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September 24, 2024 • 36 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Jaguars blowout loss to the Bills on MNF and who gets the biggest piece of the blame pie, what the Jaguars do with Trevor Lawrence, if the Bills and Josh Allen are legit, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number too. We know you
have options. There's a gazillion podcast, most of them nobody
listens to. We're glad that you actually do listen to
this podcast. Thank you for that. God bless you. It
is the twenty fourth day of September Tuesday, and we
talk about the Jacksonville Jaguars losing again. It's time to

(00:21):
Buffalo in a non competitive performance, and we discuss who
gets the biggest piece of the blame pie for the
Jacksonville football team. Also, what do the Jaguars do with
Trevor Lawrence another mediocre performance? And are you drinking the
punch that Josh Allen and the Bills are serving up

(00:42):
in Buffalo? Will get to all that and more right now.
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the Bills Mafia people all excited.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
They're all giddy.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Raw raw.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
What an easy night, no anxiety in one of those games.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
If you're you had Buffalo, and I picked Buffalo for
the TV show, I had no concern. I was bored.
I was waiting for the other game to start. That
game was over. The Bills Jacksonville game over by the
time the second Monday night game started in terms of competition,
but are lead. This hour is from Orchard Park, New
York as a Monday night football double dip. The undercard

(02:28):
not the main event, not the main event. The undercard
had Josh Allen and the majestic Buffalo Bill offense. He
threw four touchdowns. If you watched it, you know this
not one not two, not three, but four touchdowns for
Josh Allen in the first half. The Bills had five
drives in the first half. They scored on all of them.

(02:49):
There was a theme of the night, and they ended
up winning forty seven to ten. It was so bad
the backup quarterbacks for both teams played in garbage time
as Josh Allen put on a master class against an unengaged,
uninterested Jacksonville defense and much to the dismay of the
Buffalo Bill fanbase, the better story is in the losing

(03:14):
locker room.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
So that is where we go.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Let us discuss the question for the esteemed panel, who
gets the biggest piece of the Jacksonville blame pie. How
did they end up in this predicament?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Right? How did they end up this predicament?

Speaker 1 (03:31):
So I've got pontoon Boat, Alice Cooper, and Sippy Cups
and we'll combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a headache, which is what a
lot of big shots in Jacksonville who care about that

(03:51):
football team they have, they have a headache right now
thinking about the situation that team finds themselves in. So
number a little slow number. There are plenty, plenty of
slices of the blame pie to pass around here inside

(04:12):
the locker room, in the coaching room. But these wacker doodles, right,
they had the hootspah leading up to this game to
talk about how this was essentially a placement test game,
that this game, after the oh and two start, they
had a chance to save their season.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Blah blah blah. That's what they did, all right. Then
they went out there, they took the exam.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
They didn't get one question right, they flucked. You gotta
go to continuation school. I know a thing or two
about that. You're done. It's over right, Come on now.
They just they sucked at a time he cannot suck.
And that's the bottom line. And they uh, I mean
it was. It was an epic no show. I was

(05:01):
texting a buddy of mine during the game and I said,
that's the kind of performance. Were the teams trying to
get the coach fired? Like we saw that in basketball?
You see that a lot in the NBA if the
team's tired of a coach, they'll just go out and
lose a game by forty five points and we'll get
rid of the coach. In football, it doesn't happen as often,

(05:22):
but it does happen. Like my takeaway was, they must
hate their coach. They must just can't. They can't stand
the coach. Because the Jacksonville franchise, the twenty twenty four vintage,
it's like they're on a pontoon boat and they happen
to be out on Lake Erie there, and they're sinking

(05:42):
to the bottom of Lake Erie here. And actually the
way they played more like a dinghy than a pontoon boats.
Someone call a lifeguard, called the coastguard. Because they are rounding,
they are drowning. They can't throw, they can't run, they
can't block, they can't tackle. Other than that, they're pretty good.
Other than those things, they're in good shape.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Here.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Now, the first piece of the blame pie goes to
the head coach, because, oh man, what a stench. What
el Stenko is coming out of the coaches room here.
Now they say that the jaguar rots from the head down.
I remember when Doug Peterson was hired a couple of
years ago, what was the selling point of Doug Peterson?

Speaker 2 (06:27):
You remember because I remember, I remember, You don't remember.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
So they were saying, like, Doug Peterson is an adult,
he's grown up in the.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Room, mature football coach.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
He won a championship on a fluke run with Nick
Foles in Philadelphia, and they hired him because he was
the antithesis of what Urban Meyer had been in Jacksonville.
And this might not.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Be true anymore.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's not in terms of it gets paid in the NFL,
but it's supposed to be a results based business.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
You are what your record says you are.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
And Doug Peterson, now in his third season in Jacksonville,
is a game under five hundred.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
So he's mediocre. Doug mediocre.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Doug Peterson eighteen wins, nineteen losses, a four to eighty
six winning percentage. And if Peterson keeps the job, and
why would they not keep him? Someone you would think
would be sacrificed to Doug. The defensive coordinator for Doug
Peterson is a guy named Ryan Nielsen.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
I'd looked that up. I don't know who that is.
Defensive coordinator in Jacksonville.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
You would think that he would be excommunicated after that performance.
Buffalo five of five possession scores five or five and
touchdowns in the first half, nineteen first downs, two hundred
and eighty eight yards of offense in the first thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
That is a.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Fireable offense, at least it used to be. It used
to be a fireable offense. Is it still a fireable fence?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I mean, you look at that division and Tennessee blows right.
They don't have a quarterback. Levis stinks. The Texans don't
look invincible. They lost to Sam Donald the Vikings, and
even though they won a couple of games early, Houston
has not really looked like a dominant team.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
So far this year. So you're like that division.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
You know, Indianapolis, they don't have a quarterback, and yet
you're sitting at zero and three in a suck bag
of vision. You're just gonna sit there and no changes.
Same old Samuel now page two. You're staying in Jacksonville.
The Komodo, drag him the HeLa monster in the room,
if you will. What do the Jaguars do with Trevor Lawrence?

(08:46):
He's not good? Spoiler A larn spoiler video on eleven.
He's not good. He's not to answer the question, though,
what do the Jags do with Trevor Lawrence. They've already
shot their shot. They've made their decision they have. It's
like that Alice Cooper song bet of Nails. They've made
their forget nails. That's like a better razor blades.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Cuddle up.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah, that's essentially what they've done here, following the time tested,
never wrong Peter principle.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
I assume you know what the Peter principle is.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
But Trevor Lawrence has been promoted until he reached his
highest level of incompetence, and in the peers he will
stay there.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
He will remain there.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
You can forget about the Big Mac or the Whopper
because Jacksonville has on their menu for Trevor Lawrence a
turt Burger that they're serving up. He said, well, the
defense let him down. It's not his fault. I know
the quarterback apologists will they always do. They always have
a defense for the sucky quarterback. There's no news Faultyeah, okay,
And it is true Jacksonville's defense is terrible. That does

(09:50):
not absolve Trevor Lawrence from not counter punching and cheaping
Jacksonville within striking distance and at least matriculating the ball
down the field. And so this guy the Peter principle
for some reason. And I'm not that smart, So maybe
you can explain to me why. My theory is it's

(10:10):
just because they're a small market operation and they're a
minor league outfit in Jacksonville. They had to keep him,
but he was given undeserved money. I have no problem.
Every guys great and gets paid a lot of money.
It makes no sense to me. And this is another
thing that's changed in my lifetime. It used to be
you had to double and triple prove yourself to get paid.

(10:31):
The modern NFL, it's like El Choppo is the NFL.
All these teams have so much money. They like El Chopo.
They're burying money in the ground. They don't know what
they're do with it, and they're they're giving guys that
aren't very good massive amounts of money, like Trevor Lawrence
two hundred and seventy five million dollars. Did anyone think

(10:53):
that he was worth that amount of money, anyone other
than his parents? Maybe even they have their doubts and
the deal comes with an average of fifty five million
per year. For that, that's your quarterback? Are you so
afraid of losing? Trevor Lawrence is flowing locks, my god.

(11:15):
And you know what he is. Trevor Lawrence is a
peeping tom quarterback. He shows you a flash every now
and again to keep you excited. But there's really nothing there.
There's really nothing there all right now, final point on
the winner side, as a pacifier to the Bill's mafia.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Are you drinking the punch?

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Are you drinking the punch that Josh Allen and the
Bills are serving up? So that's the question. And I'll
tell you this much. I'm not getting wasted on the
kool aid.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
It's more like a sippy cup. Take a sip. You're like,
I'm good. A little sip there. And here's why, all right,
I'm not gonna be a prisoner of the malmt now.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
It is true.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
We do the show today and as of today, Jacksonville
bad team. Bills beat a bad team. Who else do
they beat? They beat the Dolphins? Dolphins will not be
a playoff team this year?

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Can we agree on that?

Speaker 1 (12:09):
To us?

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Not coming back?

Speaker 1 (12:10):
So they're not a playoff team. Cardinals not a playoff team.
So they've beaten three teams who they were supposed to
beat who are not playoff teams. That doesn't get you
all tingling. Now they've looked good, and I will agree
they've looked very good. Josh Allen has played like a
holy terror, and Buffalo against a lethargic Jacksonville team was unstoppable.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
They were absolutely unstoppable.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
And when you look at the big picture though the
Bills taking care of business, what that does is it
lays the groundwork, you know, the building blocks to get
yourself a better seed in the playoffs and home games
in Buffalo. Not that it mattered last year against the
Chiefs they lost anyway at home, but you separate yourself

(13:00):
from some other teams. Cincinnati, We've already given the eulogy
on the Bengals. They're done. Baltimore off to the one
and two start. They saved their behind by beating the
Cowboys rather convincingly, even though Dak got his garbage time
stats there. Now, do I have the Bills at the
same level as Kansas City? No, I don't, even with

(13:22):
Travis Kelsey looking washed up, I don't have that you
should be cautiously optimistic, but also you have to be realistic.
Next week that's more of a placement test. I'm still
not completely sold that Baltimore is amazing and all that,
but that's a game.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's a highlight game.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
In week four, the Ravens playing host to the Bills,
and so we'll see what that game produces.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
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Speaker 1 (13:53):
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Speaker 2 (14:04):
You know the deal. A little word play, a little
war a play but was he wrong? Was he wrong
with the word play? We'll get to that and we
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Speaker 5 (14:17):
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Speaker 2 (14:26):
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Speaker 2 (14:42):
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Speaker 7 (14:46):
Now.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Back to Ben Mallor.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Martin Late Night Drug Tester says the city of Jacksonville
will not have to deal with losing much longer. That
tire fire of a football team is going to England.
Problem for them in the UK a couple of weeks
there in October. Yeah, by then everything gonna be done.
It'll be done. Ski's there, It's all over, mass whole.

(15:10):
Mickey writes in from outside Boston. He says, look at
the stats bench, Trevor Lawrence and Mac Jones are the
same player. Yeah, I don't know, but that would you
give Mac Jones a huge contract?

Speaker 2 (15:24):
I'm gonna go know, I'm gonna I'm gonna go no,
no to that.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
We will have a fun fact, an amazing fun fact
coming up a little bit later regarding Mac Jones. Actually
not macdo's Trevor Lawrence. Amazing fun fact about Trevor Lawrence.
We'll get that coming up here in a little bit.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Let's go to the.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Phones and we'll say hello to Eenie Meenie miny Moe.
Whoop bey pie Blair is in the state of Maine. Hello,
whoop be Pie Blair?

Speaker 8 (15:53):
How did I get to Lucky early in the morning
to talk to you? When I love calling you.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh you're being very very positive here. Whoopee pie, you're happy?
Why are you in a good mood? What's going on
with you?

Speaker 8 (16:05):
I just bought myself as five.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Congratulations, wonderful. What a big day?

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Yeah, well I earned it.

Speaker 8 (16:15):
I worked. I worked pretty hard, hard as I can work.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
You did, well. What kind of work are you doing?
What are you up to? I didn't know you were working.

Speaker 8 (16:23):
Washington College called.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
Wash the mules.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's a mascot, the mule, the jackass.

Speaker 8 (16:34):
Oh my god?

Speaker 2 (16:36):
That wasn't that a jack mules? A jackass? Isn't that?
Am I wrong? I am wrong? Am I wrong? How
about wrong?

Speaker 8 (16:44):
I guess that's just that's horrible?

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Why is that horrible?

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, you said worst things in the radio, dude, and
we've had a million times and then you get hammered.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
You call up. Man.

Speaker 8 (17:01):
I know, but I'm sober today.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
But man, so does this mean?

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Now?

Speaker 1 (17:06):
A question for Blair in Maine? Now that you have
made the investment, does this mean we'll hear from you
more because you'll be up all night playing games, or
less because you'll be up all night playing games.

Speaker 8 (17:19):
Probably more more?

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Is that right? Interesting?

Speaker 8 (17:22):
When I'm off, I'm off during the week, I'm only working.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
How lucky are we? How lucky?

Speaker 1 (17:29):
And again, if you want to see Blair and Maine,
just go to Waterville, Maine, right, Not Portland, Maine, not
any other town in Maine.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
You gotta go to Waterville, Maine, right.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
I guess, well that's what you told me.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
You told me that, Remember I was there. I've been
to Maine the last couple of years. You're like, no,
you're not far enough up in Maine. You gotta go
to the actual belly of the beast.

Speaker 8 (17:50):
Yeah, at least at least I'm not this guy that
got accused of damaging at.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Least seventy five vehicles.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Oh my god, Oh, massive story in Maine.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Lorena was telling me about it before the show, Right,
you were breaking that down, Loraina, like vandalism.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
One of the biggest stories I've heard all day.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Ben. Yeah, here, we call that just a Wednesday night
in the valley, But in Maine, it's big news.

Speaker 8 (18:14):
Ninety thousand and damages.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Oh my god, Oh it was there a car dealership?

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Man, was that you, Blair? Did you do that? Was
that you? Were you out there with a baseball bat?

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Wow?

Speaker 8 (18:28):
No, guys, he's going to jail the rest of his life.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
I hope the rest of his life for vandalism. Wow,
that's amazing. I didn't know that. Shocking. All right, Blair?
Can I go now?

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Blair?

Speaker 2 (18:41):
I feel like you're out of material? You have nothing
else to say? No, No, you want to take a call?

Speaker 4 (18:46):
No, what'd you do it?

Speaker 2 (18:48):
All right? Really, let's a chat with Blair. This is
very exciting. Who do we have?

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Let's see who wants to talk to Blair? Let's see
any Meani Money? Jed who fled in Florida? Jeed, you're
on with Blair in Maine?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Jed?

Speaker 8 (19:02):
Hey, Jed, who fled? What's up?

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh see, he's not talking? You got cold feet there?
He's you're such a well Either that or he's doing
something else. I's see.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Angry Bill is in Jacksonville or Jacksonville ad Jason?

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Angry Bill? You're on with whoopee Pie Blair?

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Angry Bill?

Speaker 8 (19:23):
Man, what are you doing?

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Whoopy pie? Blair? I always thought you were one of
the top five stupid ass callers on the face of
the ear. You are the dumbest ass thing I've ever
heard on radio.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
The nice boys. Blair, how do you respond to that? Blair?

Speaker 8 (19:45):
You want my knuckle sandwich right now?

Speaker 4 (19:47):
You know? Hey, hey, you know what? You know what
you whoopie? Give me give me your mother's number. Okay,
give me your mother's number.

Speaker 8 (19:59):
Hold on, by, I have a satin nightgown on.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
What's that?

Speaker 8 (20:04):
A lot of brue things and inappropriate things about.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Little children that you should be in jail for.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
It's unacceptable, all right, hold on, so let me get
his response here, Hold on a second. I can't put
you both on at the same time. Angry angry Bill
your response.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
I didn't hear what he said. I want to go
to jail for something I do to your mother.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
All right, thank you, I will be pie. We got
we got rid of him. There, whoop be pie. All right,
he's gone.

Speaker 8 (20:35):
You should be a person.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Well that's his first call. Was what about a nine
year old girl?

Speaker 4 (20:44):
That was his first Yeah?

Speaker 8 (20:46):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (20:47):
Well? Not appropriate?

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, not appropriate? I got you? All right? Well, very good.
What do you want me to do? I gotta go?
All right, thank you.

Speaker 8 (20:56):
I'm going to get a dunkey and kick him right
in the air.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Okay, thank you that you. Angry Bill didn't seem like
the angrier of the two.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Angry Bill was inciting violence, is what he was doing.
He was escalating in the situation. He knew he would
get a reaction, and he got a reaction at it.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Well, kind of like the reaction.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
We talked last hour more about the Bengals losing to
the Washington football team. But Cam Taylor Bridd, who defensive
back Taylor Bridd of the Bengals, he had broken down
Jaden Daniels prior to the game. In the lead up
to the game, he said, they don't make him do

(21:42):
a lot. They keep it really simple for him. Nice
college offense. Of course, this has been bounced around everywhere
because of the fact that Washington put up a gazillion
points and all that.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
However, I don't think it's wrong.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
I think that's the whole reason you go with Cliff
Kingsbury is that he does run a college offense. He
runs a version of that old Texas Tech offense. He's
a disciple of Mike Leach and that's the offense that
that he runs. So it's like, yeah, they scored a
bunch of points, but they did do it running a

(22:19):
college style offense.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Why is that outrageous? Man?

Speaker 1 (22:22):
All right, let's get get caught up on everything, all
the scores and all that. And in the update chair,
Martin Weiss is here. Hello.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Mart The college offense, like you said, was humming. Yes,
Now you're at the Detroit Airport, right, Martin.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Today, if you fly out Detroit at one of those
other airports Detroit, they have a PF change in the
Detroit Airport. Who has enough time to eat it a
PF Chanks at an airport. I never have a layover
long enough to eat at a PF Chanks. It's a
full dining experience.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
I mean, maybe you get to the airport and extra
forty five to one hour earlier. You don't get their
test meeting. You have the PF Chang's window. It's too early.
I don't know. I had jolly pumpkin today. Oh you
did it? Did? Okay?

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, good food options at the Detroit Airport. I was
there a few months ago. The only problem is it
closes early.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
All the restaurants.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, that's a big problem at airports. I there's there's
like maybe one thing open late at night, but they
have flights that take off at all hours and land
at all hours exactly.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
It makes no sense to me.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's like people think New York's open all Night's not.
You can get a turkey sandwich at three in the
morning of New York, but you can't get you know,
the restaurants all close at normal times. This is a
big problem, Martin. We need to fix this.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
I'll address that, you know, people, Let's see what I
can do.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
All right, be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific,
Ben malor fun fact.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
All right, fun facts.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
So for me, the gold standard for suck back quarterbacks
who for some reason keep playing is Daniel Jones. This
guy blows right with the giants and it's it's ridiculous
he's still out there. Here's the fun fact of the hour.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
He's trash.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Trevor Lawrence has a career passer rating which is now
officially lower than Daniel Jones.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
But wait, fun fact number two. Hit it again, Ben
mal fun fact.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
We mentioned, for some reason that we hint not understand,
Jacksonville gave Trevor Lawrence a big extension this summer. The
Jags only had two years and thirty one to three
million thirty one point three million left on Trevor Lawrence's contract,
so they could have gotten out of it after this year, essentially,
but instead they gave him another five years and now

(24:44):
they're locked to him.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Five years two hundred two million.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
So instead of being able to get rid of a
player who's underachieving in two years, they gave him the
big money extensions. So now they owe Hi two hundred
two million over the next five years. The guy can't play.
He can't play.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
They paid him.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
He can't play. Let's go to keg drinking Steve in Missouri? Hello,
are you in Missouri?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Steve? Where are you at?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Man?

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Man?

Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'm in heaven man.

Speaker 9 (25:16):
The Cincinnati Bengals went down in Flames. Loser Ben goals
man an he's any Chris collins Worth is trash and
Travis Kelsey.

Speaker 8 (25:32):
Was a grand player of all time.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Uh you know, Chris collins was as a loser who
never won anything in his life, and he thinks that
he thinks that Travis Kelsey is no longer a great player.
Collins Worth couldn't couldn't see a great player for him
hit him in the back of the head.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Hey, hey, Steve, are you wearing your Travis Kelsey onesie?

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Right now? What's going on with you?

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Listen? Travis, Travis is getting ready for the postseason. Yes,
there's Losers concentrate on September.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Losers are in shape. They're in shape, right, Losers are
in shape?

Speaker 3 (26:19):
And yeah right, we play. We play for winning time.
Like this other idiot, Jason Smith on your air.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
On your airwaves, what did he do to annoy you?

Speaker 3 (26:31):
We we show up, we show up at winning time.
We don't show up. We don't show up ready in
October and September. We show up ready.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
To kick the bills.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
But in the in the playoffs, man, playoff. I mean,
these guys are such these guys are such stupid, stupid cowards.
They gotta they gotta somebody early in the year. And
and you know, Jay, this sense even worse than Collinsworth.

Speaker 7 (27:02):
You know me, let me tell you, you know, I
kind of feel bad for Travis because because Taylor didn't
show up for the game, he looked kind of tad,
you know.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, that's why he was That's why he did nothing
because she wasn't well.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
What she doesn't understand is is Taylor Swift, you know Travis.
She needs Enny's traumas more than Travis.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Oh, I'm sure that's so. She had no success. Nobody
ever listened to her music.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Freaking la.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
She's in l A six and a half, No one really.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
I didn't even know she's that high in l A.
I think she might be like a five in l A.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, right, exactly. No one really listens to her records
on THEO. She she she needs to sell all these
old records, to all these old albums, and she's got
to keep him keep it. Travis has got the bad.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
All right, So I'm not gonna You're right, I should
not rip.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
I should not rip Travis Kelsey is he's tied for
ninety second in the NFL and receptions.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
I should not.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
He's he's tied with Brandon Cooks, Rashod Bateman, Calvin Ridley,
someone named Jordan Atkins.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I don't know who that.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Is, right, Yeah, and you know what?

Speaker 7 (28:16):
You know what, man, what he has sixty nine receiving yards.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
But he got that bag he is, Yeah, he definitely
has the bag.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yeah, he's doing what you do he's doing.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
He's gas bagging into a microphone to his club sycophantica fan.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
All right, all right, hey, listen, I gotta go, but
please wipe your nose off when you're done with his
phone call.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Okay, my guy, all right there you Taylor Swift can
can suck it?

Speaker 2 (28:48):
All right?

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Her popular ratings are worse than drugs? Can you believe?

Speaker 2 (28:53):
All right? All right? Oh, I thank you? All right?
What she gonna be?

Speaker 1 (28:56):
The Chiefs played the Chargers this weekend. I don't know
her concerts schedule. I assume she'd be This game's in La,
so i'd assume she'd she'd be there at the game,
but who knows.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Not that did it matter.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
I think I might be there. I'm not sure if
i'll be there, and I don't know yet whether i'll
be there, but I might be there. So I know
you're very concerned about my itinerary. I'm very worried about that.
Here's the insta trivia. We'll have Mallard of the third
degree coming up here at momentarily. The Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson.
Hard to really call him a quarterback the way he's

(29:28):
played this year, but Anthony Richardson has completed less than
fifty percent of his passes. Blank is the only other
quarterback to start the first three weeks of a season
and complete less than half of their passes. Over the
last decade, there's only been one other quarterback as bad
as Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
That is the instant Trivia the answer next.

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Speaker 2 (30:21):
Now, the hot takes continue with Big Ben, and we
will have coming up Mallard to the third degree. That
is warming up.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Possibly here's the instant trivia. Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson, barely
a quarterback has completed less than fifty percent of his passes.
How is that even possible in the modern game? But
Blank is the only other quarterback, only one to start
the first three weeks of a season and complete less

(30:53):
than half of their passes. That's over the last decade.
And that is the question. What is the answer? And
let's see does anyone know the answer? We go to
the great unwashed here to see if anyone has the answer?
We go page down here, page down, Let's see a

(31:13):
lot of amazing answers and does not appear that anyone
is cheating here? I got a gag on guest by
Alf the Alien Opiner.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Who else we have?

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Paul Budnyan from Nick it has to be Bronco Legend,
Ray Crockett from Cowboy Killer, DeShawn Kaiser, Yes by Eke
in Roseville, Minnesota, Mister Magoo from I four to Ian
Shane and de Moines going with jet fuel George as
his answer.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Who else do you?

Speaker 5 (31:42):
We have?

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Page down? Kyle Turley, who's forty nine years old.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
But I remember there was a show that I did
here Kyle Turley was playing offensive line and chuck the
helmet like a discus against the It was a Saints
Jets game.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
I was at that game. You were at that game?
Was that in New Orleans? I was from New Orleans?
Oh I didn't know it. Okay, I thought you were
from Detroit because I was here talking about Detroit. Detroit, Detroit.
I moved to Detroit and high school. He did. Okay,
so you got family in New Orleans and all that stuff.
I got there.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
You go, Yeah, we were on that was Was that
the Joe Horn game? Where is that the same game
where he had his phone in the goal?

Speaker 2 (32:15):
That was a Monday night football. That was a different game. Yeah.
I was on punishment that was against the Giants. Got
off of punishment at halftime. So I saw that on TV.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Okay, all right, well I remember from me. Yeah, it
was a big moment. But Kyle truly forty nine today,
Happy happy birthday. Malaoue Ruben going with stony case is
his answer. Andy from Lino Lake says, what about a
nine year old girl pizza Pizza hut or something like
that from steviee meat Balls in Florida. All right, Martin,

(32:43):
do you have an answer again? Anthony richardson the Colts
completing last than fifty percent of his pass is the
blank the only other, only other quarterback to start the
first three weeks of the season and have similar suck
bag stats the last decade, oh last decade quarterback.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
That has the coolest picture of NFL history at Len Dawson.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Len Dawson smoking the cigarette in the lockerroom? Is it
Len Dawson? Nor correct answer? Tyrod Taylor? Tyrod Taylor. Back
in twenty eighteen, they.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Were got Taylor?

Speaker 5 (33:16):
How about that? To the third degree, this is one
big Ben gets Grail?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
All right? Cool the loop.

Speaker 10 (33:24):
So with the Steelers now at three and zher with
Justin Fields under center, is there any way that they
can go to Russell Wilson when he's healthy. Yes, listen,
I know it seems impossible to say this. It is
an unpopular opinion. The Steelers are not winning because of
Justin Fields. They have, their defenses played great. They have
the twenty ninth ranked passing offense in the NFL. The

(33:45):
only teams that have been worse at throwing the football
in terms of yardish per game are the Chargers and
the Patriots.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
That's it. So it's they're not getting a lot out
of the passing game.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
It is not a sustainable formula down the line, So
it's not out of the realm of possibility that Russell
Wilson will get an opportunity.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
I don't think he's any good either though, so that's
the problem.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Next.

Speaker 10 (34:07):
Baker Mayfield told the media after has lost to the
Broncos that it is a good lesson about how the
Bucks have to prepare. Oh stop, Ben, do you think
they fell victim to a trap game or is there
a bigger problem here?

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Well, there's two problems. It was a trap game.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Everyone was kissing their ass after they beat the Lions
and arah Ron. It was a big win for Tampa
Bay to go to Detroit and win that game by
four points. Congratulations, but they clearly did not prepare the
right way. But to me, the Buccaneers or what, there's
a lot of teams like this in the NFL. The
Bucks are the type of team that can beat just

(34:43):
about anybody and can also lose to just about anybody.
That's most of the NFL. I don't think Tampa Bay
is a lock to make the playoffs. They could beat
anybody they play. They could beat Kansas City down the
line of the forty nine ers, and they could also
lose to the Giants, Carolina Panthers or something like that.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
That's just the way it is.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Next.

Speaker 10 (35:04):
Uh, there's nothing that listeners love more than way too
early prediction.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yes, we love that, Coop people and they love big boards.
They love big boards also, that's right. Also known as lists, no,
not a list.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
A big board is not a list. Okay.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
A big board is different than a list. When you
do a list, you're rerelevant. When you do a big board,
you're not irrelevant.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Sure.

Speaker 10 (35:24):
Yeah, So that leads me to the question, Ben, who
do you like for Offensive Rookie of the Year through
week three weeks of the NFL season.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Let me see, Coop, Let me see there. Let's see
there's a quarterback I forget his name. He's in Washington
who just had a perfect game. You think maybe maybe
that he's like way out in front, like secretariat.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Elik Neighbors has done it for three weeks. Jaden Daniel's
done it for one.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Quarterbacks, Coop, are more important people. They play quarterback. If
Jaden Daniels is anywhere close, he's not gonna be like
that obviously every week. But if he's playing at a
high level consistently, Washington, they got a chance to win,
you know, seven or eight games something like that. Jayden
Daniels is going to be your offensive rookie year. But

(36:10):
you ask me right now and right now again. You
gotta go buy public sentiment and all that and the
odds and all that. It's it's Jaden Daniels. It is
his and uh and forget Marvin Harrison Junior on the outside.
He had a big game a couple of games ago,
but then he followed up with just a mediocre performance
against the lines. Anyway, there it is Mallard of the

(36:31):
third degree. Notice bow knicks not on the list.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
How did we do? He will become the end of
the series. Really yeah, but I guess he passes.

Speaker 9 (36:41):
That is a win.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
You can put on the ball. It's I'm the all
time wins king at that game. I am. Yeah,
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