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January 23, 2025 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks Ben Johnson's introductory press conference as the Bears new head coach, Johnson saying he's ripping the Bears offense down to the studs for Caleb Williams, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He we go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our Numbumber two hour two and it's the Ben
Johnson Power Hour. The Chicago Bears introduced their new head coach,
will Grade his opening news conference and talk about the
Chicago Bears and what they're going to do to try
to fix Caleb Williams a total teardown, according to Ben Johnson.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We'll get to that and more right now here.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
It is our number two a Country Bear Jamboree.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Welmeme.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
In the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mahler Show.
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sweet home Chicago. Why not where the weather is bad,
the football is bad, the basketball is bad, the hockey's bad,

(01:46):
the baseball's bad.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Everything's bad right about now in terms of Chicago sports.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
But the the Bears the focused here. They rolled out
the orange carpet. Yeah, very exciting, the orange carpet there,
and Shouldicago welcoming in Ben Johnson.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
He's your new coach. I know you're excited.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
He was introduced today gala news conference at Hallis Hall,
the nineteenth head coach in the one hundred and five
year history of the Chicago Bears.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Johnson thirty eight years old. And he has hailed as
the great Savior, the great Messiah of the team there
in the Windy City, and architect of offensive.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Genius with the Lions and called up all the right
plays for Jarrett Golf. Of course, the Lions did not
succeed in the playoffs. Playoffs, Yeah, did not work out
so well. But if you didn't catch any of this,
and maybe he didn't, let me give you some of
the highlights here, Ben Johnson. Let's jump the cut two. Here,

(02:54):
here's Ben Johnson talking about what the job in Chicago
entails in turn of where the Bears franchise is.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
They're sleeping right now.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Apparently going into this season, I felt like this place
was a sleeping giant. To be honest with you, I
personally was more concerned about the Chicago Bears than was
anybody else in this division. Now, there's a number of
reasons why that did not unfold, all right, Which that's
why I'm here. I'll get to the bottom of that
and we'll see if we can't get that corrected and
cleaned up.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
All right.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
So he's really selling hard the fact that the Bears,
who won five games with a team that scared him.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
The most in the division.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Okay, Johnson said the job was particularly intriguing because of
Caleb Williams right building Calebs. We'll talk more about that
in a couple of minutes, but he said having a
quarterback obviously helped.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
So let us.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Discuss the question, how did you judge Ben Johnson's opening
act as Chicago's coach dealing with the media. So I've
got Joel Olstein, sugar coated and Geneva conventions, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are

(04:05):
going to cause double trouble. Is what we're going to
cause so na. Ben Johnson was laying on the salesmanship, very.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Very thick, right, very very thick.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
And we've watched so many of these opening news conferences
over the years. They're always pretty much the same in
terms of it's a cookie cutter format, paint by numbers,
it's come out, you got a photo op with the jersey,
the helmet, it's I want to thank my family, I
want to thank the owner.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I want to thank the fans. These fans deserve a winner.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
This team is ready to win, and I'm just the
person that's going to come in.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
There and make the spectators happy.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's going to be so good, hot diggity dog right,
this one like all of them, but even even more
so listening to Ben Johnson talk, it was like a
religious revival. Imagine, if you will, the new coach or
that Cogo Bears. Ben Johnson, he's talking like he's a televangelist.
Like watching Joel Olstein. You're not talking about the Bears

(05:08):
and what's going to happen in the future, giving a
shout out from the from the pulpit.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's like a sermon from the pulpit, is what it was.
There he was doing, doing.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
A sermon and spreading the messaging with positivity and hope
for the Chicago Bears and franchise and player empowerment and
all this stuff through his teachings, and all he needs,
all Ben Johnson needs is a few disciples. Now that's it.
Now we played the sound by sleeping giant of a franchise.

(05:38):
Now I would argue, based on many years of analyzing
the Bears from behind these microphones, that the Bears are
not a sleeping giant. They're obviously a hibernating bear in
a medically induced coma, is what they're in. And Ben
Johnson is tasked with molding Caleb Williams into Jaydends who,

(06:01):
by the way, the Bears, if they they knew what
they were doing, they would have taken Jayden Daniels with
the number one pick. But instead they said, no, no,
we've got to bug up our ass and we want
to take Caleb Williams. And Caleb Williams is so far
away from being good it's not even funny.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
So good luck to Ben Johnson.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Now here's more. Page two. The rhetoric continues. So Ben
Johnson said that he's leaving the Lions. Playbook back in Motown,
that he's not taking away him, that Chicago's offense is
going to be calibrated for Caleb Williams. So, in fact,
here he is talking about Caler Williams. Ta take a listen.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
This offense will be calibrated with him in mind. We're
going to build this thing. This is not simply a
dropping of a previous playbook down on the table and
starting there. No, we're ripping this thing down to the studs,
and we're going to build it up with him first
and foremost.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Okay, all right, so what do you make you just
heard the sound bite.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
What do you make of Ben Johnson saying that he's
ripping the Bears offensive playbook down to the.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Down to the studs for Caleb Williams.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
So this is a stay it with me now, dead
dear waight to dead, dear wait. If you are a
pigeon eared listener, you know what I'm talking about right now.
He certainly was sugarcoating things here, Ben Johnson. But Kayleb
Williams rookie season was a total waist, a total waste,
No ifs ands or butts about it.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
There's nothing you can say. There's nothing you can.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Salvage the plumbing, No, the doors, the cabinry, the appliances,
the hardware, complete and total.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Zero a waste of time. There's nothing left. You're tearing
things down all the way to the studs because that's
how big a mess.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Caleb Williams is and so amazon my odds, I took
the job because of KYLEB.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Williams are not.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
You would not have to bring the playbook down to
the studs if Caleb Williams was a stud.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
But he's not.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
He holds the ball way too long, He's got a
very low football IQ.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
He's obtuse during games.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
All you need to know is watch that Thanksgiving Day game.
Go back and watch the end of it when the
Bears were in position and he turned in to a
giant turkey. So Ben Johnson will do the same thing
he tried to do for Jared Goff. He will spoon
feed Caleb Williams. That's what all these coaches do. But

(08:36):
ultimately the problem is that only gets you so far,
because at some point you've got to take the training
wheels off, and in crunch time.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
You're not going to be able to spoon feed plays.
Everything changes and then you're exposed, and you're exposed in
playoff games.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Like Jared Goff has been absolutely terrible in the biggest
games he's played in with the line. No matter that
Ben Johnson is there or not, it doesn't matter. He
can't handle it. He's completely zapped in big moments, Jared Goff.
And so why would anything be different with Caleb Williams. Now,

(09:15):
we'll wait, We'll give him the usual grace period, right,
little grace period, Ben Johnson.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
We'll see what happens. I.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
As I said in a previous episode of this program,
it's he's the flavor of the month, he's the soup
of the day, and he's the hot shot coordinator. And
I'd love to know how this works. Is there like
a committee, a blue ribbon panel somewhere at the NFL
headquarters where they're like, all right, let's move this guy
up to the top of the totem plow where this

(09:43):
is the hot hot to trot assistant coach.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's like, how do you? How do you? I?

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Actually, the Lions had a lot of regular season success.
There was a lot of smoke, a lot of smoke
for the Lions offense, but unfortunately the flame was not there.
In the playoffs, they lost to a rookie quarterback at
home despite having a bye week.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
That's embarrassing and that is absolutely ambrassing right now.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Final point, So many are saying that the Bears head
coach Ben Johnson poked at the Green Bay Packers when
he said I take pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice
a year. Now, he was kind of singing the praises

(10:27):
of the other coaches in the division, but he said,
I take pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice a year.
So where does this rank on the cheap shot scale?
Where is that rank from the cheap shot scale? For
Ben Johnson taking a little pot shot at Matt Lafleur. So,
I gotta tell you, I saw this headline. I got

(10:49):
a little excited, I did. I saw the headline, and
then I watched the news conference and I was like,
I don't really remember him taking any shot at any
other coach, but I saw the headline.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
I said, oh, that's pretty good. I'm gonna click on that.
And I clicked on it.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
And I was like, what so on the Malard scale
of insults coach to coach, Ben Johnson saying, I take
pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice a year. That ranks
just ahead of being given a time out where you're
sent to the corner of the room and your parents

(11:27):
giving you an earlier bedtime.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Draconian, absolutely draconian.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Taking pleasure after beating a division rival twice a year.
That is cruel and unusual punishment. That is a violation
of the Geneva Conventions. It is how dare you despotic? Despotic?
Can someone in Green Bay, and we're on in Green Bay,
can somebody go to a wellness check on Matt Lafleur

(11:56):
see how he's doing.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, So Ben Johnson wants Bears fans obviously fired up.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Cruise up I ninety four there, stop at the the
Cheese Castle and Kenosha on your way to lambeau Field.
And it's fair to say, though, if the Bears don't
at least break even against the Packers, then Ben Johnson
will be decommissioned from coaching the Bears. Is that fair

(12:25):
to say that he's not gonna last? Now, you only
had so many opportunities in the division. The easiest path
to making the playoffs playoffs.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Is to win the division.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Now what he should have done, Ben Johnson is gotten
out on the dais and channeled the mayor of Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Can you give me?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I want to hear what I haven't heard the mayor
in like an hour. Give me the Mayor of Philadelphia,
the honorable men. That's what Ben Johnson should have done,
like a Bears chant and try to spell bears and then.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
F it up.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Let me hear you all saying he ow pee, o mee.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
God is cobird?

Speaker 1 (13:11):
That is so good? Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
That's how you fire up a fan base, right there,
Ben Johnson, he was all right, but gotta.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Be like the mayor of Philadelphia. That's how you really
fire people up. All right?

Speaker 2 (13:21):
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(13:44):
good old Jerry Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys,
has been used as a pawn on the chess board
that Jerry Jones has been used as a pawn on
the chess board.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
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Speaker 1 (14:49):
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Speaker 2 (14:57):
Not the five the four oh five near the Getty Center.
It's right right there, the iconic Getty Center.

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But anyway, so.

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Speaker 1 (15:17):
Actually my mouth is normal sized.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I have big feet and I have a very large head,
but by the mouth is normal size. Coming up next hour,
Bill was supposed to promote this. But coming up next hour,
we're gonna have asked Ben. Your questions are answers that'll
be coming up in our number three later this hour,
Mallard to the third degree will be coming your way.
King Rory writes, and he says, as a packer fan,

(15:41):
I'm sure Matt Lafleur is doing just fine, especially after
he gets his daily manny petty and facial. Late night
drug tester rights and says, tough guy talk from Ben
Johnson falls flat, especially since Green Bay was blocked a
blocked field goal from going oh to six in the
division last season. He says, let's see here what else?

(16:06):
Stevie Meatballs writes.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
In from the state of Florida.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
He says, I'm not I'm not covetching, really, just informing
you something. Something's up with your volume. He says, out
of nowhere, you are too low?

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Is that right? Lorena? Are the levels off Loreena. You think,
I don't know if the same to me.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
According to Stevie Meatballs, he's got supersonic hearing.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
You've sounded the same to me the whole time.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Well as Stevie, let's double check.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
Will you check the sound waves please?

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Waves? Yeah? A little lower?

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yeah, and that than that last segment it was, yeah,
right now it's lower, Right now, it's lower.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
That's lower.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
I haven't touched your thing at all.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
You have not touched it? Is that any better? No,
I'm not hello, talk louder ben.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
I mean to talk as loud as I can't. I
can't lose my freaking voice than you guys are doing
the show.

Speaker 5 (16:59):
Now you're peaking, Oh yeah, yeah, definitely peking there. It's
weird though, because you sound the same as you have
the whole time. But yeah, my sound recording machine yet.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Well, Stevie Meatballs, and yet again the customers right, Stepen
Meatballs as supersonic hearing there in Florida, and he's hearing
this and he's like, hey, wait a minute, doesn't sound
right my whispering.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
I'm not whispering anyway. Who else do we have?

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Page Nan can't read that tammy in Vegas, although we
should point out she is a Packer fan. She says,
Ben Johnson is not going to enjoy those victories anymore.
Moving to the Bears, he will definitely see more losses
than wins. Jason the Diamond Man writes, and he says, wait,
did the did the mayor really misspell the Eagles? I

(17:46):
would love for the new Raiders coach to not know
how to spell Raiders. Yes's the greatest sound. But every
time I play this mayor from Philadelphia, I smile from
ear to ear.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
It warms my cockles. It.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
I just love it. I love it so much. I
love it so much. Can we play it again?

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Lona?

Speaker 2 (18:04):
This is a mayor of Philadelphia at a PEP rally
to promote the Eagle game. And she fed up the
one thing you can't f up.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Let me hear you all saying he owee.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Go bird goll birds, goll bird's goll bird's.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Truck Stop Fungus writes in you know it's a big
night if truck Stop Fungus is listening to the live show,
says we need more tennis talk. Nothing more exciting than tennis.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
I love tennis, Ben, Yeah, they have the cutest skirts, Well.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
There is tennis going on, but our news department's taking
the nap over there, so there's no no tennis until
tomorrow during the day, I think around these parts, Gunner
writes in from the.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Walmart north of Duluth in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Way north of Duluth, he says, just telling everyone now,
the Carolina Panthers are going to win the Super next year.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
And that's a fact.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
Oh yeah, Well, if.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Gunner said it, it must be true. It must be
true unless it's not true.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, all right, we'll take some calls.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
You want to be part again, you can join the
nonsense at eight seven seven.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Ninety nine on Fox. It's eight seven seven nine nine
six six three sixty nine.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
And coming up in a little bit was Jerry Jones
used as a pawn on the chess board.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
We'll get to that, but.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Let's say hello to Caden, who's hanging out in Alaska. Hello, Caden,
you're representing the entire state of Alaska.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
What's up? Welcome man? What part of are you in Anchorage?
Where you at?

Speaker 4 (19:46):
I'm actually in Wassila. I'm from the Keene Peninsula, Savannah
and Keen area. It's a smaller area. We're basically known
for the biggest red salmon run in the entire world,
actually one of the top three in the world. But
I'm up here in Wassolla right now.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
When you were raised there, you were raised there, you.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
Were born and raised twenty three years yep.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Wow, what's it like growing up in Alaska? You probably
don't know anything else, but that's all you know, right,
You just.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Know a lot.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
I mean, I did my short I did my short
stinth in Texas for like a bs BS pest control company.
I lived in Texas a little bit. Uh lived in
Florida for a little bit, you know, just trying to
like see what it's like. But I think it always
brings me home. I freaking love Alaska. Lots of hiking,
lots of scenery. And no, we don't live in from things.
We live in igloos.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, but you probably know how to build an igloo.
If you had to, you could build an That's right.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
There's a lot of snow six months a year.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, I hear you. I well, very excited. So what's
on your mind here, Kayden?

Speaker 1 (20:39):
What do you got?

Speaker 4 (20:39):
I don't know. It's kind of funny because I got
my uh my girlfriend's little brother here. We got a
bet on the game, on the Commander's Eagles game, and
I just think it's so funny that he actually thinks
that the Commanders have a chance, Like I think they're
really high powered. But I think you just follow the numbers.
If you take rookie quarterback and championship games are zero
for five. The last one was Brock thirty. I think
the only reason Brockberty got there it was because it

(21:01):
was the night Ers and they they were insane. And
I don't know, I think if you have half of
a brain, I think you get any money on the game.
I think I think you know Eagles all the way.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah. See, I I gotta tell you.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I don't know who your your little your girlfriend's brothers
or whatever, but I'm kind of I'm on his team, Kaden.
I don't you think Jayden and Dan is gonna go
out there and ride the vomit comment in that game
and not be able to handle the moment.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
I don't think that's the case. I think.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
I don't. I'm very impressed. He's the best rookie quarterback
I think I've seen in my life. And I'm young,
but yeah, I mean I think if Eagles have half
of an okay game plan drawn up for him to
just stop the run and like to kind of keep
him contained, you know Eagles are going to score there.
I mean, say un Market had two hundred and six
yards two touchdowns on the Well, that's true.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
But the Eagles, I wasn't very impressed with the way
they played against the Rams. The Rams had a chance,
they had the ball, final seconds to go down, get
a touchdown, and you know, conceivably win the game on
an extra point.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
So you know, the Eagles they're not playing that great.
They're not.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
The Rams won the stats, not that that matters, but
if Washington plays a clean game, they'll cover the spread.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
If not, obviously they'll lose by a gazillion.

Speaker 4 (22:13):
So cover the spread. Yes, I agree with that, and
yeah I'm not as a sac one marketing guy. He
was obviously my first Sicken fantasy and carried me to
the championship this year, so I'm just kind of ruined
him on Well, that's a humble brat.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
What you're doing is humble bragging here, Kayden.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
You're bragging what you're doing, all right? There's no need
for that, you know, you need to brag. All right,
Well listen, Kaden, thanks for listening to the show. Tell
a friend, tell everyone there in your town, and then we'll.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
See what happens. All right, Thank you, Kayden. Great Cayden
in the last Yeah.

Speaker 6 (22:41):
I was just about to say the same thing.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
Yeah, you just went a little too fast.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
The call ended.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
That's it's rare. Cayden's in the demo. He's listening to
the show with someone else, which is good. We like that,
and we ranked by I want to I want you
to know in small towns in Alaska, this show is
the top late night entertainment. The Ben Maler Show is
king of late night entertainment small town Alaska.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
I told Cayden, but when I screened his phone call,
I'm actually going to Alaska for the first time in
about four months.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
You're going during the summer May mayy Okay, not the summer.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, you're going for a wedding or no.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
My whole family is doing a cruise Grandma parents, kind.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Of like Seattle or something. Yeah, you take a boat
up to Alaska. Yeah, okay, all right. Yeah, my brother
went to Alaska a couple of years ago. I loved it.
I think both my brothers have been there. I've not
been to Alaska.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
I'd like to go to that part that's like right
near Russia, you know, that part as far away just
like Stare, you know, and like walk over across the way.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
Can see Russia from your house?

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, why not? What the hell? Let's go to the phone.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
So we'll say hello to blind Emmett the Seahawks man,
Hello blind Emmett.

Speaker 7 (23:57):
Hello Big Ben. Now I just got to say that
they are a Philly messing up. The eagle spelling got
to be one of the best things in sports history.
Like that, that is a great drop. I love it.
I mean, Lorena, hit it, hit it again.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Let me hear you all saying, ow.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Ye, I don't know how to I don't know how
to pronounce that e g L S e s. You
need an extra, you need an extra like e in there.
You can't you can't eat. How do you pronounce e
G L S?

Speaker 7 (24:30):
My thing with it too? Is it like this eagle?
That's not a hard word, Like there's a lot harder
out there, and you mess that up as a mayor
of Philly, Like how embarrassing? Like the philadel Can you do?

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Can you do?

Speaker 2 (24:42):
The Seahawks chant, could you do you know s E
A H A w K. See, that's too long and
that's too long a name to do that.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Will they take an extra letter hawks?

Speaker 7 (24:53):
Like they do that where like somebody will say see
and the other person says Hawks.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
You know, yeah, what we do is Ram fans. We
just will ram it all day, ramon all night.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Very mass who's really dumb.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
I think they did that in Saint Louis. I think
that's why they've kept that tradition continuing. But they should
have left that in Saint Louis. They should have left
the Rams house thing in Saint Louis. It doesn't quite
work when like seventy percent of fans are for the
other team.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
It's kind of embarrassing. So you shouldn't do that.

Speaker 7 (25:24):
Lewis cares about the Rams at all now, like they're
just a forgotten thing.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
I don't know about that. I actually was.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
I popped up on our affiliate in Tampa on their
morning show there, and the producer of that show is
like a big Rams fan. He's a Saint, he was
a Saint Louis Ram fan. He grew up a Saint
Louis Rams fan, and he's still Yeah, we're booming all
over Tampa.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
One of our newest affiliates.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
We are very excited on w A ninety five point
three on the FM dial.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Greater Tampa are. They're very nice people there, right, wonderful love.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
That to them.

Speaker 7 (25:56):
But Ben, I think the Aaron Glenn higher now, I
think as a Jets, you know, it is something that
you do have to do. You have to bring in
like that defensive minded guy. But I don't think they're
going to be set up for any success because Woody
Johnson that's so terrible that he bases is like his
acquisitions on Madden Ratings, so like you can have the
greatest head coach in the world, but with Woody Johnson,

(26:18):
you're not going to be anything. And if I'm the Jets,
I shouldn't stay right away from Aaron Rodgers. If you
bring them back again, you're going to be set up
for failure and you're just delaying the process of getting
your franchise quarterback.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
You know.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, the whole owner thing. I don't agree with the
popular opinion. I've never like, I don't even know who
owns this company. I don't pay I don't I've had
many jobs. I've worked for different radio students. I've been
here a long time, obviously, but I've never tried to
do a worse job because I have a boss or
an owner that's, you know, an idiot.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
I've had plenty of idiots who have been my boss
over the years. But I just keep want.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
I wanted two of the show as good as I can.
I would think if you're a player on the Jets,
it doesn't matter. I mean, there have been bad owners
that have won championships, right There been people that have
been incompetent. It's just to me, it's an easy excuse
to say, well, I got a bad owner.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
They're never winning all that stuff.

Speaker 7 (27:06):
I mean, he's definitely a part of it, and I think,
you know, what it could be is more than him
making the decisions. Obviously, it's gonna be disagreements with him
and the general manager. I mean that's kind of what
the whole last well.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I remember when I remember Jed York in the in
the Bay Area years ago, people were ripping him there.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
He don't know what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
The Niners have no chance of ever being competitive, and
they not that they won a Super Bowl, but the
Niners have been a playoff team.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
They weren't this year.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
They finished in last place, but they've been to a
couple of Super.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Bowls and and they don't have a great owner.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
People, the players in the NFL ripped the owner of
the Chiefs all the time, the kids that they say,
how cheap the Hunt family is. Yeah, they ripped the
ownership in Kansas City. You think that's affecting Patrick Mahomes
and Andy Reid and all that. No, there's they still
win a bunch of games. So and Brad, Look, Robert,
Robert Kraft is not is a very frugal man that

(27:59):
owns the pictures?

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Did that?

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Did that stop Tom Brady and Bill Belichick from having
a twenty year run of greatness in the NFL?

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Didn't?

Speaker 4 (28:05):
So?

Speaker 1 (28:06):
I when I hear like, it's the owner, it's the owner,
it's the owner now.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
And if Dan Snyder owned the Washington Redskins slash Commanders
and they drafted Jaden Daniels, they would maybe they would
championship game, but they would they would be a good team.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
But you brought up the Niners real quickly. If they
are to pay Brock Purty sixty million a year, they
are so stupid I mean, this is like his time
to prove that he's actually good. No, he's We're all right, man,
He's just that guy that you play in the system.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
He's going, that's a bad take. That's a bad that's
a bad take.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
See the take is a Seahawks fan and I as
a RAM fan, we should want brock.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Party to get paid sixty million.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
And then we can point, we can point and laugh
at Terry in England.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
And uh and all these other cauy alamta lou. You know,
we can goof on those guys.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
When when Brock purtys mister average.

Speaker 7 (28:55):
Seventy mil Brock Party seventy million?

Speaker 2 (28:58):
How about how about this the first first one hundred
million dollar player?

Speaker 1 (29:02):
How about that?

Speaker 7 (29:03):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
That'd be great. One hundred million, So.

Speaker 7 (29:09):
That'd be great.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, all right, very good. Thank you, Emmett.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
There's a blind Emmitt the Seahawks fan checking it, and
we love his He didn't call that off anymore, but
he's a big fantasy. We dominate Alaska and the Pacific
Northwestern am at the blind Seahawk fan.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
A reminder that the Ben Mahlor.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
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That's Expresspros dot com. So is it possible? Is it
possible that Jerry Jones is being being used and he's
It's a weird deal because the storyline they say Jerry

(30:15):
Jones being used as a pawn on the chessboard. But
is Jerry incahoots? So here's the story. Dion Sanders about
a week ten days ago, it was Dion, Dion to
the Cowboys, Deon to the Cowboys. Dion's gonna leave Colorado's
going to coach the Dallas Cowboys. So that was making
the round. But Dion has not interviewed for the job.

(30:37):
The Cowboys have interviewed multiple people, Dion is not one
of them. Now comes a story that Colorado has the administration,
the athletic Department, the boosters, the people that cut the
checks for nil, that they have stepped up quote significantly
to make Dion Sanders happy at Colorado, which makes you wonder, right,

(31:03):
it makes you wonder whether or not this was all
part of some master plan. And Jerry used Dion to
get some publicity, and Dion used Jerry.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
To get more money out of Colorado.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Put pressure on the athletic director, this guy Rick George,
by George and get them to spend more money. And
so that's that's where we are.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
We'll see.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
But Jerry Jones has not interviewed officially Dion standards. The
story is about ten days old, and it sounds like
Deon's got more money out of Colorado.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Let's go back to the phones. We'll say hello, toy
Meani money mo. Let's sayo to Poppy in San Diego.
Hello Poppy, Hey.

Speaker 7 (31:54):
How's it going on?

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Man?

Speaker 4 (31:54):
Meller?

Speaker 1 (31:56):
You know what's on my mind?

Speaker 7 (31:58):
I want to talk about Let's talk about that NFL
takes with Lorena.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
You know for the week now we stopped doing that.
We stopped doing that. Remember you stopped calling in, so
we stopped doing that.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
No.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
No, actually I've been called with you know, you have not.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
Been putting me out.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
I don't know what happened. No, No, I ended up.
We ended that bit, Poppy, the bits over.

Speaker 7 (32:16):
No, we didn't.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
No, we didn't.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
You know, Papa, we ended that bit. The bit's over, Poppy.

Speaker 7 (32:20):
No, no, it's not over.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
I actually want to talk about Poppy.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
But I know you have a hit in channel to
annoy me. But shut your trap for a second. All right,
take a breath, as Doc Mike would say, take a breath. Okay,
you're not going to win this battle.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Number one.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Number two. You had an opportunity to call up. You
didn't call up.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
That's it, We're done. No, you just didn't put me on.

Speaker 6 (32:42):
But anyways, we know thats that you're saying, and we
we can't take that.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
But I just wanted to Did Poppy call up every
week during the NFL season at the end of the
year to make his.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Picks every week every week?

Speaker 7 (32:54):
No?

Speaker 1 (32:55):
You did not. The answer to that is.

Speaker 7 (32:57):
No, That's okay.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
But I want to I really want to talk about
the Commanders and the bilki Is. I mean, I want
to start both games, but I want to talk about
the Commanders.

Speaker 6 (33:06):
About the Eagles.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
You know, on my I had them on my top
five off this season long the Commanders and the Eagles.

Speaker 7 (33:14):
That's gonna be, that's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
You're giving me a headache. I don't want a headache.
Why do you give me a headache?

Speaker 7 (33:18):
Can you give me the line on that, Ben maler rope, No.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
I can't. I gotta go, I gotta, I gotta go. Smoke.
Thank you? All right? Jeez? No, he didn't take no
for an answer, so I had to hang up on him.
Tough love. Time Now for the Insta trivia.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
A blatant attempt to get you to listen little bit
longer while Mallard of the third degree coming up in
a little bit.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
But here's the.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Insta trivia, including the postseason. Sean McDermott has won ninety
three games since being hired as Buffalo's head coach back
in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
That is tied, that includes the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
That is tied with Mike Holmgren for the second most
wins by head coach in their first eight seasons including
the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
The only coach.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
That has more wins than Sean McDermott and Mike Holmgren
their first eight seasons including the postseason is blank again
including playoff football. Buffalo's Sean McDermott has won ninety three
games as Bill's head coach going back to twenty seventeen.
That is tied with Mike Holmgren for the second most

(34:29):
wins by a head coach in his first eight seasons,
including the playoffs in NFL history. Only blank, Only blank
has more fill in.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
The blank the answer, We'll get to it, and we
will do it next.

Speaker 6 (34:47):
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Speaker 2 (34:59):
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photos and other videos available on Instagram and the Facebook
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Speaker 1 (35:55):
Ben Mallor show the Facebook page. Back to it.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
We go, Yeah, and it's a bills.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
It's been here. You can say my name again. You're
a loser.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Here is the Insta trivia including the postseason, and we're
gonna have Mallard of the thirty week coming up, but
including the postseason. Sean McDermott has won ninety three games
since being hired as Buffalo's head coach in twenty seventeen.
That's tied with Mike Holmren if you're old enough to
remember him from Green Bay and Seattle, for the most

(36:28):
wins by a head coach in his first eight seasons,
including the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
In NFL history, only Blank had more.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Wins than Sean McDermott. That is the question. What is
the answer, And let's see does anyone know the answer?
We go to the amazing responses here, let's see page
and we'll skip over that one. Batman guests by Alf
the Alien Opiner. He says, how does Batman Exis Batman exist?

(36:58):
Batman shampoo exist? Not conditioner Gordon, It's a great point.
Shane Mack, who I believe mister nice guy won a
halftime shooting contest at a Clipper game and they didn't
want to give him the price.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
I think it was Shane Mack.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Maybe not, maybe I'm confusing him with someone else, but
old baseball player Shane Mack. Who else do we have
page down? Let's see you can't read that. Bobby the
brain heenon from Adrian. The pokey pokey pokey guy Gunner
from King Roy. Good photo of Gunner. I don't know
how you got that. Good job by you, Elloy from Compton,
says Coach Hayden Fox, the head coach of the E

(37:34):
L G S E S from Ferg Dog. Who else
do we have page down? Coach buzz Cut from Tammy
in Vegas. Coach Klin from Barbecuing Land. All right, what
say you, Lorraine?

Speaker 6 (37:49):
Fix it?

Speaker 5 (37:49):
Felix has a lot of awards, been lots of medals.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
Very close. It's either that or the guy that was
the answer, George Seaffert. George Seffert is the answer.

Speaker 8 (37:58):
Here we go, how about that degree? This is when
Big Ben gets grilled goo out.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
On Tuesday, it was reported that an NFC personnel executive
expects the Dolphins to send Tyreek hillton to the New
England Patriots this offseason, Ben, could you see that happening?

Speaker 1 (38:21):
So here's the deal.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
There's only two ways Tyreek Hill ends up being traded
from Miami to the New England Patriots. Number one is
he's completely washed up and the Dolphins want a sucker
the New England Patriots into taking Tyreek Hill.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
That's the first way.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
The second way would be Tyreek Hill is like a
trojan horse that he still can play, but he's such
a disruptor, he's such a problem child that he'll f
up the Patriots even more.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Those are the only two ways.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
I remember Belichick years ago traded Drew Bledsoe to Buffalo
because he knew Bledsoe was done and so he's like,
all trade him in the division, and he did. That's
the only way Tyreek Hill should end up in a
Patriot uniform. I think Cooper Cup is more likely for
the Patriots next.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
In another report, an NFL insider suggested that there is
a chance that Mike Tomlin could decide to go with
Justin Fields heading into next season. Ben, do you think
that's even a remote possibility.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
So you're saying there's a chance I go no, because
Russell Wilson sucked for several games at the end of
the year, and Tomlin could have gone back to Justin.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Fields, he chose not to.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
Next, the Bills Ravens game drew forty two point two
million viewers. It was the largest audience this season, but
it was also down over sixteen percent from last year's
Chiefs Bills matchup. Overall, the divisional round was down eight
and a half percent. Ben, do you think it's strictly
the quality of the matchups? Says There something deeper to
be read into here.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah, there's so many deeper It's called Taylor Swift coop.
Taylor Swift was not involved in that. If Taylor Swift
did it involved it would have been a different outcome.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
How'd we know you passed the sedition? That is a
wig Orna won Lorena. I'm a little so proud of
the band. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'd like my
flowers

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Shipped out right now.
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