Hour 2 - Orange Crush

Ben Maller talks about Sean Payton interviewing Matt Patricia for the Broncos defensive coordinator gig, the odds that Patricia moves back up the pecking order of coaches, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our num Bird two hour two
as bad News Travels Fast on the podcast. And what
do you make of Sean Peyton interviewing Matt Patricia for
the Broncos defensive coordinator job. You look at some of

(00:22):
these candidates the Broncos are talking to, It's like the
three Stoodents. How comes so many people freaking out over
Matt Patricia just having a chit chat with Denver? And
what are the odds that Matt Patricia moves back up
the pecking order of coaches? Will someone be hoodwinked by

(00:45):
Matt Patricia later on we'll talk about that and a
whole lot more. Right now, give it up for our
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Rocky Mountains. In our never ending pursuit of NFL content,
we go to the mile high meat and greet. That's

(01:53):
where the story takes us. Sean Payton on the prowl
for a defensive guy, former Fox Sports television analysts, now
slumming as coach of the Broncos. Everyone's excited in Denver,
the feedback I get from our listeners in the greater Denver,
all over Colorado, that region excited, giddy. Sean Payton's gonna

(02:16):
take them out of the darkness and in the night
salvation awaits the Broncos. Now, with that set, many people
right now scratching their heads at the news that is
bouncing around the pinball machine of sports talk involving the
Denver Broncos. If you've not heard here, perhaps not. We've

(02:38):
learned the Broncos, still trying to find a defensive coordinator,
have interviewed Patriot assistant Matt Patricia to take over as
the defensive coordinator in Colorado. Patricia, as you likely know,
was the Patriots senior football advisor and an offensive line coach.

(03:01):
Pot was the de facto offensive coordinator. He called the
plays for the Patriots in that morbid season of offense
futility with the New England Patriots. Now he is a
firebrand in NFL circles, polarizing name Matt Patricia. He doesn't
have the job in Denver. They are still interviewing candidates,

(03:22):
and there are some big names like Rex Ryan that
have been mentioned in addition to Matt Patricia. So let
us discuss the question what do you make of Sean
Payton interview Matt Patricia to be the defensive coordinator in Denver.
So I've got Hello, Kitty Pinata, and Cinderella, and we

(03:44):
will combine all of these random things together and we
are going to make Rocky Mountain Oisters, which I ate
a couple of years ago. I lost a bet on
the nuggets and they're disgusting, but it's the local delicacy.
So number one, Sean Payton, My initial thought is helping

(04:07):
out a friend. That's what this feels like, right. This
is a nepotism situation. All these veteran coaches or buddy buddy,
they all play grabass with each other and Bill Belichick
has a relationship with Sean Payton. They are are buddies
and it is you know, they're mutual friends because Peyton
worked with Parcels and Parcels and Belichick or bff's forever.

(04:30):
So this is a chance for Peyton to help Belichick
clean up a mess. There's a spill on Aisle five.
You might want to get Supermarket Steve over there with
a bucket to clean it up. Because Matt Patricia, who
is seen as a heathen in patriot Land right now,
he has been fingered as the reason why the New
England offense was stuck in the Great Molasses Flood last season.

(04:54):
So getting a chance stay with me on this, getting
a chance to interview for the Bronco defensive coordinator gig
is a big effin deal. Right for Patricia, this is
a fluffy Hello Kitty sticker right next to his name,
right Brownie points feather in the cap. Every want to
say it. And even if he doesn't get the job

(05:16):
and the odds are still against that, it is still
noteworthy that he's even having his name tossed into the mix. Now,
Patricia is going to be either be demoted if he
stays with the Patriots, or he may end up just
leaving and taking a jamp year like your favorite NBA player. Now,

(05:36):
page two, how comes so many people are losing their mind?
They're freaking out? And I say that obviously metaphorically over
Matt Patricia even talking with the Broncos, and so the
answers rather obviously we pointed out is public enemy number one.

(05:57):
He's a heathen and all that because he wasn't good
at coaching. The offense wasn't good. But Matt Patricia is
a popular pinyata. Think of it like a child's birthday party,
maybe your birthday party when you're a kid, and all
your friends, over all the neighborhood kids, kids from school,
and then you've got the pinata. You hang him on
the tree, and then you put the blindfold on and

(06:17):
you hand the Louisville slugger out and saw wing bada,
saw wing bada. And he's a rather large target. Matt Patricia.
He's earned it. I'm not here saying that he's the victim.
I'm not doing that at all. Matt Patricia is the
sloth in the room. He is one of the more
tenured members of the Bill Belichick coaching establishment, and he

(06:40):
worked for the Pages defensively. He was the defensive coordinator
from twenty twelve to twenty seventeen, and he did enough
that he was able to get a head coaching job.
Right we know he coached the Lions in twenty eighteen
and right around that point when he left the Patriots,

(07:01):
and I believe one of his last acts was wearing
the Roger Goodell barstool clown shirt, remember that the blue
shirt with the Goodell clown those on it. And then
he laughed and went to the Lions. And that's when
this turned from a happy story to a Greek tragedy.
Not having Bill Belichick around, Matt Patricia soiled his pants.

(07:22):
Patricia sucked at a time you cannot suck. He was
a miserable failure as head coach of the Lions. That
does not go quite into the depths of despair the
Lions were in. They won thirteen games and lost twenty nine.
They also had a tie in the Matt Patricia Reign

(07:43):
of terror, and the highlight of highlights included the scolding
of a reporter Patricia was upset with because the reporter
was slouching during a news confort I'm not kidding. Matt Patricia,
your post, your police and now he's went back to

(08:03):
the Patriots. We know how that went. Matt Jones spit
symbolic Lugie's right into face, right in the face of
Matt Patricia on a regular basis. All right, final point,
So what are the odds that Matt Patricia moves back
up the pecking order the Totem poll of coaches. So

(08:26):
I'm gonna set the Mallarus Sportsbook odds on this at
plus three ninety. Now that implies if you're not good
at math, that implies a twenty percent chance that's a
two hundred hitter in baseball. I'll tell you why everyone
loves a good redemption story, and I'm not sure if

(08:47):
you study the novels, there's only really seven storylines. You know,
all these people love stories. We learned human beings, we
all learned from stories, right, That's that's how most of
us learned. And people love stories. I love story. Stories
are great, but there's only really seven storyline plots that
are used in things like novels and movies. And one

(09:08):
of the most popular of those seven storylines that humans
used to tell stories is what's called the Cinderella plot.
It's rise, fall, and rise again, climbing out of misfortune.
Thinking would like bowling, Think of would like bowling? Pins? Right,

(09:30):
you set them up and you'll knock him down. And
at one point, I'm barely old enough to remember this,
and I'm not lying. At one point, Matt Patricia was
the drug of choice in NFL circles celebrated what a
unique story. He wasn't a football guy, he became one.
This guy was a rocket scientist, fat guy, genius. Matt Patricia.

(09:53):
Remember he had the hat backwards, that was cute. He
had the number two pencil behind his ear. Matty p Oh.
They loved him. TV showed him all the time. You
watched the Patriots back in those days, and the TV
guys would focus on Patricia. They were hyping him up
for a head coaching job. Had a solid track record
as a defensive coordinator. Mentioned he was with the Patriots

(10:14):
from twenty twelve to twenty seventeen, and in that time,
New England appeared in three Super Bowls. They won two
of them. And now you're like, well, wait a minute,
Patricia's forty eight years old. He's got another fifteen years
or so coaching if he wants based on his relationship

(10:35):
with Belichick, twenty percent actually a pretty good value bet
because Belichick is like the Dawn. He's the head of
the NFL coaching mafia. It's been around longer than anybody.
He's seen it all, he's done it all. He knows everybody.
And if you didn't think that was the case, if

(10:55):
you saw the text messages when Belichick, he's such a
big don he was texting. He thought he was texting
Brian Dable to congratulate him on getting the Giants job,
and he had so many head coaches and assistant coaches
in his phone. He texts Brian flores By a mistake
according to that lawsuit. But there is a dimension where

(11:17):
Matt Patricia goes to Denver. The Broncos turn things around,
they make the playoffs, the defense is great, and then
Patricia rides the afterglow of that and leap frogs back
into the conversation and become a head coach again in
the NFL. Because it's a redemption situation. Remember the Cinderella plot.

(11:40):
You rise up. He rose up with the Patriots, became
a head coach with the Lions. He fell down and
now he can rise back up. It is the Ben
mali Show. We're gonna try to rise back up right now.
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program that way. So a lot of chatter over the
last few months about the status of Ta Tongue Byla,
the Miami Dolphin quarterback who is a regular in the
injury tent as he's had all kinds of issues with
the concussion. But Tua has a plan. He's planning on

(12:28):
taking a class that he believes gonna help him end
the concussion problem that he has. What possible class could
to a tongue of by Loah take to get out
of concussion purgatory. We'll get to that and we'll take
your calls and we will do it next dust. Be

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a tongue of iloa. He's doing something to end the

(14:21):
concussions allegedly. Well, we'll talk about that coming up a
little bit. We began the hour with the rocket scientist
Matt Patricia, who's in deep conversations with Cooper Loops Broncos
late night drug tester rights and says the Broncos could
hire Einstein and still would not figure out a way
to stop Andy Reid's offense and break the fourteen game

(14:43):
losing streak. Fur Dog writes and says, what would constitute
a successful season for the Broncos next year? In your mind?
Bit a distant third behind the Chiefs and super Chargers.
Question Mark no Uh. Anthony in Anaheim rights and he says,

(15:07):
is Andre from a Commonwealth the worst teacher who has
ever called the show? No? He was so upset with Andre.
What did Andrea everdo to you? He's fine? I know why?
Why does everyone should be sleeping? And he's teach? That's fine.
He likes the show. Maybe he takes naps. I don't know,

(15:29):
it's fine. It was so jealous of Andre. What did
Andre everdoo? That's upsetting to anyone? So many other people
should be upset with it called the show other than Andre.
Shane from des Moines writs, and he says Robin Vegas
should have his own segment on the show. He says
Marcel's food picks annoying, his weather updates are are hot

(15:53):
hair and Robin Vegas is the way. Yeah, Robin Vegas
is upset with Eddie because Rob feels like Eddie is
kicking him out of the show, and he's he's offended.
He's upset with Eddie about that Texas Trucker rights and
he says, fantastic monologue. Many now make it better and
talk about what the people want, Hockey. We got that

(16:15):
covered in our number four. We got that covered in
our number four. Nothing to worry about Maverick rights. And
he says, I love the monologue as usual. Matt Patricia
sucks and shouldn't show. Should go build rockets with Elon Musk.
Maybe those those two will blast off and go away. Wow,

(16:38):
I'm not a fan of Elon Musk either. As he
starts charging for Twitter, all let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to sir scratch Off, who's hanging
out in Arkansas. The highways and byways of Arkansas a
fan favorite, as it called for a few days. So
here he is, Sir scratch Off with a nice opportunity. Hello.

(17:05):
He's paying no attention? All right, what's going on? What
were you. What were you waiting for. I can't get
my dad gum phone off the intercom, and I know
you don't like it. I don't like it either, But
I'll go back to you if you want. I'll go
back to you if you are now, I'm afraid you
won't pick me back up. Man. I've been trying to

(17:25):
get in for a couple of days, but I think
gold cooping on the Cracker. Coop knows I think about
old Coop. But I tell you one thing right now.
You got a feller out here on your line out there, Man,
he's been trying to get it for a long time,
and I hope I don't get that title this year
because if I do, I'm gonna give them tickets away

(17:47):
and I'm gonna give one of them to him. Shame
the Morne can't get in, he said. I think the
time we let him through, man, I like here what
he got to say. But anyway, I want to give
hold on, hold on, hold on, sir scratch. If I
know you're an influencer now on social media and you're
like a TikTok star and all that, but you do
understand we don't block anyone from calling the show. We

(18:09):
give out the number and it's first come, first serve.
We usually have to be on a hold of while
you know how it works. Come on, what are we
doing here? I know, but you've been done. Okay. I'm
glad you cancer. No one ever asked me how I'm doing,
Sir scratch Off. I'm glad you're Yeah. I like picking
on you being but I thought a lot of you.
I enjoyed your show for a long time. I blocked

(18:30):
an old boy here a while back, and I had
to bring you back because I like him, you know,
just selling me. I want to say who he is,
because you know, I want embarrassing. He probably don't get embarrassed,
but I like you. But you don't want to tell
you something He got screwed over here a few days
to go on a game show. All right, all right,
come down, I listen to you. Know what I love
about you, s scratch Off that when you call up now,
we're just getting updated on who you talk to on

(18:51):
social media. That's what I love. I mean, just in
case you listening while you're working in a factory, we're
wondering who Sir ash Off is talking to on social media.
You now have the answer because he says everyone's name
when he calls up. It's amazing day, man. I like
my guys. Man, they've been good to me. I got
one old boy on here. I'm gonna taste something. It's

(19:12):
one of your big callers. It's more, she said one
time on Twitter I first picked up. I mean, I've
got over five hundred something following. But Joe Boy, a
third dog, said hey, man, you think you've never called
old Big Ben knucklehead in public? And faith to faith.
I'm like, man, I ain't got nothing to be shamed up.
I like gold Ben. I think God Ben if he
didn't understand if I want to call him a knucklehead
in public, and I won't come out and see you

(19:33):
one these days because I want to meet I want
to meet bird Old. I want to get one of
him bombs and blow him boy off, you know what
I mean. But anyway, I think, oh, there you go.
Time is up. The call has ended. Have we ever
had three calls in a row from three callers that
are in the running from worst collar of the year
because he just did it? Are you saying Anie that

(19:57):
we should or not Eddie Cooper? Are you saying I
heard Eddie laugh. Are you saying, Coop that we should
stop the stop the calls and just talk because I
can do that if you want what I'm saying. It's
just it's just let's just say. It's like poker. We
don't have a winning hand right now. Like you know,
sometimes you gotta the cards go your way and sometimes
they don't. And and right now it's not really going

(20:19):
our way. But it's gonna get a lot better. I
really sense. I'm looking at my board here. If boy
it's gonna get good, man isn't gonna get when you
see some of the names on this board, Holy crap,
presto abracadabra. Right, this is gonna be amazing. We're gonna
run the table, is what we're gonna do. Yeah, no, no,
I'm not kidding. You think I'm kidding. I'm determined. We're
gonna make this work. We are gonna make this work,

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and if we don't, it's Eddie's fault. It is absolutely
his fault. Now, this next story is rather bizarre. Shall
we say, from the world of football to a tongue
of Iloa, how many monologues have we done over the
last year about toa having a concussion, this, that, and
the other thing. Well Toa has revealed that he is
taking baby steps to protect himself from future concussions. During

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a recent appearance on a YouTube show telling about Looa
said that he's got a plant. He's gonna take a
class this offseason to better understand his body and how
to fall how to avoid concussions. He's taking a judo class.

(21:30):
A judo class, Yeah, that's what he said. He said
that he's taking a judo class and that'll teach him
how to better understand his body and how to fall down.
And who knew. I didn't know that you could avoid
concussions if you take judo. That actually has a better
chance of working than Russell Wilson. Remember Russell Wilson, the

(21:53):
con man. When he was in Seattle and mister Unlimited
was selling nano bubbles. If you don't know what nano
bubbles are, you just google it. But it was recovery
water that he was convinced would prevent concusion. Google just
google it. Yeah, so judo. I did some mixed martial

(22:17):
arts when I was a kid. I was a white belt.
I was I earned my white belt. That was great.
They gave me. The costs was the belt. You start out,
it's a white belt. They give me that white belt
and even get the stripe. Uh, you get like a
I think you'ren a. You get to a yellow belt, Well,
like you, I think it starts. You get a three stripe, right,

(22:39):
three stripes, and then you get the next Yeah, did
you do mixed martial arts? Also? I just did regular
like karate when I was a kid. Yeah, I got
to orange belt. Oh congratulations, Yeah, yeah I did for
a while. I think parents do it just to get
rid of their kids for a couple of hours. Oh yeah, absolutely, Yeah,
they think they're going to become a karate champion or

(23:00):
judo champion or whatever. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific. Polly Fusco here with Tony Fusco. Yo.
As you all know, we're the host of the number
one rated show in all the sports talk, The Folly
and Tony Fusco Show numero Oh no, yeah, and we
know why millions of people tune in every week. Yeah,

(23:20):
they want to hear us talk sports, not our idiot
guests who think they know more about sports than we
go listen to these dummies you don't know crap about.
This is the worst thing. He's still the shop you
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(23:43):
or wherever you get your podcasts. And this from the
NBA former two time league going to be Steph Curry
gonna be reevaluated weighted in one week as he continues
to make improvements from a leggagary that's kept him out
of Gold States lineup since early February. And the supposed
they're gonna start back up on Thursday. We'll see Thursday night. Yeah,

(24:05):
not really. How many star players will sit out with
load management that's always been creating. You've just had ten
days off, all right, let's go back load management. Speaking
of load management, there's a baseball player that should be
a basketball player named Jacob deGrom and he's now with

(24:28):
the Texas Rangers, longtime New York met and he is
getting a lot of pushback from what was supposed to
be a cute little thing the Rangers did in spring training,
and it kind of backfired in a way. So let
me say this up. The gram signed a big money
contract with the Rangers. He's already hurt, he's missed the
beginning of workouts for the Rangers and all that. But

(24:50):
the Rangers did one of these these promotions that a
lot of teams do that is a grade school style
thing where they they ask you a bunch of questions.
Is that real? Does somebody that I follow on Instagram
messed with it? And yeah, so you saw you know
what I'm talking about. So the Rangers did. It's like
a chalkboard, right, Roberto, and they have all these grade

(25:12):
school style questions. Yeah, they try to learn about your personality,
like your favorite food, right, uh, your your childhood hero,
that kind of stuff. So this gets a little a
little crazy. Sou He's sitting at the photo. He's yeah, yeah,

(25:34):
I guess his favorite food is a burger. Okay, that's fine.
His favorite color is blue, okay, um? His uh, I
love blank. He put my family, nothing wrong with that,
he said, my friends or my teammates, Well, that's kind
of lazy. And then the one that blew everyone away
was the childhood hero. Do you see what he put there? Roberto,

(25:56):
He said, his childhood hero he had what do you
think his mom? Maybe his dad? What do you think, like,
I don't know, maybe some presidents. I don't know who.
He said none. He said he had no child, no
childhood hero. He had none. How is it possible? How

(26:16):
I know his adults were kind of like angry curmudgeons
when we get older. But like, as a kid, through
the eyes of a child, how do you not have
a some kind of person that you look up to
his hero? So early, ask question, who is your hero?
Who is your hero as a kid? Little Benny, Oh, when, Well,
when I was a little at one point it was

(26:37):
Fred flint Stone, it was but no, I like, yeah, exactly,
I was a very little but yeah, I mean I
had different athletes that I loved when I was a
kid growing up, but not none more. He said none,
because like I'm trying to think, and I don't know that,

(26:58):
Like I had people that I thought were like really cool,
but I didn't necessarily, like I don't know, want to
be them. Because how you defending this coup. Look, I'm
just I'm just saying, like I was, I was a
realist as a kid, Like I like Kobe Bryant. I
thought Kobe was awesome. I had Kobe posters all of
my wall. But I was like, I'm not going to

(27:18):
be a professional basketball player. I know that. Like, so
I don't does that count as a hero? I go,
I don''t know. What's your dad? You were looking up,
You're looking up to him, and you're like, this is
someone I like a lot. All right, all right, yeah,
all right. No, to me, this looks like he's just
lazy to grow um and he didn't really want to
do it, and it's a pain in the ass, and
so he just gave the most generic answers he could

(27:39):
possibly give, like, I love my family, my friends are
my teammates. You know that. That guys, I have no hero.
It was like that, I'll see the one I'm looking at.
It is photoshop. No, no, this is the one, the
one I'm looking at. What were the answers on yours?
My friend? My friends are medical staff injured. I love

(28:02):
getting paid to sit. Yeah, that is very photoshoppable because
he's holding up Yeah. Remember when President Trump he signed
something in the White House and he held it up
and uh, and then that became a thing where just
people filled it in on photoshop and that became a deal.

(28:23):
But yeah, and people are just having a field day
with that, saying he's got the graum's got serial killer
energy and things like that. They're just goofing on him
big time. Speaking of anger. We mentioned this story in
a previous episode of the show, and it's now the
rubber has met the road. The people are upset, the
natives are restless. In Baltimore, we told you the other

(28:45):
day the man running the Orioles, the CEO of the Orioles,
has said that his number one priority for the franchise
is to get better concerts at Camden Yards, not to
actually improve the babook it's so good, he said, what

(29:07):
kind of dumb ass would do that? I mean, I
know you're worried about the money and all that, but man, anyway,
so he's getting killed. Now. The Baltimore oriole fans, all
seven of them, are very upset that the person running
the team is more worried about getting jay z and
and who knows who else in there to do a concert.

(29:27):
It's quite quite amusing, quite amusing. All right, it is
the Bannet Maller Show. Do I take another call? Or
do we just get to the third degree coming up
in a little bit. What do you think you make
the call Eddie? Right now, we've had a run of
call call all right, Eddie's demanding a call. Eddie picked
door number one, door number two or door number three,

(29:48):
number three, number three. Well, congratulations, you have picked Dylan
in North Carolina. Hello, Dylan, welcome? What's up? Man? How
you don Dylan? If I was any better, I'd be
a man, but not a merman because that's Eddie snake man.
Y'all putting a lot of pressure on me with this call.

(30:11):
Let's do it. Well, they're really they're reading my call.
I really want to take the mallar Oath. I know
it's not the most exciting thing, but I did want
to take the oath. Well, it could be very exciting.
We've gotten some tremendous drops out of the Mallar oath
over the years. People have tried to do it and
it's it turns into a hot mess. Now, what brings
you to the show here? Explain to the person in Sheboygan,

(30:31):
what brings you to the show here? Dylan? At this
on the Holy Hour, I played I played um a
game show with you one time, Steve black Steed. The
second is the reason co worker, right, yeah, yeah, I'm
a coworker. Yeah, I got you, I got you all right?
Is he at work tonight? We're not at work right now.

(30:53):
I'm actually up early, just gotten a shower. We go
to work at like four. Okay, I got you. All right. Well,
i'd be happy Dylan to give the oath. You sound
somewhat sober, so I think this should be smooth. We
won't have any problems about halfway Okay, halfway sober. That's
on our show. That's all the way sober. So that's all.
You're halfway. You're all the way sober in the show.
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that gonna get you soon. Yeah, people have said that

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Blank is the only quarterback in football history that has
been benched by the NFL, the CFL, the XFL, and

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the USFL. That's the question. What's the answer, mister? Nice
Guys Going with the nineteen seventy nine NL All Stars,
Pittsburgh Pirates manager Billy Meyer. Guess by Shane and Des Moines,
Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield and Dana got it right.
Bad job by you Booby Miles. Guests by ferg Dog

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Bobby Bonilla, who is sixty years old today. Wow, Bobby
Bunnie is sixty years old? What the hell happened there?
From the Late Night Drug tester Luke Defending Guys. Going
with Tom Omanski and his great defensive Skills video Nathan Miller.
Guess by Big Greg in Iowa. Page down, page down,

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We've got heinz Ward guest by Shane Matt the Warrior
Rador Rays Fans going with Josh Johnson as his answer
double Mexican, says Steve Walsh. Elvis Gerbach from Rob in Minnesota,
Gus Farrott from Fields of Green, our Buddy Alf the legend,
the alien Opiner going with Gilligan. There's a dated reference.

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What else we have the late great David Gascon guests
by Justin in Cincinnati. I think he's moved Boise now.
I think Gascons moved to Boise. He was doing some
college football game there, college basketball game last night. Eddie.
Do you have an answer, Eddie, please? I need an answer. Yeah.
I was going with Josh Johnson as well, the forty
nine ers quarterback. Unfortunately, Eddie, that is not correct. The

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correct answer. The only only quarterback back in football history
who have been benched in the NFL, CFL, XFL and
USFL Paxton Lynch, the Great Paxton Lanchetti, former Bronco and
Steeler Adam I believe Memphis. If I'm not mistaken, ye
had that work out. How about to the third degree?

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This is one big band gets grilled. Coop dow Loup,
a reporter from the Athletics, said this week that there's
a seventy percent chance that James Harden is back on
the Rockets next season, Ben, he stole it. He's stole
them my bit coop on when you go with the percentage,
I liked it, Yes, well, Ben, could you see that

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actually happening? Oh? Of course. Yeah. James Harden, he's bounced
all over the place since he left Houston, and he's
a falling star at this point. He's not the level
of player he was when he was with the Rockets,
and that's his happy place. He can go back there.
He probably thinks he can get his mojo back at
least in his and Houston basketball is completely irrelevant right now.

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They have a roster of hand me downs, a group
of non achievers mixed with underachievers, a bunch of first
round picks who haven't blossomed at this point. It's absolute rubbish.
So yeah, if you're Harden, you go back there. He's
already had his jersey retired at the at the Ballet
and Houston, so why not next stephen A. Smith claimed

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on Monday that Lebron James, by refusing to participate, is
personally responsible for the decline of the slam dunk contest
over the past couple of decades. Ben, does he have
a point? Now? I love goofing on Lebron. I know
Stephen as our old morning guy here at Fox, but
I love goofing on Lebron. But I'm not gonna put
this on Lebron James. There's no question he took the
cowardly approach to the dunk contest, and I understand you.

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Lebron should be ripped for that. But in all reality,
the main reason the headline stars in the NBA avoid
the Dunk Contest like the bubonic plague, is because they're
afraid of the challenge. They want nothing to do. They've
already become stars, and they're worried that they will be
taken down a couple of notches if they don't win
the Slam Dunk Contest. Next. Now, speaking of Lebron, there's

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a teenage player that is starting to get the same
kind of hype that he had, Victor wembn Yama is
now reportedly seven foot five Ben. Yeah, are you all
in on when bun Yama? When Ben Yamamania who I watched.
He's got a cool nickname. You know what his nickname is? Oh,
don't the Parisian Prodigy. No, he looks good and the

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way I look at this guy who he's too big
to fail. There's too many people, the NBA shoe companies,
they need this guy to be great and with all
the rules, he'll be fine. He'll be a star. How
do we do he pass this edition? That? How about Harden?
And when Bayama in Houston together