August 5, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Colts QB Anthony Richardson calling the QB competition with Daniel Jones a "me vs. me type of thing," Broncos coach Sean Payton thinking Bo Nix will be a 'superstar' soon, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding No, it's our numb bird to Our number two
is ready for you. And it's all about the Colts
quarterback Anthony Richardson, who's in a quarterback competition with Daniel Jones.
Not much of a competition, well, Richardson said, it's a
me versus me type of thing. How do you decode
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that quote? We'll talk about that. Also in Denver, Sean
Payton thinks Broncos quarterback bo Nix will be a quote
superstar quote close quote soon. What's your verdict on that one?
And Jim Harbaugh said, charge your running back, Nase Harris.
He played with fireworks, he messed up his eye. He's
getting better, he's walking laps as part of his rehab.
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There's still no timetable for his return. Where are you
at on this one? We'll go there as well. Right
now here, it is our number two. It's all about me, Me, Me.
Welcome in the begining of another hour of the Ben
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So we begin this hour we go to the Quarterback Derby,
and oh what a derby is Indianapolis, Indiana known for
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the Indy five hundred and mediocre football and we have
a quarterback competition. So it's time now for the obligatory
malor monologue on the high drama in Colts Camp. So
you have on one side of the aisle you have
Daniel Jones, the stumble Bum.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
On the other side you.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Have Anthony Richardson, built like Adonnis and he plays like
hollering James from Minnesota. So they are listed as co
QB one. So no, I didn't play in the NFL. However,
if you have co starting quarter, wouldn't that be great?
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If the Colts said, we're gonna use both guys under center,
We're just gonna have both of them out there at
the same time, and we'll see what we're gonna do
at that point. Maybe we'll have Anthony Richardson in the
backfield and he'll run out to the slot receiver. We'll
have Daniel Jones, he'll go to the slop. But we're
gonna start the mote. So isn't that special? Now that's
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not the story here. It did the lead to an
absolute gem of a quote from Anthony Richardson. So if
you didn't hear this, and perhaps not Richardson commenting about
his situation from top five draft pick to now having
to be in a dogfight with a literal dog in
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Daniel Jones, who sucks. So, Richardson said, quote, even if
they meaning the Colts brought Tom Brady in here, he's
the greatest, but I just have to work and try
to beat him out. Richardson, he said, here's the key
part of the quote. It's a me versus me type thing.
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It's a me versus me type thing. That is what
we call the money quote. That's a good jumping off point.
So let us discuss the question. Cols quarterback Anthony Richardson
calling the QB competition in Indianapolis with Daniel Jones a
quote me versus me thing?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
How do you decode that quote?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So I've got hot, blonde, Cia level and fat kid,
three things that have never been thrown together, and we
will throw them together and say Abra cadabra, hocus pocus.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So number one, I said, Number one U just like
QB one, this one smells like delusion. Now what does
delusion smell like? Similar to rotten eggs, similar to sul
for rotten eggs, that whole thing delusion. So you are
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in a quarterback battle royale and you're brushing off the
guy who's right there with you, breathing down your neck
is what you're doing for Anthony Richardson, heear so Daniel Jones,
And I'm certainly not going to sit here and praise
Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You know how I feel about him.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
If you've heard the show over the years, we've done
many amal of monologue about the many frailties of Daniel Jones,
how flawed he is, and we believe he's covered in maggots. However, however,
he's neck and neck for the starting job in Indianapolis.
So what does that tell you? It's the old Bill
Parcells line about Anthony Richardson. That potential potential means you
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haven't done anything yet. And as we like to say,
a prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise. And Anthony
Richardson has been very suspect when he's played. That's Richardson
in a nutshell, is what it is. You know, Richardson.
I'll tell you what Richardson is, the the hot blonde
at the bar that looks amazing and then that kind
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of flirts with you, you know, a lot of contact,
oh flirty and get you excited and then ghost you.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That's what Anthony Richardson is, right, that's Richardson in a nutshell.
That's what he is. All tease, no please, no results, nothing.
And Richardson, who has a highlight reel, if you want
to call it that, of a little bit of brilliance,
a little bit of brilliance, heavily edited, a lot of
bonehead mistakes, a lot of those quitting, taking himself out
of the game. You don't know, you don't outlive that,
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you don't short change that. And every time Richardson rolls
out in the pocket and there's there's a lot of
people that go ooh and ah and awe, like he's
the second coming. And and then you look at the
actual result of that, and I guess accuracy does matter.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It does matter.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He's a compass rose co north, south, east, west and
anywhere else in between. You want to turnover, he'll give
you a turnover. You want zero, ability to stay on
the field, He'll give you that as well.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He's got that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Richardson is I believe he's in year three now if
I'm not mistaken, although really based on games played a
lot less than that, and yet this far into his career,
the conversation about Anthony Richardson is still well, let's talk
about the traits that he has. Traits that's you know
what that is. That's what dopey sports radio hosts like
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me talk about. In the NFL draft season in March
and April, we talk about the traits of quarterbacks, right well,
the combine in the NFL draft, not in August of
year three of your career. We're not talking about your
traits unless you blow Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So that's where we are. That's where we are.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And I hate to break it to Anthony Richardson, but
it's not me versus me. That's not a me versus
me situation based on a minute long deliberation. It's you
versus reality is the situation.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Right, You are in a dead heat. You are in
a dead heat, Anthony Richardson with a guy.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
The Giants ran out of town and they had nobody
else other than Tommy Cutlet's they've ran your ass out
of town, right, and you're acting like you're baggling the
ghost of Peyton Manning or something like that at quarterback
in Indianapolis. It's amazing, Like the clock is ticking on
both these guys. Now, listen, Daniel Jones, I know he
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has to stopover in Minnesota and he didn't play or
anything like that. But the Colts front office, right, Jim
Mersay left this mortal coil. Jim had a hard life,
a lot of sex, drugs, rock and roll.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
He's gone out.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So now the daughter's running the team, and so there's
a changing of the guard there. You ain't gonna sit around. Wait, well,
the upside upside, upside, upside upside, how about your upside down?
And your took us is what you want? Bill Parcells
another quote. You lose with potential, you lose with the Naville,
you win with performance. And that's that's the Colts in
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a nutshell. You got Shane Steichen who's still hanging around there,
and does he really want to go six and eleven
or seven and ten again while waiting for something to change?
Get that full Anthony Richardson experience there, and maybe he'll
finally show up and this will be the year. Yeah,
he's due, he's due. Right when you're the guy with
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the most talent in the room, okay, you're the player
with the most talent in the room, the spotlight gets
a little bit brighter on your ass.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
That's the way it works.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So when you flame out, and that's what Richardson's doing
right now, it does burn a little bit bigger. The
fire is a little bit bigger, and so the bar
is higher for Richardson, as it should be, as it
should be. So instead of embracing it and say I've sucked,
you know, I'm terrible and I gotta be I gotta
be better. And it seems this sounded like a deflection
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to me, this quote as we parse the words, it
sounds to me like a deflection like, well, the pressure
just doesn't apply. And if you would like to impress
gas bags like this one me, then then don't give
don't give me the zen. Don't give me the zen
quotes about me versus me and all that stuff that
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sounds like a bad morning radio show, me versus me. Uh,
get out there, take care of the football, take care
of the football, maybe win some games.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Don't take yourself out of a game.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Don't quit on your team because you're a little gassed,
because everyone's gassed in the second half of games, and
all that stuff. Until then you're just another failed draft
pick clinging on getting opportunities still because of the scouting
report and based on things you haven't actually done, but
things you're supposed to do, and it hasn't translated into
on field success. Now, speaking of on field success, we
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go now to Denver. Another interesting quote. This one comes
from Sean Payton, the former Fox broadcaster current head coach
of the Denver football team. So Sean Payton thinks that
Bronco quarterback Bownicks will be a quote superstar soon.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
What is your verdict on this one?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
From Sean Payton made this comment recently in Colorado that
Bownicks will be a superstar, So we need a verdict
on this one. So my weasel word detector started vibrating,
just like, that's what sounds like? Was so he said superstar?
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Sean Payton soon bon Nicks?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Soon?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Like?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
How soon?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What are we looking at like the end of this season? Superstar? Tomorrow? Tomorrow?
Tomorrow is an other day? How about next year? Maybe
next year will be the year he's a superstar. So
this is you know, I guess to be plays right?
Oh yeah, play he'll be You'll be fine, he'll play.
Soon is a hedge. Soon as a hedge, it is
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c I a level plausible deniability.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I said soon. It's vague enough.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
It's vague enough where if bow Nicks goes out there
and plays like flatulence, Sean Payton can say, well, I
didn't mean this season. I said soon. Why did you
expect me to him to be great this year? I
didn't say it'd be superstar this year? I said, so,
you know, soon, as a relative term, if you're a turtle,
if you're a turtle, you lived like two hundred years, right,
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so soon could be you know, fifty years soon for
a turtle that's not that long, live two hundred fifty
years whatever it is. If you're a tree, you live
two thousand years. On those big sequoia trees that live
fifteen hundred, two thousand years. Soon, well that's a relative term.
So again, now on the flip side, if bow Knicks
does go out there and play well, and then Sean
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Payton can say, hey, I told you told you so.
I told you guy. Nobody likes I told you guy.
He could be I told you guy. It's again coach
speak is what it is. It's a good time of
the year for coach speak, it is. And pumping the
tires Sean Payton. They're pumping the tires on his hand
picked quarterback they got rid of. They chased out Russell Wilson,
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mister unlimited. It it was stunk up the joint in
Colorado and so they had to get somebody. This is
the guy they got. And you're the PR director of
the Broncos. But it's not really like analysis. It's not analysis,
and you don't take talent. Talent evaluations from a head coach,
because the way I always look at these things, like
if bow Knicks is terrible, is Sean Payton gonna say
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he's terrible?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
No, he's not gonna say that. Nobody ever says it. Now.
I would take these comments as the gospel.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
If I got coaches to say, boy, we got a
quarterback who is a bag of suck and that's our
guy right now. But they never say that New Orleans
Saints have suck bag over there. They have got a dog,
a poo that's one of their quarterback options. And then
they have a bag of cockroaches that's the other option.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Those are the three options at quarterback there in Norton.
But you don't hear that.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
You said, well, this guy's got a lot of love
sign blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Now, how
does one classify the superstar? What is a superstar in
the NFL? So you obviously have to dominate. That goes
without saying there's a domination situation. You have to be
a player that people go out of their way to watch,
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meaning that if you have multiple games on the red zone,
which he spens about to kill. But if you had
the red zone on you would tune out of the
red zone to watch the player because he's that good.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He's a superstar.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Okay, so you fill the stadiums, people tune in big
ratings on television, and it's like the magic Johnson quote
is that you have.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
To inspire the city a little much. But he said it.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You know, superstars changed the mood of the whole building
and all that, and so there's something to that. There's
something to that that I buy into. And at this point,
based on today, bo Nicks is not that guy. You're
not that guy, Palt You're not that guy. He will
give you lots of bubble screens and system stats and
all that stuff, and you'll never be a superstar just
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being a system guy. That will not be the case.
Just like brock Perty's never going to be the guy
a superstar because he's just a system quarterback in San Francisco.
He got paid a lot of money, congratulations, but you're
just a system guy. Bo Nicks last year was the
seventeenth ranked quarterback in the NFL. So now I know
I'm being just a hard oh and a jackass and
you're being too.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Mean, But that's not superstar you know it's not. Now
you know what that makes you.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
By the way, average that is right in the same
category with Geno Smith. Does anyone think Gene Smith as
a superstar? No, Gino Smith is a placeholder at the
Academy Awards when you go to take a whiz, somebody
has to fill your seat. That's Gino Smith. That's what
he is. Certainly not anywhere near you talk about the
upper echelon, which is Mahomes and Joe Burrow and players
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like that. But man, so you don't exactly become a
superstar because your head coach says you're you're going to
be that at a news conference in the month of August.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
By dragging your team deep in the playoffs, that certainly
changes the narrative. And we'll see if BO knows, If
Bo knows how to do that in Denver hasn't done
it yet, only one year, small sample size, but that's
all we have to go on now.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Final point to.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
La La Land we go follow up to the follow
up to the follow up to the follow up. Coach
Jim Harbaugh. Coach Jim Harbaugh said Chargers running back Najee
Harris one eyed Nasei.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That's to me.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Naji Harris, who was playing with fireworks and got the
wrong end of the fireworks on the fourth of July
ex Stravaganza in Northern California. Well, some bad news here,
Jim Harbaugh saying the Charger running back Naji Harris, he
said he's getting better. And then in the same breath
he said, right now, at Charger training camp preparing for
a National Football League season, Naji Harris is currently walking
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lapse as part of his rehab. He still has no timetable,
no timetable to return to the field in uniform. So
where are you at on this one? Where are you
at on this one?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So that is wild.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So Jim harbas Oh, he's making progress. He's walking laps
around the field. There's no timetable for him to put
on pads and all that stuff. So I keep going
back to the calendar. We're now in early August. We're
doing this on August fifth, and the charges of all,
he played a preseason game. They have another exhibition game
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coming up this weekend, so they've got another exhibition game to.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Look forward to.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You here, and you've got Jim Harbaugh out there. He's
like well, no, he's getting better. He's he's getting better.
He's so how exactly how does that work? Remember the
agent for Naji Harris said, but he suffered a superficial
eye injury playing with fireworks, and here we are in
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training camp and he's still walking laps. Yeah, yeah, there's
a Does that help your eye? By the way, I
should have great eyes. I walk a lot. I should
have really good eyesight. My eyes should be freaking great.
Why am I wearing glasses? I walk a lot. I
should have really good eyesight. So there is no timetable,
no drills, no contact, just laps. And that's what the
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fat kid at junior high school has to do in
Pe when they forget their sneakers. You know, I know
that I was the fat kid, was the fat kid
that had to walk laps in Pe. So I guess
I could be an NFL player because I can walk labs.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I could play for the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I could rehab for the charge The fat kid walking laps,
that's me, and that's Najee Harris.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
You're a big free agent running back pick up there.
It's great.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's not rehab. It's like a liability waiver.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well, you can't. We can't put you in patch.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You can't see out of one of your eyes, unfortunately,
and we can't give you cleats and a helmet and
all that stuff. If Nage could see, I would assume
he'd want to be out there and be cutting and
exploding and taking handoffs and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And he's you can't actually play with one eye. That's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And there was the reason we have the combine is
there was a guy drafted by the Jets that was blind,
legally blind in one of his eyes and got drafted
in the second round. I actually had a good career
with the Jets, but they were so upset they drafted
a blind guy that they started the combine to test
people's vision and to see whether or not they could
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see or not things like that. But anyway, listen, so Naji,
he's pacing the sidelines and wandering around like he's waiting
for a delay in the terminal Spirit Airlines to get
their act together and all that stuff. So not safe,
not saying, but that's the Chargers, Baby, show me your
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lightning bolt can take the Chargers out of San Diego.
And they left years ago. But that's the that's the charge.
That's the charge. I remember the old Chargers, all right,
And if something goes sideways, if something can go wrong
for the Chargers, they they will will figure out a way.
If it can't go wrong, they'll find a way for
it to go wrong. And so fourth of July completely
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goes off the rails. And now this player's career hanging
in the balance, hanging in the balance here, and then
you've got Harball over here giving coach by. Yeah, he's
getting better, and he's currently walking laps as part of
his rehab.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
He's walking laps as part of his rehab. Okay, is
that what they record?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Like if you're an eye doctor, do you recommend Okay,
you've got a bad eye, just walk lapse, that'll make
it better.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
But he's getting ten thousand steps a day, which I'm
jealous of. So he's got his he's got his Apple watch.
There he's getting the ten thousand steps a day or whatever.
So there you go. So, based on just reading the
te leaves here, I think he's gonna be coming back.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I hope I'm wrong. I hope he comes back and
is able to play and all that stuff. But he's
a running back. This was kind of a second chance.
The Steelers dumped him. He's just a plodding running back.
When he can see they got other guys there. It's
not looking good for Nachie Harris at this point. If
you look at the long range forecast, it is the
Band Mathers Show. If you would like to be part eight,
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we had a song for the rain. If this guy
Scott holds on in the Commonwealth, he's gonna debut a song.
We'll have that. We'll take some other calls here eight
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Six three six nine. And what is cracking?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So I thought originally that something was fake, but it
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Tester says, I hope Sean Payton talking up bo Nix
has the same passion as the Raptors coach and Scottie Barnes.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Scottie Barnes face of the NBA. That was quite the night.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Let's see what else do we have page down here?
Scrooge says Ben, be careful what you say about the Chargers.
Eddie might put the WAMMI on your rams. Now, Eddie's
a Steeler fan. He's a Charger fan by marriage, but
he's a Steeler fan Eddie, so he's more worried about
the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Have some fun indoors with yourself there.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That's might be what Eddie's doing now, Just Josh, says
Najee Harris trying to read defenses this year. Boy, that's
not that is not nice. How dare you? How dare you?
Mark from Queen's points out that the player that was
drafted who was legally blind was Wesley Walker.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
That is correct.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Mark from Queens, who's now in Arlington, says that was
my favorite player growing up. Yeah, Wesley Walker was the
inspiration for the scouting combine. Did he have a nickname
One eyed, one eyed Wesley? No, you a Wesley Walker?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Right?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
So would it be like double you or double U's.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It could be one eyed Wes, one eye Wes. All right,
let's go to the falls that we have a song here.
This is very exciting. And this guy was on at
the end of last hour. But I was running on
the Autobahn and he was very concerned about my health
and I appreciate that, Scott. He did not want me
to crash into a brick. Wall and I thank you
for that. So you prepared a little bit of a diddy?
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Scot?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
No, no, no, oh, I thought you had a song.
No no, no, no, I no, I have a song
for of Rena for for were you know the intros
when you come back from the oh the breaks?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Wait wait wait hold we did all that. You just
were gonna recommend a song.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Yeah, exactly. See no no.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Hold that is not how we took it. We said
we thought you had a song that you wrote for Lorena.
Song suggestion. You can give that on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You don't have to get on here.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Now you have to sing a song, Yeah, you gotta.
You have to sing a song, Scott. All right, all right,
here we go. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
This is Scott on the fly about to sing a
song for Lorena.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Go ahead, here we go, Scott, here we go. All right.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Uh, Lorena is the best tech clean she is the
best engineer on the planet. Dude, dude, dude, I don't
know what to say next.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
All right, perfect, there that's a drop. Put that in
the system, Larada, that's a drop. That's put that in there.
You go, And it really was going to be terrible
and tell you that the dude, dude, dude, see that
made it important and that really is all music is,
is dud dude, that's all you need to do, and
then you've got music. That's the secret of music is
just throw that in and you did it.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You did it.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Thank you. Can I give Loreina my suggestion? Since I
did my song?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You asked me you did you listen? That was not
meaningless noise? You did the song? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yes, yes, what do you want?
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Okay? Okay, Lorena? You ready? I have a song and
a question. It's a tech question. But hey, who the song?
I know? I know, Ben, I'm like totally blowing us
out tonight. Okay. First off, the song you should check
out for your bump into the you know the bumping
music is Susie and Vega. Frank and Ava. Check it out.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Frank and Ava. What was the first part Susian?
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Okay, yeah it was. Her name is Susie and Vega.
She's been around for a long time. Susie and Vega.
Frankin Ava, Frank.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Scott, I got a question?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Yeah? Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Do you call DJ's up and give him sports takes.
You say I got a sports take?
Speaker 7 (27:36):
I actually do?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Have you do?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
No, I'm not no, no, no, no, you know what
I'm saying. You call Do you call Kiss FM and whatever?
You know what the rock station is in town?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Do you call him up and say, hey, I got
I got a hot take on the past.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Do you call your pastor and tell him what sermon
to deliver?
Speaker 7 (27:52):
No? Actually, not a religious person. I don't do that.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
I don't do that.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Do not do that. I understand. I got. I hope
it's a good song.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
I'll check it out and if it's worthy, if it's
worthy as comeback music. You know, Ben is very picky.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's very particular music.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I love my bumper Music's the most important part of
the show. As you know, Lorena, I feels very important
about bumper music.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
And I also know that there's so many men on
the station who who cannot stand Britney spears or do
a lipa or Selena Gomez.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Or well it's listeners. They complain the female voices.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
They just really don't like female singers. So this sounds
like an it sounds like a girl.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
So I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's old school.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
But if it's old if it's an old song, if
it's a woman who's now in like your sixties or seventies,
that's okay. But if she's sitting on her twenties, that's
a problem.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
One listener, which one is? Line them up?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I gotta go Scott, thank you? All right, I'm a
hanging up on you. Go away.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
There's a Scott in the Commonwealth and uh yeah, So
what are there? Sixty thousand songs being released every day
on the streaming service.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
That's one of the best ones made today.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Sixties thousand songs. They asked me. There's twenty two million
songs a year. I bet you the numbers are even
higher now because people are just making songs on AI
and crap like that, throwing it out there. But the
basics of music, there's only so many notes, only a
few notes, and you gotta come up with tunes.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Let's go back to the phones.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
We'll say hello to Andre, who's hanging out with his
dog Willers.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Hello, Andre, Welcome, how are you doing?
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Ben good to be with you.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
There are so many songs, but we have to stay
with the classics. Forget forget AI. Right, we want to sing.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Us a song.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
You're the Yeah, no man sing us a song, and
that's a good song, right that.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It is a billy Joel. Yeah, that's a solid song,
you know, getting the.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
People in the right mode. You know, it's a good
song for the local establishment where you go and you
spend time with your people. I feel quite honored, Ben,
you had to call it from the Commonwealth and now
you need I'm obviously in the Commonwealth and speaking of songs,
you know you know what I mean. Making your way
in the world today it takes everything you've got, taking
a break from all your I'm not going to sing
(30:10):
the whole song.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I want I want everyone to sing.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Now, everyone should just sing. Just call up and say
it's open mic night. We'll just have you say it is.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
You know myself and Willis he's hanging out right now.
He might get involved, he might get motivated. Uh, you know,
he's bouncing back. But we we are you know, you know,
we are planning for the mal of militia. He's he's
gearing up for gearing up and we're gonna work.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I heard.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
He was down, but he's back up now. He's taking
some interest. You know, we'll see he has he's been
deprived of the Snacker Rudie. So he might get he
might get animated. But Ben, you started off talking about
what we're looking at the NFL season, Joe Burrow being
the favorite for the m v P. I can't co
sign this, Ben, all right, space on the fact that
they're an incomplete roster. Right in life, we're complete and
(30:55):
then you know what I mean, we're complete. Sometimes they
say it's better, uh, Ben, not only are your ship,
you know, but you're also you know, you're in a
committed relationship. You talk about it. You know it's a
beautiful thing, right, you know you're together. Okay, the Bengals
are not together. They have a solid offense, but where's
the defense, all right? So I don't see them stopping anybody.
I think I don't know if they're going to make
it out of the af scuse me, the AFC H North,
(31:18):
which has three or four good defenses around them. So
Joe Burrow, even though I like the cut of his jip,
the cut of his jip, you know, so to speak.
I like how we showed up with the mint coach
to Arrowhead Stadium and took Pastor Mahomes out. But I
don't know if he could be personally successful. The Bengals
can be successful as a team if they're all offense
and absolutely no defense. I got to push back on
him for MVP, even though I like Jolt and Joe.
(31:40):
Never mind the woo.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
It's a regular season award, the one saying he's going
to be the playoff MVP.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
It's a regular number one. It's a regular season award
number two. If you have a.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Bad defense, you have to score more points. Therefore, you
should be able to enhance enhance your performance on offense.
And the Bengals couple years back when they got to
the Super Bowl, they had the nineteenth ranked.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Defense in the NFL in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
They got to the Super Bowl that postseason, so they
were a pretty bad defense.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
They did get to a super Bowl. See Willis agrees
with me, he does.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Willis concurs with you. Ben for me, I don't know
you're playing against the Steelers. You're playing against the Ravens
Derrick Henry. Obviously the Steelers is going to be a
physical team. They might just keep Joe Burrow off the
field ground and pounds. Okay, keep him on the sidelines.
We're slowing this bad boy down. Because we know that
your defense is all smoking marriage and you can't stop anybody.
So again, I like Joe Burrow. I'm rooting for Joe Burrow.
(32:36):
The NFL is better with Joe Burrow in the playoffs,
but I don't know if his organization has done right
by him, okay to put him in a position to
be an MVP. All right, I think Willis is picking
up what I'm putting down. I like the storyline, Ben,
but it might have to go. I know we're getting
a little bit of voter for teacher with Lamar Jackson,
but you have to respect greatness. Okay, and Josh Allen,
they're doing it the right way. Buffalo less is more.
(32:56):
They get ready, step on the Diggs, their culture improved,
and they win more games. The Ravens they can't get
over the top. They can't you slay the Kansas City
chieftain or get themselves home field advantage. But during the
regular season, it's nobody team is nobody particular player. So
I'm gonna have to push back. I like Jokin Joe.
I want to see him with the mint Cooke coming
with the confidence at Arroweight Stadium. I don't know if
he can get the job done in terms of the
(33:18):
MVP for myself. But Wills, we're gonna have songs ready
because again it's about the malt Paluza.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Shout out to Jay Scoop.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Okay, we're in training, we're counting down the days. Malapalooza
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Always there to tell you.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
There's the great Andre. So turn the page on that.
I saw this video clip the other day. I didn't
talk about it. I'm very skeptical now of everything I see.
I think it's all fake and AI and all this stuff.
But apparently what I saw was legit. Several of you
sent me this. Those of you believe you live in
the Seattle area, Pacific Northwest, and so the Seattle Kraken,
(33:50):
that's a hockey team. Have you seen the video? Heard
about the video? Their their troll mascot, Booie. The mascot
went fly fishing in Alas. There was a video clip
and the mascot came very close to being eaten, the
actual mascot of the Seattle Crack and NHL team by
(34:11):
a legitimate Grizzly bear. What yeah, yeah, who wanted to
eat the mascot as dinner?
Speaker 6 (34:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, yeah, it's wild, So this is no, it's not.
Apparently it's legit.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
And yeah, the Kraken they were, And then they went
up to Alaska some kind of cross promotion thing, a
fly fishing excursion. It's a partnership the hockey team has
with Bristol Bay Native Corporation. I have no idea what
that is, but apparently they're in Alaska and Anchorage. There's
some kind of thing with the Hockey Academy there. And
(34:44):
so there's this video clip which has gone around and
I've seen it and I thought, well, I can't be real. No,
the mascot is waist deep in the water. They're all
waist deep in the water, and a couple of grizzly
bears decided that they would like to do a little
fishing and almost came very close to the mascot, like
(35:06):
maybe this. I mean, if you're a bear and you
see a human being dressed as Booie the Craken mascot,
you might think that's delicious.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
You just saw the video. You just saw the video, right,
he must have soiled himself.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
You imagine, Like, dude, I mean, I'm a freaking mascot
for a hockey team.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I don't want to be dinner.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I'm just a stupid troll mascot.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
And anyway, so deparently that was that was legit. That
was legit.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
And if the mascot had been eaten, would they have
had to change their name to the Seattle Grizzlies or
something like that to honor the grizzly bear. Imagine dying
though being eaten in a mascot costume.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Anyway, we'll pause there. It is the Ban Malor Show
as we press on time. Now for the Insta trivia,
We'll try not to get eaten by a grizzly bear.
Blank has led the NFL and field goal percentage over
the last two years and also has the highest success
rate on fifty plus yard kick.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Well, there's the sound of the grizzly again.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Blank has led the NFL and field goal percentage over
the last two years, also has the highest success rate
on fifty plus yard kicks in that time.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
That's the Insta tributa the answer next.
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Speaker 2 (36:58):
Back to it, went back to it quick, right time.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Now for the Insta trivia and we'll get to Mallard
of the third Degree.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Here's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Blank has led the NFL in field goal percentage over
the last two years. Also has the highest success rate
on fifty plus yard field goals in that period of time.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
That is the question. What is the answer? Let's see
does anyone know the answer? We go to the Great.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Unwashed quickly Bigfoot from Bobby and Florida Random, Ryan's going
with Bubba the Love Sponge radio legend in Tampa. The
Kraken kicking balls in Grizzlies.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yeah, that's Dan.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Chris Boswell from EG A lot of Scott Norwood, Mimi Keene,
who's twenty seven?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I don't know who that is?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
From Late Night drug tester Rocky bow Ball from Alfiellano Pinter,
What say you the rid art dare No, it is
Nick Folk. Nick Folk is the answer. He signer the Jets.
We get a lot of field goal attempts. Here we go,
here we go, Here we go, here we go.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
This is one that gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
So another thing Sean Payton said over the weekend was
that the short term goal for the Broncos is winning
the division, but that he thinks this team is capable
of winning the Super Bowl. Ben, do you think the
Broncos are capable of either of those things this season?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
No? Well, not the super Bowl, and the only way
they'll win.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
The division is a proper knee ligament tear and twisted
ankle at the right time. Like the Broncos will be
a good team. There'll be a middleweight contender, but not
a heavyweight contender next.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
DK Metcalf told reporters that the Steelers defense is the
best that he has ever seen. Last year, they were
eighth in the league in scoring defense. Do you expect
a big improvement from them this season.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
It's nice of DK Metcalf to urinate all over the
Seattle defenses that he had there.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
It's nice of him to say that, but but no, listen,
Pittsburgh will be around that area.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
The big additions they picked up Darius Slay who is
with Philadelphia, and Jalen Ramsey from Miami. Those are the
two big additions on defense, so they're there are both
players who have been around a while, good players. I
believe they will end off right around that seven to
ten range defensively, so they'll be in that same department.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
But it's good that DK Metcalf is the hype man
for the Pittsburgh defense. Has TJ. Watt gotten paid yet?
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Next, Chad Johnson recently told TMZ that Jamar Chase is
the best wide receiver ever to play for the Bengals
and actually the best player in the NFL right now, Ben,
do you agree with either of those statements?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Well, he's better than Chad Johnson. I was a big
Chad Johnson fan, But Jamar Chase is better than Chad Johnson.
So Chad Johnson was considered the top receiver. With apologies
to Chris Collinsworth in Bengals history. So yes, Jamar Chase
better than Chad Johnson. No, he's not the greatest receiver
in the NFL, as a certain guy in Minnesota right
now who has that title as the top receiver in
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the NFL. I do like the word best coop, as
you know, the best means as good as all the rest.
So they're really just as good as all the rest.
But there is Mallard to the third degree. How did
we do he failed?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
His addition? A heavy wish such an horsemen. No they're not.
They're middleweight contender. Middleweight contender, that's all. They are. Middleweight contender.
Ding No, it's our numb bird to Our number two
is ready for you. And it's all about the Colts
quarterback Anthony Richardson, who's in a quarterback competition with Daniel Jones.
Not much of a competition, well, Richardson said, it's a
me versus me type of thing. How do you decode
(00:21):
that quote? We'll talk about that. Also in Denver, Sean
Payton thinks Broncos quarterback bo Nix will be a quote
superstar quote close quote soon. What's your verdict on that one?
And Jim Harbaugh said, charge your running back, Nase Harris.
He played with fireworks, he messed up his eye. He's
getting better, he's walking laps as part of his rehab.
(00:44):
There's still no timetable for his return. Where are you
at on this one? We'll go there as well. Right
now here, it is our number two. It's all about me, Me, Me.
Welcome in the begining of another hour of the Ben
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So we begin this hour we go to the Quarterback Derby,
and oh what a derby is Indianapolis, Indiana known for
(02:16):
the Indy five hundred and mediocre football and we have
a quarterback competition. So it's time now for the obligatory
malor monologue on the high drama in Colts Camp. So
you have on one side of the aisle you have
Daniel Jones, the stumble Bum.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
On the other side you.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Have Anthony Richardson, built like Adonnis and he plays like
hollering James from Minnesota. So they are listed as co
QB one. So no, I didn't play in the NFL. However,
if you have co starting quarter, wouldn't that be great?
(03:01):
If the Colts said, we're gonna use both guys under center,
We're just gonna have both of them out there at
the same time, and we'll see what we're gonna do
at that point. Maybe we'll have Anthony Richardson in the
backfield and he'll run out to the slot receiver. We'll
have Daniel Jones, he'll go to the slop. But we're
gonna start the mote. So isn't that special? Now that's
(03:23):
not the story here. It did the lead to an
absolute gem of a quote from Anthony Richardson. So if
you didn't hear this, and perhaps not Richardson commenting about
his situation from top five draft pick to now having
to be in a dogfight with a literal dog in
(03:46):
Daniel Jones, who sucks. So, Richardson said, quote, even if
they meaning the Colts brought Tom Brady in here, he's
the greatest, but I just have to work and try
to beat him out. Richardson, he said, here's the key
part of the quote. It's a me versus me type thing.
(04:08):
It's a me versus me type thing. That is what
we call the money quote. That's a good jumping off point.
So let us discuss the question. Cols quarterback Anthony Richardson
calling the QB competition in Indianapolis with Daniel Jones a
quote me versus me thing?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
How do you decode that quote?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So I've got hot, blonde, Cia level and fat kid,
three things that have never been thrown together, and we
will throw them together and say Abra cadabra, hocus pocus.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So number one, I said, Number one U just like
QB one, this one smells like delusion. Now what does
delusion smell like? Similar to rotten eggs, similar to sul
for rotten eggs, that whole thing delusion. So you are
(05:05):
in a quarterback battle royale and you're brushing off the
guy who's right there with you, breathing down your neck
is what you're doing for Anthony Richardson, heear so Daniel Jones,
And I'm certainly not going to sit here and praise
Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You know how I feel about him.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
If you've heard the show over the years, we've done
many amal of monologue about the many frailties of Daniel Jones,
how flawed he is, and we believe he's covered in maggots. However, however,
he's neck and neck for the starting job in Indianapolis.
So what does that tell you? It's the old Bill
Parcells line about Anthony Richardson. That potential potential means you
(05:50):
haven't done anything yet. And as we like to say,
a prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise. And Anthony
Richardson has been very suspect when he's played. That's Richardson
in a nutshell, is what it is. You know, Richardson.
I'll tell you what Richardson is, the the hot blonde
at the bar that looks amazing and then that kind
(06:12):
of flirts with you, you know, a lot of contact,
oh flirty and get you excited and then ghost you.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That's what Anthony Richardson is, right, that's Richardson in a nutshell.
That's what he is. All tease, no please, no results, nothing.
And Richardson, who has a highlight reel, if you want
to call it that, of a little bit of brilliance,
a little bit of brilliance, heavily edited, a lot of
bonehead mistakes, a lot of those quitting, taking himself out
of the game. You don't know, you don't outlive that,
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you don't short change that. And every time Richardson rolls
out in the pocket and there's there's a lot of
people that go ooh and ah and awe, like he's
the second coming. And and then you look at the
actual result of that, and I guess accuracy does matter.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It does matter.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He's a compass rose co north, south, east, west and
anywhere else in between. You want to turnover, he'll give
you a turnover. You want zero, ability to stay on
the field, He'll give you that as well.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He's got that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Richardson is I believe he's in year three now if
I'm not mistaken, although really based on games played a
lot less than that, and yet this far into his career,
the conversation about Anthony Richardson is still well, let's talk
about the traits that he has. Traits that's you know
what that is. That's what dopey sports radio hosts like
(07:39):
me talk about. In the NFL draft season in March
and April, we talk about the traits of quarterbacks, right well,
the combine in the NFL draft, not in August of
year three of your career. We're not talking about your
traits unless you blow Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So that's where we are. That's where we are.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And I hate to break it to Anthony Richardson, but
it's not me versus me. That's not a me versus
me situation based on a minute long deliberation. It's you
versus reality is the situation.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Right, You are in a dead heat. You are in
a dead heat, Anthony Richardson with a guy.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
The Giants ran out of town and they had nobody
else other than Tommy Cutlet's they've ran your ass out
of town, right, and you're acting like you're baggling the
ghost of Peyton Manning or something like that at quarterback
in Indianapolis. It's amazing, Like the clock is ticking on
both these guys. Now, listen, Daniel Jones, I know he
(08:40):
has to stopover in Minnesota and he didn't play or
anything like that. But the Colts front office, right, Jim
Mersay left this mortal coil. Jim had a hard life,
a lot of sex, drugs, rock and roll.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
He's gone out.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So now the daughter's running the team, and so there's
a changing of the guard there. You ain't gonna sit around. Wait, well,
the upside upside, upside, upside upside, how about your upside down?
And your took us is what you want? Bill Parcells
another quote. You lose with potential, you lose with the Naville,
you win with performance. And that's that's the Colts in
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a nutshell. You got Shane Steichen who's still hanging around there,
and does he really want to go six and eleven
or seven and ten again while waiting for something to change?
Get that full Anthony Richardson experience there, and maybe he'll
finally show up and this will be the year. Yeah,
he's due, he's due. Right when you're the guy with
(09:37):
the most talent in the room, okay, you're the player
with the most talent in the room, the spotlight gets
a little bit brighter on your ass.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
That's the way it works.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So when you flame out, and that's what Richardson's doing
right now, it does burn a little bit bigger. The
fire is a little bit bigger, and so the bar
is higher for Richardson, as it should be, as it
should be. So instead of embracing it and say I've sucked,
you know, I'm terrible and I gotta be I gotta
be better. And it seems this sounded like a deflection
(10:10):
to me, this quote as we parse the words, it
sounds to me like a deflection like, well, the pressure
just doesn't apply. And if you would like to impress
gas bags like this one me, then then don't give
don't give me the zen. Don't give me the zen
quotes about me versus me and all that stuff that
(10:30):
sounds like a bad morning radio show, me versus me. Uh,
get out there, take care of the football, take care
of the football, maybe win some games.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Don't take yourself out of a game.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Don't quit on your team because you're a little gassed,
because everyone's gassed in the second half of games, and
all that stuff. Until then you're just another failed draft
pick clinging on getting opportunities still because of the scouting
report and based on things you haven't actually done, but
things you're supposed to do, and it hasn't translated into
on field success. Now, speaking of on field success, we
(11:02):
go now to Denver. Another interesting quote. This one comes
from Sean Payton, the former Fox broadcaster current head coach
of the Denver football team. So Sean Payton thinks that
Bronco quarterback Bownicks will be a quote superstar soon.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
What is your verdict on this one?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
From Sean Payton made this comment recently in Colorado that
Bownicks will be a superstar, So we need a verdict
on this one. So my weasel word detector started vibrating,
just like, that's what sounds like? Was so he said superstar?
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Sean Payton soon bon Nicks?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Soon?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Like?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
How soon?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What are we looking at like the end of this season? Superstar? Tomorrow? Tomorrow?
Tomorrow is an other day? How about next year? Maybe
next year will be the year he's a superstar. So
this is you know, I guess to be plays right?
Oh yeah, play he'll be You'll be fine, he'll play.
Soon is a hedge. Soon as a hedge, it is
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c I a level plausible deniability.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I said soon. It's vague enough.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
It's vague enough where if bow Nicks goes out there
and plays like flatulence, Sean Payton can say, well, I
didn't mean this season. I said soon. Why did you
expect me to him to be great this year? I
didn't say it'd be superstar this year? I said, so,
you know, soon, as a relative term, if you're a turtle,
if you're a turtle, you lived like two hundred years, right,
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so soon could be you know, fifty years soon for
a turtle that's not that long, live two hundred fifty
years whatever it is. If you're a tree, you live
two thousand years. On those big sequoia trees that live
fifteen hundred, two thousand years. Soon, well that's a relative term.
So again, now on the flip side, if bow Knicks
does go out there and play well, and then Sean
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Payton can say, hey, I told you told you so.
I told you guy. Nobody likes I told you guy.
He could be I told you guy. It's again coach
speak is what it is. It's a good time of
the year for coach speak, it is. And pumping the
tires Sean Payton. They're pumping the tires on his hand
picked quarterback they got rid of. They chased out Russell Wilson,
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mister unlimited. It it was stunk up the joint in
Colorado and so they had to get somebody. This is
the guy they got. And you're the PR director of
the Broncos. But it's not really like analysis. It's not analysis,
and you don't take talent. Talent evaluations from a head coach,
because the way I always look at these things, like
if bow Knicks is terrible, is Sean Payton gonna say
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he's terrible?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
No, he's not gonna say that. Nobody ever says it. Now.
I would take these comments as the gospel.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
If I got coaches to say, boy, we got a
quarterback who is a bag of suck and that's our
guy right now. But they never say that New Orleans
Saints have suck bag over there. They have got a dog,
a poo that's one of their quarterback options. And then
they have a bag of cockroaches that's the other option.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Those are the three options at quarterback there in Norton.
But you don't hear that.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
You said, well, this guy's got a lot of love
sign blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Now, how
does one classify the superstar? What is a superstar in
the NFL? So you obviously have to dominate. That goes
without saying there's a domination situation. You have to be
a player that people go out of their way to watch,
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meaning that if you have multiple games on the red zone,
which he spens about to kill. But if you had
the red zone on you would tune out of the
red zone to watch the player because he's that good.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He's a superstar.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Okay, so you fill the stadiums, people tune in big
ratings on television, and it's like the magic Johnson quote
is that you have.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
To inspire the city a little much. But he said it.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You know, superstars changed the mood of the whole building
and all that, and so there's something to that. There's
something to that that I buy into. And at this point,
based on today, bo Nicks is not that guy. You're
not that guy, Palt You're not that guy. He will
give you lots of bubble screens and system stats and
all that stuff, and you'll never be a superstar just
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being a system guy. That will not be the case.
Just like brock Perty's never going to be the guy
a superstar because he's just a system quarterback in San Francisco.
He got paid a lot of money, congratulations, but you're
just a system guy. Bo Nicks last year was the
seventeenth ranked quarterback in the NFL. So now I know
I'm being just a hard oh and a jackass and
you're being too.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Mean, But that's not superstar you know it's not. Now
you know what that makes you.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
By the way, average that is right in the same
category with Geno Smith. Does anyone think Gene Smith as
a superstar? No, Gino Smith is a placeholder at the
Academy Awards when you go to take a whiz, somebody
has to fill your seat. That's Gino Smith. That's what
he is. Certainly not anywhere near you talk about the
upper echelon, which is Mahomes and Joe Burrow and players
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like that. But man, so you don't exactly become a
superstar because your head coach says you're you're going to
be that at a news conference in the month of August.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
By dragging your team deep in the playoffs, that certainly
changes the narrative. And we'll see if BO knows, If
Bo knows how to do that in Denver hasn't done
it yet, only one year, small sample size, but that's
all we have to go on now.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Final point to.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
La La Land we go follow up to the follow
up to the follow up to the follow up. Coach
Jim Harbaugh. Coach Jim Harbaugh said Chargers running back Najee
Harris one eyed Nasei.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That's to me.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Naji Harris, who was playing with fireworks and got the
wrong end of the fireworks on the fourth of July
ex Stravaganza in Northern California. Well, some bad news here,
Jim Harbaugh saying the Charger running back Naji Harris, he
said he's getting better. And then in the same breath
he said, right now, at Charger training camp preparing for
a National Football League season, Naji Harris is currently walking
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lapse as part of his rehab. He still has no timetable,
no timetable to return to the field in uniform. So
where are you at on this one? Where are you
at on this one?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So that is wild.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So Jim harbas Oh, he's making progress. He's walking laps
around the field. There's no timetable for him to put
on pads and all that stuff. So I keep going
back to the calendar. We're now in early August. We're
doing this on August fifth, and the charges of all,
he played a preseason game. They have another exhibition game
(18:03):
coming up this weekend, so they've got another exhibition game to.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Look forward to.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You here, and you've got Jim Harbaugh out there. He's
like well, no, he's getting better. He's he's getting better.
He's so how exactly how does that work? Remember the
agent for Naji Harris said, but he suffered a superficial
eye injury playing with fireworks, and here we are in
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training camp and he's still walking laps. Yeah, yeah, there's
a Does that help your eye? By the way, I
should have great eyes. I walk a lot. I should
have really good eyesight. My eyes should be freaking great.
Why am I wearing glasses? I walk a lot. I
should have really good eyesight. So there is no timetable,
no drills, no contact, just laps. And that's what the
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fat kid at junior high school has to do in
Pe when they forget their sneakers. You know, I know
that I was the fat kid, was the fat kid
that had to walk laps in Pe. So I guess
I could be an NFL player because I can walk labs.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I could play for the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I could rehab for the charge The fat kid walking laps,
that's me, and that's Najee Harris.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
You're a big free agent running back pick up there.
It's great.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's not rehab. It's like a liability waiver.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well, you can't. We can't put you in patch.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You can't see out of one of your eyes, unfortunately,
and we can't give you cleats and a helmet and
all that stuff. If Nage could see, I would assume
he'd want to be out there and be cutting and
exploding and taking handoffs and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And he's you can't actually play with one eye. That's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And there was the reason we have the combine is
there was a guy drafted by the Jets that was blind,
legally blind in one of his eyes and got drafted
in the second round. I actually had a good career
with the Jets, but they were so upset they drafted
a blind guy that they started the combine to test
people's vision and to see whether or not they could
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see or not things like that. But anyway, listen, so Naji,
he's pacing the sidelines and wandering around like he's waiting
for a delay in the terminal Spirit Airlines to get
their act together and all that stuff. So not safe,
not saying, but that's the Chargers, Baby, show me your
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lightning bolt can take the Chargers out of San Diego.
And they left years ago. But that's the that's the charge.
That's the charge. I remember the old Chargers, all right,
And if something goes sideways, if something can go wrong
for the Chargers, they they will will figure out a way.
If it can't go wrong, they'll find a way for
it to go wrong. And so fourth of July completely
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goes off the rails. And now this player's career hanging
in the balance, hanging in the balance here, and then
you've got Harball over here giving coach by. Yeah, he's
getting better, and he's currently walking laps as part of
his rehab.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
He's walking laps as part of his rehab. Okay, is
that what they record?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Like if you're an eye doctor, do you recommend Okay,
you've got a bad eye, just walk lapse, that'll make
it better.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
But he's getting ten thousand steps a day, which I'm
jealous of. So he's got his he's got his Apple watch.
There he's getting the ten thousand steps a day or whatever.
So there you go. So, based on just reading the
te leaves here, I think he's gonna be coming back.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I hope I'm wrong. I hope he comes back and
is able to play and all that stuff. But he's
a running back. This was kind of a second chance.
The Steelers dumped him. He's just a plodding running back.
When he can see they got other guys there. It's
not looking good for Nachie Harris at this point. If
you look at the long range forecast, it is the
Band Mathers Show. If you would like to be part eight,
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we had a song for the rain. If this guy
Scott holds on in the Commonwealth, he's gonna debut a song.
We'll have that. We'll take some other calls here eight
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Speaker 2 (22:06):
Six three six nine. And what is cracking?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So I thought originally that something was fake, but it
turns out it's not fake. So what's cracking? We'll get
to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
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Tester says, I hope Sean Payton talking up bo Nix
has the same passion as the Raptors coach and Scottie Barnes.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Scottie Barnes face of the NBA. That was quite the night.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Let's see what else do we have page down here?
Scrooge says Ben, be careful what you say about the Chargers.
Eddie might put the WAMMI on your rams. Now, Eddie's
a Steeler fan. He's a Charger fan by marriage, but
he's a Steeler fan Eddie, so he's more worried about
the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Have some fun indoors with yourself there.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That's might be what Eddie's doing now, Just Josh, says
Najee Harris trying to read defenses this year. Boy, that's
not that is not nice. How dare you? How dare you?
Mark from Queen's points out that the player that was
drafted who was legally blind was Wesley Walker.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
That is correct.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Mark from Queens, who's now in Arlington, says that was
my favorite player growing up. Yeah, Wesley Walker was the
inspiration for the scouting combine. Did he have a nickname
One eyed, one eyed Wesley? No, you a Wesley Walker?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Right?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
So would it be like double you or double U's.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It could be one eyed Wes, one eye Wes. All right,
let's go to the falls that we have a song here.
This is very exciting. And this guy was on at
the end of last hour. But I was running on
the Autobahn and he was very concerned about my health
and I appreciate that, Scott. He did not want me
to crash into a brick. Wall and I thank you
for that. So you prepared a little bit of a diddy?
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Scot?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
No, no, no, oh, I thought you had a song.
No no, no, no, I no, I have a song
for of Rena for for were you know the intros
when you come back from the oh the breaks?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Wait wait wait hold we did all that. You just
were gonna recommend a song.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Yeah, exactly. See no no.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Hold that is not how we took it. We said
we thought you had a song that you wrote for Lorena.
Song suggestion. You can give that on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You don't have to get on here.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Now you have to sing a song, Yeah, you gotta.
You have to sing a song, Scott. All right, all right,
here we go. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
This is Scott on the fly about to sing a
song for Lorena.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Go ahead, here we go, Scott, here we go. All right.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Uh, Lorena is the best tech clean she is the
best engineer on the planet. Dude, dude, dude, I don't
know what to say next.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
All right, perfect, there that's a drop. Put that in
the system, Larada, that's a drop. That's put that in there.
You go, And it really was going to be terrible
and tell you that the dude, dude, dude, see that
made it important and that really is all music is,
is dud dude, that's all you need to do, and
then you've got music. That's the secret of music is
just throw that in and you did it.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You did it.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Thank you. Can I give Loreina my suggestion? Since I
did my song?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You asked me you did you listen? That was not
meaningless noise? You did the song? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yes, yes, what do you want?
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Okay? Okay, Lorena? You ready? I have a song and
a question. It's a tech question. But hey, who the song?
I know? I know, Ben, I'm like totally blowing us
out tonight. Okay. First off, the song you should check
out for your bump into the you know the bumping
music is Susie and Vega. Frank and Ava. Check it out.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Frank and Ava. What was the first part Susian?
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Okay, yeah it was. Her name is Susie and Vega.
She's been around for a long time. Susie and Vega.
Frankin Ava, Frank.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Scott, I got a question?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Yeah? Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Do you call DJ's up and give him sports takes.
You say I got a sports take?
Speaker 7 (27:36):
I actually do?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Have you do?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
No, I'm not no, no, no, no, you know what
I'm saying. You call Do you call Kiss FM and whatever?
You know what the rock station is in town?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Do you call him up and say, hey, I got
I got a hot take on the past.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Do you call your pastor and tell him what sermon
to deliver?
Speaker 7 (27:52):
No? Actually, not a religious person. I don't do that.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
I don't do that.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Do not do that. I understand. I got. I hope
it's a good song.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
I'll check it out and if it's worthy, if it's
worthy as comeback music. You know, Ben is very picky.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's very particular music.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I love my bumper Music's the most important part of
the show. As you know, Lorena, I feels very important
about bumper music.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
And I also know that there's so many men on
the station who who cannot stand Britney spears or do
a lipa or Selena Gomez.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Or well it's listeners. They complain the female voices.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
They just really don't like female singers. So this sounds
like an it sounds like a girl.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
So I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's old school.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
But if it's old if it's an old song, if
it's a woman who's now in like your sixties or seventies,
that's okay. But if she's sitting on her twenties, that's
a problem.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
One listener, which one is? Line them up?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I gotta go Scott, thank you? All right, I'm a
hanging up on you. Go away.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
There's a Scott in the Commonwealth and uh yeah, So
what are there? Sixty thousand songs being released every day
on the streaming service.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
That's one of the best ones made today.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Sixties thousand songs. They asked me. There's twenty two million
songs a year. I bet you the numbers are even
higher now because people are just making songs on AI
and crap like that, throwing it out there. But the
basics of music, there's only so many notes, only a
few notes, and you gotta come up with tunes.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Let's go back to the phones.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
We'll say hello to Andre, who's hanging out with his
dog Willers.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Hello, Andre, Welcome, how are you doing?
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Ben good to be with you.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
There are so many songs, but we have to stay
with the classics. Forget forget AI. Right, we want to sing.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Us a song.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
You're the Yeah, no man sing us a song, and
that's a good song, right that.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It is a billy Joel. Yeah, that's a solid song,
you know, getting the.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
People in the right mode. You know, it's a good
song for the local establishment where you go and you
spend time with your people. I feel quite honored, Ben,
you had to call it from the Commonwealth and now
you need I'm obviously in the Commonwealth and speaking of songs,
you know you know what I mean. Making your way
in the world today it takes everything you've got, taking
a break from all your I'm not going to sing
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the whole song.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I want I want everyone to sing.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Now, everyone should just sing. Just call up and say
it's open mic night. We'll just have you say it is.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
You know myself and Willis he's hanging out right now.
He might get involved, he might get motivated. Uh, you know,
he's bouncing back. But we we are you know, you know,
we are planning for the mal of militia. He's he's
gearing up for gearing up and we're gonna work.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I heard.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
He was down, but he's back up now. He's taking
some interest. You know, we'll see he has he's been
deprived of the Snacker Rudie. So he might get he
might get animated. But Ben, you started off talking about
what we're looking at the NFL season, Joe Burrow being
the favorite for the m v P. I can't co
sign this, Ben, all right, space on the fact that
they're an incomplete roster. Right in life, we're complete and
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then you know what I mean, we're complete. Sometimes they
say it's better, uh, Ben, not only are your ship,
you know, but you're also you know, you're in a
committed relationship. You talk about it. You know it's a
beautiful thing, right, you know you're together. Okay, the Bengals
are not together. They have a solid offense, but where's
the defense, all right? So I don't see them stopping anybody.
I think I don't know if they're going to make
it out of the af scuse me, the AFC H North,
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which has three or four good defenses around them. So
Joe Burrow, even though I like the cut of his jip,
the cut of his jip, you know, so to speak.
I like how we showed up with the mint coach
to Arrowhead Stadium and took Pastor Mahomes out. But I
don't know if he could be personally successful. The Bengals
can be successful as a team if they're all offense
and absolutely no defense. I got to push back on
him for MVP, even though I like Jolt and Joe.
(31:40):
Never mind the woo.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
It's a regular season award, the one saying he's going
to be the playoff MVP.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
It's a regular number one. It's a regular season award
number two. If you have a.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Bad defense, you have to score more points. Therefore, you
should be able to enhance enhance your performance on offense.
And the Bengals couple years back when they got to
the Super Bowl, they had the nineteenth ranked.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Defense in the NFL in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
They got to the Super Bowl that postseason, so they
were a pretty bad defense.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
They did get to a super Bowl. See Willis agrees
with me, he does.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Willis concurs with you. Ben for me, I don't know
you're playing against the Steelers. You're playing against the Ravens
Derrick Henry. Obviously the Steelers is going to be a
physical team. They might just keep Joe Burrow off the
field ground and pounds. Okay, keep him on the sidelines.
We're slowing this bad boy down. Because we know that
your defense is all smoking marriage and you can't stop anybody.
So again, I like Joe Burrow. I'm rooting for Joe Burrow.
(32:36):
The NFL is better with Joe Burrow in the playoffs,
but I don't know if his organization has done right
by him, okay to put him in a position to
be an MVP. All right, I think Willis is picking
up what I'm putting down. I like the storyline, Ben,
but it might have to go. I know we're getting
a little bit of voter for teacher with Lamar Jackson,
but you have to respect greatness. Okay, and Josh Allen,
they're doing it the right way. Buffalo less is more.
(32:56):
They get ready, step on the Diggs, their culture improved,
and they win more games. The Ravens they can't get
over the top. They can't you slay the Kansas City
chieftain or get themselves home field advantage. But during the
regular season, it's nobody team is nobody particular player. So
I'm gonna have to push back. I like Jokin Joe.
I want to see him with the mint Cooke coming
with the confidence at Arroweight Stadium. I don't know if
he can get the job done in terms of the
(33:18):
MVP for myself. But Wills, we're gonna have songs ready
because again it's about the malt Paluza.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Shout out to Jay Scoop.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Okay, we're in training, we're counting down the days. Malapalooza
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Always there to tell you.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
There's the great Andre. So turn the page on that.
I saw this video clip the other day. I didn't
talk about it. I'm very skeptical now of everything I see.
I think it's all fake and AI and all this stuff.
But apparently what I saw was legit. Several of you
sent me this. Those of you believe you live in
the Seattle area, Pacific Northwest, and so the Seattle Kraken,
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that's a hockey team. Have you seen the video? Heard
about the video? Their their troll mascot, Booie. The mascot
went fly fishing in Alas. There was a video clip
and the mascot came very close to being eaten, the
actual mascot of the Seattle Crack and NHL team by
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a legitimate Grizzly bear. What yeah, yeah, who wanted to
eat the mascot as dinner?
Speaker 6 (34:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, yeah, it's wild, So this is no, it's not.
Apparently it's legit.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
And yeah, the Kraken they were, And then they went
up to Alaska some kind of cross promotion thing, a
fly fishing excursion. It's a partnership the hockey team has
with Bristol Bay Native Corporation. I have no idea what
that is, but apparently they're in Alaska and Anchorage. There's
some kind of thing with the Hockey Academy there. And
(34:44):
so there's this video clip which has gone around and
I've seen it and I thought, well, I can't be real. No,
the mascot is waist deep in the water. They're all
waist deep in the water, and a couple of grizzly
bears decided that they would like to do a little
fishing and almost came very close to the mascot, like
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maybe this. I mean, if you're a bear and you
see a human being dressed as Booie the Craken mascot,
you might think that's delicious.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
You just saw the video. You just saw the video, right,
he must have soiled himself.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
You imagine, Like, dude, I mean, I'm a freaking mascot
for a hockey team.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I don't want to be dinner.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I'm just a stupid troll mascot.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
And anyway, so deparently that was that was legit. That
was legit.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
And if the mascot had been eaten, would they have
had to change their name to the Seattle Grizzlies or
something like that to honor the grizzly bear. Imagine dying
though being eaten in a mascot costume.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Anyway, we'll pause there. It is the Ban Malor Show
as we press on time. Now for the Insta trivia,
We'll try not to get eaten by a grizzly bear.
Blank has led the NFL and field goal percentage over
the last two years and also has the highest success
rate on fifty plus yard kick.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Well, there's the sound of the grizzly again.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Blank has led the NFL and field goal percentage over
the last two years, also has the highest success rate
on fifty plus yard kicks in that time.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
That's the Insta tributa the answer next.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
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Speaker 1 (36:34):
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of version posted immediately after the end of the show.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Back to it, went back to it quick, right time.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Now for the Insta trivia and we'll get to Mallard
of the third Degree.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Here's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Blank has led the NFL in field goal percentage over
the last two years. Also has the highest success rate
on fifty plus yard field goals in that period of time.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
That is the question. What is the answer? Let's see
does anyone know the answer? We go to the Great.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Unwashed quickly Bigfoot from Bobby and Florida Random, Ryan's going
with Bubba the Love Sponge radio legend in Tampa. The
Kraken kicking balls in Grizzlies.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yeah, that's Dan.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Chris Boswell from EG A lot of Scott Norwood, Mimi Keene,
who's twenty seven?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I don't know who that is?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
From Late Night drug tester Rocky bow Ball from Alfiellano Pinter,
What say you the rid art dare No, it is
Nick Folk. Nick Folk is the answer. He signer the Jets.
We get a lot of field goal attempts. Here we go,
here we go, Here we go, here we go.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
This is one that gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
So another thing Sean Payton said over the weekend was
that the short term goal for the Broncos is winning
the division, but that he thinks this team is capable
of winning the Super Bowl. Ben, do you think the
Broncos are capable of either of those things this season?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
No? Well, not the super Bowl, and the only way
they'll win.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
The division is a proper knee ligament tear and twisted
ankle at the right time. Like the Broncos will be
a good team. There'll be a middleweight contender, but not
a heavyweight contender next.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
DK Metcalf told reporters that the Steelers defense is the
best that he has ever seen. Last year, they were
eighth in the league in scoring defense. Do you expect
a big improvement from them this season.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
It's nice of DK Metcalf to urinate all over the
Seattle defenses that he had there.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
It's nice of him to say that, but but no, listen,
Pittsburgh will be around that area.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
The big additions they picked up Darius Slay who is
with Philadelphia, and Jalen Ramsey from Miami. Those are the
two big additions on defense, so they're there are both
players who have been around a while, good players. I
believe they will end off right around that seven to
ten range defensively, so they'll be in that same department.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
But it's good that DK Metcalf is the hype man
for the Pittsburgh defense. Has TJ. Watt gotten paid yet?
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Next, Chad Johnson recently told TMZ that Jamar Chase is
the best wide receiver ever to play for the Bengals
and actually the best player in the NFL right now, Ben,
do you agree with either of those statements?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Well, he's better than Chad Johnson. I was a big
Chad Johnson fan, But Jamar Chase is better than Chad Johnson.
So Chad Johnson was considered the top receiver. With apologies
to Chris Collinsworth in Bengals history. So yes, Jamar Chase
better than Chad Johnson. No, he's not the greatest receiver
in the NFL, as a certain guy in Minnesota right
now who has that title as the top receiver in
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the NFL. I do like the word best coop, as
you know, the best means as good as all the rest.
So they're really just as good as all the rest.
But there is Mallard to the third degree. How did
we do he failed?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
His addition? A heavy wish such an horsemen. No they're not.
They're middleweight contender. Middleweight contender, that's all. They are. Middleweight contender.
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