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January 21, 2025 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Lions OC Ben Johnson agreeing to a deal to be head coach of the Bears and if he will be able to bring the magic with him from the Motor City, how things are looking for the rest of the coaching carousel, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
D no.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number two of the original recipe podcast, Hope
you're doing well on this Tuesday, and we start out
with the Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson no longer the
Lions offensive coordinator as he moves on promoted to Chicago
Grade the Ben Johnson hire as coach of the Bears.

(00:24):
Also does Ben Johnson bring the magic touch or the
Sadam touch with him from the Motor City? And with
Ben Johnson off to the Windy City, how are things
looking for the rest of the NFL coaching carousel. Gigs
will take a look a peek behind the curtain.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
All that and more.

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Speaker 3 (01:50):
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Speaker 1 (01:50):
So congratulations to the Ohio State University. They dotted the I.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
The Buckeyes, the champions of college football, fell behind seven
to nothing, then scored the next thirty one points, and
they covered the numbers, so they win. But the news
for our purposes is from the Coaching Carousel dateline Windy City.
After Detroit was rudely excommunicated from the NFL postseason by

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the Washington football team formerly known as the Redskins. Another
domino has fallen. Another domino has fallen in the game
of musical chairs. If you have not heard by now
because you've been living down by the river in a van, well,
big news here the Chicago Bears. The Bears have hired

(02:37):
hot shot whiz kid offensive genius, the mensa of x'es
and o's, and a fellow ben Ben Johnson. They've got
their Johnson. The Chicago Bears their new head coach, Johnson,
who had been celebrated by NFL talking heads, promoted for

(02:58):
a couple of years on television as a boy Wonder,
and he is now the head coach of the Bears.
Past three years he has been at the helm of
the offense in Motown. He will feel the job filled.
He will fill the role of the departed. Not that
he's dead Matt Eberflus, although he is dead as far

(03:19):
as being a head coach in the NFL. The Bears
have been around for one hundred and five years, and
this will be their nineteenth head coach to walk into
Hellas Hall and try to wake up the echoes of
Bears gone by, bring back the magic of Sid Luckman
and the Chicago Bears of years ago. This is an
offensive hire. The Bears normally hired defensive coaches. So let

(03:41):
us discuss the question. Put a grade. Put a letter
grade on Ben Johnson's hiring as coach of your Chicago Bears.
So I've got French onion, soup, Johnny appleseed, and poultry farm.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
And we will combine.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
All of these things together and try not to have
a tamper tantrum, all right, So as far as the
report card, the Malor report card on this hire, I'm
not feeling it like I want this to work out.
I like other people with the same name that I have.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I relate to that.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
When I was a little kid, there was really nobody
named Ben. I'm at the age like, well, it just
wasn't It was a dog. I've told the story. When
I was a kid, there were these movies about Benji
the dog.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
That was it. They were like no other Ben's. There's
nothing that's a fair amount of people. It's not a.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Very common names. There's more people named Ben now than
back now. So I want to see from the naming standpoint,
I feel like all Ben's should be united.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
You know, Ben for Ben. You know Ben stands for Ben.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
But as a talk show host, I grade this a
C on the Malor report card. Ben Johnson to the
Bears gets a C. He runs a high falutant offense
which works well in a domes Gonna work when it's
cold outside at Soldier Field in December and plausibly January?

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Is that gonna work? Yeah? I don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
He's got an incomplete resume. You always have an incomplete resume.
If you've never been a head coach and the Bears
are doing what they often do, it's a starter job.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
This is someone there. Gambling is going to ascend.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
If you look at the history of the hot shot
coordinator that gets the head coaching job, it isn't very good.
Like most of them have not won Super Bowls. You
look at the coaches that have been the most successful.
Andy Reid was never a coordinator, went to Philadelphia, was
a quarterback coach in Green Bay. Mike Tomlin was never
a coordinator. Pretty good coach, not a great com mean

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they have won Super Bowl. Sean McVay was never the guru,
never the coordinator, but he ended up becoming a head
coach and there you go. So you look around it's like,
well that's the resume is nice if you like the
ex and o stuff. But the Bears dub He said
he took it because of a gut feeling. You know
how many times my gut is wrong. I don't you

(06:10):
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
And I thought they were gonna hire Mike McCarthy, which
would have been also a Sea hire Mike McCarthy's buddies
with the GM they have the same agent. I assume
that's where they were going to go, so they do
not go that direction. Instead they pivoted to essentially Ben
Johnson being the He's like French onion soup. He's the
soup of the day. He's the flavor of the month

(06:33):
in the NFL coaching cycle. And he's the dime a
dozen hot shot play caller that has all the ex's
and o's.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
And again, the vast majority of those type of coaches
do not succeed.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
And if you look at what the successful coaches are,
I think Dan Campbell's pretty good head coach. Right, how
much of the Lion's success is because of Dan Campbell?
How much of it is Ben Johnson? Like the job
as a head coach, you've got to be charismatic, you've
got to be mesmerizing, you've got to be a leader
of people. I don't get that vibe. I don't know

(07:08):
Ben Johnson. Maybe he is, I haven't heard much of him.
I just know from what I've seen on TV. He
usually stands around by himself, futzing around with his play sheet,
and he's lost in thought, like he's daydreaming on the sidelines.
I don't see a lot of players around him. Eh,
we'll see this is not mister excitement over there, Ben Johnson.

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Now page two, does Ben Johnson bring the magic touch,
the Midas touch, or does he bring the sadom touch
with him to the Motor City. Because this hire was
made for one player, even though there's a roster full
of fifty plus players on the Chicago Bears. You're kidding
yourself if you don't think the Bears are already trying

(07:50):
to salvage Caleb Williams, that they look like country bumpkins
in Chicago. They passed over Jaden Daniels, who is in
the final four of the NFL, a win away from
the super Bowl, and the Bears had that number one overall,
and they took a dud in Caleb Williams. And the

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real ones that know football know that Caleb Williams as
a rookie was a hot mess. And Johnson, Ben Johnson
coming in there, and he's being promoted as like a
Johnny apple Seed type character here, and you know, watch
Caleb Williams blossom the way that Jared Goff supposedly blossom,
blossomed under his tutelage with the lines, but the shine

(08:35):
is off the apple if you're Johnny Appleseed, and you
wonder how much of that is fluff, media fluff, and
how much of that is substance. The last time there
was a coordinator they got this level of attention was
Robert Salah with the forty nine. Remember Robert Salad was
a defensive fordinator. You could not watch a forty nine
er game without the broadcasters licking the toes of Robert smo.

(08:59):
Oh my god, let me give him a bubble bath.
Holy crap. They were so excited. Then he got the
job with the Jets and Britt Yeah, it was. It
was a comic coze mission. So I'm always skeptical of
these things. And as far as Jared Goff and the
connection and how much better Jared Goff was with the Lions,
his numbers fun fact is a malor show fun fact.

(09:24):
In big games, Jared Goff did not live up to
the hype. He did not play well in big games.
If you look side by side also, I did the
side by side blind tastest. If you compare what Goff
did with Sean McVeigh and the Rams versus Ben Johnson
and the Lions, they're actually mirror images. It doesn't seem

(09:44):
like that perception is reality, and the perception is that
golf was much better with the Detroit Lions. But Goff
with the Rams averaged seven point five yards per pass
attempt with the Detroit.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Lions in his career.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
You're in Detroit, He's averaged seven point six yards per passittept.
So he's point one better with the Lions, which is
in the margin of error. That's in the margin of error.
And as far as Caleb Williams, again, I'm the concern
is that this Ben Johnson guys is just a product
of skullduggery, that he doesn't have the magic place and

(10:24):
the magic playbook. Supposedly, Caleb Williams has a multitude of
sins as a quarterback. The biggest one being that he
has a slow processor. It's kind of like a Commodore
computer from back in the day, very slow America online
dial up Internet in a high speed. To be a

(10:44):
great quarterback, you have that high speed WiFi and he's
dial up. He's connecting to the server and it's not
really working out so well. He was sacked Caleb Williams
sixty eight times. Now sack is a quarterback stat and
a sack is worth half a turnover, so that means
just on sacks alone, Kayla Williams turned the ball over

(11:06):
thirty four times. If you consider a sack half a turnover,
meaning that most of the time you get sacked, the
drive ends that you have to either punt the ball
back or you turn it over on downs.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
And I don't know any magic play with maybe Harry
Potter has something where that'll turn things around.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Now, Furthermore, the worst.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Part of going from Lions assistant coordinator offensive guru to
Chicago Bears head coach is you don't get to play
the Bears twice a year. Right, you don't get to
play the Chicago Bears twice year. That hurts your accomplishments,
all right, Now, final point with Ben Johnson off the board,

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heading off to Chicago to live with Doc Mike and
eat Deep Dish pizza and talk to Eugene and all
the characters you're fomi and everybody there in the Windy City.
With him going out of Detroit into Chicago, how are
things looking at the rest of the NFL coaching carousel
at this point? How are things looking?

Speaker 3 (12:08):
So?

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Imagine if you will a poultry farm. That's right, a
poultry farm. Imagine a poultry farm. And NFL teams that
need coaches are right now running around like the headless
chicken trying to figure out where. It's a mad scramble,
it's musical chairs. The Patriots already hired their coach, Mike Rabel,

(12:29):
so the Bears have Ben Johnson. So that's two spots
on the tote board that are gone the Cowboys. It
seems like the Dion Sanders talk has calmed down. We'll
see if that picks up in the next twenty four
to forty eight hours. I know Jerry was busy with
the presidential stuff, so he didn't have time to futz
around with hiring a new coach. So deon Sanders. Kellen

(12:51):
Moore his name is what a what a buzzkill? That
would be the guy that you got rid of because
you picked Mike McCarthy you're going to bring back as
the head coach.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Kelln will okay.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Aaron Glenn has been mentioned for the Jets and the
Saints job. The Lions defensive cornator. You talk about a
tough hire. Imagine hiring Aaron Glenn after that defense allowed
a rookie quarterback to go and up and down the field.
I mean, my god, you talk about coughing up a
fur ball.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
They did.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
They coughed up a fur ball right now. The Raiders
they wanted Ben Johnson, so now they're scrambling. And Steve
Spagnolo Chiefs defensive coordinator, Pete Carroll, Cliff Kingsbury. He's been
mentioned for the Cowboys job and the Raider job. The
Saints have no idea. Mike McCarthy has been mentioned. Aaron
Glenn the Jets, Robert Sala, the filmer Jets coach up

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for the Jacksonville job.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
What is going on?

Speaker 2 (13:47):
What in the web? What in web? Anyway, it is
the Ben Mallor Show. We're hanging out with you together,
side by side audio buddies doing hot yoga. Yeah it
is hot yog It's very hot near. Uh, but not
that I'm complaining. There are worse problems that I am complaining.

(14:09):
That wasn't complaint. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. NFL coach tells you
to not believe your lying eyes. NFL coaches do not
believe your lying eyes. And imagine pouring salt on a wound.
Salt on the wound from a luxury box from a

(14:30):
luxury box that happened. Yeah, we'll explain what that's all about.
We'll get to it. We'll take your calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. Also on x at Ben
Maller will do it all and we will do it next.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
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Speaker 2 (14:55):
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Speaker 1 (15:20):
You do take advantage of that.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
On ex at Ben Mahllor follow men Koopa Loop is
in the producer's chair, uh Rocco fan and Lorraine a
the FSR Tech Queen. And now back to a man
who is sweating through his shirt right now, Ben, Yeah,

(15:47):
it's it's toasty. It is toasty. Might be at the
remote studio maybe the Gremlins will attack. Who knows, but
I might be at the remote team have never had
no idea. The National Championship game goes to Ohio State.
They win the first title in eleven years, give or

(16:08):
take twenty fourteen. Last time they won, so early twenty
fourteen and now early twenty twenty five, they'll be dotting
the I wake up the Echoes, the buck Eyes get
it done.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
In the Chicago Bears.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
They have a new head coach, and who better to
break down the Chicago Bears than our Chicago Bears Inside.
When there's breaking news in Chicago, we've got boots on
the ground and we say hello to our Chicago Bear insider,
Doc Mike.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
Hello, Doc, good evening from downtown Tushon right next to
right next to Chicago, Tucson, Chicago, very close to each other's.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
I was in Phoenix earlier today. I have patients up there.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, is your window down? Are you driving?

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Doc?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
I feel like you're driving a few Like your window
is down. We're hearing some ambient noise, there's some wind.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
Uh, there's a right there there.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
I just saw a high wind warning.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
Here in Tucsons.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Oh okay, all right, will you be.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Do you have any advice, Doc, to the Chicago Bears
new coach or any advice you'd like to share with
Ben Johnson?

Speaker 6 (17:20):
Of course, and you've been talking about it for years.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
They got to get off of their wallet, you know,
just uh, they're going on the cheap for years.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
They can't get a pitch of line.

Speaker 6 (17:34):
You know, the spring Box and Chagogo Bear quarterbacks have
something in common for years. Yeah, they're both warning for
their lives.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
They're running. Are you coming out to La? You're in airs?

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Are you're in the wrong direction. You're leaving feet You're
in Tucsons, So you're going the wrong way there.

Speaker 6 (17:52):
Doc, Well, I got to go back up to ten
and then uh into uh into La. I do have
a couple of patients over that way. I go what
in San Diego to Sandy.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
That's not La, Doc, that's San Diego.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Was in La.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, pac worse.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Well let me know, Doc, you can come by and
say hello, Yeah you meet Lorraine.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, I want to meet her.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
I bet you, I bet you do. Doc.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Well, you've been on the road a while though, Doc, Right,
you leave Chicago used to go to Ecuador, remember that, Doc.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Back in the day.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
You were the king of Ecuador, you'd leave for several
months every year.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
Yeah, well, go down with COVID, and now there's so
much violence down there, indigenous trying to dig back the country.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
Nonprofit network course, advise me not to go there until
it cools off. But Chicago's worse than Ecuador. Seven twenty
wounded every night in Chicago.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, I mean there are parts of Chicago that you
want to avoid for sure.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
All right, well, dog, thanks for checking in. That's it.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
You just want to say hello, you're driving, you're up late,
you want to say hi?

Speaker 7 (19:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Uh well, what do we do want.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
The doctor?

Speaker 1 (19:12):
All right, hold on a sec.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
If any if anybody wants to ask doc a question,
we'll do that.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Let's say hello to Let's see here, let's go to Ryan, who's.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
In San Diego. Ryan, anybody take your Doc's on hold?
So anybody wants to talk to doc, you can ask
a doc. How amazing would that be to ask a dog?
What's what's going on?

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Ryan? Hello? Ryan?

Speaker 8 (19:31):
I do you recall one time I was driving?

Speaker 9 (19:33):
No, we're not going to talk.

Speaker 6 (19:34):
About that with Doc. Mike.

Speaker 9 (19:36):
Anyway, Hey, I agree with you on the bear I
think maybe Pete Carroll or McCarthy would have been a
better fit. Question real quick, have you ever played the
SoundBite of the Ryan Day Lou Hopes?

Speaker 7 (19:51):
Uh? Post game?

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Uh? Well from back in the day. Yeah, I mean meldown. Yeah,
I mean we we did. I think we played like
one time. That was okay, it was a while, right.

Speaker 8 (20:03):
Hey, can I melt down on my rams right now?
I didn't listen to the show last night because I
was sick. I took it like I was you know,
I coached basketball for nineteen years. I took it like
one of my own, damn losses. We should have won
that damn game. Ben, I love McVeigh, but what the hell?
It's thirty two on the thirteen. We got forty five

(20:26):
seconds left, not fifteen seconds.

Speaker 9 (20:28):
Forty five seconds left. Just get the fen first down.

Speaker 8 (20:32):
Give the ball to fumbling Tyrie.

Speaker 9 (20:34):
Let him get the first down. If he doesn't get it,
it's a manageable fourth down.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
And I.

Speaker 9 (20:42):
Believe he would have gotten to the end zone if
we handed him the ball.

Speaker 7 (20:46):
No, we throw the ball.

Speaker 8 (20:48):
Stafford gets sacked, and now would fourthed and eleventh game
over not manageable.

Speaker 9 (20:53):
I'm sorry, this is like old school post.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Well well, okay, well, hold on, I sick.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Are you doing exosit? Are you doing Night teen eighty
sports radio? What do you do? I mean, that's out there.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
It's not the eighties anymore, twenty twenty five, for God's sakes.
But how about the defense not allowed seventy yard runs
and sixty yard runs and forty yard touchdown runs? How
about I I mean, how great the ramp defense is.
And there were three few runs by the Philadelphia Eagles
against that Rams defense look like it was?

Speaker 1 (21:21):
It was. It was ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
I mean, at least they didn't give up tour in
fifty five yards, but.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
They gave up to five yards to Berkley. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 8 (21:30):
Games they give up almost five hundred yards.

Speaker 7 (21:32):
By the way.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, you're talking about owning a defense man.

Speaker 8 (21:35):
That is how Aaron Donald, if you came out of
retirement next year and joins birsh I know that.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Well, he should have come out of retirement right now.
He would have.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
We should have played in that game. They would have
won that game. If you just have way decent.

Speaker 8 (21:49):
I think losing Fisk maybe would have heard it fun.
I'm telling you, Ben, with all that crap, in the
run and yeah again, well.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Well it's it's pretty you don't You don't fumble the
ball twice within three minutes or whatever it was at
the start of the fourth quarter, you win the game
all the I'm not a participation guy.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Neither should you be.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
You shouldn't be a participation trophy guy. And let's put
his way. We both we like the rams. We remember
rammed teams cold weather. They would go in there and
lose that game by thirty points. And at least they didn't,
you know, a snowy day in Philadelphia, and they didn't
go in there and play like a bunch of wisses.
So good for that. But they've got to get they've
gotta get better. So all right, Oh, we should have

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focus on growing your business. Demico Ryans, that's an NFL
head coach for the Houston Texans, and he was very
defensive against the media, and he was defending his player,
Chris Boyd. Remember Chris Boyd is the guy that had
a condiction fit on the first play they gave up

(23:21):
the long kick return special teams for the Texans, and
he went over and shoved his special teams coach and
right there the coordinator of special teams. So Demiko Ryan said,
I don't think he was pushing Frank the special teams
coordinator in a disrespectful manner. Demiko Ryan said, I think
it was more so he was fired up, overly fired up,

(23:43):
and thought he made a play to help us. So
that narrative that is being pushed, that he's pushing a coach,
that's incorrect. There's one problem with Demiko Ryans. The problem
is that Chris Boyd admitted that's what he was doing.
The player admitted that's what he was doing, and Dimiko

(24:04):
rides is like, Eh, that's not what happened. That's not
what happened. Let's go to showtime. Who's in Canah City, Hello, Showtime?
Showtime is sleeping hopefully not, though it sounds like he's
driving hmm hmm.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Things that make you go hmm, well me, he might
be sleeping. I don't know. We'll hang up on showtime.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
And again, anybody wants to the Doc's on hold here,
you got the doc. You got the doc locked and loaded.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Right there.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Let's say hello to weed Man Hippie. He's in Miami, Miami, Miami, Hello.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Weed Man, Hippie. We Man.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
If I was any better, i'd be doc. But no,
I wouldn't because he's driving around Tucson.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
So you now have three Japanese pictures in your rotation
through Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Right, uh, well, assuming o Tani's gonna pitch, Yeah, they'll
have three pitchers a star pitchers from Japan in the rotation.

Speaker 6 (25:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Wow? And who else? Who else is Roa?

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
They signed a nemesis of mine, a long time not
a fan of Blake Snell. Bro, I ain't playing us,
I get mine. I'm risking my life, bro. Blake Snell's
now a Dodger, so they got him a glass now's back.
They traded for him from Tampa Bay last year, so
they got him in the rotation. They got five or

(25:44):
six can't miss blue chip prospects that have all had
Tommy John surgery, so.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
They're loaded. They're absolutely loaded and bye.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
By July, the Dodgers will be trading with the Marlins
to get more pitching.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Because all these guys will get hurt. So that's how
that goes.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Hey, same joke, same jokes. Thursday.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
You don't seem like you're in a joking mood though,
you don't see.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I will be, you will be.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
You'll be ready. That's Thursday and the Friday. That's Thursday
and the Friday and lame Joe.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
You can send those jokes in care of Ben Malors
Show at gmail dot com. Weed Man loves when you
goof on his frailties, right, you love that. You can't
get enough of that?

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yes, every way you want, Okay.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
All of it's true.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
No teeth, right, no teeth, no teeth. I've failed at
a toy store. Why weren't you at the Trump thing?
Weren't you buddies with Trump when you're running around Manhattan
back in the day, weed Man, in the eighties?

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yes, Trump, Trump kissed Lisa and we were hotels.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
I bet you were.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Look at that, and when you weren't hanging out with
Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden and the boys. Right, the
Mets what I loved, and I know you did. What
about my guy? What about my guy?

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Dyster?

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah? I knew all their wives. I shot with them.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
There you go, you hung out? Now look at you.
See that was a joke, weed, miss, I was doing
a joke. Joke here. You didn't. You weren't receptive of
the joke. You weren't like laughing at that.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
So all right, well listen, and then you were your
living situations.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Okay, now, yes it's all right, not great, but it's okay.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
I'd rather have.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yet again.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
All right, well, thank you for checking in, weed man,
I appreciate it. This is the great weed man. Hippie,
uh coop, see me of these guys? Want to talk
to the doc? By the way, we'll take some ask
a doc. I guess he's eating line too, Hello, line too.
You're on the airline too, Hello, Hello, line too. Hello,

(27:56):
you're on the what is your name? So you're live
on the airline too? Coops eating argue right now? So
I will screen the calls. Yes, do you want to
say a lot of doc? Do you want to say
hi to the doc?

Speaker 10 (28:06):
Yeah, I'm good to the doc.

Speaker 8 (28:08):
I actually do want to talk about the Bears.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
All the Bears. You want to talk? Oh, as a
shot at doc Mike got very good. Yes.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
Yeah, So the Bears.

Speaker 10 (28:19):
Hired Ben Johnson, and I I thought you you talked
about this earlier, and I would say it's a good hire.
I don't think it's the best hire the Bears could
have made, because if you look, they interviewed like fifty
million people or whatever. They your mom, your grandma, anybody.

Speaker 7 (28:39):
It took them forever, and then.

Speaker 10 (28:40):
The second you know, the Lions get eliminated, they're they Yeah,
they didn't.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Even they didn't interview Ben. They didn't even talk to
Ben Johnson. And they did like a zoom interview with them.
They didn't like talk to them in person.

Speaker 10 (28:51):
Yeah, it was like immediately they was like, hey, welcome
to the team. I feel like all that interviewing was
just kind of stalling for their I feel like they
knew the entire time they were going to hire Ben Johnson.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Well, you know, he had agreed to the contract, though
they didn't know for sure that he was going to
agree to coach there. He had to give his blessing,
and he gave his blessing, and we'll see what we'll
see how it plays out. Let's say hello to Jerome
in Charleston. Hello, Jerome, what's his?

Speaker 7 (29:17):
What's his to be?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
I know you love these buyouts. They can't get enough. Well, well,
speak of that. Speaking of that, how about this. Your
eyeball is going to pop out of your Hedgerome. So
there are reports overnight Ben Johnson is going to be
getting thirteen million dollars per year.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
To coach the Bears.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
He's gonna make He's gonna make more than Saquon Barkley
in Philadelphia. That Bears coach is going to make more
per year with no proven track record as a head coach.
And he's going to be paid more than Barkley in Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Only in Americas, Don Jing would tree.

Speaker 7 (29:56):
Only in America, you could go from nowhere to some where.
Had getting paid very handsomely for By the way, thank you,
Ohio State, And thank you for not making me be
mad at myself because I was getting kind of nurse
from that fourth quarter. But thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you, because like I said, because Ryan, they lost

(30:17):
that game, he's going to have to move to another
country and change his names. That, thank goodness, that's not
going to have to happen well.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
For a year until until they lose to Michigan next year,
and then everyone will be back when they do that.

Speaker 7 (30:29):
Then he'll just go to the pros because I'm sure
he'll come knocking on the door. Him and Marcus Freeman
is a very young, ambitionous.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, Marcus Freeman, I can see him going to the NFL.
But I've never heard Ryan Day's name mentioned as an
NFL coach.

Speaker 7 (30:43):
You know, it can happen, man, You know, with all
the money going around and everything. And by the way,
Jeremiah Smith, you need to get some more anil money
because that was an absolutely huge catch. Okay, But unlike
the guy from Baltimore to doctor you.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Know, did you did you notice the now Jerome, did
you notice the broadcaster Jinx was in effect twice because
I think it was foul or mentioned that that Ohio
State hadn't fumbled, they don't turn the ball over, and
then like two seconds later there was a fumble and
he had mentioned that your guy did not catch a
pass in the second half, and then like two plays

(31:19):
later he catches that long pass to wrap up the
game for the Buck guys.

Speaker 7 (31:23):
By the way, Chris foulas steals from me too, because I.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Heard him, yes, probably listening right now.

Speaker 7 (31:30):
He mentioned kurtin Flood. I said, nobody mentions Kirk Flood
but me. And now Chris fall is doing he steals
from me too.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
They all listen. That one's a thief. Everyone's out to
get you.

Speaker 7 (31:40):
Oh, you know, we're gonna get the Riders job. That
guy Kingsbury with Washington, I don't know about. They're having
a hard time finding anybody. Man having a hard time.
And maybe you.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Know, they wanted to hire him.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
They wanted to hire him last year, but he held
out for more money and Washington gave him more money.
The Raiders had him lined up to be the offensive
quarter and they had agreed to a deal, and then
last second he wanted more money, and that tight wade
Mark Davis said no, by the way, you your your ram.

Speaker 7 (32:14):
They went up tempo too late, okay, because they had
a champ.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
No, they were what are you talking about? Too late?

Speaker 2 (32:20):
They were down by one point and they had the ball.
They picked up a first down of the start of
the first pinter fourth quarter and then Williams coughs up
the damn football and he did that all year.

Speaker 7 (32:30):
Yeah, even with that, they still had a chance. But
you can beck your bottom dollars because a couple of
Eagles to our secondary guys got hurt. That's gonna be
in the game plan for Washington next week. Okay, at
some point time, they're going to streets about Temple.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
All right, I'm not I'm not feeling very good if
I'm an Eagle fan. I'm not feeling very confident that
that team is gonna get it done.

Speaker 8 (32:52):
L G.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Do we have them?

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yeah, Joe, do we have the Mayor of Philadelphia? Honorable
Mayor of Philadelphia here, give us.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
A pep talk?

Speaker 8 (33:00):
You all saying he owe.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, that's my mawer.

Speaker 7 (33:10):
You know what, Ben, I love when you violate drum.
Can't talk about politics, but Dan can talk about.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Politics, Yes, exactly, I absolutely can't. Right, it is the
Bene Mallard Show. Time now for the Insta Trivia and
Mallard of the thirty s. When you host the show, Jerome,
that's how it work. You get to make the rules.
All right, here's the Insta Trivia. The only two rookie
quarterbacks to ever beat a number one seed. IM want

(33:37):
to see in the playoffs are Jade and Daniels whose
commanders upset the Lions over the weekend, and blank again,
only two rookie quarterbacks have ever beaten the number one
seed in the playoffs. There Jade and Daniels happened over
the weekend and blank. That is the Insta trivia. The answer.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
We'll get to it, and we all have Mallard of
the third Degree. We'll do it all and we will
do it Next.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
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Speaker 2 (34:11):
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(34:33):
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the talk radio program. That's right, and here is the
Insta Tribua. Only two rookie quarterbacks have ever beaten a

(34:55):
number one seed.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
In the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
They are Jaden Daniels, who's Commander's upended the number one
seed Lions over the weekend, and blank. That is the question.
What is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
Nick's going with RG three is his answer.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Paige Down.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
That would be Buck Brutus Buckeye from og Ard Puffin
the mascot of the National Champions Gunner guessed by King
Roy Good photo of Gunner. I don't know how you
found that solid Jack Nicholas, who is eighty five today
from the Late Night Drug Tester Robin Vegas Going with
the Iron Chic is his answer. The Holy Roller from

(35:38):
Shane in Des Moines. A Blast from the Past page DWN,
Tim Tebow Touchdown Jesus from Milkman Mike in Colorado. Stanley Hudson,
it's good name. Stanley Hudson from Alf the Alien Opiner
one of the great character actors in Hollywood.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
J T.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
The Wingman, says Billy Ocean, who turned seventy five today,
Happy birthday, Gaylord Perry from Stevie Meatballs, Ernie the Great
Old Piner from Trucker Joe. That's a blast in the past.
That's one of the funnier things that happened on the show.
We had this guy, Ernie the great Ol'd Piner, who
was a super fan of the show, and a bunch
of other people started o Piner accounts goofing on Ernie,

(36:26):
and Ernie got so upset he quit the show. There
are some other things involved in that that I can't
get into, but it was very funny. Bunch of We
had a bunch of burner accounts to goof with Ernie
because Ernie was the ferg.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Dog of his day. Who else to have?

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Mark Sanchez guests by Ike in Roseville, Minnesota, Slug in Vegas,
Hey body, Nathan Peterman is the answer? Double O Mexican
in San Diego says it's Jerome in Charleston.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Very very very funny. Who do we have? El Choppo? Guess?

Speaker 2 (37:00):
By Manuel in Guardina, Mark from Queen's Going with Mark
Sanchez as his answer.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Who else do we have? Page Dan can't read that?
All right? Lorraine? Now do you have an answer? Lorraine? Yes,
And I'm glad Ike got it wrong because I was
gonna guess Mark Sanchez. I was, Yes. I just had
a conversation about him the other day because you like
Mark because Mark Sanchez I like the Jets. Well, you
know you like the Jets. You know you're a cowboy

(37:29):
fan the Jets. Doesn't matter. You're a cowboy fan. You
can't be a Jets fan.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
And you said, by the way, Mark san you know
what he's most famous play in the NFL is Mark Sanz?

Speaker 1 (37:38):
No, what is it? The butt fumble? Yeah, come on,
fumbled on his butt. Well he ran into a butt,
that's why. Yes, all right, So what's uh my second
answer is Ben Rothenberg.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Wow, that is outstanding football knowledge. Yet again, for those
that don't know, we actually hired Lorena directly from the NFL.
She was working in their statistical department there. Normally he
goes by Ben Roethlisberger. But that's fine. The correct answer
is Joe Flaco.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Joe Flacco, who's Raven's beat the Titans.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Back in twenty oh nine, sixteen years ago, sixteen years ago.
Here we go, here we go, here we go, Here
we go, here we go, we.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Go, here about, here we go, here we go, here
we go.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
This is one big Ben gets grilled cool.

Speaker 11 (38:35):
So Ben, it's it's been a it's been a little
bit since the Kansas City Chiefs Houston Texans game.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yes, as our Saturday Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yes.

Speaker 11 (38:45):
And there's still still a lot of people complaining on Twitter.
And there's a there's a term I've been seeing going
around Chiefs derangement syndrome. Yeah, Ben, do you think this
is a real thing?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yes, It's been same thing the Dodgers are experiencing. People
upset with the Dodgers because they're spending all this money.
People upset with the Chiefs as they win, and they're
jealous that their teams.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Don't win and all that.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
And the good thing is people watch no matter what
and don't really judge things on social media because the
only reason people go on social media is to complain,
So you should never judge anything off social media. But yeah,
people are upset. They're annoyed anytime the Chiefs are perceived
to get a call because of my homes. The fixes
in because we all know the NFL is really worried
about the Kansas City market. They want to fix it

(39:25):
for the Kansas City market.

Speaker 10 (39:26):
Next.

Speaker 11 (39:27):
Eagles edge rusher Josh Sweat admitted after the win on
Sunday that he does not like playing in the snow
and would rather play on the terrible Brazil field. Yeah, Ben,
Do you think there will ever come a time when
all NFL teams play in domes?

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yeah, we'll all be dead, but yeah, eventually that'll be
the case. It's they charge a lot of money for tickets.
It's much better experience to sit indoors than sit in
whether I know lunatics in Buffalo and Green Bay don't
mind it, but it's a much better experience.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Next.

Speaker 11 (39:54):
Over the weekend, it was reported that Steve Sarkizian turned
down two interview opportunities for NFL teams and instead signed
an extension with the Longhorns.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Ben, does this surprise you? Yeah, I don't believe that
he was up for NFL jobs.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
I think that was just tossed out to make him
seem more attractive to Texas, like he could have got
an NFL job Steve Starkeysy, Come on, I'm not a fan.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
I'm not a fan.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
How do we go?

Speaker 1 (40:16):
You passed? That is a pass and a cut on
the board from the sauna.

Speaker 8 (40:20):
I wanted a sauna.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Lareya, it's up, son, it's so hot.
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