January 9, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about the AFC Playoff Picture including the Dolphins getting the last spot, the current direction of the Patriots franchise after failing to make it in, the Steelers falling short, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bird two hour two
of our radio program, and we take a look at
the AFC playoff picture. The Miami Dolphins got the last spot.
We'll talk about the losers first. The New England Patriots
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had a win in your in play in game against
Buffalo and they've lost. Are the Patriots heading up or
down overall with the roster? Should Steeler fans who also
missed the playoffs be encouraged or discouraged after a nine
and eight regular season? And are the Dolphins a danger
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in the playoffs to the opposition the Buffalo Bills. Will
take a look at that and more. Right now here
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our leader Hour coming from the American Football Conference. The
final playoff spot on the line, hanging in the balance,
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the drama of athletic competition. The Patriots winning, You're in, Dolphins,
Patriots lose, You're in if you win the Steelers they
needed both the Patriots and Dolphins to lose, all of
them jockey for playoff position. Did you watch the events unfold?
Were you engaged? Maybe not? Maybe you were nine. So
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the Dolphins, their kicker got named Jason Sanders, who he
squeezed a fifty yard field goal just inside the left
upright with eighteen seconds remaining to clinch a win over
the Jets and secure the final playoff spot. That is
because the Patriots lost to the Bills and the Steelers,
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who did win their game, but it didn't matter because
the Steelers needed both the Patriots and Dolphins to lose.
Now we should point out the Jets there was a
fumble at the end of that game. They were playing
the pass it back the Stanford band play the Stanford
Cow game, and they ended up fumbling it in the
end zone. It was a safety. So that was why
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it was a five point margin in that Dolphin game.
But the Bills beating the Patriots, Dolphins winning, and so
my ammy is there. We'll get to the Dolphins in
a second. The better story though, in the losing locker room,
and so that would be the teams that fail to
make the playoffs, the Patriots and the Steelers. And let's
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get into it. The question here as we discuss, are
the Patriots heading up or down at this particular point.
So I've got serviceable artisan and if that was not
enough for you, we will toss into the salad bowl here.
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We will toss the head down is what we will
toss into the salad bowl. So to begin here, number one,
that's how you do it. The Patriots trading water in
the mediocrity meadows here at this particular point. Now, they
are a middling team. They're not terrible. They haven't fallen
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all the way down, down, down, down, down down the
Hallway of mirrors, haven't done that. But they're not a
good team. And they can beat mostly bad teams. If
you give them the cupcake schedule, they'll do. Okay, they
went seven and two this year against non playoff teams.
Should have been eight and one them that Raider game,
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that horrific ending there against playoff teams. If my math
is correct, the Patriots went one in seven against teams
that qualified for the playoffs. So hang around with better opponents.
And they were in a number of those games. They lost.
They did get blown out in a couple of them,
but for the most part they were in the games.
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They'll tease you, but rarely please you. The roster is
lop sided. That is problematic. It's a symmetrical off balance
however you want to say it. The defense is good
enough to make the postseason, but their issues. There's internal issues.
Bill Belichick, before the most important game to play in
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winning your in playing game for the Patriots, suspended Jack
Jones and Jake Bailey and when asked about it, he
didn't have much to say on that topic. And so
without getting assistance from the offense and special teams, and
that's that's the big bugaboo there. You can expect some
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changes now Belichick has been slow to make wholesale changes.
Will that be forced upon him. We know Belichick is
immensely loyal, He loves his buddies, his good foot soldiers.
That's why Matt Patricia the rocket Scientist and Joe Judge
are back. And he also prides himself though on special teams.
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It was the secret ingredient for so many of those
Patriot teams as those hidden yards on special teams were
limiting the opposition how many yards they get on kick
returns and gaining extra yards, and the Patriots did not
accomplish much of that this year. It was it was
a case where they were in the negative, a net
negative than most categories and special teams, and so that
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becomes a pit of curiosities for the Patriots heading in
to the offseason. Right and now is mac Jones. Let's
go to mac Jones? Is mac Jones demand going forward
for the Patriots. So mac Jones is a serviceable quarterback,
which which is an offensive term. He didn't get any
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better this year based on his body of work Jones.
Here's what I've seen my scouting report on mac Jones.
He's a temperamental quarterback who doesn't have pinpoint accuracy and
the biggest sin of them all for mac Jones. And
there's no way around this. There's no polishing of turns.
When it comes to mac Jones, he simply fails to
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elevate the play of those around him. He doesn't make
players better, And you can tell by the reaction of
the marching and Chowder society of Patriots. They know they're like, oh,
we've got to get better playmakers rather than uplift the
players you have on the roster and make them better.
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It's like, well, these guys, there's no hope because we
don't have a quarterback. So you're pretty much admitting when
you're saying we've got to get so much better the
wide receiver position in this position, that you're admitting that
Mac Jones ain't the guy, right, instead of holding him
accountable and raise all the boats right, and rising tide
raises all the boats. Instead of making everyone around him better,
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it's like, Wow, this guy's a second rate quarterback, and
so we need to get all pro talent around him. Hello,
pretty much anybody who's halfway decent as a pro quarterback.
If you get them elite players, you're going to be okay.
But there are limits to that. Right that you look
at some of the teams that have been able to
win a bunch of regular season games and then they're
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often exposed in the postseason. All right, page two. Should
the Steelers fans let's go over to Pittsburgh. They don't
make the plays. Should the Steeler fans be encouraged or discouraged?
As they failed to make the playoffs a nine and
eight seasons? So the arrow on Pittsburgh is pointing towards invigorated.
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That's where the arrow is pointing. Here. Things are looking up, up, up,
up up, not quite a way. As Mike Thomlins team
was absolutely miserable to start to remember that game of charades.
They were trying to pass Mitch Traubisky, that dog with
fleas as their quarterback. And as the average sports radio
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caller predicted, he's not the guy. He's not that guy.
He's not the guy. Pal, He's not the guy. And
he wasn't the guy. And the Steelers got off to
a two and six start to begin the season, heading
him up bye week. They didn't throw in the spunge,
and while the playoffs was not the prize, it was
not the carrot. At the end of the steak. Pittsburgh
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went seven and two down the stretch. Now, granted, they
played a lot of tomato Cans, but they end up
with a winning record for Mike Tomlin and showing perseverance,
and that's a badge of honor, not giving up, not
throwing in like the Indianapolis Colts and other gutless teams
in the NFL. And that's a good thing. And again
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they got the help. They played the Artisan Bakery Boys
down the stretch. But you still have to show up
and play and win those games. And so when you
do inventory things are looking up. Kenny Pickett, he had
to back to back game winning drives against the Raiders
and Ravens. His problem though, for the first seventy five
percent of some of these games, he's been just kind
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of In last eight games, Pikett stayed out of the way.
He had five touchdowns, which ain't great, but only one
interception one fumble which was recovered by Pittsburgh. Over the
last eight games of the season. He did not get
in the way. Just don't get into Mitch Drubisky gets
in the way, and then you start out like that.
You don't get in the way and eventually start making
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plays and you're looking around the locker room. T J.
Watt back to playing at the same level he was
last year, he missed a chunk of time with injury,
but he played very well for a stretch and at
the end of the year Nagi Harris got better, did
not get off to we could start, George Pickens showing
some glimpses of being a top notch wide receiver. D
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final points so that Dolphins, they're the ones that make
the playoffs. Miami has a football team and they're in
the postseason, and the Dolphins will play on Sunday. Sunday. Sunday,
Dolphins open up on the road wild Card weekend on
the fifteenth of January. They'll play the Buffalo Bills. Bills
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opened an eleven point favorite. Temperatures in Buffalo Orchard Park,
New York in the mid twenties, but no snow, and
in the early forecast it is Buffalo, so there could
be seventeen inches of snow by the time we get
to Sunday. But at this point no snow. So are
the Dolphins a dangerous team? Should the Buffalo Bills be concerned? Er? No,
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shaking my head. No on this the same we've all heard.
The fish stinks from the head down. Miami, Miami, Miami,
Miami rotting at the quarterback position in front of our
eyes to a tongue of my lola in the concussion protocol.
Unlikely to play this game. I heard Arnie Spanier, my
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friend Arnie Spanier, was trying to upsell that too was
going to play in this game. I'll believe it when
I see it. And even if he plays, is he
gonna make it through the entire game? Will he get
knocked bonkers midway through the game and then he'll be
out of the game. He's not someone you can depend on.
And then who's next? Teddy Bridgewater's got a bad knee
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and a finger And if he's able to play, will
he be able to make it through the game, Which
means Skyler Thompson We'll be trampled upon where the Buffalo rome.
He is el Stinko and the Dolphins offense with that guy,
Skyler Thompson produced seventeen first downs, even that seems like
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it's it's higher than it should have been, converted thirty
percent thirty one percent on third down, and then offense
with Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill averaged less than five
yards per pass. That is an indictment of Skyler Thompson
and barely able to get past Joe Flacco who had
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nothing in the Jets, who had eleven first downs and
one hundred and eighty seven yards of offense. So the Bills,
they merely show up on time and they will collect
a win over the Miami Dolphins. And we'll see about
the points spread. We'll look more at that as we
go through the week, but it's as close to an
extra buy as you can get in the AFC. Miami
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lacking the wild factor that they had earlier this year,
the Dolphins ended up sputtering across the finish line. They
went one in five, they had five losses in run.
Then they win the last game, which is a game
that was really given to them by the Jets, but
yet they had to scratch and claw to win that game.
All right, It is the Bayne Maller Show. If you'd
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lines are open at eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three six nine.
And again Bill Belichick. I did see his news conference
after he said he did not have much to say
at all about the suspension. Belichick's done this before. The
most famous in the Super Bowl against the Eagles when
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he suspended his star defensive back and people are like, WHOA,
what was that about it? He didn't. He never really revealed.
Even to this day, there's been no real revelation to
exactly what happened. But Belichick was asked why Jake Bailey
and also as the aforementioned Jack Jones were suspended. He
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did say, it must be a good story, though it'll
get out at some point something something they did something,
They must have done something, and the special teams el
garbajo in that one. All right, it is the Ben Mathers.
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Robin Vegas says Mac Jones may not elevate the players
around him, but the fatass calling the plays doesn't have
a clue what he's doing. He's a defensive coordinator, for
Christ's sakes. I'll stop with dad. Brother. Listen, here's the deal. Okay,
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there used to be a time. I don't know how
old you are, Rob, I don't think you're that much
younger than I am. But there was a time where
you just called football coaches football coaches, and they coach offense, defense,
the whole thing. It's an amazing concept. But now you,
of course get you You're just a defensive quarter, an
offensive quarter. Bill Belichick has done a little bit everything
over the course of his career. So let's put a
sock in that one. Let's go to the phones though.
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Right now we'll say hello to Noah, who's in Austin.
Noah promised on social media, says I am going to
be a caller in twenty twenty three. So here is Noah.
Hello Noah, Welcome Ben Mallor, the Nocturnal Colonel and master
of Disaster. How are you? And the don't forget the filibuster?
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All about that filibuster? Yes sir, yes sir. So here's
what I'm calling on. First of all, I wanted to
say a big thank you to you Eddie for Virtuo
and the Coop because you guys, your podcast, your show
everything is amazing. You helped me get through my work
day and it is scifusly one of the best shows. Amazing.
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Look at that. We gotta put that in a promo.
Amazing What did it endorse me? No, no promo? Thank you. Also, also,
real quick, when I asked my very first question on
the mailbag, shout out to the mail bag in Danny
g as well, Um, you gave me advice on starting
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a podcast, and you are my motivation to start a podcast.
Well there's one thing. There's a shortage of podcast as
you know, there's not enough podcasts out there. So no, no,
you should do it. No, you should give it a
shot and build it up right. You can create some match.
You can your own more Connie, put your own mark
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on it. Yes, there, for sure, I will find my
niche and try to be as good as you. No,
well he should be better than me. Man, you're gonna
be making the big bus. You should. You should aspire
for cha ching, cha ching, cha ching is what you
should inspire. Gotta make those malat bucks. Oh yeah, you
want to make the malat box. Let me tell you
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something that's the dream right there. You got a nice
ice machine and everything else that you got to like that.
There you go, Okay, you can get an ice machine. Absolutely,
all right, thank you, all right, buddy, thank you. No, no, guy,
I'll be doing a podcast before you know we taken off.
Let's say hello to Jed who Fled, who's somewhere running
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from law enforcement in the Sunshine State. Hello, Jed who fled?
I believe in capital D G O D got above.
He's gonna send a rainbow next time the sun comes
up from God in heaven. Please don't ever let that Noah.
Don't let that Noah call again, or the artists neces day.
If I need to die, I need to die, isolate
him away from the phone. Yeah, dude, I appreciate that hit. Jesus.
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They're very sting now. The transport portal man transport portal,
I imagine, like I don't know where imagine before. State's
getting better. I know that I didn't know. I didn't
think of a joke there quickly enough. But they're getting better.
Florida gators are getting worse. The hurricanes. That that that
that rim shot is the future floor stake, you know,
Oh my god, that was a that was a Why
don't we start we say the right thing. Why don't
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we start to call over? I feel like the call's
not going well? Here, a little rusty. You didn't call
at the end of last week. Off your game? Here,
you need Chell help my phone? Callee sucking and I
can't get up. I need call art, call of art.
Well it is. It's intravenous hard narcotics for extended periods
of time. Your car. If your engine running hot, you
pull over. I can't keep driving. But if I'm running hot, dude,
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I'm gonna keep going and I'm gonna keep running hot.
I don't need cooling. I put seas like seawater and
car as all, it does not gonna run well. So
if you put you know, mister Krest into your veins
as the as your blood flow, it's you know, it's
it's a it's a one lane highway, not in an
interstate with six lanes, you know, like Atlanta Highway to five.
And you know, mister Krest taking over? Dude? What am
I talking about? Dude? Do you know? And A right,
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how are you gonna know? How? You gonna have no idea?
I haven't have no idea. You're rambling, ben, No, you
you're addressing. You used to be the open mind is
coolest overnight host ever and you might as well. Where
are your where's your waistline? Right now? About six inches
above your waist, guaranteed stocks up to your knees, yacked
up your knees and wearing the very high socks. That's correct. Yes,
(20:36):
I'm wearing high socks and then everything I wear is
pretty much high. You're hiding stuff in your socks. That's
why you're wearing high socks. No, it's called stealing ben
when you take it without permission, you know what I mean? Uh,
I guess that's it's not right exactly. You know, what's
the last thing. What's the last thing you stalled yet? Hmm,
your wife's heart. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Um,
(20:57):
George the defensive. I like to be the easy I
could be the distractor because when you go into Walmart,
they the military to first to walmart'fecial recognition technology, So
you don't want to be there where I'm like on
our three like I say, oh my god, I'm doing
circles on the tower and just spinning crazily and my
buddies walking out the fun door with the TV. But
I don't think the risks even though my license play
is on Cambridge in the parking lot. That yeah, all right,
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I gotta think that. Thank you. All right, here we
have a little bit of everything in the malamlesh. We
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You know somewhere in the middle. It's a village. It
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So here is your Here is your schedule for the
opening round of the playoffs. It starts on Saturday with
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two games for thirty eastern on Fox. You've got the
forty nine Ers hosts in the Seahawks, and then at
eight fifteen Eastern on NBC the Chargers are at the Jaguars. Studdy,
you got three games. Bill's host the Dolphins at one
eastern on CBS. Giants are at the Vikings at forty
thirty eastern on Fox. Bengs Bengals host the Ravens eight
fifteen Eastern on NBC, and then Monday Monday Night Football
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Buccaneers host the Cowboys eight fifteen Eastern ESPN. All right,
I'll be plugged in for all those. I'm sure you
will be as well. I might watch ye check it out?
All right, thank you for that. It is the Ben
Mallis Show. Are you going to Jacksonville? When are you
flying out that? You're not going to? Not an exotic enough?
You don't want to hang with angry Bill. Angry Bill,
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let you stay in his shopping Car's not really selling
point for me to go to jackson Now, you and
the wife can hang on. Angry Bill will show you around.
He can tell you where he's committed crimes Jacksonville. You
can like kind of recreate the magic there. No, I'll
pass on that, they'll pass him. Yeah, all right. If
the Chargers win, will you go to their next playoffs?
That is a distinct possibility. Oh where will they? Where
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will the next playoffs? I think it? If? All right?
City right, Well, you can eat the Ben Maller chicken
fingers there, if you if you, if you do that,
I would be more than happy to do that. Okay,
there you go. All right, it is the Ben Mall
Show and the Seattle Seahawks. By the way, the least
attractive team in the playoffs are the Toronto Raptors of
the NFL Playoffs. That's why they're beginning the playoffs in
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the first game Saturday afternoon the fourteenth, and Jacksonville in
the charge is also not attractive Saturdays, and those are
the get those games out of the way. And then
surprisingly the Ravens in the Bengals. I guess that's Joe Burrow,
the hype for Joe Burrow. That's the primetime game on
the Sunday. And then the Bucks and the Cowboys the
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the New York Jets eliminated, eliminated from playoff consideration. We
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knew they weren't going to make the playoffs coming into
the weekend, and that's exactly of course, we played out,
so the Jets losing weight to the Dolphins. The tabloids
picking up the speculation the Jets need a quarterback and
the chatter is their big game hunting. The three targets
for the Jets, according to media insiders, Jimmy Garoppolo free
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agent of the forty years, Derek Carr, Oh the radio,
and Lamar Jackson, who's decided he no longer wants to
play for the Baltimore Ravens. But Lamar Jackson is on
the list of possibilities for the Jets. Lamar, Jimmy g
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and Derek Carr. Let's go the phones. And Andrea standing
by hanging out. She's got to start. She's got her
star charts out there in Berkeley, and we say hello
to Andrea. Hello Andrea the sports sorcery, Hello Dan, how
are you who? If I was any better, I'd be
a Rogers, but not Aaron Rodgers because he will not
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be in the postseason this year. He did not qualify.
I know, I was kind of hoping he would be.
He's born December second, nineteen eighty three. You know, we
went to cal Berkeley, was a Calbert and just because
he's such a colorful, interesting player, you know, the oh ayahuasca,
the psychedelics. And what was the name of his girlfriend
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you told me about. Oh, she's an heiress to the
Milwaukee Bucks. What's her name, Mallory something? Yes, Yes, she
had like an interesting name, and you know, I just
thought it would have been very colorful to have the
you know, to have him in the playoffs. I think
cal On cal Crime is Jared Goff took down another
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Cow quarterback. So cal On cal Crime right there. Oh, yeah,
that's true. Huh yeah, Jared Goff is a Cow quarterback. Interesting, yeah,
pretty pretty good. Concerning the football program has been bad
for a long time. Interesting, so beaven as it. Mate.
How about the Niners ten in a row and old
soul brock Purty, you know, I mean that, like you
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really know, you arrived from mister irrelevant to them resting
you in the fourth quarter to save you and make
sure you don't get injured. And he was just great.
Three touchdowns and I think four or five wins in
a row. I mean, he set these new records and
it was just really nice to see. I mean, he's young.
December twenty seven, nineteen ninety nine. I think we established
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that Tom he was four months old when Tom Brady
started playing in the NFL. So that said, it was
just really, you know, very nice to see that kind
of leadership from someone so young, that hard working, dependable,
pragmatic quality that he brings. So it was just really
nice to see that methodical approach. And looks like they're
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going to play on Saturday, so that that should be interesting. Yes,
first game. We just talked about that because Seattle as
the Toronto Raptors of the NFL. They're getting in Seattle
out of the way there, and that's a game that's
supposed to be a blowout, not a good TV game.
So we get that out of the way there on
Saturday afternoon and then clear the deck. Yeah yeah, and
I hope you had a nice full moon weekend. It's
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still raining here and Mercury's coming out of that bomb cyclone.
Yeah right, I thought of you what I river? I
thought it was when I hear that term, and um, yeah,
for the new year, if I could get some different
introduction music, that'd be kind of nice. Oh you would
like to change it up. Look at your becoming a diva.
Now you need new music' there? You all right? What
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you like? What kind of music do you want? Oh,
I don't know, like a theme from the Twilight Zone.
Twilight Zone? Okay, all right, well we will change it
up for the new year here, Roberto, all right, we'll
find some spooky music other than this. Yeah, move on
from this. You're tired of this. You want to change
it up a little bit, your brand of course, yes, yeah,
well you know, with Mercury coming out of retrograde soon,
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it's a good time to review. And what about this? What?
How did you like? This reminds me of Jimmy Trumpet rights?
Wasn't that like Jimmy trump Oh? Kind of every the movies? Uh, yeah,
I'm not in a while, but yeah, all right, I
got you. Oh what is that a movie theme? From
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a It could be? Yeah, okay, possibly, Yeah, you're more
in LA, you're more tuned into that, but in LA
to be tuned into movie themes. This is an old movie.
But yeah, well yeah, I know we could put our
heads together and think of it. But it was just
really great. I was thinking about your show when all
these uh things happen, and yeah, the Buffalo Bills that
really you know, the football gods and goddesses, the way
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they started that game. Yeah, you know, just a lot
of positive energy going on, so it'll be interesting to see.
I mean, you know how the playoffs play out. Yeah,
all right, well we'll leave it there, Andrea, thank you.
We'll work on that. Anyone want to recommend music for Andrea,
contact to Ben Maller's show. I'm sure the boys will
be on that. Andrea. You might not like what they pick,
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but yeah, no, we'll all you know, choose. We're all
about you like this kind of like a kind of
old school. Yeah you like that, that's kind of mellow.
I can learn to like that. This porn is late.
I mean this songs, well porn bed number one? Oh
is that right? Okay? Maybe not on second on. Andrew's like,
I don't know about that. All right, well together, that's right,
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thank you, And she's demanding. She's like, hey, wait a minute,
I've been on here for a couple of years and
we play the same music, and I need certain music.
The podcast listeners don't hear any of that. Right on
the podcast. You don't hear any of the music because
the company has to pay extra when we put it
on the podcast, so we don't put that any of
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the music in there. You only hear that on the
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is the name of the twenty six year old rich
kid that was born on third base, the daughter of
the bucks owner who's supposedly sleeping together with Aaron Rodgers.
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Good for them, very happy, happy couple. All right, it
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Here's the Insta trivia. So the Tennessee Titans undrafted punter
Ryan's Stonehouse, he broke Blank's record for single season punting
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average with a mark of fifty three yards per kick.
Ryan Stonehouse or the Titans a team eliminated by Jacksonville
over the weekend. But Ryan Stonehouse did break the blank record,
blanks record for single season punting average with a mark
of fifty three yards per kick. That is the Insta
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is Tennessee Titans undrafted punter Ryan Stonehouse broke Blank's record
for single season punning average with a mark of fifty
three yards per kick. That is the question. What's the answer?
Mark the Walker? I hope you're doing all right there.
Mark had a heart attack last week. He's up late
(32:44):
listening to us as Joe Biden is the answer? Who
else do we have? Page Down? Tom her better known
as Tommy from Mister Nice Guy. That's his answer, Godfather
Benny from furg Dog Page Down, Rob in Vegas going
with the one two three Kid as his answer. Stevie
Meatballs in Florida says those living in stonehouses should throw glass.
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Who else you have? Matt Dodge guest by Valls fan
Jimmy Luke Prestridge from Sean in the Valley of the Sun.
Matt in gr going with the always popular on The
Simpsons Harry Colin as his answer. Bo Jackson from Big
Big Greg in Iowa. Mike Kuran from Mayor Parker the
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snow You see Mayor Parker was on TV again. Of
course He's always unbelievable. Man that CBS. I may get
pay the guy pay the dog. That dog is on
TV every CBS. He was great, he was playing in
the snow. Was awesome. What a wonderful that dog stayed.
Whatever that dog you tell the dog to do, the
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dog does it seriously some Mayor Mayor Parker. The snow
dog legend, Herman Munster. Guests by Mace in Lister Mason
and Huntington Beach. Jeff Fiegeles from Rob in Minnesota. What
else do we have? Ron Tugnutt former Quebec Nordyke from
Shane in Des Moines. Aaron Rodgers travel agent guess by
Surly Scott, page down, page down. Jerry Jones from alf
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the Alien Old Pineer, and that's appropriate. Jerry loves that
unless he does it the device you show. Do you
do you have an answer? Eddie? Please? I need an answer.
I do. It's George Blanda George blandas that Sammy Boss
is screwed out. Your original answers, your final answer, you
got it wrong. The correct answer is Sammy Ball. But
(34:37):
you've got it wrong. You're send a different day, Eddie.
Sammy Ball bo Bo Bo Bo Sam to the third degree.
This is one big band gets grilled. And after the
Titans lost to the Jaguars, many are calling for Tennessee
to rebuild its roster. Do you think the Titans are
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headed towards a long fall? No? No, listen, Derek Henry
is still the star of the show. He's the headline
guy and all that he's got. He's got to work
on those butter fingers. The turnovers an issue, But Mike
Rabels the one calling the shots there. He won the
power struggle with the front office. Get rid of Ryan Tannehill.
There's a bunch of quarterbacks. You can flip. Any one
(35:20):
of those guys will be either as good or better
than Ryan Tanie'll change it up a little bit, a
couple of upgrades on defense. That division blows the Colts
and the Texans are terrible. There's no guarantee jacksonvillees a
burgeoning power, So no, not headed towards a long fall.
Next and the Saints. Cameron Jordan took part in US
many athletes' favorite pastime, taking shots at Cleveland. Yeah, he said,
(35:43):
no amount of money could make him play for the Browns.
And why is Cleveland always favorite game for athletes to coufon? Well,
I've been to Cleveland. The weather is obviously an issue,
but there's a lot here's the problem with Cleveland. There's
a lot of places where the weather's kind of gloomy, eats,
there's too many gray days, there's a lot of snow.
But clevelandland is like the jewel of the Rust Belt.
And I look at a place like Pittsburgh, which is
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a beautiful They've done a great job cleaning up Pittsburgh
over the years. It's a wonderful downtown, really nice. And
then you go to Cleveland and they have this lakefront
in Cleveland. It's it's part of it's the man who
shot Liberty Valance right when the legend comes the back
and go with the legend. But on their riverfront they've
got an airport, a shipping port, and a football stadium.
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That to me is not great use of a waterfront
a Cleveland, bad job by them. Next, that's civil planning
that's screwed up. Next, over the weekend, Trevor Bauer was
designated for assignment by the Dodgers after from the suspension.
Do you agree or disagree with how this was handled? No,
it was ridiculous, Like the Dodgers are getting all holy
(36:48):
and Almighty and all that. You know, they don't want
anything with Trevor Bauer, which would be fine if they
didn't already have a domestic abuser on the roster. All right,
I mean it's so you're not holier than now not Mexican.
I guess that's the problem for him. But Julio Urius,
he got arrested for domestic misdemeanor domestic battery and made
(37:09):
a deal with the city attorney. He was suspended for
twenty games. I guess they have no problem with that.
So maybe they don't believe the woman involved in that,
but they believe the women involved in Bower. It's ridiculous.
I hope Power shoves it. You know what against the
Dodgers this year. It's ridiculous. Its own embarrassing. The Dodgers
shot up with that nonsense. Dodgers please, I won. I
(37:30):
want that failure a good move by the Dodger win.
That's a winning by me. I won.
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bird two hour two
of our radio program, and we take a look at
the AFC playoff picture. The Miami Dolphins got the last spot.
We'll talk about the losers first. The New England Patriots
(00:20):
had a win in your in play in game against
Buffalo and they've lost. Are the Patriots heading up or
down overall with the roster? Should Steeler fans who also
missed the playoffs be encouraged or discouraged after a nine
and eight regular season? And are the Dolphins a danger
(00:41):
in the playoffs to the opposition the Buffalo Bills. Will
take a look at that and more. Right now here
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final playoff spot on the line, hanging in the balance,
(01:45):
the drama of athletic competition. The Patriots winning, You're in, Dolphins,
Patriots lose, You're in if you win the Steelers they
needed both the Patriots and Dolphins to lose, all of
them jockey for playoff position. Did you watch the events unfold?
Were you engaged? Maybe not? Maybe you were nine. So
(02:08):
the Dolphins, their kicker got named Jason Sanders, who he
squeezed a fifty yard field goal just inside the left
upright with eighteen seconds remaining to clinch a win over
the Jets and secure the final playoff spot. That is
because the Patriots lost to the Bills and the Steelers,
(02:31):
who did win their game, but it didn't matter because
the Steelers needed both the Patriots and Dolphins to lose.
Now we should point out the Jets there was a
fumble at the end of that game. They were playing
the pass it back the Stanford band play the Stanford
Cow game, and they ended up fumbling it in the
end zone. It was a safety. So that was why
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it was a five point margin in that Dolphin game.
But the Bills beating the Patriots, Dolphins winning, and so
my ammy is there. We'll get to the Dolphins in
a second. The better story though, in the losing locker room,
and so that would be the teams that fail to
make the playoffs, the Patriots and the Steelers. And let's
(03:12):
get into it. The question here as we discuss, are
the Patriots heading up or down at this particular point.
So I've got serviceable artisan and if that was not
enough for you, we will toss into the salad bowl here.
(03:36):
We will toss the head down is what we will
toss into the salad bowl. So to begin here, number one,
that's how you do it. The Patriots trading water in
the mediocrity meadows here at this particular point. Now, they
are a middling team. They're not terrible. They haven't fallen
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all the way down, down, down, down, down down the
Hallway of mirrors, haven't done that. But they're not a
good team. And they can beat mostly bad teams. If
you give them the cupcake schedule, they'll do. Okay, they
went seven and two this year against non playoff teams.
Should have been eight and one them that Raider game,
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that horrific ending there against playoff teams. If my math
is correct, the Patriots went one in seven against teams
that qualified for the playoffs. So hang around with better opponents.
And they were in a number of those games. They lost.
They did get blown out in a couple of them,
but for the most part they were in the games.
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They'll tease you, but rarely please you. The roster is
lop sided. That is problematic. It's a symmetrical off balance
however you want to say it. The defense is good
enough to make the postseason, but their issues. There's internal issues.
Bill Belichick, before the most important game to play in
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winning your in playing game for the Patriots, suspended Jack
Jones and Jake Bailey and when asked about it, he
didn't have much to say on that topic. And so
without getting assistance from the offense and special teams, and
that's that's the big bugaboo there. You can expect some
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changes now Belichick has been slow to make wholesale changes.
Will that be forced upon him. We know Belichick is
immensely loyal, He loves his buddies, his good foot soldiers.
That's why Matt Patricia the rocket Scientist and Joe Judge
are back. And he also prides himself though on special teams.
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It was the secret ingredient for so many of those
Patriot teams as those hidden yards on special teams were
limiting the opposition how many yards they get on kick
returns and gaining extra yards, and the Patriots did not
accomplish much of that this year. It was it was
a case where they were in the negative, a net
negative than most categories and special teams, and so that
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becomes a pit of curiosities for the Patriots heading in
to the offseason. Right and now is mac Jones. Let's
go to mac Jones? Is mac Jones demand going forward
for the Patriots. So mac Jones is a serviceable quarterback,
which which is an offensive term. He didn't get any
(06:24):
better this year based on his body of work Jones.
Here's what I've seen my scouting report on mac Jones.
He's a temperamental quarterback who doesn't have pinpoint accuracy and
the biggest sin of them all for mac Jones. And
there's no way around this. There's no polishing of turns.
When it comes to mac Jones, he simply fails to
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elevate the play of those around him. He doesn't make
players better, And you can tell by the reaction of
the marching and Chowder society of Patriots. They know they're like, oh,
we've got to get better playmakers rather than uplift the
players you have on the roster and make them better.
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It's like, well, these guys, there's no hope because we
don't have a quarterback. So you're pretty much admitting when
you're saying we've got to get so much better the
wide receiver position in this position, that you're admitting that
Mac Jones ain't the guy, right, instead of holding him
accountable and raise all the boats right, and rising tide
raises all the boats. Instead of making everyone around him better,
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it's like, Wow, this guy's a second rate quarterback, and
so we need to get all pro talent around him. Hello,
pretty much anybody who's halfway decent as a pro quarterback.
If you get them elite players, you're going to be okay.
But there are limits to that. Right that you look
at some of the teams that have been able to
win a bunch of regular season games and then they're
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often exposed in the postseason. All right, page two. Should
the Steelers fans let's go over to Pittsburgh. They don't
make the plays. Should the Steeler fans be encouraged or discouraged?
As they failed to make the playoffs a nine and
eight seasons? So the arrow on Pittsburgh is pointing towards invigorated.
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That's where the arrow is pointing. Here. Things are looking up, up, up,
up up, not quite a way. As Mike Thomlins team
was absolutely miserable to start to remember that game of charades.
They were trying to pass Mitch Traubisky, that dog with
fleas as their quarterback. And as the average sports radio
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caller predicted, he's not the guy. He's not that guy.
He's not the guy. Pal, He's not the guy. And
he wasn't the guy. And the Steelers got off to
a two and six start to begin the season, heading
him up bye week. They didn't throw in the spunge,
and while the playoffs was not the prize, it was
not the carrot. At the end of the steak. Pittsburgh
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went seven and two down the stretch. Now, granted, they
played a lot of tomato Cans, but they end up
with a winning record for Mike Tomlin and showing perseverance,
and that's a badge of honor, not giving up, not
throwing in like the Indianapolis Colts and other gutless teams
in the NFL. And that's a good thing. And again
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they got the help. They played the Artisan Bakery Boys
down the stretch. But you still have to show up
and play and win those games. And so when you
do inventory things are looking up. Kenny Pickett, he had
to back to back game winning drives against the Raiders
and Ravens. His problem though, for the first seventy five
percent of some of these games, he's been just kind
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of In last eight games, Pikett stayed out of the way.
He had five touchdowns, which ain't great, but only one
interception one fumble which was recovered by Pittsburgh. Over the
last eight games of the season. He did not get
in the way. Just don't get into Mitch Drubisky gets
in the way, and then you start out like that.
You don't get in the way and eventually start making
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plays and you're looking around the locker room. T J.
Watt back to playing at the same level he was
last year, he missed a chunk of time with injury,
but he played very well for a stretch and at
the end of the year Nagi Harris got better, did
not get off to we could start, George Pickens showing
some glimpses of being a top notch wide receiver. D
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final points so that Dolphins, they're the ones that make
the playoffs. Miami has a football team and they're in
the postseason, and the Dolphins will play on Sunday. Sunday. Sunday,
Dolphins open up on the road wild Card weekend on
the fifteenth of January. They'll play the Buffalo Bills. Bills
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opened an eleven point favorite. Temperatures in Buffalo Orchard Park,
New York in the mid twenties, but no snow, and
in the early forecast it is Buffalo, so there could
be seventeen inches of snow by the time we get
to Sunday. But at this point no snow. So are
the Dolphins a dangerous team? Should the Buffalo Bills be concerned? Er? No,
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shaking my head. No on this the same we've all heard.
The fish stinks from the head down. Miami, Miami, Miami,
Miami rotting at the quarterback position in front of our
eyes to a tongue of my lola in the concussion protocol.
Unlikely to play this game. I heard Arnie Spanier, my
(11:31):
friend Arnie Spanier, was trying to upsell that too was
going to play in this game. I'll believe it when
I see it. And even if he plays, is he
gonna make it through the entire game? Will he get
knocked bonkers midway through the game and then he'll be
out of the game. He's not someone you can depend on.
And then who's next? Teddy Bridgewater's got a bad knee
(11:52):
and a finger And if he's able to play, will
he be able to make it through the game, Which
means Skyler Thompson We'll be trampled upon where the Buffalo rome.
He is el Stinko and the Dolphins offense with that guy,
Skyler Thompson produced seventeen first downs, even that seems like
(12:14):
it's it's higher than it should have been, converted thirty
percent thirty one percent on third down, and then offense
with Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill averaged less than five
yards per pass. That is an indictment of Skyler Thompson
and barely able to get past Joe Flacco who had
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nothing in the Jets, who had eleven first downs and
one hundred and eighty seven yards of offense. So the Bills,
they merely show up on time and they will collect
a win over the Miami Dolphins. And we'll see about
the points spread. We'll look more at that as we
go through the week, but it's as close to an
extra buy as you can get in the AFC. Miami
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lacking the wild factor that they had earlier this year,
the Dolphins ended up sputtering across the finish line. They
went one in five, they had five losses in run.
Then they win the last game, which is a game
that was really given to them by the Jets, but
yet they had to scratch and claw to win that game.
All right, It is the Bayne Maller Show. If you'd
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And again Bill Belichick. I did see his news conference
after he said he did not have much to say
at all about the suspension. Belichick's done this before. The
most famous in the Super Bowl against the Eagles when
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he suspended his star defensive back and people are like, WHOA,
what was that about it? He didn't. He never really revealed.
Even to this day, there's been no real revelation to
exactly what happened. But Belichick was asked why Jake Bailey
and also as the aforementioned Jack Jones were suspended. He
(14:01):
did say, it must be a good story, though it'll
get out at some point something something they did something,
They must have done something, and the special teams el
garbajo in that one. All right, it is the Ben Mathers.
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Robin Vegas says Mac Jones may not elevate the players
around him, but the fatass calling the plays doesn't have
a clue what he's doing. He's a defensive coordinator, for
Christ's sakes. I'll stop with dad. Brother. Listen, here's the deal. Okay,
(16:11):
there used to be a time. I don't know how
old you are, Rob, I don't think you're that much
younger than I am. But there was a time where
you just called football coaches football coaches, and they coach offense, defense,
the whole thing. It's an amazing concept. But now you,
of course get you You're just a defensive quarter, an
offensive quarter. Bill Belichick has done a little bit everything
over the course of his career. So let's put a
sock in that one. Let's go to the phones though.
(16:32):
Right now we'll say hello to Noah, who's in Austin.
Noah promised on social media, says I am going to
be a caller in twenty twenty three. So here is Noah.
Hello Noah, Welcome Ben Mallor, the Nocturnal Colonel and master
of Disaster. How are you? And the don't forget the filibuster?
(16:54):
All about that filibuster? Yes sir, yes sir. So here's
what I'm calling on. First of all, I wanted to
say a big thank you to you Eddie for Virtuo
and the Coop because you guys, your podcast, your show
everything is amazing. You helped me get through my work
day and it is scifusly one of the best shows. Amazing.
(17:17):
Look at that. We gotta put that in a promo.
Amazing What did it endorse me? No, no promo? Thank you. Also, also,
real quick, when I asked my very first question on
the mailbag, shout out to the mail bag in Danny
g as well, Um, you gave me advice on starting
(17:39):
a podcast, and you are my motivation to start a podcast.
Well there's one thing. There's a shortage of podcast as
you know, there's not enough podcasts out there. So no, no,
you should do it. No, you should give it a
shot and build it up right. You can create some match.
You can your own more Connie, put your own mark
(18:01):
on it. Yes, there, for sure, I will find my
niche and try to be as good as you. No,
well he should be better than me. Man, you're gonna
be making the big bus. You should. You should aspire
for cha ching, cha ching, cha ching is what you
should inspire. Gotta make those malat bucks. Oh yeah, you
want to make the malat box. Let me tell you
(18:22):
something that's the dream right there. You got a nice
ice machine and everything else that you got to like that.
There you go, Okay, you can get an ice machine. Absolutely,
all right, thank you, all right, buddy, thank you. No, no, guy,
I'll be doing a podcast before you know we taken off.
Let's say hello to Jed who Fled, who's somewhere running
(18:44):
from law enforcement in the Sunshine State. Hello, Jed who fled?
I believe in capital D G O D got above.
He's gonna send a rainbow next time the sun comes
up from God in heaven. Please don't ever let that Noah.
Don't let that Noah call again, or the artists neces day.
If I need to die, I need to die, isolate
him away from the phone. Yeah, dude, I appreciate that hit. Jesus.
(19:09):
They're very sting now. The transport portal man transport portal,
I imagine, like I don't know where imagine before. State's
getting better. I know that I didn't know. I didn't
think of a joke there quickly enough. But they're getting better.
Florida gators are getting worse. The hurricanes. That that that
that rim shot is the future floor stake, you know,
Oh my god, that was a that was a Why
don't we start we say the right thing. Why don't
(19:32):
we start to call over? I feel like the call's
not going well? Here, a little rusty. You didn't call
at the end of last week. Off your game? Here,
you need Chell help my phone? Callee sucking and I
can't get up. I need call art, call of art.
Well it is. It's intravenous hard narcotics for extended periods
of time. Your car. If your engine running hot, you
pull over. I can't keep driving. But if I'm running hot, dude,
(19:54):
I'm gonna keep going and I'm gonna keep running hot.
I don't need cooling. I put seas like seawater and
car as all, it does not gonna run well. So
if you put you know, mister Krest into your veins
as the as your blood flow, it's you know, it's
it's a it's a one lane highway, not in an
interstate with six lanes, you know, like Atlanta Highway to five.
And you know, mister Krest taking over? Dude? What am
I talking about? Dude? Do you know? And A right,
(20:16):
how are you gonna know? How? You gonna have no idea?
I haven't have no idea. You're rambling, ben, No, you
you're addressing. You used to be the open mind is
coolest overnight host ever and you might as well. Where
are your where's your waistline? Right now? About six inches
above your waist, guaranteed stocks up to your knees, yacked
up your knees and wearing the very high socks. That's correct. Yes,
(20:36):
I'm wearing high socks and then everything I wear is
pretty much high. You're hiding stuff in your socks. That's
why you're wearing high socks. No, it's called stealing ben
when you take it without permission, you know what I mean? Uh,
I guess that's it's not right exactly. You know, what's
the last thing. What's the last thing you stalled yet? Hmm,
your wife's heart. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Um,
(20:57):
George the defensive. I like to be the easy I
could be the distractor because when you go into Walmart,
they the military to first to walmart'fecial recognition technology, So
you don't want to be there where I'm like on
our three like I say, oh my god, I'm doing
circles on the tower and just spinning crazily and my
buddies walking out the fun door with the TV. But
I don't think the risks even though my license play
is on Cambridge in the parking lot. That yeah, all right,
(21:21):
I gotta think that. Thank you. All right, here we
have a little bit of everything in the malamlesh. We
got petty criminals, drug addicctatement, good, good guys, bad guys.
You know somewhere in the middle. It's a village. It
takes all of you. Gotta have a little bit of
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So here is your Here is your schedule for the
opening round of the playoffs. It starts on Saturday with
(22:25):
two games for thirty eastern on Fox. You've got the
forty nine Ers hosts in the Seahawks, and then at
eight fifteen Eastern on NBC the Chargers are at the Jaguars. Studdy,
you got three games. Bill's host the Dolphins at one
eastern on CBS. Giants are at the Vikings at forty
thirty eastern on Fox. Bengs Bengals host the Ravens eight
fifteen Eastern on NBC, and then Monday Monday Night Football
(22:47):
Buccaneers host the Cowboys eight fifteen Eastern ESPN. All right,
I'll be plugged in for all those. I'm sure you
will be as well. I might watch ye check it out?
All right, thank you for that. It is the Ben
Mallis Show. Are you going to Jacksonville? When are you
flying out that? You're not going to? Not an exotic enough?
You don't want to hang with angry Bill. Angry Bill,
(23:09):
let you stay in his shopping Car's not really selling
point for me to go to jackson Now, you and
the wife can hang on. Angry Bill will show you around.
He can tell you where he's committed crimes Jacksonville. You
can like kind of recreate the magic there. No, I'll
pass on that, they'll pass him. Yeah, all right. If
the Chargers win, will you go to their next playoffs?
That is a distinct possibility. Oh where will they? Where
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will the next playoffs? I think it? If? All right?
City right, Well, you can eat the Ben Maller chicken
fingers there, if you if you, if you do that,
I would be more than happy to do that. Okay,
there you go. All right, it is the Ben Mall
Show and the Seattle Seahawks. By the way, the least
attractive team in the playoffs are the Toronto Raptors of
the NFL Playoffs. That's why they're beginning the playoffs in
(23:51):
the first game Saturday afternoon the fourteenth, and Jacksonville in
the charge is also not attractive Saturdays, and those are
the get those games out of the way. And then
surprisingly the Ravens in the Bengals. I guess that's Joe Burrow,
the hype for Joe Burrow. That's the primetime game on
the Sunday. And then the Bucks and the Cowboys the
(24:14):
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the New York Jets eliminated, eliminated from playoff consideration. We
(24:37):
knew they weren't going to make the playoffs coming into
the weekend, and that's exactly of course, we played out,
so the Jets losing weight to the Dolphins. The tabloids
picking up the speculation the Jets need a quarterback and
the chatter is their big game hunting. The three targets
for the Jets, according to media insiders, Jimmy Garoppolo free
(25:01):
agent of the forty years, Derek Carr, Oh the radio,
and Lamar Jackson, who's decided he no longer wants to
play for the Baltimore Ravens. But Lamar Jackson is on
the list of possibilities for the Jets. Lamar, Jimmy g
(25:21):
and Derek Carr. Let's go the phones. And Andrea standing
by hanging out. She's got to start. She's got her
star charts out there in Berkeley, and we say hello
to Andrea. Hello Andrea the sports sorcery, Hello Dan, how
are you who? If I was any better, I'd be
a Rogers, but not Aaron Rodgers because he will not
(25:44):
be in the postseason this year. He did not qualify.
I know, I was kind of hoping he would be.
He's born December second, nineteen eighty three. You know, we
went to cal Berkeley, was a Calbert and just because
he's such a colorful, interesting player, you know, the oh ayahuasca,
the psychedelics. And what was the name of his girlfriend
(26:04):
you told me about. Oh, she's an heiress to the
Milwaukee Bucks. What's her name, Mallory something? Yes, Yes, she
had like an interesting name, and you know, I just
thought it would have been very colorful to have the
you know, to have him in the playoffs. I think
cal On cal Crime is Jared Goff took down another
(26:25):
Cow quarterback. So cal On cal Crime right there. Oh, yeah,
that's true. Huh yeah, Jared Goff is a Cow quarterback. Interesting, yeah,
pretty pretty good. Concerning the football program has been bad
for a long time. Interesting, so beaven as it. Mate.
How about the Niners ten in a row and old
soul brock Purty, you know, I mean that, like you
(26:48):
really know, you arrived from mister irrelevant to them resting
you in the fourth quarter to save you and make
sure you don't get injured. And he was just great.
Three touchdowns and I think four or five wins in
a row. I mean, he set these new records and
it was just really nice to see. I mean, he's young.
December twenty seven, nineteen ninety nine. I think we established
(27:11):
that Tom he was four months old when Tom Brady
started playing in the NFL. So that said, it was
just really, you know, very nice to see that kind
of leadership from someone so young, that hard working, dependable,
pragmatic quality that he brings. So it was just really
nice to see that methodical approach. And looks like they're
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going to play on Saturday, so that that should be interesting. Yes,
first game. We just talked about that because Seattle as
the Toronto Raptors of the NFL. They're getting in Seattle
out of the way there, and that's a game that's
supposed to be a blowout, not a good TV game.
So we get that out of the way there on
Saturday afternoon and then clear the deck. Yeah yeah, and
I hope you had a nice full moon weekend. It's
(27:56):
still raining here and Mercury's coming out of that bomb cyclone.
Yeah right, I thought of you what I river? I
thought it was when I hear that term, and um, yeah,
for the new year, if I could get some different
introduction music, that'd be kind of nice. Oh you would
like to change it up. Look at your becoming a diva.
Now you need new music' there? You all right? What
(28:18):
you like? What kind of music do you want? Oh,
I don't know, like a theme from the Twilight Zone.
Twilight Zone? Okay, all right, well we will change it
up for the new year here, Roberto, all right, we'll
find some spooky music other than this. Yeah, move on
from this. You're tired of this. You want to change
it up a little bit, your brand of course, yes, yeah,
well you know, with Mercury coming out of retrograde soon,
(28:40):
it's a good time to review. And what about this? What?
How did you like? This reminds me of Jimmy Trumpet rights?
Wasn't that like Jimmy trump Oh? Kind of every the movies? Uh, yeah,
I'm not in a while, but yeah, all right, I
got you. Oh what is that a movie theme? From
(29:03):
a It could be? Yeah, okay, possibly, Yeah, you're more
in LA, you're more tuned into that, but in LA
to be tuned into movie themes. This is an old movie.
But yeah, well yeah, I know we could put our
heads together and think of it. But it was just
really great. I was thinking about your show when all
these uh things happen, and yeah, the Buffalo Bills that
really you know, the football gods and goddesses, the way
(29:26):
they started that game. Yeah, you know, just a lot
of positive energy going on, so it'll be interesting to see.
I mean, you know how the playoffs play out. Yeah,
all right, well we'll leave it there, Andrea, thank you.
We'll work on that. Anyone want to recommend music for Andrea,
contact to Ben Maller's show. I'm sure the boys will
be on that. Andrea. You might not like what they pick,
(29:47):
but yeah, no, we'll all you know, choose. We're all
about you like this kind of like a kind of
old school. Yeah you like that, that's kind of mellow.
I can learn to like that. This porn is late.
I mean this songs, well porn bed number one? Oh
is that right? Okay? Maybe not on second on. Andrew's like,
I don't know about that. All right, well together, that's right,
(30:12):
thank you, And she's demanding. She's like, hey, wait a minute,
I've been on here for a couple of years and
we play the same music, and I need certain music.
The podcast listeners don't hear any of that. Right on
the podcast. You don't hear any of the music because
the company has to pay extra when we put it
on the podcast, so we don't put that any of
(30:33):
the music in there. You only hear that on the
live radio program on the podcast. You're sol sorry, out
of luck, See you later. It's Mallory Eden's, by the way,
is the name of the twenty six year old rich
kid that was born on third base, the daughter of
the bucks owner who's supposedly sleeping together with Aaron Rodgers.
(30:56):
Good for them, very happy, happy couple. All right, it
is the Mallards Show. As we continue on, we're gonna
have Mallard to the third degree, Mallard of the third degree.
Here's the Insta trivia. So the Tennessee Titans undrafted punter
Ryan's Stonehouse, he broke Blank's record for single season punting
(31:18):
average with a mark of fifty three yards per kick.
Ryan Stonehouse or the Titans a team eliminated by Jacksonville
over the weekend. But Ryan Stonehouse did break the blank record,
blanks record for single season punting average with a mark
of fifty three yards per kick. That is the Insta
(31:39):
triviua the answer. We'll get to it, and Mallard of
the third degree, we will do it next. Fox Sports
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It's Ben Maller and he is the tribute here it
is Tennessee Titans undrafted punter Ryan Stonehouse broke Blank's record
for single season punning average with a mark of fifty
three yards per kick. That is the question. What's the answer?
Mark the Walker? I hope you're doing all right there.
Mark had a heart attack last week. He's up late
(32:44):
listening to us as Joe Biden is the answer? Who
else do we have? Page Down? Tom her better known
as Tommy from Mister Nice Guy. That's his answer, Godfather
Benny from furg Dog Page Down, Rob in Vegas going
with the one two three Kid as his answer. Stevie
Meatballs in Florida says those living in stonehouses should throw glass.
(33:08):
Who else you have? Matt Dodge guest by Valls fan
Jimmy Luke Prestridge from Sean in the Valley of the Sun.
Matt in gr going with the always popular on The
Simpsons Harry Colin as his answer. Bo Jackson from Big
Big Greg in Iowa. Mike Kuran from Mayor Parker the
(33:31):
snow You see Mayor Parker was on TV again. Of
course He's always unbelievable. Man that CBS. I may get
pay the guy pay the dog. That dog is on
TV every CBS. He was great, he was playing in
the snow. Was awesome. What a wonderful that dog stayed.
Whatever that dog you tell the dog to do, the
(33:51):
dog does it seriously some Mayor Mayor Parker. The snow
dog legend, Herman Munster. Guests by Mace in Lister Mason
and Huntington Beach. Jeff Fiegeles from Rob in Minnesota. What
else do we have? Ron Tugnutt former Quebec Nordyke from
Shane in Des Moines. Aaron Rodgers travel agent guess by
Surly Scott, page down, page down. Jerry Jones from alf
(34:16):
the Alien Old Pineer, and that's appropriate. Jerry loves that
unless he does it the device you show. Do you
do you have an answer? Eddie? Please? I need an answer.
I do. It's George Blanda George blandas that Sammy Boss
is screwed out. Your original answers, your final answer, you
got it wrong. The correct answer is Sammy Ball. But
(34:37):
you've got it wrong. You're send a different day, Eddie.
Sammy Ball bo Bo Bo Bo Sam to the third degree.
This is one big band gets grilled. And after the
Titans lost to the Jaguars, many are calling for Tennessee
to rebuild its roster. Do you think the Titans are
(35:00):
headed towards a long fall? No? No, listen, Derek Henry
is still the star of the show. He's the headline
guy and all that he's got. He's got to work
on those butter fingers. The turnovers an issue, But Mike
Rabels the one calling the shots there. He won the
power struggle with the front office. Get rid of Ryan Tannehill.
There's a bunch of quarterbacks. You can flip. Any one
(35:20):
of those guys will be either as good or better
than Ryan Tanie'll change it up a little bit, a
couple of upgrades on defense. That division blows the Colts
and the Texans are terrible. There's no guarantee jacksonvillees a
burgeoning power, So no, not headed towards a long fall.
Next and the Saints. Cameron Jordan took part in US
many athletes' favorite pastime, taking shots at Cleveland. Yeah, he said,
(35:43):
no amount of money could make him play for the Browns.
And why is Cleveland always favorite game for athletes to coufon? Well,
I've been to Cleveland. The weather is obviously an issue,
but there's a lot here's the problem with Cleveland. There's
a lot of places where the weather's kind of gloomy, eats,
there's too many gray days, there's a lot of snow.
But clevelandland is like the jewel of the Rust Belt.
And I look at a place like Pittsburgh, which is
(36:06):
a beautiful They've done a great job cleaning up Pittsburgh
over the years. It's a wonderful downtown, really nice. And
then you go to Cleveland and they have this lakefront
in Cleveland. It's it's part of it's the man who
shot Liberty Valance right when the legend comes the back
and go with the legend. But on their riverfront they've
got an airport, a shipping port, and a football stadium.
(36:28):
That to me is not great use of a waterfront
a Cleveland, bad job by them. Next, that's civil planning
that's screwed up. Next, over the weekend, Trevor Bauer was
designated for assignment by the Dodgers after from the suspension.
Do you agree or disagree with how this was handled? No,
it was ridiculous, Like the Dodgers are getting all holy
(36:48):
and Almighty and all that. You know, they don't want
anything with Trevor Bauer, which would be fine if they
didn't already have a domestic abuser on the roster. All right,
I mean it's so you're not holier than now not Mexican.
I guess that's the problem for him. But Julio Urius,
he got arrested for domestic misdemeanor domestic battery and made
(37:09):
a deal with the city attorney. He was suspended for
twenty games. I guess they have no problem with that.
So maybe they don't believe the woman involved in that,
but they believe the women involved in Bower. It's ridiculous.
I hope Power shoves it. You know what against the
Dodgers this year. It's ridiculous. Its own embarrassing. The Dodgers
shot up with that nonsense. Dodgers please, I won. I
(37:30):
want that failure a good move by the Dodger win.
That's a winning by me. I won.
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