August 12, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Rams QB Matthew Stafford not practicing despite his expected return and what this means in the big picture, reports that Kyler Murray has a "short" shelf-life in Arizona, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dilly dilly, it's our nume bird two. You can ram
it all day and you can ram it all night,
but you can't ram it. During training camp, Matthew Stafford
did not practice. Despite his expected return as Sean McVay
said he would be back on Monday, he was not.
So what does this mean in the big picture? We'll
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talk about that. Also. Thumbs up or thumbs down on
Kyler Murray having a quote short, close quote shelf life
in Arizona and with left guard Landon Dickerson having surgery
on his knee. What is the Super Bowl champion Eagles
level of worry A run first team. We'll talk about
that as well. Right now, give it up for our
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We react to the news of the day, and yet
again our plate is filled filled with a quarterback drama,
Orama drama oramo follow up to the follow up, follow
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up to the follow up. Quarterback Matthew Stafford filling up
the football headlines yet again. The Super Bowl champion from
a couple of years ago. Great a super Bowl my lifetime,
Rams Bangles. I don't think I don't think anyone can
disagree with that, Sayway Stafford. If you didn't see this,
maybe not because you actually have a life. You have
a job, you have a family, have things you have
to do, and so you missed it. So Rams quarterback
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Matthew Stafford did not did not practice on Monday after
being you know, the expectation was he was going to practice.
Why was the expectation because the couch said it. So
he was supposed to take part in individual drills in
his return to practice. The oh my aching back. He
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has an aggravated disc. Gotta say that carefully and slowly.
Aggravated disc in his back. Now, over the weekend, Sean
McVay puffed his chest out, smugly and arrogantly and announced
to the media that he was coming back on Monday.
He being Matthew Stafford and McVeigh had said Seth had
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a quote great workout, those were his words, not mine.
Felt good on Saturday, and then he said he didn't
feel good enough though to throw the football on Monday.
The Rams didn't think this, according to McVeigh. He said, quote,
the Rams didn't think practicing was the right thing to do,
based on how he was feeling, how he woke up feeling,
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McVeigh said. Now, instead, Stafford was spotted in his street clothes,
like somebody for your favorite NBA players street clothes, Anthony
Davis players like that. So Stafford was in street clothes
during practice, wall walking into a truck that was for rejuvenation.
They had a truck there that was parked next to
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the Ram practice field, some of this new age sciencey stuff.
They essentially convinced the NFL teams, Hey, let's put a
truck there and we'll put like some kind of weird
chambers in there, and then it'll be like the Haunted House.
But it'll it'll make the players better.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Anyway, let's discuss the question for the esteem panel, which
you are a part of. You're on the esteem panel.
Congratulations Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford did not did not practice,
did not practice despite his expected return. Now what does
that mean in the big picture? All right? What does
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that mean in the big picture? So I've got cucumber slices,
Facebook Marketplace, and naked mole rats, three things that have
never ever been put together, but they will be here
for this monologue. And we're going to make some Mediterranean chicken.
When we have some chicken swarma and some rice and
there there you go. All right? So number why number?
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So Matthew Stafford supposed to be the ring leader of
the Ram circus, right, he's out there, the ring leader there,
the guy that the Rams brought in and they brought back.
There was some talk Stafford went to Montana and was
whined and dined by Tom Brady, white white pants Brady
there in Montana, and decided to go back to the Rams.
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And so he was brought in yet again as the
ring master for the Rams to ride the elephant at
the circus under the big top there and do the
trap peez. Of course you got to do that, the
whole thing. And so there he is the day he's
supposed to get out there and prove all the critics
wrong and go out there and practice, and he's in
street clothes. Now, can you play an NFL game in
street close? I don't believe you can. I don't think
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that's allowed. I don't think you do it. So he's
not practicing. Not after Sean McVeigh put his his name
on it. He put his name on it. The guy
who's the puppeteer of the Rams told everyone he's coming back. Baby,
are you critics? Are you the overnight gas bags? He's
coming back, you losers. Well, he didn't practice, didn't practice.
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McVeigh said he was gonna do individual drills. Stafford didn't
do it, didn't do it. He's not there. He wasn't there. Instead,
he walked into some restorative and rejuvenation chamber, which sounds
like something you'd be sentenced to by a court. Uh
and uh, I guess this is a hyper barrack chamber
that they brought in that truck. The Rams had it
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there some outside third party. They had a truck there.
I'm sure they probably had like a side hot tub
in there somewhere. And Stafford went in there with a towel.
He had some cucumber slices, and there was a loofa
so he could take a shower. And he's done, get
all soapy, and so Stafford is quickly you know I'm
wrong on this quickly becoming the poulter Geist for the
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Rams and they haven't even got to the schedule yet,
Like this is a preview of coming attractions here, haunting
the Rams. Like this is not the thing of a jig, right,
the thing of a jig or the what you might
call it break, Because the thing of a jig or
what you might call it break, and you can deal
with that. We're talking about the back, okay, And now
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I'm pretty sure you have one. I've got one, we
all have one, right, everyone listening has back. So the
center of the universe and the human body the back,
Oh my aching back. Think about playing professional sports or
just living life. Like everything you do, every movement you make.
In the case of a football player, you're talking about
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throwing a pass, you're talking about taking a couple of steps,
back handing the ball of the running back, you're talking
about sneezing, you're talking about wiping your tuckis your back
is involved. There is movement in the back. And I've
thrown my back out a few times over the years,
and every time I throw my back out, I think, well,
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that's it, it'll never come back, and eventually it does
come back. But I'm not a professional athlete. I'm a
professional gas bag. It's slightly different, I'm told in these parts.
So think about back into it. There's no frame bending,
can't do it. Every movement hurts, you know. And so
this is this is like the chassis on the car cracking.
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Like everything you do is involved in the back, right.
This is not just a ding bumper, it's the chassis
like ding bumper, bumper, you can you slap some tape
on it and you know, take the bumper off. Whatever.
This is the chassis on the car breaking. That's where
we are. He had an epidoral last week, Stafford, and
so Sean McVay can say, well, it's surgery. The surgery
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hasn't been discussed. You can say that all he wants,
and I'm sure he will, But you don't talk about
rebuilding the engine. You don't talk about rebuilding the engine
there until you've got oil pouring out all over the
driveway and then you're like, oh crap, we got a problem. Now.
The Rams listen the Stafford trade. They won the trade.
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The Lions lost the trade. The Rams won a super
Bowl with Matthew Stafford. They've been a consistent playoff team
with Matthew Stafford. Jared Goff is the same guy he
was with the Rams. He's mediocre. He chokes in big games.
That's Jared Goff. So the Rams won that trade. That's fine,
and the Super Bowl has been a couple of years.
The Rams have a young, upstart defense they're excited about.
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They think that's a defense that's good enough to get
to a super Bowl. But if you're honest right now
looking at the Rams, and you've got your quarterback who's
currently being held together with duck tape and going into
Hyperbarrick Chambers and who knows what other stuff he's got
going on there, trying to trying to keep the car
on the road. Right, that's where we are. And so
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you don't know what you don't know, and you don't
know when he's going to go cup, boom and blow,
and you know, you don't know when the back is
going to say bye bye, I'm done. And every time
Stafford drops back, every time Sean McVay is on the
sidelines and he's saying, you know, prayers, oh father, you
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know all that, the hail Mary's, you know, hoping that
he takes another snap after that. Staff And so this
is a tough spot to be in for the Rams,
and it's it's gonna follow them because at some point
I would imagine Stafford's going to actually practice, doesn't matter
does he practice one day and then take three days
off or four days off? And then where are we
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at here now? Page two to Arizona we go. Why
I like talking about bad teams. I love bag teams,
and the Cardinals suck. There are some reports out in
recent days here that predicting they are predicting the Cardinals
that's a bad football team. The Cardinals will trade Alligator
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Arms Murray Kyler Murray before the twenty twenty seven season,
rather than offering him he had another contract extension. Now
Murray would be thirty at that point. The Cardinals would
be trying to get something, anything in return. In terms
of draft I love they say draft capital. I love
that draft capital. Okay, wonderful. All right, So thumbs up
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or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down on Kyler
Murray having a short shelf life in Arizona. See what
I did there, So I am going to go thumbs up.
I'm going thumbs up on this.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Listen, the clock is ticking. You can hear it if
you listen closely. That's the clock ticking, just like that.
You can almost hear it. And we believe it's not
going to be till twenty twenty seven. It's going to
be after this year. We believe it'll be after this
Here you do the math on that. There's like one
year left and the contract and the guaranteed money. And
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it was always complicated. If you want to move a player,
you can move a player. Arizona foolishly gave Kyler Murray,
a massive contract, like they were buying the dream yacht.
They always wanted this yacht. They got the yacht. They
thought they'd be cruising, not for a bruising. They thought
they'd be cruising to the super Bowl. And right there
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at sunset, beautiful weather, and you're in this yacht and
you got the air, the ocean air there and oh man,
it's just amazing wind in their hair, the whole thing,
Champagne on ice. And instead reality check. They thought they
were getting a yacht. They actually mistakenly they went on
Facebook marketplace and they bought a dingy, not a yacht,
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not a yacht. They bought a dingy okay and a
little outboard motor, normal dingy outboard motor. There spiders after
about ten minutes, about ten minutes of us. It spiders
a little bit. It's got expired registration. And they've got
a captain for the dinghy alligator arms who get seasick
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in calm water. Yeah, that's that's what we got here.
And so now, of course Arizona immediately had the buyer's remorse.
We talked about this many times here. How bad was it?
It was so bad, It was so bad that they're
likely awake right now. Executives like what did we do?
Why did we do that? Why didn't we just rent?
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Why did we buy? I don't understand. Quarterbacks in the
NFL are kind of like cars. I'll use the analogy,
like their cars. Arizona financed their car. However, they realized
it's got a four cylinder engine, and unfortunately there's a
speed governor that kicks in anything, you know, anything sixty
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five miles an hour, so you can't go past sixty
five miles an hour. And I know when I'm driving
on the highway and I see one of those they're
always company cars, and they say, well, this vehicle is
being monitored by GPS and will not go over a
certain I immediately zoom past that vehicle. That's Kyler Murray.
That's Kylmer. Every year. Keep in mind also seven to
ten teams, seven to ten teams every year trade in
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their car or quarterback for a newer model. And looking
ahead into my crystal ball, would be someone that would
be interested in Alligator Arms Murray going forward after this
upcoming twenty twenty five regular season. So if you look
in the crystal ball, you've got the Petsburg, Staylers, the Injurs,
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Aaron Rodgers like one year and then he'll be gone.
The Jets because Justin Fields blows. The Giants because Russell
Wilson sucks and Jackson darts probably not all that good.
The Dolphins they'll need somebody. They'll get rid of Tua.
The Brownies they always change quarterbacks every year, the Raiders
because Gino Smith come on. So the thing about the showroom,
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it's always open. The quarterback showroom is always open. The
sales people, they are always smiling. They're always smiling. They
have some lemonade and some snacks you can get there.
And the Cardinals they're about to roll. It's not a
big ball, but they're gonna roll Kyler back onto the
lot there. Now. Kyler at this point's got about seventy
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thousand hard miles hard miles, and it's a card that
leads the race after ten laps and then falls apart
the rest of the race. There there's a dent on
that fender. If you look, there's a little dent there
on the fender, and the check ego light on the
dashboard is flashing check ego right there. And Kyler, a
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guy who is allergic. We've learned over the years he's
allergic to watching film. I don't like watching film either,
but I do a talk show. I don't have to
watch them. And he doesn't like standing in the pocket
very long. We've learned about that. Also, allergic to looking
over the offensive line. Unless you get him an NFL
branded step stool, then he can look over the offensive line.
So you can little NFL. He got the NFL logo
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officially branded NFL and Cardinal logo on the steps stool,
and then he can see over the offensive line and
the extension. It's kind of like the way I would
describe it, it's like buying a home gym for someone
who is a couch potato, Like why would you do it?
And you realize you're like, well, that guy doesn't he
doesn't get off the couch. Why do we buy a
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home gym that's just gonna collect furnit you shirts and stuff.
It's gonna be over there and it's gonna be like
a laundry basket and that's it. So the Cardinals will
try to get rid of Kyler Murray at the end
of this year, not till twenty twenty seven. I'm talking
about the end of the twenty twenty five season, and
that's the gang they want. In terms of I guess
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Kyler at this point was he where the mid round
draft pick? He's not that good. I used to get
pushed back when I would rip Kyler early on. So
you don't know what you're talking about. And now everyone's
in agreement. You know it's not it's not much fun
to talk about Alligator arms worried because everyone's agreed. Sucks
all right. Now, final point to Philadelphia we go where
the Eagles, Hey gee l the birdsday Pro Bowl guard
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Landon Dickerson. We don't talk about offensive linman unless A
they're drafted. NFL draft people get all horny for offensive lineman.
B they miss a block and the quarterback gets killed
or see they get hurt. That's this would be ce.
So Landon Dickerson will undergo. They say it's a minor procedure.
Minor procedure. The Eagles guard on a meniscus injury to
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his right knee. That is gonna happen in the coming days. Now. Diggerson,
who was considered one of the elite offensive linemen in
the NFL, he will be considered week to week, not
day to day, week to week, with the goal of
returning for the NFL season. All they're less than a
month away. On a sleepy Thursday night in early September,
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it all begins, all regular season over. They Eagles and
that Dallas Cowboys. How many points of the Cowboys gonna
lose by in that game? Anyway? So left guard landing
Dickerson having surgery on his knee. The Eagles are downplaying this.
What is the level of worry for the Eagles? So
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it's not zero a scale of one to ten, it's
not zero, it's not one. I'm gonna beat a two.
And the reason I'm going to it is discomforting. However,
it is tolerable. Dickerson a central part. The Eagles are
not a passing team. They're a running team. They don't
throw the ball. They just don't do it. They don't
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have a quarterback that can throw the ball consistently down
the field. So it's all about Sequon Barkley and the
pushy pushy with Jalen Hurts. So minor knee surgery is
still last I checked knee surgery, all right, So once
they cut you open. I learned this from my grandfather,
you know, as a little boy, he said, no Ben,
little Benny, little fat Benny. Once they cut you open,
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it's not minor anymore. Now, Regardless of that, here's the
thing I've learned from years oh pining on sports behind
these microphones. When it comes to offensive lineman, they're not human.
They're kind of like Adam Silver. They're from somewhere else
out in the cosmos. They're like the last gladiators. Even
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in the NFL, even in the Mighty NFL. Quarterbacks get
a hangnail and they missed two weeks, they're out. See
you later. Wide receivers have a little twinge in their
hammy and they're worried it's gonna go whammy, and they
go on the injured reserve list and that's it. Now.
The offensive lineman a little different. See the offensive lineman.
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They follow the Caveman medical plant. What is that? I
don't know what that is. Caveman medical plan which has
rub some dirt on it. Just throw some dirt on it,
grunt a couple of time, then take a couple of
pharmacy grade ibuprofen and get back in the huddle. That
is the Caveman medical plan of the NFL. That's the
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way it is. And so they're like those naked mole rats.
I remember learning this years ago. The naked mole rat
has a freakish pain tolerance. Freakish pain tolerance. Don't even
have the same pain receptors that we have the rest
of us have, right They just they can just get
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absolutely shredded, the naked mole rat, and they're not really
bothered by anything. Normal person tears the meniscus and hobbling
around on crutches. This guy Dickerson, he's a good old
Southern boy from Hickory, North Carolina. And so I imagine
Landon Dickerson probably walking around right now at the Eagles
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complex there in Philadelphia eating a hogi from wah Wahs
and just not really worried at all. Just a nice
hogi and good to go. And maybe he'll have lunch
tomorrow with Jonathan over in Delaware and they'll have a
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So nobody wants to be around Bill. Anyway. We look
forward to that mal meet, we can be a lot
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of fun. We started this hour ranting about the l
A R I MS Matthew Stafford and his injury situation.
Also Kyler Murray's name coming up, alligator arms, Murray in
trade rumors, and my theory on offensive linemen, and then
the way they handle their business in the NFL. So
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we talked about all that stuff. Later this hour we
do have Mallard the third Degree. Let's go back to
the phones, lell. We'll go to Paul in Ottawa. Hello,
Paul in Ottawa, Welcome, Paul, Welcome.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Hi Ben. Just a couple of thoughts, one about the
NFL and then one about head coaching. I like your
use of the word hubris when you did your first monologue,
because that's like a feeling of being powerful and resilient
and you can kind of do anything and nothing's going
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to stop you. And when I think about the NFL,
I think about an organization that puts out an immensely
entertaining product that everyone seems to love, and so they
get richer and richer and richer, and I just think
that it stands to reason that something like that will
start to feel invincible when you're used to squashing problems
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like bugs. But if anyone, probably somebody's who's the David
and Goliath story? Goliath is so big and he's so favored,
and that's the way we think of it when we
talk about Goliath, whether it's big business or whatever. But
if you read the story, of course, most people know
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that David defeated Goliath, and so that could happen, because
when you've left yourself open to attack, you never know
what can happen.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, for sure. And also the reason that was such
a big upset is because Goliath was a massive favorite.
A lot of people had money on Goliath and then
David pulled the upset and that was a shock or
all the people lost their money because they didn't believe
that David could beat Goliath, and it was a huge, huge,
massive upset.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Yeah. And as far as head coaching, when I look
at head coaches and I get into the NFL, and
sometimes I feel like a victim of the NFL for
spending my time, and sometimes it's just enjoyable whatever. And
I look at them on the sidelines putting something over
their mouth when they're speaking through to the microphone like
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it's some important military battle. Or something, And to get perspective,
I like to think of something that someone said on
Charlie Rose once I don't know who said it originally,
and he said, you know, to be a head coach
in the NFL, you have to be smart enough to
do it really well and dumb enough to think it's important.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
And yes, well for sure. And listen you talk about
the NFL, you know, so big and invincible and all
that there was. People's likes changed, as you know, right, Paul.
Back in the day before my time, horse racing was
the most popular thing. Professional boxing was the most popular thing, right,
and you know those are marginalized sports these days.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
So yeah, well, I I find that I'm a little
more philosophical lately. I when I visited my mom, she
used to watch the games with me, And uh, if
if my mom would watch the NFL, then pretty much
anybody who will.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So it's well, it is the perfect business model. People
are busy. You only if you if you like eighteen,
you'll have to watch one three hour window a week.
So it's it's pretty good. Uh if you if you're
a degenerate gambler, you end up having to bet on everything,
and then it becomes problematic, and so I got you.
You're very calm, Paul. I like your cadence, I like
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your delivery. I hope you'll call more often. Okay, thank you, Paul.
All right, go away, there's Paul and Ottawa. Let's go
to eeny meenie money mall. Let's sallo to Andre, who's
in the Commonwealth and Andre is next.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Hello, Andre, good evening, bet to be with you. Listen.
I And in terms of this football talk, I'm a
little bit concerned that you're talking about Yeah, and Willis
is concerned as well. We're talking about alligator arms Kyler
Murray and the possibility of a trade. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
All right?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Last I checked the cards. What do they have? Eight
games inside? They're a home team, They're a track and
field team, right. Willis sees all these touchdowns, all the
fantasy owners out there who have Marvin Harrison is there
as there a wide receiver. He can't believe this. Hold on,
hold on, let's get there, you know. So he's offended
that you're talking about trade and alligator arms Murray all right, now,
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not that he was a boyhood legens in the state
of Texas. Goes to Oklahoma. He lights it up there,
and now he has the opportunity this season the Cardinals.
You look at their first eight games, Ben, it's a cakewalk,
all right. We know Kyler Murray likes cake, eating cake
late at night while he's playing PS five or whatever
he's doing. Okay, so I'm a little bit surprised that
we're talking about trading him when Franklin this.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Is his I gotta tell you, Andrew, I'm distracted by Willis.
I ain't get the full essence of the take because
the dog is distracting me. You're doing positive propaganda about
Kyler Murray's Am I hearing that properly? That you are
doing positive Kyler Murray commentary, that you are a fan
of Kyler Murray? You think Kyler Murray is good.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I think Kyler Murray is at I think this is
the last stop on the train for him, and the
Cardinals have the opportunity this year to be good, all right.
Whether Kyler Murray wants to take a step back from
playing Madden and Call of Duty, I'm unsure all that.
But what I am sure of is that Marvin Harrison
Junior is a transcendent young player. He's a baller okay,
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and their schedule, particularly the first eight games, and particularly
the location. They have a lot of games inside. They're
attract meet team, right. They want to get up, they
want to spread it out, they want to score a
bunch of points. They're not lining up and stopping anybody.
They're not a power team. They're more of a finesse team.
And this schedule lends itself to them being able to
do this. Now it's the first eight game, the last
eight games, I don't know, it's gonna be very dicey
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for them, and they're going to be very dicey.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Well you got to come down. He gave me getting
a snack here.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
He needs a snacker room or a smacker room, one
of those.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes, yes, that's I don't seat him. Then, and you
were talking about the spaghetti and meat balls recently. We
all know you're a chef. Then we all know that
you have many towns.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Many Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I do like
to dabble in the kitchen. I do. There was a
point I only ate TV dinners when I was a bachelor.
Those theyre so salty. Yeah, well, you don't realize that
when you're in your early twenties, but when you get
older you realize. I used to eat kid cuisine and
my grandpa would have like the big Salisbury steak one
and I used to be like, oh, I want the
(31:39):
Salisbury steak. I used to get read the ingredients. I
don't want the salsberries. The key to eating any processed
food is to not read the ingredients. But I I
would get those huy these hungry man. I don't know
if they still have them, like one pound of food, okay,
one pound of food. And then they used to have
the little square that had the apple tart thing, and
you'd always eat and you burn your tongue. I'd always
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eat that first. You gotta eat that apple tart thing.
You burn your freaking tongue, and then I eat the corn,
and then I eat the I have the chicken strips,
but it was always kind of the chicken strip thing
was always soggy on one side. Yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
What do you say? What are you saying is that
everybody cannot be a chef. And I'm glad, I'm glad
Loraen is chumming in here, but listen, Ben, all of
us aren't you know, I'm happy for you in terms
of your chef and you're.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Right, no, but anybody, no, I disagree. I think anyone
can be with the modern world now, with the interweb
and with you know, YouTube videos and stuff like that.
By the way, you subscribe to the YouTube channel, Andre,
are you there, Ben mallor show on YouTube or you
a YouTube guy?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I'm all, well, thank you. I appreciate that, but no,
you can. You can dabble around, and it's I've enjoyed it.
It's not that if I can do it, I'm an idiot.
I can figure it out. Anyone can figure it out.
All right, I gotta go, Andrea, make sure to feed
your dog, okay, please, Okay, all right, there you go,
the red Andre in the Commonwealth and his dog Willis
(33:02):
is okay. I'm just ay. Andrea very positive thinks the
Cardinals will win. See. The problem is that the Cardinals.
You say, well, they should beat a bunch of those
teams early in the season, But all those teams that
play the Cardinals think, well, that's the winnable game. The
Cardinals blow, we can beat them. Yes, I'm going to
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pick the Cardinals in every game this year. And times
they hit. That'll be great. Natron says, Oh my god,
that dog is so fake. I would so put the
pedal to the medal if fake dog ever crossed my path.
Wow Wow, Wow Wow. What else do we have? Viva
los Vicki says Goliath was a minus three eighty favorite
versus David. And that's from Viva los Vicki. Who lets
(33:47):
us know. Let's see page what they gamble back then,
mister irrigation says the dog yapping is getting old, getting old,
getting old. When Willis starts barking on the phone, I
wish you would shut your big Yappers. It's just josh.
Uh see here, you could just shut your big y
(34:09):
Justin and Cincinnati is losing his mind. We had a
Canadian caller, and then we had we had Paul from Ottawa,
and then we had Andre from the Commonwealth. And Justin's
about to jump off the curb and h he's a
little guy, so who'll probably hurt himself jumping off the curb?
What else we have? Page inn I see, uh, who's
your bills completely sauced? Sending stuff in? Firkduck says, not surprised.
(34:30):
Bill Miller smells like spaghetti. It's a very popular food
in August. Yes, that's right. We learned that on a
previous episode of the show. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
As we are rolling through the overnight and Miles Garrett,
remember Miles Garrett almost killed himself, got in an accident
a couple of years back. He made a promise, Miles Garrett,
(34:50):
Brown's defensive star, said that he would never ever do
that again. And uh, well, yeah, Miles got pulled over.
He was in a sixty mile an hour zone going
one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
What.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, Early Browns got back from a road trip over
the weekend in the early morning hours and he was
trying to get home, Miles Garrett, and he went one
hundred over one hundred in a sixty mile an hour
zone and cherry tops. So he got dinged on that,
and yeah, imagine that attempted manslaughter? Is that is that right?
(35:28):
That's from the That's from the lawyer, Lorena the lawyer.
All right, So Ben Malache, we're gonna have more on
that later. We'll get to Mallard of the third degree.
Here's the inch to trivia, and here it is. Blank
was one of the big names to change teams this season,
yet his team has the fourth fourth worst record in
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Major League Baseball since he joined them. Again, Blank one
of the big names to change teams this season, but
his team has the fourth worst record in Major League
Baseball since he joined their team. That's the instant tribute
the answer.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
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the third degree here's the insta trivia. Blank was one
of the big names to change team this season, yet
his team has the fourth worst record in Major League
Baseball since he put on their uniform. That is the question.
What is the answer? Steve the Misplaced San Diego going
with Dan Roundfield. There's a name I did not expect
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to come up from the show, Alf the Alien Opinter
going with Ozzy Osbourne as his answer. Eileen says Timothy Challomey,
He's the answer. Barkavius Mingo, one of the great names
of all time for mister irrigation. Who else we have?
Can't read that one? Tyson Fury, Who's thirty seven today?
(37:38):
Late Night drug tester see Justin and Cinstinati says something
about Willis and Lorena Willie Mays. Guests by I forty
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What say you the right up? Adam Sandler? Is it
Adam sam No? It is Raffaeel Devers, the Old Red Sox.
The Giants are eighteen and twenty nine since they got
Rafael Devers. That's the fourth worst record in baseball. It's
maller how about that?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
To the third degree, this is one big gets grilled?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
All right? Cool?
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Now.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
A lot has been made about the Bengals slow starts
under Zach Taylor, and some of that has been attributed
to lack of participation in the preseason by since the starters, well,
Joe Burrow started and did well last week. Do you
think the Bengals will avoid the slow start this year.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
No, this is their thing. This is what they do.
They get off the bat start. They have a crappy defense,
so they won't stop anybody, and they're gonna have to
outscore the opponent. Now, the good news is they're playing
two Tomato cans, so you should at least when one
of them. They're playing Cleveland and Jackson to start the year.
They suck. So but it's not gonna because they played
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in the preseason. It's they're not. The Bengals are a
bad defensive team. Next.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Reports now say that Trey Young is resigned to finishing
off his contract with the Atlanta Hawks and testing free
agency in twenty twenty six. However, the Hawks made some
moves in the offseason and the East isn't exactly daunting.
Do you think a playoff run could keep Young in Atlanta?
So this is all part of the master plan.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
The Hawks are like, well, we don't know what we
want to do here, Well, Trey Young, everyone's slow playing this. Ultimately, though,
Trey Young can get more money from the Atlanta Hawks,
So even though the Hawks also are pathetic, you go
where the money is, and there's more money in Atlanta,
so you'll remain there, and they're just gonna drag this
out to the Veria next.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
Jags kicker Cam Little hit his seventy yard field goal
in the team's preseason debut over the weekend. Would have
been an NFL record, beating out Justin Tucker by four yards,
but it won't count. Ben, Do you think kickers will
be giving a ton of chances to erase Tucker from
the record books?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Well, not because it's talker, but it's it's gonna have
to be right before the end of the game or
the end of halftime, although it's not not not because
it's Tucker. No, I don't care about how do we
do how do we pass this edition? Hey, I won
the game again. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I'm all
Dilly dilly, it's our nume bird two. You can ram
it all day and you can ram it all night,
but you can't ram it. During training camp, Matthew Stafford
did not practice. Despite his expected return as Sean McVay
said he would be back on Monday, he was not.
So what does this mean in the big picture? We'll
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talk about that. Also. Thumbs up or thumbs down on
Kyler Murray having a quote short, close quote shelf life
in Arizona and with left guard Landon Dickerson having surgery
on his knee. What is the Super Bowl champion Eagles
level of worry A run first team. We'll talk about
that as well. Right now, give it up for our
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We react to the news of the day, and yet
again our plate is filled filled with a quarterback drama,
Orama drama oramo follow up to the follow up, follow
(02:13):
up to the follow up. Quarterback Matthew Stafford filling up
the football headlines yet again. The Super Bowl champion from
a couple of years ago. Great a super Bowl my lifetime,
Rams Bangles. I don't think I don't think anyone can
disagree with that, Sayway Stafford. If you didn't see this,
maybe not because you actually have a life. You have
a job, you have a family, have things you have
to do, and so you missed it. So Rams quarterback
(02:35):
Matthew Stafford did not did not practice on Monday after
being you know, the expectation was he was going to practice.
Why was the expectation because the couch said it. So
he was supposed to take part in individual drills in
his return to practice. The oh my aching back. He
(02:56):
has an aggravated disc. Gotta say that carefully and slowly.
Aggravated disc in his back. Now, over the weekend, Sean
McVay puffed his chest out, smugly and arrogantly and announced
to the media that he was coming back on Monday.
He being Matthew Stafford and McVeigh had said Seth had
(03:17):
a quote great workout, those were his words, not mine.
Felt good on Saturday, and then he said he didn't
feel good enough though to throw the football on Monday.
The Rams didn't think this, according to McVeigh. He said, quote,
the Rams didn't think practicing was the right thing to do,
based on how he was feeling, how he woke up feeling,
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McVeigh said. Now, instead, Stafford was spotted in his street clothes,
like somebody for your favorite NBA players street clothes, Anthony
Davis players like that. So Stafford was in street clothes
during practice, wall walking into a truck that was for rejuvenation.
They had a truck there that was parked next to
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the Ram practice field, some of this new age sciencey stuff.
They essentially convinced the NFL teams, Hey, let's put a
truck there and we'll put like some kind of weird
chambers in there, and then it'll be like the Haunted House.
But it'll it'll make the players better.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Anyway, let's discuss the question for the esteem panel, which
you are a part of. You're on the esteem panel.
Congratulations Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford did not did not practice,
did not practice despite his expected return. Now what does
that mean in the big picture? All right? What does
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that mean in the big picture? So I've got cucumber slices,
Facebook Marketplace, and naked mole rats, three things that have
never ever been put together, but they will be here
for this monologue. And we're going to make some Mediterranean chicken.
When we have some chicken swarma and some rice and
there there you go. All right? So number why number?
(05:06):
So Matthew Stafford supposed to be the ring leader of
the Ram circus, right, he's out there, the ring leader there,
the guy that the Rams brought in and they brought back.
There was some talk Stafford went to Montana and was
whined and dined by Tom Brady, white white pants Brady
there in Montana, and decided to go back to the Rams.
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And so he was brought in yet again as the
ring master for the Rams to ride the elephant at
the circus under the big top there and do the
trap peez. Of course you got to do that, the
whole thing. And so there he is the day he's
supposed to get out there and prove all the critics
wrong and go out there and practice, and he's in
street clothes. Now, can you play an NFL game in
street close? I don't believe you can. I don't think
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that's allowed. I don't think you do it. So he's
not practicing. Not after Sean McVeigh put his his name
on it. He put his name on it. The guy
who's the puppeteer of the Rams told everyone he's coming back. Baby,
are you critics? Are you the overnight gas bags? He's
coming back, you losers. Well, he didn't practice, didn't practice.
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McVeigh said he was gonna do individual drills. Stafford didn't
do it, didn't do it. He's not there. He wasn't there. Instead,
he walked into some restorative and rejuvenation chamber, which sounds
like something you'd be sentenced to by a court. Uh
and uh, I guess this is a hyper barrack chamber
that they brought in that truck. The Rams had it
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there some outside third party. They had a truck there.
I'm sure they probably had like a side hot tub
in there somewhere. And Stafford went in there with a towel.
He had some cucumber slices, and there was a loofa
so he could take a shower. And he's done, get
all soapy, and so Stafford is quickly you know I'm
wrong on this quickly becoming the poulter Geist for the
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Rams and they haven't even got to the schedule yet,
Like this is a preview of coming attractions here, haunting
the Rams. Like this is not the thing of a jig, right,
the thing of a jig or the what you might
call it break, Because the thing of a jig or
what you might call it break, and you can deal
with that. We're talking about the back, okay, And now
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I'm pretty sure you have one. I've got one, we
all have one, right, everyone listening has back. So the
center of the universe and the human body the back,
Oh my aching back. Think about playing professional sports or
just living life. Like everything you do, every movement you make.
In the case of a football player, you're talking about
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throwing a pass, you're talking about taking a couple of steps,
back handing the ball of the running back, you're talking
about sneezing, you're talking about wiping your tuckis your back
is involved. There is movement in the back. And I've
thrown my back out a few times over the years,
and every time I throw my back out, I think, well,
(08:02):
that's it, it'll never come back, and eventually it does
come back. But I'm not a professional athlete. I'm a
professional gas bag. It's slightly different, I'm told in these parts.
So think about back into it. There's no frame bending,
can't do it. Every movement hurts, you know. And so
this is this is like the chassis on the car cracking.
(08:25):
Like everything you do is involved in the back, right.
This is not just a ding bumper, it's the chassis
like ding bumper, bumper, you can you slap some tape
on it and you know, take the bumper off. Whatever.
This is the chassis on the car breaking. That's where
we are. He had an epidoral last week, Stafford, and
so Sean McVay can say, well, it's surgery. The surgery
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hasn't been discussed. You can say that all he wants,
and I'm sure he will, But you don't talk about
rebuilding the engine. You don't talk about rebuilding the engine
there until you've got oil pouring out all over the
driveway and then you're like, oh crap, we got a problem. Now.
The Rams listen the Stafford trade. They won the trade.
(09:11):
The Lions lost the trade. The Rams won a super
Bowl with Matthew Stafford. They've been a consistent playoff team
with Matthew Stafford. Jared Goff is the same guy he
was with the Rams. He's mediocre. He chokes in big games.
That's Jared Goff. So the Rams won that trade. That's fine,
and the Super Bowl has been a couple of years.
The Rams have a young, upstart defense they're excited about.
(09:33):
They think that's a defense that's good enough to get
to a super Bowl. But if you're honest right now
looking at the Rams, and you've got your quarterback who's
currently being held together with duck tape and going into
Hyperbarrick Chambers and who knows what other stuff he's got
going on there, trying to trying to keep the car
on the road. Right, that's where we are. And so
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you don't know what you don't know, and you don't
know when he's going to go cup, boom and blow,
and you know, you don't know when the back is
going to say bye bye, I'm done. And every time
Stafford drops back, every time Sean McVay is on the
sidelines and he's saying, you know, prayers, oh father, you
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know all that, the hail Mary's, you know, hoping that
he takes another snap after that. Staff And so this
is a tough spot to be in for the Rams,
and it's it's gonna follow them because at some point
I would imagine Stafford's going to actually practice, doesn't matter
does he practice one day and then take three days
off or four days off? And then where are we
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at here now? Page two to Arizona we go. Why
I like talking about bad teams. I love bag teams,
and the Cardinals suck. There are some reports out in
recent days here that predicting they are predicting the Cardinals
that's a bad football team. The Cardinals will trade Alligator
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Arms Murray Kyler Murray before the twenty twenty seven season,
rather than offering him he had another contract extension. Now
Murray would be thirty at that point. The Cardinals would
be trying to get something, anything in return. In terms
of draft I love they say draft capital. I love
that draft capital. Okay, wonderful. All right, So thumbs up
(11:25):
or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down on Kyler
Murray having a short shelf life in Arizona. See what
I did there, So I am going to go thumbs up.
I'm going thumbs up on this.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Listen, the clock is ticking. You can hear it if
you listen closely. That's the clock ticking, just like that.
You can almost hear it. And we believe it's not
going to be till twenty twenty seven. It's going to
be after this year. We believe it'll be after this
Here you do the math on that. There's like one
year left and the contract and the guaranteed money. And
(12:07):
it was always complicated. If you want to move a player,
you can move a player. Arizona foolishly gave Kyler Murray,
a massive contract, like they were buying the dream yacht.
They always wanted this yacht. They got the yacht. They
thought they'd be cruising, not for a bruising. They thought
they'd be cruising to the super Bowl. And right there
(12:29):
at sunset, beautiful weather, and you're in this yacht and
you got the air, the ocean air there and oh man,
it's just amazing wind in their hair, the whole thing,
Champagne on ice. And instead reality check. They thought they
were getting a yacht. They actually mistakenly they went on
Facebook marketplace and they bought a dingy, not a yacht,
(12:49):
not a yacht. They bought a dingy okay and a
little outboard motor, normal dingy outboard motor. There spiders after
about ten minutes, about ten minutes of us. It spiders
a little bit. It's got expired registration. And they've got
a captain for the dinghy alligator arms who get seasick
(13:09):
in calm water. Yeah, that's that's what we got here.
And so now, of course Arizona immediately had the buyer's remorse.
We talked about this many times here. How bad was it?
It was so bad, It was so bad that they're
likely awake right now. Executives like what did we do?
Why did we do that? Why didn't we just rent?
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Why did we buy? I don't understand. Quarterbacks in the
NFL are kind of like cars. I'll use the analogy,
like their cars. Arizona financed their car. However, they realized
it's got a four cylinder engine, and unfortunately there's a
speed governor that kicks in anything, you know, anything sixty
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five miles an hour, so you can't go past sixty
five miles an hour. And I know when I'm driving
on the highway and I see one of those they're
always company cars, and they say, well, this vehicle is
being monitored by GPS and will not go over a
certain I immediately zoom past that vehicle. That's Kyler Murray.
That's Kylmer. Every year. Keep in mind also seven to
ten teams, seven to ten teams every year trade in
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their car or quarterback for a newer model. And looking
ahead into my crystal ball, would be someone that would
be interested in Alligator Arms Murray going forward after this
upcoming twenty twenty five regular season. So if you look
in the crystal ball, you've got the Petsburg, Staylers, the Injurs,
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Aaron Rodgers like one year and then he'll be gone.
The Jets because Justin Fields blows. The Giants because Russell
Wilson sucks and Jackson darts probably not all that good.
The Dolphins they'll need somebody. They'll get rid of Tua.
The Brownies they always change quarterbacks every year, the Raiders
because Gino Smith come on. So the thing about the showroom,
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it's always open. The quarterback showroom is always open. The
sales people, they are always smiling. They're always smiling. They
have some lemonade and some snacks you can get there.
And the Cardinals they're about to roll. It's not a
big ball, but they're gonna roll Kyler back onto the
lot there. Now. Kyler at this point's got about seventy
(15:29):
thousand hard miles hard miles, and it's a card that
leads the race after ten laps and then falls apart
the rest of the race. There there's a dent on
that fender. If you look, there's a little dent there
on the fender, and the check ego light on the
dashboard is flashing check ego right there. And Kyler, a
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guy who is allergic. We've learned over the years he's
allergic to watching film. I don't like watching film either,
but I do a talk show. I don't have to
watch them. And he doesn't like standing in the pocket
very long. We've learned about that. Also, allergic to looking
over the offensive line. Unless you get him an NFL
branded step stool, then he can look over the offensive line.
So you can little NFL. He got the NFL logo
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officially branded NFL and Cardinal logo on the steps stool,
and then he can see over the offensive line and
the extension. It's kind of like the way I would
describe it, it's like buying a home gym for someone
who is a couch potato, Like why would you do it?
And you realize you're like, well, that guy doesn't he
doesn't get off the couch. Why do we buy a
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home gym that's just gonna collect furnit you shirts and stuff.
It's gonna be over there and it's gonna be like
a laundry basket and that's it. So the Cardinals will
try to get rid of Kyler Murray at the end
of this year, not till twenty twenty seven. I'm talking
about the end of the twenty twenty five season, and
that's the gang they want. In terms of I guess
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Kyler at this point was he where the mid round
draft pick? He's not that good. I used to get
pushed back when I would rip Kyler early on. So
you don't know what you're talking about. And now everyone's
in agreement. You know it's not it's not much fun
to talk about Alligator arms worried because everyone's agreed. Sucks
all right. Now, final point to Philadelphia we go where
the Eagles, Hey gee l the birdsday Pro Bowl guard
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Landon Dickerson. We don't talk about offensive linman unless A
they're drafted. NFL draft people get all horny for offensive lineman.
B they miss a block and the quarterback gets killed
or see they get hurt. That's this would be ce.
So Landon Dickerson will undergo. They say it's a minor procedure.
Minor procedure. The Eagles guard on a meniscus injury to
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his right knee. That is gonna happen in the coming days. Now. Diggerson,
who was considered one of the elite offensive linemen in
the NFL, he will be considered week to week, not
day to day, week to week, with the goal of
returning for the NFL season. All they're less than a
month away. On a sleepy Thursday night in early September,
(18:05):
it all begins, all regular season over. They Eagles and
that Dallas Cowboys. How many points of the Cowboys gonna
lose by in that game? Anyway? So left guard landing
Dickerson having surgery on his knee. The Eagles are downplaying this.
What is the level of worry for the Eagles? So
(18:27):
it's not zero a scale of one to ten, it's
not zero, it's not one. I'm gonna beat a two.
And the reason I'm going to it is discomforting. However,
it is tolerable. Dickerson a central part. The Eagles are
not a passing team. They're a running team. They don't
throw the ball. They just don't do it. They don't
(18:48):
have a quarterback that can throw the ball consistently down
the field. So it's all about Sequon Barkley and the
pushy pushy with Jalen Hurts. So minor knee surgery is
still last I checked knee surgery, all right, So once
they cut you open. I learned this from my grandfather,
you know, as a little boy, he said, no Ben,
little Benny, little fat Benny. Once they cut you open,
(19:10):
it's not minor anymore. Now, Regardless of that, here's the
thing I've learned from years oh pining on sports behind
these microphones. When it comes to offensive lineman, they're not human.
They're kind of like Adam Silver. They're from somewhere else
out in the cosmos. They're like the last gladiators. Even
(19:32):
in the NFL, even in the Mighty NFL. Quarterbacks get
a hangnail and they missed two weeks, they're out. See
you later. Wide receivers have a little twinge in their
hammy and they're worried it's gonna go whammy, and they
go on the injured reserve list and that's it. Now.
The offensive lineman a little different. See the offensive lineman.
(19:54):
They follow the Caveman medical plant. What is that? I
don't know what that is. Caveman medical plan which has
rub some dirt on it. Just throw some dirt on it,
grunt a couple of time, then take a couple of
pharmacy grade ibuprofen and get back in the huddle. That
is the Caveman medical plan of the NFL. That's the
(20:17):
way it is. And so they're like those naked mole rats.
I remember learning this years ago. The naked mole rat
has a freakish pain tolerance. Freakish pain tolerance. Don't even
have the same pain receptors that we have the rest
of us have, right They just they can just get
(20:38):
absolutely shredded, the naked mole rat, and they're not really
bothered by anything. Normal person tears the meniscus and hobbling
around on crutches. This guy Dickerson, he's a good old
Southern boy from Hickory, North Carolina. And so I imagine
Landon Dickerson probably walking around right now at the Eagles
(21:02):
complex there in Philadelphia eating a hogi from wah Wahs
and just not really worried at all. Just a nice
hogi and good to go. And maybe he'll have lunch
tomorrow with Jonathan over in Delaware and they'll have a
great time. It is the Ben Mahler Show. I want
to comment on any of this. You are more of
a welcome also hit some people on the one of
(21:22):
the yap about the Dodgers. I'm more than open to
doing that, but I'm not gonna bring it up on
my own, So if you want to talk about that
as well, you can join us. Anything goes at eight seven,
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(21:43):
of sports radio. So you broke a promise? How dare
you break up? Who do you think you are? Breaking
a promise? We'll get to that and we will do
it next.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
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(23:48):
at Ben Maler Lorena FSR Tech Queen Solo to Coop
at a Bronco Fan First Malor Meet and Greet in
a while will be taking place in Lost Wages, Nevada.
Be coming up in less than two weeks August twenty third.
Love to meet you if you're in Vegas or he
(24:08):
can make it to Vegas that weekend. It's a Saturday.
We know it's geographically undesirable for many, but if you're
able to make it, Love to hang out with you.
Steak out, bar and grill in Vegas right near UNLV
on Maryland Parkway. Will We'll be there, back to it,
you're gonna be there to Bill that No, it's been No.
Bill will not be there. Bill's not allowed to make
(24:29):
any Yeah, they don't. They don't pay him to do appearances.
And he's really really ugly, really ugly. Nobody wants to
be around him. He smells, he smells party animal. He
smells like spaghetti, actually spaghetti and meatballs, but not good
spaghetti and meatballs. He spells like bad spaghetti and meatballs.
So nobody wants to be around Bill. Anyway. We look
forward to that mal meet, we can be a lot
(24:50):
of fun. We started this hour ranting about the l
A R I MS Matthew Stafford and his injury situation.
Also Kyler Murray's name coming up, alligator arms, Murray in
trade rumors, and my theory on offensive linemen, and then
the way they handle their business in the NFL. So
(25:10):
we talked about all that stuff. Later this hour we
do have Mallard the third Degree. Let's go back to
the phones, lell. We'll go to Paul in Ottawa. Hello,
Paul in Ottawa, Welcome, Paul, Welcome.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Hi Ben. Just a couple of thoughts, one about the
NFL and then one about head coaching. I like your
use of the word hubris when you did your first monologue,
because that's like a feeling of being powerful and resilient
and you can kind of do anything and nothing's going
(25:43):
to stop you. And when I think about the NFL,
I think about an organization that puts out an immensely
entertaining product that everyone seems to love, and so they
get richer and richer and richer, and I just think
that it stands to reason that something like that will
start to feel invincible when you're used to squashing problems
(26:07):
like bugs. But if anyone, probably somebody's who's the David
and Goliath story? Goliath is so big and he's so favored,
and that's the way we think of it when we
talk about Goliath, whether it's big business or whatever. But
if you read the story, of course, most people know
(26:28):
that David defeated Goliath, and so that could happen, because
when you've left yourself open to attack, you never know
what can happen.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, for sure. And also the reason that was such
a big upset is because Goliath was a massive favorite.
A lot of people had money on Goliath and then
David pulled the upset and that was a shock or
all the people lost their money because they didn't believe
that David could beat Goliath, and it was a huge, huge,
massive upset.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Yeah. And as far as head coaching, when I look
at head coaches and I get into the NFL, and
sometimes I feel like a victim of the NFL for
spending my time, and sometimes it's just enjoyable whatever. And
I look at them on the sidelines putting something over
their mouth when they're speaking through to the microphone like
(27:20):
it's some important military battle. Or something, And to get perspective,
I like to think of something that someone said on
Charlie Rose once I don't know who said it originally,
and he said, you know, to be a head coach
in the NFL, you have to be smart enough to
do it really well and dumb enough to think it's important.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
And yes, well for sure. And listen you talk about
the NFL, you know, so big and invincible and all
that there was. People's likes changed, as you know, right, Paul.
Back in the day before my time, horse racing was
the most popular thing. Professional boxing was the most popular thing, right,
and you know those are marginalized sports these days.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
So yeah, well, I I find that I'm a little
more philosophical lately. I when I visited my mom, she
used to watch the games with me, And uh, if
if my mom would watch the NFL, then pretty much
anybody who will.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So it's well, it is the perfect business model. People
are busy. You only if you if you like eighteen,
you'll have to watch one three hour window a week.
So it's it's pretty good. Uh if you if you're
a degenerate gambler, you end up having to bet on everything,
and then it becomes problematic, and so I got you.
You're very calm, Paul. I like your cadence, I like
(28:43):
your delivery. I hope you'll call more often. Okay, thank you, Paul.
All right, go away, there's Paul and Ottawa. Let's go
to eeny meenie money mall. Let's sallo to Andre, who's
in the Commonwealth and Andre is next.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Hello, Andre, good evening, bet to be with you. Listen.
I And in terms of this football talk, I'm a
little bit concerned that you're talking about Yeah, and Willis
is concerned as well. We're talking about alligator arms Kyler
Murray and the possibility of a trade. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
All right?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Last I checked the cards. What do they have? Eight
games inside? They're a home team, They're a track and
field team, right. Willis sees all these touchdowns, all the
fantasy owners out there who have Marvin Harrison is there
as there a wide receiver. He can't believe this. Hold on,
hold on, let's get there, you know. So he's offended
that you're talking about trade and alligator arms Murray all right, now,
(29:35):
not that he was a boyhood legens in the state
of Texas. Goes to Oklahoma. He lights it up there,
and now he has the opportunity this season the Cardinals.
You look at their first eight games, Ben, it's a cakewalk,
all right. We know Kyler Murray likes cake, eating cake
late at night while he's playing PS five or whatever
he's doing. Okay, so I'm a little bit surprised that
we're talking about trading him when Franklin this.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Is his I gotta tell you, Andrew, I'm distracted by Willis.
I ain't get the full essence of the take because
the dog is distracting me. You're doing positive propaganda about
Kyler Murray's Am I hearing that properly? That you are
doing positive Kyler Murray commentary, that you are a fan
of Kyler Murray? You think Kyler Murray is good.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I think Kyler Murray is at I think this is
the last stop on the train for him, and the
Cardinals have the opportunity this year to be good, all right.
Whether Kyler Murray wants to take a step back from
playing Madden and Call of Duty, I'm unsure all that.
But what I am sure of is that Marvin Harrison
Junior is a transcendent young player. He's a baller okay,
(30:38):
and their schedule, particularly the first eight games, and particularly
the location. They have a lot of games inside. They're
attract meet team, right. They want to get up, they
want to spread it out, they want to score a
bunch of points. They're not lining up and stopping anybody.
They're not a power team. They're more of a finesse team.
And this schedule lends itself to them being able to
do this. Now it's the first eight game, the last
eight games, I don't know, it's gonna be very dicey
(30:58):
for them, and they're going to be very dicey.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Well you got to come down. He gave me getting
a snack here.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
He needs a snacker room or a smacker room, one
of those.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes, yes, that's I don't seat him. Then, and you
were talking about the spaghetti and meat balls recently. We
all know you're a chef. Then we all know that
you have many towns.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Many Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I do like
to dabble in the kitchen. I do. There was a
point I only ate TV dinners when I was a bachelor.
Those theyre so salty. Yeah, well, you don't realize that
when you're in your early twenties, but when you get
older you realize. I used to eat kid cuisine and
my grandpa would have like the big Salisbury steak one
and I used to be like, oh, I want the
(31:39):
Salisbury steak. I used to get read the ingredients. I
don't want the salsberries. The key to eating any processed
food is to not read the ingredients. But I I
would get those huy these hungry man. I don't know
if they still have them, like one pound of food, okay,
one pound of food. And then they used to have
the little square that had the apple tart thing, and
you'd always eat and you burn your tongue. I'd always
(32:02):
eat that first. You gotta eat that apple tart thing.
You burn your freaking tongue, and then I eat the corn,
and then I eat the I have the chicken strips,
but it was always kind of the chicken strip thing
was always soggy on one side. Yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
What do you say? What are you saying is that
everybody cannot be a chef. And I'm glad, I'm glad
Loraen is chumming in here, but listen, Ben, all of
us aren't you know, I'm happy for you in terms
of your chef and you're.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Right, no, but anybody, no, I disagree. I think anyone
can be with the modern world now, with the interweb
and with you know, YouTube videos and stuff like that.
By the way, you subscribe to the YouTube channel, Andre,
are you there, Ben mallor show on YouTube or you
a YouTube guy?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I'm all, well, thank you. I appreciate that, but no,
you can. You can dabble around, and it's I've enjoyed it.
It's not that if I can do it, I'm an idiot.
I can figure it out. Anyone can figure it out.
All right, I gotta go, Andrea, make sure to feed
your dog, okay, please, Okay, all right, there you go,
the red Andre in the Commonwealth and his dog Willis
(33:02):
is okay. I'm just ay. Andrea very positive thinks the
Cardinals will win. See. The problem is that the Cardinals.
You say, well, they should beat a bunch of those
teams early in the season, But all those teams that
play the Cardinals think, well, that's the winnable game. The
Cardinals blow, we can beat them. Yes, I'm going to
(33:23):
pick the Cardinals in every game this year. And times
they hit. That'll be great. Natron says, Oh my god,
that dog is so fake. I would so put the
pedal to the medal if fake dog ever crossed my path.
Wow Wow, Wow Wow. What else do we have? Viva
los Vicki says Goliath was a minus three eighty favorite
versus David. And that's from Viva los Vicki. Who lets
(33:47):
us know. Let's see page what they gamble back then,
mister irrigation says the dog yapping is getting old, getting old,
getting old. When Willis starts barking on the phone, I
wish you would shut your big Yappers. It's just josh.
Uh see here, you could just shut your big y
(34:09):
Justin and Cincinnati is losing his mind. We had a
Canadian caller, and then we had we had Paul from Ottawa,
and then we had Andre from the Commonwealth. And Justin's
about to jump off the curb and h he's a
little guy, so who'll probably hurt himself jumping off the curb?
What else we have? Page inn I see, uh, who's
your bills completely sauced? Sending stuff in? Firkduck says, not surprised.
(34:30):
Bill Miller smells like spaghetti. It's a very popular food
in August. Yes, that's right. We learned that on a
previous episode of the show. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
As we are rolling through the overnight and Miles Garrett,
remember Miles Garrett almost killed himself, got in an accident
a couple of years back. He made a promise, Miles Garrett,
(34:50):
Brown's defensive star, said that he would never ever do
that again. And uh, well, yeah, Miles got pulled over.
He was in a sixty mile an hour zone going
one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
What.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, Early Browns got back from a road trip over
the weekend in the early morning hours and he was
trying to get home, Miles Garrett, and he went one
hundred over one hundred in a sixty mile an hour
zone and cherry tops. So he got dinged on that,
and yeah, imagine that attempted manslaughter? Is that is that right?
(35:28):
That's from the That's from the lawyer, Lorena the lawyer.
All right, So Ben Malache, we're gonna have more on
that later. We'll get to Mallard of the third degree.
Here's the inch to trivia, and here it is. Blank
was one of the big names to change teams this season,
yet his team has the fourth fourth worst record in
(35:48):
Major League Baseball since he joined them. Again, Blank one
of the big names to change teams this season, but
his team has the fourth worst record in Major League
Baseball since he joined their team. That's the instant tribute
the answer.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
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for the insta trivia and we'll get to Mallard to
(36:55):
the third degree here's the insta trivia. Blank was one
of the big names to change team this season, yet
his team has the fourth worst record in Major League
Baseball since he put on their uniform. That is the question.
What is the answer? Steve the Misplaced San Diego going
with Dan Roundfield. There's a name I did not expect
(37:18):
to come up from the show, Alf the Alien Opinter
going with Ozzy Osbourne as his answer. Eileen says Timothy Challomey,
He's the answer. Barkavius Mingo, one of the great names
of all time for mister irrigation. Who else we have?
Can't read that one? Tyson Fury, Who's thirty seven today?
(37:38):
Late Night drug tester see Justin and Cinstinati says something
about Willis and Lorena Willie Mays. Guests by I forty
Ian the Hutman, Rex Huddler from Donkeys Sausage, Paige Dan
Natron got it right back? Bats up by him, Mister
Roper from JT the Wingman, The Bambino Babe Ruth from Eacan, Roseville, Minnesota.
(38:01):
What say you the right up? Adam Sandler? Is it
Adam sam No? It is Raffaeel Devers, the Old Red Sox.
The Giants are eighteen and twenty nine since they got
Rafael Devers. That's the fourth worst record in baseball. It's
maller how about that?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
To the third degree, this is one big gets grilled?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
All right? Cool?
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Now.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
A lot has been made about the Bengals slow starts
under Zach Taylor, and some of that has been attributed
to lack of participation in the preseason by since the starters, well,
Joe Burrow started and did well last week. Do you
think the Bengals will avoid the slow start this year.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
No, this is their thing. This is what they do.
They get off the bat start. They have a crappy defense,
so they won't stop anybody, and they're gonna have to
outscore the opponent. Now, the good news is they're playing
two Tomato cans, so you should at least when one
of them. They're playing Cleveland and Jackson to start the year.
They suck. So but it's not gonna because they played
(39:03):
in the preseason. It's they're not. The Bengals are a
bad defensive team. Next.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Reports now say that Trey Young is resigned to finishing
off his contract with the Atlanta Hawks and testing free
agency in twenty twenty six. However, the Hawks made some
moves in the offseason and the East isn't exactly daunting.
Do you think a playoff run could keep Young in Atlanta?
So this is all part of the master plan.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
The Hawks are like, well, we don't know what we
want to do here, Well, Trey Young, everyone's slow playing this. Ultimately, though,
Trey Young can get more money from the Atlanta Hawks,
So even though the Hawks also are pathetic, you go
where the money is, and there's more money in Atlanta,
so you'll remain there, and they're just gonna drag this
out to the Veria next.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
Jags kicker Cam Little hit his seventy yard field goal
in the team's preseason debut over the weekend. Would have
been an NFL record, beating out Justin Tucker by four yards,
but it won't count. Ben, Do you think kickers will
be giving a ton of chances to erase Tucker from
the record books?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Well, not because it's talker, but it's it's gonna have
to be right before the end of the game or
the end of halftime, although it's not not not because
it's Tucker. No, I don't care about how do we
do how do we pass this edition? Hey, I won
the game again. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
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