December 9, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Chargers beating the Eagles in OT on MNF amid a horrible game from Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, if there is any confidence that Nick Sirianni can turn things around for Philly, if Jim Harbaugh can exhale with the Chargers getting the win, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Show me your lightning bolts. It's our number bar Why
our number one? It's all about that Monday night football game.
The Chargers go to overtime to beat the Eagles in
La Jalen Hurts turn the ball over five times. That
doesn't seem ideal. So what's Jalen Hurts play smell like
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for the Eagles on that Monday night game? Also, do
you have confidence that Nick Sirianni can stop the bleeding
for the Birds as they have lost three games in
a row. Also, can Jim Harbaugh exhale now with the
Chargers getting in the win column against the reigning Super
Bowl champions. I'll talk about all that and more right
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now here. It is our number one. It turns out
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a trip to the West Coast all the Eagles needed
to continue to suck, and boy today suck. Welcome in
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As we settle into it a busy night and we
begin with the Monday night football game. And a memorable game.
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Not a great game, well, I mean if you like turnovers.
It was close game, went to overtime in the Hood
and Inglewood and up to no good. The Birds the
reigning champions of the NFL and not playing like it
right now. No, they're not the bright lights of Monday
night football. The La Power Company was hosting the team
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from Philadelphia and Joe Back Troy Aikman were there. They
had the call on ABC, So I don't saw a
game or not if you're watching. I was at the
game for a good chunk of it. Had to leave
early to get here. It's my duty to the American
people to come in here do sports talk. So I
couldn't be stuck in traffic. But Cameron Dicker, the kicker,
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had to go ahead fifty four yard field goal. He
ended up kicking five field goals in the game. And
Tony Jefferson, who well, he intercepted on a tip pass
Jalen Hurts at the one yard line and that lifted
the Chargers to a twenty two to nineteen victory over
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the free falling Philadelphia Eagles. What a bunch of chumps
the Eagles are, and it was somewhat enjoyable to see
the very braggadosius Eagle fan base who looked a little
numb the way that Jalen Hurts was playing in this
particular game. Now, the better story is in the losing
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locker room, and so that is where we're gonna go.
Jalen Hurts had to be kind a clunker, a clunker
for the ages for Jalen Hurts, who threw not one,
not two, not three, but four four interceptions and the
Eagles committed five turnovers in the game. Jalen Hurts had
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the two for one. We'll get to that coming up
in a minute. And here is the man of the hour.
Thought's start with Jalen Hurts. Here on the overtime, the
Eagles had gotten into field goal range. There was a
penalty on the Chargers on a fourth down play that
extended the drive for Philadelphia, which set up the interception
and the final blow, the final body blow, body blow.
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Here is Jalen Hurts on what a night for intercession
let's talk about that last one.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I knew it was going to be a tight window throw.
I'd have to watch the film to see see it
from the eyes film's point of view. Ultimately, it's a
play that I didn't make. You got to handle the ball.
That's a play that we've made a million times in
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that scenario versus a cloud corner, and I didn't make
that play this time around.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yes, you did not make that play. So the Raiinning
Super Bowl Champions lose their season worst third in a row.
They are just three games above five hundred. Now, the
good news is they're in the right division. The Giants
aren't trying, the Commanders blow, and the Cowboys suck, so
they're in a good division. There's no one else who's
even competing with them, so they've got that going in Philadelphia. However,
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it doesn't change the fact that Eagles are a total
fraud in terms of being a Super Bowl content. Does
anyone disagree with that? Like, at this point, we do
the show today, We have to worry about the show
right now, we do the overnight show at this moment.
Is there a bigger pretender than the Philadelphia Eagles in
terms of actually winning anything the way they are right now?
My god. All right, but let's focus in and it's
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good jumping off play. Let's focus in on the quarterback though,
and let's discuss the question what is Jalen Hurts play?
What is the smell around Jalen Hurts?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Just break it down like that, right, what's Jalen Hurts
play smell like? For the Eagles? Thoughts? On this, I've
got John Madden, Gator, and spicy margarita, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to put the biscuit in the basket. So a, the
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smell surrounding Jalen Hurts is a pungent smell. It's punging
it up. It's so strong it's actually peeling The paint
at the link in Philadelphia's that bad. The paint's peeling down.
It smells so bad. And this was a masterpiece of malfunction.
And I'm happy I got to see something I've never
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seen before that we're not sure has ever happened before,
and it happened on a Monday night game here. But
before we get to that, when I say that Jalen
Hurts went out there and had a masterpiece of malfunction.
It was a performance so historically awful it deserves its
own wing at the loof across the Atlantic, just deserves
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its own spot in the museum. And forget Van goll
and the da Vin g and all the greats. Jalen
Hurts in this Monday night game was Jackson Pollock. He
was splattering turnovers in the air every way right across
the gridiron like a man who was playing possessed by
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the spirit of abstract incompetence. That was Jalen Hurts in
this game. And you saw the play in particular was interception, fumble,
recovery and then fumble on the same play. John Madden,
if he were still alive, the ghost of John Madden
would call that the turnover. Turducan is what that was.
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That was a turnover to ducan. You got the interception,
you get the recovery, and then you get the fumble.
That's the Turducan of turnovers for Jalen Hurts. Congratulations. The
rare double giveaway, the rare double giveaway on one play,
and the nerds claim that their data goes back to
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nineteen seventy. Apparently nothing happened before in nineteen seventy eight.
Everything after nineteen seventy eight, They have no recorded history
of anyone sucking that much on one play like Jalen Hurts.
And that's not quarterback play, mind you. That's finger painting
while on a dumbball ride at disney World, is what
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that was? Now, Hertz, who has gone recently from the
afterglow of the Super Bowl MVP to the LVP as
in Lost Value Player. That's Jalen Hurts right now, the LVP,
the Lost Value Player, and he's strapped right in that
cockpit of the Vomit comet and he's on a full
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comic Kazi mission with that Philadelphia Eagles offense right now.
And this is not just a one night stink bomb.
As we know. We've been documenting here. We have a
talk show to do every day, and we come in
here and the Eagles are good for business because they
won the Super Bowl. They're supposed to be good and
they're underachieving, and so it's always fun to talk about
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teams like this, and they are really living up to
the suck mantra in Philadelphia. So the last five games,
I mean, that's a good sample size. Is that fair?
That's fair? You're shaking your Yeah, that's fair. So last
five games, Jalen Hurts has a seventy two point three
passer rating. He's averaging six point four yards per pass,
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completing less than sixty percent of his passes despite running
a rudimentary Eagles offense. And he's got five interceptions now
and three fumbles. And that's the way it's going for
Jalen Hurts. And so that's not really a slump, mind you.
That's a five alarm football funk, is what that is
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for Jalen Hurts. And remember, in the NFL, there is
no rest for the wicked. So right back at it
again for Jalen Hurts, although the competition does soften going forward.
Now page two, let's talk about the leadership vacuum in
Philadelphia here, and there's a theme to the Eagles as
they continue to have their issues here. And the question
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is do you have any confidence as an outsider, do
you have any confidence that Nick Sirianni can stop the
bleeding of the birds? Do you have any confidence of
that that day he can get it done? There? So
I'm gonna go nope on that's that's nope. For those
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of you who don't have to spell nope, zero confidence,
and I don't know how anyone can have confidence. The
Eagles had a similar free fall. I think it was
twenty twenty three. They never got out of it, they
never were able to stop it, and Sirianni was the
head coach of that team. The Eagles right now are
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like the USS Gerald R Ford.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
They are an aircraft carrier and they're very difficult to
turn around. Those aircraft carriers. It's like they're they're drifting
sideways in the Delaware River right now. And Nick Sirianni's
standing on deck on the aircraft carrier and he's waving
pom poms, and instead of grabbing the wheel and trying
to turn he's on, we're fine, Oh we're good. I
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love these guys. Ah, they're so good. Let's play rock
paper sis is what do you say? Okay, why not?
We'll play rock papercs.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Fine, So you don't turn around the aircraft carrier by
saying let's go right into the headset, that doesn't work.
Here is Nick Sirianni on the four interception game for
Jalen Hers. Let's hear what Sirianni had to say on this.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
This game is the ultimate team game. So it's all
it's never you know, it's never just on one person. Ultimately,
he always has the ball in his hands, and I
know he'll he'll wear a lot of that and own that,
and and I got to do a better job of
helping them in those scenarios. Again, it's always it's never
just on execution rights. It's always that we look at
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ourselves as coaches first and we help them be in
position to succeed and then execute right. So obviously never
want to turn the ball over. We've been pretty good
at that, and tonight was a little uncharacteristic of ourselves.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So there's a couple of things here that are classic
deflection moves. Jalen hurts in the soundbock we played, So
I got to watch the tape. That's a classic. I'm
not answering the question. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna watch
the tape. You'll never ask me about it again, or
when you ask me about it again, i'm gonna say, well,
we've moved on to the next game. And then the
it's never on one guyeline from Sirianni when yeah, it
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kind of is. That's that's why the quarterback gets paid
ten times with the other players get it's on him,
so you can say whatever you want. It's a team
game and all that. Well, the team games are lost
by individuals. And Sirianni is a show pony. He is
a show pony. He's a sideline cheerleader who thrives when
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the wind is at his back. And when the wind
changes and the storm hits, all of a sudden, the
high tides and the birds they start leaking oil, and
all of a sudden, Syrianni does a costume change and
he becomes a gator. The inflator Gator is Nick Sirianni.
As he pumps air into every minor issue, does not
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solve anything, and then it becomes a full blown circus balloon.
And that's the the Eagles. And it says, literally blocking
the highway there, blocking Broad Street there in Philadelphia, it's
a mess. And so Jalen Hurts, who looked like a
man whose football soul had been mugged. He was numb
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as a bug. And just the whole thing is like,
what is going on here? Passes were being tipped, They
were just a little bit off. And that's the difference
between good and bad. Six and failure, and so you've
got the AJ Brown situation where he had a bunch
of yards. But yet the underlying condition is still alive.
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They're not singing from the same song sheet, Jalen Hurts
and AJ Brown. As you look at it, the coughing
is still there as thirteen targets and AJ Brown had
six catches. There was a key drop in the fourth
quarter down in the end zone in a forty six
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percent catch rate, which doesn't appear to be very good.
It screams miscommunication for the Philadelphia Eagles, and there's obviously
a lot of frustration with a little dash, just a
little dash of Diva sprinkles on top at this point.
So the schedule, if there is a positive, If you
want me to be Benny Brightside, the positive here is
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the schedule is cotton candy like the Eagles. Even though
the Eagles are trash right now, they still should win
three of their final four games to close the regular season.
Is anyone want to push back on that? Have you
seen who they play? The Raiders? The Raiders are up
next in Philadelphia. The Raiders have already given up. They're
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a bunch of quitters. They've got Geno Smith that tells
you they're not trying to win. When you have Geno Smith,
you are trying not to win football games. You're just
trying to cover. And Pete did cover the spread. Goodship
by him. They do have to play the Bills, that's
in Buffalo. That'll be a loss. But then you also
have two games home and home with the Washington Commandos.
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So they appear to quit or have quit the way
they played against the Minnesota Vikings. So that's what's up ahead. However,
right now, the Eagles they don't need cupcakes. Is they
need competence is what they need here. And so even
if you beat up on the Raiders and the Commanders
a couple of times, you're not battle tested when you
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eventually play a better team. And so Nick Sirianni, he's
not exactly stopping the lead here, and if anything, he's
picking at the scab. Now what's going to be interesting
is this was the kind of game and as we
were going through it, there's some chatter in the press
box like that somebody's gonna get fired. Now I'm not
saying Sirianni's gonna get fired, but this is the kind
of a performance when you know and everyone's watching your
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offense and people are questioning whether or not you should
have demoted the offensive coordinator. This is the kind of
game that gets Kevin Patulo sacrificed and whacked by the Eagles. Like,
that's the kind of game where he will either be
demoted or just removed from the coaching room. So stay
tuned on that. Now, last word on the Chargers side
of things, show me your lightning bolt. Good looking uniforms
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by the Chargers, right, they dressed for success. They had
that electric blue on on the Monday night. But can
Jim Harbaugh? Can Jim Harbaugh now exhale with the Chargers
getting the overtime win over the reigning champions of the NFL.
So the answer to this is no, It's just no
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on this one, and not even close. I'm shaking my
head now. No. Just for those of you who can
watch on the YouTube, we have Ben Mathers show on YouTube.
We're actually streaming the monologue. So I'm shaking my head. No,
here's why I'm shaking my head. No, all right, In fact,
I'm shaking my head. I'm gonna shake my head so
much I'm probably need a chiropractor. No, no, no, no
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no no no no no no no no no like
just like that. And here's why this was an ugly
duckling win. It is an ugly duckling win. The offense.
The defense was great. I say great, but the Eagles,
the Eagles have their own issues. But here's the deal.
The offensive display here, this was a capital you ugly
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is what it was. You had, and you underline it,
you can highlight it. However, you want to put a
spectacle around it, and you put it on a billboard
if you want, on the four h five. Take one
of those ambulance chasing lawyer billboards off the four h
five and put that up there. But depending on dicker,
the kicker, the idiot kicker for five field goals. And
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this is we always say the same thing with the Cowboys.
It's a blessing and a curse to have a great kicker.
Cowboys and Chargers have great kickers. It's a blessing and
a curse because you depend on the kicker and you
don't win big games with field goals. You don't. This
a regular season game, you won it, congratulations. However, normally,
when you get five turnovers, Am I not wrong in
saying you should win that game by thirty points. If
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you get five turnovers, you're at home, You put your
feet up, you grab a spicy margarita, and you enjoyed
garbage time, and you play grab ass on the sidelines.
That was not what happened here. They were not on
some kind of royal Caribbean cruise. They were not not
the bolt the Chargers who had turned Jalen Hurts, and
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Jalen was very generous. It's the season of giving, and
Jalen Hurts his generosity was generosity machine here for the
Philadelphia Eagles, and they managed to get. If my math
is correct, I believe six points off five turnovers by
the Eagles. They only monetized those into six points. Two
field goals. That's all they got off five turnovers. Now,
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they did get the technically the last one they sealed
the game because that ended the game, the final interception.
But the other four they only got six points out
of it, a couple of field goals. And this was
the type of game that you have to go back
in time. This was a super duper football follies VHS tape,
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the kind your uncle got at the gas station in
like ninety three is what this was and Justin Herbert,
he's playing hurt. They didn't touch. They didn't talk about
that at all on the broadcast, didn't they. No, Justin Herbert,
who looked like he was trying to throw a piano
on every drop back. Now the Eagles got to him
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a fair amount out. And this is the same thing
I say all the time. Just you're gonna repeat yourself again,
I know, yeah, say it about CJ. Stroud, Gino Smith.
I'm gonna say it about Justin Herbert. Get rid of
the damn ball, okay, rather a tat tat, get rid
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of the ball, dummy, And Justin Herbert kept holding onto
the ball, holding on the ball, holding on the ball.
What are you doing? Just get rid of it and
throw it away, my god. And he had two fumbles, lost,
one of them an interception under fifty percent. He's the
golden child. Every broadcaster licks this guy's toes. Justin Herbert,
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I don't see it. I don't say he was holding
on the ball like was a family heirloom. Dude, it's
just the duke. Get rid of the duke. The Chargers
had only twohundred seventy five yards of offense in this game.
They had sixteen first downs, two of those via penalty
by the Philadelphia So you look ahead now that you
check the schedule, they play at Kansas City. Kansas City's
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a lightweight this year, so you play at Arrowhead, then
you've got at Dallas, the Texans in La or in Inglewood,
and then at Denver. That is what's left four games
left in the regular season for the Chargers at this point.
So that's not a stretch round. That's a rocky road.
Arrowhead not easy to play at. Dallas has some good offense,
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although they're not a complete team, and so that's that's
where we are. That's rocky road for Jim Harbaugh. And
so you can't excel plus hardbass. He's not like that.
He doesn't exhale about anything. He's always got to stick
up his tookist, doesn't he That's what he looks like.
It's one of those people and he can barely inhale.
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before the Internet, of course, and we were talking about
how the record labels would have musicians make Christmas songs
even if they didn't want to, because they knew those
would get played every year, and so it was get
a lot of radio play. That was back when radio
play with very important.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Sometimes I'll just look up random artists and put like
Christmas song behind their names because they don't pop up.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
All the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, It's it's crazy
because it's it's true. Like every city I know in
La We've got a station here that flips the coast
right in Las Flips still all Christmas for like two
months and then but every city, every city has something
like that, and so they know they're gonna get a
lot of airplay for the at least a couple months
of the year. And I love Christmas music well, and
we love having songs. So if you want to send
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has to literally get out of his chairs to walk
around the table, has to walk out a door through
a courtyard and then has to make a right turn
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go into the main studios, then has to walk behind
me with four cameras and five lights on him as
there's a computer that has to be reset, and then
the great thing is once team well, once he resets
the computer, inevitably about half an hour later, he'll have
to come back and do it again because it goes
into sleep mode. You see, it goes into sleep mode,
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and then it becomes get how he is, there's a
little pepin a step. He kind of looks like Jalen hurts.
After that fourth interception, he's a little down, but that's fine.
He's going. He's not walking, he's not typing in his password,
which I'm not allowed to have it. I don't want
his password because I don't I don't even check my
own company email, so I don't want to check his email.
I don't know what's in there. I have no idea.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Do you want to check my email?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I don't want to check anyone's email. I'm bad about
my meal. I get ripped. But I think we lost Pecole.
Somebody said I got an email from somebody says Paccoley's
we lost him to the gym Romes show. Well, I
think we lost him. He's in the jungle now, he's
stuck in the jungle. So I guess we lost Pecoli there,
which is unfortunate. But I don't know. Somebody email me
that late night drug tester says, hearing your take on
the Monday night football game is important, but the Mala
(27:54):
militia wants to know. Did we get a meet and
greet with Helmet Man? All right, late that's a great question,
late night drug tester, So let me explain what happened.
As the computer resets. So I did make the attempt.
I left sofi. I had to leave right early in
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the fourth quarter because of the traffic situation and to
make it logistically from Inglewood into the palatial studios here
in Shriman Oaks, so I had to leave a little
bit early. I missed the end of the game. I
heard on the radio Old school style on the radio,
and I was leaving. I had a decision to make.
I could have gone right, which would have been closer
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to where my car was, and I decided to go
left because Helmet Man, he has said for the last month,
I'm in front of the NFL Network Building, which is
right next to Sofi Stadium. So I said, okay, if
I go left, I'll be able to walk right by
the NFL Network studios and then i'll see helmet man.
I'll do a folto off and then I'll go to
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my car. So I I left. I walked by no
less than seven thousand hot Dog hot Dog, Hot Dog,
hot Dog. The people outside of the stadium, bacon raptop.
It's a mafia so good. There must be buses that
bring these I say this all there, there must be
busses that bring these people outside. This everywhere you go
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in La there's these bacon rapp dots. Say whatever. I
kept going and I saw more hot Dog hot Dog
Hot Talk people kept going. Saw a homeless guy going
through the dumpster at Sofi. That was interesting during the game.
I thought maybe he'd wait till after the game, but
he decided, Hey, you know, when I'm dumpster diving, I'm
gonna do it right during the game. So I kept going.
I then get to the building. I'm now at the building,
(29:40):
NFL Network building. Right there, I see the NFL shield.
That's where the TV studios are for the state sponsor
PROB the news service of the NFL. And I look
around and there is no helmet man anywhere, all right, anywhere,
And I'm pissed. I'm like, it's a massive footprint around Sofi.
It's a Most people listening aren't in La. You'll never
(30:02):
go to Soba Stone. It is a very large venue.
It's underground because it's in the flight path of lax
So literally there's planes flying over on their way to
land at La International Airport. So it's sunken. But the
building is the footprint is massive. It's like a shaquill
O'Neal type foot So I walked away. So then anyway,
(30:24):
I get to the studio right and I get a
call from helmet man. Now I didn't give him my number.
I don't know how he's calling me. I have no
idea how he's going. He calls me up. He's a head. Ben.
You had the game, h I said, no, helmet man,
I'm in the studio. Helmet I look for you. Where
were you? I said, where were you? Helmet man? I
(30:44):
walked out of my way to see you. And what
did helmet man say to me? What did he say
to you? Ben? I was in the shower, he said,
hours shower. Yes, handed gun handed guy. Helmet man said
to me, he said, I was in the shower. I
left late to get to the stadium. My god, I said,
(31:08):
helmet man. And you told me like two times this
past week anyway, so that's actually didn't comment. I didn't
see helmet man, but he did call me and say
and he mind you. He didn't apologize. He just said
I was in the shower. That was That was it.
I'm in the shower and that that's how that went.
And so there you go, good old helmet man. Not
(31:30):
too bad anyway. Let's see here in the effort, I
did put the effort in. I got some extra steps in.
So there was that. Shaneon de Mones says, there are
two musicians in my home, Ben who are musicians. One
is a singer who plays piano and the other is me.
There you go. Well it doesn't submit a song. Good
luck now, Randy and Riverside rights in. He says, chill
(31:52):
bro I haven't been around much since I retired six
years ago. I'm normally in bed by. Now, come on,
you retired, you don't need to go to bed. Who
goes to bed early? When you were retired. You stay
up all night. You don't have to get up early.
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Randy?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Come on, you're like a fake retired guy. Real retired
people stay up all night because it's hard to sleep
when you get older. Anyway, be so conformed to the
regular restrictions of life. Yeah, live your life, dude, you're retired,
Come on, man, he says. Anyway. Then he tells me,
he says, take it easy on my bolts. Not only
is justin Herbert hurt, but he's missing too, starting linemen.
(32:25):
His guys weren't getting open. We won. That's from Randy
in Riverside. Well, Randy, you're a different kind of fan
than I am. I'm the type of fan that holds
people accountable. And if you're able to play, you're healthy
enough to play, you're healthy enough to get ripped. It's
not well, he's got a bum hand and it's not
his throwing hand. It's his other hand, so it's not
(32:46):
like it was his throwing hand. But he was medically
cleared to play. And if you suck, you're gonna get ripped.
And that's kind of how that works. And there you go.
Ferg Dog writes in from Sokal. He says, Justin Herbert
beating the Eagles with one hand is one of the
most impressive performances I've ever seen. Matthew Stafford's the MVP,
but Herbert is the toughest s op. All right, Eileen
(33:08):
in San Francisco says, there she blows both the Eagles
and the Chargers. That's about right, that's about right. Yeah.
Do you think you could play if your left hand
was broken? Ben, I've done radio with laryngitis. Let's see,
right hand was getting on. Come on, I don't play.
(33:31):
That's out of cons that's AI anyway. But no, listen.
I've done talk radio with laryngitis, which tells you two things.
I'm a loser and my bosses don't listen. Okay, that's
all right because most people would take time up. Taylor writes,
Since says, I just heard this goon on the radio
say Justin Herbert, you just throw the ball away. No,
the dude ain't a pussy willow. He's a warrior. Yes,
(33:58):
that's the vibe. I God, Steve, Since says Ben, do
you feel sorry for the Eagle fans who left so
far feeling sad? Who I'm devastated for the Eagle fans.
I am so devastating. We were having a conversation and
I don't do lists, Terry and England knows how do
to do list. However, I gotta tell you, the Philadelphia Eagles,
(34:19):
this is quite the accomplishment. In my lifetime, when I
was a kid, the most annoying fans were the Raider
fans and the Cowboy fans. I gotta think the Philadelphia
Eagles right now, that fan base has risen to the
very top of the most despicable fan base in all
of the NFL. Does anyone disagree with that? Does anyone
(34:39):
do that? The Philadelphia Eagle fan base, They've zoomed past
the Raider. The Raiders have had a generation of garbage,
so they've fallen back the Philadelphia Eagle fans. And that
is an impressive work by the Eagles. What they have
been able to accomplish here on the annoyance scale, they
have done a great job. Now, Jim Harbaugh is the
head coach of the Charge. We have this audio, so
(35:00):
here's Jim Harball. The Chargers win a Monday night game,
a game that was a bit of a clunker by
everyone involved in terms of turnovers and just kind of
step off a little bit. But listen to Jim Harbaugh
do some stand up comedy at his news conference as
he described just where this game ranks on the big board.
Take a listen.
Speaker 9 (35:19):
This is definitely, I don't maybe the best best feeling,
uh you know, just a wonderful, wonderful feeling of winning
and thrill of victory. It's certainly in the discussion I
put in the discussion the birth of my seven children, uh,
my marriage, uh, you know, in.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
The conversation eight conversations. Just joyful, just joyful. There you go,
the ultimate hard oh guy, good old Jim Harball. Let's
go to Dave. Dave is in Houston, and I think
this is the guy that used to be known as
transgender Dave. Let's find out, Hello Dave in Houston, what's
going on? Dave?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
There?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
It is the legend. You know, you got to come
up with a new nickname. You're the caller formerly no
and as transgender Day, but you're no longer transgender. You
had the operation, that you had another operation, and now
you're back.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
I have one in mind. You know, in the past
I have been gender fluid, and I'm getting ready for
my next run for the presidency, I think I'm going
to be racially fluid from now, and so I'm going
with Asian Dave from now.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Asian Dave. You identify as Asian Dave, all right.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Which reminds me I decided on a running mate. You
know I'm running. I'm the ticket of the Free Call Party. Yeah,
because when you invite people to join the free call Party,
you meet the most interesting people. And my running mate
has a release date in twenty twenty eight, just in
(36:49):
time for the convention. That's right, the obvious. It's P Diddy.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Oh you and P Diddy? Well that way, what a
power group that'll be.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Just want to say this about my old friend. Did
he as ladies? He single?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah? Does he still have money though I don't know.
Did he keep any of the money or did he
lose the money or you.
Speaker 8 (37:12):
Know, you're talking about the Pittsburgh fans.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
You know, no, the Philadelphia fan, not the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
I'm sorry, Philly wants boots say and a clause. If
he shows up next week, he might get lynched. They're
so pissed off right now.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Wow, that's very strong. All right, Well, thank you Dave.
There you go. That was a little I don't know
how I felt of that. He just knocked that off. Okay,
I got you all right? Very good. It is the
Ben Mahler Show. Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 8 (37:42):
Game?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else a's
we call it the who am HIGH? Game? So Jalen
Hurts had a night to forget. He's the first Eagles
player with five turnovers in a game since me, and
that hadn't happened an a fair amount of time. Again,
Jalen Hurts the first Philadelphia Eagles player five turnovers in
a game since me? Who am I? The answer? We'll
(38:04):
get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
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Speaker 3 (38:27):
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I'll get to that guy.
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Him out, not anymore to lukeiz trigger too he is
he puts him. He's driving a bus? Now is I?
Bill Miller? Happy Holidays and the Ben Mallers show as
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So make sure to get in on that YouTube channel
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and then the weekend episode the follow all right. Time
now for the tire rack play of the night. The
(39:28):
Charges that kick the field goal and overtime. The Eagles
matriculating the ball down the field. They were about to
score a touchdown until ports in the shotgun. A touchdown
would win it for the Eagles. Kurtz pulls it, Froze, intercepted,
game over, intercepted all game over.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
The fourth interception, Tony Jefferson, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
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Game?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Jalen Hurts with that four interception and fumble game five turnovers.
He's the first Eagles player with five turnovers in the
game since me. Who am I? That is the question
and what is the answer? Coroy Dettner guests by Ike
and Roseville, Minnesota, Jackie Harry from Bobby and Florida. There's
(40:40):
a blast in the past, Femi and Minnesota got a
right bad job by him. Andy and Lionel Lake says,
I think it's Matthew Stafford. Well, he's a great Eagle player.
The Gremlins from Scroogeyah. I hope the Gremlins don't attack us.
I'll just take a nap with the Gremlinds attackers, say
Harold Carmichael from william That's an Eagles legend. See here
has to be Bubby Bristo from Brad and Montana. There's
(41:02):
a good name, Bubby Bristol, zach ertz leg Alf. I
don't need to see photos of those things. Please. Mikayla Maroney,
who is thirty to she's washed up late night drug
tester Tangy in stirts from mister nice Guy. That's a
good name. Malaprop guy going with Fats in Philly. He
loves his turnovers. Yes he does, our buddy Fats. Who
(41:23):
else Mister Irrigation went with Lisa's sparks. I guess like
his favorite porn Starcasian cannon. Bobby Abert from Big Lou.
He's on number two helmet man since Freddy. That's answer
from Freddy. Dave Craig from Paul Lorena, What say you, Lorrane?
I'm gonna go with Brendan Fraser incorrect. This is a
guy that vomited in the Super Bowl. Donovan McNab in
(41:46):
nineteen ninety nine is a rookie. Donovan McNab
Show me your lightning bolts. It's our number bar Why
our number one? It's all about that Monday night football game.
The Chargers go to overtime to beat the Eagles in
La Jalen Hurts turn the ball over five times. That
doesn't seem ideal. So what's Jalen Hurts play smell like
(00:20):
for the Eagles on that Monday night game? Also, do
you have confidence that Nick Sirianni can stop the bleeding
for the Birds as they have lost three games in
a row. Also, can Jim Harbaugh exhale now with the
Chargers getting in the win column against the reigning Super
Bowl champions. I'll talk about all that and more right
(00:41):
now here. It is our number one. It turns out
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a trip to the West Coast all the Eagles needed
to continue to suck, and boy today suck. Welcome in
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As we settle into it a busy night and we
begin with the Monday night football game. And a memorable game.
(03:13):
Not a great game, well, I mean if you like turnovers.
It was close game, went to overtime in the Hood
and Inglewood and up to no good. The Birds the
reigning champions of the NFL and not playing like it
right now. No, they're not the bright lights of Monday
night football. The La Power Company was hosting the team
(03:37):
from Philadelphia and Joe Back Troy Aikman were there. They
had the call on ABC, So I don't saw a
game or not if you're watching. I was at the
game for a good chunk of it. Had to leave
early to get here. It's my duty to the American
people to come in here do sports talk. So I
couldn't be stuck in traffic. But Cameron Dicker, the kicker,
(04:00):
had to go ahead fifty four yard field goal. He
ended up kicking five field goals in the game. And
Tony Jefferson, who well, he intercepted on a tip pass
Jalen Hurts at the one yard line and that lifted
the Chargers to a twenty two to nineteen victory over
(04:21):
the free falling Philadelphia Eagles. What a bunch of chumps
the Eagles are, and it was somewhat enjoyable to see
the very braggadosius Eagle fan base who looked a little
numb the way that Jalen Hurts was playing in this
particular game. Now, the better story is in the losing
(04:41):
locker room, and so that is where we're gonna go.
Jalen Hurts had to be kind a clunker, a clunker
for the ages for Jalen Hurts, who threw not one,
not two, not three, but four four interceptions and the
Eagles committed five turnovers in the game. Jalen Hurts had
(05:02):
the two for one. We'll get to that coming up
in a minute. And here is the man of the hour.
Thought's start with Jalen Hurts. Here on the overtime, the
Eagles had gotten into field goal range. There was a
penalty on the Chargers on a fourth down play that
extended the drive for Philadelphia, which set up the interception
and the final blow, the final body blow, body blow.
(05:25):
Here is Jalen Hurts on what a night for intercession
let's talk about that last one.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I knew it was going to be a tight window throw.
I'd have to watch the film to see see it
from the eyes film's point of view. Ultimately, it's a
play that I didn't make. You got to handle the ball.
That's a play that we've made a million times in
(05:52):
that scenario versus a cloud corner, and I didn't make
that play this time around.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yes, you did not make that play. So the Raiinning
Super Bowl Champions lose their season worst third in a row.
They are just three games above five hundred. Now, the
good news is they're in the right division. The Giants
aren't trying, the Commanders blow, and the Cowboys suck, so
they're in a good division. There's no one else who's
even competing with them, so they've got that going in Philadelphia. However,
(06:21):
it doesn't change the fact that Eagles are a total
fraud in terms of being a Super Bowl content. Does
anyone disagree with that? Like, at this point, we do
the show today, We have to worry about the show
right now, we do the overnight show at this moment.
Is there a bigger pretender than the Philadelphia Eagles in
terms of actually winning anything the way they are right now?
My god. All right, but let's focus in and it's
(06:43):
good jumping off play. Let's focus in on the quarterback though,
and let's discuss the question what is Jalen Hurts play?
What is the smell around Jalen Hurts?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Just break it down like that, right, what's Jalen Hurts
play smell like? For the Eagles? Thoughts? On this, I've
got John Madden, Gator, and spicy margarita, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to put the biscuit in the basket. So a, the
(07:15):
smell surrounding Jalen Hurts is a pungent smell. It's punging
it up. It's so strong it's actually peeling The paint
at the link in Philadelphia's that bad. The paint's peeling down.
It smells so bad. And this was a masterpiece of malfunction.
And I'm happy I got to see something I've never
(07:37):
seen before that we're not sure has ever happened before,
and it happened on a Monday night game here. But
before we get to that, when I say that Jalen
Hurts went out there and had a masterpiece of malfunction.
It was a performance so historically awful it deserves its
own wing at the loof across the Atlantic, just deserves
(08:00):
its own spot in the museum. And forget Van goll
and the da Vin g and all the greats. Jalen
Hurts in this Monday night game was Jackson Pollock. He
was splattering turnovers in the air every way right across
the gridiron like a man who was playing possessed by
(08:21):
the spirit of abstract incompetence. That was Jalen Hurts in
this game. And you saw the play in particular was interception, fumble,
recovery and then fumble on the same play. John Madden,
if he were still alive, the ghost of John Madden
would call that the turnover. Turducan is what that was.
(08:45):
That was a turnover to ducan. You got the interception,
you get the recovery, and then you get the fumble.
That's the Turducan of turnovers for Jalen Hurts. Congratulations. The
rare double giveaway, the rare double giveaway on one play,
and the nerds claim that their data goes back to
(09:05):
nineteen seventy. Apparently nothing happened before in nineteen seventy eight.
Everything after nineteen seventy eight, They have no recorded history
of anyone sucking that much on one play like Jalen Hurts.
And that's not quarterback play, mind you. That's finger painting
while on a dumbball ride at disney World, is what
(09:27):
that was? Now, Hertz, who has gone recently from the
afterglow of the Super Bowl MVP to the LVP as
in Lost Value Player. That's Jalen Hurts right now, the LVP,
the Lost Value Player, and he's strapped right in that
cockpit of the Vomit comet and he's on a full
(09:49):
comic Kazi mission with that Philadelphia Eagles offense right now.
And this is not just a one night stink bomb.
As we know. We've been documenting here. We have a
talk show to do every day, and we come in
here and the Eagles are good for business because they
won the Super Bowl. They're supposed to be good and
they're underachieving, and so it's always fun to talk about
(10:11):
teams like this, and they are really living up to
the suck mantra in Philadelphia. So the last five games,
I mean, that's a good sample size. Is that fair?
That's fair? You're shaking your Yeah, that's fair. So last
five games, Jalen Hurts has a seventy two point three
passer rating. He's averaging six point four yards per pass,
(10:32):
completing less than sixty percent of his passes despite running
a rudimentary Eagles offense. And he's got five interceptions now
and three fumbles. And that's the way it's going for
Jalen Hurts. And so that's not really a slump, mind you.
That's a five alarm football funk, is what that is
(10:52):
for Jalen Hurts. And remember, in the NFL, there is
no rest for the wicked. So right back at it
again for Jalen Hurts, although the competition does soften going forward.
Now page two, let's talk about the leadership vacuum in
Philadelphia here, and there's a theme to the Eagles as
they continue to have their issues here. And the question
(11:16):
is do you have any confidence as an outsider, do
you have any confidence that Nick Sirianni can stop the
bleeding of the birds? Do you have any confidence of
that that day he can get it done? There? So
I'm gonna go nope on that's that's nope. For those
(11:37):
of you who don't have to spell nope, zero confidence,
and I don't know how anyone can have confidence. The
Eagles had a similar free fall. I think it was
twenty twenty three. They never got out of it, they
never were able to stop it, and Sirianni was the
head coach of that team. The Eagles right now are
(11:57):
like the USS Gerald R Ford.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
They are an aircraft carrier and they're very difficult to
turn around. Those aircraft carriers. It's like they're they're drifting
sideways in the Delaware River right now. And Nick Sirianni's
standing on deck on the aircraft carrier and he's waving
pom poms, and instead of grabbing the wheel and trying
to turn he's on, we're fine, Oh we're good. I
(12:21):
love these guys. Ah, they're so good. Let's play rock
paper sis is what do you say? Okay, why not?
We'll play rock papercs.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Fine, So you don't turn around the aircraft carrier by
saying let's go right into the headset, that doesn't work.
Here is Nick Sirianni on the four interception game for
Jalen Hers. Let's hear what Sirianni had to say on this.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
This game is the ultimate team game. So it's all
it's never you know, it's never just on one person. Ultimately,
he always has the ball in his hands, and I
know he'll he'll wear a lot of that and own that,
and and I got to do a better job of
helping them in those scenarios. Again, it's always it's never
just on execution rights. It's always that we look at
(13:08):
ourselves as coaches first and we help them be in
position to succeed and then execute right. So obviously never
want to turn the ball over. We've been pretty good
at that, and tonight was a little uncharacteristic of ourselves.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So there's a couple of things here that are classic
deflection moves. Jalen hurts in the soundbock we played, So
I got to watch the tape. That's a classic. I'm
not answering the question. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna watch
the tape. You'll never ask me about it again, or
when you ask me about it again, i'm gonna say, well,
we've moved on to the next game. And then the
it's never on one guyeline from Sirianni when yeah, it
(13:44):
kind of is. That's that's why the quarterback gets paid
ten times with the other players get it's on him,
so you can say whatever you want. It's a team
game and all that. Well, the team games are lost
by individuals. And Sirianni is a show pony. He is
a show pony. He's a sideline cheerleader who thrives when
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the wind is at his back. And when the wind
changes and the storm hits, all of a sudden, the
high tides and the birds they start leaking oil, and
all of a sudden, Syrianni does a costume change and
he becomes a gator. The inflator Gator is Nick Sirianni.
As he pumps air into every minor issue, does not
(14:26):
solve anything, and then it becomes a full blown circus balloon.
And that's the the Eagles. And it says, literally blocking
the highway there, blocking Broad Street there in Philadelphia, it's
a mess. And so Jalen Hurts, who looked like a
man whose football soul had been mugged. He was numb
(14:48):
as a bug. And just the whole thing is like,
what is going on here? Passes were being tipped, They
were just a little bit off. And that's the difference
between good and bad. Six and failure, and so you've
got the AJ Brown situation where he had a bunch
of yards. But yet the underlying condition is still alive.
(15:10):
They're not singing from the same song sheet, Jalen Hurts
and AJ Brown. As you look at it, the coughing
is still there as thirteen targets and AJ Brown had
six catches. There was a key drop in the fourth
quarter down in the end zone in a forty six
(15:30):
percent catch rate, which doesn't appear to be very good.
It screams miscommunication for the Philadelphia Eagles, and there's obviously
a lot of frustration with a little dash, just a
little dash of Diva sprinkles on top at this point.
So the schedule, if there is a positive, If you
want me to be Benny Brightside, the positive here is
(15:51):
the schedule is cotton candy like the Eagles. Even though
the Eagles are trash right now, they still should win
three of their final four games to close the regular season.
Is anyone want to push back on that? Have you
seen who they play? The Raiders? The Raiders are up
next in Philadelphia. The Raiders have already given up. They're
(16:13):
a bunch of quitters. They've got Geno Smith that tells
you they're not trying to win. When you have Geno Smith,
you are trying not to win football games. You're just
trying to cover. And Pete did cover the spread. Goodship
by him. They do have to play the Bills, that's
in Buffalo. That'll be a loss. But then you also
have two games home and home with the Washington Commandos.
(16:34):
So they appear to quit or have quit the way
they played against the Minnesota Vikings. So that's what's up ahead. However,
right now, the Eagles they don't need cupcakes. Is they
need competence is what they need here. And so even
if you beat up on the Raiders and the Commanders
a couple of times, you're not battle tested when you
(16:54):
eventually play a better team. And so Nick Sirianni, he's
not exactly stopping the lead here, and if anything, he's
picking at the scab. Now what's going to be interesting
is this was the kind of game and as we
were going through it, there's some chatter in the press
box like that somebody's gonna get fired. Now I'm not
saying Sirianni's gonna get fired, but this is the kind
of a performance when you know and everyone's watching your
(17:17):
offense and people are questioning whether or not you should
have demoted the offensive coordinator. This is the kind of
game that gets Kevin Patulo sacrificed and whacked by the Eagles. Like,
that's the kind of game where he will either be
demoted or just removed from the coaching room. So stay
tuned on that. Now, last word on the Chargers side
of things, show me your lightning bolt. Good looking uniforms
(17:42):
by the Chargers, right, they dressed for success. They had
that electric blue on on the Monday night. But can
Jim Harbaugh? Can Jim Harbaugh now exhale with the Chargers
getting the overtime win over the reigning champions of the NFL.
So the answer to this is no, It's just no
(18:04):
on this one, and not even close. I'm shaking my
head now. No. Just for those of you who can
watch on the YouTube, we have Ben Mathers show on YouTube.
We're actually streaming the monologue. So I'm shaking my head. No,
here's why I'm shaking my head. No, all right, In fact,
I'm shaking my head. I'm gonna shake my head so
much I'm probably need a chiropractor. No, no, no, no
(18:24):
no no no no no no no no no like
just like that. And here's why this was an ugly
duckling win. It is an ugly duckling win. The offense.
The defense was great. I say great, but the Eagles,
the Eagles have their own issues. But here's the deal.
The offensive display here, this was a capital you ugly
(18:48):
is what it was. You had, and you underline it,
you can highlight it. However, you want to put a
spectacle around it, and you put it on a billboard
if you want, on the four h five. Take one
of those ambulance chasing lawyer billboards off the four h
five and put that up there. But depending on dicker,
the kicker, the idiot kicker for five field goals. And
(19:09):
this is we always say the same thing with the Cowboys.
It's a blessing and a curse to have a great kicker.
Cowboys and Chargers have great kickers. It's a blessing and
a curse because you depend on the kicker and you
don't win big games with field goals. You don't. This
a regular season game, you won it, congratulations. However, normally,
when you get five turnovers, Am I not wrong in
saying you should win that game by thirty points. If
(19:31):
you get five turnovers, you're at home, You put your
feet up, you grab a spicy margarita, and you enjoyed
garbage time, and you play grab ass on the sidelines.
That was not what happened here. They were not on
some kind of royal Caribbean cruise. They were not not
the bolt the Chargers who had turned Jalen Hurts, and
(19:52):
Jalen was very generous. It's the season of giving, and
Jalen Hurts his generosity was generosity machine here for the
Philadelphia Eagles, and they managed to get. If my math
is correct, I believe six points off five turnovers by
the Eagles. They only monetized those into six points. Two
field goals. That's all they got off five turnovers. Now,
(20:14):
they did get the technically the last one they sealed
the game because that ended the game, the final interception.
But the other four they only got six points out
of it, a couple of field goals. And this was
the type of game that you have to go back
in time. This was a super duper football follies VHS tape,
(20:37):
the kind your uncle got at the gas station in
like ninety three is what this was and Justin Herbert,
he's playing hurt. They didn't touch. They didn't talk about
that at all on the broadcast, didn't they. No, Justin Herbert,
who looked like he was trying to throw a piano
on every drop back. Now the Eagles got to him
(20:59):
a fair amount out. And this is the same thing
I say all the time. Just you're gonna repeat yourself again,
I know, yeah, say it about CJ. Stroud, Gino Smith.
I'm gonna say it about Justin Herbert. Get rid of
the damn ball, okay, rather a tat tat, get rid
(21:20):
of the ball, dummy, And Justin Herbert kept holding onto
the ball, holding on the ball, holding on the ball.
What are you doing? Just get rid of it and
throw it away, my god. And he had two fumbles, lost,
one of them an interception under fifty percent. He's the
golden child. Every broadcaster licks this guy's toes. Justin Herbert,
(21:43):
I don't see it. I don't say he was holding
on the ball like was a family heirloom. Dude, it's
just the duke. Get rid of the duke. The Chargers
had only twohundred seventy five yards of offense in this game.
They had sixteen first downs, two of those via penalty
by the Philadelphia So you look ahead now that you
check the schedule, they play at Kansas City. Kansas City's
(22:06):
a lightweight this year, so you play at Arrowhead, then
you've got at Dallas, the Texans in La or in Inglewood,
and then at Denver. That is what's left four games
left in the regular season for the Chargers at this point.
So that's not a stretch round. That's a rocky road.
Arrowhead not easy to play at. Dallas has some good offense,
(22:27):
although they're not a complete team, and so that's that's
where we are. That's rocky road for Jim Harbaugh. And
so you can't excel plus hardbass. He's not like that.
He doesn't exhale about anything. He's always got to stick
up his tookist, doesn't he That's what he looks like.
It's one of those people and he can barely inhale.
All right. Is the Ben Mahler Show. If you'd like
(22:48):
to be part, you can join us right now at
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If you want to be part of this. Well, you
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think this is just a random Monday night type situation, right,
nothing really all that extra special about it, just a
random Week fourteen NFL game. Well, now this is actually
a major life event, a major life event. We'll explain,
we'll get to that, we'll take your calls, and we
will do it. Next.
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Still time to submit a holiday song if you'd like
to join the musical melodies of the Mallard Militia. They careful, Ralphie.
It's not for everybody, no AI. You gotta do it
either on your own or you gotta have somebody who's
actually musically inclined to do it, but know it, No AI.
You can send it care of Ben Mahler's show at
gmail dot com. Benmallers Show at gmail dot com. So
(25:23):
many great musicians who are up late at night. Remember
ras Quit the band in Minnesota, mister pc our Buddy
and Richmond, Jay Scoop and Just Josh and so many
others that have submitted songs and so you can as
well over the years. And it's I remember taught of
some of the music business years ago. Used to be
buddy with the guy who was in the music world
(25:44):
before the Internet, of course, and we were talking about
how the record labels would have musicians make Christmas songs
even if they didn't want to, because they knew those
would get played every year, and so it was get
a lot of radio play. That was back when radio
play with very important.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Sometimes I'll just look up random artists and put like
Christmas song behind their names because they don't pop up.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
All the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, It's it's crazy
because it's it's true. Like every city I know in
La We've got a station here that flips the coast
right in Las Flips still all Christmas for like two
months and then but every city, every city has something
like that, and so they know they're gonna get a
lot of airplay for the at least a couple months
of the year. And I love Christmas music well, and
we love having songs. So if you want to send
(26:28):
a song in care of Ben Maler show at gmail
dot com. And also it does up on the X Machine.
That's at Ben Mahlor. That's at Ben Mahlor Lorraine FSR
Tech Queen and Coop at Broncko Fan and Coop loves
the new set up here in the studio where he
has to literally get out of his chairs to walk
around the table, has to walk out a door through
a courtyard and then has to make a right turn
(26:49):
go into the main studios, then has to walk behind
me with four cameras and five lights on him as
there's a computer that has to be reset, and then
the great thing is once team well, once he resets
the computer, inevitably about half an hour later, he'll have
to come back and do it again because it goes
into sleep mode. You see, it goes into sleep mode,
(27:10):
and then it becomes get how he is, there's a
little pepin a step. He kind of looks like Jalen hurts.
After that fourth interception, he's a little down, but that's fine.
He's going. He's not walking, he's not typing in his password,
which I'm not allowed to have it. I don't want
his password because I don't I don't even check my
own company email, so I don't want to check his email.
I don't know what's in there. I have no idea.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Do you want to check my email?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I don't want to check anyone's email. I'm bad about
my meal. I get ripped. But I think we lost Pecole.
Somebody said I got an email from somebody says Paccoley's
we lost him to the gym Romes show. Well, I
think we lost him. He's in the jungle now, he's
stuck in the jungle. So I guess we lost Pecoli there,
which is unfortunate. But I don't know. Somebody email me
that late night drug tester says, hearing your take on
the Monday night football game is important, but the Mala
(27:54):
militia wants to know. Did we get a meet and
greet with Helmet Man? All right, late that's a great question,
late night drug tester, So let me explain what happened.
As the computer resets. So I did make the attempt.
I left sofi. I had to leave right early in
(28:14):
the fourth quarter because of the traffic situation and to
make it logistically from Inglewood into the palatial studios here
in Shriman Oaks, so I had to leave a little
bit early. I missed the end of the game. I
heard on the radio Old school style on the radio,
and I was leaving. I had a decision to make.
I could have gone right, which would have been closer
(28:36):
to where my car was, and I decided to go
left because Helmet Man, he has said for the last month,
I'm in front of the NFL Network Building, which is
right next to Sofi Stadium. So I said, okay, if
I go left, I'll be able to walk right by
the NFL Network studios and then i'll see helmet man.
I'll do a folto off and then I'll go to
(28:58):
my car. So I I left. I walked by no
less than seven thousand hot Dog hot Dog, Hot Dog,
hot Dog. The people outside of the stadium, bacon raptop.
It's a mafia so good. There must be buses that
bring these I say this all there, there must be
busses that bring these people outside. This everywhere you go
(29:19):
in La there's these bacon rapp dots. Say whatever. I
kept going and I saw more hot Dog hot Dog
Hot Talk people kept going. Saw a homeless guy going
through the dumpster at Sofi. That was interesting during the game.
I thought maybe he'd wait till after the game, but
he decided, Hey, you know, when I'm dumpster diving, I'm
gonna do it right during the game. So I kept going.
I then get to the building. I'm now at the building,
(29:40):
NFL Network building. Right there, I see the NFL shield.
That's where the TV studios are for the state sponsor
PROB the news service of the NFL. And I look
around and there is no helmet man anywhere, all right, anywhere,
And I'm pissed. I'm like, it's a massive footprint around Sofi.
It's a Most people listening aren't in La. You'll never
(30:02):
go to Soba Stone. It is a very large venue.
It's underground because it's in the flight path of lax
So literally there's planes flying over on their way to
land at La International Airport. So it's sunken. But the
building is the footprint is massive. It's like a shaquill
O'Neal type foot So I walked away. So then anyway,
(30:24):
I get to the studio right and I get a
call from helmet man. Now I didn't give him my number.
I don't know how he's calling me. I have no
idea how he's going. He calls me up. He's a head. Ben.
You had the game, h I said, no, helmet man,
I'm in the studio. Helmet I look for you. Where
were you? I said, where were you? Helmet man? I
(30:44):
walked out of my way to see you. And what
did helmet man say to me? What did he say
to you? Ben? I was in the shower, he said,
hours shower. Yes, handed gun handed guy. Helmet man said
to me, he said, I was in the shower. I
left late to get to the stadium. My god, I said,
(31:08):
helmet man. And you told me like two times this
past week anyway, so that's actually didn't comment. I didn't
see helmet man, but he did call me and say
and he mind you. He didn't apologize. He just said
I was in the shower. That was That was it.
I'm in the shower and that that's how that went.
And so there you go, good old helmet man. Not
(31:30):
too bad anyway. Let's see here in the effort, I
did put the effort in. I got some extra steps in.
So there was that. Shaneon de Mones says, there are
two musicians in my home, Ben who are musicians. One
is a singer who plays piano and the other is me.
There you go. Well it doesn't submit a song. Good
luck now, Randy and Riverside rights in. He says, chill
(31:52):
bro I haven't been around much since I retired six
years ago. I'm normally in bed by. Now, come on,
you retired, you don't need to go to bed. Who
goes to bed early? When you were retired. You stay
up all night. You don't have to get up early.
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Randy?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Come on, you're like a fake retired guy. Real retired
people stay up all night because it's hard to sleep
when you get older. Anyway, be so conformed to the
regular restrictions of life. Yeah, live your life, dude, you're retired,
Come on, man, he says. Anyway. Then he tells me,
he says, take it easy on my bolts. Not only
is justin Herbert hurt, but he's missing too, starting linemen.
(32:25):
His guys weren't getting open. We won. That's from Randy
in Riverside. Well, Randy, you're a different kind of fan
than I am. I'm the type of fan that holds
people accountable. And if you're able to play, you're healthy
enough to play, you're healthy enough to get ripped. It's
not well, he's got a bum hand and it's not
his throwing hand. It's his other hand, so it's not
(32:46):
like it was his throwing hand. But he was medically
cleared to play. And if you suck, you're gonna get ripped.
And that's kind of how that works. And there you go.
Ferg Dog writes in from Sokal. He says, Justin Herbert
beating the Eagles with one hand is one of the
most impressive performances I've ever seen. Matthew Stafford's the MVP,
but Herbert is the toughest s op. All right, Eileen
(33:08):
in San Francisco says, there she blows both the Eagles
and the Chargers. That's about right, that's about right. Yeah.
Do you think you could play if your left hand
was broken? Ben, I've done radio with laryngitis. Let's see,
right hand was getting on. Come on, I don't play.
(33:31):
That's out of cons that's AI anyway. But no, listen.
I've done talk radio with laryngitis, which tells you two things.
I'm a loser and my bosses don't listen. Okay, that's
all right because most people would take time up. Taylor writes,
Since says, I just heard this goon on the radio
say Justin Herbert, you just throw the ball away. No,
the dude ain't a pussy willow. He's a warrior. Yes,
(33:58):
that's the vibe. I God, Steve, Since says Ben, do
you feel sorry for the Eagle fans who left so
far feeling sad? Who I'm devastated for the Eagle fans.
I am so devastating. We were having a conversation and
I don't do lists, Terry and England knows how do
to do list. However, I gotta tell you, the Philadelphia Eagles,
(34:19):
this is quite the accomplishment. In my lifetime, when I
was a kid, the most annoying fans were the Raider
fans and the Cowboy fans. I gotta think the Philadelphia
Eagles right now, that fan base has risen to the
very top of the most despicable fan base in all
of the NFL. Does anyone disagree with that? Does anyone
(34:39):
do that? The Philadelphia Eagle fan base, They've zoomed past
the Raider. The Raiders have had a generation of garbage,
so they've fallen back the Philadelphia Eagle fans. And that
is an impressive work by the Eagles. What they have
been able to accomplish here on the annoyance scale, they
have done a great job. Now, Jim Harbaugh is the
head coach of the Charge. We have this audio, so
(35:00):
here's Jim Harball. The Chargers win a Monday night game,
a game that was a bit of a clunker by
everyone involved in terms of turnovers and just kind of
step off a little bit. But listen to Jim Harbaugh
do some stand up comedy at his news conference as
he described just where this game ranks on the big board.
Take a listen.
Speaker 9 (35:19):
This is definitely, I don't maybe the best best feeling,
uh you know, just a wonderful, wonderful feeling of winning
and thrill of victory. It's certainly in the discussion I
put in the discussion the birth of my seven children, uh,
my marriage, uh, you know, in.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
The conversation eight conversations. Just joyful, just joyful. There you go,
the ultimate hard oh guy, good old Jim Harball. Let's
go to Dave. Dave is in Houston, and I think
this is the guy that used to be known as
transgender Dave. Let's find out, Hello Dave in Houston, what's
going on? Dave?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
There?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
It is the legend. You know, you got to come
up with a new nickname. You're the caller formerly no
and as transgender Day, but you're no longer transgender. You
had the operation, that you had another operation, and now
you're back.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
I have one in mind. You know, in the past
I have been gender fluid, and I'm getting ready for
my next run for the presidency, I think I'm going
to be racially fluid from now, and so I'm going
with Asian Dave from now.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Asian Dave. You identify as Asian Dave, all right.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Which reminds me I decided on a running mate. You
know I'm running. I'm the ticket of the Free Call Party. Yeah,
because when you invite people to join the free call Party,
you meet the most interesting people. And my running mate
has a release date in twenty twenty eight, just in
(36:49):
time for the convention. That's right, the obvious. It's P Diddy.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Oh you and P Diddy? Well that way, what a
power group that'll be.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Just want to say this about my old friend. Did
he as ladies? He single?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah? Does he still have money though I don't know.
Did he keep any of the money or did he
lose the money or you.
Speaker 8 (37:12):
Know, you're talking about the Pittsburgh fans.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
You know, no, the Philadelphia fan, not the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
I'm sorry, Philly wants boots say and a clause. If
he shows up next week, he might get lynched. They're
so pissed off right now.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Wow, that's very strong. All right, Well, thank you Dave.
There you go. That was a little I don't know
how I felt of that. He just knocked that off. Okay,
I got you all right? Very good. It is the
Ben Mahler Show. Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 8 (37:42):
Game?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else a's
we call it the who am HIGH? Game? So Jalen
Hurts had a night to forget. He's the first Eagles
player with five turnovers in a game since me, and
that hadn't happened an a fair amount of time. Again,
Jalen Hurts the first Philadelphia Eagles player five turnovers in
a game since me? Who am I? The answer? We'll
(38:04):
get to it. We'll do it next.
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Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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Tyler Rat Smaller Rays almost falls on the radio.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Call it call it blue?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Almost the radio.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I'll get to that guy.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Let's go stand everywhere, Ben Maller Blue from the pus
in the m yea, he falls.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Him out, not anymore to lukeiz trigger too he is
he puts him. He's driving a bus? Now is I?
Bill Miller? Happy Holidays and the Ben Mallers show as
we chop away the overnight hours. You can watch this
show on YouTube at Ben Mather Show. Mallard monologues and
(39:08):
some big things ahead in the year twenty twenty six,
So make sure to get in on that YouTube channel
early at Ben Maler Show. If you want Benny Versus
the Penny, that's Benny Vspenny. A few episodes off every Wednesday,
and then the weekend episode the follow all right. Time
now for the tire rack play of the night. The
(39:28):
Charges that kick the field goal and overtime. The Eagles
matriculating the ball down the field. They were about to
score a touchdown until ports in the shotgun. A touchdown
would win it for the Eagles. Kurtz pulls it, Froze, intercepted,
game over, intercepted all game over.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
The fourth interception, Tony Jefferson, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Unk does it? That's Matt money Smith, I know him
uh and the call there on on KFI and the
Chargers Radio network. That's the tire rack play of the day.
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com the way tire buying should be. Here's the who
am I?
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Game?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Jalen Hurts with that four interception and fumble game five turnovers.
He's the first Eagles player with five turnovers in the
game since me. Who am I? That is the question
and what is the answer? Coroy Dettner guests by Ike
and Roseville, Minnesota, Jackie Harry from Bobby and Florida. There's
(40:40):
a blast in the past, Femi and Minnesota got a
right bad job by him. Andy and Lionel Lake says,
I think it's Matthew Stafford. Well, he's a great Eagle player.
The Gremlins from Scroogeyah. I hope the Gremlins don't attack us.
I'll just take a nap with the Gremlinds attackers, say
Harold Carmichael from william That's an Eagles legend. See here
has to be Bubby Bristo from Brad and Montana. There's
(41:02):
a good name, Bubby Bristol, zach ertz leg Alf. I
don't need to see photos of those things. Please. Mikayla Maroney,
who is thirty to she's washed up late night drug
tester Tangy in stirts from mister nice Guy. That's a
good name. Malaprop guy going with Fats in Philly. He
loves his turnovers. Yes he does, our buddy Fats. Who
(41:23):
else Mister Irrigation went with Lisa's sparks. I guess like
his favorite porn Starcasian cannon. Bobby Abert from Big Lou.
He's on number two helmet man since Freddy. That's answer
from Freddy. Dave Craig from Paul Lorena, What say you, Lorrane?
I'm gonna go with Brendan Fraser incorrect. This is a
guy that vomited in the Super Bowl. Donovan McNab in
(41:46):
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