
he's missed the team buses, he's shown up late to meetings.
Kind of sounds like a New York Giants rookie the
way that he's handled that, and the Cowboys, though, have
(12:44):
put up with it. You only had that one incident
in Vegas where he missed the first offensive series, George Pickens.
So the question, are you surprised that here we are
it's week fourteen? This was the feel good story of
the football season, George Pickens. All you fans were pointing
like Nelson from The Simpsons at Mike Tomlin, going, aha,
(13:07):
you Dubbies, you trained us Jerry Rice for a couple
of day two or three picks, you lizards. Well, now
here we are at week fourteen, and all of a sudden,
well look, looky looking now the skeletons are starting to
come out of the closet and they're dancing. They're dancing,
they're dancing. Listen, of course I'm shaking my head. No,
(13:29):
not surprised that the red flags are popping up here.
If that's the question, are you surprised? I'm not. It's
not a shock, it's not a stunter. It's not even
really a plot twist. It's the football version of the
same movie, different theater. So did you really are you
that gullible where you really thought that George Pickens just
(13:50):
because he changed laundry suddenly turned into mister Rogers with
shoulder pads on, come on, are you that naive? Of
course not. They got in Dallas the same guy Pittsburgh
shipped out like an Amazon return. All the quirks, the tardiness,
the great athletic ability. The only difference appears to be
(14:11):
now that for most of this year, this game aside
most of this year, George Pickens has been catching passes
like heat seeking missiles locked into a Jerry Jones smoker
in Jerry's work, like this is this is how the
NFL does business right. And it's one of those amazing
questions that has to be answered because you know, this
(14:33):
was a really big game, and George Pickens played it
like it was an exhibition game. The effort was like, oh,
why am I out here? Don't you know who I am? Well, George,
this is kind of a big game, But I'm George Pickens.
I can't be bothered Uscle, what's wrong with you? You schmuck? Yes,
that's the vibe he gave up, and so it again
(14:55):
becomes and Pittsburgh didn't want to pay him. Pittsburgh was
fed up with him Tom and said I somewhere Tom
and poured one out to celebrate this performance, like, hey,
your losers, you rep me? How about that? Look at
this dope? How do you like him now? Dallas? How
do you like him now? But the Cowboys have had
that look the other way. That's the NFL, that's how
they do business right. They used to look the other way.
Production is the ultimate deodorant. And as long as Pickens
(15:18):
is a top ten receiver and all these different categories,
explosive plays and all this, then you tolerate the guy
missing a bus or a team meeting or showing up
late and you know, they'll even warm up the engine
for him of the team bus. Is there a correlation
between the story coming out prior to the game that
(15:39):
George Pickens is still the same old George by George
and then him going out there and proving to everyone
he's still got that steeler George Pickens in him. Is
there some kind of correlation between those two things. Yeah,
he's gotten fined a couple of times and all that,
But fines are just the coin slot of the diva
receiver or CAD, the fund zone, the kuin of all
(16:02):
if you will, and my positions. People don't fundamentally change,
and whatever's baked in stays baked in. That's just kind
of the way it is. You can't untoast it, you know,
Once it's it's, it's there. And Brian Schottenheimer did not
fix George Pickens, obviously not. He went out there and
had a vintage George Pickens game. The Cowboys mantra has been, ah,
(16:25):
let's just give him a chance, you know, well, we'll
do something a little different, and when the juice tastes good,
you know, my little pulp, Well you had a lot
of pulp. If you're the Cowboys in this game on
Thursday night, and does Pickens make a couple more plays,
a couple more hustle plays, you win the game. You
could make that argument that as a compelling argument to make. Now,
(16:45):
last word on the winner's side. We have cranked up
the overreaction machine and it's all about the Detroit Lions.
And the Lions are back. It's it's all downhill now,
tough stretch, but watch out. The Lions have arrived. This
was like their bar mitzvah and a big deal. They're
(17:06):
all men. Now they're men again, and it's great, wonderful.
So the question, are Dan Campbell's Lions back? Are they
back to biting knee caps? So I would advise you
to hold your horses right, I mean, what do you
what are you doing? Yeah? This wipes away some of
(17:26):
the halatosis. It does. It's like a crest mouthwash thing
of majig right for for a fan base that has
been recently breathing dragon fumes for about a month, and
it feels pretty good. I'm puzzled about aman Ross Saint
Brown playing. I was told he likely wouldn't play and
(17:47):
went out there and did his thing. But as far
as the overall big picture, uh yeah, it feels good
for the moment. Did they fix everything? No, Cowboys, even
with George's not that interested in playing in Ceedee Lamb
not available after he had a big start. You know,
the Cowboys still put up a bunch of points in
(18:10):
this game. But this was a mode Joe Rental. I
jotted down Mojo Rental on my scorecard. A little Mojo
Rental there for the Cowboys. They didn't purchase it. It's
one night only. There's still the NFL's human seesaw up
and down, up and down, no consistency, no reliability. You
(18:31):
spin the wheel every week and you hope it doesn't
land on face plant. And yeah, you can bully teams
and push him around. And Jamier Gibbs is dynamic, he's explosive,
he's elite, he's premier, all that stuff. That's the maddening
part though about the Lions, Like the ceiling is a Penhausen.
They do have an underlying condition and there's really nothing
(18:54):
you can do about it. You were born with it.
Jared Goff sucks in big games. It's a problem if
everything else is great. Hey, we've seen suckbag quarterbacks win
super Bowls. Nick Foles is a super Bowl champion, Joe
Flaccoll won a Super Bowl. Those guys blow, and certainly
Jared Goff's as good as those guys. Everything else has
to go right for you and Dan Campbell smashing energy
(19:16):
drinks and promising kneecap buffets for everyone, and we'll see
how this goes here. But for this particular night, it
was lipstick on a lion, not a makeover. Not a makeover.
We'll see what the future holds here. For the Lions
are still not in the playoffs. They to win out
(19:36):
and have some other teams stumble and bumble, and then
they'll they'll be back in what is a wide open
appears to be a wide open NFL. Or right about now,
it is the Ben mal Show. If you'd like to
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(19:58):
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As we slide into a Friday, still late on a
Thursday night in the West, and we will be hanging
out all night long here on the Overnight. If you'd
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So please act accordingly and now back to it. Back
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(23:13):
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(23:34):
on the show. I think that's what you would want.
You would want that if you send it in, so
we'll have that to look forward to. We started with
the Thursday night game as the Dallas Cowboy Eyes go down. Hey,
I admit I bought into it. I expected the Cowboys
to play a close game. I thought this would be
a toss up game. It really wasn't a toss up game.
(23:55):
Like you handicap the game. You thought certain things were
going to happen, they didn't happen. The Cowboys play like
a poorly coach team, and so we have to say
they are a poorly coach team. That's that's how they played.
They played like a poorly coach team, and so that's
that's what you are there. And so now instead of
in the multiverse, the dimension where the Cowboys ran the
(24:17):
table and you know, this guy's the coach of the year,
Jerry Jones is the executive of the year. Instead of that,
it's the same old Dallas Cowboys, the same old Dallas Cowboys.
So for those that have been around, you know, there's
a certain there's a certain calendar that one must follow
(24:38):
with the Cowboys. And so the way this works here,
it begins in January. It'll happen starting sometimes late January.
Cowboys will of course be eliminated. They will not make
the playoffs. But late January Jerry Jones will hold the
news conference during the playoffs and say that he's all
in for twenty twenty six. In February, the Cowboys will
(25:00):
add a clearly washed up player in late February free agency,
but someone that's got a really nice Wikipedia page with
some good stats on there. And then in March there's
the scouting combines that take place. The media will hype
up the Cowboys planning to do some big things for
(25:22):
the draft, and everyone will get all excited and get
all horny. And then in April, the NFL media will
celebrate whoever the Cowboys pick. The Cowboys could pick someone
that has no legs and no pulse and they would say,
this is a future star. Just wait, just wait, You're
gonna be a star. Then we get into the second
(25:44):
wave there in May and June, and there will literally
be enough hot air that will be blown out of
talking heads on television that they'll be talking about global
warming again because there'll be so much hot air about
how good the Cowboys are going to be. And then
some time July or August, Jerry will show up at
(26:05):
training camp and say that he's really proud of the
team he's put together, feels really good in the coaching staff,
thinks everything will be really solid. Then we get to
the season. Cowboys will win a couple of games early
and it'll be I told you so, Cowboys are off
to the races. Here we go. Then we press on
in the season. Cowboys will beat a lot of bad teams,
(26:28):
so okay, they're good. There you go. They'll play somebody
who's halfway decent sometime maybe around Halloween a little after that,
and get their doors knocked off, and everyone will be
depressed for a couple of days, but then they're still alive,
and so they'll get to December of next year, and
Jerry Jones will go on his weekly radio show and
(26:50):
say that he's never been more confident in a roster
he's put together. He's never believed in the coach more
than the coach. You know. It's just boilerplate. It's all
boiler plate. And then yet again, and the Cowboys will
either be eliminated during the regular season or they will
just drown on wild card weekend. It is the cycle.
It is literally groundhog Day. We are living groundhog Day
with the Dallas Cowboys. It has been that way for
(27:12):
thirty years. It has been that way for thirty years.
That's the Dallas Cowboys for thirty frickages wild Well, mister
nice guy writes in He says, hey, Ben, I received
an Amazon delivery today of Arizona Cardinals in Washington Huskies
merch who goofed I've got to know, hm. So the
(27:34):
obvious question is a did you order Arizona Cardinal merch
or Washington Huskies merch. That's the first thing. B Why
how did that end up in your house? Was your
name on the package? And then C did you return
it or did you keep it? I'm gonna assume you
didn't want a bunch of Arizona Cardinal merch and Washington
(27:58):
Husky merch. I'm gonna say a guy in north in
California like, I don't need this. I do not need
this at all. Late night drug tester rights and he says,
of course, George Pickens didn't look good this week. He
didn't have the Kansas City defensive backs committing past interference
every other play. Gunner from the Walmart in northern Minnesota,
just below the Canadian border, says, at least the Cowboys
(28:20):
are not as bad as the Carolina Panthers. My god, yeah,
the Panthers are pretty bad. I agree with you, Gunner.
It's a good take by you. You haven't had good
take in a while. It's good job by you. What else?
We have a page down Spock's weed on the Oregon
Trail says no kneecaps were bitten or harmed during the
proceedings of this game, So he says, what else we have?
(28:41):
Zach says, how do I follow the show live so
I can answer questions? Well, Zach, you just have to click.
You are following me, Zach, so you're figuring you figured
it out. That's Zach from Zion, the Great Zach from Zion.
That's a future legend right there. Absolutely says Cowboys. Stan
Maller just saw Lions end their season like the frauds
(29:05):
they are. I am not a Dallas Cowboys stand although
you could argue that I've talked more about the Dallas
Cowboys than anyone else, anyone else in the NFL, because
I try to get people in the list. It's called broadcasting,
not narrow casting. And the Cowboys have a broad audience.
That's why. And it's proof you don't have to win.
The Cowboys suck and more fans than anybody, and you
(29:26):
don't have to win. You put the star in the helmet,
that's all you need. Chris and Houston, who also goes
by the name Damien, writes and he says, hello, Ben,
he's up enjoying some good old water burger. Well, doctors
do recommend Chris and Houston that you eat a nice
water burger at like two in the morning. They say,
that's a really good time to eat water burger and
(29:46):
really good for your health. Absolutely. See, it's a way
to do it, especially if your team is a bunch
of cheating as one one thousand and two, one thousand
and three, one thousand holes nature boy answering the call
of a wild rights and he says, same old Cowboys.
Too bad Zeke didn't get get the block for Dak again. Yes, well,
(30:07):
the worst part about that is that Zeke Elliott came
back to the Cowboys after that play that would have
been the ultimate final place. Talking about that playoff game
a couple of years ago into the Niners, remember when
they ran they ran the trick play and Zeke Elliott
was the center and he snapped the ball and got
run over like there was a stampede of water buffaloes
(30:30):
that just pushed him over, and and that whole deal
that was that was that. All Right's go to the
phones and a man working the dreaded day shift. But
he's stand up late for us right now, our friend
and your friend as well, the great Jay Dot in Utah, Hello,
Jay Dot, welcome.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Yeah, man, I'm very alive. Anymore, I'm walking zombie. I
could barely to keep my eyes awake, especially like it
listen overnight and you the goat, Yo, you hear on
every topic. You on fire, like I can't even like
(31:11):
every time I hear like the show is just stupid
funny and I can't even like it was. I could
time in every time.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You just take in take out and yo, I just
want to tell you that the the homelet Phil the Ranchos,
that was me. That was me. I put that on
the mala.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, the guy called in that. We have our answer.
They're the great, the great, mister. That's look at this
ja now, Jada you live? Now, now, Jada you live.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
It wasn't the same thing as me. Yeah either, do
that put the boot on the cars? Remember that, dude?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Oh yeah I remember the guy. Yeah yeah, I remember
the yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah. But anyways, but man, hey, you gotta get Brock
pretty as flowers.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I don't don't. Why do I have to give Brock
pretty flowers? I don't need. He doesn't even like flowers.
He didn't need flowers.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, yeah, he likes he likes red roses.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Oh he does, is that right? Okay, I'll get him
some coop. Send him some red roses. Send brock pretty
some red roses. We'll get him some red roses. Yeah,
where's that where's that place you you told me when
you came to the meet and greet in Vegas. There's
the it's like a lot of a lot of extra
terrestrial type activity and.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
The skin walker ranch.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah you live right near there, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, so so so okay, so like
like it's all in the relation. And one thing about
that is you do not want to go out there
at night because you might get sesshed up, you might
lose your life, but you do not want to go
out there, especially bro Like it's not a good time.
Like right now, I'm a home always.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, what have you have you seen? Have you seen
anything like when you oh my cousin she.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Hit one of those skinwalkers and hit them and then
kept driving driving like it's like when you hit a dog,
when you hit it like a wild animal. It was
like the most scarce things, she says, She like an
I'm believer, And it was like you don't want to
ever go out there on the roads on night because
(33:37):
it's like a scary time, like you would never want
to go out there.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, I got you, all right, listen.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, yeah, what do you what do you?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
What are you doing? What do you? What are you
reacting to? What you what? I know?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I know.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, it's okay, it's okay. I mean, Janda, I can't
talk to you all night. I mean there's other people.
I love you, man, But are you working tomorrow? Are
you off from work?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I'm happening to be up just now.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Okay, and all right, yeah, harder than I'm playing.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Send that out coop, working in the day shift, harder
than playing ping pong. You're you're a modern day poet.
J Dot. We love you, Jay Do. We'll hang out again.
We'll have a meet and greet. All right, I gotta go, buddy.
But Jay Dot, he will not remember any of this.
(34:45):
He completely shockered. I will not remember any of this conversation.
So good. All right. So if you're watching the the
big old football game there, it's one of these great
mind tricks where Dak Press was sacked in the end zone. Now,
I've always heard in my life that when someone gets
(35:05):
sacked in the end zone, it's a safety. Uh, the
NFL decided it was not a safety. It looked like
A said, it's like the duck test. If it looks
like it's a safety and it feels like it's a safety,
and everyone on the field says it's a safety, and
the officials call it a safety, it's not a safety
(35:28):
because the NFL said no, no, no, no, no no,
we we've overturned that sack of Dak Prescott for a safety.
UM replay, Yeah, that's I looked at the replay. I
still and I just look at it. That was a safety.
Look al, Michaels thought it was. Everyone thought it was
this guy, Jack Campbell. What mag you make the NFL?
(35:49):
Your name is Jack Campbell. It's kind of a generic name.
But he he sacked Dak Prescott on the end zone
for a safety, but they decided it wasn't a safety,
and they we found this angle, We found the ball,
part of the ball was out of the end zone,
and I was like, I don't know the call in
the field, I don't think that was enough evidence to
overturn the call. They were trying to help the Cowboys out,
and the Cowboys are so bad they still screwed this
(36:10):
game up and still lost the game. So there you go.
Time now for the who am I? Game? Is where
I pretend to be somebody else else? We call it
the who am A game? That's the bet and I
have I'm a defensive player. Obviously, I have the highest
fourth quarter pressure rate in a season in the next
gen stats era. That's that's not that long, but I
(36:31):
I I accord it this year in the NFL. I
have the highest fourth quarter pressure rate in a season.
It happens to be this year in the next gen
stats era. That's the nerd takeover of the NFL. The
nerd stats that are that are out there? And who
am I? That is the question the answer. We will
(36:52):
get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Bet Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Miller and you. It is the Ben Maler Show. A Happy,
Happy Holiday season, a classic Mallard holiday song from years
gone by, Christmas past, and we are here with you
all throughout the holidays and you can be part of
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The latest episode will be up later today, the full
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(37:46):
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the podcast and all that, all of that amazing stuff. Boy,
your life will be so much better unless it doesn't
change at all at all. We're back at it and
(38:09):
we will pay off the who am I Game? In
a minute. Do we have a play the day? I
don't know this, See do we have one or not?
I don't know that we do, all right, I guess
we don't. So we will just get to the who
am I Game? And here is the who am I? Game?
For today? We go to the NFL. I have the
highest fourth quarter pressure rate in a season In the
(38:32):
next gen stats era. So when the NFL nerd takeover
took place and it's all nerds all the time, you
give us a couple of minutes, we'll give you some
kind of nerd propaganda. That's that's how that works. See
does anyone know Femi the top uber each driver in
(38:53):
beautiful Minneapolis, Saint Paul's going with the incredible Hulk alf
the Alien. O Piners says, definitely not OJ. That's pretty funny.
He's got a good photo there of a Ford Bronco
with not OJ as a license plate. What else do
we have to see? Page down? I can't read that
gunner guess by ferg Dog that's definitely not gunner. Will
(39:15):
Anderson Junior from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Mallard prop guy says,
the answer is late night drug tester, who is not
celebrating a birthday today at all. So it would be wrong,
it would be wrong to do a shout out to
the late night drug tester. We don't do shoutouts. We
do mentions. I can't do a shout out. I might
do a mention, we can't do a shout out. I
hope you understand late night drug tester. We cannot wish
(39:36):
you a happy birthday. I can't do it. King Rory
says Panther legend Reggie White, mister nice guy. Paul Quantrell,
Canadian right handed pitcher from years ago in baseball. I
love the name. Frankie Munyez Clipper fan who is forty today? Oh,
Malcolm in the middles forty? You gotta be kidding me, man,
what's up with that? Robbie the Marina fan doing a
(39:58):
humble flex here he says, Saint Elmo's shrimp cocktail from
last night, most expensive meal I've ever had. Robbie was
at Saint Elmo's when the Lakers and Pacers played in
the NBA Finals. We spent our entire travel budget on
that meal, and we were eating basically dog food the
rest of that trip. Eloy from Compton says, the Pillsbury
(40:19):
dough Boy is the answer, Mike Mamula from Marquis Marcus
rather Dandy Don Meredith from David fran Tarkinden from Luke
the correct answer. Aiden Hutchinson of your Detroit Lions getting
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