January 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jerry Jones saying he's not reducing his role as Cowboys GM, what the future holds for Mike McCarthy as coach, Colts owner Jim Irsay's support for the Colts brain trust, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ewe go welcome. It's our number two and our first
stop is deep in the heart of Texas. How do
you explain Jerry Jones saying he's not reducing his role
as the Cowboys GM. Also, since Jerry Jones is staying
no chaker there, what about coach Mike McCarthy, we analyze
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what he had to say, And how do you dissect
Jim Ursay's support for the Colts brain Trust saying that
the gang will be back. We'll go there as well.
All of it coming your way right now here. It
is our number two. For some it is the end,
but for others it is just the beginning of the
real fun. Wel come in as we are kickstarting yet
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So are lead this hour from the NFL. We continue
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to dissect Week eighteen. The Sunday night game a dud.
We were planning on spending multiple hours talking about the game.
We can talk about if you call up and want
to discuss. As the Lions played thumper on the Minnesota Vikings,
although early on there were the Lions did have a
guardian angel when Jared Goff should have been called for
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a safety when he threw the ball into the ground
in the end zone and there was no receiver anywhere
near the pass, and the referees are like, oh no, no,
that was non intentional grounding. No no, no, oh, there
was a receiver. It was imaginary. But anyway, so I thought,
why not rare and appropriate Week eighteen over getting ready
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for the playoffs. So let's talk about a team that
almost never does anything in the plus, not even in
the playoffs. This year, we go to Jerry's world where
the Dallas Cowboys, in a game that dozens of people
were excited about. The Cowboy defense allowed Washington backup quarterback
Marcus Mariota to march eleven plays eighty one yards down
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the field for the game winning touchdown with three seconds
left on the clock, destroying get again another one of
my picks on benny versus a penny. Thank you very
much the Cowboy fans. You get the guess which finger
I'm holding up? That's right? Number you all right? Anyway?
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All right? So Dallas ends up seven and ten on
the season, and so that's where the story is. Chatter
about what's next for the coach, what's next for the
general manager? Well, you know who the GM is. That's
also the owner, Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones was asked about
giving up the possibility of giving up his general manager duties,
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and he left nothing, nothing to the imagination. Jones said,
the facts are is a quote, The facts are. Since
I have to decide where the money is spent, then
you might as well cut out all the bullshoy. He
didn't say shoy, he said in another word, it's like
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very similar to a word like a like a ship
in the ocean. But it's not ship in the ocean, bullshoy,
is what he said. That's who's making the call anyway
from Jerry Jones. All right, so let us discuss the
question for the Esteem Panel which you happen to be
a part of. How do you explain Jerry Jones saying
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that he is not reducing his role as the Cowboys GM.
So I have nineteen eighty Sitcom, Daily Double and Kroger,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make the clapper clap on, clap
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off the clapper. That's right, because Jerry Jones, I think
needs one. That's an old infomercial from back in the day.
All right, So, no, b what my response to the
question that's on the Esteem Panels table? How do you
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explain Jerry Jones saying he will not be reducing his
role as the Cowboys GM. It is the I thik,
it's the word sensible. It is sensible, is my position,
because if I own the Dallas Cowboys, I would be
the GM of the Dallas Cowboys too, and so would you.
What's the point of if you buy an NFL team
shouldn't you be the GM. I don't understand why every
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owner isn't the GM of d I would want to.
I like the Rams. If I bought the Rams, you
know I'm gonna be the GM. I will be the
general Major. So everyone calls them a goose on Jerry Jones,
Jerry doesn't care and you're so stupid. When you rip
Jerry Jones, it empowers Jerry Jones. It fuels Jerry Jones.
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When you criticize Jerry Jones, do you understand he's laughing
all the way to the bank, and he knows no
matter what till his last breath in this mortal coil,
he will be the GM of the Dallas coming Jerry
could be be having dinner at the you know, the
retirement community. He's still gonna be running the Dallas Cowboys. Okay.
And here's the thing. Did you really think he was
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gonna say, well, no, it's been thirty years now, so
now that's enough, I'm out see you later, right, And
do we have to show you how how they make
the sausage in the NFL. But this whole thing, it's
like a nineteen eighties sitcom, an old sitcom, right, Tony
Dan's a classic Who's the boss? Who's the boss? Jerry Jones.
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He's the boss. And since Jerry Jones is the boss,
he can do as he pleases, and if you don't
like it, you're all options. You can post nasty stuff
and hide behind your phone on social media. You can
blow a v eight on shows like this with gas
bags like myself complain. You can ran to your friends,
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family members, let it all out right, do all of
that go on and on and blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. But it doesn't matter because Jerry's got
you by the balls. He knows you're either gonna watch
the games on TV, which means the advertisers are happy,
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you're gonna comment about them on social media. It's all
about engagement. They can make money on that, and the
only way it doesn't work is if you ignore them.
We've said this for a long time. The most powerful
thing you have is apathy, and it has been proven
for thirty years of success meaning financial success but not
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football success, that it doesn't matter. Like winning and financial
success are totally foreign to Jerry Jones. It has now
officially been thirty seasons since the Cowboys were in the
Super Bowl or the NFC Championship Game. Thirty years. That
means normally you don't remember a lot before the age
of around ten. So you gotta be around forty. You
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gotta be around forty to have remembered the Cowboys playing
in the Super Bowl. Think about that. Now, you're in
your twenties or your thirties, you know, really know of
any Cowboys success. You heard stories about the Cowboys being good,
but you you don't have any experience in that. You don't.
I mean, I know here over the years, we've had
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several members. In the early days when Fox Prostratas started,
we had multiple members of the Super Bowl teams for
the Cowboys that worked here. James Washington, who should have
been the MVP of one of those Super Bowl wins
for the Cowboys. Jay Dob good dude, he worked here.
He was behind that white house. They had the famous
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white House back in the nineties. Nate Newton, that was fun.
Nate Newton who worked here, did a few shows back
in the day. Michael Irvin passed you. I mean, there's
been a bunch of those guys that worked here often.
But they're all old guys now, right, they're all old guys.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's been a while, been a minute, and yet it
doesn't matter financially. And so Jerry Jones is like, well,
we're making money the most valuable team in the world,
so why would we give that up? All right now?
Page two. Since Jerry Jones is not going anywhere, he's
staying around. What about the coach, Mike McCarthy. It's Black Monday,
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after all, this is the day traditionally that coaches are whacked.
Although we had one on Sunday immediately after you know,
that was written for the Patriots Gerrod Mayo probably what
Saturday or Friday. They had that all written up and
then they just clicked send right when the game ended,
shortly after the game in it. But the Cowboys made
no announcement on Sunday night after they're lost to Washington
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about the status of Mike McCarthy. So he's going to
be twisting in the wind at least for a day
or two or three or four a week or whatever. No,
how do we know this? We know this? Jerry Jones
gave some vague comments he said, he is unsure if
he's considering a coaching change, but his position had not
really been altered. Jones said, regarding his opinion of McCarthy,
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how about the man himself? So okay, then, so Mike
McCarthy said, he absolutely, his word, not mine, absolutely wants
to remain the coach of the cow So that's shocking.
Pays well, that's good job in terms of financial success
and all that. So Dallas is a nice place to live.
So he's like, I listen, I would like to absolutely
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stay as the Cowboy coach. He then gave a statement,
I won't give you the statement. I'm gonna read you
the statement. It's not gonna sound like i'm reading. And
I'm gonna give you the statement. And let's try to
dissect the statement, all right, let's try to dissect the state,
all right. So here here's the words of Mike McCarthy.
He said, quote, I don't like to talk about myself,
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he said, but I'll just be clear. I'm a winner.
I know how to win. I want a championship. I've
won a championship in this building, and that's who I am.
We'll see where it goes. Clothes quote all right, So
what do you decipher What do you decipher from Mike
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McCarthy's postgame comments regarding Mike McCarthy and his Cowboy future.
So that sounded a little bit like Mike singletary I
want winners. Instead of saying I want winners, he said,
I'm a winner. Well, you are what you have done
most recently, and actually, I look at the record there.
You're a loser, Mike McCarthy. Your your latest product was
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a bad product, a flawed product. You are what your
record says you are, and the Cowboys had a losing record.
It means you're not a winner in the moment and
you have to have a DeLorean from back to the
future to get back to the year that you won. Well,
good luck on that. But on this one, to break
it down unscientifically, Mike McCarthy hit the daily double. The
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daily double. Yes, not only not only is he playing
the game that Jerry loves feeding Jerry Jones ego, we
know the Cowboys own. He wants attention. He wants that
attention and he needs the spotlight all the time. And
when things get a little slow in Dallas, Jerry shakes
it up because he wants people talking about the Cowboys.
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He admits it. But also Mike McCarthy gave an elevator pitch.
He gave an elevator pitch. True, Dump Bears, the Jets,
the Saints, all these teams that are looking for coaches,
say hey, look at my resume. It's a really nice
Resume's that's a sense of highlighting his resume. Look at me,
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let me, you know, look over here, you smell my armpits.
That's what he's saying. And McCarthy's gonna right the coattails
of that prime Aaron Rodgers Packers' super Bowl as far
as it will take him. And it's been a while,
how about fifteen years now since the Green Bay Packers
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won the Super Bowl, and he's still he's still celebrating that.
You imagine if you were in any other business. I'll
use my business as an example. Imagine if I went
to the bosses here at the company, I said, listen,
fifteen years ago, I did a good show, a really
good show. Now the show since then have not been
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that good, But fifteen years ago I killed it, so
I should keep working. Of course, you might say that's
the case, but nonetheless I would not be here and
if you were at your whatever your job, you're a
truck driver and you made your rounds on time and
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saved money whatever that was fifteen years ago. You're still
a truck driver. You're still bragging about that. I mean,
come on, it's a pathetic Mike McCarthy sounds like a
pathetic man, is what he sounds like to me. All right,
now turn the page and as the Cowboys continue to
spin their wheels, well, plenty of time. I'm sure to
break all that down. Now the final point to Indianapolis.
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We go quickly quick right where the Colts? How about them?
Colts owner Jim er Say endorsing his head coach, Shane
Steichen and the GM Chris Ballard the Ballard of the
ball and a public statement posted on his social media
page shortly after the Colts finished up their season, He's
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against Jacksonville, he said. Quote. I've been evaluating our entire operation,
er Se stated, and I believe in Chris Ballard and
Shane Stikeen and our collective ability to make the improvements
needed to take us to the next level. In twenty
twenty five, Orsay stated, so how do you dissect? How
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do you dissect? Jim Orsay's support for the Colts' brain trust.
So this fell prepackaged. I get the sense we've gotten
this or a similar version of this many times over
the years, and Jim irsay he's got that down that
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we know we didn't get to where we wanted to get.
But these are the people I believe in, right. It
is the word I would use is perplexing. That is
the word I would use. And here's why I'll use
the word perplexing. And I have no skin in the game,
but I'm going to focus in on Chris Ballard, the
GM there in Indy. Another guy that loves to smell himself,
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Chris Ballard and the look in the mirror and smile
at himself. So he has been the guy that goes
to Kroger. He's the super shopper at Kroger. He's the
one that buys the groceries, and he keeps coming back
with rotten produce from the grocery store. And you're in
the NFL's weakest division by far. Does anyone disagree with that?
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Houston's not that good? They won the division, They're not
that Jacksonville's in this division. Tennessee is a joke there
in the Indianapolis. That's who you have to beat out
for a playoff spot. You couldn't do it. The Colts
missed the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season in a
suck bag division under Ballard, the GM four consecutive mississau
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Wing about so wingbot On a miss second straight year
under Shane Steichen, and the prodigy quarterback can't complete a
forward pass. So my theory on this is that jim
Irsay is the one responsible for Richardson being drafted and
he realizes the kid can't play, and so it's my fault.
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So rather than fire the GM and the and the coach,
I'll take the hit on this and we'll get another
quarterback and I'll keep these guys around. And so that's
gotta be what it is, right, because Richardson's not got
any better. The guy looks like he should be working
at a regular job, not playing quarterback in the NFL.
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And if your ersay, like, if these guys wanted him
and they selected him without your interference, why would you
keep them? Because the GM picked him, the coach hasn't
gotten anything out of him, So what are you doing?
But he's staying they're all standing. So the mediocre machine
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of generic brand football continues in Indianapolis. That keeping my
ursay is known to be a bit bipolar, so he
could wake up this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon or the
next day and change his mind to due onoint eighty.
But at this point, that's where we are. It is
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we get back to it. Yeah, Bill, we get back
to the show is what we get back to and
we do have the new bit. I believe we're ready
to debut that tomorrow on the show. We have a song,
do we I don't know if Coop has the copy
of it, but I was sent a song last week.
I wanted to save it for this week. It's a
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new song. We're gonna debut it. Maybe we'll do it tomorrow,
but we have I have to wait for Hollering James
to call up. It's a Hollering James song, song about James,
and so we'll we'll see. Did you get a copy
of that, Cooper? I don't think I did. You did
not get a copy? I will make sure to send
that to you and then we will have that in
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the system. And it's a good song, hopefully. I'm surprised
James hasn't called up. I mean he's sleeping. I don't know,
Thank God, Sure he'll call up here. We have a
new bit that we're doing. We're trying to figure out,
like do we get rid of a bit? Do we
do an extra bit? Like we're trying to figure out,
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like what do we get rid of when to do
the bit. It's like a new idea. I've tried some
new things of You probably think I just see the
same things. Every show sounds like I do, sounds like
I do. But we tried new things. I did a
spelling bee. We tried that for a while. There was
a game that Arnie Spaniard did that he wanted me
to do, and then we tried it. It didn't really work.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Are you good at spelling?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Ben, I'm okay at spelling, but okay. The problem is
that people that call up are not good at spelling.
That's the problem. See, that's the issue. Alcohol consumption, pharmaceutical
consumption and spelling and just being late at night and
on the middle of the we'll.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Become dyslexic after ten pm.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
It's a problem. It's a problem. We haven't open for
the bit, but we don't know when the bit's going
to be.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Well, we're thinking tomorrow, but we might wait till we
might wait till Wednesday. So uh, we're trying to figure out, Yeah,
what do we get rid of because if we get
rid of something, somebody will complain. And we got rid
of Coach Player Entertainer. People still complain about that Coach
Player entertainer. Well it was okay, it lived its life,
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and so we'll figure that anyway. Let's see what do
we have here. People reacting to the latest Malor monologue
Late Night Drug Tester says Jerry Jones had to stay
the GM once Ersay said, the man who drafted Anthony
Richardson is off the market. He had to save his
surgically modified face. He said, there you go. Uh. Och
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O Texto says, I'm still laughing at Jason Seahorse. Let's
see who else sa She was a big fan of his.
Fer Dog says, don't remind me about the weather here
in Fullerton. We got blasted over the weekend. I've been
shoveling snow all day.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Oh I'm jealous. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, that's really nasty there. It's like right next to Siberia.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
We can love snow.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
If you look at on a map Lorrain, if you
look at where Fullerton is right there, it's right next
to Siberia.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Every time you say Fullerton, I think Fullerton, California.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Why would you think fullertin cal I think you're joking.
I would never be joking. It's a very serious show.
When you talk about the weather, you do not get
around about that. The Russian kid writes and says, hey, Ben,
I'm currently not driving my truck this winter. However, I
am making door dash pizza delivery in a blizzard. Forty
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dollars for three miles. Hard to say, No, what do
you think we order a pizza? Thank god? I just
got tire Raq a Tiraq hookup using the Ben Malor code.
How about that?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
There you go, all right, saving money, living better. It's
Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, helping people out. Be careful though, driving in the
in the blizzard. Do you see that big accident near
the Rose Bowl over the weekend?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
You see that?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I actually didn't see that one.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It was a wrong way driver and I in Pasadena, right, yeah, yeah,
so you know you saw what I'm talking I did.
I don't know, don't quote Sunday, but I used to
go that way. I used to live out you know,
down that way kind of where you you go down
that way, and uh, there was one one week. I
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saw three wrong way drivers in a week. And there
there's some on ramp right off the one thirty four
in that area where people go they go drinking and
then they they get confused. I don't know which one
it is, but you don't know what. I don't know what.
I try to get over. But you, like, you think
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it's like an optical illusion. When a car is driving
at you, You're like, well, I'm not maybe I'm on
And then you're like, maybe I'm on the wrong side
of the road.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
You're like you question everything because what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I felt it's terrible. That happens a lot, but yeah,
I was just brought back. It brought back memories because
it's I'm doing this shift and driving at night on
the way home or whatever. In the morning, I see
I see that.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
You just never know, you know, and the more you drive,
the more likely you are to see some crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, these truck drivers have seen some real wild, wild
and crazy stuff. But you know, driving at night and
stuff in the morning, early morning hours or some real
wacky stuff that goes on. It's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to who do we have here?
Any Meani miny Moe. Let's say hello to Manuel in Guardina. Hello,
Manuel in Guardina.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Banny, you got great timing, man, Hey, real quick, I
have to let you in on a little little sheet Greek.
While you were gone, old Bill Man, you should have
heard him kissing Bernie frats?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I might have to get rid of Bill Miller.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Then it was sickening, Ben.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Was he licking Bill? Was? Was Bill Miller licking Bernie's toes?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Was that?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
What was going on?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
All of it? Man? Really, his nose was so far
up Bernie's wrecktum that he came back out looking like
a Cleveland brown helmet.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That's a shame and disgusting at the same time.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
That's but that's why I'm glad that you're back.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You know what I mean, Benny.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
That way we can put all these dopes on alert.
We told him, We've been telling them this since what
like week ten, about the whole Sam Darnold thing. We
knew this was coming, And I tell you, man, McVeigh
is one hell of a coach. Man. I'm not a
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Rams fan, but he may well be the best adjustment
type of coach that they're in. Is your halftime adjustment
type guy, So you can cancel Christmas, Minnesota, you might
as well play the caps for all of Gunner's neighbors
and everything he says. Minnesota is done. They're gonna come
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to La. They're gonna come to the sofa like our
guy Helmet says, and they are gonna be put to sleep.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
He uh, well, hold on a sec. I want to
I want to run and again. I want to give
this message. What's your message to Gunner? I want to
let gunners online. What do you want me to tell Gunner?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Hey, Gunner, sling shot by the way, Holmic slingshot.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Okay, right, hey, Gunner, you're on the air with Man
Weell and Guardian. He's got a message for you. Go ahead, man, well, please.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Hey, tell all those you know, all your neighbors, take
a break from stocking the toilet paper or you know,
whatever the hell grocers freezer you got to put in
your Minnesota. Viking neighbor fans are gonna be pissed off.
That school is gone. That ship had whale had no
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more pillogy.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Oh that's right, right man. Well he's actually a Carolina
panther fean.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Oh no, I know, Andy, my boy David Canals is
going to turn his franchise around. I didn't say for him.
I had to tell all.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Those Oh okay, all right, Gunner, let all your call, Gunner,
let all your co workers know. Yeah, exactly, all right, man,
Well thank you buddy. All right, all right, we got
hold on for everyone. Hold and then go ahead, Gunner,
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Yes, yeah, it's about time we agree on something.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Then the bikes are bad.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Just like I said, Donald's fail when it's important. It's
just time to fail. And you want it already go
to the playoffs the first time he agreed on something.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
This is amazing work, Gunner. I gotta tell you something.
I thought you were lying when you said this is
gonna be a great call. But here we are. I'm speechless.
I don't know what. How do I follow that up?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Come on, yeah, a man, I'm saying something here. It's
like all these ions hands up here, like, oh, we're
gonna beat the lines a bit. Number one seed. I'm
here killing like, oh I know my seed is no
or I'm just waiting for the biting season, be over playing,
stop ragging up both Donald's all good and everything.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Hold on a second, let's good to it. This gett
a guy who's won many awards in the jungle. Manuel
and Guardian man, Well, would you like to give some
advice here to Gunner Manuell to touch up his work?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Here?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Would you like to give a little advice?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Gunner? I want you to take a deep breath, put
your head between your legs, and kiss your goodbye. Grow
a sack, Gunner. Damn it. We keep waiting for you
to make a good call, and we are still waiting. Please,
for the love of God.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
All right, Gunnar, how do you respond to that?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Manuel? Come on, this is a good call here for one.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
I'm not saying.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Or anything else. I'm just saying Dan Darnold has finally failed.
And so I'm saying anything else, Manuel, anything else.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yes, you keep Sam Darnell's name out your mouth. All right,
We already established that Darnell is alright. Now that a
hole in Vikings gear that used to be at usc
Donald he blues. He is the pumpkin, and all of
your neighbors are gonna be pissed off, although they will
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be finding themselves at Walmart buying more crap that they
don't need, so you will be securing your job.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, all right, all right, thank you Manuel. We'll up
on you. And uh, thank you, Gunner. I think there's
a you gotta what I are you stocking next? Gunner?
What what are we working on today?
Speaker 7 (30:07):
I'm still working the dairy section.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Got like the milk, the butter, that whole thing, like eggs. Okay,
all right, thank you? All right? That it is a
great gun What an amazing call. This Gunner is unbelievable.
What a talent. How lucky here we found our show?
Of all the shows, he chooses our show. My god,
are we blessed? Hey, don't have the right team on
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Speaker 6 (30:56):
Hey Ben, anyone at USC told you that Caleb Williams
was a sham? And now it's it's obvious and the
other rookie quarterbacks have done so well compared to him,
and the guy he replaced at USC was Jackson dark
the Mississippi quarterback. When when that guy goes to the NFL,
he's going to show better than Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Also, hey, Tony, how devastated is I mean, you get this,
Paul Sippy. I used to go to those SC games
all the time back in the day. But I remember
when they when they made the move, and they they'd
been waiting at when Pete Carroll left, right, they thought
they had you know, the prodigies with Lane Kiff and
that didn't work out and start Keys and it didn't
where So when they they got the big fish from Oklahoma,
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I remember how excited all my USC people were that
they had found their savior for the football program. And
they're they're in the same how I mean, everything that
they thought they were going to be they are not
with with with Lincoln Riley, it's crating.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
They need to bring in a quarterback who's been in
the NFL. There's no more none of this like college
career people. Someone who was a coordinator in NFL.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That's it all right, that's your answer. There, you go,
all right, thank you, go away. He's looking for a
little more than that. But you gave me what you
got and that's fine, absolutely all right. Is the Ben
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(32:27):
What makes him look good? You get off to a
one and four start or you know, and two and
four start every year, and then you're there. You're you're
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Here is the insta trivia in trivia. Sojerrod Mayo, Hey, y'all,
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he became the thirty third one and done coach since
the NFL mergered. Thirty three coach has been hired and
fired after one season. So Garrodmeo became the thirty third
one and done coach since the NFL merger. Blank is
the only one of those coaches who would go on
to win a Super Bowl as an NFL head coach. Again,
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Gerrod Mayo became the thirty third one and done coach
since the NFL merger, Blank the only one of those
coaches that would go on to win a Super Bowl
as a head coach. That is the insta trivia the answer.
We'll get to it, and we will have Mallard of
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Insta Trivia question of the hour. Jerroden Mayo, Congratulations, you
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have become the thirty third, one and done coach since
the NFL merger over fifty years ago. Blank is the
only one of those coaches, the only one that would
go on to win a Super Bowl as an NFL
head coach. That is the question. What is the answer?
(35:29):
That's the here? Keith Oho Textos says, the answer clearly
is the greatest football coach of all time, Billy Martin.
I was really good with the New York Yankees, who
we're an NFL team. Christopher in Kansas City says Kim
Moulki is the answer, very funny answer, mister nice guy.
I don't think that'll make the air, but I am laughing.
I forty ian going with legendary Jets coach Lou Holtz
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as his selection. Rob in Vegas checking in with Hollywood Hogan.
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Bad job by him? Alf the alien O Piner going
with Derek White of the Celtics as his answer. Has
got more blocks than Giannis Adente Gumbo this season, and
a bunch of who else? A bunch of other NBA
players let's see og Art Puffin says Coop training for
(36:37):
a poker tournament is the answer? Page down? Mark from
Queen's got it right? Bad job by him. James is
going with Dick McPherson is his answer. Bill Darcel's guests
by Ike in Roseville, Minnesota, Nostradinas who's trying to calm down?
He got it right? Larry reporting from Nashville says coach
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Ernie and Tusso is the answer? All right, let's Stecko
from Robin, Minnesota. George hallis tossed out by Johnny Q.
Do you have an answer? Lorrain, give you a clue.
This person once held the Malard phone in his hands.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Oh my gosh, I don't know if this is going
to ruin my guess or not. But you know, he's
one of the most winningest all time Super Bowl coaches
now and he.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Read any Reid all right, an he read Edy reed
not even close close, bad job by you. The correct
answer he was one and done with the nineteen ninety
four New York Jets, but later on he would win
a Super Bowl in Seattle. Pete Carroll pe Harrow.
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Is the answer.
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It's Mallard.
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How about that?
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To the third degree, This is one big Ben gets.
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Grilled and away we go, and we say hello to
the Cooper Loop, justin Cooper.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
So the Cleveland Browns have decided to stick with Kevin Stefanski,
but instead fired offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey after their loss
in the season finale against the Ravens. Ben, do you
thinks Stefanski should have also been nixed?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Well, it doesn't matter because Deshaun Watson is going to
continue to haunt the Cleveland Browns. So as long as
Watson is there, you might as well keep Stefanski. He's
not terrible, and the Browns are going to have a
nice draft pick, which all the fans get excited about,
because I think every draft pick's gonna be great until
they realize they're not. So until you get over Watson,
I guess it makes sense to keep Stefanski because you're
(38:34):
not You're not trying to win as long as you
have Deshaun Watson, so you're fine. Next.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
It was reported over the weekend that a number of
scouts around the league quote don't have anything close to
a first round great on Shador Sanders Ben. What do
you think the chances are that we see him slide
on Draft Day zero?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
How about this? Every year Kyler Murray was not supposed
to be drafted in the in the first round. He
was the number one pick. There were people questioned Baker Mayfield,
he was the number Mac Jones was supposed to be
a fourth round pick in Alabama. He ended up being
drafted the first night of the Patris It doesn't matter.
It's all about agencies hyping up their clients, and when
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the Super Bowl ends all the way till the draft
in late April, it's nothing but a hype machine. And
these teams are the top need quarterbacks, so I would
be stunned if this sharer Sanders is not draft in
the top ten of the draft, probably top five.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Next, during the Steelers loss to the Bengals, a graphic
came on the screen showing that Naje Harris has rushed
for one thousand yards and all four of his NFL seasons.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Traeigman was not impressed.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
He said, I think it's probably time we raised the
bar one thousand yard running back seasons. With seventeen games,
it was a time on thousand yards. It was quite
an accomplishment, but not so much anymore.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Do you agree? Well, I think you meant sixteen or whatever,
but but no, it's yeah, the seventeen game thing. It's
basically what really Aikman saying is people don't know, Matt.
Seventeen games. One thousand yards is fifty eight yards a game.
That's not that impressive, that's not that great. I agree,
How do we know? Ask us anation? I'm a winner,
I run out, I won, I'm a winner. Who I
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run
Ewe go welcome. It's our number two and our first
stop is deep in the heart of Texas. How do
you explain Jerry Jones saying he's not reducing his role
as the Cowboys GM. Also, since Jerry Jones is staying
no chaker there, what about coach Mike McCarthy, we analyze
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what he had to say, And how do you dissect
Jim Ursay's support for the Colts brain Trust saying that
the gang will be back. We'll go there as well.
All of it coming your way right now here. It
is our number two. For some it is the end,
but for others it is just the beginning of the
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So are lead this hour from the NFL. We continue
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to dissect Week eighteen. The Sunday night game a dud.
We were planning on spending multiple hours talking about the game.
We can talk about if you call up and want
to discuss. As the Lions played thumper on the Minnesota Vikings,
although early on there were the Lions did have a
guardian angel when Jared Goff should have been called for
(02:16):
a safety when he threw the ball into the ground
in the end zone and there was no receiver anywhere
near the pass, and the referees are like, oh no, no,
that was non intentional grounding. No no, no, oh, there
was a receiver. It was imaginary. But anyway, so I thought,
why not rare and appropriate Week eighteen over getting ready
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for the playoffs. So let's talk about a team that
almost never does anything in the plus, not even in
the playoffs. This year, we go to Jerry's world where
the Dallas Cowboys, in a game that dozens of people
were excited about. The Cowboy defense allowed Washington backup quarterback
Marcus Mariota to march eleven plays eighty one yards down
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the field for the game winning touchdown with three seconds
left on the clock, destroying get again another one of
my picks on benny versus a penny. Thank you very
much the Cowboy fans. You get the guess which finger
I'm holding up? That's right? Number you all right? Anyway?
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All right? So Dallas ends up seven and ten on
the season, and so that's where the story is. Chatter
about what's next for the coach, what's next for the
general manager? Well, you know who the GM is. That's
also the owner, Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones was asked about
giving up the possibility of giving up his general manager duties,
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and he left nothing, nothing to the imagination. Jones said,
the facts are is a quote, The facts are. Since
I have to decide where the money is spent, then
you might as well cut out all the bullshoy. He
didn't say shoy, he said in another word, it's like
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very similar to a word like a like a ship
in the ocean. But it's not ship in the ocean, bullshoy,
is what he said. That's who's making the call anyway
from Jerry Jones. All right, so let us discuss the
question for the Esteem Panel which you happen to be
a part of. How do you explain Jerry Jones saying
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that he is not reducing his role as the Cowboys GM.
So I have nineteen eighty Sitcom, Daily Double and Kroger,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make the clapper clap on, clap
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off the clapper. That's right, because Jerry Jones, I think
needs one. That's an old infomercial from back in the day.
All right, So, no, b what my response to the
question that's on the Esteem Panels table? How do you
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explain Jerry Jones saying he will not be reducing his
role as the Cowboys GM. It is the I thik,
it's the word sensible. It is sensible, is my position,
because if I own the Dallas Cowboys, I would be
the GM of the Dallas Cowboys too, and so would you.
What's the point of if you buy an NFL team
shouldn't you be the GM. I don't understand why every
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owner isn't the GM of d I would want to.
I like the Rams. If I bought the Rams, you
know I'm gonna be the GM. I will be the
general Major. So everyone calls them a goose on Jerry Jones,
Jerry doesn't care and you're so stupid. When you rip
Jerry Jones, it empowers Jerry Jones. It fuels Jerry Jones.
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When you criticize Jerry Jones, do you understand he's laughing
all the way to the bank, and he knows no
matter what till his last breath in this mortal coil,
he will be the GM of the Dallas coming Jerry
could be be having dinner at the you know, the
retirement community. He's still gonna be running the Dallas Cowboys. Okay.
And here's the thing. Did you really think he was
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gonna say, well, no, it's been thirty years now, so
now that's enough, I'm out see you later, right, And
do we have to show you how how they make
the sausage in the NFL. But this whole thing, it's
like a nineteen eighties sitcom, an old sitcom, right, Tony
Dan's a classic Who's the boss? Who's the boss? Jerry Jones.
(06:42):
He's the boss. And since Jerry Jones is the boss,
he can do as he pleases, and if you don't
like it, you're all options. You can post nasty stuff
and hide behind your phone on social media. You can
blow a v eight on shows like this with gas
bags like myself complain. You can ran to your friends,
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family members, let it all out right, do all of
that go on and on and blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. But it doesn't matter because Jerry's got
you by the balls. He knows you're either gonna watch
the games on TV, which means the advertisers are happy,
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you're gonna comment about them on social media. It's all
about engagement. They can make money on that, and the
only way it doesn't work is if you ignore them.
We've said this for a long time. The most powerful
thing you have is apathy, and it has been proven
for thirty years of success meaning financial success but not
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football success, that it doesn't matter. Like winning and financial
success are totally foreign to Jerry Jones. It has now
officially been thirty seasons since the Cowboys were in the
Super Bowl or the NFC Championship Game. Thirty years. That
means normally you don't remember a lot before the age
of around ten. So you gotta be around forty. You
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gotta be around forty to have remembered the Cowboys playing
in the Super Bowl. Think about that. Now, you're in
your twenties or your thirties, you know, really know of
any Cowboys success. You heard stories about the Cowboys being good,
but you you don't have any experience in that. You don't.
I mean, I know here over the years, we've had
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several members. In the early days when Fox Prostratas started,
we had multiple members of the Super Bowl teams for
the Cowboys that worked here. James Washington, who should have
been the MVP of one of those Super Bowl wins
for the Cowboys. Jay Dob good dude, he worked here.
He was behind that white house. They had the famous
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white House back in the nineties. Nate Newton, that was fun.
Nate Newton who worked here, did a few shows back
in the day. Michael Irvin passed you. I mean, there's
been a bunch of those guys that worked here often.
But they're all old guys now, right, they're all old guys.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's been a while, been a minute, and yet it
doesn't matter financially. And so Jerry Jones is like, well,
we're making money the most valuable team in the world,
so why would we give that up? All right now?
Page two. Since Jerry Jones is not going anywhere, he's
staying around. What about the coach, Mike McCarthy. It's Black Monday,
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after all, this is the day traditionally that coaches are whacked.
Although we had one on Sunday immediately after you know,
that was written for the Patriots Gerrod Mayo probably what
Saturday or Friday. They had that all written up and
then they just clicked send right when the game ended,
shortly after the game in it. But the Cowboys made
no announcement on Sunday night after they're lost to Washington
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about the status of Mike McCarthy. So he's going to
be twisting in the wind at least for a day
or two or three or four a week or whatever. No,
how do we know this? We know this? Jerry Jones
gave some vague comments he said, he is unsure if
he's considering a coaching change, but his position had not
really been altered. Jones said, regarding his opinion of McCarthy,
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how about the man himself? So okay, then, so Mike
McCarthy said, he absolutely, his word, not mine, absolutely wants
to remain the coach of the cow So that's shocking.
Pays well, that's good job in terms of financial success
and all that. So Dallas is a nice place to live.
So he's like, I listen, I would like to absolutely
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stay as the Cowboy coach. He then gave a statement,
I won't give you the statement. I'm gonna read you
the statement. It's not gonna sound like i'm reading. And
I'm gonna give you the statement. And let's try to
dissect the statement, all right, let's try to dissect the state,
all right. So here here's the words of Mike McCarthy.
He said, quote, I don't like to talk about myself,
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he said, but I'll just be clear. I'm a winner.
I know how to win. I want a championship. I've
won a championship in this building, and that's who I am.
We'll see where it goes. Clothes quote all right, So
what do you decipher What do you decipher from Mike
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McCarthy's postgame comments regarding Mike McCarthy and his Cowboy future.
So that sounded a little bit like Mike singletary I
want winners. Instead of saying I want winners, he said,
I'm a winner. Well, you are what you have done
most recently, and actually, I look at the record there.
You're a loser, Mike McCarthy. Your your latest product was
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a bad product, a flawed product. You are what your
record says you are, and the Cowboys had a losing record.
It means you're not a winner in the moment and
you have to have a DeLorean from back to the
future to get back to the year that you won. Well,
good luck on that. But on this one, to break
it down unscientifically, Mike McCarthy hit the daily double. The
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daily double. Yes, not only not only is he playing
the game that Jerry loves feeding Jerry Jones ego, we
know the Cowboys own. He wants attention. He wants that
attention and he needs the spotlight all the time. And
when things get a little slow in Dallas, Jerry shakes
it up because he wants people talking about the Cowboys.
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He admits it. But also Mike McCarthy gave an elevator pitch.
He gave an elevator pitch. True, Dump Bears, the Jets,
the Saints, all these teams that are looking for coaches,
say hey, look at my resume. It's a really nice
Resume's that's a sense of highlighting his resume. Look at me,
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let me, you know, look over here, you smell my armpits.
That's what he's saying. And McCarthy's gonna right the coattails
of that prime Aaron Rodgers Packers' super Bowl as far
as it will take him. And it's been a while,
how about fifteen years now since the Green Bay Packers
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won the Super Bowl, and he's still he's still celebrating that.
You imagine if you were in any other business. I'll
use my business as an example. Imagine if I went
to the bosses here at the company, I said, listen,
fifteen years ago, I did a good show, a really
good show. Now the show since then have not been
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that good, But fifteen years ago I killed it, so
I should keep working. Of course, you might say that's
the case, but nonetheless I would not be here and
if you were at your whatever your job, you're a
truck driver and you made your rounds on time and
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saved money whatever that was fifteen years ago. You're still
a truck driver. You're still bragging about that. I mean,
come on, it's a pathetic Mike McCarthy sounds like a
pathetic man, is what he sounds like to me. All right,
now turn the page and as the Cowboys continue to
spin their wheels, well, plenty of time. I'm sure to
break all that down. Now the final point to Indianapolis.
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We go quickly quick right where the Colts? How about them?
Colts owner Jim er Say endorsing his head coach, Shane
Steichen and the GM Chris Ballard the Ballard of the
ball and a public statement posted on his social media
page shortly after the Colts finished up their season, He's
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against Jacksonville, he said. Quote. I've been evaluating our entire operation,
er Se stated, and I believe in Chris Ballard and
Shane Stikeen and our collective ability to make the improvements
needed to take us to the next level. In twenty
twenty five, Orsay stated, so how do you dissect? How
(15:04):
do you dissect? Jim Orsay's support for the Colts' brain trust.
So this fell prepackaged. I get the sense we've gotten
this or a similar version of this many times over
the years, and Jim irsay he's got that down that
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we know we didn't get to where we wanted to get.
But these are the people I believe in, right. It
is the word I would use is perplexing. That is
the word I would use. And here's why I'll use
the word perplexing. And I have no skin in the game,
but I'm going to focus in on Chris Ballard, the
GM there in Indy. Another guy that loves to smell himself,
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Chris Ballard and the look in the mirror and smile
at himself. So he has been the guy that goes
to Kroger. He's the super shopper at Kroger. He's the
one that buys the groceries, and he keeps coming back
with rotten produce from the grocery store. And you're in
the NFL's weakest division by far. Does anyone disagree with that?
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Houston's not that good? They won the division, They're not
that Jacksonville's in this division. Tennessee is a joke there
in the Indianapolis. That's who you have to beat out
for a playoff spot. You couldn't do it. The Colts
missed the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season in a
suck bag division under Ballard, the GM four consecutive mississau
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Wing about so wingbot On a miss second straight year
under Shane Steichen, and the prodigy quarterback can't complete a
forward pass. So my theory on this is that jim
Irsay is the one responsible for Richardson being drafted and
he realizes the kid can't play, and so it's my fault.
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So rather than fire the GM and the and the coach,
I'll take the hit on this and we'll get another
quarterback and I'll keep these guys around. And so that's
gotta be what it is, right, because Richardson's not got
any better. The guy looks like he should be working
at a regular job, not playing quarterback in the NFL.
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And if your ersay, like, if these guys wanted him
and they selected him without your interference, why would you
keep them? Because the GM picked him, the coach hasn't
gotten anything out of him, So what are you doing?
But he's staying they're all standing. So the mediocre machine
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of generic brand football continues in Indianapolis. That keeping my
ursay is known to be a bit bipolar, so he
could wake up this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon or the
next day and change his mind to due onoint eighty.
But at this point, that's where we are. It is
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we get back to it. Yeah, Bill, we get back
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we do have the new bit. I believe we're ready
to debut that tomorrow on the show. We have a song,
do we I don't know if Coop has the copy
of it, but I was sent a song last week.
I wanted to save it for this week. It's a
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new song. We're gonna debut it. Maybe we'll do it tomorrow,
but we have I have to wait for Hollering James
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and so we'll we'll see. Did you get a copy
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not get a copy? I will make sure to send
that to you and then we will have that in
(19:55):
the system. And it's a good song, hopefully. I'm surprised
James hasn't called up. I mean he's sleeping. I don't know,
Thank God, Sure he'll call up here. We have a
new bit that we're doing. We're trying to figure out,
like do we get rid of a bit? Do we
do an extra bit? Like we're trying to figure out,
(20:16):
like what do we get rid of when to do
the bit. It's like a new idea. I've tried some
new things of You probably think I just see the
same things. Every show sounds like I do, sounds like
I do. But we tried new things. I did a
spelling bee. We tried that for a while. There was
a game that Arnie Spaniard did that he wanted me
to do, and then we tried it. It didn't really work.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Are you good at spelling?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Ben, I'm okay at spelling, but okay. The problem is
that people that call up are not good at spelling.
That's the problem. See, that's the issue. Alcohol consumption, pharmaceutical
consumption and spelling and just being late at night and
on the middle of the we'll.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Become dyslexic after ten pm.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
It's a problem. It's a problem. We haven't open for
the bit, but we don't know when the bit's going
to be.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Well, we're thinking tomorrow, but we might wait till we
might wait till Wednesday. So uh, we're trying to figure out, Yeah,
what do we get rid of because if we get
rid of something, somebody will complain. And we got rid
of Coach Player Entertainer. People still complain about that Coach
Player entertainer. Well it was okay, it lived its life,
(21:29):
and so we'll figure that anyway. Let's see what do
we have here. People reacting to the latest Malor monologue
Late Night Drug Tester says Jerry Jones had to stay
the GM once Ersay said, the man who drafted Anthony
Richardson is off the market. He had to save his
surgically modified face. He said, there you go. Uh. Och
(21:54):
O Texto says, I'm still laughing at Jason Seahorse. Let's
see who else sa She was a big fan of his.
Fer Dog says, don't remind me about the weather here
in Fullerton. We got blasted over the weekend. I've been
shoveling snow all day.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Oh I'm jealous. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, that's really nasty there. It's like right next to Siberia.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
We can love snow.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
If you look at on a map Lorrain, if you
look at where Fullerton is right there, it's right next
to Siberia.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Every time you say Fullerton, I think Fullerton, California.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Why would you think fullertin cal I think you're joking.
I would never be joking. It's a very serious show.
When you talk about the weather, you do not get
around about that. The Russian kid writes and says, hey, Ben,
I'm currently not driving my truck this winter. However, I
am making door dash pizza delivery in a blizzard. Forty
(22:50):
dollars for three miles. Hard to say, No, what do
you think we order a pizza? Thank god? I just
got tire Raq a Tiraq hookup using the Ben Malor code.
How about that?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
There you go, all right, saving money, living better. It's
Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, helping people out. Be careful though, driving in the
in the blizzard. Do you see that big accident near
the Rose Bowl over the weekend?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
You see that?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I actually didn't see that one.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It was a wrong way driver and I in Pasadena, right, yeah, yeah,
so you know you saw what I'm talking I did.
I don't know, don't quote Sunday, but I used to
go that way. I used to live out you know,
down that way kind of where you you go down
that way, and uh, there was one one week. I
(23:39):
saw three wrong way drivers in a week. And there
there's some on ramp right off the one thirty four
in that area where people go they go drinking and
then they they get confused. I don't know which one
it is, but you don't know what. I don't know what.
I try to get over. But you, like, you think
(24:01):
it's like an optical illusion. When a car is driving
at you, You're like, well, I'm not maybe I'm on
And then you're like, maybe I'm on the wrong side
of the road.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
You're like you question everything because what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I felt it's terrible. That happens a lot, but yeah,
I was just brought back. It brought back memories because
it's I'm doing this shift and driving at night on
the way home or whatever. In the morning, I see
I see that.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
You just never know, you know, and the more you drive,
the more likely you are to see some crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, these truck drivers have seen some real wild, wild
and crazy stuff. But you know, driving at night and
stuff in the morning, early morning hours or some real
wacky stuff that goes on. It's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to who do we have here?
Any Meani miny Moe. Let's say hello to Manuel in Guardina. Hello,
Manuel in Guardina.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Banny, you got great timing, man, Hey, real quick, I
have to let you in on a little little sheet Greek.
While you were gone, old Bill Man, you should have
heard him kissing Bernie frats?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I might have to get rid of Bill Miller.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Then it was sickening, Ben.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Was he licking Bill? Was? Was Bill Miller licking Bernie's toes?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Was that?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
What was going on?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
All of it? Man? Really, his nose was so far
up Bernie's wrecktum that he came back out looking like
a Cleveland brown helmet.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That's a shame and disgusting at the same time.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
That's but that's why I'm glad that you're back.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You know what I mean, Benny.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
That way we can put all these dopes on alert.
We told him, We've been telling them this since what
like week ten, about the whole Sam Darnold thing. We
knew this was coming, And I tell you, man, McVeigh
is one hell of a coach. Man. I'm not a
(25:53):
Rams fan, but he may well be the best adjustment
type of coach that they're in. Is your halftime adjustment
type guy, So you can cancel Christmas, Minnesota, you might
as well play the caps for all of Gunner's neighbors
and everything he says. Minnesota is done. They're gonna come
(26:15):
to La. They're gonna come to the sofa like our
guy Helmet says, and they are gonna be put to sleep.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
He uh, well, hold on a sec. I want to
I want to run and again. I want to give
this message. What's your message to Gunner? I want to
let gunners online. What do you want me to tell Gunner?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Hey, Gunner, sling shot by the way, Holmic slingshot.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Okay, right, hey, Gunner, you're on the air with Man
Weell and Guardian. He's got a message for you. Go ahead, man, well, please.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Hey, tell all those you know, all your neighbors, take
a break from stocking the toilet paper or you know,
whatever the hell grocers freezer you got to put in
your Minnesota. Viking neighbor fans are gonna be pissed off.
That school is gone. That ship had whale had no
(27:05):
more pillogy.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Oh that's right, right man. Well he's actually a Carolina
panther fean.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Oh no, I know, Andy, my boy David Canals is
going to turn his franchise around. I didn't say for him.
I had to tell all.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Those Oh okay, all right, Gunner, let all your call, Gunner,
let all your co workers know. Yeah, exactly, all right, man,
Well thank you buddy. All right, all right, we got
hold on for everyone. Hold and then go ahead, Gunner,
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Yes, yeah, it's about time we agree on something.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Then the bikes are bad.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Just like I said, Donald's fail when it's important. It's
just time to fail. And you want it already go
to the playoffs the first time he agreed on something.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
This is amazing work, Gunner. I gotta tell you something.
I thought you were lying when you said this is
gonna be a great call. But here we are. I'm speechless.
I don't know what. How do I follow that up?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Come on, yeah, a man, I'm saying something here. It's
like all these ions hands up here, like, oh, we're
gonna beat the lines a bit. Number one seed. I'm
here killing like, oh I know my seed is no
or I'm just waiting for the biting season, be over playing,
stop ragging up both Donald's all good and everything.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Hold on a second, let's good to it. This gett
a guy who's won many awards in the jungle. Manuel
and Guardian man, Well, would you like to give some
advice here to Gunner Manuell to touch up his work?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Here?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Would you like to give a little advice?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Gunner? I want you to take a deep breath, put
your head between your legs, and kiss your goodbye. Grow
a sack, Gunner. Damn it. We keep waiting for you
to make a good call, and we are still waiting. Please,
for the love of God.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
All right, Gunnar, how do you respond to that?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Manuel? Come on, this is a good call here for one.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
I'm not saying.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Or anything else. I'm just saying Dan Darnold has finally failed.
And so I'm saying anything else, Manuel, anything else.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yes, you keep Sam Darnell's name out your mouth. All right,
We already established that Darnell is alright. Now that a
hole in Vikings gear that used to be at usc
Donald he blues. He is the pumpkin, and all of
your neighbors are gonna be pissed off, although they will
(29:49):
be finding themselves at Walmart buying more crap that they
don't need, so you will be securing your job.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, all right, all right, thank you Manuel. We'll up
on you. And uh, thank you, Gunner. I think there's
a you gotta what I are you stocking next? Gunner?
What what are we working on today?
Speaker 7 (30:07):
I'm still working the dairy section.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Got like the milk, the butter, that whole thing, like eggs. Okay,
all right, thank you? All right? That it is a
great gun What an amazing call. This Gunner is unbelievable.
What a talent. How lucky here we found our show?
Of all the shows, he chooses our show. My god,
are we blessed? Hey, don't have the right team on
the court. Are calling your radio show? Well? Express Employment
(30:35):
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hello to Tony. Who's up next? Hello Tony, Welcome.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Hey Ben, anyone at USC told you that Caleb Williams
was a sham? And now it's it's obvious and the
other rookie quarterbacks have done so well compared to him,
and the guy he replaced at USC was Jackson dark
the Mississippi quarterback. When when that guy goes to the NFL,
he's going to show better than Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Also, hey, Tony, how devastated is I mean, you get this,
Paul Sippy. I used to go to those SC games
all the time back in the day. But I remember
when they when they made the move, and they they'd
been waiting at when Pete Carroll left, right, they thought
they had you know, the prodigies with Lane Kiff and
that didn't work out and start Keys and it didn't
where So when they they got the big fish from Oklahoma,
(31:38):
I remember how excited all my USC people were that
they had found their savior for the football program. And
they're they're in the same how I mean, everything that
they thought they were going to be they are not
with with with Lincoln Riley, it's crating.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
They need to bring in a quarterback who's been in
the NFL. There's no more none of this like college
career people. Someone who was a coordinator in NFL.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That's it all right, that's your answer. There, you go,
all right, thank you, go away. He's looking for a
little more than that. But you gave me what you
got and that's fine, absolutely all right. Is the Ben
Mallord Show. And Ryan wrights In says Manuel McVeigh makes
adjustments because we suck in the first half. You suck.
(32:27):
What makes him look good? You get off to a
one and four start or you know, and two and
four start every year, and then you're there. You're you're
set up. Hit me up on X at Ben Mallard.
That is at Ben Mallory, we are gonna have mallardly
third degree. That is momentarily Mallard of the third degree.
Here is the insta trivia in trivia. Sojerrod Mayo, Hey, y'all,
(32:51):
he became the thirty third one and done coach since
the NFL mergered. Thirty three coach has been hired and
fired after one season. So Garrodmeo became the thirty third
one and done coach since the NFL merger. Blank is
the only one of those coaches who would go on
to win a Super Bowl as an NFL head coach. Again,
(33:12):
Gerrod Mayo became the thirty third one and done coach
since the NFL merger, Blank the only one of those
coaches that would go on to win a Super Bowl
as a head coach. That is the insta trivia the answer.
We'll get to it, and we will have Mallard of
the third degree. We'll get to it. We will do
it next.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
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Speaker 1 (33:42):
Ben Miller here reminding you to promote the Ben mal Show.
We'd like to point out that Manuel in Guardina was lying.
I did not suck up to Bernie Fratto. It did
not happen. Manuel can chew on a dirty sock. But
(34:05):
you can interact with the Ben Malor Show. But promote
the show Malord marketing. That's what Ben says. Get the
word out. Let people know, friends, enemies, whoever might listen
to the live show. If you know people uplate at
night or or those that work the dreaded day shift,
(34:26):
can listen to the podcast version of the show with
limited commercial interruption and be part of the Malord militia.
Growing the audience. If everyone listening right now gets one
person to listen, the downloads will spike, will double our audience.
Just like that. That's all we need and really piss
(34:48):
off management. Let's get back to it though. Oh yeah,
they'd be really really upset there, Bill, they'd be furious.
But time now for the Insta tribute and they we'll
have mallor to the third degree. But here is the
Insta Trivia question of the hour. Jerroden Mayo, Congratulations, you
(35:08):
have become the thirty third, one and done coach since
the NFL merger over fifty years ago. Blank is the
only one of those coaches, the only one that would
go on to win a Super Bowl as an NFL
head coach. That is the question. What is the answer?
(35:29):
That's the here? Keith Oho Textos says, the answer clearly
is the greatest football coach of all time, Billy Martin.
I was really good with the New York Yankees, who
we're an NFL team. Christopher in Kansas City says Kim
Moulki is the answer, very funny answer, mister nice guy.
I don't think that'll make the air, but I am laughing.
I forty ian going with legendary Jets coach Lou Holtz
(35:53):
as his selection. Rob in Vegas checking in with Hollywood Hogan.
Who else do we have? Page down? Late night drug
tester says you are a j Hawk who is forty
one today? What a good decision he made there? Who
to partner with a little little radio thing? Who else
do we have? Page down? Gumby Dave got it right?
(36:16):
Bad job by him? Alf the alien O Piner going
with Derek White of the Celtics as his answer. Has
got more blocks than Giannis Adente Gumbo this season, and
a bunch of who else? A bunch of other NBA
players let's see og Art Puffin says Coop training for
(36:37):
a poker tournament is the answer? Page down? Mark from
Queen's got it right? Bad job by him. James is
going with Dick McPherson is his answer. Bill Darcel's guests
by Ike in Roseville, Minnesota, Nostradinas who's trying to calm down?
He got it right? Larry reporting from Nashville says coach
(36:59):
Ernie and Tusso is the answer? All right, let's Stecko
from Robin, Minnesota. George hallis tossed out by Johnny Q.
Do you have an answer? Lorrain, give you a clue.
This person once held the Malard phone in his hands.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Oh my gosh, I don't know if this is going
to ruin my guess or not. But you know, he's
one of the most winningest all time Super Bowl coaches
now and he.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Read any Reid all right, an he read Edy reed
not even close close, bad job by you. The correct
answer he was one and done with the nineteen ninety
four New York Jets, but later on he would win
a Super Bowl in Seattle. Pete Carroll pe Harrow.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Is the answer.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
It's Mallard.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (37:48):
To the third degree, This is one big Ben gets.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Grilled and away we go, and we say hello to
the Cooper Loop, justin Cooper.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
So the Cleveland Browns have decided to stick with Kevin Stefanski,
but instead fired offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey after their loss
in the season finale against the Ravens. Ben, do you
thinks Stefanski should have also been nixed?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Well, it doesn't matter because Deshaun Watson is going to
continue to haunt the Cleveland Browns. So as long as
Watson is there, you might as well keep Stefanski. He's
not terrible, and the Browns are going to have a
nice draft pick, which all the fans get excited about,
because I think every draft pick's gonna be great until
they realize they're not. So until you get over Watson,
I guess it makes sense to keep Stefanski because you're
(38:34):
not You're not trying to win as long as you
have Deshaun Watson, so you're fine. Next.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
It was reported over the weekend that a number of
scouts around the league quote don't have anything close to
a first round great on Shador Sanders Ben. What do
you think the chances are that we see him slide
on Draft Day zero?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
How about this? Every year Kyler Murray was not supposed
to be drafted in the in the first round. He
was the number one pick. There were people questioned Baker Mayfield,
he was the number Mac Jones was supposed to be
a fourth round pick in Alabama. He ended up being
drafted the first night of the Patris It doesn't matter.
It's all about agencies hyping up their clients, and when
(39:10):
the Super Bowl ends all the way till the draft
in late April, it's nothing but a hype machine. And
these teams are the top need quarterbacks, so I would
be stunned if this sharer Sanders is not draft in
the top ten of the draft, probably top five.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Next, during the Steelers loss to the Bengals, a graphic
came on the screen showing that Naje Harris has rushed
for one thousand yards and all four of his NFL seasons.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Traeigman was not impressed.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
He said, I think it's probably time we raised the
bar one thousand yard running back seasons. With seventeen games,
it was a time on thousand yards. It was quite
an accomplishment, but not so much anymore.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Do you agree? Well, I think you meant sixteen or whatever,
but but no, it's yeah, the seventeen game thing. It's
basically what really Aikman saying is people don't know, Matt.
Seventeen games. One thousand yards is fifty eight yards a game.
That's not that impressive, that's not that great. I agree,
How do we know? Ask us anation? I'm a winner,
I run out, I won, I'm a winner. Who I
(40:07):
run
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