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December 12, 2025 • 41 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Atlanta Falcons upsetting the Tampa Bay Bucs on TNF, Bucs coach Todd Bowles' postgame rant and what it reveals, Baker Mayfield saying this Tampa loss is going to haunt him, what this win does for Falcons coach Raheem Morris, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It is the Ben Malers Show.

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A reminder that Benny Versus the Penny the full episode
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Winner for the Thursday night game Atlanta plus the points
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They won the game out right.

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number one The Falcons up and Tampa Bay. They come
back from fourteen points down on the fourth quarter on
Thursday Night football. What did Bucks coach Todd Bowles post
game rant with seven F words and four S words

(01:03):
reveal as Todd Bowles unloaded on his team. Baker Mayfield
says his Tampa loss, this Tampa loss is going to
haunt him.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
It's on his shoulders.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is that in bounds or out of bounds? And what
does this win for Atlanta do for Falcons? Coach Raheem
Morris Atlanta one. They had nineteen penalties nineteen a franchise
record mistakes.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
By the Atlanta Falcons, but they won the game.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Anyway, we get to all of that and more settle
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We are back at it inside the Magic Radio box
as we chop down the overnight hours in the NFL
weekend underway and our lead this hour. We're going to
start out in Tampa, week fifteen of the NFL season.
They're kicking off at the stadium I think still called
Raymond James Stadium.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
All these stadiums changed names a million times.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
But fire the cannons e NFC South barn Burner between
the visiting Falcons playing out the string against the Buccaneers,
who still have a lot to play for Falcons with
Kirk Cousins, who's toiling away there in the atail and
the Baker mayfield for the Buccaneers.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
He had al Michaels and Herbie in the.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Amazon on the call. So I don't know if you're
watching this game or not. Perhaps you miss it. I
don't know us you would be watching. Maybe he's weren't
watching anything. But here's the deal, Kirk Cousins, wake up
the echoes. Kirk Cousins not one, not two, three touchdown passes.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
In a primetime game.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Remember the curse of Cousins in primetime games back in
his Minnesota days, But he looked good in this game.
Three touchdown passes, a bunch of yards. Of the touchdown
passes all to Kyle Pitts, the tight end built like
a Donnis. He often plays like a Pip Squeak, but
not on this game.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Not in this game.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
And Zane Gonzalez, the idiot kicker, booted a forty three
yard field goal as time expired. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night. And in Atlanta, rallies from two touchdowns
down and they get the one point win over the
team from Florista. Atlanta gets the win there and the
highlight of the night was not on the field, say well,

(05:05):
what about that Zane Gonzalez kicking no, no, no no.
For our purposes in talk radio, the highlight was thirty seconds.
It's a postgame clip of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach
Todd Bowles.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Now, Todd Bowles has coached multiple NFL.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Teams over the years, and none of them have been
very good. Yeah, he occasionally will give us solid gold.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
He will, and he.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Gave us that unleashing the beast as Todd Bowles. Every
once in a while you get a coach that's at
the end of the rope and decides to let you
know what they really think of their football team. And
let's go to the audio tape. Here is Todd Bowles
breaking down what's wrong with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
It's an excuse me book. You don't make excuses. You
got enough, you got care enough for it. It got
them something to you. It's more than the job. Good.
How well, do you know your job? How well can
you do your job?

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Well?

Speaker 3 (06:05):
You can't sugarcoat it was incusable and because it's a ford,
that's for no excuse for it. That's what you're telling
them a lot.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Look, yeah, I don't know who edited that, but way
too too long.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
The bleeps were too long. But it's unfortunate. Go to
social media get the actual cuttakes. We're not we're not
grown ups here in overnight radio to play the right butt.
But listen, I know you can't to play bad words,
but you can. There's ways you get edited. But he
said the F word seven times, the S word four times.
The key parts of that inexcusable, and it's your efing livelihood.

(06:41):
I mean we could even get a little taste of
the F word in that. I mean, my god, just
the F at the beginning. Holy crap. I gotta teach
editing now. I'll had that to my resume. All right,
So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question what did Bucks coach Todd Bowles. You barely
hurt any of it because of the tremendous editing job,
but what did Bucks coach Todd Bowles postgame?

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Rant.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
So my thoughts on this, I've got a three by
three Walgreens and Pink Paradise, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a Cuban sandwich, which is the sandwich of choice in
the greater Tampa area, or so I am told, and
some Cuban cigars, which is also very popular there in

(07:23):
the greater Tampa Saint Pete area.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
So ay, this wasn't coaching. What are you talking about?
He's a coach.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
It wasn't coaching. This was a hostage video by Todd Bowles.
This is why I do.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
This job, Like these kind of rants.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
If everyone just said the same boring crab, which they
do ninety eight percent of the time, what's the point
of doing this? Every once in a while, someone's loud
and proud, and that would be Todd Bowles here. It
was thirty seconds of pure, uncut rage rage.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
No pr polish, no media training, just Todd Bowles and
a microphone. And it was cartoonish. As we like to
say on this show from time to time when someone
has a rant like this, we say, it's just like Popeye.
That's all I can stands and I can't stands no more. Now,
what did it reveal?

Speaker 1 (08:15):
What did it real? Well, it revealed simply.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
That Todd Bowles just let you know that behind the curtain,
behind the locker room doors, he believes his players are lazy.
He's not coaching them to play that way. They've checked out.
That's what I took from that. That's what I took
Todd Bowles is announcing, Listen, these guys are so stupid,
my players.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
I tell them that, they don't listen to me. They're marons.
I don't know what they're doing. And it's because of that.
He just finally was at the end of it.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
And you know, if guys were doing what they were
supposed to do and grinding away, you don't have to
scream about their effing livelihood.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
You don't. You know, you scream about someone else, you'll
scream about that. Well, that's we know they take this seriously.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
That this is a last ditch flare gun fired straight
up in the dark night sky, and it's it's a
three by three served up piping hot by Todd Bowles.
You've got the unfiltered meltdown, crude, raw and soaked and desperation.
That's the three by three crude, raw and soaked in desperation,

(09:22):
and Todd Bowles is fed up. Obviously, he blew up
a gasket because he knows the math.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
And they do have some games coming up with Carolina.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
There's only three games to go for the Buccaneers where
they have a couple of games I believe still both
games with Carolina. So there's no sugar coating, no corporate speak.
He cut through. He took his the chainsaw and he
just cut through the bull crap is what he did. Yeah,
and here's the irony. Like I really wish Todd Bowles

(09:54):
was a good coach.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I do.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
He's been around for a long time, coach the Cardinals
and the Jets, and I wish he was good because
he's a hell of a sound bite.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
He really is good.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Good sound that's all I care about. I'm a talk shows.
I care about soundby He's really good. Unfortunately, sound bites
don't win championships and they don't fix game management. And
people were ranting and raving about the time out strategy.
There were four options that Bucks had on that Falcons
final drive and he picked the worst possible one. It's
kind of like grabbing the mystery box on Let's make

(10:27):
a deal, and that's what he did. You bought fourteen
point lead, a fourteen point lead against that Atlanta team.
Wow wow, And he was back to back at home
to the Saints and the Falcons. That is a fireable offense,
is what that is? Atlanta, they tried to give Rap
the game. They had a turnover palooza. Well not by

(10:50):
the penalty. Turnovers were also a little spice on top
of mostly penalties, and the whole NBA jam combo and
Tampa went. They went like nbagm They rejected it like
spam mail, and fans are angry, right, Oh, he should
be gone defense. He's a defensive guy. The Bucks defense
is twenty fourth in points allowed. The microwave is on,

(11:13):
the heat is up in the microwave. And that rant.
That was a man who knows he is coaching for
his job and not his team.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
You know, his team will have jobs in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
He's not gonna have that job if this continues the
way it's going there in Buckland, because wow, I mean, yeah,
you're in control and then you lose at home to
the Saints and the Falcons and you blow a lead
to the Atlanta Falcons. That is embarrassing. That is I
mean even people that know football. No, that's embarrassing. Right,
that is bad.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
All right, now turning the page, but not very far.
I'm gonna keep with the theme of the hour. Baker
Mayfield has entered the chat. Yep that Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
It's a time honored tradition when a team loses, you
play the sound bite of their quarterback as well as
their head coach.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
We've already done the head coach thing.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
So Baker Mayfield attempting to shoulder literally shoulder the blame
as he had a gut punch interception in late in
the game, he did.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Ride the vomit comet.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
And here is Baker Mayfield who's trying to take full
ownership of his part of the blame pie for the Bucks.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Take a listen.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
Disappointing obviously, but falls on my shoulders. Can't can't turn
the ball over, can't have that interception, got to hit
mec and stride on that third down. Listen. You can
say what you want about being up two scores and
the defense right there, but we have to be better
on offense. And it comes down to how I play
this one. This one's gonna haunt me. This this falls
on my shoulders.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
So some pearls of wisdom there.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
The question Baker Mayfield saying that his Tampa Bay Buccaneers
lost the loss he quarterback there is going to haunt
him is that.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Inbounds are out of bound.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
So the pearls of wisdom from Baker Mayfield after a
minutes long Mallard deliberation are totally inbounds. This was a
textbook quarterback confessional, is what this was. The quarterback steps
in front of the firing squad. You're supposed to eat
the blame, enjoy the blame. You're responsible. You hope the

(13:25):
bullets stopped flying. The boilerplate. It was that sure, it
was a boilerplate response. Nevertheless, this one does have a
long receipt alongside. Like Baker Mayfield earned every ounce of
the haunted house talk. And again we like the gumption,
the grit and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Baker the old lunch pale guy, and he's a sledgehammer
out there. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
However, on this night, and really the last month plus,
Baker Mayfield has been Baker the headache make and he
needs to go down to Walgreens and get a large
container of pharmacy grade ibuprofen to hand out to the
buccaneer backers.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
I hope I got TJ. Reeves is okay? The Bucks
sideline guy thereh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
I did see him on TV briefly. It was wringing
the full ensemble. The Bucks were dressed for success. They
had the creamsicle uniforms on the classic throwback uniforms. Unfortunately
they did not perform up to that standard, which you
generally don't like.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
You generally don't like that.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
So anyway, the Bucks, they get twenty eight points to say,
that should be enough to win. They still left points
on the table and they left those around like abandoned
luggage at pick your favorite airport JFK or Hare or
Lax or whatever. And Mayfield, I wouldn't say he was bad.
He wasn't bad. He wanted to bundle of joy. He

(14:50):
was okay, he was fine, just fine, nothing screenshot worthy,
nothing to put on the gram or TikTok or any
of that stuff. And when the lights got hottest late
in the fourth quarter, Baker melted like cheap wax. He
was not up for the combat, the hand to hand combat,
and to be outplayed by the fossilized remains of Kirk Cousins.

(15:14):
You were outperformed by Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Let that settle in. Wow.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
I think Cousins. I saw him at one point there
and maybe it was my imagination. He actually had a
walker between snaps. He hit a walker. Cousins had fifteen
bad plays. Fifteen bad plays in this game. Baker Mayfield
had twenty one. And that's a minus six swing in
a what turned out to be a razor thin margin game.

(15:43):
And so six more negative plays by Baker Mayfield, especially
the late interception, would set the dirty Birds up to
get the ball back and to go down knowing they
were only down by two points and they could end
up winning the game with the field goal. But that
that's the malor math on kids. Now the Petridge Farm
remembers moment.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Of the night.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
I'm old enough, and I don't know if you're old enough.
You're probably not old enough. But I'm old enough to
remember when.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Baker Mayfield was the front runner after Week four for.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
The Most Valuable Player award in the NFL. Now, let's
take a look. Let's peak at Baker Mayfield. So Baker
Mayfield the last five games, the last five.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Games, Baker Mayfield one hundred and sixty one yards per
game on average.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Six touchdowns, five interceptions, a passer rating which I think
is slightly above a gas station microwave, I think.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
And yeah, so this loss will be the Haunted Mansion.
And it's not over.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
The Bucks still have two a couple of matchups with
Carolina and they can take care of that. And certainly
Carolina is no good. They're not a great team anything
like that. But that's not Melo drama. That's more of
an accountability from Baker Mayfield. All right, Now, last word,
we go to the winning locker room, which is not
not the better story, but it is a story.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
It is a story.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
And the question what does this dramatic last second win
do for the equally I battered Falcons coach Raheem Morris.
So they can't tank to get a higher draft pick.
They don't have a first round pick, so you're not
doing that. You're trying to play to win the game
and all that stuff. And so what it does on

(17:33):
my scorecard and you can chime in when we give
out the number in a few, but on my scorecard
it buys Raheem Morris a weekend pass, not a season ticket.
A weekend pass like this is a temporary reprieve from
the Pink Paradise, which is known as the Pink Slip

(17:54):
is in the mail for right now.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
The package has been delayed. The package has been delayed.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
But this was an island and Atlanta got bonked on
the head with a coconut and they still won the
game anyway, all right, so let's not throw a parade
down Peach Street yet because the Falcons. If anything, this
game was more of a reminder of what a terrible
job Rarehie Morris has done as a head coach. Let
me make my elevator pitch on that. You look at

(18:21):
how the Falcons were moving the ball, and a lot
of that was because of the Bucks defense, but still
there were legitimate flashes that this could have been a
fairy tale season in Atlanta and instead it's like a
broken strobe light in a dive bar. That's that's the
fact that Kyle pits, we've mocked many a night. The draftis,

(18:42):
Oh my god, they got all horney of their pants
down because Kyle Pitts is built like a Donnis and
he finally looked like the unicorn all you idiots said
he was going to be. He looked like the player
that he was advertised as. Eleven catches on twelve targets,
eleven out of twelve on the targets, one hundred and
sixty six yards and three touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
And if you look at the box score, a partridge
in a.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Pear tree, so a grown man playing against it looked
like a bunch of middle schoolers who were on sleeping medication.
And he had Jonn Robinson electric electric one hundred and
seventy five total yards in this game, dancing through defenders
like it was open Mike Knight, And we mentioned Kirk
Cousins dusting off the Minnesota Sizzle reel from back in

(19:29):
the Day throwback performance by Kirk Cousins. And yet even
with that, they were down fourteen, they being Atlanta in
the fourth quarter and needed Baker Mayfield to f up
Baker the headache maker for you to have a shot
to kick a field goal to win the game.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
And nineteen penalties.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
So what do we like to say, you're either coaching
it or you're allowing it to happen. Nineteen penalties a
record for this season, and I believe a franchise record
for the Falcons, and they've had some really bad teams.
Nineteen penalties one hundred and seventy five yards. It's like
a team that can't walk into gum at the same time,
and they still won the game. So even though Rahie

(20:07):
Morris gets a temporary reprieve, when you do inventory at
the end of the season and you look back, you're like, well,
wait a minute, we've got some real prime rib talent,
and why are we serving beyond burger?

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Who wants a burger with no meat?

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Right?

Speaker 1 (20:22):
We'll prime rib? What are we doing?

Speaker 2 (20:24):
It was the this team is the quintessential meh team
me eh mah as in mediocre efforts, hopeless, often hopeless,
And so this Wayne feel good for a night and
all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
It's a band aid on a bullet hole, a reminder
that with a.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Little bit better coaching, this team could have, should have
and would have been something special.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
But they're not.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
They are not sorry. It is the ban Mallor Show.
If you want to comment on any of that.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
You can join us right now.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
We open up the phone lines at eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox, and we have a player in
this game, one of the key players in this Falcons
in Bucks game, who is going to get a letter
from the NFL and he's going to have to cut
a check to the league office. But because of something

(21:20):
that happened in the moments after the Falcons beat the
Tampa Buccaneers, who goofed, I've got to know.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
We'll get to that.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
We are also on ex at Ben Mahler. That's at
Ben Maler if you want to be part so again,
one of the stars of the game, very excited and
is going to get a nice letter, possibly a text
message from Big Brother because of something that happened right
after the game. We'll get to that. We'll take your calls,
the whole thing, and we will.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
Do it.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Next.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
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playing the right songs. But it is I Bill Miller
and you were locked in on the Ben Mallory Show.
We would like some holiday songs. We'll hopefully play them
at some point tonight on the Overnight.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
I don't know if they're there.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Or not, but we we do have them. We love
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Speaker 8 (23:26):
Well.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
The whack a doodle type of game on Thursday night
as the Tampa Buccaneers blow it against a team that
committed nineteen penalties. The nineteen penalties for the Falcons the
most in.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Any game since the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
The Raiders who set the NFL record they had twenty
three penalties and a win over the Buccaneers back.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
In twenty sixteen.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
I was a little baby back in twenty sixteen, and
that's the last time a team had as many penalties
as the Tampa at the Atlanta foulkes did in this game.
And they become the thirteenth team in the last seventy
five years to be penalized nineteen or more times, and
they're the fifteen to win.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
So normally you lose, but five.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
And fourteen the record of teams that have that level
of penalties a tremendous officiating. Just call as many penalties
as you can. They did that, and because of the
Baker Mayfield mistake at the end there setting up at Lant,
they still have to go down and get in a
field goal range. But today Fueld goal range is nothing.

(24:36):
You cross the midfield stripe, you're pretty much in field
goal range.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
So there is that.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
And let's see what are the knuckleheads have on the
X machine. See Chris in Houston, who quit the show
sold out for the day shift, says.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Hey, Mallard just woke up.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Tell Coop there's still a chance. And he sent me
a story about a man who spent eighty one thousand
dollars on surgery to go from five to five to
six to one.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
There you go, all right, wonderful.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Ferg Dog says, what the hell is this generic piano crap?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
There you go? I don't know, I don't know. I
guess I gotta do everything. I mean we have.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
We just kind of set the guidelines. We want malar
tunes only, and we're not getting that, so hopefully we'll.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Correct that going forward.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Not a Burner says, can we get Benny the Baker
to teach mister Mayfield.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
How to cook so he can finally live up to
his name.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Well, he did do pretty well for like the first
four four weeks, five weeks of the season.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Ferg Dog writes in as well.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
He says everyone was laughing at Gunner when he said
the Panthers would win the NFC South before the season. Well,
who's laughing now, Gunner? At all the idiots who doubted
his genius. The man is a mensa and my friend
Gunner from the Walmart in northern Minnesota, who thinks the
care line of Panthers are.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Going to be great every year he does.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Milkman Mike in Colorado rites in says, incredible opening monologue
to start the night off right, it's time for another
game called either or. Who do you think gets bleeped more?
Either Todd Bowles or Angry Bill? Well, not to touch
up your work, Milkman Mike. It's not Todd Bowles or

(26:23):
Angry Bill. It's Todd Bowles or Lucky Tony in the
bay are because Lucky Tony's quick hit guy. Lucky Tony
calls up, drops a bleep it he bleep bleep and
then that's it. Late night drug tester, who's e Dog's
favorite caller to the show. He Dog says, of all
the people that call the show, he loves the late
night drug tester who's never actually.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Called the show.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
He says, with all those curse words taken out, I
wasn't sure if that was Buccaneers coach or Bay City.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Tony to open the show. There you go, apps, Absolutely,
what else do we have? Let's see here, Well.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Supermarket Steve is the person in trouble blank. Yes that
is the well pay that off right now, we'll pay
you mentioned it super Market Steve. So on the Amazon
postgame show, The Postgame Show, which about two people were
watching the Atlanta Falcon star Ba Jehan Robinson went viral.

(27:24):
He made a comment then he said, smear the I
don't think we can say that anymore. When I got
into radio, we could say that. I don't know that
we can say that anymore. I'm not sure what we're
allowed to say. And I it's my Friday. I don't
want to get a call from the boss. So I'm
gonna leave that word out. But we used to say

(27:44):
it back.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
In the nineties. But it's not the nineties anymore. So
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
But yeah, but so, but John Robinson went viral for
saying smear the blankety blank blank. He made that reference
in the postgame show. Now super Market Steve says, they
said after the game. But John Robinson for his smear
the blank comment that he said twice even after Sherman said, no, no,
don't say that. When Richard Sherman tells you not to

(28:10):
say something, don't say it, says Supermarket Steve.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
But it was one of those deals that even on
the show, there were a lot of those awkward laughs,
which you get so many of those in sports, like
a coach's news conference or a postgame, like a star player,
there's that awkward whatever they say that the funniest comedian
in the world, these athletes and these coaches.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
It's so funny, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Anyway, Berner account rights and says, good monologue, Benjamin, I
really liked that NBA jam reference rejected.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
I was barely alive. There you go.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
That's a B plus from the Burner account. Gunner from
the Walmart in Northern Minnesota, rights and says, really bashing
my team, calling them a terrible team.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
You get on my nerves, man, don't do it. I'm
warning you again. Is that a threat?

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Did I just get threatened by Gunner from the Walmart
in Northern Minnesota?

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Is he threatening my well being? Here?

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Hey, Gunner, this just into Fox Sports Radio. No one
is afraid of playing Carolina. Every single tea if Carolina
wins that division. Every team's like, oh God, could we
please play Carolina in the first round?

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Please?

Speaker 2 (29:23):
I want to play the Carolina Panthers. I want to
play Carolina. I mean that twenty third ranked offense really
does scare you, app I'm telling you it is a
scary proposition. Can you imagine? Just think if you're an
opposing defensive coordinator and you're going against the Carolina Panthers,
You're like, what are we going to do? How do

(29:44):
we how do we defend the twenty fifth ranked passing
offense in the NFL? Is there any way to stop
the Carolina Panthers? Is there any possible way.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
To do it? I have no idea. I mean, I
mean it's got to be near impossible to do it.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
And you say, well, the defense, which is sixteenth in
the NFL, that scares you, that'll keep you up at night,
that sixteenth ranked defense may and.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Alive, like what do you do? Seriously? Is there any
stopping it?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
As far as the back to the John Robinson though,
he's going to get I'm.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Gonna get you. I'm gonna get a fine. I'll get
a fine. You're gonna get fine.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
There that's where I'm going let's go to the phones and
we'll say hello to Jola in Dallas, who's in the
leadoff spot here on this what's going on man Friday?

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Shot? Hey, Joela? What's going on.

Speaker 9 (30:37):
The weekend? Great? Hey, great monologue. You know I said
I'm gonna follow it up. I said, I'm gonna take
one out of Ben Dollars book. First play season going though.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Well, you know, it doesn't really start until you take
time off. I haven't. I have not taken any time off.
So I'm I'm good. I'm good.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Everything's great, we're live, and we're live and well, and uh.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
We'll take that later.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, Lorena is she's quiet tonight. She don't want to talk.

Speaker 7 (31:03):
I don't know why it's like that some days.

Speaker 9 (31:06):
But I have Redskins, ven diagram and coaching trees. Let's
start with the red Skins. This is not twenty seventeen.
If you watch that football game and you said, oh, babe,
I gotta watch the football game, you're a loser. There's
no way I was keeping up with that game. Kirk Dousins,

(31:28):
this is not twenty seventeen.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
How do you like that?

Speaker 9 (31:30):
And then you have Baker Mayfield who's under the same
coaching tree as McVeigh. You know, you have the Redskins
with Shanahan McVeigh and then the Falcons. You know, it's
just a big vent diagram between losing the Super Bowl
having to offer the coordinator that can't get the tight
end the ball. Let's shout out what's his name on
the Steelers? Who is the head coach offers the coordinator

(31:52):
right now making Darnell Lassington look like a Hall of Fame.

Speaker 10 (31:56):
Tight end, and then Pats aren't they're catching their teensails.

Speaker 9 (31:59):
It doesn't even Getty said, So I have Redskins because
of the the coaching tree between Shanahan McVeigh getting Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 10 (32:10):
Should pub shouldn't even be playing football right now if
they didn't have those little forty eight hours in LA
dealing with them venn and they were all on the Redskins.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
It's crazy.

Speaker 9 (32:19):
And then let's get to the end. I said, Redskins,
then diagram, and then coaching tree.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
If we look at uh chardor Moore, what's his name
to do to Michigan that fumbled the bad Why is
he the head coach at Michigan? H Why is he
coaching at Michigan because har Ball gave him the job.

Speaker 9 (32:42):
Let's look at.

Speaker 6 (32:43):
Our guy in Atlanta.

Speaker 9 (32:45):
This guy already coaches, you know, and I love black coaches.
I'm an African American man. But this guy already had
his had his zooke, and he can't even win the
football game where sports went eight fourts. It's crazy. Or
he can't even get an offensive competent. And then the
last guy that really really just you know, and I'm like, man,
I really want this guy to do well. Like you said, Bowls,

(33:09):
he has his job because of that guy that won
the Super Bowl and you know, let him in there
and gave him the job.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Bruce.

Speaker 9 (33:18):
You see what I'm saying. So you know, I'm I'm
only twenty nine, Ben Ballas and I love sports, but
I'm older. I remember when I've been watching sports so long.
Remember when Greeny and go, look we're in that little
cubicle and they had all that set up like it
was a like it was what's his name.

Speaker 6 (33:37):
Guy?

Speaker 9 (33:37):
What's his name of the first guy that's on in
the morning, older dude, he's a.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Leg older older guy.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
I don't know Patrick, guy Dan Patrick?

Speaker 9 (33:48):
When Dan, Like, I've been watching sports that long but no,
I love football. But if you watch that football game
tonight and you weren't gettee and.

Speaker 11 (33:56):
Like even believe some guys, I mean sometimes.

Speaker 9 (33:59):
You'd be like, hey, I can't be what you who's
in their families who have football games like that? Over
nepotism and.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
You know, but yeah, well it's a it's a lot
of the world.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
As you know, Joela, you're you've already are twenty nine,
and it's not you could have the greatest education in
the world and have all these degrees, but it's more
about who you know than what you know.

Speaker 9 (34:18):
And that's right, more things really. It's like, man, it
really upsets me as an African American male.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
It's like, what other opportunity do you want that?

Speaker 3 (34:29):
You know?

Speaker 1 (34:29):
People?

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Uh, you know, there's a lot of temptation out there,
my man, So what do you do?

Speaker 1 (34:33):
You know, he's out of who knows what's going on
in his world, but.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
He's he's gonna be sitting there, he's gonna be sitting
down for a while.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
I know that you won't be around for a while.

Speaker 10 (34:42):
So thirty thirty for thirty our major game. I want
to be a part of the producer crew because You're
going to be.

Speaker 9 (34:48):
A millionaire for life.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
He's just gonna keep bigg enough better.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Crazy that might they might have They might have to
just the Sharon more one. They might have to put
on the I don't know if there's any adult channels left.
They might that might be sponsored by porn Hub or
something like that.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, all right, thank you. Joela be Gouvernment is a
Joel in Dallas. Let's go to Bruce real quick. He's
in uh, he's in Ortlanta. He was at the game.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
He was at the game, watched the bus, he watched
Did he stay to the end of the game.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
What's going on? Bruce? Welcome?

Speaker 11 (35:19):
Hey, what's happening Ben?

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Bruce? Did you say did you make it to the
end of the game or did you leave early?

Speaker 11 (35:25):
Oh? No, we were there the whole time. Man. The
Bucks really did it up. They had the whole nineteen
seventy six five going, all the whole school music, had
the greatest uniforms in the history of the NFL, and
full display tonight. Everything was lining up. But one thing
we got to remember. You know, you look at teams
coming in and you look at the record. These are

(35:46):
still professional football players. These are guys are the best
of the best. You know, he got John Robinson running
the rock nearly unstoppable and in that tricken Unicorn that
you're talking about, Kyle Pitts, Oh my god, when does
this contract expire? That guy needs to be in Tampa.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
His contract expires in February. He's this is his last year.
He's gonna be He's gonna be a at the end
of season.

Speaker 11 (36:11):
He's bowing somewhere. Somebody's gonna pay him a lot of money.
He's a He's a freaking nature. Uh, that guy.

Speaker 9 (36:16):
That team is actually stacked.

Speaker 11 (36:18):
The record does not reflect how good of a football
team that is. And I you know, raheem coming in
and beating beating us. Man, that kind of hurt a
little bit. But you know one thing I want to
talk about as coach, and this is directed to Bucks fans,
and I hear it all the time. Fireballs, fire balls, listen, man,
Players have to make plays. You can't put it on

(36:38):
the coach all the time. There's a huge penalty at
the beginning of the game where the Falcons took three
points off the board and got their six. That's a
four point swing right there. You know that that off
side on that hard count that they drew at us
got the guy McCollum to jump, But that guy's been
getting burned all season, so he's another one. We drew

(37:00):
the money after. You really shouldn't even be wearing our uniform.
But you know, I'm not gonna hate on him too much.
I'm just kind of, you know, upset with the way
this guy.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
You know what, you know what I love, Bruce. Let
me tell you something. I gotta I gotta let you go.
But I love that you are a positive guy. But
you want to be negative. You're juggling. I can in
your head, I can hear your mind like I want
to be positive, but I really want to rip this guy.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
And I respect that I do because I know what
you know, because I'm Benny Brightside. Every once a long
people say I'm negative, but I'm Benny bright said every
once in a while.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
All right, time now for the who am I?

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Game?

Speaker 1 (37:33):
And here we go? The who am I?

Speaker 9 (37:35):
Game?

Speaker 2 (37:36):
So the player of the night Kyle Pitts first tight
end with one hundred and fifty plus yards receiving in
three plus touchdowns in a game since me.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
It's been a while.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Kyle Pitts the first tight end with one hundred and
fifty or more yards receiving and three touchdowns or more
in a game. Since me, who am I? That's the question.
What's the answer. We'll get to it.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
We will do it next.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
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Speaker 2 (38:05):
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haven't edited that out the right at the end, but
eventually we'll get to that by next year. But it
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Speaker 1 (38:23):
The Penny is out. We're off to the one and
oh start this weekend.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
You want to get all the picks, all whatever I think,
all the outcome, all these games, the big games anyway
on YouTube at Benny Vspenny. Want Mallard monologues, you can
get those as well care of Ben Mahler Show. So
two YouTube channels to follow. In addition to the radio show.
You've got Ben.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Maler Show from Mallar monologues.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
You also have Benny Vspenny for the latest episode of
the somewhat popular gambling show about sports wagering and the NFL.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
All right back to it we go, and before we
get to the who in my game? Time now for
the play of the day. And sometimes we're like, I
don't know who the play that I don't know.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
This is not one of those nights Kyle Pitts where
they break out performance the Unicorn getting her done.

Speaker 8 (39:13):
Here's Cousins looking gonna sail it to the end zone.
Pits is there? It's an Atlanta touchdown. Do I need
to tell you one more time? Kyle Pitts crushes Tampa.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Yes he does. Falcons Radio.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
There that the three touchdown performance by Kyle Pitts. The
play of the day, not just any play of the day.

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am I?

Speaker 11 (39:54):
Game?

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Kyle Pitts the first tight end with one hundred and
fifty plus receiving yards three touchdowns in a game. Since me,
who am I?

Speaker 1 (40:04):
That the question? What's the answer that' see? Does anyone
know the answer?

Speaker 2 (40:07):
We go to the X machine to see if we
can find any goofy answers and then read them on
the radio.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
We'll go page down here.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Got a quick refreshed that's at Ben Mallin. By the way,
that guy James sent me, he said can I send
you an answer? But he didn't send me an answer.
Luke got it right, Bad job by him. Paul's going
with Dallas Clark as his answer. Mark Bavaro, good name
the Goat from Josh Who Else? Chris Purfetti, Who's thirty
seven today? From Late Night Drug Tester Eloy got it right?

(40:39):
Doc Brown guests by Rob tom Fergus from Alf the
Alien Opiner. Scrooge is going with his long lost uncle
Jack the Ripper as his answer. Whoopee Pie Blair from
Not a Burner. That's his answer. Jola from Malarprop Guy
Spike Owen from Mister Niska. That's a good name.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Who else do we have?

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Poof bonser from TV Meatballs, Rudolph the Red Nose rein
deer for Andy, the correct answer is uncle Shannon, Shannon Sharp,
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