September 2, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Eagles RB Saquon Barkley claiming the top spot in this year's NFL Top 100 list, Chargers RB Najee Harris doubling down that his eye injury was "superficial," Giants coach Brian Daboll refusing to name his backup QB, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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O Maha, Omaha. It's our damber to fly Eagles fly
on the road to the top of a pole. I'd
be Eagles running back Saquon Barkley and he claimed the
top spot and this year's NFL Top one hundred, Top
one hundred players. Big deal, little deal, no deal. Also,
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what is your read on Chargers running back Najee Harris
doubling down that his eye injury was quote superficial. And
what is your reaction to the Giants coach Brian Dayball
and his depth chart deception refusing the Giants coach refusing
to name his backup quarterback between Jackson Dart and Jameis Winston.
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What are you doing? We'll get to that and more
right now here. It is our number two on top
of the mountain. But what kind of mountain is it?
Let's take a closer look. Welcome in the beginning of
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But Dateline, the prov the news service of a pro
football state sponsored NFL Media, announcing that the top spot,
the very top spot, on the NFL Networks Top one
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hundred list. This is the kind of a thing that
Terry in England loves. He loves this. So they've been
counting down for a good amount of time now counting
down to the very top spot, the top one hundred
players in the NFL. So if you saw this, you
know where I'm going. But maybe not. So this was
voted on, We're told by the players, and at the
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very top of the mountain that would be fly e Goles,
fly on the road to victory. Sequan Barkley at number one,
right there at the number numero uno, top of the heap,
king of the hill, the crown Jule. Congratulations. All right,
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So let us discuss the question the Eagles running back
Sakwan Barkley claiming the top spot on this year's NFL
Top one hundred ranking. Is this a big deal, a
little deal or no deal? So I've got Lizard, Elton,
John and Raspberry and we will combine all of these
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ingredients together and we're gonna make you a Babushka's favorite
PB and J, because every Babushka knows a good PBNJ.
Aren't they delicious? My god? So good? All right? So
number one, number one? All right? This means and I
want to be very clear for those who in the
back of the room, this means absolutely not thing. Put
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this in the basket with bupkus on. It is what
this is. It's kind of like winning the talent show
when you were in high school. That's wonderful. Maybe you
get a little trophy. A little plastic trophy does not
mean you're ready to go to Broadway, just does not. Now,
this is a perception not reality situation. It's a popularity contest.
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And look listen. Sakwan Barkley was majestic last year. He
absolutely cooked the team that I like more than other teams,
the LA Rams. It was embarrassing as they tried to
stop him. He had several huge runs, including in the
playoff game in Philadelphia. The man painted a masterpiece, an
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absolute masterpiece worthy of being hung at the louver, only
with shoulder pads and some grass stains. It was a
symphony on turf, is what it was. For the Eagles
running back, he was a ballet dancer with pads. I
can go on and on here. That won amazing play
against Jacksonville when he spun around and leapt up in
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the air like he was a Marvel comic character. It
was great. However, that is not what this is about. See,
that is not what this is about. This is about
guys in the locker room scribbling down names on a
ballot in between Fortnite matches. That's what this is about.
I mean, so you got a factor in who's actually voting.
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A lot of the meathead fanboys, oh, the players voted.
This has more meeting and not so much. I don't
know that I would go there. For most of the
people that play pro football, it's gonna blow you away.
This is an original take. Most of the people that
play pro football, it is their job. It's not their hobby,
it's not their life's passion. It's their job. They're good
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at it. They'll do it for a few years and
then they'll go do something else. It's just something they're
doing for work. It pays them a good amount of money.
Not fans. You're a fan, they're not fans, uh. And
the people that they're voting on are co workers. Those
are other people that work in their job. That's what
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that is. And so they know the highlights, right, They
know the high they know the headlines. They know a
little bit about that. They know who embarrassed them on
the field on a given Sunday, and those are likely
the people that they vote for. Whoever's on the headlines there,
they're filling out the thing of a jig in the
locker room like they're like you would fill out a
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March Madness bracket after you've had a couple of bruskies, right,
a couple of beers. You start filling that thing out,
all right, said, Darts on the board, darts on the board.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And the list and this is a list, right, this
list has all the staying power of cotton candy at
a counovol, it does. It tastes good. Cotton candy tastes
good for about three seconds out three seconds and then
you're just left sticky and annoyed and it gets all
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over your hands. You gotta wash your hands and then
it's like this. You can't get it off with it.
You need a lot of soap to get the stuff off.
You know what I'm talking about. Anyway, So today we
do the show today, and so today Sequon Barkley is
the king of the mountain, NFL mountain. Congratulations, you're at
top of the NFL mountain tomorrow. Who knows, because the
NFL world life comes at you pretty pretty fast, pretty
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just football world in general, but the NFL specifically. Know
what's my evidence? Ask the cheetah, ask the chee Let's
go on the hot, tough time machine. We were having
this conversation last year, around this time. Last year, around
this time, do you know who was number one last year?
Do you know who has voted the top player in
the NFL last year, according to the prop the news
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service of the NFL, ding Ding Ding, ding Ding, that
would be the Cheetah tyreek Kill, Tyreek Hill was voted
the top player in the NFL. The bell of the ball,
the bell of the pigskin ball, tyreek Hill. Twelve months later,
he's hanging out down at number forty seven, from number one,
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all the way down to number forty seven. Forty seven, yes,
forty seven. We don't have a jingle for that to
left down there like the dust from failed lottery tickets,
just down there at the bottom. And this is another
reason why I can't stand list now. I did a
rant about this on my podcast, the Fifth Hour podcast,
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a couple of weeks back. Maybe it's been a couple months.
I don't know. It's just one thing after another. But
the gist of it, and this is my position on
this kind of thing, is the late great La Times columnist,
a guy I considered a friend, TJ. Simers, once taught
me lists are the ultimate, the ultimate brain fall go
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their brain fag. They tap into the lizard part of
the human brain, and we're logic, logic. It goes on
a nice vacation, right that part of the brain. Lists
are nothing but opinions. They're nothing but opinions. They're dressed
up though, in a nice tuxedo. So you've got a
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nice tuxedo pretending to be the gospel truth. And it
is like a bunch of people saying, well, here's what
I think, right, here's what I think, and pretending it's
science because you put some numbers near it and all that.
It's the illusion of authority. And my favorite thing is
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when people take these lists and they take them seriously.
And it's a proven fact. I have talked to enough
people every days to work in the media. It's like,
this is a this is a little cheat code that
you're dumb and you will fall for this every time.
You will react to it. And that's why they do it,
and it's gold. It's the easiest thing to do. You
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have to throw a couple of curveballs in the air, right,
a couple of curveballs unusual. You'll move somebody down who
should be higher, move someone higher who should be down.
So there's a lot of moving parts to it. There's
so many people that take this stuff seriously because the
lizard part of the brain. It's like, you know, stone
tablet from the mountaintop, and you know, it's like four
hundred or something football players that vote on this thing,
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and they're like, you know, that guy's kind of good.
I guess we'll vote for him. I see him on
the highlights a lot. I see him on the click
you know, things I click on on Instagram or whatever,
So why not? And what what it does tell you
is perception. It tells you perception. Like right now, players
because of the highlights and the attention, perceive Sakuon Barkley
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as the top player in the NFL. And that lasts
you know, how long does that last? We'll ask again.
We brought up the Cheetah Tyreek Hill lasts about as
long as one of those snapchat messages, you know, just
kind of self destruction all that, but one injury, one
bad stretch for Barkley and he's falling down, down, down, down,
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down down down the mountaintop all the way down to
the bottom, like an old school Tom and Jerry cartoon.
Back in the day and you're yesterday's news. What have
you done for me lately? You peaked? You're done now
all that stuff. And that's that's the way this works.
That's the way this particular thing works. At one year,
you're the Ribbi steak. Everyone wants the Ribbi steak, butterfly
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cut well done. That's the proper way to eat steak,
butterfly cut well done. And then the next year your spam.
You can spam, that's what you are. And so you
know that's fine. Good luck. State sponsored media can announce
this thing and that thing and all they want and congratulations.
So moving on from that, the the other part of
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this as we move on, how about to Los Angeles
where Chargers running back Nase Harris, somebody we've talked about
a decent amount, considering he's not that good. Nase Harris
has been a toss up toss up to start the
NFL season. The backfield Charges open up in a few
days here. Suffered an eye injury playing with fireworks on
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the fourth of July, little accident. Harris gave an update
Naji Harris saying that his vision was not affected by
the firework incident. He again called it a superficial injury. Now,
Harris also said that he's working towards being on the
field for the charge of the season opener against the Chiefs
in Brazil that'll be on Friday. On Friday, So what
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is your read here's the question, what is your read
on running back Naji Harris doubling down, doubling down that
his eye injury was just superficial. Okay, So my position
on this, my read on this is a lot of sugar,
a lot of sugar coating. You know, you bake cookies
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and you put them wrap them in the sugar there
and they taste really good. But it's a lot of sugarcoating.
This thing is not only got sugar, it's it's got
marshmallow fluff in it. It really does. So we're supposed
to believe Najee Harris missed pretty much all of Chargers
training camp other than walking laps around the field, right,
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other than that, and we're supposed to believe that was
a superficial eye injury, that what he got great is
by a sparkler, and that's that's what happened. Was it
a rogue confetti cannon? That's some gender reveal gone wrong. No,
it was a fourth of July. The math ain't mathing
on this. It's just not It doesn't add up. You
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don't miss almost all of training camp because of a
superficial eye injury. You don't have to have a medical
degree to know that's not the way it works. That's
not a not a hangnail, you know, it's not a
paper cut. It's it's not a grain of sand in
the eyeball. It's not that. That is a Roman candle
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in the wind, Elfton John style, a Roman candle in
the wind and it blew up close enough to your
eye to cause you to miss almost all of training.
So don't be confused that this was some sweet Norman
Rockwell fourth of July apple pie mom lawn shares fireworks
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type of event. This was Florida man meets fireworks caught
boom is what it was. And so you don't sideline
yourself for months months. This happened back in July. Here
we are now in September. Unless something went really wrong
right near your cornea, right near your cornea. There, so
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Harris trying to shake off the firework injury like he
had a bad burrito from a food truck. And now
I do love the optimism. You know, Benny Brightside, this
is an optimistic person. He's very optimistic that's going to
work out there. And we'll just not pretend that he
hasn't been lifting weights and all that stuff, working out
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with his teammates. He's I guess he should have been
better at dodging bottle rockets on the fourth of July,
But it was all superficial. If it was superficial, he
would not have been back in pads for a few days.
He would have been back in pads by day three.
But I digress. So we hope, we do hope that
Najie Harris gets out there and plays. We really do.
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I'm not making that up. I'm not just saying, oh,
are you just saying that at the end. No, I
would like to see him play, right, just do not
insult our intelligence that it was a superficial thing. Now,
a buddy of mine's, well, he's got to say that
because the Chargers if he doesn't actually play, and this
is no guarantees is going to play this week, and
if somebody else usurps him as the top back for
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the Chargers, and then the Chargers end up getting rid
of him. They're going to say it's with cause because
of the injury, and then he'll say, well, no, it's superficial.
So he's got to kind of say that. But it
definitely was not a speck of dust. We've all gotten
that in the eye, right, You're like, oh, man, I
gotta water wash my eye out and all this stuff.
It was a fourth of July. It's like a psa
waiting to happen, is what it is. All right. Now,
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final point to Jersey. We go not the Jersey Show.
We go to northern New Jersey, just across the way
from Manhattan, and that is where coach Brian Dayball, the
formerly wrote Ton coach, refusing refusing to reveal whether or
not rookie Jackson Dart or veteran famous Jameis Winston will
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serve as the giants backup quarterback the season opener on
Sunday against the team formerly known as the Redskins. So question,
what is your reaction? What is your reaction to Giants
coach Brian Daboles depth chart deception. We'll call it the
depth chart deception refusing the name his backup quarterback between
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Jackson Dart and Jameis Winston. So in this one, it
is a raspberry, it is a Raspberry beret. It's the
Prince of paranoia. Brian day Ball the prince of paranoia
here going with the psychological warfare, Like, dude, your team
blows like what are you doing? Seriously? Like, can someone
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let Brian Dable know that it's not amusing, it's rather
stupid what you're doing. It is. It's like, well, I mean,
we got to use deception here. I me know, Spider
out of art. You're not guarding the nuclear codes. I
don't believe it's a backup quarterback on a dog food
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NFL team. Just say the name, say my name, right,
and and by the way, if the commanders know the
playbook of the Giants, it wouldn't change the outcome. Like
the Giants could telegraph all the plays. It doesn't matter
whether the commanders know the players that don't know the plays,
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it doesn't really change the outcome of the game. So
stop that, right, Like do the Giants think do they
have this neurosis where they're like, well, if we tell
the I we tell Washington or backup quarterback, then they're
gonna know and they're gonna change their entire defensive scheme.
Give me a break, Okay, just stop now. Russell Wilson
is thirty six. He is brittle, right, He's like kind
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of like a bread stick. He's like a breadstick from
olive garden. You can kind of rip him in half
there and all that, and little Marinera on the side,
and and you know, the Giants likely know that Russ is.
If you were to bet on quarterbacks likely to get
hurt in Week one of the NFL, which is something
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I'm not against doing injury bingo. We have done injury
bingo in the past, you'd put Aaron Rodgers in the
one spot. Russell Wilson would be pretty close behind Matthew
Stafford I would have at number two, but you'd have
Russell Wilson somewhere in the mix there on the on
the again, not a list, but a big board of
who's likely to get hurt at the quarterback position early
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in the season, and so you're gonna need a backup.
And Brian Dayball is acting like it's a state secret here,
and you just roll your eyes at this, like what's
going on? So this is either Brian Dayball, the coach
of the Giants, coddling the Jackson Dart fanboys. He played
so well against guys who are now going to be
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joining our friend Tree working for ups. He played so well, right,
they don't want to hurt his feelings or their feelings,
the Jackson Dart fanboys. Or he's covering for Jamis who
might have thrown maybe three picks in some kind of
closed door team building exercise and now he's persona non
grata and all that stuff. But it's Brian day Ball
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being Brian Dayball's he learned under Belichick, So it's hoodie cosplay.
You know, we didn't have the championships and all that,
and just just say who the backup is. And you're
not fooling anyone. It's not cute. It's rather dumb, like
if you're good, that's one thing, but you suck. So
if you suck, just say the names. Okay, I can
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change the fact you suck. It's just dumb, all right.
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back back to it all. Right, back to it we go,
and Milkman Mike, says Najee Harris, showing that his injury
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was superficial and he's ready to play. And of course
he's then got a clip from a iconic horror movie
which appears to be his face. What else do we
have a page, Dan, let's see here. Shane in the
moy says, I know you don't do birthday shout outs,
but my older brother has a birthday today, he's forty nine.
Well that I can't do a birthday shout out because
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I don't know your older brother's name, because you did not,
Shane in the Moines, give me your older brother's name,
Just Josh in Cincinnati, where at one point we dominated
the militia dominated in Cincinnati had just Josh very active
on the show. We had justin and Cincinnati was like
semi retired. Now just Josh as that Tyreek Hills stock
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going over a cliff. We don't do this here, do
not late night drug testers hiss. NFL players should listen
to your PSAs. Remember I remember you saying every summer
holiday season Roman candles, they will blind you before you
see them. Yes, for years I was the king of PSAs,
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although not so much anymore. Not so much anymore. We
don't do as many PSAs as we did back in
the day. Mister Irrigation, very very active on the social media,
very active. Timothy says bet be under NFL not for long.
Mister Irrigation also points out that he says, I don't
remember this. He says, years ago at number one on
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the NFL's top one was Arion Foster, and then he
promptly shredded his ruin, which is unfortunate. Actually sat in
a immedia dining room prior to a Lakers game years
ago and Arion Foster was in the room and a
person came up to me that I did not know
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and said, is that person over there, that gentleman is
hit Arion Foster, and I quickly turned to that person
and said, well, they're not wearing their uniform and their helmet.
I don't know, but it turned out it was it
was Arion Foster. There you go, little factoid for you,
a little bit of a factory fun fact. Andy and
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Lionel Lake says, I thought that new song from Lucky
Tony was from the Monotone Mumbler the Mexican. John Dutton says,
grand theft Tony from the Bay Can Flow. He says,
ferg Dog ten out of ten on the song from
Lucky Tony. Give that man a benny right now? What
about a golden ticket? Well, if he calls up, we'll
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give him a golden ticket. I really didn't think it
was that bad. I thought it was pretty good. I
was all right, he got on his phone just recording
something randomly. It's better than AI. That is, we don't
want a. We don't want AI. That was real the
Talent Show. That's a shocking position. We support human beings,
support human beings, we don't we Eventually that'll become taboo.
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What are you having to stay? I what diday I
ever do to you? I said, we supported supposed to
support AI. You know, there'll be a group eventually. It's
like pro AI, right, but right now we're still allowed
to support human beings, so I support human beings. Terry
in England has also done a scent in a song.
Oh he did, so we can do a side by
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side all right, Well we'll do that. We'll do that
a little bit later with the side by side thing,
for sure. Let's get to do you want me to
ruin it and play it early? No, No, you've already
You've already done enough damage. We're good on that. Let's
go to the phones and we'll say hello to any
meani money more. Andre is in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome,
good evening.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Wonderful to be with you. I am in the Commonwealth.
And I imagine mister Bill Belichick he might have some
nostalgia after what happened this evening. He might want to
return to the to the glory days and get on
back to the Commonwealth. I've been following and there have
been reports that people in North Carolina are investigating whether
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or not mister Thomas Edward Patrick Brady has any more
eligibility remaining after a stint at Michigan. Right, because you
can play a little bit longer now with the nil
right and all the waivers, you know, you can play
like five six years. So that's been a trending narrative
long STI.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He should try to get Johnny Manziel to play for
him at this point, holy man, right.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Right, And you know we had some indications early on,
you know with Bill, you know, who is kind of
finding his inner millennial with some of the things that
are being posted on social media, right, you know, with him,
you know, putting people, putting the significant other up on
its feet, you know, and so she can be like,
you know, flying, you know, look like a scene from
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Titanic there, you know. But you know, Bill, uh, there's
been concern, first of all for me because I thought
the mission was to usurp Don Shula and get that
NFL All time wins record. I thought that's what we
were locking into. And once the NFL teams didn't weren't
picking up what you were putting down, wouldn't give you
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the complete control, so you couldn't get that NFL job.
And now you're veered, you know where nobody thought you were.
You said, Okay, I'm gonna go to college and I'm
gonna go to school that has no profile and because
you know they're looking, you know, just to get clicks
and name, you know, the don't bring me in. Doug Gone,
And I saw Michael Jordan, I saw Roy Williams, Randy
moss All in the press box. What to see the
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tar Heels get the breaks beat off of them, not
even be competitive. Let you know, as much as I'm
holding out hope, Ben, I have to call it like
I see it. They only won four games the last
year he was here with the Patriots. It got progressively
worse after Tom Brady took his tame to Tampa Bay.
The ones like the last time Bill Belichick had like
a reasonable good season. That was the first year when
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the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the A.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Listen, they had seventy Who knows these? I was, I
buddy of mine. I heard, do you like in the
North Carolina game against TCUs. I'm not there's seventy new
players or whatever it is on North Carolina's impossible to know.
But if North Carolina should win their next two games,
they play at Charlotte, that football powerhouse Charlotte, and then
they play Richmond, so they should be sitting at two
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and one after three games, and then then they play
some tougher competition and so we'll see how it goes.
But you know, it's like, yeah, it's bad right now.
It's as you know, Andre, it's never as bad at
the lowest. So people think this is the worst. It's
never that bad. You're always better than you know. They're
not forty eight to fourteen bad. They'll play better.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
As I say, it's in Buttsworth, candy and nuts. We
don't have a merry Christmas. And looking at the North
Carolina schedule, you're right, there's a lot of cup takes in.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
There, all right.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
But if if the Emperor has no clothes, that's what
I'm getting at here. Okay, we're you know, chapel Bill.
We're looking at him because his name is Bill Belichick
as if he was the former man. At all I'm
saying is step after step after step after step have
said this guy, you know has lost touch.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
No listen, I hear you. But he does want to
go back to the NFL. He does. He went to
North carol I figured if he puts a good team
on the field at North Carolina, he can go and
you spend a year or two there, and then you know,
mid seventy five if he goes back to the NFL
to try to win, good luck on that. At this point,
it's not looking so good on I think you have
(30:40):
a better chance Andre of coaching the Patriots than Belichick
does of coaching in the NFL in general.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Look, thank you so much. Being I we're gonna have
to sign some of the members of the Malon militia
up to come in there and help Bill. You know,
I just think he needs being all right, we'll get
some help. I'll sign Willis up to Willis is quiet,
He's going to be signed up as well.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
All right, Bell, I was doing okay in the bedroom,
though apparently I gotta go. Thank you, Andre. Let's go
to Jerome and Charleston bringing home Jerome, Hello, Jerome.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Bill Beltick's doing good in the bed. Hi, Nay, Hell?
Would you know that? Why you think that she gets
to cut seeing a seventy something the old guy take
off his clothes. Women don't get it time and they
say me and I'm sixty nine. By the way, my
birthday was on Saturday. Hey, guess what I found out?
Chris Salin. I have to say him birthday. How do
(31:29):
you like that? I'm a little bit older than he is, though,
but he's like twenty five.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Hey, Jerome, can you for the for the advertisers? Can
you say you're thirty nine? Can you just chop thirty
years off? You say you're thirty nine? Can you say
you're the demo?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I'm trying to tell your demographics? Ben Bday.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Can you just pretend drume at your heart you're thirty nine?
Good at your heart, d You're not sixty nine, you're
thirty nine. Jerome and Charleston, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Good at pretending. Ben. You can now look I got well,
David Jess, I gotta be me.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You gotta be me, you gotta be me. Loraina was
hoping for Sammy. Weren't you hoping, Loraina for Sammy Davis
Junior reference on the show? We got that. I was
waiting for that. It's good. I'm excited things.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Lorena is one of the most un serious people have
really she is. She comfantly drips sarcast I do.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Drip in sarcasm.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
That's not a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Lorena needs to get out more often.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Wow, No, she gets out a lot. My my girl, Lorena,
She's out there. She's she's enjoying Los Angeles for sure.
People might even say I need to sit down. You
might want to stay home a couple of nights there. More,
she's getting out, she's a she's in la socialite Lorena.
She gets invited to a lot of stuff. So they
definitely get kicked out a lot too. That's true.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, Belichick, you know what, I enjoyed every damn minute
of that because he has Oh he's coming to No.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
He's the same. You were so worked up. You know,
I don't know what happened there, my god. But but
ESPN's got some problems because they have I think three
more Belichick games. They have, I believe three more games.
Uh so good luck on that. That's hey.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Let me ask you something is Kirk Hurbstreet, he's all alonge.
Has he been a artist? He's just starting to become one.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
And we start starting to come one. I didn't a
con artist when they scored that first and then straight well,
but also remember Jerome the hot mic herb Street. He
denies it, but he was caught on Mike saying that
it sounded like he was saying North Carolina was really
(33:43):
bad into a hot mic and he said, Oh, I
didn't say that. Sounds like you said company man.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Just trying to be the good company.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Man he's making. He's what do you think Herbstreet makes
a couple of million a year? Does college? Does the NFL?
On Amazon? Many guy's loaded he's doing. You know, he
just has to speak in cliches and stuff. Gets to
bring his dog to him with him to the games.
I mean he's living a pretty good life, his dog
man because you know he's got a new dog though
(34:11):
that's the old dog. Ben was the old dog. But
he's got Peter, the new dog. That's one of the
bad things. But dogs don't live that long. That's one
of that. We love dog I'm a dog person. I
love dogs, but they don't live that long. That's unfortunate.
Like I have my I lost my dog Bella, who
had for years, and I got a new dog, Moxie.
But bulldogs don't live that long. So I'm on every
day I'm with Moxiem, Like I don't want to come
(34:32):
your end because they don't live that long.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
So you gotta be careful how you treat people, how
you treat animals. Just gotta be careful.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Do you treat animals better? Or do you treat people better?
Because I think really the same. You treat people a
little better. I treat people better. All right, that's the positive.
This is positive, Jerome, positive bringing home to him. You
had a birthday. You have a big cake, Jerome. Did
you celebrate you got did you go out to dinner?
(35:01):
Did you do anything? Nothing? Jerome? That's very sad, Jerome.
Why would you not celebrate?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Look, man, I'm a recluse. I can't help it.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
In Okay, attention advertisers, you can reach the sixty nine
year old recluse demographic here on the Ben Malers Show.
So right there, I know, I know. I love you though, Jerome,
we love you here. Bro, you're a great character. All right,
go away, I'm gonna hang up on you. I have
a live read. Go away. All right, It is the
Ben Mahler Show. And we press on. We get Mallard
(35:30):
of the third degree. Here's the Insta trivia. Hunter Green
has the second most strikeouts by a Reds pitcher in
their first four career seasons with the franchise, behind only Blank.
That's the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it
and we will do it next.
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posted right after the end of the program. All right
back to it and real quick here, real quick. Hunter
Green has the second most strikeouts by a red spitcher
in their first four career seasons with the franchise, behind
only Blank. That is the question, what is the answer
alf the alien opiner going with Raleigh Eastwick. That's pretty
(36:44):
funny Bringing home Jerome from Malard prop Guy That looks
like I imagine Jerome would. Look, what else do we have?
Pinhead from Milkman Mike kat Williams, who's fifty four today
from Late Night Drug Tester h page down Justin and
Cincinnati from Big Great and I there's a good picture
of Justin and book his pal uh page down. That's
(37:05):
an Lorain and you have an answer right a placker. No,
it's the great noodles Han noodles Han back in eighteen
ninety nine. Noodles Han.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
Here we go, Here we go, here we go, Here
we got we got smell here we got that degree
next two days. This is one Big Ben gets cracked.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Good bo DJ Hawkinson was able to play ten games
last season after suffering a torn ACL and MCL the
year before, but he didn't make much of an impact
had zero touchdowns. Hawkinson said he's one of the best
route running tight ends in the league and this year
he'll make a clear impact.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
Are you up or down on high?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Well? I think we should point he places for the
Minnesota Vikings to play with the Lions for a long time.
He's been in Minnesota a little bit. It's important for
the Vikings. And here's why. When things get tough in
Minnesota and who knows what JJ McCarthy's gonna do. They
think he'll be good. But normally the safety blanket is
the tie. So in order for this to work in Minnesota.
They need him to be good. So I am optimistic.
(38:05):
I'm Benny Brightside. Hockinson will be okay next.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
Tom Brady said in an interview on Sunday that the
league has shifted towards emphasizing physical attributes in a quarterback
rather than mental ones.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Is he right? Absolutely? It is all about they call him.
I hate this term measurables at the combine. It's all
about the raw and greed. It's it's like it's same
thing in baseball. Like baseball, if you can pitch, they
don't want you. If you can throw ninety eight miles
an hour and can't pitch, they want you. In football,
they want the biggest, strongest, fastest. But if you're actually
mentally sharp and know how to play the game, you
(38:37):
don't throw it that well, eh, or you're not as
strong e.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Next poll of NFL coaches and executives put Joe Burrow
as the leading candidate to win MVP this season. Meanwhile,
Lamar Jackson still has the best odds in Vegas. Who
do you think has the better shot?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah? So I like Burrow. The Bengals sucked last year.
They weren't a playoff team, the Ravens, have been consistently good.
There's also voter fatigue for Lamar Jackson. Even though he
didn't win last year, he has won multiple MVP Awards,
so he would have to go above and beyond to
win another one. I like Burrow. I don't like the
fact that everyone else kind of likes Burrow too. That
(39:11):
bothers me. That means that's probably not gonna happen. But
I would pick Burrow over Lamar. How did we do?
It's mallet of the third degree. He passes. That is
a win. I won.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
I won the right up.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
That's a win. Put that on my storecard, right down.
O Maha, Omaha. It's our damber to fly Eagles fly
on the road to the top of a pole. I'd
be Eagles running back Saquon Barkley and he claimed the
top spot and this year's NFL Top one hundred, Top
one hundred players. Big deal, little deal, no deal. Also,
(00:21):
what is your read on Chargers running back Najee Harris
doubling down that his eye injury was quote superficial. And
what is your reaction to the Giants coach Brian Dayball
and his depth chart deception refusing the Giants coach refusing
to name his backup quarterback between Jackson Dart and Jameis Winston.
(00:42):
What are you doing? We'll get to that and more
right now here. It is our number two on top
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Let's take a closer look. Welcome in the beginning of
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that story. We'll get back to it, but we'll move
on to something better. Well you'll be the judge of that.
But Dateline, the prov the news service of a pro
football state sponsored NFL Media, announcing that the top spot,
the very top spot, on the NFL Networks Top one
(02:31):
hundred list. This is the kind of a thing that
Terry in England loves. He loves this. So they've been
counting down for a good amount of time now counting
down to the very top spot, the top one hundred
players in the NFL. So if you saw this, you
know where I'm going. But maybe not. So this was
voted on, We're told by the players, and at the
(02:54):
very top of the mountain that would be fly e Goles,
fly on the road to victory. Sequan Barkley at number one,
right there at the number numero uno, top of the heap,
king of the hill, the crown Jule. Congratulations. All right,
(03:16):
So let us discuss the question the Eagles running back
Sakwan Barkley claiming the top spot on this year's NFL
Top one hundred ranking. Is this a big deal, a
little deal or no deal? So I've got Lizard, Elton,
John and Raspberry and we will combine all of these
(03:39):
ingredients together and we're gonna make you a Babushka's favorite
PB and J, because every Babushka knows a good PBNJ.
Aren't they delicious? My god? So good? All right? So
number one, number one? All right? This means and I
want to be very clear for those who in the
back of the room, this means absolutely not thing. Put
(04:01):
this in the basket with bupkus on. It is what
this is. It's kind of like winning the talent show
when you were in high school. That's wonderful. Maybe you
get a little trophy. A little plastic trophy does not
mean you're ready to go to Broadway, just does not. Now,
this is a perception not reality situation. It's a popularity contest.
(04:23):
And look listen. Sakwan Barkley was majestic last year. He
absolutely cooked the team that I like more than other teams,
the LA Rams. It was embarrassing as they tried to
stop him. He had several huge runs, including in the
playoff game in Philadelphia. The man painted a masterpiece, an
(04:44):
absolute masterpiece worthy of being hung at the louver, only
with shoulder pads and some grass stains. It was a
symphony on turf, is what it was. For the Eagles
running back, he was a ballet dancer with pads. I
can go on and on here. That won amazing play
against Jacksonville when he spun around and leapt up in
(05:05):
the air like he was a Marvel comic character. It
was great. However, that is not what this is about. See,
that is not what this is about. This is about
guys in the locker room scribbling down names on a
ballot in between Fortnite matches. That's what this is about.
I mean, so you got a factor in who's actually voting.
(05:26):
A lot of the meathead fanboys, oh, the players voted.
This has more meeting and not so much. I don't
know that I would go there. For most of the
people that play pro football, it's gonna blow you away.
This is an original take. Most of the people that
play pro football, it is their job. It's not their hobby,
it's not their life's passion. It's their job. They're good
(05:49):
at it. They'll do it for a few years and
then they'll go do something else. It's just something they're
doing for work. It pays them a good amount of money.
Not fans. You're a fan, they're not fans, uh. And
the people that they're voting on are co workers. Those
are other people that work in their job. That's what
(06:11):
that is. And so they know the highlights, right, They
know the high they know the headlines. They know a
little bit about that. They know who embarrassed them on
the field on a given Sunday, and those are likely
the people that they vote for. Whoever's on the headlines there,
they're filling out the thing of a jig in the
locker room like they're like you would fill out a
(06:32):
March Madness bracket after you've had a couple of bruskies, right,
a couple of beers. You start filling that thing out,
all right, said, Darts on the board, darts on the board.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And the list and this is a list, right, this
list has all the staying power of cotton candy at
a counovol, it does. It tastes good. Cotton candy tastes
good for about three seconds out three seconds and then
you're just left sticky and annoyed and it gets all
(07:04):
over your hands. You gotta wash your hands and then
it's like this. You can't get it off with it.
You need a lot of soap to get the stuff off.
You know what I'm talking about. Anyway, So today we
do the show today, and so today Sequon Barkley is
the king of the mountain, NFL mountain. Congratulations, you're at
top of the NFL mountain tomorrow. Who knows, because the
NFL world life comes at you pretty pretty fast, pretty
(07:27):
just football world in general, but the NFL specifically. Know
what's my evidence? Ask the cheetah, ask the chee Let's
go on the hot, tough time machine. We were having
this conversation last year, around this time. Last year, around
this time, do you know who was number one last year?
Do you know who has voted the top player in
the NFL last year, according to the prop the news
(07:49):
service of the NFL, ding Ding Ding, ding Ding, that
would be the Cheetah tyreek Kill, Tyreek Hill was voted
the top player in the NFL. The bell of the ball,
the bell of the pigskin ball, tyreek Hill. Twelve months later,
he's hanging out down at number forty seven, from number one,
(08:09):
all the way down to number forty seven. Forty seven, yes,
forty seven. We don't have a jingle for that to
left down there like the dust from failed lottery tickets,
just down there at the bottom. And this is another
reason why I can't stand list now. I did a
rant about this on my podcast, the Fifth Hour podcast,
(08:30):
a couple of weeks back. Maybe it's been a couple months.
I don't know. It's just one thing after another. But
the gist of it, and this is my position on
this kind of thing, is the late great La Times columnist,
a guy I considered a friend, TJ. Simers, once taught
me lists are the ultimate, the ultimate brain fall go
(08:51):
their brain fag. They tap into the lizard part of
the human brain, and we're logic, logic. It goes on
a nice vacation, right that part of the brain. Lists
are nothing but opinions. They're nothing but opinions. They're dressed
up though, in a nice tuxedo. So you've got a
(09:11):
nice tuxedo pretending to be the gospel truth. And it
is like a bunch of people saying, well, here's what
I think, right, here's what I think, and pretending it's
science because you put some numbers near it and all that.
It's the illusion of authority. And my favorite thing is
(09:32):
when people take these lists and they take them seriously.
And it's a proven fact. I have talked to enough
people every days to work in the media. It's like,
this is a this is a little cheat code that
you're dumb and you will fall for this every time.
You will react to it. And that's why they do it,
and it's gold. It's the easiest thing to do. You
(09:52):
have to throw a couple of curveballs in the air, right,
a couple of curveballs unusual. You'll move somebody down who
should be higher, move someone higher who should be down.
So there's a lot of moving parts to it. There's
so many people that take this stuff seriously because the
lizard part of the brain. It's like, you know, stone
tablet from the mountaintop, and you know, it's like four
hundred or something football players that vote on this thing,
(10:14):
and they're like, you know, that guy's kind of good.
I guess we'll vote for him. I see him on
the highlights a lot. I see him on the click
you know, things I click on on Instagram or whatever,
So why not? And what what it does tell you
is perception. It tells you perception. Like right now, players
because of the highlights and the attention, perceive Sakuon Barkley
(10:35):
as the top player in the NFL. And that lasts
you know, how long does that last? We'll ask again.
We brought up the Cheetah Tyreek Hill lasts about as
long as one of those snapchat messages, you know, just
kind of self destruction all that, but one injury, one
bad stretch for Barkley and he's falling down, down, down, down,
(10:57):
down down down the mountaintop all the way down to
the bottom, like an old school Tom and Jerry cartoon.
Back in the day and you're yesterday's news. What have
you done for me lately? You peaked? You're done now
all that stuff. And that's that's the way this works.
That's the way this particular thing works. At one year,
you're the Ribbi steak. Everyone wants the Ribbi steak, butterfly
(11:18):
cut well done. That's the proper way to eat steak,
butterfly cut well done. And then the next year your spam.
You can spam, that's what you are. And so you
know that's fine. Good luck. State sponsored media can announce
this thing and that thing and all they want and congratulations.
So moving on from that, the the other part of
(11:42):
this as we move on, how about to Los Angeles
where Chargers running back Nase Harris, somebody we've talked about
a decent amount, considering he's not that good. Nase Harris
has been a toss up toss up to start the
NFL season. The backfield Charges open up in a few
days here. Suffered an eye injury playing with fireworks on
(12:05):
the fourth of July, little accident. Harris gave an update
Naji Harris saying that his vision was not affected by
the firework incident. He again called it a superficial injury. Now,
Harris also said that he's working towards being on the
field for the charge of the season opener against the Chiefs
in Brazil that'll be on Friday. On Friday, So what
(12:29):
is your read here's the question, what is your read
on running back Naji Harris doubling down, doubling down that
his eye injury was just superficial. Okay, So my position
on this, my read on this is a lot of sugar,
a lot of sugar coating. You know, you bake cookies
(12:52):
and you put them wrap them in the sugar there
and they taste really good. But it's a lot of sugarcoating.
This thing is not only got sugar, it's it's got
marshmallow fluff in it. It really does. So we're supposed
to believe Najee Harris missed pretty much all of Chargers
training camp other than walking laps around the field, right,
(13:14):
other than that, and we're supposed to believe that was
a superficial eye injury, that what he got great is
by a sparkler, and that's that's what happened. Was it
a rogue confetti cannon? That's some gender reveal gone wrong. No,
it was a fourth of July. The math ain't mathing
on this. It's just not It doesn't add up. You
(13:35):
don't miss almost all of training camp because of a
superficial eye injury. You don't have to have a medical
degree to know that's not the way it works. That's
not a not a hangnail, you know, it's not a
paper cut. It's it's not a grain of sand in
the eyeball. It's not that. That is a Roman candle
(13:56):
in the wind, Elfton John style, a Roman candle in
the wind and it blew up close enough to your
eye to cause you to miss almost all of training.
So don't be confused that this was some sweet Norman
Rockwell fourth of July apple pie mom lawn shares fireworks
(14:17):
type of event. This was Florida man meets fireworks caught
boom is what it was. And so you don't sideline
yourself for months months. This happened back in July. Here
we are now in September. Unless something went really wrong
right near your cornea, right near your cornea. There, so
(14:38):
Harris trying to shake off the firework injury like he
had a bad burrito from a food truck. And now
I do love the optimism. You know, Benny Brightside, this
is an optimistic person. He's very optimistic that's going to
work out there. And we'll just not pretend that he
hasn't been lifting weights and all that stuff, working out
(15:00):
with his teammates. He's I guess he should have been
better at dodging bottle rockets on the fourth of July,
But it was all superficial. If it was superficial, he
would not have been back in pads for a few days.
He would have been back in pads by day three.
But I digress. So we hope, we do hope that
Najie Harris gets out there and plays. We really do.
(15:20):
I'm not making that up. I'm not just saying, oh,
are you just saying that at the end. No, I
would like to see him play, right, just do not
insult our intelligence that it was a superficial thing. Now,
a buddy of mine's, well, he's got to say that
because the Chargers if he doesn't actually play, and this
is no guarantees is going to play this week, and
if somebody else usurps him as the top back for
(15:42):
the Chargers, and then the Chargers end up getting rid
of him. They're going to say it's with cause because
of the injury, and then he'll say, well, no, it's superficial.
So he's got to kind of say that. But it
definitely was not a speck of dust. We've all gotten
that in the eye, right, You're like, oh, man, I
gotta water wash my eye out and all this stuff.
It was a fourth of July. It's like a psa
waiting to happen, is what it is. All right. Now,
(16:03):
final point to Jersey. We go not the Jersey Show.
We go to northern New Jersey, just across the way
from Manhattan, and that is where coach Brian Dayball, the
formerly wrote Ton coach, refusing refusing to reveal whether or
not rookie Jackson Dart or veteran famous Jameis Winston will
(16:25):
serve as the giants backup quarterback the season opener on
Sunday against the team formerly known as the Redskins. So question,
what is your reaction? What is your reaction to Giants
coach Brian Daboles depth chart deception. We'll call it the
depth chart deception refusing the name his backup quarterback between
(16:48):
Jackson Dart and Jameis Winston. So in this one, it
is a raspberry, it is a Raspberry beret. It's the
Prince of paranoia. Brian day Ball the prince of paranoia
here going with the psychological warfare, Like, dude, your team
blows like what are you doing? Seriously? Like, can someone
(17:09):
let Brian Dable know that it's not amusing, it's rather
stupid what you're doing. It is. It's like, well, I mean,
we got to use deception here. I me know, Spider
out of art. You're not guarding the nuclear codes. I
don't believe it's a backup quarterback on a dog food
(17:31):
NFL team. Just say the name, say my name, right,
and and by the way, if the commanders know the
playbook of the Giants, it wouldn't change the outcome. Like
the Giants could telegraph all the plays. It doesn't matter
whether the commanders know the players that don't know the plays,
(17:51):
it doesn't really change the outcome of the game. So
stop that, right, Like do the Giants think do they
have this neurosis where they're like, well, if we tell
the I we tell Washington or backup quarterback, then they're
gonna know and they're gonna change their entire defensive scheme.
Give me a break, Okay, just stop now. Russell Wilson
is thirty six. He is brittle, right, He's like kind
(18:15):
of like a bread stick. He's like a breadstick from
olive garden. You can kind of rip him in half
there and all that, and little Marinera on the side,
and and you know, the Giants likely know that Russ is.
If you were to bet on quarterbacks likely to get
hurt in Week one of the NFL, which is something
(18:36):
I'm not against doing injury bingo. We have done injury
bingo in the past, you'd put Aaron Rodgers in the
one spot. Russell Wilson would be pretty close behind Matthew
Stafford I would have at number two, but you'd have
Russell Wilson somewhere in the mix there on the on
the again, not a list, but a big board of
who's likely to get hurt at the quarterback position early
(18:57):
in the season, and so you're gonna need a backup.
And Brian Dayball is acting like it's a state secret here,
and you just roll your eyes at this, like what's
going on? So this is either Brian Dayball, the coach
of the Giants, coddling the Jackson Dart fanboys. He played
so well against guys who are now going to be
(19:17):
joining our friend Tree working for ups. He played so well, right,
they don't want to hurt his feelings or their feelings,
the Jackson Dart fanboys. Or he's covering for Jamis who
might have thrown maybe three picks in some kind of
closed door team building exercise and now he's persona non
grata and all that stuff. But it's Brian day Ball
(19:39):
being Brian Dayball's he learned under Belichick, So it's hoodie cosplay.
You know, we didn't have the championships and all that,
and just just say who the backup is. And you're
not fooling anyone. It's not cute. It's rather dumb, like
if you're good, that's one thing, but you suck. So
if you suck, just say the names. Okay, I can
(20:00):
change the fact you suck. It's just dumb, all right.
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And I cannot live without it. We'll get to that
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(20:22):
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Speaker 3 (20:27):
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Speaker 1 (20:36):
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I'm here to give you something bad. You got Flex System,
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James would be the first of dial They can't get dating.
(21:52):
Sure to make a smile. Uh huh man.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
This is Lucky Tony Mike. I was gonna we're gonna
play this later in the show, but Lorena loves it
so much she wanted to play it early. On this song,
I felt like we should highlight it, but she felt differently. Yes,
thank you and moving up the charts. Ryan Seacrest is
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going to have this at number one on the Top
Top twenty. Well, it is the Ben Maler show. Bill
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it's all holiday music game and so Thanksgiving will be
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you in the court of sports radio. So let's get
back back to it all. Right, back to it we go,
and Milkman Mike, says Najee Harris, showing that his injury
(23:25):
was superficial and he's ready to play. And of course
he's then got a clip from a iconic horror movie
which appears to be his face. What else do we
have a page, Dan, let's see here. Shane in the
moy says, I know you don't do birthday shout outs,
but my older brother has a birthday today, he's forty nine.
Well that I can't do a birthday shout out because
(23:45):
I don't know your older brother's name, because you did not,
Shane in the Moines, give me your older brother's name,
Just Josh in Cincinnati, where at one point we dominated
the militia dominated in Cincinnati had just Josh very active
on the show. We had justin and Cincinnati was like
semi retired. Now just Josh as that Tyreek Hills stock
(24:08):
going over a cliff. We don't do this here, do
not late night drug testers hiss. NFL players should listen
to your PSAs. Remember I remember you saying every summer
holiday season Roman candles, they will blind you before you
see them. Yes, for years I was the king of PSAs,
(24:29):
although not so much anymore. Not so much anymore. We
don't do as many PSAs as we did back in
the day. Mister Irrigation, very very active on the social media,
very active. Timothy says bet be under NFL not for long.
Mister Irrigation also points out that he says, I don't
remember this. He says, years ago at number one on
(24:50):
the NFL's top one was Arion Foster, and then he
promptly shredded his ruin, which is unfortunate. Actually sat in
a immedia dining room prior to a Lakers game years
ago and Arion Foster was in the room and a
person came up to me that I did not know
(25:11):
and said, is that person over there, that gentleman is
hit Arion Foster, and I quickly turned to that person
and said, well, they're not wearing their uniform and their helmet.
I don't know, but it turned out it was it
was Arion Foster. There you go, little factoid for you,
a little bit of a factory fun fact. Andy and
(25:33):
Lionel Lake says, I thought that new song from Lucky
Tony was from the Monotone Mumbler the Mexican. John Dutton says,
grand theft Tony from the Bay Can Flow. He says,
ferg Dog ten out of ten on the song from
Lucky Tony. Give that man a benny right now? What
about a golden ticket? Well, if he calls up, we'll
(25:56):
give him a golden ticket. I really didn't think it
was that bad. I thought it was pretty good. I
was all right, he got on his phone just recording
something randomly. It's better than AI. That is, we don't
want a. We don't want AI. That was real the
Talent Show. That's a shocking position. We support human beings,
support human beings, we don't we Eventually that'll become taboo.
(26:17):
What are you having to stay? I what diday I
ever do to you? I said, we supported supposed to
support AI. You know, there'll be a group eventually. It's
like pro AI, right, but right now we're still allowed
to support human beings, so I support human beings. Terry
in England has also done a scent in a song.
Oh he did, so we can do a side by
(26:38):
side all right, Well we'll do that. We'll do that
a little bit later with the side by side thing,
for sure. Let's get to do you want me to
ruin it and play it early? No, No, you've already
You've already done enough damage. We're good on that. Let's
go to the phones and we'll say hello to any
meani money more. Andre is in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome,
good evening.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Wonderful to be with you. I am in the Commonwealth.
And I imagine mister Bill Belichick he might have some
nostalgia after what happened this evening. He might want to
return to the to the glory days and get on
back to the Commonwealth. I've been following and there have
been reports that people in North Carolina are investigating whether
(27:20):
or not mister Thomas Edward Patrick Brady has any more
eligibility remaining after a stint at Michigan. Right, because you
can play a little bit longer now with the nil
right and all the waivers, you know, you can play
like five six years. So that's been a trending narrative
long STI.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He should try to get Johnny Manziel to play for
him at this point, holy man, right.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Right, And you know we had some indications early on,
you know with Bill, you know, who is kind of
finding his inner millennial with some of the things that
are being posted on social media, right, you know, with him,
you know, putting people, putting the significant other up on
its feet, you know, and so she can be like,
you know, flying, you know, look like a scene from
(28:03):
Titanic there, you know. But you know, Bill, uh, there's
been concern, first of all for me because I thought
the mission was to usurp Don Shula and get that
NFL All time wins record. I thought that's what we
were locking into. And once the NFL teams didn't weren't
picking up what you were putting down, wouldn't give you
(28:24):
the complete control, so you couldn't get that NFL job.
And now you're veered, you know where nobody thought you were.
You said, Okay, I'm gonna go to college and I'm
gonna go to school that has no profile and because
you know they're looking, you know, just to get clicks
and name, you know, the don't bring me in. Doug Gone,
And I saw Michael Jordan, I saw Roy Williams, Randy
moss All in the press box. What to see the
(28:45):
tar Heels get the breaks beat off of them, not
even be competitive. Let you know, as much as I'm
holding out hope, Ben, I have to call it like
I see it. They only won four games the last
year he was here with the Patriots. It got progressively
worse after Tom Brady took his tame to Tampa Bay.
The ones like the last time Bill Belichick had like
a reasonable good season. That was the first year when
(29:07):
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the A.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Listen, they had seventy Who knows these? I was, I
buddy of mine. I heard, do you like in the
North Carolina game against TCUs. I'm not there's seventy new
players or whatever it is on North Carolina's impossible to know.
But if North Carolina should win their next two games,
they play at Charlotte, that football powerhouse Charlotte, and then
they play Richmond, so they should be sitting at two
(29:32):
and one after three games, and then then they play
some tougher competition and so we'll see how it goes.
But you know, it's like, yeah, it's bad right now.
It's as you know, Andre, it's never as bad at
the lowest. So people think this is the worst. It's
never that bad. You're always better than you know. They're
not forty eight to fourteen bad. They'll play better.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
As I say, it's in Buttsworth, candy and nuts. We
don't have a merry Christmas. And looking at the North
Carolina schedule, you're right, there's a lot of cup takes in.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
There, all right.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
But if if the Emperor has no clothes, that's what
I'm getting at here. Okay, we're you know, chapel Bill.
We're looking at him because his name is Bill Belichick
as if he was the former man. At all I'm
saying is step after step after step after step have
said this guy, you know has lost touch.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
No listen, I hear you. But he does want to
go back to the NFL. He does. He went to
North carol I figured if he puts a good team
on the field at North Carolina, he can go and
you spend a year or two there, and then you know,
mid seventy five if he goes back to the NFL
to try to win, good luck on that. At this point,
it's not looking so good on I think you have
(30:40):
a better chance Andre of coaching the Patriots than Belichick
does of coaching in the NFL in general.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Look, thank you so much. Being I we're gonna have
to sign some of the members of the Malon militia
up to come in there and help Bill. You know,
I just think he needs being all right, we'll get
some help. I'll sign Willis up to Willis is quiet,
He's going to be signed up as well.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
All right, Bell, I was doing okay in the bedroom,
though apparently I gotta go. Thank you, Andre. Let's go
to Jerome and Charleston bringing home Jerome, Hello, Jerome.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Bill Beltick's doing good in the bed. Hi, Nay, Hell?
Would you know that? Why you think that she gets
to cut seeing a seventy something the old guy take
off his clothes. Women don't get it time and they
say me and I'm sixty nine. By the way, my
birthday was on Saturday. Hey, guess what I found out?
Chris Salin. I have to say him birthday. How do
(31:29):
you like that? I'm a little bit older than he is, though,
but he's like twenty five.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Hey, Jerome, can you for the for the advertisers? Can
you say you're thirty nine? Can you just chop thirty
years off? You say you're thirty nine? Can you say
you're the demo?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I'm trying to tell your demographics? Ben Bday.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Can you just pretend drume at your heart you're thirty nine?
Good at your heart, d You're not sixty nine, you're
thirty nine. Jerome and Charleston, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Good at pretending. Ben. You can now look I got well,
David Jess, I gotta be me.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You gotta be me, you gotta be me. Loraina was
hoping for Sammy. Weren't you hoping, Loraina for Sammy Davis
Junior reference on the show? We got that. I was
waiting for that. It's good. I'm excited things.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Lorena is one of the most un serious people have
really she is. She comfantly drips sarcast I do.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Drip in sarcasm.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
That's not a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Lorena needs to get out more often.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Wow, No, she gets out a lot. My my girl, Lorena,
She's out there. She's she's enjoying Los Angeles for sure.
People might even say I need to sit down. You
might want to stay home a couple of nights there. More,
she's getting out, she's a she's in la socialite Lorena.
She gets invited to a lot of stuff. So they
definitely get kicked out a lot too. That's true.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, Belichick, you know what, I enjoyed every damn minute
of that because he has Oh he's coming to No.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
He's the same. You were so worked up. You know,
I don't know what happened there, my god. But but
ESPN's got some problems because they have I think three
more Belichick games. They have, I believe three more games.
Uh so good luck on that. That's hey.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Let me ask you something is Kirk Hurbstreet, he's all alonge.
Has he been a artist? He's just starting to become one.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
And we start starting to come one. I didn't a
con artist when they scored that first and then straight well,
but also remember Jerome the hot mic herb Street. He
denies it, but he was caught on Mike saying that
it sounded like he was saying North Carolina was really
(33:43):
bad into a hot mic and he said, Oh, I
didn't say that. Sounds like you said company man.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Just trying to be the good company.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Man he's making. He's what do you think Herbstreet makes
a couple of million a year? Does college? Does the NFL?
On Amazon? Many guy's loaded he's doing. You know, he
just has to speak in cliches and stuff. Gets to
bring his dog to him with him to the games.
I mean he's living a pretty good life, his dog
man because you know he's got a new dog though
(34:11):
that's the old dog. Ben was the old dog. But
he's got Peter, the new dog. That's one of the
bad things. But dogs don't live that long. That's one
of that. We love dog I'm a dog person. I
love dogs, but they don't live that long. That's unfortunate.
Like I have my I lost my dog Bella, who
had for years, and I got a new dog, Moxie.
But bulldogs don't live that long. So I'm on every
day I'm with Moxiem, Like I don't want to come
(34:32):
your end because they don't live that long.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
So you gotta be careful how you treat people, how
you treat animals. Just gotta be careful.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Do you treat animals better? Or do you treat people better?
Because I think really the same. You treat people a
little better. I treat people better. All right, that's the positive.
This is positive, Jerome, positive bringing home to him. You
had a birthday. You have a big cake, Jerome. Did
you celebrate you got did you go out to dinner?
(35:01):
Did you do anything? Nothing? Jerome? That's very sad, Jerome.
Why would you not celebrate?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Look, man, I'm a recluse. I can't help it.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
In Okay, attention advertisers, you can reach the sixty nine
year old recluse demographic here on the Ben Malers Show.
So right there, I know, I know. I love you though, Jerome,
we love you here. Bro, you're a great character. All right,
go away, I'm gonna hang up on you. I have
a live read. Go away. All right, It is the
Ben Mahler Show. And we press on. We get Mallard
(35:30):
of the third degree. Here's the Insta trivia. Hunter Green
has the second most strikeouts by a Reds pitcher in
their first four career seasons with the franchise, behind only Blank.
That's the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it
and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
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posted right after the end of the program. All right
back to it and real quick here, real quick. Hunter
Green has the second most strikeouts by a red spitcher
in their first four career seasons with the franchise, behind
only Blank. That is the question, what is the answer
alf the alien opiner going with Raleigh Eastwick. That's pretty
(36:44):
funny Bringing home Jerome from Malard prop Guy That looks
like I imagine Jerome would. Look, what else do we have?
Pinhead from Milkman Mike kat Williams, who's fifty four today
from Late Night Drug Tester h page down Justin and
Cincinnati from Big Great and I there's a good picture
of Justin and book his pal uh page down. That's
(37:05):
an Lorain and you have an answer right a placker. No,
it's the great noodles Han noodles Han back in eighteen
ninety nine. Noodles Han.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
Here we go, Here we go, here we go, Here
we got we got smell here we got that degree
next two days. This is one Big Ben gets cracked.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Good bo DJ Hawkinson was able to play ten games
last season after suffering a torn ACL and MCL the
year before, but he didn't make much of an impact
had zero touchdowns. Hawkinson said he's one of the best
route running tight ends in the league and this year
he'll make a clear impact.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
Are you up or down on high?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Well? I think we should point he places for the
Minnesota Vikings to play with the Lions for a long time.
He's been in Minnesota a little bit. It's important for
the Vikings. And here's why. When things get tough in
Minnesota and who knows what JJ McCarthy's gonna do. They
think he'll be good. But normally the safety blanket is
the tie. So in order for this to work in Minnesota.
They need him to be good. So I am optimistic.
(38:05):
I'm Benny Brightside. Hockinson will be okay next.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
Tom Brady said in an interview on Sunday that the
league has shifted towards emphasizing physical attributes in a quarterback
rather than mental ones.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Is he right? Absolutely? It is all about they call him.
I hate this term measurables at the combine. It's all
about the raw and greed. It's it's like it's same
thing in baseball. Like baseball, if you can pitch, they
don't want you. If you can throw ninety eight miles
an hour and can't pitch, they want you. In football,
they want the biggest, strongest, fastest. But if you're actually
mentally sharp and know how to play the game, you
(38:37):
don't throw it that well, eh, or you're not as
strong e.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Next poll of NFL coaches and executives put Joe Burrow
as the leading candidate to win MVP this season. Meanwhile,
Lamar Jackson still has the best odds in Vegas. Who
do you think has the better shot?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah? So I like Burrow. The Bengals sucked last year.
They weren't a playoff team, the Ravens, have been consistently good.
There's also voter fatigue for Lamar Jackson. Even though he
didn't win last year, he has won multiple MVP Awards,
so he would have to go above and beyond to
win another one. I like Burrow. I don't like the
fact that everyone else kind of likes Burrow too. That
(39:11):
bothers me. That means that's probably not gonna happen. But
I would pick Burrow over Lamar. How did we do?
It's mallet of the third degree. He passes. That is
a win. I won.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
I won the right up.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
That's a win. Put that on my storecard, right down.
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