January 22, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Bills owner Terry Pegula getting killed for his disaster-class news conference, saying that he's not going to tell the next Bills coach it's Super Bowl or bust, Josh Allen being said to have "faith" in the Bills leadership, and more!
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about that Buffalo story. What a story it is.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Terry Pagoula, that's the owner of.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The Buffalo football team getting killed for his disaster class
news conference. People are saying he's damaged the Bills brand?
Is that how you see it? Also, owner Terry Pagola
says he's not going to tell the next coach in
Buffalo it's super Bowl or bust.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Why not? And Josh Allen has.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Responded saying that he's got faith in the bills leadership.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Is that faith solid or shaky? We'll go there as well.
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begin the night, a story that is just outstanding made
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Speaker 2 (03:19):
Just add water and you're off to the races.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So the post mortem on the whacking heard round the NFL.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
They dropped the guillotine on you.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
If you're Sean McDermott, heyg on and that led to
a hum dinger of a day, a hum dinger of
the day. You can't handle the truth. So if you
didn't see or hear about this, perhaps not. We taken
out of Western New York, where Bill's owner Terry Pegoula,
is the talk of the town in the NFL, as
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he did the thing that not many people do at
the time.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
They don't normally do it. So Pecula again.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Another rich guy, aristocrat owns the Buffalo Bills, and he
got up on the podium with GM Brandon Bean and
they teamed up to deliver what can only be called
a hum dinger of a news commerce to try to
explain why they fired head coach Sean McDermott. And you'd say,
pretty easy, pretty easy to say, why you fired the
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guy because he kept joking in the playoffs. But it
was much deeper than that. It was much deeper than that.
They didn't just explain the coaching change. They took a
ride on the wild side and I love it so Pagola,
I'll give you some of the hits. It there was
a lie, but I'll give you some of this, Pagola said.
The owner of the Bill said he fired Sean McDermott
because he felt the team hit the proverbial playoff wall
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after seven straight trips to the playoffs without appearing in
the Super Bowl. Here is just to prove I'm not lying.
Here is Pegoula commenting on what I just said, Just
to prove I'm not a liar.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Take a list.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
My decision to bring in a new coach was based
on the results of our game in Denver. I know
we can do better, know we will get better. I
did not fire a coach based on a bad officiating decision.
If I can take you into that locker room, I
felt like we hit the proverbial playoff wall, year after year,
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thirteen seconds, miss field goals, the catch. I just sensed
in that locker room, like, where do we go from here?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Wall?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Fire the coach. Come on, it's obvious, fire the coach,
all right. So that was that was a big one.
It essentially said the tone I got. I watched this
thing that happened while I was sleeping that I watched
it on the YouTube and it sounded like he just
walked any cid eberyone upset, and so it's like, I'll
fire the coach, all right. So then we get to
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the even better stuff. So the owner of the Bills,
this guy, Terry Pagola. He also talked about Keon Coleman.
Now this is a big local issue in Buffalo because
Keon Coleman's not on a wide receiver. The guy sucks, right,
he's terrible. It was I think a second round pick.
The guy can't play, So everyone knows the guy guys,
So Pagola this was actually Brandon being the GM who
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was asked about.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Keon Coleman the selection. What went into all of that?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And Pogola actually stepped in the owner of the Buffalo
Bills to answer the question, take a.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Listen, Yeah, can I interrupt, I'll address the Keon situation.
The coaching staff pushed to draft Kean. I'm not saying
Brandon wouldn't have drafted him, but he wasn't his next choice.
That was Brandon being a team player and taking advice
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of his coaching staff who felt strongly about the player.
And he's taken, for some reason, heat over it and
not saying a word about it. But I'm here to
tell you the true story.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, I'm sure you are, yes, all right, So there
you go. He said, it's the coach. The owner of
the Bill said, it's the coaches. It's not my buddy,
my buddy Brandon Bean who got promoted. All right, So
that is a good jumping off point. Lots the unpacked
the Bill's owner is getting absolutely cooked for this. It's
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been called just one of the most embarrassing things. The
guy's lost it. Al Davis had some of these back
in the day when he was obviously dead now on
the Raiders, So let us discuss the question Terry Pegoula
getting killed for what's being called a disaster class news
conference in Buffalo. People are saying he has damaged the
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Bill's brand? Is that how you see it? So I've
got director's cut, Mazzarella, sticks, and anchorman, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we were going
to make a trip over Niagara Falls, because this felt
like a trip over Niagara Fall.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It was pretty good. I gotta tell you.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I woke up to a bunch of text message to
some people, head you see what the the Bill's owned to?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
What do you do? You know, I didn't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I was like, and I was kind of half half
sleeping still and I picked up my phone. Oh my god,
what I wanted?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Some of them?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Good must have happened. And then yep, yep, pretty good,
pretty good?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So my first thought on this to answer the question,
you know, people are saying that the Bill's.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Brand has been damaged? Is that how you see it?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So the answer is no, Everyone who's clutching their pearls
here and letting out a primal screen because Terry Pagoula
went off script.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh my god, the older talked. He said the thing
that you're not.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Supposed I mean, come on, listen, please, This didn't damage
the buff of the Bills brand. In fact, I'll be
the contrarian here behind the microphone, and I will say
that this made it more compelling, like this is must
see TV, must hear radio. We finally got the director's cut,
not the Disney edit, not filtered. This was classic old
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guy Philipbuster. We all hope to get old enough so
we just don't give an f anymore. You get to
a certain age and you see this all day. You
got the restaurants or whatever, the old guy that just
doesn't give a crap, right and just goes for it
and says whatever the things that polite society you're not
supposed to say. You say when you get to a
certain age, because you figure, hey, I got unlimited time left,
I'm gonna I'm enjoying myself. So Terry Pegoula was passionately
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defending the general manager of the Buffalo Bills, this guy
Brandon Bean. As you heard there like a proud dad
at a little league game.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
My boy did not want that draft pick. He did
not want that turd, did not want it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Meanwhile, the kids standing out in the outfield, that's Keon
Coleman out there catching strays like it's duck season. And
Coleman in the middle seat on a cross country flight.
Elbows on both sides, no arm, reds, no leg room,
nowhere to go.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You are trapped.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You are trapped, and the owner is saying, the owner
of the Bills saying eh, the coaches wanted the jam
says offing, of course, and then the player's stuck holding
the bag. Of course he should hold his duffel bag
because there's no way he comes back to the Bills.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And it's not that he didn't earn it. Keon Coleman
was not good at his job. He was a healthy scratch.
There was some behind the scenes issues there multiple games,
as I remember.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So this is not a brand damage.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Though I wouldn't go that far. I think of it
like the old Mad TV back in the day. If
you remember that dysfunction junction, how do you function? It's
compelling dysfunction. That's the Bills, baby, and hey, it's good,
it's great.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
People Oh, the Bill's mafia. The fan base is upset.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
They sure they're upset because they keep losing in the
playoffs and they like McDermott, and they'll get over it
once September comes around. They'll pick somebody new in the
draft and they'll hire a coach. He'll say all the
right and bull crap, and then everyone will be back
on the bandwagon. We get back to September now, page two.
Staying with the Bills though, So the question here the owner,
Terry Pagool has said that he's not going to tell
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the next Bill's coach it's super Bowl or bust, whoever
that might be. They haven't replaced Sean McDermott. But the
owner is like, well, I'm not gonna say it's super
Bowl or bus. So the question is why not?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Why not? All right?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
And my response would be because some things in life don't
need to be said. It's kind of like when you
get on an airplane. You know, you don't tell the pilot, hey,
try not to crash the plane. I mean, you don't
need to say that, right. If you're you're going into
the operating room, you don't tell the search and try
to get the right Kidney place.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You know, you don't know, it's implied. This isn't a
starter job.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
That we're not talking about going to Ikea and buying
a bookshelf and you're missing half the screws and the
Allen Ranches bent and you're like, ah, crap, this thing
is already built. It's already built that. The Bills are
a frozen food delicacy.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Think about it, like you had to Walmart and you
got every.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Possible frozen food you could want, right, and so you
go through there. You look, they got the frozen vegetables.
You don't want to part of that. I got some
ice cream, but you know about that. So then they've
got some fries, some potatoes, some onion rings, things like that.
But then you see the mozzarella sticks. You grab the
mozzarella sticks, and that's Buffalo buffaloes. The mozzarella sticks. You
don't cook them from scratch, they're already pre made. You
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just toss them in the air fryer for five minutes.
You don't screw that up. Boom, you got mozzarella sticks.
The Bills have an MVP quarterback. Granted it was kind
of a flimsy MVP, but they have an MVP quarterback.
Check that box. The roster that's been nibbling among the
top teams in the NFL for many years now, So
check that. And the clock, though, is ticking. You got
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about two to four years, depending on how this thing
goes with Josh Allen, before the Bills start coming due.
After that, well after that it gets ugly, ugly with.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
A capitol you. So you're talking about roster.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Rot and bad vibes and all that stuff. So Pagola,
the owner here, he doesn't have to formally and super
Bowl or boss doesn't have to say that because it's
already tattooed on the job description. If you read the minutia,
the fine print there, you will see that that is
the way it is now. The last word here. So
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following the Buffalo Bluster, reports came out of Western New
York claiming that a I love this, A source close
to Josh Allen said that the Bills quarterback had faith
in the leadership of the team under the owner Terry
Pagoula and Brandon Bean and will take an active role,
an active role in participating in the upcoming head coaching
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interview process.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So that was the way it was reported there, and.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
More likely than not, is Josh Allen calling one of
his buddies, the Beat writer, texting him saying, I gotta
get some message out right now.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Can you help me out? Sure, I'll help you out.
Why not? All right? Question?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So, Josh Allen, if this report is accurate, Josh Allen
is said to have quote faith in the Bills leadership.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Is this solid or shaky? All right?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
This is the word I will use on This is diplomacy.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
This isn't necessarily believe. It's like a hostage note written
with a nice smiley face. You wrote a little smiley
face there on your hostage note.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You're talking about a.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Guy that is the former MVP who's playing the role
in this chapter of the book as a statesman. Because
what else on God's green Earth is he gonna do?
Is he gonna act like Bill's Mafia and flip a
table and light it on fire in Orchard Park and
jump on it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Is that what he's gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Please Josh Allen's camp that everyone's dealing with this organizational whiplash,
and I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I have no skin in the game. Not in Finally,
on Bill's Monster, Derek and Felexus and the other people.
We have their bills fans in that part. We have
a lot of people in Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Love the show. It's great. But in about five minutes
I'm using Mallard time.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
But in about five minutes Bill's Mafia went from chest
thumping a playoff victory over, you know, just feeling good,
good playoff vibes.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
They watched the whole thing tip over like a.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Drunk guy going out to get the mail on a
walking on his driveway to go down to get the
mail and.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Slips and falls and all that.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
They go from beating Jacksonville late on a wild wild
Card weekend, everyone's feeling all warm and fuzzy.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Oh it's great.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Then overtime roadkill in Denver late against the Broncos, splat
windshield wipers can't keep up with the mess, and Josh
Allen turns into Anchorman's ron Burgundy, a glass case of emotion.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The owner walks into the locker.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Room, sees tears, panics, hits the big bed, the big
red button had a giant red button, hits that and
and wax the coach and then you're like, wow, that
escalated quickly, right, So if Josh Allen hadn't cried, would
you have kept showing Ian mcdham. I think that that
part of it is it smells like manure to me.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Because the issue was they kept losing. It wasn't that
they got emotional. If anything, getting emotional would indicate that
they care about the coach. You would want to keep
the coach, wouldn't that be the case? Like these guys
really love this guy and they felt bad. The other
thought I had was the players knew that if they
didn't win that game that Sean mcdertt was going to
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be fired, and they were bummed out about that. And
it's kind of how I relate. I've worked here at
Fox Sports Radio pretty much my entire adult life. We've
had many people run the company, and every time the
boss changes, you always get kind of this weird feeling
in your stomach. You're like, oh, crap, I might have
to go work somewhere else, you know, and and you
just keep doing it. But because every boss has their favorites, right,
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every boss, no matter what the job is, whether it's
I work in radio, whatever your job is.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Well, it's got favorites. Like parents have favorite kids, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Just the way it is, and so you're always like,
oh no, you got a kind of new boss is
going to come in, not gonna like me, Ah crap,
what am I gonna do?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And all that stuff. But it is fascinating, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
And Josh Allen right now, you know, the cartoon bubble
in my head. He's saying all the right things right now.
He's the statesman. He's sweeping up the glass, he's taping
the bumper back on, and really, what choice does he have,
Josh Allen.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Is the Buffalo bills.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
He can't demo the building because he's still that's where
he works. You can't demo the building you work in.
You're still inside. And in terms of the word faith, yeah, sure,
it feels less less like belief though, it's more like
survival mode. And it's not really solid.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Ground right now.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's gonna thin ice and we'll see if.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
The bill's higher here.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Some of the names that have been mentioned for that
Buffalo job are not the most exciting names.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
They don't get you all aroused there, they don't. So
we'll see where this goes. But man, what a mess
al right?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
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Back to it right, back to it we go and
late night drug tester. Right, since his Bill's ownership is
even steven, the football team at least makes the playoffs. Meanwhile,
the Sabers haven't been in the playoffs since Obama was
handing out phones to your overnight callers. Thank god for
President Obama. Without him giving out the Obama phone, I'd
have no one calling the show without I mean, we
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have the highest percentage of Obama phones that call this show.
It's wow, freaking dad, damn right, Fernd, I want one too.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It's great. Smartphone for owns is one hundred and eighty
dollars a month. How does that make any sense? Yeah,
that's a little that's a little much. Yeah, I want
Obama phone. Do you want to?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Like in the old days, and you're not that old,
but they used to charge for long distance phone calls
back in.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
The old b oh ye yeah, and also used to
be like you'd pay for each text message you sent singularly.
Can you imagine if you paid for each text message? Well,
but I would.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
My cousin actually made fun of me for this because
my dad we got a phone bill once and I
had over seventy five thousand text messages to my boyfriend
that month.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Seventy five thousand. It's a little much. You know, you
might want to step back off the gas a little bit.
I'm just saying what. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I remember when text messaging started and I was completely
against it. I said, that's ridiculous, why would we do that.
Now I'm at the point where I don't want anyone
to call me. I get offended and keep the phone,
you know, just want them to text me. I've done
a one eighty.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I'm like, I don't just text me.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I don't want to talk to you, and says I
don't really care for Terry Pagoula, but I'm a big
fan of his daughter, Jessica Pegoula, who's got a huge
match this Friday in the Australian Open. Not that I need,
not that I need to remind you, Ben, I know
you are all over the Aussie Open looking for content.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Damn right. Yes, I love my well.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I like New Zealand more than Australia, although we do
have great listeners in Australia and I can't rip Australia
because we are on there live. Can you believe that
we're actually broadcasting live? It's how many hours had stay? Yeah,
it's it's a whole different world. But we're there and
so we're we're in the past and we love them
and then so it's great. King Rory writes in and
(24:40):
says it was only a matter of time that McDermott
was going to get sealed Team six by the Bills
and this has to put more pressure on Lafleur and
the Packers. Lafleur and McDermott have a similar resume in
the playoffs, yet one was rewarded.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
While the other was fired. It makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Well, the only thing about that is the argument is
that the Bills with Josh Allen is.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
A clearly better player than Jordan Love.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Right, Jordan Love's inconsistent and all that has moments where
he looks really good and then stretches where he's terrible.
Josh Allen has been more consistently good. He's turned the
ball over a lot here recently. Gunner who's in Minnesota,
and he remember he's the guy that told us the
Carolina Panthers is going to be the Ola rams.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
That was his big prediction.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Worked out very well, he says, I hope my Carolina
Panthers now hires Sean McDermott as the defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Be a great. He was great in Carolina's gunner. What's
that one saying? You can hope in one hand and
yeah in the other, and see which one.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think we know which one's going to fill up there? Yeah,
I think we know how that's going to go. And
Nature voices the Bills just missed getting Robert Salah missed
it by that much. A lot of people enjoying the
Buffalo Bill's drama here. People who are not Bills fans.
They your boy says, answering the call to the Wiless
(26:02):
is tough to be a Buffalo Bill.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It's not easy. There.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Who else do we have? Page Nan I can't read that.
Let's see, we'll skip over that one. Lot of random
Lebron messages. Anyway, if you want to be part of this,
you can join us here on ex at Ben Mahler.
That's at Ben malor if you'd like to be part
random message from Brock. This is called the non sequitur.
And Brock writes in and says shay Jilgis. Alexander scored
(26:30):
forty points on sixteen of nineteen. So good again, Yes,
he's a that's just in. He's apparently good at basketball.
Apparently he's good at basketball. Eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox is the number eight seven seven nine nine
six six three sixt nine.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
So the national.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Championship in college football was handed out the other day
as Indian the greatest upset of the modern here in
college football, beating all the big powerful schools and winning
the national championship.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
And so you have just won.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
The Heisman, the college football playoff title, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
You are, Fernando Mendoza. What are you going to do now?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
All right?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
So the options are A.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Go get hammered somewhere, just get completely blackout drunk. B
go to Disney World, or c go.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
On and update your profile on a job hunting website.
The answer would be ding ding ding ding ding. See yes,
do you see this? Yeah? So, Fernando Mendoza, who is
going to be drafted, We don't know where. It's going
to be such a mess. If he's drafted with the
very first pick of the draft, Holy crap, he's not
(27:46):
that good. Anyway, in terms of the NFL world.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So Fernando Mendoza updated his LinkedIn page and he wrote
a long manifesto. This is I guess he doesn't really
need to worry about employment. I think he'll be taking
care of financially. I think he's in good shape there.
And just in case, just in case, he wanted people
(28:10):
to know.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Here's what he wrote.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
He said, Monday night, my teammates and I had the
honor of raising the national championship trophy, Fernando Mendoza wrote,
and bringing a college football title back to Bloomington, Indiana
for the first time in history.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
That's a bit of a humble brag.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
With the guidance of our coaches and the unwavering support
of Hoo's your nation, which didn't even know they had.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
A football team two years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Anyway, our band of brothers made the unbelievable believable.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Then he says, here's what winning a national championship taught me.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
And then he went point by point. I won't go
through the whole thing, but he said number one, he said,
believe in yourself.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
He says, four years ago, I was a two star
recruit playing high school football thirty minutes from hard Rock
Stadium with a dream of playing at the highest level.
Mendoza rod, two days ago, I became a national champion
in the same stadium, surrounded by family and.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
All of that. He said, to take a risk.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Uh, And then he was bragging about the fourth and
five at the twelve yard line and go for it,
although that was not his call, right that was that
was the coach's call. That wasn't his decision. And then
he said the third thing was remember who got you there?
And he's you got to thank your teammates, coaches, support staff, professors.
How many classes do you think, Fernanda Mendoza goes to.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I don't know, even a lot. I have no idea.
I'm not there there you go. Could that be? Is
this like trolling? I don't I don't know. I don't know.
That's of course, there's always when you're when you're that
level athlete, there's always a well, this is like the
greatest you know athlete, blah blah blah blah blah. You
know this, this, that and the other thing.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
And uh, you know that the fanboys love whatever these
guys do.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
So anyway, let's go to the phones. And let's see
here any meany miny moment to blindfold myself and press
the number. Let's go. Uh, let's go to line one.
Matt is in death. Matt is gone. That was in death.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I wanted hopefully Matt will call back because the line
on my board seemed very interesting, So hopefully Matt will
call back. Let's go to Jed who fled? Who is
next in the Sunshine State? And he's mister Sunshine himself,
Jed who fled?
Speaker 8 (30:27):
Hello, Jed, I just had a line on my mirror
rights one of me, dude is not here anymore.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
But it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, I'm sure you.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
All right, But Matt Matt called back in dude, because
really it's hard to be interesting, right when the when
the spotlight? Do you remember that who wants to be
a millionaire? And it was like the side of the
life got lower in the crowd in the pressure cooker likes.
That's what it's like on Fox Sports Radio going to
mallor that.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
People do not realize the difficulty. You don't know when
I'm going to go to you, and then when that
light comes on. So you're on the stage, you're on
Broadway and you have to perform. It's a one hundreds
of thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It's amazing.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Imagine you know when you think you're you're talking to
somebody that doesn't even matter, and the embassment when you're like,
you know, the uh, the thing because because you know,
you like a president, previous president, when he's trying to
quote the declaration, you know, you know that.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
The thing he couldn't go the deculation. It is, well,
that's that's what he is. Whenever you can't think of
any word because you want to sound so smart, and
at the moment that you want to sound so smart,
you sound really stupid. It's like when you're trying to
impress the girl and you're like, I'm gonna say something awesome,
and then you're just like, hey, sexual agendo and it frops,
it flops.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, you become a is Matt back in of what.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
What's going on with Matt? He called back in hold on.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
So let me check my board here. I don't see
Matt's name. Matt did not call back. What a schmuck.
Bad job by Matt. You should have called back. I
would have gone right to him. You know, he had
something into None of you people ever have anything interesting
to say, and he he had.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Something that was interesting and he hung up. It's bat
chop by him?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
What he was going to tell you? What was he
gonna talk about? Let's see how much until I am.
Let's go with it. I'll talk about it unless you
think they might.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Ruin his call later if he does tell back, well,
if he does call back, that, yeah, I bet you
that you have done what he's about to do.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
How about that? I bet what he's about to do?
You have done? What do you think that is do?
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Dude?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
You've never paid my taxes in my life.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Dude's never You never paid taxes one day in your life.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
No, well you know you don't.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
You have to earn.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Don't you have to earn money. Don't you have to
earn money. You have to earn money to pay taxes,
don't you right?
Speaker 5 (32:34):
I thought you were gonna have to earn money to
the drugs, But yes, today you obviously didn't. And it's
like the beginning of the Steven Steelson isles, the treetop flyer,
like I don't pay taxes because I never found you
know what you need?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You know what you need, Jed, you know you need
in your life?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
You need dude wipes, I'll answer this.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
You need Do you need dude wipes? I'm doing a
dude wipe spot. Dude, calm down, all right, then wipe.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Your tuckis because I'm this ship.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Okay, thank you. I guess you wanted to end the
call there. Why can't we say that word? Loamrendas plaining
to me?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
What?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I would love to.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Write a note to the FCC.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And it seems like a pretty simple word to say.
I mean, we all do it, and it's just anyway, Well,
Jed clearly needs this, and you do too.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
If you ever wipe with a piece of that dry
toilet paper and question the time.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Space continuum, well things can be. Things can get better.
Switched to life changing wet extra large flushable dude wipes
because wetter just cleans better. Available at Amazon and at
major retailers nationwide. Dude wipes best clean pants down. But
when you call, try to keep your pants up. But
(33:46):
you do use the dude wipes. You can do what
you want, but when you call, try to keep your
pants up anyway. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
is the call in number. Time Now for the who
Am I?
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Game?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
You can answer this on X at Ben malor that's
at Ben Mahller.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
So I am the only quarterback, the only one in
the Super Bowl era to throw the ball forty times,
complete under fifty percent of my passes with no touchdowns
and still win a game on the road in the playoffs.
It's the only one person's done it. The only quarterback
in the Super Bowl era to throw the ball forty
(34:23):
times or more, complete under fifty percent of my passes
with no touchdown passes and yet still win the game
on the road.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Who in the playoffs? Who am I? That is the question?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
The answer if you know it at Ben Mahler will
get to it and we will.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Do it.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Next.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
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Speaker 1 (34:51):
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Speaker 2 (34:56):
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Speaker 2 (35:39):
And I do want to pay off the who Am I?
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Game?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Before I pay off the who Am I?
Speaker 8 (35:43):
Game?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
This guy Matt called up, and I want to get
to him and then I'll get to the payoff on
the on the who Am I game?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Matt's in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Hello, Matt, welcome, you're on the Ben Maler so thanks
for calling back. Matt's man, Hey, you tell me, it
says on my board here.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You're you're going to a big step in your life.
Is that correct, Matt? Yes, sir, you want to tell
the class what you're up to here.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Rehab.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
You're going to look at you. That's a wonderful muzzlefuck.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Gradually, that's a big step in your big step in
your life, and very good.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
You better still listen when you get out of rehab, dude, though,
don't don't forget about it.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Okay, many a morning's y'all taking me through my workout?
Speaker 2 (36:27):
So, oh good?
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Just fell off, you know, fell off the wagon.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
It happens, It happens. Right, you get off the wagon,
you get back. Got to get jumped back on the wagon, right,
you gotta jump back on the wagon, there, Matt, And well,
good luck, man. How long are you going to be
doing that for?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Thirty probably thirty forty, I don't know, Okay, So you'd.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Be away for a month or so and then you'll
be you'll be back and better than ever. Right, You're
still gonna be working out early overnight, early in the
morning and all that.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Yeah. Five, you know, I catch you guys and Polly
Field here. Marcel he kills me.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
But it kills me too, and I have to talk
to him three days a week. So how do you think, man, Marcel?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
You know, you know, when Marcel started calling, I thought
he was fake. I thought he was getting punked.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I thought there's no one there's no one like Marcel.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Yeah, no, it's it's it's what I used to work
at with. But I'll get back on the wagon, brother, all.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Right, good luck Matt, good luck man hanging there right.
Things will be things will be good, all right, is
the great man? How about that last call before rehab
to the show. All right, that's good. Good for him.
You gotta do it, man, You go to take care
of yourself. Stuff happens. Humans are fallible.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Time now for the payoff on the who am I?
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Game?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
And here it is.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I am the only quarterback in the Super Bowl era
to throw the ball forty times, complete under fifty percent
of my passes, no touchdown passes, and still win a
playoff game on the road. It never happened before this
particular person.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Who is it? That's the question. What's the answer?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Perito is going with Batgirl, Kirk Cousins from Femi the Uber,
Each Star in Minnesota, Roger Moseby from Mister Irrigation that
time on Fantasy Island.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Who else do we have? Doc Mike, the Widow of
the Day.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Very funny, very funny. Flounder remember him from ferg Dog?
How could you forget Flounder? Bobby and Florida, says a
clinging girlfriend who texts too much?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Is the answer, Bobby and Florida?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Becky ice Box O'Shea from King Rory. I don't know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Just as long as he keeps sending the pies in,
he can rip the hud one.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Malard prop Guy says Brian Fendog. Fenley is the way
to go. Who else do we have? Jay James Jamison
from Milkman Mike in Colorado to Coma Drew says NBA
enforcer Benoit Mengement. Fun fact to Comba Drew, there is
a Beanoit Benjamin documentary on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I'm not making that up. We're fun fact.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I have not watched it yet, but it's on YouTube.
It's on my watch list. I have not checked it out.
Miss Greenland from mister nice Guy, very funny. Who else
do we have a page down? Mario Mendoza guess by
Alf the Alien Opiner, the Mendoza line, the legend Jim
thorpe Pa from Rob in Minnesota. Eileen in San Francisco
says Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
You love Jimmy. You're a ram fant. Eileen is a
Ramfant forty nine ers from Rams. You like Jimmy g
I think there's other reasons you like Jimmy g But
that's fine. Who else do we have? Mass spots Weed
got it right, Bad job by him. Richard Hitchcock from
far out, Dave Tony Banks guests by Sean in the
Valley of the Sun. Is Shawn a grandfather yet? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Charlie Brown tossed out by Gunner in Minnesota. Sergio Dip
from the Nature Boy Slip some terry got it right,
bad job by him. Pat Ryan Jets legend from Big
Rig in the Pacific Northwest. Jim Hill, LA sportscaster Jim
Hill from Gill in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
All right, Lorena, do you have an answer? I'm gonna
go with Dale Gribble. Okay, finanswer, Oh it's in great.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
The only quarterback in Super Bowl era to throw the
ball forty times, complete under fifty percent of their passes,
no touchdown passes, still win a game on the road
in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
That's Matthew Stafford of the Rams this past weekend in Chicago.
Because you can ram it all day, you can ram
it all night. Quarterbacks were owned ninety nine and one
before that game. With those numbers,
Holy cow, it's our number one, our number one of
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about that Buffalo story. What a story it is.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Terry Pagoula, that's the owner of.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The Buffalo football team getting killed for his disaster class
news conference. People are saying he's damaged the Bills brand?
Is that how you see it? Also, owner Terry Pagola
says he's not going to tell the next coach in
Buffalo it's super Bowl or bust.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Why not? And Josh Allen has.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Responded saying that he's got faith in the bills leadership.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Is that faith solid or shaky? We'll go there as well.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Right now here, it is our number one, where the
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So we're back at it. Our lead this hour to
begin the night, a story that is just outstanding made
for sports radio.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Just add water and you're off to the races.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So the post mortem on the whacking heard round the NFL.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
They dropped the guillotine on you.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
If you're Sean McDermott, heyg on and that led to
a hum dinger of a day, a hum dinger of
the day. You can't handle the truth. So if you
didn't see or hear about this, perhaps not. We taken
out of Western New York, where Bill's owner Terry Pegoula,
is the talk of the town in the NFL, as
(03:49):
he did the thing that not many people do at
the time.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
They don't normally do it. So Pecula again.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Another rich guy, aristocrat owns the Buffalo Bills, and he
got up on the podium with GM Brandon Bean and
they teamed up to deliver what can only be called
a hum dinger of a news commerce to try to
explain why they fired head coach Sean McDermott. And you'd say,
pretty easy, pretty easy to say, why you fired the
(04:15):
guy because he kept joking in the playoffs. But it
was much deeper than that. It was much deeper than that.
They didn't just explain the coaching change. They took a
ride on the wild side and I love it so Pagola,
I'll give you some of the hits. It there was
a lie, but I'll give you some of this, Pagola said.
The owner of the Bill said he fired Sean McDermott
because he felt the team hit the proverbial playoff wall
(04:37):
after seven straight trips to the playoffs without appearing in
the Super Bowl. Here is just to prove I'm not lying.
Here is Pegoula commenting on what I just said, Just
to prove I'm not a liar.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Take a list.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
My decision to bring in a new coach was based
on the results of our game in Denver. I know
we can do better, know we will get better. I
did not fire a coach based on a bad officiating decision.
If I can take you into that locker room, I
felt like we hit the proverbial playoff wall, year after year,
(05:14):
thirteen seconds, miss field goals, the catch. I just sensed
in that locker room, like, where do we go from here?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Wall?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Fire the coach. Come on, it's obvious, fire the coach,
all right. So that was that was a big one.
It essentially said the tone I got. I watched this
thing that happened while I was sleeping that I watched
it on the YouTube and it sounded like he just
walked any cid eberyone upset, and so it's like, I'll
fire the coach, all right. So then we get to
(05:45):
the even better stuff. So the owner of the Bills,
this guy, Terry Pagola. He also talked about Keon Coleman.
Now this is a big local issue in Buffalo because
Keon Coleman's not on a wide receiver. The guy sucks, right,
he's terrible. It was I think a second round pick.
The guy can't play, So everyone knows the guy guys,
So Pagola this was actually Brandon being the GM who
(06:06):
was asked about.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Keon Coleman the selection. What went into all of that?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And Pogola actually stepped in the owner of the Buffalo
Bills to answer the question, take a.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Listen, Yeah, can I interrupt, I'll address the Keon situation.
The coaching staff pushed to draft Kean. I'm not saying
Brandon wouldn't have drafted him, but he wasn't his next choice.
That was Brandon being a team player and taking advice
(06:40):
of his coaching staff who felt strongly about the player.
And he's taken, for some reason, heat over it and
not saying a word about it. But I'm here to
tell you the true story.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, I'm sure you are, yes, all right, So there
you go. He said, it's the coach. The owner of
the Bill said, it's the coaches. It's not my buddy,
my buddy Brandon Bean who got promoted. All right, So
that is a good jumping off point. Lots the unpacked
the Bill's owner is getting absolutely cooked for this. It's
(07:16):
been called just one of the most embarrassing things. The
guy's lost it. Al Davis had some of these back
in the day when he was obviously dead now on
the Raiders, So let us discuss the question Terry Pegoula
getting killed for what's being called a disaster class news
conference in Buffalo. People are saying he has damaged the
(07:37):
Bill's brand? Is that how you see it? So I've
got director's cut, Mazzarella, sticks, and anchorman, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we were going
to make a trip over Niagara Falls, because this felt
like a trip over Niagara Fall.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It was pretty good. I gotta tell you.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I woke up to a bunch of text message to
some people, head you see what the the Bill's owned to?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
What do you do? You know, I didn't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I was like, and I was kind of half half
sleeping still and I picked up my phone. Oh my god,
what I wanted?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Some of them?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Good must have happened. And then yep, yep, pretty good,
pretty good?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So my first thought on this to answer the question,
you know, people are saying that the Bill's.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Brand has been damaged? Is that how you see it?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So the answer is no, Everyone who's clutching their pearls
here and letting out a primal screen because Terry Pagoula
went off script.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh my god, the older talked. He said the thing
that you're not.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Supposed I mean, come on, listen, please, This didn't damage
the buff of the Bills brand. In fact, I'll be
the contrarian here behind the microphone, and I will say
that this made it more compelling, like this is must
see TV, must hear radio. We finally got the director's cut,
not the Disney edit, not filtered. This was classic old
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guy Philipbuster. We all hope to get old enough so
we just don't give an f anymore. You get to
a certain age and you see this all day. You
got the restaurants or whatever, the old guy that just
doesn't give a crap, right and just goes for it
and says whatever the things that polite society you're not
supposed to say. You say when you get to a
certain age, because you figure, hey, I got unlimited time left,
I'm gonna I'm enjoying myself. So Terry Pegoula was passionately
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defending the general manager of the Buffalo Bills, this guy
Brandon Bean. As you heard there like a proud dad
at a little league game.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
My boy did not want that draft pick. He did
not want that turd, did not want it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Meanwhile, the kids standing out in the outfield, that's Keon
Coleman out there catching strays like it's duck season. And
Coleman in the middle seat on a cross country flight.
Elbows on both sides, no arm, reds, no leg room,
nowhere to go.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You are trapped.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You are trapped, and the owner is saying, the owner
of the Bills saying eh, the coaches wanted the jam
says offing, of course, and then the player's stuck holding
the bag. Of course he should hold his duffel bag
because there's no way he comes back to the Bills.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And it's not that he didn't earn it. Keon Coleman
was not good at his job. He was a healthy scratch.
There was some behind the scenes issues there multiple games,
as I remember.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So this is not a brand damage.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Though I wouldn't go that far. I think of it
like the old Mad TV back in the day. If
you remember that dysfunction junction, how do you function? It's
compelling dysfunction. That's the Bills, baby, and hey, it's good,
it's great.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
People Oh, the Bill's mafia. The fan base is upset.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
They sure they're upset because they keep losing in the
playoffs and they like McDermott, and they'll get over it
once September comes around. They'll pick somebody new in the
draft and they'll hire a coach. He'll say all the
right and bull crap, and then everyone will be back
on the bandwagon. We get back to September now, page two.
Staying with the Bills though, So the question here the owner,
Terry Pagool has said that he's not going to tell
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the next Bill's coach it's super Bowl or bust, whoever
that might be. They haven't replaced Sean McDermott. But the
owner is like, well, I'm not gonna say it's super
Bowl or bus. So the question is why not?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Why not? All right?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
And my response would be because some things in life don't
need to be said. It's kind of like when you
get on an airplane. You know, you don't tell the pilot, hey,
try not to crash the plane. I mean, you don't
need to say that, right. If you're you're going into
the operating room, you don't tell the search and try
to get the right Kidney place.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You know, you don't know, it's implied. This isn't a
starter job.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
That we're not talking about going to Ikea and buying
a bookshelf and you're missing half the screws and the
Allen Ranches bent and you're like, ah, crap, this thing
is already built. It's already built that. The Bills are
a frozen food delicacy.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Think about it, like you had to Walmart and you
got every.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Possible frozen food you could want, right, and so you
go through there. You look, they got the frozen vegetables.
You don't want to part of that. I got some
ice cream, but you know about that. So then they've
got some fries, some potatoes, some onion rings, things like that.
But then you see the mozzarella sticks. You grab the
mozzarella sticks, and that's Buffalo buffaloes. The mozzarella sticks. You
don't cook them from scratch, they're already pre made. You
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just toss them in the air fryer for five minutes.
You don't screw that up. Boom, you got mozzarella sticks.
The Bills have an MVP quarterback. Granted it was kind
of a flimsy MVP, but they have an MVP quarterback.
Check that box. The roster that's been nibbling among the
top teams in the NFL for many years now, So
check that. And the clock, though, is ticking. You got
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about two to four years, depending on how this thing
goes with Josh Allen, before the Bills start coming due.
After that, well after that it gets ugly, ugly with.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
A capitol you. So you're talking about roster.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Rot and bad vibes and all that stuff. So Pagola,
the owner here, he doesn't have to formally and super
Bowl or boss doesn't have to say that because it's
already tattooed on the job description. If you read the minutia,
the fine print there, you will see that that is
the way it is now. The last word here. So
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following the Buffalo Bluster, reports came out of Western New
York claiming that a I love this, A source close
to Josh Allen said that the Bills quarterback had faith
in the leadership of the team under the owner Terry
Pagoula and Brandon Bean and will take an active role,
an active role in participating in the upcoming head coaching
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interview process.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So that was the way it was reported there, and.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
More likely than not, is Josh Allen calling one of
his buddies, the Beat writer, texting him saying, I gotta
get some message out right now.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Can you help me out? Sure, I'll help you out.
Why not? All right? Question?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So, Josh Allen, if this report is accurate, Josh Allen
is said to have quote faith in the Bills leadership.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Is this solid or shaky? All right?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
This is the word I will use on This is diplomacy.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
This isn't necessarily believe. It's like a hostage note written
with a nice smiley face. You wrote a little smiley
face there on your hostage note.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You're talking about a.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Guy that is the former MVP who's playing the role
in this chapter of the book as a statesman. Because
what else on God's green Earth is he gonna do?
Is he gonna act like Bill's Mafia and flip a
table and light it on fire in Orchard Park and
jump on it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Is that what he's gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Please Josh Allen's camp that everyone's dealing with this organizational whiplash,
and I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I have no skin in the game. Not in Finally,
on Bill's Monster, Derek and Felexus and the other people.
We have their bills fans in that part. We have
a lot of people in Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Love the show. It's great. But in about five minutes
I'm using Mallard time.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
But in about five minutes Bill's Mafia went from chest
thumping a playoff victory over, you know, just feeling good,
good playoff vibes.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
They watched the whole thing tip over like a.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Drunk guy going out to get the mail on a
walking on his driveway to go down to get the
mail and.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Slips and falls and all that.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
They go from beating Jacksonville late on a wild wild
Card weekend, everyone's feeling all warm and fuzzy.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Oh it's great.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Then overtime roadkill in Denver late against the Broncos, splat
windshield wipers can't keep up with the mess, and Josh
Allen turns into Anchorman's ron Burgundy, a glass case of emotion.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The owner walks into the locker.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Room, sees tears, panics, hits the big bed, the big
red button had a giant red button, hits that and
and wax the coach and then you're like, wow, that
escalated quickly, right, So if Josh Allen hadn't cried, would
you have kept showing Ian mcdham. I think that that
part of it is it smells like manure to me.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Because the issue was they kept losing. It wasn't that
they got emotional. If anything, getting emotional would indicate that
they care about the coach. You would want to keep
the coach, wouldn't that be the case? Like these guys
really love this guy and they felt bad. The other
thought I had was the players knew that if they
didn't win that game that Sean mcdertt was going to
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be fired, and they were bummed out about that. And
it's kind of how I relate. I've worked here at
Fox Sports Radio pretty much my entire adult life. We've
had many people run the company, and every time the
boss changes, you always get kind of this weird feeling
in your stomach. You're like, oh, crap, I might have
to go work somewhere else, you know, and and you
just keep doing it. But because every boss has their favorites, right,
(16:47):
every boss, no matter what the job is, whether it's
I work in radio, whatever your job is.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Well, it's got favorites. Like parents have favorite kids, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Just the way it is, and so you're always like,
oh no, you got a kind of new boss is
going to come in, not gonna like me, Ah crap,
what am I gonna do?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And all that stuff. But it is fascinating, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
And Josh Allen right now, you know, the cartoon bubble
in my head. He's saying all the right things right now.
He's the statesman. He's sweeping up the glass, he's taping
the bumper back on, and really, what choice does he have,
Josh Allen.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Is the Buffalo bills.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
He can't demo the building because he's still that's where
he works. You can't demo the building you work in.
You're still inside. And in terms of the word faith, yeah, sure,
it feels less less like belief though, it's more like
survival mode. And it's not really solid.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Ground right now.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's gonna thin ice and we'll see if.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
The bill's higher here.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Some of the names that have been mentioned for that
Buffalo job are not the most exciting names.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
They don't get you all aroused there, they don't. So
we'll see where this goes. But man, what a mess
al right?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
It is.
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Back to it right, back to it we go and
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even steven, the football team at least makes the playoffs. Meanwhile,
the Sabers haven't been in the playoffs since Obama was
handing out phones to your overnight callers. Thank god for
President Obama. Without him giving out the Obama phone, I'd
have no one calling the show without I mean, we
(22:49):
have the highest percentage of Obama phones that call this show.
It's wow, freaking dad, damn right, Fernd, I want one too.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It's great. Smartphone for owns is one hundred and eighty
dollars a month. How does that make any sense? Yeah,
that's a little that's a little much. Yeah, I want
Obama phone. Do you want to?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Like in the old days, and you're not that old,
but they used to charge for long distance phone calls
back in.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
The old b oh ye yeah, and also used to
be like you'd pay for each text message you sent singularly.
Can you imagine if you paid for each text message? Well,
but I would.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
My cousin actually made fun of me for this because
my dad we got a phone bill once and I
had over seventy five thousand text messages to my boyfriend
that month.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Seventy five thousand. It's a little much. You know, you
might want to step back off the gas a little bit.
I'm just saying what. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I remember when text messaging started and I was completely
against it. I said, that's ridiculous, why would we do that.
Now I'm at the point where I don't want anyone
to call me. I get offended and keep the phone,
you know, just want them to text me. I've done
a one eighty.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I'm like, I don't just text me.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I don't want to talk to you, and says I
don't really care for Terry Pagoula, but I'm a big
fan of his daughter, Jessica Pegoula, who's got a huge
match this Friday in the Australian Open. Not that I need,
not that I need to remind you, Ben, I know
you are all over the Aussie Open looking for content.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Damn right. Yes, I love my well.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I like New Zealand more than Australia, although we do
have great listeners in Australia and I can't rip Australia
because we are on there live. Can you believe that
we're actually broadcasting live? It's how many hours had stay? Yeah,
it's it's a whole different world. But we're there and
so we're we're in the past and we love them
and then so it's great. King Rory writes in and
(24:40):
says it was only a matter of time that McDermott
was going to get sealed Team six by the Bills
and this has to put more pressure on Lafleur and
the Packers. Lafleur and McDermott have a similar resume in
the playoffs, yet one was rewarded.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
While the other was fired. It makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Well, the only thing about that is the argument is
that the Bills with Josh Allen is.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
A clearly better player than Jordan Love.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Right, Jordan Love's inconsistent and all that has moments where
he looks really good and then stretches where he's terrible.
Josh Allen has been more consistently good. He's turned the
ball over a lot here recently. Gunner who's in Minnesota,
and he remember he's the guy that told us the
Carolina Panthers is going to be the Ola rams.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
That was his big prediction.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Worked out very well, he says, I hope my Carolina
Panthers now hires Sean McDermott as the defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Be a great. He was great in Carolina's gunner. What's
that one saying? You can hope in one hand and
yeah in the other, and see which one.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think we know which one's going to fill up there? Yeah,
I think we know how that's going to go. And
Nature voices the Bills just missed getting Robert Salah missed
it by that much. A lot of people enjoying the
Buffalo Bill's drama here. People who are not Bills fans.
They your boy says, answering the call to the Wiless
(26:02):
is tough to be a Buffalo Bill.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It's not easy. There.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Who else do we have? Page Nan I can't read that.
Let's see, we'll skip over that one. Lot of random
Lebron messages. Anyway, if you want to be part of this,
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Speaker 2 (26:47):
So the national.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Championship in college football was handed out the other day
as Indian the greatest upset of the modern here in
college football, beating all the big powerful schools and winning
the national championship.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
And so you have just won.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
The Heisman, the college football playoff title, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
You are, Fernando Mendoza. What are you going to do now?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
All right?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
So the options are A.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Go get hammered somewhere, just get completely blackout drunk. B
go to Disney World, or c go.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
On and update your profile on a job hunting website.
The answer would be ding ding ding ding ding. See yes,
do you see this? Yeah? So, Fernando Mendoza, who is
going to be drafted, We don't know where. It's going
to be such a mess. If he's drafted with the
very first pick of the draft, Holy crap, he's not
(27:46):
that good. Anyway, in terms of the NFL world.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So Fernando Mendoza updated his LinkedIn page and he wrote
a long manifesto. This is I guess he doesn't really
need to worry about employment. I think he'll be taking
care of financially. I think he's in good shape there.
And just in case, just in case, he wanted people
(28:10):
to know.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Here's what he wrote.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
He said, Monday night, my teammates and I had the
honor of raising the national championship trophy, Fernando Mendoza wrote,
and bringing a college football title back to Bloomington, Indiana
for the first time in history.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
That's a bit of a humble brag.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
With the guidance of our coaches and the unwavering support
of Hoo's your nation, which didn't even know they had.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
A football team two years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Anyway, our band of brothers made the unbelievable believable.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Then he says, here's what winning a national championship taught me.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
And then he went point by point. I won't go
through the whole thing, but he said number one, he said,
believe in yourself.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
He says, four years ago, I was a two star
recruit playing high school football thirty minutes from hard Rock
Stadium with a dream of playing at the highest level.
Mendoza rod, two days ago, I became a national champion
in the same stadium, surrounded by family and.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
All of that. He said, to take a risk.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Uh, And then he was bragging about the fourth and
five at the twelve yard line and go for it,
although that was not his call, right that was that
was the coach's call. That wasn't his decision. And then
he said the third thing was remember who got you there?
And he's you got to thank your teammates, coaches, support staff, professors.
How many classes do you think, Fernanda Mendoza goes to.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I don't know, even a lot. I have no idea.
I'm not there there you go. Could that be? Is
this like trolling? I don't I don't know. I don't know.
That's of course, there's always when you're when you're that
level athlete, there's always a well, this is like the
greatest you know athlete, blah blah blah blah blah. You
know this, this, that and the other thing.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
And uh, you know that the fanboys love whatever these
guys do.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
So anyway, let's go to the phones. And let's see
here any meany miny moment to blindfold myself and press
the number. Let's go. Uh, let's go to line one.
Matt is in death. Matt is gone. That was in death.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I wanted hopefully Matt will call back because the line
on my board seemed very interesting, So hopefully Matt will
call back. Let's go to Jed who fled? Who is
next in the Sunshine State? And he's mister Sunshine himself,
Jed who fled?
Speaker 8 (30:27):
Hello, Jed, I just had a line on my mirror
rights one of me, dude is not here anymore.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
But it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, I'm sure you.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
All right, But Matt Matt called back in dude, because
really it's hard to be interesting, right when the when
the spotlight? Do you remember that who wants to be
a millionaire? And it was like the side of the
life got lower in the crowd in the pressure cooker likes.
That's what it's like on Fox Sports Radio going to
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People do not realize the difficulty. You don't know when
I'm going to go to you, and then when that
light comes on. So you're on the stage, you're on
Broadway and you have to perform. It's a one hundreds
of thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It's amazing.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Imagine you know when you think you're you're talking to
somebody that doesn't even matter, and the embassment when you're like,
you know, the uh, the thing because because you know,
you like a president, previous president, when he's trying to
quote the declaration, you know, you know that.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
The thing he couldn't go the deculation. It is, well,
that's that's what he is. Whenever you can't think of
any word because you want to sound so smart, and
at the moment that you want to sound so smart,
you sound really stupid. It's like when you're trying to
impress the girl and you're like, I'm gonna say something awesome,
and then you're just like, hey, sexual agendo and it frops,
it flops.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, you become a is Matt back in of what.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
What's going on with Matt? He called back in hold on.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
So let me check my board here. I don't see
Matt's name. Matt did not call back. What a schmuck.
Bad job by Matt. You should have called back. I
would have gone right to him. You know, he had
something into None of you people ever have anything interesting
to say, and he he had.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Something that was interesting and he hung up. It's bat
chop by him?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
What he was going to tell you? What was he
gonna talk about? Let's see how much until I am.
Let's go with it. I'll talk about it unless you
think they might.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Ruin his call later if he does tell back, well,
if he does call back, that, yeah, I bet you
that you have done what he's about to do.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
How about that? I bet what he's about to do?
You have done? What do you think that is do?
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Dude?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
You've never paid my taxes in my life.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Dude's never You never paid taxes one day in your life.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
No, well you know you don't.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
You have to earn.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Don't you have to earn money. Don't you have to
earn money. You have to earn money to pay taxes,
don't you right?
Speaker 5 (32:34):
I thought you were gonna have to earn money to
the drugs, But yes, today you obviously didn't. And it's
like the beginning of the Steven Steelson isles, the treetop flyer,
like I don't pay taxes because I never found you
know what you need?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You know what you need, Jed, you know you need
in your life?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
You need dude wipes, I'll answer this.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
You need Do you need dude wipes? I'm doing a
dude wipe spot. Dude, calm down, all right, then wipe.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Your tuckis because I'm this ship.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Okay, thank you. I guess you wanted to end the
call there. Why can't we say that word? Loamrendas plaining
to me?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
What?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I would love to.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Write a note to the FCC.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And it seems like a pretty simple word to say.
I mean, we all do it, and it's just anyway, Well,
Jed clearly needs this, and you do too.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
If you ever wipe with a piece of that dry
toilet paper and question the time.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Space continuum, well things can be. Things can get better.
Switched to life changing wet extra large flushable dude wipes
because wetter just cleans better. Available at Amazon and at
major retailers nationwide. Dude wipes best clean pants down. But
when you call, try to keep your pants up. But
(33:46):
you do use the dude wipes. You can do what
you want, but when you call, try to keep your
pants up anyway. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
is the call in number. Time Now for the who
Am I?
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Game?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
You can answer this on X at Ben malor that's
at Ben Mahller.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
So I am the only quarterback, the only one in
the Super Bowl era to throw the ball forty times,
complete under fifty percent of my passes with no touchdowns
and still win a game on the road in the playoffs.
It's the only one person's done it. The only quarterback
in the Super Bowl era to throw the ball forty
(34:23):
times or more, complete under fifty percent of my passes
with no touchdown passes and yet still win the game
on the road.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Who in the playoffs? Who am I? That is the question?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
The answer if you know it at Ben Mahler will
get to it and we will.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Do it.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Next.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
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We thank you for hanging out with us on the overnight.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
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Speaker 1 (35:00):
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NFC game and one for the AFC Game Championship Sunday
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watch those later today. They're not up yet, but they
will be up later today. Benny Versus the Penny. Back
to it all? Right, back to it we go.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
And I do want to pay off the who Am I?
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Game?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Before I pay off the who Am I?
Speaker 8 (35:43):
Game?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
This guy Matt called up, and I want to get
to him and then I'll get to the payoff on
the on the who Am I game?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Matt's in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Hello, Matt, welcome, you're on the Ben Maler so thanks
for calling back. Matt's man, Hey, you tell me, it
says on my board here.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You're you're going to a big step in your life.
Is that correct, Matt? Yes, sir, you want to tell
the class what you're up to here.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Rehab.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
You're going to look at you. That's a wonderful muzzlefuck.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Gradually, that's a big step in your big step in
your life, and very good.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
You better still listen when you get out of rehab, dude, though,
don't don't forget about it.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Okay, many a morning's y'all taking me through my workout?
Speaker 2 (36:27):
So, oh good?
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Just fell off, you know, fell off the wagon.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
It happens, It happens. Right, you get off the wagon,
you get back. Got to get jumped back on the wagon, right,
you gotta jump back on the wagon, there, Matt, And well,
good luck, man. How long are you going to be
doing that for?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Thirty probably thirty forty, I don't know, Okay, So you'd.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Be away for a month or so and then you'll
be you'll be back and better than ever. Right, You're
still gonna be working out early overnight, early in the
morning and all that.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Yeah. Five, you know, I catch you guys and Polly
Field here. Marcel he kills me.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
But it kills me too, and I have to talk
to him three days a week. So how do you think, man, Marcel?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
You know, you know, when Marcel started calling, I thought
he was fake. I thought he was getting punked.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I thought there's no one there's no one like Marcel.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Yeah, no, it's it's it's what I used to work
at with. But I'll get back on the wagon, brother, all.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Right, good luck Matt, good luck man hanging there right.
Things will be things will be good, all right, is
the great man? How about that last call before rehab
to the show. All right, that's good. Good for him.
You gotta do it, man, You go to take care
of yourself. Stuff happens. Humans are fallible.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Time now for the payoff on the who am I?
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Game?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
And here it is.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I am the only quarterback in the Super Bowl era
to throw the ball forty times, complete under fifty percent
of my passes, no touchdown passes, and still win a
playoff game on the road. It never happened before this
particular person.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Who is it? That's the question. What's the answer?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Perito is going with Batgirl, Kirk Cousins from Femi the Uber,
Each Star in Minnesota, Roger Moseby from Mister Irrigation that
time on Fantasy Island.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Who else do we have? Doc Mike, the Widow of
the Day.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Very funny, very funny. Flounder remember him from ferg Dog?
How could you forget Flounder? Bobby and Florida, says a
clinging girlfriend who texts too much?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Is the answer, Bobby and Florida?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Becky ice Box O'Shea from King Rory. I don't know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Just as long as he keeps sending the pies in,
he can rip the hud one.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Malard prop Guy says Brian Fendog. Fenley is the way
to go. Who else do we have? Jay James Jamison
from Milkman Mike in Colorado to Coma Drew says NBA
enforcer Benoit Mengement. Fun fact to Comba Drew, there is
a Beanoit Benjamin documentary on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I'm not making that up. We're fun fact.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I have not watched it yet, but it's on YouTube.
It's on my watch list. I have not checked it out.
Miss Greenland from mister nice Guy, very funny. Who else
do we have a page down? Mario Mendoza guess by
Alf the Alien Opiner, the Mendoza line, the legend Jim
thorpe Pa from Rob in Minnesota. Eileen in San Francisco
says Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
You love Jimmy. You're a ram fant. Eileen is a
Ramfant forty nine ers from Rams. You like Jimmy g
I think there's other reasons you like Jimmy g But
that's fine. Who else do we have? Mass spots Weed
got it right, Bad job by him. Richard Hitchcock from
far out, Dave Tony Banks guests by Sean in the
Valley of the Sun. Is Shawn a grandfather yet? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Charlie Brown tossed out by Gunner in Minnesota. Sergio Dip
from the Nature Boy Slip some terry got it right,
bad job by him. Pat Ryan Jets legend from Big
Rig in the Pacific Northwest. Jim Hill, LA sportscaster Jim
Hill from Gill in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
All right, Lorena, do you have an answer? I'm gonna
go with Dale Gribble. Okay, finanswer, Oh it's in great.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
The only quarterback in Super Bowl era to throw the
ball forty times, complete under fifty percent of their passes,
no touchdown passes, still win a game on the road
in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
That's Matthew Stafford of the Rams this past weekend in Chicago.
Because you can ram it all day, you can ram
it all night. Quarterbacks were owned ninety nine and one
before that game. With those numbers,
Host
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